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Are UK Exporters Benefiting From Brexit?
Brexit created a cloud of uncertainty, especially for SMEs that rely on exporting to the EU.
For the UK, the fall in the pound is a double-edged sword.
There is lingering doubt about whether the EU will survive.
In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum there was a great deal of anticipation, albeit tinged with anxiety, as to whether or not the UK would be acting in its best interests in exiting the EU. As of June, when the votes were counted, it was evident that the majority of voters was ready to break free of all the baggage that came along with being a member of a union that was seen as a drag on their own economy.
However, once it was a done deal and a final exiting was in the forecast, a cloud of uncertainty began to form, especially for SMEs that rely heavily on exporting to the EU. The question is, are exports benefiting from the impending exit or are they being harmed?
The first thing to consider in any kind of trade is the value of the currency a company is dealing in. For the UK, the fall in the pound is a double-edged sword. Immediately after the Brexit vote, the British pound fell drastically against the U.S. dollar, a major forex pair commonly traded, which made it bad for the economy in some regards but actually a boon in others.
Exports were seen to benefit, according to a report by the BBC. Tourism also benefited as foreign tourists, especially from the United States, were paying less than previously for bookings in the UK. But on the flip side, UK tourists abroad were paying more due to a fall in the value of the pound.
When David Cameron resigned following the Brexit results and the new Prime Minister Theresa May took office, nothing really changed in the eyes of voters. There was still controversy going on within the ranks as voters still held their ground on either side of the issue. Even so, when Prime Minister May announced mid-October her plans for invoking Article 50 in March with an aim of having completed the exit sometime in the summer of 2019, members of Parliament began immediately to contest this move on her part. Nothing will be known in regards to a decision on whether or not MPs can halt her invocation in March.
So then, with the pound having lost much value against other major currencies and thus worth less when making purchases, it is also rather a benefit to those SMEs exporting goods because those trading partners find a more equitable trade in currencies. On the other hand, with Brexit also comes a great deal of uncertainty within the EU and those are Britain’s biggest trading partners. If those economies remain stable, which at this time is doubtful at least in the short term, exports will be as normal if not better.
But, with the outcome of the recent referendum in Italy along with upcoming elections in major countries in the EU, such as Germany and France, there is still lingering doubt about whether the EU will survive the coming years or have to be dismantled. For now, SMEs are seeing a benefit in exports but the future remains unclear.
| 2019-04-24T18:56:31 |
https://www.globaltrademag.com/eu-trade/uk-exporters-benefiting-brexit/
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This is not a novel, or a fictional biography. There are no imaginary scenes or conversations in it; and Ralegh's own words are quoted continuously. But it is a portrait of him and some of his contemporaries rather than a comprehensive life; and it would be pretentious to add a bibliography. The sources are mostly evident from the text, or in my few footnotes.
The explanation comes from Irwin's own life story: she was a successful novelist. Starting in 1927 with Knock Four Times, continuing in 1928 with Fire Down Below, then in 1930 with her renowned None So Pretty, she carved out a faithful reading audience as a popular writer. And then, like so many such writers, she began to yearn for more. In her case it brought out her two best-known books, Elizabeth, Captive Princess and especially Young Bess, two high-spirited and very readable novels about Queen Elizabeth I (there was a third book in what then got called a trilogy, but it showed a bit of strain). But the El Dorado of every novelist is nonfiction (and it works in reverse - historians yearn for the dash of fiction), and late in her life Irwin produced this book, a defiantly factual little 'portrait' of the man considered by many - certainly including himself - to be the greatest Elizabethan of them all.
The peasants, as always in Ireland, were contemptuously, or at best tolerantly, amused by the strange whims of the high and mighty English chief who had a fancy to make them plant whole fields of a dull root with an Indian name, as if anyone in Ireland, however starving, would ever grow or eat anything so outlandish as his new-fangled 'potatoes.' Yet they took root there, both in the soil and in men's habits, far more quickly than in England; easier to grow than any crop, they saved the people from famine again and again; became the staple food of Ireland, and in time changed her economic history.
Still more outlandish were his fields of another Indian plant called tobacco, grown, not to eat, but to burn and puff through the mouth; and what profit could there ever be in that? No matter, he was an English lord, and as mad as they make them, but he paid for the work.
Essex was not quite twenty, and young even for that; he was tall as Ralegh, and fair as Ralegh was dark, his bright hair and new-sprouting wisps of beard rather untidy and his dress careless, his hands delicate as a woman's, and his eyes those of a dreamy yet excitable boy. He stooped with his head thrust forward, and his portraits scarcely show the beauty which won a fame that was largely due to his extraordinary personal attraction. Eager, volatile, now gay, now moody; refreshingly, when not disconcertingly, impulsive, he charmed both men and women to spoil and forgive him, and to love him.
To us today it sounds an intolerable impertinence to a much older man, so soon to die. But not to all of us; for a recent writer reproves, as harshly as any dogmatist divine of the seventeenth century, 'the essential frivolity of Ralegh's character ... giving a lightness and gaiety to his courage before death,' all the more reprehensible, apparently, because it 'deeply impressed contemporary opinion, and showed up James by contrast as a mean and grasping schemer.' But Ralegh can hardly be blamed because James suffered in contrast with him. It had indeed always been the deepest and worst complaint James held against Raleigh; all the more unforgivable because it must never be mentioned.
Of course, James had Ralegh beheaded. There was a fine scene on the scaffold, a fine quip for the audience, and there was a final minute of bravery greater than all the others (the axeman wasn't skilled). Margaret Irwin captures all this in the kind of sparkling, happy prose that's usually missing from more scholarly productions - and yet she sacrifices no accuracy on that score. Fifty year old biographies don't get reprinted the way fifty year old novels sometimes do, but I wish this one would.
Irwin also wrote a book about Mary Queen of Scots' third husband, the Earl of Bothwell, "The Gay Galliard." (Later editions unsurprisingly renamed it, "The Galliard.") It's a novel, but follows Robert Gore-Browne's bio closely enough for it to be called fictionalized biography. Like "Lucifer," its vigorous, opinionated style is quite fascinating, and unlike many historical novelists, Irwin obviously made an effort to be true to history as she saw it. I didn't always agree with her conclusions, but I still loved the book.
| 2019-04-25T06:42:32 |
http://stevereads.blogspot.com/2011/11/that-great-lucifer.html
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How long does it take for the inks to dry once the product is printed?
Almost instant. These are fast drying inks and the product is "Touch dry" almost immediately once printed. However, a further 24 hours of air drying may be required for the inks to cure properly.
Is it necessary to invest in a curing oven?
No. If required, you may use a hair dryer, heat gun or a normal domestic oven.
How long does one have to wait to print the second colour using your two colour systems?
You can print the second colour almost instantly. In pad printing, you can print 'wet on wet" without smudging as the inks are very fast drying.
Can I use ink "neat" straight out of a ink pot?
No. Ink has to be mixed with Retarder to obtain the correct viscosity.
Can I reuse any left over ink again at some other time?
Yes, providing you have not mixed "Hardener" into the ink. In such circumstances, the shelf life of ink is around 72 hours only. If no hardener is mixed with the ink, then ink may be kept and reused many weeks later.
Can I achieve Pantone colours?
Yes, you can - by correctly mixing the right amount of inks.
Can I achieve a " Sparkling effect" using Pad Printing inks?
Yes, by mixing sparkling silver ink with any standard colour of ink.
Can I print onto all types of plastics?
The answer is generally, Yes. However, some plastics require "Corona" or "Flame" treatment before ink will adhere to the product. An example of such plastic is "Polypropylene". However, most plastics used in the promotional printing industry are very easy to print onto and do not require any pre-treatment.
Will the print scratch off once the product is printed?
Generally, No. However, when printing onto Glass, Metal, Ceramics and some other products, you will need to add "Hardener" to the ink to stop the print from scratching off.
How long do Pads last?
If you have taken care in their use, they can last for many years.
If I damage a Pad, can it be repaired?
Generally, Yes. However, if it is in the "Image area", then, No.
Can I use one Pad to print onto a number of different objects?
Generally, Yes. However, depending on the shape and print area of a product, you may need to select the correct size and shape of pad for the job in hand. If you are looking to print onto promotional products generally, then you will not need to stock up on too many pads as a few carefully selected pads will suffice. We can give you expert guidance on this matter.
Can I get Pads of varying hardnesses?
Yes. However, for printing onto most promotional products, we find pads of medium hardness to be sufficient.
Can I print all the way around an object?
No, not with Pad Printing. However you can print around partial curved surfaces.
Can I achieve very fine work with your Pad Station Machines?
Yes, providing your artwork and Cliché are of good quality. Furthermore, correct viscosity of ink is important in achieving a good quality print. If all these factors are perfect, then you will not have any problem in producing fine text and/or logos.
How long does a Doctor Blade last?
Doctor Blades can last for a long time. They can also be re-sharpened by yourself using a "Arkansas Block" and/or very fine sandpaper, providing of course they are not badly damaged. The ceramic ring on the closed cup systems also are very durable, however, great care must be taken not to damage them in anyway. If they are damaged, they will need to be replaced.
Does your machines have a "Pressure adjustment stop"?
Yes - our machines have all necessary stops to take out the guesswork in their operation.
Are Clichés clamped down on your machines?
On the closed cup systems, the cliches are clamped down and on the open ink systems they are held by magnets.
Are we able to adjust the Pads in "XYZ" coordinates on your machines?
Yes, you can - on all of our machines.
What is the maximum size of object that can be placed on the "Print bed"?
With its very unique design, our range of Pad Station machines will enable you to print a product of virtually and width. Traditional vertical systems on the other hand often limit the width of a product to 4" .
Are Pad Station machines faster than others?
Yes, they are. The number of steps on our Pad Station Machines have been reduced from 3 to 2 (ie. Inking, Doctoring and Printing). Further, our machines only require one hand operation rather than two.
How good does my artwork have to be to make a Cliché?
Your artwork must be very solid so as not to allow any UV light to pass through to the Cliché. Your artwork should be produced using a good quality laser printer with a minimum of 600 dpi. REMEMBER: Poor artwork = Poor Cliché = Poor Printing.
When held to light, my laser printed artwork seems to let light through - what can I do?
This can be quite a common problem - however it can be overcome by using our "Toner density spray" which, when applied, will make your artwork very dense.
Do I produce artwork onto normal paper?
No. You would need to use either "Acetate" or transparent artwork sheets for output.
Do I simply print out my artwork on acetate or transparent sheet as normal?
No. You would need to print your artwork out in "Mirror image". Most DTP programmes these days will have this under "Options" when you go to your "Print page" The side on which the toner is applied is known as "Emulsion side".
Can I reuse the same artwork for making a same Cliché?
Do I need a Cliché for every job - no matter how simple?
Yes, without any exception. Depending on the size of your artwork, it is sometimes possible to incorporate several jobs onto one Cliché. This would save you time and money.
If I do not wish to purchase a Cliché making system at this stage, is there anyone else who can make Clichés for me?
Yes, there are many companies who will make and post them to you, but it will always be cheaper to make them yourself. This will not only save you a great deal of money but will also offer you convenience of being able to make Clichés, in-house and within 15 minutes from your artwork.
How long will a Polymer Cliché last?
Generally, it is estimated that around 5000 impressions can be achieved from each Cliché.
Are there any chemicals needed to make Polymer Clichés using your systems?
No, none at all. Our Clichés are water washable and no chemicals are used in the process.
| 2019-04-26T14:23:16 |
http://www.padprinters.co.uk/faq.htm
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Contextualized language and the school-age child.
Contextualized language and decontextualized language. What influence do the two language forms have on a child with language difficulty's learning, and why is it important to know the difference?
The conversations children are expected to take part in - classroom discourse - are much different from the conversations they may have at home.
Conversations at home are generally with familiar people in cosy surroundings in an environment they know well.
In essence, the language is contextualized. That is, a child learns language skills in a familiar place, doing well known activities. An example would be a young child helping mum do the dishes. The child learns about plates, cups, saucers and other kitchen items by being immersed in and talking with his/her parent about their environment.
The child uses the context of the kitchen to more freely commit any new words - about kitchen items - to memory.
In the school classroom, language is far more decontextualized. At home, conversation may focus on items or objects in the home, such as your bed, the blankets you sleep on, or the remote for the television.
In school, the conversational focus is considerably different. The focus of conversation is mostly directed by the class teacher and will often be about subjects that the student may have had no experience with.
At home, the mother might ask the child where his socks are. In school, the child may be asked where theParthenon is.
Children need to learn new language very quickly in the classroom. They're expected to keep up with the demands of the curriculum, and the demands accelerate as the child moves through the year levels.
School children often have to learn new concepts in the absence of contextual supports. For example, students may have to learn the names of capital cities around the world.
They may, at times, be expected to do this difficult task without the aid of maps of foreign countries, pictures of the cities, or any other media. The students have to rely totally on the verbal or written information presented by the class teacher.
Clinician's and teachers that have an understanding of the difficulties of decontextualized language can supply the necessary contextual language support and structure that students with language difficulty need.
As we have discussed, children with language disorder have considerable trouble transitioning from the comfortable contextualized language used at home, to the demands of decontextualized language, that dominates the school classroom.
The demands increase as the student moves through the grades to upper (middle school) primary. After a time, the contextual supports used in most classrooms tend to dwindle.
You can learn new ways of overcoming the problems of decontextualized language on the page about shared strategic reading.
DeKemel, K. P. (2003) Intervention in Language Arts: A Practical Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists. Butterworth - Heinemann.
| 2019-04-19T05:01:25 |
http://www.speechlanguage-resources.com/contextualized-language.html
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Apple Music not Working on iOS 11/iOS 12? Here are Easy Fixes.
"My Apple Music app does not work now after I update my iPhone 7s to iOS 11. I can't open it to play any song. Any suggestion on how to fix this problem?"
Used by over 40 million fans, Apple Music is undoubtedly one of the most popular music apps in the world. But this fact does not make it the best one necessarily. The truth is that it can be problematic once in a while. Recently users of iPhone X/8/8 Plus/7/7 Plus/6/6s/6s Plus/5s/SE, iPad, or iPod reported about the problems they encountered in using Apple Music after updating their devices to iOS 11 or latest iOS 12. Among those Apple Music issues, Apple Music not working after iOS 12.2/12.1/12/11 update is one of them, along with Apple Music freezing, radio stations not working, Apple Music crashing on iOS 12/11, etc. If you have ever been bothered by the above problems as well as others, this article may help you find the easy fixes.
8. Apple Music not downloading songs.
When your Apple Music does not work on your iPhone/iPad/iPod after updating to iOS 11/12, try the following tricks to fix the problems.
1. Restart Apple Music. Double press the home button, swipe off Apple Music to close it. Then tap to restart it.
2. Restart your iPhone/iPad/iPod. Press and hold down the power (Sleep/Wake) button for a few seconds, slide the bar when it appears to power off your device. Then press and hold down the power button again and let go until you see the Apple logo.
3. Reset your network setting. Go to Settings >> General >> Reset >> Reset Network Settings.
4. Launch Apple Music in a different way. Go to Settings >> Music >> Join Apple Music.
5. Log out and in the iCloud Account. Go to Settings >> Music, and turn off Show Apple Music. Go to Settings >> iCloud, and sign in iCloud account.
6. Force restart your device. Press and hold down the Sleep/Wake (Volume Down button if it's iPhone 7/7 Plus or above) and home button at the same time until you see the Apple Logo.
When all the above solutions still fail to kill off the problem of Apple Music, you may consider repairing your iOS 11 on iPhone/iPad/iPod. Tenorshare ReiBoot is a powerful tool that helps restore your iDevices without using iTunes or causing any stuck problems or data loss.
Step 1: Connect your device to Tenorshare ReiBoot. Click "Fix All iOS Stuck", and then "Fix Now ".
Step 2: When you see the interface below, click "Download" to download the iOS firmware that matches yours. Alternatively, you may select the firmware already existing in your computer by clicking "Select".
Step 3: After the download is finished, you may click "Start Repair" to start repairing iOS 11. When the repairing is completed, your iDevices have been restored successfully.
Though that Apple Music does not work after iOS 12/11 update really ruins your mood to enjoy music, it is far from the end of the world, now that you have learned quite a few handy tricks to solve the problem. Even if they do not work, you can repair the existed iOS 11 by turning to Tenorshare ReiBoot for help. The best thing about Tenorshare ReiBoot is that repairing iOS 11 with this software will not cause your devices stuck or any of your files lost.
| 2019-04-25T01:44:50 |
https://www.tenorshare.com/ios-11/fix-apple-music-not-working-on-ios-11.html
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How do I make my Massachusetts parenting plan / child custody agreement / custody implementation plan?
Where can I find the Massachusetts laws that can help me with my plan?
The laws pertaining to child custody can be found in the Massachusetts General Laws, Title III-Domestic Relations, Chapter 208-Divorce.
The law provides definitions for many of the terms used in court documents and also dictates what the court requires and expects to be included in a parenting plan / custody agreement.
By designing a parenting plan in accordance with the law and following a few basic steps to create an organized and comprehensive document, you will significantly increase the likeliness of a favorable outcome in your case.
What types of custody are there in Massachusetts?
Sole legal custody means only one parent has the rights and responsibilities to make important decisions about the child's educational needs, medical, dental, and mental healthcare needs, religious upbringing, moral development, and other significant decisions in the child's life.
Shared legal custody means both parents are mutually involved and responsible for making the major decisions regarding the child.
Sole physical custody means the child shall primarily reside and be under the supervision of one parent, while having reasonable visitation with the other, unless the court finds that visitation with the other parent would not be in the child's best interest.
Shared physical custody means the child shall reside with each parent for periods of time in a manner that assures the child frequent and ongoing contact with both parents.
What type of custody does Massachusetts prefer to award?
Provided there aren't any extenuating circumstances that would be harmful or detrimental to the health, well-being, and happiness of the child, the court considers parents sharing joint legal custody and joint physical custody are considered to be in the child's best interests and awards custody accordingly.
It is the position of Massachusetts that a child benefits greatly from having both parents actively involved in his or her life.
As long as there is no evidence of wrongdoing, such as domestic violent, child abuse, substance abuse, or any other situation or criminal history that may endanger the child, parents in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are considered to be equal in custodial matters.
In Massachusetts, what is a "trial of merits"?
In divorce and custody proceedings in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a hearing will be held called a "trial of merits", which is designed to allow you to present evidence so the court can rule on disputed matters.
At the trial of merits, you will have the opportunity to submit a parenting plan, also called a "shared custody implementation plan", to the court.
You may submit the plan either individually or work together with the other parent and submit one jointly. The court will then opt to reject, accept, or modify the agreement(s).
It is important to know what to expect during your case so you can prepare for court.
What should I include in my Massachusetts parenting plan?
What happens when we are able to agree on a parenting plan?
When you are able to cooperate and reach agreement with the other parent about your child's custody arrangements, the court should accept your plan, unless the court feels the plan is not in the best interest of your child.
If you are working on a shared custody agreement, you can make a joint shared custody implementation plan that has the details about how you will share custody.
This is the preferred method for determining custody matters since you know your child and your child's needs better than the court does. Working with the other parent now is beneficial to both you and your child and can help to prevent future conflict.
What happens when we cannot agree on the custody arrangements?
When you are unable to agree on a plan, but either one of you wants shared custody, each of you can submit an individual shared custody implementation plan to the court.
The court will then consider all the factors involved and create a parenting plan for you. The judge will most likely rule in favor of the parenting plan that best meets your child's needs, so creating a parenting plan that is detailed, organized, and truly written to preserve your child's happiness and well-being will stand out.
In Massachusetts, what does the court consider when ruling on a plan?
The best interest of the child is the main factor the court considers when making any decisions in family law cases.
There is not just one factor, but a combination of all of the circumstances in your child's life that the court will consider when making a ruling.
Basically, if you are a good parent and are willing and able to provide your child with love, attention, and affection while meeting his or her physical and mental needs, it is considered to be in the best interest of the child to have frequent and ongoing contact with you.
It is when a parent poses a threat or a danger to the child that the court steps in to protect the child.
The top twenty cities in Massachusetts (by population, US Census Bureau, 2008) are: Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Cambridge, Lowell, Brockton, Quincy, New Bedford, Fall River, Lynn, Newton, Somerville, Lawrence, Framingham, Haverhill, Waltham, Revere, Taunton, Malden, Medford.
| 2019-04-22T04:37:23 |
https://www.custodyxchange.com/massachusetts/parenting-plan.php
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Why you should reuse HttpClient instances?
I come across this every so often. It then usually involves me Googling the same stack overflow answers to explanation why one shouldn't do it.
What's wrong with the above code? It's disposing the HttpClient with every request, which is generally not recommended.
Even though it's counter intuitive, given HttpClient implements IDisposable, it should not be disposed with every request, but reused, often maintained for the lifetime of the application. HttpClient is thread safe and can be maintained as a static variable, accessed from any thread.
These answers confirm HttpClient instances should be kept around, but I was wondering, what is the impact on performance? So I decided to try it out myself.
I want to see for myself why I should not dispose HttpClient instances, but reuse them for multiple requests. So I created a simple console application.
Then a method taking either of the methods above and calling each a specified number of times.
Lastly, calling these from the Main method of the console app.
// ... warm the services, omitted for brevity.
I'm making a request to a very simple node app that returns the client's IP address. There are many equivalent sites available that do the same, but I'm potentially DOS attacking the site, so I decided use my own. The code for the site is in my GitHub repository gimmeip.
Request 'http://gimmeip2.azurewebsites.net/' 100 times taking '07.298'. Average 72ms/request.
Request 'https://gimmeip2.azurewebsites.net/' 100 times taking '15.440'. Average 154ms/request.
Request 'http://gimmeip2.azurewebsites.net/' 100 times taking '03.864'. Average 38ms/request.
Request 'https://gimmeip2.azurewebsites.net/' 100 times taking '03.681'. Average 36ms/request.
That's quite a difference, more than I was expecting. I ran it several times, there was a little variance, but effectively the same outcome.
When reusing the HttpClient instance and making an HTTP request it was nearly twice as fast. Making an HTTPS request was over 4 times faster. I expected there to be some overheads because the HTTP connection is closed between requests, but not such a stark difference on HTTPS.
It shows the SSL handshake occurring every request, whereas when reusing the client (see below), the SSL handshake occurred once, then never again.
The results show there can be quite a performance improvement gained by reusing HttpClient instances.
To be fair my example is contrived. The server is doing nothing, and therefore exaggerating the network latencies of opening new HTTP connections and the SSL handshake. Realistic requests would likely be slower, therefore the network latencies would not be as stark.
Nevertheless, it's easy enough to reuse HttpClient instances, either through static variables for Lazy Initialization. Therefore you may as well get the performance benefit if you can.
If you would like to run the test for yourself I've made the source code available in my GitHub repository httpclient-dispose.
James has been developing professional software for 20 years, and unprofessionally before that.
| 2019-04-18T17:23:27 |
https://skimming.net/why-you-should-reuse-httpclient-instances/
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The view of Labour members seems clear.Polling for a project on party membership - led by Prof Tim Bale of Queen Mary University - was published at the turn of the year. It suggested more than 70% of Labour's members backed a second referendum.And if it were held, nearly nine out of 10 would vote to remain in the EU.But this wasn't a poll of shadow cabinet members.
Nine of Jeremy Corbyn's top team are very, very sceptical of - or opposed to - another referendum.And most of these are his political allies.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was so concerned she wrote to shadow cabinet colleagues last night to argue that ditching a public vote on any deal - including one hammered out with the prime minister - would breach party policy and would require a vote of the whole shadow cabinet.At last night's special meeting of shadow ministers, I am told Ms Thornberry's possible leadership ambitions were aired. (She couldn't be there for family reasons). Key figures in Mr Corbyn's office were furious at her intervention.
But the party's deputy leader Tom Watson - who doesn't always see eye to eye with the shadow foreign secretary - took to the airwaves to insist: "Our position is we want a confirmatory ballot."It's very difficult for us to move off that because I don't think our party would forgive us if we signed off on Tory Brexit without that kind of concession."Even more uncomfortably for the Labour leader, left-wing allies have written to him to push for a referendum commitment in talks with the prime minister.The eleven signatories include shadow ministers Clive Lewis and Rachael Maskell.They wrote: "We - your supporters - urge you to make a confirmatory public vote your bottom line in negotiations with Theresa May and to fight to bring this government down."Mr Corbyn has said he did raise the "option" of a public vote with Mrs May yesterday and shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said today that a "confirmatory vote" would be discussed at what are being billed as technical discussions between Labour and Conservative frontbenchers.
Behind the scenes there is what to outsiders will look like a "dance on the head of a pin" argument going on as to what Labour's policy actually is on a public vote - but the interpretation could determine how hard, or otherwise, the referendum is pushed in talks. The motion agreed last autumn at Labour's conference says "should Parliament vote down a Tory Brexit deal, or the talks end in no deal" then there should be a general election.If that doesn't happen, then "Labour must support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote".Supporters of a referendum say that Mrs May's "Tory Brexit deal" - as represented by two meaningful votes - has been voted down.So Labour should now be calling unequivocally for a "public vote" on any deal.Sceptics and opponents stress, on the other hand, that it should still be a last resort to prevent no deal, or another attempt to get Mrs May's unrevised deal over the line.
So a group of 25 Labour MPs from Leave areas has written to Mr Corbyn urging him to "compromise" in talks with Mrs May.The group includes the shadow minister Gloria De Piero, and former shadow minister Melanie Onn, who resigned because she voted against the referendum option rather than abstain on an indicative vote.More familiar supporters of Mrs May's current deal - such as Caroline Flint and Sir Kevin Barron - have added their names too - as has Lisa Nandy, the former frontbencher who has so far held out against the prime minister's deal, but who could be persuaded if it were combined with a customs union.The signatories say: "Our policy… seeks a deal that protects jobs and rights at work. It does not require a confirmatory ballot on any deal that meets those conditions."
But sources close to the Labour leader think the fuss over a referendum is over-blown, as government and opposition are unlikely to agree a joint motion on Brexit in any case.It's far more likely there will be a series of votes on a range of options - including a referendum - next week. Peter Kyle, who drafted a motion on the option of a referendum during the phase of indicative votes, is hopeful of success.His formulation garnered more votes - though not a majority - from MPs than any other option. But some close to the Labour leadership believe it will, once again, be rejected. That outcome would get both the prime minister and the opposition leader off a potentially painful political hook.But it doesn't bring a Brexit deal any closer.
| 2019-04-24T11:56:04 |
http://vectornews.eu/news/144965-brexit-talks-will-labour-push-a-public-vote-option.html
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NEW YORK Paper: Israeli airstrike hit Syrian reactor site An Israeli airstrike on Syria last month targeted a partially built nuclear reactor that was years away from completion, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing U.S. and foreign officials. The report said President Bush's administration had intense discussions with the Israeli government before the strike and U.S. officials were divided over whether it would be premature. Syrian President Bashar Assad has said Israel bombed an "unused military building" in the Sept. 6 raid. Israel has been extremely secretive about the affair. It only recently relaxed censorship to allow Israel-based journalists to report that Israeli aircraft attacked a military target deep inside Syria. In the weeks that followed the attack, U.S. officials said it was aimed either at a nuclear or missile facility that Syria operated jointly with North Korea. BOGOTA, COLOMBIA Landslide kills at least 21 at makeshift mine A landslide at a makeshift mine in southern Colombia killed at least 21 people and injured another 18 on Saturday after local residents began digging for rumored deposits of gold, authorities said. Efforts were under way to find about 10 people missing and presumed trapped under the wave of dirt and rock in the open pit mine, located near the town of Suarez. Officials had recovered 21 bodies and rescued 18 people who were hurt in the morning accident in the open pit mine, Delgado said. The landslide occurred after local residents began digging in the mine following reports that gold had been found underground, Delgado said. He added that many of them appeared to have little experience in tunneling or mining. YANGON, MYANMAR Junta reportedly arrests 4 leading activists Myanmar's junta arrested four prominent political activists Saturday, Amnesty International said, including one who went into hiding after leading some of the first major marches against the government several weeks ago. The United Nations has called on the military government to halt its crackdown on the protesters, and a U.N. special envoy was expected in the region today to help coordinate a response among key Asian governments.
| 2019-04-19T03:09:50 |
http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2007-10-14/news/26787335_1_israeli-airstrike-open-pit-mine-key-asian-governments
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Some people say that reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" taught them the importance of friends, or that easy decisions are seldom right. Carnegie Mellon University scientists used a chapter of that book to learn a different lesson: identifying what different regions of the brain do when people read.
Researchers from CMU's Machine Learning Department performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of eight people as they read a chapter of that Potter book. They then analyzed the scans, cubic millimeter by cubic millimeter, for every four-word segment of that chapter. The result was the first integrated computational model of reading, identifying which parts of the brain are responsible for such subprocesses as parsing sentences, determining the meaning of words and understanding relationships between characters.
As Leila Wehbe, a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department, and Tom Mitchell, the department head, report today in the online journal PLOS ONE, the model predicted fMRI activity for novel text passages with sufficient accuracy to tell which of two different passages a person was reading with 74 percent accuracy.
"At first, we were skeptical of whether this would work at all," Mitchell said, noting that analyzing multiple subprocesses of the brain at the same time is unprecedented in cognitive neuroscience. "But it turned out amazingly well and now we have these wonderful brain maps that describe where in the brain you're thinking about a wide variety of things."
Wehbe and Mitchell said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke. It could also be used by educators to identify what might be giving a student trouble when learning a foreign language.
"If I'm having trouble learning a new language, I may have a hard time figuring out exactly what I don't get," Mitchell said. "When I can't understand a sentence, I can't articulate what it is I don't understand. But a brain scan might show that the region of my brain responsible for grammar isn't activating properly, or perhaps instead I'm not understanding the individual words."
"No one falls asleep in the scanner during Leila's experiments," Mitchell said.
"The test subjects read chapter 9 of Sorcerer's Stone, which is about Harry's first flying lesson," she noted. "It turns out that movement of the characters — such as when they are flying their brooms — is associated with activation in the same brain region that we use to perceive other people's motion. Similarly, the characters in the story are associated with activation in the same brain region we use to process other people's intentions."
"It's sort of like a DNA fingerprint — you may not understand all aspects of DNA's function, but it guides you in understanding cell function or development," Mitchell said. "This model of reading initially is that kind of a fingerprint."
A complementary study by Wehbe and Mitchell, presented earlier this fall at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to record brain activity in subjects reading Harry Potter. MEG can record activity every millisecond, rather than every two seconds as in fMRI scanning, but can't localize activity with the precision of fMRI. Those findings suggest how words are integrated into memory — how the brain first visually perceives a word and then begins accessing the properties of the word, and fitting it into the story context.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Rothberg Brain Imaging Award.
| 2019-04-20T19:18:09 |
https://www.ml.cmu.edu/news/news-archive/2011-2015/2014/december/reading-harry-potter.html
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Ex-pilot warns over 'toxic plane fumes' Jump to media player Former pilot John Hoyte describes how he had to retire on medical grounds after he was affected by aerotoxic syndrome.
Warning over exploding batteries Jump to media player The average passenger aircraft now carries dozens if not hundreds of electronic gadgets on board - but there are warnings that the lithium batteries found inside them could pose a serious threat to aircraft safety.
Gonzalo gives planes a wobble as they land Jump to media player Windy weather made it tricky for pilots landing at Manchester Airport, with planes wobbling as they came in to touch down.
A coroner has warned that exposure to toxic fumes in plane cabins pose a health risk to frequent fliers and aircrew.
The comments come in a leaked report, ahead of an inquest into the death of a co-pilot for British Airways who believed he had been poisoned by prolonged exposure to contaminated cabin air.
British Airways has said it will not comment until after the inquest.
Former pilot and training instructor John Hoyte had to retire on medical grounds after he was affected by aerotoxic syndrome.
He said he initially blamed his night-flying schedule, but the condition ''took over his life''.
| 2019-04-21T09:26:26 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-31578256/ex-pilot-warns-over-toxic-plane-fumes-ahead-of-inquest
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Perhaps the most famous Jamaican athlete in the Olympics has a lot of titles: sprinter, Olympian, gold medalist, and world record-holder are among those, and he's only 29 years old. On Aug. 13, the sprinter's mother, Jennifer Bolt, answered a question that was probably on many people's minds: is Usain Bolt married? It turns out the athlete isn't married, and his mother hopes that will change soon. But when it comes down to it, there shouldn't be any pressure on him or on any other athletes — especially women.
"I would hope he'll settle down, get married and start his family," Jennifer told CNN's Don Ridell two nights before her son competed in the 100-meter race. "I know he'll settle down because he has said it. He told me many times he's going to start his family."
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here — Jennifer hopes her son gets married, and that's alright. But it's also alright if Bolt doesn't get married anytime soon, or if he doesn't marry at all. Like the matriarch of the Bolt family said, Bolt has channeled his energy into training and becoming the best at his sport for the majority of his life — it's no surprise he hasn't found time to date, and even less of a surprise that he hasn't settled down yet. In his mind, he still has some gold medals to win on the track.
And then there's the fact that Bolt's fame means not everyone will be interested in him for the right reasons. In an April 2016 interview with The Telegraph, Bolt expressed his current views on dating.
"You get famous, there's so much pressure of girls wanting you," Bolt said. He used Wayne Rooney, a British soccer player who got married young, as an example. "You get married at 21, you have not lived one bit." Bolt said. While he made it clear that he wasn't knocking those who choose to marry young, Bolt was clearly opposed to the pressure placed on athletes to settle down and get married.
His mother shouldn't worry, though — Bolt admitted he does want to get married eventually. "I've thought about it, but I know I'm not going to get married before 35, for sure," he said.
While Bolt is in no rush to get married, it's great that he's shed some light on the pressures young people face — from their parents, from society, and, if you're "the fastest man in the world," from the media — to tie the knot. This pressure is far greater for women, even those who are competing in the Olympics alongside him.
On Sunday, Aug. 7, U.S. shooter Corey Cogdell-Unrein won the bronze medal for women's trap shooting. Instead of describing her as a shooter or an athlete, the Chicago Tribune called her "wife of Bears lineman Mitch Unrein." Although the Chicago Bears are a popular team, the Tribune reduced Cogdell-Unrein to little more than her marital status. The previous night, Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu beat the world record for the 400-meter individual medley, and an announcer credited her husband/coach as "the guy responsible for turning ... his wife, into a whole different swimmer."
As Bolt has shown us, this focus on marriage does not only apply to women, even though women are more likely to be on the receiving end of it.
As for his future? Bolt also revealed that he does have a girlfriend of two years — "but I'm not going to tell you who she is," he said to The Telegraph's Mick Brown. "I want to keep it small for now, because I know when it gets out there's going to be a lot of things to say ... Because I've been through the media. I understand how you guys are."
Maybe they'll get married eventually, and maybe they won't. All that matters is that Bolt and his girlfriend do what makes them happy.
| 2019-04-21T16:09:09 |
https://www.bustle.com/articles/178611-is-usain-bolt-married-the-answer-shouldnt-matter-all-that-much
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Is Hillary Clinton taking 'blood phosphate' money from Morocco?
Critics of a $1 million Clinton Foundation gift see a ploy to build support for illegal exploitation of the "last colony in Africa."
Morocco's King Mohamed VI and Hillary Rodham Clinton speak during the presentation of a solar energy project in Ouarzazate, Morocco, Nov. 2, 2009.
WASHINGTON — Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton is endorsing the illegal exploitation of disputed lands and risks undermining four decades of UN diplomacy by taking money from Morocco, critics say.
Clinton, who's expected to announce her candidacy for the Democratic nomination April 12, has come under fire for accepting foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation, most recently a $1 million donation from OCP, a fertilizer giant owned by the Moroccan government. Left unsaid in the initial reports: OCP — the Office Chérifien des Phosphates — is a major player in the exploitation of mineral resources from the Western Sahara, a disputed territory known as the “last colony in Africa” that Morocco took over after colonial power Spain abandoned it in the 1970s.
A spokesman for the foundation did not return an email request for comment.
At issue is OCP’s operation of a mine in the Western Sahara town of Boucraa, from which phosphate rock — a key ingredient for making fertilizer — is dumped onto the world’s longest conveyor belt to make its way toward the coast, 60 miles away. According to a 2002 legal opinion by the UN, the exploitation of natural resources from so-called non-self-governing territories such as the Western Sahara is only legal if done to benefit the local population.
OCP and Rabat have started a lobbying blitz to persuade the world that Morocco, which claims the Western Sahara as its own, is spending far more money developing the desert region than it is making from the exploitation of its natural resources.
Sahrawi advocates say the only way Morocco can claim to be benefiting the local population is if it finally gives them a vote on independence, as called for by multiple US-backed UN resolutions dating back to 1990.
Covington and Burling, which lobbies the US government on behalf of OCP, did not return a request for comment. The OCP’s CEO, Mostafa Terrab, was himself a registered lobbyist in the United States until last year.
Morocco and its allies counter that it is the Polisario Front, an Algeria-backed rebel movement with past ties to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi and Cuba’s communist regime, that is exploiting the Sahrawi people and keeping them locked up in camps on the Algerian side of the border. In a speech before the UN in November, King Mohammed VI made it clear that he had no intention of giving up Moroccan claims over the territory.
The OCP donation to the Clinton Foundation, which was first reported by Politico, will reportedly help pay for a Clinton Global Initiative meeting this May in Marrakech. It will be the first ever in the Middle East or Africa, and will feature such big wigs as former President Bill Clinton, King Mohammed VI and the presidents of Rwanda and Tanzania.
Terrab is a former World Bank official committed to “democratizing access to fertilizer for Africa’s farmers,” according to a recent profile of the continent’s 50 most influential people in the French magazine Jeune Afrique. While those credentials dovetail with the Clinton Foundation’s mission, the Marrakech event also comes at a time when Morocco’s exports from the Western Sahara are coming under increasing scrutiny around the world.
The European Parliament in 2011 voted to revoke a fishing agreement that allowed the EU fleet to fish in Western Sahara waters, judging that the deal with Morocco was illegal because the Sahrawi people did not have a say in the matter, but reversed course in 2013. And Western Sahara Resource Watch, a Scandinavian nonprofit that aims to shame companies that benefit from the region’s exploitation, last year published its first comprehensive list of fertilizer companies that import Western Sahara phosphates.
Scholte pointed to last month’s vote by the African Union Peace and Security Council to recommend a “global boycott of products of companies involved in the illegal exploitation of the natural resources of Western Sahara” as further proof of Morocco’s growing isolation. Morocco is the only country on the continent that’s not part of the African Union because of its occupation of the Western Sahara; the AU, however, recognizes the Polisario Front-led government in exile, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, as a member state.
“I do not believe that the people in Washington know and understand this — that the support for the Sahrawis is broad and deep all across the African continent,” she told Al-Monitor.
Critics of Morocco see the Clinton Foundation donation as a transparent attempt to portray Moroccan sovereignty over what it calls its “southern province” as having global support. They point to a parallel lobbying effort in Congress, where Morocco champion and Appropriations member Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., introduced legislation in the 2014 omnibus spending bill that for the first time allows the US to spend foreign aid earmarked for Morocco in the Western Sahara — in apparent contradiction with US policy that does not recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the territory.
The Pitts/Smith letter also raised concerns that OCP may have been complicit in violations of the 2004 free trade agreement with the US, which was accompanied by a Ways and Means Committee report — championed by Pitts — that makes it clear the trade deal’s benefits don’t apply to imports from the Western Sahara. Morocco and OCP are widely believed to be seeking an end to those restrictions.
“I would be shocked, given the fact that Congress's opinion on the FTA was clarified in the committee report and not the base text, if Moroccan allies don't eventually try to muddle the FTA policy,” a House staffer who follows the issue told Al-Monitor.
Editor's note: This article has ben updated since its initial publication.
| 2019-04-20T07:00:33 |
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/04/hillary-clinton-morocco-blood-phosphate-money-donation.html
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Each player is allowed to bet however much he/she wants to. He/she rolls 2 dice and makes a note of the total shown. If the dice show two of the same number, for instance a four and a four, the player loses. If the dice show two different numbers, the player rolls again. If the total the second time is greater than the total the first time, he/she gets twice the amount of money bet. If the number is the same as or smaller than the first, he/she loses.
What follows is an analysis of this student-constructed game.
Note that the player can win only by rolling a total of 3, 4 (but not with 2,2), 5, 6 (but not with 3,3), 7, 8 (but not with 4,4), 9, 10 (but not with 5,5), or 11 on the first roll. The player can't win with a total of 2 or 12 on the first roll, since these totals can only be obtained by rolling doubles.
Probability (win with 3 on first roll) = Prob(3 on first roll)xProb(4 or more on second roll) = (2/36)(33/36) = .0509.
Probability (win with 4 on first roll) = Prob(4 on first roll without doubles)xProb(5 or more on second roll) = (2/36)(30/36) = .0463.
Probability (win with 5 on first roll) = Prob(5 on first roll)xProb(6 or more on second roll) = (4/36)(26/36) = .0802.
Probability (win with 6 on first roll) = Prob(6 on first roll without doubles)xProb(7 or more on second roll) = (4/36)(21/36) = .0648.
Probability (win with 7 on first roll) = Prob(7 on first roll)xProb(8 or more on second roll) = (6/36)(15/36) = .0694.
Probability (win with 8 on first roll) = Prob(8 on first roll without doubles)xProb(9 or more on second roll) = (4/36)(10/36) = .0309.
Probability (win with 9 on first roll) = Prob(9 on first roll)xProb(10 or more on second roll) = (4/36)(6/36) = .0185.
Probability (win with 10 on first roll) = Prob(10 on first roll without doubles)xProb(11 or more on second roll) = (2/36)(3/36) = .0046.
Probability (win with 11 on first roll) = Prob(11 on first roll)xProb(12 on second roll) = (2/36)(1/36) = .0015.
Hence, the probability of losing a game is 1 - .3671 = .6329, or 63.29%.
In other words, for each $1 spent, the player expects a return of $0.7462. This is approximately equivalent to losing 25 cents each time a dollar is spent to play Double Up. Hence, the game is a money-maker for the casino.
In this situation, the player expects a return of $1.12 for each $1 spent to play Double Up. It goes without saying that a casino would not offer up the game under these circumstances.
| 2019-04-24T20:40:57 |
http://herkimershideaway.org/writings/doubup.htm
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How many species of wolves are there in North America?
There are two universally recognized species of wolves in North America: the gray wolf (Canis lupus), the red wolf (Canis rufus). However, recent genomic research supports a three species model recognized by Canada, which promotes the eastern (Algonquin) wolf, previously considered a subspecies of gray wolf, to a distinct species.
How many species of wolves are there in the world?
There are two universally recognized species of wolves in the world: the gray wolf (Canis lupus), the red wolf (Canis rufus). There is debate about whether the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), sometimes referred to as the Abyssinian wolf, is a member of the wolf or jackal family (Canis aureus). There is also debate about whether the eastern (Algonquin) wolf is a subspecies of gray wolf (Canis lupus lycaon), or a distinct species (Canis lycaon).
What are the difference between red wolves and gray wolves?
The red wolf and gray wolf are two different species of wolf. The red wolf is smaller than most gray wolves. Red wolves range in size from 45 pounds to 80 pounds. Red wolves are mostly brown and tan with black along their backs and red behind the ears while gray wolves can be entirely black, white and any natural combination in between. Red wolves have pointier facial features than gray wolves. Red wolf howls are higher in pitch and more screechy than those of gray wolves. The red wolf diet is made up of a combination of white-tailed deer, raccoons, rabbits and other rodents such as mice and nutria. The gray wolf diet includes elk, moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, bison, caribou, mountain goats, beaver, rabbits and musk oxen from the Arctic. Both red wolves and gray wolves are shy and elusive and stay away from humans. Wild red wolves live only in the United States where gray wolf populations occupy diverse lands in the earth’s northern hemisphere. The red wolf is listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Only certain populations of gray wolves share this same status.
What are the subspecies of the gray wolf in North America?
There are five subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in North America.
Canis lupus baileyi - the Mexican wolf or lobo.
Canis lupus nubilus - the Great Plains or buffalo wolf.
Canis lupus occidentalis - the Canadian or Rocky Mountain wolf.
Canis lupus lycaon - the eastern or Algonquin wolf. Some scientists believe this wolf is a separate species, Canis lycaon.
Canis lupus arctos- the arctic wolf.
What is the legal status of the red wolf?
The red wolf is listed as an endangered species under the federal Endangered Species Act but with exceptions as a nonessential experimental population. Historically, red wolves once numbered in thousands. They ranged from Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas. By 1970 there were fewer than one hundred red wolves living in a small area of coastal Texas and Louisiana. To save the species from extinction, the remaining red wolves were brought into captivity. Only 14 of these animals were considered true red wolves and they became a part of the captive breeding program. In 1987, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released four pairs of red wolves into the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern North Carolina. Red wolves remain among the world’s most endangered species. The current estimate puts the only wild population of red wolves at their lowest level, just 24 known, since the late 1990s.
What is the legal status of the gray wolf in the United States?
Gray wolves were once the most widely distributed wild mammals. They inhabited most of the available land in the northern hemisphere. Due to the destruction of their habitat and persecution by humans, they now occupy only about two-thirds of their former range worldwide, and only about 10 percent of the continental 48 United States. Additional information about the current population and legal status for U.S. wolves.
How strong is the bite of a gray wolf?
The gray wolf has a very strong bite and has the largest bite pressure of any canid - ranging 400 - 1200 lbs/square inch. Muscles above the skull control the powerful jaw and enable wolves to crush the large bones of their prey.
How much do wolves weigh in North America?
The size of a wolf varies depending on what subspecies of gray wolf they belong. In general, male wolves of a given subspecies will be larger than their female counterparts. Male gray wolves of the western Great Lake states average between 70 and 110 pounds and females in that population between 50 and 90 pounds. Male wolves in parts of Canada and the northern Rocky Mountain states average 85 to 115 pounds and those females between 70 and 95 pounds. Mexican gray wolves are smaller, the adult males usually weigh in between 60 and 80 pounds and females between 50 and 70 pounds. Red wolves range in size from 45 pounds to 80 pounds. The average adult female red wolf weighs 52 pounds, and the average adult male weighs 61 pounds.
How big was the largest wolf in the world?
The largest wolf ever recorded was shot dead in northwestern Bulgaria in 2007 and weighed in at 176.4 lbs. The largest wolf recorded in Yellowstone National Park (2011) weighed in at 148. Both of these large gray wolves were male.
All wolves are meat eaters - carnivores. Wolves are gorging animals meaning they can eat great amounts of meat in a single sitting (for gray wolves - about 20 pounds) and then go for days and even weeks without food at all. Adult gray thrive on an average of 7 pounds of food per day but can survive on an average as little as 2 pounds per day. Red wolves thrive on an average of 2-5 pounds of food per day.
Wolves are not known for their speed but they can achieve top speed around 35 mph in short bursts in pursuit of prey. Wolves do have great endurance. They can travel very long distances at a lope around 5 mph.
What does "alpha wolf" mean?
The parent wolves in a pack are often referred to as the “alpha pair”, consisting of an alpha male and alpha female. While “alpha” is still widely used, most scientists prefer to identify the parents of the pack as the breeding pair or simply as the pack parents.
Is there such thing as a lone wolf?
Wolves are social animals that live in family units called packs. Every pack will be unique but most consist of a breeding pair and their offspring of different ages. Between the ages of 2 and 3 yrs old, most males and some female offspring will leave the pack in order to start a pack of their own. During this period, wolves often live alone for days, weeks or longer until they find a mate or join an existing pack.
When are wolf pups born?
For gray wolves, the average litter size is 4 – 6 pups. Different environmental pressures can determine the litter size. In areas where the prey density is low, the average litter size is smaller.
Wolves are “mono-estrus,” breeding just once a year between the months of January and March.
Wolves howl to communicate with one another over long distances. Wolves can hear one another howl up to 10 miles away in open terrain. Wolves can howl to locate other wolves, advertise the size of their pack or territory, to warn other packmates of danger, or simply to sing. Each wolf has a unique howl and when every member of the pack joins in, the individual howls and their harmonies give the listener the impression that the pack is larger than it actually is.
Why do some wolves have alphanumeric names?
Wild wolves and wolves associated with a recovery program are often identified with alphanumeric names. The Mexican gray wolves and red wolves are both a part of federally run recovery programs. These two kinds of wolves are given an identification number recorded in an official studbook that tracks their history. Capital letters (M = Male, F = Female) preceding the number indicate adult animals 24 months or older. Lowercase letters (m = male, f = female) indicate wolves younger than 24 months or pups. The capital letter “A” preceding the letter and number indicate breeding wolves.
SSP stands for Species Survival Plan. The SSP program was developed in 1981 by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) to manage and conserve a select and typically threatened or endangered species population with the cooperation of AZA-accredited Zoos and Aquariums, Certified Related Facilities and Approved Non-Member Participants. The Wolf Conservation Center is a participant in 2 separate SSPs, one for the Mexican gray wolf and the other for the red wolf.
What is an ambassador wolf?
An ambassador wolf is an exhibit wolf tasked with inspiring adult and children to understand the importance of wild wolves. At the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC), the ambassadors are raised by a dedicated group of staff and volunteers from early in their puppyhood. Because the WCC’s ambassadors will never live free in the wild, staff and volunteers strive to thank them every day for helping people better understand their wild “brothers and sisters.” Gratitude can be in the form of enrichment items and challenges to keep the ambassadors happy and healthy inside and out.
What is the scientific classification of wolves?
| 2019-04-24T17:05:03 |
https://nywolf.org/learn/wolf-faq/
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Classifying a worker as an employee or an independent contractor.
The IRS can help employers determine the status of their workers by using form Form SS-8, Determination of Worker Status for Purposes of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax Withholding. IRS Publication 15-A, Employer's Supplemental Tax Guide, is also an excellent resource.
| 2019-04-23T17:55:52 |
http://www.austinbusinesslawyer.info/2017/05/irs-tax-rules-for-independent.html
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Workplace Ethics: Which Ethical (or Unethical) Type Are You?
