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below is a list of common beliefs about the criminal justice system... true or false?
1. A case is dismissed if "Miranda" Rights are not given when a person is arrested.
10. This is an easy one...of course not all defendants are guilty; even the government would agree that at least 5% of the people in prison are innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted. When you consider the hundreds of thousands of people in our federal, state and local prisons, that's an awful lot of people unjustly behind bars... see www.justicedenied.org.
9. Equally this misnomer needs little comment.. Although judges are sworn to remain impartial they are the same people who lobbied and supported the political rulers that appointed them and who carry with them the same political perspectives. Most criminal judges are former prosecutors who honor the tough on crime (and criminal defendants) approach that helped get their appointer elected. Few judges are willing to even acknowledge that a police officer or government agent would lie in order to support an arrest.
8. Sure, innocent until proven guilty is a fundamental foundation of The Bill of Rights of our constitution but the rules of evidence which require a defendant to produce some evidence (prima fascia) in order to present many defenses, as well as the reality that most jurors believe that the defendant wouldn't be facing trial if he wasn't guilty of something, makes this rubric a complete fiction.
7. Another legal fiction... even great jurists recognize this fallacy: "the naive assumption that prejudicial effects can be overcome by instructions to the jury . . . all practicing lawyers know to be unmitigated fiction." Knulewilch v. United States, 336 U.S. 440, 453 (1949) J. Jackson concurring.
6. A jury of your peers is a complete misnomer. If you are a minority you are lucky in most jurisdictions to find any minority on a jury. Jurors are often chosen from the outskirts of the county or other jurisdiction and away from urban populations that include higher ratios of minorities. One court emphasized that: "the defendant's right to the selection of a jury from a fair and representative cross section of the community does not require that each jury actually impaneled include constituents of every group in the population. Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461, 488, 387 N.E.2d 499 (1979) While asserting that jurors are selected "at random" courts often ignore the fact that the methodology for selecting jurors often has the probable effect of excluding or minimizing minority participation.
5. Although Constitutionally mandated bail, or release of charged defendants has simply become history. The federal government and most states now "detain" defendants pending trial on the basis of "danger and/or flight risk." Under federal law if you are charged with a drug offense that carries a possible term of more than 10 years (which virtually all drug offenses do) then detention is "presumed" and the defendant has a difficult if not impossible task of rebutting any such presumption even if he or she have been lifelong residents of the community. United States Code section 3553.
4. Lying under oath to a material fact is perjury. All those involved in the criminal justice system see it everyday.. ... yet such issues of credibility... are for the jury to decide... One has to wonder just how a juror determines "the truth."
3. Double Jeopardy... We've often heard it said and it appears to be Constitutionally mandated, but truth, in fact, you can be tried twice for the same offense. First, separate sovereign's (i.e. state and federal) can try you separately... but Second and more importantly you may be tried twice if the second prosecution contains any element of the offense that was not charged in the first trial.. (i.e. first assault then assault with a deadly weapon even with the same victim) .
2. It's not a level playing field.... The federal government and some states specifically allow the government to withhold the names of witnesses and the alleged statements made by them against you until trial has begun. 18 United States Code section 3500. It is all too often trial by ambush.
1. "Miranda" rights have the limited value of potentially excluding coerced and un-counseled statements that the prosecution intends to use against you. If no statements are being used against a defendant it makes absolutely no difference if any Miranda rights are given even if the defendant provided a statement to the police. Virtually never will the failure to properly adhere to Miranda result in dismissal, only exclusion of the statement.
Hopefully the above provides a little insight into the reality of Justice In America!!
| 2019-04-20T11:10:54 |
http://lawgenie.com/Legalfiction.html
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But the only reason I find those flaws disappointing is because I’m so behind him on his main points, and want them to get a fair airing. Below I’ll attempt to distill the most important themes down to a summary, but by all means to do his ideas justice, grab a copy of the book.
Theme: There are multiple valid levels to systems.
Complex systems can be analyzed from many different levels. For example, at the low level, we find the interaction of particles in a seemingly deterministic way pushing causal chains one way or another. Yet we usually think and talk about things on a higher level, for example the symbolic level in which I represent and conceptualize myself and other people (onto which I intuitively attribute causal power). Hofstadter wants us to really recognize that these levels can coexist simultaneously, and both accurately describe the system.
This is essentially a forest/trees distinction, but applied to a more personal domain: our selves. Our brains are made up of low-level neurons (and lower-level particles), but also contain or effect high-level symbols (dogs, Norway, friendship, Caesar, myself). These two levels seem to compete. We intuitively see the symbol level as real and causally potent: when I get in a car and drove to the grocery store, my desires and my thoughts or memories of particular foods are causing the car (essentially a huge chunk of metal) to move.
All this despite the fact we all acknowledge that underneath this scene is a bunch of physical particles churning along by mechanical (perhaps probabilistic) rules — so in fact, the car is moving because of the interactions of countless unconscious, unmotivated particles. On some level we know this is where the real causal power is at, but at the same time, we are struck by the intuitive pull to say that those upper levels (my thoughts and motivations) are controlling things. How do we address this paradox?
Hofstadter’s insight is to pull a solution from an analogous problem found in an unlikely place: the rigorous formal systems of mathematics. Specifically, he explains how Kurt Godel’s Incompleteness Theoroms demonstrated that the tight, formal, carefully-defined, low-level mathematical system of Russell and Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica could be seen at the same time on a higher-level where numbers could in some sense make claims about their own provability (even paradoxical self-referential statements like “this statement cannot be proven”).
The mathematical details are interesting, but not important for Hofstadter’s larger point, which is that the different levels of interpretation are just as valid and real, as long as they have referential stability. Godel showed that the symbols of Principia Mathematica could be used not just to make low-level statements about number theory (like “1+1=2”) but also high-level statements about the provability of its own statements, because those high-level statements were not arbitrarily tacked on as meanings to the symbols, but were mapped on in a way that represented the inherent structure already there.
Theme: An unavoidable and useful illusion.
In the end, though, Hofstadter argues that this “I” level, the level of symbols we are all familiar with, is a sort of illusion, and one we are stuck with. But because of the referential stability — because the mapping works so well — it is a useful illusion.
After all, how inefficient would it be to converse about politics across the world if everything just boiled down to the swirling of trillions of interacting protons, neutrons and electrons? How well would a creature survive that didn’t interpret a looming orange-and-black-striped blob of color as a hungry tiger but instead as just a bunch of particles?
The higher level is where we live and breathe and act, and it works, as long as we also remember that beneath it all is the physical particle stuff. The “I” comes out of the structure of the lower-level, but in turn the entire system (the “I” level) has a tangled hierarchy of feedback loops wherein it informs the lower level.
Theme: Structure can be reproduced to some extent in other mediums.
In this book, Hofstadter also steps away from the abstractness of Godel, Escher, Bach and addresses the issue from a more personal angle, reflecting for some length on the loss of his wife and how this worldview informs that.
If a large part of what we are — the self, personality, “I” — is really just patterns and structure and self-representation built up from lower-level processes (and not some mystical soul that is separate from matter), then he wonders if the essence of those systems may in some sense be represented (with more or less fidelity) in other representational systems. In other words, he wonders if the incredibly full and complicated representation of his lost wife that exists in his head is actually, in some significant sense, an instantiation of her self, of her “I”? Does she, in some fuzzy sense, live on after her death, inside his head?
That is the claim he ends up making. Through various intuition pumps (including imagining a world where everyone is a siamese twin and the concept of an individual — a half-person in their world — is unusual), he attempts to make this claim plausible. Whether or not you agree with him will probably come largely from the argumentative power you grant analogies, which Hofstadter is a master of. He wants to convince us that the one body = one mind = one identity assumption we operate under is in fact only a rough approximation.
In fact, he says, we have little pieces of ourselves — of our “selves” — scattered around in others. If somehow we fully shared all of our experiences and sensations and perceptions (saw through the same eyes, felt the same touches, heard and read the same words), we would eventually become roughly the same person.
Obviously one could argue against this last claim: that a small change in the initial variables (i.e. early life, genetics) propogates too widely to make complete overlap of experience possible. But Hofstadter isn’t really saying that we become exactly identical (though he verges on such language in his more flowery/emotional passages), but that we at least hold some courser-grained version of someone’s self-representation inside us. In some sense, when we know someone extremely closely we partly become them by stepping in their shoes, putting on their glasses, getting into their head, and basically thinking and experiencing like they do.
It’s an odd and counter-intuitive vision of distributed identity, which brings up all sorts of questions about the fuzziness of memory and cognition and representation when it is distributed across so many different brains, so many different representational systems. Honestly, I don’t think he tackles the implications of his musings very deeply on this subject. But then, such analytical work is worthwhile only if the ground work is laid first by a change in the big picture perspective. It’s that big-picture shift which Hofstadter is aiming for here.
If you’re looking for a relatively quicker, simpler or more personal introduction to Hofstadter’s ideas, check out I Am a Strange Loop. But for a broader, more in-depth, and more fun treatment of the subject, I still suggest Godel, Escher, Bach as an amazing book examining how consciousness and “I”-experience could come out of inanimate matter.
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| 2019-04-22T02:49:01 |
http://www.strange-loops.com/blog/?p=36
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Do you really not see the non-sequitur?
"Why the Idea That Islam Promotes Intolerance of the LGBTQIA+ Community Is a Lie"
The issue isn't what the ancient books say – it's whether people embrace those edicts today. Jews are not executing gays, no matter what their book says. This is why no one is mad at Jews for executing gays. These are very simple observations. Muslims are executing gays.
If you're asking whether or not "Islam" promotes intolerance then it is absolutely relevant to ask what the ancient books say.
You provide the material to undermine your own argument. If "Islam" promotes intolerance, then why is it that so many fewer Muslims in the U.S. oppose gay marriage than in other countries? The obvious conclusion is that **Islam** is not the causative variable.
Some Jewish fundamentalists view homosexuals as "devients."
The relevant question is whether religious fundamentalism promotes intolerance.
Sorry, Joshua, I forgot to reply to this. I was initially thrown by your incorrect use of *non sequitur*, was going to reply, then got caught up with some research.
1. "Why the Idea That Islam Promotes Intolerance of the LGBTQIA+ Community Is a Lie"
2. "The issue isn't what the ancient books say – it's whether people embrace those edicts today. Jews are not executing gays, no matter what their book says. This is why no one is mad at Jews for executing gays. These are very simple observations. Muslims are executing gays."
1 is the title of a post at EverydayFeminism -- the post I was rebutting.
2 is a passage from my rebuttal.
A non sequitur refers to an argument made by a person, so all premises and inferences would have to come from the same person, in the same argument. We won't find a non sequitur in statements from two different people making different arguments.
Then you claim: "If you're asking whether or not "Islam" promotes intolerance then it is absolutely relevant to ask what the ancient books say."
That's a conclusion that depends on some unstated assumptions. For instance, it assumes that "Islam" is what the Quran says, that any religion is defined, perhaps exclusively, by what their ancient texts say. I don't buy that assumption. We could define a religion or its content by what its current authorities say, what its adherents think its important precepts are, how its adherents behave, or any number of other things. Your conclusion will be contested all over the place, by lots of scholars.
Then you say: "You provide the material to undermine your own argument. If "Islam" promotes intolerance, then why is it that so many fewer Muslims in the U.S. oppose gay marriage than in other countries? The obvious conclusion is that **Islam** is not the causative variable."
This seems to assume that there is only one "causative variable". I would never assume that. Cultures interact. If you send a Mexican to America for ten years, the Mexican will change in some ways as a result of being embedded in American culture. I'd expect any religious culture to interact with any and all cultures it is exposed to, including national cultures and other religious cultures.
So if Islam promotes intolerance of gays, I'd expect Muslims to be more tolerant of gays in gay-tolerant and non-Muslim countries than in historically Muslim countries. This seems pretty straightforward.
First, it does no one any good for you to condescend to "explain" what non-sequitur means...and I disagree whether or not your argument failing to follow from the previous statement it references (regardless of who made it), is a non-sequitur. But arguing about that would be even more pointless than the typical blog comment discussion, so let's move on. If your smug "explanation" works for you, knock yourself out.
==> "For instance, it assumes that "Islam" is what the Quran says"
Not at all. It assumes what I said: that it is relevant - not that it is one and the same.
==> "This seems to assume that there is only one "causative variable". "
No it doesn't. Again, your perception of what my comments "assume" is in error. And again, what I "assumed" is what I said, that it isn't the only (the definitive article, "the") causative variable - as many people like to argue. My point was, precisely, that there can be multiple variables, and that the belief that Islam in and of itself is even a significantly operational variable is undermined by the widespread association between religiosity and intolerance across a wide spectrum of religions. If you agree that you have no basis to attribute causality to "Islam" for intolerance of gays, as opposed to myriad other influences for which there is abundant evidence, then you and I are in agreement.
=> "So if Islam promotes intolerance of gays, I'd expect Muslims to be more tolerant of gays in gay-tolerant and non-Muslim countries than in historically Muslim countries."
??? Without somehow showing a means of determining that those more tolerant Muslims in gay-tolerant countries are somehow less "Muslim?" Your "assumption" passes over all kinds of basic requirements for establishing the kind of causality your asserting. For just some obvious examples, if you're going to show that Islam promotes intolerance of gays, then you need to isolate that variable (from, for example, religious fundamentalism). You need to establish if there really is some "dose-dependent" kind of pattern as you suggest.
Your article was good. Your addendum was superb!
It's telling that your addendum is even longer than the original post. You can point out that 2 + 2 doesn't equal 5, but what's more important for your peers is that you're PROPERLY MOTIVATED to rebut the claim that it does.
Hi Dain, is this good news or bad news? Is my addendum proof that I'm properly motivated? I guess it depends on which claim is the 2 + 2 = 5 claim, and which is the rebuttal.
It's bad news in the sense that you feel pressured to show that in your heart of hearts you're a good person, as opposed to that being assumed. It's good news in the sense that it allows you to keep doing good work.
| 2019-04-26T07:44:56 |
http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/gays-islam-and-the-virtue-of-cognition
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Life and Beyond: The dolphin choreographed show.
Humans have trained dolphins to perform various acts.
But the dolphins from Sea World Orlando's Dolphin Cove have learned on their own to artfully create air bubble rings and play with them.
It started when the curators noticed a bottlenose dolphin at Dolphin Cove had learned to expel air from its blowhole. With a flick of its head, the dolphin then created a circle of air -- a silvery bubble ring.
Curators then saw the dolphin using its nose to twist, spin and re-shape the ring, sometimes biting a bigger ring to make a smaller one.
Then more dolphins at the facility's habitat learned to create the bubble rings.
The staff at Dolphin Cove say that most of the playful mammals who display the behavior are females this may be because male dolphins are preoccupied with socializing with each other.
Are the dolphins doing this to entertain the people who come to watch them?
This performance is certainly far superior to the human choreographed dolphin shows.
| 2019-04-21T17:02:34 |
http://bhoj11.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-dolphin-choreographed-show.html
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What is the Conspiracy of Venus, might you ask? The last chance to find out before the leaves turn will be Wednesday at their "season finale" with Garrett Pierce and Devotionals at The Rickshaw (8pm, $10).
Director Joyce Todd McBride started the choir in January 2007, which sums to roughly 40-50 lovely female voices to date. Conceptually speaking, McBride describes the Conspiracy of Venus as "a symphony of sound unique to the pre-existing A Capella format, and so contemporary, you're humming it on the way out!"
Known for their A Capella arrangements of timeless songwriters such as Tom Waits, Björk, Rufus Wainwright, and more to come, CoV's criteria for choosing songs to venerate imply musical curiosity.
"We chose to sing music of more than one artist ... because we feel we can chart an adventurous course through the history of contemporary song-writing," McBride said. "Most importantly, the songs we choose must have depth of musical, textual, cultural meaning, and be a hell of a lot of fun to sing."
Conspiracy of Venus - "I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen)"
Imagine the small stages of Amnesia or the Makeout Room packed with rows of women belting four-part harmonies of Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man," or even soon enough, a new rendition of Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow." Upon returning to the stage with a roster update for the fall season, CoV will have added arrangements of Fiona Apple, David Bowie and Tower of Power, as well as some original material written by McBride to their repertoire.
Conspiracy of Venus plays a role in the local music community that could hardly be dubbed unoriginal, by paying homage to respected musicians in a manner different than the local DJ's Smiths night. When seeing CoV this week at the Rickshaw one can expect the unexpected, but should take into account that this is not a band of out-of-towners, rather, the choir is deeply rooted in the local geography.
We are truly a Bay Area community choir in that we are a diverse group ourselves and that we include community service in our mission," both McBride and choir president Miriam Jacobson explained. The women have sung at several benefits, including one for local artist and dancer Hollis Hawthorne, who fell into a coma in India and needed financial assistance flying home.
Conspiracy of Venus - "Soldier Things (Tom Waits)"
The A Capella ensemble has connections to many Bay Area favorites including the Botticellis, Jen Grady (solo and supporting cellist of many local outfits) and Wednesday's co-supporters Devotionals -- the pair (Tyson Vogel of Two Gallants and Anton Patzner of Judgment Day) met Woletz during her days at UC Santa Cruz.
"With the way everyone is connected, it begins to feel like one big musical family, with musicians collaborating and playing songs in each others' projects," Woletz said, "and it is beautiful to have the choir now be a part of that larger Bay Area music community."
The list of local musicians CoV has supported is quite long: Emily Jane White, Pete Bernhard, Jesse DeNatale, Slow Motion Cowboys (side project of Trainwreck Riders), Cotillion (side project of the Botticellis), Kacey Johansing, Geographer, Two Gallants (at the Gulabi Gang benefit), the Mountain Goats (for Noise Pop), Evening Empire, David Dondero, and Mira Cook (a choir member), and Conspiracy of Beards, their all-male counterparts, who sing only Leonard Cohen. Woletz mentioned that this diversity of gigs is thanks to the joint effort of the choir's members.
If taking part in an intricate layering of female voice sounds appealing, CoV will be holding their fall audition in August, and need an Alto 2 and Soprano 1! (Their annual spring audition is in February). They are a dues-based choir but also offer work-exchange, and require a substantial time commitment of their members. More information can be found on their website or Facebook page.
thank you nicole & bay bridged!
| 2019-04-23T03:13:03 |
http://thebaybridged.com/2009/06/01/female-a-capella-joins-garrett-pierce-devotionals-the-rickshaw-wednesday/
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By ordnance, I'm talking about the weapons of a dungeon, it's capacity to harm intruders and those who would otherwise raze it and destroy it's occupants. Defence is a major considerations of most dungeons (for those boltholes and fortresses it's the main one) and as the old saw says, a good defence is a strong offence. So those weapons become a key consideration for people who live there.
Armoury - If you've got an organised, militaristic group of monsters in the area, this is one of the things you'd expect to see. Apart from providing a mustering point in case of invasion by hostile forces, it also allows the owners to arm themselves according to need and if you're surrounded by enemies, conserving ammunition becomes a necessity; it is also a potential source of treasure to canny players.
Creatures - The monsters themselves may also be placed to do some serious damage to any intruders or interlopers. Guard creatures need not just provide alarm but also deter intruders by big, sharp teeth (and other features). While some creatures are effectively living deathtraps, others have different purposes (e.g. a gelatinous cube can be used as an effective septic tank) and just also kill things as an aside.
Environment - Large pools of lava needn't just provide illumination and hot water on demand. They can also roast anyone intruding into them. Having already touched on the dungeon environment, consider what lethal environments can be found there.
Ice caves can include crevasses, slippery slopes, snow drifts to slow down movement, glare from bright ice sheets and clouds of stinging ice-crystals borne on chill winds.
Lava beds can include jets of burning gas, pyroclastic bombs (large, heated rocks fired from inside the bed) and clouds of choking ash as well as poisonous gases.
Waterlogged dungeons can include sudden undertows, slippery mud or algae, tainted water (just don't swallow) and of course, aquatic monsters.
Traps - The purpose behind the trap can be many and varied, ranging from deterrent to buying time, to sealing off areas to outright death.
Deterrents can be as simple as a loud flashbang made by alchemical re-agents (with very little damage indeed) to a corridor filled with thread that if broken or snagged release a crossbow bolt in that direction (the threads feed through the walls back to a eyelet under a repeating crossbow).
Buying time can be done through slowing movement by a giant spider pinata filled with centipedes and caltrops on the ceiling (the pinata will move and dare the players keep moving under it?), pouring boiling oil down a stairwell or a rolling rock trap (which they have to let aside).
Sealing off areas enables you to control the movement of your enemies, whether this is by rotating or sliding walls or by controlled rockslides and portcullis traps.
Outright death - The poison needle in the chest is one way of doing this, as is the chute dumping the victim into a lava bed.
You needn't work out exactly to the letter how much damage the whole thing will inflict on the characters. Keep in mind the purpose and intent of the dungeon and assign ordnance by those categories and the abilities of the architect and occupants. An ogre may not be smart enough to restock the arrow trap but can certainly pull the rope to hoist up the piledriver trap again.
| 2019-04-23T19:56:54 |
http://satyrelite.blogspot.com/2009/04/dungeon-construction-ordnance.html
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Neurophysiology, today's phrenology? Combe's "Constitution..."
Almost 200 years ago, interest in phrenology launched a self-help movement that came to dominate early and mid Victorian times. Does today's fascination with neurophysiology signal the imminent launch of a similar movement based on manipulation of the brain centers responsible for various mental faculties?
I've just posted a review of the bible of the phrenology self-help movement, George Combe's 1829 Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects. Combe created for phrenology an entirely new natural philosophy, with its own god, science and human nature. What natural philosophy would best exploit the self help potential of neurophysiology? I suggest, a world consisting of random events for which we developed the appropriate human mental faculties through two hundred thousand years of evolution. The new self help will consist of technological gadgets able to light up the parts of our brains activating on demand the faculties identified by evolutionary psychology--ruthlessness, sexual passion, and pleasure.
By comparison, phrenology looks pretty good.
| 2019-04-18T13:16:03 |
https://evolutionforthehumanities.com/blog/blogitem/neurophysiology-todays-phrenology
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Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C), preferably using the oven's convection setting.
Put thin slices of parma ham on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake on upper rack in the oven. Check on them every 5 minutes and flip them a few times while drying. It will take about 30 minutes for the ham to crisp up.
Sauté onions and mushrooms in butter in a thick bottom pot, until onions and mushrooms turn golden. Season with salt, pepper and thyme.
Add cheese, water and wine. Stir. Bring to a boil for a few minutes and then lower the heat to medium and let simmer for 15 minutes.
Whisk the heavy cream until soft peaks form. Add yolks and mix well.
Fold in the egg cream into the soup without boiling it further.
Add oil, parsley, salt and pepper in a tall beaker. Use an immersion blender for 30 seconds or until the oil and the parsley are merged together.
Serve the soup with a spoonful of parsley oil and parma-ham chips on top.
Regular white wine or one part white wine vinegar and water gives this creamy soup a nice flavor. You can also use hard liquor as a dry vermouth, dry port wine or cognac. Adjust the amount to taste. You can of course skip wine or liquor completely, then squeeze some lemon juice into the green oil.
Also, you can make the soup vegetarian by substituting roasted nuts for the parma chips!
Why am I preheating the oven?? Where does the butter come in? Terrible recipe to follow.
In step 4, you say to mix oil and parsley with an immersion blender. Does this get added to the soup before folding in the egg mixture, or does it get mixed with the cream before adding the eggs? Thanks.
Yes, the instructions were missing. We apologize for the inconvenience! We've fixed it now.
The soup recipes are great but can I substitute home made bone broth for water or will it confuse the flavour too much?
Excellent soup and very filling. :-) I did change the recipe a little bit as I didn't have all the ingredients with me. I substituted the parma chips with oven-baked bacon (as this is what I had in my fridge). Also, I skipped the parsley-oil mix as I felt it wouldn't change the taste too much (plus I couldn't find any parsley at my local store...no kidding). As I had bought 35% cooking cream instead of heavy cream by mistake, I simply incorporated the cream to the soup mix without trying to whisk it up into whipping cream. I also added a little bit of extra salt, and a splash of lemon juice at the end. So a couple of little changes, but nothing that would change the taste overall. I'm sure this soup is also excellent if you follow instructions as is. If not, it is a very forgiving recipe and tasty meal.
Preheat the oven... to crisp up the prosciutto.
Family loved it and so did I.
Would you recommend blending this soup to make it "creamier"?
Thank you for the recipe! It was frothy and delicious. I did a few things different though. Subbed chicken broth for the water, added fresh spinach when cooking the onion and mushrooms, and I dipped pork rinds instead of making the ham chips.
This soup is delicious. What is the best way to heat up left over soup and can it be frozen?
No special requirements, you can heat this up in the microwave or on the stove, however you are accustomed to heating leftovers will work. Yes, this can be frozen.
| 2019-04-22T10:56:19 |
https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/low-carb-mushroom-soup
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You can use the status of an issue to show users in the system in what stage of development an issue is at a given time.
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You may place an issue in this status to indicate that work on that issue was not quite completed when the issue was previously closed, and it needed to be reopened to complete the work.
If the issue is on a project in a status of Current, the issue displays in the Work Requests tab of the users who are assigned to the issue. Users can now start working on the issue.
This status is important in reporting, to differentiate between issues that are open for the first time (usually in the New status), and issues that are opened after having been closed before (usually in the Reopened status).
Awaiting Feedback (Equates with On Hold) You may place an issue in this status to indicate that you are waiting on feedback (typically from the Primary Contact) before you can continue working on the issue.
If an issue is Awaiting Feedback, a project cannot be completed.
This status is important in reporting, to differentiate between issues that are currently open but being worked on (usually in the In Progress status) and issues that are currently open but not being worked on because more feedback is needed to complete them (usually in the Awaiting Feedback status).
Cannot Duplicate (Equates with Closed) You may place an issue in this status to indicate that you are closing the issue, but you could not see the problem that triggered opening the issue. The problem might still exist, but it cannot be replicated at a given time.
This status is important in reporting, to differentiate between issues that are completed and whose problem has been addressed (usually in the Closed status) and issues whose problem is not visible at a given time (usually in the Cannot Duplicate status).
When an issue is marked as Cannot Duplicate, the issue is removed from the assignee's Working On list. In this case, the issue shows a value for the Actual Completion Date.
If all the tasks on a project are completed, and some issues are in a Cannot Duplicate status, the project can be completed.
Resolved (Equates with Closed) You may place an issue in this status to indicate that you are closing the issue and the problem that created it has actually been resolved.
This status is important in reporting, to differentiate between issues that are closed with or without a resolution (usually in the Closed status) and issues that are closed with an actual resolution (usually in the status of Resolved).
When an issue is marked as Resolved, the issue is removed from the assignee's Working On list. In this case, the issue shows a value for the Actual Completion Date.
If all the tasks on a project are completed, and at least one issue is in a Resolved status, the project can be completed.
Verified Complete (Equates with Closed) You may place an issue in this status to indicate that you are closing the issue and that you have verified that the problem that generated the issue has been resolved.
When an issue is marked as Verified Complete, the issue is removed from the assignee's Working On list. In this case, the issue shows a value for the Actual Completion Date.
If all the tasks on a project are completed, and some issues are in a Verified Complete status, the project can be completed.
Won't Resolve (Equates with Closed) You may place an issue in this status to indicate that you are closing the issue, but the problem that has generated it cannot be resolved.
This status is important in reporting, to differentiate between issues that are closed with or without a resolution (usually in the Closed status) and issues that are closed without an actual resolution (usually in the status of Won't Resolve).
When an issue is marked as Won't Resolve, the issue is removed from the assignee's Working On list. In this case, the issue shows a value for the Actual Completion Date.
If all the tasks on a project are completed, and at least one issue is in a Won't Resolve status, the project can be completed.
As a system administrator you can add system-level issue statuses to Workfront. As a group owner, you can add a custom status specific to one group. For more information about creating custom statuses, editing system ones or selecting new default statuses for your issues, see "Creating and Customizing Statuses for the Workfront Site."
When you create a custom issue status, you must always equate the new status with an existing required system status. You must understand the behavior of the system statuses to know which status is appropriate to equate your custom status with. After you have selected your equal status this selection cannot be changed. For more information about the system issue statuses, see "Understanding System Issue Statuses."
After you create issue statuses, consider the order in which the statuses will display on issues. To change this order you must reorder the statuses associated with each issue type, as well as each group with which the project of the issue can be associated. For more information about status order for issues, see "Understanding Status Order for Issues."
| 2019-04-19T04:26:59 |
https://support.workfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000736213-Understanding-Issue-Statuses
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January 27 is the last day for Cebu Pacific's International Seat Sale! I extracted the following announcement from the email I received from Cebu Pacific. Who knows you might be interested as this I believe is a great deal.
The Philippines' largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (CEB) offers you a fantastic seat sale to mainland China, Japan and South Korea starting now until January 27, 2011 or until seats last.
CEB is the only Philippine low-cost carrier operating to all three major North Asian countries. This Korea, Japan and China seat sale offers the lowest fare available for those planning to visit these cities. For travel from April 1 to June 30, 2011, avail of P1,888 'Go Lite' seats from Manila to Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai.
P1,999 'Go Lite' seats are also available for those going from Manila and Cebu to Busan and Seoul (Incheon). CEB's newest route, Manila-Busan flights will begin on June 15, 2011. 'Go' seats to Osaka are also up for grabs for only P2,999.
Good Luck and Happy Trip!
| 2019-04-25T06:30:09 |
http://www.lifestipsandtricks.com/2011/01/cebu-pacifics-great-deal.html
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How have the sympathies of Ukrainian voters changed after the first round of the January 17 presidential elections?
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko did not take part in the 2004 presidential elections because she actively supported Viktor Yushchenko at that time.
Consequently, her results compare with those scored by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYUT) in the 2007 elections to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament).
At that time, BYUT received 30.71% of votes. Right now, the Ukrainian Central Election Commission estimates that Tymoshenko is supported by just over 25%, a 5%-plus decline.
Although her campaign headquarters predicted a landslide victory, this forecast did not come true. Tymoshenko suffered the main setback in Kiev, which is dominated by her electorate.
Although BYUT received 46.18% of votes in the Ukrainian capital in 2007, Tymoshenko was now supported by just 36% of local voters.
Tymoshenko also received fewer votes in most eastern and southern Ukrainian regions on 2007.
She is in no position to expect the defection of other candidates' voters in the run-up to the second election round.
For instance, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn is mostly supported by rural residents who are unlikely to side with Tymoshenko.
But to some extent she can count on the Interior Ministry personnel, the largest national security agency headed by one of her closest supporters Yury Lutsenko.
Viktor Yanukovych, the current leader of the influential opposition Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada and Tymoshenko's main rival, received over 35%, which is less than in the 2004 presidential elections (39.26% in the first round).
Nevertheless, Yanukovych has managed to preserve his influence in eight eastern and southern Ukrainian regions, the Crimea and Sevastopol. He has also won first place in Ukraine's westernmost Carpathian region.
As far as central Ukraine is concerned, Yanukovych's results largely compare with the 2007 Rada elections.
The total defeat of the current president Viktor Yushchenko has made Yanukovych's victory possible. Yushchenko's call not to support any of the candidates may deprive Tymoshenko of several vitally important percentage points of the "democratic electorate."
At the same time, Yanukovych will inevitably be supported by the electorate of Ukrainian Communist leader Petro Simonenko, who received 3.54% votes in the first round.
All contenders will also have to court the electorate of Ukrainian banker Serhiy Tyhypko, who received over 13% of votes on January 17.
Many analysts are now inclined to think that Tyhypko owns a veritable "golden share" and that the name of Ukraine's fourth president depends on his choice.
Although Tymoshenko's campaign headquarters tried hard to portray Tyhypko as an unviable candidate, it was her former supporters who now turned to him. This came as an unpleasant surprise for Tymoshenko.
Moreover, it appears that Tymoshenko and Tyhypko have conflicting business interests.
Tyhypko owns the major Kiev-based TAS financial group and maintains close ties with Ihor Kolomoysky, owner of Privat business group with interests in metal and financial sectors.
Relations between Tymoshenko and Kolomoysky were soured some time ago, probably due to his refusal to finance Tymoshenko's election campaign.
On the eve of the election, Tymoshenko's authorized spokesperson said she would nationalize Privat assets in the Ukrainian oil industry. As this may directly affect Tyhypko's interests, he is unlikely to support Tymoshenko.
Yanukovych and Tymoshenko, who have made it into the second round, must do their best to win the support of undecided voters accounting for about 10% of the entire electorate.
One can safely say that the campaign headquarters of both Tymoshenko and Yanukovych will prioritize this issue in the run-up to the second round of presidential elections, scheduled to be held on February 7.
Innokenty Adyasov is a member of the expert analytical council at the Russian State Duma's CIS affairs committee.
| 2019-04-21T02:42:34 |
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/20100120157627000/
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Operating Question Where is the switch to switch from the floor to wand mode on the Featherlight bagless model? Thanks.
Having problems with your Dirt Devil Featherlight Bagless Upright Vacuum ?
There isn't one. The wand is always active, because it is the only air inlet on that machine. When it's plugged into the side of the machine, it's pulling dirt from the nozzle. When you pull it out, it just functions as hose attachment.
I have a model F602-900 and it show it is in the tool mode. How do I get it to change to the floor Mode?
I have a dirt devil featherlite bagless vacuum; model #088600. It has suction through the hose but not through the floor mode. I think there is a blockage in the hose area but cannot seem to take it apart enough to find it.
My dyson slim vacuum doesn't switch from hose to floor mode. I thought the foot lever was broken. I realigned it but it doesn't switch now from floor mode to hose mode. I take out the hose and I can see the white part. I thought it should move as you go from upright to recline position of the handle.
Blocked suction The FLOOR suction line (Hose) is clogged. I Can vaceum the floor, but it will not pick up anything because the hose to the bagless canister is blocked. I can switch from floor to hose and can vaceum furniture. it will not pick up off the floor. I have tried running a wire down/up the hose. I Can feel the blockage, but I cannot get it out. I am afraid to pull the flem hose out as I do not know how it is attached at each end.
I have a model u6476 self propelled hoover.The switch will not turn or off all of the time.The plastic slide does not operate the switch but slides over it.The switch seems to work easy enough by hand.Cleaner was purchased 2-23-07 Any iseas?
Windtunnel bagless vaccum model uh6000 on/off switch no longer working, must plug/unplug unit to use. Can switch be replaced?
Kenmore Progressive with direct drive model 116.36923502 stopped picking up debris and empted it into the floor and is there something you need to do to switch from floor to using the hose. It does not have any suction.
I have a Hoover steam vac Model #F5865-900. I am unable to have the cleaning mode change from tools to floor when lowering the handle release. I hear a click, but the indicator stays on tool. I need to know how to get to the assembly that controls the cleaning mode.
I am looking for a switch for a Hoover floor polisher model 0211. Thsi model is about 50 years old.
My Kenmore model 116 vacuum head will roll in carpet mode but no suction, no action at all in floor mode.
| 2019-04-23T07:54:47 |
http://www.mictaservice.com/dirt_devil_featherlight_bagless_upright_vacuum/q594715-operating_question
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) encodes the genetic information of all known living organisms. The structure of DNA is a double helix, consisting of two polymeric chains of ribose units connected by phosphate linkages. Each ribose unit is bonded to one of four bases: the purines adenine (A) and guanine (G) and the pyrimidines thymine (T) and cytosine (C). The two strands of the helix are connected by hydrogen bonds, with unique pairing between the bases A-T and G-C. The genetic code is specified by a particular sequence of A, G, T and C bases. For example, a fragment ⋯GATTACA⋯ in one strand, is paired with the complementary sequence ⋯CTAATGT⋯ in the other. Human DNA contains slightly more than 3 billion base pairs.
In this Demonstration, you can select either the "adenine–thymine" (A-T) or the "guanine–cytosine" (G-C) base pair. Then, by using the , sliders (or the mouse) and adjusting the rotation angle, you can move the T or C until hydrogen bonds to the complementary base A or G can form. Hydrogen bonds consist of linear sequences of the atoms N-H N or N-H O. Successful hydrogen bonds are shown by thick dashed lines. The A-T connection consists of two hydrogen bonds, while the G-C connection has three hydrogen bonds. Each base is bonded to a ribose molecule, at the position marked by a yellow sphere.
S. M. Blinder "DNA Base Pairing"
| 2019-04-20T21:13:34 |
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DNABasePairing/
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Recently I started composting at home.
As many sources told me not to put cooked food and several other things. Mainly to not attract animals. I don't put them on on my compost pile, but put put it in the bag for organic waste which goes to the recycling park (as I don't have chicken who I can give it to).
That made me think that maybe if everybody does this, the recycling park might get problems for discomposing the organic waste?
I was also wondering about the fact I'm not allowed to sort dog and other animal feces together with the organic waste, if all other organic things I shall not put on my compost pile are allowed, why animal feces aren't?
Cooked food may attract animals, but I find a few ways of composting them. If you have a composter or a vermipost bin, those will work too. Below is my own method though.
I tend to aggressively sheet mulch. While I am here in Indonesia I am known to prune the mango trees to get leaves to sheet mulch. These allow me to compost a fair bit of stuff in place.The leaves are definitely a green and they take a few weeks to decompose. The basic structure here is an alternating set of layers of "greens" and "browns" to help speed composting, but these are small and make use of surface area and ground contact rather than size and heat. In this way I incorporate smallish amounts of more risky foods (like cooked veggies) underneath the mulch, between the mulch and the soil. I find that if I do this, it decomposes fast and the sorts of animals attracted tend to be small decomposers like centipedes, ants, and earthworms. The 4 inch layer of leaves act as a bit of an odor damper and help avoid some of the more noxious pests (like cockroaches). Other approaches might include plastic composters, covered piles, vermipost, or the like.
As always pest management is very local so what works for me may not work for you. Trial and error is necessary sometimes.
You can place cooked food on your heap, it will eventually be turned into compost, but like you said it may attract vermin so you'll probably want to use a composter instead of a heap. Also large quantities of some ingredients (e.g. very oily food) may slow down the composting process.
