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en | N/A | N/A | According to US marine consultants Macquilling Services, recent tanker deals from Japan indicate a drop ranging from 30% up to 70%.
?The reported sale of a newbuilding VLCC for US $110 million, followed by a sale of a modern Aframax tanker at US $42.5 million and the latest reported sale of a single hull VLCC for US $14 million, all point to the staggering drop in values? from September of 2008 said Mcquilling. Of course, these sales were concluded by Japanese sellers and may not be representative of the market, still they are the latest done sales in these sectors. As the consultants note ?even if these levels may not be immediately repeated, as some sellers may consider them to be too low, they certainly are likely to have a negative impact on vessel values?.
Ship owners have to operate in a rather unpredictable sale and purchase market and many brokers are rather hesitant to provide valuation services with volatility being the norm. That said, some sellers are on the distressed side and are willing to accept below market numbers. Onels. |
en | N/A | N/A | An automatic feeding device, comprising a material conveying mechanism. A material conveying system comprises a horizontally disposed base (1). The base (1) is provided with a plurality of transmission assemblies (2) in the length direction at intervals. Each transmission assembly (2) comprises a roller shaft (3). The roller shaft (3) is sleeved with a rotating roller (4). One end of the roller shaft (3) is supported on a corresponding support seat (5) by means of a bearing, and the other end of the roller shaft (3) is transmittingly connected to a corresponding transmission case (6). Two adjacent transmission cases (6) are transmittingly connected by means of a synchronization mechanism. Any one of the transmission cases (6) is transmittingly connected to a driving mechanism. The rotating roller (4) comprises a flat roller segment (4a). Both left and right ends of the flat roller segment (4a) are integrally provided with an end positioning segment (4b). The left and right end positioning segments (4b) are arranged symmetrically. An end of the material conveying mechanism is correspondingly provided with a mobile manipulator (7). The mobile manipulator (7) is provided with a suction disc assembly (8) capable of sucking an object. The automatic feeding device can achieve automatic feeding and improve feeding efficiency.
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en | N/A | N/A | Graphs are a common mathematical abstractions to represent systems of interconnected entities, such as social networks, transport networks and brain networks. Therefore, a large developed to analyse graphs. Among these, graph clustering algorithms are very popular, because groups of densely connected nodes in a graph often correspond to important concepts (such as communities in social networks) and influence processes on graphs (such as).
A common way to cluster graphs has been (and still is) to apply clustering algorithms specifically developed for graphs. However, recently a number of methods known as graph embedding have been proposed to encode each node into an N-dimensional vector. In this way, one can first embed the graph into an N-dimensional space, then apply a “traditional” clustering algorithm, such as k-means.
This project is about the implementation of recent embedding methods for multi-graphs and the experimental comparison of the performance of this approach (embedding + traditional clustering) when compared withmulti-graphs.
The work shall be done in C++ using the multinet library, developed at our department. The embedding methods are described in this article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.03551.pdf They are based on node2vec, that is itself based on word2vec (if you didn’t hear about these approaches you can check them on Wikipedia. Regarding the coding, it is possible to integrate existing code for word2vec as long as this can be freely redistributed (the library you are going to modify is on CRAN and your work is expected to be released with it in its next version, so no code with restrictive licenses can be used inside it), and there are various implementations of node2vec that can be used as an inspiration, while the new algorithms will need to be implemented from scratch. For the experimental comparison the library already contains several multi-graph clustering algorithms, so there is no need to re-implement them. We also already have data for the tests.
Learning outcomes: From this project you will learn about word2vec and node2vec, that are extremely popular recent methods to handle respectively text and graphs, you will have a chance to look at a very recent research direction (embedding for multi-graphs), and you will also contribute answering a general research question that is still open, about whether these approaches reducing the clustering problem to a setting that can be handled using traditional algorithms are actually able to replace more specialised methods. |
en | N/A | N/A | Great investment property. The first floor has been totally remodeled with 2 bedrooms. The second floor can be used as a one or two bedroom. Each unit rents for $600/mo. 17 x 52 attached storage building can be finished as living space or storage. On a Doch. |
en | N/A | N/A | Basic Recommendations for Exercise Learn how much exercise is recommended by exercise science experts. Sample tracking charts are included with this article.
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en | N/A | N/A | 0 7 5 0 0 It looks like we aren't the only ones inspired by dogs!Whether they're singing lead vocals or the title's inspiration, these songs about dogs have left their mark on music. The next time you're going to make a Summer playlist, keep your furry friends in mind with these tunes. 1. Led Zeppelin — "Black Dog"
Aerosmith covered this song by Rufus Thomas for their first very album in 1973. 5. George Clinton — "Atomic Dog" |
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en | N/A | N/A | These models, however, can work no better than our understanding of the causes of crises. But how much do we actually know about the causes of crises, even major ones like the Great Recession? Is such a warning system led by the IMF and others likely to succeed?
Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (2010) and Berkmen et al. (2009) point to cumulative credit growth and fixed exchange rates affect crisis severity.
Both Blanchard et al. (2010) and Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (2010) find that countries whose trading partners declined further during the crisis fared worse themselves.
Blanchard et al. (2010) demonstrate that the fraction of GDP held in short-term external debt is closely negatively linked to growth for developing countries.
It might seem like the problem faced by those constructing early warning systems lies in winnowing down the vast set of plausible causes of the crisis, rather than in finding ones that work.
It is easier to understand the cross-country incidence of the Great Recession, but it is not easy. A review of the developing literature on the causes of the crisis brings up many positive results. This researcher or that is able to understand some manifestation of the crisis using one or more potential causes.
the log of 2006 real GDP per capita.
A few kernels of wheat remain after the chaff is removed. The degree of credit market regulation appears to have a strong consistent negative effect on crisis incidence. More short-term external debt (a variable only available for poor countries) and a worse current account are also correlated with more intense Great Recession experiences across countries.
Even if we limit ourselves to the few consistent successes, the results turn out to be of little value going forward. We take the model which best fits the Great Recession and ask how well it would have worked earlier.
We examine two global downturns: the 1991 downturn associated with the Gulf War (for Americans) and German Unification (for Europeans), and the 2001 “dot.com” recession. Unfortunately, we find that even the best estimates gleaned from the Great Recession are not stable predictors of the incidence of global recessions at different periods of time.
Countries with large current-account deficits seemed to suffer more in the Great Recession. The single most robust result of the Great Recession analysis is the negative and significant effect of the credit market regulation variable; looser credit market regulation seemed to hurt recently. But for the two previous global recessions, this effect is often positive and significantly so in a number of the samples; it is never significantly negative. Such sample sensitivity reinforces our scepticism concerning the value of such exercises.
Berkmen,009),”, IMF Working Paper WP/09/280.
Blanchard, Olivier, Hamid Faruqee and Mitali Das (2010)” unpublished.
Frankel, Jeffrey A”, NBER Working Paper 16047.
Rose, Andrew K and Mark M Spiegel (2010bg”, Global Journal of Economics,forthcoming.
Rose, Andrew K and Mark M Spiegel (2010c”, Pacific Economic Review, forthcoming. |
en | N/A | N/A | Make them BTA, make them tradable within an account.
Thanks. Appreciate all you guys do to entertain us (although we do hate nerfs).
As someone in software development with 10 yr old code. It's not always that easy. A fix here might break something from 10 yrs ago that is tied to some code that is used by both. Proper testing is required to make any change and this takes time.
We will announce their return at a future date. Thanks!
So what with challenge items?
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As in, they will come.
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en | N/A | N/A | Which of the following are recommendations of Ashok Dalwai Committee on Doubling Famers’ Income by 2022?
1. Pursue adoption of NITI Aayog’s Model Land Leasing Act by all the states and UTs in a time bound manner.
2. Adopt an institutional mechanism for price & demand forecasting.
3. Enhance groundwater extraction and promote maximum utilization of water in agriculture.
The committee recommended that water may be treated as the ‘determining factor’ of production- rather than considering it as a mere input. Following measures were emphasized: Efficient use of water – 2 to 2.5 million hectares under micro-irrigation per year ; Saving on ground water and its sustainability through recharge.
The committee also recommended the following: Recognize agriculture in India as an enterprise- that is based on the principles of profit; Enable farm owners to transit from the status of cultivators to farm managers by outsourcing all possible farm operations, so as to achieve both resource use efficiency and effective outcome, besides realising reduced cost of cultivation.
1.The figures show landholdings have doubled in the past 45 years2.Small and marginal holdings(0-2 hectares) constitute 9% of total holdings, while Large holdings (10.00 ha & above) constitute 9% of total holdings.
Small and marginal holdings constitute 47%, S constitute 43% and large holdings constitute 9%. Fragmentation of land inhibits the ability of farmers to reap economies of scale in agricultural operations and invest in mechanisation. It further leads to decline in productivity and thus declining land capability. Further1.Under the scheme, financial benefit of ₹ 6,000 per year will be provided to small, marginal and medium farmers.
2.3.Object However, For the first time, an attempt has been made to transfer income directly to farmers without using price (of either inputs or output) as a policy tool. Earlier, the focus has mainly been on provision of inputs at lower price (input subsidies) and provision of a higher output price (MSP).
1. & oilseeds and 5% for horticultural crops. The balance premium is to be paid by the central government.
2.It was launched in 2016 replacing.
The balance premium i
The PMFBY operates on an area approach. Thus, all farmers in a particular area must pay the same premium and have the same claim payments. Public sector insurer private insurance companies are empaneled for implementation of the scheme. Recently, states have been allowed scheme.
According to the Economic survey, which of the following statements regarding wealth creation and the invisible hand are true?
1. The survey after collating data from top 100 wealthy entrepreneurs in the country, showed how wealth created by an ethical company correlates strongly with the benefits.
2. The survey highlighted that there still exists excess optimism about the of market i.e. increasing economic openness of our country can’t be the solution for India to grow.
The survey has pointed out how ethical companies benefit all stakeholders involved, ie, the employees of the company, suppliers of raw material to the company, government and to the common citizens of the country.
The survey highlighted that there still exists a scepticand that scepticism has to go for India to grow. To support this argument, survey has taken examples from different sectors such as banking, mutual funds, ports, etc. to show that since 1991, .
1.India has the 3rd largest entrepreneurship ecosystem in the world ahead of countries such as Brazil and South Korea.
2.There exists a spatial homogeneity in distribution of Entrepreneurial Activity in India i.e. uniform level of entrepreneurial activity across the districts.
There exists a spatial hetervaried However, irrespective of the level of entrepreneurial activity, all regions demonstrate a strong relationship between entrepreneurship and Gross Domestic District Product signifying the pervasive benefits of entrepreneurship. Further, there exists a high negative spatial correlation between entrepreneurial activity in manufacturing sectors and unemployment rate in the district which means that unemployment rate reduces significantly when new firms in the manufacturing sectors increase.
Which of the following observations have been identified as effects of pro-crony business policies?
1.If opportunity of crony rent-seeking exists, firms shift their focus away from growth through competition and innovation towards building political relationships.
2.The rents sought by cronies are paid for by genuine businesses and citizens. Such a transfer of wealth exacerbates income inequality.
3.However, crony policies lead to expansion of available wealth. Preferential treatment will enable such firms cause creative destruction and increase economic growth.
It is pro-business policies and not pro-crony policies that have led to creative destruction. Example of coal allocation has been sighted to describe how ending discretionary allocation has led to greater efficiency. Further, crony policies and processes collectively extract a larger share of existing wealth instead of expanding available wealth. Thus, creating a cycle of wealth destruction.
1.E, economic freedom positively correlates with per capita GDP.
2.Anachronistic government interventions, though well intentioned tend to do more harm than good in the long-run. Some of such examples of Essential Commodities Act (ECA), Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), food subsidy and debt waivers.economic freedom. But it still counted as a shackled economy. The survey dn but eliminating. Ware not severe.
Whis for low share of India in world market?
1.Low level of participation in Global Value Chains.
2.Lack of diversification of products.
3.Low market penetration in high income countries.
1.India’s banks are disproportionately large when compared to: size of the economy (GDP), development of the economy (GDP per capita) and population, hence we need larger number of smaller banks.
2.s. Eg:- s of NPAs, Big data could address current issues like high operating costs, disjointed process flows from manual operations and subjective decision making.
The Survey observes that India’s banks are disproportionately small. Using international examples, the survey estimates that.
The survey recommends the creation of a PSB network similar to GSTN. PSBN completes the KYC process and generates a credit profile of the customer seeking loan. Based on this profile the PSB takes the decision on the amount and rate of loan to be given. |
en | N/A | N/A | A 2012 study revealsprolong parents lives. The study noticed that loneliness is a vital factor for the quality of life in older adults.
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en | N/A | N/A | So my proposed model is attached if anyone can help me narrow this down?
The bin file is TMY2 weather file for Fairbanks Alaska.
I can't figure out what is causing electrical usage for space heating. All space heating energy should be fuel-oil (for the boiler) unless I'm overlooking something.
In my BEPS report you will see 19 MBTU of space heating under "electrical" but I can't find the source (5567 KWH for elec space heating in BEPU).
My PS-A Report (also attached) shows electrical use throughout the year for space heating with a max of 1.1 MWH in January.
Has anyone seen this before? It isn't pilot light related because that's zeroed out.
is non-zero (EIR).
This is how I was able to get cooling down to baseline level in proposed.
Just thought I would share this in case others in the future have similar problems.
The system has 5,000 CFM design capacity but only when the exhaust fan is blowing air out at the kitchen hood (Zone GNE5). I had to set up a Min Flow Schedule so that scheduled flow was about 154 CFM for the kitchen. The schedule corresponds with the exhaust fan schedule for the kitchen now. So when the exhaust fan kicks on there is an ample source of makeup air from the duct.