What would you do if you saw a co-worker stealing supplies from the office, or discovered that another employee was using company time to run a side business? People encounter ethical dilemmas like these in their workplaces all the time, and while it's usually clear when an employee is doing something wrong, it's not always clear how to handle the situation.
"We all have an innate ethic sense that lets us know the right thing to do, but we don't always follow it," said Mark Pastin, an ethics consultant and author of "Make an Ethical Difference: Tools for Better Action" (Berrett-Koehler, 2013). "Employees may go along with something they think is unethical because they fear the consequences of raising the issue."
The Conformist — This employee follows rules, rather than questioning authority figures, and tends to do things "by the book." One might think this ethical type could be counted on to always do the right thing, but the Conformist might look the other way if higher-up staff member were acting unethical, since a manager is someone he or she is supposed to obey. The Conformist will run into work-related ethical conflicts unless his or her organization has a set of rigid rules and well-defined consequences for not following them.
The Navigator — When confronted with a situation in which people are behaving unethically, Navigators rely on their innate ethics sense to guide their actions, even if these decisions aren't easy. This ethical type has a generally sound moral compass, which gives the Navigator the flexibility to make choices — even unpopular ones. Navigators' ethical sense imbues them with qualities of leadership, and others learn to respect and count on them. They will succeed in most organizations but will leave a company that is unethical.
The Negotiator — Negotiators try to make up the rules as they go along. When faced with a sketchy situation, such as a co-worker drinking on his or her lunch hour, the Negotiator might take a wait-and-see attitude to see if the incident affects his or her job in any way, to see if the drinking gets any worse or to see if anyone else notices. Navigators will encounter ethics-related trouble if their jobs require them to exercise judgment without guidelines, because they change the rules according to what seems easiest at the time.
The Wiggler — The Wiggler doesn't give a lot of thought to what is right, but instead takes the route that's most advantageous to him or her. For example, Wigglers may lie to appease a supervisor but refuse to lie again if they sense that others are beginning to suspect the supervisor. Wigglers are mostly motivated by self-interest — getting on a manager's good side, scoring a better deal for themselves or avoiding conflict. They will run into trouble when others sense that they dodge ethical issues to protect their own interests.
While no one wants to be perceived as the office whistle-blower, Pastin said, employees would naturally act more ethically by making better use of their abilities to sympathize and empathize with people affected by their actions. He also believes that ethical dilemmas are completely solvable if employees and managers are open to discussing them.
"Most ethical issues that arise in the work environment can be solved if raised in a timely manner," Pastin told BusinessNewsDaily. "The problem is that many people avoid speaking in terms of ethical concerns. Welcome disagreement and controversy in the office to foster a more ethical work environment."
| 2019-04-19T13:00:16 |
https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5608-workplace-ethics.html
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Gun Politics: When is Enough, Enough?
Gun politics has been a long-standing debate and is primarily defined by two groups: gun control and gun rights activists. Gun control is a wide-ranging term used to refer to the manufacturing, vending, transferring, the possession, modification or use of firearms. Countries such as the United Kingdom have very strict rules on gun possession while others like the United States, have an extremely liberal view on restrictions.
Since the nineties, debates regarding firearm availability and gun violence in the United States have been considered by the concerns of the population about their right to bear arms, found in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the responsibility of the government to serve the needs of its citizens and prevent any crime or death. Many gun control supporters believe that restricted gun rights help the government fulfill their responsibility and act as a gateway for an even better country. This view differs from gun rights supporters, who promote firearms for self-defense and sporting activities. They believe that guns are meant for pleasure as well as safety, yet for personal safety rather than communal.
The United States prohibits people from owning firearms when they have certain kinds of criminal records or mental illnesses, drug addictions, are immigrants without a legal status, are veterans who have a dishonorable discharge, or are members of society with a permanent restraining order. Not only that, the federal law requires that licensed gun dealers conduct a background check through a database run by the F.B.I in order to make sure the customer is not among those prohibited from owning a gun. Yet, this system has major flaws, among them incomplete listings of criminal cases. Conceivably, the largest flaw in the system is that small-scale sellers are not required to do background checks. This then allows for anyone to buy a gun thus, no restriction is really placed on the person. Theoretically, the laws implemented with gun control face very little argument, however, the practicality of it seems to loose all of its recognition.
In the last five years, there have been approximately 16 mass shootings in the United States. Now here is the million-dollar question: why has the government done nothing when it comes to gun control? When will it be enough to make a change? Unfortunately, gun rights advocates led by the National Rifle Association, who have directly lobbied for and against gun legislation since 1975, are a large and powerful faction that politicians are not fully equipped to fight against; it is a voting issue that will not create any change. Furthermore, the National Rifle Association have effectively deployed the argument that after a mass shootings, emotions are high causing for interest in restrictions to spike, however is not the time to debate the issue because people are not using facts but rather their feelings.
Other adversaries on gun control often mention that President Obama has proposed to cease the ownership of guns, especially when it comes to private ownership. Although this was never reported, many gun owners continue to believe this to be true, thus creating a larger divide within the community. The National Rifle Association even responded to the mass shooting in Newton Connecticut stating that the teachers should have been armed because the only one is able to stop a bad guy who is armed is when there is a good guy around with a gun.
It seems as if the problems that the United States faces with gun control will only be worked out if more people voice their opinion against these mass shootings. For some reason unfortunately, the tides have yet not changed, and people still believe guns are not a problem. How long will it take for them to see the devastation guns have created?
| 2019-04-21T18:05:27 |
http://www.maverickyouth.com/articles/gun-politics-when-is-enough-enough/
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Capt. Adam A. Larrabee, was a noted Connecticut soldier and farmer who graduated from the United States Military academy at West Point in 1811. He served with distinction in the war of 1812. In the campaign of the St. Lawrence river, he took part in the attack on La Colle Mills, as a first-lieutenant of artillery where he was wounded in his lung. He was elected to the Connecticut legislature in 1822.
Frederick Larrabee served on a "privateer" during the Revolutionary War. Abigail taught school at Allyn's Point. Her brother, Robert Allyn, was one of Layfayette's aides.
Nathan Lester served for 3 years in the Revolution as private in Captain Spalding's company 1st regiment, Connecticut troops, in 1781.
Timothy Larrabee - a lawyer - was paymaster in the Connecticut troops. Robert Allyn was a lieutenant from May 1775 to 1783 and was a member of the Order of the Cincinnati. Belonged to the "Sons of Freedom" and was active in efforts against Tories, even before the Revolution.
John Larrabee died in 1746 at the Battle of Louisburg in Nova Scotia which pitted British/American forces against French/Indians. Benadam Gallup fought in the French and Indian Wars.
Nicholas Street was a tailor and was appointed Deputy for the Governor Oct. 1717, and King's Deputy in 1729 - he was one of four signers to grant land to the Pequots, 20 March 1720/21.
Married John Gallup in 1643. She arrived in America aboard the "Abigail" on 10/6/1635. She is buried at Whitehall Cemetary, Mystic, CT. She provides one of the primary linkages to many French "Royals," eg, Louis IV, Charles III, Louis II, Charles II, Louis I, and Charlemagne..
Two theories on the origination of the name "Larrabee:"
1) Larrabee was originally French - L'arrive. This means "people who dwell along the river."
2) The original French name was L'arabie (Arabia) and not L'arabe (the Arab). It is highly unlikely that the first Larrabees were Arabs - it's more likely that some partook in the crusades to Arabia.
| 2019-04-23T20:26:40 |
http://montaukiowa.com/will_gene.htm
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Skylar Neese murder: Classmate pleads guilty to stabbing death, The truth about Skylar Neese's disappearance will soon come out. One of her classmates, 16-year-old Rachel Shoaf, has admitted to stabbing her friend to death and leaving her body in a ditch 20 miles from her Star City, WV home. Charges are pending against another teen who may have also been involved.
Skylar, also 16, was last seen on a July 6th surveillance video, leaving her family's apartment and getting in a car. The driver of that car (presumably Shoaf or the other suspect) was previouly adamant that she had returned her friend to her home, dropping her off down the street so she wouldn't wake her parents while sneaking back in. But there is no video of her coming back home. Her body was discovered on January 16th.
Rachel Shoaf plead guilty to second-degree murder, for which a 20-year sentence will be the state's recommendation. However, because she's really just a kid, the defense will ask that she be sentenced as a juvenile, which would carry a lighter sentence. That seems somehow wrong. She's not that far from being an adult, she committed an adult crime, why should she receive a light sentence? She murdered one of her closest friends, then lied to the girls' parents, giving them false hope for 6 months that their daughter may be coming home. Whatever her sentence, Rachel Shoaf's got it coming to her.
You may recall that Skylar was presumed a runaway, and there was very little media attention focused on her disappearance. Hopefully there will now be justice served.
| 2019-04-21T12:24:05 |
http://scunnert-nation.blogspot.com/2013/05/skylar-neese-murder-classmate-pleads.html
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And how can I remove the film? I have soaked it in soapy water, scraped it with a plastic scraper, and run it in the dishwasher several times, but I can't seem to get rid of the film.
As others have already said, it appears to be polymerized oil. It happens when oil is left in the pan hot for a long period (temperature depends on oil), or smoking for not as long. However, lye probably isn't required to remove it.
Bar Keeper's Friend and a bit of scrubbing will probably manage to take this off. As an advantage, while getting BKF on your hands will dry your hands out, it won't cause injury—unlike lye.
Alternatively, a scouring pad and plenty of elbow grease will take it off as well (though will also leave shallow scratches in the stainless—it'll not be polished anymore). Or, similarly, a sanding block or sandpaper.
I wouldn't put an aluminum core stainless (or tri-ply) in an oven on the self-clean cycle. Those get very hot, somewhere around 900°F, and I'd not at all be surprised if the pan warped.
This looks like half-polymerized oil. It happens when you overheat a layer of oil in the pan.
It won't come off through scraping. If you insist on removing it mechanically, you will have to try a polishing brush on a Dremel or something similar. I remove these chemically. Make a lye concentrate in the pot and let it sit overnight. Rinse very (!) thoroughly. This works well on stainless steel - but don't ever use it on aluminium pots!
If you don't have lye, you can also try a weaker alcali solution, like baking soda. But I doubt that it will be enough to remove the stuff.
To avoid it from happening again, don't overheat. This happens if the pan is left empty at at least 200°C for a very long time (or higher temperatures for a shorter time). There is no cooking method which requires this. Most things done in a pan are OK at around 150 to 160°C - if you are making steaks, sauteeing, etc., you should start using lower temperatures. Wokking needs these high temperatures - but first, a shallow SS pan is not good for wokking, and second, you should have more oil in there while preheating, and then move vegetables continiously around the pan while wokking. So this layer shouldn't happen at all.
1- Pour can of diced tomatoes into pan. Cook over medium heat until tomatoes start to bubble, stirring occasionally. Stir heavily once bubbling, then discard tomatoes and wash pan.
2- Fill pot with a large amount of rhubarb and water. Boil for a long time, adding water as necessary. Discard and wash.
OP also asked why this is happening. It's not absolute temperature; it's temperature relative to the smoke point if the oils you're cooking with. Let me guess -- extra virgin olive oil?
Try using higher smoke-point oils when you're saunteeing and doing high-temp things generally (peanut, sunflower, safflower, coconut, etc).
If the rest of the handle is also stainless steel you can put in your oven during a 'self-cleaning' cycle. The high heat should reduce that film to a charred residue to be cleaned off.
You might also try just pouring a can of Coca-Cola (not another cola drink) in the pan and let that sit over-night. The acid in Coke is strong enough to dissolve a nail, it will probably make short work of this.
I have a D5 Brushed Stainless pan and I got a stain like this when I let my olive oil get too hot and it started smoking a bit. I tried soaking and it just didn't budge. I decided to try baking soda. Put about an inch of water in the pan and then add in baking soda, making a paste. Let this sit on the stain for 5-10 minutes. Then scrub. I use a cotton dish rag for scrubbing but a folded paper towel seems to do in a pinch. If that isn't strong enough add in some salt and scrub some more. It took about 30-45 minutes to clean the section of my pan that was stained. This pan will probably take over an hour of scrubbing to get clean. just keep working on it and you can get most of it off.
I have had this happen to me also. I have found that using Cameo has helped me.
I agree, Bar Keeper's Friend by far is the best. You will never need steel wool again. Also great for SS sinks. Then a quick wash to release the pwdr residue.
Before I found BKF, this optional method is only for Stainless Steel Sinks, I would the fill pot half way with water and ½ cup of DishWasher powder, Cascade if possible or use more with liquid. Bring to a boil and ventilate the kitchen. It will help release and burned food and oil enough so you can scrub it off. Also using a metal spatula helped to, but it will leave some scratches. But I was able to use the pot again. You need to weigh the options. You can also warm the pan under very hot water, then scrub with a paste made from the DW powder. Use gloves.
I've had success with SOS pads (Steel wool with embedded detergent). It's not easy, and it takes a while, but I can get my steel looking like new. You'll need to re-season it before use.
Forget the rubbing and scrubbing with Bar Keepers Friend or Cameo. This way is quick and easy. Heat the empty pan on medium heat for about 2-3 minutes. Take pan outside and spray with Easy Off oven cleaner (yellow cap not blue). When you spray the pan if the oven cleaner evaporates allow the pan to cool a few seconds and then continue spraying. What you want is the oven cleaner to foam up and stay on the pan. Allow the cleaner to stay on pan for 4-5 minutes and then rinse off with hot soapy water. Your pan will look like new. Do not use this method on aluminum pans.
ProTip: Try a Fabric Softener Sheet (really!). The ones you throw in your dryer. Fill pot / container with Hot water and add a sheet. Allow to soak overnight. Use plastic scrub brush and don't remove sheet as you're scrubbing - scrub with it (slightly abrasive).
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| 2019-04-21T04:23:54 |
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/22855/how-to-remove-film-from-stainless-steel-pan
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Text During a nearly four-hour grilling before Parliament Wednesday, Alexander Nix, former CEO of the now defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica, faced the ghosts of his past.
In the green-carpeted room where the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee interrogated Nix for the second time this year, the audience included Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who blew the whistle on the surreptitious harvesting of up to 87 million Facebook users' data; Carole Cadwalladr, the Guardian reporter who broke the story; Shahmir Sanni, another whistleblower who alleges that the Brexit VoteLeave campaign flouted campaign finance laws during the referendum; and David Carroll, an American academic who has filed a legal suit against Cambridge Analytica, seeking access to his personal data file.
But of all of the individuals who have challenged Nix over the last three months, the one whose words have gotten him in the most trouble may well be Nix himself. In February, just a month before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke open in earnest, Nix testified before this very committee about Cambridge Analytica's work. Months later, following steady revelations about the company's misdeeds, the committee decided that Nix's initial answers were at best incomplete, and at worst, intentionally misleading.
The questioning started contentiously, as committee chairman Damian Collins declined to let Nix deliver an opening statement that he said would clarify misconceptions about his prior testimony. When Nix told the eight members gathered that he had to "insist" on giving the statement, Collins swiftly shut him down. "I'm sorry, sir," Collins said. "It’s not your place to insist."
Throughout his testimony, Nix worked to frame himself as the target of an unfounded international smear campaign coordinated by an ex-employee with an axe to grind (Wylie), a British journalist who wanted to undo the Brexit referendum (Cadwalladr), and an American public that's already divided over President Donald Trump's election, which Cambridge Analytica helped enable.
"I'm sorry if the members of this committee are unhappy with the outcome of the referendum. I'm sorry if the members of the committee are unhappy with Donald Trump being President of the United States," he said. "But you can’t simply put forward your prejudices onto me and make sweeping assumptions about our involvement with a particular campaign simply because that’s what you want to believe."
The members laughed in response.
"You have attempted to paint yourself as the victim," Brendan O'Hara, a member of the Scottish National Party, told Nix during the hearing. "By no stretch of the imagination can you be seen as the victim."
The committee members asked Nix to answer for additional controversies that have arisen since he last appeared before them, including a damning undercover video captured by Channel 4 News, in which Nix was caught on tape bragging about using tactics like bribery and extortion against political opponents. In particular, they pressed him on his claims of using Ukrainian women to entrap politicians. "I find that works very well," Nix said in the video.
But before the committee, he walked back those assertions: "That was just a lie to impress the people I was talking to."
Nix argued the sting video was a dirty tactic, and that it had been edited to make him look worse. In response, Channel 4 issued a statement saying, "We absolutely disagree and reject Mr. Nix's allegation."
Several committee members asked Nix about a report in the Financial Times, which said that Nix took $8 million from the company before it collapsed and is now in a standoff with investors over returning the funds. While Nix initially dismissed the report as baseless, he later told Labour MP Jo Stevens that he couldn't comment on the matter.
"Did you take $8 million out of the company?" Stevens asked directly.
"The answer to your question is, I'm not answering your question," Nix replied.
The inconsistencies continued. Nix explained why he told the committee the company never worked with Russian clients, despite the fact that it had worked with the oil company Gazprom, by saying it happened before he joined. As for why he bragged about working with Israeli intelligence agents in the Channel 4 video, Nix said, "I was totally mistaken."
Even as he admitted to his own misstatements, he repeatedly accused Wylie of outright lying. He described him as an "extremely jealous" ex-employee who "sat there and stewed as his baby grew." He said it was Wylie who introduced the company to Aleksandr Kogan, the third-party researcher who collected the Facebook data. "He was the architect for that relationship and the idea," Nix said.
Throughout his former boss's remarks, Wylie sat in the back row shaking his head at the allegations. The committee members also appeared unconvinced, calling Nix's attacks on Wylie irrelevant. Ultimately, even four hours of testimony seemed not to be enough to convince the committee to take Nix at his word.
"Facts are what we are presenting to you," said Labour MP Ian Lucas. "What we are getting back from you is bluster and rudeness."
| 2019-04-20T08:17:32 |
https://datapolitics.transparencytoolkit.org/docs/httpswwwwiredcomstoryalexander-nix-parliament-testimony-cambridge-analytica_datapolitics_dp_news
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1. Could you help me clean up?
2. Do you know how to vacuum?
3. Be careful when you open the window.
4. Could you please sweep the floor today?
5. Can you please clean the room today?
6. You can wipe the table with this rag.
7. Can you please mop the floor today?
8. Remember to empty the trash can every day.
9. Let's clear the table.
10. Can you please do the dishes?
11. Put on the rubber gloves to protect your hands.
| 2019-04-23T10:56:28 |
https://www.theeasiestclass.com/lesson-844
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(b) What are the different types of discipline?
(i). Duty Discipline: - Promise less and show more results.
(ii). Punctuality: - Promise late and complete early.
(iii). Food Discipline: -Along with the normal food try to eat seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables as per the needs of the body and not as per the taste.
(iv). Health Discipline: -Follow body hygiene/oral hygiene/, mental health and surroundings hygiene.
(v). Behavioral Discipline: -Single drop of poison spoils vessel full of milk. An uncontrolled anger/hasty/hurting word will crack down your decade relationship. So control your anger/haste/rudeness. Always talk with a smiling face coolly in a pleasing manner, ever to win all hearts.
(vi). Conscious Discipline: -Bad thoughts are mental poisons. Keep your mind absolutely pure and clean away from all bad thoughts. The mind contaminated with bad thoughts is like a leaves less, lifeless, dying tree (which is ready for an axe), whereas the pure mind is like fully blossomed lovable living tree, which attracts many colorful birds and butterflies. Similar way spotless and pure mind sprouts many noble thoughts.
(vii). Contentment Discipline: - One always should aim high in his goal. But in the materialistic world, only self-contended person enjoys continues feast of life. Like wise in every point of life, it may be driving on the road, sleep, entertainment, appointments and time schedule one must follow discipline norms, so that he will get both prosperity and peace.
(c) Why to induce self-discipline?
2. Self-discipline keeps you ever active and always cautious.
3. Self-discipline makes you punctual and prepares you to face any challenges/problems in life.
4. Self-discipline monitors and rectifies all your activities from time to time.
5. Self-discipline makes always think positively and builds character. 6. Self-discipline keeps you away from bad thoughts and habits.
7. Self-disciplined man is a targeted arrow.
8. Self-discipline is the foremost basic requirement to achieve one's goal.
10. Self-disciplinarian commands high respect.
11. Self-disciplinarian is preferred for every job.
12. Self-disciplinarian is highly reliable.
13. Self-disciplinarian is an ever-inspiring mission.
14. Self-discipline only brings self-contentment and peace.
(d). How to maintain self-discipline constantly?
1. Skip your dinner that night.
2. Make an extra meditation practice that day additionally.
3. Skip your entertainment that day.
4. Work couple of hours extra etc.
| 2019-04-23T16:19:08 |
http://srimission.org/induceselfdiscipline.htm
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A triac is a controllable medium- to high-power semi-latching solid-state AC power switch. This two-part article explains its basic operation and shows various ways of using it. Most of the practical circuits show two sets of component values for use with normal domestic/commercial 50Hz or 60Hz AC voltage supplies with nominal values of either 240V (as used in most of Europe) or (in parenthesis) 120V (as used in most of the USA). In each design, the user must use a triac with ratings to suit his or her own particular application.
FIGURE 2. Simple AC power switch with resistive (lamp) load.
The trigger current sensitivity is greatest when the MT2 and gate currents are both of the same polarity (either both positive or both negative), and is usually about half as great when they are of opposite polarity.
Figure 2 shows a triac used as a simple AC power switch, driving a resistive lamp load; assume that SW2 is closed. When SW1 is open, the triac acts as an open switch and the lamp passes zero current. When SW1 is closed, the triac is gated on via R1 and self-latches shortly after the start of each half-cycle, thus switching full power to the lamp load. The triac automatically unlatches at the end of each AC half-cycle as the instantaneous supply voltage (and thus the load current) briefly falls to zero.
In Figure 2, the task of R1 is that of limiting the peak instantaneous switch-on gate current of the triac to a safe value; its resistance (combined with that of the load) must be greater than the peak supply voltage (roughly 350V in a 240V AC circuit, 175V in a 120V circuit) divided by the triac's peak gate current rating (which is usually given in the triac manufacturer's extended data sheets).
Note in Figure 2 (and in most other triac circuits shown in this mini-series) that — for safety reasons — the load is wired in series with the AC supply's neutral (N) line, and master on/off switch SW2 can isolate the entire circuit from the live (L) line.
FIGURE 3. Simple AC power switch with inductive load and C1-R2 snubber network to give rate effect suppression.
Most triacs, like SCRs, are susceptible to 'rate-effect' problems. Internal capacitances inevitably exist between the main terminals and gate of a triac, and if a sharply rising voltage appears on either main terminal it can — if its rate-of-rise exceeds the triac's dV/dt rating — cause enough break-through to the gate to trigger the triac on. This unwanted 'rate-effect' turn-on can be caused by supply line transients; the problem is, however, particularly severe when driving inductive loads such as electric motors, in which load currents and voltages are out of phase, thus making a large voltage suddenly appear on the main terminals each time the triac unlatches as its main terminal current falls to near-zero in each operating half-cycle.
Rate-effect problems can usually be overcome by wiring an R-C 'snubber' network between MT1 and MT2, to limit the voltage rate-of-rise to a safe value, as shown (for example) in the triac power switch circuit in Figure 3, where R2-C1 form the snubber network. Some modern triacs have enhanced dV/dt ratings (typically 750V/mS) and are virtually immune to rate-effect problems; these triacs are known as 'snubberless' types.
FIGURE 4. Basic AC lamp dimmer with RFI suppression via C1-L1.
A triac can be used to give variable AC power control by using a 'phase-delayed switching' technique, in which the triac is triggered part-way through each half-cycle. Each time the triac is gated on, its load current switches sharply (in a few microseconds) from zero to a value set by its load resistance and instantaneous supply voltage values. In resistively loaded circuits such as lamp dimmers, this switching action inevitably generates a pulse of RFI, which is least when the triac is triggered close to the 0° and 180° 'zero crossing' points of the supply line waveform (at which the switch-on currents are minimal), and is greatest when the device is triggered 90° after the start of each half cycle (where the switch-on currents are at their greatest).
The RFI pulses occur at twice the supply line frequency, and can be very annoying. In lamp dimmers, RFI can usually be eliminated by fitting the dimmer with a simple L-C filter network as shown in Figure 4. The filter is fitted close to the triac, and greatly reduces the rate-of-rise of the AC power line currents.
A diac is a two-terminal bidirectional trigger device; it can be used with voltages of either polarity and is usually used in conjunction with a triac; Figure 5 shows its circuit symbol. The diac's basic action is such that, when connected across a voltage source via a current-limiting load resistor, it acts like a high impedance until the applied voltage rises to about 35V, at which point it triggers and acts like a low-impedance 30V zener diode, and 30V is developed across the diac and the remaining 5V appears across the load resistor. The diac remains in this state until its forward current falls below a minimum holding value (this occurs when the supply voltage falls below the 30V 'zener' value), at which point the diac turns off again.
FIGURE 6. Basic diac-type variable phase-delay lamp dimmer circuit. Figure 7 . Quadrac symbol.
The diac is most often used as a trigger device in phase-triggered triac variable power control applications, as in the basic lamp dimmer circuit of Figure 6. Here, in each power line half-cycle, the R1-RV1-C1 network applies a variable phase-delayed version of the half-cycle to the triac gate via the diac, and when the C1 voltage rises to 35V, the diac fires and delivers a 5V trigger pulse (from C1) into the triac gate, thus turning the triac on and simultaneously applying power to the lamp load and removing the drive from the R-C network. The mean power to the load (integrated over a full half-cycle period) is thus fully variable from near-zero to maximum via RV1.
In the early development days of the triac, some specialist devices were manufactured with a built-in diac in series with the triac gate; such devices were known as quadracs and used the Figure 7 circuit symbol. Quadracs were not a commercial success, and are now obsolete.
The simplest type of triac power switch is that of Figure 2, in which the triac is gated on via R1 when SW1 is closed; only 1V or so is generated across the triac when it is on, so R1 and SW1 consume very little mean power; Figure 3 shows the same circuit fitted with a 'snubber' network. There are many useful variations of these basic circuits. Figure 8, for example, shows a version that can be triggered via an AC-derived DC supply. C1 charges (via R1-D1) to +10V on each positive AC power line half-cycle, and this charge triggers the triac when SW1 is closed. Note that R1 is subjected to almost the full AC line voltage at all times, and thus needs a fairly high power rating, and that all parts of this circuit are 'live,' making it difficult to interface to external control circuitry.
FIGURE 8. AC power switch with AC-derived DC triggering. FIGURE 9. Isolated-input (optocoupled) AC power switch, DC triggered.
Figure 9 shows the above circuit modified to give 'isolated' interfacing to external control circuitry. SW1 is simply replaced by transistor Q2, which is driven from the phototransistor side of an optocoupler. The coupler's LED is driven via an external DC supply via R1, and the triac turns on only when SW1 is closed; SW1 can be replaced by electronic switching circuitry, if desired.
FIGURE 10. Isolated-input AC power switch, AC triggered. FIGURE 11. AC power switch with transistor aided DC triggering.
Figure 10 shows a variation in which the triac is AC triggered in each half-cycle via the AC impedance of C1-R1 and via back-to-back zeners ZD1-ZD2, and C1 dissipates near-zero power. Bridge rectifier D1-D4 is wired across the ZD1-ZD2-R2 network and is loaded by Q2. When Q2 is off, the bridge is effectively open and the triac is gated on in each half-cycle, but when Q2 is on, a near-short appears across ZD1-ZD2-R2, and the triac is off. Q2 is driven via the optocoupler from the isolated external circuit, and the triac is on when SW1 is open and off when SW1 is closed.
FIGURE 12. Isolated-input AC power switch with DC triggering.
Figures 11 and 12 show variations in which the triac is triggered via a transformer-derived DC supply and a transistor-aided switch. In Figure 11, Q2 and the triac are both driven on when SW1 is closed, and are off when SW1 is open. In practice, SW1 can be replaced by electronic circuitry, enabling the triac to be activated via heat, light, sound, time, etc. Note, however, that the whole of this circuit is 'live.' Figure 12 shows the circuit modified for optocoupler operation, enabling it to be activated via fully-isolated external circuitry.
Another way to obtain fully-isolated triac switching is via the UJT circuits in Figures 13 and 14, in which the UJT is an old 2N2646 type or a modern near-equivalent. In these circuits, the triggering action is obtained via UJT oscillator Q2, which operates at several kHz and feeds output pulses to the triac gate via pulse transformer T1, which provides the desired 'isolation.' Because of its fairly high oscillating frequency, the UJT triggers the triac within a few degrees of the start of each AC power-line half-cycle when the oscillator is active.
FIGURE13. Isolated-input (transformer-coupled) AC power switch. FIGURE 14. Isolated-input AC power switch.
In Figure 13, Q3 is in series with the UJT's main timing resistor, so the UJT and triac turn on only when SW1 is closed. In Figure 14, Q3 is wired in parallel with the UJT's main timing capacitor, so the UJT and triac turn on only when SW1 is open.
FIGURE 15. Typical optocoupled triac outline and operating characteristics.
Figure 16. Low-power lamp control via an optocoupled triac.
The gate junctions of a 'naked' triac are inherently photosensitive, and an optocoupled triac can thus be made by mounting a 'naked' triac and LED close together in a single package. Figure 15 shows the outline and lists the characteristics of a typical six-pin DIL version of such a device, in which the LED has a maximum current rating of 50mA, the triac has maximum ratings of 400V and 100mA RMS (and a surge current rating of 1.2A for 10mS), and the entire package has an isolating voltage rating of 1.5kV and a typical input current trigger sensitivity of 5mA.
Optocoupled triacs are easy to use and provide excellent electrical isolation between input and output. The input is used like a normal LED, and the output like a low-power triac. Figure 16 shows the device used to activate an AC line-powered filament lamp, which must have an RMS rating below 100mA and a peak inrush current rating below 1.2A.
FIGURE 17. High-power control via a triac slave. FIGURE 18. Driving an inductive load.
Figure 17 shows an optocoupled triac used to activate a slave triac, thereby driving a load of any desired power rating. This circuit is suitable for use only with non-inductive loads such as lamps and heating elements. It can be modified for use with inductive loads such as electric motors by using the connections in Figure 18. Here, the R2-C1-R3 network provides a degree of phase-shift to the triac gate-drive network, to ensure correct triac triggering action, and R4-C2 form a snubber network to suppress rate effects.
A synchronous 'zero-voltage' (or 'integral cycle') power switch is one in which the triac invariably turns on just after the start of each power half-cycle (i.e., near the waveform's zero-voltage point) and then turns off again automatically at the end of it, thus generating minimal RFI. In most power switching circuits shown so far in this article, the triac turns on at an arbitrary point in its initial switch-on half-cycle, thus producing a potentially high initial burst of RFI, but then gives a synchronous zero-voltage switching action on all subsequent half-cycles.
A truly synchronous zero-voltage circuit uses the switching system in Figure 19, in which the triac can only be gated on near the start or 'zero-voltage' point of each half-cycle, and thus produces minimal RFI. This system is widely used to give on/off control of high-current loads such as electric heaters, etc.
FIGURE 19. Synchronous zero-voltage AC power switching system. FIGURE 20. Synchronous AC power switch.
Figure 20 shows a practical synchronous zero-voltage AC power switch; 10V DC is AC-derived via R7-D1-ZD1 and C2 and is switched to the triac gate via Q2, which is controlled via SW1 and 'zero-voltage' detector Q3-Q4-Q5 and can supply gate current only when SW1 is closed and Q3 is off.
FIGURE. 21 Alternative version of the synchronous AC power switch.
In the zero-voltage detector, Q4 or Q5 are driven on whenever the AC line voltage is more than a few volts (set by RV1) above or below zero, thereby driving Q3 on via R5 and inhibiting Q2. Thus, gate current can only be fed to the triac when SW1 is closed and the instantaneous AC line voltage is within a few volts of zero; this circuit thus generates minimal switching RFI.
Figure 21 shows the circuit modified so that the triac can only turn on when SW1 is open. Note in both cases that only a narrow pulse of gate current is fed to the triac, and the mean gate current is thus only 1mA or so. SW1 can be replaced by an electronic switch or optocoupler, if desired, thus enabling the load to be activated by light or temperature levels or by time, etc.
In practice, the simplest way of making a really efficient synchronous 'zero-voltage' triac-driving circuit is with the aid of a special-purpose IC that functions as an optocoupled low-power synchronous 'zero-voltage' triac that can easily be used as a slave for synchronously driving a normal high-power triac.
A triac is a controllable medium- to high-power semi-latching solid-state AC power switch. This special two-part article explains its basic operation and shows various applications it can be used in.
| 2019-04-19T12:25:46 |
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/triac_principles_and_circuits_part_1
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What comes to mind when you hear the words "birthday party"? I know I immediately think "cake and ice cream"....or more specifically, chocolate cake and ice cream (but that would be for my party). In this case, we were having a little celebration for my stepson's birthday, and instead of a birthday cake, he requested his favorite cookies....molasses crinkles.
Molasses crinkles have been around forever. I think it was one of the first cookies that I attempted as a child when my mom insisted that I start baking from a recipe and stop wasting ingredients by randomly mixing together stuff from the kitchen cupboards; I believed that I had hoped that my science experiments would produce a yummy dessert (I never made anything yummy that way, just disgusting, gloppy messes that had to be thrown away).
This molasses crinkle recipe (skip ahead to the end for that) yields my favorite kind of cookie....thick and chewy and buttery.
And yes, cookies can be the festive star of a birthday party table if you stack them up on a pretty pedestal or serving dish...and then add the birthday year in candles.
These are the candles-as-numbers that you can get at any grocery store. Those little tabs on the bottom of the candle are useless when it comes to trying to stand them up in cakes or cupcakes (forget about cookies), so I stuck a toothpick into the bottoms, and it worked beautifully when it came time to sit each on top of my nice, neat cookie stacks.
Introducing some good vanilla ice cream to the cookies elevates them to true birthday-celebration status.
Is adding the chocolate ganache to this already wonderful cookie/ice cream duo just gilding the lily? Nope. Not in my house. I added a splash of coffee liqueur to the ganache (click here for the recipe) to enhance and deepen the chocolate, and it tasted fabulous with the molasses and ginger of the cookies and the creamy vanilla ice cream.
Cream together the butter and brown sugar. Add the egg and beat well. Add the molasses, and beat until light and fluffy.
Sift together the flour, soda, salt, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger (another option is to use a whisk to mix dry ingredients and remove any lumps).
Add dry ingredients to the butter-sugar-egg-molasses mixture, and mix just until combined (you don't want to see any traces of the flour mixture, but you don't want to over mix either). Chill the dough for at least 2 hours; overnight is better. Chilling the dough well helps to prevent the cookies from spreading in the oven and produces a thick, chewy cookie.
Using a spoon or a tablespoon-sized ice cream scoop, form small-walnut sized balls. Roll each ball in granulated sugar and place on a non-stick cookie sheet (using parchment paper is even better, since it eliminates any sticking). Sprinkle each unbaked cookie with a few drops of water (this causes the cookies to crack when they bake) and bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the cookies are set, not hard (they will firm up as they cool). Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 15 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful post and delicious recipe with Roses of Inspiration. Have a wonderful day! Hugs!
Thank you Stephanie! I hope you have a wonderful day and week!
My husband would approve! Though he would probably want pie and ice-cream for his birthday.
I guess that's the prerogative of the birthday boy or girl-- you get to choose your own birthday treat. Thanks for visiting!
Lela, thank you and thanks for inviting me to your link party-- I'll be there on Thursday!
Hi Melissa! Thanks for stopping by Inspiration Thursday and linking up. I can't wait to try this recipe. I think I may have pinned it twice, just because it looks so delicious. Hope to see you next week!
Molasses cookies to me always remind me of Christmas as that's when my family serves them.... But I think a birthday celebration is worthy of them too! I think I would prefer cookies and ice cream to cake and ice cream, although I definitely wouldn't turn down the cake!
Yes, these cookies are great for Christmas too. And I have made my favorite cookie recipes for my birthday several times-- it all depends on what I'm in the mood for. Thanks for visiting.
Kimberly, thank you for your kind words! As soon as I'm done with the next post, I will definitely link it to Fabulous Party.
Sarah, thank you and thanks for visiting!
Melissa I am so excited to have this recipe! I picked up one of these at an event a week ago and hope to find buttery chewy softness, but no it was hard! UGH! Yours look delicious! We are much more cookie people than cake in our house. Now, let's talk dishes. . .I'm a cherry fanatic and you have me drooling girl! lol! Love, love your pretties and your photography is amazing! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
Jann, I know exactly what you mean about hard cookies! I'm a dense, chewy cookie person too. I love these dishes too, and guess what? They are plastic! ( or more accurately, melamine, made to look like paper plates, ripply edge and all). I'm a huge fan of cute, plastic and melamine plates and trays for picnics, camping, taking goodies to the office, etc.since you don't have to worry about breaking anything. Thanks for visiting and thanks for your nice comment!
This recipe looks great and I can't wait to try. The other thing I really liked were your red checked bowls and plates. Can you tell me what brand they both are and where you got them? Thanks!
Sarah, the plates are actually melamine/plastic made to look like paper plates. I got the red checked plates in a shop in Julian, California and the cherry patterned plates from a shop called Mrs. Tiggy Winkles in old town Riverside, California (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mrs-Tiggy-Winkles/628736680474468?sk=timeline). Unfortunately, she doesn't have a website or online retail, just a facebook page. The information on the bottom of the plates says onehundred80degrees.com. The red checked bowls are also plastic, I got them at Ralphs grocery store. All this is part of my 'plastic collection'-- which I like to use for entertaining outside, picnics, and so on. Thanks for visiting!
They do sell some things online, so the plates may be available there.
Hi there :) I found you via Cozy Little House. Those looks incredible!
Yum those look fantastic! Thanks for joining Home Sweet Home!
I have never had a molasses crinkle, but I can see this being right up my father-in-law's alley (mine too, but then again anything with sugar is up mine!) I am pinning to try!
Thanks Jemma! It's great to meet someone who lives out west and loves this part of the country.
| 2019-04-23T23:57:34 |
http://www.dancingdogcabin.com/2015/06/when-cookie-meets-some-ice-cream.html
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I have now taken the little test here to see what my visual recognition is like.
In the face recognition test, you were asked to learn the faces of 10 women. When you were tested on these faces, you had to indicate whether a face on the screen was one you learned or one that you hadn't seen before.
Out of 20 familiar faces, you correctly responded that you had seen 15 faces before.
Out of 30 unfamiliar faces, you correctly responded that you had NOT seen 25 faces before.
Overall, you got 80% correct! The average score on this test is 85% correct. Your percentile rank on this test was 28.
In the object recognition test, you were asked to memorize 10 images of eyeglasses. When you were tested on these eyeglasses, you had to indicate whether a pair of eyeglasses on the screen was one you learned or one that you hadn't seen before.
Out of 20 familiar eyeglasses, you correctly responded that you had seen 17 eyeglasses before.
Out of 30 unfamiliar eyeglasses, you correctly responded that you had NOT seen 21 eyeglasses before.
Overall, you got 76% correct! The average score on this test is 86% correct. Your percentile rank on this test was 14.
In the verbal recognition test, you were asked to learn the names of 12 men. When you were tested on these names, you had to indicate which of four names was one of the names that you had learned.
Out of 12 sets of names, you correctly chose the familiar name 10 times.
Overall, you got 83% correct! The average score on this test is 77% correct. Your percentile rank on this test was 65.
There are several things that strike me as peculiar here.
1. Why did they test the names with a different procedure than the eyeglasses and faces?
2. I am a bit startled that I didn't do worse at the objects and faces; I was expecting those percent corrects to be much lower than the name one, both before and after I had taken the tests.
3. Despite the percent correct on the objects and faces not being too much lower than the average, my percentile scores are significantly lower. I'd be curious to see what the spread is like.
4. The average score for recognizing eyeglasses is slightly higher than the average score for recognizing faces. I find that extremely odd (though probably not statistically significant). I wonder if it's a consequence of the faces being in different positions in different pictures but the eyeglasses being in the same position in all the pictures.
| 2019-04-23T13:52:21 |
https://tiger-spot.livejournal.com/58305.html
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How do industry specialist intermediary organisations (SIOs) intermediate dynamic industry transitions?
How do industry specialist intermediary organisations (SIOs) intermediate dynamic industry transitions? An industry comprises a number of firms and each firm in its own right operates at a level of competitiveness. Competitiveness is defined by either greater efficiency with which to compete on price with others in the market place or unique market positioning with innovative products and services and distinctive performance relative to the market place. This conceptual paper seeks to explore how certain SIOs may perform particular functions to enable clients to transition towards higher competitiveness, considered through gains in either efficiency or innovativeness, with the intent of changing an industry level profile.
There is considerable literature on the construct of industry transition (eg Porter, 1990; McGahan, 2000a,b; Geels, 2002). However, how an SIO manages their role in facilitating industry transition has received little attention. This occurs largely due to the cross-level analysis requirement of such a study and cross-level analyses are relatively rare (Terjesen, Hessels & Li, 2013;Turnheim, et al, 2015). It is possible, for example, that specialist intermediary organisations could take leadership using intermediary activities as key value propositions with which to influence actors within an industry or industry sector. Strong leadership and sound decision-makers are required to achieve this outcome and consequently, relationships and feedback loops/events between economic actors and the environments (or systems) in which they operate warrant academic examination.
Conceptualising meaningful constructs (and sourcing sound empirical evidence) of how increased levels of firm competitiveness may result in industry transitions from intermediary activities initiated by SIOs is an ongoing problem for policy-makers, industry leaders and/or academics alike. Secondly, relationships between partners change dynamically. Therefore, this paper explores whether increased levels of competitiveness driven by the activities of SIOs may be seen to equal industry transitions and how it is these specialist intermediary organisations manage the process.
3) how IOs potentially may use this leadership towards industry transitions through their own innovation strategies.
Part Two theorises how a nexus could occur between SIOs and industry transition through multiple transformation processes, using a paradox where SIOs could simultaneously be understood as an entity (noun) and as an organiser of processes (verb) involving intermediary actions. An output of this paper is an attempt to typify SIOs for research purposes, and to suggest how an SIO may be observed to influence industry transitions through their efforts to assist multiple firms gain higher levels of competitiveness. Key literatures used to position this conceptual paper include RBV and ERBV of the firm, economic learning, Dynamic Capabilities, entrepreneurial innovation systems and industry transition models.
An output of this paper is an attempt to typify SIOs for research purposes. An attempt is also made to theorise for future empirical research a nexus between SIOs and dynamic industry transition by appreciating organisations both as an entity and as an organising agency using transformation processes to achieve change. Several questions arise with respect to SIOs’ strategies in the creation, validation and consolidation of key intermediary activities and leadership outcomes forming a set of research propositions for future research purposes. By positioning a conceptual model based on how an SIO could create, validate and consolidate key intermediary functions, and take leadership to influence other organisations within dynamic industry sector marketplaces, this conceptual paper suggests how a SIO may be observed to intermediate industry transitions, at least in part, through their efforts to assist multiple firms gain higher levels of competitiveness. This conceptual model will provide some direction for future research.
| 2019-04-24T23:45:52 |
https://uiin-asiapacific.com/index/scheduledetails/id/80
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Find here the history of the festival, its awards, its highlights and guests.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Eric Gandois, Joan Sfar, Rebecca Zlotowski, Quarxx and François Descraques.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Carlo de Boutiny, Alexandre Bustillo, François Cognard, Guillaume Lemans, Julien Maury, Benjamin Rocher and Raphaël Rocher.
Eric Gandois, Joan Sfar, Rebecca Zlotowski, Quarxx and François Descraques.
Issa López, winner of this edition with her film Tigers are not Afraid.
Joseph Khan at the PIFFF for the second time for the international premiere of Bodied.
Joan Sfar, jury member for this edition.
Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury present Leatherface.
Orelsan, one of the voices in Mutafukaz.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Olivier Afonso (special effects, director), Stéphane Debac (actor), Xavier Jamaux (musician), Tom Kan (graphic designer, artistic director), Michel Koch (artistic director, concept artist).
Dario Argento was there to present a restored version of Opéra and Richard Stanley was presenting Hardware.
For the first time, PIFFF partnered with the Climax Grand Prix which aims to bring out and highlight genre cinema script-writers and scenarios. The jury was composed of Marc Caro, Marina de Van, Pascal Sid, Noémie Devide, Jérome Vidal and Manuel Chiche.
Dario Argento and Richard Stanley to present Opéra and Hardware.
Julie Ducournau, Grand Prix winner for her film Raw, at the closing ceremony.
Gaspar Noé in the audience for the screening of Opéra by Dario Argento.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Joyce A. Nashawati (director and script writer), Fleur & Manu (directors), Run (author and illustrator) and Seth Gueko (musician).
Roxane Duran and Lucile Hadzihalilovic presenting Evolution.
Joyce A. Nashawati for Q & A about her film Blind Sun.
Thierry Poiraud, winner of this edition with the film Alone.
Stephen Fingleton for The Survivalist.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Rob, Bastien Vivès, Céline Tran, Antoine Blossier and Kook Ewo.
The jury for the French short film competition: Rob, Bastien Vivès, Céline Tran, Antoine Blossier and Kook Ewo.
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, winners of this edition with their film Spring.
Esteban Roel and Juanfer Andrés presenting their film Shrew's Nest.
From this edition onwards, there is no longer a jury for the international competition: the public votes for the winner for the Golden Eye Prize.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Willie Cortes, Alex Cortes, Annick Mahnert, Jérémie Perrin and Sébastien Prangère.
Álex de la Iglesia attending the festival opening ceremony and presenting Witching and Bitching.
Bruno Forzani with the team for The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears.
Marçal Forès, director of Animals.
The Jury of the international competition was composed of: Pascal Laugier, Nicolas Boukhrief, Xavier Gens, Laurent Courtiaud and Julien Carbon.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Anaïs Bertrand, Eddy Brière, Rodolphe Chabrier and Abel Ferry.
Pascal Laugier, Nicolas Boukhrief, Xavier Gens, Laurent Courtiaud and Julien Carbon.
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani to present their part of ABC of Death.
Michael J. Bassett surrounded by nurses from Silent Hill : Revelation 3D.
Oriol Paulo, winner of this edition for his film The Body.
Paul Hyett presenting his first film The Seasoning House (out of competition).
The Jury of the international competition was composed of: Roger Avary, Christophe Gans, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Jaume Balagueró.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Hélène Saint-Riquier, Antoine Charreyron, Stéphane Chaput, Juan Carlos Medina, Sébastien Bacchini and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini.
Roger Avary, Christophe Gans, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Jaume Balagueró.
Joseph Kahn at the closing ceremony to present his film Detention, at the closing ceremony.
Howard J. and Jonathan Ford, directors of The Dead.
| 2019-04-23T23:53:37 |
http://www.pifff.fr/festivalhistory-en
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What is the difference between an electron and a photon?
I had the same question. When I researched this at @Electricity is energy [the real title of the article is “Electricity Is NOT Energy”], I found out that electrons are tiny particles of matter. They are the bits of matter within an atom that vibrate around the nucleus of an atom. Electrons can also fly about freely or travel slowly and are not just found within atoms. In a copper wire, for example, they can be found loose, outside atoms, traveling slowly, a few inches per minute.
Electrons have a negative charge, which means only that they move away from other negatively charged matter (other electrons) and are drawn to positively charged matter (protons, often ones in the nuclei of atoms).
But photons are units (packets of energy) of an electromagnetic wave. They are not bits of matter. A type of photon that we experience very intimately all the time is the photons of visible light. These hit our retina and cause chemical changes or hit a photographic plate. In both cases, the photons create chemical changes which ultimately create images.
Light is just one type of electromagnetic energy. Other types of electromagnetic energy are X-rays (a high-energy wave), waves that carry radio signals and TV signals, microwaves in a microwave oven, etc. All of the bits of energy that are associated with these waves are photons.
Photons have neither negative nor positive charge. They are not matter and have no mass. They travel the speed of light when in a vacuum like in outer space (which is not a complete vacuum, really). But they can travel much slower when traveling through a medium like water or even air.
Photons and electrons interact to create flows of electricity. Both are involved. Electricity is not merely a flow of electrons in a wire; it is also a flow of photons in an electromagnetic wave.
| 2019-04-22T10:51:54 |
http://www.quantumphysicslady.org/category/photons/
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Here's a somewhat surprising unpublished opinion from the California Court of Appeal (Fourth Appellate District, Division Two).
The plaintiff, who claimed the defendant gave her genital herpes, won a verdict of $4 million in compensatory damages and $2.8 million in punitive damages. That compensatory award included $2.5 million for future medical expenses.
On appeal, the defendant argued (among other things) that no substantial evidence supported the award of future medical expenses. The Court of Appeal agreed and reduced the compensatory damages from $4 million to $1.6 million.
After reading that part of the opinion, I was expecting the Court of Appeal to do one of two things: (1) reduce the amount of punitive damages to preserve the punitive-to-compensatory ratio awarded by the jury, as the Court of Appeal did in Las Palmas Associates v. Las Palmas Center Associates (1991) 235 Cal.App.3d 1220, 1254, or (2) send the case back to the trial court to re-evaluate the amount of punitive damages in light of the reduced compensatory damages award, as the Court of Appeal did in SEIU v. Colcord (2008) 160 Cal.App.4th362.
Surprisingly, the court followed neither approach, and instead affirmed the punitive damages award based on its conclusion that the ratio of compensatory damages, as reduced, was not excessive. In my view, that approach overlooks the fact that juries are instructed to make their punitive award proportionate to the actual harm to the plaintiff. The jury in this case performed this task based on an extremely inaccurate assessment of the actual harm. It seems very unlikely that the jurors would have awarded exactly the same amount of punitive damages if they had known that the correct amount of "actual harm" was $2.5 million less than they thought.
