What needs to be revised?
Singular noun phrases connected by "or"
Singular noun phrases connected by "either/or"
Noun phrases conjoined by "and"
Subjects containing "along with", "as well as", and "besides"
When you produce texts in another language than your own, you are quite likely to run into difficulties that are different from those that you may experience when writing in your own mother tongue.
Sometimes you are not certain exactly what is grammatically acceptable in English and what is not.
Sometimes you know what is correct English but you still cannot apply this knowledge to construct a coherent and convincing argument.
Sometimes you know exactly what you want to say, but you cannot seem to find the right words in English to do this.
Even if you manage to come up with a sentence that expresses what you want it to express, it is sometimes the case that you feel that the level of formality or style is inappropriate for the type of text you are currently producing.
The aim of this AWELU section is to help you with all such problems related to English grammar and words.
Grammar and words is a fairly large AWELU section with a number of subsections. That the section is large means that it might be difficult sometimes to find the exact information that you are looking for. Of course the subsection headings, the index, and the search engine will be of great use to you, but you may also find the following brief introductions to each subsection useful.
The rest of this introductory text is organised as follows: You first get a short piece of text in which the name of the subsection is provided. After this short text, you get a link to the subsection in question. Then there follows another short text and another link, and so on.
The second subsection is concerned with Common problems and how to avoid them. Here you find information about a number of areas where people writing in English often make mistakes or run into difficulties. Generally speaking, the problems mentioned here are not typically Swedish, but rather problems that people tend to experience when writing in English, regardless of their linguistic background.
The third subsection is devoted to Punctuation. If you write proper academic texts in English, you also need to be able to make use of punctuation properly.
Another notoriously tricky area for people writing in English is Spelling. We know that English is not one of those languages where the spelling of a word automatically gives you its correct pronunciation, and it is definitely not the case that the pronunciation of an English word straightforwardly determines its spelling. This means that we all need to use dictionaries and automatic spell-checks when we write in English. The topics that the subsection on spelling is concerned with are commonly confused words, certain spelling rules/conventions, and some important differences between British and American spelling.
Obviously, we cannot produce texts in English if we do not know enough about English words, so the next subsection has its Focus on Vocabulary. The following topics are dealt with here: Vocabulary Awareness, Useful Phrases and Expressions, Abbreviations, and Discipline Specific Vocabulary.
Related to vocabulary is Register and Style. What words are appropriate to use in a given context depends to a large extent on the type of context, the type of text you are writing, and what your relationship is to the expected reader(s). Whatever it is that you are writing, you have to take such matters into consideration.
Another subsection that has to to with the use of words is Dictionaries. Here you get some useful general information about dictionaries and how they could be used in academic writing. You will also find links to on-line dictionaries that AWELU recommends.
Finally, you are introduced to Corpora and how corpora can be used, for instance, by non-native writers who want to improve their writing and make it more native-like. We are convinced that corpora can be of great use for both advanced and less advanced writers.


Can an employee be fired for social media posts made on his or her own time? Many employers think so. Should employees feel pressured to respond to work emails or postings on their own time? Some employers say no, but many are ambivalent. Digital has blurred the lines between worklife and personal life to the point where confusion reigns. It also is redefining the way businesses interact with customers and partners -- which now occurs in a continuous, 24-hour manner. That's why digital policies are so critical. However, it's important not to attempt to over-regulate the situation and dampen innovation and informal conversations. A balance needs to be struck.
"Many think of digital policies as restrictive, bureaucratic red tape that slows things down and makes their jobs harder," says Kristina Podnar, principal of NativeTrust Consulting. "It doesn't have to be that way. In fact, digital policies are liberating! Once everyone knows the rules, they can stop worrying -- and focus that energy on being creative and productive within the established guidelines."
Podnar outlines how to apply this new thinking to developing digital policies in her latest book, The Power of Digital Policy. She defines effective digital policies as "simple, clear statements on how your business will conduct its digital operations," providing guidance to all digital workers and contractors, with "a level of detail that translates the digital strategy into actions." It also embeds applicable laws and regulations.
The risks of not having a digital policy are too steep these days -- from exposure to lawsuits, data breaches and simple social faux pas.
Gain support from the top. This is crucial for any initiative, but especially critical for digital policy making. "New policies are rarely greeted with open arms -- if when they make things better," Podnar points out.
Appoint a "digital policy steward." This person will be the owner of the digital policy program. "The specific responsibilities of a digital policy steward will vary from one organization to another," Podnar says. In smaller companies, the steward is likely to be "one-person show, doing everything from interviewing subject matter experts and frontline workers to actually writing the policies." At larger organizations, the digital policy steward "may be more like the general contractor at a construction project," assigning responsibilities and deadlines and monitoring progress.
Bring in digital policy authors. While the digital policy steward may be the policy author in many cases, this person may have the budget to bring in expertise to assist with "writing policy decisions in a way that's easy for workers to access, understand and use." They also serve to monitor policies for unintended consequences and exceptions.
Be pragmatic and supportive. Remember, no content or data is exempt once policies are in place. Once you se a precedent, Podnar advises, "there will be people lined up outside your door, waiting to make a case as to why the content they own should be exempted, or 'grandfathered.' Resist such inconsistencies, she says, but also be pragmatic -- "aim to support people in their efforts to become compliant, rather than make exemptions to policy." Easier said than done, right?
Lose the "project" mindset in formulating digital policy. Put change management front and center, Podnar advocates. "Digital policies are not a 'project.' Oftentimes leadership and those working ion digital initiatives expect that if something is a project, it is a one-and-done deal." As digital policies are implemented, "you should continually communicate the value of the digital policies and how their integration into ongoing digital operations will benefit individual staff, teams and the organization as a whole."
Don't centralize or decentralize policies -- go hybrid. "Ideally, headquarters decides what the organization will or will not do when it comes to digital operations, but they will leave the details to local employees," says Podnar.
Digital media and technology opens up vast opportunities for innovation and communication across global markets. As organizations move as fast as they can into the digital economy, it's important to set guardrails that assure everyone they can move forward with confidence.