But big thanks to RB and Brian Fountain for assisting!
I was even able to increase the cost savings for cooling and heating further in my proposed model.
I set all zones in that system to receive .16 CFM per SF of OSA. I original had 900 CFM of OSA assigned to that zone with 2600 CFM supply flow.
Now that the supply flow is around 151-152 CFM the OSA flow is reasonable for the system.
If you are following a similar path to mine to address excessive cooling, however, I highly suggest going back to the baseline and making sure your system is set up in a similar fashion with the OSA flows matching in both models (for all zones).
Making OSA numbers match in both models is something I didn?t know about a couple months ago but I?ve been told it can be a sticking issue when it comes to LEED reviewers lately. (it should match exactly to the CFM).
To check this you can run your simulation, then click on the zone values you want to review and click ?summary? tab. You will see the OSA flows for that zone and you can check to ensure they are the same in both models.
Just a little clarification: Outdoor air numbers shall usually match to a certain point. If your proposed model is more than 50% above ASHRAE 62.1, then they will differ.
I was able to modify the models so that the OSA matched exactly to the CFM in each.
Reviewers have been really sticky on this subject as of late ? or so I?ve been told. |
en | N/A | N/A | So we predict a nonlinear effective field soliton, dual to a black hole, being produced in high energy collisions, at least above 10GeV, and maybe also above ^MP=N1/4cM1,glueball∼1−2GeV, but in the latter case the soliton is small enough so it could be hard to isolate. So where is this soliton at higher energies?
We will try to follow the usual 4d black hole thermodynamics calculations. We start from the thermodynamics relation dM=TdS, where M is the black hole mass, T is temperature and S its entropy. We assume that we still have S=M2P,4A/4, where A is the horizon area. This relation was derived by knowing the temperature of the black hole, but it seems to be a fundamental relation in quantum gravity, and has been tested in numerous string theory calculations [17, 18] ,…
Finally, what kind of state is the CGC, meaning how do particles inside it interact?
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en | N/A | N/A | Apps are a fantastic resource for any Shopify store owner but it can be hard to know where to start.
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There are lots of changes you can make to try and improve your conversion rate such as adding product reviews but sometimes even after extensive user testing and optimisation tweaks it can be hard to know exactly hwhere you might be losing those conversions. Heatmaps and live recordings can take your analysis a step further than Google Analytics. Replay Live is one of a few free apps on Shopify that will allow to take live anonymised recordings of visitors using your website. By anonymising all sensitive data the app is GDPR friendly and can give you a fantastic insight into exactly how your website is being used and how you can improve visitor experiences and conversion rates.
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en | N/A | N/A | This pandemic has dealt a serious blow to the studies of kids all across the world. According to a survey, in 188 nations, schools are closed for 91 percent of kids. Approximately 1.6 billion kids cannot attend school in person. Due to school closures, more than one billion youngsters are in danger of falling behind. In contrast many faces the risk of never returning to school, which completely undone years of progress made in education worldwide.
This serious impact is unbelievable and will be seen for years to come. For this for your kids and choose the right path of learning for them. Don't let the pandemic become a hurdle to your child's study. See the 7Cs of continued learning for kids for a better understanding.
Children engaging with one another in group settings, being near to nature with hands-on learning, and sensory discoveries through touch or feel are all excellent ways for them to learn. The pandemic has taken away these privileges from us, so we must find a middle ground that supports our children's learning curves. Even when schools are closed, learning does not have to come to a halt. And for that, even if we have to shift our previous views about learning, we had best be prepared. Adopt fresh learning and teaching methods for your child, and don't be afraid to go for the middle ground in the current situation.
Accept the omnipresence of the screen in today's environment while using new learning measures. The essential thing is to use the screen intelligently; not everything about it is inherently negative. While many adults regard screen exposure as a monster capable of devouring up the most significant hours of children, online interactive sessions, may be a tremendous source of learning for children. To ensure continuity in your child's learning, use well-configured online educational content if it is accessible.
This is the time when you need to collaborate with teachers and educators for the betterment of your kids and provide better learning to them. Parents need to trust school policies and practices under this pandemic. Likely, educators need to put importance on the trust of parents when it comes to their children's learning. So always stay connected with the teachers and share vital information about your children.
Routine is a vital part of learning where day-to-day functioning provides predictability to your child's brain. This will develop a sense of security in them. You need to develop a routine that will signal your kid's brain that a particular time is coming for a particular work. Consistency is the key, whether it's online classes for preschool kids or reading a favorite story.
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To be "successful" later in life, children must learn basic life skills such as self-control, behavior management, and emotional regulation in their early years. Self-regulation is essential . And, in order to keep children learning for their own good, parents must take care of their own mental health. So, before you invest in your child's learning curve, invest in yourself.
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en | N/A | N/A | The second run of the Finish Line Forged Era is now available. The stamp on this run, and all future stock runs differs from the first run in that the disc includes “flight numbers” rather than the description of “first run” on the stamp.
Initial feedback of the second run is that its flight is very similar to the first run.
There are a total of 5,000 discs in this run. 4,000 of these discs have the stock run stamp while the remaining 1,000 are being reserved for Drew Gibson clinics and for custom stamping.
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Doglover - why did the other 3 sales fall through? Do you know? I know you don't want to hear the worst, but the sooner the better IMO so get on the phone to that estate agent! Sounds like they had their survey done quite late on in the process if you're due to exchange soon?
I know that you're all correct and I thank you for commenting. We bought our current property at the height of the boom in 2007 and have reconciled ourselves to selling at a loss (£30k loss so a large amount
God, I hate this process.
Moan away, LC. It does help to off-load!
Have you got a financial advisor littlecrystal? Can you not get them to chase up another mortgage for you?
Little I agree with 50. Go to a financial advisor. We did and have obtained a good mortgage offer very quickly. We wee struggling without a FA.
I am in a fixed deal with thousands to pay for early redemption fee and superb lifetime tracker rate afterwards. It would be mad to switch to another lender. I am hoping I will be able to work out things with my current lender...
So we've let all sols and EAs know that we want to exchange by early August...doable? It's just us and the vendors in the chain as they're buying a chain free place. Just waiting on our mortgage offer now and building survey booked in for this week....slowly maybe getting excited
We put forward our offer and it was turned down flat
Hi folks. News form the EA yesterday was encouraging. The mortgage/survey etc had been delayed in sending to their solicitor - she should receive it today.
The Building Inspector is visiting our new property to, hopefully, 'sign it off' today so things look as thought they are FINALLY progressing after weeks of stagnation
Ah turnip I feel your pain. We have stretched to our max to buy our house. I would be gutted it he seller asked for more money as we would t be able to buy it.
Dog lover good to hear your news. Fingers crossed!
Toomuch- Renting not really an option as we have 2dc's and too many animals! I would also be nervous about coming off the property ladder in case nothing came up and prices went upwards.
I keep trying to read into what she said <hopeful>
I'm wondering if they want to give it a few more weeks, maybe till the schools break up? As the market is supposed to slow down around then. (Although it can't get much slower)
Turnip it doesn't sound too bad then. Maybe keep an eye on it and see what happens. It's usually the more expensive houses that have the bigger price drops. Fingers crossed for you.
We met our seller yesterday. Such a lovely lady, she showed us around and mentioned lovely bits of furniture she was leaving as she was downsizing. However, am awaiting the fixtures and fittings form now as am not sure if she intends to charge or not. I wouldn't mind paying for some bits but I'd rather have my own fridge/washer etc.
There isn't much on the market in our price range so it is depressing |
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The mission team continues to monitor a cold front passing through Florida on Thursday, October 13, causing high winds and rain storms near the splash zones from the ocean and the Atlantic Gulf coast, according to NASA. “Current weather forecasts predict greater certainty for Friday due to a pressure system behind the cold front, which is expected to improve conditions for splashdown and recovery.”
The Dragon boat that will bring astronauts home typically has seven potential regional zones – It is not yet clear if NASA and SpaceX are except for Friday.
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I love scepticism as a subject, as a mindset, raising the standards of knowledge or belief. Especially self-doubt: not believing yourself. This book was a bit too academic, but worthwhile with good ideas.
The epistemological enterprise of seeking a foundation for knowledge that is indubitable, and hence absolutely certain, as Descartes was, then one is not going to hold that one’s everyday beliefs could ever fulfil that role.
Our everyday conception of knowledge seems to leave us perfectly happy with the idea that knowledge can be fallible and not absolutely certain (and thus to a degree dubitable) while being bona fide knowledge nonetheless.
Reasons for believing what we do: we can have such reasons even in the absence of infallibility and absolutely certainty.
Radical scepticism: The
If one proposes radical scepticism as a paradox, however, then one is under no such obligation to explain oneself. After all, the paradox is simply composed of the dialectical stand-off here between philosophy and commonsense, but that in the presence of such an impasse we are entitled to go with commonsense and thus reject the philosophical (i.e. sceptical) conclusion that we lack everyday knowledge.
The radical sceptic is somehow illicitly raising the standards for knowledge.
No-one thinks that two people are disagreeing if one person says ‘I am hungry’ and the other person says ‘I am not hungry’. If the same person made both assertions one after the other, then we would be puzzled, since they would seem to be contradicting themselves. But if two people make these assertions then there is no contradiction, since the ‘I’ in each case refers to a different person.
So there is clearly a precedent for there being terms in our language that are context-sensitive in roughly the way that it is being suggested that ‘knows’ might be.
We’re right and the sceptic is right.
‘Knows’ is a context-sensitive term
Arational = neither rational nor irrational
Suppose we want to work out whether someone’s belief that the tree that they are looking at is an oak amounts to knowledge. To do so we will consider various epistemically relevant factors. These might include why they believe what they do (e.g. is it because of the way the tree looks or is it based on someone else’s testimony?); how responsible they are in forming their belief (e.g. did they inspect the tree closely, or merely take a quick glance at it?); how likely it would be that this person could be wrong about this subject matter (e.g. are there types of tree in the vicinity that look like oaks but which aren’t oaks?);
We are evaluating whether one belief (in this case about whether this tree is an oak) amounts to knowledge relative to a background of claims that are already accepted as knowledge.
Rational evaluations are normally local in that we are not rationally evaluating all of our beliefs all at once, but only a sub-set of those beliefs, relative to a wider set of beliefs that are not in doubt (and which are thus treated as knowledge).
The very idea that one could undertake a global rational evaluation - that is, to rationally evaluate all of one’s beliefs all at once - is simply incoherent.
Accordingly, if at root our beliefs come down to faith, then it is hard to see why that doesn’t simply entail that we don’t know anything, just as the radical sceptic contends.
If all our beliefs are open to question, then why be committed to the truth of anything?
why should it matter any more what is true?
That we are sometimes mistaken does not mean that we are always mistaken.
There is always the possibility of error.
We are fallible - and hence to some degree quite rightly uncertain - creatures.
We find a moderate scepticism at work in the scientific method.
Even well-founded scientific claims are nonetheless treated as provisional, in the sense of being open to being reevaluated if new evidence comes to light.
The scientific revolution is in large part due to the rediscovery of ancient sceptical texts during the Renaissance.
A virtue lies between two vices, a vice of excess and a vice of deficiency.
The lack of courage - cowardice - is a vice, but one can also take excessive risks and thereby exhibit the very different vice of being rash or foolhardy.
Being courageous is thus having the good judgement to be disposed to act between these two extremes.
One needs to cultivate this virtue once acquired, or it is apt to be lost.
Aristotle held that the good life is the life of virtue.
If one is kind, generous, courageous, and so on, then one can flourish.
The intellectual virtues include such traits as conscientiousness and open-mindedness, intellectually courageous, intellectual humility (as opposed to intellectual arrogance).
Or in being open-minded in one’s opinions, as opposed to being dogmatic?
Radical scepticism represents a vice of excess (i.e. of excessive doubt), with dogmatism representing the opposing vice of deficiency (i.e. of insufficient doubt).
Pyrrhonian scepticism: there are some intriguing parallels between Pyrrhonian sceptical thought and Madhyamaka Buddhism, as founded by the Indian philosopher, Nāgārjuna.
Pyrrhonians offer techniques designed to induce doubt in response to someone putting forward a theoretical claim, one can employ these modes to oppose them, with the result that this would engender a neutral attitude.
This would eventually lead to a tranquil and untroubled state of mind.
Pyrrhonians instead just maintain that we should continue inquiring.
Just as we should avoid settled beliefs where we can, and always be open to the possibility of error, so we should avoid settled doubts where we can too, as both have a tendency to close down inquiry.
Promote the suspension of belief.
What the original Greeks meant by the word ‘sceptic’, which refers more to an inquirer than a doubter.
There is nothing particularly laudable about people who stick to their convictions regardless of the rational support they have for those beliefs,
Merely holding onto one’s beliefs no matter what looks like mere dogmatism,
If one has really thought through why one is so convinced about this subject matter, then one should be able to rebut weak counterevidence.
Rather than regarding oneself as knowing it all, one instead treats oneself as being a highly fallible agent with an imperfect grasp of the truth, and hence willing to learn from others around one. |
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Technology can be your best friend if you have the ability to offer candidates the latest and greatest in hiring technology. People want. The first immediate sign that indicates whether a company is or is not tech-forward is their hiring process.
We say this all the time: mTry to get your entire process to be mobile friendly. Candidates are starting to do everything on mobile devices - from filling out an application on a phone or tablet to taking a full-on employee assessment battery on a small screen - so this is a must if your organization wants to be considered up to speed on the latest techbuzz in all of business pertaining to technology. If your HR team isn’t familiar with the possibilities to use machine learning to enhance hiring processes, check out our recent blog post on the role of AI and machine learning in HR.
