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Rate each voting machine on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the best and 10 is the least liked.
For the voting machine that you liked the best, what is the main reason for your selection?
For the voting machine that you liked the least, what is the main reason for this selection?
| 2019-04-21T16:31:44 |
https://co.westmoreland.pa.us/FormCenter/Elections-7/Voting-Machines-Demo-Survey-Concluding-116
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The performance requirements for running EMC are relatively modest, by todays standards.
Currently an x86 PC is required.
To allow for both EMC and its host Ubuntu Linux installation to coexist comfortably, you should have at least 256MB of RAM, though 512MB is preferable. [The remainder of this paragraph is current as of late-May 2008] All RTAI versions prior to the not-yet-released vulcano CVS version misbehave in physical memory configurations larger than 1GB. Consequently, the kernel on the Ubuntu 6.06-based Live-CD available through www.linuxcnc.org was configured intentionally to recognize only the first 1GB of RAM (of which 896MB is available). This large-memory problem should go away Real Soon Now when a new version of RTAI is released and integrated into the EMC distribution. The kernel on the Ubuntu 8.04-based Live-CD has been configured to recognize more than 1GB of RAM in anticipation of this new version of RTAI which then wasn't released in time, so proceed with caution.
128MB of RAM is not enough to run the suggested Ubuntu distribution. However, a user in Brazil recently (2008) reported installing emc2 on a computer with 32MB of RAM by using a stripped down Debian distribution. The older frontends such as mini or keystick require much less memory and processing power than the Axis frontend.
256MB is adequate for the Ubuntu 6.06-based Live-CD to boot and run in Live mode. According to the notes for the new Ubuntu 8.04-based Live-CD, at least 384MB RAM is needed to boot in Live mode if no swap partition is accessible. If a swap partition is accessible, less physical memory is needed (case in point, the new Live-CD booted and ran fine on a machine with 256MB of RAM and an existing 400MB swap partition).
The processor should be at least a later Pentium II or III, 400MHz or higher. Slower computers will work, but performance will suffer with stepper motors or high speed servos. Current AMD processors like Athlon and Sempron work. Faster or newer processors will not necessarily work better, and may in fact perform worse. It is possible to install the 32 bit Ubuntu on an Athlon64 and EMC2 will run properly. It will not run using the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.
Laptops have a terrible reputation for realtime performance. One list member reported having a PII laptop that would cause a realtime "hiccup" (which would stall the steppers) every time the processor's fan would turn on or off. There was no fix except using a different machine. Fortunately EMC2 will now let you know when it detects a problem like this.
Many onboard video chips cause bad realtime performance. The ones that use some of the system RAM for video ("shared memory") are the worst. If you have realtime problems with a system using onboard video, the first thing to do is disable it and plug in a video card. The closed-source NVidia driver is known to break realtime, so if you have an NVidia card you should try the "nv" or "vesa" drivers.
By installing the package 'libgl1-mesa-swx11' you can get software OpenGL? rendering even if your video card has buggy direct rendering. For more information, [see this mailing list post].
For running a realtime OS, you should disable all power management options in the system BIOS.
When booting, press "e" (for edit) while the 'Magma" line is selected. The screen will change.
Use the down arrow to select the second line, and press "e" again.
The cursor should be at the end of the line. Hit space, and type in nosound then press enter.
Results from a survey of realtime latency tests are available at - we are interested in the "tUP max latency" column; the smaller the number, the better. There are only 350 entries in the database so far, and many are lacking in details as far as exactly what model of motherboard, processor, bios version etc, were used. Please submit an entry to the survey by downloading and running the cd image on issaris.org !
Optiplex2 and pentium 3 are high on the list.. Probably more interesting than what models give the best performance is what models give the worst performance; the difference between a system that works well and something that works OK is miniscule compared to the latency of a system that has an actual problem.
The best way to benchmark RT performance is to [run the RT latency test provided with the RT kernel.] While it is running, try to stress the system - move windows around, do a ping flood, copy some huge files around, play quake, and compile a kernel, all at the same time. A compilation of results from this test has been started at .
Which motherboard/cpu combinations are recommended for EMC2? Which motherboard/cpu combinations are _not_ recommended for EMC2?
I asked an engineer at Jetway how long they would be making this board and he indicated about 5 more years. They do have a version without the tv interface but they seem to be really scarce.
The parport is a 26 pin header behind the plugs so I was able to modify the NEMA box with a small cutout for mouse, kbd, and display connectors without fighting the parallel port cable. Went to a local used computer store and found a few dozen cables with the right ends.
| 2019-04-19T17:20:13 |
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=browse&id=Hardware_Requirements&revision=30
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How important is being in a similar "pricing range" as your competitors in a SaaS business?
My website is in the SaaS field; so I feel that price is more important to customers than in other industries, especially since through my survey responses everyone has been saying to lower my pricing.
Jon Manning's answer is spot on.
I will add that you have not done a good job of picking your customers. Instead, it sounds like you're trying to attract generic, undifferentiated customers. Pick a clearly defined subset of customers who most value what your SaaS product delivers and then hit them with that specific message.
For instance, your customer is never "every company between 50-500 employees in Industry X". It's companies in Industry X that highly value powerful, easy sales reporting OR maybe companies who value that the schedule notifies every employee of their activities via their smartphone.
When a customer thinks "these software guys really understand us", you're no longer competing solely on price. They may gripe about price, but they will buy if the value is clearly there.
From experience, I can tell you that customers will always say that prices are too high and you need to lower it. They will not be doing their job if they don't. So take the survey voices with a grain of salt.
One of the first things you need to do is determine who are you competing against. Next determine what attributes you offer that they don't and are important to your customer. Maybe you offer 24 x 7 support and your competitor does not. And maybe your customer values this. If so, determine how much is this feature worth to them. That should give you a good idea for price.
Perhaps the most important part is to then go and show the customers this analysis. Make them aware of the value you have created. Show them how their product or service is better because of you.
If you have a strong VALUE PROPOSITION, and your product is distinctly different from competitors, then clearly define and highlight your value; benefits of service and your UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION. Strong marketing copy and a brand strategy is essential to that end.
Simultaneously, as mentioned by Jason, target customers who want the value you provide in exchange for meeting the need they have. If you have a truly phenomenal product, positioning is the cure. Otherwise, split your market by offering a modified version of your tool to your secondary target audience, which is priced within the range of competitors, then upsell full or advanced versions of your product to your primary target audience.
If your product closely matches your competitor's product, you might price match or offer a discount within competitor’s price range, but only offer a discount for a limited time. When you have enough customers (by way of revenue) who use your tool and want the value provided, you might grandfather in “inaugural customers” as a thank you and charge new customers the price you can confirm via analytics.
In the end, your final price may be higher than what the survey SAYS, but lower than what you FEEL it should be. One way to be sure is to do a fee analysis. The difference in price is usually between cost and profit. Founders who give up some profit in the short-term do so for long-term gain.
I would recommend you look into blue ocean strategy.
In my experience and industry, it helps to be in the ballpark as the competitors but not the same. If you are much higher, you better have a great story and message. If you can't differentiate your product for the price sensitive buyers then it is hard to stay in the running. Pricing is a hard topic and you might have to experiment a bit.
| 2019-04-19T06:56:50 |
https://clarity.fm/questions/3418/how-important-is-being-in-a-similar-pricing-range-as-your-competitors-in-a-saas
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I used to work on the telephone system at a university, and the university had about 6000 telephones on campus. How much do you think it would cost for each one of those phones to have a direct connection back to the local CO? In those days (the early 90s), a business line had a recurring monthly charge of approximately $40. That comes out to $240,000 every month for local phone service for those 6000 phones! There must be a more economical approach.
One such approach was for the university to have its own phone switch. That's right. A private entity such as a business or university can have its internal phones connect to its own phone switch instead of the local CO. That private phone switch then connects to the local CO over a series of trunks (analog and/or digital, which are discussed Chapter 3, "Paving the Pathway to a Voice over IP Network"). The good news is that 6000 trunk connections back to the local CO were not required because statistically speaking, all 6000 phones would never be in use at exactly the same time. In fact, based on traffic studies (a topic covered in Chapter 2, "Making Waves: Turning Your Voice into Zeros and Ones"), we needed approximately 210 trunk lines (that is, voice paths) interconnecting the university's phone switch with the local CO, as illustrated in Figure 1-3.
Admittedly, there are other costs associated with having a private phone switch. For example, we had to pay a maintenance contract to have a technician onsite, and we had to purchase the phone switch itself (which was approximately $3 million back in the late 1980s). However, when considering the vast discrepancy in recurring monthly phone line charges, the economies of scale are clear. Assuming each of those 210 trunk lines costs $40 per month, the total monthly "phone bill" would be $8400. When compared with an earlier calculation of $240,000 per month, that's a savings of $156,000 per month!
Large businesses typically select private branch exchanges (PBXs) to act as their privately owned phone switches. PBXs are available in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and typically support 20 to 20,000 phones. Most PBXs are "feature-rich," offering voice mail, music-on-hold, call transfer capabilities, and many other features. However, the relatively large initial cost of a PBX might not give a smaller business a satisfactory return on investment (ROI). The alternative for a smaller business is an entry-level phone switch called a key system, as described in the following section.
| 2019-04-23T12:53:08 |
https://flylib.com/books/en/3.438.1.17/1/
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ince hunting is considered politically incorrect in some circles, and there is a lot of non-hunting information in this website, its likely that many people who are prejudiced against hunting or just undecided may see this. Thus, I feel compelled to include an explanation of my hunting philosophies.
I am a meat hunter and confirmed carnivore. Except for a little pork and chicken, nearly all of my familys meat diet comes from wild game. It is far healthier and nutritious than domestic meat and I would hate to do without it. I am also a trophy hunter, and guess what, so is nearly every hunter I know (or at least they would like to be). Trophy hunting has had a nasty connotation attached to it, conjuring up the idea of a wealthy "sportsman" who wantonly slaughters wildlife, taking only the heads and leaving the rest to rot. I am acquainted with a great many hunters and no one I know fits this description. I am sure that such individuals do exist, there are a few bad apples in every group, but I feel certain that most hunters are outraged by this abuse of our hunting privileges. In fact, it is a misnomer to even call people like that hunters, they are simply killers, pathetically lacking in fundamental character.
To me, trophy hunting means something altogether different. Hunting is more than a casual pastime, it is a passion and a large part of the fabric of who I am. Trophy animals represent the supreme challenge. They have survived many years of predators and brutal winters and their survival skills are fully intact. Taking such an animal, fair chase, is very difficult and nothing to scoff at. To pack into wild and remote country, often alone, stalk and kill an animal with arrow or bullet, pack said animal out and use his meat to feed my family and antlers to decorate my home is something for which I will apologize to no one. Doing so is a source of great fulfillment and offers a connection to the cycle of life as it really works in nature. Those who are critical of this should be sure that their attitude of moral superiority is not compromised by using a hired killer to provide them with leather for shoes and meat for dinner. I handle this sometimes messy and always strenuous chore myself, and am acutely aware of the real cost to all parties involved. I strive to kill what I eat, and eat what I kill.
One more point I would like to clear up is that for myself and virtually all other hunters I know, killing animals is not what it is all about. Yes, that is the final result (although in fact, I come home empty-handed far more often than not and still consider the experience eminently satisfactory), but it is the hunt, not the kill, that drives me. Pulling the trigger is often anticlimactic, and I usually pass on a fair number of animals before deciding that now is the time. Aside from the jeweled sunrises and invigorating exercise in high, thin, pure air, what keeps bringing me back is a slightly altered state I enter when I am really hunting. Theres nothing quite like lurking through the lodgepoles, watching for patches of tan hair, and getting into the flow or the zone or whatever you choose to call it. I call this "becoming a predator", and while anthropomorphism is a murky subject at best, I imagine its what mountain lions and wolves feel a lot of the time. Its a right-brain state where you stop thinking in words and are just "there" with all senses turned up to ten. I can still clearly recall when I first felt this sensation many years ago while descending a ridge in the Bridger Mountains. I havent been quite the same since.
Unfortunately, hunting seems to be one of those polarizing issues where it seems there is no middle ground where opposing viewpoints can meet and agree to disagree. That is regrettable, and in most cases the opposing viewpoints probably share more common ground than they realize. I know that I love wild country and the wildlife that inhabit it, and my experiences in pursuit of big game have enriched my life immeasurably. Since you are reading this, I suspect chances are good that you have similar tastes, and lets not let the fact that I occasionally kill and eat those animals drive a wedge between us.
| 2019-04-18T18:54:48 |
http://cowboyhvn.com/philosop.htm
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Is gerrymandering on its way out in Ohio? It's possible, in the wake of votes last week by the state Senate and House that could, for the first time, lead to a requirement for bipartisan input and approval for federal congressional maps.
In a fairly stunning act of cooperation on the most partisan of issues, the state Senate voted 31-0 last Monday, Feb. 5, and the House voted 82-10 the following day to place on the May ballot a constitutional amendment that could reduce the practice of manipulating congressional district boundaries — often to absurd lengths — for political gain.
That kind of bipartisan support almost never occurs these days on anything of importance, so the votes were telling indications that gerrymandering has emerged as a real threat to confidence in the democratic process in Ohio. Some of the credit here goes to a coalition called Fair District = Fair Elections, which was pushing its own proposal and put pressure on Democrats and Republicans to come up with a solution. Uncertainty about which party will control the governor's office in 2021, when districts are redrawn, also played a role.
Daniel Tokaji, a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, told The Columbus Dispatch, "I can't think of anywhere where we've had a situation like we've had here for the past couple of years. People in Ohio's state legislature recognize there's a serious problem."
At present in Ohio, as in most states, the state Legislature has almost complete power to draw congressional districts, which means the party in power — the Republican Party here — has a huge advantage (and incentive) to make a map favorable to its electoral prospects.
The proposal facing voters in May would require three-fifths support of the Legislature to pass a map for use over 10 years, and that three-fifths must include 50% of members of the minority party. It also would establish a maximum number of counties that can be split by congressional districts.
It's not a perfect solution, in large part because it still involves politicians — and not, say, a separate bipartisan or nonpartisan group — slicing up the way voters are represented. But it's an important first step to reducing the advantages of incumbency and introducing more balance to the drawing of Ohio's political map.
| 2019-04-21T22:33:20 |
https://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180211/voices01/151511/crains-editorial-road-map
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The Chicago Tribune ran a blurb on a new book, Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Happy, Healthy Life.
Wouldn't the world be a better place if every person had these ten qualities? I can use this list to focus on what traits I am encouraging and rewarding in my middle school students.
I'm glad he wrote the book, but wouldn't it be great if we didn't need it? It seems childrearing used to be intuitive, but now requires explicit instructions to avoid raising a menace to society.
1. Learning to empathize begins in infancy. Suggest helping him/her tunes into others' feelings by making your feelings clear, in facial expression and voice.
2. Your child will learn ethics from how you treat him/her, not by what you say.
Today, a student asked me if invertebrates sleep. This is the type of question that reminds me how much I enjoy teaching and learning. I have sat through many university lectures, read hundreds of pages of science texts, and taken volumes of notes, but every so often a child makes me look at things from a fresh perspective. I know a lot about invertebrates, but never once wondered if they sleep.
I have gone through hundreds of post-its in my career, many with questions scribbled in a childish hand and then stuck to my computer screen for later investigation. After almost ten years of teaching, I am always impressed by the fresh questions they think to ask. I've learned some interesting things through investigating those post-its.
As you imagine, sometimes we cannot find an answer. In such a case, my favorite resource is the UCSB ScienceLine where "research scientists from UC Santa Barbara answer science questions from teachers and students in K-12 schools."
1. If a person in a machine travelling faster than the speed of sound cannot hear the noise of a sonic boom, what might a person "see" or not see if they could (hypothetically) pass the "light speed" barrier? What would we, on the ground, see?
2. We've learned that all arthropods have a tough outer covering called an exoskeleton. However, we have also learned that some arthropods, such as "honey-pot" ants and ticks actually expand as they collect honey or blood in their body. Is the exoskeleton able to expand? Do these organisms have a different type of exoskeleton that other arthropods?
I've got to admit, I really enjoy reading Dennis Fermoyle's blog, From the Trenches of Public Ed.. I find myself nodding in agreement to much of what he writes about. In one post, he pulls an except from his own book.
I attended a workshop in which the presenter, a teacher-turned- college-professor, told the story of a sixth grade girl with whom he had worked. The girl had refused to do a required assignment. The presenter said he tried everything he could to encourage her, but she wouldn't do it. Finally, he asked her why she wouldn't just give it a try. She told him, "Because if I try, it won't be very good,and I'll be a failure; but if I don't try, then you're the failure."
I think is is important to stress Fermoyle's first line, "I think it's reasonable to say that when teachers are making a real effort to engage their students, the responsibility for trying to learn should lie with the students." I agree that teachers have a responsibility to engage and inspire learners. I am in no way excusing bad teaching. But I recognize that, even when good teachers are trying their best, they all too often can relate to the selection above.
Why is it that good teachers beat themselves up over their student's shortcomings? Students spend roughly 45 minutes a day with a single teacher, which is a little over 3% of their entire day. In fact, kids only spend 6.5 hours (or 27%) of their day in school, and 73% at home. So why are individual teachers expected to be so responsible for students' academic motivation, social health, emotional well-being and character development?
I talk to my students about responsibility for their actions. In response to "Who is ultimately responsible for your own learning?" most will respond, "I am." However, do they really believe that? If they don't turn in an assignment, I am expected to keep track, make a list, recopy the sheets, and schedule a time for them to redo a lab or use the supplies. If they don't pay attention in class, I am expected to stay after school to re-teach the concepts missed. If a student misbehaves, I need to have them serve a detention with me after school. If they receive a failing grade, I am the one who has to go to the principal to explain myself to the administration and to the parent. What message does this send to the student? I agree with the sixth grader above. The message is: if students do not try, then it is the teacher who is labeled the failure and is responsible for fixing the situation.
I love my job, and I work far beyond my 6.5 "contract hours" per day. However, I want to give my time to creating engaging lessons, making meaningful assessments, giving thoughtful feedback, and helping those students who make an effort, but truly struggle. Most afternoons, I give my time to various extracurricular activities to help develop the "whole child." Every hour I spend on a single student, is an hour taken away from the other 99% of my team. I know that is all part of the deal of teaching, but less than 5% of my students take up over 90% of my efforts. I do believe all students can learn, and I want to make a difference, but I am struggling with finding the time to make it happen.
I'm saddened that report cards are no longer considered feedback on student progress. They have become some sort of permanent record of monumental importance, that teachers must remain in virtually constant contact with parents, as to carefully craft the single letter that will remain etched in ink. It is no longer enough to send a progress report every six weeks. Teachers are expected to immediately contact the parent with any drop in percentage and initiate interventions to reverse low performance, in the form of behavior contracts, modified assignments, alternate assessments, and additional help. I am to happy to oblige, but it all of this takes time away from meaningful pedagogical contributions to the rest of the class. As I watch some of my apathetic students, I wonder - what happened to the students' role in all of this?
I've heard this from veteran teachers. They talk about the frustration of "competing" with students' multimedia outside world.
Life for today’s kids may be a lot of things—including stressful—but it’s certainly not unengaging.
In fact, kids often seem over-engaged. The only time they get to relax is in school, and many kids take this mental vacation to new heights during school hours.
Yesterday’s education for tomorrow’s kids. Where is the programming, the genomics, the bioethics, the nanotech—the stuff of their time? It’s not there. Not even once a week on Fridays.
That’s one more reason the kids are so enraged—they know their stuff is missing!
I might argue against that. Do they really know that their stuff is missing? Or do they only know they want something different?
The fact is that even if you are the most engaging old-style teacher in the world, you are not going to capture most of our students’ attention the old way. “Their short attention spans,” as one professor put it, “are [only] for the old ways of learning.” They certainly don’t have short attention spans for their games, movies, music, or Internet surfing. More and more, they just don’t tolerate the old ways—and they are enraged we are not doing better by them.
Whew. It's tough just to pick out a few parts of that article to comment on. It is rather enraging. I frequently remind students that I am not "a paid entertainer" and part of the responsibility to make things interesting rests on their shoulders. I don't think it is acceptable for students to sit back and to send the message, "Engage me or Enrage me."
However, I do see some valid points to the article. The world IS changing, and education should be forced to change with it. However, as with any innovation, there needs to be time, money and support.
I use various technologies in my classroom. I have been using digital video, internet simulations and powerpoint lessons for years. I am currently looking into implementing blogs, wikis, and Flash into my curriculum. However, I struggle with the time. From the moment I wake up at 4 am, until I leave school at 6 pm or later, I am racing around. I can only imagine what I might be able to come up with given an uninterrupted chunk of time with similarly-minded professionals. We have a lot of good ideas inside of us, but not the time to flush them out.
Money is also an issue. Teachers need experts to train them. However, what would be the motivation for a technology expert to accept a position in a school district for $50,000 a year, when they can make that much in 6 or 7 weeks in a lucrative tech field? From limited personal experience, this is a growing problem, as science and technology trained professionals leave teaching to pursue more appropriate compensation for their talents. Schools also need money to upgrade their equipment. Prensky demands "some damned good curricular gameplay." We need the equipment and network to support it. To implement technology to the extent to which Prensky refers, we need more that a few computer carts for schools 500+ kids. And, as the technology gets more interactive, the strain on the limited systems will become more pronounced.
And, most importantly, there needs to be support. Prensky asks, "Where is the programming, the genomics, the bioethics, the nanotech—the stuff of their time? " It's out there, but teachers can't yet grasp it. When a technology start-up encounters an area of non-expertise, what do they do? They secure additional funding and hire a consultant. However, across the country, school district budgets are being slashed. Just as a start-up would not ask a non-expert to waste their time muddling through a problem they cannot solve, teachers should not be held responsible for being unable to integrate such technology into the current curriculum. Provide us with the expertise, the training and the time to learn, and I am sure we would see more invigorating results.
Prensky, while initially raising the hairs on the back of my neck, makes some very valid points. Education does have to change. But in order to do so, the current time and funding structures will have to change as well. An African proverb says, "It takes a village to raise a child." Well, it's going to take a whole lot more than just teachers to change education. But with the necessary resources, we are up for the challenge!
| 2019-04-26T15:44:24 |
http://blog.mytko.org/2007/
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As the entertainment steadily shifts more towards streaming output, advertisers and corporations have been forced to alter their strategies for reaching the broadest range of consumers. But even the most surefire tactics, such as pumping commercials out to O.G. streaming giant YouTube, aren't immune to disasters, and a bunch of huge companies like Walmart and PepsiCo have pulled all advertising from the service after it was revealed their ads were being paired with racist and unsavory videos. Why they gotta make Walmart's smiley face all sad?
In what is shaping out to be one of the biggest advertising boycotts in some time, Friday saw Walmart, Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Dish Network all announced they'd axed all YouTube and Google ties (minus targeted search ads), while Starbucks and General Motors reported they'd pulled YouTube commercials. FX Networks also announced it was yanking everything from YouTube and Google. A day previous, YouTube lost commercials from Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, Volkswagen, Verizon and Enterprise. And it all began not long before on the other side of the pond, when the BBC, the Guardian and the British Cabinet Office all pulled ads from YouTube and Google. What's the deal?
This expanding boycott came around a week after reps from Google and YouTube apologized for having paired such high-market ads with offensive content. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the ads were still appearing on these videos as of Thursday night. I won't get too much into what was in the clips, but they were derogatory in nature to the Jewish population, the black population, former FLOTUS Michelle Obama and many others. Nobody at FX is particularly interested in promoting Season 3 of Fargo to anyone watching 15-minute manifestos of prejudice.
Both Google and YouTube have pledged to strengthen their ad-pairing methods and technologies, but one has to wonder if there's any guarantee of success that doesn't involve someone making the decision to just ban all of the racism-embracing videos altogether. This boycott is an extension of the wave of advertising-yanking that occurred when companies found their ads appearing on "fake news" websites and the like. I dare not guess what the outcome could be, but I'm betting it involves Google and YouTube losing a lot of money in the coming days.
As you might imagine, all the aforementioned companies aren't the only ones whose commercials have been lined up with hate speech. At this time, Toyota and Microsoft are reportedly keeping a close eye on things, while Proctor and Gamble says its team is communicating with Google about the situation. Geico and Amazon, meanwhile, declined to make any comments about their tactics.
So if you happen to be watching YouTube videos or searching Google over the next few days and you notice something a bit off with the commercials and ads, that's why. Also, why would you notice that a Coca Cola commercial isn't playing? Do you always notice when Coca Cola commercials aren't playing? This isn't a Coca Cola commercial. (Drink Coca Cola.) Kidding. What I am not kidding about is how important it is to keep track of your primetime viewing over the coming months. All you need for that is our handy midseason premiere guide and our summer TV schedule.
| 2019-04-19T04:38:32 |
https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1639909/lots-of-major-companies-are-pulling-commercials-from-youtube-heres-what-happened
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Compilers for high level languages generate code that follow certain conventions. These conventions are necessary, in part, for separate compilation to work. One such convention is the "calling convention". The calling convention is a set of assumptions made by the compiler about where function arguments will be found on entry to a function. A calling convention also specifies where the return value for a function is found. Some programs may not know at the time of compilation what arguments are to be passed to a function. For instance, an interpreter may be told at run-time about the number and types of arguments used to call a given function. `Libffi' can be used in such programs to provide a bridge from the interpreter program to compiled code. The `libffi' library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run time. FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one language to call code written in another language. The `libffi' library really only provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully featured foreign function interface. A layer must exist above `libffi' that handles type conversions for values passed between the two languages.
| 2019-04-18T17:16:59 |
http://bullfreeware.com/affichage.php?id=1772
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After you shutdown Windows 8, you may find that about 1 minute later, it will go back to the Windows desktop again. And the computer has not been actually turned off. You can solve this problem according to the following instruction.
1) In the Control Panel, click the "System and Security" (Figure 1-1).
2) It will pop up the "System and Security" window. Click the "Change what the power buttons do" in the "Power Options" (Figure 1-2).
3) In the pop up "System Settings" window, click the "Change settings that are currently unavailable" (Figure 1-3).
4) In the "Shutdown settings", uncheck the "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" check box, and then click the "Save changes" button (Figure 1-4).
After doing the above steps, you can shutdown Windows 8 normally.
| 2019-04-22T19:06:46 |
https://www.ccboot.com/how-to-sovle-windows-8-shutdown-problem.htm
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I am wondering how (if possible) the concentrations of certain drugs in a urine specimen can be used to indicate innocent/unknowing ingestion of a drug. I have an individual that tested positive for codeine (for which they do not have a prescription). The individual alleges that he received a tablet containing codeine without his knowledge. The results of his urinalysis generated 19,000 ng/mL of codeine. Given these results, would it be scientifically possible to justify unknowing/innocent ingestion.
Many panels use 150-300ng/ml metabolites as a minimum base. First you indicate 10,000 and then 19,000. Very substantial amount at 10,000 and 19 is almost 2X above that. 1 tablet won't do that.
| 2019-04-21T12:15:51 |
https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/forensic-science/10-000-ng-ml-843422.html
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Jesus answered (Satan), "It is written …"
Gene Wolfe is a fiction, fantasy and science fiction writer. The kind of books he writes are the kind that you either love and can’t wait to continue the story in his next novel, or it’s a style that has no appeal whatsoever. His books are full of symbolism, suspense, hidden motifs, slight-of-hand plots that mislead the reader. There are themes tucked away under the plot that are deep and meaningful - some of which demonstrate his Christian faith.
"We met other travellers today, four merchants with their servants and pack animals. We were glad to see them; but they, I believe, were even more glad to see us, because they had quarrelled and were eager to air their grievances. I listened as long as I could bear it and longer, reminding myself of the foolish quarrels in which I myself have been involved, often as the instigator.
It is educational, as well as humiliating, to listen to others voicing complaints like our own. They were all thoroughly bad people of the type to which I belong—that is to say, bad people who are pleased to think themselves good."
Let me rephrase that last sentence, "These people, like me, are thoroughly bad people who like to think of themselves as being virtuous and good."
Wolfe might be a science fiction novelist and through his description of this group of people has struck out at all of us. He hits us right between the eyes with a blow that strikes at the core of our being and leads us to ask ourselves, "Are we thoroughly bad people who are happy to think of ourselves as virtuous and good?"
You know, that’s not a bad question to pose as we enter this season of Lent. At the end of Lent is Good Friday and the terrible suffering that Jesus endured on the cross for us. Lent is a time of reflection on how much love that must have taken to endure so much for such undeserving people. Lent is a time of realising the part that each one of us had to play in the torture and death of Jesus.
When the character in the novel said, "They were all thoroughly bad people of the type to which I belong—that is to say, bad people who are pleased to think themselves good" I can’t help but include myself here, and my family and my friends and everyone here in the church, in fact, every person in the world. It’s easy to pretend that we are better and wiser than other people.
we readily point the finger, even in the church, and blame everyone else for some shortcoming.
We are all thoroughly bad people who are happy to think of themselves as good and virtuous.
But how can I say such a thing? You might object saying, "I’m not like that at all. I’m not a thief, a liar, a cheat, a fault finder or a violent person". But as you say this I ask, didn’t Jesus tell a story about a couple of blokes praying in the temple. One of them looked sideways at the guy nearby and prayed, "God, I thank you that I am not greedy, dishonest, and unfaithful in marriage like other people. And I am really glad that I am not like that fellow over there. Besides I go to church every Sunday and do the best I can for other people". Jesus indicates that there is something terribly wrong about this man’s perception about sin and how it affected his relationship with God and concludes by saying that the fellow he was belittling was closer to God than he was.
Herein lies our problem. The first Sunday in Lent has a focus on temptation and when most people think of temptation they think of things like sexual lust, greed, dishonesty, the violence that we see reported on the TV news especially the violence amongst our children and youth. We think of those who easily fall into the temptation of gambling or too much alcohol or are hooked on finding ways to inflict harm on others.
These kinds of sins are easily recognised and we shake our heads in disgust at how low people can go. And it is precisely at this point that Satan puts it into our head that we aren’t as bad as those people and that our little "mistakes" hardly count for anything when compared to the big sins that rule the lives of others. Satan has subtly led us into the sin of "self-righteousness". Gene Wolfe’s character in his novel is worth listening to. "They were all thoroughly bad people of the type to which I belong—that is to say, bad people who are pleased to think themselves good."
We might think of King David at this point and how he spied on his next door neighbour, the beautiful Bathsheba, while she was taking a bath. David knew the Ten Commandments, especially the one about taking another man’s wife. He knew it was wrong to orchestrate another man’s death so that he could steal his wife. David knew God and worshipped him. Many of the spiritual songs of the Old Testament are attributed to David, and yet, in spite of all this even this great man of God fell hook, line and sinker for Satan’s temptation. David fell into the same sin as Adam and Eve and you and me – namely Satan convinces us that wrong is right. He is so good at twisting things around. Didn’t Satan ask Eve, "Did God really say that you can’t eat from this tree? Nothing will happen to you. You certainly won’t die, in fact, you will become like God".
We too are easily convinced that it won’t matter, no one will know about this "little" indiscretion, and besides everyone else is doing it so what’s so wrong. Satan loves to twist things around. Just look at the ways he tempted Jesus. He’s very good at quoting the Scriptures trying to convince Jesus that it won’t matter if he turns stones into food, or jumps off the temple roof or bows down before Satan. God won’t mind, in fact, this is a quick road to being recognised as the Saviour without all the pain and suffering and dying. What Satan was offering was all very logical and good common sense but at the same time he was making wrong appear to be right.
A mighty God-fearing man like King David was tempted. Jesus was tempted. You and I are tempted whether the sin is ‘big’ or ‘little’ it makes no difference. It is sin – going against God's ways and the path we have been called to follow as the people of God.
In fact, sin can be defined in an even wider sense. It isn’t just our actions and words that are sinful; they are just symptoms of a much bigger problem. Sin is at the heart and core of who we are. It is at the centre of our fallen nature that we were born with. It is part of our inheritance that we have received from Adam and Eve through our parents and their parents and so on. Even if it were possible for us to refrain from words and actions and thoughts that were sinful, sin is still at part of our very make-up. From the moment we are conceived we are members of sinful humanity. As much as we might like to think that we are good people, we are "bad people who are pleased to think ourselves good" to use Gene Wolfe’s words.
God's condemnation of sin is clear. He is holy who made us to be holy (that is, to be without sin). He has called us to be his people at our baptism and yet we fail to live up to that calling. He has given us the Holy Spirit to guide us in the choices we make; yet we choose to ignore the Spirit’s guiding. Rather than choosing God's way we choose what is the easiest, the most appealing to our sinful natures and most acceptable to the world around us.
We will be tempted; there is little doubt about that. What matters is how we handle temptation.
First, note how Jesus counteracted Satan’s temptations - with Scripture. He knew his Bible. He had learnt it as a child. He memorised it. When he preached God's Word we are told he spoke as someone who had authority.
When it came to temptation he knew what was the right thing to do because he knew what God’s way was. And the only way we can know God's way is through reading, studying and learning God's way in the Bible and letting the Holy Spirit use those words to guide us in the choices we make. We do ourselves a great disservice by ignoring the treasure God has given us in the pages of the Scriptures. We can avoid so much pain and uncertainty by listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit guiding us through the Scriptures.
Even then, there will be those occasions when we forget whose we are and give in to sin. And this is where reading today from Romans 10 is important. "If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved. For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved" (Rom 10:9-10). There is only one antidote to the poison of sin and that is the grace of Jesus Christ and faith that claims the forgiveness he offers as our own. In the face of some of the most devastating and depressing sins and even those that we trivialise, Jesus’ death and resurrection has made it possible for the wall that sin creates between God and us to be torn down. In Christ we are reconciled to God; we are made friends again and the way to a happy life with God now and forever is opened to us.
The season of Lent is a time when we reflect on and repent of the ways we have so easily followed Satan’s temptations and our sinful desires. We readily acknowledge that we try to dismiss our unkind, unco-operative, uncaring, unfriendly, critical, selfish words and actions as if they don’t matter and what is more try to justify them. We want to be different – to be more christlike in our dealings with others. The season of Lent is also a time to thank God that sin doesn’t have the last say. Jesus has won the victory.
| 2019-04-23T04:21:02 |
http://gerhardy.id.au/Lent1_10.htm
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The foundation is foremost and most important aspect of building a house without that the wall, the roof every part will dooms to rumble. In the same way due to lack of strong foundation a network marketing business cannot attain the height it deserve.
Planning: The most essential element! Proper planning is required in term of what you are going to launch and how? The product line, its acceptability in the market, the route by which it will go through, the compensation plan etc. Website development is core concept of planning, the design should be most suitable for your product line and it should reflect your perceived brand value.
The information on your website should be correct, informative and comprehensive and Planning should be realistic not blurred or something that is hard to achieve. Concentrate on consistency and ways to achieve it.
Recruitment: Your down line is the one who will be responsible to sell your products in the market. Here sharpen your recruitment skills and scout for people who are more enthusiastic and have networking skills that will enhance your down line further and eventually your sale will shoot up.
Most networkers make silly mistakes at this point, they up their joining fees and let the most inefficient and useless people join their bandwagon which eventually dooms their own business. The recruitment process is an important building block of your business which will decide your business prospects.
Training: It is that part which most network marketer forgets. Without proper training sending your down line to market for sale is very similar to sending your forces without any arms & ammunition. What you need to decide the Performa and subject of training require by your down line. Focus on make them understand the brand value, the concept and most important the product thoroughly so they can better market that product. Again training session should be arranged from time to time so new modification can be communicated to them.
Multilevel Marketing Software: Network marketing business cannot run manually. MLM software is required from the beginning whether it is recruitment, management, payout calculation or expansion it is that engine that keep your MLM machine keep going. Invest on good quality MLM software with all the required features that not only help you to establish your business but serve a helping hand in International business expansion.
So… these are four basic building block of your network marketing business that will make or break the whole situation. What is required is more holistic approach to whole situation and to find a better way to win with flying colors.
| 2019-04-19T17:22:38 |
http://ladaneey.com/?p=325
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Which one of the following reactions does not involve the donation of an electron pair?
The answer is D, but I don't know why.
But surely this shows the iodide ion is donating a pair of electrons to the chlorine atom?
I'm sure really what approach I should take for this question.
D donates 2 electrons, not an "electron pair." There is a subtle but important difference here because D is a reaction that takes place via the transfer of single electrons (though in the end, 2 are transferred in total).
So, A, B, and C are examples of Lewis acid-base neutralizations, but D is not. D is classical redox reaction.
What are the other definitions of redox reactions besides the gain or donation of oxygen?
Why does a reduced compound become a better electron donor?
Which species gives electron in the following reaction?
What is the logic behind the ion electron method of balancing redox reactions?
| 2019-04-21T06:11:03 |
https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/97732/identifying-donation-of-an-electron-pair
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Of what is the universe made? What are the ingredients for the Cosmic Recipe? If we can answer these questions, we may gain some clue to the history of our universe.
It's easy to figure out the chemical composition of the Earth: just dig up some dirt, and analyze it. Well, maybe it's a bit more complicated than that.
bits of iron, calcium, potassium, sodium, etc.
Overall, since the core and the mantle comprise most of the atoms of the Earth, the chemical composition of our planet is dominated by iron, oxygen, and silicon.
Does this mean that the chemical composition of stars varies wildly? Initially, scientists thought the answer was "yes."
It is often easier to determine the composition of nebulae than of stars, since we can see into the center of the nebula. The spectra of these objects show that they, too, are almost completely made of hydrogen and helium, with tiny amount of other elements.
When we look at different galaxies, we find some variation in the amount of heavy elements. The Milky Way, for example, has more iron (relative to hydrogen) than the Large Magellanic Cloud; and the Large Magellanic Cloud has more iron (relative to hydrogen) than the Small Magellanic Cloud.
We believe that heavy elements can be created by the fusion of light elements at the centers of stars.
Galaxies with lots of heavy elements must have had several generations of stars, some of which have ejected material from their interiors into the interstellar medium and enriched it with helium and heavy elements.
If we can find galaxies which have had little star formation since they were formed, we can use them to measure the primordial abundance of helium, relative to hydrogen.
In our own corner of the Milky Way, this ratio is currently about 10. There has evidently been quite a bit of nuclear processing of hydrogen into helium by previous generations of stars in our galaxy.
Is there any particular reason that galaxies should have started out with a mixture of 12.5 hydrogen atoms for every 1 helium atom?
Is there any reason why the initial mixture should contain only hydrogen and helium, with (almost) no heavier elements?
Whence came the mixture of oxygen, silicon, iron, etc., which make up the Earth and everything on it?
Interactive Solar Atlas software by Sergei O. Naumov. This software must be installed on your local computer before you can use it.
| 2019-04-26T08:36:41 |
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys240/lectures/elements/elements.html
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Can I sync from the iPad to the droid? If so, what companion software do I need?
For both iPad and Droid 2, the sync system is PC Based. So the best system is to Synchronize iPad to a PC, and then PC to Droid 2. You can use Palm Desktop on the PC if you aren't tied to Outlook.
I was just mentioning to folks today that this new era of tablets mean that it will be common for people to own a phone and a tablet using two different technologies. I pointed out that they might want to sync in a serial fashion; PC to Phone, then Phone to Tablet. This was a discussion topic.
What works today, however, is for PC to Phone, and PC to Tablet. This is the state of the product as it stands today.
I downloaded the iPad app but when I went to set up I could only "choose" PC. I would like to sync the iPad to my Samsung Galaxy S2. I also use Outlook on my PC and have a gmail account. Can I get all of these to talk to each other? I have not had success with my trial app of CompanionLink.
