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He's bossy... and for me, I tend to process as I write, so we will embark on this journey together, you and I, and we will just see what it is that God wants us to remember!
The Challenge goes out to bloggers everywhere, and the idea is to pick ONE TOPIC and write about that one thing, - Every. Single. Day. - for 31 days (aka October).
I found myself saying that over and over...
"It's just that sometimes I/we forget."We all know Truths that remain true, even when the storms hit and the waves swell and, well - they feel anything but true!
We get swept up in the chaos and the crashing and we just need to be reminded that, no matter what it looks like or how it feels at the moment, truly, our anchor holds!
DAY SIX: A Guest Post by Erika Morrison
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How to create a feedback loop in 4 easy steps:
1. Have one of your contributors repeat a spurious claim by a candidate
2. When an outside entity shows how easy it is to get the other side of the story, have another contributor respond that it's "lame" without ever addressing the original claim.
3. Reprint the original candidates response, only this one isn't "lame", instead it is the "truth".
4. When questioned about the entire episode, have another contributor claim they are just reporting the "news, despite the fact that the entire episode was generated by them.
Welcome to epistemic closure - Georgia style.
UPDATE: And of course the AJC picks up the story. And manages to make the candidate look positive. Welcome to the new world. Ain't it grand?
Thursday, June 03, 2010
How To Create A Feedback Loop
Posted by griftdrift at 10:37 AM
Labels: Georgia Politics, Media Garbage, New Media, Other Politics
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- Rusty said...
Step 1) Newsmakers doesn't do their homework and looks over an obscure, marginal candidate.
Step 2) ?
Step 3) Reverse racism!
- Thu Jun 03, 12:26:00 PM
- Grayson: Atlanta, GA said...
I think I have officially found my personal jumping-off point in this seemingly infinite Local Politics Cruise To Absolutely Nowhere. And Back.
- Thu Jun 03, 03:17:00 PM
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Our children are becoming less creative and it could be affecting their ability to learn.
Isn't that a horrifying thought?
Studies have shown that children's creativity tends to decrease with age. Most notably from kindergarten to grade three.
The reason is thought to be a combination of strict school curriculums and standardised tests plus extra time in front of screens, such as television, computers and smartphones.
This is sad news, for the kids and the world in general.
Using imagination and creativity is vital to children's mental health.
According to clinical psychologist Dr Ben Michaelis, getting children to focus on the products of their imagination is vital to their individual mental health and the world.
The effort that we use when we are actually making things helps us to learn new and innovative ways of thinking.
This is important for the world, as the children are our future leaders, policy makers, inventors, scientists and researchers.
A 2010 study, which examined results from around 300,000 creativity tests since 1990, showed that today's children are less likely to produce unique and unusual ideas.
This study was based in the USA, taking into account their Torrance tests, which measure divergent thinking in children.
However, Australian children are having just as much screen time and their teachers have the same time constraints and demands on them as their USA counterparts.
Some people believe children who are not regularly exposed to art and the materials to create it do not read and write as well as those who are.
According to the Child Development Institute, children who had higher exposure to art were better at reading and writing than their peers.
This claim was backed up by a study by Shirley Brice Heath of Stanford University.
According to this national (USA) study, children involved in non-school arts-based programs in under-resourced communities were four times more likely to win an academic award.
Sir Ken Robinson, an expert in learning and children's education, says imagination is one of the key components of creativity and innovation.
He recognises that creativity and problem-solving are basic skills that everyone needs, but says learning to think outside the box is a skill that requires imagination and the ability to see things beyond reality.
Imagination is the source of all human achievment.
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Research also suggests encouraging children to be creative and imaginative can help them to be more resilient and resourceful in their adult years.
By working out ways to make and create things, children are using problem-solving skills and investigating different ways to find solutions.
Providing an open and friendly atmosphere for children to explore their creative side is empowering and promotes independence. It may also reveal hidden talents.
Creative play encourages divergent thinking – the ability to produce many ideas. Read How to Craft Your Way to a Better Life.
It also fosters originality, flexibility, and innovation.
There is some evidence that creative people have more goal-directed behaviour.
Creative and imaginative play also increases self-esteem and confidence, as well as patience.
Young minds are spoon fed colourful and busy activities on smartphones and computers.
Many of the games are educational and fun, but they also encourage instant gratification. All at once children's senses are bombarded with bright colours, information, and often music or dialogue.
This makes it hard to focus and encourages multitasking, which eliminates the opportunity for mindfulness.
When a child is making something by hand, he/she must discover the process involved and learn patience to complete the creation – if you try to do the next step before the glue is dry, the creation will fall apart.
Activities such as creating patterns tap into the same parts of the brain that we use for more complex problem solving later in life.
When a child is manipulating a tool, such as a paintbrush, he/she is practising fine motor skills.
Exploring the use of different materials in creative arts taps into the inner scientist.
Constructing and sculpting tap into the inner architect.
'Mistakes' lead to new discoveries and ingenuity, a vital skill in the worlds of art, science and technology.
So how can you help your child tap into their creative side?
Possibly one of the most important things you can do is play imaginative games with them.
We have some gold coloured underlay we use as a 'magic carpet' that can take us anywhere.
The Goddesses and I hold hands and close our eyes as we walk in circles on our magic carpet and discuss where we are going.
When we 'arrive' we open our eyes and are immediately 'swimming' in the ocean. We move our arms freestyle fashion and walk around remarking on the wonderful things we are seeing under the sea.
Sometimes we end up in the sky, 'flying' with the cockatoos.
Wherever we go, we make actions to match our adventures and describe the sights we are seeing.
Having some dress-up clothes on hand is a wonderful way to encourage the imagination. Read Imagination Station – What Will You Be Today?
Play around with creating wonderful treasures from nature.
You can even turn screen time into a chance for creative exploration. One of the Goddesses and I are currently in the process of reproducing the main characters in the Wizard of Oz – a movie we have watched together on several occasions.
We've made the Emerald City and a very cute tinman (with a heart!). We've also made Dorothy, the scarecrow and the lion and wizard. We are now working on the witches. Our creating often gets interrupted with imaginative play as we use our creations as props for our own stories.
When we didn't like a sad part of a movie we watched, we used it as an opportunity to create our own happy ending.
It helps to have some decent craft supplies on hand as well as a good collection of recyclables.
If this is not your thing and you don't want the mess, investigate arts and crafts schools in your area and focus on the less messy options such as play and storytelling games.
The fact is that schools are forced to follow a strict and busy curriculum. It may not allow for the time and opportunities needed to foster creativity and imaginative play. It is up to parents (and grandparents) to find practical ways to fill the gap.
Offering children a variety of activities to promote creativity and imagination, helps them discover what they excel at and enjoy doing most.
Children who find a creative activity they feel passionate about are more likely to stay interested in it. This can be a big help during the challenging teen years.