Vermicomposting in a wormbin is similar to using a composter. Much of the cooked food can be thrown in, but you'll still have to be careful with some of the things. For example onions and citrus fruit should only be provided in small quantities as large amounts will raise the ph-level too much and the worms may die. Meat, fish and oily stuff can be processed, but often goes bad and stink before the worms have had a chance to process it. In bins without a lid meat and fish may also attract flies and maggots.
The easiest solution for cooked food probably is to preprocess it in a Bokashi bin. Micro-organisms in the bin will break down the things that are more difficult to compost (like meat and oils). After two weeks you can process the Bokashi bin contents further by throwing it on a compost heap, in a vermicompost bin, or simply by burying it in your garden.
As for the animal feces, they actually can be placed on a compost heap too but the reason why it is not recommended is that animal feces often contain pathogens that can be dangerous to people if they are not processed in the right manner. Feces from rabbits, hamsters and guinea pigs are rather harmless and can be placed on your heap safely. Feces from dogs and cats are more troublesome. Cat feces for example may contain the Toxoplasma gondii parasite that is dangerous for people with a weak immune system and for pregnant women.
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| 2019-04-19T09:08:03 |
https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/798/cooked-food-composting
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John Cumberbatch, the joint-manager of Ashford Town, was left stunned with rumours that have been circulating about how much his players are paid by the struggling Ryman League Division One club, writes Stephen McCartney.
Underachieving Ashford, who were knocked out of the FA Trophy at the first hurdle on Saturday, losing 2-0 to Kent rivals Bromley at Homelands, will be looking to bounce back when they travel to Croydon Athletic on Saturday for a league fixture.
But Orpington based Cumberbatch gave fans the true facts of life at the Homelands.
He told the club's website www.ashfordtownfc.co.uk: "I was informed by a very reliable source that some fans in the stands were overheard discussing players' payments and mused that some of the players were earning about £300 per week.
"Though I don't think we should discuss players' money, there are certain myths and rumours that need to be corrected.
"When Tim (Thorogood) and I spent time in the summer in discussion with players who were carefully selected for what we felt could be an assault on the league, we were offering them far higher wages that the players here currently receive - yet none of them was offered any close to £300 (per week).
"Some of them could perhaps have earned close to half that sum if they achieved agreed bonuses that week.
"These were experienced proven players who, despite having offers from other clubs, were about to sign for us but were scared off because of the unfortunate timed summer lock-out.
"The current first team squad earn amounts starting from purely expenses in more than one case, to the highest earner receiving far less than 50% of the figure quoted, including expenses.
"I have deliberately been unclear with this to prevent giving exact figures but have given an accurate comparison to the £300 branded round.
"Please do not be misguided by people who live in fantasyland with regard to payments to players.
"If we were able to pay the squad the sort of figures branded round, I would be delighted and willing to do so.
"Why? There are at least ten of the current squad who would train full time for earnings of £300 per week and I can guarantee if we had ten of the squad training full time, we would definitely be in the top three of the division.
"For £300 per week, I would be demanding that some players train full time and those unable to because of their full-time careers would be expected to give a minimum of three evenings training per week and I believe they would be willing to do so with no hesitation and complaint.
"So for the fantasists amongst you, dream of a day when this may happen, but the reality is far off."
Ashford fans would need to go higher up in the football pyramid for wages of that nature.
| 2019-04-25T07:52:48 |
https://kentishfootball.co.uk/news/551a956bb1709
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About the final days of United States politician Nelson Rockefeller, biography and history.
Died: 13 West 54th Street, New York City, Jan. 26, 1979, 11:15 P.M.?
Since retiring from politics in 1977 after a long public career, the 70-year-old Rockefeller had devoted himself to his huge art collection, producing books and selling reproductions of the masterpieces he owned. He spent most of his last day working on his latest book in his Rockefeller Center office. In the late afternoon, he went to Buckley School on 73rd Street, where his two young sons were students, to introduce former secretary of state Henry Kissinger to a class. Following Kissinger's speech, he returned to his duplex apartment at 812 Fifth Avenue and dined with his family. His chauffeur then drove him and Andrew Hoffman, a security aide, to the brownstone town house he had maintained for 30 years on 54th Street. From there he called 31-year-old Megan Marshack, his staff assistant, shortly before 9:00 P.M. She arrived a few minutes later wearing a long black evening gown, and they sat down to work on the art book. There are several confusing versions of the events that followed. At about 11:15 P.M., according to the revised account given by family spokesman Hugh Morrow, Rockefeller suffered a heart attack and collapsed on the floor. "Megan made a quick effort at artificial respiration, and Hoffman tried, too," said Morrow; the Megan called 911, the emergency number. The two policemen who arrived first on the scene found Rockefeller in a suit and tie lying on the floor. Officer George Frangos reported that "he was still warm. His face was reddish, not kind of polka-dot blotches or bluish, the way they get a little later." They could find no pulse. Ambulance and paramedic teams, which arrived a few minutes later, failed to revive him. At Lenox Hill Hospital, Dr. Ernest Esakof, Rockefeller's physician, officially pronounced him dead at 12:20 A.M.
Morrow had first stated that Rockefeller died almost instantly at 10:15 P.M. in his Rockefeller Center office, but the first call received by police was at 11:16 P.M. Morrow then corrected the address and explained that Marshack--whose presence was previously undisclosed--had, in her shock, simply given an erroneous time. On Feb. 10 further confusion was created when journalist Ponchitta Pierce, a friend of Marshack's, revealed that Marshack had phoned her on Jan. 26 between 10:50 and 11:00 P.M. and told her that "Governor Rockefeller had suffered a heart attack." Pierce said she went to the town house and found Rockefeller on a couch with Megan trying to revive him. Pierce stated that she herself dialed 911 for help; then, inexplicably, she left before the police arrived. Police analysis of the taped, frantic call verified that the woman caller was not Marshack. All of the witnesses--including security aide William Keogh and chauffeur Lonnie Wilcher--have since remained silent. Because no autopsy was performed, even Dr. Esakof's judgment that death resulted from a heart attack was, at best, an educated guess.
| 2019-04-23T10:17:30 |
https://trivia-library.com/c/final-days-of-united-states-politician-nelson-rockefeller.htm
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Will European consumers be enthusiastic enough about 5G to justify the investment?
No sooner have 4G networks unfurled across Europe, with a cough and splutter, than discussions have turned to 5G. The next generation of mobile networking promises another tenfold increase in the speed of data transmission, but so far the definition is a loose one and industry leaders fear that public support is lacking. 5G risks being a hard sell for customers, who have been slow to embrace 4G, and that will limit companies' eagerness to invest. Many will be asking: what is the point of ever-faster speeds?
Last week, the EU's new Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society did little to assuage industry concern. Taking MEPs' questions on September 29th, soon after his appointment, Günther Oettinger warned that the bulk of infrastructure investment for 5G networks must come from the private sector. The Commission's job is to support that investment: so far, it has invested some €700m directly and established the 5G Public-Private Partnership (PPP). Still Mr Oettinger warned that the heavy lifting must come from industry.
In order to justify that investment, companies will need to be convinced that demand for 5G will be strong. That is still far from clear, given customers' lukewarm response to 4G. On the face of it, 5G will offer a simple upgrade on the previous generation, providing typical data rates of over 100 megabits per second (mbps) compared with speeds of around 15 mbps typical over 4G. That would allow for data-heavy applications such as high-definition video downloads (a one-hour movie in ten seconds, as the marketers put it), mobile mapping and navigation tasks.
The speed increases are significant, however, and will go far beyond faster movies. Although apps, systems and even new connected devices will have to be developed to take full advantage, 5G's speed increases will make mobile networking a legitimate substitute to home WiFi networks, for example, making working on-the-go a real possibility. More importantly for many consumers, 5G could offer greater reliability and coverage. Indeed, the 5G PPP suggests that the networks will offer ubiquitous data connections, including full coverage in low-density areas and the same efficiency Europe-wide.
Whereas 4G was primarily about smartphones, therefore, 5G should eventually deliver the infrastructure needed by the much-touted 'internet of things', powering billions of devices connected to the cloud and to each other. Driverless cars, for instance, will require faultless, ubiquitous connections to operate safely, as will portable medical devices and national security systems. Moreover, 5G offers a solution to the capacity crunch by making better use of limited spectrum, combined with improvements in energy efficiency (up to 90%, say proponents). Overall, the 5G PPP claims that new networks will deliver as much as a 1,000 times increase in wireless capacity, serving ten to 100 times more connected devices.
All this is exciting, but will it be enough to secure investment? Many telecoms executives are worried that interest risks being stifled by the EU's restrictive regulation. The Commission's focus on what they deem artificially high competition in order to lower prices has already undermined investment in 4G, they point out. Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms maker and key developer of 5G technologies, has warned that Europe may fall behind the US and Asia in developing next-generation technology.
Investment by European operators in 4G networks has certainly lagged behind that of the US and Asia. The £2.3bn raised by selling off 4G spectrum to UK operators in 2013, for example, was far below expectations, and a tenth of that raised auctioning 3G bandwidth in 2000. Consumers have also been slow to adapt: Cisco estimates that only 2% of European devices are connected to 4G, compared with around a quarter in North America.
Europe is home to much mobile-technology expertise, however, notably from Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Nokia. Ericsson, whose Swedish homeland already enjoys blanket 4G coverage, has invested heavily in 5G research. It has also allocated approximately 40% of its global €3.7bn R&D spend to Europe, though it accounts for a fifth of its sales. The company is working with rival groups to establish 5G standards, and has joined Samsung, Nokia and others in committing to trials with Japan's NTT DoCoMo, which successfully trailed 10 gigabit per second services in lab tests earlier this year.
Carriers are making steps towards 5G, too. In September, Vodafone announced a partnership with Dresden University of Technology to develop 5G technologies at a dedicated lab. EE, Telefonica and Vodafone are amongst the many industry players that are backing a test bed for new technologies to be established at the University of Surrey, the 5G Innovation Centre, expected to open in January.
With sufficient encouragement, the tangible benefits of 5G should eventually bring the flow of revenues needed to justify the investment. Despite low take-up, the precedent from 4G is encouraging in some respects. A study by the GSMA found that where 4G networks have been deployed, average revenue per subscriber is rising by between 10% and 40%. The question, however, is whether those revenues will come soon enough and be large enough to stop Europe from falling behind still further.
| 2019-04-22T04:49:12 |
http://www.eiu.com/industry/article/462375830/europes-5g-conundrum/2014-10-14
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Why? If the seal on your refrigerator or freezer door isn't doing its job, your appliance could be leaking some of the cooled air it produces. But you don't need to buy a new refrigerator. To fix the problem, replace your leaky seal—also known as a gasket—with a new one. This will improve its efficiency and may extend its lifetime.
How it works: Close the door on a dollar bill and then slowly pull it out. If there's no resistance, the seal is leaking cold air. You may also see discoloration or cracks in the seal.
Where to find seals: To purchase a new seal, contact the manufacturer of your appliance. You'll need the make and model to order the correct part.
How to find the make and model: Look in your owner's manual. You may also find this information printed on the inside edge of the refrigerator door, inside either compartment, or on the manufacturer's identification plate.
Step by step: Installing a new seal will take about 30 minutes.
Unplug the refrigerator. Move food to a cool location since the door will be open.
Soak new seal in warm water. Soaking for several minutes will make installation easier.
Loosen the retainer screws. Fold back your old seal to reveal the screws holding it in place on the door. Loosen the screws until you can pull off the old seal, but do not remove the metal retainer.
Fit seal to retainer. Starting from the top corner of the door, tuck the new gasket under the metal retainer and fit it into place. Work your way across the top and along the sides of the door, slightly tightening the screws as you go.
Adjust the door. You may notice the refrigerator door twist a bit as you replace your seal, because the retainer screws that hold the gasket also hold the door together. If this happens, manually realign the door so it is true to the opposite edge of the refrigerator.
Fully tighten screws. This should lock the door's shape and the seal into place.
| 2019-04-24T08:20:02 |
https://cec.opower.com/ei/app/tip/tip006_tighten_refrigerator_seal
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What are the qualities of Filipinos I most admire?
You wouldn't generally see many Filipinos claiming benefits, Filipinos like to work hard to provide for their families. Nor have I ever seen a Filipino sitting around on a wall with a can of larger in London!
Filipinos seem to have determination to succeed even in the face of extreme difficulties. I would give the example of when typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines so badly just over a year ago. So many Filipino groups came forward to raise funds for rebuilding, those in the Philippines who were short of food and even water still battled for survival, even smiling along the way, that fighting spirit and determination.
Some may have given up with no shelter, but no, they helped each other to clear the roads, build temporary homes and try to do all they could to rebuild.
Whenever I have visited the Philippines, I have always been greeted with smiling faces and a lovely welcome. A genuine concern as to how I am and what could be done to make my day better. In my opinion, the Filipino people are one of the happiest people in the world even though the Philippines has its fair share of difficulties, the people are always smiling.
Many Filipinos are employed around the world in caring roles. Working in care homes, hospitality, the hotel sector, customer services, as doctors. Nurses, paramedics, and health care professional roles. Whenever I am in the Middle East, I am always struck by how many Filipinos are employed in customer service positions.
Filipinos seem to have the attitude that family is paramount. In fact it seems to be destiny for millions of Filipinos to leave the Philippines and seek work abroad as OFW's or Overseas Filipino Workers to provide for their families and send money back home. In the Philippines and indeed Filipinos around the world still address their elders as Kuya or Ate, Mom, Tita or Tita etc. this to me demonstrates respect for elders. Something which I believe is so important in society.
There are some 11 million OFWs around the world. Why is this the case? Life in the Philippines can be tough unless you have a good job or come from a rich family. There is no welfare state in the Philippines, nor free healthcare.
There is of course some government support in place in the form of healthcare cards to those who are very poor and some other help, but for many, if they are unable to find a job back home, they try to seek employment overseas. Each month they send money back home to their families. This seems to be the sworn duty of millions of Filipinos worldwide and one which must be admired and respected.
Every year, I notice so many parties and social events, so many Filipino groups and associations, holding summer parties, spring parties, Valentine's Day events, summer balls, Christmas parties, beauty Pageants, Days out to the seaside, coach trips etc.
celebrating life together. This sense of community again is something to be respected and admired.
There are probably many more examples of positive traits of the Filipino people, of course some may try to find fault or say that other races have the same or better qualities, that's not what this article was about, it was for me kind of a public declaration of why I personally believe that the Filipino people are a lovely, caring, happy people.
| 2019-04-25T22:35:37 |
http://www.fil-event.com/2015/04/
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I wonder if it is right: When Quran uses term "Khalaq or Khalaqa" there it gives sense of time. But when it mentions events using term "Qun fa-yaqoon" then such events do not involve time (be and it is)?
I do not feel that making a direct comparison between a 'word' and a 'phrase' in this context will necessarily be helpful as there are overlapping nuances.
"Gods' command (Be, and it is - Arabic: kun fayakun) should not necessarily be seen as instantaneous or mutually exclusive from the concept of a periodic evolutionary cycle. It is merely a command that can be instituted as a precursor to a complete evolutionary process which may take aeons to complete. This is clear from the formation of the Heavens and the Earth.
Thus nothing these examples, the comparison you respectfully share may not be apt.
| 2019-04-22T05:01:02 |
http://quransmessage.com/forum/index.php?topic=1376.0
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AIM: How can we interpret inequalities?
Classwork: We worked with inequalities today. Students wrote basic inequalities from graphs and written situations. They also created graphs to model inequalities. The big difference between inequalities and equations is that equations (in 7th grade) have one solution. Inequalities have an infinite number of solutions.
AIM: How can we assess our understanding of linear relationships?
Announcements: Enjoy your winter break!
HW: Enjoy your winter break!
Please clear your desk of everything except for a pencil, calculator, and scantron.
Announcements: There will be an exam on linear relationships, equations, combining like-terms, distributive property, and solving multi-step equations next Friday, February 17, 2017.
Solve for the value of the variable.
Classwork: We addressed any misconceptions in the beginning portion of the period, and then students were able to work collaboratively and with teachers on practice problems from the unit.
AIM: How can we solve problems involving distributive property?
If we're trying to solve for the variable in our equation below, what can our first step be?
Classwork: The class reviewed the concept of distributive property, and then applied it to situations involving variables. We tied in combining like-terms to bridge our understanding to equation solving.
Do you agree with the equation Patrick wrote? Explain why or why not.
AIM: How can we use distributive property to combine like-terms?
AIM: How can we identify and combine like terms?
The perimeter of the rectangle below is 14 units. How can you find the value of x? (Rectangle with sides 4x+2, and x.
Classwork: Students continued working collaboratively on their like-terms mini-project.
HW: Complete any missing assignments.
How can you simplify the following expression?
Classwork: After reviewing our homework from last night, students began working collaboratively on their like-terms art project. The document can be found below.
| 2019-04-24T05:53:10 |
https://www.mathinmind.com/7th-grade-math/archives/02-2017
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Police at the scene of a terrorist attack in which two Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus in Jerusalem and killed two Israelis. Photo: Courtesy of Israel Police to Foreign Press Association.
It is painful to hear the phrase “lone wolves” applied to the handful — and perhaps tomorrow the dozens and then the hundreds — of killers of Jews “liked” by thousands of “friends,” followed by tens of thousands of “Tweeters,” and connected to a constellation of sites (such as the Al-Aqsa Media Center and its page dedicated to “the third Jerusalem intifada”) that are orchestrating, at least in part, this bloody ballet.
Not only painful and intolerable, but also inapplicable, is the canned phrase about “political and social desperation” that is used to explain — or excuse — criminal acts. Everything we know about the new terrorists, their motives and the pride their relatives take in converting, post-mortem, crime into martyrdom and infamy into sacrifice, is, alas, much closer to the portrait of the robotic jihadist who yesterday would take off for Kashmir and today turns up in Syria or Iraq.
It is doubtful that erudite disquisitions on occupation, colonization and Netanyahu-esque intransigence explain much about a wave of violence that counts among its favored targets Jews with sidelocks — that is, those Jews who are the most conspicuously Jewish, those whom their killers must consider the very image of the Jew, and who, by the way, are often at odds with the Jewish state when not in open secession from it.
It is doubtful that the very question of the state, the question of the two states and thus the question of a negotiated partition of the land — which is, for moderates on both sides, the only question worth posing — has anything to do with a conflagration in which politics has given way to fanaticism and to theories of vast conspiracy, one in which some decide to stab random others as they pass by because of a vague rumor reporting a secret plot to deny Muslims access to Islam’s third holiest site.
It is doubtful, in other words, that the Palestinian cause is being helped in any way by the extremist turn. On the other hand, it is absolutely certain that the cause has everything to lose by it, that the reasonable heads within the movement will be the ones who wind up flattened by the wave, and that the last proponents of compromise, along with what remains of the peace camp in Israel, will pay dearly for the reckless condemnations of the imams of Rafah and Khan Younis.
Intolerable, for the same reason, are the rhetorical appeals “for restraint” and disingenuous pleas “not to inflame the street,” which, as with the “spiral of violence,” reverse the order of causality by implying that a soldier, police officer or civilian acting in self-defense has committed a wrong equal to that of someone who chooses to die after spreading as much terror as he possibly can.
Strange indeed, how tepid are the condemnations of the stabbings of innocent passers-by and rammings of bus stops — condemnations that I have to think would be less half-hearted if the acts had occurred on the streets of Washington, Paris or London.
More than strange — disturbing — is the difference in tone between the equivocal reaction to the recent killings and the unanimous and unambiguous international outpouring of emotion and solidarity elicited by the fatal hatchet attack on a soldier on a London street on May 22, 2013, a scenario that was not very different from those unfolding today in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Intolerable, finally, the minor mythology growing up around this story of daggers: The weapon of the poor? Really? The weapon one uses because it is within reach and one has no other? When I see those blades, I think of the one used to execute Daniel Pearl; I think of the beheadings of Hervé Gourdel, James Foley and David Haines; I think that the Islamic State’s videos have clearly gained a following, and that we stand on the threshold of a form of barbarity that must be unconditionally denounced if we do not want to see its methods exported everywhere. And I mean everywhere.
Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of France’s most famed philosophers, a journalist, and a bestselling writer. He is considered a founder of the New Philosophy movement and is a leading thinker on religious issues, genocide, and international affairs. His 2013 book, Les Aventures de la vérité—Peinture et philosophie: un récit, explores the historical interplay of philosophy and art. His new play, “Hotel Europe,” which premiered in Sarajevo on June 27, 2014, and in Paris on September 9, is a cry of alarm about the crisis facing the European project and the dream behind it.
This article was translated from the French by Steven B. Kennedy.
| 2019-04-23T18:22:52 |
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/21/bernard-henri-levy-things-we-need-to-stop-hearing-about-the-stabbing-intifada/
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Have you made A Chocolate Pecan Pie?
1. Pastry for a one-crust pie. Make the pastry, roll it out, and use it to line a 9" pie pan.
2. Beat the eggs well, add the sugar, and continue to beat until light and creamy. Add the melted butter and the chocolate. Stir in the salt and lemon juice. Add the pecans and pour the filling into the unbaked pie shell.
3. Bake in a 375 deg F oven for 30 minutes, or until set.
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Lemon, Egg, Butter, Sulfites, Natural Sweeteners, Fructose Malabsorption, Pecan allergies.
| 2019-04-24T19:47:02 |
http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/A-Chocolate-Pecan-Pie
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Can foreigners sell to liquor off?
I will be heading to Tokyo on vacation and was thinking about bringing some of my liquor collection to sell so I have extra money. Would I be allowed to sell at Liquor Off, and do they pay fair enough to make it worthwhile?
I'm not 100% sure on this. But I think you have to be a Japanese resident to sell to second hand shops. Books CDs etc.
You can’t. To sell alcoholic drinks you need to get a proper license.
The aim of duty free is for personal consumption - not to sell. How are you going to sell Alcohol to make some money in Japan anyway??
I think the OP is talking about bringing in some vintage or rare alcohol to Japan in order to see it to a retailer, like bringing in your antique camera and selling it to MAP Camera or something similar.
It's quite different to sell alcoholic drink and to sell a camera. The former always need a license and the latter doesn't as long as you sell your own belonging.
3) if you import you may only bring 2 bottles of up to 750ml duty-free.
I believe the OP is talking about taking some vintage bottles to a specific secondhand dealer called Liquor Off, like taking used books and games to Book Off, and seeing if they take them.
I know they ask for ID, but am not sure if only residents can sell.
| 2019-04-24T19:47:04 |
https://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+163646
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A Tesla Model X has safely driven its owner to a hospital, after he activated the car's auto-pilot function following a potentially fatal blood clot.
Rather than call an ambulance, the Missouri-based lawyer chose to activate his car's self-driving function. After a 20-mile (32 kilometres) drive, Neally took control of the car to steer and park it, before checking himself into the emergency room.
The feature is designed to operate without any human input, but has been criticised for being ineffective.
Last month, another American driver using the same technology in his Tesla Model S was killed when the car failed to register an oncoming lorry.
Despite this, Neally told news outlet KY3 that he was glad to have used the function. "If something like that happens where I become unconscious or incapacitated while I'm driving, I'm not going to cross over the interstate and slam into somebody or slam into one of the big rock walls," he said.
While Tesla's self-driving feature technically enables drivers to not use their hands for short periods of time, the car requires users to place both hands on the wheel after one minute.
If the driver had been completely incapacitated, the car's software would have recognised this, and pulled over to the nearest safe area.
Tesla is actively pushing its driverless technology. Company founder Elon Musk recently claimed the Model X was "the safest SUV ever made" when the car was unveiled last year.
In addition to cars, Musk aims to develop self-driving buses and trucks. The company ambitiously plans to move towards "fully autonomous" cars within two years.
| 2019-04-22T05:09:51 |
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08/09/tesla-model-x-auto-pilot-feature-successfully-brings-driver-to-emergency-room/
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Novels, short stories, poems, letters, newspaper articles and essays are all different genres – that is, they are different categories of texts, each with its own style and, in a sense, its own rules. Some of them, likes letters and most poems, also demand their own layout. The differences between these genres are obvious, between a novel and a letter, for example. However, there are different varieties of essay, and there is a whole group of other genres which have quite a lot in common.
A personal essay is lighter than a formal essay: it can include personal memoirs, and it can be altogether more light-hearted, along the lines of the Norwegian kåseri. (But be careful: writing humorous prose is difficult!) If you are asked to write an essay, it is best to assume it is a formal essay unless you are specifically told it is a personal one. Remember: formal must not mean dull. A formal essay should be written in a lively engaging style.
The key to choosing the correct genre is twofold. First, read your instructions very carefully, to find out the sort of text that would be appropriate. Second, think of your audience or readership. What sort of people are going to read this? What sort of reader-attitude will they have? What is the social context? For example, a letter to a newspaper about an accident on a dangerous road expects a different reader-attitude from a talk at football club dinner after a sensationally successful season.
Choosing the right genre is really a question of common sense.
The answer is fairly obvious. You would choose short and very clear language to help your partner get out of the way. In doing this you have chosen to adapt your language to suit the situation. In Norwegian this is called quite aptly “situasjonstilpassa språk”. In English we call this register – you choose the register, the level of your language, to suit the situation at hand.
If you were to read the following: The court held that the resolution of the board to dismiss Mr. Johnson was unlawful. Who do you suppose the speaker is: a taxi driver, a football coach or a lawyer? Perhaps the football coach or the taxi driver would simply have said: “They couldn’t fire Johnson.” The register in this case tells us something about the speaker.
You owe us $14.50. We don't like people who don't pay us so send us the money now, or else.
Probably it's just an oversight on your part, but our records show that you have a balance of $14.50 due with us.
The first example sounds rude and threatening and might even suggest a visit from some mean-looking men in dark suits, which is not the kind of behaviour that is apt to encourage voluntary customer loyalty. The second example is open, friendly but firm. Which letter do you think will get the best result? Register is the appropriate language for the situation at hand. You choose a register to suit the context and the genre of the text.
You must use the language appropriate to your situation to get the results you want.
Aim for Standard English. It is the brand of English generally used by professional English speakers and writers. Actually, there are several varieties of Standard English: Standard American English, Standard Written English, and so on, depending on the context of communication. Standard English is used by educated people, whether they speak with a regional accent or not. All official documents, textbooks, instruction manuals, “quality newspapers” and magazines are written in Standard English, which is also what children are taught to use in school. Standard English is also the form of English taught to foreigners. This is the English you have been learning throughout your school career.
If you write gonna for “going to” or ain’t for “am not”, you might be trying to reflect the non-standard English you have learned from films or from song lyrics. But as it is non-standard English, it will most often not fit the context of the sort of texts you write. In such cases using non-standard English, such as “ain't” or “gonna” or “wanna” or “doesn’t” will get in the way of good communication.
However, choosing the right register is much more interesting that simply avoiding contractions like “wanna” and “doesn’t”. We can illustrate this with an example. Imagine you have your own parking space at work that has taken you years to acquire. You are very proud of this right, but someone in a blue Cortina, licence number KG 445665, keeps parking in your space. Is he or she doing it on purpose, or is he or she unaware of your special privilege? You check with personnel and find out that the owner of the car is a Miss Margaret Jones in accounting, which is a department far away from yours in another building. She has been with the firm for seven months. You decide to inform her of the situation and your irritation.
Now you have to make a choice. Would you write a formal letter to her, or a note to be left under her windshield wiper, or a letter to the editor in the company's internal newspaper, or a letter requesting immediate action to your superior, Ms Donna Bracken, Chief Marketing Director? Or would you call her on the phone? Then you have another choice: what style of language would you use; that is, what register would you choose?
To enjoy and exploit the full tapestry of the English language, you must get the simple things right first!
| 2019-04-25T19:51:49 |
https://access-socialstudies.cappelendamm.no/c319365/artikkel/vis.html?tid=366441
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Imagine that a car is travelling on a straight road. The driver sees a problem on the road ahead and so brakes suddenly to stop. The stopping distance is the distance that the car travels from the moment that the brakes are applied to the moment that the car stops. This is also called the braking distance.
| 2019-04-26T07:57:55 |
https://australiascience.tv/vod/maths-delivers-car-braking-distances/
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32ml - 2/3 capsule (2 ml) flavor 1 liter of carbonated water. 1 bottle of 32 ml makes 16 liters of flavored carbonated water.
270ml - 2 pumps (2 ml) flavors 1 liter of carbonated water. 1 bottle of 270 ml makes 135 liters of flavored carbonated water.
| 2019-04-24T05:54:36 |
http://allfreightfree.com/sparkling-water-flavor.html
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Thomas Seymour was convicted of the murder of his wife Mary Seymour 69 and sentenced to death.
He battered her to death with a hammer at their home at 3 Breckfield Place in Everton, Liverpool on 10 March 1911.
Thomas Seymour was a seaman and married Mary Seymour in 1907 after she had been left a legacy of £80 by her sister. By the time they married they had spent about £30 of it and spent the rest after their marriage by the time Thomas Seymour had to go to sea again.
When they were sober they both appeared to have been decent people. It was said that Mary Seymour was fond of Thomas Seymour and kept the house clean and sometimes denied herself in order to keep Thomas Seymour in good clothes.
Thomas Seymour was said to be respectable when sober and one witness said that he used to do a lot of reading, but when they had money and drank together they would frequently quarrel. It was said that Thomas Seymour was sometimes very violent and used to threaten to do for Mary Seymour as well as her sister, but his threats were not regarded as serious.
However, their quarrelling was so bad that Thomas Seymour's sister and her husband, with whom they had lived for some time, refused to have anything more to do with them.
A woman said that on one occasion before Christmas Thomas Seymour got furious because Mary Seymour could not find him some cheese for his supper, and that he ran and hit Mary Seymour. She said that when Mary Seymour escaped upstairs, Thomas Seymour dragged her down by her hair and injured her ankle badly. However, she said that when Thomas Seymour came to himself he had said that he was very sorry and got the neighbours to come and look after Mary Seymour until she was well again.
He came back from sea on Wednesday 8 March 1911 after a five-week voyage and on the Friday, 10 March 1911 they appeared to have had some beer although there was no evidence of drunkenness or quarrelling.
Mary Seymour was last seen at 4pm on the Friday.
A neighbour heard a thud at about 10pm and about an hour later Thomas Seymour went out and fetched some beer, but nothing more was heard that night.
The following day, 11 March 1911 a friend of Mary Seymour called at their house twice but got no answer to her knocking. When she called a third time at 12.30pm Thomas Seymour opened the door and said, 'If you want to see a dead woman come in'. He then pointed to Mary Seymour's body in the corner of the room and said, 'There she is and I have done it'.
Thomas Seymour then went up to a Police Officer and told him what he had done and showed him the hammer that he had used to kill her. When he was taken to Bridewell he said, 'I would do it again, if I had the chance'.
When the police went into their house they found Mary Seymour dead with the side of her head smashed to a pulp. The medical evidence stated that she had probably died on the Friday night and it was stated that she had been killed by blows with a hammer.
The police report noted that there was nothing unusual in the case other than the fact that Thomas Seymour persisted in pleading guilty.
It stated that at all stages of the case Thomas Seymour had maintained a callous and indifferent attitude and had repeatedly stated that he had committed the murder. He pleaded guilty at the trial and the judge endeavoured to induce him to withdraw his plea but he persistently refused. He also refused to allow himself to be defended. It was heard that the Counsel assigned by the judge who saw him in the Court cells failed to induce him to allow himself to be defended. It was also heard that the only witness called was the Prison Medical Officer, who gave evidence that Thomas Seymour was sane and perfectly fit to plead.
When the judge passed the sentence of death he said, 'I wish you could suppose that there was any atom of remorse which has led you to adopt the course you have taken. I fear it is only a sense of indifference to the horrible crime you have committed'.
It was noted that because Thomas Seymour had pleaded guilty he could not appeal and that the case from then rested entirely in the hands of the Secretary of State.
The police report noted that cases of persons pleading guilty of murder were always dealt with on their merits and said that of ten cases noted, there were eight in which the capital sentence was carried out.
The police report noted that there appeared to be no mitigating circumstances that would affect the Secretary of State’s decision, such as evidence of drunkenness that would excuse the crime, nor any evidence of provocation. It was then further noted that it was clear from Thomas Seymour's subsequent conduct that the murder was committed in a sudden urge or passing impulse. The police report concluded that the police could see no reason to to suggest in any interference with the law following its course.
Thomas Seymour was executed on 9 May 1911 in Liverpool Prison.
| 2019-04-22T23:56:54 |
http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=242
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State looks to transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy - but how?
JUNEAU - Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is creating a special team to recommend ways to address climate change, saying Alaska, an Arctic state with vast coastlines, is on front lines.
An initial action plan by the still-to-be-assembled team is due by Sept. 1.
Just how any recommendations might be funded remains an open question. Walker told reporters it is unclear who would pay to relocate villages being nibbled away by erosion, though he said later he's not confident in securing federal funds for that work.
Oil and gas revenue could act as "bridge funding" to help mitigate the impacts of climate change, he said.
The state has long relied on oil revenues to fund state government but has been mired in a multibillion-dollar budget deficit amid low oil prices.
Resolving the fiscal situation has been a focus of Walker's administration and remains unsettled. But Walker said "climate change is not going to be set aside as a result of our fiscal situation."
With the new team, he hopes to focus more attention on climate change and create a map for addressing its effects.
"It's something that affects Alaska in ways that no other state has to deal with," he said.
The team, created by an administrative order, will be led by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, who said a transition from a petroleum-based economy to a renewable-energy economy will be a "critical and necessary focus going forward."
Areas the team will be asked to look at are mitigation, adaptation, research and response.
Its membership is to include up to 15 public members from groups with a stake in the issue, representatives from the private sector, indigenous organizations and local governments. It also will include members from the university system and various state agencies.
The effort is intended to build off recommendations of prior climate policy initiatives in the state.
Andrew Welle is an attorney for a group of young people suing the state, alleging it has not done enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He sees the potential for work that's already been done to be duplicated under the new order.
Walker "wants to recreate the wheel and further delay emissions reductions in Alaska while he and the state continue to aggressively expand oil and gas extraction," Welle said in a release.
Michael LeVine, a senior Arctic fellow at the Ocean Conservancy, sees Walker's action as a positive step and said he's hopeful to see real solutions.
Walker's move came two days before he testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in support of oil and gas exploration and development in the 1002 section of the non-wilderness area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Lt. Governor Mallott, a Tlingit clan leader, also testified in support of oil and gas exploration.
To further muddy the waters, the Trump administration released a report Friday acknowledging that climate change not only exists, but that it is man-made and threatening.
Gov. Bill Walker signs administrative order last week to address climate change in Alaska.
| 2019-04-22T00:19:29 |
https://www.valdezstar.net/story/2017/11/08/main-news/climate-change-and-alaska-gov-walker-creates-special-team/1746.html?m=true
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What is the difference between a Creditor and a Third Party Collector?
The creditor is the company that has provided goods, services, or a monetary loan to a consumer. For example, credit card companies, medical providers, utility companies, and banks are creditors. When a consumer falls behind on payments, the creditor may begin procedures to collect the past due balance. The consumer may receive phone calls or letters from the creditor's collection department for a period of time, after which the creditor will assign to a debt collector.
When the creditor's collection department is unsuccessful in collecting the debt, the creditor may decide to hire a third party to collect the debt. This may be a collection agency, law firm collector or a debt buyer . These third party collectors will begin collection procedures, such as placing phone calls or sending letters, to collect the debt.
Once a debt has been assigned or sold by the creditor to a collector, the consumer has rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
| 2019-04-26T12:07:05 |
https://www.consumerslaw.com/practice-areas/debt-collection/who-creditor
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What Is the Thyrotropin Receptor Antibody Test?
The thyrotropin receptor antibody (TRAb) test is a blood test that helps doctors diagnose the autoimmune thyroid condition called Graves' Disease. The antibodies it tests for are present in 90 percent of the people who have this disease.
These are some of the major symptoms, but hyperthyroidism can cause many other symptoms as well.
The TRAb test detects the autoantibody that's associated with Graves' disease. An antibody is a specialized protein made by your immune system. Antibodies are custom made to kill pathogens in your body, such as viruses or bacteria.
An autoantibody is a mistake—your immune system has wrongly identified a healthy tissue as a pathogen and seeks to destroy it.
Thyrotropin is also called thyroid stimulating hormone, or TSH. TSH binds to receptors on the thyroid gland to tell it to produce thyroid hormone. The thyrotropin receptor antibody mimics TSH, so when it's present, it directs the thyroid to keep releasing hormone when your body doesn't need it. That results in high levels of TSH, and that's what causes symptoms.
If the thyrotropin receptor antibody is present, it's an indicator of Graves' disease.
Since this autoantibody is only present in 90 percent of people with Graves', a negative test doesn't automatically rule out the disease. Your doctor will have to rely on the symptoms you report as well as other tests in order to make a diagnosis.
The TRAb test has seen some controversy over how accurate it is. A 2018 review and analysis of research on the subject, though, finds that the science behind the test has come a long way. Now on its third generation, researchers said that better testing has provided a springboard for better, individualized treatment.
If testing leaves uncertainty about your diagnosis or your doctor suspects thyroid cancer, you may be sent for a biopsy. That allows the tissue to be examined under a microscope.
Blood tests are common and quite safe. You may feel a sting from the needle. Afterward, you may have a small red mark where the needle was inserted, and sometimes the area can bruise. Keep the injection site clean as you would any cut or scrape.
Simple blood tests like those performed for hyperthyroidism are not associated with any long-term effects.
If you have a bleeding disorder, cellulitis, or problems with your veins, let your doctor know before you go for blood tests.
You shouldn't need to go without food or drink or prepare in any way before your TRAb or other thyroid-hormone tests. These tests can typically be performed at any time of day.
For any blood draw, it's important that you're hydrated—both for your own sake and to make the procedure easier.
A blood draw for a TRAb is sometimes done by a nurse in your doctor's office, but you may be sent to a lab. The test itself takes very little time—just a couple of minutes.
