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I was surprised that this objective was not be emphasized in the JDK1.2 exams as internationalization has been enhanced and is a big feature with Java. It's nice to sell software to a billion Europeans and Americans but a billion Chinese would be a nice additional market (even if you only got 10% of it). This is the kind of objective that even experienced Java programmers may not have experience with, so take note!.
Java uses two closely related encoding systems UTF and unicode. Java was designed from the ground up to deal with multibyte character sets and can deal with the vast numbers of characters that can be stored using the unicode character set. Unicode characters are stored in two bytes which allows for up to 65K worth of characters. This means it can deal with Japanese Chinese, and just about any other character set known. You will be pleased to know that you don't have to give examples of any of these for the exam.
Although unicode can represent almost any character you would ever likely to use it is not an efficient coding method for programming. Most of the text data within a program uses standard ASCII, most of which can easily be stored within one byte. For reasons of compactness Java uses a system called UTF-8 for string literals, identifiers and other text within programs. This can result in a considerable saving by comparison with using unicode where every character requires 2 bytes.
This version uses the platform-dependent default encoding. In JDK 1.1 this default is identified by the file.encoding system property. There seems to be no standard way of finding out what encodings are supported on your platform The default encoding is generally ISO Latin-1 except on a Mac where it is MacRoman.. If this system property is not defined, the default encoding identifier is 8859_1 (ISO-LATIN-1). The assumption seems to be that if all else fails, revert back to English. Experimenting with other character sets is problematic as the characters may not show up correctly if you environment is not configured appropriately. Thus if you attempt to output a character from the Chinese character set you system may not support it.
Remember that the InputStream comes first and encoding second.
The InputStreamReader class has a read() method and the OutputStreamWriter has a write() method that read and write characters. When the read method is called it reads bytes from the input stream and converts them to Unicode characters using the encoding specified in the stream constructor. When the write() method is called the the characters from the stream are converted to their corresponding byte encoding and stored in an internal buffer. When the buffer becomes full the contents are written to the underlying byte output stream.
The sample code for GreekWriter writes a text output file containing some letters in the Greek alphabet. If you open this file Out.txt with an editor you will just see what looks like junk.
//Nice big font so we can see the characters.
Which of the following are correct signatures for InputStreamReader?
Which of the following are methods of the InputStreamReader class?
Although Java can store characters independently of the underlying operating system, the appropriate font must be installed on the underlying operating system in order to display those characters. Generally streams are chained with like streams, ie InputStreams take constructors of other InputStreams and OutputStreams take constructors of OutputStreams. Java uses the UTF encoding system to store strings internally.
| 2019-04-21T07:05:52 |
http://www.jchq.net/tutorial/11_02Tut.htm
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How to tell when a boatyard is in trouble?
It's already been said, but it's one thing to measure and agree on the measurement at the beginning of storage. Fair is fair. It's another thing to remeasure in the middle of the winter simply to generate more revenues. That just rings unfair.
Seems almost fitting, in a way. If you measured fair at the start before hauling, and didn't try to cheat the boatyard, then when the boatyard remeasures...nothing will change. OTOH, if you tried to cheat the yard, now they've got you.
Unless they are changing their measurement standards after the contract was made, there's nothing to complain about, is there?
In most cases, when a boat owner goes into the office and fills out the paper work, the boat owner is the one stating the measurement. If it is mis-stated, I would think that the yard would have the right to charge for the difference back to the beginning of the contract.
I don't think that they purposely trick people into giving the wrong measurement (assuming that it is wrong).
If someone is buying a new roller furling for his boat and the rigger gives the boat owner a quote based on the boat owner's measurement, is the rigger dishonest if he charges more for the roller furling because it ends up being 5' longer that the owner told him?
Commonly boats are described by their LOA which I understand to be the horizontal distance from where the sheer meets the stem to where the transom meets the deck or hull.
Bowsprits and other extensions are considered special cases, especially in marinas.
If some other way of measuring is to be used then this should be stated at the beginning.
| 2019-04-22T02:23:10 |
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f2/how-to-tell-when-a-boatyard-is-in-trouble-12980-2.html
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I haven't found one better than "A New Order." It's ambiguous, just like "The Last Jedi," in the sense that it could mean so many different things: A new Jedi order. The First Order under Kylo. A new order of Force users and/or of political power as a blend of light and dark side users/powers. All of the above??
It's a pretty great idea, especially considering this title of the movie bringing the Skywalker Saga to a close would be a nice nod to A New Hope, the film that started it all.
According to other theories, the title for Episode IX might be hidden in the opening crawl from The Last Jedi, as the words "the last Jedi" were in the crawl from The Force Awakens. Some fans have theorized that the new movie could be called Spark of Hope.
Although, given the pushback against Disney and this new saga, some fans of the series would probably be thrilled if the movie were called: Star Wars: The Return of Luke With Abs and Actually Nothing in The Last Jedi Really Happened. May the Force be with us all.
| 2019-04-20T02:14:04 |
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a22776087/star-wars-9-title-theory/
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2. Campers DON'T want to get bitten by a ---------, even if it means they would be allowed to spend time recovering in the tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake.
5. What does Stanley look like?
7. What was special about Stanley's name?
B) It was the first time anyone in his family had ever been named Stanley.
C) It was given to him by Kate Barlow.
9. Why did Mr. Sir eat so many sunflower seeds?
A) Sunflower seeds were given to Camp Green Lake by the government which made them plentiful.
C) Mr. Sir ate sunflower seeds in place of smoking.
11. Why did Camp Green Lake have no guard towers or electric fences?
B) There was no water for 100 miles and so running away would be suicide.
13. Which question does Chapters 1-5 answer?
A) Will Stanley have trouble digging a five-foot deep hole?
B) Will Stanley's father invent a way to recycle old sneakers?
C) Did Stanley commit the crime for which he was convicted?
D) Will Stanley make friends at Camp Green Lake?
14. Which sentence from Holes supports the conclusion that the temperature at Camp Green Lake is exceedingly hot?
A) There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas.
B) The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock.
D) The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the "lake".
15. Which statement from Holes is an opinion?
A) Stanley's father was also named Stanley Yelnats.
B) Stanley was not a bad kid.
C) Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard.
D) When Stanley was younger he used to play with stuffed animals and pretend the animals were at camp.
| 2019-04-24T20:39:06 |
http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/previewtest?H/K/W/P/88951307235957
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Congress failed to keep the FAA funded so airport projects are in jeopardy.
Inaction by Congress has halted work on important modernization projects at the Oakland International Airport and on other airport improvement projects across the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.
LaHood told reporters in a conference call Monday that because Congress failed last Friday to keep the Federal Aviation Administration fully funded, 4,000 of the FAA's 45,000 employees were furloughed over the weekend and construction workers were told to stay at home.
However, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said air traffic controllers are continuing to work and there has not been any impact on flights.
"Air traffic is fully managed and there's no compromise to the safety of the traveling public," Babbitt said.
LaHood said a funding fight in Congress has forced the issuance of more than $148 million in stop-work orders at airports across the nation, including for a $31 million project to build a new air traffic control tower at the Oakland airport.
"Thousands of construction jobs have been halted because Congress didn't do its work," he said.
Port of Oakland spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur said ground was broken last October for the project to build the new 236-foot air traffic control tower. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2013.
Sandifur said the new tower will replace the two smaller and aging towers that currently serve the airport, give air traffic controllers a better view of the airfield and make the airport more efficient.
She said 60 people are working on the project but they were told not to report to work Monday.
San Francisco International Airport will also be hurt by the lack of funding. Some of the people furloughed were working on approval for a plan to allow super large airplanes to fly into SFO.
They are looking for permission for Boeing 747-800's to begin flight service.
LaHood said "there's no excuse" for Congress failing to pass legislation that maintains full funding for the FAA, and added that the funding "is critical for our country and our transportation system."
Justin Harclerode, a spokesman for House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., said the funding flap is complicated and stems from Mica's bid to cut about $16.5 million in federal subsidies to 13 small airports.
Harclerode said Mica wants to cut the funding because he thinks the subsidies are excessive and amount to more than $1,000 per airplane ticket at some small airports. He said the proposed reform is "very modest."
Harclerode said the measure was attached to a routine bill to reauthorize the FAA's taxing and spending powers through mid-September.
He said Congress passed the reauthorization bill last Wednesday but the Senate has not acted on it as of Monday afternoon.
The funding extension would have been the 21st since the FAA's long-term funding authorization expired in 2007.
LaHood said Congress should pass what he described as "a clean bill" without Mica's measure to keep the FAA fully funded now and work on long-term solutions to proposed reforms at a later date "so people can go back to work" soon.
However, according to Harclerode, "it's hard to predict" when the Congress and the Senate will agree on a new authorization bill for the FAA.
"We'll see what happens," Harclerode said.
| 2019-04-24T13:09:31 |
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Congressional-Standoff-Hurts-Bay-Area-Airport-Projects-126169878.html
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Bayern Munich and Poland's star striker is in a fantastic streak of form, but is it just a temporary high?
The saying "form is temporary, class is permanent," is often used to explain why some players always seem to turn up when they're most needed. But when a player goes on a scoring spree like Robert Lewandowski has in recent weeks - and actually for the past several seasons - the separation between the two are blurred. Surely you can't be both permanently class and permanently in form?
Many questions were raised when Bayern Munich signed Lewandowski on a free transfer in 2014 - what was the need for him in a team that already had a number nine in Mario Mandzukic and didn't play with wingers? Especially when Pep Guardiola, notorious for playing strikers out of position and falling out with them, had two false nines in Thomas Muller and Mario Gotze.
His first season was fairly quiet, just as it was at Dortmund, but at the moment, as good as Grant Hanley is, there isn't a defender in the world who can stop him. Why is Lewandowski such a goal machine this season?
The answer might lie with injuries to the key protagonists in Pep Guardiola's Plan A. With Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery injured, Bayern have no-one to play as an inside forward on each wing, the usual routine of cutting in from wide replaced with the more traditional wingers Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman.
As the spearhead of the attack at Dortmund, everything went through Lewandowski and he capitalised on the aggressive, counter-attacking style of play Jurgen Klopp favoured. In his first season at Bayern he had play with his back to goal a lot of the time. This made finding the space in the box to score almost a secondary job, though the 17 he scored in the Bundesliga in 2014/15 suggests he still took it seriously.
This season Guardiola has discovered, possibly by accident, that focusing the team on Robert Lewandowski is a very good idea. Poland have been doing it for a while now and it seems to work.
"With Douglas Costa and [Kingsley] Coman on the wings, there are lots of crosses and therefore lots of chances in the box," Lewandowski told ESPN. "It also helps that Thomas Müller is playing very closely to me, like a second striker.
"It's hard to keep the ball when you're up against four defenders and two holding midfielders by yourself. It's easier with somebody next to you, somebody you can combine with."
Costa and Coman like to run at full backs and cross the ball. Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery prefer to cut inside and shoot.
Last season Lewandowski wasn't played as an out-and-out goal scoring striker and Guardiola preferred to let either Gotze or Muller float around in the space, meaning Lewandowski would often find himself away from the centre of the box during attacking moves.
This season, he's the centre of attention and his shot conversion rate of 38 per cent suggests it's working. That figure will drop nearer to the 26 per cent average he has in the Bundesliga by the end of the season, but at the moment he is red hot.
Jurgen Klopp was the first to try and utilise Lewandowski's goal scoring abilities in the big leagues, signing the striker from Lech Poznan in 2008 for €4.5million. At the time of signing the striker had finished as top scorer in Poland's top league with 18 goals, but nobody - not even Sam Allardyce, who claimed he was an Icelandic volcano eruption away from signing Lewandowski before Dortmund - could have predicted how much he would improve.
"The biggest satisfaction you can get is when you take a player from Poland, from a small club and watch him play like he does today," Jurgen Klopp said recently, fuelling rumours of a transfer to Liverpool. "The difference between that player we signed and the player he is today is unbelievable."
The five goal blitz against Wolfsburg shows exactly what it is Robert Lewandowski can do that few players in world football can.
The third comes about due to poor defending but maintains the general theme of great strikers being in the right place at the right time, and the fourth created by intelligent running from deep at the perfect moment. The fifth though. The fifth is something else.
He should never have the amount of space he has to score a bicycle kick from 18 yards here, but he does. And to be fair, this is about the only kind of shot Lewandowski could have taken to guarantee getting enough power on the ball to put it past the keeper.
That's what makes him so good. Lewandowski is a combination of every single kind of forward player. He finds space and can outmuscle defenders like Alan Shearer, has the eye for goal of a Batistuta or (Brazilian) Ronaldo, the quickfeet and vision of Sergio Aguero and links up play like Yaya Toure.
What Lewandowski does so well is all of the most basic of things. He is strong and powerful in the air, which suits being the target man, brilliant on the ball and under pressure in the area; capable of finding that one yard of space he needs to get a shot away, and plays with a vision and understanding of teammates required of a creative number ten.
Before the five goals against Wolfsburg (and the several seasons of being brilliant before that), Lewandowski had proved he belonged in Europe's elite with a four goal haul against Real Madrid in 2013.
The first might seem like it's a poacher's goal, stretching for a cross at the back post, but to get that opportunity Lewandowski had to out-muscle Pepe - who is no pushover - and find the space at exactly the right time.
The second required exceptional positional sense. Lewandowski played off the last man in a constantly moving, well drilled and organised defence - this was Jose Mourinho's Real side - and was just onside to turn and shoot. Lethal.
But the third was utter brilliance. Schmelzer whacks in a cross to the middle of the box where you'd expect a scramble and everyone panics. Not Lewandowski. Some players have an ability to stay calm when surrounded by defenders - Sergio Aguero seems to have an extra yard on everyone else in the box when they try to tackle him - and for this goal, Lewandowski controls with one touch, drags the ball back to evade the challenge and set himself up for that one yard of space he needs to shoot. The power he gets behind the shot makes it impossible to save.
Working the space for the shot like this is the kind of thing Alan Shearer used to be able to do when he was at his most prolific, but the spinning, controlled turn is something only players of a certain quality - like Zinedine Zidane or Dennis Bergkamp - could do in the big matches.
To put it simply, the reason Lewandowski is so prolific is that he takes his chances but, crucially, makes more chances for himself than other strikers with his understanding of the game and where other people are. He averages around 3.3 shots per game which is fewer than Zlatan Ibrahimovic (4) and Luis Suarez (4.4) over the last few seasons, but takes his shots when he knows he'll score. He's usually right too.
There is something to be said for how decision making in football is one of the most important assets in an attacker's arsenal. There is never the sense when watching Lewandowski that he hasn't made the right decision - even Cristiano Ronaldo, perhaps the most comparable player in world football at present, does things on the pitch that make you question what he thought was going to happen.
Diego Costa, another traditional number nine, has struggled this season along with Chelsea. Jose Mourinho concedes that the players are failing because the team is failing and that one cannot be fixed without the other. International football is where Lewandowski can be considered a truly elite player.
Poland aren't that good. Scoring 13 goals in 10 games is. The last minute equaliser against Scotland only happened because Lewandowski was committed to the last, constantly seeking out the goal he is always so desperate to score. The winning header he scored against Ireland is the kind of thing we haven't seen a striker do since the days of Ronaldo and Batistuta in Serie A - it is pure power, skill and timing.
After scoring five against Wolfsburg and a hattrick in the Champions League against Dinamo Zagreb, Lewandowski's three goals in two games in Euro 2016 qualification means that he is the top scorer. What makes that ever the more impressive, is that in addition to this, he also has the fourth highest number of assists.
"In football you can't sometimes explain things," Lewandowski said in an interview after that five goal haul against Wolfsburg. "It happened so fast that it was impossible to think about the result. I will have many memories from that evening till the end of my life but the scoreboard with my name on will bring the strongest flashback."
| 2019-04-18T10:24:57 |
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/bayern-munich/11928742/Robert-Lewandowski-how-he-became-the-most-prolific-striker-in-Europe.html
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How to uninvite someone from a baby shower?
There is a girl that I went to high school with (graduated in 2007) that I absolutely HATED in high school, but I was forced to "pretend" to like her- I'm sure you know the type... Being on her side was better than being against her, because she was just so mean to people. Well, she had a baby shower about four years ago, so I went, and bought her a few good things. Now that I'm getting ready for my baby shower, I invited her out of courtesy. She now thinks that I'm her best friend! She still talks horribly about people we went to high school with, and is a loud, negative person- and on top of this, she told me she doesn't have a job right now, and won't be able to get anything for the baby, but wants to come to the shower anyway! I feel like if she comes to the shower, her negativity will overshadow the experience, and I'm afraid she'll ruin everything. I don't want to seem like a horrible person, so how do I tell her she isn't welcome?
I'm having the same dilemma, and actually graduated the same year as you. Since graduating high school I haven't talked to ANY of the girls I used to be buddy buddy with. I can't figure out whether or not to invite them. Unfortunately, in your situation, I would say that the best thing to do is just allow her to come, since you've already been forced to invite her. It will only be for one day and it sounds like since she "wants to be your best friend" she won't cause any drama. You should be just fine.
Sounds to me like you've got it figured out. If you aren't really afraid of hurting her feelings, which I wouldn't be either, then I think you're on the right track with uninviting her. This is your baby shower and you have control over who comes. Do what makes you happy!
Sweetie, knowing how she still acted after high school, you shouldn't have invited her to begin with. I'd simply tell her that this shower is something very important to you, & you do not want any cattiness period. If she can't contain herself, you'd rather her not attend. By acting this way, it seems to me that she is missing something in her life & she has to down others to make herself feel better. Maybe it's like you said, people befriended her out of fear or what she'd say about them if they didn't. Maybe she just needs a real friend, who will be upfront & honest with her, maybe she will realize how immature she is acting. You're not horrible for wanting a good baby shower but You'd feel horrible if you let someone ruin this experience for you. Obviously you've had some influence on her, cause people unable to bring a present might not show due to embarassment of finances, but she is still willing to come in support of you. To me, it sounds like maybe she is trying.
Her idea of being my "best friend" means insulting everyone around except me... I'm serious, this girl is the most negative person I've ever met, and I can't really believe I invited her in the first place. I've come to the conclusion that what I'll probably do is wait until a few days before the shower and just send her an email, saying that since I invited her, I've had a change of heart and think it would just be better if she not attend. I don't want to seem heartless, but I only want ONE baby- and I'm not planning on having another baby shower, ever. I don't think it's selfish of me to want it to be a wonderful experience. She's the type that will roll her eyes at the other guests' gifts, say bad things under her breath, and then wonder why I'm not enjoying myself because I'm so embarrassed!
| 2019-04-20T05:33:42 |
https://www.babycenter.com/400_how-to-uninvite-someone-from-a-baby-shower_6781415_292.bc
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What's the most creative use of emojis you've ever seen?
In today's generation advancements in cell phone technology have resulted in the creation of countless options for cell phone users. Emojis are one such option. The basic emojis are typically featured smiling faces, sad face, angry faces, thumbs up and an assortment of other basic emotions.
Emojis have evolved over time. Now people with smartphones can use everything from building to car, to fire emojis. There are many different emojis and people can use multiple emojis together to tell stories, sing-song lyrics, and much more. Here are some of the creative uses of emojis I have ever seen.
Someone has requested you to "hold on". The other person is a bit too impatient, or he/she is humorous. The use of the emojis is to show the person falling is hilarious.
Once you have the words right in front of you it is easy to see how much fun it can be to send messages and do other things with random emojis or strategically used emojis.
One can text vulgar messages in a creative way. He can imagine what other creative ways to use the emojis before in text conversations.
you need time to create a message with emojis. It is sweet and creatively used the play on words.
If a person has decided to make a message on Hamlet then he or she surely has not realized how it would cause someone to go and read Hamlet by William Shakespeare. I was impressed with the translation of the famous intro to Hamlet's soliloquy using emojis.
This is one of the craziest ways of using emojis in my opinion. Here two people are able to play connect four by sending emojis back and forth. I find it more impressive than the other texts. This makes me wonder what other games can be played using emojis.
| 2019-04-20T04:30:47 |
https://www.qries.com/What-s-the-most-creative-use-of-emojis-you-ve-ever-seen
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How does the [url=http://www.pc15.net/view_4342.html]metal access control[/url] keyboard work? First of all, we need to understand it. It is an access control integrated machine with a keyboard. Generally, it emits electromagnetic waves at a fixed frequency. The frequency is 13.56MHz. When the RFID proximity card enters the vicinity of the metal access control, it will trigger the coil on the induction card. The current and the antenna that triggers the proximity card emit a signal to the reader.
When the RFID proximity card is held into the working area of the reader, the reader of the metal access keypad recognizes the RFID tag, and the host authenticates and judges the identity of the tag. If the result is true, then the internal core control of the metal access control keyboard is A command to open the door is sent to the relay, and the energization of the relay causes the magnetic lock device to pull in and open the door lock.
When the internal access control of the metal access control keyboard is false, the person entering the door is judged to be an illegal user. At this time, the host will issue an erroneous alarm sound. If the device is subjected to human violence, the metal access control keypad will be triggered to issue an alarm control. The command, which drives the language prompt, sends the information of the cardholder illegally entering the access control to the host, so that the administrator can understand the situation in the first time and facilitate the processing.
The user uses an authorized proximity card outside the door to perform the unlocking task after confirming the legal identity through the metal access keypad.
The user uses an authorized proximity card outside the door to identify the identity through the metal access control keypad. The controller driver turns on the electric lock and releases the user. The user also needs to present the authorized proximity card. After the metal access control keyboard is recognized, the lock is unlocked. .
After the user swipes the card, the user needs to enter the correct password on the metal access control keyboard to perform the unlocking task. The password can be a personalized password. This advantage is applied to situations where the security level is higher.
| 2019-04-26T00:37:23 |
http://foro.ibericadepunto.com/viewtopic.php?p=15555
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Is each definition of a word a separate lexeme?
I read the Wikipedia entry for 'Lexeme' but I wasn't able to make out a clear answer to this question.
I'm interested in knowing the answer for both related and unrelated senses of a word. I'm under the impression that the different parts of speech that a word could take on would be different lexemes but if that's not the case I'd like to know.
If the same sequence of graphemes can serve as different parts of speech (e.g. the noun 'run' vs. the verb 'run'), those are separate lexemes.
If, within a single part-of-speech, the sequence of graphemes has multiple etymologically-separate possible meanings, those are separate lexemes. Homonyms are separate lexemes.
If, within a single part-of-speech, some group of definitions for a grapheme sequence are very closely related in meaning and also etymologically closely related, then those different definitions do not constitute separate lexemes, but are instead considered different "senses" within a single polysemous lexeme.
A lexeme belongs to a particular syntactic category, has a certain meaning (semantic value), and in inflecting languages, has a corresponding inflectional paradigm; that is, a lexeme in many languages will have many different forms.
A syntactic category is a type of syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume. Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories.
A fish, and a flatworm.
The end parts of an anchor.
The fins on a whale's tail.
These meanings represent at least three etymologically separate lexemes, but share the one form, fluke.
A polyseme is a word or phrase with different, but related senses. (...) The difference between homonyms and polysemes is subtle. Lexicographers define polysemes within a single dictionary lemma, numbering different meanings, while homonyms are treated in separate lemmata. Semantic shift can separate a polysemous word into separate homonyms. For example, check as in "bank check" (or Cheque), check in chess, and check meaning "verification" are considered homonyms, while they originated as a single word derived from chess in the 14th century.
In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of words (headword). In English, for example, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, with 'run' as the lemma. 'Lexeme', in this context, refers to the set of all the forms that have the same meaning, and lemma refers to the particular form that is chosen by convention to represent the lexeme.
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| 2019-04-23T11:00:42 |
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/29003/is-each-definition-of-a-word-a-separate-lexeme
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On what turned out to be a pretty bad day in office, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand went down rather tamely in the second game on Sunday and now trails 0.5-1.5 in the 12-game match.
The initial strategy has backfired and it's time for Viswanathan Anand to reconcile and come out with fresh ideas to recover the lost ground in the World Chess Championship match against holder Magnus Carlsen on Tuesday.
However, as was the case in the last world championship match, Carlsen tuned the position of both games to his liking after some time and while Anand salvaged a half point in the first game, in the second he never got a chance.
Anand looked more tentative than Carlsen and it was hesitation that cost him dearly in the second game.
"I didn't quite look at it that way, in terms of the hour, I kept hesitating between the queen and Bishop move. Even then it's not catastrophic there are many moments after that but may be the slip up had started already," Anand mentioned candidly in the post-game conference when asked about a possible slip-up in the third hour.
To his credit, Carlsen was at his best and did what he has mastered against top class opponents. An innocuous opening reached a level middle game and then the complexities stared to burden Anand to the extent that he fumbled and produced a rare blunder. This was clearly caused by sustained pressure by the Norwegian.
While giving his thought on the game Carlsen did not mince words on his choice.
"We have an equal but playable position, that's ok by me," he said.
"There was not too much going on to be honest, I thought I might have a slight initiative when I got my rook life I was feeling more optimistic, if black has to go for the set-up (in the game) then it's clear that something has gone pretty seriously wrong," Carlsen said when asked about his opinion.
On his general strategy also Carlsen was forthcoming. "I just tried to put him under pressure, I don't know if I played the most accurate way, I think he could certainly have defended better, you cannot win in chess without mistakes, you got to play well to induce those," he said.
In the last world championship match, Anand had drawn four before losing the fifth game. The speed king of chess will have to not only stop further damage but also seek a quick cruise control to stage a comeback in the match. In the third game on Tuesday Anand will play with white pieces.
| 2019-04-24T12:20:53 |
https://sports.ndtv.com/chess/viswanathan-anand-seeks-to-gain-lost-ground-against-magnus-carlsen-in-world-chess-championship-1509870
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What's the ideal mix of ingredients in cement? Research published in the journal Nature Communications suggests a new formula that could reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while also improving durability.
Concrete — a mixture of sand, gravel, water and cement — is the world's most-used construction material and its manufacture makes a significant contribution to global warming. Most emissions come from the production of cement, which is made by cooking calcium-rich material, usually limestone, with silica-rich material such as clay at temperatures of 1,500 degrees Celsius. That results in a hard mass called "clinker" which is then ground up into a powder.
A detailed molecular analysis of the complex structure of concrete has been made by Roland Pellenq, senior research scientist at MIT, together with professors Krystyn Van Vliet, Franz-Josef Ulm, Sidney Yip and Markus Buehler and eight co-authors at MIT and CNRS in Marseille, France. They discovered that reducing the ratio of calcium to silicate would not only cut harmful emissions, but would actually produce better, stronger concrete.
Conventional cements have a calcium-to-silica ratio from about 1.2 to 2.2, with 1.7 accepted as the standard. After building a database of all the chemical formulations, the researchers found that the optimum mixture was not the one typically used today, but a ratio of about 1.5.
At that point the material can achieve "two times the resistance of normal cement, in mechanical resistance to fracture, with some molecular-scale design," Pellenq explained.
This improved resistance to mechanical stress means that the revised formulation could be of particular interest to the oil and gas industry, where cement is used around well casings to prevent leakage and blowouts.
| 2019-04-22T12:01:07 |
https://www.processingmagazine.com/researchers-propose-formula-for-stronger-cement/
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The British prime minister said further talks would take place in the coming days on measures she hopes will persuade MPs to back the agreement in parliament.
EU leaders acknowledged the need to "bring down the temperature" after appearing to rebuff her calls for assurances on the Northern Ireland backstop at a late-night press conference in Brussels.
At the same time however, European Council president Donald Tusk said he had "no mandate" to open new negotiations, although he would remain at Mrs May's "disposal".
Mrs May was apparently infuriated after he described the British negotiating position as "nebulous and imprecise", and called on the UK government to spell out exactly what it wanted from the talks.
Mr Juncker said he had been able to convince her that his remarks had referred to the wider Brexit debate in the UK, joking: "After having checked what I said yesterday night, she was kissing me."
In her end-of-summit press conference, she acknowledged that the Withdrawal Agreement could not be reopened, but insisted their discussions had shown there was scope for "further clarification" on the way the backstop would operate.
"The EU is clear, as I am, that if we are going to leave with a deal, this is it," she said.
"But my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification and discussion following the council's conclusions is in fact possible.
"There is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that the UK parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal."
Mr Juncker said: "Because I was following second by second the debate in the House of Commons and I noted there was a deep mistrust in the house when it comes to the European Union.
"That is not a good basis for future relations.
"We have to bring down the temperature.
"These attacks coming from Westminster against Europe and the European Commission will not be responded to in the same way by Europe and the European Commission, although I would like to do it.
"We have treated Prime Minister May with the greatest respect, all of us.
"And we really appreciate the efforts by the prime minister to ratify our common agreement.
"My impression is that in fact we have treated Prime Minister May with much greater empathy and respect than some British MPs, for sure."
Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel said Mrs May had won the "best possible deal" and that it was now up to MPs at Westminster to be "responsible" and vote for it.
"They should not forget they are elected to represent their citizens and not to just have their personal, political future thinking about that."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "The last 24 hours have confirmed that Theresa May's Brexit deal is dead in the water.
"The Prime Minister has utterly failed in her attempts to deliver any meaningful changes to her botched deal."
| 2019-04-22T19:59:39 |
http://www.irishnews.com/news/brexit/2018/12/15/news/theresa-may-efforts-to-win-fresh-assurances-on-brexit-deal-remain-on-track-1509213/
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I know I've posted a picture similar to this already, but I can't help but think my little girl is adorable when she's trying to be like Momma (or Daddy). Here's a list of some things she's done lately.
- She wants to put makeup and lotion on like Momma does. I keep my hand mirror hanging over the toilet seat. In the mornings she climbs on the toilet, asks me for some makeup props, and then looks carefully into the mirror while dusting her face with imaginary blush or dabbing her cheeks with lotion. She also asks for hand sanitizer followed by a dollop of lotion after diaper changes, just like Mom.
- She is loving that Spring actually feels like spring and always wants to go outside. She's learned that, in order to be ready to go outside, we have to have shoes on. She's become good at locating her socks and shoes- or just her sandals- and brings them over for me to put on her. She's become frustrated, however, that I'm not always ready to go when she is. She has therefore also started bringing her shoes and my shoes to me, and if Daddy is home, she'll fetch his as well. Then she grabs a blanket or stuffed animal, our playground bag, and sometimes touches her head, indicating the need for a hat. I guess we get each other ready in the mornings.
- She's had a runny nose and been drooly all week. Her face is red and cracking from nose wiping. I feel terrible that she has have such miserable symptoms in light of her recent dedication to being a good girl. Two weeks ago (when I thought we had hit the terrible two's early) I might not have minded quite so much... I'm pretty sure that makes me a terrible mother. As it is I ended up crying on the phone with the pediatrician's office when they told me there's not really a recommendation to help runny noses in children under two. Two weeks ago I still would have called, but I don't know if I would have cried.
- Reese is growing out of her high chair. Sometimes she refuses to sit in it. She'd rather be in a normal chair like her parents.
- She's finally starting to talk. She likes to repeat things that we say, and says "see ya" when we leave someone. She doesn't just wave and greet people, though, she also issues salutations to the birds when we're outside.
She is getting so big, and stinking cute!
| 2019-04-22T06:54:23 |
http://heath-bar.blogspot.com/2010/04/good-girl.html
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If you are planning a large event you need to know how much food to prepare for the number of people expected. The purpose of the event should determine the type of food prepared. A brunch will include breakfast dishes, such as eggs and bacon with biscuits. A buffet dinner might include hot meals or cold cuts and salads. When deciding on a menu include dishes you are experienced in, which you can make ahead and freeze, but can be reheated with ease. Chef Menu suggests serving meals that are proven, such as chicken and pasta. Keep in mind food allergies when planning the menu.
Fix breakfast meals for brunch that include pancakes at 7 lb. per 50 guests; for French toast you will need about four loaves; biscuits, muffins and bagels are calculated at two per guest. Included in brunch for 50 guests is scrambled eggs at eight-and-a-half dozen, 6 lb. of bacon, 10 to 12 lb. of sausage, four loaves of bread and a pound of butter.
Supply 8 oz. of drinks per person. That includes soft drinks, fruit drinks, lemonade, tea and punch. You will need 11 1/2 lb. of coffee for 50 people. Divide that by two for 25 guests and double for 100 guests. Include 2 1/2 pints of half-and-half dairy cream and 12 oz. of sugar per 50 guests.
Fix a spaghetti dinner with four to five 6-lb. boxes of spaghetti, 6 quarts of sauce and 10 lb. of hamburger for meatballs. You will need 5 gallons of tossed salad and six dozen rolls to finish off a meal for 50 people. If you prefer serving meats, the yields for 50 guests are 12 lb. of meat, poultry and fish. For cold cuts, consider 8 lb. plus 4 lb. of cheese slices.
Serve salads with cold cut meals such as potato and coleslaw at 2 gallons per 50 guests. Chicken salad can serve as a main dish at 3 gallons or a side dish that includes 1 1/2 gallons per 50 people. Vegetables for hot dishes should include 18 to 22 lb. of potatoes (raw), frozen corn, spinach, green beans and peas at 10 lb. per 50 people.
Include condiments in the planning. You will need 32 oz. of mayonnaise, 8 oz. of mustard, 40 oz. of ketchup, and 1 qt. of salad dressing per 50 guests. Figure 2 qt. of pickles, relish and salsa.
Serve foods less likely to cause allergic reactions.
| 2019-04-24T15:57:01 |
https://www.ehow.com/how_8271295_determine-amount-food-number-people.html
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I'm not sure why so many indie filmmakers feel compelled to make horror comedies, since it's an area that even veterans with a lot of talent on both sides of the camera (and a good budget) struggle with. The two key components of a comedy are the actors' timing and the film's editing, both of which are problems in most movies with 5 digit budgets. Thus, it's not much of a surprise that My Step-Dad's A Freakin' Vampire! fails pretty miserably in the comedy department, as amateur actors fail to give a potentially decent one-liner or reaction the energy they would require to work, and the editor (also the director, if you didn't already guess) makes it worse by letting the shot hang there for a few frames (seconds?) more than necessary.
In fact the best joke is the title itself, because it's funny that it's actually a bit of a spoiler. For the first half of the movie, our "hero" assumes his step-dad is merely a serial killer, so we have to wait for him to catch up to us, which doesn't help the movie's pacing and timing issues. I mean, obviously he wasn't going to be screaming VAMPIRE! in the first scene, but I certainly shouldn't already be checking my watch before he gets to it, either. Another 5-10 minutes and people would be leveling the same complaint at this movie that they do toward Jason Takes Manhattan, except worse because at least Jason killed like 15 people in the meantime. Our vampire doesn't do a hell of a lot; he complains about the kid taking the car just as often as he kills random victims. In fact, I couldn't help but wonder if the movie would have been a lot funnier/better (even with the amateur actors) if he was upfront about being a vampire - like, that was part of the problem the kid was having. "My mom should be with a normal guy, not some vampire scum!" - that could be amusing.
Another issue is that the kid isn't much more likable than the vampire. He's not HATEFUL, but I just didn't find much reason to root for him, either - maybe it was because he somewhat resembled Eli Roth? At any rate he was just sort of bland, and since the vampire wasn't striking much fear into the hearts of men (me), I didn't feel compelled to root him on like I would for Van Helsing going up against Christopher Lee or Frank Langella. I did enjoy his chemistry with his buddies though; it was natural and amiable, with the right balance of ball-busting and genuine affection for one another. Since I have written "these 'friends' seem to hate each other" about 1000 times on this site, I am always happy to report when it's not the case.
Thankfully, the movie picks up in its final 30 minutes, when the step-dad raises a bunch of demon vamps, giving the movie something to do (kill them) until the final showdown between the kid and his would-be father figure. The makeup/costumes are pretty good, and there's a lot of goo flying around - the movie's big action highlight finds our heroes running a few over as they drive around town, with green slime splattering them, their car, other characters... good stuff, and impressive for a film that didn't have a lot of dough. In fact it's pretty obvious that the bulk of the budget probably went here (these sequences also involve some compositing and basic CGI effects), so it's a shame that they didn't spread this stuff out to give the movie more life throughout - by the time it really starts to get fun to watch, many of today's ADD-addled horror fans will probably have given up and put in their copy of Fright Night (either version). They could also go with Big Bad Wolf, which was similar but more of a straight horror film, and superior because it had better actors AND the best "let's prove what he is" scene in movie history.
It also had a primary female character or two, something this movie curiously lacks. David DeCoteau films have more ladies on hand; the only one of note is the mother who is out of town for all but about 10 minutes of the film. Then there's a lady who works at their school and another mom, and that's it. The rest of the movie is a few guys going after the vamp (guy) and his Reinfeld (guy), with the help of a janitor (guy) and the principal (girl - haha, kidding, another guy). I was starting to wonder if I had maybe missed a plot point that the vampire was only marrying his mom because she was the only female left in town. I mean, there's nothing wrong with an all male horror film - The Thing seemed to do OK without them, but there was a clear reason for it there. Where the hell are they in this little town?
It's a shame too, the production itself was more professional than expected, the FX were solid, and there's plenty of potential in the concept. But the attempts at humor all fall flat, and it just takes too long to get moving, giving the audience too much downtime to think about similar "I suspect vampire!" movies they could be watching instead. I think the filmmaker has promise, however, and am fully confident he will deliver a stronger film on his next go-round.
| 2019-04-22T02:21:50 |
http://horror-movie-a-day.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-step-dads-freakin-vampire.html
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Will a 2009 or 2010 also match 2008 Display?
I accidentally dropped my Late 2008 Macbook Pro and broke the glass and have a dent on the Display cover now. I would like to replace it now. I couldn't find a matching Display and Display cover for Late 2008. Would a 2009 or 2010 model's Display fit a Late 2008 model?
You don't mention if it's a 13, 15 or 17 inch machine. Check the parts catalogue for your exact model. On that page there's a "compatibility" index - there you'll find your answer.
| 2019-04-24T08:19:02 |
https://zh.ifixit.com/Answers/View/150946/Will+a+2009+or+2010+also+match+2008+Display
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It's sometimes difficult to prove who is at fault -- or liability -- for slip and fall accidents. Thousands of people each year are injured, many seriously, from slipping and falling on a floor, stairs, or other surface that has become slick or dangerous. Even ground that has become uneven to a dangerous degree can lead to severe injuries. However, sometimes it may be difficult to prove that the owner of the property is responsible for a slip and fall accident.
Could the Property Owner Have Prevented the Accident?
If you or a loved one has been injured in a slip and fall accident, it may be tempting to seek out justice in the form of a lawsuit as soon as possible. But stop and ask this question first: If the property owner was more careful, could the accident have been avoided?
For example, even if a leaking roof leads to a slippery condition that you slip and fall on, the property owner may not be responsible for your injuries if there was a drainage grate in the floor designed to limit slippery conditions. In addition, property owners won't always be responsible for things that a reasonable person would have avoided, such as tripping over something that would normally be found in that location (like a leaf rake on a lawn in the fall). Every person has a responsibility to be aware of their surroundings and make efforts to avoid dangerous conditions.
In addition, property owners have a duty to ensure that swimming pools, trampolines and other so-called "attractive nuisances" are secure. For instance, swimming pools must be securely covered and/or protected by a fence to prevent children from using them when unattended.
However, this doesn't mean that property owners are never held responsible for the injuries of others that slipped and fell on their property. Although this isn't a a cut-and-dried rule, property owners still must take reasonable steps to ensure that their property is free from dangerous conditions that would cause a person to slip and fall. However, this reasonableness is often balanced against the care that the person that slipped and fell should have used. What follows are some guidelines that courts and insurance companies use when determining fault in slip and fall accidents.
Either the property owner or his employee should have known of the dangerous condition because another, "reasonable" person in his or her position would have known about the dangerous condition and fixed it.
Either the property owner or his employee actually did know about the dangerous condition but did not repair or fix it.
Either the property owner or his employee caused the dangerous condition (spill, broken flooring, etc.).
Because many property owners are, in general, pretty good about the upkeep on their premises, the first situation is most often the one that is litigated in slip and fall accidents. However, the first situation is also the most tricky to prove because of the words "should have known." After presenting your evidence and arguments, it'll be up to the judge or jury to decide whether the property owner should have known about the slippery step that caused you to fall.
If you have a valid claim of negligence for a slip and fall injury, you'll want to work out the types of damages for which your lawsuit will seek compensation, including medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering. To get a ballpark figure of what your case may be worth, take a look at our damage estimate worksheet.
How long had the defect been present before your accident? In other words, if the leaking roof over the stairwell had been leaking for the past three months, then it was less reasonable for the owner to allow the leak to continue than if the leak had just started the night before and the landlord was only waiting for the rain to stop in order to fix it.
What kinds of daily cleaning activities does the property owner engage in? If the property owner claims that he or she inspects the property daily, what kind of proof can he or she show to support this claim?
If your slip and fall accident involved tripping over something that was left on the floor or in another place where you tripped on it, was there a legitimate reason for that object to be there?
