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Are you interested in hiding your friends list on Facebook and stop people from knowing who your friends are? Want to keep your family members, closest friends and everyone you care about far from prying eyes?
Well, by default, your Facebook friends list is visible to everyone. But if you don't want others to view it, you have the ability to change its privacy to your liking. So, you can hide it from everyone or share it just with friends or specific friends whom you trust.
Making your Facebook friends list private is an easy and simple process. You can just follow the steps described below to see how much easier to hide your Facebook friends from others.
Are you ready to make your friends list invisible to strangers? If so, let's follow the instruction below!
Step 1: Sign in to your Facebook account using your username and password.
Step 2: Go to your timeline by clicking on your name.
Step 4: Press the pencil icon to the right of Friends and select Edit Privacy from the drop down menu.
Step 5: In the popup window, click the audience selector next to Friend List, then choose Only Me to hide it from everyone. You can also choose Friends, to share it only with your friends. Or you can choose Custom, to set it to a custom settings.
You can do the same thing for Following and Followers.
When you finish adjusting your Facebook friends list visibility, click Done.
Now, to make sure that your Facebook friends list is hidden from unwanted eyes, you'll need to view your Facebook profile as a stranger. To do so, click the three dots icon underneath your cover photo, then choose "View As..."
That's it for this post! Please, if you found it helpful, don't forget to like, comment and share it with your friends on social media sites.
| 2019-04-22T02:05:55 |
https://www.tutovids.net/how-to-hide-your-friends-list-on-facebook/
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This article teaches the most effective sequence of steps for completing a biography assignment. You can also use a modified version of this sequence when writing other kinds of papers. It involves a lot of paraphrasing, and the way to paraphrase quickly is like this: I'll explain below.
It doesn't really matter where the articles come from. Find some biographical articles about the person online by searching for these keywords: biography, [name of person].
This time, listen for it to tell you an interesting word or phrase that represents the THEME it sees in these paragraphs you typed about the person. Now that you have paraphrased a lot of paragraphs about the person, you are ready to come up with a theme for your paper. Your theme is what makes your biography of this person different from those written by other people. You're in a state of mind that is deeply influenced by contemplation of the significant events of this person's life. Think of the most important events, and ask yourself, what do these all have in common? What is the hidden message?
A documented account of someone’s life is called a biography. Usually, this piece is published in a book or enacted in a film. A biography covers beyond the basic and factual facts of a person, such as name, birth date and birth place. Chronology or an of your life is not the sole content of an autobiography. Details of every single intimate moment that the writer would want to share are also included in this.
As the stories incorporated in a biography are drawn from real life, biographical works are non-fiction, by nature. At some times, however, commercialism sets in and the desire to increase sales in books and films are there. Thus, tweaking the truth and embellishing it with additional details becomes a necessity.
As an example, I'll mention the THEME I would use when writing a biography paper about Socrates: "unwavering focus." What do I mean when I explain that this is my theme? It does not matter what I mean. All that matters is that I use some unique word or phrase. I introduce the paper by explaining this unique word/phrase as the theme, and this makes the paper unique and memorable.
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Follow these steps, and you'll finish the biography paper fast. Even if some above don't seem clear, they will be easy to understand when you apply them one at a time. The step that should take the most time is step two, because it takes a few minutes to paraphrase a paragraph. The rest of the process is quick and easy, and this method enables you to continue making progress toward the goal without having to stop and figure anything out.
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| 2019-04-20T01:17:58 |
http://itzoovim.com/writing-a-biography-essay.html
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Q. How long can I take books out for?
There are also some essential reading list books which are Reference only - these can be used in the Library and cannot be borrowed. You will find these on the shelves on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Library.
You can see when your books are due back by printing a receipt whenever you issue a book, or check your Library Record.
You will be able to renew your books online unless someone has reserved them in which case they will need to be returned to the Library.
| 2019-04-22T06:28:22 |
http://libanswers.aston.ac.uk/faq/98739
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There are endless frameworks out there for expressing the essentials of an organization: what it is for, and how it proposes to do business. Such frameworks use terms like purpose, and principles, and values, typically without really defining what those words mean or how they are intended to operate.
The point of using such terms—whatever they mean—is to help an organization make good decisions, and refrain from making bad ones. Together they constitute a loose, somewhat hand-wavy instance of what in mathematics would be called a formal system.
The proposition is the statement one wishes to prove. In business, this is analogous to a decision one proposes to make, or a policy one proposes to enforce. For example: The team is small and the client is in a hurry, so the client wishes to proceed directly to production without formal testing.
Axioms are fundamental assumptions: they are held to be true without proof. In business, these are principles. They are the starting point for every decision. For example: Good design validates itself.
Rules of inference are the paths one is allowed to take between steps in a proof, or a thought process. An example from geometry: If P implies Q, and P is true, then Q is true. In business, rules of inference are encapsulated in values. If a step expresses some core value, it is allowed. If the opposite, then not. Examples: economy, agility (each of which should be well-defined).
In the example above, the client desires velocity at the expense of quality, a trade-off that may not be acceptable to both sides (or even achievable in practice). The challenge is to use this framework to come up with a path that both sides can accept.
The solution in the real world was this: a design may express tests that have not yet found their way into the current implementation. We therefore proposed to evolve a design that expressed appropriate test points, but to prioritize only the most essential tests for immediate implementation and to leave the rest explicitly as tech debt. This got the client into production as rapidly as possible while ensuring acceptable quality from the outset and providing a clear path to higher quality in the future. Values expressed: economy, agility.
What about purpose? This is quite literally a description of what the organization is for. We used values above to determine whether a proposed step was an allowable expression of first principles. We use purpose to determine whether we should even be having the conversation.
A high degree of formalism in such things is a value unto itself: many organizations will have neither the skill set nor the stomach to implement it. But for those that can, this formalism produces a framework that can slash ambiguity and clarify the context around even the most difficult decisions.
| 2019-04-25T02:44:38 |
https://karmanivero.us/2018/11/30/the-geometry-of-organizations/
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I want to write a brief introduction: approximately 7 years ago while on holiday in Calabria, I had a serious crush on a man, and it was reciprocal. Following a few issues we stopped seeing each other, although we never clarified the situation between us.
I had always considered our relationship as ended, but every time I see him again the memories and perhaps the love make me think that I would really like to clear the situation and maybe give our love another chance.
Last Saturday I left for a short trip to Calabria and yesterday afternoon, while we were being driven back to the airport to go back home, I asked Penelope, my sweet Angel, to give me the strength to tell him how much I miss him. The last thing that I managed to tell him was 'Can I tell you something' and then as usual I locked up. But then once I was through with the check in, while I was waiting to board, a lady sitting next to me, after watching me drop the boarding card one the floor once and the key ring twice, said to me 'It means that someone likes you'. In that precise moment, I felt my heart jump, just like I am feeling right now, and I felt the need to send a text message through my cell phone to my ex boyfriend, telling him how much I missed him.
I don't know if that woman was an Angel (my Angel) or not, but last night I dreamt of her: I was in the car (I think), when suddenly another car approached me and I saw her again, her eyes so blue and a smile full of love; neither of us spoke a word: she only said hello and then she left. I don't know if the relationship with my ex-boyfriend will ever start again, (I would like that), I don't even know if he will ever reply to my text message, but I am happy to have met my Angel, Penelope, and most importantly to have received from her all that I had asked, which was courage.
| 2019-04-18T17:09:38 |
https://www.leparoledegliangeli.com/en/angels/825-my-angel-eyes-so-blue-and-a-smile-full-of-love-the-courage-to-dare.html
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Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents . Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Race is calculated according to the RACE1 variable.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Community is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, "Please tell us whether you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable opinion of Dan Patrick."Age is calculated according to the AGEG variable.
| 2019-04-18T17:16:01 |
https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/dan-patrick-favorability-june-2014
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#moocmooc have they missed the point?
On Sunday, I shall begin a week long MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) about MOOCs called MOOCMOOC. The course is six-days and espires to create meaningful dialogue about MOOCs. I think it will be interesting, but I do wonder if they are missing the point. How can you possibly garnish meaningful dialogue in such a short time frame? My experience with online learning is that it takes a week to have a meaningful discussion on a single topic – trying to have discussion on six separate daily topics doesn’t allow time for participants to reflect on the content. I think a MOOC on MOOCs could easily be a three or six week course.
I predict that we will see a large number of lurkers (OK, that’s true for all MOOCs), and a flurry of superficial discussions. It will all be over before we ever get a chance to delve into anything particularly meaningful or new.
The letter of introduction recommends 2-hrs per day, spread out throughout the day. Again, that lends itself well to consuming the content being provided, but doesn’t lend itself well to creating content. Often, creating a meaningful blog post on a topic takes 2-3 hours of research, a minimum of a day or two of reflecting (I’ve been reflecting on this post for almost a week), and another hour or two of writing. You cannot speed up the reflection process.
But, alas, I shall attempt to enter this MOOC with an open mind. It is an interesting experiment if nothing else.
So true! I understand the "flurry of the lurkers" simply joining to get of glimpse of a MOOC- the purpose and the experience. Working full time during "back-to-school" for most educators, there just simply was not time to participate fully. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to lurk. I found out about the MOOC on twitter and found other librarians interested. Now we are collaborating on possible library MOOC ideas. So, it was worth the short time I had available.
Rather my intitial impression too, but I'm inclined to look on the endeavor more kindly after reading more about it and having a few exchanges. Their hearts are in the right places, they mean well ~ no hidden agendas, so maybe they will learn something that they can take back to their less than well informed higher ed colleagues. Some of these will be there too learning for themselves.
| 2019-04-22T06:33:39 |
http://rjh.goingeast.ca/2012/08/10/moocmooc-have-they-missed-the-point/
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Looking for a new way of cook meat (and other stuff) at home?
M was. A full year after the paleo-lovin' Drs. Eades (of "Protein Power" fame) introduced the Sous Vide Supreme, and well after renowned food authors, foodies, journalists, tech blogs and gadget geeks alike gave the kitchen appliance a big thumbs up, M finally got us one.
Sous vide combines the gentle, steady heat of poaching and an airtight seal, as in traditional methods of cooking in clay. “The food literally stews in its own juices: no air, no water, no evaporation,” said Wesley Genovart, the chef at Degustation, a restaurant in the East Village, who has experimented with sous-viding everything from carrots to crème brûlée.
Until now, home cooks wanting to try the method have had to improvise, with solutions from low-tech (a stockpot and a handful of ice cubes) to high (a chamber sealer and an immersion circulator, generating about $1,500 in start-up costs). But there seems to be an audience, however small, for an easier and cheaper way.
High-end restaurants have long been using this cooking method to create perfectly-cooked dishes with concentrated flavors. The French Laundry/Per Se's Thomas Keller penned a sous vide cookbook a couple years back, and has proselytizing about it for years.
And, of course, Bravo's "Top Chef" has introduced sous vide cooking into the vernacular of reality-show viewers everywhere.
What's so great about sous vide cooking?
[T]he selling point of the cooking method is the steady, low temperature, not the airless environment.
By traditional methods, the steak has to be blasted with heat from the outside, anywhere from 350 degrees (normal oven temperature) to 800 degrees (the grill at Peter Luger’s). As the heat transfer takes place, the meat changes: proteins coagulate, fibers contract, collagens loosen, liquid evaporates. By the time the center is a rosy 135 degrees, the surrounding flesh is dried out.
“About 45 percent of a rare beef loin cooked by normal methods is technically overcooked,” said Chris Young, the culinary research manager at Intellectual Ventures in Seattle, where Nathan Myhrvold, a founder of Microsoft, maintains a staff of 16 chefs and scientists to complete his long-awaited book on the science of gastronomy.
The really expensive cuts of beef -- NY strip, rib eye, Porterhouse, T-bone, Filet (tenderloin) -- have historically been prized for their extreme tenderness, not particularly for their flavor. On the other hand, more flavorful cuts like hanger, blade, or flatiron steak are much more difficult to cook correctly -- even a tad over or undercooked, and you're left with a tough, stringy, chewy mess. But cooked properly, they can be every bit as tender as the more expensive cuts, and with more flavor to boot!
That's why those cuts are commonly referred to as "chef" cuts or "restaurant" cuts -- chefs love them because they are cheap, and with proper preparation, delicious.
Well, with a sous-vide cooker, anyone can properly cook those tricky chef cuts.
$7 per pound for a hanger steak that is just as tender and tastes much better than a $16 per pound strip steak? Yes please!
M and I have enjoyed the sous vide dishes we've been served at restaurants (most recently at Eleven Madison Park and Momofuku Ko), and I'd been wanting to attempt this cooking method since learning that you MacGyver it with a beer cooler, a meat thermometer and a bunch of Ziplock bags. The Sous Vide Supreme is pricier, but easier and less messy to use, so that's the route we chose.
So after all that build-up, how did our first foray into sous vide cooking turn out?
Dunno yet. I took so long to clear off counter space for the Sous Vide Supreme that we ended up running out of time to make dinner with the damned thing. We'll try to give it a shot in the next day or two.
But if the results are even halfway decent, I'm pretty sure we're going to be having fun with this new toy for quite some time.
| 2019-04-24T07:50:46 |
http://www.fitbomb.com/2010/10/sous-vide-supreme.html
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If p pencils cost c cents at the same rate, how many pencils can be bought for d dollars?
Let's use the INPUT-OUTPUT approach.
Pick some numbers that meet the given information.
This means that the question is now asking "How many pencils can be bought for 1 dollar"
So, when p = 3, c = 50 and d = 1, the answer to our question is 6 pencils.
A) cdp = (50)(1)(3) = 150. We need an output of 6. ELIMINATE.
B) 100cdp = (100)(50)(1)(3) = 15000. We need an output of 6. ELIMINATE.
C) dp/100c = (1)(3)/(100)(50) = 3/5000. We need an output of 6. ELIMINATE.
D) 100cd/p = (100)(50)(1)/(3) = 5000/3. We need an output of 6. ELIMINATE.
E) 100dp/c = (100)(1)(3)/(50) = 6. BINGO!
ASIDE: if you're not sure how to find price per pencil, you might first examine a few examples.
How many pencils can be bought for d dollars?
So, we must convert d dollars to CENTS.
ASIDE: Once again, if you're not sure how to convert d dollars to CENTS, you might first examine a few examples.
| 2019-04-21T14:06:36 |
https://greprepclub.com/forum/if-p-pencils-cost-c-cents-at-the-same-rate-how-many-3599.html
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Who should read this primer?
The intended audience for this primer includes stakeholders from state and local departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, transit agencies, and other agencies that may be involved in an integrated corridor management (ICM) effort. Additionally, this primer is intended to inform traffic incident management (TIM) stakeholders in major urban areas of the benefits they can expect to realize from greater integration with ICM. This includes TIM partners in transportation, law enforcement, fire and rescue, emergency medical services, towing and recovery, and communications.
Transportation corridors often contain underutilized capacity in the form of parallel roadways, single-occupant vehicles, and transit services that could be better leveraged to improve person throughput and reduce congestion. Facilities and services on a corridor are often independently operated, and efforts to date to reduce congestion have focused on the optimization of the performance of individual assets.
The vision of integrated corridor management (ICM) is to achieve significant improvements in the efficient movement of people and goods on transportation networks through aggressive, proactive integration of existing infrastructure along major corridors. By applying an ICM approach, transportation professionals manage the corridor as a multimodal system and make operational decisions for the benefit of the corridor as a whole.
Most ICM strategies to date have focused on improving passenger travel, and ICM stakeholders have included public transportation agencies such as State and local departments of transportation (DOT), metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), and transit agencies. Yet our Nation's busiest freight corridors also run through urban areas that carry millions of commuters, leisure travelers, and goods on increasingly crowded roadways and transit systems. The movement of people and goods is negatively impacted when traffic incidents occur. Traffic incident management (TIM) programs provide a proven way to minimize the impact of traffic incidents and improve the safety of motorists and incident responders alike. Adding definition to the relationship between ICM and TIM efforts will improve the integration of TIM stakeholders, issues, and solutions into the ICM process.
ICM combines two fundamental concepts: active management and integration. Active management involves monitoring and assessing the performance of the system and dynamically implementing actions in response to fluctuations in demand. In an ICM corridor, all individual facilities must be actively managed so that operational approaches can be altered in real-time in response to an event anywhere on the system.
Figure 1. Illustration. Integrated Corridor Management involves viewing corridor assets – such as freeways, arterials,and transit – through a common lens.
Institutional Integration – Involves coordination and collaboration between various agencies and jurisdictions (i.e., transportation network owners) in support of ICM, including the distribution of specific operational responsibilities and the sharing of control functions in a manner that transcends institutional boundaries.
Operational Integration – Involves the implementation of multi-agency transportation management strategies, often in real-time, that promote information sharing and coordinated operations across the various transportation networks in the corridor and facilitate management of the total capacity and demand of the corridor.
Technical Integration – Provides the means (e.g., communication links between agencies, system interfaces, and the associated standards) by which information, system operations, and control functions can be effectively shared and distributed among networks and their respective transportation management systems, and by which the impacts of operational decisions can be immediately viewed and evaluated by the affected agencies. Cannot be accomplished without institutional and operational integration.
Active and integrated corridors can be viewed along a continuum. For example, some corridors may actively manage some or all of their assets, but not in an integrated way. The ultimate goal of ICM is to for corridors to progress along the continuum to become as active and integrated as possible.
Figure 2. Illustration. The active and integrated continuum.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) started the ICM Research Initiative in 2006 to explore and develop ICM concepts and approaches and to advance the deployment of ICM systems throughout the country. Initially, eight pioneer sites were selected to develop concepts of operations (ConOps) and system requirements for ICM on a congested corridor in their region. Three of these sites went on to conduct analysis, modeling, and simulation (AMS) of potential ICM response strategies on their corridor. In the final stage, two sites — the US-75 Corridor in Dallas, Texas and the Interstate 15 (I-15) corridor in San Diego, California — were selected to design, deploy, and demonstrate their ICM systems.
The Dallas and San Diego demonstrations "went live" in the spring of 2013. Each demonstration has two phases: the first is design and deployment, and the second is operations and maintenance. Both sites chose to develop a decision support system (DSS) as a technical tool to facilitate the application of institutional agreements and operational approaches that corridor stakeholders agreed to over a rigorous planning and design process.
What could an integrated corridor management (ICM) response plan look like?
A major incident has occurred on the freeway in an ICM corridor. Travelers are advised via dynamic message sign and other traveler information sources (e.g., 511) to take a parallel route or shift to transit, where there is spare capacity. Signal timing on the parallel route is changed to better manage the flow of the detoured traffic, and transit operators prepare for increased volumes by adding more buses along the impacted route.
Although the DSS approach at each site differs slightly, the basic process is similar. The DSS gathers traffic data from an array of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in the network and uses this information to forecast future conditions on the corridor. If an event (recurring or non-recurring) occurs that is predicted to meet pre-established congestion thresholds, the DSS generates response plans. These plans contain combinations of multimodal strategies to address specific congestion scenarios. Response plans are based on detailed business rules that establish the conditions under which assets can be used. This may vary based on the magnitude of the event, time of day, congestion levels on the network, etc., as well as due to policy constraints. The DSS recommends and ranks response plans by running a simulation to determine which plan will most effectively address the congestion. Operating agencies are alerted to either accept or reject the plans; if accepted, the plan will be implemented.
The USDOT is conducting independent "before-after" analyses to evaluate the benefits of ICM on transportation operator situational awareness, response and control, traveler information and overall corridor performance at each site. The experiences and lessons learned from the demonstration sites are being actively shared with the transportation community so that regions interested in ICM can leverage the knowledge gained to better shape a successful deployment for their corridor(s).
Although the demonstration sites provide valuable insights into the necessary components of building an ICM system, they do not represent the only way to implement ICM. There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to ICM, since the circumstances of a particular corridor will vary based on traffic patterns, agency dynamics, available assets, and a host of other factors.
Traffic incidents span a continuum of characteristics from debris on the side of the road to full- scale, multi-vehicle crashes involving motorist fatalities. Traffic incident management is the coordinated response to these traffic incidents that involves responders from multiple disciplines working side-by-side to safely and efficiently clear traffic incidents.
The stakes are high. Without a coordinated traffic incident management response, the safety of motorists and responders is compromised and congestion builds as other motorists try to navigate past the incident.
Consensus Building – to create a shared understanding among TIM responders of the importance and value of coordinated incident response to the goals of increased safety for motorists and responders alike as well as improved transportation system operations.
Research and Development – to identify tools and technologies that will improve incident detection, response, and clearance and enhance the safety of responders and motorists.
Best Practices – to identify, quantify the value of, and promulgate the most promising strategies for coordinated incident response.
One of the challenges inherent in TIM is that there are the numerous stakeholders involved who have myriad and often divergent priorities. Although certainly not limited to these, the primary disciplines involved in traffic incident response are described in Table 1. Each TIM program is unique and is typically structured to meet the needs of its region or State; as such the involved stakeholders may vary, as does the lead or champion organization for each program.
Often first responder on scene, LE personnel will secure the incident scene; provide initial emergency response if there are injuries; direct traffic around the incident; conduct accident investigation.
Treat injuries; prepare and transport more seriously injured motorists to hospital.
Secure the incident scene; establish traffic control around incident; provide motorist assistance; incident clearance; restore traffic flow after incident cleared.
Removal of damage vehicles and debris; incident scene clean-up.
Transportation Management Center (TMC) – Incident detection, verification; identify alternate routes; provide motorist information.
Public Safety Dispatch – Receive and transmit incident information; dispatch public safety incident response.
Traffic Media – Inform motorists of incidents, incident clearance times and alternate routes.
Contain and clean up any hazardous material spills associated with traffic incidents.
Given the critical role of multi-discipline coordination in traffic incident management, a number of stakeholder coalitions have emerged over the years to advance consensus building, participate in TIM research and development, and disseminate best practices.
One of the first such groups was the National Incident Management Coalition (NIMC), which focused on building consensus for coordinated incident management through a series of regional education and outreach conferences held around the United States. The successor to the NIMC was the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition (NTIMC), which was formed following a 2002 national conference on the importance of multidisciplinary traffic incident management programs. The NTIMC membership was comprised of representatives from the national associations representing the various TIM stakeholder groups.
Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Partnerships and Programs.
Multidisciplinary National Incident Management (NIMS) and TIM Training.
Goals for Performance and Progress.
Recommended Practices for Responder Safety.
Response and Clearance Time Goals.
Multidisciplinary Communications Practices and Procedures.
Interoperable Voice and Data Networks.
Prompt, Reliable Traveler Information Systems.
Partnerships with News Media and Information Providers.
One of the most important products to come out of the NTIMC was the National Unified Goal (NUG) for traffic incident management. The NUG has three overall objectives supported by 18 strategies (see box) which were developed and ratified by the member organizations of the NTIMC. It provides a roadmap against which local, regional and state TIM programs can be organized.
From its earliest beginnings as an ad hoc activity by the various incident responders until today, when more formalized TIM programs have coalesced around the National Unified Goal, TIM continues to benefit from increased education and awareness. TIM programs are currently focused on measuring and improving performance through tools such as FHWA's Traffic Incident Management Self-Assessment and the emerging TIM Capabilities Maturity Framework.
TIM practitioners across the country are also benefitting from standardized TIM training5 developed as part of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2). One of the first products of the SHRP2 Reliability Program track was a national TIM responder training curriculum. The resulting multidisciplinary training course promotes a shared understanding of the requirements for quick clearance and provides for the safety of motorists and responders alike. Through deployment of the training around the country—as a 2-day train-the-trainer course, a 4-hour student course, or through e-learning—the common set of core competencies will ensure improved TIM practices by all responder disciplines today and for the future.
This primer will describe how TIM partners and activities can be incorporated into ICM, where important synergies exist between the two, and how to capitalize on the shared goals of TIM and ICM.
When traffic incidents are cleared more safely and efficiently, the opportunity for secondary incidents is greatly reduced and traffic flow is restored more quickly.
The integration of TIM data—such as anticipated incident duration, incident and roadway clearance times, occurrence of secondary incidents, alternate routes, etc.—allow for more robust ICM decision support systems (DSS).
The involvement of TIM stakeholders in ICM provides for broader awareness of potential corridor impacts from planned special events such as sporting events, concerts, major conventions, visiting dignitaries, etc.
The unique perspective of the varied TIM partners can provide valuable insights on where motorists should be rerouted when incidents occur.
Expedited and safer access for public safety and emergency response agencies to victims and communities in need of service. When incidents do occur, ICM strategies can be deployed to clear the way for public safety and emergency response personnel and vehicles to more quickly approach the incident, safely respond to those in need, and transport victims to care.
ICM provides the resources for improved traveler information, allowing motorists to understand incident impacts on travel times and make alternate route or modal choices.
ICM enhances the ability to reroute and divert traffic away from an incident scene and potentially move that traffic to other facilities or modes. Not only does this reduce the incident queue, thereby minimizing the potential for secondary incidents, it greatly improves safety for responders at the scene and the motorists involved in the incident. Incident scenes can then be cleared more efficiently and traffic flow restored more quickly.
In those areas where the TIM program may not be as well established or formalized, ICM provides a platform for collaboration among TIM partners. With TIM efforts focused on the specific corridor, relationships among TIM stakeholders are built and can then be capitalized on to expand the TIM program beyond the corridor.
Planning for ICM often leads to increased awareness and a more accurate inventory of available traffic management and transportation operations infrastructure, systems, and assets.
There are ample opportunities for integrating traffic incident management (TIM) into integrated corridor management (ICM) processes. In areas that have existing TIM teams and structure, those platforms can serve to initiate integration discussions. Along with opportunities, there are also several challenges to overcome, such as limited resources or different priorities among stakeholders. Table 2 highlights some of the key opportunities and challenges related to institutional, operational, and technical integration.
The following sections explore opportunities and challenges in those three areas in more detail.
Table 2. Opportunities and challenges associated with integrated corridor management and traffic incident management.
The first step for successful integration of ICM and TIM strategies is cooperation and coordination among partner agencies and stakeholders to transcend institutional boundaries. Formal agreements need to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the involved agencies and stakeholders.
Fostering existing relationships between transportation agencies and TIM professionals can be a starting point to complete an initial feasibility assessment and systems engineering analysis for integrating TIM and ICM. Existing TIM teams can provide leverage to move forward with ICM opportunities. In regions where TIM teams currently exist, meetings, training, or other TIM gatherings can serve as a platform for discussions on how to integrate ICM and TIM strategies. This platform can also serve as an opportunity to share data, advance performance measures, and collaborate on planning efforts.
Regions that have large planning organizations, like metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), can also use existing meeting platforms to begin ICM and TIM integration. Bringing TIM and ICM professionals together during the planning stage ensures that needs for both disciplines are fully understood. It also facilitates a smoother integration of joint strategies.
In regions where first responders are co-located in a facility with transportation facility operators, like a traffic management center (TMC), barriers to communication and coordination are removed and facilitation between the disciplines may improve. In areas where these stakeholders are not co-located there may be other opportunities to improve communication.
The towing and recovery industry is a key component of TIM, and opportunities to improve tow operator response time and clearance times could be gained through formal agreements or region-wide tow boards. Establishing towing protocols and creating formal agreements sets the stage to more easily implement advanced ICM and TIM strategies that incorporate the towing and recovery industry on a region-wide basis.
While both ICM and TIM stakeholders can benefit from integrating strategies, the process is likely to face challenges.
In areas that do not have a strong TIM program in place, it will be challenging to move forward with ICM integration without first establishing a TIM program for the subject corridor. A key element in institutional integration is clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of partner agencies and stakeholders. Without a TIM program or other foundation platform in place, defining these roles and responsibilities, and reaching agreement among responsible parties, may be challenging.
TIM partners often have different priorities than ICM partners, which can lead to disagreement about how to obtain and spend available funding. ICM strategies tend to focus on achieving mobility goals through technology-based solutions and longer term planning. First responders are more focused on those immediate actions at an incident scene that are necessary to ensure the safety of responders and motorists. In addition, TIM resources and staffing may be limited. These limitations may hinder the ability and willingness of TIM partners to further integrate ICM activities and lead to missed opportunities. Under these circumstances, the ICM project leaders need to effectively convince TIM partners that ICM integration will benefit them without extra burden.
Another institutional challenge is how to reach agreements on sharing data between agencies that accounts for existing security and privacy issues. For example, traffic signal systems for many agencies operate on a secure network with policies in place that limit who can access the network and what level of access they have. These policies need to be addressed so that relevant information can be shared in real-time with necessary partners.
Regular communication and meetings with partner agencies is essential.
Following the systems engineering approach may be difficult at first but pays off in the end.
Determining how to process and use the robust data collected can be challenging.
Performance measures and evaluation criteria should be considered early in the process.
Agencies should consider post-deployment operations and maintenance when designing their systems particularly with respect to stakeholder roles and responsibilities.
Assets – All of the potential networks, routes, systems, and capabilities along the corridor that could potentially be used as part of a response.
Availability – The status of the assets and whether they are currently available for use as part of a response.
Availability can be limited based on time of day and other factors; for example, it may be impermissible to re-route traffic along a certain arterial during school zone hours.
Scale of Response – A response may be conservative, moderate, or aggressive based on the predicted impact of an event, which is defined by an integrated performance metric (e.g. person-miles traveled). The assets that will be used may vary based on the scale of the response. For example, at the Dallas demonstration site, travelers are advised to take transit only if a major incident of a pre-defined magnitude occurs on the freeway.
ICM and TIM strategies provide numerous opportunities for operational integration as described in the following subsections.
Involving ICM stakeholders in TIM meetings provides a platform to plan and present new ideas. TIM teams may hold regular meetings or after action reviews in which ICM stakeholders can participate. Providing a platform for the different partners to communicate can lead to improved understanding of the capabilities each partner can offer and the challenges these partners face. It can also create opportunities to move forward together.
Meeting in advance of a known event and coordinating response efforts can ensure minimal disruptions to corridor operations. Additionally, after action reviews can lead to improved performance from all partners during the next similar event or incident.
The joint meetings can also be used to advance the development of performance measures, share data, and determine how each partner can use the data to improve operations.
Typically a concept of operations is developed for each ICM corridor to provide a stakeholder view of the system in a non-technical manner with a focus on user needs, activity-based operations objectives, performance measures, roles and responsibilities, and institutional agreements. Including TIM stakeholders in the Concept of Operations development process provides a key opportunity to discuss the integration of ICM and TIM strategies. One or more incident scenarios, such as those included in the Maryland I-270 corridor ICM concept of operations,7 helps establish how the two program areas will work together in practice. The I-270 ICM concept of operations outlines examples for both a minor and major traffic incident and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all involved agencies through the duration of each incident response. Integration of TIM stakeholders into the development of the ICM ConOps also allows the opportunity to discuss more technical issues, such as how data and video will be shared among partners.
Similar to the concept of operations discussed above, many regions also have TIM strategic plans that identify programs and actions to improve incident response. TIM strategic plans are typically region-wide or state-wide and often lead to a specific set of actions for implementation. Incorporating ICM strategies into TIM strategic plans provides a medium in which to promote and prioritize specific strategies. TIM strategic plans can also document roles and responsibilities and establish lead agencies in charge of implementing specific action items.
Pairing ICM resources with TIM dispatch capabilities can decrease incident detection and improve verification and response times. Allowing incident dispatchers to use traffic operation tools such as closed circuit television cameras to verify incident location, severity, and tow requirements enables responders to arrive at the scene well informed and improves incident response and clearance times.
Through on-the-job experience, TIM stakeholders can likely provide insights to ICM partners about high incident locations. These are locations to target for additional monitoring to enable early incident detection. TIM stakeholders may also be able to provide insight regarding where it would be useful to place dynamic message signs to re-route travelers during an incident.
Expanding TIM safety service patrol coverage to include arterials (in addition to freeways) also provides an opportunity to integrate TIM with ICM. Expanding these patrols to arterials will increase operators' knowledge of conditions and incidents on facilities adjacent to freeways and will facilitate incident response efforts on arterials. The patrols also act as a mobile resource for public safety. If TIM safety service patrols expand to include arterial routes parallel to the freeways, public assistance on arterial routes will be made available.
ICM partners may be able to provide better information to first responders traveling to or from the scene. Providing improved information to first responders, monitoring their progress while en route, and even adjusting traffic signal timing to get first responders to the scene (or hospital) faster are all elements within reach if ICM and TIM strategies are integrated.
Additionally, most traffic signals include emergency vehicle priority, giving the emergency vehicle the green phase while truncating other phases early. Although preemption is a standard feature in traffic signals, the emergency vehicles allowed priority can vary by agency and region. For example, in some areas the preemption may apply to fire engines, ambulances, police vehicles, service patrols, and even maintenance vehicles, whereas other areas may only allow fire and police vehicles to gain signal priority privileges. An integrated ICM and TIM approach could involve first responder vehicles being informed of the optimal ingress and egress routes, ensuring that the route includes traffic signals with priority preemption.
Coordinating work zone management and construction projects with TIM and ICM partners provides a mechanism to ensure that parallel route options are available and that emergency vehicle mobility in the vicinity of a work zone is optimized. Transportation management plans (TMP) address work zone safety and mobility and are required by FHWA for any projects receiving Federal funding. Expanding the TMP to include TIM stakeholders and applying it to a broader range of projects can improve operations across the transportation network as a whole by keeping all parties better informed.
Many States use collaborative mapping tools to identify work zone locations. This allows for coordinated construction efforts and an expanded ability to evaluate impacts to traffic.
Oregon - Corridor-level transportation management plans ensure at least one major north-south corridor and one major east-west corridor are left unrestricted for freight and passenger travel at all times.
New York/New Jersey/Connecticut Region – This region formed the Transportation Operations Coordinating Committee (TRANSCOM), which consists of a coalition of 16 transportation and public safety agencies. TRANSCOM helps facilitate construction coordination among member agencies, holding annual meetings where upcoming construction projects are discussed. TRANSCOM contacts member agencies with recommendations if adjustments to traffic operations are needed based on real-time construction and incident information.
R.E.S.C.U.M.E. was developed by the Dynamic Mobility Application program through the Intelligent Transportation Systems Join Program Office and U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
Incident Scene Pre-Arrival Staging Guidance for Emergency Responders (RESP-STG) – provides first responders with situational awareness information while en route and at the scene to help them make more informed decisions in regard to routing and staging.
Incident Scene Work Zone Alerts for Drivers and Workers (INC-ZONE) – alerts both drivers and workers when a vehicle is approaching a work zone at an unsafe speed or trajectory.
Emergency Communications and Evacuation (EVAC) – alerts evacuees using their own transportation about current roadway conditions, food, lodging, gas, and other essentials. EVAC also identifies and locates evacuees who are more likely to require guidance and assistance and provides information to identify services and available resources.
Advanced Automated Crash Notification Relay (AACN-RELAY) – communicates a wealth of data to a roadside hotspot that can then be forwarded to first responders or other agency personnel. Information could include: exact location of the vehicle, position of the vehicle (upright or overturned), whether the airbags deployed, vehicle speed just prior to the crash, whether the gas tank was full, number of occupants, medical history of occupants, and cargo content for commercial loads, just to name a few of the available details.
The ICM analysis, modeling, and simulation (AMS) methodology is a comprehensive approach that analyzes the impact of a strategy on the entire corridor (freeway, arterials, and even transit system). Agencies can use ICM AMS to determine whether particular strategies will improve performance and to assess planned ICM strategies. Currently, little AMS has been conducted for TIM-related strategies. Incorporating TIM strategies into the ICM AMS could provide a robust tool for modeling the comprehensive benefits of different TIM strategies.
Analysis, modeling and simulation was recently used to evaluate strategies at the two integrated corridor management demonstration sites: US-75 in Dallas, TX and I-15 in San Diego, CA.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, "ICM Pioneer Sites–Dallas, Texas" web page. Available at: http://www.its.dot.gov/icms/pioneer_dallas.htm. See also, U.S. Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, "ICM Pioneer Sites–San Diego, California" web page.
Similar to institutional challenges, integrating these operational strategies will be particularly challenging in regions that do not have a formal TIM team or program.
Funding and staffing is another challenge facing operational integration. Often the operational opportunities include an element of TIM staff time and resources, especially in the beginning, and some of the operational strategies may have a steep learning curve. Limited TIM staff and resources is a likely barrier to implementing the operational strategies discussed in the previous section. Once a strategy is implemented, it may be a challenge to ensure that funding is available for ongoing maintenance and operations.
Effective communications, particularly regarding early notification and on-scene communication, can often be difficult to coordinate between numerous stakeholders. This can be strengthened by defining clear roles and responsibilities in the concept of operations for all stakeholders and holding post-incident debriefings to identify successful practices and areas for improvement.
The final step necessary for integrating ICM with TIM is technical integration. Technical integration provides the means for implementing operational strategies, such as communication links and system interfaces. It includes technical resources for sharing, viewing, and using real-time information to make decisions.
Technical integration can pave the way for improved data collection as well as being key to advancing some of the operational opportunities discussed in the previous section. Several ICM strategies rely on a solid communication infrastructure with the ability to monitor and respond to real time data. With that technology and infrastructure in place, TIM responders could develop a process for data collection and archiving if one is not already in place.
Sharing data between incident responders and ICM stakeholders presents a wealth of opportunities for all stakeholders. For example, ICM could provide a forum for TIM responders to develop a consistent process for data collection and archiving. By combining data from both incident responders and ICM stakeholders, the quality of real-time traveler information will improve, resulting in better information about rerouting to avoid incidents and incident-related delay.
With the rise of smart phones, other mobile devices, and connected vehicles, there are endless opportunities to improve communications and share data with the traveling public. By doing so, real-time conditions and rerouting recommendations will be instantly available, enabling travelers to make informed decisions and optimizing the transportation network.
The private sector already has applications that provide real-time traffic and incident information and can recommend rerouting options for travelers. One application, WAZETM, is a crowd- sourced application, relying on users to input incidents and hazards. That application then provides travelers with alternate route options and informs them of the travel time to their destination using each route option. Collaborating with the private sector, such as providing an open source clearinghouse of public sector real-time incident data, could result in other private sector apps that reduce congestion during incidents.
Roadway clearance time (time between incident awareness and confirmation that all lanes are open to traffic).
Incident clearance time (time between incident awareness and when the last responder left the scene).
TIM performance measures data could be used to supplement and create a more robust ICM decision support system (DSS).
Creating a robust and shared database between ICM partners and TIM stakeholders may be challenging when field equipment—such as detection devices and communication infrastructure—are insufficient. Without field devices in place, several of the operational strategies cannot be implemented. Or, if they are implemented, the strategies will not realize their full potential. In a world of constantly advancing technology, it can be a challenge for agencies to evaluate and identify the best tools to meet the region's needs and allow the system to expand, which can complicate the implementation process. Additionally, there is little data that quantifies a return on investment in terms of safety when integrating data between ICM and TIM, so TIM stakeholders may be hesitant to focus limited resources on such efforts. TIM stakeholders are more likely to place a higher need on investing in tangible first responder equipment than data integration.
Figure 3. Illustration. Washington State Department of Transportation Gray Notebook Performance Measures.
Source: Washington State DOT, The Grey Notebook, Edition 59, Quarter ending September 30, 2015 (Olympia, WA: WSDOT, 2015). Available at: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Accountability/GrayNotebook/navigateGNB.htm.
