In this paper I am to reflect on my performance as an educator over the course of my two week unit. To accomplish this I will begin by discussing my most successful learning goal, my least successful learning goal, and what may have led to those outcomes. My most successful learning goal for my two week unit was Learning Goal 1. That learning goal is as follows, Learning Goal 1: Understand that all energy originates from the sun. I say that this is my most successful learning goal, because it was on this goal that the students scored the lowest on the pre-assessment and ended with the greatest increase of scores on the post assessment. For this learning goal the class average on the pre-assessment was around 22% out of 100%. After the two week unit was completed and the post assessment was administered the class average for the same goal was around 86% out of 100%. The students ended up with a 64 point difference between the pre and post assessments. This was the greatest increase in points as Learning Goal 2 had a 16 point increase, and Learning Goal 3 had a 59 point increase between the pre and post assessments. I believe that the material that was associated with Learning Goal 1 was a new concept for most of these students. I think that one reason for the increase in score from the pre to the post assessment was the fact that this new concept was taught to them in a manner in which the students could understand. There were three questions that addressed this learning goal on the pre-assessment and three that did the same on the post, so there were not a huge number of differences in the number of questions that could have skewed the results between the two assessments. Additionally, I believe that the students were able to do well with this learning goal because, once explained the material associated with this learning goal is not complicated. So once the students were armed with the knowledge, I think they could easily identify the concepts and applications that applied to Learning Goal 1 and this attributed to their performance on the post assessment. The Learning Goal that I had the least success with would be Learning Goal 2. The goal stated: Learning Goal 2: Understand how radiant energy from the sun is transferred to electrical energy and then to chemical energy in the bonds of macromolecules. This goal basically deals with photosynthesis and the accompanying processes. Oddly enough the students scored higher on the questions aligned with this goal on the pre-assessment. The class average for Learning Goal 2 was 55%. This told me that the students came into the lesson with at least some basic knowledge of photosynthesis. However, on the post assessment the students only increased by 16 points to average 71% as a class. My objective for each learning goal was to have the students pass the assessment with a minimum of 70% accuracy. The class barely made this objective. This class is a very quite one, in which the students rarely ask questions unless prompted. Perhaps many in the class were confused about the processes of photosynthesis and I did not recognize this because no one asked for help. There is also the possibility that I did not present the information in such a manner as to allow the students to effectively learn the material. Because the students scored so well on the pre-assessment there was less room for overall improvement, but when compared to the increases in scores on the other learning objectives a 16 point increase is simply unacceptable. The formative assessments that I gave during the course of the two week unit gave no indication of problems with this particular learning goal, but something went wrong. If I could do this again, I would certainly implement a questioning strategy during the lessons on photosynthesis. If I had I think that I could have caught some of the issues that the students had with this particular learning goal.


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as I should. Any suggestions?
I would think that potentially the most dangerous problem that might cause this type of pain would be a deep vein thrombosis, but apparently you have been to a vascular specialist and that has been ruled out.
You mention that you have been to a podiatrist who has made a diagnosis of Morton's neuroma. The neuroma in itself would not give you the type of symptoms that you are experiencing. The only connection I could make between the neuroma and your knee pain and swelling might be if the neuroma in your right foot is so painful that it is causing you to change your gait. A compensatory change in gait could cause pain elsewhere. If that is the case, then once the neuroma is quieted down either through the use of orthotics or other treatment, in theory, the knee issue would also resolve as you return to a more normal gait.
achilles tendon and attaches into the heel.
The gastrocnemius muscle attaches into the area of the lateral (outside) portion of the knee, extends downward and in combination with the soleus muscle forms the achilles tendon.
So, here is the scenario I picture. You may have what is known as a tight heel cord, meaning your foot cannot bend upwards as far as it should. When you are walking, you are therefore putting excessive strain on the gastroc-soleus muscle combination. Because of this and possibly because you have fibromyalgia, the gastrocnemius muscle is being strained where it attaches into the lateral side of the knee. A tight heel cord may also cause the calf to swell because your calf muscle is the gastrocnemius-soleus muscle combination.
It should be mentioned that there is also a muscle known as the plantaris muscle. This too originates in the area of the lateral side of the knee and also attaches in the back of the heel bone. It is a muscle that serves no function and is so thin, that in anatomy classes it is known as "freshman's nerve" because many medical students mistake it for a nerve. That is how thin a muscle it it. I bother to mention it, because in theory it could also be the source of your knee pain, but would probably not cause the calf to swell.
What bothers me about the possibility of a gatroc-soleus problem is that I would have thought that either the vascular specialist or the podiatrist would have ruled this out.
On your next visit to your podiatrist ask he or she to check on this possibility as the source of your leg pain.