They will learn important skills, such as focus, patience, problem-solving, divergent thinking, ingenuity, flexibility, and innovation. This, in turn, could help them with their academic learning.
Do you want more ideas for encouraging creativity in children? Check out the Wacky Workshops section – a new craft project is posted each week. Or you can sign up to Gleeful Greetings and have the project sent straight to your inbox each week.
If you live in the lower Blue Mountains area and are looking for an arts and crafts school for children, check out The Wacky Workshops Page.
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Hi, i have a website written in ASP, and my boss wants to have it so that on the home page, to have a section where he can just type up a message and be able to automaticaly post it within a section of that page.
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Put up a form on a page your boss can enter the message required. You can add basic security/authentication to a page that will verify the IP of the request.
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Like volcanoes, earthquakes, bird-eating spiders, smallpox, and reality television, cricket's famous DRS was created by a benevolent, omnipotent intelligence. It was given unto us so that we might be free of our grubby human errors, free to enjoy our cricket decision-making in a spirit of perfect rationality.
Well, Dean Jones to that. We didn't get where we are today without being both stubborn and stupid, and it will take more than three capital letters and an infra-red camera to persuade us to ditch our cherished human errors. As Captain Kirk would no doubt have observed: making dumb, inexplicable, facepalm-worthy decisions at crucial junctures is what makes us human, so deal with it, big ears.
The creators of Didn't Really See, having created a system to eliminate human error, made the mistake of allowing human beings to operate it. Naturally, we've not only failed to get rid of the old errors, but we've also discovered some new ones. Step forward Umpire Dharmasena, whose logic-fail on Thursday was broadcast to a global audience, every member of which spent several open-mouthed seconds staring at the television.
The Umpires Union would like me to point out that the job of the third umpire is not easy. They have to make their decisions in minutes, based on the flimsiest evidence from high-resolution slow-motion footage, futuristic sound-detection devices, and infra-red imaging equipment. Just minutes. It takes some of us that long to persuade our laptops to work, let alone prove the non-existence of a small white blob on a grey background.
And despite the hi-tech trappings, this was nothing more than the old story of "umpire makes mistake", to which the sensible reaction is a shrug, a shake of the head, and a suggestion that he might consider a strongly worded email to his optician. But this is THE ASHES. Mistakes simply will not do when THE ASHES are involved, so reactions to this minor travesty of cricket justice were as exotic and florid as a flower fairy's imaginary garden.
Michael Vaughan was to the fore on Twitter, placing this controversy orange next to the last controversy apple and implying they are two sides of a different fruity coin.
"And people say you should walk… no chance when you get decisions like that."
The Vaughan principle appears to be that a human being is entitled to behave dishonestly if he witnesses another human being of the same profession suffering an injustice, and that, furthermore, if a human being is himself the victim of an injustice, he is excused from any dishonest act he might have previously committed.
This somewhat controversial theory is in opposition to sport's traditional Fairground Doctrine (also known as the Swings and Roundabouts Argument) and the well-established proposition from the field of mathematics, known as the Ultimate Equality of Things Law, which states that, in the end, x = x (where x represents "things").
Inevitably, there were also a few wiseacres chortling that this proved the BCCI was right about the DRS after all. But it's not that simple. Whilst the BCCI have made it clear that they don't like DRS, they have not been particularly consistent over what exactly they don't like about it, instead choosing to maintain a general, non-specific, all-purpose dislike as a sort of a down-payment on a principled objection.
And the spluttering was not limited to cricket folk. The choicest cut from the outrage carcass was served up by one Kevin Rudd, who announced that, in his considered opinion, it was one of the worst cricketing umpiring decisions he'd ever seen.
Sadly, since Umpire Dharmasena doesn't have a Twitter account, we don't know what he thinks about the Australian government's new policy of transporting asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea; described by some as one of the worst prime ministering decisions they've ever seen; a decision that may soon be referred to the legal third umpire.
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Posted by Simon on (August 6, 2013, 3:29 GMT)
Funny Stuff Andrew, especially combining K Rudd and considered opinion in the same sentence. The 'honourable' must have a newbie, who's a cricket fan, doing his tweets now. That should fill in the hour and a half they spend standing around while his eminence expresses his non core policy tourettes at hastily called press conferences. In his highness' defence, his history shows that he's never needed to know anything about a topic, nor a sense of irony before hitting speed dial.
Posted by A on (August 4, 2013, 3:19 GMT)
Dharmasena must have committed a first here - upholding a bad decision by the umpire, exactly the type of decision that should be reversed on referral. Its incompetence.
Posted by Dummy4 on (August 3, 2013, 7:06 GMT)
Steady on Andrew, Dharmasena's decision affected THE ASHES. Rudd's decision only affects thousands of desperate victims of oppression, violence, and injustice. Let's not lose sight of our priorities here.
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Taran is actually Cursed with Awesome.People take great pride in their names in Prydain. Gwydion is able to defeat the Horned King with knowledge of his true name. Achren is a threat to Arawn because she knows his. The fact that Taran does not have a name, that he is an unknown foundling of unknown parentage, is extremely troubling to him and he spends an entire book searching for answers. In the cosmology of the Prydian universe, a person's name is an extremely powerful and important thing. Gwydion claims that to name something is to have power over it. Yet, Taran's true name is unknown to anyone. This is what allowed him to become what he did. He was not beholden to family or rank or station. All the other characters find themselves bound to their roles. Fflewddur chafes at his role as king and longs for the freedom to be a bard. Eilonwy resents being sent to the Isle of Mona to live up to her role. The people of the Free Commots all know their place in life and do not seek anything more. Taran was not bound by any of this. His lack of a name gave him freedom. He considered not having a name to be a source of great sorrow and frustration, when in fact it made him freer than any man in Prydain.
Adaon's brooch did not have any power at all.Adaon had visions and dreams because he himself was wise, insightful, and observant. When the brooch passed to Taran, he became wiser and more contemplative because he believed the brooch to be magical. In fact, these traits were inside Taran all along, and in later books they begin to show themselves without the brooch. He did not need the brooch at all, and only lost these abilities because he believed he could not have these talents on his own (and indeed, they don't really seem to fade entirely, as Book 4 shows). Why did Orddu accept a non-magical trinket in exchange for the Cauldron? All she asked from in exchange was something Taran prized as highly. She knew what the brooch meant to him, and considered it a fair exchange.
Morgant sold his honor for knowledge of the Black Cauldron.A recurring theme of The Black Cauldron is honor and when to put it aside. Taran at one point must learn to do this himself. Many people mention that Morgant is a great hero renowned for his strength and bravery. Morgant himself also makes note of Taran's mettle and takes a liking to him, as though he recognized Taran as being not unlike himself. Yet it is revealed that he has become corrupt and wishes to use the Cauldron for himself. He mentions only that he paid a price to the three witches, as Taran did, to learn how the Cauldron worked. Like Taran, he gave up his honor, and in doing so, became a villain.