More surprisingly, the court did not publish its opinion, even though it departs from the approach taken in published cases on this issue. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, because this has happened before. As I said at that time, I expect this issue will eventually make its way to the California Supreme Court.
| 2019-04-21T02:23:04 |
http://www.calpunitives.com/2011/03/behr-v-redmond-28m-punitive-award.html
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The purpose of this paper is to organize and summarize existing information on delayed medical attention for women with breast cancer and identify research needs in this area. This review is organized in six parts: origins and permanence of the message "do not delay" medical attention for potential cancer symptoms; definition and classification of breast cancer delay; impact of delay on breast cancer prognosis; factors related to breast cancer delay and the ways these have been studied; the study of breast cancer delay in Mexico; and directions for future research in developing countries, with a special focus on Mexico. We point out the need of a more integral study of delay that takes into account socio-structural and health services factors, in order to find modifiable factors towards which political actions should be directed to improve breast cancer medical attention in underdeveloped countries.
El objetivo de esta revisión es integrar información disponible con respecto al retraso en la atención médica del cáncer de mama e identificar necesidades de investigación en este tema. La revisión consta de seis apartados: origen del mensaje "no retrasar" ante la aparición de síntomas de cáncer; definición y clasificación del retraso en la atención del cáncer de mama; impacto del retraso sobre el pronóstico de la enfermedad; factores asociados con el retraso; la investigación del retraso en la atención del cáncer de mama en México; y necesidades de investigación en este tema. Se señala la necesidad de estudiar el retraso en la atención del cáncer de mama de forma más integral, tomando en cuenta características socio-estructurales y de servicios de salud, para identificar factores modificables hacia los cuales dirigir esfuerzos para mejorar la atención de esta enfermedad en países en vías de desarrollo.
The majority of breast cancer deaths occur in developing countries.1 Mortality reductions achieved in the last decades in developed countries have not been achieved in developing countries mainly because of a lack of access to early medical attention.2 Most cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMC) are detected at later stages than in high-income countries.3 It is commonly assumed that this late diagnosis is due to the population's lack of information and to deficient coverage of screening programs. However, there are very few research studies on the reasons behind delayed medical attention for breast cancer in women in underdeveloped countries.
The purpose of this review is to organize, summarize and critically assess existing information on delayed medical attention for women with breast cancer and identify research needs in this area for LMC.
Information from 96 studies is summarized in this review. Selected studies were analyzed in order to respond to specific objectives. Results are presented in six parts, each of which corresponds to one of these objectives: I) understand the origins of the message "do not delay when you discover breast cancer signs or symptoms"; II) review the different definitions and classifications of delay used; III) analyze what is known to date regarding the impact of delay on prognosis; IV)identify factors related to delay and the most relevant methodological features of studies analyzing them; V) critically analyze available information on delay in Mexico; and thus VI) identify research needs on this topic in LMC, with a special focus in Mexico.
Origin and permanence of the message "do not delay"
Since the creation of the "radical mastectomy" surgical technique developed by William Halsted in the late 19th century, a widespread belief originated among surgeons about surgery being able to "cure" patients if done "in time".9 Halsted himself wrote: "a cure for breast cancer is not only possible, but, if operated upon early, quite probable."10 For over 70 years, research has thrown results in both directions, supporting and rejecting an association between delay and survival. Despite the controversy, the prevailing message among doctors, researchers and lay people since the beginning of the 20th century has been do not delay medical attention when dis covering cancer symptoms. Nevertheless, this controversy could have contributed to hinder recognition of the importance of research on factors that could explain delay. Before we further discuss this issue, we will review the most accepted definition and classification of delay.
Total delay in cancer is defined as more than three months between symptom discovery by the patient and the beginning of medical treatment. Longer delays are associated with reduced survival.8 Studies done in different countries have estimated total breast cancer delay to range from 17%11 in a population sample of the Saarland region in Germany to up to 42.5%12 in a regional hospital sample in Tehran, Iran. Total delay is usually divided into patient delay and provider delay.
The first study on cancer delay where these two types of delay are described was done by Pack and Gallo in 1938. They defined "undue patient delay" as "three months or more elapsed time between discovery of symptoms and a visit to a physician."13 This first definition has been surprisingly preserved for 70 years in most studies of patient delay, even though the time threshold was established arbitrarily.
Provider delay refers to a prolonged period of time between the initial medical consultation and the beginning of definitive treatment. It is also known as system or doctor delay. Pack and Gallo defined one month as "adequate time for the physician to take appropriate action."13 This too was arbitrarily established. Although other researchers have used it, variability of the period of time used to define provider delay has been greater than that of patient delay.
In this section we argue that delay adversely affects survival due to disease progression. Study results regarding the relation between delay and the most important known prognostic factors are discussed. Table I summarizes general characteristics and results of these studies.
This association was taken for granted during at least a century,9 but it was proved in 1999.8 Prior to this, various studies yielded contradictory findings. Differences in conclusions between studies may be due to: 1) differing sample characteristics (including patients in all clinical stages or only patients with operable cancer), 2) differences in the delay interval studied (patient, diagnostic, treatment, provider, total delay or different combinations) and 3) differences in time periods used to define delay (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 6 months, etc.).
The association between provider delay and survival has been more controversial. Some authors have reported no association19,31 while others have found an inverse association between diagnosis delay and survival time.20 Furthermore, others have found a direct association which might seem paradoxical, i.e. the greater the provider delay, the longer the survival.24 This has been explained as the ability of health providers to identify more advanced cases, with a probable short time of survival, and speed up the beginning of treatment. Studies in support of this argument have found that small tumors24,32 and early clinical stage33 are associated with delay, probably because diagnosis of early disease is more challenging for physicians.
These findings might be taken with skepticism by clinicians, as breast cancer can disseminate early in the course of disease.34 It has recently been shown that even cells from ductal carcinoma in situ can metastasize.35 This could make us wonder how important could a delay of three to six months in the clinical phase of the disease actually be. While for many patients, delays between three and six months would probably not have an impact on five-year survival,8 it has been well documented that as delay time increases, so does the probability of clinical progression,25 which has shown to negatively affect survival.25,36 Even though breast cancer's natural history is unpredictably heterogeneous,34,37 most studies have shown a reduction in mortality with earlier diagnosis.38 Therefore, as long as this disease can not be prevented, efforts should be kept in direction of early and adequate diagnosis and treatment.
Most studies have found that the longer the delay, the more likely a woman is diagnosed in advanced stages (Table I). Studies that have considered total delay or patient delay as independent variables (using the most accepted operational definitions) have consistently confirmed this association.11,20,22,23,25-28,39-43 The meta-analysis performed by the London group8 also found 13 published studies that confirm this same result.
Tumor size is one of the most important prognostic factors in breast cancer.7 After clinical stage, it is the prognostic factor that has most consistently been associated with delay.15,24,26-28,40-43,48,49 The longer the delay, the greater the tumor size at diagnosis. This is another indicator of delay's effect on disease progression.
Breast cancer delay is not only associated with a reduced survival time. Given that the longer the delay, the more likely for the patient to present with large tumors and regional lymph node involvement, delay conveys a greater risk of needing more aggressive treatments. Hence, the longer the delay, the more likely it is for a woman to require mastectomy instead of conservative surgery as well as more toxic or extended adjuvant treatment.52 Patients diagnosed with advanced disease have also shown to have important psychological morbidity.53 Both these aspects strongly impact the patient's quality of life.
Different factors have been pointed out in relation to patient and provider delay. In this section we discuss the most important factors studied in relation to patient delay and provider delay and the methodological features of these studies.
As shown in Table II, according to the systematic review done by Ramirez et al,54 the only socio-demographic factors that seemed to be strongly associated with patient de lay up to 1999 were the patient's single marital status and advanced age. However, subsequent studies have continued to come up with contradictory results.5,7,11,12,32,43,50,55-58 There seems to be consensus regarding the influence on delay of presenting breast symptoms different from a lump18,21,39,41,57,59 and the patient's initial interpretation of her symptoms as "not serious."11,54,57,59 Though not conclusive, other factors that seem to be of great importance are low education and ethnicity other than non-Hispanic white (in countries where the majority of the population is Caucasian).54 Several studies report a reduced survival time of Hispanic-American and African-American patients23,46,60 as well as breast cancer diagnosis at more advanced clinical stages23,46,61-63 in comparison to non-Hispanic white American patients.
The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and delay has not been firmly demonstrated. Nevertheless, it can not be ruled out since the different ways this variable has been measured are not comparable between studies. SES is most likely related to delay as it is a "powerful determinant of possessing particular health enhancing resources."64 Many of the factors that have shown to be related to delay are likely to be associated with a low SES, e.g. belonging to an ethnic minority, low education, rural residence, lack of health insurance, access barriers to care and activities that compete with medical attention.
The patient's knowledge of other people with cancer has emerged in several qualitative studies as a relevant factor influencing help seeking behavior.6,59,74-76 Nevertheless, results about this association have been controversial in quantitative studies.12,41,43,54,57 Once more, the way this variable is operationalized and measured is inconsistent between studies, making it difficult to reach conclusions.
Among the psychological factors that have been studied in relation to delay, fear deserves a special comment. Fear has been shown to have a curvilinear association with patient delay; it can either accelerate seeking of medical attention76-79 or it can cause delay.59,74-76,78,79 The mechanisms that determine one patient with fear to act one way or the other have still not been elucidated. In addition, different kinds of fears have been measured using different instruments, which further complicates comparisons between studies.
We identified a lack of high quality quantitative studies that measure the role of certain relevant factors found in qualitative studies, such as: fatalism,66,67,80-82 denial,66,67,80,81,83 rationalization/suppression,66,67,79,80 em barrassment of being examined by a doctor,59,66,67,78 and risk perception.79,82,83 It is interesting to highlight that studies on breast cancer risk perception have shown that the majority of women underestimate their personal risk to develop breast cancer,83-85 which might exert an important influence on early detection practices and on delayed medical attention for breast symptoms. Finally, we detected very few studies on the role of social networks and social support in breast cancer delay.
Table III summarizes factors in relation to provider delay. As can be observed when comparing between Tables II and III, this type of delay has been a lot less studied than patient delay. We believe this is a reflection of two trends: 1) the minimization of socio-medical and health services research that competes with the overwhelming advances in biomedical knowledge and technology and 2) the fact that the medical model has traditionally attributed health problems and lack of their medical attention to the affected individuals, thus blaming the "victim,"86 which causes social problems to be reduced to individual behaviors without consideration of the influence exerted by the socio-structural factors and inequity that lead to a differential distribution of disease, access to health services and quality of care.
Among the most studied factors in relation to pro vider delay we again find characteristics of the patient: young age5,7,32,54, 87 and having breast symptoms other than a tumor,54,87,88 both of which make the physician's diagnosis more difficult; having African or Hispanic ethnicity in countries where the majority of the population is Caucasian14,17,54,57,89 and low socioeconomic status.5,57,87,90 While there seems to be consensus regarding young age and presenting symptoms different from a breast lump, the relation of provider delay with ethnicity and SES is still controversial. They have both been deficiently measured in order to understand how they intervene with timely medical attention through availability, accessibility and acceptability of health services. Nevertheless, the way these variables have been conceptualized allocate delay responsibility on the patient as an individual instead of dealing with the much more complex problem of understanding the ways in which health systems are inequitable with minorities and with the poor.
Knowledge of factors associated with breast cancer delay that have been studied helps to understand how the study of delay has been constructed. Nevertheless, research strategies and methods also constitute a determinant factor in the advance of scientific knowledge. It is therefore also necessary to explore the methodological evolution of research studies on delay to more comprehensively understand past achievements and constraints to be overcome in future research.
Table IV presents general characteristics of studies that analyzed the factors listed in Tables II and III. As it can be observed, the majority of studies use quantitative methods which aren't very helpful for a deep understanding of the underlying reasons why women delay seeking medical attention and the health services obstacles they are confronted with.
Among quantitative studies, the following issues called our attention: 1) There is an evident lack of popula tion based studies which accounts for the lack of information on women with breast cancer that never reach health services for medical attention; 2) Since a prospective study on delay is unethical, all studies are retrospective, which implies certain limitations. The most mentioned limitation throughout studies on delay is recall bias, i.e. women might report wrong dates and delay time because they don't remember well. Nonetheless, it has been shown that usually women do recall quite well the beginning of their symptoms.41,94 Another limitation of retrospective studies is that patients may report less delay than they really experimented in an effort to please the interviewer with "an adequate answer"; 3)Some studies used self-administered questionnaires which have the disadvantage of lower participation rates, specially if it is a postal questionnaire,95 and the threat of selection bias. People who participate in this type of survey are usually more interested in their own health, fact that is probably linked with timely medical care seeking, in comparison to people that do not bother to answer the questionnaire; 4)The use of clinical records and population registries has the limitation of the quality of information and that only the available data can be used. Furthermore, delay has been shown to be underestimated when calculated based on information obtained from medical records;94 5)The lack of validation of instruments that measure delay is a problem common to most studies; and 6)Operational definitions used differ tremendously (Table IV) and this impedes comparison of results and meta-analysis that allow for more valid conclusions about the relationship between different factors and delay.
Even though in Mexico about 50% of breast cancer patients are diagnosed at stages III and IV,99 research on the reasons behind delayed medical attention of breast cancer is practically non-existent. Only one published study done in Mexico was found,55 with several methodological limitations. It was done in Mexico City, in a military health services clinic that offers specialized services for women. It included only 40 patients, among which there was patient delay in 14 (35%) and provider delay greater than three months in 21 (52.5%). This study reports the association of certain factors with clinical stage, which was considered as the dependent variable that reflected delay. It was interesting that they considered indicators of accessibility but the small sample size did not allow for significant findings.
In Mexico, treatment expenditures for many previously uninsured women with breast cancer have been covered since 2007108 thanks to the creation of the program "Seguro Popular de Salud" (Popular Health Insurance). This is a program that subsidizes an explicit system of health interventions financed with contributions by federal and state governments and by affiliated families.109 While recognizing this as a very relevant effort to overcome treatment coverage problems that existed for this population, there are still multiple barriers that impede breast cancer patients to be timely diagnosed and treated.
Identification of factors related to delay of diagnosis and treatment in the context of underdeveloped countries, including Mexico, is greatly needed. Only five of the breast cancer delay studies reviewed were done in developing countries: Thailand, Iran, Colombia and Mexico. The study of breast cancer delay considering specific socio-cultural and health systems characteristics would allow for the identification of specific factors toward which interventions should be directed. Many of these factors are difficult to modify since they are cultural or at the society's structural level; the challenge we face is finding modifiable mechanisms that can improve early medical attention of breast cancer in each country.
This paper identifies knowledge gaps and methodological inconsistencies found in international publications of breast cancer delay. Our purpose was to facilitate the identification of the most pressing research needs on the matter. There is a need for more comprehensive research that takes into account socio-structural and health services factors. Furthermore, research on delay should aim to identify locally modifiable factors in underdeveloped countries towards which equity oriented political programs can be directed to improve medical attention for breast cancer so that mortality rates can be reduced and patients' quality of life improved.
This study was supported by a grant from CONACYT/SSA/IMSS/ISSSTE SALUD-2007-C01-69439. We thank Franz G. Pruefer for critically reviewing the paper.
5. Neal RD, Allgar VL. Sociodemographic factors and delays in the diagnosis of six cancers: analysis of data from the "National Survey of NHS Patients: Cancer". Br J Cancer 2005;92(11):1971-5.
40. GIVIO (Interdisciplinary Group for Cancer Care Evaluation) Italy. Reducing diagnostic delay in breast cancer. Possible therapeutic implications. . Cancer 1986;58(8):1756-61.
64. Lynch J, Kaplan G. Socioeconomic Position. In: Berkman LF, Kawachi I, editors. Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press; 2000.
100. Unger-Saldaña K, Infante-Castañeda C. Delayed Medical Attention of Breast Cancer in Mexican Women [Congress Abstract]. In: International Union Against Cancer UICC 2008 World Cancer Congress "Towards true cancer control". Geneva, Switzerland: UICC; 2008.
103. Anderson BO, Shyyan R, Eniu A, Smith RA, Yip CH, Bese NS, et al. Breast cancer in limited-resource countries: an overview of the Breast Health Global Initiative 2005 guidelines. Breast J 2006;12 Suppl 1:S3-15.
107. Smith RA, Caleffi M, Albert US, Chen TH, Duffy SW, Franceschi D, et al. Breast cancer in limited-resource countries: early detection and access to care. Breast J 2006;12 Suppl 1:S16-26.
109. Frenk J, Gonzalez-Pier E, Gomez-Dantes O, Lezana MA, Knaul FM. [Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico]. Salud Publica Mex 2007;49 Suppl 1:S23-36.
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http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-36342009000800018
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My child is coming home from practices unhappy, but she won?t talk about it. When is a good time to approach the coach about my concerns?
2. Expectations the coach has for your child as well as all players on the squad.
4. Team requirements, ie., practices, special equipment, out-of-season conditioning.
5. Proper behavior by athletes on bus trips. Estimated time for return from games.
6. Procedure followed should your child be injured during participation.
7. Discipline that may result in the denial of your child?s participation.
8. NCAA Clearing House information for aspiring college student athletes.
3. Specific concerns with regard to a coach's philosophy and/or expectations.
4. Availability to volunteer for various duties suggested by the coaching staff.
2. Ways the parent(s) can help your child improve.
3. Concerns about your child?s behavior.
It is very difficult to accept your child not playing as much as you may hope. Coaches are professionals. They make judgement decisions based on what they believe to be the best for all students involved. As you have seen from the list above, certain things can be, and should be, discussed with your child?s coach. Other things, such as those listed below, must be left to the discretion of the coach.
There are situations that my require a conference between the coach and parent. These are to be encouraged. It is important that both parties involved have a clear understanding of the other's position. When these conferences are necessary, the following procedures should be followed to help promote a resolution to the issue or concern.
1. Call the coach at home (phone number is listed at bottom of game schedule).
2. If coach is not available at that time to discuss the issue, make an appointment to meet with the coach or a time to have your call returned.
3. Please do not attempt to confront a coach before or after a contest or practice. These can be emotional times for both the parent and coach and can be embarrassing for the child/athlete.
1. Call and set up an appointment with the Activities/Athletic Director (447-1899) to discuss the situation.
Mount Anthony Union High/Middle School has established a variety of co-curricular activities because they teach valuable athletic, academic and life skills. Research indicates a student involved in co-curricular activities has a greater chance for success during adulthood, as many of the character traits required to be a successful participant mirror those that will promote a successful life after high school. We hope the information provided within this plan makes both your child?s and your experience with the MAUHS/MS athletic & activities program more enjoyable.
| 2019-04-23T10:16:19 |
http://maupatriots.com/athletic-faq-answers.php?id=8
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Can software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications actually accelerate the use and power of business analytics?
We're going to help answer that by examining a human capital management (HCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) SaaS provider, Workday, and show how easily customizable views on data and analytics can have a big impact on how managers and knowledge workers operate.
Historically, the back office business applications that support companies have been distinct from the category of business intelligence (BI). Certainly, applications have had certain ways of extracting analytics, but the interfaces were often complex, unique, and infrequently used.
By using SaaS applications and rich Internet technologies that create different interface capabilities -- as well as a wellspring of integration and governance on the back-end of these business applications (built on a common architecture) -- more actionable data gets to those who can use it best. They get to use it on their terms, as our case today will show, for HCM or human resources managers in large enterprises.
The trick to making this work is to balance the needs that govern and control the data and analytics, but also opening up the insights to more users in a flexible, intuitive way. The ability to identify, gather, and manipulate data for business analysis on the terms of the end-user has huge benefits. As we enter what I like to call the data-driven decade, I think nearly all business decisions are going to need more data from now on.
To learn more about how the application and interfaces are the analytics please join me in welcoming Stan Swete, Vice President of Product Strategy and the CTO at Workday; Jim Kobielus, Senior Analyst for BI and Analytics at Forrester Research, and Seth Grimes, Principal Consultant at Alta Plana Corp., and a contributing editor at TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise. The discussion is moderated by me, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Workday.
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http://briefingsdirect.com/delivering_data_analytics_through_workday_saa_s_erp_applications_empowers_business_managers_at_actual_decision_points
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A major Finnish newspaper is calling Israel's campaign in Gaza a genocide. Not only that, but it compares operation Cast Lead to the First Chechen War (during which maybe even a hundred thousand civilians died). I may be wrong, but isn't the comparison quite disproportionate? The article then states that those in Finland who're backing Israel are mostly the kind of people who're doing it for religious reasons. (Israel is a very secular country by the way, which is quite an achievement in the middle of all that religious extremism.) In other words, those who support Israel in Finland are apparently idiots. So, I take it the smart ones don't support Israel?
The article then claims that Israel is an artificial creation. But if Israel is an artificial creation, then what is Palestine? And how exactly is Israel any more artificial than, say, Finland? Just as we, the Finns, have our roots in Finland, a region historically occupied and settled by Finns, so do the Jewish people have their roots in Israel. Hell, the Jews had a culture and a history in Israel long before we even existed as a people.
Of course Muslims have their roots in the "Holy Land" as well. When the UN proposed to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into two states the idea was that both Jews and Muslims could settle in and around an area that has such a huge historical meaning to both groups. Muslims rejected the plan out of principle simply because they opposed the idea of Jews acquiring any piece of that land. Seeing how many Muslim leaders sided with the nazis only a few years before the plan I could go even further and argue that Muslims simply hated Jews.
In all fairness, there is a mention in the article that some of Israel's actions may be justified on the grounds that Hamas has launched more than 7000 rockets over the border to Israel during the past two years. The article also states the fact that Hamas wishes to see Israel destroyed. However, since the article condemns Israel's campaign against Hamas I'm not sure what the writer thinks should be done. There is a proposition that the international community should arrange a ceasefire but as I argued earlier, a ceasefire is simply a way for Hamas to catch a breath and rearm.
After this the article goes on to repeat the usual "both sides are wrong" and that "violence won't solve a thing" arguments.
But violence has solved things for Israel. With these "excursions" into Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank Israel can keep herself safe while waiting for a change in the Middle East that'd push the region forward. No doubt Hamas, Hezbollah and others will continue to attack Israel from time to time but considering the alternative, the destruction of Israel (not by Hamas or Hezbollah but by Iran, Syria and others who'd love to see Israel severely weakened), this is something Israel can manage. After all, despite all the recent attacks on Israel it is still a relatively safe country to live in.
So, the media has been at it again. In case you're a European, keep your eyes on Israellycool (and vote for it as the best Middle East blog) for a comprehensive account of the situation including links to relevant articles, Youtube videos and so on. The fact that Israel is mostly backed by religious nuts in Finland is no doubt a result of the never-ending media campaign against Israel and the fact that most people, even those with an access to the internet, rely on local newspapers.
Genetic research has shown that four of the five main genetic haplotypes for mitochondria of Jewish women of European descent moved north across the caucasus 40,000 years ago. Thus, the European and American Jews who formed Israel are not necessarily the descendants of the ancient Hebrews.
That is interesting, but I wasn't referring specifically to genetic roots. In my opinion Jews - Israeli or not - constitute a people the same way Finns do.
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http://m-sandt.blogspot.com/2009/01/finnish-media-keeps-pounding-israel.html
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Is the slope of the line l equal to -1/5?
(1) Lines m and n are parallel and sum of their slopes is less than 1/2.
(2) Line l is perpendicular to line m.
1. The slope of line m and n has to be less than 1/4. Not sufficient.
2. If l and m are perpendicular, the product of their slope should be equal to -1 and for the slope of l to be -1/5 , the slope of m should be equal to 5 but no info on that. Not sufficient.
However, taking 1 and 2 combined, we are certain that slope of m can never be 5 so the slope of l can never be -1/5.
Hence, I go with C.
| 2019-04-26T15:58:06 |
https://gmatclub.com/forum/is-the-slope-of-the-line-l-equal-to-245483.html
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Originally recorded in August 1973, and remixed with additional recordings in 1984 by Edgar Froese.
I've got a sneaking suspicion I feel a bit ripped-off by this album. Supposed to be this lost 1973 album recorded between "Atem" and "Phaedra" during the time Rolf Ulrich Kaiser decided to rename his Ohr Records as Kosmische Musik, with the TANGERINE DREAM guys not wanting to participate in his "cosmic circus" (no doubt helped by the COSMIC JOKERS project in which the albums were released against the wish of some, including Klaus Schulze). I'm sorry, but "Green Desert" has too many '80s digital add-ons. Doesn't sound much like a transitional album between their Ohr and Virgin albums, but more like "Le Parc" but with a more gloomy atmosphere than what mid '80s TD usually done, and extended cuts.
Too many inconsistencies here, for example the heavy use of Solina string synths that I know TD never had in 1973 (I think the Solina was brand-new in '73, but they didn't get theirs until around 1975). Where are the VCS-3 synths? The Mellotron sounds digitally processed. Cheesy sounding drum machine that the band never used at that time. I just don't find much to connect this album to what they did in '73 and '74. In fact, if you really wonder how TD might have sounded between "Atem" and "Phaedra", go get Edgar Froese's first solo album, "Aqua" (actually released after "Phaedra", but sounds like it was recorded earlier, with that combination Ohr and Virgin sound).
For "Green Desert", the music isn't bad, I just think if they were to claim it was that lost 1973 recording, they should not have given it the digital treatment, and left it the way it was, if the sound quality permitted it, that is.
Proghead's doubts are actually very justified as there are too many doodlings having been readjusted for the release of these tapes. But unlike Him , I enjoy the music on it very much as I have no doubt that this music has origins of the mid-70's (maybe not 73 though) but somewhere around Stratosfear , Cyclone , Ricochet , Force Majeure era. No matter how shady the origins of those tapes , this is certainly the best album released ( in 86) by TD since the start of the 80's ( although I have not heard everything , nor do I wish to) and I consider it a very worthy album.
This was the great lost Tangerine Dream album, the missing link between Atem and Phaedra that languished in the vaults fom 1973 to 1986, when it was finally unleashed on to a waiting world. Except...Edgar Froese could not resist tinkering with the original tapes, so there are quite a lot of overdubs featuring equipment that wasn't around when it was first recorded. Whether the 80s gloss was strictly necessary is a matter for debate, but there is no doubt that this is an excellent TD album whatever its provenance.
There are two unique aspects to this album; it's the only one which Froese and Franke recorded as a duo (Force Majeure is also a Froese/Franke work, but features additional musicians) and it's also the last to feature Chris Franke playing drums. The real treat for TD fans here is the title track, which is built round a lengthy duet with Froese on guitar and Franke on drums. Franke may not have been in quite the same league as Jaki Liebezeit or Christian Vander, but he could really play and on this piece he builds up to the kind of feverish rhythm that Popol Vuh's Daniel Fischelcher did so well. Froese is in full on blues raga mode, and the whole adds up to a spellbinding piece of space rock on a par with Force Majeure. The second half of the album doe not quite live up to the first - I suspect that Froese and Franke were road testing their shiny new synths and wondering 'what does this button do?' a lot of the time. White Clouds is propelled by an almost motorik rhythm and Astral Voyager gives the sequencer a bit of a work out, but while they are pleasant enough neither track really goes anywhere. Indian Summer is a big improvement, a near ambient piece of the kind of electronic atmospherics that TD did so well.
This album is recommended to fans of Stratosfear and Force Majeure - as others have noted, it doesn't really sound like a transition between Atem and Phaedra, but this could be explained by the absence of Peter Baumann (who left TD for a few months in 1973 to travel round Asia with his girlfriend). The title track deserves 5 stars, the rest of the album 3.
Thi is very good and enjoyable piece of work. I was never a fan of TD and much less an expert in electronic music, but this album I prefer to their early efforts. I used to have "Phaedra" LP for a long time and now I have "Atem" and "Zeit" but never really got into them, while I liked their later 70s stuff, namely "Stratosfear" and "Force majeure". So I guess from previous reviews that's why I like this one too. The title track is excellent example of space electronic music with psyche solo guitar and drums, while "Astral Voyager" is another highlight marked with a sort of flute-like synth reminiscent of popular Morricone music from "Spaghetti western" films. The rest of the album is slightly more dull and mainly ambient sounds. Very a pleasant listen though, even for uninitiated people! Recommended.
Tangerine Dream have a very large back catalogue and we sometimes feel a bit disoriented by the lack of creativity which gains the two last decades. The band didn't success to renew their own style with consistence, preferring more mainstream & conventional synth sounds. Re-issued during the 80s, "Green Desert" represents a good breath after many indulgent albums. The album was originally written in 1973 and it reveals some of the most TD innovative materials. It's the first time the band uses their famous electronic arpeggios (in the mysterious and majestic ambient "Astral Voyage"). The title track is one of the most amazing TD compositions and negotiates a link between their most accessible electronic synthesis and their first attempts in "abstract" experimental contributions. The track begins with a deep moody "sustained" drone, then concentrates on a spacey guitar solo accompanied by technical drum parts and electronic effects. "White Clouds" features luminous, dreamy-like synth chords covered by "helicopter" drums. "Indian Summer" uses the same environemental ambience with a similar electronic material. Only linear, elegiac tones with no "hypnotic" pulsations. This album is without doubts very commended for beginners despite that it doesn't reach the musical level of the three previous efforts.
Tangerine Dream has never really been a part of my progressive life so far. I heard of the band in the past and of course TD is a significant band in prog history but somehow I were never drawn to them. Checking all kinds of things and bands lately I thought I had to explore this band as well. It's part of progressive education so to speak, one at least have to try them to be able to judge.
So I ran into this one, but to be fair: I have no idea if this album gives a fair view of this band. Looking at it freshly (as a beginner) I feel it sounds like a mix between Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre. And in this album it's quite clear to me: there are four tracks, the first and the last have strong resemblance to JMJ in my opinion and the two middle tracks have more comparison to Kraftwerk. I have no idea whether I have a clear view on this matter and maybe it's a totally faulty evaluation of TD but it's how I see it at first glance. Especially the last track has very strong resemblance to Oxygene part 2 in my believe. Big difference between TD and JMJ is though the fact that TD also uses percussion and guitar where JMJ just uses a synthesizer.
"Green desert" is probably best regarded as a link between the music of Tangerine Dream of the 1970's and that which they created in the 1980's. It does not exactly fit into either period, as the original tapes date from the former, but the final sounds, after some overdubbing and editing, are very much of the 80's.
The (LP) side long title track is a brooding, atmospheric piece which takes ages to get going, but features some fine guitar work by Edgar Froese. As the track develops, drum sequences become more dominant and the piece acquires a harder edge, the changes always being subtle and gradual. The track concludes with some wonderful mellotron drifts.
At around 5 minutes, "White Clouds" is the shortest track on the album. There is a certain onomatopoeia to the music, but the track lacks substance. "Astral Voyager" is the most rhythmic of the tracks, with hints of African influences. The overall sound though is that of the middle sections of the two "Rubicon" tracks, the flute like synth sounds offering an pleasant diversion. The final track "Indian Summer" indulges in some rudimentary dramatics by way of introduction, but never really moves on from them.
In all, a decent album from what was at the time a duet of Froese and Franke. I would hardly describe it as a lost masterpiece, but those who appreciate the music of the Tangs from wither the 70's or the 80's should find the album rewarding.
The great enigma, 'Green Desert' is a TANGERINE DREAM album recorded in 1973 while PETER BAUMANN was overseas, but not released. Instead, the trio went on to record 'Phaedra' when he returned. This album was supposedly 'discovered' by EDGAR FROESE in 1985 and issued in 1986.
Problem is, it really doesn't sound like a 1973 album. Having lost the courage to resist the smothering effect of 80s production values, how could FROESE resist spicing up this rather sparse and languid release with 80s sounds? The result is not dissimilar in effect to the Max Graham remix of 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' - out of time, left gasping like a novelty fish left behind by the tide. It leaves me wishing I could hear the original tapes, and suspicious that precious little of the original has made it on to this release. Still better than those soundtracks though.
Oh yes, the music. The title track is a smouldering slow burner, spiced up with a barely moving FROESE guitar and by FRANKE's somewhat inept but vigorous percussion. It closes with some rather (suspiciously) bright keyboards. It reminds me of something from 'Zeit' or 'Atem' with a little more vigour. 'White Clouds' is a charmless and directionless melange of synths and percussion. The most interesting track here is 'Astral Voyager', a clear guide as to the origin of 'Phaedra' and subsequent sequencer-driven tracks; but again this has been tidied up, and lacks the world-encompassing mystique of the muddied 1974 recording. It suffers for it. 'Indian Summer' is an apt title for a track that prolongs the drought of genuine musical ideas.
An historical curio that ought, I think, to have been left in the vault.
According to the liner notes this was recorded in 1973 between "Atem" and "Phaedra" with the sole purpose of it being a taster for Richard Branson's "Virgin Records" label. It worked as they were signed to a 5 year record deal. The money the received was used to invest in new equipment and they promptly made "Phaedra" with it.This particular recording was set aside until Froese dug it out of the archives in 1984 and added some new material while re-mixing the rest. So yes it has that 80's flavour for good reason. Froese was prone to do things like this, he did it with some of his solo albums to the dismay of many fans.The mellotron is one of the victims when Froese starts to mess around in the recording studio with older material. I guess he likes the more modern sound. I cry sacriledge ! Anyway this is a very good record in my opinion regardless of what Froese did.
"Green Desert" is the side long opener which opens with sounds that drone and hover as other spacey sounds come and go. Drums start to beat slowly after 4 1/2 minutes. Guitar comes in a minute later and mellotron 7 minutes in. I like this a lot. Drums get louder and start to dominate as the guitar stops. Drums also stop before 16 minutes as it turns spacey. PINK FLOYD comes to mind after 18 minutes. Amazing tune !
"White Clouds" opens with drums and synths and again the synths a minute in remind me of FLOYD. The tempo picks up. There are some added jungle sounds which remind me of Froese's "Epsilon In Malaysian Pale" album. Cool song. "Astral Voyager" has lots of sequencer sounds that pulse as other synths join in. "Indian Summer" is the only track that i'm not totally into yet. Synths chords come and go in a rhythm as other sounds come in.
Well worth 4 stars in my opinion.
This album IS another great feature of the huge and great TD discography.
Some sort of a lost gem of the seventies, released much later (but who knows!). The music which is experienced here is just SUMPTUOUS, GORGEOUS and MARVELLOUS.
The title track is a pure beauty from second one to the latest. An absolute masterpiece to be honest. This is quite an astonishing band! Having released so many good albums out of an impressive range (over twenty so far).
Chapeau. Hats off. These are the only words that reflects my genuine feel about TD.
I wouldn't argue of when the original work was "invented" or released. The only aspect which is worth mentioning is that this album is just EXTRAORDINARY. The beautiful musical landscapes, the impressive wall of synths (still very much proggy during the first two pieces of music).
I am just found of "Green Desert" and "White Clouds". Much more than any songs from "Tangram" onwards. But of course, I'm fu**ing biased by all means. I am just deeply in love with these inhuman but so enjoyable beats. And "Astral Voyager" is just excellent.
Should this be compared with some lost jewel??? Oh dear! Yes!!!
This IS absolute wonder and joy. A glorious TD album. Maybe one of their best which can definitely compete with "Rubycon". Which is my all time fave from this great band.
The music proposed here is so WONDERFUL, it is so HUGE. Damned!!!
This is worth six stars or near. Just listen to the wonderful beauty of "Indian Summer". An outstanding number, a passionate release, a miracle of a melody, an endless refreshment, an absolute beauty.
What else can I bloody say?
This is an ENORMOUS prog release. No words as in my old time fave "Genesis", no great guitar as in my old time fave Floydean times, no crazyness as with Crimson, no dementia as with Tull, no such a complexity as my dear "Yes". More than this.
This album is just a MASTERPIECE. And you know that I am quite reluctant to give a five star rating. "Indian Summer" is a piece of music I can enjoy for HOURS. Listening to it in some kind of a loop.
WONDERFUL. GIANT. MIRACLE. ESTUPENDO. FANTASTIQUE. UITSTEKEND. EXTRAORDINAIRE.
Conjecture aside this is a 1986 release with an old feel to it. " Green Desert" starts off with a 5 minute drone, something familiar to Atem maybe? Who cares, it has an awesome mood before Edgar Froese's menacing lead guitar kicks in very Floydian in sound and the songs gradually builds to a trademark TD climax before some lovely synthesiser sounds play out this nineteen minute beauty. " White Clouds" is a typical 80's sounding song although the haunting synth and frenzied percussion gives it extra mph. ' Astral Voyager' is very pleasant to the ears and " Indian Summer" is without doubt from the Encore material tapes of 1977 ( near enough) or Cyclone's " Madrigal Meridian". I'd stake my life on it :-). A very satisfying album and a necessary member of your Tangerine Dream catalogue.
Green Desert is presented as a lost Tangerine Dream album from 1973 - a followup to Atem which was canned once the band got the deal with Virgin Records and the opportunity (and budget) to record Phaedra. However, Dream fans hoping to get a long-forgotten album in the style of Tangerine Dream's early Krautrock style should be warned that Edgar Froese spruced up the recordings with a substantial amount of newly-recorded overdubs in 1984.
This may well have been necessary to get them up to a presentable standard - we can't know for certain but I wouldn't be surprised if the old tapes were deteriorated or weren't entirely finished. However, Froese opts to perform these overdubs in a style more consistent with Tangerine Dream's approach in the mid-1980s, using modern equipment. Consequently, any historically illuminating aspects this album may have had are completely obscured under a heap of 80s synths and tinny drum sounds.
Had the overdubs been recorded using period-appropriate equipment, this album would have at least been interesting to Tangerine Dream collectors simply as an illustration of the evolution from Atem to Phaedra. But the fact is, they weren't, and on top of that the final product is rather forgettable even by TD's bland and generic mid-1980s standards. As a result, it's an extremely disappointing product, since it fails to be a good Tangerine Dream album whether you judge it by their 1970s work or by the 1980s, and it also fails to give a clear insight into the period it is generally claimed to capture.
Looking at the other reviews it seems that this album is very controversial, Somebody says that it's effectively the lost masterpiece recorded in 1973 and released only 13 years later, other says that it's just 80s stuff. Probably it's both the things.
The title track is a side-long one, as it was usual for TD in 1973. It starts very spacey and without rhythm, like it's coming from the pink period. Let me say that I immediately loved this track. After some averagely good and sometimes not so good things released in the 80s, with some relevant exceptions mainly in the live albums, we finally have something that's not too far from Zeit. Another clue that this comes effectively from 1973 is the drums and the guitar entering slightly after about 5 minutes. In the old years 5 minutes was the average time until the theme has a significant change in TD long tracks. Also the floydian mood of the guitar (reminds me to Obscured By Clouds) dates this track to 1973. Wondering why this track hasn't been released actually, I think possible that Froese has considered it too "Floydian". Guitar leaves after 5 minutes more for drums and spacey sounds while the keyboard background is smoothly changing. Any doubt about it? It might have been edited before being released, but it surely comes from the 70s. Very Pink. At minute 16 it returns where it started but the love of Froese for Saucerful of Secrets is back again. I really have no doubts about the year of the first recording.
I'm less sure about "Whìte Clouds". The soundscape is not so different and it has something that reminds me to Encore. However this is another very good track.
"Astral Voyager" is closer to Phaedra than to Atem and the title is the most spacey thing that it has. I love this track as I love the whole album, but here I have a doubt about this having been composed later to fill an album too short. Well, if this is a filler I'd like to have a compilation of fillers of this kind. The whistling sound in the second half of the track reminds me again to Encore.
"Indian Summer" is fantastic. The background storms behind the succession of keyboard chords with the bass on the third or fifth then the flute...(of course electronic) is clearly reminding to Encore again. Also the track's title does.
So I think that the original recordings may have been edited and/or overdubbed a little, but those are tracks coming from the 70s. They make me feel a sentiment of regret for the great music that TD have been able to give us in that period. This is probably not at the same level of Atem and Phaedra, but is very close to both.
Green Desert is a Tangerine Dream album that began in 1973 when Peter Baumann had departed for Berlin on a journey to Nepal and India, reducing the trio to the duo of Edgar Froese and Chris Franke. In London Virgin Records noticed the popularity of TD and decided to sign them up record Green Desert in Skyline Studios, Berlin. In the studio the duo utilised a rhythm controller, phaser and synthesizers. Chris Franke recalls in an interview: "The rhythm controller came from Italy and looked like something from science fiction with its console of 128 buttons which all lit up. It could be programmed, it was analogue and it was polyphonic! The lights blinked, I had hands on control and later I used it as a sequencer to trigger other synthesisers."
Peter Baumann eventually returned but the album was incomplete, but TD had begun to record Phaedra by this time. It was not until 1984 that Edgar Froese found Green Desert material lurking in the TD archives and it was decided that these tracks in their raw form would be reworked to create the next album release. The remix included sounds from the mid-80's with a more melodic flavour and with a lot more percussion, the drums were prominent and it does not have an early 70s sound for these reasons. It took till 1986 before an album release came to fruition and it was released as a part of the set In The Beginning. The result is an album with a very unique style opening with a drone synth and some impressive drumming that is something different for TD, many of their albums being free from drums. I particularly love the drumming on the album, being a drummer myself I can appreciate the complexity and dynamic rhythmic meters. Towards the end of the title track there is a beautiful wash of synths and some wave sounds generating a soothing atmosphere; one may be reminded of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. It is a 19 and a half minute epic that is absolutely mesmirising.
After this fantastic start to the album drums open White Clouds and a synth with spacey textures and swirling crescendos. The drums are frenetic and the melodic synth lines are absolutely beautiful. This is a more positive sound for the band with uplifting sounds and some deliriously hypnotic chord progressions. The synth swishes and bird calls are an excellent augmentation, but again those drum rhythms are so African sounding and rhythm-centric it is a delight to listen to.
Astral Voyager follows with bass synth lines and a motoring beat reminding me of Rubycon or Ricochet in places. Indian Summer is the closing track and this time is replete with synth swells and very atmospheric spacey sounds. there is no beat and it kind of hypnotises with organic splashes of keyboard chords. Overall this is a solid release from the Tangs, quite different in many ways, with some mesmirising beauty scattered throughout, and definitely worthy of being in your TD collection.
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| 2019-04-20T11:15:48 |
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6345
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The immune system is the body's defense system. It works on three different levels. The first level is the anatomic response. It consists of anatomical barriers to foreign particles and includes the skin and acid in the stomach. Anatomic barriers prevent foreign substances from entering the body. If foreign particles pass through the first line of defense the second line of defense called the inflammatory response kicks in. The third line of defense is the immune response. It is the main player in specific immune defense.
The cells of the immune system mount the immune response. These cells are also called white blood cells.
There are several types: The neutrophils are responsible for killing bacteria and yeast and are the first white blood cells at the site of an infection. The eosinophils play a part in delayed reactions to foreigners. The key players of immune system are the monocytes and the lymphocytes. Monocytes are scavangers. They scour the body for anything out of place. They can engulf foreign particles and chew off pieces of tumor cells. Lymphocytes are not able to engulf any foreign particles or eat tumor cells. They take the information given to them by monocytes and monocyte-like cells and do their job. There are several types of lymphocytes. The most important types are the B lymphocytes, and the T lymphocytes. The B lymphocytes get their characteristics after being nurtured in the bone marrow, hence the B. B lymphocytes are primarily responsible for producing antibodies. Antibodies can inactive bacteria, fungi, and viruses and make them and other foreign particles easier to see by the rest of the immune system. T lymphocytes mature in the thymus gland, hence the T. For the purposes of this topic they can be divided into three major categories: the T helper cells, the T suppressor cells, and the cytotoxic T cells. The T helper and suppressor cells do exactly what their names imply. The cytotoxic T cells are primarily responsible for killing virally infected, and tumor cells.
In order for cancer to occur, the immune system must have failed. The normal sequence of events when the immune system comes across tumor cells follows.
An immune cell called the macrophage (also called a monocyte) comes into contact with a cancerous or precancerous cell. This cell has some strange surface features. The strange features signal the macrophage that the cell is not healthy and that the macrophage should take a bite out of it.
There are two possible scenarios that can happen next. The macrophage can either hand off these little pieces of tumor cell to another type of immune cell, or it can transform itself into another, specialized immune cell called a dendritic cell. The latter happens most often.
Dendritic cells are found in all tissues of the body, and many of them began as macrophages.
Now that the macrophage has digested pieces of the tumor cell, it transforms into the dendritic cell. The dendritic cell is a much more effective messenger. When it is fully mature, it gives the information about the tumor contained in the small digested packets to the rest of the immune system. A key point here is that the dendritic cell must be mature to effectively present the tumor information. The cell needs to have additional markers on its surface that the other immune cells can recognize. These markers are called co-stimulatory molecules and are shown as white crosses on the picture of the mature dendritic cell below.
When the dendritic cell begins to mature, it also starts moving, or migrating toward a lymph node. The lymph nodes contain large numbers of lymphocytes, another type of immune cell. The lymph nodes are where the action is when it comes to the immune system.
So the mature dendritic cell has migrated to the lymph node. There it comes in contact with different kinds of lymphocytes. If it has matured properly, the co-stimulatory molecules on its surface will help pass the tumor information along to the cytotoxic T lymphocytes, or CTLs. The CTLs are the body's main defense against tumor cells. When the right CTL comes in contact with the dendritic cell, it will become activated and begin to divide, effectively making an army of cloned soldiers ready to kill any cancerous or pre-cancerous cell having the same altered membrane discovered by the macrophage.
When the CTL soldiers come in contact with cells that have the same surface as the original cancerous cell, they bind to it. They then release a chemical that pokes tiny holes in the membrane of the tumor cell, and the tumor cell spills its guts and dies.
Let's summarize what happens normally in the body after a normal cell turns cancerous. First, a macrophage comes in contact with the tumor cell, which has a different type of membrane that signals the macrophage to eat part of it. The macrophage then digests the eaten tumor cell fragment and starts to turn into a dendritic cell. It then begins to mature, and travels to a nearby lymph node and hands off the tumor cell information to CTLs. The CTLs then divide, circulate throughout the body, and kill any tumor cells they come in contact with.
This is what happens normally in the body when a cell becomes cancerous. This process occurs countless times as cells get genetic mutations and become cancerous. But, if you have cancer, then something must have gone wrong. Did the macrophage fail to recognize the funny cell surface? Did macrophages not become dendritic cells? Or did the T cells not do their job? It is impossible to tell for sure but there are some clues that the problem is with the dendritic cells.
Dendritic cells in and around tumors are present but they are immature. They don't have the co-stimulatory molecules necessary for the successful hand off of the tumor cell membrane information to the T cells. Moreover, because they are immature, they are much less likely to migrate to the lymph nodes to make the hand off.
To make a football analogy, the dendritic cell is the quarterback and needs to hand off the football to the running back (the T cell). In order to do that, he needs to move toward the running back and hand him the ball without fumbling. When the dendritic cell is immature, it just stands in one place and drops the ball. If that continues to happen, your team never scores and ultimately loses the game.
If you cut up a piece of tumor from kidney cancer or renal cell carcinoma and look at it under the microscope, you'll find millions of dendritic cells many more than in any other type of tumor. Expectedly, the majority of these dendritic cells are immature they don't have co-stimulatory molecules on them. Kidney cancer is the most likely type of cancer to disappear without a trace without any treatment, or spontaneously remiss. Apparently when someone has a spontaneous remission is the conditions in and around the tumor change enough to allow at least some of the dendritic cells to mature. This is more likely to induce a remission in renal cell carcinoma simply because of the larger numbers of dendritic cells.
| 2019-04-24T23:55:23 |
http://dendritic-cells-research.com/index.php?request=immune_system
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1. Fold a piece of card stock in half.
2. Draw half a popsicle shape along the fold.
3. Cut out and unfold to make a whole, symmetrical popsicle pattern.
4. Trace pattern onto card stock and cut out. You will need two popsicle shapes for each card.
5a. For tissue paper version: put double-stick on to one side of card stock.
6a. Cut out stripes of tissue in various colors and stick onto double tape.
7a. Trim edges of overhanging tissue and tape with scissors.
5b. For washi tape version: Stick stripes of tape onto card stock popsicle.
6b. Trim edges of overhanging tape with scissors.
8. Place popsicle stick between decorated popsicle shape and blank popsicle shape.
9. Glue stick to card stock and two halves of card stock together.
10. Place popsicle cards under some books to press while they dry.
11. Print out party details and affix with washi tape to the back of popsicle.
| 2019-04-21T18:18:10 |
https://domesticspace.com/2013/07/08/diy-popsicle-party-invitations/
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Misleading statements and conclusions regarding drug costs and prices are again being thrown around. It started with a post right here on Scientific American Blogs with the title "The Quest: $84,000 Miracle Cure Costs Less Than $150 to Make". As the title indicates, the post is about a new hepatitis C drug called Sovaldi developed by Gilead Sciences. The $150 was the manufacturing cost, the $84,000 was the price. The medicine is considered a real breakthrough and both Gilead and its shareholders have been rewarded with handsome profits during the last quarter. Sovaldi is also regarded as a first-in-class treatment for what was always considered a highly refractory disease.
To its credit the piece was measured and did make the point that the $84,000 was less than the hospitalization and liver transplant costs incurred by hep C patients until now. But unfortunately I think the title of the post was inevitably misleading because it made it sound like every extra penny in addition to the $150 was a profit margin. It also did not put the cost of developing the drug in the context of the very significant barriers to new drug development in the form of formidable scientific challenges, patent cliffs and FDA hurdles. The fact is that drug pricing is a very complex beast and while the system is definitely in need of reform and rational thinking, comparing actual drug production costs with price is basically a futile endeavor that is far more likely to mislead than to enlighten.
Was I mistaken in thinking the title was misleading? Not really. A day later, a Facebook post by Scientific American highlighting the same post ran with the headline "Profit Margin for Hep C Drug: Approximately one gazillion percent". This headline is egregiously, woefully wrong: the quarterly profit margin for Gilead was 44% during the last quarter, but the standard profit margins for pharmaceutical companies are about 20%. The title is grossly simplistic and says nothing about the cost of discovering (not manufacturing) the drug. Scientific American has 1.7 million followers on Facebook so this title is going to mislead quite a few, as is evident from the comments section of that post.