What is the Definition of the W-1 Visa in Canada?
Citizens of most countries need a document called a visa to travel to Canada, whether it's for business, work or pleasure. A visa provides certain information to the immigration officers at the port of entry, including the traveler's status. A Canadian visa with the code W-1 identifies the traveler as a worker.
There is no specific document as a W-1 visa, but if you have the W-1 code on your Canadian visa document, this means you are entering the country as a worker. A V-1 code identifies you as a visitor.
A visa is a document many travelers must have to fly to or transit through a Canadian airport. U.S. citizens do not need a visa to enter Canada for stays up to 180 days, but they do need a passport valid on the date of entry. It's important to understand the difference between a visa and a work permit. They are two separate documents, used for different purposes. A visa is a travel document that allows you to enter a country, while a work permit is a status document granting the right to work. You may need a work permit to work in Canada if you do not have Canadian citizenship. Jobs that don't require a work permit include public speaker, news reporter, civil aviation inspector, emergency service provider, performing artist and farm worker.
To get a Canadian work permit you must meet certain requirements. For example, you must prove you will leave Canada when your work permit expires; have no criminal record; be in good health and pass a medical exam, if required; and not have worked in Canada for one or more periods that total four years within the past four years.
Unless you're traveling to Canada as a worker from a visa-exempt country like the U.S., you must apply for a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV). A Canadian Immigration Visa Office outside Canada issues the TRV to show that the traveler has satisfied the requirements for admission to Canada as a visitor. A TRV may be for a single entry or multiple entries, and travelers are generally admitted for an initial period of six months with the option to apply for an extension from within Canada.
Canada work visas are issued under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The TFWP was formed to help Canadian employers recruit foreign workers in response to labor market shortages in four categories: High-skilled workers, low-skilled workers, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and the Live-In Caregiver Program.
The Federal Skilled Workers Program (FSWP) is a points-based Canadian immigration program established to offer a long-term Canadian work visa, or Permanent Resident Visa to Canada, to foreigners in a wide range of high-demand managerial, professional and technical roles that often require a college or university education or other advanced training. Occupations include occupational therapists, pharmacists, dentists, nutritionists and civil engineers. The most qualified FSWP candidates can apply through the Express Entry system, which speeds up the process of getting permanent Canadian residency.
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Czellar S. , Cowley E. (2009, Mai). Does It Bother Me if We Don't Agree? Self-Monitoring and Interpersonal Ambivalence. Proceedings of the 38th European Marketing Academy Conference. European Marketing Academy.
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Direction: Select the related letters/ word/ number /figure from the given alternatives.
Pound: Yen:: Polo : ?
ACCE: EGGI:: IKKM : ?
42 : 56 :: 132 : ?
Dream : Reality : : Falsehood : ?
question_answer6) Direction: In each of the following questions, find the odd number / letters / word from the given alternatives.
question_answer7) Direction: In each of the following questions, find the odd number / letters / word from the given alternatives.
question_answer8) Direction: In each of the following questions, find the odd number / letters / word from the given alternatives.
Direction: Select the missing number/letters/figure from the given responses.
question_answer15) Six friends are sitting in a circle and playing cards. Kenny is to the left of Danny. Michael is in between Bobby and Johnny. Roger is in between Kenny and Bobby. Who is sitting to the right of Michael?
question_answer16) Six friends are sitting in a circle and playing cards. Kenny is to the left of Danny. Michael is in between Bobby and Johnny. Roger is in between Kenny and Bobby. Who is sitting to the right of Michael?
Given below are four views of a cube. Each face is marked with a certain symbol. In figure B which symbol will appear on the face opposite to the face having symbol *?
question_answer18) If DANCE is coded as GXQZH then how will RIGHT be coded?
question_answer19) A statement is given followed by four alternative arguments. Select the alternative which is most appropriate.
Is it necessary that education should be job oriented?
I. Yes, the aim of education is to prepare persons for earning.
II. Yes, educated person should stand on his own feet after completion of education.
III. No. education should be for sake of knowledge only.
IV. No, one may take up agriculture where education is not necessary.
question_answer20) Which diagram correctly represents the relationship between politicians, poets and women?
Direction: If a mirror is placed on the line MN, then which of the answer figures is the correct image of the given question figure?
Direction: Find the missing number from the given responses.
Direction: Number of letters repeated in the given word are indicated in front of each alternative. Identify the correct alternative.
question_answer27) A number, when divided by 221, leaves a remainder 64. What is the remainder if the same number is divided by 13?
question_answer33) By what least number should 4320 be multiplied so as to obtain a number which is a perfect cube?
question_answer35) A sum of money becomes double in 3 years at compound interest compounded annually. At the same rate, in how many years will it become four times of itself?
question_answer36) One man and one woman together can complete a piece of work in 8 days. A man alone can complete the work in 10 days. In how many days can one woman alone complete the work?
question_answer38) 15 litres of pure milk are added to 30 litres of a milk solution containing 15% milk. Find the con- centration of the resultant solution.
question_answer39) If the age of P and R are added to twice the age of Q, the total becomes 59. If the ages of Q and R added to thrice the age of P, the total becomes 68. And, if the age of P is added to thrice the age of Q and twice the age of R, the total becomes 108. What is the age of P?
question_answer40) Anirban gets a 4% raise. A year later, Anirban receives a 2.5% cut in pay and now his salary is Rs.25000. What was his salary to begin with?
question_answer42) An article is listed at Rs. 65. A customer bought this article for Rs. 56.16 and got two successive discounts. The first discounts is 10%. Find the other discount in percent.
question_answer43) 'A' begin business with Rs. 3750 and was joined afterwards by 'B' with Rs. 5000. When did 'B' 'join if the profit at the end of the year was divided equally?
question_answer44) 4 men or 6 women can do a piece of work in 20 days. In how many days can 6 men and 11 women finish the same work?
Direction: The following pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of the expenditure incurred in publishing a book. Read the pie-chart and answer the questions.
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question_answer54) Direction: In the following question, some parts of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If a sentence is free from error, then your answer is (d) i.e. No error.
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Direction: In the following question, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four as your answer.
There were ___ participants at the conference than we had expected, so we had trouble seating them.
Men ___ are thinkers look for facts.
Asha and Rima could not get admission in the college ___ they had already managed to get a passing score in the official exam.
The principal congratulated him ___ passing the final exam.
Thank you very much ___ your suggestions.
Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.
Direction: In the following question, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word as your answer.
Direction: In the following question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at A, B, C which may Improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is D.
We hurried to the door, but nobody is there.
I cannot say it to you right now. We will discuss it tomorrow.
Let's buy a new sari with the annual bonus, can we?
He is not only a good teacher but a good man.
The position gives an excellent remuneration.
Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/ bold part of the sentence.
There was a big applause when he delivered his speech for the first time.
question_answer86) Direction: In the following question there are four different words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word as your answer.
question_answer87) Direction: In the following question there are four different words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word as your answer.
question_answer88) Direction: In the following question there are four different words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word as your answer.
question_answer89) Direction: In the following question there are four different words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word as your answer.
question_answer90) Direction: In the following question there are four different words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word as your answer.
question_answer91) Which of the following statement is true?
question_answer94) Who of the following have a better understanding of snakes?
question_answer115) Which one of the following is most likely to occur if the Reserve bank of India lowers the Cash Reserve Ratio?
question_answer116) Which soil is more suitable for crops like cashew nut?
question_answer117) Which one of the following is a Rabi crop?
question_answer120) Which of the following is called the 'land of one thousand lakes'?
question_answer124) Which one of the following is not an artificial sweetener?
question_answer126) In which of the following places is thermal plant located?
question_answer127) Who founded the Nalanda University?
question_answer128) Nehru Trophy belongs to which sport?
question_answer129) Lepcha tribe is found in which state?
question_answer130) Gyaneshwar, the famous saint was from which state?
question_answer131) Human Rights Day is observed on ____.
question_answer133) Shanti Swamp Bhatnagar Award is given for the work in which field?
question_answer134) Which of the following places is famous for fertilizer industry?
question_answer136) Which of the following soils is most common in the Northern plains?
question_answer137) Lake Victoria is in which continent?
question_answer143) Who invented the Safety razor?
question_answer145) Which day is observed as World AIDS day?
question_answer146) The intensity ratio of waves is\[25:9\]. What is the ratio of their amplitudes?
question_answer147) Which of the following memories must be refreshed many times per second?
question_answer148) Name the first Asian country to Orbit Mars.
question_answer149) Which one of the following is not coal variety?


What will those lawyers think of next? In one of the most surprising patent strategies ever, the Irish drug company Allergan has assigned six patents on its top-selling dry eye drug Restasis to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe of upstate New York, which is one of the colonial-era Iroquois Nations. The federally recognized tribe is now the owner of the patents, with Allergan having taken back a license to exploit them. The purpose of the transfer is to take advantage of the tribe’s claim to “sovereign immunity,” under which an Indian tribe (the usual legal term), as a sovereign nation, is immune from being sued unless it consents or Congress abrogates its immunity. Allergan’s hope is that would-be generic competitors will be prevented from challenging the validity of the patents either in federal court or through the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s inter partes review process.
The idea apparently had its genesis in a decision by the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a case involving an information technology patent held by the University of Florida. The PTAB held that the university, as an agency of the sovereign state of Florida, was immune to an inter partes challenge to the patent’s validity. Although the PTAB is an administrative body rather than a court, sovereign immunity is usually deemed to extend to “quasi-judicial proceedings,” which accounts for its application in the Florida case.
Inter partes review allows any third party to challenge the validity of a patent on grounds of lack of novelty (section 102 of the Patent Act) or obviousness (section 103) at any time commencing nine months after the patent was issued (there is comparable procedure, post-grant review, available during the first nine months). In resolving a challenge, the PTAB uses an accelerated process involving expert panels and telephone hearings, and is required to reach a decision within a year. The PTAB has been invalidating challenged patents at a rate significantly higher than 50% over the five-plus years the procedure has been in effect. Companies that want to market a generic version of a patented drug before the patent expires have found inter partes review to be especially useful, and drug patent owners like Allergan have consequently found it to be especially threatening.
One of the law firms that represented the University of Florida, a Dallas IP boutique called Shore Chan DePumpo, now represents the Mohawk tribe, suggesting that it conceived and arranged the deal with Allergan. According to Allergan’s press release, the tribe is receiving $13.75 million up front and the opportunity to earn $15 million per year in royalties. The patents will expire in 2024. This appears to be part of an evolving business plan for the tribe, as it reportedly acquired another patent portfolio last month from SRC Labs LLC, a Cray computer offshoot.
The deal probably strikes most objective observers as absurd: a drug company in Ireland pays a lot of money to park a valuable patent portfolio with a Native American tribe along the St. Lawrence River, all to avoid challenges that the patents would otherwise be subject to. But from a strictly legal perspective, the strategy may well work.
There are some historical differences in state and tribal sovereign immunity. The former is rooted in federalism and the Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the latter in the common law (case-based) notion that tribes are “domestic dependent nations” that enjoy at least some of the rights of a self-governing nation. They cannot, for example, print money or engage in foreign policy, but they can refuse to be sued in almost all cases. In a nice illustration of the point, the Seminole Nation had to set up a business corporation in order to finance its 2006 purchase of the Hard Rock Café chain, because lenders and investors feared that they would be unable to sue the tribe if things went badly.
Despite these historical differences, however, state and tribal sovereign immunity are fundamentally similar. There are no obvious distinctions between the two versions of the doctrine that would dictate a different result in the tribal context.
The efficacy of the Allergan-Mohawk strategy is currently being tested in an inter partes challenge brought by generic drug maker Mylan, where the immunity claim is meeting fierce resistance. (The PTAB has issued a separate decision initiating review for each patent; the first is illustrative: In a recent PTAB telephone hearing, Mylan’s lawyer contended that the deal is a “sham,” and that it amounts to a waiver of the tribe’s sovereign immunity. The tribe responded that there is no sham exception to immunity, and that the courts have never “found a waiver of tribal sovereign immunity based on equitable or policy concerns.” In other words, a court can’t ignore sovereign immunity just because it thinks it would be unfair—a correct statement of the current law, as far as I know. Nonetheless, this application of tribal immunity is entirely novel, and the Federal Circuit (the patent appeals court) or the Supreme Court could decide that the unique nature of a PTAB review proceeding requires different rules.
Allergan’s biggest problem may be of its own making: it has also filed (in 2015, before the Mohawk deal) a federal district court lawsuit against Mylan and other generic makers for infringing the same patents that are being challenged before the PTAB. An infringement defendant may escape liability by proving that the patent is invalid. However, in a district court the challenger must prove invalidity by clear and convincing evidence, versus the lower standard of preponderance of the evidence that applies in a PTAB inter partes review. It is therefore significantly easier for the challenger to win at the PTAB.
The district court infringement suit adds a further layer of complexity to the tribal immunity issue. The federal judge hearing the case in Texas has raised the question of whether the tribe (as the patent’s owner) must now be brought into the case as a co-plaintiff with Allergan—or whether, in the judge’s words, “the assignment of the patents to the Tribe should be disregarded as a sham.” If the Mohawk tribe does become a plaintiff, then it might well be found to have waived its sovereign immunity, on the theory that you can’t simultaneously sue someone for infringement and deny them the right to contest the validity of your patent. If the judge finds the assignment to be a sham, then he could simply ignore it and find Allergan to be the sole owner. Tribal immunity would then be moot. How these issues will be decided—and how the district court’s decisions will affect the PTAB challenge—remain entirely up in the air. The judge has requested the parties to brief the sham question and has ordered Allergan to turn over all relevant documents to the other side.
Will other drug companies start parking their patents with sovereign tribes? I doubt it, but it’s too early to say definitively. While leveraging tribal immunity to avoid PTAB challenges may well be a legally valid strategy (though, as I said earlier, the courts have yet to weigh in), the potential impact on filing infringement suits may give other patent holders pause. What’s the point of having tribal immunity against inter partes challenges if you can’t sue anyone for infringement without waiving your immunity? I suspect that other drug patent owners will want to see how Allergan fares on this issue before committing themselves to the same strategy.
Another reason to go slowly is that Allergan’s stratagem has already gotten Congress’ attention. On October 5, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) introduced a bill that would prohibit such transfers. Several other members of the House and Senate have expressed support. Congress’ attention span is notoriously short, so it remains to be seen whether McCaskill’s concern will persist once the initial glow of grandstanding has worn off. Nonetheless, the filing of the bill gives patent owners another reason to pause before jumping into complex assignment-and-license-back deals that may be difficult (or at least embarrassing) to unwind.


