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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-349 resembles a mundane graveyard and poses no apparent threat to the secrecy of Foundation operations or visitors to the site. Current containment protocols are limited to constant remote surveillance, the maintenance of a physical barrier to prevent casual unauthorized entry, and the assignment of a response team to deal with vandalism or other threats to site integrity. Plans exist to expand the site as necessary to accommodate theorized growth.
Description: The artifact designated SCP-349-01 is a large granite tombstone, approximately 400 years old. The primary inscription reads "Nicolas Flamel", followed by the dates "1376-1606". Underneath these inscriptions, there lies the legend "you have failed" in large, capital letters. The tombstone is damaged and partially eroded, with several large cracks evident across its face. It was reported by Agent ███████, an amateur genealogist in cemetery plot near Bath, England on ███████████.
SCP-349 is a cemetery located within a desolate forest clearing 3 km away. It was discovered after a thorough search of the area where SCP-349-01 was discovered. Because of allusions to restricted SCP-related information, Agent ███████ sealed the area and contacted the Foundation.
The cemetery is surrounded by a black wrought-iron fence with a single Gothic-style arched gate. Inside are small memorials to a variety of individuals from around the world and from throughout recorded history (and possibly earlier). The area is apparently maintained through unidentified means, as weed growth and natural erosion are both inhibited within the fence's confines. The epitaphs are brief and vicious, and the inscriber appears to eagerly claim responsibility for the death of each individual. In some cases the inscriptions are particularly spiteful or vindictive, and seem to indicate personal animosity between the inscriber and the individual interred (See survey 349-B).
An analysis of historical records has been able to confirm the existence of some of the individuals mentioned, often by way of mythology. All substantiated historical personalities appear to have pursued or supposedly attained eternal life, through a diversity of means. This does not appear to include those who were born with immortality, such as ██████████████████████, or races/species such as the [DATA EXPUNGED]. Among those identified are personages who are obscure, hidden, or only known to be unaging to certain esoteric orders, and whose existence is a secret to common knowledge. This includes ████████████████████ who are known only in Foundation records. Furthermore, the site references a number of famous figures who apparently passed on much later than historically recorded, such as Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Bacon, and Albert Heim.
Finally, there exists a small group of buried individuals for which we have no important files or mythology. A few have been tentatively identified as rich or eccentric figures of little renown from many places and times. Full information is available in survey 349-B.
Individuals referenced within SCP-349 appear to have lived an average of 100 years longer than the mean lifespan at their time of death. The longest life recorded at the site as of this writing was, through careful study and comparison to ancient biblical gospels, theorized to be that of "The Wandering Jew" (750 years). Based on this figure's supposed death, it is hypothesized that [DATA EXPUNGED].
Memorial materials and design, body preparation, burial style, religious symbolism, and inscription languages all appear to correspond to the era and culture in which the deceased was born. The oldest site identified is a carved pile of elephant bones, fit together with grooved notches and covered in incomprehensible pictographs and tribal marking. The earliest decipherable inscription is in Sumerian, on a simple rock dedicated to "Ku-Aya the Heart Eater": "You sold your clan into slavery and devoured the flesh of your family and received your reward" The corpses in most graves are in states of decay corresponding to their age, some of the older ones almost dust. Despite the variety of burial methods, close inspection reveals that a majority (~90%) of the plots show scratch marks on the material that was blocking escape, or signs of attempted tunneling to the surface. Nevertheless, each plot excavated so far has a corpse or set of bones afforded to it.
The confirmed age of the various plots, the historical accuracy of its allusions, and the demonstrated familiarity of its keeper with classified Foundation knowledge of modern immortals suggests that SCP-349 is not a simple hoax. Containment has been established to facilitate study and to determine if contact can be made with the entity(-ies) responsible for it. Active intervention of these beings is theorized to have been responsible for ██████████████, as well as the demise of SCP-149-D while in Foundation custody during [DATA EXPUNGED].
The latter is one of two unique instances where an entirely preserved body was unearthed, although the preservation seems to derive from properties the deceased displayed in life rather than any condition imposed in death. The other instance is the remnants of Calothisosi of Britannica (a little known mythological figure who could apparently withstand volleys of arrows and direct strikes with swords). In both cases, they were found with extreme terror on their faces, and their mouths were twisted as if screaming.
Addendum 349-A: Deeper within the necropolis, excavators found a crypt holding a series of unrelated corpses placed together deliberately, apparently in a place of honor. Investigation into their identities [DATA EXPUNGED] Strict containment has been imposed to prevent any suggestion of this from reaching the public, as [DATA EXPUNGED].
Classified note 349-C: The legitimate nature of SCP-349 is corroborated by the apparent familiarity of its keeper with classified intelligence concerning extranormal individuals. The following incidents are referenced on a grave marker within the site. Where possible interred remains have been positively identified as the individual mentioned.
[DATA EXPUNGED] individuals the Foundation has previously observed and registered as humans who have achieved immortality. Said individuals had either died bizarre deaths or escaped Foundation surveillance and disappeared. The locations of the other █ are currently unknown. ████████████ have expressed through limited contact that they are being “hunted", and that they do not trust the Foundation to protect them.
The identities of all [DATA EXPUNGED] the serum apparently worked, and subjects displayed no adverse reactions until [DATA EXPUNGED]. Apparent paranoia persisted in [DATA EXPUNGED] No corpses were recovered.
SCP-149-D, a high-powered Keter-class human who had attained apparent invulnerability and immortality after experimenting with springs and fountains located in ████████████ designated SCP-███. Containment of his holding cell was breached on his 117th birthday, and SCP-149-D was never recovered (presumed at the time to be escaped and at large). DNA recovered from the intact body was verified to be that of SCP-149-D.
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Banksy, despite not calling himself an artist, has been considered by some as talented in that respect; he uses his original street art form, often in combination with a distinctive stencilling technique, to promote alternative aspects of politics from those promoted by the mainstream media.
Some believe that his stencilled graffiti provides a voice for those living in urban environments that could not otherwise express themselves, and that his work is also something which improves the aesthetic quality of urban surroundings; many others disagree, asserting that his work is simple vandalism (a claim made by at least Peter Gibson, spokesperson for Keep Britain Tidy), or that his (apparently left wing) beliefs are not shared by the majority of the inhabitants of the environments that he graffitis. This political purpose behind his vandalism is reminiscent of the Ad Jammers or subvertising movement, who deface corporate advertising to change the intended message and hijack the advert.
Banksy does, however, also do paid work for charities (e.g., Greenpeace) as well as demanding up to £25,000 for canvases. It has also been alleged and denied that Banksy has done work with corporations such as Puma. This has led to him being accused of being a sell-out and a careerist by other artists and activists.
Due to the shroud of secrecy surrounding his real identity and his subversive character; Banksy has achieved somewhat of a cult following from some of the younger age group within the stencilling community.
In 2004 the Space Hijackers gave out spoof vouchers outside a Banksy exhibition to highlight the artist's ironic use of anti-capitalist and protest imagery while doing work for corporations and art galleries. Another of Banksy's tricks involved hanging a piece of his own art in London's Tate Modern, and as of March 2005, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. In May 2005 Bansky's version of primitive cave painting depicting a human figure hunting wildlife while pushing a shopping cart was found hanging in the British Museum.
On 4 August 2005, the BBC reported that Banksy had painted 9 images on the Palestinian side of the Israeli West Bank barrier, including an image of a ladder up and over the wall and an image of children digging a hole through the wall.
Banksy has also self-published several books that contain photos of his work in various countries as well as some of his canvas work and exhibitions, accompanied by his own subversive and often witty writings. His first book, published in black and white, is ‘Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall Followed by the Full Colour Existentialism’. In 2004 he published his third book, ‘Cut it Out’, and 2005 saw the publication by ‘Random House of Wall and Piece’.
For more information regarding our stock of Banksy original prints for sale, please contact us directly.
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cat was laying a large egg?
It depends on the context of the dream.
How did you feel about what you saw within the dream?
I will say that in my own dreams, cats are almost always symbolic of people - and usually my family. And when my mother is present in my dreams, she usually represents the Holy Spirit.
To me, an egg is something with potential.
Do you presently see another family member that's bringing forth something new in their (or your whole family's) life? This could be something that they're praying for as well.
In the dream, the egg began to hatch immediately after you joined in to help. If you recognize where this applies in your family, you should also see immediate results as soon as you get involved - be it in prayer or in a tangible way.
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You're surfing the web one evening when you stumble across a small business owner's worst nightmare: a customer complaining LOUDLY about your business on a local search directory.
Although it's tempting to post a rebuttal, take a deep breath and think before you click. Online reputation management is fast becoming an important area of internet marketing for small business owners. Even if you promote your business to a targeted local market, your customers and potential customers are searching online for information about your company, products and services. Managing your online reputation is an important aspect of local search marketing.
There are a few steps you can take if, as in our opening example, you find an unflattering post online about your business. If you can identify the customer from the post, reach out to them in a professional, pleasant way to inquire about the problem. Perhaps you can make the situation right with them and ask them to post an update on the situation online.
An experienced local search marketing firm can take specific online action steps, such as adding locally optimized content, to push the negative review down in the search engine ranks. It takes a skilled online reputation manager to tackle this task, but once done, it should push the negative review down low enough in the search results so that the casual searcher won't see it.
You can't please everyone all the time, and most people understand that few businesses will have a perfect rating online. Yet you need to take steps to manage and enhance your online reputation. In the long run, it costs less to take a proactive approach to online reputation management than to have to fix a problem. Take control over it before your customers do it for you!
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What are the benefits of waiting until full retirement age if I can comfortably live off of Social Security benefits now?
My wife has been retired from the workforce for eight years and the two of us have approximately $750,000 in assets and no debt. Our combined Social Security benefits today would be more than adequate to sustain our current lifestyle. Is there any point in waiting an additional three years to retire at full retirement age if I can comfortably live off of Social Security benefits now?
One of the biggest risk a retiree will face in retirement is the risk of outliving their savings. This is often referred to as "longevity risk". One way to protect against this risk is to maximize your fixed sources of income, i.e. Social Security. Although you can sustain a standard of living currently on Social Security, this may not always be true. Therefore, consider depending on your portfolio of $750,000 for income and delay taking Social Security for as long as possible. Each year that you delay taking Social Scurity benefits, if will increase the amount you receive annually by approximately 7% to 8%. This can be viewed as a guaranteed rate of return that would be hard to earn elsewhere.
Well, you get a nice increase every year. So if you dipped into your savings to subsidized your living you would have more monthly income each month after the 3 years. The calcuation is how much annual is the difference once you begin taking social security in 3 years and then will see where the crossover point is from the money you used to subsidized your lifestyle. Is it 10 years, 12 years, etc.. and what is your life expectancy? At the end of the day, you will probably fine either way, but as a rule of thumb, the longer your life expectancy & the better it is to put off social security if possible. It is a mathematical question with a few assumptions made, namely longevity & rate of return on assets. But some things aren't all about money. If it makes you feel more comfortable to take social security now & not dip into your nest egg at all, that is a lifestyle choice.
There are many things to consider when addressing your question.
What was your source of income for the past 8 years? If it was the retirement plan it may be wiser to continue that and wait on the SS. Each year that you wait the benefit goes up 8%. Where can you go to get a 8% return on your investments that has a Cost of Living adjustment as well?
Could one of you live on the larger of the 2 SS amounts? One of you will die before the other and at that time the survivor will receive the larger of the tow amounts.
How would you pay for a Long-Term Care event and what impact would that have on the other?
How are your retirement funds currently invested? Too much risk or to little or just right?
What is state of your current health. If it is good, then wait on the SS. If you have conditions that will shorten your life expectancy, then maybe take it early.
What is the longevity in both of your families. If all live to a ripe old age that would suggest waiting on the SS whereas if every tends to pass on in their 60’s or 70’s” then taking it sooner could be smart.
There is also the option of one of you taking SS now and wait on the other.
Giving you the correct answer for your situation cannot be done in this venue. You should seek out a CFP® professional and get their input after you provide a complete overview of your situation.
That depends on several things. Nort having either of your dates of births makes it difficult to answer definitively.
If one of you was born prior to January 1, 1954, you would qualify for a spousal benefit. When the other spouse reaches full retirement age (FRA) and begins taking his/her benefit, the other spouse can file a restricted application for a spousal benefit and receive 50% of the other spouse's benefit. That allows the one receiving the spousal benefit to grow (8%/yr) their own benefit until he/she reaches age 70.
Even if you both wait until your own FRAs to start taking your benefits, this is still better than drawing early. Claiming prior to FRA reduces your benefit.
What many forget to consider are the survivor benefits. Delaying your own benefit increase the amount you receive, which also increase the amount your survivor will receive. If you take a reduced benefit from starting early, your survivor's benefit is also reduced. If you can both wait until age 70, you will maximize both your retirement and survivor benefits.
Social Security is complicated. Consider having someone do a detailed analysis of your options to get a closer look. There are online calculators that can help. Getting this done will give you the information you need to make the best decision. Good luck!
Yes, there is a potential substantial benefit for waiting. The benefit is a guaranteed 7%-8% annual increase in your social security benefits for each year you wait, until age 70. So, unless you have your money invested in something that guarantees you will earn 7%-8% compound each year (which does not exist), or you don’t believe it is likely you will live until your Social Security Administration assumed life expectancy, then you would be better served living off your cash/investments, while waiting for your social security benefits to increase.
However, please note, that depending on how much you and your wife will earn from social security respectively, it might make sense for one of you to claim sooner, have the other spouse receive only a spousal benefit, and then for the spousal benefit individual to switch to his/her own benefits at age 70. There are many factors that go into this type of claiming strategy, and it is something you should discuss/confirm with a qualified tax-advisor and/or financial planner.
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abstract in english: Previous studies have demonstrated a bilingual advantage in the efficiency of executive attention. A question remains, however, about the impact of the age of L2 acquisition and relative balance of the two languages on the enhancement of executive functions in bilinguals, and whether this is modulated by the similarity of the bilingual's two languages. The present study explores these issues by comparing the efficiency of attentional networks amongst three groups of young adults living in Australia: English monolinguals and early and late Chinese-English bilinguals. We also address the impact of bilingualism on hemispheric lateralization of cognitive functions, which is of interest since a recent study on early bilinguals revealed reduced hemispheric asymmetry in attentional functioning. In the present study, participants performed a modified version of the lateralized attention network test. Both early and late bilinguals were found to have more efficient executive network than monolinguals. The late bilinguals, who were also reported to be more balanced in the proficiency and usage of their two languages, showed the greatest advantage in conflict resolution, whereas early bilinguals seemed to show enhanced monitoring processes. These group differences were observed when controlling for non-verbal intelligence and socioeconomic status. Such results suggest that specific factors of language experience may differentially influence the mechanisms of cognitive control. Since the bilinguals had distinct language sets, it seems that the influence of bilingualism on executive functions is present regardless of the similarity between the two languages. As for hemispheric lateralization, although the results were not clear-cut, they suggest the reduced lateralization in early bilinguals.
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We hear the term "market economy" batted about frequently in the news, most recently in the context of China's desire to be recognized as a market economy by the European Union. We know that in the United States we operate in a market economy, but how is that defined, and what exactly does it mean?
In a market economy (sometimes called a "free market economy"), the principles of supply and demand determine what is produced, how it is produced, and by whom it is produced and consumed. How do we make use of limited resources? Do we grow figs or grapes? Do we invest in fossil fuels or renewable energy? Producers make these decisions based upon the market. They determine what is in high demand and what will yield the most gain.
The price of a good or service arises through myriad voluntary transactions and indicates to a producer what the demand is for that good or service and whether or not it would be a good allocation of resources. Buyers and sellers enter into transactions without coercion or control from any outside forces, and market competition for both buyers and resources arises naturally.
The opposite of a market economy is a planned economy, also called a command economy. In this model, government assumes a leading role in deciding what goods and services should be produced and who the producers will be.
During the twentieth century, both China and the Soviet Union were examples of large planned economies in which the government controlled many aspects of production and pricing. In 1978, China began transitioning gradually towards a market economy by allowing the market to dictate pricing in some sectors while retaining government control in others. This dual or mixed economy strategy has over the past quarter of a century made China the fastest-growing major economy in the world.
In practice, there is no such thing as a pure market economy. In the United States, as in most economies, there is a balance of free market forces and necessary governmental controls. Such controls include subsidies for public goods such as education, transportation, and communications. Examples of government intervention in the U.S. economy include the nationalization of rail travel (Amtrak), laws against drug use, and the protection of property rights.
At the national, state and local level, government is responsible for the regulation of activities from emissions to zoning to food and drug standards. Government agencies also monitor and control activities that result in externalities, unintended social consequences of economic activities such as groundwater contamination or climate change, and it is crucial that they do so. There will, of course, always be debate as to what is the correct balance of free market and government influence.
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Make Oatmeal Cookies Recipe at Home.
Step 1: Take a large bowl, whisk white sugar, brown sugar with butter or ghee. Now add beat eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk till the turns to a smooth cream.
Step 2: Now combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder and salt in the bowl and stir well. Mix oats in the cream mixture and keep stirring until combined well.
Step 3:Make smooth dough and add raisins at last. Knead again. Make it covered and set aside for an hour. Roll the dough in to small balls.
Step 4: Preheat the oven to 190 degree C and grease the cooking sheets with little bit butter or ghee. Place the rolls in to the baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.
Step 5: Switch off the oven and remove from the oven and then transfer to a wire rack. Let them cool completely and serve.
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Never quite sure about the analogy between clouds and loneliness. Dove Cottage was built in the early 17th century, beside the main road from Ambleside to the south to Keswick to the north. It was probably purpose-built as a public house, and it is first recorded as the "Dove and Olive", an inn included in a list of public houses in Westmoreland in 1617. It remained a public house, sometimes called the "Dove and Olive Branch", until it closed in 1793. The history of the cottage is referred to in Wordsworth's 1806 poem, "The Waggoner", in which the protagonist passes by "Where once the Dove and Olive-bough offered a greeting of good ale to all who entered Grasmere Vale". The building is constructed from local stone, with limewashed walls and a slate roof. There are four rooms downstairs, and another four upstairs. The ground floor rooms retain the oak panels and slate floors often found in well-built Lakeland houses of the period, and appropriate to their original function as drinking rooms in a public house. The fireplaces were altered in the 1790s to burn coal rather than the traditional Lakeland peat. William Wordsworth had been born in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770, and knew the Lake District well from his childhood. He moved away to study at the University of Cambridge in 1787, and then travelled in Britain and Europe for 12 years. William first encountered Dove Cottage when on a walking tour of the Lake District with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1799. William had been close to his sister Dorothy in their childhood, but they had spent many years apart. Although they had lived together in Somerset in 1797 and in Germany in 1798, William wanted to find a permanent home for them together. Dove Cottage was empty and available for rent, and they took up residence on 20 December that year, paying £5 a year to John Benson of Grasmere.
On the ground floor, the main reception room was the "houseplace" or "kitchen-parlour", by the main door, which contains a cooking range and window seat, used for the main daily meal. A smaller room next to the houseplace was used by the Wordsworths as Dorothy's bedroom. A separate kitchen was used for the more arduous task of the domestic routine, with the fourth room being a small buttery, used as a larder. The Wordsworths employed a neighbour, Molly Fisher, as a maid to do their washing and cooking. Upstairs, the room over the houseplace was William's study, with views over meadows to the lake, used by William for his composition and as a second parlour for light meals and entertaining. The three other rooms were used as bedrooms, with the small room over the buttery being used later as a nursery for William and Mary's children. The walls of the small bedroom were covered with newspapers in 1800 as an attempt at insulation (later removed, but copies were put back in the 1970s). There was no running water inside the house, and the toilet was also outside in the garden. William and Dorothy took particular pleasure in the garden and orchard behind the house, their "little nook of mountain-ground", which was deliberately arranged in an informal "wild" state. William became a key member of a group of Romantic poets in the Lake District, later known as the Lake Poets. Robert Southey lived in Greta Hall in nearby Keswick. Southey and Coleridge were married to sisters, Sarah and Edith Fricker, and Coleridge himself moved his family to Keswick in 1800. Both Coleridge and Southey became a frequent visitors to Dove Cottage, but Coleridge's marriage was unhappy, and he departed Keswick in 1804. Nevertheless, he returned to visit the Wordsworths in Grasmere from time to time. The Wordsworths were also visited at Dove Cottage by Walter Scott, Humphry Davy, and Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb. In later years, Thomas de Quincey became a long-term guest. Both de Quincey and Coleridge were opium users. The Wordsworth Museum is next door to Dove Cottage and there you will discover the greatest collection of the Wordsworths’ letters, journals and poems in the world. Full access is available for wheelchair users to the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery using a combination of ramps and lifts (elevators). As Dove Cottage is an historic building, we have been unable to make provision for disabled access. However, there is a 'virtual tour' of the cottage available at the Information Point in the Wordsworth Museum. A member of the team will be happy to guide you on this tour, should you wish. Accessible lavatory facilities are available inside the Museum building and in the Jerwood Centre. Induction loops, large print guides and audio guides are available in the museum.
Location : Grasmere, Ambleside LA22 9SH.
Transport: Windemere (National Rail) then bus. Bus: Stagecoach 555 and 599 stop nearby.
Opening Times: Daily 10:00 to 16:30. to 29th February.
Opening Times: Daily 09:30 to 17:00. March to November 1st.
Tickets : Adults £8.25 Students £7.25 Children Free.
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One of the hardest parts of planning a camping trip is trying to figure out the menu. What can we prep in advance? What will keep? How much do we need? So many questions. A lot of people get turned off from camping because it is not something usually associated with good food. Hot dogs, marshmallows and more hot dogs usually fill the menu because they're easy.
We like to turn it up a notch when we're camping. Yes, we may do the standard sausages over the fire, buuutttt our camping menu also comes with plenty of other tasty options. How can you do the same? Follow these 10 tips for planning a delicious camping menu.
Write a detailed list of what you will be eating for each meal. This will also help when grocery shopping for the trip.
2. Choose meals that travel well.
How will you transport the food? How much space do you have? Choose menu items that don't take up a lot of space, or can be packed tight, get banged up and stored in light weight containers. You want food that won't spoil easily or leak in the cooler.
3. Be wary of the equipment.
Choose meals that do not require a lot of equipment to make, such as cooking stoves, pots and pans. If you can't avoid bringing a certain piece of equipment, make sure that it is utilized for every meal.
4. Wash, chop and store ahead of time.
You don't want to spend your mornings chopping while you're camping, so do it ahead of time to save the hassle. Put the prepped items in labeled ziplock bags or containers.
5. Marinade and freeze meals ahead of time.
If you're doing any type of meat, pour into a large freezer bag with the marinade and freeze. Not only will this marinade the meat, but freezing it will also help it stay colder for longer.
6. Put condiments in smaller containers.
Need ketchup, mustard or mayo? Instead of bringing the whole honkin' bottle, why not squeeze the amount you need into a smaller container to save space? Or, stock up on condiment packets the next time you hit up a fast food restaurant. The same goes with salt and pepper.
7. Aluminum foil is your friend.
Make sure to have a roll or two handy on your trip. Foil can be used to wrap up leftovers, to keep food warm, or to even cook food in the hot coals.
8. Take advantage of leftovers.
Incorporate leftovers into the next day's meal. For example, add leftover sausages or hot dogs to a breakfast burrito, or turn leftover bbq chicken into a chicken salad sandwich for lunch.
Just because you plan on cooking all of your food over the fire, doesn't mean you're limited to what you can cook. Ah, the power of aluminum foil. Get creative!
Sometimes camping can be unpredictable - animals, weather, etc. may throw a wrench in your plans. Make sure you secure your food properly so it is safe from animals, and cover any firewood if rain is predicted so that it stays dry. In the event that something does happen, prepare to abandon your camping menu and be able to think on your toes.
Hopefully these tips and recipes have inspired you to want to go camping, or in the least, shown you that camping food isn't all that bad. You just have to get creative.
Do you have any other camping menu planning tips?
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I'm not a camper but your series is making it sound like so much fun!
Comprehensive my dear. I think you got it all!
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Does nondiscrimination clause mention gender in the constitution?
Measures whether there is a nondiscrimination clause in the constitution which mentions gender. For the answer to be “Yes,” the constitution must use either the word discrimination or the word nondiscrimination or even when there is a “clawback” provision granting exceptions to the nondiscrimination clause for certain areas of the law, such as inheritance, family and customary law.
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Munich (/ˈmjuːnɪk/; German: München [ˈmʏnçn̩] ( listen); Austro-Bavarian: Minga [ˈmɪŋ(ː)ɐ]) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is also the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and the 12th largest city in the European Union, with a population of around 1.5 million. The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 6 million people.
The city is a major centre of art, technology, finance, publishing, culture, innovation, education, business, and tourism in Germany and Europe and enjoys a very high standard and quality of living, reaching first in Germany and third worldwide according to the 2018 Mercer survey, and being rated the world's most liveable city by the Monocle's Quality of Life Survey 2018. According to the Globalization and World Rankings Research Institute Munich is considered an alpha-world city, as of 2015.
The name of the city is derived from the Old/Middle High German term Munichen, meaning "by the monks". It derives from the monks of the Benedictine order, who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town of Munich; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat of arms. Munich was first mentioned in 1158. Catholic Munich strongly resisted the Counter-Reformation and was a political point of divergence during the resulting Thirty Years' War, but remained physically untouched despite an occupation by the Protestant Swedes. Once Bavaria was established as a sovereign kingdom in 1806, it became a major European centre of arts, architecture, culture and science. In 1918, during the German Revolution, the ruling house of Wittelsbach, which had governed Bavaria since 1180, was forced to abdicate in Munich and a short-lived socialist republic was declared.
The first known settlement in the area was of Benedictine monks on the Salt road. The foundation date is considered the year 1158, the date the city was first mentioned in a document. The document was signed in Augsburg. By then, the Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, had built a toll bridge over the river Isar next to the monk settlement and on the salt route.
When Bavaria was reunited in 1506, Munich became its capital. The arts and politics became increasingly influenced by the court (see Orlando di Lasso and Heinrich Schütz). During the 16th century, Munich was a centre of the German counter reformation, and also of renaissance arts. Duke Wilhelm V commissioned the Jesuit Michaelskirche, which became a centre for the counter-reformation, and also built the Hofbräuhaus for brewing brown beer in 1589.
In 1806, the city became the capital of the new Kingdom of Bavaria, with the state's parliament (the Landtag) and the new archdiocese of Munich and Freising being located in the city. Twenty years later, Landshut University was moved to Munich. Many of the city's finest buildings belong to this period and were built under the first three Bavarian kings. Especially Ludwig I rendered outstanding services to Munich's status as a centre of the arts, attracting numerous artists and enhancing the city's architectural substance with grand boulevards and buildings. On the other hand, Ludwig II, known the world over as the fairytale king, was mostly aloof from his capital and focused more on his fanciful castles in the Bavarian countryside. Nevertheless, his patronage of Richard Wagner secured his posthumous reputation, as do his castles, which still generate significant tourist income for Bavaria. Later, Prince Regent Luitpold's years as regent were marked by tremendous artistic and cultural activity in Munich, enhancing its status as a cultural force of global importance (see Franz von Stuck and Der Blaue Reiter).
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In July 2017, Munich had 1.42 million inhabitants; 421,832 foreign nations resided in the city as of 31.12.2017 with 50.7% of these residents being citizens of EU member states, and 25.2% citizens in European states not in the EU (including Russia and Turkey). The largest groups of foreign nationals were Turks (39,204), Croats (33,177), Italians (27,340), Greeks (27,117), Polish (27,945), Austrians (21,944), and Romanians (18,085).
The Frauenkirche is the best known building in the city centre and serves as the cathedral for the Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. The nearby Michaelskirche is the largest renaissance church north of the Alps, while the Theatinerkirche is a basilica in Italianate high baroque, which had a major influence on Southern German baroque architecture. Its dome dominates the Odeonsplatz. Other baroque churches in the inner city include the Bürgersaalkirche, the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, the St. Anna Damenstiftskirche and St. Anna im Lehel, the first rococo church in Bavaria. The Asamkirche was endowed and built by the Brothers Asam, pioneering artists of the rococo period.
Lehel, a middle-class quarter east of the Altstadt, is characterised by countless well-preserved (and in parts excellently reconstructed) townhouses, giving a thorough impression of the "old Munich" outside of the main tourist routes. St. Lukas is the largest Protestant Church in Munich.
Some notable nightclubs are: popular techno clubs are MMA Club (Mixed Munich Arts), Blitz Club, Harry Klein, Rote Sonne, Bahnwärter Thiel, Bob Beaman, Pimpernel, Charlie and Palais. Popular mixed music clubs are Call me Drella, Cord, Wannda Circus, Tonhalle, Backstage, Muffathalle, Ampere, Pacha, P1, Minna Thiel and the party ship Alte Utting. Some notable bars (pubs are located all over the city) are Charles Schumann's Cocktail Bar, Havana Club, Sehnsucht, Bar Centrale, Ksar, Holy Home, Eat the Rich, Negroni, Die Goldene Bar and Bei Otto (a bavarian-style pub).
Munich is a financial centre and a global city and holds the headquarters of many headquarters including more listed by the DAX than any other German city, as well as the German or European headquarters of many foreign companies such as McDonald's and Microsoft.