DejaOffice does not support syncing directly with another handheld device.
However - CompanionLink Pro on the PC Desktop allows you to create multiple Sync profiles.
This would allow you to Sync Pc to iPad and PC to your Android Device.
Will DJO ever support syncing directly from one device to another? I was just wishing for that capability today, beween my iPad and Android phone. It would be so much quicker and more convenient!
Nothing like that is being worked on at the moment. That is the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
| 2019-04-24T15:49:40 |
https://www.dejaoffice.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-519.html?s=171f06a2874d07eb9bf61a36961d3bbc
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Bigelow Spiced Chai Tea Review — a Modern Mrs.
I have a serious Chai addiction. If the money is available, I will purchase a Venti Chai Latte from Starbucks every morning. Depending on which Starbucks I go to, I'll even ask for extra syrup... just to ensure that deliciously spicy flavor is dominant. Mmm, Chai.
However, when the money is not available, I can't get my Chai Latte, and then I'm sad. It's not an addiction... I can get by without it, but there's something about that daily cup of Chai that soothes me. I love the aroma, the flavor, and the relaxing sensation that follows. So, what do I do when I can't get my latte, or when I've already had a latte but am jonesin' for a refill? I whip out my box of Bigelow Spiced Chai Tea!
Bigelow's Spiced Chai contains 20 individually wrapped tea bags in an easy-open envelope. The box is also easy to open, and has plenty of information, such as various ways to prepare the tea, and a caffeine meter on the side that compares black tea to coffee, green tea, decaf, etc.
The reason I love Chai so much is the distinct flavor it has. I'm no expert, but it has to be the cardamom. Bigelow's Spiced Chai Tea has a subtle flavoring of cardamom, but nothing like what I know from my lattes (which use Tazo's Concentrate). The aroma is similar — a little ginger, and a hint of vanilla. It's smooth, light in flavor, and semi-dark in color, almost caramel. It's smooth, easy to drink, and I can enjoy it any time of the day, but due to its caffeine content, I try to steer clear after 6pm.
The instructions recommend adding a bit of milk to sweeten the tea. I've tried it plain as well as with milk, and I didn't notice much difference in flavor. Bigelow's Spiced Chai isn't really tart to begin with, so I don't think it needs sweetening. I also haven't noticed any discernible "spice" to its flavor or aroma.
Is it good? Yes, definitely. Would I purchase it again? Probably not. It's definitely better than some other chai teas I've tried, but what I'm really looking for is something a little closer to the flavor of Tazo Chai. All that said, if Tazo's Chai is a little much for you, Bigelow's Spiced Chai would be perfect!
Today I ALMOST tried the Chai Spice tea we have here at work (because we were out of Green), but I settled on trying the Raspberry Herbal instead. Next time, though!
| 2019-04-19T02:37:06 |
http://www.amodernmrs.com/2013/01/tuesday-tea-time-bigelow-spiced-chai-tea-review.html
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Is Paul Manafort’s sentence too light? He fared worse than many fraudsters, data shows.
Paul Manafort’s prison sentence of less than four years on bank- and tax-fraud charges Thursday sparked outrage from commentators who said it was too light a punishment for his crimes.
The average sentence for those trials, 22 in all, was 98 months, according to the analysis.
Exact comparisons are impossible, as no two cases are exactly alike. The TRAC database allows users only to compare cases with the same lead charge — the count a prosecutor deems the most important. But each defendant may also have been convicted of other charges that could affect the length of the sentence imposed.
The review found a wide disparity between federal sentences in cases like Manafort’s, with some defendants receiving no prison time and others receiving sentences several times longer than Manafort’s. The vast majority of cases ended with defendants pleading guilty.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in the Eastern District of Virginia surprised many when he sharply departed from federal sentencing guidelines, which called for Manafort to be given from 19 to 24 years in prison for eight counts of bank and tax fraud, as well as failing to report a foreign bank account.
Sentencing guidelines are advisory only, and federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia issue lower sentences in nearly a quarter of cases, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
At a trial last year, Manafort was found guilty of hiding millions of dollars in overseas bank accounts and later falsifying his finances to get loans. He had made the money lobbying on behalf of Ukrainian politicians.
Ellis called the guidelines in Manafort’s case “excessive” and noted that judges in a “substantial majority” of such cases over the past decade had recommended sentences below the guidelines, before meting out Manafort’s sentence. He imposed a 47-month sentence for bank fraud, with lower terms on the other counts, all to run concurrently.
Ellis noted that Manafort had no prior criminal record. The judge also appeared to find persuasive cases cited by Manafort’s attorneys in which major tax evaders got little or no prison time.
Andrew Silva, a Virginia doctor who was given probation for smuggling $211,000 from a Swiss bank account into the United States, began cooperating not long after a search warrant was issued. Hicks said at sentencing that Silva accepted responsibility “faster than any criminal defendant I have ever been associated with or known.” Hyung Kwon Kim, a South Korean immigrant who hid $28 million in foreign bank accounts and got a six-month sentence, cooperated for five years before he was formally charged.
But many tax cheats have received probationary sentences. The Justice Department in late 2017 pushed back by changing the way it calculates sentencing guidelines, now also looking at the total amount of money stored overseas rather than the amount of unpaid taxes.
Ellis ruled that Manafort’s sentencing guidelines were properly calculated under this new regime but said he could not ignore the past. “The government cannot sweep away the history of all these previous sentences,” he said.
The reaction to Manafort’s sentence was swift and fierce Thursday night, and continued to play out Friday, with the sentence being debated on cable news shows and becoming fodder at political rallies.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), at a presidential campaign stop in South Carolina on Friday, called Manafort’s sentence an example of a “broken” system.
“We are looking at further evidence in America’s judicial system of absolute unfairness where white-collar as opposed to other types of crime” is involved, said Harris, the former attorney general of California. She compared Manafort with a man in Mississippi who recently got a 12-year-prison sentence for having marijuana in his car.
Mihailis E. Diamantis, an associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, agreed, saying the case exposes inequity in the justice system that is not unique to Manafort’s case.
Todd Haugh, an assistant professor of business and ethics at Indiana University who studies white-collar crime, said he was not surprised by the sentence in the case.
Haugh said the sentencing guidelines in such cases are partly driven by the dollar amount, so a large financial loss to the government can quickly produce a long guideline sentence that many judges feel is unduly harsh.
Manafort still faces the possibility of a significant increase in his sentence, since his prosecution was split between federal courts in Virginia and the District. Next week, a federal judge in the District could add up to 10 years of prison time when she sentences him on counts that he defrauded the IRS and obstructed justice. Manafort pleaded guilty to the charges in September.
Manafort is approaching age 70, meaning that even a short sentence could effectively eat up most, or even the rest of his life.
“Even though these sentences seem short objectively, they are very long for someone of his age and with health problems,” Haugh said.
Skeptics of the Russia investigation saw Manafort’s sentence as vindication of their criticisms.
Manafort is due in federal court in the District on Wednesday to learn his punishment in that case.
| 2019-04-18T15:17:15 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/is-paul-manaforts-sentence-too-light-he-fared-worse-than-many-fraudsters-data-shows/2019/03/08/388226b6-41c3-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html?utm_term=.014abf158a05
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Despite the reference to the Lord of the Rings movie, I find that may well be a fitting phrase for this bit of news. The US Department of Defense is proposing a centralized system to "monitor usage" of the Internet. The plan was proposed in the name of the Homeland Defense project. It sounds like a good idea, but just how far might this be taken?
Currently, each Internet service provider acts independently, with its own "network operations center" that allows security specialists to constantly monitor network traffic. Such centers allow ISPs to spot outages, attacks and virus outbreaks quickly, but the information is currently only informally shared, with the various network operations centers contacting each other on an ad-hoc basis.
The Bush administration sought to formalize such data sharing through the creation of a "Cyberspace Network Operations Center," which would serve as a central clearinghouse for such data.
| 2019-04-22T09:24:08 |
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/2776/one_ring_to_rule_them_all/index.html
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What Happens to Options in a Buyout?
A situation that results in a buyout includes a merger, which involves at least two companies. This could result in one company being dissolved and a new business being formed. Before a merger can commence, the board of directors for all companies involved must approve the merger transaction.
Some states may require the approval of the shareholders before a merger can take place. During a merger, the stockholders may receive cash, stock, or both cash and stock.
The announcement of a buyout by another company is often deemed beneficial for shareholders of the company being purchased. This is because the offer is generally at a premium price compared to the market value in place prior to the announcement.
There is the situation where call option holders may or may not be in a favorable position. This depends on the strike price (set price) assigned to the options they hold and the price being paid in the buyout.
Call options give the person holding the option the right to purchase at a set price any time before the options expire. This is assuming these are American options.
In effect, a call option would not be exercised to purchase shares at the set price if the set price had a higher price than that of the current market price.
When a buyout offer is made where a set amount for each share is offered, it limits how high the shares can go. This is assuming no other offers will be made, and the initial offer will most likely be accepted.
If the offer price is below the strike price (set price) of the call option, there is a good possibility the option will lose a good portion of its value. On the reverse side, when the strike price is below the offer price, there can be a moderate to significant increase in its value. For example, if a buyout offer is received for $80 per share and the call option is $70, the shareholder will make money. If the call option is $90, the shareholder will lose money.
It is recommended that if the stock price is high enough before the settlement date to cash out. Once the buyout occurs, whatever you have in place is final. Or, the company that initiated the buyout may adjust the stock options as long as it was not a cash buyout.
In general, there are nearly no good reasons for shareholders to retain short-term call options throughout the buyout process. This is due to the net win or loss already being attained prior to the completion of the buyout.
When the buyout occurs, and the options are restructured, the value of the options before the buyout takes place is deducted from the price of the option during adjustment. This means the options will become worthless during the adjustment if you bought out of the money options.
All-Stock Offer: Companies involved with a stock-for-stock merger have agreed to exchange shares based on a set ratio. The number of shares in a call option is updated, adjusting for the buyout value.
All-Cash Buyout: This refers to a company bought for a cash price per share. In this case, the options are valued for a cash settlement of the effective date of the buyout.
Stock Plus Cash Buyout: With this type of buyout, there is a change with the covered stock of the purchased company, the number of shares to be delivered, and a cash amount. For example, the buying company is swapping 1/2 of a share of the company plus $3 for each share of the company being purchased. Based on 100 shares, once the merger is finalized, a call option for the company that was bought would require the buying company to deliver 50 shares (of its shares) plus $300 ($3 x 100 shares) if the call is exercised by the buyer.
Reverse Merger: This occurs when a public company acquires a private company. The result is the exchange of shares by the shareholders and management for a controlling interest in the company.
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| 2019-04-22T14:46:20 |
https://www.upcounsel.com/what-happens-to-options-in-a-buyout
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I am at it again helping someone fight a ticket, this time in London. I have a few questions dealing with the disclosure request.
Email. I don't want to use email for the same reason I don't want to use regular mail or phone: The prosecutor can claim he emailed it even though nothing has been received, and that is considered due diligence on his part.
Fax. While fax is good because there is a confirmation of receipt, I do not own a fax machine.
Pickup. I am actually ok with this but apparently I am expected to call the prosecutor's office on a daily basis to check if it is ready.
What is interesting is that they don't even provide the option of being phoned when it is ready.
Anyway, in my usual request, I give a list of what I want and then state "please send everything requested to the above address via registered mail". Will this be ok, or should I add to it something more prudent like " or, send a registered letter notifying me that this is ready and I will pick it up"?
If (as I expect will happen) I receive nothing, what will likely happen at the trial date? Will the trial proceed because I didn't follow their three options?
A lot of people seem to get the disclosure right incorrect. The prosecutor merely has to make it reasonable available----they do not have to ensure it is delivered to the defendant. The onus is on the defendant to follow up and retrieve it. Clearly, the prosecution is providing you with 3 reasonable methods of obtaining disclosure. If you don't follow up with them----the delay that will undoubtedly result will be counted towards YOU---not them. The prosecutor is under NO obligation to mail it to you, find you or even call you. You simply make your request in writing and they must make it available within a reasonable time. Even the cost of delivery is all on the defendant. The entire onus of getting disclosure is on the defendant---after all, they are the ones that are requesting it. All the prosecutor needs to say is that they explained how/when to pick it up and you didn't follow through.
Some folks are under the assumption that it is tactical to 'avoid' getting the disclosure. That is just dumb. It only hurts the defendant.
So, in your situation, either leave them an email address so they have a means of contacting you or have them give you a date when it will be available for pick up. If they don't contact you, then YOU make the effort to contact them (do it in writing so there is a paper trail). That is, you want to show that you were being diligent in obtaining your disclosure and the delay in getting it was all due to the prosecution.
I have used email with my last few disclosure requests, and received it just fine. Much easier than having to go pick it up.
Busier jurisdictions due to shear volume, do not have the resources to physically mail out disclosure packages. They require that you pick it up in person; some offer e-mail.
Making a strategic decision not to receive disclosure, or not showing due diligence in trying to receive disclosure will count against you. In some cases you might be arraigned on your first trial date, especially if disclosure had been available for a while.
55 It must be remembered that defence counsel is not entitled to assume at any point that all relevant information has been disclosed to the defence. Just as the Crown's disclosure obligations are ongoing, and persist throughout the trial process, so too does defence counsel's obligation to be duly diligent in pursuing disclosure. To do nothing in the face of knowledge that relevant information has not been disclosed will, at a minimum, often justify a finding of lack of due diligence, and may, in certain circumstances, support an inference that counsel made a strategic decision not to pursue disclosure. In this case, the summary in the occurrence report indicates that Daye's statement would very likely meet the test for relevance set out in Stinchcombe. When defence counsel reviewed the occurrence report, he knew or should have known that the Crown had failed in its disclosure obligations. When this became apparent, defence counsel should have brought this matter to the attention of the trial judge at the earliest opportunity. In the circumstances of this case, the Court of Appeal was right to conclude that at this point, defence counsel was faced with a choice: "call for the statements or live without them" (p. 93).
It's always in your best interest to show the courts that you're exercising due diligence in seeking disclosure. If there are issues with your initial disclosure request: bad handwriting, missing items. Then you're giving yourself time to submit new disclosure requests in order to remedy this.
11b delays due to non-disclosure are simply not happening as often; the courts are a lot more streamlined with scheduling trial dates, and they're proactive with handling disclosure requests. Some fall through the cracks, but even then it's difficult to argue 11b because some JPs say disclosure delays are a neutral delay (nobody's fault).
Then you can build a strong 11b case surrounding the disclosure delays.
Thanks for the input everyone. Please note I am not trying to avoid receiving disclosure. I just think it's dumb that for this one thing they refuse to use mail, which is what's used for every other court communication. It's just as easy to stuff the documents in an envelope and write an address as it is to scan everything and make sure it gets to the right person. I just don't want to end up in a situation where I have nothing and the JP is fine with that because the prosecutor says he sent it. Registered mail leaves no doubt. Anyways I will set up a new email account and start spamming them with requests every month and hope for the best.
EphOph wrote: I just don't want to end up in a situation where I have nothing and the JP is fine with that because the prosecutor says he sent it.
I wouldn't worry about that. They'd arrange for you to receive disclosure on the spot and your trial would likely be adjourned to a later date.
So 3 requests and 11 weeks later, still nothing! Pretty soon we will be at the 15 day limit for a charter application. Do these have to be done for no disclosure (like 11B) or can I just ask for a stay on the trial date? I know the JP will likely grant an adjournment, but is there any relevant case law for arguing in favour of a stay in this scenario?
In theory, in order to get the charge STAYed then yes it needs to be a charter application. However if you have been to trial a few times already and JP told them to get you disclosure and they still haven't provided it, then some JP may stay the charge without an official application.
But the case law says that the remedy for not providing disclosure is to tell prosecutor to get the disclosure for you and adjourn it. So again it would have to have been adjourned at least 2 times already before they would consider a stay.
It does not hurt to thru the process though! Use the fax method as opposed to registered mail as it is a whole lot cheaper.
Thanks jsherk. Since this is the first appearance I will just make do with the adjournment.
After all the worrying we finally received the disclosure package in the mail! (Regular, not Registered - along with the friendly Winlow warning). Anyway the officer's notes are included in a typed version only - are they entered this way or should I be asking for originals as well? The notes include the model & serial number of the device (Tru Speed LTI 20/20) but there is no reference to the manual. I will be sending another letter asking for this specifically but I suppose I'll have to reference case law. Are there any common cases which are used when requesting this? If they fail or refuse to provide it (the trial is in 10 days), what can I do?
Also, the officer's copy of the ticket was not actually signed; it just has the name printed digitally. Can this have any affect on the outcome?
Typed version of officers notes are all you need. If you find the officer on the stand is making comments from his notes that are not included in your notes, you could then object and say he is reading from notes that were note provided to you in disclosure.
I would immediately send another request for the full manual. I would add that you "need the full manual in order to prepare a full defense and be able to properly question the officer on his knowledge of the device. Without the manual you have no way of knowing how to question him."
There are some case laws with ragards to providing the manual. I do not know them off the top of my head. Maybe somebody else knows what they are.
Did you get a hand written ticket or a computer generated ticket? Does the "officers copy" say Certificate of Offense at the top?
I've removed the part about the original notes and added the justification for the full manual and will be sending this today. I also found the relevant case: R. v. Stinchcombe.
The ticket was computer generated; the officer's copy says "Certificate of Offence" at the top. I know it's the officer's copy because some of the fields at the bottom are different. Also the "Affidavit of service upon defendant" which I'm assuming is the back of the ticket is completely blank.
Thanks for your help! I read your transcript and appeal in your other topic and it was very informative. I will also start preparing for cross examination in case the justice decides to ignore the disclosure requirements.
If it is computer generated then the digital signature is okay.
Now here is a question I do not know the answer to... why are some fields different on the Certificate of Offence versus your Notice of Offence? I would think they should be identical.
Also the other question I do not know the answer to... if the service upon defendant is not filed out, then would this be a fatal error if you do not show up to the trial?
Hopefully somebody else can answer these in more detail.
jsherk wrote: Now here is a question I do not know the answer to... why are some fields different on the Certificate of Offence versus your Notice of Offence? I would think they should be identical.
It's just the part at the bottom where on the accused ticket it says "you have 15 days etc", on the officer's copy there is a spot to fill out if a summons was issued instead. All of the actual information is filled out identically.
jsherk wrote: Also the other question I do not know the answer to... if the service upon defendant is not filed out, then would this be a fatal error if you do not show up to the trial?
That would be nice! I'm not going to risk it though. I assume that would only come into play if the accused never responds to the ticket... but then there is no way to know unless you file it and request disclosure.
1) The prosecutor asks the officer about this (or officer says it in his testimony). I object and motion to have this evidence excluded because it was not disclosed. Since now there is no evidence of officer following proper procedure, motion of non-suit?
2a) Prosecutor never mentions & officer never mentions. Motion of non-suit at conclusion of crown's questioning.
2b) If motion denied, go into line of questioning during cross-examination: why wasn't it in notes, possible he didn't do it, etc.
On a side note, how long on average does it take an officer to first determine that a vehicle is speeding and then aim the lidar to take a correct measurement (including the time for the lidar to do its thing)?
The old radar manuals said they MUST estimate the speed before activating radar. This was removed in the newer ones. Not sure what is in the LIDAR manuals.
However a lot of officers will put in their notes something like "vehicle appeared to be going faster than posted speed limit". So they do not necessarily have to estimate the speed, but they usually note that vehicle was going faster than posted. Is this required? I am not sure (haven't looked into myself). You would need some case law saying that they must at least think the vehicle is going over the speed limit before using radar/lidar. I am not sure if this has been decided or not!
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https://www.ontariohighwaytrafficact.com/courts-and-procedure/disclosure-request-t7165.html
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There's a joke which comes in different flavors along the lines that (1) you need a PhD in Computer Science to program in Haskell, or (2) you need a PhD in Computer Science or Mathematics to perform IO in Haskell. Why do people who use Haskell all brag/complain that Haskell is hard to wrap your brain around?
I've thought about this a little, as one who has read dozens of recent research papers to learn more about Haskell. (Disclaimer: I don't have a PhD, just a BS in CS.) Haskell is such a powerful language precisely because it was built out of just the right number of just the right concepts. Once you've learned those (and while you're learning those) you see through the language and into the realm of concepts that you can express with the language. Of course no language (programming or natural) is free from a context, and Haskell definitely has a context for understanding. But instead of learning the language to express old concepts, for some reason (hopefully churned up here) Haskell has a way of teaching you new, more powerful, better ways of stating and — since it's a programming language — solving problems.
The authors of SICP make the interesting claim that learning how to program should be about the concepts and abstractions, and not about the syntax. They are able to do this because they use a language with more or less no syntax, instead of using a syntax-heavy language like Pascal. (The book was written when this was the programming language of the future; in fact, I learned Pascal in highschool. Today you might say, they avoided syntax-heavy languages like Java, C++, and Perl.) The tradeoff made in the design of Haskell was to opt for slightly more built-in syntax to express programs with less, yet cleaner code than Scheme.
The upshot of all this is that the time you spend "learning Haskell" is really time learning with Haskell, or in many cases, learning from Haskell. A simple example that most Haskell-learners will run into at some point is the monad, the source of the accusation that you need a PhD in Category Theory to do I/O in Haskell. You learn about monads to understand how a side-effect free language can perform I/O. You learn the helpful do syntactic sugar.
But in the process, you learned something that many other languages only give you in pieces: that there is a simple, subtle, general way to structure the semantics of sequencing, and that I/O, parsing, continuation-passing, state-transforming, etc. are all just special cases of a similar shaped "pattern". But this "pattern" is so subtle, that OOP practitioners don't really identify it completely. It's like it's a totally hidden, implicit assumption that only comes to light when you step away from it.
More specifically, the strict, implicit state-transforming semantics of almost every programming language — Java, C++, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lisp, Scheme (though they build theirs on top of continuations and let you mess with the continuation guts), even ML or OCaml — are hard-wired into the language, and you don't have the option to change this. Even the Good Ship Python, with its mantra of ""explicit is better than implicit," doesn't recognize that they are sailing in implicit "strict, state-passing" water. This is a very subtle issue.
This is just one case of where Haskell helps brings your implicit assumptions out into the light, that is, explicitly in your code. Now you can change the behavior of your program by replumbing the entire building without cutting open any walls or ceilings. I did this with a parser I was building that later needed to pass state around. I literally changed a line of code for the type of my parser monad, and now any place in my program that needs it has access to a threaded state.
There are practical benefits to programming in the powerful language Haskell. I can't defend some the weaknesses inherent in using Haskell in practice (well elaborated in Why No One Uses Functional Languages), but I will say that conceptually, no other programming language comes close to Haskell in showing you a broader landscape of new, amazing ways to solve problems, or gives you the tools to take advantage of this elevated paradigm. Take the time and learn from Haskell. Maybe by the time you understand the whole thing, you will know enough to have a PhD!
| 2019-04-23T04:37:56 |
https://jared.updike.org/posts/2008-08-30-learning.html
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If rolling for a magic action do all ID icons count as magic? Let's say that I had a coral elf army with one magic unit, would the nonmagic unit's ID icon count as magic during that roll?
I recently rediscovered Dragon Dice™, and I am excited they're still being made, but with my current collection I have 2 dragons one green, and since I only have 1 magic coral elf unit, I can never summon the green dragon.
I recently rediscovered Dragon Dice™�, and I am excited they're still being made, but with my current collection I have 2 dragons one green, and since I only have 1 magic coral elf unit, I can never summon the green dragon.
Yes. IDs always* generate icons of whichever type of roll you are making, regardless of whether or not those dice have those icons.
*Some exceptions apply. Some game effects will make you ignore IDs.
| 2019-04-19T00:38:33 |
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Uterine cancer or endometrial cancer (as doctors call it) is the most common genital cancer in women. It is a form of cancer that arise from the lining of the uterus.
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How Do I Choose the Best Toothpaste Alternatives?
A toothbrush with toothpaste on it.
Baking soda can be used on its own or as a base for a tooth powder.
Chewing sugar-free gum after meals is believed to be beneficial for oral health.
Selecting the best toothpaste alternatives can come down to personal taste, though your reasons for avoiding traditional forms of toothpaste should also be considered. If your main reason for examining toothpaste alternatives is to avoid substances such as fluoride, then a toothpaste made with natural ingredients may suit your purposes. There are also a number of other commercially produced alternatives to toothpaste, in addition to substances you can use to make dentifrice at home. Tooth soap is one option that is available in both flake and liquid form, and you might want to consider it if you want an alternative that is easy to use. Mixing together baking soda, salt, and hydrogen peroxide can also result in a good homemade dentifrice, though simply brushing with nothing, but water is an alternative as well.
Toothpaste is a type of dentifrice that is designed for use with a toothbrush to remove plaque and food particles from the teeth. Most toothpastes contain a variety of different ingredients, each of which falls into categories such as foaming agents, abrasive materials, and fluorides. Foaming agents can help distribute toothpaste throughout the mouth, abrasives are useful in removing plaque, and fluorides are typically intended to prevent gum disease. If you find any of these substances undesirable, or you simply like to produce your own household products to save money, then you may be interested in toothpaste alternatives.
Most of the actual cleaning action that takes place during the brushing of teeth is the result of the brush, not the toothpaste. That means one of the simplest toothpaste alternatives is to just to leave the toothpaste out. You can then brush and floss normally, which should remove most of the food and plaque on your teeth. If you prefer to use some type of commercially produced dentifrice, you might want to try tooth soap or powder. These products are designed to not taste like soap, and typically lack substances such as fluoride and sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) that you may be trying to avoid.
There are also a number of toothpaste alternatives that you can make out of substances that may already be in your home. One option is to simply dip your toothbrush in salt or baking soda, though a paste of baking soda, salt, and hydrogen peroxide can be a suitable dentifrice. If you dislike the flavor of baking soda and peroxide, mixing in some peppermint or wintergreen oil may help. Another alternative ingredient to consider is xylitol, which is a natural sugar alcohol that can act as a substitute for fluoride by fighting gum disease; this ingredient is commonly used in sugar-free chewing gums, and there have been some suggestions that chewing these gums, in combination with brushing might be beneficial.
How Do I Choose a Healthy Toothpaste?
| 2019-04-20T05:03:12 |
http://www.wisegeek.net/how-do-i-choose-the-best-toothpaste-alternatives.htm
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Futurama at its very best. This episode is absolutely amazing and is my favorite of all time. That said, I notice the main criticism is that the episode wasn't funny. I agree, it really wasn't. Not once did I laugh, but the episode wasn't really going for humor (for the most part). Anyone who watches Futurama just to laugh should go elsewhere. There are FAR too many adult-oriented cartoon shows that are pure comedy and have no real stories or character development. Futurama has always centered around its great characters, so drama and emotion are sure to follow. The jokes are there, but they're built around the stories. It's not a story built around some jokes. It's Futurama's fine balance of humor and character that make it rise far above the other shows in its genre.
Before I start, let me just say this: if you've never read the episode, don't read this review. It's impossible to rate this episode without giving away the plot.
After only watching this episode once, I've already come to the conclusion that this is one of the 5 best Futurama episodes of all time (the other 4 being Jurassic Bark, Luck of the Fryrish, Overclockwise, and Leela's Homeworld). The comedy in the first act worked very well, but that's not what made the episode great. What made the episode great was the plot in the second and third act. The way the fantasies were confused with real life and the all too plausible dreams made it seem like you were really seeing it from Leela's point of view, not an outside point of view. In fact, towards the end, it was truly convincing that Leela was going crazy, which is one of the toughest things to pull off in writing. The fact that she went crazy was incredibly touching. This was the first episode that recognized that Leela loved Fry just as much as Fry loved Leela. All throughout the episode, I knew Fry couldn't possibly be dead, but I didn't know what was really going on. Then, when I found out what was really going on, and that Fry was just as obsessed with Leela as Leela was with Fry, it was one of the most, no, THE most emotional moment that Futurama ever created.
After having watched the new season of the show, I have a new appreciation for this episode.
I would first like to address a lot of the negative reviews of this one. A lot of you dislike it because it is so story based, and focuses on the characters more than whacky humor. If you don't like that kind of thing, that's fine. It's not everyone's taste. However, do understand that other people watch Futurama for different reasons. The whacky stuff is fun, but its the story driven, emotional episodes that set this show apart. Without them, I don't feel this show would have one tenth of the following that it does.
As for the episode, it is without a doubt my favorite of the entire series. It just seemed to take everything that made Futurama great and turn it into 20 minutes of great television. Humor, sci-fi, a little emotion, and great story telling all help to make this a great episode.
I think it was when I first watched this episode that I realized Futurama isn't just a great show, it's the greatest show I've ever seen.
I think this and fun on a bun where the most creative episodes made by futurama this was the first episode I saw and because of this episode I'v seen every episode 2 times even this one so great job Matt Groening you should start season 8 soon even 9 so very good job!
My teachers always tell that ''It was a dream'' is not a valuable ending and that it would be a 0/10. This episode prove that they were wrong and I'm giving this episode a 10/10.
Fantastic plot, great time with Fry and Leela and an original song makes this episodes one of the best.
This is such a sweet and cleverly written episode that I feel a bit guilty rating it so low, but The Sting just isn't the sort of thing I'm in the mood for when I go to watch Futurama. I realize that Futurama is supposed to have more character development and emotional involvement than say South Park but I expect it to be at least *lighthearted* even if not laugh out loud funny. The Sting wasn't even that though, in fact it was quite depressing in parts. Episodes like The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings, Parasites Lost and Love and Rocket all managed to find a far better balance between comedy, character development and the more sentimental romantic material. I think that genre confusion like this is one of the reasons this show keeps getting cancelled.
| 2019-04-20T00:25:03 |
http://www.gotfuturama.com/cgi-bin/EpisodeReview.cgi?action=show&Page=70&Season=4&Episode=12
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Terra - alongside Aqua and Ven - is one of the protagonists of Birth by Sleep, and appears to be the oldest of three. He trains with Aqua and Ven to become a Keyblade Master, and shares a brother-like bond with the latter. In spite of the darkness in his heart, he tends to maintain a calm and cool persona and isn't afraid to risk injury in battle for his friends.
Four years before the main events of Birth by Sleep, Master Xehanort visits the land of Departure with his then-apprentice Ven, Xehanort requesting that Master Xehanort take Ven under his wing as apprentice. Terra greets Ven and inquires as to who he is and where he came from, at which Ven cries out in pain before falling into a comatose state for several days, all the while Terra blaming himself for Ven's state. To make it up to Ven, Terra befriends him and the two spend the day sparring, Aqua joins them, and Terra tells Ven about his dream - one shared with Aqua - to become a Keyblade Master. Over the coming years, the three spend time together wherever possible, honing their skills and strengthening their friendship.
The night before Terra and Aqua's Mark of Mastery Exam - where Birth by Sleep begins in earnest - the three young Keyblade wielders are thinking of their future. Aqua, understanding they will likely be tasked with undertaking their own separate adventures after the conclusion of the exam, gives to Terra and Ven good luck charms, shaped after a mythical fruit that kept people linked no matter where they were. On the day of the exam, Master Xehanort arrives to oversee the trials, which Aqua passes but Terra fails, his inadequacy attributed by Master Eraqus to his inability to control his own darkness. Unknown but later discovered is the fact that Master Xehanort was the cause for that darkness' presence, introducing it to tailor the exam's results to his own ends. Later in the day, Xehanort approaches Terra and tells him that the darkness in his heart needn't be a problem nor something feared and that - contradictory to what Master Eraqus might seek - darkness is not something that can be destroyed, only directed in various ways.
Very soon after Xehanort and Terra part ways, Terra is sent on a quest to seek out Xehanort - who has supposedly vanished unannounced and without a trace - as well as investigate and stop the threat posed by the emerging Unversed. Eraqus coaxes cooperation out of Terra by telling him that if he succeeds, Eraqus will reconsider the results of the Mark of Mastery exam and make Terra a Keyblade Master.
During his quest, the darkness residing in Terra's heart catches the attention of a number of villains across the worlds, who manipulate Terra through his darkness and take advantage of his trusting nature to commit evil acts. One such dark denizen is the witch Maleficent, who has Terra steal the heart of the Princess Aurora - this act and many more like it forming a lingering guilt in Terra's mind that stays with him through the entirety of his journey.
Trailing behind what leads he can find of Master Xehanort, Terra is led to Radiant Garden where he initially spots Xehanort, but is distracted by a massive Unversed, the fighting of which eventually reunites him with Aqua and Ven, where their meeting is less than happy. Though well-meaning, Terra commands Ven to return home to safety, soon after discovering that Aqua was sent by Master Eraqus to spy on him.
Terra leaves the two of them both angered and hurt, and soon runs into Master Xehanort once more. It appears he's been captured by a gun-toting Braig - one of Ansem the Wise's apprentices - who fights Terra, thinking he will gain his Keyblade if victorious. Unable to overcome Braig's dirty tactics in the ensuing battle, Master Xehanort calls out to Terra to tap into his darkness, which temporarily augments his abilities to the point where he is able to defeat Braig. After the battle, Xehanort insists to Terra that he controlled his darkness, rather than the opposite, though the young Keyblader is still sceptical.
Master Xehanort offers Terra a position as his apprentice and explains further to Terra the nature of darkness - that it is always born within light - causing Terra to doubt Eraqus. Xehanort then states it is his mission to rid the worlds of the darkness that upsets its natural balance with light - the source of which is Vanitas - and begs Terra to aid him, pulling the final string when he acknowledges Terra's long-held wish and addressing him as ‘Master Terra'. These cumulative efforts of Xehanort's have Terra acknowledge the Keyblade Master as his direct superior. As Terra prepares to leave Radiant Garden, Ven approaches Terra, seeking to tag along with him on his journey, which Terra refuses, though he does comment that should Terra ever really need him, he knows Ven will be there.
Later on, Terra is guided by a warm light to Destiny Islands, where he discovers the destiny-linking Paopu Fruit that was the inspiration for the charms given by Aqua. On this world he finds two young boys that remind Terra of himself and Ven. Terra, speaking with the slightly older one that reminds him of himself, discovers the potential within the boy, and performs a Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony, allowing a young Riku to wield the Keyblade when he is older.
Terra is soon called to the Keyblade Graveyard where Master Xehanort awaits, who informs Terra that Ven has learnt of his past and is returning to Eraqus to confirm what he has learnt so far. When Xehanort tells Terra that Ven will likely be taken out by Eraqus, Terra is quick to depart the world and rush to Ven's aid in the Land of Departure, where he arrives just in time to block a would-be fatal blow of Eraqus and eject Ven from the world through a Corridor of Darkness. Refusing to stand down, Terra battles and soundly overcomes Eraqus, who insists he failed both Terra and Ven for raising his weapon against them, and must himself be corrupted with darkness to have done so. Terra refuses to strike down Eraqus, and it's at this moment that Xehanort arrives and lands the killing blow on his old friend. Before he leaves, Master Xehanort shrouds the world in darkness and beckons for Terra to return to the Keyblade Graveyard.
Upon arrival, Terra reunites with Aqua and Ventus, explaining to them what happened and confiding in Aqua that his actions did warrant her spying on him. Though some animosity still persists between the three, they are able to put it behind themselves as their final confrontation with Master Xehanort and Vanitas begins. After Ven is frozen and dropped off a cliff, Terra' anger fuels his darkness until he is unable to control it, at which point Xehanort marvels at the creation of the χ-blade before unlocking his heart and possessing Terra's body, seeking to use it as a younger and more powerful body in place of his old and frail one. In the ensuing internal struggle, Terra's mind is ejected from his body entirely, but it finds refuge in his suit of armour, which it animates and fights back against the newly-formed Terra-Xehanort with, eventually able to knock him out.
Through the explosion resulting from the χ-blade's destruction, Terra-Xehanort is transported to Radiant Garden. After leaving Ven in the newly-formed Castle Oblivion, Aqua is guided by Terra's voice to Terra-Xehanort, though she is unable to draw Terra's persona out of the hybrid being. Terra-Xehanort attacks Aqua, confused and still fighting an internal struggle, and in the ensuing battle Terra is able to gain the upper hand in the battle within himself. Xehanort exerts a last desperate attempt at control, using his Keyblade to once more unlock his heart in an effort to remove Terra. This, however, results in Terra-Xehanort losing all his memories and being substantially weakened, to the point where he begins to sink into the Realm of Darkness. Aqua dives in after him, and it is only by her sacrifice that he is able to return to the world. Soon after, Braig guides fellow apprentice Dilan and Ansem the Wise to the spot where Terra-Xehanort lies alongside Aqua's discarded armour and Keyblade. Ansem asks the amnesic man what his name is, to which he replies the one thing he recalls: "Xehanort".
However, even as Xehanort continues to live on in Terra's body as he remains trapped in a seemingly eternal struggle with Master Xehanort, it appears that he has aims of his own. With no hesitation whatsoever, Terra is willing to sacrifice everything he is, everything he has, in order to achieve them and help his friends; to put his very being at risk, even if it means he has no choice but to travel down the wrong path. Wherever he is now, Terra waits for the one who will be able to reunite him with all those he cares about.
Strong and sturdy like his name with a heart of gold, Terra is one of three Keyblade wielders who've since fallen by Xehanort's hands. He lost not only his friends, but his freedom a decade before Sora's adventure when Xehanort forced him to become his new vessel. His current status and location is currently unknown.
Terra appeared to Sora for a split moment as he dove deeper and deeper into the dreams could no longer differentiate them from reality. He said just a single word; a name ─ Ven.
Friend to Ventus and Aqua, as well as one of Master Eraqus' pupils. He was blinded by Master Xehanort's plans and is now lost in darkness. His physical body has been taken over by Xehanort.
During Aqua's travels in The Dark World, Terra appeared as a guide for the lost soul, reminding her to keep strong. He was somehow able to appear in Enchanted Dominion where he conversed with Aqua, however this was a ploy by Xehanort to try and find out where Ventus is kept. He was last seen encasing Terranort in golden chains as Aqua passed out.
| 2019-04-20T22:54:16 |
https://www.khinsider.com/characters/terra
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One of the main difficulties of organizing a Programming Contest is collecting the balloons that escape and are trapped on the roof of the competition hall: often the contract with the hall owner requires that the hall must be cleaned soon after the event, otherwise a fine is applied.
This year the organization of our competition have been more prudent: it got the project design of the ceiling of the hall, and wants your help to determine what will happen to a loose balloon depending on the position on the ground where it is released (that is, whether it is blocked by the ceiling or escapes to the outside of the hall).
The balloon may be considered to be a point. When a balloon touches a line segment that is horizontal, it gets stuck. When a balloon touches a segment that is tilted, the balloon glides to the highest point of the segment and escapes. It may then escape from the hall or it may touch more segments. There are no points in common between the line segments that form the ceiling.
For example, if a balloon is released at the positions marked as a or b, it will be stuck in the position with coordinates (2, 5); if a balloon is released at the position marked c, it will be stuck in the position of coordinates (6, 5); and if the balloon is released at the position marked as d, it will not be blocked and will escape out of the hall in the position of coordinate x = 7.
Write a program that, given the description of the ceiling of the hall as line segments, answers a series of queries about the final positions of balloons released at the hall floor.
The first line of input contains two integers N and C indicating, respectively, the number of segments describing the ceiling, and the number of queries. Each of the next N lines contains four integers X1, Y1, X2, Y2, describing a line segment from the ceiling, with end points at coordinates (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2).
Each of the next C describe a query and contains an integer X, indicating that the query wants to determine what happens to a balloon releaset at the point of coordinates (X, 0).
no two x coordinate values are equal, considering all segments.