Another challenge to technical integration is determining how to process and use the large quantity of data that will be available. Once the data is available, resources need to be allocated to determine how it is processed, whether the data should be published, and where the data is stored.
"Collecting and processing the necessary data can be one of the most time-intensive aspects of planning and designing an ICM system, and figuring out how to use that data post-deployment can be a challenge."
Integrated corridor management (ICM) and traffic incident management (TIM) have at their core a shared objective – safely and efficiently moving people and goods. ICM focuses on the efficient utilization of transportation infrastructure and assets to maximize the capacity of existing corridors through multi-modal, active management of all assets along that corridor. TIM provides for safe, quick clearance of traffic incidents that protects motorists and responders while quickly restoring traffic flow and reducing the occurrence of secondary incidents.
The benefits to ICM and TIM from integration are fairly intuitive. Better managed corridors mean less risk of traffic incidents and a safer, more efficient response environment for TIM stakeholders when incidents do occur. Coordinated traffic incident response minimizes impacts from the incidents that do occur, and TIM programs can provide greatly enhanced incident data for an ICM decision support system.
The opportunities for ICM and TIM integration are numerous and in many instances are easily realized, such as involving ICM stakeholders in regular TIM meetings and sharing incident data for improved traveler information.
There are challenges to integration of ICM and TIM, particularly in those areas where the TIM program is not institutionalized among TIM responders. In such areas, ICM may actually provide the platform for coalescing TIM partner activities on the corridor, providing the opportunity for further expansion once the relationships are built.
Despite the challenges, the objectives of ICM and TIM are so closely related that opportunities to integrate the two should be capitalized on whenever possible.
| 2019-04-20T06:41:50 |
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16035/index.htm
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How to make a basic Arabic nominal sentences in 2 steps ???
1) In Arabic, unlike in English, you can have a sentence with no verb at all , we don't have verb to be (e.g., am, are, is, etc.) like English.
pen (قلم)- cheap (رخيص)- computer (حاسوب)- expensive (غالِ)- weather (جوّ)- hot(حار).
| 2019-04-23T22:44:26 |
https://www.islamicity.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=38917&title=how-to-make-a-basic-nominal-sentences-in-2-steps
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In ten minutes, you can turn an old saw blade into a place to put hot dishes without scarring your table or countertop.
Step 1: Dull the teeth of the saw blade with a file or a bench grinder.
Step 2: Use a protractor to mark three lines from the center of the blade, 120 degrees apart.
Step 3: Measure 7/8 inches in from the outside edge of the blade on each line. Mark with a center punch.
Step 4: Use a drill and 5/16-inch twist bit to make a hole at each punch.
Step 5: Thread a bolt through each hole. Add a washer and nut on the underside of each bolt and tighten.
Step 6: Thread a capnut onto the bottom of each bolt.
| 2019-04-26T07:54:35 |
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/advice/a27558/how-to-make-a-a-saw-blade-trivet/
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I explain that it's an outdoor studio and that it's only open for 4 months of the year - but if one of your could strike a deal with Mother Nature and get me 6 that would be great! I'm most often met with the same reaction: jealousy.
"That's amazing. You're living the dream. I wish I could have a work schedule like that!"
In many, many ways, I feel like I am. I get to run a business in my favourite place, sharing my favourite thing and still have the freedom to focus on other passions - and other countries as life has it right now - in the off season. My schedule demands and responsibilities change drastically as the seasons change with summer being full on craziness, spring busy with planning, fall busy with wrap up and then winter being quiet - really, really quiet.
It's amazing but there's a flip side to this that I've only ever really discussed with other seasonal business owners who get it.
The quiet months can actually be really hard.
I go from waking up at 5:45am feeling full of purpose, needed at most hours of the day and tackling a never ending to do list to having all the schedule and work freedom in the world. Sure there are a lot of things I have to work on at the moment but the only person waiting on them is - ME! There's no boathouse full of students waiting for me to start my 9am class today, it's just me and my coffee deciding when it's time to get to it.
I started to feel an unease settling in a few weeks ago.
A lot of questions started flying through my head.
Is this 'job' even a career?
How much Netflix is too much Netflix?
All of a sudden I realized, here I am again.
A midlife crisis is defined as "a period of doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age when they think about whether their life is the kind of life that they want." Let me be clear, I know without a doubt that this is the life I want, but that doesn't change the fact that the stillness and quiet of my winter work life brings a certain level of doubt and anxiety along with it.
With this awareness of the 'mid-winter crisis' sweeping in, I've decided to be more compassionate with myself. It's my quiet season and instead of resisting that - Type A over here doesn't like slow - I'm trying my best to embrace it and take the opportunity to slow down. I'm realizing more and more these days that our lives are like the seasons, they're constantly in flux and things are always going to change. All the resisting just makes us miss out on the season we're in right now.
Does a tree in the middle of February freak out that it's leaves are gone? No! It knows a rebirth is coming. That sure enough the buds will arrive with spring, the leaves will power through summer, then come fall they'll prep to shed and shut down for the winter. It knows that it's a cycle, that each stage is important and that year after year, the cycle will repeat itself.
I think we can learn an important lesson from the trees when it comes to creativity and inspiration. Whether you're putting your energy towards creating a successful business, a powerful side hustle, a healthy body + mind, a happy life - there are always going to be seasons.
That even in the most inspiring journeys, you'll have moments where you feel motivated, moments where you feel exhausted and moments where doubt creeps in and you question everything. The important thing to remember is that the pendulum is going swing again. The season will change. You'll be onto a new stage before you know it. So hustle hard when you're inspired, hang in there when you're tired and curl up when it's quiet because whatever you're feeling, you won't be feeling it forever.
| 2019-04-24T00:48:16 |
http://www.jenniferdwyer.ca/blog/2018/2/21/my-mid-winter-crisis
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I was injured on the job in Pennsylvania, and I am being cheated by the insurance company. I have bills to pay. What can I do?
Although injured claimants may not recover "insurance bad faith" damages against an insurer for failing to comply with the Pennsylvania Workers' Comp Act, a workers' compensation judge has the discretion to award up to 50 percent of compensation and interest payable to an injured worker in cases of unreasonable or excessive delays. To recover penalties, a claimant must file a Petition for Penalties with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation. The decision to award penalties and the amount of any penalty awarded is up to the workers' compensation judge hearing the case. For a discussion of some of the types of conduct that may result in penalties, read my article, "The Top Ten Ways Pennsylvania Workers' Comp Insurance Companies Cheat Injured Workers."
The most frequent situation in which penalties are assessed against an insurance company is for the failure to pay wage loss benefits within 30 days of an award by a workers' compensation judge. Furthermore, under Pennsylvania law, an insurance company is supposed to issue its first payment of compensation within 21 days of the date that an individual becomes disabled under the Act. The failure to issue payment within that 21 day period has been a common basis for awards of penalties by workers' compensation judges. Though the practice has been less frequent in recent years, insurance companies sometimes take “self help” and stop paying wage loss benefits, which is generally not permitted without a court order, an agreement signed by the injured worker, or upon the filing of a Notice of Suspension filed when the employee returns to work. It is not unusual, however, for there to be delays in the payment of compensation or for an insurance company to inadvertently drop an injured claimant from “automatic pay” of compensation benefits.
Workers' compensation judges generally do not like to issue decisions on small delays of payment unless there is a pattern. To make sure that the insurance company complies with its obligation to pay wage loss benefits promptly, keep copies of all workers’ comp paystubs and the envelopes in which the checks were received. By checking the postmarks on the envelopes, a pattern of slow or non payment can be proved.
Penalties can also be assessed against an insurance company when it fails to file forms required by law, including a Notice of Compensation Payable, a Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable, a Notice of Workers' Compensation Denial, and a Notice of Benefits Offset.
My medical bills are going to collection agencies. What do I do?
Another area in which it is common for judges to award penalties is the failure to pay medical expenses in a timely manner. Providers have the right to file an Application for Fee Review if the insurance company fails to pay a medical bill on time, but injured claimants typically file petitions to get payments made because Applications for Fee Review must be filed within a relatively short period following non payment or the provider loses the right to file an Application. An injured claimant, on the other hand, can file a penalty petition, sometimes years after the medical bill has been unpaid. Penalties are paid to the injured worker, not the medical provider.
Ordinarily an insurance company must pay all medical expenses associated with a work injury unless they have denied your claim, in which case you may send your bills to your health insurer until your claim is resolved. If the workers' comp insurer accepts your claim but does not pay work-related medical bills, your medical providers have no right to bill you. If you are receiving "dunning notices" for non-payment of medical bills for your work injury, contact the workers' comp company immediately. Call the medical provider and make sure all providers have the claim number for your injury and the name, address, and telephone number of the insurance company. Remind the medical providers that they may bill the insurance company only. If the carrier continues to refuse to pay your bills or if you keep getting billed by your providers, contact us.
Any disputes regarding the reasonableness and necessity of medical treatment are to be resolved through “utilization review” procedures. An insurance company has the right to file a Petition to Review Medical Treatment and/or Billing, but where the employer stops paying medical expenses because it claims that the medical expenses are not related to the work injury, the employer or insurance company assumes the risk that penalties will be assessed against them if the judge finds the medical costs to be causally related to the work injury.
As a practical matter, for medical bills to be payable, they must be billed in accordance with the requirements of the Act. This means that, at a minimum, it must be billed on the appropriate form with an appropriate diagnostic code along with the medical reports documenting the treatment rendered. Although medical bills submitted to a workers' compensation insurance company should be filed with an LIBC 9 medical report form, penalties can still be awarded if it is clear that the treatment rendered was related to the work injury.
| 2019-04-20T16:21:45 |
https://www.thebolesfirm.com/library/penalties.cfm
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This medium-large red slicing tomato has firm, meaty, crack resistant fruits with outstanding flavour. Developed at the University of Wisconsin in the 1950s, this is one of the last improved OP varieties before hybrids began to dominate the market. The tall vines need staking. Indeterminate.
| 2019-04-23T03:08:29 |
https://www.seedsforafrica.co.za/products/wisconsin-55-tomato-solanum-lycopersicon-vegetable-10-seeds
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What other names is Phenibut known by?
4-Amino-3-Phenylbutyric Acid, Acide 4-Amino-3-Phenylbutyrique, Acide Bêta-phényl-gamma-aminobutyrique, Agente Gabaérgico, B-Phenyl-Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Beta-Phenyl-GABA, Bêta-Phényl-GABA, Beta-phenyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid, Fenibut, Phénibut, Phenyl-GABA, Phényl-GABA.
Phenibut is similar to the brain chemical called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Research in animals shows that it might decrease anxiety and have other effects on the body. But phenibut has not been studied in people, so no one knows whether it might work as a medicine.
There is not enough information to know if phenibut is safe. It has not been studied in people.
| 2019-04-22T20:21:31 |
https://www.medicinenet.com/phenibut/supplements-vitamins.htm
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Q. How can I add a splash of colour to my wedding day?
A. Kirsty Corbett says: I love a colourful weddings, for me the vibrancy adds an extra sense of joy to the occasion. You can be playful with your colour schemes and add subtle pops of brightness throughout the day, without making your wedding look over the top. First, start to think of colours as building blocks. Start with one base shade and carefully introduce a maximum of three main colours which complement each other. Make sure they are all harmonising tones, too many can look messy. Be strategic with where you place the boldest hue to add personality to your wedding while keeping it elegant, unique and fun.
Adding your colours to the wedding in all design elements, down to the smallest details, is a perfect strategy for making your ceremony and reception pictures unique and memorable. All photographers in the UK each have their own individual style, from reportage and artistic to traditional and documentary; find a style that you both like that reflects the theme of your day. Find a photographer that edits their photos in a style that you love, in order to create fun and natural images that reflect you both.
Don't let tradition, outside pressure, cost or especially wedding culture, squash your creativity and enthusiasm. Weddings are all about you, so make them unmistakably so! Enjoy the process and let your imagination run wild!
A. Philip French says: Choose one or two complementary colours and use them throughout. Start by focusing on enhancing architectural features such as fireplaces, pillars or trees as this will help create depth. Then look at your key ingredients, the bar, dancefloor and seating area and ensure they are suitably lit.
A final tip; when looking at lighting around food, ensure you do not use blues or greens around white meat such as chicken or pork as they have an adverse effect on the look.
A. Steven Brightey says: As with many design choices, style and etiquette change over time. Around 50 years ago, black was the expected wedding car colour. Then came white. However, these days there is a wide range of colours available for your wedding, which require careful consideration to complement the wedding party and their grand arrival.
Black remains popular, being elegant and stylish, and white is a traditional choice symbolising purity and simplicity.
Silver is as an alternative option to black or white and depicts modern elegance. Pink and gold are gentle, feminine colours which suit a romantic theme wedding. Darker colours such as burgundy, blue and green are becoming more popular, as these evoke smooth and serene visions, and will show off a white or cream bridal dress, plus complement most bridesmaid dress colours.
A. Kate Faccenda says: If you want to add a bit of drama to your wedding day then there's an amazing range of rich luscious pinks and electric blue silk flowers that we are totally in love with. We'll be stocking up in 2019 and can't wait to make a knock-out ceremonial archway or garland for the top table in these colours.
We're also loving the huge flowery pom poms now available in fabulously bright colours that you can get to hang from the ceiling of your venue or hang in a tree outside. Such a cost-effective way to decorate especially if your wedding location needs that little bit of extra help to turn it into your dream venue (www.pompomstudio.co.uk).
A. Beverley Edmondson says: Firstly, I'd think about what your mum feels comfortable in and the colours that suit her, if you put her in shades that don't work with her colour palette, it's not going to suit her or make her feel amazing, any unsureness in what she is wearing will also show in the wedding pictures. If she really wants to wear a colourful outfit, be careful not to strip out the important parts of her personality, she still needs to look and feel like herself and like your mum.
Maybe a neutral background dress with bright floral pattern would work well; then with the accessories she can pick up on the brighter tones to give her a pop of colour but with the background still tying with the bridal party.
You can always get shoes and a handbag dyed to match the contrast colour hat as well (we offer this service).
Alternatively, statement headwear in the tones of your bridal party will give your mum that bolder look, headwear doesn't need to be traditional, a statement headpiece on the right person will make them stand out but in an elegant understated way. It's not always about being the brightest, subtle tones can also be a statement in their own right, just make sure the tones work against your mum's skin tones and makes her glow.
❤ Introduce sprays of diamantés and crystals in your accent hue into ivory/white bouquets for a subtle pop of colour. Ask your florist to bind the bouquets in your shade to add another hint of it.
❤ I sometimes add in ribbons into all the flower arrangements, especially when the couple have chosen a colour that's not found naturally in fresh flowers, for instance navy blue or teal.
❤ Use crystals, beads or coloured water in the base of vases for tablecentres, or even add an LED light to reflect your chosen colour, these work especially well under water!
❤ Add a table runner or organza/lace/satin overlay, in your chosen hue to add texture too. Use drapes and swags on bannister railings, poles and table fronts.
❤ Scatter sparkling crystals on the tables and mirror plates. Name tags, napkins and favours can also be used to add a small accent of colour to your tables.
❤ A fairylight backdrop always gives wow factor, but why not add some drapes of coloured swag too?
❤ Up-lighters can illuminate a fairylight backdrop or curtain drapes, or use them to colour special venue features such as fireplaces. Used on the outside of the building they will always look amazing and give a modern twist.
❤ Chair covers or Chiavari chairs can be adorend with a strong coloured sash, remember, organza gives a more subtle finish that satin or taffeta.
| 2019-04-22T22:56:26 |
https://www.yoursurrey.wedding/ask-the-experts/806
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WOLFEBORO, N.H. - Mitt Romney is planning to fortify his communications and messaging team by adding seasoned operatives, advisers close to the campaign said Thursday, after withering criticism from prominent conservative voices that his insular team has fumbled recent opportunities.
Romney's advisers insisted that he will keep his inner circle intact amid growing concerns about the Republican presidential nominee and his campaign.
The tempest began with a weekend tweet from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and burst Thursday onto the pages of one of his newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, as its conservative editorial board opined that Romney's advisers were "slowly squandering an historic opportunity" to beat President Barack Obama.
By day's end, talk-radio host Laura Ingraham had asked listeners whether the vacationing candidate should "get off the Jet Ski," and influential commentator William Kristol, who recently returned from a private retreat with Romney and his senior strategists, had bemoaned the campaign's "dangerous self-delusion."
Without a course correction, Kristol posited, Romney would suffer the same fate as the last two presidential nominees from Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry, both Democrats.
Romney's advisers strongly rejected the course-correction suggestion but said they have been in the process of recruiting political muscle to his Boston headquarters.
The campaign plans to bolster its rapid response and overall messaging operations and to assemble a senior staff for the eventual vice-presidential running mate, according to strategists close to the campaign.
They said some Republicans who have been informally advising the campaign may assume more official duties, including appearing as surrogates on television. The strategists said the moves could be announced as early as next week.
One GOP strategist not working for Romney said, "The campaign needs to show the GOP-elite world and the media a lot of competence going forward or this shake-up talk will only get louder and continue."
There are no plans, however, to alter Romney's core team of advisers, most of whom have worked for the former Massachusetts governor for years, and campaign officials said it is highly unlikely Romney would demote or fire any of his senior staffers.
"I don't sense any panic. I don't sense that any heads are going to roll," said Tom Rath, a senior adviser to Romney. "The idea that this guy at this point, having gone through what he's gone through, is going to somehow scramble the eggs on the team -- they don't know Mitt Romney."
"The idea that somebody other than Beth Myers, Eric Fehrnstrom, Matt Rhoades, Stuart Stevens and Peter Flaherty are going to call the shots, it's just plain wrong," Rath said, ticking through Romney's closest advisers, including Rhoades, the campaign manager, and Stevens, the chief strategist.
Gail Gitcho, the campaign's communications director, said, "Governor Romney respects the team that he has, and he has full confidence in their abilities."
The Journal critique Thursday was a brutal exclamation point after two difficult weeks for Romney's campaign. One Republican strategist who works closely with the campaign acknowledged tactical mistakes, especially the campaign's handling of a Washington Post report about Bain Capital's investments in companies that moved jobs overseas during Romney's tenure at the company.
The news article became the basis of harsh attacks from Obama and ads by his campaign that threaten to undermine Romney's business credentials.
The Journal wrote in its editorial that Romney's campaign was too slow to respond and said of Obama's new attacks on Romney's foreign bank accounts: "If the Boston boys let that one go unanswered, they ought to be fired for malpractice."
The "Boston boy" who came into particular focus was Fehrnstrom, Romney's longtime chief spokesman, who on Monday put the campaign at odds with GOP talking points by saying that the individual mandate in Obama's health-care law requiring people to buy insurance or pay a penalty is not really a tax.
On Wednesday, Romney belatedly got in line with the rest of his party, saying that the federal mandate is a tax because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it so and that what the Supreme Court rules is the law of the land. The Journal wrote that "the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb."
Some of Romney's top supporters voiced confidence in his team.
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu said in an interview, "The art form of campaigning is to have fewer bumps in the road than the other guy and having more high points, and I think this campaign demonstrated that in the primary process."
| 2019-04-26T14:06:43 |
http://archive.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/20120705mitt-romney-maneuvers-quell-gop-critics.html
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As promised previously, I'll also be updating the non-fiction picks of 2005 as they come in. So far, not as many people have done big-time non-fiction lists, so we have fewer contenders than on last week's fiction list.
With the holiday season also comes that time of year when various publications and other entities start putting out their "Best Of" lists. This year, I thought I might tabulate the best books of the year according to the number of lists on which they appear. It at least provides a slight guideline to the fiction and non-fiction that is considered top-notch by a variety of sources. In order to appear on my list below, a book must have appeared on at least two lists. I'll start today with a fiction list, which I'll update every Friday until people stop doing 2005 lists. I'll do the same with non-fiction books, but I'll cover those on Mondays.
And so, without further ado, here are the fiction works of 2005 that are thus far catching the eyes of critics and other readers.
Disc three of this set is my personal favorite, as it puts together a compendium of performances of a number of The Who's best songs. When put together with the first two DVDs, the set really is a terrific retrospective of the band's later concert tours.
The first set comes from the 1989 Tommy show highlighted on disc one. It starts off with "Substitute", one of the band's earliest singles (and one that I never heard getting much airplay through years of listening to classic rock). Other "greatest hits" type songs included in this performance are "I Can See for Miles", "Baba O'Reilly", "Love Reign O'er Me", "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Who Are You?". For my part, I was excited to see two of my personal favorites, Pete Townshend's "Face the Face" and the '80s hit "You Better You Bet" (among my favorite songs ever, in fact). Also in the set is "Boris the Spider", a song that I grew to love in a long-ago television performance by the band. This song is performed by bassist John Entwisle, which Roger Daltrey providing some vocal support as well. Like the Tommy performance, these songs are extremely upbeat and just a blast to watch.
Set two is the encore from the Quadrophenia tour of 1996-1997. It replicates several songs from the Tommy set, but adds in stuff like "I Can't Explain", "The Kids Are Alright" and "Behind Blue Eyes". The final set closes out with more Tommy music, specifically "The Acid Queen" and "Pinball Wizard" performed by the band members rather than guest stars.
As a fan of The Who, I found this set to be entirely satisfying. It might not really be a great set for those who aren't fans of the band beyond their radio played greatest hits, but for diehards, I'd say it's a must-have.
Yesterday, I looked at the Tommy portion of this three DVD set. Today, I'll review the Quadrophenia set.
Like Tommy, Quadrophenia was billed as a rock opera, though it was perhaps a little bit less accessible than the former (it's probably just by a matter of degrees). The story centers on a young man named Jimmy who has a form of schizophrenia where he has four separate personalities - which is the source of the title "Quad"rophenia. The songs in the live performance of the opera are bookmarked by narration from the young man who portrays Jimmy, Alex Langdon. His four distinct personalities are as follows: a tough guy/helpless dancer; a romantic; a bloody lunatic; and a beggar/hypocrite. Four songs serve as the themes for these personalities - Helpless Dancer, Doctor Jimmy, Bell Boy, and Love Reign O'er Me. As on the album, the live performances intertwines elements of the songs with each other to keep a continuous thematic element going. Additionally, footage from the 1930s, '40s. '50s and '60s is displayed to punctuate the narrative. Some of the clips include early glimpses of The Who themselves, including the never forgotten Keith Moon.
While this performance feels slightly less energetic and over-the-top than Tommy, it's no less entertaining. The music and the subject matter are complex, with different time signatures and unusual chord progressions. There are also fewer guest appearances, though Billy Idol is still on hand along with Simon Townshend and PJ Proby. While Tommy was filmed in 1989, this footage came from 1996-97. It's a performance that matches up well with one of the most intelligent, multifaceted albums of the rock era.
Tomorrow, I'll cover the third disc in the set, which is composed of some additional performances from both the Tommy and the Quadrophenia tour, along with one other concert.
When it comes to the classic bands that got their start in the '60s, you'll often find people divided into camps. There's the people who see The Beatles as the standard bearers, and you also have those who take the part of The Rolling Stones. Led Zeppelin even has the attention of the harder rock fans. For me, though, it was always The Who, which meant that I was excited to see a new 3-DVD set of some of their concert performances released earlier this month.
Disc one is a live performance of the rock opera Tommy, which originally came to life in album form and then saw subsequent adaptation as both a movie (featuring the members of The Who) and a Broadway musical. It was the first such conceptual project ever specifically billed as a rock opera, and was primarily composed by bassist Pete Townshend. The story is a fictional biography of one Tommy Walker, whose witnessing of a murder at his father's hands causes him to retreat into self-imposed deafness, muteness and blindness. His parents try to find a cure for him, but matters only become worse for Tommy as he is abused both physically and sexually by extended family members. He responds to pinball and masters the game. Ultimately, Tommy is cured, at which point he comes to view himself as a messiah figure. He tries to lead his followers to enlightenment, but his heavy-handed methods and some exploitation from family members cause them to revolt.
The performance, which took place during The Who's 1989 tour, is raucous and full of life. A number of guest stars are on hand to make the show even more impressive, including Patti LaBelle, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Steve Winwood and of course, Elton John. Collins in particular takes up his role of Uncle Ernie with a glee and aplomb that borders on almost creepy (but that's pretty appropriate given the character's iniquity). Billy Idol is also ridiculously fun.
As for the three main performers from The Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, they're energetic and obviously having a blast. That enthusiasm is infectious as you view the DVD, too. One item of note that might bother some purists is the fact that Townshend does most of his playing on acoustic guitar (which was likely due to hearing loss issues that had come to the forefront in that time frame). I'm always a rather big fan of acoustic, anyway, so it didn't bother me.
I'll take a look at the Quadrophenia disc tomorrow, and follow up with a review of the third disc, a combination of three different tours, on Wednesday. I'll go ahead and say upfront that I enjoyed the third disc so much that I had it playing just as background while I did other work for several days in a row.
If you like your graphic novels unique and superhero-free, there's been a run of fantastic work in the genre recently. I've talked up Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and its sequel plenty. This year, French artist David B. had a big compilation of his master work, Epileptic released in the United States. The book is massive and completely engrossing. It centers on David B.'s lifetime as he grows up with a brother who suffers from epileptic seizures. They're quite severe, causing the young man to ask his family to explore various avenues of treatment with him. As a result, David B. finds himself stuck in communes and other weird places as his parents attempt to find his brother the help he needs. It's clear that even as a youngster, the author found his freedom and escape in writing stories, most of them full of demons that probably related pretty strongly to his experiences. It's a devastating, intelligent book deserving of much attention. Even if you've never picked up a graphic novel or comic book in your life, this is one that deserves a look.
I'm not particularly thrilled with a lot of these, but here they are nonetheless.
| 2019-04-22T16:06:54 |
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/hollis/blog/2005_11_01_hollis_archive.cfm
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What is a tuple in C#?
This isn't something that most web developers know about because tuples aren't commonly used in web development. It's not because they aren't useful because they definitely can be. A tuple is just one of the many good things that gets buried under all of the other good things. So let's dig it up and polish it.
To start with, a tuple is a data structure that has a number of elements with different data types. An important thing to keep in mind is that a tuple is a reference type instead of a value type. That means it doesn't store the data in its own memory space. These store the location of where the data is in memory. Classes are a good example of how a reference type works with the memory.
Anyways, tuples are used in a few ways.
When you want to hold some values temporarily without making a separate class. It can also be used to hold a database record.
You can return multiple values from a method without needing the out or ref parameters.
You can also pass multiple values to a method with just one parameter.
Now you've dug up what a tuple is, it's time to start polishing it. One thing that makes tuples distinct is that they are immutable. That means you can't change them at all once they have been created. Any properties in that tuple are going to be read-only. It also means that the size of the tuple is fixed after you create it.
There is some good news! In C# 7, tuples have been updated and made better. You don't have to worry about how many values your tuple has (originally, you could only have eight values in a tuple). You can also name your tuple properties instead of using the default super generic property names. And the best part is that all you have to do is install the System.ValueTuple NuGet package.
Hopefully this shed some light on one of the more obscure development tools available to you. Do you have any experience with tuples? Even I don't know a lot of people who do so I'd love to hear what you think in the comments.
Since you're mentioning that a Tuple is a reference type and then mention the recently added ValueTuple, you could further complete the information with the fact that the ValueTuple is a struct (value type) 👍.
Well, there is a difference between the System.Tuple types and the new ValueTuple that has been added since C# 7. In fact ValueTuple is a value type (not a reference type) which brings additional performance benefit and should be prefered over System.Tuple.
Important take into account that we need to use framework 4.6.2 in order to implement tuples and it has a feature for 7.1.
I love how C# is embracing good parts from other languages.
Mathematically, a tuple is a "sorted list".
| 2019-04-21T04:23:14 |
https://dev.to/flippedcoding/what-is-a-tuple-in-c-18ln
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| 2019-04-22T06:04:47 |
https://www.onlinethesishelp.com/
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Home What's the Via Catalana all about?
SEPTEMBER 11TH - This is known as La Diada in Catalan, and is celebrated as Catalunya's national day, even though it isn't an independent nature. This date was chosen for la Diada because on September 11th, 1714, the city of Barcelona, which had been besieged for 413 days, fell to the Spanish. This defeat later saw the Spanish king Felipe V take his revenge on the Catalans for supporting the Austrians and other European countries against his claim to the Spanish crown. He retaliated by getting rid of key Catalan institutions, such as the parliament, and also banning the public use of the Catalan language. Catalunya's independence was lost—as it was absorbed into a greater Spain—and those people who now want it to be an independent country once more, use the annual September 11th celebrations to press for their separation from Spain, for example, through street demonstrations.
17.14 - the time for the Via Catalana has been chosen because in the 24-hour clock, it is the same as the year that Catalunya lost its independence. In recent FC Barcelona matches, the 17th minute and 14 second mark has also seen many fans make their own call for independence, because they know that so many people around the world are watching the popular team.
CATALAN INDEPENDENCE - The movement for Catalan independence is currently enjoying something of a peak. Growing discontent for the way the region is treated by the central Spanish government in Madrid coupled with the financial crisis has seen growing numbers of Catalans say they would support a move to independence from Spain. The ruling Catalan government, headed by president Artur Mas (leader of the CiU federation) who is in an informal coalition with the independence supporting ERC party, has said that it aims to hold a referendum on the subject next year, although Spanish authorities insist that such a move would have no legal backing. The practical issues of becoming an independent nation, such as defence, economy and, the crucial one, would FC Barcelona continue to play in the Spanish league, have not yet been clarified.
VIA CATALANA - Following last year's mass demonstration on September 11th calling for independence (organisers say around 1,000,000 people took part, which, if true, isn't bad for an area with around seven million inhabitants), there has been increasing momentum in the local campaign seeking a break with Spain. This year, the organisers of that demonstration, the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (National Catalan Assembly), have organised a new initiative, the Via Catalana human chain. Inspired by similar events in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in 1989 prior to winning their independence from the Soviet Union (the Baltic Way or Chain), the plan is to have about 400,000 people link hands on a 400-kilometre route from the north of Catalunya, close to the French border, down to the southern Delta del Ebre region, on September 11th, 2013 at 17.14. At the time of writing, practically all the spots available had been taken, with the sparsely populated Delta region in the south the one with the most spaces still to be filled. It is hoped by the Assemblea and participants that this peaceful demonstration of intent will go down in history as a key event on the road to Catalunya's eventual independence.
If you're in Barcelona, click here to see a map of the route the human chain will take through the city (in the space 'Número de tram', write 740).
| 2019-04-18T22:17:28 |
https://www.barcelona-metropolitan.com/blogs/the-informer/what%27s-the-via-catalana-all-about%3F/
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1. Mix first 6 ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. Blend the oil, maple syrup or honey & vanilla together.
3. Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients and mix well.
4. Place parchment paper into a large cookie/baking tray and spread mixture.
5. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes till golden.
6. Remove from oven and allow to cool before folding in the dried fruit.
7. Store in a sealed container and enjoy with milk, yogurt or fruit juice.
8. Any dried fruit can be used.
| 2019-04-20T23:25:14 |
https://oceansbetweenkitchens.com/2015/12/23/muesli/
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Knowledge of the quadratic formula is older than the Pythagorean Theorem. Solving a cubic equation, on the other hand, was the first major success story of Renaissance mathematics in Italy. The solution was first published by Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) in his Algebra book Ars Magna.
The other two roots (real or complex) can then be found by polynomial division and the quadratic formula. The solution proceeds in two steps. First, the cubic equation is "depressed"; then one solves the depressed cubic.
How to do this had been discovered earlier by Scipione del Ferro (1465-1526).
From this, we can find a value for u by the quadratic formula, then obtain t, afterwards s and we're done.
I will not discuss a slight problem you can encounter, if you follow the route outlined. What problem am I talking about?
Shortly after the discovery of a method to solve the cubic equation, Lodovico Ferrari (1522-1565), a student of Cardano, found a similar method to solve the quartic equation.
This section is loosely based on a chapter in the book Journey Through Genius by William Dunham.
Find a real root of the cubic equation in Exercise 2.
| 2019-04-21T01:25:01 |
http://sosmath.com/algebra/factor/fac11/fac11.html
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I'm trying to speed up lapply applied to a GRangesList object by replacing it with mclapply.
# Here `gaps` is just for an example.
Careful inspection shows that inside mclapply, much of the time is spent on converting GRangesList to list.
Therefore I'm curious about how to convert GRsList to list, or simply how to make mclapply work with large GRangesList objects.
Probably describing what you would like to do, in not too much detail, would lead to a more helpful answer.
Thanks @Martin. My goal is to get introns from each transcript, that is what FUN in lapply does. Any suggestions?
Then you're looking for GenomicFeatures::intronsByTranscript()!
intronsByTranscript() should probably be non-generic, as it should really just rely on functions in the "TxDb" API. But anyway, if you look at selectMethod(intronsByTranscript, "TxDb"), you will see the basic pattern for achieving what you want with ensembldb objects.
That's a good idea. For each transcript, intronsByTranscript uses psetdiff to find regions complementary to the exons and psetdiff is very fast.
Back to my original question, however, this method is not so generalizable and does not fit other user defined FUN in lapply. I'm still open to more versatile solutions.
The infrastructure includes a good number of utilities for common use cases. Combined with the pattern Martin mentions above, the need for an actual lapply() is very rare. We've optimized lapply() to a reasonable extent, but the bottom line is that decompressing the GRangesList into an actual list is going to be expensive.
Here gaps can be any other procedures applied to a GRanges object.
? The 'cost' is in creating a GRanges() for each element of the list, the cost is paid either internally by lapply() or explicitly by GRsList[[i]], and either way distributed across cores.
The 'Bioconductor' way would use BiocParallel::bplapply(), which would mean that the code would work on Windows (where mclapply() is not available) and potentially with other back-ends like a cluster (obviously for more complicated FUNs).
I understand what you mean, and I agree there should be no fundamental difference. As mentioned before, the first step of mclapply is to convert GRangesList to list, which is time consuming and runs with only one core. Using an external index will avoid this step but distribute the cost to multiple cores, hence in total the running time can be reduced. This is true at least from my test.
| 2019-04-19T04:37:43 |
https://support.bioconductor.org/p/117643/
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Jogging how long can lose weight? First, let's take 5 minutes to relax and take it as a warm-up. And then run fast for 30 seconds, next 30 seconds to slow down the speed, and finally run for 60 seconds. The last 60 seconds faster than the speed of 30 seconds to accelerate the pace of running, but do not achieve the sprint speed, should be gradually accelerated, as fast as possible to run as fast as possible. The middle of the 30 second is not a jog, but is to slow down the pace for the next running fast..
Find a circle road, take 3 ~ 5 minutes to easily finish. After warming up preparation, the real run started, record the time. In running second laps, to use less than 5 to 10 seconds than the first lap. Then take a walk or jog for 1 minute to rest and relax. Then start to run third laps, the speed less than second laps 5 to 10 seconds.Then Jogging.
How long can lose weight? Do 5 to 3 groups of this exercise. Finally let the body calm down, exercise is completed.
Jogging every day for more than 30 minutes is the most conducive to weight loss, but a time of strong exercise should not be more than 30 minutes, otherwise it will have a sense of hunger.
The third group high intensity exercise daily 1 hour.
The daily amount of exercise in the second groups was consumed at 300K calories, and third group was consuming 600K calories. For calorie intake, the researchers let the participants eat by themselves, do not control diet. After 13 weeks, the participants in the first group had no change in body weight, which was normal. Weight changes in the second groups and third groups of participants were surprised by the researchers. The weight of the participants in the two groups all decreased, but only half an hour of exercise per day, the average weight loss of about 3.18kg, 1 hours a day weight loss was about 2.27kg.
Why exercise less, but the weight is reduced more? There may be three reasons for this. First of all, we know that the weight is because calorie intake is less than the consumption of calories, third groups of participants may feel hungry because of excessive physical exertion, so intentionally or unintentionally ate more calories of food. Second groups of participants because of moderate amount of exercise, did not feel particularly hungry, so there is no significant increase in the intake of calories. In this way, although the third groups of participants consumed more calories, can be consumed more calories, so that the daily consumption of calories is less than second groups of participants, of course, the weight loss is relatively slow.
Second, in addition to running, cycling or swimming and other sports, we are constantly consuming calories. The researchers found that third groups of participants because of intense exercise every day for 1 hour. So often feel very tired, and will reduce their activity. As a result, in one day, in addition to 1 hour of exercise, they almost sitting all time. The second groups of participants because of only moderate exercise every day, but feel that their energy has been improved, and in their daily lives to increase their activity. For example, in the past they would wait for the elevator on the office, and the day after half an hour of exercise will take the initiative to choose to climb the stairs. In this way, if you count the amount of activity a day, in fact, the second group of participants consumed more calories than third groups.
At the end of the study, the researchers show that, in addition to weight loss, there was an increase of muscle of the third groups, while the second group did not. That is, the third group participants increased the muscle, the second groups of participants only less fat, so the second groups participants to reduce the "net weight" is more. If you want to have a beautiful muscle, you can choose high intensity exercises, if you just want to quickly minus the fat and lift their spirits, exercise is moderate for half an hour every day.
Whenever you start a new exercise, some people ask, "is this the best exercise to lose weight?"" In fact, these people in the middle of a relatively high probability of giving up movement. In the process of exercise, you must put the enjoyment of sports, so that it may continue until the perfect effect to achieve weight loss.
Aerobic and anaerobic exercise is not an opposition movement. Two kinds of exercise on weight loss effect is different, however, in order to achieve the best weight loss effect, must be carried out at the same time. Aerobic exercise to get rid of fat fast, anaerobic muscle endurance exercise, maintain your weight loss results, so that your muscles, skin more flexible.
Stretching exercises must be done before and after the movement.
Pre exercise stretching can warm body, prevent injuries. Stretching after exercise, finishing the accumulation of fatigue around the muscles.
| 2019-04-24T12:22:36 |
http://zeost.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-lose-weight/
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Will Damon, Guerrero and Matsui play in 2012?
As pitchers and catchers have now reported for all major league teams, it is fair to say the options for remaining free agents are limited, if existent at all. Sure, a handful of players will land on minor league deals between now and the start of spring training games. That usually doesn't bode well for veterans who are expected to have an impact on a team. This year, players like Johnny Damon, Vladimir Guerrero and Hideki Matsui should be concerned as fits are starting to close up. As I reported yesterday, Oakland has too many outfielders right now, so they will be able to fill their DH need until Manny Ramirez returns from his suspension. The Yankees fortified their bench by making their deal with Raul Ibanez official and agreeing to a contract with INF Eric Chavez, pending a physical. Detroit is an unlikely home due to the signing of Prince Fielder and Tampa Bay brought in Luke Scott to take the bulk of the DH at bats for the Rays.
All three of these players have a chance to be this year's Jermaine Dye. Dye was forced into an early retirement because he wanted a contract nobody was willing to give him. He game off a respectable season (.250, 27, 81 in 141 games for the White Sox) and played hardball. This resulted in the end of his career. This is a tough situation for a major league hitter. None of the three players are the prototypical minor league contract with an invitation to spring training, but it may come down to that or nothing.