The bigger question to ask is, why are the profit margins so apparently high for Sovaldi? And that's a question the post did not address. The fact is that this class of hepatitis C drugs constitutes a real breakthrough in the treatment of the disease, and one that has been sought for decades. Until now the standard of treatment for the disease consisted of a combination of PEGylated interferon and ribavirin, a stop-gag measure that results in debilitating flu-like symptoms acutely affecting quality of life. The new class of medications directly targets a viral protein called a protease that the virus uses to make new copies of itself. It hits the source and is, by any definition, a vastly superior treatment compared to what we had before. For years the pharmaceutical company has been rightly lambasted for making "me-too" drugs, medicines that are marginally better than what existed on the market and whose high sales and profits are driven mainly by aggressive marketing rather than by real benefits. In this case we actually have a novel drug that provides real benefits, a significant achievement on the part of drug research that needs to be appreciated. Let's criticize high costs, but let's not ignore the improvements in quality of life for patients that simply did not exist before. And let's not fail to congratulate the teams of researchers who actually discover these novel medicines floating in a sea of me-too drugs; it's as big a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance as anything else in scientific history.
Does the price of Sovaldi sound high? Undoubtedly. But that's when I invoke my own "Law of Large Numbers" which roughly says, "The kind of reaction you have when you see a large number seldom has much to do with what that number really means". As with many other numbers we have to put the price in context. As the original post notes, it's still lower than what the price of hospitalization and liver transplants would have been. If you have insurance then your insurance company - encouraged largely by this comparative calculation - should take care of it. Is it still not accessible to a vast number of people in poor countries? Of course; I would like that to happen as much as anything else, especially since hep C is still a disease that puts most of its burden on the poor. But it's at least accessible to a few people whose quality of life will now be much better and it's still better than nothing. That's an important step in the right direction. As happened with AIDS drugs, at some point the medication will in fact become cheap enough, especially when generics take its place a few years down the line. But none of this would have happened if pharmaceutical companies stopped making profits and had to shut down because they couldn't recover R&D costs.
The most important context we need to understand again is one that is often neglected: a comparison of the price with the high cost of drug discovery and development rather than manufacturingwhich is always going to be low. The bare fact of the matter is that it takes about $5 billion to develop a new drug and this has little to do with profit margins. As a hypothetical example, even if the profit margin on Sovaldi was 0% it would still cost about $50,000 dollars and you would still hear a lot of criticism. The cost of a drug is not $5 billion because there's much profit to be made - as I indicated above pharmaceutical profit margins are about 20% - but because drug discovery is so hard. One can quibble about the exact number but that would only serve to obscure the real challenges. I have written four posts on the complexities of drug discovery science and I intend to write more. The reality is that Sovaldi would not have been invented in the first place had companies like Gilead not put enough money from profits into the R&D that went into its development. And sure, some pharmaceutical CEO's make obscene bonuses and and we need to have important conversations about that, but even that part does not significantly contribute to the high costs.
One thing I find amusing is that the same critics who talk about high drug costs also seem to have some kind of an exaggerated picture of drug company scientists as infallible oracles, discovering drugs with their left hand and then sitting back in their sleek sofas, cackling and waiting for the shower of green. But the truth could not be more different. As a drug discovery scientist I have very few moments when I actually think I am any closer to discovering even a new lead, let alone a new drug (and sadly no, I am also not rolling around in money). As I have quoted another scientist in one of my posts, the reason why drugs cost so much is not because we are greedy, it's because we are stupid. A lot of the times we feel the way Yamamoto must have felt in 1943, knowing that he was about to fight a war of attrition that he could not possibly win.
Drug discovery is one of the most wasteful research activities on the planet and it's all because most of the times we have no idea of how to go about discovering a new drug or what's going to happen when we put it inside the human body. The complexities of human biology thwart us at every stage and luck plays an inordinately large role in our success. Even basic issues in drug discovery - understanding how drugs get past cell membranes for instance - are generally unsolved problems, and the profligate inefficiency of the process would truly shame us if we knew how to do it better. The path from a new idea in pharmaceutical research to an actual drug is akin to a path trodden by a blind man along the edge of a cliff at night; any survival, let alone success, seems like a miracle in retrospect. No drug scientist will admit it, but every drug scientist crosses his or her fingers when a new drug makes it to the market because we are just not smart enough to figure out exactly what it will do in every single patient. That is why most drugs fail in advanced clinical trials, when hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent on them.
The scientific challenges in drug discovery are a major reason why drugs are so expensive. Of course manufacturing costs are going to be low; once you have wasted so much money on R&D and hit the right solution you only have to make the actual substance (and I don't say "only" lightly here). Would one also decry the low manufacturing costs of integrated circuit boards and ignore the massive, extensive, often unsuccessful developments in R&D that resulted in the system being able to beat Moore's Law? It's the same for drug discovery, except that in this case nobody has any idea how we would even start to approach Moore's Law, let alone beat it. So criticize drug costs and CEO bonuses and profits all you like - and continue to have a much needed debate about healthcare costs in this country - but keep in mind that those numbers are more likely to wildly obfuscate than educate if you take them at face value.
they could make billions and much more profit should they reduce price at least half, but no!!
Drug companies charge as much as they can for their products. Which means as much as the customer is willing to pay. In Europe, there isn't a free market. Priced are usually works out on the basis of cost effectiveness. In the US, prices tend to be steeper.
I really want to see real numbers for the cost and profit for at least one drug instead of saying "drug discovery costs billions." Sure it takes a long time and huge amount of money. But, given the fact that we only hear "drug discovery costs billions and it takes ~10 years..." no one will believe that it really costs that much unless we see some numbers.
Estimates vary. Forbes reckons it's not at $5 billion per drug - although that is on the high side of estimates.
What you've got to take into account is not only the drugs that get marketed, but all the ones that were developed but then failed at some point in the trialling and testing process. Also, some drugs get regulatory short-cuts (if they're for diseases that only affect a small number of people), which makes them cheaper to develop.
What is certain is that the cost to develop drugs is going up, and the sales of new drugs are going down (because there are so many good drugs out there already). So when you get something like Sovaldi, it's only ever going to be prescribed to a small percentage of all the Hep C patients out there, and each one only gets it for 12 weeks (because it cures them).
So that means the price per course has to be high.
the main problem with Sofosbuvir is that Gilead didn't researched it. It only partially developed it and with such a good drug, so better than the next standard of care, the clinical trials were not that costly. Sofosbuvir was in the pipeline of Pharmasset a small Biotech that Giled acquired for 11 billion. And here is the reason why they have to price it so high. During this year and next, the immediate competitors like Merck and Abbvie will launch their similar molecules for HepC and, although the early results show that the new molecules will not be as good as Sofosbuvir, they will be good enough to steal some of the market share of Sovaldi. Therefore, Gilead wants to squeeze the maximum amount of money from the market before that, so that the 12 billion investiment gets some return.
This being said, Sofosbuvir is one hell of a drug and a great advancement for medicine. Bernard Munos put it quite accuratelly by saying that it belongs to a new class of drugs " Cost-effective but unaffordable". There are about 130 million people with HepC, if Gilead cures half of them, we are talking of 5460000000000 dolares. This also stands Sovaldi apart from other expensive drugs that are for a very limited group of patients (like cancer drugs or rare diseases). However, I can understand how americans are feeling bad about all this when Sovaldi will be less expensive in Europe and it will only cost 2000dolares in Egipt, with India and China probably following these type of prices due to more permissive and agressive laws on patent rights.
| 2019-04-24T16:57:24 |
http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2014/04/drug-costs-and-prices-here-we-go-again.html
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Tomorrow, dear reader, is not a day I am looking forward to.
Tomorrow, I’m going into the labyrinth alone. I’m heading into the shared folders.
The shared folders embody the essence of our company. They contain the past and the future - all inside of a single hierarchical structure.
I went to the powers that be, and asked for some insight as to the structure I found. Are the final specifications the complete specifications? Or are the complete specifications the final specifications? Do we make final specifications, then review, update, and mark them complete? Or do we make a complete set of specifications, then update, review, and mark them as final?
I suggested wikis, portals, or anything with WebDAV to make some sense of our artifacts, but the powers that be like folders. Shared folders. Shared folders with a deep hierarchy. The deeper the better.
Looking at this, I feel like David Carradine’s character in the old Kung Fu series.
Dude, do the powers that be recommend using folder hierarchies for revision control of source code? I don't understand why they feel differently for documents. Especially specs which are arguably as important as the source code.
<br>Try getting them onto Sharepoint. You can have your folder hierarchies, but condense them a bit via version control.
One of my clients has a similar folder fetish, except they also have some wierd document naming conventions that is too obscure to have any meaning. I feel your pain.
Engineering tried to talk the powers that be into using source control, but we didn't get very far. Since engineering "owns" the source code, we do keep everything we possibly can inside SCM. If only everyone could see the power of a good SCM.
| 2019-04-19T09:28:10 |
https://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2004/12/27/the-shared-folders.aspx
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(CNN) -- President Donald Trump's former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen expressed contrition Tuesday, February 26 upon his return to Capitol Hill, apologizing to the Senate Intelligence Committee for the lies he told during his 2017 testimony, according to multiple sources familiar with his interview.
Cohen testified behind closed doors before the committee on Tuesday, the first of his three consecutive congressional appearances this week, with one public and two private sessions.
In his public testimony Wednesday, Cohen is expected to discuss publicly for the first time Trump's role in some of the crimes his former lawyer pleaded guilty to last year, a source familiar with Cohen's preparations for his testimony told CNN.
Cohen is expected to give behind-the-scenes details raising questions of Trump's conduct in business and when he was a presidential candidate, according to the source. Cohen may also provide documents to back up his claims, the source said, though the congressional committees have not confirmed they have received anything new from Cohen.
As senators filtered in and out of Tuesday's daylong interview with Cohen, they said he was being subjected to an "extensive grilling" by committee staff, including about the lies he had told the committee when he first testified in 2017 about how far the Trump Tower Moscow project deliberations extended into the 2016 campaign.
"There is a reason that is a closed hearing, but he did spend quite a bit of time explaining what he had told us before that wasn't truthful," said Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican.
Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said that Cohen was "a very different guy" than the last time he appeared.
Like most witness interviews in the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation, Cohen is being quizzed by staffers on the panel, according to a source with knowledge of the closed-door hearing. While members are in attendance, they are passing along questions via notes to staffers who are leading the questioning, the source said.
Asked if Cohen revealed any new information on potential collusion, Collins said: "I'm really not permitted to talk about what happened this morning. I will say he has been asked many, many questions. I've submitted some that have been asked and a couple that still haven't been. And it's an extensive grilling. But I really can't go into the specifics."
"Disgraced felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying to Congress and making other false statements," Sanders said in a public statement. "Sadly, he will go before Congress this week and we can expect more of the same. It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies."
The main event for Cohen this week is his public testimony Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, where he has agreed to discuss "the President's debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election," a reference to the hush money payments Cohen made to two women in the home stretch of the 2016 campaign.
Cohen will also speak about the President's finances, conflicts of interests at the Trump Foundation and the Trump International Hotel, according to a memo released last week by House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat.
Wednesday's hearing sets the stage for a classic Washington split-screen: Cohen will be testifying publicly the same day that Trump is in Vietnam for his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, albeit the two events will be occurring on opposite sides of the world with a 12-hour time difference between Washington and Hanoi.
White House officials in Washington will be watching Cohen's testimony and taking notes, in case the President wants to be briefed on what was said, according to a senior White House official. The official told CNN the expectation is, however, that Trump will stay up overnight in Hanoi and watch Wednesday's hearing.
Cohen's return to Capitol Hill comes roughly 18 months after he made his first appearance before the intelligence panels as part of their Russia investigation, where he lied about how long discussions about a Trump Tower Moscow project extended into the 2016 campaign.
"He's the only person that I know of who has accused this President of a crime," Cummings said of Cohen. "And so I think it's only fair to the President and to Michael Cohen and to the public that he come forward so that they'll have an opportunity to observe his demeanor, Republicans will be able to ask him questions, just like in a cross examination, and then they can make their own judgments."
In his letter last week, Cummings wrote that he consulted with both the Justice Department and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, in determining the scope of the committee's hearing, at which Cohen is appearing voluntarily.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the panel, has slammed Cummings for holding the hearing in the first place, and he's signaled that GOP committee members have no plans to adhere to the scope of the hearing that Cummings has outlined.
Cohen scrapped his initial date to testify publicly citing threats that Trump and the President's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani made against his family. (Trump responded that Cohen was only threatened by the truth.) Then Cohen postponed his House Intelligence Committee appearance, which Schiff attributed vaguely to "the interests of the investigation."
| 2019-04-25T17:07:59 |
https://wqad.com/2019/02/26/michael-cohen-faces-capitol-hill-gauntlet-starting-tuesday/
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Weeks ago we were at dinner and I reached for my phone only to realize it wasn't in my bag. I had the usual stream of thoughts: it's probably at home. But what if it's not at home? What if it's lying in the parking lot, or otherwise lost? I could have logged into my Google Account on Shira's phone and used its find my phone feature to track down the device. But that would have been a significant disruption to dinner. I made a mental note to solve this problem later and hoped the device would be waiting for me when I got home. Fortunately, it was.
Then, a couple weeks later on on Reddit's /r/tasker I came across this post: Is there any way to text my location? Someone left a comment linking to a Where Are You task. Curious, I installed this task and was impressed: with one click I had installed an action that translated my current location into human readable form.
All that was left to do was to wire this task into an Event: Received Text Profile and I had a simple find-my-phone solution that would have put me at ease in the restaurant. For my first attempt at capturing Received Texts I made use of a Flash alert. This didn't work. Opting to write to a file instead of flashing text on the screen did work, as did my auto-text reply. I'm not sure why flashing text on the screen on this particular event fails, but I ultimately didn't need this for my solution.
The last piece of the puzzle is the credit card size backup phone I carry in my man-bag. The phone has basic text and call abilities and not much more.
Next time I find myself wondering where my phone is, I can bust out my backup phone and text myself LOC. If all goes well, a few seconds later I'll get a response from my phone with its current location. As a bonus, I've added Shira's phone number to the list of allowed numbers. So if she's sitting next to me, I don't even need to dig out my backup phone but can text from her device.
You can grab the code for this solution here, or recreate it using the screenshots below.
We attended and hosted wonderful seders this year! Thanks to my brother and sister-in-law for hosting the first night and for giving me so much to (a) think about, and (b) to eat!
Below are a list of links I collected up as Passover approached. The usual happened: whenever I thought I'd read the last word on a topic I realized there was more to learn and a fresh perspective to be gained.
A fascinating timeline showing what parts of the seder come from what eras.
Source discussion of Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah's comments about reciting the Exodus at night.
Suggestion: add a mirror to your seder plate for the Me Too movement.
Why do we spill drops of wine for the plagues?
Source from the book of Joel for linking the 10 plagues by text analysis.
Why do we include Rabbi's Judah's abbreviation?
Why aren't there more mentions of Moses in the haggadah?
Thoughts on Dayenu and so many plagues.
Is the seder a symposium?
Why were the first born killed?
Are blind people exempt from recounting the story of the haggdah?
What do dogs have to do with Passover?
My sense is that everyday the political news gets more outlandish. Occasionally we hit what surely must be a high-water mark (say, Trump siding with Putin over his own intel community), but a few days later there's something new to be stunned about.
But is my sense correct? Or, is this merely me revealing my bias against the Trump administration?
I tried to imagine a concrete way of answering this question. One solution I came up with: pick a day of the presidency, say #97. Now, compare headlines and tweets from past administrations and Trump side-by-side. Ideally, you'd do this a number of times and a pattern should reveal itself.
Alas, I couldn't find a free news API that provided data going back more than a month. CNN, AP and Twitter all offer APIs, but none give access to the historic data I'd need to bring my idea to life.
You can try this for yourself here.
As a tool for detecting bias Imaginary News is a flop. It's little more than a political Rorschach test. If you think Trump is treated unfairly by the media, this tool proves the point. If you think this administration is generating scandals at an alarming rate, you'll see that too.
As a programming exercise, however, it was a worthy one. The newsapi.org API is easy to use and Just Works. There's no complicated setup or authentication, just signup and start making curl calls. You can see my code here.
The pages even match up to the 1963 edition of the Haggadah I grabbed off our shelf.
The definitive and most recognizable Haggadah in English. This has become the standard for most synagogues, schools, and homes.
Rabbi Nathan Goldberg's Passover Haggadah comes with an accessible English translation, clear instructions, and numbered lines so everyone can follow along in Hebrew or in English.
And from my perspective, this is true: it is the standard. It's the one I've been using my whole life. And yet, I can find no notable history of the haggadah on the web. Compare that to the similarly compact and universal text: the Maxwell House Haggadah. There's a colorful history associated with that text. Yet, the web is silent on old Red and Gold. How could this be? Could the Goldberg story really just be simple: it's an affordable, relatively easy to follow, simple text?
In a holiday so rich with meaning and minutia, surely we can't leave it at that. Can we?
I recently replaced my no-name mini PC with a might-as-well-be-no-name Kingdel NC860 mini PC. These fanless desktop computers have a great form factor, dual monitor support, plenty of USB ports and a bare-bones feel that I love. Credit goes to Coding Horror for inspiring my first purchase of this type of device.
I've recently switched from Firefox to Chrome as my primary browser of choice, and 1password as my password manager. The result: installing Chrome and logging in using both my Work and Personal e-mail meant that my web-based life was essentially setup. Installing Cygwin, Gimp and AutoHotKey meant that I had a nearly complete dev environment. All that was left to do was to install emacs.
At this point, I usually Google around to find the latest version of Windows friendly emacs, often ending up on this sourceforge site. On a whim, however, I thought I'd try something different: I installed emacs via cygwin.
My expectation was that I'd get a console only emacs. And my assumption was totally wrong. I ended up with the same Windows friendly emacs I'm used to, except a whole slew of issues had been resolved. I'm used to emacs operating in terms of Windows drive paths, while cygwin works in terms of a unix'y path mapping. By using a cygwin based emacs, the two environments are now in sync.
A number of issues with eshell were magically fixed, too. #! detection and signal handling (hitting Control-c) in eshell wasn't reliable in my old Windows emacs setup, whereas it's working well under cygwin based emacs.
Finally, the cygwin version of emacs is as up to date as the GNU site offers: version 26.1.
Why didn't I try this years ago?
It blows my mind that I can go from new PC to working dev environment in 15 minutes and zero dollars spent on software.
When it comes to programmatically working with documents, I'm all about Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. But I recently found myself needing to step over to the Dark Side and write some code to interact with Microsoft Word. After a quick Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) refresher, I managed to eek out the code I needed. Surprisingly, I found myself impressed by the capabilities VBA offers. The API is massive and appears to let you automate nearly everything related to Word Docs. I suppose being an ancient and archaic incredibly mature product has its benefits.
In the interest of leaving breadcrumbs for myself, or for helping some other soul who finds themselves needing to write some Word VBA code, I'm publishing a bit of test code I wrote while tackling my project. It's CS 101 level stuff: iterate through the currently selected table and display the max and min numeric values found. But given how rusty my VBA skills are, working through this example was quite helpful.
MsgBox "You're not currently on a table."
You can download the Word file containing the code here. Happy Hacking!
Everytime I think I've exhausted DC's esoterica, I'm reminded just how packed with random stuff this city is. Next time you're at a Nats Game, consider taking a less than a mile stroll along the pristine Anacostia Riverwalk Trail to 38.871800,-76.994906. Standing at these coordinates you'll be able to glimpse some truly remarkable Military hardware.
The U.S. Navy found what they were looking for in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil rig workers off the coast of Louisiana and Texas were shuttled to and from the rigs in strong aluminum boats built by Seward Seacraft Company of Louisiana. The taxi boats were sturdy, quiet and with a draft of 3 ½ feet, powered by two diesel engines with twin screws and speeds up to 28 knots. With the addition of weapons and living amenities, they were the perfect craft for patrolling the waterways of Vietnam.
Swift boats patrolled the waterways, interrupted enemy supply lines, and participated in complex insertion and extraction operations, while enduring monsoons, riverbank ambushes, mines laid by the Viet Cong, and difficult nighttime operations. Swift boat Sailors brought the naval fight inland and had a decisive role in the fight against the Viet Cong.
There's also the conning tower of the USS Balao, a WWII submarine. Despite earning 9 battle stars while operating during WWII, the sub's claim to fame is related to its movie, not military, career.
It’s real claim to fame came when Balao starred in the popular war comedy Operation Petticoat alongside Cary Grant.
The role itself was a little self-effacing. In the movie a Japanese bomber damages Balao and the submariners repairing it find they have nothing but red and white anti-corrosive paint. When they patch the sub up the gleaming new paint job is hot pink.
Audiences in 1959 screamed with delight at the prospect. The battle-hardened old sea salts of the U.S. Navy in pink? It was unthinkable. “We blushed when we asked for it and almost fainted when the Navy said okay,” the films producer explained in 1959.
Perhaps the most remarkable benefit of taking this walk is the opportunity to see "one of the largest artillery pieces in the world." That's right, parked among other employee vehicles is one of the few surviving World War I Railroad Guns. The 14"/50 caliber gun was originally deployed on battleships, but was mounted on a railroad car to help the Allies compete with German artillery superiority.
The “railroad battery” was first used in Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Peninsula campaign in 1862. Confederates bolted a 32-pounder Brooke naval rifle to a flatcar protected by an iron casemate, the finished car looking much like a land version of the ironclad CSS Virginia. It engaged in artillery duels before the Battle of Fair Oaks.
The Union used similar railroad mountings during the 1864 siege of Petersburg. The most famous of these was Dictator, a thirteen-inch seacoast mortar on an eight-wheeled flatcar. Lobbing 218-pound shells as far as forty-two hundred yards, this behemoth bombarded Southern batteries and bombproofs with telling effect.
Before the rise of bombers, missiles, and precision munitions, investments in railroad guns were perhaps justified. In World War I, the guns frequently proved to be fort-cracking artillery par excellence, and superb for long-range bombardment. By the 1930s, their days were numbered: armed forces turned to air power to shatter fortresses (and the guns themselves); to drop paratroops behind fortified lines; and to sever rail links, the guns’ umbilical cord. Ponderous size, camouflage difficulties, and logistical constraints all made the guns vulnerable to air attack. While a viable role remained for cannon artillery on many battlefields into the early twenty-first century, World War II’s end rang the death knell for super-heavy artillery, of which the railroad gun marked the apotheosis.
So did I find it, DC's most unusual site? Knowing this city, not by a longshot.
One of the micro annoyances I encounter with Ionic is the process of sharing an Android debug APK. After running ionic cordova build android I'm left with app-debug.apk under the android platform directory. Copying this file to the correctly named location isn't hard, but it always takes me a few extra heartbeats to do it right. Where's does the APK live again? Should I use _'s or -'s in the final name? What's the version of this app? and so on. Not hard, not even tedious, but always annoying.
xmlstarlet is the obvious tool to use to grab info from config.xml. I'm always tripped up by the use of namespaces in the XML and XSLT, which meant writing the above script took a bit of extra debugging time. If nothing else, the above code is a helpful reminder to me as to how to navigate a document with namespaces.
MattShafter had a nifty video on creating simple mesh shoulder strap pockets. I picked up some of the fabric he mentioned (1209C Heavy Lycra Mesh) and last night had a chance to experiment with it. I don't have a need for shoulder strap pockets, so I whipped up a quick zippered pouch instead. This exercise let me play with the new fabric and gave me a chance to face the puzzle that is installing a zipper.
I wrapped the edges of the mesh in bright yellow fabric in the hopes of making the seams more robust. It appears to have worked. The catch: the zipper area shows some ratty edges of the yellow fabric which I definitely lose style points for. Personally, I'm just glad I managed to install a functional zipper with its right-side out.
I'm not sure what I'll use this pouch for, nor am I sure what I'll tackle next with this material. But I'm impressed with its stretch, durability and general forgiveness in the hands of a newbie.
Want to boost the carrying capacity of your favorite pair of running shorts? Line the waistline with several safety pins—a dirt-cheap, hands-free method for toting your house key, energy gels, mini Ziplocs of electrolyte mix or salt tabs, or even empty food or gel wrappers. Pro tip: pin items to the inside of your shorts’ waistline to avoid them bouncing around while you run.
For my last three runs, I've pinned some sort of snack to the inside of my short's waistband. Jelly Belly Sports Beans are ideal because they're compact and low profile. Other foods stored in portion control Ziploc style bags work, too. Because the snack is kept on the inside of my shorts bounce is kept to a minimum.
The result is a backup source of caloric motivation that's essentially invisible until I need it. And best of all, if you've got a safety pin or two lying around the house, the setup is free.
Both my compass and cell phone agree: the sun has a current heading of 128°.
While reassuring (yay, math and my programming works!), both these approaches aren't ideal. If I have the means to execute the full series of solar math calculations, then I probably have my cell phone which has a compass and GPS built in. Using the sun to verify these readings is handy, though not essential. The daily cheat-sheet is useful for specific days (say, we're on a weekend backpacking trip) but requires planning to be of use.
Adding the number of degrees the sun has traveled since sunrise (53.5°) to the sunrise azimuth (88°); yields my estimated position: 141°.
My first thought was: yikes! 141° is quite a ways off from 128°. However, looking at a compass convinced me this error is acceptable. Both approaches suggest that the sun is in the South-East on March 24th at 10:42am. If I had no GPS or compass to go off of this information would be invaluable.
I wouldn't want to survey property or search for hidden treasure using this chart, but as a zero-weight, battery-less, method for calculating direction I think it works.
Here's the Google Spreadsheet that powers this chart.
I ran by the Department of Justice yesterday, and noticed the quote etched in the wall: Lawn Alone Can Give Us Freedom. Deep, I thought. I rounded the corner and found TV crews prepared for breaking news related to the Mueller Report. Just a normal day here in DC.
Last week I wanted a small group of folks to weigh in on a particular design decision. Surely I thought, there's a tool out there I can use to run a quick poll of the various mockups. Alas, searching didn't turn up a usable solution. I found sophisticated tools for collaborating on designs, as well as simple tools for creating image based polls. The design tools were overkill, and the image polls were crude and ad filled. What I wanted was something like doodle.com, but for images, not scheduling. With no great options, I decided to build my own. I give you: pick-one.
Each image is automatically overlaid with a consistent letter. Folks I've emailed can reply with a quick 'C' if that's their choice.
You can find the source code for pick-one here. I'm not in love with the fact that it requires you upload images. A smart enhancement would be to pull the images from a Google Album, Google Drive Folder or Amazon S3 Bucket. Once this is done, the system should be far more usable.
I'm still convinced that there's a lightweight tool out there that will let me poll my audience. But until I trip over it (or better yet, you tell me about it in the comments), I'll keep enhancing pick-one.
Yesterday, Shira came home and found me in a glum mood. The problem I explained, was that Jupiter's YoYo attempt of the PCT had ended in failure. Mind you, I don't really know Jupiter, his failure happened over a year ago and from comments I see that he's fine and heading out on the trail soon. Still, if an uplifting story or song can raise your mood, then surely it's reasonable that a failed attempt should bring you down. That's just quality film making.
It's in this spirit that I was glad I watched Jupiter's story and was glad to add him to my Catalog of Failed Attempts (CFA). The CFA exists for an obvious reason: if experience is the best teacher then learning from other's failures is an invaluable (and pain free!) opportunity.
You might think it's a bit harsh to keep a list of people's failed attempts, but I think it showcases an important trend. Everyone on the list has and will continue to have amazing accomplishments. Take Jupiter. Sure, his PCT adventure didn't go as planned. But neither did his first thru hike attempt of the AT. After that trail, he successfully completed the 4,800 mile Eastern Continental Trail. I'd love it as much as the next person if we could have our failures early (or better yet, not at all!) and be done with them. But as long as you're leaving your comfort zone failure is very much an option.
At its core, the catalog is all about embracing and learning from failure, not dreading it.
Any attempts you can suggest adding to my list?
Picture it: We're a 1000 miles from nowhere, it's 3pm, and we're staring at a trail map. Should we push forward and tackle the mountain pass ahead of us, or should we play it safe and take it on the next day? If only we had a way of knowing if the current weather was going to hold. Then it hits me: I can consult my phone's barometer to help predict the weather.
I bust out my phone, Bluetooth keyboard, and start up Termux. I then run tail -24 ~/storage/shared/Tasker/pressure.txt | baro to see the last 24 hour's barometric pressure readings. We huddle around my phone, trying to make sense of this raw data.
There are a number of things wrong with the above scenario. Top among them, the awkwardness of using my baro shell script. Fortunately, it's not hard to make this script far more practical.
A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution. Sparklines mean that graphics are no longer cartoonish special occasions with captions and boxes, but rather sparkline graphics can be everywhere a word or number can be: embedded in a sentence, table, headline, map, spreadsheet, graphic. Data graphics should have the resolution of typography.
Thanks to this shell script you can add Bash terminal to the list of places sparklines can appear. The spark command reads data from stdin and generates a corresponding mini bar graph. Here's an example of me filling a data file with 100 random numbers and then graphing the results.
Do we push on, or setup camp? Who knows. But at least consulting the barometer is now effortless.
I've mentioned before how riveting a read Phantom Warriors by Gary Linderer was, and I recently finished book 2 in the series. Bottom line: I continue to be in awe of the stories Linderer tells.
The grit, courage, fearlessness that were so prominent in book 1 continue in book 2. In this latest book, however, I got a more complete picture of the challenges LRRPs face. We meet soldiers and commanding officers who are more liability than asset. We find our teams of heroes not just under fire from the enemy, but from poor decision making and distrust by their own leaders. It's one thing to call for an extraction and be told that no helicopters are available. It's altogether a different story to be denied assistance because senior command doesn't truly believe you need it, or doesn't believe the contact with enemy even occurred.
This is an ugly side of war, but it's no less a reality than the other challenges LRRPs had to deal with.
Book 2 follows the same recipe set out in book 1. Each chapter begins with a fairly technical state of the war at the time of the mission, followed by a short introduction to each individual going out on the patrol. You're then treated to a blow by blow account of the mission, which may last hours or days; may be without incident or contain a bloody firefight; and may end with everyone safe or significant loss of life. You have the privilege to watch each story unfold, all while rooting for the team to make it back in one piece.
It's worth noting that the overview given at the start of each chapter was almost my undoing. I picked up Phantom Warriors a couple times only to put it down because I found the content so bland. But once I read on I realized just how short-sighted I'd been. The text naming each soldier in the patrol, while less exciting than the mission description, is just as important. It goes a long way towards reminding me that this isn't some fictional account. These were real people in a very real war.
These are legendary heroes, with a story that hasn't been widely told. Pick it up today, you'll be glad you did.
This past weekend we got recertified in CPR and first aid, and so the time was right for me to take stock and up my first aid game. Here are three changes I've made as a result.
I've gotten into the habit of handwriting key phone numbers in the back of my pocket notebook. That way if I lose my phone I've got a fighting chance of contacting loved ones. To this list I added Poison Control (800-222-1222) and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255). Hopefully I'll never need either of these, but should one of them be necessary, I want the quickest access possible.
I've been vaguely aware of the recommendation that if someone is having heart attack symptoms they should take an Aspirin. This advice appears to be legit, and have added 4 tablets of 325mg Aspirin to my kit.
A day of CPR and first aid training is helpful, but those skills are awfully perishable. To help retain them we're given a quick reference guide. I pondered the best way to store this guide and came up with the following.
First, I copied the salient details of guide into a plain old .html file. After storing this file locally on my phone I setup a trivial Tasker action that opens this file in a browser. I then setup two quick ways to access this Tasker action: the first is a widget on my home screen, and the second is a via an NFC tag that's placed in the first aid kit itself. I'm not sure how practical this second method is, but it's pretty sweet to hover my phone over my first-aid kit and have a cheatsheet pop-up in response.
Will this NFC tag approach work in a high-stress emergency scenario? Probably not. But it does make launching the file easy and if I do that every couple months for a quick review, that alone will be helpful.
Finally, here's a couple snapshots of my EDC first aid kit. A good bit of it is little more than meds and tape, which can truly work wonders. The gloves, CPR face shield and tourniquet are a nod to the fact that very bad things can happen when we least expect it. The ear plugs are because I kept showing up at concerts unprepared and kids today play their music too dang loud.
The watch in question is an old tech4o model that fits in the Altitude-Barometer-Compass class of watches, so called ABC watches. Back in the day, these were high tech and provided next level features when compared to a typical sport watch.
My hunch was that the sensor powering the predictions is the barometer. This fascinating article on the topic Fair or Foul? How to Use a Barometer to Forecast the Weather confirmed my suspicion. What a game changer this must have been in the mid 1800's when suddenly forces that seemed godlike were reduced to quantifiable phenomena. Even now, when it seems like weather forecasting should be in the domain of scientists and super-computers, I find it remarkable that you can offer predictions, however crude, using one commonly available sensor. That's too cool.
Most of the time I'm only a few keystrokes away from knowing a precise forecast. That is, however, until I'm off in the woods and there's no cell or WiFi signal. In that case, having something like Shira's watch could be pretty handy. But what if I didn't want to depend on her watch? The Physics Toolbox App on my phone tells me that my Galaxy S9+ has a pressure sensor built in. Could I use my phone as glorified barometer?
You'll want to make sure that you've setup Tasker to monitor the pressure sensor. Also, in order for the %PRESSURE variable to be populated it needs be referenced by a profile. Or at least that's what I had to do to get the variable to be set.
The script maps the stream of raw times and pressures into a readable timestamp, rising/falling/steady indicator and pressure in inHg. Consider the example below that tells me that after dipping overnight, the pressure has started rising this morning. That bodes well for today!
While my Tasker + Termux solution lacks the the cute icons Shira's watch provides, it makes up for this with something more valuable: simplicity. Tasker is giving me raw access to the sensor, and good old fashion unix scripting let's me process it. In other words, I've turned my $800 cell phone into a $20 barometer. Most importantly, whether I have Internet access or not, I can play armchair sea-captain and offer up weather predictions. Welcome to the 1850's baby!
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Make no mistake about it: Apotheker is channel strong. He has hit the ground running, quickly getting his arms around the value of the channel for HP.
New Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker thinks for a moment when asked what people's biggest misconception about him is. And then he talks frankly about the view that some solution providers have of him as a result of his 20-year tenure at ERP software giant SAP.
"I know that many people in the channel were afraid that I was known to be a direct-sales, proprietary, get-out-of-my-way kind of person," said Apotheker, who was warm, engaging and willing to poke fun at himself in an exclusive 45-minute sit-down with CRN. "That is actually totally not true. Even at SAP, where I did build the world's probably best direct-sales force, it was hugely leveraged by channel partners, hugely leveraged. Without the channel partners, SAP would have never become what it became. Not even close. So I have always worked with channel partners and if I could use this opportunity as I am talking to you, I want to convey the message again and again and again: I embrace channel partners in any language you would choose."
Make no mistake about it: Apotheker is channel strong. He has hit the ground running, quickly getting his arms around the value of the channel for HP. He has met with some 50 partners around the world and has already charted a course into the new world of cloud computing, connected devices, software and services for HP and its channel partners. The big difference between former HP CEO Mark Hurd and Apotheker is the "Vision"--with a capital "V"--that Apotheker has brought to HP. It is no surprise that Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers pointed out in last month's interview with CRN that he likes his fellow CEO. The two share a passion for technology innovation and changing world economies with information technology.
The big story from CRN's meeting with Apotheker is how firmly committed he is to channel partners and how quickly he is moving to restore HP's cultural heritage as a technology innovator. The hell with cost-cutting. What this company needs is a single strategic vision that everyone in the organization can get behind. One HP. Apotheker is making sure that the company is not left behind in the cloud computing software and services era.
My bet is partners are going to be surprised at just how strong an advocate Apotheker will be for them and just how aggressive he will be in helping them close deals. "I am a sales guy at heart," he said. "I carried a bag. So I sympathize with these people. So they can call. And I told them that in all of our meetings. Here is my number. Here is my e-mail. If you need help, call. So we will do whatever we need to do to help these guys sell."
Apotheker and HP, of course, still have to execute on the vision of helping partners sell and restoring HP's position as a technology innovator. But from here this looks like the start of a beautiful channel friendship.
BackTalk: What perceptions do you have about HP's Apotheker? Let me know at [email protected].
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(CNN) -- Who would open one of the world's biggest casinos in the depths of a global recession?
Big city dreams: Lawrence Ho's business portfolio in Hong Kong and Macau is growing.
Answer: Lawrence Ho, the scion of a casino business mogul who has clearly inherited his father's love of a calculated risk.
Ho's father Stanley is a man synonymous with the creation of Macau as the world's biggest gambling destination.
"Over the past 40 years he has put his thumbprints all over Macau. I think if you look at the major infrastructure projects, whether it's the airport, the ferry terminals, he was involved in building up a lot of those," Lawrence Ho told CNN.
But in opening City of Dreams in Macau earlier this year, Ho is trying to carve his own niche and continue to build up his own business empire.
"I think gone are the days when you can open a property and 'Bang!' you would steal significant market share from others," he told CNN.
"Before we opened we were, like the rest of the world, a little bit wary of the timing, but I think in hindsight the world economies are doing a lot better and Macau has seen its first year-on-year increase in July and August was a booming month. So I think all in all we couldn't be happier."
Ho's company, Melco-Crown Entertainment, is independent from his father's huge portfolio of businesses and the multibillion dollar City of Dreams project is a partnership with Australian James Packer, himself the son of a media tycoon.
Ho is respectful of his ailing father's achievements and the advantages that the family name has given him, but also the desire it fostered to forge his own success.
"The bigger the shadow the more we can feel the underdog syndrome. ... being his son opened many doors, but at the same time I grew up in a very big family with our own issues, but all in all certainly being his son has helped a great deal," he said.
There are no worries about interference from the mainland -- "I suspect that China definitely wants [Macau and Hong Kong] to do well" -- and Ho remains positive that Asia will see the quickest recovery from the downturn.
"A lot of the Asian countries and economies have handled the [economic] crisis this time a lot better than the Asian financial crisis 10 years ago," he said.
"So I think, all in all, Asia has managed to come out of this much quicker than the rest of the world. And really when people are feeling better they travel and they spend more, and you know we are in the business of providing leisure and entertainment."
| 2019-04-21T00:46:47 |
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Frances Tiafoe moved into the second round at the Miami Open with a 7-5, 5-7, 6-1 victory over Russia's Konstantin Kravchuk on Thursday in Key Biscayne, Fla.
Tomas Berdych posted a straight-sets win Monday in a first-round match at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka saw his bid for his first title at the Swiss Indoors end.
Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka let a second-set lead slip away.
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic continued his dominance at the Shanghai Masters and reached the quarterfinals of the tournament on Thursday.
Andy Murray initially couldn't figure out what the strange noise was but eventually he was speaking loudest with his racket.
Venus Williams withstood a furious challenge from 21-year-old Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari.
Defending champion Serena Williams stormed into the quarterfinals while sister Venus failed to advance in the French Open on Wednesday.
Rafael Nadal's historic match victory Thursday at the French Open was news to him.
Roger Federer is going home earlier than expected and isn't part of the Final Four at the Monte Carlo Masters.
American teenager Taylor Fritz upset second-seeded Steve Johnson 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7) in the second round of the Memphis Open in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday night.
Top seed David Ferrer came up a second-round loser Tuesday at the Aegon Open Nottingham, a final grass- court Wimbledon tune-up.
Marcel Granollers Pujol (born April 12, 1986, in Barcelona) is a professional tennis player from Spain who turned professional in 2003. He reached his highest singles ranking of World Number 44 on February 16, 2009, and his highest doubles ranking of World Number 51. As of late 2008, Granollers is the second-youngest of the many Spanish players in the ATP Top 100 (after Rafael Nadal).
Granollers Pujol made the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in 2006, but lost to Andrei Pavel. In the qualifying rounds, he beat Stéphane Robert, Konstantinos Economidis and Marco Chiudinelli.
In 2007, Granollers Pujol won the Napoli and Rome Challengers for doubles with Flavio Cipolla, and the Maspalomas Challenger for doubles with Marc López. At the 2007 French Open, he made the second round of the men's doubles tournament with Feliciano López before they lost in three close sets to the number 4 seeds Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić, who won 7–5, 1–6, 6–4. He lost at the French and Wimbledon Championships both times in the second round of qualifying for the main draws.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Marcel Granollers."
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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9-1) in Physical Education (1PE0). Igcse pe coursework samples For my PE coursework, I will be analysing the performance of my classmate, Martin Raynes and he will be doing the same for me. For examined coursework, instead of submitting samples, you submit the work of.
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Asparagus is one of my favorite garden plants. It is the first vegetable to harvest in the spring, it’s perennial, and it tastes great. What more could you ask for?
1. Dig a trench 8 inches deep and 1 foot wide. Dig your trench long enough that you can space your asparagus roots 1 foot apart.
2. Make mounds of soil to rest the crown of the asparagus plant on, and spread the roots out gently on the mound.
3. Water your asparagus roots.
4. Backfill with the existing soil. The crown or growing point of the asparagus plant should be 1 inch under the soil.
5. Add 1-2 inches of mulch to suppress weeds. Make sure any existing weeds are removed. Weeds can ruin an asparagus patch as the roots can get tangled.
6. Give the patch another good watering.
I planted a couple of rows of asparagus about 5 years ago, loving the idea of a perennial vegetable that produces in the spring, and its been one of my better gardening successes. And there is NOTHING as yummy as homegrown asparagus sauteed in a little butter with chopped garlic!
Here is one tip I've picked up growing asparagus: once your asparagus starts coming up, it comes up FAST! As in, you need to keep a really good eye on it in the spring, because it grows so rapidly (it literally seems like inches a day, but maybe that's my imagination). E.g., last spring I checked the beds, and the asparagus wasn't poking up yet, and the next time I checked -maybe a week or so later?- much of the first growth was already too tall. -Asparagus gets tougher and more fiberous when it gets too tall. So you really need to check it every day or two in the spring, to make sure you don't miss catching those first harvests. I also love how you get multiple harvests from the asparagus bed. A very "feel-good" addition to the garden!
I've also found my asparagus bed to be pretty reliable and low-maintenance, once the bed is established. I've experienced all kinds of different problems with many other veggies (tomato and potato blight, snails, poor germination/production for certain items), but my asparagus just seems to come up every spring and produce like clockwork.
I didn't listen to the video clip above, so it may have addressed this, but the info I read when I established my asparagus bed said that it takes 3 years for the bed to become productive. That seemed to hold true for me; I think I got my first good harvest the 3rd year after planting. So if you want to grow asparagus, the sooner you establish the bed, the better, since you may be waiting a couple of years for it to produce. (And I am open to other's comments/experience in that regard!).
I also love it when I go by the expensive bunches of asparagus for sale at the local grocery store, and know I can go out in my back yard and pick my own for free!
I agree, with your sentiment on asparagus. So easy, so productive, and fresh produce early in the season. It surprises me that most gardens don't have an asparagus patch.
I have heard various advice on how many years to wait to pick your asparagus. I personally ordered two year old roots, and after planting them in the early spring and letting them grow for a season, I was able to harvest very nice sized spears one year later, with no problems. The wait time I think depends on how mature the roots are that you start with.
Aah, I didn't realize that the age of the asparagus roots you plant affects how long the bed takes to be productive, but that makes perfect sense Phil!
Hmmm, I've been wanting to expand my bed because we enjoy the results so much; maybe I'll look around and see if I can find a source of 2 year-old roots to start with this spring. Thanks for the tip!
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How can a variadic template be used to generate a left-associative expression (aka left fold) in c++11?
Based on c++ operator doc, ',' is a left to right operator. It is meaning a, b, c, d meaning (((a, b), c),d) not (a, (b, (c, d))). This is important if a, b, c, d are statements.
Can my implementation of filter be improved?
An exercise in Haskell from First Principles says to implement filter using foldr and this is what I came up with but it feels and looks clunky. Is there a more natural way to implement it with a foldr?
How to break out from a fold function in haskell when the accumulator met a certain condition?
I'm calculating the sum of a list after applying someFunction to every element of it like so:someFunction is very resource heavy so to optimise it I want to stop calculating the sum if it goes above a certain threshold.
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Imagine not having to prick your finger, arm, or thigh ever again to take a reading of your sugar levels. Sound good? Purdue researchers have developed a new glucose sensor that can detect sugar concentrations in urine, tears, and saliva, which could mean no more finger sticks in the future.
Is there a better way to test glucose?
People with diabetes need to monitor their blood glucose daily as part of their standard care. For those with type 1 diabetes, at least three to four tests per day is typical, while those who have type 2 diabetes should do at least two finger pricks. Yet compliance is not good, with one study showing that up to 67 percent of patients don't routinely monitor their sugar levels.
In a study published in Diabetes Care, for example, nearly 1,900 people with diabetes were questioned about their compliance with recommended glucose monitoring. This was a self-report, so the actual figures could have been higher, but the reasons for noncompliance were sore fingers (492 patients), pain (428), inconvenience (347), fear of needles (117), and other (96; including cost).
The new biosensor developed by a Purdue research team is "a platform that might eventually help to eliminate or reduce the frequency of using pinpricks for diabetes testing," explained one of the team members, Jonathan Claussen, a former Purdue University doctoral student and now a research scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory.
The new nanostructured biosensor is the first one of its kind, because it can detect glucose in four substances: urine, blood, saliva, and tears. In addition, the sensor does not involve a lot of processing steps, which means it is less expensive to produce than other sensors and thus better suited for commercial use.
Another advantage of the new sensor is its sensitivity: it can detect glucose in concentrations as low as 0.3 micromolar, which is superior to other sensors that are based on other materials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and metallic nanoparticles. The sensor also has an ability to distinguish between glucose and other substances that can cause interference in a glucose reading, such as uric acid and acetaminophen.
The diabetes test strips used in currently available glucose monitoring systems contain the enzyme glucose oxidase. Glucose in a blood sample first reacts with the enzyme and then sends a signal, which results in a reading. In the new biosensor system, the glucose oxidase attaches to platinum nanoparticles. After the enzyme transforms glucose to peroxide, a signal is sent.
It's uncertain how long it will be before a bloodless diabetes testing system can be in the hands of people with the disease. When it does become available, it will hopefully improve diabetes testing compliance and thus better management of the disease.
Reminds me of a commercial for Mervyn's Stores in California back when they were in business - "Open, open, open, open..." . Essentially, I can't wait for this to be mass market!
Wait - when I was first diagnosed with diabetes I used to test my blood sugar with uristicks. Anyone else remember having to go to the hospital to blood test before glucose monitors were available??? Big deal - I have peed on enough sticks to last me a lifetime!!!
That's exactly what i was thinking! I was diagnosed in the late 70's. I also remember having to collect my urine for 24 hours for that test that now only requires a blood draw. I'm most curious about testing tears, that's intriguing.
Yes, I am excited about the possibility of testing tears as well.
I've had type 2 diabetes since I was 60 I am now 66.
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https://www.emaxhealth.com/1275/no-more-diabetes-testing-using-blood-new-glucose-sensor
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Apple VP Jennifer Bailey, the executive responsible for Apple Pay, describes the history of the mobile payment solution and describes her continued success in a new interview.
Speak with Fortune Executive editor Adam Lashinsky at the Brainstorm Reinvent conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Bailey said that Apple did not want to disrupt the payments industry with Apple Pay. On the contrary, when the company launched the product four years ago, it wanted to introduce an attractive consumer solution that worked with established payment methods.
"When we thought of Apple Pay, we thought, there are many payments that our customers love to do and trust," Bailey said. "We do not think about what kind of industry we should disrupt?" – we think about which great customer experiences we can develop? & # 39; "
Apple generally finds huge success in the role of disruptor – see iPhone, Mac and iTunes – but the typical approach of the company did not fit well when it came to the deep-rooted payment market. Particularly worrying was government supervision, according to Bailey.
Credit card replacement becomes Apple one de facto financial institution, which requires a bank charter and strict regulations. Bailey was adamant that Apple does not want to be regulated.
Indeed, Apple wants to go beyond payments and in what Bailey refers to access. The company rolls out student cards for Duke University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Alabama next week in a solution that combines payments with NFC-based access to buildings. Students with compatible iPhone and Apple devices can store their ID cards in Wallet to enter dorms, pay for and perform other cus functions.
Apple seems to push the access angle as an important feature of Wallet and supporting NFC-compatible devices. Bailey called Apple's work to facilitate adoption in business environments, but also by hotels. Apple uses log-in data on the device to block access to its Apple Park Cus – a technology that was shown at the WWDC this year.
"It's a huge new area where we can concentrate, which is really access," Bailey said.
Both Starwood Hotels and Hilton Worldwide rolled out iPhone and Apple-compatible hotel key cards in 2014, although the implementations were based on the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, not on NFC.
Bailey took today's interview as an opportunity to collect recent Apple Pay statistics, saying the payment system should support 60 percent of US retail locations by the end of the year. Furthermore, Apple Wallet is live in 24 countries, so it is not surprising that there is faster growth outside the domestic market of Apple. This last measurement value is probably attributed to the familiarity of the consumer with already existing non-contact technologies, especially in Asia.
In terms of transit, another important Wallet feature, iPhone and Apple owners can use their devices to drive public transportation in 12 cities around the world. Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai integrate closed loop technology, while London and Moscow rely on open-loop technology, according to the report. Bailey said the product sees a rapid high penetration in Tokyo, where Apple Pay was launched in 2016 with support for JR East's Suica mobile transit card system.
Finally, Bailey said that even though Apple earns money with Apple Pay transactions, the new features that come to Wallet are designed to keep users loyal to Apple platforms.