However, when you go in for the test, you may have to fill out forms and/or wait for the lab tech to get to you. If you're concerned about how much time it will take, call the lab to check on wait times or ask what time of day is usually fastest.
If you're anxious about the test, you may want to give yourself extra time in case you suffer negative effects from the anxiety, such as dizziness or a panic attack. You may also want to arrange for someone to drive you to and from the test.
You probably will not get the results of your TRAb right away. It's more likely that your doctor will contact you later with the results. You may want to ask the doctor how long it should take to hear from them and check with the office if it seems like you've waited too long. Expect it to take at least several days.
You'll want to wear short sleeves or sleeves that can easily be pushed or rolled up. You shouldn't need to change into a hospital gown for a TRAb.
Your health insurance may require pre-approval before you get a TRAb test, so be sure to check with the company. You may have a copay or be responsible for a portion of the cost.
For those without insurance, you may be billed anywhere from $70 to several hundred dollars, depending on where you're tested and what tests are included. Your doctor's office or the lab should be able to tell you the price before the test.
When you go to be tested, be sure you have your insurance card and any paperwork your doctor may have given you regarding the test. You may want to bring something to occupy your time if you expect a long wait.
The test procedure is fairly simple. Here's what to expect.
The nurse or phlebotomist who draws your blood may ask you to confirm your name, birth date, and other information to ensure there's no mix-up and everything is properly labeled.
They'll ask you to push up your sleeve or remove a long-sleeved layer if necessary. Then they'll tie something around your upper arm to trap blood in the vein they're planning to use and swab the site with alcohol to clean it. They may ask you to make a fist or squeeze your hands open and closed.
They'll then insert the needle and release the tourniquet on your arm to encourage blood flow. If multiple tests are being performed on your blood, they may then switch out vials one or more times. Once the requisite blood is withdrawn, they'll slip the needle out and put pressure on the site to stop the bleeding.
After that, they'll bandage it and you should be free to go. If you're having any problems, such as anxiety or dizziness, let them know. They may want to monitor you for a while to make sure it's safe for you to leave.
You may have a little soreness around the site, and it may bruise a little, which is normal. The bruise should go away in a few days.
You shouldn't have any other lingering effects from a simple blood draw. If you experience any other adverse effects, call your doctor.
TRAb test results are pretty simple to interpret—if you test positive for the autoantibodies, you have Graves' disease. If not, your doctor may do other tests to determine whether you have Graves' or another condition, depending on how your other thyroid hormone levels are.
Once you've received your results, you may need to go back to the doctor to discuss treatment options or for further testing, if results were negative or inconclusive.
The diagnostic process can be scary and confusing. It also tends to happen more slowly than we'd like when we're not feeling well and concerned about our health. A diagnosis of a chronic disease can be frightening as well. Throughout the process, try to keep in mind that getting the right diagnosis is better than getting a rushed (and possibly incorrect) one. Once you are diagnosed, even if the news isn't what you'd hoped, the upside is that you can start exploring treatment options so that you can feel better.
Kotwal A, Stan M. Thyrotropin Receptor Antibodies-An Overview. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2018 Jul/Aug;34(4S Suppl 1):S20-S27. DOI: 10.1097/IOP.0000000000001052.
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Alexander Lebedev, the Russian owner of Britain's Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers, suffered another bruising blow to his business empire today after police carried out a raid on his luxury hotel in Ukraine.
Dozens of tax officers burst into the More resort in Alushta, on Crimea's south-eastern coast, early yesterday. They seized documents and computers. Officials from Ukraine's SBU security service swarmed over the hotel today.
The raid came 48 hours after masked, gun-toting special forces stormed Lebedev's National Reserve Bank in Moscow.
Russian police said the search on Tuesday was connected to a criminal investigation into employees from another bank.
Lebedev today told the Guardian it had been a bad week. But he said he would not bow to forces within Russia's murky power structure who were apparently hellbent on making him flee.
"I'm still here [in Russia]. I live here," Lebedev said. He added that he had spent the past three days trying to "decipher" the blunt "psychological" message sent by the bank raid. "In the worst-case scenario the message is: 'Get out of Russia.'"
Lebedev said that when detectives burst in, he was in the bank's underground swimming pool. "I frankly thought they had come to arrest me," he said, adding: "I decided to keep swimming, thinking I would enjoy the pool for the last time."
Lebedev, a billionaire who co-owns the airline Aeroflot and the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, said it would be wrong to link the two investigations against him in Russia and Ukraine. Nor would it be correct to blame Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, he said.
Instead, he pointed to Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovych, a close ally of the Kremlin. He said Yanukovych had ordered in the tax police after taking offence at an article in this week's Evening Standard.
The story, which appeared with no byline on Tuesday, recalled how during Ukraine's election campaign Yanukovych had hailed the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov as "a great Ukrainian poet". Ukraine's leader had committed a "Dubya-like gaffe", the Standard wrote.
Lebedev said he had nothing to do with the article. "He [Yanukovych] thinks I was preparing the article myself. He thinks a publisher like myself has influence on British newspapers." It appeared just before Yanukovych was to travel to London, compounding what the president perceived as a deliberate slight, Lebedev said. The tycoon consistently denies exerting any influence on his British newspapers.
He went on: "Yanukovych doesn't know what the world is. He's not very educated. I don't think he really understands what life is in Moscow, Paris or London."
One Ukrainian diplomat today dismissed Lebedev's claims as "ridiculous", adding: "The Standard is hardly the FT, the Guardian or the Wall Street Journal." He said: "Lebedev co-operates with the governments of Ukraine and Russia. He's in Russia's political elite rather than out."
Asked if further attacks on his Russian interests would have a negative impact on his British newspaper titles, Lebedev replied: "I hope not." But he conceded that he was now in a vulnerable position. "The worst-case scenario is somebody decides to crash it [his business]," he said.
Lebedev's seaside complex in Alushta includes a hotel, holiday villas, a pool, a spa and a narrow rocky beach, set among steep cliffs and attractive subtropical gardens of palm trees and pines. The resort is the biggest in Crimea and one of the largest in Europe. It employs 1,500 people.
Today Lebedev said he had invested $100m in the complex, and was one of the region's biggest taxpayers. He added that he would close down the hotel on Monday, plunging locals into unemployment, if the tax authorities continued their campaign. He also alleged that Yanukovych was trying to seize the Hotel Ukraine in Kiev. Lebedev is a co-investor with the Ukrainian government in the hotel, and has spent $40m on its renovation. The development has been mired in legal battles.
Lebedev is one of the largest foreign investors in Ukraine, with assets including a bank and an insurance company. He spent ¤10m renovating the country's Chekhov theatre, which hosts an annual Chekhov festival, and has been visited by Sir Tom Stoppard, Kevin Spacey and John Malkovich.
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How should multiple OSPF areas be designed when deployed on a classic three-layer (core/distribution/access) network hierarchy?
A. The OSPF flooding domain boundary should be at the edge of the core layer.
B. The OSPF flooding domain boundary should be within the distribution layer.
D. OSPF flooding domain boundaries should be placed with route aggregation in mind.
You are tasked to design a QoS policy for a service provider so they can include it in the design of their MPLS core network. If the design must support an MPLS network with six classes, and CEs will be managed by the service provider, which QoS policy should be recommended?
When network summaries are created for access networks in a network design, how does it change the behavior of the Shortest Path First (SPF) running in a backbone area?
A. There would be fewer incremental SPFs.
B. There would be fewer partial SPFs.
C. There would be fewer full SPFs.
D. There would be no change with the SPFs.
– The network supports four service queues with equal treatment for delay, jitter, and packet loss.
– Queues are numbered 0-3, where 0 is the default queue.
– Three queues have one treatment.
– One queue has either one or two treatments.
If your design includes eight CoS queues on the Service Provider XYZ MPLS PE router ingress (CE facing) interface, how will customer traffic be classified as it enters the MLS P routers?
A. The eight CoS queues in the MPLS P router are remapped to the eight CoS queues.
D. The 8 CoS queues in the MPLS P router are remapped to four 4 flow-label queues.
As part of the network design, ACME Corporation requires the ability to export IPv6 information to better manage its network. Which version of NetFlow records is required to export this information?
Which of these can you use to effectively and dynamically reduce IP address spoofing?
A certain service provider network includes IPsec tunnels between PE router loopbacks and dual-homed PE routers. The service provider is using OSPF to carry infrastructure routes and using BGP to carry tunnel endpoints.
What could the service provider do to provide fast convergence in case of a link failure in its network?
Which statement about OSPF incremental SPF is true?
A. iSPF must be enabled on all routers in the domain.
B. iSPF must be enabled on all routers in a particular area.
C. iSPF capability is advertised using Opaque LSAs.
D. iSPF is local to the router and does not require interoperability.
E. iSPF is negotiated during the OSPF adjacency process.
Cyclic congestion spikes are causing your Telnet users to experience delays. Traffic analysis shows minimal use of UDP. Which technology can you deploy to mitigate the problem?
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(CNN) - The following contains spoilers about the "Game of Thrones" Season 8 premiere.
The penultimate season of "Game of Thrones" was largely defined by bringing key characters together -- some meeting for the first time, others reunited after having endured harrowing ordeals.
The Season 8 kickoff ratcheted up that dynamic in thrilling fashion, as forces marshal for the anticipated battle between the living and the undead legions of the Night King.
Of course, forging those alliances won't come easily, with plenty of suspicion and mistrust sprinkled throughout the hour. But the mantra, repeated by different characters in various ways, was as Tyrian (Peter Dinklage) put it, "We must fight together now, or die."
Similarly, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) sought to defend Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) from his wary countrymen in the north, saying that in the battle to come, "Without her, we don't stand a chance."
Despite the pair's way-cute date riding dragons together, the premiere rather boldly made Snow aware of the program's biggest reveal -- namely, that he has a legitimate claim to becoming king of Westeros, a revelation that throws his allegiance to the more ruthless Daenerys into doubt, and that could have major ramifications for who winds up on the Iron Throne.
The one character going against the come-together grain, meanwhile, remains Cersei (Lena Headey, at her imperious best), who doesn't seem to mind seeing much of the world burn as long as she winds up surviving.
One of the complaints about the last season was that it moved too fast, that characters managed to traverse the distance between locales in record time.
While that feels like nitpicking (hey, it's what die-hards do), the show has stepped up its pacing. For the most part, that has been immensely satisfying, yielding crowd-pleasing moments that the and that the series generally avoided in the often-grim journey, especially for the Stark kids, which has led to this point.
In the premiere, that included fine scenes for the battle-hardened Arya (Maisie Williams), Sansa (Sophie Turner) and Theon (Alfie Allen), as well as the stunning if awkward meeting of Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright).
That last scene, which tantalizingly capped off the episode, dates back to what is essentially the program's original sin. Caught in a compromising moment, Jaime threw Bran off a castle wall, crippling the boy, whose eerie mental powers are only one of the supernatural elements that have gradually permeated the series.
Having moved ahead of author George R.R. Martin's literary output, TV producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss have piloted the story to its finish, which represents its own significant accomplishment. Novelists don't have to worry about holding massive casts together, kids growing older or actors chafing to move on to different roles.
For all that happened in the opener -- and a lot did -- there was still a sense that this episode basically set up the pieces, artfully, for what's to come, with the combination of character beats and epic sweep that viewers have come to expect from the series.
"Thrones" is an unwieldy beast, and it's still possible that the show won't be able to stick the landing. But if the premiere is any guide, like Jon and Daenerys' dizzying date, the remaining five episodes promise to be a genuinely wild ride.
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https://www.news4jax.com/entertainment/game-of-thrones-premiere-sets-stage-for-wild-ride-to-finale
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In how many different ways, a rectangle can be cut into 4 identical parts.
Using the numbers 1, 2, 25, 50, 75, 100 Exactly one time, give an expression which will give the answer as 383.
Volume of sphere is (PI)*(Theta) Cubic-meters and Surface area is (PI)*(Epslon) Square-meters And both are digit integer numbers. What is the value of radius?
In the figure given below, Replace '?' mark by any operator (+, -, *, /, =) and if we leave as it is, numbers are considered together and forms either 2 or 3 digit numer. Generate an expression using some symbols.
Start from a random number, generate a sequence such that if number is odd multiply it 3 and add 1. If number is even, divide the number by 2. This Sequence will always cyclic with 4, 2, 1. In this sequesce, find the maximum power of 2 generaged in the sequence and print only the power, not the sequence.
Start with a random 2 digit number, The series is generated by multiplying the number by 2 and placing the last 2 digits as the next number. Series continues until one of the element repeats.
write a function maxsubstring(str,alpha,theta) str is the source string and have to return maximum sub string which starts with alpha and ends with theta.
what does this function do??
How Neural Networks and A.I are related.
You want to shift your career to management side or be in technical side?
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Through this task students have an introduction to mathematics that is not Eurocentric (in spite of the traditional title of the task), an ancient numeral system and Pascal's Triangle before it was named after Pascal. The Chinese Rod system was actually used for doing arithmetic rather than writing and recording. The rods were carried in a bag and used on a counting board in commercial situations. It was a very practical calculating technology, in some ways similar to the Win/Lose A Flat trading game that is often used as part of a place value teaching plan. However, as the challenge suggests, the numerals were recorded in at least one historic document that opens the door to extensive pattern investigations.
In this Chinese system five is the pivotal element. Once a group of five occurs it is collected into 'one bar', either horizontally or vertically. That makes five the 'centre' of a nine digit system and the numeral patterns either side of it grow consistently. Notice that the system is nine digits, not ten like ours, and there are two sets of nine digits making an 18 digit system in all.
The ancient Chinese did not have a symbol for zero. This didn't matter on a counting board because a place was simply left empty. This is what the circle in Question 1c is attempting to show, but the Chinese would not have recorded in this way. They would most likely have left a space if they used the Rod Numeral to record.
With this in mind, the answers to Question 1 using our numerals are a) 49, b) 255,831 and c) 504.
But the Chinese system was subtly different from ours in another way. It was a place value system based on 100 rather than 10. The 18 stick digits can be used to show every whole number from 1 to 99.
Each section of the counting board was divided into two parts. On the right hand part of each section were the Heng rods (top ones on the card) and on the left side were the Tsang rods (bottom ones on the card). So now each section of the board could count as many as 99.
The first section on the right counted up to 99 ones.
The next section to the left counted up to 99 hundreds.
The next section to the left counted up to 99 hundreds of hundreds.
So where we use a comma to show thousands in a number like 255,831, this ancient Chinese system would read the numbers in pairs, more like this 25,58,31 and think of 25 hundreds of hundreds, 58 hundreds and 31 ones. Guided research of Chinese Rod Numerals on the web could be a useful iceberg project.
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which shows a date of 1303 AD - considerably before Pascal, in Europe, is credited with 'discovering' it.
Sum the numbers on any row.
Perhaps student discoveries can be displayed in a special area of the room and grow over time.
The rows of Pascal's Triangle (Yang Hui's Triangle) sum to powers of two and the whole triangle is symmetric.
What happens if you try to build a symmetric triangle with rows that sum to powers of 3? ...or 4? ...or 5?
Many teachers use Pascal's Triangle in units of work on pattern, and rightly so. In many ways it has a 'magic' feel. However, if the lesson is mostly filling in circles according to a given rule and then searching for patterns, could it be better? The task suggests yes because we can make links with history and links across mathematical content. The pattern unit might be richer by including a review of place value in context (Do we really understand our own system if we haven't explored it's subtleties compared to other systems?) and a taster of probability. It is very easy to collect sufficient matches for each pair - try the art room - and the notes above suggest lesson development. Inter-connected learning in mathematics might be more effective.
The probability part might lead you to use Pascal's Pinball machine. This activity physically involves the students in working their way through a maze of chairs laid out like the rows of Pascal's Triangle. There are coins (or dice) on each chair - heads go forward right, tails go forward left. The finish row of chairs has no coins, but the students have carried a counter with them to place on the chair where they end. How will these counters be distributed?
The idea is recorded in Chance & Data Investigations Volume 1, Lovitt & Lowe, Curriculum Corporation, 1993, p.88. But it has been developed further in this brief article by Christine Lenghaus, who is happy to share her work with Mathematics Centre visitors.
At this stage, Pascal's Triangle in Asia does not have a matching lesson on Maths300.
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http://mathematicscentre.com/taskcentre/144pascl.htm
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What is laparoscopy - keyhole surgery?
Laparoscopy or keyhole surgery is a procedure by which organs within a body cavity like inside the abdomen are visualized by inserting a telescope into the cavity through a very small incision. When connecting the telescope to a small video camera the images are transmitted to a video monitor. This image is magnified several times and obtained without physical strain on the patient or the wall of the body cavity.
What is operative laparoscopy or endoscopic surgery?
minimal organ and tissue handling.
Laparoscopic surgery has been demonstrated to offer better cosmetic results as incisions are small and become invisible over a short period of time, less pain after surgery, much shorter hospital stay with discharge from hospital the same day or after 1 night. As for recovery, earlier resumption of normal activities and employment. It is not unusual for a manual worker to return to his work within 7 days after keyhole hernia operation or a professional football player to resume training within 7 days and return to a full competitive match within 3 weeks.
Laparoscopic surgery carries the same risks as any other surgery with some unique differences. The treating surgeon would discuss those aspects with patient.
. recurrence rate of open hernia repair between 8 and 15%.
- Injury to internal organs, bladder, blood vessels or bowel.
- Anaesthesia for laparoscopic surgery.
- All with general anaesthesia.
- Risks associated with general anaesthesia, endotracheal intubation, drug reaction and cardiac and chest complications.
- Bleeding from the entry site.
- Blood transfusion may become necessary, but it is rare.
- Hernia recurrence in the case of laparoscopic repair of a hernia or incisional hernia through the small entry site.
- Keloid and painful scar are rare.
- Blood clots in leg veins, (deep vein thrombosis) and clots in the lungs are rare.
Traditional Approach: This surgery is done from the outside through an incision in the area of the hernia. The incision goes through the skin, fat, and allows the surgeon to get to the level of the hernia.
A laparoscope connected to a camera is inserted through a small hollow tube, allowing the surgeon to view the hernia and surrounding tissue on a video screen. The hernia is repaired from behind the abdominal wall.
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http://herniainstituteaustralia.org/what_is_aperoscopy.html
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By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many. One most fundamental question that continues to exercise philosophers is put by William James: "How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge."
The Being according to Parmenides: a sphere.
Some of Thomas Aquinas' propositions were reputedly condemned by the local Bishop of Paris (not the Papal Magisterium itself) in 1270 and 1277, but his dedication to the use of philosophy to elucidate theology was so thorough that he was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1568. Those who adopt it are called Thomists.
It is noticed that the original language of the source, e.g. Greek, German and English, has only one word for two concepts, ast and hast, or, like Arabic, has no word at all for either word. It therefore exploits the Persian hast (existential is) versus ast (predicative is or copula) to address both Western and Islamic ontological arguments on being and existence.
Now, with regard to the fact that Persian, as the mother tongue of both Avicenna and Sadrā, was in conflict with either Greek or Arabic in this regard, these philosophers should have been warned implicitly by their mother tongue not to confuse two kinds of linguistic beings (viz. copula vs. existential). In fact when analyzed thoroughly, copula, or Persian ast ('is') indicates an ever-moving chain of relations with no fixed entity to hold onto (every entity, say A, will be dissolved into "A is B" and so on, as soon as one tries to define it). Therefore, the whole reality or what we see as existence ("found" in our world) resembles an ever changing world of astī (is-ness) flowing in time and space. On the other hand, while Persian ast can be considered as the 3rd person singular of the verb 'to be', there is no verb but an arbitrary one supporting hast ('is' as an existential be= exists) has neither future nor past tense and nor a negative form of its own: hast is just a single untouchable lexeme. It needs no other linguistic element to be complete (Hast. is a complete sentence meaning "s/he it exists"). In fact, any manipulation of the arbitrary verb, e.g. its conjugation, turns hast back into a copula.
On the other hand, centuries later, Sadrā, chose a more radical rout, by inclining towards the reality of astī (is-ness), as the true mode of existence, and tried to get rid of the concept of hastī (existence as fixed or immovable). Thus, in his philosophy, the universal movement penetrates deep into the Aristotelian substance/essence, in unison with changing accident. He called this deep existential change حرکت جوهری harekat-e jowhari (Substantial Movement). It is obvious that in such a changing existence, the whole world has to go through instantaneous annihilation and recreation incessantly, while as Avicenna had predicted in his remarks on Nature, such a universal change or substantial movement would eventually entail the shortening and lengthening of time as well which has never been observed. This logical objection, which was made on Aristotle's argumentation, could not be answered in the ancient times or medieval age, but now it does not sound contradictory to the real nature of Time (as addressed in relativity theory), so by a reverse argument, a philosopher may indeed deduce that everything is changing (moving) even in the deepest core of Being.
While studying of meaning of being itself semantics traditionally appeal to the oldest sign ouroboros - snake eating its own tail which describes the cyclical nature of being or eternity. In mathematical logic sometimes used in this case the sign infinity, but indeed because of its quantitive character this sign is also inappropriate to use in description of being. Several experiments conducted by the cognitive psychologists in frames of Prototype theory in particular show that some prototypes are formed on the basis of common features. Lots of cultures describe being as some sort of line - process that can have its beginning - birth , midst - some occasion of being , or doubled occasions - system , and the end - death , as well it can exists in form of the smallest part of time - moment of being , or show the whole its length both sides bounded - period of being .
1 2 Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, p. 27: "this entity which each of us is himself ... we shall denote by the term 'Dasein'."
↑ James, William (1916). Some problems of philosophy: a beginning of an introduction to philosophy. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. pp. 38, 40.
↑ Aristotle. "Book VII Section 1 (paragraph 1028b)". Metaphysics.
↑ Metaphysics Chapter VII, Section 4 (paragraph 1030a).
↑ Metaphysics, Book IX, Chapter 10 (paragraph 1051b).
↑ Wippel, John F. (2000). The metaphysical thought of Thomas Aquinas: from finite being to uncreated being. Monographs of the Society for Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy, No. 1. The Catholic University of America Press. p. 75.
↑ "age of reason". dictionary.com. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
↑ "empiricism". dictionary.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
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Hobbes, Thomas (1904) . Waller, Alfred Rayney, ed. Leviathan: or, The matter, forme & power of a commonwealth, ecclesiasticall and civill. Cambridge: University Press.
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Royal Wedding guest list and celebrities - who was invited to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's big day?
Royal Wedding guest list and celebrities – who was invited to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s big day?
The Royal Wedding took place on Saturday May 19, 2018, and was one of the biggest events of the year so far - but who got their hands on the exclusive invites to Windsor Castle?
PRINCE Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle had people around the world fixated on every little detail.
Who was invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding?
The wedding invitations were printed on March 22, and the couple kept fairly tight-lipped about their guest list.
There were not as many wedding guests as when Prince William tied the knot in 2011, but that was to be expected.
Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding took place at Westminster Abbey, with 1,900 guests but St George's Chapel, Harry and Meghan's venue, only holds 800 people.
They also invited 2,640 members of the public on the day to the Windsor Castle grounds including 1,200 people, who have demonstrated strong leadership in their communities.
Around 600 people were invited to the service which took place at St George's Chapel on Saturday, May 19.
Unfortunately, those wanting a glimpse of Prince Louis on the day were disappointed, as the palace confirmed he would not be attending - instead being cared for by a nanny nearby on the day.
It was confirmed on May 16 that Prince George would be page boy and Princess Charlotte would be a bridesmaid at the Royal Wedding.
On Harry's invite list were ushers Tom Inskip and Guy Pelly, while Army comrades who he served alongside in Afghanistan also made the cut.
All three of Princess Diana's siblings attended - Lady Jane Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Earl Spencer, as well as his daughter Kitty.
A fleet of glamorous pals including tennis ace Serena Williams (alongside her Reddit founder husband Alexis Ohanian), Indian actress Priyanka Chopra, and stylist Jessica Mulroney all showed up.
Several of her Suits co-stars flew over for the big day - Patrick J Adams, who plays her on-screen love interest, was joined by his Pretty Little Liars actress wife Troian Bellisario, Rick Hoffman, Vanessa Ray, Gina Torres, Gabriel Macht and Sarah Rafferty.
Two of Prince Harry's former flames, Cressida Bonas and Chelsy Davy both scored invites.
George and Amal Clooney, Idris Elba, James Corden, Tom Hardy, Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford were all spotted at the service too.
Long time royal friend Sir Elton John, with husband David Furnish, was at the ceremony and is believed to have performed a mini concert for the happy couple at their reception following the nuptials.
David and Victoria Beckham, long-time friends of the royals who have both been honoured by the Queen made the short trip to Windsor.
US TV titan Oprah Winfrey was one of the surprise names to attend.
Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and his wife, Princess Mabereng, who have worked alongside the Prince and his charity Sentebale since 2006, also attended.
Other surprising names to attend included pop star James Blunt and his wife Sofia, rugby ace James Haskell and his fiancee Chloe Madeley, soul singer Joss Stone, and rugby legend Sir Clive Woodward and his wife Jayne Williams.
Why were no political figures invited?
In addition to Donald Trump, a whole host of political big names including President Obama, his wife Michelle, and Theresa May did not make the cut.
While David Cameron, then the Prime Minister, attended Prince William's wedding in 2011 - the situation was different for Prince Harry's.
A Kensington Palace spokesman explained prior to the event: "It has been decided that an official list of political leaders - both UK and international - is not required for Prince Harry and Ms Markle's wedding.
However, former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major was a guest at wedding, with wife Norma, as he was appointed as a special guardian over both Princes William and Harry following the death of their mother, Lady Diana, in 1997.
Did Elton John perform at Harry and Meghan's wedding?
The Sun revealed back in February that Elton John would be attending the Royal Wedding.
The Rocket Man cancelled two Las Vegas gigs on the same May weekend as the royal nuptials, which left him free to attend and perform.
He arrived with his husband David Furnish and sang three songs during a lunchtime reception held by the Queen.
Did Barack Obama attend the Royal Wedding?
It was reported that the couple were keen to invite Barack Obama to the wedding rather than Donald Trump - which had all the makings of a sticky political situation.
The 33-year-old prince has become good friends with Obama and his wife Michelle since bonding with them during the Invictus Games.
But government mandarins pleaded with the couple to change their minds as Britain's relations with Trump's White House sank to their lowest ebb since his election.
Either way, neither Obama or his wife Michelle were at the big day.
Who were the ushers and bridesmaids?
Prince William performed the role of best man and Prince Charles walked Meghan down the aisle.
What inspiring Brits were invited?
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5220384/royal-wedding-guest-list-invite-meghan-markle-prince-harry-attended-celebrities/
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Menopause and Depression: What are the causes and what are the cures? Menopause and depression is an interesting topic.
Menopause refers to a period in a womans life when she stops having her monthly periods. This is a normal part of the aging process, signifying the end of a womans reproductive years. In most women, menopause occurs during the late 40s or early 50s, though women whose ovaries have been surgically removed can have menopause at any time. Studies have shown that menopause predisposes women to depression, which has been attributed to the hormonal changes that take place during this time. This article will explore the relationship between menopause and depression, as well as what a woman can do to ease the resultant symptoms.
Menopause and Depression What Causes It?
During menopause, women usually experience a drop in estrogen levels, which triggers emotional changes. This is because the estrogen levels have a direct effect on serotonin, a hormone which regulates a persons moods, sleep and energy levels. The production of serotonin in the brain normally requires estrogen, which means that when the estrogen levels go down, so do the serotonin levels. This causes the mood changes that take place during menopause, leading to depression. The onset of menopausal depression varies from one woman to another, and is dependent upon ones serotonin amounts in the brain. Research studies have shown that women who generally have low serotonin levels may be more prone to depression than other women during menopause.
In understanding the link between menopause and depression, one is also able to understand the depression symptoms, all of which stem from low serotonin levels. Some of the symptoms of menopausal depression are sleeping problems, mood swings, fatigue, irritability and anxiety. A close look at these symptoms clearly shows that they are all related to the functions of serotonin as indicated earlier. Depression in menopause is normally treated using antidepressants and/or psychotherapy, depending on its severity. Estrogen replacement is also widely used to provide relief from the symptoms. However, estrogen replacement therapy should be brief, because estrogen has been linked to heart diseases and breast cancer.
Menopause and Depression What Can Be Done?
Even though the symptoms of menopausal depression maybe inevitable to a certain extent, a woman is not completely helpless against them. In addition to the treatment options, it is possible to ease these symptoms and maintain ones health and well-being in various ways. One of the ways in which a woman can do this is by engaging in calming skills such as meditation and breathing techniques. It is also possible to ease these symptoms by engaging in creative hobbies or activities, which help to foster ones sense of achievement. This eases the symptoms of depression by enhancing a womans sense of self-worth. Eating healthy food and exercising regularly has also proved helpful in keeping these symptoms at bay. In this case, a healthy diet is one that consists of plenty of fruits, vegetables and fiber.
Despite the prevalence of depression in menopause, it may go undiagnosed and untreated in some women, who think that its symptoms are part of the aging process. However, in recognizing the connection between menopause and depression, a woman is able to seek help if the symptoms manifest. Fortunately, menopausal depression can be effectively treated, while one may also ease its symptoms in various ways as mentioned in the article. There are so many things one can and should be doing to ease the symptoms of menopause and depression.
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Would you feel better about a "change of heart"? A "change of direction"? Is there a limit of change that fits within what you think can "change" about God, since you said God's "changelessness" attribute is focused on His character?
I think you keep moving the goalposts, when you say God doesn't change in character, then say God can't change His mind, even though He gives instances where he does/will, depending on the actions of men.
Not 'change of heart.' Does God's love ever change? Can it be fickle? God is a jealous God, but we often think this means impetuous. I rather always believe God's attributes are always well thought out and ONLY the best reaction to anything, specifically because 1) even in Open Theism God is a 'Master Chess-player' and knows the appropriate response beforehand, unerringly (most of the time), therefore as a Master, there is no flaw to be made, He knows them all AND the appropriate countermove. 2) As far as I understand the scriptures, and agreeing with Calvinism and others: God is all-knowing. There is no room for a problem in one who literally knows all and says of Himself that He is good, and in Him no darkness dwells.
On your other point: A change of direction. I think this is true. Perhaps what you mean by 'change of mind' is 'toward the person responding.' Question: Does a parent 'change' toward their child between when they are obeying and when they are disobeying? Would I, as a parent stop loving my child if they were bullying another? How would my 'mind' change? Isn't it rather that consequences are the things that change? The love hasn't changed. You actually did, and always despised bullying, did that change? Did you, in your imagination, ever believe your child was incapable of such an act? To me, it all looks like no change EXCEPT the consequence AND perhaps how love, anger, etc is EXPRESSED to the child for the appropriate response in conjunction with those consequences. In fact, it helps a child hear: I still love you very much, but I'm very disappointed in you today. True, you WEREN'T disappointed, but that wasn't a 'change of mind' but rather what was already in reserve in you BECAUSE OF YOUR character (not yelling, just emphasizing what 'immutability' means. If you have a 'good' immutable-looking quality, then certainly immutability is a good characteristic in God too). So I'm never saying "God is cement" or "a stone" but I am saying God is our Rock.
I think the "whim" characterization is wrong. God is pretty clear why He changes His mind in the cases where He does--it is based on the repentance of the subject(s), either from evil to righteousness or from righteousness to evil. This accentuates His character, rather than diminishing it. In fact, if God DIDN'T acknowledge a move from evil to righteousness with a change in His intention toward that man/nation, assuming the original intention was due to the evil, He would be changing in His character.
Doesn't it seem, rather, to destabilize the Goodness of God? That is, doesn't it require a 'contingent' in order for God to know His mind? I realize some think it necessary for relationship, but does any of my above parenting example make sense? Do "I" have to change, or do my kids have to change regarding 'their' behavior? I may "Withhold or grant" a consequence, but I really haven't changed my mind about either one, have I? Isn't it rather that 'my child' changed? Isn't the whole goal of raising children, "their" need for change? Does a parent get into it with a need to change themselves? God less so, from my understanding.
Maybe I'm not being very clear, but I don't think I'm saying what Piper is saying. I think God changed His course in some way when He "repented", and then He said he would never change His course in some other way when he said He doesn't "repent". I don't know if I can explain what the difference is, but I will try (again). I feel the need to do this, because despite your desire to define the word "repent" differently to help God save face, it doesn't help unless you can limit your new definition to one of the two cases. Just saying "repent" means "sigh" doesn't help, because God says He "sighed" before and after He says that He never "sighs". But at least I think we are on the right path together, trying to figure out what the word "repent" means in two obviously different connotations.
Agree: Difficult passage. In one we are told "will not do" and then are told 'did it.' Do you agree it is troublesome to all theology perspectives?
My suggestion is that God could see the bad that came from Him putting Saul in charge. And before it got worse, God made a change--He decided to put David (I assume by this time David was already chosen in God's mind, but it isn't provided in scripture until the next chapter) in charge. Remember what I said about the lifetime appointment, as well as the continuation with progeny? These are two different things, only one of which was guaranteed to Saul at the beginning. God saw the evil Saul was doing in usurping Samuel's sacrificing role, and took away the possibility (it hadn't been promised yet, but God was considering it) of the progeny's forever continuation as of chapter 13 (this is significant, because I think it means God might have set Saul up to be the ancestor of Jesus). God then saw more evil in Saul's not fulfilling His commands to obliterate the Amalekites, and reduced the reigning of Saul's progeny even more (to "not at all"). There's one other event that suggests God saw one more act of evil in Saul's seeking out the witch of Endor, that resulted in Saul's life being terminated swiftly--an immediate end to Saul's and his progeny's influence on the throne of Israel.
I see problems with all explanations. I realize we gravitate toward our respective assumptions. One way I think can address this, is the word 'to sigh' carries broad meaning, therefore, in Hebrew, context drives the translation and understanding of broad Hebrew words. There are disagreements even among many in Hebrew circles at times, so it is worth noting and leaving our requests for meaning in God's hands.
That said, the first "God is not a man that He should repent," for me means "God will not make a bad decision." The second then I take to mean "God sighed that He had made Saul king." In a nutshell, it is consistent to me specifically because context drives the meaning of the translated word that can be either of these (as well as a few others).
These passages in Samuel can only be read to say that God changed His mind with Saul. Any other understanding has to come at the expense of the actual text. Whether that's right or wrong is what's up for debate here, but it is clear from the text that God was changing in His attitude toward Saul.
As with above, this logic is based on the idea that 'acham' is static for translation. Not many Hebrew words are. The language was new and so the vocabulary wasn't detailed, nothing like in English or Greek.
I don't like the idea that God makes mistakes. If the future is really unknown, then God is going by the character of men to determine how they will rule. To me, the bible makes more sense if God doesn't know how individuals will continue to act, and He picks those that have good character at the time, because they are more likely to have good actions. But character changes in men. Maybe that idea can tie together all the different repent/not-repent/change-not passages--men exhibit a change in character when they repent, and God exhibits His changeless character when He repents. If that's what Piper was getting at, then I'm on board with it.
Regarding the idea that God was angry in an unrighteous way, I don't see that conclusion as necessary. But can't God decide how far He carries a matter, showing mercy by not carrying it as far as He might have? Is that not part of His character, too, not to carry justice as far as justice is allowed?
Yes, but let me ask: Isn't His character entirely consistent and in harmony? How could it 'get' that far that He has to 'relent' or 'repent?' Isn't His character already perfect that this wouldn't/couldn't happen? I realize 'relationship' is key to the Open Theist theology paradigms (why I'm not too upset toward them, I think they have something good in mind), but I learned and learn much better from a Master than one still learning and figuring it out as they go. The better parents are the ones that have consistent and effective parenting down. For God? I'd think perfect, thus there are none of those 'ah ha' moments that you'd have even with a very good parent. They are not omniscient, thus are not able to anticipate every eventuality. Even Open Theists believe God is at least 'omnicompetent' that no unforeseen 'oops' moments happen. There is no surprise, in other words, but this idea is held inconsistently. It is the 'circular reasoning' of Open Theism in my estimation.
I think you're saying here that God can only repent of sin, so He must not ever repent--which is not what I'm saying at all. God repents of actions that didn't work out because of men's sin.
Let me ask according to the OP: Hypothetical - God knows what happens as well as determines what happens, therefore, there is no 'change' but that which actually does take place. Some would say God then is at the mercy of 'fatalism' but this isn't true: He is at the 'mercy' of His own character. He simply doesn't wish or desire anything else. It happens exactly according to His character.
And if God is like the unjust judge (except loving and just), then we DO win Him over. Otherwise He is not at all like the unjust judge, and the parable would have to say that the woman changed her mind and decided to accept the ill treatment.
[Luk 18:7 KJV] And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Let me ask, when you pray, do you say "God please do this" or do you pray "God, if it is best, I don't know, but I want to bring this to you and ask for this specifically (for myself or another person), but I don't know what is really best and I'm asking You for what is best for them (or myself). Thank You that You love them [me], even more than I do, and thank You for listening to my prayers."
I 'think' we wrestle with this specifically because 'we' have problems. I truly believe that God's will for me, is ALWAYS better than my will for me or another's. I truly believe this.
Such is NOT a measure of goodness or intelligence of God, unless Jesus is saying God is not good or intelligent.
Sometimes God gives us what 'we' desire but I'd suggest we'd do a lot better asking God what He wants for us most of the time.
Even God can't change a settled future.
Why would anybody care? Isn't that the end of all things? We are all like Him? 1 John 3:2 I've been called a robot and puppet for a long time now. I'm not really that bothered by it. It just doesn't bother me. I WANT to be like Him. 1 Corinthians 11:1 Luke 9:23 It seems to me "bring on the strings!" is an appropriate thought.
You seem to be relying on something God has no control over. Why not be excited over God's ability to make good things come from bad (Rom 8:28), rather than that bad things cannot change (no scripture reference found )? I don't know very well how to empathize with your experiences with your father and stepfathers, as my father, while not perfect, was pretty stable. But that doesn't allow us to say that God never changes toward us for the good just because some fathers change in a bad way. I'll reiterate that this is not on a whim. God is not blowing in the wind. If He desires that we act righteously today, He won't desire tomorrow that we sin. That would be an unallowable change in his character, which YOU said was the point of the "I change not" passage. Rather, He rewards those who diligently seek Him, meaning He will change the outcome for those that change their behavior.