For each query in the input your program must output a single line. If the balloon escapes the hall, the line must contain a single integer X, indicating the x coordinate where eht balloon escapes the hall. Otherwise, the line must contain two integers X and Y indicating the position (x, y) where the balloon gets stuck in the ceiling.
| 2019-04-24T02:02:26 |
https://www.acmicpc.net/problem/13624
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'Outer glow' effect in flash I've noticed that some flash movies have images that look as though they are flash objects, but they have an effect on them similar to the 'outer glow' in photoshop. for example the moon in this movie... We�ll then symbolize the combined vector art to add a seamless set of Glow Filters. We�ll make heavy use of the Edit Multiple Frames toggle in Animate / Flash. We�ll make heavy use of the Edit Multiple Frames toggle in Animate / Flash.
Click on a sample graphic below or select the text style from the options at the top left, then press 'Make text' to make your own glowing text!
This will select your inputs that are the "text" type. Then change the #FFFFFF to whatever colour you wish. In theory this should work. If it doesn't, add inset directly after each colon.
The next step simply requires us to add this to the filters property of our object. This property is not a regular property, but it an array. This means that we should use the square brackets to set its value or use the array push() method to add something to it.
Step. Connect a toggle switch in parallel with your LED. Connect the anode of the LED to the switch's left connection terminal then connect the cathode of the LED to the switch's right connection terminal.
| 2019-04-22T00:09:16 |
http://pitriff.com/nova-scotia/how-to-add-glow-in-flash.php
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Casting Call: Who Should Play the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in a Movie?
There's no doubt about it: The story behind the music of New York hipsters the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is such a damn cool one, it would make a great Hollywood biopic. The real question: If Karen O and the boys were to hit the big screen, who would play them? Each member has such an original, one-of-a-kind look that it's not an easy to cast people to play them, but after thinking long and hard, this is what we came up with.
The first step in finding someone to take on Karen O was picking one of her million different looks and sticking with it. She's been making waves for her blonde locks lately, but here, we went with the dark-bob-and-bangs look she rocked most prominently back the band's 'Show Your Bones' era. Elite model (and sometimes actress) Agyness Deyn is also a fashion chameleon, but her look took a decidedly O-like turn when she walked the runway for G-Star Raw's fall 2010 show during New York fashion week, and that's the look we're going with.
Nick Zinner stands out for three things: his masterful guitar fretwork; his slight, emaciated frame; and his wild bird's nest of hair, which often stands cartoonishly straight up. Actor Alex Karpovsky, who's made a name for himself recently for his recurring role as one of the boys in the breakout HBO drama 'Girls,' doesn't have Zinner's guitar hero skills or waifish physique, but his hair has been known to take on a life of its own. Plus, the two kind of look like each other, which certainly doesn't hurt.
Drummer Brian Chase is often lovingly branded the geek of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, so it seems perfect that he's be played by an actor who is perhaps most famous for his role as Bill Haverchuck on the short-lived, much-loved NBC comedy-drama 'Freaks and Geeks.' Chase's darker complexion will have the make-up artists working overtime, but at least Starr can pull off the five-o'clock shadow look, and there's no need to visit the optometrist: The two have virtually identical glasses.
| 2019-04-24T23:52:44 |
https://diffuser.fm/casting-call-yeah-yeah-yeahs/
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What are the Information provided by Roulette systems?
No matter what roulette system you use, in the LONG RUN your expected loss is approximately 53 cents for every $10 you wager.
This goes for ANY system. There is NO WAY to beat roulette in the long run. The "best" system is to not play it. If you really MUST play, then try this: Take every bit of money you can scrape together and slap it down on "Black". If you lose, oh well. If you win, NEVER play roulette again in your entire lifetime! If you follow through with that, you have a fair chance of being one of the few people on the planet that can say they beat the roulette table!
FAH-Q - I've explained it many times and it's a waste of my time to explain it any more. You are absolutely, positively wrong this time because you don't understand the concept of "Expected Value"; and based on your saying that you'd have an extra thousand dollars with your scenario if the payout was 36 to 1, you clearly don't understand what 36 to 1 means.
| 2019-04-21T01:05:54 |
http://ballooscoaching.forumotion.net/t472-best-roulette-system
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1. Cut the potato in half and pat it dry with a paper towel.
2. Using a pencil, draw an outline of a shape on the cut surface of the potato. Simple shapes work best.
3. Carefully cut away the area outside your shape. Cut around the shape and then out to the sides so that the pieces come out, and cut down about 1 inch.
4. Pat the surface of the potato dry. Put some paint into a tray or plate, and dip the potato shape into it, OR press the shape into a colored stamp pad.
5. Press the potato gently straight down onto the paper, then lift it straight up, so that it will not smudge.
| 2019-04-21T18:40:58 |
http://www.make-stuff.com/kids/projects/potato_prints.html
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Is anyone else having issues with Optimizely revenue tracking? I have two separate issues for two separate clients. I'm currently running an A/B test for an ecommerce client that has some large data discrepancies.
While Google Analytics and Optimizely record things differently, the metrics we track should move in the same direction. If my variation's conversion rate or avg. revenue / visitor increases in Optimizely, I should be seeing the same directional change in Google Analytics.
While doing QA on a different client's eCommerce site to get them setup for the first time, I was creating fake eCommerce transactions on a staging server. Every 4th or 5th transaction on the variation was not recording revenue in the Optimizely interface even though I saw a debugging tracking beacon firing off each time. There's no reason why Optimizely shouldn't have captured these transactions in my test environment. I thought I was crazy and then reset the test data and ran this process again with the same result.
I'm very suspicious of the data quality I'm getting and wanted to see if anyone else has had any issues or has found a way to reconcile some of the data they are getting.
This sounds like a very specific issue and I'm sure we can look into the raw data etc. to see what's going on here. I have opened a support ticket on your behalf to investigate in more detail.
This might seem like a strange question but it their a large mobile user base on the website?
I think that I keep seeing differences when the tests are getting large amounts of mobile visits so not sure if maybe there is an issue in that segment of users.
@adzeds - if you are seeing results discrepancies, please contact our support team and they would be more than happy to help you investigate on an individual basis.
@adzeds There is, but the test was only targeting modern, desktop browsers. I'm still investigating.
| 2019-04-24T20:39:17 |
https://community.optimizely.com/t5/Using-Optimizely/Large-Data-Discrepancies-Revenue-Tracking-and-Potential-Bugs/td-p/4142
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The only way to reinstate peace and stability in Syria is to document ongoing crimes in the hopes that those responsible will some day be brought to justice, according to a doctor working with Physicians for Human Rights along the Turkish border.
Throughout the past five years of conflict in Syria, the global nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has documented countless targeted and indiscriminate strikes on hospitals and doctors across the country.
According to PHR, at least 738 medical personnel have been killed since 2011, and hospitals and medical facilities have been attacked 365 times, mostly by Syrian government forces. PHR works with a network of physicians who, despite the continuous attacks on medical personnel, continue to risk their lives to treat those in need and document evidence of torture and sexual violence for future war-crimes prosecutions.
One of those physicians, whom we’ll call Dr. Lena, has been working with PHR since 2013. Before fleeing Syria in 2011, her husband, also a physician, was detained and tortured by government forces. Two of her close family members were arrested and are still unaccounted for. Undeterred, Dr. Lena continues to work in Turkey, providing care for some of the country’s 3 million Syrian refugees. Last month, she traveled to the United States to advocate on behalf of her colleagues – and to receive the 2016 Physicians for Human Rights Award in New York.
She sat down with PHR’s executive director Donna McKay for a conversation about her work, her motivations, her personal safety and her dreams for the future of Syria. What follows is an edited and condensed version of that conversation.
McKay: Dr. Lena, help me understand a little bit about what makes Syria such a dangerous place to practice medicine?
Dr. Lena: I think it’s related to the risk of being arrested. For a physician who works anyplace in Syria, whether it’s in areas held by the regime or the opposition, there is a risk. And for me, I cannot be there anymore, because there is a risk even to see my family.
McKay: But why specifically are physicians and medical workers targeted?
Dr. Lena: Because in the eyes of the regime, they are assisting the opposition. They are helping injured people who are against the regime. At the beginning of the revolution in 2011, government forces just arrested the doctors. There was no ISIS at that time, no armed groups, no fighting, nothing else – just they arrested the physicians who were treating those who were wounded or injured during anti-government demonstrations.
They also arrested people like my husband just because he and his colleagues tried to organize a network of field clinics with some medical equipment [to treat injured protesters]. That enough is a reason for the regime to arrest you. When I was notified of my husband’s arrest, the arrest report just said that he was helping the injured. That was written as the reason for his arrest.
In the last two years or so, the regime has been targeting medical facilities for airstrikes, and you can’t say it’s a mistake. One time, two times, you can understand – that would make sense for you if it’s a mistake. But some facilities like Bab al-Hawa Hospital have been struck six times. A doctor’s car was targeted, an MSF hospital was targeted. They know. It’s not a mistake.
McKay: What got you interested in working to document human rights abuses in Syria?
Dr. Lena: Before I trained with PHR [in documenting human rights abuses], I met a lot of survivors, and I was treating them as a physician. I didn’t approach what happened to them in a systematic way – to evaluate them, to have some evidence, and to make sure that I can document evidence of what they’ve experienced.
But later on, after the PHR training, I found that it’s very important to document the cases as early as possible to keep evidence so that a strong file can be brought to court. You hear stories of detainees, a lot of stories about violations of human rights, but if you don’t have evidence you cannot do anything to prosecute the criminals.
At this moment, we don’t have a mechanism for accountability or to prosecute the criminals, but at least maybe in the future in Syria we can work to make reparations for those victims and help them lead normal lives or reinvolve them in society.
The standard I want is that criminals should be prosecuted to keep Syria connected, because there can be no peace without justice. So it’s very important for the future of Syria. It may take 20 years or more, but at least in Syria we can offer some kind of justice for the people who are suffering.
McKay: Do you worry that the work you’re doing puts you at greater risk?
Dr. Lena: Yes, I am worried. I try to do my best to protect myself and my family, but it’s a risky job. I’m personally committed to this documentation work because two of my own family members are still missing inside Syria.
McKay: Wars end, and this war will end. What do you dream about when this war is over? What are you hopeful for?
Dr. Lena: I hope I can go back to Syria as soon as possible. I’d have to have guarantees that I wouldn’t be detained and that airstrikes would end, mainly for my children, because I would feel guilty if any of my family members were hurt. I will go back soon to Syria, and I hope that I will participate in rebuilding Syria and helping my people.
| 2019-04-21T16:49:07 |
https://souriahouria.com/conversations-one-doctors-struggle-for-justice/
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Protests in Nicaragua have left as many dead in just two months as the Venezuelan crisis did over the course of several years. Even with the opposition in talks with the government, experts say anything can happen.
Two months after an uprising took hold of Nicaragua, there appears to be no end in sight. It began on April 18, with citizens protesting President Daniel Ortega's controversial pension system reform. Ortega withdrew the proposal four days later, hoping the protests would end. Instead, demonstrators continued to rally, but this time against the repressive methods of the state and the deaths it produced, throwing the country into unexpected political chaos.
The magnitude of Nicaragua's anti-government protests and the brutality with which they have been repressed are reminiscent of the Venezuelan political crisis of the past several years.
Some 40 people died in Venezuela's protests of 2014; the unrest that faced President Nicolas Maduro last year left another 150 dead. But in just two months of civil disobedience in Nicaragua, the death toll is estimated to have reached 200 people, although the government only recognizes 46 deaths.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, has joined the chorus of outrage against the Ortega regime's tactics, saying that he condemned the killing that has gone on for two weeks "at the hands of police or pro-government forces."
But the violence has not abated. On June 16, in one of the worst cases so far reported, an entire family of six burned to death when a group of men set their home on fire. Prior to that, the most shocking case had been that of 15 people who were shot to death during a large, peaceful demonstration on May 30.
Kidnappings and torture are among the accusations of crimes against humanity leveled at the Ortega regime. Pro-government mobs and security forces have reportedly wounded thousands of people.
Nicaragua's Catholic Church and a number of other institutions have called for the Sandinista leader and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, to step down.
Rumors abound. In an interview with Nicaraguan media, writer and former Vice President Sergio Ramirez alleged that Ortega had held several meetings with representatives of US Senate, with the approval of the US Department of State, and agreed to early elections on March 2019. Is it at all likely?
"Anything is possible," said Sebastian Huhn, a political scientist at Germany's Osnabrück University. "Ortega is under a lot of pressure and agreeing to early elections may be his only chance to avoid ending up in a national or international tribunal," he said.
Yet, the embattled Nicaraguan president has still not outwardly made any effort to resolve the crisis.
"Ortega is not interested in national reconciliation. There is no doubt that the violence is coming from the state. The police and the Sandinista mobs follow his direct orders. He could stop the killing and he has not done it," Huhn said.
Sabine Kurtenbach, acting director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies in Hamburg, echoed Huhn's views, and said she believes there are only three plausible scenarios left for Nicaragua.
In the best case, various political forces in the country could come to an agreement to restore the constitutional order. But she admits she "can't imagine Ortega signing on to something like that," as the regime has already been willing to lose two important allies – the business community and the church.
The worst case sees further deterioration. Although the strength of the opposition lies in its commitment to peaceful protests, "the rise of groups willing to take up arms against the state cannot be ruled out." In such a scenario, the role of the armed forces, which have so far stayed out, may become relevant again.
And the third scenario? "Of course there is also the possibility that early elections are indeed called," Kurtenbach said.
For now, Ortega is refusing to loosen his grip on power. But unlike Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has severed ties with the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), the Nicaraguan president is still open to allowing the regional body to investigate the claims made against him.
The peace dialogue brokered by Nicaragua's clergy between the government and the opposition is still centered on whether or not the IACHR and observers from the UN and the EU will be allowed to enter the country.
"The international organizations are what the country needs most at this moment because local institutions cannot do the job," said Kurtenbach.
Representatives of the IACHR have announced plans to travel to Managua on June 25, though it is uncertain whether they'll be permitted entry.
The Nicaraguan president agreed to a key opposition demand, but continued to reject calls for a new election. Negotiations are underway to solve a political crisis that has lasted nearly a year.
| 2019-04-25T12:17:50 |
https://www.dw.com/en/will-nicaragua-be-the-next-venezuela/a-44319434
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Is Social Media a Sales Tool or a Customer Service Tool?
A friend of mine was telling me a very interesting story the other day. On Good Friday this year, he took his family to a well-known Pizza chain. He is a bit of a regular and quite a fan. Knowing this, he always arrives at opening time so there is no wait and he can grab the good seats. However, on arrival he noticed that there was only 2 staff on which he thought strange for Good Friday, especially as it was the school holidays and the eatery was at a big retail park. Not one to not know a reason, he questioned the manager who replied with “well, we looked at the books for Good Friday last year and it was really quiet”. My friend then pointed out that Good Friday 2012 was a heat wave and most families with young kids would have been enjoying the sun either on the beach, in the park or having a BBQ in the garden. He did not tell me the look on the manager’s face but it was not long before the place started filling up rapidly and sooner rather than later, people were being turned away. Some customers were waiting so long that they lost patience and walked away and some people just didn't go in.
This did get a response and, following a few DM’s and a phone call from my friend, the pizza company are now looking at how they will improve their social media to improve customer service.
Now, here is what could have happened had their social media been managed better. This tweet would have instantly been picked up by customer service and the opportunity could have been better handled with a tweet saying: “our restaurant is really busy at the moment so might be worth avoiding until it quietens down” followed by the hash tag “#pizzastaff are you free to put in a few hours extra work? #NEfollowers”. Even “apologies for the delays at our restaurant, have a drink on us” would have helped but, most of all, a response to my friend acknowledging and thanking him for making them aware.
I’m sure some of this would not sit well with some corporates, but saying a restaurant is busy indicates that the food is good and it would also avoid disappointment from loyal customers. Remember; if people have a bad experience they will tell about 30 people so if everyone in that restaurant told 30 people, 600 people could potentially be put off going to this restaurant.
Too often we focus on sharing our knowledge on offering special offers on social media without using it effectively to support our current client base. Ivan Misner (@Ivanmisner), Founder of Business Network International, the world’s leading referral organisation, says: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care” which is very true.
In summary, use social media to show how much you care about your customers and the results will improve your brand and customer loyalty. Too many companies e-mail when they should call or call when they should meet. If somebody has an issue - engage with them. We all make mistakes but it is how we respond to these mistakes that defines how we are judged.
My friend, by the way, was Russ Sawdon (@RussSawdon), Executive Director BNI Durham and Teesside. He genuinely cares about businesses succeeding.
If you would like help managing your social media or digital reputation, please drop us a line at [email protected] or call us on 01325 311 909.
This entry was posted in Social Media and tagged BNI, Business Networking International, Customer Service, Sales, social media, Twitter on 18/04/2013 by design365.
Having a well-built website that promotes your company professionally and effectively is one thing. Having a website that is properly marketed through well implemented digital strategies is another.
It is essential that you market your website, brand and business in order to get people talking about you and noticing what it is you’re doing and why it is different.
In this day and age, we all want everything to have been done yesterday to constantly keep ahead of the times. Web marketing allows you to get your company’s message across to thousands in a matter of seconds. Take Twitter, for example. It takes no time at all to post a tweet that can then be viewed by a huge audience, thanks to the powers of hash-tagging and retweeting alike. This makes social media campaigns, quite frankly, a time saving no-brainer when compared to a traditional marketing campaign.
Distributing marketing materials physically is limited by cost. You can only print out so many flyers and post them through so many doors, therefore limiting your potential market size. On the other hand, posting a blog on your website can be seen by absolutely anyone if the correct digital marketing strategies are applied.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) allows any online marketing material to be optimised in several relevant key search terms, something that traditional marketing simply cannot do. Once optimised, blogs, content, newsletters and brochures can appear in Google feeds through various relevant keyword link ups – now, can you do that with a your printed newspaper advert?
Web marketing also has the competitive advantage over traditional marketing as it allows you to publish a blog, for example, immediately with no time or geographical constraints. An idea can quite literally go from inside your head and onto the screens of millions all over the world within a matter of moments.
All of the processes involved with traditional marketing, such as print and distribution management, come at a price. And, although web marketing is by no means free, it is cheaper and provides a much greater return on investment. For example, investing in a PayPerClick advertising strategy will drive traffic to your website, resulting in an increase in sales and/or enquiries.
So, which method of marketing would you rather use?
For more information or to find out how we can help you market your business through the wonderful world of web, give us a call on 01325 311 909 or email us at [email protected].
This entry was posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media and tagged Advertising, Blogs, marketing, PayPerClick, search engine optimisation, SEO, social media, Web, Web Marketing, Website Specialists on 09/04/2013 by design365.
| 2019-04-20T16:57:51 |
https://www.design365.co.uk/blog/2013/04/
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Why are seat belt rules enforced so inconsistently?
Covering the recent taxiway collision at Kennedy airport between an Air France A380 and a regional jet, I emphasized the importance of staying seated after landing.
Perhaps the most important take-away, I wrote, is paying heed to that old, in-one-ear-and-out-the-other dictum from the flight attendants: Please remain seated with your seat belts securely fastened, until the plane is parked at the gate and the seat belt sign has been turned off.
Well, maybe, but a reader from Seattle wrote in with an interesting comment, pointing out the airlines' contradictory enforcement policies when it comes to the seat belt sign. On the ground, taxiing along at only a few miles per hour, the rule is enforced with a certain ferocity, as anybody who has mistakenly reached for his carry-ons after landing can attest. During flight, on the other hand, it's hit or miss. People amble about, to and from the lavatories, regardless of what the sign says. More often than not, nobody seems to mind.
If you ask me, this is mostly the result of crews being overly zealous with the sign in the first place. The first nibble of turbulence and DING, on it comes, and often it remains illuminated long after things have smoothed out. The effect of this, of course, is that people no longer pay attention.
To be clear, I am in no way suggesting that you ignore the sign, or any other crew member's instructions. Even when conditions are silky smooth, rough air could be looming ahead. This is especially true when flying at night through equatorial regions and the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the menaces of which I described here. And remember that turbulence is fickle and unpredictable. Even with all the tools at our disposal, from radar to real-time reports from other flights, we don't always know where the roughest air will be or how long it might last.
However, both despite and because of such hazards, I wish that certain of my colleagues were more discerning with the chimes.
To many passengers' ears this comes across as: "I'm saying this, but I don't really mean it or care."
My own turbulence P.A. is short and sweet. If conditions are unusual or there's specific information, I'll be more detailed, but usually it goes like this: "Seat belts, please. Thank you." Some of you might feel this is curt, and runs the risk of making nervous fliers even more nervous. Still, I think it's better. If a seat belt directive is really about safety, it needs to be taken seriously. People pay closest attention to language that is clear, concise and polite.
For what it's worth, carriers outside the United States tend to be more judicious with their dings. Why this is I can't say for sure. Part of it, perhaps, is that distinct American obsession with safety -- our tendency to get nervous and jittery over almost anything -- and our inherent fears of litigation. Ultimately this comes back to bite us. A too-liberal policy is indeed a risky one; on the other hand, an extreme better-safe-than-sorry mentality can actually increase the likelihood of somebody getting hurt.
By the way, the rear cabin tends to be more susceptible to bumps than the front. Now and then the flight attendants will call from the back -- where things might be swaying and banging more than we realize -- and request that the sign be switched on. If you're one of those fliers who is easily upset by turbulence, your best bet is a seat over or close to the wing.
For more on the facts and fallacies of turbulence, click here.
Author's comment: Fair enough, considering how jumpy I get at certain characterizations of pilots.
Author's comment: Perhaps I -- and Christine Negroni, whose quote I used -- stand corrected on the bandwidth issue. Regardless, I'm not sure if this idea is cost-effective or particularly useful when you consider how infrequently black box data is lost or unrecoverable. With respect to those satellite costs, a dollar a minute is still an awful lot when you're operating hundreds of long-haul flights daily. As for maintenance, many modern aircraft do already send wireless updates of the status of onboard systems.
| 2019-04-25T12:24:31 |
https://www.salon.com/2011/05/11/seat_belts_and_turbulence/
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Sample Term Papers discussing A Beautiful Mind.
A Beautiful Mind research paper due and don't know how to start it? How about like this?
A Beautiful Mind is based on the life of a Princeton professor named John Nash.
Schizophrenia, and its subtype paranoid schizophrenia are complex mental disorders that continue to challenge mental health professionals in the determination of its systemic origin and appropriate treatments to facilitate recovery. Manifested by symptoms that include delusions, hallucinations and the inability to work, study, socialize or provide self-care, schizophrenia is made even more complex by the paranoiac preoccupation of its delusions and hallucinations. The following is an examination of how paranoid schizophrenia, its symptoms and treatment are represented in the film "A Beautiful Mind" and how these representations compare with the established diagnostic criteria and literature on the disorder.
The film "A Beautiful Mind" is based on a fictional interpretation of the real-life experiences and events in the life of the renowned Princeton professor, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash who was diagnosed with adult onset paranoid schizophrenia in the 1950s culture. The film portrays Nash's gradual mental decline and the human mind, his intermittent recovery and relapse through the use and termination of an innovative regimen of drug therapy and his eventual resignation to the fact that his sustained mental health would depend on facing his delusions, on his life-long compliance with drug treatment as well as the purposeful pursuit of a less stressful lifestyle and increased social connections. These elements of his symptoms and recovery have been both challenged and supported as viable representations and solutions to addressing the psychological disorder of schizophrenia.
- Delusions (only one symptom is required if a delusion is bizarre).
- Hallucinations (only one symptom is required is hallucinations consist of two voices or running commentary of patient's thoughts or actions).
- Dysfunction in the ability to work, study, socialize or provide self-care.
Schizophrenia is diagnosed paranoiac if the patient manifests a preoccupation with these symptoms. The criteria of incoherent, derailed, disorganized or reduced speech, or disorganized or catatonic behavior associated with general schizophrenia is not associated with paranoid schizophrenia.
A sample A Beautiful Mind research paper looks at a true story about John Nash, a man who had schizophrenia, and comparing the movie and the disorder.
| 2019-04-20T20:17:30 |
https://www.papermasters.com/beautiful-mind.html
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Is there a complete list of multi-state routes anywhere? For my purposes, I'm asking about state-level routes that maintain the same route number across three or more states.
MSR 17 (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey) Ended when I-86 replaced PA-17.
MSR 26 (South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia) Eliminated with the creation of US-21 and 521.
MSR 96 (Colorado, Kansas, Missouri) The creation of US-400 eliminated an eastern segment of KS-96, breaking up the route.
MSR 120 (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio) Broken up when Michigan eliminated its section of the route.
MSR 789 (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana) The designation of 789, largely redundant, was eliminated in every state besides Wyoming.
MSR 80 (Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia) Has a gap across the Mississippi River due to the closure of the ferry. Furthermore, KY-80 may not have ever reached the ferry, with the 0.5 mile route segment between the ferry and KY-80's terminus in Columbus instead being KY-58.
If anyone knows of more and/or a more complete list, please post them here. I will update this list as more are posted.
You have MSR 96 (Colorado, Kansas), MSR 5 (Montana, North Dakota), and MSR 150 (Utah, Wyoming) off the top of my head.
EDIT: Just saw the three-state minimum.
It's cool. It's just that there are tons of two-state MSRs and I don't want to get bogged down by those.
Briefly going into fictional territory, the MSR 5 you mention could enter three states if Minnesota renumbered MN-175 to MN-5. But that'll never happen because the real MN-5 is an important Twin Cities metro route.
OK 99 once continued across the Red River as TX 99.
The ferry notwithstanding, this isn't really the case anymore. KY 80 ends at KY 58, about 3/4ths of a mile from the river. Kentucky official maps no longer sign concurrencies, and the lower number controls, so officially the route from the intersection in "downtown" Columbus to the river is only KY 58. But KY 80 is not signed there, either.
Aww, alright then. I've stricken it from the main list. Any idea when KY-80 was scaled back? I'd assume it was when the ferry closed. Or did it always end there (and thus doesn't belong on any list)?
Good catch. Added to the second list.
Not quite. I'm looking for those that enter at least three different states. If I'm counting only state line crossings, MSR 28 would be listed with five crossings, since it has two separate sections in both SC and GA.
Added the first one to the former list. I'm torn about the other two though. The existence of a RI-1A separate from US-1A muddies things even more—if they were switched it'd be a no-brainer.
Did MSR-96 use to run CO-KS-MO?
Most other MSRs in the South are going to be concentrated around North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Was MSR 789 ever signed in all three of CO, NM, WY or was it some dumb thing that Wyoming ended up with alone?
I believe that it was signed in all three states, including Wyoming and Arizona. I actually have a CO-789 sign myself.
The reason it's still around is in Wyoming is that the other states simply threw a redundant 789 concurrency on top of the existing routes, which was later deemed redundant and removed. Wyoming actually renumbered the existing routes.
Are those the only ones in VA and PA?
Since many route numbers in PA don't stay the same over state lines it is hard for PA to have many MSRs.
| 2019-04-23T13:54:14 |
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?amp;topic=24662.0
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What is the best way to find potential board members for your startup?
I am an entrepreneur in SF who is interested in assembling a board of directors. What is the best way to recruit experts who will genuinely be interested in mentoring and working with your company?
I think the premise of your question is wrong. The best way to recruit experts that are most likely to be helpful is not by building a Board of Directors.
Being on a board has a tremendous set of responsibilities that most people aren't prepared to take-on initially.
Furthermore, most early-stage investors believe that a working board is "overkill" for companies that haven't raised at least $1m in seed funding, so you might be exposing yourself to negative signal by actively building a board.
Given that you live in SF, you probably have already experienced the tremendous spirit of helpfulness that exists throughout SF and the Valley. If you are able to get through to people you consider a potentially good mentor, you'll most always be able to get at least a 30 minute coffee.
If there's strong personal chemistry between yourself and a mentor, they might be willing to formalize an advisory relationship where in exchange for equity, they might agree to do more work for you including making introductions.
But I'd be very cautious about formalizing a board relationship with anyone at this early stage.
I find LinkedIn and AngelList to be very powerful when combined. AngelList can be used to find people who are actively investing and advising, and LinkedIn is a better means of cold contact if you make your request contextually relevant.
Happy to talk to you in a quick call to share more of what I've learned in recruiting great advisers and investors.
| 2019-04-22T18:36:08 |
https://clarity.fm/questions/848/what-is-the-best-way-to-find-potential-board-members-for-your-startup
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If using basmati rice, soak it in water for 20 minutes for best results.
If using long grain rice, follow the instructions below.
Boil plenty of water in a large saucepan. Season with salt. Add rice. When cooked, drain and leave to cool.
Heat oil in a large wok or frying pan over high heat. Add garlic and stir fry for few seconds. Add vegetables. Season with salt. Stir fry for 3 minutes or until veggies are tender but crunchy. Move the vegetables to one side. Pour in the whisked eggs. Season with salt. When eggs start to set, break it up to make scrambled eggs. Season with black pepper. Add white vinegar. Stir in the cooked rice. Add soy sauce. Stir fry for 3-4 minutes or until heated through. Remove from heat. Garnish with spring onions.
• You can add other vegetables like corn, spring onions and bean sprouts to the fried rice.
• To make this non-vegetarian, simply add some chopped bacon, ham or rotisserie chicken.
| 2019-04-18T14:49:44 |
http://baileyfarmsinc.com/egg-fried-rice-indian-style/
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What are the duties of the lawyer represent the debtor-in-possession? We know the DIP has fiduciary duties to the estate. Does this mean that the DIP’s attorney is actually counsel for the “estate”? This is not a question on a law school exam, but a very real and vexing practical issue that arises in situations when the DIP acts in ways that appear to compromise its fiduciary duties to the estate. Some courts facing this issue have relied on the designation of the lawyer as “counsel for the estate” as a way of expressing their frustration with cases in which counsel for DIPs have ratified the bad decisions of the individuals speaking for the DIPs. Although “counsel for the estate” is a convenient concept, there remains the need for more clarity in terms of describing specifics of the DIP’s fiduciary duties and the particular duties of DIP counsel. This is the task the Ethics Task Force took on in drafting its proposal Report on Duties of Counsel for a DIP as Fiduciary and Responsibilities to the Estate.
This Report details and discusses the multi-party relationships and duties—lawyer to client (the DIP), DIP to estate, and lawyer to court -- that arise in reorganization cases. The amorphous nature of the “estate” is a further complicating factor. The DIP is more of a quasi-trustee than it is the pure equivalent of a state law trustee, having certain obligations that rise to the level of fiduciary duties, as well as obligations that relate to its status as a debtor in bankruptcy. Representing the DIP/debtor client entails counseling the “debtor part” of the client on exercising its rights and responsibilities as defined under the Bankruptcy Code and advising the “DIP part” of the client requires an understanding of and facilitating the exercise of the DIP’s fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and impartiality. It also requires the lawyer’s refusal to participate in the client’s proposed violation of its statutory and fiduciary duties.
We even included some visuals to show the differences in duties owed to the DIP as the fiduciary of the estate and the debtor (which is not a fiduciary).
This seems like it is most acute in individual chapter 11 cases, where clients have the most trouble wrapping their mind around "fiduciary of the estate" and "I'm not really your attorney." I have wondered whether it would make sense for the debtor's attorneys in individual chapter 11 cases to actually move for the appointment of a trustee at the outset to make the case more manageable and to increase the odds of a case actually being completed.
| 2019-04-25T10:20:39 |
https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2013/06/duties-of-counsel-for-a-debtor-in-possession.html
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This article is about the species. For a specific instance of this species, see Pichu (disambiguation).
Pichu is a social Pokémon known for its playful and mischievous demeanor. It is usually found in groups and often touch tails with other Pichu as a show of courage, creating a shower of sparks that can make them cry. It is inept at storing electricity, and may discharge if amused, startled, or subjected to shock. However, it cannot discharge without being shocked itself. Charging up is more easily done on days of dryness or with thunderclouds. The crackling of static electricity generated by Pichu is audible. It can zap an adult human, but will surprise itself if it does. Pichu primarily lives in the forest, though it has also been depicted to thrive in urban areas.
Pichu has an alternate form called Spiky-eared Pichu that appeared in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, as well as the the anime and the manga. This form is female-only and has three spikes on the tip of its ear, but otherwise looks the same as any other Pichu.
A Pichu with a spiked ear, known as Spiky-eared Pichu, appeared in Arceus and the Jewel of Life. She helped Pikachu and Piplup find the keys for the jail cell that held Ash, Dawn, Brock, and Damos. The Spiky-eared Pichu also appeared in Pikachu's Big Sparking Search, where she and Smoochum were preparing a birthday party for Bellossom. The Spiky-eared Pichu and a Pikachu-colored Pichu star in the fourth ending of the Diamond & Pearl series.
Multiple Pichu made its main series debut in The Apple Corp, where they were stealing apples from Charmaine's apple orchard. In the end, Charmaine decided to keep them so they could help around the orchard.
Two Pichu appeared in Pikachu's Island Adventure, where they, along with six Wynaut and a Buizel, were forced off their island by Meowth and his cronies, who claimed the island for themselves. As a result, Pikachu and his friends agreed to help them reclaim the island.
A Pichu appeared in Pika and Goliath!, under the ownership of Sho, a Trainer who sought to have possession of one Pokémon each from the Pikachu evolutionary line. Arrogant like its Trainer, it would watch both of Sho's battles with Ash while using a Raichu.
A Pichu appeared in A Jolting Switcheroo!, under the ownership of Lena, although it was cared for by Lyn. Lyn's bag was accidentally taken by Bonnie, who had a similar bag with her Dedenne inside; they eventually got their bags and Pokémon back.
A Pichu appeared on a girl's shoulder briefly in Celebi: The Voice of the Forest. They were seen in a window during Ash's battle at the beginning of the movie.
A Pichu appeared in Lights, Camerupt, Action! as an actor in one of Elijah's movies.
A Pichu appeared in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew as one of Mew's transformations.
A Coordinator's Pichu appeared in May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!, where it was used in the Appeals Round of the Kanto Grand Festival.
Three Pichu appeared in Hungry For the Good Life! as some of the Pokémon being cared for by Mr. Backlot.
A Pichu appeared in Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade as one of the Pokémon watching Meloetta's concert.
Two Pichu appeared in Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!. They were among the Pokémon residing in a forest.
Three Trainers' Pichu appeared in A Shocking Grocery Run!.
Two Pichu appeared in The Sun, the Scare, the Secret Lair!, when Mallow went to study them as part of a class assignment.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in Crystal-Clear Sleuthing!.
A student's Pichu appeared in A Guardian Rematch!.
A student's Pichu appeared in So Long, Sophocles!.
A Pichu appeared in I Choose You!, where it was playfully chasing a Chikorita.
Three Trainers' Pichu appeared in Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!.
A Pichu appeared in a fantasy in Now You See Them, Now You Don't!.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in Getting a Jump on the Competition!.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in the banned episode SM064.
Six Trainers' Pichu appeared in A Young Royal Flame Ignites!.
Multiple Trainers' Pichu appeared in The Power of Us.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in All They Want to Do is Dance Dance!.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in I Choose Paradise!, where it was among the Pokémon seen at the Pokémon Paradise Resort.
Multiple Pichu appeared in Securing the Future!, with one being wild and the rest under the ownership of different Trainers. They joined the rest of Alola in showering Necrozma with light so it could return to its true form.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in Turning the Other Mask!.
Two Trainers' Pichu appeared in Heart of Fire! Heart of Stone!.
Two Trainers' Pichu appeared in SM115.
EP179 Pichu Ash's Pokédex Pichu, the Tiny Mouse Pokémon. A pre-evolved form of Pikachu. Despite their size, Pichu release bursts of electricity that can shock even humans. However, Pichu are unskilled at controlling their electricity, and sometimes release it by accident when surprised, or when laughing, and shock themselves.
Gold, in his desperation, protected an Egg containing the offspring of Red's Pika and Yellow's Chuchu from the Masked Man. Soon thereafter, Gold's own talent as the "hatcher" allowed a powerful Pichu to hatch, with which he was able to defeat the villain and free Celebi from the GS Ball using Raikou's massive electrical power. He also returned with his parents to help destroy Guile Hideout's giant Kyogre monster with a Volt Tackle.
Multiple Pichu appeared in Suffering Psyduck.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in Deprogramming Porygon-Z.
A Pichu appeared in Out-Odding Oddish, under the ownership of a Pokéathlon participant.
In Pangoro Poses a Problem, multiple Pichu were among the Electric-type Pokémon that charges the Prism Tower during a blackout.
A Trainer's Pichu appeared in The Decision and the Tournament of Six.
A Pichu appeared in The Final Match and a Surprising Finale! under the ownership of Hau. It battled in the Iki Town festival tournament and lost against Gladion's Porygon.
It still can't use electricity well. When it's surprised or excited, it discharges electricity unintentionally.
It has electric sacs in its cheeks. When they're fully charged, Pichu plays very energetically.
Pichu also has the lowest base HP and Defense stats of all Electric-type Pokémon.
Pichu draws inspiration from squirrels and various other rodents.
| 2019-04-21T10:35:00 |
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pichu_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
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z = amdemod(y,Fc,Fs) demodulates the amplitude modulated signal y from a carrier signal with frequency Fc (Hz). The carrier signal and y have sample frequency Fs (Hz). The modulated signal y has zero initial phase and zero carrier amplitude, so it represents suppressed carrier modulation. The demodulation process uses the lowpass filter specified by [num,den] = butter(5,Fc*2/Fs).
z = amdemod(y,Fc,Fs,ini_phase) specifies the initial phase of the modulated signal in radians.
z = amdemod(y,Fc,Fs,ini_phase,carramp) demodulates a signal that was created via transmitted carrier modulation instead of suppressed carrier modulation. carramp is the carrier amplitude of the modulated signal.
z = amdemod(y,Fc,Fs,ini_phase,carramp,num,den) specifies the numerator and denominator of the lowpass filter used in the demodulation.
Set the sample rate and carrier frequency.
Generate a sinusoidal signal having a 0.01 s duration.
Amplitude modulate the signal, s.
The demodulated signal is nearly identical to the original signal.
| 2019-04-18T19:03:24 |
https://kr.mathworks.com/help/comm/ref/amdemod.html
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Are Ardee, St. Mary's set to dominate Louth GAA?
The 'cream of the county' could be about to rise to the top again. If it does, history suggests Louth's stock could also be on the way up.
St Mary's win in the county minor championship less than a fortnight ago was the first to go Ardee way in 30 years. That's a long time for a club that once was the dominant force in underage football, winning this title eleven times before making it the dandy dozen against Geraldines. Four of those titles came in succession during the 1960s when Nicky Roe was issuing the young bloods with their instructions.
Move up to senior and you find it's only slightly better, 22 years having elapsed since the Joe Ward Cup was on Deeside. It's not that there haven't been many chances to add to a tally which currently stands at eleven. Since the 1995 defeat of St Patrick's, the wearers of the all-blue jersey had to stand around three times while the opposing captains were presented with the local game's most prestigious trophy.
I was getting a lift over the stile at the Athletic Grounds when I heard an Ardee old-stager shouting, “Come on the cream of the county” as St Mary's battled their way to another victory. I don't know if this catchcry was widely heard at the time, but it stuck with me, and I often think about it whenever the chat is about the great rivalries and players of the past.
This was the 1950s when Mary's won the senior championship three times having taken it twice in the latter part of the previous decade. And while doing the business for their club, many of the Ardee players were also starring in the red jersey, providing the backbone for some of the county's best-ever teams.