Munich is the largest publishing city in Europe and home to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany's largest daily newspapers. The city is also the location of the programming headquarters of Germany's largest public broadcasting network, ARD, while the largest commercial network, Pro7-Sat1 Media AG, is headquartered in the suburb of Unterföhring. The headquarters of the German branch of Random House, the world's largest publishing house, and of Burda publishing group are also in Munich.
München Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station located in the city centre. The first Munich station was built about 800 metres to the west in 1839. A station at the current site was opened in 1849 and it has been rebuilt numerous times, including to replace the main station building, which was badly damaged during World War II.
München Hauptbahnhof is one of the three long distance stations in Munich, the others being München Ost (to the east) and München-Pasing (to the west). All three are connected to the public transport system and serve as transportation hubs. München Hauptbahnhof sees about 450,000 passengers a day, which puts it on par with other large stations in Germany, such as Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. It and München Ost are two of the 21 stations in Germany classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 station. The mainline station is a terminal station with 32 platforms. The subterranean S-Bahn with 2 platforms and U-Bahn stations with 6 platforms are through stations.
For its urban population of 2.6 million people, Munich and its closest suburbs have one of the most comprehensive in the world, incorporating the Munich U-Bahn (underground railway), the Munich S-Bahn (suburban trains), trams and buses. The system is supervised by the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund GmbH). The Munich tramway is the oldest existing public transportation system in the city, which has been in operation since 1876. Munich also has an extensive network of bus lines.
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Eli Sagan's book, Citizens and Cannibals, is a fascinating theoretical treatise on the meaning of the French Revolution. Favoring analysis over narrative, Sagan argues that the French Revolution reveals the fault lines of modernity. According to Sagan, the French Revolution is representative of the anxiety modern men and women feel when they give us Early Modern sources of corporate identity. Following the logic of Marshall Berman's book, All That is Solid Melts Into Air, Sagan maintains that French revolutionaries turned to terror to compensate for the loss of the king, the Catholic church, guilds, and other sources of social and cultural identity. Sagan writes that most people in France accepted the principles of the French Revolution even before it occurred. Nobles, clergymen, and even the king, all more or less gave up medieval assumptions and joined the bourgeoisie in believing in the rights of individuals and the bourgeois concept of freedom.
According to Sagan, the French Revolution had little or nothing to do with capitalism, which had made few inroads in France by the end of the 18th century, and everything to do with middle class values. The French Revolution was not made by industrialists or great merchants but rather by lawyers. The Revolution was ultimately an expression of a new ethos. By 1789 most educated people accepted many or perhaps most modern ideas about politics. Robespierre, for instance, believed in many of the things we believe in. He hated slavery, favored the separation of church and state, supported progressive taxation, and championed free and universal education. He believed in civil rights, as they are commonly understood. Sagan goes so far as to call Robespierre a "moral genius" for his early and eloquent advocacy of so many of the causes we still champion today. On the other hand, Robespierre, like so many of his contemporaries, hated factionalism. This hatred was born of a fear that is representative of the widespread fear that accompanied all passages to modernity.
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You are asking a question about a couple of my favorite places at Walt Disney World. I love the hustle and bustle along Disney's BoardWalk. There is so much to do at this fun area, including great dining, shopping and entertainment. Be sure to check out the new Ample Hills Creamery - the ice cream there is so flavorful and delicious! Very nearby is Epcot, which is a favorite theme park for my family. We love to spend an afternoon strolling around World Showcase and taking in the international pavilions.
In order to walk to the monorail entrance from Disney's BoardWalk, you do in fact need admission to Epcot. From Disney's BoardWalk, you have to walk into the International Gateway entrance to Epcot, through Epcot, and then out of the front gates of Epcot to get to the monorail entrance. Because you need to walk through the theme park, you do need theme park admission to do this.
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Can I get an iPhone without paying for Internet?
When I get an iPhone, I don't want to buy internet, I just want to use my wifi or hotspots to get on the internet (there everywhere these days). What I'm wondering is....will I be able to get on AOL Instant Messenger or will that be a special program I have to pay for?
Good question. If I got an iPhone, I would also just use wi-fi, without the costly internet package stuff. Hopefully it does, but it seems like it'd be hard to do?
I doubt that you'll have to pay for anything that you use at a Wifi hotspot. If you have to use text messages to use AIM, then you will be either charged per message or you'll have to get some sort of data package from Cingular.
I'm not sure if you'll be able to do that. As much as I love Apple, they know how to make their money and probably already anticipated that. You may have to pay no matter what to get the internet package. I kind of had the same prob with my sidekick. I had to get the data package no matter what, which included the internet. I'm pretty sure no matter how you want to get on the net, you will have to get the package.
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What is the best medical sales field to go into?
It depends on your strengths as a sales professional. There are really two types of roles technical and commodity. The highly technical roles in both medical and dental sales tend to pay more on the base while if you are very good at managing your time and relationships the commodity sales side can have tremendous upside.
I would pick a vertical within the medical field and determine the products on both sides. Large companies like Stryker or Dentsply provide a great training ground for most sellers looking to break into the industry.
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Does Hindi take into consideration the gender of the animal?
There is a generic, grammatical gender associated with every animal, because in Hindi, just like in Spanish, every noun is either masculine or feminine. So a cat is generically feminine, as are a butterfly, a fish, a sparrow, and a spider, while a camel is masculine, as are a turtle, a rhino, a centipede, and a mongoose.
In order to be specific about the gender of an animal which doesn't have distinct male and female names, use the adjectives नर (male) and मादा (female). So, while "मछली" is grammatically feminine and can be used to refer to fish in general, "नर मछली" is a male fish and "मादा मछली" a female fish.
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Production value at basic price - Milk - Real value - Index, 2005=100 reached 110 Index, 2005=100 in 2014 in Hungary. This is 8.94 % more than in the previous year.
Historically, Production value at basic price - Milk - Real value - Index, 2005=100 in Hungary reached an all time high of 141 Index, 2005=100 in 1998 and an all time low of 70.3 Index, 2005=100 in 2009. When compared to Hungary's main peers, Production value at basic price - Milk - Real value - Index, 2005=100 in Austria amounted to 122 Index, 2005=100, 110 Index, 2005=100 in Czech Republic, 133 Index, 2005=100 in Poland and 87.2 Index, 2005=100 in Slovakia in 2014.
Hungary has been ranked 11th within the group of 29 countries we follow in terms of Production value at basic price - Milk - Real value - Index, 2005=100, 13 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
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American Pharoah has written his name into the history books, becoming the first racehorse in 37 years to complete the coveted Triple Crown in New York.
The three year-old colt, ridden by Victor Espinoza, stormed home to win the Belmont Stakes, beating second-favourite Frosted by five-and-a-half lengths.
The Bob Baffert-trained horse found the front early - a controversial move for a race of 2414m - but the colt kicked away in the straight to finish even stronger than he started.
American Pharoah is just the 12th horse in history win The Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year.
Affirmed was the last horse to complete the Triple Crown back in 1978.
Since then, 13 horses have come close to accomplishing the Triple Crown, winning two legs of the series but falling flat in the third.
Immediately after the race, #TripleCrown became the number one trend on Twitter worldwide.
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I shouldn't have talked back to him. I know where I stand.
I shouldn't have talked back to him. I know my place.
What's difference between the two sentences and the difference between I know where I stand and I know my place? In contexts like this, are they interchangeable?
I have a clearly-defined opinion (on some contextually-relevant topic).
Often carries the strong implication that I don't want to discuss the issue - because I've already made up my mind, so there's no point in talking to people who only want to persuade me to change my mind.
Effectively My mind is made up, and you will not convince me to change my opinion.
I realise that I have low "social status" in the current context.
Often with the implication that I shouldn't say what I think (or even contribute to any debate on the current topic). I am expected to simply endorse the opinions of those with higher status and/or more power than me.
Effectively I am servile, and must do/think only what I'm told to by my superiors.
Given the preceding context (I shouldn't have talked back to him), the first example would normally be understood to mean that I shouldn't have wasted my time talking to him. Obviously he only wanted to engage me in debate in hopes of persuading me to change my position, but I was never going to allow that to happen anyway, because my position is "fixed, not up for debate".
The second example would normally be understood to mean that it was socially / politically unwise of me to disagree with him - because he has more power than me, it was dangerous / impertinent of me to challenge him.
Personally, I feel that the two different idiomatic meanings aren't entirely arbitrary - the reason they've been assigned this way is at least partly because to stand is normally a voluntary act (often against resistance - consider withstand, stand up to, take a stand). Whereas to be placed [somewhere] is effectively a "passive (servile)" action.
As a class-obsessed Brit, I can't resist adding a link to the classic I know my place comedy sketch (from The Frost Report, 1966, with John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett), where physical height is amusingly conflated with social status. British humour at its best!
Accepting a subservient position within a social group.
How you should interpret the particular examples you give in the question depends a bit on the exact scenario, but in a typical case both sentences might mean that talking back was a poor decision because the person you were talking back to had authority over you. However, the first phrasing suggests that you are only concerned about the risk of retaliation, whereas the second suggests that you actually believe that it was wrong of you to talk back under the circumstances.
I shouldn't have talked back to him. I know where I stand. - talking back to him was unwise, because it wasn't going to achieve anything and he might retaliate against me.
I shouldn't have talked back to him. I know my place. - it was socially unacceptable for me to talk back to him under these circumstances.
While there may be some situations in which the two idioms have more nearly the same meaning, they are unlikely to be completely interchangeable in any realistic scenario.
What's your place in your family? - this is not an example of the "knowing your place" idiom. Here, the question is more literal: what position do you hold? I'm not sure a native speaker would be likely to ask the question in this way, but it would probably be understood.
Where do you stand in your family? - no native speaker would put the question in this way and it might be misunderstood as asking how your family feels about you.
When someone is misbehaving with him [John] just accepts it because he knows where he stands - implies that John does not care about the misbehaviour.
When someone is misbehaving with him [John] just accepts it because he knows his place. - implies that John feels that he cannot complain about the misbehaviour because of his inferior social position.
"I know where I stand on gun control" would mean you know what your position on that issue is.
"I know where I stand with Alice" would mean you know what Alice's opinion of you is (and generally suggests that the opinion isn't favorable). This might be related to the other meaning, in that "I know where I stand with Alice" means roughly the same as "I know where Alice stands on me", although the latter isn't a phrasing I've ever heard. This meaning could also be used with respect to a larger group, e.g. "I know where I stand in the company".
I agree Kevin's comment on another answer that "I know my place" suggests subservience and acceptance of your place, while "I know where I stand" is more likely to be defiant (or perhaps bitter), although this depends somewhat on tone of voice.
In your specific example of "I shouldn't have talked back to him", the two sentences are largely interchangeable, but "I know where I stand" fits slightly better if the reason is due to his personal opinion of you, while "I know my place" is better if it is your relative social standings that are the issue.
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Is the end of the Syrian war in sight?
Russia’s plans to lead all the factions fighting in Syria to reach a negotiated peace settlement appear to have collapsed on Wednesday, when Russia, Turkey, and Iran failed to agree on details of four “de-escalation zones” or “safe zones” proposed by Russia at a meeting in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
In that article, I listed the reasons why it was farcical. The principal reason is that it did not include the actual parties to the Syrian war – the Shia/Alawite regime of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad and the Sunni opposition. In fact, none of these actual participants in the war agreed to the terms of the agreement. That’s why the talks on Wednesday collapsed.
The three countries – Russia, Iran, and Turkey – are supposed to be the “Guarantors” of the agreement, providing whatever troops are necessary for the functioning of the checkpoints and observation posts as well as the administration of the security zones.
The Syrians and Russians blamed the Turks as being unwilling to agree to any implementation of the zones.
Turkey and Iran were unable to agree on whose troops would be used to guarantee the safety of the safe zones.
The moderate Sunni rebels said that they would refuse a proposal to have Iran monitor the safe zone in central Homs province.
The United States and United Nations were purposely excluded from the Astana peace talks, but Russia now agrees that the United States and Jordan will have to be involved in some way to cover the zone in southern Syria.
Russia also blames the failure of the talks on Wednesday on the United States, because of uncertainty about what Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will agree to when they meet at the G-20 summit in Hamburg on Friday. Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview on Monday that he would also discuss the issue with Putin at the G-20 summit.
The map of Syria above shows the four de-escalation zones on the left (western side) of the map of Syria appearing above. The four zones, taken together, are enclaves containing over 2.5 million Sunni civilians, mostly women and children, in areas controlled variously by al-Qaeda-linked or moderate opposition rebels. These millions of civilians are people that al-Assad in the past has made clear that he wants to exterminate as if they were cockroaches, which is why neither Assad nor the opposition rebels were willing to sign Russia’s agreement.
There is little agreement among all the parties as to how the so-called “Guarantors” of de-escalation zones or safe zones are going to enforce the terms of the proposed agreement.
Russia had announced on Tuesday that they would deploy the Russian military police carrying light weapons within two to three weeks, but that plan is now on hold after the peace talks collapsed on Wednesday.
Because of the difficulty in getting agreement on whose military forces will be occupying each of the safe zones, Russia has asked two Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, to send some of their own soldiers as peacekeepers.
Last year, al-Assad’s military, supported by overwhelming destructive force provided by Russia and Iran, was going to destroy the city of Aleppo. That was going to end the war because it would demoralize the opposition groups and jihadists so they would lose interest in fighting, and would go home.
Bashar al-Assad has proven himself to be psychopathic genocidal killer, the worst war criminal so far this century, so it is not surprising that he was totally delusional about the outcome of his slaughter of the people of Aleppo.
I’ve written about any number of Syria peace plans over the years. Kofi Annan, the virulently anti-American former Secretary-General of the United Nations from Ghana, was the first UN envoy on Syria. Annan formulated a farcical six-point ‘peace plan’ which said absolutely nothing, but which al-Assad used as a cover to continue exterminating innocent Sunni women and children with impunity.
After Kofi Annan was repeatedly humiliated by Bashar al-Assad, the UN appointed a new Syria peace envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, to replace Kofi Annan. Brahimi was not as much of an idiot as Annan was, but he still resigned in disgust in May 2014, after it became clear that al-Assad really had no desire to do anything but exterminate Sunni civilians. Now, the current UN envoy is Staffan de Mistura, who goes around all the time saying, “This will not be tolerated,” but who accomplishes nothing except, again, to provide cover for Bashar al-Assad’s atrocities.
All of these peace plans have failed because the psychopathic, delusional Bashar al-Assad does not want the war to end. The war will never end as long as al-Assad is in power.
The map at the beginning of this article shows how Syria is currently divided up among different militias. Russia’s peace plan did not address any of this, except for four zones in the western region supposedly still controlled by al-Assad. There will be a particular dispute between Turkey and the Kurds, as the latter try to join the two yellow areas into a single Kurdish state called Rojava, and Turkey does everything possible to prevent it.
The latest fantasy about the end of the war is that the war will end in the next few weeks, due to the defeat of the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) in its last two strongholds, Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq. According to this theory, the remaining opposition forces are located in small, geographically isolated enclaves, so they won’t be able to coordinate their actions into a significant fighting force.
The problem with this reasoning is that the defeat of ISIS in Raqqa and Mosul is just a simple tactical victory. It does not address the core issues that started the civil war in 2011, when al-Assad began exterminating Sunni women and children who were simply peaceful protesters.
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The city of Oslo has been ageing extremely rapidly in the 20th century, turning 300 years in 1924, before leapfrogging to 900 in 1950 and finally 1000 by the year 2000.
The city succeeded in ageing 100 years in the span of 50 years on the grounds of archaeological findings suggesting that the town had a central administration and was, thus, a town as opposed to a mere cluster of dwellings, 50 years earlier than was previously assumed.
The even more astounding leap from 300 to 900, on the other hand, is a tale of two cities - Christiania and Oslo - and is due to a royal decision that cut the latter from the roots of its medieval past. The new town of Christiana was founded in 1624, leaving the old town of Oslo abandoned to rural pasture.
Whether or not Oslo had developed into a town by the year 1000, as is now believed, or was funded by royal decree only 50 years later, as one written record suggests, it soon become the most influential area of the southeast of Norway. Its population throughout the middle ages was much less than that of the commercial port of Bergen. However, Oslo was still amongst the three original bishoprics of the kingdom.
At the foot of a hill, where the river of Alna flows into the fjord basin, the small town consisted for the most part of thatched log houses in between which were interspersed stone clad churches and monasteries.
Among the few residences constructed in stone were those of the bishop and the king, forming the two most impressive clusters in an otherwise mostly wooden townscape. At the northern end, closely adjacent to the market square was the residence of the bishop, which was linked by a walkway to the Romanesque cathedral of St. Hallvard. The cathedral was begun in the early 1100s and was probably complete by 1130.
Not to be outdone, the king linked his residence to a royal chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mother, and strove to outshine the cathedral by the erection of a twin towered west front in brick and with elements of contemporary gothic. Oslo also saw the construction of a number of other churches and monasteries.
Oslo, however, had no city wall and the royal residence remained poorly defended at a time when the throne was fiercely contested in a succession of civil wars. The solution was, therefore, to build a more heavily fortified complex across the bay that could bar easy access to Oslo by invaders from sea. This fortress and new royal residence came to be known as Akershus fortress. It is assumed that the complex was begun in the 1290s in the aftermath of the assault on Oslo in 1287.
The fortunes of Oslo grew with the waning of Norwegian maritime influence and the loss of control of islands across the sea. The Oslo area had throughout its history often found itself within a Danish, rather than a Norwegian, orbit, and its possible that a royal presence in the east was warranted by defensive purposes foremost.
In 1314, Oslo laid its definite claim to the title of capital of Norway by way of a royal declaration. The seal of the realm was to be held by the royal Chancellor, a national administrator tied to the royal residence of Oslo.
However, the ascendance of Oslo would not last long and the town would soon be decimated by a series of catastrophes. By mid-century the capital was struck by the black death and the population began a rapid descent. Royal patronage of Oslo died with the last king of Norway in 1387, leaving his mother, the daughter of a Danish king, to establish the union of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The union would primarily be dominated by Denmark.
Over the next 150 years, the influence of Norway, and with it Oslo, dwindled entirely. Swedish nobles rebelled and ultimately fought successfully against the power of Copenhagen while the Norwegians attempted but failed, in a series of events that lead only to the elimination of the Norwegian nobility. Oslo retained certain functions of a capital, though these were increasingly symbolic and by the first half of the 1500s they ceased altogether.
In 1537, ecclesiastical patronage also folded. The reformation removed the last source of influence that Oslo still maintained, and which had laid the foundation of its ascendancy: a powerful and independent clergy.
Repeated fires and outbreaks of plagues likewise ensured that that the ex-capital remained economically stagnant. By 1624, Oslo was a backwater with only the cathedral still functioning as a church. A few minor residences in stone had been added to the townscape in the preceding century. One of these were built on top of the remains of the old Bishop’s palace and must have been among the most representative buildings of the time, as it was used for the wedding of James I of Scotland, who later also ruled in England. However, Oslo was still wholly medieval and a shadow of its former self.
It was said to have burnt to the ground at least 14 times, but by 1624, the royal orders from Copenhagen decreed that Oslo should not be rebuilt, at least not in the same place. In the same year, the town of Christiania was founded on the opposite side of the bay and was incorporated into the defensive framework of the royal fortress of Akershus.
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what version of forge works on windows 10 minecraft.
None. Forge is only for the Java version of Minecraft.
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Are Filipinos Classified As Asian or Pacific Islanders?
Filipinos are classified as Asian for both United States Census and Social Security Administration purposes. The separation of Asian and Pacific Islander categories occurred in 2000.
Prior to the year 2000, people of Asian and Pacific Island descent were grouped into one category by various governmental agencies in the United States. However, the distinction helps more specifically delineate people from different regions. For example, people with Asian origin are now identified as those with ties to the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or Indian subcontinent. Those of Pacific Island origin are now identified as Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Marshallese, Fijan, Chamorro or Guamanian, and the peoples of various U.S. jurisdictions on other islands in the region.
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I am planning on going to Sweden to experience a unique adventure.
I am just not sure which place is better to go to, Stockholm or Uppsala?
Also, are these places near each other? If so, how long is the travel time in between these places? What is the best transport to use?
With the greatest of respect I think your first "unique adventure" should involve looking at a map of Sweden.
Add a guidebook to accompany the map.
Stockholm and Uppsala are a 40 min train ride apart. Stockholm is several times larger and has at least one site you must not miss: the Vasa museum. Uppsala is a nice university city, the cathedral is worth seeing and Gamla Uppsala is fun if you have the imagination what it must have been like a thousand years ago. The Linnaeus garden is also nice and in the summer time his cottage outside Uppsala is one good trip. You could stay in Stockholm and make Uppsala a day trip or take advantage of the cheaper hotels in Uppsala and go to Stockholm as you wish.
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How do I personalize ESPN+ on the ESPN App?
You now have the ability to Personalize your ESPN App Home Screen to launch with ESPN+ widget as your Default Tab.
1. Click the settings tab on upper right corner of your screen.
2. Click on the Default Tab.
3. Choose ESPN+ and confirm selection.
ESPN+ will now be your default tab when launching ESPN App.
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Abstract. The global carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems is chiefly determined by major flows of carbon dioxide (CO2) such as photosynthesis and respiration, but various minor flows exert considerable influence by reducing carbon stocks and accelerating turnover. This study assessed the effects of eight minor carbon flows on the terrestrial carbon budget using a process-based model, the Vegetation Integrative SImulator for Trace gases (VISIT), which also included non-CO2 carbon flows, such as CH4 and biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and subsurface carbon exports and disturbances such as biomass burning, land-use changes, and harvest activities. In the historical period of 1901–2016, the VISIT simulation indicated that the minor flows substantially influenced terrestrial carbon stocks, flows, and budgets. The simulations without and with minor flows estimated mean net ecosystem production in the 2000s as 3.04 ± 1.0 Pg C yr−1 and 4.94 ± 0.9 Pg C yr−1, respectively. Including minor carbon flows yielded an estimated net biome production of 2.19 ± 1.0 Pg C yr−1. Biomass burning, wood harvest, export of organic carbon by erosion, and BVOC emissions had impacts on the global terrestrial carbon budget amounting to around 1 Pg C yr−1 with specific interannual variability. After including the minor flows, ecosystem carbon storage was suppressed by about 280 Pg C, and its mean residence time was shortened by about 1.5 yr. The minor flows occur heterogeneously over the land, such that isoprene emission, subsurface export, and wood harvest occur mainly in the tropics and biomass burning occurs extensively in boreal forests. These minor flows differ in their decadal trends, due to differences in their driving factors. Aggregating the simulation results by cropland fraction and annual precipitation yielded more insight into the contributions of these minor flows to the terrestrial carbon budget. This study estimated uncertainties in the estimation of these flows through parameter ensemble simulations and sensitivity simulations, and the results have implications for observation, modeling, and synthesis of the global carbon cycle.
How to cite: Ito, A.: Disequilibrium of terrestrial ecosystem CO2 budget caused by disturbance-induced emissions and non-CO2 carbon export flows: a global model assessment, Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2018-62, in review, 2018.
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Various minor carbon flows such as trace gas emissions, disturbance-induced emissions, and subsurface exports can affect carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems in complicated ways. This study assessed how much these minor flows influence the carbon budget using a process-based model. It was found that the minor flows, though small in magnitude, could significantly affect net carbon budget at as much strengths as major flows, implying their long-term importance in Earth's climate system.
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If you think charcoal was only used for sketching portraits, think again my friend! The beauty benefits of charcoal in skincare is abundant and can be seen in cleansers, masks and even toothpaste! Charcoal has the power to absorb thousands of times it’s own mass in harmful substances, which is why it’s such a popular ingredient in skincare products. Activated charcoals draws out sebum, bacteria, dirt and other harmful substances from the skin.
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While PostgreSQL is commonly considered an RDBMS, or a "database", it may not be commonly understood what is meant specifically by the word database . A database within PostgreSQL is an object-relational implementation of what is formally called a schema in SQL99 (though there is no practical difference).
Put simply, a database is a stored set of data which is logically interrelated. Typically, this data can be accessed in a multi-user environment. This is the case with PostgreSQL, though there are well-defined rights and restrictions enforced with that access.
What may not be commonly understood is that PostgreSQL can at one time have several databases concurrently available, each with their own owner, and each with their own unique tables, views, indices, sequences and functions.
In order to create a table, function, or any other database object, you must be connected to a specific database via a PostgreSQL client . Once connected, an object can be created, which is then owned by the connected database, and will be therefore inaccessible from any other database (though a client may have several connections open to different databases).
By keeping fundamental data objects segregated into their own databases in this fashion, you run a smaller risk of running into a naming collision by choosing a table name already chosen for another purpose (e.g., if two users each wanted to have a table called "products" for two separate applications). This is because neither database has any knowledge of the other database's components, and will not attempt to make any kind of logical relationship between them. Furthermore, as the same rule applies to object-relational data objects, users may even create functions and language definitions within their database which are inaccessible by other users connected to other databases running within PostgreSQL.
A default installation of PostgreSQL installs only one functional database, which is called template1 . It is named template1 to represent the template based nature of the database. Any database which is created after it is essentially a clone, inheriting any of its database objects, including table structure, functions, languages, etc. It is not uncommon to create a default database for new PostgreSQL users with the same name as their PostgreSQL username, as PostgreSQL will attempt to connect to a database with the same name as the connecting user if a database name is not specified.
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Cook chicken. Option 1: Shredded Crock Pot Chicken Option 2: Place chicken in a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil then reduce heat, cover, and let cook until chicken is fully cooked and shreddable (time will vary based on amount used).
In a large pot heat the coconut oil and saute garlic.
Add chopped carrots, onion, celery, peppers, cooked corn, and poblano pepper- let cook until translucent.
Add in chicken broth, tomato sauce, and diced tomatoes and stir well.
Add in 3 cups shredded chicken.
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We made handprint flowers today and they turned out super cute!! The children started by painting their hands green and pressing them down on poster board that I had secured to our table. After they washed their hands they dipped a finger in yellow paint and finger painted a small yellow circle above each finger on the handprints.
The next step was to choose the colors they wanted to use for the flowers and finger paint small circles around the yellow circles. While they were waiting for the paint to dry they cut out flower pots from brown construction paper and glued them on just below the handprints.
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Read a related Knowledge article " Brazil’s X Factor " by Felipe Monteiro.
This is a condensed version of the cases EBX Group (A): Eike Batista and the X-Factor/EBX Group (B): Autopsy of a failure. It describes the boom and bust of the EBX Group and its founder, Eike Batista. The first part traces the history of the Brazilian conglomerate from its origins as a small gold-mining operation in the early 1980s to 2012 when it has become a diversified national and global player in multiple industries. It examines Batista’s personal drive, motivations and choices, and how these influenced the strategy deployed by the company. Known for his huge ‘risk appetite’, Batista had an extraordinary ability to exploit gaps in the market when starting new businesses. The second part of the case recounts the “historic” downfall of the ‘X Empire’ which was of a magnitude and speed never seen before in the history. Batista’s personal net worth of US$30 billion – making him the seventh wealthiest person in the world and the richest in Brazil – had plummeted to US$200 million as debts piled up and the stock price went into freefall. In January 2014, Bloomberg reported that Batista had “a negative net worth”.
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What exactly is the difference here and why are two encryption bits being referenced?
So what's the difference between 256 bit encryption and 2048 bit root?
Hope that clarifies the question.
The 2048-bit is about the RSA key pair: RSA keys are mathematical objects which include a big integer, and a "2048-bit key" is a key such that the big integer is larger than 22047 but smaller than 22048.
The 256-bit is about SSL. In SSL, the server key is used only to transmit a random 256-bit key (that one does not have mathematical structure, it is just a bunch of bits); roughly speaking, the client generates a random 256-bit key, encrypts it with the server's RSA public key (the one which is in the server's certificate and is a "2048-bit key"), and sends the result to the server. The server uses its private RSA key to reverse the operation, and thus obtain the 256-bit key chosen by the client. Afterwards, client and server use the 256-bit to do symmetric encryption and integrity checks, and RSA is not used any further for that connection.
See this answer for some more details. This setup is often called "hybrid encryption". This is done because RSA is not appropriate for bulk encryption, but symmetric encryption cannot do the initial public/private business which is needed to get things started.
To add a little more detail, the 2048 bit RSA key is something called asymmetric cryptography. It is used for validating identity (signing) and ensuring that only an intended recipient can access the information sent (encryption). It is composed of two pieces, a public key and a private key. The keys are actually related to each other, but because they are related by two very large pseudo-prime numbers (prime in relation to each other) they are very hard to figure out the private key from the public.
That said, because the algorithm is based on something that is simply really hard to figure out (but is solvable), it is less secure than a symmetric algorithm based on a shared secret, which is not mathematically solvable and does not rely on the complexity of a math problem for security (more on that later). This is why the key is so much larger than the symmetric counterpart (which is only 256 bits). To make the equation hard to solve requires the much larger key and also, the more information that is transmitted with the asymmetric key, the more likely it is to be broken (also, the encryption/decryption is more processor intense).
For this reason, SSL only utilizes RSA for the validation and key exchange phases. Instead, a symmetric key (in this case of 256 bits if supported by the browser on the client) is generated and transmitted back to the server via RSA encryption and then the rest of the data is exchanged via the shared key and a symmetric algorithm.