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Utskrift från Malmö högskola - mah.se
Utskrift från Malmö högskola - mah.se
|Student essay 15hp
|Speaking English Just for Fun! About why some students at a school in the south of Sweden choose to speak English instead of Swedish
|Eilers, Jessica ; Johansson, Susanne
|English abstract
|The purpose of this degree paper is to look at some adolescents' use of English in conversations outside of school. Adolescents in today's society come into contact with the English language in various different ways and one of these can be through oral interaction with others. By using a mixed-method approach consisting of a questionnaire and interviews this qualitative study provides an insight into some adolescents' extramural English interactions. The goal is to find out why some students at a school in the south of Sweden choose to speak English in settings where there is no apparent reason for them to do so. The aim is also to see what the conversations look like and what attitudes the students have towards English. It was found that the main reason is because the students think it is more fun to speak English than Swedish. They claimed that they can express themselves better in English and that it sounds better to speak English. The conversations occur spontaneously and errors are corrected. Two groups of students were interviewed and their answers differed, because their attitudes towards English differed. The students, who engaged the most in extramural English conversations, were well aware of the usefulness of English.
|Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen
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extramural English
informal learning
second language learners
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Provisio Integration Guide
This integration allows you to run strategy scenarios directly from your clients' accounts in PractiFI. Key client information will be pre-populated from PractiFI to remove the need to rekey when running scenarios.
Enabling the Provisio integration
Ensure you have System Administrator access and a current Provisio subscription.
1. Go to PractiFI Settings (top right menu)
2. Click the Config icon
3. Click the Integrations sub tab
4. Click the pencil to edit
5. Tick "Enable Provisio"
6. Save
Using Provisio
1. Find a Client (household) that you want to run a scenario for
2. Click Launch Provisio from the Launcher Menu
3. Select a contact to run the scenario for and press Launch Provisio
4. You will be prompted to enter our Provisio login details
5. Select a Strategy to run
6. If the contact has a partner, it will default to a Couple scenario (and also bring in Partner fields, if available)
7. However, if you want to run a solo scenario, simply Select the Single radio button
8. Run any scenario as per Provisio's User Guide (note that the Insurance module does not currently support pre-populated fields from PractiFI)


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Description of House In GedserThis 50 square metre, attractive cottage is nestled in a quiet and scenic region and close to one of the best and most child-friendly sandy beaches of Denmark. In the winter of 2015-16, the house was thoroughly renovated and each of the two bedrooms was furnished with two beds. The comfortable living room, dining area and an open kitchen were also well furnished at the same time. The living room leads to a 33 square metre wooden terrace, 14 square metres of which is covered and is open to the enclosed garden. The garden with a sandpit, a swing and a big hammock offers activities for all ages. In front of the kitchen, a fabulous morning terrace awaits you to the east. A carport, a shed with two adult bikes and two children's bikes and a handcart are also available. The region with rich animal and bird life offers good opportunities for beautiful walks, cycling and fishing. About 12 km away from here you will find a golf course, go-kart track and many other activities. Visit the Knuthenborg Safari Park and the Medieval Centre in Nykøbing Falster.
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Early Modern (esp. Kant), Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Existentialism & Hermeneutics, Neoplatonism
Current Research Interests: I am writing a dissertation on Kant's idea of the highest good. I argue against the dichotomies common in the scholarship--theological vs. secular, individual vs. communal, duty vs. ideal--and for an intepretation of the highest good as a practical, regulative idea by which we can conceptualize and assess moral progress. I also argue that the postulates of God and immortality play a narrowly circumscribed role in practical reason's quest for systematic unity of its ends.
Additional Interests: Kant's moral argument(s) for God's existence as a pattern for practical theistic belief that sidesteps the problem of evil; Hutcheson's non-utilitarian use of a "utilitarian calculus;" the relationship between happiness and morality in non-utilitarian, non-eudaimonistic moral theories; Philosophical Hermeneutics; and Neoplatonic metaphysics and ethics.


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Chest Pain – Oppressive, Retrosternal, Radiating
Angina pectoris is probably the first symptom that comes into a medical student's mind when thinking of cardiac diseases. A persistent, oppressive, retrosternal pain, that does not respond to nitroglycerin, is concerning for symptoms of impaired cardiac circulation.
Typically, anginal pain radiates to the left shoulder and the left arm, but can also radiate to the jaw, the abdomen or the back. Consider a cardiac cause even for patients with toothache or stomach-ache, especially in women where atypical pain localization and radiation is more common.
In addition, pain with effort or exercise is highly suggestive of angina, whether the effort be physical or emotional. Anginal pain should stop with rest, usually within 5 – 10 minutes. Pain may increase with cold temperature, and can be accompanied by anxiety and panic.
The severity of angina can be classified using the CCS-classification (similar to NYHA-stages) as follows:
|Silent, asymptomatic
|Angina during strenuous/prolonged physical activity
|Angina during moderate physical activity
|Angina during low physical activity
|Angina at rest
Cyanosis – Pale and Blue
A livid discoloration of hands, feet or lips, is a sign for an insufficient oxygen supply of the peripheral circulation. A distinction is made between central and peripheral cyanosis, where central cyanosis also leads to a blue coloration of mucous membranes. In the case of a central cyanosis, consider a right-to-left shunt, where the blood returning to the right heart bypasses the lungs and mixes with oxygenated blood returning from the lungs, ready to enter the aorta.
In these situations, deoxygenated blood mixes with oxygen-rich blood, such that the peripheral oxygen concentration is reduced. Peripheral, generalized cyanosis is evidence for cardiac insufficiency and increased oxygen extraction by the tissues, which may be caused by valvular heart diseases, arrhythmia, a cardiac tamponade or cardiomyopathy. In peripheral cyanosis, the tissues furthest from the heart suffer the most from lack of oxygen.
Dyspnea – The Heart Causes Heavy Breathing
In the case of a left ventricular insufficiency, the left ventricle does not eject adequate blood, thereby causing blood to back up into the pulmonary circulation. This leads to an increase of pressure and pulmonary edema; that's why dyspnea can have pulmonary, as well as cardiac causes, especially chronic dyspnea.
Left ventricular dysfunction can be due to myocardial or valvular disease: such as myocardial infarction, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy or mitral or aortic valve disease. Other less common reasons include patent ductus arteriosus, or a defect between ventricles or the inter-atrial septum.
Edema – Not Only Swollen Legs
Edema is a pathological accumulation of fluid in the interstitial space. Typically, left ventricular insufficiency causes pulmonary edema and right ventricular insufficiency cause peripheral edema: Usually, the legs are affected first. On inspection, the skin may be taught and with pressure on palpation, there may be pitting of the subcutaneous tissue.
Have a look at both legs! Edema on one leg only is often due to non-cardiac causes, most often phlebothrombosis.
Generalized edema or ascites or a congestive hepatopathy may lead to hepatic dysfunction and splenomegaly. Men may also develop scrotal edema.