Hopefully you see where immutable is a good characteristic from what I've said above. It is the 'dependable' character of parents, grandparents, and those adults we love[d] that give comfort, NOT some idea they can change. Why do I want a perfect loving God to change? Change to what? Isn't He ALREADY perfect? Isn't this a lack of trust in His character to do perfect and right already? Abraham asked 'will not the Lord do right?' Why? Because he was afraid the Lord was NOT doing right. A 'change of mind' was rather anthropomorphic: It was 'becoming' what Abraham already hoped God was but was afraid He was not that caused the problem in the first place. It is no bad thing to wrestle with God, but it may very well cause a hip out of socket for the effort. God isn't, imho, reluctant to bless us. If such is held back, there is a reason. I admit to having times and seasons in my life where I wonder what in the world He is doing, but those are 'my' moments of weakness. I know, beyond doubt, God knows what He is doing.
This might be a good topic for another thread, but rabbit-trailish here. Sorry for bringing it up.
If we're only willing to accept what our theology allows, then our theology is more important than what God is like. If a Calvinist can't say that God knows the possibilities, then He must say God is author of evil. You can see this in AMR's posts regularly--he vacillates between saying that God can see ahead to know how we are going to act under different circumstances and saying that God knows because He causes. It's a bit of a whack-a-mole scenario.
Only if you define "surprise" as "not knowing ahead of time". Which begs the question, doesn't it?
Again, I appreciate your input and query. Those "oh I see why you hold to Open Theism (or any other theology other than our own), it helps if God and scriptures get the spotlight for it. We may not agree, but I've learned to appreciate another. There are just not very many Calvinists. It'd be a lonelier heaven without thinking that a great many outside of my specific theology aren't with me in paradise where a lot of this will either be resolved or 'just not really matter.' Both ideas bring hope.
It seems a lot simpler to me to understand that "God is not a man that He should repent" has its intended scope for that specific action and instance. Given that other passages (even a few verses above) it did say God repented, it cannot be setting an iron-clad rule. Even if it was setting a general rule, general rules may have exceptions, but clearly this was applying to whether he would put Saul back as king, and shouldn't be construed as an iron-clad degree extending past its intended scope.
Disagree. Such imho is poor conceptual grasp of context. There is no qualifier for 'does not repent.' It is said, unequivocally. THEN when the next is read, context would, for me, CLEARLY mean something else. It to me, is more linguistically and contextually consistent.
If there is no context then it is a contradiction inherent in the text. God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor 14:33) and the scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35) so such cannot have been the intent. This is not a complete list, but look at all these instances involving God and repentance. Most of them state that God repents or repented, only a few say he will not repent.
The normal resolution of this language would be that the repenting has a specific scope, just like if you said "I will not leave" no one holds you to that forever for the rest of your life simply because you didn't state the obvious qualifier.
(13) Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
(14) I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
(13) And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
(14) Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
(9) Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
(10) And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
(15) And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(2) And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
(3) The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
(4) Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
(5) Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
(6) The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
(5) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
(6) And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
(14) And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
(18) And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
(11) It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
(35) And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
(16) And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
(4) The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
(19) Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Greatly disagree: "I will 'stop' my pronouncement against you." Not a "change of mind." It is and always will be a change of condition based on conditional action. Such is the 'child' changing his mind and actions, not God changing. Relational? Yes.
Similarly, 'according to "thy" ways an appropriate consequence. There is no change of mind (as you also acquiesce).
1) said in both "who knows?" 2) It is regarding consequences and the appropriate one for appropriate actions. Some of this lends to 'scale balance' theology and works based theology among many Christians and cults, but this isn't about scales and balances nor about changing what cannot change in God. It is about recognizing consequences of actions. "Perhaps" then becomes 'this may be the consequence for this change of behavior.' God changing His mind? It is about imperfect man trying to understand the perfect ways of God and the consequences and grace between imperfection and Him.
Not a change of mind: "It is enough" is a staying hand.
What choice of humanity was it that changed God's choice in the example above? Dying? It's not like they had a choice about the dying. That's an example of God changing his action in response to the effects of his own action, and if the original account is considered in context, it even stopped short of what he had promised.
(10) Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
(12) Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
David chose the punishment of three days. God stopped his own punishment short, and as the account relates, in response to the effect of the punishment itself. For all intensive purposes, it certainly looks like God promised three days punishment, had his mind set to punish for three days, and then changed his mind as he was destroying, as he beheld.
That's what the words actually say. Can anyone be faulted for believing the words he chose to give us?
How selective is YOUR reading comprehension?
Go and speak to David, saying, So says Jehovah: I offer you three things. Choose one of them so that I may do it to you.
either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtake you, or else three days of the sword of Jehovah, even the plague in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the border of Israel. And now say what word I shall bring again to Him who sent me.
And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let me fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.
And Jehovah sent a plague on Israel. And there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, Jehovah looked. And He repented of the evil and said to the angel who destroyed, Enough! Stay your hand now! And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
And David said to God, Did not I command to number the people? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these sheep, what have they done? I pray You, let Your hand be on me, O Jehovah my God, and on my father's house, but not on Your people, that they should be plagued.
And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And David went up at the word of Gad which he spoke in the name of Jehovah.
And Ornan turned back and saw the angel. And his four sons with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.
And David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out of the threshing-floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.
Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, so that I may build an altar in it to Jehovah. You shall give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Unless you can prove that the verses are not chronologically ordered, God first chose to stay the hand of the angel in reaction to his own destroying, and then David's actions followed. The actions that God gave to David (and his obedience) followed God's decision and change of action that he had already initiated.
By David's word to Ornan in verse 22, we may infer that David believed that the stay of the angel (the continued stay) was dependent upon his obedience in this manner, but the account literally tells us that God changed his action first, then demanded David's compliance. Again, if I am to be faulted, it is for believing that passage as it is written.
It doesn't have to be proved. Often Hebrew conveyance is exactly that. Provable? Whatever 'hunch' we follow should be consistent. As I've said, I do believe that my understanding is consistent as well as standard (what most Christians who have read their bible or at least this portion believe).
While I don't try to hold to majority over anybody in these conversations, specifically because OV is not, I do think it ever important to read what most people believe and think for the following reasons 1) 2 Peter 1:20 (scripture no less than prophecy) 2) Galatians 6:6 (Galatians 2:2-6 contextually) 3) Romans 12:5 4) Matt Slick represents the Omniscient view in regard to this scripture to a point. I think Matt also, should read the rest of these scriptures with you and I, however.
Clearly David did intercede. You ask how I know the verses aren't chronological? For me, easy: The destruction had already stopped. Why is that essential? Between 1 Chronicles 21:15 and 16, the action stopped. There is every reason to at least entertain Hebrew form in describing this story giving an overview, then giving details.
Just summarizing this, the straightforward reading (assuming it is normally and chronologically written) did say that God ceased destroying in reaction to the effect, and then ordered David to make a sacrifice. You said this straight-forward reading was "selective reading."
In its place, you say that you can follow a hunch that you don't have to prove, that the passage must be given out of order. Lon, I'm reading this passage carefully for any sort of discrepancy that might allow that type of wiggle room but I'm not seeing anything there for you. I could easily draw this out on a story-board step by step and it would flow perfectly.
David did not intercede, that is not how the account tells us it happened. He did what he was told because the Lord Himself was interceding, and I have little doubt that had David not obeyed that God would have told the angel to finish its course... but as portrayed by that passage as written, the Lord stopped before anyone (other than the angel) did anything at all... except for the people who died, of course. Does dying count?
...AND I can do so, even using Genesis 1,2 as an exact model. Sorry, you really have to KNOW (fact) that Hebrew writing does this OFTEN. There is no " " that would work. It is just special pleading. Now for me to prove it? I can show such and as I stated, Matt Slick does this as well so it isn't just me.
David did not intercede, that is not how the account tells us it happened.
He did what he was told because the Lord Himself was interceding, and I have little doubt that had David not obeyed that God would have told the angel to finish its course... but as portrayed by that passage as written, the Lord stopped before anyone (other than the angel) did anything at all... except for the people who died, of course. Does dying count?
A little confusing. To me, it seems your first statement "...had David not obeyed...God would have told the angel to finish [his/her] course...." acquiesces the whole point I was trying to make about the order.
There's an important difference here Lon. The mathematical certainty of the creation order and defined events dictate the interweave of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. The only thing dictating an non-chronological order is your own idea that we were challenging with this process, and there's no hints or clues in the text to support it otherwise.
And the literal straight-forward chronological reading works perfectly well in 1 Chronicles 21, unlike the Genesis 1 & 2 combo.
Disagree. I already gave them. Rosen. I really like you so I say this with all charity I can muster: Sometimes you are a hard-head. I've already given the idea with substantiation (verses) why.
Disagree. The angel was already there, holding a sword. David saw and pleaded. THAT is the order. I DO see your thoughts on the matter and give them credence. The ONLY interpretation viable? John Piper Benson and of course others. Not just what we want to believe, but what scripture may indeed be saying to us. I'm not so invested in traditional theology that I cannot be moved, but I tend to notice when another is getting vested.
I could animate that passage with storyboards drawn from that precise order that scripture provides and there would be no contradiction.
I think There are at least some of these cases that are talking about God's future actions (or events under God's supervision). If there is a future action of one type, which is replaced by a future action of the opposite type, it indicates a change of God's intentions in that particular, limited scope.
My favorite example is Hezekiah's illness. Isaiah prophesied that Hezekiah would die of the illness. This is a future action of God, imo, and God is telling Hezekiah what is going to happen to him.
2 Kings 20:1. ..."This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover."
2 Kings 20:4. Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you.
Both of these statements are future events. If God is at one time revealing what He will do (or will allow to happen) to Hezekiah IN THE FUTURE, and then tells him He will do the opposite (or allow the opposite to happen), God has either changed His mind about the doing (allowing) or He lied to Hezekiah.
The only way for this not to be a lie is for God to have decided on a different FUTURE. Thus the first future (Hezekiah will die) was not cast in concrete in God's mind, which allowed the second future (Hezekiah will not die) to come to pass. God didn't repent of something He had promised, only something that at the time was the intention--the "future" changed. And both "futures" were expressed as God's intention.
This idea of repenting of future intentions can apply equally to Saul's losing of the kingdom and David's gaining it. God's original intention was that Saul would keep the kingdom, but it wasn't cast in concrete. Thus, it could be "repented" of without violating the "I will not repent" clause, since it wasn't guaranteed by any promise of God--it was conditional.
Now, if either of these cases can be shown to be conditional on the behavior of the king, and both outcomes are possible (i.e., God didn't decide before the foundation of the world what would be the outcome), then God can "repent" and "not repent" and maintain His character as described in Jeremiah 18. Jer 18 gives us not just the character of God, that repentance of the people is more important than just fulfilling prophecy (the "relational" component you've mentioned before), but it also gives us the PURPOSE of God, the one that DOESN'T change--He wants those people He has relationship with to be righteous and to seek Him.
Maybe I can tie this thought back into the stopping of the plague by suggesting God had multiple purposes--one to justly punish a wrong and one to establish the means of mercy (or at least a picture of it) in the placement of the temple, and who knows how many other purposes. If the (possibly temporary) halting of the destroying angel were not recognized by David as an invitation to express his repentance for numbering the people, perhaps there was a back-up plan to continue the plague closer to David's home and heart, while still accomplishing the temple site selection in some way. But both justice and mercy are being exhibited here.
| 2019-04-25T02:15:58 |
http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?130387-Does-Open-Theism-Question-dispute-the-Omniscience-of-God&s=a9b996d30a6cf2c2fe8d128964a8183f&p=5274120
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Well, it's apparently "later", finally.
Part of the deal with Touch Support being acquired by The Planet is that some of the staff will be asked to relocate. I guess the reason is that they want the better talent at their core, working along side the existing staff. Having been the lead guy to maintain and further develop the systems used at Touch Support, and with my past and present experience working with PHP and MySQL, everyone has the belief that I will be among the first groups to be moved to Texas.
Am I nervous about it? Heck yeah, I am! I've only been living on my own for a little over a year now, and it's only been 30 minutes to an hour from any family. Now, I'll be 16 hours from any family, though it's only about 2½ hours from Houston to Indianapolis by airplane.
Am I excited? I really don't know for certain yet. I'm supposed to be going to see the area down there later this week, which may change my mind. One thing I am looking forward to is the storms they get down that way. We haven't had much around here since I was about 10, so it'll be a nice change.
Will I be better off, career-wise? A little to begin with, what with the better benefits package and such. There are many more open doors within the larger organization, and I think I will do better as a programmer with someone else shouting out the orders. I have never been much for a self-directed individual, as it's hard to stay focused. I think that someone else leading the projects, or at least working along side me to keep me on course, will allow me to show my skills much better.
I'll most definitely miss my friends and family around here, should the time come that I move. I'll also miss that opportunity to just run home every other weekend to see the parents, or to run to either sister's for the weekend (though I've not been to the older sister's hardly any, yet). I'm sure there will be many more chances for me to actually take a weekend off, as I'll (hopefully) not be the only one capable of working with any one product.
There are some points of our employment agreement that I'm going to have to hash out with our "district manager", or whatever his title may be. Aside from that, though, it's just going to be a matter of getting everything in line administratively and financially.
I'm quite curious what it will take to get everything moved. I'm sure I can squeeze nearly everything into rubbermaid containers, with the exception of a few things like my shelf, TV's, computers, and some furniture. I haven't quite figured out how to transport my firearms yet, but I hope to hash that out over the next few weeks, just so I know fully what to expect.
I'll try to take my camera along when I take the 2-day trip to Houston, just to share what I may be dealing with. I'll be sure to share those pictures either on my gallery or in my Facebook photo albums.
Good on you man, it's one of those things that if you don't do it, you will always think why not.
Keep us updated, I for one am really interested in how it all goes.
| 2019-04-22T18:23:03 |
http://blog.skudd.com/Blog/viewBlog/1082
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This is probably the last thing I’ll be writing about my missing pal, Huckleberry.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, feel free to catch up by reading what I already wrote about losing my dog. Not a fan of words? The tl;dr version is: there was an incident with a lady on her cellphone driving a car, my daughter and I on our bikes, and our now-missing puppy, Huck.
My wife, a vet tech, and I have done everything we can think of. We’ve kept in touch with all the local animal shelters. Missing Dog flyers litter our neighborhood (as well as others). Vets, other animal care professionals, police, and the local homeless have all been spoken to. Services that get the word out through email blast, internet forums, social media, and mailers have been utilized.
We’ve done everything we can think to do, and yet: no Huckleberry.
Among the professionals we’ve spoken to, the consensus is this: Huckleberry is no longer lost. Somebody has him. Likely, according to those professionals, it is one of two groups: a family who believes they have found a new pet, or a member of the homeless population who believes they have found a new pet. Regardless of who has Huck, somebody thinks that they have a new pet.
They don’t. Huckleberry has a family. He has my wife, a mother who loves him, my daughters, his sisters who have raised him from eight weeks, my other dog, Lady, who has adopted him as her own son, and me. Huck is my pal. He and I have forged a bond unlike any I’ve had with a dog before. I love the punk. I miss him terribly.
How do we get him back? Awareness. Huckleberry is chipped, so if he shows up at a vet or shelter, and if they scan his chip, we will be notified. But if he does not find his way to one of those places, which is wholly plausible, we need someone to see him, call us, and get him back.
Awareness. We need people to know that our family member is missing ans we want him back. We need to get the word out.
I’ve asked for a lot from my friends over the past few weeks. I’ve been lying on back with three herniated discs since the woman-on-her-cellphone incident. My wife is very pregnant. Despite our efforts, we’ve relied heavily on our connections to do what’s been done thus far for Huck. I am going to ask for one more thing, and, I promise, I won’t ask for anything else.
If you live in or around Orange County, I’m asking pleading with you to download it, print it out, and post it in your neighborhood. Post it in the next neighborhood over. Post it everywhere you can. This is how we get the word out, but it only works if we have your help.
Don’t live in Orange County? You can still help us out by sharing this blog. You may have a network that includes people from Orange County (hell, your network may include the person who has my Huckleberry). If they see this, download, print, and post, it may bring Huck home.
Where should you post it? Everywhere. Busy street corners. Coffee shops. Homeless shelters. Veterinarian offices. Anywhere and everywhere.
I’m eternally grateful to everyone who has supported us thus far. We have felt very loved during this rough patch. Our lives are blessed.
And to you, the person who took the time to read this: thanks. Whether or not Huckleberry is returned to us, we are so grateful for everyone’s assistance.
| 2019-04-25T22:34:18 |
http://jamesninness.com/2016/06/hail-mary-for-huckleberry/
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Celtics Will Pursue Enes Kanter Following Potential Knicks Buyout The Knicks have been trying to move Kanter for a few weeks, but his contract made things hard , according to the report. Vonleh, a free agent this summer, is having a strong season (8.6 points, 8.5 rebounds per game) in NY .
Rick Zamperin: Toronto Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri is going all in Valanciunas is in a similar spot with his contract and has a player option for next year that's just north of $17.6 million . The Spaniard is slated to make $24.1 million this year and has a player option for $25.6 million next season.
Germany to not exclude Huawei from 5G networks Some experts also see a risk that Chinese intelligence may develop an ability to subvert Huawei's equipment. The UK government has yet to find evidence of Huawei equipment being used for spying.
Minnesota School Bus Driver Shot In The Head During Snow Storm Traffic Law enforcement authorities responded to a report of a shooting on the interstate at Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis at 2:14 p.m. Near the split with Interstate 94, Lilly stopped his vehicle in the lane of traffic, got out and walked towards the bus.
Cuomo raps Amazon critics amid report company's rethinking New York - Long Island City, specifically - was selected as a co-winner, along with land in Northern Virginia, in November . Plus, adding 25,000 high-paying jobs to this corner of Queens will only make gentrification worse, activists warn.
Middleweight champion Robert Whittaker ruled out for title defense fight Lando Vannata and Marcos Mariano's lightweight matchup will also be elevated to co-main status. It's just the second time two winners of "The Ultimate Fighter" will meet for a UFC title.
Sen. Graham: Trump 'Can Be a Handful' He also said he would rebuff an order from the White House to fire Mueller, in the absence of any good cause. Amy Klobuchar , a Minnesota Democrat, said Thursday.
Most Democrats from Virginia delegation call on Fairfax to resign The woman said in a statement Friday that the attack took place when she and Fairfax were students at Duke University. Fairfax answered: "I knew that because of what happened to you previous year , you'd be too afraid to say anything".
Volunteers ready US aid set for Venezuela as Maduro digs in Guaido has accused Maduro's troops of being complicit in a crime against humanity by blocking food and medical care. Agency for International Development, and are marked with USAID labels.
The latter will apparently have an upgraded popup camera for high-quality selfies. There is no notch or any cutout on the top for the front camera since the F11 Pro, as mentioned above, has a pop-up selfie camera.
The company has since had some time to flawless this implementation, and its V15 Pro will formally mark the debut of a better popup sensor - that is, better in terms of resolution.
Now, if you take a look at the provided image above, you will be able to see the device itself, as its full design is shown here, more or less. The Vivo's new offering V15 and V15 will be available for purchase through Flipkart from February 20.
Pogba is the captain in everything but name, the leader in the dressing room and on the pitch. But these big games coming up will determine where we end up.
F--, he's a lucky guy! "I had tickets to go but the Premier League made a decision to put the game at Everton then". The Frenchman is still sidelined with injury and Guardiola was bemused when asked about Mendy's travels.
Specifically, NASA said global temperatures in 2018 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit above the average from 1951 to 1980. The U.S. temperature in 2018 was the 14th warmest on average, said NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt .
This pop-up camera will sport a 32-megapixel sensor.
"Vivo has continued to sustain leadership in the Rs 20,000-Rs 30,000 price category and we hope to further fortify this position with the launch of V15 Pro and V15", Nipun Marya, Director-Brand Strategy, Vivo India, told IANS in an interview. Vivo V15 Pro, V15 Smartphones To Be Launched in India on February 20; India Prices, Specifications & Features Revealed. Vivo's upcoming smartphone Vivo V15 Pro was recently seen listed on GeekBench. In other words, they're nearly all-screen. Since the Helio P70 processor doesn't support a 48MP rear camera, the 48MP CMOS sensor on the F11 Pro shoots in 12MP by default like the Redmi Note 7. It also means there will be no camera cutouts encroaching on the screen space. The new Vivo smartphone is also equipped with a refined in-display fingerprint sensor. The phone has been leaked and teased in the past few weeks, and Amazon India is now promoting on its platform.
The tech website reported citing the trusted source that the Oppo F11 Pro will have 6GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. Today, an Indian publication has shared leaked renders of the OPPO F11 Pro along with some of its key specs.
| 2019-04-19T16:33:45 |
http://thefootballexaminer.com/2019/02/10/oppo-f11-pro-leaked-yet-another-pop-up-shooter/
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| 2019-04-22T08:47:12 |
https://hughesmathews.com/honolulu-hi-personal-injury-car-accident-workers-comp-lawyers/
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I have a square tube swing arm on my 65 and its got a 140/80/16 on it , I can see that even with that spring loaded chain tension thing on there they (previous owner )could not keep the chain away from the tire . Its bald and needs replacing,now can I go with a 130 , is that going to put it narrower? I see also that the choices are few by going to a 130 as far as ( I think ) is the profile of the tire , they go to a " 90 " , will that put me at a taller tire . I just do not want my chain rubbing on the tire . I'm basically setting this bike up for my wife and want to keep it as low as possible ( she got short legs ) The shocks and front tubes were lowered two inches already(previous owner ) and she is still not flat footed on the ground , nor do I believe she ever will be , but I would like to keep it as low as possible.
So will a 130/90/16 fit with out my chain chewing it up ? It also looks like the rim is wider , should it be marked some where , I can't see any markings .What do you all think ?
are you running? Mine is the stock S-glide single disk with banana caliper.
What I'm trying to get at is maybe your rear wheel is not centered right.
Or maybe that chain tensioner 'thingy' is off setting the chain travel? I can't help ya' with the tire sizes. All I know is I got the biggest tire at the time (late '70s) that would fit on my bike and have always stayed with it.
is just another dirty word."
Well , all with the spacing looks OK , I'm thinking the swing arm is from 77-83 and it looks stock except it has a Performance Machine brake caliper assem.. I'm guessing of course . I think from 73 -83 the swing arms are all the same .I'm going by the duel disc brake set up on the front , was only available on the later year bikes and I believe the swing arm and front end came from the same bike or parts.
The tire is a Avon AM23 and its wide at the edge and yes that roller chain tension-er was worn out & will not be back on .
If I do have a wider that stock rim , I will have to keep to a wider tire , will I not ?
I 'm used to replacing a tire with whats on there too , this switch aroo stuff makes me think and it hurts . I think it was on this sight , that some one said, one tires manufacturers size will not necessarily be the same as another manufactures , even tho the number are the same. I will not be putting another Avon on.
I measured the width of my Conti Blitz on my scooter. It has approx. 35 lbs. air and the bike is sitting on its side stand. Widest part was approx.
repops. I try and keep the rear drive line tracking right and maybe with the lack of chain rubbing I am....who'da figured!?!?
prices with free shipping..... ya' can't beat that. Check'm out if you have not already they carry a lot of tire brands.
one day ride to there if it does happen.
This Avon is 6 " wide and I will put the tire & chain back on and take a photo . The tire is worn out and if all that has been touched by the chain is the very outer edge ,which could be from a defective tension thing , I guess its not that bad. I might get another the same size ,but not the same brand.
As far as the meet in Ocala , when in Dec. . I Deer hunt in Ohio the first week in Dec. and is it a meet for another forum ? Ocala is not far from me .
| 2019-04-20T20:29:48 |
http://www.hydra-glide.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=188&t=1641
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Can You Guess? It's Valentine's Day! Somewhere in Japan a lady will receive 108 roses today.
Can You Guess what the sender is asking?
1778 - Fernando Sor, Catalan guitarist and composer, was born.
1880 - Debut of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in c, Op. 15, at a concert of the Société Nationale de la Musqique Français in Paris.
1953 - Wayne Siegel, American composer of electronic music, was born.
1957 - King David, a four-part symphony jazz suite, and Lionel Hampton's only major musical work, debuted at New York's Town Hall. D. Mitropoulos conducting.
1970 - Bridge Over Troubled Water, by Simon & Garfunkel, was released.
2002 - Gunter Wand, German conductor and Bruckner specialist, died.
February 14, 1911, Gustav Mahler made his debut performance conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gustav Mahler was born July 7, 1860 in Kaliste, Bohemia (today the Czech Republic). His father, Bernhard, was a merchant, his mother, Maria, suffered from heart disease. Mahler had a deep emotional attachment to his mother. Several of his siblings did not survive, including his favorite brother Ernst who died in 1874. Only the sister Justine (who married Arnold Rosé, concert master of the Vienna Philharmonic) remained close to Mahler in adulthood.
Mahler’s musical talent was apparent at age 4. He took piano lessons, loved folk songs and military bands, and began composing before he entered high school. He gave his first piano recital at age 10, was sent to Prague for advanced piano instruction at 11, and entered the Vienna Conservatory at 15. Among his teachers was Anton Bruckner.
Mahler enrolled in the University of Vienna in 1877, to study philosophy, literature and music. By the time he left the Conservatory in 1881 he had already begun a conducting career, his first step to international fame as a performing artist.
Mahler rose through conducting posts in small towns to opera and symphony directorships in Kassel, Prague, Leipzig, Budapest and Hamburg. In 1887 he met Richard Strauss, who became a lifelong friend. In 1888 Mahler wrote parts of his song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn, based on poems by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim. He also completed his Symphony No. 1 (“The Titan”).
Mahler conducted Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen and Tristan und Isolde in 1892, and received rave reviews in London. Besides opera, he also conducted concerts, and was recognized for novel interpretations of Beethoven symphonies. His Symphony No. 2 appeared in 1895.
Mahler was appointed conductor of the Vienna Court Opera on June 1, 1897, and took on the Vienna Philharmonic a year later. He stayed with the Philharmonic until 1901, but remained in Vienna until 1907.
While he was in Vienna, the city once more became the musical capital of central Europe. Much of this was due to Mahler's charisma. musical passion, and drive. Although he ruled his orchestra with an iron glove, he was kind and often quite introspective. Mahler read fiction, poetry and philosophical texts. He was highly educated and driven by great intellectual curiosity. In 1891/93 he wrote the orchestral version of his earlier Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer).
Reactions were mixed, but he received some recognition after the successful premiere of the Second Symphony, and his works were performed more often.
During his amazingly productive middle creative period, Mahler composed two song cycles, the Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) and the Fünf Lieder nach Rückert (Five Songs after Rückert), both based on poems by Friedrich Rückert several symphonies.
The Metropolitan Opera, in New York, engaged Mahler for a series of performances. It opened with Tristan on January 1, 1908. In 1909, Mahler resigened from the Metropolitan and accepted the position of conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mahler made his debut with the New York Philharmonic February 14, 1911. Shortly after that he fell ill with an infection which led to bacterial endocarditis. He went to Paris for treatment, then to Vienna, but was never successfully treated. Gustav Mahler died shortly before midnight on May 18, 1911.
Have You Ordered Your Fiddle Music Yet? March 17's Just Around the Corner!
Cajuns Fiddle Too! Imagine That!
I really like this album!
| 2019-04-23T22:15:12 |
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/february/february14.html
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We previously reported that in traffic offenders aged 19–39 years, different risky driving profiles were associated with unique personality, cognitive, and neurobiological characteristics. However, many of these characteristics evolve significantly with age. Secondary analysis on these data explored whether the characteristics associated with different risky driving profiles were influenced by driver age.
Data (N = 138) on three driving groups (i.e., alcohol impaired [DWI], reckless [SPEED], and impaired and reckless [MIXED]), and a low-risk control group [CTL] were stratified by age (younger: 19–28; older: 29–39). Younger and older drivers of each risky driving group were compared to their age-matched CTLs on driving simulation, personality, and cognitive control.
In DWI, elevated behavioural disinhibition was observed only in older drivers. In MIXED, elevated reward sensitivity and risky driving behaviour were seen only in older drivers. In SPEED, greater risky driving and lower agreeableness personality were only seen in young drivers, while elevated sensation seeking and risk taking were observed only in older drivers.
Unique processes predominate in distinct forms of risky driving behaviour at different developmental stages. More effective prevention strategies may require intervention tailoring based on both risky driving preference and age.
Pruessner, Jens Tremblay, Jacques 2017-03-29T09:46:01Z Tremblay, Jacques Bechara, Antoine Nadeau, Louise 2017-03-29T09:46:01Z Brown, Thomas G. 2017-07 Eldeb, Manal Bechara, Antoine eng Vingilis, Evelyn Vingilis, Evelyn Nadeau, Louise Pruessner, Jens Eldeb, Manal Ouimet, Marie Claude Ouimet, Marie Claude The effect of age on the personality and cognitive characteristics of three distinct risky driving offender groups Brown, Thomas G. Background<br /><br />We previously reported that in traffic offenders aged 19–39 years, different risky driving profiles were associated with unique personality, cognitive, and neurobiological characteristics. However, many of these characteristics evolve significantly with age. Secondary analysis on these data explored whether the characteristics associated with different risky driving profiles were influenced by driver age.<br /><br />Methods<br /><br />Data (N = 138) on three driving groups (i.e., alcohol impaired [DWI], reckless [SPEED], and impaired and reckless [MIXED]), and a low-risk control group [CTL] were stratified by age (younger: 19–28; older: 29–39). Younger and older drivers of each risky driving group were compared to their age-matched CTLs on driving simulation, personality, and cognitive control.<br /><br />Results<br /><br />In DWI, elevated behavioural disinhibition was observed only in older drivers. In MIXED, elevated reward sensitivity and risky driving behaviour were seen only in older drivers. In SPEED, greater risky driving and lower agreeableness personality were only seen in young drivers, while elevated sensation seeking and risk taking were observed only in older drivers.<br /><br />Discussion<br /><br />Unique processes predominate in distinct forms of risky driving behaviour at different developmental stages. More effective prevention strategies may require intervention tailoring based on both risky driving preference and age.
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https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/38197
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Description I would like to learn Urdu to be able to converse better with my best friend's family as well as be able to communicate more efficiently when visiting Pakistan. <br><br>I have a very basic knowledge or Urdu. I know basic words and can read the alphabet. <br><br>I definitely need help with my grammar and I need to improve my conversationa l skills. <br><br>I am willing to dedicate up to 4 hours a week to lessons but 1 hour a week is fine as well. <br><br>I am looking for someone who is flexible and would be able to point out my mistakes and help me correct myself in a non-judgmenta l manner.
| 2019-04-20T16:17:49 |
https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Teachers/Search-Learner.asp?selX6=50&Cnt=10
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Since founding The Friedman Group, a global retail consulting and training organization, in 1980, Harry Friedman has heard plenty of excuses from retail store executives who refuse to provide much training to their front-line store employees. One of the most common is: "What if I train them, and they leave?" Friedman says this is the exact opposite approach they should take. He suggests a better question is, "What if I don't train them, and they stay?"
The unfortunate reality, which anyone who ventures into a mall these days can confirm, is that today's retail store employees often lack basic sales and customer-service skills. This is especially true at the big-box stores where management is unconcerned about high turnover, Friedman says.
Retailers that expect high turnover essentially ignore training but pay a price for doing so. "The decision to neglect training is typically made by someone at the top who does not appreciate the value of a human asset and what they can mean to sales and the bottom line," Friedman says. "Retail is a merchandise-driven business, not a people-driven business, after all."
Nevertheless, Friedman estimates that with more effective training, most retail organizations could increase sales 15 percent to 25 percent. "That's a lot of money," he says. "There's no chance they could hit those numbers any other way."
Individual store managers would no doubt also appreciate increasing the six to eight hours that Friedman says retail stores typically devote to training new employees. But since a boost in training time is unlikely to happen, store managers must focus on those aspects of employee management they can control. To start, he suggests looking at two key numbers.
The first is conversion rates, which means if a sales associate talked to 10 customers, how many bought something? "If you sold two out of the 10 people you talked to and you can bump that up to three of the 10 people you talked to, you've just increased your sales 50 percent," says Friedman, author of No Thanks, I'm Just Looking: Professional Retail Sales Techniques for Turning Shoppers into Buyers.
The second number is average sale per customer. "There are two ways to increase this number," he says. "One [is] by selling them the $40 item instead of the $30 one. Second [is by selling] the customer the $30 [item] and also $10 in batteries to make it work."
Armed with this information, store managers can then determine which sales associates are performing well and which aren't. The next step is to uncover the source of any problems.
If you have one sales associate with a low conversion rate, for example, you need to determine whether the problem occurs when the associate is demonstrating the merchandise or when he is trying to close the sale, Friedman says.
"You might find out it's up front," he says. "[The associate] keeps approaching customers and saying, ‘Can I help you?' and the customers say, ‘No thanks, I'm just looking.' It doesn't matter whether he can close, because he's not getting out of the blocks in the first place. That's the opportunity for the manager to intervene and explain to this guy that he's using a terrible opening line."
This type of hands-on coaching leads to another of Friedman's suggestions for store managers: Get into the fray.
"The biggest missing ingredient I see in retail today is that managers are not running the store from the floor," he says. "A lot of managers are either too busy with operational paperwork or making sales for themselves to do more than just hope their salespeople are doing a good job."
The best store managers, Friedman says, are always "pointing, pushing, doing and working the floor. They listen in, see how employees behave and what they say so that they can step in to reinforce the good behaviors and correct areas that need improvement. A good store manager is like a cop with a whistle directing traffic at a busy intersection."
| 2019-04-23T02:38:22 |
https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/retail-manager-as-trainer
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Also Saturday, Northam made his first official public appearance since he denied being in the photo, attending the funeral for a state trooper killed in a shootout.
He, too, said he still wanted an investigation, saying the General Assembly needs to hear from the two women, Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson. "There's no better person to do that than a doctor".
Northam, a pediatric neurologist, said that he considered quitting, but has decided he's "not going anywhere" because the state "needs someone that can heal" it. "And I also had a number of friends and classmates from medical school that called and said, 'Ralph that is not you" and that was comforting as well".
Northam said in a statement Monday that a historian recently advised him to use the "indentured servant" term. "Before slavery truly became institutionalized in the colonies, some Africans were sometimes treated more like indentured servants who were freed once their service ended or debt had been paid", the National Museum of African American History & Culture said.
Here's the nuance: Enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia in 1619.
The Northam episode, he said, has shown "that Sweet Old Dixie is still around" - a nickname for the Southern states of the Confederate era.
But Hope remained steadfast in his calls for Fairfax to resign following the allegations raised on Friday by a second woman who claims Fairfax sexually assaulted her. Hope said he was "absolutely horrified" by the accusations and said he believes "both of these fearless women". Fairfax has said encounters with his accusers in 2000 and 2004 were consensual and has asked the FBI to investigate.
Embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is blaming his white privilege on recent accusations of racism. And two sexual assault allegations have surfaced against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.
"I will tell you that later that night I had a chance to step back, take a deep breath, look at the picture and said, 'This is not me in the picture'". "I regret that our attorney general is in this position", said the governor.
"I know that sometimes", he said, "it's a case of 'I'm supposed to respond like this, ' and 'this is what's expected of me'". Next in line after those three Democrats would be Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox.
A new Washington Post-Schar School poll found Virginians were evenly split on whether Northam should step down, but black voters were more inclined to forgive him. And majority did not know enough about Fairfax's response to the allegations to feel strongly about it.
Northam's attempts to make amends have yet to shift Democratic demands for his resignation.
According to Watson's attorneys, former classmates have provided statements corroborating the allegations and that she "immediately told friends that Fairfax had raped her". "And I think he's lost the confidence of the people in order to be able to do that", said Wexton, one of three Democrats who flipped GOP-held House seats in Virginia in November.
| 2019-04-20T04:22:15 |
http://sacredheartspectrum.com/2019/02/virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfaxs-staff-members-resign-after/
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How will the PA president be able to implement anything in Gaza when he barely controls the West Bank?