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https://www.appleiphonestop.com/apple-pay-chef-says-that-apple-is-not-out-to-disrupt-the-credit-card-industry/
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This article is about the first manned mission to Skylab. For the backup Skylab space station, see Skylab B. For the NASA L2 space station concept, see Skylab II.
For other uses, see Skylab Two.
Due to a NASA management error, manned Skylab mission patches were designed in conflict with the official mission numbering scheme.
Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1) was the first manned mission to Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station. The mission was launched on a Saturn IB rocket on May 25, 1973, and carried a three-person crew to the station. The name Skylab 2 also refers to the vehicle used for that mission. The Skylab 2 mission established a twenty-eight-day record for human spaceflight duration. Furthermore, its crew were the first space station occupants ever to return safely to Earth – the only previous space station occupants, the crew of the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission that had manned the Salyut 1 station for twenty-four days, died upon reentry due to unexpected cabin depressurization.
The manned Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4. Miscommunication about the numbering resulted in the mission emblems reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively.
The Skylab station suffered significant damage on its May 14 launch: its micrometeorite shield, and one of its primary solar arrays had torn loose during launch, and the remaining primary solar array was jammed. Without the shield which was designed to also provide thermal protection, Skylab baked in the Sun, and rising temperatures inside the workshop released toxic materials into the station's atmosphere and endangered on-board film and food. The first crew was supposed to launch on May 15, but instead had to train practicing repair techniques as they were developed by the engineers.:253–255,259 Ground controllers purged the atmosphere with pure nitrogen four times, before refilling it with the nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere for the crew.
On May 25, Skylab 2 lifted from LC-39B, the first Saturn IB launch in almost five years and only the second-ever launch from Pad 39B. Booster performance was nominal except for one momentary glitch that could have threatened the mission - when the Commit signal was sent to the Saturn at ignition, the instrument unit sent a command to switch the launch vehicle from internal to external power. This would have shut down the Saturn's electrical system, but not the propulsion system and likely cause the disaster scenario of an uncontrollable booster, requiring the Launch Escape System to be activated and the Command Module pulled away to safety, followed by Range Safety destroying the errant launch vehicle. However, the duration of the cutoff signal was less than one second, too short a time for the electrical relay in the booster to be activated, thus nothing happened and the launch proceeded as planned. This glitch was traced to a modification of the pad electrical equipment and corrective steps were subsequently taken to prevent it from happening again.:269 On reaching the station, Conrad flew their Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) around it to inspect the damage, then soft-docked with it to avoid the necessity of station keeping while the crew ate, and flight controllers planned the first repair attempt. Then they undocked so that Conrad could position the Apollo by the jammed solar panel, so that Weitz could perform a stand-up EVA, trying to free the array by tugging at it with a 10-foot hooked pole, while Kerwin held onto his legs. This failed, and consumed a significant amount of the Skylab's nitrogen maneuvering fuel to keep it steady in the process.
The crew then attempted to perform the hard dock to Skylab, but the capture latches failed to operate. After eight failed attempts, they donned their pressure suits again and partially dis-assembled the CSM's docking probe; the next attempt worked. Once inside the station, the crew deployed a collapsible parasol through the small scientific airlock to act as a sunshade. (This approach was suggested and designed by NASA's "Mr. Fix It" Jack Kinzler, who was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for the effort.) Successful deployment of the sunshade dropped inside temperatures to sustainable levels.
View of Skylab from the Skylab 2 Command/Service Module during the final flyaround inspection.
Two weeks later, Conrad and Kerwin performed a second EVA, finally freeing the stuck solar panel and increasing the electrical power to the workshop. They had prepared for this repair by practicing in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Without power from the panel, the second and third Skylab missions would have been unable to perform their main experiments, and the station's critical battery system would have been seriously degraded.:271–276 During this EVA, the sudden deployment of the solar panel structure caused both astronauts to be flung from the Skylab hull, testing their nerves as well as the strength of their safety tethers. After recovering their composure, both astronauts returned to their positions on Skylab and completed the EVA.
For nearly a month they made further repairs to the workshop, conducted medical experiments, gathered solar and Earth science data, and performed a total of 392 hours of experiments. The mission tracked two minutes of a large solar flare with the Apollo Telescope Mount; they took and returned some 29,000 frames of film of the sun.:291 The Skylab 2 astronauts spent 28 days in space, which doubled the previous U.S. record. The mission ended successfully on June 22, 1973, when Skylab 2 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 9.6 km from the recovery ship USS Ticonderoga. Skylab 2 set the records for the longest duration manned spaceflight, greatest distance traveled and greatest mass docked in space. Conrad set the record for most time in space for an astronaut.
The Skylab 1 patch was designed by Kelly Freas, a well-known artist highly regarded in the science fiction community, who was suggested to NASA by science fiction author and editor Ben Bova. The insignia features Skylab above the earth with the sun in the background. In an article for Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine, Freas said, "Among the suggestions the astronauts had made was the idea of a solar eclipse as seen from Skylab. It soon became clear that this idea would solve several problems at once: it pointed up the solar study function of Skylab, it would give me the large circular shape of the Earth as counterpoint to the angularity of the cluster, and it would establish firmly the connection of Skylab to the Earth. In addition, it would give a chance to get the necessary high contrast for good visibility of the tiny finished patch. ... I made several studies of cloud patterns on the planet, reducing them finally to very conventionalized swirls. The Skylab cluster was simplified and simplified again, till it became simply a black form with a white edgelight to set it off."
The command module they flew to the station in is displayed at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Florida.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skylab 2.
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1. Start with skating around the face-off circle.
2. Skate towards blue line.
3. Fast skate to the side.
4. Skate to the mid line.
5. Skate backwards to the other side.
6. Skate to the blue line.
7. Skate fast to the pylon.
8. Skate backwards around the face-off circle.
9. Skate to the group.
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본 연구는 치매노인의 인지재활서비스 이용의사에 영향을 미치는 요인을 앤더슨 행동모형(소인요인, 가 능성요인, 욕구요인)에 근거하여 실증분석함으로써 치매문제의 효과적 대응과 관련한 서비스내용 관점에서 의 정책적 ․ 실천적 시사점을 얻는데 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 강원지역 6곳의 지역사회에 거주하고 있는 치매노인 200명을 2단계 표집과정을 통해 확보하고, 구조화된 설문지를 통한 개 별적 방문대면조사를 실시하여 자료를 수집하였다. 수집한 자료는 영향요인 여부와 수준 등 절대적 ․상대적 효과를 확인하기 위해 위계적 회귀분석을 적용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과, 소인요인의 가족지지도와 가능 성요인의 인지재활서비스 필요도가 각각 중요한 변수로서 정(+)적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났고, 가능성 요인의 기초생활보장수급여부는 부(-)적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 요인별 상대적 중요도에 서는 가능성요인이 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 원활한 인지재활서비스 이용을 통한 효 과적 치매대응을 위해 단순한 일면적 치료접근을 탈각한 재활 및 상담 등을 포함한 다면적 지원접근으로의 전환을 전제로, 가족상담 및 교육 등을 통한 가족 내 지원과 병식증진을 도모하는 것이 필요하며, 기초생활 보장 수급자 등 경제적 이유로 인한 서비스이용제한을 해결하기 위한 다양한 경제적 지원노력도 필요함을 제언하였다.
This study set out to conduct empirical analysis of factors influencing the intention to use recognition rehabilitation service among the elderly with dementia based on Anderson's model(predisposing, enabling, and need factors), thus providing basic data to offer policy and practical implications from the perspective of service content related to effective responses to the dementia issues. For those purposes, the study sampled 200 senior citizens with dementia in six communities in Gangwon Province through a two-stage sampling process and collected data from them by paying them an individual visit and doing face-to-face survey with a structured questionnaire. Collected data were put to hierarchical regression analysis to check absolute and relative effects including whether there were influential factors or not and what levels of influence they had. The analysis results show that family support, a predisposing factor, and need for recognition rehabilitation service, an enabling factor, turned out to have positive(+) effects as important variables. Receiving Basic Livelihood Security, an enabling factor, had negative(-) effects. As for the relative importance of factors, the enabling factors turned out to have the biggest impacts. Based on the premise of shift from a simple single-faceted therapy approach to a multi-faceted support approach including rehabilitation and counseling to make effective responses to dementia through smooth uses of recognition rehabilitation service, there is a need to promote family support and insight into disease through family counseling and education. It was also proposed to provide various economic supports to solve the limited access to service due to economic reasons including recipients of Basic Livelihood Security.
본 연구는 병사들의 복무기간 중에 나타나는 우울에 대한 대인관계 만족도의 조절효과는 어떠한지 알아 보고자 진행되었다. 조사 대상자는 강원도 지역의 병사 2,994명으로서 조절효과를 알아보기 위한 위계적 회 귀분석이 진행되었다. 연구의 결과는 첫째, 병사들의 병영 내 대인관계 만족도가 병영 외 대인관계 만족도 보다 낮았다. 둘째, 병사들의 교육정도와 복무기간이 우울에 유의미한 영향력을 가지고 있었다. 셋째, 병사 들의 대인관계 만족도가 이들의 우울에 유의미한 영향력을 가지고 있었다. 넷째, 병사의 복무기간이 우울에 미치는 영향에서 이들의 고참관계 및 간부관계 만족도가 유의미한 조절효과를 가지고 있었다. 이러한 결과 를 토대로 병사의 대인관계 증진과 우울 통제에 대한 실천적 제언을 하였다.
The aim of this study is to examine how the personal relation-satisfaction has the moderating effects on the depression of soldiers along their duty period. The participants in this study is 2,994 soldiers in the province of Gang won do. And hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted. The main findings are as follows. First, the personal relation-satisfaction within army life was lower than the personal relation-satisfaction beyond army life. The education level and the duty period affected the depression of soldiers. The personal relation-satisfaction affected the depression of soldiers, too. The personal relation-satisfaction with veteran soldiers and the personal relation-satisfaction with officers had moderating effects on the depression of soldiers. Finally, suggestions for improving personal relations and controling depression of soldiers were discussed.
본 연구에서는 노인죽음에 대한 신문기사의 보도태도가 어떻게 진행되고 있으며, 사회적 영향은 어떠한 수준에서 이루어지고, 노인의 죽음이 어떤 용어와 표현으로 형성되며, 여기에 동원된 담론기제는 무엇인가 를 논하였다. 또한 대중매체에서 제시한 주요 해결책을 노인죽음에 대한 신문기사분석을 통해 살펴보고자 했다. 이를 통해 우리 사회 노인죽음담론의 신문 보도태도와 내용의 의미를 규정하고, 대중매체에서의 해결책 을 논하였다. 분석대상으로는 2000년 1월부터 2015년 12월까지 노인죽음 관련 사설기사들을 수집하여 연관되는 것으 로 114건을 최종분석대상으로 정리하였다. 분석결과, 노인죽음담론은 구체적으로 7가지 주제로 분석되었는데 ‘아사’, ‘사고사’, ‘자살’, ‘폭염’, ‘고독 사’, ‘웰다잉’, ‘질병’으로 분석하였고, 이 중 사회문제로서 담론은 ‘자살담론’이 가장 많았다.
This study focuses on discussing the progress of reporting stance of newspapers on death of elders, the standard of social effects, terminology and expression used to form death of elders, and the established discourse in this matter. In addition, the major solutions provided in mass media have been examined by analyzing newspaper articles on death of elders. Through this study, the reporting stance along with meaning of contents of newspapers on discourse of elderly death was defined, along with discussions for solutions in mass media. The target for analysis were editorial articles related to death of elders from January 2000 ~ December 2015. A total of 114 articles were selected and organized as the final targets for analysis. The discourse on death of elders were analyzed in 7 different topics, including ‘starvation’, ‘accidental death’, ‘suicide’, ‘heat wave’, ‘death by solitude’, and ‘disease’. Results displayed that among the discourse, ‘suicide discourse’ had the most cases among social issues.
본 연구의 목적은 청소년이 지각하는 스트레스가 비행에 미치는 영향과 이들 간의 관계에서 우울의 매 개효과를 검증하는 것이다. 이를 위해 한국청소년정책연구원의 2013년 아동 ․ 청소년 정신건강증진을 위한 지원방안 연구의 횡단조사 데이터를 활용하여 전국의 고등학교에 재학 중인 청소년 3,198명을 대상으로 빈 도분석, 기술통계분석, t-test, 분산분석, 상관관계분석, 회귀분석, Sobel Test를 실시하였다. 주요 연구결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 청소년이 지각하는 스트레스와 우울은 비행에 정적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 청소년이 지각하는 스트레스가 높을수록 무력감이나 회피적이고 위축적인 정서 상 태인 우울을 더 많이 경험하고 외현화 문제행동인 비행이 증가하는 것을 의미한다. 둘째, 청소년의 스트레 스가 우울을 통해 비행에 미치는 매개효과를 확인한 결과, 우울은 스트레스와 비행에 정적으로 유의한 영 향을 미치고 있으며 부분매개효과가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 연구결과를 바탕으로 청소년이 경험 하는 스트레스와 우울의 예방과 완화를 위해 정신보건 상담프로그램을 도입하고 비행의 예방과 개입 방안 들이 논의되었다.
This study aims to verify the mediating effect of depression in the relationship between stress perceived by adolescents and delinquency. For this study, a survey with 3,198 adolescents in high schools all over the country was conducted using the longitudinal study data of the study on support plans for improvement of child․adolescent mental health, which was carried out by the National Youth Policy Institute in 2013. Then, frequency analysis, descriptive statistic analysis, t-test, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, regression analysis and Sobel Test were performed. The major study findings are as follows. First, stress and depression perceived by adolescents had a positively significant effect on delinquency. This means that when the level of stress perceived by adolescents is high, they have a feeling of helplessness, or experience depression, which is an evasive and shrinking emotional state, more and delinquency that is an externalizing problem behavior increases. Second, in relation to the mediating effect of depression in the relationship between stress and delinquency of adolescents, depression had a positively significant effect on stress and delinquency and there was a partial mediating effect. Based on these study findings, a mental health counseling program was suggested for preventing and relieving stress and depression perceived by adolescents and delinquency prevention and intervention methods were discussed.
본 연구는 노인장기요양기관 시설장의 윤리적 리더십이 윤리경영을 매개로 하여 조직의 투명성에 미치 는 영향을 살펴본 것이다. 서울과 경기지역에서 지방자치단체에서 위탁운영 중이거나 비영리법인 산하에서 운영하는 서울과 경기지역의 노인장기요양시설 56개소 중 45개소, 232명의 사무국장, 사회복지사, 영양사, 간호사, 사무직 종사자를 대상으로 조사를 진행 하였으며,그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 윤리적 리더십은 윤리경영에 유의미한 상관관계를 나타냈다. 즉, 윤리적 리더십은 비영리장기요양 시설에서 조직을 윤리적으로 운영할 수 있도록 여러 제도와 이념에 정(+)의 영향을 미치고 있었다. 둘째, 윤 리경영은 조직투명성에 유의미한 상관관계가 있음을 나타냈다. 윤리경영은 조직을 투명하게 운영하는 데 필요한 조직운영과, 재무회계 그리고 정보에 대한 투명성이 이루어질 수 있도록 정(+)의 영향을 주었다. 이 는 윤리경영이 조직투명성의 선행조건임을 나타내는 것이다. 셋째, 윤리경영은 윤리적 리더십과 조직투명 성을 완전매개하는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 윤리적 리더십은 윤리경영에 정의 영향을 미치며, 윤리경영은 조 직투명성에 정의 영향을 미침으로써 조직 투명성에 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 시설장의 윤리적 리더십을 향상시킬 수 있는 교육⋅훈련 등의 방안 강구가 절실히 필요하다 할 수 있다.
This study aims to explore the effects of ethical leadership of non-profit long-term care center directors on the organizational transparency. To achieve the purpose of this study, I surveyed 232 employees(social welfare workers, dieticians, nurses) of long-term care centers located in Seoul and kyung-gi province). The results were as follows; First, the correlation between ethical leadership and ethical management is statistically significant, More specifically, Ethical leadership has a positive influence on the system and idea of non-profit long-term nursing institute to manage it ethically. Second, Ethical management is significantly related with organizational transparency. Ethical management has a positive influence on the transparency of organizational management, financial accounting, and information. It means that ethical management is a prerequisite of organizational transparency. Third, ethical management fully mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational transparency. In other words, Ethical leadership has a positive influence on ethical management and ethical management has a positive influence on organizational transparency. Therefore, The directors of long-term care centers should have the opportunities for education and training to improve their ethical leadership.
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is there any difference when exporting data to files and importing it back to the target cube and moving data between cubes using CellPutN in regards of memory consumption?
I'm exporting quite a huge amount of data to files but it consumes a lot of RAM and after the export is finished it''s left as garbage memory.
Would it be better to use direct write to the target cells instead of exporting/importing? Or would the RAM be consumed in the same way?
If memory is really constrained you could clear the cache periodically by changing a value somewhere and changing it back again. But I suspect your export view includes many more data points than you really need, especially consolidations. Depending (geddit?) on your dependences, the cellputn may be clearing the cache on every write so will be much much slower.
What do you mean by clearing the cache? Do you mean deleting stargate views? I'm afraid it won't release garbage memory which is what I need... Or am I wrong?
The other way may be not to generate stargate views but I don't know how to disable this for particular cube.
"Garbage" memory isn't really garbage. It can and will be consumed by TM1 as long as the service is up. The only thing it can't be used for is other apps on the box and you shouldn't be housing more then TM1 on one box in the first place.
Typically TM1 never releases memory once requested from the OS. But the one exception to that is the pre-commit memory consumed when writing out text files. TM1 retains the whole of the memory footprint required for a TI export file in RAM until the TI is closed and the lock on the file released. Once a TI process is finished (at least in 10.2.2 and above) this memory is released back to the OS unlike memory for calculation and view cache which stays in TM1's insternal garbage recycling. This was a surprise to me the first time I saw it.
On a very "big data" customer model we had a lot of success in reducing overall peak memory consumption by exporting more (but smaller) files then using powershell to combine the exported files.
Once a TI process is finished (at least in 10.2.2 and above) this memory is released back to the OS unlike memory for calculation and view cache which stays in TM1's insternal garbage recycling. This was a surprise to me the first time I saw it.
I think this is my problem here... All cells in the cube are calculated (and unfortunately not fed - the model is too complicated to be fed correctly but as far as I understand even exporting correctly fed cells won't solve the issue) so all memory is cunsumed by calculations and therefore not released back to the OS.
This is EXACTLY what I'm doing. But as mentioned above - all exported cells are calculated.
So the question is the same: will direct CellPutN resolve the issue?
This is an interesting comment. If not using ViewExtractSkipZeroesSet, this seems like you could very well be querying a significant number of unnecessary cells and forcing their calculation.
As mentioned - no cell is fed so if I would use ViewExtractSkipZeroesSet then no data is exported, even if non-zero values. And that's the reason why I'm using this parameter set to 0.
If your dataset is not fed then the RAM consumption on exporting will be much larger than it needs to be, how much bigger depends on the level of sparsity.
How many zero values are in the flat file (assuming you don't filter them out on export). Every zero will cost just as much as a value.
The only way that feeding will not solve/reduce your issue is if there dataset contains no zero values, i.e. it is fully dense.
Feeding can be hard and complex but there ought not be anything that is so complicated as to be impossible, don't admit defeat!
So if your data is sparse then feeders will help.
As mentioned above - this is the exact approach I'm currently using. But it seems to me that the RAM consumption is huge... Our box has 300GB, the model eats approx. 100GB after clean start. When I run the export process after the startup it eats another approx. 100GB. And when I run it once again it eats remaining 100GB and then the server "falls down" - not literally but the admin server becomes unresponsive etc. and the only way is to kill the TM1 instance, kill admin server and restart both.
Btw. I'm not using any specific VMM/VMT settings for the source cube, so it uses defaults.
TM1 retains calculated values in the 'calculation cache' to improve performance. Changing a value in a cube clears the cache for that cube and any 'downstream' cubes ie those which are linked back to that cube. This can be used to manage server size, though I will admit I last used it some time ago on a 32 bit server to keep within the 3gb limit.
This is hogwash. Feeders relate to rules and if the rules work then feeders can be written to deliver the correct content. A properly fed system will be many orders of magnitude more efficient and exporting, or writing to another cube, will be much much faster. Bite the bullet and sort them out. There are many good consultants and consultancies who could do this.
Changing a value in a cube clears the cache for that cube and any 'downstream' cubes ie those which are linked back to that cube.
Ok, let's try it this way... After each file is generated and the TI process goes to its Epilog part I will put a value somewhere to the source cube. Let's see what happens, I will keep you posted guys.
Gratz on your 100th post.
You have two options (probably).
1. Feed your rules, this is the right solution.
2. Export your data in even smaller chunk, this is a workaround to not doing the above.
Hate to pile on, but everyone else got to it before I did. No wonder the performance is bad and, also, anytime you change a number in the cube, the cache is "dirtied" and forces recalculations. On top of that, you're also reading probably a whopping pile of cells you do not need to bother with.
Agree with Steve and everyone else: feed the rules, it is the right solution.
Even if exporting simple data (with zero suppression on source temporary data form enabled) there's quite big RAM consumption.
How about posting the actual code you used to create and zero suppress the view?
I'm using this code in a TI process that is run by Hustle in 12 parallel threads, approx. 380 calls in total (total number of Organization_parent members).
This code is wrapped in a WHILE loop which loops over all leaf products -> the output of each loop is a file containing one Organization_parent (and its children, see MDX for Organization_child dim) and one product.
In total, thousands of small files are generated. These are later merged together (using cmd line calls within a TI process) and finally used as the input file for importing into a different cube.
Ok, understood but I suppose this has nothing to do with the RAM consumption, right?
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This article is about Bowser Jr.'s appearance in Super Smash Bros. 4. For the character in other contexts, see Bowser Jr..
Bowser Jr. (クッパ Jr., Koopa Jr.) is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. 4. After initially being leaked on August 19th, 2014 as part of the ESRB leak, he was revealed as a fighter with Smash for 3DS's launch in Japan on September 13, 2014, followed by his official trailer being shown off during the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 50-Fact Extravaganza on October 23rd, 2014. Caety Sagoian reprises her role as Bowser Jr.'s voice actor, albeit via recycled voice clips from various Mario spin-off games. The Koopalings also use their voice clips from the New Super Mario Bros. games, which were voiced by Lani Minella (Larry, Morton, Wendy, and Lemmy), Mike Vaughn (Iggy and Ludwig) and Dan Falcone (Roy).
Bowser Jr. is currently ranked 48th out of 55 on the tier list, placing him in the F tier. This distinctive trait enables him to attack from a reasonably safe distance, which is supplemented by a few of his attacks being powerful enough to KO under 100%. He also has a very capable neutral game: Clown Kart Dash functions as an excellent approach option and provides an impressive amount of versatility, while Mechakoopa is useful for pressuring and stage control. Despite being a heavyweight, Bowser Jr. also sports a deceptively good air game, courtesy of his fairly fast aerial mobility and his aerial attacks' follow-up and juggling potentials.
Despite his strengths, Bowser Jr. has noticeable flaws. His overall grounded mobility is slow, which necessitates using Clown Kart Dash in order to keep up with faster opponents. Lag is another glaring issue; many of Bowser Jr.'s attacks have among the largest amounts of ending lag in the game, requiring players to use reads or baiting in order to secure KOs with him. Bowser Jr.'s grab game also suffers from his standing, pivot and dash grabs' overall lag, and his grab game is further made worse by very unimpressive throws, with only his back throw being useful, as a situational KOing option. Lastly, Bowser Jr.'s recovery is predictable and unsafe, as Abandon Ship! is very susceptible to gimps due to offering no overhead protection, it can only travel in one direction, and it can be rendered unusable if he is hit even by a weak attack.
Bowser Jr. has had minimal impact in tournaments and the current metagame, owing to a small playerbase. Although Bowser Jr. previously attained stronger tournament results and a deeper metagame from Tweek, he later switched to using the higher-tiered Cloud, leading to a stagnation of Bowser Jr.'s own metagame. Bowser Jr. has still made waves of attention from time to time, such as with Jade defeating Trela's Ryu at CEO 2016, but he struggles to make an impact at large tournaments.
Clear Classic Mode as Bowser on Intensity 6.0 or higher.
After completing one of the two methods, Bowser Jr. must then be defeated on 3D Land.
Unlike the 3DS version, Bowser Jr. is a starter character in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Bowser Jr. is tied with Samus as the sixth heaviest character, yet he possesses overall decent mobility. While he has slow walking and dashing speeds, a fast falling speed and above average gravity, all of which are typical of a heavyweight, he has a surprisingly fast air speed and above-average air acceleration. Outside of this, Bowser Jr. possesses a few unorthodox, yet noteworthy, traits. Like Duck Hunt's dog and duck, he and his Junior Clown Car have two separate hurtboxes. However, the properties of Bowser Jr. and his Clown Car's hurtboxes are much more apparent: attacks that hit the Clown Car will deal 0.88× damage, whereas those that hit Bowser Jr. himself will deal 1.15× damage. However, Bowser Jr.'s hitbox takes priority over the Clown Car's hitbox, making him vulnerable to receiving more damage more often than not. Although the knockback calculation ignores this, he will still be KO'd earlier than most heavyweights, as the knockback formula takes the target's damage after the attack damage has been added. One unique quirk Bowser Jr. possesses is that all but one of his attacks have disjointed hitboxes (with the only exception being Clown Kart Dash), which gives him decent overall range.
Clown Kart Dash is considered to be Bowser Jr.'s best move overall because of its versatility, with its most apparent benefit being much better movement to make up for his slow dashing speed (which can be made even faster via jump canceling) and grants him an excellent approach option. Clown Kart Dash is also integral to Bowser Jr. due to its mindgame and damage racking potentials. It can function either as a strong head-on attack or initiate aerial combos due Bowser Jr. being able to jump during it, which are further improved by jump canceling. Lastly, it can function as a horizontal recovery option, which is further supplemented by its doughnut-based attack and having armor that can withstand a maximum of 7%.
Abandon Ship! is another useful move that possesses impressive knockback and grants Bowser Jr. considerable vertical distance. Unlike most recovery moves, Abandon Ship! does not initiate helplessness; this allows Bowser Jr. to not only air dodge if necessary, but also allows him to perform a powerful hammer swing upon pressing the attack button, which is an almost guaranteed KOing option when used in sync with Clown Kart Dash at high percentages. Mechakoopa is a very useful tool for zoning, combos, follow-ups, and even defensive purposes due to its ability to block incoming projectiles like Link and Toon Link's Bombs can.
Bowser Jr.'s good aerial mobility supplements the utility of his aerial attacks. His neutral aerial is useful as both an edge-guarding and out of shield option. His forward and back aerials are useful as edge-guarding, spacing and KOing options. While Bowser Jr.'s up aerial only hits above him, it is capable of juggling and can KO on stages with low ceilings, such as Battlefield or Town and City. Down aerial can shield stab and works well used out of Clown Kart Dash at lower percentages, due to the hitbox it produces compensating for its high landing lag.
Despite his great aerial mobility and damage racking potential, Bowser Jr. is not without his flaws. One of his biggest problems is that his recovery is glaringly susceptible to gimps. While Abandon Ship! grants him impressive vertical distance, a weak hit from an attack can result in Bowser Jr. not being able to respawn his Clown Car if the player does not button mash. Another major problem that Bowser Jr. faces is a lack of viable options on shield, making him susceptible to punishes. Bowser Jr. is also a very straight-forward character, which can make him quite predictable at times. In addition, Mechakoopa is the crux of Bowser Jr.'s neutral game, making it easy (especially for characters such as Rosalina & Luma) to shut down his options. Also, his Clown Cannon is a slow move that, unlike most chargeable projectiles, cannot be stored. Despite his overall grab range being rather long, his grabs have very high start-up and ending lag, while his throws are not very useful in general due to their inability to KO at reasonable percentages or initiate combos. Lastly, Bowser Jr. suffers from poor KO potential due to having very few reliable KOing options (his smash attacks and his forward/back aerials), which is further compounded by said options being burdened with considerable ending lag.
Bowser Jr. gains very few buffs from his custom moves. Piercing Cannon is faster and pierces opponents, but it deals less damage and knockback. Air Cannon is also faster and briefly stalls Bowser Jr. in midair, but replaces the cannonball with a windbox, which re-purposes it from an offensive option to a defensive option. Big Mechakoopa is stronger and larger, but it sacrifices Mechakoopa's ability to trip up opponents. Outside of these, Bowser Jr.'s remaining customs are less effective than the default versions.
Overall, Bowser Jr. fares well with a bait and punish playstyle like his father does, but he can also be potent at pressuring the opponent thanks to Clown Kart Dash and Mechakoopa. However, his slew of his easily exploitable weaknesses can make him a bit underwhelming overall and greatly overshadowed compared to the rest of the cast. While his flaws have resulted in his lack of representation in the Western scene, the Japanese scene views him more favorably. Additionally, professionals like Tweek have shown that he can be viable when his strengths are played wisely and to their fullest.
Bowser Jr. has been buffed slightly via game updates. The most notable instance occurred in update 1.1.4, which moderately decreased his smash attacks' ending lag and made his forward and back aerials stronger. The changes to the shield mechanics in updates 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 also slightly help him due to some of his moves possessing high damage outputs and/or hitting multiple times.
Neutral infinite has decreased trails.
Forward smash's initial hitbox re-positioned, and its last hit's hitbox size increased: 6u → 7u.
Clown Cannon deals more damage: 7% (uncharged)/4.4% (uncharged late)/18% (fully charged)/12.6% (fully charged late) → 8.5%/5.9%/20%/14%.
Floor attack's shield damage output matches the other characters': 1 → 8.
Back floor attack deals 10 shield damage, as did the other characters' before update 1.1.1.
Clown Cannon's knockback increased: 80 (sweetspot)/60 (sourspot) → 85/65.
Clown Cannon's hitbox size increased: 4.5u → 5.5u.
Air Cannon's frame speed multiplier decreased: 2× → 1.3×, decreasing its ending lag by 14 frames.
All smash attacks' ending lag decreased: 60 frames → 56 (forward), 63 frames → 57 (up), 68 frames → 60 (down).
Forward aerial deals more damage: 8% → 9% (clean), 5% → 7% (late).
Forward aerial knockback increased: 30 (base)/90 (scaling) → 33/93.
Back aerial's late hit deals 2% more damage (8% → 10%) and knockback scaling (90 → 92).
Moves that hit the Junior Clown Car deal 0.88× damage, whereas those that hit Bowser Jr. himself will deal 1.15× damage. Bowser Jr.'s hurtbox takes priority over the Clown Car's hurtbox.
3% The Junior Clown Car performs a one-two combo, followed by a flurry of punches, followed by a jab. It has impressive damage racking potential, as it can easily deal around 20%. Its first hit is quite useful for jab locks due to its minimal ending lag, whereas its last hit's extremely high knockback growth can KO around 130%-150% while near the edge. However, its neutral infinite is quite easy to escape, even with minimal SDI, while its last hit is punishable. As a result, it is best used against off-stage opponents that are attempting to grab the edge.
8% The Junior Clown Car thrusts a pitchfork forward. It can be angled and is very useful for spacing.
1.5% (hits 1-2), 5% (hit 3) The Junior Clown Car uses its tongue to lick forward three times. It has a fair amount of utility, as it is efficient at warding off rushdowns, can act as a set-up for a dash attack, or interfere with an opponent attempting to grab an edge due to its undulating hitbox.
1.5% (hits 1-3), 4% (hit 4) The Junior Clown Car opens its mouth to swing a Grinder twice. Its loop hits do not connect together very well at high percentages.
1% (hit 1), 1.3% (hits 2-5), 1% (hit 6), 6% (hit 7) Bowser Jr. performs a handstand to attack with the Junior Clown Car's spinning propeller. It is Bowser Jr.'s fastest smash attack, with its multiple hits being useful for pressuring shields or denying aerial approaches.
6% (clean), 5% (mid), 3% (late) The Junior Clown Car spins around with the boxing glove arms extended. It is a weak but useful aerial, which combos reliably from Clown Kart Dash and is effective as a anti-pressure and edgeguarding option.
1.3% (loop), 2% (last), 2% (landing) The Junior Clown Car extends a drill from its underside hatch to pierce opponents. Its high ending lag is compensated by the hitbox it produces upon landing, which grants it follow-up potential. If the attack hits an opponent, it can cancel quickly into other moves; if not, Bowser Jr. suffers from moderate ending lag.
2% Hits the opponent with a toy hammer. A fairly fast pummel. The toy hammer looks identical to the one used in the Eekhammer sticker from Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Each hit plays the recurring sound of Mario jumping onto a Goomba in the Super Mario franchise.
3% (hit 1), 6% (throw) The Junior Clown Car throws an uppercut. It is fairly good for launching opponents at the edge for an edge-guard.
12% The Junior Clown Car spins and then throws the opponent backward. Bowser Jr.'s most powerful throw, as it can KO most middleweights starting around 160% without rage.
0.5% (hits 1-5), 4% (throw) The Junior Clown Car throws the opponent onto the ground and then extends a drill from its underside hatch to pierce opponents. It can be used to pressure the opponent into his Clown Kart Dash.
7% Slams a pair of wrecking balls while climbing up.
Default Clown Cannon 8.5% (uncharged), 5.9% (uncharged late), 20% (fully charged), 14% (fully charged late) The Junior Clown Car opens its mouth and fires a cannonball. It can be charged to increase the cannonball's speed and power. At the end of its path, the cannonball will drop to the ground, which can hit opponents attempting to recover if it is spaced properly. However, it has high overall lag.
Custom 1 Piercing Cannon 4% (uncharged), 2% (uncharged late), 10% (fully charged), 5% (fully charged late) Fires a cannonball that pierces opponents and travels faster, although the cannonball is smaller and deals noticeably less damage.
Custom 2 Air Cannon — Fires a gust of wind that will push opponents backward, although it deals no damage. In the air, it can also be used to move backward quickly, aiding Bowser Jr.'s horizontal recovery.
Default Clown Kart Dash 5% (beginning leap), 4%-7% (collision), 8-12% (doughnut) The Junior Clown Car transforms into a go-kart that jumps back slightly before speeding forward. Holding the control stick/circle pad forward increases speed, and tilting it in the opposite direction or pressing the attack/special button will cause the Junior Clown Car to perform a doughnut, which deals more damage and has higher knockback to opponents on contact compared to simply charging into them. Using the Kart in the air slightly improves horizontal movement, after which it can be used again. All versions of the move can be jump canceled, even right after hitting an opponent, which can lead into combos and mix-ups, and gives Bowser Jr. more vertical recovery, though he cannot double jump after the leap. The Kart will bounce slightly upon hitting the ground.
Custom 1 Koopa Drift 2% (collision), 1% (doughnut loop, up to 8 hits), 2% (doughnut last) The go-kart careens forward during the doughnut, hitting opponents multiple times. Doesn’t have a hitbox in the middle of a dash. Careening in the air grants much more horizontal recovery, but its jumps are much lower.
Custom 2 Grounding Dash 8% (collision) The Junior Clown Car travels faster, but its doughnut does not deal damage. It buries grounded opponents on contact, but grants less horizontal distance.
Default Abandon Ship! 5% (contact), 13% (explosion), 15%/10% (hammer) Bowser Jr. ejects himself from the Junior Clown Car. The Junior Clown Car slowly falls to the ground and then explodes with high power when the move is used in midair, whereas it will simply explode after a brief period when used on the ground. The move covers a decent amount of vertical distance, and is flexible with horizontal steering. When Bowser Jr. is out of the Junior Clown Car, he is not rendered helpless and can still dodge or attack with a hammer, which is powerful enough to KO at medium to high percentages. However, taking any weak hit while out of the Junior Clown Car prevents another use of the move without button mashing or landing.
Custom 1 Meteor Ejection 8%/3% (contact), 10% (explosion), 15%/10% (hammer) The Junior Clown Car produces a meteor effect upon activation. However, it covers less vertical distance, whereas Bowser Jr. seems to cover more horizontal distance after being ejected.
Custom 2 Koopa Meteor 17% (contact), 15%/10% (hammer) Ejects Bowser Jr. high into the air before the Junior Clown Car explodes, ejecting him downward. Deals strong knockback and a powerful meteor smash upon contact on opponents caught near the bottom.
Default Mechakoopa 2% (contact), 7% (explosion) The Junior Clown Car drops a Mechakoopa from its underside hatch. The Mechakoopa falls in a strong downward arc; once it lands, it starts walking around. If it reaches a wall or dead end, it will turn around and walk in the opposite direction. If it makes contact with an opponent (or travels enough distance in the air without landing), it will detonate. If enough time passes and they have not hit an opponent yet, they will spark out and detonate automatically. They can be picked up and thrown as items either by Bowser Jr. or his opponent. Picking them up will delay their detonation slightly. Bowser Jr. won’t be damaged by his own explosions.
Custom 1 Impatient Mechakoopa 1% (contact), 4% (explosion) Launches a Mechakoopa at a fair distance. The Mechakoopa is armed to explode the moment it is launched and will explode shortly after landing.
Custom 2 Big Mechakoopa 1% (thrown), 15% (explosion) The Mechakoopa is larger and walks a shorter distance, but doesn’t detonate upon colliding.
Up taunt: Jumps up, sits on the rim of the Junior Clown Car, and exhales a tiny flame while chuckling.
Side taunt: Pulls out a hammer and swings it around twice.
Down taunt: The Junior Clown Car turns into its go-kart form, sports an angry expression while performing a doughnut, then returns to normal.
Places his hand above his eyes and looks around while smiling with his mouth closed or smiling with his mouth open.
A rock-based remix of the Course Clear Fanfare used in Super Mario Bros.
Uses Clown Kart Dash while laughing, then stops and pulls out a hammer.
Gets out of the Junior Clown Car and rubs it with his right hand while smiling with his mouth open or smiling with his mouth closed.
Jumps out of the Junior Clown Car, hops in celebration a few times while laughing, then strikes a pose.
aMac - Ranked 3rd on the Saskatchewan Power Rankings.
Blanc - The best Bowser Jr. player in Canada. Placed 17th at Canada Cup 2016, and won the Ontario Smash 4 2018 Arcadian. Ranked 9th on the Southern Ontario Power Rankings.
DaNeel - Formerly 1st in Mississippi, now living in Alabama as the best Bowser Jr. in the Southeast.
Fluzi - Placed 13th at Final Round 20. Ranked 10th on the South Carolina Power Rankings.
Hatsuyuki - The best Bowser Jr. player in Japan. Placed 7th at Karisuma 8, 13th at Sumabato 10, and 17th at Sumabato for THE BIG HOUSE and Sumabato 8.
Hiro - Placed in the top 8 at Smash @ Xanadu and achieved other high placings. He has numerous MD/VA wins.
Jade - Placed 65th at CEO 2016. Ranked 5th on the Tampa Smash Power Rankings. She has a win over Trela.
Kantrip - Ranked 7th on the British Columbia Power Rankings.
Kub4444 - One of the best Bowser Jr. players in Mexico. Ranked 2nd on the Sinaloa Power Rankings. He has wins over Regi and Hyuga.
LaRiata - One of the best Bowser Jr. players in Mexico. Placed 5th at Smash Pendiente 45. He has a win over MKLeo.
Llany - The best Bowser Jr. player in the Midwest. Has wins over Mr E and ScAtt. Currently ranked 15th on the Michigan Smash 4 Power Rankings.
Magi (UK) - The best Bowser Jr. player in Europe. Placed 5th at ALBION and 13th at DAT BlastZone 13.
Moti - Ranked 10th on the St. Louis Power Rankings.
Parappa - The best Bowser Jr. player in MD/VA, though he currently resides in Wisconsin. He has achieved rare, but consistently high placings at Smash @ Xanadu tournaments. Formerly ranked 11th on the MD/VA Power Rankings.
Taternator - One of the best Bowser Jr. in SoCal. He frequents MSMs and places well. Taken sets off of players such as Raito, K9sbruce and VoiD.
The Bowz - One of the best Bowser Jr. players in Michigan. Placed 13th at Saints Gaming Live 2018, 17th at Showdown: Battle Royale, 33rd at Little Big House 2 and 97th at Frostbite 2018.
Vicegrip - One of the best Bowser Jr. player in SoCal. Placed 5th at 2GGT: Fatality Saga and 13th at 2GGT: ESAM Saga. Formerly ranked 17th on the SoCal Power Rankings. He has wins over VoiD and Tyrant.
CoonTail - One of the best Bowser Jr players in the Atlantic North outside of Tweek. Placed 13th at Xanadu 160 with wins against Mister Eric and Techei.
Hino - Formerly ranked 5th on the Las Vegas Power Rankings prior to switching to Villager.
Tweek - The former best Bowser Jr. player in the world. Placed 25th at EVO 2015, 33rd at GENESIS 3, and 3rd at SKTAR 4. Has since switched mains to Cloud. He still occasionally uses Bowser Jr. as a rare counterpick or for sandbagging and is considered the best by many player in the community.
ZomBiehn - Placed 3rd at MCGArena and 13th at GUMS 8. Formerly ranked 2nd on the Maine Power Rankings prior to his retirement. He has wins over Ntarps, Cagt, DM888, LordXav1er and Light.
Bowser Jr. was initially considered to be a high-tier character due to his attacks having disjointed hitboxes and Clown Kart Dash's incredible versatility. However, like many other characters, Bowser Jr. began to drop on the tier list once players discovered that his he has a very linear neutral game, lackluster shield pressure, laggy grabs, and exploitable recovery. All of these attributes resulted in him struggling against many top-tier characters. However, Tweek still managed to achieve impressive results with Bowser Jr., such as placing 25th at EVO 2015, which was especially significant due to Bowser Jr.'s lack of improvement with custom moves. Tweek also managed to place 33rd at GENESIS 3 and consistently achieve top 8 placings in his region. As a result, Bowser Jr. was ranked 34th on the first tier list.
However, after Tweek dropped Bowser Jr. in favor of Cloud, his tournament prominence has dropped significantly. While he still achieves decent results thanks to many dedicated players, such as Vicegrip and Jade (the latter of whom notably defeated Trela at CEO 2016), and his metagame keeps being developed, Bowser Jr.'s lack of high placings at tournaments have resulted in him tying with Wii Fit Trainer for 46th/47th on the second tier list, and then slightly dropping to 48th on the third tier list. Currently, Bowser Jr. remains ranked as 48th on the fourth and current tier list, which can be attributed to Kub4444 achieving 17th at Smash Factor 6. Despite this, his tier placement remains debatable; some players say he should be ranked even lower, whereas others argue that he should be ranked slightly higher.
Bowser's beloved, spoiled son sports a bandanna with a large mouth drawn on it. Like his father, Bowser Jr. longs to take Mario down. In Smash Bros., he'll fight from inside his heavily armed Junior Clown Car. The Clown Car takes less damage than Bowser Jr., so mind your positioning.
Bowser's probably a big fan of his son, what with him hating Mario just as much as dear old Dad does. The tyke's Junior Clown Car is packed with gadgets and gizmos to throw at enemies! By the way, he's extra vulnerable when he jumps out of it, but...you wouldn't dream of attacking the cute little fella then, would you?
The Clown Kart Dash special move turns the Junior Clown Car into a kart. If you change direction while driving it, it'll spin and do more damage. When you use his up special, Bowser Jr. leaps from his Junior Clown Car, dropping it on the foes below.
The Clown Kart Dash special move turns the Junior Clown Car into a kart. If you change direction while driving it, it'll spin and do more damage. When you use his up special, Bowser Jr. jumps out of the Junior Clown Car, letting it hit opponents. Try to catch opponents with it while you're directly over them to hit them on the head!
Behind Enemy Lines: As Fox, the player must survive one minute against Bowser Jr. and Mega Man while they are all heavily damaged.
It's Past Your Bedtime!: As Jigglypuff, the player must make Bowser Jr., Ness, and Toon Link fall asleep at the same time by using Sing.
New Challengers 1: Bowser Jr. is one of the seven opponents fought, alongside Rosalina & Luma, Wii Fit Trainer, Little Mac, Villager, Duck Hunt and Lucina.
Family Ties: Bowser Jr., who is aided by a giant Bowser, must defeat Mario and Luigi.
Enough with the Kidnapping: As Peach, the player must defeat Bowser Jr. and Bowser.
A Lurking Menace: Mario and Luigi must defeat Bowser Jr., but if the match lasts too long, they must also defeat a giant Bowser.
Peach in Peril: Bowser Jr. and Bowser must defeat all opponents except Peach, where KOing her results in a failure.
Solidarity: Olimar and Rosalina & Luma must defeat Mario and Luigi and then they must defeat Bowser Jr. and Bowser.
Instead of alternate color schemes, Bowser Jr.'s alternate costumes consist of the Koopalings. Bowser Jr.'s Junior Clown Car is the only one with black eyes and horizontal orange "eye paint", while the Koopalings' Clown Cars have yellow mechanical eyes with vertical black "eye paint".
Artwork of Bowser Jr. from the official site.
Using Clown Kart Dash alongside Wario's Wario Bike.
Taunting alongside his father, who is using Fire Breath.
Using Clown Cannon alongside Kirby, who is also using it due to having copied him.
Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings on Onett.
Morton and Iggy using Abandon Ship! on Ludwig and Lemmy. Morton and Iggy's size differences in SSB4 are noticeably different in comparison to their sizes in the Mario series.
Wendy using her forward smash on Iggy.
Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings on The Great Cave Offensive.
Using Shadow Mario Paint, his Final Smash, on Mario and Luigi.
Using Clown Kart Dash on Spirit Train.
Bowser Jr. is the only character who does not have an alternate costume that shares the same name as the default costume or is a palette swap of the original costume. Due to this, he's the only character to use his default color scheme in his Alt. trophies.
Similarly, Bowser Jr. is the only character who does not use an alternative costume when he is fought in rounds 4-5 in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U's classic mode, as well as Smash Tour with customs. However, Larry will appear in his place in a team battle if the player chooses a previously-defeated Bowser Jr. as a teammate.
This additionally makes Bowser Jr. and Villager are the only characters where all eight of their palette swaps have a chance of appearing in All-Star Mode. However, because his placement in All-Star Mode is based on his debut rather than that of the Koopalings (who debuted before him), the Koopalings will be misplaced chronologically during All-Star mode if the opponent's costume is a Koopaling. The same applies to Olimar and Alph.
In Bowser Jr.'s reveal trailer, he is seen firing a cannonball which then explodes. However, this does not happen in game, not even from his custom moves. Also, his reveal trailer is the only one to have a character use a shield in the CGI portion of the trailer.
Bowser Jr. is the only newcomer to be both a starter character and an unlockable character in ', 'SSB4.
Bowser Jr. was on the brink of being cut as a playable character due to limited time and resources. He barely got onto the roster due to the game staff's diligent work.
When he uses Abandon Ship!, the tail on the Junior Clown Car disappears.
One of Bowser Jr.'s conquest teams is called the "Kooky Kids". "Kooky" is also Ludwig's name in the DiC Entertainment cartoons The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World.
On the official Super Smash Bros. Facebook page, Wendy was called "a Kootie-Pie", a reference to her name in the DIC Entertainment cartoons.
On the same Facebook page, Lemmy is noted as "Hip but no Hop", a reference to Lemmy being called Hip and Iggy being called Hop in the cartoons.
In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the Koopa Clown vehicle, if used by a Koopaling will change colors to match the ones they use in Super Smash Bros. 4.
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A commodity is something that is traded around the world in a standardised form. For example, gold and wheat are commodities because no matter where they are mined or grown, the end product is basically the same. This means they can be traded worldwide at a standardised price.
Commodities come out of the earth and normally take the form of raw materials, agricultural goods and fuel. Because of this there's a limit to how much of a particular commodity can be supplied, which can lead to big swings in price (i.e. high 'volatility') if actual (or anticipated) demand is higher or lower than the supply.
Because commodities are physical items that are traded, investment returns can only come from a change in a commodity's price - there's no prospect of an income.
A commodity's price is very sensitive to the supply of and demand for that commodity. Suppose bad weather hits corn crops, reducing worldwide production. If the world's population continues to demand the same amount of corn as normal then there'll be a shortage (assuming supply normally equals demand), causing the corn price to rise until demand once again equals supply due to people buying less. Successful commodity investing means trying to predict what will happen to the future supply and demand of a commodity.
However, you may have noticed one problem with all this. Suppose you want to invest in 1 tonne of wheat because you think the price will rise over the next year, where will you store it and will it last a year before turning bad? Because of these impracticalities it's rare to buy an actual commodity when investing. The two most common routes are using futures contracts or shares. Although you can't buy shares in commodities themselves, you can buy them in companies which produce commodities or are related to commodity production, e.g. gold mining companies for gold and companies that produce fertiliser for agricultural commodities. While such companies don't track a particular commodity's price, they tend move in the same direction (i.e. they're correlated).
Commodity futures contracts between two people require one to buy and the other to sell a specific amount of a commodity on a specific date in future at an agreed price. It's not just investors who use them, commodity producers e.g. farmers can use them to fix the price they'll get for their crops long before harvest, protecting (i.e. 'hedging') them from subsequent price fluctuations.
While some futures require the physical commodity to be delivered, others simply require cash to be passed from one party to the other equal to the profit/loss made.
The current price (known as the 'spot' price) of commodity X is £80 per tonne. Mrs Foresight enters into a futures contract to buy 10 tonnes of X in six months time at £90 per tonne, because she believes the price will be higher. When the contract is due the spot price of X is £100 per tonne, giving her a £10 per tonne profit, equal to £100 overall (10 x £10). Had the spot price fallen to £60 per tonne, she would have lost £30 per tonne, equal to £300 overall.
Futures prices can be useful as they indicate where the market thinks the spot price of a commodity will go in future. They are also used to construct the commodity indices used by investors to track commodity performance, often by buying the futures contracts expiring soonest and then rolling the money into the following month's contract just before expiry. However, there's a potential glitch with this. The following month's contract price is often a little higher (ignoring changes to the spot price) reflecting the cost of storing the commodity, insurance and financing etc. This is called 'contango'. The potential impact of contango means an Index could lose out every month when money is rolled over, perhaps totalling several percent or more over a year. If you buy an investment that tracks a commodity Index, be aware of this.
