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Does anybody know anything about this razor? My dad bought it at least 50 years ago and now I have it. Other than its German made I haven't seen much on it from a basic google search. Its never been used as far as I know.
Beautiful razor Mark and wish I could help; perhaps Trinity Shaving or one of our other straight shavers will be familiar.
Hi Kevin, yes it is pretty nice and as I said, I don't believe it has ever been used. I'm surprised that it wasn't destroyed by either myself or one of my brothers growing up. There was a nice strop that was seriously damaged by one of my brothers sharpening nails or something (don't ask, at least it wasn't used for target practice). My dad is still pissed about it and its been more than 50 years.
Mark, I know nothing about straight razors but that is beautiful. I hope someone comes up with some information about it.
Email Brad Maggard from Maggard Razors, if anyone will know about this he will and probably be able to give you a value as well not that you are selling it, but always nice to know. Brad is a plethora of straight razor genius. He could write a book.
Thats a beautiful blade. I've never seen anything from this maker before. Looks like it's about 5/8" in width with a hollow grind and a round point. The scales indicate that it was made in Solingen. Is there anything written on the other side of the tang? Being a Solingen razor, you can be pretty sure that it's quality steel and it should take a good edge and shave well. Nice looking blade that has probably seen no use. If you're interested in shaving with a straight(assuming you don't already), this would be an ideal blade to start with. However, if you view it as more of a family heirloom, you may want to start with something else to preserve its pristine condition. If it were mine, because of the family history, I'd use it only on special occasions(maybe Fathrrs Day?).
Hi Trinity Shaving, thanks for having a look at the razor. I'm certain that it has seen no use so the entire blade is still there as its never been honed/stropped since leaving the factory. The flip side says "Made in Germany" - I've included some pictures below. I apologize for the quality of the pictures - obviously I'm not SOTD ready I noticed what appears to be corrosion damage on the blade if you look at the lower left corner of the blade - would that be tang end in razor speak? I tried wiping it with some solvent in case it was just guck but it looks like pitting/corrosion. Would you have a suggestion on how to handle that? l'm not a straight razor shaver and likely won't become one at this time so this razor will be part of my museum collection. If it turned out that it was the Rembrandt of razors I would likely sell it to someone who might better appreciate it. I also added a picture of the end on view of the blade, hollow grind.
That section of the blade is the heel and the thicker section there is the stabilizer. You may be able to clean that up with hand polishing. Don't use any polish on the other side of the blade though or it will take the gold off very quickly. If that doesn't work you could try a fiberglass pen. You can find them at auto part stores for a few dollars. After its cleaned up be sure to coat the blade with oil.
| 2019-04-24T18:34:32 |
https://damnfineshave.com/thread-dille-straight-razor
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How will you Fill your book shelf??
Felix Mathis is a regular 14 year old boy with the usual problems. As well as struggling with school bullies, strange crushes and troublesome parental issues he also happens to have brilliant powers of deduction and a burning desire to become the world’s greatest detective. But when his sleep is disturbed by a series of loud crashes seemingly coming from beneath his house and his best friend Morgan tells him of a fiendish plot to injure their fellow student Ellie Baldwin, Felix cannot even begin to imagine the dramatic and dangerous path his investigations are set to lead him on. As Felix struggles with his own investigations, Dominic Chase (a grizzled American spy) and Scarlett Romonova (a Victorian explorer who’s been frozen in time) two operatives working for the secret government agency SPIT, face a parallel struggle to control their latest house guest, a live Velociraptor, in a secret base deep beneath Felix’s house.
Finally on a day unlike any other Felix bears witness to the terrifying abduction of Geoffrey Lester, the school bully by zombie paramedics Burke and Hare as arranged by art teacher Mr Klee. As Felix struggles to form a plan to deal with the kidnapping, Chase and Romonva finally lose their dual with the Raptor which manages to escape above ground into Felix’s house. As Felix comes face to face with a usually very extinct monster and a daring rescue is attempted by Chase and Romonova, the lives of Felix and the agents collide in dramatic fashion resulting in a successful rescue by none other than Felix’s Dad.
During an emotional heart to heart, Felix’s Dad Julius reveals that he is the head of SPIT Supernatural and Paranormal Investigation Team who are dedicated to the location and preservation of all paranormal phenomena and the fight against Professor Callum Doyle, a crazy Surgeon whom is overseeing a reign of paranormal terrorism. As Felix beds down in the secret base for the night whilst repairs are made to his bedroom, it dawns on him that he may be able to utilize SPIT technology to aid his own investigations. Before long he has borrowed a little equipment and has convinced Ellie to allow herself to be kidnapped so that they can follow the gruesome paramedics.
Soon Ellie is willingly abducted and taken to a secret laboratory deep with the town’s hospital with Felix stowed away in the ambulance. Morgan is left back at school to cover up the plan and within SPIT Chase is left to cover for Scarlett as she discovers the missing equipment and tracks Ellie and Felix to the labs. Whilst hiding in the labs Felix and Ellie discover all manner of supernatural items and proof that the lab is the home of Professor Doyle and his hideous experiments. With Scarlett in tow Felix and Ellie locate their missing peers and discover that Doyle plans to change the DNA of six children by mixing it with that of history’s most infamous and feared characters. Eventually Felix and Ellie are reunited with Scarlett and after defeating Mr Burke escape. However after taking Ellie home she is once again abducted by a vengeful Mr Hare.
Scarlett and Felix once again plan to re-enter the labs to rescue Ellie with Chase and Morgan (who has discovered the base) as cover but they are captured by Doyle and Hare resulting in Scarlett volunteering for DNA reassignment in return for Felix and Ellie’s release. Eventually when Felix returns to the base a new assault is planned with Julius on board in order to save Scarlett and put an end to Doyle’s plan once and for all.
In a thrilling finale Felix and Julius defeat both Mr Hare and Prof Doyle (who is killed by one of his own creations) and rescue Scarlett who has been subject to a third of her gender reassignment but seems to have suffered no ill effects? The five kidnapped children however have all had their DNA spliced and escape into the world during the chaos caused by an explosion. During their debrief Morgan and Ellie have their memories of the incident erased and Chase and Scarlett start to plan for the future of SPIT after the demise of their nemesis. Julius and Felix agree to allow Felix to be a part time agent as long as Felix continues his studies at school and keeps the secret of SPIT close to his heart, but deep down he is already planning how to track down Doyle’s legacy in the form of the five escape children.
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| 2019-04-23T21:51:55 |
https://www.mommaskids.com/tweenteen-book-club/the-peculiar-investigations-of-felix-mathis-1-astounding-secrets-and-deadly-professors
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In a petri dish in the bowels of Harvard Medical School scientists have tweaked three genes from the cells of an Asian elephant that help control the production of hemoglobin, the protein in blood that carries oxygen. Their goal is to make these genes more like those of an animal that last walked the planet thousands of years ago: the woolly mammoth.
"Asian elephants are closer to mammoths than either is to African elephants, yet quite different in appearance and temperature range," notes Harvard geneticist and technology developer George Church. "We are not trying to make an exact copy of a mammoth, but rather a cold-resistant elephant."
But what if the new—and fast advancing—techniques of genome editing allowed scientists to engineer not only cold-resistance traits but also other characteristics of the woolly mammoth into its living Asiatic relatives? Scientists have found mammoth cells preserved in permafrost. If they were to recover cells with intact DNA, they could theoretically “edit” an Asian elephant’s genome to match the woolly mammoth’s. A single cell contains the complete genetic instruction set for its species, and by replicating that via editing a new individual can, theoretically, be created. But would such a hybrid—scion of an Asian elephant mother and genetic tinkerers—count as a true woolly mammoth?
In other words, is de-extinction a real possibility?
The answer is yes. On January 6, 2000, a falling tree killed the last bucardo, a wild Iberian ibex, which is a goatlike animal. Her name was Celia. On July 30, 2003, Celia's clone was born. To make the clone scientists removed the nucleus of a cell from Celia intact and inserted it into the unfertilized egg cell of another kind of ibex. They then transferred the resulting embryo to the womb of a living goat. Nearly a year later they delivered the clone by cutting her from her mother.
Although she lived for a scant seven minutes due to lung defects, Celia’s clone proved that not only is de-extinction real, "it has already happened," in the words of environmentalist Stewart Brand, whose San Francisco-based Long Now Foundation is funding some of this de-extinction research, including Church's effort as well as bids to bring back the passenger pigeon and heath hen, among other candidate species. Nor is the bucardo alone in the annals of de-extinction. Several viruses have already been brought back, including the flu variant responsible for the 1918 pandemic that killed more than 20 million people worldwide.
And yet, the bucardo remains extinct. The lack of progress stems partly from a lack of funds, according to Alberto Fernández-Arias, the Spanish wildlife veterinarian who helped lead the bucardo cloning effort. But it also has to do with flaws in the method used to bring the species back to life. Researchers in Asia have been using the technique for a decade or more to try to resurrect the mammoth—to no avail.
New genome editing techniques—in particular the CRISPR system Church and his team are using—offer new hope, however. In 1987 Japanese scientists found genetic sequences dubbed "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" in Escherichia coli bacteria. These CRISPRs, as they are known, were subsequently found to be ubiquitous in many bacteria, where they defend against viruses—a simple but effective immune system.
Specifically, the enzyme known as Cas9 (for CRISPR-associated system 9) can attach itself to specific DNA in a virus and cut it, following the lead of an RNA guide. That cut kills the pathogen or at least disables it. And now geneticists, armed with the right RNA sequence to guide Cas9 exactly where they want it to go (an outcome still not always guaranteed), can unleash this editor from the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria to add or subtract code from many genes, such as those that produce hemoglobin in the Asian elephant genome or even genes in human cells. Moreover, with the right RNA guide CRISPR can edit up to five genes at once—a number that keeps growing as scientists continue to experiment. And RNA is quick and cheap to make with machines.
Combined with Church's own technique— a combination of robotics and genetic experimentation known as "multiplex automated genome engineering," or MAGE—the entire five billon or so base pairs of the Asian elephant genome can be broken down into their constituent parts and then reassembled in the image of a mammoth's genetic code. As it stands, Church and his team have tinkered with three genes and hope to test their viability in organs soon. "We need to construct and characterize Asian elephant stem cells and organs derived from these [stem cells]," he says.
This new technique is not confined to just resurrecting extinct species. Yeast, tobacco, rice, wheat, rats, rabbits, frogs and fruit flies are just a few of the 20 or so organisms to have their genes altered this way to date. The tinkering could prove profound: Church has suggested that the genes that protect certain extremophile bacteria against the harmful effects of radiation could be added to the human genome to enable long-distance space travel, to take one far-out example.
Such genome editing could also be used to add much needed genetic diversity back into species with precariously small populations, such as the cheetah or Sumatran rhino. By taking DNA from dead individuals and incorporating it into the genomes of survivors, what were gene puddles might be restored to gene pools.
Such species play critical roles in their home ranges, helping shape entire forests or savannas. And that's the hope for a resurrected bucardo or woolly mammoth as well. The mammoth steppe of Siberia might be brought back one day, along with the great herds of woolly proboscideans. The woolly Asian elephant hybrids Church envisions might even help stave off the new global warming human society is presently engineering by sequestering CO2 in a restored Siberian steppe, according to Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov, who has lead efforts to create such a Pleistocene Park in northeastern Siberia. Of course, introduction of any species, even one that used to live in a particular place, could prove difficult because it would have to coexist with plants, humans and other animals that have adapted to living in an area without the introduced species.
Ultimately, given the primary focus of genetic advances like CRISPR, the easiest species to resurrect would not be the recently vanished passenger pigeon or the mammoth—it would be the Neandertal. There appear to be just slightly more than 30,000 genetic mutations that differentiate us from them—and Homo sapiens is the complicated organism best understood by human geneticists.
But resurrecting an extinct hominid opens a new dimension to the ethical concerns around this scientific potential. "Neandertals were sentient human beings," wrote evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany in a recent New York Times op–ed. "In a civilized society we would never create a human being in order to satisfy scientific curiosity," he observed. Pääbo and his colleagues were the first to sequence the Neandertal genome.
Such de-extinction—whether of Neandertal or mammoth—may never come to pass, but the technologies that make it possible could help prevent extinction in the first place by restoring genetic vigor to imperiled species. And with human activities currently fueling a new mass extinction, perhaps it is good that de-extinction continues to edge further away from fiction and closer to fact. Or, as Church notes of the fact of de-extinction: "I'm skeptical that there will be a clean defining moment."
| 2019-04-23T09:07:38 |
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-mammoths-can-be-brought-back-from-extinction/?error=cookies_not_supported&code=02dd046a-eefd-44d7-82bd-343763f6a8b9
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i feel like its all my fault.
my fault he did this!
Whoa, whoa, whoa....hold on there. Start from the beginning. That usually works, okay? I just sent you a comment.
For a start it is not nor will it ever be your fault. And flashbacks will happen as will the nightmares. If you can't tell but want to talk rubbish I am here if you want. One day at a time.
You were probably afraid to tell anyone?
You are so used to hiding it?
You can't get it out of your head & can't relax enough to sleep?
You are beating yourself up about it & are afraid?
One thing i can say for sure. IT IS NOT YOUR FAUL HE DID WHAT HE DID. I don't know if any of the above is how you are feeling, but none of it is your fault. They are natural reactions for what you've been through. don't be so disappointed in yourself. I can almost bet that whoever "he" is, he somehow made you feel that you owed him or that he was doing you a favor.
It is not your fault, hon. Please hang in there. You really need to find someone you can talk too and trust. That is the way the abusers want you to feel. Try your best not too, because you deserve to be able to heal and live life without that quilt and pain. It doesn't belong to you. message if need.
Send this girl a message, okay, it would help if you could...a hug, too. Thank you.
Put the brakes on, girl. You are being so mean to yourself. It's not your fault you didn't tell anyone. When horrible stuff happens to us, our brains have a survival strategy built right into them. We go into freeze mode and just shut everything down. We shut off our emotions because they are too painful. We shut off our body, so we don't have to feel what is happening to us. It's nothing you decided to do- your brain did it to survive the horror. Unfortunately, when bad stuff goes on for a long time- it stays shut down. But eventually your heart and your body refuse to be ignored any more, and they demand to be heard. And it's not that the physical and emotional pain didn't happen- it got stored in your brain and inyour body, and it is still there, as strong as when all that stuff happened to you. Not your fault for the flashbacks, sweetie. It's your mind trying to release them so you can heal and get mind/body/spirit back in one piece. Is it a diabetic's fault that their body cant produce insulin? Unfortunately, all that suffering that kind of stockpiled as it all happened comes out feeling like it is happening to you right now. When the flashbacks come, can you try to open your eyes and look around and see where you are, see that you are safe. Sleep with a stuffed animal to hug. A feeling of safety right now can help to settle the flashbacks down a little bit. For me, I needed a stuffed animal and the lights on and no one else in the house. Some people make a little bed in their closet. Try to figure out when you feel safe, what makes or might make you feel safe. Right now your mind thinks you are in the terrifying moment, so can you help it understand that what happened is now over? The flashbacks will settle down eventually, but it takes time. Not your fault you didn't tell- I didn't tell for 30 years. I just didn't feel safe enough until I was 43. I used to be so angry at myself, but I finally realized- I wasn't strong enough until then. Not your fault he did this. Predators llok for what is accessible to them. My dad had a victim right at home- how convenient. They have interviewed pedophiles, and they admit that the victim was someone who was accessible. Don't take on the guilt for something you didn't do. You didn't hurt anyone. So throw that guilt back to where it belongs. You were the innocent victim. Can you turn it around and become a survivor? If you can get through this, I don't think there will be much that life can throw at you that you won't be able to deal with.I know you don't feel it, but you have great strength already. If you didn't, you wouldn't still be here. When it gets really bad, just try to get throught the next 5 minutes. Then the next 5, and so on. You can do this, Iknow you can!
Ok honey look at a 5yr old would you tell her it's her fault or a 10yrs or 12 yr old?
If this was one of your friends would you be telling her all these things and blameing her? NO you wouldn't the same goes for yourself YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME.
With s/abuse we the victums always blame ourselves.But it is not our fault it is the abusers fault not us.AND NOT YOU.
I know it feels like it is all your own fault, it isn't it is the abusers fault.
Yes, you do have flashbacks, nightmares.
Talk to someone close. see if you can get help and support. anyone you trust.
YOu are not alone. I suffer from this too.find some counselling and family support.
There is hope! Hang in there!
Sexual abuse or harassment is never the victim's fault. So stop blaming yourself and pull yourself together. Turn your attention to help others. That way you help yourself too.
they train us subtly to think it is our fault- you absolutely should know it was a manipulator- not you.
My mom rotated between no it didn't happen and then it was your fault- she died with that mind train---but I'm not going to die that way.
Perpetrators are GUILTY not the victims.
If a stranger walked up and shot you - would that be your fault?? Or some idiot with lack of control. It's all CONTROL- that's the jolly they get that turns them on.
| 2019-04-22T20:50:24 |
https://www.dailystrength.org/group/sexual-abuse/discussion/its-my-fault
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Mahogany tree is one of the most popular tree species in the world. This tree also has so many benefits for human life since the wood and even the seed can be used for so many purposes. Scientific name of mahogany is Swietenia and this species can be mostly found in South America region. This tree is a very important commodity in furniture industry and it is the favorite for many people who want to have strong and durable furniture and even flooring. If you want to know more about mahogany tree information and its benefits, let’s find out the facts about this tree here.
There are three different mahogany species and where does mahogany come from?. The first one is Honduran mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla). This species is characterized by its bigger leaf and it is the most grown mahogany in the world. Even though it is called Honduran, but we can also find this species in Mexico and Brazil. Most of the mahogany wood we find in the market today is a macrophylla.
The second species is West Indian or Cuban mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni). This is the only mahogany that is native to USA, to be precise in Southern Florida. It is also found in Caribbean and some part of Mexico. This mahogany species is very rare and it is very hard to use it commercially. Meanwhile, the third species is called Swietenia Humilis. It is found in Central America and just like Cuban Mahogany it is very rare and seldom used for commercial utility.
Mahogany is very famous for its height. Some reports about mahogany tree information stated that mahogany can grow as tall as 200 feet and the leaves can be as large as 20 inches. However, normally the tree grows up to 50 feet.
Mahogany is deciduous tree but there are some species found as semi evergreen. Mahogany’s bark smells very sweet and this scent helps attracting bees and other insect that will be useful for flower pollinations.
Mahogany is not only beneficial when it is cut down as a ready-to-use product. Even in its tree form, mahogany is very advantageous, especially the roots. Mahogany roots are very strong so it can help preventing erosion.
One of the most important things you need to find out when you are searching for mahogany tree information and facts are the benefits. Mahogany is very popular so you might be wondering what is mahogany used for that the demand for this tree is always high. To answer this question, it will be best if we divide it into two categories. The first one is the wood while the second one is the seed. Here are the benefits of each part.
As we know, the most important and major uses of mahogany tree is to make furniture. The first reason why mahogany tree is a very popular furniture material is due to its beautiful reddish-brown color. Unlike natural brown, reddish brown is fresher and more elegant. Therefore, it can easily fit any style of house. Furthermore, the texture and grain of mahogany is really one of a kind and can easily elevate any type of house decoration.
But the most important benefit of mahogany wood is definitely because of its strength and durability. Mahogany is very rigid and hard to be bent. Therefore, mahogany is the best to create furniture or things with simple lines and don’t have too many curves. Despite of its rigidity, most furniture maker said that mahogany wood is very workable and many beautiful creations can be made on it.
Mahogany seed contains so many health benefits that it is very sought after in some countries. Mahogany tree is called sky fruit tree in Singapore and sky fruit seed is a popular alternative medicine in this country.
Many studies have proven that mahogany or sky fruit seed contributes greatly in lowering cholesterol. This is possible because the seed contains plenty of flavonoid that can help with blood circulation. Thanks to the flavonoid, our blood vessel will be clean from bad cholesterol and other substances that can inhibit blood circulation. Furthermore, sky fruit seed is also rich in saponins. Just like flavonoid, it can help preventing blood clotting and promote better heart health. So, if you are currently suffering from heart disease, high blood pressure or simply want to keep your heart healthy, mahogany seed is the supplement that will be suitable to you.
Besides preventing heart disease, sky fruit seed can also be used to regulate blood sugar level, hence a very beneficial medicine for people suffering from diabetic. Once again, this benefit is also possible thanks to the rich saponin level in the mahogany seed.
Mahogany seed not only can be used to treat dangerous diseases like heart problem or diabetic. As a matter of fact, you can also use it to treat constipation, insect bites, eliminating menstrual pain and also increasing appetite. See more health benefits and side effects of mahogany seeds in this article.
If you are currently renovating your house and you want to use mahogany, make sure you carefully read all mahogany tree information you can find, especially regarding the price. This is very important because name can be deceiving. At the store, you will find various type of mahogany tree with different prices.
Mahogany wood is very strong and durable. So, when you spot a type with very affordable price, it is normal to be attracted. But you need to be careful because some woods that are dubbed as mahogany are not even mahogany while some true mahogany doesn’t even have mahogany in its name.
For example, Philippine mahogany is actually not a mahogany. It is actually a member of Dipterocarpaceae instead of Swietenia. It is usually priced at around $3 per board foot and it is not as durable as real mahogany. The price of real mahogany will differ according to its quality but normally it is around $12 per board foot. Meanwhile, the best and rarest type like Cuban mahogany can carry a price tag of $30 per board foot.
Nature Gives the Best, The magical Drugs: The Sky Fruit Seed!
How long does a mahogany tree take to mature in sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Africa in particular?
| 2019-04-20T17:10:05 |
http://skyfruitseed.com/important-facts-and-information-about-mahogany/
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Tracy Barrett has written than twenty books for children and young adults She s much too interested in too many things to stick to one genre, and has published nonfiction as well as historical fiction, mysteries, fantasy, time travel, myth and fairy tale retellings, and contemporary realistic novels She knows about ancient Greece and Rome and the European Middle Ages than anyone really needs to know, can read lots of dead languages, and used to jump out of airplanes Tracy grew up near New York City, and went to college in New England and graduate school in California She majored in Classics and earned a Ph.D in Medieval Italian She was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers and won the Society of Children s Book Writers and Illustrators Work in Progress Grant in 2005 She taught Italian and other subjects at Vanderbilt University for almost thirty years She lives in Tennessee with her 6 7 husband, a rescue cat, and two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
Aw. It's just a good old-fashioned kid detective yarn. Inoffensive and fun. An ample use of red herrings but with enough of a kick to keep things interesting.
Frankly, I felt like I was reading a Scooby-Doo story. (And this week's mysterious zombie/werewolf/ghost was really the local innkeeper/schoolteacher/tour guide - shocking, right?) A bit silly. And if Sherlock couldn't solve the mystery that the kids figure out suddenly in the last two pages then he was a really BAD detective. I think it has a good premise, but it all felt really flat. I was glad it was short.
This is the second in Sherlock files about Xena and Xander Holmes who have inherited Sherlock Holmes notebook of unsolved cases. This second one wasn't as good as the first. While I felt the solution to the modern day mystery was satisfying, the solution to the original Sherlock Holmes era mystery felt tacked on. However, I think that kids who are looking for mysteries will still enjoy it and will be eager to read the next one.
A great mystery for the amateur detectives Xena and Xander Holmes, descendants of the Great Sleuth himself. A beast has returned after decades of an absence, and is bent on terrorizing the town of Blackslope at night. Armed with Sherlock Holmes' notebook of clues he had collected on the beast years ago, this brother and sister duo aim to find out the source of the terrifying creature.It's a fun read, and I looking forward to checking out the other books in the series.
A good mystery book for young readers. Would be a fun one to read right around Halloween. Reference to Lord Of The Rings in parts is quite a fun little added touch. Enjoyable quick read.
So if you have a young kid around that likes mysteries this might be a great intro for a read aloud. Just enough clues that they could solve it on their own, just enough danger that it is a little scary (for a kid) and just enough humor to make an adult laugh. I enjoyed listening to it, but wonder if the print copy has some picture that would have made it even better.
Good mystery with just enough scary, monsters, bad guys, to keep the reader hooked. Each chapter ends with a hook to keep you going.
Great concept but I even have a hard time with thinking that Sherlock Holmes ever left anything unsolved that was then later solved by adolescent brother and sister.(that was what one of my kids stated as well). Nevertheless, my 11 and 9 year old asked if we could get some more of these books, so apparently they enjoyed this one enough to want to keep going. We listened to the audio book version of this one on a long car trip.
I read this to my daughter who is a 5th grader and we really enjoyed it. Barrett keeps the reader interested by throwing little twists and turns throughout the plot. This is Barrett's second installment in this series about a sister and brother team of jr. detectives who solve some of the unsolved mysteries left by their relative, Sherlock Holmes. We are anxiously looking forward to reading the next Sherlock File.
Even though this is second one in the series I ended up reading it last. I thought that this book was the most like a Scooby-Doo plot line out of all of them. Also the solution to the Hundred year old "Sherlock" case was not a very good one and in fact didn't tie into the "Modern Day" case as well as the other three books did.Though it might be more interesting to a member of its target audience.
The second book in a series that we're listening to in the car. Although I'm not engaged or inspired by these books (or their audiobook narrator), I do appreciate the simple plots, and down-to-earth, logical solutions to the mysteries. I think it helps the kids learn that even confusing or scary unknowns in their lives can have logical explanations.
It was ok, because it needs some excitement, for real. It is, basicly, garbage for people 11 years of older. It's not that exciting to me. I mean, it would be at age 8, but now, no thanks. It is boring. So, read this if you're like 11 or younger. Older people, you can read it, but you'll feel something like blah.
Interesting plot line of two children, Xena and Xander (yes, really.) who are descended from Sherlock Holmes and have inherited a notebook of his unsolved cases. They attempted to crack the cases with their skills.The ending of this book was a bit rushed and not very conclusive as I could have liked, but it was still well written.
I really liked this book where Xena and Xander are on spring break and they hear an awful howling and find out Sherlock was in Blackscope and they try to solve the case he never solved of the beast of blackscope. I love how the chapters are all cliffhangers! I couldn't put it down.
Call me crazy, but this one reminds me of a Scooby Doo mystery storyline. Still a great series for kids. If you listen to the audio, this one is done by John Nelson, who is more formal and awkward than David Pittu (did the first audio book in the series).
This book reminded me of Scooby-Doo episodes. Plus I felt the actual "solving" of Sherlock Holmes' cold case was a bit of a cop-out. Reading the second in the series does make me want to pick up my copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and read the real thing.
A cute mystery for young kids and those young at heart. Xena and Xander are related to Sherlock Holmes and they have his unsolved case notebook. While on vacation they find themselves in Blackslope, the sight of one of the unsolved cases. The chase is on to discover the beast of Blackslope.
When Xena and Xander discover that their ancestor, Sherlock Holmes, had investigated a horrible beast in Blackslope, their vacation in a quiet village becomes spooky. It appears the monster has returned after a hundred years and the two young investigators want to find the truth.
Good read for older kids who like mysteries.
Two children take up a mystery that Sherlock Holmes was unable to solve and follow the clues to solve it.
This was a reasonably good book. The plot was interesting and straight forward.
It was a fairly predictable mystery, and it had too much telling and not enough showing, but it held my interest enough to finish the book. That must mean something.
I'm a big fan of Sherlock, and I enjoy a good mystery story but this one didn't impress me. I got this book as a gift from a friend and it was an easy read, but couldn't wait for it to be over.
Xena and Xander are decendents of Sherlock Holmes and have an old casebook of unsolved mysteries. The family goes to Blackslope on vacation but the children work to solve the mystery of the beast.
| 2019-04-23T08:08:00 |
http://www.obversestudios.co.uk/5600581-the-beast-of-blackslope/
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Worker Abuse at Ivanka Trump's Shoe Factory in China?
A labor activist who went undercover to investigate working conditions at a factory in China that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump has been detained by police, his wife said.
Activist Hua Haifeng, 36, was arrested and accused of "illegal surveillance," his wife, Deng Guilian, told The Telegraph on Tuesday.
"It was a huge blow when the police called me," Deng said after the arrest in Ganzhou, in China's southeastern Jiangxi province. "He is the sole breadwinner in our family and I have two children aged 7 and 3. I am now feeling helpless and in pain. I don't know who I can turn to for help."
She told The New York Times her husband had worked on mainly labor issues for more than a decade.
Hua was detained last week after he attempted to travel to Hong Kong to publicize the findings, Amnesty International said.
Li Qiang, the executive director of New York-based China Labor Watch, said Hua and two others were investigating two factories owned by major footwear producer Huajian Group. One plant is in the city of Dongguan in southern Guangdong province and the other is in Ganzhou.
Li said the two others -- Li Zhao and Su Heng -- are missing and "feared detained."
Huajian International is one of the world's largest manufacturers of women's shoes. The company manufacturers about 100,000 pairs of Trump-branded shoes a year out of its production of 8 million pairs a year, including Coach and Alain Delon, the company said.
The three activists said they found workers were subject to exceptionally long working hours in their preliminary findings, which had not yet been made public.
In New York Times interviews on Sunday and Monday outside the Huajian factory gate in Dongguan, some workers said they work 10 or more hours a day, six days a week.
Spokesman Wei Xuegang said workers had agreed to work extra hours but were paid overtime during a busy time.
The Ivanka Trump company declined to comment on the arrest.
Marc Fisher Footwear, which licenses the brand, was "unaware of the allegations" and said he would look into them immediately, a spokeswomen said.
| 2019-04-18T20:53:07 |
https://www.albawaba.com/business/worker-abuse-ivanka-trumps-shoe-factory-china-981426
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Answer: Hello dear, It is very common to feel body aches in pregnancy. As your uterus expands, you may feel aches and pains in the back, abdomen, groin area, and thighs. Many women also have backaches and aching near the pelvic bone due to increased weight, and loosening joints. If u are feeling pain in throat then it might be some bacterial infection. In it throat gets irritated and inflamed, causing a sudden, severe sore throat. Nothing will happen to baby. Remedies: 1. Take ur temperature 2. Gargle with warm salt water to help your sore throat feel better. 3. Avoid cold liquids,Instead, try caffeine-free herbal teas, such as lemon tea with cinnamon. Be sure to stay hydrated. 4. Get plenty of rest to allow your body to heal.
Question: How to get relief from throat pain and severe cough during fifth month of pregnancy??
Question: Hi I'm in 9th month of pregnancy and suffering from severe full body itching.. What to do?
Answer: Hello dear. The hormone progesterone is one of the main causes of excess gas during pregnancy. As your body produces more progesterone to support your pregnancy, progesterone relaxes muscles in your body. This includes the muscles of your intestine. Slower moving intestine muscles mean that your digestion slows down. Few of the remedies are : Don't eat big meals. Take your time and chew thoroughly. Limit how much you drink during meals. Drink from a cup or glass – not from a bottle or through a straw – and don't gulp. Don't drink carbonated beverages. Take care.
| 2019-04-20T06:13:57 |
https://healofy.com/en/qa/weeks-of-pregnancy-suffering-from-severe-throat-pain-and-along-full-body-pain-what-to-do-for-relief-5671437983023104
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Yoga Student Question: Is it Normal to feel Nauseated after my first Yoga Class?
I teach a lot of Beginners. If you've been reading here for awhile, you know that I find great joy in seeing someones journey from apprehension to pure love for their yoga practice. I also do my very best to try and dissolve the apprehension they may feel prior to their first class by ensuring them they will be safe and won't be forced to do anything they don't feel comfortable doing. When a student approaches me after class and I ask them about their experience, I always hope they will say it was "great", "better than they thought", or at the very least "it wasn't so bad". However, mixed in with the positive reviews, I have heard from a few students over the past year that they enjoyed their class, but now feel nauseated or had felt nauseated at some point during the class. I can often see the concern on their faces as they wonder what this "yoga thing" has done to their bodies! Today, I wanted to address this question/concern by sharing a few of the reasons you may feel nauseated - especially after your first class - and what you can do if this happens to you. Of course, I am not a medical professional, and anyone who is venturing into new physical activity should always check with their doctor before they begin. Also, if you have any previous medical history that would make you more susceptible to nausea, dizziness, or fainting, these tips won't necessarily apply to you and you should speak to your doctor.
So, why may you feel nauseated during or after your class? The first question I usually ask students is if they have any other flu like symptoms or have had any in the past day or so. The second thing I ask is what they ate today and when they ate prior to class. One reason people may feel unwell during a class is because they have eaten right before. If you eat a lot, or for some people not enough, prior to practising physical activity, it can effect how you feel. If you have a stomach full of food and you are moving upside down in Downward Dog, you may feel that food churning around in there. If you haven't eaten enough that day you may be more susceptible to lower blood pressure symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness and nausea. Your safest bet is to eat a small amount of food and drink some water at least an hour or so ahead of your practice. However, everyone is different, so be sure to listen to your body and see what works best for you regarding an eating schedule.
Another reason you may feel nauseated, especially after your first class, is because Yoga poses and breathing exercises can work to detox your body. Now, before you jump all over me....let me finish... ALL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HELPS THE BODY TO GET RID OF TOXINS!!! So, you are more likely to feel nauseated after Yoga if you haven't been participating in much physical activity previously. I'm not saying Yoga is a magical detox practice, however, Yoga does encourage practitioners to take LONGER and DEEPER breaths. Breathing deeply benefits your body in many ways, one of them being to rid the body of toxins (note: the only specific statistic I can find on this says 70% of the body's waste is released through the breath but I can't find where that fact is sited from). Breathing deeply may also aid in digestion and food assimilation by increasing the amount of oxygen that gets to the digestive organs. So, add a few twisting postures in (which may compress your organs a bit) and it sounds like a pretty good recipe for nausea - no? Bottom line, if you are feeling nauseated, dizzy, or generally unwell, just take some time in Childs Pose, or Savasana while taking some slow and steady breaths and see if it passes. You may even want to pause and think about what poses your were doing before you became nauseated. Make sure to talk to your Yoga teacher after class and let them know about your experience and if it keeps happening always speak to your doctor.
In my experience, people who reported feeling unwell after their first class did not stay feeling that way for long and did not experience the same thing in their second class - either because they changed their eating schedule that day or simply because their body started to get used to what happened in the practice. Additionally, I have seen probably over 100 beginners throughout this year and have a memory of only 3 people reporting feeling unwell after class, so please don't let this deter you. I simply wanted to address this topic to let you know that it may happen - you are not alone - but it doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't go back and try again!
Questions about this or anything else Yoga related?? Leave me a comment below and I would love to answer them in another "Yoga Student Question" post!!!
| 2019-04-20T06:34:54 |
https://www.sandradawnyogawpg.com/blog/2016/12/28/yoga-student-question-is-it-normal-to-feel-nauseated-after-my-first-yoga-class
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Shingles. One of the most feared of words amongst the over 40s. Have you ever had it? Or met anyone who has? Did they tell you how horrible an experience it was?
This week, all of a sudden and out of the blue, it seemed to pop up (literally) everywhere I turned. Shingles is one of the most painful 'minor' diseases you can catch in adulthood, and statistics show that it will attack as many as one in four of us over the age of 50.
Shingles is the grown-up version of chicken pox. It's caused by the same virus, re-activating it in your nerve tissues after years, sometimes decades, of lying dormant in your system. It's extremely uncomfortable, and shows up as an itchy, burning rash: bright red and blistered. It usually arrives on your stomach and chest, but it can also attack the eyes and face, sometimes leaving scarring and damage in its wake.
Last week my cousin phoned to update me on her latest family drama. Her daughter, aged 40, had been diagnosed with shingles eight weeks ago and was still recovering from it. Although she had faithfully taken her doctor's prescription, and he had warned her it might take a couple of months to recover, she was still covered in an itchy rash. On top of everything else she had developed painful headaches. The virus had moved to her spine, causing serious neurological damage and she was shortly to go in for tests to see what could be done. The prognosis was not good, and her doctor feared the damage might be permanent.
Then an old work colleague called, and oddly, he too had just recovered from a nasty bout. His shingles outbreak had lasted nearly five weeks. Despite taking an anti-viral medication, along with lashings of topical cream to ease the almost unbearable itching of his rash, he said it was one of the most painful illnesses he could remember.
Next, a friend's mother got it, and after 3 weeks of her prescription medicine, was still deep in the throes of the disease, unable to go out because of the discomfort, depressed because it just didn't seem to be getting any better. She was worrying that her face would be permanently scarred.
When my daughter rang a few days later in a panic because her boyfriend, Max, had just gone down with it, there seemed to be a message there somewhere for me. The prescription drugs seemed to work slowly. Was it time to try a different approach?
Max had also been given an anti-viral prescription by his doctor in New York. He was told to stay off work and expect a four week minimum recovery period, 'possibly longer'. Max is super healthy, and never touches pharmaceutical products if he can help it. He wanted to know what he could do naturally to speed up his body's recovery. Did I have any suggestions because in New York's super competitive, busy world, he couldn't afford to take four weeks off sick? He wondered if I knew of any natural products that would boost his immunity and help his body to shrug off the virus quicker.
I have never had shingles myself, but I have, however, been told by many people the things that worked for them when they got it. Max was happy with the idea of a brief and entirely unscientific study for a few days, before resorting to the Valtrex prescribed by his doctor, who told him the drug would take two weeks to kick in, followed by at least another two weeks to clear up the symptoms fully.
Max had large painful red welts all over his stomach and sides. He sent me photographs and we measured their expanse and analysed his progress day by day. He was itching unbearably, so the first thing I suggested was spraying his skin with my favourite anti-viral remedy, colloidal silver. It stopped the itching and calmed the redness of the rash.
Second, was regular applications of tea tree oil, diluted in water, to dry out the blistered sores.
Apple cider vinegar works well. Max read an article that recommended adding cayenne pepper to the apple cider vinegar, applying it with a cloth three times a day and only to the areas of skin actually covered by the rash. He said it was uncomfortable, but not as uncomfortable as the shingles itself and two days later reported that the rash had turned purple, looking like it would if he had been badly sunburned.
Max decided he needed to heal himself from inside as well as out and, after further internet research, found David Winston's '7 precious mushrooms', a liquid tincture that boosts immune response and is anti-viral. He began taking 50 drops in water, three times a day.
Lastly, in an attempt to finally nail the shingles, I suggested he start eating three daily portions of either pineapple or mango, both of which contain proteolytic enzymes that can strip away the protective outer layers and heads of viruses. A German study found proteolytic enzymes to be as effective as some standard antiviral medications at relieving the pain from shingles and healing the rash.
Hippocrates, that wise philosopher and doctor, stated many centuries ago: 'Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food'. It certainly worked for Max. The symptoms began improving in the first couple of days, and he and I were frankly both amazed when, surpassing all our expectations, a mere 7 days later his shingles was almost completely gone. The pain stopped, the itching calmed, and there was just a residue of scarring from the rash, which over the next few days faded entirely. He was back to work on day 8.
I just wanted to let you know that it worked.:) I was over them in a week except for healing scabs.
I did what he did except I didn’t have access to the mushroom compound, so I took Chinese skull cap and olive leaf powder & Vit B12. I also did daily hydrotherapy - hot bath x 3 days, then contrast showers x 3 days.
I know a mere one person study, throwing a random lot of remedies at the problem, proves nothing at all. But perhaps, if you do succumb to shingles, it might be worth adding a few natural products to the mix alongside your prescription. None of the remedies used have side effects, and if it saves you a week or two of itching, why not?
| 2019-04-26T07:42:10 |
https://www.reboothealth.co.uk/blog/how-to-cure-shingles-naturally
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When getting GM rotors milled to fit over the axle flange, what's the appropriate ID?
I've seen 4.185", 4.21", 4.25".
I don't have a spare rear to measure and my caliper doesn't fit inside my wheel. Judging by the gap between the hole in my wagon wheels and both the rear flange and the front lockout hub, they're very similar. When I measure the OD of the lockout hub (I have the old coffee-can style warns) I get about 4.12".
Perhaps the most important question: Is there any reason NOT to just get them milled to 4.25" ?
Also, the guy that's doing mine is a wheeler and usually adds a chamfer to the inside edge where it would meet the flange. Is this necessary or prudent?
I had mine done to 4.185, Had to really clean the flange on the axle, paint, dirt grease, etc, and tapped them on witha rubber mallet. Actually the lugnuts would have sucked them up but I wanted to make sure they fit.
4.20" Measured on a 73 and 75 axle.
The lug nuts on the lugs will center the rotor on the axle end. If you are using the stock nuts, or that style.
Go to my webpage and read the writeup there.
I just followed this and everything worked out fine.
I still maintain that you want the smallest hole that will fit flush. For me that was 4.185. Of course anything larger will fit.
Fang, did not see your writeup until mine was done. Thanks for writing it, but can't you post it in Tech Links, or rather link it to Tech Links?
I did mine to 4.2 with a chamfer. No problems yet after 3.5 years.
Jack up rear end put on jack stands, block front tires and remove tire, drum.
Install lug nuts backward on flange.
Install rotor, and use more lug nuts to retain rotor.
Start engine and engage 4th gear.
Remove metal from inside of hole of spinning rotor using a mill file.
WARNING: this method may qualify you for a Darwin award.
My rotors are machined a bit large for my axle flanges. I'm using stock lug nuts and aftermarket steel wheels and the conical part of the nut does not protrude through the wheel far enough to engage and center the rotor. If I think about it, it doesn't make sense that it should since if it did, it would not secure a wheel before bottoming out on a stock brake drum configured Land Cruiser.
I'd suggest machining for a snug fit.
Otherwise, the only way to center the rotor for me is to install a few nuts conical side towards rotor (without the wheel installed) and tighten them. Then have someone hold down on the brakes while I remove the lugs, install the wheel, and then reinstall and retighten the lugs.
| 2019-04-26T01:42:26 |
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/rdb-rotor-opening-milling.66744/
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It can take a brave women to be a bridesmaid at the best of times.