The Baltimore Orioles could still be a possibility for one of them. I am sure the Orioles would like someone who can play the outfield, but they may offer a contract because they do not have a full time DH. The Minnesota Twins may be able to squeeze some room on their opening day roster for another of them. Other than that, I can't see another realistic fit that doesn't compromise a team's current construction. Perhaps Detroit adds one of the three to DH; would not be wise to entrench Miguel Cabrera at 3B with no other place to play. Tampa could see them as an upgrade over Scott, but then why did they sign him in the first place?
As far as the National League, there may be more teams interested. But what can any of them provide in terms of playing the field. Jim Thome will play first base for the Phillies this year, his first action in the field in years. But, it is different putting a DH at first base as opposed to running a player in the outfield who has been out there minimally over the past couple of years. While DHing 98 times in 2010, Damon played the outfield 36 times. In 2011, he DHed 135 times and played the outfield 16 times with one game at 1B. Guerrero played 93 games at DH and 2 in the OF in 2009. He DHed 129 games and played 18 in the outfield in 2010. All 137 games he played in last year, he was the DH. Matsui was the DH in all 119 games he played in 2009. He DHed 120 times and played 17 OF games in 2010. Last year, he DHed 110 games and played the OF in 27.
The truth is, more NL teams could use the depth in the OF and off the bench. The problem is no NL team will be able to provide enough playing time to please these players. Perhaps an NL team could use one of them the way the Mets used Gary Sheffield in 2009. Should the Mets take a flyer on one of them? I say why not? Especially since a guaranteed contract is unlikely at this point. Atlanta could be a possibility. How about Milwaukee with the impending suspension of OF Ryan Braun? Could the Dodgers be interested? It was reported that they were speaking with Matsui earlier this offseason. I think the more time that goes by, the more likely an NL team will add one of these players. I still think the Orioles and Twins will be in play, which leaves one forced to play in the NL. If the Orioles or Twins are not interested, that means two will have to play in the NL. Damon, Guerrero and Matsui may have to make a choice, either play the field in the NL like Sheffield or sit out the season like Dye.
| 2019-04-20T03:00:53 |
https://www.johnpielli.com/bases-empty-blog/will-damon-guerrero-and-matsui-play-in-2012
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Are children's books considered comics?
I don't think so, personally. Where is the line drawn? Dr. Seuss should be in bookogs.
We’ve had some questions about the boundary between Comicogs and Bookogs. We’ve tried to provide some clarification here.
Graphic novels and comic strip collections or comic book collections belong in Comicogs. The rationale for adding graphic novels and comic collections to Comicogs is routed in the core reason for the database, which is an account of comic history. Every compendium, reissue, volume set, collection, etc. is historical printing of those comics.
Magazines or journals should be entered into Bookogs, as they would at your local library.
The difference between a comic book and an illustrated book: It is a distinction drawn by how they are published or the majority of action and dialogue happening in the illustration. If a publishing company calls it an illustrated book, it is an illustrated book and belongs in Bookogs. However, if it isn't overtly stated, the majority of action and dialogue happening in the illustration would be the big deciding factor.
Illustrated book: A story told using illustrations to decorate the narrative, or; a collection of illustrations that may convey a narrative or is monographic.
Comic book: A story told using comic art (panels of images to express ideas, scenes, story sequence, and pacing in the narrative) along with written prose, written narrative, written sound effects or other information.
Any book with some illustrations or pictures in it would belong in Bookogs. Following the same logic for books that have snippets of comics in them, it would also belong in Bookogs."
Hey, I didn't know about bookogs. Thanks. I found this: https://www.bookogs.com/book/428109-the-cat-in-the-hat but not the compendium.
| 2019-04-26T16:23:03 |
https://www.comicogs.com/forum/91892-are-childrens-books-considered-comics
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What is your 'unit of analysis'? If you want to know something about apples, then make sure that your question is about apples (and not about, say, fruit), and that your method reveals something about apples (and not something about, say, motorcycles).
Is your question normative or descriptive? If you want to know more about the historical decline of clogs as common rural footwear, don't ask whether the clog is ugly or not. (Apart from ethics and some other branches of philosophy, and some types of sociology, most sciences have a preference for descriptive questions.) You may be inspired to ask a descriptive question from a normative engagement, but that should be clearly distinguished from the question itself.
Is your question quantitative or qualitative? Contrary to widespread belief, knowledge is not always better when it is quantitatively expressed - i.e., statistically or mathematically sound. Sure, in many professions and sciences like economics, physics and construction engineering, you want to be sure that the numbers are correct. But in anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, and large parts of sociology, it is not the numbers that count. Some sciences are about stories, mechanisms, or in general: phenomena that are better described by words than by numbers. Don't try to measure things that are immeasurable. And beware that even one single observation can be scientifically valid and useful, if properly described. The world is more than means and standard deviations.
Don't ask 'what is' questions. They usually generate uninteresting results. The problem is that these questions themselves do not distinguish between concepts and conceptions. They are likely to produce results that are uncontroversial, and therefore little revealing. A slightly better chance of getting interesting results obtains when you add 'according to': if you investigate what something is, according to a specific author who wants to solve a specific problem in a specific situation, you might be able to reveal something interesting. You may for example be able to explain why the meaning the author attributes to a concept, is not quite appropriate for a nearly-but-not-exactly-the-same problem you are facing.
Try thinking backwards. First, make up the most exciting or surprising thing you expect or hope to learn from your research. Then wonder whether this answer is really 'invited' by your research question.
| 2019-04-18T18:48:14 |
http://www.govertvalkenburg.net/problemstatements
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — It took a radio disc jockey to remind Jay Leno where he'll stand in "Tonight Show" history when he walks off the stage for the last time Friday.
Leno was at the wheel of one of his famous vintage cars when he heard the DJ conduct a pop quiz: Who's the second-longest-running host of "Tonight," after Johnny Carson?
"The guy on the radio actually got it before I did," Leno said Thursday, smiling. "It just sort of made me laugh. I went, 'Oh, that's pretty good.'"
Maybe even better than good?
"I come from 'pretty good,'" replied Leno, unfailingly modest in interviews. "If somebody wants to say even better, that's great."
He will have posted an impressive 17 years as "Tonight" host, but well short of Carson's three decades that ended with his retirement in May 1992. Leno debuted as "Tonight" host a few days later.
He leaves the show atop the late-night ratings, his run abbreviated by NBC's decision five years ago to create a succession plan that gives "Tonight" to Conan O'Brien.
On the eve of his final two shows, Leno strikes an unsentimental tone. But he knows what he's leaving behind as he moves to a new, untested 10 p.m. EDT daily prime-time show for NBC this fall.
"Will I miss it? Yes, terribly. It's the most wonderful job ever in show business," he said of "Tonight," which started in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.
Unlike the solitary road life of a typical standup comedian, telling jokes to an audience of maybe 100 or so, Leno said, he had the chance to make millions of viewers laugh — and then go home each night to his wife.
In a conference room at NBC's studio, a bulletin board typically filled with lists of guests and comedy bits for upcoming shows is nearly bare, down to the final two shows. "Prince," read one red card for Thursday, when the pop star was set to appear.
Prince's baby-blue Bentley was parked in the studio lot, near the backstage entrance and next to one of Leno's prized vehicles, an eye-catching red pickup truck.
In the lunch room, the staff raided boxes of snack cakes, topped by a sign indicating they were compliments of Lyle Lovett, a guest earlier this week.
On Thursday's show, Billy Crystal, Leno's first "Tonight" guest 17 years ago, returned to salute him with a musical medley akin to Crystal's Oscar ceremony opening numbers.
"Mustangs and Mazdas and shiny Mercedes, Model T Fords that he steals from old ladies," sang Crystal, to the tune of "My Favorite Things."
Starting Monday, at a newly built studio at nearby Universal City, O'Brien will be the man in charge of "Tonight."
Leno declined to give advice to O'Brien, whom he called "a terrific guy" and a friend.
"He'll bring his sensibility" to the show, Leno said.
Over the years, the two have called to commiserate privately after a "dreadful" guest visited "Tonight" or O'Brien's "Late Night," Leno said.
"Hopefully, we'll continue to do that," he said. After all, the two are enjoying an amicable transition.
"That's what's great about these American democracy things. We can peacefully hand over talk shows without looting and rioting," Leno joked.
This summer, he'll continue doing his standup appearances that filled his weekends during his "Tonight" reign. More importantly, he'll get ready for the new show that, he acknowledges, will face stiff competition in prime-time.
"It'll be really tricky. But we'll just do the best we can," Leno said.
| 2019-04-19T03:17:32 |
https://www.fosters.com/article/20090529/NEWS1402/905299994
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To enable advertisers with calculated and data driven decisions to drive customer engagement , Microsoft has introduced a pilot program for chatbot extension on it's search engine, Bing.
The chatbot will further help companies to connect with customers on questions regarding the feature extension itself. Microsoft will also leverage the chatbot extension to build audience categories to expand its In-Market Audiences.
As an example, the user can search for Monsoon Restaurant Seattle, as the bot is active on it. Just below the 'View on Facebook and Twitter option, users will find the box where its written 'Questions? Ask Monsoon Restaurant bot for help'.
By clicking on the "Chat" button a small Skype window will pop up in the bottom right corner of the browser window, as depicted in the picture above.
Microsoft said: "As users interact in more conversational ways through voice and search, brands you will reach users in a more natural way through direct conversation, keeping customers informed by asking questions and gaining answers quickly through an intelligent bot.
"For example, if you are advertising for a cell phone carrier and you know that people often ask questions about upgrading their phone, Bing can answer questions with Chat Bot Extensions right within our main search results page."
At a recent Reuters event, Microsoft's chief executive officer Satya Nadella mentioned revealed Bing's focus going forward would be to expand within the PC search market.
| 2019-04-21T04:35:56 |
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/09/30/microsoft-introduces-chatbot-enable-advertisers-with-personalised-customer
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0.999496 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON was sued once, after he left the White House, for sending US marshals to seize a citizen's land. Jefferson won.
Richard Nixon was sued for damages by a whistle-blowing federal employee the former president had ordered fired. Nixon won.
President Clinton was served with a civil complaint on Monday by a woman accusing him of sexual harassment when he was governor of Arkansas. His attorney, Robert Bennett, says this is the first time a president has been sued for an action alleged to have occurred before taking office.
So the suit lodged by former Arkansas state clerical worker Paula Corbin Jones against former Governor Clinton is treading new legal ground. Mr. Clinton's attorney has 20 days to answer the complaint, and he is expected to file a motion for dismissal of the charges.
Win or lose, Clinton may soon face the distraction of the plaintiff's lawyers probing widely for evidence in Clinton's personal life, dredging up further claims of sexual misbehavior, and shifting attention still further from Clinton's policy agenda, even if the allegations are false.
Leading experts on the Constitution's separation of powers between branches of government - which includes the relations between the president and the courts - can think of few times in United States history when a president has been sued personally and no instances of a president sued for alleged actions outside of his official duties.
Clinton's legal team might argue that the chief executive is immune from civil liability, since lawsuits could keep him from his presidential duties and tie the government in knots.
THE trouble with this argument for Clinton is that Ms. Jones's allegations are of acts in 1991 - well before he assumed the presidency, hence well beyond any official responsibilities.
The government has an interest in protecting a president's duties from interruption regardless of the cause of legal action; but the fact that the Supreme Court drew a line at the ``outer perimeter'' of official duties implies that the justices did not mean to render a president immune for his nonpresidential actions.
This is the view of Harold Bruff, author of a legal text on the separation of powers and a leading authority on the subject who is on the faculty of George Washington University.
Clinton attorney Bennett is ``in real trouble on that one,'' he says.
Mr. Bennett may file for dismissal on other grounds as well, based on what he claims are procedural defects in Jones's case, and he may appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. If he does not win dismissal, the suit proceeds to the discovery phase, where the plaintiff may have broad latitude to gather evidence on anything that might be relevant, including allegations of similar behavior by Clinton in other instances.
``That's the thing I would be most troubled by'' as a defendant, says Theodore Olson, a Washington lawyer and former assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration.
Although the judge could put a protective order on the discovery process, meaning that the depositions are withheld from public scrutiny, any evidence is likely to find its way into the news media in such an intensely scrutinized case, Mr. Olson says.
| 2019-04-20T04:17:42 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0519/19013.html
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The Queensland Senator sat down with Deborah Knight. Source: YouTube/Pauline Hanson's Please Explain.
After finally breaking her silence at a press conference on Thursday, Pauline Hanson sat down with reporter Deborah Knight for her first TV interview since the airing of two-part documentary How to Sell A Massacre.
The fiery interview was shown on Channel Nine’s Today programme on Friday morning just one day after Hanson appeared in public for the first time in Brisbane following a tumultuous week for her political party.
Hanson refused to take responsibility for anything that has been said or done by her party, following the release of footage which appeared to show One Nation Chief of Staff James Ashby and Queensland leader Steve Dickson lobbying for cash donations of up to $28 million from the National Rifle Association of America (NRA).
The party was then hit by further scandal when the second part of the documentary was aired on the ABC on Thursday evening, which showed Pauline herself apparently suggesting that the 1996 Port Arthur massacre was a conspiracy theory.
However, speaking to Knight, Hanson vehemently denied that she holds those beliefs, saying: “I never said at all that it was a conspiracy theory.
The party founder was also asked whether she would apologise to the victims’ families, to which she replied that her comments were not made publicly and that it is Al Jazeera who are responsible for them coming to light. However she did go on to say that her “heart goes out” to the families of those killed by gunman Martin Bryant, adding that she is “sorry for them”.
Knight then quizzed the politician on whether she would accept any responsibility for recent events concerning her party. However the defiant 64-year-old refused to do so, describing the documentary as a sting designed to discredit One Nation.
As well as denying that her party travelled to Washington DC with the aim of seeking funding from the NRA or any pro-gun group.
The One Nation leader also repeated her vow to stand by Ashby and Dickson, describing Dickson as “a good man, a family man” despite admitting that the Senate candidate had said some “stupid, inappropriate” things.
Hanson initially broke her silence on Thursday as she fronted the media in Brisbane, standing shoulder to shoulder with her Chief of Staff James Ashby and Queensland leader Steve Dickson following what has been a tumultuous week for One Nation.
The party founder vowed to stick by the pair following the release of episode one of the Al-Jazeera documentary How to Sell A Massacre earlier this week, which featured clips of Ashby and Dickson appearing to lobby for cash donations from the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) to water down Australia’s gun laws.
The footage sparked a fierce backlash and Hanson, who has reportedly been ill due to a tick bite, finally delivered a press conference yesterday in which she slammed Al Jazeera, which she branded an Islamist organisation, along with the ABC, ahead of the second part of the documentary which is due to air tonight.
Have you been following this story? Did you watch How to Sell A Massacre?
| 2019-04-21T04:43:02 |
https://startsat60.com/discover/news/politics/one-nation-pauline-hanson-tv-interview-deb-knight-today-show
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The Last Internationale’s latest album, Soul on Fire, opens with a call to arms like a conductor demanding you to board a train as you stand on the platform questioning your next destination. The next 42 minutes that follow are a ripping concoction of soul, blues, gospel, and huge rock.
Not to be restricted by any of your previous misconceptions regarding politically infused music, the band navigates its dance like a perfectly choreographed presentation of emotions on high. There is always a new story to be felt and heard upon each subsequent listen.
With its beginnings in New York City in the late 2000’s, guitarist Edgey Pires, and bassist/vocalist Delila Paz formed the band while Pires was studying for a degree in political science. Releasing their first Ep in 2013 they were joined by drummer Brad Wilk (Rage Against The Machine / Audioslave - through 2015) and started touring on a larger scale opening for acts such as Robert Plant and The Who supporting their 2014 release We Will Reign.
2019’s Soul on Fire was completely independently produced and funded through the bands Pledge Music campaign, allowing them the freedom to assemble the material as they saw fit.You can hear the satisfaction in its expression. The guitars are huge, the vocal delivery is like a sonic downpour and the grooves offered allow you to find the rhythm with an instant smile.
GPBH: Sonically I feel like you’ve created the sound of ‘struggle’ in both melody and lyric. It’s like a delicate balance of defeat and defiance. What first motivated you to express your views through music in this way?
TLI: There's much more struggle on this record than the first one, mainly because we've been going through a lot more struggles in our personal lives and career. Soul On Fire is a lot more personal. We've been particularly inspired by soul artists such as Al Green, Otis Redding, Ann Peebles, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and many more. We injected that element into our rock and roll not just because it's something that's severely lacking in rock, but because it allows for far greater expression and groove. Rock is arguably the least creative and lyrically relevant genre today. What better way to change that than with a little inspiration from our soul brothers and sisters?
GPBH: There is a beautiful grittiness to the guitars on Soul on Fire, what amps were used in the tracking of the album and do you have a different set up for live performance?
TLI: We are very happy with the guitar and bass sounds on Soul On Fire. We were going for something a little different from the mainstream or typical distorted Marshall sound. To be honest, so many different amps were used in the studio and we can't even remember half of them. We didn't really give it much thought. We just plugged into whatever amps were available in the studio and went with whichever one sounded the best. The playing, engineering, and mixing were the most important factors. It's all about THE TEAM. We'd try any and all ideas anybody came up with, no matter how dumb or crazy it sounded. We remember coming up with so many different weird pedal combinations just to get a sound that was in somebody's head. In the end, it would be a group effort and nobody would take more credit than anyone else. We couldn't imagine working in any other way.
Live, it's completely different. There is no thinking involved. We just plug in and unleash the chaos.
GPBH: Having opened for legendary acts like Robert Plant and The Who (just to mention a few) has there ever been a particular ‘How in the hell is this my real life’ moment in your interactions with musicians of this caliber?
TLI: Yes, there have been many moments like that on tour. Like when Pete Townsend casually hung out in our dressing room or Robert Plant inviting us into his. Or when a very shy Slash knocked on your dressing room door and kindly asked for permission to enter and then says he jams along to our band while we're on stage. That was certainly surreal. But we think the weirdest moment was the night we opened for The Who in Paris. The show happened during a heat wave and the arena had no AC. When our set finished, as we were stepping off stage, someone from Roger Daltrey's crew approached Delila and said Roger would like to meet her. They then took her upstairs. As the rest of the band made its way backstage, we saw Delila in the doorway of Roger's dressing room and Roger was speaking to her about the shows. All excited, we walked over to introduce ourselves. All we remember was that he had no shirt on and was covered in sweat. We approached him and said, "hi Roger, great to meet you" or something like that. We saw the mood instantly change. A second later he says goodbye and closes the door in our faces.
We have dozens of these stories. Like when Gene Simmons tried hooking Delila up with Joey Fatone. Or when Bill Murray gave Delila $50 to put towards a new bass. But we'll save those for another day.
GPBH: You left Epic records in 2014 after releasing We Will Reign, were you able to regain your rights to that album, or does it still exist as part of their catalog? Do you feel that if you were allowed more creative control you would have continued on with a major label?
TLI: We left Epic probably in late 2015. We don't have the rights to that album. We don't think about that part of our past because we're focused on the future of TLI. We have all the creative freedom we want and the songs are much better because of it.
GPBH: One thing that I think can be easily overlooked is the presence of optimism and love in a band that is perceived as predominantly political, how do you view the importance of both with regards to the emotions you want to convey?
TLI: TLI is driven by feelings of love and optimisms. It is love for humanity that makes an artist dangerous. It is considered a very dangerous and unforgivable act by the powers that be. The last thing the industry wants are artists that speak up for the downtrodden. They can't afford another Woody Guthrie or Gil Scott-Heron. They want us divided and dumb with a perverted sense of love. They want us to value commercial success and artificial things over our own communities or the causes we are supposed to be championing. What they are willing to tolerate, and often encourage, are a few politically vague slogans to make a band seem "genuine" or "rebellious" to the public. We see a lot of rock bands doing that nowadays and we can't understand how so many people can be misled. All we can do is keep pushing ahead with the optimism that rock as a genre will once again be dangerous.
GPBH: Finally, what are three albums by other artists someone who is just learning about you should listen to in order to have a better understanding of your material?
| 2019-04-21T10:06:34 |
https://goodpeoplebadhabits.com/music-interviews-blog/a-conversation-with-the-last-internationale
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I’ve hacked away at this problem a couple of times since I’ve been at this org, but gave up each time, usually because something more important came up. But yesterday I decided to try again.
A bit of Googling (and bugging my friends), landed me a post called “HOW TO: MAP DRIVES & PRINTERS BASED ON AD GROUP MEMBERSHIP ON OSX” on macmule.com.
If you read my absurd “About Me”, you already know to expect frequent references to other blogs, as illustrated above.
This particular script actually does more than I’m interested in at the moment, so I cut it down a bit first.
Get logged in users username? Check.
Get the Users account UniqueID? Check.
Get the nodeName from the Users account? Check.
Get the Users group membership from AD ? Nope. Don’t need that.
Get the Users AD Home Folder? Check.
Mount shares based on groups? No, thanks.
Printers? Nope, not that either.
set accountType to do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & loggedInUser & " | grep UniqueID | cut -c 11-"
set nodeName to do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & loggedInUser & " | awk '/^OriginalNodeName:/,/^Password:/' | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -c 2-"
set ADHome to do shell script "dscl " & quoted form of nodeName & " -read /Users/" & loggedInUser & "| grep SMBHome: | cut -c 10- | sed 's/\\\\/\\//g' "
To make a long story short, the script was using grep to find a value for SMBHome. Except nothing in my AD profile had that string AND nothing in my profile returned what I wanted. Eventually I realized that if I looked locally I could find the string NFSHomeDirectory with the information I wanted.
became set ADHome to do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & loggedInUser & "| grep NFSHomeDirectory: | cut -c 19-"
*I had to put the // in because I’d pulled out the line that dealt with them in the original.
goes in the LaunchAgents folder. Saved the script as an app and packaged the two together, and I was done. Woo!
TL:DR AD and I don’t often get along.
| 2019-04-23T04:15:08 |
http://thequovadimus.com/mounting-user-home-folders-on-login
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Lima, H.; Moço, A.; Silva, A.; Gameiro, A.
Moço, A.; Lima, H.; Silva, A.; Gameiro, A.
The Question-Answering (QA) systems fall in the study area of Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Given a set of documents, a QA system tries to obtain the correct answer to the questions posed in Natural Language (NL). Normally, the QA systems comprise three main components: question classification, information retrieval and answer extraction. Question classification plays a major role in QA systems since it classifies questions according to the type in their entities. The techniques of information retrieval are used to obtain and to extract relevant answers in the knowledge domain. Finally, the answer extraction component is an emerging topic in the QA systems. This module basically classifies and validates the candidate answers. In this paper we present an overview of the QA systems, focusing on mature work that is related to cooperative systems and that has got as knowledge domain the Semantic Web (SW). Moreover, we also present our proposal of a cooperative QA for the SW.
Tipo: Tese de Doutorado Formato: 156 p.
Just, Winfried; Enciso, German A.
Angeli, David; Hirsch, Morris W.; Sontag, Eduardo D.
Attractors of cooperative dynamical systems are particularly simple; for example, a nontrivial periodic orbit cannot be an attractor. This paper provides characterizations of attractors for the wider class of coherent systems, defined by the property that no directed feedback loops are negative. Several new results for cooperative systems are obtained in the process.
The fundamental property of strongly monotone systems, and strongly cooperative systems in particular, is the limit set dichotomy due to Hirsch: if x(0) < y(0), then either omega(x) < omega(y), or omega(x) = omega(y) and both sets consist of equilibria. We provide here a counterexample showing that this property need not hold for (non-strongly) cooperative systems.
In cooperative systems causal ordering delivery has been used to resolve problems of coherency of type producer-consumer. Causal order delivery is important for distributed systems since it allows an asynchronous execution to participants. When time delivery constraints are considered, ensuring causal delivery becomes more complex, as is the case for synchronous cooperative systems, such as Telemedicine and Teleimmersion. In these systems, the messages (units of data of continuous and discrete media) have an associated lifetime that determines the period of useful time in which the messages must be delivered. On the other hand, generally in these systems there is no time for retransmit them when messages are lost. Causal order with time constraints has previously been addressed, and it is called Δ-causal order. In this paper, we present an efficient Δ-causal distributed algorithm for unreliable networks that is characterized by the use of a forward error correction (FEC) scheme and a distributed method to calculate the message lifetime based on relative time points (i.e. no global time is used). We show the efficiency of our Δ-causal algorithm in terms of the control information attached per message.
| 2019-04-24T18:41:21 |
http://biblioteca.posgraduacaoredentor.com.br/?q=Cooperative+systems
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Enter the last 7 digits to find that number in Elkhart, Indiana.
Where is Area Code 574?
Area code (574) is in the state of Indiana, and there are 5 cities in this area code.
| 2019-04-23T12:10:46 |
https://thisphone.us/574-area-code
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0.999989 |
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| 2019-04-23T14:53:11 |
https://tools.seochecklist.us/url-rewriting-tool
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Which dictionaries about idioms, collocations, proverbs, word combinations, etc. do you use, how good do you find it?
To be honest, Lana, my idiom/phrasal verb/etc dictionaries are gathering dust upstairs, because I have found the internet to be so much more convenient. The trouble with those dictionaries is that each one only shows a part of the seemingly infinite list of such word groups, and I often have to look through several before I can find what I'm looking for-- if then.
Between Google, OneLook Dictionary and a web concordancer, I have about everything I need.
Lots of my fellow students used to have a little booklet called the BBI collocations or something like that. I never bought it, but recently I had to translate some phrases and I couldn't find all of them, so I started thinking that it might be a good idea to buy something like that. I just thought I'd ask here, before I buy something completely useless.
Yes, I have that-- The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations. It is quite useful for common collocations, especially for verb + prep/adv.
See. I'd rather have something that covered everything, but I guess it would be almost impossible to find such a dictionary? I do have problems with prepositions sometimes, so maybe the BBI wouldn't be such a bad choice.
I find the Longman Advanced Learners Dictionary has quite a huge collection of idioms/collocation and spoken phrases.
The BBI is my Favourite (capital F). It doesn't list all the prepositions but it is extremely useful for ESL speakers because it tells you how to combine nouns with adjectives and how verbs are used (it gives 19 valency categories of verbs). It also gives the most common word combinations, as well as some idioms and phrasal verbs. The dictionary also points out some differences in usage among American English, British English and Canadian English. I strongly recommend it!
| 2019-04-24T02:32:28 |
https://www.englishforums.com/English/IdiomCollocationDicitonaries/qrwb/post.htm
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For someone to believe that Clemens is innocent, one has to believe all of the following:.
1) Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens' good friend, is lying when he stated in a sworn deposition Roger Clemens told him he used HGH. (Well, maybe you don't have to believe he is lying; you could just believe that he "misremembered" both their conversations).
2) Brian McNamee injected Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and even Roger Clemens' wife with HGH but not Roger Clemens.
3) Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens' former employee, is lying when he states that he injected Roger Clemens with illegal performance enhancing drugs but not lying when he says he injected Chuck Knoblauch, Andy Pettitte, and Roger Clemens' wife with illegal drugs � even though Clemens' wife, Knoblauch and Pettitte have all admitted what McNamee said is correct.
| 2019-04-21T09:00:39 |
https://www.letsrun.com/2008/homepage0214.php
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In my opinion, there are really 3 great basic money saving tips that go hand-in-hand.
1. Know where your money is going. That is, for one month, keep track of all outgoing monies.
2. Take a hard look at your expenditures/outgoing monies for that month and decide which are "wants" and which are "needs".
3. Decide which of the "wants" you are willing to live without.
In my opinion the best money saving tip is to stop carrying extra money or your credit card with you when going out. This ensures that when you go out you don't go on a shopping spree by buying stuff you generally don't need. Secondly, whatever money is saved each month must be added to your account or added to your deposit so that it increases slowly and steadily at a certain rate.
Cook dinner at home. It's so much cheaper than take out. If it's too daunting to plan 7 meals, plan 3 and eat them twice. It's also healthier to eat at home - and being healthy is a great way to protect your finances.
Pay cash, or use a debit card. When you do not pay with a check, you do not have to worry when the payment will clear.
1.Cut up the credit cards and never use them again.
2.Create a new spending plan each month before the month begins.
3.Pay off all debts using the debt snowball technique.
4.Set aside money for emergencies.
5.Save early and save often for retirement.
| 2019-04-25T02:45:52 |
http://www.artofsaving.com/what-are-your-best-money-saving-or-investments-ide-question-84
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The inflation index for the year 1989 relative to the year 1970 was 3.56, indicating that, on the average, for each dollar spent in 1970 for goods, $3.56 had to be spent for the same goods in 1989. If the price of a Model K mixer increased precisely according to the inflation index, what was the price of the mixer in 1970 ? (1) The price of the Model K mixer was $102.40 more in 1989 than in 1970. (2) The price of the Model K mixer was $142.40 in 1989. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient., Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient., BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient., EACH statement ALONE is sufficient., Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are not sufficient.
| 2019-04-24T17:55:00 |
https://gmat.magoosh.com/forum/1503
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Wiele miast ma potoczne nazwy, nierzadko znane na całym świecie. Jednym z nich jest np. Nowy Jork, znany jako 'Big Apple'. Ale dlaczego akurat takie nazwy? Zachęcam Cię do przeczytania (póki co tylko w języku angielskim).
Najpierw jednak, spróbuj dopasować kilka potocznych nazw do konkrentych miast. Powodzenia!
A lot of cities around the world have their nicknames. Why are they called this way? Read and find out.
For many of these nicknames there was no reason, they are just nicknames that stuck.
For example, why DALLAS is called the Big D? Some say that it's just because the city is big and it starts with D. Even though, there is said to be the man who created that nickname - Lee 'Pop' Myres (source). He coined this phrase in 1936 on a breakfast radio program and some time later it was widely used.
Reasons for CHICAGO being called the Windy City? The first explanation is connected with Chicago's windy weather (with the breezes blowing off Lake Michigan - to be precise). However, Chicago is not the windiest city in the US. Other places are ususally rated higher, e.g. Boston, New York or San Francisco. The second reason refers to politicians and residents who are said to be 'full of hot air' (egoistic, full of nonsense).
"The Windy City Jay-Rollers La-Crosse Team wins Inaugural Game against Cincinnati Nannies" - in Chicago Tribune (April 20, 1876).
"That Windy City. Some Freaks of the Last Chicago Tornado" - in The Cincinnati Enquirer (May 9, 1876).
Time for BOSTON. And here the explanation is quite simple. Massachusetts State House is located there (picture above). The building is also known as 'The Hub of the Solar System". That nickname was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1858, and 'the Hub' (which refers to Boston) is simply short for it.
NEW ORLEANS is easy-going and laid-back, so its nickname 'The Big Easy' matches it perfectly! The nickname was invented in 1970s by a Louisiana journalist who used this name for New Orleans. Then, 'The Big Easy', a novel by James Conaway was launched, and the nickname grew in popularity.
"The Emerald City" isn't actually known for emeralds. However, the name refers to the greenery surrounding SEATTLE. Seattle is in Washington State, which on the other hand is nicknamed "The Evergreen State". Seattle is green almost all year round. Its nickname can be dated back to 1982 when it was chosen from other contest entries.
I'm sure you've heard of more than only these nicknames. If you know something interesting about their names - share with us!
What's in a name? #2 soon!
| 2019-04-22T01:27:20 |
http://www.good2know.pl/2018/02/whats-in-name-1.html
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Note: This story contains language that can be offensive to some readers.
When Adam Peterson & # 39; s white 1976 Toyota Supra was repainted, someone stole his personalized license plate. So he went to a branch of the Pasco tax collector to ask for another.
Weeks later, the 38-year-old man from Tampa received a letter from the state. Although he had been driving around for years with a sign saying "SNGLE AF," his request to replace it with the same message had been rejected.
Peterson swears that the meaning is not what people are probably thinking – he has a girlfriend. The record actually referred to his modified car.
"It's a rare Supra with a lot of rare things," he said. "It's the only one of its kind, but it has that double meaning."
Peterson is one of nearly 400 Floridians who have had a personal license plate application reviewed by the Florida & # 39; s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles since January 2018. According to public records, his record is one of the rejected products such as "LEFTNUT", "0H CHIT" and "WTF G2G."
Whose job is it to say if it's good for Floridians to drive around with "EFFED UP" or "0H YASSS" on their license plates? And what does that process look like?
First, applicants must go to the office of their local tax collector and complete the HSMV 83043 application form. An employee leads the suggested plate characters through an online database to ensure that it has not yet been claimed (try it for yourself here).
"If something is really obscene, we don't even put it in the system," said Pasco County Tax Collector Mike Fasano. "We just tell them no."
"If they are blatant, as if they are using the F word, we will say," No, that is not acceptable, "and then they will laugh and say & # 39; okay & # 39;" said Dale Hoffman, director of branch activities for the Hillsborough County tax collector.
Sometimes applicants still want to see if they can get through. Other times, offensive messages slip through the district level unnoticed.
That's where the personalized Florida license plate review committee comes up. The 10-person team is based in Tallahassee and consists of Florida DHSMV employees and one person from the general public. The group votes on new plate applications and assesses existing plates that have been marked for review.
Vulgar language, racist remarks, threats of violence and sexual conditions are not allowed. There are also no acronyms that refer to words like that. And if you submit something naughty in another language, you save it – committee members consult online dictionaries in foreign languages. They also have an unabridged dictionary, a slang dictionary and a medical dictionary at hand.
"If a license plate is identified as one that could be obscene or offensive, the license plate order will be canceled," the committee's official procedure document says. Rejected plates are added to a database to prevent the plate from ever being created and the applicant receives a rejection letter and a temporary plate.
In 2018, Pinellas County had only two copies of a plate that was made and then rejected after it was delivered to the tax collector. Hernando and Hillsborough could not quantify how many plates were rejected after going through the objection process.
In the past year, the office of Pasco County Tax Collector has rejected only two applications by the state. One was SNGLE AF. The other was a sign that said "VYYYY." According to Fasano, the V stood for the name of the applicant's wife and the J & # 39; s were the first initials of each of his children. They could not figure out why it was rejected.
Curious about the other albums? The following photo illustrations are made using actual messages requested by Florida residents.
Clarification: some of the plates were messages that were initially rejected but later destroyed. Others were approved and later rejected after an assessment based on a complaint. You can view the records sent by the DMV that is embedded at the bottom of the page.
Here is the full PDF of the DMV in Florida with all rejected requests from April 2019 back to January 2018.
Have you seen weird personalized license plates around Florida? Tell us about them in the responses.
| 2019-04-18T17:04:59 |
https://www.archynetys.com/news/here-are-the-most-fancy-license-plates-submitted-to-the-dmv-in-florida/
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I need to develop a platform that includes a fully core purpose/thesis statement about home healthcare research project, plus a 5 - 7 specific research questions.
First, create a full core purpose/thesis statement of about home healthcare with sufficient depth and breadth to serve as an overarching, central purpose for a significant project to come.
Secondly; develop seven specific in depth questions for the purpose/thesis of home healthcare research's goal.
I'm planning to use this as a guide for upcoming research, so it has to be clear and concise with minimum of 2 pages & references.
First, create a full core purpose/thesis statement about home healthcare with sufficient depth and breadth to serve as an overarching, central purpose for a significant project to come.
Analyzing the quality of care within the home healthcare industry in America will enable the industry to implement the necessary interventions that can reorganize current approaches toward home healthcare while constructing more effective methods to allow individuals to improve their healthcare function while demonstrating greater independence as well as creating an environment conducive for allowing the client to reach their most optimal level of well-being.
In order to accomplish these objectives, the thesis statement should propose changes in the planning of how the home healthcare environment is constructed in regard to patient safety, situational variables that are germane to the patient's home, and informal caregivers such as relatives and other non-trained healthcare providers who often assist in providing care for patients. The thesis must evaluate current data on these characteristics that are distinctively related to home healthcare to synthesize the most appropriate evidence-based data and create a plan that will improve the quality of home healthcare for patients.
I will provide an example of five in-depth questions for this summary, (you) must provide the other questions in (your) own words.
The expert creates a full core purpose/statement of home healthcare.
| 2019-04-19T17:27:56 |
https://brainmass.com/health-sciences/health-care-management/home-healthcare-research-paper-624310
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A-1 When will customers be able to buy the Transition?
1. It will take many years before the Transition is available for purchase.
2. The maker of the Transition hopes to deliver it to customers before the end of 2011.
3. The company, Terrafugia, has recently delivered its first Transition car-plane to a customer.
A-2 What does the article say about the Transition's takeoff?
1. The Transition needs a runway for takeoff.
2. The Transition can take off almost anywhere.
3. The Transition is basically a car that will be able to take off when traffic on the roads is busy.
A-3 What kind of people does the company plan to sell the Transition to?
1. It is mainly intended for pilots of small planes.
2. The company is targeting passengers who regularly travel to airports.
3. The company is hoping to sell the car-plane to people who drive very long distances.
A-4 Which of the following is a major sales point of the Transition?
1. The hangar fees for the Transition are not expensive.
2. It is easy to park the Transition at most small airports.
3. It is possible to keep the car-plane at home in a normal garage.
A-5 What reason does the company give for claiming that the Transition is safe?
1. The Transition is not as heavy as most planes.
2. The car-plane will be able to fly at very high altitudes.
3. Pilots have the option of driving on the roads when the weather is bad.
Aviation Administration granted a special weight limit exemption to the Transition.
up for driving. However, a runway is still required to take off and land.
The Transition is being marketed more as a plane that drives than a car that flies, although it is both.
discussions with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about vehicle safety regulations.
airport. You simply park the car-plane in the garage at home.
under bad weather instead of flying into difficult conditions.
transponder or GPS. Another option is a full-plane parachute.
| 2019-04-21T17:18:51 |
https://8617.teacup.com/uilleann/bbs
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Russia's ambassador was shot dead in the Turkish capital on Monday in an assassination apparently linked to Syria's civil war, heightening tensions over a conflict that's drawn in almost all the region's main powers.
[ISTANBUL] Russia's ambassador was shot dead in the Turkish capital on Monday in an assassination apparently linked to Syria's civil war, heightening tensions over a conflict that's drawn in almost all the region's main powers.
Andrey Karlov was shot in the back at an art exhibit in Ankara on Monday and died from his injuries, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"Allahu akbar," the gunman shouted, and then "don't forget Aleppo" - a reference to the Syrian city where mostly Islamist rebels have been defeated this month by Russian-backed government troops. The attacker, who was killed by security forces, was a 22-year-old active-duty police officer. His possible connection with organised groups is being probed, Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
Russia and Turkey signalled that they don't want the attack on the ambassador to turn into another flashpoint between countries that are engaged on opposite sides of the Syrian war, a recurring risk in a conflict with multiple armed parties and outside backers. Their relations came under heavy strain after the Turkish military shot down a Russian plane last year, and both governments have since made an effort to repair them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in televised remarks that Mr Karlov's killing was an "open provocation" aimed at undermining the search for peace in Syria and the normalisation of ties with Turkey, and he said the response will be a stronger assault on terrorism.
"The bandits will feel it," Mr Putin said. His Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed, saying they'll jointly investigate the attack and won't allow it to disrupt a collaboration that's crucial for the region.
The US, Iran and Saudi Arabia are among other nations that are either fighting in Syria themselves or providing money and weapons to groups that are.