Other important outcomes of being a tech-savvy hiring team is that it helps build a positive employer brand and a tech-focused company culture.
Time to hire is – or really should be – an important metric for hiring managers, recruiters, and other HR specialists. Reducing time to hire will help attract and retain top talent in the hiring process. If speed isn’t possible, communication should be. If your candidate at least knows the reason for the delay, rather than becoming frustrated and looking elsewhere, they wilstick around. You might want to consider reviewing your hiring process, determining if there are unnecessary steps that were implemented a long time ago for reasons that no longer make sense, and then eliminate those unnecessary steps from your process.
3) ...And Stick to It!
Aside from avoiding the urge to wing it, there are several practices you can put into place in order to keep your hiring process standardized and protected from potential litigation. A thorough job analysis is one way to justify the request for different knowledge, skills, and abilities from candidates. The job analysis can also structure the scoring for your hiring assessment and the measurement of different competencies in that assessment.
Selection assessments that are reliable, fair, and valid are also great tools to further standardize your hiring process. These assessments can be short screening tools in the beginning of your process, more robust in-depth assessments towards the final stages of the process, or something in between. Depending on the job and other conditions, it might make sense to use multiple assessments. These can also help quantify your candidate results and make the hiring process more objective.
Speaking of keeping things objective, it can be very difficult to have a fully objective interview in the process. Though many newprograms are helping to mitigate biases in hiring interviews, it is still best practice to have a structured interview process. It’s important to ask the same questions to each of the candidates interviewing for the same job and try your best to quantify the results into objective ratings.
Finally, keeping up with your refreshed hiring process means keeping excellent documentation of all the processes. Making this a standard practice will help protect from legal issues and make a review and enhancement process much more feasible. |
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Pardew said: "All strikers when they are not scoring don't feel like they have done their job. Goalscorers want to score goals and he is always disappointed if he hasn't scored.
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"Goals can settle a player down and hopefully it will because he has not been as powerful and as good as he had been."
Cisse's big moment came 14 minutes before the break when he made the most of good work by youngsters Paul Dummett and Sammy Ameobi by beating keeper Paddy Kenny with a bullet header.
However, Newcastle had to wait until the 67th minute to put the game beyond the visitors when Yoan Gouffran accepted Ameobi's pass and turned defender Scott Wootton before blasting home an unstoppable shot.
Kenny kept the scoreline respectable as time ran down, saving twice from substitute Gabriel Obertan after he had been played in one on one, but the Magpies were already home and dry.
It was just what Pardew had asked for to exorcise the ghost of at St James' Park in which his side had twice taken the lead.
"All the guys who came in tonight have done terrifically and therefore, that compounds the result on Saturday.
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What is temperature ?
studied in thermometry.
In everyday life, it is related to the sensations of cold and heat that arise from.
Please note that there are likely to be measurement inaccuracies (measurement uncertainty) due to room temperature, for example.
How does a traditional glass expansion thermometer work ?
When the temperature rises, the liquid in the thermometer (mercury or other) heats up, expands and rises.
As the temperature drops, the liquid contracts and sinks as it cools.
Depending on the volume of liquid and the coefficient of expansion, a scale is associated with the measured temperature.
Fahrenheit ?
These are different units of measurement for temperature.
Temperature can be formula for changing from Fahrenheit to Celsius is complex:
°F = 9/5 × (°C + 40) ? 40 or °F = °C × 1.8 + 32
Example: If you are in a country where the temperature is displayed in Fahrenheit, subtract 32 from the displayed temperature and divide the result by 1.8.
Note : water freezes at 0°C and 32°F.
If it is 0°F outside, it means that the temperature is -17.8°C.
The human body is at 37°C and 98.6°F.
What is mercury ?
Mercury is a heavy and toxic metallic element, which is in liquid form steam lamps and batteries.
It is also used in some pharmaceutical products. Mercury thermometers therefore contain a grey liquid unlike other thermometers.
The consumption of mercury in industry has decreased dramatically due to its toxicity.
Mercury has very specific properties, including the ability to expand uniformly with temperature changes.
Hence the definition: any change in temperature is proportional to the change in length of the mercury column.
In contrast to the alcohols that were previously used, mercury has a large and constant expansion length, which makes it possible to measure the temperature quite accurately.
Attention : Mercury thermometers have been banned for sale in medical devices since 1st March 1999, for the general public since 2009 and for professionals with some exceptions since 2015. Mercury is dangerous to health, especially when the thermometer breaks. Mercury is toxic and liquid or vapours. In addition, the introduction of equally effective electronic thermometers has replaced them.
This ban also reduces sources of mercury, an environmental pollutant.
My mercury thermometer broke, what can I do ?
Above all, the affected area must be cleaned thoroughly and quickly.
Mercury evaporates at room temperature. The vapourby the respiratory tract. It must therefore be picked up quickly before it evaporates.
– Do not use a vacuum cleaner The heat produced by the appliance promotes the formation of mercury vapours.
– Collect the metal balls with a sheet of paper and gather them on another sheet.
– For very small ones, you can use sticky paper.
– Ventilate the room to remove any fumes that may have formed.
– Put the thermometer debris and mercury in 2 plastic bags, seal them with tape and dispose of them with the small chemical waste at your local waste disposal centre.
Be careful not to throw the mercury down your sink as it will remain in the drain.
To remove mercury that has crept between floorboards, parquet floorboards or on a carpet :
– Collect as many of the metal balls as possible with one sheet of paper and then gather them on another sheet. For very small ones you can use sticky paper.
– Ventilate the room where the accident occurred. In this way, any mercury vapours that may have formed are eliminated. Do not use a vacuum cleaner in the room where the incident took place for 15 days.
What is the blue or red liquid inside a thermometer made of ?
These liquids are derived from petroleum (or distilled petroleum). These are mixtures of organic compounds (hydrocarbons) to which a dye is added (usually blue or red). These liquids are mildly irritating. At room temperature, the risk is not very great but in hot weather, the vapours must be removed by ventilating the room.
If you get liquid in your eyes: rinse your eyes and if the discomfort persists, consult your doctor.
Calibration is an essential operation for measuring or data retrieval equipment.
Two devices do not react in exactly the same way even if they belong to the same range.
Therefore, a procedure is needed to obtain the same result from the same initial situation.
To ensure the accuracy of your electronic device, it is recommended that youcalibrate it at 12-monthly intervals depending on the degree of use.
A glass thermometer is much more stable over time and a simple check every 5 years is sufficient.
Calibration means “to measure”. The measuring instrument under test is calibrated against a known source. A certificate shows the results obtained during calibration and certifies the accuracy of the instrument.
Prepare a container with 0.5 litres of crushed ice. Add demineralised water to just below the surface of the ice. Allow the bath to stand for 10 minutes to equilibrate and then place the thermometer you wish to check in the middle of the bath. The temperature display should show 0°C but may vary by 1°C.
The instrument can be checked for proper operation using a calibrated laboratory thermometer and a water or oil bath, but also by steam.
from a distance.
These thermometers use infrared radiation, which is invisible. This is because its frequency is below the red in the visible spectrum of light.
What is waterproofing ?
Physical waterproofing prohibits the passage of a solid, fluid or gas. There is a table of IP ratings used to classify instruments according to their level of protectiydrometer ?
The hygrometere air (hygrometry) using an external sensor, whereas the hydrometer is a device for measuring the static pressure of water.
The hydrometer uses Archimedes’ principle.
One is used to measure humidity and the other to measure water pressure. They should therefore not be confused.
Any body immersed in a fluid at rest, entirely wetted by it or passing through its free surface, is subject to a vertical force, directed from bottom to top and opposed to the weight of the volume of displaced fluid; this force is called Archimedes’ thrust.
What is a temperature range ?
This is the minimum and maximummeasurement that a measuring device can take.
This device measures wind speed and pressure.
What is a light meter ?
It is a device used to measure the illuminance on a surface.
An instrument that measures refractive indices. These indices are used to describe the behaviour of light in a medium other than a vacuum.
There are pocket refractometers for determining the concentration of sugar in fruit juices or acids in battery fluid.
A pocket refractometer is calibrated to read 0 when testing distilled water.
The refractometer is simple to use: the juice is placed on the “prism”, the lid is closed and the prism is exposed to the light for a direct reading.
vel in the range of audible frequencies.
Why measure the pH ?
The pH gives an indication of the biological and chemical quality of a solution. This solution can be acidic or basic. The pH value 7 was chosen as a reference value for a neutral medium. The pH ranges from 0 (acidic) to 10 (basic/alkaline).
It is used in many business sectors: food processing, swimming pools, agriculture, gardening, etc
What is glassblowing ?
Glassblowing is a technique that allows glass to be made into larger or smaller hollow shapes. Today it is a sought-after skill that is less and less practised.
What is a 'custom' thermometer ?
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There are two decrees concerning the storage temperature of food:
the Decree of 21 December 2009 and Regulation 853/2004 which concerns foodstuffs of animal origin or foodstuffs containing them, storage, transport and sale temperatures.
The Decree of 8 October 2013 for other foodstuffs.
The cold chain is defined as all the operations that enable a low temperature to be maintained at all times (positive or negative depending on the product) to ensure the quality of the food during storage, transport, distribution and home storage…
the cold chain deals with all aspects relating to the product, from its production to its final consumption. This process ensures the quality of the products and, above all, prevents microbial growth in the products. Indeed, cold is very effective in limiting or stopping the proliferation of micro-organisms that can be dangerous to health (poisoning, etc.). Some bacteria thrive at low temperatures, so the cold chain must be constantly maintained.
Please note that the cold chain also includes food stored in the refrigerator, so care must be taken with the management of your appliances and the use-by dates.
What are the major risks of a break in the cold chain ?
There is no break in the cold chain if the temperature indicated on the product is not exceeded. Defrosting leads to the growth of germs and bacteria, which is why you should never refreeze a product.
The risks of a break in the refrigeration chain are as follows :
appearance of germs (staphylococcus, salmonella, listeria, etc.)
risk of listeriosis, a serious but rare disease that affects particularly weakened people such as children, pregnant women, elderly people..
reduction in the shelf life of a product due to accelerated microbial growth.
gastric problems related to stomach digestion or even food poisoning.
Never refreeze a product after thawing.
Leave the food in a cool place.
Wait until the last second to take out frozen (ice cream, etc.) or fresh products before moving them to the table.
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Wash hands before and after handling food.DGCCRF (website on food preservation temperatures
What is the ideal temperature for a freezer ?
The freezer is used to store foodstuffs, soto avoid deterioration of the foodstuffs and to limit the energy consumption of the appliance.
The ideal storage temperature is between -16 and -18°C. Be careful not to set the temperature too low, as this will consume too much electricity (one degree too much consumes about 5% more electricity). The freezer should operate consistently without temperature variationappliances that allow a more or less important negative temperature for a more or less long conservation of foodstuffs (up to one year of conservation for a temperature of -24°C).
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For good temperature maintenance, keep your fridge free of clutter and clean it once a month, and for a decent electricity bill, don’t set the temperature too low.
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What is frying ?
When frying, the food is immersed in boiling fat or oil which serves as a medium for heat transfer. Frying is similar to a dehydration process at high temperature (160 to 190°C). It should be noted that oil is entirely composed of lipids and is therefore made up of 100% fatty acids.
The purpose of frying is to form a crust and change the colour, flavour and texture of the food. Potatoes are the most commonly fried food: Chips contain 8-15% fat and crisps up to 35%.
What is a good temperature to fry food well ?
The ideal temperature is 170°C (between 160°C and 180°C) above 190°C the oil degrades very quickly (overheating).
According to Decree No. 2008-184 of 26 February 2008 on the application of the French Consumer Code with regard to edible fats and oils: […] art 8: “Fats and oils must not contain more than 25% polar compounds or 14% polymers of triglycerides. Oils not complyingunfit for human consumption” if this level is exceeded: a fine of €4,500 and/or imprisonment of three months or more are possible. Above 50% polar compounds, this penalty increases to €37,500 and two years’ imprisonment.
Why should I change my frying oil regularly ?
The frying oil is heated to a high temperature and repeatedly. Reactions with the oxygen in the air and the moisture in the food then take place and change the lipids that make up the oil. Hydrolysis, oxidation and polymerisation reactions of triglycerides then take place. These compounds will be found in varying proportions in foods.
The formation of these polar compounds occurs as the oils heat up. Beware, these compounds are dangerous to health. It must comply with the definitions and characteristics defined in Decree 2008-184: the rate of polar compound must not exceed 25%.
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What temperature is needed to make caramel ?
How can I heat my room without using too much electricity ?
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What is "thermal comfort" ?
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The ideal temperature for a bedroom is between 16°C and 20°C. For a baby’s room, the ideal temperature is between 18°C and 21°C.
The perceived temperature is the temperature that the human body feels in everyday conditions, outside and not protected from the wind , unlike the real temperature (the more wind there is, the more this perceived temperature will decrease). The perceived temperature was introduced by Météo France (French national meteorological service) in 2008. This is an index.
The difference between the two temperatures is explained b the wind, which consumes energy. Humidity can also play a role in the perceived temperature.
What is the ideal water temperature for swimming ?
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For competitive swimming, water at 26°C or 27°C should be prioritised to limit overheating during exercise and to encourage breathing and an increase in heart rate.
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Use it indoors and in a room where the room temperature is between 10 and 40°C maximum ;
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en | N/A | N/A | I bid you welcome gentle readers, and atrying to be sunny day in the hills of North Georgia. This week I seriously toyed with the idea of doing a scathing piece on the debacle that was Bristol, but doing a late-week column means finding things someone else hasn't already said, and really I've pretty much seen it all covered and talked to death. I'll just take a moment to say that the fans actions do not support their supposed desire. If a whole pot-load of folks out there want more short tracks, where were you this weekend? No, you weren't watching on TV and for sure you weren't in that grandiose stadium Bruton built for your racing pleasure. The race was in the "Last Great Colosseum" or as it used to be known, the world's fastest half-mile. It doesn't get any better than that, yet there was no crowd, and probably no lines at concession stands or rest rooms either. 36,000 folks kind of echo in a stadium built to hold over 160,000!