Syncope Causes Falls
Syncope is defined as a sudden, brief and self-limited episode of loss of consciousness, which is accompanied by a loss of tone of the skeletal muscles.
There are many causes for syncope, but one cause is cerebral hypo perfusion due to a cardiac arrhythmia.
History Taking: Discerning Cardiac Symptoms
Important questions to ask:
Do you have chest pain? Is this pain rather sharp or rather oppressive and dull? When does it arise? Is it associated with preceding physical activity? Do the symptoms improve when breathing deeply? How long does it last? Does it stop spontaneously? How often do you feel the pain (per month/year?)
Do you have dyspnea at times? Is this associated with physical activity? Do the symptoms improve when you are lying down or sitting?
Did you become unconscious recently? Did you fall more often?
On examination, pay attention to edema and cyanosis.
Furthermore, nocturia can be an evidence for heart insufficiency. Palpitations or tachycardia may suggest cardiac arrhythmia.
Cardiovascular risk factors should be determined, including:
- Arterial hypertension
- Hyperlipidemia
- Diabetes mellitus
- Consumption of alcohol or nicotine (not only ask whether they smoke and drink, but also how much!)
- Hyperuricemia
- Exercise during daily life
- Family history of cardiac risk factors: include all of the above as well as myocardial infarction and stroke.
Additional questions of the autonomic nervous system should be asked:
Did you have a fever, shivering attacks or night sweats? How is your sleep? Do you sleep well through the night? How is stool and urination?
Physical Examination – Looking for Evidence of Cardiac Disease
The following summarizes what to pay attention to when doing a physical examination focused on the cardiac system:
- Cyanosis (central or peripheral)
- Clubbing of the fingers/nails (evidence for chronic hypoxia)
- Engorged neck veins (inducible by the hepatojugular reflux test)- measure Jugular Venous Pressure.
- Apical impulse translocated? (suggests left ventricular hypertrophy)
- Checking pulses (heart defects, dysrhythmia)
- Edema
- Pleural effusion
- Hepatomegaly
- Ascites
- Heart sounds, cardiac murmur
- Heart rate
- Heart rhythm
- Respiratory sounds (decreased in the case of pleural effusion, crackles in the case of pulmonary vascular congestion)
Methods of Medical Imaging – Behind the Scene
Chest x-ray is an important part of the cardiac exam, with attention to cardiomegaly, and evaluate for pulmonary causes of symptoms.
Frequently repeated and recorded measurements of blood pressure and continuous cardiac monitoring (with a Holter monitor) may provide evidence for cardiac disease, such as arterial hypertension as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias or myocardial infarction.
Doppler ultrasound can be useful to visualize blood flow. Extracardiac diseases like arterial or venous stenosis can be identified as the cause of heart stress, cyanosis or syncope, so that on a primary cardiac disease can be ruled out.
An abdominal sonography may reveal signs of a right ventricular insufficiency, e.g congestive hepatopathy, a splenohepatomegaly or ascites, which may help assess the severity of the disease and help promote therapeutic options.
Echocardiography can be done via transthoracic or a transesophageal approach. This will identify ejection fraction, cardiac wall motion and morphology, as well as valvular function (ability to close, open, rapidity of trans valvular flow). In addition, the pathological causes of blood flow abnormalities (i.e. reflux) and turbulences can be identified. The ejection fraction can be calculated.
For further diagnostics, CT is available, which can help quantify coronary calcification, particularly the newest helical CT's with 3D reconstructions. A cardio-MRI may allow the detection of malformations of the heart or heart vessels, valvular malformations, tumors and thrombi. Older infarction scars or myocarditis can be made visible by different contrast agents.
Cardiac catheter examination and percardiocentesis are invasive techniques used in cardiac diagnostics: the latter is used for the treatment of pericardial effusion to relieve the heart and possibly perform microbiological diagnostics (inflammatory heart diseases).
During cardiac catheterization (also known as cardiac angiography), the cardiac catheter can be placed as a right or left ventricular catheter. In doing so, this procedure will allow measurement of pressures, visualization of the coronary vessels, myocardial biopsies can be taken and, if necessary, electrophysiological measurements (rhythm diagnostics) can be taken.


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A project to identify and protect the dominant forage sources that sus- tain honeybees throughout the year has been started by the South African National Biodiversity Institute and the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology of Stellenbosch University, says Stellenbosch University Honeybee Forage Project Pollination and Ecosystem Services MSc researcher James Hutton-Squire.
The Honeybee Forage Project aims to identify those plant species in the country that are the most significant nectar and pollen resources for honeybees. In this way, forage resources can be identified and protected, reducing the pressure on honeybees to find adequate food sources.
"For us to rely on honeybees to provide the pollination service we require for our foodstuffs, we need to ensure that honeybees have the necessary nectar and pollen resources they rely on for survival," he says.
Worldwide, a third of all human dietary requirements are reliant on animal or insect pollination – honeybees provide 90% of that service.
"This means that honeybees going about their daily nectar and pollen collection provide pollination for about a third of all our foodstuffs. Without these dedicated workers, we could potentially lose an significant variety of our everyday foods," Hutton-Squire explains.
Several organisations are engaged in various aspects of the South African honeybee research to ensure their future.
"We do not rely on South African honeybees to meet our honey demand, but rather to meet the demand for pollination of a wide variety of agricultural crops. From deciduous fruit in the Cape to sunflowers and tropical fruits in Limpopo, honeybees play a critical role in feeding South Africa," he notes.
There is enormous pressure on honeybee populations. Some of the biggest threats include agricultural pesticides and agrochemicals, habitat loss and changing land uses, the loss of forage resources and an increasingly wider range of honeybee pests and diseases, he says.
"In South Africa, we are not immune to any of these threats and although honeybees are indigenous to Africa, we are just as reliant on their pollination service as the rest of the world. To continue enjoying a diverse and nutritional diet, it is essential that we start to protect the honeybees that make it all possible."
"If a wild swarm moves onto your property, phone a beekeeper who can remove the swarm for you, instead of exterminating the colony. A fantastic way to support your local bee colony is to plant a bee-friendly garden. Flowering plant species provide an aesthetically pleasing surrounding for your home and are also a wonderful food source for bees," he concludes.
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Where do the speakers allegiances lie in a modest proposal? WHat social groups does he identify himself??
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In Swift's "A Modest Proposal," the speaker's allegiances certainly lie with the Irish poor. He is speaking with irony when he says all of the nasty things he says about the poor.
Specifically, he mimics the English view of Irish people. He imitates their bigotry and prejudice.
He certainly degrades the Irish poor if you take what he says literally. But he goes so far overboard, that once the speaker reveals what his proposal actually is--use poor Irish children for food to alleviate poverty--the reader understands that he is being ironic.
Concerning the second part of your question, the speaker doesn't really identify himself as part of any particular social group. That's not relevant. He certainly identifies himself with the Irish poor, however.