This occurs by the client first decoding the response to a challenge which the server encrypts with it's private key, the client can then look at the public key of the server (which is signed by a known root key that the CA(in this case DigiCert) has had included with most browsers). When the decoded response matches the challenge, the client knows that the server responded to the request (though there may be a middle man relaying it). The client then generates the 256 bit symmetric key and encrypts it with the server's public key and sends it to the server. Because the key is encrypted with the server's public key, only the server (which knows the private key) can decrypt it. This means any middle man in the previous step can not know the new shared key. The client can now trust that any information sent via the shared key comes only from the intended server.
my question is how would the client know to generate a random 256 bit key? (Why not 128?).
This depends on the the cipher suite that is negotiated. The list of those defined as part of TLS 1.1 is in RFC 4346 Appendix A.5. For example TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA will use a 128-bit key, whereas TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA will use a 256-bit key.
Which cipher suite is negotiated will depend on the client and server configuration, not on the certificate installed on the server. When the client initiates the connection with a Client Hello message, it sends a list of cipher suites it supports. The server then picks the one it wants and says so in its Server Hello message.
This cipher suite then determines how these symmetric keys are eventually shared. The immediate purpose of the SSL/TLS handshake is to establish a share pre-master secret between the client and the server. This is more broadly referred to as the key-exchange (see RFC 4346 Appendix F.1.1).
RSA key exchange (e.g. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA): the client encrypts the pre-master secret using the server's public key (found in the certificate).
At the end of the handshake, whichever of these two steps were used, the client and the server are in possession of a common pre-master secret, from which they derive a master secret (see RFC 4346 Section 8.1).
From that master secret, both parties can derive the encryption keys (and MAC secrets), as described in RFC 4346 Section 6.3.
The size of the key in the certificate only matters to prevent forgery of the key exchange (or to be able to decipher recorded traffic back): if someone was able to find the private key from the public key in the certificate, they could act as a MITM to impersonate the real server or they would be able to decipher the enciphered pre-master secret (and thus the recorded traffic) when using an RSA key exchange (DHE cipher suites are precisely designed to prevent getting access to the pre-master secret, even if the attacker gets hold of the private key and the recorded traffic, see this question). This is why a sufficient large asymmetric key matters.
Certification Authorities tend to put "256 bits" on their websites because it looks good from a marketing point of view.
It's not wrong, but it can be misleading for people who don't understand that it's how your server is set up and what your clients support that matters.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged encryption tls certificates or ask your own question.
Is Spoofing a CA signed certificate possible?
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Why different key exhange techniques for ssl key exchange?
What number of bits does a browser use to generate a key?
Is this prime number large enough / too large for a Diffie-Hellman for AES-256?
What block ciphers and algorithms are now safe?
Why use 256-bit symmetric encryption in TLS when 2048-bit RSA doesn't even offer 128-bit strength?
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Why should I take French or Spanish?
• Develop and build on the skills acquired at GCSE.
• Have an insight into another culture and society.
• Prepare for further study.
Anyone wishing to study languages at university as their main degree subject, or those who wish to spend a year abroad studying or working in a foreign country as part of their course.
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In the middle of an empty wilderness, I hang my head and ponder, should I continue? An old yellow bus passes me then stops 100m up the road, crunches into reverse and finally comes to rest right in front of me. The driver jumps out and begins to speak to me in Russian, I understand very little but I get the gist of it. It's not what I wanted to hear. Just 30 minutes before, in the nearby village I was asked if I had a gun. A gun? I responded with a little dismay. What for? After quite some gesticulation, one simple sound from the man's mouth said it all, "hoooohoooohooohoooooowwwww". Wolves! With some relief, I indicated to them that this was not a problem, after all it wasn't the first time on this trip I'd been warned about them. They seemed satisfied, as long as I didn't sleep "up there" as indicated by an indicative gesture of his right hand. But that wasn't all, a rapid up down, up down of both arms indicated a rather uncoordinated skiing technique, snow! This was reminding me of some hut games played in the mountains during bad weather. With a toot of the horn and a wave, I headed into the "danger" of the unknown. Again, I'm being told that I should take the 200km alternative route around this area, this 46km road is totally impassible because of snow and wolves, but the driver is more than willing to give me a ride back to tow where I was just 15km earlier. I ponder the 30km ahead, this type of warning I've heard so many times before. Part of me says that I must listen to the locals, they know best, another part builds on years of experience that tells me that what locals don't know, they are afraid of. I'm again faced with the dilemma, which part to trust? After a long while, another vehicle passes and I stop him and ask in Russian, or rather in sign language. He points straight ahead "Priama, priama", "Straight ahead, straight ahead". Finally, I feel a little better about continuing though in my mind I see the bus driver with has arms cross in front of him, "Zakrit, zakrit", "Closed, closed". I take not of camp sites, firewood and water. I decide on a turn around time so I can return to these camps if need be. At6pm, I will decide whether to continue or turn around, my watch shows 3.30pm. Fire keeps the wolves away, or so I'm told. I continue tentatively into the unknown... The road winds narrows and becomes very rough as it winds its way up and up over rolling grassy hills. Dense clouds pass overhead, casting long, dark shadows over the lush pastures below. Thunder rumbles softly in the distance. I dread the thought of riding this road twice, I don't want to have to turn back. Within an hour of riding, the slope decreases and the landscape opens out to fairly flat highland pasture, sheep graze in the distance and very small snow patches straddle the vibrant slopes. I begin to breath more easily as it becomes clear that this is yet another case of a local lack of knowledge. Just as I expected, the road was clear, fairly easy and, surprisingly, I didn't see a single wolf! A group of shepherds invite me into their caravan to eat freshly boiled lamb, well salted. As the vodka comes out, I thank them and bid them farewell and continue the last 15km back to the main road, back to the real risks, cars!! There is a lot to be said for local knowledge, however, more often than not, it is not very accurate.
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What are the components of an attraction marketing system? Let me begin by telling you that an attraction marketing system is an automated and standardized way of generating leads and converting them into paying customers by utilizing attraction marketing.
I believe there are four critical critical components in any system. They include: (1) lead generation strategy, (2) an offer, (3) a toll-free number or website, and (4) a CRM program. Let’s cover these in more detail below.
1. Lead Generation Strategy: All businesses must advertise to get their name out there. And I recommend paid advertising over free advertising, because you have complete control over paid advertising. Some of the most popular paid advertising options include pay-per-click, newspaper ads, direct mail, telemarketing, radio ads, television ads, and magazine ads. The purpose of your advertising is to send people to your website or to call your toll-free number to get a free report (more on that in a moment). In essence, you use advertising to generate leads for your business, not to make a sale.
2. An Offer: Your offer is crucial. You need something that converts well. Ideally, you want to give away something for free, in exchange for the person’s contact information. This could be a DVD, a free report, an eBook, a product sample, or anything with a high perceived value. You want your offer to be irresistible; something people don’t want to miss out on.
3. Toll Free Number or Website: If you want to send your leads to a website, I recommend you use a capture page. You want a simple one page sales letter where people can read your headline and offer, and then give you their contact information (name and email) in exchange for your freebie. You don’t want to give them too many choices, or give them information overload, either. Using a toll free number works very well. All you need to do is create a simple toll free, pre-recorded message, so people can listen to your sizzle call and leave their contact information if they are interested in getting more information.
4. A CRM Program: This acronym stands for Customer Relationship Manager. In essence, it’s a program designed to manage your contacts. For most people, this is an auto-responder. But, there are many web based options available, such as SalesForce.com. I use a simple address book manager and auto-responder to manage my leads. I’ve found it’s best to follow-up with a a variety of different methods, such as email, a phone call and direct mail.
There you have it. These are the four critical components of an attraction marketing system. Once you have your system set up and running, it’s crucial that you FOLLOW UP with all your leads as quickly as possible. After you send them the free information, you can give them a call; send them a piece of direct mail, broadcast fax, email or any other method. I recommend you keep following up forever until they opt out, buy or die. After all, most folks will need to see your message repeatedly, before they buy anything (7 to 20 times seems to be the magic number).
In summary, all smart business owners have their own attraction marketing system for their business. Whether you are building a MLM business, an online store, a website business, or a traditional business, you should follow the advice listed in this article and create your own attraction marketing system. It will help you generate more leads, more customers, and more profits in your business. It’s the only way I promote my businesses!
What are your thoughts? What do you think are the most important components of an Attraction Marketing system? Leave a comment and let us know.
In one of the earlier blog entries I had posted a question about attraction marketing. After reading this entry, however, my questions have been answered. The four steps for an attraction marketing system pulled the information together nicely for me. Your definition of the system was also crucial to my understanding. Thanks so much!
I agree the Attraction Marketing System is a crucial component to generating leads. I like how the 4 components in making this system successful are in order and each step is dependent on the one before it. The advice given in this article is excellent for someone who want to promote a business of any type. Again, great article.
“Follow-up forever until they opt-out, buy, or die.” This is genius, and quite catchy. 🙂 Phone follow-up can be made as easy as an email auto-responder as well, by using services such as PhoneVite, which place broadcast calls and play your pre-recorded message on your specified date and time.
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Why does my battery last only one month?
This is usually caused by the absence of AC power to the smoke alarm. It is likely that the circuit breaker has been tripped and the smoke alarm is operating exclusively off the battery. The alarm will run off the battery for about 25 days before it will require replacement. If your smoke alarm is not indicating that AC power is present, check the circuit breaker and/or have an electrician check the circuit.
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In recent years, many economists on the left of the political spectrum, such as Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman have argued that laissez-faire policies have made banking crises (like the Global Financial Crisis) more likely.
But, even if this were true is it a mark against them? It depends. As Scott Sumner points out not every banking crisis becomes a recession. Indeed, one study by Dwyer et al, found that one in four banking crises didn't lead to a fall in GDP per capita in the following two years. And countries that experience occasional financial crises typically grow a lot faster than countries with more stable financial conditions.
What matters then, is not the likelihood of a banking crisis, but whether an economy is more or less likely to make a quick recovery.
According to a working paper by Christian Bjørnskov, economies with greater levels of economic freedom (in particular greater levels of regulatory freedom), recover faster and more likely to stop an economic crises from becoming a recession. Looking at 212 crises across 175 different countries, he found that countries with high levels of regulatory efficiency (as measured by their score on The Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom) tended to have shallower and shorter recessions.
Why might this be? Bjørnskov gives a few possible reasons.
"As a crisis hits an economy, a substantial share of resources become unemployed, which creates profit opportunities for entrepreneurs to the extent that these resources become cheaper. Yet, whether or not this happens and at which speed existing firms and new entrants can reallocate resources depends on the regulatory framework.
Licensing requirements and similar business regulations constitute entry barriers that prevent entrepreneurs from seizing legal opportunities and thereby limiting the economic and social losses during crises. Unstable monetary policies and inflationary interventions prevent the formation of precise price expectations, thereby increasing uncertainty, which would also hold back new investments (Friedman, 1962).
Finally, labour market regulations can make it both more expensive and risky to hire new employees, providing a third channel through which deficient or inefficient regulations significantly increase the transaction costs of reallocation. Consistent with the evidence, this does not prevent a crisis from occurring, but limits its extent as more firms in a flexible economy can react faster and in a more economical way to the challenges and opportunities created by the crisis."
Recessions that forces business to cutback, lay off workers and even shut down may be painful, but they also allow for the creative destruction and dynamism that benefit us all. But it's only when regulatory barriers are low, inflation is predictable, and labour markets are flexible, that entrepreneurs can take advantage of those opportunities quickly enough to avoid a prolonged slump.
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THE BEACH essaysA place that I enjoy going to is the beach.. It is seen as a place of relaxation because it is normally quiet and peaceful there. To look around you and see the beauty of mother nature at it's finest. The majority of people you ask will say that it is one of their favorite vacat.
wonderful experiences that I have had there with my family or even my own experiences, and it will always be a piece of me for the rest of my life. Even still to this day certain sounds that I hear or certain smells that I smell seems to always take my memory back to the beach, and that is where my heart and soul truly belongs.
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Could the prior development of the retinotopic map account for the radial bias in the orientation map in V1?
The development of the retinotopic map is presumed to precede the development of the orientation map in V1 in primates. Experimental studies demonstrate a radial bias, wherein radial orientations produce higher activity compared to other orientations . However most traditional models assume isometry in the orientation map developed, i.e. the orientation maps throughout V1 are similar in nature, independent of its retinotopy. In this paper, we propose an activity-dependent model which simulates the development of a radially biased orientation map. To that end we simulate the large-scale development of the retinotopic map, followed by the development of the orientation map in a sub-region of this map. The architecture consists of a Laterally Interconnected Synergetically Self Organizing Map (LISSOM) with 2 layers, representing the retina, and the V1 respectively (see Figure 1A). At each time step, each neuron in V1, combines the afferent activation (ζ r1,r2 ) along with its lateral excitations and inhibitions (η kl ) from the previous time step.
The afferent (μ ij,r1r2 ), lateral excitatory (E ij,kl ) and lateral inhibitory (I ij,kl ) weights adapt based on a normalized Hebbian mechanism. In order to develop the retinotopic map, the inputs to the retinal layer consists of centered (assumed to be the point of fixation) rectangular bars of varying dilations and rotations as modelled in . The retinotopic map developed, biases the initial configuration of the orientation map (see Figure 1B) since all the bars given during the initial training are centered. For the subsequent refinement of the orientation map, Gaussians of differing orientation and positions (non-centered) are given as inputs to the retinal layer. After training for 4000 iterations (see Figure 1C,D), it is observed that the developed orientation map prefers those orientations which the retinotopy biases it towards, quantified by their corresponding histograms (See Figure 1E,F). As seen from the histogram the area occupied by the region mapping 1250-1500 is larger in the map developed assuming retinotopic bias, compared to that of the map developed assuming isotropy.
(A) Schematic representation of the LISSOM architecture. (B) V1 orientation map developed after initial training to establish retinotopy along with its color map. (C) Orientation sub-maps, biased by initial retinotopy, at 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 iterations. (D) Orientation sub-maps at 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 iterations assuming isometry. (E) Histogram of the area covered by each of the orientations (color coded) corresponding to (C). (F) Histogram of the area covered by each of the orientations (color coded) corresponding to (D).
A neural activity based model for the development of radially biased orientation maps in V1 is demonstrated.
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Since the mid 1900's, humans have contemplated conducting a human mission to the Red Planet. Before such a mission can be done, we must answer specific questions pertaining to the survival of those that embark on this adventure.
For most recent robotic missions to Mars, the goal has been to seek signs of past water. Those signs have been found and the emerging new goal is to seek rock records of where past environments were "habitable" - where life could survive and multiply. Water is vital for life, but other conditions need to be met too. The water cannot be too acidic or too saline. The key chemical elements for life - carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur in addition to hydrogen and oxygen - all need to be present. And there must be a source of energy. So, might humans explore a place on Mars where the rocks record that environment from long ago? There appears to be a variety of sites that satisfy the criteria for a past habitable environment. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a key component in finding them because of its powerful instruments including HiRISE (a high resolution camera) and CRISM.
A human mission to Mars would probably use an orbiting spacecraft for the round trip from Earth to Mars orbit and back, and a separate landing and ascent vehicle that would take astronauts from Mars orbit to the Martian surface and back to orbit. Each leg of the round-trip voyage to Mars would take about 7 months. The "consumables" the astronauts would need - food, water, and oxygen - would be far, far more than for a 2-week trip to the Moon and back. One idea is to launch supplies separately to Mars ahead of the astronauts so they could restock once at Mars. Alternatively, water and oxygen could be recycled; some food could even be grown onboard the spacecraft. In any case, the spacecraft would be very, very large - probably too large to be launched from Earth, and requiring assembly in Earth orbit much like the international space station.
How long would astronauts stay on the Martian surface?
Mars and Earth have the correct alignment for a launch from Earth to Mars about every 25 months. Once reaching Mars, the astronauts would have to wait for the next favorable alignment for Earth return. They could either stay for about one month and then return to Earth, or stay about 17 months and then return to Earth.
What would living conditions be like on Mars?
Mars' surface has no liquid water. There is very little ozone in the atmosphere to block ultraviolet light. Atmospheric pressure is so low that without the protection of a space suit an astronaut' s blood would boil. On top of all of that - the weather is terrible! The average temperature is around -68 degrees Celsius (-90 degrees Fahrenheit). Because Mars' thin atmosphere retains little heat at night, the difference in temperature over one Mars day is mind-boggling. In the warm part of summer, the daytime high temperature can reach 37 degrees Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit), then drop to a low before dawn near -93 degrees Celsius (-135 degrees Fahrenheit). An astronaut must always be in a pressurized vehicle, dwelling, or spacesuit; stepping out of it would be as sure a death as stepping into the vacuum of deep space.
Why have we not sent humans before?
There are a number of reasons but the main reasons are the money and the technology. Sending a rover to Mars costs over one billion dollars… sending humans would cost hundreds of billions. The list of technical issues that need to be solved before sending humans to Mars is equally staggering. Optimistically, it will probably be no less that 20 years before humans could safely depart for a round trip to Mars.
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Taoism is a religion with an estimated 20,000,000 followers or Taoists. The founder of Taoism is usually considered to be the philosopher Lao-tse (or Lao-tzu) in China circa 580 B.C. (NOTE: This is before Buddha and Confucius.) Lao-tse means "Wise Teacher" or "Worshipful Master". Some entities believe that the doctrine of Taoism was derived from philosophies of India by Chinese annalists and astrologers several hundred years before Lao-tse.
There are only a few Chinese texts that survived a disastrous book-burning in 213 B.C. by the Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang. The foundation scripture for Taoism is the Tao Te Ching (or The Book of the Way), which was written by Lao-tse according to legend.
Tao (pronounced as Dow) has been translated by others as the Absolute, Enlightenment, God, Nature, Path, Truth, Ultimate Reality and the Way. (Take your pick!) Te (or Teh, pronounced Duh) has been translated by others as Best Conduct, Character, Honor, Integrity, Intelligence, Reason, Virtue and True Wisdom. (Again, take your pick!) Ching means Book.
The Tao Te Ching is composed of 81 sutras (which are roughly about the size of small poems and are usually wise sayings) and uses about 5,000 Chinese pictograms. Some entities believe that Lao-tse's work was condensed and then, edited for clarity by Chinese scholars Lieh-tzu and Chuang-tzu around 400 B.C..
Taoism accepts the doctrine of reincarnation, as does the religions of Buddhism and Hinduism. According Taoism, our souls upon perfection return to the Tao, like drops of water into the sea.
The ancient I Ching (or The Book of Changes), which was written before Lao-tzu may be regarded as a Taoist text. This is especially so as I Ching is usually included within the scope of Confucian literature.
The main symbol in Taoism is the Yin Yang, which is depicted as a circle with one half in black (Yin) and the other half in white (Yang), representing difference and conflict. Also, in the darkest Yin, there is a small spot of Yang. In the lightest Yang, there is a small spot of Yin. Yang/Yin can represent day/night, male/female, acid/base, right/wrong, positive/negative, etc..
Another symbol of Taoism is the Chinese Character for Water: Life-giving Source (depicted within a circle). Modern Taoism is a religion based on Taoist philosophy and folk and Buddhist religion and concerned with obtaining good fortune and long life, often by magical (or spiritual) means.
Nowadays, real serious Taoist practitioners also use acupuncture, Tai Chi and spiritual entities. Tao is regarded as the equivalent to God Source or Supreme Consciousness. Also, Taoism is considered as feminine, while Confucianism is considered as masculine.
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When you think of children and tea, does your mind immediately go to a tea party with tiny cups and a frilly teapot? While I'm a fan of adorable tea sets and could endlessly play tea party with my kids, I've enjoyed introducing them to what tea drinking actually is. When we share tea together we not only talk about the type of tea, the flavors we taste, but also where the tea originated, and how it was made.
--Tea allows children to get comfortable with interesting flavors, which will inspire them to keep trying new ones. My daughter now enjoys smelling and tasting new teas, and describing the flavors to me. It's a fun activity and it develops her palate. She's an adventurous eater and tea drinker. There isn't anything she won't try. The encouragement to try new flavors has opened her mind up to new things.
--Tea nurtures mindfulness: when we drink we observe the tea, consider how it tastes, and think about where it came from. This in turn helps children become more aware as they sip. I hope this type of observation and mindfulness will slowly start to permeate other parts of their day.
--Tea promotes patience: Waiting for the water to boil and watching the tea as it steeps helps little ones realize everything takes time, and cannot be rushed. The water also must cool a bit before they can drink it.
--Tea expands the little tea drinker's knowledge of different areas and cultures of the world, where tea is grown, what cultures drink tea. We can look at a map together, see different parts of the world and understand how far away they are. How different cultures drink tea in different ways.
--Tea is an alternative to sugary drinks- rooibos and fruit/herb blends are good choices for kids. They are interesting, have no sugar, and can stimulate conversation. As they get older they can move onto pure teas, and hopefully have less interest in soda and other sugary beverages.
--Tea promotes and understanding of crop to cup- Children can learn how tea is picked, processed, and sent to a store. All of the people that may be involved in the process and how much effort went into one little cup.
--Tea carves out one-on-one time for the caregiver and child. A few moments to enjoy time being spent together.
Taking tea with my children is a way to bring tea happiness, and share something I love with my family.
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Jon Pertwee strikes a humorous pose in a pre-Doctor Who publicity shot.
John Devon Roland Pertwee (7th July 1919 Chelsea, London, England, UK - 20th May 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974. He is also well-known as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge. He also hosted the murder mystery quiz programme Whodunnit! between 1974 and 1978.
Pertwee was also a comic actor, with roles such as the conniving Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio and in another radio comedy series Waterlogged Spa. He also played the part of Lycus in the 1963 London stage production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and appeared in the smaller role of Crassus in the 1966 film version, the screenplay for which was co-written by his brother, Michael Pertwee. He appeared in four Carry On films: Carry on Cleo (1964), Carry On Screaming! (1966) (which, coincidentally, includes a joke about Doctor Who), Carry On Cowboy (1965) and Carry On Columbus (1992). He also guest starred in the British comedy television series The Goodies in the episode "Wacky Wales".
In 1972 he released a vocal version of the programme's celebrated theme tune entitled "Who is the Doctor", and in 1980 he released a novel track based on Worzel Gummidge entitled "Worzel's Song". He returned to the role of the Doctor in the 1983 20th-Anniversary television movie The Five Doctors and in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time. He also performed in two radio spin-offs: The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space. During the 1990s he made a guest appearance in the "Lords and Ladies" episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, playing a Time Lord.
Pertwee was an officer in the Royal Navy, spending some time working in naval intelligence during the Second World War. He was a crew member of HMS Hood and was transferred off the ship shortly before it was sunk, losing all but three men. Pertwee enrolled in RADA, but was expelled for, as he put it, "lack of seriousness." He was married twice, first to Jean Marsh (1955–1960), whom he divorced, and then, on 13 August, 1960, to Ingeborg Rhoesha, by whom he had two children, Sean and Dariel. He was a cousin of actor Bill Pertwee.
By Pertwee's own account, the Third Doctor's costume was thought up by him as a joke. Retrieving an old velvet smoking jacket, ruffled shirt, and opera cape from storage, he decided it was the most ridiculous outfit he'd ever seen, and wore it to an appointment at the producer's office. The production team loved the idea and it became part of the Third Doctor's character. Pertwee also insisted that despite his reputation as a comedic actor, he wanted to play the Doctor more seriously and heroicly, as a man of action.
Pertwee discussed his decision to leave Doctor Who in 1974 on several occasions, such as the PBS documentary Doctor Who's Who's Who and the Myth Makers video series. He cited two catalysts in his decision: the departure of Barry Letts as series producer, and the 1973 death of close friend Roger Delgado, who had played The Master.
Outside acting, Jon Pertwee was an avid sportsman, and was especially fond of water-skiing. A favorite ring of his which became his trademark was a coin he retrieved from a shipwreck while scuba diving which he later had mounted.
Pertwee would continue to act in films and television as well as make appearances world-wide in support of Doctor Who. Eventually, he became more aggressive in boosting projects that he favoured. Early success in persuading Doctor Who actors such as Patrick Troughton to appear as guests at American science fiction conventions inspired Pertwee to lobby for a radio version of the series after it was put on hiatus. Additionally, he vigorously canvassed British producers on behalf of Worzel Gummidge.
Ultimately, Pertwee was successful in seeing the Third Doctor return to the airwaves with two audio productions for BBC Radio, The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space. Worzel Gummidge was eventually picked up for production on Australian television. Near the end of his life, Pertwee also appeared in several semi-professional independent productions by BBV Productions; although he didn't play The Doctor, he did play a doctor in The Zero Imperative, the premiere release of the P.R.O.B.E. series which starred Pertwee's former Doctor Who co-star Caroline John, who reprised her role of Liz Shaw. He also made a cameo appearance in the BBV-produced film The Airzone Solution which, while unrelated to Doctor Who, featured appearances by, at the time of production, all surviving former Doctor actors except for Tom Baker.
Pertwee continued on the convention circuit and with his voice and television acting until his death, aged 76, from a heart attack whilst on holiday in the American state of Connecticut on 20 May 1996 (some reports, however, place the location of his death in New York). He passed away only days after the American broadcast of the Doctor Who television movie which used in its opening credits a logo based on the one from his era of the television series. The BBC broadcast of the television movie featured a dedication to Pertwee at its conclusion.
Just before his death, Pertwee played a Doctor-like character for a British television commercial.
His last association with the series was posthumous. With the approval of his widow, Ingeborg, his voice was utilised as part of the plot of the Big Finish Productions 40th-Anniversary Doctor Who audio drama, Zagreus. Pertwee's voice was culled from a fan-produced Doctor Who film, Devious, portions of which were recorded prior to his death; he filmed his scenes for the production in April 1995. Although the production was not authorised or commissioned by the BBC, a 12-minute excerpt from the still-unfinished Devious was nonetheless included as a bonus feature on the BBC Video 2009 DVD release of The War Games.
He was a lifelong fan of cartoons and self-proclaimed expert in animation.
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What do you do when you want a private garden wedding in the middle of a busy city? You go seeking out the venues off the beaten path, those with intimate, hidden spaces for ceremonies away from the prying eyes of tourists and passersby.
The Powel House is a spectacular wedding venue in the heart of Philadelphia - quiet, cozy, intimate, and beautifully luxuriousOne of my favorite choices for a hidden-garden wedding is Philly's Morris House, set right on 8th Street near Washington Square Park. The outdoor courtyard is one of the best parts of a Morris House Hotel wedding. It’s intimate and cozy, while still being in a bustling part of Philadelphia. You truly do feel closed off from the rest of the world here!
At the Morris House, you're also close to one of my favorite spots for wedding pictures in the whole city : Washington Square ParkIt was at the Morris House Hotel that this bride and groom chose to have their wedding ceremony. Closed off from the world, in a bubble with their family and friends, warmly intimate and oh-so private.
There are so many things I love about this moment. I love the bride’s fantastic birdcage veil. I love how the groom is watching the bride and her father with such love and sweetness. I love the foliage in the background, and what beautiful texture it gives to the image.
Mostly, I love the amazing moment occurring between the bride and her father. They have such a wonderful relationship, and are so sweet to each other. This tender moment at the start of the wedding ceremony really illustrates that relationship.
If you’re looking for a great outdoor location for your Philadelphia-area ceremony, the Morris House Hotel is a great choice. The Morris House Hotel is so charming, so lovely, and so perfect for a small wedding ceremony - or even your entire day! I highly suggest this gem of a hotel to anyone having a smaller wedding in the city of Philadelphia.
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However, when you open their paper, you see that it looks like one of these jokes propagating through the blogosphere and the authors are kind of comedians. First of all, most of the paper is dedicated to not-too-substantiated arguments with Michael Crichton. Michael Crichton stated in "State of Fear" as well as the U.S. Congress that Hansen's predictions from a 1988 testimony were wrong by 300 percent: a calculation based on a particular choice of time period and scenarios. Hansen then proposed three scenarios - "A,B,C" - how the temperatures would rise. "A" is a catastrophe in which no action is taken and the emissions continue to rise. "B" involves a peaceful limit in which emissions stabilize around 2000 and the warming is smaller. "C" is the scenario assuming drastic cuts of CO2 emissions.
The result as we know it in 2006? The reality essentially followed the temperatures of the scenario "C" even though the CO2 emissions continued to rise just like in the scenario "A". More details are summarized by Willis E who discusses the content of the figure 2 of the new Hansen paper. Isn't it enough to admit that Hansen was just wrong? If it is not enough, what kind of wrong prediction does he have to make in order for us to know that he has made an error? I just can't understand it.
The new paper contains even crazier assertions - e.g. the present temperature is probably the maximum temperature in the last 12,000 or one million years. This is probably based on the graph 5 on the bottom of page 5 (or 14291) and this graph's data is taken from a completely different paper written by very different authors: Hansen's only role is to hype and politicize their numbers. You see in that graph that since 1870, the oceans' surface temperature was more or less constant and the previous temperature probably can't be trusted, especially not the relative vertical shift of the graph in comparison with the current temperatures.
Even more amusingly, the paper is filled with a lot of completely off-topic comments that indicate that Hansen et al. are unable to focus on rational thinking. When I was reading one of the last sentences, I started to laugh loudly. Hansen et al. criticize the "engineering fixes" of the global climate recently discussed by Paul J. Crutzen, the 1995 Nobel prize winner for chemistry, and Ralph Cicerone, the current president of the National Academy of Sciences. Hansen says that these fixes are "dangerous" because they could diminish the efforts to reduce the CO2 emissions.