Are you for or against "the big bottle"?
Introduce brevemente el tema sobre el que vas a escribir y expresa tu opinión respondiendo a la pregunta: "¿Estás a favor o en contra del botellón en tu país?".
Escribe argumentos que justifiquen tu opinión.
Write about 100 to 150 words in the following topic: Are you for or against "the big bottle"? Why?
The “big bottle” is a phenomenon which has quickly spread throughout Spanish cities. It has caused many problems in the areas where it takes place and therefore I am absolutely against it.
In the first place, neighbours living in the city centres complain because they cannot sleep due to the noise created and because they find their area full of rubbish the morning after.
The second problem I see is that under aged teenagers have access to alcohol because there is not anyone in the streets controlling what they drink.
Another big problem is that the streets are packed with drunk teenagers and this can bring about fights and acts of vandalism, which can, again, affect neighbours.
So on the whole, I think that the “big bottle” is a social problem and we should all contribute to eradicate it.


The village's carpentry is located by a hill side. The carpenter's two little boys play with a piece of wood which looks like a deformed wheel with two identical convex polygon-shaped faces. One boy sets the wooden wheel on a slope at the hill top and let it roll down. The other boy is to quickly place himself at where he guesses the rolling wood would stop. Your program is to help him make the right guess.
More formally, we consider the wooden wheel as a simple convex polygon and we approximate the hill by a sequence of connected line segments with decreasing slopes. The slope of the last segment in the sequence is assumed to be zero, and the slope of the first segment is assumed to be a positive number. Initially, the wheel is placed on the hill such that there is at least one point of contact between the wheel and segments. For example in the following figure, the wheel in its initial position is drawn in solid lines, while the final position is drawn in dashed lines.
At any instant, the wheel rotates around one of its vertices, say P, if the y-coordinate of its center of gravity is decreased (note that this condition is necessary at any instant during the motion). It can be easily shown that at any instant, there is at most one such vertex. Rotation around P is stopped when the wheel touches a segment. The motion continues until no vertex can be found such that the wheel can rotate around it. At any instant, assume that changing the position of the center of gravity in any direction for at most 10-5 units, does not affect the stability of the wheel. Also assume that the friction between the wheel and the surface of the hill is so high that the wheel never slides on the surface.
The first line of the input contains a single integer t (1 <= t <= 10), the number of test cases, followed by the input data for each test case. In the first line of each test case there is an integer n (1 <= n <= 10), that indicates the number of the wheel vertices. In each of the next n lines, there is a pair of numbers which are x and y coordinates of the initial position of a vertex. After this, there is a single line containing the initial x and y coordinates of the center of gravity of the wheel. You can assume that the center of gravity is inside or on the boundary of the polygon (note that the given center of gravity is not necessarily computable from wheel's geometric shape). Next lines of the test data will describe the shape of the hill. The surface of the hill is approximated with a series of line segments with decreasing slopes ending with a horizontal line segment. For each segment, there is a line containing length and slope of a segment (both of them are real numbers). The lines are ordered in decreasing slope (The last line of this part of the input has slope zero). You can assume that the last (horizontal) line is long enough that the wheel would not pass its end. In the last line of the test case, there is a line containing the x and y coordinates of the right end-point of the first segment. All coordinates and slopes are real numbers.
For each test case, there should be a single line in the output , containing two numbers which are x and y coordinates of the wheel's center of gravity. Round the numbers in the output to 3 digits after decimal point.


Creamy and tangy, delicious housemade vegan mayo. Ingredients: sunflower oil*, soy milk, olive oil*, mustard*, apple cider vinegar*, lemon juice*, salt, pepper* * organic ingredients.
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Hostmysite.com :: How do I change the image for a product?
How do I change the image for a product?
The following article explains how to change the image for a product. The product's thumbnail image and full sized image may be changed.
Log into the MIVA Merchant Admin section located at http://store.domainname.com/merchant2/admin.mvc. If this address does not work, you may need to use http://domainname.com/merchant2/admin.mvc. Older MIVA Merchant stores were configured with this address.
Click Products from the menu.
Click Edit for the selected product.
Click Images from the top menu.
Click Upload for either the thumbnail image or full-sized image.
Click Browse and navigate to the image on your local machine. If you are replacing an existing image check Overwrite.
Repeat steps 7 - 9 if you wish to replace the other image.