If your slip and fall accident involved tripping over something that was left on the floor that once had a legitimate reason for being there, did the legitimate reason still exist at the time of your accident? For example, tripping over a can of paint in a living room is probably not reasonable if the last time the room had been painted was over 2 years ago and the owner had no immediate plans to repaint the room.
Most states follow the rule of comparative negligence when it comes to slip and fall accidents, providing a defense to negligence charges. This means that if you, in some way, contributed to your own accident (for example, you were talking on your cell phone and not paying attention to a warning sign), your award for your injuries and other damages may be lessened by the amount that you were comparatively at fault (this percentage is determined by a judge or jury).
Did you have a legitimate reason for being on the property owner's premises when the accident happened? Should the owner have anticipated you, or someone in a similar situation to you, being there?
Would person of reasonable caution in the same situation have noticed and avoided the dangerous condition, or handled the condition in a way that would have lessened the chances of slipping and falling (for example, holding onto the handrail while going down icy stairs)?
Did the property owner erect a barrier or give warning of the dangerous condition that led to your slip and fall accident?
Were you engaging in any activities that contributed to your slip and fall accident? Examples include: running around the edges of pools, texting while walking, jumping or skipping, attempting to ice skate while in your business shoes, etc.
If you've been talking with the insurance company about a possible settlement for your injuries, you'll probably be asked many questions that are similar to these. Although you won't have to prove to the insurance company that you were extremely careful, you'll probably have to show enough so that the insurance company can conclude that you weren't acting negligently yoursel.
If you've been hurt in a slip-and-fall accident, you may want to contact an attorney as soon as possible. Because of statutes of limitations which limit the time a person has to bring an injury lawsuit, you should act quickly. If you think you have a claim, you may want to get in touch with an experienced, local personal injury attorney as soon as possible.
| 2019-04-22T16:21:20 |
https://injury.findlaw.com/torts-and-personal-injuries/proving-fault-in-slip-and-fall-accidents.html
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For a taste of Provence, try Michel Roux Junior's sophisticated and elegant version of a classic French fish dish.
1. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion, celery, leek, garlic, celeriac and fennel.
2. Fry, stirring often, for 10 minutes. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.
3. Add the potato, saffron and white wine. Cook briskly until the wine is reduced by half, then add the vegetable stock. Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 20 minutes.
4. Blend the vegetable mixture until smooth in a jug blender or food processor, then pass through a sieve. The resulting sauce should be quite thick. Gently reheat the sauce, stirring now and then.
5. Preheat the oven to 220ºC/Gas 7. Place the cod steaks on a lightly oiled non-stick baking sheet and lightly brush with olive oil. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.
6. Bake the cod steaks for 7-8 minutes, depending on the thickness of the fish. Meanwhile, mix together the remaining olive oil with the chopped mixed herbs.
7. Ladle the hot sauce into 4 deep serving plates. Place a baked cod steak in the centre of each plate. Drizzle over the herb olive oil and serve at once.
| 2019-04-24T15:52:10 |
https://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/recipe/baked-cod-bourride-style/
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I just started sewing in earnest about two years ago. I've never been afraid of sewing, but I dove into it for my wedding, and by following the directions that came with the various patterns I used I was able to make not only shirts and trousers for myself, but also a frock coat for myself, and my wife's wedding ensemble, including a Victorian riding jacket with boning. I'll tell you, her jacket came out a lot better than my frock coat, but I'd made mine first and learned a lot.
That's just to say that I'm pretty much not afraid of any pattern I can get my hands on. I'm good at reading and following directions, and I have a good spacial sense so I can envision how fabric will end up after being turned inside out and backwards (like collars and welt pockets). The next step is to learn to draft my own patterns. That way I can make anything, and I'll know it will fit!
With that goal in mind I found a book that could have been written just for me: The Victorian Tailor: An Introduction to Period Tailoring, by Jason Maclochlainn. It walks you through the changes in fashion through the various decades of Queen Victoria's reign, details fabrics which were used in making the clothing, teaches you the tools of the time and how to sew various stitches necessary to make the clothes, and then finally tells how to measure and scale your measurements, and how to draft a variety of styles of trousers, waistcoats and coats.
Well. I followed the directions for drafting a general style of trousers (this one isn't given a place in time or style, but there are other patterns for trousers including 1850 pants, shooting breeches, 1868 dress pants, 1870s American pants, 1870s morning pants, and an entire lounge suit). However, the directions for drafting the pattern don't include how to draft a fly or the fly button catch, and of all of the trousers I just listed, only the lounge suit includes those pieces in its pattern. I guess I'll have to use that as a base for these trousers. Also, even though I said above I have good spacial sense, I got a little lost toward the end of drafting my pattern. Apparently the book was supposed to be twice as long, and the publisher had it edited down to its present size, which could account for why some of the directions are extremely detailed, and why other bits aren't there at all. Certainly I can figure out on my own how to make a fly covering, especially as there are details on the fly lining.
Having said all that, here are pictures of my draft. I basted them together, and they seem to fit fine, despite my kind of mangling the seat portion of the rear pattern.
| 2019-04-23T04:22:28 |
http://victoriantailor.blogspot.com/2012/06/day-trousers-part-1-draft.html
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Industrial Cage Wall Sconce - If you've ever before felt the need to get back and relax after a difficult day's work at work or to make a quiet romantic evening, or you want to emphasize your latest art acquisition above the mantelpiece. Or simply simply trying to light a dull area, then you should probably think about wall sconces since they can do all this for you and more. Nothing does the work for creating the right mood like the right kind of lighting and wall sconces give you several options to exploit the interplay between light and color to make a brilliant atmosphere.
The light produced by sconces originates from a bulb, which is mirrored from the reflective surface of the sconce as well as the top which it is targeted on. This is where wall scones can be so versatile in their energy since different floors and different types of sconces may be used to create various gorgeous effects. For example, on a color absorbing surface, light from the sconces will combine with the top color to provide a softened hue as backdrop whereas, on a reflective surface, the sconces can give an environ swathed in light.
If one were to look for wall sconces online, they could come across as much as 20 categories or higher; including the traditional art d?cor types in several different finishes from wrought flat iron to gold, with support set ups ranging from swing action hands to down hands etc. On first glance, the sheer variety of wall sconces can be marginally mind-boggling, but one can easily slim down the list of choices by deciding their own needs first.
A number of the questions which should one thinks of when shopping for wall sconces include, what is the lighting task I wish to accomplish? What is the mood I would like to generate? What is the current lighting situation in the area, including light that will come in from windows and doors? How high is the ceiling, how large is the wall etc. You can find the answers to all these questions simply by using a handheld flashlight and pointing it up, down, sideways, near or from the surface in order to ascertain what kind of wall sconce is wonderful for you.
Although putting in sconces is usually easy enough to make it a "do-it-yourself" job, particularly when most wall sconces install similarly, you may want to look into the wiring strategies for your place. And if the thing is that the wiring must be improved or upgraded, you need to hire a specialist to do the assembly. You'll also need the services of a specialist if the sconce requires a dimmer or special transition.
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| 2019-04-26T13:39:58 |
http://srint.org/3046-industrial-cage-wall-sconce/
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How to Bollinger Bands Work?
Bollinger Bands are made up of three lines. The first line (middle line) is a 20 day standard moving average line. Two other lines are plotted, an upper bound which represents a 2 standard deviation move above the moving average line and a lower bound that represents a two standard deviation move below the moving average.
Bollinger bands can be used for any time period data (from tick data to monthly). They are designed to react quickly to changes in momentum. When prices move above their upper bound they are higher relative to the average. Conversely, when prices move below the lower bound they are low relative to their average.
Whilst the 20 day period is standard, Bollinger suggest for shorter time periods or trends that a 10 period moving average is appropriate. For longer trends a 50 day moving average can be incorporated.
Bollinger bands are not generally used as a trading system by themselves. Usually, they are used in conjunction with other technical analysis indicators as confirmation of a pattern or signal. For example, if a price reaches the upper band during a breakout pattern (such as a head and shoulders bottom) then this might help confirm a new uptrend. However, if prices hit the upper Bollinger Band with no accompanying signals then this might be a short sell opportunity.
Some empirical studies have noted that good results have been obtained by buying when the price reaches the lower bound and closing when the price touches the upper bound.
| 2019-04-19T11:10:12 |
http://www.fxstrategy.com/articles/technical-analysis-articles/bollinger-bands-29.html
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To allow for a character to emerge or to keep it sans narrative?
In making the current body of work, a repeating figure is starting to make it's way in my sketches and prints. I find myself asking how illustrative I want to be. Should I lean into this idea and see if it's got wings, or should I pull focus and keep the narrative in the realm of implied metaphor?
I don't know yet. My intuition tells me to go ahead and explore it, and embrace the fact that I am a walking cliché.
| 2019-04-20T20:22:21 |
https://www.kelseylivingstonart.com/http/kelseylivingstonartblogspotcom/2017/9/23/to-allow-for-a-character-to-emerge-or-to-keep-it-sans-narrative
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Write in the Open: Where do you write?
Many years ago, my mom took my sisters and I to see Louisa May Alcott's house. I was amazed when the tour guide pointed out the exact spot where she wrote Little Women. I couldn't believe I got to see the place where my favorite book in the world was written.
I'm not sure if this is true for everyone, but I've never been able to just write anywhere. I do my best work when I'm set up in the places I'm most comfortable. For me, that is one of two places.
The more comfortable of the two places I like to write is on my couch.
I like getting to stretch out on the couch and have full access to the TV for background noise. In fact, this is the spot where I finished my novel.
But I'll be honest, I don't get as much writing done when I'm sitting there. I get too distracted by the TV or start to doze off. I need a little bit of a straighter chair to stay focus.
So most of my writing is done at the desk in our dining room. This is the desk I had in my bedroom growing up, and now it is the desk that houses our family computer.
While I'm working, I'll either set up the I Pad to watch old episodes of Gilmore Girls or listen to Pandora.
Even though I hand write everything first, it's also nice to be right in front of the computer so I don't have to move to transcribe. Ideally, I'd love to have my own office space to write, but that's not an option right now. So until then I'll claim this spot whenever someone else in my house isn't using it.
What about you? Is there a special place you get your best writing done, or can you write anywhere?
Like you, at my desk, on my computer, is where I "blog." Located in the kitchen/dining area, not exactly private, but it works for me.
Yes:) One day we will have our own offices!
I have to be at a desk to write. And I am so used to typing on the computer for work that I don't know if I would be able to write in a notebook anymore! I also find it easiest to write while listening to music - usually classical music, which is something I don't think most people know about me.
It's definitely strange to write in a notebook, but there's just something so much more personal about it that I loved!
| 2019-04-21T02:24:36 |
http://www.writeintheopen.com/2015/01/where-do-you-write.html
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Holocaust Controversies: What Did Reginald Paget Deny and Accept?
What Did Reginald Paget Deny and Accept?
Manstein's defence attorney Reginald Paget has been used by deniers, such as Mattogno and Graf here, to support their claim that there was no extermination policy in the Crimea. Below I will show that Paget's opening speech to the Manstein trial regarding extermination policy was far less convenient to modern deniers than they assume. On the one hand, Manstein supported denial to the extent of claiming that killing numbers in Operational Situation Reports were massively exaggerated and that the SD did not have the manpower or time to carry out that volume of killing. He also denied that the Wehrmacht shot Jews because they were Jews rather than because of partisan warfare. On the other hand, however, Paget accepted that the SD had received "an assignment to exterminate the Jews" and that "resettlement" was a camouflage term for execution.
It can be seen from this that Paget accepted that the SD had been given an "assignment to exterminate the Jews" but claimed that, for logistical and psychological reasons, it was not fulfilled. Conversely, the top of the same page shows Paget conceding the execution of Jews at the Bachtschisseraj civilian prisoner camp in July 1942 (recorded in this document) but denying that they were drowned. He also conceded that "resettlement" was a "camouflage" term for executions. It can also been seen on the previous page (p.25 of TR.4/24) that Paget accepted the execution of 2,500 Jews at Kersch. This had been recorded in a document where, as the court proved by forensic analysis, execution had been crossed out and replaced by "resettled." Paget therefore also conceded, by accepting that document, that resettlement was used as camouflage language.
Paget's claims about the survival of large numbers of Jews in Simferopol and the logistical impossibility of killing such large numbers with the available personnel have already been refuted in excellent pieces by Roberto here and Hans here. My next article will refute his claim that Manstein was not culpable of Nazi crimes against Jews.
| 2019-04-22T05:17:22 |
http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2018/04/what-did-reginald-paget-deny-and-accept.html
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What are the benefits of a mobile wallet application?
Convenience and preference: Passes stored in the customers' preferred wallet application provide ultimate convenience, minimal memory usage and aligns with smartphone owners’ preferences. Similar to how smartphone owners like to store and manage their email in their native mail application, they like to store and manage wallet content in their native wallet application.
As well as the dynamic nature of the pass, links can be placed on the back of the pass, which allows the customer to find you (and your web assets) easily. For example, they can link to your app quickly, or your website, or link to the map application to find the nearest branch, or call your customer support centre. Effectively a pass presents a ‘smart bookmark’ for the smartphone owner to all of your assets. All without having to remember your web address or where they stored your app (if they have installed your app).
Cost: It costs significantly less to implement wallet content with PassKit when compared to designing, developing, distributing and maintaining this functionality with your own application. You can then focus your precious IT resources on making your app (if you have one), or your mobile website, more useful / immersive for customers, and allow them to store wallet content in the wallet application. Note for businesses that do have an app, or considering implementing an app, the wallet application works in collaboration with an application. Companion apps should not duplicate the functionality of the Wallet app, rather they should enrich the user experience by doing things that Wallet can’t do, such as letting the user select a reward, redeem points; and when they do so the Pass is automatically updated. This can happen even if the customer chooses to transact or take some action (e.g. redeem points) online (even if they are not on their smartphone).
Time: PassKit technology is available today as are wallet applications in most smartphones. For any smartphone that does not have a wallet application, PassKit provides a wallet application that can be downloaded, or a browser fall back if a customer still doesn’t want to install an app but wants to view the wallet content. A consumer also has the option to print the wallet content (if they still want a paper version of the pass).
Brand Image: By using digital Passes, as opposed to plastic, paper or emails, your company is seen as progressive and innovative. There is also a corporate social responsibility (CSR) angle you can promote, as you are reducing the consumption of wasteful paper and plastic.
| 2019-04-18T22:41:12 |
https://help.passkit.com/passes/using-passes/what-are-the-benefits-of-a-mobile-wallet-application
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So in the bleak mid worst weather ever, what could possibly lure me out of the house for almost the first time in four days? A film about ice skating, of course.
But no ordinary film about ice skating would have me wading through ankle-deep slush for 20 minutes. This is, apparently, 'the Goodfellas of ice skating movies'. I'm in.
Although thinking about it, how many ice skating movies are there? The Bond film where Roger Moore wears a brown cardigan and is too old to sleep with the heroine? The one about the Mighty Ducks? Blades of Glory? Woah, the bar is low.
But to be fair, the height of the bar matters not one jot, as I, Tonya would triple axel over it effortlessly were it way above my head.
Ballsy, violent, distressing, deeply sad and yet also weirdly uplifting and beautiful, I, Tonya holds up a dark, distorted mirror to the American dream. Not so much breaking the fourth wall as smashing through it with a pickaxe, the film is narrated by figure skating champion Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie – splendid), interrupted and contradicted by the key figures in her life: her viscous mother LaVona (Allison Janney – superb, an Oscar well earned), coach Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson), ex-husband Jeff Gilhooley (Sebastian Stan), and Jeff's delusional best mate Shawn (Paul Walter Hawser), who thinks he's some kind of secret agent but lives in his mom's basement. And of course the film dances dangerously round the truth of the terrible competitor knobbling scandal that ruined Harding's career. Did she collude with Jeff and Shawn to smash the knee of rival skater Nancy Kerrigan? Watch the film, dude!
Dirt poor and dragged up by LaVona, Tonya has been skating since she was three. All her life she's known nothing but hard work and abuse, both mental and physical. So small surprise that she marries Jeff despite the fact that he hits her. So far so small town kitchen sink drama, except that trashy redneck Tonya, with her painted nails, frizzy perm and perpetual make-up-slathered shiner, is also America's finest figure skater – a title reluctantly bestowed after she becomes the first woman to land a notoriously difficult triple axel jump in a competition, after continuously giving the finger to the sport's prissy princessy image with her rock routines and cheap costumes.
But her wrong side of the track roots prove her undoing in the end, when Jeff and Shawn come up with the cunning plan of messing with Kerrigan.
Now cunning plan makes Jeff and Shawn sound as if they're as smart as Baldrick (an infamously stupid sidekick for those of you under 40). But this would be doing the hapless Baldrick a disservice, for Jeff and Shawn take stupidy stupidy stupidy to untold levels. And before you can say 'turnip', Tonya's dreams of Olympic glory are shattered.
Who's to blame here? LaVona, for raising her daughter to feel that she was utterly worthless yet capable of world superstardom? Jeff, for trying to help and getting it so badly wrong? Tonya, for constantly spitting in the faces of those who want to help her? Or the American dream, for making poor, ill-educated people believe that, with hard work and heart, anyone can do anything – and then crushing them to smithereens when they don't dress right, talk right or have the right relatives?
With its relentless, Scorsese-style commentary soundtrack of '80s AOR hits, I, Tonya is the most American film you've ever seen, a text book tale of triumph over abuse and adversity, and yet, with its crash-land ending, it's also searingly critical of the American Way.
But, lest that make it sound a bit dull, I should also add that it's gripping, exulting (the triple axel moment is simply wonderful) and enormously entertaining, with great performances all round (vignettes as the titles roll showing the real protagonists show how scarily accurate the portrayals are). Maybe not a perfect score (I felt it dragged a little, of all places, around the knee incident) but darned close.
| 2019-04-24T20:15:04 |
http://www.elainemacintyre.net/film_reviews/i_tonya.php
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London: Using your device just before sleep may lead to a condition called transient smartphone blindness, say doctors who reported a case of two women in the UK suffering from temporary vision impairment in one eye after looking at a bright cellphone screen in a dark room.
In the first case, a 22-year-old woman had trouble seeing with her right eye at night while in bed. This happened multiple times a week for a year. However, her vision was fine in her left eye, and in both eyes the following day.
In another case, a 40-year-old woman reported not being able to see with one eye when she woke up before sunrise. The vision problem lasted about 15 minutes, and happened on and off for six months.
In both cases, doctors later found that the vision problems occured only after the women had viewed their smartphone for several minutes, while lying on their side in bed, the 'Live Science' reported.
These problems happened because the patients were looking at their phone with just one eye, with the other eye blocked by a pillow when they were lying down, the doctors said.
In this situation, the eye blocked by the pillow becomes adapted to the dark, while the other eye looking at the smartphone is adapted to the light, the doctors said.
When the smartphone is turned off, the light-adapted eye is perceived to be "blind," until it also adjusts to the dark.
"As they can see well with the dark-adapted eye, it seems to them that they have lost vision in the eye which - a moment ago - was viewing the smartphone normally," researchers wrote.
In an experiment, the patients were asked look at their phone with both eyes, and also with each eye individually. The patients said they did not experience symptoms when looking at their phone with both eyes, and if they looked at their phone with one eye, the symptoms were always in the eye that had been viewing the smartphone.
| 2019-04-24T12:08:00 |
https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/diagnostics/docs-temporary-blindness-tied-to-mobile-use-in-dark/52894116
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The Illusionist is an act of cinematic reincarnation. It is based on a screenplay originally written by Jacques Tati, who died in 1982, but in Sylvain Chomet's film, the French artist takes centre stage once again in animated form. It feels like a Tati film in so many respects; not only because of the unmistakable figure of the man himself, but because of the complex soundtrack of mostly incomprehensible chatter, the layering of sight gags into both the background and foreground of the action, and the main protagonist's befuddlement at the technologies of the modern age. The Illusionist also bears the distinctive mark of Chomet, however, with the animator using old-fashioned techniques to find moments of great beauty in this surprisingly melancholy tale.
The core of sadness that lies at the heart of The Illusionist was the reason that Tati decided against filming his screenplay in the early 1960's and decided instead to focus Playtime, the epic 1967 film that would cause irreparable damage to his reputation. Who knows how his career would have developed if had instead proceeded with this more intimate and personal tale? In The Illusionist, the central character of Tatischeff (Tati's real name) is an ageing vaudeville conjurer struggling to make ends meet in the music halls of Paris at the end of the 1950's. He travels to a grey and wet London to see if he can revitalise his career there, but he discovers his act is even more irrelevant in a city swooning over the Beatles-like sensation of Billy Boy and the Britoons. Tatischeff waits patiently in the wings while they perform to a crowd of screaming teens, but by the time he has taken to the stage, the auditorium has emptied, leaving a few disinterested stragglers for him to perform to.
Chomet's film is a lament for a lost era of entertainment, but Tatischeff does find an appreciative audience when he travels to Scotland, with a young girl being so enamoured with his trickery that she accompanies him to Edinburgh. She completely believes in the illusions he pulls off so effortlessly, but when she asks him to conjure a new dress or pair of shoes, she has no idea that he has to scrape together his pennies in order to do so, or that he has to find a series of demeaning jobs to make ends meet. It's hard out there for a variety act, and Chomet balances his film's humour with an air of despondency, occasionally straying from Tatischeff to focus on his suicidal and alcoholic fellow performers, all of whom are finding that their skills are suddenly no longer required.
Frustratingly, however, The Illusionist stumbles somewhat between the two stalls of comedy and tragedy, and fails to leave a particularly lasting impression in both respects. The jokes are the kind that raise an occasional smile – Tatischeff's battles with his uncooperative rabbit are fun, and Chomet has a great gift for populating his film with instantly recognisable and memorable archetypes – but few of the film's comic set-pieces really stand out. Chomet's last film was the marvellous Belleville Rendez-Vous, which was ripe with invention and energy, but The Illusionist's more sombre tone sometimes drags, and the film peters out towards the climax, when the sense of loss and disappointment really should resonate.
It's a gorgeous film to look at, though, with every shot benefitting from Chomet's eye for detail and atmosphere. After creating a vividly exaggerated world for Belleville Rendez-Vous, Chomet here produces some wonderfully evocative recreations of Paris, London and Edinburgh from a bygone age, and throughout the picture he proves himself to be a filmmaker in complete command of his art. The most affecting moments in The Illusionist occur when Chomet's brilliant animation succeeds in creating a sense of illusion and wonderment; turning feathers from an open pillowcase into an unlikely snowstorm, or making the shadow cast by pages in a book resemble the silhouette of a bird in flight. Perhaps the film's most remarkable scene comes when Tatischeff blunders into a cinema screening Mon oncle, and for a few surreal seconds, the real and imagined Tati gaze at each other through the dark. "Magicians do not exist," Tatischeff writes in one of the film's most downbeat moments, but anyone watching Chomet cast his spell will beg to differ.
| 2019-04-24T00:10:07 |
http://www.philonfilm.net/2010/08/review-illusionist-lillusionniste.html
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Of all the characteristics of a bike's tyre, grip is the most important, as it defines the ability of the tyre to brake hard without the wheel locking, of accelerating without loss of grip and of negotiating bends and changes in direction without skidding. In other words, it is synonymous with safety.
Rubber is, of course, the main component, but there are also many other compounds or chemical elements, such as silica, for example. The exact composition of tyres is an industrial secret which is closely guarded by manufacturers.
One usually talks about "soft rubber" and "hard rubber" to distinguish the grip of different tyres. A soft tyre gives intrinsically more grip than a hard tyre.
Each tyre, and thus each chemical composition, has a corresponding range of optimal operating temperatures. Each tyre has maximum grip at a given temperature or range of temperatures. Grip increases with the tyre's temperature until maximum grip is reached. Grip then decreases (often at the same time as the tyre itself deteriorates) if the temperature continues to rise.
The temperature of a tyre increases depending on the mechanical stress to which it is subject: driving, accelerating, braking and taking bends are all actions which cause the tyre's temperature to increase. As a rule, soft tyres have an operating temperature which is higher than a hard rubber tyre and take longer to increase in temperature.
Besides the specific grip achieved by each model of tyre at a given temperature, one must also bear in mind that grip also depends on the surface of contact with the ground and the state of the surface being driven on. The greater the surface of contact between the tyre and the surface, the greater the grip. If one takes equally wide tyres, a tyre without tread or with little tread thus gives better grip than a tyre with a lot of tread. This, however, is only true on a dry surface.
In fact, on a wet surface, a large tyre with little tread runs a greater risk of aquaplaning. The phenomena of aquaplaning is caused by loss of the tyre's grip on the road. A surface of contact which is reduced to zero is equivalent to grip which is reduced to zero. The role of tread is to evacuate water and to stop a wave from forming at the front of the tyre - the cause of the phenomena of aquaplaning.
What should one bear in mind when choosing a tyre?
Each type of tyre has a speciality. One must therefore define the use and conditions of use of one's bike in order to choose the right tyre.
For example: a "sport" tyre will not necessarily be the tyre which gives the best grip if the bike is mainly used for short urban trips in a cold and wet climate. Even though, in theory, the "sport" tyre gives maximum grip which is far greater than a road tyre, it will never have the opportunity to achieve maximum grip because it will never be able to reach its optimal operating temperature during short urban trips.
On a wet surface, a "sport" tyre will run the risk of aquaplaning due to its relative lack of tread. For this type of use, a "road" tyre would be more suitable. As its operating temperature is relatively low and quickly reached, it will operate in its optimal temperature range and will thus give greater grip than a "cold" sport tyre. Moreover, on a wet surface, it will reduce the risks of aquaplaning due to the size of its tread.
| 2019-04-21T19:04:04 |
https://www.tyres-pneus-online.co.uk/grip-guide-moto-advice.html
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How can i get replacement screens?
One of the screens of my portable kawasaki duel screen dvd player was damaged. I'm having a very difficult time finding a replacement. I went on the Kawasaki web site which steered me to Target. I went to Target and they did not have anything. I went to Circuit City and they did not have anything. I've searched the Web. Now I am trying to call the Kawasaki customer support line, but am having to hold forever. Any suggestions??? One of the screens of my portable kawasaki duel screen dvd player was damaged. I'm having a very difficult time finding a replacement. I went on the Kawasaki web site which steered me to Target. I went to Target and they did not have anything. I went to Circuit City and they did not have anything. I've searched the Web. Now I am trying to call the Kawasaki customer support line, but am having to hold forever. Any suggestions???
My Kids were watching a movie. Stoped for gas started the car and had no picture or sound. Both screens nothing. My Kids were watching a movie. Stoped for gas started the car and had no picture or sound. Both screens nothing.
Hey wats up, I have the kawasaki pvs1965s and for some reason i cant get it out of stand by mode. I need help can any one give me advice.
Visit the official customer service website for this product, http://1800customersupport.com/kawasaki, or call them at 1-877-252-6873. They should be able to sell you one. Target also sells an item that should work. It's called the Kawasaki AVM678 or Audiovox AVM6781, and designed to work specifically with the PVS1965 or PVS1965S. I believe it's $79.99, but only available in their stores, in the portable DVD section of the electronics department.
it appears yous direct drive motor is damaged. When a disc does not spin, it will say the same as a bad disc. You can easily get this fixed, but not cost efficient. Better off replacing it the component.
check the connections and connector of the blue screen one.
unplug the device from the main power cord.remove all the external wires connected from the player.then again reconnect it properly.also check out the disc in another player.or another disc in the same player.
Line faults & possible causes to LCD & Plasma screen are given with illustrations. You can get an idea about the fault to an extent. Faults to all LCD & Plasma screen are similar, irrespective of its brand and screen size.
Did you check the connection to the screen that doesn't work?
Target sells an item which should work. It's the Kawasai AVM678 or the Audiovox AVM6781 (http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-1/qid=1187573577/ref=sr_1_1/602-4888693-8663026?ie=UTF8&asin=B000I5IYAA). It's a universal extra screen. Otherwise, visit the official customer service website for this product at http://www.1800customersupport.com/kawasaki or or call them at 1-877-252-6873. They can probably sell you a splitter or additional screens.
that link will take you to buy a replacement for 28.00. It may seem like a lot but its worth it in the long run.
Have a manual for kawasaki PVS1965 Portable DVD Player?
| 2019-04-20T17:03:19 |
http://www.fixya.com/support/t183141-kawasaki_dvd_screen_damaged
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Ocelot by Jitze Couperus. Zebra by Henryk Niestrój. Composed by Larry Pyeatt.
The famous City Central Zoo houses just two creatures, Zebras and Ocelots. These magical creatures spend their time in a single, tall column, each standing atop the back of the creature below it. Whenever the zoo bell rings, the ocelot lowest in the pile turns into a zebra, and all zebras (if there are any) below that creature simultaneously turn into ocelots. If there is no ocelot in the pile when the bell tolls, then nothing happens. The zookeeper has been watching this interesting process for years. Today, suddenly, he begins to wonder how much longer this can go on. That is, given a pile of zebras and/or ocelots, how many times may the bell toll before there are no more ocelots?
Input consists of a number $N$ in the range $1$ to $60$, followed by $N$ lines, each of which is a single character, either Z (for zebra) or O (for ocelot). These give the order of the creatures from top (first) to bottom (last).
Output should be a single integer giving the number of times the bell must toll in order for there to be no more ocelots.
| 2019-04-21T08:14:06 |
https://ncna17.kattis.com/problems/zebrasocelots
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How to Win, where can I find the winning numbers?
Players would pick six numbers from 49 and there were no lower tier prizes so a perfect match was required.20th century edit The UK's state-franchised lottery was set up under government licence by the government of metin2 bonus aktarm John Major in 1993.No, the change to Lotto subscriptions will not impact other Illinois Lottery subscriptions.The National Lottery describes Hotpicks as "five games in one because the player has a choice of five ways of playing the game, each offering different odds and payouts.CDT and will be broadcast live on WGN.The first National Lottery show (entitled The National Lottery Live: The First Draw ) was at 7 pm on Saturday 19 November 1994.The prize fund is about 53 of revenue, with the remaining 10 going towards running costs and profits for the lottery organisers and ticket sellers.From January 2013, the Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday draws were no longer broadcast, but could be viewed on the National Lottery's website; there was still a results update on BBC One at 10:45pm.Retrieved "The National Lottery live draw is dropped from BBC1".Why did the price of Lotto change?In a word,.All prizes are paid as a lump sum and are tax-free.Discontinued games edit Lotto Extra edit Lotto Extra odds and payouts Match Prize Odds of winning 6 numbers Jackpot 1 in 13,983,815 The maximum jackpot was 50m Lotto Extra was introduced on 13 November 2000 and was originally called The National Lottery Extra but renamed.Players had to match with the first number in order to start winning prizes (ranging from 2 to 500,000 which meant that 90 of players lost as soon as the first ball was drawn.As the range of scratchcard games has increased, the odds of winning vary greatly.
Due to the price change, it is necessary to cancel existing subscriptions.
The National Lottery notifies winners by email if they have won, although this will not be on the evening of the draw; notification is usually by 12 noon the following day.What happens if I have a balance remaining on my subscription, how will I get my refund?8 Tickets became available on the Isle of Man on 2 December 1999 at the request of Tynwald.The price of Lotto will change to 1 for 1 game panel instead of 2 starting July 14, 2013.37 Olympic Lottery edit Following the success of London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, Olympic Lottery Scratchcards were launched on under the brand name "Go for Gold"."New Olympic scratch card on sale".One number was drawn at random from each of those machines; each pair creating a year.HotPicks is not part of the main Lotto draw, you must buy a separate ticket for.If a prize is unclaimed within that time, it is distributed through the National Lottery Distribution Fund.Below is a table of how many times each machine has appeared in the main National Lottery, or Lotto game.
Game shows edit Main article: The National Lottery Draws See also edit References edit Press Association.
A b c "About the National Lottery".
Yes, you will be able to see your original subscription information on the My Subscriptions page.
When will the drawings take place?
| 2019-04-25T16:36:27 |
http://enta-style.biz/lotto-how-much-for-2-numbers.html
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What is Coat of Silence?
Coat Of Silence is a scientifically proven 2-step sound reduction solution for use on interior walls, ceilings, drywall and plaster. It's the perfect choice for those looking for an effective, easy to apply coating for interior sound reduction projects. It goes on like paint and doesn't require special skills to apply. In fact, it only takes one person with painting skills to perform the easy 2-step process.
Transmission Loss is a measurement of a partition's ability to block sound at a given frequency, or the number of decibels that sound of a given frequency is reduced in passing through a partition. Measuring Transmission Loss over a range of 16 different frequencies between 125-4000 Hz is the basis for determining a partition's Sound Transmission Class.
Technically speaking, STC stands for Sound Transmission Class, which is the measurement used to calculate the effectiveness of sound reduction materials in reducing sound transmission between rooms. It is a single-number rating of a material's or an assembly's ability to resist airborne sound transfer at the frequencies 125-4000 Hz. Simply put, it measures how much sound a wall, for instance, will block from getting through to the other side. Generally speaking, the higher the STC rating, the more effective a material is at blocking sound at the most common frequencies. Coat of Silence has the highest STC rating (52) of any coating on the market today.
The STC rating is based on performance with frequencies from 125 to 4000 Hertz (the speech frequencies). The rating provides no evaluation of the barrier's ability to block low frequency noise, such as the bass in music or the noise of some mechanical equipment.
The STC rating is a lab test that does not take into consideration weak points, penetrations, or flanking paths. The field test however, does evaluate the entire assembly and includes all sound paths.
What is a recommended rating?
In general, loud speech can be understood fairly well through an STC 30 wall but should not be audible through an STC 60 wall. An STC of 50 is a common building standard and blocks approximately 50 dB from transmitting through the partition. However, occupants could still be subject to awareness, if not understanding, of loud speech. Constructions with a higher STC (as much as 10dB better - STC 60) should be specified in sensitive areas where sound transmission is a concern.
The Uniform Building Code (UBC) contains requirements for sound isolation for dwelling units in Group-R occupancies (including hotels, motels, apartments, condominiums, monasteries and convents).
UBC requirements for floor/ceiling assemblies: STC ratings of 50 (if tested in a laboratory) or 45 (if tested in the field*). * The field test evaluates the dwelling's actual construction and includes all sound paths.
An assembly rated at STC 50 will satisfy the building code requirement. However, as mentioned above, occupants could still be subject to awareness, if not understanding, of loud speech. Therefore, it is typically argued that luxury accommodations require a more stringent design goal.
Sound blocking prevents sound from entering or leaving a room. Sound blocking is measured by STC ratings. The higher a product's STC rating is, the more effective the product will be.
How does Coat of Silence work?
Our Coat Of Silence resilient layer (base coat) is scientifically formulated to deflect sound transmission with a 52 STC rating. This high performance rating has never been accomplished in a coating before. The SBR (styrenated buradiene rubber) forms an actual rubber membrane as it dries/cures along with a heavy bodied water based latex and sound absorbing fillers that deflect sound and keep it contained. Our Finish Coat has the same sound deflecting formula with a hardening agent to make a complete sound reduction system. The Finish Coat can be painted over with any type of paint and will satisfy any decorating concerns.
How do I apply Coat of Silence?
Coat of Silence goes on like paint and doesn't require special skills to apply. In fact, it only takes one person with painting skills to perform the easy 2-step process. Because of product thickness, stir thoroughly for 2 to 5 minutes with drill or paddle. For best sound reduction results, two coats of our Base Coat is recommended. Simply apply by sprayer, let dry to touch, then apply the second base coat. To complete the 2-step process, use Coat of Silence Finish Coat, which can be painted over with any type of paint. For additional instructions, please refer to APPLICATION PROCEDURES.
What do I have to do for surface preparation?
Areas to be covered must be thoroughly cleaned and free of dust, dirt, grease and wax.
How long should I wait in between coats?
Coat of Silence dries to the touch in approximately 20 minutes. Please note, low temperatures or higher humidity will lengthen dry times. Once it is dry to the touch, you may begin with the next coat.
Yes. Coat of Silence Finish Coat can be painted over with any type of paint including latex or enamel.
Is Coat of Silence toxic?
No. Coat of Silence is water based and non-toxic. It is also mold, mildew and water-resistant. As with all products, paints, coatings, etc., you should use proper precautions and read the MSDS before using Coat of Silence.
Is Coat of Silence a fire hazard?
No. Coat of Silence has been fire tested and is not a fire hazard.
| 2019-04-26T08:11:02 |
http://vertetek.com/faq/
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This is the $125 ticket that a Parking Authority employee says she was hounded to buy…IN 2004, five Philadelphia Parking Authority employees complained to the Daily News of being pressured to buy tickets to Republican fundraisers or risk reprisal on the job.
The PPA conducted its own investigation of the alleged "macing" and concluded that there was no wrongdoing. Still, the PPA's revised handbook now states that no employee shall be "made to believe that his or her continued or advanced employment . . . is contingent upon participation in charitable or political activity of fundraising."
Didn't Ron Wooden read it?
A 17-year PPA employee, Wooden is the authority's head security supervisor and also Republican leader of the 11th Ward. According to a PPA employee who wants to be identified as "Tameka" in this column, Wooden hounded her to buy a $125 ticket to the Republican City Committee's fall fundraiser, held last Tuesday.
She said that Wooden, her "sponsor" in the Republican-controlled PPA, had always made it clear that, if she didn't buy tickets to the committee's three annual fundraisers, her job could be in jeopardy. So she bought them.
So, a month ago, when Wooden started pushing her to buy yet another ticket, she contacted the Daily News. I then was invited by her to listen in when she returned a call from Wooden to discuss the ticket.
Tameka said that she couldn't afford the ticket; her fiancé was out of work. Wooden reminded her that "three [tickets] a year is what it's all about." If Tameka ran into job problems, he said, the first thing PPA bosses would ask is, "Did she buy her tickets?"
They sparred for about three tense minutes. Finally, Wooden suggested that Tameka pay for the ticket in two installments.
"I'm afraid to say 'no,' " she said after she hung up.
Over the next few weeks, though, she ignored Wooden's follow-up calls for the money. Finally, she phoned PPA's deputy executive director, Linda Miller, for advice about the situation, although she never told Miller that Wooden was the person pressuring her.
Both women agree that Miller assured Tameka that job security didn't depend on ticket purchases. But they disagree about what was said next.
Miller, Tameka claims, suggested that, in the future, Tameka regard the tickets as a Republican "donation," the way Miller had done for years. She says that Miller also suggested that Tameka create a "payment plan" so that, when fundraisers came up, she could pay for them with squirreled-away savings.
Miller told me she was speaking hypothetically about what Tameka might do if she chose to buy tickets. She said she emphasized that the PPA doesn't condone the practice of seeking political contributions from employees. And she said that she offered to guide Tameka through a formal complaint process if Tameka chose to go that route.
"I said, 'You need to make sure that someone else knows about it and resolve the situation,' " Miller told me.
I asked Miller if, given the seriousness of the 2004 scandal, she brought Tameka's allegation to PPA directors.
"No, but in I hindsight, I probably should have," she said, adding that Tameka's complaint was the first that she'd heard of "any ticket-selling inside the PPA" since 2004.
Last week, Tameka finally outed Wooden to the PPA's human-resources department, after Wooden left her two voice mails that freaked her out.
"Hey . . . gimme a call, very important," he says in the first. "All right, y'all call me when y'all want somethin' so gimme a call."
"Hey . . . it's me," he says. "Ya ain't answerin' ya phone. When somethin' go wrong I'm-a do you, I'm-a do you the same way, 'cause all it takes is for you to do is call me. It's all it takes. I understand if you don't have the money. All you got to do is talk to, answer the phone, call me back. The same way you doin' me, I'm-a do you the same way. Believe me, somethin' gonna come up."
Within hours of hearing the voice mails, PPA management "severely disciplined" Wooden, says authority spokesman Marty O'Rourke. Wooden, reached for comment, told me that he couldn't talk "because I don't have a lawyer with me."
I reached out to former chief deputy city solicitor Ralph Teti, now a partner and employment-law expert at Willig, Williams and Davidson, to ask what he made of Wooden's voice mail.
"He might have a lot of explaining to do to the district attorney and the U.S. attorney," said Teti, since federal and state laws make clear that "political affiliation is not supposed to be a criteria for getting a job, keeping a job or being terminated from a job.
"It sounds like this is not a matter of whether the law was broken but of how many laws were broken."
Since Tameka exposed Wooden, his calls to her have stopped. But she doubts, without those voice mails as proof, that she'd ever have gotten peace.