Four of them, including the entire half-back line of Sean Boyle, Paddy Markey and Paddy McArdle, played in the 1950 All-Ireland final, and when Louth won the title seven years later, there were another four on the panel along with Kevin Beahan, who, while he was playing with Dublin team, Sean McDermott's, at the time, meant more to Ardee than the Turfman Dermot O'Brien used sing about.
But even before either of the two All-Ireland finals, Mary's had made a massive imprint on the inter-county scene. The 1949 National League semi-final brought Louth and Cavan together, and at the back for the Reds were the above-mentioned half-back trio, fronting a full-back line that included Jack Bell and Johnny Malone, two other St Mary's players.
It didn't end at that. On the Cavan team was another Mary's defender, Paddy Smith, who, when he played against Louth in the previous year's All-Ireland semi-final, had yet another club colleague in opposition, Ray Mooney.
There are many who nowadays make Pairc Mhuire a regular port of call who are getting giddy with excitement. They can't wait for the club's youngsters to graduate; and if Jonathon Commins is the main focus of attention it's easy to understand why.
This young man was on the left wing against Geraldines in the minor final and though scores came easy to his side, especially in the second half, his own tally of 2-13 was mightily impressive, quite possibly the biggest ever recorded by an individual in a county final of any grade. He's just 16, leaving him eligible for next year's new under-17 grade.
Let's hope Jonathon doesn't come under the same scrutiny as this year's star of the under-18 inter-county competition, Kerry's David Clifford. The county has already lost one valuable asset to Aussie Rules, the hugely talented Ciaran Byrne. As he plots for his first campaign in charge, new county team boss, Pete McGrath, knows better than most how important it is to have a constant feed from the underage ranks.
'Bred for the game' is an expression Master Commins' paternal grandfather, Kevin, has often used. But he'd be talking about greyhounds, stayers being his long-established Ardee kennel's main provider of winners over the years.
However, before turning his attention to the longtails, Kevin was no mean half-back, wearing the Sean McDermott's jersey. His son, Martin, Jonathon's father, was also a Cookstown regular, so it's no accident that there's footballer, and a good one at that, in the latest litter, as Kevin might put it.
There are others on the St Mary's team who look capable of making the grade, but the message from here is, as always, give them time.
| 2019-04-22T17:59:18 |
https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/sport/277978/are-ardee-st-mary-s-set-to-dominate-louth-gaa.html
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When we lift the lid from a cup full of hot water, the drippings will wet the table. Why not romanticize this process by designing a cloud-shaped lid? The condensation is dripping from the lid like falling rain, which is transient but romantic.
| 2019-04-18T19:00:46 |
https://ifworlddesignguide.com/entry/144127-rainy-cup-lid
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How big is the Stardust spacecraft?
We are flying a small spacecraft, weighing only about 770 pounds (350 kg). It is the size of an average desk, except for the solar panels, which extend several feet in the front and back.
What will you find out by taking samples from the comet?
Since comets are thought to be the leftover material of the early Solar System, created before the time of the formation of the planets, it is hoped that scientists will find out more about the creation our universe. The planets have been altered by weathering, tectonics and other factors. In contrast, comets are believed to be the most unchanged, pristine bodies in the solar system. This means that their materials are the oldest and most basic available for study.
How come the comets don't change?
Most comets don't change once they are formed because they are kept in the deep freeze and isolation of space outside our Solar System. Comets come from the Kuiper Belt which is beyond Pluto, far from the Sun, where there is nothing to contaminate them. When comets approach the Sun they heat up and lose some of their material and during their travels, plus, they can potentially pick up foreign materials.
Stardust was selected to fly in Fall 1995, with work beginning in January 1996. It takes a long time to plan a mission, then build and fly a spacecraft. Because of the distances involved, missions can take many years to fly and complete.
Why does it take five years for the spacecraft to reach the comet?
Being in the right place at the right time is the major factor in determining the length of time of Stardust's journey. However, getting to the right place requires moving great distances at precise rates of travel. The spacecraft and comet need to encounter each other at similar speeds, so that the comet particles do not strike the spacecraft with such force that they destroy it.
To accomplish this rendezvous, the speed of the spacecraft must be increased beyond the initial push it received during launch. This maneuver requires swinging by the Earth for a gravity assist to increase its speed and enlarge the size of the spacecraft's orbit. This lengthens the distance it has to travel so that its path precisely intersects that of the comet. The return trip to Earth adds months to the journey, because the spacecraft must complete an entire orbit after its visit to the comet, so that it meets Earth at the proper position to successfully return the samples. All this adds up to five years of carefully planned and managed spaceflight.
What is involved in planning the entry speed and chute deployment to slow the landing of the return capsule?
The challenges of Sample Return Capsule (SRC) entry involved solving problems involving its travel at both supersonic and subsonic speeds. Engineers worked hard to determine the best capsule shape for speed, stability and survivability. One challenge was to make certain the capsule continuously orients its heat shield toward the atmosphere, which is made possible by the aerodynamics of its design and location of the center of gravity. During testing, design changes were made that included increasing the rotation speed upon separation from the Stardust spacecraft, to increase the capsule's stability. The size of the drogue chute was also increased beyond that already planned to better slow and direct the capsule during its descent.
What will the Stardust spacecraft be doing while on its way to the comet?
The spacecraft will be collecting interstellar dust samples, using the B-side of the aerogel collector in the mission while traveling to the comet at certain points. Real time interstellar dust analysis will also be conducted with the Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) instrument. There are some planned imaging activities when the spacecraft flies past the Earth and Moon for the gravity assist. For the majority of the cruise to the comet, and after comet encounter, the spacecraft will be in a low power mode that saves energy while ensuring that all thermal environments are maintained.
What are the possibilities of inclement weather at the time of landing in Utah? Can the trajectory be adjusted to allow for landing at an alternate site?
There can be inclement weather for the Stardust landing but on average the January weather at UTTR is pretty good: only 6 days with visibility less than 7 miles, only 0.5 inches of precipitation, only 4 inches of snowfall, and the minimum mean temperature is 17 degrees F which will probably be close to our recovery temperature since the capsule comes in at 3 am. The trajectory cannot be changed to go to an alternate site - years of preparation and coordination are required to bring anything in from outer space.
Mixing four chemicals, which react to form a wet gel, similar to a gelatin dessert creates Aerogel. The gel is then dried in an autoclave, in essence a pressure cooker that applies pressure and heat.
The Stardust Project is using aerogel as a capture media, where it will collect very small interstellar and cometary particles as they embed themselves in the porous aerogel. Because of its unique physical properties, aerogel has also been proposed for a wide variety of uses, including thermal insulation, acoustical insulation, optical components, catalytic supports and filters.
The microstructure of aerogel is extremely porous, so it feels like volcanic glass pumice or even a very fine, dry sponge, except that it is much lighter.
Aerogel has a blue cast for the same reason that the sky is blue. The very small particles that compose the aerogel scatter blue light, the same as our atmosphere scatters blue light. Similarly, when you look through the aerogel the light appears yellowish or reddish, like that of a sunrise or sunset.
Where can I get some aerogel?
Aerogel is commercially available in limited quantities from a few companies. These can be found quite easily by searching the Internet using the keyword: aerogel. JPL only produces specialized aerogel used for spaceflight.
How much does aerogel cost?
Aerogel is relatively expensive primarily because it is currently made in very limited quantities. While increasing the scale of aerogel production will reduce the cost, the basic process and raw materials are still somewhat costly. For relatively small quantities of aerogel the cost is about $1.00 per cubic centimeter for one liter.
What makes aerogel so special?
The fact that typical aerogels are between 95 and 99.5 percent porous gives them their unusual characteristics. Because of this highly porous quality they are characterized by extremely high surface area, high thermal and acoustical resistivity, low dielectric constant, and low refractive index. There are other materials that exhibit each of these properties, however, only aerogel exhibits all of these properties at the same time.
Aerogel was first made in the 1930s by Samuel S. Kistler, who obtained several patents for making a variety of aerogel, including silica, alumina, chromia, tin and carbon.
Why is it called a gel?
During the production of aerogel a wet gel is formed which when dried becomes filled with air. Thus the name aerogel, which means: air gel.
Aerogel is made up of microscopic beads or strands connected to form a continuous network. Since the network fills space and supports itself, it is considered a solid.
Silica aerogel is semi-elastic because it returns to its original form if slightly deformed. If further deformed, a dimple will be created. However, if the elastic limit is exceeded, it will shatter catastrophically, like glass.
Is aerogel such a good insulator because the air within is trapped and immobile? And, is this why it doesn't melt?
Heat is transferred in three ways: convection, conduction, and radiation. Aerogel is a good thermal insulator for convective heat transfer because the air is severely limited in the distance that it can move and thus transport heat energy. The pores of a typical 20 mg/cc silica aerogel are roughly 0.00000001 meters in diameter. Aerogel is a good conductive insulator because the silica molecules are not as well "connected" as those in a metal (a good thermal conductor). Silica aerogel is a poor radiative insulator because infrared radiation (which transfers heat) passes right through silica aerogel. For this reason, carbon was added to the MER aerogel to stop infrared radiation from passing through it. This is also why one feels the heat from a flame. Air is a poor convective transporter of heat, but infrared radiation passes right through air, from the flame to your hand.
Note: the index of refraction depends on the density of the aerogel.
Would it be possible to create aerogel lighter than air by using helium instead of air?
Aerogel cannot be made less dense than air by filling it with helium. You might be able to make it less dense than the surrounding atmosphere by filling the aerogel with helium and then placing it in an atmosphere of radon or possibly xenon.
| 2019-04-24T09:59:38 |
https://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/faq.html
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Proper brushing should take about 2 to 3 minutes. Use a soft brush and a flouride toothpaste. Start at one place and work around your mouth. Brush each tooth as shown below.
1. Hold the brush at a 45 angle at the gumline. Gently brush using a circular motion. Don’t scrub or use a lot of pressure.
2. Brush the inner and top chewing surfaces of the back teeth using the same circular motion.
3. Turn the brush and use to tip to clean the inner surfaces of the upper and lower front teeth. Brush your tongue and rinse well.
Floss at least once a day to remove plaque between the teeth and below the gums. Start at one place and work all the way around your mouth. Floss between each tooth as shown below.
2. Ease the floss between your teeth. Wrap it around one side of the tooth, forming a C-shape.
3. Gently work the floss up and down, going below the gum line. Then, go back to step 2 and do the other side of the tooth.
| 2019-04-21T16:44:34 |
https://www.kirksvilledental.com/cleanings
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Let's imagine the simple task: maintain the RADOS-GW availability (active-active or active-passive protection allowed) in a small SES cluster (less than 7 nodes, multiple node roles are supported).
Should the federated configuration with 1 zone for all RGWs (at several nodes) be used only, or the simpler way to do the same does exist?
Is it possible to create a 'placeholders' at nodes 2, 3, 4,... for RADOS-GW, created at node 1, and make any of these 'placeholders' be able to run at their nodes?
The door is opened: all RADOS gateways in the cluster are using the same object space. No federation or multisite headache required: just create the additional gateways at the nodes, synchronize the CEPH configuration and list the gateways names/IPs in the client / load balanser / HA proxy daemon.
The most reasonable and 'musthave' feature appeared almost not documented.
| 2019-04-24T10:14:33 |
https://forums.suse.com/archive/index.php/t-7973.html?s=b966a07318a012694cc29a1c1aeaee02
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The official languages of Scotland are English , Scots , and Gaelic. English is spoken by most people in Scotland, with only a small number, mostly in the Western Isles , speaking Gaelic.
Football is the most popular sport in Scotland. Three of the big cities, Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dundee , have two or three big football teams, and most cities have at least one team.
The two most famous teams in Scotland are known as the "Old Firm". These are Celtic and Rangers. These two Glasgow clubs have a lot of history, and are fierce rivals, often causing fights, riots and even murders between the fans.
Rangers are world record holders, having won the most amount of league titles of any football team, currently Scotland were the winners of the Homeless World Cup in and are the current champions after they won in August They defeated Mexico 4—3 in Paris , France.
These teams are in the Premier League right now, and usually take the most places in the top six of the league. Some other Scottish clubs include Gretna , who won three titles in a row, moving from the Third Division, to the SPL in only three seasons.
Gretna ran out of money, and they were shut down. Queen of the south also reached the europa league, after reaching the Scottish cup final.
In , its name was changed to "Scottish Premiership". Golf is a popular sport in Scotland. It is unique, as Scotland is the birthplace of golf, and there are many public golf courses where people can play for small fees.
Everywhere else in the world, golf is a game for the rich. Sandy Lyle was the first Scottish golfer to win a major title in modern times.
Colin Montgomery is one of the best players never to have won a major championship after finishing second five times. Scotland is also involved with motorsports.
Jackie Stewart is a 3-time F1 World Champion and regarded as one of the best drivers ever. Scotland were the world champions of the unusual sport of Elephant Polo in Traditional Scottish musical instruments include: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Discover Orkney, these 70 islands behold a rare magic, encapsulating the great outdoors. Some other symbols used for Scotland are a thistle , and a lion rampant.
The capital city of Scotland is Edinburgh on the east coast, but the biggest city is Glasgow on the west coast. The Atlantic Ocean borders the west coast and the North Sea is to the east.
The north of Scotland has many mountains, and few people live there. Most people live in the lowlands Edinburgh , Glasgow , Aberdeen and Dundee , or around the coast.
South of the central belt are the Southern Uplands , another hilly place. On the west coast and in the north are a lot of islands.
The tallest mountain in Scotland is Ben Nevis , which is also the tallest mountain in the British Isles. The history of Scotland begins around 1, years ago, when humans first began to live in Scotland after the end of the last ice age.
These people did not have writing. The written history of Scotland begins when the Roman Empire came to Britain, and the Romans invaded what is now England and Wales , calling it Britannia.
To the north was Caledonia , land not owned by the Romans. Its people were the Picts. This meant the Scottish were not affected by the Romans in the same way the English were.
The sea was very important for trade reasons. Because of where Scotland is in the world and its strong reliance on trade routes by sea, the nation held close links in the south and east with the Baltic countries, and through Ireland with France and Europe.
Following the Acts of Union and Industrial Revolution , Scotland grew to be one of the largest commercial, intellectual and industrial states in Europe.
The Wars of Scottish Independence were many military campaigns fought between Scotland and England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
The First War — began with the English invasion of Scotland in , and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in At the end of both wars, Scotland still was a free and independent country, which was its main aim throughout the conflict.
The wars were also important for other reasons, such as the invention of the longbow as an important weapon in medieval warfare. His granddaughter, Margaret, the "Maid of Norway" , a four-year-old girl, was the heir.
Because there was no clear heir to the throne anymore, the Scottish people decided to ask Edward I of England to choose their king.
The strongest candidate was called Robert Bruce. Robert Bruce had castles all around the country, and had a private army.
But Edward wanted to invade Scotland, so he chose the weaker candidate, who was John Balliol. He had the strongest claim to the throne, and became king on 30 November Robert Bruce decided to accept this decision his grandson and namesake later took the throne as Robert I.
Over the next few years, Edward I kept trying to undermine both the authority of King John and the independence of Scotland.
In , John, on the recommendation of his chief councillors, entered into an alliance with France. This was the beginning of the Auld Alliance.
In , Edward invaded Scotland. He removed King John from power, and put him in jail. The following year William Wallace and Andrew de Moray raised an army from the southern and northern parts of the country to fight the English.
Under their joint leadership, an English army was defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Edward came north in person and defeated Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk in Wallace escaped but resigned as Guardian of Scotland.
John Comyn and Robert the Bruce were put in his place. In Wallace was captured by the English, who executed him for treason.
Wallace claimed he did not commit treason as he was not loyal to England. Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V , his support slowly strengthened; and by , with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and the Earl of Moray , only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling were still under English control.
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Lyle: Music is divided up into measures or bars. Each bar can have 4 beats, which is called common time or 4/4 time. Sometimes the bars will have 3 beats, or 3/4 time. There are several other configurations of time. Tonight we will focus on 4/4 time. Think of a bar as an inch on a ruler. That inch can be divided many ways, in quarters, eights, sixteenths and thirds.
Lyle: Inside that inch, think of each quarter inch as one beat in the bar. As a basic rule to follow, you'll strum down on each beat, called the "downbeat". Let's use an Em chord for the following strum patterns.
Lyle: Here is an example of a basic strum pattern. Strum down for each beat. Try to tap your foot and count out loud at the same time of each strum.
Doug: How much time is 1 bar ?
Lyle: Doug, 1 bar = 4 beats.
Lyle: Now add an upbeat at the end of the bar, right after the 4th beat. Just like taking the last quarter inch on the ruler and dividing it in half. You strum down for the downbeats, up for the up beats.
Lyle: When you strum up, angle your pick so it glides over the strings and doesn't get "stuck" in them.
Lyle: Each of these strum patterns has a jam track to go with them. They are all the same "groove", just the rhythm guitar in the jam track has been changed to go along with each new pattern.
Pete: What kind of pick should I use?
Lyle: Pete, medium to heavy for a strong and full sound.
Lyle: Now add another upbeat after beat 3.
Lyle: Now add another upbeat after beat 2. This is a common strum pattern. Beat 1 is all by itself, while beat 2, 3, and 4 all have upbeats with them. This helps put the emphasis on beat 1, the most important beat in the measure.
Lyle: Add one more upbeat after beat 1 and you'll have a full measure of downbeats and upbeats.
Lyle: This next pattern divides up the bar with upbeats after the 2nd and 4th beats only.
Lyle: This next pattern is a very common strum pattern. It works well with most songs, yet, it can be a tricky one. The hard part about this pattern is beat 3. You'll move your pick hand down for beat 3, but don't hit the strings. Then you'll strum up for the upbeat of beat 3 and follow through. Watch the video and you'll see how my strumming hand keeps a steady down and up throughout the pattern. Count out loud and tap your foot while you learn new rhythms. It helps you focus your attention.
Lyle: The next jam track is 4 bars long and uses these 3 chords: Em, Am, and B7. Each chord gets 1 bar to make up a 4 bar progression. The progression is: Em-Am-Em-B7.
Lyle: Practice any of the 7 different strum patterns you've learned above to this chord progression.
Lyle: Here's a sample of me playing pattern 3 with this chord progression.
Lyle: Here's a sample of me playing pattern 7 to the chord progression.
Lyle: Like I stated before, take some of these simple patterns and learn how to tap your foot to each downbeat/downstrum and count out loud.
Lyle: If you played the media in the tab files, you would have heard me counting along with the beats.
Lyle: Sometimes I've had to work on complex rhythms and being able to "count through" them helped me understand what I was trying to do.
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The story: La Paz, Bolivia, is feeling the heat of climate change. Situated in the “high tropics” zone, La Paz relies on two main sources for its water: nearby glaciers and seasonal rains that replenish the city’s reservoirs. The glaciers have all but dried up, and the rains aren’t coming, prompting the government to suddenly cut water to about half of its 800,000 residents last October.
As Popular Science reports, the situation in La Paz likely could have been prevented: “For years, scientists predicted that climate change would cause a devastating water shortage in the Andean plain.” NGOs pleaded for better water management strategies while an important lake dried up and winter rains decreased by 25 percent. Yet when a local professor warned the government in 2005, no action was taken.
What’s next: La Paz’s waterless future may already be set: “[B]ecause of Bolivia’s location and elevation, the Andean nation is experiencing the impact of … [its] carbon emissions at a far more accelerated pace than the U.S.” the professor, Edson Ramirez, said.
What’s next: The lack of water and influx of coffee rust has all but crippled the local economy — and has led many farm workers to give up and make the dangerous and expensive journey to the United States to find work. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, between October 2015 and September 2016, about 75,000 Guatemalan migrants were stopped along the border ― almost four times more than in 2010.
The story: In the Wilmington, Del., neighborhood of Southbridge, even a 15-minute rainstorm can cause the streets to flood and water to come up through basement drains. It’s not just the town’s 100-year-old tide gates that are failing to keep out the water ― the town is only 4 feet (1.2 meters) above sea level, and that sea level is rising due to climate change.
What’s next: A new project provides some hope. After a decade of petitioning, planning and meetings, Southbridge is building a US$ 24 million South Wilmington Wetlands Park. According to Yale Environment 360, will include re-engineered plumbing and a storm sewer overflow that will run into an expanded, restored wetland that will be open to the public as a park. “[I]f we’re not designing for future conditions ― in placement of structures and infrastructure ― we’re doing a disservice,” said Susan Love, head of climate and sustainability for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
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There is one reigning champion in the Champions League: Cristiano Ronaldo.
Real Madrid, the holders, are gone, conquered by Ajax in the last 16.
You wonder, would their bid for a historic fourth straight title be so premature if they hadn't sold Ronaldo to Juventus last summer? You don't suspect it.
But Ronaldo, he always, survives a fright in the final round that required him to score an enchanting hat trick to overthrow a two-goal deficit against Atletico Madrid.
Ironically, now that he is Ajax, he has to get rid of here in Turin on Tuesday night.
If he had to prove the difference again – he scored during last week's 1-1 draw in Amsterdam – then the colors in the Bernabeu will continue to count the costs of his absence, and not the £ 99.2 million they have collected as compensation for his loss.
For Juventus, spending is worth every penny if Ronaldo wins a first Champions League victory in 23 years. And that is why they bought the Portuguese superstar.
Not to win Serie A. They can do that without him, as they have demonstrated over the past seven seasons.
Gazzetta dello Sport Splashed Ronaldo on his iconic appearance mocked as a character from Game of Thrones for a competition program. But they did that on Tuesday.
There he sits, sword and all, resting under the head, & # 39; Il mio trono no si tocca & # 39 ;. Translation: My throne cannot be touched. His intervention against Atletico was certainly that of a man who was not ready to give up his crown.
Walk into a tabaccheria in a suburb near the Juventus Stadium and a giant statue of Ronaldo will smile back at you. It is not for sale, it is just a cherished property of the owner, just as Ronaldo is now from Turin.
The intensity of the obsession has not yet scaled the heights of Naples and Diego Maradona, but if he is to be the inspiration behind a third European title, the old lady's eternal love awaits their old master.
He would have to slow down at the age of 34, and a rising wage combined with a rising age was a factor in Real's decision to let him go.
But Ronaldo continues to defy nature's expectation. They say that age is just a number, but his number is much larger, proof that his time is at the top.
He has 25 goals out of 37 appearances for Juventus, representing his goal-a-game ratio for Real.
But remember that he has eight of his last eight and you wonder if he actually saved a bit for the business end of the campaign. After all, he does not have to go on tilt to conquer Italy.
That is not the case in Europe, because he will discover against an Ajax side that has the club's best score since the mid-1990s, when they lifted the Champions League in 1995 to Juventus in the final of next year to beat again. the semi-final phase 12 months later.
In Barcelona-bound Frenkie de Jong and captain Matthijs de Ligt – 21 and 19 respectively – they have two of the most exciting prospects in Europe.
So this is a new generation. But unfortunately it is one that, given its talents, will be broken up as quickly as it originated. Lifetime and Ajax are no longer compatible.
The same cannot be said of Ronaldo and success. He is the lasting emblem of triumph. Just ask his old friends in Real Madrid.
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Garrison Diversion: needed, or a clear case of 'pork'?
By 1936, North Dakota farmers desperately needed water. For three years in a row, drought had shriveled their wheat into broom straw and parched their pocketbooks - while in the western part of the state the Missouri River, untapped, gushed south toward the Mississippi River and the sea. North Dakota begged the federal government for money to divert Missouri River water into thirsty fields. The funds didn't come. Before the dry years ended, four-fifths of the state's farmers lost their farms.
The great drought of the Great Depression is but a dim memory now, and in summer North Dakota's fields are golden seas of wheat raised by dry-land farming techniques. But the state is still fighting for a Missouri River irrigation project - the Garrison Diversion.
Garrison, a complex web of canals, dams, and lakes, was first authorized by Congress in 1965. Today, the project is only 15 percent complete, and faced with stiffening opposition in Congress its future is far from secure.
Traditionally, Congress loves to play with water. Long ago, legislators discovered that federal water projects - dams, canals, levees - are fun to dispense, since such construction is highly visible and easy to take credit for.
Not all these projects make sense from a national point of view. Political scientists consider many water projects classic examples of the ''pork barrel'' spending process, in which members of Congress push programs that benefit their constituents, but don't make economic sense from a national point of view. But affected legislators insist that critics of water projects don't understand the importance of water to many states.
Garrison thus symbolizes a debate that swirls around many water projects. Whatever its merits, the Garrison Diversion would amount to man altering nature on a grand scale. Water would be pumped from the Missouri River near the town of Garrison, in northwest North Dakota, and diverted to the center and east of the state through 3,000 miles of reservoirs, canals, pipelines, and drains. If completed as planned, Garrison would irrigate 250,000 acres of farmland, while occupying 220,000 acres itself.
But the US House of Representatives last year voted to cut off the project's funds; only concerted arm-twisting by North Dakota's senators convinced a House-Senate conference committee to keep Garrison alive. The Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation now plans to build the project in phases. Construction won't progress beyond Phase I, about one-third of the project, before sensitive environmental problems are solved, a bureau official says.
''I don't think we'll get the extensive project we once hoped for,'' admits an aide to a member of the North Dakota congressional delegation.
Cost is one obstacle. Congress originally thought the project would cost $207 million. But inflation and lawsuit-induced delays have helped push its projected price to $1.1 billion.
Theoretically, the US Treasury would get this billion dollars back sometime next century. Most of the money would come from a fee on hydroelectric power generated by Missouri River basin dams. Users of Garrison water would pay back only 2 percent of the project cost.
Irrigation, of course, is Garrison's primary reason for existence. But only 0 .6 percent of North Dakota's agricultural land would be irrigated by the project. Back in 1965, the Bureau of Reclamation figured Garrison would produce 1.3 to 1 - and even this calculation may be too rosy, since it assumes interest rates will hover around 3 percent.
''This whole program is only marginally justifiable on an economic basis,'' says an aide to Rep. Silvio Conte (R) of Massachusetts, ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee and one of Garrison's most vocal critics.
North Dakotans, in reply, say Washington owes them a water project. In the 1940s the federal government dammed the Missouri River near the town of Garrison , to prevent flooding in states downstream. Five hundred and fifty thousand acres of rich North Dakota farmland were suddenly at the bottom of the brand-new Lake Sakakawea.
In return, North Dakota was promised a 1-million-acre water diversion project , state politicians say. Garrison, say North Dakotans, is thus but partial payment for the loss of some of the state's best farmland.
''Look at the sacrifice we've made by being denied the economic production from that bottomland. We've lost $35 million a year in net personal income,'' says former North Dakota Gov. William Guy, citing a state economic study.
But ''out-of-state opposition,'' Mr. Guy mutters, has stalled Garrison. This opposition, led by the National Audubon Society, took legal action that halted work on Garrison for five years, until a federal court dismissed its lawsuit last May. Its objections are focused on the project's possible environmental effects.
''Garrison would do as much environmental damage as any water project in the US today,'' says Brent Blackwelder of the Environmental Policy Center.
Consider ducks - an easy thing to do in North Dakota, since the state is home to more ducks than any other part of the US, except Alaska. Garrison's canals would be laid smack through a ''prairie pothole'' region, where shallow lakes, sloughs, and marshes provide a waterfowl's version of ideal real estate. Sixty thousand acres of wetlands would be destroyed, estimates the US Fish and Wildlife Service, with another 13,000 acres damaged. A dozen national wildlife refuges would be adversely affected.
Garrison's supporters complain that environmental objections are overblown. ''The environmentalists don't really like any water project,'' grouses an aide to Sen. Mark Andrews (R) of North Dakota.
But the project's possible environmental effects have also riled the Canadian government. As now designed, Garrison would connect the Missouri River with the Hudson Bay Drainage Basin, and the Canadians are worried this new link will introduce pollutants and ''rough'' fish such as carp into their waters, killing off more valuable species. The International Joint Commission, a US-Canadian advisory group that monitors water resources shared by the two countries, found in 1976 that Garrison might reduce the commercial fish population of Manitoba by half.
Opposed by Canadians, US environmentalists, and conservative budget-watch groups such as the National Taxpayers Union, Garrison owes its continued existence to the power and persuasiveness of North Dakota's two senators.
Senators Andrews and Burdick are on the Appropriations Committee, a powerful rostrum from which to persuade other senators to vote for the North Dakota water project. Andrews, as chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, is in a particularly good position.
''Andrews carries a lot of weight, especially considering he's a first-term senator. Everybody depends on him for their state's transportation projects,'' says a House Appropriations staff member.
The Reagan administration's fiscal 1984 budget proposes to spend $22.3 million on Garrison. The House will likely vote to stop this money, the project's critics claim, setting up another showdown with the Senate over Garrison's future.
''North Dakota should be looking at a cheaper, more sensible proposal,'' perhaps using pipelines instead of canals, says the Environmental Policy Center's Mr. Blackwelder.
Several North Dakota newspapers have also called for another look at the project. But something must happen relatively soon if North Dakota is to get a Missouri River diversion in any form. The Missouri is one of the few Western rivers with water that isn't divided up by an interstate compact - and there are thirsty, growing states downstream.
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India’s cumulative bilateral trade with the Arab countries is more than $110 billion and the region is home to around 7 million Indians. India’s foreign remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries were $29.7bn in 2011. The region also accounts for 70% of India’s energy imports.
India recently played host to Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud — crown prince, deputy prime minister and defence minister of Saudi Arabia. The visit is of the highest level from Saudi Arabia since King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud came here in 2006. This comes as one in a series of high-profile visits by representatives of the Arab world. A week before that India played host to the King of Bahrain, and other high-profile visits from the region have followed since.
The Arab Spring has presented India with an opportunity for greater engagement with the region. Coming as it does on the heels of India’s ‘look west’ policy the country is helping with institutions and knowledge-building in nascent democracies like Egypt. The GCC countries too are looking to non-Western economies to invest their surplus funds, especially now, given their recent disenchantment with the United States role in the region. India, therefore, becomes a natural choice for playing a leading role. Defence ties between India and the GCC countries are also set to increase. Ties between India and Saudi Arabia assume special significance in this context. The official visit of PM Manmohan Singh to Riyadh in 2010 and the Riyadh declaration signed in 2010, elevated the bilateral engagement to ‘strategic partnership’, covering security, economic, defence and political areas.
What are India’s options in this context?
For one, India-Saudi Arabia ties are no longer seen through the prism of India-Pakistan relations. Next, India’s ties with Iran (the visit of whose foreign minister overlapped with that of the crown prince), has not deterred the deepening of Indo-Saudi ties.
Third, India’s stand vis-à-vis the Syrian conflict has not always converged with that of Saudi Arabia’s. Saudi Arabia supports the Syrian opposition. India, as was the case with Libya, has always been against any form of foreign intervention. At the same time, in spite of its membership in the BRICS, it has not always converged with them on Syria. On a number of Security Council resolutions on Syria, India, as a non-permanent member of the Council, had abstained from voting.
In the Durban declaration in March last year, the BRICS countries called for “a Syrian-led political process leading to a transition”. India’s position has been more calibrated because its geopolitical situation is different from Russia’s or China’s. This, however, causes India to be perceived as being Janus-faced in the Arab world. But that does not mean India should support the Syrian rebels. On the contrary, India should refrain from taking sides without shying away from criticism where it is due. That will show up India as a supporter of Arab rights.
| 2019-04-21T22:12:06 |
https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-view/self-interest-should-guide-india-s-arab-policy/story-aATQGusfUZId8ZzmrmohjJ.html
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I'm an accountant. I have a client that was recently laid off from a long time job. He is drawing unemployment benefits. He is also contemplating opening a business, in his field of expertise, however it will take a while before he gets any contracts. Is he, in trying to start a business, self-employed (with NO income) or does he become self-employed when he does receive some income?
He would be self-employed from the moment he begins setting up the business.
You didn't say which state you are in. Many states do not mind if a person starts something on their own, provided that they still are seeking full time employment and will accept that employment when and if offered. Also, income has to be reported once it is received.
Some states completely drop someone from unemployment consideration when they are self employed. If you reply back with the state, I can answer more clearly.
Hi I recently got laid off and am collecting umemployment.
| 2019-04-25T19:48:36 |
https://www.justanswer.com/employment-law/4av7y-i-m-accountant-client-recently-laid.html
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Harris wrote this song about an Australian stockman on his deathbed in 1957. He was inspired by the Harry Belafonte calypso craze, which was big at the time, and he wrote this as an Australian calypso. Harris recalled in The Wacky Top 40 by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo: "I was trying to come up with new songs that had a simple chorus that everybody in the club could join in with. I liked (Harry Belafonte's) 'Hold 'Em Joe.' There was a line that went, 'Don't tie me donkey down there, let him bray, let him bray.' And I thought, 'That's good. I can change that and make it an Australian calypso. Instead of a donkey, I'll have a kangaroo in there somewhere.' "Eventually, I came up with 'Tie me kangaroo down, sport.' And the tune seemed to come from midair. It was just handed to me on a plate." Harris proceeded to write as many verses as he could think of regarding Australian themes. It was his brother Bruce that came up with the idea of tying all the verses together into a story about a dying rancher.
When it was released in 1960, the song went to #1 in Australia for four weeks and reached #3 in the UK. That same year, it was released in America on 20th Century Fox, but went nowhere. Three years later it was released in the US after an Aborigine-inspired song called "Sun Arise" made it to #61 there. Harris recalled: "A disc jockey in Denver played 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport' for a laugh. He told his audience, 'I don't understand the lyrics and I don't know what a didgeridoo is.' He got such a reaction to the song that he played it almost every hour. So Epic Records put it out as a single and it became a hit."
The American version was produced by George Martin, who went on to fame producing The Beatles.
The whoop-whoop-whoop sound in the background came from a wobbleboard, which is basically a sheet of masonite. Originally Harris used the wobble board for his painting before he discovered its musical properties by chance. This happened when he shook one to cool it down after it had been propped up by a paraffin heater and he discovered when he did this it produced an interesting sound.
When Harris wrote this song, many Aborigines were treated as no better than slaves, and the original words that Harris wrote for the song included a verse referring to Aboriginal workers in those terms. Some territories picked up on it and the song was banned in Singapore. Harris has since admitted that those lines were racist and apologized for using such language. The Australian singer-songwriter later dropped the verse when re-recording the hit for the American market. He explained in an interview with Radio Scotland in 2006: "I was 27 or something when I wrote that. But since 1960, I have never sung that verse."
In May 1963, Pat Boone released a cover of this song as a single, which competed with the re-release of Harris' version in America. Boone's cover didn't dent the charts, as Harris stayed in the Top 40 for nine weeks that summer.
Rolf Harris recalled to The NME: "Pat Boone was in Australia when it was a hit in 1960. He wanted to do an American version but his record company said, 'It doesn't make any sense.' Three years later I had a #3 in America. Pat Boone went back and said, 'See.'"
Harris performed this song with The Beatles for BBC radio in 1963. His adapted lyrics included; "Don't ill-treat me pet dingo, Ringo/ Don't ill-treat me pet dingo/ He can't understand your lingo, Ringo, So don't ill-treat me pet dingo, Ringo."
In America, Harris released spin-off songs called "Tie Me Hunting Dog Down, Jed" and "Tie Me Surfing Board Down Sport."
Eddie from Braselton, GeorgiaI remembered a lyric not shown here and did some research.
Turns out Abos is short for Aboriginals and many took it as racist, so it has been removed in later versions.
Mr. Harris celebrated his 84th birthday three months ago on March 30th, 2014.
Jas from Clifton, TxI try not to overthink this song or songs like it, if there's anything in the world like this one, too much. I once had a conversation with a guy who spent two hours explaining to me how this was really a hugely symbolic, deep, intense song that most of us normal people weren't complex enough to understand. He wasn't from Australia and he had never been to Australia, he was from New Jersey. Then when I was in the Special Forces I had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time in Australia. I went to a charity event in Canberra, ACT, and Mr. Harris was in attendance, so I asked. He's really a very pleasant guy, not at all what I expected out of a man with his credentials. We talked more about his art than the song because I figured it was way past the time where he was tired of answering questions about something he did in 1960. But, he did offer me this bit of information on his song, I'll never forget because he kept calling me "Guy," not "mate," not some other cool Australian sounding name (dingo, I wanted to be called dingo!). Mr. Harris was talking about the way people perceive things and read into them and on this song he said, "You know guy, they take that silly bit about kangaroos and run amuck with it. Blows my mind really. It's about an old cattle man, that would be all. They do that with paintings too, guy. You paint a flower and they muck it up and they want to know what the flower is thinking. I say to them guy, I dunno, it's just being a flower I guess." I don't know if I can get in trouble for quoting somebody like that or not, so there you have it. But when the man himself says its just a song about a guy who evidently owns cows and other pets who happens to be dying, I guess that means that it's just a funny little song about a guy who owns cows and other pets who happens to be dying. Bob, I can't really tell if you're being serious or if you said that as a joke, but he said it's just a simple song about a guy who owns cows and other pets. He threw in a bunch of Australian references that people from outside Australia would be able to identify and put them in a pattern that sounded fun. That's just it. We spend so much time trying to figure out what the flower is thinking that we never actually consider that it might just be a flower and nothing else. But, I guess he would appreciate the attention to his art.
Bob from Matamata, New ZealandThis song is massive, if you read between the lines you can really see where Rolf is coming from. Deep, dark, brooding almost foreboding.....I only wish Metallica would do a cover, could you imagine a distorted electric wobble board patched through a wah wah peddal.... heavy man very heavy.
Mark from Lancaster, OhSo _that's_ where that sound came from. My life is fulfilled at last.
| 2019-04-24T07:49:56 |
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rolf-harris/tie-me-kangaroo-down-sport
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Two simple words which, by all accounts, imply completion of a task. For the University of Arkansas at Monticello, that has been more way difficult than football coach Hud Jackson would have liked in his tenure as head Boll Weevil.
When Southwestern Oklahoma State University spoiled UAM’s home opener by blocking a potential game-winning field goal with mere seconds remaining to hold onto a 20-19 win, it marked the 15th time in the seven years Jackson has led the Kelly Green and White the Weevils have lost a football game by seven points or less.
UAM led Saturday’s game at Willis “Convoy” Leslie Cotton Boll Stadium for all but a fraction over six minutes until surrendering the advantage for the last time when the Bulldogs connected on a 22-years touchdown pass with 6:23 left in the fourth quarter. In two possessions after that, the Weevils gained just 46 yards in 19 plays—but still had a chance to send the green-clad fans home happy when sophomore Josh Marini lined up for a 32-yard field goal with six seconds remaining.
No one surely felt worse than Marini, who had connected on two previous three-pointers to help the Weevils to a 13-0 lead but missed on an extra point, albeit after a 15-yard penalty, that would have negated SWOSU’s comeback by leaving the game tied, with the possibility of overtime.
Jackson, however, shouldered all the blame himself.
Indeed, in three possessions after going ahead by 13 points at the beginning of the second quarter, UAM could muster 12 yards in 13 plays, and fumbled both a punt and a kickoff. Still, the Weevils had victory in their grasp.
Even with those two plays Jackson referred to, UAM outgained Southwestern 396-327 in total offense, with the biggest differential coming through the air. Junior quarterback Cole Sears completed 16 of 29 passes for 230 yards and one score—with no interceptions.
Six different players caught Sears’ tosses, with senior Trevon Smith on the receiving end of a 37-yard tourchown pass in the third quarter that helped the Weevils retake the lead. All-American Jalen Tolliver was held to 82 yards on five receptions but drew closer to breaking the UAM career mark for receiving yardage.