Oil is one of the most important, and often volatile, commodities. Crude oil, which is priced per 'barrel' (42 US gallons) is primarily refined into the fuel that powers our cars, trains and planes etc. but is also used in the manufacture of other products such as plastics, asphalt and lubricants.
The world's capacity to produce oil is relatively fixed in the short term and even the discovery of new oil fields may not be enough to satisfy eventual demand if emerging countries such as China and India one day consume the same amount of oil per person as the US. However, while very long term supply could be scarce, supply currently more or less matches global demand at 85 million barrels a day.
If current supply pretty much matches demand, why does the price vary so much?
Events such as wars, political unrest and natural disasters can temporarily hit production, reducing supply.
A group ('cartel') of oil producers (mostly Middle Eastern) called OPEC sometimes reduces supply to try and prop up (or increase) oil prices for the benefit of its members.
Some believe that a flood of financial speculators buying futures in the expectation of oil price rises can actually result in oil price rises.
It's also widely held that the cost to extract oil from the ground is increasing, which naturally results in a rising oil price over time.
Natural gas is extracted from the ground and refined into a fuel. For many of its uses gas competes with oil, which means the gas price tends to be affected by the oil price. If the cost of oil rises then demand for gas normally increases (as it's a cheaper alternative) and vice versa.
Gas is measured in cubic feet or metres and normally priced per 1,000 cubic metres (Mcm) or 1,000 cubic feet (Mcf). One barrel of crude oil is the equivalent of about 170 cubic metres of natural gas.
The factors affecting gas prices are very much the same as those affecting oil prices.
Industrial metals are used extensively in construction and manufacturing. The most common examples are iron (accounts for 95% of all metal production), aluminium, nickel, copper, tin, zinc and lead.
Copper - piping (e.g. water), electronics and coins.
Iron - most commonly used in the form of steel for construction and the manufacture of machinery, vehicles, ships and household goods.
Aluminium - vehicles/planes/ships, packaging (e.g. foil and cans), construction.
Nickel - manufacture of stainless steel and combined with other metals to produce alloys used in manufacturing.
Zinc - coating iron/steel to prevent corrosion chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Lead - batteries and plastics (PVC).
As developing economies (notably China) continue to grow, so the demand for (hence price of) industrial metals has soared. The global downturn has since seen prices fall back, but many predict that the long term trend for industrial metal prices remains upwards.
Precious metals are rare, hence they command higher prices than industrial metals. The most common examples are gold, silver, platinum and palladium.
Gold - jewellery (about two thirds of gold demand), investment and industrial.
Silver - industrial, photography, jewellery and silverware.
Platinum - industrial (including vehicle catalytic converters), jewellery and investment.
Palladium - industrial (including vehicle catalytic converters), electronics and dentistry.
Gold is by far the best known precious metal. Although mine production is fairly consistent, gold supply is boosted by 'old' gold being melted down and re-used (typically one third of total supply) and governments selling off their gold reserves. Jewellery represents the largest demand, with India, China and the Middle East topping the list. If consumer prosperity increases in these countries you'd expect them to spend more on gold and vice versa.
Gold is also favoured by many investors as a hedge against inflation and as a safe haven during troubled times.
Precious metals are priced by the Troy ounce (about 10% heavier than a conventional ounce). The gold bars that are internationally traded (and the type you usually see in films) are called London Good Delivery bars and weigh 400 Troy oz.
Grains are primarily needed to feed humans, livestock and poultry. They're one of the most important foodstuffs in the world.
Corn - as well as a foodstuff, it's also used to produce ethanol, an alternative to fossil fuel.
Wheat - primarily used to make flour.
Rice - the staple diet for billions of people around the world.
Soybeans - very versatile, can be used to produce many food types and oil.
Factors influencing the demand and supply (hence price) of grains include climate, demand for alternative fuels and the attractiveness for farmers to grow grains in preference to other crops (i.e. relative prices).
Other crops include coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton and fruits, such as oranges. Demand is largely determined by consumer taste. For example, the continued growth of 'coffee culture' in Western countries coupled with increasing popularity in developing countries has led to steady annual increases in coffee bean demand.
Developing countries such as China and India could have a big impact on demand for crops such as wheat and sugar if they develop a Western palate.
Sugar can be used to produce an alternative fuel called ethanol, which tends to push up sugar prices when the price of oil is high.
Livestock are primarily used for food and fibre (e.g. wool and leather). The most common examples of livestock are cows ('cattle'), pigs ('hogs') and sheep. Some also call poultry and fish livestock too.
High grain prices increase the cost of raising livestock (as feed is more expensive) and it may also encourage more farmers to grow grain rather than raise livestock, further pushing up the price of livestock.
Once again, rising demand from developing countries such as China is responsible for a steady growth in global demand, which has generally kept livestock prices buoyant.
Gains on commodities are subject to capital gains tax.
How can I buy commodities?
While it's possible for private investors to buy commodities futures through a commodity broker, it's now more popular to use 'spread-betting' brokers. This approach allows you to bet on the price movements of commodity futures. Gains are tax-free but tread carefully, as you could lose a lot more than your initial stake if the price plummets.
Rather than buy commodities themselves or futures, you could buy shares in companies than produce commodities or provide products/services to commodity producers. For example, shares in a gold mining company for exposure to gold and shares in a fertiliser company for exposure to grains. However, be aware that it's not uncommon for such shares to rise or fall by a greater degree than the commodity itself.
There are several unit trusts investing in hard commodities. Some may have a strong bias towards certain hard commodities over others, so it's important to check.
Commodity unit trusts buy shares in commodity companies, not futures, so expect volatility to be higher than the commodity prices themselves.
There are a handful of investment trusts that invest in hard commodities. Possible attractions for investors include lower charges than similar unit trusts and the potential for 'gearing', i.e. the investment trust borrows money to increase your investment exposure (although gearing on commodities trusts tends to be modest).
Because investment trusts are companies listed on stock markets, their performance tends to be more correlated to stock markets than is the case with commodities. The value of an investment trust is based on the price of its shares ('market capitalisation'), which may be different from the value of the property it owns ('net asset value'). If so, you could pay more than the value of the net assets (a 'premium') or less (a 'discount'). This adds to volatility.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are index tracking shares traded on stock markets. They have the advantage of low charges and a wide choice of investment. The options available for both hard and soft commodity investors are plentiful, you can even buy ETFs that 'short' a commodity (i.e. the ETF price rises when the commodity price falls).
If you buy an ETF it's important to understand which index it tracks and how that index is constructed. This will ensure you're getting exposure to the commodities you wish to invest in. You could also suffer from 'contango', reducing your annual return versus the actual commodity price (for more details read the above commodity futures section).
While pension funds specialising in commodities are rare, you should be able to buy all the other commodity fund options mentioned if you have a self invested personal pension (SIPP).
Backwardation When the price for immediate delivery of a commodity is higher than the price of delivery for a future date.
Brent Crude The name given to oil produced in the North Sea and also a benchmark used for oil pricing.
Hard Commodities Commodities that are mined from beneath the ground, e.g. oil.
Soft Commodities Commodities that are grown, e.g. corn.
Spot Price The cash market price for a physical commodity that is available for immediate delivery.
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Allow's look at photos of pets, a prominent photo group on the world's largest social media. To start, try combining a number of structured search classifications, particularly "images" and also "my friends."
Facebook undoubtedly knows that your friends are, as well as it could easily identify material that suits the pail that's taken into consideration "images." It also can search keyword phrases and has basic photo-recognition capabilities (mostly by reading captions), permitting it to determine particular types of pictures, such as animals, babies, sports, and so forth.
So to begin, try inputting simply, "Photos of animals my friends" specifying those three criteria - pictures, animals, friends.
The picture over shows what Facebook might recommend in the fall listing of questions as it aims to picture what you're looking for. (Click on the photo to see a larger, more readable duplicate.) The drop-down list could differ based on your personal Facebook account and whether there are a great deal of suits in a certain category. Notification the first three choices revealed on the right above are asking if you imply pictures your friends took, photos your friends suched as or images your friends talked about.
If you know that you wish to see pictures your friends actually posted, you can kind into the search bar: "Pictures of animals my friends uploaded."
Facebook will suggest extra specific phrasing, as shown on the ideal side of the picture above. That's what Facebook showed when I key in that phrase (remember, ideas will certainly vary based upon the material of your personal Facebook.) Again, it's using added means to tighten the search, since that specific search would lead to greater than 1,000 photos on my individual Facebook (I presume my friends are all pet fans.).
The initial drop-down query choice noted on the right in the photo above is the widest one, i.e., all photos of animals uploaded by my friends. If I click that option, a ton of images will certainly show up in a visual list of matching outcomes.
Below the inquiry listing, 2 other alternatives are asking if I 'd rather see photos uploaded by me that my friends clicked the "like" switch on, or images uploaded by my friends that I clicked the "like" button on. Then there are the "friends who live nearby" option in the center, which will mainly reveal images taken near my city. Facebook additionally may detail several teams you come from, cities you have actually lived in or business you have actually worked for, asking if you want to see photos from your friends that fall under one of those pails.
If you left off the "posted" in your initial inquiry and just entered, "images of pets my friends," it would likely ask you if you suggested photos that your friends posted, commented on, suched as etc.
That must give you the basic concept of what Facebook is assessing when you type a query right into package. It's looking generally at containers of web content it recognizes a lot around, given the kind of details Facebook accumulates on all of us as well as exactly how we make use of the network. Those containers certainly include photos, cities, firm names, place names and in a similar way structured information.
A fascinating aspect of the Facebook search user interface is exactly how it hides the structured information approach behind a straightforward, natural language interface. It welcomes us to start our search by keying a question utilizing natural language wording, then it provides "recommendations" that represent a more structured method which classifies components right into buckets. And also it hides extra "organized data" search alternatives better down on the result pages, via filters that differ relying on your search.
On the outcomes web page for a lot of inquiries, you'll be shown a lot more ways to improve your inquiry. Commonly, the extra options are shown straight listed below each outcome, through tiny message web links you can computer mouse over. It may claim "people" for instance, to represent that you can obtain a listing all individuals who "suched as" a certain restaurant after you've done a search on restaurants your friends like. Or it might claim "similar" if you intend to see a listing of various other game titles just like the one displayed in the outcomes list for an app search you did involving video games.
There's additionally a "Improve this search" box shown on the right side of several outcomes web pages. That box has filters allowing you to drill down and also tighten your search even better using different parameters, depending upon what kind of search you've done.
Graph search additionally can deal with keyword looking, however it particularly excludes Facebook condition updates (too bad concerning that) and doesn't feel like a durable keyword phrase online search engine. As formerly specified, it's finest for looking details sorts of material on Facebook, such as images, individuals, places and also company entities.
Therefore, you need to think of it a very various kind of search engine than Google and other Web search solutions like Bing. Those search the whole internet by default and conduct sophisticated, mathematical analyses behind-the-scenes in order to figure out which littles information on particular Website will best match or answer your query.
You can do a comparable web-wide search from within Facebook graph search (though it uses Microsoft's Bing, which, many individuals really feel isn't really like Google.) To do a web-side search on Facebook, you can type web search: at the start of your query right in the Facebook search bar.
| 2019-04-23T04:02:44 |
http://www.carrentalwheel.com/2019/04/find-pictures-of-yourself-on-facebook.html
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When Serafina Salucci was seven years old she played with the asbestos sheeting her father used to build the family's garage in suburban Sydney.
Thirty years later, she was diagnosed with an incurable cancer that doctors say was caused by exposure to the asbestos sheeting used to construct the building.
The only time she did handle asbestos was, like thousands of other children in the 1960s and 1970s, when she and her brothers threw it around and played frisbee with asbestos sheeting without knowing the risks.
To a young child, the white powder-like off-cuts of the sheeting was a good alternative for chalk to draw on the driveway.
But at the age of 37, Ms Salucci, who is a Sydney mother-of-four, was diagnosed with mesothelioma - a cancer of the lung lining.
'In 2007, I got a cough and a persistent cough and it wouldn't go away,' she explained. 'After three or four weeks, I went to the GP [general practitioner] to get rid of it.
'As a precaution the doctor arranged to get a chest X-ray. That's when they found something.
'The GP originally thought it was pneumonia... and not too serious.' After she was diagnosed, Ms Salucci took extreme measures to battle the cancer.
Not only did she go through bouts of radiotherapy and chemotherapy but she had her right lung removed in 2008 and other surgeries to remove the cancer when it came back.
Despite the hardships, Ms Salucci said she counted herself lucky as most people who were diagnosed with mesothelioma died within two years, but she had lived for nine.
'It's pretty bleak. Once you get told you have mesothelioma it's a death sentence,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
Most people with asbestos-related conditions have shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, constant pain in the chest and weight loss.
Having been a victim of asbestos, Ms Salucci is using her experience to lobby the Federal Government to restore $3 million worth of funding to the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency.
Ms Salucci, who is also an Asbestos Awareness ambassador, said the money had been allocated to the agency back in 2013 but was taken back by the government when it was not spent in the allocated time.
She believes the agency is important because it educates people on the dangers of asbestos, and would help implement policies and recommendations to reduce the risks of asbestos exposure.
A member of the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Advisory Council, Barry Robson, told The Sydney Morning Herald they had spent a lot of time setting up and ran into a handful of issues, including those to do with staffing.
He said getting all states and territories to sign off on the national strategy had also been time consuming.
The issue falls under the portfolio of Employment Minister Michaelia Cash who ordered a review into the agency's funding.
A spokesman for Senator Cash said the government had not cut funds to the agency and the amount of money set aside by the former Labor government had remained the same.
'The Labor Government provided the funding on the basis that the set-up costs would reduce after the early years and the agency would then focus on its coordination role, working with the states and territories to implement ASEA's National Strategic Plan,' the spokesman told the Herald.
| 2019-04-25T20:13:06 |
http://www.asbestoswise.com.au/news/its-pretty-bleak-woman-diagnosed-terminal-cancer-30-years-after-she-was-exposed-7-year-old-asbestos-when-she-helped-her-father-b/
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A DAY WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY & investment Group's global economic analysis is a day without access to some of the most current and informed thinking about where the world and its money are headed. Fans especially appreciate the turn-on-a-dime investment calls, in which co-founders Nancy Lazar and Ed Hyman adjust their views to reflect the latest developments in monetary policy, the most recent findings of ISI's proprietary industry surveys and up-to-the-minute business trends from Sydney to Seoul to Stockholm to Seattle. Indeed, in the past few weeks they have changed their forecast for the fed-funds rate and reassessed their view on the outlook for housing. But it still adds up to a forecast for a major slowdown around the globe. Let Lazar explain.
Barron's: Is the bad news outweighing the good news these days?
Lazar: Global growth is certainly slowing. But I think the slowdown in the economy is good news because there were some inflationary pressures starting to build up in the system. We saw it in the data and we were hearing it anecdotally from companies. So to use the cliché, this is the pause that refreshes and it increases the odds that we have a prolonged expansion.
What is your outlook for growth this year?
Growth is definitely going to slow and will be noticeable. You had 3% in the second quarter, but that will decelerate in the third quarter to about 2.5% and maybe even 2% by the fourth quarter and the first half of 2006.
Will we be spared a recession?
I don't think we have the ingredients for a recession. There was an inflation scare that is fading pretty quickly -- not disappearing but fading pretty quickly. The slowdown in the economy further increases the odds that inflation probably slows a little bit. Tom Gallagher, our head of policy research in Washington, has the Fed stopping at 3.75%, given its hawkish bias towards inflation and because growth has been OK. Also, the Fed is very focused lately on housing and housing prices and might tighten a touch more than they would otherwise to reduce the froth in that market. The key ingredient for why there probably won't be a recession is that wage inflation has remained tame. Prior to previous recessions, there's been a clear acceleration in inflation and wage inflation and the Fed has had to really slam on the brakes. Another characteristic of a mid-cycle slowdown is that bonds and fed funds converge. The bond market figures out before the Fed decides to change rates that the economy is slowing. Obviously, the yield curve has flattened as bond yields have come down. The same thing happened in 1985 and 1995. By the summer of 1995, bond yields and fed funds were at equilibrium and the Fed was finished tightening. We are forecasting fed funds and bond yields to converge at roughly 3.8%, similar to what occurred in 1995.
Yet a lot of people assume a flattening of the yield curve is enough to push us into recession.
The flattening of the yield curve is going to increase the odds you get a slowdown. Also, there's been a very sharp slowdown in money supply, which suggests the Fed is tighter than the 3% fed funds suggest. Historically, it is the change in the fed-funds rate that drives the change in money supply and not the level. The Fed was easing very aggressively in 2001 and 2002 and the fed-funds rate plunged 500 basis points [five percentage points]. Now it's up 200 basis points, and that has corresponded perfectly with a very sharp slowdown in money supply to basically zero. It is the combination of all these forces, from oil to money supply to the yield curve, that are indeed contributing to this slowdown.
There has been a lot of comparison to 1995 in the ISI reports.
In the 1980s and 'Nineties you had very long expansions. But within both, there were roughly three cycles. The first cycle I'd call the strong advance, in which the economy finally comes out of recession and accelerates enough so there is some inflation concern and the Fed tightens. That happened in 1984, that happened 1994 and that happened in 2004. Then, in both the previous two decades and maybe again now, in part as a result of that tightening, the economy slowed. It slowed in 1985, it slowed in 1995. In both of those periods, the Fed then eased and the economy reaccelerated. Today, there is a comparison not only to the '95 period but also maybe to the '85 period, where the economy slows because of central-bank tightening and higher oil prices. We are moving into the mid-cycle slowdown.
What sets this period apart?
In both '85 and '95, the stock market absolutely had a very strong run. In the 1985 period it was more of a step function, where the market rallied and then went sideways for several months then made another significant rally and then went sideways again. By the time the mid-cycle slowdown was over, there was still a very significant rally in 1985. In 1995, it was just a steady climb in the stock market for roughly a year straight. This stock market is not behaving like 1995 so far. It has similar characteristics to 1985, because the market rallied last fall and then went sideways and rallied again this spring before going sideways. It is still early in the mid-cycle slowdown and, I think, on a historical basis there should be a decent rally in the market, though maybe not as much as occurred in 1985, when the markets rallied about 40%. We are not expecting that, but we do think the market can rally roughly 15% from its spring low of April 20.
Are you still concerned about a looming financial crisis?
Yes. At this stage of a business cycle there has always been a financial crisis. By that I mean roughly one year after the Fed has started to tighten, there's been a financial crisis. Put differently, as you go into a mid-cycle slowdown, there's always been a financial crisis. We've had a little taste of strains in the system with the General Motors and Ford debt downgrades of several weeks ago. As of now, they seem to have faded. I still think we are going to end up with a very clear financial crisis. I don't know if it is going to be problems at GM and Ford resurfacing, or some other part of the economy or another country. But historically, the combination of higher interest rates and a slowdown in the economy puts a lot of pressure on the weak links.
What about home-equity loans? They've soared to levels never seen before. Could that be a problem area?
There are many categories, and home-equity lending, to the extent it was growing roughly 45% for several years in a row, is a candidate. But quite frankly, with our forecast for growth to slow, inflation to slow and the Fed to be done tightening sooner rather than later, interest rates are likely to be lower than anyone would have expected at this stage of a business cycle. That could actually further cushion or maybe even support home-equity loans and make it even a bigger problem. Whenever interest rates do start rising again, it could be a real crisis. However, home-equity lending could become an issue today if employment in certain parts of the country were to weaken. We are less bullish on housing than we had been given the Fed's attempts at cooling some of the speculation and risky mortgage lending that's occurred in the real-estate market. Housing could weaken as a result and contribute to the economic slowdown.
| 2019-04-21T11:12:32 |
https://www.barrons.com/articles/SB111965417507569248
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Fred: What made you marry an acrobat?
Harry: He was head over heels in love with me.
When are circus acrobats needed in restaurants?
When the owner wants tumblers on the table.
Fred: My best friend is an acrobat.
Fred: Because he'll always do me a good turn and will bend over backwards to help me.
| 2019-04-19T08:16:57 |
http://jokedictionary.com/jokes/a/acrobatjokes.html
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Suppose we deploy a processing unit defining a space configured to be split in 2 partitions with 1 backup each.
Can we change this configuration at runtime? Add or remove partitions and have data transfered to the new nodes?
To be clear, I'm talking about PU deployment, not IMDG.
It supports re-balancing of a PU with an embedded space. This will allow you to expand a running PU with an embedded space while the system is running and stretch it across newly started GSCs nodes.
I run some tests and -as far as I understood-, re-balancing is about relocating primary or backup partitions to other GSCs/Hosts.
This process cannot change the number of partitions.
Unless you start with of configuration of, lets say, 1000 partitions located on 4 GSCs and then expand to 1000 GSCs, rebalancing does not provide a means to expand and shrink at runtime.
The "re-balancing" approach is the approach every data grid product is using. Some of the products simply have a default number of partitions used so this whole issue is hidden from most of the users. GigaSpaces allows you to specify this at the deployment time. This provides you better granularity how the system will "slice" the data across the deployed nodes.
You don't have to start with 1000 partitions to use re-balancing utility. You should use the "expansion factor" as the factor you should use to calculate the amount of partitions you should initially deploy with.
The expansion factor will be the amount of machines (or GSCs) your system might have in the future before you will need to restart the system and increase the number of partitions. You can start with 20 partitions with 2 GSC across 2 machines and later expand this to have the same 20 partitions running across 20 machines. This will allow you to increase your data grid capacity in an order of magnitude (x10).
| 2019-04-24T03:51:24 |
http://ask.gigaspaces.org/question/1671/can-xap-repartition-spaces-defined-with-processing-units/
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Patent Licensing: What Is It?
Patent licensing is part of how to patent an idea and is a revocable agreement between a patent owner and a licensee to transfer interest in a patent to a licensee, who can benefit from and enforce the intellectual property rights.
Exclusive Licenses: These transfer all ownership rights to a licensee. The licensor still owns the title. All patent owners must agree to an exclusive license.
Non-Exclusive Licenses: These allow the licensee to produce the invention or design. The licensee doesn't gain exclusive rights. The licensor and other parties can also produce the invention or design. Only one patent owner has to agree to a non-exclusive license.
Not all inventors want to make or sell products or designs. Patent licensing lets you profit from the rights to your invention. You can collect royalties from sales.
Manufacturing a product or design can be expensive. It can also have a high level of risk. Patent licensing lets you transfer the risk to another party.
Not all inventors can produce a product or design on a large scale. Patent licensing can introduce your invention to a bigger market. It can also lead to distribution around the world. This tactic is popular for entrepreneurs and startup companies.
You don't have to sign away the rights to your intellectual property forever. You can include a time period in the license. When the period expires, you regain the exclusive rights.
If someone infringes your patent, you can sue. Suing can get expensive, and it might not provide the results you want, either. Instead of suing, consider patent licensing. This option gives a competitor the right to your intellectual property, and it gives you the right to profit at the same time.
As a patent owner, you might want to profit from the rights to your intellectual property. Patent licensing might be part of your business plan. You have to find a licensee or a manufacturer first, though.
Finding an interested licensee isn't easy. Negotiating a license agreement that will help you make money is also hard, and many inventors who want to license their patents are unsuccessful.
The patent owner transfers rights temporarily. Most licenses include a time period. When this expires, the owner regains exclusive rights. Licensees can sometimes license or assign their rights, but this process makes ownership of the intellectual property more complex.
Patent owners often charge royalties for a patent license. This usually includes payments throughout the license period.
The patent owner permanently transfers exclusive rights. This transfer is part of the official patent record.
Some patent owners give away rights of ownership. Others charge a one-time fee. An assignee usually pays this lump sum up front. Then, the assignee receives future profits from the rights to the intellectual property.
The licensee should make or sell the product or design after signing a licensing agreement. Doing this before filing an agreement could be patent infringement.
Some inventions have the potential to make a lot of money. If your patent is worth a lot, choose your licensee carefully.
Many patent owners charge an advance in royalties. Many also ask for a minimum annual royalty. Standard royalty rates range from 2 to 20 percent of net revenues.
A performance obligation requires the licensee to meet specific milestones. If the licensee fails, the patent owner can end the license. This helps patent owners profit from licenses.
Licensors still own their patents. That means they can be held liable for their inventions during the licensing period. Ask the licensee to insure you during this period.
This part of an agreement explains which rights the patent owner is licensing. You can also use it to explain which rights you aren't licensing. This clause lets you keep some rights to your patent.
Filing a patent application is difficult. Licensing a patent can be even harder. Hire a professional patent lawyer to do due diligence to protect your rights. This can also help you increase your profits.
One analogy that can be helpful is to look at licensing approaches in two ways: "carrot" licensing and "stick" licensing.
Carrot: This is when the person you want to do business with is not practicing the patented invention. They do not have to take a license. You must convince them that your patent technology is better than what they are using. Show them how licensing your product or services will help them make money. It's all about how you market your invention.
Stick: This is when the person you want to work with is infringing your patent. They are already using your patent technology. In this case, you must threaten them with a court case. They will license your product — or else.
In reality, both situations involve the threat of a court case. In the carrot approach, an inevitable court case is just implied. In the stick approach, it is directly stated.
If you manage to get a large company to license your patent, you will get a lump sum payment that covers their past use of the product. You will also receive money based on future use.
Yes, but not in all cases. Talk with a patent attorney about your particular case.
How Can I Find Potential Licensees?
Trade Shows: You will meet people or company representatives who might be interested in your product at these events.
Advertisements: The best places the buy ad space for this would be trade publications and inventors' magazines. The USPTO puts out a publication called "The Official Gazette" that contains ads for products. You can purchase ad space for about $25.
Patent Website: There are lots of internet sites where you can advertise your inventions. It's best to check the United Inventors Association website for scams before you do this.
Venture Capital Partners: Find people who would be willing to be a partner. They can provide money to help you fund your project.
Brokers and Submission Companies: Brokers can market your invention to manufacturers for a cut of the sale. It's important to pick a broker who will only charge you if they sell your invention successfully. Submission companies are more of a risk. Sometimes, they cost thousands of dollars and don't earn the inventor any profits. There have even been lawsuits and fraud involved. Check anyone you might work with at the Better Business Bureau and United Inventors Association.
This works best if you already have your patent. If you don't have a patent, bring along a non-disclosure agreement to have people sign before you talk about it.
Can I Sublicense a Patent License?
Yes, sometimes the licensee can sublicense the rights. The grant clause explains whether this is possible.
What Is a Hybrid License?
In some cases, patent rights are only part of the deal. A hybrid license includes a patent license and other rights. This allows the licensee to make use of intellectual property rights as much as possible.
This agreement covers any pre-existing intellectual property that a person or company has. It extends rights to using pre-existing intellectual property as you develop a new invention.
What Does It Mean to Have Joint Ownership?
In the U.S., joint patent owners can use the patented invention however they want. They don't have to ask the other owner for permission. They also don't have to share the profits. They can even grant licenses to other people. However, those licenses cannot be exclusive.
This varies by country. Some countries require that the owners share profits. Others require that both parties have to agree on all decisions about the patent. It is important to check joint ownership laws on a per region basis. To avoid conflict, you need to know everything you are allowed to do in relation to the other owner.
It is vital to come to a legal agreement if one partner wants to give exclusive rights to a company.
One benefit of a joint ownership is that you can work together to enforce your patent rights. You can both team up to sue an infringing company. However, both parties must agree on the enforcement in order to move forward.
You can ask the other owner to waive their consent when it comes to enforcing your patent. This must be done in contract form. Once the process is complete, you can enforce your patent without asking the other owner for permission.
Ask potential licensees to sign a confidentiality agreement to protect rights to your intellectual property.
Work with the licensee to agree on licensing terms and conditions.
A patent assignment agreement can be exclusive or non-exclusive. It outlines the conditions, time period, and royalties. Both the licensor(s) and the licensee(s) must sign this document.
If you need help with patent licensing, you can post your question or concern on UpCounsel's marketplace. UpCounsel accepts only the top 5 percent of lawyers to its site. Lawyers on UpCounsel come from law schools such as Harvard Law and Yale Law and average 14 years of legal experience, including work with or on behalf of companies like Google, Menlo Ventures, and Airbnb.
| 2019-04-24T15:58:32 |
https://www.upcounsel.com/patent-licensing
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Is it too early to start reaching for those festive colours? My answer: it's never too early to wear what we like. While the combo of red and green makes me think of Christmas, it's a colour match that can work well in any season. Bellow you can see one of my most recent illustrations that features a red and green outfit. The illustration started its life as a sketch but then I decided to add watercolour. Anyhow, this fashion illustration depicts a girl wearing a red dress and a green vest, paired with a brown bag, black boots and tartan tights. Isn't this a great idea for an autumn styling? I need to buy myself some plaid leggings or tights. It is a great way to add pattern into our wardrobe, I don't know how I didn't think of it before.
Red and blue can be such an eye-catching colour combo. Perfect for creating uniform looks, this colour combo can look very glam if you opt to make it more feminine. Bellow you can see my mixed media (watercolour and coloured pencil) fashion illustration of a red and blue sheer dress. I do like the sheer trend, especially when it comes to gowns. I think a dress like the one I illustrated would be a perfect choice for getting all dolled up. The festivities are not that far away, and I'm already dreaming of the perfect dress. I wish there was a way for this sheer dress with flower applications to manifest itself magically in my closet. However, who knows? I might find the time to sew it some day.
There is something royal about the combo of gold and black, isn't it? I envisioned this gorgeous gown with yellow applications to fit that royal vibe that's been trending (you know with all the historical TV shows and films that are coming out). Isn't this extravagant gown gorgeous? Truth be told, gold and black are not the only colours I had in mind. If you look at this watercolour painting closely, you'll be able to spot red, blue and orange colours as well, but gold and black are the dominant colours for this dress. I actually painted this dress over a fashion illustration I already shared because I was short on time but I like how it worked out. It's an improvement, I'd say.
Burgundy and pink may seem like an usual colour combo, but it's not that hard to pull off. For example, bellow you can see me wearing a burgundy turtleneck underneath a pink poncho blouse. Paired with jeans, this colour combo doesn't look too extravagant. If you pay attention to the fashion illustration I'm holding, you'll be able to see one similar outfit: a burgundy blazer paired with a pink top and jeans. My tip of the day: when you're not sure whether you can pull some colour combo in an outfit, reach for a nice pair of jeans because they have a way of balancing it all out. That's what I did, both in my illustrated outfit and in the real one.
What to say about green and blue? These two gorgeous colours come in so many lovely shades. If you take another look at the above shared outfit, you might notice the other fashion illustration I'm holding, the one depicting a green and a blue outfit. Well, besides that illustrated look, I also have an outfit proposal featuring a combination of these two colours. This time I opted for a vintage mint blazer, a white tunics and a pair of jeans. I wore the blazer over the shoulders because it was a warm day and because I'm a fan of this unpractical trend.
I promised to show you a way to style this yellow jumpsuit in autumn, haven't I? Well, I decided to pair it with pink! I wore a pink cardigan over it and choose some baby pink heels to finish the outfit. If you're looking for a feminine and dressed up way to wear a jumpsuit in autumn, try pairing it with a nice pair of heels and a cardigan. If you want the outfit to be super girly, why not give Barbie colours a try? Jumpsuits can be so versatile. If you're looking for a way to wear your summer jumpsuits in autumn, layering should do the trick. We should take advantage of this period while we still get away with styling summer items because it won't last for long.
That would be all for today. As you had the chance of seeing, the colours of autumn inspire me to opt both for traditional and non-traditional autumn colours. It's all about having fun with exploring different colours and shades. How have you been doing? Are you enjoying autumn? Are you feeling inspired? Do you love to wear colour? If yes, what colours do you opt for this time of year?
Thank you for reading and commenting. Have a lovely weekend!
thank you, I agree that it's a great pairing.
I think the yellow and pink is my personal favorite. Only because it's so unexpected, and bright and happy!!
thank you dear, I hope you'll have a relaxing Sunday.
I very much like your first two fashion illustrations and agree that that dress would be amazing in real life- I love that Tartan fun outfit too.
I love red and green together and I will wear that at any timee, not just Christmas!!!!
Your jumpsuit looks lovely with the pink cardie!
Such a creative post. I really appreciate your writing style and the illustrations are divine. I agree it is never too early to reach for festive colors. You look really pretty and all of these outfits. I especially love the pink and yellow as it is very sunny and happy.
You illustrations are so lovely! I love all of these color combinations, especially pink and yellow!
Sai Ivana che credo che queste siano tra le migliori illustrazioni che ti ho vist fare? Mi piace il mix di colori, il tratto, i dettagli! E tra gli abbinamenti di colori quello che vorrei proare e rosa e giallo.
I love that each season can inspire so much creativity in us. Beautiful illustrations!
thank you, I wish you a happy weekend too!
Yellow and pink is such a nice combo and I love that jump suit on you!
Amazing, i love the Illustrations with the long Dresses!
Oh my gosh, amazing. I wish you could just take these illustrations to a seamstress and make them come alive!
I agree, Fall is just so beautiful and one can't help being inspired by nature. Your illustrations are beautiful as always. I LOVE the black and gold gown. Such an elegant piece. I also like the blazer and jeans combo. Its all about the layering this season :) You look fab in the yellow jumpsuit. I do love yellow as well as red, and neutrals.
Vorrei saper disegnare come te!
Sei favolosa nella tuta gialla!!!
Very interesting ideas, I like the way you see and practice fashion because it is very important to see trends and fashion from our own original perspective.
Your illustrations a great darling, it would be great if you could get someone to make them for you!!!
Love the illustrations and the colour combinations!
You have a special talent, these are lovely!
I like your autumn-inspired illustrations and your "real worn" outfits very much. If you ask me, which of the illustration-dresses I would prefer to wear, I think it's the maxidress of your first drawing. I think this would be a wonderful festive dress for me :-)) And my favourite "real"outfit is the yellow jumpsuit with the pink cardigan - this is a great firework of colors!
don't worry, the start of the school year was busy for me too.
I adore both illustration as always, Ivan and I think my favourite combo would be gold and black!
How cute is this post,thanks for sharing.
C'è poco da fare le tinte autunnali sono davvero uniche!!! Tinalità ricche, preziose e calde!
si, sono le tinte molto belle. Grazie.
These illustrations are gorgeous and I like these combinations of colors and outfits but yellow and pink is my favorite! You look absolutely fabulous in that outfit, dear!
So many beautiful outfits, Ivana, both on paper and in real life. I love how you combine 3D elements with your paintings - it adds such depth. The black and gold (multi-coloured) outfit really resonates for me, the textures, the colour combination, so beautiful. Thanks for sharing these.
thank you Melanie. I'm glad to hear you like the multi-coloured outfit so much.
You are so amazing at art! I love these looks! That yellow jumpsuit is so gorge! You look amazing!
Ti auguro un'ottima settimana, cara Ivana!
thank you dear! Nice to hear from you again.
awesome job as usual my friend :D Loved it!!!
You are so right, dear Ivana, autumn really has the most beautiful colour palette. And you know not only to draw in amazing colour combination but also to wear them! As you know I'm a huge colour lover and therefore I adore what you show. Your illustrations turned out great and hopefully one day you will be really able to wear these amazing dress you hope finally to possess. I love also the outfits you created. Corresponding your question: in autumn I love the same colours as usual and opt especially for colours like burgundy, brown and during this season even grey and black :) Happy week!
I completely agree with you about Autumn and gorgeous color of nature. I think that it is season when nature looks most beautiful. I really like your ideas for color combinations and illustrations. Dresses looks amazing, you are so talented.
I love the colors that appear when autumn arrives, I see that this station has inspired you a lot, the illustrations are great, my favorite is the girl who wears the tartan stockings, your technique is getting better and better. Congratulations!
Tartan stockings would look so cool! Thank you.
Happy November! Love all of your drawings and looks!
Ivana! These illustrations are looking so professional! You have such a great skill when it comes to detail; the embroidery on both of the dresses feels as though it's lifting off the page :) Hope you have a fabulous weekend!
Hi Ivana! I really like your new fashion illustrations - each of them is special and I see that you inspired by autumnal shades. I love that illustration with your perfect dress - sheer dress with floral applications would look terrific and I hope that you'll find time to sew it, I'm sure that it would be magnificant and extraordinary <3 What's more, personally I also love autumn - in my opinion, there is no more beautiful and more colorful (with a little bit of nostalgia) season of the year.
You look beautiful Ivana! I love that yellow outfit! You do such an amazing job with illustrations!
Loved these fashion illustrations, you are so talented Ivana.
Wish you a great wekend!
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Wish you a lovely saturday!
all the photos here is very inspiring.
Love the illustrations, i really like autumn colours specially the red and oranges!
and your looks are lovely, the second one is my favourite!
So creative as usual! Fall is also one of my favorite seasons :) with the beginning of cold I adore to take a book and sit on my couch with a warm cup of coffee! I also think fall is the perfect season for indoor activities, like drawing and writing, thinks that may enjoy as much as I do.
Love the pictures with the fruits and your second look, so full of color and vibrant energies!
I couldn't agree more. It is a wonderful season indeed.
I love you artwork with a passion. It's always a pleasure to see your work. I am still enjoying your work on my office wall. So proud to have your art and friendship!
thank.you Jerry, I'm so glad you like my artwork.
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Brazil's best keeper of the gafieira tradition (popular ballrooms historically linked to the Carioca folklore tradition of highly artistic and swinging dancing and playing) and one of the best choro players ever, Paulo Moura is an internationally awarded musician whose high standards make it easy for him to cross boundaries between classical and popular music, both performing and arranging in small ensembles or large symphonic orchestras.
As a conductor, orchestrator, and arranger for famous Brazilian singers, he includes in his resum? works for Elis Regina, Fagner, Taiguara, Milton Nascimento, and Marisa Monte.
Moura was born in a musical family. His father, Pedro Moura, was an amateur bandleader and clarinetist himself, but was a carpenter by profession. Paulo's brothers, Jos? and Alberico, are trumpet players and Valdemar, a trombonist. At nine, Paulo started to study the piano and at 13, was already playing in his father's band at parties and balls. Moving to Rio with his family, at 18 he began his studies at the National College of Music. Completing the seven-year course in only two years, he continued his studies of theory, harmony, and counterpoint with the famous master Paulo Silva. He also studied harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with fundamental Brazilian composer/orchestrator/conductor Guerra Peixe. On the popular side, he took arrangement lessons with internationally acclaimed Brazilian saxophonist/composer/arranger Moacir Santos and with saxophonist/composer/arranger Maestro Cip?. In 1951, Moura joined Osvaldo Borba's orchestra. Later, he also joined Zacarias e Sua Orquestra. His first recording gig, the song "Palha?o" (Nelson Cavaquinho), was as sideman for the extremely popular singer Dalva de Oliveira. At 19, he debuted as a soloist, playing Weber's "Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra," accompanied by the Orquestra Sinf?nica Nacional. Hired by the Orquestra Ary Barroso, he toured Mexico in 1953. Soon after, he joined the group of great trombonist Maciel. Hired by R?dio Tupi, he played there with the Orquestra Cip?. In 1954, he joined the Conjunto Guio de Morais, which was a regular act at the famous R?gine's nightclub. His first album as soloist (a 78 rpm for Columbia) was recorded in 1956: Paganini's Moto Perpetuo. In 1957, he organized his first gafieira orchestra, performing with it at the gafieira Brasil Dan?as. In that same year, he recorded Paulo Moura e Sua Orquestra Para Bailes (Sinter). In 1958, Moura was hired by R?dio Nacional as an orchestrator and arranger, working there for two years. Also in 1958, he recorded the LP Paulo Moura Interpreta Radam?s Gnatalli (Continental), accompanied by the Radam?s Gnatalli Quartet, and became the musical director for Brazilian all-stars Dolores Dur?n, Nora Ney, Jorge Goulart, Maria Helena Raposo, and the Conjunto Farroupilha. Touring through Soviet Union and other countries, he conducted the Symphonic Orchestra of Moscow. In 1959, he was hired as first clarinetist for the Orquestra do Teatro Nacional, working for 17 years in that position. In 1960, he joined popular conductor Severino Ara?jo's orchestra, touring Argentina, and recorded for Chantecler the LP Tangos e Boleros. In 1962, he recorded with Brazilian viol?o master Baden Powell, performed at the historic jazz/bossa nova nightclubs of Rio's Beco das Garrafas and, as an altoist, he joined S?rgio Mendes' Conjunto Bossa-Rio, performing at the historic Carnegie Hall Bossa Nova Festival. In 1964, Moura accompanied as saxophonist the great drummer Edson Machado's LP for CBS, Edson Machado ? Samba Novo. In 1968, he recorded for Equipe the LP Paulo Moura Hepteto; the next year, Paulo Moura Quarteto; and in 1971, Fibra, also for Equipe. In that year, Moura toured Greece with his quartet. In 1975, he recorded in the U.S. with Brazilian guitarist Tiago de Melo. In the next year, he recorded his classic masterpiece Confus?o Urbana, Suburbana e Rural, which granted him an extremely popular two-month tour throughout Japan with full press coverage. In the '80s, he recorded his classic album Mistura e Manda (Kuarup) and with the Brazilian viol?o master Raphael Rabello, he recorded the album Dois Irm?os, which was bent toward the choro side while also including Raphael's flamenco-influenced guitar style and bossa nova themes. He also recorded several modern erudite albums with Brazilian classical pianist Clara Sverner. In 1981 came another classic LP, ConSert?o, an ecumenic production with internationally awarded classical pianist Artur Moreira Lima, Brazilian jazz guitarist Heraldo do Monte, and folksinger/composer Elomar. Following this, he formed a trio with internationally renowned classical violonista (acoustic guitar player) Tur?bio Santos and Artur Moreira Lima. As a soloist, he performed at New York's Lincoln Center, appeared at the Music Festival of Guadalupe in Mexico, and created the first saxophone orchestra. He also soloed concerts with the Orquestra Sinf?nica Brasileira and Orquestra Sinf?nica do Estado de S?o Paulo. In 1985, his choro trio performed at the Brazil Festival, at Juan-les-Pins (Antibes, France), and his gafieira orchestra opened the France-Brazil Cultural Interchange at the Zenith Theatre, in Paris, France. In 1988, Moura conducted the Orquestra Sinf?nica de Bras?lia, performing his own piece for percussion and orchestra commemorating the centennial of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. Since then, he has been guest conductor at a series of concerts in Porto Alegre, Salvador, and Espirito Santo. In 1992, he wrote the piece "Su?te Carioca" for jazz rhythm section, symphonic orchestra, and children's choir. Also in that year, he was awarded as Best Soloist at Moscow's Mozart Festival. In 1996, he arranged all of the music and performed the clarinet and saxes at the Os Batutas' show Pixinguinha at Teatro Carlos Gomes (Rio). An all-star choro group, Os Batutas takes his name from Pixinguinha's seminal group and is formed by Jorge Simas (viol?o), M?rcio (cavaquinho), Jorginho (pandeiro), Jovi (percussion), Mar?al (percussion), Z? da Velha (trombone), and Joel do Nascimento (bandolim). The show was recorded live and released the next year on the Velas CD Pixinguinha. It won Brazil's Pr?mio Sharp for Best Instrumental CD and Best Instrumental Group in 1997. The CD presents 16 tracks of classic choro music by one of Brazil's most important composers of all time, Alfredo da Rocha Viana J?nior, Pixinguinha. In 1996, he was also awarded with the Pr?mio Sharp as Best Popular Instrumentalist. Other awards received by him include Pr?mio Jos? Sarney, Villa-Lobos, Brahma Extra Prizes, and Honorary Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro.
Four years later, he was awarded a Grammy for Best Brazilian Roots/Regional Album for Pixinguinha at the first Latin Grammy Awards and the sizzling album Tempos Felizes was released in early 2001.
| 2019-04-19T13:38:51 |
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Choose the state where the bartending services will mostly be done. This can be the residence/headquarters of one or both of the Parties, or it can simply be where most of the work will be carried out.
________ desires to provide bartending services to ________ and ________ desires to obtain such services from ________.
2. Bartender will work a total of ________ hours on the day they provide bartending services.
II. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF BARTENDER.
3. ________ affirms that they know any and all relevant federal, state, and local laws concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages and shall follow the applicable laws.
4. ________ shall follow measures to ensure that only persons of legal drinking age are served alcoholic beverages. Guests who appear to be underage may be asked to provide I.D.
5. ________ shall exercise discretion in serving alcoholic beverages to guests. ________ reserves the right to refuse to serve alcoholic beverages to any guest if they believe that such guest is intoxicated and is acting in a manner that could be detrimental to either themself or other guests.
6. ________ will prepare all necessary cocktail items, garnishes, and additional stock items.
7. ________ will provide all necessary tools, such as wine keys, bottle openers, shakers, pourers, etc. necessary to complete the Services.
8. Location selection for providing bartending services and compliance with any and all relevant federal, state, and local permits, rules, and/or regulations, including but not limited to liquor licenses, are the sole responsibility of Client.
10. For rendering the Services outlined in this Agreement, the Client will pay to the Bartender compensation amounting to $________ (________) per hour.
11. Client will pay to Bartender a non-refundable retainer fee in the amount of $________ (________), due upon signature of this Agreement.
13. Any Services requested that exceed the contracted time period and which are granted by the Bartender will be charged at the rate of $________ per hour. It may not be possible to provide additional bartending time. Requests for extended bartending time will be accommodated only when feasible and at the discretion of the Bartender.
14. If any invoice is not paid when due, the Client will be charged a late fee of $________ (________).
15. In addition to any other right or remedy provided by law, if Client fails to pay for the Services when due, Bartender has the option to treat such failure to pay as a material breach of this Agreement, and may cancel this Agreement and/or seek any and all available legal remedies.
16. Cancellation of this Agreement by Client which is received in writing at least ________ prior to set start date will result in a refund of any monies paid minus the retainer fee. Cancellation of Services outlined by this Agreement less than ________ prior to the start date obligate Client to make full remaining payment of the total fees agreed upon.
17. Cancellation issued by Bartender shall result in all monies paid to the Bartender from the Client being full refunded INCLUDING any retainer fee paid.
18. Bartender and any of Bartender's employees, agents, or representatives will not at any time or in any manner, either directly or indirectly, use for the personal benefit of Bartender, or divulge, disclose, or communicate in any manner any information that is proprietary to Client. Bartender and their employees, agents, and representatives will protect such information and treat it as strictly confidential.
19. This provision shall continue to be effective after the termination of this Agreement.
20. Upon termination of this Agreement, Bartender will return to Client all records, notes, documentation, tools, and other items that were used, created, or controlled by Client during the term of this Agreement.
21. Bartender agrees to indemnify and hold harmless from all claims, losses, expenses, fees including attorney's fees, costs, and judgments that may be asserted against Bartender that result from the acts or omissions of Bartender and/or Bartender's employees, agents, or representatives.
22. Bartender shall provide their Services and meet obligations under this Agreement in a timely and workmanlike manner, using knowledge and recommendations for performing the Services which meet generally acceptable standards in Client's community and region, and will provider a standard of care equal to, or superior to, care used by similar bartenders on similar projects/work.
23. Bartender shall be familiar with all state, local, federal, and municipal regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines applicable to the serving of alcohol.
24. Bartender shall not consume or use illegal substances or alcoholic beverages while performing their duties.
c. The subjection of any of either Party's property to any levy, seizure, general assignment for the benefit of creditors, application or sale for or by any creditor or governmental agency.
d. The failure to make available or deliver the Services in the time and manner provided for in this Agreement.
26. In addition to any and all other rights a party may have available according to law, if a Party defaults by failing to substantially perform any provision, term, or condition of this Agreement (including without limitation the failure to make a monetary payment when due), the other Party may terminate the Agreement by providing written notice to the defaulting Party.
27. This notice shall describe with sufficient detail the nature of the default.
28. The Party receiving such notice shall have 7 days from the effective date of such notice to cure the default(s). Unless waived by a Party providing notice, the failure to cure the default(s) within such time period shall result in automatic termination of this Agreement.
29. If performance of this Agreement or any obligation under this Agreement is prevented, restricted, or interfered with by causes beyond either party's reasonable control ("Force Majeure"), and if the Party unable to carry out its obligations gives the other Party prompt written notice of such event, then the obligations of the Party invoking this provision shall be suspended to the extent necessary by such event.
30. The term Force Majeure shall include, without limitation, acts of God, fire, explosion, vandalism, storm or other similar occurrence, orders or acts of military or civil authority, or by national emergencies, insurrections, riots, or wars, strikes, lock-outs, or work stoppages.
31. The excused Party shall use reasonable efforts under the circumstances to avoid or remove such causes of non-performance and shall proceed to perform with reasonable dispatch whenever such causes are removed or ceased.
33. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the Parties, and there are no other promises or conditions in any other agreement, whether oral or written, concerning the subject matter of this Agreement.
34. This Agreement supersedes any prior written or oral agreements between the Parties.
35. If any provision of this Agreement will be held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining provisions will continue to be valid and enforceable.
36. If a court finds that any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, but that by limiting such provision it would become valid and enforceable, then such provision will be deemed to be written, construed, and enforced as so limited.
37. This Agreement may be modified or amended in writing, if the writing is signed by the Party obligated under the amendment.
38. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Alabama.
39. Any notice or communication required or permitted under this Agreement shall be sufficiently given if delivered in person or by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the address set forth in the opening paragraph of this Agreement or to such other address as one Party may have furnished to the other in writing.