"I'm just a ticket writer," she said. "Who'd believe me?"
| 2019-04-21T04:46:08 |
https://www.wwdlaw.com/news-story/170/ronnie-polaneczky-at-ppa-tickets-and-v
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In order to set up a tent, for a camping trip, you'll need to lay out all of the parts of the tent. Place the poles at the end of the tent. Work on opposite sides. Inserting the pole on both sides. It may be easier with two people. Once you insert the pole, then you'll need to snap it, fastening all the snaps. After you have completed this step, lay the fly over the tent. Snap it in place, in all four corners. Make sure that sides are below the mesh. Now, you can stake the tent. Staking the tent adds extra wind resistance. The fly will also protect you from rain.
| 2019-04-19T14:21:13 |
https://camp.wonderhowto.com/how-to/set-up-tent-when-camping-outdoors-303829/
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How does the quantity of ingested pesticides compare to the total quantity of toxins absorbed by a human being in realistic quantities?
First of all, toxicity as a phenomena is not an either/or issue. A given substance's toxicity is a function of dose and exposure time relative to the organism's capacity to handle that particular profile of exposure without compromising health. This means that quantifying the toxicity of a given substance in a generalizable way is often difficult. This is particularly so when we are considering substances that are not toxic enough to reliably kill in a small acute quantity, but that with some probability may cause harm with chronic exposures.
I think that the above problem of context and quantification is one of the fundamental reasons why there will never be complete consensus about the toxicity of substances that are not positioned at extremes of the toxicity spectrum (such as botulinum toxin and water).
Those who expose us to pesticides and other synthetic, or "evolutionary novel", substances (with or against our will), tend to declare these substances as universally safe. And they do so with reference to relatively high "LD50s" (median lethal doses), while downplaying the potential harm from chronic low grade exposure.
Those, however, who take the opposite view will point to subtle effects observed with lower dose exposures on factors such as cancer risk and various health markers. The doses that are used in such studies are typically quite high compared to typical "realistic" everyday exposure, as this approach may be the only way to achieve statistical significance in the presence of confounding variables. So, for example, to study the effects on toxicity in humans, investigators often chose to include people who, for instance, get occupational exposure to the substances on a frequent basis.
Each side of this debate can easily be accused by the other side of cherry picking data; to not account for various contextual factor; to use either too low or too high doses in experiments; to be biased for financial or ideological reasons, etc.
So (to get back to your question!) an attempt to make an inventory of all our exposures (through ingestion, inhalation and skin contact) and assign a universally applicable toxicity level to each of them is a difficult task to say the least, and probably not meaningful as individual variability in terms of both specific exposures and "total body burden" is so high.
Another problem related to both exposure and individual propensities is the compounding effect of all types of environmental stress including toxicity. The presence above a certain threshold level in an individual of a given toxin could make that individual more vulnerable to any, or all, classes of toxins than would otherwise be the case. For example, if a person is exposed to mercury from leaking fillings his antioxidant reserves may be depleted and not be sufficient to neutralize the load of other potentially toxic exposures.
So, should you worry more about the pesticides in your food than, for instance, the air pollutants that you inhale?
Generally speaking, I think that you must come to some reasonably accurate estimates of your specific exposures and your vulnerabilities, and act accordingly.
Identify and take care of the obvious problems first.
If you, for instance, smoke a daily pack of cigarettes, jog frequently in a high traffic zone, live in a mold infested home, drink contaminated well water, eat junk foods on a daily basis, or expose yourself to any other established health risk, you should probably change those habits before you even think about pesticides in your vegetables, or low grade air pollution for that matter.
Remember that if the totality of what you are doing for your health (including diet, exercise, sleep, stress reduction, supplementation) is enough, you should be free of all persistent symptoms of any kind; or, if you are not there yet, you should see a gradual improvement of any persistent symptoms that you do experience. You should see good or improving results on functional lab tests. You should feel good, or gradually feel better. You should get stronger in the gym, or at least not move backwards.
What is the basic evidence that pesticides ingested in realistic quantities are harmful for a normal person?
Aside from the fact that there is no typical person relative to low potency toxins, and that harm is a very broad concept, the first types of evidence to consider are studies on health markers in animals exposed to pesticides, and studies on populations with occupational exposure.
You will probably find that you can look at such studies and come to very different assessments depending on your perception of risk and of harm, but that there are a lot of indicative findings.
I think that from a biological perspective it makes sense to believe that the toxic burden from manmade chemicals that have been added to the the background burden of natural toxins over just, say, a hundred years, is likely to be a challenge to the human body. This is because our genes have not had sufficient time to develop adaptations to the new level of environmental toxicity and/or to specific types of new toxins.
It it also reasonable to believe that we are even more vulnerable to toxins now (vs. pre-agricultural eras) because of a higher load of chronic stress which degrade the body's overall resistance to challenges, including chemical challenges. Incidentally, a crude measure of detoxification capacity is the presence of bile acids and lipid peroxides in the urine, and these markers tend to improve with reducing psychological-, dietary- and other types of chronic stress.
So, the core issue is not that our bodies are inherently unable to deal with a variety of toxins. The issue is how to not exceed its capacity to do so.
Further regarding capacity, one needs to also take into account that even if one's body can detox and eliminate a certain quantity of toxins, such "processing" occurs at the expense of other processes in the body such as repair and regeneration. The body can only do so much given the resources that it has at its disposal.
The same Bruce Ames as mentioned above has proposed a compelling "triage theory of aging", essentially pointing out that modest shortages of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) are likely one important factor behind the rise in chronic illness and premature aging. (The idea is that when the body is low on micronutrients, it will prioritize their use for processes needed for survival in the moment above repair processes that keep us functionally young).
If we integrate Ames' theory with the biochemical observation that micronutrients are used up in detoxification processes in the body, we arrive at the conclusion that the greater our toxic exposure (regardless of source), the greater our need for micronutrients for keeping ourselves youthful and healthy.
Now, aside from these more theoretical types of arguments, it is frequently reported by health practitioners that helping patients discover and eliminate various toxins (which may be current exposures, or toxins accumulated in the body) improves symptoms and health outcomes. Perhaps these patients represent a subclass of particularly vulnerable people, but, how do you know for sure that you are not one of them now, or will become one of them later?
| 2019-04-24T10:12:07 |
http://blog.modernpaleo.com/2012/09/organic-is-it-worth-it-qa-part-ii.html
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From an Agence France Presse report in Channel News Asia: "A Berlin entrepreneur said that he had signed a deal with North Korean officials to bring Internet access to the country beginning in mid-February, a date chosen to coincide with leader Kim Jong-Il's birthday. Jan Holtermann, a former banker and one-time employee of the North Korean embassy in Berlin, told AFP that the project would involve the use of filtering software similar to that in place in Chinese and Cuban networks. 'We started from the assumption that the North Korean government would be very selective in granting access to the Internet,' he said. A select group of handpicked users will be allowed to send email, and only a few will be able to view information on the web. Holtermann said that the company he founded for the project, KCC Europe, had signed a contract on January 17, 2003 after negotiating with North Korean officials. He said he had invested one million euros in the network's infrastructure, although he initially expects slim profit margins due to the limited number of users. 'This type of business,' he said, 'requires an entirely Asian sense of patience...'"
Holtermann was much more enthused about the deal when he spoke with Germany's Tagesspiegel: there he was quoted as saying that North Korea was tomorrow's India.
According to TechWeb, the National Scientific Corp. is about to release "Wi-Fi Tracker" - a new system that "lets IT administrators pinpoint the position of wireless users and devices with accuracy within a few feet. " In essence, this technology uses wi-fi networks as the infrastructure for monitoring the location of special radio-emitting devices - either a palm-size transmitter or a badge/tag. It has nothing to do with intercepting the content of wi-fi computer links, although it could add location data to a "packet sniffer." NSC explains on their website that this is "one of the first commercially viable indoor/outdoor end-to-end tracking solutions."
South Korea's JinboNet has put a website online to explain Human Rights in the Information Society in Korean and clear, simple English. The site debuted on 10 December, 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pages are devoted to Freedom of Expression, the Public Domain, the Right to Privacy and Access to Information. Established in 1998, JinboNet is an NGO that "aims to provide internet services for social movement groups, and to enhance the solidarity and communication among them..." It is a member of the Association for Progressive Communications. The Human Rights in the Information Society website is sponsored by the Daum Foundation, which is funded by employees of Korea's largest Internet portal.
Last June the Wireless Internet Institute (W2I) organized a conference in New York at UN headquarters to promote wi-fi as especially well-suited to the needs of developing countries. Even Kofi Annan attended, to show his support. Last month W2I published the papers prepared for that meeting. The 146-page collection, titled The Wireless Opportunity for Developing Countries, is very well done and can be downloaded as a 2.9MB pdf file by clicking here. Papers from other W2I meetings are separately available from http://www.w2i.org.
The BBC says that in South Korea, where broadband access is common, "Gaming over the internet has proved so popular that professional teams backed by corporate sponsors now play in the world's first pro league... Ten members of a professional gaming team sponsored by the mobile phone company KTF train all day long in a cramped three room apartment. In their late teens and early 20s... [some] of them make more than $100,000 a year... [They compete] at a downtown game centre with a live audience, big screens and two commentators... KTF manager, Chang Ki-uk, said sponsoring a professional team made good sense for his company. Fifteen million people, or 30% of the population, are registered for online gaming, and that means a big marketing opportunity. 'Online gaming started out as a hobby, of course, but it's amazing how it's taken off as a professional sport. There are three cable channels that broadcast games and 10 professional leagues...' South Korea proudly plays host to the annual World Cyber Games and the country is becoming a Mecca for online gamers around the world...."
From XMLmania: "The Web Services Internationalization Task Force of the [Worldwide Web Consortium's] Internationalization Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of Requirements for the Internationalization of Web Services. The document lists requirements for achieving worldwide usability for Web services...."
"In a significant setback for the recording industry, a federal appeals court ruled today that Internet service providers cannot be forced to turn over the names of subscribers who are suspected of illegally sharing music on line. The ruling by a three-judge panel expressed sympathy for the recording industry, which has been hit hard by piracy and file-sharing among computer users. But it concluded that nothing in the law authorizes special subpoenas against Internet service providers compelling them to identify customers who might be engaging in copyright infringement..." [New York Times, 19 December] Click here to read the judgment in this case, RIAA v. Verizon Internet Services, Inc., and thanks to LawMeme for the pointer.
Limiting public access to WHOIS?
Wendy Seltzer posted a note on CircleID last Thursday to alert the Internet community that one of ICANN's task forces on revising the WHOIS service is considering new barriers to public access: "...Pushed by registrars who feel that WHOIS amounts to forced disclosure of their customer lists, the task force is seriously discussing closing off port 43's straightforward access to WHOIS information, replacing it with GIF-based barriers or similar access restrictions. Right now, anyone can either use registrars' web-based interfaces, fire up a command-line client, or programmatically access data over port 43. If some interests on the WHOIS task force get their way, the latter two options will disappear for the ordinary researcher. That won't necessarily increase privacy, however, because data resellers such as Thomson and Thomson, willing to pay $10,000 a year, will still be able to get it through contractually mandated 'bulk access'... I'm sensitive to privacy concerns, and indeed believe there should be far less (or no) mandatory collection of data upon domain name registration, but I also favor equal access to what data is collected..."
The Linux Journal is carrying this story by John Blau of the IDG News Service today: "In a first step toward giving individual users a voice in how the Internet is run, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved six community user groups in three regions. The 'At-Large' groups aim to engage individual Internet users in ICANN activities at the local or issue level... Certification of the At-Large organizations comes after ICANN's board approved a framework in June for establishing local, regional and global user groups... In Europe, ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee certified four groups: Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft eV, Internet Society Bulgaria, Internet Society Luxembourg A.S.B.L. and Societa' Internet. Elsewhere, the committee approved the Arab Knowledge Management Society in the Asian-Pacific and Australian region, and Alfa-Redi in the Latin America and Caribbean Island region. The committee has been encouraging interested, qualified groups in all geographic regions to become certified At-Large members. Information about At-Large applications is available on the Web at: www.alac.icann.org/applications/."
| 2019-04-22T19:15:41 |
https://gipi.typepad.com/internetpolicy/2003/12/index.html
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Tim McGraw is back in America after he collapsed on stage toward the end of a performance at C2C Festival in Dublin on Sunday (March 10).
When asked how he was feeling, McGraw responded, "Good", sharing that "lots of flying and dehydration" were the reasons for his collapse. The singer, who is known for his intense workout regimen, joked, "I gotta cut short my workouts!"
McGraw's wife, singer Faith Hill, can be seen in a video on a fan's Instagram page saying, "He's been super dehydrated".
McGraw kissed Hill's hand as they walked out on stage for the first performance of their Soul2Soul tour outside the U.S. and later introduced her to the crowd as "my wife, Mrs McGraw".
One person from the audience named Del Crooks told the BBC, McGraw's collapse is "a bit of a shock".
Following a break of about 20 minutes, Hill came to the front of the stage, flanked by her and McGraw's band members, and explained that McGraw would not be coming back out - a decision made by Hill. "He's been super dehydrated and I apologize but I made the decision that he can not come back out on the stage".
The crowd then chanted in response "We love Tim". Hill and her band then performed a gospel song, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus", and concluded the set.
'He was attended to by local medical staff on-site and will be fine. "He and Faith thank everyone for their love and support and look forward to seeing their Irish fans again soon", the rep said.
They had performed Friday night in London, Saturday night in Glasgow, before taking the stage Sunday night in Dublin.
The "Bronze Bomber" claimed he would be attending the fight between Joshua and Parker, with Sky Sports hiring him as a commentator. "I'm going to expose him and his weaknesses".
Mais ce mardi, Le Parisien révèle qu'un Français le dépasse, et de très loin. La fortune de Mathieu Flamini est estimé à 15 milliards d'euros.
La CFDT y prévoit une opération "originale ". "La vie continue par ailleurs, il n'y a pas que la réforme", dit-on à la direction. Une première démonstration de force est attendue le 22 mars avec une manifestation nationale à Paris.
Tom Jackson wants the " Queer Eye " Fab 5 to attend and have roles in his (second) wedding to Abby . It's just working overtime to make sure these insane kids get together and finally stay together.
It worsened, as 20 investors sold NVR shares while 113 reduced holdings. 40 funds opened positions while 109 raised stakes. Rampart Investment Management Company Llc increased Exxon Mobil Corp ( XOM ) stake by 8.52% reported in 2017Q3 SEC filing.
"As a result of "operation Olive branch" March 12, began the siege of the Syrian city of Afrin", - said in the message. At least 353,935 people have died since, including more than 106,000 civilians, according to the Observatory.
Solder is easily the best tackle on the market, and Cleveland has the money to price everyone else out if they want him. Browns star tackle Joe Thomas has not informed the team of his future plans as Cleveland prepares to sign free agents.
The two teams drew 0-0 earlier this season with Romelu Lukaku missing a clear cut opportunity at Anfield. The Reds have not lost to Manchester United in their last five meetings in all competitions.
La préfecture de police des Bouches-du-Rhône a interdit " par sécurité " le déplacement des supporters de l'OL au Vélodrome. A l'aller, les supporters marseillais n'avaient pu se rendre au Groupama Stadium.
The US President was speaking to military personal in San Diego and explaining his new strategy when this idea was proposed. He added: "I said, 'maybe we need a new force, we'll call it the Space Force , ' and I was not really serious".
| 2019-04-18T13:27:09 |
http://topactu.net/2018/03/tim-mcgraw-less-flying-shorter-workouts-ill-be-okay-after/
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What 2 words come to mind with the sight of a hand stitched flat fell seam on a piece of t-shirt weight jersey skirt?! Alabama Chanin!
A skirt that doesn't look much on a hanger, but a skirt that has so much 'meaning' behind it.
I've had this book for a year and this is the first pattern I've made. Natalie Chanin, the designer behind the name 'Alabama Chanin', provides all the patterns in this book cleverly designed to be used in all the different garments. For instance, the 'skirt' is simply cut from the 'dress'. From my measurements, I traced a size large from the Short Fitted Dress skirt.
My original plans were to embellish this skirt with embroidery using the Climbing Daisy stencil that is included in this book. I learned how to print out the stencil to custom size for my garment and had the stencil and my fabric prepped for embroidery when the Ottobre magazine fell into my hands and the no. 10 Sculpture top was made and it needed a skirt and voila! this skirt was perfect for that new top. I'd only machine basted the skirt together to check for fit, so it was nothing to machine stitch the seams again and in the photo below, as I was in a hurry to wear this outfit to the Lowcountry, simply quartered my elastic, zigzagged it to the top of the skirt, turned down and stitched. After wearing the skirt on this short trip, decided the elastic waist needed adjusting, as well as the length. Also determined to leave the skirt unembroidered.
When I got home I cut 2" off the skirt's length and unpicked the stitching at the waistline, cutting off 2" of the elastic to make a snugger fit. Made a casing for the 3/4" elastic by turning the top down, zig-zagged stitched leaving an opening for the elastic to be run through, then stitched closed. This is my preferred elastic-waist garment method. I deviated from Alabama Chanin's instructions of using a foldover elastic at the waist. This also moved the (wider) hip area of the skirt up higher on my body and gave me a better fit. These skirts are designed slim.
Then I hand-stitched (faux) flat fell seams on all four panels using 3-strands of embroidery thread. Oh how I love this look! You sort of pull it tight, without puckering the seam, and it gives it such a nice look.
And because it is an Alabama Chanin garment, I hand-stitched 2 darker gray stars to note the back.
Really like the gray on gray tones. Can you believe I got the right side and wrong side of my fabric confused and sewed this skirt with the right side to the inside?! Not a big deal, except at the hemline, which is left unstitched, it sort of curls a little to the inside, instead of to the outside. Grrrrr.
And here is the completed skirt paired with the Mrs. Style Book 2015 self-drafted top. Not sure this is how I will wear the skirt in the future as it is almost too much gray and the knit top likes to cling unsatisfactorily to the top of this skirt, as opposed to the nice contrast with the unclinging crepe de chine Ottobre top in the photo above mid-post.
...and with the click of the camera, she was gone! Beautiful!
Hand-stitching still feels new to me, even though I've hand-stitched multiple knit garment necklines now.... I'm always amazed at how much I enjoy it. Like you said, the 'thoughtfulness' of the stitching. The pretty doe deer made my day! So much so, I did not mind sharing my blackberries with her! We do not see deer often anymore. Have a nice day too SaSa!
Just from looking at it, your top and skirt gave the feeling of a very cool outfit for your terribly hot temperatures. I agree that you look great with a shorter skirt length.
You are right, this is a great outfit for these horribly hot temps! Hem lengths are funny, aren't they. Where a mere 1 - 2" can make a difference between looking/feeling frumpy..... or not!
A lovely skirt - I guess if the hem bothers you enough, you could add an edge to it - choose an Alabama Chanin edge. And I agree, this is a much better way of doing waistbands - if for no other reason than you can easily alter them - replace the elastic easily if need be, or take in the elastic if need be. When elastic is stitched in, it looks great, but it is a pain to undo. A lovely little skirt - and wear it with what suits it. I often have to change my ideas about what to put with what when the garment decides instead of me !
So pretty! And you have the legs for a short skirt, so I say; go for it!
Lisa what a lovely skirt.. And the shorter length is just perfect.. Looks great on you.
| 2019-04-25T12:08:03 |
https://www.lisascarolina.com/2015/06/alabama-chanin-4-panel-skirt.html
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KOREA WINTER, the Season of Snow : When Snow in Korea?
Korea is geographically situated in a temperate climate zone at medium latitude. As a result, it has four distinct seasons. In general, spring is from March to May, summer from June to August, autumn from September to November, and winter from December to February. The weather in spring and autumn is clear and dry due to the influence of anticyclones; summer is hot and humid due to Korea's location on the North Pacific Edge; and in winter, continental high pressure brings cold and dry weather.
Q> I want to bring my young daughter to Korea to play with snow in December. Would there be snow during that period? Serious answers please.
A> In the years that I've been in Korea, it has snowed more often in January and February than December. Snow is possible in December too, but of course no guarantee.
So you should either stay in Korea for the entire month or go to Yong-pyung Ski resorts and mountains located on the eastern part of Korean peninsula.
Yong-pyung is really great for skiing and snowboarding!
Q> Is there snow during november in Seoul, Korea?
A> Probably no. Seoul gets its first snow of the year in late November but it melts away almost immediately. You'll get real snow from December through early March but Seoul does not get that much snow considering its freezing weather. (Seoul is very dry-cold in the winter!) If you visit Seoul in January and stay for two weeks, you'll definitely see a snowfall at least once but not likely in November. So if you really want to see the actual snowfall, visit Korea in January and instead of staying in Seoul, visit Ulleungdo(an island located east of Korean peninsula!) It snows almost everyday in Ullengdo in January and is a nice tourist spot.
Winter in Korea is usually between December and February, with the average temperature in January, the coldest month, ranging between minus six degrees and three degrees Celsius. The days with the lowest temperatures in the winter are usually between the middle and end of January. In winter, the days are shorter with the sunrise occurring later and the sunset occurring earlier. Usually, a cycle of three days of cold weather followed by four days of warmer days (samhansaon*) is repeated. The mountainous regions in Gangwon-do receive snowfall starting in early winter, with the weather being very cold and dry due to the wind blowing in from Siberia. Major holidays between the months of December and February are Christmas, New Year, and Lunar New Year, and the months of February and early March are the time for graduation ceremonies and the start of school. In rural areas, arable land is left to rest until farming resumes in the spring while some vegetables are grown in vinyl greenhouses. A unique practice in the winter between November and December is gimjang, which is the preparation of large quantities of kimchi to eat throughout winter.
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| 2019-04-18T22:16:57 |
http://koreaskitour.com/skiingkorea/index.htm
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My wife called me late yesterday afternoon to ask me a question. She had been helping her mother clean out her mom and dad's garage, and they had run into a problem for which she hoped I could find a solution. Was there someplace they could take a collection of around 200 used VHS adult videos?
The videos belonged to her late brother, who passed away in the late summer of 2003. They were in my mother-in-law's possession because he had been living with his parents, never having moved out after graduating from high school. He kept a steady job and helped keep the bills paid. Indeed, I suspect if he had moved out, his parents would have been homeless because of the way his dad mismanaged the household finances.
But, there they were -- a huge stash of X-rated vids, lingering in storage for over three years. I suspect that there were two separate forces that kept them around. First, his mother was so devastated emotionally by his death that she could never bring herself to throw anything of his away. Second, I recall my wife saying that prior to his debilitating stroke in the spring of 2005, her dad was hoping to make some extra money selling them off.
So, I sat there, brainstorming. They didn't have any more room in the trash for the tapes, and they really wanted to get rid of them because they suspected that one of our nephews, who is 16, would be all to happy to sneak off with a few. I said the only places I could think of would be pawn shops and maybe adult video stores. She then asked me to call around to a few places in town to see if they would take them.
So I fired up the web yellow pages and found the three closest pawn shops to our mailing address. Nope, they wouldn't take them. So I called an adult video store. The man who answered the phone said that if we brought them in during the day, there would be some guy who would pay us cash for them.
So I called my wife back, and she seemed unhappy with my findings. She didn't want to have to go to an adult video store. Moreover, she wasn't going to let me go to the store because of my past issues. She then wondered if she could get her best friend to go with her while another friend watched the kids.
She then said she'd feel weird doing that because all of the videos were girl-on-girl, and she was worried that the guy at the store would think that she and her friend were "together". I said something like, "I'm sure he'd be extra friendly to both of you." In the darkest reaches of my mind I was really thinking, "He wouldn't be the first person to think that."
| 2019-04-26T12:24:01 |
http://blog.2amsomewhere.info/2007/06/questions-you-hope-you-never-have-to.html
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At least three authors have written procedures for rebuilding the Simplex Valve Block, and each describes a different method for splitting the block open. I tried each method three times and encountered at least one consistent problem with each method. Therefore, I did some experimenting and came up with a method that I believe is superior to all three.
After studying the characteristics of hot hide glue, I discovered that extreme cold (zero degrees F. or colder) would crystallize the glue, weakening the bond to the adjoining piece. In addition, I knew from prior experience, that intense steam heat would loosen the cloth covering in about three minutes. Therefore, armed with those two facts, I developed the following procedure.
Splitting the Simplex Block with virtually no damage to the wood, valve cap, valve (intake face) or valve seat.
Preface: Scrape off most of the burnt shellac that holds the valve cap in place, but do not attempt to remove the cap at this time. Number each unit on the block and on the movable board with a ballpoint pen. It is best to indent the wood slightly since the steam will liquefy the ink and it could be easily rubbed off by accident.
Before the blocks can be split open, the pneumatic cloth and gasket must be removed. The method I use for the task involves a lobster pot (or very large pot), a grate to elevate the blocks, a sharp knife, protective rubber gloves and steam. Do not remove the movable board. First timers should work with no more than 10 units (or less) at a time. It is far easier to work with smaller sets than 80-88 units all at once.
1) Fill the pot with about one-inch of water, cover, and bring to a rapid boil.
2) Place a block on the elevated grate and start timing minutes. (You should turn the heat down so the boiling water does not splash onto the block.) Keep adding blocks at *one minute intervals until five minutes have elapsed.
3) Put another block in the pot and remove one block. Locate the portion of the cloth that is overlapped (usually on the side, near the gasket) and peel off the cloth with the knife, all the way around. If the cloth resists being removed, put the block back in the pot and wait for another minute.
4) Before setting the block and movable board aside, take the knife and scrape off any remaining burnt shellac. Then slap the block (valve cap side down) onto a hard surface. The cap should almost fall out since the burnt shellac is mostly gone, and the steam heat has softened what is left under the cap. The cap can also be removed prying it out with the knife. However, it might get bent and that would render it useless.
5) Mark the block number on the 'inside' of the block with a felt marker. Then arrange the block, valve cap, valve and movable board in a box just as though they were all one piece and move on to the next unit.
After about ten units are completed, take just the valve blocks and place them in a very cold freezer. To insure that the blocks get super-frozen, place slabs of dry ice around the blocks, but avoid allowing the dry ice to touch the blocks by placing paper between the two. Then wait at least 24 hours.
The final step in the disassembly process involves three tools: a small hammer, a specially sized piece of iron, and the blade from a utility knife or a very strong but very thin straight-edged knife.
1) Remove a block from the cooler and locate the joint on the very front leading edge of the block.
You might have to wipe off the ice crystals to see the joint clearly.
3) Push the iron bar into the vacuum supply hole approximately 1/2", no more. (See photo) With the block oriented as it is in the photograph, place the block on the bench and steady it with one hand. Grab the end of the iron piece (pry bar) and push down. (DO NOT lift up on the pry bar. Here's why. If you accidentally push the pry bar too far inside the supply hole, you could damage the edge of the pouch well or the bottom side of the valve seat.) As soon as the block cracks open the first time, STOP!
every piece of felt, leather, all dampers, and hammers in the piano action.
I do not intend to replace the pin block, pins, or re-string the instrument.
I have already rebuilt the air motor and timed it.
The TUTTLE METHOD works like a champ for working on the striker pneumatics.
reassemble the valve blocks so travel will be limited to that amount anyway.
the case is out being refinished while I work on the innards.
By the way, well done on your stand in support of Craig vis a vis MMD.
around the plate) with a pair of pliers and pulled it off.
| 2019-04-24T03:01:06 |
http://www.musicrolls.com/simplex1.html
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When thinking about the Puma II it’s very important to remember its low price – which even drops to an effective £105 if you buy a GoOutdoors discount card at the same time (OEX is their home brand). That’s because in many ways it’s quite a difficult tent to love. It weighs an incredible 4.12kg, mainly thanks to its heavy and crude poles that are far from a joy to use in the all-too-ready-to-bunch-up sleeves, the zips have a tendency to catch in the overhanging fabric, the porches aren’t large, and the hooking mechanisms to attach the groundsheet and inner to the fly are quite tiresome compared to more advanced models. With that said, this is still a semi-geodesic (ie the poles overlap for extra stability) tent which uses solid weather-proof fabrics and can sleep two, possibly a tight three, people and keep them out of the wind and rain. For campsite use, for DofE and cadet teams who don’t mind carrying the weight and school groups too this is an absolute bargain.
VERDICT: The design may be heavy and clunky, but the price is superb for a semi-geodesic tent.
| 2019-04-26T16:07:39 |
http://www.oe-mag.co.uk/portfolio/oex-puma-ii/
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Should countries drill for oil in protected areas to reduce gas prices?
/ Should countries drill for oil in protected areas to reduce gas prices?
There is a great debate going on all around the world today about whether or not countries should drill for oil in protected areas in order to reduce the price of gas. While the debate gets very heated, the reality is that there should be no debate at all. Protected areas are protected for a reason and no oil drilling should be allowed in those areas under any circumstances.
Protected wildlife or natural areas have been designated all around the world to preserve the natural eco-system of the world and to prevent human expansion that could destroy the ecology of the planet. Many of these natural areas were carefully selected, as well, based on the specific flora and fauna that inhabit them. The Redwood National and State Forest in the state of California in the United States, for example, was protected as of 1968 when the park was formed. This is the last vestige of the amazing old-growth redwood tree and is protected to prevent those trees from being wiped off of the face of the earth.
Similar areas around the world are designed to protect endangered animal and plant species and to provide everyday people with a learning opportunity when they go to visit. If oil drilling is allowed in any of these protected areas, the entire purpose of the designation as a protected area will be lost. Oil drilling means clearing entire areas of the natural wildlife. It means more human and vehicle traffic. And it means a great deal of noise. All of this could cause animals to become disoriented and flee, putting the eco-system out of balance and causing irreparable damage.
The other issue with oil drilling is that it is not isolated to the locations of the oil drills and rigs. The oil must be transported from the region. This is often accomplished either by trucking it out or by building an oil pipeline. Trucking it out means building wide roads through the protected areas and lands. This, again, will cause damage to the ecosystem and lead to the deaths of many old-growth trees, plants, and animals. The trucks themselves produce a great deal of noise and air pollution as well which will, again, cause serious damage to the delicate natural balance of the region.
Drilling for oil also comes with a great deal of inherent risk to the area in which the drilling is taking place. Water contamination by way of the pollutants and by-products of oil drilling is practically a given any time oil is drilled in a region. While a company may make efforts to contain the waste water created through running oil drilling machinery and processing crude oil, this does not prevent that water from soaking into the soil and getting into ground water supplies. There is also no guarantee that companies will even try to prevent that wastewater from contaminating nearby lakes, rivers, and streams, making them unsuitable for drinking or sustaining fish and other life.
And, of course, there is the risk that the oil drilling and transportation process through protected areas will cause oil spills in the region. In fact, the reality of the drilling process is that oil spills are basically inevitable. Experts estimate that around 70 oil spills occur every day in the United States alone. While these spills are usually small and can be contained, they still have an impact. Big spills too are inevitable and do happen more frequently than most people know. Large spills can wipe out the wildlife and eco-system for miles upon miles and can take years or centuries to recover from. Even then, much of the wildlife that once inhabited the area has been destroyed and cannot come back, especially if the species is endangered or can only inhabit that region.
With all of these factors in mind, it is easy to see why there should be no drilling for oil in protected areas to reduce gas prices. There are alternative options to increased oil drilling and the destruction of protected natural areas including finding and developing alternative and renewable energy sources. Under no circumstances should countries be allowed to drill for oil in any protected area.
| 2019-04-19T16:52:40 |
https://www.privatewriting.com/blog/should-countries-drill-for-oil
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Adam and Eve's first two sons differed vastly in their personalities and behavior. Cain longed to farm and build, while Abel loved to roam the hills and meadows with his flocks.
After sin entered this new world because of Adam and Eve's disobedience, God established a sacrificial system and explained that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness for sin (Hebrews 9:22). He told them that these sacrifices pointed forward to the time when Jesus would become a man and die as the Lamb of God for the sins of the world. Abel faithfully brought a young lamb as a sacrifice for his sins, but Cain thought it was unnecessary to obey God's command so precisely. He considered the sacrificial system to be messy and reasoned that as long as he brought an offering and worshiped God, the details wouldn't matter. So he brought an offering of his own works, some produce from the field. Cain watched with jealous anger as fire came down from heaven and consumed Abel's sacrifice but left his own offering untouched. The Lord lovingly urged Cain to humble himself and obey, but Cain stubbornly persisted in his rebellion. Abel also tried to gently reason with his older brother, but Cain flew into a rage. By the time he regained his senses, Abel's bloody body lay still at his feet. God pronounced a curse upon Cain, and when Cain complained about his sentence, the Lord placed a mark upon him lest future generations take revenge for this first homicide.
The book of Revelation tells us that, in the last days, there will again be a battle between Christians regarding how and when to worship. Soon everyone will be identified either by the seal of God or the mark of the beast.
Revelation 7:3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have _________ the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Those who receive God's seal in their foreheads will be protected during the plagues (Psalms 91:7-11).
2. What is this "seal" the righteous have in their foreheads?
Isaiah 8:16. Bind up the testimony; seal the ____ among my disciples.
God's seal is found in His law. A seal is what makes a document official, and it normally contains three characteristics: Name, Office, and Territory. An example would be "Cyrus king of Persia" in Ezra 1:1.
3. Which of the Ten Commandments contains all the elements of a seal?
The fourth commandment is the only one that contains all three elements of a seal: (1) "The Lord"--His name, (2) "made"--His office as Creator, (3) "heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is"--His territory.
4. What has God given as a special sign of His power?
Ezekiel 20:12. I gave them my ________, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:20 Hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
God clearly states that He gave the Sabbath as a sign of His power to create and sanctify. It is His seal, or mark of authority. The words "seal," "sign," "mark," and "token" are used interchangeably throughout the Bible (compare Genesis 17:11 with Romans 4:11 and Revelation 7:3 with Ezekiel 9:4).
5. What does the second beast of Revelation 13 force all to receive?
6. What is the mark of the beast?
Choosing to obey the laws of the papacy (Sunday) rather than the laws of God (Sabbath) will leave you with the mark of beast.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
"Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
1Peter Geiermann, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co., 1957 edition), p 50.
2Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism (New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, third American edition, revised, n.d.), p. 174.
7. Is either the mark of the beast or the seal of God visible?
Hebrews 10:16. Saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their ______ will I write them.
Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth.
Isaiah 59:6, 7 Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. ... Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Neither the mark of the beast nor the seal of God is outwardly visible. The forehead represents the mind, and the hand is a symbol of work. "On the hand" and "between the eyes" are consistent symbols in Scripture for a person's thoughts and actions (Exodus 13:16; Deuteronomy 6:8; 11:18).
A person will receive the mark of the beast in his forehead by choosing to believe that Sunday is a holy day in spite of Bible truth. A person will be marked in the right hand by working on God's Sabbath or by outwardly keeping Sunday laws for convenient reasons--such as a job, family, etc. Although the sign is invisible to men, God will know who has which mark (2 Timothy 2:19). In a sense, each person will mark himself. If I respect and regard God's holy Sabbath, He will mark me as His own. If I regard the beast's false Sabbath, He will mark me as belonging to the beast.
8. How does Jesus determine if we are His servants?
Romans 6:16. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye _____.
9. Does anyone have the mark of the beast now?
Revelation 13:17. No man might ____ or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
No person has the mark now. When it becomes a forced issue, only those who have received the mark of the beast will be able to buy or sell. At that time, people who keep God's holy Sabbath will do so at the risk of their lives (Revelation 13:15), and those who choose to profane His holy day and officially cast their votes by placing the laws of men above the Law of God will be marked as belonging to Antichrist. All who are loyal to Jesus and His holy day will receive Jesus' glorious seal, thus making them His forever. Those who try to remain neutral will be counted for Antichrist (Matthew 12:30).
10. What two things does the Antichrist power attempt to change?
Daniel 7:25. He shall ... think to change times and _____.
Daniel 7 reveals an Old Testament description of the Antichrist power. It clearly predicts that the beast would attempt to change both God's laws and times. The papacy has tried to change God's laws by: (1) omitting the second commandment against veneration of images, (2) shortening the fourth commandment from 94 words to just eight in order to avoid mentioning which day is the Sabbath, and (3) dividing the tenth commandment into two commandments. The papacy attempted to change God's times by: (1) teaching people to recognize the first day of the week as the Sabbath instead of the seventh day, and (2) adopting the pagan Roman practice of beginning each day at midnight instead of sundown. God's timing for the Sabbath is from sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night (Leviticus 23:32). No mortal should ever dare to tamper with God's sacred law or times (Matthew 5:18).
11. What was God's criticism of His ancient priests, or pastors?
Malachi 2:8, 9. Ye have caused many to stumble at the law. ... Ye have not kept my ways, but have been _______ in the law.
God is still hurt when His pastors are partial to eight or nine commandments and cause many to stumble over His command to keep the Sabbath holy. Virtually all churches admit in their official writings that there is no Scripture support for Sunday sacredness. Tragically, both Protestantism and Catholicism stand guilty before the judgment bar of God for throwing out the Bible Sabbath! God Himself gave the Sabbath as a sign, or mark, of His power to create and His power to sanctify and save (Exodus 31:17; Ezekiel 20:12). Dare any man tamper with this sacred sign, which represents the great God of heaven and all that He stands for?
12. How did God's ancient leaders regard the great things of His law?
Hosea 8:12. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a _______ thing.
Times have not changed. God has placed the Sabbath, His great sign, in the middle of His law and begins that commandment with the word "remember." Yet many people today feel that keeping His seventh-day Sabbath is a strange thing.
13. What specific, solemn rebuke did God give to religious leaders regarding His holy Sabbath?
Ezekiel 22:8. Thou hast ______ mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane ... and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
God pointedly rebukes religious leaders who say that the Sabbath doesn't matter and who claim "Thus saith the Lord" when it is not true.
14. What specific sin does God command His leaders to denounce?
Isaiah 58:1, 13, 14. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and ______ my people their transgression. ... If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honourable; ... Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord.
God charges spiritual leaders to call Sabbath-breaking a sin and to insist that His people keep His Sabbath day holy. As with the disciples of old, our only safety is in obeying God rather than men (Acts 5:29).
15. When you decide to accept Jesus and fully follow Him, what happens?
Matthew 11:29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find _____ unto your souls.
Glorious rest and peace enter your heart at conversion. The Sabbath, which means "rest," is a symbol of the rest and peace that comes from the new birth (Hebrews 4:1-10). Those who are truly born again will keep the Sabbath as a blessed sign of that rest (notice verses 4, 9, 10). There is no joy like the joy that comes to a converted person who keeps God's Sabbath holy.
16. Before you can say "no" to the mark of the beast, you must say "yes" to the seal of God. Jesus is waiting at the door of your heart for an answer. Will you decide now to move under His glorious Sabbath banner as evidence that you have accepted Him as your Creator and Saviour?
Here it is officially: "You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead?
1Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don't You Keep Holy the Sabbath-Day? (London: Burns and Oates, Ltd.), pp. 3, 4.
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https://www.bibleprophecytruth.com/media-library/book/e/5339/t/the-mark-of-cain
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RESULTATEN: 60 patiënten met een gemiddeld aantal van eerdere behandelingen van 3.5 (range, een tot 12 behandelingen) werden toegelaten; 33 patiënten werden in arm A geplaatst en 27 werden in arm B geplaatst, inclusief 12 diffuse grote B-cell lymphomas, 5 follicular lymphomas (FL), 3 getransformeerde follicular lymphomas - FLs, vier kleine lymphocytische lymphomas (SLL), twee ziekte van Waldenström (WM) patiënten, en een marginale zone lymphoma. In arm A, reageerden 12 van de evalueerbare patiënten op de behandeling (6 complete remissies en 6 gedeeltelijke remissies ) met een overall response cijfer (ORR) van 41% (95% CI, 24% tot 61%), en een mediane tijd tot progressie (ziektevrije tijd) is nog niet bereikt, met een mediane follow-up van 9.3 maanden (range, 1.7 tot 24 maanden). In arm B, vier van de 21 evalueerbare patiënten reageerde op de behandeling (een SLL patient had een complete remissie - CR, een FL patiënt had a CR unconfirmed, one diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patiënt had a PR, en een ziekte van Waldenström patiënt had een gedeelteljike remissie - PR) met een voerall response cijfer - ORR van 19% (95% CI, 5% tot 42%). Grade 3 toxiciteit inclusief thrombocytopenia (47%), spijsverteringsproblemen (20%), moeheid (13%), neutropenia (10%), en peripheral neuropathy (5%). Grade 4 toxiciteit kwam voor bij 9 patiënten (15%), en drie sterfgevallen door progressie van de ziekte binnen 30 dagen na beeindigng van de behandeling.
CONCLUSIE: Bortezomib toont hoopgevende activiteit bij patiënten met een recidief van mantel-cell lymphoma en toont bemoedigende resultaten bij andere B-cell lymphoma's. Verdere studies zullen bortezomib onderzoeken in combinatie met andere cytotoxische of biologische agenten - medicijnen.
J Clin Oncol. 2005 Feb 1;23(4):667-75. Epub 2004 Dec 21.
J Clin Oncol. 2005 Feb 1;23(4):657-8. Phase II study of proteasome inhibitor bortezomib in relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Goy A, Younes A, McLaughlin P, Pro B, Romaguera JE, Hagemeister F, Fayad L, Dang NH, Samaniego F, Wang M, Broglio K, Samuels B, Gilles F, Sarris AH, Hart S, Trehu E, Schenkein D, Cabanillas F, Rodriguez AM.