But five Boston-area bridesmaids have set a new standard after they endured a terrifying carjacking right outside the church, and still made it down the aisle - on time - without breathing a word to the blushing bride until the ceremony was over.
The five were ejected from their limousine outside a church in Dorchester, Massachusetts on Saturday by an escaping thief.
He smashed the limo's passenger-side window with a hammer outside the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Church while fleeing a home robbery.
As the man began fighting with the limo driver, the five bridesmaids fled the limo in flowing blue gowns, their fuchsia bouquets still in one piece.
And as police surrounded the church, they proceeded with the ceremony inside - the happy couple blissfully unaware that anything had happened.
'It's a fine art to hide anything from the bride,' one guest told the Boston Herald.
The bridesmaids were on their way to the wedding of Jillian Sherlock and Nikhil Pereira when the incident occurred yesterday.
A man who had just broken into a nearby home was being chased down the road when he happened across the limo.
A bus driver who had just dropped 48 guests off at the church witnessed the entire incident.
'He started fighting with the driver, and the girls got out and ran,' Karl Kammann said.
The driver managed to escape - and the carjacker disappeared in the limo.
It was found abandoned shortly afterwards in South Boston. Police still have not caught the bandit.
'The bridesmaids acted like nothing happened,' Reverend Jack Ahern said.
| 2019-04-20T04:15:53 |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327588/Limo-bridesmaids-carjacked-outside-church--aisle-telling-bride.html
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How much is John Williams Worth?
John Williams net worth and salary per movie: John Williams is a prolific music conductor who has a net worth of $300 million. John Williams' impressive net worth is derived from a career that has spanned 60 years as a composer, conductor and pianist. Williams has composed music for high profile movies, including Indiana Jones, E.T., Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, Home Alone, Jurassic Park and the first three of the Harry Potter movies. He is also noted for composing music for NBC news productions, The Nightly News and Sunday Night Football and has composed music for cult TV series, Lost in Space and Land of the Giants. Away from making music for big TV and film productions, Williams has conducted untold amount of classical concerts in his career and was the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 13 years. He is now the orchestra's conductor laureate. Throughout his remarkable career, Williams has received five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, 23 Grammys… out of hundreds of nominations. To date, this makes Williams the second most nominated person after Walt Disney. Williams was born in Floral Park, New York. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was 16. John attended North Hollywood High School and then the UCLA (after spending one semester at Los Angeles City College). Along the way, he studied with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He was drafted into the Air Force in 1952 where he would play several instruments in the U.S. Air Force Band. After his time in the military was up, he moved to New York where he studied music at Juilliard and the Eastman School of Music. He eventually moved back to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a session musician. He slowly climbed up the ranks and was eventually composing music for TV shows like M Squad, Gilligan's Island and Lost in Space. His first feature film composition was the 1958 movie Daddy-O. He quickly gained attention in Hollywood for his unique versatility in jazz, piano and symphonic music. He won his first Academy Award for the 1971 movie Fiddler on the Roof. His first prominence came after composing for blockbusters The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. He worked with Steven Spielberg for the first on 1974's The Sugarland Express. They worked together again a year later on Jaws and again on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Around this same time, John befriended George Lucas who was working on his 1977 space epic Star Wars. The music that Williams eventually composed for Star Wars, including "Luke's Theme", "Force Theme" and "Princess Leia's Theme" are among the most widely recognized movie songs of all time. The Star Wars score is the most successful "non-popular" musical recording of all time. In 1980, John Williams recorded "The Imperial March" as the theme for The Empire Strikes Back, in addition to several new popular songs. George Lucas has stated that the secret sauce of Star Wars is the music of John Williams. Over the next several decades, John Williams would continue to produce beloved classic music for movies ranging from Indiana Jones, to Catch Me If You Can, to Lincoln. He was married to Barbara Ruick from 1956 to her death in 1974. Together they had three children including Joseph Stanley Williams, the lead singer of Toto. John married photographer Samantha Winslow in 1980.
| 2019-04-21T12:08:04 |
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/producers/john-williams-net-worth/
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Last week, in a column on the Democrat-Gazette's Voices page, deputy editor Frank Fellone offered a logical fallacy posing as an affirmation of a core journalistic value: He argued that the newsgathering part of the paper is unbiased. The Democrat-Gazette puts "public service and straight-arrow news coverage above political gain," he wrote.
That's certainly true of much of the paper's local and state reporting, which is often diligent and fair. But, of course, a newspaper is much more than reporting. Even more important are the decisions editors make on what stories to pursue and pick up from national wires (and those not to) and how they're presented — in terms of organization, headlines, photos and position within the paper. Often the Democrat-Gazette does not meet Fellone's standard.
Take a recent article. On Monday, the Democrat-Gazette ran a story called "Occupy Wall Street draws activist critics" on the front page below the fold. The byline read "compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports," which means that it was altered from the original source, in this case the Associated Press. The original AP story opened with this sentence: "To veterans of past social movements, the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York and spread nationwide have been a welcome response to corporate greed and the enfeebled economy."
The Democrat-Gazette's version tamped down the definitiveness in the last part of the sentence, changing it to "a welcome response to perceived corporate greed and the weakened economy." It also ran a subhead, "Too loose to last? wonder some," that doesn't reflect the views of anyone quoted in the story. In fact, the fifth paragraph of the story notes that the "growing cohesiveness and profile" of the protest has "caught the attention of public intellectuals and veterans of past social movements." Finally, where other subscribers of the AP elected to accompany the story with a picture of protesters holding signs or a photo of veteran activists, the Democrat-Gazette ran a picture of a man demonstrating how to break free from plastic hand restraints during the protests.
This is a stark example of the flaw in Fellone's position. The decisions an editor made in the Occupy Wall Street story might not be a reflection the Democrat-Gazette's conservative editorial posture, but at the very least, they're the product of an editor bringing his subjective views to a story.
Objectivity doesn't exist. It's an empty vow. A smokescreen. The pursuit of it also often results in the most pernicious type of journalism — the "he said, she said" approach, where a journalist merely serves as a conduit for opposing viewpoints, without reporting on their veracity.
• "We are guided by an ability to be transparent and independent, to clearly assess what's going on in our community and have the courage to plainly state the truth."
• "Be the expert: Write with authority ... The day we write a headline that says: 'Proposal has pros, cons' is the day we start dying. There is no such thing as 50/50 balance. There is a truth and we work our damndest to get there."
• "Tell the truth: This means not being mealy mouthed and not being bias-bullied. Stand up to bias bullies. Tell them why you did something. Let them challenge you on it. Don't go quote-hunting for something you know to be true and can say yourself. Don't hide your opinion in the last quote of a story."
| 2019-04-18T15:20:10 |
https://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/the-dem-gazs-failed-quest-for-objectivity/Content?oid=1920084
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I purchased this multi-meter from from iFixIt: Digital Multimeter and I want to measure voltage in my wall outlets in the USA.
1) Which setting should I use on this multimeter to measure exact voltage in US Based outlets? I don't want to choose the wrong setting and burn the multimeter.
2) Which setting should I use to measure exact voltage in European (220V) outlets?
My goal is to get exact reading of the voltage level coming out of outlets in my home.
First make sure you don't touch the metal part of the probes as you don't want get a shock.
As to the needed settings for this meter: You want to use 200 volt setting for US (120 volts) and you want to use the larger 600 volt setting for EU (220 & 240 volts). Don't alter the dial while you have the probes in the socket.
This meter may not be the best choice and you may find the issue is not so much the voltage but the stability of your power, it's correctly wired as well as has proper grounding. This Receptacle tester is all you really need for quick testing. If you think you are having issues (beyond incorrect outlet wiring) I would strongly recommend you contact your power provider they have a power line recorder which they can place on one of your outlets to monitor the power coming into your house. Otherwise a local electrician can come in to repair poor wiring.
If the power is not stable I would recommend using a good UPS as they can smooth out erratic power and if you do get a brownout a good unit can back-fill the needed voltage as well as protect your equipment from a surge.
While that would be best it is not very portable (as you talk about going to Europe). To offset that I would recommend using a laptop Vs a desktop system as the battery & charger will act like a UPS. Even still you do want a good surge protector (not a power strip).
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| 2019-04-20T20:50:36 |
https://ko.ifixit.com/Answers/View/149170/Which+setting+to+use+to+measure+exact+voltage+with+this+multimeter
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Every day across the web I see people spouting off about how bad President Obama is for the United States, how he's a socialist, how he's on a spending spree unlike anything we've ever seen, and how he needs to be voted out of office in November. "Anybody but Obama!" they cry.
As some friends on Facebook keep posting about how Obama is one of the worst presidents of all time, I decided to take a look at the facts. I'm just an average citizen, with no Economics degree. But after spending some time with the reports, it became quite clear how untrue the the Republican accusations really are (which I always suspected).
It would be great if we could have an honest conversation about the economy, the deficit, and what each party plans to do if they win in November.
This is my attempt to have that conversation.
We're living through the second worst economic downturn in the history of the United States. Things are getting better, but many people are still hurting. The scary thing is, it could have been much, much worse. If anything's clear now, it's that Obama (and Congress) didn't spend enough on the stimulus package. But that's a different story.
According to the same article: "What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape the budget in his second year."
The deficit: Who's really to blame?
The deficit of the United States, at first glance, is something that seems pretty bad. But it's also not something that can be understood in a sound bite.
Since Obama took office in 2008, the federal deficit has gone up 50% (or $5.3 trillion). No matter which way you look at it, $5.3 trillion is a hell of a lot of money. But the thing you have to remember is that Obama started at the level that Bush had set ($4.9 trillion) -- and that the United States' economy produces $15 billion trillion in goods and services each year.
As you can see, debt under GW Bush (#44 as some call him) went up 86% in 8 years. When Obama started his term, GW had increased the debt by $4.9 trillion in those 8 years -- and we were just entering some of the worst of the economic downturn. It's difficult to undo the momentum of that kind of spending. Even more difficult to cut back on spending when that's what actually needs to happen.
But what's really revealing is the percentage increase that Reagan was responsible for: 190%! In the Republican revisionist history, Reagan has been anointed as the greatest fiscal conservative of all time. No, it's not as much total debt as Obama is responsible for -- but Reagan definitely turned the ship in the wrong direction.
As quoted earlier, a president inherits his predecessor's budget during his first year. Let's look at the deficit and spending for each of a president's full fiscal years by each of his terms (and showing all three of Obama's fiscal years, including the estimate for 2012). To be clear, Obama's first full fiscal year didn't start until 2010, even though he took office in 2009.
What we see is that Bush was responsible for the huge increase in 2009 (with the bank bailouts--which needed to happen by the way). So instead of Obama being responsible for $5.3 trillion, he was actually responsible for $2.8 trillion -- and Bush was responsible for around $4 trillion.
GDP was much bigger than the gross deficit during Reagan's time, and has increased with each president.
Reagan actually moved the deficit in the right direction during his first term -- toward a surplus, which is what that red line is at 0% -- but then took it the other direction in his second term.
Bush 41 raised taxes ("Read my lips"), which actually moved the country closer to a surplus, which then happened under Clinton.
Soon after Bush 44 took office, 9/11 happened. But then he also cut taxes and gave a refund to tax payers with the surplus money that had been built up. Once the Depression hit in 2008 and revenues (receipts) disappeared, the increase in the deficit accelerated.
The change in the deficit since Obama's first full budget is flat.
As you can see, spending shot up under GW Bush (44) during the economic crisis and has remained at around the same level since 2010.
There has been a rapid increase in U.S. debt since 1980, but that rapid rise in debt didn't put us deeply in hock to the rest of the world. It did, however, make us vulnerable to the kind of crisis that struck in 2008.
Krugman, Paul (2012-04-30). End This Depression Now! (p. 44). Norton. Kindle Edition.
What I find incredibly hypocritical is the Republican Party's stance on spending and debt. Note that they didn't have a problem with GW Bush spending away -- but when Obama's trying to help pull us out of a Depression, they cry bloody murder. They want Obama out of office, regardless of whether it's their party that's to blame for the fiscal mess.
Take a look at the baseline in this chart compared to what happens if the Bush Tax Cuts continue. That alternative fiscal scenario is what will happen under Romney/Ryan (if they do what they say they'll do).
So, there you have it. The past, the present, and the future. Where we go next is up to the voters. I for one hope that Obama wins, as it appears he's on the right track with the economy.
| 2019-04-22T06:14:34 |
http://andyoblog.andrewolson.com/2012/08/president-obama-budget-and-deficit.html
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I developed this recipe for chocolate lovers. Steaming produces a very moist, rich chocolate cake without the use of butter or cream. If you don't have time to make the sweetened orange strips that are added to the cake, use 2 to 3 tablespoons bitter orange marmalade instead, and add the orange liqueur along with the marmalade to the melted chocolate.
You will need a 9 to 10 inch diameter, 3 inch deep cake pan, preferably spring form, lined with parchment paper. In a large pot of boiling water, blanch the whole oranges for 10 to 20 seconds. Drain the oranges, and rinse them under cold running water. Wipe them dry with paper towels. Remove the outer rinds in thin strips with a zester, or use a vegetable peeler to make wide strips. Slice the rind pieces into narrow strips. Reserve the oranges. In a medium pot, bring 1 quart water to a boil over medium heat. Add the orange strips, and cook them until tender, 5 minutes. Drain the orange strips in a colander, and cool them in a bowl of ice water. Drain them again, and wipe them dry with paper towels. In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup of the sugar and 6 tablespoons water to a boil over medium heat. Cook the mixture, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved. Remove the saucepan from the heat, and add the orange strips and liqueur. Let the mixture stand for 30 minutes. You can refrigerate the orange strips in a covered container for up to a week before making the cake, or freeze them for later use. Place a bamboo or metal steamer basket over plenty of water in a deep pot over high heat. Into a medium bowl, sift the two flours. In the top of a double boiler over a medium pot of gently simmering water, combine the chocolate and 4 tablespoons water. Stir occasionally until the chocolate is melted. Add the orange strips and their syrup, about 1/4 cup, and stir. Remove the mixture from the heat. Add the egg yolks to the chocolate mixture one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition. In a bowl, beat the egg whites with the remaining 2/3 cup sugar until fairly stiff, shiny peaks form. Stir one quarter of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture. With a wooden spatula, fold in the remaining egg whites, and mix gently but thoroughly. Fold in the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, but do not deflate the egg white foam. Immediately pour the chocolate mixture into the parchment lined pan. Transfer the pan to the hot steamer, and steam the cake for 45 minutes. Check for doneness by inserting a wooden skewer. The skewer will emerge a little wet when the cake is done. Turn the cake out of the pan onto a rack, cover the cake with a dry cotton cloth, and let the cake cool. Chill it in the refrigerator. Completely peel the oranges, and section them. Serve the cake with the orange sections and the remaining orange syrup in the saucer.
| 2019-04-25T13:48:53 |
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Since NewEgg banners are everywhere here at the Street It's only fair all members know the direction NewEgg has taken.
For several years now when I pay for rush processing and second or overnight air shipping the order with few exceptions has left the same day.
Yesterday a customer ordered a hard drive from NewEgg based on my recommendation. As of this evening their order is still at step 3. The following is a copy and paste of a chat I just had with one of NewEgg's representatives.
Thank you for contacting Newegg. My name is Sabrina. How may I assist you today?
John: I find it completely unacceptable that I placed this order 8:30 yesterday morning and still nothing as far as shipping. Payed for second day air and rush processing and the order process is the same as it was 2 hours after the order was placed.
John: This hard drive was needed for a customer's system and now i look totally incompetent.
John: Is there some type of date I can give to my customer or should I suggest they look elsewhere for service as it appears I'm not capable of meeting their needs.
Sabrina: We truly apologize for the inconveniences this may have caused you. Please kindly note that all orders take one to two business days to process before they ship, no exceptions. Newegg will put forth our best efforts to ship the order the same day, however cannot guarantee your order will ship the same day. If we fail, we will credit back the extra fee for Rush Processing.
John: I have been buying from Newegg for years and never has an order been delayed when rush shipping and expedited shipping was paid for.
Sabrina: We truly apologize for the inconveniences this may have caused you.
Sabrina: I've noticed that you have been idle for 3 minutes; would you still like to continue this chat or have I answered all of your questions?
Obviously, regardless of paying for rush processing or even the added expense of expedited shipping NewEgg is going to take one to two full days to process and ship the order.
The good news is my customer will have their drive tomorrow. I ordered it myself elsewhere and instructed them to cancel their NewEgg order.
I always suspected 'rush processing' was total BS.
In the past, unless I ordered late in the day things were always shipped that same day. This is going to be two days. But I think the key to the whole conversation was the bit about no exceptions. Anybody placing orders now need to plan on it not shipping for two days.
Since this site does send a fair amount of biz to Newegg. Perhaps contacting this guy: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/member.php?u=24137 and asking him to find his way over here, might do us some good?
Yep they got me once before. I ordered a bunch of stuff one day, figured out what else I needed and ordered it the following day. I paid for the rush processing and 2nd day shipping so that I would get it the same day as the items ordered the day before.NOT. It actually got there two days after the other stuff and was a total of four days. Worse part is it was comming from NJ and the first batch was from California. I won't pay for the any of the extras anymore, although I do shop pretty much only at newegg.
they have always said they will TRY to get it out same day. the order i placed on the 26th at 10am(EST) was at my door the 28th at 2pm(EST) with rush processing and only standard shipping.
The rush order fee isn't really an issue right now. Regardless of where something is bought if it's an in-stock item ordered at 8:30 in the morning it should be shipped out by the close of business the following day at least. Just checked. Still on step 3 which I don't understand as the person was suppose to cancel the order.
RandallTank, hopefully next time you order you will have the same experience and not fall under the the no exception clause.
but honestly we are looking at them from 2 different perspectives, you are dependent on there speed while my case is was "oh sweet that was fast"
Some orders I've made in the past shipped the next day, while others took 2; never seemed to be any sort of rule to it; but lately it seems to take them longer to ship stuff out.
Newegg came through for me on the new stuff in my siggy, which was ordered the 24th and recieved the 28th. Still waiting on the heatsink from SVC though SVC drags thier asses!
Sorry to hear about the luck you are having.
I've noticed the same thing. Back when I started ordering from them in 2003, most of the orders I made shipped the same day, regardless of if I used rush processing or not. If I did use it, it usually was shipped out before 1 PM (I think one order shipped out at like 7:43 AM ), otherwise it was closer to 5-6. Now most of my orders take a day or two to ship.
The rush processing still seems to speed it up a bit, I think the last time I used it they shipped my parts the same day.
| 2019-04-24T12:00:06 |
https://forums.overclockersclub.com/topic/153104-neweggs-new-processing-policy/
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Remove a brake drum (address to item 1 - 6 procedures of removal Has undressed the Brake drum).
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Disconnect a cable of a lay brake from the lever brake Pads (address to item 2 - 5 procedures of removal of Section Brake колодка).
Disconnect a brake cable from a back plate of a brake (address to item 4 of procedure of removal of Section the Back plate of a brake of the given Chapter).
When it is necessary to remove cables and the right and left lay brake, repeat the steps described above for the right and left wheels.
Remove a cable about the lever of a lay brake (address to item 1 and 4 - 6 procedures of removal Has undressed the Lever of a lay brake).
Establish parts in an order, the return to removal procedure, having paid attention to the following.
The colour ring or tape on a brake cable serve for identification. Use a cable with the same colour ring, as before removal.
Establish a spring of a brake cable (2) and a branch pipe (3) on the lever Pads a lay brake (1) and fix.
For installation brake Pads, address to item 1 - 5 procedures of installation of Section Brake колодка.
For installation of a brake drum, address to Section the Brake drum.
Correctly stretch and reliably fix clips a cable of a lay brake.
For cable installation on the lever of a lay brake, address to subsection Installation Has undressed the Lever of a lay brake.
On installation end, adjust a cable (address to Section Check and adjustment of a lay brake in the Head Brake system). Then check up, whether there is no jamming of a brake drum, and whether the brake system correctly works. After removal of a vehicle from the lift it is necessary to inspect a brake.
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| 2019-04-23T12:56:44 |
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In the modern world, car ownership is regarded as a right. However, some argue that governments should try to reduce the number of cars on the road by improving public transport, as the growing number of cars on the road cause traffic congestion and pollution. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
1. Wrong word choice. Augment = to increase in size. A trend never augments.
2. Hazard is a noun. You need to write an adjective with effects. Its hazardous.
Undoubtedly, pollution is the a major concern of today’s society. If the number of personal cars will not bring are not brought down to a certain level, it will be infeasible to take breath breathe in the polluted air. Since all cars produce a plethora of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, (3) it is essential to find an alternative an economically viable solution. Thereby, Therefore, it is argued that the government should launch more public transport air-conditioned buses and build metros (4) so that fossil fuels, which are scarce, are consumed at a lower rate and the problem of poisonous gases can be alleviated. emergence of deleterious gases can alleviate (5). For instance, a single bus which commutes 50 to 60 people at a time which will obviously produce lesser pollution than 50 cars in which only one or two people sit in each of them.
3. Please put things in logical order. Cars –> Pollution –> Breathe –> Find solution. If the number of cars is not brought down immediately, our environment will be polluted with obnoxious gases such as carbon dioxide. This will hamper (obstruct) normal breathing and people will suffer from numerous diseases such as Asthma and Cancer. Thus, it is essential to find a viable and long-term solution to this problem.
4. You’ve mentioned public transport at several places. However, you’ve not mentioned what exactly constitutes public transport. Be specific in your response.
5. Alleviate = To make something bad (usually pain) less severe. You can’t alleviate the emergence of something. You can alleviate a problem.
There is a serious lack of lexical resources in the above paragraph.
Another prime reason is the bottleneck (I don’t think traffic is bottleneck.) serious traffic on roads. It is thought by many that (Since this is also your thought, there is no need to write these redundant words.) public transport such as buses, trains should be opted to reduce the extent of jams. To encourage this habit, the government should impose high taxes on cars. By this pursuit, amount the number of cars (Amount is used with uncountable nouns. Cars are countable. The amount of water.) will automatically reduce. Moreover, people should facilitate (wrong word. This does not fit here.) with low bus and trains fares, luxurious services during traveling to entice people. (This sentence does not make any sense. This will reduce the GR score.) This exercise will eventually deduce reduce traffic on roads.
In conclusion, although everyone has a right to ride a car, it is imperative to have traffic road (What’s that?). By increasing public road services (What are public road services?) (Poor LR) , government would certainly be able to overcome the above said turmoil.
| 2019-04-24T04:09:00 |
https://eltecenglish.com/2019/03/21/ielts-essay-correction-reduce-number-of-cars/
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Handmade Christmas decorations offer a sense of nostalgia. As the decorations roll out every year, there's always that one handmade decoration or ornament that brings a smile to the face. To keep tradition alive and to treasure a keepsake for years to come, encourage a child to make a Christmas craft.
Consider making a simple holiday decoration, such as a Christmas tree made out of Styrofoam cups. Many of the supplies needed to make the tree can probably be found in the home. Supervise younger children with scissors and hot glue. Enjoy showing off the final product for years to come.
1. Make a vertical 1-inch cut through the rim of a Styrofoam cup.
2. Cut the rim off the top of the cup. Discard the rim.
3. Place scissors back into the start of the cut made in step 1, then continue to cut the cup until reaching the bottom.
4. Cut the circular bottom out of the cup.
5. Place a green piece of construction paper on a flat surface.
6. Spread open the Styrofoam cup flat on the green paper.
7. Trace the shape of the cup onto the paper with a pencil.
8. Cut the shape out of the green paper.
9. Use hot glue to secure the paper from the previous step to the cup.
10. Cut 1-inch deep fringes all the way around the rim of the cup.
11. Repeat tep 1 on five additional Styrofoam cups.
12. Repeat tep 2 on five cups from previous tep; however, make each cup a little shorter than the previous one. Remove the rim plus a little extra Styrofoam on each cup.
13. Repeat steps 3 to 10 on all 5 cups.
14. Place a green piece of construction paper on a flat surface.
15. Trace the bottom of a cup on the paper.
16. Glue the paper to the bottom of the shortest cup.
17. Stack the cups upside down, with the tallest cup on the bottom. The shortest cup should serve as the top of the tree.
18. Glue a wood star to the top of the tree with hot glue.
| 2019-04-24T14:40:52 |
https://diyeverywhere.com/2018/12/12/how-to-make-a-christmas-tree-with-a-styrofoam-cup/
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By letter of 20 September 2011, received by the Commission on 21 September 2011, Italy notified to the Commission measures to be taken pursuant to Article 14(1) of Directive 2010/13/EU, aimed at integrating, updating and amending the measures currently in force, approved by the Commission by its Decision of 25 June 2007 (2).
The Commission verified, within a period of three months from this notification, that such measures are compatible with Community law, in particular with regard to the proportionality of the measures and the transparency of the national consultation procedure.
In its examination, the Commission took into consideration the available data on the Italian media landscape.
The amended list of events of major importance for society included in the Italian measures was drawn up in a clear and transparent manner, and a far-reaching consultation had been launched in Italy on the amendment of the previous list.
The Commission was satisfied that the new events listed in the Italian measures met at least two of the following criteria considered to be reliable indicators of the importance of events for society: (i) a special general resonance within the Member State, and not simply a significance to those who ordinarily follow the sport or activity concerned; (ii) a generally recognised, distinct cultural importance for the population in the Member State, in particular as a catalyst of cultural identity; (iii) involvement of the national team in the event concerned in the context of a competition or tournament of international importance; and (iv) the fact that the event has traditionally been broadcast on free television and has commanded large television audiences.
MotoGP Grand Prix is an event that enjoys particular popularity which is widespread throughout Italy and also interests audiences who would not normally follow it, precisely because of the involvement of Italian riders and manufacturers in an international tournament of major importance. It has also been traditionally broadcast on free-to-air television and commanded high viewing figures.
The finals and semi-finals of the world championships for basketball, water polo and volleyball featuring the Italian national team, apart from fulfilling the criterion of a national team involved in an international tournament of major importance, generate a particular and widespread interest in Italy, even for audiences that do not usually follow these disciplines, and they have traditionally been broadcast on free-to-air television with a wide television audience.
The Rugby World Cup matches which feature the Italian national team, apart from fulfilling the criterion of a national team involved in an international tournament of major importance, have a special and widespread resonance in Italy and also interest an audience that does not normally follow this sport.
Six Nations rugby matches played by the Italian national team, apart from fulfilling the criterion of a national team involved in an international tournament of major importance, have a special and widespread resonance in Italy and also interest an audience that does not normally follow this sport, and they have traditionally been broadcast on free-to-air television with increasingly significant audience figures.
The semi-finals and final of the Davis Cup and of the Fed Cup which feature the Italian national team, apart from fulfilling the criterion of a national team involved in an international tournament of major importance, have a particular and widespread resonance in Italy and interest audiences that would not normally follow this sport.
The final and semi-finals of the Internazionali d’Italia tennis tournament which feature Italian tennis players, apart from involving Italians in an international tournament of major importance, have a particular and widespread resonance in Italy and interest audiences that would not normally follow this sport, partly because of where it takes place. The special resonance of this event is confirmed by the viewing figures, which show an apparent increase in the public’s interest and passion for the sporting discipline in recent years.
The Road Cycling World Championships (men’s professional race) have a particular and widespread resonance in Italy and interest people other than those who normally follow this type of event, also because of the involvement of Italian athletes, and they have traditionally been broadcast on free-to-air television with high viewing figures.
The first performance of the opera season at the La Scala Theatre in Milan enjoys a special and widespread resonance in Italy and interests people other than those who would normally follow this type of event, and it has a generally recognised particular cultural importance in Italy, and acts as a catalyst of Italian cultural identity.
The New Year’s Concert broadcast from the La Fenice Theatre in Venice has a particular and widespread resonance in Italy and interests people other than those who would normally follow this type of event, it has a generally recognised particular cultural importance in Italy, acts as a catalyst of Italian cultural identity, and it has traditionally been broadcast on free-to-air television with high viewing figures.
The Italian measures appear proportionate to justify, by the overriding reason of public interest in ensuring wide public access to broadcasts of events of major importance for society, the derogation from the fundamental freedom to provide services laid down in Article 56 TFEU.
The Italian measures are also compatible with EU competition rules in so far as the definition of the qualifying broadcasters for the broadcasting of listed events relies on objective criteria (required coverage), which allow actual and potential competition for the acquisition of the rights to broadcast these events. In addition, the number of listed events is not so disproportionate as to distort competition on the downstream free television and pay television markets.
The general proportionality of the Italian measures is supported by several factors. First, the lowering of the threshold of the required coverage of the population for qualifying broadcasters from 90 % to 80 % increases the proportionality of the measures, in so far as it increases the number of broadcasters who potentially qualify. Secondly, a voluntary mechanism has been introduced for the resolution of disputes between broadcasters as regards the definition of the technical broadcasting modalities and the payment of fair compensation for the sub-licensing of exclusive broadcasting rights. Thirdly, the entry into force of the final Italian measures will be postponed to 1 September 2012, in order to ensure that any ongoing negotiations are not adversely affected. Finally, the Italian measures make provision for situations in which the rights to the events listed are purchased by non-qualifying broadcasters, in order to ensure appropriate arrangements for sub-licensing of rights to qualifying broadcasters, and for situations in which there might be no qualifying buyers for the events listed, in order to ensure that the non-qualifying broadcaster is able to exercise its rights so as to avoid a situation in which the event listed would not be broadcast at all.
1. The measures to be taken by Italy, pursuant to Article 14(1) of Directive 2010/13/EU, and notified to the Commission pursuant to Article 14(2) of Directive 2010/13/EU on 21 September 2011, are compatible with Union law.
2. The measures, as finally taken by Italy, will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union as soon as they are adopted at national level and notified to the Commission. This shall constitute the publication provided for in Article 14(2) of Directive 2010/13/EU.
Done at Brussels, 21 December 2011.
(2) Commission Decision 2007/475/EC of 25 June 2007 on the compatibility with Community law of measures taken by Italy pursuant to Article 3a(1) of Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (OJ L 180, 10.7.2007, p. 5).
1. The Authority hereby adopts the list of events of particular importance for society that must be broadcast on free-to-air channels in accordance with Article 32b of the consolidated text on radio and audiovisual media services, set out in Annexes A and B, which constitute integral parts of the present Decision.
2. This Decision shall enter into force on 1 September 2012 and shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic and the Authority’s website and, for Annex A only, in the Official Journal of the European Union.
1. This Decision concerns the television broadcasting of events considered of major importance for society.
the event has traditionally been broadcast on free television and has enjoyed high viewing figures in Italy.
A “qualifying broadcaster” means a television broadcaster subject to Italian jurisdiction capable of guaranteeing that at least 80 % of the Italian population may follow these events on a free-to-air channel without additional costs.
the New Year concert at La Fenice in Venice.
2. The events referred to in points (b) and (c) in paragraph 1 must be broadcast live in full. For the other events, television broadcasters may decide on the manner of free-to-air broadcasting, with the option of broadcasting live in full or in part or deferred in full or in part.
3. Where the broadcasting rights for one or more of the events referred to in paragraph 1 are acquired by a non-qualified broadcaster, the latter shall, a reasonable period in advance, publish on its website its proposal to cede, on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory market conditions, rights allowing the event to be broadcast under the conditions referred to in paragraph 1, simultaneously notifying it to the Authority.
4. If no qualified broadcaster submits a bid, or if bids submitted are not based on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory market conditions, the broadcaster holding the rights may exercise them, derogating from the conditions under paragraph 1.
5. The Authority reserves the right to amend, after an appropriate period, its Decision, the list in paragraph 1 and the conditions in paragraph 2.
(1) This is a typographical error: the date should read 15 March 2012 as in the version published in the Italian Official Gazette — General Series — No 92 of 19 April 2012.
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https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012D0394
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Why do bacterial cell walls carry a negative charge?
The Gram positive bacterial cell wall is made up of thick peptidoglycan layer which is rich in Teichoic acids. These teichoic acids are negatively charged because of presence of phosphate in their structure.
The Gram negative bacteria have an outer membrane composed of phospholipids and Lipopolysaccharides. The lipopolysaccharides impart a strongly negative charge to surface of Gram negative bacterial cells.
What part of an atom carries a negative charge?
The electrons of an atom carry a negative charge.. the electron cloud which is around the nucleus containing the electrons For more information, see Related links below.
Which elements carry a negative charge?
What atomic particles always carry a negative charge?
The electron, muon and tau; the down quark, the strange quark, the bottom quark; and the W boson.
How do bacterial cell walls differ from plant cell walls?
Electrons carries a positive or negative charge?
Electrons have a negative charge, protons have positive and neutrons have no charge.\n. \nElectrons have a relative charge of -1, protons, +1, and neutrons, of course, 0.
Will bacterial death occur if there is damage to the cell wall?
Which subatomic particle carries a negative charge?
What particles carry negative charges?
Protons are positive.Neutrons are neutral and electrons negative. 2nd Answer: If you can find one, an anti-proton carries a negative charge, too.
What carries a negative electrical charge?
Electrons are negatively charged. (The positron is a positively charged version). Protons are positively charged, so an anti-proton would carry a negative charge. Any object that has, on average surplus electrons in the outer-shells of electron orbitals will appear negatively charged.
How does the cell wall structure carry out its function?
It is a strong structure (becuase it is a net of covalently bonded polysaccharides and peptides) which stops the cell it encloses from expanding too much, thus stopping it exploding.
What is the function of a bacterial cell wall?
the cell wall gives the bacteria its shape and aside that protects the bacteria from bursting due to high osmotic pressure that can be built in the cell..
How is a bacterial cell wall different from plant cell walls?
A bacteria cell wall is made of long chains of sugars linked by short chains of amino acids. A plant cell wall is made of cellulose. Also, one of bacteria's cell wall's functions is to prevent osmotic rupture, which is when water overflows into a bacteria cell and causing it to die.
Can penicillin affect bacterial cells after the cell wall is already formed?
A balloon is negatively charged and then clings to a wall Is the wall positively charged?
What makes up the bacterial cell wall?
What surronds the outside of all bacterial cell walls?
Pilli (The small hairlike structures) surround all bacterial cell walls, and also flagella can be protruding one-multiple times based off of what species the bacterial cell is.
What is A small rounded thick walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell?
I believe that you are referring to a bacterial endospore. Only a small number of bacteria can produce these (Gram-positive Firmicutes). Endospores are very tough and allow the bacteria that can produce them to survive high temperatures, pressures, drought, etc.
What is bacterial cell wall composed of?
The cell wall of a bacterial cell is made of peptidoglycan, which is also know as murein. This is a wall of polysaccharide chains cross-linked by peptides called D-amino acids.
What statement about bacterial cell walls is false?
,The bacterial cell walls are similar in function to the cell walls of the plants, fungi, and protists. The bacterial cell wallsdiffer in the molecular composition from plant cell walls.
Do the protons carry a positive electrical charge and electrons carry a negative electrical charge?
Yes. Providing that you are talking about normal matter. The anti-matter version in each case has opposite charge.
How are bacterial cell walls useful medically?
The bacterial cell walls are benefical medically because their formation is different from plant cell wall, so some of medicines can stop the growth of bacteria inside the host without affecting the host cells growth.
Is there any similarity between bacterial and plant cell wall?
No, there is no similarity in bacterial cell walls and plant cell walls. They are different morphologically and also in chemical composition; plant cell walls are made up of cellulose, whereas bacterial cell walls are made up of peptidoglycan (also known as murein).
Component of most bacterial cell walls?
What can cell walled organisms not carry out?
Endocytosis is a cell walled organisms cannot carry out. Clathrinproteins are required to form the net like structure that enclosesthe endocentric vesicle that forms during cell mediatedendocytosis.
A neutron is a particle that carries a negative charge?
This is false. A neutron is an atomic particle that carries nocharge. The electron is the atomic particle that has a negativecharge.
A atom that carries a negative charge is?
I'm unsure of whether you worded your question correctly. There exists electrons, which are PARTICLES with a negative charge. Also, there are IONS, which are atoms of an element that have either lost or gained an electron, altering their neutral charge. A negatively charged ion is called an anion.
What is the main component of bacterial cell walls?
What is the primary function of the bacterial cell wall?
To ensure that too much water does not enter the bacteria and cause it to burst from water pressure on the structure.
The neutron carries a positive electric charge while the what carries a negative charge?
A neutron carries no electric charge, a proton carries a positive charge and an electron carries a negative charge.
Do bacterial cells have cell walls or cell memebranes?
Bacterial cell Acidic dyes carry what charge?
They carry negative charge and are repelled by negatively charged cell structures. Basic dyes are opposite (carry positive charge) and are attracted to negatively charged cell structures.
Which metal carry maximum negative charge?
Lead has an atomic number of 82, followed by Bismuth and then polonium, which is listed as a "Metalloid" or semi-metal . These have the highest number of electrons.
What is the function of the cell walls in bacterial cells?
The cell wall protects the inside of a cell and it also gives it its shape.
Where are capsules in relation to the bacterial cell wall?
Some bacteria after the cell wall have and additional outer covering known as capsule which help them in invading the immune system of host to infect them.
What is the composition of the bacterial cell wall?
cell wall of eubacteria(true bacteria) contains peptidoglyconand murien and sugar molecules,teichoic acid,lipoproteins andlipopolysaccharides,which are linked to peptidoglycon. . cell wall of archaeobacteria(ancient bacteria) containsproteins,glycogen and polysaccharides.
What is the outer cell wall of a bacterial cell made of?
the cell wall of gram+ve bacteria contains a large amount of peptiglycan and teichoic acids. the cell wall of gram-ve bacteria contains small amount of peptidoglycan.the outer layer of cell wall contains toxic lipopolysachharide.
Is there any similarity between bacterial cell wall and plant cell wall?
Why electrons carry the negative charge and cirles the nucleus?
Does bacterial cells have an outer cell wall made up of polysaccharides and proteins?
Not all do. But some can form it if they find the protien inside the foods you eat.
What carries the negative charge on ferrocyanide?
The Cyanide ions CN - carry the negative charge. They complex Iron II and set up an octahedral crystal field. The resulting complex ion is overall negatively charged.
Do alpha particles carry a negative charge?
If I remember Rutherford's gold foil experiment correctly alpha particles are positively charged because the nucleus, also positively charged, repels alpha particles.
Why does an negativity charged balloon stick to a wall?
Negative charge attracts positive wall charge and creates electrical force to stick the balloon to the wall.
Do Xylem and Phloem and bacterial all have a cell wall?
No bacterium don't usually have cell walls because they're usually not needed... instead they have cilia and flagella.
How are the cell walls in plant cell and bacterial cells different?
Bacterial cell wall is made up of peptidoglycan.Plant cell wall is made up of carbohydrates like cellulose,hemi cellulose etc..
How is the genetic material in a bacterial cell carried?
Bacterial genetic information is carried in 'loop' DNA or RNA. Regular DNA or RNA is in strands, but in bacteria, all of the DNA or RNA is connected to itself in one big loop.
Are bacterial cell walls different from one another?
Yes, there are gram + and gram -. They differ in thickness and the kinds of sugars they have in the cell wall, which react differently to dyes.
Does the quark subatomic particle always carry a negative charge?
All quarks are charged (electrically; they also carry a "color charge"). Some of them have a negative charge and some of them have a positive charge. So I guess the answer is "no."
This part of an atom carries a negative charge-?
This is made up of protons and neutrons, this part of the atomcontains nearly all the mass. This small particle of an atom thatcarries a negative charge.
Which atom carries negative charge?
Any atom that has more electrons than protons carries a positivecharge. These atoms are known as negatively charged ions.
What are the main components of plant and bacterial cell wall?
Bacterial cell walls are different from the cell walls of plants and fungi which are made of cellulose andchitin, respectively. The cell wall of bacteria is also distinct from that of Archaea, which do not contain peptidoglycan.
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https://www.answers.com/Q/Why_do_bacterial_cell_walls_carry_a_negative_charge
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Some news about settlement agreements, plenty of questions remain.
The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has released a press briefing on its proposals regarding settlement agreements.
Other than highlighting that what the government appears to be considering - in very general terms - is a re-branding of the already widely used and - in our view well liked - compromise agreement, the release sheds little light on the question of whether the government will introduce the concept of "protected conversations" whereby employers can talk to employees frankly without fear that the contents of these conversations can be used as evidence against them by employees or ex-employees in subsequent Employment Tribunal claims.
What's to be protected and implications?
If the proposal is that employer "protection" is limited to the making of a settlement agreement offer itself, this would change the law slightly. The current position is that where an employer offers an employee a compromise agreement before any dispute has arisen between them, the employee can use this fact as evidence in any subsequent Tribunal claim. How useful that evidence actually is often depends on the context of the compromise agreement offer: in the 2004 Employment Appeal Tribunal case of BHP Paribas -v- Mezzotero, the company offered Ms Mezzotero a compromise agreement instead of hearing her grievance about her treatment after her return from maternity leave and in doing so the EAT held that the company were in effect saying "we've already made up our mind that you are leaving the company" entitling her to resign and claim constructive dismissal. However, as regards the situation where employers offer a compromise agreement after a dispute has arisen (such as allegations against the employee (which are communicated to them) of poor performance or misconduct which could lead to that employee's dismissal), the offer of the compromise agreement and any subsequent discussions forming a genuine attempt to settle a dispute are already protected, subject to certain exceptions for example where the employer's supposed "without prejudice"/"off the record" comments are unambiguously improper or are an attempt to blackmail the employee - in which case they are admissible at Tribunal, so such a proposal now would not move the law on here.
If the proposal is to extend protection beyond the fact and terms of an offer of settlement to include an initial conversation(s) prior to the offer of a settlement agreement this could potentially cause more problems than it attempts to solve. It could for example - unless the legislation was carefully drafted - risk undoing the current law (developed by case law) which, as mentioned above, enables an employee to use an employer's unambiguously improper conduct towards them during supposed "without prejudice" talks as justification for removing the legal privilege otherwise associated with "without prejudice" correspondence. This could allow unscrupulous employers to use a protected conversation as an opportunity to issue "sign this or you're sacked" ultimatums to employees without repercussion.
