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It’s fair to say that the way that non-farmers imagine a farm runs is very different to reality. Inspired by TV shows and movies - the majority of which are set in the past - most non-farmers imagine that running a farm is a quaint, homely, wholesome pursuit, with farmers spending work days with their hands in the earth and the sun on their backs. Some savvy farmers have even embraced this common misconception, and create marketing campaigns that seek to emphasize their “old fashioned” approach to farming.
Fueled by the popularity of organic foods, and a wider understanding that locally-sourced produce is better for the environment, the belief that modern farming should be largely indistinguishable from olden-days farming seems unlikely to fade from the public consciousness any time soon.
However, as any farmer knows, the belief that farming is best done using an old-fashioned, time-honored approach is rather short of reality. The simple truth is that the mechanization of agriculture changed agriculture forever - and, for the most part, for the better. Farming machinery has allowed farms to run more productively than ever, achieve better yields, and even protect against potentially ruinous weather conditions; yet these benefits are often misunderstood, or overlooked, by the general populace.
Why do non-farmers imagine that farming should be far less mechanized than it actually is?
There are a number of reasons that non-farmers prefer to see farming through a historical lens, but the most obvious reason is a simple misunderstanding. Old-fashioned farming methods - where crops were sown and harvested predominantly by hand - is understandable to most people, many of whom are accustomed to growing a few herbs in pots, or growing their own vegetables - and who see farming as simply an extension of this process. For example, if a non-farmer successfully grows corn in patio pots, they will likely assume that farmers who produce corn for commercial purposes largely go through the same process… just on a grander scale.
Furthermore, many people simply feel that farming should be done by hand. Across the ages, technological advancements and machinery have always been feared, for a variety of different reasons. Even the technological advancements we now see as fairly basic today - such as the railway network - were seen as hugely concerning when they were first conceived. Often, this belief that the old ways are better is fuelled primarily by a misplaced nostalgia for a time that they have never experienced; this feeling, which is known as anemoia, can be powerful, and influences the way that people feel about tech advancements.
How can non-farmers’ misconceptions about farming harm farmers?
It’s well-known that the farming industry is struggling; American farmers have even been described as being "in crisis". While the issues that have led to crisis point are not related to misconceptions from non-farmers, these misconceptions can really harm people’s ability to combat the root problems. If people believe that farming is inherently simple - or perhaps even believe that all farming should be done by hand - then it’s very difficult to muster the enthusiasm to support farmers who are struggling against high fuel costs, for example. People may conclude that, if high fuel prices are so problematic, farmers can just switch away from using machinery, practice the old-world techniques that sustained humanity for centuries, and thus they don’t need to spend as much on fuel - problem solved.
Unfortunately, it’s also worth noting that it’s not necessarily just the general public who will follow this line of thinking: legislators - the people with the power to ease some of the issues modern farmers are experiencing - may also believe much the same.
The solution as proposed above is, of course, a complete non-starter. Farm machinery naturally became more popular because it is simply better; yields are higher, more work can be achieved by fewer people, and mechanized farming is more profitable. Modern farms rely heavily on their machinery for almost every aspect of their farming activities and - unless we rewind to a time where one bad harvest could spell catastrophe for thousands of people - the mechanized farming genie simply isn’t going back into the bottle.
As a result, there is a need for farmers to argue the case for mechanized farming, and slowly seek to persuade non-farmers that technological advancements are beneficial rather than harmful.
How can farmers combat the common misconceptions about farming?
The simplest method of processing general misconceptions about farming is to, essentially, be upfront about your farming activities.
It is often tempting, especially in recent years, for farmers to seek to do all they can to appeal to the belief that agriculture should be rudimentary, rustic, and homely. As farmers understand that the public prefers to eat food that they believe is grown with love, using techniques that are largely exactly as they were 200 years ago, more and more farmers and manufacturers have sought to double-down on their presentation of their farm and how it works. In fairness, this just makes sense: if people like the idea of old-fashioned techniques being used, then at least suggesting you use those techniques is simply playing to what people want.
As a result, it’s important to note that there’s nothing wrong with giving your business website a homely feel and discussing the centuries-old techniques you use on your farm. However, it could be helpful to try to strike a balance between the old and the new, and the best way of doing this is by being willing to talk about farming machinery both on your farm’s website and on social media.
The benefits of the above are multiple. First and foremost, talking about farming machinery is honest and authentic, reflecting the real day-to-day challenges you face, and how machinery helps to alleviate these, as a farmer. Secondly, discussing farm machinery also helps to normalize farm machinery, allowing people to see that technology is part and parcel of every modern farm. Finally, by emphasizing the importance of your machinery, awareness of just how much modern farms rely on machinery grows, and thus a greater understanding of problems related to farmers’ reliance on machines can subsequently develop.