Israel is expecting any agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Annapolis peace conference or afterwards to include not only the West Bank, but the entire Gaza Strip, which has been under the full control of Hamas since June. How will Abbas be able to implement any agreement in the Gaza Strip when he hardly has control over the West Bank? There are three ways for Abbas and his Fatah faction to regain control over the Gaza Strip. One way is if the public there revolts against Hamas and overthrows the government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The second is if Hamas voluntarily relinquishes control over the Gaza Strip and invites Fatah back to power. The third way is to remove Hamas from power by force - something that Abbas's security forces and Fatah loyalists don't seem to be capable of doing, at least not in the short term. And since Abbas does not have the power to regain control over the Gaza Strip, the question is: What if Israel does the job for him? The last thing Abbas would want is to return to the Gaza Strip with the help of the IDF. Such a move would only damage his credibility and turn many Arabs and Muslims against him. "Abbas would be a fool to return to the Gaza Strip aboard an Israeli tank," remarked a Hamas official in the West Bank. "Any Palestinian who enters the Gaza Strip with Israel's assistance will be treated as an enemy." History has shown that Palestinians who were empowered by Israel did not last for long in power. The best example is the Village Leagues, a group that was established in the West Bank after Israel dismissed most of the elected pro-PLO mayors in the early 1980s. The heads and members of the Village Leagues were quickly condemned as traitors by their own people and some of them were assassinated. The group, which was supposed to pave the way for the emergence of a "moderate" alternative to the PLO, was eventually dismantled. Yet even if the IDF does launch a massive military operation in the Gaza Strip and kills most of the Hamas leaders, there is no guarantee that such a measure would undermine the Islamist movement. Ironically, a military confrontation with Israel may even increase Hamas's popularity on the street. Indeed, an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip would deal a severe blow to Hamas. But it's unlikely to wipe out the movement entirely. Since the beginning of the second intifada in September 2000, Israel has eliminated dozens of Hamas leaders, including the spiritual founder of the movement, Ahmed Yassin, and his successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Despite the tough IDF measures, Hamas remained a strong force in the Gaza Strip until it finally won the January 2006 parliamentary election and defeated Abbas's security forces last June. Abbas's attempts over the past few months to instigate an anti-Hamas intifada in the Gaza Strip have thus far been unsuccessful. The main reason for this failure is not because Abbas does not have enough soldiers in the Gaza Strip, but because many Palestinians living there still don't see Fatah as a better alternative to Hamas. And there are no indications whatsoever that Hamas is moving toward ceding control over the Gaza Strip. On the contrary, Hamas leaders remain as defiant as ever. Their growing attacks on Abbas because of his participation in the Annapolis conference show that Hamas and Fatah are as far as ever from resolving their dispute. The thousands of Hamas supporters who marched on the streets of Gaza City on Tuesday chanting, "We will never recognize Israel!" are yet another indication of the huge following that the Islamist movement still has there. The protests have also spread to the West Bank, where Abbas's security forces on Tuesday killed one Palestinian and injured several others during an anti-Hamas demonstration. The Annapolis conference may have improved relations between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, but it has also deepened divisions among the Palestinians. The negotiations that are expected to take place after the Annapolis meeting will only aggravate the crisis on the Palestinian arena, making it harder for Abbas to even consider the possibility of returning to the Gaza Strip. Even before his supporters were driven out of the Gaza Strip, Abbas has little control over what was happening there. As such, any agreement with Abbas in the near future will only apply to those areas under his control in the West Bank.
| 2019-04-19T16:35:38 |
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Analysis-Abbas-wont-be-able-to-impose-any-deal-on-Gaza
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Recent federal and local initiatives to combat police brutality in the USA have not fully addressed the problem of racism in policing, a new Amnesty International report reveals.
The report -- USA: Race, Rights and Police Brutality (AI Index: AMR 51/147/99) -- shows that over-aggressive tactics, including unjustified police shootings, excessive use of force, misuse of police dogs and harassment, continue across the country with alarming regularity.
California -- August 1999. In an early morning narcotics raid, a SWAT team burst into the home of a Mexican immigrant family and shot dead an unarmed elderly man, Mario Paz, in his bedroom. He was reportedly shot twice in the back. No drugs were found in the raid and a different name to that of the residents was on the search warrant.
New Jersey -- June 1999. An unarmed African American was shot dead in New Jersey, after he tried to manoeuvre his car out of the way of two police cars which had boxed him in after a car chase. The officers fired 27 shots at his vehicle, and a female passenger was wounded on her leg. The case -- which remains under investigation-- is the latest in a series of questionable police shootings of unarmed motorists in New Jersey.
Illinois - June 1999. La Tanya Haggerty, a 19-year-old black girl, was shot dead when officers mistook the cell-phone in her hand for a gun.
"Race and police brutality are inextricably linked in the USA, but there are further problems," points out Angela Wright, Amnesty International researcher on the USA. "The mentally ill, the homeless and gay people are often harassed or subjected to undue force by police in some areas."
Further cases include: - - Miami -- May 1999. Lewis Rivera, a homeless man eating in a shopping mall was chased by five or six police officers who, according to witnesses, sprayed him with pepper spray, kicked him, threw him to the ground and bound his hands and feet before dragging him to a police car. He died less than an hour later in a police cell.
- - New York City -- November 1998. Two police officers responding to an emergency medical assistance call in the Bronx are alleged to have attacked transsexual JoLea Lamor. According to witnesses, the officers verbally abused her and pushed her against the wall after discovering that she was a transsexual. A large number of officers entered her apartment and maced family members.
While a growing number of police departments in the USA are subject to some form of external, civilian review, many continue to lack effective oversight. Police internal investigations into shootings or other use of force remain for the most part shrouded in secrecy, and all too often police officers involved in questionable shootings or use of excessive force are exonerated by criminal or administrative inquiries or receive a token punishment.
International standards provide that force should be proportionate to the threat faced, and that firearms should be used only in self defence or the defence others against an imminent threat of death of serious injury. Dozens of cases similar to those above occur annually in the USA, causing devastating loss to the families and costly payouts by cities in civil lawsuits.
The Amnesty International report offers 15 key recommendations to the federal government and local and state authorities to combat police abuse, including incorporation of international human rights standards into police codes of conduct and training, improving police accountability, and the collection of reliable national data on deaths in custody and police shootings -- information which is disturbingly lacking in the USA.
Amnesty International's current campaign on human rights in the USA, together with efforts by local organizations in the country, has helped push the issue of police brutality to the forefront of a national agenda for police reform. The Clinton Administration has taken several important steps this year to address the problem, particularly as regards the treatment or racial minorities.
"Nevertheless," says Angela Wright, "the 15 recommendations suggested by Amnesty International -- together with a greater degree of transparency in the investigation of complaints of police brutality -- should be urgently implemented."
"As President Clinton recently said at a national summit on police brutality: 'We don't have to choose between keeping safe and treating people right'.
| 2019-04-25T18:05:58 |
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE9909/S00148.htm
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The Magpies were downed by a late Heung Min Son strike right at the end of the game at Wembley last time out. They did really brilliant to hold off Tottenham Hotspur for long periods of the game but were finally undone by a rampant Spurs side in the 82nd minute.
Rafa Benitez set up his defense to keep Heung Min Son at bay throughout the game but how long can you keep a player of his caliber at bay? The answer to that question is 82 minutes.
A lapse in concentration in the Magpies defense afforded the South Korean international to unleash one of his wicked shots and as expected, the ball flew right into the back of the net.
Goalkeeper Dubravka did get his hands on the ball but it was just too hot for the Newcastle goalie to keep out as it slipped right through his hands to break numerous hearts.
Coming off the back of an impressive 2-1 victory over Premier League champions Manchester City, the fans will find many positives to take from the Tottenham game.
Now, a man who earns a living in BT Sports studio, Owen Hargreaves, honestly thinks the Tyneside outfit will easily avoid relegation this season.
When asked of his thoughts, he simply played down talks of a relegation battle, insisting that with a manager like Rafa Benitez at the helm, relegation was never even a discussion.
That said, only time will tell whether Hargreaves is right or wrong.
| 2019-04-23T14:55:36 |
https://www.owenhargreaves4.com/hargreaves-tip-newcastle-for-survival/
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Writing an effective resume can be a difficult task for those who are new to the job market. The process of writing an effective resume is a complex one that most people are poorly prepared to handle. Some people, even though they manage to get the positions they are applying for, never manage to master writing an effective resume. Is writing an effective resume important? The answer is, of course, yes. By writing an effective resume, the individual's potential employer can get a better look at the individual's profile before actually meeting them. This is why the writing an effective resume is so important in the business world. By writing an effective resume, the individual saves both the time of the employer and themselves from having to go through the hassle of an interview only to be disappointed with the results.
What exactly is the process of writing an effective resume? This is a difficult question to answer. Writing an effective resume is important in the business world since it is what will be elaborated on and questioned during the interview process. However, in writing an effective resume, the resume itself should not be overflowing with irrelevant or excess information that could take away from both the resume and topics to discuss during the interview process.
This is where business writing services can help new, and experienced, job seekers. First of all, the client should find a reputable business writing service. This can be done over the internet by reading reviews of others, from third party websites with no affiliation to the writing service, and contacting the agencies personally in order to get a better idea of what the price quote would be and what sort of work can be expected. The client, once he has found his agency, should then provide all of the information possible to the writer and specify the sector that the resume is being aimed towards as well as keep in contact in case any questions arise or specific information is needed to complete the writing process. The assigned writer should then be able to use, selectively, the information that the client had provided them with in order to write the resume. If the client wants the resume completed within a certain time frame, then they should specify this to both the agency and the writer when placing the order. It is also important that the client ask what would happen if he was not satisfied with the quality of the work done, in case such a situation arises. Most reputable agencies will either reimburse the client or offer a revision of the project at no extra cost to the client.
After being reasonably satisfied with the project, the individual should then familiarize themselves with the resume. This is very important since any interviews conducted will have a large portion of questions geared towards elaborating on the resume. It is possible that the individual might want to make minor changes to the resume. However, the individual should not exceed more than a quarter of the space of the entire resume that was completed by the writer. The resume, while it may look very brief, is the entire purpose of the effective resume. It is supposed to be a brief summary which highlights points of the individual in order to pique the interest of a future employer and then, after the resume has passed that test, be elaborated on by the individuals themselves.
| 2019-04-21T20:46:14 |
http://bwritings.com/writing_an_effective_resume.html
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Nothing says "I love you" to a chocolate lover like a lovingly prepared indulgent treat. Here are five of the best recipes.
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/ Gas 4). Grease a 25 cm (10 inch) springform cake tin.
2. To make the sponge cake, melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Add the butter and stir until melted. Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little. In a large bowl using an electric mixer, beat the eggs and sugar to a thick, pale cream; then add the brandy 1 tablespoonful at a time. Fold in the chocolate, almond meal and cornflour. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the centre of the oven for 1 hour. Cool in the tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out onto the rack and leave to cool for at least 2 hours.
3. To make the chocolate cream icing, heat the cream in a small saucepan until just below boiling point. Remove from the heat, add the chocolate and stir until melted. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
4. Stir together the butter and icing sugar until creamy. Beat the chocolate cream with an electric mixer until creamy, then stir into the butter mixture 1 tablespoonful at a time.
5. Cut the cake in half horizontally. Drizzle the cut surfaces with brandy. Spread the lower half of the cake with half of the chocolate cream, and cover with the top of the cake. Spread the top and side of the cake with the remaining chocolate cream. Garnish the edge of the cake with chocolate leaves and dust the centre with cocoa powder.
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). In a small bowl, combine the wafer crumbs and hazelnuts. Stir in the butter and press the mixture into the bottom of an ungreased 23 cm (9 inch) springform cake tin.
2. In a large bowl using an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add the chocolate, then the eggs, and beat on low speed until just combined. Add the sour cream, extracts and salt, and beat until just blended. Pour over the crust.
3. Place the tin on a baking tray and bake for 60–65 minutes, or until the centre is almost set. Cool in the tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around the edge of the tin to loosen the cake. Cool for a further hour, then cover and refrigerate for 3 hours.
4. For the glaze, melt the chocolate with the cream, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
5. Remove the side of the tin. Spread the glaze over the top of the cheesecake. Refrigerate overnight. Garnish with whipped cream and hazelnuts if desired. Store, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
1. Put a kettle of water on to boil. Heat the oven to 160°C (320°F/Gas 2–3). Grease a 23 cm (9 inch) square cake tin and line with baking (parchment) paper.
2. Purée the prunes in a food processor or electric mixer, adding 1 tablespoon hot water if needed to get a smooth purée. Scrape the purée into a large bowl. Add the brandy, butter, chocolate, sugar and 1 cup (250 ml) boiling water.
3. Pour the rest of the boiling water into a saucepan, bring to a simmer over low heat and place the bowl on top. Ensure the bottom does not touch the water.
4. Stir frequently until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth. Take the bowl off the pan and leave the mixture to cool for 2–3 minutes, or until lukewarm.
5. Sift the flours and cocoa into a separate large bowl and make a well in the centre. Pour in the chocolate mixture, then add the egg mixture and beat until smooth.
6. Pour into the prepared tin and smooth the surface. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
7. Cool in the tin on a wire rack for 15 minutes, then turn out onto the wire rack to cool completely. Dust the cake with sifted icing sugar or cocoa and cut into 16 squares. This cake will keep well if wrapped in foil.
Dried mixed berries are a combination of dried cranberries, strawberries and blueberries. Look for them in large supermarkets. They can be replaced with dried cherries or dried cranberries. Makes about 50.
1. Line the base and two long sides of a 17 x 28 cm (61⁄2 x 11 inch) baking tin with baking (parchment) paper. Process the cherries and dried berries in a food processor for 30 seconds, or until finely chopped. Add the desiccated and shredded coconut, sugar, condensed milk and eggwhite and process for 30 seconds, or until combined.
2. Press into the prepared tin. Smooth the top with a hot knife or spatula. Cover and refrigerate for 6 hours, or until just firm. Using a sharp knife, cut into 50 rectangles, each about 2.5 x 4 cm (1 x 11⁄2 inches). Alternatively, roll into balls and refrigerate to set.
3. Combine the chocolate and oil in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth. Cool for 5 minutes. Using a fork, dip the cherry bites in the melted chocolate. Place on wire racks set over a tray. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, or until set. Store the chocolates in an airtight container in the fridge or a cool, dry place for up to 1 week.
This silky, rich dessert of dark and white chocolate wouldn’t look out of place in a restaurant, yet it’s unbelievably easy and quick to make at home. Dark chocolate with 70 per cent cocoa will give this dessert the best flavour. Serves 6.
1. Put six ramekins, small glass dishes or shallow tumblers in the freezer to chill.
2. Melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of gently simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth — this will take about 3 minutes.
3. Pour in about one-third of the custard or crème anglaise and stir lightly. The chocolate will begin to thicken and become glossy, so do not overmix — a couple of large scooping stirs are enough. Pour in all the remaining custard and stir to combine it with the chocolate. Stir in the brandy. The mixture will thicken as the chocolate cools.
4. Spoon mixture into the chilled ramekins. Put in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes, or until set.
5. Whip the cream until it just begins to thicken and hold its shape. Stir in the grated white chocolate and chill the cream until needed. Spoon the cream onto the chocolate pots and serve immediately.
| 2019-04-24T20:16:49 |
https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/food-drink/recipes/valentines-recipes-for-chocolate-lovers
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IT was the scariest day of my life!
``Recess time, class!'' announced my teacher, Mrs. Bunch, at noontime one winter day. We were surprised to be let outside: Sleet mixed with snow was coming down at a windy slant. The flag in front of the school looked like cardboard. One look told you how cold it was.
Still, we were glad. It was the first snow of the year!
``Hurray!'' we all shouted and ran for our coats.
At the door, Mrs. Bunch had a warning.
Set free, I was racing down the sidewalk, seeing how many snowflakes I could catch in my mouth, when - oooff! Someone bumped me from behind, or maybe pushed, I couldn't tell.
Down I went with a splat, somersaulting into a slurpy-wet pile of slush. Water ran up my pants and down my sleeves, soaking me from earmuff to toe-warmer. Even my boots were waterlogged.
Slush drizzled off my nose as I got up to much laughter.
Kids scattered, leaving me alone to face my teacher, who held the door open for me to come back inside. It was a good thing, too: I was cold and getting colder.
Gasp - what had she said! The nurse? Oh no!
Mrs. Bunch wasn't to blame. No one but we kids knew who to stay away from at school, that is, unless you were looking for trouble. And near the top of the list was ``Crowfoot'' Crothers, the school nurse, as mean a lady as you'd ever have the misfortune to meet. Why, according to her, no one ever needed a helping hand or a Kleenex - not even a glass of water.
What would she say and do when she saw snowman me, dripping water all over her clean floor, asking for a change of clothes? Whatever, I guessed it wouldn't be good, and I was right.
``Stand over there on that rubber mat,'' she barked.
I wasn't her only customer. Two little first-grade girls - pixies - giggled in the corner. They were looking at me.
Crowfoot got up slowly from her desk and came over to me, her black shoes (which gave her her nickname) clacking on the tile floor. Yardstick-thin, she towered above me. I smelled - what was it - salad dressing?
I didn't tell her it wasn't my fault.
``She's not home.'' It was the truth.
She pointed toward the bathroom.
Giggles came from the corner.
``Afraid so,'' Crowfoot said. ``They all look wet.'' Embarrassingly, she was right.
It took me a while to peel them off - coat, sweater, shirt, pants, undershirt and pants, boots, toe-warmers, socks - the works. I dried myself off with a towel, wrapped up in the blanket, and was feeling a lot better when there was a knock on the door. ``You about done?'' Crowfoot barked.
``Sure,'' I said through the door.
Come out? To go where? I was wrapped in nothing but a blanket.
A door separated the nurse's office from the principal's, and in I went. If I thought Big X wouldn't be there, I was wrong.
He was sitting behind his desk with his feet up - they were at least a size 13 - and his arms behind his head, a smelly tuna-fish-and-tomato submarine sandwich, pickle, and potato chips spread out all over. He had the largest, roundest, baldest head of any human on earth. His voice was a rumble. Why my parents liked him, I'd never know.
Big X put up a hand to stop me.
Was the principal offering me food? He was, but when I went to reach in the bag the blanket I was wearing began to slip off my shoulders and ... well, I ended up knocking the potato chips onto the floor and stepping on them with my bare feet.
They made little crunchy noises.
I could hear giggling from the next room.
Without a word, the principal looked at the ruined chips and then at me, his face growing red, from pink to cherry.
He was leaving it up to me. Suddenly a great idea popped into my head. Ziiiinnng!
``Well?'' Big X was waiting.
Like that, I was out the door, into the main hallway and, Army blanket flapping, down two flights of stairs before anyone could see me. Whew! In fact, I was going so fast I got all the way down there before I realized just where I was - dangerously close to the boiler room, home of The Shadow.
It was our name for the school's custodian (teachers called him Mr. Smith), mostly because you hardly ever saw him, in and out among the building's shadows - a phantom day and night. Rumor said that after everyone else had gone home for the day, The Shadow went around eating all the leftover pizza in the cafeteria. Chalking the erasers. Watching TV in his pajamas, warmed by the heat from the boiler. Playing rock music full volume. Even roller skating up and down the empty halls in the dark.
Best for a fifth-grader to avoid.
I was fumbling with my locker in the near dark when I heard a quiet little noise behind me.
All at once - like that - the lights went on.
He looked me up and down and smiled.
I liked him right away, so I did.
``Wait here,'' he said when I'd finished.
A minute or two later he was back with an armload of boy's clothes - pants, shirts, shoes, socks - enough for about five kids. He told me they were lost-and-found items that no one had claimed, that he had a large boxful of them he was about to take to the homeless shelter.
I told him it was more than OK.
His office was easy to find; it was next to the boiler room. It had a desk, chair, lockers, cleaning equipment, radio, and even a mini-refrigerator. Did he live there?
``I'll return these clothes tomorrow,'' I said.
``Take your time,'' he said with a smile.
``Goodbye,'' I said, thinking that I wouldn't call him The Shadow anymore. Maybe I wouldn't use the names Crowfoot or Big X either.
On my way out, I noticed something - roller skates - hanging from a hook on the wall above Mr. Smith's desk.
``What're those for?'' I asked him.
A twinkle caught his eye. ``Guess,'' he said.
`Kidspace' is a place on The Home Forum pages where kids can find stories that will spark imaginations, entertain with a tall tale, explain how things work, or describe a real-life event. These articles appear twice a month, usually on Tuesdays.
| 2019-04-19T16:16:01 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0208/08161.html
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Leaders launch fresh push for diplomatic solution to Cote d'Ivoire deadlock while not ruling out military option.
African powers have launched a fresh diplomatic push for a peaceful solution to Cote d'Ivoire's crisis by piling pressure on Laurent Gbagbo to give up the presidency and avoid an armed intervention.
Four leaders representing West African regional bloc ECOWAS and the African Union met the Ivorian president in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's main city, on Monday to urge him to step down after UN-certified results showed he lost the election.
Raila Odinga, the Kenyan prime minister, named by the African Union to try to broker an end to the standoff between Gbagbo and the man the world says beat him to the presidency, Alassane Ouattara, arrived in Cote d'Ivoire on Monday.
On his way there, Odinga, who has previously called for Gbagbo's removal by force, met Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian president, who also heads the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
On the eve of the talks, Odinga said he would keep an open mind on finding a solution for Cote D'Ivoire.
"We don't want to pre-empt anything. We just want to talk to him [Gbagbo] and we will see what happens," he said.
"It depends on how Gbagbo wants to handle it."
ECOWAS has said it could use "legitimate force" if Gbagbo refuses to go quietly and a spokesman for Ouattara's rival government has said this will be Gbagbo's last chance to step down peacefully and with immunity.
However, Doukoure Abram, ECOWAS representative for the Cote d'Ivoire, said in an interview with the Reuters press agency that the mission would not repeat an ultimatum for Gbagbo to leave or face force.
"No, there will be discussions going on," he said, noting that the mission would also meet Ouattara.
Al Jazeera's Ama Boateng, reporting from Abidjan, said: "A show of unity underlined to Laurent Gbagbo that he must hand over power.
"Again and again, he's made it clear that he's not going anywhere."
Meanwhile, the UN said that it was still worried about extra-judicial killings and kidnappings by pro-Gbagbo forces.
Simon Munzu, the head of human rights for the UN's mission in Cote I'voire, told Al Jazeera that the actual number of people killed in post-election violence could be much more than the current estimate of 179 people.
"The real number will be higher than that as we don't claim to have information about every single case," he said.
"We have recorded cases where we have been able to verify the facts with our own staff or information that is reliable, notably from family members."
Benin's Boni Yayi, Sierra Leone's Ernest Koroma and Cape Verde's Pedro Pires have so far failed to convince Gbagbo to step down despite ECOWAS brandishing the threat of military intervention to oust him if mediation fails.
"Odinga's personal experience in Kenya was one of power-sharing, but that is something that Ouattara and his supporters have said they are not willing to accept," Al Jazeera's Boateng said.
"It has only been a week since the ECOWAS presidents were in Cote d'Ivoire, but we have to now wait and see what is discussed - we do know that diplomacy is the preferred route."
West African regional military chiefs met in Abuja last week and set in motion plans to oust Gbagbo if negotiations fail, according to a Nigerian defence spokesman.
A follow-up meeting to fine-tune the "last-resort" plan is scheduled for Mali on January 17 and 18.
Tensions have risen steadily in the deadly standoff since Gbagbo and Ouattara both claimed victory in a November 28 presidential runoff vote that it was hoped would end a decade of crisis in Cote d'Ivoire.
Calls have also grown for alleged massive human rights violations to be investigated, including reports of mass graves of Gbagbo's opponents.
The UN says that at least 179 people have been killed in post-election violence but that it has been unable to fully investigate because of attacks on its personnel.
| 2019-04-20T22:33:55 |
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/01/20111310504346104.html
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Q: Do I have to subtract from my damages in the legal malpractice case the attorney fees I would have had to pay my first lawyer if we had won the case?
The answer to this question in Washington is "definitely not," and in Oregon is "maybe."
Under Washington law, there is no deduction from one’s damages in the legal malpractice case for unpaid attorney fees that would have been paid in the underlying case. Shoemaker v Ferrer, 143 Wn.App. 819, 182 P.3d 992 (2008); Schmidt v Coogan, 173 P3d. 273, 162 Wn2d. 488 (2007). The rationale is that the client should not have to pay two lawyers to recover for the same damage.
Suppose a lawyer accepts a case with $1 million in damages, on a contingency fee such that the lawyer would earn 40% of the total amount recovered. Suppose that due to various mistakes of counsel the case is dismissed before trial. Suppose the former client hires a malpractice attorney on a similar 40% contingency fee and initiates a malpractice lawsuit. It is true that the client never stood to gain the full $1 million because the client would have had to pay his first lawyer 40%, resulting in a net recovery of $600,000. Therefore, using traditional damages analysis, the client would only be entitled to a judgment in the malpractice case of $600,000, since that is the net amount that he stood to gain. However, consider that the client must then pay his malpractice lawyer 40% of $600,000, so he would net only $360,000 out of the original $1 million of damage. Washington courts hold that this is going too far, and that paying your malpractice lawyer should be enough.
Washington courts could have accomplished a similar result by creating an exception to the "American rule" in legal malpractice cases. The "American rule" is that each side pays its own legal expenses regardless of who wins or loses, except in certain specific kinds of cases where statutes provide a "loser pays" rule instead. Washington courts could have allowed the prevailing plaintiff in a legal malpractice case the right to recover attorney fees against the other side. Under that arrangement, the plaintiff could get a judgment against the losing defendant for the fees he has to pay his own malpractice lawyer. In the example above, that would result in a base judgment of $600,000, supplemented by another $400,000, for the same total $1 million.
Possibly the reason Washington courts did not go that route is because doing so could open the door to pressure to make that prevailing party attorney fees reciprocal. This would increase the downside risk for the plaintiff, which was not the intended consequence of a rule seeking to relieve the plaintiff of having to pay two lawyers for the same damage.
Oregon appellate courts have not addressed this issue. They have ruled against legal malpractice plaintiffs seeking to recover fees paid to malpractice counsel, but have expressly left the door open to allowing the judgment to reflect an award, in the underlying case, of prevailing party attorney fees when such fees would have been available. Rivera-Martinez v Vu, 245 Or App 422, 263, P3d 1078 (2011); Rowlett v Fagan, 283 Or App 1, 388 P3d 407 (2016). It would appear that the latter point hardly required express authority from the appellate courts, since any part of the underlying judgment that was lost should be fair game as damages in the malpractice case.
One could say that the Oregon courts passed on an opportunity to announce a rule similar to that in Washington under Shoemaker, signifying something. However, the question of deduction of unpaid fees was never raised in these cases. Short-sightedly, the plaintiffs simply failed to include a likely award of fees against the other side in the underlying case, and instead sought fees incurred in the malpractice case. This would have been a very awkward way to address the concerns addressed in Shoemaker, and would have constituted a more direct assault on the "American rule," with the potentially adverse consequences discussed above.
Thus, it would appear that Rivera-Marinez and Rowlett signify little or nothing in regards to this question. The argument in Oregon that unpaid fees in the underlying case should not be deducted is still available. It remains to be seen how the courts would rule, but citation to the Washington cases as persuasive, yet not binding, authority would be prudent in the attempt to get Oregon to adopt a similar rule.
C. What about hourly fee representation in the underlying case?
An interesting question arises in jurisdictions which hold that unpaid attorney fees in the underlying case are not deducted from the damages. Suppose the fee arrangement in the underlying case was hourly, and the client paid them. Should they be added back to the base damages?
Washington and Oregon cases have not specifically addressed these issues. The cases do not speak in terms of fees paid in the underlying case being an element of damages. However, following the logic and purpose of the rule that unpaid fees should not be deducted, it seems a plaintiff ought to be able to include paid fees as part of the damages. The whole point is to prevent the client from paying twice to recover the same damages . Also, to fail to allow a plaintiff to add the underlying fees to the total could discriminate against clients who have paid and those who have not, favoring the latter for no good reason.
Suppose that the client who did not pay had an hourly fee arrangement also, not a contingency fee, so the lack of payment was not simply because the client lost the underlying lawsuit (in which case no contingency fee would be owed), but instead because the client was a deadbeat, and at the end of the trial owed his lawyer a lot of money – let’s say $200,000. Based on the express language of Shoemaker and Schmidt, the deadbeat client would not have to deduct $200,000 from the amount of the likely underlying judgment. Arguably, the end result should be no different just because the other client dutifully paid his lawyer. From this perspective, the paid fees should be added to the judgment.
A counterargument would go something like this. The rule applies only to fees that are unpaid because they are un-owed – ie, to contingency fees whose condition for payment (winning the case) never came to pass, not to hourly fees which are owed regardless of result pursuant to a fee agreement voluntarily entered into by the client. So in the example of the two hourly fee clients, the one who paid will not be facing a counterclaim or offset for fees by the lawyer in the malpractice action, whereas the "deadbeat" client likely will. So viewed from that context, the "deadbeat" client really enjoys no advantage.
Still, while this addresses the supposed unfair discrimination between the paying hourly fee client and the deadbeat hourly fee client, it fails to address the unfair discrimination between hourly fee clients and contingency fee clients, at least to the extent that the policy behind the no-deduction rule is to prevent clients from having to pay two lawyers to recover the same damage. If unpaid and paid hourly fees in the underlying case are not added to the damages, hourly fee clients in the underlying case will end up paying two sets of lawyers to recover the same damage, and contingency fee clients will not.
This conundrum might have been avoided if the courts in Washington had addressed the stated concerns about paying two lawyers by making an exception to the American rule and allowing recovery of attorney fees in malpractice cases, instead of providing a no-deduction rule relating to fees incurred in the underlying case. However, as explained above, there are potential pitfalls with that approach also.
| 2019-04-26T16:49:36 |
https://www.rundlelaw.com/do-i-have-to-subtract-from-my-damages-in-the-legal-malpractice-case-the-attorney-fees-i-would-have-had-to-pay-my-first-lawyer-if-we-had-won-the-case
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Given a and b (the two sides of a right-triangle), find c, the hypotenuse.
Given the length x of the side of a regular square, find the area of the square, A.
Given the variable x as your input, divide it by four and put the result in y.
| 2019-04-24T10:48:37 |
https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/profile/authors/7016442-jerry-gu
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How and why did British colonize America?
Elizabeth I sent some licensed pirates to find land the Spanish didn't have a flag on. Mr. John Smith (statue outside Bow Bells church in the City of London) bumped into North America, stuck the flag in (this was pre-Union flag days) said ‘we'll take this' and named it Virginia after the virgin queen. Then others arrived taking more land, as it was easy and annoyed the pope and the Spaniards, which was always a popular thing to do in England at least if not in Ireland. So, for example, the man who took over from John was Lord De La Warr .... his bit is known as the State of Delaware. Soon everyone knew that 9 in 10 people in the colony had land whereas back in the British & Irish Isles it was 1 in 10. Plus you didn't get fined for not turning up to a Church of England service in the colonies. So anyone thinking of a brighter future or freedom for their religious convictions upped sticks moved and claimed land that the Land Registry didn't know even existed. When the authorities in the UK (I suspect the old landed gentry were to blame for this) tried to stop/regulate colonisation and tax them, the colonies united their states and rebelled thereby booting out the old guard allowing for the rampant colonisation of the centre and west which wiped out the natives and most of the wildlife in the process.
First off it wasn't just the British colonizing the Americas it was most powerful nation states in Europe.The Spanish and Portuguese got South and Central America and in North America it was France in the North by Canada(till the 1700s) and the Dutch around New York(Till Britain conquered it) and the British by the east coast.They establish towns by the coast and planted food to survive and to import food to the Mother country. And now they did this because this made the European country or "Mother Country" rich because they used a system called "Mercantilism". This system worked by the colony providing raw material or resources to the Mother country who would send it back as a final product and sell it to make a profit.This system made the Mother Country really rich which is why they did it.
Be aware that it's easy to mislead readers with any answer to this. ‘America' brings forward the idea of the USA. Britain did not colonise the USA. The colonisers were the people whose descendants are citizens of the USA (apart from those that escaped the initial civil war to Canada or back to the UK). The ‘colonised' were the people who were subsequently mostly exterminated following the formation of the USA.
So, if this question was asked by an American, then it's best rephrased by asking why their ancestors behaved the way they did. Britain tried to regulate and defend its people who had chosen to go to the New World and, in the end, failed to defend the indigenous populations from the resident colonisers.
They, the British went to America to find religious freedom and freedom of conscience.
The problem with most religious refugees is that they carry their shackles with them, wherever they go. Disputes which led to divisions for years, were started on the Mayflower.
I have often said that the Romans stopped using lions and tigers in the arenas because, once the Christians started to have a go at each other, they made the wild animals look tame.
They went to find religious freedom, but no sooner did they have that freedom but they started to prod at each other's consciences.
Intolerance was the first fruit of the colonists. Disease and exploitation of the indigenous. Population was the next fruit. Not a good start!
To get away from religious persecution.
How: like always we traveledtheir on ships, then tricked the natives, before taking over their land.
Why: it was mainly for resources. It was extra space to farm sugar, making money and furthering our power.
It was also to get ahold of gold and other valuable elemants from which we could make momey.
Finally, it was to stop the Spanish and other colonial powers from getting ahold of America's resources and land.
Have you ever been mugged while traveling abroad?
Is it safe to travel to Sabarimala from Bangalore now?
4371 | Why should I never visit Mongolia?
7703 | Which country in the world is the least indebted?
8040 | Did America invade Afghanistan for oil?
2210 | What is it like to visit Northern Canada?
4237 | What's something that someone did to your house that you won't ever forgive?
5360 | Can I visit America?
5485 | Which country is more competitive? South Korea or Japan?
9500 | Will CNN ever tell the truth?
Why isn't Wales as devolved from Westminster as Scotland or Northern Ireland?
How many people have ever witnessed a UFO?
What would a map of Europe look like today if Germany had won WWI? What about the America's, or Africa? What would the world governments look like today?
What cultural differences exist between every country?
Do you think many Americans want to visit NYC?
What was the best/worst idea you ever had?
Do you have any experiences where you "knew" you were right but turned out to be wrong?
| 2019-04-23T12:02:13 |
http://dreamstrikes.com/asking/How-and-why-did-British-colonize-America.shtml
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A database is used to store, modify, extract and to search for the data within it.
SQL views can be used to hide?
In SQL, a SQL view is a virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement. A view contains rows and columns, just like a real table.
SQL views can be used to hide rows and columns and complicated SQL syntax.
The fields in a view are fields from one or more real tables in the database.
Oracle SQL developer is an Oracle Database IDE.
Which of the following is a comparison operator in SQL?
The comparison operator that is used in SQL is '='. Comparison operators test whether two expressions are the same. Comparison operators can be used on all expressions except expressions of the text, ntext, or image data types.
A) Combines the output from multiple queries and does not include the same number of columns. B) Combines the output from multiple queries and must include the same number of columns.
C) Combines the output from no more than two queries and does not include the same number of columns. D) Combines the output from no more than two queries and must include the same number of columns.
A) Combines the output from multiple queries and does not include the same number of columns.
B) Combines the output from multiple queries and must include the same number of columns.
C) Combines the output from no more than two queries and does not include the same number of columns.
D) Combines the output from no more than two queries and must include the same number of columns.
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Combines the output from multiple queries and must include the same number of columns.
A UNION query combines the output from multiple queries and must include the same number of columns.
| 2019-04-23T07:56:42 |
https://www.sawaal.com/sql-interview-questions/a-database-is-used-to_17479
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What is a Breeder ????? With A Capital "B"
A Breeder (with a Capital "B") is one who thirsts for knowledge & never really knows it all, one who wrestles with decisions of conscience, convince, and commitment.
A Breeder is one who sacrifices personal interests, finances, time, fancy furniture, and deep pile carpeting! She gives up the dream of long luxurious cruises in favor of turning that all important show into this years "vacation"
The Breeder goes without sleep (but never without coffee/cola!) In hours spent planning a breeding or watching anxiously over the birth process, and afterward, over every little sneeze, wiggle or cry.
A Breeders hands are strong and firm and often soiled, but ever so gentle and sensitive to the thrusts of a puppy's wet nose.
A Breeders back and knees are usually arthritic from stooping, bending, and sitting in the birthing box, but are strong enough to enable the breeder to show the next choice pup to a championship.
A Breeders shoulders are stooped and often heaped with abuse from competitors, but they're wide enough to support the weight of a thousand defeats and frustrations.
A Breeders arms are always able to wield a mop, support an arm full of puppies, lend a helping hand to a newcomer.
A Breeders ears are wondrous things, sometimes red (From being talked about) or strangely shaped (From being pressed against a phone receiver), Often deaf to criticism, yet always fine-tuned to the whimper of a sick puppy.
A Breeders eyes are blurred from pedigree research and sometimes blind to her own dog's faults, but they are ever so keen to competition's faults and are always searching for the perfect specimen.
A Breeders brain is foggy on faces, but it can recall pedigrees faster than an IBM Computer. It's so full of knowledge that sometimes it blows a fuse; It catalogues thousands of good boning, fine ears, and perfect heads.......And buries it in the soul, the failures and the ones that didn't turn out.
The Breeders heart is often broken, but it beats strongly with hope everlasting........And it's always in the right place!
| 2019-04-23T12:11:02 |
http://www.pctissue-chihuahuas.com/what-is-a-breeder.html
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Lindsay Lohan finally made it to court!
The troubled starlet was surrounded by cameras as she entered a Beverly Hills courthouse five days after she was a no-show at her last mandatory hearing. Lohan finally made it back from France, where she claimed her passport had been stolen at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lohan arrived seven minutes late, wearing sunglasses, a black suit, and a very low-cut white blouse.
She was escorted in by uniformed court officers. Once inside the courtroom, the 23-year-old actress looked exhausted and faced the angry judge, who had actually delayed her own vacation to be at the hearing.
Lohan's trouble with the law has put her career in crisis. According to her lawyer, she has a number of upcoming photo shoots and she is filming a movie in Texas. They asked the judge if she could have her random drug testing be done there, but the clearly fed up judge wouldn't have it. So Lohan will have to be tested in Los Angeles and wear an alcohol monitoring device.
The actress was visibly annoyed by the ruling.
"She said, 'Listen, I don't care where you are, you've got to come back to California, you've got to submit to those drug tests here, because I want to know and I want it right here in California.' That's unusual and that doesn't happen in a normal case and I have to believe that maybe she was making an example out of Lindsay," says Trent Copeland, CBS News legal analyst.
In France, the fallen star had made the most of her last days of freedom. Cameras captured her out partying in Cannes until 8 a.m., just before she left for the airport to head back to Los Angeles.
A ragged Lohan spoke out just after arriving at LAX and said she sees no reason that she should go to jail or rehab.
"I don't see why I would have to do that," Lohan said. "I have been more than in compliance with everything having to do with the court system. The only person who has suggested anything like that is my father, who clearly isn't sane."
A report in the Chicago Sun-Times quotes friends of Lohan's who claim the actress is using a "combination of booze and prescription medications (and 'God knows what else')."
Now her lawyer promises that Lohan will follow the letter of the law.
Before she left the court she was fitted with the alcohol monitoring bracelet. She is due back in court on July 6th for a full hearing on whether she's violated the terms of her probation.
| 2019-04-18T18:49:02 |
https://www.insideedition.com/entertainment/682-lindsay-lohan-makes-it-to-court
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food and culture streets in these cities. All this is being done very efficiently and at a low cost. We need many such organizations. However, my ideal of a city in 2020 is not a utopian dream. It is achievable. It has streets where people walk on wide footpaths shaded by leafy trees. Streets are usually one third of a city's area and its most democratic segment. Public space dedicated to pedestrians recluces inequality and shouId be accorded priority when developing cities.
and, rickshaws can sail past smoothly. It'll have a great public transport system with buses, metro and taxis. Parking will be difficult and expensive so people will use public transport rather than cars. There will be parks and gardens and the air will be clean, as pollution levels will have dropped dramatically.