Settlement of unfair dismissal claims only?
We still don't know the intended scope of the settlement agreement waiver. If it is intended that settlement agreements will only settle unfair dismissal claims rather than all employment related claims including for example discrimination claims under the Equality Act 2010, there's the obvious concern from employers that this type of settlement agreement will - by and large - be pointless since employers want settlement agreement to give them a "clean break" with the employee/ex-employee not to be partial settlements.
Requirement to take independent legal advice?
We also don't know whether there will be a requirement (as there is with compromise agreements) that the employee must seek independent legal advice before signing his or her employment rights away. It would seem very unfair on employees if they were not required to take independent legal advice before signing their rights away particularly if a) the wider protected conversation idea was introduced and b) the model settlement agreement mirrored compromise agreements in facilitating a waiver by the employee of all its anticipated employment related claims, not just unfair dismissal.
Later in the summer we are to expect the publication of government consultation documentation on the principles of guidance for using settlement agreements, including draft letters and model templates for employers and employees to use so we'll report back once this is published. Hopefully we'll get answers to some of the questions above.
If you would like to discuss any of the above issues Neil Andrews can be contacted on 01202 338822 and he will be happy to discuss any questions you may have.
| 2019-04-26T06:40:18 |
https://www.coles-miller.co.uk/news/some-news-about-settlement-agreements-plenty-of-questions-remain.html
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Read problems statements in Mandarin Chinese,Russian and Vietnamese as well.
The snakes want to build a temple for Lord Cobra. There are multiple strips of land that they are looking at, but not all of them are suitable. They need the strip of land to resemble a coiled Cobra. You need to find out which strips do so.
There should be an unique 'centre' part. This is where the actual temple will be built. By centre, we mean that there should be an equal number of parts to the left of this part, and to the right of this part.
The heights keep increasing by exactly 1, as you move from the leftmost part, to the centre part.
The heights should keep decreasing by exactly 1, as you move from the centre part to the rightmost part. Note that this means that HiNi should also be 1.
Your job is to look at every strip and find if it's valid or not.
The first line of the i-th strip's description will contain a single integer: Ni, which is the length and number of parts into which it has been divided.
The next line contains Ni integers: Hi1, Hi2, .., HiNi. These represent the heights of the various parts in the i-th strip.
For each strip, in a new line, output "yes" if is a valid strip, and "no", if it isn't.
In the first strip, all the conditions are satisfied, hence it is valid.
In the second strip, it does not start with a 1, and hence is invalid.
In the third strip, it keeps increasing even past the centre, instead of decreasing. Hence invalid.
The fourth strip does not increase and decrease by exactly 1. Hence invalid.
The fifth satisfies all conditions and hence is valid.
The sixth and seventh strip do not have a 'centre' part. Because for every part, there are either more parts to its right than its left, or more parts on its left than its right. Hence both the strips are invalid.
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https://www.codechef.com/problems/TEMPLELA
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What Ibn-Kathir (RA), a renowned Islamic scholar, has reported in this context, in a nutshell, is that Allah (SWT) has set this as a parable for the disbelievers who seek gods other than Allah (SWT) for support, food and assistance in hardships. The spider's web here, with its fragility and frailty, shows that holding on to such gods who possess no kind of power whatsoever is just like holding on to a spider's web that is of no use. Had they known this, they would not have taken protectors other than Allah (SWT). On the other hand, Muslims, who strongly believe in Allah (SWT), and abide by his rules, have succeeded in grasping the most trustworthy handhold that shall never break due to its strength and firmness.
The spider is of kingdom Animalia. It belongs to class Arachnida, and phylum Arthoropoda. Arachnida comprises order Araneae along with other orders that include scorpions, ticks, and mites.
The spider's body is divided into two segments. The head and thorax are combined into one body segment, and the abdomen constitutes the second body segment. The front segment holds four pairs of legs, one pair of short, leg-like appendages called pedipalps, and one pair of pliers-shaped fangs called chelicerae (biting mouthparts), where the glands are. A slim waist separates the front segment of the body from its rear part.
The spider has as many as eight simple eyes, and sometimes less. It is a predator that feeds on insects and other arthropods. It has a thick cuticle or hard shell, covered with hair. The spider grows by shedding its cuticle from seven to eight times before its full maturation. Nowadays, zoologists can identify up to forty thousand species of spiders varying in length (going from less than one mm to 10 cms), shape, and color. Most of them can be classified as terrestrial animals, and they are usually alone except during mating and egg hatching. Spiders are widespread in habitats that range from those at sea level to those 5000 m above sea level.
Spiders are widespread in habitats that range from those at sea level to those 5000 m above sea level.
Normally a spider has three pairs of spinnerets (may range from 1-4 pairs), which are outgrowing mobile appendages below the abdomen. They have minute spigots through which the spider secretes the fluid that is used in producing the threads that make up the web. This fluid substance, secreted by a number of special glands through ducts opening to the outside through the spigots at the back of the abdomen, becomes solid when drawn out of the spider and subjected to the air. This drying process results in forming threads of different kinds, lengths, and strengths, each according to the type of gland that secreted it.
The spider might stay in its home, doing all its mundane activities, or seek a nest or burrow other than its home and link it to its web by a thread known as the catching or signal thread. The spider takes refuge in this hiding place when in danger.
In Lisan El-Arab lexicon (The Arab’s Tongue), and under the entry of 'ankab (the root form of the Arabic word for spider), the derivative form 'ankabût (spider) refers to a small living creature that weaves delicate loose threads in the air and on top of wells. It mentions as well that 'ankabût has probably been mentioned in poetry. The spider's house is referred to as al-'akdaba.
Al-Feraa said that al-'ankabût is feminine, whereas some Arabs use the word to denote the masculine form as well. The plural forms of the word are: al-'ankabûtat, al-'anakeb, and al-‘anakeeb. The diminutive form of the word is 'onaykeb. In the Yemeni dialect, the spider is referred to as 'ankabah. It can also be referred to as 'ankaba'a and 'ankabûh. Moreover, Sibaway has referred to the spider as 'ankaba'a, thus implying that the last letter ta'a in the Arabic word 'ankabût is additional. Therefore, it cannot be determined whether the word is used as singular or plural.
Ibn-al-I'rabi says that al-'ankab is used for the male spider and al-'ankaba for the female spider. It is also said that al-'ankab is the genus of al-'ankabût, and that al-'ankabût could be used as either masculine or feminine. Al-Mabrad says that al-'ankabût is a feminine term that could be used as a masculine one. Accordingly, it is predominant that the word al-'ankabût refers to the singular feminine form of the word spider, and the plural is 'anakeb.
According to the above, naming the surah by the singular form of the word, al-'Ankabût, highlights the individualistic life the spider leads, except during mating and the hatching of eggs. This stands in contrast with each of Surat Al-Nahl (The Bees) and Surat Al-Naml (The Ants), where both refer to the plural form of the name of the creature; highlighting the communal life such insects lead.
Spiders are usually alone except during mating and egg hatching.
This Qura'nic ayah clearly shows that the female spider is primarily the one that weaves the web. Accordingly, weaving the web is a mission undertaken by female spiders. Although the male spider might occasionally take part in the construction, the restoration or expansion of the web, the mission itself is carried out mainly by the female spider. This uncovers the scientific miracle in the words of Allah (SWT), "…takes a house", where the word “takes” that is used in the Arabic text refers mainly to the female and not the male.
1. From the physical point of view, a spider's web is the weakest of all houses. It is composed of a group of intricate fine silk threads, mostly with large gaps in-between. Therefore, the threads cannot protect spiders from heat or extreme cold, nor can they provide a reliable shelter, or offer protection from heavy rain, strong winds or even the perils of attackers. In spite of all this, the way in which the spider web is built is miraculous. The web’s silk threads are very minute, with an average thickness of about one millionth of an inch, or one over 4000 of the thickness of a normal human hair. Despite their extreme delicacy, the silk threads are five times stronger than their steel equivalent, and are characterized by stronger tension resistance, whether such resistance is attributed to the unit of size or to the weight of the examined silks. Moreover, recent studies proved that the silk woven by the Nephila spider, of the Orb weaver group, is three times stronger than its equivalent produced from the substance known as Kevlar, a petroleum-based substance used in making bullet-proof vests. Therefore, the spider's silk is one of the strongest substances available on earth, as it can withstand a tension force up to 42000 kg/cm2 which gives it strong stretching abilities. Spider silk has a tensile strength of roughly 1.3 GPA. This feature enables it to trap prey insects without being ruptured, especially that spiders construct their webs of braids, and each of those is itself composed of a number of strongly braided threads. Hence, this explains why Allah (SWT) said in his noble book "… the frailest (weakest) of houses" instead of "the flimsiest threads". The spider's home remains to be the weakest and frailest of all homes despite its strong threads.
2. From the spiritual point of view, a spider's house is the most fragile of all houses. It is deprived of notions of love and mercy; the basis for any happy family. In some species, the female spider kills the male immediately after the fertilization process. The female devours the male’s body, since the former is larger and fiercer than the latter. In some cases, the female mercilessly eats its offspring. In other cases, the female dies after the complete fertilization of the eggs that it usually carries in a silk sac. When the eggs hatch, the spiderlings come out to find themselves in an extremely crowded place. The siblings then start fighting over food and/or space, until the battle ends with the survival of only a few spiderlings. Those then shed their skin, break the wall of the egg sac and leave one after another, carrying along unpleasant memories. When the mother dies, the spiderlings feed on her body. Afterwards, the spiderlings spread out in the surrounding environment. Every surviving female starts building its web. Those who survive go through the same tragic experience all over again, which makes the spider's house the most brutal. Allah (SWT) has set the spider’s house as an example of fragility and frailty because of the lack of strong family ties and lack of notions of mercy among members of the family.
Such facts were unknown to any human being during the time of the revelation, nor were they known for long centuries to follow. They were discovered after intensive studies in the field of spider behavior had been carried out by hundreds of scientists over many decades. The whole thing crystallized only in the last few decades of the twentieth century. Therefore, Allah (SWT) has concluded the subject ayah by, "…if they knew".
"… but verily, the frailest (weakest) of houses is the spider’s house - if they knew."
Hence, the ayah revealed to Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) over 1400 years ago, describing the spider's house as the flimsiest of houses, at a time when the majority were illiterate, is regarded as an unprecedented scientific exploration. No one but Allah (SWT) can provide such information. Allah (SWT) safeguarded the Qur'an in the language in which it was revealed, i.e. the Arabic language, for over 14 centuries. He will continue to do so until he re-inherits the earth and all those on it, so that Qur’an would remain as proof to all people until the Day of Judgment. Hence, all that is entailed in Qur’an proves that it is but Allah’s words (SWT), and remains as testimony of Muhammad’s prophethood (SAWS). Muhammad (SAWS), the seal of all prophets, received Qur’an, delivered the message, fulfilled the task he was entrusted with, guided the nation and struggled in the cause of Allah (SWT) until his final days.
Let us ask Allah (SWT) to reward Muhammad (SAWS) the best of what he rewarded His Prophets and Messengers for fulfilling their messages. O Allah! Grant Muhammad (SAWS) excellence and raise him to the lauded status You promised him. All praise be to Allah Alone, and may His Peace and Blessings be upon His Messenger and slave, our Prophet Muhammad (SAWS), his family and his companions.
| 2019-04-25T02:11:06 |
https://www.quranandscience.com/quran-science/animals/168-the-spiders-web
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Patent prosecution strategy has shifted in the last few years, but I think a prudent strategy may be to write a very good specification, claim broadly, and use divisional applications as an insurance policy.
In the Old Days, (prior to Festo), there was a general strategy of claiming very broadly in the first iteration of a patent application. The examiner would whittle away at the claims and the applicant would argue back and forth until a compromise was reached.
Festo stood for the general proposition that if the applicant gave away anything during the prosecution by amending the claims, the claims would be limited to only the embodiments described in the specification. The Doctrine of Equivalents for claim interpretation was (allegedly) dead. Immediately after Festo, there seemed to be a lot of hand wringing and doomsday scenarios floating around. Several different and rather outrageous strategies emerged, including filing zillions of claims at the start of prosecution with every conceivable combination of limitations so that claims could be cancelled or withdrawn, but never have to be amended.
Post-Festo, the overall strategy was to go to the Patent Office with a rather narrow set of claims and attempt to work your way broader. If you could get a narrow claim set allowed, you could file a continuation application and go with a much broader claim set.
The Patent Office has begun to put the brakes on this strategy. First off, they hiked the fees for extra dependent claims from $9 per claim in 2000 to $25 per claim for small entity, and from $18 to $50 for large entities. Extra independent claims used to be $38 and now are $100 for small entities and from $79 to $200 for large.
The second thing is that the Patent Office is proposing to crack down on the number of continuation applications. While these rule changes have not gone into effect, the change in prosecution strategy is quite drastic. No longer can an applicant go for narrow claims in hopes of avoiding Festo and then try to broaden the claims in continuations. From what I have seen of the proposed rule changes, a small number of RCE or continuations would be permitted, but any more would require a petition. I believe that the rule changes would permit unlimited number of divisional applications, however.
Given the current state of affairs, what is the preferred strategy? It seems prudent to me to go back to a broader claiming strategy, where you claim as much as you would like to get. Further, it makes a lot of sense to try to claim as many different inventions as possible in the original application, with hopes of getting restricted and filing a divisional application at a later date. The divisional applications may be very useful in the future if you run out of RCE or continuation applications.
To deal with the Festo issue, it also seems prudent to me to write as many embodiments and variations as possible in the specification. This is prudent regardless of Festo, but a well written specification with every conceivable embodiment should give the same coverage whether or not the Doctrine of Equivalents is applied.
One of the challenges with patent prosecution is that the application filed today may not be taken up for examination for another five years. The rules and court cases that guide our strategies today will have certainly changed, but it is critical to our clients that we use the best strategies given what we know at this time.
| 2019-04-20T13:06:33 |
https://krajec.com/claiming-strategy-broad-or-narrow-strategies-come-full-circle/
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Q: A1 shoots and B1 knocks the ball out of bounds at the exact time as shot clock sounds. Who would gain possession of the ball?
29/50-6 Example: A1 releases a shot for a field goal. While the ball is in the air the shot clock signal sounds. The ball misses the ring and is then touched by B1 causing the ball to go out-of-bounds.
Interpretation: Shot clock violation. Team B did not gain clear control of the ball.
| 2019-04-23T10:05:33 |
https://www.maboref.com/2019/01/possession-of-ball-after-blocked-shot.html
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I've worked I those places that treat the raw water into potable water. Don't trust city water.
One of the many reasons why not to trust it is a process just after the initial filtering where they put a white powder into the water. This powder instantly turns into a snot-like substance. They use it for "fine particulate filtering" where the snot captures the finer dust and debris then settles to the bottom to be disposed of. Nothing quite filters out all of this stuff afterwards and a good amount of the powder and it's preservatives simply dissolve and are pumped into the potable water network.
They say this stuff is edible, but no-one wants to touch it, and they say to wash your clothes immediately after if you get it on yourself, so take that as you will.
I've worked I those places that treat the raw water into potable water. Don't trust city water. One of the many reasons why not to trust it is a process just after the initial filtering where they put a white powder into the water. This powder instantly turns into a snot-like substance. They use it for "fine particulate filtering" where the snot captures the finer dust and debris then settles to the bottom to be disposed of. Nothing quite filters out all of this stuff afterwards and a good amount of the powder and it's preservatives simply dissolve and are pumped into the potable water network. They say this stuff is edible, but no-one wants to touch it, and they say to wash your clothes immediately after if you get it on yourself, so take *that* as you will.
You can get take home tests for chlorine. There should be a detectable, yet minimal amount. I don't remember the exact numbers off the top of my head, but it's excruciatingly small.
For everyday drinking water, you should not be able to taste nor smell the chlorine.
For emergency drinking water, you should barely be able to taste/smell it. This lets you know it's purified, but you don't want to be drinking that level of chlorine long term if you can help it.
You can get take home tests for chlorine. There should be a detectable, yet minimal amount. I don't remember the exact numbers off the top of my head, but it's excruciatingly small. For everyday drinking water, you should not be able to taste nor smell the chlorine. For emergency drinking water, you should barely be able to taste/smell it. This lets you know it's purified, but you don't want to be drinking that level of chlorine long term if you can help it.
Enjoy the fluoride and other poisons.
Do you have a graph for India?
it's just a big pool of brown.
And then there's my house. A concrete pipe in the ground and a hose to the house.
Ground water? Do you ever test the quality of it?
The previous owner hit it with a chlorine shock before I closed on the house. It had a minimum hit on coliform. I'm planning on installing a UV treatment.
This will be one of the services to fail after the electrical grid goes down. When the water stops flowing or turns brown we’ll know collapse is eminent.
This is so soothing to watch.
You enjoy watching the plane become lost in a cloud and crash into the mountain?
Actually pretty cool graphic. Had 1 job where they wanted me to go 600 ft up a sewage outfall to repair the concrete. It was full!!! Told my boss to get fucked and walked right off that job. They don't print that much money.
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Peel the peaches (with a thin skinned peeler). Cut them into pieces. 2 Put the fruit in the juicer. Then pass the juice to the fine strainer. 3 Weigh the juice. Put in a saucepan. Weigh exactly the same weight of sugar. 4 Add the lemon juice. Let macerate for about 15 minutes. Put everything to heat over medium heat. 5 From boiling, cook for 7 minutes, stirring constantly. 6 Pour the syrup into a bottle and let cool before putting in the refrigerator. Second method: 1 Peel the peaches (with a thin skinned peeler). Cut them into pieces. 2 Add two tablespoons of sugar and cook in a bain-marie for about 15 minutes with the lemon juice. 3 Mix everything and pass in a fine colander. 4 Weigh the juice. Put in a saucepan. Weigh exactly the same weight of sugar. Add the lemon juice. Let macerate for about 15 minutes. 5 Heat everything over medium heat. After boiling, cook for 7 minutes, stirring constantly. 6 Pour the syrup into a bottle and let cool before putting in the refrigerator.
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Who knows what pressures (implicit or otherwise) have come to bear on Barack Obama, for him to forego the word 'stupid' that he had earlier used to describe the conduct of that police officer as he confronted Skip Gates in his own house?
The debate among the global commentariat on the Cambridge imbroglio has been pretty heated but also quite balanced, with good points made on both sides. That police officers should be treated with respect, regardless of the colour of those they are questioning, and that they should be contacted if a neighbour spots a potential intruder (black or white), are both in the abstract unobjectionable points. That a home-owner becomes intemperate, nay tumultuous, when viewed with the continued suspicion Gates was even after showing his Harvard card in his own home, is only natural. That white people can often subconsciously turn the black male body (even the black male body of a neighbour) into the archetype of criminality (as Brits do with anyone wearing a hood) shows how deeply permeated the stain of race is into the grain of American society. That playing the race card can create a self-fulfilling prophesy is undeniable, but that this negative feedback loop is always intersected by the discursive violence of white folks - talking away the churning experience of black folks who are simply trying to get ahead in a world that is symbolically and existentially stacked against them in the most subtle and unsubtle ways on a daily basis - is also equally undeniable.
More generally, the various discursive responses to social conflict situations come pre-coded by the legacy dynamics of power. Whatever we say by way of reflective response is always after-the-fact and conditioned by the ways in which power reproduces itself through the body and our bodies. In America, race remains the dirty little secret, as class does in the UK. No matter what talk of a post-racial America, or a more meritocratic Britain, the habitus of a contorted social nexus endures. We sit across from each other, divided by the scars and wounds of history.
There is hope. Rather than see Gatesgate as giving the lie to the idea that the post-racial is upon us, Obama's linguistic correction shows that a balanced perspective is still possible. The policeman may have been blinkered by an unconscious racial bias which stopped him from accepting as fact the evidence before him; at the same time as in a parallel universe, the esteemed Harvard scholar might have behaved a little less dramatically.
obama is facing a dilemma - he can chose to say nothing about race thereby ensuring that white america is never made to feel uncomfortable about its racist legacy or he can express indignation about racism as he did in his earlier press conference when the question about Skip Gates was raised and risk incurring the wrath of racist white americans who simply do not want to hear the truth.
unfortunately obama is not the president of a utopian society and therefore he is doomed to fall foul of white america sooner or later - in other words if he appears to be showing too much sympathy for issues that face blacks in america ie racism he will immediately face condemnation from white america. this is what has happened in this instance and i beleive that this is the reason for "Obama's linguistic correction" as you put it.
It appears that Gates has suffered the same fate that Reverend Wright suffered - disassociation and rejection in order to ensure the continued support from white america at the expense of black america.
Obama is in an unwinnable position as far as race is concerned - ironically the Gates saga reflects exactly what reverend wright was referring to when he highlighted america's sordid past. At the time that he made those statements the shameless american media ferociously condemned ,demonised and savaged him for exposing them, now the reverend can be vindicated for pointing out something that is glaringly obvious to any right thinking person.
police brutality towards black men is a common occurence in western countries and despite the fact that in this instance the police officer did not manhandle Professor Gates the point is he treated this man like a common criminal despite the fact this man is a Harvard college professor Something tells me that if this police officer had behaved similarly to a white college professor he would have found himself looking for another job. This demonstrates how the rules change whenever blacks are involved, what i find baffling is the issue of treating police officers with respect - isnt that a joke! can you explain to me why a police officer should be treated with respect after he has arrested you in your own home despite being shown id! the truth of the matter is that the police were called because Professor Gates fitted the racial profile of what many whites believe is a criminal- a male black person -if he were white the police would not have been called simple and short. In america or the UK if you are a black male you are 7 times more likely to be stopped by police and questioned - FACT! so lets not dance around the issue.
the british like to assume the moral high ground by proclaiming that their society is much more liberal but is instead class obsessed. I find this argument not only offensive but an attempt to portray others as ignorant , how can the UK which was responsible for inventing the transatlantic slave trade and the destruction of african civilization not be racist. How can a country which is still responsible for propping up genocidal dictatorships all over africa not be racist. It was out of the aforementioned acts that racism grew to become the monster that it is today in western society.
Look at the UK's track record on race relations in the UK today - look at the number of black men who have died in police custody in the UK, look at the level of racial discrimination with regard to employment, housing, look at the fact that black men make up 24% of the prison population in the UK despite only constituting less than 3 % of the entire population of the UK. if the UK is merely class obsessed how come the odious bigot by the name of Nick Griffin of the racist BNP was recently appointed an MEP despite the BNP's slogans stating that all non whites will face forced repartriation in the event of the BNP securing a majority in parliament.
To say that the UK is more of a class conscious society rather than racist is the most deluded and pathetic statement ive ever heard.
Was lovely reading this, one your better posts.
I have also been impressed by how balanced the commentaries on the issue have been. From blaming the policeman who arrested a man in his own home, to condemning the racial profiling that necessitated calling the police in the first place... to questioning Professor Gates' own demeanour during a simple questioning exercise. (He was said to have kept repeating "Do you know who I am?" while screaming at the cop. He is Obama's friend, we now know). Could he not have shown the officer an ID, thanked him, and resumed his business of settling into his home? After all if someone else had broken into his home, he would have expected the police to have responded equally fast notwithstanding the colour of his skin.
The issue of race is a very complex one, but like the POTUS said, we don't know how much it played a part in this case. After all, the police officer is a decorated officer who had given mouth-to-mouth to an African-American sometimes ago, and had even taught the subject of racial profiling himself. Would it have been different if it was the black cop that arrested Professor Gates for disorderly behaviour? Would Prof Gates have complained this bitterly, or would the President have had to meddle in what should have been a domestic affair?
Maybe not every legal issue should be seen from black or white peephole.
Great thoughts, Jeremy and Kola. America needs a teaching moment about the race discussion but I'm beginning to fear that this was the wrong occasion upon which to base it. Just last month the police showed up at my house because my alarm went off and requested my ID. All it took was a polite 'thank you' on both sides and that was that. Granted I wasn't being arrested or harassed so I saw no need to demand the cop's ID. If I really needed to know, I could have called the station to find out the officer's ID or simply note his car, badge no. etc. It's the service I expect from my taxes. If my house were being broken into, I sure hope my neighbours will call the cops. I understand that the Prof was tired, irritable etc after a long flight, stuck door, cop showing up and so on - but what was Obama's excuse for the foot-in-mouth poke-nose?? Makes me pity those of us who aren't presido's friends.
well put. ah, the academic in you is coming out.
It always amazes me when you comment on race-relations in a country you know next-to-nothing about, Jez. Oh well, "commentariat," that tortured but quite apt adjective holds here, I guess.
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There is an excellent article in Slate about attempts by Intelligent Design advocates to wrap themselves in the mantle of Galileo, casting him as an outsider ahead of his time who had to suffer the disapproval of the establishment, if not the actual instruments of torture, before being justified by later generations. Of course, the IDers can only claim half the comparison at best. As Steven Jay Gould once said, "A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right." Still, it may be a particularly valuable strategy now that the Vatican is distancing itself from ID, as demonstrated by Fiorenzo Facchini’s article in its official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, scolding ID advocates for "pretending to do science."
"Galileo was not considered reputable when he came out with his theory," said Kathy Cox, Georgia's schools superintendent, while backing creationism in 2004.
In reality, Galileo was a prominent university professor in the 1590s, before he turned 30. It was precisely because of his scientific eminence that the church made an example of him. A full two decades before his trial, Galileo had discovered Jupiter's moons, observed mountains on our own moon, helped prove the heliocentric thesis with his observations of Venus, formulated what we now call the first law of motion, and defined uniform acceleration. He wasn't a rogue scientist to his many admiring colleagues -- only to the inquisition.
But those are mere facts. For creationists, it's the Galileo legend that matters. Now that Rome has also rejected ID, albeit for wholly different reasons, expect more tailored-to-fit comparisons. What would Galileo say about all this? Perhaps what he wrote in the Dialogue: "The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them."
There is no greater hatred in the world than the hatred of ignorance for knowledge.
| 2019-04-22T20:16:34 |
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The quantitative approach will focus on the numerical findings obtained from the survey used in the research process. Significance of the Study This study will be a benefit to people especially mothers and soon to be mothers who have yet to experience the benefits of having midwifery services.
At hospitals that approve their credentials, midwives not only coach during labor--encouraging, massaging, helping with a shower--but also deliver the baby. These will then be supported by quantitative data from the survey questionnaire used, which will be presented in graphic forms.
Ethical approval HRA approval Vs Service evaluation Vs QI Governance processes to consider Working at a strategic level By the end of the workshop we aim to produce 5 Top Tips to launch and sustain research and evidence in an acute environment from amongst the group.
The topic does not have to be broad, it is better to stay specific, and make sure your can collect enough examples. Your midwifery dissertation is not an exception. Before that, we want you to read and consider some basic rules of selecting a topic for a midwifery dissertation.
This process was selected as it will ensure both the safety and convenience of the respondents. As this study will focus on evaluating the service quality of midwives in the United Kingdomusing mother with experiences regarding the use of midwives as the respondents will provide the most significant data for analysis.
What are the reasons for a given position? They take care of the new born and the mother. Assessment Coursework assignments, including essays, poster, research proposal and research dissertation. It is recommended to do some reading and compose a bibliography list before you start writing.
The dissertation topic must touch one of the issues mothers and newborns can face. This was aimed principally at improving patient flow through ED; its primary success however is reliant upon adequate hospital bed capacity and timely patient discharge from hospital DH a.
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In order to practice as a midwife, she must have hospital privileges; she must attend births in both the hospital and home setting in order to become confident and competent in both settings.
Between and there was a steadily upward trend of unplanned patient admissions to hospital Blunt et al,representing a It concentrates on the themes of capitalism, imperialism and the state. Excepting those whose previous nursing experience had already immersed themselves in hospital charting and procedures, most midwives found this overwhelming at first but, with time, were somewhat able to adapt.
The evolution of midwifery from ancient times to modern times. Do you belong to above group of students who are not only shybut are also confused how to make a selection of topic for the midwifery dissertation? Either way, it is necessary to do some reading first and then consult with your supervisor to make sure the topic is appropriate.
This is a healthcare profession, the professionals take care of women during pregnancy, labour, and birth. The development and role of the researching professional is examined.
Data analysis Data gathered from the written surveys and focus groups with informal semi-structured interviews will be organized for analysis. Thus, an interview is necessary. As mentioned in other posts, our website will not write a nursing dissertation for you but we will point you in the direction of existing research.
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Through this reasoning, mothers who do not speak English or has difficluty speaking English will not be included as respondents in the study. You will have the opportunity to study a foreign language, free of charge, during your time at the University as part of the Kingston Language Scheme.
The students must enhance their basicknowledge for the better understanding of the subject. The respondents will be randomly selected only from major cities in the United Kingdom. The necessary skills, knowledge and understanding for professionals to confidently and automously understand new knowledge production at the workplace will be emphasised.
Among these issues is the quality of care and service that the midwives offer to the patients. How do I tailor my communications to stakeholders? However, one must know the important areas for the selection of the topic for dissertation.Published: Mon, 5 Dec Throughout this discussion I will talk about NHS leadership frameworks, give a definition of leadership, discuss styles, and theories such as transactional and transformational models.
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There is no one research approach that will cover and suit such a. Research Methods for Nursing and Healthcare is an essential introductory text for all nursing and healthcare students coming to research methods for the first time or those nurses and healthcare staff wishing to improve their skills in this area.
The book includes comprehensive coverage of the main research methods topics, and provides guidance on how to understand and apply research techniques. Tell in your midwifery dissertation about the peculiarities of home birthing, the role of a midwife, possible risks, etc. Male midwives This is a really interesting issue to investigate in the midwifery dissertation, since men are not that frequently involved in this field.
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Bill Thompson, who managed Jefferson Airplane, died of a heart attack in Mill Valley, Calif., yesterday. He was 70 years old.
As jambands.com notes, Thompson began managing the group in 1968 and stuck with them through their subsequent name changes to Jefferson Starship and then just Starship. He also managed the Airplane spin-off group Hot Tuna, as well as the solo careers of Airplane members Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Grace Slick.
Thompson was instrumental in making the Airplane one of the Bay Area's most popular bands during the era. He was around when they played both Woodstock and Altamont, and he was there as the group splintered and transformed from psychedelic folk band to chart-topping pop artists over the years.
He was born Oklahoma City in 1944 and moved to San Francisco for college. His roommate was Marty Balin, who sang with Jefferson Airplane. Thompson served as the band's press agent at first. After the band went through two other managers (including rock legend Bill Graham), he was asked to take the job. He stuck around through all of the chaos and the hit records.
Thompson also managed other artists throughout his long career (including Neal Schon), but it was Jefferson Airplane and their long, extended family that kept him most busy. He was also a consultant for Polygram Records and booked concerts well into the '90s.
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Find a paragraph from some published fiction work of a minimum of 100 words and copy it. Then rewrite it by changing nouns, verbs, etc. Rearrange the sentences to make it more interesting. If you ever suffer from writer’s block, this is a method to ‘unblock’ you.
Take a piece of your own writing. Choose something you are not happy with. Now change the name of your main characters. Change many verbs to make them more powerful. Cut out the adverbs. What does this do the piece? Keep on making small changes. If you have passive sentences, make them active. Rework the order of your paragraphs. Play with the piece and see what each set of changes does to the overall work.
She went on to write nine more novels, (three of which were filmed for TV) and was regularly in the bestseller lists.
Wesley is a hope to all of us – it’s never too late to become a successful author.
Taste is not often evoked in fiction, but, like smell, taste is one of the most powerful senses. A windy beach scene would be more vivid if readers could taste the salt spray, for example. Try to describe it.
And what words would you use to describe the taste of the food in this photo.
‘I knelt to touch his cheek. It was cold, waxy. I jumped back. I’d just touched a dead body.
In the second passage readers are invited to imagine what it would be like to touch a dead man’s face. They are brought into the scene, closer to the action, and encouraged to respond along with the narrator; the sensual detail evokes a more imaginable, and therefore vivid, picture. But note, too, the clipped, abrupt style: it emphasizes the shock of the narrator and helps characterize him/her.
The reader is being asked to hear a specific and recognizable sound in this sentence. [ It’s also a sound that tells us a small detail about the girl. What would a banker/an unhappy woman/a grieving father, hear?
Another important writers’ tip is also operating here: it’s better to be specific than general. The writer might have written ‘with a sharp sound’, but there are many kinds of sharp sounds; the ‘tearing of a cotton sheet’ is a much more precise description. Of course, there are many more. Think of some, but remember the sound must be relevant to the character’s life and personality.
More sensory detail to follow.
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The Price of Unity: Was the Deutsche Mark Sacrificed for Reunification?
The Price of Unity Was the Deutsche Mark Sacrificed for Reunification?
As the German people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall, the governments in Bonn and Paris were secretly haggling over European monetary union. According to internal government documents, the negotiations almost collapsed. Was West Germany's beloved currency, the deutsche mark, sacrificed at the altar of reunification to win France's support?
The architect of Germany's reunification is furious. Current Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, the interior minister under the then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, has deep furrows on his brow as he fires off a series of expressions of his immense dissatisfaction. They are harsh words, but ones the chief negotiator of his country's reunification treaty does not want to see in print.
Schäuble holds a thick book in his hand. On its cover, Schäuble's predecessor as finance minister -- Peer Steinbrück of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) -- looks resolutely into the distance. Not that Schäuble, a member of the governing center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has anything personally against Steinbrück. Schäuble recently listened to a speech Steinbrück gave about democracy and the media. Nor does Schäuble disagree much with Steinbrück's theories on the financial crisis.
What Schäuble is annoyed about is an unassuming sentence in the second chapter of Steinbrück's book, hidden in a long treatise about the "lame duck" that is Europe. "Abandoning the deutsche mark for the (equally) stable euro was one of the concessions that helped pave the way to German reunification," Steinbrück wrote.
There aren't very many political statements that can rile the long-serving Schäuble. But claiming German unity was achieved by way of a swap against the deutsche mark is clearly one of them. "No such trade-off ever occurred," Schäuble insists. The question of European monetary union had played "at best a minor role" in the decision-making on German reunification.
Steinbrück, however, is convinced he is right. He says that for anyone who meets with French government representatives, this theory will be backed up dozens of times.
Twenty years have passed since the collective euphoria of 1990, when the two halves of the divided Germany were brought back together again. For 20 years now, Germans have explored every aspect of what it was that led to the miracle of reunification: The bravery of the East German civil rights movement, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the determination of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
However, for most Germans the very notion that the relinquishment of their beloved deutsche mark may have had an influence on the reunification of the communist East with the capitalist West is a remote one -- not least because of the timeframe. The first euro notes and coins first came into circulation in early 2002, more than a decade after Germany's reunification.
Nevertheless, the politicians of the time have for years been locked in a bitter dispute over the question of whether or not the two most important political and economic mergers of the last two decades were indeed linked. And it is no coincidence that the front line in the debate often runs along the Franco-German border.
Hubert Védrine, who served as an adviser to then-French President Francois Mitterrand, for example, is convinced that his boss would not have consented to any expansion of Germany without German concessions on monetary union. "Mitterrand did not want reunification without advances toward greater European integration," Védrine says. "And the currency was the only topic that was open to debate."
Védrine's German counterpart, Joachim Bitterlich, who was the liaison with Paris at Kohl's Chancellery in Bonn at the time, denies any suggestion that the two countries' heads of state struck a deal. "European monetary union would have taken place even without German reunification," Bitterlich says.
At issue is more than just a dispute between politicians and ministerial officials. It is about how history will judge the central governmental projects of the last few decades. After all, if the French are right, it would do more than cast a shadow over Germany's day of national celebration.
It would also damage the euro, which had been taking a beating in Germany even before the European Union was forced to bail out Greece and other ailing euro-zone countries. Critics like former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder have always suggested that the single European currency was a "sickly premature baby." Now they can even claim that Germany was basically forced into accepting the euro.
Historians like the British euro chronicler David Marsh have long known that important decisions on reunification and monetary union were interwoven in those fateful fall days of 1989.
Previously classified documents from the archive of the German Foreign Ministry, which SPIEGEL has obtained, now show that the connection was far closer than previously known. The papers reveal that a broad Western European alliance threatened to oppose reunification, and that the long-standing Franco-German relationship was at breaking point. At the time, Mitterrand bluntly warned the German government that it could find itself as isolated in Europe "as in 1913," in other words, the period leading up to the World War I, when imperial Germany found itself up against an alliance between England, France and Russia.
The documents also show that history might have taken a very different course had Bonn and Paris not settled their differences in those dramatic days with regard both to the international negotiations about German reunification and those relating to monetary union.
After all, up until the precipitous events of late 1989, the debate over a single European currency had progressed at the usual tempo for any undertaking of what was then the European Economic Community (EEC); that is, slowly and ploddingly, as matters had so often been since the end of World War II. European statesman had repeatedly tried to promote the idea of a common currency ever since the days of Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle, West Germany's first chancellor and France's first postwar president respectively. Never had these ideas got off the ground. Time and again such attempts faltered because of the clash of interests between the high-inflation southern member states -- Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy -- on the one hand, and the so-called hard-currency belt centered on Germany and the Netherlands on the other.
Part 1: Was the Deutsche Mark Sacrificed for Reunification?
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There were sparks at the weigh in and the war of words between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin has given their second fight a far different feel to the first.
What happened the first time they met?
Coming just weeks after Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor in Las Vegas, Canelo-Golovkin I was seen by many as the bout for true fight fans.
The two middleweights would, it was hoped, produce a battle of power and skill to resurrect boxing's reputation. And over 12 gruelling rounds, they produced a gripping battle.
But once again, the sport shot itself in the foot just moments after the final bell.
Though many felt Golovkin had edged the fight, the three judges conspired to make it a draw, prompting boos from the crowd inside the T-Mobile Arena and groans from fans worldwide.
For the second time in 12 months, Canelo and Golovkin battle for more than world titles. At stake is the Kazakh KO king's WBC and WBA belts but, more importantly, so is the title of middleweight supremacy.
In an era of multiple champions and promotional fragmentation, watching the best two fighters in a division face off is a rare treat. A second bite at the cherry is an added bonus.
So why the bad blood?
The build-up to the first meeting was fairly tepid by Las Vegas standards, with both fighters making clear their mutual admiration and respect.
That may explain why the first fight failed to capture mainstream attention in the way Saturday's showdown has. For 12 months on, that respect has been replaced by trash talking, mistrust and bad-blood.
Golovkin, along with many observers, felt he was robbed of victory in last September by a rogue card by judge Adelaide Byrd. The controversial draw thrust Canelo into the role of villain, one that he has played with aplomb.
But the tension between the two camps was ratched up another notch in February when the rematch (originally scheduled for May 5) was shelved following Canelo's two failed drugs tests.
The Mexican insists the clenbuterol in his system was the result of eating contaminated beef but many, Golovkin included, are not convinced.
For two fighters whose combined grasp of the English language is limited, Canelo and Golovkin have produced an admirable number of sound bites in the weeks leading up to fight night.
Golovkin and his team, in particular, have been relentless in their verbal assaults on Canelo. The Kazakh labelled his opponent a 'cheat' and even claimed he could see track marks before their first encounter.
Canelo, the biggest name in the sport and usually the crowd favourite come fight night, has seen his reputation shattered by the failed drugs tests.
But he has been happy to stand his ground, notably accusing his opponent of having 'no balls'.
Predictably Golovkin took the bait, offering to strip for reporters after being quizzed on the Mexican's comments.
Golovkin is the slight bookies' favourite but experts and pundits are split.
Triple G is into the autumn of his career and, at 36-years-old, has been accused of showing his age in recent fights. But against both Danny Jacobs and Canelo he has still had enough, in the eyes of most observers, to maintain his perfect record.
But 12 months on, will he have slowed down enough to allow Canelo to take over. Will his usual relentless attacks to head and body to have lost some punch?
Canelo, who finished strongly last time out after showing his brilliant boxing skills in flashes, looks considerably leaner.
Whether that extra fleet-of-foot will allow him to outbox Golovkin or make him vulnerable to the smaller, heavier man, remains to be seen. But, even at only 28, the Mexican is not without his own fitness concerns.
The rescheduling has allowed Canelo to have surgery on a knee problem. But will he be able to box 12 gruelling rounds at 100 per cent?
| 2019-04-24T04:45:20 |
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This is what I have done so far: Install MySQL connector. sp_addlinkedsrvlogin [ @rmtsrvname= ] 'rmtsrvname' [ , [ @useself= ] 'TRUE' | 'FALSE' | 'NULL'] [ , [ @locallogin= ] 'locallogin' ] [ , [ @rmtuser= ] 'rmtuser' ] [ , So I went ahead and created linked server. I am not able to insert more than 38 tables as such columns are created but data shows null only.
Why won't a series converge if the limit of the sequence is 0? But if I use any Stored Procedure which is connected with my SSAS via LinkedServer then I am facing an error… TinyTds::Error: Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB please help me for this problem sravanthi v says: September 23, 2016 at 12:26 am Hi, Thanks for the very good article. UV lamp to disinfect raw sushi fish slices Is it possible for NPC trainers to have a shiny Pokémon?
What changes are needed to work with SQL Authentication? In providers I have enabled:"Nested queries","Allow inpocess", Level zero only". Do you want to keep the linked server? --------------------The OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "SQL16NODEB\SQL2014" reported an error. Additional information: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "datasourcename".
Bcoz it is very big data and just to reduce my effort in ROR, I have designed so many Stored Procedure by which I extract the information from DB. When testing the connection, it works properly, but when running queries, this error message is received:Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1The OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server " Ensure that the "Other data source" option is selected and choose "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" from the Provider dropdown. The remote host has added my IP 97.999.99.1 (NOT REAL ip) to it's list of allowed IP's.