Misconceptions regarding the true nature of modern farming can be hugely problematic, leading to a general misunderstanding of the demands placed on farmers and how they are impacted by a variety of different issues. By incorporating frequent discussions of your farming machinery - and why it is so important to your farm’s general operations - you can play a role in challenging those misconceptions, and ultimately encouraging the public to embrace the many, many benefits the mechanization of agriculture has brought forth.
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The Prussian Terror was one of Dumas' last novels and paints a picture of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. The novel opens in Berlin with a patriotic Benedict Turpin facing a Prussian contingent stationed in Frankfurt, a friendship what developes with Count Frederic von Bulow, a favorite of the Kaiser, the women they grow to love and war that tears at them all. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.
This article is about the writer. For other uses, see Alexandre Dumas (disambiguation).
Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne, in Picardy, France.
Dumas' paternal grandparents were Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman and Général commissaire in the Artillery in the colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Marie-Cesette Dumas, an Afro-Caribbean Creole of mixed French and African ancestry. Their son, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, married Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret, the daughter of an innkeeper. Thomas-Alexandre, then a general in Napoleon's army, fell out of favor and the family was impoverished when Dumas was born.
Thomas-Alexandre died in 1806. His widow was unable to provide her son with much of an education, but Dumas read everything he could obtain. His mother's stories of his father's bravery during the years of Napoleon I of France inspired Dumas' vivid imagination for adventure. Although poor, the family had their father's distinguished reputation and aristocratic position. In 1822, after the restoration of the monarchy, 20-year old Alexandre Dumas moved to Paris, where he worked at the Palais Royal in the office of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans.
While in Paris, Dumas began writing for magazines and plays for the theater. His first play, Henry III and His Court, was produced in 1829, and was met with acclaim. The next year his second play, Christine, was equally popular, and he was financially able to write full-time. In 1830 he participated in the Revolution which ousted Charles X, and which replaced him on the throne with Dumas' former employer, the Duke of Orléans]], who would rule as Louis-Philippe, the Citizen King.
Until the mid-1830s life in France remained unsettled, with sporadic riots by disgruntled Republicans and impoverished urban workers seeking change. As life slowly returned to normal, the nation began to industrialize, and with an improving economy—combined with the end of press censorship—the times were very rewarding for the skills of Alexandre Dumas.
After writing more successful plays, he turned his efforts to novels. Although attracted to an extravagant lifestyle, and always spending more than he earned, Dumas proved to be an astute marketer. Since newspapers wanted many serial novels, in 1838 Dumas rewrote one of his plays to create his first serial novel, titled Le Capitaine Paul, which led to his forming a production studio that turned out hundreds of stories, all subject to his personal input and direction.
From 1839 to 1841 Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history, including Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia as well as more recent incidents, including the cases of executed alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues.
Dumas also collaborated with his fencing master Augustin Grisier in his 1840 novel, The Fencing Master. The story is written to be Grisier's narrated account of how he came to witness the events of the Decembrist revolt in Russia. This novel was eventually banned in Russia by Czar Nicholas I, causing Dumas to be banned from visiting Russia until after the Czar's death. Grisier is also mentioned with great respect in The Count of Monte Cristo, The Corsican Brothers and in Dumas' memoirs.
Dumas made extensive use of the aid of numerous assistants and collaborators, of whom Auguste Maquet was the best known. It was Maquet who outlined the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo, and made substantial contributions to The Three Musketeers and its sequels, as well as to several of Dumas' other novels. When they were working together, Maquet proposed plots and wrote drafts, while Dumas added the details, dialogues, and the final chapters. See Andrew Lang essay, Alexandre Dumas—in his Essays In Little (1891)—for an accurate description of these collaborations.
Dumas' writing earned him a great deal of money, but Dumas was frequently insolvent as a result of spending lavishly on women and sumptuous living. The large Château de Monte-Cristo that he built was often filled with strangers and acquaintances taking advantage of his generosity.
When King Louis-Philippe was ousted in a revolt, Dumas was not looked upon favorably by the newly elected President, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. In 1851 Dumas fled to Brussels, Belgium, to escape his creditors, and from there he traveled to Russia, where French was the second language, and where his writings were enormously popular. Dumas spent two years in Russia, before moving on to seek adventure and fodder for more stories. In March 1861 the kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as its king. For the next three years Alexandre Dumas would be involved in the fight for a united Italy, founding and leading a newspaper, named Indipendente, and returning to Paris in 1864.