PURPOSE: Evaluate efficacy and toxicity of bortezomib in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients were stratified, based on preclinical data, into arm A (mantle-cell lymphoma) or arm B (other B-cell lymphomas) without limitation in number of prior therapies. Bortezomib was administered as an intravenous push (1.5 mg/m2) on days 1, 4, 8, and 11 every 21 days for a maximum of six cycles.
RESULTS: Sixty patients with a median number of prior therapies of 3.5 (range, one to 12 therapies) were enrolled; 33 patients were in arm A and 27 were in arm B, including 12 diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, five follicular lymphomas (FL), three transformed FLs, four small lymphocytic lymphomas (SLL), two Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemias (WM), and one marginal zone lymphoma. In arm A, 12 of 29 assessable patients responded (six complete responses and six partial responses ) for an overall response rate (ORR) of 41% (95% CI, 24% to 61%), and a median time to progression not reached yet, with a median follow-up of 9.3 months (range, 1.7 to 24 months). In arm B, four of 21 assessable patients responded (one SLL patient had a CR, one FL patient had a CR unconfirmed, one diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patient had a PR, and one WM patient had a PR) for an ORR of 19% (95% CI, 5% to 42%). Grade 3 toxicity included thrombocytopenia (47%), gastrointestinal (20%), fatigue (13%), neutropenia (10%), and peripheral neuropathy (5%). Grade 4 toxicity occurred in nine patients (15%), and three deaths from progression of disease occurred within 30 days of withdrawal from study.
CONCLUSION: Bortezomib showed promising activity in relapsed mantle-cell lymphoma and encouraging results in other B-cell lymphomas. Future studies will explore bortezomib in combination with other cytotoxic or biologic agents.
Reageer op "Velcade - Bortezomib toont hoopgevende therapeutische waarde bij patiënten met een recidief van mantelcel lympfomen en daarnaast ook bemoedigende resultaten bij patiënten met recidief van andere B-cel lympfomen, aldus fase II studie bij 60 patiënten"
| 2019-04-23T08:17:37 |
https://kanker-actueel.nl/velcade-bortezomib-toont-hoopgevende-therapeutische-waarde-bij-patinten-met-een-recidief-van-mantelcel-lympfomen-en-daarnaast-ook-bemoedigende-resultaten-bij-patinten-met-recidief-van-andere-b-cel-lympfomen-aldus-fase-ii-studie-bij-60-patinten.html
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Originally established in 1902 by B. Sandford Taylor, Belle Vue Studio was eventually established on Manningham Lane in Bradford. It became one of the city's best known photographic studios. <br /><br /> Along with his successor, Tony Walker, Sandford Taylor was traditional in his methods, opting to use natural rather than electric light, even as late as the 1950s. However, by this time most people had cameras of their own and were less inclined to use the services of a portrait studio. <br /><br /> For Belle Vue Studio, survival and continued success were ensured by an influx of people coming to live and work in Bradford from other parts of the world. Individuals, couples and families were keen to have their photographs taken and sent back to relatives. Many images reflect a desire to show material success in a new country. <br /><br /> Much of the studio's original work was lost along with most written records when it closed in 1975. Tony Walker finally cleared his studio in 1985 and 17,000 glass negatives were rescued and acquired by Bradford Museums and Galleries.
Originally established in 1902 by B. Sandford Taylor, Belle Vue Studio was eventually established on Manningham Lane in Bradford. It became one of the city's best known photographic studios.
Along with his successor, Tony Walker, Sandford Taylor was traditional in his methods, opting to use natural rather than electric light, even as late as the 1950s. However, by this time most people had cameras of their own and were less inclined to use the services of a portrait studio.
For Belle Vue Studio, survival and continued success were ensured by an influx of people coming to live and work in Bradford from other parts of the world. Individuals, couples and families were keen to have their photographs taken and sent back to relatives. Many images reflect a desire to show material success in a new country.
Much of the studio's original work was lost along with most written records when it closed in 1975. Tony Walker finally cleared his studio in 1985 and 17,000 glass negatives were rescued and acquired by Bradford Museums and Galleries.
| 2019-04-20T05:13:49 |
https://photos.bradfordmuseums.org/view-item?key=T3siUCI6eyJ0eXBlIjoxLCJpZHMiOlsyNF19fQ
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Can I get carries if I take long-term dilaudid or fentanyl prescribed by my other doctor? It would be hard or impossible for us to monitor if the fentnayl, dilaudid, oxycontin, or other opioid is being taken according to its prescription or if it's being diverted, abused, and/or supplemented from an illicit source. So the answer is that carries could not be issued if you are getting opioids from another doctor on a long-term basis (more than 2-3 weeks).
The very rare exceptions are if the patient has been very stable in the past with methadone without problematic drug use, and if more than one doctor including a specialist have documented the exact pain diagnosis and the long term need for the other opioid, and this after other treatments have failed. Even in such cases, the other opioid would have to be prescribed in stable, low to moderate doses, and dispensed in a controlled way which would include take home doses in sequence with methadone carries and observed dosing of the other opioid for the days methadone is taken observed.
I am currently on methadone maintenance at another clinic. Can I switch to your clinic? Yes. You can an appointment by contacting one of our locations near you. However remember that you can be registered in only one methadone clinic at a time. We can help you with the paperwork associated with this process.
How long should I stay on methadone? This is a very common question. The methadone maintenance program is a voluntary program and a patient can choose to stop the program at any time. This should be done gradually in a process called "taper", the rate of which can be determined between the patient and the doctor.
1- Their lives have been stabilized after they've been on methadone maintenance treatment and have shown abstinence from drug use for more than a year.
2- The decision to stop taking methadone is made with their doctor, who gradually decreases the dose while providing support. The rate of decrease may be different depending on each patient's needs and preferance, but is generally no faster than 5-10% once a week.
3-They've made changes in their lives that show they're stable. For example, they may have a stable family life, support from the non-drug-using community, steady satisfying employment and fewer financial or legal difficulties.
It is important to understand that methadone, when taken as prescribed, is a safe and effective medication that individuals can take for years. Sometimes people stay on methadone as long as they need to and some patients have chosen to stay on methadone for life. Whether short-term or long-term, research has shown that methadone maintenance is the most effective treatment for opioid dependence.
I used to be a patient on methadone maintenance and then left the program. Can I come go back on methadone treatment? The answer is generally yes. However a doctor's consultation would be necessary to determine this for certain. Please make an appointment at one of our locations.
I am currently on suboxone maintenance at another clinic. Can I switch to this one? Yes. You can make an appointment to be seen by a physician at one of our clinics to determine this.
I am currently on methadone and have carries. If I switch to your clinic, will I be able to keep my carry level? The answer is generally yes or maybe. It would depend upon a full evaluation by our physician including a review of the previous clinic's documents and pharmacy records. Our doctor may also need to speak to your previous doctor.
Furthermore, if there has been an interruption of more than 3 days of dosing, and/or if there has been relapse to drug abuse, no carries are issued upon transfer.
How can I pay for your program or methadone? If you are covered by OHIP, then your clinic visits with the physician will be fully paid for.
The methadone itself which is dispensed at a pharmacy like other medications, will be paid for if you are covered by a private plan, ODSP, Ontario Works, or another form of coverage (a co-pay may apply). If you don't have any coverage and you don't qualify for any government plan, then your pharmacy can explain to you the costs.
How can I pay for your program or Suboxone? If you are covered by OHIP, then your clinic visits with the physician will be fully paid for.
The Suboxone itself which is dispensed at a pharmacy like other medications, is usually covered by most private medication plans. You should consult with your pharmacist about your particular private plan.
Subxone may be covered by government plans such as Ontario Drug Benefits (ODB) if certain medical criteria are met. Your physician would be able to explain these.
Do you give carries? Take-home doses of methadone or "carries" are an essential part of an MMT. The criteria for getting carries are standardized across the province and stipulate that, barring very exceptional circumstances, a patient has to be in the program at least 8 weeks before obtaining a carry for one day per week. Additional requirements for carries are demonstrated lack of problematic drug use, medical and social stability, and secure housing. The Standards also stipulate that patients, when meeting these requirements, can achieve an additional carry every 4 weeks, for up to 6 carries per week.
Do you prescribe medications besides methadone and suboxone? Yes, if related to addiction and mental health, such as anti-depressants, sleeping aides, and mood stabilizers. Also if related to the side effects of treatment, such as laxatives, stool softeners or medications that can help excessive sweating.
Can I get carries if I don't use opioids but use cocaine or crystal meth? The answer is no. We do check for these drugs in urine samples.
Can I get carries if I take valium or clonazepam prescribed by my family doctor? Benzodiazepines such as valium, clonazepam, lorazepam, etc have a dangerous interaction with methadone in causing overdose and death. This makes carries more dangerous. For this reason, strict criteria have to be met before carries are issued even if the benzodiazepines are prescribed. Some of these criteria are that the dose of the benzodiapeine be low to moderate, and that they be dispensed in limited supplies. The full extent of these criteria can be discussed with your doctor.
It is very important to discuss with your methadone doctor before your family doctor or other doctor starts you on benzodiazepines or any medications that relax you or help sleep. It is also important that you disclose with all your physicians and pharmacists that you are on methadone so as not to take any other medications that may interact with methadone.
Which is better? methadone or suboxone? There is no right answer. Each medication may be more suited for certain group of patients. There are many medical and social factors that may suggest one of these medication may be more appropriate for a particular patient. In addition, there is the issue of patient preference which would play an important role in the decision over which medication to use.
A full medical evaluation and consultation with a physician would be needed to decide upon whether any or either of these medications should be used for the problem of opioid abuse or addiction. You can make an appointment here.
What happens if I miss a dose? Methadone and suboxone are long-acting medications. This means that it takes 3-4 days for a new dose to reach a stable level in one's blood. If one skips a dose, this level can be disturbed for the next 2-3 days. An unstable dosing schedule and the resulting unstable blood level of medication can cause the patient to feel anxious, agitated, and to have cravings for other opioids.
If you miss more than one dose, this could affect the program itself. By regulation, if you miss 2 days in a row in the first 2 weeks of the program, the entire prescription will be canceled by your pharmacist and you will need to restart the program by seeing your physician again. After the first 2 weeks of the program, it will be 3 missed days in a row that will cause your prescription to be canceled, thus necessitating an assessment by your physician to restart the program.
Does Tyloneol show up on urine tests? Isn't "Tyleonol 1" just over the counter? Sometimes patients take acetominephen-codeine combination tablets, thus causing their urine to show "opiates" on testing. When asked, some patients answer that they ingested just "Tylenol" and thus tend to dispute the results of the office urine test.
It is improtant to note that acetominophen-codeine combination tablets are NOT Tyelnol and are very different than plain Tylenol that contains only acetaminophen and no codeine. Likewise "Tylenol 1", "Tylenol 2", "Tyleonol 3" are not Tylenol. They are codeine-containing combination tablets that are controlled substances and not sold on the shelf in the pharmacy. Tylenol 2 and 3 are never sold without a prescription in Canada. "Tylenol 1", which is almost never sold under this brand name anymore, is sold as "acetaminophen 325mg/codeine 8mg" tablets without a prescription, but not over the counter. It is kept behind the counter, and sold by a pharmacist in limited quanities, only aftr questioning and showing proper ID.
If your urine shows opiates because you took a codeine-containing tablet without proper authorization from your physician, your carry status will likely be affected as codeine is an opioid, which is converted by the liver into morphine.
Do not post any questions about your individual care. No questions regarding your individual care will be answered here. For these, you must call your clinic. Only general questions about the program may be posted here.
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He made a good block during the football match, but unfortunately he caused severe physical problems for the opponent.
Does" block" have the same meaning as "tackle"?
You have not told us if you mean American football, or the football that the rest of the world plays. Can you help?
I'm talking about the football that the rest of the world plays.
It seems a very strange sentence.
A block usually happens when the other team shoots and a defender stops the ball from going towards his goal. We don't usually speak of "making a block" - we use the verb - "he blocked the ball well." It is also strange that a block could injure anyone.
"unfortunately, he caused severe physical problems for the opponent." is also strange as we would expect "unfortunately, he badly injured the forward of the other team." or "unfortunately, he badly injured <insert the name of the player>."
It is possible that the speaker meant "He obstructed <insert the name of a player from the other team> during the football match." but obstructing someone can never be described as "good".
Where did you find this sentence?
Actually, my teacher told me this sentence, but it was odd to me, so I had to ask about it.
In fact, the teacher defined the word "block" as: " a movement that stops another player from going forward; or a movement that stops the opponent's attack. And as shown by his definition, I think the verb "make" is appropriate.
- "block" and "tackle" are both things that happen very often (though they are different things).
- "block" is define exactly the way your teacher describes it.
- we often say "he made a good block"
In fact, the teacher defined the word "block" as: " a movement that stops another player from going forward; or a movement that stops the opponent's attack.
You mean that every "block" is considered a "tackle", and not vice versa? That's to say, "block" can express any form of movement that's used to halt a player from going forward, while "tackle" express only the act of sliding on the pitch taking the ball.
You mean that "block" is a term used in "American football," while "tackle" is a term used in "soccer"?
In American football you can block any player (impede their motion) whether they have the ball or not. You can only tackle someone who has the ball and you bring them to the ground (like a Rugby tackle). Tackle in soccer means to take the ball away from the opponent and often, but not always, gain control yourself.
Both words are used in both sports, but in each sport, they mean different things. Julian has explained above and I have explained "block" in soccer in #4.
| 2019-04-25T07:54:09 |
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/block-vs-tackle-football.3243428/
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Cat food intolerance develops in pets of all age ranges and occurs due to an adverse reaction by the body to certain ingredients present in food, Food. What causes food allergies? Allergies to certain food can irritate cats and dogs,A food allergy is a reaction by an individual animal to a particular substance in. This kind of allergy is the most likely cause of a cat allergic reaction.
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| 2019-04-23T08:35:08 |
http://catdiets.blogspot.com/2013/05/cat-response-to-foods.html
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When Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart" was presented by New York's Public Theater in 1985, its inside out look at the early history of the spread of the HIV virus and AIDS was both a howl of pain and a call for action and help.
When a new production appeared in 2011, it won the Tony Award for best revival of a play. Now it's back again in a substantially revised made-for-TV movie on HBO. And one of the remarkable things about it is that nearly 30 years after it first was staged, "The Normal Heart" still seems both were a patent relevant.
For HBO, Kramer himself has written the screenplay adaptation. Ryan Murphy, co-creator of TVs "Glee" and "American Horror Story," is the director. Mark Ruffalo stars as Ned Weeks, the character who's sort of a stand-in for the activist writer, Kramer. And the biggest name attached to the movie is that of Julia Roberts, who plays Emma Brookner, the doctor with polio who fights to identify and understand the spreading HIV fires before almost any of her peers. Other co-stars include Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory," who's reprising his role from the 2011 stage revival, and Matt Bomer of "White Collar and the movie, "Magic Mike," as well as Alfred Molina, Taylor Kitsch and Denis O'Hare.
All these actors betray characters in a drama that is about 50 percent true to the play and 50 percent reworked as new for HBO. The new opening, for example, is like a pre-age picture of gay culture, showing Ned Weeks and a bunch of friends and strangers descending upon Fire Island in 1981 for a very festive vacation.
The scene isn't at all gratuitous, though. It establishes the social environment in which HIV would spread so freely, and also alludes to one of Kramer's pre-play novels which was set there. But on the beach, one of the gay men drops suddenly to the sand, an early victim of a disease as mysterious as it was potentially fatal.
Ned, played Mark Ruffalo, visits the office of Dr. Brookner, played by Robert. He's there only to ask questions, but she spins around in her wheelchair, pushes him onto the examination and treats him like any other patient. He likes her directness and pushiness and she likes his even more.
JULIA ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) Who are you?
MARK RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) I'm Ned Weeks. I spoke to you after "The Times" article.
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) Come in. Take your clothes off.
RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) I only came to ask some questions.
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) You are gay, aren't you?
RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) Yes.
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) Take your clothes off. Don't be nervous. I've seen more men than you have. To answer all of your questions, I don't know. I've never seen or heard of anything like this. Have you had any of the symptoms?
RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) Most of the (bleep) "The Times" said, amebas, gonorrhea, hepatitis. You know what it's been like since the sexual revolution.
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) What make you think I don't? Any fever? Night sweats? Weight loss?
RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) Don't I wish. No.
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) And propo(ph) lesions? Open your mouth. It's a cancer. There's a strange reaction in the immune system. It's collapsed. Won't fight. So the diseases most of my patients are coming down with are brought on by terms that wouldn't hurt a baby.
RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) I'm ticklish.
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) At least not a baby in New York City anyway. And the immune system is the system we know the least about. Oh, where's this big mouth I hear you got?
RUFFALO: (as Ned Weeks) Big mouth a symptom?
ROBERT: (as Emma Brookner) No. It's a cure.
BIANCULLI: "The Normal Heart" covers only a few years, during which the disease spreads rapidly, yet little is accomplished either medically or politically. Eventually, Jim Parsons, playing one of Ned's friends and activist allies, attends yet another memorial service for a dead, gay friend and vents his anger without once raising his voice.
JIM PARSONS: (as Tommy Boatwright) I have this tradition, it's something I do now when a friend dies. I save his Rolodex card. What am I supposed to do? Throw it away in the trash can? I won't do that. No, I won't. It's too final. Last year, I had five cards, now I have 50. A collection of cardboard tombstones bound together with a rubber band.
BIANCULLI: He goes on. And so does "The Normal Heart," watching and acknowledging as one of Ned's friends after another fights AIDS and dies. Many of them fight Ned in the process, unwilling to come out as gay or out others or spread the as yet unproven theory that the disease can be transmitted sexually. Ruffalo modulates his performance very well in channeling both the anger and the fear. And Roberts, in a few key scenes, is so pressure cooker angry that she makes her earlier activist movie role as Erin Brockovich look like a pushover.
A few scenes in this HBO drama are painted too heavily with the author's message brush. But in the best scenes, Murphy lets his camera sit back and record the dramatic action as it builds like a stage play, with each character throwing coal into the same fire. It's a drama studded with sensitive performances. And I don't think it matters at all, other than as some sort of evolutionary pop culture mark of progress - that Murphy and Bomer and Parsons are openly gay - or that Ruffalo is not gay.
Television, like the country, has matured since 1981 when "The Normal Heart" begins. The first depiction of AIDS on primetime dramatic TV came in 1983, when a patient was diagnosed with the HIV virus on NBC's "St. Elsewhere." NBC also did an excellent made-for-TV movie in 1985 called "An Early Frost" with Aidan Quinn as a gay man who, after contracting AIDS, goes home to out himself to his parents.
And HBO has a solid track record of exploring the subject with both documentaries and dramas, including its superb adaptation of the Broadway play, "Angels in America."
It's fair to say that television not only informed viewers about HIV and AIDS, it slowly but surely helped change national attitudes about it. Much too slowly - many would say, but the same could be said of the attitudes and actions dramatized and "The Normal Heart." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
| 2019-04-20T20:43:53 |
https://www.ktep.org/post/hbos-normal-heart-looks-early-days-aids-crisis
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! CanX-4 and CanX-5 are a pair of identical nanosatellites. Their primary mission: to demonstrate precise, autonomous on-orbit formation flying, and to do it at ultra low cost.
CanX-4 and CanX-5 were launched on 30 June 2014 and successfully accomplished their mission ahead of schedule in November of the same year. They demonstrated relative position determination to within a few centimeters by virtue of carrier-phase differential GPS measurements. Formations were achieved to better than one meter precision with the Canadian Nanosatellite Advanced Propulsion System (CNAPS), a cold-gas system developed at UTIAS/SFL. During the mission, the propulsion system exceeded all performance requirements with ample fuel leftover for an extended mission in the future. An SFL-developed inter-satellite link also outperformed requirements, allowing the two satellites to share position and attitude information to facilitate tight coordination. The data from the CanX-4 and CanX-5 mission will enable future operational formation flying missions involving sparse aperture sensing, ground moving target indication, precise geolocation, change detection, and other applications including on-orbit inspection.
The on-orbit results of CanX-4/CanX-5 were independently verified by the German Aerospace Center, DLR, by analyzing the GPS residuals from the mission.
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Dorf on Law: Is Chevron Deference Liberal, Conservative, or Neither?
Is Chevron Deference Liberal, Conservative, or Neither?
In my latest column for Verdict, I analyze Judge Gorsuch's argument--laid out in a concurring opinion in his own majority opinion in Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch--against the doctrines of Chevron and Brand X whereby courts defer to reasonable agency interpretations of statutes they are charged with enforcing. As I explain in the column, I find Judge Gorsuch's argument unpersuasive. I also note the curiosity that it is at odds with a position espoused most vigorously by Justice Scalia (although Scalia backed off a bit late in his career).
In the column I suggest that the particular argument Judge Gorsuch offers against Chevron and Brand X would, if accepted, lead to the hobbling of the administrative state--mostly because it implies revival of a robust nondelegation doctrine. A Congress that cannot delegate is a Congress that cannot regulate effectively.
However, elimination of Chevron and Brand X need not necessarily be accompanied by a revived nondelegation doctrine. If justified on some other ground, courts could in principle uphold broad delegations of authority to administrative agencies even while denying deference to agency rules and other interpretations of statutes. I would oppose such a change as unwise, but I would not say that it would necessarily spell doom for administration.
It is notable that, as Professor Klein noted in her post on Gutierrez-Brizuela last week, alongside Judge Gorsuch's principled argument for killing Chevron/Brand X there has arisen a movement on the right to do the same thing and more. A bill to that effect recently passed the House, although its fate in the Senate remains uncertain. It is clearly part of a politically conservative attack on the administrative state.
These events raise the question whether Chevron deference is inherently liberal or contingently liberal. If either is true, that would explain why eliminating it is a project of the right. But as I shall now explain, the political valence of Chevron deference is tricky to figure out.
At first blush, the answer would appear to be easy: During a Democratic administration, Chevron deference is liberal; during a Republican administration, it is conservative. Yet that obviously cannot be the thinking of the members of Congress who voted on the bill to eliminate Chevron deference. All Republicans voting favored it while all but five Democrats opposed it. If the stakes were simply whether the courts should defer to the current Republican administration, one would have expected those numbers to be reversed. Accordingly, we should explore the possibility that Chevron deference necessarily skews liberal.
The simple-minded argument for that conclusion is that Chevron deference allows agencies to regulate more effectively and so Republicans with a deregulatory bias oppose Chevron. But this is not obviously so. In the Chevron case itself, after all, the Court deferred to the Reagan administration's deregulatory regulation under the Clean Air Act. And this will often be the case. Deference can as easily be given or denied to regs that are stricter than the construction a court would give a statute if considering the matter de novo as to regs that are laxer.
So what gives? Consider two possibilities.
First, it is possible that some or most members of Congress voted as they did on H.R. 5 (the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017) because of the other provisions it contains. Chevron went along for the ride.
Second, although there is no systematic reason why deference would more often be given to strict agency interpretations than to lax ones, the litigation pattern could well be different. Under the Court's standing doctrine, it is quite easy for a regulated entity to complain about what it regards as too-strict regulation by an agency. However, a party claiming that the agency is under-enforcing a law with a too-lax regulation will sometimes face difficulty establishing standing. Indeed, in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, Justice Scalia, writing for the Court, argued that a person complaining about under-enforcement of the law against a third party threatens "to transfer from the President to the courts the Chief Executive's most important constitutional duty, to 'take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed' . . . ."
To be sure, that was hyperbole in Lujan. Taken seriously, Justice Scalia's complaint in Lujan would have disempowered Congress from granting a right to sue even to people who clearly suffer Article III injuries as a consequence of non-enforcement, because the injury inquiry is orthogonal to the Take Care Clause concern. Moreover, Justice Kennedy's concurrence in Lujan was pivotal and looked more favorably on complaints about under-enforcement than did the majority opinion (which he nonetheless joined). That fact takes on greater significance since Massachusetts v. EPA essentially read Kennedy's Lujan opinion as controlling, thus rendering it so.
But these qualifiers notwithstanding, it probably remains true that challenges to agency regulation will be more frequent than challenges to agency laxity or failure to regulate. In addition to the Article III standing limits, there is also the fact that under the Administrative Procedure Act as construed in Heckler v. Chaney, decisions not to pursue enforcement actions generally are not reviewable.
Accordingly, insofar as regulation and over-regulation will generally be more subject to review than non-regulation and under-regulation, deference to agency action will more often than not mean deference to agency regulation and (from the perspective of a de novo court) over-regulation. Thus, there seems to be at least some basis for the conclusion that Chevron skews liberal.
Regarding reasoning against Gorsuch, one of my senators posted something on Facebook about why she is against him without mentioning Garland.
This to me is wrong, but his positions is something to cover too. And, there has been repeated comments about why Democrats should support him since he's the best they'd likely get etc. I'm unsure really how much different he is from people like Judge Hardiman. Plus, there are multiple reasons to be very concerned about him on the merits. Your discussion shows that on this one, contra the "bright side" suggested by another recent post here, liberals have a reason to be concerned.
Anyway, some argue that the new normal is that the Senate and the President has to be controlled by the same party for a justice to be confirmed. This "rule" haven't quite been put to a test. But, I would find it very unfortunate. The treatment of Garland furthered the possibility. I hold to what I said on the past on other stuff there and won't repeat myself.
I'm not sure the relevant axis is liberal/conservative -- as you say, that doesn't explain why Chevron grew up under Reagan or why the GOP rejects it now even though they hold the White House. Let me offer two alternatives. One is that Chevron will never be popular in Congress, regardless of which party controls the White house, since it necessarily empowers the administration at Congress's expense. Right now the GOP, notwithstanding Trump's odd victory, is basically a Congress-driven party and still thinks of itself that way. Second, and somewhat related to but not fully overlapping with the prior point, Chevron empowers technocrats. A party that is actively at war with technocrats as the GOP essentially is right now is not going to have any use for Chevron since it is not in the business of producing documents that get Chevron deference. That is a different dynamic than in the Reagan years.
I'm unclear about the reach of the second comment since Democrats in Congress, at least since the New Deal, were much more likely to promote policy where agency discretion was important. For instance, environmental legislation or whatnot.
This would delegate some power away from Congress specifically, but it's part of the general ends of the party. Plus, it has partisan benefit since Democrats (Republicans too really in various cases) can support general ends while the hard details are left to agencies. This would seem to make Chevron popular, akin to some policy for Republicans that give a lot of discretion to the executive regarding military matters or something.
I went to law school, and took Administrative Law, before Chevron. I have never been convinced that Chevron changed what courts do as much as it changed what courts say. I suspect that judges would run screaming for the hills if they had to tackle all agency action de novo. They can't do it, and no fiddling with doctrine will make it possible.
I was working for Legal Aid at the time of Chevron. We felt that it was used primarily to prevent us from attacking regulations that abused people receiving or trying to receive welfare benefits as well as housing and health care.
Maybe Mike Bush makes a valid point, perhaps taking such steps if Chevron is degassed.
I asked an ad law professor what to make of Gorsuch and GOP support for this bill, and he pointed out that the Chamber of Commerce is scoring votes on it. Besides the scoring itself, which motivates congressmen, the business community loses a lot of cases due to deference and Trunp won't be the President forever. The interests the GOP represent generally stand to gain from losing Chevron.
The Judge Neil Gorsuch is appointed by Trump and he is going to do exactly what Trump has to say.
"The interests the GOP represent generally stand to gain from losing Chevron."
Does "losing Chevron" mean that it remains in effect? If so, what are the GOP interests that would be gained?
| 2019-04-24T13:48:18 |
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2017/02/is-chevron-deference-liberal.html
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Is formal education a necessity? Do you need to go to school if you want to build a successful business?
Most people are brought up to believe that going to school, getting good grades, working really hard and getting a good job are the steps you need to take to become successful. Today, a good education and gainful employment are merely the status quo -- these qualifications are no longer a proven formula for wealth and success.
Education certainly has its place, and it isn't completely without merit, but it also isn't necessary all of the time. There are plenty of entrepreneurs that never had much of a formal education, but still managed to achieve a great deal.
What follows is an exploration of several personalities that made their marks on the world in spite of their lack of formal education. Study these case studies for yourself to determine whether you need to go to school to build a profitable business.
There probably aren't too many people out there that aren't familiar with the story of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Although he did graduate from Homestead High School in 1972, he ended up dropping out of Reed College, an education his parents could barely afford.
At the time of his death in 2011, Jobs' net worth was $11 billion. Not bad for a college dropout. Steve Wozniak, Jobs' brainy counterpart, is said to be worth about $100 million, and he never completed college either.
Richard Branson's net worth is said to be roughly $4.9 billion. Founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Records, Virgin Mobile and other Virgin brands, Branson never completed high school, and dropped out at 16 years of age. Not only that, but he was dyslexic and had poor academic performance.
That didn't stop him from making a name for himself. Today, Branson is outspoken about the importance of education, and strongly believes that schools should be doing a better job of helping entrepreneurs and providing funding for them.
Dave Thomas, founder and CEO of fast-food empire Wendy's, dropped out of high school to work full time at the Hobby House Restaurant in Fort Wayne, Ind. Although he passed away in 2002 at 69 years old, his net worth was said to be $99 million.
Thomas opened the first Wendy's location in 1969, but the chain went through many ups and downs until he started appearing in hundreds of commercials, eventually endearing himself to TV audiences everywhere, becoming a household name in the 1990s.
David Green, whose net worth is nearly $6 billion, never went to college. This founder of Hobby Lobby -- a chain of arts and crafts stores -- has a high school diploma, but passed on higher education to start his own home-based business in 1970 on a $600 loan. By 1972, the business was successful enough that he was able to open his first retail store.
Green is a known philanthropist. He takes half of his company's total earnings and donates to a variety of evangelical ministries. As of 2012, he is said to have donated roughly $500 million.
Larry Ellison, former CEO of Oracle, dropped out of two colleges. His net worth? A cool $54 billion. After building databases for the CIA, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with two partners in 1977. This company would eventually become Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982.
Today, this self-made multi-billionaire has stepped down from his position as CEO, but remains chairman and chief technology officer at Oracle. His goal was never to become wealthy, but rather to create a work environment where he could enjoy himself.
This under-40 online entrepreneur co-founded Revision3, Pownce and Milk, but is probably most known for his involvement with Digg. He attended the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and majored in computer science, but dropped out after two years.
Today, Rose is CEO of HODINKEE, is a board member of Tony Hawk Foundation and an advisor to Google Ventures.
Michael Dell, of course, is the founder of Dell Computers. His net worth is said to be nearly $20 billion. He attended the University of Texas, but eventually dropped out. In his college dorm room, he started forming the foundations of what would eventually become Dell. Having found some success packaging and selling upgrades for personal computers, he went on to build a much bigger business.
By 1992, Dell had become the youngest CEO on the Fortune 500 list at 27.
This cooking TV show star, author and businesswoman never attended college, and doesn't have any formal training in the culinary arts. Her net worth is a cool $60 million. Pretty good for someone who doesn't have qualifications in the field she works in.
After launching her talk show in 2006, she promoted it through many appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has appeared on a variety of other well-known programs as well.
The moral of the story? A driven personality always finds a way. An education can either be a stepping stone or a road block on the path to achievement. If education proves to be an obstacle, those with an entrepreneurial spirit will push it aside and go their own chosen route.
Today, in the information age, there are many ways to learn and develop the skills you need to become a successful entrepreneur. Homeschooling may be a worthwhile option for many, especially if you have the desire to learn at your own pace, or if you have kids that are ambitious and independent thinkers.
Today, starting or even buying an online business is well within reach for most people. Building your business into a multi-billion-dollar empire might be an entirely different matter, however.
| 2019-04-19T16:29:43 |
https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/299620
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The purpose of this essay is to argue that the claim, "I will not accept your argument because you do not use your real name," is an informal fallacy - an improper way of reasoning.
Professional logicians recognize two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for a sound argument; (1) The argument is valid, and (2) the premises are true. Thus, there are two and only two ways to refute an argument; (1) demonstrate that the argument is invalid, or (2) demonstrate that at least one of the premises is false. This can be verified by looking in any introductory logic book.
2a) If Henry is an elephant, then Henry is a mammal.
2b) Henry is an elephant.
2c) Therefore, Henry is a mammal.
3a) If Henry is an elephant, then Henry is a reptile.
3b) Henry is an elephant.
3c) Therefore, Henry is a reptile.
In this example, 3a is false. Yet, it is still the case that IF 3a were true THEN 3c would also have to be true. It would be a logical contradiction to state that, "If Henry is an elephant, then Henry is a reptile; Henry is an elephant; and Henry is not a reptile." Thus, this argument is still valid. In much popular lay-discussion it is common for people to use "validity" as synonymous with "soundness" as meaning, "a good argument whereby the conclusion is proved true." But this is not the logicians' technical definition of the terms.
Arguments are proved invalid by means of a counter-example. The qualities of a valid counter example are; (1) the argument has the same form as the argument one is raising objections against; (2) in the counter-example it is the case that even if all of the premises were true, the conclusion could still be false. From these it is inferred that in the original argument, even if all of the premises are true it is possible for the conclusion to be false; that is, truth of the premises in original argument does not prove the truth of the conclusion in that argument. In other words, believing all of the premises to be true and the conclusion to be false does not generate a logical contradiction.
Since counter examples focus entirely on the form of the argument, rather than the content of the premises, the identity of the person making the original argument is of no relevance.
Propositions are true or false; and their truth or falsity are determined by their content. One thing it is important to stress is that only propositions - statements - are capable of being true or false. Thus, Tarsky's definition of truth, illustrated by the statement "'Snow is white' is true if and only if snow is white," is not as trivial as it may seem at first glance. "Snow is white" (contained within quotes in the original illustration) refers to a proposition - the sentence "Snow is white." The phrase "snow is white" which is outside the quotes in the original illustration refers to the actual wet, white, cold stuff that falls from the sky in winter. The sentence "snow is white" is true if and only if the wet, white, cold stuff that falls from the sky in winter is actually white.
The Anonymous Fallacy would have us add to Tarsky's definition of truth a condition that the identity of the person who wrote or spoke the statement is known. Thus, "Snow is white" is true if and only if (1) snow is white, and (2) the identity of the person making the claim "snow is white" is known. Yet, clearly, this is not the case. Take, for example, the proposition, "I use the anonymous name Phil in this article." Here, the reader does not know my identity. And, yet, the proposition is clearly true. Or take, for example, the proposition, "There is a hundred dollars buried at the base of the tree at the end of Pine Street," written on a piece of paper flying through the wind. You find this paper; it does not follow from the fact that the paper is unsigned that the proposition is false. Neither does determining whether the proposition is true or false depend on identifying the author - it can be verified by going to the tree at the end of Pine Street and seeing if there is any money buried there.
There are cases in which the anonymity of an author does provide good reason to question the truth of a premises. These are cases where the argument contains a self-referring premise that can not be verified without knowing the identity of the claimant. It is still the case that the truth of the premise does not depend on our knowing the identity of the author, only verifying its truth or falsity depends on that information. For example, if I were to say, "I saw Jim commit the murders," it would be reasonable to hold my anonymity against me. Others could not disprove my statement unless they knew who I was (so they can start rounding up witnesses to the fact I was nowhere near the location when the murders took place). The proposition, "I sometimes use the anonymous name Phil in my posts" is not that kind of proposition. One can round up witnesses for and against this claim without knowing who I really am.
As another example to illustrate my point, I offer this essay. I have attempted to show that the claim, "I will not accept your argument because you do not use your real name," is an informal fallacy. Whether or not I have succeeded is independent of anybody knowing who I really am.
| 2019-04-25T02:06:31 |
https://www.iusmentis.com/technology/remailers/fallacy.html
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Op-ed: Make no mistake, the Gaza Strip constitutes a ticking time bomb for Israel and despite the violence gripping the border, it is also an opportunity for the region.
The situation along the Gazan-Israeli border may have simmered down for now, but Gaza remains an economic failure, and the hopelessness and frustration of Gazans remains a powder keg that can explode into armed conflict at any time.
Let me be clear. Israel is not at fault for this situation, but our image on the international stage is being compromised by the situation and the periodic eruption of violence.
In just the past decade, Israel has fought three armed conflicts in Gaza, and cities in southern and central Israel have come under Gazan rocket fire repeatedly. That is not a normal situation.
Some commentators hold that Israel can live with and manage such a dynamic in the long run. But accepting this unstable status quo is not the only option. We must consider new solutions.
Not doing so would beget a reality in which Israelis constantly have to wonder when the next round in Gaza will take place. That is not to say that Israel must needlessly expose itself to a bad plan, but that wisdom and morality require us always to weigh the alternatives to war.
In mainstream Israeli discourse, two options are discussed: 1) Managing the situation, or 2) toppling Hamas and reconquering Gaza.
As a former commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division, I understand why Israel is reluctant to move back into Gaza. Unlike the current generation of IDF commanders operating along the Gazan border, I commanded soldiers deep inside Gaza.
We patrolled refugee camps such as Jabaliya and Khan Younis, and had to deal with violence ranging from rock throwing youths, to masked gunmen, to terrorists planting explosives against troops and civilians. But my interaction with Gazans went beyond the military dimension, and included a frank dialogue with civilians, giving me a glimpse into their lives.
And what I learned is that living in Gaza is a disaster. Raising a family in such a place, where sewage flows between homes, where the blood of slaughtered animals runs down streets, where there is no economic development, is a study in hopelessness.
Gaza is in essence a hermit state, with unemployment today at 44%, soaring to 61% among youth. According to the World Bank, 34% of Gazans live in poverty, surviving on less than two dollars a day. There are 5,555 Palestinians living on every square kilometer of Gaza. 95% percent of underground water reserves are polluted, and 97% of Gazan families buy their water from private vendors, at high prices.
The time has come to put forth a new initiative: the establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza and an adjoining section of the northern Sinai Peninsula. Such a state would enable economic growth along an expanded coastline and offer Gazans new hope, acting as a modern-day Marshall Plan. With the assistance of regional states and the international community, the Gazan powder keg can be made less explosive.
A Gaza-Sinai state could only develop, however, with Egyptian support. Egypt would gain much—including regional stature and significant momentum to stamp out the threat it faces from ISIS, through the jobs and hope which development of the area would deliver, as well as through much needed international economic and military aid.
Hamas could be tempted to go along with this initiative as well, since it would address a major pressure point on its rule, the failure to deliver economic solutions for the Gazan population.
I have brought this plan before political leaders in the US and witnessed their receptiveness, providing an indication of its potential. The right policy makers are open to the idea.
A Gaza-Sinai state stands a better chance of success than the current model of seeking to create a Palestinian state in the West Bank; a proposal that has drifted out of reach for many reasons, not the least of which is the Middle East’s chronic instability. With the risk of a West Bank state falling under the control of armed Islamists who would use it to fire on Israel’s population centers, it is not something I can endorse. Should it come to armed conflict in the south however, a state in Gaza-Sinai can be more easily defended against.
It is possible to find a realistic solution to the desperation of the people of Gaza. This desperation is not of Israel’s making, but it is our problem nonetheless. We must try to find a long-term arrangement that yields a better future for the people of Gaza, the region, and the people of Israel.
Brigadier-General Shmuel Tzuker (Res.) is a former commander of the Gaza Division, the Lebanon Division and the Judea & Samaria Division. He was designated Deputy Director General of Production and Procurement for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He is a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.
See all talkbacks "A plan neglecting Gaza is no plan at all"
| 2019-04-19T13:35:32 |
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5272347,00.html
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Should You Repair Your Transmission Or Replace Your Vehicle?
If you're like the numerous other motorists who rely on their vehicles on a daily basis, then chances are you ensure your car or truck is in tip-top condition. Your maintenance schedule likely includes regular oil changes and flushing of various fluids. However, what about repairs? A major repair like one involving the engine or transmission could become quite costly. If you're ever faced with the need for transmission repair, then you may find yourself wondering whether you should repair your transmission or replace your entire vehicle.
How long will you keep the vehicle?
There are many things to consider when deciding whether to have your car's transmission repaired or not. Aside from how old the car is as well as how many miles is on it, you should consider how long you plan to keep the vehicle. If you plan to get rid of it within a year or so, then paying for pricey transmission repair might be a waste of money. However, if you're planning on keeping the vehicle for several years, then having it repaired might be a good investment.
If you have decided to have your transmission repaired, then it's important to take your vehicle to a certified transmission specialist. A friend or otherwise uncertified individual might seem like an enticing way to save money, but you could end up with a vehicle that still has a faulty transmission, which will cost you even more money.
Not everyone is able to pay unlimited amounts of money to repair their vehicles. This is why obtaining several estimates is important. This will enable you to determine if you can comfortably afford to have your transmission repaired. If you are unable to afford even the lowest estimate, then you might need to simply sell the car or trade it in for a new one. A new car will cost you much more in the long-run; however, as long as you ensure that your monthly payments are affordable, then you might be better off with a new car rather than struggling to pay as much as $2,000 or more upfront.