Direction (Q. 1 - 10) : In each of the following sentences there are two blanks. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by the numbers 1), 2), 3) and 4). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
It was not______________but a search for excitement which made him steal_____________ the shop.
The rank and____________ of the party had turned____________the leader.
'Rank and file' means the ordinar members of an organisation.
Before his______________ cross-examination his alibi fell____________.
We thought that the Sadhu had_____________ powers, but we soon found that we were___________.
Salaries could not be_____________ because the chairman____________not signed the cheques.
After_____________caught in the act, he knew that he was in____________trouble.
Martin was____________ to the Police station because he was drunk and___________.
At times, when she was in the right___________, she would___________a humour which no one could match.
Few could____________ her mental____________ when her husband died.
Illiteracy____________ a great____________ to progress.


We've shrunk the calorie count of this dish by using lean turkey sausage. To save time, use store-bought polenta in a tube.
Coat a 3-quart baking dish with cooking spray. Combine 4 cups water and polenta, and pour into prepared baking dish. Set aside.
Place fennel in a 9- x 13-inch baking dish. Add bell pepper, red onion, tomatoes, and garlic. Drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with oregano. Toss to coat. Arrange turkey sausage on top, and add 1 cup water.
Bake sausage and vegetables, uncovered, at 425° for 20 minutes. Remove from oven; turn sausages, and toss vegetables. Place half of vegetable mixture on top of sausages before returning baking dish to oven.
Reduce temperature to 350°. Stir polenta mixture lightly, and place baking dish in oven. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Remove polenta from oven; stir gently with a fork, and return to oven. Bake both dishes an additional 10 minutes or until vegetables are completely soft and a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of a sausage registers 170°. Remove from oven.
Stir polenta with a fork; polenta will continue to thicken as it stands. Serve polenta and sausage topped with vegetables and pan sauce. Sprinkle with parsley, if desired.


Q1. If “A > B ≥ C = D ? E ≤ F” is true, then what should come in place of ? to make ”A>E” false?
Q2. If “Z < F ≤ X? M ≥ E” is true, then what should come in place of ? to make “X > E” true?
Directions (3-4): In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three Conclusions numbered I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the statements and then decide which of the given Conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
I. No state is city.
II. Some district can never be city.
Q5. Disha starts walking from A towards her east to reach point B and then turned to her right to reach point C. Drishti starts walking towards north to reach point M, then she turns to her right to reach N. Finally, she takes a left turn to reach point C. Distance MN is more than AB. In which direction is Drishti’s initial position with respect to point B?
Directions (6-10): Study the table and answer the given questions.
Q6. In 2010, if the number of female qualified candidates was 176, what was the respective ratio of number of male qualified candidates and number of female qualified candidates?
Q7. If the number of appeared candidates in 2011 were 40% more than that in 2006 and If 25% of the appeared candidates qualified in 2011 then what was the number of qualified candidates in 2011?
Q8. In 2007, the respective ratio of number of appeared candidates to the qualified candidates was 5:4. Number of female qualified candidates constitutes what per cent of number of appeared candidates in the same year?
Q9. In 2009, if the difference between number of male qualified candidates and female qualified candidates was 72, what was the number of appeared candidates in 2009?
Q10. If the average number of qualified candidates in 2006 and 2008 was 249, what percent of appeared candidates qualified in the competitive exam in 2006?
Directions (11-15): In each of the questions given below an incomplete sentence which must be filled/completed with one of the one or more sentences given below .i.e. one or more sentences can be fit into the given blank s. Choose the correct option and complete the given sentences.
It was unclear when or before which committee he would testify- Here, we are talking about the situation in which someone is doubtful that when or before which committee he would have to pass the test or testify himself. …he would appoint will not come here as the appointment is said to be done by the committee, not before the committee.
Q12. This hearing will be an important opportunity ..................... and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online.
This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online- As the sentence ends with the matter of personal information, thus we will consider the option (c) as the correct one because in this option, privacy issues have been talked about which is directly related to the personal information online.
It still speaks to people feeling like this was a massive breach of trust and that we have a lot of work to do to repair that- The given sentence expresses that there has been a breach of trust of many people. So, to bring it to the original position, one should have to do a lot of work to repair it.
I’m confident we’re making progress against these adversaries but they’re very sophisticated. We can’t expect to fully solve a problem like this- The given statement ends with the problem solving matter. This means if a problem is faced by, then there must be creator of problems also, and what the positive side is doing is making progress against them.ie. adversaries.
Its terms of reference also include suggestions on the possible ways in which the system can be made more secure with the use of technology and minimization of human intervention- Here, we are asking about the suggestions of improvement which can only be made by the minimization of the human intervention.