On 1 February 1840 he married actress Ida Ferrier (born Marguerite-Joséphine Ferrand) (1811—1859) but continued with his numerous liaisons with other women, fathering at least four illegitimate children. One of those children, a son named after him, whose mother was Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794—1868), a dressmaker, would follow in his footsteps, also becoming a successful novelist and playwright. Because of their same name and occupation, the father is often referred to as Alexandre Dumas, père, and the son as Alexandre Dumas, fils. His other children were Marie-Alexandrine Dumas (5 March 1831—1878) who later married Pierre Petel and was daughter of Belle Krelsamer (1803—1875), Micaëlla-Clélie-Josepha-Élisabeth Cordier, born in 1860 and daughter of Emélie Cordier, and Henry Bauer, born of an unknown mother.
Dumas later in his career.
In June 2005 Dumas' recently discovered last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, went on sale in France. Within the story Dumas describes the Battle of Trafalgar, in which the death of Lord Nelson is explained. The novel was being published serially, and was nearly complete at the time of his death. A final two-and-a-half chapters were written by modern-day Dumas scholar Claude Schopp, who based his efforts on Dumas' pre-writing notes.
"With you, we were D'Artagnan, Monte Cristo, or Balsamo, riding along the roads of France, touring battlefields, visiting palaces and castles—with you, we dream."
Also during that speech, Chirac acknowledged the racism that had existed, saying that a wrong had now been righted, with Alexandre Dumas enshrined alongside fellow authors Victor Hugo and Emile Zola. The honor recognized that although France has produced many great writers, none has been so widely read as Alexandre Dumas. His stories have been translated into almost a hundred languages, and have inspired more than 200 motion pictures.
Alexandre Dumas' home outside of Paris, the Château de Monte-Cristo, has been restored and is open to the public. The Alexandre Dumas Paris Métro station was named in his honour in 1970.
Dumas appears as a character in the Kevin J. Anderson novel Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius. He encourages Jules Verne to find his own voice and write about his friend Captain Nemo's exploits rather than emulate Dumas' historical fiction.
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869): This nearly completed novel was his last major work and was lost until its rediscovery by Claude Schopp in 1988 and subsequent release in 2005.
The Women's War (La Guerre des Femmes): follows Baron des Canolles, a naive Gascon soldier who falls in love with two women.
Although best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist. His Henri III et sa cour (1829) was the first of the great Romantic historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famous Hernani (1830). Produced at the Comédie-Française, and starring the famous Mademoiselle Mars, Dumas' play was an enormous success, launching him on his career. It had fifty performances over the next year, extraordinary at the time.
Other hits followed. For example, Antony (1831)—a drama with a contemporary Byronic hero—is considered the first non-historical Romantic drama. It starred Mars' great rival Marie Dorval. There were also La Tour de Nesle – 1832, another historical melodrama, and Kean – 1836, based on the life of the great, and recently deceased, English actor Edmund Kean, played in turn by the great French actor Frédérick Lemaître. Dumas wrote many more plays and dramatized several of his own novels.
It is worthwhile to note that Dumas founded Théâtre Historique at the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, which later became Opéra National (established by Adolphe Adam in 1847). That in turn became Théâtre Lyrique in 1851.
His massive Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine (Great Dictionary of Cuisine) was published posthumously in 1873. It is a combination of encyclopedia and cookbook. Dumas was both a gourmet and an expert cook. An abridged version (the Petit Dictionnaire de cuisine, or Small Dictionary of Cuisine) was published in 1882.
^ Alexandre Dumas on Encarta. Archived 2009-10-31.
^ "Alexandre Dumas > Sa vie > Biographie". Dumaspere.com. http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/vie/biographie.html. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
^ (in French) Alexandre Dumas ou les aventures d'un romancier. Découvertes Gallimard. 21 November 1986. p. 75. ISBN 2070530213. "Mon père était un mulâtre, mon grand-père était un nègre et mon arrière grand-père un singe. Vous voyez, Monsieur: ma famille commence où la vôtre finit."
^ "Dumas et la négritude" (in French). http://pages.infinit.net/minos1er/negritude.htm. Retrieved 10 September 2008.