Monticello’s own Imani Riley led the UAM rushing attack with 66 yards on 14 attempts. Sears notched the Weevils’ lone rushing touchdown himself, though, on a one-yard run in the first quarter that (with Marini’s extra point) pushed the lead to 10-0.
Two of UAM’s potential All-Great American Conference defensive players, linebackers Ja’lon Watts and Wesley Williams, shined of that side of the ball. Watts led the tackling chart with 10 stops (five solo) while Williams followed closely with nine (six solo). Sophomore Will Jennings, of whom Jackason couldn’t say enough during fall practice, also got his first career interception as the Weevils won the turnover battle 1-0.
Two of the only things Jackson said he could find fault with on the statistics sheet after the game—other than the final score, of course—were that his clue converted only three of five red-zone opportunities and that the Weevils were penalized nine times for 117 yards, many in crucial situations (like that extra point in the third quarter).
The game began as if would ion no way end up as another close UAM loss. The hosts took the opening kickoff and marched 50 yards in eight plays to set up Marini’s first field goal, a 36-yarder. The big play in the drive was Sears’ 36-yard pass to senior tight end Austin Harris.
After SWOSU went three-and-out on its first possession, the Weevils set up shop on their own 41-yard line. Nine plays—including a 24-yard reception by senior Jamel Chevis and a subsequent 13-yard Chevis run—later, Sears scored his touchdown at the 6:32 mark of the first period.
The Weevil defense then held on downs and the former Billie took charge. Riley rushed for five, 11, 42 and one yards in the drive that set up Marini’s second three-pointer, a 22-yarder.
The wheels began coming off when Southwestern scored with just nine seconds remaining before halftime on a long pass, then took the lead for the first time in the game on a short run midway of the third period.
And the rest, as “they” say, is history.
UAM has a chance to redeem itself Saturday at 6 p.m., but it will have to be on the road—where Jackson has been victorious only once in his seven years. The Weevils take their longest trip of the year, to Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Okla. (more than eight hours away from Monticello).
The Rangers opened the 2017 GAC season last Wednesday by dropping a close 31-28 decision to Ouachita Baptist University—one of the top four teams in the preseason coaches’ poll.
In other GAC games during the first weekend of 2017, both the conference’s ranked teams going into the fall lost. Arkansas Tech University upset league favorite and 22nd-ranked Southern Arkansas University 28-21 while Henderson State University upended defending GAC champion and No. 10 Harding University 28-20.
A pair of Oklahoma schools won the GAC’s other two opening contests. East Central University outlasted Oklahoma Baptist University 55-34 and Southeastern Oklahoma State University blasted hapless Southern Nazarene University 58-0.
| 2019-04-26T16:28:46 |
http://www.mymonticellonews.net/sports/ominous-openers
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Breakfast was corned-beef hash, browned, with an egg on top of it, coffee and milk, and a big glass of chilled grapefruit juice.
He tasted the soup to see if he had put enough salt in it.
I bought a bag of salted peanuts.
So I persuaded one of my friends to put me in a barrel and send me on board with the salt beef.
The briny air gave a foretaste of the nearby sea.
The cook tasted the stew to see if it had enough salt.
This dish is much too salty.
| 2019-04-22T05:09:26 |
http://www.chinaorb.com/index.php?s_word=%E5%92%B8
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What is considered "rich" in today's economic landscape?
How much income and savings would qualify an individual as rich? I am interested in knowing the objective number or value that would quantify as rich, but more so, I'm intrigued by your subjective options as to what would make an individual rich.
“Rich” is a highly subjective quality. In my opinion, there is no absolute “rich”.
Willie Nelson had millions and went broke. Jordan Belfort (the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’) was making apparently $250 million a year and went broke and to jail. MC Hammer also apparently went broke despite $33 Million of income. So to define rich in absolute terms is not useful. How about we define it in terms of the amount of income you need to be happy? So if you need $50,000 a year to be happy, then $50,000, divided by some rate of return would give us a number. Suppose you thought 5% was a reasonable return, then $1,000,000 would be a good nest egg. But, we have inflation. So I think you need 25 times (that would be 4%), or better, 33 times (that’s 3%) your annual income requirement to be ‘rich’. Need $50,000 a year? $1,650,000 is the start of rich for that person.
This presents a problem of ‘how much income makes you rich?’ According to that bastion of wisdom, income of about $200,000 for a single person or $250,000 for a married couple makes you rich. So using my math, a single person with $5 - $6.6 million is rich, and a couple with $6.25 - $8.25 million is rich. That goes to my old definition of rich as over $10 million. That being said, I’ll ask you about your health, your family, and your spirit. Money can’t give you those. So measure material wealth in dollars and real wealth in sense.
Years ago, my daughter came home and asked, "Dad, are we rich?"
In my irritating fatherly habit of answering the questions of my offspring with questions I asked, "What do you mean?"
Her patient response, "Well, some kids at school say they are rich and that I'm not."
I explained the basic definition of "rich" as having more than you need, especially in income. You're rich if your income consistently exceeds your budget.
"Why do they say that?"
She, "Well they have nicer cars and houses and wear expensive clothes."
Me, "But you don't like expensive clothes. We don't exactly force you to shop at Goodwill. And we live the way we like to live. I'll bet your friends have no savings and that their parents spend more than they make. That's not 'rich'. That's trying to look good."
And I continued, "Honey, you know that you can have anything you want. You're just so much more sensible than your peers. You would rather have a new camera than $200 boots. That's smart! And you'll end up happier for it."
I teach the MBA course, Private Wealth Management at NYU Stern School of Business. While there is no consistent objective number used by economists, we have a subjective definition we use in the course; rich is having more financial assets than you can reasonably spend to support your lifestyle in your lifetime.
This subjective definition of rich shifts the focus from funding retirement living expenses to allocating one's financial wealth between, 1) personal lifetime spending, 2) transferring it to your kids and future generations, 3) supporting your important charities and, 4) for family businesses, reinvesting it in the business. In order words, rich is having significant assets left over after taking care of all your needs during your lifetime.
That is the million dollar question. But you are right, it is subjective. I have clients who are millionaires who don't consider themselves rich, and then I have clients who have hundreds of thousands of dollars who are quite content as far as piece of mind. I would say that being "rich" is being able to do the things you would like to do over your lifetime, not how much you have in your bank account.
Being happy and having piece of mind and a family that loves you is far more important than how rich you are monetarily.
Enough to be able to do whatever you would like, whenever you would like.
Some don't feel 'rich' with millions, while some feel rich with far less. To my mind, it's just about not having to worry about living the lifestyle you want.
| 2019-04-23T18:51:15 |
https://www.investopedia.com/advisor-network/questions/what-considered-rich-todays-economic-landscape/?sort_by=helpful
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A deaf mute who spent 15 years in jail after being sentenced to death for murder has won the right to appeal against the conviction.
Almost 41 years ago, Darryl Beamish was found guilty of murdering Melbourne socialite Jillian Macpherson Brewer at her beachside apartment in Perth.
Ms Brewer was a great-granddaughter of industrialist and philanthropist Sir Macpherson Robertson, who founded MacRobertson's chocolates and an airline and whose bequest started MacRobertson Girls High School in 1934.
Ms Brewer was struck on the head and body with a tomahawk and stabbed repeatedly with scissors on December 20, 1959.
Beamish lived near Ms Brewer in Cottesloe. When police questioned him, he signed a confession but later claimed he did it under duress.
He was 20 when he was condemned to death. His sentence was commuted to life in jail. Beamish, now 59, spent 15 years behind bars.
Western Australian Attorney-General Jim McGinty announced yesterday he had referred the case to the Court of Criminal Appeal after receiving a petition from Beamish.
Beamish's sister, Frances Grenville, said she was thrilled to hear the case would be re-examined, and her elderly mother would be equally happy.
"She's 98 now and she swears she's not going until his name is cleared," Mrs Grenville told ABC radio.
"I don't feel bitter. I just feel sad because he's had a dreadful life with that hanging over his head. His deafness, I think, makes it twice as bad for him, and he can't speak out for himself."
Mr McGinty said his decision was strongly influenced by research done by author Estelle Blackburn, and by the recent quashing of another 1960s murder conviction.
Ms Blackburn has established Ms Brewer's murder was likely to have been committed by notorious Perth serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke, the last person to hang in WA, in 1964.
John Button, also blamed for one of Cooke's murders, had his conviction overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal in February. Serious questions about his conviction were raised after Ms Blackburn researched the case for her book Broken Lives.
Mr McGinty said Cooke had confessed to Ms Brewer's murder, just as he confessed to the murder John Button was convicted of, and the confession was a crucial piece of evidence that needed re-examination.
Beamish has had five appeals rejected.
Mr McGinty said: "It is unique that, 41 years after the event, that this matter would be brought back to the Court of Criminal Appeal, but I think justice requires no less."
Ms Blackburn said Cooke's confession to the Brewer murder was discounted at the time because he was considered a pathological liar. She said he had confessed to 22 violent crimes, but only 20 were accepted by authorities at the time.
After John Button's exoneration for the 1963 murder of Rosemary Anderson, only the Brewer murder remained.
Ms Blackburn said: "We are very confident about this case but we just have to let the courts get on with it now."
In the Button judgment, Chief Justice David Malcolm referred to Beamish, saying his two appeals had been dismissed because Cooke's confessions were rejected as being without credibility.
He said Cooke had told the prison chaplain three days before he was hanged that he was concerned Beamish and Button were still being held for crimes he had committed.
"Without any prompting from me he took the Bible from me and said, 'I swear before God I did these two (Brewer and Anderson)'," the Reverend George Jenkins said in a 1964 statement.
In a 1964 letter, Cooke said he feared what Beamish and Button would do to his family when they were released for crimes they did not commit.
| 2019-04-26T14:59:58 |
https://www.theage.com.au/national/after-41-years-convicted-killer-can-appeal-20020629-gducgh.html
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Children are born curious about the world and their playtime reflects the empirical way they investigate nature. But their curiosity is a fragile thing and stolid teaching can uproot it.
A new study in the journal Cognition demonstrates how children are born scientists and given to empirical investigation, i.e. playing, to interrogate the world around them. In one experiment, two groups of children were shown four beads that could activate a music box. In the first group, any of the beads would make the box play; for the other group, only two of the four beads worked. The second group, left with uncertainly, investigated the beads by making different combinations. In another study, children showed a greater tendency to investigate when the answer to a problem wasn't given to them directly.
Children's play is actually a form of learning, a way to investigate the causal mechanisms in the world around them. "Exploratory play is a complex phenomenon," write the authors of the new study, "presumably subserving a range of functions other than the generating informative evidence...However, to the extent that children acquire causal knowledge through exploration, the current results begin to bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and child's play." The task for parents and teachers is to present knowledge while preserving a sense of uncertainty.
| 2019-04-21T08:14:18 |
https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-fragility-of-curiosity
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Where was? WW II, the 1920's or the Edwardian Age? I'm beginning to lose track, I've so many threads going at once. I remember. Malt in the 1920's. Courtesy of our good friend JR.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2KsFxUxfpwQ/TZrWVuJmHMI/AAAAAAAAH2Y/kYbaygEZhGs/s320/Tetleys_Yorkshire_Ale_1930.JPG (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2KsFxUxfpwQ/TZrWVuJmHMI/AAAAAAAAH2Y/kYbaygEZhGs/s1600/Tetleys_Yorkshire_Ale_1930.JPG)"Brown or Blown Malt is made by subjecting well-vegetated barley — after the moisture has been duly got rid of — to a sudden blast of intense heat generated by heaping up the kiln fire with oak or beechen faggots or billets. The result is an increase of bulk averaging 25%, if all the conditions are favourable. Owing to the risk and tho high rates of insurance demanded in consequence, this malt is generally made at certain centres by maltsters, the large London breweries being alone able to profitably make for themselves.
Amber Malt is manufactured from ordinary malt which, however, is subjected on the kiln to the colouring and flavouring influences obtained from high temperatures maintained for a relatively long period in the presence of a fairly heavy moisture content. These temperatures range from 160 to 180; or even higher, and with careful preparation the diastase should not be completely destroyed, leaving a D.P. of from 8 to 10 Lintner. Amber malt is valuable in the direction of contributing a "malty" flavour and aroma to stouts, but its employment has been found useful for the same reasons in beer production when using large proportions of maize and rice flakes. Amber malt yields an extract of exceptional brilliancy, and it assists the clarification of other worts by increasing coagulation or "break" due to the degree of caramelisation the malt receives in the special kiln treatment to which it is submitted on the kiln.
Crystal Malt is prepared as follows: after undergoing normal germination on the floors the grain is soaked in a somewhat dilute sugar solution, or any weak solution of saccharine substances. The malt is then cured in the ordinary manner on the kiln and its manufacture completed by methods similar to that adopted — although in a modified form — for roasted or so-called patent malt. Crystal malt yields an intensely malty flavour and aroma peculiar to itself. It is valuable for colouring mild ale, to which it confers improved flavour, an enhanced palate-fulness and an attractive rich colour."
"Brewing and Malting" by John Ross Mackenzie, 1927 , pages 254 - 255.
I collect descriptions of brown malt and its manufacture. "You need hobbies to keep yourself sane." The reverse is true in my case. Ross Mackenzie desrcibes the dangerous method of manufacture used in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Where the temperature of the kiln is suddenly raised by throwing on wodden faggots.
I've quickly checked his claim that the large London brewers made their own brown malt. Unfortunately, there's nothing conclusive. Whitbread in this period were buying their brown malt in. Courage and Barclay Perkins don't spcify any source in their brewing records. All, of course, continued to include brown malt in all their Porter and Stout grists.
So amber malt aids clarification. I'm not exactly sure I understand why caramelisation should help clarification. Barclay Perkins were very keen on amber malt in the 1920's. It was in all their Stouts and Milds. Whitbread, on the other hand, didn't use it at all. Their stronger Stouts - SS and SSS - had contained amber malt, but these beers had been discontinued during WW I. Courage didn't use it either.
Crystal malt has been used in different ways over the years. Initially it was mostly used in Mild Ales. In the 1920's, Courage included it in the grist of all their Mild and Strong Ales, but not in their Porter or Stout. Truman used no crystal malt in their Burton brewery until after WW II. Lees were the same, only introducing it to their grists in the 1940's. Whitbread occasionally used it in their Porter and Stout, and always in their Milds. Their Pale Ales contained none until 1927, after which it was a constant in their grists. Barclay Perkins confined the use of crystal malt to its Mild Ales and Strong Ales.
| 2019-04-20T12:10:48 |
http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-6549.html?s=5487670cb1ab86cf41762bbdc67fd589
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Contemporary embedded or cyber-physical systems have become powerful and versatile. The resulting huge state space of these systems makes their verification very challenging if not impossible. A possible solution is to have systems verify their correctness _after_ deployment instead of during development; the key advantage of this is that the self-verifying system can take into account information about its deployment context, instantiate several system parameters, and so reduce the state space drastically. This raises several questions: how can we build such systems, how can we transfer specifications at development time into statements to be proven at run-time, and how can we instantiate parameters after deployment? In the talk, these questions will be addressed and first steps towards self-verifying systems will be presented, including a methodology on how to build and verify systems, case studies, and strategies how to reduce the state space most effectively.
Christoph Lüth is vice director of the research department Cyber-Physical Systems group at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) in Bremen.<br> His research covers the whole area of advanced system development, from theoretical foundations as found in category theory to the development of tools to construct or verify software, and applications in practical areas such as robotics. The overall theme of his work is how to reliably construct correct software.<br> He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and a Habilitation from the University of Bremen, where had been working as a lecturer (associate professor) prior to joining DFKI at the start of 2006. He has authored or co-authored over fifty peer-reviewed papers, and was the principal investigator in several research projects.<br> In addition to his work at DFKI, he is a professor for computer science at the University of Bremen, and is regularly teaching courses about functional programming and formal methods.
| 2019-04-22T14:18:46 |
http://www.informatik.uni-linz.ac.at/kolloquium/list.jsp?nr=516&rnd=86602.46588970917
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Trying to communicate with a remote device with no other familiar protocol? Bluetooth provides an easy answer with well-documented specs and straightforward programming APIs.
Bluetooth programming can solve several annoying problems outside of its principal domain areas. For example, it works well if you're working on a standalone device and you want to configure the device via a custom Bluetooth profile, or you have a device that speaks a standard protocol that your Linux machine doesn't yet support. In this article, I demonstrate how to code your way out of both problems using Bluetooth.
Linux has a mature and capable Bluetooth stack called BlueZ. Many Linux distributions including Ubuntu 10.10 ship with a Bluetooth-enabled kernel as well as a set of profiles that enable your machine to do things like transfer files to and from a Bluetooth-enabled phone.
Connect to a service: After the devices are paired, either end can initiate a connection to a particular service.
We'll use built-in tools to accomplish these tasks, and we'll use the BlueZ API to write a program that will communicate with the device. In particular, we'll implement the Headset profile (HSP), which allows your smart phone to use your computer as a headset. Sample code is provided in C.
Before diving into how to accomplish these tasks, let's cover system setup.
Using the applet, you can scan for devices, initiate and complete the paring process, and connect Bluetooth services between devices. As the topic is programming, I'm not going to go through the process of scanning and pairing devices, but note that you will have to pair your phone with your machine in order to follow along.
BlueZ exposes a socket API that's similar to network socket programming. If you're familiar with network programming in Linux, learning the BlueZ API will feel familiar. To implement the headset profile (more on what that means in a bit), we'll use two different sockets: RFCOMM and SCO.
RFCOMM sockets are like TCP sockets: They're useful in situations where reliability trumps latency. SCO sockets provide a two-way stream of audio data at a rate of 64 kb/s. SCO packets are not retransmitted.
What does it mean to implement a Bluetooth profile? The standard Bluetooth profiles and core specification are published on the bluetooth.org website. The top of the page lists different version of the core specification. Below the core specification documents are the profiles.
We need two files from the website: Headset profile v1.1 (HSP), and the Core Specifcation Version 2.1 + EDR.
The core specification file tells you everything you need to know to create a Bluetooth stack. Weighing in at just over 1400 pages, it would be a hefty read. Fortunately, we'll only be using this document as a debugging aid. I chose version 2.1 + EDR because that's the same version that the dongle supports.
The HSP document is a much more manageable 27 pages. It shows how to implement the Bluetooth headset profile (HSP). With these documents in hand, let's configure the Bluetooth adapter, pair a smart phone, and finally get to coding.
When scanning, Bluetooth looks for nearby devices that provide specific services. Services offered by a device are identified by the device class. The first thing we need to do is set the class of the adapter. We'll use the hciconfig tool to do this. Later, I'll show how to set the class in the code.
Setting the class requires creating a bitmask from a list of assigned constants. The Bluetooth.org site contains a series of assigned numbers documents. The definitions required to set the appropriate class are in the baseband document. I'm not going to go into detail about how the document formatted, but I'll point you to the relevant pieces for the class that we need to build. Using the second document, I'll construct the class value.
From the major service class, we'll select bits 21 and 19 (audio and capturing), and from the major device class, we'll use audio/video (00100). Because we chose the audio/video device class, scroll down to Table 7 in the baseband document where the minor device classes are listed for audio/video major class. From this table, we want hands-free device (000010). Putting the selected values together, the value of the class in hex is 0x280404.
Under the class line, the output contains a text description of the service classes and device class. My machine shows a class of 0x280404, service classes capturing and audio, and device classes audio/video, and device conforms to the headset profile.
Run the following command to set the class: sudo hciconfig hc0 class 0x280404.
After setting the class, run hciconfig -a again and verify that the class, service class, and device class lines match my output. If it does, your phone should recognize the machine as supporting the headset profile. You can scan for your computer from your phone and pair them. Of course, we haven't implemented the headset service yet so your phone has nothing to connect to yet.
The function ba2str converts from the internal bdaddr_t to a zero-terminated string (the str parameter should have at least 18 bytes), and str2ba provides the opposite conversion. The first example makes use of the ba2str function.
Figure 2: Diagram copied from page 204 of the HSP profile document.
We're going to implement the headset side, (but implementing the audio gateway side is almost identical the audio gateway can be implemented by making a few small changes to the code).
The following sections provide sample code to accomplish these tasks.
In a previous example, we used the hciconfig tool to set the device class. In this example, we'll set the class in code with a call to hci_write_class_of_dev as shown in Listing One. Modifying the device attributes is a privileged function so this example must be run as root.
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THE huge gas storage tank and impressive new offices at Grangemouth have become a symbols of hope. The tank – believed to be the largest of its kind in Europe – holds US ethane from shale, that has breathed new life into an INEOS site that was facing extinction three years ago. The offices - bring many working at the site together under one roof for the first time ever. But other doors are opening too. “The future of Grangemouth is very bright,” said Julie Brown, senior director of life and chemical sciences, Scottish Enterprise, which is working with INEOS to find new companies interested in working at the site. “Other companies are clustering around INEOS.” Success, it seems, really does not only breed success. But it also breeds confidence. John McNally is CEO of INEOS O&P UK. “We want to turn Grangemouth into the place for manufacturers,” he said. “The site has the potential to provide a base for new manufacturing enterprises that can use our world-class infrastructure and facilities to compete with the best in the world.” The Roosevelt Institute in America believes that a nation’s wellbeing depends on the strength of its manufacturing. “One of my great concerns about the UK economy is the collapse in manufacturing, which used to be the backbone of the UK economy,” said INEOS Chairman Jim Ratcliffe. “Saving Grangemouth is a brick in the wall to arresting that decline. But shale gas also has the ability to reverse that decline.” To highlight its role as a force behind UK manufacturing, INEOS Shale attended the three-day Tory Party Conference in Birmingham in October to speak directly to Conservative activists and members about the benefits for manufacturing from a safe and wellregulated onshore shale gas industry in England. “We know that shale gas production can be carried out safely and responsibly and we have seen how it has positively transformed communities in the US,” said Gary Haywood, CEO INEOS Shale. “It could create thousands of jobs here in the UK and bring substantial economic and societal benefits to the nation.” In the meantime, INEOS wants to open up parts of its Grangemouth site – where shale gas is now a reality – to other industries seeking to take advantage of the existing power, steam, logistics and other services it can provide. “Our vision for the future is a revitalised chemical site at Grangemouth and a virtuous circle of attracting new investment, creating jobs and providing Scotland with the vital raw materials that it needs to support its manufacturing sector,” said John. INEOS recently finished building a four-storey office block that has enabled the 450 people who work for INEOS O&P to be based in the same building for the first time since it bought the site from BP in 2005. The new building, though, is just one element of the innovative redevelopment of Grangemouth. Old plants and empty buildings are being demolished to create brownfield plots that can be used by other companies.
A LONE Scottish piper heralded the arrival of the first shipment of US fracked shale gas into Grangemouth. Bob Lowe, a former INEOS employee, played Skye Boat Song from the bow as the 600ft vessel INEOS Insight – emblazoned with the words ‘Shale gas for manufacturing’ – passed under the Forth Bridge. For John McNally, CEO INEOS O&P UK, it was a moment to savour as he witnessed history in the making along with about 400 guests including INEOS staff whose names had been drawn from a hat. “When I took over as CEO in 2014, people were talking about this day then,” he said. “We have literally been counting down the days for the past two years.” On board the specially-designed ship, which had been built in China, was 27,500 cubic metres of ethane that had been pumped out of the ground more than 3,000 miles away in Pennsylvania and loaded on to the vessel for its 10-day voyage across the Atlantic. The UK’s Chemical Industries Association described it as the most significant investment in manufacturing in a decade. “The shipments are not just good news for INEOS,” said Steve Elliott, Chief Executive of the Chemical Industries Association. “It is also good news for the whole of the sector and beyond. By allowing affordable and secure energy into the system as INEOS are taking the lead in doing, we can get manufacturing working at better capacity. This will deliver strong environmental, social and economic benefits for all.” INEOS’ precious cargo from America will allow British industry to finally take advantage of the cheap US gas which has done so much to revitalise manufacturing in America, and help the UK to compete globally. Across the Atlantic, America’s energy is now so competitive that there are large building programmes in industries such as chemicals and steel, which have suddenly become the most competitive in the world. “In America so much gas is being produced, that gas import terminals are being converted for exports,” said INEOS Chairman and Founder Jim Ratcliffe. Jim, who grew up in Failsworth, Manchester, said the arrival of the first US shipment was a hugely important and historic day for both INEOS and the UK. “Its arrival guarantees the security of thousands of jobs in Scotland,” he said. “Shale gas can help to stop the decline of British manufacturing and today is the first step in that direction.” It is the first time ethane from US shale gas has been shipped to the UK’s shores and is the culmination of a $2 billion (£1.53 billion) investment by INEOS. In all, eight tankers will create the virtual pipeline between the US and the UK every week for the next 15 years. To receive the gas at Grangemouth, INEOS had to invest millions to modernise the 1,700-acre Scottish site. It built a new import terminal so vessels could offload their vital cargo and installed more than three miles of pipelines to transport the gas on its final journey from the port to a new 40-metre high ethane storage tank, the largest of its kind in Europe. A brand new office block was also built, bringing everyone together for the first time since INEOS bought the site from BP in 2005. “The impact on Grangemouth will be transformational,” said John. “It will reverse the plant’s fortunes overnight because it will finally be able to run at full capacity.” The olefins plant has been running at half capacity, leading to huge losses, for many years because of a shortage of North Sea gas which INEOS uses as an essential feedstock. Without it, INEOS would have been forced to close the loss-making petrochemical plant due to the severe decline of gas from the North Sea. The closure of the petrochemical complex would have probably also spelled the end of its refinery, which produces the bulk of fuels used in Scotland and contributes about 3% of Scotland’s GDP. “If you look back at the history of this site we were at times losing over £100 million a year and it was unsustainable,” said John. “Looking forward we expect to be making over £100 million a year if everything is running.” The crucial element to saving the complex has been the shipments of US shale gas. “Our shale ‘investment’ has saved 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in Scotland,” said Jim. But it’s not only INEOS’ site at Grangemouth that will benefit from the shipments. An historic pipeline built to transport surplus North Sea gas from ExxonMobil’s ethylene plant in Fife to Grangemouth is being reversed so that INEOS can now transport some of its imported gas to ExxonMobil instead. “The Fife plant plays an important role in the region’s economy,” said Sonia Bingham, Fife plant manager for ExxonMobil Chemical. A pipeline will also carry ethylene from Grangemouth to INEOS Oxide’s manufacturing plant in Hull so that it can increase its production of ethyl acetate by 100,000 tonnes a year from next year. Ethyl acetate is in high demand for use in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, inks and flexible packaging and the Hull plant is already running at full capacity. That multi-million investment was announced shortly after Britain voted to leave the European Union. “We believe in British manufacturing and will support it whenever we can,” said Jim. Graham Beesley, CEO INEOS Oxide, said INEOS Oxide was already the largest producer of ethyl acetate in Europe. “We are about to get a lot bigger,” he said.
THE UK Government’s £230 million loan guarantee for Grangemouth was critical in safeguarding the site’s future, says INEOS. Without it, INEOS Olefins & Polymers UK would have found it more difficult to raise the money it needed to develop the site so that it could import ethane from US shale. With it, INEOS was able to raise funds through public bonds for its £2 billion, world-first project, to ship ethane more than 3,000 miles to the UK and save thousands of Scottish jobs. In September, that faith – that belief that INEOS could actually pull it off – was justified as the site welcomed the very first shipments from Pennsylvania. But the arrival of INEOS Insight, which was carrying that precious cargo, leaves Scotland in a dilemma. The Scottish Government contributed £8 million of public money to INEOS’ bold plans, knowing that without the U.S. gas to replace dwindling North Sea supplies, the loss-making petrochemical complex at Grangemouth would have closed. But the Scottish Government has put in place a moratorium on fracking pending the results of an investigation into whether it is safe. That moratorium, imposed by Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP, prevents INEOS, which has licences to explore and develop shale gas, from even testing the geology in Scotland. As almost 400 people gathered to welcome the first shipment of US shale gas, no one from the Scottish Government was there. Scotland’s Conservative Leader Ruth Davidson, whose colleague Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell attended the event, said it reflected badly on the SNP. “People in Scotland will find it hard to understand why Nicola Sturgeon seems happy for shale gas to be shipped across the Atlantic to be used in Scotland, but when it comes to extracting the gas itself, she finds it unacceptable here,” she said. “It is neither environmentally nor economically coherent.” She added: “This development will safeguard thousands of Scottish jobs. By being there, it would have shown that the Scottish Government recognises the economic importance of shale gas and the wider Grangemouth facility.” INEOS, which is now pursuing shale gas exploration in England, described the SNP’s absence as a disappointment but preferred to focus on the positives. “This shipment of US shale gas safeguards thousands of manufacturing jobs in Scotland,” said Jim Ratcliffe, INEOS Chairman and Founder.
THE provision and security of supply of energy is a key responsibility of any government. Keeping the lights on is up there with health, education, and law and order, but is, at times, not as well understood by the public, who demand a hot shower without always understanding the economics behind it. But it is not just the general public to whom energy matters. The manufacturing industry requires a permanent supply to sustain production, production which support more than two million jobs. Manufacturing has to remain competitive, and it needs to remain sufficiently competitive – by which I mean profitable – to promote investment. If not, industry will wither and die, as has happened to the bulk of the once proud British textile industry. The same principle applies to manufacturing which relies upon competitive energy costs such as chemicals, steel, automotive, and many others. If these sectors cannot remain competitive they will close and the jobs will disappear – as we have seen in the steel sector over the past 12 months. Worse, this is already happening. Manufacturing has collapsed in the UK over the past 20 years. From a level close to Germany at about 23pc of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 1990s, UK manufacturing today stands at a paltry 9pc. And what little manufacturing that we have left in the UK is saddled with some of the most expensive energy in the world. Gas prices are 50pc higher than in America and electricity is twice what it costs in the US. Germany protects its manufacturing companies by exempting them from green taxes. Successive governments in the UK have instead ladled them on. The present situation is exacerbated by the fact that the UK has had no coherent energy policy for decades. As we see out the last days of coal-fired power stations which are simply too ‘dirty’ for modern environmental standards, we are well into the twilight years of North Sea gas and are sitting on an ageing fleet of nuclear power stations. The Government has appeared to bet the bank in the past 20 years on windmills, despite the head of the renewables lobby recently admitting England just isn’t windy enough for them to work. If we take the country’s total energy requirements, minus transport fuel, then we see that gas and nuclear completely dominate our supply at around 60pc. Wind, which fluctuates widely from day to day, sits at only 3pc. If we assume that coal will be phased out in the next few years then the burden on gas and nuclear only increases. We are totally dependent today as a country on gas and nuclear. There are no viable alternatives on any sensible time horizon. But, and it’s a big but, we are fast running out of gas in the North Sea and our nuclear fleet is ageing. North Sea gas production peaked in the 2000s, and is now running at less than 50pc of its peak. In ten years’ time it will be at less than 20pc. So we must choose between Russian imports, expensive LNG imports, or develop a shale industry of our own, in which INEOS has a vested interest. One shale in the US called Marcellus in Pennsylvania produces over two times the total UK consumption of gas, and drilling only started six years ago. Not only are there vast quantities of shale gas around, it is very cheap – it reduced the price of gas in the US by 75pc – and the UK would appear to be sitting on quite a lot of it. The nuclear debate is more complex. Remarkably there are more than 400 nuclear power stations in the world and there are several technologies. Technology designed by France’s Areva will go into Hinkley Point, despite there being none of these type of reactors in operation yet. Two are being built in Europe, the first in Finland is nine years late and the one in France is seven years late. Both are three times over budget. There are also two being built in China but again both are several years late. This is not an encouraging picture. There are other options, including one type being built by Westinghouse and Toshiba which has satisfied the notoriously stringent US authorities. There eight in construction of which four are in the US. Again they are a few years late but nowhere near as late as their French counterparts. There is also a conventional technology reactor designed by GE and Hitachi, of which four have already been constructed. Today the UK has eight operating nuclear power stations, all of which are ageing. We clearly need to invest in new nuclear capacity, and although there a number of options for different reactors, one thing is clear: we cannot manage without nuclear as nothing can reliably fill the gap. Rather than the current financing agreement in place with EDF and their Chinese counterparts, the Government should consider paying for it up front and put it on the UK’s balance sheet, because once the capital has been spent, the variable costs of producing electricity are very low and it can provide highly competitive power to manufacturing for many years to come. For the foreseeable future, the UK is dependent on gas and nuclear for its primary energy needs to serve the general public and industry/commerce. Our energy policy for the next ten years should give priority to exploiting shale gas safely and to building ‘tried and tested’ new nuclear. It really is not so complicated.
GERMANY has long been described as the manufacturing powerhouse of Europe. Last year its companies exported goods worth a record €1.196 trillion – up 6.4% from 2014 – and employment reached a record-breaking 43 million. In December Robert E. Scott, a senior Economist and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research Economic Policy Institute, said while other industrialised nations had crumpled under Asian competition, Germany had increased exports to China and the rest of Asia – despite the fact that it had among the highest manufacturing wages in the world. “If higher wages hurt manufacturing competitiveness, we’d expect Germany to be doing worse than the United States, but they are not,” he wrote in an article for the Economic Policy Institute. According to the latest figures from the World Bank, manufacturing in Germany accounts for 23% of the economy – compared to 12% in the US, 11% in France and 9.4% in the UK. Dig deeper and you realise Germany’s economic miracle is not left to chance or attributed to being in the right place at the right time. It is a result of their work ethic, a government that sees manufacturing as a good source of jobs and sound, lasting economic growth, and the ability and skills to produce goods of the highest quality. “German companies are rarely the cheapest producers, yet the superior quality and performance of their products enables them to command premium prices and still boost exports,” Charles W. Wessner, a programme director with the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy at the National Research Council, wrote in an article for Mechanical Engineering. British journalist Justin Rowlatt, the BBC’s South Asia correspondent, spent several months in Germany with his wife Bee and two of their four children trying to discover what made Germany so successful. Many conversations with his contacts in Germany revealed some home truths. “One young German woman had worked in an office in the UK and had been horrified to see how little people worked,” he said. “When Germans talk to each other, it is about work. In the UK she said people were all on Facebook, texting their friends, emailing them, and making personal phone calls.” Justin worked for Faber-Castell, one of the world’s largest and oldest manufacturers of pencils. The business is still run today by a direct descendent of the founder. What it does, it does brilliantly. “The secret of German success seems to be that they focus on one tiny bit of business but do it on a world scale,” he said. That is certainly true of Faber-Castell. The business was founded 255 years ago by a cabinet maker who initially produced pencils in his spare time. Today the business runs 14 factories, employs about 7,000 people and sells in more than 100 countries. “It is a typical mittelstand company,” said Count Anton Wolfgang Faber-Castell who runs the business today. Germans use the word mittelstand for the millions of medium-sized companies that employ a fifth of the German workforce and focus on niche products that command premium prices around the world. These family-run businesses often stretch back for generations, and form the backbone of the German economy. They not only supply Germany’s multinational corporations but many are also exporters in their own right. Tom Peters, an American writer on business management practices, said mittelstand companies were incredibly focused. “The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence,” he said. There is another good reason why they thrive. And that is, The Fraunhofer Society, a network of 67 government-backed research institutes with 23,000 employees. “Fraunhofer supports an ecosystem for manufacturing innovation that has helped keep Germany an exporting juggernaut,” Sujai Shivakumar, a specialist in innovation policy at the National Academies in Washington, told The Wall Street Journal. The Fraunhofer Society provides first-rate, affordable, short-term research that smaller manufacturers would otherwise struggle to afford. These companies use the research to continually improve their processes and products – and, in doing so, stay one step ahead of the competition. “Put simply, Fraunhofer helps manufacturers bridge the valley of death, which often occurs at a stage of production development where the potential return on investment is high but equally high levels of uncertainty prevent firms from investing significantly in R&D,” said Michael Teiwes, head of PR at Fraunhofer. Over the past 10 years Professor Dr Bernd Venohr, a German management consultant, has worked with numerous world-leading, medium-sized family businesses in Germany. “They were sometimes called the ‘hidden champions’ but they are no longer hidden in an increasingly transparent global economy,” he said. He said they were successful because they understood – and believed – that sound growth and progress stemmed from real innovation, that superior value, not price, mattered to customers and that employees should be treated with respect not as ‘easily to be replaced’ resources. “These key management principles really are universal truths for any business,” he said. “But while they are easy to understand, they are not always easy to implement.” He said that his recent study showed that about 1,650 German SMEs were leaders, at least among the top three companies, in the world markets for their products. The US-based Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation said the rest of the world could learn valuable lessons from Germany. “The quality and extent of their vocational training to prepare young people for skilled manufacturing jobs is to be admired,” said Kris Bledowski, Director of Economic Studies. “Theirs is a society that prizes engineering and exact sciences as aspirational goals in education.” He does not believe Germany will be greatly affected by the economic slowdown in China. “Last year exports to China were $97 billion or about 7.2% of Germany’s overall exports,” said Kris. “Germany’s investment in China is miniscule compared to virtually any country in Europe. So, the impact will be rather small, overall.” And that comes as no surprise to Justin. “They don’t take their success for granted and I think that’s why the country is so good at focusing on the long-term,” he said, “Their hard work, efficiency and orderliness springs from a deep sense of community and responsibility towards each other.” And it is to the future they are looking. Germany has launched Industrie 4, or as it is commonly known ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’, with the backing of the German government. “We want Germany to stay a globally competitive high wage economy and believe Industrie 4.0’s strategy will allow us to do it,” said Professor Henning Kagermann from the National Academy of Science and Engineering. Kris believes Industrie 4 – to create the factory of the future – was partly born out of fear of America’s digital revolution that started spilling into manufacturing. “It is fair to say that Germany’s initiative and America’s Industrial Internet concept are transatlantic cousins, albeit separated by language, traditions and business culture,” he said. “But Industrie 4.0 is strictly about Germany. There is nothing European, international, or global about this policy. German taxpayers’ money is being spent on helping domestic companies compete internationally.” He said America’s project – although based in the US – was open to anyone with a stake in the future of the industrial internet. “It is global in its reach,” he said. GERMANY’S chemical industry may still be the envy of Europe – but it has been warned not to become complacent. In a statement to the press earlier this year, German chemical trade association VCI President Marijn Dekkers said after an initially good start to the year, production had now stagnated, sales had dropped and jobs had been lost. “It is not good news and the outlook is not promising either,” he said. Germany, he said, faced several challenges including a slowdown in the global markets, the cost of raw materials and energy and Britain’s decision to become the first Member State to leave the European Union. “It is too early for an appraisal at the moment,” he said. “But the UK’s decision is likely to have negative effects.” Recent events have helped the German economy, notably the devaluation of the Euro and falling oil prices. But those were now ‘wearing off’, he said. On the face of it, though, Germany still looks good compared to the rest of the world. “We have been the world champion of exports for more than a decade, the foreign trade surplus for chemicals has been growing continuously and we are by far the major chemical industry location in Europe,” he said. “We are still acting from a position of strength. But the emphasis is on “still”. In the long run, there are more and more doubts whether Germany can defend its position as a chemical industry location.” Germany, he said, needed to ensure it did not lose its competitiveness but it was in danger of doing so due to the expansion of production plants in America and the Middle East, rising energy costs in Europe, excessive EU regulations, the loss of businesses in the value chain, a lack of investment in Germany and two few incentives for research and development. “German industry alone cannot make Germany a world champion in innovation,” he said. “We need support from the political arena. We need to work as one.” In VCI’s recent report, The German Chemical Industry in 2030, which was conducted by Prognos AG, the VCI says political decisions made today will affect future developments and investments. What it needs to grow, it said, is a climate free of bureaucracy and one that encourages innovation. “For us to further invest, a stable planning horizon is needed, especially in energy-related legislation,” said Dr Stephan Müller, Manager at INEOS Köln.