Everything went to plan with one exception. Error Number 7303. But I have used the correct data source name. Set Provider Options The Provider Options for Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers dialog box will open allowing you to configure several options.
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You can see the catalogs and run queries on it but we are getting the below error's. Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 7303) When trying to query the linked server no data returned, only column headers.Make sure you are not using 1.0.7.1 version. How to find positive things in a code review? Too Many Staff Meetings Why doesn't the compiler report a missing semicolon?
In either OS, type in "odbcad32" and hit Enter. CONTINUE READING Suggested Solutions Title # Comments Views Activity How to script out data export 36 46 21h SQL Agent Timeout 5 26 8d I've just downloaded and installed ApexSQL, but The linked server returns this error message: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked There are error messages received when running queries.
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I create a linked server "TESTMYSQL" with Provider Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC drivers, Product Name: MySql and data source "MYSQL" The linked server gets the following error: An exception String data, right truncation, string data, right truncation" Any help would be greatly appreciated as everything I have found so far has not helped. Once there, right-click Linked Servers and select "New Linked Server…" New linked Server Settings The New Linked Server dialog box will open. You cannot delete your own events.
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toni says: October 7, 2016 at 5:09 am please help me . Testing the SQL Server to MySQL connection If everything has been set correctly, you should be able to execute a query directly again the MySQL database from SQL Server Management Studio. It provides steps to help eliminate common causes for your problems by verifying that the configuration of your networking is correct.
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If , for how many real numbers does ?
To determine how many real numbers satisfy is to determine how many solutions the equation has, which in turn is to determine how many solutions the equation has. It is not difficult to see, using the Rational Roots Theorem, that has no factor of the form for any whole or rational number value of , but there are real number values of such that is a factor. This problem must be solved using a non-algebraic method.
One way to determine how many numbers satisfy is to examine the graph of the function . Use a graphing calculator to graph for on a suitably large interval to see all intersections of the graph with the line , and then count the number of points of intersection.
There are at least four such points: A first point with -coordinate between and , a second point with -coordinate between and , a third point with -coordinate between and and a fourth point with -coordinate between and . The fact that is a polynomial of degree means that there can be at most four such points. Therefore, there are four values of for which f ( k ) = 2 .
Alternatively, one can examine a table of values of the function and then identify intervals for which the values of at the endpoints have different signs and apply the Intermediate Value Theorem to each of those intervals. Create a table of values for for whole number values of between and , inclusive, and count the number of intervals of length for which the value of is greater than for one of the endpoints and less than for the other endpoint.
There are four such intervals: , , and . By the Intermediate Value Theorem, for each of these four intervals there is a value in that interval such that . This shows that there are at least four such values of and the fact that is a polynomial of degree means that there can be at most four such values of Therefore, there are four values of for which .
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Change the iCloud settings to choose what content is synced to iCloud.
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I’m using my internally written tool that reports capturing/rendering latency and I’m experiencing strange statistics that I want you Alex to explain.
The test is performed using Direct3D rendering to 75hz monitor.
So, the question is: why up to 50fps latency is just around 2-3frames, while 60 and 75 somehow latency increases to 7-9 frames?
I’m using my internally written tool that reports capturing/rendering latency and I’m experiencing strange statistics that I want you Alex to explain. As you are claiming (and I personally feel that PS3Eye is extremely low latency camera), I think below statistics might interest you and others. However, I want you to explain some strange degradation in latency at high framerates (look below, above 50fps): 640*480 @15fps: Latency: ~130ms or around 2frames 640*480 @30fps: Latency: ~66ms or around 2frames 640*480 @40fps: Latency: ~75ms or around 3frames 640*480 @50fps: Latency: ~60ms or around 3frames <== this is the best 640*480 @60fps: Latency: ~116ms or around 7frames 640*480 @75fps: Latency: ~116ms or around 8-9frames The test is performed using Direct3D rendering to 75hz monitor. So, the question is: why up to 50fps latency is just around 2-3frames, while 60 and 75 somehow latency increases to 7-9 frames?
Are you using SDK or DirectShow? Who are you measuring the capture latency?
I’m talking about DirectShow and using my internal tool.
Basically what it does is sends to display black frame remembers time that frame has been sent, while the camera is facing that display.
After that it starts looking into each frame and finds first frame with that black frame captured and received.
So, the difference in time between receiving black frame and sending black frame is exactly full latency including not just capturing, but full directshow processing and rendering.
I’m just looking into some explanation of that strange behavior that might come to your mind.
DirectShow introduces latency on its own and its not meant for real-time processing. On top of this did you account for the latency of your display (monitor) and latency of your graphics card? You cannot assume that throughout the listed frame rates this rendering/display latency is constant. How did you measure that?
The more realistic test to measure the camera latency would be to light a bar of LEDs (in hardware) and capture them with the camera. This way you eliminate the whole rendering/graphics card/display (unknown) latency. Remember that windows is not a real-time OS, far from that. What was the CPU usage at those high frame-rates? Maybe you started dropping frames.
For any kind of high performance capture and minimal latency you should be using the CL-Eye SDK. As opposed to DirectShow, the data path from the camera to your buffer in the CL-Eye SDK is well known and optimized. Therefore you will get minimal latency using this API.
Alex, I’m pretty experienced with DirectX/Direct3D, so I pretty much know all inefficiencies and etc.
The purpose of latency test using DirectX is exactly to see and help you, as from what I understood that is your main targeted client.
As to, do I need to avoid rendering or not: that is program specific feature, as some program require full latency calculation including rendering. In fact. most program excluding just image processing require rendering and latency is most important for such cases.
So, let me then be more specific: even with your proposed solution with LEDs and without DirectX: did you measure and can you publish some latency figures? What I meen here: assuming the target has changed, is it exactly just 1 frame required to fully reflect change of the target image or is it more?
I understand that theoretically that should be just 1 frame. But practically, there might be some kind of buffering on both sides of USB transport, so maybe there is more then 1 frame in the buffer and therefore target change will reach the host after more then 1 frame.
If there is some buffering, maybe size of the buffer is the function of frame rate and then this would explain why on higher FPS I’m getting higher latency.
The reason why I’m asking for a purpose of your test is that based on your setup you cannot conclude anything with any kind of confidence. Meaning you are measuring the total latency of the capture-display loop. This might be useful for some real-time UI/Game interaction via multitouch for example. But again it doesn’t give you any hard numbers on the performance of each sub-system.
I would rather like to see the isolated latency measurements of both capture and display and then their combined latency. This way we can exactly pinpoint what latency time changes.
The main client for this camera is not DirectShow, it is in fact the API provided by the SDK. The DirectShow is mostly meant for end users who are not so much interested in high performance but the ability to use this great camera with various web chat/video capture programs.
The internal CL-Eye SDK API does not introduce any time/fps varying buffering mechanisms. It will always give you the last frame captured. Due to the nature of the camera design, there is no internal buffer on board and any data captured is transmitted immediately and passed to the user buffer upon complete receipt of the video frame. Exactly because of this the camera might be very unstable under high CPU usage conditions, since any data lost will result in camera image being corrupted/dropped.
From my tests (with CL-Eye SDK) the time it takes for frame data to propagate through the image conversion and lens distortion algorithms is about 2ms (tested on I7 920 CPU, Vista Ultimate x64). So in the worst case you will have the latency of the time to capture the image + 2ms. Now of course, on the slower CPU this time will vary and if the CPU cannot keep up, you will see the increased latency time (something like you shown in your results). Due to the CPU being busy, it will take longer to do other tasks involved (rendering, display, etc) so this timing will not increase linearly with the frame rate but it will be more complex function of fps.
I would be really interested to see the results of the same test using the SDK for capture and your custom DX renderer for the display.
Thanks for answering: so there is no internal buffers whatsoever and in DirectX source capturing too?
As, to measuring separately DirectShow delays: I can give you numbers.
equal to D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_ONE, you will get exactly wait for next vertical sync when calling Present.
Alternatively, D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE will not wait for vertical sync at all.
So, what I’m doing is just calculating time spent in direct show graph between setting black buffer and/or testing next captured buffer and exit from Present with either D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_ONE or D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE.
Theoretically, you might be right and there might be extra hardware delay between Present and actual reflection on monitor, however that’s behavior is not what exactly Direct3D documentation states.
However, even if there is such a delay, I would assume this will still not explain strange behavior I’m talking about: if there is no buffering at all, why then it takes more time to capture with higher FPS?
Could you list the CPU usage along with your test results?
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Got a mildly disturbing email from the NLC - regarding parking lots - So I called the NLC - no information - so I called the ticket office and they said that they're trying to crack down on excessive drinking - but tailgating is fine - but canopies, not so much. But, that's the rule anyway - no canopies in the parking lots (general and preferred) - I guess we'll just have to see how it pans out.
This is the part that I hate - just let me tailgate people - just let me tailgate.
I wonder if Reese Davis is sleepy yet?
So, I come home from work yesterday, and I settle in to watch the DVRed "College Football Live" episode from that afternoon - I notice that the little "record" light is on the machine - I curse a but because I have it programed to record only "new" episodes, and I assume that the machine is recording a re-run of the afternoon show.
So I let the machine continue recording - they'd have to say something about PSU during 25 hours of coverage, right?
So Kirk Herbstreit continued his touting of the PSU squad - he said that the other teams are good, but that PSU is the team to beat. While this makes me incredibly nervous, it also causes me to say things like "I love you" out loud, to the tv. And, I really think that any jinxlike karma that might be floating around in the atmosphere, is seriously negated when Reese "yes I frost my hair" Davis closes the segment by saying "...as michigan, ohio state, wisconsin, and (chuckle), maybe, Penn State, battle for the Big Ten title." Jacknut. Of course my cynical side suggests that Herbie's comments are only a means to "remind" teams to be ready to play PSU. Oh well.
And, the little "intro" that they showed every hour or so featured a lot PSU footage - so I spend about 10 minutes doing the "is that Penn State?" Stop. Rewind. (another one of the indispensable things about the DVR) - Yea! it is! They showed the outside of the stadium (and a rather tame version of Paternoville), the players going through the tunnel, the kickoff, and they ended with a shot of the East stands. I'll get my PSU fix any way I can.
So I can't wait until lunch time so I can dash home and watch some more PSU snubbing. It's football time.
Q: Are you planning on running out of the tunnel with the team?
Combine vodka, blue curacao and sours mix in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Check out the game notes on GoPSUsports.com.
Do you remember your first Penn State football game?
I actually do not remember my first Penn State game(s) - I have vague memories of being at the stadium - and I definitely remember listening to games on the radio, waiting for my dad to come home - hopefully in a good mood.
The first game of which I have a vivid memory is PSU v Stanford. The game was at Beaver Stadium and it was a pretty huge deal for me to be going to the game with my dad. While I don't remember the game so much, I do remember that the Nittany Lion put the Cardinal in a cage. This upset me very much because I couldn't understand why the mascot would allow such humiliation - Dad eventually just told me that it wasn't the real mascot - probably so I'd be quiet.
The first "big" game I remember going to was against Alabama. It was a TV game (big big night) - and the TV people brought in lights - I remember asking Dad if PSU would ever get permanent lights - and he said - no way - it's tradition. It was easily one of the most intense sports experiences of my life - it was a great day.
So, we need a theme for the the ohio state university tailgate. So far we're planning: Mediterranean (fiu); English (nd); Pro Lions (ie, culinary classics hailing from the different towns in which PSUers play pro ball- buffalo); Oktoberfest (iowa); Fiesta (wisky); French (purdon't); and Italian (Temple in Philly).
It's a late game - for which we, generally, try to pick a theme that lends itself to all day fare - breakfast, lunch, dinner and lots of snacks - also, the game is in late October - it could be very cold - or not - and the tailgate crowd will be quite large (50-100+) - so we need a subject that is versatile.
Penn State opens the 2007 College Football season on September 1st, by hosting the golden panthers of florida international. The former Sunblazers (changed to golden panthers in 1987) don uniforms of blue and old gold - I'll tell you now, you just need to retire all of your clothing, jewelry and accessories (check the hinges of your sunglasses please) that feature any gold, tan, or yellowish hue this season - we're playing a lot of _____ and yellow teams this season.
There isn't much to report on the football front regarding the panthers. Sadly, their most notorious moment as a team has nothing to do with football.
However, fiu, will enter Happy Valley with some experience at running back and a few returning seniors on defense.
Mediterranean Sea Food, of course! We'll have some grilled shrimp and complimentary sides (you look really tall today) including (but, certainly not limited to) white bean and rosemary dip, homemade hummus, tapenade, fresh fruit and cake!
Gametime is 12pm - and parking lots open at 7am - we'll be there when they open the gates and, as usual, we're planning on parking in Lot 13 - the parking maps have changed again this year - we expect to park in the section of the lot closer to the stadium - look for the PSU flag (ha ha ha ha)- for more detailed directions, email us for cell phone numbers.
oh my goodness - I can't believe that in one week we'll be all excited and trying to concentrate at work until it's time to hop in the car and drive up to State College! Yea! Football. It's almost Penn State Football Time!
The off-season seemed so long this year - but August has flown (whoosh!) by. We've been busy planning tailgates and preparing yummy yummy food!
One new recipe that was developed this summer will be featured a the first tailgate - homemade guacamole.
I know that there seems to be a glaring omission of onion - but I really don't care for raw onions - although I have made the above recipe and added some minced shallot or green onion.
1. Halve the avocados and. using that often demonstrated method, remove the pit and scoop the flesh into a medium sized bowl; using a fork, cut up the pieces (ie, pre-mash).
2. Add the garlic, lime juice and pepper.
3. Mash all of the ingredients together until you get a chunky paste.
4. Fold in the tomatoes.
I got the questions from RUTS - JB over at There Is No Name on My Jersey wrote the questions this week.
I'm gonna be a rebel like Bryan K and post my responses here!
1. We’ll start with the bad news, what is your take on PSU’s off-season? The team has stated they are focusing on winning a National Title, will these off-field shenanigans get in the way of that lofty goal?
I think that off season tomfoolery (if you will) always affects the team - hopefully the coaches and the players can refocus - of course, we as fans have to remember that these are young adults that really do have lives to live off of the field (NO WAY - not until they’ve used up those years of eligibility!).
2. Competition abounds! Give you take on the battle to start in the secondary. Do you prefer to have a rowdy competition or know who your guys will be?
Competition is good - indecision and uncertainty are bad. It’s time to start the season - let the kids know where they’re going to be so they can be ready.
3. Describe your behavior as a PSU fan. I know some who are hand wringing nervous pacers and others who are drunken revelers before the football gods — where do you fit?
I’d say I’m a nervous reveler. I get really caught up in the game and the excitement of it all. In the stadium, I’m one of those fans who yells on every defensive down - and on every offensive down I yell “throw the ball to Butler - yes, I realize he’s on the sideline - I don’t care!” I can usually be caught doing the same when watching the game on TV - although I am aware that "they can't hear you PSUgirl" (shut up and go home) the football gods can. I like to watch games with PSU fan friends, as long as they understand that I'm not going to be very social or "a good sport" during the game. I do pace, but I have a friend (with whom I regularly watch games) who is a runner - it's awesome.
Well, the players are rarely in the seats, so I don’t really see it as a problem - white background makes it easier to see the blue unis anyway. On a personal level, white is not the most flattering hue for my complexion - I much prefer a rich navy - but a little lip rouge and mascara will generally do the trick.
5. Who would you rather punch in the face: Lee Corso, Mark May, Lou Holtz, or Charlie Weiss?
I’ve only ever punched one person in my life, and that was only after he dared me to do it. And I doubt that it would do any good to hit any of those guys anyway: Lee would take it as a compliment; May would just keep talking; it would probably cause Lou to sthpit even more when he sthpeaks; and, Charlie would probably have you killed, bled out and then roasted on a rotisserie for lunch.
So RUTS authored a post highlighting some of the more odious displays of PSU textiles available. It led me to ponder those items that I have in my PSU wardrobe.
Every year when we went back to school clothes shopping I would get a new Penn State sweatshirt - it was just part of your wardrobe. I have an exceptionally good friend who has worked in and around PSU merchandizing since we were in high school - she has been the source of many a "unique" PSU item. Both my mother and I are addicted to Moyer's Jeweler's PSU jewelry.
"I want my 2 seconds"
"throw the ball to butler"
So, it's not a ton of stuff - I've, historically, attempted to fashion my gameday gear from blue and white non-logo items - but lately I've found more and more PSU t-shirts in my wardrobe.
My favorite item is, probably... my Nittany Lion cameo necklace from Moyer's Jewelers - I've had it for a long time and I love it - the only problem is that it's set in yellow gold - so it can't be worn for many games.
Actually, they'll be here before we know it - it's that time of the off season when the palpitations kick in when you think about traveling up to State College, tailgating and hearing the Blue Band marching into the stadium for the first time (since blue white) this season. You find yourself clicking on the "driving to Penn State" and/or "PSU game day" playlists on your iPod and getting a little giddy about the opening bars of "Hail to the Lion" and jumping around the house to "Song 2".
And then there's the football. It's like there's an ache in your heart that can only be subsided by the sight and sounds of the game. I was panicking Sunday night because I couldn't find the Hall of Fame game (yes, I realize that it's pre-season NFL - but it's football!) - darn NFL network - I got to see the last quarter anyway.
All the anticipation and hope for the season has been bottling up since the win in the Outback Bowl. The Lions have a lot of talent returning to the team this season - and much of that talent has experience. But I have no idea what to expect from this team - the defense should be solid - but the secondary has had to (still has to) endure a lot of "off the field" distractions this off season and with the shifting of positions and some new men up front - it's going to take some time for the team to get in sync. On offense it's the same questions we seem to have every year - will the qb be able to throw the ball; if he is, will the receivers be able to catch it; will the o-line protect the qb and create lanes for the running game; and, will Austin Scott show up for team meetings?
Bit it's getting close. Soon we will be walking around the State College Wegmans chanting (roughly to the tune of Howdy Doody) "It's Penn State Football time!" (and yes, there is a dance).
Unfortunately, last season there, again, seemed to be a sluggishness on the team - a sort of going through the motions - there were some great moments (like Deon breaking the receiving record and the defensive effort against tenn) but I just didn't see the sustained intensity that was so apparent with the '05 team.
There have been many distractions this year - most of them having nothing to do with athletics - and the consequences are yet to be fully realized. We know that the team can rally to the aid of one - here's hoping that they can show as much solidarity and commitment at game time.
PSU is searching for leaders on their team - players who love the game and motivate their teammates off and on the field. These kids know "it" can happen (most were around in '05) but they have to figure out how to make it happen.
Football practice begins today. Less than one month before the season opener - the Nittany Lions are sitting in the national polls in the high teens.
And, for my part, tonight we'll be "test driving" a few grilled fish recipes (in prepartation for the FI game tailgate) - should be fun!
The recipe is simple but the actual charring of the links is critical to achieving the true experience.
Grill the Kielbasa (on charcoal or propane) until charred on all sides. Remove from grill. If grilling at the game, transfer to dish. If not grilling at the game, wrap in aluminum foil and leave in warming oven until leaving for game.
Cut into pieces approximately 1 – 1-½ inches & stick with toothpicks. Serve alongside dipping mustard.
The PSU game is really temple's marquee home game - and the owls are doing what they can to capitalize on the Nov 10th event.
This week there has been a "pre-sale" for single tickets - $40 - $70 a piece. The pre-sale is, technically, for temple people - but hey! I graduated from temple!
While in grad school, I went to an "away" PSU Temple game - i got my tickets through temple - the stadium was packed with Penn Staters - but we were sitting with temple fans - they were very nice - and we weren't jerks - so it all worked out fine.
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With interest rates on the rise, home prices have started cooling off. On the one hand, the cooling of home prices in high-priced metro areas makes a home purchase more affordable, saving households nearly $50/month on a median-priced home. On the other hand, falling prices also erodes the wealth (home equity gains) of current homeowners and can drive homeowners in a negative equity position (when the value of the home is lower than the remaining loan balance). How will declining home prices affect current homeowners and how does the current decline in home prices in some areas compare with the home equity gains?
The table below shows the home equity gains for homeowners who purchased a home in 2012 Q1 as of 2018 Q3. The home equity gained is the difference between the estimated value of the property purchased in 2012 Q1 in 2018 Q3 less the outstanding loan balance as of 2018 Q3. Nationally, over the period 2012 Q1 through 2018 Q3, a homeowner who purchased a median-priced home in 2012 Q1 has gained $96,187 in home equity, which is equivalent to 41 percent of the estimated value of the home in 2018 Q3, at $235,119.
Of the 160 metro areas for which NAR calculates the median sales price, the metro areas where homeowners accumulated the largest home equity gains during 2012 Q1 – 2018 Q3 based on the purchase of a median-priced home in 2012 Q1 were San Jose-Sunnyvale-Sta. Clara ($591,576;56% of the estimated home value of $1.06 million as of 2018 Q3); San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward ($527,610; 57% of the current home value of $920,715); Urban Honolulu, HI ($337,013; 35% of current home value of $990,009); Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale ($374,565;49% of current home value of $768,634); and Boulder, CO ($329,608; 50% of current home value of $657,692).
The metro areas with the lowest home equity gains during 2012 Q1- 2018 Q3 based on the purchase of a median-priced home in 2012 Q1 were Cumberland, MD ($4,847; 6% of current home value of $79,343); Decatur, IL ($10,753; 12% of current home value of $86,302); Fayetteville, NC ($15,431; 11% of current home value of $138,627); Montgomery, AL ($17,641; or 15% of $119,252); and Peoria, IL ($17,679; or 14% of current home value of $128,818).
How do these equity gains compare with the price declines in high-cost metro areas thus far?
We use the median list price in October 2018 on Realtor.com and look at the year-over-year change and compare these changes to the equity gains as a share of the current home values. In October 2018, median list prices declined in several high-priced metro areas compared to one year ago, but these declines are modest compared to the equity gains measured as a percent of the current home value: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Sta. Clara (-0.1%); San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward (0%); Sta. Maria-Sta. Barbara (-7.8%); Salinas ( -6%); Sta. Rosa ( -7.1%); Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura ( -2.1%). Among the 500 metros tracked by Realtor.com, the steepest decline in the median list price in October from one year ago was Denver-Aurora-Lakewood (10%).
In 301 of the 500 metro areas tracked by Realtor.com (60 percent), the median list price of homes for sale on Realtor.com were still up in October 2018 compared to one year ago. List prices rose in areas such as Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue where prices are more affordable than in California ($555,050; 12.1%); Boise City, ID ($330.048; 15%); Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN ($241,450; 15%); Greensboro-High Point, NC ($223,625; 14.5%);Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise ($325,000; 14.5%), and Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA ($216,760; 14%).
In summary, homeowners have built up a sizable equity since 2012 that is larger relative to the price declines that have occurred thus far in several high-priced metro areas. Moreover, home prices are still appreciating in lower-priced metro areas. Given the strong underlying economic fundamentals in 2018— strong employment growth, the demographic boost from the 25-44 age group which includes the millennials, and safer underwriting standards and level of household debt—it does not yet appear likely that home prices will crash to a level that will wipe out this home equity gain. NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun forecasts no recession ahead that could cause a collapse in job growth which will impact the demand for housing.
The earliest indicator of the direction of home prices—NAR’s median home prices— rose 4.3 percent in 2018 Q3, the slowest average rate for the quarter since 2012 Q1. The home price indices of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller, and the U.S. Census Bureau for new 1-family homes also show a slower price appreciation in 2018 Q3 (FHFA, 6.3%; S &P CoreLogic Case-Shiller, 5.7%; U.S. Census Bureau 1-family homes, 2.3%) compared to the pace of appreciation in 2018 Q1.In 500 metro areas tracked by Realtor.com, the median list price of homes for sale declined in 199 metro areas (40 percent), with the largest declines occurring in high-priced metro areas.
At the current 30-year fixed mortgage rate of 4.83 percent with a 10 percent down payment, every $10,000 decline in home prices results in a saving of $47/month.
I estimated home equity by subtracting the loan balance as of 2018 Q3 to the current home value as of 2018 Q3. I estimated the current home value by applying a home price appreciation factor using FHFA House Price Index (FHFA HPI 2018 Q3/ FHFA HIP 2012 Q1). I assumed that a homeowner purchased a median-priced home in 2012 Q1 at the average median price in 2012 Q1 of $158,333 financed by a 30-year fixed rate mortgage of 3.6 percent (2012 Q1 average) and a 10 percent down payment.
| 2019-04-19T06:52:12 |
http://economistsoutlook.blogs.realtor.org/2018/12/04/can-homeowners-cope-with-lower-home-prices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsOutlook+%28Economists%27+Outlook%29
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The Details view in File Explorer displays columns for each folder and file with key information. By default, the columns display the name of the file, the date it was last modified, the file type, and the size. But you can add more columns with further details on specific folders and files. You can also remove columns that you do not need, and you can reorder the columns that appear, sort your folders and files alphabetically by column, and even filter your folders and files by column. This task explains how to work with columns in File Explorer.
1 Launch File Explorer: Open the desktop and launch File Explorer full screen.
2 Open a folder: Open a specific folder with content, such as the Documents folder. Select the Details view from the Ribbon if not already selected.
| 2019-04-25T15:00:15 |
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/windows-8-five/9781118462324/a32.html
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Q: Where can I print in the library?
There are color printer/copiers on the ground floor and first floor. They are marked with a rainbow image on the front right above the paper trays.
There are two Ricoh printers/copiers available for student use. Students and guests can print black/white or/and color using these printers.
If you are not a KSU student, staff, or faculty member, you may purchase a guest print card to use. Guest print cards cost $2.00, and can be purchased at any K-Cash machine on campus. You then need to add additional money to the card to be able to print, using the directions below. Once you have your guest card, follow the directions for printing with a guest card.
Printing and copying at both libraries costs 10 cents a page for black & white and 50 cents a page for color, using money added to your KSU ID card. You can add money at any K-Cash machine on campus, or through the web at K-Cash Manager. K-Cash machines can take bills in any denomination, but they cannot accept change. There is a $10.00 minimum for credit/debit cards at the K-Cash machine or using the K-Cash Manager. K-Cash machines accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express cards.
There are K-Cash machines in both libraries. At Sturgis Library, the K-Cash machine is located in the Information Commons next to the middle computer across from the Research Help Desk. At Johnson Library, the K-Cash machine is located in the Hive.
Once you have money in your K-Cash account, follow the instructions for printing using a library computer or for printing from your laptop.
| 2019-04-23T21:54:48 |
http://libanswers.kennesaw.edu/technology/faq/198108
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The first rule for those who want to increase their reading rate to the maximum possible speed is practice. No one, not even our top instructors, can hope to maintain the highest levels of visual-vertical reading without regular "workouts."
For example, Carol Romaniszak admits that her reading rate falls to 1,000—1,200 words per minute, with 80 percent comprehension, when she's not "in training." On the other hand, when she is in training, she works regularly at speeds of 2,000-3,000 words per minute with high levels of comprehension.
But how do you push your speed limit up to these higher plateaus and keep it there?
The first answer to this question is that you should read and read and read. And as you read it's essential to employ the techniques I've been describing in this book. Granted, they may seem strange at first. But believe me, the more you use them, the faster and more efficiently you'll find you can go through printed materials.
There are also some drills that we've found extremely helpful in first pushing your speeds up to higher plateaus. In general, we classify these in three ways: push-down drills, push-up drills and power drills.
1. Pick a text that you've been assigned in one of your humanities or social studies classes. Place a watch or clock with a second hand nearby so that you can easily glance up from the text and note the time without significantly interrupting your reading pace.
4. Now, shifting to the S hand motion, read the same material in forty seconds. Again, you must reach the paper clip.
5. Using the S motion again, practice the same material in thirty seconds.
6. Next, switching to the question-mark hand motion, practice the same passage in twenty seconds.
7. With the question-mark motion again, practice through the same text in ten seconds.
8. Now, using a hand motion of your choice, begin reading in the text at the spot where you placed the paper clip and see how far you can get in this new material in one minute. Place a paper clip where you stop, and compute how many words you've read in the new material. Chances are, you'll find you're reading at a significantly faster rate than you were when you began the drill.
Here's a variation on this drill which can add a gamelike dimension to study: Do the push-down drill by devoting ten minutes to each step instead of just one. Then, if you really feel ambitious, you might try the exercise in fifteen- or twenty-minute segments. Most likely, you'll find yourself flying through your assignments, with increased comprehension and efficiency.
Push-up drill. The purpose of this exercise is mainly to increase your speed, rather than your comprehension.
Using this technique, you learn, first, what it feels like to move at significantly faster reading rates. Second, you get a sense of the eye and hand motions necessary to enable you to read quickly. Once you've developed these skills and become familiar with the process of faster movement, you can expect higher comprehension levels to follow.
1. Using the underlining hand motion, read for one minute in a school text, and place a paper clip at the spot where you stop reading. Again, be sure to have a watch with a second hand near your field of vision so that you can easily keep track of the time. Count the number of words you've covered in this minute. This figure is the number of words per minute at which you're currently reading.
well into some new material within the one-minute time limit. Advance your paper clip to the spot in the text that reflects the new speed record you've achieved.
3. Switch to the S hand motion, and reread again at an even faster rate, beginning at your original starting point in the text. As in the second step, place your paper clip at the new, more advanced spot in the text where you've stopped.
4. Now count the pages from the place where you started reading, to the spot where you last placed your paper clip. Next, count off the same number of pages into new material in the text and put a second paper clip at that point. In other words, the second paper clip should mark a point at double the number of pages that you've been able to read so far.
5. Using the S hand motion, practice for one minute at a pace that will take you to the second paper clip. You must reach that second clip, even though you most likely won't understand much of what you're trying to read. But still, allow your eyes to move over all the words on each page, and pick up as much as you can.
Remember, your goal now is speed, not comprehension. If you're like most of our other students, you can expect a comprehension rate of only about 10-20 percent at this point.
6. Now, you're ready for some real supersonic mental soaring. Count off a segment of pages beyond your second paper clip equal to the segment before the first clip. Place a third paper clip at this point. In other words, you'll now have three clips in the text at equal distances from one another.
7. Using the S hand motion, practice for one minute, beginning at your original starting point in the text. Again, you must reach the final, third clip in this one minute. As in the fifth step, your comprehension of the newest material will be low, this time probably less than 10 percent. But when you finish this step, you will have tripled your speed over what you achieved in reaching the first paper clip.
8. Finally, it's time to see what this push-up drill, which has been primarily designed to stretch your speed capabilities, has done for your overall reading ability. Using a motion of your choice read for one minute in new material in the text which lies just beyond your third and final paper clip. Move along at a pace that seems fast, but still allows you to pick up the general concepts, thought patterns and significant details in the text.
Now, compute your words per minute in this new material. You should find that you are reading considerably faster than you were when you began the exercise.
A variation on this drill: Instead of limiting your time segments to one minute, increase them to ten minutes each. As in the push-down drill, this approach with homework assignments can inject a gamelike quality into studying and should enhance speed and efficiency in completing homework.
Power drill. This exercise is intended mainly to build up your ability to comprehend and recall what you've read.
1. Choose an assigned text from one of your classes, make sure you have a pencil and some paper handy and place a watch or clock with a second hand near your line of vision.
2. Using the question-mark hand motion, move quickly through the text for one minute at a preview rate (about four seconds per page).
3. Close the book and for another minute, recall everything you've previewed. Jot down what you remember on your paper on a recall pattern.
4. Using the S hand motion, read as quickly as you can for one minute, beginning at the point in the text where you started your preview. Don't worry if you don't pick up everything, or even most things, in the text at this point. Now you're trying for speed as much as for comprehension.
Keep in mind that it's highly unlikely that you'll get as far with this reading as you did with the preview.
5. Close the book and for one minute recall all that you've read. Add those recollections to your recall pattern.
6. Using the S motion again, reread for one and a half minutes from your starting point. This time move at a somewhat slower pace that will allow you to pick up more of the ideas and details in the text. But you should still be pushing yourself to the limit, concentrating on speed as well as on comprehension.
7. Close the book, recall all you can for one minute, and add what you remember to the recall pattern.
8. Using the S motion once more, reread again from the beginning, this time for two minutes. Your pace now should be one that will allow you to pick up the details you need for your normal study purposes.
9. When you're finished, put the book aside again and spend another minute recalling what you've read. Include this additional material on your recall pattern.
10. Finally, compute the word-per-minute rate of your final, two-minute reading in the ninth step. That figure will represent how fast you were reading with full comprehension.
A variation on the power drill: Increase the preview and reading time segments by ten times their original values. In other words, the preview in the second step would take ten minutes instead of one minute; the first reading in the fourth step would take ten minutes instead of one; and so forth. Your recall times should stay about the same as they were in the original exercise, though you can lengthen them by as much as an extra minute if you like.
Fast and efficient reading and study are possible for everyone, but the maximum rates—and the most powerful study tools—will always be reserved for those who are willing to drill and practice. As a general rule, the exercises I've described above are most useful for those who haven't yet reached their maximum speed, or for those who are out of practice and need a refresher.
Students who have moved up to the higher speeds— more than 1,500 words per minute with at least 70-80 percent comprehension—can usually stay there simply by reading and studying regularly, while using the Mental Soaring techniques I've already described. In fact, many people find that if they read for even an hour a day using these methods, they steadily increase their speeds automatically, with high comprehension.
But in the last analysis, where are all these study guidelines and speed-enhancing techniques taking us? For a student, of course, the bottom line is the final examination. So our last major topic must focus on how the skills you've been acquiring so far can be applied in a testing situation.
1. Reading speeds higher than about 1,200 words per minute can be achieved only with a visual-vertical approach.
2. The overview and postview are essential prerequisites to achieve top reading speeds.
3. Practice with push-down, push-up and power drills is necessary for reaching the highest speeds and rates of comprehension.
| 2019-04-23T16:37:29 |
https://www.radiantthinking.us/speed-reading/pushing-beyond-your-speed-limit.html
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1 Place saffron strands in small bowl with 2 teaspoons hot milk. Let stand 5 minutes.
2 Place 575ml milk into a medium pan and bring to the boil over a medium-high heat. Add the crème caramel mix. Return to a boil stirring continuously to ensure the powder has fully dissolved. Stir in the saffron milk, cardamom and rose water.
3 Pour the mixture carefully into 4 (150ml capacity) heatproof molds or serving cups. Cool 15 minutes at room temperature. Refrigerate 2 hours or until fully set.
5 Gently run a knife around the sides of each mold and turn out onto servings plates or serve in serving cups. Sprinkle with dried rose petals. Serve with the whipping cream.
Another way of ensuring the crème caramel comes out of the mold is to very quickly dip the mold in hot water. The crème caramel should then slide out.
You can serve the crème caramel in the molds or serving cups instead of turning out.
| 2019-04-20T01:01:32 |
http://www.bettycrocker.ae/en/recipes/saffron-cardamom-and-rose-creme-caramel
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How Much Does A Thermostat Cost?
A thermostat is what triggers a furnace or central air conditioning unit to turn off and on to meet a set temperature or time. There are two types of home thermostats: non-digital/non-programmable and digital/programmable. Non-digital/non-programmable thermostats are less expensive than digital/programmable thermostats. A non-digital/non-programmable thermostat c ranges in price from $10-$30. A digital/programmable thermostat ranges in price from $20-$550. Home thermostat replacement cost ranges from $75-$200 to have a professional contractor install the thermostat. Thermostats are not only used to regulate furnaces and air conditioning, they are also used on water heaters and in cars. Water heater thermostat prices range from $15-$50, without installation. Car thermostat prices range from $10-$70, without installation.
Thermostat repair cost ranges from $50-$200 depending on the repairman, location, and what is wrong with the thermostat. If the thermostat is older, it is often easier and cheaper to simply replace it than have it repaired.
Thermostat replacement cost ranges from $75-$200; this cost covers the contractor removing the old thermostat and replacing it with the new thermostat. For large homes with more than one thermostat, contractors often charge an additional $50-$80 per thermostat. Thermostat replacement cost is usually more for premium units than for basic thermostats, as premium units are more complex and harder to install. Thermostat replacement cost is more in areas with a high cost of living than areas with a low cost of living. On top of the cost of labor, homeowners will also have to purchase the thermostat; thermostat prices range from $10-$550, depending on the brand and style.
Programmable thermostats help homeowners save money and be more comfortable as they can program the thermostat to turn on when the house reaches a certain temperature or at a certain time. Programmable thermostat prices range from $25-$550; a basic programmable thermostat costs from $20-$80, while a premium programmable thermostat costs from $80-$550. Programmable thermostats can be installed DIY: however, the premium thermostats can be a bit complex to install DIY for the average homeowner. Average thermostat replacement cost ranges from $75-$200; the contractor will remove the old thermostat and install the new one. Thermostat replacement cost varies per contractor and location. Programmable thermostats can be purchased at most department store, hardware store, home improvement stores and online. The most common programmable thermostat brands are Honeywell, American Standard, Lux, Ecobee, Totaline and Hunter.
There are numerous brands of thermostats for homeowners to choose from. Some of the most popular brands are Honeywell, Ecobee, Hunter and Lux. Honeywell sells both digital/programmable units and non-digital/non-programmable units. Honeywell thermostat prices range from $30-$250, without installation. Prices for their non-digital/non-programmable thermostats range from $25-$40, while Honeywell prestige thermostats range in price from $40-300. Ecobee smart thermostats are generally more expensive than Honeywell thermostats. Ecobee Smart thermostats range in price from $250-$550, without installation. Both Hunter and Lux thermostats tend to be less expensive than Honeywell or Ecobee Smart thermostats. Average Lux and Hunter thermostat prices range from $40-$80.
A water heater thermostat is what controls the temperature of the water in the water heater. Water heater thermostat prices range from $15-$50 depending on the style and brand. Water heater thermostat replacement cost ranges from $75-$200 for a professional to do the installation, labor only. When hiring a professional contractor, homeowners can expect to pay $90-$250 for both the thermostat and labor.
A car thermostat is installed in a car’s coolant system, where it acts to help keep the car’s engine cool. Car thermostat cost ranges from $10-$70 if car owners install the thermostat themselves. Cost varies depending on the make and brand of the thermostat needed. Car thermostats are generally one of the easier DIY car repairs to do, so car owners with minimal car repair experience should be able to do the job themselves. It car owners choose to take their car to a garage to have the thermostat installed, car thermostat cost range from $100-$400; car mechanics charge from $45-$120 an hour for labor.
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| 2019-04-23T11:15:24 |
https://www.costevaluation.com/how-much-does-a-thermostat-cost/
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What Are Similar Terms in Algebra?
Similar terms in algebra, sometimes referred to as like terms, are terms that contain the same variables raised to the same power. In algebraic expressions, terms cannot be combined unless they are similar terms.
Combining similar terms is a way to simplify algebraic expressions in order to make them easier to work with. For example, the equation 7xy - 4xy + 4x^2 + 5x^2 can be simplified by combining its similar terms. The terms that share variables and that are raised to the same power are 7xy and -4xy, as well as 4x^2 and 5x^2. When similar terms are combined, the equation reads 3xy + 9x^2.
| 2019-04-18T23:10:14 |
https://www.reference.com/math/similar-terms-algebra-ed0fbb5ee4f7ea6
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In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, Splenda, and pepper; stir until Splenda dissolves. Place apple slices in a large bowl, drizzle with dressing, and toss to coat well. This dish can be enjoyed alone or on top of salad greens (arugula is especially good) sprinkled with blue cheese and toasted walnuts.
Exchanges per serving: 1 fruit, 1/2 other carbohydrate. Carbohydrate choices: 1 1/2.
| 2019-04-24T09:58:14 |
https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/recipes/snacks-appetizers/tangy-apple-slices/
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Need to find out how far is Houston, TX from Allentown, PA? Following information will answer the question. Driving distance from Houston, TX to Allentown, PA is 0 miles or 0 km. Travel time by car is . Don't forget to check out our "Gas calculation" option. It will calculate approximate cost of driving the distance between Houston, TX and Allentown, PA.
How to calculate cost of gas for the road trip? Total driving distance divided by MPG (miles per gallon). It will give you the total amount of gas for the upcoming trip. Than multiply it by gas price and you will get the approximate cost of your road trip. With our "Gas Calculator" you already have how many miles from Houston, TX to Allentown, PA. Enter your MPG and set the gas price. Press "Calculate" and you will receive the final numbers.
| 2019-04-21T04:19:33 |
https://check-distance.com/route/houston-tx/allentown-pa
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Culture is at the heart of everything we do at ROI Solutions—how we live, how we work and how we serve the business community. Our culture isn’t about perks, and it doesn’t exist solely to make our employees happy (although it does that, too). ROI Solutions culture is about providing a foundation to achieve our purpose: to help businesses succeed.
Collectively, our philosophies and beliefs define who we are as a company. They are the foundation for every business decision we make. The following paragraphs detail the core values and principles of our team culture and how it guides every action that we take and shapes our culture with every interaction.
Every day, we help each other succeed. We’re people-focused and build strong relationships. We act for the company’s collective good. We encourage one another and help others learn and develop.
Every change we make goes through a unique and rigorous process that begins with listening to one voice: our customers.
We walk the talk. Every daily, weekly and monthly goal set at ROI Solutions is to help businesses succeed. As individuals, we commit to these goals and then hold ourselves and each other accountable—no matter how difficult.
There’s no sugarcoating here. A passive-aggressive approach is never welcome. Our communication allows for disagreement, real feedback and transparency. We practice engaged communications, focusing on being open, candid, and timely in sharing news and listening to make sure we understand.
We may struggle, and things may not always go the way we planned, but we rally together to achieve big things. And we do it all with a smile.
We’re agile. We implement the right change at the right time, take risks, continue learning, and value creativity and innovation. We never give up.
We provide world-class customer service, delivering exceptional value through great services and high quality interactions. We’re committed to our customer’s success and seek what’s best for both of us. We honor our commitments. In short, we’re the best contact center to do business with – a phrase you’ll hear again and again here at ROI Solutions.