And then cities will become areas of graceful living and a charmed way of life.
(i) We need many such organizations.
We commemorate so many special days .such as Republic Day, Independence Day, Mother's Day and so on. Well, here is one day that deserves not only a commemoration, but our total dedication - Earth Day, 22 April. At Sanctuary, we live our lives like everyday is Earth Day, but we all believe that it would be , fantastic to remind our relatives, friends, neighbours, teachers and elders on this day that protecting Mother Earth ·can end up making us both happy and safe.
environment) and Renew (your purpose and resolve to protect the planet).
travelling for meetings. ( c) Switch off unnecessary gadgets.
(don't just use the remote .... walk to the mains!).
token of.. appreciation also for he is protecting your world.
( 4) Cut out plastic : Speak to at least five shopkeepers in your area and tell them you and your friends will only use their shops if they move away from wasteful plastic packaging, particularly thin plastic bags.
(i) Earth Day deserves a commemoration and our total dedication.
(ii) Start a Waste Segregation System in your building.
(6) What do the following words in the extract mean?
(B vitamins, including niacin, f olic acid and riboflavin, and vitamin C). They consist 1nainly of the elements nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in bod)' fat, while water-soluble vita1nins are used or quickly excreted in the urine.
formation of collagen; D helps the body absorb calcium; E prevents cell damage, and K helps blood clotting. Most vitamins cannot be produced by the body and so must be obtained directly from food.
Vitamins consis-t of 1 .
K Essential for eyes, skin etc.
Oil is one of the world's major sources of energy. We depend on it as fuel for heating, transport and generation of power.
For centuries, animal and vegetable oils have been used for cooking and as a source of artificial light. But it is mineral oil which meets most of the world's needs today.
or black liquid with a strong smell. It is a complex mixture of many different substances, each with its own individual qualities. Most of them are combinations of hydrogen and carbon in varying proportions. Such hydro-carbons are also found in other forms such as bitumen, asphalt and natural gas. Mineral oil originates from the carcasses of tiny animals and from plants that live in the sea. Over millions of years these dead creatures form large deposits under the sea bed and ocean currents cover them with a blanket of sand and silt. As this material hardens, it becomes sedimentary rock and effectively shuts out the oxygen so preventing the complete decomposition of the marine deposits underneath. The layers of sedimentary rock become thicker and heavier. Their pressure produces heat, which transforms the tiny carcasses into crude oil in a process that is still going on today .
The earth's crust is split into a few hu·ge continental plates which move continuously rather like rafts on a sluggish tide.
Geologists call this rnoven1ent as 'continental drift'.
(i) Oil is one of the world's major sources of energy.
(ii) As this material hardens, it becomes sedimentary rock.
(iii) Geologists call this movement as 'con·tinental drift' .
(B) Write·a brief summary of the above extract with the help of the points given below and suggest a suitable title.
'"Oh, excuse me please'' was my reply.
''Move out of the way," I said with a frown.
Touchstone had always been very fond of Celia, and he gladly agreed to accompany her and Rosalind into the Forest of Arden. He still wore his Jester's clothes of red and black, with little bells hanging from his cap; and he was a great comfort to the two lonely girls, making them laugh with his merry jokes, and cheering them when they were tired or frightened.
Candidate should be B.E. (Ist Class).
Address : East Shri Nagar Colony, Solapur Road, Hadapsar, Pune.
Your locality is facing the problem of irregular water supply.
Write a letter to the concerned authority about it.
Read the following Intros of news items. Choose any ONE of them and write the headline, the date line and a short continuing paragraph for it.
by 30 percent. It forced the authorities to import onions from abroad.
(ii) The birth anniversary of the late President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was celebrated yesterday in Saraswati Kanya Pathshala as Teacher's Day.
Imagine that you are a journalist and you have been assigned the task of interviewing a film actor/actress. Frame a set of 8 to 10 questions to interview him/her.
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| 2019-04-22T17:12:19 |
https://www.shaalaa.com/question-paper-solution/maharashtra-state-board-ssc-hsc-11th-12th-hsc-english-12th-board-exam-2016-2017-set-c_9612
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The projector was professionally installed and configured. Please do not attempt to "correct" anything within its configuration menus..
The remote control has its own power switch located along the right side, near the top of the remote. It is labeled "R/C ON OFF" Make sure the remote is powered on before you try to use it and please remember power it off when you are done.
To turn on the projector, select the "Power" button. When the projector is off, there is an amber light on the side of it facing the floor. When it is first turned on, this light will start flashing green... this means that the projector is on, but that it is warming up. When the projector is done warming up, this will be a solid green light... you'll also be able to see the picture projecting onto the screen at the front of the room.
R/C ON OFF - power for the remote control itself.
Power - turn on/off the projector.
E-Zoom - it is possible to enlarge portions of the screen with the Zoom feature. Please play with this a bit before you use it in a presentation. It is rather self-teaching, but you won't want to try and figure it out on the fly.
Effect - select one of three different "pointer" types. The pointer may be moved with the directional pad. It can be turned off with the ESC button.
Back Light - this is the button that looks a little like a light, opposite the Effect button across the directional pad. It turns on the back light for the remote control.
DVI - Note: the DVI input on this projector is not in use.
BNC - Select the podium's component connector as the active source.
S-Video - Select the podium's s-video connector as the active source.
Video - Select the podium's video connector as the active source.
Volume - Change the volume on the projector.
NOTE: Please do not attempt to access and change settings with the projector's menus or use the recessed buttons at the bottom of the remote.
The podium contains a PC. Anyone with an ECE username and password can log into this system. There are no guest accounts. The PC has full network access and is loaded with a standard software set. It also has a CDROM drive, and a USB connection connected to the podium's connection panel.
Video - Yellow video input with left and right audio jacks. Corresponds to the "Video" button on the projector's remote control.
S-Video - S-Video input with left and right audio jacks. Corresponds to the "S-Video" button on the projector's remote control.
Component - Y, Pr and Pb inputs with left and right audio jacks. Corresponds to the "BNC" button on the projector's remote control.
Laptop - SVGA video input. Corresponds to the "Comp" button on the projector's remote control. See note about switching between the Podium PC and Laptop video feed which share this input on the projector.
Network - a live network connection, available for laptops or other network capable devices.
USB - this USB connection ties back to the PC contained within the podium.
Please note that the podium PC and the laptop connector share the same source input on the projector. To switch between the two, there is a switch box inside the podium. If you open the left door, at the very top of the opened space is a switch box. Button 1 corresponds to the PC. Button 2 corresponds to the laptop.
Connecting a laptop to the projector will vary by laptop type. Different hardware types will vary as may operating systems.
Your video output port on the laptop must be connected to the SVGA/"Laptop" connection port on the podium's connection panel. If your laptop uses a "standard" SVGA cable, one can be found inside the podium, if you do not have your own.
Macintosh laptops often require an adapter to work with the SVGA connector in the podium. Said adapter is the responsibility of the macintosh owner (the ETS staff just doesn't have one).
Some laptops will require that a key combination be pressed such that the video signal goes to the external video port as well as (or instead of) the laptop's own screen.
If that key combination cannot be found, some laptops will automatically select the external video port when they are rebooted with the video cable already connected to the laptop and the projector.
When all else fails, refer to the laptops owners manual, or use the podium's PC to access the laptop vendor's website for documentation.
If you are actually sitting at a machine, there are no limits on the number of background jobs you may have on that machine.
You are limited to one unattended background job, on one machine, at a time.
That job must be `nice'd (that is, it must be set to run at a low priority) to minimize the impact on other users of the machine.
Locking the screen and leaving the machine is not an acceptable way of running unattended jobs.
If you violate these rules, your background jobs will be killed and you may lose your computing privileges.
When background jobs require input from the keyboard, they stop running. You must bring them into the foreground in order to supply them with input from the keyboard.
Because of this, it is usually a good idea to redirect the input and output of background jobs.
will cause Matlab to take its commands from the file testrun and to put the results in the file testrun.out.
will run Matlab in the background at a lower priority (with input and output redirected to files). csh and tcsh have a built in nice command that follows the syntax listed above. If you are using a different shell, or if you are explicitly invoking /bin/nice, see the man page for the correct syntax.
will lower the priority for the job whose process number is 8397.
to list all of your jobs and their process numbers. Note: the jobs command only knows about jobs started from the same window. See the manual page for the ps command to learn how to find out about jobs started from a different window.
^Z (Press Z while holding down the Ctrl key.) Suspends the current foreground job. You can type this any time and you'll get a shell prompt. You can then put the current job into the background with the bg command or resume running it in the foreground with the fg command.
jobs Lists current background jobs in the current window.
fg Brings a background job to the foreground.
bg Restarts a stopped or suspended background job.
stop Stops a background job. This doesn't kill the job, but it will not continue executing until it is restarted.
kill Terminates a background job.
wait Waits for all background jobs to terminate.
nice Runs jobs at lower priority.
Consult the csh manual page for more details on how to use these commands. The renice and ps commands have their own manual pages.
~username is shorthand for username's home directory, so cd ~username will change the current directory to that user's home directory.
The first thing you need to know is how to log in. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del. This means to hit and hold the Control key, then press and hold the Alt key, and then press the Delete key (and then release all three keys). This will pop up a window asking for your username and password and into which system you wish to log in.
USERNAME: Your username is the same as it is on the Unix and Email systems. By default it is your last name followed by your first initial. ECE usernames are limited to 8 characters in length. So, if your last name is more than 7 characters long, your username should be the first 7 characters of your last name followed by your first initial. In some cases, a last name is very common (at the time of this writing, there were 22 persons with the last name "Lee" on these systems), and then there may be more than one person who would have the same username. At this point convention is broken, as everyone must have a unique username. Please see the lab consultants in either DL557 or CL260 if you think your username is non-standard.
PASSWORD: Your default password is the string "EE" followed by the last four digits of your EMPLID number followed by your first and last initial. Note that the passwords are now synced between the PCs and Red Hat systems, but not the Mail server.
SYSTEM: The Windows machine may offer you more than one system to "Log on to". You always want to log into the ECE domain. Logging into another domain will not be possible, and even if you can do so, logging into the local machine will limit your network capabilities.
First press: Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Windows Security Menu. A new window will appear with several options, including logging out and changing your password. Your old windows will be hidden, but have not been destroyed.
Select "Change Password...". You will now be prompted for your current password and your new password. You will also have a confirmation box where you must type in the new password a second time (this is to decrease the possibility of typing errors). Hit the OK button to have the new password take effect.
There are many ways to do this, but the following is the recommended method within ER4.
Close all of your running processes.
Bring up the Windows Security Window by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Select the "Log Off..." button.
Hit "OK" in the pop-up confirmation window.
Turn off the monitor (NOT the CPU), straighten the area around your computer, and push in your chair as you leave.
SERVER STORAGE: Every account on the ER4 PCs has a 2.0GB home directory. This is the same space as is each student's home directory on the Unix systems. It is mapped to the PC as the Z drive and should be used for all file storage. NOTE BENE: Files saved in the temp space of the C Drive of the local Windows system are not saved to your home directory. Such files may be lost between login sessions and in fact probably will be... use the Z drive for all file storage.
LOCAL CLIENT DISKS: Some of the software on the systems requires that the local client disks be writable. These disks are only to be used by the software's internal processes that require that access. Student files saved to the client disks violate local policy and may be deleted without warning. Note also that cloning software is regularly run against these machine and will wipe out user data without SysAdmin intervention. Data lost from the client machines is irretrievable.
CDRW Drives: Each ER4 PC has an internal CDRW drive. These are the intended method for long term file storage. It is highly recommended that all students make use of these drives for personal backups.
XILINX: Xilinx is a programmable logic software package used in ECE261 and ECE561, it will likely be your first PC oriented software package whose use is required by your classwork. A student version of Xilinx also comes with the textbook require for those two classes.
MATLAB: Matlab is available on the ER4 Windows Systems. It is a fully functional system and can be used for all class projects. However, Matlab jobs submitted to a Windows system require the user to be with the PC for the duration of the job. Some Matlab jobs can take a long time to run. Those jobs are better submitted to the ER4 Unix systems which allow for untended, back ground processes.
MICROSOFT OFFICE: As a part of the University-Microsoft agreepemtn, MS Office is available on all of the ECE student lab PCs. A "full" installation was made, but this does not necessarily include every extension or template for each given package. If you find need of something that has not been installed, please send a request to the ETS Service Portal.
SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS: Any modifications to the system, be it through modification to the registry or to system files is absolutely forbidden. The systems are set up to run as multi-user workstations and as such are not to be modified by individuals. If you feel that a system modification is required for your scholastic works, please submit a request via the ETS Service Portal, and we will take it under advisement.
MULTIPLE PROCESSES: Unlike the HPs, there are no remote users on the ER4 PC systems. Thus, there are no limits on the number of processes that you run (limited to one machine). However, please note that resources on any machine are finite, and the more you run, the slower any given single task will be performed. For best performance from the PCs, please only run what you have to.
SCREEN LOCKS: Please lock your terminal if you are stepping away from it. To do so, bring up the Windows Security Window (by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del) and select Lock Computer. Note that PCs are only to be locked for short periods of time... don't exceed 10 minutes or you may be logged off.
PRINTING: the same printing policies apply to the ER4 PCs as to the Unix systems. The quota system is common between the two systems. Using the printer in the PC lab will count against your Unix quota and vice-versa.
FILE STORAGE: all users have 2.0GB of storage space in their home accounts. This storage is deemed sufficient for student academic purposes. It can be reached as the Z drive. Note: for most users (you should know if you are an exception), your ER4 Windows Desktop, My Documents, and Application Data folders are all redirected into folders of those same names on your Z drive. So files saved on your desktop, count against your quote.
SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS: users are not to install any software on the ER4 systems. This includes installing software in your home directories (Z drive) so that they can be run on the system. This most specifically includes networked programs like chat, file sharing, and instant messaging systems. Violators of this policy will loose account privileges. Requests for software related to academic pursuits should be submitted to the ETS Service Portal.
GAMES, CHAT & INSTANT MESSAGING: The ER4 PCs are to be used for school work only. Any extraneous use should be restricted to off-peak times, and should be restricted to programs installed by the systems administrators (see above). If asked by a staff member, or even by another student, non-class related work should be suspended immediately.
FILE SHARING: the installation and/or use of file sharing software including but not limited to those of the P2P type (ie: Kaza, EDonkey, etc) are explicit violations of University and Departmental policy (both in the student labs and on University Networks in general). Violations may result in loss of account and network-access privileges.
REBOOTING: Sometimes PCs have to be rebooted. It's just the nature of these systems. However, such reboots should only be performed by ER4 staff. If you feel your PC needs to be rebooted, please see the student consultant in CL260. Please do not reboot it yourself.
File restoration with ER4 is now handled exclusively through the Windows systems. To utilize this ability, go to your Z drive, and find the folder that contains (or contained) the file or folder you are seeking. Right click and select "Properties". Here you will find a tab that says "Previsous Versions".
View: This allows you to see the content of a folder. You can drag and drop from this view.
Copy: This lets you designate a location to which the folder will be copied.
Restore: This restores the folder to its previous location. NOTE BENE: this will over write current content. We generally recommend that you use one of the other two options.
| 2019-04-25T16:06:38 |
https://ece.osu.edu/computing-resources/help-docs
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In short: New research published in the Advanced Energy Materials journal could eventually lead to a wide range of devices that can be charged by movement alone using Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs). The associated study, completed by researchers at the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute, essentially shows how an electrical current can be generated by contact between multiple materials. What's more, the scientists have gone beyond the usual research results to produce a step-by-step guide for creating a TENG and formulated a "TENG power transfer equation," in addition to "TENG impedance plots." Those are explicitly designed to assist with moving the new technology forward in terms of optimization for increased power output.
Background: The use of the human body is not new and has even appeared in several wearable devices, ordinarily driven by body heat as is the case with the Matrix Powerwatch X revealed at CES near the beginning of the year. However, the thermoelectric generators (TEGs) powering that rugged sports wearable should not be confused with the TENGs behind the latest research. With the technology in that wearable, for example, a difference in temperature was required between two materials separated by insulating thermoplastics. The heat transference between the two mediums is what generates electricity. That isn't at all the case for TENGs, which rely on movement generating contact between two or more organic, inorganic, or hybrid materials to create electricity. The former technology, in effect, requires a human body in order to be energy efficient since generating heat in order to create the temperature difference without that is wasteful. With TENGs, sources of energy can also include movement caused by wind, waves, and machine vibration to generate a current for charging a battery or powering a device outright.
Impact: Because a human body generating heat isn't required, the possible uses of something like TENG extend far past wearables. Those would also be possible using the technology but only focusing there would be short-sighted. With further research and optimization, the research may eventually see use as either novel or secondary charging methods implemented in anything from wearables and smartphones to infotainment or environmental control systems in a self-driving vehicle. For example, a security camera in a factory might harness the vibrations of machinery for energy, creating some financial savings for a company. That's only one example but even small boosts to battery efficiency or the slightest of energy savings would compound if incorporation across a wide variety of uses.
| 2019-04-25T14:43:10 |
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/09/next-generation-electronics-could-be-powered-by-movement.html
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Context. More than two thousand exoplanets have been discovered to date. Of these, only a small fraction have been detected around solar twins, which are key stars because we can obtain accurate elemental abundances especially for them, which is crucial for studying the planet-star chemical connection with the highest precision.
Aims. We aim to use solar twins to characterise the relationship between planet architecture and stellar chemical composition.
Methods. We obtained high-precision (1 m s-1) radial velocities with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6 m telescope at La Silla Observatory and determined precise stellar elemental abundances (~0.01 dex) using spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan 6.5 m telescope.
Results. Our data indicate the presence of a planet with a minimum mass of 26 ± 4 Earth masses around the solar twin HIP 68468. The planet is more massive than Neptune (17 Earth masses), but unlike the distant Neptune in our solar system (30 AU), HIP 68468c is close-in, with a semi-major axis of 0.66 AU, similar to that of Venus. The data also suggest the presence of a super-Earth with a minimum mass of 2.9 ± 0.8 Earth masses at 0.03 AU; if the planet is confirmed, it will be the fifth least massive radial velocity planet candidate discovery to date and the first super-Earth around a solar twin. Both isochrones (5.9 ± 0.4 Gyr) and the abundance ratio [Y/Mg] (6.4 ± 0.8 Gyr) indicate an age of about 6 billion years. The star is enhanced in refractory elements when compared to the Sun, and the refractory enrichment is even stronger after corrections for Galactic chemical evolution. We determined a nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium Li abundance of 1.52 ± 0.03 dex, which is four times higher than what would be expected for the age of HIP 68468. The older age is also supported by the low log (R'HK) (–5.05) and low jitter (<1 m s-1). Engulfment of a rocky planet of 6 Earth masses can explain the enhancement in both lithium and the refractory elements.
Conclusions. The super-Neptune planet candidate is too massive for in situ formation, and therefore its current location is most likely the result of planet migration that could also have driven other planets towards its host star, enhancing thus the abundance of lithium and refractory elements in HIP 68468. The intriguing evidence of planet accretion warrants further observations to verify the existence of the planets that are indicated by our data and to better constrain the nature of the planetary system around this unique star.
| 2019-04-26T08:10:25 |
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2017/01/aa27775-15/aa27775-15.html
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I love this card, particularly the Morgan-Greer(center card image above) version of it wherein the acorn symbolism sings of the promise of seeds (ideas) planted in the fertile soil of a dreaming (imaginative) mind where they eventually take root and manifest (ideas into reality).
A million years ago, I was in medical school where I picked up the term "supine." It's the physical position of our figurehead in this card; he's laying supine. The word describes the position, but the word supine also means inactive and passive.
That's the primary avenue we can travel upon in this card. When this card solemnly surfaces in our reading we must take effort to quiet the din (internal and external) and become passive. This is a time to let intuitive waves move of their own accord within our energy. No action is needed.
There are spiritual undertones in the four of swords Tarot card, meaning our faith will support this time of soul-hibernation. No matter how demanding our situation is, or how strongly we are pulled to take action - this card insists we must be still. And, Higher energies will honor that stillness by keeping events at bay while we take the time cocoon our souls.
Note in traditional versions (Rider-Waite, far right card image), we see one foundational sword while the other three are suspended above the figurehead. This is a symbolic cue; there is one issue, one thought dominating the querent's energy. The three down-pointing swords indicate focus on that one thought while in a prayerful (supplicating), meditative manner in order to manifest solutions to that prime theme.
The four of swords Tarot card meaning is often expressed when we have gone through a time of battle (hence, the armor). It beckons us to retreat within our deeper selves for recuperation. We can do this by diving into our dream worlds, where we are nourished by the loving motions of our highest energies and life-giving imaginations.
Armor: The symbolic meanings of armor deal with protection, preparation, and strength. Most Tarot deck renditions depict all the knights in full armor (knights typically representing action and strength). The armor indicates a need to protect ourselves when engaging in activities referenced in a reading. In this case, it indicates we are battle-worn, it's time for a truceClick here see other cards featuring armor in them.
Do I have enough faith to drop my action, and take a passive/meditative stance in this situation?
What is the focus of my prayer life, and is my physical life aligned with that focus?
Am I battle weary? What methods of recuperation can I explore to heal myself?
Does my inner vision match my outer reality? What can I do to get a better match?
What does the word 'supplication' mean to me?
| 2019-04-21T18:10:23 |
http://www.tarotteachings.com/four-of-swords.html
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The managing document for Blacka Moor is The Graves Covenant. It is absolutely not the Blacka Moor Management Plan written by SRWT. Every action planned and carried out by managers and operatives must be measured against the legal Graves Covenant of 1933. If not then somebody needs to be held to account.
It cannot be possible that any independent person reading the Graves Covenant, or Alderman Graves' related comments, would concede that Blacka should be managed via chainsaw and barbed wire. Those are both incompatible with the statement in the Covenant that Blacka should be be allowed to continue in a natural state. That cannot be compatible with killing and felling beech trees, birch, holly, oak and sycamore that were growing when the Covenant was written. In other words what SRWT has been doing is illegal. Nobody can get away with claiming that a legal document from 1933 can be put aside and indeed in 2006 the document was renewed by the Charity Commission which conceded that conservation could be carried out as long as recreational activity took precedence. The question that should be asked is "what did the Charity Commission understand by conservation?" Well it's fair to assume it would have consulted standard dictionary definitions. So let's look at them and see if any include the understanding that conservation might be about killing and felling trees.
"the protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of human activity"
Nothing there about killing native trees.
"the protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water."
"the preservation, protection, or restoration of the natural environment and of wildlife."
So when the Charity Commission said that conservation could be part of the management of Blacka Moor it's fair to assume it did not mean the destruction of natural vegetation and natural landscapes.
So the destruction of wild nature that SRWT is engaging in is violating the terms of the managing document for Blacka Moor.
| 2019-04-26T13:17:11 |
http://theblackamoorsite.blogspot.com/2016/02/covenant-violation.html
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Популярная британская группа Coldplay выпустила клип на композицию «Charlie Brown», которая является третьим треком с их последнего альбома «Текст песни: Wooh, ooh ooh ooh I stole a key, Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet, Took a car downtown and took what they offered me. To set me free, I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene, I saw the lights go down and they're standing in front of me. Wooh, ooh ooh ooh My scarecrow dreams, When they smashed my heart into smithereens, I'll be a bright red rose come bursting through concrete. Be a cartoon heart, Light a fire, light a spark Light a fire, a flame in my heart. We'll run wild, We'll be glowing in the dark. Wooh, ooh ooh ooh We'll be glowing in the dark. All the boys, all the girls, All that matters in the world All the boys, all the girls, All the madness that occurs. All the highs, all the lows, As the room is spinning goes We'll run riot, We'll be glowing in the dark. Wooh, ooh ooh ooh So we'll soar in an innocent riot We'll be glowing in the dark.
Популярная британская группа Coldplay выпустила клип на композицию «Charlie Brown», которая является третьим треком с их последнего альбома «Mylo Xyloto». Видео снимали под руководством режиссера Мэтта Уайткросса, который снял для ребят уже 11 клипов. Видео в буквальном смысле светится!
I'll be a bright red rose come bursting through concrete.
Взял машину в центре города, где встречаются потерянные парни.
Пусть вспыхнет пожар, пламя в моём сердце.
Мы будем сиять во тьме.
Мы станем сиять во тьме.
| 2019-04-23T06:09:16 |
https://music.muz-tv.ru/video/49195/
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Could you tell me which of these sentences are correct?
1. a) She knocked at the door; b) She knocked on the door.
2. a) She was late for school; b) She was late to school.
3. a) She is pointing at the crab; b) She is pointing to the crab.
“knock on” is more commonly used.
2. “Late for school” and “late to school” are both correct.
Q: What if my child is late to school?
3. You can say either “pointing at” or “pointing to”, although the latter is more commonly used.
| 2019-04-20T07:04:31 |
https://learningenglishgrammar.wordpress.com/preposition/at-on-or-for/
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In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Core i9-7960X 16-Core 2.8GHz is massively better than the Intel Core i7-8086K 6-Core 4.0GHz when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.
The Core i7-8086K 6-Core was released less than a year after the Core i9-7960X 16-Core, and so they are likely to have similar levels of support, and similarly optimized performance when running the latest games.
The Core i9-7960X 16-Core has 10 more cores than the Core i7-8086K 6-Core. 16 cores is probably excessive if you mean to just run the latest games, as games are not yet able to harness this many cores. The cores in the Core i7-8086K 6-Core is more than enough for gaming purposes. However, if you intend on running a server with the Core i9-7960X 16-Core, it would seem to be a decent choice.
The Core i9-7960X 16-Core has 20 more threads than the Core i7-8086K 6-Core. Both the Core i7-8086K 6-Core and the Core i9-7960X 16-Core use hyperthreading. The Core i7-8086K 6-Core has 2 logical threads per physical core and the Core i9-7960X 16-Core has 2.
The Core i7-8086K 6-Core and Core i9-7960X 16-Core are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Core i7-8086K 6-Core has a 1.2 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the Core i9-7960X 16-Core is superior.
The Core i7-8086K 6-Core has a 70 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Core i9-7960X 16-Core (though they were created with the same size 14 nm manufacturing technology). What this means is the Core i7-8086K 6-Core will consume significantly less power and consequently produce less heat, enabling more prolonged computational tasks with fewer adverse effects. This will lower your yearly electricity bill significantly, as well as prevent you from having to invest in extra cooling mechanisms (unless you overclock).
The Core i7-8086K 6-Core 4.0GHz is a high-end CPU based on the 14nm Coffee Lake-S microarchitecture. The Intel Core i7-8086K was released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Intel's first ever x86 processor, the Intel 8086. It offers 6 physical cores (12 logical), initially clocked at 4.0GHz, which may go up to 5.1GHz boost clock on a single core. The i7-8086K has 12MB of L3 Cache. Aside from clock speeds, the 8086K has identical specs to the Core i7-8700K. Among its many features, HyperThreading, Turbo Boost 2.0 and Virtualization are activated and the processor has its multiplier unlocked. This Core i7-8086K CPU offers the fastest gaming performance of any Intel CPU as of 2018, and will not be the bottleneck in any modern gaming PC. It will be able to play all modern games comfortably on high/ultra graphics performance without being a hindrance to the accompanying GPU. The Core i9-7960X 16-Core 2.8GHz is a high-end CPU based on the 14nm Skylake-X micro architecture. It offers 16 physical cores (32 logical), initially clocked at 2.8GHz, which may go up to 4.4GHz with boost, and 22MB of L3 Cache. Among its many features, Turbo Boost 3.0 and Virtualization are activated and the processor has its multiplier unlocked. With a 165W TDP, the Core i9-7960X 16-core processor is very power hungry. The Intel Core i9-7960X is part of the first ever generation of Core i9 processors. These CPUs are designed to offer the fastest gaming performance of all Intel CPUs.
| 2019-04-20T22:43:50 |
https://www.game-debate.com/cpu/index.php?pid=2554&pid2=2497&compare=core-i7-8086k-6-core-4-0ghz-vs-core-i9-7960x-16-core-2-8ghz
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What (detailed)? Where? When? Who? Why? ... and any other information that you think is relevant. Are there any similarities between the images?
Objective: To build up a profile of a girl called Malala and her link to gender inequality in education in Pakistan.
Task 1 - Create a person profile for Malala using the information here.
Task 2 - Watch the YouTube video to the right and read this October 2013 BBC special news report on Malala.
Task 3 - Build up a case study of the gender inequality that exists in Pakistan in terms of girls education. Approach the case study using the 5 W's structure.
Objective: To complete a brief study of Hans Rosling's 'Magic Washing Machine' TED Talk.
Task - Watch the 10 minute video to the right taking notes on the worksheet below.
Objective: To examine gender inequalities in culture, status, birth ratios, health, employment, empowerment, life expectancy, family size, migration, legal rights, and land tenure.
Starter Task - Take the Gender Inequality test by clicking here. Print out your associated report and highlight key issues within. Discussion should follow in the class regarding most equal / least equal societies represented in the class.
a. Watch the video above right and make notes on the what the Gender Inequality Report tries to do. Then download and read over this information sheet to ensure that you know how the index is calculated.
b. Click here to be taken to the most recent global summary of findings from the report. Use three of the graphics within as a stimulus for a 100 word summary of progress made. Focus should be on comparative progress since 2006 where possible.
Task 2 -Take a copy of the map above and annotate the top 5 (least gap) & bottom 5 (biggest gap) countries with their values as indicated on the interactive map above. Alternatively, use this league table.
Task 3 - Now see if you can find a reputable news story about a gender equality related issue for one of the top and one of the bottom placed countries. Highlight, print out and keep with this pack of work.
a. Since 2006, what is the global situation regarding progress?
b. Which countries are singled out by the author and why?
c. What are the % closure breakdowns of each of the four pillars?
Women banned from driving in Saudi Arabia. Here is a BBC news report on the efforts to lift a current ban on female drivers in Saudi Arabia. Watch the short news report below too.
Click here to access another article on the issue.
b. What are the claimed dangers of women driving?
Above are the 2015 reports on gender inequalities for the five IB focus countries. You will note that Niger is not present as the data is not available for the country. I have added in France as the home country of IST students instead.
Task 6 - Using the tabs above and the worksheet above, complete the summary for each of the countries and their most recent Gender Index values. Make sure you colour code each data box according to the instruction at the top of the page.
Task 7 - Click here to read about a famous gender inequality linking to empowerment and politics. Print out and highlight the issues that the Prime Minister of Australia had to deal with during her term in power.. Remember, this links in directly with one of our IB 5.
Starter - Scroll through the pages on this presentation to see examples of previous MEDC gender inequality. What are your feelings on the images and information contained within?
Task 1 - Click here to be taken to a list of 10 forms of gender inequality that still exist . Make notes on what you consider to be the worst three forms of inequality.
Task 2 - Complete this mix & match sheet before watching the two videos beneath fully.
Task 4 - Improving Health. Watch the YouTube video embedded below.
a. Describe the inequalities that exist here.
b. Explain how the international clothing retailer - Primark - is using its influence to improve the health and nutrition of women in Bangladesh.
Task: Listen to the 30 minute Pod Cast on Gender Inequalities and make notes on the key themes discussed.
Gender inequality remains one of the top development challenges of the 21st century. Women and girls continue to fare worse across many headline development indicators - from poverty and health to education and political participation. But what's holding back progress on gender equality? And what can be done to make the world a better place for women and girls?
In this edition of our new Global Development podcast, we look at the impact of the global financial crisis on women around the world, examine new ideas to push forward progress on gender issues, and ask what can be done to tackle gender-based inequalities in the 21st century.
To discuss these issues, Madeleine Bunting is joined in the studio by Rachel Moussié, women's rights adviser on economic policy at ActionAid International, and Jane Martinson, women's editor at the Guardian. We also hear from women in New Delhi and are joined down the line by Jeni Klugman, director of gender and development at the World Bank.
Objective: To create group effort mini theatre productions with props on the different aspects of global gender inequality.
Task 1 - Split into your pairs and you will be allocated one of the eight aspects of gender inequality. You will need to research your inequality carefully using the sources here on geographyalltheway.
d. One A4 double sided 'Theatre Programme' detailing the characters, locations and storyline.
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http://www.geographypods.com/gender--change-4hrs.html
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Q. How do I write a journal entry?
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Tancredo Neves International is the larger of the two commercial airports that serve the sunny city of Belo Horizonte and its metro area. Most of the flights at this airport are to locations within Brazil and are handled by local carriers. There is a small amount of international service, however. American Airlines has service to and from Miami from Belo Horizonte, TAP Portugal offers similar service from Lisbon, and Copa Airlines can get you here from Panama City.
When Are Fares to Belo Horizonte Lowest?
Since Belo Horizonte is located south of the equator, seasons are reversed from what you experience in the United States. This means that the depths of winter in the US is peak season in this part of Brazil, with nice warm temperatures and plenty of festivals and celebrations going on. It's a fun and pleasant time to visit, but you'll likely see the highest fares from January into March.
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United States citizens are required to have a visa (in addition to their passport) to enter Brazil. The visa is good for five years once issued and is relatively easy to obtain from any consulate or embassy, however.
Tancredo Neves International is a modern, good-sized airport with a good range of amenities and food options. A handful of 24 hour food options are available. Free WiFi and charging stations are also available throughout the airport.
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Here's a good interview question for a tester: how do you define performance/load/stress testing? Many times people use these terms interchangeably, but they have in fact quite different meanings. This post is a quick review of these concepts, based on my own experience, but also using definitions from testing literature -- in particular: "Testing computer software" by Kaner et al, "Software testing techniques" by Loveland et al, and "Testing applications on the Web" by Nguyen et al.
From the referrer logs I see that this post comes up fairly often in Google searches. I'm updating it with a link to a later post I wrote called 'More on performance vs. load testing'.
The goal of performance testing is not to find bugs, but to eliminate bottlenecks and establish a baseline for future regression testing. To conduct performance testing is to engage in a carefully controlled process of measurement and analysis. Ideally, the software under test is already stable enough so that this process can proceed smoothly.
From a testing point of view, the activities described above all take a white-box approach, where the system is inspected and monitored "from the inside out" and from a variety of angles. Measurements are taken and analyzed, and as a result, tuning is done.
However, testers also take a black-box approach in running the load tests against the system under test. For a Web application, testers will use tools that simulate concurrent users/HTTP connections and measure response times. Some lightweight open source tools I've used in the past for this purpose are ab, siege, httperf. A more heavyweight tool I haven't used yet is OpenSTA. I also haven't used The Grinder yet, but it is high on my TODO list.
When the results of the load test indicate that performance of the system does not meet its expected goals, it is time for tuning, starting with the application and the database. You want to make sure your code runs as efficiently as possible and your database is optimized on a given OS/hardware configurations. TDD practitioners will find very useful in this context a framework such as Mike Clark's jUnitPerf, which enhances existing unit test code with load test and timed test functionality. Once a particular function or method has been profiled and tuned, developers can then wrap its unit tests in jUnitPerf and ensure that it meets performance requirements of load and timing. Mike Clark calls this "continuous performance testing". I should also mention that I've done an initial port of jUnitPerf to Python -- I called it pyUnitPerf.
Performance tuning can sometimes be more art than science, due to the sheer complexity of the systems involved in a modern Web application. Care must be taken to modify one variable at a time and redo the measurements, otherwise multiple changes can have subtle interactions that are hard to qualify and repeat.
In a standard test environment such as a test lab, it will not always be possible to replicate the production server configuration. In such cases, a staging environment is used which is a subset of the production environment. The expected performance of the system needs to be scaled down accordingly.
The cycle "run load test->measure performance->tune system" is repeated until the system under test achieves the expected levels of performance. At this point, testers have a baseline for how the system behaves under normal conditions. This baseline can then be used in regression tests to gauge how well a new version of the software performs.
Another common goal of performance testing is to establish benchmark numbers for the system under test. There are many industry-standard benchmarks such as the ones published by TPC, and many hardware/software vendors will fine-tune their systems in such ways as to obtain a high ranking in the TCP top-tens. It is common knowledge that one needs to be wary of any performance claims that do not include a detailed specification of all the hardware and software configurations that were used in that particular test.
We have already seen load testing as part of the process of performance testing and tuning. In that context, it meant constantly increasing the load on the system via automated tools. For a Web application, the load is defined in terms of concurrent users or HTTP connections.
In the testing literature, the term "load testing" is usually defined as the process of exercising the system under test by feeding it the largest tasks it can operate with. Load testing is sometimes called volume testing, or longevity/endurance testing.
expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, such as memory management bugs, memory leaks, buffer overflows, etc.
ensure that the application meets the performance baseline established during performance testing. This is done by running regression tests against the application at a specified maximum load.
Although performance testing and load testing can seem similar, their goals are different. On one hand, performance testing uses load testing techniques and tools for measurement and benchmarking purposes and uses various load levels. On the other hand, load testing operates at a predefined load level, usually the highest load that the system can accept while still functioning properly. Note that load testing does not aim to break the system by overwhelming it, but instead tries to keep the system constantly humming like a well-oiled machine.
In the context of load testing, I want to emphasize the extreme importance of having large datasets available for testing. In my experience, many important bugs simply do not surface unless you deal with very large entities such thousands of users in repositories such as LDAP/NIS/Active Directory, thousands of mail server mailboxes, multi-gigabyte tables in databases, deep file/directory hierarchies on file systems, etc. Testers obviously need automated tools to generate these large data sets, but fortunately any good scripting language worth its salt will do the job.
Stress testing tries to break the system under test by overwhelming its resources or by taking resources away from it (in which case it is sometimes called negative testing). The main purpose behind this madness is to make sure that the system fails and recovers gracefully -- this quality is known as recoverability.