It is very clear that the paper was only written in order to misinterpret another paper, draw media attention (which is guaranteed with Hansen), and make a purely political statement about the programs that are beginning to supersede the naive carbon dioxide cuts - political statements that have nothing do with science - in a scientific journal.
So, do you think that the plots you show here are all the three just random fluctuations?
they are certainly fluctuations but the answer to your question depends on what you mean by the adjective "random".
If your "random" means completely uncontrolled independent numbers from a random generator that have never any pattern or a rational justification, then the answer is No, they are not random.
If your "random" means that most of these graphs can't be understood by one universal overarching principle encoded in two words with a simple attribution, then my answer is Yes, they are random and we not only think so, we can see it.
There are aspects of the graphs that have a reason. For example, the 1998 peak is El-Nino and one can study the microscopic details about it and perhaps even the effects that caused it.
The color of the noise can probably also be studied theoretically although people don't dedicate too much effort to this important question especially because the climate scientists' average math skills are just too low for such a task.
Some people surely know a more or less correct theory why the Southern Hemisphere is more constant recently, and this theory will be settled and accepted in the future. And maybe not: this thing can also be random on a macroscopic scale although it's definitely not random when you take all the local details and initial conditions into account.
There are many aspects of these graphs that have a rational explanation, but the noise currently dominates and who thinks that such graphs are dominated by two words, is extremely naive.
You ridicule Hansen's criticism of the "engineering fixes" by Paul J. Crutzen. In your last paragraph you motivate why the proposed technology is a much better option than widely applying knowledge.
So, an artifical volcano could cause cooling for a bit, but what has humanity learnt from it? It sounds a bit like satisfying hunger vs nutrition.
I thought that the goal was to prevent global warming instead of learning something out of it, although - as I point out quite often - I have no doubts that people like you are supporting this madness for purely religious reasons and you confirmed it 100% here. Global warming is a new and very perverse sort of sectarian religion.
The best way to learn would indeed be to allow the environmental nutcases which unfortunately includes Dr. Hansen to do whatever they want with the world's economy and the freedoms of all people and companies in the world.
Such a decision would lead to quite a lesson. The only thing I am not sure about is whether the world would ever be able to recover from such brutal teaching methods.
Nutrition science, if you care, is a science about the correlations between the amount and type of food one one side and existence of hunger, diseases, and health on the other side. If you think that it is something else, then you don't know what nutrition is.
The primary goal of nutrition as a process is indeed to satisfy hunger.
It's amazing you have not been inundated with scathing comments from the enforcers of global warming zealotry.
Presenting any evidence that contradicts the global warming catechism brands you a heretic and a "denier" in their eyes, and some would bring you up for charges in a "Nuremberg" style war crimes trial.
Thanks for sharing the chart. I've been reading more on this particular aspect of the issue but had yet to see it.
this is not true, the proof is there in front of us,the last ice age was northern, but its now melting or has been for thousands of years,the south pole will get colder, what could trigger such an event? one best guess points to the earths axis, the axis does change, we don't just rotate, the imaginary line (equator) will move which ever way (south or north) north is its logical direction as temperatures are rising there, monitoring the earths axis would unveil some interesting answers, it will explain why the grand canyon looks like niagra falls 300 years from now, it will also explain that the northern u.s. was the north pole 25,000 years ago, the axis will change slowly, so slow that we never know unless we keep documentation of it and make it to the avail for future reference!
i hope i made some sense, this is said simply, i really do not like to interfere with the science communities, this time only will i offer my opinion, thanks.
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The experience I'd like to share with you happened in the summer of 2002. I was 20, still living at home in a rental in east Mesa, Arizona with my 18 year-old brother and my mother. As you may know, Arizona has a typically 6 month long scorching, dry summer climate, and being a transplant from beautiful Northern Cali it was hard for us to adapt.
Anyhow, it was a hot summer night in late May or early June. My brother had just graduated high school and I was working full time during the day. We spent our evening talking and laughing and playing music, it really was a memorably enjoyable night. At about 10:30 I noticed that the front porch light had again burned out, as it had been doing for about 18 months prior to that. In fact, both of the lights over the driveway and 3 lights in our backyard were continually ceasing to function and it seamed I was always buying bulbs and expensive strobe light bulbs. I don't know if this is some how connected to what happened next.
First I must add that our front door was set back into the house with the garage protruding. Our front yard was much deeper than the backyard and was over shadowed by 3 velvet mesquite and a china berry tree, and various species of cholla cacti. So the street light did little to penetrate the den of darkness.
I turned the lamp light to my bedroom which was really an office nook right next to the front door, which had a large latticed picture window with run-of-the-mill blinds. I opened the blinds and the light flooded the wall of the garage. What I saw made my skin crawl. There on the stucco wall was some "thing". It was only about 10 to 12 feet from where I was standing. The only way to describe it was that it looked like a giant headless moth. I called my brother over excitedly. I clearly remember our conversation.
"What do you suppose that is?"
"I have no idea! It must be a bat of some sort."
"But we only have micro bats here in Arizona. And I have always heard that bats hang upside down."
"I guess it could be a giant moth. We do live in the desert."
"I thought moths were attracted to light. The lights are all burnt out again".
We talked for a moment and stood next to the glass panes adjacent the front door, the bedroom light illuminating all the while, and the "thing" did not stir or move. We decided it was about 18 inches to 2 feet long from blunt top to winged bottom. It was very clear yet very dark, almost black. It hung on the wall like a moth but was about the size of a medium-sized fruit bat, which I believe only exist in Asia? It was about five or six feet off the ground. My mother came and had a look and shuddered and refused to stand near the door. We were both young and curious and my brother said "Let's go have a look at it then." We swung the door and security screen open and he took a step over the door jam. I was suddenly struck with an unreal, unearthly fear and grabbed his shoulder. He looked back at me and later said I had the most wholly terrified look on my face that he had ever seen. I am afraid and tingly even writing this. Without a word he stepped back inside and we locked both doors and closed the blinds and camped out in the living room, only going to sleep after several thoughtful conversations.
The very next morning at sun up I went out to the wall with a tape measure and my brother and mom stood at the door and directed me as to where and how high and how long this thing had been planted. There was no trace of anything, the dust on the stucco looked the same all around, no residue or anything. When they were both satisfied with the positioning I read the tape measure: 28 inches. My mother walked back into the house and has absolutely refused to speak of it since.
My brother and I are both keenly interested in animal/insect/plant life via books, and media, and I have taken an MCC course in Southwest biology, and neither of us have ever seen or heard of anything matching its description. My husband was raised here and said the only thing he could think of that size was an owl, but this was no owl. What was it? Perhaps it is a real animal we could not identify. Has someone had a similar experience or know what it could be? We are not exaggerating people, we are level-headed and analytical. Thank you for your time.
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How can I find out if my child qualifies for gifted services?
A conversation with your child’s teacher can be a good place to start. Ultimately, you should submit your written request for testing to the guidance counselor with a copy to the building principal. You should receive a written response from the district within 10 calendar days (excluding summer vacation).
It is important to note that, while a preliminary “gifted screening” may be recommended, State Regulation Chapter 16 provides that reasonable parent requests should result in a full Gifted Multidisciplinary Evaluation, conducted by a team which includes the parent and a certified school psychologist.
Additionally, it is also important to note that Chapter 16 requires that no single measure be used as the sole factor in evaluation for giftedness. Multiple critera should be collected and considered when making this determination.
Additional information can be found in the PA Gifted Guidelines, a supplement to Chapter 16.
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I always thought it was the first interpretation. I know that people typically don't use "I'm a viking" to mean that they excel at something, but I thought that was the joke because Ralph talks weird.
I don't know that there's a right or wrong answer here, but option B seems to make the most sense. But how much credit can we give Ralph anyways? Maybe that's the question we should be asking ourselves first.
I mean Ralph also says things like "My cat's breath smells like cat food." and "Dear Miss Hoover. You have Lyme disease. We miss you. Kevin's biting me, come back soon. Here is a drawing of a spyrokeet. Love Ralph." I don't usually look for anything past surface meaning and general inanity.
He's still talking weirdly if you take the second option, though.
What a thread! 2000 bananas.
Much like Ralph himself, I find this thread... fascinating.
If I was still in college and had hours between classes I guarantee I'd turn this into another Which Is Your Favorite Letter In Coors? discussion.
edit: chalk one up for option B.
i can see why this would be a raging debate.
sleep while the other children are learning.
Ralph: Oh boy...sleep! That's where I'm a viking!"
I tried to look at it in context. Ralph was supposed to be dissecting the worm, but he ate his subject, thus rendering him unable to complete the assignment. Ralph has failed by default, even he must recognize this. Note the change in his mood as she breaks the sobering news (when viewing the episode).
Miss Hoover then tells him to sleep while the other children are learning. She excludes Ralph in this statement because she believes him incapable of doing so.
Suddenly Ralph excitedly exclaims "Oh boy sleep, that's where I'm a Viking!" because this is something he is proficient at. A direct contrast to his earlier failures, which justifies his change in mood. True that this is not a commonly used adage, but that doesn't refute its meaning. The Simpsons TV show more than likely coined it. This is not uncommon practice for them, as they are already responsible for popularizing "Meh" and "D'oh" in the English language among others.
Option A seems the most logical choice.
Given the history of Ralph's sleeping and sleeping related activities, I posit that it cannot mean that he is good at sleep unless he is not telling the truth.
He has claimed "I dress myself." but that evidence has proven he is not good at that. He has a history of being frightened of things like pointy kitties and such, and I imagine his simple mind would also be often frightened of shadows and ambiguous light play within his bedroom. Being a handful in nearly every other aspect of life, I cannot imagine bedtime activities are any easier for Clancy and Sarah.
Ralph has quite an imagination and often has a misunderstanding of life. He took Lisa's kindness for much more than it actually was and was heartbroken as a result. He is known to have an imaginary friend "Wiggle Puppy" and he does not understand the basics of human anatomy ("She's touching my special area"). He is not afraid to share matters of his personal life, as evidenced by telling about the doctor and his nosebleeds and keeping his finger outta there.
So I can only conclude that he is either telling a lie about being good at sleep or he, in his simple way, is sharing part of his personal life.
+1 JKT. Good explanation on an opposing view. I think that could fit into my fibbing explanation.
I suppose it might be a little too self-aware for Ralph, but I just imagined him excited that he's REALLY good at sleeping, and jumping at the opportunity to do so right away.
Ralph is afraid of the dark, so he can't go to sleep unless he puts on a viking helmet and pretends to be a viking who can defeat the monsters in the dark.
I'm not going to deny that Ralph has a difficult time paying attention, and he certainly does have an overactive imagination. Also Raub, he does often stretch the truth or tell outright lies.
as for the actual "viking" verbage, I could also easily see it as something Clancy or Sarah would use to motivate the boy to be well behaved (ie: How does my little viking get ready for bed?, etc.) but that's purely speculation.
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If the Earth's axis of rotation was inclined at 90 degrees what would happen?
The most likely answer is c) frozen poles throughout the year.
The Earth's axis is currently tilted at an angle of about 23.5 degrees. This lead to 5 important circles of latitude. These are the Arctic and Antarctic circles, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Equator.
This leads to the Earth having different zones.
The tropics which lie between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn have equal length days and nights and no seasons as such. Weather systems do however bring wet and dry seasons.
The temperate zones between the Tropics and the Arctic Circles have distinct seasons. They have longer, warmer Summer days and shorter, colder Winter nights.
The Arctic regions have 24 hour Summer days and 24 hour Winter nights. They are covered in ice caps because the warmer Summers are not long enough to melt the ice which is added to by the colder Winters.
If the Earth's axial tilt were 90 degrees, then the Equator, Tropics and Arctic circles would all be in the same place. The tropical and temperate zones would be a thin band around the equator. Each hemisphere would experience 24 hour days in Summer and 24 hour Winter nights.
There would almost certainly be ice caps over both poles throughout the year. The Antarctic ice cap would definitely be much larger than it is at the current tilt. The North pole could possibly melt in Summer.
This is only possible if the whole planet was frozen throughout the year.
This is the most likely event, though the North pole could melt during Summer.
This is not possible unless something flipped the Earth upside down like Venus.
This is totally impossible as it violates the law of conservation of angular momentum.
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He has studied retail clinics, some of which have recently expanded to offer services beyond simple tests and vaccinations, such as helping monitor patients with diabetes or high blood pressure.. Most restaurants in the area are classified as Level III, while sites with less food volume, like gas stations or an ice cream stand, would be ranked lower.
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Write about your three favorite things to wear.
1) Sleeveless top. Even though I am a woman of substance, I have made peace with my arms. So, sleeveless tops for the win!
2) Bermuda shorts. I like the length but they're shorter than pants! No pants in the summer!
3) Accessories. I can almost always be found wearing a necklace or scarf or some kind of accessory. I think it adds an interest to the most humble of outfits in my uniform.
Bonus: 4) Sandals. I can't quite call them flip flops because they're leather; I hate calling them thongs (my students go nuts when I use that word). But I wear sandals as long as I can--beginning in April and going until October. In Maine.
Sounds similar to my summer "uniform" When it's really hot, I like skirts.
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Foreword This thing from a few months ago to start. There is one called Tao Sauvage foreigners happy to come to China to travel. Want to have a little China Souvenirs go back, preferably for a long time, select a section called The must Tiger the wireless router. ! Look at this ultra low price and perfect workmanship, this foreigner feel yourself to earn big, is simply a heaven-sent gift! 2 4 9 a! Buy can't lose! 2 4 9 a! Buy don't be fooled it! Will Tiger English translation called“the Tiger Will Power”, I RUB! Diao fried days the name! Tiger force router! Feel the body is hollowed out with! But because it is a domestic Router, the Google translation is not accurate, he also does not understand Chinese. ! What do I do? The router open look at look at right now! Orange where you can insert a SD card, and the Red where are the UART pins. Story of vulnerability, that is, Start from here, then the following“he”will be the first person to the narrative. ! Extracting router firmware Nonsense not say, directly holding the BusPirate is connected on these pins to say! ! Turn on the device after viewing the own terminal, returns the following information. ! It says press any key to continue. Okay, this I just press the button, and then saw the Menu Settings.
[1(t)] Upgrade firmware with tftp //tftp for firmware upgrade [2(h)] Upgrade firmware with httpd //httpd firmware upgrade [3(a)] Config device aerver IP Address //set the device server's IP address [4(i)] Print device infomation //print the device information [5(d)] Device test //device testing [6(l)] License manager //license management [0(r)] Redevice //Controller [ (c)] Enter to commad line (2) //Press c to view the other commands First press C to find it with U-boot, then its bootargs parameter to be set, so that you are no longer limited to the init program. Please input cmd key: CMD> printenv bootargs bootargs=board=Urouter console=ttyS0,1 1 5 2 0 0 root=3 1:0 3 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/sbin/init(3) mtdparts=ath-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-boot-env),1408k(kernel),8448k(rootfs),1408k(kernel2),1664k(rescure),2944kr),64k(cfg),64k(oem),64k(ART) CMD> setenv bootargs board=Urouter console=ttyS0,1 1 5 2 0 0 rw rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/bin/sh(4) mtdparts=ath-nor0:256k(u-boot),64k(u-boot-env),1408k(kernel),8448k(rootfs),1408k(kernel2),1664k(rescure),2944kr),64k(cfg),64k(oem),64k(ART) CMD> boot Then use the printenv command to view the U-boot the basic settings, and then found that as long as the boot sequence is completed, it will run“/sbin/init”, and this binary file is mainly responsible for the initialization of the router to the Linux system. We use the setenv command to‘/sbin/init’ and ‘/bin/sh’to replace it, or else there is no way to access system files. Then use the boot command to continue just boot. The above steps completed, we successfully entered the shell command interface, as shown below. BusyBox v1. 1 9. 4 (2015-09-05 1 2:0 1:4 5 CST) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
version upgrade sbin proc mnt init dev var tmp root overlay linuxrc home bin usr sys rom opt lib etc ! Worked extremely hard, and now I have to be by the shell command to access the router, and extract the firmware. Then I can analysis The must Tiger the router's common gateway interface and WEB interface. Of course, there are many ways you can extract the router firmware, I used is to modify U-Boot parameters on the network, put all the files copied to My Computer. Interested friends can look at this article: the LinuxBootArgs of A reverse analysis Now I need these files for finishing. First, I need to know which files belong to the web Management Interface, and below this is the router's initial settings.
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← Shocking TRUTH About Manipulation of America!
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late Thursday night, President Trump effectively ended Obamacare with the stroke of a pen, precisely following the recommendation Inforwars.com first exclusively published on April 28, 2017.
In a press release issued from the White House on Thursday, President Trump announced that based on guidance from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there is no appropriation for cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies under Obamacare.
“In light of this analysis, the Government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing reduction payments,” the White House press release stated.
The press release went on to explain that the House of Representatives sued the previous administration in Federal court for making these payments without such an appropriation, and the court agreed that the payments were not lawful.
“The bailout of insurance companies through these unlawful payments is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system,” the press release concluded.
Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.
“It has been clear for many years that Obamacare is bad policy. It is also bad law. The Obama Administration unfortunately went ahead and made CSR payments to insurance companies after requesting – but never ultimately receiving – an appropriation from Congress as required by law.
“In 2014, the House of Representatives was forced to sue the previous Administration to stop this unconstitutional executive action. In 2016, a federal court ruled that the Administration had circumvented the appropriations process, and was unlawfully using unappropriated money to fund reimbursements due to insurers.
The article Infowars.com published on April 28, 2017, had advised that President Trump could put an end to Obamacare on his own, without requiring Congress to take any action at all.
The article next asked how that was possible?
What follows is the answer to that question that Infowars.com published in April.
All President Trump must do to “repeal” Obamacare is sign an Executive Order instructing the Solicitor General to withdraw the Obama administration’s appeal in the federal district court case U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, (130 F. Supp. 3d 53, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2016).
The result will be to immediately defund the low-income insurance company subsidies being paid by the federal government under Section 1402 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), causing Obamacare to collapse, almost immediately.
The problem is that Congress refused to pass an appropriation to fund Section 1402, leaving the Obama administration scrambling to find funds somewhere else in the federal budget that could be diverted to pay the low-income insurance subsidies.
Infowars.com has proved through an analysis of the Treasury Department balance sheets that the Obama administration found a solution in August 2012, when the Treasury Department decided that earnings confiscated from the Government-Sponsored Entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the “Net Worth Sweep” (NWS), could be diverted to pay the ACA low-income insurance subsidies.
The record contained in the Treasury Department balance sheets shows through 2013 a direct diversion of the NWS into line items used to fund Obamacare.
After 2013, the Obama administration continued the NWS (ultimately confiscating some $260 billion from Fannie and Freddie), but the one-for-one diversion of the Fannie and Freddie funds going into line items used to fund Obamacare is less clear, suggesting Treasury grew more clever after 2013 in hiding the diversion within the Treasury general account used as a slush fund.
The House of Representatives filed a federal district court case against then Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell to stop the Obamacare from diverting federal funds to pay the ACA low-income subsidies.
On May 12, 2016, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, in the case U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, ruled against Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell.
“Paying out Section 1402 reimbursements without an appropriation thus violates the Constitution,” Judge Collyer concluded.
“Congress authorized reduced cost sharing but did not appropriate monies for it, in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget or since,” she stressed.
The Obama administration appealed the District Court decision in U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding on its own authority that federal funds could continue to be diverted from other budgetary purposes to continue paying the insurance subsidies as long as the case was under appeal.
The point is that if the Trump administration simply decided to drop the Circuit Court appeal in Burwell, the District Court decision would become established law.
The result would be the Trump administration would be forbidden from diverting federal funds to pay the ACA insurance subsidies, with the result Obama care would implode.
“The Obama administration appealed the decision, but if the Trump administration were to drop that appeal, the subsidies would disappear,” commented Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News, in an article published on April 9, 2017.
If insurance companies were forced to take a loss by absorbing the cost above what low-income insured could afford to pay for the insurance coverage required under Obamacare, no insurance company could afford to provide health insurance to low-income insureds under the ACA.
Once President Trump withdraws the Obama administration appeal in U.S. House of Representatives v. Burwell, Obamacare becomes history.
To revive Obamacare, Congress would have to pass a resolution funding ACA Section 1402, something even RINOs like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell might find politically suicidal to do.
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9/03/2011 · Full Guide is here: http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives... This is part 3 of 3: How To Upgrade Your PS3 Hard Drive With Backup & Restore, Step By Step Instructions.... 2/03/2012 · Re: PS3 hard disk upgrade using dd and gparted TL;DR : The "Add New Disk" option in Acronis will corrupt the PS3 file system. Don't use Acronis or BackTrack to perform an image backup of a PS3 hard drive.
2/03/2012 · Re: PS3 hard disk upgrade using dd and gparted TL;DR : The "Add New Disk" option in Acronis will corrupt the PS3 file system. Don't use Acronis or BackTrack to perform an image backup of a PS3 hard drive.
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Nicholas Simon O'Hern (born 18 October 1971) is an Australian professional golfer.
O'Hern has played on both of the world's premier professional golf tours, the European Tour, and the United States-based PGA Tour. His biggest successes though, have come at home on the PGA Tour of Australasia, where he won the Order of Merit as the leading money winner in 2006.
O'Hern was born in Perth, Western Australia. His father was a three-handicap golfer who played baseball for Australia, and he followed him by playing baseball for Western Australia. He was also a talented tennis player, but he chose to concentrate on golf. In 2009, he was named the Number 1 Ticket Holder for the Fremantle Football Club.
O'Hern took up golf at the age of nine and plays left-handed. He turned professional in 1994. He was successful at the European Tour qualifying school at his first attempt in 1998 and played regularly on the European Tour from 1999 through 2007. He has not won on the European Tour, but had two second-place finishes in 2003, two more in 2004 and one each in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
In 2005, O'Hern began to play quite regularly in the United States. He was not a member of the PGA Tour, but having reached the top twenty of the Official World Golf Rankings, he received a substantial number of invitations and sponsors exemptions for PGA Tour events. In 2006 he became a member of the PGA Tour on the basis of his membership of the International Team at the 2005 Presidents Cup, and has since played mostly on that tour.
Also in 2006, O'Hern won the Australian PGA Championship, after he holed out from the greenside bunker for birdie on the fourth hole of a two-man play-off with Peter Lonard. The win brought to an end a seven-year drought for O'Hern, and propelled him to the top of the PGA Tour of Australasia's Order of Merit for 2006. He has won five tournaments in Australia, and continues to play on the PGA Tour of Australasia during the northern hemisphere winter.
O'Hern has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings, and he is the only player who has beaten Tiger Woods in matchplay more than once. He is coached by Neil Simpson, Peter Thomson and Lewis Freiberg of the Mount Lawley Golf Club in Perth, Western Australia.
Knee surgery ended O'Hern's 2010 season after 11 events. He started the 2011 season on a medical exemption. O'Hern satisfied his medical exemption in May 2011 with four events remaining to retain his PGA Tour status. On 6 June, O'Hern went through sectional qualifying and secured a spot in the 2011 U.S. Open.
O'Hern has never won on the PGA Tour; his best finish is a tie for second at the 2006 Booz Allen Classic.
O'Hern's ball marking has become famous because of its originality. In an ode to his native Australia, O'Hern marks his Titleist Pro V1 with a drawn-on kangaroo. The marking has been featured in Titleist advertisements.
^ "O'Hern ends long wait for victory". BBC Sport. 10 December 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
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What photo takes you right back to Cuba?
Excluding our return flights from the UK, we spent £3,165 during our 45 days in Cuba – a daily average of £70.35 for two people (remarkably close to our two year trip budget!). The Cuban convertible peso (CUC) is pegged to the US dollar and the average exchange rate that we got in April/May 2016 was CUC$1 = £0.73.
We took the majority of our money in cash – either GBP or Euros are exchanged everywhere, US dollars have a 10% exchange surcharge so I wouldn’t recommend carrying those. Some money exchanges rejected notes which had writing on or were torn, but in the end we had them all accepted – the offices in more touristy cities (Havana, Trinidad) seemed to be less fussy. At the end of the trip we had to withdraw some cash on our credit card and discovered that Cuban ATMs don’t accept Mastercard (I think Visa is fine) and so we had to get an over the counter cash advance which was charged to our card in US dollars and hence was subject to the 10% surcharge.
We stayed in casa particulars (guesthouses) for every night of our stay, except one night spent in the shelter on Pico Turquino. The rate was a pretty consistent CUC$25 per night (room only) across the country except in Havana and Varadero where we paid CUC$30).
It’s not really possible to exist solely on street food in Cuba and so, in addition to taking breakfast in our casa particular (CUC$5 each) we often had dinner there as well which cost CUC$8-10 each. Restaurant meals were comparably priced though Havana was often much more expensive and we found that high prices rarely translated into high quality.
We found both the Viazul and Cubanacan intercity bus services to be a comfortable and reasonably priced way to get around the country.
Within cities we tended to walk everywhere so the relatively high spend for local transportation is taxis to and from bus stations which we found to be quite expensive (possibly because the scarcity of cars pushes up the price but no doubt we were charged tourist prices as well). This category also contains a few day trips that we took by taxi as there was no public transport option available.
Visas – we paid CUC$25 each to extend our 30 day tourist card (included in the cost of our flight) for another month.
Summarise Cuba in three words.
Rum – made from the sugar cane which generated early wealth for Cuba, the national drink is everywhere and the base of many a cocktail!
.. your taxi is a 30 year old Russian model that needs a jump start!
What one item should you definitely pack when going to Cuba?
This entry was posted in Travel and tagged Budget, Cuba, Round Up on July 6, 2016 by Julie.
We recommend visiting Cuba, but we feel it’s necessary to add a little caution to our enthusiasm for it as so many times our experiences were tainted by opportunistic ne’er-do-wells that, were it not for a sense of compassion, would have closed our hearts to other serendipitous encounters.
We were approached a handful of times by very friendly older men with good English purporting to be musicians – and they’ll tell you their instrument too – so common is this introduction that we nearly collected the full band in Havana!
The first one we met walked us into the nearest bar with the suggestion that as he was playing tonight he’d get us in free – I’ll interject here and say that we were being open, friendly and curious, not especially after free entry, we’d been to many a Casa de la Trova already – as we sat down he ordered a round of drinks and at that point we saw the scam and declined the drink. The scam being that we’d be picking up the tab, likely at inflated prices. After we’d said ‘no gracias‘ to the drinks, the friendliness ended and he got up to leave.
We’d read about this one before we arrived and were only offered it 3 or 4 times during the 6 weeks we were there, but it’s worth including. The scam essentially is the sale of a 3 National Peso note for 1 Convertible Peso, or 8 times its face value. They do make nice souvenirs, but banks and money exchanges (CADECAs) will change CUCs for National Pesos and you can ask for 3 Peso notes as part of the denominations. Speaking of CADECAs..
Specifically the one just north of Plaza de San Francisco de Asís in Havana’s Old Town. We changed £600 GBP for CUC, and the majority of the notes we received were in 20 CUCs. The lady on the desk entered the amount and pointed out on the computer screen that we’d get 28 20CUC notes, counted out the 28, and the rest of the smaller notes, then printed the receipt and handed over the money. Except the receipt said 30 20CUC notes. She’d re-entered the proper amount into the computer after counting out the money.
Take your time – Cubans are used to waiting! Use your phone or their calculator to check the exchange rate (which is printed in the window outside and at the counter) so you know roughly how much you’ll get and always check the count of notes against the receipt at the desk before you step away – it has the breakdown of each denomination on it.
A fellow tourist told us a similar story.. they’d been asked if they wanted some of the change in coins and agreed, then the lady at the desk handed over all of the notes and the receipt and waited to see if they remembered they’d asked for the coins. He said he counted the money 3 times at the desk before the lady offered up a handful of coins.
I only argued with him about the price because he had a signboard with the prices listed!
In our discussions between ourselves about Cuba, we’ve laid a lot of the blame for the country’s ills at the dual currency system. There are 25 National Pesos for 1 Convertible Peso, and in our experience we found it is separating the population into those who work in tourism and those who don’t. It is all too common as a tourist to be charged the same price in CUC as a Cuban National will pay in National Pesos – that’s an astounding 2400% price hike – and while we don’t mind paying a little more for some things (entrance to museums for example), there’s no arguable difference in the service we’d receive in a colectivo or a haircut that warrants the backsheesh-like expectation.
The result, according to one taxi driver we spoke to, was the Cubans realise there’s more money in tourism so the educated are leaving their jobs in hospitals and universities to drive taxis or work in bars and cafes, which made him worry about a deterioration in the quality of healthcare and education.
We travelled around Cuba in the state-run Viazul and Cubanacan coach services, they’re very good and the ticket price includes you and your luggage. However, once you have your ticket there are a few opportunistic baggage handlers who will try to extract a fee for carrying your luggage to the bus or withholding the luggage tag until you pay. The worst one was in Trinidad where a big guy in a separate office had a little dish and demanded 1CUC per bag. I felt intimidated but stood my ground and refused to pay it.
In Santa Clara an older gentleman withheld the luggage tags until we paid, but as we’d already put our bags on the trolley we just said no and walked away. 5 minutes before the bus arrived he walked over and gave us the tags anyway!