Let's take this question as an example: How to save a context into an expression?
The distance between the second item and its paragraph is larger than the distance between the next or the previous item.
It is at least confusing but I find it also ugly. Even more in the mobile app.
I have not found related topics here or in meta.se so let's start a discussion here and escalate it if needed.
The question is, is this intended?
If so, what is the way to go when writing bullet items with paragraphs? In given example item is marked by "- " and a paragraph by " ".
If not, is it a side effect of a more important feature?
m_golberg points out that there's another way to get in a
, namely by using two spaces before the newline, i.e. \n.
- `Save` saves `$Context` and `$ContextPath` (everything what is not protected) together with all definitions so loading it will affect environment.
I can load it within additional `Begin/EndPackage` but I don't like it.
- I don't know how to use ``Language` `` functions to do this.
Save saves $Context and $ContextPath (everything what is not protected) together with all definitions so loading it will affect environment.
I can load it within additional Begin/EndPackage but I don't like it.
I don't know how to use Language` functions to do this.
Markdown only supports newlines as
 (which causes the whitespace you see). You'll have to fall back to HTML for this.
You can get a nicer wrapping using an explicit
.
- `Save` saves `$Context` and `$ContextPath` (everything what is not protected) together with all definitions so loading it will affect environment.
 I can load it within additional `Begin/EndPackage` but I don't like it.
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was born in the province of Africa, in Hippo Regius, near modern 'Annaba in northeast Algeria. His father Suetonius Laetus was a rich man and belonged to the equestrian order, the second rank of the Roman elite (after the senators). In 69, the year of the civil war that is known as the "year of the four emperors", Laetus was serving as a military tribune in the Thirteenth Legion Gemina. The author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars tells this in his Life of Otho, and adds that his father had been present when Otho decided to commit suicide after his army had been defeated at Cremona by the legions of his rival Vitellius (text).
From this simple piece of information, we can deduce a couple of things. In the first place, that Laetus was probably born in 49 or 50, because a military tribune was usually nineteen or twenty years old. Under normal circumstances, the tribuneship marked the beginning of a career, but for Laetus, it was the end: as an officer of the defeated Otho, the only thing he could do was retire, grateful to the gods that he had survived. Other officers were less fortunate: they were executed. Assuming that Laetus came from Hippo Regius and returned in the summer of 69, his son Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus cannot have been conceived before the winter of 69/70 and cannot have been born before the autumn of 70. If he was Laetus' second child, he was born even later - although a date after, say, 73 is unlikely.
During the reign of Vespasian's son Domitian (81-96), Suetonius was sent to Rome to be educated as an orator. This was a normal way to start a career. He was lucky to meet Pliny the Younger, a Roman senatorial careerist, who was praetor in 93, prefect of the military treasury in 94-96, and consul in 100. The two men sincerely liked each other and the senator, who claimed to be a connoisseur of literary talent, was to help Suetonius' career. Pliny's letters, which survive, show how he cared about his protégé. For example, he arranged that Suetonius could buy a farm at a reasonable price.
Pliny seems to have died shortly after his return from Bithynia (if in not in this province), and without his letters, we would not know much about Suetonius' career. Fortunately, we have an inscription that was discovered in his hometown Hippo Regius in 1952. It informs us that the man who had been portrayed by Pliny as a slightly unworldly scholar, occupied very important offices: he had been a bybliothecis, an a studiis, and an ab epistulis. This last office gave Suetonius more power than Pliny could ever have dreamt of.
The office of a bybliothecis implied that Suetonius was responsible for the libraries in Rome. There were at least seven of them, usually consisting of two reading rooms, one for Latin and one for Greek literature - the two languages of the Roman empire. It is possible that Suetonius was involved in the organization of the new libraries at the Forum of Trajan, which were opened to the public in 112 but probably not finished until the end of the reign of Trajan (in 117).
The ab epistulis was one of the most important men in the civil administration of the Roman empire. We can translate this title as "minister of letters", "general secretary" or "director of the chancery". Suetonius was responsible for the imperial correspondence. Every Latin letter written by the emperor Hadrian in the first five years of his reign (117-122) must have passed through the hands of Suetonius, who was probably also a member of the consilium principis, the emperor's board of advisers. Suetonius must have accompanied the emperor on his first tour through the provinces: along the Rhine to Germania Inferior, and across the North Sea to Britain, where Suetonius must have witnessed the laying of the foundation stone of Hadrian's wall.
We do not know exactly what happened, but it seems that Hadrian was not really angry with Septicius and Suetonius, and removed them to isolate the empress Sabina. Hadrian's marriage was a disaster - he preferred boys -, and it seems that she replied to her husband's move by saying that she had taken steps to make sure that she did not become pregnant and give birth to a son of Hadrian's, another man that would harm mankind.
In the meantime, Suetonius had continued to write books, and although we do not know which one had already been published, we can assume that after his downfall, it was not difficult to return to his life as a scholar, living on his country estate. Suetonius died after 126.
We know many titles of publications by Suetonius, including an intriguing book on the Physical Defects of Men, a biography of Cicero, the Greek Children's Games, and a dictionary that contained only terms of abuse. Unfortunately, these books are lost.
We know a bit more about a work that was called the Pratum de rebus variis, which can be translated as "the garden of several things", or, to accentuate the light-natured character of this work, the Playground. In this book, Suetonius collected useful, interesting, and entertaining facts, which might amuse the reader. It was not the first in its genre: Suetonius had copied a Greek model, the Playground of Names and Languages by the Alexandrine scholar Pamphilus. In turn, Suetonius' encyclopedia was to become a model for other authors, like Aulus Gellius and Isidore of Seville.
Some of these subjects could also be included in a monograph (Lives of famous prostitutes and a Handbook textual criticism), others can be regarded as independent books (Roman antiquities, Lives of famous authors, Lives of Roman kings, On nature). Perhaps, the Playground can best be seen as the Collected works of Suetonius. There are indications that books 11-19 were once published independently as Famous people (De viris illustribus).
The eight books of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars have almost completely come down to us. Only the first pages, which must have contained a preface, a dedication to Septicius Clarus, and an account of the youth of Julius Caesar are missing.
The Lives are extremely entertaining and have always been very popular. At the beginning of the third century, an official named Marius Maximus wrote another collection of twelve biographies, imitating Suetonius. This work is now lost but was used as a source by the anonymous author of the Historia Augusta, a fourth-century collection of imperial biographies. Much later, in the ninth century, a courtier of Charlemagne named Einhard wrote a biography of his emperor, closely following the model of Suetonius.
Other biographies contain similar turns in the narrative. Next comes a thematic description of the emperor's character, his private life (including sexual habits that have always caught much attention), behavior as a citizen, military successes, and some remarks about the emperor's political life. After this, Suetonius - returning to a chronological account of the man's life - describes the portents and circumstances of the emperor's death, the number of years of his reign, and a description of his funeral.
It has often been said that Suetonius, a former archivist, used sources from the Roman state archive. This is probably not true. Suetonius' sources are authors like Cluvius Rufus, Pliny the Elder, and a collection of letters by the emperor Augustus. As far as we can see, he treats his subject matter more or less objectively. His biographies contain much gossip, but Suetonius does not ignore or misrepresent information from his sources. This is more than we can say about his contemporary Tacitus.
At least two themes can be distinguished in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. In the first place, there is the idea that an imperial dynasty is founded by a morally strong man, who proved his strength and virtue by fighting for his position. After describing how Julius Caesar destroyed the Roman republic in a civil war, Suetonius dwells at great length on the greatest of all Romans, Augustus, the founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His successor Tiberius is presented as a weaker man: his reign is essentially an egotistical usurpation - something that becomes obvious after reading about his sexual behavior. His successor Caligula is a cynical monster, Claudius a bureaucrat, Nero incompetent.
After this dynasty, a new civil war breaks out (book 7: Galba, Otho, Vitellius), whereas book 8 describes Vespasian, Titus, Domitian - a repetition of the earlier story about the strong founder of a weak dynasty. The story of the Flavian dynasty is essentially an appendix to show that history is repeating itself. It can be read as an attack on Hadrian, who was also the successor of a "founding emperor", Trajan.
Suetonius' attention to private lives has earned him a reputation as a slanderer - someone who loves scandals. This is beside the point. His second theme is a simple but important question: how do you cope with power? If you have absolute power, you can do whatever you want, and only a very strong man (Augustus, Vespasian), is able to remain morally correct. People of lesser stature (the rest, except Titus) will abuse their power. This is more or less the same message as taught by modern gossip magazines, and although it is a simple philosophy, it runs deep.