Instead of beating that already deceased horse, let's look at some quotes from NASCAR notables of "back in the day", designed to bring a smile to your lips or perhaps a scratching of your head. We'llen in racing, Smokey Yunick. As always, and especially with Smokey's words, I've taken a few liberties with the words you wouldn't want your ten-year old to read. Quotes in Italics. My comments (In parentheses).
"In the early 50s at a short track, Herb Thomas drove my Hudson Hornet to a runaway victory. Lee Petty finished second and Curtis Turner third. Turner charged that the scoring was crooked, and he and Petty argued. After the race, we were in the Hudson dealer's garage. The argument got heated, and Lee finally swung at Turner".
(We'll leave Smokey now, though I'dI loved Smokey! He was my hero.
"Roses are, because if you've got a really nice rose they are really awesome, but they are hard. You've got to really be on top of them all the time. I love flowers -- any kind of flowers. They all have different personalities. Gerber daisies are very pretty flowers and so are geraniums, daisies, roses, petunias. Every kind of flower out there is awesome.
"I got in the ambulance and looked back over there and I said 'Man, the wheels ain't knocked off that car yet ... Get out. I gotta go'."
"Stock car racing never would have started if the Government hadn't chosen to tax moonshine".
"Drivin' a race car is like dancing with a chain saw."
"Well, he lived in the northern end of the house and I lived in the southern end."
"I made as many as four runs a night. I did that from the time I was thirteen until I was in the mid-twenties, 365 days a year, seven or eight times a week, probably more than that."
I'll leave you this week to ponder Dave's philosophy for a while; it's a good one, if you think about it. Meanwhile, several folks have written to ask where one goes to find some of the things I've unearthed in the "Lighter Side" columnsAlong with that, I have several wonderful reference books that only require reading in order to come up with some wonderful facts or fiction, as the case may be.
"The Wildest Ride" by Joe Menzer, and many, many more.
What can I say? It's tough work, but somebody has to do it. I do hope everyone enjoyed these bits and pieces of history, because I do believe I have more of them in my files. If NASCAR persists in rewriting the rules from week to week, you'll probably see them sooner rather than later've found a star-studded presentation from the Old Riemann Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ol' Opry. Please enjoy! |
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en | N/A | N/A | Yesterday at my personal blog I'd posted an essay explaining Why I Will Never Watch ABC's 'The Good Doctor' Again.
In the November 26th episode called "Empathy" a character who had constant thoughts and sexual desires for children was featured. He hated his own desires and sought to rid himself of them, via medicines, mutilations, and therapies. He prided himself on never having acted on his desires, because he knew they were depraved. The build-up in the show, apparently, was to develop empathy for the 'in thoughts only' pedophile because of the extreme lengths he went to in order for him to make sure his desires remained unfulfilled.
This is called the "virtuous pedophile." The title is an actual title, based on a growing internet support group of people who acknowledge their depraved desires but do not act on them. Their restraint is supposed to be virtuous.
Someone commented in reply to my essay that "To be tempted to something is not a sin. I have no desire to normalize or justify pedophilia if that is what the show is doing, but if it deals with an individual tempted but resisting that temptation I'm not sure that would be wrong."
Let's explore that a bit here on this blog. I appreciated the nuance and grace in the comment. I thought about it for a while. In the end, I'd replied that temptation itself is not a sin, else Jesus, when he was tempted in the desert, would be sinning just for having experienced a temptation. So, I agree temptation is not a sin. What is a sin is how we respond to it. Responding to temptation is not solely the act, but also the entertainment of those thoughts. In His temptation, Jesus resisted sin by refusing even to entertain the thought and refuted satan by immediately referring to His Father's word. More here.
That said, the show I'd reviewed was not about temptation. It was about the normalizing pedophilia by calling those who have the desires but who don't act on them, virtuous. It was about the manipulative forcing of an empathetic reaction to someone who has admitted many desires for children in the sexual sense. The show made a great deal about how much the man was consumed by lust for children. It, apparently did not make much if his efforts to rid himself of the thoughts, only restraining himself from the action.
John MacArthur puts the issue to a concise point when he says (of homosexuality)
So how should we respond to various desires we have in the flesh? And remember, not all desires are equal. Heterosexual desire is normal, but when it turns to lust for another woman it's a sin. Yet, homosexual desire is always depraved, because it is expressly forbidden in scripture. As noted in the GotQuestions essay above and as I'd said in my essay,
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—and its ultimate end is death (Romans 7:5).
The Good Doctor did get one thing right. In the end, the character committed suicide. Degrading passions lead to death. The Gospel is the only way to overcome degrading passions, including pedophilia. Striving to live a righteous life, denying our biblically forbidden passions and lusts- this is what is pleasing to God.
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Sure as the world, someone or even someones, driven by their worldly, liberal view, is or are going to accuse you, whether here or in their own self-righteous minds that, when you said, ", " you are saying that killing himself is the only possible answer that was right. They will not read, factually or emotionally, past the period at the end of that sentence.
But their own effusion of pride and sin forbids them from understanding that there is an entirely new way of life, entirely new ways of life, by bringing oneself to the Savior and an entirely new way of life through the forgiveness sin by confession that Jesus is Lord and confessing. And one can be almost certain is, they won't unless under conviction of the Holy Spirit, that they will not look up that passage because of their pride in their own sin.
It is this pride in one's sin, one's point of view, one's hatred of the Gospel message,that is killing this world.
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People accuse me of things all the time; saying things I didn't say, having motivations I don't have, doing actions I haven't done, etc. I know of which you speak, that is why the next two words after the period is 'The Gospel...' People interpret how they will interpret. If they have a question they ask here or email me.
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That prompted her to start writing horoscopes, which she sent to friends via email. People liked them, so she got a blogspot.com address and put her horoscopes up every month. “I never thought anyone would ever read it,” she said.
Surprise success: Eventually, Nicholas bought Chaninicholas.com and started posting weekly horoscopes and longer essays that weaved commentary on the world together with an interpretation of the phases of the moon. She still doubted that the mix would appeal to anyone outside of her close circle of friends.
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In July 2015, she started offering classes on reading astrological charts, which cost up to $48 and can last 12 weeks. As many as 1,600 people have signed up for a single course, which they access by downloading videos and files that she uploads to Dropbox.
Targeting a niche: There may be more than 1 million people who regularly read Nicholas, but she still sees herself as appealing to a slice of the population that is politically active on the left and socially conscious.
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The data thus far on whether PrEP increases the risk for STIs have been mixed, but a lot of these data have come from randomized clinical trials, and there are reasons why those data may not be accurate for clinical practice. First, the people who participated in those studies are not necessarily the same as people receiving PrEP through clinical practice. Second, some of the studies had a placebo arm, so individuals didn't know whether they were receiving active protection or not.
To answer the question about whether PrEP increases risk for STIs, investigators in Australia looked at a large number of mostly gay and bisexual men who received PrEP as part of a very large rollout in that country. They measured STI incidence over time and had a few very interesting findings. First, PrEP was associated with an increased risk for STIs in this population, even after adjusting for the increased frequency of testing that occurs once a person starts PrEP. The second thing they found that I thought was very interesting and important for us is that a relatively small proportion of participants (25%) accounted for three fourths of the STIs that occurred during follow-up.
These data show us that there are differences in risk among those who receive PrEP. The study also raises several important questions. One is whether there should be some form of postexposure prophylaxis, such as the doxycycline strategy that was tested in one study,[2] for individuals at very high risk or people who have had repeated infections. A second question is how do we incorporate these data into our monitoring strategies? It may be that some individuals require very frequent STI checks and others need less frequent monitoring. A third question that I think is very important, and hasn't been figured out yet, is how do we operationalize the prescribing and monitoring of PrEP? There's been a sense that it's been overmedicalized, which has restricted access to PrEP among those who need it most. We have to remember also that these are the people who are at highest risk for STIs and of acquiring HIV, so they need to be monitored.
Finally, I want to emphasize that these data do not in any way say that prescribing PrEP is a bad idea for people at risk for HIV infection. Australia has seen a dramatic drop in HIV incidence in their country since the widespread rollout of PrEP among those at risk.
This is Paul Sax, and I've been covering a paper on PrEP and STIs that was recently published in JAMA. Thanks so much.
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en | N/A | N/A | HomeCitiesKudankulam row: Thousands of villagers protest near plant
This Article is From Oct 08, 2012
CitiesReported by Sneha Mary Koshy, Edited by Mala DasUpdated: October 08, 2012 1:57 pm IST
Kudankulam: Thousands of fishermen from 40 villages arounave surrounded the area from about 500 metres in the sea and are shouting slogans to protest against the plant. This is a token seige of the plant, since they will not be allowed by policemen to get any closer. Activist SP Udhayakumar, who is spearheading the anti-plant protests, today said in their next action, protestors would lay siege to the Tamil Nadu Assembly in Chennai on October 29.
..the protesters have been clearly told there will be no vandalism, they will not attack security officials," Mr Udhayakumar said.
Last month, a protest that lasted several days ended in police action on villages around the nuclear plant, where several people were arrested. The cops were indicted by an independent commission of using excess force at that time. Police had used tear gas and lathicharge to control the protesters, who had threatened to storm the plant from the sea.
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en | N/A | N/A | AUTHOR Shea, William R., Ed.
TITLE Otto Hahn and the Rise of Nuclear Physics
PUBLISHER D. Reidel Publishing Company
ISBN 90-277-1584-X
Partthis edited volume provides multiple views—scientific, historical, and social—on the life and work of chemist Otto Hahn. Shea writes a 29-page introduction on the life of Hahn, chronicling his work with William Ramsay and Hahn's research on radiothorium and other radioactive elements. Shea describes Hahn’s time with Ernest Rutherford, later work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry, and finally his work on the decay of uranium. The volume contains nine essays by scientists and historians. They include Lawrence Badash’s essay on Otto Hahn and the difference between scientific and social responsibility. Several purely scientific essays include Robert Kargon’s essay on the evolution of matter, and Ernst Berninger’s essay “The Discovery of Uranium Z by Otto Hahn: The First Example of Nuclear Isomersion”. The essay by Spencer Weart on the discovery of nuclear fission s. |
en | N/A | N/A | Please think about this. It is so exciting to me, as an author of "Message from Water", that this book is going to be published in a Hebrew language, the samHow many Japanese books have been translated into Hebrew so far?
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en | N/A | N/A | Moonraking has, over the last three decades, become synonymous with Slaithwaite. The week long festival, culminating in the visually spectacular finale event, epitomises the strong community spirit that is part of the DNA of Slaithwaite and many other Pennine villages like it.
As such, the Moonraking Festival provides an attractive opportunity for sponsorship for local businesses. |
en | N/A | N/A | “We’re taking our seniors home,” said Winter, admissions and marketing director for the Village at Oakwood, a southwest OKC assisted living center. “They’re tired and need meds.”
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en | N/A | N/A | I describe work on two aspects of magnetic field evolution relevant for the “recycling” scenario for making millisecond radio pulsars. First, many of the theoretical ideas for bringing about accretion-induced field decay rely on dissipation of currents in the neutron star crust. I discuss field evolution in the crust due to the Hall effect, and outline when it dominates Ohmic decay. This emphasises the importance of understanding the impurity level in the crust. Second, I briefly discuss the progress that has been made in understanding the magnetic fields of neutron stars currently accreting matter in low mass X-ray binaries. In particular, thermonuclear X-ray bursts offer a promising probe of the magnetic field of these neutron stars.
1 The Crust as a Site for Dissipation of Currents
While spin up is naturally expected from accretion of angular momentum, magnetic field decay in an accreting neutron star is much less well-understood (see Bhattacharya & Srinivasan 1995 for a review). The timescales for evolution of currents in the core of a neutron star is extremely long (Baym, Pethick, & Pines 1969; Goldreich & Reisenegger 1992, hereafter GR92). However, short decay times (≲107 years) are possible in the neutron star crust (as emphasised very early on, e.g. Ewart et al. 1975), and this underlies one class of models for accretion-induced field decay.
One idea is to place the currents supporting the stellar magnetic field entirely in the crust. This might be the case if the field is generated from thermomagnetic effects, for example (Blandford, Applegate, & Hernquist 1983). The evolution due to Ohmic decay is then straightforward to calculate, and has been followed in many papers (Urpin, Geppert, & Konenkov 1997, Konar & Bhattacharya 1997, and references therein). The role of accretion is to heat the crust, reducing the electrical conductivity. The amount by which the field decays depends on the accretion lifetime, depth of the currents, and how much current is advected and subsequently “frozen” into the superconducting core. Thermomagnetic processes may also destroy field in the reheated crust (Blondin & Freese 1986).
A second proposal is that as a radio pulsar spins down, outward moving vortices in the superfluid and superconducting core push magnetic fluxoids into the crust, where magnetic energy dissipates (Srinivasan et al. 1990; Konar & Bhattacharya 1999). This model predicts changes in alignment of the magnetic field and spin axis (perhaps involving “plate tectonics” of the crust, e.g. Chen & Ruderman 1993).