The transmission of a vehicle is essential, which is why, in the event yours fails, you need to determine whether repairing it or replacing the entire vehicle is the best choice. This decision will vary for everyone faced with this problem, as the pros can cons of transmission repair are different for everyone. As long as you take the time to carefully consider all your options, as well as every aspect of possibly repairing the transmission, then making the right decision shouldn't be difficult.
For professional transmission repair, contact a company such as Integrity Transmission & Auto Service Center.
| 2019-04-26T00:48:26 |
http://caravaningburgos.com/2015/08/18/should-you-repair-your-transmission-or-replace-your-vehicle/
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@revkellyn The use case for that particular software simply became obsolete and nobody uses it anymore. For the devs, it's still useful - somehow - but I honestly doubt anyone else uses it. It became the devs' toy.
I explained my reasons to the devs, even as I offered my contributions to make their software cross-platform. I was ridiculed, ignored and even attacked.
Two decades later, that particular piece of software became a museum piece when the time to offer a Windows alternative never came.
Ironically it's been Open Source fanatics who sabotage their own software.
@revkellyn Yes. That's why these days I tend to support approaches such as @elementary that also try to help resolving this economic aspect for developers.
@revkellyn @one I agree that politicians' interests can be misaligned with what's best for the people.
I wonder if there are other more successful systems (in other countries, perhaps) that might give us ideas for incremental improvements towards a better system. I know very little about political science or the best ideas here.
I'm basically trying to find alternatives to Blogger and Googleified WordPress.
WordPress itself is in theory ok as it's free and open, but it seems almost impossible to find a non-techie version which doesn't come with Google Fonts.
I'm not looking for ways to disable Google Fonts, I'm looking for a service where Google Fonts isn't there by default, so that I can recommend the service to non-techies.
Can you recommend WordPress paid and managed hosting services that *don't* use Google Fonts by default?
It seems like every default WP theme has some kind of code that loads up Google Fonts, even if you don't use Google Fonts.
I'm looking for an (ideally FOSS) alternative to TeamViewer.
Most of the host systems don't have a static IP address, and I'm afraid I can't VPN into their local LANs.
@revkellyn Google and Facebook are on similar levels but because Amazon has their hands in so many other things (replacing the kind-of-sort-of public delivery infrastructure in the U.S, slavery-level "temp labour" stuff, etc) I feel like Amazon is hands down the easiest choice.
I didn't expect so much votes. But it's clear that I finally need to improve Peertube too. So #Pixelfed will be my first work (though I am already on it) but I will keep to improve #Peertube with last features.
| 2019-04-25T00:14:07 |
https://social.gattai.net/@revkellyn?max_id=101926204057938223
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Facebook's Business Accounts are been experts for managing Facebook Pages and Facebook Advertisements. Start A Facebook Business Account - You could think about them as disrobed Individual Profiles that do not have a public existence. A Facebook Business Account has to be affixed to a Facebook Page to start with. If your not-for-profit currently has a Facebook Page, you could Create a 'dummy' Page to Create the Business Account, then include the Business Account as an admin to your Facebook Page and remove the 'dummy' Page.
Step 1: Ensure you aren't logged into Facebook. Go to http://www.facebook.com and also click the web link on the front Page that claims "Create a Page ...".
Action 2: Pick "Cause or Community" for your not-for-profit. Each of these choices have somewhat various 'about' sections that allow you to include various kinds of info. For example, a Resident Business of Place' could have opening up times. You could change this later.
Step 3: Complete the information in the form. You will certainly after that be sent a confirmation email so make sure you utilize and also email address that you have access to.
This will Create your not-for-profit's Facebook Business Account.
Step 4: The following component is to set up the new Facebook Page. Merely follow the prompts to complete the Page. You could likewise avoid this process in the meantime or end up producing your Facebook Page.
There are a number of reasons that a Facebook Business Account could be essential when establishing a Facebook Page for your not-for-profit:.
- Restrict personnel task while on Facebook.
- Lower the risk involved with connecting the Facebook Page to your staff's personal account.
- No team have a personal account and do not wish to Create one.
What can (as well as cannot) a Facebook Business Account do?
- Create and also Handle Facebook Pages.
This consists of uploading to your Pages (including events, images etc), 'liking' other Pages as your Page, accessing Facebook Page Insights, promoting articles and also other.
Nonetheless, there are points you can't do that you can if you administer the Page from an individual Facebook Account.
- You can not utilize Facebook as your Page (i.e. you can not talk about other Pages or accessibility your Page's information feed).
- You cannot transform the 'voice' on your Facebook Page to comment as yourself.
Also, you can't make use of Facebook as an individual such as:.
- You cannot add/tag/invite people (unless you're responding to a remark).
- Sign up with or take care of any kind of Facebook Teams.
| 2019-04-24T07:53:11 |
http://www.maxwelltrain.com/2019/03/start-facebook-business-account.html
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In the first round of the World Blitz Championship in Riyadh Magnus Carlsen played Ernesto Inarkiev and the game ended strangely.
As can be seen above, after Carlsen played 27 Rxb7+, Inarkiev made the illegal move 27...Ne3+, leaving his own king in check. At this point Carlsen could have claimed a win because of an illegal move, however he played 28 Kd3.
At this point Inarkiev called an arbiter and claimed a win because Carlsen made an illegal move.
As far as I read the arbiter first ruled in favour of Inarkiev. Later it was offered to continue the game from the position before the illegal move on the board, i.e. after 28. Kd3 (which was lost for black), which Inarkiev declined, after which Carlsen was declared the winner.
What rules (if any) cover a situation like this?
Also I've seen claims that Inarkiev has pulled this "trick" before. If true, when and where was that?
After Inarkiev made his illegal move the position was illegal because his king was in check and it was not his turn. After Carlsen made his (perfectly legal) move the position was legal again because Inarkiev was in check and it was Inarkiev's turn. Inarkiev was wrong to stop the clocks and claim an illegal move. The first arbiter made a mistake. Presumably Inarkiev said that Carlsen had made an illegal move and the arbiter took his word for it without checking - very unprofessional.
The same definition for the completion of an illegal move applies to rapid and blitz however the way the illegal move is handled is different unless certain strict conditions apply.
Neither the arbiter nor Carlsen spots it and Carlsen makes a legal move.
Inarkiev incorrectly tries to claim the game.
The arbiter who deals with it incorrectly believes Inarkiev without checking and awards the game to Inarkiev.
The Chief Arbiter correctly overturns the decision and rules that Inarkiev must make a move in the position in which he made his incorrect claim.
I don't know if the Chief Arbiter did this but in his position I would also award Carlsen an extra minute on the clock in accordance with article B.2.
6.14 Tournaments will be played according to the rules of the inadequate supervision of the Rapid play Laws of Chess (FIDE Handbook, E.I.01B Appendices, art. 1 to 4). In addition, if a player displaces the pieces during the game: for the first time he receives a warning but for the second time he will be forfeited.
This basically says that in the case of an illegal move in "unsupervised" rapid and blitz the rules regarding when an illegal move is spotted and handled remain the same (if neither the players nor the arbiter spot it and stop the game then the game continues) but the penalties are as in standard play with a time penalty and restored position in case of a first offence and losing the game in case of a second offense.
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Candidates 2013: could Ivanchuk have drawn?
| 2019-04-24T05:01:38 |
https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/19553/carlsen-inarkiev-game-illegal-moves
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What's the deal with the Turkish alphabet? How does it differ from the English alphabet?
The turkish alphabet has 29 letters. There is no W , Q, or X. They also have a dotted O, a dotted U, an undotted I, a G with a line over it, an S with a tail, and C with a tail.
The dotted o sounds kind of like "er" in english, and comes from low in your throat.
The dotted U sounds like "oo" and sounds similar to french "vous"
The g with a line over it extends the vowel before it. We don't have much like it in english, but if you see it in a word, just stretch the noise before it.
The S with a tail is "sh"
The C with a tail is "ch"
| 2019-04-22T04:03:42 |
https://atdaa.com/what-s-the-deal-with-the-turkish-alphabet-how-does-it-differ-from-the-english-alphabet
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As an embryo develops from a little glob of primitive cells, it patterns itself into precise, spatially organized regions and tissues. This requires that individual cells coordinate with one another over long distances by releasing and detecting specialized signaling molecules. How can cells, communicating only in this indirect manner, create such precise patterns?
Caltech researchers have developed a way to recreate in a petri dish the kind of cell-to-cell communication process that underlies tissue patterning in an embryo. By doing this, they have established a simpler and more accessible way to observe and manipulate this fundamental process. Using this method, the researchers focused on a communication system called the Hedgehog signaling pathway, which establishes spatially organized structures in diverse tissues and organs. They discovered that the pathway possesses a sophisticated molecular circuit architecture that helps ensure precise patterning.
The work was done in the laboratory of Michael Elowitz, professor of biology and bioengineering, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and executive officer for biological engineering. The research is described in a paper appearing in the May 4 issue of the journal Science.
The Hedgehog pathway is vital for proper development of the central nervous system, limbs, and many other organs and tissues. Defects in Hedgehog-related genes lead to developmental diseases. Understanding how the Hedgehog pathway precisely organizes cells in space would enable researchers to predict the pathway's behavior and thus its response to drugs. Additionally, the new technique of engineering self-patterning cells in the lab could help open up novel ways to engineer spatially complex tissues for use in regenerative medicine.
Within an embryo, certain cells ("senders") broadcast information by releasing molecules, called morphogens, that diffuse through the intercellular environment and reach surrounding cells ("receivers"). Receivers closer to the senders pick up more morphogens than cells further away. Cells use these quantitative differences to figure out where they are and what cell types they should become. How such a seemingly precarious mechanism produces perfectly patterned embryos over and over again has been a long-standing puzzle.
Instead of dealing with a complex embryo—in which many processes occur simultaneously and it is difficult to observe and perturb specific genes—the researchers created a tissue-like layer of cells in a Petri dish. They started with mouse fibroblast cells; fibroblasts are responsible for forming the framework of animal tissue structures. These cells are "blank slates" in the sense that they do not form tissue patterns on their own. The team then synthetically engineered the fibroblasts to produce and respond to the morphogen Sonic Hedgehog, which cells use to estimate their position in a developing tissue.
Upon sensing Sonic Hedgehog, each cell initiates a set of signal relays that modifies its own gene expression. The team had genetically altered the cells to glow blue when sending a Sonic Hedgehog signal, or to glow yellow when receiving a signal. In this way, they could watch messages flow in real time from cell to cell.
Importantly, this new system allowed the researchers to effectively rewire the pathway, playing with its architecture to help them understand what features enabled the system to generate highly precise spatial patterns. By tinkering genetically with the pathway and then using microscope movies to observe how the cells behaved, the researchers discovered that the Hedgehog pathway has an unusual molecular architecture that ensures the accuracy of cell-to-cell communication.
"In biology, we're much better at ripping systems apart than putting them together," says the study's first author, postdoctoral scholar Pulin Li. "So, reconstructing a multicellular patterning system outside of an embryo can reveal principles that would be very hard to discover in conventional ways."
"Here we learned that certain features of the Hedgehog system—once thought to be inscrutable and even counterintuitive—actually work together in a beautiful way to ensure precise patterning," says Elowitz. "This is really just the beginning. With this system in place, we can now imagine programming cells to generate even more complex patterning behaviors to enable the design of tissues, which is a major goal of synthetic biology."
The paper is titled "Morphogen gradient reconstitution reveals Hedgehog pathway design principles." Postdoctoral scholar Pulin Li and former postdoctoral scholar Joseph Markson are the study's first authors. Additional co-authors are graduate student Sheng Wang, former visiting undergraduate Siheng Chen, and former SURF student Vipul Vachharajani. Funding was provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the U.S. Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, and the Millard and Muriel Jacobs Genetics and Genomics Laboratory at Caltech.
A cell turns blue as it emits chemical signals that diffuse throughout its environment. When nearby cells receive the signal, they turn yellow. This movie illustrates the process by which cells talk to each other and make decisions about how to develop.
| 2019-04-21T03:35:43 |
https://media.caltech.edu/about/news/no-embryo-required-studying-development-lab-82208
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How Do I Attach a Welded Wire Fence to a Fence Post?
Since 1901, welded wire fence has been used to keep dogs and small livestock in and keep deer and other wildlife out. It is usually sold in 100-foot rolls and the square windows in the wire mesh range in size from 1/2 inch square to 2-by-4 inches. Welded wire fence can be nailed or stapled to wooden posts but it is usually clipped to skinny metal fence posts call "t-posts" because the metal posts cost less than the wooden ones. If this is your first fence, you should know before you begin that the t-posts have a smooth side and a ridged or bumpy side.
Check the alignment of the t-posts before you begin tying a long piece of string to the fence posts at each end of each side of the fence. As you walk past the t-posts, check to ensure that the bumpy side of each post faces out. The fence always attaches to the bumpy side.
Put on leather gloves. Set the roll of welded wire fencing upright by one of the t-posts at one end of the "out" side of the fence you are about to construct.
Push the bent middle of a t-post clip against the top of the t-post from the "in" side of the fence. The clip should fit the t-post exactly. The wire clip, which resembles a piece of clothes hanger, will have an acutely bent end that turns 180 degrees and a much less sharply bent end.
Push both ends of the t-post hook over the top horizontal wire of the welded wire fencing. Ensure that the top wire of the fence is just above the top bump on the t-post.
Bend the acutely bent end of the t-post clip down and around the top horizontal fence wire. Tightly wrap that end of the clip around the fence wire twice using pliers. Wrap the other end of the t-post clip around the fence wire once using pliers.
Count down six horizontal wires and secure that wire to the t-post with a clip using the same procedure you used above. Repeat until you reach the bottom of the fence.
Unroll and stretch the welded wire fencing to the next t-post. Hold the fence tight while you attach it to the second t-post.
Continue to the last t-post. Cut the welded wire fencing with wire clippers if the roll is longer than you need.
| 2019-04-22T00:31:06 |
https://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7327272_attach-welded-wire-fencing-t_posts.html
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Time for Health-Care Tax Cuts!
Here are some incentives that let insurers and doctors make arrangements with needy patients.
Temecula, Calif. – The raging national debate over Obamacare revolves largely around spending. Should Washington plunge itself $1.1 trillion deeper into medicine? While this conversation dominates the headlines, Americans also should consider how tax cuts could improve the delivery and payment of health care.
‐Republicans, for instance, have proposed tax credits to help Americans purchase health insurance that they would own, control, and carry with them throughout their lives, rather than rely on employers to provide such coverage. Oklahoma Republican senator Tom Coburn, M.D., has proposed the Patients’ Choice Act, which would make insurance more affordable via tax credits worth up to $2,300 for individuals and $5,700 for families.
‐Those with incomes too low to pay federal taxes would receive “refundable” tax credits to finance coverage. Perhaps these could be distributed as “health stamps.” Like food stamps, this would be public assistance. Health stamps, like food stamps, would let low-income Americans exercise choices — their tastes and preferences, not government’s.
#ad#‐Tax cuts could help answer the difficult question of how to handle those with pre-existing medical conditions. Why not make premium revenues tax-free when private underwriters accept uninsured individuals with such maladies? Let’s say that Acme Insurance covers a diabetic at $5,000 annually. If that premium payment were tax-free, Acme could apply that full $5,000 to its bottom line, without paying Uncle Sam 35 percent ($1,750) corporate tax. This added value should encourage insurers to include those whom they otherwise might consider financial liabilities.
‐As New York philanthropist R. Randolph Richardson recently noted at an Atlas Economic Research Foundation seminar, why not reward doctors who donate their services to needy, uninsured patients? Imagine that Doctor Gomez sees the uninsured every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to noon. She could treat the value of these four hours of weekly foregone revenue as a charitable deduction.
The goal here is to entice millions of health-care professionals to contribute their services to those who cannot afford them and cannot secure or purchase insurance. Why not turn thousands of clinics and examination rooms into the domestic equivalent of Doctors Without Borders?
Government should limit itself to certifying people as uninsured and needy, so that prosperous-but-stingy people do not game the system.
‐Washington politicians could make it easier for sole proprietors to purchase health insurance by shielding premiums from the 15.3 percent payroll tax. Large corporations already may deduct employee health costs. America’s 22 million self-employed business owners, however, must pay full freight for health insurance, plus payroll taxes on that money.
The National Association for the Self-Employed cites a Mister Smith, who works for himself. His health coverage costs $5,000 annually. He also pays the 15.3 percent levy ($765) on this money. “No other owner or employer in the U.S. pays this additional tax on their health coverage,” NASE explains.
‐Changing the rules for itemized deductions would help, too. Taxpayers may only exclude medical costs that exceed 7.5 percent of income, not the 2 percent threshold for miscellaneous itemized deductions. Lowering the medical ceiling to match that for everyday expenses would help Americans finance their own health care.
Some might argue for simplifying and flattening the tax code rather than adding these fresh nuances. However, tax fighters generally prefer incentives that let insurers and doctors make arrangements with needy patients, rather than empower Washington politicians and bureaucrats to mismanage a brand-new, costly, baroque subsidy system.
— Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
| 2019-04-21T00:33:55 |
https://www.nationalreview.com/2009/08/time-health-care-tax-cuts-deroy-murdock/
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M. tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, causes latent infection in a vast majority of infected patients. These latent infections are characterized by granulomas - small areas of infected tissue that are surrounded by immune cells in an attempt to contain the spread of the bacteria. These granulomas can persist indefinitely without progressing to the disease, leaving the patient unaware of his infection. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the formation of granulomas?
The immune system is unable to eradicate the bacteria, so it walls them off to prevent their spreading.
The bacteria induce formation of granuloma to protect themselves from the immune system.
The immune system retains the latent infection to prevent opportunistic infection from other, more destructive bacteria.
The bacteria go into dormancy; dormant bacteria cannot be removed by the immune system, thereby resulting in granuloma formation.
| 2019-04-26T09:41:36 |
http://www.mcatquestion.com/findquestion.php?arg1=391
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So recently a company reached out to me and said they wanted to feature some of my artwork in their upcoming publication (yay!) and asked if I could send them some images of my work. In order for it to be printed they said the requirements are: 1) They need to be JPEG or TIFF format 2) Maximum of 250mm in width 3) and minimum of 300 DPI.
I've tried sending my images to them three separate times and each time they say that they're too pixelated and need to be rescanned. So, my question is do any of you guys have any recommendations on how best to turn your physical pieces of artwork into digital images that don't go all fuzzy?
I've been taking photos of my work with my Canon DSLR camera and touching them up in a program called Pixelmator. The first couple of tries I was taking the photos in JPEG format on my camera but with this last attempt I realized I should probably be taking them in RAW format (I'm still waiting to hear back from them on whether that round of images worked out). If it comes back negative (and since now time is of the essence with deadlines and such) I'm taking my work of to FedEx Office to have them professionally scanned to meet the requirements.
In my opinion you should really get a scanner for at home, if you can Taking a picture of your work with a dslr is never going to be as good because it’s hard to get a straight parallel shot and unless you’re using a good tripod, your going to get hand-shake too, which will introduce blurriness.
I agree with the suggestion to get a scanner. I have been using an Epson V600 scanner for about a year now, and it is easy to use and produces great quality scans. It might even be more economical than the photoshop solution in the long run. And I keep finding unexpected uses for it; it is a very versatile and useful machine.
Yes, definitely a scanner, and I also recommend the Epson V series - I use the Epson Perfection V800 for all of my calligraphy and paintwork.
Also check to see if your email isn't shrinking down the files when you send them. If they look to spec on your end, but are arriving to your recipient in lo-res, it could be your email automatically reducing the size(if you have dropbox, try sending a link to the file). Either way, a scanner will make your life easier if you plan to create more digital files of your work going forward.
I agree with everything Bianca mentioned, including checking on whether your email service is cutting your quality due to size limitations. I can't speak to Epson scanners, but I've always had pretty good results with HP models (currently the HP Deskjet F4480). The included software these days is rubbish, but it sounds like you have solutions for that. Adobe had Photoshop CS2 available for free several years back, and it's honestly the only artwork or calligraphy digital editing tool I've used in ages, though I'm sure there are other good ones out there.
Great suggestions so far! I would suggest Photoshop Elements to get started. It is fairly robust and probably all you need.
Also, all digital cameras are not "finished" straight out of the camera. They need a small amount of post-processing to adjust light and remove haze, etc. This is akin to what the photo processing stores would do with your film. No matter how good your exposure is, you will most likely still need a bit of tweaking - especially if you are photographing artwork with say a white paper background.
If you are still having trouble, shoot me a PM and I can try to help (I have been a professional photographer for years). You can send me the originals and I can adjust an crop appropriately.
BTW, Congrats on the feature!
| 2019-04-25T03:47:51 |
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| 2019-04-26T16:39:57 |
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What is a view-sight and why might you want one for your camera?
I invented the term "view-sight", so no wonder you never heard of one. It's that pointy thing on top of my camera in the photo. I made it because the camera I recently bought did not come with a view finder, only a LCD screen. This camera has a 30x optical zoom, and I planned to use it for bird photography. But most wildlife photographers prefer a viewfinder because it helps them focus on the subject. In addition, a LCD screen can be hard to see in bright sunlight. Let's just say I may have bought the wrong camera for bird photography, because I have been having a terrible time finding the bird on the LCD screen when using zoom. But the camera has great features otherwise, so I decided to see what I could do to remedy the situation.
My goal was to design something that would help me quickly focus on a distant bird with the camera zoomed out at up to 30x. Also, it had to be simple and compact, because I chose this camera so I could carry it in my pocket, rather than hauling around a large DSLR camera and telephoto lenses.
Doing some research, I found there were magnifying lenses for the LCD screen, also electronic sighting devices, available for otherwise good small cameras without viewfinders. I wasn't too impressed with what I found, and besides, "if you can make it, why buy it?".
I began thinking about the simple gun sights used on rifles. They are fairly accurate without resorting to electronics or telescopic sights.
You can see the final product on the intro photo. A magnet holds the brass sighting device onto a small square of steel that is glued to the top of the camera. This way you can easily remove the sight whenever you want to.
Brass strip, 1/4" x 1/32" thick.
3/4" x 1/8" thick steel bar.
Also glue and black paint.
The sight itself is made from a 2-1/2" length of brass strip. I bent about 3/8" of each end up, then used a triangular file to make a V notch on one upturned end and a point on the other. Brass cuts nicely.
The brass sight should fit snugly into a groove in the 3/4" wide steel bar. First I cut off a 1" long piece of the steel bar with a hack saw. Next came the only difficult part of the project, making a shallow 1/4" wide groove into the small steel piece. Holding it in a vice, I marked the outline of the groove with a sharp knife. Then I used small files to cut the groove. Make sure the brass sight fits snugly into the groove. I painted the steel piece with flat black spray paint.
The steel piece will be glued to the top of the camera directly over the lens; but do not glue it just yet. You can see where I put it on my camera, it may be different on yours. Just be sure it is not covering or interfering with any of the controls.
Glue the magnet to the top of the brass sight, about in the middle. Shiny rare earth magnets are difficult to glue; I suggest lightly sanding the contact surfaces of both parts, then use epoxy. Glue these pieces first and let the glue harden before going to the next step.
Now you can glue the steel piece to the camera.
Use a silicone based adhesive like E6000. This is the last step; after the glue is applied but still not set, align the sight with the image in the LCD screen. Put a drop of adhesive on the bottom of the steel piece and set it, with brass sight and magnet attached, onto the camera. Then align the sight with a distant object; at the same time align the camera, in zoom mode, so that the object is in the center of the viewfinder. I did this by focusing upon a small light at about 30 ft. distance.
I'll be testing it out for a while before I consider it a success.
So far it has been a help, especially for finding birds in trees.
Hello Bill. On my Coolpix S9900 you can rotate the LCD. I find that this can be useful if the light is obscuring the the LCD. I have found this to be useful.
when you are using view finder on true DSLR if the light in viewfinder is focused for your eye it is focused for sensor as well.
When you will be using your device unless you will check the screen you will not know if the the light was focused correctly on sensor.
If you align your sight first and then check your camera's screen it kind of defeats it's purpose for you.
I would now, for sure, buy a camera with a viewfinder. But the small camera I bought, for ease in carrying, is good in most respects except no viewfinder.
By the way, I first saw this camera in Central Park.
I wonder Why do you presume using the screen is slower then the viewfinder?
I personalty have DSLR(Sigma SD15) One of thing I dislike is Until I take picture I can not view it on screen.
Whenever I want to take picture of sunset I have to go through hoops not to damage my eye. Also I am never 100% sure if the image was in focus, because in viewfinder everything is so small.
It could be problems with my eyesight. However, when attempting to photograph a small bird in the brush at high zoom (say 30x) I simply can not find it or see it on the screen.
Try zooming on a prominent feature near the bird, and then if can see it then you can zoom closer.
Wow. I mean if you say that you have same vision as Point and Shoots 30x .
Many DSLRs can be used as "point & shoots" and I would hazard a guess that the majority of them in amateur hands are used that way.
It is not only "true DLSRs" that have viewfinders. My Canon SX50 has a viewfinder that I have found useful from time to time although I use the LCD most of the time. The SX50 is also a lot my compact then most "true DLSRs" and I prefer to use one camera rather than lug a bag full of lenses etc round with me when I travel.
PS it may be a later model S9900 but you can take photos with it using a smartphone as a remote control for the camera, which can also help in difficult light situations.
| 2019-04-26T02:06:06 |
https://ssl.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Camera-View-sight-for-Bird-Photography/
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¿Qué son los siguientes modos de comunicación?. Elige la palabra correcta para cada imagen.
Choose best word for each sentence.
1. "Marcar un número" in English means to - ? - mark dial point a number .
2. The phrasal verb which means to answer the phone is to - ? - hang up pick up put up .
3. If you phone a big company and the receptionist connects you to a particular phone or department they put you - ? - up away through .
5. When you’ve finished your phone conversation you - ? - hang on hang up hang out .
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8. Another way to say phone or call someone is give them a - ? - ring kiss line .
This is the end of a telephone conversation between two work colleagues. Put the lines of the conversation in the correct order. The first line has been numbered for you.
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- ? - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Definitely, Paul. I think it’ll be towards the end of the month.
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- ? - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 You too Paul. Take care.
- ? - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Yeah, sure. No problem. And you’ll give me a ring when you know the date of the next meeting?
- ? - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Right. I don’t want to keep you. So, you’ll send me those figures by email Paul, right?
- ? - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Oh what a pity! I know how much you love to get out into the countryside to unwind.
- ? - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 That’s true. Right Jackie, I really must hang up. I’m late for an appointment.
- Hi, it’s ……… speaking.
- Hello, This is ……..
- I’m ringing to let you know…..
- to find out if…..
- because I was wondering if…..
- Could you put me through to …………, please?
Ex. Could you ring me back later.
Ex. Would you mind sending me some information.
- Thank you for calling. Goodbye.
- Thanks a lot then. See you.
- Thanks for phoning. All the best. Bye.
- If the phone rings in English, don't be afraid to answer it!
- The fear of talking on the phone in a second language will disappear if you practise often.
- Speaking on the phone in a different language is especially difficult because you cannot see the other person's eyes, mouth and body movements (body language). It’s easier to speak face-to-face because you can see the speaker’s mouth and expressions.
1. Speak slowly and clearly. Pronounce the words as clearly as possible.
2. Make notes before you phone. Write down important words and any questions you want to ask. Practise what you are going to say before you make the call.
3. Make sure you understand the other speaker. Ask the person to repeat if you don’t understand and to speak slowly. Don’t have music or the TV on, and avoid other background noise distractions when possible.
4. Practise with a friend. Do you know someone who you can phone who speaks English? A native English speaker would be ideal. Or maybe phone an English speaking company and ask for information. Many businesses have recorded messages. Phone and write down information, then phone again and check.
Look at the following SMS messages. Do you know what they mean?
You can find the translations at the bottom of the page.
4. R u angry W me?
6. will u w8 4 me?
10. wan 2 c a moV?
11. W@ tym dz it *t?
Descarga las Fábulas de Espopo (Aesop's Fables) en inglés y en formato PDF.
Aesop's Fables refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic animals. His fables are some of the most well known in the world. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, are well-known throughout the world.
| 2019-04-22T15:02:27 |
http://cuadernodeingles.com/cuaderno_mes/versionweb_mesesanteriores/cuaderno_08_ago.htm
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Just wanted to ask,when Did PIX Remove Eddie Dunsleder's "God Rest Ye Merry,Gentlemen"? I'm guessing the Mid '70's,but not sure..I do know,for a while,they did use one of Ronnie Aldrich's 1964 tunes as the Bumper.
Hi Chip! "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" has always been one of my favorite carols, so Michael Boyce's post prompted me to Google to see if I could hear that Eddie Dunsleder version.
"Your search - Eddie Dunsleder - did not match any documents."
Do I have the name spelled correctly?
I didn't notice that Michael misspelled Eddie's last name, Will. The correct spelling is Dunstedter.
And to insert a YouTube video, just use the YouTube icon in the options at the top.
I tried using that YouTube button, but couldn't figure out what to do next.
I got a "Search" box, but what do I put into it?
When I typed in Eddie Dunstedter God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and clicked on "Search" I got a window filled with icons for a bunch of Christmas songs, but none of them was for the "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." The first two were for "Eddie Dunstedter - Christmas Candy" and "Eddie Dunstedter - Christmas Medley." But those were the only two Eddie Dunstedter tunes in the window.
You did the right thing, Will; but sometimes certain videos do not come up using the Aimoo YouTube search function.
Am I mistaken, or were there bumpers stating something about the fireplace being taped/filmed from Gracie Mansion? I want to say this was in the 1970's.
I think I asked something about this around the time the 3-hour soundtrack was restored. And because the information about the California reshoot. I remembered an announcementend on WPIX stating it was from beautiful Gracie Mansion.
That's correct, Susan. The original hour and half-hourly announcements by WPIX staff announcer Ralph Lowenstein did indeed reference Gracie Mansion. And even after the new footage was re-shot in California in 1970, those same announcements aired on the broadcast -- and they did so well into the 1970s.
The reason why WPIX did not change the announcements is because, as proud as they were of the new Yule Log footage, they were not so eager for New Yorker's to know that the new Yule Log fireplace was filmed in California. So it was a bit of subterfuge on their part.
Glad to know my memory hasn't completely failed me yet, and hope it won't.
Do any of those bumpers still exist today?
Yes they do, Susan, in my archives.
Oh okay, probably something that can't be shared due to Copyright.
I wish we had VCR's back in the 1960's and early 1970's I do know that commercial VTR's were around and the tapes were on large spools. I think the tapes were 3 or 4 inches across, trying to remember my Middle School days when I got to work in the Media Resource Center and would be able to cue up video for a particular classroom and they could see it on the Monitors.
I don't remember the specific programs, but do remember that what was recorded still had to Cigarrette commercials in them.
| 2019-04-24T18:45:40 |
http://theyulelog.aimoo.com/topic/When_did_WPIX_Remove_the_Bumper_Theme__1966___-32573-1053-1
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For starters, I would like to say a few things about myself to set the record straight. I have a Masters degree in Quantum Field Theory, am working on my PhD in the same, and am a practicing, if tyro, shaman. I have read in several places that the best way to start in magick is to read read read read, and I have noticed several articles using Physics to explain magickal arguments. Unfortunately, many of these articles either do not explain the Physics very well or are just plain wrong. I am not disrespecting these people: after all, not everyone can be a Physicist! I thought I would write a brief article to clear up a few issues on the nature of probability in Physics as well as how probability might play a role in magick.
The following article is essentially a short paper on the Metaphysics behind what I call "visualization magick." I am not going to footnote: all of the Physics arguments are well known and documented and can be found in any introductory text on Quantum Mechanics. As for my magickal arguments, well, they are as correct as I can make them. Naturally, I accept responsibility for any errors contained in this article.
Most of the science done today is based on a problem solving technique called the "Scientific Method." The Scientific Method is a well-established way to start from the basic principles behind a problem and develop an experimentally based explanation of a given phenomenon. It has been used successfully for centuries. There is one problem with this method, though: it can be very difficult to incorporate any newly discovered facts that do not fit the structure of the current scientific theory. This point has been raised repeatedly when scientists try to discover the nature of ghosts, ESP, etc.
In the remainder of this article I am going to discuss the Physics representation known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics (CI) and, within that representation, provide an explain of visualization magick.
When most people think of Physics, they think of equations, math, and all sorts of difficult problems. In actuality, Physics is based on very simple arguments and can often be put in the form of puzzles that illustrate the basic principles. For instance, Classical Physics can usually be put into the form of some little guy (or person, for you extreme liberalists) firing a cannon over a ravine. Classical Physics describes what we see and touch in everyday life. We are familiar with it and it is the representation that makes the most sense to us. Another representation, which is more basic, is that of Quantum Reality. Classical Reality is fully contained within Quantum Reality, but Quantum Reality contains more phenomena, much of it things we do not see in day-to-day life. Not really accepting Quantum Reality for what it is, Erwin Schrodinger devised a thought experiment to show the odd nature of what Quantum Physics implies. He was essentially trying to ridicule the interpretation of the science he was helping to develop. The thought experiment is known as "Schrodinger's Cat."
We start with building a switch device based on quantum principles. We are going to take an atom of a radioactive material and place it inside a detector. The detector sends a signal to a switch if the atom decays. Now, all atoms decay eventually, and the amount of time it takes for half the amount of a radioactive material to decay is called the "half-life" of the material. So the chance our one atom will decay in one half-life is 50%. Thus, after one half-life, our switch has an equal chance of being "on" or "off." We now connect a vial of the deadliest poison to the switch; if the switch is "off" then the poison vial is closed, if the switch is "on" then the poison vial is open and any creature in contact with the poison will die instantly. Now place the quantum switch and vial of poison along side a cat in a sealed box. The question is after one half-life has elapsed, is the cat alive or is it dead?
Since there is a 50% chance that the atom has decayed in one half-life, our "logical" answer must be that the cat has a 50% chance of being alive or dead. No other answer in our (Classical Reality) experience makes any sense. We cannot say with certainty if the cat is either alive or dead.
However, we are asking a question that requires a specific answer. Is the cat alive, or is it dead? Quantum Reality gives us a third, and actually the only valid, answer to this problem. The cat is in a mixed quantum state of both alive and dead as far as anyone outside the sealed box is concerned. That is, the cat is only in a specific state of alive or dead when someone called a "quantum observer" looks inside the box to determine the state of the cat. This leads us to all sorts of metaphysical problems about the cat as well as the problem of what defines a quantum observer.
The Quantum Reality representation of the result of the Schrodinger's cat experiment does not make any sense as far as Classical Reality is concerned. Nevertheless, it has good basis in Physics. Many of the top Physicists of the time (around the 1930's I believe) met in Copenhagen to discuss Quantum Mechanics. Several topics were on the board there and eventually a consensus was made as to the nature of a quantum system: if a system is not measured it exists in a superposition of all possible quantum states. When the system is measured, it falls into one specific state. (For you Physics buffs, this is the concept behind the Born interpretation of the wave function.) This representation has become known as the "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics." (CI) According to the CI, Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead until someone opens the box to look.
There is one other way to look at Quantum reality, but you pay a severe price. The representation, called the "Many Worlds Theory," states that every time a quantum level decision is made, the Universe splits into two or more copies, one for each outcome of the decisions. The Many Worlds interpretation of Schrodinger's cat states that the Universe splits into two copies: one with a dead cat and the other with a live cat. When we open the box we find out which Universe we are in. Personally, I find this representation to be a bit ridiculous, but you may feel free to choose which one you like the most. Both the Many Worlds and the CI make exactly the same predictions and we cannot tell which one is correct (if either!).
The Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment does not really tell us anything about the real world unless we can prove it. Obviously, we are not going to learn anything from killing cats (and why would we want to anyway?) so we need to turn to another experiment to give us some facts. The Young's double slit experiment does just that and is almost as simple as Schrodinger's Cat. First though we need to talk about light.
When Sir Isaac Newton was doing his experimentation on light he decided, based on his experiments on reflection, refraction, and the sharpness of shadows, that light was made of little particles, which he dubbed "corpuscles." (We now call corpuscles photons.) Later on, interference experiments (such as the Young double slit) showed that light was made of waves, not particles. Was the great Sir Isaac wrong?? Not entirely. In the early 1900s, a man named DeBroglie showed that electrons, which are "obviously" particles, could be thought to have a wavelike character. Eventually scientists realized that all subatomic particles have both wave and particle properties...subatomic "particles" are neither particles nor waves, but are something else which we have come to call by the badly punned name of "wavicles." (If you are a John Gribbon fan, as I am, then you may like to call subatomic particles "slivey toves.") When we run an experiment that assumes light is a particle, light behaves as if it were made of particles; when we run an experiment that assumes light is a wave, light behaves as if it were a wave.
Young's double slit experiment assumes light is going to behave as a wave. We start with a monochromatic (single colored) light source and pass it through a slit so that we obtain a set of equally spaced wave fronts. We pass these wave fronts through a wall that has two tiny holes in it, equally spaced from the center point. Beyond the wall is our "detector:" essentially a TV that records the wave pattern striking the screen. A diagram of the double slit experiment may be found in any introductory Physics text, just look under the term "interference" in the index.
When we turn the light source on, we see a pattern of light and dark areas on the TV screen. This is the expected result since light is a wave and the two slits create an interference pattern: the peaks and troughs of the wave cancel out in different regions on the TV screen. This is entirely due to the fact of those two little holes in the wall...if there was only one tiny hole in the wall then we would only see one point of light on the TV screen and no interference. The one hole experiment is more like treating light as a particle rather than a wave, and we get no interference from it since particles do not interfere with themselves.
Now let us play with the experiment a bit. We are going to presume that light is made of particles and install detectors in both holes in the wall to see which hole the photon goes through. What kind of pattern do we get on the TV screen now? According to Classical Reality it had better be an interference pattern again. Nope. We get two little points of light on the TV screen. Why? Because we are thinking of light as particles we detected the particles, so they cannot interfere with each other. Let's play with this again. We are going to take the original double slit experiment and this time put the photon detector right in front of the light source and then we are going to run the double slit experiment only letting one photon through at a time. Obviously, we only get a point of light on the TV screen each time a photon passes through. However, let us record where each photon hits and run a bunch of single photons through the experiment. What do we get on the TV screen? We might expect to see two little points of light on the screen, but we do not. We now get a full-fledged interference pattern! Remember, this is a composite pattern made up of individual photons going through the experiment, not a bunch of waves. This is truly weird.
What follows is my personal interpretation of the Physics mentioned above.
Let us go back to Schrodinger's Cat since it is the simpler experiment. We need to discuss what makes a quantum observer again, because it is a tricky point. A quantum observer is some nebulous thing that takes a measurement of a system. What is it that creates the measurement process? Presumably, we have two systems to consider: the first is the actual experiment that we want to measure, and the second is the system that does the measuring. Therefore, if we take the measurement process to its most basic level, a measurement is the process by which the experimental system "gives" information to the observer's system. This information exchange is mediated by photons (or W, Z, gluons, etc. Basically any boson you wish. That's another topic.) To make a long story short, the observer gets information from the experiment by absorbing a photon. This means that an electron can serve as a quantum observer since a absorbing a photon will alter the electron's state. A quantum observer does not actually need to have an intelligence to function; it merely needs to respond to the experiment in some way.
So. Let us go back to Schrodinger's Cat. According to the scientist running the experiment the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened. Say that he opens the box and knows the state of the cat. Now look at the people in the next room who are waiting to hear from the scientist in the room with the cat. According to them, the cat is STILL in that odd alive and dead mixed state. We can go further and state that the whole lab we ran the experiment in is in an undetermined state since the scientist in the lab might take different actions depending on the state of the cat. No one outside the lab can possibly know what is going on in the lab. Now look at the people in the next room beyond that, etc. What we have is a nested set of "Schrodinger's Cats." Until the information is passed between different rooms, the set of rooms inside exists in a mixed state.
We can take this argument to an (I feel logical) extreme. Since the individual particles in our bodies act as quantum observers the only pertinent information we have about the state of the Universe at large is what we perceive through our senses. Therefore, anything that we do not perceive through our senses exists in a mixed state similar to Schrodinger's alive/dead cat: nothing exists in a definite state unless we are sensing it. This is what I call the "Extreme Copenhagen Interpretation." (ECI) What this implies, then, is that each of us exists in our own personal universes and everything exterior to that universe exists in an undetermined state until we sense it. Note: I am going to ignore the question of other people existing...I will assume other people exist and our knowledge of their reality comes from the "interference" of these multiple universes. To give a quick example consider the question: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to see it fall, does it make any noise?" The ECI states that since no one was around, the tree is in a mixed state of existance/non-existance. Furthermore it has fallen/not fallen, much less made any noise/silence. Since the tree does not directly influence your universe, you cannot say anything definite about it even existing, even though you may have seen the tree an hour ago.