The announcement by House Speaker John Boehner that he is retiring at the end of October stunned Washington where life is all about grabbing power and holding on to it, often until death they do part.
At a meeting with reporters, Boehner said, "My first job as speaker is to protect the institution."
Really? Is that why Ohio voters sent him to Washington in 16 elections and his Republican colleagues elected and re-elected him speaker? Did he take an oath to preserve, protect and defend the institution of the House or the Constitution, which, if followed, offers protection enough?
In 2010, I interviewed Boehner when he was minority leader and I asked him to cite the most important lesson he learned when Republicans lost their hard-won House majority in 2006. He replied, "Our team failed to live up to our own principles."
Failing to live up to GOP principles, indeed, failing to articulate what those principles are, was largely the reason for the increase in conservative members who then demanded either action or the speaker's head. They got his head. Whether that means his successor will do a better job is open to question.
On July 28, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) expressed the frustration of many conservatives by filing a "motion to vacate the chair," for the purpose of ousting Boehner from the speakership. Meadows' resolution charged Boehner with using "the power of the office to punish Members who vote according to their conscience instead of the will of the speaker," providing for "voice votes on consequential and controversial legislation to be taken without notice and with few Members present," using "the legislative calendar to create crises for the American People, in order to compel Members to vote for legislation" and failing to comply with "the spirit of the rules of the House of Representatives, which provide that Members shall have three days to review legislation before voting." That last one had been a promise made by Republicans, should voters return them to a congressional majority.
Most conservatives understand that with a Democrat in the White House and an insufficient GOP congressional majority to override presidential vetoes they can't always, or maybe even mostly, have their way. But they would like to see Republicans at least employ some of the tactics Democrats shamelessly use when they hold the majority, such as the "nuclear option" employed in the Senate in 2013, which allowed a majority vote instead of a "supermajority" to advance confirmation votes on judicial nominees and executive branch appointments.
At a minimum, conservative members want to see their convictions articulated by the leadership and to fight the left with conviction in hopes that getting their positions heard will influence voters. Instead, in too many instances, conservatives have seen their views ignored and the Republican leadership in both houses knuckle under to Democrats out of fear of being called names or getting blamed for a government shutdown.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich notes that previous government shutdowns over matters of principle worked in Republicans' favor, notwithstanding how they were portrayed by the media. In an email to me, he writes: "We closed the government twice in 1995 and '96 and became the first re-elected House Republican majority since 1928. Our supporters realized we were serious and rewarded us for the effort. The Republicans closed the government in 2013 and won a big election in 2014."
In my 2010 interview, Boehner bemoaned the size and cost of big government, saying, "I came here for a smaller, less costly and more accountable government and that has not been what's happening. We don't need any more programs; we need to undo a lot of programs."
On Boehner's watch, the debt has increased nearly $4 trillion, according to figures published by the U.S. Treasury.
It is one of many reasons conservative voters are increasingly fed-up with Congress and for the rise of "outside" presidential candidates. The frustration cuts both ways and it is also a major reason Boehner has decided now is the time to hang it up before Meadows' resolution can be put to a vote.