Abandon your ego, all who enter here. Here at ROI Solutions, we aren’t afraid to share the glory or shoulder the blame. We give credit where it’s due, own up to our mistakes and work to find solutions to problems we discover—even if the problem isn’t directly related to our job.
We share ideas, find new projects and inspire each other every day.
We generate aggressive plans, based on the facts – then relentlessly implement those plans. We align our people, customers, strategy and processes. We’re personally accountable, tenacious problem solvers, who eliminate waste at every opportunity.
Finally, we do the right thing. We provide high-quality services and results. We use ROI Solutions money and resources wisely. We earn respect, trust each other, and show respect to each other. We act with integrity, as good community citizens, and we seek diversity of thoughts, experience and ideas. Sometimes our services aren’t the right fit for a business. If that’s the case, we’ll tell you and help find a solution that works.
Taken together, these statements form the ROI Solutions creed: The ROI Way.
| 2019-04-24T04:48:32 |
https://roicallcentersolutions.com/our-culture/
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What are services? Explain their distinct characteristics.
1. Perishability: Service is highly perishable and time element has great significance in service marketing.
2. Fluctuating Demand: Service demand has a high degree of fluctuations. The changes in demand can be seasonal or by weeks, days or even hours. Most of the services have peak demand in peak hours, normal demand and low demand on off-period time.
3. Intangibility: Unlike a product, service cannot be touched or sensed, tested or felt before they are availed. A service is an abstract phenomenon.
4. Inseparability: Personal service cannot be separated from the individual and some personalized services are created and consumed simultaneously. For example, a haircut is not possible without the presence of an individual. A doctor can only treat when his patient is present.
5. Heterogeneity: The features of service by a provider cannot be uniform or standardized. A Doctor can charge a much higher fee to a rich client and take much low from a poor patient.
6. Pricing of Services: Pricing decision about services are influenced by perishability, fluctuation in demand and inseparability. Quality of a service cannot be carefully standardized. Pricing of services is dependent on demand and competition where variable pricing may be used.
7. Service quality is not statistically measurable: It is defined in form of reliability, responsiveness, empathy, and assurance all of which are in control of employee's directly interacting with customers. For service, customers satisfaction and delight are very important. Employees directly interacting with customers are to be very special and important. People include internal marketing, external.
Services are something thats identifiable, something that is essential, intangible activities which provide want satisfaction but not necessarily tied to the sale of a product or of a service.
Sandeep asked The relationship between a bank and a customer begins when the customer open accounts with the bank." In-context to the statement, discuss some of the accounts that can be opened by a customer in banks.
Rishav asked Banks are providing a wide range of services nowadays. Do you agree?
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| 2019-04-26T16:07:28 |
https://www.urbanpro.com/class-12-tuition/what-are-services-explain-their-distinct
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Relieved Republicans muscled their health care bill through the House on Thursday, taking their biggest step toward dismantling the Obama health care overhaul since Donald Trump took office. They won passage only after overcoming their own divisions that nearly sank the measure six weeks ago.
Jubilant Republicans, celebrating what they hope will soon be the demise of "Obamacare," sang the pop song, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" as the end of the voting neared.
The measure skirted through the House by a 217-213 vote, as all voting Democrats and a group of mostly moderate Republican holdouts voted no. A defeat would have been a political setback for President Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Passage was a product of heavy lobbying by the White House and Republican leaders, plus late revisions that nailed down the final supporters needed. The bill now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where even GOP lawmakers say major changes are likely.
"Many of us are here because we pledged to cast this very vote," Ryan said. He added, "Are we going to keep the promises that we made, or are we going to falter?"
Leaders rallied rank-and-file lawmakers at a closed-door meeting early Thursday by playing "Eye of the Tiger," the rousing 1980s Survivor song from the "Rocky III" film.
Republicans have promised to erase President Barack Obama's law since its 2010 enactment, but this year—with Trump in the White House and in full control of Congress—is their first real chance to deliver. But polls have shown a public distaste for an outright repeal effort and a gain in popularity for Obama's statute, and Democrats—solidly opposing the bill—said Republicans would pay a price in next year's congressional elections.
"You vote for this bill, you'll have walked the plank from moderate to radical," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., warning Republicans that voters would punish them. "You will glow in the dark on this one."
The bitter health care battle dominated the Capitol even as Congress prepared to give final approval to a bipartisan $1 trillion measure financing federal agencies through September. The House passed that legislation Wednesday, and certain Senate passage will head off a weekend federal shutdown that both parties preferred to avoid.
Ryan canceled a March vote on the health care bill because disgruntled conservatives said the measure was too meek while GOP moderates said its cuts were too deep.
He abandoned a second attempt for a vote last week. As late as Tuesday, the Associated Press counted 21 GOP opponents—one short of the number that would kill the measure if all Democrats voted no.
Over the past few weeks, the measure was revamped to attract most hard-line conservatives and some GOP centrists. In a final tweak, leaders added a modest pool of money to help people with pre-existing medical conditions afford coverage, a concern that caused a near-fatal rebellion among Republicans in recent days.
The bill would eliminate tax penalties in Obama's law that clamp down on people who don't buy coverage and it erases tax increases in the Affordable Care Act on higher-earning people and the health industry. It cuts the Medicaid program for low-income people and lets states impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. It transforms Obama's subsidies for millions buying insurance—largely based on people's incomes and premium costs—into tax credits that rise with consumers' ages.
It would retain Obama's requirement that family policies cover grown children until age 26.
But states could get federal waivers freeing insurers from other Obama coverage requirements. With waivers, insurers could charge people with pre-existing illnesses far higher rates than healthy customers, boost prices for older consumers to whatever they wish and ignore the mandate that they cover specified services such as pregnancy care.
GOP candidates including Trump have made repealing Obama's statute an epitome of their campaign pledges, claiming it's a failing system that's leaving people with rising health care costs and less access to care.
Republicans will "gut Obamacare and rescue the American people," said Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga.
Democrats defended Obama's law, one of his crowning domestic achievements, for expanding coverage to 20 million Americans and forcing insurers to offer more generous benefits. They said the GOP measure would toss millions off coverage while delivering tax cuts to the wealthy.
"How can you do this to the American people, how can you do this to the people you represent?" asked Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
Obamacare has had its share of problems. Premiums and other costs are rising faster than expected, and insurers have pulled out of markets in many areas, reducing options for consumers. Even those with "coverage" don't always use it because of of high deductibles.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in March that the GOP bill would end coverage for 24 million people over a decade. That office also said the bill's subsidies would be less generous for many, especially lower-earning and older people not yet 65 and qualifying for Medicare.
A CBO estimate for the cost of latest version of their bill was not ready before the House conducted its vote.
Estimates said the new plan is expected to reduce the deficit by $150 billion over 10 years, a decrease from the $337 billion projected by the earlier plan.
Earlier this week, moderates objected that constituents with pre-existing conditions could effectively be denied coverage by insurers charging them exorbitant premiums. The plan does allow insurers to charge higher rates if a person with pre-existing conditions has a significant lapse in coverage--63 continuous days during the previous 12 months.
But GOP leaders seemed to win over a raft of wavering lawmakers after adding $8 billion over five years for state high-risk pools, aimed at helping seriously ill people pay expensive premiums. That was on top of $130 billion already in the bill for states to help customers, though critics said those amounts were insufficient.
The House overwhelmingly approved a second bill that Republicans wrote to snuff out a glaring political liability. The measure would delete language in the health care measure entitling members of Congress and their staffs to Obama's coverage requirements, even if their home states annul them.
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This is Part 2 of a three-part interview with Eric Tischer about his AC-motored VW Passat conversion.
You can read Part 1 of my interview with Eric Tischer here.
Lynne: I noticed that you chose an electric car motor that, you know, came out of an electric car - an old Ford Ranger EV, actually - rather than some other 3-phase AC motor, like say for an industrial application. Was there a reason for this?
Eric: The motor I chose was used in an electric vehicle and it is much lighter and smaller than an equivalent industrial AC motor. The electric car motor is water cooled, which makes it much smaller than air cooled motors which require heat fins.
Industrial motors are also rated for continuous power, which causes it to be much larger than an electric car motor rated for intermittent duty which is better suited for an EV. The electric car motor is also sealed liquid tight, and somewhat stubby, a 90hp industrial motor would probably stick out beyond the front bumper, and weigh 400 lbs.
Why do you run your system at 300v?
The 312VDC is required to generate a 220VAC (312V peak) sine wave. This is a common voltage for a 3 phase AC motor. Most motor controllers are powered by 312VDC internally, so this is why I am using such a high voltage.
It sounds like there's a "right voltage" for an AC electric car motor, which is such a different orientation than the SWDC "how many batteries can you afford?" approach. Is this correct?
More batteries will help get more torque from an AC electric car motor.
Most AC motors run 1750 RPM at 60hz 230v, so at 875 rpm, they are at 30hz 115V. You can spin beyond 1750rpm by running "field weakening", so at 3500 (rpm) 60hz 230v it will be spinning twice base speed, but half the torque.
If you can supply 460v then you will have full torque at 3500rpm.
Watching the video, I see your car keeps on accelerating, that's what looks so different about it. The DC electric cars I've seen will take off like a rabbit, but when they get to their cruising speed, there isn't any more. Like a golf cart. Your car seemed to drive a lot like a regular car.
Motor torque is related to "slip". Slip is the difference between actual electric car motor speed and commanded motor speed. For example a DC car at a stop can generate lots of torque because 100 volts will produce 2000 rpm of slip. Once you achieve 1900rpm, the torque is limited because now you can only produce 100rpm of slip. With an AC electric car motor, the slip is not limited by voltage, it is limited by frequency, which is basically unlimited. So the motor can produce torque even at high rpms. The constant power nature of the AC electric car motor makes it feasible to drive 0-75mph in only one gear.
Slip. If the motor speed varies directly with wheel speed, this sort of translates to "the ability of the car to accelerate", then? So with the SWDC, once you achieve 1900rpm or whatever is your "approaching maximum rpm" at a given voltage, there's not much acceleration left. This explains the golf cart observation above, I guess. Thanks, I never got this before, but I can see it's a big drawback for a DC conversion if you want it to act like a regular car - like, for instance, accelerating to get around something on the freeway. With a DC conversion, there's nothing left to give as it approaches the top of its rpm range.
If you want fast acceleration, you need to command the motor to spin faster than it currently is spinning. The greater "slip" means more torque the motor is producing.
Picture a car with a big coil spring on the rear bumper. If you want to accelerate the car slowly, you would push on the spring with slight force, and this would compress the spring slightly "small amount of slip". If you want to accelerate quickly, you would command a large "slip", basically compressing the spring a lot.
DC Motors spin a certain rpm per volt. If 1 volt = 20 rpm, 2 volts will =40 rpm, and 200v will = 8000rpm.
AC motors will spin a certain rpm per cycle. If 1 cycle/second = 20rpm, 60 cycles/second will = 1200rpm. The motor controller can command any frequency it wants to the motor, and of course you need enough voltage and current to produce torque.
...for a DC motor, voltage will limit the max speed of the motor. Unless the motor has a separately wired field, this is true.
So the DC converters don't throw 300v to the motor because there's no control on the low-end torque - it's sort of all or nothing.
Your AC motor, on the other hand, has rpm control related to frequency; control the frequency, and you control the rpm.
Correct. A DC controller will vary the voltage to the motor. An AC controller will vary the voltage and frequency to the motor.
So what's torque got to do with it? Is that a constant, related to the type/size of motor, and moved to the right or left on the graph by the number of poles? I've never understood the poles bit very well. More poles means more low-end torque, less high-end torque? Is there a limit to the number of poles a motor can have?
Most AC electric car motors are 4 or 6 pole. The more poles, the slower the motor will turn. If both motors have the same horsepower, the 6 pole motor will have more torque and less speed. HP = speed * torque.
Are you a little more careful with 300v than folks are with 120v or 144v (read: they get bitten sometimes. A lot.), or were there specific precautions that you took with that much voltage? On the same note, I've always wondered why there wasn't some sort of GFI device that folks could put between their battery packs and themselves so that if they - heaven forbid - somehow became the shortest path to ground, electrons would stop flowing.
I have not tried this, but I don't think DC voltage will flow to ground, only AC voltage will. I suspect folks are getting "tickled" with 120vac because their chargers are not isolated from ground, I know mine is not. I split my battery pack into four groups so the voltage within arms reach is somewhat limited. The groups (under the hood, where the gas tank was, spare tire well, and trunk area) make it a far reach to touch both ends of the battery pack. There is 312v inside the motor controller, and I tried to make that as finger safe as possible.
So AC voltage is potentially more dangerous, then? You split your batteries up, which I've heard is good for safety.
It sounds like the controller is the more risky part of the equation. How did you make that finger safe, and what precautions did you take while building it?
I just enclosed everything in a plastic box, and used finger safe devices such as the fuse holder. It basically means you can't touch any high voltage with your fingers. I also retained the hacked VFD housing.
Go on to Part 3 of this interview with Eric Tischer, called AC Motor Controller.
Do you think wheel hub motors will be available for the DIY market and if so, how soon? Hi, Scott - It looks like in-wheel motors might be coming!
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It appears to me that the result of prophecy has been much obscured, and particular passages much more difficult of interpretation, by narrowing their scope and applying them only to the anti-christian character of the last primary evil. Hence, the subject being wrongly assumed, the application has been forced and unknown. The anti-christian form of the Roman empire engrosses the mind, so that even when prophecy is applied to the Jews, nothing further is seen. But this is a confined view; all the nations of the earth are engaged in this scene. Thus Gog the chief prince of Magog, and his army and followers, formed no part of the Roman empire. The Medes and Persians formed no part of that empire; yet all these do form a part of the great prophetic drama of the latter day. I purposely refrain from entering into details here; if I am permitted, I hope to open out my views upon it, at some future time. I merely now make these few remarks, in the hope of enlarging the sphere of observation. The immediate moral position in which we are, may involve us in direct concern with the last exhibition of power of the Roman beast, even Antichrist, destined, I do not doubt, to close the scene and his career in Jerusalem - the mountain of God, where he has, craftily and to his own destruction, set his seat. But this is but one out of many. He thus becomes one, the first (I apprehend) of those powers, who, round the great centre of divine providence, the Jewish land, are brought, as the inhabitants of the earth, under the judicial process of that righteous providence which shall set the Son of man on the throne of the kingdom of the earth, in the righteousness and peace of God's own government in Him.
As regards the full moral responsibilities of the Christian Church, the apostasy and judgment of the anti-Christian power is clear and decided, as well as solemn and affecting to the believer, but deliverance and joy withal. But when we turn our eyes to the earth, to the dealings of God with its nations, we find, when He divided to the sons of Adam their inheritance, "He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel," Deut. 32:8. In this, of course, the beast will take his part; doubtless, he may lead in the career of evil, but let us enlarge our view a little. Were all the nations of the image in the last beast? Clearly not. The Euphrates, the Danube, the Rhine, and (I suppose) about the Firths of Forth and Clyde, and the Irish Sea, form the geographical bounds of all that could ever be taken within the grasp of the last beast, unless perhaps part of Hungary and Transylvania. I am not saying that all this will be under Antichrist,* or how far it may be, but merely that the last beast extends no farther than this. But besides this, there is in the image, part of the subject of latter-day judgment - the arms and the breast; the Medo-Persian power not included within these limits. This then, besides the actings of the first power, we must find scope for in the scenes of the latter day, as one of the nations that must act upon the Jews, and in the land. The omission of this may cause great confusion in the application of passages, which, having the Jews and the land in view, must include the account of the vicissitudes arising from this also.
44 Further, Gog and Magog (who form, I imagine, no part, not only of the beast, but of the image, yet take a conspicuous part in the scenes of the latter day, as the witness of the power of God) must be let into the scheme of prophecy; and till we have developed the sphere in which these take their parts, we cannot appropriate the special prophecies which may have their ultimate fulfilment in these very powers. I do not doubt we shall find much detail of movement within the territorial limits of the beast, which are not the action of its body, as immediately headed by Antichrist,* as well as the final suppression of smaller nation,, within the limits of Israelitish territory, as given of God; but into these details it is not my purpose to enter. That which I would press upon your readers is this - that (while the scene in which we are individually engaged leads us to contemplate directly the growth and operations of Antichrist,* our most important concern), if we would interpret Scripture fully, we must see that this is but conducive to a system and scene of which the land of Israel is the focus and centre, and in which all the people of the earth are concerned and called in question. The length, the circumstances, the particulars of the great day of tribunal of judgment on the people and nations, beginning at Jerusalem, we may reserve to the Lord's mercy granting us other opportunity. I believe Antichrist to be the first of it, and of a character distinct from the rest - the close to be the clearing of the land and its limits, with the exception, perhaps, of God. But the fact surely seems indisputable and definite, and must widely affect the study and application of scriptural prophecies. To these I would next direct your attention.
There are two great subjects connected with prophecy - the hope of the Church and the order and accomplishment of that system of earthly government which, with the Jews as its centre, has formed the great subject of ancient prophecy, its proper subject as a literal and distinct testimony of what should happen in the earth. As it is written, "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel." "For the Lord's portion is his people; Israel is the lot of his inheritance."
There is another point, the connection of the two, the passage from the failing dispensation (failing as in man's hand) in which we stand, into that which is to come; the portion of the remnant in the Gentile body and of the restored Jewish people, which, it seems to me, from involving both, induces greater difficulty of judgment than either considered apart. The moral state too both of the Christian remnant and of the Jewish remnant is so immediately involved in the question - their responsibilities and the divine judgment concerning them - that responsibility in estimating their place I feel sensibly increased. Nevertheless the faithful word is our sure and only guide, and wherever this directs us, the Spirit shedding light on it to our souls, we shall find the light and power of life in it. Nor will its connection with our responsibilities weaken its importance and value to us. I should value therefore exceedingly any light upon this subject. But though I have thought in the study of the word on many things connected with it, I do not feel my mind so distinctly ascertained of that portion of the mind of God as to state myself at present anything concerning it, though quite alive to the inquiry.
I would state very briefly as to the second point what would enlarge the basis on which our inquiries into Scripture may be conducted; and, by extending the limits of that which is certain in things revealed, increase our power of spiritual judgment, both within those limits and also as to those things in which we may be yet untaught. The essential difference of the government of the world during the four beasts is not, I think, sufficiently considered. During this time, there ceased to be, properly speaking, Jews and Gentiles. That which had given importance to the Jews, was that they were God's people. Otherwise "have not I brought (says God) the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?" This removed, they were but as one among the nations made of one blood in all the earth, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him.
46 It is true this distinction, once constituted, was never and never is to be recalled; "for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." And hence the Jews, or people of Israel, always constituted a distinct subject of government in the divine mind, never lost sight of and kept continually for the purposes formed therein for His glory, whatever the circumstances were through which they were passed. But they ceased to be the immediate manifested object and centre of the divine government upon earth, the moment "Lo-ammi" was written upon them. They ceased to be the scene in which God displayed His character as a recognised people, and from which, as identified with Himself, He exercised righteous judgment on surrounding nations, accounted but as strangers meddling with the place of His sanctuary.
Identical with this inscription of "Lo-ammi" (for a little season and still reserved for mercy, and it counted long to Jehovah) was the setting up of the Gentile power, the kingdom of the beasts which should arise out of the earth. This is matter of common knowledge and has been noticed in the Witness; and the whole history of the Jews connected with Nebuchadnezzar makes it too plain to one familiar with Scripture to need the evidence in detail here. But the inscription of "Lo-ammi" being set upon the Jewish people, their present distinction as God's people from the other nations of the earth ceased (not in purpose nor in providence, but as the subject of manifested government and revelation). And, though for the purpose of the manifestation of Messiah there was a suspension of the final accomplishment of these things. and a partial restoration, or rather setting in such a place as that they might be the subject of Messiah's restoration, the rod that was upon them of the stranger was never taken off, let it be light or gilded. There was no Jewish history, but of the fact of their rebuilding under the favour of the Persians, and of the rejection of Messiah under the government of the Romans and Herod; and then they are lost to historic scripture after the death of Stephen, forbidding that which was now come to the Gentiles to go to them, and wrath come upon them to the uttermost.
47 In the setting up of Nebuchadnezzar as the golden head of the image, the man of the earth, "the times of the Gentiles" began, and Israel was lost. It was not Ammi and Goiim,* but government left in the hands of the Gentiles, now exercising it in the covetous greediness of self-will, and the apparent government of God, in principle, lost, though never, of course, in providence.
With the four beasts connected with this state of things, every reader of prophecy is familiar. But it is taken notice of here as co-extensive with Israel's (whatever their circumstances) being "Lo-ammi," not God's people, and, consequently, the distinction of Jew and Gentile lost in present manifested exercise, unless in priority of judgment.
I think we shall find a very distinct division of prophecy connected with this subject, and appropriation of it, much calculated to clear the ground on which we stand.
There are three prophets connected with this state of Jewish rejection - Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Each have their separate portion of testimony, and their several place of giving it. Jeremiah prophesied in the place and habitation of the rebellious people. "The sin of Judah was written with a pen of iron, and the point of a diamond." Ezekiel prophesied by the river of Chebar, among the captives. Daniel in the midst of Babylon, when the golden representative head had been set up.
In Jeremiah we shall see, therefore, the sin of the people proved, and they made Goiim (heathen) of; and then, after various judgments on all the nations, the new covenant with Israel and Judah, their captivity brought again; in a word, "Lo-ammi," and Ammi as to both in restoration; while the history of their present wickedness is given and their necessary captivity, ashamed of Egypt as they were ashamed of Assyria.
48 In Ezekiel we shall find the sign of the glory departed, the consequent disallowance of the remains of the people in the land, then the setting aside of every other power previous to Nebuchadnezzar, and the fact of his prevailing as king of Babylon over the last of them; but then a passing by the whole history of, or any allusion to, the beasts: and after setting aside the previous nations by the king of Babylon, the immediate recurrence to the principles of God's dealings with the house of Israel, their restoration and deliverance as one stick in His hand; and, consequently, the heathen knowing that He, Jehovah, did sanctify Israel when His sanctuary was in the midst of them for evermore. And what subsequently happened of Gog, prince of Magog, is a coming up against "my people Israel." Thus way is made in the suppression of previous powers (and Or Israel) for the introduction of the beasts, but they are wholly omitted; and the prophet passes over (after the principles of God's dealings are discussed) to the restoration of the people and God's dealings among the heathen, as with them as His people.
Daniel precisely fills up this gap. Nebuchadnezzar is seen as the golden head in the outset, and a king of kings to whom the God of heaven had given a kingdom; and, wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven had He given into his hand, and made him rule over them all. He was the head of gold. Then the character and proceedings of this system and of the four beasts are given, but no mention of anything before or after, nor of the Jews or Israel as God's people at all. It is "the times of the Gentiles," of the four beasts, in which God's people are "Lo-ammi"; and when mentioned, it is not "My people," but "thy people," addressing Daniel.
This gives the subjects of these books, I think, great clearness, and shews the character and importance of the time subsequent to the renewal of the distinction between God's people and the heathen. The convulsions and trouble preceding this are of the utmost importance, and have their place; but they are to be viewed as a distinct subject from Israel acknowledged of the Lord. Israel is still lost in the midst of the nations rising one against another. Jerusalem may be taken; but He is not come whose right it is; and, therefore, though it may be the occasion of the Lord's fighting against these nations, still it was not Jehovah-Shammah (Ezek. 48:35) that was taken; nor could that be, as the final post-millennial confederacy and Hezekiah's typical trial prove.
49 I would advert to a few passages illustrative of what I have stated, and then allude to one or two consequences.
First, as to Jeremiah, up to chapter 24 we have the sin of Israel, and specially Judah, continuously proved. In chapter 25, is the judgment; recapitulating the testimony - shewing immediate judgment also on Babylon, the type of all the nations. The judgment, however, actually runs thus, "Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand and cause all the nations (Goiim) to whom I send thee to drink it. Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me; Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation"; and then the rest, to "all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth, and the king of Sheshach after them." But this definitely involves Judah and Jerusalem in the indiscriminate and common name of Goiim - "judgment beginning in the house of God." (See verse 29.) Then, after various details to chapter 30, in that chapter we have the new and sure promises connected with God's purpose concerning the nation to the end of chapter 33. The rest is historically probative or relative to Egypt, till chapter 46, when we have the word against the Gentiles, but restoration to many of them.
In Ezekiel, chapter 24 divides the book. We have the utter rejection of the city. The glory of the Lord is seen at the outset in its full providential governing power; and in chapter 10 its departure from the city and temple: then in chapter 25, getting rid of other nations - these within and surrounding the land. Then two are mentioned who would fain have been beasts in the earth - Assyria and Pharaoh-Necho. The first, however, had fallen. What was the latter better? He should fall; "So was Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God." Then in chapter 32 we have their common dirge. Here the prophet closes. Instead of pursuing the history of the earth then farther, which must have brought in the beasts, he turns at once to the shepherds of Israel. All but the beasts are disposed of; these Daniel is occupied about in Babylon, not Ezekiel at Chebar. Restoration under the Lord's salvation from evil shepherds is the only remedy. So in chapter 33:4 and in chapter 34:7. The restoration follows; then Gog against Israel as God's people, settled on their own mountains no longer waste, but dwelling in peace; Israel now I no longer "Lo-ammi," as chapters 36, 38. The judgment on Seir (chapter 35) seems special.
50 Of Daniel I have already said enough, it is manifestly the history of the unnoticed period, the times of the beasts and their doings and character; the account in Babylon of all that belonged to it, or arose out of it, while Israel was no more a people, and power was recognisedly in the hands of those who knew not how to use it, who had beasts' hearts and left to be so and not man's till the due times had passed over it.
We have then these three agencies to look for, connected with Israel, and at the close of these times, when the great concentrated crisis comes to take effect. First, the heathen as looked at under Jeremiah, nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom, in which Jerusalem and the Jews have a place in the secret enmity perhaps of the wicked one, knowing what is to be and happen there; and surely in the providence of God. Yet still as one of the Goiim, merely mixed up in the troubles with all the rest, only the first to drink the cup. Secondly, the beast (or beasts) then in his power, having his own specific and distinct character as such. That which constitutes the power may be heathen perhaps in race; but it is not merely this but a beast. And lastly, we have the renewed position of Israel as God's people, and the heathen definitely distinguished from them, and opposed to them as such; and God acting on this principle. The other prophets give many details as to them; their proper statements are, of course, of the Jews as Jews, and treating the heathen as such, and therefore not concerning the beasts at all. And I suspect if Antichrist be mentioned in them, he is spoken of in his professed character as "the king"; and the state of the people merely alluded to on the critical time of change, when the summons of the Lord is addressed on the coming of the heathen, when the Lord is just about to go forth, rejected indeed by the nations, but listened to by the remnant.
Thus Joel describes some Goi (nation) going up against the land, etc., and summons the inhabitants of the land, and alarms Zion, and sounds for the gathering. When there is this cry, then the Lord is jealous for His land and pities His people; and the answer to them (not before so called), and blessing, and consequent judgment on all the heathen, is described.
So, in Zechariah, we have the city taken by the nations gathered together, and against those nations the Lord will go forth and fight. This is the only place where this taking is mentioned, unless Joel 2 and once perhaps in Isaiah; and not, I conceive, alluding to Antichrist or the wilful king, but omitting or leaving out the whole history of the beast and his doings, which stands on other ground. His place, I conceive, rather holds the place of the covenant with death, made with the scornful men which dwell at Jerusalem, which is disannulled.
51 But I will not enter farther into details. I have mentioned these passages as immediately affected by the considerations I have offered. If one could see the Jews and Jerusalem (as shewn in the paper, under the title of "Jerusalem," in a previous number) as the great subject and centre of earthly government and prophecy, we should better understand the force of nations, and then, looking at Israel as lost in them and mixed in their troubles, and the object of their hatred; then the subject of the wilful king's special though wicked interference; and subsequently, on his destruction, as the scene of the Lord's deliverance and power, who then holds it in His hand as His weapon against the nations (now again recognised as in opposition to Ammi, "my people," and He therefore putting them under His feet), we should see much of the prophecies more distinct and more simple.
52 I have felt that the consideration of the office allotted to these three prophets I have here spoken of, reduced and simplified the ground on which we could judge these things. It is but one narrow point of the subject; still if, by interpretation in which the Lord leads and will justify us, any part of the subject is cleared, so much is positively gained. What may be imperfect or erroneous in it the saints will soon detect, if they wait for the revelation and instruction of God. I do confess it has cleared a good many details, but its ground is quite independent of them, and I am reluctant to write on them; as undue determination of them seems to me the ground of our difficulties, the ascertainment of them always a step in our knowledge.
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Every year thousands of dolphins and small whales are killed in hunts across the globe. While the hunts that take place in Japan and the Faroe Islands are well documented, hunts take place in other parts of the world on an almost daily basis.
One of the drawbacks to making headway with this issue is that there is limited information available, yet the number of small whales, dolphins and porpoises taken is thought to far outweigh the number of large whales/dolphins killed under the guise of commercial and/or aboriginal whaling and is second only to bycatch as the major threat facing them today.
Since 1990, people in at least 114 countries consumed one or more of at least 87 species of marine mammal, however only a few percent of the small whales, dolphins and porpoises actually consumed will ever be reported in official reports due to the illegality of the practice and the fact that much of the trade is therefore driven underground. Any available information determining the extent of the problem therefore are widely accepted as a significant underestimate.
Where do the hunts take place?
On an almost daily basis, numerous dolphin hunts are being undertaken in countries throughout West Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and Asia. The reasons for the hunts (which can include single or multiple individuals) vary from place to place with some claiming traditional and cultural beliefs. In some places, the availability of dolphin flesh originally stemmed from using dolphins who were unintentionally caught in fishing nets for bait and/or food, and the practice has evolved both due to an acquired taste for the meat, as well as the inability to sustain families with food, as fish resources plummeted due to over-exploitation.
While many countries entertain hunting, here are three example showing why these hunts can flourish despite local efforts to prevent them.
Sri Lanka for example has been identified as one area where the problem of directed dolphin hunts for human consumption and shark bait has been escalating with a growing trade in the illegal harvesting of dolphins, primarily for bait in long line fisheries as well as for food. The practice is illegal as all marine mammals are protected in Sri Lanka, but despite stern warnings from the authorities, the threat of hefty fines and prison time, the killing continues and the availability of dolphin meat has continued to thrive on the black market.
Despite being illegal, approx. 15,000 dolphins are killed every year in Peru. Some are destined for dinner plates but the others, who have been either harpooned or clubbed to death and then butchered are used as shark bait for an ever-increasing market in China for shark fin.
In many communities throughout West and Central Africa dolphins were traditionally revered, however pressure from rapid population growth and declining fish catches is overriding any religious-inspired reluctance to consume them and they have become a regular food source. In Ghana for example, the otherwise accidental catch of dolphins by fisheries has gradually turned into a targeted hunt for dolphins, either for human consumption or shark bait. In 2014, more than 743 dolphins, mostly clymene and bottlenose dolphins, were landed in one port alone.
Thousands of dolphins and small whales are being killed in cruel hunts every year. Your support will help WDC to stop these needless deaths.
Concern however is not only limited to the small whales and dolphins themselves but also to an emerging human health issue as a result of the consumption of whale and dolphin meat. Evidence points to the accumulation of environmental pollutants (mercury, PCB’s, organochlorines etc.) in the muscle, blubber and organs of small whales and dolphins and not only can this impact upon their ability to reproduce but can carry risks for people who consume them. Health warnings surrounding the consumption of whale and dolphin meat have been expressed by scientists in both Japan and the Faroe Islands where the majority of studies have been undertaken however there are a multitude of areas around the world where next to nothing is known about contaminant levels of small whales and dolphins. For example, the provisional permitted levels of mercury in Japan (fish and shellfish) is 0.4 µg gˉ¹. In the Faroes, the average mercury concentration in pilot whale muscle is 3.3 µg gˉ¹. A recent study from St. Vincent and the Grenadines showed the average mercury concentration in unknown cetacean species (dried) muscle to be 7.59 µg gˉ¹‘. This value is the third highest concentration of mercury (after blue marlin and hammerhead shark) in the ‘Seafood Mercury’ database and consumption of such high levels will be detrimental.
WDC works on many different levels to end the bloodshed. You enable us to commission undercover investigations and surveillance in Taiji, Japan, where the most infamous of these hunts takes place. You support our work in Japan to work with local organisations and educate the public – many Japanese people have no idea these hunts take place. You join our campaigns to stop businesses contributing to the slaughter, such as airlines which carry live dolphins captured during the hunt for zoos and aquariums. You help us influence legislators and decision makers to tighten laws to protect dolphins.
WDC's scientists are leading authorities on this issue and are working with colleagues across the globe to get the problem wider recognition. Thanks to our efforts international fora, such as the UN's Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), are asking countries to address the unsustainable consumption of meat from dolphins and small whales.
Despite human health warnings, hundreds of pilot whales continue to die.
One of the most notorious hunts. Dolphins are also sold to the captivity industry.
Over one million small whales and dolphins have been killed in the last 70 years.
A global review of the impacts of hunting on small whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Read our in-depth report into the hunting of small whales and dolphins around the world (published in 2018).
Adopt a dolphin and help us end cruel dolphin hunts.
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ePublishing Knowledge BaseePublishing Knowledge BaseePublishing Knowledge Base Creating, Managing, and Selling Products How do I create a new product?
This article will show you how to create a new product and includes tips on setting pricing, enabling shipping, adding an image, associating discount codes or offers with the product and customizing your order confirmation email.
Please note: If you are creating a downloadable product, such as a PDF report or a video or audio file, please set the product up by following the instructions in this article: How do I sell a PDF or other file as a product?
1. In your dashboard, under Sales/Marketing, select Create next to Product.
You may also edit existing products by clicking Search & Edit or Edit by ID.
3. Select a product type in the dropdown.
Zoom: Select a product type in the dropdown.
Note that you may upload a Digital Copy here, as well, if you are selling a book, as well as a Table of Contents in PDF format.
5. Add your product description. This is the main body of your landing page.
Zoom: Add your product description. This is the main body of your landing page.
Consider SEO in your product description.
6. Assign an Internal ID for tracking and an External ID if desired.
Zoom: Assign an Internal ID for tracking and an External ID if desired.
PURPOSE: This is often used for publishers who need to send orders to an inventory control or CRM database that records orders. If you are unsure whether you need to fill in this field, please talk to your Solutions Manager or your in-house contact.
7. If your product will be shipped, and you are adding a shipping fee, assign a weight and enable shipping.
Zoom: If your product will be shipped, and you are adding a shipping fee, assign a weight and enable shipping.
The weight is used to determined the shipping fee. For more on setting up shipping fees, read: How do I update shipping rates?
8. If your product is taxable, click the box next to Taxable?
9. Add notes on product availability if necessary, such as "On backorder" or "Limited quantities available."
Note: This feature is not tied into inventory management program, but it can be used manually to show customers whether a product is backordered, low in quantity or another special circumstance.
If you would like to integrate product availability on your website with a third-party fulfillment or inventory management vendor, information on availability can be placed here using an API or other automated method. Please speak with your Solutions Manager to determine whether this is possible with a specific vendor.
10. Do you want to limit the number a buyer can purchase? Set the quantity under Purchase Limit or, if you don't want a limit, set it at the maximum of 9999.
For example, if you are selling a PDF file, set the Purchase Limit to 1. But you may not want to limit the number of books someone can purchase. Set that to the maximum allowed.
11. Select a vendor, or leave this blank. It is not required.
Zoom: Select a vendor, or leave this blank. It is not required.
You may add a new vendor here at the bottom next to Create a new vendor.
12. Select Browse to add an image from the Media Manager to be associated with your product.
Zoom: Select Browse to add an image from the Media Manager to be associated with your product.
The thumbnail of this image will appear both in product search results and next to the product description on the landing page.
13. Select your Site Placement.
Zoom: Select your Site Placement.
This is highly specific to individual websites. Please contact your solutions manager with any questions on Site Placement.
15. Add keywords by typing them into the box.
Zoom: Add keywords by typing them into the box.
Or select Click to analyze keywords to automatically generate keywords you may select or ignore.
20. Click the box next to Indexable if you want the product to show up in search results on your website.
21. If you'd like to assign an Author, select an author here.
This may be applicable in cases where you are selling a book, for example.
22. Add a custom confirmation email message, which will be sent along with the default receipt your customer will receive.
A confirmation email will be sent to your customers immediately after purchase. The confirmation email content provides you with an opportunity to customize the messaging they will receive. The content entered here will also appear in your online receipt after purchase/registration.
23. Assign Classification and Topic/Category taxonomy, which is highly site-specific.
For Classification taxonomy, it is critical that you choose a Product Type child, if you want to apply US sales tax when purchasing this item.
25. Under Edit, select SEO.
26. If desired, update the URL, Browser Title and Meta Description. You may also want to import or update the keywords.
NOTE: Clicking direct access allows you to share the product's link directly with someone without having to publish the product first. Once the product is published this option will no longer display.
27. If you have made changes, click Save.
28. To associate a discount code or offer with your product, click Offers under Edit.
29. You may Browse Offers to associate an existing offer with your product or create a new offer.
Variations: If you have variations for your product, use this link. For example, if your book is available in soft- and hard-cover versions, you may create two variations. The option to buy one or the other will then automatically appear on the product landing page itself. Learn more in: How do I create product variations?
Bundles: Do you want to create bundles of products? An example: Two related books. To do that, click Bundles, and follow the instructions in: How do I create product bundles?
Media: Associate media with your product. Follow the same process as with associating media with articles or blog posts.
Related: To learn more about associated related content, read How do I select related articles, blog posts, listings, events, products and more to appear next to my content?
eCommerce Tax: eCommerce tax, if needed, can be set up by ePublishing. Please contact your solutions manager with any questions.
Custom: Custom fields are set up by ePublishing. Please contact your solutions manager with any questions.
31. To publish your product, return to General under Edit, and click Publish.
32. To save your product as a template, click Save as a Template at the bottom of the product's properties.
This will allow you to create another product in the future with similar properties. The new product will pre-populate based on the the template, but will be editable.
Next: How do I create a product out of an article?
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This is a book that I had been awaiting for a long time and it does not disappoint. From the day I received Garry Apgar's illustrated manuscript a few years ago, I knew that I was reading something special.
- Is the subject matter compelling?
- Does the text contain new information?
- Is the text easy to read?
- Are there any endnotes or precise references to the sources of the information which give me confidence that what I am reading is accurate?
- Does the book include visual documents that I have not seen before?
The answer to all those questions is an enthusiastic yes when it comes to Mickey Mouse: Emblem of the American Spirit. This huge art-book is clearly one of the most important Disney-history books released last year and will remain a key references for years to come. I learned a lot by reading it and discovered dozens of visual documents which I was not aware of.
So, is this the definitive book about Mickey Mouse? Without a doubt, when it comes to the history of the genesis of Mickey or to the history of Mickey's place in the art world, etc. But there is still space in my bookshelves for at least one more book about Mickey Mouse after this one: one that would be written by experts like David Gerstein and JB Kaufman about the making of Mickey's cartoons and the Mickey shorts that were planned but abandoned.
In the meantime I will read and re-read with tremendous delight Garry's magnum opus.
Michael Barrier has posted a very thoughtful review about They Drew As They Pleased yesterday.
Andreas Deja is already thinking about two more books as revealed on his blog.
I will be posting tomorrow a rave review of Garry Apgar's Mickey Mouse: Emblem of the American Spirit.
A few fun pieces in the illustration art auction from Swann Auction Galleries. Worth checking out.
The blog will be updated again on January 25.
Julie Svendsen was kind enough to send me recently this great photo. From left to right: Disney composer George Bruns, character voice actor Daws Butler and animator Julius Svendsen (Julie's father).
I have been waiting for this book for so long, and I was caught by surprise this morning when the upcoming release was finally announced. Can't wait to get it!
I wish I were in San Francisco at the moment to attend the opening of the Mel Shaw exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum. That is an exhibition I really do not want to miss!
This website contains short interviews with seldom-interviewed Disney artists and others. No to be missed!
As mentioned two days ago, Frank Armitage passed away earlier this week. Here are a few photos celebrating his career as well as the official obituary.
BURBANK, Ca., January 6, 2016 - Frank Armitage , renowned Disney layout and background artist on such classic Disney films as "Sleeping Beauty," "Mary Poppins," and "The Jungle Book," and a longtime Disney Imagineer who contributed murals and designs to a wide range of theme parks all over the world, passed away on Monday (1/4/16) at his home in Paso Robles, California, from age-related causes. He was 91 years old. In addition to his accomplishments with Disney, he served as a production illustrator on the 1966 Academy Award® -winning Fox film, "Fantastic Voyage," and was an expert medical illustrator.
Commenting on Armitage's passing, Marty Sklar, former Walt Disney Imagineering creative executive and Disney Legend, said, "Frank's artistic skills were excellent -- but I loved having him on our Imagineering team because he knew so much about art and life. At one point in his career, he left studio work, took medical courses at UCLA and became just about the best medical illustrator in the country. There's still a program named for Frank at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School. This led him to the design assignment for the classic film, 'Fantastic Voyage,' and, of course, he was the standard bearer when we did the health-related 'Wonders of Life' for the Epcot Park at Walt Disney World. What great experiences he brought to mentoring our young artists, working as a young man with the great Mexican muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and at Disney with the brilliant Eyvind Earl on 'Sleeping Beauty.'"
Veteran Disney Imagineer and Disney's Animal Kingdom creative executive Joe Rohde, added, "Frank was a great artist and a nurturing leader. I learned a lot at his side, but my greatest honor was watching him create the murals at Disney's Animal Kingdom. I would visit him in his studio just watch how he laid down paint. He was always a gentle and patient teacher."