The ECI tells us that what we sense is what is contained in our universe. In order to do magick we need (at least) one more principle. When we do visualization magick, we actually feel what it is that we visualize. The ECI says that what we feel makes up our reality. Combining these two statements, we have what I call the "Basic Principle of Visualization Magick." What we visualize becomes real in our universe. This principle can be demonstrated by a simple spell, which I call an "empowering" spell. First, enter a light meditative state. (This first step may also be achieved by casting a circle.) Next visualize a blanket of white fire surrounding you, starting at your feet and working its way up to encompass your whole body. Hold this visualization until you can actually feel the fire surrounding you, cleansing your spirit and not letting any darkness penetrate your being. Now visualize your hands held outward from your body and let a globe of white fire come into being between your hands. Hold the globe there until you can feel it. This globe of fire represents your inner strength and the longer you hold it the more in touch with your strength you will be. The result of this spell is that you will feel empowered and more able to cope with the challenges of your life.
Is this magick, physics, or psychology? Remember, how we view our universe depends on the representation we use. In this case, the empowering spell may be viewed in any one of these representations. Using the ECI to describe the spell what we are doing is literally bringing up our inner strength as a concrete object and physically contacting it. We know it is there because we can feel it, therefore according to the ECI it has an actual existence. A similar argument holds for essentially any magick that has its basis in visualization or feelings.
The ECI explains how magick can affect our own universe, what about someone else's? After all many witches (warlocks, sorcerers, etc.) will claim that their magick affects other people, not just their own universe. We can use visualization magick to show how this might work, so there is not necessarily any conflict here. You (presumably) put some clothes on today so anyone that sees you will see those clothes and all of them will be able to describe the same set of clothing. You know you are wearing a certain set of clothes, and your best friend came up to you and mentioned something about the outfit, so you know she saw them. Both of you agree on the set of clothes because both of your universes came into contact, i.e. the two universes interfere because they both contain quantum observers. Now, can your best friend say anything about what you are wearing three hours after you parted? No, because you might have changed clothes. (Or Heck, you might be skinny-dipping in the local watering hole!) Once the universes are out of contact they no longer interfere.
To continue the analogy, if you feel something in your universe then it is real in your universe and thus, because your universe interferes with other universes the effect may well be real in someone else's universe. Say you know a spell to create a rainstorm. It will happen in your universe. Whether or not it happens in someone else's universe depends on the strength of the interference between your universe and theirs. I would suppose that the strength of the interference depends on the strength of your belief (and that of others) that you can make it rain. Taking things at face value, I would say that it would take a tremendously powerful mage to create an effect in someone else's universe seeing how difficult it is to create a magickal effect in our own universe. Note: I am aware the rain spell probably has nothing to do with visualization magick. I am also aware that other magickal principles could come into play here. Remember that I am using a representation, the ECI, to explain an effect. The ECI is probably not a good representation to discuss a rainmaking spell!
The way we explain an effect depends on the representation we use. The rules for which a representation is a good representation to explain an effect are not known, though we may certainly use common sense to guide us. The CI is a well-established representation that is used in modern day Physics. A logical extension to the CI is the ECI, which states that we all live in our own individual universe and that the Universe is composed of the interference of these personal universes. The ECI provides a way for Physics to explain the phenomenon of visualization magick by stating that what we feel is what is real in our universe.
| 2019-04-25T09:57:16 |
https://beyondweird.com/shadows/msg0007.htm
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Question: Who among the following countries has topped the list of Passport Power Index 2018?
United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a record-breaking visa-free score of 167 has topped the Global Passport Power Ranking 2018.
UAE provides visa-free access to 113 countries, visa on arrival to 54 countries and for 31 countries visa requirement is compulsory.
Singapore and Germany with visa-free score of 166 holds the second spot while third position is acquired simultaneously by 11 countries(Denmark,Sweden,Finland,Luxembourg,France,Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Norway,South Korea,USA) each having visa-free score of 165.
India has secured the 67th position in the Passport Power Index having visa-free score of 65.
India provides visa-free access to 25 countries, visa on arrival to 40 countries and for 133 countries visa requirement is compulsory.
This index is compiled by Arton Capital, which ranks national passports based on the summed up score of number of countries a holder can enter without a visa or by obtaining one on arrival.
| 2019-04-25T15:53:18 |
https://www.edristi.in/en/passport-power-index-2018/
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This research addresses several questions: What are bats in agricultural areas eating and what proportion of their diet consists of economically important agricultural pests? How are health and reproduction in freeranging bats affected by landscape-level insecticide use? What is the long-term trade-off, economically and environmentally, of using toxic insecticides that may be harmful to bats and other wildlife that provide important pest control services?
Bats are sampled while foraging in almond orchards located across a gradient of landscape-level insecticide-use applied to the surrounding 64-km2 area. Standard measurements include assessment of age and reproductive condition and a count of external parasites. Blood samples from two focal species, the big brown bat and the pallid bat, are analyzed for immune-response capabilities, and blood parasites are counted in blood smears. Prey DNA is extracted from guano and sequenced; coronavirus RNA is extracted from big brown bat guano and sequenced to characterize diversity and prevalence. On each night of capture, insects are sampled to assess dietary diversity and abundance relative to resource base. Acoustic monitoring stations characterize the relationship between pest abundance and bat foraging activity. Radio-telemetry tracks a subset of captured big brown bats to their roost locations to characterize their foraging range and behavior, and a maternity colony is monitored for emergence counts of the colony size and pre- and post-parturition. An exposure risk model is being developed based on insecticide residues detected on prey for a week following a spray. Combined with landscape level-analysis of ChE inhibitor applications and bat foraging behavior and dietary analysis, this model will predict exposure risk for multiple species of bats with differing foraging strategies (i.e., gleaning from ground or vegetation versus apprehending prey in the air).
Broadly, chronic exposure to anticholinergic insecticides is expected to compromise immune function and reproduction in bats; high insecticide use is likely to limit resource availability to bats; and exposure risk will depending on a species’ prey preference and foraging strategy. The following specific findings are predicted: (1) Big brown and pallid bats captured in high-input areas (HIAs) will have higher prevalence and infection intensities of parasites and reduced constitutive immune capabilities, and they will be more frequently ChE-inhibited than bats in low-input areas (LIAs). (2) There will be a lower ratio of reproductive to nonreproductive females in HIAs, causing frequently exposed populations to have a lower annual growth rate than populations in LIAs. (3) Insect diversity will be lower in HIAs than in LIAs. Bat foraging activity and bat diversity also will be lower in HIAs. (4) The reduced dietary diversity in HIAs will lead to greater resource partitioning between sympatric species and between age-classes within species, potentially leading to species exclusion and lower bat diversity. (5) Pallid bats, which glean from vegetation and the ground, will have greater exposure risk than big brown bats, which catch prey in flight.
Understanding bat activity around agricultural areas and the influence of pest control strategies on bat populations will guide management to maximize pest control while protecting insects’ natural predators and reducing the use of chemical pesticides. Quantifying exposure risk to bats will aid in EPA evaluations of risks to non-target wildlife. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between bat health and viral diversity for potentially zoonotic pathogens can help reduce this risk to humans by reducing the use of immunotoxic insecticides. Overall, this study addresses the ecological effects of insecticides on economically valuable insectivores and encompasses the three pillars of sustainability: the economy, society and the environment.
| 2019-04-19T02:19:14 |
https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/10382
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A couple of days ago, I came across a blog post and a message board thread that had similar topics - Is today's science fiction more or less relevant than the so-called science fiction classics?
In both cases, the answer was that Science Fiction that's coming out today is better than older works that have come out. In the case of the blog entry (which I'm having trouble finding at the moment), it was that older science fiction is no longer relevant, poorly written and not worth reading at all. The message board thread was essentially that films nowadays are far better than older films. I tend to disagree with both arguments, as I feel that older works have just as much, if not more, to offer to fans.
When it comes to literature, SciFi has a decently long and very rich history. Exploring all aspects of it, in my opinion, and disregarding certain aspects of it is a foolish thing to do.
I don't disagree that older Science Fiction can become very dated. As science progresses, the genre has become far more sophisticated, and very detailed as to the science involved, while spreading out to encompass much more than just physical sciences - social, psychological, etc are all featured. On this level,the arguement is far stronger.
Yet there are aspects of science fiction that cannot be ignored. I for one cannot fathom calling myself a fan had I not read the works of Asimov, Herbert, Heinlein, Wells and numerous others. These authors, while having their flaws, provide elemental aspects of the genre. Wells provided the entire foundation for alien invasions, Asimov provided his Three Laws and Herbert introduced some of the best world building and political tangles that has helped legitimize the genre. Without these building blocks, the modern science fiction genre would not exist as it does today. There's good books and short stories out there today, but they owe a lot to these older works.
The films is a slightly different argument, one that predicates more on the visual appeal of Science Fiction films - there can be no doubt that with the introduction of CGI and computers to the film industry have revolutionized how films look, and elements are far more realistic. However, I once again disagree that the films nowadays are generally better. They look better, but when one looks at the major blockbusters that are out nowadays, I can see that the story is often sacrificed and watered down. I would honestly doubt that there has been a film that is as good as classics such as Forbidden Planet or 2001: A Space Odyssey, although there are certainly several that have come out recently that might rival them at some point - The Fountain, maybe, perhaps Children of Men or something along those lines.
I don't think that modern sophistication and writing, while typically more relevant to today's society, is necessarily better just because of that. There are certainly good works being created, but it is important to remember the past of the genre.
| 2019-04-19T06:16:10 |
https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/2008/08/22/relevant-science-fiction
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When the film version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe first hit screens in December of 2005, a gaggle of secular movie critics gleefully pilloried Christian moviegoers for naively interpreting the film (and the novel on which it was based) as an allegory for Christianity. "Don't you know," they mocked, "that C. S. Lewis himself said that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was not a Christian allegory?"
Were these critics correct in their claims? Yes and no. Lewis did, in fact, say just such a thing, but when he said it, he did not mean what the critics naively thought he meant. Lewis was an English professor, and, as such, used literary terms in their proper sense. The Narnia books are not, technically speaking, allegories. In an allegory like Pilgrim's Progress each character (and often each object) in the story stands for something in our world; there is a one-to-one correspondence between the fictional character and what he represents. The fictional character has no real separate existence as a literary creation; he merely stands in for a concept: Despair, Faith, Hope, Salvation, Temptation, and so forth.
That is not the case with Narnia. Aslan, as Lewis explained, was not an allegory for Christ; rather, he was the Christ of Narnia. He is what the Second Person of the Trinity might have been like had he been incarnated on a magical world of talking animals and living trees. Yes, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis does reenact, in the world of Narnia, the gospel of death and resurrection that leads to redemption, but he only does so once in the seven Chronicles.
More often, Lewis laces his tales with second, Christian meanings that do not simply recapitulate biblical episodes. In his brief, but richly insightful new book, The Lion's World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia, Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, mines those meanings in a lucid and winsome way that will appeal to readers of all ages and backgrounds.
Delving not only to the heart of Narnia but to the heart of Lewis, Williams demonstrates how the Narnian stories do not so much teach us Christian doctrine and practice as help us to experience it alongside the characters. Lewis helps us to feel (rather than know) what it means to believe in the atonement, to stand face to face with the incarnate Creator, and to have all of our self-delusions and self-justifications stripped away.
Lewis, writes Williams, recreates "for the reader what it is like to encounter and believe in God." Lewis does this for his readers because he knows that what most of them need--especially if they have grown up in the church--is not to attend another Sunday School class or hear another Sabbath sermon, but "to be surprised into a realization that they have never actually reckoned with what Christianity is about."
In a wonderful flash of insight that I have not read in the work of any other Lewis scholar, Williams points out two oft overlooked aspects about the Chronicles: 1) "There is no 'church' in Narnia, no religion even"; 2) "'Narnia' is both a name for the whole of this world and the name of one particular kingdom within it." Based on these two insights, Williams concludes "that the kingdom of Narnia is itself the 'Church,' the community where transforming relation with Aslan becomes fully possible."
It is into that kingdom and community that Williams invites us to travel, warning us as he does that if we would be fellow Narnians, we must humbly lay aside our pride, even our pride as human beings: for in Narnia, we not only turn out to be, at times, a "positively toxic presence," but are placed on a level playing field with talking animals and living trees. Without (thankfully) descending into radical environmentalism, Williams uses Narnia (as well as the Space Trilogy) to temper our arrogance and show us that we are but a part of God's greater plan for the cosmos.
Properly humbled, the reader is able to learn from Lewis (via Williams) that grace is often something that disrupts our sense of order and control. Neither Lewis nor Williams shies away from the anarchic, often erotically-tinged nature of the romps, rebellions, and bacchanalian feasts that continually erupt among Aslan's followers. In a wonderful phrase, Williams dubs Lewis a "Tory anarchist" who was skeptical of all utopian schemes to perfect man, nature, and society.
Even more shocking, Williams marshals the full weight of Lewis's writings against our self-analytical, overly-introspective age. Once Edmund has been saved by Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he ceases to think about himself and just looks at Aslan. Though Williams does not quote that specific passage, he shows that throughout the Chronicles, the child protagonists are encouraged to identify the exact nature of their bad choices (that is, their sins) and then to forget about it and move on.
Many moderns criticize Lewis for advocating self-forgetfulness, but Williams, to his credit, insists that we learn from Lewis on this point rather than stand in judgment over him. Lewis's warnings against introspection "may sound to a compulsively self-absorbed age like prescriptions for insensitivity or immaturity," but the fact of the matter is that joy (true Joy) only comes when we stop thinking about ourselves.
In addition to defending Lewis on this point, Williams also devotes a much-needed chapter to defending Lewis from his critics. One of the more persistent criticisms of Lewis in general and Narnia in particular centers around a meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club, during which philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe "bested" Lewis by revealing flaws in his argument that naturalism is self-refuting. Lewis, so the story goes, was so traumatized by this event that he forsook rational apologetics and ran for cover in the adolescent fairy world of Narnia.
Luckily for lovers of Lewis, Williams's refutation of this ultimately ridiculous argument has been seconded in an excellent new biography of Lewis written by the accomplished apologist Alister McGrath: C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet. Lewis, McGrath argues, not only accepted Anscombe's philosophical criticism of Chapter 3 of Miracles, but followed up by so reworking and expanding Chapter 3 as to gain the approval of Anscombe, a committed Catholic believer. True, McGrath admits, after the debate with Anscombe Lewis did retreat somewhat from taking on more recent philosophical arguments, but he did not abandon rational apologetics for fantasy. Not only did he continue to publish apologetics essays, his Narnia books carry on a strain of imaginative apologetics that he had begun long before with his Space Trilogy.
Just as McGrath and Williams take pains to clear up this unfortunate misreading of the Anscombe debate and its aftermath, so do both writers defend Lewis from charges of misogyny, racial stereotyping, and general medievalism. Unfortunately, in these areas, their support for Lewis is more defensive (well, what do you expect of a man of Lewis's age and background) than offensive. Although they are to be commended for not patronizing Lewis (as, alas, many modern Lewis critics have done), I wish they had had the courage, or at least open-mindedness, to entertain the possibility that Lewis's views on the sexes might just be more biblical than ours.
Is it not possible that the true misogynist is not the traditionalist who (like Lewis) identifies essential, God-created differences between the sexes, but the feminist, whether secular or Christian, who argues that there is no such thing as masculinity and femininity--that what people like Lewis call essential differences are merely social constructions? Given that the latter has led to the emasculation of true masculinity and the ridiculing and even erasing of true femininity, while the former respects and celebrates the complementarian distinctions between men and women, it seems to me that Lewis's views should be wrestled with rather than defanged and swept under the rug as Williams and McGrath tend to do.
Still, The Lion's World merits close reading, opening up as it does fresh vistas on tales that, the very moment we think we know them, surprise us again in a thousand new and astonishing ways.
Louis Markos (see his website here), Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities; his books include Lewis Agonistes, Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis, Apologetics for the 21st Century, and On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis.
| 2019-04-25T20:36:00 |
http://www.reformation21.org/shelf-life/rowan-williams-the-lions-world.php
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What is the difference between epoch and iteration when training a multi-layer perceptron?
batch size = the number of training examples in one forward/backward pass. The higher the batch size, the more memory space you'll need.
number of iterations = number of passes, each pass using [batch size] number of examples. To be clear, one pass = one forward pass + one backward pass (we do not count the forward pass and backward pass as two different passes).
Example: if you have 1000 training examples, and your batch size is 500, then it will take 2 iterations to complete 1 epoch.
The term "batch" is ambiguous: some people use it to designate the entire training set, and some people use it to refer to the number of training examples in one forward/backward pass (as I did in this answer). To avoid that ambiguity and make clear that batch corresponds to the number of training examples in one forward/backward pass, one can use the term mini-batch.
Epoch and iteration describe different things.
An epoch describes the number of times the algorithm sees the entire data set. So, each time the algorithm has seen all samples in the dataset, an epoch has completed.
An iteration describes the number of times a batch of data passed through the algorithm. In the case of neural networks, that means the forward pass and backward pass. So, every time you pass a batch of data through the NN, you completed an iteration.
An example might make it clearer.
Say you have a dataset of 10 examples (or samples). You have a batch size of 2, and you've specified you want the algorithm to run for 3 epochs.
Therefore, in each epoch, you have 5 batches (10/2 = 5). Each batch gets passed through the algorithm, therefore you have 5 iterations per epoch. Since you've specified 3 epochs, you have a total of 15 iterations (5*3 = 15) for training.
Many neural network training algorithms involve making multiple presentations of the entire data set to the neural network. Often, a single presentation of the entire data set is referred to as an "epoch". In contrast, some algorithms present data to the neural network a single case at a time.
"Iteration" is a much more general term, but since you asked about it together with "epoch", I assume that your source is referring to the presentation of a single case to a neural network.
You have a training data which you shuffle and pick mini-batches from it. When you adjust your weights and biases using one mini-batch, you have completed one iteration. Once you run out of your mini-batches, you have completed an epoch. Then you shuffle your training data again, pick your mini-batches again, and iterate through all of them again. That would be your second epoch.
Typically, you'll split your test set into small batches for the network to learn from, and make the training go step by step through your number of layers, applying gradient-descent all the way down. All these small steps can be called iterations.
An epoch corresponds to the entire training set going through the entire network once. It can be useful to limit this, e.g. to fight overfitting.
To my understanding, when you need to train a NN, you need a large dataset involves many data items. when NN is being trained, data items go in to NN one by one, that is called an iteration; When the whole dataset goes through, it is called an epoch.
An epoch contains a few iterations. That's actually what this 'epoch' is. Let's define 'epoch' as the number of iterations over the data set in order to train the neural network.
I believe iteration is equivalent to a single batch forward+backprop in batch SGD. Epoch is going through the entire dataset once (as someone else mentioned).
Look at the code. For each epoch, we randomly generate a subset of the inputs for the gradient descent algorithm. Why epoch is effective is also explained in the page. Please take a look.
To understand the difference between these you must understand the Gradient Descent Algorithm and its Variants.
Before I start with the actual answer, I would like to build some background.
A batch is the complete dataset. Its size is the total number of training examples in the available dataset.
Mini-batch size is the number of examples the learning algorithm processes in a single pass (forward and backward).
A Mini-batch is a small part of the dataset of given mini-batch size.
Iterations is the number of batches of data the algorithm has seen (or simply the number of passes the algorithm has done on the dataset).
Epochs is the number of times a learning algorithm sees the complete dataset. Now, this may not be equal to the number of iterations, as the dataset can also be processed in mini-batches, in essence, a single pass may process only a part of the dataset. In such cases, the number of iterations is not equal to the number of epochs.
In the case of Batch gradient descent, the whole batch is processed on each training pass. Therefore, the gradient descent optimizer results in smoother convergence than Mini-batch gradient descent, but it takes more time. The batch gradient descent is guaranteed to find an optimum if it exists.
Stochastic gradient descent is a special case of mini-batch gradient descent in which the mini-batch size is 1.
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| 2019-04-26T13:02:09 |
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4752626/epoch-vs-iteration-when-training-neural-networks/31842945
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An abstraction is a representation of an environment derived from sensor observation data. Generating an abstraction requires inferring explanations from an incomplete set of observations (often from the Web) and updating these explanations on the basis of new information. This process must be fast and efficient. The authors' approach overcomes these challenges to systematically derive abstractions from observations. The approach models perception through the integration of an abductive logic framework called Parsimonious Covering Theory with Semantic Web technologies. The authors demonstrate this approach's utility and scalability through use cases in the healthcare and weather domains.
| 2019-04-23T16:38:50 |
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How to play a 12 vs. a Dealer's 2 Upcard?
One of the most common mistakes made by blackjack players occurs when they are dealt an initial hand of 12 dealer’s upcard is a 2. The reasons most players blunder on this hand is because they are afraid to draw any 10 and bust. In this article, I’ll show you how to play blackjack with your 12 perfectly every time.
Note: In this article, I won’t discuss blackjack playing strategy for a pair of 6s or pair of Aces.
When you are dealt a 12, you can either stand or hit. No other playing options (double, split, or surrender) need to be considered.
Instead of hitting 12 when the dealer shows a 2, most players will stand. Their reason, as mentioned above, is because they are afraid to hit their 12, draw any 10, and bust when the dealer is showing a “weak” 2 upcard, and may have a 10 “in the hole” and also bust. However, here’s the facts.
In other words, more cards will get you to a made hands than bust your hand.
Furthermore, when the dealer has a 2 upcard showing, she or he aren't as “weak” as most players think because they bust frequency is rather low (35%) compared to other possible dealer upcards. (A bust frequency of 35% means they will make a hand 12 13 times out of 20.). Consequently, the percentages are slightly better hitting a hard 12 against a dealer’s 2 than standing.
If you stand, you’ll win 35.2% of the hands and lose 64.8%, on average (excludes ties). If you hit, you’ll win 37.4% of the hands and lose 62.6%, on average (excludes ties).
29.6% for standing (64.8% – 35.2%) and 25.2% for hitting (62.6% – 37.4%).
After 100 hands, in which you stand on 12 each time, you’d lose about $29, on average.
After 100 hands in which you hit your 12 each time you’d lose about $25, on average.
Lose $29 per $100 bet by standing?
Lose $25 per $100 by hitting?
I hope you agree that hitting 12 against a dealer 2 is a better play (monetarily) than standing, meaning in the long run you’ll lose less money if you follow the basic playing strategy of hitting rather than standing. (This is true regardless of the number of decks of cards being used or mix of playing rules).
Sometimes your 12 will be composed of three (or more) cards, for example 5-3-4 or 2-3-A-6. No problem: Regardless of the number of cards that comprises your 12, just following the above basic strategy and always hit when the dealer shows a 2 upcard.
For a complete basic playing strategy table and color-coded charts for any set of playing rules, consult Chapter 3 in the Ultimate Blackjack Strategy Guide.
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| 2019-04-24T12:00:28 |
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Who are all the movie lovers out there? I love movies, and even though I don't get to watch them as much as I used to, I still love curling up on the couch with some snacks and a movie.
If you asked me what my favorite movie is, I don't know if I could give you an answer. There are just so many really great movies out there. And I like just about every kind of movie--except for scary or horror movies. I hate them and I will not watch them.
It's a pretty common thing around our house to quote movies. Whether it's in an actual conversation or just in talking about movies, it happens. Trevon often tells me that I can't quote the movie while we are watching the movie. I know that bugs a lot of people, but some how it got to be a habit I really struggle with breaking.
Because of this, I thought it would be fun to share my favorite movie lines and a little bit about the movies themselves.
Starting off with a classic: A League of Their Own. If you haven't seen this, I don't know where you have been the past 20ish years, but go get it and watch it now. I love this movie. I even had my girls be Rockford Peaches last year for Halloween.
This movie is about two sisters during WWII. While all the men were off at war, the sport industry struggled. So they decided to start and all women's baseball team. The two sisters (Dottie and Kit) end up trying out for the league and make it.
It's a comedy with a really great story and some really great lessons on the bond between sisters.
This is one that gets quoted all of the time. There are so many things that we quote out of this movie that if I were to write them all, I'd be quoting the whole movie.
"Theres no crying in baseball!"
"You're gonna lose. You stink."
"We're gonna win, we're gonna win!"
Another one of my favorite movies is Anne Of Green Gables. This is no surprise to those of you who have been reading for a while. I grew up watching Anne and I learned so much from those movies. Anne of Green Gables is a story of a girl (Anne) who is an orphan and gets taken in by a brother and sister. They raise her and you see her grow up through out the movie. It's one movie that is definitely close to my heart. There are a lot of great life lessons in this movie, and a lot of really great quotes that come a long with them.
"Tomorrow is a new day, with no mistakes in it." Clearly this is a quote that I use a lot. I even wrote about it HERE.
"I discovered that it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it." Because isn't that true? The world only has so much to offer on it's own, we are the ones who decide how the world works.
There, of course, are some disney movies quoted at our house. We do have kids and all. Usually these quotes turn into a game. We say a quote and the girls guess what movie it is.
"Oh well, we tried." Any one know what movie that is?
How about "Oh I see."
Or "There's one in every family Sire. Two in mine actually."
I know that there are several other movies that get quoted in our house. I'm just going to be able to write them all down. And while I hope this was a fun post for you all to read, I really don't think everyone would have time to sit and read all the quotes. So we will save some for later posts.
Who can tell me the answers to the Disney movie quotes?
I love A League of Their Own! Probably my favorite Tom Hanks movie of all time. My little brother used to rewind the movie (yes, this was when there were VCRs, people) so Tom Hanks kept yelling "Who's Lou??" with a crazy look on his face when the bus broke down. Good times.
haha "Who's Lou?!" I started out with a VHS too. We would get the All American League song stuck in our heads for weeks.
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| 2019-04-19T11:17:54 |
http://www.runningonlife.com/2015/08/favorite-movie-quotes.html
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Is there a species of Thuja Occidentalis Wareana ( Ware or Siberian ) Arborvitae that grows to only 5' - 6' high? If so, what is the exact name? Will it grow in Charles County Maryland? Will it grow in partial sun? What ph is required?
The species is Thuja occidentalis, whose common name is Eastern arborvitae.
The variety of this plant is name 'Wareana' or Ware.
It is phyramidal, low, dense, with bright green foliage and a blue tinge. Does not get brown tinge in winter. Only reaches 8 feet after 35 years.
Full fun. Yes, Charles County would be fine. Arborvitae occidentalis is name to Maryland. Arborvitae are not finicky about pH. This one will tolerate high pH.
| 2019-04-22T08:11:39 |
https://ask.extension.org/questions/545693
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Visual literacy is something new? Teachers need to teach it?
Douglas Rushkoff challenges this in his amazing book, Playing the future; how kids' culture can teach us to thrive in an age of chaos, (New York: Harper Collins, 1996).
Rushkoff sees our society in a state of 'preadolescent' crisis; children will be the first to grow beyond this awkward phase. He describes the evolution of a 'new species', 'networked beings', 'screenagers' who are already nibbling at the edges, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo.
They are growing up into an age of discontinuity and chaos, and their sophisticated visual literacy skills will be one of the main tools that will allow them to deal with this society - simply by embracing it.
Rushkoff is an American commentator and bestselling author who has a healthy disregard for academic pundits (whom he accuses of mystifying technology to preserve their positions of power), and a healthy regard for 'screenagers' whom he depicts as taking naturally to the anarchic, naturally subversive non-hierarchical world of cyberspace like 'cyberdenizens' to the galaxy born.
Rushkoff sees reductionism as the ultimate enemy, leading inevitably to chaos. Those who understand that underpinning chaos and discontinuity are patterns like Mandelbrot's fractals will grasp the new reality. He claims that: "By focusing on discontinuity, rather than avoiding it, we can come to understand its nature".
What is this nature? The point is that there is no point... It is purely experiential: "Chaos is the character of discontinuity." It makes sense in its own terms. He claims that many 'screenagers' instinctively understand this, and he gives a compelling, almost poetic, picture of how skateboarders surfing the city, snowboarders surfing the slopes, "screenagers surfing the Net and channel surfing live the "discontinuous complexity of the man-made cityscape."
He uses skateboarding as a metaphor for the way kids surf TV channels and surf the Net: "It is as if the kids are developing a series of resonant fields, each impressing a set of values - however topically inane - on an otherwise completely meaningless concrete wasteland." He suggests that the Internet is a world to be mapped in the same superficial 'I been there' anarchic way.
"By focusing on discontinuity, rather than avoiding it, we can come to understand its nature."
Romanticised claptrap? I think not?
Rushkoff would be the first to reject any absolutist suggestion that his views were THE answer. They are one extremely plausible way of explaining the students in our schools whose fascination with superficial surfing translates into indifference to or rejection of many of our approaches to literacy - including print. He recognises the 'topical inanity' of much of what interests the surfing screenager.
When you see it through Rushkoff's eyes you are forced to understand how media saturation has affected reading habits and preferences. He discusses the influence of MTV in destroying the linear model' of TV and moving to what he describes as 'disassembled mediascape" where "the texture of programming is more important than the content."
"But the skills we need to develop in order to become adept at surfing channels (and computer networks, online services, the world wide web, even our own e-mail Messages for that matter) are the very opposite of what we traditionally valued in a good television viewer. We are coming to understand that what we so valued as an attention span is not a power of concentration or self-discipline in the least, but rather a measure of a viewer's susceptibility to the hypnotic effects of linear programming. We see now, though, that the viewing style of our children is actually the more adult... the ability to piece together meaning from a discontinuous set of images is the act of a higher intellect, not a lower one."
Rushkoff agrees that 'screenagers' have a shorter attention span, but claims that they compensate for this by developing a broader attention range and suggests that the skill to be valued in the next century is not length of attention span, but the ability to multitask - to do many things at once, well.
Screenagers can flick between channels or web pages and manage to build several 'plots' in their heads simultaneously. "The other key viewing skill... is the ability to process visual information very rapidly... Kids process the visual language of television directly and are so adept at this skill that they hunger for images of greater complexity." The same could be said for Internet images?
Rushkoff describes this new language of visual information which, Depends as much on the relationship of different images and the images within images as it does on what we generally understand as content. it suspends the time constraints of linear reasoning in order to allow for a rapid dissemination of ideas and data, as well as the more active participation of the viewer to piece it together and draw conclusions for himself."
How do we get them to translate this into reading for learning?
Having struggled unsuccessfully for years to get teachers to model precisely these skills with text so that students would be able to 'surf through books, periodicals and screen- based information sources and synthesise and relate ideas to construct knowledge, Rushkoff has left me with two powerful ideas.
• Firstly, teach kids to apply existing screen and comic skills, and we'd be half way home.
We've proved how much more effective the detective metaphor is at primary school. So what about the 'surfing' metaphor at secondary? Rushkoff's work suggests that students already have well-established cognitive patterns and visual literacy skills to build on; How do we harness these skills?
So, is there no room for the teacher? Has the English Curriculum got it wrong? If kids are already in possession of visual literacy skills which leave ours for dead, why bother?
"Teachers must discover what they can offer that a computer cannot" Unlike a computer a human teacher can be a partner in learning and dedicate himself to giving his pupils the necessary criteria to judge their data's integrity, make connections between different facts and formulate opinions and arguments of their own. The best teachers will instill in their pupils the confidence and enthusiasm to express themselves as widely and articulately as possible."
Instead of working from a deficit model (the assumption that students lack visual literacy skills and we need to teach them what they lack) Rushkoff signals that we might need to look for what they CAN do - better than we can - point this out to them so that they feel self-efficaceous, and then invite them to transfer their skills to print-based text. There's a thought! We can start by looking at how screenagers surf channels, the Net, their environment. "It's chaotic, but there's an underlying order to it", he says.
And before you shoot the messenger, read Rushkoff yourself. I don't agree with all his ideas, but there's enough here to make me want to rush off and try things for myself. I am! I have just had a mixed-age class doing an exercise whereby they were given three minutes to scan a text and 'pass the parcel'. Younger students did better than older students (in terms of how many ideas they could synthesise), and enjoyed it much more.
"Children are leading us in our evolution past linear thinking... toward a dynamic, holistic, animistic, weightless and recapitulated culture. Chaos is their natural environment."
We who grew up convinced that it was better to read from left to right slowly, to make meaning sequentially as we plodded along, might need to rethink a lot of things? And we need to do some of this re-thinking before we assume that visual literacy is something we have and students don't.
| 2019-04-23T14:45:01 |
http://theschoolquarterly.com/info_lit_archive/learning_thinking/99_gg_ravl.htm
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On recent reports about activity at the North's Dongchang-ri missile facility, . the official said the Trump administration is still trying to determine exactly what North Korea is doing, but did not necessarily agree with those who say the activity is a sign of North Korea's discontent following the Hanoi summit. While the exercises are created to prepare the U.S.
"I don't think I will be" disappointed, Trump said, "but we'll see what happens". The site houses the technology that, if successful, could launch a missile capable of reaching the U.S.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un each left the Hanoi summit last week empty-handed, after the North Korean leader failed to persuade Trump to fulfil his part of the deal and remove at least some of the sanctions.
South Korean newspapers reported that Suh Hoon, director of the country's National Intelligence Service, told MPs that cargo vehicles had been detected carrying supplies to the missile research centre at Sanumdong, near Pyongyang.
The move comes after 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea studies, published satellite images showing the regime restored a rocket launch site it had previously dismantled as part of its disarmament pledge previous year.
A few days later satellite imagery surfaced conveniently, showing unspecified "activity" at Sohae satellite launching site, which North Korea began to dismantle previous year.
North Korea on Thursday blasted new, smaller-scale U.S.
The United States still hopes that Pyongyang will be completely denuclearized before the end of Donald Trump's term in 2021, a State Department official told reporters, insisting that the incremental approach has been rejected by the administration.
North Korean state media continue to portray the abortive summit with the U.S.as a roaring success, but the truth is trickling in through the border with China.
Taking to twitter he questioned: "North Korea testing again?"
They called the North Korean actions "an affront to the president's diplomatic strategy" that also showed Pyongyang's "pique" over Trump's refusal to lift sanctions.
The paper also quoted Suh as saying North Korea had continued to run its uranium enrichment facility at the main Yongbyon nuclear complex after Trump and Kim's first summit in Singapore last June. North Korea is restoring facilities at the long-range rocket launch, which it dismantled a year ago as part of disarmament steps, according to foreign experts and a South Korean lawmaker who was briefed by Seoul's spy service.
| 2019-04-22T04:30:07 |
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Michael Franti's ambitions are modest. With his band Spearhead, he plays intoxicating songs combining hip-hop, funk, reggae, rock and folk, often addressing cultural issues such as the criminal-justice system, the corporate takeover of our daily lives, AIDS, gay rights, homelessness, the death penalty, drug addiction and suicide.
But all he really wants to do is make music that can serve as a soundtrack to doing his daily chores.
"I want my music to be part of people's everyday lives, although with seeds planted in the lyrics that will grow with you as time goes on," he says.
Franti's music has been known to move listeners (this one included) in profound ways, but he has no such high-minded expectations. At most, he hopes his music is a subtle force, he says.
"I would love to change the world with my music, but with me as a listener, I'm just looking for something to get up in the morning to and find the energy to clean the toilet."
Franti, 38, speaks on the phone from his manager's office in San Francisco on the eve of a concert tour that will bring him back to Tucson for two nights this weekend at the Rialto Theatre.
On Saturday, Feb. 4, Franti will perform with his explosive five-piece band at the Rialto. The following night, Sunday, he will screen his new documentary film I Know I'm Not Alone, sit for a Q&A session and play a solo acoustic set.
I Know I'm Not Alone is a 95-minute journey shot as Franti, armed with only his acoustic guitar and a video camera, traveled for a few weeks in 2004 and again in 2005 through war-torn Iraq, the occupied West Bank and Israel. Along the way, he played for and with local families, doctors, musicians, soldiers and everyday folks, who in turn related their experiences to the camera.
Of his first foray into filmmaking, Franti says, "It's not just about the despair, but about the complex nature of their lives there. I kind of narrate the film in the first person.
"What I basically did was walk down the streets of Baghdad and go into hospitals or wherever and asked people, 'Tell me about your life. What's it like to be a heavy-metal musician in Baghdad? What's it like to own a tattoo store in Baghdad? What's it like to live in the West Bank?' The film is a collection of people's thoughts and impressions coming through the music."
Franti came away from making the film with enlightening lessons. "One is that I had my faith in the goddess of music renewed. When I would jam with others, it would bring out emotions and ideas that we didn't even know were there. Also, it didn't matter if I was talking to a doctor or a soldier; I didn't find one person who didn't want peace.
"The last thing I came away with was maybe the most important thing. And that's: I'm not on any side. I'm on the side of the peacemakers, whatever country they come from. Which is probably why I've never chosen to register as a Republican or a Democrat."
I Know I'm Not Alone will also be available to purchase on DVD. A lifelong movie fanatic, Franti considered releasing the film to the art-house circuit, but he figures his current distribution method reaches more audience members.
"We've had some screenings of the film where thousands of people have shown up. At an art house, sometimes there'll be like 15 people in the audience."
Franti, who gets director's and producer's credits on I Know I'm Not Alone, says he has wanted to make movies since he was a child. "I'm kind of a movie buff. I used to see all the movies that came out--Hollywood, independent, whatever--but now that I am on the road so much of the year, I have to watch them on DVD."
Between shows with Spearhead and acoustic gigs, Franti plays about 250 concerts a year. He has maintained that pace since 1999, when he went independent. Spearhead has been an ongoing concern for about 12 years, following earlier Franti projects The Beatnigs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
After two CDs for Capitol Records--Home and Chocolate Supa Highway--Spearhead broke away when Franti formed his own label, Boo Boo Wax, which has released several recordings. In addition to critically acclaimed albums of new material such as Stay Human (2001) and Everyone Deserves Music (2003), he has issued an acoustic recording, several live discs and one CD of outtakes and remixes.
Franti reports that Boo Boo Wax will release the next studio album by Spearhead in June. It'll be called I Know I'm Not Alone, a title that also will be shared by the book he'll publish at about the same time. The tome will feature photographs and impressions of the Middle East during his travels there, he says.
So Spearhead fans need not worry that Franti's cinematic moonlighting will siphon his attention away from music.
"We built a temporary studio to record the new album in my living room. We're mixing it as we speak."
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https://spearhead-home.com/News.php?memberlist=NewsResult&t=360&url=Articles_MF_20060202_TUSWEEKLY.htm
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Here's how to use Google Assistant to map out your fun day.
I live in D.C., but sometimes I like to take the hour-long trip to nearby Baltimore. Up in the morning, back by midnight.
After several of these day trips, I've learned many tricks to get the most out of my time. Here's how Google Assistant helps me map out my day trips and how it can help you, too.
These tips can be used anywhere Google Assistant is available, including the Google Assistant app and Google Home ($129 at Walmart) speakers.
I own a car, but sometimes I like driving something different, so I'll rent a car for my short road trip. There are several ways to do this with Google Assistant.
If you happen to be an Avis preferred member, Google Assistant will let you book a rental car with Avis.
Expedia and Google Assistant have joined forces to let you book travel, including rental cars. Just a heads-up that when you book a reservation with Expedia through Google Assistant, you'll be asked link your Google account to an Expedia account, so it might be worth it to create an account on Expedia in advance.
If you live on the West Coast, another option is Flixbus, which offers bus rides from Northern to Southern California, and to Las Vegas. Just say to Google Assistant "OK, Google, Get Flixbus" and tell it where you're going. From there, it will ask your departure and destination information, then let you pay for the ticket with your voice.
Asking Google Assistant for great tourist sites in Baltimore (and other cities, too) will just give you basic search results. Instead, I recommend using a great third-party service called Musement.
You can say, "Hey Google, Ask Musement what good museums are in [city name]" and it will give you can some great options. While Google Assistant offers the same service, Musement seems to have more range in its responses.
If you're without a car, getting to know the mass transit schedule in the town you're visiting will help you get around. Try using Transit Now. This third-party service will give you subway arrival times and nearby bus stops in various cities.
If you'd rather use Lyft or Uber to get around, Google Assistant can help too. Just say, "Book me a ride to (destination)," and it presents a list of options with prices and destination times for your car. This cuts the time it would normally take toggling between the Lyft and the Uber apps.
If you're really eager to get from A to B like me, you can ask Google Assistant how long it will take to arrive at your destination. It's usually good at predicting travel times, but not traffic conditions.
If you own a Google Pixel ($280 at Amazon) phone, you can make reservations without making a call using Google Duplex. Just ask Google Assistant for a nearby restaurant, then ask it to make a reservation. Duplex will ask if it can give your number to the restaurant before even making the call.
However, be forewarned: some restaurants don't allow you to book reservations with Duplex, so Google Assistant's screen will pull up Open Table.
For iPhone users like me, we have to find and book restaurant reservations the old-fashioned way, by asking Google Assistant for suggestions and making a call. You can find the number of the restaurant and tell Google Assistant, "Call (phone number to restaurant)."