With today's site update I have protected the Contact page with a CAPTCHA security mechanism. CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart" and can be used to prevent automated attacks on pages that allow a user to submit Comments, Contact details, Orders and so on.
Update 6/6/2010: I am no longer using a graphical CAPTCHA on my web site, but a simple text based calculation instead.
Update 10/09/2004: Microsoft just published a great article about this subject on their MSDN Web site. You can find the article here.
My Contact page wasn't really suffering from these kind of attacks, but I thought it would an interesting exercise to find out how to implement CAPTCHA.
Some of the sources for the CAPTCHA application come from an article at www.15seconds.com titled Fighting Spambots with .NET and AI. While I found the article itself pretty messy and difficult to read (there are at least a zillion images demonstrating the use of CAPTCHA), the article came with some pretty useful code written in VB.NET. Since my site is written exclusively in C#, I had to convert the code, and changed a few things along the way.
If you want to find out more about CAPTCHA, check out the Web site of The CAPTCHA Project or check out this short white paper titled Telling Humans and Computers Apart (in .PDF format). If you want to see an implementation of CAPTCHA in VB.NET, download the source code that comes with the CAPTCHA article at the 15Seconds site.
How does these automated attacks actually work?
I have thought, that for a start I could just put in a normal picture with some text rather that CAPTCHA. If it is a robot crawling my site I guess it won't be able to tell, that it should put in the text from the picture.
And the reason I would not put in CAPTCHA (at first) is that I guess it is difficult and I'm still just learning.
1. Create a local form based on the target form, remove all client side validation and submit.
2. Programmatically submit data to the page.
In both case, it's easy to pass data for all fields. I regularly see automated posts with random data (or the name of a product) for all fields, including the CAPTCHA field.
I am having problems with jpeg files exported from Lightroom 2.2 http://www.ebook-search-queen.com/ebook/ligh/lightroom-2.2.all.html . I dont think ImageGetExifMetadata working properly for LR images. I can see the all exif information with a different programs. One of the errors:"Element Focal Plane Y Resolution is undefined in a CFML structure referenced as part of an expression. ". "Element Focal Plane Y Resolution" is there but CF can't read it. I have tried all sorts with no luck.On the other hand it works for non LR jpg images. Any ideas?


Decide if the underlined verb is transitive or intransitive.
Bei 0°C gefriert Wasser.[Water freezes at 0° Celsius.]|There is no accusative object → intransitive|Who/what is freezing when?
Wir tanzten die ganze Nacht.[We danced all night.]|There is no accusative object → intransitive|Who danced when?
Ich bin gestern einer alten Freundin begegnet.[I met an old friend yesterday.]|There is no accusative object → intransitive|With whom did I meet? (indirect object)|To note: If the sentence were „Ich traf gestern eine alte Freundin.“, then a friend would be the accusative object (Who did I meet?) and treffen would therefore be transitive.


Can a person resign from office and still stay on the board?
Can an Officer announce their resignation half way through their term, stay on the Board for continuity purposes until years end and then run from the floor for the same position they resigned.
Since I do not know what your bylaws state, I will give you two scenarios. If the board elects its own officers and the person resigns from being an officer and not the board position, then he can stay on the board because he is just resigning from office and not the board.
If the office makes him a board member, then resignation from office also means resignation from the board. If this is the case he cannot remain on the board if he resigns from office.
You will have to look at your eligibility requirements to see if this person can be considered next year for this office. By serving half of the term is considered serving a full term.


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Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery...?
One of Kate Middleton's closest friends, Sophie Carter, wed Robert Snuggs at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Norfolk this past weekend at a ceremony and reception that was attended by none other than the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge themselves, along with Prince George and the bride's goddaughter, Princess Charlotte.
Given that Will and Kate have maintained close connections with their small, tight-knit group of friends, it was no surprise that Charlotte was back in her familiar role as flower girl for her godmother's wedding. Prince George was also a part of the wedding party as a page boy, making this the third time the brother-sister duo has participated in a major, public wedding. And while the kids would typically steal the show at any royal—or royal adjacent—wedding, it seems that Carter's wedding dress pulled some focus from their adorable antics. Her gown looked...familiar, to say the least.
The collared, deep-V neckline of the lace bodice bore much resemblance to Kate's custom Alexander McQueen gown by Sarah Burton. But there were also some differences: rather than a full, lace-appliquéd skirt, Carter's wedding gown was a simple silk crepe; and rather than a diamond tiara from the crowned jewels, Carter donned a silk headband, and accented the look with a lace-trimmed veil.
Carter is one of Kate's closest friends, reports People. Not only do the two spend a ton of time together—and have been spotted playing tennis and out on the town together—but Carter used to date Prince William's dear friend, Thomas van Straubenzee, whose brother, Charlie van Straubenzee (a good friend of Harry's), wed Daisy Jenks this summer. Per People, Sophie's brother Robert Carter married one of Kate's friends from university, Hannah Gillingam. The two were married on April 29th, 2012; the date of Will and Kate's first anniversary. Hannah recently was honored with the role of Prince Louis' godmother.
With their long history as close friends, one would have to assume that Kate had a possible preview to Sophie's dress prior to her big day, or perhaps Sophie was simply inspired by her friend's epic royal wedding gown. Perhaps after seven years and three children, the two just didn't see the resemblance in the lead-up to Carter's big day. But, the bodice similarities do beg the question, is imitation truly the sincerest form of flattery?
Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Revealed: It's Alexander McQueen!