Australia quashed first one Indian resistance movement and then another at the MCG yesterday to ensure - barring disaster today - the two teams would approach Steve Waugh's farewell Test in Sydney this week with the series locked at 1-1.
India captain Sourav Ganguly responded to a fierce whack behind the ear from Brad Williams by threatening to summon the kind of determined fightback his team has made a habit of conjuring in recent times. But the fast bowler, purple in the face from effort and aggression, hit back with his best Test haul of four wickets.
Australia need only 95 runs today to set up the most absorbing finish to a home series in more than a decade, between two sides that, for all but two of the past nine days of Test cricket, have been evenly, irresistibly matched.
Australia have not gone into the final Test of a home series at 1-1 since 1992-93, when the West Indies rolled the battered hosts in the Perth decider by an innings and 25 runs. Australia had suffered an agonising one-run defeat in the previous Test, in Adelaide.
But the home side will carry considerably more momentum into Waugh's farewell Test, having responded to the shock defeat in Adelaide with a powerful batting performance and some impressive exercises in perseverance from the depleted bowling attack.
Ganguly, who had boldly stepped up the order to protect Sachin Tendulkar's wicket a night earlier, retired hurt on 16 when he crumpled into a bouncer from Williams that didn't get up as much as he expected. But after another promising yet ultimately unfulfilled innings from Tendulkar, who kissed a Williams delivery through to wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist for 44, Ganguly returned to face the wrath of Williams and Brett Lee, and the nagging line of Nathan Bracken.
For all Ganguly's earlier dizziness and the precautionary scans performed on his skull last night, his was the sort of clear-headed innings his country needed.
The defining patch of the fourth afternoon started the moment Lee took the second new ball. Rahul Dravid, who had shared an 87-run partnership with Tendulkar, was building one of his walls of resistance and Ganguly, having recovered from the blow to the helmet, was playing with the authority and grace that once prompted Dravid to call him the god of the off-side.
At tea, India were 4-182, still 10 runs behind Australia's first-innings total. Ganguly put India in front with a cover drive off Stuart MacGill, survived a caught behind appeal after an attempted sweep and brought up his half-century with another, straighter drive.
Lee's first over with the new ball yielded 10 runs and his next was hurtling in the same direction. Dravid picked him off for three, Ganguly rocked into a majestic pull shot for four then plundered the off-side again. Then the Indian collapse began.
Australia's blond menace procured a thick edge from Dravid, who was out for 92 after defiantly occupying the crease for more than 4 hours. From 5-253, India did a valiant rendition of their first-innings capitulation, losing their last five wickets for 33 to be all out for 286.
"We've realised it's one of our weak areas," Dravid said later. "We tried to get better at that but it hasn't worked out in this Test match."
Dravid, the saviour in Adelaide, lamented his lapse. "In the first innings as well we lost a lot of wickets after I got out. We were in the course of building a partnership and had we gone on for another 10 overs, you never know really."
Before long Ganguly had dragged a delivery from Bracken onto his wicket and was out for 73, having helped forge a slim Indian lead of 66. His teenage wicketkeeper, Parthiv Patel, whose weight does not begin to suggest his substantial pluck, provided an entertaining coda to the Indian innings but none of Ajit Agarkar, Anil Kumble, the hamstrung Zaheer Khan or Ashish Nehra had the nous to hang around with him.
Williams gathered force as he went and - after cleaning up Agarkar's stumps, trapping Kumble lbw for nought and having Zaheer caught by Matthew Hayden in the slips - finished with his best Test figures of 4-53. Bracken was Lee's economical foil and bowled 25 mean overs, 13 of them maidens, for 2-45.
Australia did not have everything their way, for although Gilchrist has taken some spectacular catches in these Tests he has also suffered some fumbles. He dropped a difficult catch to give Dravid a life in the 20s, and later dived in front of Matthew Hayden to almost pull off a blinder but instead watched the ball bob out of his left glove to let off Patel, who made 27 not out.
Dravid last night said India could still cling to a faint hope of victory, but they have surely used up their allotment of miracles. "With hope and a bit of magic you never know," he said.


Plot synopsis: A dramatized account of the Battle of Gettysburg, featuring first-hand testimony from the time. Based on a book of the same name by Earl Schenck Miers and Richard A. Brown, first published in 1948.
Review: Anyone with an interest in US history, especially Civil War history, will find something of value in this episode - though if you know little about the conflict beforehand, you won't be greatly enlightened by the end, as it focuses very narrowly on a single battle, the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. What is perhaps most fascinating about the episode is the fact that it was broadcast 'only' ninety-four years after the battle was fought - sure, the Civil War was no longer in living memory, but the 1950s was still a time when the conflict was an important part of many Americans' mental landscapes. The most striking scenes in the episode are the personal accounts, performed by a variety of actors, of their experiences of the battle, of not only soldiers but also civilians (including one female Gettysburgian). It also strives to be even-handed, by including both Union and Confederate voices. Only a brief extract from Abraham Lincoln's famous Address is included, at the very start, and there isn't much in the way of broader context, or about the wider significance of the battle. Nonetheless, a solid episode.
Plot synopsis: The story upon which this episode was based was also adapted by X Minus One (as well as by Dimension X) and my main review is of this version here. The CBS Radio Workshop adaptation differs in a number of ways - the acting is, perhaps, superior, though the singing may be worse - but the basic story is the same. In any case, I found the plot equally unappealing in both versions, so I would not strongly recommend one over the other.
Plot synopsis: A quarreling married couple runs something over while driving, but the husband refuses to stop to discover what it is.
Review: This episode works best during the scenes in which it presents a study of a marriage in the process of breaking down. An example of the sort of 'realistic' social drama that was prevalent in the 1950s, the story's depiction of a warring couple whose relationship has descended into bitterness and acrimony has real power. Moreover, the section at the end - SPOILER ALERT! - in which the husband reads out the letter by the man whose dog he ran over (based on a real letter, 'A letter to the man who killed my dog', by Richard Joseph, which was later expanded into a book) is quite affecting. There are some problems, though - for example, the ticking clock in the background during the scenes in the police station becomes quite irritating after a while. There is, too, an overly earnest message by New York Governor William Averell Harriman after the story has concluded promoting safer driving - today, at least, I can't imagine many people listening very seriously to a politician delivering such a worthy message. Yet overall, this is a strong, even moving, episode.