I'm sure devious testers can enhance this list with their favorite ways of breaking systems. However, stress testing does not break the system purely for the pleasure of breaking it, but instead it allows testers to observe how the system reacts to failure. Does it save its state or does it crash suddenly? Does it just hang and freeze or does it fail gracefully? On restart, is it able to recover from the last good state? Does it print out meaningful error messages to the user, or does it merely display incomprehensible hex codes? Is the security of the system compromised because of unexpected failures? And the list goes on.
I am aware that I only scratched the surface in terms of issues, tools and techniques that deserve to be mentioned in the context of performance, load and stress testing. I personally find the topic of performance testing and tuning particularly rich and interesting, and I intend to post more articles on this subject in the future.
Thank you for this nice overview. I would have liked JMeter to be mentioned along with OpenSTA and TheGrinder.
Thnaks for sharing very information on all three aspects of testing: Performance, load and stress testing.
Still don't see a clear cut difference between performance and load testing, they look more like synonyms for me with some small difference in, perhaps, goals of testing.
I still didnt get clear abt the difference btn performance and load testing. What are the parameters we should consider in both testings? Can we run single user/single iteration for performance? Is it neccessary to increase the load? Can we run the performance scripts for a fixed time?
Clearing this willbe very grateful.
I usually start my performance testing with a single client machine and I constantly increase the number of simulated concurrent users -- for example, I start with 10 concurrent connections to the server and I increase that number to 100 in increments of 10. At some point, either the client or the server will become the bottleneck. If the server is capable of serving a large number of concurrent users, then the client machine will become the bottleneck. At that point, you need to add more clients to your test and continue to increase the load on the server.
As for the main difference between performance and load testing: you do performance testing in order to find any bottlenecks in your application code and eliminate them. When you can't possibly optimize your application anymore, you start doing load testing, which tells you for example how many Web servers you need behind a load balancer, how many database servers you need, etc. -- all this so that you can sustain some pre-defined load that your customers/users require.
Thanx for your explanation.But I have one more question to you.
Let me explain the way how I am doing the performance/load(I dont know how to name it) testing.
We are doing performance testing of a web application from a client machine.
2) I will record the steps using OpenSTA.
3)Develop the test task and run the individual tests from 1 v.user to max of 100 users.
5)So based on this graph and data I will find out the bottleneck for that scenario.
6) usually we are running each test for a constant period like 10mts or 15 minutes.
7)Here how I can distinguish btn client and server bottleneck.
8) Am I doing the testing in a right way or not. We are calling this as performance testing only.
9) Here how to do load test?
Sorry for putting lot of queries.
As I said before, it's sometimes hard to distinguish between performance and load testing. Many people use them interchangeably and I can't really blame them.
One of the points I was trying to make in my blog entry was that by performance testing people generally mean tuning your application so that you eliminate bottlenecks in your code. In your example, you would need to profile your Web app while you are sending requests from your client. You will then be able to see what functions/methods in your code are the hot spots (i.e. where most of the time is spent). At that point, you can try optimizing your code, or maybe you database access, if the code involves calls to the database.
If there's no possible way to further optimize your code/database logic, then you need to look at scaling the application either vertically (by throwing more hardware at the server), or horizontally (for ex. by adding more Web servers behind a load balancer).
Load testing is what you're doing after your eliminated the bottlenecks in your code. You want to know at that point what the maximum capability of your application is. So I think in your case, since it doesn't seem like you're doing any profiling/benchmarking within the application, we can say you're doing load testing. Your methodology is sound, but at the same time you need to monitor the server via OS-specific utilities (vmstat, top, iostat or Windows Perfmon) and also, as I said, you need to monitor your app via a profiler.
Thanks for your clean explanation.
Actually Our work starts from discussing with the technical team for getting the right scenarios where we need to do performance testing. After getting the results we will do the analysis using the HTTP DATA List in Excel sheet.
For CPU monitoring we are using a tool called "PerfView" where we can get all server (CPU time,network,I/O usuage and etc)related parameter values. We will get both app server and db server details in that tool. My Question is running for a constant period is right or not. I feel this time is need to scaleup the vusers in server. But I am not sure how we can decide like running for 10 mts or 15mts. Will it make any change in results. We are taking the average time of each urls in excel sheet started from 1 user to max users.
Clearing the time duration to run will make me comfort. I am also looking your other guidance points which definitly will improve our quality and use of testing.
Good concept on Load and Performance testing.
Now can we say load testing is some thing where we test the systems to check how they work under specified load?
and performance testing is testing an application with slow ramp up to see the response times under the load?
stress testing always confuse me.
Are performance, load and stress test components of system test?
Every organization is different. But I would assume the typical test life cycle is this. I would break it down to these 4 major phases.
Unit Test --> Functional Test --> System Test -->Beta Test.
In the System Test phase, I would have these major tests: Integration Test, Performance Test, Load Test, Stress Test and Scalability Test, etc.
Does anyone have any comment on my statement? Recently, we have some debate within our Test Organization about the testing terminologies and methodologies. I really want to know how other testers understand the test life cycle and definitions of its components.
Another cool tool for do performance testing is Eclipse project called Hyades.
With that you can easy test web applications, I really like to use it, its more simple and more especific than OpenSta.
Is there any open soure tool for performance testing. If It there, Can support IE 6.0. I heard abt open sta will support only 5.5.
How do "concurrent users" as set in a load test, relate to real traffic numbers? e.g. if i want my site to cope with a peak traffic of 4000 hits/hour, what number of concurrent hits should it be able to cope with? By my reckoning there is only one answer: it has to cope with 4000 concurrent users, incase those 4000 hits/hour all come at the same time. But then that's ridiculous!
I am a gaduate student and my project is about web application testing tools. can anybody let me know if Hyades creates a model from each web site and creates the test cases from this model; or it duplicates the action sequences directly from weblog or mimics recorded user actions?
I tried Neoload (published by Neotys) that is an easy to use load testing tool (but not free).
I need to know what are the steps in a performance test.
I am a load tester who hasn't got a project to work on yet.
My question is: how do I work like an expert, I mean what's the best methodology that will impress my boss?
Remember your first load/perfomance project! How did you go about in preparing fo rthe test?
just found this one...gives a good overview on some of the fundamental issues to consider.
Here how it will justify that you have stress on system as the word itself say that you have to give some stress on system and not the RECOVERY TIME, as this will consider how much time the system will take to retain its stable working.
This step is correct but how will justify the statement where you have said "take away resources ...". I am confused about these statement.
Ive been a performance and functional testing consultant for about 12 years now. Here is the problem. Many people forget that performance and stress are not interchangable. I dont think Grig couldve been more clearer.
The tools I use are LoadRunner, WinRunner, QuickTest Pro, Scapa, and others.
Right now I am on a project in Woking, UK, where the new system architechture is being tested for performance, load and resilience. During this round of testing we are loading the system with 5000 concurrent users performing normal user actions on the site. The webservers, appservers and DB performance levels are constantly monitored.
Now do you call this a performance test, load test or a stress test.
This scenario is a performance test. The system is being evaluated for its performance under a constant load of users. They want to see if the proposed new architechture is sufficient enough to support this load of users. However, this can be classified as a load test as well, simply because there is a sustained load of users (clients) hitting the system over a period of time.
The system being tested is a new system architechture and tested with increasing number of users to guage the performance of each component compared with the load provided to the system.
This is a load test. Because there is no defined target and the only goal is to see where the breaking point of the system is. This set of testing is not stress test because no part of the system is in distress while the test is conducted.
Performance Testing aims to answer (one of) the question(s) - How many concurrent users can my site handle and still provide a n average response time to the user of under 1 second?
Stress Testing aims to answer (one of) the question(s) - What would happen if the database server crashes when hundreds of users are transacting online?
Has anyone come across a server-client testing tool, I mean not a web application. Tool which could test application developed in Java.
But mainly I require that whatever test scenrios are developed should be shown in Graphics and also the result should be mesureable.
Would be glad if anyone can provide details of such a tool.
its good but try to keep the difference in more simple words.
This seems focused on web testing. Any suggestions for tools to load test Windows thick-client applications?
Daryl -- sorry, can't help you very much there, since I haven't used thick Windows clients in a while....One approach would be to roll your own scripts that simulate key presses, mouse events, etc.
Hello Grig, your blog is very informative. Thanks a lot for providing such useful information. But I still have a doubt, is load testing and volume testing the same? is there any specific difference between them.
I do not know weather it is true but i read somewhere that in volume testing we test large sets of data using one user whereas in load testing large sets of data is tested using multiple concurrent user.
Anonymous -- I don't think there is much difference between volume and load testing. I would say though that load testing is usually applied to the system as a whole, in order to see what its behavior is under constant load. Volume testing is applied to specific sub-systems, to see how they react in the presence of high volumes of data. But as with performance and load testing, these terms are sometimes interchanged.
As far as I'm concerned, a sound testing strategy should incorporate these types of testing, paying less attention to their names and more attention to actually running them.
I have to say that the information you have posted is very rich. I happen to have an interview in London (City), and have really benefited from this Blogg of yours. I am taking on a new role as a test analyst and this information has definately cleared most of my doubts.
Could you please reply to my post. Regards.
NB: Thanks everyone for your ideas and sharing you knowledge.
I am trying to figure out the differences between Loadrunner and ACT tools. Can any of u guys help me?
Can u suggest which is a better tool?
Hi Grig, i like very much your syntetic and clear explanation about difference in PLS testing approach.
I translate in Italian your article to explain to non-technical users the difference between these tests.
Giovanni -- sure, you have my permission to put your translation on Wikipedia. Thanks!
With that being said, I would like to come back to one of your first sentences: "Ideally, the software under test is already stable..."
Performance is a very interesting metric to have even as the project just starts. It will allow to pinpoint, as features get committed, which has a steep price in terms of performance. Or, when the team focuses on performance improvements throughout the project, it will allow to keep chaos under control by being able to quantify improvements over baseline or over previous measurement.
Thank you for an interesting post that fosters and focuses the interest of the community on one important aspect of testing.
Arnaud -- thanks for the thoughtful comments, your taxonomy makes sense. I agree that doing performance testing early in the game has lots of benefis, but in my experience very few people/teams do this.
Great article! I tried OpenSTA and Grinder, but found there was a lot of scripting and debugging to get my tests to run properly as we have a very dynamic site.
I eventually came upon OpenLoad, which was much easier to use and relatively inexpensive.
what is the difference between stress testing and recovery testing?
I do not why people have a confusion between Performance and Stress.
Performance is you are veryfying the performance of an application for a set of users i.e. say when 2000 users acess the system the system is serving them in 5 seconds.
Stress is the same above system is designed for 2000 users but there can be some time in the business calendar when there will be 3000 users, as the application is only designed for 2000 users the application can be slower than regular load may be the system may take 9 seconds to serve a page, now if there are still more users say 1000 more that is total load is 4000, the system can run out of resources and may crash.
I must appreciate the way you have explained all three types of tests.
Being a non It , even I was able to understand with great ease.
Really worth explaining and wonderful explanation.
Baseline/Benchmarks testing: need to be exec from build to builds, releases to releases under the same hardware settings, the same test tools, the same workload profiles, the same running time 10-30mins, collected the same required performance matrices, mostly measuring the peak time product matrices, the purpose is to see if the results fit product release requirement (such as web page latency < 3sec, concurrent connections/users > 1k or 5k, %CPU usage < 85%), then comparing the results between releases, build#, different venders' similar products. Most of time, company will use this tests to collect the best numbers to advertise its product. Sale, Marketing depts. are more interesting on those results. In real life, lots of time people may never experience such good numbers. Such as mileages declared by automobile company.
Load/Stress Load testing: we may use the same setup like benchmarks, but mostly we used more complicated workload profiles, the test settings may be modified over the time as long as the tests will be designed to excise the most of product functionalities, the tests running with less intensive load, say if benchmark showing the product can handle 2000 concurrent connections w/ latency less than 3-5sec, the stress load with more complicated workload may only running 50-70% of 2000 conn. But the load duration will be running from overnight about 12hrs to 72hrs or weeks. Under the load, lots of functional tests may be performed. This kind of tests is more simulate real life scenarios.
During both above tests, we all collect product system resources usages by using Win:PerfMon, Unix/Linux:vmstat/mpstat/iostat/netstat/lsof/ps/sar. %CPU, context switch, memory, IO wait/queue, num of established/time-wait sockets are counters helping to identify product’s bottlenecks & defects.
It seems like the different companies; even different projects within the same company may have different process & methodologies to do their performance tests. Performance release requirements & goals are very important as starting point.
normal tresting ==if chair is dsnd 4 100 kg wt,n my wt is 70 kg then that teting is called as nornal testing.
if my wt is 120 kg then that testing called as stress testing..
Thanks for clear comments on Stress and load testing. But what about Performance testing.
Actually I reccomend WebLOAD when talking about open source performance, stress or load testing tools.
Very good compilation. Clearly and practically explains stress, load and performance testing.
Is there any open souce tool to test the network speed during the run of performance other than the utilites like netstat etc. that comes with the OS?
large number of concurrent users, then the client machine will become the bottleneck. At that point, you need to add more clients to your test and continue to increase the load on the server.
Let me give you a scenario to help understand my question, There is a web intranet application that is being accessed from different locations. When the users from the Head Office are accessing this application they have no problem, however the remote location users have a prblem of delayed response. The hardware on all the locations including the HO is the same. How do I conclude if the problem is because of slow network access or slow cpu processing. I have tried trace route and that indicates a mojor time lag between the hops for the problematic locations, however the HO tracert is good. Also I have tried accessing a static page from all the locations and the response time for this page is very big from the problematic location. Can I conclude from this that the problem is with the network or is there anything else that I can try. Very importantly, how can I clearly eliminate the possibility of slow cpu response.
Gokul -- I think there's a simple test you can run to eliminate the possibility of a CPU bottleneck. Run some utility on the server running the Web intranet application. If the server is Unix/Linux-based, run top. If the server is Windows-based, run Performance Monitor. Access your application from the HO and note the CPU utilization. Access your app from a remote office and also note your CPU utilization. My guess is that the 2 numbers will be almost identical. This means the bottleneck is not CPU-bound, but, as you noted from the traceroutes, network-bound.
Thanks a lot Grig, I really appreciate your feedback, it has been very helpful.
I have a product installed on client machine.I want to check the performance of the machine after my product is installed.
I know we can use perfmon to get the performance results.
Is there any other tool which can provide analysis as well for the machine after the product is installed.
Anonymous -- perfmon should do the trick in your case. Establish a baseline before installing your app, and then run perfmon again to get new stats after installing it. Sounds easy, but of course it's tricky in practice.
jenni -- those parameters were the subject of this post.
This time I have a question regarding my career with respect to software testing.
Academically I have completed my Masters in IT and I have 2 years of experience in software support prior to this. Recently I have joined a software testing firm as a Team Leader for the performance testing team. My management thinks that I'm a very fast learner(based on my interview), hence even though I dont have any testing experience, according to them I would be able to understand the technicalities very soon.
Now since this is a very new industry for me, I dont have much information to plan my personal growth plan wrt s/w testing.
Currently my qualification is that of a master of IT, what are the other certifications that I can do to enhance my performance testing skills and which would help me grow in the management.
What are the capabilities that I require(based on international industry standards) to become a Project Lead and Manager within 2 years. Pls guide me. Thanks in advance for your help.
Gokul -- I don't believe in certifications. I believe in doing your job passionately and growing 'organically' in your career that way. Setting a goal such as 'become a Project Lead and Manager in 2 years' is kind of unrealistic in my mind. Since you've been out of school for a couple of years only, you'd be better off learning as much as you can about your trade. I'd also recommend joining an open source project and contributing your time and skills there. It's a great way to learn the trade of software engineering.
Thanks a lot for your feedback, I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. What is open source project and how do I join that?
I'm trying to record a script in Silk Performer. Its an internet application. However I'm not able to record the script. What are the possible reasons for the application not getting recorded.
I want to load test an web based application. could u plz provide me the steps?
Shishir -- I don't use Silk Performer, so I can't help you.
Bishnu -- I don't do free consulting on my blog. If you have a specific question related to web testing, feel free to ask, but I'm not going to respond to your general 'how do I do web testing -- give me the steps' question.
Gokul -- for the largest repository of open source projects, go to sourceforge.net. Search for your favorite OS or programming language, and take it from there.
I'm analyzing the home page of a bank website, am analyzing it for enhancement. Right now I'm using the tool SILK, what are the other tools that I can use? PLs suggest.
I wanted to know if we can do performance monitoring of Active Directory. I am pllaning a project where I would monitor active directory 24*7. Please suggest which software would support. Should I use Silk or Rational or Ruby or any other.
Appreciate if some1 can provide name of scenario and crisp 1 liner definition . If some1 designed any specific scenario please share. I ll update if I come across any new ones.
This is srinivas, I done Load Testing on web application and my doubt is what time should be considered for valuing the test and one more thing. For eg: in my test for 25 user I got TPS 0.4 seconds (transaction Per Second), and the elpse time is 9.925 seconds and in this which time i have take in to consideration. This test I had done in Mercury Interactive Load Runner.
Quite informative. Most of times in the testing literature I find the definitions and descriptions of various concepts quite vague and many a times the various concepts just intersect at one point or the other making it difficult to distinguish between them (eg. the case of load testing vs stress testing in this case). Looking forward for more such references where the distinction between the seem-to-be-similar concepts is clear.
Quite impressive differentiation.Can anyone tell me about performance testing for symbian services?
I will like to know what tools will i use to perform a Performace testing on a web application which was developed in .net.
I am new to performance testing .Can you please explain me how to do the performance testing on Stand alone system and web based system? And what are the exact(MAIN) measurements we have to measure?
great explanation for the three aspects of testing:Performance, Load and Stress.
- An online banking system needs to be availbale 24/7. This means it must run continuously without any problems and without needing a restart.
1. How would you test whether such a system has slow memory leaks, which could lead to poor performance over time. ??
This is really a very helpful article. Well, one can also say that Performance testing is testing using a single client/request and check the bottlenecks i.e. profiling. Once this profiling is done as desired, then we can start loading the application and check the performance again.
Can you explain the differences between Performance, load and stress with a good examples.
Can any one please tell which tools are used for performance, stress and load testing?
Good post with Nice explanation. Needed and Useful information.
Thanks for your explanations, but nobody say about how should we schedules vusers? From how many user we start? how increase them? how long we continue our test?
I want to determine the TPS of my web application. I don't know how manage concurrent user to determine tps of my system. for example once I test 10 concurrent user with ramp up 2 user per second and 5 min test duration. Another time I use 100 concurrent users with same condition, but with 5 concurrent user I get better Tps.
We are just starting with performance/load testing. I am still not clear as to what call my test as. We are starting with benchmarking, as we do not have any data on the accepted mem/cpu/time value right now. Does it fall under Performance or Load testing? and surely we are not trying to fine tune the application . We just want to measure the afore said matrices and decide whether those are acceptable are not.
DCM -- I'd call that 'Load testing'. After you get some baseline numbers (i.e. numbers for which your app still behaves within certain parameters), you can start stress testing -- which is testing your app while increasing the load above what you had for your baseline numbers.
what are the things to prepare in doing stress testing? can you give me a procedure in doing it?
Performance: What is our peak processing capability (CPU/DB/Memory within tolerance and steady).
Load: When does our peak processing capability begin to digress (CPU/DB/Memory begins to run out).
Management, developers, marketing usually understands this whole method as performance testing.
Thanks for your informative data, about the " load testing ".
I am looking for some help on Mainframes testing in terms of what are the pre-requisites for performing Interface Testing, Regression Testing, Load& Performance Testing and Stress Testing on Mainframe Applications. Wat needs to be studied during the assessment phase?
The applications are all mainframe based using proprietary HPS Language which generates COBOL/PL1 Code.
http://openload.sourceforge.net/ as one person posted.
There is a difference between stress testing and recovery testing and where u said the purpose of stress testing is to check how system recovers after failure is not correct as this is part of recovery testing, not the stress testing.
Stress testing is checking of application behaviour in least resources.
Really well done! You might want to look at CapCal Agile Performance Testing - it integrates easily with agile frameworks and best of all it's free! www.capcal.com.
Also, have a look at the CapCal Blog at http://capcalblog.blogspot.com to see about the first million user load test!
I really appreciate this article.Its really worth reading.The terms are synonyms but different in nature.I would like to share some other tools e.g.Load Runner,Rational Robot as well.
Thanks for all your explanation. It was really helpful in understanding the performance/Load/Stess testing.
Can you please clarify the below scenarios. Iam new to blackbox approach performance testing. Currently I am understanding the HP Loadrunner9.0 tool eval. I was in a process of doing load testing for my application. I am not going to do any tuning for my application as of now. Even if you are not aware of Loadrunner tool, Please provide me the approach for this testing.
My concern is, If i want to do load testing for “Sign up” module or one of the business req, How do we do? Since the user id is unique, we can’t enforce load with the same script (single user id) with 50 users concurrently. I assume script will fail in this scenario. So we are going for parameterize the value (user id), If we parameterize, obviously it comes into iteration. So each and every iteration the new value is replaced. In this scenario how come 50 users concurrently perform the “Sign Up” transaction with different user id?
Another scenario is Login transaction. If i want to perform load test for login transaction around 50 users concurrently with different name in a same script. We can go for parameterize. But the same doubt comes to my mind. How do we do with different user concurrently with the same script?
It would be really great to see some approach to overcome these scenarios.
The video demonstrates QTest which is developed by Qutoium who bought Cyrano who developed OpenSTA. In fact some of the developers of OpenSTA worked on QTest. Hope this is of some use.
Can anyone tell me that what is the performance of "Neo Load" Testing tool for stress testing ??
I am doing masters in comp sci.
Can anyone tell me how to measure the performance of an appserv only?
Web developers should always be performance testing their sites. New cloud load testing tools are making it cheap enough for all of us independent consultants.
Can you please tell me the difference between Emulator and Simulator.
@prashant: NeoLoad is a good load, performance and stress testing tool. You can try it for free.
Prince - in software testing terms an emulator is usually some software that is used to represent a physical device such as a mobile phone or other device with embedded software. These emulators are used to run applications that would usually run on the emulated device. Because an emulator will run on a PC then PC based software testing tools can be used to test the embedded device albeit an emulated embedded device.
A simulator would typically simulate the output of something else. For example a load testing tool like QTest (http://www.quotium.com) would capture the traffic from a real application or device like an iPhone or emulated application and then replay it thereby simulating the client application.
im undergoing training in testing...first let me tell u what i understood 4m my materials..
next comin stress testing:finding the breaking point of ur system in a unintended environment.
i think this may be tedious for you to explain all..still waiting for your answers...thanks...have a good day!!!
Performance testing seems to me to be much more broad than load testing. Load testing is usually focused on metrics like requests per second and concurrent users (the cause); whereas performance testing is more concerned with response times (the effect).
Actually the application on which I am working is quite an enterprise level. But I have to do load testing only on smaller part of it, means a module which is totally in Java and also the calls are using REST API, we have to do only the backend code resting and no UI. This includes db, middleware(communication using REST API and Java) and network.
I have planned and also started working with SOAPUI (Groovy Script) which I found to be very useful. But when I searched on Google, I hardly see it in the top list of tools being used for performance or load testing.
Can anyone tell me reason for this?
And it would be great if anyone can list of tools that can be used for such application.
Can I translate this article in Chinese and post it on my blog?
Of course, I will link it to this article.
Fantastic article. So many people get confused about the differences between Performance, Load & Stress testing. Very concisely done.
This is a really good overview of the difference in load testing, performance testing and stress testing - personally stress testing scares the living daylights out of me, breaking a system on purpose to check recoverability seems like madness.
It's quite surprising how few teams actually use load and performance testing in their workflow - it could be because the commercial tools are very expensive and the Open Source ones a bit too cryptic to set up.
Performance testing, is to check the response times of each load on the AUT. The time it takes to perform each operation..
While, load testing is to check how the application behaves for a number of users in a certain point.
Interesting post, thank you. What I'd like to add is that performance testing allows to define not only bottlenecks in performance, network. Also this kind of testing can help functional testers to find functional bugs, that appear only under high load.
It is remarkable how a decade after publishing this great post, the discussed material is still relevant. The "performance vs. load vs. stress testing question" is still frequently asked on forums and is commonly blogged about (e.g. this).
Very little has changed in the performance testing methodology, but what changed significantly is that many more performance testing tools emerged, targeting simplicity of load testing.
One of the frequently overlooked criteria for selecting a tool is the simplicity of comparing multiple performance / load / stress test results.
We kept this in mind when designing performance analytics in our tool.
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Task 1 Investigating the effect of exercise on Heart Rate.
Convert it from a "recipe" practical activity into and "Investigation" activity.
That is construct an hypothesis that relates an independent variable to a dependent variable.
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http://mrsmorrittscience.weebly.com/9-circulatory-system-investigation-heart-wk4.html
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In the summertime we'd drive my grandfather from Hallandale, Florida to Chicago, and as we'd pass through Tennessee he'd invariably remark, "Chattanooger. That's how the Bostonians say it." They don't, but he's certainly not the only one who thinks they do. The actual phenomenon underlying this belief is known technically as 'intrusive /r/.' When words ending in certain vowels (non-high ones) are followed by words beginning with vowels, people with this feature insert an /r/. So a Bostonian wouldn't just call Chattanooga 'Chattanooger,' but he or she certainly might say "Chattanoog[er] is in Tennessee." Or, to draw an example from my favorite corpus - Beatles lyrics - John Lennon sings "I saw[r] a film today, oh boy."
Two questions arise: who does this, and why? In answering one we will answer the other.
First off, as you undoubtedly know, some dialects of English are non-rhotic - that is, they drop the /r/ sound when it occurs after vowels - but not before them. A consequence of this is that the dropped /r/s come back when they are immediately before a word starting with a vowel. Thus in "Let It Be" Paul McCartney sings "In my hour of da(r)kness" and "There is still a light that shines on me." So intrusive /r/ happens when a word sounds like it has a dropped /r/ at the end but doesn't really, and the phantom /r/ appears precisely where a dropped /r/ would reappear, before a vowel.
Do all English speakers who drop /r/s have intrusive /r/? In a word, no. The key phrase in the paragraph above is "when a word sounds like it has a dropped /r/ at the end but doesn't. See, in some /r/ dropping dialects (such as African American, or the dwindling /r/ dropping white Southern dialects) the dropped /r/ alters the preceding vowel. In these dialects, then, 'manna' and 'manner' don't sound the same, so the confusion that gives rise to intrusive /r/ isn't present, and as a result there is no intrusive /r/.
All this is very complicated, and it's no wonder, then, that my grandfather had trouble mimicking it. Though Peter Trudgill's examples of people misusing intrusive /r/ in British pop songs may be problematic, the phenomenon, which I will dub 'intrusive intrusive /r/' is a very real one, and the point Trudgill is trying to make - namely, that people aren't as good as they think they are at miimcking other dialects - is entirely valid.
2. In British English intrusive /r/ is stigmatized, and this professor spoke a fairly posh dialect. I suspect, then, that intrusive /r/ is as foreign to him as was to my grandfather, and he too misanalyzed the phenomenon, and, attempting to employ it mockingly, misused it.
On an unrelated note, I want to acknowledge the sad fact that Billy Preston died on Monday. Honor his memory by reading my two posts about him.
Interesting comments. Even though I was born and raised in Chicago, I've got a lot of Bostonians in my family and blame them for the times I have found myself saying something like 'so I sawr a thing on the television the other day', my tendancy to add an 'r' on the end of 'saw' before a vowel was brought to my attention when I moved to southern Indiana for school and for some reason that particular affectation was more noticable there than where I grew up (otherwise I might have quit doing it, now that I'm in my 30's it takes effort not to, and I can't be bothered).
As my brother-in-law in New Zealand would say, Good on you! Keep talking the way you talk, even if people laugh. I myself had a similar experience of being dialectologicaly radicalized by college. It's interesting, but not entirely surprising that your Bostonian feature played better in Chicago than Bloomington. In my experience, a Chicago accent gets a lot more attention in Oregon than in New York. This is probably due mostly to the greater cosmopolitanism of New York and Chicago, compared to Oregon and Southern Indiana, respectively, but I think another factor is that there is a deep kinship among the urban dialects of the northeastern quadrant of the US. This is why Dennis Franz can play a New Yorker and no one objects.
I heard one truly amazing example of a speaker with "intrusive intrusive /r/" - Norman Siegel, a civil rights attorney and housing advocate from Brooklyn. Listen to this interview with Siegel on WNYC. I discussed Siegel's hyper-rhoticity in more detail on alt.usage.english last year.
I must admit that I'm a bit dubious about that explanation of the origin of "warsh" - first of all, to my ear non-rhotic Southern accents are way more prestigious than rhotic Southern and South Midland ones; the former sounds like plantation owners, and the latter sounds like toothless hicks. Also, the geography seems a bit screwy - how far east does "warsh" go? I don't know and I don't have any maps or data about it, but I'd be surprised if it went too far east of the mountains - still far from any non-rhotic area I know of. To me it seems simpler to explain it as an odd development of an odd vowel in an odd environment.
But I guess I don't know a lot about the history of /r/-lessness in the south, and it could be possible that it was once much more widespread and not prestigious.
The link to the Siegel interview didn't work - a shame; I'm eager to hear it. Siegel is a combatant in the fight over the future of my Manhattanville neighborhood. Me, I'm neutral.
The explanation I remember hearing about "warsh" is that the Southern non-rhotic pattern became stigmatized in the South Midland region after the Civil War. But I'd have to check Labov to see if my recollection has any validity.
The south did go through a sudden reversal of prestige of rhoticity, yes—but the South Midland was always rhotic. Indeed, Labov's account of it is that the model for the prestige Southern accent shifted from the coast (nonrhotic Richmond and Savannah) to rhotic inland areas. So I don't see how you'd get hypercorrection in the South Midland from that.
OK, I must have misremembered the explanation I heard in a lecture on phonological change. So what is the Labovian explanation for South Midland "warsh"?
I don't know if he has an explanation for it, actually.
Wow, that turned into an interesting exchange. A thread, if you will. I'm even more partial now to the theory I made up a few days ago to explain this phenomenon, that is, that it's a weird vowel development in a weird environment. The only other words I can think of where there's intrusive /r/ in southern Midland speech are "squarsh", "gorsh", and "Warshington." How many common words even have this vowel before that consonant? Not many, right?
Yeah, I was just talking about this with Keelan. The fact that it happens in all of "squash", "wash", and "Washington" indicates that it's a regular sound change, not a lexical diffusion or analogy of any kind—or at least that it started out that way. [S] is sort of articulatorily similar to [r] anyway, nu?
[S] is articulatorily similar to [r], emes. Speaking of [r], [S] and Yiddish, a development I like in Yiddish is the shift from [rs] to [rS], so that NHG 'erst' corresponds to 'ersht', 'anders' to 'andersh', etc.
Intrusive "R"s between words such as 'saw it' are common (virtually standard) in English, Australian, MZ, and Sth African brands of English. Saying 'saWit' would round ridiculous in those accents, so it's either 'sawRit' (Beatles style) if spoken quickly/normally, or, if the words are being emphasised, they are almost said individually (so no R required).
I think it's accents like the Boston accent, which used to be rhotic but lost the R for prestige reasons (in 19th Century), who at that time almost hypercorrected their non-R's to the point that 'saw it' has no R, and even a word like 'mannerism' is pronounced without the R! ('mannah-ism') When the r would always be pronounced in England and Australia.
Just now listening FOYLE'S WAR, Season 1, Episode 3: young "high-born" woman says, "Of course, it was a bad idea(r), it was my idea." I'm a midwestern American, fairly void of an accent, despite my being dropped into the Texas, where only God-knows-what is fairly frequently spoken. But i have to say that the intrusive r annoys me. It's just not there.
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http://positiveanymore.blogspot.com/2006/06/intrusive-intrusive-r.html
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I'm walking down Broadway Street early this evening on the way to the Cambridge Public Library. And there is a low flying helicopter overhead. That is unusual in and of itself, but it seems to be hovering over the library. Why is it the helicopter always hovers over the one place in the city you are going?
In fact, the helicopter turned out to be hovering over Trowbridge Street staking out a house on Trowbridge Street where two suspected Russian spies were arrested Sunday evening, and a second townhouse on Trowbridge where the two had until recently lived. Their arrests were part of coordinated arrests of 10 people around the country suspected of being part of the same Russian spy ring. Russian spies? Yes, suspected deep undercover Russian spies.
The two people arrested in Cambridge are Donald Heathfield and Ann Foley, who lived together as a married couple in a $650,000 townhouse on Trowbridge Street before recently trading up to an $850,000 condo also on Trowbridge Street. The FBI says they masqueraded as Canadians to enter the U.S. and then used forged identifies to become U.S. citizens. They have two teenage sons.
Don Heathfield has a website listing him as the inventor of My Future Map offering management consulting services in in the areas of organizational learning, strategy, scenario thinking, global business development and executive education. His website says he was worked with as a consultant with General Electric, AREVA, Boston Scientific, Ericsson, Motorola, Microsoft, Michelin, Philips, STMicroelectronics, SAP, T-Mobile, and United Technologies.
It is also being reported that Ann Foley has a website as a realtor working out of a Somerville real estate office near Union Square. Her bio lists her as a native of Montreal, who lived and was educated in Switzerland, Canada, and France. Her bio says she previously worked as a Human Resources officer in Toronto and ran her own travel agency in Cambridge that specialized in organizing trips to French wine regions for small groups of enthusiasts.
The cloak and dagger part of the story indicates the FBI has had suspicions about the two since 2001, when they searched a safe deposit at a Cambridge bank and found negatives of photos of Ann that had been developed by a Russian film company (should have used Kodak). In 2006, their townhouse on Trowbridge Street was searched without their knowledge, and deleted information on their computer hard disks was recovered and copied. So the implication is that the FBI has spent the last decade connecting the dots and identifying other members of the spy ring.
There has been even more speculation about statements in the FBI affidavit indicating Heathfield had also established ties to former congressional staffers and faculty members of an unidentified university, including an unnamed "former high-ranking United States Government national security official." Who could thse people be?
Heathfield's website lists a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, so it's not hard to figure what university was "infiltrated." If by infiltrated you mean taking classes there and befriending faculty and other staff. One of his Kennedy School classmates, state representative Marty Walz reports getting a $50 donation from Heathfield and Foley in 2004, in response to a solicitation to all members of the class.
I do remember the days of the Cold War in Cambridge, when you would see manned guard houses at the entrance to some of the MIT and Harvard laboratories and at some of the defense contractor facilities around the city. But that level of security mostly dropped away in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Why bother sending deep undercover agents with false identities? I have met a number of young emigres around the city from Russia and other Eastern European countries. They get into classes at the universities, they get access to professors, they get jobs, they get U.S. citizenship. It would seem easier and safer to hide in plain sight, I would think.
Eventually Moscow got impatient: "You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. -- all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and sent intels."
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http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2010/06/russians-are-coming-emergency-everyone.html
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For related races, see United States elections, 1920.
The United States Senate elections of 1920 were elections for the United States Senate that coincided with the election of Warren G. Harding as President. There was also a special election in 1921. Democrat Woodrow Wilson's unpopularity allowed Republicans to win races across the country, winning ten seats from the Democrats, providing them with an overwhelming 59 to 37 majority. The Republican landslide was so vast that the Democrats failed to win a single race outside the South.
These elections are notable as this was the closest it has been since the passage of the seventeenth amendment where the winning party in almost every Senate election mirrored the winning party for their state in the presidential election with Kentucky being the only senate race to not mirror their presidential result. No other senate election cycle in a presidential year would come close to repeating this feat until 2016. In those elections, all senate seats mirrored their state's presidential result. Coincidentally it would be this same class of senate seats, class 3.
Republicans won two seats that were open from retiring Democrats, one seat from a Democrat who had lost renomination, and they defeated seven Democratic incumbents.
Colorado: Charles S. Thomas (D) retired and was replaced by Samuel D. Nicholson (R).
Illinois: Lawrence Y. Sherman (D) retired and was replaced by William B. McKinley (R).
Arizona: Marcus A. Smith (D) lost re-election to Ralph H. Cameron (R).
California: James D. Phelan (D) lost re-election to Samuel M. Shortridge (R).
Idaho: John F. Nugent (D) lost re-election to Frank R. Gooding (R).
Kentucky: John C. W. Beckham (D) lost re-election to Richard P. Ernst (R).
Maryland: John W. Smith (D) lost re-election to Ovington E. Weller (R).
Nevada: Charles B. Henderson (D) lost re-election to Tasker L. Oddie (R).
Oklahoma: Thomas Gore (D) lost renomination to Scott Ferris (D), who then lost the general election to John W. Harreld (R).
Oregon: George E. Chamberlain (D) lost re-election to Robert N. Stanfield (R).
In these special elections, the winner was seated during 1920 or before March 4, 1921; ordered by election date.
(Class 2) Braxton B. Comer Democratic 1920 (Appointed) Interim appointee retired.
New senator elected November 2, 1920.
In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1921; ordered by state.
Arkansas William F. Kirby Democratic 1916 (Special) Incumbent lost renomination.
California James D. Phelan Democratic 1914 Incumbent lost re-election.
1918 (Special) Incumbent lost re-election.
Kentucky John C. W. Beckham Democratic 1914 Incumbent lost re-election.
Louisiana Edward J. Gay Democratic 1918 (Special) Incumbent retired.
Ohio Warren G. Harding Republican 1914 Incumbent retired to run for U.S. President.
In this election, the winner was elected in 1921 after March 4.
^ There Were No Purple* States On Tuesday. FiveThirtyEight. November 10, 2016.
^ Johnson, Willis Fletcher; Brown, Roscoe Conkling Ensign; Spooner, Walter Whipple; Holly, Willis (1922). History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental. The Syracuse Press. pp. 347–348, 350.
This page was last edited on 24 December 2018, at 19:22 (UTC).
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The particles in question are pieces of interstellar dust, a substance containing atoms formed during the birthing of the sun and our neighboring planets. Don Brownlee, a researcher at the University of Washington, likens the dust to a "library of what was in the early solar system."