If you have a road accident due to a poorly designed road surface or track, or badly maintained road safety structure such as a railing or speed bump, is there anything you can do about it?
Rails and barriers: In most cases these are put in place to offer drivers protection from oncoming traffic by separating the lanes or to protect pedestrians if a vehicle should enter an area off-road where people are going about their business on foot. However if these rails and barriers are badly designed or installed they can contribute to driver accidents and actually put drivers in danger.
Road Markings: Road Markings need to clearly visible and understandable to drivers. Driving on motorways and country roads you may see reflective markings and signs that show you where there are upcoming bends, or lane endings. Middle of the road markings that show where you are not allowed to overtake or turn around are also useful in making traffic safer and are especially so in bad weather and low visibility. However bad or unreadable road markings can distract and confuse motorists, making driving an altogether more difficult and dangerous experience.
See if there are any witnesses around who can corroborate your claims. Make sure you get contact details for any people who saw what happened, as you may need to provide evidence if you put forward a claim.
If you have a disposable camera in your glovebox or you have a camera phone, take photographs of the offending road surface and the damage caused. If you are taking photographs of a hole in the road, or an area of disrepair, try using something to show scale of the defect - a ruler if possible, or a compact disc or mobile phone - otherwise it can be impossible to appreciate just how big something is when you look at it later.
Once you have evidence that the road is damaged or badly maintained, you should speak with your insurance company and with their consent, contact the local authority responsible for the road or structure. Send them copies of your photographs along with a detailed description of the accident and how you believe the road surface contributed to it.
The local authority is expected to carry out regular road inspections in certain timescales, and they may have already had prior warning that the road involved in your incident was not up to standard, but they are unlikely to admit this to you.
You may also find that a private company can be liable if they are responsible for something that has affected the road surface - e.g. mud or oil. If they didn't offer sufficient warning, you may be able to pursue a case against them.
If you feel you have a good case it is often worth going to the Citizen's Advice Bureau or if you know a good solicitor, getting some legal advice before proceeding.
If you do decide to take the legal route, your solicitor is then likely to be able to force the local authority to show them their inspection records and determine whether or not they knew the road needed to be repaired. They should also be able to confirm that they have upheld their responsibility in inspecting the roads as they should, or in the case of a private company, they can challenge them with the allegations and see how they respond. Either way,a solicitor will be able to take if further for you.
My son has had a rta, he was at fault & hit another vehicle during a skid. He is a named dirver on my policy & was driving my car. 18momths ago another driver claimed my son hit his car & damaged it. My son was on his moped which he has his own insurnace for. My son says he didnt hit the other vehicl & claims there was no sign if any damage to the other vehicle. He told his moped insurers that there wasnt any damage which he and the other driver agreed on at the time of the incident. Since then he heard no more on the matter. On renwal of his moped policy a couple of momths ago my son found out the other driver had submitted a claim against him which unbeknown to him my sons insurers settled without consulting my son. He only became aware of this at renwal. He did not tell me about it at All. Before his moped renwal i added my son to my car insurance as named driver & declared the one accident he had had which i knew about (not the same incident as above). Neither my son or I were aware of the other claim at that time as such it wasnt disclosed. My son has this week had an RTA in my car & collided with another vehicle after he skidded on slippery road surface. I have subsequently submitted a claim to my insurers, my son has only just now told me about the disputed issue on his moped and the subsequent claim which seems to have been dealt with without him knowing. at the time i added him to my policy neither of us were Aware of the claim & nor had any liability for the incident been accepted by my son. As we were unaware i did not fail to disclose anything, nor did my son although perhaps he should of told me when he did find out? will this affect my claim/insurance.
I tripped over a pothole in a road and nearly fell over. I am very scared of roads now and am scared of going on them now. Please help me I would massively appreciate it.
@Freddie. Try the Highways Agency in the first instance.
At night I had to switch to the M27 hard shoulder because of roadworks.There were flashing lights from cones and lorries working on resurfacing. The road was narrow and difficult to follow.I hit a cone lying on its side in carriageway.I could not stop it was too dangerous and I had someone driving right behind.I subsequently found I had a very expensive hole in my bumper! Who do I contact about a claim and what are my chances of recovery? Help!