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https://www.cnet.com/how-to/google-assistant-plan-a-day-trip/
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BEIJING -- Tesla Inc. is cutting the price of the Model X and Model S in China in a shift in strategy that will see it take more of a hit from tariffs linked to a biting trade war between China and the United States.
The electric carmaker said Thursday it will lower prices of the two models by 12-26 percent to make the vehicles more "affordable" in the world's top auto market, where sales of so-called new-energy vehicles are rising fast.
The move comes amid severe trade tensions between China and the United States. China has levied extra tariffs on U.S. imports, including automobiles, in a blow to Tesla, which imports all light vehicles it sells in the market.
"We are absorbing a significant part of the tariff to help make our cars more affordable for customers in China," Tesla said in a statement.
The move marks a shift from July when Tesla was one of the first U.S. carmakers to raise prices in response to tariffs. The company hiked prices then on the Model X and S by about 20 percent.
Tesla warned last month it was facing major problems selling vehicles in China due to new tariffs that would force it to accelerate investment in its first overseas Gigafactory in Shanghai.
The carmaker last month secured a site for the plant, which will help it avoid steep tariffs.
Tesla, which recently launched pre-sales of the Model 3 in China, added in its statement that the car's price would start from 540,000 yuan ($77,928.83) for a dual motor all-wheel drive version, and 595,000 yuan for a performance version.
Before the price hike in July, Tesla had lowered prices in China in May, after Beijing had said it would cut import tariffs for all light vehicles.
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http://www.autonewschina.com/en/article.asp?id=18388
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This "browning" of plant communities has happened over thousands of square kilometres or more. However, until recently we knew very little about what this might mean for the balance between carbon uptake and release in Arctic ecosystems. Given that the Arctic stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, this is a pressing concern.
Now, our study has shown that extreme climatic events can significantly reduce the ability of Arctic ecosystems to take up carbon –- with implications for whether the Arctic will help combat climate change, or accelerate it.
Here we found the effects of two extreme winter weather events. First, "frost drought" had caused extensive plant dieback. Frost drought occurs when the insulating layer of snow which usually protects plants from the harsh Arctic winter is melted, typically by unusually high winter temperatures. If plants remain exposed to cold, windy conditions for long enough, they continually lose water and are unable to replace it from the frozen soil. Eventually, they succumb to drought.
The second event was "extreme winter warming" – a sudden burst of high temperatures during winter which melts the snow and tricks evergreen plants into preparing for spring by shedding their cold tolerance. When the warm period is over, the return of cold temperatures usually kills the plant. In this case, however, we found something unexpected. Heathland plants had survived this extreme winter warming event, but were showing evidence of severe stress, visible as a deep, persistent dark red colour in shoots and leaves.
We found that these extreme winter conditions reduced how much carbon was absorbed in heathland ecosystems by up to 50% across the entire growing season. This is a huge reduction in the ability of a widespread Arctic ecosystem to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
This is especially concerning as the impacts of browning are in stark contrast to those of a better understood response of Arctic ecosystems to climate change: "Arctic greening", or the tendency for plants to become taller and more productive as Arctic summers warm.
Many climate models currently assume arbitrary levels of greening across the Arctic, and therefore that Arctic ecosystems will take up more carbon in the future – slowing climate change. The scale of the browning we've seen in recent years combined with the negative impacts on carbon uptake reported here suggests that the reality may be more complex, calling into question our understanding of the role of the Arctic in the Earth's climate.
What does this mean for us? The impact of extreme weather events in the Arctic has global consequences. It is clear that our current efforts to tackle climate change are dangerously inadequate, but ambitious action now could cut how much the Arctic is expected to warm by as much as 7°C. This is critical to minimising the impacts of climate change both in Arctic ecosystems and worldwide.
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https://phys.org/news/2018-11-arctic-brown-weird-weather-climate.html
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Over the next five years, the analysts that follow this company are expecting it to grow earnings at an average annual rate of 0%. This year, analysts are forecasting earnings increase of 23.52% over last year. Analysts expect earnings growth next year of -8.31% over this year's forecasted earnings.
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https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/avro/earnings-growth
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Step-based instruction is just as effective as natural tutoring, and more effective than low-interaction instruction.
We see a plateau when learning gains are graphed on the y-axis and degree of interactivity is graphed on the x-axis. The learning gains increase as the degree of interaction increases from low-interaction instruction to step-based instruction, but then the curve is flat from step-based instruction to natural tutoring.
The steps of a task are defined by convention or the instruction. Step-based instruction is insures that students attended to correct steps and that they are encourage to derive them. For instance, a tutoring system might provide a form to fill in, where each blank in the form is a step, and then provide immediate feedback and hints on each blank in order to insure that the student derives a correct step for the blank.
On the other hand, natural tutoring is more interactive. The prototype is face-to-face human tutoring, although some natural langauge computer tutoring systems count as natural tutors as well. The key attribute is that they can interact at any grain size with the student. For instance, if a human tutor is helping a student fill in the blanks in the aforementioned form, and the student appears confused by one blank, then the human tutor might elicit a directed line of reasoning (Evens & Michael, 2006) where each inference in a long series is elicited from the student and leads eventually to filling in the blank correctly. The interaction plateau makes the counter-intuitive claim that such natural tutoring is no more effective than step-based instruction.
low-interaction problem solving, such as doing problems with either no feedback at all or feedback on answer only.
Suppose one wanted to help students kearn while doing their physics. Which of the following would be more effective?
When a student wants help, the student clicks on a "I need a tutor" button, and gets audio-only tutoring from a human tutor who can see the students' screen. The human tutor helps the student finish the problem, and may stay on the line to help with further homework problems.
The student uses Andes, a step-based homework helper (VanLehn et al, 2005).
The student solves the homework problem on paper and enters the answer into WebAssign. It indicates whether the answer is correct. If it is incorrect, WebAssign may give a hint; the student can submit the incorrect answer or rework their solution and enter a new answer.
The interaction plateau predicts that the first two treatments will be equally effective, and they they will be more effective than the third treatment, ceterus paribus.
Reif and Scott (1999) found an interaction plateau when they compared human tutoring, a computer tutor and low-interaction problem solving. All students in their experiment were in the same physics class; the experiment varied only the way that the students did their homework. One group of 15 students did their physics homework problems individually in a six-person room where “two tutors were kept quite busy providing individual help” (ibid, pg. 826). Another 15 students did their homework on a computer tutor that had them either solve a problem or study a solution. When solving a problem, students got immediate feedback and hints on each step. When studying a problem, they were shown steps and asked to determine which one(s) were incorrect. This forced them to derive the steps. Thus, this computer tutor counts as step-based instruction. The remaining 15 students merely did their homework as usual, relying on the textbook, their friends and the course TAs for help. The human tutors and the computer tutors produced learning gains that were not reliably different, and yet both were reliably larger than the low-interaction instruction provided by normal homework (d=1.31 for human tutoring; d=1.01 for step-based computer tutoring).
Although these results are consistent with the interaction plateau, there is a potential confound. The human tutors and the computer tutor taught an effective problem solving method (Heller & Reif, 1984) which may or may not have been mentioned in the textbook and lectures. If not, then the poor learning gains of the untutored students may be due to their lack of access to content (the problem solving strategy) that was available to the tutored student. This potential confound does not affect the level part of the plateau; only the steep part.
In a series of experiments, (VanLehn et al., 2007) taught students to reason out answers to conceptual physics questions such as: “As the earth orbits the Sun, the sun exerts a gravitational force on it. Does the earth also exert a force on the sun? Why or why not?” In all conditions of the experiment, students first studied a short textbook, then solved several training problems. For each problem, the students wrote an short essay-long answer, then were tutored on its flaws, then read a correct, well-written essay. Students were expected to apply a certain set of concept in their essays—these comprised the correct steps. The treatments differed in how they tutored students when the essay lacked a step or had an incorrect step. There were four experimental treatments: (1) Human tutors who communicated via a text-based interface with student; (2) Why2-Atlas and (3) Why2-AutoTutor, both of which were natural language computer tutors designed to approach human tutoring; and (4) a simple step-based computer tutor that “tutored” a missing or incorrect step by merely display text that explained what the correct step was. A control condition had students merely read passages from a textbook without answering conceptual questions. The first 3 treatments all count as natural tutoring, so according to the interaction plateau, they should all have the same learning gains as the simple step-based tutoring system. All four experimental conditions should score higher than the control condition, as it is classified as read-only studying of text. Figure ## shows the post-test scores, adjusted for pretest scores in an ANCOVA. The four experimental conditions are not reliably different, and they all were higher than the read-only studying condition by approximately d=1.0. Thus, the results of experiments 1 and 2 support the interaction plateau.
(VanLehn et al., 2007) were surprised that the four experimental conditions tied, so they did several more experiments. The experiments used different assessment methods (e.g., far transfer; retention), different students (pre-physics vs. post-physics courses) and different numbers of training problems. The interaction plateau was observed in all experiments except one. In that experiment, students who had not taken college physics were trained with materials that were designed for students who had taken college physics, and human tutoring was more effective than the simple step-based computer tutor. This makes sense; if the materials are too far over the students’ current level of competence, reading doesn’t suffice for comprehension, and yet a human tutor can help “translate” the content into novice terms. The last 2 experiments used a completely overhauled set of materials designed especially for students who had not taken college physics, and again found an interaction plateau.
In a series of experiments, (Evens & Michael, 2006) tutored medical students in cardiovascular physiology. All students were first taught the basics of the baroreceptor reflex which controls human blood pressure. They were then given a training problem wherein an artificial pacemaker malfunctions and students must fill out a spreadsheet whose rows denoted physiological variables (e.g., heart rate; the blood volume per stroke of the heart, etc.) and whose column denoted time periods. Each cell was filled with a +, - or 0 to indicate that the variable was increasing, decreasing or constant. Each such entry was a step. The authors first developed a step-based tutoring system, CIRCSIM, that presented a short text passage for each incorrectly entered step. They then developed a sophisticated natural language tutoring system, CIRCSIM-tutor, which replaced the text passages with human-like typed dialogue intended to remedy not just the step but the concepts behind the step as well. They also used a read-only studying condition with an experimenter-written text, and they included conditions with expert human tutors interacting in typed text with students. Figure ### summarizes the results from several experiments that used the same assessments and training problems but different treatments. The treatments that count as Natural Tutoring (the expert human tutors and CIRCSIM-tutor) tied with each other and with the step-based computer tutor (CIRCSIM). The only conditions were learning gains were significantly different were the read-only text studying treatments. This pattern is consistent with the interaction plateau.
So far, step-based instruction was conducted by a computer tutoring system. However, this is not the only way to get students to derive each correct step. (Chi, Roy, & Hausmann, in press) gave students a video of a problem being solved by a human tutor and a tutee working at a white board. Students had to solve the same problem as the one being solved in the video, and they could do so any way they wished. Other studies (VanLehn, 1998; VanLehn, Jones, & Chi, 1992) suggested that students use two main strategies for solving problems when they have access to an isomorphic solved problem: They either copy each step from the example, or they generate each step and check it against the example’s step. The checking strategy counts as step-based instruction, but the copying strategy does not since it is a fairly syntactic process. The Chi et al study did not control strategies, the experiment did use either pairs of students working together on the problems (with or without a video) versus students working alone on the problems (with or without a video). Presumably, the pairs are much less likely to use the copying strategy than the solos. Thus, the pairs+video treatment (where the checking strategy was probably common) can be counted as step-based instruction, whereas the individuals+video (where the copying strategy was probably common) can be ignored, as copying hardly counts as problem solving at all. Besides these two conditions, the other conditions in the experiment were (3) human tutoring, (4) pairs solving problems with the aid of a textbook but no video, and (5) individual students with a textbook but no video. The latter two treatments count as low-interaction problem solving, as the students had no way to tell if the steps they generated were correct. The results, shown in Figure ###, are consistent with the interaction plateau. In particular, human tutoring and the step-based instruction condition (pairs+video) had the same learning gains, and these gains were reliably larger than the other treatments.
To summarize, these four studies have all displayed an interaction plateau. Granted, none of the studies were designed to test the interaction plateau hypothesis, so classifications of their conditions into low-interaction instruction, step-based instruction and natural tutoring may seem a bit forced. Even ignoring the names of the classes, when the treatment conditions are ordered from least interactive to most interactive, all 4 studies produced plateaus.
Good instructors will design steps that are sufficiently close together that most students can, by the end of their homework, derive every step. Perhaps the students struggle to bridge the steps when they are first learning a new topic, but with step-based instruction, most students eventually can do the hidden reasoning that must be done to correctly bridge from every step to the next. Natural tutoring provides no added value. However, low-interaction problem solving harms learning by making it too difficult to generate correct steps, and read-only studying invites an illustion of knowing (Glenberg, Wilkinson, & Epstein, 1982) less learning.
The interaction plateau applies only to learning to solve complex, multi-step tasks. Single-step tasks or domains without well-defined tasks are excluded.
The interaction plateau applies only when all students are taught the same content using the same tasks.
Although studies of non-expert tutors showed only modest learning gains (Cohen, Kulik & Kulik, 1982), Bloom's (1984) expert tutors elicited very large (2-sigma) learning gains, which are larger than the gains usually found in step-based instruction. Corbett (2001) has argued that current computer tutors, when allowed to use mastery learning, also achieve a 2-sigma learning gain. Moreover, Bloom's tutors used a larger threshold for mastery than his comparison treatments, which could account for some of their benefits. Nonetheless, the assumption of the human tutor's omnipotence is so widely believed that there is likely to be at least some truth in it.
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Having said that, allow me to address these two specific questions, but first an observation.
Your analogy of a dinghy armed with a 16-inch gun isn't really very applicable. A more reasonable analogy might be the 11-inch guns of the Deutschland-class pocket battleships of the 1930s, although I'd argue even there that what the Manties have in mind is considerably more survivable. The 300,000-ton notional ship they're looking at acquires a very large percentage of its total tonnage from additional defensive elements, including a scaled down version of the Keyhole One platform. As you guys will see in A Rising Thunder, Manticore is already investing considerable effort in defensive doctrine and tactics to deal with the threat of MDMs and even Apollo, despite the fact that no one else has that combination of capabilities. The same thing is true where the Mark 16 is concerned, and the architects and the defensive system designers are considering the new threat parameters in the designs they are proposing. In fact, the Nike-design incorporates a lot of those new features and that's one reason the ship is so damn tough and hard to kill. The RMN has never had any desire to build eggshells armed sledgehammers if it could possibly avoid it. As the Admiralty sees it, they had no option but to do that with the Agamemnons, but that's why the BC(P) has never been particularly popular with the RMN. The type had almost rabid proponents and defenders when it first came along because it was one way to get extended-range missile capability into the fleet's hands quickly and because — at the time — no one else had the range to engage it, which meant it could operate with relative impunity. Even its fiercest partisans, however, always viewed it as essentially a transitional type, which would be retired to secondary duties (the traditional battlecruiser mission of flag-showing on distant stations, commerce protection, etc.) once the other side acquired MDMs. (And as Mike Henke discovered, concerns about the type's vulnerability once the other side did have MDMs turned out to be well-founded.) The production of the dual-drive missile in the Mark 16 accelerated that process, but it was a direction in which the RMN was already pointed on the basis of its institutional experience and its strategic and operational concepts. The Nikes are not simply designed for combat endurance from an ammunition perspective, but from a survivability perspective, and it is firmly envisioned by the Admiralty that once the other side begins to have MDM capability, the Nikes will revert to a traditional battlecruiser role, as well.
At the same time, the Admiralty doesn't anticipate that the SLN is going to begin deploying MDMs tomorrow, or that Solarian fire control and missile warfare capabilities are going to overtake the Star Empire in any particularly short order. The Admiralty does anticipate that the Sollies will acquire roughly comparable capabilities fairly quickly, at least once it becomes willing to admit that it needs them, but the Manties recognize (realistically) that having roughly equivalent capabilities doesn't necessarily equate to producing roughly equivalent outcomes. It was, after all, the difference in the two sides' tactical sophistication which permitted the German panzers on the Eastern Front to outperform the arguably superior T-34 in 1941 and 1942, and there are countless other examples in which the technique and expertise of an experienced opponent has turned a less competent but technologically equivalent foe into mincemeat. The Manties and the Havenites have a lot of experience in the bank, and their architects and tactical analysts are probably even further ahead of the Sollies in terms of figuring out what comes next than their currently deployed hardware is ahead of the Sollies' currently deployed hardware. The Manties are perfectly prepared to continue using transitional types — and types which will become highly vulnerable once the other side has MDMs — very aggressively and offensively as long as their range advantage allows them to do so without prohibitive casualties, but they are already looking towards the next generation of warships and warship design. Hence the internal studies which are suggesting a 300,000-ton platform as the minimum to perform the light cruiser/destroyer role. In fact, what is probably going to happen is that the destroyer as a type will effectively disappear, with its independently deployable role reverting to the cruiser and its fleet screening role going to the LAC groups. In that respect, the Roland is every bit as much a short-term, transitional type as the BC(P) ever was, and the Admiralty's internal thinking reflects that. They are absolutely great, galaxy-beating ships to have . . . as long as the other side doesn't have ships with comparable weaponry.
All of which also leads into your second point about the ammunition capacity of the BC(L). Ammo capacity is a part of the BC(L) design philosophy. A significant part, to be sure, but only a part. The BC(L) is intended to dominate in the face of anything below the wall, and with the increase in defensive capabilities and general all-around toughness, it's going to take something with all-up MDM capability and Manticoran-style laser heads to seriously challenge it. The type is intended for long distance, independent deployment, where ammunition resupply can become a problem; it's intended to stack quite large salvos, despite its limited (compared to a pod-layer design, at any rate) number of launchers, so it can get in a heavy initial salvo if it needs to; it already has Keyhole capability, and Keyhole is a major factor in defensibility; and it's designed for possibly running engagements with large numbers of individually smaller and less capable opponents (dealing with a LAC group, for example, or laying down the law to a "navy" of primarily light units which has crossed the line, like some of the Silesian systems were wont to do). The Saganami-C is actually more likely to disappear than the Nike, to be honest, because the Nike has more endurance and more toughness than the Saganami-C. That doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that the Saganami-C is going to simply vanish in the next six weeks, or the next six years, or possibly even the next sixteen years, but it means that the type will find itself being relegated more and more to secondary duties as the opposition's offensive capabilities improve.
Der Rest fliegt nach und nach raus bzw. kurvt zeitweise noch bei sekundären Navies wie der Royal Torch Navy und der Mayanischen Navy herum.
Und natürlich bei so Navies wie der SLN, jedenfalls so lange, bis sie der RMN, GSN, RHN, KAM oder MAN vor die Rohre laufen.
Ich hab schon seit bestimmt 2 Jahren kein Honorverse-Buch mehr in die Finger bekommen.....was sind denn BC(L)?
Übergroße Schlachtkreuzer wie die Nike.
Aber was ist mit den BC-Ps ?
gegen die SLN sind die doch Ideal.
Und ich habe hier zwar beim überfliegen die vorzüge für die L´s gelesen aber nicht was gegen die P´s spricht.
Auserdem ist eine derart schwere zusammensetzung in meinen Augen ein wenig seltsam. Schirm und Patroulien Einheiten sind manchmal wichtiger als jedes Wallschiff.
BC(p) sind nur gegen die SLN ideal und scheinbar geht die RMN auf Nummersicher und baut lieber richtige SD(P).
BC-Ps sind absolut dominant, so lange auf der anderen Seite keine Mehrstufenraketen (MDMs) vorhanden sind, aber in dem Moment tot, wo der Gegenüber auch MDMs einsetzt. Sie sind einfach zu zerbrechlich für Gefechte gegen SDs, in denen der Gegner zurückschießt. Das Gesamtkonzept sieht ja vor, dass die BC-Ps außerhalb der Reichweite bleiben, aber mit der Mark 16 Zwostufenrakete z.B. geht das gegen die RHN schon nicht mehr. Und mit den Mark 23 Dreistufenraketen ist die Munitionskapazität zu gering. Man muss sich nur die Schlacht von ... Solon? ansehen, wo Henkes Schiff ein paar Treffer einstecken musste und schon war die Hauptbewaffnung hin und der Pott praktisch verkrüppelt. Selbst ein Uralt-Schlachtkreuzer konventioneller Art wäre da besser rausgekommen - und eine Nike hätte sich geschüttelt und weitergemacht.
Weber beschreibt BC-Ps ja selbst als "Übergangslösung" aus der Zeit, wo MDMs und Gondelleger ein völlig neues Konzept waren und es darum ging, das Ganze möglichst schnell zum Einsatz zu bringen und die RMN eben das Monopol hatte.
Und auch wenn sie gegen die SLN vorläufig noch ihre ursprüngliche Effektivität besitzen, wird die SLN - sollte sie so lange überleben - nach dem großen Weckruf ebenfalls MDMs entwickeln, ebenso jede andere Raumstreitmacht, die noch was auf sich hält. Die MAN ist schon schwer dahinter.
Die RMN denkt also schon an nächste Woche, wo MDMs in allen ernstzunehmenden Raumflotten Standard sein werden - und da machen BC-Ps auf den Hauptschauplätzen keinen Sinn mehr. Auf Nebenschauplätzen, wo üblicherweise keine SD-Ps auftauchen, werden sie dagegen weiter eingesetzt werden und auch für den Handelsschutz in Silesia oder Talbott sind sie sehr nützlich - ich kann mir keine hässlichere Überraschung für einen Piraten oder kreuzergroßen Handelsstörer vorstellen als plötzlich einer Agamemmnon gegenüber zu stehen.
Und das Größenwachstum der Eskorten kommt einfach daher, dass die Schiffe eine gewisse Größe haben MÜSSEN, um die für das Gondelgefecht nötige Stabilität und Abwehrkapazität zu haben. Ein klassischer Zerstörer wie die Hawkwing ist im MDM-Gondel-Gefecht nicht mehr als eine Zielscheibe aus Pappe. Selbst die neuen Rolands sind Übergangslösungen und werden in einigen Jahren verschwinden - die Aufgaben der klassischen Zerstörer übernehmen die LACs und die Schweren Kreuzer ab Saganami Klasse.
Nein, um andere Navies geht es hier überhaupt nicht, der Text ist ausschließlich aus Blickrichtung der Manticoranischen Admiralität geschrieben. Die ausgemusterten Klassen der RMN werden vielleicht in Silesia oder ähnlichen kriegsfernen Schauplätzen eingesetzt, aber sicher nicht an Maya verschenkt (würde mich zumindet schwer wundern.). Ob und wie sich die Flotten Havens, Andermans und anderer 'primärer' Flotten verändern werden hat Weber damit nicht vorweg nehmen wollen (so wie ich ihn verstehe).
die RHN mag durchaus auch in Zukunft noch mit Zerstörern rumfliegen, andere Flotten sowieso.
Auch ob die Kreuzer unbedingt ein L hinter der Klasse haben werden kann ich da nicht so ohne weiteres rauslesen.
Das (L) war eine freie Erfindung meinserseits, weil die Schiffe zum evolutionären Größenwachstum neigen. Ein Saganami-Kreuzer würde nach den Maßstäben von 1900 P.D. als grotesk überdimensioniert gelten, genau so ein Roland-Zerstörer, den würde man eher als Leichten Kreuzer einstufen.
Und wieso sollten sich die anderen Flotten nicht in der gleichen Art und Weise wie die RMN verändern? Die GSN baut seit Jahren praktisch identische Schiffe wie die RMN, abgesehen von kleinen technischen Abweichungen, und KAM und BSDF pflegen regen Gedankenaustausch mit der manticoranischen Admiralität, die RHN wird in naher Zukunft auch fleißig mitkonferieren. Da kommt das garantiert zur Sprache. Und alle diese Navies, BSDF ausgenommen, haben aus erster Hand erfahren, was Gefechte mit Gondellegern und MDMs bedeuten - sie werden ihre Schlüsse ziehen. Die SLN wird bzw. ihre Nachfolgenavies werden es auf die harte Tour ebenfalls lernen.
Ich für meinen Teil habe in den letzten Büchern - abgesehen von den havenitischen Trojans der Zwischenkriegszeit - nirgends etwas von einer neuen graysonitischen oder havenitischen Zerstörerklasse gelesen.
Klar kurven die nächsten Jahre trotzdem noch ein paar auf Nebenschauplätzen herum - und eben in kleinen Navies. Aber aus den Beständen der großen Flotten verschwinden Zerstörer dann nach und nach genau so wie vorher Fregatten, Korvetten und LACs ... bis dann eventuell jemand einen völlig neuen Zerstörertyp auflegt.
Und mit Maya war eigentlich gemeint, dass der Maya Sektor momentan nur leichte Einheiten baut und deswegen wohl auch noch einige Zeit Zerstörer bauen wird - aber schau dir mal die Warriors an... die Dinger gehen auch schon in Richtung Kreuzer.
Ich sagte nciht andere Flotten würden zwangsweise die alten Klassen behalten, ich sagte aus diesem Text könne man nichts über andere Flotten herauslesen.
Aber wenn du magst kann ich gerne spekulieren.
Das die GSN sehr wahrscheinlich auf schwere Klassen umsteigen wird, dem stimme ich zu.
Die Andermani hingegen könnten sehr wohl Gründe finden an Zerstörern festzuhalten. Sie haben ja auch eine gänzlich andere Mentalität als die RMN. Grenzen sichern ist für die Andermani das erste was ihnen als Aufgabe in den Sinn kommt, und da sind Zerstörer nunmal unschlagbar. Vor allem wenn der Krieg gegen die SL nicht allzuweit Richtung Anderman vordringt, werden die Andermani möglicherweise nie bis zur totalen Kriegsproduktion umsteigen. Und wie man an den Seydlitz SDs gesehen hat, sind die Andermani durchaus bereit kleine Schiffsklassen zu bauen. Sollten die Andermani in einen langen Krieg hineingezogen werden sind wenige, schwere Schiffe aber auch sehr gut vorstellbar.
Die RHN sieht sich gänzlich anderen Problemen gegenüber als die RMN. Auch nach der Anexion des Talbot Clusters ist Manticore verhältnissmäßig winzig und hat zusätzlich noch sehr kurze Wege dank der Wurmlöcher. Die RHN hingegen muss Unmengen Systeme patroulieren, hier sind Zerstörer nicht wegen ihrer Kampfkraft, sondern wegen ihrer Menge eine gute Wahl. Auch hat die RHN (bisher) keine überwältigend gute Drohnentechnik. Ein reiner Drohnentender ist also weit weniger attraktiv. Selbst wenn Manticore jemals die Ghostrider Technik weitergibt ist die Produktion für Drohnen in der (technisch unterentwickelten) Republik teurer als im Sternenimperium. Zerstörer sind also im vergleich zu anderen Aufklärungsmöglichkeiten billiger.
Schlussendlich gibt es noch den Unterschied der Automatisierung. Manticore automatisiert, Haven nicht. Die Unterschiede der Besatzungsanforderungen (und Kosten) verschiedener Klassen sind also weit ausgeprägter => erneut wird der Zerstörer im Vergleich billiger (bzw schwerere Klassen teurer).
Erewhon....kA. Wenn sie tief in den Krieg hineingezogen werden und irgendwie an die neusten Raketen gelangen sind schwere Klassen wahrscheinlcih. Wenn eins von beiden nciht eintrifft sehe ich keinen zwingenden Grund wiso neue Designs super schwer werden sollten.
Maya....da werden wir schaun müssen wie die Führung sich entwickelt. Ein Argument für große Klassen ist die Überlebensfähigkeit. Je nachdem was für eine Geisteshaltung Maya's Fürher entwickeln, mag das Überleben der eigenen Besatzungen keine sonderlich hohe Priorität bekommen. Masse statt Klasse hat in der UDSSR funktioniert, Maya könnte einen ähnlichen Weg gehen wollen. Auch wenn hier der Druck der Defensive natürlich in Richtung schwere Klassen drücken wird (was ja so in den Büchern mein ich auch schon gesagt wurde).
Je nachdem als wie erfolgreich (oder erfolglos...) sich Manticores Überlebensdoktrin erweist, gilt diese Überlegung natürlich für jede andere Flotte auch. Nur wenige Nationen haben so wenig Mannschaften wie Manticore, sollte sich daher erweisen das auch überschwere Klassen in der Schlacht nicht viel besser abschneiden als normale werden die anderen Flotten alle nicht unbedingt wechseln, egal wie die anderen Rahmenbedingungen aussehen.
Aus dem Text kann man selbstverständlich nichts über andere Flotten herauslesen, das hat auch keiner behauptet. Aber wir können das berühmte "Die anderen haben, also brauchen wir das auch!"-Syndrom, dem jeder gute Militär huldigt, anwenden - es lässt sich ja problemlos daran erkennnen, dass die Schiffe ALLER aktiven Navies immer größer werden. Warum tun sie das wohl? Weil's die anderen auch tun, fertig!
Auf kurz oder lang wird also jede ernstzunehmende Flotte MDMs und gondellegende Schiffe einführen! Punkt! Ob das jetzt Arsenalschiffe wie die Maskerade-Klasse oder SD-Ps wie die Invicti und Sovereigns sind, ist nebensächlich.
Sobald sie die haben, werden sie sich logischerweise auch Gedanken über die MDM-Abwehr machen müssen, denn die anderen werden das AUCH haben. Und dann sind Zerstörer aufgrund ihrer mangelnden Abwehr eben ganz schnell deklassiert. Und zwar bei allen, die MDMs und Gondelleger haben. Und bei denen, die fürchten müssen, dass ein SD-P mit schlechter Laune bei ihnen vorbeischaut, sowieso.
Personalbedarf - warum sollte die RHN ihren Personalbedarf pro Schiff nicht ebenfalls reduzieren, wenn sie die Möglichkeit hat? Diese ganzen Leute auf so einem Schiff müssen ja auch erstmal jahrelang trainiert, verpflegt und untergebracht werden, das kostet Geld und an Bord Schiffsvolumen, das für andere Dinge fehlt. Und ich glaube ehrlich nicht, dass ein Sovereign-SD noch immer mit 6000 Mann Besatzung herumgondelt, die RHN hat bestimmt auch eigene Automatisierungsversuche unternommen - allein schon, um die ganzen SDs überhaupt rechtzeitig bemannen zu können. Endlos ist der Personalpool und die Ausbildungskapazität der RHN auch nicht und jeder, der auf einem Schiff dient, fehlt in der Wirtschaft. Und wenn ich mit 12000 Leuten drei SDs bemannen kann statt nur zwei... den Militär will ich sehen, der da nicht anbeißt, wenns um Automatisierung geht.
Stichwort Systemsicherung: Irgendwo in einem der Bücher - oder da oben in Webers Text - steht, dass LACs mit der gleichen Gesamttonnage wie ein Zerstörer billiger sind, ein viel größeres Raumvolumen überwachen können, weniger Personal brauchen, zusammen mehr Energiewaffen, mehr Raketen sowie mehr Abwehrkapazität zum Einsatz bringen. Na, da wird sich die RHN mit ihren vielen Systemen, die momentan noch enorme Mengen an hyperraumtüchtigen Wachverbänden mit enormem Personalbedarf binden, aber freuen! Und die KAM mit ihrem Piratenproblem in Silesia ebenfalls. Für die Systemsicherung sind moderne LACs ideal.
Die Schiffe der Andermaner sind kleiner, damit sie den Abstand halten können, denn die Andermaner sind große Freunde des Raketengefechts. Womit wir wieder bei Gondellegern, MDMs und deren Abwehr sind - und der mangelnden Abwehrkapazität eines Zerstörers.
Maya - nun, die Herren Separatisten dort sind zwar machtbewusst und sehr skrupellos, aber auch deren "Personalpool" ist nicht unbegrenzt und sie planen zusammen mit Erewhon den Bau von Wallschiffen. Und Roszak ist zwar durchaus jemand, der sich die Finger schmutzig macht, wenn nötig, aber als Psychopath kam er bislang nicht rüber. Barregos auch nicht.
Zu guter Letzt wäre da noch die Kleinigkeit eines "rising thunder" namens Prometheus, ausgebrütet vom Mesan Alignment.
Ich liebe es, zu spekulieren!
Die Frage ist doch eher: wiso sollte irgendwer, der nicht unter RMN ähnlichem Personalmangel leidet, irgendwas automatisieren?
Hat sich in den letzten 2000 Jahren offensichtlich nicht durchgesetzt und die RMN hat die negativen Aspekte ja auch direkt zu spüren bekommen. Abgesehn von den offensichtlich fehlenden Priesenbesatzungen/Eingreiftruppen gibt es auch niemanden mehr, der sich um Gefechtsschäden kümmern könnte. Ich sehe keine Flotte die auf sowas freiwillig verzichten würde. Automatisierung ist aus der Not geboren, nicht Selbstzweck und wird ja selbst in der RMN schon wieder zurückgefahren.
Für die Piraten_abwehr_ sind LACs geeignet, keine Frage. Die Andermani - und Haven wahrscheinlich ebenso, wenn auch vielleicht nicht im selben Maße - müssen Piraten aber nicht bloss passiv abwehren. Sie müssen, oder wollen zumindest, ihre Nase auch in fremder Leute Angelegenheiten stecken. LACs sind schön und gut wenn du eine Basis im jeweiligen System hast, ausserhalb deiner Grenzen sind LACs aber sinnfrei. Und die KAM hat eine lange Tradition fremde Systeme zu patroulieren. Der traditinelle Spielplatz leichter Einheiten Silesia fällt zwar jetzt aus, aber es gibt immer irgendeine Grenze, und grade für die Andermani wird es auch immer eine "primitive" Grenze geben, hinter der sich schwere Kreuzer einfach nicht lohnen. Die RHN wird ähnliche Probleme haben, und wenns nur die ganzen System sind, die die Republic nach Äuflösung der Volksrepublik verlassen haben. Diese Systeme werden sicher nicht erfreut sein, wenn die RHN dort jetzt LAC-Basen errichten will. Selbst wenn die RHN sich also um die übrigen Grenzen nicht kümmert, wird es immer Systeme innerhalb der Republik Haven geben, die keine LACs zulassen werden, die aber potentiell überwacht werden müssen.
Wie du der Ansicht sein kannst, dass es nebensächlich sei, ob eine Flotte Arsenalschiffe oder SD(P) einführt, ist mir schleierhaft. Das Hauptargument für größere Klassen ist Überlebensfähigkeit. Arsenalschiffe sind ungefähr so überlebensfähig wie ein Pinguin in der Sahara. Die Doktrin die auf Arsenalschiffe setzt wird nen Teufel tun und gleichzeitig Geld in übergroße Klassen investieren.
In den letzten 2000 Jahren hatte sich auch durchgesetzt, dass SDs nur mit bordgestützten Energiewaffen zerstört werden können, weswegen SDs den Schwerpunkt auf Energiewaffen legten. Ebenso hatte sich durchgesetzt, dass Kriegsschiffe eine Mischung aus Lasern, Grasern und Raketenwerfern tragen, eventuell ergänzt durch Energietorpedos. Ebenso war Fakt, dass ein Kreuzer keinen SD zerstören kann. Und wie ist es aktuell?
Diese enorm aufgeblähten Besatzungen kamen von der "wir müssen alles von Hand steuern können"-Redundanz-Denkweise, als Gefechte Stunden gedauert haben und man Zeit hatte, leichte Gefechtsschäden zu reparieren. Aber die Tendenz ist dank der enormen Raketenzahlen immer mehr "Treffer (400 Raketen in 30 Sekunden) und versenkt". Also warum enorme Crews herumschleppen, wenn das Schiff in 2 Minuten Schrott oder Plasma und demzufolge nichts mehr zu reparieren ist?
Und die Automatisierung hat nicht nur was mit Personalmangel zu tun: Je mehr Crew ich an Bord eines Schiffes habe, um so größer sind die Crewbereiche, die Lebensmittellager, die Krankenstation, das Lebenserhaltungssystem, die Rettungskapselstationen, die Hangarbuchten... all das frisst Platz und Masse, die dann für Munition, Panzerung, Treibstoff, Sensoren, Abwehrsysteme und - im Fall der Gondelleger - Gondeln fehlt. DESHALB ist es neben den Gründen, die ich schon genannt habe, logisch, dass auch die RHN den Personalbedarf eines Schiffes nach Möglichkeit zu reduzieren sucht.
Und selbstverständlich ist es auch plausibel, dass die RMN und die GSN die Automatisierung eventuell um ein gewisses Ausmaß zurückdrehen, aber das kommt daher, dass sie eben die Ersten waren, die überhaupt in diese Richtung gedacht haben und erstmal herausfinden mussten, wo der sinnvolle Wert liegt. Und den kriegt man eben erst im Einsatz heraus.
Oh, und außerdem hat keiner der Designer wohl berücksichtigt, dass ein Kreuzerverband mal eben ... vieviele? 50? veraltete SDs plus Begleitschiffe auf einmal entern muss... wobei das auch kein Kreuzerverband mit alter Crewstärke geschafft hätte.
Was ich nicht verstehe ist, wie du zu der Ansicht kommst, dass ein System, das keine havenitischen oder andermanischen LAC-Basen erlauben würde, es dann akzeptieren würde, wenn RHN oder KAM dann mit Kreuzern oder Zerstörern auftauchen. Das verstößt nämlich heftig gegen das Souveränitätsprinzip. Beide Flotten werden sich aus fremden Systemen also tunlichst heraushalten, denn sie selbst verbitten sich das ja auch. Silesia war eine Ausnahme, weil Silesia nicht wirklich ein funktionierender Staat war. Und für Haven ist es logisch, den unabhängigen Systemen in ihrem Raumgebiet von Anfang an Zusammenarbeit und Unterstützung anzubieten. Und wer nicht will, der hat halt Pech. Eine Gefahr für die Republik ist keines davon, also auch kein Grund für "vorausschauende Überwachung". Und wenn Piraten auftauchen, dann kriegen die in jedem havenitischen oder andermanischen System von den LACs Dresche und im "neutralen" System fährt man im Konvoi mit Kreuzer- oder Q-Schiffdeckung, fertig.
Und übrigens gibt es LAC-Träger. LACs sind außerhalb der Grenzen ganz und gar nicht sinnfrei.
Das Arsenalschiffe Eier mit Hammerschalen sind, ist mir klar. Damit war gemeint, dass es Sternnationen geben wird, die zwar WOLLEN, aber nicht wirklich KÖNNEN. Trotzdem müssen die zumindest ein "Wir können Euch zwar nicht aufhalten, aber Euch wehtun"-Szenario aufbauen. Und dafür bieten sich Arsenalschiffe an. Das ist aber unbestreitbar nur eine Notlösung, die niemand anwenden wird, der in der Lage ist, echte Wallschiffe zu bauen. Aber es gibt demnächst genug unabhängige Systeme ohne echte Flottenbaukapazität, die sich mitten in einem gnadenlosen Alles-oder-nichts-Krieg wiederfinden werden.
Ich verstehe die Beschränkung auf schwere Schiffsklassen nicht ganz.
Soweit es um Kampfverbände und ganze Flotten geht , kann das hinkommen .
Jedoch braucht jeder Kampfverband auch Aufklärung und Sicherung .
Das wäre das klassische Einsatzgebiet leichter Einheiten - und womit ersetzen ?
Wenn man ein feindliches Sonnensystem aufklären möchte , was wäre geeigneter , als ein Zerstörer ? LAC `s ?
hyperraumtüchtig sind sie nicht .
Nicht sehr unauffällig - oder ?
Unterstellt man , dass Aufklärung unverzichtbar ist , dann braucht man m.E.
Menge haben - sei es in Zusammenhang mit Mesa/ Mannerheim etc .
oder beim Aufspüren solarischer Verbände und Erkundung solarischer Systeme.
Die Rolands sind eine Übergangslösung und wenn ich die Diskussionen, die auf Davids Hompepage laufen, richtig verfolgt habe, dann wird der Zerstörer zumindest in der OoB der Manties keine Zukunft mehr haben. Für den Systemschutz z.B. sind LACs besser geeignet - bei gleicher Masse tragen sie sowohl mehr Energiewaffen wie auch mehr Raketen und benötigen weniger Personal. Und sie können ein größeres Volumen abdecken.
Übrigens sind auch die schweren Kreuzer der Saganami-C-Klasse noch nicht der Weisheit letzter Schluß. Auch sie werden wohl durch eine größere Nachfolgeklasse abgelöst werden, die irgendwo in der Größenordnung der Reliant-Schlachtkreuzer des ersten havenitischen Krieges liegen wird; auch um die Relation in der Größe zu den NIKE-Schlachtkreuzern wieder herzustellen.
Grund dafür ist, daß sowohl die Rolands als auch die Sag-Cs in einer Bedrohungs-Umwelt, die zunehmend von Mehrstufenraketen dominiert werden wird, zu wenig Raketenabwehr besitzen. Sie sind überlegen, solange es gegen die Liga geht und diese lediglich Einstufenraketen einsetzt; aber das wird nicht ewig so bleiben: wenn nicht die Liga, dann werden zumindest die Welten des Renaissance Factors schon sehr bald eigene Mehrstufenraketen ins Feld führen - mit den Cataphracts haben wir die Anfänge davon ja schon gesehen.