^ Crace, John (28 May 2006). "Claude Schopp: The man who gave Dumas 40 mistresses". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/may/06/highereducationprofile.academicexperts. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
^ a b Chirac, Jacques (30 November 2002). "Discours prononcé lors du transfert des cendres d’Alexandre Dumas au Panthéon" (in French). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discours_prononc%C3%A9_lors_du_transfert_des_cendres_d%E2%80%99Alexandre_Dumas_au_Panth%C3%A9on. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
Lucas-Dubreton, Jean (1928). The Fourth Musketeer. trans. by Maida Castelhun Darnton. New York: Coward-McCann. OCLC 230139. http://cadytech.com/dumas/related/fourth_musketeer.php.
Reed, F.W. (Frank Wild) (1933). A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas, père. Pinner Hill, Middlesex: J.A. Neuhuys. OCLC 1420223.
Schopp, Claude (1988). Alexandre Dumas, Genius of Life. trans. by A. J. Koch. New York, Toronto: Franklin Watts. ISBN 0531150933.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced two new standards: for XHTML -- XHTML Basic 1.1 Recommendation -- and mobile browsing -- Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 is a recommendation based on the experience of many mobile web stakeholders on how to create mobile-friendly content. Both standards present a wealth of information and are definitely a "must-read" for anyone working in the mobile world.The Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 standard was developed by the W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and depended on the publication of XHTML Basic 1.1, the recommended Mobile markup language; hence, the release of two recommendations at once. For a quick look at the sixty guidelines explained in detail in the specification, check out these cool Mobile Web Best Practices Flipcards.
In a nutshell, W3C recommends “ten ways to mobilize”: # Design for one web # Rely on web standards # Stay away from known hazards # Be cautious of device limitations # Optimize navigation # Check graphics and colors # Keep it small # Use the network sparingly # Help and guide user input # Think of users on the go In the sea of various hardware and software, different devices and bandwidth limitations, it is not always easy to be happy with browsing the web on your phone. The W3C is here to soothe our pains. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 should aid content authors in developing content that works on a wide array of mobile devices. Such simple suggestions as keeping the language clear and simple, avoiding frames, keeping style sheets small, etc. are often overlooked in reality. This guide should serve as a great reminder for those developing content for mobile web. The summary will give you a good overview of what else is covered in the recommendation. The standard also gives a practical advice on improving user experience in areas such as data input and page scrolling.
Content developers can now battle yet another challenge: a variety of mobile markup languages. With the publication of the XHTML Basic 1.1 standard, there is now a full convergence in mobile markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). New features that have been incorporated into the XHTML Basic 1.1 include: # XHTML Forms # Intrinsic Events # The value attribute for the li element # The target attribute # The style element # The style attribute # XHTML Presentation module # The inputmode attribute The W3C mobileOK checker (currently in beta), when used with the familiar W3C validator, helps developers test mobile-friendly web content. So far, the feedback received by W3C seems to be positive. We certainly see this recommendation as a big step towards brighter mobile web future.
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Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco ( , ), is an American recording artist, producer and CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. Prominent hip hop mogul Jay-Z describes him as a "breath of fresh air"—in a new hip hop world that is characterized by mainstream pop and glamor, he is a throwback to the lyricism-focused rap of the 1990s; critics have called him a "hip-hop Generation Next vanguard."
Fiasco was born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco on February 16, 1982 in Chicago , Illinois . Born of West African descent, he was one of nine children of Shirley, a gourmet chef, and Gregory, an engineer. His father, who was a member of the Black Panther Party, was a prolific African drummer, karate teacher and owner of karate schools and army surplus stores. Fiasco was raised Muslim on the West side of Chicago . At the age of three, Fiasco began taking martial arts classes. By age 10, he earned his first black belt. He attended Thornton Township High School in Harvey, Illinois . He initially "hated" hip hop music for its use of vulgarity. He began rapping when he was in the eighth grade, and upon hearing Nas' 1996 album, It Was Written, began to pursue hip hop.
Growing up, Fiasco was given the nickname "Lu", the last part of his first name, by his mother. "Lupe" is an extension of this nickname, which he borrowed from a friend from high school. "Fiasco," he says, "came from the Firm album. They had the song, 'Firm Fiasco'. I just liked the way it looked on paper."
At age 19, Fiasco was in a group called Da Pak. They signed to Epic Records and released one single before splitting up. Fiasco later signed a solo deal with Arista Records, but was dropped when president and CEO L. A. Reid was fired. During this time, he had guest appearances on singles on Tha' Rayne's "Kiss Me" and "Didn't You Know" and also K Foxx's 2004 "This Life". He also released the song "Coulda Been" on a compilation of MTV's Advance Warning. In 2005, he was featured on Kanye West's single, "Touch the Sky".