If Earth was the size of a basketball, all of its water would fit into a ping pong ball.
How much water is that? It's roughly 326 million cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers), according to a recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey. Some 72 percent of Earth is covered in water, but 97 percent of that is salty ocean water and not suitable for drinking.
"There's not a lot of water on Earth at all," said David Gallo, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts.
Oceans create a water layer spanning 15,000 miles (24,000 kilometers) across the planet at an average depth of more than 2 miles (3.2 km). If you poured all of the world's water on the United States and could contain it, you'd create a lake 90 miles (145 km) deep.
This seems, and looks, like a lot of water, Gallo told Life's Little Mysteries, but looks can be deceiving.
If the Earth was an apple, Gallo said, the water layer would be thinner than the fruit's skin. The Earth's freshwater is even rarer.
"For humanity to thrive, or even exist, we need to sprinkle that teeny bit of fresh water in the right places, at the right times and in just the right amounts," Gallo said.
One-third of the world's population lives in "water-stressed" countries, defined as a country's ratio of water consumption to water availability. Countries labeled as moderate to high stress consume 20 percent more water than their available supply.
There is much more freshwater stored in the ground than there is in liquid form on the surface, according to the USGS.
This article was provided by Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to OurAmazingPlanet.


Why does this flight exist?
I fly out of Hartford CT (BDL) once a month or so and I've noticed that there's a daily CRJ-900 nonstop from BDL to Cleveland. Why does this exist? There's a Detroit flight every morning too so they're not trying to reduce hub traffic. Out of every random city pair to go point-to-point on instead of hub-and-spoke, they picked Hartford and Cleveland? How many other flights are there like this?
DL has a corporate contract on this route. They picked it up after UA closed their CLE hub.
Doesn't take much to make money off a micro-haul on a -900. The real question is finding an aircraft with the downtime to perform the route. Put the three of them together and it's an easy call.
Isn't the BDL aand DTW route seasonal?
BDL-DTW definitely isn't seasonal. The frequency might vary slightly based upon the time of year, but it operates year-round.
There are a couple of oddball ones from DCA too. LEX for one. And Omaha too, I believe.
Yeah those DCA flights are inflexible slots that Republic holds. They've chosen to market them through DL.
That's so interesting. Why would they not choose to market via AA, which has the advantage of the hub?
Maybe because AA has a hub, and probably didn't have much need for those flights because of it, they were not interested in paying Republic as much as DL was for the route slots.
My favorite random flight is the Alpena, MI to Pellston, MI.
From what I can tell, Pellston has an essential air service subsidy, and it requires twice a day departure to the DTW hub. One of those departures has the aircraft originate at APN airport (nearby) at 5:05am, with only a 25 min stop picking up passengers in PLN, before arriving to DTW. This also allows twice a day departure from APN airport (albeit one with a brief stop in PLN). The other flight in the afternoon is DTW-PLN-DTW.
Anyway, a very interesting route, since Pellston has only a population of 800 people!
Possibly AA couldn't get merger with US approved if all those flights got counted as AA .
Sometimes airlines fly ghost flights because otherwise they'll lose their slot if they don't use it. Slots are expensive. Not sure if this is the case here but it's interesting how airline business works.
I fly out of Hartford CT (BDL) once a month or so and I've noticed that there's a daily CRJ-900 nonstop from BDL to Cleveland. Why does this exist?
What makes a plane fly? Money!
Why can't we get a ghost flight from GSP to MSP or SLC? Come on Delta you listening!


Appropriators continued their work Thursday on the omnibus bill to fund the government through September, but with time running out to pass legislation before current funding expires Wednesday, members say a short-term continuing resolution is increasingly likely.
A vote in the House is expected as late as Tuesday, with lawmakers now acknowledging that they will need to pass a short-term CR to allow more time for both chambers to act on the omnibus.
The two Appropriations Committee chairs, Rep. Harold Rogers and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, did not meet Wednesday or Thursday, but committee members and their staffs will be working through the weekend to negotiate on remaining disagreements. Mikulski's office said that an announcement of a deal Friday is unlikely and that there will probably be a weekend announcement, perhaps as late as Sunday night.
If the omnibus legislation is released over the weekend, a vote in the House would likely not occur until Tuesday, the day before the current CR expires. Given the constraints of Senate procedure, a one- or two-day CR would be necessary to buy more time for final passage.
"I think we'll probably have to have a short-term CR of a couple of days, I hope, so that we can finalize things," Rogers said Thursday.
A Mikulski spokesperson would not specify how many of the 12 bills still need to be negotiated, but Rogers said Wednesday that he believed that eight of them were done or near completion. Those include the Defense, Transportation-Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture-Rural Development, and Interior bills, according to committee members.
The Labor-Health and Human Services bill continues to be a sticking point for both parties. The discussions currently revolve around funding for the Affordable Care Act and contraception, according to several sources. Legislation that would eliminate the pension cuts prescribed in December's budget deal for disabled veterans is also an open issue, according to Rogers's office.
The specifics of the remaining disagreements now before Rogers and Mikulski are being held close to the vest, and members said Thursday that they have been asked not to speak about the negotiations before the omnibus is finalized.
To wit, several lawmakers when asked Thursday about the appropriations bills seemed to have exhausted their thesauruses to find synonyms for "no comment." "All I can tell you is we're working," Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., who heads the Labor-HHS Subcommittee, said Thursday.
When asked a follow-up question, Kingston added: "I'm telling you, all I can say is we're working."
"I've been muzzled," said Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, who chairs the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee. "I can't say anything. You know how hard that is for me?" he added, laughing, while walking into the House chamber.


In this article, How to Accomplish More by Doing Less, author Tony Schwartz shares what he's learned about the law of diminishing returns. That is, if you try to work longer, your productivity will go down. The idea is to work in 90 minute spurts with rest in between. He shares a number of interesting examples of how this works in the work place and how it works for pilots and top violinists.
The more I study about health in every arena, the more I see that getting enough rest is critical. Regenerating and rejuvenating is so important to being productive and on target.
Here's a great article about what to do and what not to do when building a website: Build a Killer Website: 19 Dos and Don'ts The author has some great ideas and even links to resources. I only take exception with #8. You usually do need testimonials (unless your selling art). He is right that they need to be specific. LIke: "This product increased my income by $30,000 in three months."
The website builder I use is http://www.weebly.com. I have used them not just for this website but for my main website: http://www.auntlaya.com as well as our tzimmer http://tzimmerpeace.weebly.com. Notice the difference between the addresses? One is just a .com and the other is .weebly.com. For my main page (as well as this website) I bought a URL or web address. For under $10 a year you can have a URL which will make your site much more professional. I didn't do that for my tzimmer because I want people to know that it's a small mom and pop kind of business and very simple.
There are other websites that will offer what Weebly does. Just do an internet search and you'll find many. Many of the high level entrepreneurs I have come in contact with (and learn from) use Wordpress. It's very popular.
Tip: I learned this one the hard way. Be prepared to buy your URL as soon as you find it. Don't just see if it's available and that you'll come back to it. Apparently there is some kind of program out there that sees what people are searching and then buys it. I lost a URL that meant a lot to me (for the next book I'm writing). Have your credit card in hand and grab it when you find it.
Tip: Buy more than one at a time. Buy your name. I have the same addresses in .com and .org for some of the ones I own. If you want what you're doing to be big, buy misspellings too and you can redirect those to your main website.
Questions? Leave a comment. Heck, leave a comment anyway. It's always nice to know someone's been here for a visit and got something out of it.