Mr Karlov's death comes days after one of Russia's biggest victories since it joined the Syrian war last year in support of President Bashar al-Assad. Mr Assad's army, with Russian air support, has retaken almost all of Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and for years a rebel bastion. Turkey, which supported the insurgents there and elsewhere in Syria, has played a key role along with Russia in negotiating the continuing evacuation of opposition fighters and civilians.
Turkey's lira declined after the attack, losing 0.8 per cent against the US dollar. The assassination spurred a wider demand for haven assets, pushing the yield on US Treasuries down as much as 6 basis points earlier on Monday.
The fall of Aleppo marked a defeat for Turkey, which supported the Sunni Muslim groups fighting against Assad. Russia says the Syrian rebels are overwhelmingly made up of Islamic extremists, while Turkey has argued that they're resisting a violent dictatorship.
While that's still the Turkish line, in practice the country has switched its focus in Syria since the rapprochement between Mr Erdogan and Mr Putin. Turkish troops have pushed deep into the neighbouring country since August, but they're mostly targeting Kurdish groups and Islamic State fighters and have steered clear of the battle for Aleppo.
Mr Putin said he discussed the ambassador's killing by phone with Mr Erdogan. He said Russia will send a team of investigators to join the probe and will also expect security guarantees from Turkey for its diplomatic offices.
Turkey paid an economic price last time its relationship with Moscow turned sour, as Russia imposed sanctions that targeted the country's exports and tourism market.
Elena Suponina, an analyst at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, which advises the Kremlin, said the ambassador's shooting probably won't lead to another standoff.
"This will only bring Russia and Turkey closer together," she said. "These events have showed that we have a common enemy - terrorism - and only by joining forces can we deal with this enemy." Still, the killing again raises security concerns for Russian tourists in Turkey, Alexei Pushkov, a member of the defense and security committee of the Russian parliament's upper house, said in televised comments. Tourism is a key source of foreign currency, and is already in decline after a series of attacks by Islamist and Kurdish groups, as well as a failed attempt at a military coup in July.
In the past 10 days, more than 50 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Istanbul and central Turkey that targeted security forces and were claimed by Kurdish militants. Turkey reported a shrinking economy in the third quarter for the first time in seven years, as the instability sapped business and consumer confidence.
The Turkish and Russian foreign ministers are due to meet in Moscow on Tuesday, along with their Iranian counterpart, to discuss the Syrian war. Iran, the region's leading Shiite power, is another supporter of Assad's government and a traditional rival of mostly Sunni Turkey.
The timing is significant because "now Russia will appear at this summit as the victim," said Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, and a former Turkish opposition lawmaker. Under that pressure, "Turkey could take extra steps toward Putin to appease him."
The US, Turkey's Nato ally, shares its allegiance to rebel groups in Syria, even though many of them have ties to al-Qaeda and other Islamist factions. The US has repeatedly denounced Russia for killing civilians during the campaign to recapture Aleppo, while also seeking an understanding between the two most powerful outside actors in the Syrian war that could help to end the conflict.
Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the killing of the Russian envoy, and said in an e-mailed statement that America is ready to assist the investigation.
| 2019-04-23T20:40:19 |
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/russian-ambassador-shot-dead-in-turkey-as-syria-roils-region
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will be doing this again Sunday if anyone is interested.Could do it again in mid July if anyone wants.
What time are you meeting where? Do you just pay for the boat on arrival?
We are meeting in Dover at 7:30, usually park on the road neer the Travelodge. Think you can book in the terminal but would obviousely save time if you book online. Hope you can come mate, it's usually a good day.
"Treehugger" Wrote: We are meeting in Dover at 7:30, usually park on the road neer the Travelodge. Think you can book in the terminal but would obviousely save time if you book online. Hope you can come mate, it's usually a good day.
Indeed - I've been meaning to come to this for a while! I just need to find out if I'm about as I may be in London for a mates birthday. I'll keep the thread / you posted dude.
P & O Ferry at 8.25am,book as person with bicycle,cost £6.50.Return 17.15pm cost same.Book before going.Meet at Marine Parade,that's the seafront,near Premier Inn.Parking is £8 all day.We will leave for port to check in,no later than 7.45.There are at least 10 so far.
Can do Sunday 20 July,need some more though.Anyone else?
I'll be up for doing it again.
I would like to come however will have to confirm at a later date.
| 2019-04-19T06:20:00 |
http://www.sketchymtb.co.uk/thread-8333.html
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How many people use the typesetting language LaTeX? This is obviously a hard question. However, another way to look at it is to calculate the percentage of published scholarly articles written in LaTeX.
To begin, let's take a look at penetration and adoption of LaTeX across various disciplines, as shown in the Table below, extracted from a paper called "Don't format Manuscripts" Brischoux 2009 . The results are not surprising here- LaTeX use is limited to the hard sciences, and especially: Mathematics and Stats, and then Physics and Computer Science.
I’m surprised by the LaTeX rate for Astronomy & Astrophysics. The main journals (A&A, ApJ, MNRAS) encourage authors to format their manuscript with LaTeX, so I would have thought that the LaTeX rate would be higher than that. Brichoux & Leganeux (2009) say that they selected journal randomly, so there might be a bias here: these journals are not necessarily the major ones.
I'm surprised by the LaTeX rate for Astronomy & Astrophysics. The main journals (A&A, ApJ, MNRAS) encourage authors to format their manuscript with LaTeX, so I would have thought that the LaTeX rate would be higher than that. Brichoux & Leganeux (2009) say that they selected journal randomly, so there might be a bias here: these journals are not necessarily the major ones.
I’ve just talked to the A&A editor, and he told me that the LaTeX rate for this journal is indeed close to 100%.
I've just talked to the A&A editor, and he told me that the LaTeX rate for this journal is indeed close to 100\%.
Then, let's look at the total number of scholarly papers published. Scopus lists 2,253,230 citable documents published in 2014, of which 151,085 in Mathematics, 274,287 in Physics and Astronomy, and 255,916 in Computer Science (calculated using the compare tool on Scopus/SciMago).
| 2019-04-19T00:52:48 |
https://flamechallenge.authorea.com/users/3/articles/107393-how-many-scholarly-articles-are-written-in-latex/_show_article
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Are you a bit of a shutterbug? Add that to the list of reasons to avoid the 16GB model of the latest iPhone.
With a 12-megapixel camera, 4K video recording, and a new kind of photo that bursts into life when you press down on the screen, it's natural to think that photos on the new Apple iPhone 6S might use up more space than its predecessors. But you might not be prepared for just how big the impact on your storage space can be.
If you buy a 16GB iPhone 6S or 6S Plus , and snap just 5 photos a day -- without ever downloading a single app, email attachment, or game -- you could be out of storage within six months. That's how much data the iPhone 6S camera can consume. If you let it, anyhow.
I put it to the test in a side-by-side comparison with last year's iPhone, and here's what I found.
I spent two hours walking around downtown San Francisco with the new iPhone 6S Plus and last year's iPhone 6 Plus for comparison. I shot dozens of still photos, Live Photos, some 1080p videos and 4K videos, even a quick panorama of the Oakland Bay Bridge. I made sure both phones captured the same perspective in every single scene. Then, I plugged each phone into my trusty laptop, jotted down the file sizes and totalled up the damage.
I figured that 12-megapixel photos from the iPhone 6S would take up more space than those from the 8-megapixel iPhone 6, sure. And I figured that Live Photos would definitely make a dent in my iPhone's capacity.
What I wasn't prepared for: High Dynamic Range, also known as HDR.
Every time you press the shutter button on an iPhone 5S or newer, there's a chance software algorithms will tell the camera to take two images instead of one. One will be a normal photo, and the other HDR. Basically, the HDR photo combines multiple lighter and darker pictures into a single image that can bring out more details in the bright and dark regions of a scene. You can set the iPhone to automatically delete the non-HDR image, or turn HDR off. But again, by default the phone will often save two photos instead of one.
And with a new iPhone 6S or 6S Plus, you get Apple's new Live Photos by default as well. Every time you press the shutter button, the phone will also record three seconds of video that you can see when you press down on the screen.
The kicker: The iPhone 6S also records HDR versions of Live Photos. That means you could find four new files on your new iPhone every time you hit the shutter button. That's a 12-megapixel image, a 12-megapixel HDR image, a Live Photo, and a HDR Live Photo.
The funny thing is, I found 12-megapixel photos actually only take up 13 percent more space on average than 8-megapixel ones. There's not a lot of difference between the standard photos you get from an iPhone 6 and an iPhone 6S.
But Live Photos are another story: they easily take up 3 or 4MB a pop. And when you add up all 4 files that an iPhone 6S camera is likely to produce by default, you're looking at an average of about 13.2 megabytes per button press. That's significantly more than double the storage consumed, on average, by the previous-gen iPhone 6 Plus.
It adds up. A new 16GB iPhone 6S has about 11GB of usable storage out of the box. At 13.18MB per photo, 5 HDR photos a day, you could use up that entire amount in under 6 months. And again, that's without downloading a single app to go with them.
Mind you, it's only when HDR kicks in that the iPhone will generate all four shots. But I also saw HDR kick in far more often with the latest iPhone.
Thankfully, there's an easy solution: Just turn those fancy new features off! Here's how you turn off Live Photos. Here's how you turn off auto-HDR. The toggle switches are baked right into your camera viewfinder, so you can turn them back on at a moment's notice if you ever feel the need.
Thankfully, the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus's most data-hungry feature is already turned off by default: ultra-high definition 4K video. When I shot a few 4K clips with the new iPhone 6S Plus, they took up 362MB of space per minute, nearly triple the 124MB per minute it took to capture an identical scene in 1080p. You'd fill up an entire 16GB iPhone with just half an hour of 4K footage that way.
iPhone 6 Plus (8MP) iPhone 6S Plus (12MP) How much larger?
But should you really keep Live Photos and 4K video recording turned off? That's a tougher question -- because looking back at the stills and high-def footage I shot around San Francisco, I can definitely see benefits to keeping them on.
Let's start with 4K. Critics of 4K video will tell you that even if you have a 4K television, you probably won't be able to tell the difference between 1080p footage and 4K footage from across your living room. That's true: The farther away you sit, the larger your TV needs to be for you to appreciate that extra resolution.
But that doesn't mean there isn't a difference between 4K video and 1080p video, and it doesn't mean you need a 4K television in order to see it, either! When I watched both videos on a 1080p computer monitor, the 4K footage from the iPhone 6S Plus definitely looked clearer.
And 4K video can be a boon for video editors, too. Since 4K video gives you four times the resolution of 1080p, video editors can effectively zoom in on a scene in post-production by cropping instead of enlarging pixels, and potentially still wind up with a full-HD resolution video.
Your picture turns out blurry when the bird flies away.
But your Live Photo is animated. You still got the shot.
But think about your friends and relatives who are buying new, entry level 16GB iPhones -- some of whom aren't as tech-savvy as you. They may not realize just how much storage they're consuming before they run out. They're about to experience all the wonders a modern smartphone can offer, including apps, games, photos, Live Photos, and 4K video, blissfully ignorant of the storage woes they're about to face. Perhaps you should nudge them towards buying a phone with a higher capacity, or show them how to turn these data-hungry features off?
Or, you could just send the link to this CNET story. That should do the job.
| 2019-04-26T00:33:45 |
https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-6s-camera-filesizes-4k-live-photos-hdr/
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a few random excerpts rules: 45.) Eat All the Junk Food You Want as Long as You Cook it Yourself.
55.) Stop Eating Before You're Full.
70.) "Breakfast Like a King, Lunch Like a Prince, Dine Like a Pauper."
summary/synopsis (from Michael Pollan's website): Michael Pollan’s Food Rules began with his hunch that the wisdom of our grandparents might have more helpful things to say about how to eat well than the recommendations of science or industry or government. The result was a slim volume of food wisdom that has forever changed how we think about food. Now in a new edition illustrated by artist Maira Kalman, and expanded with a new introduction and nineteen additional food rules, this hardcover volume marks an advance in the national dialogue that Food Rules inspired.
The impetus for this new edition came from readers. Many chimed in with personal policies they had found useful in navigating the supermarket, or rules they recalled hearing from their mothers and grandmothers. Several of the new rules – Place a bouquet of flowers on the table and everything will taste twice as good; If you’re not hungry enough to eat an apple, you’re probably not hungry; When you eat real food, you don’t need rules – underscore the central teaching of the original Food Rules, which is that eating doesn’t have to be so complicated, and food is as much about pleasure and communion as it is about nutrition and health. Maira Kalman illustrates that simple truth with her paintings, bringing color, life and wit to Pollan’s philosophy.
A collaboration between our foremost food authority and one of our most celebrated artists, as well as between an author and his readers, Food Rules has prompted a national discussion that is helping to change the way Americans approach their eating. A beautiful book to cherish and share, Food Rules guides us with humor, joy, and common sense toward a happier, healthier relationship to food.
my thoughts/review: Simply put: I love this book. I loved the original one when it came out, too. It was simple, small, paperback, easy-to-read print. I kept a copy with me wherever I went. Whipping it out and showing people how great it was. I mean really. This book is full of common sense...which I believe it what makes it so great. I think anybody can connect with it. This version is still pretty small and portable, but it has a hard cover and is extremely colorful. While I love the original version, perhaps this one would make for better gifting. Pollan shares his thoughts and the thoughts of those who believed in the original "manual" simply and humbly. Kalman draws us in with warm scenes, humorous scenes, and thought-provoking scenes. I don't know what to say other than I think everybody should own a copy of this book (either version). Our government should use it to revamp the food pyramid and FDA standards. Or we, as a nation should.
about the author: Michael Pollan is the author of five books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestsellers, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and In Defense of Food.
about the illustrator: Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author, and designer. She is the author of The Principles of Uncertainty and she illustrated the bestselling edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. Ms. Kalman’s twelve children’s books include Max Makes a Million, Stay Up Late, Swami on Rye, and What Pete Ate. She also has designed fabric for Isaac Mizrahi, accessories for Kate Spade, sets for the Mark Morris Dance Company, and, with her late husband Tibor Kalman under the M&Co. label, clocks, umbrellas, and other accessories for the Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Kalman’s work is shown at the Julie Saul Gallery in Manhattan.
My uncle would agree with most food rules (although he decidedly did not dine like a pauper). But even when my aunt was gone visiting - he set the table with flowers, linen and silver for dinner - and appreciated all.
Such a fan of his!
I completely agree, I love Michel Pollan and I've read all his books. This is one of my favorites because it's so useful. I have the original and I haven't seen this version yet, so now I'll go have a look. I think you're right that this would make a great gift.
I really liked In Defense of Food, too.
@ALBLA... Yes, I remember reading that...I'm a big Mark Bittman fan, as well.
It is always a tricky thing to put out a new edition of an old favorite - I'm so glad to see that this one was even better than the original!
| 2019-04-25T16:40:46 |
https://www.allroadsleadtothe.kitchen/2011/11/food-rules-eaters-manual-by-michael.html
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A group of teenage skaters were the unsuspecting witnesses and first on the scene to Friday's commuter train crash that hurt more than 70 people in Connecticut.
The boys were enjoying their evening in Bridgeport, trying out new stunts, jumps and skating over ramps when they heard the tremendous sound of the two Metro North commuter trains slamming into one another.
The friends happened to be recording as the collision occurred. It is clear from the video they were not prepared to deal with the things they saw.
Upon climbing up the embankment to the railroad tracks, the four boys saw a scene of complete chaos in the aftermath of the collision.
They were on the scene for a good ten minutes before the emergency services arrived and saw passenger scrambling to get out of the derailed train cars.
Debris including glass from broken windows, twisted rails and other bits of sharp metal lay all about them.
Through the lens of the skaters camera, commuters could be seen helping one another off the train cars that were no longer sitting on the tracks.
The boys can be heard asking shaken passengers if they're okay, but none of them decide to call 911.
Another of the teenagers suggests climbing aboard the train although it is not clear what his intentions might have been.
His friend, sensibly, tells him to keep off the train and away from the tracks that might still be electrified.
Viewers may be surprised to note that despite the shock clearly intimated by the boys, no real panic or screaming can be heard from people aboard or climbing off the doomed train.
One passenger speaks to the lads telling her that the train ride was 'worse than being on a rollercoaster', while another gentleman says the thought he was 'going to die'.
The skaters decided to leave once the police showed up but there is no doubt the video captures the eerie scene just moments after the train crashed.
'We were at a skateshop called Rampage across from where the incident happened, and well what we saw is what you'll see,' they commented on their YouTube film.on the YouTube description.
Officials investigating the cause of the crash ruled out foul play, and sent a damaged section of railway track for analysis.
It is not clear if the accident was caused by the broken piece of track, or if it was damaged before the crash, said Earl Weener, of the National Transportation Safety Board.
He added that the investigation was in its early stages, and refused to speculate on why the train derailed near Bridgeport, at 6.10pm.
The National Transportation Safety Board began its investigation on Saturday, which is expected to last for seven to 10 days.
The board will examine the trains' brakes and condition, signal information and the performance of the crew.
Data recorders from the trains are expected to provide details on the speed of the trains and other information.
The railway tracks were damaged in the crash, and trains are suspended between New York and New Haven, Connecticut and with limited service Boston and New Haven.
| 2019-04-19T00:52:47 |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2327216/Unseen-video-shows-chaos-carnage-aftermath-rush-hour-train-crash.html
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A boxcar at a rail yard is set into motion at the top of a hump. The car rolls down quietly and without friction onto a straight, level track where it couples with a flatcar of smaller mass, originally at rest, so that the two cars then roll together without friction. Consider the two cars as a system from the moment of release of the boxcar until both are rolling together.
(a) Is mechanical energy of the system conserved?
(b) Is momentum of this system conserved?
Next, consider only the process of the boxcar gaining speed as it rolls down the hump. Consider the boxcar and the Earth as a system.
(d) Is momentum of this system conserved?
Finally, consider the two cars as a system as the boxcar is slowing down in the coupling process.
(e) Is mechanical energy of this system conserved?
(f) Is momentum of this system conserved?
(a) the two cars had an inelastic collision (stick together), so the total mechanical energy before and after the collision doesn't conserve.
(b) momentum is always conserved in a collision as long as there is no external forces applied on the system.
(c) without frictional forces and external forces, the total mechanical energy is conserved.
(d) also conserved since the earth is also part of the system so no external forces. The earth will move towards the car with a small velocity in the opposite direction.
(e) there is an external force of friction applied on both cars so the total ME is not conserved for the two cars.
(f) there is an external force of friction so momentum is not conserved.
| 2019-04-21T17:00:19 |
http://tutor.leiacademy.org/qa/index.php/96/conservation-energy-and-momentum?show=100
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The Nondual Cafe.: Does a 'perennial philosophy' actually exist?
Does a 'perennial philosophy' actually exist?
F: I think my outlook is fundamentally Zen, but I still worship Bhagavan. I’m more open to a perennial philosophy, so I see it basically everywhere, despite the (apparently) diverse iterations. I think it’s everywhere.
M: Perennial philosophy of the type that Aldous Huxley wrote about is a huge generalisation, in which most non-materialist metaphysics can find a place, particularly (but not only) the more monistic or non-dualistic ones. Viewed superficially, there are many similarities [between the religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions of various cultures], as found by Huxley, but if one goes deeper there are also many significant differences.
Take vēdānta, for example, which Huxley considered to be the archetype of perennial philosophy. It is considered to be one view (darśana), but there are so many interpretations of it, dvaita, viśiṣṭādvaita and advaita, among which there are so many fundamental points of disagreement.
Even advaita is not a single view, because there are so many interpretations of it. Many professed advaitins, for example, do not accept dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi vāda [the contention that perception is causally antecedent to creation (in other words, that creation is a consequence of perception), though they actually occur simultaneously, as in a dream], which according to what Bhagavan taught us is the cornerstone of advaita philosophy.
Even among Bhagavan’s followers there are so many interpretations of his teachings.
If we want to see uniformity we cannot go deep into anything. If we want to go deep, we have to give up the idea that all views are one. In order to go deep in any spiritual path, particularly the path of jñāna [knowledge or awareness], vivēka (distinguishing differences and judging what is true or real) is absolutely essential.
When you say your outlook is fundamentally Zen, what do you mean by ‘Zen’? I do not know much about Zen, but I expect there are many different interpretations or understandings of it, as there are of advaita.
Therefore rather than just giving our view a label, we need to consider each point of difference and judge for ourself what is correct in each case. And we each have to consider whether our views on various points are consistent and coherent, which is something that is lacking in most people’s views, because they haven’t considered their views deeply or critically enough.
| 2019-04-20T18:19:40 |
http://nondualcafe.blogspot.com/2018/05/does-perennial-philosophy-actually-exist.html
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Is there a formula that will round a value to the nearest increment of 5, or to the nearest quarter?
I am looking for a formula that will look at an adjacent column then find that value in another sheet and return the data from an adjacent column.
I want to add the largest/smallest 5 entries in A column.
How do I pick 20 random items from a list of 100?
Enter the items down A1:A100.
In B1:B100 enter formula =RAND().
Sort the list by B column; top 20 rows is your selection.
Repeat for a new selection.
Is it possible to write a SUMIF worksheet formula to sum visible cells only?
I can sum all numbers >=10 with =SUMIF(A1:A20,">=10") . But how do I enter two criteria so I can sum numbers between 5 and 10?
Why does my function display #NAME?
The function may point to an add-in function that is not available to this Excel. Most frequently it's an Analysis ToolPak function; choose Tools > Add-Ins and check that there are checks against Analysis ToolPak.
Unlike Excel's built-in functions, Add-in functions do not translate themselves to regional language, so American add-in functions are by default unavailable on a Norwegian computer and vice versa.
Is there a way of returning the name of a sheet in a cell without using code?
=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1,255) will strip away everything but the sheet name.
Note: The file must be saved or the formula will not work.
Formula does not calculate correctly!
Formula does not calculate at all!
My formula does not calculate correctly!
There are three common causes for messages like this.
What is displayed in the cells is not what's really there. A cell can show 1 (no decimals format) but it may contain real or calculated values like 0.6 or 1.4. Add or multiply a bunch of those and you're surprised; Excel will calculate with real cell contents, NOT displayed contents. You may choose "precision as displayed" in the Tools > Options menu for a workaround, but make sure you know what you're doing.
A computer use binary numbers, and this has its limitations. It canot represent numbers like 1/10 exactly. Numbers like that are rounded to nearest 15 significant decimal digits, and Excel will be "wrong" around 15th-16th digit. Some operations suffer from this, and some Boolean tests (tests that may appear as 0.1=0.1) can return False because of this. "Normal work" like sensible-number budgeting and day-to-day math is usually not affected, but this may not be the tool for advanced science.
You are using Excel's statistical functions. Some of those are not good enough.
TREND(), FORECAST(), etc.) uses a numerically unstable algorithm.
My spreadsheet does not calculate at all!
Perhaps Calculation is set to Manual, alter this in Tools > Options menu.
The formulas are showing, instead of the results!
The cell may be formatted as Text. To change it, choose Format>Cells, and on the Number tab, choose a category other than Text, e.g. General or Number.
OR, in Excel 2003, choose Tools>Options. On the View tab, remove the check mark from Formulas.
In Data>Subtotals copy the totals only.
Split first and last names.
Select the data, and copy it.
On the Ribbon's Home tab, click Paste, and click Transpose.
Watch this short video to see how to Transpose data in Excel 2007.
Using Data>Subtotals, I would like to create a table that has just these subtotals, not the hidden detail rows.
Once you've applied the Subtotal, collapse the outline so that only the rows you want to copy are visible.
When I use AutoFilter I don't see all the items in the drop down list. Why not?
Filter on this column first, then by the intended criteria.
Another option is to choose Custom from the drop-down list, and type the criteria.
How to split full name into separate cells.
Use Data>Text to Columns and specify the comma as a delimiter.
I want to fix a cell so the user can only choose from a list, for example DHL, FEDEX or UPS.
You can use Data Validation to create a drop down list in the cell. For a short list, you can type the options in the Source box, as shown below.
Select the cell(s) where you want the list to appear, then choose Data>Validation.
In the Allow dropdown, select List.
Format a cell to blink or flash?
Add a bar above a character, e.g.
Can a formula that do this -- =IF(D25 does not equal E25 then D25 font will turn red)?
Set Condition 1 - Cell Value Is, not equal to, click on E25 on the worksheet.
Click on Format, select the Font tab. Under Colour, choose red.
Can I format a cell to blink or flash when a condition is met?
No. Use conditional formatting to change the cell colour instead.
How can I add a bar above a character?
Before you type the character for which you want the overbar, change the font to Symbol.
Then, stay in Symbol font, or switch to a different font, and type the character that has the overbar.
Note: This technique looks better on-screen in some font sizes than in others, but all should look okay when printed.
paste the function in and OK, and in most cases it translates.
| 2019-04-21T08:43:28 |
https://www.contextures.com/xlfaqFun.html
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The story of a man and his extended family - the challenges they faced, their internal conflicts, their growth, their passions, their faith, losses, and victories. And the author put together this story - his personal history - to chronicle his family's journey spanning years – a journey everyone can surely relate to and be inspired by.
Life can sometimes be cruel to some people. Not everyone who goes through harsh challenges comes out unscathed; however, there are some - the lucky few - who persevere and triumph despite the odds. The story of a man and his extended family - the challenges they faced, their internal conflicts, their growth, their passions, their faith, losses, and victories. And the author put together this story - his personal history - to chronicle his family's journey spanning years – a journey everyone can surely relate to and be inspired by.
| 2019-04-21T08:16:45 |
https://www.shortstories101.com/story/tricked-by-twin/
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How do you defend quick tap penalties?
When a team is awarded a penalty near the in-goal, say at 5 yards, and they play a quick tap. How you defend against that? I have seen yellow cards shown for tackling the player (for example, against Argentina when playing the All Blacks at the World Cup). In that situation, what are you supposed to do? How do you avoid the try?
Since the entire point of the quick-tap penalty at short range is to make it nearly impossible to prevent the attacker crossing the line, the defence has two options. 1. Pull back to the line to ensure onside, then group-tackle: this prevents further penalty and provides the best opportunity to either turn over possession for clearance, or slow down the quick play so the defence can regroup. 2. Force a held-up: a riskier tactic, but if the defenders' scrum is strong or can even drive over, potentially worthwhile, especially as the defending players only need to prevent the grounding alone, and not the forward movement as well.
As the offside line is only the goal line in this case, any player on or behind the goal line may tackle the player who has taken the penalty and stop a score.
| 2019-04-19T16:21:55 |
https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/13343/how-do-you-defend-quick-tap-penalties
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Surely you are aware that the Orthodox church has a "one bishop, one city" rule that has been in place for centuries.
d) something else (please explain).
If you agree with (b), doesn't that suggest that - for example - the Patriarch of Moscow does not have spiritual authority (or spiritual responsibility) for any Orthodox person outside the city of Moscow, although he may have some administrative authority. I've heard Orthodox folks who would say so.
If that is so, then is that also true of the "Ecumenical Patriarch" (namely that he has no spiritual authority outside of Constantinople) and the "pope" (namely that he has no spiritual authority outside of Rome).
Finally, given that other cities than Constinople and Rome have become dominant in the new order of things, shouldn't those other city's metropolitans/patriarchs be accorded greater administrative authority.
According to this article (link), a man followed every rule in the Bible for a year.
Only Christ ever followed every rule in the Bible for a year. What the man in the article did is mock every rule in the Bible for a year.
While a few men have been scrupulous in their observence of the ceremonial law of the Old Testament (Saul of Tarsus being the prime example), ALL have sinned (including Christ's mother) and come short of the glory of God. Christ alone is sinlessly perfect.
When one engages in Reformed Apologetics in the blogosphere (or in the Internet in general) one is bound to encounter the objection: Reformed Theology/Calvinism/Predestination/etc. "makes men into robots/puppets/etc."
These unoriginal (by now) objections have been rebutted many times. Nevertheless, this post will present a very brief rebuttal.
Suppose the claim is true. Why is that a bad thing? Most people who make the objection have no idea. They just heard someone else claim that about Calvinism, and it sounded catchy. If someone cannot explain why that's a bad thing, then they haven't stated an objection, they've used a catch-phrase or chanted a mantra.
If, perchance, some objector is able to explain why that is bad thing, at least the discussion has employed some reasoned, articulated explanation, as opposed to name-calling. Then, you can decide whether the "bad thing" really is a bad thing, whether "bad thing" really inheres to Calvinism/Reformed Theology/etc., or whether you need to rethink your theology.
Otherwise, it is the same as an objection that "Calvinism treats people as though they were pottery," to which the response is "because the Apostle Paul - speaking by inspiration - does."
2) Rebuttal 2 - When the explanation is that Calvinism denies free will/human responsibility/something similar: Perhaps the objector is simply unaware of Reformed doctrine.
Calvinism asserts that man has a (compatible - not libertarian) free will and that men are responsible for their deeds. Thus, either the objector is unfamiliar with Calvinism, is insisting on a particular kind of definition of free will, or is attempting to make an implicit objection to somethinig deeper.
3) Rebuttal 3 - When the explanation is that if God is in control, then implicitly man is lacking in any real free will, repsonsibility, etc.
This objection is more nuanced. If the objector has gotten to this point, he's presented a more detailed objection than 90% of what one finds on the web. That said, the objection is still not correct.
- God says all things work together for good to them that are the called. In order for everything to work together God has to be behind the scenes, and we see that He is in - for example - the Book of Esther. So, God really must be in control. Furthermore, Scripture clearly teaches that we make choices and that we are responsible for the things we do, including the choices we make. The Bible does not contradict itself, therefore God's totality of control must not be in contradiction to man's having a real will, and man's having moral responsibility.
There is no logical contradiction between God being in control, and man having a will, more responsibility, and the like. Thus, there is no reason from philosophy to make the objection.
4) Rebuttal 4A - When the explanation is that in order for a will to be real, it must be "libertarian" or "autonomous" - Says who?
Ultimately the objections above - if they move from surface treatments to core objections, typically lead to claims as to what the will must be in order to be a will. At this point, one could simply hand the objector a copy of Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will; but perhaps there is a simpler solution. Simply ask them to justify their claim.
Who says that is the only kind of will that there can be? Scripture certainly does not state or imply any such thing. Where did they get that idea from? This author has yet to see a significant, meaningful answer to that question.
5) Rebuttal 4B - Same explanation as above - On the contrary, a real will must NOT be libertarian, and no created will can be autonomous.
There is no need to burden the objector with the rebuttal in 4A. Taking a page or two from Edwards, we can simply point out that a will that acts contingently (a "libertarian" will) cannot be a will that is determined. Yet, wills in Scripture are determined, as are choices. A will whose acts are not determined by the person whose will it is, is a monstrosity that would destroy our intuition of what is required for moral responsibility. Finally, we can see evidence in Sociology, Psychology, and the like that people's wills are determined. The advertising industry is built on the fact that people are largely predictable in their behavior. Scripture confirms that man's acts are determined - comparing man's acts to the fruit of a tree.
Furthermore, Scripture is clear that creation is dependent for everything - even its very existence - on the Creator. Accordingly, to assert that something could come to be without its ultimate source being God is contrary to Scripture. In Him we live and move and have our being, as even the pagans recognized.
So far, this author has not seen any further responses that address the combined rebuttals 4A and 4B - if some come up, this author will either provide further rebuttals, admit his mistake, or adopt some third position as-yet-unimagined.
In this recent post (link), lay Roman Catholic apologist Dave Armtrong spends a significant amount of time and space defending his action in labeling someone using a term that once meant "donkey" but has become mild vulgarity.
Rather than just say that "I meant "donkey," not the other thing," Dave devotes a post to providing literary examples of a non-vulgar use of the term as an insult.
1) Dave quoting Luther and Calvin when he thinks it is useful for him is exactly like Dave quoting Scripture when he thinks it is useful for him. This author respectfully submits that this particular posts illustrates how Dave quotes each of those sources: selectively.
2) Luther and Calvin obviously did not write in English. Thus, the corresponding vulgarity should not be read into their works.
3) Dickens wrote long before the term in question become a popular vulgarity.
4) Shakespeare's use of double entendre (including quite vulgar double-entendre) is well known to those who have actually studied the writings of Shakespeare. Thus, the selection by Dave of Shakespeare is deeply ironic: especially when one considers that comparing oneself to a literary great like Shakespeare is exactly what a pompous fellow would do (although, obviously, it is also what another person might do, if the shoe fit).
5) Bottom line (ha!) - enough time has been wasted pointing out that Dave insults people.
The portion of the post of interest is the account of the people who were tricked into thinking that they had been legally married when, in fact, they had not.
Our senses are generally reliable, but they do not always provide true information.
While this "priest" apparently "eventually" told the people that they were not married, it is certainly at least conceivable that there is at least one psychopathic person out there impersonating a Roman Catholic priest or even bishop on a daily basis, with no plan to reveal the truth. That priest may even be the one who married (maybe I should put "married") you and your spouse, who hears your confessions, and who will perform last rites for you.
The point is this, if you think that participation in the sacraments is a necessary part of salvation, and if you agree that sacraments performed by a faux priest are not valid, you can have only a tenuous assurance of salvation.
And that is not Christianity. Salvation does not depend on human merit, human activity, or the faithfulness of the men who administer sacraments. Salvation depends on the action of God alone.
Think about it. If you trust in Christ alone for salvation, you have only the risk that Christ is a fraud, and God has revealed to us that Christ is the Way, the Life, and most importantly (in this context) the Truth. Confess your sins to God, not to someone who claims to be his vicar, whose claim you can never be sure about. Of course, we still confess our faults to one another, but do not place your reliance for salvation on the faithfulness of any man except Christ the one who is both God and Man in two distinct natures and one person. Only He can save you from your sins, and confidence in Him alone is sure.
UPDATE: Chinese Catholics can breathe a sigh of relief that this bishop bears the Vatican seal of approval (link). Some folks, however, will focus on the fact that the mitre that the bishop is wearing has six boxes, six vertical line segments, and six horizontal line segments (depending on how you count them). Even if that were intended to mean what it most likely is not intended to mean, that would be a very minor point contrasted with trust folks have in the man that wears the mitre.
Avid readers of the news may recall the kidnap of many, and martyrdom of a few, South Korean professing Christians. This news report (link) suggests that the primary criminal responsible must now come before the Father to answer for the deaths of his children. I would not want to be in his place, and I thank God that he has mercifully restrained me from committing such sin (for which restraint I can take no credit), and mercifully provided an Advocate against that day of judgment.
Yet there are many others who have killed Christians, and yet have been so-far spared by God who permits them still to live. If anyone reading falls in that category, you should be in fear of God's judgment in the life to come, for God's longsuffering in permitting you to live only adds to the seriousness of your rebellion if you do not humbly turn to Him.
Repent, and beg God for mercy while there is time, for He has promised that all kinds of sin will be forgiven, and the most famous Christian apostle, Paul, was himself the most notorious persecuter of Christians before God turned His heart. If God has made you recognize His sovereignty, turn from your persecution of His bride, His children, His church, and cast yourself on His bounteous mercy.
"Middle Knowledge, Truth-Makers, and the 'Grounding Objection'"
The present author is in the process of responding to William Lane Craig's (WLC's) book, "The Only Wise God." In the process, however, it seems as though it would be useful to focus on the topic of the final chapter of that book, Middle Knowledge, and particularly on another of WLC's writings on the subject, specifically his article, "Middle knowledge, Truth Makers, and the 'Grounding Objection.'" This topic is doubly timely due to the present author's on-going discussion in the comments section of a treatment of another of WLC's related articles, on Newcomb's Paradox, in which the topic of truth-makers came up.
Presently, a copy of WLC's article is available here (link).
WLC's article purports to address a critical problem for any theory of Middle Knowledge, which he phrases as there being no true counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, because there is nothing to make them true, but which might more aptly be described as there being no way for God to have "free" knowledge (including knowledge based on the (actual or hypothetical) exercise of creaturely freedom) prior to the divine decree.
As WLC admits, the objection is not an undercutting, but a rebutting rejection of Molinism, because if God does not have "middle knowledge," there can be no Molinism, and one must accept either Thomism/Calvinism (which states that God has "free knowledge" posterior to the divine decree) or Open Theism (which denies that God has "free knowledge" at least with respect to creatures).
It is worthwhile to point out, before we begin a detailed analysis of WLC's article, what middle knowledge is alleged to be. It is alleged to be God's knowledge of what "would" happen if a free creature were in a particular circumstance. Thus, it is God's knowledge of what state of affairs "would" result from the exercise of man's (or other free creature's) "free will" in a particular circumstance. Accordingly, this knowledge is a special kind of "free" knowledge, namely knowledge that depends on the creature's exercise of "free will," as constrasted with what Molinists (and most philosophers) refer to as God's "free knowledge," namely the knowledge that God has as a result of the exercise of his own free will.
WLC begins by setting forth the alleged warrant for the Molinist assumption (WLC himself calls it an "assumption").
The first alleged warrant is that "we ourselves often appear to know such counterfactuals." This warrant, however, can be readily dismissed. Our knowledge of "counterfactuals" generally falls into one of two categories, neither of which is consistent with the Molinistic assumption. The first category are counterfactuals that are true by virtue of the law of the excluded middle (i.e. we know that it is true that if President Fox were held by terrorists, the US government either would or would not intervene. The second category are counterfactuals for which our ground is causal inference, which negates freedom. An example in this category would include your knowledge that if you showed up late for work for a week and then insulted your boss to his face, your boss would react by firing you. There is not some third category of counterfactuals that we know to be true by some other mechansim. Thus, this alleged warrant falls flat on its face.
The second alleged warrant is that "it is plausable that the Law of the Conditional Excluded Middle (LCEM) holds for counterfactuals of a certain special form." As noted above, however, this is simply an example of the first category of counterfactuals that are true because they are just restatements of the law of the excluded middle. They do not assist Molinism in any way, because they do not depend at all on the exercise of a free will, and do not correspond to anything more than the application of a logical rule to a hypothetical scenario. Thus, this alleged warrant is also insufficient.
The third alleged warrant is that Scriptures are "replete with counterfactual statements." Scriptures, however, do not identify any creaturely acts as "free" in the Molinist (Libertarian) sense, and Scriptures also include counterfactual statements describing God's own actions. Finally, all such Scriptural statements are made posterior to the divine decree. Thus, such statements cannot possibly be a warrant for the Molinist assumption.
WLC implicitly notes at least some of these objections and suggests that "anti-Molinists" retreat to asserting that counterfactuals have no ground prior to the divine decree. WLC's only two responses are that "there seems to be no more ground now for many counterfactuals about creaturely free acts than there is logically prior to God's decree," and if "it is God who decrees which counterfactuals about creaturely free acts are true" then this seems to "make God the author of sin and obliterate human freedom."
The former of these objections ignores the obvious: posterior to the divine decree we have reality - the world that exists and operates according to the laws of Ordinary Providence. Thus, counterfactuals become grounded in reality.