Novellas are problematic little buggers, aren't they? Book buyers are less likely to purchase something they know they are going to get through in one sitting, especially if they can buy a full-length novel for a similar price. Publishers are wary of them because it is more cost-efficient to print full-length novels. Literary agents aren't interested in them, knowing the big publishers demand longer works of fiction in which to invest their money. Where does that leave the authors who write novellas?
Fortunately for Melanie McDonald, her debut novella “Eromenos” was picked up by Seriously Good Books, a small press who specialise in historical fiction and is due to be released early 2011. “Eromenos” is set in the Roman Empire of the second century AD and tells the story of Antinous of Bithynia, a teenage boy of exceptional beauty, and his experiences as a consort of the Emperor Hadrian. I'm sure there are a few readers out there staring in disbelief at that last sentence. “Eh? What? Hadrian? As in the wall-building Hadrian? He had a [gasp] teenage boyfriend?” Relationships between adolescent boys and older men were actually very common in Ancient Greek and Roman society. The relationship was born partly out of a need for masculine companionship but also out of sexual attraction. They'd hang out together during the day, go hunting or discuss philosophy or whatever over dinner but behind closed doors they'd be at it like knives.
You've probably guessed by now that this is a novella which is unlikely to appeal to everyone. Those of a homophobic inclination will doubtless be outraged by a number of scenes and the relationship between Antinous and the Emperor is also likely to unsettle more conservative readers. However, one has to take this relationship within the context of Roman society where it was a commonplace occurrence for a member of the upper classes to take an eromenos (beloved boy) under his wing and tutor him in the ways of the world.
McDonald's evocation of the Ancient World is truly masterful. The long list of sources at the end of the book shows that she did a scholarly amount of reading whilst researching the book and she assimilates the historical details of the story into her narrative without sacrificing the pace or characterisation. Indeed, whilst the vivid recreation of Imperial Rome is impressive enough, it is McDonald's intelligent and sensitive characterisation that carries the story along. Antinous is a complex character, torn between his rigid sense of duty to the Emperor and his own fiery Greek spirit. Though his relationship with Hadrian empowers him politically and socially, Antinous is painfully aware of the fact that his status as Hadrian's consort is transient and as his youthful looks begin to mature, he will find himself cast aside for a younger man. Travelling the Empire as part of the Emperor's retinue, Antinous meets the greatest minds, philosophers and priests of the age. The climax of the story comes as he resolves to commit suicide, knowing that Hadrian will deify him. Such a tragic end, he explains, is far more preferable to the inevitable rejection and loss of status that will follow.
The romance between a teenage boy and a grown man is never going to be an easy thing to capture convincingly and sympathetically within the pages of a book. Melanie McDonald has achieved this and done it with both beauty and subtlety. “Eromenos” may be a short read but it carries the emotional weight of a novel two or three times its size. Coupled with a rigorous attention to historical accuracy and a vivid recreation of Roman society in the second century AD, this novella is a most impressive little book.


Summary: A well-researched and pacy WWII thriller about a Polish orphan taken in by a Nazi family because of his Aryan appearance. It's thoughtful and exciting - the perfect combination. Recommended.
Peter's parents died in a car crash shortly after the Nazis had occupied Poland. Life under occupation hadn't been too bad for Peter's family; classified as Germanic rather than Slav, their lives had continued relatively normally. In fact, Peter isn't too disturbed by the Nazis - he'd never felt particularly at home in his village, what with his blond hair, blue eyes and general ubermensch look. But without his parents, Peter's life is dreadul. He misses them like mad, and the orphanage is a miserable place. There's little food and bullying is rife. So when the Race and Settlement Office classify Peter as racially valuable, he's very happy to be sent to Germany and to be taken in by racial scientist Professor Kaltenbach and his family.
But the Kaltenbachs are 100 percenters - completely commited to the Nazi cause - and Peter is an intelligent boy with independent thoughts. He doesn't like them referring to Ivans and Polacks and dirty Jews. He doesn't like seeing starving slave workers in the street. He feels a trifle uncomfortable at Hitler Youth meetings and he does rather wonder if the war is going as well as everybody says. So he starts to take some serious risks. He listens to the BBC World Service, he goes to jazz parties, and gives food to the untermensch.
This is a remarkably well-researched historical novel. Berlin under the Nazis comes alive in all its cold ambition. Readers get a real picture of life under an authoritarian and nationalist regime and they can see how easy it is to succumb to dangerous jingoism and also how quickly you can learn to treat others in ways you'd never have dreamed you could. They can also see how difficult it is to stand alone. There are many interesting and accurate touches - Peter's maths textbooks contain the exact propagandised language real Nazi textbooks did - how many aeroplanes carrying how many bombs do you think it would take to kill how many filthy Jews?. The Kaltenbach's Christmas tree is decorated with illuminated plastic swastikas - these were genuinely popular at the time.
But also, it's a tremendously tense and pacy thriller. As Peter's moral consciousness gradually awakes, and as he begins to find like-minded people, and as the truth of Professor Kaltenbachs's racial experiments come to light, so he also takes more and more risks with his already precarious position as a fostered child of a defeated people. Some passages are truly chilling, and even I was quickly turning the last few pages to see how it all turned out.
I thoroughly enjoyed Auslander and I think I learned something too. I think this will hold as true for its target audience. If we don't learn the lessons history has to teach us, then we don't have too much hope for the future, do we?
Nazi Germany is also explored in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Then by Morris Gleitzman. They might also enjoy The Road of Bones by Anne Fine or I Am David by Ann Holm.
Auslander by Paul Dowswell is in the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009.
You can read more book reviews or buy Auslander by Paul Dowswell at Amazon.com.
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