MEXICO CITY -- An arrest warrant has been issued for a former union boss at a Ford Motor Co. plant near the capital in connection with the killing of a worker during a plant riot, a Mexico City newspaper said Thursday.
The warrant was issued for Hector Uriarte Martinez, leader of the ruling party-affiliated Confederation of Mexican Workers, or CTM, on the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission, La Jornada said.
Uriarte is wanted for his alleged involvement in the death of Cleto Nigmo Urbina who was killed during a January 1990 riot at the Ford plant in Cuautitlan.
Some 10 others were injured when more than 400 workers armed with pistols iron bars and submachine guns rioted after some workers attempted to leave the CTM and join an independent union. Dissident workers accused the CTM of sending in professional thugs to prevent the union defection.
The attorney general of the state of Mexico, where the plant is located, promised to comply with the warrant and arrest Uriarte who now lives in Hermosillo, Sonora. The warrant was issued by the state governor, La Jornada said.
The rights commission also asked the state attorney general to investigate why no arrest was made after previous requests were made to detain Uriarte.
'There is no justification for a nine-month delay in the arrest,' the commission said. Uriarte is wanted for murder, assault, burglary and gun smuggling, La Jornada said.
The commission was set up in June 1990 to investigate human-rights violations but can only make recommendations and has no power of enforcement.


WHICH SKY CHASERS CHARACTER ARE YOU?
Read each question, and choose the best answer.
I'm not much of a foodie.
I love fruit, any kind of fruit.
My job isn't important; I care about my family life.
A good listener, someone who pays attention.
A good cook to feed you delicious morsels.
You're just happy to HAVE a date.
A deep talk with an equal, someone to spar with.
With someone who appreciates my mind more than my body.
Go another way and make sure he doesn't see you.
Try to win him over.
Keep walking, but be ready for a fight.
You're not worried because you always have a weapon handy.
Quietly resent them until you can set things right.
Get your revenge anyway you can.
To be honest, you might say a few nasty things behind his/her back.
Do your best to communicate clearly, and hope for the best.
Avoid them and care for yourself in private.
...fascinating. I would like to one day run for office.
...full of liars, fakes, and morons.
...interesting; I'd like to work behind the scenes for a candidate and help with strategy.
...upsetting. I'm more likely to be a protester than a politician.
Your ability to take a punch and throw it back.
Your sharp wit. No one can make a fool of you.
Strategy. You are a master of setting a trap and catching your quarry.
Your ability to see the argument from the other person's side, and find a middle ground.
I tend to avoid fights as much as I can.
You are shy, and sometimes people count you out because of it.
You might tell a lie to protect yourself, but you're not proud of it.
If pushed too far, you might resort to underhanded violence.
You can be a little cowardly at times.


Pakistan's Balochistan violence as deplorable as Kashmir killings?
Pakistan's Baloch activists accuse Islamabad of committing rights abuses in their province. In recently held rallies in Germany, they complained that while Kashmir continues to dominate news, their plight is ignored.
A group of Pakistani activists recently held demonstrations in a number of German cities to raise awareness about the "atrocities committed by the Pakistani army" in the Islamic country's Balochistan province. The Pakistani-German activists voiced concerns about the neglect and indifference the impoverished Balochistan province faces from the local and international media.
The Baloch activists began their "Free Balochistan March" on July 16 in the city of Düsseldorf, which culminated in Hannover on July 27.
"Balochistan was never a part of Pakistan," Naobat Mari, a young Baloch activist, told DW. "First, our land was invaded by the British, who divided it into three parts. After the partition of India in 1947, the eastern part of Balochistan remained an independent state, which was later forcibly annexed by Pakistan," he added.
"Our movement has always been peaceful. We want to inform the European people about our plight. We want to assert that freedom is our fundamental right," the activist noted.
Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, remains Pakistan's poorest and least populous province despite a number of development projects Islamabad initiated there in the past. Rebel groups have waged a separatist insurgency in the province for decades, complaining that the central government in Islamabad and the richer Punjab province unfairly exploit their resources. Islamabad reacted to the insurgency by launching a military operation in the province in 2005.
Last year in April, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed 51 accords to inaugurate the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will create a network of roads, railways and pipelines linking China's restive west to the Arabian Sea through Balochistan's Gwadar port. The Pakistani government says the deals will boost Pakistan's underperforming economy and generate employment opportunities in Balochistan.
In the wake of the China-Pakistan deal, the Baloch separatists demand a share of the financial benefits for their province. Some Baloch leaders have also complained that Islamabad deliberately changed the corridor route in favor of the Punjab, avoiding Balochistan's key cities.
Are talks with separatists possible?
The German march participants told DW that the military aid, which the Pakistani government receives for the West to battle Islamist extremists, is being used to target Baloch separatists and activists.
Activist Beebagr Baloch demanded that Pakistan must pull out its troops from the area and hold talks with the separatists.
"The international community supports Pakistan in the war against terror but is not fully aware of the fact that its government and army are involved in promoting Islamic terrorism on its own soil and in other parts of the world," Naubat Mari, a UK resident and march participant, told DW.
"The march is part of a peaceful political movement for our rights. We condemn and reject civilian killings everywhere, whether they are perpetrated by the state or the separatists," he added.
The Baloch activists are particularly angered by a lack of media coverage of the ongoing military operation and human rights violations in their province. They argue that while most Pakistanis protest the killings in the Indian-administered Kashmir, and several social media campaigns have been launched to highlight the violence in the valley, there is a "media blackout" for the "atrocities" in Balochistan.
However, Sarfaraz Bugti, Balochistan's interior minister, contradicts Baloch's claims. "Kashmir and Balochistan are two different issues. If the people want, we can hold a referendum in the province. But we don't see any political struggle in Balochistan. The members of the nationalist parties are in the provincial assembly. They don't demand freedom. They merely ask for a greater control over provincial resources. We can work with them on this issue," the official told DW.
But Baloch argues that the main issue is not about the fight over resources as claimed by Islamabad. He asserts that the people of the "neglected province" no longer trust Pakistani authorities because, he claims, the security forces are involved in kidnappings, torturing and killings in the province.
"More than 20,000 Baloch activists are missing, and we discover mutilated bodies almost every day," said Baloch, adding that the conflict would not be resolved until the Pakistani military and government changed their policies toward Balochistan.
Recently, militant Pakistani Sunni extremists with links to al Qaeda have also intensified their attacks in Balochistan. Nasir Tufail, a Karachi-based journalist who works for Geo TV, told DW that many journalists "could not even think of going to most parts of Balochistan where the military is operating against separatists. How can you expect independent reporting from them?" he asked.
Local and foreign media, he said, relied mostly on the reports of a few journalists for their reporting on Balochistan and the semi-governed north-western tribal areas of Pakistan.
Another problem was that the conflict does not interest readers. "We highlighted the issue of Balochistan for several months. We tried to analyze it in a serious manner. But in Pakistan people are so insensitive and apathetic about Balochistan that they don't even want to think about it," said Tufail.
Last year, Karachi-based activist Sabeen Mahmood, who was campaigning to highlight the Balochistan conflict, was shot dead by an extremist.
Another outspoken Pakistani journalist and TV anchor, Hamid Mir, was also shot by unknown gunmen in Karachi. Mir was also critical of the military's rights violations in Balochistan.
Additional reporting by Shamil Shams.
Is Pakistani military's power obsession aggravating rights situation?
Members of an insurgent group in India-administered Kashmir are reportedly killing young men using brutal methods, accusing them of spying for the Indian army. The victims' families are clueless. Rifat Fareed reports.


Carrie Underwood can certainly sing (have you heard that million-octave vocal range?!), but she can also make a mean music video.
In her decade-long career, Underwood has become one of the artists that, when she reveals a new video, you don't have to worry; you know it's going to be good. From emotionally charged to fury filled and everything in between, Underwood's clips are 100-percent entertaining. Some have a deeper message, while others are just plain fun, but throughout all of them, it's clear that Underwood was born to entertain, both onstage and in front of the camera.
"Jesus, Take the Wheel" won two Grammy Awards and various other trophies, giving the music world a heads up that Underwood was here to stay. The song's music video creatively threads together several storylines, including those of a woman, a young couple and an older couple, in which the situations required Jesus to "take the wheel," literally and figuratively speaking. We give the clip two thumbs up (with both hands on the wheel, of course!).
This music video is a dark nod to The Wizard of Oz if we've ever seen one. The "Blown Away" clip is almost a mini-movie, as Underwood tackles the difficult issue of a violent and temperamental father, undergoes a horrific tornado and eventually emerges from the rubble stronger and more at peace. There are subtle visual references to the classic 1939 film throughout, but the video features Underwood front and center as one of country music's best storytellers, vocally and visually.
When Underwood's "Something in the Water" music video premiered during the 2014 CMA Awards, it took viewers' breath away, as if they themselves were submerged underwater -- yeah, the joyful video is that beautiful. The clip features 12 dancers performing in water and under waterfalls, and Underwood reveals that, to make the video happen, she used 16 choir members, three costume changes and a custom-built tank of recycled water. All that work paid off, though, as "Something in the Water" won the 2015 CMT Music Awards for Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.
This video is full-on packed with emotional imagery. Underwood sings throughout the clip while wearing an angelic white dress, but the real stars of the "See You Again" music video are those affected by tragedies such as the Sandy Hook school shooting, 9/11 and the Moore, Okla., tornado; military personnel reuniting with their families are also featured (whether they've survived service or have passed on). "See You Again" won Video of the Year at the CMT Music Awards for a very good reason!
Lesson learned: If you make Underwood mad, you'd better hide your car. The singer showed off her sassy side, much to the delight of fans, in this 2006 Roman White-directed music video. A baseball bat, a whole lot of keying and, eventually, a demolished truck are all part of the clip -- but our favorite part is getting to see the bada-- side of Underwood that isn't always apparent under her bright white smile and sweet personality.
Which Carrie Underwood Music Video Is Your Favorite?
There's no doubt that we left someone's favorite music video of this list (hey, we only had five spots!). Share your favorite clip from the powerhouse vocalist in the comments section below.