The latter of these objections is wrong for enough reasons to occupy a major treatise (and Jonathan Edwards has written one that fully rebuts it). To briefly summarize, God is not the "author" of sin because he does not do sin: he is not a voluntary agent that performs a sinful act. Furthermore, God is not the "author" of sin because no one who sins is coerced into sin contrary to their will by God. If WLC means something else by "author of sin" we can respond with Vincent Cheung that we will simply grant the objection, and ask why that should be a problem. Used outside the first two items listed above, it is simply pejorative rhetoric, not a meaningful objection. Additionally, it is "libertarian" (not compatible) freedom that obliterates human responsibility, because it necessarily denies that man determines what man does. Or, to take a hint from WLC, we could simply deny the charge of obliteration of human responsibility and ask WLC to provide evidence. Nevertheless, as noted above Jonathan Edwards' "Freedom of the Will," has already thoroughly disabused any serious reader of the truth of either of the charges above, though (of course) WLC neither recognizes nor responds to Edwards' detailed and famous rebuttals.
Although we have seen that the Molinist assumption is philosophically warrantless, let us proceed to see what kind of response WLC is able to provide to the grounding objection.
WLC begins by explaining an alleged relationship between the grounding objection and a theory of "truth-makers." Theory, in essence, states that in addition to truth bearers (sentences, thoughts, or propositions) there are entities by virtue of which the truth bearers are true. Someimtes these truth-makers are labelled as "facts" or "states of affairs."
First, WLC responds that the truth-maker is usually conceived to be "such abstract entities as facts or states of affairs" and asserts that consequently a causal relation is not at issue here. This objection is bizarre, to say the least. While the terms "facts" and "states of affairs" are abstract, "facts" and "states of affairs" are categories of things that (mostly) have (or had or will have) tangible existence. Individual facts are not "abstract."
Second, WLC attempts to show that "negative existential statements" do not have truth-makers. If this were not presented as an attempted rebuttal, we would assume it were a poor play on words, for "do not have" with respect to statements of "negative existence" is fully consistent with a theory of truth-makers. The fact is that negative existential statements can be rephrased quasi-positively. Thus, "Baal does not exist" can be rephrased as "Everything that exists is a non-Baal," or more simply "All gods are non-Baals," since it is alleged that Baal is a god. Negative existential statements, therefore, can be converted to quasi-positive statements, for which there is an obvious truth-maker.
Counterfactuals are supposedly true but not caused to be true by God, who then causes them to be true?
The result of WLC's failure to answer this question is that WLC cannot provide an explanation for the truth of counterfactuals, and consequently can provide only an incomplete epistonomy.
Instead of identifying a cause, WLC simply calls the call for a cause (the request for grounding) "inept" and states that the objector must set forth some kind of "very special causal theory of truth-makers" in order to counter the "customary truth-maker theories." As we noted above, however, WLC has failed properly to analyze the customary truth-maker theories. Furthermore, no special theory of causality is required: everything external to God cannot be self-existent, and therefore requires a cause. The truth of counterfactuals is alleged to be external to God. Therefore, the Molinist should identify the cause, or acknowledge that the truth of counterfactuals is simply special pleading for Molinists.
1) No physical objects exist.
(Which is not true, but if it were true the truth maker would be readily seen from the fact that "all things that exist are non-phsical things" has the truth-maker "all things that exist."
2) Dinosaurs are exitinct today.
(Which may be true, and if it is true today then the truth maker is a combination of the dinosaurs that once were (as to the implication of previous non-extinct status for the class of dinosaurs) and the status of all things as being members of the class "not-dinosaurs."
3) All ravens are black.
4) Torturing a child is wrong.
5) Napolean lost the battle of Waterloo.
6) The president of the U.S. in 2070 will be a woman.
7) If a rigid rod were placed in uniform motion through the aether, it would suffer a FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction.
In short, WLC presents seven propositions that he believes there is no truth-maker to be found for, and implicitly asserts that consequently there is no problem if no truth-maker can be found for counterfactual statements. But WLC, fortunately, does not rest on that idea (which has been demonstrated wrong above by provision of relevant truthmakers).
Instead, WLC continues with a section entitled "Do Counterfactuals of Creaturely Freedom Need Truth-Makers?" Of course, if WLC can answer this question negatively, then the problem would appear to be solved - regardless of the merit of any of the seven examples identified above.
WLC's contention appears to revolve around first, asserting that truth-maker theory is a minority philosophical position; second, some truth-maker philosophers permit some true statements to lack a truth-maker; and third, WLC has not found an explanation as to why counterfactuals should not be permitted to be without a truth-maker. None of these, of course, provide an excuse for counterfactuals to avoid the need for a truth-maker.
WLC's next question is whether such counterfactuals have truth-makers. WLC notes that Fredodoso has attempted to provide a truth-maker, namely the state of affairs that the propisition will have a truth-maker or that the proposition would have a truth-maker under the relevant condition. WLC recognizes that this alleged truth-maker creates the obvious, immediate, and insoluable problem of infinite regress, but seems to think that it is not so. WLC asserts that facts do not have to have truth-makers. That assertion may be true generally, to wit that ordinarily facts do not require truth-makers. This particular alleged fact, however, makes reference to another truth-maker, and thus creates the self-referential problem.
The problem is that WLC is taking shelter in the use of a similar technique to that used by philosphers who deny present grounding of future tense statements. Thus, WLC takes comfort in the fact that some explanatiosn of the grounding of future tense statements also suffer from infinite regress. WLC, however, seems to have overlooked the fact that many future tense statements can have other forms of grounding.
For example, the statement "tomorrow will be another day" is grounded in causal inference from the succession of time (and/or the definition of the word "tomorrow"), and "tomorrow will be rainy or not" is grounded in the law of the excluded middle. Finally, with respect to human perspective future tense statements that are not based on laws of logic or causal inference, such statements very rarely have grounding, and consequently are not "true" if, for a statement to be true, it must have grounds of truth. Note that what is being implied (but not stated) is that the statement must have grounds of truth for the speaker. In other words, the speaker must have a basis for the statement. The statement "a woman will be president of the U.S. in 2070" may turn out to be a correct statement of the state of affairs that transpires in 2070, but an ordinary human cannot have grounds for that statement - and, thus, while we might label the statement "true" after the fact, at the time the statement was made it was simply a guess.
This is not so with respect to divine omniprescience. God knows the future with the positive grounding of the divine decree. Thus, God's beliefs about the future are not guesses, but instead have the ground of the divine decree. Furthermore, God's beliefs about the hypothetical future are most readily grounded in causal inference, just as are ours - but God knows all the factors and thus has perfect knowledge of all hypotheticals posterior to the divine decree.
In contrast, for the Molinist, there is nothing that could ground God's knowledge of "counterfactuals" prior to the divine decree. Thus, God could not "know" such counterfactuals, and if God could not know such counterfactuals, then Molinism is dead.
WLC suggests that the ground of truth for a conditional "if A were in C, A would do S" is the hypothetical state of affairs described in the statement. This is somewhat similar to the non-predestinarian alleged grounding of future tense statements. The problem with that assertion, however, is that the hypothetical state of affairs does not exist, and (if it is really a counterfactual) will never exist. In other words, unlike future tense statements, there will never have been a corresponding state of affairs in which A is in C and does S, and the fact there will never have been a corresponding state of affairs in which A is in C and does S would "falsify" the future tense statement. Thus, WLC is relying for truth grounding on the very thing that would falsify a future tense statement, and a conditional statement does not purport to convey negative, but positive, information. Accordingly, even under a non-predestinarian analysis, WLC's basis for grounding is all wet.
Elsewhere, such as in "The Only Wise God," WLC has proposed an alternative basis for grounding. That basis is the fact that God knows all true counterfactuals. The problem with this attempted grounding should be immediately obvious. First, there is no reason to suppose that God knows all true counterfactuals prior to the divine decree, and perhaps even more plainly, it itself cannot have adequate grounding, unless we are to suggest that it is in God's nature to know all true counterfactuals. But if so, then true counterfactuals are part of God's natural knowledge, which both creates a paradox with respect to God himself, imposes necessity on counterfactuals, and takes out the "middle" from "middle knowledge." In short, an assertion that God's natural knowledge encompasses counterfactuals as much destroys Molinism as an assertion that God's free knowledge encompasses counterfactuals. Both scenarios destroy Molinism utterly.
WLC recognizes that the way that we treat normal hypotheticals (if I fire a shotgun at a pane of ordinary glass from a distance of 5 feet, the glass will break) is by identifying the causal inference. WLC, however, does not want to apply this to creaturely free acts, because he recognizes that doing so would destroy their libertarian freedom.
WLC even goes so far as to state that asking the question, "Why is F a fact?" or "What makes F a fact?" is to deny libertarian freedom, if F is a libertarian free act. The result is that WLC is unable to provide an account for the existence of F, and WLC is unable to handle Scriptural assertions that there are reasons why F is a fact (for example, there is a reason why Thomas believed). In short, WLC's philosophy falls prey to all the objections raised at great length and depth by Jonathan Edwards centuries ago.
Thus, when we arrive at WLC's conclusion that "anti-Molinists have not even begun to do the necessary homework," we are left with precisely the opposite impression. Specifically, we left with the impression that there is no warrant for accepting the Molinist assumptions, we are left with the impression that Molinism's assumption ends up contradicting Molinism, and we are left with the impression that Molinism fails to provide a complete epistemology: Molinism asserts that there are true counterfactuals of creaturely freedom and that they were known by God prior to the divine decree, but cannot give any account of them.
Finally, we may simply point out that the primary criticism raised against the Reformed view is essentially transitive to the Molinist viewpoint (in debate terms it is a "non-unique" criticism). That is to say, that while Molinists may deny that God makes the true counterfactuals of creaturely freedom true, nevertheless, God's selection of a particular world from all possible worlds (in Molinism) makes God in essence as much the cause of the evil that will be, as does God's selection of a particular world from all possible worlds in Calvinism or Thomism, because God recognizes that the consequence "If A is in C, A will do S," attaches just as certainly to C whether the link between C and S is causal (Calvinism/Thomism) or mysterious/unexplainable/impenetrable (Molinism/Arminianism). Thus, either way, C => S, and God's selection of C implies God's selection of S. In short, it is only the obviously mistaken position of Open Theism that an escape the charge that WLC attempts to level.
Thus, we may safely conclude that WLC has been unable to withstand the grounding objection proposed against Molinism, and the reader has no reason to believe in such a philosophical position. Instead, the reader should believe in the God who knows all hypotheticals on the basis of His infinite wisdom in combination with the Divine decree.
1864 "Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven." There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.
22Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. 23And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? 24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. 25And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: 26And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? 27And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. 28But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 29Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. 30He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. 31Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, 15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: 16And Simon he surnamed Peter; 17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: 18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, 19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house. 20And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. 22And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils. 23And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. 27No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. 28Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: 29But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: 30Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
8Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. 10And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
I ask the reader, is the CCC's interpretation even remotely plausible in the context of Jesus' discussion in Matthew and Mark, and especially in view of the explanation provided in Mark 3:30. In other words, perhaps the CCC's interpretation would not contradict Scripture if only Luke's testimony were given, but against the three-fold testimony of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, can it hold its ground?
If you have been following along with the Monergism Debate (link) and would a like a pamphlet that provides a monergistic and Biblical perspective on salvation, please peruse this excellent work (link). In fact, the present author recommends the pamphlet regardless of whether one has been following that debate. It's a well-written, logical, Scriptural exposition.
Scott Clark is in the URC. In that tradition, when do children who were baptized in infancy generally come to the Table? They generally come when they have been catechized, which is when they are done or mostly done with high school. Then, when they are on the threshold of going away from home, they are fully brought into their home church. But this means that if we understand covenant community as being a full participation in koinonia, this is a tradition that does not really have any experience with covenant children. They are technically on the roster (having been baptized), but they have no experience of body life while they are children at all.
8. All ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion (m) with Christ; so are they unworthy of the Lords Table; and cannot without great sin against him, while they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries, (n) or be admitted thereunto: yea whosoever shall receive unworthily are guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord, eating and drinking judgement to themselves.
n 1 Cor. 11.29. Mat. 7.6.
Thus, it can be seen that (on the topic of the sacraments) Doug Wilson does not have an historical connection to the Reformed churches, and to the extent that his comments reflect the general sentiments of the Federal Vision / Auburn Avenue Theology community, neither do they.
Now, of course, there are some who permit uncatechized (or only partially catechized) children to partake in the Lord's Supper. This would not automatically place a person outside of confessional subscription. Nevertheless, to have a policy of permitting all baptized members of the church to commune would be outside the bounds of Scripture and the historic Reformed doctrine.
Any pastor who does not fence the table to exclude ignorant adults and children is a bad shepherd, and his presbytery (or consistory) should consider whether such a man is fit to be a minister of the gospel. This is a matter sufficiently clear from Scripture that it has been adopted by both the Reformed Baptists and the Reformed Presbyterians.
To the extent that DW is advocating the idea that all baptized children and adults should participate in the Lord's Supper, his position is both clearly contrary to Scripture and (much less importantly) outside the Reformed community.
In other words, just so Frank Turk knows, (and, as best understood) DW does not represent us (Presbyterians, Reformed, and/or paedobaptists) - at least on the issue of the sacraments, and if DW has been understood correctly his fellow elders should take appropriate action to correct his doctrine.
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- "Don't you worry about it," said the Oklahoma prosecutor to the defense attorney. "We're gonna needle your client. You know, lethal injection, the needle. We're going to needle Robert."
Oklahoma almost did. Robert Miller spent nine years on death row, during six of which the state had DNA test results proving his sperm was not that of the man who raped and killed the 92-year-old woman. The prosecutor said the tests only proved that another man had been with Miller during the crime. Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.
You could fill a book with such hair-curling true stories of blighted lives and justice traduced. Three authors have filled one. It should change the argument about capital punishment and other aspects of the criminal justice system. Conservatives, especially, should draw this lesson from the book: Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
Horror, too, is a reasonable response to what Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer demonstrate in "Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted." You will not soon read a more frightening book. It is a catalog of appalling miscarriages of justice, some of them nearly lethal. Their cumulative weight compels the conclusion that many innocent people are in prison, and some innocent people have been executed.
Forensic fraud, such as that by the medical examiner who, in one death report, included the weight of the gallbladder and spleen of a man from whom both organs had been surgically removed long ago.
Mistaken identifications by eyewitnesses or victims, which contributed to 84 percent of the convictions overturned by the Innocence Project's DNA exonerations.
The sinister culture of jailhouse snitches, who earn reduced sentences by fabricating "admissions" by fellow inmates to unsolved crimes.
Incompetent defense representation, such as that by the Kentucky attorney in a capital case who gave his business address as Kelley's Keg tavern.
In the 24 years since the resumption of executions under Supreme Court guidelines, about 620 have occurred, but 87 condemned persons--one for every seven executed--had their convictions vacated by exonerating evidence. In eight of these cases, and in many more exonerations not involving death row inmates, the evidence was from DNA.
One inescapable inference from these numbers is that some of the 620 persons executed were innocent. Which is why, after the exoneration of 13 prisoners on Illinois' death row since 1987, for reasons including exculpatory DNA evidence, Gov. George Ryan, a Republican, has imposed a moratorium on executions.
Scheck, Neufeld and Dwyer note that when a plane crashes, an intensive investigation is undertaken to locate the cause and prevent recurrences. Why is there no comparable urgency about demonstrable, multiplying failures in the criminal justice system? They recommend many reforms, especially pertaining to the use of DNA and the prevention of forensic incompetence and fraud. Sen. Patrick Leahy's Innocence Protection Act would enable inmates to get DNA testing pertinent to a conviction or death sentence, and ensure that courts will hear resulting evidence.
The good news is that science can increasingly serve the defense of innocence. But there is other news.
Two powerful arguments for capital punishment are that it saves lives, if its deterrence effect is not vitiated by sporadic implementation, and it heightens society's valuation of life by expressing proportionate anger at the taking of life. But that valuation is lowered by careless or corrupt administration of capital punishment, which "Actual Innocence" powerfully suggests is intolerably common.
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What are the ideal brush dimensions for face lathering? I've read that loft is more important then the diameter of the knot in this case. A knot below 50 mm? Would a brush with 22 mm knot and 50 mm loft be good for both face and bowl lathering?
I actually think that I can face lather and bowl lather with almost any brush, and the issue is more how a brush feels while lathering, and personal preference. I'm currently enjoying an Edwin Jagger XL Synthetic 25mm knot x 60mm loft, and it has plenty of backbone for face lathering, yet would also make a great brush for bowl lathering. Backbone can be achieved with either a lower loft, such 48 - 50mm, or with a denser knot, as found with the Simpson Manchurian knots. It's generally easier to whip up a bowl of lather with lofts that are in the 54mm or above range. You really need to try brushes of different lofts, densities, and materials (different grades of badger, boar, synthetic, or even horsehair), and handle size to find your own preference. I like to face lather, but don't like scritch, and like very soft brushes, which is why I'm enjoying this particular synthetic. However, I could achieve the same with a dense, badger brush with very soft tips. To answer your question, a 22x50mm brush would be good for both, but I'd probably look for 24x52-54 for both, but that's my personal preference. Once you get the hang of face lathering, I think that is what you'll stick with if you primarily use soaps. Many people who face lather prefer to bowl lather when using creams, although I tend to face lather with both.
(10-05-2014, 10:42 AM)evnpar Wrote: I actually think that I can face lather and bowl lather with almost any brush, and the issue is more how a brush feels while lathering, and personal preference. I'm currently enjoying an Edwin Jagger XL Synthetic 25mm knot x 60mm loft, and it has plenty of backbone for face lathering, yet would also make a great brush for bowl lathering. Backbone can be achieved with either a lower loft, such 48 - 50mm, or with a denser knot, as found with the Simpson Manchurian knots. It's generally easier to whip up a bowl of lather with lofts that are in the 54mm or above range. You really need to try brushes of different lofts, densities, and materials (different grades of badger, boar, synthetic, or even horsehair), and handle size to find your own preference. I like to face lather, but don't like scritch, and like very soft brushes, which is why I'm enjoying this particular synthetic. However, I could achieve the same with a dense, badger brush with very soft tips. To answer your question, a 22x50mm brush would be good for both, but I'd probably look for 24x52-54 for both, but that's my personal preference. Once you get the hang of face lathering, I think that is what you'll stick with if you primarily use soaps. Many people who face lather prefer to bowl lather when using creams, although I tend to face lather with both.
That's a great answer, Richard. Certainly, one can face and bowl lather with the same brush. I might add that for face lathering, I prefer brushes with shorter handles ~45mm; while for bowl lathering, I like a longer handle (say ~70-75mm) for the greater leverage it affords.
Does the handle height count in a shaving brush?
Alex, everything that Richard stated is very good advice. The length of the handle depends on what you like. You won't ever find out until you try a few to determine which feels best in your hand, unfortunately. You may just have to try a few to see which you like and then, you may change you mind after a few years.
(10-05-2014, 04:31 PM)celestino Wrote: Alex, everything that Richard stated is very good advice. The length of the handle depends on what you like. You won't ever find out until you try a few to determine which feels best in your hand, unfortunately. You may just have to try a few to see which you like and then, you may change you mind after a few years.
This is very true. Richard gives a lot of excellent advice but ultimately, you'll have to do some trial and error yourself. In this hobby, it wasn't the razors, blades, creams and soaps that killed my credit card. It was the brushes, and I regret not a single moment of that learning curve.
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Can you recommend a 33mm slides scanner?
A friend of mine is looking for a scanner that will do a good job scanning 33mm slides. Not sure of his price range but I know it should be on the consumer end of things. Any tips or suggestions would be extremely helpful.
I have a Canon CanoScan 8600 that I am currently using to scan many years of 35 mm negatives to digital. This model is probably 4-5 years old, and Canon now has a 9000 model, that can probably be found for less than $200. On mine, the scanning dialog box requires some fiddling and tweaking to get it right, but once you get it where you want it, the images are very good, at least as good as the 4x6 prints you could get from MotoPhoto, et al. (I scan most of mine at 2400 dpi.) And, if there is a particular image that you really want to enlarge, you can always have one image scanned at much finer resolution. The nice thing about the 8800, and also the 9000 is that they use LED's, which don't require a warmup period, whereas mine uses a fluorescent light, which requires a bit to warm up to the proper temp. But it works well, although I'm an admitted Canon fan.
I have an HP scanner that is capable of scanning slides. It's a ScanJet 7400c and it seems to work but I don't think they make them anymore, I imagine they have a newer model with the same functionality though. There is also a device which you can buy that looks like a rather large projector but it doesn't connect to anything and it has two separate lenses. Essentially, you just point the projector into one side of it and then put a camera into the other side and record. My experience with it wasn't that great but I might have just had it set up improperly, it might work a bit better for what you need though. I believe it is called a Video Transfer. Here's the link http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1366&bih=605&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=all+in+one+video+transfer+ambico&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= . Otherwise, there are USB devices you plug into your computer which can transfer the slides/film digitally, I haven't had much luck with those either but then again, I might have had it set up the wrong way. Who knows. If none of those work you might just want to take the film to someone who specializes in film restoration and transfer. Hope this helps.
did you try any of these recommendations? Did they work for you?
| 2019-04-23T22:28:58 |
https://www.makeuseof.com/answers/recommend-33mm-slides-scanner/
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These are custom made adhesive stickers that are especially made on paper and can be used on surfaces like metal, glass or porcelain. Decal sticker is mainly used by companies for their marketing and also for personal use when individuals want to customize their laptops etc. Printed decals stickers are professionally cut by machines that trace out the shape of the sticker design. The material or paper used for decal stickers printing is mostly vinyl to increase the durability and lifetime of the sticker, as paper stickers are not water proof or weather resistant. Vinyl material is highly recommended for such usage rather than regular paper stickers.
This causes major confusion among customers, and they are unable to decide when they see so many options in front of them. The easiest way to remember is that stickers is an umbrella term that encompasses a lot of things while decal is a type of sticker. Stickers are made from paper, polyester, vinyl and many other materials. They can be waterproof, or made from paper that is not weather proof. Decal sticker is basically transferred from one surface to another; usually it has three to four layers for the ease and safety of transfer. It is used mainly for decorative purposes and can be made on clear vinyl or white vinyl surfaces. There are several options within this category pro-cut sticker and so on.
What are Decal Stickers used for?
You can use it to brighten up your laptop cover or cheer up the dull walls in your apartment. Decals printing can be customized as well as choose from ready made designs and style. Choose any size that suits you and any colors that you wish and place your order for decal stickers printing. There is nothing that cannot be printed on vinyl material, and in fact it can be cut into many shapes. It is the best option for temporary home decor, phone and laptop improvement. So let's make a big use of decal stickers for business as well as personal life.
Why should I choose RegaloPrint for Decal Sticker Printing?
There are so many online options for vinyl decal stickers printing, but there are very few you can trust. Home-based printers cannot be trusted for the reason that professional printers have a noticeably different printing quality in terms of the final colors and design. RegaloPrint uses state of the art technology, professional printers with best quality ink. This results in brighter, better and durable stickers printing. Also, beware of cheap stickers that can leave residue upon removal or can damage the surface of your device, wall or furniture. That will eventually lead you to cost more, so it is better to choose a more reasonably priced sticker printing company like RegaloPrint rather than a cheaper version.
Adding to more reasons why we will serve you best is that we have a panel of expert designers so you can choose from funny to minimalist designs, from matte texture to glossy! There is no stopping to the amount of customizing you can do when you choose us. Applying a decal can be tricky, so we recommend that you read all the details properly. You can call us at RegaloPrint at any time for assistance in decal application and removal.
| 2019-04-22T18:47:01 |
https://www.regaloprint.com/decal-sticker-printing.html
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Find out which this current NFL coach loved more: training for or actually running a marathon.
Have you run yet today?
Yeah. I did hills, I've been doing more trail running, 30-45 minutes of trail running a day. There are some neat trails here in Nashville. A lot of hills, a couple parks, trails.
How did you get into that? Were you sick of the roads?
I ran a marathon a few years ago. As part of the training, I would go over there and run there. And actually I got more into the trails after I ran the marathon than I was prior to it just because I think like most people when you run your first marathon, you get onto one of those 18-week training programs and go for it and follow it pretty closely.
So you don't know exactly the mileage on the trails, you run for time.
I run for time, yeah. I'm all about time. There's some pretty steep hills and switchbacks, stuff like that.
So how long have you been a runner? Did you run in high school?
I played football. I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years, high school, college and the NFL. I picked it up again, just running, after I retired from playing. My last year in the NFL was 1985.
So did you do it because you liked it or to stay in shape?
I've always liked to run. I did it from a conditioning standpoint, you know. I really enjoyed running, and I do it to stay in shape. I've been coaching for a lot of years now, the last 12 or 13 as a head coach, and it's important to be able to set time aside for that. It's a lot easier during the off-season than it is during the regular season. But I'll get three or four days in during the regular season. During the off-season, four or five days a week.
Do you go morning or evening?
I'll do both. With the job, it's easier for me to do it in the evening than it is in the morning because we typically start pretty early.
You're not fried by 7 or 8 at night?
No. If you gotta find time to get on the treadmill, I will. And I'll run every Sunday morning before the games, whether we're at home or on the road.
If you have a 1 p.m. kickoff, what time will you be heading out?
1 o'clock kickoff, it would be 7 a.m., 6 to 7 a.m., somewhere in there.
What are the best NFL cities for running?
There are some great cities. I love, oh wow, let's see. San Francisco, obviously, because we used to stay on the bay there. Let's see, Indianapolis is a good run. I enjoy running in Pittsburgh because you can get down to the river. Cincinnati you can get down to the river. I'm trying to think of some other good ones. Green Bay, but we don't stay in Green Bay, we stay in Appleton and that's a great run. We'll usually check with the concierge. We have a lot of runners in the organization-trainers and doctors will all run prior to the games.
So do you run by yourself or with some of the staff?
No. The players train differently.
So the marathon in 2002, you ran 4:09?
It was great. I'm still torn between whether I had more fun training for it or doing the actual race. The race was great, I really enjoyed it. It was an inspiration because of all the runners. There are hills here, and it was a challenge, about 25, especially going downhill into Shelby Bottoms. That was my biggest challenge. Your quads start tightening a little bit. I knew I was in for it - you're literally running trying to avoid people for the first 10 miles and then, because you don't want to trip anybody, that kind of thing, you're around people. Once I passed the turnoff to the half-marathon, it got quiet. Yeah. It was really neat.
So what made you decide to do that marathon?
I think the year prior to that, I got out and was feeling good and I just kept running. I got out over an hour and I just decided to see how far I could go. I picked up the training program and had some friends who had done it and just went for it.
What did your players say about it?
They didn't say much. They probably thought I was a little crazy. But I finished, that was the objective. I enjoyed the long runs leading up to it. Typically one a week I would have a long run on the program and it would get longer and longer. I did a 20 to 22 prior to running the marathon.
Any plans to do another one?
I've thought about it. Yeah, I will run another one. If my knees are good enough, I will do another one. I don't know when.
Where does finishing a marathon rank in your personal list of athletic achievements?
From a personal standpoint, it was an achievement; the whole process was exhilarating because I changed my diet and everything. The whole process, it has been a great memory for me. But what surprised me was how good I felt the next day. It seemed when I was done, in that noon hour, just sitting around postrace, unwinding, I went back, took a nap, it seemed like that span of time was about a week long, that day, that morning. But the next day, Sunday I swam and Monday I ran again without any problem.
You're the official spokesperson of the YMCA Country Music Kids' Marathon. How did you get involved with it?
Well, the promoters here in town, they put it together several years ago. Unfortunately, the Country Music Marathon usually falls right around the time of the NFL draft for us, the last weekend in April. So the last few years, I've elected not to run it. But several years ago I was invited to be at the finish line for the kids. And I'll continue to do it. That is really a great experience to see these kids finish. They start a month out and run a mile a day or something and so they'll complete their marathon, that final mile, at the finish line. So the kids in essence have run their marathon over a period of time and the final mile is at the finish line. There are four or five age groups and it's really fun. So we'll take pictures and high five them as they finish. It's loaded with parents, and both sides are just cheering them on, and the kids come around the corner, and we hold the tape up. It's a neat deal.
My kids are athletic, but they don't run.
Are there other races you'll hop into?
I've done several 10-Ks here in town for charity, but that's the extent of it.
Do you have time goals for yourself?
Sometimes it's time permitting, but the 30 to 45 minute time goal. Just enough.
Does it energize you? Relax you? What does it do for you?
Yeah, it relaxes. Chance to unwind a little bit, relax, you can go a lot longer in the day with exercise.
You've never had any running injuries?
Do you think about football when you're running?
I think about different things. Plan the next day. Whatever comes to mind.
I will take music with me most of the time. I have an iPod.
Anything and everything. From country western to classic rock to jazz.
Any specific song to get you going?
No. I'll vary it. A lot of Springsteen and you know, Don Henley, a lot of that stuff.
Have you ever had a running coach?
I just pulled it off the Internet.
Does running influence how you coach? Does being a distance runner make you a different coach than you'd be otherwise?
You know, I'll tell you, when you say distance running, I did run the marathon, I do run for exercise, but I don't see myself necessarily as a distance runner. I just love to run. I'm a recreational runner. Maybe I am. There's discipline, discipline associated with running. That's required.
Do you stretch, do yoga, lift weights?
I'll stretch. Did a lot of yoga when I was running the marathon. Don't do as much as I should, but I still do it. Light weights here and there, but stretching and running is about it.
Are there ever days when you don't feel like running?
Oh yeah, there are days when you don't feel like it. Those are the days you have to do it. Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do. Got that?
Do you run so you can eat or do you eat so you're a better runner?
When I was doing the marathon, I ate better, obviously, because it's important. I'm a good eater, but I do run for weight control. I'm fortunate it's not an issue, but I'll do it.
So you won't reward yourself with a piece of cheesecake because you had a good run?
So what's harder, running 26.2 miles or a 16-game NFL season? What's more physically grueling?
You know, I really enjoyed the run and I enjoy the season. But I do believe, that because of running, the season is easier, just from an emotional and pressure standpoint and a health standpoint.
Do you think a lot of NFL coaches run or are you the only one?
There's a lot of NFL coaches that do run, yes. Head coaches, assistant coaches. Unfortunately there becomes an age where it sometimes becomes prohibitive, a lot of coaches are former players, and because of injuries, they're not allowed to anymore.
So your players, for conditioning purposes, they'll never go out for a half an hour run?
I am a Nike runner.
Any special shorts or Tshirt you wear every time?
I wear the under Armour shirts.
Anything wacky ever happen to you on a run?
No, I've had the dog experience like most people. It didn't get me, but it's a surprise.
So what kind of pace do you think you're keeping?
I was at 9:13 pace in the marathon and depends how much time I've got, I'll push it a little faster, 8 and a half, nines, it really depends.
In the summertime, you're soaking wet.
I love running in the heat. I also like running in the 40 to 50 degree temperatures as well.
Is there anything you hate about running?
It's the first three to four minutes. Because that's where the kinks are getting worked out.
Who's the player you've coached or played with who's had the most endurance?
Wow. I know this: When I entered the league, there was a player who was leaving the league and he had a tremendous, tremendous career as a defensive lineman with the Minnesota Vikings and he finished with the Chicago Bears. His name was Alan Page. And Alan was quite undersized for the position. And his last year, which would have been my first year in Chicago, Alan trained and practiced and trained; he did everything expected of a football player. But in addition to that, he would go out and run distance either before or after practice. He had really gotten into running. That always stayed with me. To be able to play this long in the league, to be able to run and jump and distance run, it was a motivation for me. Because so many players in the league will play until they can't run anymore. And I was fortunate, I had a short career, I only played five years, but I made a commitment to myself when I went in that I wanted to be able to run when I got done playing.
So you're not going to race Vince Young [the Titans rookie quarterback] anytime soon?
But do you think if you had a two- or three-mile race, you'd beat most of your players?
Probably not. That's a hard thing to say. They're working so hard and they're in excellent shape. A three hundred pounder cannot run for 30 minutes. It's not a fun thing to do.
Do you counsel them to avoid heatstroke?
Heat and hydration and acclimation are major, major issues right now as we go into training camp.
Any strategies that you've learned?
I'm walking outside now, it's in the 90s. Prehydration and rehydration is absolutely essential.
Do you ever use anything from running as a motivational speech for your players?
No, really haven't. Just clears my mind, I love to exercise.
| 2019-04-25T15:54:33 |
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20837986/im-a-runner-jeff-fisher/
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What if the Great American novel turns out to be a piece of theatre? Heather Woodbury's astonishing What Ever may be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses. In scale and ambition , her.epic perhaps exceeds even Joyce.. for the show is an odyssey not for a city but for a sub-continent." A one-woman Cecil B. de Mille, Woodbury populates the stage with a host that represents in terms of age, ethnicity, social class and geography, the U.S. itself.
If the comparison with Joyce is excessive, it is not entirely misplaced. While no one would claim for Woodbury the Dubliner's literary genius, her script bubbles with the energy of real life. Her ear is superbly tuned to the diverse tones of American demotic speech. She has the ability to see the comedy in human peculiarities. And she connects with the Homeric origins of the story in a way that Joyce could not.
The great frustration for a critic covering the Galway Arts Festival is that the need to see other things makes it impossible to stick with Woodbury's epic. It unfolds in eight episodes over four nights. I saw Episode 3, Seeing Things and Episode 4, Quakes, and for all its complexity, What Ever is like a great soap opera. You want to know what happens next.
The story unfolds over nine months in 1994 and 1995. Woodbury's Odysseus is Skeeter, a sixteen year old boy who hitch-hikes across the U.S from his home in Portland, Oregon, first to visit his father in federal prison, then to land on his Aunt Jeanette in New York.
The core cast of characters clusters around two groups. There are Skeeter's family and friends: among them the California"rave babes" Clove and Sable, to whom he has jointly pledged his everlasting love.His aunt Jeanette, call-girl turned crystal healer is the hinge that links this group into the second cluster, her lover Paul, a 68-year old corporate high-flyer and his Virginia family:His Southern Belle wife, Polly, who has embarked on a passionate affair with a black man, and their tree-hugging daughter Sheila.
Touching on these two groups is the vivid prescence of jazz-age doyenne Violet, a salty patrician New Yorker, with an endless fund of stories about her numerous marriages and divorces and the wisdom that comes from having seen it all.
At every point around these characters Woodbury establishes the human landscape with fleeting but unforgettable encapsulations of human diversity: the bizarre man who gives Skeeter his last lift into New York; the Puerto Rican girl who tries to pick him up in New York; Violet's quietly skeptical cleaning lady and the Greek owners of the ratty diner she haunts;Paul's bumptious successor as head of the corporation, and many more. Each, from the homeless paranoiac to the fashion salesman is wildly funny and infinitely sad.
Woodbury's command as a performer is such that she kicks away the crutches that any mere mortal might use to support this sweeping story. There is no narrative voice, no one to link the scenes with helpful exposition. Neither are there props nor scenery beyond a few well-placed chairs.
And there doesn't have to be. She achieves the economy of effect that is the mark of artistic mastery. A pose, a wave of the hand, a puckering of the lips, a change of vocal gears, is all she requires. Like an exorcist in reverse, she seems able to be possessed at will.
Even more impressively, while she is conjuring up all of this vivid humanity, Woodbury is also constructing a larger political and social architecture, and undermining the official blandness of the self-image that the American media project to the rest of the world.
Woodbury's America is a haunted place, all desire and no memory, searching for redemption in the richness of human experience. In this new, even more American century, it is as urgently relevant as it is deliriouisly enjoyable.
| 2019-04-19T09:08:05 |
http://heatherwoodbury.com/abouthw/pressirishtimes.php
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Case: A problem encountered in the international/global arena.
1. Define international business and explain terms and concepts related to international business and marketing.
2. Compare and contrast the types of economic systems.
3. List characteristics that define the various levels of economic development of countries.
4. Explain the impact international business has on consumers, business, and countries.
5. Define terms such as inflation, gross domestic product (GDP), purchasing power parity (PPP), balance of trade, foreign debt, and cost of living.
6. Discuss the role the United States has played in international trade throughout history.
7. Describe the decision-making process, opportunity costs, and scarcity as they relate to international business situations.
8. Identify major trading regions and nations within those regions.
9. Discuss the effect of literacy level, technology, natural resource availability, and infrastructure on the level of a country’s economic development.
10. Identify the impact of geography on international business, including factors such as climate; time zones; distance; topography; and social, economic, and natural resources.
11. Describe how concepts (e.g., ethnocentrism, culture, social institutions, stereotyping, and cultural bias) affect conducting international business.
12. Compare and contrast international and domestic business and marketing activities.
15. Evaluate how the political environment and geographic location of a given country impact international business and how business operates.
16. Identify international trade partners and describe the trading patterns of companies based on region, state, and country.
1. Identify types of ownership of selected businesses involved in international trade.
2. Analyze the importance of entrepreneurs in an international market.
3. Describe different organizational structures that a company might use in the international environment.
4. Identify how the managing functions (e.g., planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling) affect international operations and productions.
5. Identify distinctive social and cultural factors that affect business activities (e.g., time, workday, workweek, schedules, and holidays).
6. Determine appropriate business strategies for operating in foreign market situations such as pure competition, monopoly, and oligopoly.
7. Identify risks and rewards related to doing business in a foreign market.
8. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of expansion into international business activities for a given business.
9. Identify how various economic systems influence what is produced, how it is produced, and for whom it is produced.
10. Explain how social, cultural, and political factors affect the new product development process.
11. List factors that affect international business competition.
12. Describe various opportunities for conducting international business (e.g. licensing, exporting, franchising, and joint ventures).
13. Identify organizations, government agencies, and other resources that a small or medium-sized business might use to investigate international business opportunities.
14. Describe the role and purpose of the International Organization for Standardization.
15. Assess the impact of quality management standards, especially ISO 9000 and QS 9000, on the international business community.
1. Define international marketing and apply technical words that pertain to international marketing.
3. Illustrate how social, cultural, technological, and geographic factors influence consumer buying behavior in different cultures.
4. Describe how language, culture, media availability, and regulations affect international advertising and marketing.
6. List the importance of marketing research and describe data collection methods appropriate for various international marketing research situations.
7. Define the steps in the marketing research process—from defining a problem to communicating results.
9. Explain how product packaging is affected by culture and how it may need to be altered before the product is marketed in a new environment.
10. Explain quality standards as they relate to product development and packaging.
11. Describe how the product life cycle can be affected in an international business environment.
13. Explain how currency exchange rates, economic conditions, and the international business environment affect prices charged in international markets.
14. Identify differences in the roles of agents, wholesalers, retailers, freight forwarders, export companies, trading companies, and customs’ brokers.
15. Contrast direct and indirect distribution channels for international marketing.
16. Discuss the factors in determining the appropriate mode of transportation for international shipments (e.g., cost, time, size, and perishability).
17. Describe shipping terms (e.g., FOB and CIF) and explain the purpose of shipping documents used for transporting products to other countries.
18. Explain how political risks can disrupt selling and buying across borders.
19. Design a marketing strategy for selling a product or a service in an international market.
1. Define terms related to international finance.
2. List sources of capital for international, transnational, multinational, and global companies.
3. Explain how a business finances trade with a business in another country.
4. Analyze the global impact of the stock and bond markets.
5. Identify countertrade, offset, and noncash transactions in world trade.
6. Describe the international monetary system, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
7. Identify essential components of payment documents used in payment for international trade activities.
8. Critically examine equity and debt capital and their use in international businesses.
9. Compare the international financial institutions and markets.
10. Identify the risks associated with international business activities (e.g., commercial, political, and foreign exchange) and discuss strategies to minimize this risk.