XVII. WAIVER OF CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS.
40. The failure of either Party to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver or limitation of that Party's right to subsequently enforce and compel strict compliance with every provision of this Agreement.
| 2019-04-26T01:55:16 |
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I was greeted with a big management shake up when I returned to work on Tuesday (after eight--count 'em--eight weeks of jury duty). The federal government, where I work, has a formal hierarchy. In my department, as in most departments, there are two main types of positions: career and political. The career slots are the civil servants--the long-time, non-partisan (at least at work) staff. They remain constant from administration to administration. Federal departments are part of the executive branch and follow the president's agenda, however, all departments perform regularized functions and having a non-appointed civil service is vital for continuity. All civil servants are also covered by the Hatch Act (we're "Hatched"), which means our political bosses can't use us for campaign work. The politicals are appointed by the president (some more directly than others). They all need some kind of congressional approval but only the highest ranking ones actually get a big ceremony. The rest of them get approved in batches, sometimes at the behest of people lower down than the president.
In my department, the hierarchy goes like this: at the top is the Secretary. Then, the Deputy Secretary. Both politicals. After them are the Assistant Secretaries, all political, each in charge of a different office. Under the Assistant Secretaries are Deputy Assistant Secretaries (DAS's)--a mix of political and career slots. Under the DAS's are Division Directors (all career) and under them are people like me (again, all career). Some divisions have Deputy Directors and some don't. We did (but we don't anymore!).
The management shake-up in my office involved four supervisors, all career staff. My boss (Larry) was a Division Director and he moved to the DAS position (formerly held by Rob) directly above him. TR, who was my Deputy Division Director, moved to the Division Director slot Larry vacated. The old DAS (Rob) moved to a DAS slot in an office parallel to ours (but under the same Assistant Secretary). The DAS he displaced (Ned) became Larry's Assistant DAS. See what happened? Basically, the purpose of all the moving around was to move Ned out of his DAS slot. It wouldn't have been crazy to move TR straight to that slot, but it might have been politically unpalatable. Rob, my old DAS, has been here for over 30 years and no one can question putting him anywhere in our organization. However, he's always worked in this office so it's a little odd to move him elsewhere. Ned, the guy who was essentially demoted, was in a rather high-profile DAS slot. Unfortunately, he's a rather impolitic guy. He's smart, a great researcher and an asset to the Department, but probably never should have been in that job. I like Ned a lot and now he's in my office. We may get to work together more and that would be a good thing.
Here's the interesting part. When I talked to Larry when I first got back, I said, "But isn't Rob going to retire soon?"
Larry said, "Well, maybe not. But I wondered about that too. I thought it might make more sense for TR to take that spot."
"Sure, that would make sense. But if Rob's going to stay for a while, that makes sense too."
"Yes, but I mentioned it to [the Assistant Secretary] and she agreed that if Rob retires, TR would move over there."
My main worry on returning to work was having TR as my direct supervisor. I couldn't stand the idea of him trying to direct me, to "boss" me. That wouldn't do. However, my fears (at least so far) were unfounded.
One of the first things TR did was call a staff meeting. It's exactly what I would have done in his position. Larry hates meetings and would have staff meetings twice a year or less. When we did have them more often, usually right after bringing on a new person, we'd go around and have each person list their current projects. It could take a long time. I found it a little useful because we all work independently and I often have no clue what other people are doing. But it could make for a long, boring meeting.
At the meeting on Wednesday, TR explained that he wants to have staff meetings once a month and use them to discuss administrative issues and go over things he learned in a recent supervisor training course. We all agreed that was a good idea. We were joking about the sexual harassment module of the training, "So, now you know how to sexually harass people?" Ha ha. TR said, "Now I know who to call if someone reports it to me!" All the time TR was talking, I kept interrupting, making suggestions and generally harassing him--in the mild, friendly way I always do with TR. And one of my co-workers, said, "So, who do you call if you are being harassed by one of your employees?" It was funny and we all laughed but it gave me pause. Who has a problem here? Not TR. It's me. Well, I guess I knew that. But what I didn't understand was that the problem is showing sufficient respect for someone who is my buddy and who I like to harass. My problem may also be that I want to be the boss. Well, the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it, right? So, I think I can manage this just fine. No harassing TR in meetings in front of the rest of the staff. Even I can handle that!
It really does feel good to be back to work and I may even start to enjoy it around here. I'm relieved--I was so worried about having TR as boss--but I think everything is going to be fine.
| 2019-04-26T04:34:30 |
https://www.gratefuldating.net/2007/05/work_18.html
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Depending on where the fugitive was coming from, the journey to freedom could take as little as 24 hours (on a train from Richmond, Va., to Philadelphia, for instance). It could also take years (escaping on foot from the Deep South). But where did the fugitives end up?
Most people think of the Underground Railroad as running North to free states. That is true, but the majority of fugitives headed to Canada, where they would be safe from the Fugitive Slave Act. Extreme northern areas of the U.S. were also known for protecting runaways. In the Deep South, from which the journey north was that much more treacherous, slaves also escaped to Spanish-owned Mexico and Florida.
After days, weeks or even months of travel, the runaway might finally reach a safe settlement, typically of free blacks, friendly American Indians or a religious group (usually Quakers). There, he would often have to wait until someone secured safe passage for him on a northbound boat or train -- this is often where bribes came into play. Sometimes fugitives would settle in these first-stop communities, especially in free-black settlements. But more often they would continue to Canada.
More and more runaways wanted to leave the country after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. But the act also emboldened Northern abolitionists, who could now make the case that the South was imposing slavery on the North. This encouraged more whites to sympathize with escaped slaves, and some Northern cities -- Boston, Buffalo, N.Y., and Philadelphia, for instance -- became safe havens for runaways.
Once runaways made it to their destination, interracial groups known as vigilance committees would assist them in establishing a new life. They provided some level of protection and sometimes helped them find work and a home. Successful runaways would sometimes try to buy back enslaved family members, which was dangerous because it could potentially expose their whereabouts.
The operation of the Underground Railroad obviously required the work of many people. Who were they, and how did they work together in such a secretive network?
You can still travel the Underground Railroad today. The Adventure Cycling Association offers a 2,100-mile bike trek from Mobile, Ala., to Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, along one of the National Park Service's Underground Railroad routes [source: ACA].
| 2019-04-20T10:45:11 |
https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/underground-railroad3.htm
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How much is James Earl Jones Worth?
James Earl Jones Net Worth: James Earl Jones is an American actor who has a net worth of $45 million dollars. A veteran of stage and screen, James Earl Jones, he is most widely recognized for his voiceover work, including the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa in "The Lion King". He has also won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actor's Guild.
Born James Earl Jones on January 17, 1931, in Arkabutla, Mississippi, US, he has become known as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors in a career that spans over more than 50 years. Raised by his maternal grandparents since his father left him shortly after he was born, Jones had a troubled childhood and developed a stutter. It was in high-school that he get rid of the speech disorder and continued his education studying medicine at the University of Michigan. But in the course of his studies, he did realized that acting was his true calling. At first, he served as a stint in the military and US Army Ranger until he finally moved to New York to study in the American Theatre Wing. Ever since he made his Broadway debut in 1957, he hasn't stop to amaze both audiences and critics. In 1964, he finally made his film debut, playing young and trim Lt. Lothar Zogg, the B-52 bombardier in Dr. Strangelove. As for his first big role, came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson in "The Great White Hope", a turn that fetched him a Tony Award and Academy Award. Also known for his voice acting, he is best recognized as the voice as Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise among many other film, stage and television voice-over roles. One of the greatest actors in American history, James Earl Jones even received an Honorary Academy Award on November 12, 2011.
| 2019-04-24T07:51:09 |
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/james-earl-jones-net-worth/
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Beeston Cemetery, Wollaton Rd, Beeston, Notts.
Herbert Arthur Holloway was born in Rugby, Warwickshire in 18891, the older of two surviving sons of Arthur Robert & Eliza (née; Buffrey) Holloway. For a time following Arthur and Eliza's marriage in 1885, Arthur worked as a resident butler at Braunstone Hall, Leicestershire while Eliza and their children lived in the village. By 1901 they had moved to 18 Ellen Grove, Nottingham2, Arthur had found employment as a timekeeper and they were able to lead a more normal family life. By 1911, Arthur had found similar work at the newly opened telephone works in Beeston and the family had moved to live close-by at 90 Trafalgar Road3. Herbert, now 21 and his younger brother Frank were both working in the lace trade, Herbert as a twist hand and Frank as a draughtsman.
On 27 January 1912, at Beeston Parish Church, Herbert married Edith Hulme, the daughter of George and Annie Jane (née Colton) Hulme, who was then living at 6 Dagmar Grove, Beeston4. Their son, Frank Arthur Holloway, was born in Beeston on 25 March 1913. By the time of the war in 1914, they had set up home at 112 Derby Road, Draycott, Derbyshire and Herbert was working as a lace designer5.
After war was declared in August 1914, Herbert wasted little time in joining up, enlisting on 8th September 1914 with the Rifle Brigade and was posted to the 10th Battalion, in training at Winchester6. He clearly impressed as, within days he was promoted to Corporal and, remarkably, to Sergeant after just over a month's service. On 22nd July 1915, he was with the battalion when it joined the British Expeditionary Force in France and saw action as part of 59th Brigade of the 20th Division.
On 30 March 1916 he suffered a gun shot wound to his leg and was passed through the evacuation chain for treatment. The wound developed an abscess and, on 26 April 1916, he was repatriated to England for further treatment at 3rd Southern General Hospital in Oxford. This was followed by a period of about a month at the Convalescent Hospital at Woodcote Park, Epsom and he was declared fit for general service on 28 June 1916.
He returned to his battalion in France on 21 March 1917 and saw action during the horrors of Passchendaele and Cambrai. When 10th Battalion was disbanded in February 1918, he was transferred to 12th Battalion. On 20 June 1917, despite of - or perhaps because of - deteriorating health, he was promoted to Company Quartermaster Sergeant, a senior non-commissioned post in charge of the battalion's supplies but away from everyday front-line action. He continued in that role, in the field, until the end of May 1918 when, after a further deterioration in his heath, he was admitted to hospital. After repatriation and admission to 1st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis attributed to exposure to active service and, on 26 August 1918, was discharged as permanently unfit. Sanatorium treatment was recommended with the expectation that recovery would take place eventually.
Despite this expectation that he would recover, he died, apparently at home in Beeston - probably, at that point, his wife's parents' home at 6 Dammar Grove7. He was buried at Wollaton Road Cemetery, where his memorial is one of 46 in the cemetery, from all wars, which are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
CQMS Holloway was posthumously awarded the Victory Medal, the British War Medal and the 1915 Star8.
Edith lived for some time at 18 Central Avenue, Beeston but, by 1939, she had moved to 18 Central Avenue, Beeston, within easy reach of Herbert's brothers's family at 13 Dennis Avenue. She remained a widow up to her death at Nottingham City Hospital on 30 November 19509.
1His birth was registered in Q2/1889 in Rugby Registration District, Ref 6d 563. He was baptised at St Andrew, Rugby on 5 July 1889.
21901 Census - Piece 3168 Folio 57.
31911 Census - Piece 20429 RD429 SD3 ED4 Sched 66. Two other siblings had died as infants.
41911 Census - Piece 20432 RD429 SD3 ED7 Sched 205. Edith was then working as a lace pattern girl.
5Their address and his occupation in 1914 are recorded in his enlistment papers in the British Army WW1 Pension Records available on ancestry.com.
6Details of his enlistment and subsequent service are from his record in the British Army WW1 Pension Records available on ancestry.com.
7His death was recorded in Basford Registration District (of which Beeston was part), Q1/1919, Ref 7b 301. The Dagmar Grove address is a revised contact address recorded in his Service Record.
8These awards are recorded in the Medal Rolls available at ancestry.com.
9Detail of Edith's subsequent life are based in Electoral Rolls, the 1939 Registration and the Probate Calendar.
| 2019-04-20T16:47:26 |
http://beeston-notts.co.uk/ww1_holloway.shtml
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Induction and augmentation of labour are common procedures within obstetric practice with various indications for mother and child. When contractions are stimulated by intravenous oxytocin, registration of the frequency of contractions is important for determination of the right dosage of medication. Uterine contractions can be monitored through the abdominal wall of the mother by using a small device that is placed on the skin using a belt to hold it in position, where the device measures changes in the shape of the uterus (external tocodynamometry (ET)), or by positioning an intrauterine pressure catheter inside the uterus next to the baby (internal tocodynamometry (IT)). Use of IT is only possible after rupture of the membranes and is an easy, painless procedure done during vaginal examination by the midwife or doctor in charge. During induction or augmentation of labour with intravenous oxytocin, some clinicians choose to monitor contractions with an IT rather than with ET. An intrauterine pressure catheter measures the contractions more accurately and could result in a better dosage of the oxytocin. This could, therefore, reduce the risk of hyperstimulation, for example too frequent contractions, and subsequently reduce the risk for fetal distress. Moreover with the modern central monitoring systems and the accurate registration with the use of IT there is no need for the caregivers to be physical present in the labour room to assess the frequency of contractions. However, besides higher costs of IT, insertion of an intrauterine catheter in the uterus of the mother has rare but potentially hazardous risks for both mother and child, like placental and fetal vessel damage.
The aim of this review was to compare the effectiveness of IT compared with ET. We included three randomised controlled studies (1945 women). The methodological quality of the studies was considered to be moderate. When comparing internal registration of contractions with external registration of contractions during induced or augmented labour, there were no differences in any of the outcomes for mother or child: adverse neonatal outcomes, instrumental deliveries, caesarean section, use of analgesia or time to delivery. No increased risk for infection was reported when an intrauterine catheter was used in these studies.
There is insufficient evidence to recommend the use of one form of tocodynamometry over another for women where intravenous oxytocin is administered for induction or augmentation of labour.
This review found no differences between the two types of monitoring (internal or external tocodynamometry) for any of the maternal or neonatal outcomes. Given that this review is based on three studies (N = 1945 women) of moderate quality, there is insufficient evidence to recommend the use of one form of tocodynamometry over another for women where intravenous oxytocin was administered for induction or augmentation of labour.
Uterine contractions can be registered by external tocodynamometry (ET) or, after rupture of the membranes, by internal tocodynamometry (IT). Monitoring of the frequency of contractions is important especially when intravenous oxytocin is used as excessive uterine activity (hyperstimulation or tachysystole) can cause fetal distress. During induction of labour as well as during augmentation with intravenous oxytocin, some clinicians choose to monitor frequency and strength of contractions with IT rather than with ET as an intrauterine pressure catheter measures intrauterine activity more accurately than an extra-abdominal tocodynamometry device. However, insertion of an intrauterine catheter has higher costs and also potential risks for mother and child.
To assess the effectiveness of IT compared with using ET when intravenous oxytocin is used for induction or augmentation of labour.
We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register (31 March 2013) and PubMed (1966 to 6 April 2013).
We included all published randomised controlled trials with data from women in whom IT was compared with ET in induced or augmented labour with oxytocin. We excluded trials that employed quasi-randomised methods of treatment allocation. We found no unpublished or ongoing studies on this subject.
Two review authors independently assessed trial eligibility and risk of bias, and independently extracted data. Data were checked for accuracy. Where necessary, we contacted study authors for additional information.
Three studies involving a total of 1945 women were included. Overall, risk of bias across the three trials was mixed. No serious complications were reported in the trials and no neonatal or maternal deaths occurred. The neonatal outcome was not statistically different between groups: Apgar score less than seven at five minutes (RR 1.78, 95% CI 0.83 to 3.83; three studies, n = 1945); umbilical artery pH less than 7.15 (RR 1.31, 95% CI 0.95 to 1.79; one study, n = 1456); umbilical artery pH less than 7.16 (RR 1.23, 95% CI 0.39 to 3.92; one study, n = 239); admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (RR 0.34, 95% CI 0.07 to 1.67; two studies, n = 489); and more than 48 hours hospitalisation (RR 0.92, 95% CI 0.71 to 1.20; one study, n = 1456). The pooled risk for instrumental delivery (including caesarean section, ventouse and forceps extraction) was not statistically significantly different (RR 1.05, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.21; three studies, n = 1945). Hyperstimulation was reported in two studies (n = 489), but there was no statistically significant difference between groups (RR 1.21, 95% CI 0.78 to 1.88).
| 2019-04-19T19:17:46 |
https://www.cochrane.org/CD006947/PREG_internal-versus-external-registration-of-contractions-during-induced-or-augmented-labour
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Based on what? You carry on like this is fact, there is zero evidence to support your claim. Just because of his breeding none of what you claim is fact.
I'll place you in the same category as Weir. Probably only have a rough idea how good a horse is when they have finished racing.
Why do you think he is such a champion? Outside of your head he hasn't shown anything on the track to suggest he has the makings of a champion. No need to be so arrogant.
I think you've seen his breeding and have developed some romanticized idea of what this horse could be, rather than looking at what he is.
I reckon his aims are pretty clear cut.
He is the best horse Weir has ever trained and is ever likely to train.
It is not the horses fault he is being poorly placed.
Why does it matter if, as you infer, his ability on the track and his influence on future generations has been predestined, owing to his ancestors?
Fifty Stars is no doubt bred to be stayer. I take quite a bit of notice of breeding when doing the form for horses going up in distance. As such I have quite a bit of experience with breeding versus racing distance. While there is no doubt breeding is a guide to a horse's effective distance range, it is only a guide. I have seen plenty of horses bred to be stayers that are most effective at a mile, or even shorter.
Now that doesn't mean I think Fifty Stars is only a sprinter/miler. On breeding I think there is a big chance he will be as good, if not better, at 2000m, or even further. However we will not know until he is tried.
It is only in this dumb assery country that breeding is not a major barometer because the trainers are so piss poor.
As soon as any colt shows speed Waller tries making stallions out of colts rather than doing what is best for the colt.
Fact: The yearling market dictates optimum distance range required in Australia, therefore stallions at stud, by necessity, must meet certain criteria.
I would have thought the races at racetracks would dictate what the optimum distance range is required ?
The colt doesn't pay the bills.
Ok, Let's agree on that.
But let's also agree to stop blaming the breeders and the horses when the 2nd rate Poms and Japanese plunder our staying races.
It is not the breeders or horses fault. It is the TRAINERS fault. Nobody else's.
The owners are free of any 'blame'?
The owners are swayed by the trainers.
These massive syndicated horses, the owners have NO say.
There's only one owner for this horse.
And he is clearly one of those dingbat owner who leaves it to the trainer.
He is also an owner who is a racer of horses rather than a stallion searcher.
The horse is a 2400m horse being totally kissed up by a typical Australian trainer.
Maybe they feel he is a late developer djebel? Maybe the aim is get him out to a mile to 2000m this prep and a cups campaign in the spring?
You're wrong on 80% of these points.
Fifty Stars may well be a 2400m horse.
You could probably pick up the full brother cheap and train it yourself for a cups campaign.
Rumour has it, this horse (and the rest of the Weir trained Ryco horses) were picked up on the float yesterday afternoon. No word yet on who will take over the training.
Robert Hickmott has picked up Trap For Fools, he would be my choice for Fifty Stars if he is to stay in Australia.
djebel does not hate anybody.
djebel was hoping he went to a proper hands on trainer.
djebel is not a dressmaker despite talking in the 3rd person.
Will Matt Cumani use the Euro methods you like or train like an Aussie?
Speaking of Cumani and way off topic but Francesca has a new contract and you will not believe how much it works out to be per day. Nice work if you can get it. Much better than working 12 hours a day 7 days a week and getting up at 3am.
Just another digbat trainer in a dumbarsery stable.
Do you mean SOS Straight Arrow ?.....Son of Sugars.
| 2019-04-26T09:49:29 |
http://forum.thoroughbredvillage.com.au/fifty-stars-wow_topic62034_page7.html
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The House of Lords decision in the Jilbab case has elicited a lot of comment. One of the more interesting pieces was written by Fareena Alam at the Guardian's Commentisfree. I'd like to pick up on one paragraph in particular.
For years, Muslims around me have said: "Islam must be separated from culture." While this slogan has deep and well-meaning roots - such as the struggle to teach people that honour killing, often justified with religious excuses, is a cultural practice that is unequivocally abhorred in Islam - the clash between culture and religion is ultimately a false one. This idea of a "pure Islam, free of cultural baggage" is a false one. Religion manifests itself in the realities of life. Must we all neutralise ourselves - even the aspects that do not contravene Islam, to be accepted as "pious"? What is this "one Islam" or "one voice" people call for, and who decides what it says?
I think this cuts to the root of the major clashes within Islam, not only today but for a very long time. For the fundamentalists, modesty is something which has an external standard, judged by God and having only one true interpretation. Therefore any element of culture which gets in the way, is baggage which needs to be discarded in order to obtain 'pure Islam'.
On the other hand for the liberals or more commonly the pragmatists, modesty without its social setting is devoid of both meaning and guidance. Therefore to judge what is modest, one has to take the surroundings into account. After all, if everyone in society thinks that my dress and behaviour is modest, then that is all that should count in determining whether I am modest. Evidence for this can be seen in the fact that women can wear whatever they want in the company of other women. To extend this further, it is possible that people wearing different clothes in different parts of the world can both be fulfilling the requirement for modesty.
The second view of modesty reaches when one reaches the extremes. For example while most people would feel comfortable with an outsider wearing shalwar kameez when in Pakistan, wearing a Burqa in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan simply because others wear it seems less acceptable. In any case the fact that it is limited to extremes means that it affects relatively few people.
The biggest problem comes from the fact that the majority of the world's population do not live in small isolated communities. For Muslims this is most acutely felt when in living in non-Muslim countries.
An obvious solution is to stick with the lowest common denominator so that you make sure that you remain within certain bounds. Unfortunately this has two problems - firstly it may make integration unnecessarily difficult, but more importantly, if someone chooses to wear clothes which are slightly different but still modest, they can be made to feel as if they are lesser Muslims or not as pious by those who stick with traditional clothing.
Tariq Ramadan has proposed a middle ground to this debate by calling for scholars of the text, to engage in a consultative process with experts of the context, ordinary economists, civil servants, politicians etc. This approach definitely has its merits in integrating traditional knowledge with contemporary secular knowledge. However I'm not sure if it deals with something as personal a decision as what is and is not modest. To conclude, I would agree with Fareena Alam that while religion seeks to make us better humans, that should never mean that it neutralise us as individual human beings.
You have raised a good point. The idea of writing on it had recently come to my mind when I was writing on Karo Kari but could not because of some other subject being on my plate.
I am not a scholar but have habit of reading with concentration relevant material before commenting. Our people have started behaving like a pendulum. They go either to one extreme or the other while Qur’aan teaches us “Siratul Woosta” (median way). Islam is Islam and there is nothing like moderate Islam, enlightened Islam, true Islam or real Islam. These terms appear to have been coined by people to justify their point of view which may or may not be within the fold of Islam. Islam is what Qur’aan says and Hadith explains.
No where culture has been dubbed as bad. Only bad things are bad. Islam has not taught us to remain among other people and practice the faith and not to live a secluded life. Also, culture generally keeps changing with time. During my life time culture of Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi has changed to a great extent. The culture of Duesseldorf (Germay) that I witnessed during 1966-67 was not there when I visited during 1978. Then there are traditions, again, some good and some bad. Some people mix traditions with culture. So far as Karo Kari, Maani, Wunni and Swara are concerned, these appear to be more dictatorial tribal tradition than culture and have nothing to do with Islam.
Thanks for the interesting comments Ajmal. I agree that tags such as 'true' and 'englightened' Islam do not have a deeper meaning and are used by one group to try and maintain its superiority over others.
The point about culture changing is one I definitely agree with. The idea that one 'culture' exists for any community is an overly romantic notion which often leads to people yearning for a non-existent past.
Finally, while I agree that Karo Kari emerged from a tribal landscape, Muslims in the West often throw the baby out with the bathwater when dealing with the issue.
Just because there is one negative cultural thing doesn't mean that we shouldn't incorporate positive elements from our or our parent's culture. The new Amartya Sen post deals with this somewhat as well.
Finally I would agree with you about Islam not being about seclusion. Although Sufism emerged, as far as I know ascetism is not prescribed in any text.
Before dilating on the subject, I think that I should describe myself a little. Zakaria Ajmal is my son from whose blog I reached yours’.
I liked your way of writing and tend to agree with it. You are very right and I say that we must follow some good traditions of ours which we are abandoning while following the wild West. For example, (1) we used to respect and to feel it our duty to serve our parents (2) we used to respect our sisters (3) we used to respect all the women and old men (4) we used to take guidance from our parents and teachers (5) we used to live simple life (which we have lost) and so on.
Mr Ajmal, thank you again for your comments. I particularly agree with you on point number 1. The absence of care for the elderly is one of the biggest problems in the UK today.
Young people send their parents to old people's homes where they often do not get the necessary care and attention. Blame is then placed on the government, when their role in this regard should be limited to providing healthcare.
Finally I would just add that while preserving the good traditions it is also important to recognise bad traditions and leave those behind.
| 2019-04-18T14:50:04 |
http://reformistmuslim.blogspot.com/2006/03/cultural-baggage-religious-modesty.html
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If your carpeting has seen better days, and you'd like to replace it with flooring that's inexpensive and easier to keep clean, you need look no farther than your local laminate flooring outlet. Laminate requires about the same amount of subfloor preparation as hardwood, and like hardwood, it shouldn't be installed directly over carpeting -- despite myths to the contrary. Replace your worn-out stair runners with laminate material while you're at it.
Removing the actual carpeting is easier than removing the under padding, and you'll want to be thorough about the second job before installing laminate flooring. Remove the carpeting after removing the baseboards from the perimeter of each room. Pull the carpet off the tack strips, roll it up and take it away.
When removing tack strips, remember that the tacks are sharp -- never try to grab a strip with an ungloved hand. To remove the strips, pry each one with a flat-head screwdriver or pry bar and put it in a bucket. Go ahead and break the strips while you're removing them -- they are easier to handle when they're short.
The under padding is usually stapled to the floor, and it's much more difficult to remove than the carpeting. Resign yourself to several hours of work because you have to get it all, even the little bits stuck under staples. Pull as much as you can by hand, then use a flat-head screwdriver to pull out staples and free the material underneath. It's best to pry out all the staples, but to save time, you may want to pound those that aren't holding anything down with a hammer.
Even though a laminate floor isn't nailed down, you must level the subfloor to approximately the same tolerance as you would if you were laying hardwood. The floor must also be sealed for moisture, and it must be clean.
Step 1 Clean up after the carpet removal.
Vacuum thoroughly, then go over the floor and look for staples that are still sticking up, and either remove them or pound them down.
Step 2 Secure the subfloor.
Look for popping nails or screws, remove them and drive replacement screws about an inch from each one you remove. Fortify the fasteners, if necessary, with 2-inch wood screws, spacing them at 6-inch intervals.
Step 3 Level and fill the subfloor.
Use a straight 6-foot length of two-by-four lumber to check the level, pivoting it in a circle around the highest point on the floor and looking for low spots. Fill in any areas that are 3/16 inches below the level from which you're measuring, using floor level compound. While you're leveling the floor, fill in gaps between the plywood sheets with the leveling compound.
Step 4 Sand and clean again.
Go over the floor with a pad sander or -- if you have access to one -- an orbital flooring sander, using 120-grit sandpaper. Vacuum all the sanding dust when you're done, then inspect carefully for debris you may have missed. Anything you leave on the floor could cause bulges or gapping.
Step 5 Lay a moisture barrier.
Cover the subfloor with a 6-mil plastic moisture barrier and staple it down. In lieu of plastic, you can use resin paper or foam under padding -- available from your laminate dealer.
Laminate flooring boards typically snap together. Start along a wall and work your way to the other side of the room. You will need two special tools -- a tapping block and pull bar -- as well as a hammer, measuring tape, circular saw and jigsaw.
You can lay laminate flooring on wood stairs after you remove carpet, but you need to glue the flooring down with construction adhesive and screw it down to prevent it from slipping out from someone using the steps. Glue the same flooring to the risers. Although there are other possibilities, one of the easiest ways to trim the edges is to use corner molding; you can hide the gap between the riser and tread with quarter-round molding, although professionals usually cut precisely to avoid a gap in the first place.
| 2019-04-23T14:12:03 |
https://www.hunker.com/13402326/how-to-replace-carpet-with-laminate-flooring
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Q. What grade do I need to make on my final exam to get an A in the class?
I currently have an 87.94 and the final is worth 25% of my grade.
This then comes down to (F - a*b)/y = x.
where each pair is the weight of the assignment times the grade in the assignment. In this case, you figure out each pair and then add them together and subtract them from F to find what is remaining to get to F, and then divide the weight of the Final into this.
you have (80 - ((73*.15) + (87*.15) + (82*.15) + (95*.2)))/.35 = 70.57.
Using the same values, you would need a 99.14 to get an A (90) and anything over a 42 to get a C (70). By doing such a spread, you can get an idea of likelihood of one grade over another.
If you have unknown grades, you will need to make estimates. Haven't gotten your third test back yet? Maybe average the first two as a guess on your third, or try it at a couple of assumed values.
| 2019-04-24T07:01:41 |
http://libanswers.uah.edu/faq/100921
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How Easy Do You Find Social Conventions?
I always had problems with social conventions. The rules, that everybody seems to know instinctively and did not need much of instructions. Others always knew, how to react in most situations, when I was usually lost.
I was lucky to have parents, that would explain most of the social rules, as they realized, that I am going against them. They never assumed that I would know them by myself, and I am grateful for that.
But they were not be able to be there every single time.
I remember the time in the fourth grade, when somebody from the nearby school started to spread rumours about me. Not only did I not know, how to react, but I was surprised that my whole class practically turned against me, and believed the rumours.
I asked years later, why was that. They told me, that the students were not supposed to get that well with the teachers and so I was singled out. It was the first time somebody told me, that there is a difference between students and teachers. Apparently the people just know, to treat the two groups separately.
I continued to high school, and after a couple of months I was told, that apparently I have to learn the names of every classmates, even if I do not speak with some of them at all. I am not allowed to cry in the middle of the lesson (really, nobody gave a good explanation for that one). I have to stop with presentation, if the blood starts falling from my nose (like I can't speak with the handkerchief on my nose) and apparently not making small talk every break makes me a scary person.
No, I did not know how to make small talk back then, and I do not now. I mean, there are so many subject, that are not allowed in small talk, and the discouragement from debates, not to mention, apparently a person is not allowed to say he or she is bored. They are supposed to politely redirect the conversation or excuse themselves. Does anybody every mention, how to do that? No.
I think that was mostly the reason, why I had social anxiety for years. People are just so unpredictable and illogical, and they expect you to know their rules without saying them.
Through some trial and error, making hypothesis and doing experiments, I managed to get the basics down. I can not successfully play the 'normal' human. But they are not a lot more understandable to me, than they were back there.
| 2019-04-23T02:38:21 |
https://sarajaksa.eu/2013/06/how-easy-do-you-find-social-conventions/
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Sudanese prisoner being tried for terrorism, admits he trained al-Qaeda recruits in Afghanistan.
A Sudanese prisoner, held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, admitting he trained al-Qaeda recruits in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, defendant Noor Uthman Muhammed became the fourth detainee to take a plea deal at the special tribunals created to try terrorism suspects.
Noor, as he asked the court to call him, admitted he was a weapons instructor and logistics manager at the Khaldan paramilitary camp in Afghanistan.
Some of the September 11 hijackers and other al-Qaeda operatives are said to have trained at the camp.
Noor's plea agreement, which was not disclosed, sets a shorter cap on his sentence on the condition that he will co-operate in other prosecutions.
He could have faced life in prison if convicted at trial.
Noor is not classified as a "high value" prisoner but Navy Captain John Murphy, the tribunal's chief prosecutor, said Noor and the Khaldan camp were integral parts of the al-Qaeda pipeline.
"He is part of the apparatus of al-Qaeda and terrorism," Murphy told journalists after the plea hearing.
Captured in March 2002 in Pakistan, the original charge accused him of conspiring with al-Qaeda to attack and murder civilians.
The version he pleaded guilty to has removed that language and he admitted only to conspiring with al-Qaeda to provide material support for terrorism.
That includes providing safe houses, false identification, explosives and unidentified "lethal substances" to al-Qaeda and its associates.
Noor, who has been held at Guantanamo for more than eight years, is due to be sentenced by a panel of military officers.
He is the sixth inmate in Guantanamo Bay to be convicted and the third since President Barack Obama took office, a military spokeswoman said.
Meanwhile, a US appeals court on Tuesday, overturned the planned release of another Guantanamo Bay detainee who prosecutors said trained in an al-Qaeda camp weeks before the September 11 attacks, according to court documents.
Saeed Hatim, from Yemen, who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, claims he falsely confessed to having al-Qaeda links because he was tortured in US custody.
A lower court judge ordered his release in December 2009, but stayed the ruling, which kept him behind bars pending the appeal.
The three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals in Washington on Tuesday ruled that decisions issued in other Guantanamo cases have set new legal precedents. The panel said Hatim's case must be heard again in light of the new standards.
His case returns to the federal district court for new hearings.
Obama had vowed to shut down the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, but he faces resistance from Congress amid a fierce debate over the future of its high-profile foreign inmates.
| 2019-04-19T12:54:46 |
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/02/201121615615822303.html
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How do we learn how much food to put on our plates?
That's a question Jennie Fisher, associate professor of public health and researcher at Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education, has been picking away at for years.
Fisher's work is aimed at decoding the array of factors in the eating environment, from visual cues such as the size of a serving vessel to social influences around the kitchen table and practicalities such as the size of the serving spoon, that may influence decisions about how much food to put on your plate.
In Fisher's latest study, presented at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society earlier this month, 61 children ages 5 and 6 were allowed to help themselves to their own servings of pasta using either a teaspoon or a tablespoon. Sometimes they took their food from a container holding an age-appropriate amount of food; other times the amount of food in the serving vessel was doubled.
On average, kids took 60 percent more food when presented with the container holding more food. Fisher figures that when kids are given a container of food, they assume someone's decided that's the right amount of food for them to take.
But simply having more food available didn't consistently translate to eating more: Only those kids who actually took more ate more.
The size of the serving spoon didn't seem to matter much at all, though kids took larger, but not more numerous, spoonfuls when presented with the larger amount of food.
The study also found that children whose mothers fell into the category of "demanding yet responsive to the child" served themselves less food than those whose moms were either "indulgent" or "demanding and not very responsive," which Fisher says suggests that being warm but a bit demanding -- or authoritative, or structured -- may be a good thing when it comes to helping children establish healthy eating habits.
This study takes its place alongside earlier research showing that kids who are allowed to serve their own food take smaller portions than they would typically be served and ate 25 percent less, and that kids tend to eat more when the portions on their plates have been doubled, Fisher told me.
Fisher says more work needs to be done before she can make any solid recommendations to parents for steering kids toward choosing appropriate serving sizes. "I don't know that we're at the point that gives parents a firm idea about how to proceed," she says.
But her research does at least arm us with heightened awareness. As Fisher says, it draws attention to "how simple things in the food environment that we might not think about might influence eating."
How do you make choices about how much food to plunk on your plate? Does a bigger plate spell bigger portions? Do you serve onto plates in the kitchen or put everything on the table for your family to serve themselves? And are you conscious of helping your kids figure out how much food is the right amount for them to take and to eat?
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Next: 'Stayin' Alive'? What Are My Other Choices?
| 2019-04-21T23:13:16 |
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2008/10/learning_how_much_to_eat.html
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Early disclosure to the Working Group of patent information that might be relevant to the standard is essential to reduce the possibility for delays in the development process and increase the likelihood that the draft publication will be approved for publication. Please notify the Chair <ee.orgmarks@ie:otl.b.riam> as early as possible, in written or electronic form, of any patents (granted or under application) that may cover technology that is under consideration by or has been approved by IEEE 802.16. The Chair will disclose this notification via the IEEE 802.16 web site <ee8e/:i/gr1/20o.httpsecitpar/ip6/nos/ntte>.
6. MAC Sublayer - Common Part Change the first paragraph of this clause to the following: A network that utilizes a shared medium must provide an efficient sharing mechanism. Two-way point-to-multipoint and mesh topology wireless networks are good examples of shared media: here the media are the space through which the radio waves propagate. Insert clause heading at the end of the first paragraph of this clause.
6.2 Mesh In the optional mesh mode, the main difference as compared to the PMP mode described above, is that the channel resources (e.g. the ability to transmit) is shared between the systems on demand basis. Depending on the transmission protocol algorithm used, this can be done on basis of equality using distributed schedul-ing, or on the basis of superiority of the systems closer to the mesh BS, which effectively results in central-ized scheduling, or on a combination of both. Within a mesh network, a system that has a direct connection to backhaul services outside the mesh network, is termed a mesh BS. All the other systems of a mesh network are termed mesh SS. In general, the systems of a mesh network are termed nodes. Within mesh context, upstream and downstream are defined as traffic in the direction of the mesh BS and traffic away from the mesh BS respectively. The other three important terms of mesh systems are neighbor, neighborhood and extended neighborhood. The stations with which a node has direct links are called neighbors. Neighbors of a node shall form a neigh-borhood. A node’s neighbors are considered to be “one hop away from the node. An extended neighbor-hood contains, additionally, all the neighbors of the neighborhood. In a mesh system not even the mesh BS can transmit without having to coordinate with other nodes. With distributed scheduling all the nodes including the mesh BS shall coordinate their transmissions in their two-hop neighborhood. All the nodes broadcast their schedules (available resources, requests and grants) to all their neighbors. Optionally the schedule may also be established by directed requests and grants between two nodes. There is no difference in the mechanism used in determining the schedule for downstream and upstream. Nodes shall just ensure that the resulting transmissions do not cause collisions with the data and control traffic scheduled. In the other mode of operation with centralized scheduling resources are granted in a more centralized man-ner. The mesh BS shall gather resource requests from all the mesh SSs within a certain hop range. It shall determine amount of granted resources for each link in the network both in downstream and upstream, and communicates these grants to all the mesh SSs within the hop range. The grant messages do not contain the actual schedule but each node shall compute it by using the predetermined algorithm with given parameters.
The mesh MAC is connectionless. All the communications are in the context of a link, which is established between two nodes. One link shall be used for all the data transmissions between the two nodes. QoS is pro-visioned over links on message by message basis. No service or QoS parameters are associated to a link but each unicast message has service paramters in the header. Traffic classiffication and flow regulation are per-formed at ingress node by upper-layer classification/regulation protocol. The service parameters associated to each message shall be communicated together with the message content via the MAC SAP.
Mesh systems typically use omnidirectional or 360 degree steerable antennae, but can also be co-located using sector antennas. At the edge of the coverage area of the mesh network, where forwarding to systems more hops away from the mesh BS is no longer required, even highly directional antennae can be used.
| 2019-04-23T12:32:00 |
https://www.youscribe.com/catalogue/documents/ressources-professionnelles/informatique/comment-contribution-531509
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You cant reference variables dynamically in java.
Using maps or similar will work though.
Solved the issue - Topic can be closed.
it would be best if you would take the step over AHKs expression syntax before translating to java.
How can I write this in Java?
In AHK I can easily change the value of cell this way.
As far as I can see its syntax. But the offcial documentation tells you that the mode is buggy. And while Java is the language used it doesn't use the Android API.
The sharedPreferences API is from Android only.
It is Android, but since it uses Java, I thought it's a Java related question.
Yes, I forgot to change it to MODE_PRIVATE, but this doesn't affect the main problem.
I think the problem is that Android/Java sees prefs+mode as two variables.
Probably it's only a small syntax issue?
Using that code should work unless Android (this is an Android question not a java question) doesn't work expected.
I would like to replace all "As" and "Bs" by mode.
Regarding ("MY_SHARED_PREF_"+mode, MODE_MULTI_PROCESS) there is no error message in the editor.
But it doesn't like prefs+mode.
In AHK I would use %mode% for both cases.
In Java, you would concatenate the strings with +: "text and " + variables. AutoHotkey's concatenation operator is . (surrounded by spaces) as shown in nnnik's post, or two consecutive values with no operator but at least one space ("text and " variables).
In Java, you would concatenate the strings with [c]+[/c]: [c]"text and " + variables[/c]. AutoHotkey's concatenation operator is [c].[/c] (surrounded by spaces) as shown in nnnik's post, or two consecutive values with no operator but at least one space ([c]"text and " variables[/c]).
AHK's %variable% = Java's “ . variable . “.
Command's normal text = Expression's "normal text"
AHK's [c]%variable%[/c] = Java's [c]“ . variable . “[/c].
That guy is not right.
Java doesnt have FileAppend or command syntax.
In Java the file name is a string type.
As you surely know, in AHK we can use values of variables by using %%.
Is something like this also possible in Java?
I know there's no FileAppend in Java, I just wanted to use the exact same script to show the difference.
If it's not possible to use %%, then you will have a lot of more code lines.
| 2019-04-22T15:09:41 |
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/posting.php?mode=quote&f=23&p=238202
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1 Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas mark 4 and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper cases. Beat the butter and sugar for a few minutes until creamy.
2 Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until blended.
3 Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Gradually beat into the flour mixture, alternating with the milk. Beat in the vanilla extract.
4 Spoon the batter into the cups, filling two-thirds full. Bake for 12-15 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool completely.
5 Insert the end of a wooden spoon into the centre of each cupcake to make a hole. Add 100g of the jam to a plastic bag and snip off one of the bottom corners. Push the jam into that corner, then squeeze it into the cupcake holes.
6 Beat the icing ingredients for 3-4 minutes until creamy and fluffy. Beat in the rest of the jam until incorporated. Top each cupcake with the icing.
| 2019-04-22T16:30:28 |
https://www.connachtgold.ie/recipes/blackcurrant-jam-cupcakes/
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What’s the amount of trash you produce every day in school? And at home? Can you say?
Which wastes can you reuse?
Do you recycle everything we can? Which wastes you don’t recycle?
How can we recycle used cooking oil?
Schools and media appeal for separate, recycling and reusing wastes. In real live a big part of our students’ families don’t recycle. Used cooking oils are thrown everywhere including in waste water systems with frightened consequences to environment and public health.
solving problems involving proportional thinking.
Pollution. Measures to prevent pollution.
Students will have to collect school/domestic trash during one week.
Each group recollects and measures each kind of trash in each day and shares this with the class.
The students put their measurements in tables and graphics in order to analyse (for example, in excel).
In small groups students read, analyse and discuss the text on the worksheet (p.6) about used cooking oils and environmental consequences. Then they share conclusions in big group.
Small groups analyse the text “How to make soap reusing cooking oil?” on the worksheet and decide quantities of each material to use in proportion to the used cooking oil collected.
Discussion in class group to choose the best activity to produce soaps from cooking oils.
Groups should be organized considering students’ abilities, math and manual skills..
What kind of domestics waste do we produce?
How much waste do you think we produce at home? And in our school?
How can we know the real quantities of those wastes?
What’s the best way to analyse the quantities of waste collected?
What does the total mass of waste produced in your school this week means to you?
How can we determinate the average amount of waste per person?
If you wanted to know the amount of waste from your school community, in a year, how should you proceed? What can you conclude from the number you got?
In one year what amount of used oil is produced on average at your school per person?
What is the main subject in the text?
What kind of consequences does oils not collected and recovered make to the environment and public health?
How can we recover the used cooking oils?
In you school’s canteen what’s the destiny of the rest of the used oils? And in your home?
Is there any collecting system of used cooking oils in our country? In your town? In your school or restaurants?
How to make soap reusing cooking oil?
How many cooking oil did we recollected?
How many of other materials do we need? How can we know the right quantities?
The questions will depend on the laboratorial activity and the student’s difficulties allowing them to do the laboratorial activity with security.
You can talk to school officials (specially cooks and cleaning) to explain the plan and to get their help with the collecting of materials.
You can have an awareness raising meeting with the families about the problematic of wastes and the impact on the economy of the family and on the environment. Or you can write a letter explaining the idea.
You can invite the chemistry teacher to explain security rules in the lab.
You can invite older students to participate in the laboratory activity of making soaps.
You can ask the local recycling centre to be your partner on this project by giving some materials for example oil.
You can organize the students on shifts to collect waste in the beginning of the classes and measurement.
If it’s hard to do the measurements every days you can do estimative with the students.
You can prepare motivational badges to give as a reward to students that do the collecting of waste.
| 2019-04-21T18:30:00 |
https://www.stem4math.eu/reuse-cooking-oils
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A few years ago at our Thursday morning minyan in Sydney, I had the responsibility of chanting from the Torah, and while I chanted, I suddenly burst out laughing. Regaining my composure, my senior colleague, Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, turned to me, and with a sly look in his eye said, "What's so funny about that passage?"
If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town and at the public place of his community. They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Thereupon the men of his town shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Rabbi Kamins did have a point. What's so funny about that passage? We're laughing when we should be utterly horrified. My children are not yet teenagers, and no offense to teenagers intended, but teenagers can become surly and obnoxious from time to time. But suggesting that a child of any age, or a person, whose life is supposed to be sacred, should be brought out into the town square and stoned to death for disobedience is nothing short of an abomination, and certainly nothing for us to laugh at. And the fact that these words are right here in our Torah portion, our people's most sacred text, should raise some eyebrows.
Can you imagine? Someone of another faith attends a Bar Mitzvah, or a Jew is visiting a new congregation for the first time, and after the service, their friends ask them, "How was the service? What did the rabbi talk about?"
"Oh, um, I think it had something to do with stoning disobedient children."
"Stoning disobedient children? What kind of religious community would do such a thing?" the friend wonders.
"That's why I don't believe in organized religion," says another friend. "I can't believe the kind of stuff those 'religious leaders' pour down people's throats!"
But yes, there it is, just a few verses into this week's Torah portion, Ki Teitzei. So the question remains. It is in the Torah, it is a part of our people's tradition, so what do we do with it? How do we wrestle with it, if at all? Where do we draw the fine line between the religion that we practice and profess, and the religion that we cast aside?
Can you imagine a father saying, “We must take our child for judgment before the residents,” and the mother not responding, “You’re a little harsh with him. He’ll grow out of it?” Or if a mother were to say, “Enough is enough! It is time our child was punished by stoning” would not the father reply, “You’re overreacting. It is youthful boisterousness?” Indeed some teenagers predicate much of their lives on the fact that a mother and a father rarely agree how to deal with their children – there is always one good cop and one bad cop!
In other words, given the extended criteria, there is no chance that this punishment was ever carried out.
But what kind of culture creates a law like this one anyone? What does this law say about ancient Israelite culture in general? And why couldn't the rabbis just eliminate this law from the pages of Jewish tradition?
For the ancient rabbis, the text of Torah was sacred, as they believed that God had entrusted these texts in their care. While the modern mind reads a text like this and goes the other way, the ancient Jewish approach was to be critical, and to use a healthy amount of mental creativity, to preserve the ancient words, while yielding a clever interpretation that advanced a gentler, kinder, more thoughtful and compassionate cause within Jewish tradition.
In essence, we might say that the rabbis, through their processes, rewrote the text because they were as horrified as we are. Or, if one subscribes to an Orthodox perspective, one reads the Torah and one reads the rabbis to understand how Torah ought to be interpreted. No text stands on its own without commentary, criticism, or without inviting question and thought-provoking discussion. Last night, a congregant who needed to say Kaddish asked me to help him find a local minyan. We caught the end of a lesson on this week's parashah, where an Orthodox rabbi explained to a group of twenty people in attendance, "The rabbis knew that even though this text came from God, this passage could not be taken literally."
God doesn't tell us to go and stone children to death. God presents us instead with the gift of interpretation, and the gift of critical thinking. God challenges us to use our minds and our hearts to figure out how to create a more just and more compassionate society, to figure out a better way forward for ourselves, and for others.
Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin Chapter 8, Folio 71.
Rabbi Danny Rich, in writing for Limmud.
Rabbi Donniel Hartman, Putting God Second, p. 41.
| 2019-04-20T10:21:45 |
http://www.rabbipauljacobson.com/articlessermons/the-danger-of-literalism
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Is the nerve predominately myelinated or unmyelinated? How can you tell? Luxol fast blue is a dye that stains myelin sheath blue. Therefore, the nerves in image I and J are are predominately myelinated (blue) and only show small areas of demyelination (purple). Whereas, images K and L show extensive demyelinated areas (purple). Furthermore, in the demyelinating nerves where the myelin sheath is broken, lesions can be seen.
Is it myelinated by oligodendrocytes or Schwann cells? It is myelinated with oligodendrocytes because the optic nerve is part of the CNS. Furthermore, the images show the oligodendrocytes forming a myelin for several adjacent axons. Whereas, a Schwann cell would only be able to wrap around one axon, which is not seen in the images.
iii) Can you answer ii based on the data shown in this figure? If yes, explain. If no, describe a procedure you could use to determine this using light microscopy (hint: think IHC). No, LM and IHC staining could be used to view the oligodendrocytes IHC would label specific structure and components of the cross-section. Oligodendrocytes immunization could be identified when CD3-positive t-cells infiltrate the nerve parenchyma. From a LM we could see the densely arranged CD3 positive cells stained dark brown. An immunohistochemical marker can be used to view oligodendrocytes. Therefore, LM and IHC could be combined to create a single image.
iv) What is the approximate diameter of the optic nerve? 550 ?m, according to the 0.7cm scale on image L.
Q2: Is the optic nerve vulnerable to damage in peripheral myelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome? Why or why not? (2 marks) No the option nerve is not vulnerable to damage in peripheral myelinating diseases because it is located in the CNS. Guillain-Barre syndrome is only common in the PNS, where myelin sheath damage prevents the nerve from conducting electrical impulses normally.
Q3: Which (if any) ultrastructural feature(s) in these images indicate(s) whether the myelin is oligo-derived versus Schwann cell derived? (1 marks) The multiple layers oligodendrocytes wrapping around the axons forms the mylein sheath for many adjacent axons. Whereas, a Schwann cell would only be able to wrap around one axon, which is not seen in the images.
In the CNS the oligo cell interact with the axon and wrap around it in multiple layers of overlapping membrane (axonal condensation). Splitting of myelin sheaths could create a small package of cytoplasm adjacent to the axon (but separated by thin myelin sheath). This dense cytoplasm package contains axonal vacuoles. As the oligo wraps around the axon it provides electrical insulation to increase axonal conduction velocity. Furthermore, there is a loss of myelin compaction when the oligo wraps around the axon and major dense lines form. An axon degeneration can occur from a disease or injury, which leads to myelin sheath break down. The length of the nodes of Ranvier could vary in different class of axons. The length of nodes of ranvier could decrease to maximize conduction velocity of the axonal signal.