IT is regarded as one of the most brutally challenging cycle races in the world. But while the riders’ determination to win the Tour de France may not have changed over the past 113 years, the technology certainly has. Italian-born Maurice Garin won the first race on a red, white and blue Tricolour bike and pocketed 20,000 French francs. Victory, though, seemed somewhat bitter-sweet. “I suffered on the road,” he said after crossing the finishing line on July 19, 18 days after setting off from a café in Montgeron on the outskirts of Paris. “I was hungry, I was thirsty and I was sleepy. I cried between Lyon and Marseille.” This year’s favourite to win the world’s biggest bike race was Team Sky’s Chris Froome, who grew up in Kenya where he used to sell avocados off the back of his bike for pocket money. He was determined to win – and that he did, in impressive style, when he rode triumphantly into Paris on Sunday July 24 in the famous yellow jersey and became the first Briton to win three Tour de France titles. He – and his supporters - had suffered a slight scare on day 19 of the 21-day race when he slipped on a treacherous wet descent 10km from the line, crashed and had to borrow teammate Geraint Thomas’ bike to the finish. “I lost a bit of skin obviously and banged my knee a bit,” he said after finishing. “But I was just grateful that I had got that four-minute advantage to play with. It gave me a breathing space.” Froome’s winning bike was the DOGMA F8, a revolutionary machine designed by Pinarello to literally slice through the air. “When you push on the pedals, the power goes straight through the bike,” he said after testing it for the first time in Nice, France. “It does not flex. It does not move. Whatever power you are putting into the pedals, goes on to the road.” What made this bike so incredibly light, yet strong, was Pinarello’s decision to use Toray’s new T11001K Dream Carbon with Nanoalloy Technology. To the layman, it is the carbon fibre that Boeing is using in its state-of-theart 787 fleet. “Using this we were able to increase the stiffness by 12% while reducing the frame weight by 120 grams to 860 grams (1.9lbs),” said a spokesman for Pinarello. Toray, the world number one in the manufacture of carbon fibre, said Pinarello was the only bike brand to be using it. “In designing the DOGMA F8, one of our objectives was to raise the bar yet again,” said CEO Fausto Pinarello. “We wanted to improve on the improvements we made to Chris Froome’s last bike.” The DOGMA 65.1 had been the most titled bike on the planet and universally recognised as a benchmark in the world of high-end road bikes. All that changed as Froome became the first man since Miguel Indurain in 1991 to successfully defend his title. He believes that man and machine have never been more compatible. “It doesn’t matter how many wind tunnel tests we do, the ultimate test remains with the rider,” said the spokesman. “He is the one who will live, fight and sweat on the bike.” INEOS, as the company which supplies Toray with acrylonitrile, the core ingredient needed to make carbon fibre, was also watching with interest.
ONE of the pillars of the European economy – and society’s best chance of creating tomorrow’s low carbon economy – could be in danger of collapse. INEOS fears Europe’s policymakers want the impossible – and won’t get it without listening to industry. “It really is becoming a strangling reality to work in Europe as an energy-intensive industry,” said Greet Van Eetvelde, INEOS Manager of Cleantech Initiatives. “The petrochemical industry has helped Europe to grow into one of the most industrialised and wealthy regions in the world. It is a ‘pocket of prosperity’. But with a stroke of the pen, literally, the European Commission is writing its own death sentence.” The problem is this. Energy-intensive industries are already operating under intense pressure in Europe due to spiralling energy costs compared to America, the Middle East and China. Burdensome EU initiatives to cut emissions are another increasing area of concern. Combined, they threaten the very existence of the chemical industry in Europe – and are at odds with the EU’s goal of raising manufacturing’s GDP contribution to 20% by 2020. “Europe is currently at risk of losing its strong manufacturing base, never mind reaching the 20% manufacturing share of GDP target,” said Dr Peter Botschek, CEFIC’s Director of Energy and Climate Action. “The EU’s policy framework needs to enable, not penalise, efficient manufacturing growth.” Among the latest reforms to alarm Europe’s chemical industry is the EU’s flagship plan for cutting carbon, the Emissions Trading Scheme which is aimed at big business. Cefic is the organisation that represents 29,000 large, medium and small chemical companies in Europe. It said the chemical industry already had a long track record of improving its energy and resource efficiency, all of which had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 54% since 1990 despite a 70% increase in production. And it had achieved them through investment and innovation. “That innovation is crucial and will be indispensable to ensure further improvements and develop breakthrough technologies to create a low carbon and energy efficient European chemical industry,” said its president Kurt Bock. “A thriving chemical industry is an essential part of the solution for the challenge of climate change and a key driver for achieving the EU’s objectives regarding jobs, economic growth and investment.” Critics say the newly-proposed EU reforms are fundamentally flawed and would ultimately penalise the most efficient companies. “It just makes no sense,” said Dr Botschek. “Companies that already meet the highest standards cannot do any more. Yet by 2025 even the most efficient undertakings will have to buy allowances for their own growth. The best performers will not be rewarded but will be burdened with undue carbon costs.” He said those higher carbon costs would inevitably erode margins and hinder the industry’s ability to provide a sufficient return on investments in the long-term. And there is already evidence of that. Despite increasing global demand for chemicals, China now holds the top ranking in worldwide chemicals sales, a position once held by Europe. “It should be acknowledged that investments in production facilities are made for the long-term,” said Dr Botschek. “Energy-intensive industries faced with the promise of a substantial long-term increase in their energy costs will think twice before making these decisions.” He said the best way for the EU to encourage investment in low-carbon technologies was to create a more competitive environment for industry so it had money to invest. “Energy-intensive industries cannot pass their carbon costs to consumers without losing market share to their non-EU competitors,” he said. If the EU continued to act unilaterally, he argued, it would make non-EU countries a more attractive place to invest, lead to job losses and stifle growth in Europe. Furthermore such actions could lead to higher emissions in companies that are less efficient than those within the EU. The chemical industry is not the only one worried by what’s on the horizon. European steelmakers are also calling for the Commission to ensure its post-2020 proposals to change the Emissions Trading System do not lead to unfair costs which their global competitors don’t face. According to a recent study, the proposed reforms could cost the steel industry alone about €34 billion. INEOS has been lobbying whoever will listen in an attempt to galvanise support against the proposed reforms which it believes will cost its European businesses more than €1 billion. Energy Intensive does not mean energy inefficient. “The industry is already highly efficient and changing European laws will not change the laws of physics,” said Greet. “Any further reduction in our emissions and energy use is only possible via relocated production, which does nothing to reduce global emissions. Unfortunately, the European Commission seems to operate in a growingly decoupled way from the industrial reality.” INEOS wants to work with policymakers during the ordinary legislative procedure to improve the Commission’s carbon leakage proposals. CEFIC is also working actively with the Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries, which represents over 30,000 European companies and four million jobs, towards a fair and efficient reformed ETS to enable the most efficient companies to grow in Europe. “Global demand for chemical products is predicted to double by 2030 with much of this growth being in Asia,” said Kurt. “Therefore, the question for policymakers is: ‘What part can EU legislators play in helping to ensure chemical products are continued to be produced in the EU?’” What does the future hold? THE European chemical industry is one of the few European manufacturing sectors that is still truly a world leader. It employs 1.16 million people, exports goods worth €140 billion, and is the foundation for the wider manufacturing sector. But it is losing ground as it prices itself out of global markets. Figures show that the chemical industry’s global market share has fallen from 32% in 1993 to 17% in 2014 when it became a net importer of petrochemicals for the first time due to falling exports and increased imports from Asia. “Worryingly for the future, investment has stagnated in Europe over the past decade, while increasing tenfold in China and almost fourfold in the USA due to the shale gas boom,” said Greet Van Eetvelde, INEOS Manager of Cleantech Initiatives. CEFIC said Europe must remain competitive if policymakers wanted it to continue being innovative. Climate change policy leadership in Europe, it said, should not come at the expense of losing industry to another country with less stringent regulations, arguing that it would actually lead to an increase in global carbon emissions and funds for much-needed innovation would dry up. “European deindustrialisation is not and should never be seen as a viable option on the journey to decarbonisation,” said a spokesman.
AS INEOS has grown, so too has its responsibility towards those who live and work close to its manufacturing sites. It believes its licence to operate complex, potentially hazardous petrochemical plants hinges on how it is perceived in the community. “We do not operate in a vacuum,” said Kevin McQuade, CEO of INEOS Styrolution. “Our responsibility does not end at the company gates. We want to be a good and valued neighbour and maintain people’s trust.” Each of INEOS’ sites has a co-ordinated approach to building and strengthening relationships with those who live, work and play nearby. Regular community forums at some of its sites, including Köln in Germany and at Grangemouth in the UK, give the public the opportunity to listen to INEOS’ plans for the future, ask questions and air any concerns. “We try to explain ourselves using clear and non-technical language. Because we have built up a good long-term relationship over the years, people are reassured. They may sometimes not like to hear what we have to tell them, but it is important we explain the context” said David East, Communications Manager at INEOS’ site in Grangemouth. Dr Anne-Gret Iturriaga Abarzua, Head of Communications at INEOS Köln, said the regular meetings at the Köln plant with representatives of the Köln-Worringen Community Forum were always constructive, open and honest. “They enable us to provide updates on our business and introduce plans for the future,” she said. “But more importantly they provide a platform for local people to ask questions.” In addition to the regular forums, both Grangemouth and Köln host ad-hoc meetings if specific issues need to be discussed, and Köln invites local people to tour the site by bus every month to see for themselves exactly how INEOS operates. Talking to local communities about what INEOS is doing and planning matters to both sides. “We take our role in society very seriously,” said Christine Schönfelder, Vice President Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Advocacy and Change Management at INEOS Styrolution. “We want to be a trusted part of the community where we operate.” INEOS Upstream – INEOS’ newest business – is currently talking to communities in England about its plans to explore parts of the UK for shale gas. “It is a very controversial and contentious issue,” said Tom Pickering, INEOS Shale, “But we want to show the community that we do understand they might be worried, we do care and we will listen.” Being a trusted part of the community does matter a great deal to INEOS – and that’s why you will often find INEOS employees helping charities, competing in sporting events or helping to develop and educate young people. Many of INEOS’ sites also work alongside schools and colleges to promote a healthy interest in science, technology and engineering – and, in doing so, hopefully inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. “As a successful company, we want to give something back to society,” said Christine. “The way we do our business is as important as the business we do. Operating with integrity and with ethical standards is our way of doing business.” INEOS businesses and sites have embraced social media which has opened up new channels of communication with the wider community. They are using the Internet, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as a way to inform local communities and, just as importantly, receive feedback. “Because of its immediacy, social media is a great way to respond to events where speed is of the essence,” said Anne-Gret. “In these circumstances it enables us to gain trust and establish ourselves as the single point of authoritative information.” Grangemouth’s Community Liaison Group, which includes local councillors, police officers and the local head teacher, used to meet four times a year but decided, amongst themselves, to cut it down to two. “For us, it will always be a wonderful opportunity to speak face-to-face with representatives from the local community, share our plans, be open and honest about our performance and to hear their views and thoughts,” said David. “It helps that we have members who have been members of the group for a long time, and many who are ex-employees. It’s all about building and maintaining relationships.” But it’s not just about communication. INEOS’ successful, worldwide GO Run For Fun campaign aimed at inspiring tomorrow’s generation to be active and its work in German primary and secondary schools through TuWas! are equally as important. “All these things will certainly shape our profile as a trustworthy, sustainable and honest company for many years to come,” said Anne-Gret.
MANUFACTURING is becoming ever more complex and highly-skilled employees are becoming increasingly sought after. The problems are global and well documented; the action and solutions less so. In April last year Michael Collins, President of MPC Consulting, told Industry Week magazine that it was time to act. “We have done enough ‘shortage of skills’ surveys,” he said. “We know what kind of skills and training programmes are needed. It is time for corporations to quit stalling and make the commitment to long-term training by seeing it as an investment, not an expense.” As a company, which needs a continuous supply of highly-skilled, highly-disciplined and motivated employees to survive, INEOS has always believed in the importance of training and development, and knows it cannot afford to wait for government initiatives to solve the deepening crisis. And it is a deepening crisis. In America, a looming shortage of skilled workers could cut short its manufacturing renaissance. “Over the next decade, nearly 3½ million manufacturing jobs likely need to be filled,” said a spokesman for US-based Manufacturing Institute. “But two million of those jobs are expected to go unfilled due to the skills gap.” In a poll conducted last year by the Foundation of Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, 52% of American teenagers said they had no interest in manufacturing, seeing it as a ‘dirty, dangerous place that requires little thinking or skill’. The UK fared no better. In October the UK-based Manufacturing Institute said teachers needed to understand that manufacturing was a good career. “We are in the middle of a war for talent and it is concerning to see that this is beginning to hold manufacturing businesses back,” said Chief Executive Dr Julie Madigan. “Just to stand still, UK manufacturing will need hundreds of thousands of recruits in the next 10 years.” In March this year business group EEF also highlighted the problem, saying Britain’s manufacturers were struggling to recruit skilled workers and keep pace with global technology. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Companies, like INEOS, are fighting back. And winning. At INEOS Köln in Germany, O&P in the US and Grangemouth in Scotland, successful apprenticeship schemes are reaping real results. Germany is perhaps the country that has been making real headway. “People who get a job here say they feel like they have won the lottery,” said Dr Anne- Gret Iturriaga Abarzua, Head of Communications at INEOS Köln. “We take care of our people and we don’t have a problem recruiting. We don’t need to spend a lot on advertising. We don’t worry about the future but we are not complacent either.” Andreas Hain, head of apprentice training at the German site, said every year about 1,800 young people applied for about 60 jobs. All are asked to take part in an online questionnaire. From those almost 500 are invited in and interviewed for at least an hour each. “We do invest a lot of time and effort,” said Anne-Gret. “But this is a high investment so we need to get it right, because if they start working for us, they stay. We have quite a lot of people who have been here for 45 years.” Once INEOS has chosen its 60 apprentices – and all are likely to be highly motivated, enthusiastic, openminded souls with an interest in their communities – they are treated as part of the INEOS family. “We take care of them from the moment they come in,” said Anne-Gret. The apprentices learn on the job and attend the college on site. All the teachers are ex-workers. “It means we can mould them in the way we want and bind them together in the company,” said Anne-Gret. “We want them to understand the company’s culture.” Finding people who understand a company’s culture and ethos – and practise it by example – is key to any organisation that wants to grow and prosper in today’s competitive world. In 2008 INEOS joined forces with Forth Valley College and Heriot Watt University in Scotland to launch its five-year modern apprenticeship scheme Engineers of the Future. The scheme, which was modelled on the success of INEOS’ Köln site, combined a full university education with relevant, workplace experience. “The concept of work experience placements, as part of a university education, was nothing new but the thinking behind it, was,” said Robin Westacott, director of the Engineers of the Future programme. The work experience created ‘work ready’ graduates familiar with the site’s processes and procedures, and focus on safety. “We want them to understand INEOS’ culture so that when they go down to the site to do their on-site training, that culture is already embedded,” said Kenny MacInnes, deputy head of engineering at Forth Valley College. Jennifer Prentice, Duncan Paterson and Mark Skilton were among the first graduates to complete the bespoke course. All now work full-time for INEOS. “The quality of these graduates showed clearly that the rationale for the programme had been fully achieved,” said Gordon Milne, Operations Director at INEOS Grangemouth. “They set the bar very high.” INEOS Olefins & Polymer USA’s college recruiting campaign is also paying dividends. It has been so successful that it has effectively helped the business to establish a ‘talent pipeline’ for the future. “We have been able to bring in and develop some terrific people who, have and will, continue to contribute to our company’s success today and in the future,” said HR Director Sam Scheiner.
INEOS’ simple campaign to get children fit by encouraging them to run for fun has reached yet another milestone. This summer more countries than ever have hosted GO Run For Fun events, the latest being Italy and Norway. “It really does now have a truly international feel,” said Ursula Heath, INEOS Group Communications Officer, who works on the campaign. So far more than 220 events have been hosted in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, America, Belgium, France and the UK with the £1.5 million donation set aside by INEOS when it launched the campaign three years ago. At the time founder INEOS chairman Jim Ratcliffe said his target was to reach 100,000 children. “We smashed that target months ago,” said Ursula. “But our reach is still growing, and we’re not about to give up now. If anything our ambitions have got bigger.” Although INEOS’ original donation is drawing to an end, with the growing appetite for getting children outside and running for their health and wellbeing, the GO Run For Fun team is excited about the possibilities for the future. “We are continuing to stage these high energy, hugely popular fun runs but we’re increasingly looking to work closer with schools to provide the motivation and materials to teach healthy active living all year round,” said Ursula. The team is now headed up from within INEOS by John Mayock, a former Olympic athlete who has staged nationwide school sports programmes. “The GO Run For Fun campaign has gone from strength to strength,” he said. “We now have more countries, more children, countless events and have won the support of more than 150 world-class sporting ambassadors.” Numerous sponsors are supporting the campaign and negotiations with potential partners to help fund the campaign will continue. INEOS will also continue to support former Scottish headteacher Elaine Wyllie’s ground-breaking Daily Mile initiative, which is growing apace, by working closer with participating schools. “The two campaigns not only share a similar goal, but complement each other,” said Ursula. The Daily Mile encourages children to get into the habit of running by taking part in a mile-long run in school every day. GO Run For Fun is the big event – the one that inspires children to give it their all. “GO Run For Fun is like a circus when it comes to town,” said John. “And it leaves a lasting impression on the kids.” But both share a similar ethos and vision. “Children are encouraged to enjoy running, no matter their speed, ability or experience,” said Ursula. “And that’s the reason why both these campaigns will have a positive impact on the activity levels and health of the next generation.” With Jim Ratcliffe’s vision buoyed by the success of the campaign so far, the next era of GO Run For Fun is going to be an exciting one to watch. CHAMPION! ZAK CANNOT BELIEVE HIS LUCK AS days go, July 14 was quite a day in nine-year-old Zak Schuster’s life. The Swiss schoolboy had stopped off at London’s Olympic Stadium with his parents in the hope of seeing where athletes Mo Farah and Usain Bolt had won gold medals in the 2012 London Games. But instead he stumbled across INEOS’ GO Run For Fun event which was being staged inside the iconic venue for the very first time in the hope of inspiring British children to run for fun. Zak’s mum Janet asked if he might take part. “We don’t normally accept late entries but we could not refuse him,” said Ursula Heath. Zak was given a spare number, one of the charity’s trademark pink T-shirts and lined up with 4,000 other children ready to run the 2km race. “He was so excited,” said Janet. As the gun went off, the young runner, who is the Swiss Group of International Schools’ cross country champion, led the charge, eventually crossing the line first, and breaking the tape. “That moment is something he will never forget,” said Janet. Later the schoolboy, who has had a passion for running since he was five, met former Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson and athletes Richard Kilty and Emilie Diamond. Zak’s mum, Janet, who teaches PE at a Swiss international school, said he could not believe his luck. “He is still talking about it,” she said. “In fact we all are. The whole event was just so inspiring and meeting some sporting heroes was the icing on the cake. They could not have been nicer. They took time to chat with him, posed for photographs and signed his T shirt.” As the signatures on his T-shirt eventually fade, the memories won’t. “This will have a huge impact on his running,” said Janet. More than 160,000 children throughout the world have now taken part in one of INEOS’ GO Run For Fun event.
INVESTORS have grown to love INEOS as the company itself has grown over the past 17 years. On the face of it, it’s understandable. It has risen from humble beginnings in 1998, when it employed 400 people and turned over £200 million, to become a company employing 17,000 people across 67 sites in 17 countries with global sales of a cool $40 billion. “To our investors we have become a ‘must have’ investment,” said Peter Clarkson, Head of Investor Relations at INEOS. “INEOS bonds can be found in the portfolios of most managed funds because it has continued to provide investors with an excellent return, and consistently meets and exceeds its promises time after time.” But to really understand why the appetite to share in INEOS’ success is growing, you have to look beyond the balance sheet, impressive though it is. For what INEOS has become an expert at is turning unwanted, inefficient businesses back to profit where others have simply failed. And that is down to the way the company is run. “Many of the old blue-chip companies manage by committee, but that doesn’t happen in INEOS,” said Peter. “People, even new graduate employees, are given clear individual responsibility, and report to a very focused business board, who can make major decisions very quickly.” INEOS actively encourages its staff to think like owners and spend money as if it were their own. “INEOS is different,” said Peter. “The underlying mood is always restless. INEOS is always looking for opportunities and that is good news for anyone wanting to invest.” As a company, INEOS thinks big. It dreams the impossible. But, more importantly, it makes things happen. At this year’s annual investor days in London and New York, Peter detailed some of the initiatives – big and small – that continued to give INEOS its well-deserved reputation as a company that was comfortable taking calculated risks. He talked about INEOS’ ground-breaking decision to buy 12 North Sea gas fields for £490 million while all around seem to be selling up. He spoke about the incredible ships, which are now bringing low-cost ethane from America to Norway – and soon Scotland – to give INEOS’ European gas crackers the edge over its competitors. “We are very comfortable with where we are, but there is much more we can do,” he said. The investors – and there were almost 200 at this year’s investor days – are keen to hear INEOS’ views of the market, its predictions for the price of oil, and in particular naphtha, which it uses to feed some of its crackers, the impact of low-cost US shale gas and what major projects are planned. “They usually want to know about anything and everything that has a major influence on our cash flow,” said Peter. What investors have discovered is that a year in the life of INEOS is never dull. For INEOS Group, INEOS Styrolution and INOVYN, 2015 proved to be a record year thanks to favourable markets due, in part, to the failure of its competitors. INEOS capitalised on that by running its plants hard, maximising the high margin business that was to be had. “Everyone knows that the global petrochemical industry’s assets are ageing and becoming increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain,” said Peter. “But we are good at maintaining our assets in a safe and reliable condition, whilst controlling capital expenditure. The reliability factor has really paid dividends over the past couple of years.” INEOS’ cracker in Koln, Germany, for instance, is 99% reliable despite its age. “It is like a well-cared for Mercedes with 100,000km on the clock,” said Peter. When money is spent, it is spent wisely on projects that will make money for INEOS to invest elsewhere. “The projects are always well targeted and cost-effective,” said Peter. “Even the smaller projects add value.” INEOS has worked hard to ensure investors are treated as part of the team. Every week all investors and analysts are sent a market update with a summary of what has been happening in all of INEOS’ major markets. “It is very unusual in the world they invest in but we believe they value that transparency,” said Peter. “It also helps to reduce the amount of time needed to renegotiate and secure better interest rates when we launch new bonds. Investors often feel they don’t need to attend an investor day because they understand the company so well.” That openness means a bond refinancing deal can now be done in days instead of weeks. “We have absolutely no trouble selling our debt because of our reputation,” said Peter.
INEOS has given the final backing for a new world-scale plant to be built near Houston in Texas. When it becomes operational in November 2018, the plant will produce 420,000 tons of linear alpha olefins (LAOs) every year – 20% more than INEOS Oligomers had originally planned. The decision to increase production at INEOS’ Chocolate Bayou site has been driven by America’s shale gas boom, which has slashed the cost of energy and raw materials, and customer demand. LAOs are used in a huge range of products including shampoos, packaging, pipes, tyres and agrochemicals. The new plant will also help INEOS’ growing polyalphaolefin business because it will make the raw materials the business needs to manufacture high performance synthetic lubricants. The wind industry relies on these high viscosity oils to improve the performance and reliability of wind turbine gearboxes. In the past the industry has been plagued by gearboxes failing, leading to a loss of production. INEOS Oligomers is already the world’s largest producer of PAOs but this latest investment represents a major step forward in the company’s ambitious growth plans for its LAO business. By the end of 2018 the global LAO production capacity of INEOS Oligomers, which has other plants in Canada and Belgium, will be about one million metric tons a year.
INEOS chairman Jim Ratcliffe has donated £25 million to the London Business School where he earned his MBA. The money will secure the future of the Regent’s Park building for the next 125 years. “I owe a lot to the London Business School,” said Jim. “It is one of the best business institutions in the world.” Jim obtained his MBA in 1980 while working for Exxon Chemicals as a chemical engineer. Eighteen years later he founded INEOS which is now one of the biggest petrochemical companies in the world with 17,000 employees and sales of more than $54 billion. Professor Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean at the London Business School, described the donation as ‘incredibly generous’. “This will mean that future generations of students will have the benefit of studying in one of London’s most beautiful and historically important buildings,” he said. As a thank you, the London Business School has also named its main Nash terraced building as The Ratcliffe.
INEOS O&P USA has acquired a company that is reaping the benefits of America’s shale gas boom. It has acquired 100% of the shares of WLP Holding Corp, one of the largest and fastest-growing high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe manufacturers in North America. Pipes, which are made from HDPE, don’t leak or rust and, if properly designed and installed, don’t need maintaining for 100 years. As such, they are in demand from oil and gas producers. “The growth in HDPE pipe for oil and gas really did explode with the development of shale oil and gas exploration,” said Dennis Seith, CEO of INEOS O&P USA. But INEOS sees other avenues for growth as US cities grow and need to replace ageing sewage and water systems. “The unique properties of strength, flexibility, weight and durability along with ease of handling make HDPE pipes the perfect choice,” said Dennis. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company currently produces HDPE pipes at plants in Kentucky, South Dakota, Utah, Texas, and Wyoming with one in Georgia currently being built. “We are very pleased to have acquired this business,” said Dennis. “It is well-positioned to serve the growing North American pipe market and will complement our existing portfolio of olefins and polymer products.” Mark Wason, CEO of WL Plastics, said INEOS and WL shared a similar ethos. “We are both committed to safety, quality, manufacturing excellence and customer service,” he said. He believed INEOS would help WL Plastics to strengthen its position in the market place.
INEOS Styrolution, already viewed as a global leader in styrenics, has signed a deal that further strengthens its position in the world. It has bought the global K-Resin® styrene-butadiene copolymers (SBC) business of current JV owners Chevron Phillips Chemical and Daelim Industrial Company. The plant is located in Yeosu Petrochemical Complex, the largest petrochemical complex on the southern coast of South Korea. CEO Kevin McQuade said the acquisition – INEOS Styrolution’s first – would strengthen its ability to offer specialty styrenics products to its customers, and increase its production capacities in Asia. “Our customers will benefit from our ability to supply and support their worldwide demand from our expanded geographic footprint, with SBC manufacturing and research and development centres in all major regions,” he said. INEOS Styrolution currently employs about 3,100 people and operates 15 production sites in nine countries. K-Resin® SBC and INEOS Styrolution’s existing SBC brands Styrolux® and Styroflex® complement each other well. The combined business will offer a broad selection of SBC products to customers across the globe. The acquisition, once completed, also underlines INEOS Styrolution’s commitment to focus on measures that will expand its footprint in higher-growth industries, styrenic specialties, and emerging markets.
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What happened once the English were there?
IMPERIALISM IS THE EXTENSION OF SOVEREIGNTY OR CONTROL BY ONE PEOPLE OVER ANOTHER.
- IT WAS MOSTLY DORMANT IN THE WEST DURING MOST OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
- IT FLOURISHED DURING THE AGE OF EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY (1450-1650), PARTICULARLY IN THE AMERICAS AND PARTS OF ASIA.
- A GENERAL DECLINE OCCURRED IN IMPERIALISM DURING THE AGE OF METTERNICH, WITH GOVERNMENTS CONCENTRATING PRIMARILY ON INTERNAL PROBLEMS.
- THE REVIVAL OF IMPERIALISM - THE "NEW IMPERIALISM" TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 1870 AND 1914.
- ECONOMICS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE FACTOR IN THIS "NEW IMPERIALISM." MUCH OF THIS ECONOMIC EMPHASIS WAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, WHICH CREATED LARGE SURPLUSES OF EUROPEAN CAPITAL AND HEAVY DEMANDS FOR RAW MATERIALS. ADDITIONALLY, IT BROUGHT ABOUT THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL IN THE MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WHICH SOUGHT INVESTMENT ABROAD.
- NATIONALISM WAS ANOTHER POWERFUL FACTOR. SOCIAL DARWINISM, WITH ITS CONCEPT OF "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN" MADE POPULAR BY THE ENGLISHMAN RUDYARD KIPLING CONTRIBUTED TO THE SPIRIT OF NATIONALISM IN EXTENDING COLONIALISM. THERE WAS ALSO POLITICAL PRESTIGE IN HAVING COLONIES AS IMPERIALISM BECAME A RACE TO ACQUIRE MORE IN THE SPIRIT OF NATIONALISM.
- A THIRD REASON FOR THIS "NEW" IMPERIALISM WAS MILITARY. MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS IN EACH MAJOR COUNTRY WIELDED GREAT POLITICAL POWER, AND THEY EMPHASIZED THE NEED, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS, OF CONTROLLING STRATEGIC AREAS AND ESTABLISHING KEY MILITARY BASES.
- A FOURTH REASON WAS HUMANITARIAN/RELIGIOUS, WHICH OFTEN BECAME INTERTWINED WITH NATIONALISM.
- AS YOU RECALL, AT THE END OF THE SEVEN YEARS WAR IN 1763, GREAT BRITAIN HAD WON THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE IN INDIA OVER FRANCE. THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL IN ADVERTISING THIS COLONY.
- BRITISH POLICY BECAME ONE OF EXPLOITING INDIA ECONOMICALLY.
- INDIAN NATIONALISM WAS MARKED BY THE SEPOY REBELLION OF 1857-58 AGAINST BRITISH RULE, WHICH WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL, ALTHOUGH THIS REBELLION LED TO REFORM IN INDIA BY THE BRITISH.
- IN 1885, THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS WAS ESTABLISHED AS A FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF THE GROWING NATIONALISM IN INDIA.
- IN W.W. I, INDIA DID REMAIN LOYAL TO GREAT BRITAIN AND SUPPORTED HER WAR EFFORT IN MANPOWER AND MONEY.
- ALSO INCLUDED IN GREAT BRITAIN'S SOUTHEAST AFRICAN TERRITORIES WAS RHODESIA, NAMED AFTER CECIL RHODES. RHODES WAS AN "EMPIRE BUILDER" WHO DID MUCH TO STRENGTHEN BRITISH IMPERIALISM.
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For various reasons, I keep several very large four cell lithium-polymer batteries in my vehicle. Each of these batteries is rated for over 100 amps of constant current, with 10 second burst ratings of twice that. Wired in parallel, they could easily provide enough power to start my vehicle.
However, a fully-charged 4s LiPo is normally 16.8 Volts and the electrical system on almost all of my vehicles is 12 Volts.
All of my life, I've been told that providing more than 12 volts to any modern car will damage the sensitive electronic components. Obviously, this can't be entirely correct, as a typical alternator can provide up to 15 Volts. I've also seen videos of people using 4s LiPos much smaller than mine to start their cars. I even know one shop mechanic who claims he used to jump 12 Volt vehicles with 24 Volt systems.
So, essentially, I'm wondering what the maximum safe voltage is for jump starting. Would 16.8 Volts be safe? What about a "storage charged" 15.28 Volt battery?
I'd say that 16.8 VDC is a bit too high to call "safe."
Now to answer the primary question, obviously it depends on the exact vehicle. Different computers and different wiring designs will result in different characteristics. As an example, if your battery is very dead, then putting a 15 VDC trickle on it will read something like 8-10 VDC. You know it's outputting 15, but the battery is soaking up a good bit.
There are many ways that different components and designs can create a buffer effect, but it's not really safe to plan with that.
That said, you can judged what is safe by taking a read off you battery after a 30 minute drive (assuming your battery is healthy and recharge system is working properly). This will be the reading of what you alternator is pushing. For my motorcycle for example, it will be ~14.8 VDC immediately after a ride. This will settle to somewhere around 14.5 I think. So I'd say, in most cases (but not all), that 15 VDC would probably be the max that I'd go.
As a separate note, this mechanic that used 24 VDC was most likely having a lot of juice sucked off by the bad battery. Even in non-digital cars, various relays and fuses are quite sensitive to voltages - not just light bulbs as Trond Hansen suggested.
While I have lots of opinion, I know of no standard with respect to acceptable voltages to components such as ECUs. Each manufacturer is different. Some ECUs are designed to operate on "28VDC" obviously for markets other than US cars.
In general an alternator will provide up to 14.8VDC when charging a lead acid battery. The voltage is slightly different for AGM. That said, the normal charge voltages are more like 13.8VDC.
Is 16.8VDC too high? It varies, and it is dependent upon your vehicle, it's appliances (GPS, radio, lighting systems, HID/LED system and of course ECU), as well as the vehicle you might connect to as a good Samaritan. Keep in mind that replacement parts may not have the same Vmax rating as the original equipment.
The old days of hooking up a 24VDC jump start system are over, unless one likes replacing an ECU or two every now and then.
So to address your question, you would have to obtain a Vmax spec for each of the components on your vehicle to be certain. Good luck with that research job.
i think the absolute max voltage that is farly safe is 14,4 volt,whith todays modern cars and all the computers and sensitiv elecrtonic always use jumper cables that have inbuilt protection.
the reason your old mechanic was able to use 24volt to start a 12 volt car was in the past cars did not have sensitive electronic,the worst ting that happened was some blown lightbulbs.
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This tweet works because it is a trope in Young Adult literature to present the male hero of the story—also typically the romantic lead—as unpleasant at first impression. Yes, sometimes there is brooding, but the trope goes beyond that into the territory of true loathsomeness. The hero’s true self in YA stories is often concealed beneath a foul exterior, an impression meant to repulse the heroine for the sake of romantic tension and the accrual of conflict. The romantic male lead (hero) appears to be rather monstrous or foul or otherwise toxic, but turns out to be just the opposite once the female lead (who is usually the love interest) gets to know him, and voila, everlasting love is born! These stories are a dime a dozen, and the heroes are almost always young males who are royal and hiding their true (good) identities or intentions beneath a dark veneer—sacrificing their reputation for the sake of some higher purpose. The main point is that they actually, despite initial appearances, possess integrity, honor, and virtue.
As predictable as this character arc is in YA stories, I can’t help but trace it back to the modern master of fantasy literature himself: J. R. R. Tolkien. Although obviously not an author of Young Adult literature, Tolkien’s influence is undeniable on all books, themes, and tropes in the genre, no matter the intended audience. When it comes to the typical romantic male lead, I don’t know that Tolkien did it first, but he certainly did it famously in the character of Aragorn, the longsuffering Ranger-king whose glory is hidden beneath rags, a gruff exterior, and an aspect frightening enough to set several traveling hobbits on edge. The first time Aragorn comes into the story in The Lord of the Rings, he is indeed glaring from the shadows, just like our brooding YA hero introduced in the tweet above.
When the hobbits Frodo and Sam first meet the rightful king of Gondor, he’s passing himself off as “Strider,” a mere Ranger. In deciding whether or not to trust him, Sam says, “You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way the servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would—well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.” To which Strider replies, “I see. I look foul and feel fair. Is that it?” Obviously this exchange is not a romantic encounter, but the main principle of the trope applies. Aragorn of Gondor is concealing his true nature beneath the guise of a Ranger until the time is right for him to ascend his throne. His disguise is so effective that discerning people, like Sam, must seek for what our hero feels like underneath, circumventing what can be seen on the surface.
The “sudden joyous turn” (to borrow further from Tolkien) of discovering that the hero is not “only a Ranger,” or as “foul” as they seem, is the reason the Aragorn Hero proliferates as a Type in stories to this day. The many (many) heroes who appear in modern YA stories walk similar paths to Aragorn.
Why does this theme repeat and appeal to a YA readership, specifically, though (which is often much broader than the actual young adults for whom the books are ostensibly written)? From Rhysand of the Night Court to Prince Cal to Jace Wayland to Caliph Khalid to Prince Brigan… I could go on for a long time naming heroes of the YA world who fall, even tangentially, into a Strider/Aragorn mold. I think it exists specifically in the YA space for a reason: hope.
Hope abounds in stories for young people far more than it is present in adult literature, and it is one of the main reasons adult readers flock to YA books despite being “aged out” of the target audience. Hope that insurmountable odds will be surmounted. Hope that people really aren’t as bad as they seem on the surface. Hopeful belief in the incredible, unlikely, unloveable, and unbelievable. Hope that the hero will be redeemed of his seeming “foulness,” that the one who appears as a villain will turn out to be a hero, that the brooding man in the shadows will be the savior of the world.
Young people more readily give in to hope, and adult readers of YA crave the easy hope of their youth, whether as escapism from the crushing bleakness of adulthood, or for the simple joy it brings to remember what it feels like to love without skepticism, to feel chest-constricting emotions, and to embrace the impossible without caution or care. Where more “mature” works of literary fiction often present stories of realism and people as they are—rigid, unyielding, resistant to change, YA stories present heroes who consistently defy expectations—who “look foul and feel fair,” who fulfill the wish that the “bad boy” isn’t so bad after all.
But the repetition of the Aragorn Story—of the hero who “looks foul and feels fair”—in YA stories offers us insight into our longing for the redemption and the existence of such men.
Would that every real-life relationship between a hopeful woman and a tormented man resolve as romantically as those in the most successful YA stories—that every harsh exterior concealed a heart of gold. But stories, even the most fantastical ones, are mere imitations of the real world, not the real world itself. And if there is any area in literature that truly stretches secondary belief, it is probably this trope. Most men who seem foul, sadly, truly are, and remain that way, and women should not get into relationships with them seeking the “fairness” beneath. But the repetition of the Aragorn Story—of the hero who “looks foul and feels fair”—in YA stories offers us insight into our longing for the redemption and the existence of such men—the longing and the search for nobility, humility, integrity, and virtue beneath sometimes brooding, callous, or even foul exteriors.
Each iteration of this trope plays out differently according to authorial whims, and of course discernment should be used when considering which stories to consume. But while in many cases these YA stories amount to little more than wish fulfillment, like the best stories and tropes, they hit on something much deeper—in this case, a reminder that at one crucial point in human history, royalty did come down and clothe himself in rags for our sake. He did indeed “look foul and feel fair,” up to the point where he defied death, effecting the greatest eucatastrophe of all time. Insomuch as a romantic brooding YA hero trope can remind me to think upon such things, I will hope, and I will call such stories good.
| 2019-04-20T22:52:25 |
https://christandpopculture.com/to-look-foul-and-feel-fair-tolkiens-influence-on-a-romantic-ya-trope/
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Is it possible to unify the myriad of disparate styles and thousands of artists by simply labeling them regionally or ethnically? Unusually for an exhibit that takes an ethnic group as it's focus, the thesis of Here and Elsewhere is 'no'. In fact the exhibition begins with a the bold statement: ”Is there such a thing as Arabian Art?” and closes with the equally bold, no, not really.
There is a feeling, one that I'm assured has a specific name in Italian, that is the feeling one gets when confronted with a large amount of knowledge and art spanning back centuries, and you realize you know nothing about it, and you immediately realize that you should. Here and Elsewhere will evoke this in each visitor. Why don't I know more about contemporary Arabian art?
While the argument can and has been clearly made that there is no easy category to put these artists in, there are, however, uniting themes that have permeated the Arab world for the last century. It has been a century of conflict, wars have ravaged the region, and the Palestinian struggle has been both a uniting and dividing issue. The exhibition is not cheerful, it's not happy, but these are not happy times.