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"Let me help you to make your book as good as it can be."
Last time I looked, I'd worked on producing over two hundred books, a mixture of layout design, eBook coding, editing or publishing. I've written a few books too. Between all these endeavors, I make a living. From time to time I've blogged to share with other authors and publishers some of the tips that I've learned. Sometimes those old tips can get buried under all the other blog posts, and so I've created this page to make it easier to find them. I've also including some extracts from books I've written, such as Format Your Print Book for Createspace: 2nd Edition.
I hope you find it useful.
When it comes to eBook design, most of the information you will find online is misleading or just plain wrong. In some cases (though unfortunately far from all) this is because the information posted was once accurate but is out of date. To help you judge my own posts, I have added the year I wrote the blog post, or last amended it. If I find a post in no longer accurate, I will remove it from this list.
Tips for print & ebook design
How to write robust paragraphs in Word (2014) — If you were thinking of self-publishing an eBook you must understand this. Most authors do, but about 15% of the authors sending me novel manuscripts do not understand this basic yet essential technique. Check you are in the 85% who do!
Typography 103 (2014) — Kerning and spacing. Some examples for your chapter titles.
Typography 102 (2014) — Opentype features: ligatures, number forms and why you should care.
Typography 101 (2014) — the differences between fonts, typefaces and glyphs. What really happens when you tell Word that you want your text to be italic.
How to use Unicode in your eBook (2014) — gives a brief explanation of the the hows and whys of Unicode and then explains how you can use it in your Kindle or ePUB eBook.
Dispelling the myth that Kindles don't support Unicode (2014) — shows what Unicode is and shows off some foreign language and fancy-character support.
Font size problems with The Casual Vacancy and how to fix them (2012) — I speculate about the causes of the disastrous eBook launch of J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, and how that typifies the complex set of interactions that determines how eBooks actually appear on real devices. I present one solution for Kindle books produced using MobiPocket Creator.
Tips for writing
Using Word's Table of Contents tools (2014) — how to style your auto-generated ToC and what to do if you want to create your own manual ToC while still keeping page references accurate.
Faux fonts and small caps (2013) — if you search for typography help online, you'll probably come across the issue of faux fonts and faux glyphs. In this article I explain what they are, how to avoid them, and show screenshots of faux and real small cap glyphs for you to see for yourself.
Tips for laying out your Createspace or Lulu book in Microsoft Word (2012) — I wrote this five-part series of posts to promote the first edition of Format Your Book for Createspace. Although the screenshots are from Word 2007, the text and techniques are still valid for later versions of Word. (I've since switched to Word 2010 and then 2013).
Part1 – Getting started and layout strategy.
Part2 – Headers & Footers
Part3 – Sections
Part4 – Page numbers
Part5 – Styles
Printers ornaments and typesetting for poetry (2012) – I share some design ideas for a poetry book I worked on that uses ornaments and fleurons.
Microsoft Word tip: Using 'View Gridlines' to anchor pictures (2012) — I share a simple tip about gridlines but one that could save you headaches. I also explain why turning on gridlines doesn't always do anything (no matter how hard you press the mouse button).
Margins and gutters de-mystifed (2012) — for such a simple idea, margins are over complicated and confused by the contradictory ways in which the term is used. Read this post to make sense of what you will read elsewhere online.
Tips for writing
So you want to write a time travel novel! (2012) — Practical guidance and a fun look at writing time travel, from a time when I had just finished my own time travel series.
Why writing a time travel novel is like wearing fresh underwear — (2012) — yes indeed! Actually, some serious and practical advice for time travel writers paired with a gratuitous shot of someone in their underwear.
Tips for publishing
Advice on self-publishing your back catalog (2014) — Some practical advice from my experience helping authors with their back catalog, especially the perils of scanning in books and what you can do to reduce the scanning errors.


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The pressure is on the local playwrights — and those who just occasionally play at playwriting. On Friday night, eight writers will draw who, what and where prompts. They'll have until Saturday morning to create a one-act script that local actors will rehearse throughout the day and perform Saturday night.
As a twist: Each script must incorporate a common cameo, in this case, Crystal Pelkey, the producing director of The Underground.
How's that for a turnaround.
The Chicken Hat Plays are one of the defining events on Rubber Chicken Theater's schedule.
GO SEE IT What: Rubber Chicken Theater's Chicken Hat Play
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Harbor City International School Auditorium, 332 W. Michigan St.
Tickets: $12 at the door
Best Bets: Brian Laidlaw & the Family Trade play RTs
Best Bets: Where everybody knows your name
Best Bets: Arrowhead Chorale performs Brahms' masterpiece
Best Bets: Learn about the art of printmaking
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Jamie and social entrepreneur Dustin McAdams of PupJoy talk about how someone with an extensive "traditional" business and marketing background can build a company that creates joy in an innovative and socially conscious way.
After years in executive roles with top companies in marketing technology, social entrepreneur Dustin McAdams decided to do something different. Something that mattered to him. He had watched his sister's battle with breast cancer and witnessed firsthand the difference her faithful canine companion made in her recovery. It became the catalyst to build his company, PupJoy, born of the desire to give dog parents a convenient way to better treat their best friends, and to build a model for doing better business and helping those in need.


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Q I have a daughter aged 23. Her father and I divorced when she was five. He married again and has another child of 10, but has again divorced and I believe a settlement was reached on the matrimonial assets. He has another property which he bought to live in at the time of the settlement, but which he now rents out. I understand the ex-wife now wishes to claim more maintenance for the child and wants a share of that property.
My ex has suggested to my daughter that he "sells" the property to her for 1p so it is in her name and he can avoid having to give his ex-wife a share of the rent/proceeds of sale. He is proposing that the rent from this property goes into my daughter's bank account. This all seems a bit shady to me, although my daughter says it is a suggestion by her father's accountant?!
My daughter is a graduate with a student loan of £20,000. She is currently employed earning just over £16,000 plus bonuses and, therefore, has started repaying her loan. She lives at home and has no property of her own.
I am not very happy about her father's suggestion as it seems underhand, and I am worried she will have to pay tax on the property and, indeed, a higher amount for her student loan. I wonder what your thoughts are on this, or should I just seek the advice of a solicitor? JB
A If anyone needs the advice of a solicitor, it's your ex-husband. A good solicitor should be able to tell him whether, in fact, he needs to take any action as, depending on how their divorce settlement was reached, his ex-wife may not actually be able to make a further claim on his property. A solicitor could also give advice on the legal position of deliberately disposing of assets to frustrate a claim from an ex-spouse.
If your daughter did buy your ex-husband's property from him she would not have to pay tax, but your ex-husband could face a capital gains tax bill. If she gets to keep (and spend) the rent paid into her bank account she would indeed have to pay income tax on it, and her student loan repayments would also go up. If she doesn't get to keep the rent, I would advise her to steer well clear of the proposed arrangement as it could look a lot like tax evasion, which is a crime.