Google Chrome speedtest.net results are consistently 700+ Mbps. No matter what I do I can't get Firefox to go over 300 Mbps. I get the same results with Waterfox and Pale Moon and get the same results when I run Firefox in Safe Mode. How can I fix this?
https://youtu.be/p77INvxmIaQ Google Chrome speedtest.net results are consistently 700+ Mbps. No matter what I do I can't get Firefox to go over 300 Mbps. I get the same results with Waterfox and Pale Moon and get the same results when I run Firefox in Safe Mode. How can I fix this?
Can you provide screenshot of both test on both Browser minus personal data. I tried both on both Browser and got more Upload speed and equal Download speed. And also I saw they connected to two different sites to test so that can also factor in as well. So did you make sure both sites it connected to where the same? Also I think your misinterpreting the speed test to actual ISP speeds.
You posted with the Waterfox 56 browser.
Does this also happen with the official Firefox release?
It is possible that security software (anti-virus, firewall) is causing the problem. Try to disable security software temporarily to see if that makes a difference.
You posted with the Waterfox 56 browser. Does this also happen with the official Firefox release? ---- It is possible that security software (anti-virus, firewall) is causing the problem. Try to disable security software temporarily to see if that makes a difference.
It happens on the official Firefox release as well as Pale Moon and Waterfox. I don't have security software (anti-virus or firewall). I used the same server site for both browsers. This is a consistent result I'm getting. No matter what there is no way to get a speedtest.net reading over 300 Mbps on Firefox.
Also I think your misinterpreting the speed test to actual ISP speeds.
Not sure what you mean. Please reference the video I posted: https://youtu.be/p77INvxmIaQ I have gigabit internet and repeatedly get 700+ Mbps on Google Chrome. Can't get over 300 Mbps on Firefox.
It happens on the official Firefox release as well as Pale Moon and Waterfox. I don't have security software (anti-virus or firewall). I used the same server site for both browsers. This is a consistent result I'm getting. No matter what there is no way to get a speedtest.net reading over 300 Mbps on Firefox. ''WestEnd [[#answer-1179811|said]]'' <blockquote> Also I think your misinterpreting the speed test to actual ISP speeds. </blockquote> Not sure what you mean. Please reference the video I posted: https://youtu.be/p77INvxmIaQ I have gigabit internet and repeatedly get 700+ Mbps on Google Chrome. Can't get over 300 Mbps on Firefox.
Win 7 has its own anti-virus and firewall. Are those disabled?
''FredMcD [[#answer-1180085|said]]'' <blockquote> Win 7 has its own anti-virus and firewall. Are those disabled? </blockquote> Yes both are disabled.
This download manager works separately from the browser. The browser tells it what to download, and off it goes.
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org It is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac.
This download manager works separately from the browser. The browser tells it what to download, and off it goes. http://www.freedownloadmanager.org It is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer for Windows and Mac.
https://youtu.be/p77INvxmIaQ Google Chrome speedtest.net results are consistently 700+ Mbps. No matter what I do I can't get Firefox to go over 300 Mbps.
Mozilla is still capped at 300 Mbps using fast.com. Chrome is showing 470. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?!
''Pj [[#answer-1181153|said]]'' <blockquote> ''silent_bob_2002 [[#question-1243208|said]]'' <blockquote> https://youtu.be/p77INvxmIaQ Google Chrome speedtest.net results are consistently 700+ Mbps. No matter what I do I can't get Firefox to go over 300 Mbps. </blockquote> What does www.Fast.com show? (Note in settings the '''Parallel connections'''. I suppose set these to how many Bonded Channels you have?) ~Pj </blockquote> Mozilla is still capped at 300 Mbps using fast.com. Chrome is showing 470. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?!
I have found that if I do downloads with Firefox alone, it's slow. But if I use a download manager add-on, it's much faster.
How many Bonded Channels do you have? Set that number in the NetFlix Fast Settings. For now, my modem has only 4 Channels. I need to update my modem, as my city has gone way, way above 4 Channels. If you don't know, start with 4 and work your way up to 16 in the Fast Settings. Or perhaps enter a range of 2 and 16.
Oh? Why is FF doing this? Is this known by Mozilla?
Interesting on the Download Manager. I'll have to check into this.


One thing I have scarcely mentioned in my blog are ethical rules related to a local board or commission when it is acting in a quasi-judicial manner. I mentioned the common-law conflicts in such circumstances in a recent blog post, as well as the absolute immunity given to the Philadelphia ethics board due to its quasi-judicial activities in another recent blog post.
But the only mention of an ethics law relating to quasi-judicial activities is in a comment to another recent blog post. The comment says that in Washington state, when a local legislative body acts in a quasi-judicial manner, there is an appearance of fairness standard relating to its members' conflicts.
In many cases, the standards relating to judges' conflicts are stricter than those relating to officials' conflicts. A judge's decisions should be above suspicion, since they so directly deal with the freedom and economic situation of individuals. But often officials deal just as directly with at least the economic situation of individuals and businesses, especially in the context of land use proceedings.
A member of the board or any other body exercising the functions of a board of adjustment shall not participate in or vote on any quasi-judicial matter in a manner that would violate affected persons’ constitutional rights to an impartial decision maker. Impermissible conflicts include, but are not limited to, a member having a fixed opinion prior to hearing the matter that is not susceptible to change, undisclosed ex parte communications, a close familial, business, or other associational relationship with an affected person, or a financial interest in the outcome of the matter. If an objection is raised to a member’s participation and that member does not recuse himself or herself, the remaining members shall by majority vote rule on the objection.
The biggest difference from ordinary conflict provisions is the mention of both "constitutional rights" and "an impartial decision maker" in the first sentence. The ideal of impartiality takes the law beyond ordinary conflicts by including as a conflict having a fixed opinion. This would mean that a strong anti-development zoning board member, elected precisely because of her strong position on development, would be considered to have a conflict. And yet there is nothing unethical here, nothing about the official's personal interest.
Of course, it is best for anyone to weigh all the facts before her, but there is no way of knowing whether or not she did. Who is to say whether someone's view is "susceptible to change"? This is a standard that cannot be enforced, and is even hard to apply to oneself, but it certainly can be used to attack board members with strong opinions for or against development.
It's also notable that in addition to family members and business associates, a conflict is raised by any "other associational relationship" with a person who would be affected by a zoning decision. Would this include a friend, a fellow club or organization member, a customer?
If this was only a guideline, I would say it was a good one. But according to this provision, anyone is able to not only object to a board member with a vague relationship to someone affected by a matter, but the other board members are able to vote, on the basis of such a relationship, whether their fellow member can participate. Such a vague standard opens a board member up to political attack.