The importance of understanding evolution of currents in the crust for these different models motivated our recent study (Cumming, Arras, & Zweibel 2004, hereafter CAZ04). Whereas calculation of Ohmic decay is straightforward, the evolution of currents in the crust is complicated by the non-linear Hall effect, first studied by Jones (1988) and GR92. This complex process in fact has very simple underlying physics: in the crust, where the ions are held fixed in the solid lattice, the magnetic field is frozen into the electron fluid. To see this, combine the Hall electric field (familiar from the simple laboratory experiment) \boldmathEH=\boldmathve\boldmath×\boldmathB/c, where ve=J/nee is the electron velocity, J is the current density, and ne is the electron density, with Faraday’s law, giving ∂\boldmathB/∂t=−c\boldmath∇\boldmath×\boldmathEH=−\boldmath∇\boldmath×\boldmathve\boldmath×\boldmathB. Therefore the field B evolves due to the currents \boldmathJ∝\boldmath∇\boldmath×\boldmathB. An initial dipole field will spontaneously “twist” and “buckle” as the currents distort the dipole field lines inside the star, generating higher order multipoles (see CAZ04 §4.1).
How fast is this evolution, and when is the Hall effect important? The Hall effect always dominates for magnetar-strength fields ∼1014–1015 G. However, for B<1013 G, the importance of the Hall effect depends sensitively on the composition of the crust. A simple timescale estimate is given by writing the Hall time across a pressure scale height at the base of the crust, tHall∼10 Myrs/B12 where B12 is B in units of 1012 G (see also GR92). The Ohmic decay time is tOhm≈2 Myrs/T28 when phonons dominate the electrical conductivity (temperatures T8=T/108 K≳1), and tOhm≈6 Myrs/Q when impurities dominate (T8≲1), where the impurity parameter Q measures the level of impurities in the crystal lattice (e.g. Itoh & Kohyama 1993). Figure 1 shows curves of tOhm=tHall for different Q, and rough locations of different types of neutron star111We choose a density ρ=1014 g cm−3 (near the base of the crust) in Figure 1. The ratio tOhm/tHall∝ρ1/6 for phonon scattering, and ∝1/ρ2/3 for impurity scattering..
Figure 1 shows that recent work on the crust composition in both isolated and accreting neutron stars has a direct impact on our understanding of field evolution in the crust. Accreting neutron stars are hot (T8≳1 for accretion rates ˙M≳10−11 M⊙ yr−1), but also likely have impure crusts Q≳1, since their crusts are replaced by a mixture of heavy elements made by hydrogen and helium burning on the surface of the neutron star (Schatz et al. 1999 found Q∼100). Therefore, the Hall effect is never important for an accreting star, and the Ohmic time remains short even after accretion switches off. The original estimate of Q for an isolated neutron star by Flowers & Ruderman (1977) gave Q∼10−3, in which case Hall effects dominate in a radio pulsar which has cooled to T8≲1, and a cascade to small lengthscales is expected. However, recent calculations by Jones (2004, and references therein) give Q≳1 for an isolated neutron star, in which case an extensive Hall cascade is less likely, with Ohmic decay dominating for B12≲Qρ2/314.
When Hall effects dominate the evolution, the field is expected to grow more and more complex. GR92 suggested that a turbulent “Hall cascade” would transport magnetic energy to small scales where Ohmic dissipation is very efficient. For a constant electron density, this cascade has now been confirmed in numerical simulations (Biskamp et al. 1999). However, unfortunately it is difficult to draw firm conclusions about this evolution. Many fascinating physics issues remain to be resolved, including the nature of the cascade (perhaps strong and anisotropic), the behavior of Hall waves in the presence of a steep density gradient and at the boundaries of the crust, and the response of the crust to the wave for strong fields (Rheinhardt & Geppert 2000; Vainshtein, Chitre, & Olinto 2000; CAZ04). These issues are particularly important for magnetars, since the time for the Hall effect to operate is very short (and always dominates Ohmic decay, independent of Q), and perhaps drives the magnetic field decay believed to power these sources (Thompson & Duncan 1996; see Arras, Cumming, & Thompson 2004 for a recent model).
Figure 1: Regimes of dissipation of crustal currents: Ohmic decay vs. Hall effect for different neutron stars (adapted from CAZ04). The dotted lines show the magnetic field B above which tHall<tOhm as a function of temperature in the crust (for a density ρ=1014 g cm−3), and different impurity parameters Q. Boxes mark the approximate location of different types of neutron star.
2 The Magnetic Fields of LMXB Neutron Stars
Discoveries with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have led to spin measurements for several neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), providing important confirmation that the neutron stars in these systems are spinning rapidly (spin frequencies 185–619 Hz, Chakrabarty et al. 2003). Five systems show persistent X-ray pulsations (Wijnands 2004) indicating magnetically-channelled accretion with a stellar magnetic field of B∼108–109 G (Psaltis & Chakrabarty 1999), precisely as expected for millisecond pulsar (MSP) progenitors. Oscillations during Type I X-ray bursts give spin measurements for a further 11 systems (Muno 2004). These bursts are due to unstable thermonuclear burning of accreted hydrogen and helium on the neutron star surface, and the oscillations are thought to arise because the burning is not spherically symmetric, leading to modulation of the X-rays at the rotation period of the star.
Burst oscillations are a potential probe of the neutron star magnetic field. The burst oscillation frequency drifts slightly by a few Hz during the ∼10 s burst. This is interpreted as some kind of fluid motion over the neutron star surface, either a global drifting due to angular momentum conservation as the layer heats up and expands outwards, drift of a rotationally-supported hotspot, or perhaps oscillation modes excited in the neutron star ocean (see Muno 2004 for a review and references). Cumming & Bildsten (2000) (CB00) pointed out that even a weak magnetic field could interfere with these motions on the burst timescale, magnetic tension acting to brake the flow.
An estimate for the magnetic braking timescale is the Alfven crossing time, which is ≈0.01 s (B/108 G)−1, much shorter than the burst duration (CB00). If this simple argument is correct, the observed drift over several seconds implies a much weaker magnetic field in the burning layers than expected for these presumed MSP progenitors. Conversely, a simple prediction for the persistently pulsating sources (which show direct evidence of such fields) would be that burst oscillations from these sources should not show large drifts (Cumming, Zweibel, & Bildsten 2001) (CZB01). In fact, the persistent pulsator SAX J1808.4-3658 shows a large frequency drift during the rise of a Type I burst, but ∼10 times faster than other burst oscillation sources. Chakrabarty et al. (2003) proposed that this fast drifting is an indication of a stronger magnetic field in this system than most burst oscillation sources.
An important question to answer is what makes the 5 accreting pulsars different from most LMXBs which have shown no evidence for persistent pulsations despite extensive searches. One possibility is that the magnetic field is the expected 108–109G in most sources, but is also “screened” by accretion. CZB01 showed that accretion at rates ˙M≳10−10 M⊙ yr−1 is rapid enough to prevent Ohmic diffusion magnetizing the freshly accreted material. Instead, the field is pushed into the neutron star ocean, where screening currents develop and act to reduce the field in the outermost layers. This fits nicely with the observation that the five accreting pulsars are in weak transient systems, with unusually low time-averaged accretion rates (⟨˙M⟩∼10−11 M⊙ yr−1). Accretion at such low rates gives plenty of time the magnetic field to emerge by Ohmic diffusion, making screening ineffective. A screened interior field would also explain why most burst oscillations show slow frequency drifts. However, much more work is needed on the physics in the burning layer. For example, magnetic fields are likely ubiquitous: small scale field is expected to be produced by convective motions (Spitkovsky et al. 2002), and thermomagnetic drift can act to transport the underlying stellar field upwards (Cumming & Zweibel 2003).
I thank Phil Arras for comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HF-01138 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract NAS 5-26555. |
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en | N/A | N/A | Today Sarah and I facilitated a workshop on creating simulations using H5P branching logic. Virtual simulations are an innovative strategy to enhance student learning both synchronously and asynchronously. We have chosen to build our simulations in H5P because it is free and works well with Moodle. Below are our slides and a copy of the simulation you can download and edit. We are doing a workshop where we co-create a simulation in H5P to show how easy it is. After this session I will update the post with answers to FAQ. |
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en | N/A | N/A | I've just spent 24 hours in Leeds with two of my closest girlfriends. The plan was no men, no kids, just us girls, a bit of shopping and a lot of cocktails in Harvey Nic's.
We'd all been looking forward to the trip for some time. My friend (who I'm always starting Yoga with) and I have had two similar excursions over the last 18 months, both of which resulted in both of us spending lots of money we didn't have on expensive purchases and countless apple martini's. Not that my beloved minded, he was on the receiving end of the majority of my lavish gift buying!
For me, this weekend was about kicking off the festive season proper. Lavish Christmas gift buying, cocktails and giggles. I managed the second two.. It was a tremendously fun weekend. It really was so good to spend quality time with my girls! But, as I've just said to my friend… I'm still not feeling "Christmassy".
I recall that I had a similar feeling last year. It was well into December before "that Christmas feeling" started to make itself known to me. You may think this normal. But, I am very well known in my close circles to be more than slightly obsessed with the festive season; writing my letter to Santa by October 31st at the latest, having my table settings planned and organised by the end of November and generally acting with exponential giddiness from around November 1st.
But it seems that either something (or things) are getting in the way or other things are becoming more important, as I get older… I'm not sure which. Or, maybe it's a bit if both.
So, maybe it's a good thing that I'm not feeling Christmassy just yet. It will give Santa one less kid to worry about this year! |
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Penelope 'Penny' Jane Allan, 74, of Woodstock, GA was called home to our Lord on January 3, 2014 after a long illness. She was born on January 30, 1939 in Springfield, Illinois. Pennylife, laughter, her Catholic faith an sense of humor, warm smile and fighting spirit. Hethat knew and loved her. She was the loving mother of surviving daughter Lori (Tony) Aultman of Woodstock, GA and son Michael (Lori) Allan of Suwanee, GA. Survived by seven grandchildren Kandi, Christopher (Heather), Caitlin, Julia, Sarah, Lindsay and Thomas, and five great grandchildren, Dylan, Lauren, Haylee, Hayden and Chevy. She is also survived by her sister, Patricia (Rex) Strickland, and two brothers Joe and Tim Fitch along with many nieces, nephews and friends. Her mother, Mary Jane Fitch and father, Arthur Fitch preceded Penny in dea14 from 5:00 to 8:00pm at thet 10:30am at St. Michael the Archangel, 490 Arnold Mill Rd, Woodstock, Georgulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) –.
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There are many ways for a small businessE-commerce represents the most current communications channel which is supported by leading edge technology in the form of the Internet. The communication between a business and customer is referred to as Business to Customer (B2C). This communication may occur at various levels of interaction. At a very basic level a business web site may simply present a description of its catalogue. More sophisticated E-commerce applications will conduct sales and provide follow-up services for customers. The advantages of implementing E-commerce outweigh the disadvantages. However, small business adoption may be restricted due to limitations of resources such as time, skills, and finances. The focus of this chapter is Business to Consumer (B2C). As a small business matures it will tend to incorporate more sophisticated aspects of E-commerce and pass through four stages – Presence, Portals, Transactions Integration, and Enterprises Integration networks. Computers on local business networks can be connected to the Internet.
“The computers and organizational nodes on the Internet can be of different types and makes. They are connected to one another by data communications lines of different speeds. The primes that link the nodes are referred to as the backbones. For the Internet, the backbone is a fibre-optic network that is operated primarily by large telecommunications companies.
As a network of networks, the Internet enabled people to access data in other organizations andseamlessly around the world, quickly and inexpensively. Thus, the Internet has become a necessity for modern business.” (Rainer et al, 2014, p. 113)
Table 1. presents a list of many valuable properties of the Internet. Overall, the Internet creates a positive environment for businesses to extend their reach to more new customers in disparate geographical markets or to better serve current customers by providing extensive information about products and services.
Properties of the Internet
Mediating Technology Connects many individuals
Universality Engages the world – anyone, anywhere
Network Externalities More users increases the value
Distribution Channel Can better serve current customers or new customers
Time Moderator Instant 24 hour access
Information Asymmetry Both parties to a transaction have equal access to information
Infinite Virtual Capacity Ability to serve customers seems infinite
Low Cost Standard Development costs have been underwritten
Creative Modifiers Facilitates the old giving way to the (superior) new
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en | N/A | N/A | What is a Moment Generating Function (MGF)?
Can the moments appear "perched" on this polynomial "clothesline", ready to be culled by simply differentiating $k$ times and evaluating at zero once we go through the easier integration (in eq. (2)) just once for all moments! The fact that it is an easier integration is most apparent when the pdf is an exponential.
which leaves us with the improper integral of the part of the expression in red, corresponding to the Fourier transform of the pdf.
In general, the intuition of the Laplace transform poles of a function would be that they provide information of the exponential (decay) and frequency components of the function (in this case, the pdf).
In response to the question under comments about the switching from $X^k$ to $e^{tx}$, this is a completely strategic move: one expression does not follow from the other. Here is an analogy: We have a car of our own and we are free to drive into the city every time we need to take care of some business (read, integrating Eq $(1)$ no matter how tough for every separate, single moment). Instead, we can do something completely different: we can drive to the nearest subway station (read, solve Eq $(2)$ just once), and from there use public transportation to reach every single place we need to visit (read, get any $k$ derivative of the integral in Eq $(2)$ to extract whichever $k$-th moment we need, knowing (thanks to Eq $(3)$) that all the moments are "hiding" in there and isolated by differentiating and evaluating at $0$.
In the most layman terms it's a way to encode alinto one short phrase. For instance, if I know that MGF of the distribution is $$M(t)=e^{t\mu+1/2\sigma^2t^2}$$ I can find out the mean of this distribution by taking first term of Taylor expansion: $$\frac d {dt}M(t)|_{t=0}=\mu+\sigma^2t|_{t=0}=\mu$$ If you know what you're doing it's much faster than taking the expectation of the probability function.