Reflecting on Armitage's legacy in the world of animation, Fraser MacLean, animation production veteran, instructor, and author of Setting the Scene: The Art and Evolution of Animation Layout,observed, "As a layout and background artist at Disney starting in 1952, Frank did some amazing work and contributed to many of the Studio's most successful animated films, from 'Peter Pan' and 'Sleeping Beauty' to 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Jungle Book.' And as Disney expanded and diversified in the late 50s and early 60s, he was able to draw upon his distinct skills as an artist (ranging from award-winning mural designs to minutely detailed medical illustrations), and was ideally suited to apply his extraordinary knowledge, energy and imagination not only to Disney's features but also a wide range of challenging educational projects like 'Donald's Fire Survival' and 'Steps Towards Maturity and Health.' Frank went on to have a whole other career at Disney Imagineering creating murals for theme parks all over the world up until his 'retirement' in 1989. Odd to think how precious a legacy has been left to the present generation of animation designers and artists by this one man -- who left his native Australia back in the early 50s with only “$84 in his pocket."
Muralist, portrait artist, medical illustrator, practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncturist, globetrotter, volunteer and Good Samaritan; Roblan Frank Armitage was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1924. At the age of 22, while studying at a Melbourne art institute, he became involved in the mural-painting movement, and in 1949, he won an international mural contest sponsored by world-renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and became his assistant on several murals in public buildings in Mexico.
Armitage moved to Los Angeles in 1952 and worked at the Walt Disney Studios on backgrounds and layout for such feature films as "Peter Pan," "Sleeping Beauty" (where he worked with Walt Peregoy under the direction of Eyvind Earle), "Mary Poppins," and "The Jungle Book." Like most animation artists at the time, he was also involved in many tasks in the creation of Disneyland, including working with Ken Anderson to create Story Book Land.
After leaving the Studio, Armitage found enormous renown combining cinematic color and lighting techniques with human anatomical subject matter. In 1966, he did the production illustration for Academy Award® winning film, Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century-Fox. Some of his most prominent work in that regard, partnering with the extraordinary photographic work of Lennart Nilsson, includes illustrating the function of the brain, a project for a Life Magazine in 1971.
In 1977, Armitage came to Walt Disney Imagineering, where his artwork of anatomical subject matter paved the way for the Wonders of Life Pavilion at Epcot. He created a famed concept painting for Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant at Disneyland Paris, in the style of the original Eyvind Earle production designs.
He painted a 5,500-square-foot of mural for the Safari Fare Restaurant Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and several murals in Tokyo DisneySea—for the American Waterfront, Hotel MiraCosta, the Broadway Bar, and four pieces for the Tokyo DisneySea City Hall.
After retiring from Disney in 1989, Armitage completed a course in Oriental Medicine and pursued postgraduate work in Acupuncture in China. He volunteered in rural Mexico with the Flying Doctors, and produced oil paintings and murals for private homes in Woodside, Saratoga, Los Angeles, and Paso Robles.
In 2006, Armitage donated much of his medical art collection to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). That same year, that organization's Biomedical Visualization graduate program (BVIS) established the Frank Armitage Lecture to honor his generosity and to recognize his legacy in the field of medical illustration. For the past ten years, this event has highlighted "visual geniuses" who translate complex biomedical information into visual form and has brought together experts from various disciplines to explore new opportunities for science visualization in the 21st Century.
He lived in rural Paso Robles with his wife of 33 years, Karen Connolly Armitage, a retired Imagineer who worked for Disney over a 26 year period, and has contributed her skills as a designer and architectural concept artist to many theme park projects.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children from a previous marriage -- Nicole Armitage Doolittle (who works at Walt Disney Imagineering), Michelle Armitage (a scenic artist in the entertainment industry), and Wes Armitage.a LAGeneral Contractor. He also leaves behind two stepchildren -- Tracy Montee and Cecil Beatty, and a sister Margaret Parfett in Australia. Plans for a Life Celebration in Paso Robles will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his name to the Ryman Arts Foundation (www.rymanarts.org) , Liga International (www.ligainternational.org), or the UIC BVIS program to support students pursuing Master's degrees in Biomedical Visualization (UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, 800 S. Wood St., CMET 169, Chicago, IL 60612).
For those of you who missed this before the holidays, just a quick reminder: Walt's People - Volume 17 has just been released. It contains a few gems, among which the interviews of Jack Hannah and Woolie Reitherman from 1984, the lecture of Art Stevens at CalArts and the interview of Jack Bruner by Dave Smith. I think you might also enjoy my long interview with Ohil Mendez.
Sad news. Disney Imagineer Frank Armitage passed away yesterday. You can read an interview I conducted with him a few years ago in Walt's People - Volume 11.
The last two weeks have been extremely busy on my end as I took advantage of the Xmas and New Year break to catch-up on a lot of Disney-history-related work. I thought it was time to give you a quick update.
With Walt's People - Volume 17 released on December 24, I am now working on finalizing Volume 18 and building Volume 19.
I also spent a lot of time reviewing the galleys of They Drew As They Pleased - The Hidden Art of Disney's Musical Years (the second volume in the series) and it looks stunning. The cover image is my dream come true, and the amount of gorgeous, never-seen-before artwork is even higher than in volume 1!
I have also started writing five from the seven chapters that will be included in Volume 3: The story of the Story Research and Character Model Departments, Eduardo Sola Franco, Johnny Walbridge, Campbell Grant, and Martin Provensen. Over the next few weeks / months I will try to improve those chapters and to start writing the missing two (James Bodrero and John Parr Miller).
In parrallel to all this, I was also reviewing the galleys of an in-depth chapter about the making of The Reluctant Dragon, which I was asked to write for an upcoming book project which I will hopefully be allowed to discuss in detail on this blog in a few months.
And, of course, I am still helping Ross Care put together his fascinating book of correspondence with Wilfred Jackson and I am hoping to see 2016 mark the release of Mel Shaw's autobiography, if all goes well.
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Which famous French tourist attraction was completed on 15th March, 1889?
Gustave Eiffel, the mastermind behind the Eiffel Tower, also designed the interior for the Statue of Liberty. Did you know that the tower itself is 324 metres tall (including antennas) and weighs 10,100 tonnes?
What was the name 'March' named after?
The name of March comes from Martius, the first month of the earliest Roman calendar. It was named after Mars, the Roman god of war, and an ancestor of the Roman people through his sons Romulus and Remus.
Who became one of the first people to patent a pistol on March 5th, 1836?
Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, businessman, and hunter. He initiated Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers viable commercially.
Which famous actress won 'best actress' in the 1954 Academy Awards for the film "Roman Holiday"?
On March 27th, 1980 which volcano errupted after not being active for 123 years?
After a couple of smaller earthquakes started shaking the ground on March 15, it was presumed that magma had started moving inside the volcano Mount St. Helens. On March 20th, a small earthquake centered below the volcano's north side signaled the volcano's violent return from 123 years of hibernation. The most violent of these eruptions however took place on May 18th and caused one of the largest ever recorded mud-slides. Yikes.
Which famous physicist won a Nobel Prize in 1921 for their ideas about relativity?
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." Einstein was known to have a slightly... dishevelled look and one of his habits was that he never wore socks. They caused him distress because they get holes. After all of his pacing around trying to figure out formulas, it's probable he experienced this A LOT.
What event is usually held in March in New Orleans, USA?
Courir de Mardi Gras. A traditional Mardi Gras event held in communities of South Louisiana on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, Courir de Mardi is French for ‘Fat Tuesday Run’ and has links to European pagan begging rituals, similar to those still celebrated by mummers, wassailers and of Halloween (think trick or treating). Festivities include dressing up in bizarre costumes, reversing social conventions, dancing, drinking alcohol, begging, feasting, chasing chickens and whipping eachother. Then they go for a run. On horseback. Until they fall off. Bonkers. Enjoy.
They told you you couldn't do it! Well they were right.
'March' back to bed. Your brain isn't working.
You're quite the brainbox aren't you? But keep practicing!
The champ. The leader. The boss. 7/7 you rock!
A true champion when it comes to knowing your months. You deserve your crown, but have you thought about going on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Didn’t think I’d know any, but it only needs a name to jog a memory doesn’t it.
That’s absolutely right Karen! Then it all just seems to come flooding back, doesn’t it?
Really enjoyed doing the quiz. Hope there is one for every month.
Of course, we’re going to making much more interactive content, including many fun quizzes! Keep an eye out at the beginning of each month for more!
Fun little quiz. I got 6 out of 7! I was surprised. I almost didn’t take it because I thought I wouldn’t get any of them.
Great stuff 🙂 It only takes a slight jog of the memory, doesn’t it?
Well done though! Have you challenged your friends to see who can get the most?
That was fun and I was very happy to get 6/7. All I can say now, though, is…. thank goodness for multi-choice!
We’re very happy that you liked the quiz and well done for doing so well!
Is there any other themed quizzes that you’d like?
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Does the UT coordinate its academic calendar with that of other institutions?
Yes, so as to facilitate certain forms of cooperation, in particular with the other 4TU-universities and with Saxion Universities of Applied Sciences.
As of the 2009-2010 academic year, the three 4TU Universities of Technology have employed a common academic calendar. The universities started up this form of coordination so as to optimally facilitate both students and teachers following and teaching courses at all three institutions (including by way of distance learning, such as by offering virtual lectures). The experiences obtained in the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 academic years resulted in a positive assessment of the 4TU academic calendar principles, which now apply for an indefinite period of time.
In addition, the University of Twente strives to join up with Saxion Universities of Applied Sciences prior to each academic year and arrange part of the introduction activities for first-year students together. This allows for new students of both institutions to truly get to know both of them, easing the barriers of switching from one institution to the other.
Why is half a semester referred to as a 'quartile'?
For lack of a better term. Refer to the explanation below.
In the spring of 2003, the Executive Board requested the (then) Academic Timetable Work Group to draft a 'semester timetable' in line with international practice, including the use of the word 'semester'.
We put the word 'semester' between quotation marks, as it literally means 'six months', whereas half an academic year for most institutions actually amounts to some five months. What's more, the academic calendars of the UT and of most other institutions are based on the number of weeks, not months.
The result was a calendar which saw the semesters being divided into two equal parts. Subsequently, we had to find a new, fitting term for these 'half semesters'.
•Using the word 'quarter' for such a period was not a good option. Apart from the formal definition of the term (Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal: "period of three months"), most people predominantly associate the term with a period of exactly three months. In fact, they even associate it with a specific three-month period: 'the first quarter', for example, is the period from 1 January up until 31 March of a given calendar year".
•The word 'trimester' was not an option either, as the calendar we had just replaced was commonly known as the 'trimester timetable'. Moreover, as we explained already, we preferred not to use terms referring to a period counted in months.
•The word 'academic period' was unsuitable for being too vague, as the second period of the fifth lecture of a certain course - to provide an example - may also be referred to as an 'academic period', as can the entire period between one's first day at primary school and being awarded one's final degree after successfully completing a continuous period of schooling and study.
The word 'quartile' was found to be most suitable, given the definition provided by Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal: "... this set being divided into four parts". This is why we have opted to use this word, which has by now become the commonly used term.
The use of the word 'quartile' to mean half a semester is by this time so commonly used within the UT that we do not believe it wise to try and change the term.
Why does the UT have only one week of holidays apart from the Holiday Season?
Because the summer holidays would otherwise be too short for teachers who need to mark exams taken in June or are involved in the summer resits or the introduction for new students.
There is no organization with the authority to determine when universities are to have a holiday period. (And such authority only exists to a very limited extent for primary and secondary schools.) The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science determines the staggering of the summer holidays (and, since the start of the 2013-2014 academic year, also the Christmas and May holidays) for primary, secondary and special education and publishes recommended dates for the other holidays. In practice, many schools and institutions keep to the recommended dates. Universities and universities of applied sciences, therefore including the University of Twente, are free to decide on their preferred academic calendar, including holiday periods.
By law, (Section 7.4(6) of the Higher Education and Research Act (WHW)), universities are to have their programmes amount to 1,680 academic hours per year. Assuming a nominal 40-hour work week, this comes to 42 academic weeks per year (42 weeks x 40 hours = 1,680 hours).
In the uniform 3TU academic calendar, these 42 weeks are (ever since the 2009-2010 academic year) spread out over four quarters, in total amounting to (4 x (8 weeks of lectures + 2 weeks of exams)) 40 weeks. The remaining weeks are reserved for scheduling resits and additional summer period exams.
In addition to this total of 40 weeks of lectures and exams, the academic year also comprises two weeks of Christmas holidays, one week of spring holidays in the third quarter and one so-called compensation week for the official public holidays in the fourth quarter. This adds up to 44 weeks. Following this period, teaching staff administering a written exam in the fourth quarter exam period are formally given four weeks (20 work days) to assess and grade these exams. If students are allowed to resit the exam within the same summer period, this process needs to be sped up. The regular assessment and grading term thus lapses 48 weeks after the start of the academic year. Teachers who are also involved in the summer period resits are required to be present in the relevant week, and teachers involved in the introduction activities for new students are required to be present two weeks prior to the start of the new academic year.
This means these teachers see little left of their summer holidays. Should the academic calendar contain holiday periods - excluding the Holiday Season - lasting longer than one week, this would mean that these teachers would have even less of a summer holiday.
This is the main reason for the University of Twente not to have autumn holidays, but to have spring holidays instead (since the 2008-2009 academic year).
What is the Lecture Room Working Group?
The Lecture Room Working Group (WOR) is a collaboration between the Facility Department (FB), the Campus Management and the Scheduling Team of the Centre for Educational Support (CES).
The WOR is responsible for, among other things, arranging the availability, design/organization and optimum use of the University of Twente's pool rooms.
Why do the lecture rooms have so few wall sockets?
The demand for a large number of wall sockets in University of Twente lecture rooms to plug in laptops and notebooks has risen sharply in a short time frame, but we cannot easily meet this demand. We have opted to install movable pillars containing wall sockets.
Just a few years ago, the audiovisual equipment used by the teacher was the only equipment requiring connection to a power outlet in use during a lecture. Of course, all lecture rooms had multiple wall sockets installed, but not to the amount that every user had their own individual socket available.
Now that almost every student makes use of a laptop, and this use is permitted, recommended or even compulsory during some lectures and exams, almost all lecture rooms are lacking in wall sockets. We acknowledge the existence of this problem, but there is no quick, easy and economic solution.
The easiest solution would be to place power strips and cords in every lecture room, or to encourage users to bring their own. Yet this would result in a tangle of wires and cables, an unacceptably dangerous situation that could lead to severe injuries. This is why the use of unfitted power strips and cords is not permitted. Adding more wall sockets to the lecture rooms' walls and skirting boards is out for the same reason. Apart from the increase in electricity capacity to be supplied to the buildings and the reconstruction work this would require, it would still result in cables hanging loose between the tables and the wall or skirting board.
The problem can be solved in newly to-be-built rooms by placing floor sockets or small socket cabinets on the floor (as were placed next to the teacher's desks in the Carrébuilding, requiring just one cabinet per room). However, these sorts of constructions are difficult to fit into existing rooms, not even taking into account the problems floor sockets would present when wanting to clean the floors with water and, again, the danger of tripping over the cabinets.
In January 2012, we experimented with installing movable power pillars connected to the grid via the ceiling and containing ten wall sockets in the Carré 1C and Carré 2N pool rooms. Teaching staff teaching courses in these rooms were asked for their opinion, which was positive enough that we decided to have many more such power pillars installed.
What is the Major-Minor Combination Template?
The Major-Minor Combination Template is an additional precondition applied to the timetables for the first semester of the third year of all UT bachelor's programmes containing an obligation to complete a minor, so as to ensure that all bachelor's students are as free as possible to pick their minor of choice.
Most UT bachelor's students take a minor offered by a programme other than their main in the first semester of their third year. For more details on minors, refer to the Major-Minor website. The study workload of most minors amounts to 20 European Credits(EC). 30 EC are scheduled per semester. Students in the first semester of the third year of their bachelor's programme thus work on both their minor and on their main programme (major). An optimum freedom of choice in minors can therefore only be possible if major and minor courses do not take up the same time spot.
We therefore divide the ten half days of the work week of the first semester in the third year of the bachelor's programme into major, minor and combination 'shifts'.
•A major 'shift' is a half day for which only courses exclusively forming part of one or more major programmes (and therefore not being offered as part of a minor) can be scheduled.
•A minor 'shift' is a half day for which only courses exclusively forming part of one or more minor programmes (and therefore not being offered as part of a major) can be scheduled.
•A combination 'shift' is a half day for which courses being offered as part of one or more major and of one or more minor programmes can be scheduled.
The necessity of employing a Major-Minor Combination Template is proven by this formal proof.
A separate arrangement exists for exam weeks, as these weeks involve providing different kinds of service to students. For example: nominal curriculum exams are spread out over the exam weeks as evenly as possible. Another example: exams in odd years of the curriculum are scheduled for different time slots than exams in even years of the curriculum, so as to minimize scheduling conflicts for students following courses of both an odd-year and an even-year programme curriculum.
•Every quarter is followed by two exam weeks. The first week of each set of two exam weeks is not divided into major, minor and combination 'shifts', for reasons of being able to provide the "different kinds of service" referred to above.
•The division into major, minor and combination 'shifts' does not apply to the two resit weeks during the summer holidays either.
•In all other exam weeks, a slightly different division of the week into major, minor and combination 'shifts' applies. Tuesday afternoons are scheduled as a major shift instead of as a minor shift. All other shifts for those weeks are the same as the ones applying to lecture weeks.
Why are so many exams held in the Sports Centre?
Many exams are held in the sports centre, as the regular lecture rooms lack the capacity to host all exams scheduled for the same time.
The number in the 'capacity' column in the list of pool rooms lists the capacity of a given room for education and lecture purposes. However, the capacity in terms of hosting exams is far less. For instance, rooms with fitted furniture require that two seats be kept empty between each student taking the exam, and an empty row between two rows of students. The exam capacity of such a room therefore only amounts to about one sixth of its capacity for education and lecture purposes.
This means that the regular lecture rooms lack the required capacity to have all exams scheduled for the same time be held. The Sport Centre rooms provide extra capacity, also because the available furniture can be rearranged.
What happens in a leap year again?
Every year between 1901 and 2099 divisible by four (including the year 2000) is a leap year, its month of February gaining an extra day: 29 February. This means the year 2012 was a leap year, the next one will be 2016, the next after 2020, etc.
We refer to the total time the earth needs to circle around the sun once (and go through all four seasons once) as a 'year'. We refer to the total time the earth needs to spin around its own axis (and go through its day-night cycle once) as a 'day'.
Precise astronomical measurements have confirmed that a year (presently and on average) contains 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45.19... seconds, or 365.24219... days. It is, of course, far from practical to have a year contain a fractional number of days, and that is why the 'leap year', containing one extra day, has long been in use. The name 'leap year' comes from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, in a leap year the day of the week will advance two days (from March onwards) due to the year's extra day inserted at the end of February (thus 'leaping over' one of the days in the week).
In 46 BC, Julius Caesar introduced the so-called 'Julian' calendar, in which every fourth year was a leap year. On average, this produces a year of 365.25 days. However, this results in years being too long by approximately 365.25 - 365.24219... = 0.00781... days (or about 11 minutes and 15 seconds). By around 730 AD, science had advanced to the point that this error was recognized, but it took centuries before it was acted on.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII, to correct the drift of ten days accumulated over time in one go, ordered that Thursday, 4 October 1582 would be followed directly by Friday, 15 October 1582. He also ordered that from that time on, every period of 400 years would only contain 97 leap years. By this order, a year is approximately 365 + 97/400 = 365.2425 days in length, an approximation of the factual state of affairs which is sufficiently accurate for the time being. Naturally, Pope Gregory chose to introduce the correction at such a time that no Christian holidays would be left unobserved for the year. Yet still his order was widely resisted: many people believed that by leaping directly from 5 to 14 October 1582, they would literally lose ten days of their lifespan.
•exception to this rule: if the last year of a century is divisible by 400, it becomes a leap year after all (resulting in the desired 97 leap years per 400 years).
The additional leap day was attached to February, as that month was the final month of the year until 456 AD, and therefore had the least amount of days. This latter fact is partially the result of the Roman Emperor Augustus shortening the month of February by a day so he could add this day to the month of August, named after him, and have it be equally long as the preceding month of July, named after Julius Caesar. So up until the year 456, the year started with the month of March (to have the year start in spring), which fact also explains why September, October, November and December literally mean the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth month, respectively.
The years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were no leap years, 2000 was, 2100, 2200 and 2300 will not be, etc. Everyone born after 1900 and deceased prior to 2100 will never witness a situation in which not every fourth year is a leap year.
*) Standardizing local time generally took even longer than standardizing dates. Different localities in the Netherlands kept their own clock right up until 1 May 1909. So the last day which had various towns in the Netherlands keeping different clocks was Friday 30 April 1909, which also just happened to be the day Queen Juliana was born.
Why do some years have 53 numbered weeks?
Each year is comprised of 52 'complete' weeks plus one or (in the case of a leap year) two 'extra days'. These extra days add up to an extra numbered week - week 53 - in some years. The 2009 calendar year was one of such years. The next year containing 53 numbered weeks will be 2015.
An 'ordinary' year contains 365 days, which means 52 weeks plus one extra day, while a leap year contains 366 days, which means 52 weeks plus two extra days. If every year were to have just 52 weeks, this would lead to too many of these 'extra' days after some time.
Take any period of 28 consecutive years. This period contains seven leap years and 21 'ordinary' years. This 28-year period thus contains (7 x 2) + (21 x 1) = 35 extra days in addition to the 28 x 52 weeks. As 35 days amount to exactly five weeks, every 28-year period contains five years of 53 numbered weeks.
By agreement, a week is set to begin on Monday and to end on Sunday. A week is numbered in the year containing most of the days of that week. So if, for example, 29 December is a Monday, it would be the first day of week 1 of the new year, as most of the seven days of that week (29, 30 and 31 December, and 1, 2, 3 and 4 January) are in January, and therefore in the new year.
If 1 January of any 'ordinary' year is a Thursday, 31 December of that same year must also be a Thursday, as the year contains 52 weeks and one day. The week containing the date of 1 January of that year must therefore be week 1 of that year (for 1, 2, 3 and 4 January all fall within that week) and the week containing the date of 31 December must be week 53 (for 28, 29, 30 and 31 December all fall within that week).
The same reasoning applies to any leap year in which 1 January is a Thursday, though in that case the date of 31 December must be a Friday instead of a Thursday, because of the added day in February.
If, in a leap year, 1 January is a Wednesday, that year's 31 December must be a Thursday, as this year contains 52 weeks plus two extra days. This year, too, contains 53 numbered weeks (for 28, 29, 30 and 31 December are in week 53).
All years - both 'ordinary' and leap years - in which 1 January is a Thursday, as well as all leap years in which 1 January is a Wednesday, contain 53 numbered weeks.
The principles of the uniform 4TU academic calendar apply independently of the number of weeks in a calendar year. This 'additional' 53rd week always results in the summer holidays being extended by a week, albeit not in the year containing these 53 numbered weeks. For example, the last year containing 53 numbered weeks was 2009 and the next will be 2015, but the summer holidays were extended by one week in the 2011 calendar year and the next year for this to happen will be 2016.
Where can I find more information on registering, reregistering and deregistering for exams?
More information on the exam registration and deregistration process can be obtained CES Osiris page.
For teaching staff: When entering my name in MTT, the results do not show all courses I teach; how can this be?
The Scheduling Team is not always aware of which courses are taught by which staff member. If you are unable to find a specific course, try again under Subject or Module/Study Programme. To have your name added to a course you teach, simply send an email to the Scheduling mailbox of the faculty concerned.
In which cases should I book a room with the Scheduling Team, and in which cases with the Reservations Office?
Please contact the Scheduling Team for all matters requiring scheduling in a timetable which are directly related to education. For all matters not related to education (e.g. colloquia, inaugural lectures and doctoral degree ceremonies), please contact the Reservations Office.
Why can't I find a specific course?
Courses are scheduled per quartile. So it is possible you are looking for a course which has not yet been scheduled. If you are unable to find a course you believe should have been scheduled, please contact the Scheduling Team.
When will timetables become available?
29 June 2018: Publication of the 2018-2019 1st quartile final timetables on the portal.
5 Oct. 2018: Publication of the 2018-2019 2nd quartile final timetables on the portal.
T.b.a.: Publication of the 2018-2019 3rd quartile final timetables on the portal.
15 March 2019: Publication of the 2018-2019 4th quartile final timetables on the portal.
How do I book a project room?
Project rooms can be booked using the Web Room Booking application.
How do I book a lecture room?
For all bookings not related to education, please contact the Reservations Office.
Where can I submit a complaint related to lecture rooms?
Contact the Service Desk of the building in question.
Can I request timetables of previous academic years?
Via My Timetable it's possible to check the schedules of the current and previous academic year.
| 2019-04-18T22:56:51 |
https://www.utwente.nl/en/ces/planning-schedules/frequently-asked-questions/
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The abscissae of those Rooks, for the player of each logicalColour, which can still participate in castling.
Narrow the type, so the turn can be queried.
For the players of each logical colour, identifies the abscissae of those Rooks which can still participate in castling (when other constraints are removed).
Get the list of random numbers required to represent the current castling potential.
Find the abscissae of all Rooks of the specified logical colour, which can still participate in castling.
CAVEAT: doesn't know the move-history, so the wrong answer is possible.
Generate the additional random-numbers required to correct the hash resulting from a change to the castleable Rooks.
Relinquish the ability to disambiguate between "have Castled" (& therefore can't subsequently), & "Have lost the option to castle".
Defines the side who took the specified turn.
Update with the latest turn.
Determines whether two positions can't converge on each other.
N.B.: in this function, the two positions are considered to be peers; nothing is assumed regarding which must do the convergence, perhaps both.
From the initial board, one may converge onto any other position, but any of a set of irreversible changes may compromise this; the total number of pieces & specifically Pawns, of each logical colour, can't increase; Pawns can only advance; the difference in the ranks of all pieces of each logical colour, which can only be reduced through promotion of a Pawn; castling can't be undone. This function only assesses this final change.
CAVEAT: since the potential of one position to converge on another, depends on a wider set of criteria, this function can only be definitive regarding when convergence is impossible, rather than when is possible.
CAVEAT: this function depends on one side having lost the right to castle, when the other side already has; this is quite rare.
| 2019-04-20T19:20:05 |
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bishbosh-0.0.0.3/docs/BishBosh-State-CastleableRooksByLogicalColour.html
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Follow these instructions carefully to ensure correct fitment and operation.
STEP 1: Disconnect the negative battery terminal.
STEP 2: From underneath the vehicle, remove the nuts that attach the Y-Pipe to the factory exhaust manifolds.
STEP 3: Remove any EGR or air lines going to the exhaust manifolds. Unplug the oxygen sensors. Unbolt and remove the factory exhaust manifolds and the stock gaskets.
STEP 4: Clean any old gasket material off of the cylinder head, use a scrapper if necessary.
STEP 5: Using the factory hardware and the Supplied Gaskets install the BBK Headers.
STEP 6: Attach the Y-Pipe to the BBK headers using the factory hardware.
STEP 7: Using the supplied hardware, gaskets, and block-offs connect the EGR and AIR fittings to the BBK Headers where applicable. NOTE!!! Be sure to apply a small amount of the supplied anti-seize on the threads.
| 2019-04-20T10:58:39 |
https://www.americantrucks.com/bbk-1-3-4-chrome-tuned-length-shorty-headers-0709-60l-manu-install.html
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Focus on the positive, even if you dislike most aspects of your current job.
When you're in the throes of a job interview, there's almost no escaping the inevitable question: what do you like and dislike about your current job? While you may see this as your chance to sound off about employers in an effort to display your desire for a new one, that tactic could actually come back to hurt you, since new employers may see it as you being ungrateful or disrespectful. Instead, prepare for this question by using it as a chance to display the qualities employers are looking for in their new hire.
Make a "like" and "dislike" list for your current or most recent jobs, writing down as many things as you can think of about the working conditions, your job requirements, your bosses and co-workers, and the company culture. Be as honest as you can -- this is only for your eyes, so it's ok to say "my boss is a jerk" -- just know that you won't be able to be that frank when the actual interview comes around. When possible, also write down the "why" portion; for example, detail why you think your boss is a jerk.
Read and re-read the description for the job to which you're applying, to get a good idea of what the employer is looking for in their new hire. Print out the job description and underline the adjectives the employer used to describe both the job and the company. For example, the employer may be looking for someone who is "collaborative" or "detail-oriented," or the company may be described as "cutting-edge" or "growing."
Compare your list of likes and dislikes with the job description, to find the places where the descriptions do and don't intersect. For example, if you liked working independently and the job describes the position as collaborative, you'll probably want to avoid mentioning your desire for independent work. If you enjoyed challenging projects and the job description mentions something similar, you'll know that's worth mentioning during the interview.
Make a new list of "likes" and "dislikes," based on the job description and your own personal preferences. During the interview, the hiring managers will be looking for clues that you're the right fit for the job, so this is your chance to tailor your responses to what the employer is looking for. Stay positive in your responses and never bad-mouth a current or former employer.
Memorize the new list and have a friend coach you through a mock interview, asking you other possible interview questions as well as asking you about your likes and dislikes in your current job. Ask the friend to gauge your answers and provide you feedback about how you can improve your responses.
In some cases, completing the "likes and dislikes" lists may help you determine that the new job is not the right one for you. In that case, you may have to re-consider whether you want to continue pursuing that job. It may also help you see that you need to consider a new career path or pursue other job training to find the job that will be right for you.
Should You Lie About Being Fired on an Application?
| 2019-04-20T00:21:57 |
https://woman.thenest.com/answer-likes-dislikes-job-5077.html
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With nearly two full weeks of the new school year under our belts, I'm still feeling my way around the new school space, which I expect will be true for some time. One of the challenges in our 3-5's class is that we've decided to spread ourselves out over 3 rooms during the indoor part of our day, which means I'm more often on the move, from area to area, trying to accustom myself to not always knowing everything that's going on. It's a strange feeling for me to come across, for instance, a stack of easel paintings, the back stories of which are known, but not by me. This makes me a kind of detective.
As we often do during the first few weeks of school, we're exploring primary colors with our big, fat preschool brushes. I tried something I'd never done before: color coding the brush handles to the color of tempera paint in the cups, while also using the lids that come with those cups that are designed to prevent spilling and only allow for one brush at a time. I've rarely used those before, but they come with the cups so we tried them last week. What can I tell about the children and my experiment by studying the paintings?
In this painting, I see that Kiran didn't explore color mixing, but rather appears to have tried out a couple brush techniques, using each of the colors presented to him.
I can tell he started with the yellow, using fairly "conventional" brush strokes, followed by a broken red line up the page with a quick down stroke at the end. In fact, with both of those first two colors he seems to have finished with a downward flourish, perhaps only because he was on his way to returning the brush to the color coded paint cup to trade it for the next color. Or was it something else? He's right-handed, so rightward slant of both strokes could indicated his hand was merely on its way to somewhere else, but there could be some aspect of angle and direction he was exploring. With the blue he clearly tried a new technique, dabbing or poking, probably by working his way down the paper.
Luca also used the dabbing technique on a pair of paintings.
Did he inspire Kiran or was in he inspired by him? Or perhaps they each came up with it on their own.
Luca's dabs are more prolific than Kiran's, they look more exuberant, with more spattering. I can imagine Luca standing at his easel jabbing his brushes as a way to play with a friend who was jabbing brushes beside him. I can also imagine him standing there alone, with a look of steady concentration on his face, studying the effect of his cause.
River, on the other hand, seems to have been exploring form or pattern or perhaps even direction, rather than technique, in this painting.
Of course, he's also the kind of guy who doesn't like to be told what to do. If this was a one off, I might even guess it's something he produced semi-reluctantly as the result of adult cajoling, but there's a companion piece that shows he still had something more to explore in this idea of parallel and vertical. With most of the lines, he started at the very top and worked to the very bottom of the paper, apparently careful to keep a space of white between them. Then there is that one wiggly red line on the right, like a joke: River has a great sense of humor.
Calder's painting exhibits a light touch. I was immediately struck by the dancing fluidity of the lines. In fact, this could almost have been a single line, created from a single dip of the brush. He's not normally found making art, and when he is, it's usually to create letters, numbers or the shapes of one of the 50 states. So this is a real departure for him and it makes me wonder if, like with Luca, he was painting with a friend to inspire him. There is a great freedom expressed here, a looseness that I still struggle to achieve in my drawings.
Vivian just worked the side of her canvas. She made a handful like this, each using a sort of muddy color, probably because she either she was exploring the mixing of colors, or chose to work where someone before her had done so and left it like that for her to discover.
I've seen children do this before, especially 2's and young 3's, sticking to the edge of their paper, leaving the center blank. I have no idea what it means, but I tend to think it's a sign of a brain that is, at least for that moment, seeing the world differently than you and me, a brain focused on the edges, rather than what is right in front of her. I know that she has always been fascinated by little things, often coming to me with insects or motes or stray sequins which she's found on the floor or in a corner. She's painted the center of her paper before and I'm sure she will again. Of course, as always, it could be something as simple as someone was standing with her and she was just painting around him, putting paint on the part of the paper she could reach.
Then there are those who seem to make it a goal to cover the entire paper, side-to-side and top to bottom. There is no name on this one, but you can see a great deal of color exploration. Perhaps this was the painter who left the muddy paint for Vivian. I like how you can even see where the clothespins held the paper in place at the top.
There was only one other paper in the stack of artwork that used the entire whitespace: this one by Charlotte. So, I'm guessing the first one is hers as well. Charlotte is an explorer, for sure, one who pushes on limits, so it doesn't surprise me to find her making these kinds of paintings. And she was proud of them too. At the end of the day she tried to pull open the locked classroom door, angry that she couldn't take the wet painting home with her.
Of course, it could have also been this painting she was after.
I do know that for a time she was painting alongside a couple of the older girls, 4-year-olds. I can't recall her painting human figures before, at least not at the easel. I think I'd want to make sure I was taking this painting home too.
These next three paintings from some of our older girls were clearly produced by more experienced easel painting hands. Sadie's primary color rainbow is a masterpiece of its type.
I often think of how many of us value art for its ability to be creatively groundbreaking, how often we say of a piece, "I've never seen anything like it!" That's usually at least part of the reaction I seek to create in my own artwork, but there is something to be said for recreating these iconic images, over and over, generation after generation, much the way the Native American tribes around the Pacific Northwest have recreated, for instance, the raven, over and over, generation after generation. It's art, I think, that builds community and connects us to those who come before us and those yet to be born.
This one from Sena I assume is a self-portrait. I'm in love with that thick head of blue hair and can imagine her choosing blue, the darkest color on her palette to represent her own thick, dark hair. I wonder, however, about the carefully painted blue on her chin. Perhaps this was the painting that inspired Charlotte's departure.
I was standing beside Violet as she painted this next one. That's a pumpkin head, but it is not a skeleton body. "It's just a body," she told me wearily as if she'd burnt herself out on the head and the rest was sort of a perfunctory endeavor.
This was an interesting piece of forensic work for me, going through this stack of paintings. It's an exercise I suspect I'll need to do more of working here in our new space. I may have to ask the teacher-parents in charge of our art projects to jot a few notes about what the children say about their works as they go along.
As for my color-coding experiment, other than those big canvases by Charlotte, I see little evidence of color mixing: something to keep in mind for the future.
And finally, there is this series by George. Each one seems to be an attempt to show one thing being enclosed or held by another, although those two dots that appear in the second two tell me he was, perhaps, working on a human face. Of course, the final one could almost be a rainbow. I will definitely stand beside George the next time the easels are out. I'm curious to know what these are about.
I love these! It's also very interesting to compare these to my own kids' paintings. My (now) 4yr old girl loves to color mix and use the entire paper. My (almost) 3 yr old son is a bit more thoughtful with his light brush strokes. Usually a lot like Calder's but he does like to color mix as well.
I love watching them paint!
Tom, you've got some beautiful art there! I hope that in your new shared space you are able to display it! I'll bet your little friends were so proud of these masterpieces. I like being handy when mine paint, so I can get the "story" behind the pictures they've done. Their stories always amaze me!
I love the way to desribed each painting Tom. I could visualise the children painting as I read ... Nice touch TT.
I think these art pieces are really great. My name is David Armstrong and I am a student at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. One of the classes I am in requires us to look at teachers blogs and I really have enjoyed yours. I am majoring in secondary history education. I think the work you are doing is so important. I say often that I think that the current education system doesn't encourage young students creativity enough. You are offering these students a skill they can use forever beyond just art. Thank you very much!
I really enjoyed your descriptions of the paintings created by your children.
It truly is fascinating to see the way children chose to paint, and draw - there is so much individuality in each child's work.
You are truly perceptive, and caring to take the time to really look at your childrens work.
| 2019-04-22T04:46:55 |
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/painting-detective.html
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What other names is Rock Rose known by?
How does Rock Rose work?
Dosing considerations for Rock Rose.
Cistus, Cistus creticus, Cistus lusitanicus, Cistus nummularius, Common Rock Rose, European Rock Rose, Geel Zonneroosje, Heliantemo, Hélianthème Commun, Hélianthème à Feuilles Arrondies, Hélianthème à Grandes Fleurs, Hélianthème Jaune, Hélianthème Nummulaire, Hélianthème Sombre, Hélianthème Tomenteux, Helianthemum arcticum, Helianthemum berterianum, Helianthemum chamaecistus, Helianthemum grandiflorum, Helianthemum hirsutum, Helianthemum nitidum, Helianthemum nummularium, Helianthemum obscurum, Helianthemum ovatum, Helianthemum pyrenaicum, Helianthemum semiglabrum, Helianthemum serpyllifolium, Helianthemum tomentosum, Helianthemum vulgare, Helianto, Ladanum.
Rock rose is an evergreen shrub. The flower is used to make medicine. It is commonly used in Bach flower remedies.
People take rock rose to treat panic, stress, extreme fright or fear, and anxiety; and for promoting calmness and relaxation.
More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of rock rose for these uses.
There isn't enough information to know how rock rose might work.
There isn't enough information to know if rock rose is safe or what the possible side effects might be.
The appropriate dose of rock rose depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions. At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for rock rose. Keep in mind that natural products are not always necessarily safe and dosages can be important. Be sure to follow relevant directions on product labels and consult your pharmacist or physician or other healthcare professional before using.
| 2019-04-26T00:35:00 |
https://www.medicinenet.com/rock_rose/supplements-vitamins.htm
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As profits hit £299m, will British Gas lower energy prices?
Consumer groups are calling for one of the big six energy firms to slash its gas and electricity prices following a massive 80 per cent rise in profits.
British Gas announced yesterday that it made £299 million, the equivalent of £20 a second, in the first half of 2009 and campaigners say this should be passed on to customers.
Consumer Focus energy expert Robert Hammond said: "Wholesale energy prices have come down and remain low, so we believe energy firms across the board should be making significant further price cuts."
British Gas has already slashed its bills by ten per cent in May of this year, but it has been suggested that its massive profits mean it can do more to help cash-strapped consumers.
The firm's managing director Phil Bentley has hinted that prices may come down in the future but ruled out any imminent reductions, stating that it is investing cash in creating new power plants and boosting green energy measures.
Reports this week have suggested that rather than going down, some consumers may see their gas and electricity bills soar as their fixed-rate deals end.
Anyone hunting around for a new tariff would be wise to use a price comparison site to make sure they are getting the best deal.
| 2019-04-18T19:08:17 |
https://www.ukpower.co.uk/gas_electricity_news/as-profits-hit-pound-299m-will-british-gas-lower-energy-prices
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I had to smile reading the New York Times' Maureen Dowd's column on Sunday. I hasten to clarify that I don't read Dowd because I agree with her politics - I'm in general diametrically opposed to her views - but she's a skillful, entertaining wordsmith, and it's always a good idea to keep tabs on what the opposition is saying.
Anyway, this particular piece was about (surprise!) Barack Obama, a profile of whom Ms. Dowd characterized as "sitting in a cafe, hunched over the New York Times, an Atlantic magazine, his MacBook, and some organic fruit-flavored tea, listening to Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks on his iPod."
What caused me to chuckle was the fact that aside from the New York Times, which I peruse only sporadically and selectively, that profile could pretty much be describing me. I've subscribed to The Atlantic Monthly since forever, and it's my favorite magazine; I use a PowerBook (several), and my next computer will more than likely be a MacBook. I'm a fancier of organic tea, and two of my favorite blends are Fujian White with raspberry and Bergamot (a variety of citrus) - flavored Earl Grey Green; Blood on the Tracks is my all-time favorite Dylan album and one of my favorite music albums ever, and I do have an iPod.
The thing is, my politics are somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun's, and I probably disagree with Mr. Obama as much or even more than I do with Ms. Dowd on most matters of any controversy or consequence.
So what does this all prove? Probably not much, other than the questionable nature of associating people's taste in reading material, music, beverages, and computers with their political inclinations.
However I've never been able to accept that there's any inevitable determinism with respect to a preference for Mac computers and a predilection for left/liberal political persuasion, even though the typecasting has become something of a cultural cliché.
It's long been boilerplate conventional wisdom that the Mac is "the liberal's computer". Steve Jobs is a self-described liberal Democrat, Al Gore sits on Apple's board of directors, and there's no denying that the Mac is extremely popular among demographic types generally assumed to lean toward the liberal end of the political spectrum.
On the other hand, quintessential conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh has long made no secret of his partiality for the Macintosh, and it's now been revealed that another prominent conservative is a consummate Mac fan.
In an interview with NewsBusters' Matthew Sheffield, Karl Rove, considered the architect and mastermind behind George W. Bush's (who has also been reported to be a PowerBook and iPod user) election victories in 2000 and 2004, has revealed that he is a big fan of the iPhone and MacBook Air.