11. Describe the impact of direct foreign investment on local economics.
1. Describe information systems and communications for international business.
2. Define terms such as culture, multiculturalism, stereotyping, and cultural bias and their effects on conducting business internationally.
3. Compose effective business communications based on an understanding of the differences in tone, style, and format of other countries.
4. Identify examples of nonverbal communications affecting international business relationships and negotiations.
5. Discuss complications involved when speaking, writing, or interpreting a language incorrectly (introductions, American jargon).
6. Identify distinctive social and cultural factors that affect business activities/etiquette in a multicultural environment (e.g. gender, time, schedules, holidays, gifts, and attire).
7. Compare the business protocol of various countries (e.g., involvement of subpopulations—women and minorities; gift giving).
9. Describe the role and use of electronic communication tools (e.g., video and computer conferencing, Webcasts, podcasting, and blogging) in international business activities.
10. Analyze the effect of security measures and practices related to electronic business communication.
1. 1. Describe the economic effects of foreign trade.
2. Identify activities and risks associated with importing and exporting.
3. Discuss the benefits to countries for entering into trade agreements.
5. Recognize the government’s role and assistance in international trade.
7. Discuss why governments impose trade barriers (e.g., quotas, tariffs, licensing requirements, and exchange rate controls) and offer trade incentives.
8. Describe several international trade agreements and organizations (e.g., WTO GATT, EU, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR).
9. Analyze the effects of a trade barrier on the company, product category, and economics involved in a specific transaction.
11. Identify information and sources of financial assistance for facilitating the import/export process.
12. Define procedures and documentation associated with foreign trade and the transportation of goods.
13. Discuss how companies comply with U.S. customs regulations related to their product or service.
1. Recognize the legal issues related to managing a business in the global environment.
2. Describe the difference between the legal systems of various countries and the U.S. (e.g., codes, statutes, and common law).
3. Recognize legal differences in areas such as consumer protection, product guidelines, labor laws, contract formulation, liability, and taxation for various countries.
4. Appraise the protection provided to businesses by the components of international law.
5. Analyze the major legal aspects and ramifications of international relations with special emphasis on topics such as financial systems and reporting, licensing, judicial systems, and repatriation.
6. Identify the levels of regulation applied intellectual properties (e.g., copyrights, trademarks, and patents) in different countries.
7. Define methods for resolving legal differences (e.g. mediation, arbitration, and litigation) in different cultures.
1. Describe the different living and working conditions found in various countries.
4. Assess the impact of various occupational health and safety standards on conducting international business.
5. Analyze methods used to resolve management-labor conflicts in different cultures/countries.
6. Explain the advantages and disadvantages to a company of having access to a global labor pool.
3. Explain how a country’s culture, history, and politics can influence ethical decisions.
4. Identify current and emerging ethical issues in the global business environment.
7. Analyze the effect of an international business organization’s actions on a host country, the company’s home country, owners, employees, consumers, and society.
3. Describe the role of federal and state agencies and other agencies and organizations that provide export information and assistance.
4. Discuss the impact of inflation and tax structures on international business decisions.
1. Identify factors that affect the value of currency and calculate foreign exchange rates of various currencies.
2. Explain how currency exchange rates affect international trade and business transactions.
3. Distinguish between currencies (e.g., floating versus fixed and convertible versus nonconvertible).
4. Explain how fluctuating currency and interest rates affect international trade.
2. Use technology and international travel resources to access information on international travel (e.g., travel restrictions and health requirements, transportation, travel documents, etc.).
3. Identify the requirements for securing travel and employment documents.
4. Identify and locate major U.S. representational offices and sources of assistance located abroad.
5. Explain the role of U.S. Customs and the customs agencies of other countries.
6. Assess risk involved in international business travel.
1. Identify sources of international career information.
2. Research and analyze career opportunities in international business.
3. Describe the skills and qualifications needed for success in the international business career path.
4. Compare the application, interview, and hiring practices of various cultures.
| 2019-04-18T13:19:20 |
https://www.fbla-pbl.org/competitive-event/global-business/
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While trying to start the game, I get the error message "Please insert the first Syberia 2 CD-ROM and relaunch the game." even if the first Syberia 2 CD is in the CD-ROM drive.
It is not that these software do not work with the protection software, it is just that the emulation option needs to be turned OFF in these software titles to prevent the protected product launching from the virtual drives. If turning off the emulation does not work, then please uninstall any of the software listed, and the game should run with no problem.
Please be sure that no other programs are running in the background. This includes programs that have icons on the task tray such as virus scanners and other such programs. Also, disable any auto-update programs such as that included in WindowsXP.
THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE ONLY MEANT FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING THE PROBLEMS DESCRIBED ON THIS PAGE. IF YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT RELATED TO THE CD1 ERROR PROMPT, DO NOT SEND MICROIDS AN NFO FILE.
Generate an NFO file by following these instructions and send the resulting file to [email protected] with the subject "SYB2 NFO FILE".
Start\Program\Run\winmsd. This will bring his system configuration details with hardware and software information on the screen. Save as “nfo” file from the top menu and send the nfo file to [email protected] with the subject "SYB2 NFO FILE"
Start\Program\Run\msinfo32. This will bring his system configuration details with hardware and software information on the screen. Select Save as “nfo” file from the top menu and send the nfo file to [email protected] with the subject "SYB2 NFO FILE"
| 2019-04-22T16:29:50 |
http://www.syberia.microids.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10&p=10
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1) Butter a half-sheet pan (about 30 by 44cm), line it with parchment paper, and butter the parchment paper. Set aside.
2) Bring the vegetable stock, salt, white pepper and cayenne to a boil in a medium saucepan over a high heat. With the stock boiling gradually pour in the polenta, while whisking constantly. After the polenta is incorporated, reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook, stirring constantly, until the polenta is thick, about 5 minutes. Add the cheese and stir until melted.
3) Spread the polenta in an even layer about 1cm thick over the prepared pan and refrigerate until set and firm, at least 1 hour.
4) Turn the piece of polenta out onto a clean cutting board. Using a 3cm round or square cutter, cut the sheet into small cakes. Pour the flour onto a plate and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Dredge the cakes in the seasoned flour.
5) Heat the olive oil in a large skillet and fry the cakes, in batches, until golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove from the pan and drain on a paper towel-lined plate.
1) Bring the smoked turkey stock to a boil in a medium saucepan over a high heat. Add the greens and adjust the heat to maintain a simmer. Cook, stirring occasionally, until greens are tender and liquid has evaporated, about 1 hour. Remove from the heat and add the cider vinegar.
2) Top each polenta cake with some of the braised greens and serve.
1) Bring 3.3L of water to a boil in a large pot. Add all the ingredients, reduce the heat, and simmer for 1 hour. Strain the broth into a large bowl or plastic container.
2) If not using the stock immediately, fill the sink up with ice water to come about halfway up the sides of the container. Nestle the broth in the cold bath and stir it periodically to cool it down. Cover and refrigerate for up to 5 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
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If Avenatti had corroborating statements from them, I'm sure he would have released them. Nor does she allege that Kavanaugh ever sexually assaulted her in any other instance. More than a week ago, a lawyer and friend of Debra Katz, who is representing Christine Blasey Ford , emailed dozens of women who attended a local D.C.
No resemblance to #Mandela at all. Buhari observed that even though the world is facing diverse challenges ranging from conflicts, climate change, terrorism, desertification, poverty, arms trafficking and extremism among others, it is a time of great hope and renaissance if inspiration is drawn from Mandela whose lifestyle he said symbolized uncommon humility, compassion, courage and forgiveness.
The bodies of a United Kingdom millionaire and his Thai wife have been found in northern Thailand almost a week after what police suspect was a contract killing. Over the weekend, police Major-General Sanpat Praputsra told reporters that investigators were "certain" that the disappearances were connected to a "long-standing conflict within the family" and that they were "confident" the culprit would be brought to justice.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) may have gone down by just one spot but, in the process, it has been knocked off its perch as Asia's top university by China's Tsinghua University in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings .
It's happened to me many times . I've had many false charges. "And they know it's a big fat con job , and they go into a room and I guarantee you they laugh like hell and what they've pulled off on you". "I didn't expect that reaction, but that's OK", he said. "Can you imagine if you didn't have me?" But he added: 'What I know is I've never sexually assaulted anyone, ' a remarkable assertion for a nominee to the nation's highest court.
Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexual and physical assault during their high school years at a party in the early 1980s. Mr Avenatti declined to expand on the allegation in an interview on ABC's The View, saying he would not add detail beyond what was in the statement.
China and Taiwan split in 1949 after Chaing Kai-shek's Nationalist forces were driven off the mainland by Mao Zedong's Communists and sought refuge on the island of Taiwan. "It will also give Taiwan's people more confidence in facing increasing security challenges in the region and ensure that our country has enough of a capability to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait", he said.
More surprising was the chiding from allies. "Perhaps because we're able to keep this multilateral framework (nuclear deal ), avoid the worst and act as a mediator, while the USA sanctions create pressure and reduce the amount of money available for Iran's expansionism, that can accelerate the process we want", French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters.
The controversial cyber-sleuths claimed on Wednesday that one of the men named by the United Kingdom as a suspect in the " chemical attack " on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury this March is actually a colonel in Russian special forces.
During his speech , Trump stated that his administration has accomplished more in its two years than any other administration in the country's history. Trump pulled the United States out of the internationally brokered accord in May, although European allies and Iran have pledged their continued commitment to the agreement, which lifted sanctions in return for curbs in Tehran's nuclear program.
The Justice Department referred questions about the scheduling of the meeting to the White House. After all, Trump told Geraldo Rivera in an interview set to air Monday that he wouldn't fire Rosenstein until he had "all of the facts". Trump has been dogged with accusations of obstruction of justice ever since he fired FBI Director James Comey in an attempt to stop the investigation.
Some have interpreted Trump's comments as leaving the door open for military action, but, back in Washington, senior American military leaders indicate there is no active planning for a USA military intervention there. The U migration and refugees organisations said in a joint statement in August that 2.3 million Venezuelans are now living overseas and more than 1.6 million have left since 2015.
Julie Swetnick said in a statement released by her lawyer that the events took place at parties she attended while a high school student in suburban Maryland. During a Senate hearing on Thursday, one accuser, Christine Blasey Ford , will testify about an alleged 1982 incident in which she said Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both of them were in high school.
China on Tuesday urged the United States to cancel the proposed $330-million (around Rs 2,300 crore) arms deal to Taiwan , accusing the sale of "severely violating the worldwide law". On Saturday, China summoned the US ambassador in Beijing and postponed joint military talks in protest against a USA decision to sanction a Chinese military agency and its director for buying Russian fighter jets and a surface-to-air missile system.
Kavanaugh, who has strongly denied the charge, will separately appear at the hearing . Kavanaugh, 53, said on the conservative-friendly Fox News Channel that he wasn't questioning that his initial accuser, psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford , may have been sexually assaulted in her life.
China did not immediately respond to the remarks by Trump, who was chairing the Council meeting. A representative from China who attended the meeting could be seen coughing into his hand and shrugging as the president spoke. While Iran has made clear that it has little interest in opening talks with the United States following Washington's abrogation of the nuclear deal, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Trump in June about his nuclear program.
Michael Avenatti , most famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her case against President Donald Trump , has said that he is now representing clients with claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh , which he will make public within 48 hours.
The vast majority were in favour of the motion, with only a small number against. Many in the Labour Party have warned that a second referendum would alienate the 35 percent of party voters who cast ballots for the Leave campaign. But there were signs of dissent within the party. "Many people will wonder whether Sir Keir is trying to line himself up as the Remain replacement for Jeremy".
Earlier, after a hearing that lasted 38 days spanning four months, the Supreme Court had on May 10 reserved its verdict on a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law. "We are also happy about the fact the Court has made it clear that Govt can not obtain without permission from the court", Mr. Sibal said. Striking down Section 57 of Aadhaar Act, SC said private companies can not insist on Aadhaar data.
In an interview with the New Yorker published on Sunday, Ramirez said Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her at a party there in the early 1980s. Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky accused Democrats of rushing to convict Kavanaugh and "destroy his good name" with unproven allegations, abandoning any presumption of innocence - a bedrock principle of American jurisprudence.
Europe's continued commitment to the nuclear deal has also widened the rift between the US and its allies, as leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have publicly criticized Trump for pulling out of the deal. "And until that happens, we will continue to exert what the president has called 'maximum pressure, '" Trump's national security advisor John Bolton told reporters in NY on Monday.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn , formerly an outspoken European Union critic who voted against EEC membership in 1975, told Sky News earlier in the day that Starmer was right to say that that "nobody is ruling out remain", saying: "If they don't meet them then we will vote against it".
Wilson was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Houston early Sunday morning and was transported and booked into the jail located in Houston , with a bond set at $150,000. Not long after their alleged encounter, she told a counselor at the Center for Child Protection about it and they reported it to police. And, in one message, "Sanjuro" identified himself as Cody Wilson , police said.
Sunday will bring scattered showers again as the front stalls out over our area. Temperatures will be in the mid/upper 70s for highs. "Temperatures will be warmer than we saw on Monday , but still fairly cool given the cloud cover", forecasters said.
A threatened rebellion from Brexiteer ministers demanding that Mrs May seek a looser, Canada-style deal with the European Union failed to materialise after she told colleagues to hold their nerve in the face of opposition from Brussels. "In those circumstances the prime minister would then want to renegotiate along the lines of a free trade agreement, but far better that she pivots to that free trade agreement now before trying to take Chequers to the House of Commons and losing".
Jacinda Ardern kisses her baby before speaking at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in NY. The premier was photographed kissing and bouncing up and down daughter Neve in the main assembly hall next to partner Clarke Gayford , at a plenary meeting known as the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit , which she also addressed.
The European Union said Monday (Sep 24) its members would set up a payment system to allow oil companies and businesses to continue trading with Iran in a bid to evade sanctions after the USA withdrew from a nuclear agreement. The value of Iran's currency, the rial, has been damaged by the new United States policy. Media captionUS-Iran sanctions: What do they mean? The US maintains a fleet in the Gulf that protects oil shipping routes.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told TASS on Monday that he hopes his country's decision to provide S-300 air defense systems to Syria won't spoil Russian-Israeli relations. The Syrian military had been trying to target four Israeli jets that were conducting raids near the Mediterranean Sea. Its unsophisticated air defence missiles instead hit a Russian Il-20 surveillance plane, killing all 15 servicemen onboard.
Some outlets say he has been fired , while others say offered his resignation . In an interview this morning with Geraldo Rivera, however, Trump said "I haven't gotten all the facts, but certainly it's being looked at in terms of what took place", when asked about possibly firing Rosenstein .
Just a year ago, the United States and North Korea were publicly speaking of a nuclear confrontation but Mr Trump had historic first talks with Mr Kim in June. Pompeo says, "We're bringing the two senior leaders, the individuals who can actually make the decisions that will move this process forward", in hopes they can make a breakthrough.
If immigrants forego enrolling in public benefits because of the new regulation, it could lead to "increased rates of poverty and housing instability" and "worse health outcomes", the proposal states. The new rules would extend those measures to non-cash benefits, such as food stamps and housing vouchers, which are considered "heavily weighed negative factors" in obtaining legal permanent status.
Beijing's long-held insistence that it must approve the appointments in China clashed with absolute papal authority to pick bishops. With the status of the seven bishops now reconciled, the Vatican said all bishops in China are now in communion with Rome - even though the Catholic community in China is still split between Catholics who belong to the official Chinese church and those in the underground church who remained loyal to the pope.
The United States on Thursday blacklisted 33 Russian nationals and three entities in a new round of sanctions for the Russian interference in the 2016 election. "CAATSA sanctions in this context are not meant to undermine the defense capabilities of any particular country". "They are instead aimed at imposing costs upon Russian Federation in response to its malign activities", the official said.
In another video, Gosar's sister Grace says , "It would be hard to see my brother as anything but a racist", according to the Phoenix New Times . Brill told the newspaper that while Paul's siblings are 'really upstanding, wonderful people, ' he has not yet met them and was not involved in the making of the ads so that he would not influence their testimonials.
Christine Blasey Ford and their belief in her accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 20, 2018. Republicans have largely stood by Kavanaugh's denials. "Very hard for me to imagine that anything happened". "He is a fine man with an unblemished past and these are highly unsubstantiated statements from people represented by lawyers", Trump said in comments broadcast on CNN.
We've always stood by that. The nation's President, Hassan Rouhani , vowed Tehran's response to the deadliest attack on Iranian soil for years would be "crushing" while implying the USA had a part to play. "I think the Iranian people have had enough". Earlier, Rouhani used the occasion of the military parades to compare President Donald Trump to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Press TV reported.
Members of the crowd reportedly chanted "death to Israel and America". This muted stance was in contrast to that of other nations, which had offered their sympathies to the victims and condemnation of the attack, with several ambassadors in Tehran writing their own personal messages, while heads of state such as Russian President Vladimir Putin released official statements.
After a resident found the snake, a state herpetologist brought the snake to the Wildlife Center of Virginia on Thursday for an examination. According to J.D. "It appears as though the left head is more dominant - it's generally more active and responsive to stimulus", a spokesperson for the veterinary hospital said.
Author Ronan Farrow is standing by his bombshell New Yorker story of another sexual assault alleged against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a report from The New York Times cast doubt on it. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said the panel would " attempt to evaluate these new claims " but did not publicly respond to a call by Sen.
Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, worked lonely shifts as a lamp keeper for a floating fish trap, locally known as " rompong ", 80 miles off the coast of Indonesia's North Sulawesi. "After he ran out of the cooking gas, he burned the rompong's wooden fences to make a fire for cooking", he was quoted as saying. More than once, the teen's hopes of rescue were renewed at the sight of a passing ship.
Guyger was sacked during a hearing held Monday after an Internal Affairs investigation concluded that she engaged in adverse conduct, according to a message posted on the Twitter account for the Dallas Police Department. She lived on the third floor, but mistook Jean's fourth floor residence for hers, according to the arrest warrant affidavit obtained by the Dallas Morning News .
Moscow says Israeli F-16 planes which struck Latakia in western Syria on September 17 later used the landing Russian Il-20 surveillance plane as 'cover, ' which resulted in the larger Il-20 being hit by a Syrian missile. The reconnaissance plane's downing "was indeed preceded by a chain of tragic accidents", Peskov said, but this chain was set in motion "largely by the deliberate actions of Israeli pilots".
Rosenstein denied the report. According to reports, senior Republicans have convinced a furious Mr Trump not to axe Mr Rosenstein, at least until the midterms are over for fear of negative blowback from voters. Trump and his supporters argue the Justice Department has run amok with "bias" and abuse of power, which they say includes inappropriate snooping on Trump's campaign in 2016.
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Stephen Mumford, David Armstrong, Acumen, 2007, 206pp., $22.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781844651009.
One obvious task for an introductory text concerning the work of a particular philosopher is to express the central ideas of that philosopher in as clear a manner as possible. When it comes to several recent and contemporary philosophers, this task, I am pleased to say, presents something of a challenge, precisely because the source material is itself already so perspicuous. This is especially true of the work of David Armstrong. Why, one might think, would one recommend someone else's writing on Armstrong when one could recommend reading Armstrong himself?
This is, nonetheless, a challenge to which Mumford rises with great success. He manages to condense Armstrong's thinking while maintaining (or even improving on) the clarity of the original. Of course, the perspicuous presentation of the target's arguments is not all that such a book can or should do. It should also aim to chart the development of its subject's thought, to delineate and explain its unity, where that exists, and to introduce the reader to the principal criticisms and debates. Mumford performs these tasks very effectively, with an open admiration for Armstrong's work, yet with an honest appraisal of the objections it faces. In the latter, Mumford mirrors Armstrong's own openness to criticism and pleasure in philosophical debate.
Armstrong is a systematic thinker. A key theme in Mumford's book is Armstrong's naturalism. The latter is, to start with, a commitment to providing a metaphysics suitable for natural science. A sense that the needs of science, of physics in particular, should not only constrain, but also, in a very general way, direct our metaphysics is much more palpable in Armstrong's work than it is in the work of David Lewis. This becomes clear in the more specific articulation of naturalism as the claim that all that there is is contained within the (one and only) spacetime system. As such this looks like a straight metaphysical thesis for which there should be straight metaphysical arguments. Mumford makes clear that naturalism is distinct from the epistemological thesis of empiricism, here understood as the thesis that knowledge of existence is a posteriori (so the existence of universals is not decided a priori but by empirical science). Yet, as Mumford also brings out, the argument for naturalism proceeds by appeal to the Eleatic principle that we can never have good reason to believe in anything that has no causal power. In which case, naturalism takes on an epistemological character after all.
A different question for Armstrong's naturalism asks about its own status. Is the appeal to 'the spacetime system' itself an inevitable part of physics? Would the commitment to naturalism change if what we think of as the spacetime system turns out itself to have evolved from something quite different? It is not obvious that a final theory of everything will have to have spacetime as a fundamental entity. Likewise, turning to the Eleatic principle, it is not obvious that we should expect to find causation at the level of fundamental physics, and indeed the lesson many take from quantum entanglement and other phenomena is that causation is a macro-phenomenon. One may speculate that Armstrong would go with whatever the physics tells us. Mumford distinguishes physicalism from naturalism, since physicalism is the claim that all there is in the spacetime system are physical things governed by physical laws. We can accept things that physics does not talk about directly so long as these are reducible to the physical things -- as such they are an ontological free lunch. So Armstrong takes this as requiring, on the one hand, the reduction of intentional mental states and, on the other hand, the elimination of numbers, possible worlds, and supernatural beings. One might wonder why one could not let through the existence of numbers and sets as an extreme case of an ontological free lunch -- the free lunch one gets with absolutely everything (and nothing).
Armstrong's naturalism and use of the Eleatic principle crop up in a number of places -- for example in the rejection of Platonic, transcendent realism about universals. For my money the problem of transcendence -- how such a universal engages with the particulars bearing the property in question -- is no worse than the problem faced by the Aristotelian, immanent realist, in explaining how one item can be multiply located. Armstrong's naturalism makes the latter a lesser crime.
After expositing Armstrong's view of universals, Mumford moves naturally on to the laws of nature. A central part of his metaphysics, Armstrong's nomic necessitation view of laws has received many attacks, initially from defenders of Humean regularity views (who had had things all their own way until Armstrong, Dretske, and Tooley came onto the scene) and more recently from proponents of an ontology of powers (potencies). While the former objected to the introduction of a contingent kind of necessitation, the latter felt it did not go far enough -- that the necessitation in laws should be metaphysical. Armstrong's N seems to sit uncomfortably between contingency and necessity. That said, Mumford remarks on Armstrong's very interesting argument in favour of his view over the regularity view in connection with Hume's problem of induction. Armstrong sometimes seems to suggest that the regularity theory is the source of the problem of induction and that correspondingly nomic necessitation solves that problem, and this is also the impression that Mumford gives. Yet this seems implausible, since the kicker in Hume's argument is the circularity of justifying induction by induction, and that aspect is not addressed at all in the regularity-necessitation debate. That problem, for many epistemologists, is resolved by appealing to some kind of externalist epistemology, such as Armstrong's own reliabilism. It seems to me that what is going on is something different. It is not that the regularity theory invites the problem of induction, but nomic necessitation does not. Rather, they both do, but the regularity theory means that nothing will solve the problem of induction, not even some fancy epistemology. Imagine a genuinely accidental regularity whose instances include items in the future. That, we may think, cannot be known for Armstrong's reasons -- there is nothing tying the instances together. That's true even with a non-Humean reliabilist epistemology. Armstrong's complaint against the regularity theory is that the same would hold for laws if they too were regularities. The law versus accidental regularity distinction has no significant metaphysical content for the regularity theorist (the difference is not intrinsic); the difference between a law and an accident, i.e. deducibility from an optimal system, is not enough to tie the instances of the law together. Thus it is not that the nomic necessitarian solves the problem of induction while the regularity theorist does not. Rather it is that it is impossible for the regularity theorist to solve it whereas it is at least possible that the necessitarian can. Another interesting corollary of Armstrong's view of the epistemology of laws (which is inference to the best explanation) is that we are better justified in inferring <it is a law that all Fs are Gs> than in inferring <all Fs are Gs> with no commitment to whether there is a law that all Fs are Gs. This seems to conflict with the thought that one is always more justified in believing the logically weaker of two propositions when one entails the other. Yet the idea that one can know a regularity to be true only if one knows the corresponding law to be true is an important and attractive one that deserves renewed attention.
After the first chapter on naturalism, setting out Armstrong's fundamental philosophical commitments, Mumford's book continues with chapters on the metaphysical issues for which Armstrong is currently best known -- universals, laws of nature, dispositions, and states of affairs. Mumford then returns to an earlier period in Armstrong's career, when he was concerned principally with issues in the philosophy of mind and perception (chapters on sensation and perception, the metaphysics of mind, and knowledge and belief). It may be news to more than a few that Armstrong started as a Berkeley scholar. Yet this interest exemplifies one of Mumford's themes: that Armstrong's metaphysical work originates in thinking that was a natural response to questions in the philosophy of perception. Berkeley himself shows how metaphysical and perceptual questions may be related. Armstrong was particularly interested in the sense of touch. One point that Mumford notes in particular is Armstrong's claim that the perception of pressure is the direct perception of causal power. This is a claim that will be put to use later in explaining how we can have knowledge of nomic necessitation (which Armstrong takes to be the same second order relation as causation). Mumford shows how Armstrong eschewed Berkeleyan phenomenalism and Lockean indirect realism, and opted for direct realism. But in order to defend that position, Armstrong had to respond to the argument from illusion. This is where Armstrong introduces his account of perceptual experience in terms of belief. Hallucinations and at least some other illusions are to be understood on the model of false belief. However, one might know full well that a certain experience is non-veridical (e.g. one knows from past occurrences that one's hallucinations of a pink elephant are the effect of the need for a drink and not the effect of the presence of a brightly-coloured pachyderm). In such cases the subject has the hallucination as if p but does not believe p. Armstrong's response is that the hallucination is not the belief itself but rather a disposition to believe. This is one of the sources of Armstrong's later metaphysical interest in dispositions.
Dispositions, and the distinction between a disposition and its manifestations, are also central to Armstrong's A Materialist Theory of Mind. Behaviourism seeks to analyse mental phenomena in terms of behaviour alone. Armstrong regards this as denying any room for anything like an inner mental life, whereas this is permitted by the dispositional view of mental states. On the other hand naturalism calls for a rejection of dualism and the adoption of some kind of materialist approach. Armstrong's view is a type-type identity account, although this faces now familiar problems, the first being the problem of multiple realizability and the second being the fact that Armstrong thinks that the identity theory is contingently true (dualism is possible, but actually false). Mumford rightly puts pressure on the second point in particular. Armstrong's response that the physical state description is not a rigid designator is problematic. Nonetheless, his willingness to contemplate the token-token identity view does provide an answer to the first, multiple realizability problem. (And arguably it provides an answer to the second problem also, although such views now face the causal over-determination problems identified by Kim.) Mumford goes on to explain how the naturalistically crucial explanation of intentionality requires a subtle holistic account of perception and intentionality. These are issues addressed further in Belief, Truth, and Knowledge. Mumford gives a sympathetic account of this very important book, notable for its early articulation of epistemological reliabilism; he then uses the cue of truth to return to metaphysical issues, now focussing on recent developments in Armstrong's thought, especially those that concern truthmaking and necessity (which form the topics of Mumford's final two chapters).
Mumford reminds us that the truthmaking idea is present in Armstrong's work from early on -- the rejection of Ryle's phenomenalism about dispositions is an application of the idea that a true claim about the dispositions of a person or thing requires some fact or other to be the truthmaker for that claim. Every disposition needs a categorical basis, so that the object's possessing this categorical basis is the truthmaker for the dispositional claim; in the case of a mental disposition it is some brain state that furnishes the truthmaker. Mumford presents Armstrong's last book Truth and Truthmakers as the capstone of his metaphysical work (Mumford tells us that Armstrong does not plan any further books). We are given helpful sketches of Armstrong's responses to various problems for truthmaking -- negative and general truths, necessary truth, and so forth. The latter allows Armstrong to round off his naturalistic project with an account of mathematical truth.
It would be natural to end this book with the chapter on truthmaking. Yet Armstrong has continued to think about many of the same problems, willing to look at new angles on them, and engaging generously with the work of younger philosophers inspired by his work but sometimes critical of it (Mumford himself being a prime example). In Truth and Truthmakers Armstrong returns to the problem of instantiation in response to work by Donald Baxter, and proposes an understanding of instantiation as partial identity. Mumford concludes his book by exploring the consequences of this view for Armstrong's system, consequences that are radical indeed, involving a rethinking, for example, of the commitment to contingentism and Hume's dictum that there is no necessitation between distinct existences.
Mumford's book gives not only a sympathetic introduction to Armstrong's thought, but also affords a very useful overview of that thought and its systematic connections. At the same time it conveys the verve of Armstrong's philosophy, and will be a very welcome companion to Armstrong's thought for anyone interested in metaphysics, from student to professional.
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Below is a WSJ article. It may be difficult to understand, but it says that a part of the credit market is collapsing and that it will have dire consequences for the economy.
LONDON -- A recent rash of bank failures is wreaking havoc on a large but little-known corner of the credit markets, in a development that could mean more write-downs for banks and higher borrowing costs for companies everywhere.
Even as some lending markets begin to recover from last month's demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the securities firm's default -- together with those of other U.S. and European banks -- is causing new dislocations in the multitrillion-dollar market for complex investments known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations.
That could mean trouble for banks, hedge funds and insurance firms around the world, which used synthetic CDOs as a way to invest in diversified portfolios of companies without actually buying those companies' bonds. Many synthetic CDOs contain a heavy dose of exposure to financial companies, including Lehman, U.S. thrift Washington Mutual Inc. and recently nationalized Icelandic banks Glitnir Bank hf, Kaupthing Bank hf and Landsbanki Islands hf.
As a result, the users of synthetic CDOs are facing a wave of credit-rating downgrades and outright losses, which are coming to light gradually as ratings firms pore over hundreds of individual synthetic-CDO deals. In one early sign of the potential impact, Belgian bank KBC last week announced a —��1.6 billion ($2.15 billion) write-down on its —��9 billion synthetic-CDO portfolio after Moody's Investors Service downgraded some of the deals it held.
Meanwhile, hedge funds and other investors are heading for the exits amid worries about how bad the losses and downgrades will be, causing the market value of synthetic CDOs to slide. Dealers are offering about 50 cents on the dollar or less for some pieces of synthetic CDOs that used to be rated triple-A, according to one trader. That is down from about 60 cents on the dollar only three weeks ago.
"We've seen some hedge funds trying to get out of positions, and that's rattling credit markets," said Laurent Gueunier, head of structured corporate credit at AXA Investment Managers in Paris.
As opposed to regular CDOs, which contain actual bonds, synthetic CDOs provide income to investors by selling insurance against debt defaults, typically on a pool of a hundred or so companies or individual bonds. Given the size of the market, synthetic CDOs can have a large impact: By various estimates, they have sold insurance on the equivalent of between $1.25 trillion and $6 trillion in bonds.
When investors attempt to get out of synthetic CDOs, they push up the cost of default insurance. That, in turn, raises the cost of borrowing for companies, which use the cost of default insurance as a guide when deciding what interest rate they must pay on new bonds.
As of Monday, the average cost of $10 million in default insurance on highly rated North American companies stood at $191,000 annually, up from $128,500 at the end of September, according to the Markit CDX index. For European companies, the cost has risen to —��144,000 from —��121,000 to insure —��10 million in debt, according to the Markit iTraxx index.
Ratings firms Standard & Poor's and Moody's have already downgraded several synthetic-CDO deals containing or related to Lehman, Washington Mutual and U.S. mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The problems with synthetic CDOs stem in part from the way they were made. In many cases, the banks that created the CDOs stuffed them with companies, such as Lehman and Iceland's Glitnir, that paid the highest possible return for their top-notch credit ratings. That made the CDOs more attractive, but also riskier, because they contained companies that the market perceived as more likely to get into trouble.
Perhaps the weakest link in the market are specialized funds, known as "constant-proportion debt obligations," that work much like synthetic CDOs but with one important difference: They use borrowed money, or leverage, to boost the returns they can provide for investors, a strategy that also magnifies losses.
CPDOs, for example, typically borrowed about $15 for every dollar their investors put in. They also contain safety triggers that force them to get out of their investments if their losses reach a certain level. Analysts estimate that most CPDOs reach those triggers when the cost of default insurance hits about the level where it is now.
Other specialized funds, known as "credit derivative product companies," borrow as much as $80 for every dollar invested, according to a recent report from Citigroup Inc. One prominent such fund -- Theta Corp., a $10 billion fund run by London-based firm Gordian Knot -- had its credit rating slashed to Aa2 from AAA by Moody's earlier this month. Two other funds, Primus Financial Products and Athilon Capital Corp., have also had downgrades in recent weeks.
A representative of Gordian Knot declined to comment. Primus and Athilon couldn't be reached for comment.
If those funds are forced to exit from their investments, it "could wreak havoc on the marketplace," Citigroup analysts wrote in the report.
My reaction: I have been thinking about how to explain how synthetic CDOs, and, for now, I have given up. To explain synthetic CDOs, I would first have to explain how credit default swaps work, and explaining CDSs is conceptually nasty. For now, I will explain the ramifications of the article above.
ramification#2—synthetic CDOs, CPDOs, and CDPCs sold insurance on corporate debt in exchange for insurance premiums. Investors pored money into these synthetic CDOs, CPDOs, and CDPCs, which these funds used to sell a massive amount of insurance on all forms of debt. Because so many sellers of insurance, the cost of insuring corporate debt became artificially low, making corporate debt seem less risky. Since corporate debt seemed less risky, companies were able to borrow at very attractive interest rates. Now that investors are pulling money out of synthetic CDOs, CPDOs, and CDPCs, these funds are not only selling less insurance, but are also having to buy back the insurance they sold to close out positions. This is driving up risk premiums and increasing the borrowing costs of companies and governments.
Taken together, these two ramifications mean another huge hit for financial firms and higher borrowing costs for everyone else. The fallout from collapsing synthetic CDOs, CPDOs, and CDPCs is likely to completely counteract the benefit of the 700 billion bailout package. Credit market will go into an even greater freeze, and this freeze is going to wreck the economy and the financial system. The Dow is guaranteed to fall below 5000 before this is all said and done.
The only investments I would put money in today are physical gold, funds backed by physical gold, and unhedged gold mining stocks.
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http://www.marketskeptics.com/2008/10/financial-collapse-guarranteed-thanks.html
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Hier finden Sie die Gesamtwertung der Tour de France - Wer darf sich das begehrte gelbe Trikot überstreifen und wer trägt es in Paris? Hier zur Tour de. Tabellen und Live-Scores: Tour de France bei Eurosport Deutschland. Die Tour de France [ˌtuʀdəˈfʀɑ̃ːs], auch Grande Boucle [ gʀɑ̃dˈbukl] ( französisch für Große Schleife) oder einfach Le Tour [ ləˈtuːʀ] genannt, ist das . Die insgesamt zu absolvierende Streckenlänge wurde nach dem Dopingskandal von deutlich reduziert und beträgt seitdem rund Kilometer. Es war das erste Mal in der Geschichte der Tour de France, dass einem Fahrer wegen eines Dopingfalles nachträglich der Gesamtsieg zuerkannt wurde. Primoz Roglic gewinnt die Im Oktober wurden Lance Armstrong alle seit dem 1. Ebenso scheiden besonders kleine Gemeinden als Etappenort meistens aus. Für die Mannschaftswertung werden bei jeder Etappe die Zeiten der besten drei Fahrer einer Mannschaft addiert. Anders als früher wird heute nur noch vergleichsweise selten in dem Ort gestartet, in welchem die Rennfahrer am Vortag angekommen sind. Eine weitere Konstante in der Streckenführung sind bestimmte Gebirgspässe , die bei fast jeder Austragung passiert werden. Deshalb untersagten die deutschen Behörden aus politischen Gründen nach weitere Gastspiele der Tour. Einen Tag vor der Tour de France erschütterte ein neuer Dopingskandal die Radsportszene, als die spanischen Behörden eine Liste mit 58 Dopingverdächtigten publizierten. Was ist bei Sky anders als bei den andern? Offiziell dürfen bei einer Reifenpanne die Räder nur innerhalb der Mannschaft ausgetauscht werden. Die Streckenführung und die Etappenorte wechseln dabei jedes Jahr. In der Gegenwart sind dies meist der zweite und der dritte Montag während des Rennens.
It was the same for Bauke Mollema, who has been struggling with back pain. Further up, Rafal Majka showed more signs of weakness.
Half-way up the climb, Valverde made the first real attack of the Tour de France. He quickly opened up a lead of half a minute as Sky were forced back onto the front, and picked off the flailing members of the early break.
One of them, of course, was Soler, who got straight to work for his leader. Valverde and Soler, 3: After a short descent, the road reared uphill again to the Cormet de Roselend — a 5.
In the break, once again it was Fortuneo taking it up, Moinard with Barguil in his wheel ready to help himself to more points at the top.
At the crest, there were 13 left out front: Valverde and Soler topped the climb just over two minutes in arrears, but their lead over the GC group had been paired back to a minute.
A long, kilometre descent followed, used by Tom Dumoulin for a speculative attack, with teammate Kragh Andersen for company.
By the foot of the final climb, the situation was thus: When Kragh Andersen went, Dumoulin started pulling and turned round to usher Valverde through, but the Spaniard refused, putting the pressure on Dumoulin with the excuse that he had teammates to fall back on behind.
Up front, Moinard pulled over and almost ground to a halt, leaving Barguil to fight mano a mano with Caruso, Nieve, and Valgren, though the latter was done for after seven kilometres.
The Cofidis duo of Herrada and Navarro led the chase and produced a remarkable effort to bridge across to the three remaining leaders with 9km to go.
He was clearly all-in for a stage win and not a bridge for Yates, as the attack coincided with the Mitchelton leader losing contact with the GC group.
By now Castroviejo had pulled over and Kwiatkowski was doing the damage for Sky, and following Yates and Valverde out of the back door were Ilnur Zakarin, Jakob Fuglsang, and white jersey Pierre Latour.
With six kilometres to go, Nieve had one minute on the advancing Dumoulin, with the peloton at 1: With just over 6km to go, Thomas made his move.
Froome pulled over and waved the others through, but they began to call his bluff. Bardet cracked first, dragging Froome with him and establishing a selection with Quintana, Nibali, Roglic, and Martin, who would dangle off the back.
By this point, Landa and Zakarin had lost contact, and Yates a few kilomtres before that. Froome then made an attack of his own.
He risked dragging the others over to Thomas, but he sensed weakness in his rivals. He was well marked, with Bardet putting in a couple of short-lived accelerations.
Another big acceleration from Froome kept everyone on their toes. With 4km to go, Thomas reached Dumoulin and sat in, but they would soon be hunted down by Froome.