Moreover, since this MGF encodes everything about the distribution, if you know how to manipulate the function, you can apply operations on all characteristics of the distribution at once! Why don't we always use MGF? First, it's not in every situation the MGF is the easiest tool. Second, MGF doesn't always exist.
You can calculate its moment such as mean and standard deviation, and use it on transformed variables and functions on random normals etc.
You can think of the MGF of normal distribution as an alternative to PDF. It contains the same amount of information. I already showed how to obtaints intuiHow to derive the second moment of the Chi-Square distribution with the MGF?
Undefined MGF but all moments finite? |
en | N/A | N/A | I think the story is more complicated. Was it the case that nationalist Ireland was content with Home Rule?And what did Home Rule mean to ordinary people?What was the Home Rule party promising?
Anti-war sentiment was growing in Ireland well before then."
The issues that deeply divided Irish people a century ago are simplified or glossed over and the role of Britain virtually ignored. Tdy."
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This article stems from my long-held fascination with Sister Schubert's story and rolls. And unlike my memories of meeting other role models of mine, who would turn me away, leaving me disappointed and deflected, speaking with Sister gives one a sense of joyful renewal. It's the same feeling you get when diving into one of her cinnamon rolls on a "wintry" Alabama morning. The way she speaks, ending on higher notes for positive words such as "yes!" and "Why, thank you!My memory of meeting Sister is. The way Sister speaks, withIn 1989, for her local church charity event, Sister made 20 pans of her rolls and had to increase her production to 200 pans the following year! |
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Winning The Battle On Private School Uniforms With Your Child
Private schools offer your children a wide range of benefits, but there’s a chance that your kids may balk at having to wear uniforms. This unfortunate battle is fought all over the nation, but it is one that you can win with these simple tips. Talk To Them Like An Adult The first step in this process is sitting down with your children and asking them why they are so against wearing uniforms. Don’t talk to them like you are a boss or asking for what you want to hear. Encourage them to share with you and express their opinion. Talking to your children like grownups helps them mature more quickly. Make sure not to interrupt them as they talk. Listen to what they have to say on the subject (which likely includes issues of personal control), and present your own crucial points, such as the fact that everyone in the school has to follow the same rules and that it will help them fit in. Fitting in and making friends is important for children, and they may end the argument with that point. Examine The Outfit They Have To Wear Stop by the private school and let your child take a look at the uniform they will have to wear. Ask if the child can wear an extra version to see how it fits and looks on them. For many children, this gives them the feeling that they have a choice in the matter. This is important for them, as they likely feel like they don’t get many choices in their life in general. Take some pictures with your phone and show them off to their friends from outside of the private school. Let them talk about the uniform the way that children do and encourage them to talk about how cool or fashionable it looks. This might be all you need to do, but if not, you need to make some concessions. Let Them Dress How They Want At Home If your child is still stubbornly resisting their uniform, let them choose what they get to wear when at home and on the weekends. Naturally, you should exclude clothes that you find inappropriate, but tell them they can otherwise choose what they want. In this way, you can give in to your child a little bit and give them the feeling of personal choice they may have lost with the uniform choice. Most children will be more than happy to get the chance to wear their favorite t-shirt at home (or when out in town) in exchange for wearing a uniform at school. This simple process is something that will bring you and your children closer together by allowing them to feel more in charge of their life. It also gives them the benefits of a private school, something which may help them get into better universities later in life. For more information, contact local professionals like International School of...
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Aug 23, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on Help Your Adolescent Gain Experience and Exposure in the Writing Field
If your adolescent enjoys expressing themselves through descriptive words and rhymes and journals on a daily basis, help them gain experience and exposure in the writing field with the following tips. If all goes well, and your child enjoys participating in the activities, they may continue to strengthen their writing ability and become a successful writer in the future. Encourage Your Child to Enter Poetry Contests Search for poetry contests for teenagers online that allow teens to write poetry about topics that interest them. Encourage your child to enter several contests in order to increase the likelihood that their poetry will be recognized for its originality and be awarded a prize. Even if your child doesn’t win a contest, they may still be listed as a participant of one on a website or in a local newspaper and be encouraged to enter additional contests in the future. Many contests are free and offered at regular intervals each year, allowing your child plenty of opportunities to take part in this type of activity. Suggest They Become a Member of the School Newspaper Staff If your child’s school features a newspaper that is overseen by students, suggest that they sign up to become a contributor. Your child will have the opportunity to interview students, teachers, and other staff members. They can submit stories about sporting events or classes and will be able to share their opinion and writing talent with the entire student body and faculty. Once copies of a newspaper are printed featuring your adolescent’s name, your teen may be proud of their achievement and be inspired to continue writing on a regular basis. Sign Them Up for a Creative-Writing Class Seek out creative-writing classes in your community that are geared towards adolescents. You may be able to find out about specialized classes by inquiring at your child’s school or visiting a local library. A creative-writing class will help your child learn how to describe their feelings. They will be able to experiment with different writing styles and can share their innermost thoughts through their work. Your child may be inspired to share some of their work with you as they complete several classes. If so, praise them for their efforts and encourage them to continue striving to work hard while participating in the class. Besides providing your child with writing experience, completing the class successfully may help increase the chances of their being accepted at a college that they are interested in after they graduate high...
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Jul 26, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on Adults As Math Students
Like many people, you may have taken as little math as possible when you were in high school or even college, considering some majors don’t require that you take very much math, like certain liberal arts programs. Although you may not have worried about being math deficient when you were younger, you may now wonder if you missed out. There are a number of reasons to learn mathematics, so taking up the subject in middle age and even beyond is an excellent use of your time. Problem Solving No matter who you are or what you do, you have to solve problems on a daily basis. Learning higher math helps you develop and improve your problem-solving abilities no matter how old you are. When you do math, you have to be able to analyze the situation at hand. You must pay attention to detail, follow steps correctly, and then “prove” that your answer is correct. The focus is on logic and order, two qualities that benefit everyone. Complex Thinking The math you learn in elementary school is generally simple and requires that you correctly perform a few steps. When you learn how to do advanced math, you must perform a variety of tasks that build upon each other. You can get 90% of the equation correct, but that counts for nothing if the final answer is wrong. Successfully performing calculus, for instance, engages your mind at a higher level, so even if you don’t “need” to know it to survive, it makes you a more sophisticated thinker and gives you a new “language” with which to interpret the world. Anything that improves your abstract thinking ability is worth pursuing. New Career You may wish to learn math in order to change careers. Many exciting professions require that you have a solid understanding of math concepts. If your life-long dream has been to be a play-by-play announcer, you need to be able to deliver statistics such as batting averages and free-throw percentages on a moment’s notice. Even photographers need to calculate exposure, shutter speeds, film speeds, and more in order to create lovely photos. If you decide to study mathematics in middle age, you have numerous options. You can take a class at the local community college, but if you prefer one-on-one attention, you can hire a tutor. Many companies offer both in-home tutors or online tutors to help you master a subject, so you can keep your studies private if you wish. Talk to a tutoring center like Mathnasium of Greenville Five Forks about your options. Remember, it’s never too late to take up any area of study that interests you, math...
Helping Your Dyslexic Child Succeed In School And College
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Jun 28, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on Helping Your Dyslexic Child Succeed In School And College
When you have a child who is dyslexic, every school day can seem like a major struggle for them and for you. Many children with dyslexia not only have trouble in school but also find themselves falling further and further behind as the years progress. However, there are ways to combat this problem with your child so that they can be successful in both their childhood education and even in college and beyond. Get to know some of the ways that you can help your child with their dyslexia so that you can ensure that they can achieve everything that they want in life. Be Sure Your Child Communicates Openly With Their Teacher While you may want to step in and intervene with all of your child’s teachers in school to make sure that they know your child is dyslexic and to make sure they make the proper accommodations, once your child is out of elementary school, your constant interventions can actually be a hindrance to their future success. You want your child to be self-sufficient and know what works for them in school and what does not. As such, you want to be sure that you teach your child the importance of communicating with their teachers and advocating for themselves and their needs as a dyslexic student. Once they get to college, you will not be able to step in on their behalf. So, the sooner they start, the better they will do in school and college. Help Your Child Build Lifelong Reading and Vocabulary Strategies Children with dyslexia find reading written text and vocabulary to be a major challenge. Traditional learning strategies often do not work for dyslexic students so it will be largely up to you and your child to find strategies that do work. One option is to make learning vocabulary a more visual or imagery-based task. When your child is trying to learn a new vocabulary word from a school-provided list, you can create flashcards together to create visual associations between that word and a photograph or drawing. This helps improve retention and memory. You can also help your child develop storytelling and story creation strategies for learning vocabulary and new concepts. It is important for dyslexic students to get a deep understanding of a written word so that they can better remember it. This can be accomplished by having them write stories using the words that they can remember and/or providing context. The context and storytelling strategy can be carried on throughout their entire academic career including college to learn complex vocabulary and new ideas in classes as complex as medical sciences or legal studies classes. Now that you know a few of the ways that you can help your dyslexic child succeed in school and college, you can get started and be sure that you are doing everything in your power to ensure they achieve all of their goals in...
Exploring The Benefits Of Material Testing For Your Metal Fabrication Business
Posted by Sandy Masterson on May 26, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on Exploring The Benefits Of Material Testing For Your Metal Fabrication Business
Producing the highest quality metal parts in your fabrication company is essential for you to earn high profits and to maintain a reputation that will bring in new customers. In order for your metal products to be the best, you need to know the materials you make them out of are the best. Check out these benefits of material testing for your company. Fatigue Testing For Strength Knowing the metal materials you purchase for your production are going to be strong and durable is vital. Fatigue testing provides you with the data you need for determining whether or not a particular type of metal is strong enough to withstand the applications it will be used for once it is manufactured into a part. The last thing you want is your customers complaining about the parts you make for them being flimsy during their application. Fatigue testing can include fracture mechanics for learning how well a particular part will perform under certain conditions like high pressure or intense weight. Fatigue testing and fracture mechanics are important for you to design parts that are going to outlast those made by your competitors. Tensile Testing And The Presence Of Soft Alloys Tensile testing is necessary for learning how much strength your materials have when pulled apart by strong forces. In some metal materials, the presence of alloys can create lower tensile strength and allow the material to be weaker than it needs to be for your needs. While some alloys work to strengthen properties of a metal, some alloys do not provide greater strength. Learning more about the metal material you are working with can allow you to make choices about its production that matter. For example, if you are producing stainless steel cookware for a restaurant business, you need to know if your material will have a tensile strength able to withstand high heat. The Importance Of Metallurgical Analysis If you have ever had a part returned to you for any number of reasons, you need to know what happened so the same mistake won’t be made again with that kind of part. For this reason, the need in your metal fab shop for metallurgical analysis may be great. For example, if you manufactured parts an automotive plant and the parts were too soft and did not hold up under the pressure of a running engine, you need to know what is in the metal you used for those parts. If you purchased a metal and did not have it tested ahead of using it in production, you may see problems like this, which is why this type of testing is important to do before you make bulk purchases of materials. Metallurgic analysis involves a material being looked at under a microscope or spectroscopic X-ray for learning what is in it and what may make it strong enough or not for your applications. By not taking chances that a metal material is exactly what you need without using material testing equipment first to make sure, you can experience greater customer feedback and higher profits in your metal fabrication...
Vocational Schools Can Get Disabled Veterans Back To Work
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Apr 27, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on Vocational Schools Can Get Disabled Veterans Back To Work
If you or someone you love is a disabled veteran, it can be easy to feel hopeless or lost. There are a lot of people out there like you who may feel alienated or like they can no longer contribute to society. Thankfully, that’s not the case, as vocational schools and training classes can provide you with the training you need to start a brand new career. How Many Veterans Are Disabled? The number of disabled veterans in the country currently sits at close to 1,200,000 people, which is about 12% of the entire civilian veteran population. Many of these veterans can no longer walk or suffer from severe pain that requires regular medication. Thankfully, the government provides disability benefits to veterans that help take care of them. However, it’s likely that veterans don’t want to live off this money forever and want to get back to work. But they lack the proper education and training to transition to new jobs or careers. This is where vocational schools and training becomes so necessary. In What Ways Does Vocational Training Help? Vocational training can help disabled veterans identify a job or career path that can bring them more money than simply living off of disability benefits. Vocational classes are designed to help people find a job that suits their abilities and to train them in how to execute it. A large part of vocational success lies in properly utilizing the Disability Employment Initiative. This effort is designed to help disabled people (including the veterans who have given up so much for their country) receive education, training, and employment opportunities. Reaching out to them can help guide you to the career that you deserve. Another way vocational training can help is by battling the depression many disabled veterans are likely to feel. Studies show that people feel most satisfied and happy when they are working, and finding a job for veterans can help keep them happier than they would have been otherwise. What Kind Of Jobs Are Available? If you still feel like there’s no hope, it’s important to remember that there is actually quite a range of jobs that are perfect for people with disabilities. Many of these skills can be learned at vocational schools, and some of the most popular and financially successful jobs include the following: Accountant Financial analyst Writer and editor Vocational counseling Marketing Pharmaceutical tech While specific disabilities may make it more difficult to perform certain jobs, vocational schools can still help you find something that works right for you. Soon, you’ll be back in the work force and feeling proud and excited about your achievements...