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21 Jan 1313 Administrative treatment for bad debt write-offs
On 8 May 2012, the Government announced a proposal to deny a tax deduction to a lender who writes off a bad debt owed to it by a related party. This measure will impact related parties which are not in a tax consolidated group. The corresponding gain to the debtor will not be taxed.
The Government has announced that it will release a discussion paper shortly.
The measure will be effective from 7.30pm (AEST) 8 May 2012. The ATO has now published the administrative treatment that it will apply pending the enactment of the changes.


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The Boston Bruins had to settle for being runner-up at Tuesday's NHL draft lottery, but they still should come away from the June 25-26 draft with a nice prize.
The Bruins, who had an 18.8 percent chance at the top pick and a 60.8 chance at getting a pick in the top two, landed the No. 2 pick, which means they'll get their shot at one of the top top prospects in hockey: Tyler Seguin or Taylor Hall. Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli was on hand in Toronto for the announcement and said afterward he's undecided about which player he would select if he had the choice. The Edmonton Oilers will have the first pick, but Chiarelli said he's excited about having either Hall or Seguin.
Chiarelli told ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun that he would be "very, very content" with either one.
"I would be very excited to get either of these players," Chiarelli said.
The GM added that he plans on keeping the pick and in all likelihood won't trade it.
Both Hall and Seguin are projected as impact players and Chiarelli believes both will be able to play in the NHL next season.
In anticipation of the draft, Chiarelli will watch and interview both Hall and Sequin during the NHL' s scouting combine at the end of May in Toronto. After the combine, the Bruins will hold their scouting meetings and plot their course for the draft.
Seguin, 18, played for the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League and can play all three forward positions. The 6-foot-1, 172-pounder is a right-handed shot and has an excellent wrist shot with terrific release, according to Chiarelli, who added Seguin has dynamic speed and play-making ability.
Seguin had 48 goals and 58 assists in 63 regular-season games for the Whalers. He added five goals and five assists in nine playoff games.
Chiarelli compared Seguin's ability to that of Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos, who was picked No. 1 by the Lightning in 2008, and of Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine.
"I understand that's pretty lofty company, but he's a terrific young offensive player," said the GM. "He's a natural center, but he's fast enough and skilled enough to play both sides."
Hall, 18, plays for the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL and is a prototypical power forward, according to Chiarelli. Hall is a left shot with a good one-timer and can play both wings.
"He really likes to drive to the net," said Chiarelli. "He protects the puck well and cycles well."
Hall, 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds, recorded 40 goals and 66 assists with 56 penalty minutes in 57 games this season.
Seguin is quicker and Hall is bigger, but both are tremendous skaters, according to Chiarelli. Hall wears No. 4 for his junior team in honor of Bobby Orr.
"That would be a longtime dream," Seguin said of the possibility of being drafted by the Bruins during the lottery broadcast on Versus. "I think they are a great organization, but there are a lot of storied organizations in the top five so I'll be happy to go anywhere."
Seguin vs. Hall. Taylor vs. Tyler. It's been the rage in the hockey world, and come June only one can go first. Whoever doesn't figures to be headed to Boston.
"It would definitely be a huge accomplishment," said Seguin. "I would be so proud and so thrilled, but in the end I just want to go to the team that wants me the most."
The Bruins acquired the Maple Leafs' first-round picks in 2010 and 2011, along with a 2010 second-rounder in exchange for forward Phil Kessel last September, making the deal after determining they'd be unable to sign Kessel long term. Toronto finished with the second-worst record in the NHL, behind the Oilers, guaranteeing the Bruins no worse than the third pick.
The Bruins, who lacked scoring punch this season, saw Kessel notch 30 goals and 25 assists in 70 games for Toronto.
"This has been an emotional trade for both parties," said Chiarelli. "People in Toronto have seen Phil and he's a very good young player. Going into making this trade, you try to project where teams will finish and we made a projection and it wasn't this high, but we're going to get a very good player out of it, as did Toronto. The deal was emotional for a variety of reasons. There's a lot of thought that goes into it from both sides, and we feel we got good consideration for it in light of the player we gave up."
Sequin or Hall? The way Chiarelli tells it, you can't go wrong with either.
"These two players are very exciting in their own way," said Chiarelli. "I leave the rink after watching these two players and I'm really excited for both of them."
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Wendy Bell, an 18 year veteran anchorwoman for WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, PA, recently found herself in hot water over comments she posted to her station's Facebook page. The comments were made in response to a March 9 mass killing of a family who were attending a backyard cookout. The killings, committed in an ambush-style assassination, took the lives of six people including a pregnant woman and child in Wilkinsburg, PA, and were reported to have been drug related.
The murders rocked the city's inhabitants with many still in fear as the assassins have yet to be identified. But it wasn't the murders and the coverage of those murders which placed Bell's career in jeopardy. Instead, it was her comments about the murderers which some said were racist and insensitive.
Bell wrote the following on WTAE's Facebook page apparently speculating about the identities of the murderers:
You needn't be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday. They are young black men, likely teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They've grown up there. They know the police. They've been arrested.
Amid criticism from groups calling for Bell to be held accountable for her comments, Bell edited her post, and then deleted it altogether. The anchorwoman promptly issued an apology which read, "I now understand that some of the words I chose were insensitive and could be viewed as racist. I regret offending anyone. I'm truly sorry." The apology was apparently not sufficient to appease station management.
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Hearst Broadcasting, parent company of WTAE issued a statement which read, "WTAE has ended its relationship with anchor Wendy Bell. Wendy's recent comments on a WTAE Facebook page were inconsistent with the company's ethics and journalistic standards."
Bell commented to the Associated Press about her firing and the incident, "It makes me sick … What matters is what's going on in America, and it is the death of black people in this country. … I live next to three war-torn communities in the city of Pittsburgh, that I love dearly. My stories, they struck a nerve. They touched people, but it's not enough. More needs to be done. The problem needs to be addressed."
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The rumors are true. Working out can get you high....but don't worry, you wont fail a drug test from this kind of high.
When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain. Clever right?
Endorphins also trigger positive feelings in the body, strangely similar to morphine. Have you heard of the term "Runners High"? It's derived from feelings that often follow a run or a workout. Some people describe it as a euphoric feeling, and can be accompanied by a more positive and energized outlook on life.
According to webmd.com endorphins act as analgesics, which means they diminish the perception of pain. They also act as sedatives. They are manufactured in your brain, spinal cord, and many other parts of your body and are released in response to brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. The neuron receptors endorphins bind to are the same ones that bind some pain medicines. However, unlike with morphine, the activation of these receptors by the body's endorphins does not lead to addiction or dependence.
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You've heard it said that time heals all wounds. When it comes to healing, time can either be your friend or time can be your enemy. It all depends on the lifestyle decisions you make everyday.
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Is Time Your Enemy Or Your Ally?