Martin, having clawed his way back, made a big attack and Froome, scarcely able to believe his luck, jumped on board. Quintana, Bardet, Nibali, and Roglic let it go, and as they looked around at each other, the duo eased clear.
Kruijswijk then got back in to make it a group of five. With just over a kilometre to go, and with Dumoulin and Thomas almost in sight, Froome attacked Martin.
As he did, Thomas made an equally stinging acceleration to jump clear of Dumoulin and pass Nieve en route to the stage win.
Race Home Stages Stage 1. Mikel Nieve Mitchelton-Scott finished fifth in stage 11 after being caught with metres to go. Rick Zabel Katusha-Alpecin sits on the ground at the finish of stage 11 after officials announce he could stay in the race after narrowly missing the time cut Getty Images.
Alejandro Valverde Movistar on the attack Getty Images. Wagtmans became leader of the general classification, with Rolland in second place.
The first attack that was important for the general classification was in the fourth stage. Rolland was part of a group of nine cyclists that finished seven minutes before the rest.
Rolland was the best-placed cyclist of those nine, and took the lead. In the seventh stage, Rolland briefly lost that lead, because a group including Wim van Est escaped and gained more than seventeen minutes, which was just enough for Van Est to take over the lead.
Van Est was sure to lose it in the next stage, which included high mountains. In that eighth stage, Charly Gaul attacked early in the stage.
Gaul was more than 23 minutes behind in the general classification, but got over the mountains quickly and won with 13 minutes, which put him in third place.
But because of a crash on the second mountain he lost time, and did not win the stage; instead he even lost a few minutes.
He reached the top alone, and from there descended to the finish, 6 minutes ahead of Rolland, who was still the race leader. Bobet jumped to second place in the general classification.
In stage 17, Gaul made the pace, and most cyclists could not follow. Bobet could hold on for a long time, but at the finish lost 84 seconds to Gaul.
Because Rolland lost more than seven minutes, Bobet took the lead. In the eighteenth stage, it was again Gaul who attacked.
This time, a small group including Bobet could follow him all the way. Rolland finished two minutes later, but was still in second place in the general classification.
Rolland lost more than nine minutes, and dropped to the fifth place in the general classification. Bobet remained the leader, and his lead was not challenged in the last stage.
Bobet became the first person in the Tour de France to win three Tours in a row. The time that each cyclist required to finish each stage was recorded, and these times were added together for the general classification.
If a cyclist had received a time bonus, it was subtracted from this total; all time penalties were added to this total. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey.
The points classification was calculated in the same way as in , following the calculation method from the Tours de France from to Points were given according to the ranking of the stage: These points were added, and the cyclist with the least points was the leader of the points classification.
In , this was won by Stan Ockers. Points for the mountains classification were earned by reaching the mountain tops first. The system was almost the same as in Charly Gaul won this classification.
The team classification was calculated as the sum of the daily team classifications, and the daily team classification was calculated by adding the times in the stage result of the best three cyclists per team.
It was won by the French team. The British team and the regional South West France team finished with only two cyclists, so they were not eligible for the team classification.
In every stage, a jury gave points for the most combative cyclist.
Die längste Tour wurde gefahren und war Kilometer lang, die kürzeste war die allererste Tour im Jahr mit insgesamt Kilometern. Früher wurden sie zur Erkennung mit gelben Mützen ausgestattet. Dadurch eroberte er Platz drei im Gesamtklassement, das bedeutet: Die damit verbundenen Bergwertungen werden entweder bei der Passage der Kulminationspunkte oder als sogenannte Bergankunft am Ende einer Etappe abgenommen. Primoz Roglic gewinnt die Traditionell führt die Tour de France über sechs Bergetappen, davon meist drei in den Alpen und drei in den Pyrenäen. Haben mehrere Fahrer einen Zeitunterschied von weniger als einer Sekunde, werden die mit Hundertstelsekunden gestoppten Zeitfahrergebnisse zu Rate gezogen. Alle Fahrer einer geschlossenen Gruppe werden mit der gleichen Zeit bewertet. Egal, was passiert, sie ist ein Erfolg für mich.
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On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend John Lucas to a friend?
He [Dr John Lucas at Vanderbilt] looked me in the eye, respected my ability to know my own body and was kind and gentle through my 4th miscarriage. He stayed late to do an ultrasound when I was nervous with my successful pregnancy. Had a great sense of humor....I felt he truly knew what he was doing but explained things to me in a way that I could understand the doctor jargon. He was kind and not pushy. Respectful and genuinely got upset when he learned that other doctors had not pursued my issues earlier.
One situation sums it up: He [Dr John Lucas] "diagnosed" me with PCOS after only running a few blood tests. No ultrasound to examine my ovaries either. He also forgot to give me this diagnosis. One day he casually mentions my PCOS and I tell him he never told me that before. He then proceeds to debate me on that point. I got a new doctor and I did not have PCOS at all.
| 2019-04-20T04:14:07 |
https://www.fertilityiq.com/fertility-doctor/john-lucas
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The Mornington Baseball Club would like to thank our club founders and all the Executive Committee members who volunteered their time to making the club what it is today. Thankyou for your commitment to the Pirates baseball community. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.
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| 2019-04-18T14:49:36 |
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History: (Marvel Universe Millennial Visions 2001 - "The Marvel Universe: Hammer Time") - Odin bestowed his son Thor with a mystical Uru hammer called Mjolnir and cast an enchantment on it that allowed anyone who touched it, if they be worthy, to gain the power of Thor. Unfortunately, Thor failed to impress his father Odin by saving the Earth dozens of times and Odin thought his son to be lazy, overconfident, unachieving, and a delinquent. In order to punish his son, Odin took away Mjolnir from Thor and decided to give enchanted Uru hammers to Thor's allies in the Avengers. While Thor now carried a normal carpenter's hammer, Odin thought to himself that perhaps his son would one day become a doctor.
Comments: Created by Chris Giarrusso.
Captain America was pretty much the same as his Earth-616 counterpart up until Odin gave him an enchanted Uru hammer similar to Thor's.
--Marvel Universe Millennial Visions 2001 - "The Marvel Universe: Hammer Time"
Giant-Man was the same as his Earth-616 counterpart until the Asgardian god Odin bestowed upon his an enchanted Uru hammer.
Hawkeye was the same as his Earth-616 counterpart up until he was gifted with an enchanted Uru hammer, which he used like he would any other arrow.
Iron Man was the same as his Earth-616 counterpart until he recieved an enchanted Uru hammer from the Asgardian god Odin.
Quicksilver was the same super-speedster that his Earth-616 counterpart was up until he was given an enchanted Uru hammer.
Scarlet Witch was the same as his Earth-616 counterpart until she was given a mystical Uru hammer.
Thor was the same as his Earth-616 counterpart until he failed to prove himself to Odin, who punished Thor by taking away his Uru hammer and giving his Avengers comrades hammers of their own. Without Mjolnir at his side, Thor took to using a regular carpenter's hammer.
The Wasp was exactly the same as her Earth-616 counterpart until she was given an enchanted hammer as a weapon.
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| 2019-04-25T06:10:32 |
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A customer purchases a new server that has an OEM license of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard preinstalled. The customer plans to exercise the downgrade rights to install Windows Server 2003. You need to recommend which task the customer must perform before the downgrade to ensure that the customer is in compliance with Microsoft licensing policies. What should you recommend that the customer do first?
A. Back up the existing Windows Server 2008 R2 installation.
B. Start the server from the Windows Server 2003 installation media.
C. Reformat the hard disk drive.
D. Start the server and accept the Windows Server 2008 End User Software License Terms.
| 2019-04-20T09:32:42 |
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What sort of birthday invitation? The main point to generate here is that you need to think outside the box--the mail pack. These days, birthday invitations could be delivered via e-mail/internet, distinctive delivery, or by ordinary mail, and each method may have its own cost implications. The probabilities for the format of the birthday invitation are also wider than you might think. Electronic birthday invitations are possibly very cheap, or they are free of charge. They are easily available on the internet and are super easy to send. If you decide to send your birthday invitation in this manner then make sure that you have all your recipients' e-mail details.
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1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Position rack in center of oven. Grease or line muffin cups with paper liners.
2) In a large bowl whisk together all dry ingredients all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, sugar, and 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips .
3) In another bowl whisk together liquid ingredients milk , vegetable oil, vanilla extract ,lightly beaten egg.
4) Mix the dry and wet ingredients together, remembering that a lumpy batter makes the best muffins.
5) Fill the muffin cups with the batter ,using spoon .Fill up to 3/4 of a cup. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup chocolate chips on top and then bake for 20 minutes or until the muffins are dark, risen and springy or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
6) Transfer to a wire rack and let it cool for about 5 minutes before removing from pan.
Delicious muffins perfect with a cup of coffee .
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I'm implementing a controller for a BLDC motor that uses a Hall position sensor. I've implemented this on an XMC4700 and am using the POSIF (in Hall sensor mode and Multi-Channel mode) and a few CCU4 and CCU8 slices.
I'm using one CCU4 slice to measure the rotation speed of the motor. It's configured as a counter clocked by the system clock and the capture event is the Correct Hall Event (CHE) output from the POSIF. I'm reading the capture registers in the CHE interrupt handler and using that to calculate motor RPM. I have the CCU4 slice's prescaler set to divide by 32, which puts the captured counts well within the 0-0xffff range of the counter.
Everything is working, except the motor speed as calculated from the timer capture counts is very erratic at +/- 500 RPM. When I use an accurate external tachometer instrument to read the motor RPM (set to 7000) directly at the shaft, I'm getting readings that are +/- 10 RPM. I do see some jitter on the Hall outputs from the motor on an oscilloscope, but nowhere near enough to account for the +/- 500 RPM speeds I'm calculating from the timer.
Anyone have any suggestions? What should I look at next?
To investigate this I recommend you make some RAM buffers and store the commutation times (capture time from the CCU4) and the calculated speed. For example you could store 100 captures and speeds in a circular buffer. Then you can compare the capture values and calculated speed with the hall times that you see on a oscilloscope.
Thanks for the reply, Mike.
I don't think it's Hall jitter, because the magnitude of the jitter I see on an oscilloscope is not nearly enough to account for the large variance in calculated speed versus the speed measured with a tach.
It can't be a mismatch between the expected Hall pattern versus the actual pattern because I'm not seeing any Wrong Hall Events.
Computation of the speed is straightforward from the Hall timings and the results agree with the speed from the external tach (after averaging out the wide variance, of course).
I have implemented a circular buffer for the CCU4 captured counts, and they do vary widely. This is the puzzling part--why do they vary so much for a motor spinning at constant RPM with no load? I'm triggering the capture of the CCU4 counter via the CHE from the Posif, and have the CCU4 set to clear on every capture event. I'm not getting capture overruns (because I'm only seeing valid capture data in C1V and never in C0V.
| 2019-04-20T00:46:39 |
https://www.infineonforums.com/threads/6578-XMC4700-BLDC-Motor-Control-Issue-Help-Needed?s=72438ba9ecef1bdee09636386ad17603&p=19108
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iTunes is considered as one of the most useful apps in the history of Apple. This app was developed by Apple certified developers to enhance the iDevice experience. Music syncing is one of the many functions of this renowned app. Although the app has many uses, still iTunes Library and manual transfer are the most famous functions of the app. So, if you are looking forward to sync music from iPhone to iTunes, all the details that you need are mentioned below. So, let's get started.
2. Plug-in iPhone to your computer via USB.
3. Navigate to "File" and then go to "Devices".
4. Finally choose "Transfer Purchases from your iPhone" option. The music will start be transferred automatically.
5. Navigate to "Recently Added" to download the music whenever you want.
Unfortunately, the major disadvantage of this method is, iTunes only supports music downloaded from iTunes Store or Apple Music. It does not support any 3rd party app, downloaded and un-purchased music.
1. Download the Tenorshare iCareFone software on your PC/Mac.
3. Go to "Transfer Device Media to iTunes".
4. All types of media files including music from your iPhone will be fetched and available for transferring. Select the files you want to add to iTunes and hit "Transfer" button.
5. After transferring finishes, open your iTunes and all the files are there.
It will transfer all your selected music in no time! So this is how to sync music from iPhone to computer using Tenorshare iCareFone.
iCloud is one of the most powerful apps designed by Apple and the iCloud Music Library is a part of that app. So, when you turn on the iCloud Music Library you can easily access all of your music collection on iPhone, iPad, iPod and even on Mac or PC.
Before we get to how to turn on "iCloud Music Library" you have to make sure that you are logged-in to all of your iDevices using the same Apple ID you are using for your Music subscription.
If you want to activate "iCloud Music Library" on your iPhone, then follow the instructions below.
1. Go to "Music" from "Settings" and tap on "iCloud Music Library" to activate it.
2. Before activating the library, if you already have music files on your iPhone then you will be asked if you want to keep that music on your phone.
3. Choose "Keep Music" then all of the existing music will be added to the Library.
1. Open the iTunes window, go to the Menu bar on the top left of the window and click on Edit.
2. All of the options from Edit will be available, select Preferences.
3. Now, go to the General tab and select "iCloud Music Library" to turn it on.
1. In your Mac, on the top left of the screen, you will see iTunes. Click on it and select Preferences.
2. Similarly, on the General Tab select iCloud Music Library to turn it on.
Now after activating iCloud Music Library on your iPhone and PC all of your songs will be synced to iTunes if your iPhone and PC are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Now, you can easily click on the iCloud icon visible on the iTunes window and download the synced songs. This is how to sync songs from iPhone to iTunes using iCloud Music Library.
First of all, you are using the same Apple ID for every device which is very risky.
The download speed from iTunes is very slow.
The process is not always very stable; a few songs could be missing.
Finally, if anyway the iCloud Music Library gets turned off, all of the downloaded music will be deleted.
So, in this article, we have listed the 3 most effective ways on how to sync music from iPhone to iTunes on computer. Each of these methods has its own disadvantages and works with specific music like in the case of iTunes, where it only handles purchased music and related things. But nonetheless, these methods are viable and will do the job for you. But if you want a headache free experience while transferring music, just go for the versatile Tenorshare iCareFone software. It is simply the best third-party software that can make your life a lot easier.
| 2019-04-23T14:44:36 |
https://www.tenorshare.com/transfer-music/sync-music-from-iphone-to-itunes.html
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Participants performed a two-alternative forced-choice task on a foveally presented stimulus that could vary on a subset of binary perceptual features, such as color (red, green), shape (diamond, square), size (large, small), topology (open, closed), and location (up, down). Unbeknownst to the participants, we manipulated the statistical informativeness of an additional feature that was not part of the task, such that this feature always predicted the correct response in one condition (the predictive condition) but not in the other condition (the baseline condition). Because the cognitive system is known to exploit statistical stimulus-response contingencies automatically, performance was expected to be better in the predictive than in the baseline condition.
We embedded these predictive and baseline conditions into two different tasks, which we thought would induce different cognitive-control states. The control task included instructions intended to emphasize the need for top-down control: Participants were instructed to classify the stimulus according to a feature-conjunction rule (e.g., size and topology: left response key for large and open or small and closed shapes, right response key for small and open or large and closed shapes). The automatic task included instructions intended to deemphasize the need for control: Participants were instructed to classify the stimulus according to a single feature (e.g., shape: left response key for a diamond and right response key for a square). In the automatic task, the features were mapped consistently on responses and thus allowed automatic visuomotor translation. In contrast, the stimulus-response mapping in the control task required the attention-demanding integration of two features before the response could be determined.
As expected, the predictive feature improved performance when participants performed the task automatically. Counterintuitively, however, the predictive feature impaired performance when subjects were performing the exact same task in a top-down, controlled manner.
In order to engage in goal-directed behavior, cognitive agents have to control the processing of task-relevant features in their environments. Although cognitive control is critical for performance in unpredictable task environments, it is currently unknown how it affects performance in highly structured and predictable environments. In the present study, we showed that, counterintuitively, top-down control can impair and interfere with the otherwise automatic integration of statistical information in a predictable task environment, and it can render behavior less efficient than it would have been without the attempt to control the flow of information. In other words, less can sometimes be more (in terms of cognitive control), especially if the environment provides sufficient information for the cognitive system to behave on autopilot based on automatic processes alone.
| 2019-04-18T12:54:17 |
https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2014/06/when-being-control-freak-doesnt-help.html
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Why does purple bend more in a prism than, say, red?
Purple (or violet) light travels slower in most materials than does red light. That occurs because violet light is higher in frequency than red light and gives the charged particles that it jiggles about less time to move up and down. With very little time to move, these charged particles barely notice that they are parts of atoms and molecules and respond easily to the passing electromagnetic wave. But when red light pushes and pulls on charged particles, there is more time for them to find the limits of their freedom. These charged particles are not able to move so easily when pushed on by a passing wave of red light so they do not interact with that passing wave as well as with one of violet light. Thus red light passes by with less effect and it behaves more like it would in empty space. Violet light, which interacts relatively strongly with the atoms it passes, slows down more than red light. Since red light travels more quickly than violet light, it bends less in passing through a prism. Violet light slows down more and bends more than red light.
| 2019-04-23T06:02:53 |
https://wordpress.howeverythingworks.org/1969/12/31/question-362/
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Sometimes it's hard to sort truth from fiction in the realm of health. Today, for instance, two reports about dental health and heart disease came out, and they apparently contradict each other. In the first report, the American Heart Association issued a statement saying that gum disease and heart disease may not be related, after all.1 Meanwhile, a study out of Taiwan found that older adults cut their risk of heart attack and stroke dramatically by getting regular dental cleanings.
Jon Barron has written before about how periodontal bacteria can travel through the bloodstream to major organs, including the heart, causing new infections and other serious health problems. One study he cited found that periodontal bacteria in plaque below the gum-line was higher in individuals who had suffered from an acute heart attack. Another study found that DNA from different kinds of periodontal bacteria in plaque was also in the patients' heart arteries. And yet another study, this one involving 4,254 subjects, discovered that the number of diseased periodontal pockets was significantly related to hypertension, no matter the age of the subject.
But after reviewing 600 such studies over a three-year period, the AHA panel concluded that there's that no proof dental disease causes heart problems.2 Furthermore, according to the researchers, good dental hygiene won't alleviate heart disease.
"It was clear to everybody that there was a lot of confusion out there; a lot of conflicting scientific evidence," says study head Peter D. Lockhart, DDS, chief of oral medicine for the Carolinas HealthCare System. "The public and the profession, both medicine and dentistry, had come to believe on the basis of the information that was out there that there was a direct connection between periodontal disease and [heart] disease. But there's no scientific evidence at this point that there's a direct connection -- that either gum disease causes atherosclerosis [hardening of the arteries] or strokes and heart attacks, or that there's any evidence at this point that by treating periodontal disease that you'll improve your [heart health] situation."
No evidence? What about those 600 studies? Dr. Lockhart and his team point out that some of the studies found no link whatsoever between gum disease and heart disease. The inconsistency of evidence is problematic, they say. Plus, it's possible that people with bad gums also happen to have bad hearts because of some independent factor, like a fatty diet, a smoking habit, or even genetics. The two conditions may share risk factors, but one doesn't necessarily cause the other.
The study comes right on the tail of Gum Disease Awareness Week, a new initiative from the Institute for Advanced Laser Dentistry (IALD).3 Just a few weeks ago, the president of the IALD issued a press release stating, "Oral health has a major impact on overall health, and mounting university research has linked gum disease to serious health concerns, including heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, diabetes, and even stillbirths."
The AHA team says that claim is overblown and premature. Likewise, some experts believe that the AHA report is irresponsible, that it might confuse people into thinking they don't need to take care of their teeth. The study's authors stress that the conclusion isn't that oral health and cardiovascular health have no relationship; rather, that the relationship is as yet unproven. They also say their intention was to encourage people to pay attention to the underlying risk factors that cause both heart and oral conditions so they'd take better care of themselves, instead of thinking that a trip to the dentist will provide cardiovascular protection.
We have to be careful," says Kenneth Kornman, DDS, editor of Periodontology. "We don't want to say to the public, [gum disease] doesn't cause heart disease. The fact is that we don't know."
Meanwhile, a study of almost 22,000 older adults in Taiwan found that those who had a dental scaling within the past year had a significantly lower chance of suffering a heart attack over the next seven years.4 (So much for consistency within the dental community.) About half of the subjects had a scaling within the year. Of those who did, 1.6 percent suffered a heart attack and 8.9 percent had a stroke over the next seven years. Those who avoided dental scaling had a 2.2 percent rate of heart attacks and 10 percent rate of stroke. Those who had cleanings more often than once every two years had even lower rates of both diseases.
Will this study sway the AHA to modify its claim that poor oral hygiene doesn't cause heart problems? That's unlikely, because of a design flaw in the study. The researchers didn't screen subjects for pre-existing health problems, so like the 599 other studies, this one will probably be considered inconclusive.
What does all this add up to for you? Do you still need to keep up with dental cleanings in order to protect your organs? Ask yourself this: if 600 people claimed they saw a snake on your lawn but they hadn't captured it to show you, would you walk on the lawn barefoot? Probably not! Likewise, if the majority of those 600 studies indicate a correlation between dental problems and heart disease (and they do), you might just want to take notice. As Bob Dylan said, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Practice good oral hygiene, get regular cleanings, and take proteolytic enzymes to prevent plaque buildup.
Dental decay is the process that causes a cavity. It occurs when bacteria in your mouth make acids that eat away at the teeth. If not treated, tooth decay can cause pain, infection, and tooth loss.
Great job here.Thanks for the useful information. It made me aware about dental problems. Its advisable to go and visit the best dentists in town now before its too late.
| 2019-04-22T22:14:57 |
https://jonbarron.org/article/new-views-dental-decayheart-link
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Where can I obtain a copy of "Maximize Your Potential with Powerful Tools... and No Stress"?
The book is available at www.lulu.com, at Amazon and other major online bookstores.
The book is represented by agents in several countries. It was published in the Japanese language by PHP Institute, one of Japan's most visible publishing houses. The English and French editions were published by Lulu Enterprises Inc. in USA in July 2007. The Chinese language rights were sold to CITIC Publishing House, but the book had been censored in mainland China at the time. Things have evolved tremendously since then!
Must I read the book before following the interactive sessions?
You can do it, but it is not necessary. In fact, many concepts and tools are given during the training sessions, that are not in the book. The book can be read on its own to get to know some of the concepts and tools, or as a complement to the sessions to recall them if need be.
Are your in-house corporate seminars similar to the interactive sessions?
Not quite. Interactive sessions deal with both private and professional lives. In companies we only develop the concepts linked to corporate life. We don't talk about Monkeys and Tigers though we do evoke some of the thoughts. We work towards an objective agreed on by the client company. These seminars are based on concepts that are simple and highly symbolic, with a strong impact for memory recall, favoring individual and collective learning in real work situations. Because of their specificities change is palpable, rapid and transferable, thus enabling the personnel and the organization to maximize their potential.
What are the differences between your method of training and that of others?
Let's say the objectives are almost the same but there is a marked difference that only the person can testify to after having attended the sessions. Let me illustrate this: At the dinner table you are offered different types of salad. But your eyes cannot tell the difference as all the dishes contain the same ingredients, except the sauce, which lay hidden below the lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and onions. To know the difference you'll need to stick your tongue in it. Our method is highly complementary to all other types of training. It goes in depth, to the heart of things. We have trained a number of persons who had followed other trainings before, and they reported that our method enlightenend some of the things they had learned elsewhere - while teaching them new approaches. Some consultants from SNCF (the French National Railroad Company) called it "the method of methods". But we encourage trainees to open themselves to different types of disciplines and concepts. In other words, not to deprive themselves of the variety of delicious existing sauces.
How do I contact your company for more information?
Just write to us below Or call us at (33) 1 48 26 29 64.
| 2019-04-19T21:04:26 |
https://www.maximizeyourpotential.info/faqs.html
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Does Phoenix need lobbyists at the state Legislature and Congress?
Almost all major cities hire someone to represent them at the federal level, and most Arizona cities have someone at the state Capitol. Should they?
Should cities use taxpayer dollars to hire lobbyists that push for laws taxpayers may not support?
Phoenix Councilman Jim Waring says no.
Waring's most recent declaration against city lobbyists (he's made this argument many times before), came as the rest of the City Council approved two five-year contracts totaling more than $2.6 million for lobbyists at both the state and federal level.
Holland & Knight LLP scored the federal contract, which equates to about $276,000 per year. Ballard Spahr LLP and Dorn Policy Group Inc. will split the state lobbying contract, worth about $259,000 per year.
Waring said his angst over lobbying contracts has nothing to do with the firms selected — he just doesn't understand why the city needs lobbyists, period.
Waring said the Council members are "capable people" who can go down to the state Legislature or call their congressional representatives themselves if they feel passionately about an issue.
"My constituents are always surprised when this comes up that we actually hire lobbyists to lobby sometimes against the very things that citizens have supported. It's a curious thing," he said.
Councilwoman Kate Gallego said she has seen the value of professional help firsthand. The city's lobbyists helped her secure federal support in 2014 when her district experienced extreme flooding, she said.
"It was so nice to have an experienced team that had gotten extensive Presidential (Disaster) Declarations for other clients in Florida," she said.
Hiring outside lobbyists is not exclusive to Phoenix. Almost all major cities in the country hire someone to represent them at the federal level, and most Arizona cities have someone at the state Capitol.
| 2019-04-22T17:11:39 |
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/politicalinsider/2017/11/30/phoenix-opens-taxpayer-wallet-hire-state-federal-lobbyists/903702001/
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| 2019-04-23T07:51:12 |
http://www.agelessfish.com/faq
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Toyota Partners Up With Uber EnglishCentral 2016-06-02 On Tuesday, two major car companies announced investments in ride-hailing apps, signaling both a growing role for on-demand cars and a new groundwork for app-enabled self-driving fleets. While Toyota will be investing and partnering with Uber, Volkswagen is putting 300 million dollars into Tel Aviv-based ride-sharing app called Gett. In their statement, Toyota emphasized new leasing options specifically for Uber drivers, but made it clear that there would be deeper collaboration going forward. Emil Michael, Chief Business Officer of Uber, said in a statement, "Toyota vehicles are among the most popular cars on the Uber platform worldwide and we look forward to collaborating with Toyota in multiple ways going forward, starting with the expansion of our vehicle financing efforts." Comprehension Questions 1. What does Toyota's investment in Uber imply? a.the groundwork for a revolution in the car industry b.a rising demand for car services such as Uber c.a rising demand to invest in mobile apps d.the groundwork for a new and improved transport service applications 2. Where would Toyota and Uber's collaboration start? a.brand new cars for Uber drivers b.free cars for frequent Uber users c.new leasing options for Uber drivers d.a special discounted contract for Uber users 3. Why does it make sense for Toyota to partner with Uber? a.Most Uber cars are Toyota cars. b.It was found through a study that Uber customers like Toyota cars best. c.Most Uber users also own Toyota cars. d.It was found that Toyota is the best car in the market.
| 2019-04-21T10:14:25 |
http://fancyenglish.com/politics/toyotauber/index.html
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MCAT Question A Day - 1/23/14 - Answer!
Which embryonic membrane is most closely associated with implantation?
The correct answer is (B). In humans, the blastocyst contains an inner cell mass from which the embryo develops and the trophoblast, which forms the chorion and chorionic villi. The chorionic villi form the attachment with the endometrial lining of the uterus during implantation.
| 2019-04-24T06:06:23 |
http://www.freemcatprep.com/2014/01/mcat-question-day-12314-answer.html
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This afternoon two coworkers asked if I wanted ice cream. I mean, do you even need to ask? Before we went to the break room Donna was picking cat hair off my shirt and Annette asked if I had my shirt on inside out. I said no, it was just some cat hair. Annette pointed out the buttons and Donna put her finger on the seam between the torso and the sleeve and sure 'nuf the shirt was on inside out. But oh well; let's get ice cream.
So, I got home and decided that I want coffee. Two days ago I made the mistake of calculating how much money I spend by going to the corporate coffee shop every day, so I proceeded to make my own coffee. I ground the beans for 15 seconds and poured the grinds into the reservoir. Something seems slightly amiss, like in the back of my mind, but not enough to pay attention to. Then I got the coffee cup, filled it with cold water from the refrigerator because I read that using cold water makes better coffee. I poured the water into the Mr. Coffee coffee maker and saw sludge swimming around in it, then I noticed the coffee filter, which was still white. As in, there were no coffee grinds in it. I had put them into the reservoir and then poured the water right in on top of them and presto I had cold sludge in a very difficult part of the machine to reach.
It's what I get for calculating how much I spend a month at corporate coffee houses.
| 2019-04-24T20:47:10 |
http://www.ratherearnestpainter.com/bemolardiente/2012/07/not-quite-right.html
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My prediction: Apple is slowly working towards phasing out Microsoft products entirely, and natively supporting Windows applications in a Mac environment.
1. With the release of their own alternative to Internet Explorer and Powerpoint (Safari and Keynote, respectively), Apple seems to be slowly phasing out their reliance on Microsoft applications.
2. WINE and CodeWeavers’ CrossOver Office let Linux users run Windows applications natively, without requiring Windows (or a Windows emulator) to be installed (screenshot). Unfortunately, both applications require an x86 processor.
Apple is built on Unix and now natively supports X11. If they were smart, they’d be working on porting WINE over to PowerPC processors right now. OS X would be the only operating system capable of natively running Macintosh, Unix/X11, and Windows applications simultaneously.
If someone’s already working on something like this, let me know about it.
I’d much rather see them move to supporting OSX on X86. The big hurdles of course are two things: one, making the underlying OSX technologies not present in Darwin work on a different instruction set, and two, driver support. Something tells me that Apple has been accomplishing hurdle one in parallel for a while. The second hurdle is what is keeping this from happenning. Based on the processor speed gap Apple faces, they’ll need to give up the lucrative hardware margin or else face being a consumer only product. It isn’t Microsoft that is the enemy, it’s Motorola and Quark.
Man, is that ever true. But I don’t see them abandoning their primary revenue source any time soon. Emulating Windows lets them compete without sacrificing hardware sales.
Darwin is on x86, they ported it in the first few months OSX’s release.
Unfortunately, WINE will never be ported to a PPC architecture, simply because it’s practically impossible. The thing is that WINE isn’t an emulator (WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator)… It takes Windows API calls and effectively converts them into X Windows calls. Everything else remains the same: Bog standard x86 bytecode.
If Apple were to release the much fabled x86 version of MacOS X, it would be fairly easy – it already runs (sort of) on FreeBSD, MacOS X’s cousin OS.
However, a Win32 application emulatoion environment under MacOS PowerPCwould be very cool, and not a great deal of work on top of VirtualPC. I believe that it would be a much more interesting to the population at large than a full OS in a window emulator.
I would rather see Apple provide a Win32 compatibility layer for OS X than port OS X to x86. This solution would provide the ‘ultimate’ workstation, compatibility with Legacy Mac apps, *nix apps under X11, and Windows apps under this new compatibility.
I’m on a Win box at work right now, and my Mac is in the shop (defective screen latch for PB). When it returns, I’ll download it and try it.
Very interesting stuff, thanks for the head’s up.
Of course not being able to read Japanese, they could be taking about something else.
Umm… if you use Babelfish.altavista.com to translate the page you will see that this WINE is not the windows emultaion package but instead an application for use in the medical profession. Looks like a WebObjects based product.
Getting WINE running on OS X looks to be no trivial task.
if apple is interested in staying alive they will need to port over to x86 eventually cuz let’s think about this the majority of computer users have 86x and now lots of companies are using Linux x86 computers and the only logical thing for apple to do is give their OS the chance to run on already existing and faster computers. So what if compatiability and their stable OS goes out the window they can still produce their own OS with their own hardware and that will allow them to garuantee stability for the users that like to pay the extra $1000’s for that insurance.
Apple will stay alive just fine with out porting to the x86, although it’s a nice thought being able to run osx on my pc. I also Own an imac G4 800Mhz and the mac is way faster than any pc currently available. eg, the Dual 2Ghz G5 compaired to a Dell dual 3.06Ghz Zeon. the reason the mac runs so well is that it wasn’t built by a jack the lad. everything just works and I don’t see them changing this anytime soon.
VirtualPC does not run on G5’s (presumably some assembler usage issue). Question is: whether MS will make VirtualPC G5 compatible. That will show MS’s true colours on this issue.
One of the major factors stopping people from switching is their investment in Windows-based software. Would make so much sense to me for Apple to own the pentium emulator. If they did a good job of it, plus maintain their newly acquired hardware edge, Windows software could run just as fast on a (Power)Mac as on most PC’s! I for one would buy the software.
Uh-duh. It is in Microsoft’s best interest to update VirtualPC for the G5 processor.. because when you buy VirtualPC you also have to buy a copy of Windows XP to run Windows apps with. Virtual PC is just an emulator, it is not an operating system. MS is not restricted then to selling Windows to just one hardware market, but they can sell to anyone with a computer.
I’ll be interested to see how the Darwine project on SourceForge turns out..
Lets face it, with Apple having an ever decreasing market share, nothing is certain. Also, despite their best attempts to appeal to the Unix community, surely it makes more sense to use Linux if what you need is a Unix-like OS. It’s cheaper, and supports faster and cheaper PC hardware.
Apple, whether they wish to acknowledge it or not, have found themselves in the position of selling lifestyle objects and have fallen way behind in terms of creating computers people actually want to use – despite the hype. They are an also-ran.
Quote: If they were smart, they’d be working on porting WINE over to PowerPC processors right now. OS X would be the only operating system capable of natively running Macintosh, Unix/X11, and Windows applications simultaneously.
Actually, there is a project in progress to port WINE to X11 for OS X.
Just saving you coppertops some trouble.
Native Windows emulation in OSX is beeing developed!
| 2019-04-20T00:31:20 |
https://waxy.org/2003/01/native_windows/
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NEW YORK - YouTube has unveiled a move to counter fake news by setting up working groups with media organisations and committing US$25 million to invest in expertise, innovation and support for news publishers.
YouTube users in the United States would now see information from third parties, including Wikipedia, alongside videos on a small number of well-established historical and scientific topics often been subject to misinformation, the video streaming giant said on Monday (July 9).
This way, if a person convinced of his or her own conspiracy theory - say that the 1969 moon landing was faked - would, in searching for sources to confirm their own bias, see information from authoritative sources countering or balancing their theory.
YouTube did not say when this feature would be rolled out globally.
Youtube executives, announcing the move at an event for media in New York on Monday, called it a ''fast follow" to the Google News Initiative announced in March, which similarly aims to boost the visibility of news from credible sources.
This comes amid increasing concern globally about misinformation, hate and propaganda on social media platforms and a surge in interest in news. In the US, the number of people watching Youtube for news has tripled since 2016, Youtube executives said.
"We remain committed to working with the journalism community to build a more sustainable video ecosystem for news organisations," said YouTube's chief product officer Neal Mohan and its chief business officer Robert Kyncl.
In a written blog, they added: "We know there is a lot of work to do, but we're eager to provide a better experience to users who come to YouTube everyday to learn more about what is happening in the world from a diversity of sources."
They said YouTube is establishing a working group with news organisations and experts from around the world to help it develop new product features, improve the news experience on YouTube, and tackle emerging challenges.
Early members of the group are US-based Vox Media, Brazil-based Jovem Pan, and India-based India Today, they said.
At the New York event, Mr Mohan said everything is still in the early stages, when pressed to explain how YouTube would determine what was an authoritative source.
Under the innovation funding plan unveiled by YouTube, it would " provide funding across approximately 20 global markets to support news organisations in building sustainable video operations".
YouTube said news organisations of all types can apply to the grant, which can be used to build key capabilities, train staff on video best practices, enhance production facilities and develop formats optimised for online video.
In terms of support, YouTube's team would be "significantly" expanded to focus on supporting news publishers. "These specialists will be based around the world and support partners with training and best practices in formats, audience development, day-to-day platform operations, and sophisticated technical integrations," YouTube said.
And together with Google, YouTube has teamed up with the Poynter Institute, Stanford University, Local Media Association, and the National Association for Media Literacy Education to support MediaWise, a US-based initiative designed to equip one million teens with digital literacy skills.
Mr Mohan said a key issue for YouTube is how to balance the open nature of the platform, with the need for veracity.
"We recognise we don't have all the answers," said Mr Mohan, who added, however, that YouTube would be "as aggressive as we can (in providing) as much context as we can"
| 2019-04-23T08:47:45 |
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/youtube-rolls-out-us25-million-initiative-to-work-with-news-organisations-to
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Who will be the next NYPD police commissioner?
Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota have dropped a few names for their potential police commissioners. But who are they?
Joseph Esposito is seen here comforting Tatiana Timoshenko, the mother of Detective Russel Timoshenko, killed in the line of duty. Joe Lhota has named Esposito as one of his possible choices for Police Commissioner.
Credit: Todd Maisel/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.
The two leading mayoral candidates have thrown around several names for their potential police commissioner picks.
Democrat Bill de Blasio has made opposition to current police commissioner Ray Kelly a major point of his policing platform since about January, when he was quoted saying, "I have a lot of respect for Ray Kelly, but it's not time for hypotheticals yet."
Since then he's been very clear that Kelly will be a free agent come January, should de Blasio win.
In July, he mentionedformer Police Commissioner Bill Bratton as a possible choice, as well as current Chief of Department Philip Banks III, the highest-ranking uniformed member of the NYPD. Republican Joe Lhota has also expressed interest in a potential Commissioner Banks.
Lhota has praised Kelly, and said if he were interested in the job it would be his for the taking.
But should Kelly be interested in moving on — perhaps to the private sector, Lhota speculated once — Lhota has named First Deputy Commissioner Rafael Pineiro, Deputy Commissioner Patrick Timlin, and Banks' predecessor Joseph Esposito as persons of interest.
Who might we see for next year's top cop? Metro takes a look.
Bratton was the Police Commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who has been campaigning for Lhota), though de Blasio has noted Giuliani fired Bratton. De Blasio credited former Mayor David Dinkins, his old boss, with "elevating" Bratton, though Dinkins actually chose Kelly over Bratton for police commissioner. Bratton got his start in the Boston police department, where he also did a stint between a turn in the New York Transit police in the early 90s, and his two years as NYPD police commissioner. He was also the Chief of Department for the Los Angeles Police Department for seven years. In recent years he has been in the private sector doing security consulting around the world and most recently, the city of Oakland, Calif. He also took a position as a commentator with MSNBC in June.
He has defended stop-and-frisk when it's done respectfully and is credited with starting CompStat, the system used by the NYPD to track and target high crime areas.
Kelly and Bratton are both Vietnam War veterans.
Chief of Department Banks, a native New Yorker born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is currently the highest-ranking uniformed member of the NYPD. He is a 26-year veteran of the NYPD and was formerly the Chief of Community Affairs, making him an interesting choice for de Blasio in light of the Democrat's emphatic interest in community policing.
Banks is a proponent of stop-and-frisk "when it's done correctly," though he has recounted a negative experience he had being stopped as a college student. He said one of the three cops who stopped him and some of his friends spoke disrespectfully to them.
Joseph Esposito was the Chief of Department until his retirement this year. It was well-known he retired only due to a rule that says no uniformed officer can serve past their 63rd birthday. Esposito was known for being more comfortable on the street than in an office, and famously got between a crowd of Occupy Wall Street protestors and his own riot cops, calming a rapidly intensifying and potentially dangerous situation.