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Mar 4, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on 3 Tips For Preparing For The Roofing Exam
Have you gone to school for roofing? Are you looking to take the exam so that you can become a certified roofer? If so, you might be feeling pretty excited about your new career, but you might also be at least a little bit worried about the exam. Luckily, following a few tips to prepare for the roofing exam can help ensure your success. 1. Talk to Your Instructor Is there anything that you are unclear about? If so, it’s a good idea to talk to your teacher well in advance of the test. He or she should know a little bit about the exam and what you should expect to be tested on and can talk to you about your concerns. Your instructor may also be able to work with you one-on-one with things that you’re having trouble with or may be able to suggest good study materials that can help you prepare for both the exam itself and your future career as a roofer. 2. Look for Online Testing Prep Materials Did you know that there are online testing prep materials that you can use to prepare for your roofing exam? Look for state-specific materials that you can use, such as practice test questions. Resources like Illinois Roofing Exam Prep are very helpful. You can also watch online video tutorials of people doing various roofing tasks, which can help tighten up your skills and make you feel better-prepared. 3. Practice, Practice, Practice Even though you have probably done a lot of practicing in school, it never hurts to get in some extra practice at home, especially when you have an upcoming exam. Along with studying over your study materials, consider practicing with more practical, hands-on applications. For example, if you use a scrap piece of plywood or another old piece of wood, you can attach shingles and other roofing materials. You can purchase what you need at a local home improvement store, and it probably isn’t as expensive as you think. This can help you sharpen your skills and can make you feel more confident, both when you take your exam and later, when you’re actually up on a roof and doing a job. You have already taken great steps by completing your schooling, so now is the time to prepare for your exam so that you can launch the career that you want. If you follow these three steps, you’ll probably find that it’s easier than you thought it would be, and you’ll feel great on testing...
It’s Never Too Late: Three Reasons For Adults To Take Up Martial Arts
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Feb 2, 2016 in Education & Development, Blog | Comments Off on It’s Never Too Late: Three Reasons For Adults To Take Up Martial Arts
As an adult, it’s easy to fall into the grind of getting up, going to work, coming home and watching TV ’til bed. On the weekends, you perform chores around the house, run errands and pretty soon it’s Sunday night and you’re preparing to start the workweek again. It’s time to add a thrill to your week. Even if you never practiced martial arts as a child or teenager, don’t be afraid to jump into the fray as an adult. Many martial arts centers have classes designed for adult beginners, and you’ll soon find that breaking a sweat with other like-minded individuals could be the highlight of your week. Here are three benefits to taking up martial arts if you’re an adult. Weight Loss Or Maintenance Many adults fall into the categories of either wishing to lose weight or striving to maintain their current weight, and martial arts can help you in either regard. This activity has a high caloric burn; a 185-pound adult who practices martial arts for just 30 minutes will burn about 444 calories. This high rate of burning calories is akin to swimming laps or running at a pace of six miles per hour — both of which are also effective ways to improve your physical health. If you’ve struggled with finding an exercise, martial arts might be the choice for you. Stress Relief Whether you’re among the more than 40 percent of Americans who feels that their stress level is increasing or you’re simply more stressed than you’d like to be, martial arts can be the answer. This activity has stress-relieving benefits; as you’re concentrating on the moves that you’re learning, you’ll hardly have an opportunity to be thinking about the stresses of the day. Additionally, using so many major muscle groups throughout your workout can reduce the muscle tightness that is a common symptom of stress. Physical activities such as martial arts also release endorphins that can help lighten your mood. Improved Teamwork Martial arts can help you build your ability to work as a team. When you eventually reach the point at which you’re lightly grappling or sparring with an opponent, you’re technically working as a team. You’re each relying on the other person — especially as you’re working to implement what you’ve learned — to treat you with respect and position his or her body according to your training. You might soon find that working as a team in this physically challenging setting makes you a better teammate in other settings, such as at work. For more info, speak with professionals like Master S.H. Yu Martial...
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Dec 31, 2015 in Blog | Comments Off on How To Get Your Electrician License
In order to be an officially licensed electrician, you must complete a set amount of training education coupled with hands-on training in the field. There are typically three levels or steps to becoming fully licensed: journeyman, master, and contractor. When you’re ready to begin your foray into the world of electrical work, here is what you need to do in order to get the qualifications to continue your career. Journeyman Becoming a journeyman electrician is the first step to becoming fully licensed. Journeymen must have two years of experience working in the field along with the completion of a two year formal training program. These programs are available at most trade schools or community colleges. Alternatively, you may receive your journeyman certification if you have four years’ worth of training in the field along with a set amount of hours of formal classroom training. The more years you have in the field, the less formal training hours you will need. This number varies by state, so be sure you check with your individual state to get your exact requirements. Master Electrician A master electrician is typically paid more for their work and has more authority over job sites and other electricians. No one can become a master electrician until they receive their journeyman qualifications first. You must complete at least one year of hands-on experience as a journeyman and pass an official master electrician certification test. For those who never received their journeyman’s certification, they may be able to circumvent this with ten years’ worth of experience as an electrician in the field as long as they can obtain a signed affidavit by someone who can verify their length of time performing electrical related tasks on the job. Licensed Contractor Those who have received their master electrician certification can apply to become a licensed contractor. This title allows you to start your own business and perform your own work without being directly employed by an electrical company. You can perform duties such as planning layout details for electrical installation and providing electrical maintenance contracts to customers. In order to get your license, you must apply with your local jurisdiction’s department of occupational and professional regulation board. Once the application is submitted, you must take an examination that will register you as an officially licensed electrician. Getting your contractor’s license can open the doors to a long and successful career as a professional electrician. For more information about becoming an electrician, contact a school such as the HVAC Technical Institute....
Posted by Sandy Masterson on Nov 25, 2015 in Blog | Comments Off on Choosing The Right School For Your Child Interested In The Ivy Leagues
When your child expresses an interest in one day attending an Ivy League university, you could not be more proud of them or excited for them. However, no matter how young they are when they tell you about their dreams, you know that it is never too early to start them of the path towards successful entry into those schools. Because of the elite and competitive nature of those universities, you are aware that choosing the right schools leading up to their college applications will be one of the most important keys to getting admitted. Get to know some of the factors to keep in mind as you choose your child’s schools so that you ensure they have the best possible chance of getting into the Ivy League. Pay Attention to Test Scores and Class Offerings One of the most important factors when choosing a school for your child who wishes to be Ivy League-bound is to pay attention to the average test scores of students attending that school as compared to the rest of the state and the rest of the nation as a whole. While it is true that test scores are not always the best indicator of whether a child is receiving a quality education, for students with Ivy League ambitions, they matter more than for some others. This is because, even in elementary schools and middle schools, high standardized test scores can indicate that the students will also get higher than average scores on college entrance exams like the ACT and SAT. These test scores will not get your child into an Ivy League school without other important factors, but they are what can get an application moved on in the process or rejected outright. Additionally, in middle school and high school, you will want to carefully look over the class offerings available to students at the school. Make sure that advanced placement courses are available to students. These advanced classes will be important on an Ivy League application. However, what can really make the difference between schools is the electives that they offer. Look for schools with a wide variety of elective courses that can help your child really hone their skills in an academic area of interest, whether this means Latin and the classics, or organic chemistry and astrophysics. The more advanced in academic areas of interest your child is, the better. Extracurriculars Do Matter (A Lot) Many parents and students alike, place their focus primarily on academics when they are striving for the Ivy Leagues. However, the issue with this strategy is that virtually all of the students applying to those prestigious schools will have high test scores and good grades in advanced courses throughout their school years. What sets some students apart from others is their extracurricular activities and achievements. As such, choosing the right schools for your child means choosing schools with high-quality extracurricular activities for your child to choose from. If your child is artistic or musical, you will want to be sure that performing arts, music, and visual arts are embraced by the school and that students have the chance to join groups and showcase their talents in these areas. Athletic children will need schools with strong sports programs that will attract the attention of college recruiters. Also... |
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Website hosting is a physical space where websites live. Every website uses lots of files such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and more. These files need to live somewhere accessible to the public, which is where web hosting comes in. When you buy hosting, you’re purchasing space on a special piece of computer hardware called a web server designed to host websites to the public.
It is possible to host a website on an average home or office computer, but it’mend it.
Domain names are separate from web hosting, but they usually go hand in hand. A domain name points to the web hosting when someone types it in their web browser, making users see your website. You can even have your domain with one company and web hosting with another.
As the name suggests, with shared web hosting, you’re buying a small share of a web server set up to host many websites. It’s usually the most cost-effective solution as the hardware cost is being spread across many customers. In addition, the webserver will probably have been configured in a generic way to work with most website types. You’ll have limited control over the configuration, and its ease of use makes it an attractive option to those with limited technical knowledge. However, while it’s a cheaper option because it’s a shared resource, shared web hosting tends to be slower than higher-priced alternatives.
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Robin D. Stauffer (Photo/Amy Spangler)Penn State University
Primary job function: Liaison between the High Family Council, the chair of boards, the directors and committee members and the CEO
Company description: Manufacturing, fabricating, processing, distribution, heavy hauling, safety consulting, real estate, construction, architecture, hotel and investment companies
Professional/community affiliations; Essence of Humanity Award Program, executive director; United Way of Lancaster County, board member, former campaign chair; Lancaster County Community Foundation, community engagement committee member; Junior League of Lancaster County, sustainer chair
Best part of the job: My work with the community and e S. Dale High Family Foundation. It has been a privilege to develop relationships in the noprofit sector and to b
First paying job: Working at a snack counter at a local farmers markete, the importance of staying focused and on task, and the fact that hard work can be rewarding.
More about the honoree: Stauffer has been an integral part of the High Companies, serving as a highly respected liaison in day-today operations, while also providing leadership at e S. Dale High Family Foundation as its executive director off the clock. She has been able to oversee the foundation’s mission to eliminate poverty and homelessness in Lancaster County and southcentral Pennsylvania.
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Artistic style transfer aims at migrating the style from an example image to a content image. Currently, optimization-based methods have achieved great stylization quality, but expensive time cost restricts their practical applications. Meanwhile, feed-forward methods still fail to synthesize complex style, especially when holistic global and local patterns exist. Inspired by the common painting process of drawing a draft and revising the details, we introduce a novel feed-forward method Laplacian Pyramid Network (LapStyle). LapStyle first transfers global style pattern in low-resolution via a Drafting Network. It then revises the local details in high-resolution via a Revision Network, which hallucinates a residual image according to the draft and the image textures extracted by Laplacian filtering. Higher resolution details can be easily generated by stacking Revision Networks with multiple Laplacian pyramid levels. The final stylized image is obtained by aggregating outputs of all pyramid levels. Experiments demonstrate that our method can synthesize high quality stylized images in real time, where holistic style patterns are properly transferred. |
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Associated Press > </s> Yesterday, in the sunshine of our backyard, Lindsey and I had one of our best talks yet. Earlier in the day, she had gotten angry with me about something I said, something she took entirely the wrong way. I was feeling sad and frustrated that our relationship still isn’t where I’d like it to be — where I feel it needs to be for me to have any influence in her life in the brief years before she’s out on her own. But she came out to talk to me, which was in itself a huge improvement from just a couple of years ago, when she would’ve simply hidden in her room indefinitely.
In yesterday’s talk, I was able to tell her many of the things that usually would’ve made her angry |
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John Binns considers a formative place and time for the Christian West
Christianity in Roman Africa: The development of its practices and beliefs
J. Patout Burns Jr and Robin M. Jensen
TWENTY years ago, two authors and four collaborators set themselves an ambitious task. Their aim was to describe the life and practices of the Church of the region of North Africa, using not only theological texts, but also archaeological remains, mosaics, and other pieces of art, and placing these within a social context.
We discover that the faith of this region had a formative influence on the Western Church. Roman North Africa covers the present-day nations of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya. Here, Christians first translated the Bible into - and used - Latin, and a succession of theologians - Tertullian, who n; Cyprian; and Augustine - formed a theological tradition that spread into Europe. In contrast, the early Christian communities of Italy and Gaul spoke Greek.
While the Greeks struggled to find definitions to convey the mysteries of the Trinity and the nature of Christ, the Roman bishops were confronted with more practical challenges. The Church was divided over the charismatic prophecy of Montanism in the early third century; the treatment of those who renounced Christ in the various persecutions; then between Donatists and Caecilians in the fourth century.
These bitter arguments forced them to think through what the Church is, and especially how an earthly organisation can be the means of salvation. They were concerned with the right forms of government, the practice of worship and sacraments, and so the building of a holy community. Western Christianity was born out of struggle with practical and disciplinary concerns.
This story is presented in three sections. The first is a history of a turbulent period of the life of the Church, including persecutions, Vandal invasions, and the Arab conquests in the seventh century which overcame and absorbed the Christian Church in the region. The second, and longest part, describes the sacraments and other practices. These show how baptismal discipline developed, and how the eucharist changed from being a household agape based around a domestic evening meal to a morning liturgy for the whole church, presided over by the bishop.
Then there are descriptions of penance; of ordination; of burial; and then of the conditions of marriage, virginity, and widowhood. A third section summaries the theme of holiness, which has reappeared through the earlier chapters.
The main sources used are not lengthy theological works, but sermons and letters, which arose out of the events of the lives of the churches, and show the concerns and anxieties of Christians. Archaeological research shows what kind of buildings were used, which in turn influenced liturgical practice. The book includes 153 coloured illustrations and ground plans to introduce the reader to important sites.
The range of evidence and the careful exposition of themes in this book show us a Church grappling with issues of faith and salvation. Out of this turbulent and evolving history, the Church of the West was formed. It reminds us that the Church of the West has its roots in Africa.
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"Is this the reality of Iranian families?" she asked. "If so, is it the same reality in which women are earning 65% of university places or has the television picked a minority to represent the majority?" |
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December 12, 2013–Annual Campbell Christmas Party!Today was the annual Christmas luncheon at The Campbell Group, where the employees gathered for fun, food and a very nice update from President, Andrew Schutt. Take a look: November 1, 2013–An
June 28, 2013– Acrisure's!The's article: "Globally Harmonized System – Are You Ready?"– Ac
May 15, 2013– Acrisure Benefits Group Ad Featured in May Issue of Both the Grand Rapids Business Journal AND MiBiz!