It's been a while since I gave you some info on my video game project. I felt that now is the right time to give you an update on the current status of the project.
Once I released the first gameplay video, I took a break from the game for a number of reasons.
I was waiting for feedback on the video as well as on the game's concept in general, and although I received very little feedback, I got it. The general concensus was that, while the game is lovely and all and the "no Level-up" thing is interesting, it's also kinda dull. Because really, who wants to farm for treasure for hours on end?Of course I could always say that the beginning is always a bit boring and later on it gets better with more features unlocked. But the game lacks some more variety in general, so I've been hard at work to make the experience more worthwhile.
Another reason for my hiatus was that I were looking for an artist - the only thing that keeps the game from feeling original are new, shiny sprites (I used placeholder graphics up until now).
Well guess what, I found one recently - or rather, I'm currently negotiating with someone. The problem here is that the artist demands money for his work - understandable, but this is my very first project, and I don't have thousands of dollars to spare.But I figured out a deal with him, which is a bit risky, but it's still my best option right now.
Overall, I'm still working on it, and with the prospect of an artist joining the team (we're 3 guys now: Me, a musician and the artist), the game can actually find its way to completion. But there are still some obstacles before us, and you can help us overcome those by answering the following questions.
Which crowdfunding website do you prefer?
In order to pay the artist, as well as dealing with some other costs, I was considering to start a small crowdfunding campaign. Which platform would you prefer or recommend for this?
I'm asking this mainly because none of us in the team lives in the US/Canada/UK so we can't start a Kickstarter campaign, so we need an alternative. Indiegogo was my next best bet which has the advantage over Kickstarter to support PayPal in addition to credit cards. I know there are people out there who hate to use their card online or just don't have one, so this would be a big bonus.
Any other suggestions, or would Indiegogo be acceptable for you?
For community feedback and project info, do you want a website with forum, or are other places enough for you in this early phase?
Up until recently, this project wasn't all that serious (business) to me, but now that money comes in with the artist's payment, there's no going back.
Sadly, I haven't really prepared a hub for the game where most of the news and community work happens. Ideally a website and a forum would be required for this, but because of the "no budget to little budget" nature of this project, I don't have one ready and probably won't have within the next few weeks.
The question here isn't IF a website will come, it will come eventually. It's more like how fast and how desperately you want one. Can you wait for it until the (hopefully successful) crowdfunding process is complete, and with the knowledge of having a fully working team, then we can start building on our infrastructure. Or do you demand it even before the crowdfunding?
Thank you for your time and answers in advance. Should you have any other questions, feel free to ask them and I'll try my best to answer them.


Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike.
Is Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about to do a Theresa May? In June, the British prime minister called an unnecessary general election because the opinion polls gave her a supposedly unassailable lead. In the course of the campaign, that lead dwindled to almost nothing due to a combination of inept campaign strategy and astute politicking by her opponent, the wildly underestimated opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. It is now touch-and-go whether she survives until the end of the year.
Like Corbyn, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike is a seasoned operator with a flair for populist gestures and a justly earned reputation for standing apart from the crowd of colorless party hacks. Unlike the vast majority of Japanese politicians, she has no coalition of vested interests behind her, no party machine and no network of influential backers. Her approval ratings of around 70% are far above those achieved by Abe even at peak popularity.
There is one further eerie resemblance. May's campaign ran into trouble because of a series of ham-fisted proposals for targeted spending cuts in line with the "austerity" strategy dictated by the U.K. Treasury and channeled by her chancellor of the exchequer. Abe has gotten himself into a similar pickle by agreeing to a deeply unpopular hike in the consumption tax, as demanded by the Ministry of Finance and his own finance minister, Taro Aso.
On all three of the previous occasions that the consumption tax was hiked, recessions followed. Abe knows this well enough because the last time was in 2014 and the result was a sharp fall in his own popularity. This time, in an attempt to mitigate the regressive effects, he is promising to use half the revenue raised to fund free education and other giveaways. Even so, any fiscal tightening at all represents a dilution of the Abenomics reflationary strategy and looks like a capitulation to the unreconstructed fiscal hawks in the bureaucracy.
In contrast, Koike's message is strong and clear -- no consumption tax hike until the economy can bear it. Likewise, her "zero nuclear power" stance is likely to garner support from younger people and celebrities as well as potentially winning the backing of another maverick, former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi who has reinvented himself as an anti-nuclear campaigner. With a large proportion of unaffiliated voters -- around 30%, according to some polls -- it would not be a huge surprise if Koike's brand new "Party of Hope" scored significant successes, particularly in Tokyo and surrounding areas. It might end up as Japan's third largest, perhaps even second largest party.
It will be after the election that things may get interesting. Although Koike is portrayed in the media as a direct challenger to Abe, the similarities between them are much greater than the differences. If the center-left Democratic Party, currently the largest opposition party, bears the brunt of the Party of Hope's advances, Abe may find that his room for maneuver has increased.
Koike has rattled the cages of vested interests and favors better conditions for working women, but politically she is very far from being an old-school leftist in the style of Corbyn. A member of the Nippon Kaigi association of conservative activists and a regular worshipper at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, she is to the right of Abe on many issues. For example, like many Japanese conservatives, she feels that Abe's minimalist proposal for constitutional reform -- which merely spells out that Japan's Self-Defense Forces are legal -- does not go nearly far enough. Instead, she favors a wholesale rewriting. Her views on North Korea are similarly robust. It was because of her ideological credentials that Abe made her Japan's first-ever female minister of defense in 2007.
It is possible that a resounding electoral success could encourage Koike to plot a return to the national parliament, but that would mean giving up her current job. The governorship of Tokyo involves managing an urban agglomeration larger than many European countries in economic scale. With the 2020 Olympics around the corner, it offers more power, responsibility and exposure than all but the top three or four cabinet posts. It would make more sense to complete her term, which ends in August 2020, then to weigh her chances in the post-Abe world.
The obvious strategy for both players is to form an official or unofficial alliance. Currently the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's partner in coalition is Komeito, a party affiliated to the Buddhist Soka Gakkai organization. Soka Gakkai has a strongly pacifist orientation -- one of its founders was a dissident who died in prison during the war. Every initiative that Abe has promoted on security and defense issues, including his constitutional reform proposal, has had to take this into account.
The relationship between the LDP and Komeito is a political marriage of convenience. A relationship between Abe's LDP and Koike's Party of Hope would be built on mutual attraction. It is notable that Abe has refrained from any personal criticism of Koike; in fact, he has gone out of his way to build her up as "a formidable opponent," and has complimented her choice of party name.
Abe has an unbroken record of election successes. He has highly experienced and sophisticated political advisers who will have examined all possibilities and permutations. What about a scenario in which the parliamentary left was eroded further, a new coalition partner appeared, the tax hike had to be scrapped and constitutional reform made more wide-ranging? Technically it might be a defeat, but the result could better than a victory.


As we all know, toys are mass-produced at the North Pole every year. Mass-production everywhere in the world (yes, even at the North Pole!) depends heavily on the assembly line. The North Pole production line for toys is much more extraordinary than normal ones found in a typical factory. For one, they are run by Santa's elves instead of humans. But more importantly, the way that toys are built is much different. In a typical assembly line, workers are at their own stations and a bunch of steps are done to intermediate semi-finished parts until a final product is reached.
At the North Pole, toys are made just a tad more magically than your average automobile. Since toys are made up of a bunch of parts, technically, one toy can also be considered a "part" if it is used later in the making of another toy. It's not important to distinguish between toys and parts for the purposes of this problem – Santa just wants to get things done! To eliminate confusion, we shall refer to toys and parts simply as "units". There are N stations (numbered from 1 to N) in the North Pole assembly line. Each station is meant to continuously produce an unlimited amount of a particular type of unit. Specifically, station i produces type-Ti units.
Station one produces elementary units (type-1 units), so T1 = 1. From thereon, a station i can only produce a unit of type-Ti if Ti is a sum of the unit types of exactly two (not necessarily unique) stations that come before it. Therefore, just like a typical assembly line, the type of unit produced at a station depends on the stations before it.
For example, a valid sequence of production types is 1, 2, 3, and 5. The elf at station two can make type-2 units because it can take two of station one's units and put them together (1 + 1). The elf at station three can make type-3 units because it can take one of station one's units and one of station two's units (1 + 2). The elf at station four can make type-5 units because it can put together one of station two's units and one of station three's units (2 + 3).
Santa wants to make type-X toys. Moreover, he wants the assembly line for creating the toy to be as compact as possible, so toy production rates can be maximized. You must help him determine the shortest possible production line for producing this type of toy.
A single integer X (1 ≤ X ≤ 100), the type of toy that Santa wants to produce.
Line 1 should contain a single integer N specifying the length of the shortest possible production line that produces the specified toy.
Line 2 should contain N space-separated integers, the values of T1, T2, …, TN, representing the types of units being produced in each assembly line station.
Is there any reason 1 2 4 5 is invalid? Or is it valid and was simply not chosen?
In the case that it is valid, how do I decide which to output?
Any correct answer will be accepted.