The standard American lifestyle does not heal with time. This lifestyle of processed food and fast food, little or no exercise, and a highly stressed nervous system causes only disease and decay with time. Choosing this lifestyle makes time your enemy.
A Wellness Lifestyle actually creates health and healing over time. This non-toxic lifestyle of empowering mindsets, optimal nerve supply, healing foods, and proper exercise that produces lean muscle and burns fat literally reverses disease and allows healing to occur over time. Choosing this lifestyle makes time your ally!
When it comes to the joints of your body, especially your spine, time can become your enemy. When there is uncorrected subluxation (misaligned spinal bones pinching nerves), Wolff's Law causes this damage to get worse with time, leading to severe arthritis and, worse yet, a severely damaged nerve supply. Here are two common examples of chronic, uncorrected subluxation.
The first picture shows a scoliosis in the lower back (lumbar spine). A scoliosis is a sideways curvature in the spine. While several things can cause a scoliosis to develop, the most common cause is vertebral subluxation – misalignment of the spinal bones.
The second picture shows a cervical kyphosis. The word cervical indicates neck and kyphosis means a forward curvature. This is exactly opposite of what normal, healthy neck should look like. A healthy neck will be curved backward forming an arc of aobut 45. This normal positioning helps protect the delicate spinal cord inside the spine and the nerves that branch off of the spinal cord between each bone of the spine.
Wolff's Law
When the spine is in its normal position, it is well protected. However, when it becomes misaligned, the process of degenerative arthritis begins immediately. Wolff's law, just like the law of gravity, happens automatically, even when we are unaware of it. Subluxation causes scoliosis and kyphosis (straightened neck). Left uncorrected, this dramatically reduces both the quality and quantity of your life. The 'Time heals all wounds' adage is now reversed. According to medical research (Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, June 1981):
the life expectancy of a person with scoliosis is reduced by an average of 14 years due to the strain upon the heart and the reduced amount of oxygen supplied to the body.
Fourteen years – wow! However, Chiropractic Care corrects subluxation, restoring life and allowing your body to heal with time.
Unfortunately, as a Chiropractor, I have seen patients ignore their test results, ignore their black and white X-Ray demonstrating their scoliosis (or other subluxation) – attempting to deny the damage it is doing to the nervous system and their health. I am deeply concerned by this type of mindset because I know what happens to your body, over time, with uncorrected subluxation. Time then becomes your enemy, as it is only a matter of time before your body ultimately succumbs to the effects of Subluxation nerve damage. Don't allow this to happen to you!
Only With An Optimized Nervous System Does Time Heal All Wounds
If you haven't already done so, get your spine and nervous system checked for subluxation nerve damage. Correct your spine and maintain your correction with proper chiropractic care. When you do this, time is on your side, allowing you to heal better and more efficiently.
An optimized nervous system, free of interference, is a vital component of living a Wellness Achiever Lifestyle!


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LIANE HANSEN, host:
From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I am Liane Hansen. And joining us from San Antonio, Texas this week is Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Hey, Will.
Mr. WILL SHORTZ (Puzzlemaster): Hi, Liane. Welcome back to the show.
HANSEN: Thank you very much. I just want to say what a great time I had with you in Allentown this past week, raising a little bit of money for Lehigh Public Radio and the Civic Theatre in Allentown. It was great fun playing some puzzles between the yackos and the yinglings.
Mr. SHORTZ: That was a great time, yeah.
HANSEN: It was fun. Now, you're in San Antonio, Texas because?
Mr. SHORTZ: It's the 167th Convention of the National Puzzlers League, and I'm the program director, so there are puzzlers here, about 130 puzzlers here from all over the United States and Canada.
HANSEN: And, you know, pardon me asking, it's probably an obvious question, but what do you do there?
Mr. SHORTZ: It's like four days of straight puzzles and games. I'll tell you one cool game is called 50-50 Trivia. You play it with teams, each team writes a trivia question that they think exactly half the people in the group can answer correctly, and then - all the questions are collected. The next day everyone tries to answer them, you score a point for every answer you get right, then you score a point by predicting whether greater than or less than half will get it right, and then your team scores points for getting as close to 50 percent as possible. It's a great team game, you know, it's - I think it's a good party game. Ask 10 or 15 people over to your house to play it.
HANSEN: Yeah, that sounds good because then your trivia can't be too obscure, but then it can't be too easy either.
Mr. SHORTZ: Exactly.
HANSEN: Oh, fun. Well, the challenge you left us with last week was a lot of fun. Repeat that challenge.
Mr. SHORTZ: Yes, it came from listener Katherine Bryant of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She's a member of the National Puzzlers League and she's here in San Antonio. I said name something you might order in a bar, two words, three letters in the first word, five letters in the second. The second letter of the first word is a U, change that to an A and the result will be a new two-word phrase naming something you don't want to be seen in. What is it?
HANSEN: You know, for a while I couldn't get past the word rum. I think probably a lot of people did, but that wasn't the answer. What was the answer?
Mr. SHORTZ: It's Bud Light, change the U to an A, and you don't want to be seen in a bad light.
HANSEN: Absolutely. We had over 1,500 entries from people who tried to solve the puzzle and our winner randomly selected from those correct answers is Bob Finch, and he joins us from Rochester, Minnesota. Hi, Bob.
Mr. BOB FINCH (Caller): Hi.
HANSEN: Now, what do you do there in Rochester?
Mr. FINCH: I'm a retired professor of electrical engineering, but now I'm working as an engineer in Rochester.
HANSEN: Interesting. How long have you been playing the puzzle?
Mr. FINCH: Oh, at least ten years.
HANSEN: And this is - you've been sending in entries all that time?
Mr. FINCH: Yeah, intermittingly, pretty regularly.
HANSEN: Are you ready to play? You sound like you are.
Mr. FINCH: Well, I think so.
HANSEN: Okay. Will, meet Bob and let's play.
Mr. SHORTZ: All right, Bob and Liane, every answer today is a familiar two-word phrase with the initials S-A as in San Antonio. For example, if I gave you the clue a military raid made without warning, you might say surprise attack or sneak attack, either way. Here's number one, naval force defeated by England in 1588.
Mr. FINCH: Well, armada comes to mind, but I can't think of the S.
Mr. SHORTZ: Yeah, and who's armada was it?
Mr. FINCH: Spanish.
Mr. SHORTZ: That's right, Spanish armada. Number two, one calling a baseball or a football game for example.
Mr. FINCH: Sports announcer.
Mr. SHORTZ: Sports announcer is it, good. A figure made by a child in winter while lying on the ground.
Mr. FINCH: Snow angel.
Mr. SHORTZ: That's right. A spy.
Mr. FINCH: Secret agent.
Mr. SHORTZ: Good. The English Parliament passed it in 1765 helping precipitate the revolutionary war.
Mr. FINCH: The A must be Act.
Mr. SHORTZ: Right.
Mr. FINCH: That would be...