The exhibition is organized into five floors, and no one is more important that the other, but there are highlights that cannot be missed. The first floor is home to Ahmed Mater's fantastic video instillation showing the creation and destruction that goes on as the cities in this region grow and accept ever more growing numbers of refugees and migrant workers. The workers laugh, mock one another, basically act like construction workers; while a gilded half moon is placed on a towering building and another is demolished.
From a photography standpoint the exhibition is rich in unknown, or at least uncommonly known, gems. The highlight is Van Leo; an Armenian-Egyptian photographer working in the 1940's who created Cindy Shermanesque portraits of himself as various characters: pilot, concubine, rebel. Leo produced some nudes that are unfortunately lost due to the risk involved in simply owning naked pictures. Taken from a purely American standpoint these are the most relevant images to what is happening in our country today, but as they are surrounded by images of survival, struggle, death and revolution; they quietly take their place on the side of the room, waiting to be discovered by a curious visitor.
More pictures adorn the wall, Palestinian fighters in flairs from the early 70s. Fighting, not against Israel this time, but Jordan.
The fourth floor is hung with screens upon which maps are projected, maps that show the journey of immigrants as they make their way from Africa to the Middle East and beyond. The narration and stories behind these, examples of millions of such immigrants are all unique, and there is never someone with the same story. It's in ways like this that Here and Elsewhere constantly reminds us that we are dealing with a collection of individuals with individual reasons, motivations, and lives; always cautioning us never to look with too broad a vision.
There are endless highlights of photography, Jabri's collages were among the finest. The exhibition is the largest of it's kind and as we are seeing more Arabian artists pop up at Biennials, the timing is perfect. Easily the best exhibition of the year, and the best at the New Museum.
| 2019-04-23T21:57:39 |
http://museemagazine.com/culture/culture/art-out/here-and-elsewhere
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One point if every problem has been solved by at least one team.
Two points if more than 90% of the teams solved a minimum of two problems.
Two points if no team solved all the problems.
Your task is to write a program to score a problem set based on the above rules.
Input consists of multiple cases. Each case starts with two integers on a separate line. The first integer C (10 $\le$ C $\le$ 100) represents the number of teams in the contest, and the second integer P (8 $\le$ P $\le$ 20) represents the number of problems in the set. The last case is followed by a line containing two zeros that indicates the end of the input data and should not be processed as a valid case. Each of the next C lines describes the performance of a single team. Each such line starts with the name of a team followed, after a blank space, by P integers. The kth integer (1 $\le$ k $\le$ P) has a value of one (1) to indicate that the team has solved the kth problem, or zero (0) otherwise.
For each contest, print the contest number (starting with 1, and using the format in the sample) followed by an integer indicating the calculated score.
| 2019-04-20T08:55:36 |
http://mqacm.wikidot.com/contest-postmortem
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Lors d'un récent voyage en Italie, j'ai vu de nombreux appareils commerciaux de la compagnie Alitalia immatriculés avec un préfixe "EI" au lieu du classique préfixe "I".
Or, le préfixe EI correspond à l'Irlande !
Comment se fait-il que de nombreux avions italiens volent avec une immatriculation irlandaise ?
The recent establishment by CIT Aerospace International of an Irish aircraft financing operation heralds renewed confidence in the Irish aviation industry. CIT Aerospace is one of the world's largest aircraft leasing and financing companies. It is a testament to the buoyancy of the Irish market that the company's international leasing and financing activities will now be managed from the IFSC in Dublin. It is forecasted that the Irish entity will manage a portfolio of assets worth up to €2.5 billion ($3 billion) by the end of 2005. CIT Aerospace joins such noteworthy players as RBS Aviation Capital and GECAS in the Irish market. The arrival of CIT Aerospace will strengthen Ireland's reputation on an international platform and should pave the way for other aircraft financiers to follow suit.
Ireland's strategic position in the industry was further reinforced by the selection of the Irish Shannon-based company Aviareto to operate the International Registry of financial interests in aircraft under the Cape Town Convention. The aim of the Convention is to reduce creditor uncertainty by providing for enforceable interests in aircraft, which are recognized by all contracting states.
Oui mais il doit y avoir en Italie une loi qui autorise cela. Les avions d'Air France sont tous immatriculés F-, y compris ceux qui sont en leasing.
Il doit y avoir le même système en Russie. Par exemple, beaucoup d'avions d'Aeroflot sont immatriculés VP-Bxx au lieu de RA-xxxxx.
Sur planespotters.net, on voit même un 747 cargo d'Alitalia immatriculé aux USA (N536MC) !
Les avions immatriculés en Suisse sont opérés par sa filiale EasyJet Switzerland, ex-TEA (Trans European Airways).
Exact. Par contre, ceux loués par AWAS (Ansett Worldwide) sont immatriculés I-xxxx. AWAS a pourtant son siège à Dublin.
| 2019-04-18T12:19:40 |
http://www.aeroweb-fr.net/forum/aviation-civile/2018/1
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Hi, everyone. My young daughter is now adopting a healthy eating lifestyle, and I need some ideas on healthy items that are easily packed into a lunch box that won't spoil, turn brown, etc. (that would be very unappealing to a kid). She likes fruits, but grapes and oranges (our usual) are not in season and becoming very expensive. Apples turn brown, so she wouldn't eat those. And I did put some lemon juice on them once, but then they became sour. (Do they still make "fruit fresh" to keep fruits from spoiling? Where would you find that in a store?) She doesn't like cheese sticks. I've been packing celery and peanut butter, and she seems to like that. I've also been packing popcorn instead of chips. Given the types of things she has been eating, can you think of other good ideas that may appeal to her that won't cost an arm and a leg? She is usually short on her fruits/vegetables, but my brain is drawing a blank as I'm sitting here trying to write my grocery list.
And while we're here, I also need some after school and bedtime snack ideas that are both healthy and filling but still seem something like a treat. Any help and ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
I cut up apple slices, put them in a ziplock bag with come cinnamon, shake it up and refrigerate overnight for my son's lunch. They only look brown from the cinnamon and they taste delish! I take them in my lunch too! Crackers or baby carrots and hummus, baked tortillas and salsa, homemade healthy muffins, homemade granola bars, cucumber slices, hard boiled eggs..these are some things my son will eat.
You have some really good ideas here. How much cinnamon do you use for how much of an apple? whole? Half? I bet it would taste good, too, with cinnamon mixed with Stevia. I forgot, she does love cucumbers, too. Eggs are a good idea also. We made home made granola bars about a week ago, and they were sinfully delicious. They didn't make it until the next day's lunch. lol They were gone that night. Maybe will have to make those again, but keep them for her lunch. Great ideas! Thanks!
If you google 'Bento box,' you'll find a lot of great ideas.
I cut up 2 apples and just sprinkle in the cinnamon...maybe 1.5 - 2 teaspoons? Another good idea is baked oatmeal or breakfast cookies. I often buy whole grain flat bread and make a healthy mini pizza the night before. I just cut it up into pizza "fingers" and he can nibble as he likes. My son's school is nut free so peanut butter is out, and I refuse to give him processed meat, so it can be hard to think of lunch ideas. Good luck!
Mix all ingredients well. Can be rolled into balls, logs, pancake shapes, etc. Use your imagination! Can be rolled in coconut, crushed cereal, tiny chocolate chips, or nuts. The more its handled and worked with the better. Very easy to make and nutritious too!
Lisa, somewhere I saw that if you cut an apple with an apple slicer (one with the corer in the centre) about 3/4 of the way down and then wrap it they don't turn brown.
Wraps are a good choice. You can cut them in half or 1/4. Does she like soup? It can be put in a thermos.
I heard club soda on apple slices keeps them from going brown but have never tried it.
Bananas, Carrot sticks (cut from whole carrots, they just taste better to me), sugar or sweet peas, radishes, raw cauliflower, and raw brocolli. Hard boiled eggs are a great source of protein either on their own or sliced with salad greens (just pack any dressing in a seperate container or the greens get soggy).
-He had a real thing for chips and it was difficult to cut them out of his diet, but as he started to really enjoy cooking with Kale he began making Kale Chips! And they're actually really good! Just bake some Kale leaves in the oven with a little olive oil and seasonings (salt, pepper, spices, vinegar if you like- I like garlic salt/powder best). They bake for about 10-15 minutes.
-Stir fry. It's super easy. He does it all the time. Kale, spinach, broccoli, red peppers, asparagus, onions, roasted garlic; mix any variety of vegetables with olive oil and low-fat alfredo sauce, or just throw in slices of cheese and spices to make your own sauce. (He likes to buy hunks of low-fat pepper jack, slice them up and put them in). Maybe throw in some whole-wheat pasta. She can heat it up in the cafeteria if there's a microwave at her school.
-Pomegranates! The seeds are super fun to just sit and much on- better than chips, fries, or popcorn. Buy the ones that are heavy with taut skin. Most produce sections have pamphlets that show you how to open them and get the seeds out. It's pretty easy.
-Fresh fruit sorbet! You can even make your own. Most of them don't have too much added sugar. It's better than ice-cream or even sherbet! I guess this isn't a packed-lunch food but good for home!
-Plain Greek Yogurt and fruit. Buy large plain/vanilla tubs and dice up some fresh fruit or even use pomegranate seeds! It's fun to make and full of protein! Put the yogurt and fruit in separate Tupperware tubs and let her mix it.
-Home-made pizza on pita bread or with whole-grain dough balls. Use real tomato juice/paste (not pizza sauce/mozzarella sauce)- not from concentrate, real low-fat cheese, and topped with sliced tomatoes, onions, other veggies! You can eat it cold too!
-Toasted whole-grain bagel sandwiches. Put practically anything healthy on a whole-grain bagel and it's so much more fun and a toasted bagel is less likely to turn soggy.
Not all of these are easy for lunch-packing but the Kale chips are really worth a shot. And kudos for starting her young! I wish I'd been smarter as a young child.
| 2019-04-25T15:58:03 |
https://www.fitday.com/fitness/forums/food-talk/8568-need-some-quick-ideas-kid.html
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For the chicken, a great short cut is to get a large rotisserie chicken and de-bone it and shred the meat. Next, dice 1 medium yellow onion, 1/2 stalk of celery, 1 poblano pepper, and 3 cloves of garlic. Chop celery extra fine and saute first because it takes the longest to cook through. Saute the rest of the vegetables on med/low heat until barely softened add in 1 tbsp of ground cumin, 1 tsp of ground oregano, and let spices bloom over lowest heat for a minute. Then add in one 8 oz can of tomato sauce and one 4 oz can of fire roasted, diced green chiles. Next, stir all together and add in the shredded chicken meat. Add 1/2 cup of fresh chopped cilantro here. Combine all ingredients and let stew for a few minutes to cook away any excess moisture. You may need to turn heat up to medium to evaporate excess moisture. the chicken mixture should not be saucy! You want the sauce to just barely coat the meat so chicken will stay moist but not be like a sauce that will make the enchiladas soggy.
For the sour cream sauce, add 1/4 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of all purpose vegetable oil to a medium sauce pan and whisk together over low heat for about 2 minutes to cook out raw flour taste. Next, add 1 tsp of ground cumin, 1 tsp of onion powder, 1 tsp of garlic powder, and several dashes of nutmeg whisk and let spices bloom for about one minute. Then, add 8 oz container of sour cream and whisk. Now, slowly add 1 to 2 cups of low sodium chicken broth. Turn up heat to medium or medium/high and continue whisking until sauce thickens and desired consistency is reached, sauce should coat the back of the spoon. Season sauce with kosher salt about 1 tsp or a little chicken bullion powder to taste. Add 1/2 tsp first, stir and taste then add more if necessary. Chicken bullion is preferred to amplify the chicken flavor of the enchiladas.
For the assemblage of the enchiladas, butter a 9 x 13 glass or enamel baking dish. *Do not put sauce in the bottom of the dish or enchiladas will become soggy!! Lay out yellow corn tortillas and fill with some of the chicken mixture and then add some shredded monterey jack or pepper jack cheese. Do not overfill enchilada. Place seam side down and press breaking the tortilla and flattening the enchilada. Fill pan with more rolled enchiladas, then cover the tops with the sour cream sauce and more of the same cheese. Bake at 300 degrees in a preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until the enchiladas are warmed through and the cheese is melted. Let rest 5 to 10 minutes before serving. Garnish with one or more of the following: chopped cilantro, green onion tops, salsa verde, or sliced black olives.
Chicken Enchiladas with Sour Cream Sauce by Stephanie Sandlin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.decobeauty.com/2014/12/27/chicken-enchiladas-with-sour-cream-sauce/.
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| 2019-04-23T16:47:04 |
http://www.decobeauty.com/2014/12/27/chicken-enchiladas-with-sour-cream-sauce/
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Sterilize jars and lids .
Bring sugar, lemon juice, water, and 1 cup basil to a boil in a 5- to 6-quart heavy pot, stirring, until sugar is dissolved. Simmer over moderately low heat until thick and syrupy, about 25 minutes. Discard basil with a slotted spoon.
Add nectarines to syrup and bring to a rolling boil over moderately high heat, then boil, uncovered, stirring frequently, 5 minutes. Remove from heat and transfer nectarines with slotted spoon to a sieve set over a bowl to catch juice. Drain nectarines 5 minutes, then add juice from bowl to juice in pot.
Drain jars upside down on a clean kitchen towel 1 minute, then invert. Divide nectarines among jars with slotted spoon. Tuck a fresh basil sprig into side of each jar.
Return juice in pot to a rolling boil, skimming off any foam. Continue to boil until juice registers 220 to 224°F on thermometer, 7 to 10 minutes. Gradually add pectin, whisking constantly. Return juice to a rolling boil, then boil, skimming off any foam, 1 minute.
Ladle juice into jars, leaving 1/4 inch of space at top, then run a thin knife between fruit and jar to eliminate air bubbles.
Seal, process, and store filled jars , boiling preserves in jars 10 minutes.
Let preserves stand in jars at least 1 day for flavors to develop.
What did I do wrong? It took forever for the syrup to get to 220 degrees and so much seemed to boil away by the time it got there. It was almost like a thick caramel sauce by the time I was finished. Have not tried any yet, and I think the idea of it is a 4, but I doubt if my batch is going to be. Any suggestions would be greatly appreiated.
Definitely a keeper recipe from this reviewer too - I have already made two batches (and yes, it is worth the investment) and will give these jars out for Christmas gifts this year. I love that another reviewer did not peel their nectarines as this is the most obnoxious part of the recipe. I might have to try just using one box of pectin, as the leftover and added cost is a small deterrent. Overall, an amazing recipe.
Wow! This is a keeper. We used nectarines from our tree, followed the instructions exactly except we didn't peel the fruit, the skin was fine and we think added some extra beautiful color. I used the entire box of low sugar pectin, 1.75 oz, and it worked out fine. A keeper, we'll making this all summer!
Have already made this twice. Perfect accompaniment for a cheese course at the end of the meal.
I used peaches instead of nectarines, but it turned out ok; instead of 7-8 jars, I had 5. It's still good, just didn't have as much as I expected. Also couldn't find "lower sugar" pectin, so used the kind that's ok for use with or without sugar, but followed the rcipe otherwise.
| 2019-04-21T00:29:42 |
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/nectarine-preserves-with-basil-105236
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Question: I can only write short stories but I want to go bigger. Can you help me?
Answer: I recommend you do some plotting.
You may be used to thinking of a short story as one event where someone or some people's lives undergo a change. That event usually is presented as a series of smaller events. The story starts with a problem or goal, encounters complications or obstacles, leads to a climax or decisive change, and ends with an outcome.
All events can be broken into a sequence of smaller events, and all events can be part of a sequence that makes up a larger event.
There are two differences with longer works.
In a longer work, the one big event the story is about will be broken into a series of three or four smaller events, just like a short story. These are usually called acts.
So, if a novel or film sounds like a huge task, it can help to think of it as a series of four stories. The difference is that the real resolution happens at the end of the fourth act. The first three acts will typically end with the characters being sent off in a new direction.
Of course, each act will be further broken down into a sequence of three or four still smaller events or scenes, plus transitions. So instead of four events, you might have around 16 (the exact number doesn't matter too much).
The other difference is that you have more room in a longer work to develop other throughlines and subplots.
plot. They will have their own four-act arcs that can be again divided into sequences. If you were to fully develop all four throughlines, that would give you 16 sequences, each one being like a short story.
You can also create subplots with their own arcs as well to develop your thematic message or explore other character relationships. Novels told from multiple points of view will often have an arc for each point-of-view character.
As you can guess, this process of breaking down events into sequences of smaller events can continue forever. The advantage of plotting this way is that each event in your story will be related to what comes before and after. It will have a place in the overall story. That stops you from meandering while you write and avoids the problem of sagging middles.
So how many events should you aim for? Most feature-length films have around 48 events (or scenes). Novels are much more flexible than films, but Dramatica would argue that a complete full-length story could have twice that number. Epics with multiple subplots may have more.
That may sound a daunting number. But remember, you are in charge of how many events to include and which arcs to develop. If a particular arc interests you, you may develop it extensively, breaking down more of its events into sequences. An arc that is less important may only have three or four scenes in the entire book.
Of course, you also must know when to stop plotting and just write. Usually that's the point where plotting is no longer making you feel excited about your story and is starting to drag. At that point, start writing. You can start with any event or sequence of events you choose, even if that means writing the last act first.
| 2019-04-26T15:44:07 |
https://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/short-storieslonger-works.html
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Difficulty of Repairing Audio Jack?
A few months ago, my audio jack stopped working properly. Everything is pretty much fine except for the fact that when I plug in my headphones into the audio jack, it only plays out of one ear. I have determined that it is the computer that's damaged, and not my headphone. I've tried with several pairs, all with the same result.
It started when I had my headphones plugged it and as I was walking by, I caught the wire of my headphones with my foot causing them to tug violently on the audio jack. After that, it was a slow deterioration of the ability to play sounds to both ears. I was able to press on the jack where it plugged in lightly to get it to work, but after a while that stopped working.
Could it just be that a wire somewhere failed or is it more likely that the entire jack is busted? And also, would it be possible to replace it myself or would it better to have it professionally repaired? I have very basic soldering and circuitry knowledge.
It doesn't cost much to replace the audio jack. But you need some good soldering station and hot air station (not China cheapo).
First, open up the device and see (use microscope not magnifier) if the solder joint at the base of the audio jack are still intact. If intact without breaking out, replace the jack as it might yank the contact inside the jack.
If the solder joint is cracked without damaging the pads, just use some flux and solder to get it back.
Now it is your call to open up and check inside. Better not to rush and it need patience when working on the small components. Do not worry about static or ESD or what ever. I have been working on the Mac at component level and I don't even use ground wire on my desk.
Alec Taylor 가/이 대단히 고마워 할 것입니다.
| 2019-04-21T01:00:46 |
https://ko.ifixit.com/Answers/View/331573/Difficulty+of+Repairing+Audio+Jack
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What Is the Relationship between Advertising and Event Management?
An event management company may call a press conference to generate publicity for an up and coming politician.
The relationship between advertising and event management is the fact that event management can be used as a tool for advertising. Event management refers to the process in which events are formally planned and organized on behalf of a client. It may be handled by companies that specialize in organizing and managing such events, or it may be handled by the public relations section of big corporations.
Event management may be private or corporate, and the motivations behind the event may also be different. A private event may be organized to promote an individual, such as a politician, a musician or any important personality. If the private individual is a politician, the event could be a fundraiser, a meet and greet, or a political rally. This shows how advertising and event management can work together. The events are forms of advertisement for the politician. They help the politician raise his or her profile, while also serving the more practical purpose of conveying the political ideology of the politician.
A musician might use an event to promote his or her latest work. The event management may be handled by an independent event management company or by the public relations department of a record company. The purpose of the event is to advertise the musician and to generate publicity for his or her work. This works the same for writers who hold book signings; the event is a form of advertisement for both the writer and his or her book.
Big organizations also explore the relationship between advertising and event management for how it can work to their advantage. Organizations can hold promotional events aimed at advertising their products and further enhancing the corporate profile of the organization. For example, a car dealership might host a car show in which it invites the general public to come and view the latest offerings. This event also serves as an advertisement for the car dealership.
Organizations may come together and hire an event management company to organize a trade fair. The trade fair will serve as both an advertisement platform, a means of making new contacts, and a means of increasing the customer base. Event management can come into play when a private individual or an organization wants to hold a press conference. If it is an organization, the press conference could be to introduce a new product, which is a form of advertisement. If the event is for a private individual like an athlete, it could be used to promote the signing of an endorsement deal.
Does Reading Books Serve a Practical Purpose?
What Does an Advertising and Promotions Manager Do?
How Do I Get into Event Management?
How Do I Become an Event Promoter?
| 2019-04-25T04:04:15 |
http://www.wisegeek.net/what-is-the-relationship-between-advertising-and-event-management.htm
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Contemplating Cleveland: Is Trump The Next McKinley?
Ted Cruz’s very public reneging on his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee is being praised by both American Conservative’s Rod Dreher and National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru [Send him mail], It's hard to think of a more damning indictment than that! But divisions in the party are not worse than divisions in the country. Accordingly, I offer the example of my home city of Cleveland, where the GOP convention is being held, and of a president from my home state of Ohio, William J. McKinley, as evidence that divisions can be healed. And, by a curious coincidence, McKinley’s policies were eerily similar to those of Donald J. Trump.
This is not the first time America has been deeply divided. The various crises of the 1850s culminated in a great war in which over 600,000 Americans were killed. And during those various crises, the part of America in which the GOP convention is being held was as partisan as any watcher of FOX News or MSNBC today.
Cleveland in 1860 remained what it had been at its founding, a cultural outpost of New England, even though it had received some Irish and German immigration, the forerunner of that great stream of immigration from all over Europe that came later in the nineteenth century and helped create the Cleveland of today.
Abraham Lincoln received 58% of the vote in Cleveland in 1860, and he carried 9 of the city’s 11 wards. Lincoln did even better in the more rural parts of Cuyahoga County, where the New England strain remained even stronger. Cleveland was the heart of what had been Connecticut’s Western Reserve, a name that lives on at my college alma mater, Case Western Reserve University. One of the classrooms in which I had classes was Mather Memorial, named for the prominent Cleveland family which was an offshoot of the family that gave us Increase Mather, President of Harvard College, and Cotton Mather, the Puritan writer.
Parts of northeast Ohio even look like New England, which is why the producers of The Gathering, a made for TV movie popular when I was young actually shot their film in Chagrin Falls, a lovely suburb east of here, and Hudson, a beautiful suburb of Akron, even though they set it in New England. (A further aside I can’t resist: anyone who was a fan of Calvin and Hobbes has seen downtown Chagrin Falls recreated in the beautiful drawings of Bill Watterson, who grew up in Chagrin Falls).
Unfortunately, northeast Ohio was also the home of John Brown during much of his peripatetic life: his family moved to Hudson when he was five, and he also lived in Kent and in Akron, where the house he lived in with his young family has been preserved by the Summit County Historical Society.
Given this history, you might think that Clevelanders would receive a sharply negative view of the South in their schools. That may be true today, as even Civil War battlefields are being restructured—one might even say reconstructed—to focus less and less on military tactics and strategy and more and more on slavery, together with such weighty matters as the contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders to the war, the topic of a National Park Service book I saw recently at the Monacacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland.
But no, the view of the Civil War I received, both in my public junior high and my Catholic high school, was that the Civil War was our most honorable war, because it was fought by brave Americans on both sides. The Civil War movie we saw in high school was The Horse Soldiers, a wonderful film by the greatest American director, John Ford. In the movie, John Wayne leads a Union cavalry raid in the South. Both sides fight honorably and even act with gallantry toward their adversaries, and Wayne and the daughter of a local plantation owner fall in love. (Ford also brought out this theme of regional reconciliation in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, where Wayne leads a funeral service for a Confederate brigadier general who had been serving under Wayne under an assumed name, and the Confederate general is shown being buried with the Battle Flag).
Nor was my experience unique. A local high school, Willoughby South, competes on the sports fields as the Rebels, with a caricature of Johnny Reb as the mascot—a prospect that surely causes John Brown’s body to lie a- spinning in the grave.
The irenic view of the Civil War I was taught was the result, in part, of far better ideas that sprang up in northeast Ohio than those of John Brown—namely, the nationalism of Canton’s William McKinley and of his campaign manager, Cleveland’s Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
All the circumstances of McKinley’s youth had favored his adherence to the Republican principle of the protective tariff. The very village of his birth had been named for Hezekiah Niles, an early protectionist. The duty on foreign iron had not been an abstract idea to an ironfounder’s son, but the source of bread and butter, and memories of want rang in McKinley’s phrases when he spoke of the low-tariff years of his boyhood…He carried to Congress an emotional conviction that the solution for all the country’s economic ills was to make the already high tariff rates higher.
There is a transcendental philosophy of free trade with devotees as ardent as any of those who preach the millennium…Free trade abjures patriotism and boasts of cosmopolitanism. It regards the labor of our own people with no more favor than that of the barbarian on the Danube or the coolie on the Ganges.
…In the mind of every workingman is the thought that this great American doctrine of protection is associated with wages and work and linked with home, family, country, and prosperity… The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
So complete was McKinley’s identification with protectionism that one of the bald eagles that admirers brought to Canton to give him during the campaign was named “Protection.” (That eagle was donated to the Canton Zoo, as were the other eagles, “McKinley” and “Republican.” Alas, none of the eagles was named “Checkers.”).
McKinley went even further after he became president. In a speech in Atlanta in December 1898, McKinley indicated his support for the federal government’s assisting in the care of Confederate graves: “Every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American valor.” That is exactly the lesson I learned in the same part of America McKinley came from many decades later.
The cordial feeling now happily existing between North and South prompts this gracious act, and if it needed further justification, it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just past by the sons and grandsons of these heroic dead. What a glorious future awaits us if unitedly, wisely and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them for right and humanity.
Of course, the valor shown by Southerners in the Spanish-American War, so appreciated by McKinley, has been repeated in all of our wars since then.
McKinley, then, enjoyed success in his goal of helping to unite Americans. He also enjoyed considerable success economically. As Pat Buchanan notes, McKinley in his first term “presided over a 75 percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a near tripling of union membership to 1. 1 million, and a reduction in the unemployment rate from 14 percent to 4 percent. In McKinley’s first term, the U. S. economy [grew] by an average of 7 percent a year.” These economic results were representative of how the American economy performed under the sort of trade policy favored by McKinley, as the statistics marshaled by Buchanan show. Between 1870 and 1913, the annual growth of the U. S. economy averaged more than 4 percent a year and we went from having half of Britain’s production to having more than twice Britain’s production.
It is true that, through much of this period, the industrial production of the United States was centered in the North East and what became the industrial Midwest, the Midwestern cities circling the Great Lakes, including Cleveland, and the areas surrounding them.
But, over time, the prosperity created behind tariff walls spread to all parts of the country. Birmingham, Alabama became as much associated with steel production as Pittsburgh, and many textile mills moved to the South. By the time of the debate over NAFTA and GATT in the 1990s, the most vigorous corporate opponent of those trade deals was Roger Milliken, whose factories dotted the South.
My good friend from the Buchanan campaign, John Van Sandt, described to me at the time how the prosperity of his hometown of Florence, Alabama depended on the local Ford, Union Carbide, and Reynolds Aluminum plants. What John described corresponded to my own experience here in Cleveland, where I learned at an early age the same lesson William McKinley had, that American prosperity is dependent on a strong manufacturing sector.
Over time, the America shaped by the nationalist policies favored by McKinley and those who thought like him became the most powerful, and envied, nation in the world. If we experienced an economic calamity on the scale of the Great Depression today, I fear that our society would come apart. That America, though, held together.
America emerged from World War II as the most powerful country on earth. It is fitting that one of the greatest American leaders in that war was the man William Manchester dubbed an American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, after all, was the living embodiment of the united America McKinley hoped to foster: his father was a Union hero of Missionary Ridge and his mother was a proud daughter of the Confederacy.
Perhaps the signature achievement of that America was Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon in July 20, 1969—almost exactly 45 years ago. As a popular internet post puts it, there are only two kinds of nations: those with the metric system, and those who put a man on the moon.
All of that now seems very far away—as remote from us as the Civil War or McKinley’s campaign of 1896. But the ideas championed by William McKinley will help lead us out of the current crisis. By explicitly valuing Americans over foreigners and by valuing each American as an American, McKinley’s nationalism helped promote reconciliation in a country that had, not long before, been literally at war.
We did it before. We can do it again.
| 2019-04-25T06:00:49 |
https://vdare.com/articles/contemplating-cleveland-is-trump-the-next-mckinley
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Why is the KJV the most read book in the world?
Your assertion that the KJV is the most widely read book in the world is incorrect. It is correct to say that the Bible in general – including all versions and translations – is the most widely read book in the world.
In English, the King James Version was indeed number one for centuries. However in the late 19th century with the publication in England of the Revised Version and, later, in the USA, of the RSV, ASV, The Living Bible, etc., and again in England, of the New English Bible, the readership of the KJV was eroded in favour of the newer translations.
In 1978, the NIV supplanted the KJV as the most popular version of the Bible in English and has continued in that position to this day. Very recently, the NIV has announced a new updated version of this most read version of the Bible in the English language.
My personal preference is for the King James Bible. However, this translation is not the only useful translation. In fact the language of the King James is very challenging to some readers. It has a Shakespearian turn of phrase which many find difficult to follow. Of the modern translations, the 1971 RSV (Revised Standard Version) and the newer ESV (English Standard Version) are probably the best although the NKJV (New King James Version) is very good too.
There are problems of language with the KJV. In fact, I have a book called "The King James Bible Word Book." This book is over 400 pages in length detailing words used in the KJV that have changed their meaning since that translation was first published in 1610. For example, in Psalm 119:47, the Psalmist says (KJV) "I prevented the dawning of the morning." The modern reader is a bit mystified by his meaning. That's because the word "prevent" has changed its meaning in English. In the days of the translators of the KJV, "prevent" meant "to go before, anticipate, or precede." The RSV correctly translates this verse "I rise before dawn."
The King James Version is a translation of God's word. Indeed, if we want to read the original manuscripts, we will need to become conversant with Hebrew and Greek. The point is that it is a translation, in magnificent language, suitable to the translators' day and generation and indeed it has served many generations following. However, as time passes, language changes. The challenge to the translators is to present the living and abiding Word of God in language that is true to the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and, at the same time, maintain the dignity and power of its wording. Just as the King James translators and those who went before them such as Wycliffe and Tyndale rescued the Word of God from the archaic Latin and Greek of the colleges and monasteries and presented it in the language of the people of their day, so modern translations are attempting to convey in modern language the living Word of God in all its power and dignity being true to the actual original manuscripts. Some have succeeded better than others.
The Word of God is inspired but, alas, the translators are not. If you want to read a very thorough and sympathetic account of the translation of the King James Bible, I would advise you to read, "God's Secretaries - The Making of the King James Bible" a book by Adam Nicolson and published in 2003 by Perennial, a division of Harper Collins Books. You should be able to find it in any decent bookstore. It accurately portrays the idealism and the not so savoury pride, ambition, and political manoeuvrings which attended the translation of the KJV.
| 2019-04-22T12:06:11 |
https://www.thisisyourbible.com/questions/show/1515
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This article is about the sports term. For other uses of Inning, see Inning (disambiguation).
An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is always spelled and pronounced with the terminal "s". In baseball and softball, the singular form is inning and only the plural takes an "s".
In many other sports, the length of the game is dictated by a clock and teams swap offensive and defensive roles dynamically by taking possession of a ball or similar item. In baseball and cricket, however, one team, said to be "batting", attempts to score "runs"—see run (baseball) and run (cricket)—while the other team, said to be "fielding", attempts to prevent the scoring of runs and get members of the batting team out. The teams switch places after the fielding team has succeeded in getting a fixed number of players out, making a clock unnecessary.
In cricket, the term innings is also used to refer to the play of one particular player (Smith had a poor innings, scoring only 12). By extension, this term can be used in British English for almost any activity which takes a period of time (The Liberal government had a good innings, but finally lost office in 1972, or You've had a fair innings, now it's my turn, meaning "you have spoken for long enough, now let me speak"). It is also used in reference to someone who has died at a reasonably old age or lived a rich and rewarding life (Ah, well. John was 89. At least he had a good innings). The baseball-derived parallel to this in American English is the term at bat.
In cricket, a team's innings usually lasts until 10 of the 11 batsmen in the team are out, leaving the not out batsman without a partner and thus unable to continue, or until another event intervenes (such as the captain of the team declaring the innings closed for tactical reasons; or the time allotted for the entire game expiring).
In First-class cricket and Test cricket, each side has two innings. In one-day cricket and other abbreviated forms of the game, an innings lasts only for a set period or for a certain number of overs (typically 50 in one-day cricket and 20 in Twenty20 cricket). Note that "an innings" can mean a particular side's innings (Sri Lanka made 464 in the third innings [of the game]) or that of both sides (England had the better of the first innings, outscoring Australia by 104), or that of an individual batsman (Bradman was out for a duck in the final innings of his career), the difference being understood by context.
An inning in baseball or softball consists of two halves, where a single half is sometimes called a frame. In each half, one team bats until three outs are made, with the other team playing defense. Each half-inning formally starts when the umpire calls "Play ball!" (note that in Major League Baseball, the umpire is only required to call "Play"). A full inning consists of six outs, three for each team; and a regulation game consists of nine innings. The visiting team always bats first in each inning, and the visitors' turn at bat is called the top of the inning, derived from the position of the visiting team at the top line of a baseball line score. The home team's half of an inning is also called the bottom of the inning, and the break between halves of an inning is called the middle of the inning. If the home team is leading in the middle of the ninth inning, or scores to take the lead in the bottom of the ninth inning, the game immediately ends in a home victory.
If the score is tied after nine innings, the game goes into extra innings until an inning ends with one team ahead of the other. In Japanese baseball, however, games end if tied after 12 innings (or, in postseason play in Nippon Professional Baseball, 15 innings). As in the case of the ninth inning, a home team which scores to take a lead in any extra inning automatically wins, and the inning (and the game) is considered complete at that moment regardless of the number of outs. This is commonly referred to as a "walk-off" situation, since the last play results in the teams walking off the field because the game is over. However, road teams can't earn a "walk-off" victory by scoring the go-ahead run in extra innings, unlike in American football and ice hockey where the team (either home or away) scoring first in overtime automatically wins.
Ending a half-inning is referred to as "retiring the side". A half-inning in which all batters are put out without taking a base is referred to as a "one-two-three inning". The number of innings a pitcher is in a game is measured by the innings pitched statistic.
In US English, baseball terminology is sometimes found in non-sports usage in a tense situation: "it's the bottom of the ninth [inning]" (sometimes adding, "with two outs"), meaning "there isn't much time to turn things around here".
Professional baseball games (both major and minor leagues) as well as college baseball games last nine innings. High school games and College softball last seven innings and Little League uses six inning games.
| 2019-04-19T01:31:42 |
http://community.worldheritage.org/articles/eng/Inning_(baseball)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hacked emails threatened to overshadow the Democratic Party's upcoming celebration in Philadelphia as progressives expressed disappointment Sunday over the presidential nomination process and Bernie Sanders stepped up demands that the party's chairwoman step down.
Bitterness and frustration among the more progressive wing came after some 19,000 emails were published on the website Wikileaks that suggested the Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primary, when Sanders fell short against Hillary Clinton.
In one leaked email, a DNC official wondered whether Sanders' religious beliefs could be used against him, questioning whether the candidate may be an atheist.
In televised interviews Sunday, the Vermont senator said the emails proved what he knew was true: The DNC planned to support former Secretary of State Clinton from the start.
"I'm not shocked, but I'm disappointed" by the exchanges in the emails, Sanders told ABC's "This Week."
Sanders pressed for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to quit as chairwoman immediately. He also suggested that Clinton's choice of running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, was a disappointment and that he would have preferred Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of liberals.
"His political views are not my political views. He is more conservative than I am. Would I have preferred to see somebody like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton? Yes, I would have," Sanders told NBC's "Meet the Press."
The Clinton team worked to portray their party's convention in a different light from the just concluded Republican gathering in Cleveland, where Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination but party divisions flared when his chief rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, refused to endorse the billionaire businessman.
Trump cast himself as the law-and-order candidate in a nation suffering under crime and hobbled by immigration, as the GOP convention stuck to a gloom-and-doom theme. Democrats said they wanted to convey a message of optimism and improving the lives of all Americans.
It was unclear whether Wasserman Schultz would have a speaking role at the convention. And at least one Sanders' delegate said there was talk of protests during Kaine's acceptance speech.
Norman Solomon, a delegate who supports Bernie Sanders, says there is talk among Sanders' delegates of walking out during Kaine's acceptance speech or turning their backs as a show of protest.
Solomon said he believes a "vast majority" of Sanders delegates support these kinds of protests to express their dismay. Sanders' supporters say they are concerned that Kaine is not progressive enough.
Dan O'Neal, 68, is a retired school teacher and delegate from Arizona, said Wasserman Schultz has to be censured.
"We knew they were stacking the deck against Bernie from the get-go, but this type of stuff coming out is outrageous," he said. "It proves our point that they've tried to marginalize him and make it as difficult as possible."
Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, agreed, saying Sanders' supporters "have a lot to complain about."
"The emails have proven the system was rigged from the start," Manafort told "Fox News Sunday."
Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, tried to shift blame away from DNC officials to "Russian state actors" who, he said, may have hacked into DNC computers "for the purpose of helping Donald Trump," the Republican presidential nominee.
How the emails were stolen hasn't been confirmed.
"It was concerning last week that Donald Trump changed the Republican platform to become what some experts would regard as pro-Russian," Mook said.
Clinton is within just days of her long-held ambition to become the party's official presidential nominee.
After the DNC released a slightly trimmed list of superdelegates — those are the party officials who can back any candidate — it now takes 2,382 delegates to formally clinch the nomination. Clinton has 2,814 when including superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. Sanders has 1,893.
Sanders has endorsed Clinton, but his delegates are pushing for a state-by-state tally. The state-by-state roll call is scheduled for Tuesday.
Also Sunday, Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, were back at their longtime church in Richmond, Virginia, a day after he made his campaign debut with Clinton.
Kaine, a former choir member at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, sang a solo during Communion. He later told reporters outside the church: "We needed some prayers today and we got some prayers, and we got some support and it really feels good."
| 2019-04-25T20:46:08 |
https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/hacked-emails-show-democratic-party-hostility-to-sanders
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Muhammad Ali, the former world Heavyweight boxing champion, dethroned by Leon Spinks earlier this year, is in the Soviet Union.
Background: Muhammad Ali, the former world Heavyweight boxing champion, dethroned by Leon Spinks earlier this year, is in the Soviet Union. On Monday (19 June) he met the Soviet President, Leonid Brezhnev, for what was described as and unusual summit meeting.
SYNOPSIS: The meeting in the Kremlin lasted for merely 35 minutes. According to reporters, Ali-who was accompanied by his wife Veronica-was almost lost for words when the two men met. The Soviet leader began by complaining that it always rained in Moscow, and went on to say that he hoped Ali's visit would serve the cause of deepening mutual understanding between the Soviet and American people. Ali later said he had been made an unofficial ambassador for peace with the United States. He also said President Brezhnev knew little about boxing except the name Muhammad Ali. And had certainly never heard of someone called Leon Spinks.
| 2019-04-22T00:21:27 |
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAABDTWVIFISFGMT0V6CEJK22Y8-USSR-FORMER-WORLD-HEAVYWEIGHT-BOXING-CHAMPION-MUHAMMAD-ALI-MEETS/query/Boxing
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When the film version of Stephen King's It was released this past September, it inspired a phrase that had not been heard in a while: "epic horror." The arrival of an "epic horror movie" is sort of like the sighting of a rare but beautiful animal: an event everyone wants to see, but doesn't happen all too often (it's much more frequently seen in horror literature, including many of King's books).