Für den Systemschutz z.B. sind LACs besser geeignet - bei gleicher Masse tragen sie sowohl mehr Energiewaffen wie auch mehr Raketen und benötigen weniger Personal. Und sie können ein größeres Volumen abdecken.
Aber immer grösser = besser ??
Eigenschaften ( je grösser , desto schlechter zu verbergen ) .
Schiffe tragen immer noch eine Mischung aus Raketenwerfern und Energiewaffen, und die Tatsache dass Kreuzer SDs zerstören können ist dem technischen Ungleichgewicht geschuldet...was aus Manticores Sicht die Einführung von überschweren Kreuzern sinnfrei machen würde, also genau das Gegenteil deiner Vorstellung bewirken würde.
Die RMN führt BC(L) ein, weil sie davon ausgeht, dass der Gegner bald ähnliche Fähigkeiten entwickeln wird (bzw im Fall der RHN schon hat). Bei einem permanenten Technologievorsprung könnten sie sich die teuren (L)s sparen.
Die fehlenden Besatzungen machen sich bei Henke doch nicht zum ersten Mal bemerkbar. Hexapuma hatte genau das gleiche Problem, und weit weniger Aufgaben. Und Hexapuma kann nicht die einzige gewesen sein, das Problem wird ja in den Büchern explizit angesprochen und scheint sehr allgemein zu sein.
Bei der Bewaffnung fand ein Quantensprung statt, bei Reparaturaufgaben hab ich von sowas noch nix gelesen. Repariert wird also noch immer viel von Hand, und wenn keine Hand da is wird halt nix repariert.
Das moderne Gefechte dazu führen, dass nix repariert werden muss weil das Schiff eh verloren geht....mit dem Argument widersprichst du dir irgendwie selbst. Auf der einen Seite sollen die größeren Klassen die Überlebenfähigkeit sichern, auf der anderen Seite werden sie eh vernichtet - ja was denn nun? Dann könnte man ja direkt bei den billigeren Alten bleiben.
Im übrigen ist die Tendenz zu kurzen Schlachten vor allem im Schlachtwall so ausgeprägt. Dort aber haben Kreuzer/Zerstörer eh nix zu suchen, ob sie nun ein L hintern Namen haben oder nicht.
Die Kämpfe der Kleinschiffe hingegen dauern auch mal länger, wie zB Oversteegen in "Service of the Sword". Nix mit 2 Minuten und Plasma, sondern eine ausgedehnte Verfolgungsjagd durch Normal- und Hyperraum, inklusive schwerer Gefechtsschäden.
Uhm, bloss weil jemand keine permanente Basis auf seinem Hoheitsgebiet haben möchte, heisst das noch lange nicht, dass garkeine Schiffe willkommen sind. Nur weil die Franzosen mit den Amis mal ein Flottenmanöver veranstalten, heisst das noch lange nicht sie würden ihnen einen Stützpunkt vermieten wollen.
Und wenn du als System dich grad von Haven losgesagt hast, dann bist du doch wohl garantiert ein kliiitzekleines bisschen misstrauisch wenn die nun ne permanente Basis bei dir aufbauen wollen.
Ganz zu schweigen davon, dass Haven so ne Basis vielleicht garnicht bezahlen will, hin&wieder aber trotzdem Handel treiben möchte.
Wenn normale Kreuzer(L) schon overkill sind wenns um Piraten geht, dann gilt das für CLACs doppelt. Niemand schickt nen Superdreadnought zum Konvoidienst, macht finanziell einfach keinen Sinn.
Ich weiß nicht wo du hier Ideologie siehst, mir scheint eher, du denkst im Honorverse hätte jede Nation nen unendlich tiefen Geldbeutel und exakt die gleichen, räumlich extrem beschränkten Anforderungen wie die RMN.
Manche Flotten werden auf Zerstörer sicher verzichten können, ob dies alle wollen/sich leisten können wage ich zu bezweifeln.
Zumindest Manticore wird laut Weber wohl eher auf unbewaffnete Drohnentender für die reine Aufklärung setzen. Bei der ausgerpägten Technologieüberlegenheit sicher verständlich.
Von anderen Flotten hat er nix geschrieben, mMn werden manche einen ähnlichen Weg gehen, manche hingegen auch weiterhin Zerstörer einsetzen.
was aus Manticores Sicht die Einführung von überschweren Kreuzern sinnfrei machen würde, also genau das Gegenteil deiner Vorstellung bewirken würde.
Und genau das sage ich die ganze Zeit - sie gehen davon aus, dass andere diese Technik auch einführen werden. Warum sollten die anderen anders denken, wo die RMN, RHN und KAM die Tech doch schon haben, die SLN, die MAN und die EN sie bald auch haben und so weiter?
Ist auch allgemein, weil sie es aufgrund mangelnder Daten und Erfahrung übertrieben haben. Feintuning ist angesagt.
Das moderne Gefechte dazu führen, dass nix repariert werden muss weil das Schiff eh verloren geht....mit dem Argument widersprichst du dir irgendwie selbst.
Nicht unbedingt - aber ein zerstörergroßes Schiff ist aus bekannten Gründen mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit platt, während Schiffe ab Schwerer-Kreuzer-Dimension eine gewisse Überlebenschance besitzen.
In jeder einzelnen Raumschlacht des Honorverse haben leichte Einheiten die großen Schiffe gegen Raketenbeschuss verteidigt. Warum sollte das angesichts der Gondelsalven plötzlich anders sein?
Misstrauen ist was Seltsames - keine permanete Basis, die man kontrollieren kann, aber ständig wechselnde Schiffe, die das System ausspähen, sind in Ordnung... Und was hat Handel mit Überwachung durch Kriegsschiffe zu tun? Oder meinst du damit eigentlich die typischen Eskortmissionen?
Damit meinte ich eigentlich nur, dass man LACs auch außerhalb eines eigenen Systems einsetzen kann. Und im Konvoidienst kann man, wenn es die Situation erfordert, Q-Schiffe wie die Wayfarer einsetzen - und die trug LACs.
Nein, die bauen die Schiffe, mit denen sie in der neuen Gefechtsrealität nicht nur Zielscheiben sind. Und Schiffe, die eventuell auch überleben können.
mir scheint eher, du denkst im Honorverse hätte jede Nation nen unendlich tiefen Geldbeutel und exakt die gleichen, räumlich extrem beschränkten Anforderungen wie die RMN.
Ich denke genau das Gegenteil, denn sogar die RMN hat keinen Dukatenesel. Aber nichts desto trotz MÜSSEN sich alle an die neue Gefechtsrealität anpassen. Nicht alle werden SP-Ps bauen können, aber alle werden sich MDMs und Gondeln zulegen MÜSSEN, wenn der Nachbar sich welche zulegt, sonst könnte der auf unerwünschte Gedanken kommen - und demzufolge werden sie Schiffe bauen müssen, die MDM-Gefechte mit ihren schweren Raketensalven auch überleben können.
Ob sie wollen, ist uninteressant, wenn sie langfristig überleben wollen. Ob sie es können - nun, die meisten haben sowieso nichts, was man Flotte nennen könnte, die fallen also eh raus. Wir reden hier ja nicht von 08/15-Navies wie die Melungeon Navy oder irgend eine Randnavy in der letzten Ecke von nirgendwo, für die selbst ein Zerstörer zu teuer ist. Aber die, um die es hier wirklich geht und die in der obersten Liga mitspielen, müssen sich alle anpassen. Als die SDs kamen hat ja auch niemend mehr ernsthaft DNs gebaut und die DNs haben vorher die Schlachtschiffe verdrängt. Die MDMs und Gondelleger verdrängen jetzt halt den Zerstörer und revolutionieren die Flottenzusammensetzung. In den Navies ERSTEN und ZWOTEN Ranges.
Die LACs sind auch gar nicht dafür gedacht, gegen SDs anzutreten. Die LACs sollen eine gewisse "Grundverteidigung" aufbauen, um Piraten und leichte Raider abzusschrecken - was sie unschlagbar okönomisch erreichen, gerade, weil sie sich so weit verteilen können. Eine Shrike macht aus jedem Piraten Hackfleisch.
Was das "immer größer" angeht: Die Schiffe brauchen halt eine gewisse Größe, um die Standfestigkeit für echte Gefechte zu besitzen. Deshalb werden sie immer größer, das war auch im Vor-Gondel/MDM-Zeitalter schon so - siehe die manticoranischen Schlachtkreuzer der Homer und Reliant Klasse. Aber ich vermute mal, dass auf dem Gebiet der elektronischen Kampfführung auch Fortschritte gemacht werden. Und wenn ein Schwerer Kreuzer 2 Lichtwochen weit draußen ins System springt und dann auf Schleichfahrt mit minimaler Impellerstärke hereinkommt, dann ist der genau so unsichtbar wie ein Zerstörer oder eine Fregatte - Sonnensysteme sind riesig, da verlieren sich sogar SDs darin.
JAAAA!! Genau das, was ich die ganze Zeit (wohl zu unverständlich) denke und sage (und eben, das ist wohl der Knackpunkt, auf andere Flotten, die sich todsicher ebenfalls in dem Szenario wiederfinden werden, ausdehne)!!!
Uhm, nein, genau das hast du nicht gesagt. Du hast die bestehende Ungleichgewicht als Beispiel für die....eigentlich hab ich keinen Schimmer wiso genau du auf dieses Ungleichgewicht verwiesen hast. Das es aber endlich ist, darin stimmen wir überein.
Du sagst, wenig Besatzung spielt keine große Rolle für Reparaturaufgaben. Was soll das denn heissen, wenn nicht, dass Schiffe eh verloren gehen? Überlebensfähige schwere Klassen sollen/würden doch genau diese "wenig Zeit für Reparaturen" strecken, also lange Zeit für Reparaturen bewirken. Das ist schließlich Sinn und Zweck des Ganzen!
"Bekannte Gründe"? Was für bekannte Gründe? Wenn diese Zerstörer nicht gegen andere übergroße Schiffe antreten - zB gegen Piraten oder halt Flotten die ebenfalls noch auf normale Klassen setzen - dann sehe ich keinen Gründe, wiso diese Schiffe unbedingt vernichtet werden müssten. Und darum geht es doch. Dein "Jede Flotte MUSS" ist schlicht&ergreifend zu absolut um so zuzutreffen. Andere Flotten haben auch andere Aufgaben und andere Rahmenbedingungen. Falls die KAM nie tief in den Krieg hineingezogen wird - wer weiß schon was die berühmte andermanische Realpolitik für Folgen haben wird - dann kommt die KAM auch weiterhin prima mit normalen Klassen aus. Sicher, ein paar schwere Einheiten werden gebaut werden, schon um für ein mögliches Aufheizen des Krieges gewappnet zu sein. Aber in Silesia und in anderen Patrouliengebieten wären diese Klassen verschwendet. Also wird die sparsame andermanische Admiralität nen Teufel tun und garkeine Zerstörer mehr bauen.
Für ein "historisches" Beispiel schau die die Legislaturisten an. Die haben noch lange nach Einführung der SDs Schlachtschiffe gebaut. Nicht weil sie dachten, diese Schlachtschiffe wären prima um sie gegen erstrangige Flotten einzusetzen, sondern weil sie die eigene Bevölkerung unter Kontrolle halten mussten - und weil es genug drittrangige Flotten gibt mit denen man vielleicht auch mal zu tun hat. Andere Rahmenbedingungen, andere Schiffsklassen-mixturen.
Uhm, weil DW das gesagt hat? Ich bin einfach mal davon ausgegangen, dass du jedwedes seiner Worte 1:1 auf sämtliche Flotten überträgst, wenn du schon die Schiffsklassen so behandelst. Aber selbst Flotten die noch ursprüngliche Klassen bauen, müssen die ja nicht notwendigerweise überall einsetzen. Im Kampf gegen Flotten ersten Ranges setzen sie dann ihre schweren Klassen ein, für Einsätze im Hinterland ihre leichten.
Und da wir uns ja einig sind, dass die technische Überlegenheit Manticores nicht von Dauer sein wird, werden wir solche Situationen eher häufiger als seltener erleben. Die Admiralität wird zumindest dafür planem müssen. Und da wir ja eh nicht primär über die Manties sprechen, sondern über andere Flotten sieht das ganze noch dringender aus. Andere Flotten müssen selbst in einem Kampf in Überzahl damit rechnen, schwer beschädigt zu werden. Die Reparaturmannschaften weg zu rationalisieren klingt da gelinde gesagt etwas leichtfertig.
Ich weiss nicht was für dich typische Eskortmissionen sind, aber ich meine Missionen wie sie Honor zB auf der War Maiden, Hawkings und der ersten Fearless erlebt hat. Entweder alleine rumschnüffeln, oder Handelsschiffe auflesen und irgendwo abliefern, oder einfach nur 'Flagge zeigen'. Hierfür sind (L)-klassen Geldverschwendung und LACs nur in eigenen Systemen brauchbar.
Eine experimentelle Klasse, von der wir nie wieder was gehört haben. Gut möglich, dass andere Flotten soetwas einsetzen, dann können sie aber genauso gut auch Zerstörer bauen. Beide sind im Schlachtwall gleich überlebensfähig.
Ich weiß nicht, wo hier jemand nachgeben könnte. Du willst einen Absolutismus zu verteidigen, da ist nachgeben schwer. Sobald du eine Konzession machst, hast du ja schon deinen gesamten Standpunkt übern Haufen geworfen. Ich will darauf hinwesien, dass manche Flotten möglicherweise ein paar alte Klassen in ihrer Flotte behalten werden. Sehr viel schwammiger gehts nicht mehr, "nachgeben" würde daher höchstens durch komplette Übereinstimmung mit dir möglich sein.
Hu? Wiso das denn? Schiffe die nicht sonderlich überlebensfähig sind haben für die RHN, RMN, KAM, GSN etc doch bisher auch geklappt. Kommt halt auf die Einstellung der jeweiligen Nation zu Verlusten an ob sie Eierschalen mit Hämmern bewaffnen oder Schildkröten mit Schilden. Im übrigen muss die Nike ja auch erstmal beweisen, dass sie keine zweite Relianklasse ist (bei der zu viel in Defensive investiert wurde, was zu wenig für die Offensive übrig ließ).
Erneut muss ich hier widersprechen. Es wurden sehr wohl noch DN bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit gebaut, und Schlachtschiffe sind auch noch bis weit nach Einführung der SD gebaut worden. Siehe RMN für DNs, PRHN für Schlachschiffe. Die Anforderungen waren andere, also wurden auch zusätzliche Klassen gebaut.
Hinzu kommt, dass Nationen die nicht gerade Manticores Drohnen zur Verfügung haben auch irgendwie zusehn müssen, wie sie an taktische Informationen kommen. Zum Scouten ist für solche Nationen eine Zerstörerklasse daher ziemlich unverzichtbar.
Uhm, nein, genau das hast du nicht gesagt.
Du hast die bestehende Ungleichgewicht als Beispiel für die....eigentlich hab ich keinen Schimmer wiso genau du auf dieses Ungleichgewicht verwiesen hast.
Um zu erklären, warum die anderen Flotten der Oberliga versuchen werden mit der RMN gleichzuziehen, also MDMs und eine eigene Version von Apollo und Geisterreiter entwickeln werden. Die RMN-Admiralität plant ja genau für diesen Fall und betrachtet deshalb den Zerstörer als eigenständige Klasse für überholt, da er im Flottengefecht nicht mehr ruhigen Gewissens eingesetzt werden kann und im Systemschutz LACs besser sind. Und da die RMN die kampferfahrenste Navy des Honorverse ist und fleißig mit GSN, KAM, BSDF und demnächst RHN konferiert, habe ich dann daraus geschlossen, dass diese Navies in die gleiche Richtung denken werden. Die Alignment-Flotten sind schon schwer am rennen. Und die SLN wird es auf die harte Tour lernen.
Ich habe nie gesagt, dass wenig Besatzung keine Rolle bei Reparaturaufgaben spielt -ich habe gesagt, dass die Gefahr, dass ein Schiff verlorengeht, 1921 P.D. viel höher und die Schäden generell gravierender sind, was die Verluste in die Höhe treibt, also jeder geistig gesunde Entwickler nach Einsparungsmöglichkeiten sucht, denn Personal ist eine teure und begrenzte Ressource, die langwierig aus einem limitierten Budget ausgebildet werden muss und deren Kampferfahrung man nicht ersetzen kann und außerdem, dass man mit kleineren Crews mit dem selben Personalpool mehr Schiffe bemannen kann.
"Bekannte Gründe"? Was für bekannte Gründe?
Die Gründe, das LACs im Systemschutz billiger und effizienter sind und ein Zerstörer zu klein ist, um die ganzen Abwehrsysteme und Offensivwaffen zu tragen, die ein Kriegsschiff 1921 P.D. braucht, um ernstgemeinte Flottengefechte gegen technologisch gleichwertige oder annähernd gleichwertige Gegner zu überstehen und er auch nicht genug Raum für Munition bieten kann.
Wenn diese Zerstörer nicht gegen andere übergroße Schiffe antreten - zB gegen Piraten oder halt Flotten die ebenfalls noch auf normale Klassen setzen - dann sehe ich keinen Gründe, wiso diese Schiffe unbedingt vernichtet werden müssten. Und darum geht es doch. Dein "Jede Flotte MUSS" ist schlicht&ergreifend zu absolut um so zuzutreffen.
Ich habe geschrieben, dass jede Flotte, die in der MDM/Apollo-Liga spielt oder spielen will, sich ebenfalls verändern muss, wenn sie auf die Eventualität, gegen eine Navy dieser Liga zu kämpfen, vorbereitet sein will. Von Piraten war nirgends die Rede. Selbstverständlich reicht ein Zerstörer von 1905 P.D. noch immer locker aus, wenn es gegen eine Piratenfregatte geht.
Andere Flotten haben auch andere Aufgaben und andere Rahmenbedingungen. Falls die KAM nie tief in den Krieg hineingezogen wird - wer weiß schon was die berühmte andermanische Realpolitik für Folgen haben wird - dann kommt die KAM auch weiterhin prima mit normalen Klassen aus.
Welchen Krieg? Den havenitisch-manticoranischen? Die KAM war in der Schlacht von Manticore ganz vorne mit dabei und der ist - ACHTUNG, SPOILER - 1921 P.D. vorbei. Den manticoranisch-solarischen? Vielleicht nicht. Im kommenden Krieg gegen das Alignment sind sie garantiert ganz vorne mit dabei, denn - ACHTUNG, SPOILER - das Hofschulte-Attentat geht auf Rechnung des Alignments.
Und selbst wenn nicht, denkst du, die KAM wird - angesichts des Glaubens in die Realpolitik, davon ausgehen, dass die netten Beziehungen mit Manticore, der Liga oder Haven im Zeitalter von Tiefraumschlägen bis in alle Ewigkeit bestehen werden und man sich NIE wegen irgendwas mit irgendwem, der MDMs hat oder haben wird, in die Haare kriegen wird? Oder die MAN, die mit Spinnenschiffen kommt, MDMs entwickelt und sich einen Dreck um den Erdianus-Erlass schert, sie nett in Ruhe lassen wird? Mal ganz abgesehen davon, dass demnächst wohl keine SLN oder Liga mehr existieren wird, die ihn durchsetzt? Was nebenbei eine Menge neuer Spieler produziert, von denen einige verdammt große - und (mit der SLN verglichen) zum Teil erheblich fortschrittlichere - Systemverteidigungskräfte besitzen? Sind die Andermaner neuerdings naiv?
Aber in Silesia und in anderen Patrouliengebieten wären diese Klassen verschwendet. Also wird die sparsame andermanische Admiralität nen Teufel tun und garkeine Zerstörer mehr bauen.
Satz Eins stimmt, Satz Zwo: Die "sparsame" andermanische Admiralität wird für ihre Systeme in Silesia einen großen schönen Haufen extrem effizienter LACS bauen, denn sie haben - wenn die RMN ihnen schon die MDM-Pläne überlässt, garantiert auch die Pläne für die Shrikes und Ferrets bekommen. Und die andere Hälfte Silesias gehört Manticore - da wird sich die KAM schön heraushalten.
Für ein "historisches" Beispiel schau die die Legislaturisten an. Die haben noch lange nach Einführung der SDs Schlachtschiffe gebaut.
Nach Einführung der SDs garantiert nicht mehr, höchstens noch einige Zeit nach Einführung der DNs. Und der Vergleich hinkt. Im Umfeld Havens hatte niemand nenneswerte Flotten aus DNs und SDs, bevor die RMN mit ihrer Aufrüstung begann. Selbst die RMN hat lange Zeit auf Schlachtkreuzer gesetzt und erst um 1850 herum mit dem Bau eines Schlachtwalles begonnen. Es gab also keine vergleichbaren Gegner. Warum sollte die VFH denn SDs bauen, wenn die Kasse sowieso leer ist und keine Bedrohung existiert? Als Manticore und die anderen mit der Aufrüstung begannen, hat die VFH sofort auf DNs und dann SDs umgesattelt. Die Schlachtschiffe hat man dann behalten, weil sie sehr effektiv in der Verteidigerrolle gegen alle Kreuzertypen waren.
Uhm, weil DW das gesagt hat? Ich bin einfach mal davon ausgegangen, dass du jedwedes seiner Worte 1:1 auf sämtliche Flotten überträgst, wenn du schon die Schiffsklassen so behandelst.
Wo hat Weber gesagt, dass keine leichten Einheiten mehr in den Hauptgefechten kämpfen werden? Er hat gesagt, dass die Zerstörer als eigene Klasse langfristig verschwinden werden, weil ihre Rolle von den LACs und den Weiterentwicklungen der Kreuzer übernommen werden.
Und ich rede die ganze Zeit von den Flotten, die von sich beanspruchen, in der gleichen Liga wie die RMN zu spielen. Ich rede nicht von der Melungeon Navy oder der zanzibaranischen Kalifatsnavy.
Aber selbst Flotten die noch ursprüngliche Klassen bauen, müssen die ja nicht notwendigerweise überall einsetzen. Im Kampf gegen Flotten ersten Ranges setzen sie dann ihre schweren Klassen ein, für Einsätze im Hinterland ihre leichten.
Hast du nicht selbst gesagt, dass Navies keinen unendlichen Geldsack haben? Warum sollten sie, wenn Geld eine endliche Ressource ist, hingehen und praktisch ZWEI Flotten bauen - eine für "ein bisschen Krieg" und eine für "Totaler Krieg"?
Und ich verstehe diese "Kampfaufteilung" irgendwie nicht. Selbstverständlich setzen sie keine Gondel-SDs gegen einen Gegner ein, der nur Schwere Kreuzer aufbieten kann. Das tut auch die RMN nicht. Aber die leichten Einheiten großer Flotten werden nunmal nach dem "Mehrzweckrollen"-Prinzip gebaut. Und dazu gehört auch immer noch die Absicherung größerer Einheiten im Flottengefecht.
"Crewreduktion und Automatisierung" heißt doch nicht "Ich nehme von allen Stationen jetzt ausgerechnet die Schiffstechnische Abteilung (also die Ingenieure und Schadenskontrollteams) und schmeiße 3/4 davon raus" - das heißt "Brauche ich 10 Mann für jedes einzelne Geschütz, wenn 2 ausreichen oder ich ganz auf Geschützcrews verzichten kann?", "Brauche ich 90 Signalgasten, wenn es 30 auch tun?", "Brauche ich 45 Astrogatoren, wenn es 15 mit automatisierten Systemen auch schaffen?" und ja, es heißt auch "Brauche ich 1500 Mann in der Schiffstechnik, wenn 1200 mit automatisierten Systemen den regulären Job erledigt bekommen?". In einem Gefecht - einer Extremsituation - hat du NIE genug Hände für alles gleichzeitig, deswegen gibt es die Schadenskontrollstation im Technischen Leitstand, die den Schadenskontrollteams ihre Einsatzorte zuweist, damit die sich nicht an einem kaputten Werfer abmühen, während nebenan das Raketenmagazin brennt. Und die Schiffstechnische Abteilung ist auch nach der Reduzierungswelle noch immer die größte Abteilung auf jedem Schiff.
Typische Eskortmissionen sind für mich "Gehe zu Punkt X, sammle dort alle Frachter ein, die auf Route Y unterwegs sind, begleite sie und vermöble unterwegs alle bösen Jungs, die meinen, hier wäre ein Selbstbedienungsladen". Piratenjagdmissionen und das Vernichten von Piratenbasen kann man auch noch "unterstützend" dazuzählen oder als "Polizeiarbeit" werten, wenn das betroffene Sternensystem das nicht selbst erledigen kann oder will. "Rumschnüffeln" ist militärische Aufklärung, dass sieht kein souveränes Sternensystem gerne. "Flagge zeigen" heißt "Wir sind hier!" rufen oder aus einem gegebenem Anlass vorbeischauen.
Wer hat denn jemals davon gesprochen, eine "Wayfarer" im Schlachtwall einzusetzen????? Es war davon die Rede, wie man LACs im Geleitschutzdienst einsetzen könnte.
Ich weiß nicht, wo hier jemand nachgeben könnte. Du willst einen Absolutismus zu verteidigen, da ist nachgeben schwer. Sobald du eine Konzession machst, hast du ja schon deinen gesamten Standpunkt übern Haufen geworfen.
Dafür, dass mein Standpunkt bei Konzessionen sofort zusammenbricht, habe ich dir aber schon ziemlich oft zugestimmt. Und ich will hier keinen "Absolutismus verteidigen", ich vertrete meine Sicht der Dinge und lasse mich gerne vom Gegenteil überzeugen, aber dafür bedarf es überzeugende Argumente. Und bislang lese ich halt nichts Überzeugendes.
Ich will darauf hinwesien, dass manche Flotten möglicherweise ein paar alte Klassen in ihrer Flotte behalten werden. Sehr viel schwammiger gehts nicht mehr, "nachgeben" würde daher höchstens durch komplette Übereinstimmung mit dir möglich sein.
Hu? Wiso das denn? Schiffe die nicht sonderlich überlebensfähig sind haben für die RHN, RMN, KAM, GSN etc doch bisher auch geklappt.
"HÄ??" Wo hast du denn das her? Jedes einzelne Schiff war exakt an die Gefechtsrealität angepasst, die zum Zeitpunkt seiner Entwicklung vorherrschte. Ein Zerstörer von 1905 P.D. passt zur Gefechtsrealität von 1905 P.D., eine "Roland" zur Realität von ~ 1918 P.D. Ersterer übersteht die relativ schwachbrüstigen Raketensalven dieser Zeit und letztere ist aktuell so ziemlich der größte und gemeinste Spieler in ihrer Klasse.
Kommt halt auf die Einstellung der jeweiligen Nation zu Verlusten an ob sie Eierschalen mit Hämmern bewaffnen oder Schildkröten mit Schilden.
Und wieviele Beileidsschreiben der Kategorie "Tut uns leid, aber ihre geliebte Tochter/Schwester/Frau/Mutter bzw. ihr geliebter Sohn/Bruder/Mann/Vater ist tot, weil wir keinen BOCK hatten, anständige Schiffe zu bauen!" kann sich eine Navy oder ein Staat leisten, bevor das eigene Volk "LMAA!" ruft? Von den bereits erwähnten Kosten für neues Personal mal abgesehen? Oder anders: Welche Navy, die 1921 P.D. Eierschalen einsetzt, gehört zur Oberklasse? Zeig mir eine, die im MDM-Zeitalter auf "Eierschalen" setzt.
Im übrigen muss die Nike ja auch erstmal beweisen, dass sie keine zweite Relianklasse ist (bei der zu viel in Defensive investiert wurde, was zu wenig für die Offensive übrig ließ).
Oh, keine Sorge, die MAN und ihre geheimen Verbündeten wie die Mannerheim System Defense Force werden schon genug Gelegenheiten erzeugen. Aber wo ist bei der Nike-Klasse "zuwenig" Offensive? Was ich bisher von dem Design gesehen habe, ist sowas von ekelhaft für jeden, der auf der anderen Seite steht... und Weber geht in seinem Artikel auch auf das Konzept ein. Für mich klingt dieses sehr "überzeugend".
Genau: Die Anforderungen waren andere.
Und Frage: Habe ich nicht was von ernsthaft geschrieben? Selbstverständlich hat man nicht von jetzt auf sofort von DNs auf SDs gewechselt, das ist ein Übergangsprozess, genau wie er jetzt wieder stattfindet. Und das Thema Schlachtschiffe: Siehe oben.
Fakt ist, dass niemand mehr Schlachtschiffe oder Dreadnoughts baut, wenn er SDs bauen kann und Wallschiffe braucht. Wenn er es nicht kann, dann baut er vielleicht noch DNs oder hat gar keine Wallschiffe, aber dann spielt er auch nicht in der gleichen Liga wie RMN oder GSN.
Haven zum Beispiel hat viele seiner Infos über "neutrale" Frachter und geheimdienstliche Aktivitäten bekommen - das ist immer noch sehr effektiv und ein Grund, warum es das manticoranische ONI oder den havenitischen FIS gibt und zum Beispiel das gesamte System von Trevors Stern militärisches Sperrgebiet ist, in dem kein unbefugtes Schiff etwas verloren hat.
Und warum eigentlich kann ein Schwerer Kreuzer nicht genau so gut scouten wie ein verdammter Zerstörer? Hängt da ein Schild dran "Achtung, Scouten unter der Würde des Schiffes?" Ich verstehe dieses "Nur ein Zerstörer ist ein guter Aufklärer"-Beharren irgendwie nicht? Basiert das auf dem "kleineres Schiff - geringere Entdeckungswahrscheinlichkeit"-Gedanken?
Und auch hier die Frage: Auf welche Nationen beziehst du dich eigentlich, bitte? Haven? Erewhon? Die Liga? Zanzibar? Den Maya Sektor? Melungeon?
| 2019-04-19T03:11:45 |
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The sequencer is "the heart" of a CPU. It gets the external clock which in turn toggles two rows of flip-flops that generate machine cycles (M-cycles) and clock periods (T-states).
Simplified, if the sequencer would not have had any other input control signals, it would naturally want to activate M1+T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6; M2+T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6 and so on ad nauseam for as long as the input clock is coming in.
That sequence is, however, being manipulated by the execution engine at various times. For example, when an instruction is being completed, it signals "setM1" and the sequencer resets its counters back to M1/T1. Similarly, when a new functional sub-operation is needed (such as a read memory functional cycle), it issues "nextM" and the sequencer advances the M but resets the T count back to T1.
As you can see from the schematic, it happens - much like everything else - automatically, when interrupt is being serviced ("in_intr" is active) and during the M1/T2 cycle.
How does the CPU load an instruction?
There are 8 data pins and they are a bit more complicated than address pins since they are bidirectional on both sides (on the external CPU and on the internal data bus side). Each data pin also contains a latch that stores the input value as well as hold a data value to be written out.
Through the internal data bus, the instruction opcode byte now gets stored into the IR (Instruction Register) which maintains its value until the next instruction is loaded.
It is very important that the IR holds the current instruction byte until a new instruction is ready to execute since the IR feeds into the PLA which is matrix of gates that statically decode instructions. Z80 also overlaps instructions' fetch/execute phases by 2 clocks, so each new instruction is loaded into IR at M1/T3 leaving the first 2 clocks to complete a previous instruction.
It is capable of incrementing and decrementing a 16-bit value, which in practice is mostly the address, but it could also be a register value during a 16-bit arithmetic operation.
The Register File contains all general purpose and system registers as latches. PC and IR are internally separated by a gate from the rest of the registers which allows the CPU to use them concurrently. For example, during the M1/T1 cycle PC is used to address the next opcode while at the same time a retiring instruction might be storing its final value into a general purpose register.
Z80 has 2 register banks and several ways to exchange registers - they are really not being exchanged but their control selection wires are through flops holding the state. In addition, different instruction groups index registers differently (for example, some instructions address SP instead of AF by the same bit combination). If that's not enough, IX and IY registers are also sometimes used instead of the HL register.
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I have the question "Write down the equation of the line passing through the origin and perpendicular to y = 2X + 3". I know that the equation of a line is y = mx + c and that the origin is (0,0). I know that the equation of a line is y = mx + c and that the origin is (0,0).... I have the question "Write down the equation of the line passing through the origin and perpendicular to y = 2X + 3". I know that the equation of a line is y = mx + c and that the origin is (0,0). I know that the equation of a line is y = mx + c and that the origin is (0,0).
If the Origin (0, 0) is selected to be (x1, y1) and R (2, 4) to be the point (x2, y2), our resulting slope comes out to be: Again the slope is 2. You will find that regardless of what two points you choose on a given straight line to calculate a slope, your answer will always be the same.
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‘Fascinating lectures’ sparked Hayley MacDonald’s interest in Parkinson’s disease.
A self-described ‘passion for neuroscience’ drove Hayley MacDonald to her PhD study investigating response control in Parkinson’s disease patients.
She said it was a logical step from her 2009 BSc with its double major in Sport and Exercise Science and Physiology, with ‘fascinating lectures’ sparking her interest in Parkinson’s disease.
Volunteering as a subject in the Movement Neuroscience Laboratory not only helped in her honours dissertation, but also led to her present involvement, with her doctoral study supported by a W & B Miller Postgraduate Scholarship from the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand.
Hayley is hoping to shed new light on the role of movement networks within the brain during selective response control and help identify people at risk of developing impulsive behaviours when on specific Parkinson’s medications.
Parkinson’s disease is a relatively common progressive neurodegenerative condition affecting nearly five million people worldwide and about 1-2% of New Zealanders over 60. She explains how her PhD research is looking specifically at how the movement areas of the brain are involved during response control and the implications for individualised treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Her research forms two major themes. The first is the movement areas of a healthy brain where she is using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to examine the activity levels of connections between the brain and muscles. Certain forms of non-invasive brain stimulation can also be used as therapies but she is using it to investigate the pathway between the brain and muscles during response control.
The second theme investigates interactions between genes controlling levels of the chemical dopamine within the brain, specific Parkinson’s disease medications, response control, and impulsive behaviour. This part could help predict how a person will respond to certain Parkinson’s medications.
Hayley says that some patients (about 20%) become very impulsive on Parkinson’s medications and develop gambling problems, impulsive buying habits and binge eating tendencies, among other impulsive behaviours.
So far her first PhD experiment and previous work has found some interesting behavioural results when looking at the selective component of response control in healthy people.
“My research will extend these findings and hopefully reveal the neural mechanisms responsible for these behavioural results. The computer based behavioural task I am using requires the participants to make an anticipated response when a moving indicator intercepts a target on the screen. Sometimes the participants need to cancel their response if they see the indicator automatically stop early before reaching the target.
Despite significant research internationally on identifying risk factors for developing impulsive behaviour on Parkinson’s disease medications, none have combined the analysis of dopamine genes and measures of response control to predict these impulsive behaviours.
Hayley hopes this combination of simple measures will ultimately be used by neurologists to identify patients who may respond badly to certain medications, allowing better individualised treatment of the disease.
Results from her first PhD experiment were published in the Journal of Neurophysiology and she presented her findings at the Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research.
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http://www.tamaki.auckland.ac.nz/en/for/future-postgraduates/our-students/hayley-macdonald.html
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I have no idea on what strobes brand and watt seconds to buy. I am going to split this question into three parts.
what I want to photograph and were I wanted to photograph people like high school seniors and one persons one at a time. In this scenes id like to photograph them in head shots and full body. I also wanted to photograph family that have 4 or more people in the group. I also would like to do some stock photography of corporate seances and life style family type shots. on occasion id like to photography family's outside or 1 person.
equipment options I like to to buy at lest 4 studio strobes to cover the main light, Fill light ,hair light, and background light. Or do I need more lights, like a rim light and kicker lights or additional continues lights for a one person portrait. I am trying to get as many looks and lighting effects as I can. I'm not trying to over 400$ but I will if I need to. here is a list of strobes i wanted to buy.
oh I read on this articular that I needed about 400 watts to Shoot portraits but theirs was $700 dollars here is the link is it true or what.
CowboyStudio Mettle 400 Watt strobe pro:price is grate I can buy two, each at $168.00, there are more power controls ranging from 1/32 power to full power is this a must have, off on switch for beep, sturdy metal built, and it has a bowens speed ring cons: I don't know if i'm getting the 400 watts advertised, but the biggest con is that the strobe is completely useless if the flash tube blows, no way to make replacements I for flash tube i checked. because the tube is manufactured on.
Cowboystudio 400 Watt strobe with digital power display pros: the price on amazon is $150.00 but on Cowboystudio web sit it $198.00 don't know Why possible quality difference?, it has a digital output meter. cower control is one 1/16 to 1/1 less then the mettle strobe. cons: some one in the reviews said that it didn't have enough power to light up a subject at in a park at sunset. and that it probably A 200 to 300 watt strobe not a 400 watt. no link because i don't have enough the reputation.
equipment questions what is the minimum watts for a strobe to be use for portraits. does it have to have a lot of steps in the power control to get lot of lighting effects. what is the guild number on a strobe can i have multiple strobes of different watts for main,fill,hair, & background. If you can read the articular at strobepro.com to make sure their not wrong thanks and I know its a lot to answer but I think a lot of people have all the same questions so you well help a lot more people.
Forget about the Neewer units unless you are just testing out the idea of studio flash with an eye to upgrading quickly. They are essentially the same units as the Adorama Flashpoint 300WS Budget Studio Flash (there are just some minor cosmetic differences), and while a 3-light kit with stands and modifiers for $300 is a good buy, it's only a good buy for what they are. There is no modifier mount; it uses a friction fit plastic "speed ring" that fits around the nose of the unit. You can get a Bowens-mount adapter, but it just fits over the end of the flash the same way the included softboxes do, so it's not practical to use with heavy (large and/or gridded) softboxes, and definitely not a good idea for overhead use. And since the "standard reflector" is a recessed front dish, it won't be able to fill strip boxes and accessory reflectors (deep parabolics, beauty dishes, and so on) will be essentially useless decorations. Oh, and the power range will leave you with too much power for a lot of shots.
You don't need 400WS units — or even 300WS units, for that matter — for portraiture, but many of the shots you've described are not portraiture. (And $700 for a two-light kit of decent 400WS flashes and accessories is at the bargain end of the scale.) To make something like an office space look like it's lit that way all of the time (yes, I know they aren't, and so does everybody else) you'll need a lot of light and some distance to go with it.
Watt-seconds (or Joules) can only give you a rough approximation of the output, since it's a measure of how much electrical energy the flash is capable of delivering, and not of the light output. But guide numbers are even more meaningless unless you are using a flash with a fixed reflector and no modifiers. Modern large-ish speedlights such as the Nikon SB910 or the Canon 600EX-RT, for instance, will have a guide number of about 60 (metres at ISO 100), but that's only when they're zoomed in to their tightest and pointed directly at the subject. A flash that has a guide number of 48, but at a fixed 28mm setting, may actually put out more total light. For comparison purposes only, the standard output spec for studio flashes is the f-stop needed at ISO 100 at a distance of 2m using whatever the "standard" reflector is for the unit (usually the in the 7- to 8-inch range). For a 300WS monolight, that's usually about f/22 and a bit. So if you are planning to use hard light (rather than a softbox or umbrella), the problem is going to be getting little enough light out of the system for the aperture you want to use much of the time. Conversely, a very large softbox with double diffusion or a large (60" or bigger) soft white/shoot-through umbrella (or a large wall bounce), which you'll need for soft lighting across groups with minimal fall-off, is going to require just about all the power you can throw at the problem (often more than one flash). A more powerful unit that can be turned down very low will come in very handy — the adjustment range is every bit as important as the maximum power output. Most entry-level flashes have a 5-stop range, which will restrict what you can do unless you buy flashes of different power levels (say a 400WS and one or more 200WS units).
Don't get too hung up on any one accessory mount. Speed rings are cheap (well, except for the Profoto mount).
Frankly, at a budget of $400 or so, you will probably find that one good mid-range TTL speedlight (for the inevitable run-and-gun) and a boatload of cheap manual speedlights (Yongnuos or similar) will cover most of your needs for little outlay. No, they don't have modelling lights, which can make them a little more difficult to work with in a multi-light studio setup. But you have a choice here: time or money. If you can't afford the money, you are going to have to afford the time. (You can always use cheap LED flashlights taped to the flashes to give you some idea of what's going on.) You can get flash brackets that have a Bowens accessory mount, which will allow you to use a variety of inexpensive softboxes and reflectors, as well as umbrellas. And don't be afraid to move your ISO off of 100; it has been a while since ISO 400 was a crime. In the meantime, spend money on stands and grip equipment, and when you're ready to step up to studio flash that will be more of a help than a hindrance, you will know what you need.
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| 2019-04-20T01:19:02 |
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