By far the most common annoyance was people just asking for money or gifts. Most of the time they were content when we politely refused but occasionally some would say something impolite back which left us with a bad feeling for Cuba. We understand these people are relatively poor, we empathise as best as we possibly can about the extremely hard times that they’ve lived through, but by visiting their country we are helping – they don’t know that we choose to stay in the spare rooms of local people, and deliberately search out street food not only for the variety but because it puts money directly into the hands of the people.
We have a saying in the north of England that we tried to remind ourselves of after these encounters: shy bairns (get nowt) – which means if you don’t ask you don’t get.
I think I read in the Lonely Planet that just when you think you understand how Cuba works, it’ll turn around and surprise you again. We’d just sat down in a back-street locals bar at the end of an exhausting day of sight-seeing and fending off scams in Santa Clara feeling a bit sorry for ourselves, when a very jovial deaf man with a group of friends started up a conversation with us. Over 4 beers José told us about his life and it remains one of our fondest memories of Cuba.
This entry was posted in Experiences and tagged Cuba, Scams on July 4, 2016 by Andrew.
When we were planning our trip to Cuba, we’d decided to skip the green valleys of Cuba’s primary tobacco growing region as we’re non-smokers, we’d see two other national parks in the east and we’d read other travellers’ reports that the weather is unpredictable.
However, once we arrived in Cuba, everyone we met, and I do mean everyone, said that we simply had to fit it in because it’s so beautiful.
We did, and they were right!
Finding ourselves firmly on the typical tourist trail, we were able to try Cubanacan who are the other state-run coach company, which transfers from a lot of the swanky central hotels in Havana and is a lot more convenient (and cheaper) than getting a taxi to the Viazul bus station. The coach trip was pleasant and uneventful, until the final descent into the Valle de Viñales and we caught our first glimpse of the unique mogote strewn landscape..
From what we could make out, the little town of Viñales exists almost entirely for the service of tourists. The main street is lined with cafes and restaurants, a handful of shops, a bank, and a money exchange, while the rest of the town is comprised of casa particulars – we varied our route through the town’s back streets and it seemed like every house had a room for rent!
Once we’d settled ourselves into our casa and had a spot of lunch, we picked a direction and went exploring. The main street isn’t very long and we soon found ourselves down a dirt track between the deep red fields dotted with tobacco drying sheds.
We could see from the hoof prints that we’d found one of the popular horse trails. These steep-roofed huts are tobacco drying sheds, the leaves are hung inside like kippers!
Horseback riding is a very popular activity in Viñales, and while we can see the appeal of letting the horse do the work so you can appreciate the scenery, we favoured the cycling option and arranged to hire a couple of bikes through our casa.
Just about to set off with a vague plan in our heads. Delightfully, my rental mountain bike was a ‘Flying Pigeon’!
No sooner had we set off than I attempted to change gears and the chain snapped! While a friendly gentleman helped me look for the missing link in the road, Julie made her way back to our casa to get in touch with the lad who’d rented us the bikes, who just happened to ride past, came over and simply swapped the disabled ‘Flying Pigeon’ for a double suspension ‘Mongoose’. I thanked them both, met up with Julie and we set off again..
Not having intended to visit Viñales, we hadn’t done a lot of research about the area and the bike rental was simply that – here’s a bike, see you later! – no maps, hints, or suggestions! We used a combination of the Lonely Planet and the offline maps of Cuba on my phone to plan out a rough loop that took us past the Cueva del Indio, through a town called the Republica del Chile and the recommended Valle el Silencio.
Viñales is a lovely place to cycle. It’s pretty flat, the scenery is varied and interesting, there are plenty of trails and when we were on the roads there wasn’t much traffic. Outside of the town there are a few places to stop for refreshments and lunch dotted here and there, though the further we travelled they were fewer and farther between. The second half of our route took us out into the wilds and it had gone 3pm by the time we found somewhere for lunch. We’d consumed all of our snacks and 4 bottles of water cycling through the heat of the day, and we hadn’t realised how ready for a break we were!
The eco-farm we found in the Valle el Silencio is very much on the independent tour guide itinerary as it’s well set up for small groups of tourists. We shared a main meal between us which was plenty, and included in the price was a tour of the adjacent organic farm which we were a little reluctant to do at first as we feared it’d be a hard sell. Our bottoms weren’t quite ready to get back onto the bikes so we relented to the tour and it turned out to be really interesting.
Our young guide explained that what they grow and harvest here is primarily used in the restaurant and to feed the family. They grow a little bit of everything, I lost count of the different types of fruit but something we hadn’t seen in our travels thus far was cocoa growing on the tree.
The tour also included one of the farmers demonstrating how cigars are made in the countryside and as we’d seen them made by hand in the Partagas factory in Havana, it was fun to spot the differences in their technique and unlike in Partagas he was happy for us to take pictures..
Apart from a short and deeply rutted part of track immediately after our late lunch stop, the remaining trail was easy going and we slowly descended through the Valle el Silencio back to Viñales. We tracked our ride on Strava and logged just over 20 miles!
For our final full day in Viñales we hiked in the other direction from our bicycle ride, notionally in the direction of a large, outdoor painting on the side of a mogote that depicts evolution and is totally panned in TripAdvisor reviews. How bad could it be? Could it be so bad that it’s actually good?
Moving somewhat swiftly on, the farm tracks circled round the defaced mogote and made for a fairly long but gentle walk through peaceful farmland. No noisy polluting engines, just the rustle of the gentle breeze through the fields.
The track eventually met up with the main but not too busy road back into Viñales, and before we knew it we were back. Thank you to those that convinced us to change our plans – we’re really pleased we went – it was a peaceful, un-hassly, nature filled and relaxing change after our time in Havana.
This entry was posted in Experiences, Places and tagged Bicycle, Cuba, Mogote, nature, Viñales, Walk on June 27, 2016 by Andrew.
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To determine life history parameters of the sugarcane aphid including the optimum, lower and upper thresholds for development.
The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zetner), was known to be in Florida and Louisiana in the 1970's, but in 2013 quickly spread to grain sorghum, forage sorghum and Johnsongrass, causing millions of dollars loss in agricultural production. What are lacking in knowledge for this devastating aphid is the temperature thresholds for growth on the stated host plants. In other words, what are the temperature and day length parameters that would allow such an aphid to have the growth potential to develop into such devastating populations? The USDA-ARS in Stillwater has answered this question for many different invasive aphid species, and in cooperation with OSU Entomology, can determine these temperature dependant growth parameters with student driven scientific study and the use of environmental growth chambers that are designed for such determinations.
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advice for parents: take the pressure off!
You know what 90% of my work with parents consists of? Helping them to release the conglomeration of 'shoulds' that they have gathered along the way, which are burdening them like a bunch of barnacles on a ship.
Children should eat three square meals a day.
Children should have an early bedtime.
Children should be potty trained by age 3.
None of these are universally true, but we often feel like inadequate parents if we can't achieve them! Maybe grazing on nutrient rich foods all day long suits your child's body chemistry better than three square meals. Maybe your child would be better off going to bed at 9:30 and sleeping in until 9 am so she can spend time with her daddy when he comes home from work at 8. Maybe your particular child responds far better to requests than orders or demands.
Who knows what works best for your family? Yep - only you. And how do you know? You experiment. You try different options and see how it goes. Books, other parents, and 'experts' can be a useful source of ideas to experiment with, but nothing can replace your intuition, your connection with your child, and your own experience.
Parenting is a journey, not a destination. It's one big ongoing experiment. We will never get it down to a formula that works in every situation forevermore. It's the flexible willow, not the rigid oak, that survives the storm.
When you let go of all those 'shoulds', you have more resources available to generate strategies that actually work instead of being frustrated that what should work, doesn't! It's okay to lighten up and play with new ideas and see how it goes.
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Jackie Davis was the first musician to popularize jazz on the Hammond organ, years before Jimmy Smith's name became synonymous with organ jazz. Davis was Capitol's leading performer on the organ at a time when relatively few mainstream labels were willing to put a black musician on the cover of an album.
Davis once said that music came to him genetically. His mother played the washtub, a cheap substitute for the bass, and he first learned to play by spending hours poking at his grandmother's piano. By the age of eight, he was playing with a local dance band. The rest of the band had ten years or more on him, and he later remarked that he had "eighteen godfathers who kept their pedal extremities in sensitive areas of my anatomy." He later described the experience as his best education in music and in life. By the age of eleven, he'd earned enough from playing to buy his own piano, and music enabled him to pay his way through Florida A&M College, where he graduated with a bachelors degree in music in 1943.
After serving time in the Army, he worked as a pianist, usually as an accompanist for singers such as Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Billy Daniels. Although he was attracted to the organ, he was intimidated at the prospect of playing jazz on it, particularly when his idol at the time was the lightning-fast Art Tatum. But when the Hammond Organ Company began selling electric organs in the late 1940s, he felt the biggest technical hurdle had been overcome, and in 1951, he bought his first organ. Soon after, he was hired to appear at the Club Harlem in Philadelphia, and the novelty of Davis' playing on the Hammond was so remarkable that the club extended his two-week gig by almost five months.
RCA signed him to record a couple of 45 RPM singles, but they were still a bit too lily-white to invest in an album. A year later, a small Los Angeles label, Trend, released a 10" album that was later reissued by Kapp Records. It was still tough to make a go as a solo performer, though, and in 1952, Davis accepted an offer from Louis Jordan to play in his band. He spent over a year with Jordan and learned a great deal about stage presence and connecting with an audience from the ebulliant band leader.
Finally, in 1956, Capitol Records A&R exec Bill Miller convinced the label to sign Davis to a contract. The first album, Hi-Fi Hammond sold well in white markets, and over the next five years, the label released eight more albums by him. His material was usually light, jazzy interpretations of standards, usually in a small combo setting, just rhythm guitar and drums backing him up. Miller only veered from this formula on a couple of occasions. One was with an unusual accompaniment of nine trombones and french horn, arranged by Gerald Wilson, and the other the obligatory cha-cha album with Milt Holland providing a variety of Latin percussion accents.
Davis was lured over to Warner Brothers Records around 1961, after former Capitol and Columbia president Jim Conkling established the label and attempted to "out-normal" the other labels in a period well-covered in Stan Cornyn's book, Exploding. His first Warner release, Easy Does It is probably his best, with Hollywood's best session guitarist, Barney Kessel, lending his support. His second release, featuring a thick layer of syrupy vocal accompaniment, is of interest neither as organ jazz nor choral music. Warner dropped Davis as they cleared their books of space age pop acts in favor of the Everly Brothers and other white rockers, and, with the exception of an occasional minor label release, his recording career was over.
He soldiered on for the next 30 years, playing clubs ranging from Las Vegas to Atlantic City and everything from jazz festivals to restaurants. In 1978, while he was producing Ella Fitzgerald records at the rate of about two a month, Norman Granz hired Davis to accompany her, along with Louis Bellson on drums, on her album, Lady Time. He was an annual fixture at a club in Hilton Head, South Carolina, through much of the 1980s. When Hurricane Andrew devastated south Florida in 1992, Davis suffered financially and physically. His home was wiped out, and the strain of the experience led a series of strokes and heart attacks. He had recovered sufficiently by 1997 to start performing again, with a new manager trying to hook into the lounge music revival. His health didn't hold up, however, and he died in 1999 in a nursing home in his home town of Jacksonville.
Born Jackson J. Davis, 13 December 1920, Jacksonville, Florida.
Died 15 November 1999, Jacksonville, Florida.
He was featured in the movie Caddyshack, and toured worldwide with Louis Jordan and the Timpani Five. He worked for the Hammond Organ Company. In his travels, he was authorized to donate Hammond Organs, one of which is now housed at Edward Waters College.
Paul Quinichette, Louis Jordan, Junior Mance, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Clark Terry, Candido Camero, Ray Brown, Keter Betts, Ed Thigpen, Dinah Washington, Max Roach, Harold Land, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Green, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Cleveland.
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Canada - is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament.
A federation consisting of ten provinces and three territories, Canada is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's highly developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade--particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. It is a member of the G8, G-20, NATO, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth, Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and UN.
When Canada was formed in 1867 its provinces were a relatively narrow strip in the southeast, with vast territories in the interior. It grew by adding British Columbia in 1871, P.E.I. in 1873, the British Arctic Islands in 1880, and Newfoundland in 1949, Its provinces grew both in size and number at the expense of its territories.
Following several constitutional conferences, the Constitution Act, 1867 officially proclaimed Canadian Confederation, creating "one Dominion under the name of Canada" on July 1, 1867, with four provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Canada assumed control of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to form the Northwest Territories, where the Metis' grievances ignited the Red River Rebellion and the creation of the province of Manitoba in July 1870. British Columbia and Vancouver Island (which had united in 1866) and the colony of Prince Edward Island joined the Confederation in 1871 and 1873, respectively. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's Conservative government established a national policy of tariffs to protect nascent Canadian manufacturing industries.
To open the West, the government sponsored construction of three trans-continental railways (including the Canadian Pacific Railway), opened the prairies to settlement with the Dominion Lands Act, and established the North-West Mounted Police to assert its authority over this territory. In 1898, after the Klondike Gold Rush in the Northwest Territories, the Canadian government created the Yukon territory. Under Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, continental European immigrants settled the prairies, and Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905.
Because Britain still maintained control of Canada's foreign affairs under the Confederation Act, its declaration of war in 1914 automatically brought Canada into World War I. Volunteers sent to the Western Front later became part of the Canadian Corps. The Corps played a substantial role in the Battle of Vimy Ridge and other major battles of the war. Out of approximately 625,000 who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 173,000 were wounded. The Conscription Crisis of 1917 erupted when conservative Prime Minister Robert Borden brought in compulsory military service over the objection of French-speaking Quebecers. In 1919, Canada joined the League of Nations independently of Britain and in 1931, the Statute of Westminster affirmed Canada's independence.
The Great Depression brought economic hardship all over Canada. In response, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Alberta and Saskatchewan enacted many measures of a welfare state (as pioneered by Tommy Douglas) into the 1940s and 1950s. Canada declared war on Germany independently during World War II under Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, three days after Britain. The first Canadian Army units arrived in Britain in December 1939.
Canadian troops played important roles in the failed 1942 Dieppe Raid in France, the Allied invasion of Italy, the D-Day landings, the Battle of Normandy, and the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. Canada provided asylum and protection for the monarchy of the Netherlands while that country was occupied, and is credited by the country for leadership and major contribution to its liberation from Nazi Germany. The Canadian economy boomed as industry manufactured military materiel for Canada, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union. Despite another Conscription Crisis in Quebec, Canada finished the war with one of the largest armed forces in the world, and the second-wealthiest economy. In 1945, during the war, Canada became one of the founding members of the United Nations.
The Dominion of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador), at the time equivalent in status to Canada and Australia as a Dominion, joined Canada in 1949. Canada's growth, combined with the policies of successive Liberal governments, led to the emergence of a new Canadian identity, marked by the adoption of the current Maple Leaf Flag in 1965, the implementation of official bilingualism (English and French) in 1969, and official multiculturalism in 1971. There was also the founding of socially democratic programmes, such as universal health care, the Canada Pension Plan, and Canada Student Loans, though provincial governments, particularly Quebec and Alberta, opposed many of these as incursions into their jurisdictions. Finally, another series of constitutional conferences resulted in the 1982 patriation of Canada's constitution from the United Kingdom, concurrent with the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 1999, Nunavut became Canada's third territory after a series of negotiations with the federal government.
At the same time, Quebec was undergoing profound social and economic changes through the Quiet Revolution, giving birth to a nationalist movement in the province and the more radical Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ), whose actions ignited the October Crisis in 1970. A decade later, an unsuccessful referendum on sovereignty-association was held in 1980, after which attempts at constitutional amendment failed in 1990. A second referendum followed in 1995, in which sovereignty was rejected by a slimmer margin of just 50.6% to 49.4%. In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that unilateral secession by a province would be unconstitutional, and the Clarity Act was passed by parliament, outlining the terms of a negotiated departure from Confederation.
In addition to the issues of Quebec sovereignty, a number of crises shook Canadian society in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These included the explosion of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, the largest mass murder in Canadian history; the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989, a university shooting targeting female students; and the Oka Crisis in 1990, the first of a number of violent confrontations between the government and aboriginal groups. Canada also joined the Gulf War in 1990 as part of a US-led coalition force, and was active in several peacekeeping missions in the late 1990s. It sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, but declined to send forces to Iraq when the US invaded in 2003.
Canada has a parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions. Parliament is composed of The Crown, an elected House of Commons, and an appointed Senate. Each Member of Parliament in the House of Commons is elected by simple plurality in an electoral district or riding. General elections must be called by the prime minister within five years of the previous election, or may be triggered by the government losing a confidence vote in the House.
Members of the Senate, whose seats are apportioned on a regional basis, are chosen by the prime minister and formally appointed by the Governor General and serve until age 75. Four parties had representatives elected to the federal parliament in the 2008 elections: the Conservative Party of Canada (governing party), the Liberal Party of Canada (the Official Opposition), the New Democratic Party (NDP), and the Bloc Quebecois. The list of historical parties with elected representation is substantial.
Canada's federal structure divides government responsibilities between the federal government and the ten provinces. Provincial legislatures are unicameral and operate in parliamentary fashion similar to the House of Commons. Canada's three territories also have legislatures, but with fewer constitutional responsibilities than the provinces and with some structural differences (for example, the legislative assemblies of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have no parties and operate on consensus).
The Senate chamber within the Centre Block on Parliament Hill.
Canada is also a constitutional monarchy, with The Crown acting as a symbolic or ceremonial executive. The Crown consists of Queen Elizabeth II (legal head of state) and her appointed viceroys, the governor general (acting head of state), and provincial lieutenant-governors, who perform most of the monarch's ceremonial roles. The political executive consists of the prime minister (head of government) and the Cabinet and carries out the day-to-day decisions of government. The Cabinet is made up of ministers usually selected from the House of Commons and headed by the prime minister, who is normally the leader of the party that holds the confidence of the House of Commons.
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is one of the most powerful institutions in government, initiating most legislation for parliamentary approval and selecting, besides other Cabinet members, senators, federal court judges, heads of Crown corporations and government agencies, and the governor general. The Crown formally approves parliamentary legislation and the prime minister's appointments. The leader of the party with the second-most seats usually becomes the Leader of the Opposition, and is part of an adversarial parliamentary system intended to keep the government in check. Michaelle Jean has served as Governor General since September 27, 2005; Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party, has been prime minister since February 6, 2006; and Michael Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal Party, has been Leader of the Opposition since December 10, 2008.
The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of the country, and consists of written text and unwritten conventions. The Constitution Act, 1867 (known as the British North America Act prior to 1982) affirmed governance based on parliamentary precedent "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom" and divided powers between the federal and provincial governments; the Statute of Westminster, 1931 granted full autonomy; and the Constitution Act, 1982 added the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees basic rights and freedoms that usually cannot be overridden by any level of government--though a notwithstanding clause allows the federal parliament and provincial legislatures to override certain sections of the Charter for a period of five years--and added a constitutional amending formula.
Although not without conflict, European Canadians' early interactions with First Nations and Inuit populations were relatively peaceful. Combined with Canada's late economic development in many regions, this peaceful history has allowed Canadian Indigenous peoples to have a relatively strong influence on the national culture while preserving their own identity. The Canadian Crown and Aboriginal peoples began interactions during the European colonialisation period. Numbered treaties, the Indian Act, the Constitution Act of 1982 and case laws were established. A series of eleven treaties were signed between Aboriginals in Canada and the reigning Monarch of Canada from 1871 to 1921. These treaties are agreements with the Government of Canada administered by Canadian Aboriginal law and overseen by the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982, which «recognizes and affirms existing Aboriginal and treaty rights», reaffirmed the role of the treaties. These rights may include provision of services such as health care, and exemption from taxation. The legal and policy framework within which Canada and First Nations operate was further formalised in 2005, through the First Nations-Federal Crown Political Accord, which established cooperation as "a cornerstone for partnership between Canada and First Nations".
Canada's judiciary plays an important role in interpreting laws and has the power to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court and final arbiter and has been led by the Right Honourable Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, P.C. (the first female Chief Justice) since 2000. Its nine members are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. All judges at the superior and appellate levels are appointed after consultation with nongovernmental legal bodies. The federal cabinet also appoints justices to superior courts at the provincial and territorial levels. Judicial posts at the lower provincial and territorial levels are filled by their respective governments.
Canada and the United States share the world's longest undefended border, co-operate on military campaigns and exercises, and are each other's largest trading partner. Canada nevertheless has an independent foreign policy, most notably maintaining full relations with Cuba and declining to participate in the Iraq War. Canada also maintains historic ties to the United Kingdom and France and to other former British and French colonies through Canada's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie. Canada is noted for having a strong and positive relationship with the Netherlands, and the Dutch government traditionally gives tulips, a symbol of the Netherlands, to Canada each year in remembrance of the latter country's contribution to its liberation.
Canada currently employs a professional, volunteer military force of about 67,000 regular and 26,000 reserve personnel. The unified Canadian Forces (CF) comprise the army, navy, and air force.
Canada is an industrial nation with a highly-developed science and technology sector. Since the First World War, Canada has produced its own infantry fighting vehicle, anti-tank guided missile and small arms for the Canadian Forces and particularly for the Canadian Forces Land Force Command. The Canadian Forces operate state of the art equipments able to handle modern threats through 2030-2035. Despite the financial cut between 1987-2004, the Canadian Forces is well equipped. The Land Force Command currently operate approximatively 10 500 utility vehicles including G-wagon and 7000-MV and also operate approximatively 2 700 armoured fighting vehicles including the LAV-III and the Leopard 2. The land force also operate approximatively 150 field artillery including the M777 howitzer and the LG1 Mark II. The Canadian Forces Maritime Command currently operate 33 combat vessels. These include the Halifax class frigate and the Victoria class submarine. The Canadian Forces Air Command operate 333 aircraft. These include the CF-188 Hornet, CC-130 Hercule and the CH-146 Griffon.
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson eased tensions by proposing the inception of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force, for which he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize. As this was the first UN peacekeeping mission, Pearson is often credited as the inventor of the concept. Canada has since served in 50 peacekeeping missions, including every UN peacekeeping effort until 1989 and has since maintained forces in international missions in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere; Canada has sometimes faced controversy over its involvement in foreign countries, notably in the 1993 Somalia Affair. The number of Canadian military personnel participating in peacekeeping missions has decreased greatly in the past two decades. As of June 30, 2006, 133 Canadians served on United Nations peacekeeping missions worldwide, including 55 Canadian military personnel, compared with 1044 military personnel as of December 31, 1996.
Since 2001, Canada has had troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of the U.S. stabilization force and the UN-authorized, NATO-commanded International Security Assistance Force. Canada has committed to withdraw from Kandahar Province by 2011, by which time it will have spent an estimated total of $11.3 billion on the mission. Canada and the U.S. continue to integrate state and provincial agencies to strengthen security along the Canada-United States border through the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
In February 2007, Canada, Italy, Britain, Norway, and Russia announced their funding commitments to launch a $1.5 billion project to help develop vaccines they said could save millions of lives in poor nations, and called on others to join them In August 2007, Canadian sovereignty in Arctic waters was challenged after a Russian underwater expedition to the North Pole; Canada has considered that area to be sovereign territory since 1925.
A satellite composite image of Canada.
Canada occupies a major northern portion of North America, sharing the land borders with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. By total area (including its waters), Canada is the second-largest country in the world--after Russia. By land area, Canada ranks fourth (land area is total area minus the area of lakes and rivers).
Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60°W and 141°W longitude, but this claim is not universally recognized. The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canadian Forces Station Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island--latitude 82.5°N--817 kilometres (450 nautical miles, 508 miles) from the North Pole. Much of the Canadian Arctic is covered by ice and permafrost. Canada also has the longest coastline in the world: 202,080 kilometres (125,570 mi).
The population density, 3.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.5/sq mi), is among the lowest in the world. The most densely populated part of the country is the Quebec City - Windsor Corridor, (situated in Southern Quebec and Southern Ontario) along the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River in the southeast.
Canada has an extensive coastline on its north, east, and west, and since the last glacial period it has consisted of eight distinct forest regions, including extensive boreal forest on the Canadian Shield. The vastness and variety of Canada's geography, ecology, vegetation and landforms have given rise to a wide variety of climates throughout the country. Because of its vast size, Canada has more lakes than any other country, containing much of the world's fresh water.There are also fresh-water glaciers in the Canadian Rockies and the Coast Mountains.
Average winter and summer high temperatures across Canada vary according to the location. Winters can be harsh in many regions of the country, particularly in the interior and Prairie provinces, which experience a continental climate, where daily average temperatures are near ?15 °C (5 °F) but can drop below ?40 °C (?40.0 °F) with severe wind chills. In noncoastal regions, snow can cover the ground almost six months of the year (more in the north). Coastal British Columbia enjoys a temperate climate, with a mild and rainy winter. On the east and west coasts, average high temperatures are generally in the low 20s °C (70s °F), while between the coasts, the average summer high temperature ranges from 25 to 30 °C (77 to 86 °F), with occasional extreme heat in some interior locations exceeding 40 °C (104 °F).
Canada is also geologically active, having many earthquakes and potentially active volcanoes, notably Mount Meager, Mount Garibaldi, Mount Cayley, and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex. The volcanic eruption of Tseax Cone in 1775 caused a catastrophic disaster, killing 2,000 Nisga'a people and the destruction of their village in the Nass River valley of northern British Columbia; the eruption produced a 22.5-kilometre (14.0 mi) lava flow, and according to legend of the Nisga'a people, it blocked the flow of the Nass River.
Canada is a federation composed of ten provinces and three territories. In turn, these may be grouped into regions: Western Canada, Central Canada, Atlantic Canada, and Northern Canada (the latter made up of the three territories Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut). Eastern Canada refers to Central Canada and Atlantic Canada together. Provinces have more autonomy than territories. The provinces are responsible for most of Canada's social programs (such as health care, education, and welfare) and together collect more revenue than the federal government, an almost unique structure among federations in the world. Using its spending powers, the federal government can initiate national policies in provincial areas, such as the Canada Health Act; the provinces can opt out of these, but rarely do so in practice. Equalization payments are made by the federal government to ensure that reasonably uniform standards of services and taxation are kept between the richer and poorer provinces.
Canada is one of the world's wealthiest nations, with a high per-capita income, and it is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the G8. It is one of the world's top ten trading nations. Canada is a mixed market, ranking above the U.S. on the Heritage Foundation's index of economic freedom and higher than most western European nations. The largest foreign importers of Canadian goods are the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. In 2008, Canada's imported goods were worth over $442.9 billion, of which $280.8 billion was from the United States, $11.7 billion from Japan, and $11.3 billion from the United Kingdom.
As of October 2009, Canada's national unemployment rate was 8.6%. Provincial unemployment rates vary from a low of 5.8% in Manitoba to a high of 17% in Newfoundland and Labrador. As of 2008, Canada's total government debt burden is the lowest among the G8. The OECD projects that Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio will decline to 19.5% in 2009, which is less than half of the projected average of 51.9% for all G8 countries. According to these projections, Canada's debt burden will have fallen by more than 50 percentage points from its peak in 1995, when it was the second-highest in the G8. In 2008-09, the federal debt increased by $6.1 billion to $463.7 billion. In the past century, the growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy to a more industrial and urban one. Like other First World nations, the Canadian economy is dominated by the service industry, which employs about three quarters of Canadians. Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of its primary sector, in which the logging and petroleum industries are two of the most important.
Economic integration with the United States has increased significantly since World War II. This has drawn the attention of Canadian nationalists, who are concerned about cultural and economic autonomy in an age of globalization, as American goods and media products have become ubiquitous. The Automotive Products Trade Agreement of 1965 opened the borders to trade in the auto manufacturing industry. In the 1970s, concerns over energy self-sufficiency and foreign ownership in the manufacturing sectors prompted Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government to enact the National Energy Program (NEP) and the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA).
In the 1980s, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives abolished the NEP and changed the name of FIRA to "Investment Canada" in order to encourage foreign investment. The Canada - United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) of 1988 eliminated tariffs between the two countries, while the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) expanded the free-trade zone to include Mexico in the 1990s. In the mid-1990s, the Liberal government under Jean Chretien began to post annual budgetary surpluses and steadily paid down the national debt. The 2008 global financial crisis caused a recession, which could boost the country's unemployment rate to 10%.
Canada's 2006 census counted a total population of 31,612,897, an increase of 5.4% since 2001. Population growth is from immigration and, to a lesser extent, natural growth. About four-fifths of Canada's population lives within 150 kilometres (93 mi) of the United States border. A simila proportion live in urban areas concentrated in the Quebec City - Windsor Corridor (notably the Greater Golden Horseshoe, including Toronto and area, Montreal, and Ottawa), the BC Lower Mainland (consisting of the region surrounding Vancouver), and the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor in Alberta.
According to the 2006 census, the largest reported ethnic origin is English (21%), followed by French (15.8%), Scottish (15.2%), Irish (13.9%), German (10.2%), Italian (5%), Chinese (3.9%), Ukrainian (3.6%), and First Nations (3.5%). Approximately one third of respondents identified their ethnicity as "Canadian". There are 600 recognized First Nations governments or bands encompassing 1,172,790 people.