What is an epic horror movie? Loosely defined, it's a film and a story that is not just about a masked killer hunting down a bunch of camp counselors or a single ghost infesting someone's apartment. Epic horror is sprawling, covers a fairly large amount of time (even several time periods) and raises the stakes beyond one life or a handful of lives to something more vast. The monster or nemesis itself is often something ancient or utterly mysterious in nature, with the stakes consequently higher or even apocalyptic.
As we said, this is a loose definition, but it gives us some understanding of what makes for an epic horror movie. In a way, they're almost contradictory; after all, a lot of horror works best when it's contained and claustrophobic. But there have been over the years a number of movies that have gone big, of which we've listed 15. The earliest movie that would fit the "epic horror" mold would likely be 1935's The Bride of Frankenstein (or perhaps, going back even further, 1925's The Phantom of the Opera), but we decided to keep things a little more modern, starting more or less with movies that came into being after the revival of widescreen cinema itself in the 1950s.
Horror had been kind of on the wane during the 1950s, but Alfred Hitchcock brought it back full blast in the early '60s with the double shot of Psycho (1960) and this nightmarish classic about an unexplained attack on humanity by our avian friends. Although some of the special effects may seem dated now, The Birds generates a feeling of unease that infects the entire movie, mainly because the attacks are never explained. Set pieces such as an attack on the entire town of Bodega Bay and the final assault on a group of people trapped in a farmhouse give the movie scope. And that final shot of the birds watching calmly as the survivors drive off into an uncertain future adds the final apocalyptic touch.
Although it takes place primarily in one house and even just one room, The Exorcist begins with a prologue set in Iraq that emphasizes the ancient, unending nature of the conflict that's about to occur. Even when the action moves into the home of Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) and her demonically possessed daughter Regan (Linda Blair), the struggle becomes about much more than poor Regan's life: it's about the place of faith in the modern world and whether traditional notions of good and evil still exist. For all its visceral shocks (of which there are plenty), The Exorcist deals in vast, historical questions.
The Omen dove into the Bible itself — specifically the last book, Revelation — for its inspiration, and came up with nothing less than the impending end of the world, brought about by a battle between the returned Jesus Christ and the Antichrist. We don't see that battle, of course, but The Omen does give us the birth of the little devil (Harvey Stephens) and takes us on a journey that spans London, Italy and finally Megiddo, a site in Israel where the final war will supposedly take place. With its globe-trotting story, geopolitical backdrop (the Antichrist's "adopted" father is a politician) and apocalyptic implications, how much more epic can you get?
It was once said about George A. Romero's game-changing zombie masterpiece — the first and best sequel to his 1968 landmark, Night of the Living Dead — that Romero somehow made $1 million look like $10 million on the screen. And it's true: Dawn of the Dead is an astounding piece of independent filmmaking for its time, expanding the isolated siege of his first film into a national and even worldwide apocalypse and concluding with a massive battle between bikers and ghouls in a deserted shopping mall. Other movies have gone bigger with zombies since (including Zack Snyder's very respectable 2004 remake of this one), but Romero's classic was the first.
Flush off the success of his influential Suspiria (1977), Italian director Dario Argento continued the "Three Mothers" series he started with that film in Inferno, perhaps the biggest and possibly most lavish film of his career. While Suspiria was largely contained to one location, a dance academy presided over by an ancient witch, Inferno took place in both Rome and New York and vastly expanded the mythology started in the previous tale. While Inferno suffers from Argento's usual tics — mainly a devotion to imagery over narrative coherence, as well as some dubious acting — it also features some of his most memorable visuals, including the film's signature underground room filled with water.
While The Exorcist had, just seven years earlier, been nominated for every major Academy Award, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining didn't get a single one — which is too bad, because this is also what top-shelf horror looks like when done by one of cinema's greatest filmmakers. Although he made vast changes to King's story, Kubrick still manages to create one of the most atmospheric, frightening and large-scale horror movies of all time here, yet imbues it with a tightening sense of claustrophobia as well. The gradual critical appreciation of the movie over time (it was not well-received when it first came out) has only strengthened its status.
An isolated research station in Antarctica becomes the battleground for one small group of men fighting to save the world from a seemingly unstoppable parasitic organism from space. When you put it that way, John Carpenter's The Thing does indeed take on gigantic overtones, and its themes of paranoia and what constitutes a human being remain as powerful as ever. While nominally sci-fi, The Thing's earthbound setting and the nightmarish body horror of the monster's shape-shifting abilities makes this a rare crossover into the "epic horror" category as well.
Underrated at the time, the third entry in George A. Romero's ongoing zombie mythos was — even with its budget cut drastically due to his refusal to tone the film down enough for an R rating — just as big as Dawn, with its dysfunctional cast of soldiers and scientists hunkering down in a vast underground network of caverns as what seems like millions of zombies rampage just feet above through the countryside. The movie's clashes between reason and firepower, as well as the beginnings of a new stage of evolution for the reanimated dead themselves, are prime examples of Romero's lofty thematic ambitions as well.
Although it's not as entirely faithful to the original novel as its title suggests, Francis Ford Coppola's take on the classic vampire tale is lavish and unique. It starts in the past with Dracula's origins as a warlord and moves forward from there, making his long and lonely existence a metaphor for the undying nature of evil. The movie is sumptuous and grand from the start, employing in-camera visual effects as much as possible to create something operatic and truly different from many other horror films and certainly any other adaptation of the Stoker novel.
The Japanese horror wave of the late 1990s and early 2000s arguably reached a peak with this film (a.k.a. Kairo) from acclaimed director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. At the height of his powers, Kurosawa created a string of eerie movies that transcended the horror genre but also often left the viewer wondering exactly what was happening. This enigmatic classic (remade weakly by Hollywood in 2006) focused on ghosts somehow using the Internet as a conduit between the worlds of the living and the dead, with the two realms becoming almost interchangeable. There is imagery in Pulse that is truly frightening, and even if you don't know what it all means, the implications are vast and chilling.
Director Danny Boyle went back to horror's low-budget beginnings and also revamped the zombie genre with a gritty, handheld style of filmmaking that lent 28 Days Later an immediacy that the genre had been lacking for some time. But the more "realistic" way in which he shot the film also accentuated the spectacle he was able to conjure up as Cillian Murphy makes his way through the empty streets of London and fights off hordes of fast-moving humans-turned-monsters. The Boyle-less sequel, 28 Weeks Later, also amps up the large-scale action but is less compelling as a story.
Stephen King's classic novella was turned into a cult favorite by director Frank Darabont, who left behind his King prison stories to tell this bleak horror tale. Mostly set in a supermarket surrounded by the mysterious, otherworldly mist and the horrifying creatures within, Darabont turns the story into a microcosm of how society would behave under such circumstances (the rational vs. the extremist and superstitious), while never letting us forget the unseen, monstrous terrors that await outside. Darabont, like other filmmakers on this list, does wonders with a relatively small budget.
The two adventures (so far) of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) together form a compelling if highly fictionalized story of belief vs. skepticism and the power of faith. The first movie's haunting actually sets the table for the sequel's bigger and more complex story of the Enfield Poltergeist, making the events and the stakes seem ever bigger and implying that they are just one part of an ongoing conflict between people like the Warrens and unfathomable forces from beyond our understanding.
South Korean writer/director Sang-ho Yeon doesn't do anything especially groundbreaking with his live-action debut, which is about a father trying desperately to get his daughter to her mother's house by train amidst a zombie apocalypse. But what he does do in jawdropping fashion is create a string of pulse-pounding, suspenseful action sequence as a group of characters we come to fully care about must extricate themselves from one terrifying situation after another as the train keeps moving forward. Breathlessly paced and massive in scope, Train to Busan is the best new zombie movie to come along in a while and more ambitious in its way than anything we've seen from a certain AMC series.
Seven young children struggle to save themselves and their families from an ancient, implacable evil in this scary, faithful and surprisingly emotional adaptation of King's doorstop of a book. The bizarre, unknowable nature of It is what brings the story into the realm of the epic, as well as the revelation that this entity has been preying on this town -- on this patch of Earth -- for as long as anyone can remember. Pennywise the Clown is just one manifestation of the darkness that surrounds us, looking for any way to get in, and we can't wait for a look at its true form in the sequel.
| 2019-04-23T04:47:31 |
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/here-are-15-of-the-most-epic-horror-movies-ever
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As a rule of thumb, I try to keep my step definition code to 1 or 2 lines, and at a fairly high level, which makes it much more readable.
Smooyk 3 Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. This initializes a browser onceand then uses the same browser instance for each Cucumber scenario. Home Test Automation Cucumber Create a page object framework with cucumber watir.
I have few stories written in Cucumber feature file and i have step definitions for those as well. This could take a while That way I can describe the test data which is directly used in my Cucumber step. For our example, we have two page objects. Create a page object framework with cucumber watir.
Sign up using Email and Password. It uses a simple google search example. I am able to navigate to google Given I navigate to the url google. Is there anyway to integrate Grid with Cucumber?
I was very impressed with Jeff Morgan, known as Cheezy, who recently wrote a series of blog posts about how to use Cucumber cycumber Watir, and shared his code on Github. What I like about this structure is because gives you full reusability of the cucumber steps. Post as a guest Name.
I have ajd by reusing the browser, you get much quicker test execution time. As you can see, most of my steps are in a declarative styleso these normally align pretty well to a method on the page object. Right now the feature files are running sequentially and the execution is taking more time.
Email Required, but never shown. This keeps the scenario highly readable, with the detailed data specified in the YAML file. Capybara get attribute by Test engineer. Sign up using Facebook. I have set up a.
A common method simply retrieves the appropriate test data, and provides it to the step to use. Please leave all comments cuckmber the original article.
Install the gem from rubygems. I have created a dynamic invocation of the page creation, so it will work for all pages specified in the cucumber step itself.
| 2019-04-23T08:09:43 |
http://theentrepreneur.space/cucumber-and-watir-webdriver-10/
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The federal government could soon face scrutiny for a growing problem: student loans.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For-profit colleges with graduates unable to pay back their student loans could soon face scrutiny by the federal government.
To meet these "gainful employment" standards, a program will have to show that the estimated annual loan payment of a typical graduate does not exceed 20% of his or her discretionary income or 8% of total earnings.
The Education Department estimates that about 1,400 programs serving 840,000 students won't pass. 99% of these programs are offered by for-profit schools, although affected career training programs can come from certificate programs elsewhere in higher education.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the department wants to make sure that programs that prey on students don't continue abusive practices.
However, Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, calls the effort "nothing more than a bad-faith attempt to cut off access to education for millions of students who have been historically underserved by higher education."
A: Students seeking training in areas such as nursing, truck driving, culinary arts and auto repair. Such fields attract many nontraditional students, including veterans and workers laid off during the economic downturn. About two-thirds are over the age of 24. Half have dependents and almost 40% work full time while enrolled, according to the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities. Students at for-profit schools are more likely to live at or below the federal poverty level and receive food stamp benefits than students in other sectors of higher education. About 1.3 million students enrolled last spring at a for-profit school, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That was about a 5% decline from a year earlier.
"These regulations are a necessary step to ensure that colleges accepting federal funds protect students, cut costs and improve outcomes," Duncan said.
A: The industry has among the highest student loan default rates and lowest graduation rates in higher education. Some veterans' advocates have accused it of aggressively targeting veterans because of their federal GI Bill money. Critics say the schools are too expensive and a waste of money not just for students, but for taxpayers who fund the GI Bill and other loan and grant dollars used by a large chunk of students to help pay to attend for-profit colleges.
Q: What's the other side of the story?
A: For-profit colleges argue that they provide educational programs to students who have historically been left out of higher education and that the regulations would reduce the educational opportunities for students most in need of training programs. Critics say it's unfair to target just these career-oriented programs because poor outcomes can be found in other areas of higher education.
"This regulation could shut down a bachelor's degree nursing program at a for-profit institution but not one in exactly the same circumstances at a non-profit or public institution," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the ranking member of the Senate education committee, who argues this isn't the best way to weed out bad actors in education.
"We will vigorously contest all these issues to help ensure that students, employers and communities are not harmed by such an arbitrary and biased regulation," Gunderson said.
A spokesman for Gunderson's organization said a decision hasn't been made yet about whether a lawsuit will be filed to challenge the rule.
A: Not necessarily. Some of them say the regulations don't go far enough.
Rory O'Sullivan, deputy director of the advocacy group Young Invincibles, said the administration caved by scrapping the student loan default rate component.
"By failing to include a default rate standard, the administration ignores the most vulnerable students: those who withdraw from failing programs with debt but no degree," O'Sullivan said.
Harkin said he commends the effort, but the rule does little to stop colleges that offer poor quality programs where most of the students drop out.
| 2019-04-26T10:19:35 |
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/10/30/for-profit-programs-face-gainful-employment-rule/18185053/
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"Excellent information for the curious 'cook' ..."
Dredging is a process in which foods are pulled through dry ingredients, such as flour, in order to coat the food before cooking. Flour can be used alone as a coating, but it is more often combined with other dry ingredients such as herbs, spices, salt, or breadcrumbs to create a seasoned coating on the food that becomes brown and crispy after it is cooked. Fish fillets, boneless poultry, pork cutlets, and veal cutlets are some of the foods that are often dredged in flour and other dry ingredients before cooking.
There are several reasons for dredging: the coating applied to the food acts as a barrier that keeps the food from sticking to the pan as it cooks; it enables the exterior of the food to become crisp and darken evenly without burning; and it prevents the texture of the food from becoming tough.
The flour and the other dry ingredients should be placed on a food mat, paper towel, shallow pan, or a large bowl. All of the dry ingredients can be mixed together and then the food can be dredged through the mixture. An alternative method is to first apply any seasonings, such as salt, pepper, herbs, or spices to the food and then dredge the food in flour. This procedure enables each piece of food to be prepared with the desired amount of seasoning, rather than relying on the seasoning to be evenly distributed in the coating mixture.
Before dredging, the food should first be lightly dried. Pat the food with paper towels to absorb excess moisture.
The food should be dredged through the flour on all sides, providing an even coating over the entire piece of food. It is important that the food not be heavily coated, but the application of a light, even coating will insure that the food achieves a golden brown appearance and a tasty coating when cooked. The coated food should not remain sitting too long before cooking, which could make the coating soggy, preventing the food from cooking effectively.
Another method for coating foods with flour is with the use of a large bag. Simply add the flour and seasonings to the bag, insert the food, and shake the bag or roll the food in the bag to coat the food. When coating larger foods, it is best to coat one piece at time, such as when coating chicken pieces for frying. When coating smaller foods, such as onion rings, several pieces can be coated at one time. Large plastic kitchen bags work the best and some people prefer paper bags. It is important to make sure that whichever type of bag is used that is be a bag intended for contact with food. Some bags that are not usually associated with food handling may contain dyes, glues, or other chemicals that may be absorbed by the food.
| 2019-04-20T23:05:15 |
https://www.recipetips.com/kitchen-tips/t--1037/dredging-and-coating.asp
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When were you diagnosed? I was diagnosed in 2005 at age 38.
Were there any signs or symptoms? I suffered from fatigue and depression. I was anemic too. My arm was always numb because the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes. Everything I picked up with my left hand would drop to the floor. Also, I felt drained all over my body. I even went to a dermatologist because my skin felt extremely dry. I had a "lump" in my breast, but it was more like fluid trapped in a spot. It was not a hard lump. I never thought it was breast cancer. Even with the "lump", [breast cancer] never entered my mind. I just thought I was getting old and running out of energy.
What type of breast cancer did you have and at what stage was it diagnosed? My cancer is described as estrogen positive. It spread to 8 of my lymph nodes but 12 of them where removed. Late stage 2.
What was your health like before your diagnosis? I had a healthy diet and I worked out in the gym. I faithfully went to my annual doctors visits.
What got you through your treatments? Family, Friends, and Faith! Initially I called on my family to help me sort things out, but believe it or not I was mostly alone in my doctor's visits and my chemo and radiation treatments. Once the news spread to friends, I was amazed at some of the people that reached out to me. I received cards and phone calls from people I hadn't talked to in years and they were diligent in keeping in contact with me. Many of them had the experience of family members with the diagnosis so they knew more about what I was going to experience then I did. Help came from people and places I couldn't have imagined, but things worked out in the end. Although I was physically alone at times, I was never alone in spirit.
What should newly diagnosed patients know? Cancer does not have to be a death sentence. Don't be afraid to ask your physician and other healthcare professionals questions about your diagnosis and treatment options. Also, talking to other survivors is important. No one understands unless they have been through this journey, so don't be afraid to ask survivors about their experiences. For example, I had a port placed in my arm that was used for the chemo transfusion. The port became infected and had to be removed. It was then put in my chest area and the doctor wanted to continue chemo treatment the next day. I thought it would be too early since my stitches hadn't healed. I panicked, but other survivors I spoke with assured me that they had the same experience and that this was "normal" procedure.
What is the current status of your breast cancer? On 10/18/10, I will be a 5 year survivor! At this point, I should see the doctor every 6 months for a check-up and once a year for a mammogram. Since I'm not dependent on a doctor, I use preventative care though holistic health practices. I eat to live through raw foods and juicing. I work out in the gym and I work out in a community garden. I plant vegetables, sow, harvest, and eat what I grow. I don't plan to battle cancer again! Getting back to nature is my new medicine.
You can share your story of survival with us by sending your story along with a photo to [email protected].
| 2019-04-25T19:54:46 |
http://www.lainifluellencharities.org/content.php?content_id=11
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Christina Aguilera: What Should Her Next Move Be?
After soft first-week sales for Bionic, experts weigh in.
constant criticism from Perez Hilton and a barrage of Lady Gaga comparisons, it hasn't been an easy few weeks for Christina Aguilera.
While the negative press is nothing new (remember the public outcry over her explicit "Dirrty" video?), the less-than-stellar album sales, controversy over her sexed-up "Not Myself Tonight" video and the recent postponement of her tour are not adding up well. So what should she do next?
We decided to pose the question to some experts, all of whom seem to agree that Aguilera has bucketloads of talent — but also has her work cut out for her.
"She's still under 30, she still has a fantastic voice, but I think her time has passed. I don't know if it's because she went away for a while, or because she tried to do something different with this project, but it feels a little crass and calculated," Entertainment Weekly music critic Leah Greenblatt said. "From her choice of collaborators [The-Dream, Polow Da Don, Le Tigre] to her first single, it doesn't feel fully organic. What's missing so much with her this time out is that, while she can still sing the crap out of her songs, you don't get a sense of vulnerability, or even really know who she is."
"She just seems a little confused, and that's not like her, and it's not what we want from her," Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, executive editor of The Fader magazine, added. "The image she's been projecting, she just doesn't seem comfortable doing it. She's always done vamping, but now it's like 'I'm wearing these insane PVC outfits and singing to this music that I don't relate to.' No matter what she says, I don't see her sitting around listening to old trance records."
Both agreed that Aguilera should essentially do her — focus on putting out the kind of songs that showcase her strengths — and stop chasing her competitors.
"I think honestly, she's trying to be a little too Gaga, and it's not working for her," Shepherd said. "She's such a talented singer that she doesn't need to do what everyone else is doing. It just seems too forced and too in the mold of the Gagas and the Rihannas of the world."
"She's very much into the concept of 'the future' on this album, but the first single doesn't sound like the future: It sounds like a song they'd play in a spin class, circa 1998," Greenblatt said. "When you look at the other girls on the pop charts, it doesn't feel fresh. It's not compelling enough to pull herself away from the field. If you look at something like Katy Perry's 'California Gurls,' it's a retro song, but it's fun. There's a heaviness to the Christina album. She may say she's having fun, but you don't believe her."
Both Greenblatt and Shepherd singled out the M.I.A. collaboration "Elastic Love" as a potential game-changer, a song that perhaps best sums up whatever it was Aguilera was hoping to achieve on Bionic, and one that might reinvigorate a public that's grown tired of more of the same old pop. And both added that Christina should get back to basics (the title of her last album, as it happens), or maybe line up a new collaboration or two.
"She's got to re-calibrate her image, like do a fun video that treats sexuality as a garnish, not the entire meal," Greenblatt said. "If she reins herself in and releases the right single, things might be OK. There are plenty of artists who hit it big with the second, third single, and she's definitely big enough for that to happen here. People want her to succeed, she just needs to give us an iteration of herself that people like."
"I think that, maybe if she steps back a bit, tries to ease our of where she's going, and trusts herself more, she will probably be OK. I think it's just a bump in the road," Shepherd added. "Or maybe she should collaborate with all of Young Money. That would probably work too."
What do you think Christina Aguilera's next move should be? Let us know in the comments below!
| 2019-04-24T16:35:57 |
http://www.mtv.com/news/1641733/christina-aguilera-what-should-her-next-move-be/
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Below is an article by Bloomberg entitled "Crowdfunding for Internet Stock Sales Approved by SEC"
Startups and small businesses could sell ownership stakes in their companies by soliciting investors over the Internet under a proposal advanced by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The plan would set rules for equity crowdfunding, which lawmakers said would spur growth by easing financing when they mandated it in the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. The rules, which the SEC voted 5-0 to release for public comment yesterday, may boost the nascent crowdfunding movement and help the agency through its backlog of regulations required by the JOBS Act and Dodd-Frank law.
Businesses and startups too small or risky to attract funding from banks or venture capitalists are expected to use equity crowdfunding. Regulators say they tried to address concerns that such fundraising will create a channel for fraud by allowing upstart companies to issue illiquid shares to retail investors.
The SEC’s proposal, open for public comment for 90 days, becomes the second regulation from the JOBS Act advanced under Chairman Mary Jo White. In July the agency approved a rule lifting the ban on advertising for investors outside of a public offering, which eased the ability to market directly to investors considered sophisticated and wealthy enough to understand the risks of investing and withstand a loss.
Crowdfunding has drawn wide interest because it will be open to any investor regardless of their income or net worth. Under the proposal, crowdfunding must be done online through an entity that provides investors with forums to ask questions and communicate about a deal.
“All investors, not just the so-called accredited investors, will have the opportunity to invest in entrepreneurs and their ideas at an earlier stage than ever before,” Republican SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar said.
Businesses using crowdfunding could raise no more than $5,000 a year from someone whose income or net worth is less than $100,000. Investors with income or net worth greater than $100,000 could contribute as much as 10 percent of their annual income or net worth, to a maximum of $100,000 in one year.
The proposal doesn’t require businesses or funding portals engaged in crowdfunding to verify compliance with those restrictions. Instead, a crowdfunding portal must ask investors to disclose their income or net worth as a means of determining compliance.
“It does make it easier for portals to operate with a large number of investors, which is within the spirit of the law,” said Rory Eakin, chief operating officer of CircleUp Network Inc.
The proposal creates a new regulatory regime for platforms such as CircleUp if they decide to engage in equity crowdfunding. The SEC estimates that 50 portals will initially participate in the market once the rules are adopted. Portals aren’t allowed to recommend deals or give investment advice.
Other portal operators that have shown interest in equity crowdfunding include Indiegogo Inc., EquityNet LLC, and RocketHub Inc. Kickstarter Inc., the most popular crowdfunding platform to date, has said it doesn’t intend to participate in equity crowdfunding.
A company using equity crowdfunding is limited to raising a maximum of $1 million per year. While companies raising smaller amounts would have to share financial statements and income-tax returns with investors, a business looking to raise more than $500,000 would have to provide audited financial statements. That requirement may deter some companies from participating in equity crowdfunding, Eakin said in a phone interview.
Companies may intentionally limit their crowdfunding pitches to less than $500,000 to avoid having to hire an auditor, said Judd Hollas, chief executive of Fayetteville, Arkansas-based EquityNet.
“A formal audit is relatively rare and I’m a little bit surprised to see that is a requirement,” Hollas said.
| 2019-04-23T08:11:13 |
https://www.equitynet.com/news.aspx?nid=107
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Here's how I interpreted the chain of events: Maplewood is losing money, the HCA decides to examine it's future. HCA staff prepare a detailed report outlining various options and recommend removing Maplewood and naturalizing the area as the preferred option. The HCA Board decides to wait and seek other options, though it seems there was no formal process to seek options. At some point Tony Evans of the Dundas Montessori school gets told about Maplewood and after seeing it for the first time, decides it would be a perfect place for his private school. Discussions take place privately between HCA and Evans.
The strange thing to me is that the HCA seemed to be encouraging this option, which was roundly denounced by environmentalists from the venerable Hamilton Naturalist Club, to Thomas Beckett, the HCA's first chairperson and the person who arranged for the purchase of the property in question when he was chair. The only people speaking in support of private school use were Evans and the person who built Evans' school playground. Their claims that the school would save the conservation movement were bombastic and self-serving.
The Dundas Valley is a special place, thanks to people like Mr Beckett, Joanna Chapman and others who share a vision of the common good and are willing to speak up and defend conservation principles, even when the Authority won't.
The people who are putting their money on the line to ensure the HCA protects the valley are people with a long and proven commitment to conservation. It is wonderful that they are able to offer resources to see the right thing is done in this case. Yet two things jump out at me here. One: if the HCA had acted on the staff report, and not bargained with Evans, these folks might not have had to pledge to the cause. Does this mean if the HCA makes another questionable call they will be expecting citizens with money to buy the right decision? Or two: will the HCA take money if the offer is sweet enough to trade some land for private uses that may or may not be compatible with principles of conservation?
I'd like to have full faith in the HCA to do the right thing. At this point, I'm not sure which way this could go.
| 2019-04-23T15:55:45 |
http://www.restore-cootes.org/2014/01/conservation-coin.html
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SWOT analysis is a method used to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to organisations or projects.
The purpose of the SWOT analysis is to generate a basis for specifying the objectives of the organisation or project.
Identify and invite participants. 8-15 people are a common number and works well. Strive for diversity. You might consider giving the participants a prep task; asking them to do some thinking in advance.
| 2019-04-21T10:53:54 |
https://ideahunt.io/template/swot-analysis-workshop/
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Expand to 50 photos (8 cars) found with exterior color of "poppy red"
(from page 5 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang hardtop with the base level 120hp (at 4400rpm), 200 cubic inch, 1 barrel, in-line 6 cylinder engine.
(from page 5 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang hardtop, front end view.
(from page 5 of the 1965 Collection) Right front view of a Poppy Red 1965 Mustang hardtop with full wheel covers.
(from page 5 of the 1965 Collection) 1965 Poppy Red Mustang hardtop, rear right view. Poppy red was the 1964-65 Mustang orange.
(from page 5 of the 1965 Collection) Rear left view of a 1965 Mustang hardtop in Poppy Red exterior paint.
(from page 5 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang hardtop left side view with full wheel covers.
(from page 13 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible with a 200hp (4400rpm), 289 cubic inch, 2 barrel, V8 engine.
(from page 13 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible, left side view.
(from page 13 of the 1965 Collection) Left rear view of a Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible.
(from page 13 of the 1965 Collection) 1965 Poppy Red Mustang convertible, rear view.
(from page 13 of the 1965 Collection) Front right view of a 1965 Mustang convertible in Poppy Red paint.
(from page 13 of the 1965 Collection) The top is up on this Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible.
(from page 14 of the 1965 Collection) Another view of this Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible with its top up.
(from page 19 of the 1965 Collection) Another shot of Bob's Poppy Red 1965 Mustang GT convertible.
(from page 19 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible owned by Josephine De Bono from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It has a 289 V8 engine and an automatic transmission. Josephine adds, "I bought 'Ruby' early this year from Redding in Northern California. Saw her on the Shasta Mustang Facebook page advertised for sale and fell in love straight away. Currently undergoing a full restoration."
(from page 19 of the 1965 Collection) Josephine's Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible has a white interior and black soft top.
(from page 19 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red 1965 Mustang convertible, right side view.
(from page 19 of the 1965 Collection) Poppy Red paint is a shade of orange.
| 2019-04-22T18:41:50 |
http://mustangattitude.com/cgi-bin/picsearch.cgi?modl=Mustang&year=1965&cond=normal&excl=poppy+red&incl=All&rfcl=All&roof=All&ownr=All&emai=All&loca=All&vinn=All&post=All&sett=All&show=All&view=exterior&optn=&comm=&page=1
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I use this after exercise 4 of unit 15 in New Interchange 3. I give students a chance to plan the questions, including the follow-up questions (a one or two word clue is given after each initial question for a follow up question) before beginning the activity. During the activity I usually circulate, participate a little bit (to encourage students), and listen a lot. I write down the mistakes I hear (especially regarding question formation, use of passive modals, and phrases for expressing opinions) so that I can put them on the board and go over them with the entire class after the activity. Please note that if you're not in Korea you may want to change most of these questions or find a different ESL speaking activity.
1. ________________ thinks that the process of entering a Korean college has to be changed. What?
Do you think that the process of entering a Korean college has to be changed? What kind of changes should be made?
2. ________________ thinks that selling dog meat shouldn't be allowed. Why?
How do you feel about selling dog meat in Korea? Why do you think so?
3. ________________ thinks that people should be required to recycle. Why?
4. ________________ thinks that Korean troops shouldn't be sent to Iraq. Why?
5. ________________ thinks that Korean men shouldn't be forced to join the military. Who?
6. ________________ thinks that Korean students shouldn't be required to study English. Why?
7. ________________ thinks that murderers should be executed. Why?
8. ________________ thinks that something has to be done about North Korea's nuclear weapons. What?
9. ________________ thinks that homeless people should be given apartments to live in. Why?
10. _______________ thinks that public schools in Korea have to be improved. How?
11. _______________ thinks that children shouldn't be allowed to watch a lot of TV. Why?
12. _______________ thinks that the coach of the Korean soccer team should be fired. Why? Who?
13. _______________ thinks that Roh shouldn't have been impeached.
| 2019-04-22T04:02:00 |
http://eslgo.com/resources/sa/fsw-thinks.php
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The case concerns an Illinois law that prohibits collection of biometric information, including facial recognition data, in the way that Facebook has done for years as part of its photo tagging systems.
BIPA, the Illinois law, is a real thorn in Facebook's side. The company has not only been pushing to have the case dismissed, but it has been working to have the whole law changed by supporting an amendment that would defang it — but more on that another time.
Judge James Donato in California's Northern District has made no determination as to the merits of the case itself; first, it must be shown that there is a class of affected people with a complaint that is supported by the facts.
For now, he has found (you can read the order here) that "plaintiffs' claims are sufficiently cohesive to allow for a fair and efficient resolution on a class basis." The class itself will consist of "Facebook users located in Illinois for whom Facebook created and stored a face template after June 7, 2011."
An earlier, broader class suggested by the Plaintiffs included all Illinois users who appeared in a photograph on Facebook, but the Judge, commendably, decided that this would include people who appeared in images but were not in fact recognized or recorded as face templates by the recognition systems. The more limited class will still amount to millions of people.
Facebook's attempt to discredit the suit, quibbling over definitions and saying the plaintiffs "know almost nothing" about the systems in question, did not go over well with the Judge. "The deposition testimony by the named plaintiffs shows a perfectly adequate understanding of the case, and it clearly manifests their concerns about Facebook's treatment of personal biometric data," he writes.
Its suggestion that no "actual" harm was caused also fails to hold water: "As the Court has already found, there is no question that plaintiffs here has sufficiently alleged that intangible injury." Requiring "actual" injury would severely limit the reach of a rule like BIPA in Illinois, since of course the harm caused is one to one's privacy and security, not to one's body or wallet. Of course, the question of whether users consented to their "intangible injury" is yet to be settled, and may be a major crux in the case.
Facebook also tries the old chestnut of saying its servers aren't in Illinois, so Illinois law doesn't apply. "Contrary to Facebook's suggestion," writes Donato, "the geographic location of its data servers is not a dispositive factor. Server location may be one factor in the territoriality inquiry, but it is not the exclusive one."
Lastly and most absurdly, Facebook argued that to establish legitimacy it would be necessary to check which users' face templates were derived from scans of printed photographs instead of natively digital shots. "This too is unavailing," says Donato, citing a total lack of evidence presented by Facebook.
We are reviewing the ruling. We continue to believe the case has no merit and will defend ourselves vigorously.
The case will go ahead as ordered, though as before, at a snail's pace.
| 2019-04-22T13:33:38 |
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-says-class-action-suit-004341464.html
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I was watching my husband make dinner tonight, like he does almost every night, and I thought to myself, isn't it lucky that we live in a time and place where people don't hold so strongly to traditional gender roles?
Merely thinking the words “gender roles” instantly brought my mind to grammatical gender (which I am finding to be a very troublesome aspect of German! At least it is easy to guess them in Spanish).
All these thoughts of gender and grammar rolled around in my head and mixed themselves into an interesting question: Is there a connection between gender in a language and that language's cultural view of gender roles? Or, to ask it better, is there a correlation between grammatical gender and gender equality?
Google had no answer for me on my first few search terms, so I am doing my own mini-investigation.
I, being a native speaker of a language without (or mostly without) grammatical gender, and being from a country that I perceive to be fairly gender equal compared to the rest of the world, predict that countries with languages that have no grammatical gender will be MORE gender equal than those countries with languages that do have grammatical gender. I hypothesize that if gender separation or inequality is not an inherent feature of a language, it may be easier for a cultural people to move towards gender equal practices.
The information was gathered from the internet, and then charted in a spreadsheet.
For purposes of comparison, I compared the Top 20 most gender equal countries and the Bottom 20 least gender equal countries.
Language data was collected from BBC.com's country profiles, which each contain an entry on major languages. In cases where there was more than one major language spoken in a country, the first-listed was assumed to be the most widely spoken and was used in the calculations.
Grammatical gender data was taken from this Wikipedia site. In cases where Wikipedia did not provide the necessary information, a Google search with the search terms “grammatical gender in [language]” was performed, and answers came from the first result that provided valuable information.
From the data, I generated these charts. Figure 1 shows a comparison of the frequency of languages with 0, 2, or 3 grammatical genders among the Top 20 and the Bottom 20 countries. You can see the difference between the two is especially strong in languages with 2 grammatical genders.
In the languages of the Top 20 gender equal countries, no grammatical gender or grammatical gender with 3 genders are most common, accounting for 16 of the 20 languages. The other 4 are languages with 2 grammatical genders. In the languages of the Bottom 20 gender equal countries, an overwhelming majority (16 of the 20) are 2-gender languages, while 4 are no gender languages, and none have 3 genders.
Figure 2 shows a comparison of the number of grammatical genders in a language in order of the countries' gender equality rating (the chart was split in two for space considerations). This graph helps you to see where the grammatical gender categories line up. For example, the in the Top 4 most gender equal countries, 3 of the languages have 3 genders.
While there is a higher frequency of languages with no grammatical gender in the Top 20 gender equal countries than in the Bottom 20, the Most-Equal status of many language with 3 genders proves my hypothesis to be incorrect. Although these results don't support my hypothesis, they do seem to suggest that countries with languages that have 2 genders are more likely to have gender equality problems, as there is a high correlation of 2-gender languages and Bottom 20 countries. However, correlation, as we know, is not causation.
The majority of countries in the Bottom 20 are either Arabic or French speaking, and both of these languages feature 2 genders. These languages also both have a history of being used in some type of colonial or conquest setting, where they replaced the tribal and native languages. Therefore, rather than the grammatical gender status of the languages, I suggest that it is the lingering effects of the colonialism and post-colonialism, including religion, political unrest, and poverty, that influence the gender (in)equality more than the structure of the major language. Another interesting study would be to investigate the native/tribal languages of these regions and to see whether the number of grammatical genders present showed any sort of pattern.
The countries in the Top 20 are mostly modern, European countries with languages based on Germanic or indo-European roots. Their location (and subsequent connection with the rest of Europe), rather than their language, is probably the influencing factor; moreover, the prevalence of 3 and non gendered languages is most likely DUE to their location and the historical progression of European languages. English is the main language of 6 of these Top 20 countries, and even though it at one time was a colonial language, most of the Top 20 countries that speak English have long since moved past their colonial context. I also suspect that holding the status of "Language of International Communication" has given these English speaking countries a higher likelihood of positive economic activity, leading to their stability.
It seems pretty clear that an increased number of grammatical genders is not related to an increase in gender inequality. The correlation between 2-gendered languages and countries with low gender equality rankings is interesting; however, the correlation is likely coincidental or based on factors outside the language itself. Further studies could investigate a greater number of factors connected with both the language (like word-order vs. case status, article vs. no article, etc.) and the countries (GDP, government type, stability, other languages, colonial history, etc.). Moreover, it would be interesting to investigate people's perceptions of gender (in)equality in language based on the gender equal status of the country in which they reside.
| 2019-04-26T05:40:37 |
http://www.palmerlanguage.com/2011/09/grammatical-gender-and-gender-equality.html
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In this lesson, SS will be engaged in lesson with a text to develop their reading skills with S focused reading exercises,to support their receptive skill development. Moreover, SS will practice their Speaking skills by discussing the subject of the text.
To enable students to develop their reading skills (scanning and detail understanding) in the context of a text about Britain which is adapted from an article in The Times.
To enable students to develop their speaking skills in the context of a text about Britain which is adapted from an article in The Times.
Lead-in (0-5 minutes) • To meet new students, To introduce the lesson and engage students in the lesson topic.
- greet the class and meet new students. - if there are students from last weeks' class, ask them "Do you remember where I am from?" - When they answer "Turkey", ask them : "What do you love about Turkey?" "Write 6 things you love about Turkey" and pair them off. - After they completed their list, ask them to work with a different group; Tell: "look at the other pair's answers" and "compare your answers with their answers.". Don't forget to elicit the verbs "look" and "compare" - After 2 minutes of listing and thirty seconds of checking, WCFB.
Pre-reading (0-5 minutes) • To introduce Ss with the text by familiarizing them with the vocabulary used in the text.
- Project the pictures on the board. Tell Ss to match the words with the pictures. - Ss matches the words with pictures they see on the board by working in pairs. Later, they check their answers quickly with other groups and report back as a WC.
Reading for gist (0-5 minutes) • To make Ss skim the texts' and prepare them for detail reading.
Reading for Detail (0-10 minutes) • To engage students with the text in detail by focusing on the specific information in the text.
- After giving the instructions of the Ex 4.b., give the handouts fro T/F activity. Tell them some are true some are false. Do the first one together and ask some ICQs: Are you reading or writing? Reading. Are all the sentences true? No. Are you correcting the false sentences? Yes. - Ss, first, read the paragraph. Just monitor from the center of the class to observe Ss who start T/F activity. Start monitoring closely by moving around, even if just one of them starts to do the activity. - After they finish, they check their answers with their partners. WCFB: Nominate the students to get the answers. Ss point out which paragraph they are referring to.
-Prepare a cup and put the words in Ex 4.c in it. -Divide the students in groups of three and they pick words from the cup. - The students underline them in the text, try to understand meaning and discuss it with their group members. "What does it mean?" Try eliciting the word as much as possible. -Students prepare questions with these words. -Write them on the board.
- Since Ss have knowledge on Britain from the article, Ss now compare Turkey and Britain as an example to personalise the topic. - Later, ask students to compare two different countries in small groups of three or four. - Monitoring from behind. Don't walk among the students. Don't interfere and discourage them by correcting them with their every word. Listen and take notes. -WCFB: Nominate students to get some ideas. If you have time, write some of the students' grammatically incorrect sentences and underline the errors.
| 2019-04-22T00:21:18 |
https://www.englishlessonplanner.com/plans/20703
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