Mr. SHORTZ: Act is correct, which one, what kind of act? They charged a duty on something.
Mr. FINCH: I keep thinking of tea, but...
HANSEN: That's where they put the stamp.
Mr. FINCH: Oh, the Stamp Act.
HANSEN: The Stamp Act.
Mr. SHORTZ: The Stamp Act, good. The line just below the name on an envelope.
Mr. FINCH: Address...
Mr. SHORTZ: Which - what part of the address?
Mr. FINCH: Street address.
Mr. SHORTZ: Street address is right. One studying computer operations.
Mr. FINCH: I'm drawing a blank on that one.
HANSEN: This one...
Mr. SHORTZ: Do you know that one, Liane?
HANSEN: ...I'm surprised I actually - is it systems analyst?
Mr. SHORTZ: Systems analyst, good job. A sedentary marine animal with tentacles. And the S part is a body of water.
HANSEN: Sea.
Mr. SHORTZ: A sea, right. And a sea blank, a marine animal with tentacles.
Mr. FINCH: Is it sea anemone?
Mr. SHORTZ: Sea anemone, yes, it is.
HANSEN: Oh, good.
Mr. SHORTZ: Good one. Where Mecca is?
Mr. FINCH: Saudi Arabia.
Mr. SHORTZ: Right. Where Cape Town is?
Mr. FINCH: South Africa.
Mr. SHORTZ: Good. Where money earns interest in a bank?
Mr. FINCH: Savings account.
Mr. SHORTZ: Excellent. A wisecracker.
Mr. FINCH: Smart aleck.
Mr. SHORTZ: Smart aleck, yes. Vice president after Hubert Humphrey?
Mr. FINCH: Spiro Agnew.
Mr. SHORTZ: Spiro Agnew is right. Group seen collecting money around Christmas.
Mr. FINCH: Salvation Army.
Mr. SHORTZ: Mm-hm, colorless corrosive liquid, H2 SO4?
Mr. FINCH: Sulphuric acid.
Mr. SHORTZ: Right. Period that began with the launch of Sputnik.
Mr. FINCH: Space age.
Mr. SHORTZ: Space age is right, and your last one, event celebrated after 25 years.
Mr. FINCH: Silver anniversary.
Mr. SHORTZ: Nice job.
HANSEN: Bob, nice work.
Mr. FINCH: Thank you.
HANSEN: Now, you're going to go back and read your Revolutionary history, Revolutionary War history about that Stamp Act.
Mr. FINCH: That's right.
HANSEN: Yeah, coming from Rochester, Minnesota, I'm sure you're very familiar with snow angels.
Mr. FINCH: Oh, yes.
HANSEN: Well, you did a great job, Bob. And for playing our puzzle today, you'll get a WEEKEND EDITION lapel pin, the 11th Edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Scrabble Deluxe Edition from Parker Brothers, the Puzzlemaster Presents from Random House, Volume Two, Word Play, the official companion book to the movie featuring Will Shortz from St. Martin's Press, and one of Will Shortz's Puzzlemaster decks of Riddles and Challenges from Chronicle Books. Quite a load there. Bob, what's your member station? What station do you listen to?
Mr. FINCH: KZSE in Rochester.
HANSEN: All right, well, Bob Finch from Rochester, Minnesota. You were great. Thanks a lot for playing our puzzle with us today.
Mr. FINCH: Thank you.
HANSEN: All right, Will, I hesitate to ask when you're in a group of puzzlers, but what's the challenge you are going to leave us with for the next week?
Mr. SHORTZ: Well, it comes from listener Doug Heller, who is also a member of the National Puzzlers League. Take the last name of a well-known 20th century world leader, seven letters. Write these letters in a circle, reading clockwise. Then, starting with the fourth letter of the name and reading counter-clockwise, you'll name an important period in human history. What is it? So, again, seven-letter last name of a well-known 20th century world leader, write the letters in a circle, reading clockwise. Start with the fourth letter and read counter-clockwise, you'll name an important period in human history. What is it?
HANSEN: Ladies and gentlemen start your pencils. When you have the answer, go to our Web site, NPR.org, and click on the Submit Your Answer link on the Sunday Puzzle Page. Only one entry per person, please. Our deadline this week is Thursday at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please include a phone number where we can reach you at about that time because we will call you if you're a winner and you'll get to play Puzzle on the Air with the puzzle editor of the New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION'S Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, who this week joined us from the National Puzzlers League Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Will, have fun, thanks a lot.
Mr. SHORTZ: Thanks, Liane.
HANSEN: And just a reminder, our puzzle segment is available as a podcast. If you're worried about missing your weekly dose of Will's puzzle, just go to our Web site and click on the NPR Podcasts link and subscribe.
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November 10, 2005
In cities across the country, people who rent cars are getting hit with a host of new taxes, say observers.
- As of this August, there were 44 rental-car tax proposals pending or approved by local governments, up from just three on the books at the beginning of 2004, according to Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.
- At Chicago's Midway Airport, for example, a new charge of $3.75 per day went into effect on Sept. 1.
Overall, the taxes range from 0.8 percent of the bill to $10 per rental. That might not sound like much, but an extra $10 per day charge can almost double the cost of renting an economy car in some cases, because base prices are near historic lows and some companies have been running aggressive weekend specials.
- The flurry of taxation is partly due to the fact that the rental-car industry's trade association was dissolved in June, leaving it with no effective lobby.
- The industry is notoriously fractious, making it harder for companies to jointly combat tax increases.
- Also, rental cars are considered ripe for taxation because more than half of customers rent at the airport, so lawmakers assume they don't live in the town and can't vote down the proposed fee.
The fees are being levied to pay for things like stadiums, museums -- and alternatives to renting a car, such as monorail systems and rail lines. State and local lawmakers, many of whom operate under balanced-budget mandates, got hit hard by the recent economic downturn and have become more creative about looking outside their constituencies for funding.
Source: Avery Johnson, "Travelers Hit With Slew Of New Taxes on Rental Cars: Added Fees Can Double The Price of an Economy Car; Ways to Avoid Extra Charges," Wall Street Journal, November 9, 2005.
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text: T2000 What is the SW of the T2000? For some unknown reason I really enjoy hitting with my Jack Kramer and recently found a T2000 and enjoy it even more. If fact, I seem to play better with it then my modern sticks albeit less powerful strokes. I am more consistent with it in most all my strokes (kick serves, drop shots, heavy topspin forehands, etc...) besides volleys...not the most maneuverable. What is it about the old school sticks that I'm using? Is it the weight? SW? Small head? Loose strings? Smaller grip? Flex? Or is it a combination of all the things allowing me to swing smoothly and letting the racquet to the rest of the work. I would love to replicate that feeling in my Babolat Pure Storm Limited or any Babolats for that matter. If not then I'll just switch to the T2000 and play tournaments with it. Metal racquets are still allowed on the circuit right? Thanks in advance.