Q5: Describe the appearance of neurons and glia shown in each panel of the above Figure, and how this appearance was produced (i.e., via what techniques).
Panel A (IHC Staining): Oligodendrocyte (Glia) cells can be viewed as dense brown circles scattered across the field and the neurons are stained a light blue and also scattered across the field.
Panel B (CNPase staining): Less dense oligodendrocytes (brown and small circles) are scattered across the field. The neurons are stained a light blue and are also scattered across the field.
Panel C (H and E staining): Pyknotic neurons and glia are stained more blue (basophilic structures that bind to acidic/negatively charged structures) and the healthy neurones are stained more pink, with less blue dye (acidophilic or eosinophilic structures that bind to basic/positive charged structures). Both are scattered across the field.
Panel D (IHC staining): Oligodendrocyte (Glia) cells are dense brown aspects of the image, which are scattered across the field in and the neurons are stained a light blue. The glia are located near the neurons.
Panel E (IHC staining): Oligodendrocyte (Glia) cells are dense brown aspects of the image, which are scattered across the field in and the neurons are stained a light blue. The glia are located near the T-cell.
Pkynosis is when a cell has a degenerative condition and the nucleus of a cell shrinks. This can be evident in staining. The healthy neurons stain more pink (acidophilic or eosinophilic structures that bind to basic/positive charged structures) and less blue. Whereas as the Pyknotic neurons stain more blue (basophilic structures that bind to acidic/negatively charged structures) because pkynosis is occurring.
| 2019-04-21T07:11:44 |
https://kalamatapremiumoliveoil.com/escribe-the-optic-nerve/
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How can various customer requests and ideas be gathered and tied to our products?
At TRIENS we divide the process into three steps so as not to leave out each idea and thought, and have every employee working towards the completed product.
each idea and thought, and have every employee working towards the completed product.
| 2019-04-25T22:12:15 |
http://triens.us/making/m_03.html
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I'll Take a Community With That Book, Please!
With today's search empowered readers, do we need to market and publish books differently? Does general publishing makes sense in an age of Google searches, micro communities and niche marketing?
Today's readers are tech savvy and resourceful. They know how to get the information they need and have higher expectations from publishers and authors. They don't just expect a book, they expect a community with their book.
I often hear publishers say that there are "very few brands in book publishing." But to thrive in today's competitive, niche markets, perhaps brands are exactly what we need. What readers choose to read is personal and an extension of who they are. Shouldn't their book choices be supported by a publisher, a brand that is invested in their interests?
Many small publishing companies have done an enviable job of branding themselves and building reader communities around their books. Take O'Reilly, TOR and Hay House. You may not read their books, but you know what they publish. Their communities trust them. People who share their point-of-view flock to their lists. These companies publish for a niche community, and are trusted members of their community. They provide extra resources, and often their authors are members of the community itself. TOR has even launched a bookstore to meet their readers' needs. These publishers show passion for their books and an understanding of their readers, and as such their readers reward them with loyalty.
Besides reader loyalty, publishing for micro communities may have other long-term benefits as well. For example, the focus would help publishers save money on marketing. Marketing through online communities is less expensive and much more powerful than trying to reach the general public and hoping to find the right match. The publisher's website wouldn't have to cater to a wide variety of people, it would be designed to serve the needs of a small group. Instead of expensive advertising, they could announce the book to the community that has already bought into their brand.
Publishers and authors could enlist the support of the community to spread the word (which will always be the most efficient method for marketing books.) The logo on the book’s spine would mean the readers have a promise that the book is worth reading. The readers would know that the publisher looked at over a thousand manuscripts all on the same topic and is offering them the very best.
So are large general publishers at a disadvantage with today's search-empowered, community oriented readers? I think so. General trade publishing is for everyone, yet there is no "everyone" out there. Readers are part of micro communities. They want good books, and they need publishers who will support their interests and passions.
The bottom line is that publishers and authors need to evolve their marketing and publishing strategies to accommodate a new kind of reader. A reader whose expectations demand more interaction and community. A reader whose loyalty you can have once you have earned it. A reader who wants more than a 6 week marketing campaign so you can sell a book to them. This new reader requires an investment of months and years.
Is that too much to expect? Perhaps. But this is your new reader, and she will stay with you if you stay with her.
Fauzia Burke is the Founder and President of FSB Associates, a Web publicity firm specializing in creating online awareness for books and authors. For more information, please visit www.FSBAssociates.com.
| 2019-04-20T14:45:48 |
https://writersservice.com/magazine/fauzia-burke
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Any of you here this evening could have been a Bobby Sands. People are not born heroes: the hunger strikers were ordinary men who, in extraordinary situations, brought the struggle to a moral platform which became a battle between naked men and the entire might of the British state.
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD spoke of the sacrifice of the H Block men who, at enormous human cost had beaten Margaret Thatcher's criminalisation policy. He paid tribute to that small handfull of TDs who had come out in support of their fellow deputy, Kieran Doherty, as he approached death. Ó Caoláin was Kieran Doherty's director of elections.
The intransigence of Thatcher, who let these men die is mirrored today in those very same elements still existing within some sections of the British Establishment which hold up the development of the peace process, he said.
Seamus Healy recently elected TD in a by-election in South Tipperary, a republican, he said, from the Connolly tradition, pointed out that the hunger strike had ``moved every person who believed in fairness and justice'' to support the hunger strikers. He recalled the tremendous support the H-Block struggle had among trade unionists, evidenced in marches, work stoppages and motions of support, in every part of the country.
Ella O'Dywer talked of how the political culture of revisionism had ostracised, suppressed and even tried to ignore the momentous events of the hunger strike.
``The hunger strikers were, and are, icons of selflessness in a squalid world of political corruption,'' she said. She spoke of how the hunger strike had punctured the politics of revisionism and politicised a generation of young people - her own generation.
That evening, several hundred people lined either side of O'Connell Street opposite the GPO, with black flags, in a candlelit vigil to mark the start of the hunger strike. As they stood in silence, people remembered the days when hundreds assembled outside of the GPO, night after night, to hear the terrible announcement of the deaths of each of the hunger strikers.
Many people had then stood, in front of the GPO, carrying the poster of the day, ``Mrs Thatcher wanted for Murder''. They were days of inexpressible tragedy, when every face wore a glaze covering peoples' feelings of powerlessness and frustrated anger, that what claimed to be a government of the Republic had let yet another brave young man die. They were hard times, which people, many of them very young, commemorated last Thursday evening outside the GPO.
Then to the Irish Film Centre, where the Dublin 1981 Committee had organised a showing of Sonia Gillespie's documentary, ``I gCillín an Bháis'', with a discussion, led by Brian Campbell, on how the history of revolution can be written and recorded.
The documentary told the history, in the words of people who made it, people like McKeown himself, Jackie McMullan, Leo Green.
Unfortunately the snow prevented Sonia Gillespie being a part of the discussion which Brian Campbell and Mícheál McDonnacha, both ex-editors of this newspaper, led, raising questions of how art, and in particular film, records history.
As Laurence McKeown stepped up to the podium on Friday evening, hundreds of people, many of them young people who were not even born at the time of the hunger strike, rose spontaneously to acclaim the hunger strikers. The meeting filled one huge auditorium, then another, and even still there were people who could not get in. The 1981 Committee, which organised the event, estimated that there were well in excess of 1,000 who came, from all over the country, to attend this historic events.
Laurence McKeown: Margaret McAuley, a sister of Mickey Devine, the last man to die on the hunger strike; Damien Kiberd, editor of the Sunday Business Post; Patricia McKenna, Green Party MEP; and Gerry Adams spoke. The meeting was chaired by Ita Ní Cionnaith.
``It was a total shock. He told me not to tell a soul. On the visits we would sit, hold hands, talk. `How are you?' always, always he kept asking me. We brought his two children up on a visit. He took them on his knee and told them how much he loved them. As we left, I looked back. Tears ran down his face. I'll, never forget.
Gerry Adams then spoke. ``War,'' he said ``is very different to a hunger strike. With war you can plan it and execute it. On hunger strike you are on your own, you can't be ordered or instructed.
``It is important to know where we have come from, if we are to know where we are going. After partition, nationalist people were abandoned. In the late `60s, the period of the Civil Rights marches, the state could not absorb their demands. It led, in 1972-'73, to a popular uprising. The government fell. There was an Intifada on the streets, which the state set about to crush, through their pacification programme.
``One leg of this strategy was to criminalise the struggle, to make the struggle out to be a criminal conspiracy, and the government here colluded in that lie. Ending political status was part of that lie.
``Bobby Sands was ruthless in the way he constructed the hunger strike. He was prepared to die. He knew that he would and that he could. But he didn't want to die.
``Any of you here this evening could have been a Bobby Sands. People are not born heroes: the hunger strikers were ordinary men who, in extraordinary situations, brought the struggle to a moral platform which became a battle between naked men and the entire might of the British state.
``How can you understand it? You can't. Except the immediate outcome, which was that the British policy of criminalisation was smashed, not because the British accepted it, but because the people here knew they weren't criminals.
Ita Ní Cionnaith, in introducing Damien Kiberd, recalled how RTE had refused to interview Owen Carron or any one of those involved in the victorious campaign for Bobby Sands' election, but instead interviewed Ken McGuinness, the defeated candidate, a practice that became a habit in the following years.
Damien Kiberd took people back to the years of censorship and the huge damage that was done by Section 31. He recalled the days when the press was clamouring to talk to Bobby Sands on his election, and how no one had been permitted access.
He took us back to the years following the hunger strike, the years of the Anglo Irish Agreement, when ``Mrs Thatcher was sowing the seeds of the compromise that she and her ministers would have to make. He spoke of the enormous expenditure of funds, some �18 million, to employ 60 people in the British Embassy in Washington to promote British government propaganda.
But was it just censorship, and self-censorship, which meant that RTE ignored the hunger strike right up to Bobby Sand's election. Was it a lack of courage in the media or a deep-seated animosity to what the hungers strike was about? He asked. Their animosity, he said, meant that the government and media consistently underestimated the strength of support for the hunger strikers, and the anger of the people.
Patricia McKenna spoke briefly to end a meeting that had long run out of time. In a few sentences she spoke of the terrible disservice that censorship had done to politics in this country, but that despite the efforts of the British and Dublin government to prevent it, the name of Bobby Sands has gone around the world as an example of those who gave up their lives to change things.
The Dublin 1981 Committee's benefit gig in the Cobblestone Pub in Smithfield proved to be a great success, with a good mix of young and old republicans remembering 1981 while enjoying the music of artists ranging from up-and-coming star Damian Dempsey to legendary Dubliner Barney McKenna. The evening began with a series of reels played by Noirin Leach agus a Cairde. Johnny Collins delivered an emotional rendition of originally composed poetry and song. Then came the highlight of the night, when to the delight of the crowd Barney McKenna came out of retirement and, accompanied by Tony McMahon, played a moving set. They rounded off the evening by playing a lament, originally written after the death of Eoghan Roe O'Neill, in honour of Bobby Sands.
Dublin's weekend commemorating the beginning of the 1981 hunger strikes ended with a walking tour of Glasnevin Cemetery, led by Noel Hughes, who gave visitors a thorough grounding in Irish history along the way. Among the many graves visited were those of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Charles Stewart Parnell, Austin Stack, Joe Clarke, Volunteer Tom Smith, and hunger striker Thomas Ashe. In addition, the Republican plot and the monument erected in memory of the republicans who have died on hunger strike in the 2Oth century were visited. The tour was conducted with a good mix of humour and historical insight and is much recommended.
| 2019-04-20T01:16:08 |
https://republican-news.org/archive/2001/March08/061981.html
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After repeating these phrases, each student answered a set of questions unrelated to the study.
These questions, however, were only a distraction — what they didn’t know is that the study was only beginning.
Simply A Choice Of Words?
As each student walked out of the room and handed in their answer sheet, they were offered a complimentary treat. The student could choose between a chocolate candy bar or a granola health bar.
As the student walked away, the researcher would then take note of what the choice was.
The students who told themselves “I can’t eat X” chose to eat the chocolate candy bar 61% of the time.
The students who told themselves “I don’t eat X” chose to eat the chocolate candy bars only 36% of the time.
“I don’t” is experienced as a choice, so it feels empowering. It’s an affirmation of your determination and willpower. “I can’t” isn’t a choice. It’s a restriction, it’s being imposed upon you. So thinking “I can’t” undermines your sense of power and personal agency.
We like to think we are all rational people, who reflect and control every decision that we make — but that is never the case. We not only suffer from a number of cognitive biases and decision-making flaws, but also from our biological limits.
We are not machines. Our attention is a limited resource, and that forces us to prioritize and think rationally only for the most important decisions.
I won’t make a 30-minute analysis of all of the pros and cons of buying an ice-cream every time I see one — I will either buy it or not, as I can easily justify any of the choices.
But if most of my time I’m making automatic decisions that are heavily influenced by my thoughts, habits and environment, how can I make any lasting change in my life? How can I avoid buying the ice-cream without having to make any intentional effort?
While I can’t consciously be “a healthy person”, or a more productive person or anything else, I can set my irrational self to behave in that way. That is, I can consciously shape my identity.
When we consider all of the factors that control our habits and day-to-day decisions, identity stands as the most important one.
There are certainly a number of other things that play a role, from our environment to who we spend our time with, although in practice we can consider those as manifestations of identity.
My identity affects who I choose to spend time with and what sweets I usually eat, or if I even choose to eat sweets at all.
“Losing weight” is an action that requires intention and motivation to be executed, and does not guarantee long-term effects.
“Being a person who values their health”, on the other hand, is an identity level change that will impact your habits and behaviors as a whole.
Once you become a person who values your health, then you will just keep eating healthy — you won’t need willpower or motivation to force yourself into it.
Someone who sees himself as a drug addict (instead of having a drug addiction) will not believe that he can change long-term, and this will control his behavior.
That is why if we want lasting change and long-term results the most effective thing to focus on is on identity — if we make it right everything else takes care of itself. As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.
1. Decide who is the person you want to become.
2. Convince yourself with small and regular wins.
First, decide who you want to be. What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
Many people can feel lost and intimidated with these big questions. For those who don’t know where to start, we can always use the inversion technique: You may not be able to talk about your current identity, but you do know what results you want: to build big muscles, to find a partner or to finally make a change in your business.
Identity: Become someone who never misses a workout.
Small win: Do 3 pushups every other day during the a week. On the next week increase it to 4, and on the next to 5. In a month you’ll be able to see results, and soon you’ll realise how it has become a fundamental part of your routine.
Want to find a partner?
Identity: Become someone sociable and who always meet new people.
Small win: Every week, start one conversation with a stranger. Every weekend, go out with friends and be open to talk to new people.
Want to stop delaying and finally make that important change in your business?
Identity: Become someone who moves from though to action, and invest in continuous improvement.
Small win: Join a coaching program that will push you to execute and accelerate your initiatives, or share your idea and goals with friends and ask them help to keep you accountable.
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| 2019-04-22T20:21:07 |
https://medium.com/@danilokreimer/want-to-change-results-change-your-identity-first-1526d1809ebc
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Russell Brand has unveiled his full 15-minute interview with Ed Miliband, filmed in the comedian-come-activist's kitchen in his London flat.
The Labour leader tells Brand that change is brought about by a "combination of politics and people."
"Without the politics, without Government, the change doesn't happen," he adds int he interview, filmed on Monday night. "That's what happens in democratic society."
Posted on Brand's YouTube channel The Trews, the comedian begins by telling Mr Miliband that the right to vote has become meaningless since women's suffrage.
At the end of the exchange, Brand says: "It's not a perfect interview but personally I found it a very interesting experience.
"I think it says a lot about Ed Miliband, he understands the way the media works right now, the way the country feels at the moment, the way that people feel, that he was prepared to come round here and talk to us."
Ed Miliband has defended his interview with Russell Brand, describing the comedian - who argues in favour of not voting in the general election - as "interesting".
He told ITV's This Morning that while people may find his meeting with Brand "controversial," he wanted to take the argument about voting directly to the comedian.
"The reason I've done it is because I think there are lots of people who are not going to vote in this election, who think it doesn't matter, who think who you vote for doesn't matter," Mr Miliband said.
A trailer for Russell Brand's interview with Labour leader Ed Miliband has been released today.
The clip, described as 'Milibrand', on Brand's 'The Trews' YouTube channel shows the comedian quizzing the Labour leader on the level of corporate taxes.
"Of course people share your outrage about companies that don't pay their taxes and it can be dealt with," Miliband said. "But you've got to have a government that's willing to say 'there's something wrong with this'".
The interview is thought to have been filmed yesterday after a fuzzy picture of Miliband leaving Brand's east London home emerged on Twitter at around 10pm.
Ed Miliband declined to say whether he had persuaded comedian Russell Brand to vote in this year's General Election during their meeting late last night.
When asked whether the comedian would vote on May 7 by 5 News political editor Andy Bell, the Labour leader said: "You'll have to wait and see."
I think Russell Brand and anyone who thinks they shouldn't vote was wrong, and I'll engage with him and anyone else who doesn't think we should vote.
Miliband said that meeting with Brand, who in 2013 said that he had never voted, made the election campaign "more interesting" despite Conservative leader David Cameron criticising the move as a "joke".
The Prime Minister's jibe appeared to prompt Brand to tweet "Don't be jealous, Dave. I'll run into you at West Ham - when you're not busy with ordinary people" alongside a picture of Cameron in his Bullingdon Club days.
A fuzzy picture of Miliband leaving Brand's east London home emerged on Twitter at around 10pm yesterday.
Ed Miliband has said he is "proud to be engaging" with Russell Brand in this election.
Speaking at a campaign event in Cardiff, the Labour leader said that "politics is being played in an increasingly empty stadium", adding: "if we don't engage in different ways with people that aren't engaging in this election, then we will have fewer and fewer people engaging".
Mr Miliband met with Mr Brand last night, when he recorded an interview at the comedian's house for his YouTube channel "The Trews".
The Prime Minister has labelled Russell Brand "a joke" - and taunted Ed Miliband after a photo of the Labour leader outside the comedian's house surfaced on social media last night.
A spokesperson for Mr Miliband said that he had been there to film an interview with Mr Brand.
But the PM teased both men on the stump today, saying that "his whole view" is "don't vote - it only encourages them".
He added: "That's funny, but politics and elections... that's not a joke. Russell Brand's a joke".
| 2019-04-22T12:49:38 |
https://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-04-28/ed-miliband-meets-russell-brand-for-late-night-interview/
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Can users even begin to figure out how to solve a particular problem without giving them specific steps to follow?
The student persona is Ed McClellan, Undergraduate.
Ed needs to see when the next bus/shuttle will be coming and if he has enough time to finish watching his TV program before heading to the bus stop.
Ed has finally acquired a set of wheels and wants to know what the availability and costs are for parking on campus.
The faculty persona is Sarah Windsor, Overwhelmed Faculty.
Sarah needs to set up her course information (time/date, location, office hours, contact info, syllabus, etc.) for the upcoming semester.
Sarah needs to post the latest assignment.
Sarah needs to respond to a student inquiry regarding the latest assignment.
Sarah desires to sit in on student collaboration sessions for the latest assignment.
Sarah needs to post grades for the latest assignment.
Sarah needs to send an announcement to her class that the next class meeting will be canceled.
Sarah wants to find an academic calendar, then add important dates to the calendar in her LMS.
Sarah needs to know the time and date of her next scheduled department meeting.
Sarah does not want to have to remember or bookmark the URL for (institution application) but uses the list of aggregated links in the portal.
Sarah needs to locate the HR document to add optical insurance for her family.
The admin/staff persona is Brad Dieger, Faculty training and support.
Brad needs to make an announcement about the next session for faculty training.
Brad needs to add and remove members from the group that receives his faculty training announcements.
Brad wants to check his vacation days balance and see if he has enough time join his buddy for a fishing trip.
| 2019-04-26T08:37:11 |
https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/uPortal+Content+Management+Scenarios
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Employment Contracts: Good or Bad?
Employment relationships are inherently contractual, regardless of whether the terms are reduced to writing. Alabama is an employment-at-will state, meaning your employer does not need good cause to fire you. As such, there is a strong presumption that employment relationships in Alabama are at-will unless there is evidence to the contrary. Alabama courts can enforce a written or implied contract if it is based on a clear and specific promise of employment for a certain duration. So, if written employment contracts can be enforced, is it a good idea to have one?
In basic terms, an employment contract is an agreement between you and your employer setting forth the terms of the relationship. The agreement can either be expressed or implied. An express agreement is typically written, whereas an implied agreement is usually established through representations made to the employee by the employer. Those representations must constitute an offer of employment. In Alabama, however, an employment contract must be in writing, unless it is capable of being performed within a year.
The general terms of an employment contract include a description of the job duties of the employee and how much the employee will be paid. An employment contract can also include terms regarding the duration of the job, applicable benefits the employee will receive, grounds for termination, protection of trade secrets, non-compete provisions, dispute resolution terms and other elements.
An employment contract binds both you and your employees, so it limits the flexibility your employer will have with regards to the terms of your employment. In other words, your employer is not able to arbitrarily change the contract terms for its own benefit, regardless of the consequences to you, the employee. If your employer wants to change the terms of the contract or terminate it early, they will have to renegotiate with you first.
Another advantage is that a contract creates a special obligation for the employer to deal fairly with the employee. In other words, it creates a "covenant of good faith and fair dealing." So, if the employer violates the terms of the contract, there could be a claim, not only for violating the contract, but also for breaching the duty to act in good faith.
Employment contracts are often used by employers to control the employee's ability to leave their business. For instance, a written employment contract can lock the employee into a specific term. Although an employee cannot be forced to continue working, an employment contract can include some sort of penalty for leaving before the agreed upon time has expired.
Employment contracts typically include confidentiality clauses and non-compete provisions which create additional hoops for an employee to jump through. If you are not careful, you could inadvertently violate one of these provisions and suffer serious consequences.
Employers can offer employment contracts as a way to entice a highly skilled candidate to come work for them instead of the competition. But it is wise to have your employment law attorney review the contract before you sign. If you have any questions regarding employment contracts or any other employment rights, contact the experienced attorneys at Wrady & Michel, LLC, either online or by calling us at (205) 265-1880.
| 2019-04-24T02:08:19 |
https://www.wmalabamalaw.com/employment-law-blog/2016/august/employment-contracts-good-or-bad-/
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The National motto of the United States is the Latin phrase 'E pluribus unum', which translated into English means "Out of many, one". The motto 'E pluribus unum' was chosen with great care and consideration by the Founding Fathers of America. At the time the motto 'E pluribus unum' was chosen the Latin language was studied by all scholars and, traditionally, the words on European crests and coats of arms used the Latin language.
The meaning of the National motto of the United States of America, 'E pluribus unum' or "Out of many, one" encompasses the early history of the United States reflecting the many immigrants, settlers and colonists who travelled thousands of miles from all the countries in the Old World in search of a new beginning and better life in America.
E pluribus unum - "Out of many, one"
The early colonists and emigrants came from many countries and spoke many different languages. The National motto of the United States of America was originally used in reference to the integration of the original 13 independent colonies into the one united country of America. It also reflects the amalgamation of the people and their adoption of the English language - they became Americans.
The Great Seal of the United States of America is one of the most important symbols of the USA. We have detailed facts about the history and adoption of the national US motto in an easy question and answer format. The choice of 'E pluribus unum' meaning "Out of many, one" was both an important and difficult task. The men who formed the Continental Congress wanted a National motto that would stand the test of time and remain relevant to future generations of Americans. They needed a National US motto that, in a few short words, would to encapsulate the beliefs, inspirations, interests and the ideals of the people of America. They succeeded! The inspirational choice of 'E pluribus unum' meaning "Out of many, one" is brilliant. Can you think of a better National US motto than E pluribus unum?
We hope that the facts and information on E pluribus unum will prove helpful to kids, school children and schools. The E pluribus unum motto is still relevant in modern America, just as the Founding Fathers would have hoped..
What does E pluribus unum mean?
The Latin words 'E pluribus unum' means "Out of many, one"
The meaning of 'E pluribus unum' meaning "Out of many, one" reflects the aspirations and achievements of the America.
Why did the new nation need a National US Motto?
To adhere to the tradition of existing countries by adopting a motto that represented the ideals and achievements of the new nation of America.
Who was given the task of creating the Great Seal and the US Motto?
Who was Pierre Eugene du Simitiere?
The tradition of using of heraldic symbols as a means of identification spread throughout the European nobility in the 1400's.
Who submitted the idea for the US Motto 'E pluribus unum' meaning "Out of many, one"?
When was the 'E pluribus unum' motto submitted to the Continental Congress?
The recommended motto of 'E pluribus unum' was immediately agreed by Congress, but it took another six years for the design of the Great Seal to be agreed!
Where does the National US Motto 'E pluribus unum' appear?
'E pluribus unum' also appears on appears on many official US documents including US passports.
We hope that the above facts on the E pluribus unum will prove helpful to kids, school children and schools. The E pluribus unum motto is still relevant in modern America.
US Motto 'E pluribus unum' meaning "Out of many, one"
| 2019-04-26T14:01:55 |
http://www.spangledwithstars.com/national-symbols/e-pluribus-unum.htm
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Hillary Clinton might need to call her lawyer.
A House of Representatives committee dedicated to investigating the 2012 terrorist attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya issued subpoenas on Wednesday in an effort to examine Clinton's use of a private email address when she was secretary of state.
In a statement on the subpoenas, Jamal Ware, a spokesman for the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said letters were also sent to companies involved with Clinton's email account.
"The Select Committee on Benghazi today issued subpoenas for all communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to Libya and to the State Department for other individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation," Ware said. "The Committee also has issued preservation letters to internet firms informing them of their legal obligation to protect all relevant documents."
The Washington Post was first to report on the committee's plans to issue the subpoenas.
Clinton's emails have been the focus of a growing controversy since Monday when a New York Times report suggested her exclusive use of a personal email address while she was at the State Department may have violated federal regulations. The issue has cast a shadow on Clinton, who is widely expected to be preparing a 2016 presidential bid. Her team has insisted Clinton complied with the rules and took care to loop in government addresses whenever she conducted official business on the private account.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina), the chairman of the Benghazi committee, has previously sought to obtain Clinton's emails related to the attacks. Clinton's handling of the Benghazi attacks have long been criticized by Republicans.
Democrats have claimed Clinton agreed to testify before the committee last year, but Gowdy said he would wait to obtain the emails before calling her. The Post reported "one person familiar with deliberations" said the committee discovered Clinton was using the private address last summer. Gowdy's office did not respond to multiple requests from Business Insider on Wednesday asking about potential subpoenas.
After the Times story was published, Gowdy told reporters that Clinton "used personal email in lieu of government email" and that she "had more than one private email account." Because of this, Gowdy said the State Department "cannot certify that have produced all of former Secretary Clinton's emails."
"They do not have all of former Secretary Clinton's emails nor do they control access to them," Gowdy said.
Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton, said Gowdy was wrong about the former secretary using multiple private email addresses. In a statement sent to Business Insider on Wednesday, Merrill suggested Gowdy may have gotten a mistaken impression due to a technicality.
However, afterwards, Ware issued a statement repeating Gowdy's claim that Clinton had more than one private address.
"The Select Committee on Benghazi is in possession of records with two separate and distinct email addresses used by former Secretary Clinton and dated during the time she was Secretary of State," Ware said.
Ware added the committee could not definitively say why it uncovered multiple addresses without obtaining information from Clinton's email server.
"Without access to the relevant electronic information and stored data on the server—which was reportedly registered to her home—there is no way the Committee, or anyone else, can fully explain why the Committee uncovered two email addresses," Ware said.
Ware's statement on the pair of email addresses outlined the committee's rationale for issuing the subpoenas.
"As Chairman Gowdy has noted, this is why former Secretary Clinton's exclusive use of personal emails to conduct official U.S. government business is so problematic and raises significant issues for transparency," Ware said. "The American people have a right to a full accounting of all the former Secretary's emails, and the Committee is committed to working to uncover all the facts."
This post was updated at 6:23 p.m. with Ware's statement announcing the subpoena issuance.
| 2019-04-26T12:57:04 |
https://www.businessinsider.com/report-hillary-clinton-emails-getting-subpoenaed-2015-3
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Remember how I said these jeans were a prototype not a muslin and if something went wrong I was going to need to make it work? Yeah...about that.
I patterned this issue out. I swear. I already took over 2 inches out at the center back between sloper and pattern, and I've triple checked that I didn't add it back in somehow. To fix this pair of jeans I will just stitch two one-inch wide darts into the back equidistant from the center back to eliminate the bulk of the extra fabric. I will also shave a tiny bit off the hips to manage the extra room below the yoke seam. There is no chance that I am unstitching all the top stitching that came after attaching the yoke to take it out and recut.
I spent some time altering my pattern pieces, and now that I've finished it, I'm wondering if I should have done it differently, or if it even matters which direction I hinge it. Either way, I think it's interesting, and I will definitely be making this pattern again so time will tell. The former math/science teacher in me really enjoys this kind of experimental geometry. I will probably end up redrafting this pattern in all three ways that currently occur to me just to see the difference in outcomes.
To alter the pattern, I taped the yoke piece onto the leg at the seam line, and marked out a one inch section corresponding to where I pinned the darts into my prototype. Then, I drew a cut line down to the hip line and out to the outseam since the excess fabric went below the yoke and into the fullest part of the seat of the pants (pic 1). Hinging at the outseam, I closed the one inch gap at the waist line (pic 2). Because I'm hinging at the seam line, the outseam stays the same length but the hip line gets a deeper curve. Then I redrew the pattern lines for my yoke to the old points at the outside hip (pic 3), carefully separated the yoke from the leg (pic 4), and taped in some paper scraps to redraw my seam allowances (pic 5).
So, now my question is: will hinging at the outseam result in a different fit than hinging at the center back, or splitting between both? What I've done is curve the hip edge in to bring the back closer to the body. Would it have been better to curve the center back in? Or to share the curving of the seams between center back and hip? I suspect that it would have been better to hinge toward the center back. Now I just need more denim for experimenting. I also need to redraft the waistband before I can finish this pair. See parts one and two here.
| 2019-04-18T12:37:15 |
https://www.geebettydesigns.com/blog/2017/11/12/custom-jeans-part-three
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Can a Puppy Use Canned or Powdered Milk?
Cow's milk is never a good idea for puppies.
If you're in charge of caring for a newborn puppy, then you have a lot of responsibility on your hands, especially if the mother dog isn't available for nursing. When it comes to feeding pre-weaned puppies, the only suitable and healthy options are the mother dog's milk or puppy-specific formula.
If your newborn puppy still is with his mama, then at first you do not have to do anything in terms of feeding him, unless the mother is ill and can't nurse, of course. The mother dog's milk can manage all of a young puppy's diverse nutritional needs, with no outside assistance necessary. Until the mother begins weaning her little one off of nursing at around 3 or 4 weeks, the puppy won't require any solid foods at all. In the event that the mother dog isn't around or is not able to nurse, use a commercial milk replacer to nourish the puppy. Make sure only to use formula made specifically for puppies.
According to the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, milk from a cow is not appropriate for puppies. A mother dog's milk is very different than cow's milk, and puppies usually do not digest the latter very well. Cow's milk often results in stomach upset in pups, and unpleasant and uncomfortable diarrhea to boot. Thanks, but no thanks. Spare your poor pooch the distress and leave all forms of cow's milk out of the equation.
Canned milk and powdered milk are cow's milk, although in slightly altered forms. Canned milk involves the extraction of water, while powdered milk is simply evaporated. Avoid feeding either of these beverages to a puppy. Not only can these cow's milk products lead to digestive upset, they aren't balanced to accommodate the extremely particular dietary requirements of a puppy. Puppy-specific formula consists of the proper balance of amino acids, minerals and proteins that the youngsters need to thrive and remain healthy.
Although canned and powdered cow's milk are major "no nos" for a puppy, you may notice that puppy milk replacer comes in canned and powdered versions. As long as a product is labeled as being formulated exclusively for puppies, you should be good to go. If you're uncertain about any products with regard to your puppy, consult your veterinarian. Just remember that puppies have absolutely no use for any type of cow's milk -- no exceptions to that rule!
| 2019-04-26T17:13:04 |
https://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/can-puppy-use-canned-powdered-milk-2404.html
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Quentin is an insane serial-killer, Blood Mage and major antagonist in Dragon Age II - although he is only confronted in one quest it proves to be one of the most emotional and tragic moments in the game and changes the life of the hero of the story (Hawke)..
Quentin is first introduced via rumors of a killer who sends flowers to women, who he targets soon after - abducting and killing them, though at this point no one knows his true name or identity.
It is not until later that Hawke discovers his/her own mother, Leandra Amell, is being courted by a man sending flowers, raising suspicion - tragically by the time Hawke and his crew track her down it is too late.
Quentin, a Blood Mage who was emotionally unstable after losing a lover, had taken Hawke's mother due to her face resembling that of his beloved - sitting her on a chair facing away from Hawke and the crew it seems at first she can be saved..
Yet Quentin soon reveals the horror when he helps Leandra up to show that he has actually mutilated her and transformed her into a "perfect" woman via Blood Magic - effectively turning her into a zombie, stitched together with the body parts of his other victims.
Quentin proceeds to summon a legion of demons (who presumably had a hand in his madness) as Hawke and his/her crew fight and ultimately slay the mad mage.
Tragically without Quentin's magic, Leandra dies, but not before she manages to tell Hawke how proud she was of her son/daughter before passing on.
Later it's revelated that Orsino supported him by giving him access to books about forbidden magic and hiding his existence in secret.
| 2019-04-20T16:37:14 |
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Quentin
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The central task in this study is to discover and analyse the legal framework applicable to input errors in electronic contracts. The study analyses the law of South Africa, the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the ECT Act) to be more specific, and the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (2005) (hereinafter referred to as the UNECIC). The ECT Act is the statute regulating electronic communications and transactions in South Africa. It was passed by the South African parliament in 2002. Almost all provisions of the ECT Act are based on the United Nations Model Law on Electronic Commerce (1996) .However, section 20 thereof, which deals with input errors, was not based on the Model law, but on provisions from statutes of leading jurisdictions.1 The UNECIC is a new international convention by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (hereinafter referred to as UNCITRAL). The Convention came into operation on the 1st of March 2013,2 and is the first United Nations convention that deals with electronic communications. Article 12 thereof deals with automated transactions, and section 14 with input errors. These are the two provisions that shall be analysed in relation to the UNECIC in this work. With the UNECIC having come into full operation, there is a real need to harmonise domestic laws with it. In various jurisdictions, including Singapore3 and Australia,4 the statutes governing electronic communications have been amended with some provisions of the UNECIC. Article 14 is one of the provisions of the UNECIC which have been domesticated in both jurisdictions. Judged against the UNECIC, a number of issues relating to input errors in the ECT Act are inconsistent with the new international standards embodied in the UNECIC. This work recommends that South Africa must adopt the UNECIC, and secondly that some of the provisions dealing with input errors in the ECT Act must be aligned with the UNECIC by amendment.
| 2019-04-23T11:52:24 |
https://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/11954
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may even help to stimulate joint health and healing?
(Willik & Hansen, 2010; Hansen et al, 2012).
Possibility of mechanical load to a joint causing damage?
Osteoarthritis (OA), a type of arthritis, is the degeneration of a joints articular cartilage, and is the most common form of joint disease (Chakravarty et al, 2008). In theory, in vitro lab studies would suggest that stresses from repetitive loading could cause changes to the articular cartilage. It is therefore a reasonable assumption that years of running would result in long term damage of the joints (Willick & Hansen, 2010).
However, several studies over the past two decades on running and the relationship of OA would suggest otherwise. There is strong evidence that development of OA is associated with age, greater BMI, and heavy manual labour - but NOT with low to moderate levels of running. In 2012, Hansen et al. reported that the pressure of normal physical activity ( such as running) on cadaveric hip joints was not enough to cause joint cartilage damage (fibrillation).
There have been a few studies (not that many) which have identified a positive link to knee OA and running. However, these studies have several confounding limitations that question the credibility of their conclusions. For example, an older study by McDermott and Freyene (1983) evaluated 20 distance runners with knee pain and found that 6 of these participants had knee OA. They therefore concluded a positive link between running and OA. As you may have guessed, several review papers have critiqued the vast number of limitations in this study including; the lack of non-running controls, a greater number of runners with genu varum, and a high incidence of previous knee traumatic injuries.
Several more studies have refuted any relationship between OA and running, including a large scale study in 2003 by Hootman et al at the Centre of Disease Control in the USA. They performed a prospective longitudinal study investigating the relationship between physical activity and the development of OA over 13 years of surveys, radio-graphic investigations, and assessments. They concluded there was no association between the development of OA and running. A similar study by Chakravarty et al (2008) investigated long distance runners with age matched controls from the community ( >50yrs old), examining radio-graphic x-rays from 1984-2002. Their results showed that over 11.7 years there was a general increase in prevalence of OA and worse radio-graphic scores, however, the runners did not have more severe OA than their age matched controls.
In 2017, Lo et al carried out another large scale cross-sectional study on the association between the history of running and knee OA. They concluded that "a history of leisure time running is NOT associated with increased odds of prevalent knee pain, radio-graphic OA, or symptomatic OA".
There is more credible research to suggest that running, even long distances, does not have any relationship in the risk of developing osteoarthritis. In our opinion, the benefits of running far outweigh the risks, especially as you can reduce your risk of injury with appropriate training, strengthening, stretching, gait analysis, and appropriate footwear. Our advise? Keep running.
Lo, G., Driban,, J., Kriska, A., McAlindon, T., Souza, R., Petersen, N. et al. 2017, Is there an association between a history of running and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis? Cross sectional study from the osteoarthritis initiative, Arthritis Care & Research, Vol. 69, No. 2.
McDermott, M., & Freyne, P. 1983, Osteoarthritis in runners with knee pain. Br J Sports Med, Vol. 17, 84-87.
Hansen, P., English, M., & Willick, S. 2012, Does Running cause Osteoarthritis in the hip or knee?, The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 4, S117- S121.
Willick, Stuart, & Hansen, P. 2010, Running and Osteoarthritis, Clinical Sports Medicine, Vol 29, pp. 417-429.
Chakravarty, E., Hubert, H., Lingala, V., Zatarian, E, & Fries, J. 2008, Long distance running and knee osteoarthritis a prospective study, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Vol. 35, No. 2, 133-138.
| 2019-04-24T19:02:03 |
http://www.run3d.co.uk/media/can-running-lead-to-osteoarthritis
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Home | Alzheimers And Dementia | Do special care units work in dementia care?
Struggling with dementia care choices available outside the home, caregivers may consider placing a loved one with dementia in a special care unit within an assisted living community or in a long-term care setting. Some health care facilities are realizing that the unique needs of clients with middle to late stages of dementia may require placement in a distinct area in the complex. Here's an overview of the special care unit for dementia care and its place in health care facilities.
As caregivers soon discover, the home care needs of a person with the mid-stage dementia can easily overwhelm a family, prompting them to look for care assistance to cope. Although each different type of dementia presents distinctive symptoms, the middle stage of dementia generally brings an increase in safety and the other concerns about the person living independently at home. The person with dementia may exhibit behavioral problems, could be unsafe leaving their home alone and may have serious challenges with daily activities such as eating and bathing. As the disease of dementia continues to progress from the middle to the late stages, the need for almost constant caregiving escalates even further.
When the dementia caregiving tasks advance to a level in which a caregiver may seek assisted living or long-term care placement for their loved one with dementia, there exists a niche option generally referred to as a dementia special care unit.
What would prompt a facility to segregate residents who have a certain stage of dementia? I remember a family member asking me this very question when I was an administrator of a facility with a dementia special care unit. My answer? It was considered good practice when residents with similar needs are placed together so the special needs of that group can be focused on and met.
Let me illustrate further. Paul comes into Happy Acres Care Center to recover for two weeks after his knee replacement surgery. The policy of this care center is to match roommates by the bed openings. Paul welcomes new roommate Shawn and things get off to a rocky start. In the first hour, Shawn wanders around their room and tries to help Paul get out of bed. You see, Shawn has Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. Within minutes, Paul is yelling at Shawn, the nursing staff and anyone within earshot. The problem here is that two patients with completely different needs were placed together. Paul has clinical needs and he should be placed in an area of the facility where the medical model of care is supported along with excellent customer care to speed his journey home. Shawn will not do well in Paul's clinical setting with medical equipment and a high focus on heavy nursing care. He would fare much better in an area of the facility where he could see a familiar, home-like environment and a nurturing social model - exactly what could be should be found on a dementia special care unit.
Besides the obvious benefits to the resident, I have seen that a dementia special care unit allows better staff retention because staff are specially trained, are working with the population of their choice and this empowerment translates into good, supportive care for the resident. These factors lead to happier residents.
To support these goals, the ideal configuration of a dementia special care unit would be to create neighborhoods or households that each would have distinctive character and permit further personalized space. The layout also supports the person-centered way of thinking where the needs of the person drive the care. Although the residents with dementia in assisted living are usually more independent in their daily activities than those in long-term care, the same core principles apply of creating a physical, emotional and social environment plus specialized training for the staff.
Do dementia special care units work?
Despite the feeling in the health care industry that dementia special care units are a good standard of practice, reports state that only about 13% of all long-term facilities have dementia special care units. The reasons may be that no additional funding exists for dementia care as yet, and it takes much extra dedication to get a unit successfully running.
Other professionals who have studied the feasibility of a special care unit have agreed that there were positive differences to living on a special needs unit versus within the general long-term care population. Hopefully more facilities will see the benefits of modifying space to accommodate neighborhoods or unique units as part of their total bed complement.
The dementia special care unit I was involved with is still going strong after almost ten years. Sure, there were normal ups and downs along the way. But it has provided a safe, supportive environment for many residents and filled a community need in our county. Now that it is here, we wonder how we managed without it.
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This story is about young Otis who loves plants and sleeping. He lives with his mom helping her care for his elderly dad. He finds a strange creature living in his bedroom. He grows rare and interesting flowers he buys offline in a closet by the window. He doesn't know if he should keep the creature a secret or not.
"Are you going to eat all of that cream of wheat?" she asked. Of course, he should eat it. "I'm not that hungry though, but i really should eat." he thought. She sighed and picked up the bowl, "get to the shop then. I wish you would eat Otis." He hopped up and pulled the sleeves of a light gray sweater over his arms. "Don't worry mom, i will get back and have something." She looked sad. "Or i'll have lunch with the others." he said quickly. She nodded. He was going to be late anyway, so he had to go. His mom smiled at him and sighed as he went into the other room and opened a cupboard by the window. There was some potted flowers in there facing the jigsaw glass on the window so the sun could get to them without directly burning them. They were small specimens. But he loved them. "Hi babies. How are you?" He said as he gently sprayed them with water. When they were safe in a plastic bag he picked up the ones he chose from the bottom and walked outside to the driveway. He put them in the car and just as he was going to drive out from the driveway he saw a bush jump up and run away. He sat and looked in the direction it went, farther into the greenery around his house. He blinked. After a minute of thinking abou this he turned on the car and drove away from his street.
The streets were mostly empty, and he could get to the shop easily. He stopped for a bottled water, some saltine crackers, and cheese blocks. Then he drove to the shop. It looked empty and the door looked ajar. The sign still said closed. He picked up his things and walked out to the shop.
The shop door was open as he expected. He walked in and looked around. Amry was at the counter. She was counting seed packets. "Did you know the door was open?" He asked her. She didn't look up. "Yes." He looked at her for a minute and then put the pot on the counter. He walked to the back as she said "well, these are impressive." He ate his crackers and cheese and then drank from his water bottle. He thought about the bush.
The day was slow but a few people came in and were loud as they looked through the plants. One of them was a child and stared at Otis for as long as he could. "Why are you putting those white sticks in there?" Otis looked at him, "its food for the plant." The boy stared again at Otis. Then he looked around some more. "Its boring in here." Otis was glad when the skinny boy left. His mom talked about how he was going to be a little star. How he was an actor and a singer. Otis always thought that those kinds of people were nice because they could do something nice.
"My hands are getting rough again." Amry said as they finished up for the day. "You can close up for me Tina." Tina was the short one. She had dark hair and small blue eyes. Her face was round and she walked quickly around the shop like a busy animal. She was often more organized than everyone, and when she was on break she was quiet and thinking about things. Once Otis asked her about Sunflowers, and if they really needed a lot of sun. She replied, "my favorite flower is the sunflower. It feels like I could die if it were not for sunflowers. I lived in a field of sunflowers when I was small. My dad used to grow them and give us little people the seeds. He would always walk out there. He said one day my mother would come back, and when she did, she would come through the sunflowers." Otis thought abou this story, and he thought maybe they did need a lot of sun.
When everyone had left, Otis and Amry watered all the plants before closing up. He saw a small red pansy move a little bit. He watched it. It felt as if it was looking at him. He stared. "Goodnight."
At 6:00 his mom made dinner. Otis ate. He liked potato soup. It was thick and creamy. He put some salt in it for extra flavor. His body was warm after the meal and he thanked his mom. "Your welcome honey. Get some good rest." He nodded, "you too mom". He went to help dad into bed. "Do you want anything before I go to sleep dad?" Dad nodded. "Some water please. And turn the channel please." He turned to the window and looked outside. Otis changed the channel to something pleasant, and walked to the kitchen. "Dad would like some water." Mom poured a glass from the pitcher in the fridge. "Tell him I'll come in soon." She said. Otis nodded and brought dad the water. He sat up slightly and drank it. Otis watched him. He finished it in a few minutes, and Otis toke it. "Goodnight dad. Love you." His dad looked after him. "I love you too."
Otis went to close his door, and saw mom pass into the bedroom. She was talking gently to dad. The door closed, and he sat on his bed. There was a ruslting sound under the bed. He slightly picked up his feet, and realized whatever it was it was behind him. He turned quickly and saw what seemed to be a small child sitting perfectly still on his bed. The child had big blue eyes and pale lightly green skin. The head had what looked like blossoms instead of hair, and the hands were almost transparent at the tips. It was kind of cute. Otis went and wrapped a hand around it. It didn't panic, but instead stood up and then fell down on its knees, crawling toward him and sitting on it's folded legs again.Suddenly Otis felt chills. "What are you?" He asked. it opened it's mouth and said in a soft very high voice, "I'm your plant." Otis stared. "My plant?" It nodded. He pocked it's shoulder, and it grabbed him. The skin was amazingly soft. "Wow, are you like some kind of fairy thing?" He picked it up by the bottom with the legs dangling from his palm. His eyes were wide, "your beautiful." The thing sat very still and watched him. "Whats that?" He looked around, then back at it. "What?" The creature asked again, "what does that mean?"
Otis filled a pot with some soil and put plant food in it. Then he put the creature in the pot an dsprayed it with water. It tilted it's head up as if it was happy, then outstretched it's arms. It was at this moment that Otis noticed inbetween the legs, where most animals had their organs, this creature instead had pollen stems. They stuck out quite promenantly, which meant that this creature was infact fully grown. How could he have not seen it gorwing? "Where were you born?" Otis asked. It stopped enjoying itself and seemed to be deep in thought. Then it pointed to a blue ceramic pot. This pot was one of his special plants. This pot had an exotic flower in it. He looked closely at the blossoms on the top of it's head. Then he went to his desk and opened drawers looking for his books. He opened the one he was looking for. "You can't be.. it can't be." He looked between the book and the creature. They matched. That meant.. all the other seeds he planted of this type would grow these little persons.
Day after day more of them came after that night. They all began to bloom. When they did, they dug themselves out of the soil in their pots, and crawled out to explore Otis's room. They played with all his things and slept wherever they pleased. If Otis accidentaly hurt one, he would have to tend to it while it wept in pain. He gave them plant food, and they helped water the other plants. They soon learned not to walk on the floor, or stare as he was about to hurt one of them instead of shouting to let him know. They all came to like sleeping beside each other in a row on the shelf Otis cleaned up for them to make as a room. They spent most of their time up there. Once, one of them said to him, "I love you."
Months passed, and soon their blossoms wilted. They began to be slow and tired most of the time. They ate less, and played less. They were all laying around watching his TV when he came home on Thanksgiving morning. "They let me go early.. I got something for you." He said. They all lazily sat up and ate the treat. All but the one who bloomed first. He layed still and slept. Otis knew what this meant. He didn't bother it. The next morning, it was quiet and still. He buried it in a pot. The others didn't seem to mind. They went about as usual. Soon they too wilted and were buried.
On Christmas, Otis gave his mom a porcelain tea set. He gave his dad a watch. He got a book about birds from his mom, and a small telescope from his dad. "I know you like to look outside." He hugged dad, and mom brought dad Christmas dinner. They all ate and watched old mystery movies. Otis did not think much about the little plant people. But he did want to show them to mom.
In spring, more of them grew. They were like bulbs, and grew together in bunches. He put them in bigger pots. He once had six, but now they became twenty-four. He liked having them. They grew to be helpful, and it was nice to have them again. Only now with so many, it was hard to keep them secret. Otis called for his mom to come into the garden one day. He let them loose outside. They ran around joyfully and played with each other. As soon as she saw them she was afraid. "What are they?" Otis put an arm around her, "its okay mom, they are good things. I've had them for a while now." She watched them, and they soon noticed her and came to see her. She slowly grew fond of them.
"What should we do with them?" He asked. She folded her arms loosly over her stomach, "I don't know really. Just keep them I guess. They can stay here where its safe. I mean, theyre just flowers." Otis nodded as one of them came up to him and stared into his eyes. He looked back. It's tiny voice said "thank you." Otis smiled at it, "your welcome". He walked back into the house with his mom.
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What an interesting story, almost a parable. Great work!
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