Canada's Aboriginal population is growing at almost twice the national rate, and 3.8% of Canada's population claimed aboriginal identity in 2006. Another 16.2% of the population belonged to non-aboriginal visible minorities. The largest visible minority groups in Canada are South Asian (4%), Chinese (3.9%) and Black (2.5%). In 1961, less than 2% of Canada's population (about 300,000 people) could be classified as visible minority and less than 1% as aboriginal. In 2006, 51.0% of Vancouver's population and 46.9% of Toronto's population were members of visible minority groups. Between 2001 and 2006, the visible minority population rose by 27.2%. According to a 2005 forecast by Statistics Canada, the proportion of visible minorities in Canada could reach as much as 23% by 2017. As of 2007, almost one in five Canadians (19.8%) were foreign-born. Nearly 60% of new immigrants hail from Asia (including the Middle East). By 2031, one in three Canadians will belong to a visible minority.
Canada has the highest per-capita immigration rate in the world, driven by economic policy and family reunification, and is aiming for between 240,000 and 265,000 new permanent residents in 2010. Canada also accepts large numbers of refugees. New immigrants settle mostly in major urban areas like Toronto and Vancouver.
In common with many other developed countries, Canada is experiencing a demographic shift towards an older population, with more retirees and fewer people of working age. In 2006, the average age of the population was 39.5 years. The census results also indicate that despite an increase in immigration since 2001 (which gave Canada a higher rate of population growth than in the previous intercensal period), the aging of Canada's population did not slow during the period.
Support for religious pluralism is an important part of Canada's political culture. According to the 2001 census, 77.1% of Canadians identify as being Christians; of this, Catholics make up the largest group (43.6% of Canadians). The largest Protestant denomination is the United Church of Canada (9.5% of Canadians), followed by the Anglicans (6.8%), Baptists (2.4%), Lutherans (2%), and other Christians (4.4%). About 16.5% of Canadians declare no religious affiliation, and the remaining 6.3% are affiliated with non-Christian religions, the largest of which is Islam (2.0%), followed by Judaism (1.1%).
Canadian provinces and territories are responsible for education. Each system is similar, while reflecting regional history, culture and geography. The mandatory school age ranges between 5-7 to 16-18 years, contributing to an adult literacy rate of 99%. Provincial and territorial governments, which provide most of the funding, also administer post-secondary education; the federal government administers additional research grants, student loans, and scholarships. In 2002, 43% of Canadians, aged 25 to 64 possessed a post-secondary education; for those aged 25 to 34, the rate of post-secondary education reached 51%.
The Charter of the French Language makes French the official language in Quebec. Although more than 85% of French-speaking Canadians live in Quebec, there are substantial Francophone populations in Ontario, Alberta, and southern Manitoba; Ontario has the largest French-speaking population outside Quebec. New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province, has a French-speaking Acadian minority constituting 33% of the population. There are also clusters of Acadians in southwestern Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island, and through central and western Prince Edward Island.
Over six million people in Canada list a non-official language as their mother tongue. Some of the most common non-official first languages include Chinese (mainly Cantonese; 1,012,065 first-language speakers), Italian (455,040), German (450,570), Punjabi (367,505) and Spanish (345,345).
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Discuss about the Article on Physical Examination and Health Assessment?
Health history assessment refers to the systematic appraisal of all factors relevant to a client’s health, and the main components of such an assessment are health history, physical examination, records and reports and review of developmental, psychosocial and cultural considerations (Jarvis, 2015). The purpose of such assessment is to identify interdisciplinary assessment parameters and define the responsibilities for planning and delivering the appropriate level of care for meeting the patient needs and evaluating the response of care (Wang et al. 2012). The present report is a health history assessment and a reflection of the thought processes, actions, and behaviors in order to evaluate outcomes. It describes the experience of conducting this health history.
Demographic data – Mercedes Garcia is a 70-year-old lady. She is a native of he United States. English is her second language, and she struggles with the conversation. He lives with her family of a son and his family.
Perception of health – She is 5′ 1″ in height, and she weighs 138 lbs. She has lost 2 pounds in the last two months. She has complaints of generalised joint pain, and she denies the requirement of anything to control the pain. She feels signs of angina while walking for longer distance or taking up stress. She consumes alcohol on a regular basis.
Past medical history – She suffers from hypertension and cardiac disease.
Family medical history – Her mother had died of cardiac arrest at an early age. Her father also suffered from hypertension during his lifetime.
Integumentary: The hair is mostly grey in colour and very thin. The skin is wrinkled and patchy and arms and face. Nails are short in length and the left feet thumb has nail slightly discoloured. Facial skin shows signs of sun burn.
Respiratory: The patient has difficulty in breathing and gets such conditions particularly while walking fro a long time.
Mental status: The patient is in good mental health and has no signs of dementia and depression, the two common mental health problems of old age.
There are no developmental considerations at this time. The patient is 70 years of age. He is therefore in the eight stage of life span, that is, wisdom. In this age, a person slows down his productivity and explores life in a relaxed manner. The patient has also contemplated her accomplishments and is able to develop integrity as she has been leading a successful life.
There are some cultural considerations. The patient is from Hispanic background. Clear and effective communication is vital when taking care of patients who are from some particular backgrounds. Communication leads to building up of respectful and trusting relation between nurse and patient when addressing an elderly patient of Hispanic culture. Formal forms must be used for assessing the level of acculturation.
The patient is concerned about her health and wants to remain healthy in the future.
The two body systems for performing a physical assessment are circulatory system and respiratory system.
The teaching and learning need priorities are patient education on management of high blood pressure and cessation of drinking.
Collaborative resources- The patient’s family was interviewed for the collection of data.
My interaction with the patient was a fulfilling one. I had learnt in my nursing college that for taking care of patients who are at the old age, there needs to be patience and gentleness shown by the nurse. I experienced the same while taking of this particular patient. As she was a 70 year old lady and into the later stages of life, I had to be much gentle and kind with her in order to cause no harm to the emotions. The whole conversation went well, and I was able to establish a strong relationship with her. She trusted me with her medical details and showed confidence in me. There was one barrier to communication as she belonged from a Hispanic background and was not able to understand English well. Non-verbal cues and signs were effective in exchange of communication. I have learnt that non-verbal cues are effective for communication and will use such means in future. There were no as such unanticipated challenges to the interview. I would conduct such interviews with mich more care and details in the future.
Jarvis, C. (2015). Physical Examination and Health Assessment–. Elsevier Health Sciences.
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Make the brownie mix as per the instructions. Dollop the White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Dip onto the batter with a teaspoon and swirl it around with the end of a knife. Bake the brownies as per the instructions. Cool slightly and top with toppings. Drizzle with caramel before serving.
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Are there other local and district sales and use taxes?
Yes, all cities and counties have adopted local sales and use taxes that include (are added to) the 7.25% statewide rate. A “district” is a local jurisdiction that, under enabling statutes in various codes, may impose transactions (sales) and use taxes within its borders. Voter approved district taxes may be levied on a countywide basis and within incorporated city limits. A city district tax rate applies only to addresses within the incorporated city limits. Additionally, more than one district tax may be in effect in a given location.
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Static RAM vs Dynamic RAM (SRAM vs DRAM) RAM (Random Access Memory) is the primary memory used in a computer. Its individual memory cells can be accessed in any sequence, and therefore it is called the random access memory.
Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random-access memory used in computing devices (primarily PCs). DRAM stores each bit of data in a separate passive electronic component that is inside an integrated circuit board.
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Did U.S. Border Patrol agents find the body of a 6-year-old girl who was raped by 30 men near the Mexican border? No, that's not true: we contacted U.S. Customs and Border Protection to inquire about the incident and they told us they never heard about it. The only sites that mention it seem to base themselves on a video put out by an activist group in which somebody claims her "friend" who worked for a "security company" found a girl "left for dead" while patrolling near a pipeline at an unspecified location at an unspecified date.
The body of a 6-year-old girl at the US-Mexico border had been raped by at least 30 men, according to military physicians.
The discovery was made after a group of mothers decided to travel to the southern border to discover just how widespread a problem human trafficking really is. What they found was truly despicable.
Theblaze.com reports: Moms For America President Kimberly Fletcher and Aisha Owmby, the founder of Black Women Walk, organized the trip, which they hope will help others understand why they believe a wall along the U.S.-Mexico wall is needed to protect American families.
A few months ago, border security agents found a 6-year-old girl who had been left for dead along a pipeline.
The girl was flown to a military hospital where physicians found DNA from 30 men inside her young body.
"She had been raped by 30 men!" Fletcher said, adding that this little girl's life is worth building a wall to keep violent men from coming into the country.
I want to tell them a story about a little girl that was found about three or four months ago. A friend of mine was patrolling the pipeline. He has a security company. And it just happened that they came across a six year old little girl. And she had been left for dead. So what they did was they flew her to a military hospital. And DNA showed that she had been... She had thirty different DNAs in her little body. She had been raped by thirty different men. These are the people that are going to be coming across the border. I'm not saying all of them. But if you have little girls, you better be ready for something like this.
Given the timeline of when the video was published (early November) and the claim about when the girl was found (three to four months ago) we looked for media reports from other sources about little girls being raped by 30 men in the past six months and found none. We also contacted U.S. Customs and Border Protection via their media contact because such a case must have made an impression. We were told nobody there had heard about it.
Also note the Alma video claims it is a private security company that made the discovery, not Border Patrol agents, and for some unspecified reason they flew the girl to a military hospital anyway.
We did repeat the story shared with us from a mother on the border. It had such an impact on us we told several others and then realized we no substantiation or corroboration. Without that it's just a compelling story. We are in the process of investigating the story to confirm its validity.
So the entire headline of the NewsPunch article was based on an unsubstantiated, vague claim told by one person.
A news and conspiracy website that regularly publishes false information and far-right conspiracy theories. The site was formerly housed under the domain yournewswire.com.
Given the contradictions between the source and the NewsPunch article and the fact that U.S. Customs and Border Protection had not heard about this at all we are pretty sure the incident with the six year old girl is not real.
More: Border Agents Find Body Of 6-Year-Old Girl: "She Was Raped By 30 Men"
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I'm planning a 8 day trip starting July 15th and have some questions. I little bit of information first to answer some questions ahead of time. It will be me, my 18yo daughter, and 16yo son. All are experienced backpackers. We are also coming from Tucson, AZ so temps won't be an issue but I've included a couple short days in the beginning to help with altitude. We will be arriving early in the morning 5:00am to start our trip. I also have a permit starting July 15th from May Lake>Snow Creek.
My biggest issue I'm trying to figure out is the vehicle drop off. We are finishing our trip at Tunnelview trailhead and I spoke with the rangers at Yosemite and they said I can leave a car at Tunnelview but I'm trying to figure out how to get from Tunnelview to our starting trailhead which is May Lake>Snow creek. Are there any shuttles that run within a couple miles of Tunnelview that I can catch back to the lodge or could we catch the backpackers bus as it is leaving the valley for Tuolumne Meadows?
Day 1 - May Lake> Snow Creek Trailhead south to the top of Snow Creek Falls and camp near top of the falls.
Day 2 - Take trail back up to the east junction that takes you past the Snow Creek Cabin then south to Mount Watkins. Plan on checking out the northeast buttress and then camping on Mount Watkins.
Day 3 - East past Olmsted point then south to Sunrise Lakes. I'm looking at the maps and imagery and I'm wondering about being able to avoid the swamp of Tenaya Lake by hugging the high ground east of Olmsted/ Southwest of Tenaya Lake. Camp Sunrise Lakes.
Day 5 - Clouds rest south then east along the trail that runs just north of Lost Valley to Echo Valley then west down Lost Valley camp near the footbridges near Bunnell Cascade.
Day 6 - West through LYV, Panorama Trail, then south along Illilouette until legal to camp.
Day 7 - Back up Illilouette to Pohono Trail and down Pohono camping at Bridalveil Creek footbridge area. (Only legal camping area along Pohono Trail.
Day 8 - Finish Pohono to Tunnelview.
This is our conservative or short route. If things go really well the 1st two days then we are looking at changing the middle portion. The change would involve hiking past Sunrise Lakes to Clouds Rest. The following day we would head to Cathedral Lake. Then the next morning either head for Rafferty Creek or go cross country to Echo Lake then down Echo Creek, through Echo Valley to camping again near Bunnell Cascade and finish as described above.
Day 1 might work, if they are not prohibiting camping due to the pesky bear that tosses cans off cliffs.
Your biggest issues will be creeks, if the snow is still melting they will be high.
The backpacker bus leaves from the lodge, I believe, so not going to see it on the south side of the valley loop.
Yes, you'll have to walk down to Bridalveil and catch the Valley shuttle up to Curry or at least the Valley Visitors' Center to catch the hikers' shuttle.
From the current closures, it does appear that the flats at the top of Snow Creek Falls is closed. Unless they shoot the bear (now apparently bear(s)), it's probably going to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
If you really want to avoid that area between Olmstead and Tenaya, you can take the Tuolumne Meadows shuttle, but the driver is going to laugh at you. But the trail does tend to stay higher, except for the last 1/4 mile or so on the floor.
Technically exits the wilderness and nullifies the permit - the road is not wilderness, turning and walking or riding down it is leaving the wilderness. Crossing it is continuing on a trail with a brief interruption.
AlmostThere wrote: Technically exits the wilderness and nullifies the permit - the road is not wilderness, turning and walking or riding down it is leaving the wilderness. Crossing it is continuing on a trail with a brief interruption.
True. I'm totally joking. But it would be, not only funny and outlandish, but like some kind of bad American literary theme where they're waiting for you to get off the bus to tell you that they don't like your kind here. "Git back on up thar and hike that last 1.5 miles, boy."
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Sorry I guess I wasn't clear about the area east of Olmsted. I've heard that the area west of Tenaya Lake that the trail passes through is a swampy mess during this time of year. I was thinking about going off trail east of Olmsted and hugging the peak that is east of Olmsted. Then crossing Tenaya creek at the southwestern edge of the meadow if that makes sense.
No, like I said, it does generally stay higher for most of the trail. Don't second guess the normal crossing. Everything to the south of it puts you through boggy meadows before you even get to the creek. And it widens out. Go too far looking for a better place to cross and you get closer to waterfalls at the top of Tenaya Canyon. The crossing at the Sunrise trailhead is the best place.
Phil wrote: No, like I said, it does generally stay higher for most of the trail. Don't second guess the normal crossing. Everything to the south of it puts you through boggy meadows before you even get to the creek. And it widens out. Go too far looking for a better place to cross and you get closer to waterfalls at the top of Tenaya Canyon. The crossing at the Sunrise trailhead is the best place.
Ok, thanks. I posted a picture showing the route I was considering but if heading all the way up and not "cutting the corner" is better then we will go with that plan.
If there are going to be mosquitoes and wet conditions, those aren't just alongside the creek or the valley floor. Even after the crossing at Tenaya Creek, when drainage is happening, it comes from the uphill north side of the trail for quite some distance. It's usually about several hundred yards, if not more. If you also notice, the general route of the main trail more or less begins a traverse of the contours in a SE direction. That's because the downhill slope is steeper than it may look on the map, not to mention, a maze of brush, boggy areas, downed trees, rocks, and all the things that make even animals walk on established trails. There are plenty of places where cross country travel is fun and beneficial...this is decidedly not one of them.
The other thing about Tenaya Creek at and below the crossing is that, even though it's sometimes wide, that particular spot has very little flow going and is essentially just a continuation of the lake itself, especially when the water is high. As you go downstream, the channel not only deepens, the current begins to pick up measurably.
Believe me, after coming up from Watkins and still facing the climb up to the top of Sunrise, the last thing you'll want to do is dilly dally and go route finding in that valley. All danger and hassle aside, it's not worth the time or extra effort. Just keep to the trail, walk higher ground if/when you need to, get it over with.
Having done a lot of cross country "short cuts" I can only add that the time you spend off trail you should expect to take at least twice as long to go the same distance you might have done on a trail. What's not on the map are those little 10-20 foot cliffs, the field of erratics (boulders left behind by a glacier), the grove of trees, the fallen trees, the tiny ups and downs that add up to something, and fields of pebbles on granite slab we fondly call "Sierra roller skates" that when sufficiently steep become fun filled rides.
I'm not saying that little side trip will be like that. Just that you shouldn't be surprised if you are looking down at something like that... it's fun, really. Honest.
Actually you aren't really coming up from Watkins to Olmsted, you descend into a nice wooded area that can be swampy in a dry year. The bugs and fun down there add to your Sierra experience. Then you come up to Olmsted, hiking in granite slab through the field of marmots and tourists, as they veer away from you (backpacker stench gets you great seats on shuttles!) and cross on trail to walk below the road over to Tenaya Lake. The mosquitos are there, yes, when the breezes die down. Once at the lake you will take a glorious picture of the lake from the outlet and wash your face in its calm waters. Reapply your DEET and put your headnet back on. After a refreshing slow wade across you continue on the trail up another ridge toward more forest and pass the little unnamed ponds full of mosquitos on your way to clouds rest.
I've never found a way to avoid mosquitos, really. Other than headnets, long loose sleeves, and DEET.
This is by the way not how I think it will really go, but how it has gone, many times, for me. How it'll probably be for me miles south of Yosemite this weekend, in fact, along with some great wading through meadows that are unavoidable.
That valley is tougher than it looks. Very dense. AT's right, it's all the stuff that doesn't show up on the map or sat images that gets you. You'll look down from Olmstead when you get there and realize that the trail will be faster and easier.
I guess it's my turn to clarify again. If you come over cross country from your stay at Watkins, it's down. If you leave via the same way you came up from the trail junction/ranger's cabin, you do have to climb. That part of the trail isn't so bad, but stay higher, work less, have a better day.
No, you won't escape the mosquitoes. If you don't walk through clouds of them, the clouds come to you.
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The different rights exist on a spectrum, from those that are unitary pan-European rights (such as Community Trade Marks and Registered Designs), to those that are heavily harmonised (for example national trade mark rights under the Trade Marks Directive) to those that have common features, but also national differences (such as copyright and patents).
The task of unpicking the implications for those different rights in the event of a Brexit would not be simple, but presumably the current legislation would remain exactly as it is for a considerable period. One immediate problem would be to assess whether pan European rights (Community Trade Marks and Registered Designs) would continue to offer protection in the UK post-Brexit. Presumably they would not, but to avoid huge disruptions to business it can only be assumed the UK's Intellectual Property Office would have to offer a system of "grandfathering" over the "UK element" of those European rights into separate analogous UK rights. Brexit would also almost certainly mean the end of the UK's eligibility to take part in the proposed new unitary EU patent and its planned role as a host of one of the central divisions of the proposed Unified Patent Court.
The limits of IP rights in the UK have also for many years been defined by the interplay with EU competition law. So, for example, trade mark licences to distributors could not prohibit those distributors from engaging in passive sales outside of their territory but within the EU and the act of placing IP-protected products on the market in one member state is deemed to "exhaust" the proprietor's right to object the subsequent free circulation of those goods within the EU. If UK IP law and EU competition law is to converge, then UK right holders may be able to control more tightly the circulation of their products on the wider market.
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How do I scroll on iPad?
There are no scroll bars on the Safari browser on the iPad. To scroll through your SignUp, take TWO fingers and swipe or drag your fingers down the screen.
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They are not usually found in other places such as a store or such. They are mainly used by Jedi's or Siths so it's not common for you to find it in a store. According to the Star Wars Wikia about lightsabers during the Clone Wars there as at least one that was sold in a store.
" At least one lightsaber was sold at a storefront for credit 500,000 at Pons Ora during the Clone Wars."
↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Missing in Action"
"When the Clone Wars began, Jedi lightsabers experienced a change in focus. Rather than being created as a meditative exercise, heavy-duty lightsabers built to stand up to the rigors of war became the norm."
So you can assume that they were mass produced for the Jedi's at around this point. Previously they had only been for meditative purposes and not used for war.
Rhinann: "The weapons of the Jedi were destroyed along with the Jedi. There are rumors that some lightsabers remain in the private collections of the extremely wealthy. But the only one that I am certain truly exists belongs to Darth Vader, and I doubt he'd part with it willingly."
Pavan: "A crystal then. I'll build my own. It'll be more in tune with my—"
Rhinann: "Adegan crystals, as well as Corusca, Ilum, and others, are under strict trade and commerce interdiction, per the orders of Emperor Palpatine."
Pavan: "I'll grow one, then."
Rhinann: "That may be possible. It will take some time, however, to assemble the necessary equipment and materials."
This implies that the necessary equipment and materials are rare at this point.
So overall before the Jedi Purge but after the Clone Wars there seemed to be a lot more than there was before the Clone Wars.
It seems that there are a very large amount of lightsabers, as shown in the second movie/episode Attack of the Clones, when Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan were in the arena, the clones came to the rescue along with some jedis. They Anakin and Obi had lightsabers tossed to them. To me it seems like there might be a very large source of them, the most valuable resource needed is a Crystal.
Were there Sith wielding non-red lightsabers?
Were lightsabers made to cauterize wounds because children were watching?
What's the name of this Star Wars novel where Obi-Wan kenobi fight's against a force cult and a deranged former Jedi?
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the race that is more of a contest.
progress - this is a joke - but is it harmful?
Primary is a nonevent - and maybe not harmful.
more they remain the same - but no harm has been done.
between all the candidates and produce the correct winner of the race.
primary election - it is possible.
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What makes a superior beach town? I’ve thought about that often, usually while gorging on steamed clams with butter or pedaling a bike along a seawall.
America does beaches extremely well, a point I didn’t begin to realize until my 20s, when I tried to sunbathe on a jam-packed stretch of Spanish shore. But too many of the towns along our coastlines have become charmless and generic. They feel like shopping malls with sand.
A great beach town must have shores that are spacious, picturesque, relatively uncrowded, and clean. Beyond that, its local culture not only has to service tourism but also transcend it. The town must have a prettiness about it that makes even a stroll to the grocery store an occasion for delight.
Finally, it has to be timeless, meaning that though restaurants come and go and shops get sold, the contours and vistas around them remain recognizable through generations.
My favorites go further. Their allure springs from distinctiveness. On first visit, they already feel comfortable, even familiar, while having that ineffable sense of being unlike anywhere you’ve been before.
Traveling around the country, I’ve rejoiced each time I have come across another of these American idylls. Weary of vacations that feel homogenized down to the margarita mix, I’ve resolved to celebrate as many as I can, lest the thousands of miles of U.S. coastline become one long, featureless stretch of big-box hotels and franchised stores, impossible to tell apart.
Encinitas, California: Just half an hour up the coast from the sprawl of San Diego, this thriving town of 60,000 travels in its own orbit. A surf culture coexists with holistic healing centers, vegan groceries, and what seems like a yoga studio on every block. Even the chain hotels seem to be individually styled.
Bethany Beach, Delaware: Bethany, together with South Bethany, offers a respite from the mass-scale tourism of this part of the Atlantic coast. They’re known as the quiet resorts, and though the mood occasionally gets raucous between late June and Labor Day, it’s an innocent 1950s kind of raucous.
Gulf Shores, Alabama: Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill may have left their mark and the casino culture of nearby Biloxi and Gulfport may beckon, yet Gulf Shores remains a languid, delightfully timeless place that feels like nowhere else. It’s worth coming just to eat the seafood, and to visit the shimmering West Beach.
Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina: A typical day here is two hours in a kayak paddling the marshlands, a grouper sandwich with slaw for lunch, an afternoon spent with a fishing rod, then a night out listening to a live country-rock band.
This piece, written by Bruce Schoenfeld, first appeared in the June/July 2014 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine.
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Context. In late November 2013 a fifth eruption in five years of the M31 recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a was announced.
Aims. In this Letter we address the optical lightcurve and progenitor system of M31N 2008-12a.
Methods. Optical imaging data of the 2013 eruption from the Liverpool Telescope, La Palma, and Danish 1.54m Telescope, La Silla, and archival Hubble Space Telescope near-IR, optical and near-UV data are astrometrically and photometrically analysed.
Results. Photometry of the 2013 eruption, combined with three previous eruptions, enabled construction of a template lightcurve of a very fast nova, t2 (V) ' 4 days. The archival data allowed recovery of the progenitor system in optical and near-UV data, indicating a red-giant secondary with bright accretion disk, or alternatively a system with a sub-giant secondary but dominated by a disk.
Conclusions. The eruptions of M31N 2008-12a, and a number of historic X-ray detections, indicate a unique system with a recurrence timescale of � 1 year. This implies the presence of a very high mass white dwarf and a high accretion rate. The recovered progenitor system is consistent with such an elevated rate of accretion.We encourage additional observations, especially towards the end of 2014.
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or 60 kilometers per hour. This is equivalent to 1,000 meters per minute or 16.7 meters per second.
While the average speed of the car is 60 kilometers per hour, over the course of its trip its speed probably varied considerably. At times, it may have sped up to 100 kilometers per hour, and at others it may have slowed to 15 kilometers per hour or temporarily stopped at a stoplight. The speed of an object at any given moment is known as its instantaneous speed. This is what the speedometer of a car measures. The instantaneous speed represents the distance traveled over a very short period of time (an instant) divided by that very short period of time. The average speed is equal to the total distance traveled divided by the total time of the journey.
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My own design concept of how Purple VRS app should be. If you’re curious what VRS means. Here’s the short meaning: A Video relay service (VRS), also sometimes known as a video interpreting service (VIS), is a videotelecommunication service that allows deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired (D-HOH-SI) individuals to communicate over video telephones and similar technologies with hearing people in real-time, via a sign language interpreter.
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Here's a hypothetical moral question for you? How would you respond? You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane....with severe flooding of biblical proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, and some are disappearing under the water. In short, Mother Nature is unleashing all of her destructive fury. Suddenly, you see a woman in the water. She is fighting for her life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the woman looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's Hillary Clinton! At the same moment you notice that the raging waters are about to take her under forever. You have two options .... (1) You can save the life of Hillary Clinton, or (2) You can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful women. THE QUESTION Here's the question, and please give an honest answer........................................................................................Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?
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Wear proper clothing Wearing clothing that will protect your skin from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays is very important. Protective clothing are long-sleeved shirts and pants are good examples. Also, remember to protect your head and eyes with a hat and UV-resistant sunglasses. You can fall victim to sun damage on a cloudy day as well as in the winter, so dress accordingly all year round.
Avoid the burn Sunburns significantly increase one’s lifetime risk of developing skin cancer. It is especially important that children be kept from sunburns as well.
Go for the shade Stay out of the sun, if possible, between the peak burning hours, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), are between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. You can head for the shade, or make your own shade with protective clothing – including a broad-brimmed hat, for example.
Use extra caution when near reflective surfaces, like water, snow, and sand Water, snow, sand, even the windows of a building can reflect the damaging rays of the sun. That can increase your chance of sunburn, even if you’re in what you consider a shady spot.
Use extra caution when at higher altitudes You can experience more UV exposure at higher altitudes, because there is less atmosphere to absorb UV radiation.
Apply broad-spectrum sunscreen Generously apply broad-spectrum sunscreen to cover all exposed skin. The “broad spectrum” variety protects against overexposure to ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) rays. The FDA recommends using sunscreens that are not only broad spectrum, but that also have a sun protection factor (SPF) value of at least 15 for protection against sun-induced skin problems.
Re-apply broad-spectrum sunscreen throughout the day Even if a sunscreen is labeled as “water-resistant,” it must be reapplied throughout the day, especially after sweating or swimming. To be safe, apply sunscreen at a rate of one ounce every two hours. Depending on how much of the body needs coverage, a full-day (six-hour) outing could require one whole tube of sunscreen.
UV rays are their strongest from 10 am to 4 pm Seek shade during those times to ensure the least amount of harmful UV radiation exposure. When applying sunscreen be sure to reapply to all exposed skin at least 20 minutes before going outside. Reapply sunscreen every two hours, even on cloudy days, and after swimming or sweating.
Wear a wide-brimmed hat To protect your vision, wear a wide-brimmed hat that keeps your face and eyes shaded from the sun at most angles.
Wear wrap-around style sunglass with 99 or higher UV block Effective sunglasses should block glare, block 99 to 100% of UV rays, and have a wraparound shape to protect eyes from most angles.
When planning your outdoor activities, you can decide how much sun protection you need by checking the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) UV index. This index measures the daily intensity of UV rays from the sun on a scale of 1 to 11. A low UV index requires minimal protection, whereas a high UV index requires maximum protection.
1. How many types of ultraviolet rays are there?
2. There are three main sun-protective protective behaviors – using sunscreen, wearing sun-protective clothing, seeking shade. What percent of adults say they usually practice at least one of the three behaviors?
3. What percentage of high school girls say they use sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher when they are outside for more than an hour on a sunny day?
4. What percentage of high school boys report that they stay in the shade, wear long pants, wear a long-sleeved shirt or wear a hat shading their face, ears and neck when they are out for more than an hour on a sunny day?
5. Using a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 will protect me during a day at the beach.
6. Sunscreen offers protection against all ultraviolet rays.
7. Which of the following are symptoms of sunburn?
9. It is better to wear bright or dark-colored clothes than pastels and bleached cottons.
10. People who start using tanning booths at a young age are more likely to develop melanoma.
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In the history of computer and video games, the fourth generation (more commonly referred to as the 16-bit era) of game consoles began on October 30, 1987 with the Japanese release of NEC Home Electronics' PC Engine (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America). Although NEC released the first console of this era, sales were mostly dominated by the rivalry between Nintendo's and Sega's consoles in North America: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES; the Super Famicom in Japan) and the Sega Genesis (named the Mega Drive in other regions). Handheld systems released during this time include the Nintendo Game Boy, released in 1989, and the Sega Game Gear, first released in 1990.