"I love it. My life has changed. I have a shred of coolness. I've got my 3,500 people in my addressbook on the phone, I can sync my calendar. I keep track of my modest little stock investments. I can check the weather of my house in Washington, my house in Florida, my boy at school, my hunt-lease in south Texas. I can surf the Web, I'm just - I get part of my email there...."
And when Sheffield observed, "Well it sounds like Steve Jobs should call you up as a spokesman," Rove replied, "There we go, there we go. And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
And perhaps Rove's and Limbaugh's Mac enthusiasm isn't as anomalous a phenomenon as some might imagine.
Last March, eWeek's Roy Mark reported that according to a survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association and Rasmussen Reports, 35% of IT workers identify themselves as Republicans and just 26% call themselves Democrats, and while 40% affirm no party affiliation, an overwhelming majority - 75% - categorize themselves in the conservative-moderate range of the political spectrum.
The CompTIA survey also found that IT workers are evenly split between Barack Obama and John McCain as their choice for the next president of the United States. However, one speed bump McCain might be encountering in bonding with computer people is that he doesn't use one, acknowledging that he's a computer illiterate who relies on his wife, Cindy, for tech support. It can't be that he's technically inept. I mean, this guy flew fighter planes, and technically inept folks don't get the opportunity to do that.
It reminds me a bit of a relative of mine who spent his entire career as a civil engineer but has never got into using computers. He just doesn't perceive any need to in his life. Another friend of mine, a retired senior bishop of the church I belong to and a very intelligent individual, used to use a PC, grudgingly, in his office, but vowed when he retired three years ago that he would never get one of his own, and so far he hasn't. However, it's not necessarily a generational thing. Another retired priest friend of mine, a chronological contemporary of John McCain, is an Internet maven who uses Google intensively.
On the other hand, also last winter, market research firm Mindset Media published a Mindset Profile of Mac users based on a study conducted using Nielsen's Online panel of 7,500 survey respondents.
"tend to seek rich, varied and novel experiences . . . believe that imagination and intellectual curiosity are as important to life as more rational or pragmatic endeavors . . . are receptive to their own inner feelings and may experience life with more emotional intensity,"
Well, maybe so, but I know lots of conservatives who are also Mac aficionados, and for that matter plenty of liberal lefties who use Windows. As one of the former cohort, I like to think that using a Mac is simply a smarter choice than Windows, both because it is objectively a superior tool for a whole raft of functional reasons, as well as because it's a quantifiably more pleasant and satisfying environment in which to spend one's time. I guess that's partly "emotional", but I don't think it has much to do with narcissistic posturing or one-upmanship.
I choose to use the Mac because "it just works" is more than just ad-copy sloganeering, not because it makes me feel personally "superior", or "cooler than thou", or to make a cultural or political statement, although I do contend that the Mac OS itself is demonstrably superior to Windows. The Mac is simply an excellent tool.
Well, okay, there's also Net Applications Democrats Vote for the Mac? measuring the usage share of all Macintosh operating systems in respective US states - the resulting breakdown bearing a striking resemblance to the US "red/blue" election map from 2004, with Mac usage in general being higher in demographically more liberal "blue" states and the heaviest Mac concentrations being in the Pacific coast states (and Hawaii), New York, and New England, and the lowest in the southeastern, midwestern, and plains states, albeit with some "red state" exceptions, notably Colorado and Alaska, which are among the top ten Mac-using states.
Macintosh market share by state (Nov. 2007, Net Applications).
The ten states with lowest concentrations of Mac-usage are in West Virginia (3.47%), Mississippi ( 3.70%), Alabama (4.52%), South Carolina (4.61%), Arkansas (4.70%), Louisiana (4.85%), South Dakota (5.37%), North Dakota (5.38%), Kentucky (5.46%), and North Carolina (5.74%).
The ten states with the highest concentrations of Mac users are Hawaii (15.89%), Vermont (15.14%), California (12.83%), Oregon (12.72 %), New York (12.33 %), Alaska (11.87 %), Maine (11.19 %), Massachusetts (11.19 %), Washington (10.3 %), and Colorado (10.09 %).
Of course, these phenomena may be attributable to something other than political leanings per se. Economics, education, and even the number of Apple Stores in a region could presumably play a role. In general, states with a lower concentration of Mac users also tend to be ones with lower per capita incomes, and there's that famous Mac price premium. Education demographics and the number of colleges and universities located in a state look like other factors that might impact the findings besides political affiliation, although there is a considerable degree of crossover.
Oh well, enough of that. I think I'll kick back with a nice cup of raspberry-flavored white tea, listen to some Dylan, and check out the latest blogs on The Atlantic's website on my Mac.
| 2019-04-26T14:02:26 |
http://lowendmac.com/misc/08mr/the-liberal-mac-user.html
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How to grow hydro: 10 rules of thumb on watering plants.
To begin, herbaceous root systems require near 100% humidity, ideally, at all times, otherwise the root tips die back. The root tip is the very small end of the root that is divided into 3 zones.
This tip is responsible for the taking up of the vast majority of minerals and water. Root hairs facilitate this uptake and occur in the last or third zone. After the third zone the root tissue begins to lignify and become more impervious to water and nutrients. Kill the tips and the root has to regenerate one before going forward.
Roots grow in response to depletion zones, or areas where the root has absorbed all the minerals and water located there. When the material is not replaced, the root extends to find more. Roots have to grow. When nutrients and water are abundant, the root system does not develop in balance with the shoots and a carbohydrate limited condition presents itself weakening the plant. Allow the plants time to dry and thus use up the minerals present. Conversely, hold them too dry and a condition known as chronic underwater or underfeed can manifest. The root tips will also die back limiting further plant development (Fig. 1).
Well drained medium can have water applied for a longer period (ON time) because the excess drains quickly from the medium when the application ceases. Poor drained mediums have much shorter application time (but application rate has to be slower for absorption) because it will take longer to drain the excess water away from the root surface.
Very poorly drained mediums are impossible because the rate of application has to be slow to absorb and with the drainage time, can never be watered throughout (Fig. 2).
The general rule of thumb for determining the root health and irrigation needs of a system is that 1 square meter of bench top, covered with leaves, will use 4-6 liters of water a day. New plants, or where the square meter is not covered totally with leaves, will use about 3 liters a day on average. This is true whether there are 2 plants or 20 in the square meter. Build the system to be able to supply this amount across each watering and for however long you want to go without mixing more. Use this figure to decide how well the plants are working. If it is using less, either the roots are having a tough go, the humidity could be too high, the temperature could be too low, and so on.
air currents; and so on. Above all else, keep the crops developing equally.
With organic or inert medium, water when 50% of the water you applied last time is gone. In some instances, the grower can weigh the container bone dry, water to drainage and weigh again. The difference is how much water the container will hold.
In aeroponic systems, you have to be good at judging when the root surface has just lost the free moisture on it while not falling much below 100% humidity (air). This will require constant monitoring especially where the roots are exposed to free air.
Roots like the dark and really try to grow away from light. Keep them as lightless as possible in systems that are thin walled PVC, or an air chamber.
Remember, in a container with medium and drainage holes, you cannot put in too much water, just too long an application. For example; a 5 gallon pot can have 3 gallons applied in 5 minutes or 20 gallons (if the medium does not flush away) but there will be the same amount left in the container ten minutes after stopping the application.
Cycles have to be adjusted during the dark period of the lighting cycle because the plant is using much less water. The dark cycle is critical to plant development. This holds true for cloudy days or high humidity periods. Media that holds water (peat, rock wool, etc), seldom if ever need watering during the night as long as the grower adjusts the irrigation cycle to water in the last half hour of light or first half hour.
Want to know more about Hydroponics?
| 2019-04-25T19:43:03 |
http://www.cannagardening.com/ten_watering_rules_of_thumb
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Brand-X Outer Ring Bolts Narrow 7075 Alloy is rated 5.0 out of 5 by 2.
Rated 5 out of 5 by CairnBanIan from Replacement Nolts Skipping gears and bolts that start to loosen. These are a simply quick fix. Nice.
Rated 5 out of 5 by EnglishBunnyHop from Good quality I have ordered two sets of these bolts, clear coat and red. Both have been high qualitywith a nice finish and I have not had a problem tightening them or having them come loose (i used a dab of loctite blue). They are aluminum, so you probably shouldn't take them off and on frequently, but they took a lot of torque on my first tightening. Oh, and wiggle sent me a pack of gummy bears with my order, adorable!
How many bolts in the set for this price?
These are a pack of 5 bolts.
Are these for a single chainring or double chainrings?
They look short enough for single and the title says "outer ring", but on the other hand the description says "suitable for double chainsets".
The female part (or nut) is shallow enough for a single chainring fitment but the male part (or bolt ) has enough thread to secure two chainrings so they are suitable for both.
What dimensions are the bolts?
These will be long enough to fit a double chainset.
| 2019-04-22T15:16:55 |
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/brand-x-outer-ring-bolts-narrow-7075-alloy/
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Given an integer array, sort it in ascending order. Use selection sort, bubble sort, insertion sort or any O(n^2) algorithm.
Given [3, 2, 1, 4, 5], return [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
| 2019-04-22T12:44:59 |
https://code.dennyzhang.com/sort-integers
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A certain state has a sales tax of 5 percent on the portion of a purchase price that is greater than $100. If a customer paid a sales tax of $4 on a particular item, what was the purchase price of the item?
Let the price of item that is greater than \($100\) be \(x\).
\(5\)% sales tax on portion greater than \($100 = 5\)% of \(x\).
| 2019-04-18T22:35:38 |
https://gmatclub.com/forum/a-certain-state-has-a-sales-tax-of-5-percent-on-the-portion-of-a-purch-243583.html
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Boil the kettle and soak the noodles in the boiling water according to the packet instructions. Meanwhile, rub the beef with olive oil, sprinkle with the cumin and a small pinch of salt and rub all over.
Place in a really hot frying pan and sear on all sides. Add the onion, ginger and chilli and cook for a couple of minutes, then add the mushrooms, stock and pak choi.
Drain the noodles and add them to the pan. Stir around, and correct the seasoning. Slice up the beef and serve the noodles and pak choi in a big bowl, with the beef slices on top. Pour over the broth from the pan.
| 2019-04-25T10:14:31 |
https://frd.asia/2014/06/02/%E7%99%BD%E8%8F%9C%E5%86%AC%E8%8F%87%E7%89%9B%E8%82%89%E6%B9%AF%E7%B2%89-beef-with-pak-choi-mushrooms-noodles/
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What’s going on with Cardano?” (October 22nd). While the previous article described why Cardano Foundation’s chairman became discredited and what the community initiative was about, this article summarizes the subsequent developments that were followed by the chairman’s resignation on November 13th.
To get a full grasp of the situation, it is best to just read the previous article (14 min read). For the sake of completeness we’ll do a short recap.
Cardano aims to have an on-chain liquid democracy in the future. Until that point is reached (2020?), Cardano is federated by three entities. Growing the community and driving adoption are two of the Cardano Foundation’s main responsibilities. Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) and Emurgo take care of the technical development and business adoption of the Cardano ecosystem.
Mid-September, IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson expressed concerns about policy and funding choices made by the Foundation. On a private lounge on the Cardano forum, community members started a thread [only visible for Level 3 accounts] expressing these and many additional concerns regarding the functioning of Foundation’s chairman, Michael Parsons. On September 18th, the Cardano Foundation arranged a video-chat with community members, but the actual concerns were never addressed.
On Friday, October 12th, a group of nine community members calling themselves the Guardians of Cardano released an open letter and launched a petition to pressure Parsons to either improve the situation or resign. Some of the expressed concerns included nepotism, ill-advised funding choices and an overall lack of transparency and communication. Simultaneously, IOHK and Emurgo also released an open letter and a video statement by Charles Hoskinson to express their support for the community’s initiative. IOHK and Emurgo also announced they would hire personnel to take on the Foundation’s unrealized responsibilities in order to secure Cardano’s future.
The Cardano Foundation never publicly responded to either open letter or any of the concerns that were expressed by IOHK, Emurgo and the community. The petition was signed by over 6.000 people while the debate continued on Twitter and other public channels, fueled by hashtags like #MichaelParsonsResignation and #freecardano, as well as diverse memes and parody account campaigns. The Guardians’ Twitter account was briefly restricted late October, but continued to put pressure on Parsons again later.
On October 30th, the Guardians of Cardano published a second open letter to Michael Parsons on their website. The open letter was accompanied by a chart connecting Parsons to multiple individuals and professional endeavors that may represent a conflict of interests.
In the corresponding timeline, each of the connections was substantiated by a public resource. At the time of writing, this information was made private (password protected) on the Guardians’ website. However, the following video briefly summarizes some of the findings and shows the timeline.
One of the main findings was that Parsons has multiple connections (e.g. Michael Mainelli and Robert McDowall) to the Z/Yen commercial think-tank and Long Finance research program that were funded by the Cardano Foundation to conduct research on distributed futures. However, the research findings appear to have little to no connection to Cardano’s actual ecosystem and can even be interpreted to support competing technologies. This, combined with Parsons’ seemingly total absence of involvement with Cardano, transparency and communication, as well as the remarkable silence after the open letters, further fueled the Cardano community’s cynicism.
On November 8th, the Guardians of Cardano made a call upon the rest of the community to go to the Long Finance Autumn Conference on November 14th in London and confront Michael Mainelli with the current situation at Cardano and his relation to Parsons through the distributed futures research.
On November 13th — one day before the Long Finance Autumn Conference — the Cardano Foundation released a statement that Michael Parsons resigned from his role as chairman at the Foundation Council, effective immediately. Pascal Schmid, the only remaining council member, takes over the chairman position on an interim basis as the search for board members commences.
Shortly after the news of Parsons’ resignation, IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson published the following video statement to explain the current situation.
In his video, Hoskinsons thanks the Cardano community and Guardians of Cardano for their efforts to hold the Foundation accountable for their actions. He explains that Parsons’ resignation was voluntary and there was no severance package, which means Cardano was able to keep its integrity and principles as an ecosystem across this adversity. Consistent to prior positive remarks about Pascal Schmid, Hoskinson expressed he has full confidence in Schmid’s leadership and ability to manage the Cardano Foundation through the current transition phase.
While Hoskinson has no formal role in appointing Cardano Foundation board members, he hopes that the Foundation can re-invent itself to become more democratic, have at least 7 board members, a skilled and prominent executive director that is supported by the community, become more diverse in facilitating and funding community management initiatives and have Japanese representation, the home of many of the investors in the initial ICO.
While both Hoskinson and the Cardano community are happy with the end result, almost all of the voiced concerns and questions remain unanswered. Since most of these concerns address specific people and are no longer relevant for Cardano’s future, the Guardians of Cardano decided to make the information shared in their second open letter private. Allegedly, a Swiss community member has submitted the information to Swiss authorities. Perhaps this will make IOHK and Emugo’s request to undergo a transparent audit by Swiss authorities more likely.
It is essential that the Cardano Foundation, led by the to be appointed new executive director and board members, regain the trust of the community. If it can be successful at that, the Cardano ecosystem may actually turn out to be in better shape than it has been at any point over the past two years, where the Cardano Foundation has been largely ineffective. Aside from a potentially increased effectiveness from the Foundation itself, the recent turn of events has really brought together the Cardano community, that demonstrated being vigilant, resilient and outspoken when needed. Ironically, these were actually community characteristics the Cardano Foundation was supposed to facilitate in the preparation of Cardano’s future on-chain liquid democracy and decentralized governance process. In the envisioned system, a diverse number vocal community leaders need to step up to fill the role of ‘experts’ in the voting-system and receive delegated votes.
According to Hoskinson, the first quarter of 2019 may become one of the most important periods in Cardano’s history, as some of the most prominent roadmap items (e.g. decentralization, smart contracts) are expected to be released. It is therefore likely that the Cardano-related conversations will gradually shift towards those fundamental developments again over the next few months — to both the relief and excitement of the Cardano community.
| 2019-04-25T20:22:05 |
https://coinerblog.com/cardano-foundation-chairman-resigns-following-community-effort-50453efd3d3c/
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Sometimes it's difficult to make a distinction between friends and family. Friends are close to us because they really care and not because of a genetic bond. If you ask me what it would be the most important thing in life, I would probably answer: friendship.
| 2019-04-20T11:10:15 |
http://www.gabrielditu.com/photography/friends.asp
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LOS ANGELES -- After seeing his LeBron James mural vandalized for the second time in five days, Jonas Never opted to put an end to what had become an apparent hot-button topic among some fans.
Never told ESPN he covered the mural with white paint Wednesday not long after a vandal had splattered yellow paint on his work, which featured James in a Los Angeles Lakers jersey on a wall at the Baby Blues BBQ restaurant in Venice.
"I thought I had learned a long time ago to never touch religion or politics," said Never, the Los Angeles-based muralist who has also designed murals of the late Anthony Bourdain and Stuart Scott among many others.
"I guess it is never touch religion, politics or anyone against Kobe," Never cracked.
Not long after James committed to the Lakers in free agency on July 1, Never decided to work on a James mural. After 12 hours of work spanning more than two days, going through a bucket of paint and using more than 75 spray cans with graffiti specialist Fernando Valdez, Never's James mural was up last Friday featuring the message "The King of LA" on it.
Never received plenty of positive feedback, but he said his art was also met by criticism from some fans, especially on social media, over what he intended to be a play off of the "King James" nickname. He heard from some who objected to James being the "King of LA." Then the mural was first vandalized with someone spray-painting "We Don't Want You," "No King" and "3-6" on it in apparent reference to James' record in the NBA Finals.
"I got a ton of support," Never said. "At first when we had the original piece, there was a ton of positivity, but also a ton of like pro-Kobe, anti-LeBron sentiment. [Some] people didn't like it in general, not necessarily the work, but the sentiment that went with it. People had a big problem with the word 'of.' I get where they are coming from."
Never fixed it and decided to take "of" off "The King of LA." But Never said it was vandalized again sometime Tuesday night and he decided to call it a wrap.
"I know when to cut my losses," said Never, who did a Bryant mural near Staples Center during Bryant's final season as a Laker in 2016. "The first vandalism was made easier to swallow because, by all accounts from the Twitter debate [over it] that we saw, it looked like a guy offered up a $300 bounty to anyone who destroyed the mural. Some guy did it and posted video of him doing it and responded to the guy and said 'Pay me.'"
While Never doesn't know for sure who vandalized his art, he said there wasn't a hint of anyone claiming responsibility following the second time it was vandalized, leaving the artist at a loss when he tried to make sense of it all.
With another project coming up Monday in the San Fernando Valley, Never -- who has done more than 100 murals around Los Angeles, including a popular "Karate Kid" one -- did not think he had time to restore the James mural after the latest act of vandalism.
Never has plans to do a Lakers team wall piece for Spectrum SportsNet, the network that televises the Lakers. He did a mural of Lonzo Ball for the network last year.
"I can't see anyone getting mad about the whole team," Never said of his next Lakers mural. "[Kyle] Kuzma, LeBron, Lance Stephenson blowing on LeBron."
As for James, Never would like to design another piece off the Lakers' latest superstar, but perhaps during the season.
"This was just for my own fun just being happy that the Lakers were actually going to be talked about again," Never said. "And I didn't realize that a mural would be [almost] as talked about as much as the Lakers would be."
One current Laker, Josh Hart, expressed disappointment that the mural had to go.
"This is sad and disrespectful.... LA we better than this," Hart posted on Twitter.
| 2019-04-18T10:45:07 |
http://proxy.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24072288/artist-paints-lebron-james-mural-more-vandalism
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I often get contacted by recruiters notifying me about job opportunities. The majority of the time the opportunities fit my skills, but not with my personal motivation to work. This text is a reference that will help others understand why I work, and therefore which opportunities are interesting to me.
My work has to be meaningful to me. This implies that it has to fit with my values, ethics, and ideals. The most succinct way to summarise what these aspects are, is to simply say that I want my work to make the world a better place. Any company or institution that does not have a substantial goal of making a positive contribution to society, or solving an important problem, is not worth considering. Making the world a better place is of course a difficult task, and it is not exactly clear what it means, but it should be possible to have an intelligent conversation about how your work is involved in this task.
I need difficult intellectual challenges to be happy. Without them I feel like my brain is going to waste. What I enjoy is to solve practical problems using abstract thinking. Jobs where I am engaged in this process generate sustainable internal motivation for me.
I do not like working alone, even though I am capable of doing it when required. I believe that working in teams allow people to produce work that is beyond their individual skill levels.
Even if I had enough money to never work again, I would still work. Meeting people who are different from you, and solving problems together keeps you healthy and balanced.
I most certainly want to earn enough money. But without the other aspects, a well-paying job is not sustainable.
| 2019-04-22T10:56:02 |
http://leonomics.com/why-i-work.html
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Would you like to receive an email every time a discussion is started or a comment is posted in a given category?
2) Go to your profile page by clicking on your user name at the top of the screen.
3) Click on E-mail Subscriptions along the left edge of the screen.
4) Put a check mark next to the categories that you are interested in.
| 2019-04-25T12:52:01 |
http://forums.rcadvisor.com/index.php?p=/discussion/13/do-you-want-to-receive-an-email-when-a-discussion-or-comment-is-posted/p1
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I have a question regarding the declipper function - if I am using this with FLAC and MP3 files which are played digitally on the same machine as StereoTool is running, do I need to enable 'Analogue Input' mode ?
When the guide says "resampled" does it mean the original audio file itself sampled down from it's original lossless recording or StereoTool resampling between input and output sound sources.
I assume the original audio file.
If you for example resample 48 kHz FLAC to 44.1 Stereo Tool, then yes.
Thanks Hans, I enabled it anyway.
So, since as good as all music released in the recent decades will have been downsampled to 44.1 kHz from a higher rate, I should always have the Analogue input option selected?
Hmm … I think most mastering engineers work in 96 or 48 kHz and then downsample the completed master to 44.1 kHz. That would mean SRC would have occurred after clipping/limiting. So, if I understand your answer correctly, I should not have "Analog Source" selected?
If the peaks after declipping reaches higher than 0 dBFS, which is very likely, will Stereo Tool clip the signal, even though I use a 64-bit floating point audio engine? I will of course attenuate the signal after the plugin to avoid clipping the master output.
The level indicators in Stereo tool become red if I don't attenuate within the plugin (using the Preamplifier), but if I do, the input and output graphs will have different levels, which makes it hard to see exactly what Declipper does to the signal.
If you use the VST plugin, you can let it output things at > 0 dB, but the behavior in that case is undefined (meaning: it's not allowed in the VST spec, so some clients or hosts might not be able to handle it). But, yes, it should in most (nearly all?) cases work.
Is there any disadvantage to leaving "...analog..." checked all the time? In other words, is the system more likely to miss clipped samples with a pure digital source?
It might treat too many samples as "unreliable", which means it has less data to based the reconstruction on.
In general, for good reconstruction, it's much worse to see a clipped sample as not-clipped (forcing the reconstruction to not change that sample) than the opposite (throwing away a perfectly good sample), but ideally you shouldn't do either.
| 2019-04-22T04:52:05 |
http://forums.stereotool.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&p=58369
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Image 1: What did you see FIRST?
Image 2: What did you see FIRST?
Image 3: What did you see FIRST?
You got: 0.1% of the population: You have the personality of a winner!!
How rare is your personality? Only 0.1% of the most intelligent and talented people on earth can be identified as winners! You know some of them: Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Walt Disney, Bill Gates and J.K.Rowling.
You got: 2% of the population: You are a charismatic superstar!
How rare is your personality? Only 2% of the population has your charisma and charm. Your most defining traits: Remarkable presence, empathy that makes you approachable and a perfect balance between self confidence and humility. You simply radiate charisma, personality and individuality, making others feel completely relaxed around you. You're loving, compassionate, and you have the remarkable ability to empower others. You're a magnet that draws others towards you, and you're absolutely irresistible. You ooze success and triumph is written in the stars for you. Keep it up, you're a true star.
You got: 7% of the population: You are highly creative and artistic!
How rare is your personality? Only 7% of the population are as creative as you are. Your most defining traits: Originality, imagination and curiosity. You are a very creative, imaginative and passionate person. You love to experiment with various forms of creations, and challenge yourself at every opportunity. One of the most important things in your life is your alone time. During that time, you let your mind flourish and your creativity go wild. Without that creating outlet, you could go practically insane.Your creative nature helps you to always look at the positive side of life, always find the mental strength to move forward, and never look back.
| 2019-04-21T22:55:30 |
http://buzzy.xpertscripts.com/quiz/this-super-simple-image-test-will-reveal-how-rare-your-personality-truly-is-763
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I am reading through this site and having second thoughts on the former PSUs I was looking at. Maybe someone on here could recommend some PSUs that would work. I bought the Lian Li Tyr X-500 case and need the PSU to fit it with the side panel on. The Thermaltake pictured seems to fit appropriately.
I have not purchased the atx x58 board yet, but will purchase the i7 920 or 940. My graphics will be two gtx 280/285 or 4870x2 cards with a third to be purchased when/if I am feeling spendy. I will be running one Intel x25 ssd and one 1.0/1.5 tb secondary drive and likely one blu ray drive.
After doing some reading here, I am not sure what will work- especially with my size requirements (smallish). Please advise.
I am having a bit of trouble understanding which power outputs I need on the supply to power the components I listed. Should I reformat the question to make it easier to list?
3 GTX 285 or 3 HD4870X2....850W+ for sure 1000W would be preferable...no way 700W would be advisable.
I don't know how small the Lian-Li is though...but there are some small form factor 1000W out there....OCZ EliteXstream for 1. OCZ ProXstream if you can still find those.
"OCZ does not recommend the use of our OCZ1000EXS with 2 x Overclocked GTX280 graphics cards. The OCZ1000EXS power supply is certified by NVIDIA to power Two GeForce GTX280 GPUs but the significant dynamic loading of two overclocked GTX280s may cause operational issues and is not recommended. "
Would fit. Should I trust the OCZ with that waiver on their page?
I don't see where any flavor of GTX 280 SLi or 285 SLi or even GTX 295 SLi would give a decent 1000W unit like the OCZ any problems....probably just a precautionary tactic by OCZ.
Is there anyone else with a similar form factor that might be a little heavier duty? I would hate to get close to maxxing the supply out. That is, unless you think that 1000w would have sufficient margin to run semi-efficiently.
Also, the Silverstone DA1000 and the Silverstone ST1200 would fit. Is this better or worse than OCZ?
It also looks in this picture like there may be enough room to accomodate a slightly longer supply. There might be enough room to use the higher end Thermaltake supplies. If this were the case, would that be better?
The Silverstone Decathalon is built by the same company (Impervio) that builds the OCZ EliteXstream....from the reviews I have read, the OCZ is a little better in quality. I have no idea why OCZ would say not to run dual overclocked GTX 280s...the unit is easily capable of ouputting 1000W from the reviews I have read. Zap has stated that he was successful getting 3 GTX 280s to run on a BFG ES 800 (although not with 100% reliablity). 2 GTX 280 or 285 whether overclocked or not should be no problem.
I'm certainly no expert though.
I would likely only have 2 in sli because I am running one 28" (sli) and one 19" (secondary).
I appreciate your help a lot in this matter. I am way less experienced on this front than almost everyone on this board.
So, I assume, that is your recommendation?
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What this question is for is to design the circuits suitable for the consumtion required apon a customers request to an electrician.
Before starting a design such as this you have to know non-electrical stuff ie, how many people will be using workshop at same time? why, cos it means if only 1 then when welding say not able to be using grinder at same time. If several people working then can't allow such diversity.
to add all together not possible from house supply as total load in theory more than 100A, however my workshop has all afore mentioned items plus wood & metal lathes, band /circular/table saws,ect. non as huge as you mention, eg battery charger 30A charging current only draws 2.5A from mains, 140A welder draws 16A from mains, compressor 30A = 8HP motor , unlikely!
in real life my workshop runs on a 4mm2 pyro buried under patio on a 40A MCB, worked fine for 30+years, lights in house dip when welding arc strikes up but hey ho!
I think you are trying to run before you can walk. The example you give is too large for supply from house so you would need to look at ways to get power else where. Motor driven welding set, or compressor what are you going to do in garage "Air Arc"? Lights can be discharge 70 Watt mercury etc. May be even a generator or with that distance maybe its own supply.
Often you find only one socket for welding set and compressor etc. So only one can be run at a time.
I had a caravan with 10 amp supply. The hot water was electric and so was the heating so I used a relay connected to water heater thermostat so when water heater called for heat the fan heater turned off. Both 1Kw and I could still boil kettle or use micro wave as long as I was careful.
I'v unknowingly wanted to much to get the supply for what I'd like.
Sorry if it looks like Im trying to learn alot to quick but I was hoping to have bits of what was asking broken down into section just like KB did with the lighting he explain the basic calculations then gave me a task to try to see how much I can understand and complete, to me this is the only way I can find my weakness In learning these items.
I hope there's enough to get me started on a challenge.
OK keep going your doing well. Yes you can get big sockets for 230 volt blue similar to ones used with caravans and 110volt but 32 amp. They jump in stages 16, 32, 63, etc and they don't have to be fused to limit so you can connect to 20 amp MCB.
For a workshop with items having an inrush you may need type c or d MCB's and because these would need a better earth loop impedance you may also need a RCD if not already fitted to comply with earth loop impedance setting this is calculated or selected from table.
Lighting in workshops is not so simple either two main considerations are colour correction and stroboscopic effect and you would need to consider if HF units should be fitted and what tubes should be used.
There are better high pressure discharge lamps than sodium they give a white light are not called mercury and the name sorry escapes me. Sodium with the orange light it seems is the most receptive light for the human eye so lower light levels allow us to still see where same light level with other colours we would not see. They were used for street lighting but they will not reflect on yellow high visibility vests etc so have been replaced in many areas. Mines and Railways use Orange high visibility vests.
As to cable sizes with a max of 100 amp into the house 16mm will take all the power available and then only volt drop to consider. Next step to 25mm jumps to a cable which would take some working and you would need to start and finish in an enclosure able to accommodate such a heavy cable. OK in workshop but not so good in the house. This is where you need to consider other options. For example I have used two parallel 150mm cables from a generator rather than one 240mm cable just so I could physically get the cables connected. I have not worked out you demand again but consider you could put 1 double socket box with lid under your consumer unit and feed two 6mm SWA cables with ease but not enough space for a 16mm in same box. With 16mm you would need an adaptable box a lot bigger and not as acceptable in the house side.
I would always use a copper earth but forgetting regulations if you used for example a 5 core cable two cores for phase and two for return with one for earth plus the steel wire armor you again are using smaller tails worth considering.
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The game adaptation of the film comes at a bit of a surprise to me - since Vice City is heavily based on Scarface (setting, cars, characters, clothes and even the mansion has the same colour scheme) the sense of deja vu would be overwhelming. If Vice City contained the actual characters from the film I suspect it would be difficult to tell them apart. Mind you, this is probably the first unpreventable "GTA clone" since Vice City is a clone of Scarface. The game looks pretty much like your standard third person action game, but has received generally positive reviews all round.
But the thing is Scarface is a film that came out 20 years ago, this game is cashing in on the film's new found popularity, this film holds a similar status to The Godfather among rappers and Vice City has in a way reintroduced the film to a new generation. I wouldn't necessarily call Vice City a clone of this film, it has borrowed a few things from it, but the game is also inspired by other 80s phenomenoms, such as Miami Vice, it is a homage to various things and woven themes and fashions together to create a colourful pastiche of an 80s crime story. Does anyone have this game, is it any good?
Obviously not a complete clone, but you know what I mean. Nevertheless, Scarface was clearlyits biggest influence overall, along with perhaps Miami Vice. The "super cops" that show up in Cheetahs at a certain wanted level were a reference, for example.
The team at Rockstar Games have admitted that the film that most inspired them while designing GTA3 and Vice City was Scarface, GTA3 even has some of the songs from the Scarface soundtrack on the in-game radio station Flashback FM.
G-MANN wrote The team at Rockstar Games have admitted that the film that most inspired them while designing GTA3 and Vice City was Scarface, GTA3 even has some of the songs from the Scarface soundtrack on the in-game radio station Flashback FM.
And the beach in Scarface looked pretty similar to that main road (by your place in the Red Light District) in Grand Theft Auto III.
This game sounds mildly good, but does anyone know anything more about it? Does it hav free roam like in the Driver and Grand Theft Auto games?
This might be the first GTA-clone I've seen without any taxicabs.
Is there any way to store cars in this game? If so, how many cars can you store?
AMC_Pacer_Man wrote Is there any way to store cars in this game? If so, how many cars can you store?
Yes, you can't store cars. But you can buy cars via phone. After the car was purchased, you can call your henchman, and he will deliver your car immediately to you.
This is definitely a GTA clone, mostly relating to Vice City.
There is a Garbage Truck and it's flatbed equivalent missing.This is not a GTA clone ,you haven't even played it,how would you know????
I think I will replay this game, after 8 months of abandonment in my game collection.
VanMan629 wrote This is definitely a GTA clone, mostly relating to Vice City.
Quite possibly the best game I have ever played! By the way, there is a 1972 Citreon DS in a cutscene at the begining of the game.
A great game based on a great classic movie.
The cars I posted were in the intro of the game. Which showed many parts of the movie. So I guess they don't count and I understand. And I do understand that IMCDB and IGCD are different websites and thought that those cars in the intro would count. But I apologize.
what the island, Tony Montana go in the middle of game ?
The game takes place in Miami, Bolivia, and a bunch of named islands that I forget what they're names are.
Adding the stock Bandit ST, gang shag_van and gang caballo, along with a better pic for the trash truck.
Added. Please, for the love of God, accept them. ._.
I'll also be getting better pics for the rusted out Datsun 620(not a Hilux), the tanker, Bodog Stampede and Bentley.
Let me guess, they've been accepted, but my browser is FUBAR and not showing them.
Well, uh, the bad news is, that not every admin can approve pics. Only blue admins (IIRC) can (Rinspeed & SWF & co.).
Well, I hope they get accepted, along with that one Flatout 2 pic.
Also, fun fact. There is a LOT of unused vehicles. There's a Columbian gang Mojave, Shag Van, Speedboat, Nacho gang Macaro, Shag Van, Tony gang Macaro, Shag Van, GS Wolhabend and there's also a model file for a car called "Mullet". I'm going to either assume that's the AMC Gremlin's model file, or a Camaro lookalike.
RF.....do you think the .P3D files could be opened?
What project would that be?
Alrighty, uploaded better pics for the rusted out Datsun 620(not a Hilux), the tanker, Bodog Stampede and Bentley, along with the Bacinari, exotics version of the Pumah, and the flatbed version of the Container truck.
Still missing the DEA/SWAT van, and flatbed version of the garbage truck.
How come the exotics Pumah was denied? It's a different car. Stripes, wheels, spoiler, performance.
Nope, they're sitting in the files. I used Scarface Extractor.
Added stripped Accord prop, stripped Mack tanker prop, beta Caballo prop and re-added the exotic catalog Pumah.
Do we really need multiple pages for the same car? We got two GMC Vanduras, two El Caminos etc.
Yes, they're different cars with different models/names.
lcpdcv wrote Yes, they're different cars with different models/names.
you hadnt understand that we dont accept same cars with just different colors. I had tell you a lot of times.
Oh my god, it's not just different colors, it's asthetic differences/data differences.
I can see that ElCaminos are almost exactly the same with different rims and exactly the same name. Where are your different names?
Completely aware of your sarcasm, but lolno.
The modifications on cars in SA are merely controlled by a .dat file.
Sincerely, this game is, in one word, Superb. it's awesome. either can you just drive around, sail (due to a considerable number of boats, including a huge yacht),a separation between clean and dirty cash, awesome music, and you can even get the moves on a girl or two between the game. brawling your way into Miami's criminal underworld, you impersonate Tony Montana (O RLY?) after the mansion is razed by Alejandro Sosa's Private Army. with all his fronts lost and no money, Tony faces a Hard-Reset, and now will take his empire back, one bullet at a time.
Why this game won't work on Windows 10????
uglyman323 wrote Why this game won't work on Windows 10????
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How Good is Virender Sehwag?
What is the relevance of 319?
Its quite high if you are the only triple century scorer of your country and hold the record for the highest test score by a test batsman from your country.
The relevance is even higher if its your second triple century that places you in the same league as Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara.
And finally, it puts you at an entirely different pedestal if with that score you hold an Indian batting record and you don't have the surname Gavaskar, Tendulkar, or Dravid.
Thus 319 is of great relevance to Indian cricket as well as Virender Sehwag who smashed those runs in a mere 304 balls. Fastest ever triple century, 10th consecutive century above 150, and all mentioned above is what was special about Sehwag's innings. Definitely a treat to watch.
Uncle J has even mentioned all that he could have left to watch that innings LIVE. It was THAT good.
But how good is Sehwag really?
Apart from his first 4 test centuries, all the rest (10 of them) are 150+ scores, a fact that has been well documented over the last few days. These 10 centuries have come in a span of a bit over 4 years between December 2003 (195 vs Australia) and March 2008 (319 vs South Africa).
Less than 3 test centuries per year - does that place him among the greats?
Sehwag scored 151 against Australia in his previous test. But there was a gap of 7 tests and 13 innings between the 151 and the century before that - 180 against the Windies at St. Lucia. He had only 2 fifty plus scores in those 13 innings with a best of 65.
Between the 180 against the Windies and his previous century - 254 against Pakistan - there were 6 tests and 11 innings during which he scored only 1 fifty, an unbeaten 76. Plus, between the 254 and his previous century, also a double (201) against Pakistan, he played 9 innings in 6 tests scoring only 1 fifty.
Sehwag definitely scores big when he gets to a 100 but his centuries are few and far in between. They are quite dispersed and the scores are inconsistent in between the 100s. Compared to his 14 centuries, he has only 13 fifties, which highlights the inconsistency of scores between the 100s, but at the same time shows his ability to score big, really BIG when he does.
Despite being inconsistent can he be considered as a great?
Moving on, I think that there is one fact that goes entirely against Sehwag. Sachin has been criticized in the past for not playing enough match winning innings for India. I'm afraid that the same can be said about Sehwag.
India have won only 1 out of the 10 tests in which Sehwag scored over 150. While India drew 6 of those 10 tests, they lost 2 of them - to Pakistan in Bangalore when he scored 201 and to Australia in Melboune when he scored 195. The current one will in all probability end in a draw.
Have Sehwag's innings been of importance to the team? Not exactly.
They haven't secured wins for India apart from in Multan when he scored 309 against Pakistan. Nor have they been 2nd innings match-saving type knocks - all of them have come in the first innings.
Definitely an entertaining batsman with the ability to keep on scoring once he gets set, but is he one of the greats as Sanjay Manjrekar has described?
Special he is, no doubt about that. But great? Not really. What's your call?
I thought his innings in Chennai akin to flogging a dead horse.
When the ball started moving he was back to his familiar for of dismissal edge to slip.
Somehow, I am against this rush to label someone great.
I thought his innings was one of the best test innings I have watched just cause of the sheer entertainment it provided.
But to label him a great is you mention, rushed. Esp when a few facts go against that label.
I differ slightly with your opinion that Sehwag's innings was entertaining.
To explain, I would have been entertained if there was some semblance of a contest between the bat and the ball.
BTW,to validate my point, the SA fans would have undoubtedly found it as boring as we found Amla's innings.
Ive always enjoyed a batsman ripping the bowlers apart. Sehwag did just that while Dravid on the other end made it look like it required tons of concentration to play on that pitch.
I agree that it was entertaining when compared to Dravid's laboured knock.
His last century before the 319 was in Adelaide two months ago. He scored 151 of India's second innings 269 - definitely a match-saving effort.
I don't think it's fair on either Sehwag or Tendulkar to talk about their lack of match-winning innings. If Tendulkar and Steve Waugh had each been in the other's team, then Tendulkar would have scored many centuries in victories, and Waugh the same in losses, because winning and losing is heavily dependent on the quality of the team, not just one star.
Take Sehwag's 195 in Melbourne. Australia went on to a very comfortable victory. But I don't see the logic in criticising Sehwag because his innings wasn't "influential". What else could he do? He almost hit 200 when none of his teammates could pass 50.
Comparing 13 fifties to 14 hundreds works both ways. It means he has a good conversion rate once he gets to 50.
Sehwag averages one century every 6.57 innings. If you take all batsmen (qual. 20 innings) who average 50 or more, you see that they average a century every 6.60 innings. So there's nothing there that should disqualify him from greatness.
Judging him by centuries per year isn't fair, because he got dropped from time to time.
Anyway, I wouldn't count Sehwag as a great, because batting's too easy these days, and he has an inflated average like most batsmen today.
David - I think that criticizing a batsman for being a heavy scorer who doesn't win matches for the country is quite apt.
The most glaring example is the test match between ind and pak in Jan 99. Ind were chasing 270 odd and sachin on 130 odd had taken them to 240 before holing out to Saqlain. India lost it from there...Sachin just needed to be there for another 7-8 overs or so.
There have been many other innings which haven't led India to a win. Steve Waugh single handedly took the Windies down and single handedly took the Aussies to the semis in 99WC after defeating SA in the must win super six game.
Sachin has played a few innings like those but still majority of his centuries are in losing causes.
Compare that to Inzamam - 18 out of 25 tons being match winning ones and majoriy of them in matches where he was the only one who held the batting together. Definitely worth a lot more than a 300 in a drawn game.
He has a very good conversion rate I agree but what i was trying to point out was that it also means that between his 100s he has a consistent run of poor scores.
U mention batsmen averaging over 50 scoring a 100 every 6.6 innings. In the 7 innings the batsmen have between the centuries u will find (its a guesstimate) that they score 2-3 50+ scores on average. Sehwag scores atmost 1. That highlights the inconsistency.
Would u have a batsman who scores a 60-70 every game or one who gets single digits for 6-7 innings and then smashes a BIG 100?
Centuries per year as a bad measure I agree. I thought of that after I had written it when I though that Sachin in 17 years has 30 odd centuries meaning 2 or less per year - so thats no measure.