A 44-year veteran of the force, he was the longest-serving Chief of Department, serving more than 12 years in that position.
First Deputy Commissioner Pineiro is the longest-serving Chief of Personnel in the history of the NYPD. He has been credited with several administrative initiatives making the NYPD's administrative processes more technologically advanced. He has been on the force for over four decades. In 1995, he founded an institution called the National Law Enforcement Explorer Academy for youth between the ages of 14 through 20 years old.
Patrick Timlin served 22 years on the NYPD, retiring from the Department in 2002. He currently works for a security firm comprised largely of retired NYPD officers.
| 2019-04-22T22:07:46 |
https://www.metro.us/local/who-will-be-the-next-nypd-police-commissioner-metro-new-york/tmWmkd---24o9J7poXSdw
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is to undergo heart valve replacement surgery this week in New York and is expected to a make a full recovery, U.S.
The Drudge Report flashed a banner headline on Friday afternoon that lawmakers have reached a deal to reopen the government and end the longest shutdown in history, at least “temporarily.
Franklin Leonard has unveiled the 2018 Black List, which chronicles the most liked unproduced screenplays in a given calendar year, as voted on by over 300 industry executives.
DrudgeReport.com’s Matt Drudge criticized Fox News Monday for a panel that “laughed and joked” while talking about terror in the context of the recent shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Why Did THE DRUDGE REPORT Drop Mark Steyn?
RUSH: I loved this Drudge headline. You know, Sheryl Sandberg, she’s one of these Silicon Valley people, she’s a queen. You can’t say a negative thing about her and live to repeat it.
More than three-quarters of people who answered a poll on the conservative Drudge Report site said that President Trump should fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
Twitter, a social media platform that regularly finds itself in scandals involving bias against conservatives, is now hiding innocuous tweets from President Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
Media icon Matt Drudge criticized comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscar monologue Sunday evening. “Trump jokes last night at Gridiron much funnier than Kimmel’s Oscar monologue.
Matt Drudge says Donald Trump needs a parade to celebrate America’s military might, and the Drudge Report founder knows just where the president can find some inspiration.
Matt Drudge, founder and editor of The Drudge Report, called “bullsh*t” Tuesday on a claim made by author Michael Wolff, who penned “Fire and Fury,” an alleged exposé of President Donald Trump.
This week, he posted a photograph of Barack Obama dressed in the tribal garb of a Somali elder during a 2006 trip to Africa, claiming it had been emailed by a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
ANALYSIS/OPINION: New media pioneer Matt Drudge has used his influential Twitter feed to report that Steve Bannon has squired a new benefactor for his political and media ambitions.
Drudge Report editor Matt Drudge on Wednesday ratcheted up his feud with Stephen Bannon, calling him "schizophrenic" after explosive new comments from the the former White House chief strategist.
In an interview to promote her new movie, "The Post," Hollywood legend Meryl Streep discussed her media habits and admitted she reads Drudge and Fox News, along with The New York Times.
Matt Drudge, the man behind one of the Internet's most famous sites, The Drudge Report, blasted the Washington Post, after the paper accused Drudge of linking to and using Russian propaganda sites.
Matt Drudge, creator and editor of the Drudge Report, fired back at the Washington Post on Monday for a story that he said accused him of acting as a Russian operative.
| 2019-04-21T18:56:38 |
https://www.longroom.com/discussions/tagged/drudge
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The objective: My objective was to see if I could create an alternate energy source using a cold nuclear fusion reaction. I used a method similar to that of the well known cold fusion experiment by Drs. Fleischmann and Pons.
If it is achieved, cold nuclear fusion could provide a nearly limitless energy source. Running on just water, scientists speculate cold fusion reactors could take the top ten feet of Lake Michigan and use it to generate enough power for the whole United States for 1500 years.
Although cold fusion has been confirmed by several research laboratories, it has been dismissed by others and, hence, has not irrefutably been proven to be successful.
I used several variations of water. However, I will focus on the solution called deuterium oxide (D2O). I poured D20 into a jar and inserted a thermometer and two electrodes (platinum anode, palladium cathode) connected to a power supply.
I sent electricity through the D20, which broke down into deuterium and oxygen. The atoms were ionized by electrons and moved to the electrode opposite their charge. Negatively charged oxygen moved to the positive anode, while positively charged deuterium moved to the negative cathode.
Had the experiment been successful, the deuterium would have concentrated in the palladium.
This high concentration would have been enough for the nuclei to touch, causing the deuterium atoms to bond with one another, forming helium. In addition, this process would have released energy in the form of heat.
I did three tests, each involving a different solution. I used regular water and seawater as a basis for comparison against the D2O. In the test with D2O, the temperature only rose 1 degree (F). The current flowing through the solution fluctuated.
I burned the collected gas, showing that stable helium had NOT been produced. These factors indicate that no fusion reaction occurred.
My experiment shows that fusion can not be accomplished using this particular method. The deuterium gas did not condense enough to fuse. More work will be required before nuclear fusion can be generated in this way.
If I were to repeat this experiment, I would get more deuterium oxide so I could perform more tests, using different variables. I would also add lithium salt to my electrolyte solution instead of table salt. Lithium salt would greatly improve conductivity, which would allow for a better chance of fusion occurring.
Is it possible to conduct cold nuclear fusion using the Fleischmann and Pons method?
| 2019-04-20T02:23:25 |
https://www.1000sciencefairprojects.com/Science-Experiments/Cold-Nuclear-Fusion.php
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Why choose EXEControl Global Solutions as your VoIP provider?
In order to answer this question, we first have to ask: What is important in a VoIP provider?
1) You want a good feature set.
What sets VoIP providers apart are the feature sets they offer with their phone service. You want a VoIP provider that offers the features and tools you need to grow your company.
Most providers include standard features such as an automated attendant and the ability to route different phone numbers separately (i.e. one number which rings all phones, another number that rings only a select group of phones).
You want to make sure that your VoIP provider offers features and tools that your users feel comfortable with, and will give the most benefit to your company. Here at EXEControl Global Solutions, we can work with you to provide additional features as needed, above and beyond our standard and unique feature sets. If there is a specific feature you are looking for, let us know. We may be able to provide it for you.
1We are not aware of any other provider who offers these features.
2) You want a guarantee of QoS.
What is QoS? QoS literally stands for Quality of Service, which speaks to the reliability of your connection and sound quality. What good is a phone system if you cannot understand the person on the other end?
One company who was looking at another VoIP solution called us, asking if we thought the proposed service would be a high quality solution for them. We asked the company a few questions about the proposed solution and voiced our concerns about QoS. The company was unsure what was being done to guarantee QoS, and asked us to call the carrier and find out. We called the VoIP provider and asked, “How do you know VoIP will provide reliable service for this customer?” The provider said, “We don’t. It’s a 50/50 shot.” Incredulously, we asked, “So you’re selling them a system with a 50/50 shot of it working?” This company was trying to sell a system without knowing whether it would work well for the customer, or telling the customer that they might have issues with it.
On the other hand, the customers who come to EXEControl Global Solutions for VoIP, don’t look back.
Our biggest advantage as a VoIP provider is our QoS, leaving our competitors wondering how we provide such quality service. Essentially, our proprietary technology, which will reconstruct a damaged audio stream, is unique to us.
Here is an example of what we mean: Listen to the two audio tracks below.
With a poor quality internet line, almost every provider will sound like this first track. It gives you the feeling of trying to talk on a cell phone in a poor service area.
Now listen to the second audio track. Notice how clear the sound is, due to our voice enhancing technology. We are the only VoIP providers that we know of who utilize technology to regenerate sound in real time. Don’t underestimate the value of understanding the person on the other end of the line; it is worth its weight in gold.
Trying to use VoIP with poor quality internet with any other provider, is like trying to talk on a cell phone in an area with poor signal. If you don’t want to deal with that, go with us.
With EXEControl Global Solutions, you will never be given a 50/50 shot in the dark. We will find out if VoIP will be a good, quality service before we set anything up, and then we will implement our expertise to ensure you are getting good QoS.
3) You want good support.
As with any technology, you want a company who knows what they are doing and evolves with the technology. You want personal, customized support from a skilled team who knows and anticipates your needs.
Our team at EXEControl Global Solutions is able to take our decades-long expertise in networking and network management, and marry it with a world-class VoIP solution in order to deliver the highest quality of service and reliability with any supplied communication method, whether an internet line or T1, etc. Our system is compatible with using all of them or any combination of them.
The real reason to buy from us? We know how to do it right.
Next: If you choose to buy from us, what can you expect?
| 2019-04-26T04:57:26 |
https://execontrol.com/voip-phone-systems/voip-your-business/
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A method of operating a gaming device to play a concentric circular reels game may include the steps of: Displaying a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receiving a wager; spinning the plurality of concentric circular reels; stopping at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determining whether a modifier is activated; terminating game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminating game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
1. A method of operating a gaming device to play a concentric circular reels game, comprising: displaying a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receiving a wager; spinning the plurality of concentric circular reels; stopping at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determining whether a modifier is activated; terminating game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminating game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels further comprises: defining a payline; and evaluating the reel symbols along the payline for a winning combination of reel symbols.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: stopping additional concentric circular reels; and evaluating the reel symbols of newly stopped additional concentric circular reels and previously stopped concentric circular reels along the payline for a winning combination of reel symbols.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein a game player defines the payline.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein the modifier comprises a plurality of additional win modification symbols and wherein said evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of symbols and at least one modifier comprises determining whether at least one additional win modification symbols is aligned with the payline.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels further comprises: defining a ways pays combination; and evaluating the reel symbols along the ways pays combination for a winning combination of symbols.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a game board, the game board defining a perimeter, and wherein the plurality of reels are displayed within the perimeter of the game board.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: reducing the size of each of the plurality of concentric circular reels so that each of the plurality concentric circular reels appears to form a full circle; and further evaluating bonus win combinations of all the reel symbols comprising the plurality of concentric circular reels displayed as full circles.
10. A method for displaying winning symbol combinations on a virtual slot machine game board, comprising: spinning a plurality of concentric circular symbols on the virtual game board; stopping at least two of the plurality of spinning concentric circular symbols on the virtual game board; evaluating the stopped symbols on the game board for game modification symbols; and evaluating the stopped symbols on the game board for combinations of winning symbols.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the concentric circular symbols spin in opposite directions.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein multiple separate sets of concentric circular symbols spin on the virtual game board.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein the stopped symbols on the game board are evaluated using radial paylines.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the stopped symbols on the game board are evaluated using adjacent symbol paylines.
15. The method of claim 10, wherein the stopped symbols on the game board are evaluated using paylines that begin with the innermost concentric circular reel and proceed outward.
16. The method of claim 10, wherein the stopped symbols on the game board are evaluated using paylines that begin with the outermost concentric circular reel and proceed inward.
17. The method of claim 10, wherein the stopped symbols on the game board are evaluated using additional win modification symbols which create additional winning symbol combinations.
18. A gaming system, comprising: a display system; an input system for accepting an input from a player; a processing system operatively associated with said display system and said input system, said processing system operating said display system and said input system to: display a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receive a wager; spin the plurality of concentric circular reels; stop at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determine whether a modifier is activated; terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
19. The gaming system of claim 18, wherein said display system comprises a video touchscreen.
20. The gaming system of claim 18, wherein said input system comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of a handle, a button, a coin slot, and a card reader.
21. The gaming system of claim 18, further comprising a communications module operatively associated with said processing system to allow said gaming system to communicate with a network.
22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by at least one computer processor, cause the processor to: display on a display system operatively associated with the processor a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receive a wager from an input system operatively associated with the processor; spin the plurality of concentric circular reels; stop at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determine whether a modifier is activated; terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
23. A concentric circular reels game for play on a gaming system having a display, comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged to form a plurality of concentric circular reels on the display of the gaming system, wherein said concentric circular reels game spins the plurality of reel symbols after receiving a wager from a player, stops the spinning reel symbols after a time interval, evaluates the stopped reel symbols for game modification symbols, and evaluates the stopped reel symbols for a winning combination of reel symbols.
24. A method of operating a gaming device to play a concentric circular reels game, comprising: displaying a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receiving a wager; spinning the reels; stopping the reels; and evaluating the stopped reels for a winning combination of symbols.
This application claims the benefit of provisional U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 62/074,803, filed Nov. 4, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference for all it discloses.
This invention relates to gaming machines and devices, specifically virtual slot machines.
Virtual slot machines are well known. Unlike electromechanical slot machines, virtual slot machines have no or very few moving parts. One type of virtual slot machine allows a player to pay money into the machine, make a wager, and initiate play. Initiating play causes the spinning of virtual reels of symbols that are displayed to the player using a graphics display device. Each virtual reel may contain hundreds of symbols available to be displayed in a win evaluation game board. The virtual slot machine generates combinations of symbols randomly and certain winning symbol combinations are associated with awards. When such winning combinations are displayed in the win evaluation game board, the player is entitled to an award, and may collect it immediately or apply it to continue play.
A method of operating a gaming device to play a concentric circular reels game may include the steps of: Displaying a plurality of reels, each of the reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receiving a wager; spinning the plurality of concentric circular reels; stopping at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determining whether a modifier is activated; terminating game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluating the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminating game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
Also disclosed is a method of displaying winning symbol combinations on a virtual slot machine game board which may include the steps of: Spinning a plurality of concentric circular symbols on the virtual game board; stopping at least two of the plurality of spinning concentric circular symbols on the virtual game board; evaluating the stopped symbols on the game board for game modification symbols; and evaluating the stopped symbols on the game board for combinations of winning symbols.
A gaming system is also disclosed that may include a display system and an input system for accepting at least one input from a player. A processing system operatively associated with the display system and the input system, operates the display system and input system to: Display a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receive a wager from the input system; spin the plurality of concentric circular reels; stop at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determine whether a modifier is activated; terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
Also disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by at least one computer processor, cause the processor to: Display on a display system operatively associated with the processor a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receive a wager from an input system operatively associated with the processor; spin the plurality of concentric circular reels; stop at least two of the plurality of the concentric circular reels; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols; determine whether a modifier is activated; terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and no modifier is activated; evaluate the stopped concentric circular reels for a winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier when a modifier is activated; and terminate game play when there is no winning combination of reel symbols and at least one modifier.
A concentric circular reels game for play on a gaming system having a display may include a plurality of reel symbols arranged to form a plurality of concentric circular reels on the display of the gaming system, wherein the concentric circular reels game spins the plurality of reel symbols after receiving a wager from a player, stops the spinning reel symbols after a time interval, evaluates the stopped reel symbols for game modification symbols, and evaluates the stopped reel symbols for a winning combination of reel symbols.
Finally, a method of operating a gaming device to play a concentric circular reels game may include the steps of: Displaying a plurality of concentric circular reels, each of the plurality of concentric circular reels comprising a plurality of reel symbols arranged so that each of the plurality of concentric circular reels appears to form at least a portion of a circle; receiving a wager; spinning the reels; stopping the reels; and evaluating the stopped reels for a winning combination of symbols.
FIG. 12 is a pictorial representation of an eighth embodiment of an electronic gaming system of the concentric circular reels game.
Various embodiments of a concentric circular reels game 10 according to the teachings of the present invention are shown and described herein as they could be implemented or played on an electronic gaming system 12 of the type well-known in the art. Alternatively, various embodiments of the concentric circular reels game 10 could be implemented on other systems and devices and in other gaming environments, as will be described in greater detail herein.
Referring primarily to FIGS. 1 and 2, one embodiment of the concentric circular reels game 10 may comprise a plurality of circular reels 14 that may be displayed on a suitable display system 16 operatively associated with electronic gaming system 12. The circular reels 14 may be displayed within the perimeter of a `game board` 18 also displayed on display system 16. In some embodiments, the concentric circular reels 14 are displayed so that they appear to form at least portions of respective circles in a concentric or nested arrangement, as illustrated in FIG. 1. In other embodiments, or during certain times or sequences during game play, the concentric circular reels 14 may be displayed so that they appear as full circles, again in a concentric or nested arrangement. See FIG. 6(c). In some embodiments, game board 18 may also comprise a smaller active symbol area 20.
Each circular reel 14 may comprise a plurality of reel symbols 22 that may be activated or `spun` at the appropriate time during game play so as to cause the various reel symbols 22 comprising each circular reel 14 to appear to a game player (not shown) as if they are spinning. When the concentric circular reels 14 stop spinning, the gaming system 12 evaluates the symbols 22 within the active symbol area 20 at certain times during game play to determine if a winning combination of symbols 20 is present, as explained in greater detail below.
The concentric circular reels game 10 may also comprise one or more game modifiers 36. The game modifier(s) 36 may be displayed and/or activated at certain times during game play, although game modifiers 36 need not be activated during every game or during every sequence of game play. Game modifiers 36 may be displayed in any convenient area of game board 18. Game modifiers 36 may also be displayed in one or more of the circular reels 14, either alone or in conjunction with one or more reel symbols 22.
As will be described in further detail herein, certain game modifiers 36 may modify or otherwise enhance a win associated with a winning combination of symbols. Other game modifiers 36 may modify or otherwise enhance a win associated with the game 10 as a whole, such as a bonus trigger or a credit award. By way of example, in the particular embodiments shown and described herein, the game modifiers 36 may comprise a `wild` symbol, a multiplier symbol, a bonus symbol, a feature modifier symbol, and a credit award symbol. Alternatively, other types game modifiers 36 having other effects on game play may be used.
With reference now primarily to FIG. 3, and with occasional reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, the electronic gaming system 12 may be operated in accordance with a method 26 to play the concentric circular reels game 10. A first step 28 in method 24 may involve the initial display of concentric circular reels 14. The initial display of circular reels 14 may occur during an idle state, i.e., when the gaming system 12 is awaiting a game player. The initial display of circular reels 14 may also comprise a time period between when a game player engages the system 12 for play, but before placing a wager. In any event, upon receipt of a suitable wager (e.g., at step 30), gaming system 12 may activate or spin the concentric circular reels at step 24. After a suitable time interval, the system 12 may stop at least two of the spinning circular reels 14 (i.e., at step 32) and evaluate, at step 34, the symbols 22 in the stopped circular reels 14 that are displayed or contained within the active symbol area 20. At this time the system 12 may then determine, i.e., at step 38, whether a game modifier 36 is activated. In some embodiments, the one or more game modifiers 36 may be activated on a random basis. In other embodiments, or during other game play sequences, the system 12 may activate one or more game modifiers 36 based on the results of the evaluation of the stopped reel symbols 22. In this regard it should be noted that the reel symbol combinations required to activate one or more of the game modifiers 36 may or may not be the same as the reel symbol combinations required to trigger a payout to the player.
Regardless of how the game modifiers 36 may be activated, if no game modifier 36 is activated, i.e., as determined during step 38, method 26 may proceed to step 40 to determine whether the stopped reel symbols 22 in the active symbol area 20 comprise a winning combination of symbols. If no winning combination of reel symbols 22 is present, method 26 may terminate game play at step 42 and await receipt of a new wager at step 30 to begin a new game. Alternatively, if a winning combination of reel symbols 22 is present, method 26 may advance to step 44 and award a payout to the player. The payout at step 44 may be in the form of cash, monetary credits, or casino credits, although other types of payouts are possible and may be used. After payout at step 44, the game ends at step 42, and the method 26 awaits receipt of a new wager at step 30 to begin a new game.
On the other hand, if one or more game modifiers 36 are activated, i.e., as determined during step 38, method 26 may proceed to step 46 and evaluate the combination of reel symbols 22 in conjunction with the one or more activated game modifiers 36. If no winning combination of reel symbols 22 and activated game modifiers 36 is present, i.e., as determined during step 48, method 26 may proceed to step 42 and end the game. Alternatively, if a winning combination of reel symbols 22 and one or more game modifiers 36 is present, method 26 may proceed to step 50 and award a payout to the player. Depending on the nature of the particular activated game modifier 36, the payout at step 50 may be more valuable and elaborate than the payout awarded to the player at step 44. Alternatively, and as will be described in further detail herein, a winning combination of reel symbols 22 and activated game modifiers 36 may trigger other game play sequences, benefits, or awards. After awarding the player a payout at step 50, the method 26 may proceed to step 42, end the game and/or await receipt of a new wager.
Significant advantages of the concentric circular reels game 10 according to the teachings of the present invention include the visual richness and diversity of the circular reels, the high degree of player interactivity, and the flexible display possibilities permitted by the display system 16, as compared to other slot machine gaming devices. The wide variety of win evaluation methods made possible by circular reels invigorates the gaming experience and rewards the player with unexpected winning symbol combinations. As a consequence, the concentric circular reels game 10 may attract new players to the gaming system 12 and retain them longer throughout successive games.
Having briefly described the concentric circular reels game 10, as well as some of its more significant features and advantages, various exemplary embodiments and alternative configurations of the concentric circular reels game will now be described in detail. However, before proceeding with the detailed description it should be noted that while the concentric circular reels game 10 is shown and described herein as it could be embodied or played on an electronic gaming system 12 of the type well-known in the art in a casino environment, the present invention is not limited to play on such devices and in such environments. For example, alternative embodiments could be implemented as specific gaming applications provided on a wide variety of computer systems, such as personal computer systems, `smart` phones, and tablet computers, that are operatively connected to a suitable gaming network. Consequently, the present invention should not be regarded as limited to the particular devices, networks, and gaming environments shown and described herein.
Referring back now to FIG. 1, and as briefly described above, in one embodiment the concentric circular reels game 10 may be configured to be played on an electronic gaming system 12 of the type well-known in the art and widely used in casino environments. Alternatively, the concentric circular reels game 10 could be configured or implemented for use as a specific gaming application or "app" on other types of computer systems, such as personal computers, smart phones, or tablet computers that are operatively connected to a suitable gaming network. In the particular application and environment shown and described herein, the electronic gaming system 12 may comprise a display system 16, an input system 52 to accept an input from a player, and a processing system 54. The display system 16 may comprise a video touchscreen 56, in which case the video touchscreen 56 may also comprise a portion of the input system 52 in that it may be configured to receive input from the player. Input system 52 may also comprise a handle 58 that may be used by a player to initiate the circular reel spinning sequence. Input system 52 may also comprise any of a wide range of other devices, such as one or more buttons 60, coin slots 62, and card readers 64, either separately or in combination with handle 58 in order to allow a player to provide the necessary or desired input to the system 12.
The electronic gaming system 12 may also comprise a communications module 66. Communications module 66 may be operatively associated with the processing system 54 of the electronic gaming system 12 so as to allow the gaming system 12 to communicate with a network 86. The communications module 66 may comprise any of a wide variety of communications devices, such as devices configured to communicate via Ethernet, 12C, RD-232, USB, RS-485, IEEE 1394, or Netplex communications technology, as would become apparent to persons having ordinary skill in the art after having become familiar with the teachings provided herein. Communications module 66 may also utilize other communication interfaces and protocols now known in the art, or that may be developed in the future, that would be suitable for the intended use and gaming environment. The communications module 66 may operate on or interface with wired or wireless channels, and may be used to communicate with personal devices operating through known wireless technologies.
Referring now to FIG. 4, the processing system 54 of electronic gaming system 12 may comprise a logic component that is operatively connected to internal components that manage the various gaming systems and operations for the electronic gaming system 12 that are imbedded in software and implemented by a central processing unit (CPU) 68. In one embodiment, the processing system 54 of the electronic gaming system 12 may comprise the CPU 68 and a memory storage mechanism 70 for storing gaming operations and instructions to implement method 26. CPU 68 may use a fast memory cache 72 to access data or software stored in the memory 70. In another embodiment, the memory 70 may comprise a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied within so that, when executed by the CPU 68, cause the processor to display and carry out the steps of the circular reels game 10 on the display system 16 of the electronic gaming system 12. As would be familiar to one of ordinary skill in the art after familiarizing herself with the teachings of the present invention, the logic component is not limited to the CPU 68 and instead may include a plurality of logic gates and switches that may either be programmed (e.g., a field programmable gate array) or may be an application-specific integrated circuit (e.g., an ASIC).
In an embodiment, CPU 68 may implement the method 26 via instructions imbedded in software and stored in the memory 70. The input system 52 may permit the player to interact with the method 26 and input desired parameters to the game, with the processing system 54 processing the player's inputs and executing them according to the software stored in the memory 70.
The software may include a random number generator (RNG) 74 for randomly selecting reel symbols 22 and/or game modifiers 36 for the electronic gaming system 12 to display on display system 16. By way of example, reel symbols 22 may comprise numbers, letters, geometric figures, animated figures, words, bonus multipliers, or pictures. Game modifiers 36 comprise wild symbols, multipliers, bonus symbols, credit awards, or other special feature symbols. In an embodiment, random number selection may comprise using the RNG 74 as a basis for selecting reel symbols 22 from a set of game symbols for the electronic gaming system 12 to display on display system 16. In an embodiment, the set of reel symbols 22 that may appear in the reel windows 14 may comprise a set of approximately 300 symbols for each reel. In another embodiment, the system and method of selecting symbols from among the set of game symbols may simulate systems that provide for random number generation. By way of non-limiting example, a well-known lottery-based system may be used.
Referring now to FIGS. 4 and 5, in one embodiment, the processing system 54 may also comprise a network interface card (NIC) 76 to permit communications between a plurality of electronic gaming systems 78-84 and processors within a network 86. The NIC 76 may use well-known networking protocols to communicate with other networked devices, as already described. The electronic gaming systems 78-84 may be networked together to allow for a progressive jackpot, in which the sum of the potential winning prizes is shared between the electronic gaming systems 78-84 on the network 86.
As illustrated in FIG. 5, the network 86 may comprise the networked electronic gaming systems 78-84, each of which may be similar to the electronic gaming system 12 described above. The networked gaming systems 78 and 80 may connect to a node 88, which communicates with a local area network (LAN) server 90. The networked gaming systems 82 and 84 may connect to a node 92, which communicates with a LAN server 94. The notes 88 and 92 may be hubs, routers, bridges, gateways, or similar communications devices that permit communications between the networked gaming systems 78-84. A wide area network (WAN) may be created by linking the LANs 90 and 94 with a WAN server 96. WANs and LANs are well known and may operate in a similar manner, but may be differentiated by geography (e.g., casino floors versus different casinos).
The electronic gaming system 12 may be operated in accordance with method 26 to allow a player to play the concentric circular reels game 10. Referring now to FIGS. 1-3, a first step 28 of method 26 may involve the display of a plurality of circular reels 14 on game board 18. In this particular embodiment, game board 18 comprises four circular reels 14 displayed so that they appear to form portions of respective circles in a concentric or nested arrangement. Further, the reel symbols 22 contained within the active symbol area 20 are highlighted or otherwise displayed so that the player will recognize that the reel symbols 22 are the reel symbols 22 that will be evaluated for winning combinations and/or to activate one or more game modifiers 36 if the game modifiers 36 are activated based on the reel symbols 22. Reel symbols 22 outside the active symbol area 20 may be displayed as phantom or greyed-out images to indicate that they are not in play.
In some embodiments, one or more game modifiers 36 also may be displayed along with the circular reels 14, although they need not be so displayed. Game modifiers 36 may be displayed in separate areas on game board 18 as separate symbols. Alternatively, game modifiers 36 may be displayed in one or more circular reels 14, either by themselves or along with reel symbols 22. For example, and with reference now to FIGS. 2(a-d), the three circular reels 14 closest to the bottom of the game board 18 comprise reel symbols 22. However, the circular reel 14 farthest from the bottom of the game board 18 (i.e., the upper-most circular reel 14) contains game modifiers 36. Additional game modifiers 36, such as win modification symbols 98 may be displayed near the upper portion of game board 18. In this embodiment, the reel symbols 22 contained within the active symbol area 20 may be evaluated by the method 26 using paylines 100 that begin at the innermost circular reel 14 and proceed outward.
After the player inputs a wager at step 30, the method 26 spins the symbols 22 and game modifiers 36 within the circular reels 14 at step 24. In this embodiment, half the reels spin in a clockwise direction 102, and half the reels spin in a counterclockwise direction 104. In other embodiments the circular reels 14 may be spun or rotated in the same direction. After a suitable period of time, the method 26 may stop at least two, and in this embodiment, the three circular reels 14 closest to the bottom of the game board 18 in step 32. See FIG. 2(b). The upper reel 14, containing game modifiers 36, continues to spin. At this point, there are seven reel symbols 22 within the active symbol area 20. The method 26 evaluates the symbols at step 34 to determine if a game modifier 36 should be activated at step 38. In this embodiment, because three reel symbols 22 have aligned over one of the paylines 100 in the active game area 20, the method 26 activates a game modifier 36, which is depicted by the white dotted border 106. Other embodiments may use different evaluation criteria to determine whether the symbols 22 in the active symbol area 20 should activate a game modifier 36.
The method 26 may then proceed to step 46 and evaluate the combination of symbols 22 and game modifier 36. In this embodiment, the outer circular reel 14, i.e., containing the game modifiers 36, is first brought to a stop. Method 26 then evaluates, i.e., at step 48, the combination of reel symbols 22 and game modifier(s) 36 along the already-established payline 100. In this particular example, method 26 detects a winning combination, and proceeds to step 50 to award a payout to the player. The payout at step 50 may involve the method 26 extending the payline 100 upward until it contacts the additional win modification symbol 98 that is directly above the payline. See FIG. 2(d). Method 26 will then multiply the numerical values represented by the additional win modification symbol 98 and game modifier 36 (in outer circular reel 14) together to calculate the final win payout 108. The method then proceeds to step 42 and ends the game.
Alternative embodiments and/or play sequences are possible. For example, and with reference now primarily to FIGS. 6(a-c), an alternative way for method 26 to reward the player with a payout (e.g., at step 44) may involve an evaluation of stopped symbols 122 to determine if a game modifier 136 is activated at step 38. In this embodiment, the method 26 does not activate a game modifier 136 at step 38, and the method 26 proceeds to step 40 to evaluate the symbols 122 that have stopped within the active symbol area 120 for a winning combination of symbols 122. Special bonus symbols 110 are present in the active symbol area 120 and qualify as a winning combination of symbols 122. The method 26 proceeds to step 44 to award a payout to the player. As depicted in FIG. 6(b), in this embodiment, the gaming system 112 reduces the size of the circular reels 114 displayed on the display system 116 until each circular reel 114 appears to form a full circle. The reels 114 now appear in the shape of a large target circle 111, depicted in FIG. 6(c), and the method 26 may now evaluate the large target circle 111 for additional winning combinations of symbols 122.
The concentric circular reels game 10 and method 26 permit several variations in how the circular reels 14 and symbols 22 are presented to the player. For example, in a third embodiment, the number of symbols 222 displayed within the active symbol area 220 by the display device 216 may remain constant, as shown in FIG. 7. This results in a greater distance between symbols 222 in circular reels 214 that are farther away from the axis around which the symbols 222 in the circular reels 214 rotate. Alternatively, in a fourth embodiment depicted in FIG. 8, the distance between symbols 322 in circular reels 314 remains constant. This results in a greater number of symbols 322 in circular reels 314 that are farther away from the axis around which the symbols 322 in the circular reels 314 rotate or spin.
The concentric circular reels game 10 and method 26 also permit considerable variation in how winning paylines 100 and `ways pays` are determined. In a fifth embodiment, the method 26 may evaluate winning combinations of symbols 422 using adjacent symbol paylines 101 , as shown on display system 416 in FIG. 9. In a sixth embodiment, the method 26 may evaluate winning combinations of symbols 522 using radial symbol paylines 103, as shown on display system 516 in FIG. 10. Radial symbol paylines 103 may begin with the outermost circular reel 514 and proceed inward, as shown in this fifth embodiment; alternatively, the radial symbol paylines 103 may begin with the innermost circular reel 514 and proceed outward.
In a seventh embodiment, depicted in FIG. 11, display system 616 may display multiple separate sets of circular reels 614, with each set of circular reels 614 comprising separate symbols 622. When the method 26 evaluates the symbols 622 for winning combinations, it may utilize paylines 100 that link together the two separate sets of circular reels 614 to form additional winning combinations of symbols 622. In an eighth embodiment shown in FIG. 12, the display system 716 may display multiple separate sets of circular reels 614 that both interact with a set of additional win modification symbols 798 through the use of shared paylines 100.
The gaming device 12 may employ the steps of method 26 described above to evaluate circular reels of any configuration or shape. The examples above are intended to be illustrative but non-limiting and non-exhaustive.
Having herein set forth the various embodiments of the present invention, it is anticipated that suitable modifications can be made thereto which will nonetheless remain within the scope of the invention.
| 2019-04-19T05:03:22 |
http://patents.com/us-20160125689.html
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I have known Mark Jaffee for 10 years and putting that time, along with an one-hour interview and 12 pages of quotes, into one story is an impossible task.
No one, I am willing to bet, knows more people than Mark. One a daily night at the Republican-American, it seems, he gets four to five calls out of nowhere from people. Whether it's an old coach, player, friend, player's family member, a fan or whoever, they are calling Mark asking for information or giving him a potential item for a story. His phone never stops ringing.
Jaffee's stat line as a writer is quite impressive. By his count, out of the 24 high school football programs the Rep-Am covers, he covered 14 of the current head coaches as players. On the baseball side, he covered 17 American Legion players that found their way to the Major Leagues.
Among the athletes he's covered include: Ex-UConn and NBA standout Scott Burrell of Hamden; NHL Hall of Famer from the New York Rangers Brian Leetch of Cheshire; ex-Boston Bruins star Craig Janney of Enfield; University of Florida and New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez of Bristol; San Diego assistant to the general manager Brad Ausmus, a veteran major league catcher from Cheshire; Olympic swimming hopeful and former training partner of Michael Phelps, Ben Michaelson of Seymour; NBA veteran Ryan Gomes of Waterbury; former New Jersey Nets forward Jordan Williams of Torrington; Minnesota Twins farmhand Pat Dean of Naugatuck.
If he had to narrow the list down to the best he's seen?
"Tebucky Jones of New Britain (and future Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots) was probably the best I have ever seen," Jaffee said. "On the track, on the basketball court or on the football field, he used to destroy people."
"Scott Burrell was maybe the best pure athlete and Rico Brogna was great as well."
For those that don't know, Jaffee is a fan of the Mets and Jets, teams that have given their followers a punch in the gut or two over the years. Working in the Rep-Am newsroom in the winter of 2010 brings back a classic memory for me.
At that time, the Mets' channel, SNY, was still not on Jaffee's cable system, and the team was coming off three horrendous finishes. Needless to say, Jaffee's patience regarding the Mets was at an all-time low.
One night, a simple press release came over the wire, advising the media the Mets had signed a journeyman pitcher to a minor league deal in hopes he could pitch his way into the rotation.
Jaffee was none too pleased, ripping the Mets' ownership for their cheap ways and vowed, for probably the 16,342th time, that he was done as a fan.
The pitcher they signed that day? R.A. Dickey.
"I was dead wrong about R.A.," laughs Jaffee. "He has a great story and been a wonderful inspiration for many people. But, I still say the Wilpons got lucky. They were being cheap and this just happened to work out."
"There's frustrating moments as there is with any job. Dealing with the issues, such as teams not having rosters and keeping your own statistics comes with the territory. The days when every school is playing at the same time, for example, are tough. I try to be there for everything, but when I can't be there, I always try to find a way to give people their due."
The Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame induction dinner will be held Thursday, November 15 at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville. Tickets are $46 and for more information, contact John Fontana at (860) 628-4122.
Also, the inductees will be honored on the field at halftime of the UConn-Temple game on Oct. 13.
| 2019-04-19T03:05:55 |
http://litchfieldcountysports.com/stories/jaffee-sidebar-and-information-on-the-hall-of-fame-induction-dinner
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Read news feeds of current topics related to Atheism.
How many Atheists are out there?
Atheists were once regarded as a small minority among U.S. adults. Polling agencies have recently gave estimates of the percentage of atheist adults that ranged from 3% to 11%. However, these results only measure the percentage of Atheists who were willing to reveal their beliefs to a stranger over the telephone who claimed to be from an confidential polling agency. Because of the high level of prejudice against Atheists, only some -- perhaps a minority of -- Athests are willing to reveal this information to polling agencies.
One innovative survey was recently designed to allow those Atheists surveyed to reveal their religious beliefs safely and confidentially. The poll determined that 26% of U.S. adults are actually Atheists!
Unfortunately, there are different definitions in use for the word "Atheist." They are often viewed as people who actively deny the existence of God. Others define them as simply lacking a belief in God. Many people firmly assert that only their own definition is correct.
Anon: "Almost every American denies the existence of Artemis, Baal, Cybele, Fergus, Thor, Wotan, Zeus, and thousands of other [ancient] gods and goddesses. The main difference between a Christian and an Atheist is that an Atheist either actively denies the existence of the Trinity or has no belief in the Trinity whereas the Christian believes that the Trinity exists. The difference is truly insignificant. It is only one deity among many thousands."
Epicurus (341 to 270 BCE) An ancient Greek philosopher: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? "
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794 CE) An English historian, writer, Member of Parliament, and author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,): "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Richard Jeni: (The stage name of Richard John Colangelo), while talking to a group who believe in the existence of different Gods, said: "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
Stephen Roberts: (talking to a person who believes in a God):"I contend that we are both Atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Morally perfect -- and thus desires to end all evil.
But evil continues exist. Therefore either God does not exist, or he is lacking at least one of the above attributes."
Isaac Asimov: (1920-1992); an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University: "I prefer 'rationalism' to 'atheism.' The word 'atheist,' meaning 'no God,' is negative and defeatist. It says what you don't believe and puts you in an eternal position of defense. 'Rationalism,' on the other hand, states what you DO believe; that is, that which can be understood in the light of reason. The question of God and other mystical objects-of-faith are outside reason and therefore play no part in rationalism and you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending that which you rule out of your philosophy altogether. (From the book: "It's Been a Good Life:" (Kindle Locations 139 to 142).
Atheism is an ambiguous term, and thus is difficult to write about and define.
Would the U.S. accept an Atheist president?
Are Atheists over or under represented among the prison population?
Results of conventional public opinion polls in the U.S.
An innovative poll that shows one in four U.S. adults is an Atheist!
What proof would it take for an Atheist to believe in God?
A personal message from Armin Navabi, who converted from Islam to Atheism and founded the Atheist Republic.
Anon: An Atheist imagines what it would be like to die, and then meet God and Yeshua!
What matters most in life? What you are or what you do? Scapegoating: punishing the innocent for the sins of the guilty.
Alan Rogers: How to be a tolerant Atheist"
Benjamin Wiker: An attack on the "new Atheism:" comparing activities of Yahweh & Evolution's "god"
"Ken": "Answering The New Atheism,' by Scott Hahn & Benjamin Wiker: A Refutation"
| 2019-04-24T17:02:05 |
http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist.htm
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Get the next post asap.
My goal over the past spring and summer was to enable people to store web pages and create their personal web archives. Hereby an overdue report of six months of undisturbed coding.
tl;dr: Browser extension has been released, with as its first main feature local web page preservation.
A summary of project progress over the last two months. TL;DR: Many contributed features, now refocussing on core functionality, and unlicensing the code.
| 2019-04-22T10:53:40 |
https://blog.webmemex.org/
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