Nintendo was able to capitalize on its success in the previous, third generation, and managed to win the largest worldwide market share in the fourth generation as well. Sega, however, was extremely successful in this generation and began a new franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, to compete with Nintendo's Super Mario series of games. Several other companies released consoles in this generation, but none of them were widely successful. Nevertheless, there were other companies that started to take notice of the maturing video game industry and begin making plans to release consoles of their own in the future.
The emergence of fifth generation video game consoles, circa 1994, did not significantly diminish the popularity of fourth generation consoles for a few years. In 1996, however, there was a major drop in sales of hardware from this generation and a dwindling number of software publishers supporting fourth generation systems, which together led to a drop in software sales in subsequent years. Finally, this generation ended with the discontinuation of the Neo Geo in 2004.
The PC Engine was the result of a collaboration between Hudson Soft and NEC and launched in Japan on October 30, 1987, under the name PC Engine. It launched in North America on August 29, 1989.
Initially, the PC Engine was quite successful in Japan, partly due to titles available on the then-new CD-ROM format. NEC released a CD add-on in 1990 and by 1992 had released a combination TurboGrafx and CD-ROM system known as the TurboDuo.
In the United States, NEC used Bonk, a head-banging caveman, as their mascot and featured him in most of the TurboGrafx advertising from 1990 to 1994. The platform was well received initially, especially in larger markets, but failed to make inroads into the smaller metropolitan areas where NEC did not have as many store representatives or as focused in-store promotion.
The TurboGrafx-16 failed to maintain its sales momentum or to make a strong impact in North America. The TurboGrafx-16 and its CD combination system, the Turbo Duo, ceased manufacturing in North America by 1994, though a small amount of software continued to trickle out for the platform.
The Mega Drive was released in Japan on October 29, 1988. The console was released in New York City and Los Angeles on August 14, 1989 under the name Sega Genesis, and in the rest of North America later that year. It was launched in Europe and Australia on November 30, 1990 under its original name.
Sega built their marketing campaign around their new mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, pushing the Genesis as the "cooler" alternative to Nintendo's console and inventing the term "Blast Processing" to suggest that the Genesis was capable of handling games with faster motion than the SNES. Their advertising was often directly adversarial, leading to commercials such as "Genesis does what Nintendon't" and the "'SEGA!' scream".
When the arcade game Mortal Kombat was ported for home release on the Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo decided to censor the game's gore, but Sega kept the content in the game, via a code entered at the start screen. Sega's version of Mortal Kombat received generally more favorable reviews in the gaming press and outsold the SNES version three to one. This also led to Congressional hearings to investigate the marketing of violent video games to children, and to the creation of the Interactive Digital Software Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Sega concluded that the superior sales of their version of Mortal Kombat were outweighed by the resulting loss in consumer trust, and cancelled the game's release in Spain to avoid further controversy. With the new ESRB rating system in place, Nintendo reconsidered its position for the release of Mortal Kombat II, and this time became the preferred version among reviewers. The Toy Retail Sales Tracking Service reported that during the key shopping month of November 1994, 63% of all 16-bit video game consoles sold were Sega systems.
The console was never popular in Japan (being regularly outsold by the PC Engine), but still managed to sell 40 million units worldwide. By late 1995, Sega was supporting five different consoles and two add-ons, and Sega Enterprises chose to discontinue the Mega Drive in Japan to concentrate on the new Sega Saturn. While this made perfect sense for the Japanese market, it was disastrous in North America: the market for Genesis games was much larger than for the Saturn, but Sega was left without the inventory or software to meet demand.
The North American version of the Super NES (first model).
Nintendo executives were initially reluctant to design a new system, but as the market transitioned to the newer hardware, Nintendo saw the erosion of the commanding market share it had built up with the Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo's fourth-generation console, the Super Famicom, was released in Japan on November 21, 1990; Nintendo's initial shipment of 300,000 units sold out within hours. The machine reached North America as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on August 23, 1991,[cn 1] and Europe and Australia in April 1992.
Despite stiff competition from the Mega Drive/Genesis console, the Super NES eventually took the top selling position, selling 49.10 million units worldwide, and would remain popular well into the fifth generation of consoles. Nintendo's market position was defined by their machine's increased video and sound capabilities, as well as exclusive first-party franchise titles such as F-Zero, Starfox, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid.
The CD-i format was announced in the late '80s, with the first machines compatible with the format being released in 1991. The Phillips CD-i's main selling point was that it was more than a game machine and could be used for multimedia needs. Due to an agreement between Nintendo in Philips about an abortive CD add-on for the SNES, Philips also had rights to use some of Nintendo franchises. The CD-i was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1998, selling only 1 million units worldwide despite several partnerships and multiple versions of the device, some made by other manufacturers.
Released by SNK in 1990, the Neo Geo was a home console version of the major arcade platform. Compared to its console competition, the Neo Geo had much better graphics and sound, however the prohibitively expensive launch price of US$649.99 and games often retailing at over $250 made the console only accessible to a niche market. A less expensive version, retailing for $399.99, did not include a memory card, pack-in game or extra joystick.
Nintendo, NEC and Sega also competed with hardware peripherals for their consoles in this generation. NEC was the first with the release of the TurboGrafx CD system in 1990. Retailing for $499.99 at release, the CD add-on was not a popular purchase, but was largely responsible for the platform's success in Japan. The Sega CD was released with an unusually high price tag ($300 at its release) and a limited library of games. A unique add-on for the Sega console was Sega Channel, a subscription-based service (a form of online gaming delivery) hosted by local television providers. It required hardware that plugged into a cable line and the Genesis.
Nintendo also made two attempts with the Satellaview and the Super Game Boy. The Satellaview was a satellite service released only in Japan and the Super Game Boy was an adapter for the SNES that allowed Game Boy games to be displayed on a TV in color. Nintendo, working along with Sony, also had plans to create a CD-ROM drive for the SNES (plans that resulted in a prototype version of the Sony PlayStation), but eventually decided not to go through with that project, opting to team up with Philips in the development of the add-on instead (contrary to popular belief, the CD-i was largely unrelated to the project).
The fourth generation was also the era when the act of buying imported US games became more established in Europe, and regular stores began to carry them. The PAL region has a refresh rate of 50 Hz (compared with 60 Hz for NTSC) and a vertical resolution of 625 interlaced lines (576 effective), compared with 525/480 for NTSC. This means that a game designed for the NTSC standard without any modification would run 17% slower and have black bars at the top and bottom when played on a PAL television.[further explanation needed] Developers often had a hard time converting games designed for the American and Japanese NTSC standard to the European and Australian PAL standard. Companies such as Konami, with large budgets and a healthy following in Europe and Australia, readily optimized several games (such as the International Superstar Soccer series) for this audience, while most smaller developers did not.
Also, few RPGs were released in Europe because the market for the genre was not as large as in Japan or North America, and the increasing amount of time and money required for translation as RPGs became more text-heavy, in addition to the usual need to convert the games to the PAL standard, often made localizing the games to Europe a high-cost venture with little potential payoff. As a result, RPG releases in Europe were largely limited to games which had previously been localized for North America, thus reducing the amount of translation required.
Popular US games imported at this time included Final Fantasy IV (known in the USA as Final Fantasy II), Final Fantasy VI (known in the USA as Final Fantasy III), Secret of Mana, Street Fighter II, Chrono Trigger, and Super Mario RPG. Secret of Mana and Street Fighter II would eventually receive official release in Europe.
The first handheld game console released in the fourth generation was the Game Boy, on April 21, 1989. It went on to dominate handheld sales by an extremely large margin, despite featuring a low-contrast, unlit monochrome screen while all three of its leading competitors had color. Three major franchises made their debut on the Game Boy: Tetris, the Game Boy's killer application; Pokémon; and Kirby. With some design (Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light) and hardware (Game Boy Color) changes, it continued in production in some form until 2008, enjoying a better than 18-year run.
The Atari Lynx included hardware-accelerated color graphics, a backlight, and the ability to link up to sixteen units together in an early example of network play when its competitors could only link 2 or 4 consoles (or none at all), but its comparatively short battery life (approximately 4.5 hours on a set of alkaline cells, versus 35 hours for the Game Boy), high price, and weak games library made it one of the worst-selling handheld game systems of all time, with less than 500,000 units sold.
The third major handheld of the fourth generation was the Game Gear. It featured graphics capabilities roughly comparable to the Master System (better colours, but lower resolution), a ready made games library by using the "Master-Gear" adaptor to play cartridges from the older console, and the opportunity to be converted into a portable TV using a cheap tuner adaptor, but it also suffered some of the same shortcomings as the Lynx. While it sold more than twenty times as many units as the Lynx, its bulky design – slightly larger than even the original Game Boy; relatively poor battery life – only a little better than the Lynx; and later arrival in the marketplace – competing for sales amongst the remaining buyers who didn't already have a Game Boy – hampered its overall popularity despite being more closely competitive to the Nintendo in terms of price and breadth of software library. Sega eventually retired the Game Gear in 1997, a year before Nintendo released the first examples of the Game Boy Color, to focus on the Nomad and non-portable console products.
Other handheld consoles released during the fourth generation included the TurboExpress, a handheld version of the TurboGrafx-16 released by NEC in 1990, and the Game Boy Pocket, an improved model of the Game Boy released about two years before the debut of the Game Boy Color. While the TurboExpress was another early pioneer of color handheld gaming technology and had the added benefit of using the same game cartridges or 'HuCards' as the TurboGrafx16, it had even worse battery life than the Lynx and Game Gear – about three hours on six contemporary AA batteries – selling only 1.5 million units.
Tetris, 35 million (pack-in / separately).
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green, approximately 20.08 million combined (in Japan and the US) (details).
Chrono Trigger (SNES) by Square is frequently listed among the greatest video games of all time.
Dragon Quest V and VI (SFC) by Chunsoft, Heartbeat, and Enix were released on the Japanese Super Famicom, as well as remakes of the first three games originally released for the NES and a dungeon crawler spin-off: Torneko's Great Adventure, which started Chun Soft's popular Fushigi no Dungeon series.
Donkey Kong Country (SNES) by Rare and Nintendo turned the tide of the console war in favor of Nintendo and became the best-selling game since Super Mario Bros. 3, largely due to its impressive graphics.
FIFA International Soccer (Genesis, SNES) by Extended Play Productions and EA Sports has been described as one of the most influential sports games ever made.
Gunstar Heroes (Genesis) by Treasure and Sega is considered one of the best action games of the generation.
John Madden Football (1990) (Genesis, SNES) by Park Place Productions and EA Sports played an important role in the early success of both the Genesis console and Electronic Arts.
Super Metroid (SNES) by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Nintendo is still regarded by many gaming organizations as one of the "best games of all time."
Mortal Kombat (Arcade, Genesis, SNES) by Midway Games garnered heated controversy over its violent themes, with the uncensored Genesis version outselling the SNES version by nearly three-to-one, ultimately leading to a U.S. Congressional hearing and the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
NHLPA Hockey '93 (Genesis, SNES) by Park Place Productions and EA Sports is considered one of the most outstanding sports games ever made.
Phantasy Star II (Genesis) by Sega Consumer Development Division 2 and Sega has been cited as one of the best and most influential console RPGs.
Secret of Mana (SNES) by Square reintroduced the Seiken Densetsu series, originally conceived as a Final Fantasy spin-off, to Europe and North America.
Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis) by Sonic Team and Sega was Sega's bid to compete head-to head with Nintendo's Mario franchise, played a critical role in the success of the Genesis, and received widespread critical acclaim as one of the greatest games ever made.
Street Fighter II (Arcade, Genesis, SNES) by Capcom was the second game in the series to produce a lasting fanbase and set many of the trends seen in fighting games today, most notably its colorful selection of playable fighters from different countries across the globe. As of 2008, it is Capcom's best-selling consumer game of all time.
Streets of Rage 2 (Arcade, Genesis) by Sega AM7 and Sega is considered the best beat 'em up of the generation.
Super Monaco GP (Arcade, Genesis) by Sega set a new standard for realism in console racing games.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES) by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development (Nintendo EAD) and Nintendo is considered perhaps the finest 2D platformer.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) by Nintendo EAD and Nintendo courted popularity that was larger than that of its predecessors on the NES. It was one of the few action-adventures to be released early in the SNES's lifecycle. Zelda II on the NES had been mostly action-based and was side-scrolling, while A Link to the Past drew more inspiration from the original Zelda game with its top-down adventure format.
Ys Book I & II (TurboGrafx) by Nihon Falcom was among the first video games mass released on CD-ROM, when released in Japan in 1989 and in North America in 1990. In addition to receiving praise for its story and gameplay, the game pioneered several technical features, such as voice acting, animated cut scenes, and pre-recorded soundtracks, which would become industry standards later in the decade.
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Rock Paper Scissors is a simple world known board game. Which you can play against Artificial Intelligence.
Rock Paper Scissors is a game which is played by the symbols made by hands.
You can make various 3 symbols that are Rock Paper and Scissors.
Rock wins over scissors, paper wins over rock and scissors wins over paper.
The first one who gets five points, wins.
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I enjoy visiting new places, and since we are in the talking stages of next year’s summer vacation, I decided to suggest a few new locations. At the top of my list is Pensacola, on the west coast of Florida. I’m a little confused by Pensacola’s claim to be the first European settlement in the US, since I’ve been to St. Augustine many times and they also claim that title. So, I want to go to Pensacola and figure this out.
Pensacola was settled in 1559 and has existed under five different flags. It has some amazing historic areas, such as the Historic Pensacola Village and the Pensacola Lighthouse. The beaches are incredible with white, powdery sands and the calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. I want to explore Fort Pickens National Park, go shelling at Perdido Key, and perhaps even participate in a dig along the Pensacola Colonial Archaeological Trail.
My dogs will enjoy Pensacola because it is a dog-friendly city with much to offer pet owners, including the Bayview Dog Park and Beach, where dogs enjoy their very own beach, complete with showers. The National Naval Aviation Museum is also located in Pensacola, and we may just be able to witness a show by the Blue Angels. And, as a nod to the time of year and the inevitable “creep” factor that is ever-present in the month of October, St. Michael’s Cemetery is eight acres of 18th century gravesites. This cemetery was established by the King of Spain in 1807 and features self-guided walking tours. If that isn’t enough, the Pensacola Lighthouse was built in 1859 and is considered one of the most haunted lighthouses in America. The lighthouse was featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters.
Gaslight Square: I included this neighborhood because it is near the Cordova Mall and the Escambia River Wildlife Management Area, perfect for boating and fishing.
Lexington Square: This neighborhood has a little bit of everything. Plus, it is close to Pensacola Regional Airport and Pensacola State College.
Harbour Square: This is a quiet little area near the Escambia Bay. It is a nautical neighborhood with easy access to local beaches.
Northeast Pensacola: A popular location near University Mall and several pocket parks, including Camelot Park, Bryan Park, and Eastgate Park.
Williamsburg Gardens: This diverse neighborhood is near the bay and the University of West Florida, making it ideal for college students.
Southwest Pensacola: This is a large area with several green spaces, including Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park, which is home to four species of the endangered carnivorous pitcher plants. Cool!
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The Cadillacs were an American rock and roll and doo-wop group from Harlem, New York, active from 1953 to 1962. The group was noted for their 1955 hit "Speedoo", written by Esther Navarro, which was instrumental in attracting white audiences to black rock and roll performers.
The group came together as The Carnations in 1953, with the members Earl Carroll (lead vocalist), Bobby Phillips, Lavern Drake (bass vocalist), and Gus Willingham. As the group moved into the recording studios, James "Poppa" Clark was added as a fifth member, and the name "The Cadillacs" was given to them. The group's first recording came in July 1954, with Josie Records #765, featuring "Gloria" and "Wonder Why."
In 1955, Willingham and Clark left the group and were replaced by Earl Wade and Charles Brooks. At this time, the group first began to experiment with choreography, suggested by manager Esther Navarro. Later that year came the group's biggest hit, "Speedoo", Carroll's nickname. Lavern Drake left the group in 1956 and was replaced by J. R. Bailey.
That same year the Cadillacs released a doo-wop version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that peaked at No. 11 on Billboard magazine's Rhythm & Blues Records chart.
In 1957 differences in opinion caused the group to split. One group was initially known as The Four Cadillacs, with current bass J. R. Bailey, former bass Lavern Drake, and new members Roland Martinez and Bobby Spencer. The previous year, Bobby Spencer had written the "My Boy Lollipop" pop song shuffle for Barbie Gaye, which was played by Alan Freed and secured Barbie Gaye a spot in his 1956 Christmas Show opening for Little Richard. In 1964, an Ernest Ranglin produced ska version of the song became a multi-million seller for Jamaican teenager Millie Small and made producer Chris Blackwell rich, leading to further development of his Island Records label.
The other four current members – Carroll, Wade, Brooks, and Phillips – continued recording separately, later as Earl Carroll and the Cadillacs. Bailey's group also included former group saxophonist Jesse "Tex" Powell, and recorded in early 1958 as Jesse Powell and the Caddys. Both groups recorded simultaneously on Josie Records. Later in 1958, the groups combined back into one. Carroll's backup vocalists, Wade, Brooks, and Phillips, all decided to retire and Carroll joined Bailey, Drake, Martinez and Spencer. Carroll's lead spot had been given to Spencer and Bailey, and he left shortly thereafter, creating a new group, Speedo and the Pearls, which recorded briefly in 1959. In 1959, the Cadillacs were also featured in the movie Go Johnny, Go.
The group split and re-formed in 1960, with Carroll, Martinez, Kirk Davis, and bass Ronnie Bright. Later the group was Carroll, Martinez, the returning Bobby Spencer, Milton Love, and Reggie Barnes. Martinez, Love and Barnes were all members of The Solitares at one time.
In 1961, the group began to resemble The Coasters in their music. The lineup shifted again, now with Carroll, Martinez, Curtis Williams, Ray Brewster, and Irving Lee Gail. Carroll was out by 1962 to enter the group they'd been emulating, The Coasters, with Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, and Will "Dub" Jones. 1963 also ended the group's run on Josie Records.
Brewster and Martinez brought in former members Bobby Spencer and J. R. Bailey and continued to record through 1963. The group split, with Bailey joining the Jive Five. Brewster brought in former Cadillac/Solitare Milton Love with Solitares Bobby Baylor and Fred Barksdale. This group recorded briefly in 1964. Spencer became lead vocalist, with Joey Levine (Ohio Express, Reunion) as backing vocalist, for Crazy Elephant, a bubblegum music group, in 1969.
The Cadillacs were back in 1970 with J. R. Bailey, Bobby Spencer, original member Bobby Phillips (who had retired from Speedo's group during the split), and new member Leroy Binns, of The Charts. Steven Brown later replaced Phillips. Teddy Pendergrass came on as the groups drummer. The group split into the mid-1970s and some members joined Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, including Teddy Pendergrass as drummer ( Pendergrass would later transition to the lead singer for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes).
In 1979, Earl Carroll, Earl Wade, Bobby Phillips, and Steven Brown came together for two Subaru commercials in which they sang, "Cadillac drives Subaru," as part of the automaker's "car names" campaign.
Carroll had remained with the Coasters during this time, and left in the early 1990s to permanently re-form the Cadillacs with Phillips, Brown, Gary K. Lewis, and musical director Eddie Jones. Brown left in 2003. Phillips died in March 2011.
Earl "Speedo" Carroll died on November 25, 2012.
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Facebook said Thursday that it has deleted a number of pages on its platform that were operated by Russian news agency Sputnik and promoted anti-NATO sentiment in eastern European countries.
The company wrote in a blog post that the pages were used to "mislead" users about the content's source and the pages' purposes. Facebook says it took down 364 pages that were operated by Russian employees of state news agency Sputnik in central and eastern Europe.
More than 100 pages operated by Russian agents out of Ukraine were also taken down, based on a tip from U.S. law enforcement, the company said.
"The two operations we found originated in Russia, and one was active in a variety of countries while the other was specific to Ukraine," wrote Facebook's head of cybersecurity.
"We didn’t find any links between these operations, but they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing," the post continued.
Facebook went on to explain that the company had evidence of coordination by Russian agents using fake accounts on the platform, which it said was the basis for removing the accounts and Sputnik's pages.
"In these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action," the company wrote.
The company has faced criticism from U.S. and foreign lawmakers in recent months over how it handles millions' of users' data. In December, Democratic lawmakers indicated to The Hill that Congress would seek future testimony from CEO Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot ZuckerbergTech companies must act to stop horrific exploitation of their platforms The Hill's Morning Report — Combative Trump aims at Pelosi before Russia report Hillicon Valley: White House rejects Dem request for AT&T merger docs | Apple, Qualcomm end massive court fight | Ecuador says it faced 40M cyberattacks after Assange arrest | SpaceX wins NASA contract to fly craft into asteroid MORE on Facebook's business model and how other tech companies are given access to user data on the platform.
“It appears that Facebook has not been honest with Congress or the public about how it treats its users’ data,” Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. Frank Joseph PalloneOvernight Health Care: DOJ charges doctors over illegal opioid prescriptions | Cummings accuses GOP of obstructing drug pricing probe | Sanders courts Republican voters with 'Medicare for All' | Dems probe funding of anti-abortion group House Democrats probe Trump administration's funding of anti-abortion group Overnight Energy: Bernhardt confirmed as Interior chief | Dems probing if EPA officials broke ethics rules | Senators offer bipartisan carbon capture bill MORE (D-N.J.), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said last month.
“Based on these revelations, I’m concerned that Facebook may have provided the Committee with inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading responses to our questions, and we’ll be following-up,” he added.
The New York Times reported earlier this week that President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version of Mueller report Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of 'unprecedented steps' to 'spin' Mueller report MORE privately indicated multiple times in 2018 that he wanted the U.S. to withdraw from NATO.
The president reportedly made the comments around last July's alliance summit, where he roiled allies by criticizing Germany directly and questioning why other members did not spend more on defense. Trump said later that a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin went better than the NATO summit.
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Below is the text of the speech made by Sir John Major, the former UK Prime Minister from 1990 until 1997, in Bristol on 22 June 2016.
This is the last day we have left to try and persuade the British people to remain in the EU.
As Prime Minister, European rows upset many of my ambitions. I should wish to leave …. and yet I passionately believe that our jobs, homes, savings and family life will be safer and more secure if we remain in the EU.
Of course I understand there is concern over the current level of immigration – I stress current. I understand it – the PM understands it. But leaving the EU is no solution. To try and solve a short-term problem by doing so is to risk a far greater longer-term impact on our prosperity and place in the world.
If we were to leave, we would be seriously diminished as a country. I don’t want a Broken Britain without influence. And that is what we risk.
Throughout this campaign I – and others – have been accused of “scaremongering”. Of running a “Project Fear”. What a grotesque travesty of the truth.
So many respected bodies have pointed out the risks – and the Remain campaign has a duty to inform, correct myths and untruths – and to warn. That is Project Reality.
Of course being a member of the EU can be frustrating. Sometimes deeply frustrating. No-one knows that better than me – and the PM – for both of us have sat around that top table for many years.
But the benefits of being inside the EU are real and by far outweigh any downsides: our international prestige, influence, security, wellbeing are all enhanced inside Europe.
As I stand here beside a still very youthful and energetic PM … I am very much aware that I represent the “grey” vote – actually, I think I’ve probably represented that for many years …..
But this is an important point: many people my own age – and older – remember the last referendum in 1975. Many say “We voted IN then – but we never voted for this ….. we never voted for what we have now ….. this is my chance to reverse that … to get out of Europe”.
I understand that sentiment, but would put another one to them: our country, Europe – and the wider world – is a very different place than it was in 1975. The world has moved on – and we have had to move with it. Who would have imagined that China would become so economically dominant? Who would have imagined that the communist Soviet Union would collapse, and that wall of division – of hate – between the East and the West would be torn down? Who would have foreseen the Global Market?
Our country is as free as any in the world. We take freedom for granted. Political freedom. Freedom of movement. And these are not one-way freedoms: our children and grandchildren think nothing of hopping onto Eurostar and heading off to Paris for a weekend break. Or travelling around Europe with a backpack earning money to pay their way …. why should such freedoms be denied to others?
Our nation is instinctively compassionate, open-hearted, generous-spirited, fair-minded and tolerant. We balk against hatred and extremism. We are fiercely patriotic – but not nationalistic.
And it is patriotic to work with others to ensure our security; to improve our economic wellbeing; to carry British influence and British values around Europe and the world. The optimistic patriot looks outwards and forwards – not inwards and backwards.
I am at an age when I often look back. But I owe it to my children and my grandchildren to look forward.
And it is because I want the very best for their future – and for the future of your own children and grandchildren – that I wish to remain in the EU.
I want their futures to be safe. Secure. I want them to enjoy the freedoms that I have enjoyed. I want them to know prosperity not austerity. I want them to feel compassion for those in genuine need. I want them to reject hatred and violence – and to live in a country that does so too.
For these and many other reasons, we cannot – must not – pull up the drawbridge on our own country, and shrink back into ourselves. We need to be a strong voice, with a strong influence inside the EU and on the global stage.
If we leave, Europe would lose the country with the best performing economy; one of only two countries with a military capability and nuclear capacity; and the country with the longest, deepest and widest foreign policy reach.
And how ironic it would be if Britain – the nation that once, by her steadfastness saved Europe – were to end up as the architect of disarray across Europe.
If our nation does vote to leave – we must respect their decision.
But, if they vote to leave on the basis of half-truths, untruths and misunderstandings then – pretty soon – the gravediggers of our prosperity will have to account for what they have said and done.
But that will be of no consolation. For we will be out. Out for good. Diminished as an influence on the world. A truly Great Britain, shrunk down to a Little England.
This is not how our island story should go.
Tomorrow – millions of our fellow citizens can save our country from a mistake we will live to regret … for a very long time to come.
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Be your own boss and generate as much cash flow as you are willing to work for. Buying and selling houses is a natural business for every house investor. Some topics covered include: buying the right house you can resell fast, reselling in a hurry to generate cash today, setting up your business to minimize risk and taxes, where to get cash for down payments, avoiding the installment sale tax trap, selling on lease options to save commissions and closing costs.
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Finally, it is time to vote for a new president and you are really excited about that. You know that the final results may take weeks to be announced, while you can't really wait to see the results.
Somehow you managed to get the preferences list for every voter (we don't care how you managed to get this piece of information!). Each voter sorted out all candidates starting by his most preferred candidate and ending with his least preferred one. When voting, a voter votes for the candidate who comes first in his preferences list. For example, if there are 5 candidates (numbered 1 to 5), and the preferences list for one voter is [3, 2, 5, 1, 4] and the current competing candidates in the voting process are candidates 2 and 4, the voter will vote for candidate number 2.
1. There are C candidates (numbered from 1 to C), and V voters (V is always an odd number).
2. The election process consists of up to 2 rounds. All candidates compete in the the first round. If a candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, he wins, otherwise another round takes place, in which only the top 2 candidates compete for the presidency. The candidate who receives more votes than his opponent wins and becomes the new president.
3. You can safely assume that the given preferences will never cause a situation in which the second and the third candidates from the first round receive the same number of votes.
4. The voters' preferences are the same in both rounds, and each voter must vote exactly once in each round for a currently competing candidate according to his preferences.
Given the preferences lists, you need to write a program to figure out which candidate will win and in which round.
Your program will be tested on one or more test cases. The first line of the input will be a single integer T, the number of test cases (1 ≤ T ≤ 100). Followed by the test cases, the first line of a test case contains two integers C and V separated by a single space. C and V (1 ≤ C, V ≤ 100) represent the number of candidates and voters respectively, followed by V lines each line contains C integers separated by a single space, representing the preferences list for a single voter (the first is his most preferable candidate while the last is his least preferable one). Each integer from 1 to C will appear exactly once in each line.
For each test case, print on a single line two integers separated by a single space. The first integer is the ID of the winner candidate (a number from 1 to C), the second integer is either 1 or 2 indicating whether this candidate will win in the first round or the second one respectively.
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Who says there are no Jews in sports? 7'4" Eric G was born on 26 December 1973 in Israel. Okay, so there are ALMOST no Jews in sports.He is a 7'4" center who was a member of the United States basketball team at the 2001 Maccabiah Games -- where the U.S. won the gold medal for the first time since 1985. In high school, Eric was awkward and uncoordinated and did not even start for the team despite being over 7' tall! While at tiny Williams College, he began training harder and although his development was slow (he appeared in only 22 games in three years), he began to get into shape and became more comfortable with his body.
In 1996, Eric was the talk of the NBA as he worked out for 35 NBA scouts. Although he was not drafted that year, he joined the Chicago Bulls' training camp. Despite being seven-feet tall by his senior year in high school, Eric played sparingly because his skills were underdeveloped. After high school, he decided to attend Williams College, a small Division III school. At Williams, he continued to play basketball, but only appeared in 22 games over three years. During that time, however, he continued to learn the game, and worked very hard to get into shape and become more comfortable with his body on the basketball court. In 1994, Eric was set to transfer to West Virginia as a walk-on. Joining the Big East team was a great step forward in his career, but misfortune struck before he got the opportunity.