You would assume that the first cosmic dust would be discovered in a laboratory by some crazy-haired scientist, but the distinction may go to a Canadian man named Bruce Hudson. Hudson was a participant in Stardust@home, a program that anyone with an internet connection use a virtual microscope to scour the samples for these particular particles. Scientists are currently analyzing Hudson's find and are "cautiously optimistic" that it is the first cosmic dust ever to be returned to Earth.
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https://gizmodo.com/first-cosmic-dust-may-have-been-discovered-by-crowdsour-5487275
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What could be better than doing some grunt work for a friend or loved one as a Christmas gift? Something that they might not do for themselves or might postpone indefinitely? You're giving the gift of fresh herbs, edible flowers, and salad greens, mere seconds from the plot to the plate; the gift of big organic flavors within a few steps of their kitchen door, for as long as they choose to maintain the garden.
There are a few requirements you need to keep in mind. An herb garden has to be easily accessible from the kitchen door, or the giftees will have a lame excuse to use it less frequently. It needs full sun for at least half a day and a convenient water source. It requires excellent drainage, so deep soil work is called for; double-digging with a strong garden fork is the best method. Lastly, the time to amend the soil with compost and nutrients is before you plant; it's better mixed into the soil through the root zone, instead of on top of the soil.
A planting plan is called for, regardless of the size. Concern yourself with the mature height and width of the plants you want to install, so the plants don't crowd each other, and so the taller plants don't shade the plants behind them. You also need to know whether they are evergreen or deciduous (plants keep their leaves year-round, or drop them in the winter), perennial or annual (plants grow year after year, or die after one season, either warm or cool).
The kind of cooking that your giftee does will determine what plants they will need. Different cuisines use different herbs, so find out if they cook European, Latino, or Asian-style foods, and select varieties accordingly. The following perennials grow well around Central Texas: bay laurel, oregano, marjoram, thyme, sage, savory, mint, chervil, chives, rosemary, lavender, lemongrass, and sorrel. For annuals, you should consider basils (Thai, holy, Genovese, etc.), cumin, chiles, dill, fennel, cilantro, arugula, flat leaf parsley, and tarragon (technically a perennial but grown more as an annual here, or you can substitute it with Mexican mint marigold).
Edible flowers can be mixed into the bed or used as a decorative border. "City of Lights" rainbow-hued chard, which thrives almost year-round, makes a colorful edible accent. Microgreens and salad mixes can be sown sequentially and harvested weekly. The size of the bed planted is really the only limitation to what can be grown for your favorite cook.
Everything you need to install and maintain an herb garden for your partner, friend, or family can be purchased at It's About Thyme Nursery (11726 Manchaca, 280-1192, www.itsaboutthyme.com). They carry a huge range of culinary herb plants in assorted sizes, as well as seeds, soil amendments, and mulch, and if you don't have the time, they'll be happy to install the herb garden for you. Regardless of who puts it in, a kitchen herb garden is the type of culinary gift that will keep on giving for many meals to come.
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2006-12-15/429239/
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What does the answer previously mean about deposit color? I've colored my hair, box kits like permanent color L'Oreal or Clarol. Is this bleach? Want some body in my thin, straight hair. Could I start using temporary color and perm it with this product?
I have been using Bright purples blues greens pinks colors in my hair & bleaching kits Im wanting a Spiral type perm Is this really a safe product to use on color treated hair?
No, I wouldn't use a perm on bleached hair. It's for hair that hasn't been bleached or over-processed with color. Also, I wouldn't use a perm if the hair was previously colored with direct dyes.
my beautician refuse to give me a perm i have frosting on my hair now. will it melt it if i get one??
I'm a firm believer in if you bleach your hair don't perm your hair it will turn to mush. It something I have had to drill into my mom's head for years I will do one or the other not both. Deposit only color is fine with a perm but never bleach. And always color a few days after your perm so you don't lose color when you perm it.
| 2019-04-23T02:12:35 |
https://www.sallybeauty.com/hair/textured-hair/perms-and-straighteners/perms/texture-efx-color-treated-perm/SBS-124062.html
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Syrian violence be reduced "immediately." Except by immediately, he really means wait another four weeks, because the UN-backed Syria conference is a month away on January 22.
The UN budget committee decided to fund its UNDOF force in the Golan Heights - $63 million for another year. The same force that cuts and runs when the going gets tough.....while Israeli doctors save wounded Syrians reaching Israel through those same Heights.
In the latest escalation of tensions between Egypt and US, Egypt rejects Obama's pick for ambassador as too terrorist-friendly. Ponder that.
Try connecting the dots here: terrorist...terrorist's "human rights" organization... Human Rights Watch...United Nations.
| 2019-04-21T08:23:34 |
http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/site/new/?d=12-23-2013&w=253
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Sometimes my SSH session disconnects with a Write failed: Broken pipe message. What does it mean? And how can I keep my session open?
I know about screen, but that's not the answer I'm looking for. I think this is a sshd config option.
the server. This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
An alternative solution would be to use mosh - the mobile shell. In contrast to ssh it connects via UDP and supports roaming. You can start your session at home, suspend your laptop, take it to work / friends / wherever else you have internet, unsuspend your laptop and continue to work as if nothing has happened. It is especially useful if you are on a lousy internet connection: It shows instant feedback if your keystrokes don't reach the server and continuously tries to reestablish the connection.
Installation and setup are simple: It is now included in all current Linux (plus a few non-Linux) distributions and it coordinates the session initialization and authentication via a prior ssh connection. So if you are able to connect via ssh user@server you are very likely to be able to connect with mosh just by calling mosh user@server, if the mosh packages are installed on both ends.
The main reason for connection failures is that you have to reach the server on a UDP port (default range: 60000-61000) for mosh to work. So if the server is behind a firewall you are mostly out of luck if can't punch holes in it yourself (security implications).
ServerAliveCountMax by default this is set to 3. Therefore once the ServerAliveInterval has sent 3 small packs of info to your server it will then automatically log out. Setting it to 1200 means this process will have to occur at least 1200 times. In short you should be connected at least 30*1200 seconds (10 hours).
It usually means that your network (TCP) connection was reset. E.g. your internet provider reconnected you or something like this.
I had the same problem but it is not as expected. If you find that on the same network another server is trying for the same IP address, you will face the same problem. To solve this you need to check if there are other servers which use your same IP address. This can be done using the arp command.
You will notice two sets of mac address using the same IP address. Avoid conflict by setting one to another IP address.
Another cause for the "Broken Pipe message" is that another machine is attempting use the same IP as your host.
To find out which machines are on your network, you can use this Unix & Linux question title: How to find what other machines are connected to the local network.
| 2019-04-22T20:09:32 |
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2010/what-does-the-broken-pipe-message-mean-in-an-ssh-session?noredirect=1
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What would happen if you put a metal object in between the earth and a magnet that had the same pull as gravity?
The short answer is that it'd be very hard to balance the two forces, and your piece of metal would likely end up either falling to Earth or jumping up to stick to your magnet. In physics, we call this situation an instability—it's a bit like perching a ball at the top of a hill. As long as it's undisturbed, it can sit there indefinitely, but small jostles in any direction will cause the ball to roll downhill. At precisely the right point in space, it's theoretically possible to sit your piece of metal on this "hill" and have it levitate, but it won't stay there for long.
But what you're talking about has a more general manifestation, known as the Lagrange Point. It doesn't have to be a magnet balancing the Earth's gravitational pull—the moon will work just fine, for our purposes! Imagine standing on the moon and jumping. Ordinarily, you'll fall back down to the moon's surface: although its gravitational pull is much weaker than Earth's, you're so much closer to the moon that, even though Earth's pull is what's keeping the moon in orbit around it, it's not going to pull you down.
But jump high enough, from the surface of the moon (and we're talking impossibly high, like 38,000 miles) and you'd hit the Lagrange point between the two, coming up out of the Moon's potential well, over the "hill" and down into Earth's.
In this image, it's the earth and the sun, but L1 still marks the point where the gravitational pull from one balances out the pull of the other, leaving just the necessary force to keep the object in orbit.
Of course, the fact that these bodies are all moving with respect to each other complicates things. If the earth, moon, and sun were all stationary, it'd be a simple task to set the force from one equal to the force from the other and solve backwards to find the distance that satisfies those conditions. But with everything in constant motion, you need to find the point where your test mass still feels enough outward centrifugal "force" to keep it in orbit around the main body at the same rate as the satellite. The math there is a little more complicated, but the upshot is that, for a system like Earth and the moon, you'd have to go 84% of the way from here to there to find that L1 Lagrange point. That distance is going to depend on the relative masses of the objects and the distance between them, which determines the orbital velocity.
Only points L4 and L5 in the above diagram are stable—that is, objects at L1, L2, or L3 will tend to fall out of that orbit as described above if they don't have some way to accelerate and remain at those points. L4 and L5, where the distance to the two masses is equal, are more stable, and tend to trap massive objects—the Earth/Sun system's L4 and L5 Lagrange points play host to asteroids and dust clouds. Curiously enough, the L1-L3 points can also be orbited as if there were a massive body there—although these orbits are also unstable, so it requires active management to keep an object there.
The influence of other bodies obviously complicates things as well—for an at-home exercise (and to help get you riled up for Monday's coming astronomical event), try to imagine where the Earth/Moon L1 point would be during a total lunar eclipse vs. a total solar eclipse. Which would be farther from Earth?
| 2019-04-25T22:17:46 |
http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2017/08/ask-physicist-balancing-gravity.html
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"And co." redirects here. For the company with this name, see And Co.
A company can be defined as an "artificial person", invisible, intangible, created by or under law, with a discrete legal personality, perpetual succession, and a common seal. It is not affected by the death, insanity, or insolvency of an individual member.
The English word company has its origins in the Old French term compagnie (first recorded in 1150), meaning a "society, friendship, intimacy; body of soldiers", which came from the Late Latin word companio ("one who eats bread with you"), first attested in the Lex Salica (c. 500 CE) as a calque of the Germanic expression gahlaibo (literally, "with bread"), related to Old High German galeipo ("companion") and to Gothic gahlaiba ("messmate").
By 1303, the word referred to trade guilds. Usage of the term company to mean "business association" was first recorded in 1553, and the abbreviation "co." dates from 1769.
In the United Kingdom, a partnership is not legally a company, but may sometimes be referred to[by whom?] informally as a company. It may be referred to as a firm.
A company limited by guarantee. Commonly used where companies are formed for non-commercial purposes, such as clubs or charities. The members guarantee the payment of certain (usually nominal) amounts if the company goes into insolvent liquidation, but otherwise, they have no economic rights in relation to the company. This type of company is common in England. A company limited by guarantee may be with or without having share capital.
Charter corporations. Before the passing of modern companies legislation, these were the only types of companies.[dubious – discuss] Now they are relatively rare, except for very old companies that still survive (of which there are still many, particularly many British banks), or modern societies that fulfill a quasi-regulatory function (for example, the Bank of England is a corporation formed by a modern charter).
Note that "Ltd" after the company's name signifies a limited company, and "PLC" (public limited company) indicates that its shares are widely held.
In the legal context, the owners of a company are normally referred to as the "members". In a company limited or unlimited by shares (formed or incorporated with a share capital), this will be the shareholders. In a company limited by guarantee, this will be the guarantors. Some offshore jurisdictions have created special forms of offshore company in a bid to attract business for their jurisdictions. Examples include "segregated portfolio companies" and restricted purpose companies.
^ 12th century: Harper, Douglas. "company". Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ Compare: "co". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) - "1759 Compl. Let.-writer (ed. 6) London: Printed for Stanley Crowder, and Co."
^ Compare: Harper, Douglas. "co". Online Etymology Dictionary. - 'by 1670s as an abbreviation of company in the business sense, indicating the partners in the firm whose names do not appear in its name. Hence and co. to indicate "the rest" of any group (1757)'.
^ "Company legal definition of company". TheFreeDictionary.com.
^ "BBC Bitesize - GCSE Business - Forms of business ownership - Revision 3". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
Dignam, A and Lowry, J. Company Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-928936-3.
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Company: a Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. New York: Modern Library, 2003.
"Company" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 795–803.
| 2019-04-18T16:40:20 |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company
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Q: Is there assembly required?
A: Yes, there is limited assembly required which should take anywhere from 5-10 minutes. You will need to attach the clamp, monitor arm and adjust the tension of the unit.
Q: How much weight can the Lotus RT sit-stand hold?
A: It can hold up to 35lbs total; 30lbs on the top platform and 5lbs on the keyboard platform. You can adjust the tension to offset the weight of your equipment and accessories (up to 35lbs).
Q: How do I adjust the tension of my unit?
A: Start by raising the sit-stand to the highest position (with all your equipment and accessories placed on the unit). Turn the bolt located at the rear of the base counter clockwise to offset heavier weights. Approximately 10 half turns are needed to set up a single monitor set-up, but the exact number of rotations depends on your personal comfort. Refer to step 8 in the instruction manual.
Q: What size monitor does the Lotus RT hold?
A: You can choose between either a single or dual version of the Lotus RT. The single monitor arm holds a monitor up to 27” and 17 lbs. and the dual monitor arm holds a monitor up to 26” and 13 lbs.
Q: My desk is less that 3" thick and the clamp won't fit. What am I doing wrong?
A: You will need to flip the base clamp by removing the two bolts and reinstalling.
Q: How large of a lip or desktop overhang do I need to clamp the unit to my desk?
A: You will need a space of at least 3.75" or larger to attach the clamp to.
Q: I'm concerned it might damage my desk.
A: The clamp and platform have rubber/foam pads that help protect the desk from scratching the surface of your desk.
Q: What's the minimum size of desk required to successfully install this product?
A: The Lotus should be placed on a flat, sturdy surface at least 24" deep and 35" wide to have sufficient space for the product.
Q: The platform extends past my desk in the sitting position. How do I make it flush with my desk?
A: You will need to re-mount your Lotus RT offset from the center of your desk. Be sure to use two people.
Q: How stable is the keyboard platform when typing?
Q: What is the best way to clean the Lotus RT Workstation?
A: Use a soft, clean, dry cloth.
| 2019-04-26T14:49:49 |
https://www.thehomeofficestore.com/pages/fellowes-lotus-sit-stand-faqs
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Een extreem geval van media bias: tien jaar geleden stond deze foto op de voorpagina van de New York Times, met als onderschrift: een Israelische politieman en Palestijn op de Tempelberg. De implicatie is overduidelijk dat de politieman de Palestijn zo heeft toegetakeld. De foto is echter een uitsnede van dit beeld, en de 'Palestijn' is een Joodse Amerikaan die door een Palestijnse menigte was belaagd en richting een groepje Israelische politieagenten vluchtte. Zo simpel werkt media manipulatie, en zo sterk gekleurd denken veel journalisten, dat ze voetstoots aannemen bij het zien van een dergelijk beeld dat de dader wel een Israeli zal zijn en het slachtoffer een Palestijn. Dat is niet veranderd, en we hebben meer foto's gezien waarin is geknoeid of bewust een verkeerd beeld wordt gegeven, zoals tijdens de tweede Libanon oorlog en het Gaza vloot incident.
Hieronder een interview met Tuvia Grosmann, de gewonde Jood op de foto.
On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of Israeli brutality -- with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier was the one who beat him.
That young man was, in fact, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago, who was beaten within inches of his life before being rescued by the Israeli border policeman in the photo.
The resulting outrage generated by the gross distortion of the photo "launched" HonestReporting.
Now, ten years later, we caught up with Tuvia in an exclusive interview.
HonestReporting: How have things changed for you since your picture appeared in the NY Times?
Tuvia Grossman: Ten years ago, I was a single American 20-year old, in Israel temporarily as a student. Today, I am nearly 30, married, have a beautiful nearly three-year-old daughter, a practicing attorney at a corporate law firm in Tel Aviv and a proud citizen of Israel.
While the memories of 10 years ago haven't faded, it's often difficult to picture myself in the state I was in. I remember feeling mixed emotions of anger, fear and hopelessness. The misrepresentation of my story in the global news exacerbated my feelings.
However, I am proud to say I have overcome many of those feelings, and, in a way, won the battle the terrorists started. By settling in Israel, raising a family, advancing my career and becoming the person they tried to destroy, I beat the terrorists simply by being alive.
HR: What was your reaction when you heard about the NY Times caption?
TG: The truth is I was not very surprised at all. This was not my first encounter with media bias. I had always been an avid reader, even before my attack, and had come across many instances of blatant bias against Israel.
When hearing about the picture, my initial thoughts went to the soldier. It's much worse to be accused of beating the person you actually helped protect, than to be accused of being a Palestinian when you are in fact a Jew.
HR: Did you try to find the soldier in the picture?
TG: No. First, there were five or six soldiers stationed at the gas station I ran to as I was being pursued by the Arabs. One particular soldier happened to be standing behind me when the picture was taken; however, I owe my gratitude to all the soldiers equally, to the one in the picture, as well as to the less famous ones not photographed -- such as the soldier who ripped off his uniform and tied it around my head to stop the bleeding.
I have also been reluctant to find the soldier from the picture precisely because of the misrepresentation. What do you say to someone who helped save your life, but was portrayed across the globe as a vicious animal?
HR: Your ordeal has inspired groups like HR to fight media bias against Israel. Has coverage of Israel improved in the past ten years?
TG: Media bias against Israel is as strong as ever.
However, public awareness to such bias has increased exponentially, which is the first and most crucial step to stop the actual bias. Organizations like HonestReporting may not be able to force media outlets across the globe to reflect the unbiased truth, but they have been very successful in raising awareness.
| 2019-04-26T04:13:59 |
http://blog.waarnet.nl/2010/09/10-jaar-later-interview-met-jood-die_07.html
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Why is Elizabethan Music Special?
The rich variety of music in the first Elizabethan age is something we can all enjoy today. Renaissance and Elizabethan music came in two categories - sacred and secular. Translate that as religious and fun! There were no conflicts between mods, rockers and skinheads. There were no critics leaping up and condemning the music of the day because it wasn't classical. Serious meant sacred and appropriate to worship, secular meant wine, women and song and much, much dancing.
The truly lovely thing about Elizabethan music is how very timeless it really is! The sacred music is enough to give you a tingle and the secular music is fantastic. For all it brings back the sense of the Past it has a beat, harmony, emotional meaning, ease of participation in a band, and all the things that make a good Eurovision number.
What was a Consort of Viols?
Whereas sacred music tended to be vocal, secular music revolved around the consort which was an grouping of instruments or voices. Madrigals, or part songs, could be performed "glee club" style by singers, or played by consorts of instruments. A consort could be whole, for instance a madrigal might be sung by a consort of voices, or the melody might be played by a consort of viols or recorders. Elizabethan families would often have a set of instruments in varied sizes to play together or when Waits came to perform they might bring their own. A broken consort consisted of instruments from different families much like a precursor to a modern band or orchestra.
A consort of viols means a string group of the 16th to 17th centuries. Viols were slightly different to modern stringed instruments. The bow was held differently and the instruments were often fretted. The bass in the ensemble had no endpin and was supported by the player's legs each side - hence Viola Da Gamba.
David Munrow and the Rackett - What a rackett! From the 1976 series on early music!
I loved David Munrow's series on early music, this a good example of a whole consort of racketts. They are called racketts for a reason!
Music was very important to educated people in the Tudor era. In addition to dissolving monasteries and marriages, hunting and feasting, Henry VII loved music. He played well and composed songs including the famous Pastime with Good Company.
Putting together your broken consort is not too difficult because instruments are generally available that come close to the original specifications of Elizabethan music. Some are prohibitively expensive if original, but can be substituted with modern kit instruments or even common orchestral instruments at a pinch.
John Dowland was one of our most famous composers and wrote an excellent variety of lute music that is played to this day on lute and guitar. He also wrote many songs with lute accompaniment.
Original lute tablature looks strange to modern eyes but it is good to realise that the system existed so long ago. The pros and cons of tablature have been widely debated but the best reason for using it is that it makes altered tunings easier to cope with.
Lute music translates well to classical guitar although it sometimes requires altered tunings. No problem with TAB of course but did you know that the first TABS were from so long ago?
The lute is accessible to skilled guitar players. A set should include a hard case which is essential to protect the instrument and a tutor to help you with the basics.
Recorders - not just for kids!
The bane of the class music teacher used to be 30 kids all squeaking away on recorders trying to outdo each other with devilish squeals and yet the recorder played properly is a lovely thing. Recorders played together in consorts and the sound is really rather lush, like a very mellow organ. Yamaha have produced a set of 4 recorders for the serious practitioner. You could recreate your own recorder consort with instruments like these.
Fifes generally had a military purpose (and still do today) It is also a simple instrument that ordinary people could afford or make themselves. This fife is wooden and close to the wooden fifes of the day.
My introduction to the music of Thomas Tallis came from listening to the gorgeous Fantasia on the Theme by Thomas Tallis composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. (Not heard it? Check it out whenever you can) Tallis wrote sacred music and his harmonies were rich. Best performed by a professional choir or one that specialises in this sort of complex contrapuntal music.
Thomas Tallis was a wonderful composer of sacred music and very much an influence on church music and English composers even today! Anthems and motets by Tallis show sacred vocal music at its best.
Thank you for visiting this page about Elizabethan music. I hope you enjoyed it. If you could play an Elizabethan instrument, what would it be? Mine of course would have to be the Lute!
Is Elizabethan Music News to You? - Or have you always enjoyed the odd madrigal?
You've been looking at a corner of my CD collection - John Dowland is one of my favourite composers.
I wish I could listen to some of these but having issues with videos right now.
The closest I ever came to playing a musical instrument was the Recorder, but I would not mind having a go at the Rackett!
| 2019-04-24T11:51:15 |
https://hubpages.com/entertainment/music-from-shakespeares-time
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Check the following, which might cause the problem.
1. The password is saved only when the Internet connection is normally established. When you turn on the checkbox of "Save Password", be sure to connect your computer to the Internet.
2. The PWL filter might possibly be broken.
Remove the PWL filter or change the extension first and log on to you computer once again.
3. It may be the problem of setting networking.
Reinstall "Client for Microsoft Networks".
1. Right-click the "Network Neighborhood" icon on the desktop and then click "Properties".
2. When the list of the installed network components appears on the "Network" window, select "Client for Microsoft Networks" and click the "Remove" button.
* When you cannot find "Client for Microsoft Networks" on the list, skip the procedure 2 and proceed to the procedure 3.
4. Click "Client" on the window of "Select Network Component Type" and click the "Add" button.
5. When the "Select Network Client" window appears, click "Microsoft" in "Manufacturer" and then click "Client for Microsoft Networks" on "Network Clients".
6. Click the "OK" button in the bottom of the window.
7. The "Network" window appears again. Change the list box of "Primary Network Logon" to "Windows Logon".
8. Click the "OK" button in the bottom of the window.
9. When the dialog box of "System Settings Change" appears, restart the computer as prompted.
| 2019-04-22T12:04:09 |
https://www.sony.com.au/electronics/support/articles/S500010538
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How do you use VCR A or above?
We just started using this a few weeks ago (Book A) and I want to modify our routine so it will be more independent. I am looking for input.
We read through the words for the chapter, the definitions, and the related words in the text boxes. We look up definitions for the words in the text boxes we don't know.
We do the Key Word Activity for that section from the teacher book (He does this independently) and I check answers. Then, we do some of the activities in the teacher book: true/false statements, point to the word when I read a descriptive phrase, etc.
He reviews the words using quizlet.
He does the Activities in the Student book for that section except any sentence writing which we do orally (we do enough writing here that I just can't justify more).
The trouble is, it feels like I am too involved in this. I was hoping when we finished spelling with him that this would be almost fully independent. I feel like I might be missing something??
Note: I believe in the WTM her plan was to spend 30-40 minutes the first day with the teacher and then have the student do independent shorter review sessions the other days. I really don't have this time built into his schedule.We can manage 15 minutes/day but not the long session she is talking about.
This is starting in 8th grade after they've done Wordy Wise the same way for a couple years.
DS does his mostly independently and he’s in gr4. Day 1, he reads the words and lesson w/me. Day 2/3 he makes flash cards with the derivative words. Day 4/5 he does ex a/b in the workbook. Day 6, we review the words together. Day 7/8 he does ex. c and the activity sheet from the teacher’s guide. Day 9, he writes independent sentences using the words, and day 10 he tests. We haven’t needed to do all of the TM activities and he typically aces his Vocab tests. Vocab takes, maaaaybe 15 min/day.
Thank you for taking the time to type that out!
My son did book 6 mostly independently; then we got to book A! Ai Yi Yi! It was a huge jump in difficulty.
I'm actually giving it up for now. We are going to focus on the vocabulary we learn in Latin instead.
You think so? It's basically the same format with a few extra words. I did start making DD focus more on the parts of speech for each word/definition when she was using book A. DS is pretty good at figuring that out from context but DD needed to explicitly pay attention to how the words were being used in exemplar sentences to make the right choices for each exercise. The lessons are deceptively brief though which is why we spread them over two weeks.
| 2019-04-25T07:47:00 |
https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/670342-making-vocabulary-from-classical-roots-more-independent/
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The pipe that connects to my bathroom sink drain has come undone. The drain also came loose in the sink, which I repaired with plumber's putty (yeah!).
I noticed that under the other sink the pipe that comes out of the wall turns about 30 degrees, whereas the pipes to the broken sink are straight. I'm not sure how this happened (no one will confess). Could this be why the pipe won't stay compressed against the drain? All of the fittings seem to fit tight.
A plumber told me I need a longer pipe (I'm assuming that means the straight one that comes down from the drain). I noticed that the small straight pipe can be lengthened, but I was unable to make it stay tight against the drain opening. I'm assuming I need to loosen the connectors and turn the larger black pipes to a 30 degree angle like the others. All of the washers seem to be in good condition. As you can tell, I'm plumbing illiterate but don't want to pay a plumber for something that I'm guessing could be easily fixed. Any help is appreciated!
Because drain fittings use somewhat flexible washers... either rubber or plastic... to seal the joints, there is some allowance for "crookedness" in the connections. However, there is a point where seepage will occur so it may be wise to try to straighten them as much as possible.
In my experience, one of the biggest mistakes made by do-it-yourselfers when cutting drain pipe under sinks is either cutting the pipes too long or cutting them too short. Overly long pipes will force the trap assembly out of alignment and put unnecessary stress on all connections.
Cutting the pipes too short can be a silent killer... even though the connection seems water tight, over time leaks can start. A good knock with a bottle of mouthwash can cause a too-short tailpiece (the vertical pipe beneath the strainer) to dislodge from the trap, leading to a disastrous leak! A good rule of thumb is to cut the pipe so that at least an inch of pipe extends beyond the connection's washer. You'll get plenty of strength with no binding.
You didn't say whether or not you are trying to work with old or new parts. My suggestion is that IF you are trying to stop a leak it is usually better to purchase new parts once you get the assembly apart than to reuse the old ones. The only exception would be if the drain assembly is fairly new and corrosion-free.
There are some special-situation plastic drainpipes that are designed to "flex" so you have a little more wiggle room if the original plumbing is out of whack! One of these might help you get things back into "whack"!
As a final suggestion, when assembling a sink drain, always keep all connections threaded but loosely fit until you have all parts properly aligned. Then begin to tighten them. A small amount of plumber's grease on the threads only will make tightening a little more effortless and more effective.
| 2019-04-19T20:44:40 |
https://www.naturalhandyman.com/qa/qasinktrap.html
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I have uninstalled all internet security packages which were Norton Internet security, from both machines. Nächstes Video CMD NET VIEW FIX ERROR 6118 MAC/WINDOWS - Dauer: 9:25 Grojwu 8.155 Aufrufe 9:25 How to know who's connected on my wifi connection error 6118 - Dauer: 7:05 Don't I can however access the internet form both PCs no problem! No PSAs unless relevant to an issue (it must be a comment).
Melde dich bei YouTube an, damit dein Feedback gezählt wird. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available" it should be noted that ALL shared folders on the server are accesable from all other pcs! the only thing You can change this preference below. Edit: Also File and Printer Sharing permalinkembedsaveparentgive gold[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago(14 children)Yes, all that is started and all those network things are all there.
I have 16 gigs or RAM and windows has automatically given me a 24 gig pagefile. When I open Command Line and type in "net view", this error comes up. Trending Now Michigan football Matt Damon Mila Kunis Lin-Manuel Miranda Lake Bell Life Insurance Quote Sean Lennon iPhone 6 Psoriatic Arthritis Symptoms Access Hollywood Answers Relevance Rating Newest Oldest Best Answer: Anmelden 66 16 Dieses Video gefällt dir nicht?
Some VPN software contains a "hidden" firewall component. Example make the ip of the computer 192.168.1.50 and use the same gateway and DNS as the others PC on the network The likely cause of this problem is that there I use a windows home server to store all my files. I ran v1 untill a month ago when I changed to whs 2011. there are a couple of win 8 Look for any network related errors as well.
Wird verarbeitet... Also, once Net View command is rectified, how to Shut down PC remotely with CMD.Guys for those of you who have experienced some problems:Please ensure that you have full access to That turned out to be my solution to the "system error 6118..." issue. Here's an example of my hosts file.
Thanks, Nick. The server should certainly be the master browser at that point... If not, well, there's something wrong with the server. share|improve this answer edited Dec 4 '12 at 7:48 answered Dec 3 '12 at 3:28 ray_linn 1,145613 Firewall and my antivirus are off/disabled. Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Both are Windows 7. Sprache: Deutsch Herkunft der Inhalte: Deutschland Eingeschränkter Modus: Aus Verlauf Hilfe Wird geladen... We cannot assist with password issues. No WEP, WPA or WPA2 .
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http://www.forumole.com/Virginia/error-6118-the.html
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What advantages do percutaneous catheter electrodes and surgical plate/paddle electrodes offer?
Patient preference: Patients who are satisfied with the result of the screening trial with the percutaneous catheter electrode might choose it for the permanent implant.
Patient body size: During implantation in children who have yet to reach their full stature, provisions for growth should be considered. In obese patients, percutaneous catheter electrode placement using specially-designed Tuohy needles might be advantageous.
Clinician factors: Sometimes the choice of electrode follows the choice of technique. A surgeon, for example, might place a surgical plate/paddle electrode if this is perceived to be the best option. An anesthesiologist or physiatrist, on the other hand, would be expected to employ the percutaneous technique.
Pain/paresthesia mapping: A percutaneous electrode offers relatively easy access to multiple spinal levels and, thus, facilitates paresthesia mapping. A surgical plate/paddle electrode, however, might be required for screening if a percutaneous catheter electrode cannot access the epidural space satisfactorily, for example, in a patient who has undergone a previous laminectomy or posterior fusion at the level of insertion.
Fracture: There is no inherent difference in the fracture rate for these electrodes.
Migration: Longitudinal or lateral migration of an electrode (either a single electrode or one of a pair) can reduce or eliminate pain/paresthesia overlap. Due to its shape, a surgical plate/paddle electrode resists migration once it is encapsulated in fibrous tissue, and, if it has multiple columns of contacts, these are fixed in position with respect to one another. A percutaneous catheter electrode, on the other hand, retains a greater potential to migrate, even after encapsulation. To the extent that migration of percutaneous catheter electrodes can be avoided with the new anchoring techniques referenced herein, this issue is mitigated.
Insertion/removal: Placement of a surgical plate/paddle electrode requires a laminectomy or laminotomy; its removal requires laminotomy. Insertion/removal of the percutaneous catheter electrode does not require laminectomy or laminotomy. Thus, the pain associated with insertion of a plate/paddle electrode might be greater than that experienced after insertion of a percutaneous catheter electrode.
Electrode revision: The scarring that occurs after electrode implantation is greater for surgical plate/paddle electrodes than for percutaneous catheter electrodes; this can present a greater problem if the electrode requires revision.
Power requirement: A surgical plate/paddle electrode requires less power than a percutaneous electrode with the same contact areas and spacing; therefore, use of a surgical plate/paddle electrode increases the time before surgical battery replacement or recharging is required.
One RCT and one case series found that, in the treatment of low back and leg pain, compared with use of percutaneous catheter electrodes at the same spinal level, the use of an insulated surgical plate/paddle electrode improves pain/paresthesia coverage, pain relief, and clinical outcome. Many case series have reported successful treatment of low back and leg pain with both electrode designs.
Nonrandomized controlled trials concluded that in patients with axial low back pain, an electrode with a single column of contacts placed on the midline affords coverage superior to that provided by a dual column of contacts [created with (1) percutaneous catheter electrodes implanted in parallel or (2) a single surgical plate/paddle electrode]. Clinical outcomes, however, were assessed only for the dual column configurations, and they were comparable to those reported in the SCS literature in general. Many large case series report good outcomes with dual column electrodes.
Modeling studies indicate that use of a transverse tripole electrode with three columns that allow lateral anodes to bracket a central cathode and, thus, reduce segmental side effects might be advantageous. Limited clinical outcome studies have been reported for this configuration.
Yearwood TL. Tripolar neurostimulator array in the cervical epidural space for the treatment of bilateral lower extremity pain [abstract]. Neuromodulation 9(1):18-19, 2006.
Tanabe Y, Kimura N, Kida N, Nakao A, Miyazawa K, Iseki M, Miyazaki T. A case of intractable lower limb pain treated successfully by spinal cord stimulation with an electrode inserted retrogradely [Japanese]. Masui 55(6):732-734, 2006.
Struijk JJ, Holsheimer J, Spincemaille GHJ, Gielen FLH, Hoekema R. Theoretical performance and clinical evaluation of transverse tripolar spinal cord stimulation. EEE Trans Rehabil Eng 6(3):277-285, 1998.
Sisson CB, Turner DM. Novel stimulation construct for a patient with intractable pelvic pain: a case report [abstract]. Neuromodulation 9(1):18, 2006.
North RB, Kidd DH, Olin J, Sieracki JN. Spinal cord stimulation electrode design: prospective, controlled trial comparing percutaneous and laminectomy electrodes—Part I: Technical Outcomes. Neurosurgery 51(2):381-390, 2002.
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https://www.neuromodfound.org/treatment_of_chronic_neuropathic_pain/implanted_devices/choosing_implanted_electrodes/
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At issue in NYC is whether polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, can be effectively recycled in a way that doesn't cost too much.
New York City could soon become the biggest U.S. metropolis to outlaw Styrofoam food and beverage containers.
Currently, most Styrofoam products used in the city end up in landfills.
At issue now is whether polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, can be effectively recycled in a way that doesn't cost too much.
New York passed a law last year restricting the sale and use of cups, food containers and packing materials made out of polystyrene. It will apply to restaurants, coffee shops, food carts and various other establishments.
But the ban was put on hold to first give manufacturers and the city time to see if they can come up with a way to recycle the material.
If the city deems polystyrene recyclable, it will begin processing it at a recycling facility in Brooklyn.
If it decides it cannot be recycled, the ban is expected to go into effect in July.
A ban would put New York City in the same league as San Francisco, Seattle, San Jose and Portland, all of which have restrictions on Styrofoam containers.
Dart Container, one of the leading makers of foam cups, counters that polystyrene can be recycled in an economically feasible and environmentally effective way.
Dart has proposed a plan that would guarantee that all of New York's foam products will be recycled for the next five years -- at no cost to city, according to a statement from Michael Westerfield, the company's director of recycling.
Westerfield added that businesses stand to gain "millions in revenue" by recycling polystyrene.
Related: How green is your state?
However, critics disagree that recycling is a good option.
A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that there is no safe and cost-effective way to recycle polystyrene and that a ban is the only option.
In 2013, San Jose, California, found that polystyrene cannot be recycled because of its low market value and the risk of food contamination.
In pointing out the possibility of the upcoming ban, a recent Goldman Sachs (GS) report said it would be good news for Berry Plastics Group (BERY), which makes cups out of a material similar to polystyrene that is recyclable.
Dunkin' Donuts, the coffee and donut chain with many locations in the city, will likely be a big buyer of Berry's Versalite hot and cold cups, the report says.
Goldman estimates that Versalite could generate an additional $10 million in revenue next year for Berry Plastics.
The investment bank said its sources suggest that New York is likely to ban the use of foam containers sometime over the next 12 months.
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https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/27/news/economy/new-york-styrofoam-ban-2015/index.html
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There's a not-so-dirty little secret about NVIDIA's upcoming Tegra 3 platform (which will soon find a home in plenty of mobile devices): the quad-core processor contained within has a fifth core for less intensive tasks.
In a paper published by NVIDIA, they provided in-depth details about their Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP). Simply put, vSMP implemented in Kal-El not only optimizes CPU multi-threading and multi-tasking for max performance and power efficency at a moments notice, but it offloads background tasks and less intensive CPU activities, such as background syncing/updating, music playback, video playback to the fifth core, which runs at a considerably slower 500 MHz, and therefore consumes considerably less power. Bottom line: battery life!
power gating) based on the work load. The "Companion" core is OS transparent, unlike current Asynchronous SMP architectures, meaning the OS and applications are not aware of this core, but automatically take advantage of it. This strategy saves significant software efforts and new coding requirements.
The Tegra 3 logic controller also has the power to dynamically enable and disable cores depending on the workload at any given time, making sure not to waste any power from unused cores. So what's the quantitative payoff?
NVIDIA ran Coremark benchmark using the Tegra 3 and pitted it against against current industry chipsets, such as the TI OMAP4 and the Qualcomm 8x60 (take these with a grain of salt, obviously). They found that when handling the same workload, Tegra 3 consumed 2-3x less power than the competition. When running max performance tests, the Tegra 3 was twice as fast while still using less power.
Compared to the Tegra 2 chipset, the Tegra 3 CPU uses 61% less power while video playback is happening, and 34% less power during gaming activities. While most of the work is done by the GPUs in mobile devices, previous chipsets lacked the ability to ramp down the energy output of unused cores like Tegra 3 is purportedly able to do.
What I'm trying to say is that you should be excited for this mobile quad-core processor to arrive and not scared for your battery life.
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https://gizmodo.com/inside-nvidias-tegra-3-cpu-and-its-secret-fifth-core-5842171?tag=tegra3
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