A mental health assessment or evaluation is a procedure in which a psychologist or psychiatrist gathers information about the patient via tests and interviews, in order to evaluate cognitive functioning and abilities in specific areas and to predict future behaviour.
The psychological evaluation is carried out by means of interviews, psychometric tests, recordings and observations.
Interview and psychometric tests: information about different aspects of the patient’s life is gathered, and the patient’s attitude, how they talk and their tone of voice is analysed.
Structured: a series of questions are given with a set of closed answers.
Unstructured: the patient is given a series of open questions that allow the person to speak more.
Recordings and observations: all the data obtained from the interview is recorded and analysed.
Why is a mental health assessment done?
It is done to see if the patient has any underlying mental illness that might require treatment and to allow the patient to achieve a better understanding of themselves, promoting their decision-making in relation to their professional, family, social and love life.
It is recommended that you attend a session with the psychologist before the evaluation session itself, in order to talk about what's involved with the assessment.
What will I feel during the assessment?
Given that very personal subjects are addressed, you may experience negative emotions during the course of the psychological evaluation.
The results of the assessment determine whether the patient needs treatment for a specific mental disorder, and to determine which treatment is best suited to the individual.


Treatments for lung cancer depend on the type, size, location, extent of progression and your general health.
Various treatments include standard radiotherapy, proton beam radiation, surgery and chemotherapy. All types of treatment options come with their own pros and cons. That's why it pays to know everything about your options.
What are the different forms of treatments?
Your doctor will recommend among the treatment options based on the stage your tumor is in at the time of diagnosis. Treatments are stage-specific.
Among the different treatments, surgery is not usually recommended if you are more than 50 years old and have other types of lung disease or another serious medical condition.
It is advised as. . .
one of the possible treatments even with metastatic and multiple tumors in the lungs as long as they are close to each other and the surgeon can reach their location.
How extensive the operation will be depends on the size and location of the tumor. There are also various ways of surgically removing the tumor in your lungs.
What are the different surgery options?
A tumor in the lungs can be surgically removed through a . . .
This is recommended if your lungs are not fully functioning and if the tumor is still tiny and confined to a certain area such as at the edge of your lungs. It can be segmental or wedge resectioning.
Resectioning is done by removing the tumor and a small part of the tissues in your lungs that surround the tumor. Among the different surgery treatments, mortality risk for resectioning is much lower at 1.4%.
Among the surgical treatments for lung cancer, pneumonectomy has the highest mortality risk at 5 to 8%.
It involves the surgical removal of the entire lung affected by the tumor.
Radiation treatment include 2 options: standard or conventional and proton radiation. In both treatments, energy rays are used to kill the tumor and to relieve some of the effects of lung cancer. These 2 options are recommended as . . .
one of the treatments for metastatic tumor that has spread to the brain and other organs.
What is the difference between these options? Standard type of radiotherapy has its limitations in killing the cancer cells even at early stage. Proton beam radiation is currently being explored as a more effective form of treatment for early lung tumor.
Related Article: Proton Radiation: Is It the Best Treatment?
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are recommended for small cell lung cancer or SCLC because together, these options are more effective. However, serious side effects from combination of these treatments can also occur.
Chemotherapy involves the use of medicines given either through direct injection into a vein or a catheter put into a large vein to kill cancerous cells.
It is also usually administered after surgery to destroy any cancerous cells that cannot be or have not been removed.
It can be given during all the stages of tumor in the lungs for the prevention of its growth and relief of symptoms especially if you can't be operated on.
Any of these possible treatments for lung cancer will have its side effects. Awareness of the side effects you can expect from these treatments is a must. It's up to you, your doctor and your family to weigh the pros and cons of the available treatments for lung cancer.


Choose the most appropriate word or term for each sentence.
1. The street artist did a quick sketch of my friend, which emphasized his bushy eyebrows.
2. The dance poster featured a bird in flight wearing ballet slippers.
3. Shakespeare was recognized and respected by the other playwrights of his time.
4. The “Dirty Thirties” characterized the period following the event we know as Black Friday, the stock market crash of 1929.
5. The two travel images placed side by side heightened the contrast between squalor and affluence.
6. The student sailed into the argument with his cannons ready to roar.
7. Salvador Dali evokes the dream state in his paintings of melting landscapes.
8. In the creation of a poster the printed information requires careful proofing to avoid mistakes.
9. The live performing arts are by nature transitory.
10. The graphic designer specialized in the elegant arrangement of printed text on her posters.
11. The image we want should make reference to a flower garden, but be less literal.
12. The repertoire and script for the concert was chosen to explore the question: Can Music be Humorous?
13. That’s a great photo, but it will be even better when you cut off the dull bit on the left.
14. My ideal house would be irregularly shaped, with unexpected balconies and unusual outer wall treatment.
15. Find me an example of an image that is so powerful it needs no translation.


NEW ORLEANS The Super Bowl was halted for 34 minutes because of a power outage Sunday night, plunging parts of the Superdome into darkness and briefly leaving TV viewers of the biggest game of the year with no football and no explanation why.
On the CBS broadcast, play-by-play announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms went silent.
CBS sideline reporter Steve Tasker announced the problem of a "click of the lights" to viewers. Later, the halftime crew anchored by host James Brown returned to fill the time with football analysis. Brown said a power surge caused the outage.
"We lost all power up here at the press box level," Nantz said after power was restored. He and Simms were off the air for most of the 34-minute outage.
The Niners scored two straight touchdowns and nearly pulled off a game-winning drive in the closing minutes. They had first down inside the Ravens 10, but Baltimore kept them out of the end zone to preserve a wild 34-31 victory.
The blackout, it turned out, became more of a footnote than a spark to the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.
Still, it was a moment like no other in the title game.
He told The Associated Press that Superdome technical staff were working more than hour after the outage to determine what caused it but still didn't know.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu called the power outage "an unfortunate moment in what has been an otherwise shining Super Bowl week for the city of New Orleans."
"In the coming days, I expect a full after action report from all parties involved. For us, the Super Bowl isn't over until the last visitor leaves town, so we're focused on continuing to show our visitors a good time," said Landrieu, a Democrat and former lieutenant governor of Louisiana.
"My exact words on the way over here were, `I hope this goes off without a hitch,' because the city just looked so good, they were doing so well, the weather so good everything was kind of falling into place," she said.
"If we can blame Beyonce for lip syncing, we can blame her for the power outage," said Gary Cimperman of Slidell, La., with a laugh as he watched the second half of the game from a bar. "Or maybe Sean Payton called in the outage, bounty get part two."
Even out-of-towners seemed to be taking the outage in stride.


What laptop should I buy for Christmas 2017?
If you want a computer that is not super slow, please avoid any models with an Intel Celeron processor. In my experience, Celeron-based computers are always frustratingly slow, even when performing basic tasks. Instead, consider an Intel i3 or an AMD A8 as a starting point. If performance is important, make the jump to an i5. If you want the fastest possible laptop, get the i7. It will cost significantly more, but your laptop will perform like a desktop computer.
As we approach 2018, computers with less than 4 GB of RAM are hard to find. That's good because you definitely want at least 4 GB of RAM. If you're using a modern OS like Windows 10 or macOS High Sierra, I recommend at least 8 GB of RAM to make sure your computer doesn't have a memory bottleneck. If you like to run lots of applications at once or do photo and video editing with your laptop, I would look for a laptop with 16 GB of RAM.
Unless you have a very limited budget (under $300), get a laptop with an SSD. From my experience, this is the number one performance upgrade you can make between similar laptops. HDDs in laptops are slower than the ones in desktop computers, so an SSDs provides an even greater performance bump in a laptop. You'll have to may more for less storage, but most people don't use more than 256 GB of internal storage anyway. I would take a 256 GB SSD over a 1 TB HDD any day.
This is the most difficult spec to recommend because there are so many variations of graphics chips available. At a bare minimum, I would make sure the tech specs of the laptop at least list a specific graphics chip or video card so you konw it has one. I think 2 GB of video memory is OK, but 4 GB or more should ensure the VRAM isn't a bottleneck. If you plan on running one or more external displays from your laptop, I would look for a machine with 6 or 8 GB of VRAM.
Remember — people's requirements differ greatly based on what they use their computer for and how much they use it. While I might find a $2700 laptop to be a good value, it may be way more than another person needs. If you're looking for a middle-of-the-road laptop for Christmas 2017, you should be able to get a computer with the following specs for between $600 and $700.
I hope this helps and Merry Christmas!