Driving his car that Labor Day weekend, he was cut off by a van, resulting in a horrific accident. Unconscious for many minutes, Eric would later need nine operations and eight blood transfusions, but he did not give up his dream. Although he never played a minute for West Virginia, he continued to work at improving his skills on the court. He returned to Williams, but did not play on the team. Instead he worked and trained independently with his agent, Larry Gillman. In 1996, Eric declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft. A number of teams sent scouts to watch him work out and many came away impressed, but were worried because he had so little competitive experience. Although he was not drafted, he signed with the Chicago Bulls in September 1996, and they invited him to their training camp.
He remained with the Bulls until October 27, three days before the season opener. Despite the disappointment of not making the NBA, he has continued to play. He played in Israel for Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1997-98, and was a teammate of Doron Sheffer and Nadav Henefeld as they won the Israeli League title. Eric played professionally in Belgium, and was a member of the U.S. team at the 2001 Maccabiah Games. Gingold also featured in the movie "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" (with Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.), where he played the role of the Jewish Giant (Eddie Carmel?) He graduated from law school in 2002 and was admitted to the New York, New Jersey and US District Court. He works for a Park Avenue law firm and represents hospitals and physicians in the area of medical malpractice litigation.
Little Alex is not much bigger than daddy Eric's foot. I hope he doesn't get stepped on!
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Congratulations - you have completed Para Jumbles:Test-5.
1. The wind had savage allies.
A. If it had not been for my closely fitted helmet, the explosions might have shattered my eardrums.
B. The first clap of thunder came as a deafening explosion that literally shook my teeth.
C. I did not hear the thunder I actually felt it – an almost unbearable physical experience.
D. I saw lightning all around me in every shape imaginable.
6. It was raining so torrentially that I thought I would drown in mid air.
The best way to solve this jumble is to identify the first sentence of the passage.
The passage may start with C but we can see that C is merely a continuation of B in which thunder is introduced as the savage ally of wind.
Hence the correct option is option A.
1. All human beings are aware of the existence of a power greater than that of the mortals – the name given to such a power by individuals is an outcome of birth, education and choice.
A. Logically, therefore such a power should be remembered in good times also.
B. Their other philanthropic contributions include the construction and maintenance of religious places such as temples or gurudwaras.
C. Industrial organizations also contribute to the veneration of this power by participating in activities such as religious ceremonies and festivities organized by the employees.
D. This power provides an anchor in times of adversity, difficulty and trouble.
6. The top management/ managers should participate in all such events, irrespective of their personal choice..
The introductory sentence mentions the existence of a greater power and statement D starts with ‘this power’ thus we can infer that statement D would be the starting sentence of the passage.
statement A is the right continuation of D as ‘ therefore such a power’ takes the passage forward and gives meaning to it thus we don’t need to look at the other options , making option C the correct answer.
1. But the vessel kept going away.
A. He looked anxiously around.
B. There was nothing to see but the water and empty sky.
C. He could now barely see her funnel and masts when heaved up on a high wave.
D. He did not know for what.
6. A breaking wave slapped him in the face choking him.
The given introductory sentence suggests that a ship is drifting away from someone thus the next sentence should be logically coherent with this idea and only statement C follows.
There is only one option starting with statement C but to be sure we check others out too.
If A is followed by statement D then statement B the passage becomes more meaningful hence the correct option is c.
1. Managers must lead by example they should not be averse to giving a hand in manual work; if required.
A. They should also update their competence to guide their subordinates; this would be possible only if they keep in regular touch with new processes, machines, instruments, gauges, systems and gadgets.
B. Work must be allocated to different groups and team members in clear, specific terms.
C. Too much of wall-building is detrimental to the exercise of the ‘personal charisma’ of the leader whose presence should not be felt only through notices, circulars or memos, but by being seen physically.
D. Simple, clean living among one’s people should be insisted upon.
6. This would mean the maintaining of an updated organization chart; laying down job descriptions; identifying key result areas; setting personal targets; and above all monitoring of performance to meet organizational goals.
The sentence given to us mentions the qualities of a manager and statement A is a continuation of this sentence as it starts with ‘they’ i.e. the managers and what they should practice at work.
Statement C also describes the do-not of a leader (manager) thus making option D the correct answer .
1. The top management should perceive the true worth of people and only then make friends.
A. Such ‘true friends’ are very few and very rare.
B. Factors such as affluence, riches, outward sophistication and conceptual abilities are not prerequisites for genuine friendship.
C. Such people must be respected and kept close to the heart.
D. Business realities call for developing a large circle of acquaintances and contacts; however, all of them will be motivated by their own self-interest and it would be wrong to treat them as genuine friends.
Since all options start with option A, we need to find out the second sentence of the passage.
so we try them first.
Statement B would be a more logical successor to statement C as it expands on the qualities of a genuine friendship.
The correct option is option D.
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I am writing to enquire about the following item which I saw on the Anderson Wallrock website: "Oak yacht tiller mounted on two deck planks"
Oak yacht tiller mounted on two deck planks from the author Arthur Ransome's 1931 Hilliard built yacht 'Nancy Blackett'.
The tiller is from author Arthur Ransome's yacht 'Nancy Blackett', named after the fictional pirate captain in his Swallows and Amazons series. The yacht also starred in another of his books, 'we Didn;t Mean To Go To Sea' in which was called 'Goblin'.
The yacht was found semi derelict in Scarborough Harbournin 1988 and was then taken over by the Nancy Blackett Trust and has since undergone extensive restoration.
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OK so I have about $15000 in Mutual Funds (Canadian RRSPs to be exact - these are like 401Ks, I think, where the money invested is for retirement and is not taxed until withdrawn).
I also have about $30,000 in debt that I am paying off.
Half of it is a line of credit at 9%; the other half is credit card debt at about 12%.
Until now, my strategy was to leave my investment money where it is, and allow it to grow despite the temptation to use it to pay off the debt.
Now, if the economy goes to hell, I am assuming that the credit card companies and banks will jack up the interest rates (is this a safe assumption?) and that the value of my investments will plummet (which is expected).
I'm not so concerned about the investments - I normally would have "stayed the course" considering that I am a far way off from retirement, however but I am concerned about the debt - if the interest rates rise, it might become difficult to pay these off in a timely fashion.
1) Stay the course, watch the value of my funds drop (temporarily at least) and risk paying more interest on my debts and extend this already long and painful course of financial redemption (at the risk of my happiness, health and marriage).
2) Liquidate the mutual funds, pay the up-front tax, pay the income tax on the money I am cashing out, and reduce my debt by 1/3, for the sole purpose of having a smaller debt in the event that interest rates go up.
Given this assumption, do you think it would be a better idea to liquidate the mutual fund, pay the up-front taxes, pay the income tax.
I'm still thinking Door #1 (stay the course). But I am curious to know what the hive mind thinks!
My understanding on credit card debt is that they can't arbitrarily raise your interest rate unless you agree to it. Continuing to use the card would constitute agreement, but if they try to jack your rate way up, and you decline the rate increase within the time limit, all they can do is close the account to new transactions. You continue to pay your old debts at your old rate.
This, however, is legal advice from someone on the internet, based on things that someone read on the internet, so take it with an entire box of kosher salt.
I'm not an investment guru, but I can't see why you haven't already chosen option 2. What fund could beat 12% interest on a debt?
You're going to have to do ALL the math on this one -- when you sell the stocks now, the tax and transaction fees will eat into that number. As well, you're certainly selling at or near the bottom of the market (unless we're on our way to bartering, civil wars, and conflagration of society, in which case whatever choice you make doesn't matter) so that'll also impact the value. That being said, the debt is actually 'negative' investment -- unless your investments will end up making more money than the cost of the debt, you're still losing money. That's what you need to do the math to figure out.
Right now, you're essentially investing in the stock market with other people's money. That works if you're making more than you're paying for the money (that's why businesses borrow money, because they can invest it in their company, grow their business, and then pay it back, having made a profit greater than their cost of the money), but that doesn't work in your current situation.
Hate to tell you, but this isn't Investing 201 -- this is Investing 101. NEVER invest money if you have debt, unless the debt is serviceable at a lower rate than your investment profit. But also keep in mind that debt cost is generally predictable while investment profit rarely is. Notice how I said the same thing five times? Sell the stock.
usually the strategy towards retirement RRSPs is to stay the course, over several decades, and not react to fluctuations in the market. My own bank reminded me of this yesterday after I asked a very similar question to yours (should I rebalance my RRSP/change funds I'm invested in etc. in light of the economic situation).
I digress but my bank also told me, the failure to pass the bail out was a calculated ploy by the US Gov't to see how the market would react. If the reaction was severe enough they'd go back and pass the bailout.
oh and P.S. - think about cutting up your credit cards. I don't know your circumstances, but IMHO if you're racking up >$15,000 worth of credit card debt, maybe you have a spending issue?
Look here for withdrawal issues. If you are in Quebec, you pay 30% to take your $15,000. So you end up with $10,500. That won't even pay the half of you debt you're carrying at 9%. And you lose the benefits of the RRSP. And you can't re-contribute that money.
Focus on using your income to pay down your debts. Strip out all of the unnecessary things and pay as much as you can towards your debts every month. Call your creditors and ask for a reduction in your interest rate. Do you have a hobby you can monetize? I infer that you're already on this course but it's kind of stressful. Do what you need to do to preserve health, happiness, and marriage along the way.
Check my math, and my sources of info, and keep in mind that I'm only an expert (sort of) in my own finances, which aren't even Canadian.
If you're far from retirement, let the money stay. I don't know how those accounts work in Canada or how much the penalty is but stay the course. If you do anything, contribute less and put that new money towards debts.
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In the middle of the “City of Lights”, on its own island on the Seine, lays one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, and a paragon of Gothic architecture. Made famous by numerous novels, among which the most known is probably Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, the cathedral has a rare power among the structures: to transport its observer back in time upon the first glimpse, to inspire one's imagination to recreate the scenery of the Middle age Parisian life, and also the universe of Quasimodo, Cosette, and d'Artagnan.
Legend has it that Maurice de Sully , the Bishop of Paris in the second half of the 12th century, had a dream of a glorious new cathedral and drew the blueprints right on the grounds where the Notre Dame is today. In truth, he had the former Paris cathedral, Saint-Étienne, demolished because he thought it unworthy of the role of the "Parisian church of the Kings of Europe".
Construction began in 1163 and was not completely finished until 1345. The choir construction took 14 years, and the high altar was finished in 1182. Maurice de Sully oversaw the construction and dedicated his whole attention and wealth to the cathedral, and in 1208 it was almost complete. The final wall was already cast, but it took almost 40 years to be finished. Construction was slow because many architects worked on the project, and each of them brought changes in design, the most significant being the remodeling of the transepts in the Rayonnant style.
In 1548, during the events of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre , certain pieces of the cathedral have been destroyed by the revolting Huguenots, who considered them idolatrous. One century later, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Notre Dame suffered some modifications in the crown's effort to modernize churches according to European fashion.
During the French Revolution, the cathedral became a food warehouse while reclaimed by the Cult of Reason, and the Cult of Supreme Being. In 1793, several facade statues were beheaded, and the spire was destroyed along with many valuable items inside. The statue heads were been recovered in 1977 and exposed at the Musée de Cluny .
In 1845, the cathedral underwent a restoration, following a program which is believed to have been initiated due to Victor Hugo's novel, which drew attention over the condition of the Notre Dame. The restoration took five years to complete, including the famous chimeras, and the rebuilding of the spire.
During World War II, minor damage was caused to the stained glass windows which have been remade with non-religious designs.
In 1991, another major restoration program began, which is still ongoing today due to the delicacy of the sculptures' restoration process. In 1992, an organ modernization was complete, making it unique in France, being fully computerized under three networks.
Notre Dame's world-renown architecture has no need for any introduction. A masterpiece of the Gothic style, it is easily recognizable by its facade's intricacy and famous gargoyles, which have a more important role than that of simple decoration. Notre Dame's walls were built higher than originally planned, and this required extra stability as they were starting to present fissures and were pushing outward. To counter this, the architects built several additions, among which the flying buttress - the external side arches, and the different gargoyles, intended as column supports. Though initially painted, they now share the same stone gray tone. The cathedral's organ counts 7,374 pipes, roughly 900 of which are historical pieces. The head organist of Notre Dame is one of the most prestigious posts in France.
Notre-Dame is free to visit, but to go up to the bell towers and to visit the crypts, there are fees. The cathedral is open daily from 7:45 AM to 6:45 PM.
The towers are accessible through a climb of 387 steps, during which the bells and gargoyles can be admired from up close while the top offers a breathtaking view of Paris City.
Notre Dame is considered the “kilometer zero” of Paris. The closest metro stations are Cite, which is right on the island, and Saint-Michel Notre Dame (also RER station), both in walking distance of the cathedral.
Located right in the center of Paris, Notre Dame has a lot of attractions in its vicinity. The Pantheon and the Luxembourg Gardens are merely two metro stations to the south. The Royal Palace, and The Louvre are within walking distance towards northeast - you can reach them by strolling along the Seine, which is a pleasure in itself, to admire the variety of docked boats, some of which also serve as dwellings for their traveling owners. If you feel like taking a longer walk, continue in the same direction after you pass the Louvre will take you to the Eiffel Tower, while taking a right up north will get you to the Opera House, which although eclipsed by the other Paris landmarks, is a must-see architectural jewel.
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How safe are Australian roads?
On average, more than 100 Australians die on the road every month. Around 2,500 or more are seriously injured, often causing lower quality of life and loss of income through permanent disability. It must be understood that every death or serious injury on the road is an avoidable tragedy. Each person lost is unique and irreplaceable. An annual road death and trauma count of more than 30,000 Australians is unacceptable.
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Steven Spielberg has done World War II movies a lot but War Horse is his first World War I movie. It is peculiar in a lot of ways. For one, it is a war movie rated PG-13 (and distributed by Disney). Not that it is not occasionally brutal. War Horse also has a rather unusual protagonist: this World War I tale is told through the eyes of the horse Joey. It is a somewhat convoluted story centered on his wartime woes. Human characters come and go; Joey changes English, German and French masters. Interestingly, Joey's feats are mostly simple and the focus is on survival rather than heroics.
This is also a traditional movie in a lot of ways. It is romanticized and sentimental. This sentimentality often shows in Spielberg movies but here it is taking center stage. In a traditional fashion, Germans and French speak English amongst themselves with the corresponding stereotypical accents. The music score of veteran composer John Williams is traditional to the point of coming through as generic. Cinematography is also old school in manipulating reality, no matter if its Devon's meadows, French forests or the mud of the Somme.
In this thirteenth collaboration between Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski both England's warm rural landscapes and the foggy war views are beautifully rendered. The latter are almost too beautiful. Spielberg has always been a master of storytelling with the camera. And War Horse doesn't disappoint here. It is invariably technically impressive. Cinema buffs will delight in the numerous clever shots throughout the movie. One can argue that cinematography is the film's best merit. This, or the amazing lack of CGI in the numerous horse stunts involving Joey (five horses played him; each one specialized in specific skills).
War Horse is also occasionally whimsical. Which is not surprising when your main protagonist is a horse. It is hard to rein a story like that. (See what I did there.) But in fact, these whimsical moments are amongst the movie's best. In particular, Joey's wild gallop through the trenches at the Somme and a consequent surreal scene in No man's land. On the other hand, the final scene may be a bit too blunt with its color choice.
War Horse wastes no time in establishing human characters other than the boy who raised Joey and his family. This helps to keep the pace going. But also effectively turns everyone else into passing figures. Which is both good and bad. Good, because it reinforces the feeling of passing through war and leaving people behind. Bad, because the audience has little time to relate with Joey's masters which strengthens the sense of a somewhat messy narrative.
It is easy to recommend War Horse for its visuals and technical competence. But some viewers may find it overly sentimental, while others may find the story of a horse and a boy getting separated lacking. I certainly would not think it worthy of a Best Picture Oscar nomination but apparently the Academy thought otherwise.
Nice review. You make a good point about a weakness in the structure of having the humans come and go from the story. I also agree that some might find it too sentimental, but overall it is a good movie and I was not surprised that it ended up being nominated this year, considering the number of nominations.
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Software patents have been a somewhat controversial topic within the IP community for some time now, especially due to their heavy association with patent trolls. These Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) or otherwise known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) exist for the sole or primary reason of enforcing patents which they own with no actual intention to ever use them themselves for the development of goods or services. As such these practices are highly questionable, at least on an ethical standpoint. The Goodlatte Innovation Act is attempting to curb these practices; however has yet to pass through the legislature and become law in the United States, following a similar approach to their Kiwi brothers in New Zealand who have since, potentially at least, ended software patents in late 2013. Software patents have been disputed in the long-going case of Alice Corporation v CLS Bank, which is being heard in the US Supreme Court, and will undoubtedly address the current state of software patents and their use in the US.
The case concerns several patents owned by Alice Corporation relating to the facilitation of securities trading, and more specifically, the reduction of risks for parties not fulfilling their part in their contractual obligations such as patent number 7725375. Independently from Alice CLS Bank developed their own software which fulfilled a similar function, potentially infringing Alice's patents. Due to this CLS sought a declaratory judgment from the courts intending for Alice's patents to be invalidated, as per their argument, the patents would not be patent eligible due to them being merely abstract ideas, not falling under the requirements of 35 USC section 101. CLS' argument asserts that what Alice have patented merely covers basic economic concepts; however Alice argue that abstract ideas should only be interpreted narrowly, including things such as facts of nature. Ultimately the Supreme Court face the dilemma of deciding how far the abstract patent doctrine extends, potentially impacting a large industry of software patents.
Abstract ideas, although expressly prohibited by the Supreme Court in their decision in Diamond v Chakrabarty, are still assessed on a case-by-case basis, still leaving ideas which seem abstract potentially within the remit of section 101. As such the Supreme Court has stated that "...Congress took this permissive approach to patent eligibility to ensure that ingenuity should receive a liberal encouragement", allowing for a wide margin of flexibility within this scope. The rationale behind the rejection of abstract ideas is because "...abstract intellectual concepts are not patentable, as they are the basic tools of scientific and technological work".
In the District Court of the District Columbia Justice Collyer saw that Alice's patents were not eligible as they sought to patent, in her Honor's mind, fundamental concepts and were therefore abstract ideas. Subsequently in the Court of Appeals the decision of the District Court was reversed, deciding that "[t]he asserted claims appear to cover the practical application of a business concept in a specific way", noting their extensive implementation through computers. The limitations the patents' implementations faced was, in the Court's view, integral to their patentability, therefore not merely encompassing abstract ideas which could be implemented quite easily. CLS sought an en banc (all of the judges of a particular court reside as opposed to only a select few) rehearing of the decision. With the Court of Appeals rehearing the case en banc, the majority of the Court of Appeals' judges saw that the patents were not patentable due to their abstract nature, concurring with the initial District Court decision.
As one can very well see the case is very complex and while this article aimed to set out the basics of the case as an informative starting-point prior to the Supreme Court decision, some specifics had to be omitted. This writer would welcome any and all interested in this case to read the included source material thoroughly if you want a more nuanced understanding of the case as a whole.
The case ultimately boils down to how the Supreme Court balances a much narrower definition, preventing partly or mostly the definition of more general ideas in software, against a broad-ended, much vague definition of an abstract idea, potentially inhibiting future innovation as a result. Justice Breyer touched on this, preferring a much narrower allowance of abstractivity: "...instead of having competition on price, service and better production methods [if software patents are not allowed or restricted], we'll have competition on who has the best patent lawyer". Arguably Justice Breyer does have a point, and the backlash against software patents in the past several years would only indicate such a direction as well. But again, the issue is not that simple, and this writer for one awaits the Supreme Court's decision with interest.
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Charlotte Amalie ( or ), located on St. Thomas, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. Virgin Islands, founded in 1666 as Taphus (meaning "beer houses" or "beer halls" ). In 1691, the town was renamed to Amalienborg (in English Charlotte Amalie) after Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650–1714), queen consort to King Christian V of Denmark. It contains a deep-water harbor that was once a haven for pirates and is now one of the busiest ports of call for cruise ships in the Caribbean, with about 1.5 million cruise ship passengers landing there in 2004. Protected by Hassel Island, the harbor has docking and fueling facilities, machine shops, and shipyards and was a U.S. submarine base until 1966. The town has been inhabited for centuries. When Christopher Columbus came here in 1493, the area was inhabited by both Island Caribs and Taino. It is located on the southern shore at the head of Saint Thomas Harbor. In 2010 the city had a population of 18,481, which makes it the largest city in the Virgin Islands Archipelago. Hundreds of ferries and yachts pass through town each week, and at times the population more than doubles.
The city is known for its Danish colonial architecture, building structure and history, and a dozen streets and places throughout the city have Danish names. Charlotte Amalie has buildings of historical importance including St. Thomas Synagogue, the second-oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, and the oldest Lutheran church in the Western Hemisphere, the Frederick Lutheran Church. The town has a long history of pirates, especially stories of Bluebeard and Blackbeard (Edward Teach). In the 17th-century, the Danes built both Blackbeards Castle and Bluebeards Castle attributed to the pirates. Blackbeards Castle is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Another tourist attraction is Fort Christian, the oldest standing structure in the Virgin Islands Archipelago. A copy of the Liberty Bell is located in Emancipation Park, which is a tourist attraction.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus encountered numbers of Native Americans living in the present day archipelago of the United States Virgin Islands. Archaeological records indicate that the islands have been home to Indian tribes, including the taino people, arawak people, kalinago people, and the ciboney people. Several of them lived in present day Charlotte Amalie in small fishing communities. As was the case in most of the Americas, the native population died relatively quickly from disease when the Europeans settled. As the Spanish early focused their energy on Puerto Rico and other Caribbean Islands, Saint Thomas remained unprotected for a long time, leaving Charlotte Amalie’s sheltered coves to be frequented by pirates, including Bluebeard and Blackbeard, as well as mariners and European settlers.
Located mid-island on the south shore of the mountainous island of Saint Thomas, Charlotte Amalie stretches about 1.5 miles around Saint Thomas Harbor from the Havensight district where the cruise ships land in the east, to Frenchtown and the Sub Base neighborhoods on the west. The red walls of the Danish Fort Christian and the open space of Emancipation Garden and the Vendor’s Market are the center of old town. Many of the city’s historic buildings and businesses stand on the slopes of Government Hill just north of Emancipation Garden. This is “Kongens Quarter”. To the west, spanning the area between Waterfront Dr and Dronningens Gade (Main street), are a score of alleys, each lined with colonial warehouse buildings that have been turned into stores and urban malls. Protected by the peaks of Water Island and Hassel Island, Saint Thomas Harbor makes a deep indentation in the island. The bay affords vistas from lookout points as high as 1,500 feet (460 m), including for instance Drake’s Seat.
Charlotte Amalie is built on three low volcanic spurs called Frenchman Hill (Foretop Hill), Berg Hill (Maintop), and Government Hill (Mizzentop). Charlotte Amalie is located at coordinates 18°21 north and 64°57 west.
The economy is based on tourism, handicrafts, jewelry, and the production of rum, bay rum, and jams. As well as being the USVI’s political capital, the city is also the port capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands. With more cruise ship visits a year than any Caribbean island, Charlotte Amalie is the most popular cruise ship destination in the Caribbean Sea. Up to eleven cruise ships can occupy the harbor on any given day – though usually there are about five.
The culture is a mixture of American- and Afro-Caribbean culture, with an influence from Danish colonial history. There are American fast food chains located in the city, as well as local restaurants serving only Caribbean cuisine. Grocery stores contain American items, but also include local items such as rum. Seafood and local produce can be found at open-air markets.
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Black Sesame seeds are very easily available and are important for cooking several traditional spicy dishes. Its medicinal and health applications are wide as it is a good source of hair nourishing vitamins and minerals such as copper, manganese, amino acids, selenium, melanin, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, vitamin B1, dietary fiber and also contain natural antioxidants. Its consumption in your daily meal encourages Bone Health, Prevents Osteoporosis and also help with sleeping disorders. Black sesame seeds have higher iron content than other varieties of sesame available for human use and hence they are very beneficial for treating anemic patients. Anti-cancer compounds like phytic acid, magnesium, and phytosterols are also present in it which defines its importance.
What is black sesame called in Hindi, Marathi Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu and Other Indian Languages(Regional)?
Black Sesame seeds are commonly known as ‘Kala Til‘ in Hindi, ‘Blāk Nuvvulu‘ in Telugu, ‘blākk Ellu‘ (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada), ‘Kaale Teel‘ in Marathi, ‘Blēka tala’ In Gujarati, and ‘Til‘ in Bengali.
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Would you delight your palate with one of the best vegan burger?
If you would give a try to this flavorful, satisfying, crunchy veggie burger, you’re in the right place!
The truth of this recipe is that it’s not only truly easy to prepare, but it is also “insanely” as healthy as tempting.
This a burger is appreciated by the adults and children.
Put in a food processor all the ingredients, then add the whole wheat bread crumbs and thicken the mixture.
In the meantime, add some olive oil, mix until well processed.
Shape the mixture in 8 middle-sized veggie burgers.
To cook, heat a large iron gridiron over medium/ medium-high heat (or cook on the grill!). Cook them 3-4 minutes for each side.
These burgers are delicious with some extra virgin olive oil, or other desired toppings. They’re also great with an avocado sauce, and tomatoes, as I served them.
Alternatively, serve over salads, vegetables, or enjoy as is!
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Article: Managed Hosting What's it all about?
A new trend, appearing in the Web Hosting industry, is the concept of Managed Web Hosting. Web hosts have been offering dedicated servers for a while now, however, because dedicated servers can be difficult to operate technically, there has been a demand for web hosts to provide extra services such as: reporting and monitoring; managed load balancing; managed security; managed storage; and, managed databases. These extra services are referred to as 'managed hosting'.
Before you think about managed hosting you will first need to decide whether or not you need a dedicated server. You will need a dedicated server if you have a hightraffic web site. If you only have a small web site with low traffic levels then a shared hosting arrangement should be fine. A dedicated server is more expensive to rent and more difficult to operate than a shared hosting solution but if your business depends on a steady service then you should seriously consider renting a dedicated server.
The only disadvantage with dedicated web hosting is that you will have to do a lot of the server administration yourself, and to do this you will need to possess some technical skills; hence the demand for managed hosting. If you fall into this category of needing a dedicated server but you need your host to provide system administration services such as security, firewalls, monitoring and reporting services, and data backup then most likely you will need managed hosting.
How do you find Managed hosting packages?
Many web hosts who once provided only shared and dedicated web hosting are now beginning to offer managed services too. A good place to start looking for managed hosting is through web hosting directories and search engines, by doing a search for managed hosting you should receive a good list of managed hosting providers. Another key place to start is by contacting hosts who are offering dedicated hosting and ask them if they can provide a managed hosting arrangement as well.
Companies providing managed hosting will either offer managed hosting per item or in a preconfigured plan. Peritem managed hosting gives you the freedom to pick and choose what services you need or do not need; on the other hand, a preconfigured plan will include the dedicated server and the managed hosting services at a monthly fee.
What should I look for in a managed hosting provider?
Reliable and fast support a good way to find out the response rate and the quality of the services offered by a web host is to send them an email before you sign up with them. If you receive a good response from your web host then this should give you a good indication of the services they are offering.
Freedom its important to have as much freedom as possible and having the ability to choose from a wide range of services is essential. With managed hosting you might decide that you don't require firewall support, its important that your web host will provide you with the option of selecting exactly what you need and what you don't need. Also having the ability to pay monthly is a huge advantage. It will be less of a drain on your budget and you can avoid any expensive yearly contracts.
Fast and reliable connection You should find out exactly what sort of connection the web host has to the Internet. By asking the web host they should be able to send you their network and connectivity details, you might even be able to find this out on their web site. Also find out where the web hosts Network Operations Center (NOC) is located, it is an advantage for the web host to have its NOC located in the USA as the USA has the fastest and most reliable internet connection in the world.
Competitiveness When searching for a managed hosting provider it is important to do your research. Each web host will be offering different managed hosting services all at different rates, you might find that one web host may offer one attractive managed hosting service while another doesn't. However, as many more web hosts are beginning to offer managed hosting, a new competitive market is developing and the prices for managed hosting are becoming much more affordable with many more services being offered.
Managed hosting is ideal for the new online businesses person, looking to build a large online business, and wanting to avoid the extra time and resources spent inhouse on managing their dedicated servers. Inturn, managed web hosting has provided a profitable outcome to many online businesses by preventing a waste of valuable resources spent on high skilled employees; months of staff training; and, costs of hardware and software.
Fast, reliable and affordable Windows 2000 web farm hosting.
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What does it mean when you dream about your pet?
If we have a pet that we are close to, then a dream about this animal can simply be a reflection of our everyday life experience. Alternatively, a tame animal such as a pet can represent our animal drives, though they tend to represent a domesticated version. This dream could represent a desire to be treated like a pet—to be “petted”—or to have someone else become dependent on us like a pet.
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In this paper we study precedence constrained scheduling problems, where the tasks can only be executed on a specified subset of the set of machines. Each machine has a loading time that is incurred only for the first task that is scheduled on the machine in a particular run. This basic scheduling problem arises in the context of machining on numerically controlled machines and query optimization in databases and in other artificial intelligence applications. We give the first nontrivial approximation algorithm for this problem. We also prove nontrivial lower bounds on best possible approximation ratios for these problems. These improve on the nonapproximability results that are implied by the nonapproximability results for the shortest common supersequence problem. We use the same algorithm technique to obtain approximation algorithms for a problem arising in the context of code generation for parallel machines and for the weighted shortest common supersequence problem.
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