Sehwag faced less than half the balls while he was at the crease.
I'd agree with your criticism of Sehwag if he only made runs on flat pitches that peter out to draws, but that's not the case. A couple of the draws he's made centuries in were rain-affected.
"Holding the innings together" requires someone at the other end, and winning matches requires bowlers, something that Pakistan traditionally have and India don't (outside of India, at least).
If they average the same, I wouldn't prefer one or the other. Both clearly have room for improvement - the first guy needs to learn to stop throwing his wicket away after he makes a fifty, and the second needs to fix his starts.
Interestingly, a common complaint amongst English fans in recent times is that their batsmen were keeping their averages up over 40 by making lots of consistent 60's and 70's, without any hundreds. They wanted less consistency, so that there would be more hundreds.
I find that position just as wrong as wanting the consistency. I just want my batsmen to score lots of runs. Ideally, of course, you want consistency AND hundreds. That would make the average go up.
how would you rate failures even on these track...?
why we highlight bowlers feats on seaming and overcast conditions??
Personally, I like to watch games which gives some help to the bowlers. It brings out the best in the batsmen.
I haven't given much thought about batting failures on a dead pitch.
I would rate a bowlers haul on a bowler friendly pitch as low as a batsmen who scores a triple on a flat wicket.
David ur answers and arguements always make sense and u justify them with solid facts and numbers so i can't do much but to agree with you.
Maybe I used to the wrong barometers to test Sehwag's greatness.
However, I think we both agree on the bottom line that Sehwag is not one of the greats as labelled by Manjrekar.
SP, a failure on a dead track could be caused by a rash stroke or an unplayable delivery that comes by only a few times in ones innings. I would only criticize failure due to the former.
Bowler's feats on lively tracks are highlighted because they are so rare in these days.
Karachi test 2006 between India and Pakistan. Pathan took a hatrick in the 1st over. Pakistan were 5 to 6 down for very little. Grassy wicket, Indian bowlers swinging the ball heavily and Kamran Akmal saved Paks innings with a brilliant 100.
That 100 was worth so much more than the HUGE centuries that Yousuf and Younis knocked during that seres.
That was exactly my point aby Inzi Obaid - when he scored runs he made sure other bat around him and he more or less carried the batsmen and the tail with him and inspired them to stick around and give Inzi all the help needed for a chase or a match winning total or a match saving innings.
Surely he had others doing well but many of his efforts were single handed.
As for Sehwag, the way he plays is very different from the rest of the Indian batting line up and he doesn't necessarily carry his partner with him. There's the difference.
Its unfair to compare the two batsmen.. I brought up the point only to discuss the 2 different styles of batting..
Inzi's style is a mark of a great player in my books..
I'm sceptical about the notion of some batsmen being able to carry the others around him, but I'll have a look into it later today.
David, if you have a look at a stat like the total runs scored and total balls faced in partnerships between a batsman in the top 6 andtailenders (numbers 8 to 11).. I sense u will find Inzamam near the top of the list.
I think Steve Waugh will top the charts.
That'll be interesting to know (what q said). I'm guessing Steve W as well.
Isn't this comparison totally unfair? Sehwag's job is to give his team a good start. He is an opener. Waugh and Inzamam are middle order batsmen. Their job includes 'finishing' and 'batting with the tail'. They are truly great players and they would have constantly improved at 'batting with the tail' and 'lifting other players'. How often will Sehwag bat with the tail? All the players who follow Sehwag are true greats. They don't need inspiration from Sehwag and even if Sehwag's presence made them play better we cannot recognize it. We'll just attribute it to Sachin's or Dravid's greatness. To me, this is the same as comparing oranges and apples.
Tashi, I completely agree with you. I think our discussion here went on a tangent and no one meant to compare sehwag to inzi or waugh.
That's why I mentioned that it was more a comparison of the batting styles rather than the players in order to determine which style makes a player great.
My simple question was whether u think sehwag is a great or not.
As for an analysis on who has batted more with the tail and made them play around him, it doesn't apply for sehwag. That's to see if inzi was a batsman who did that or not.
Welcome to well pitched tashi.
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Spam through compromised passwords: can it be stopped?
Any account on a legitimate mail server is a valuable resource to a spammer or cybercriminal because it gives access to a server that is unlikely to be blocked from sending email. A spammer can use an account on a legitimate mail server to spam, and reach many more people than if he sent email from an IP that does not host a legitimate mail server. A cybercriminal can use an account on a legitimate server to send spam, host web sites, or provide other services that contribute to the distribution of malware, phishes, and scams such as the Nigerian "419" scams that we are all familiar with.
The volume of criminal spam that is sent through compromised user accounts on legitimate mail servers that use SMTP AUTH authentication, and should theoretically be secure, has grown precipitously in the past two or three years. It is currently a major vector for criminal spam.
Worse, it is difficult to block this spam without also blocking email from legitimate users whose email is also sent from the same mail servers. Companies and ISPs can take only limited security measures on mail servers that carry important business email. The automated blocking methods that many ISPs use to detect and block infected machines on residential/consumer networks cannot be used on business networks because they risk blocking legitimate email and can cause major service disruptions.
Spamhaus and other blocklists are also limited in the measures they can take to block this spam because of the risk of false positives. While Spamhaus blocks low traffic mail servers when they are detected sending a significant amount of spam, we are usually unwilling to list a busy outbound mail server because, even when one account on it is spamming, it also sends large volumes of legitimate email. We list such servers only when the spam volumes are heavy and other measures, such as emergency notifications to the ISP or company, have failed for a period of hours or days to halt the spam. Meanwhile, the spammer abusing the server can continue to bombard Internet users with malware, phish, scams, and other types of high-volume spam.
We all need a solution, and we need it quickly.
There are three major avenues that criminals use to obtain user logins and passwords on legitimate mail servers: guessing, phishing, and malware. The following sections discuss each in detail.
Many email users use insecure passwords. Weak passwords leave the door to the mailserver that hosts the user's email account open to cybercriminals and spammers. It is as if the user parked his automobile in a public location, and then left the doors unlocked and the keys in the ignition.
By now most users have repeatedly seen warnings against using their logon, their first or last name, their birthdate, their phone number, or any other personal information as their password. Most users have heard that passwords such as "password", "test", the infamous "123456", or a simple word that can be found in the dictionary are also insecure. Many users ignore this information, however, leaving their accounts vulnerable to the gangs of cybercriminals and hackers who run automated programs to guess weak passwords. At present, many weak passwords can be cracked in a matter of minutes.
Cybercriminals deceive users into revealing the logon and password to their email accounts in exactly the same way as they trick users into revealing online banking credentials or credit card information. Normally users are sent a fake email from their ISP (or IT department of their company or educational institution) that requests them to log onto their account at the supplied URL. The URL points, not to the real logon page, but to a fake page that is carefully designed to look like the real logon page. The fake page then transmits the login and password to the criminal.
This is often due partly to failure to educate users in proper online security. Nobody should ever trust an email that claims to come from their bank, credit card issuer, their ISP or any other company where they have a private account. Users should NEVER follow links or fill out forms found in such an email message. By 2012, all users should know these basic security precautions. That so many do not and phishing still works with them suggests to us, not that education efforts have been lacking, but that some users are unable or unwilling to practice basic security online.
Unfortunately not all types of phishing require an uneducated, careless or gullible user. Malware on a compromised personal computer can also change the DNS resolution of the hostname of a banking, credit card, or ISP site where users log on, sending the user to a fake logon page even when they type the URL directly into the browser or use a bookmark to access it. Practicing good internet security reduces the chances that a user will be deceived; it does not eliminate them.
Finally, cybercriminals can discover a user's logons and passwords by infecting the user's personal computer with a type of malware called a keystroke logger. A keystroke logger logs each thing the user types, including logons and passwords when the user logs on to email, to his bank account, or to his credit card issuer's customer portal. The malware then transmits this information to the cybercriminal.
Some countries, such as Japan, pursue the issue of malware infection aggressively through public-funded projects that, in cooperation with ISPs, detect malware-infected computers and block them until their owners have been notified and the malware removed. Most countries and most ISPs do not pursue malware infection aggressively, however, which results in high infection rates. It is obvious that malware capable of carrying on various criminal activities, such as password stealing, will continue to be a problem for quite a while.
Unfortunately, while the problem of compromised passwords often starts with user error, it doesn't end there. Those responsible for managing mail servers and preventing them from being used to send spam are also responsible, and so are the ISPs providing connectivity to those servers.
In our correspondence with mail server administrators about spam sent through compromised user accounts, Spamhaus has noticed that - despite our FAQs and warnings in bold, red and (!) blinking characters on the SBL listing page - many system administrators do not even consider the possibility of a compromised account when spam is sent through their mail server. Instead, they often assume that a malware infection must be responsible, and immediately scan the server and all the client PCs and laptops with their antivirus software. If their virus scanning software finds nothing (as is often the case), the system administrator often assumes that the SBL listing was a mistake. If some malware is detected and removed, system administrators often assume that the problem is fixed.
When additional spam is detected from the server, the system administrators are often at a loss as to what to do, and try a number of ineffective and often extreme measures to stop the spam. We have even seen cases where the system administrator wipes the mail server hard disk and reinstalls the operating systems and software from original media while failing to solve the spam problem. Why? They kept the old password file without forcing users to change their passwords, and a compromised user account was the problem all along.
As with many other issues, educating system administrators about compromised passwords and documenting how passwords are compromised and what to do about it might help alleviate the problem in the long run. In our experience, though, these measures will not prevent compromised passwords. First, some of what is required to prevent easy password compromises is not popular with users. Without strong buy-in and support from management, a system administrator simply cannot implement appropriate password complexity rules. The issue is not technical, but human. Means exist to enforce proper password complexity, but some users who "outrank" the system administrator in the company hierarchy will strenuously resist any requirement to use secure passwords. The issues increase with implementing even stronger measures, such as two-factor authentication, client certificates, and so on.
Second, the Internet is still expanding to new parts of the world, where technical expertise is scarce and language barriers are often present. ISPs in these regions are often unaware that, to solve security issues, they must often work together with customers and with organizations whose function is to make the Internet more secure.
This failure to involve users and security organizations means that the often-inexperienced system administrators of small business servers are left completely on their own when a spammer compromises their mail system. The system administrator must understand how the cybercriminal got access to the mail server, find the user account that was compromised, and deactivate it until the user changes the password, all without much support or help.
Until the system administrator determines which user account was compromised and deactivate or secure the account, their mail server acts as a powerful spam cannon, often with surprisingly high intensities thanks to good hardware and bandwidth. Fixing the problem usually takes several days, and we have often observed compromised mail servers continuing to emit spam for weeks or even months.
For these reasons, Spamhaus views efforts to document how to detect accounts with compromised passwords and secure those accounts as a good investment for the future, but believes that these efforts are unlikely to to help prevent or quickly resolve spam problems caused by compromised user accounts in the short term.
The paradigm that all passwords "must always" be secure, so that even a single compromised account on a server may have catastrophic consequences, is simply inadequate to today's reality. It is a bit like making cars without seat belts or air bags because accidents would not happen if everyone just drove safely and followed the rules. We should move to a new, more realistic paradigm, recognizing as a fact of life that a few passwords on any mail server may be in the hands of cybercriminals. Recognizing this means that mail server software must be equipped to deal with and mitigate damage from compromised passwords as a normal part of everyday operation.
Previous experience with similar situations, such as the spam problems caused by open relays between 1997-2002, suggests that software developers may hold the key to solving the spam problem caused by compromised user passwords. In particular, those software companies and developers who are responsible for developing and maintaining Mail Submission Agents (MSAs), the component of a mail server system that receives emails submitted for distribution by users, could reduce this spam vector to insignificance if they develop a technical means of detecting compromised accounts and blocking them from sending email until they are secured.
Spamhaus believes that the currently common approach of letting authenticated users send unlimited or extremely large amounts of email is a serious security hole. We suggest that it is past time that MSA developers regarded this as a serious security issue, and issued security patches for all existing supported products that allow emission of massive outgoing email from authenticated users.
Implement default per-account limits on numbers of outgoing emails. By default, an authenticated user account should be allowed to send only a relatively small amount of email in a given time period. Most users never send thousands of emails per day (or hour), as a compromised account often does. A default limit of one to two hundred emails per day is more than enough for most users, and would render their accounts largely useless to cybercriminals. Limits should be configurable on a per-user basis, so that those few users who need to send more email can be explicitly allowed to do so.
Log the authenticated user account for each email sent. When authenticated email is sent, the account name used to authenticate should always be included in the SMTP protocol logs. A few popular mail servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, require the system administrator to modify the default log settings to do this: by default the account name is not logged. This should be fixed ASAP: it is a design mistake that makes diagnosis and cure much more difficult.
Include the authenticated user account name in the email headers. MSA software should include the name of the user account used to authenticate in the email header, so that the system administrator can extract it from a spam sample. A configuration option should allow the authenticated user account name to be encrypted for privacy as needed.
Monitor the mail flow from each account! Mail flow should be monitored per-account, and anomalous emission peaks from a single account should generate an alarm to system administrators as soon as they occur.
Check for and reject weak passwords. Mail servers should inspect passwords, and refuse to accept extremely simple passwords. Even if components of the operating systems may be already in charge of password strength checking, MSA software should independently check passwords used to authenticate outgoing email.
Rate limit authentication attempts to prevent password cracking. MSA, POP, and IMAP software should monitor authentication requests for signs of attempts to guess passwords, and slow down or entirely block IP addresses that try to access an account using several different passwords, or access different accounts using the same passwords or password patterns. In the case of IPv6 access, this measure should probably be applied to /64 networks rather than to individual IPv6 addresses.
Spamhaus believes that, if all major mail server MSAs would implement these changes and backport them to popular previous versions of the software via security patches, spam sent through compromised user accounts via SMTP authentication could be virtually eliminated from sites that use the new MSA software, and reduced significantly on the Internet as a whole within the next three to five years.
| 2019-04-23T09:57:12 |
https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/681/spam-through-compromised-passwords-can-it-be-stopped
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Let’s remind ourselves that three of the top four biggest influences on consumers’ buying decisions are all word-of-mouth-derived: Friends and family, recommendations from within one’s social media circle, and online reviews by other people. Given this, brands fighting the daily share battle have a much better weapon that will generate positive word-of-mouth and ultimately sales: Great customer experience.
It’s been shown that brands that get CX right outperform their competition through big gains in stock price. This is why within 4 years, more marketers will interact directly with their customers through technology and personalization than interact indirectly with them through media and advertising.
Unfortunately, we’ve got a ways to go. While 90% of marketers agree that personalizing the customer experience is critical to their success, nearly 80% of consumers stated that the average brand doesn’t understand them as an individual. This is what’s called the “experience gap”—and a much greater focus on narrowing this gap is how brands will win the daily share battle.
Brands: As technology takes center stage in marketing, CMOs must break down the barriers they’ve traditionally had with CIOs and play the role of CX champion and integrator. This means caring equally about delighting customers at every brand touch point—not just those in media and advertising. Doing this requires planning marketing budgets differently to create value in each interaction versus sheer tonnage of ad impressions. “Another department handles our website” can no longer be an excuse not to enhance a customer experience.
Agencies: There is no more powerful marketing tool than the customer journey—and modern lead agencies must own it in order to express big creative platforms as the right kinds of delightful brand interactions at each point along the journey. Today’s definition of “creative” should hone in on that which is purpose-built, contextual, and personalized. Agencies need to abandon legacy ways of working and invest and lean in to their experience design talent more than ever before as the stewards of CX.
Publishers: Customers want greater control over their media experiences as well as peace of mind with how they’re being targeted. Publishers should stop debating about what makes a better ad and think about how to make better user experiences—change the game, challenge the status quo, and level the battlefield in favor of consumers. Things like YouTube TrueView, Facebook Canvas, and Shapchat geofilters & lenses are just the very beginning of paid branded experiences that empower users.
Consumers: It’s consumer behavior that’s forcing the hands of brands, agencies, and publishers to rethink advertising. On the marketing battleground, consumers are fighting to seize greater control of their user experience. They must continue to skip content that’s not relevant, block ads that are invasive, bounce off poor click-through destinations, and abandon useless apps. Change will never happen if most consumers tolerate bad experiences.
| 2019-04-22T04:39:16 |
https://www.aaaa.org/member-op-ed-mike-proulx-hill-holliday/
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Why Should I Choose Mediation? What are the Advantages?
In a domestic case involving divorce or a parenting case between two unmarried parents, the proceedings will come to a legal conclusion upon the entry of a final court order, and that end point will be arrived at through one of two very different pathways.
One route is by engagement in dialogue and negotiations between the parties. The other is by way of conflicted, adversarial legal proceedings.
The inevitable choice is made by the couple, and hopefully that decision is informed and voluntarily made by each person, rather than by a lawyer.
It has been reported that in our state currently only about 10% of domestic cases before the court proceed to a final, contested trial. Hopefully those who have made the choice to reject settlement offers have done so after carefully considering both the emotional toll and substantial monetary expenditures which will result in a high conflict adversarial trial, as well as the fact that no lawyer can guarantee an outcome.
In the real world, the aim of an attorney representing a client in an adversarial, final hearing in a domestic case is to essentially dig up and present as much dirt, and to rain down as much pain, on the other party as possible.
I have used the phrase, "In the real world" simply because most people have never had to undergo the stressful experience leading up to and during a trial proceeding before a court, and therefore cannot realistically anticipate what the trial will really be like and the real risks involved.
Litigants who have chosen to proceed to a final contested hearing must also recognize that they have in effect elected to place the final decisions regarding the many important issues between them in the hands of a third party stranger, who will decide the outcome after an oftentimes hurried formal hearing, subject to archaic and restrictive procedural rules.
Often after the trial is over and the judge has issued his or her final orders one, or both, of the parties feel that they never had the opportunity to tell their true story, or perhaps worse that they were not understood.
This naturally should lead to the question, “Why make the unhappy, often times sad, ending of a marriage more traumatizing to one, and in most cases, both parties?"
Fortunately, there is a better alternative.
There is a fundamental premise accepted and embraced by our judiciary, as well as mental health counselors and professional mediators, that it is in the best interest of families that the resolution of their divorce, or other family proceeding, should be handled in a fair, timely, non- adversarial and respectful manner, with the ideal of seeking to avoid the unnecessary and long lasting recrimination so often characterized by high conflict adversarial proceedings.
The mediation process, when conducted properly, is particularly well suited to attain these goals. Our informal mediation process is especially intended for the individuals involved, to encourage them to communicate with each other and to explore mutual concerns and considerations in a joint cooperative effort to reach a settlement, which is both reasonable and which meets their individual needs and that of their families.
Emotions. We are all human, we all have them.
But the problem is that so often in relationships, past unresolved mistakes and injuries inflicted by words or conduct can lead to a sad, repetitive cycle of acrimony and resentment.
In time without a pathway leading to an end to the conflict, greater harm naturally follows leading in many cases to overwhelming unhappiness. In those instances where such conflict causes one or both of the parties to feel that the relationship is irreparable, the couple inevitably ends up in drawn out, contentious Court proceedings.
The depletion of Court staff and resources over the past several years, combined with the ever growing volume of new cases filed in our Courts, has led to a judicial system that has become designed to implement Court efficiency, rather than the important personal needs of the individuals who come before our Courts.
This reality has led to the inescapable recognition that Mediation offers a better way to deal with Family conflicts.
Mediation allows the cooperative exchange of information necessary for both parties to make well informed decisions in a non-confrontational setting. The process, when conducted properly, facilitates dialogue between the parties in a guided effort to assist them in determining both their individual and mutual interests, and to consider all reasonable options to reach a better outcome.
Mediation offers the parties an opportunity to take a time out from the argument and to focus on the future.
As highlighted within my last post, these ideals embrace the fundamental principle underlying the Mediation process referred to by the term ,"Self Determination". Simply the recognition by Mediation professionals that the parties themselves should have the freedom to work cooperatively together to find an acceptable resolution of the issues between them which best satisfies their needs and individual interests, and that the parties have authority over the process, as well as ownership of the results.
In cases involving conflicts concerning minor Children, decisions made by our Courts are made based upon reference to the phrase "Best Interests of the Child", an ill defined, and completely subjective standard.
Who better to make such decisions?
A third party stranger, a Judge ? Or, the child's parents ?
Importantly in Divorce, Parenting, or Separation cases involving children, our Courts recognize that parents should continue to be empowered to make the important decisions regarding their children's care and future upbringing.
With these very important considerations in mind, I have included a number of articles on our Resources page which I believe offer invaluable information and insights with respect to the children who innocently become participants in the family dynamics triggered by the Divorce, or Separation, of their parents.
Over the past decade there has been a sweeping cultural shift related to the traditionally accepted assumptions concerning divorce and separation, which has led to transformational changes to our system of family law.
The underlying policies propelling this trend have been implemented by the introduction of both new legislation, as well as court rules, with the stated purpose of promoting a cooperative approach to the resolution of conflict within families using alternative methods of dispute resolution, rather than high conflict litigation.
This new initiative evolved coincidently at the same that our courts experienced a critical depletion of staff and resources, in the face of an ominous growing caseload involving family issues.
The confluence of these developments gave rise to the natural and logical promotion of mediation, as the optimal method of conflict resolution in family related cases.
The fundamental principle of mediation in domestic relations disputes is the recognition that the parties themselves should be allowed to unravel and bring their relationship to an end on their terms, and that parents should continue to be empowered to make the best, long lasting decisions concerning their children's upbringing, following separation.
This concept, now promoted and referred to as "Self Determination,” is the guiding light in the mediation of disputes involving Family matters.
The mediation process, when conducted properly, is particularly well suited to attain these goals.
To broaden our understanding of the importance of "Self Determination and Empowerment" in Family Mediation, in my next post I will focus on the Children of Divorcing and Separating couples, and the use of the phrase "Best Interests of the Child."
| 2019-04-26T09:44:25 |
https://www.pathwaysmediation.org/blog
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I have noticed a series of rather lazy questions appearing on TGO, I would say mostly from new(ish) users, some questions get put on hold and others are not. The problem is that very often these questions get an answer anyways, or some more experienced user edits them rather than the OP. I feel that in this way they have no reason to put a bit of effort in their contribution to TGO.
Should TGO be ruthless with these users and quickly close a question that shows very little effort not only in prior research but even in how the question is written? (I'm not referring to bad English, I mean incomplete, lack of meaningful details to make answers appropriate, typed in a rush like if it was a cellphone message or getting away with one simple link to other websites rather than describing a product...). Should more experienced users refrain from editing or answering these questions until they are put on hold and the OPs fix them?
Sailing from the Wash, UK to France during World War II.. My problem with this question wasn't really the fact that it didn't bother to locate "The Wash", which would have taken very little time, but it obviously shows no effort in research: a simple search for "Dunkirk boats" brings up The Little Ships of Dunkirk. Even if someone didn't know anything about sailing and boats, or WW2, just reading a Wikipedia article gives a clear answer to the question. The question author not only did not bother editing it but has not shown up since. In this case it brought up an interesting subject but in principle the question itself was rather bad, it felt like it was some sort of high school assignment for which the OP needed a quick answer.
How can I prevent this canvas swag from sagging in the middle? and What's the best or easiest way to attach a loop tag onto canvas?. Two questions by the same user that show the same behavior, in one he doesn't bother describing the tent but just links a website about it. Had he bothered explaining that the sagging sides of the tent are meant to be opened and that under those there is an equally sagging mosquito net the answers given would have been more appropriate and the whole thing would have been more useful for other users. In the second question, which was clearly following the previous one, the OP shows even less effort than before. In both cases the OP received and accepted answers, which pretty much means he won't bother editing them. I would even say that this user made a point to not make an effort which makes me not wanting to edit them myself.
Am I the only one that feels like we are doing somebody else's homework if not only we take our time to answer a question but even have to edit them to the point that they would be rewritten almost completely so that they will be useful for others?
I understand the need of being welcoming to new users but, since we are putting effort and research in the answers to maintain the quality of the whole site, I don't think its wrong to demand the same courtesy from users asking the questions.
Edit following some answers, just to clarify some points: Im not scared of researching something, Im not against finding a way to help someone to improve their question, Im not against answering basic questions and Im not even against stupid questions since what can seem stupid for an experienced person often is a legitimate doubt for a beginner. If I am hiking in a group I am always willing to carry someone's pack on top of mine if they cant do so, my attitude changes when they make no effort to try to lift their pack and just expect me to carry their load every single time.
I feel like I am repeating myself, but once again my opinion is to not do/decide anything in this case as a community.
It is not like with have more such questions that we can deal with. To me it feels like there is so low activity compared to pretty high interest of regular users, that "problems" are blown out of proportion.
If you think that you understand the question and think it could be interesting, I see no problem in investing time and editing to improve a question. Note the understand part though, I think it is wrong to edit a question to make it viable when changing the original intent (open a new question). If you believe it is on-topic, but simply really bad (boring, short, no investment by the person posting) just downvote and move on. If there is a reason to close, do that. In any case, if you want to be helpful leave an honest but polite comment pointing out how the question should be improved (not why it is so bad).
Do what you think is appropriate while staying polite or move away if not interested.
If a question can be fixed by simply editing it, I don't see a reason to make a huge fuss about making the OP fix it.
In the case of The Wash question, if the OP never came back (which might be reasonable given the rudeness of the comments) would you really prefer the closed question to the one we have now?
Here are examples of edits that I have done instead of trying to get the OP to fix it.
This question had improper capitalization so I fixed it.
Source needed to be formatted properly.
All of these are examples where I probably could have chosen to flag as plagiarism or to close as unclear or downvoted but instead to I choose to just fix the problem.
The one about the Wash just needed someone to be willing to do a very simple Google search to locate it and do a little reading between the lines. I find it ridiculous that people claim the this site should be for experts and yet refuse to do basic research.
It should take less than five minutes to edit the loop tag question to be clear. I am pretty certain that you knew exactly what he was asking and yet chose to give him a hard time.
It makes it feel like a much friendlier place when we help each other instead of pointing out the other users mistakes.
If you make the question more clear, it is way easier to answer and that helps everybody. Stackexchange encourages this with the Refiner badge.
The more questions we can salvage the more questions we have to answer.
Being nicer to new users encourages them to stick around which means more people to ask questions and to be active on the site. Would you want to stick around if they called you arrogant?
I appreciate people who help improve my questions, the ones who just point out how it's wrong, not so much.
At the same time no one is obligated to edit anyone else's posts, but at the same time I don't think we should stop people from trying. There are a lot of benefits to editing posts, and if someone chooses forgoe those benefits, that's their choice.
In the case of a user who completely chooses not to improve then downvote, vote to delete, and flag as very low quality.
People have tried editing that user's answers and it hasn't made much of a difference in the quality of the users writing where the editing was not done.
Yes, it is not a good idea for people that ask bad questions to be rewarded with the desired result. Not only does that show the OP that dumping junk on us works, but it gives the same message to bystanders. The OP and others will then continue doing the same. Your second bullet point is a great example of exactly this happening.
The site is more important than any one question. While it may seem simple and logical to edit a bad question to a good one, this is actually damaging to the site in the long term.
The better action is to vote to close and downvote as appropriate, then leave a comment explaining the problems. If the OP reacts to the comment and cleans up the mess before 5 close votes accumulate, then we have a good question and a good result. If the OP doesn't fix anything, then the question gets closed. That's also a useful result since it shows everyone what is not acceptable here.
| 2019-04-20T04:45:23 |
https://outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1039/what-do-we-do-with-lazy-questions
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This is a math game with easy difficulty. The game will have to answer simple equations with addition or subtraction. The game can have minimum numbers -100 and maximum numbers 100.
| 2019-04-20T06:35:15 |
https://www.gimmgimm.com/game/index?id=37220
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Q: Can you freeze guacamole?
A: Yes, but you shouldn't. That's what two experts told me.
"Technically you can freeze guacamole. But I don't recommend it," writes Rick Bayless, the celebrity chef, Chicago restaurateur, author and television star, via e-mail. "Exposing avocados to extreme heat or extreme cold changes their flavor. Besides, many of the mix-ins you probably have in your guacamole may become mushy when frozen-then-thawed (I'm looking at you, tomatoes)."
Daisy Martinez, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based television cooking show host and author, suggests making the "salsa" portion of the guacamole the day before. "Then fold in lightly mashed avocado right before serving," in a message via Facebook.
But if you really insist on freezing avocados, Bayless recommends you make a sweet avocado ice. The recipe follows..
"It's not guacamole but it's delicious,'' he writes.
A recipe from the ninth season of Rick Bayless' television cooking series, "Mexico: One Plate at a Time." This recipe, among others, may be found at the celebrity chef's website: rickbayless.com.
1 Set a medium (3-quart) saucepan over medium high and add the sugar with 1 1/4 cups of water. Bring to a boil, whisking until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat and cool completely.
2 Cut the avocados in half, running a knife around the pit from top to bottom and back up again. Twist the halves in opposite directions to release the pit from one side. Remove the pit, then scoop the flesh from each half into a food processor or blender and process until the avocado is completely smooth. You will need 3 cups of avocado puree.
3 Add the cooled syrup, lime juice and salt to the avocado and process until everything is well mixed.
4 Pour the mixture into the canister of your ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's directions. The ice will have the best texture if scooped into a container and placed in a freezer to firm up for 3 or 4 hours.
| 2019-04-26T10:30:55 |
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-tribu-daley-question-guacamole-20131022-column.html
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What a night at The Embassy in London last night! This was what Delirious? have described as their first 'Living Room' gig. An exclusive, intimate and informal evening with the band. Just 100 fans invited (although nearer to 160 people once you add on the guests, industry and media) at a very up-market London club. Leaving the tube at Green Park, I walked past the Ritz and arrived at the Embassy. From the street it doesn't look much. A door, a restaurant style shop front, and a handful of people already queueing up. Unsure where to go or how to get in, I loitered until the authoritative figure of Mr Ian Cattle appeared at the door. He let me in, directed me to the lady with the passes and pointed me down a narrow flight of stairs.
On the below-ground-level floor I stepped off the stairs into a bar area, complete with plush leather sofas, tables and at one end a dance floor. Through the darkness I could make out a few people milling around and the sound of instruments being warmed up. I walked the short distance from the bottom of the stairs, to the far end of the bar where the dance floor was located, and realised with some surprise just how small this venue really was. The dance floor didn't look nearly big enough to house 100 fans, and the 'stage' (if you can call it that) nestled into the corner was already crammed full of equipment, instruments and two figures in the shadows who I identified as Stu and Jon.
After a brief chat with Jon, I watched as the whole band squeezed onto stage to sound check. Somehow they'd managed to fit a few lights into the room and the occasional spot light shone down on the band to reveal their glistening instruments. Stood, side by side, the guitars of Stu, Martin and Jon almost collided as they shared the small stage.
Sound checks are often not as interesting as they sound. Usually, as was the case here to start with, there is nothing but the sound of drums being banged, guitar notes being played, all incoherently played, individually rather than as a group. This isn't me being rude about how Delirious? play, it's just the nature of setting up, tuning up, warming up and checking everything works and sounds right. Eventually they played a few songs in unison, and it was then that I noticed things sounded wrong. Although I could hear the drums, hear the sound of Jon's bass through his rig and Stu's guitars through his amps, I couldn't hear Martin's voice. His mouth appeared to be moving, so perhaps he was saving his voice for the concert and just singing gently to himself.
I started chatting to a few familiar faces who were also standing around waiting and watching. Half of the Furious? Records office team were there so I chatted with Paul (merch), Mark (design), Clive (office manager) and Chris (web). Plus others such as Jamie (friend), Brett (very tall), Tim and Trev (crew). Through these conversations I discovered the reason for the lack of sound. No PA. Hmm. Turns out that the band had intended to use the in-house sound system, only to discover on arrival that it wasn't up to their high standards. Solution? Send a man in a van on a frantic last minute dash across London in rush hour traffic to Romford to collect a 'proper' sound system. It was now 7pm, 15 minutes after the doors were due to have been opened to the ticket holding fans, and still the new PA hadn't arrived.
As the band continued their somewhat muted sound check, I took the opportunity to take as many photos as possible, unsure how easy it would be to get good pics during the gig itself since everyone was going to be very cramped. (All of the photos in this post are from sound check) With the time slipping away several of the band members went out onto the street to try and apologise to the waiting fans for the lengthy delay. Eventually, at 7:30pm, a flurry of activity erupted as a series of large black boxes (aka the PA) were carried down the stairs and wheeled in. They were frantically stacked either side of the stage, plugged in and the band returned to the stage for a brief final sound check.
By 7:45pm the doors were open and the fans started to drift in, collecting a rather nice free CD (in paper back with Delirious-style receipt) on their way. The dance floor quickly disappeared and shortly after 8:30pm Delirious? squeezed their way through the crowd, onto stage and started their 10-song set. It was over all too soon, but unlike your average gig, the band didn't disappear from sight, they mingled, chatted and gave fans a superb opportunity to meet and greet the band.
| 2019-04-20T20:24:48 |
http://delirious.org.uk/document.php?id=1372
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Lexitron is a game application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The objective of the game is to find as many words as possible using the given letters. Metacritic Game Reviews, Lexitron for iPhone/iPad, Lexitron is a fast-paced word game based around anagrams, similar to the game Text Twist. Lexitron: Game Guidelines. Content requirements. • The game must be stable. While games in development are fine they must be to the point where they can.
I've mentioned here before how big a fan I am of Lexitron -- it's just the perfect kind of pick-up-and-play game I enjoy having on my iPhone, and. Lexitron the beloved word/anagram game of yesteryear its now legit and better than ever. snag a copy at the app store (link). Lexitron is a brilliant new word-making game for the iPhone, that's a lot like Text Twist. I've always been a big fan of Text Twist, and I am.
| 2019-04-24T17:49:22 |
http://internet-sajtovi.com/business/lexitron-game.php
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I have been thinking a lot lately about gifts. What can I get this person for their special day?
I go crazy trying to come up with what I think they would like and what would be the perfect gift. Do you ever go through this routine? Racking your brain trying to come up with the perfect gift?
You might go days or even weeks trying to come up with something, scrolling Pinterest or Etsy and still....you got nothing!
But you gotta get something.
If you don't, it's like you don't love that person and your gift won't reflect how you really feel.
So what does every gift NEED? I found this out as I bought gifts, as I made gifts, and as I stayed up at night thinking about gifts. Read on to see what it is!
We recently celebrated my husband's 50th birthday, and we had a big shindig where all of our kids came home and we took a trip to Disneyland for a couple of days! It turned out to be a really nice fun family weekend.
This took MONTHS of planning, as three of our children live out of state. My husband wanted our kids home and the family to be together for his birthday. That is a gift that you can't get on a shelf.
I had all of the kids write down things they loved about their dad, i.e. taught me how to ride a bike, always gives the best hugs, a great listener, a hard-worker, so funny, etc.
My daughter created a design from all their words, entitled 50 Things We Love About You (found it on Pinterest). Then we framed it and gave it to him. He absolutely loved it! These are the meaningful gifts that you can't find on a store shelf.
Another gift for my husband was a book of letters that my daughter gathered from people who knew my husband, like coworkers, family members, and childhood friends. She reached out to these people and asked them to give her a memory or just something they wanted to write about my husband.
She typed it up in a book for him and presented it to him for his birthday. He was overwhelmed by this gift and it is something he will treasure forever.
What a thoughtful gift that took so much time and energy. That is a gift that can't be found on any shelf.
Personalize it any way you'd like, add inside jokes, song lyrics, or reasons why you love someone!
Every gift needs a personal touch.
Yes, that's it! If you don't have any thought behind your gifts, it will just be a gift and that is fine but go one step further and really make it special for the person.
For example, if you're giving a newlywed couple a toaster or a waffle maker, include your favorite recipes with it!
If you're giving someone a gift card to their favorite place, attach a handwritten note or a homemade treat!
Take the time to think one step ahead in your gift-giving. You don't have to go crazy, but do more than the minimum to really show your love and appreciation.
Listen to the people you love too. When they mention they like something, take note of it and write it down for future use. Then when you need to buy them a gift, you can refer to those notes. Trust me, those notes have come in handy many times!
1. Coupon Book: you can never go wrong with some personalized coupons for your kids, spouse, friend, or parent!
Make someone a homemade breakfast!
3. Buy yourself flowers! Who says you need a $5 card, chocolate, and roses? Think outside the box and do something you love!
some in chocolate and share them with people you love.
4. Go green! A succulent or small plant is a creative gift for your nature-loving friends.
6. The Happy Jar: find a Mason jar or pint-sized jar, and fill it with scraps of paper that someone can read when they're feeling down! You can include quotes, favorite memories, qualities you like in that person, etc.!
7. Leave a fun note around the house! Use post-it notes on someone's mirror, heart attack someone's car, or leave a simple note for someone you care about.
Leave us a comment and tell us what gifts have you made for someone. We would love to hear your ideas.
| 2019-04-22T06:29:23 |
https://www.woolandvinedesign.com/2018/02/
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East Ghouta Chemical Attacks (2013): US-backed false flag to launch "humanitarian" war against Syria?
Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows bodies of children laid out on the ground as Syrian rebels claim they were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta on August 21, 2013.
The recent Syria Chemical Weapons attack is being blamed on the Syrian government without a shred of evidence. This is not the first time that a chemical weapons attack has been used as a "False Flag" with a view to justifying Washington alleged 'war on terrorism". The East Ghouta False Flag Chemical Attacks (August 21, 2013), was used to build a pretext by the Obama administration and its NATO allies to launch a "humanitarian war" against Syria, on the grounds that the Syrian government was killing their own people. This event was part of the build up towards the launching of Obama's bombing campaign against Syria and Iraq in 2014 on the grounds that it was "going after the ISIS". This article was first published in September 2014.
To date, available evidence indicates that numerous children were killed by "opposition rebels", their bodies manipulated and filmed with a view to blaming the Syrian government for the attacks, thus sparking outrage and galvanizing worldwide public opinion in favor of another bloody, imperial US-led war.
American ambassador to the UN Samantha Power made emphatically clear that the "nerve gas used in Syria was more concentrated than the nerve gas in Iraq." Her statement should be rephrased as: "Saddam may have trans-shipped U.S.-supplied nerve gas into Syria, but it wasn't our nerve gas used against Syrian civilians."
That is the essential point of the Sellstrom report: To take Washington off the hook for being the major supplier of nerve gas precursors, formulations, delivery technology and storage systems to the Middle East, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and very possibly Syria (during the Clinton era of good will).
Its findings are unequivocal: the videos used by the US and its allies as evidence to blame the Syrian government were staged.
Our first concern was the fate of the children we see in the footages. Those angels are always alone in the hands of adult males that seem to be elements of armed gangs. The children that trespassed remain without their families and unidentified all the way until they are wrapped in the white shrouds of the burial. Moreover our study highlights without any doubt that their little bodies were manipulated and disposed with theatrical arrangements to figure in the screening.
The independent ISTEAMS study contradicts the assertions of the Obama Administration and the entire US Intelligence Community [...] through simple observations of the video material that has been put forward as evidence by the United States.
A lot of things do not add up in the footage presented by the US government.
Among a series of important findings, the ISTEAMS report notes that even though the attacks are said to have killed up to 1400 people, mostly children appear in the videos and several corpses are shown in different videos said to have been shot in various locations.
While this report seriously challenges the assertion that the Syrian government was behind the attacks, it was not covered by the Western mainstream media, toeing the imperial line and parroting Washington's claims, which still lack evidence and credibility.
Dale is under mounting pressure for writing this article by third parties. She notified MintPress editors and myself on August 30th and 31st via email and phone call, that third parties were placing immense amounts of pressure on her over the article and were threatening to end her career over it. She went on to tell us that she believes this third party was under pressure from the head of the Saudi Intelligence Prince Bandar himself, who is alleged in the article of supplying the rebels with chemical weapons.
A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: "Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide."
All of the above leads us to believe that this attack was one of the most horrific crimes committed in modern history, a diabolical staged operation which consisted in killing small children, producing fake video footage and photo ops of the corpses, all of which was intended to fabricate a pretext for military intervention under a humanitarian mandate.
The mainstream media which has obfuscated these crimes bear a heavy burden of responsibility. The New York Times has smeared the findings of Mother Agnes and her team, accusing her of "defending the regime" and "playing the Christian card". The NYT casually dismisses the evidence that the videos are fake. Read the ISTEAMS Report and then judge for yourself.
The war criminals who designed and launched this diabolical staged operation must face justice.
Procedures in the United Nations Security Council directed against the Syrian government must be suspended.
We invite our readers to consult the ISTEAMS Report, as well as the following GR articles and video production: Please share these articles and the ISTEAMS report!
| 2019-04-21T09:06:50 |
https://www.sott.net/article/347450-East-Ghouta-Chemical-Attacks-2013-US-backed-false-flag-to-launch-humanitarian-war-against-Syria
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1. Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 10x 15 inch baking pan with non-stick foil or parchment paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
2. In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and 1 1/2 cups stevia until smooth. Beat in 2 eggs, pumpkin, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 1/3 cup water until well blended.
4. In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, remaining egg, remaining 1/4 cup sugar, and remaining ½ teaspoon of vanilla until smooth.
5. Drop cream cheese mixture in evenly spaced portions over the pumpkin batter. Pull a knife tip through filling to swirl slightly into batter.
6. Bake in a 350° oven until center of the pumpkin batter (not cream cheese mixture) springs back when touched, about 30 minutes. Let cool completely in pan, then cut into 24 bars.
| 2019-04-20T00:20:58 |
http://www.fattofitwithcindylaneross.com/2012/12/cindy-healthy-pumpkin-cheesecake-bars.html
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Making predictions is using information from a story to determine what will happen next. In this reading passage, two boys study for a test in very different ways. Who will do better on the test?
| 2019-04-26T06:38:08 |
https://teachables.scholastic.com/teachables/books/test-time-making-predictions-9780545200806_013.html
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