May 15, 2013– The Campbell Group'e!
March 20, 2013– Acrisure's Corporate Risk Manager, Brad Rutgers, writes a compelling article on Workers' Comp for Business Update!
March 17, 2013– The Campbell Group, a Division of Acrisure, Has Been Named Or!
March 14, 2013– The Business Update Features The Campbell Group's Workers' Comp Article in Their March 2013 Issue!
March 13Announces Dave Palmisano as Commercial Marketing Manager!
February 28, 2013– Genstar Capital Announces Acquisition of Acrisure, LLC!
February 21, 2013– Acrisure Welcomes Three New Agency Partners: Mayernik Insurance Services, Focus Insurance Agency and Insurance Exchange Agency!
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December 11, 2012– The Campbell Group Partners with MABA!
July 5, 2012– Sara Tountas joins Acrisure Benefits Group/The Campbell Group as the Director of Legal Compliance!
June 4, 2012– The Campbell Group named as a winner of West Michigan's 2012 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For!Nine years in a row, The Campbell Group has been honored with this prestigious award. It's because of our exceptional employees that we continue to win. Their dedication to our company helps make uproviders in the Midwest. Thank you employees of Campbell! |
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Go trains (http://www.gotransit.com/). Double decker trains!They're generally on time!They have seats!You can sit in them!Glory be!
Milk comes in bags and folk seem to have generally good Manners. From passing a store on Queen East, I've also learned that a Manzilian is a thing, although not one I will Google. [Don't worry, Andy — we did it for you!
Oh Henry!(https://www.facebook.com/OhHenryCanada/). These must only be spoken of in the manner of Kenneth Williams, and are acceptable large chocolate bars like the ones not available any more in the UK. There are no Brexit Toblerones hoblerone-gap-brexit-falling-pound-2016?
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This is a new — and exciting — one. Andy McLachlan sent an e-mail to Brits in Toronto a few months ago with an offer: would we like to document his British family's move to Toronto?
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Satisfied with the answers, we waited …and Andy got back to us this week: "Sorry for the delay!I've been busy making life decisions and planning. Having written some moany Brexit-bashing waffle, I've put together the following in the hopes of getting some advice ;-). I'm willing to contribute more to the blog as the story develops if you'd like."'ve decided on?
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en | N/A | N/A | Software testing is a procedure of investigating a software product to find errors. Optimized Adaptive Random Partition Testing (OARPT) is a combined approach which comprises of Adaptive Testing (AT) and Random Partition Testing (RPT) in an alternative manner depending on test case. ARPT consists of two strategies are ARPT 1 and ARPT 2. The parameters of ARPT 1 and ARPT 2 need to be assessed for different software with different number of test cases and programs. The process of assessing the parameters of ARPT consumes high computational overhead and therefore it is more necessary to optimize parameters of ARPT. In this paper, the parameters of ARPT 1 and ARPT 2 are optimized by using Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) which improves the performance of ARPT software testing strategies. The experiments are conducted in different software and the proposed method improves defect detection efficiency and high code coverage, reduces time consumption and reduces memory utilization. |
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Yemenia Airlines third civil commercial flight arrived at Sana’a International Airport from Queen Alia Airport in Amman, carrying 271 citizens.
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The Yemeni aircraft, Airbus A330, has received all the air navigation and ground servicesditions and the ICAO Civil Aviation Organization.
The third flight of Yemenia Airlines took off on Wednesday from Sana’a International Airport, heading to the Jordanian capital, Amman, with 273 passengers on board.
The travelers praised the efforts made to operate civil commercial flights from Sanaa Airport, expressing their hope that flights from Sana’a Airport will continue permanently to all countries of the world.
Sana’a Hints at Possibility of Refusing to Extend UN Armistice |
en | N/A | N/A | FX’s “The Bear” climbed its way onto the top breakout shows rankings with a 114% increase in demand just days after its June 23 debut on Hulu
“The Bear” centers on the exhausting, cutthroat and gritty life of has been very well received among critics and fans alike. It had 17.8eek ending July 1 — a level of demand that’s rather impressive for an original IP show in its first week, and might just continue to grow as more people hear about it.
Meanwhile, Disney+’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” respectively, on the chart this week. While demand for “Obi-Wan” sank by 5% this week, the “Star Trek” spin-off also surprisingly had a minor decline in demand.
The decline for “Strange New Worlds” might be a side effect of the buzz around the Season 4 finale of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” which dropped on Friday.
After losing its position to FX’s “The Old Man” last week, Disney+’s “Ms. Marvel” rose swiftly to third place on the chart with 24.4 times the average series demand, an 8% increase.
TV Tokyo/Crunchyroll’s “Spy X Family” ended on a high note last week, taking fourth place in the rankings after its midseason finale on June 25. The series saw a 4% increase in demand — 23.7 times that of the average series demand.
After a meteoric 180% rise in demand last week, FX’s “The Old Man” saw a 6% decrease in demand and slid down to fifth place in the rankings.
Similarly, Amazon Prime Video’s coming-of-age drama “The Summer I Turned Pretty” also dropped to ninth place with 15.6 times the average series demand, a 20% decrease from last week. Rounding out the rankings this week — despite a 6% decrease in demand — Paramount+’s “Halo” made a comeback to the chart in 10th place with 15.3 times the average series demand. |
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If your content ideas are lacking, you’re not destined for failure. You just need a new perspective.
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ALBANY, NY – On Wednesday, July 1, tobacco control measures, passed by the New York State Legislature and signed by Governor Cuomo, that prohibit the use of tobacco coupons and multi pack discounts and that stop the online sale and shipment of e-cigarette products to personal residences will become law.
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Senior New York Government Relations Director Julie Hart released the following statement:
“Big Tobacco spends billions of dollars on price discounts and coupons to keep tobacco products cheap which makes it more appealing for young people to start the deadly addiction. These new measures are steps in the right direction however more needs to be done.
“We need to increase funding for the Tobacco Control Program to the CDC recommendation of $203 million, increase the tax on cigarettes by at least one dollar, provide for tax parity for all tobacco products including e-cigarettes, and stop the sale of all flavored tobacco products. Menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars and hookah are used by the tobacco industry to lure kids into a lifetime of addiction. Big Tobacco uses menthol products to shamelessly target Black, Latinx, LGBTQ and low socioeconomic communities with flavored tobacco products of all varieties. It is crucial that further action is taken to end the sale of menthol cigarettes and all other flavored tobacco products when lawmakers return.”
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Nicmos Units Conversion Program HELP The NICMOS Units Conversion Program is a tool for converting fluxes of astronomical sources from units which are widely used in Astronomy (e.g., magnitude, ergs/sec/cm^2/A, etc.) into Jansky (Jy), and vice versa. The Jy, or, for the case of extended sources, Jy/arcsec^2, is the flux unit adopted in the NICMOS Handbook and used by the NICMOS Exposure Time Calculator. For general reference: 1 Jy = 1.0E-26 W/m^2/Hz = 1.0E-23 erg/s/cm^2/Hz The details of the FORTRAN program which handles the unit conversion are explained in the Instrument Science Report NICMOS-014, written by Chris Skinner. The report is available under the Documentation section of the NICMOS WWW Page. Modifications to the FORTRAN program were added by Daniela Calzetti (02-July-1996 and 09-April-1997) to handle power-law spectra and AB mags. Inputs
Input Units: one of the many available options. Output Units: also one of the options. Input Flux or Magnitude Value: the input value of the flux or magnitude. Input Wavelength: the wavelength at which the input flux is given. If the Input Unit is a magnitude, the value of the wavelength does not need to be specified; the field can be given any value, but NOT left blank. However, if the Input Unit is AB magnitude, the input wavelength need to be specified. Output Wavelength: the wavelength at which the output flux is desired. PLEASE NOTE: IF THE INPUT AND OUTPUT WAVELENGTHS DIFFER BY MORE THAN 5%, THIS PROGRAM EXTRAPOLATES ASSUMING ONE OF THE THREE SPECTRAL SHAPES SUPPLIED BELOW. If the Output Unit is a magnitude, the value of the wavelength does not need to be specified; the field can be given any value, but NOT left blank. However, if the Input Unit is AB magnitude, the output wavelength need to be specified. Blackbody Spectrum: if the user wants to use a blackbody spectrum to extrapolate fluxes, then the Blackbody Temperature, in Kelvin, should be supplied, in addition to select the blackbody option. Power-Law Spectrum: if the user wants to use a power-law spectrum to extrapolate fluxes, then the Spectral Index should be supplied, in addition to select one of the two power-law options. NOTE! the convention for the FIRST power-law index is: Flux(Frequency) = A * Frequency(Spectral Index) and the convention for the SECOND power-law index is: Flux(Frequency) = B * Wavelength(Spectral Index) AB Magnitude
The AB magnitude system is defined as (Oke, J.B. & Gunn, J. 1983, ApJ, 266, 713): AB = -2.5 * log [Flux(frequency)] - 48.57 where the Flux(frequency) is in units of ergs/cm2/s/Hz. |
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Because technical analysis is based on the study of data in the past, it is very important to present the data graphically. So charts are important element of technical analysis.
Depending on the way how elements of the chart are drawn, there are different types of charts:
Chart can be drawn in arithmetic or logarithmic scale. For arithmetic charts vertical axis has equidistant distances. For example, distance between 1 and 2 is same as between 2 and 3, as well as between 3 and 4 and so on. On a logarithmic chart the distances are different. Distances are smaller as price increases. The advantage of logarithmic scale is that equal percentage changes have the same distance. Therefore price change from 10 to 20 (100%) is the same as the change from 20 to 40, or from 40 to 80 etc. Logarithmic charts point out the percentage change, but their construction is a bit complicated and they can not show negative values (which is required to view certain indicators). Therefore, in most cases users are using the arithmetic charts, while the logarithmic charts are more interesting for advance users. </s> Cold medicine might have affected the drug tests of eight service personnel at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taichung, causing them to test positive for morphine useBase-wide drug screening was carried out following the discovery of 53 packages of amphetamines and ketamine on the base last week.
Eight base personnel reportedly tested positive for Category 1 narcotics, which include morphine, heroin and opium, none of which were found at the base.
Cold medicines containing codeine, an opiate, might have caused a positive result of morphine because the metabolites of the two substances are similar, ministry Medical Affairs Bureau Director Wu Yi-chang (吳怡昌) told law
There were only trace amounts of the metabolites in the eight subject’s systems, suggesting that the test result might have been caused by the ingestion of cold medicines, Wu said.
However, it would be up to the judicial system rather than the hospital to determine the nature of the substances, u Yu-ling (呂玉玲) said she had received tip-offs from military sources that the drugs had been planted on the base to frame the base’s director, Major General Wang Te-yang (王德揚), amid an escalating dispute between Wang and a low-ranking officer surnamed Huang (黃).
However,Wang and Huang were on good terms and there was no defamation plot linked to the case.
The percentage of military personnel testing positive for drugs is lower than other groups in society, the defense ministry said, noting that drug tests conducted by the Ministry of Education in 2015 found 4.66 percent of students tested positive for drugs.
Newly enlisted conscripts have the highest rate of positive drug tests, with an average of 0.16 percent of conscripts having tested positive for drug use over the past three years, the defense ministry said. </s>has selected the Encore Networks solution for the migration of its Frame Relay transmission and communications network to a Multi-Protocol Layer Switching (MPLS) network. The MPLS network, run over an AT&T backbone, uses Encore’s rugged BANDIT routers at over 6 |
en | N/A | N/A | The firm’s chief executive Rupert Soames told MPs on the Public Administration Committee — which is part-way through an inquiry into the way the civil service works — that the firm had been “through the valley of the shadow of death” in the wake of the tagging scandal and had, at one point, been in "severe danger of collapse", prompting bi-weekly meetings with the Cabinet Office and Treasury as Serco sought to shore up its finances.
What do civil servants really think of the government's key suppliers?
“What has happened is two things: the government got into a place where it was advised to do massive transfer of state risk onto suppliers,” he said.
“] contract,” he said.
The Serco chief, who was brought in to run the organisation after the 2013 MoJ tagging scandal, said he believed that the “greater sophistication and toughness of the Cabinet Office” from 2010 had led to “the pendulum on risk transfer swinging too far”, placing a greater strain on suppliers.
And he criticised the practice of putting out some “highly sensitive” government services to online bids, a change initiated by the Crown Commercial Service in an effort to drive down costs and open up bidding to smaller suppliers.
“Now, you had to pre-qualify to get there… But I do not believe that that is a sensible way to procure services for tens of thousands of vulnerable people,” Soames said.
The Serco boss welcomed recent changes at the CCS, which has recently come under the leadership of new chief executive Malcolm Harrison and published fresh guidance on contracts.
The central government procurement body had, Soames said, now started stressing the importance of departments “taking some responsibility for the quality of the data in the bidding documents” to ensure that suppliers were better informed about the scale of the contracts they were taking on.
A PCS spokesperson told CSW: “No one will have any sympathy for Serco that has made huge profits from government work and failed time and again. |
en | N/A | N/A | Much has been said about the manner of Sunderland's performance at Burton, but what are the things we should be focusing on as we strive to improve when we take on Rochdale at the Stadium of Light on Saturday?
A great many words have been expended on the defeat at Burton Albion. Given that getting beaten is part and parcel of football, why was a single defeat seen as a such a significant moment? |
en | N/A | N/A | after installing a large number of updates, yum fails with:
Error: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.
3. yum update a*
error message above
update packages beginning with "a"
not sorted out yet, more later. may be locale, will look for .rpmnew in /etc/yum. |
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