During this time, rapper and mogul Jay-Z heard Fiasco and assisted him in the production of what would become his debut album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. Soon after, he released his first single "Kick, Push", a song about skateboarding. As his popularity steadily increased, so did anticipation for his upcoming album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor. The album was officially released on September 19, 2006. The album featured production from Jay-Z, Kanye West, Mike Shinoda, The Neptunes, Prolyfic, and more. Singles from the album were "Kick, Push," "I Gotcha" and "Daydreamin'" featuring Jill Scott. The critically lauded album was later nominated for three Grammy Awards including Best Rap Album. In the same year, he was voted by GQ magazine as the "Breakout Man of the Year."
In 2007, Fiasco announced his second album, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, a concept album that expands on the story of the track of the same name on his first album. While recording the album, Fiasco's father had died and his business partner, Charles "Chilli" Patton, was convicted of attempting to supply heroin and was sentenced to 44 years in prison. The album was released in December 2007 in United States. The first single and video from the album, "Superstar", featuring Matthew Santos, was released the first week of November 2007. Baseball's Hanley Ramirez, Troy Tulowitzki, Ryan Zimmerman, Gerald Laird and Ryan Braun have used "Superstar" as their at-bat song. The song has also been featured in HBO's Hard Knocks TV show. The songs "Put You on Game" and "Little Weapon" are featured in the movie Street Kings in the latest trailer.
Also in 2007, it was revealed that Fiasco, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams had formed a group known as Child Rebel Soldier. CRS has so far released one single, entitled "US Placers" and featuring a Thom Yorke sample. Since its release and the ensuing Glow in the Dark Tour, the group has not yet been spoken of any further.
In an interview with The Village Voice, Fiasco revealed that he was writing a novel about a window washer aptly titled Reflections of a Window Washer. In 2008, Fiasco and his band 1500 or Nothin joined West's Glow in the Dark Tour, which also features Rihanna and N.E.R.D. The tour stopped in several cities, including his hometown of Chicago . In 2008, MTV named Fiasco the 7th Hottest MC in the Game and announced that he was remixing The Cool with French electro house act Justice. Fiasco's "Superstar" has been included in the video game Lips.
Fiasco announced at a Chicago concert late in 2008 that his next and most likely final album will be a three disc album and that the first disc "Everywhere" would come out in June 2009. The trio was going to be named LupE.N.D. On January 30, 2009, Lupe Fiasco originally announced that LupE.N.D. will be postponed indefinitely. Instead, he would release three albums; The Great American Rap Album in June 2009, two following albums in December 2009 and June 2010, with LupE.N.D. following afterward. However, it was announced by Fiasco that his next album would instead be titled, "We Are Lasers"; yet later his official rep announced and confirmed that it would instead be titled simply "Lasers". On June 26th, Fiasco announced at the Chicago Theater that the album would be released fourth quarter 2009, most likely in December. The album's first single, "Shining Down," features Matthew Santos and is produced by Soundtrakk. The single was released on July 7, 2009. There were a few snippets of songs that have been released as of August 24, 2009. The songs unofficial titles are "Army Girl," "Ladies And Gentlemen," and "2 Ways."Lupe Fiasco has a bonus track called Solar Midnight on iTunes for the New Moon soundtrack. On October 7th 2009, Lupe released a song in response to the release of MTV's 2009 "Top 10 Hottest Rapper List," on which he was absent. The track, entitled "Fire", is as Lupe stated, a taste of why he will take the number 1 spot on next years list. In October 2009 Lupe released two freestyles. The first titled "Turnt Up" and the second over the Timbaland song "Say Something".
Lupe released the mixtape "Enemy of the State: A Love Story" on November 26th, which features the beats from Diddy's "Angels" and Jay-Z's "Thank You" and "So Ghetto", amongst others. He also announced that another mixtape, "Friend of the People", would be released on December 25th, with "Lasers" following in early 2010.
In January 2006, Fiasco signed with major footwear and apparel corporation Reebok becoming part of the "O.G" marketing campaign, where rap artists such as Lil Wayne and Mike Jones designed their own personal colorway of the Reebok "O.G" model. Fiasco also runs his own fashion label under the name "Trilly & Truly".
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The Nile River is actually 6695 kilometers (4184 miles) long. With such a long length, the Nile River is speculated to be the longest river in the world. The Amazon River runs a very close second, although it has been difficult to determine which is actually longer. River Nile facts state it winds from Uganda to Ethiopia, flowing through a total of nine countries. While the Nile River is often associated with Egypt, it actually touches Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan, as well as Egypt. It's only recent that the first known navigation team successfully followed the river from beginning to its end.
How did the ancient Egyptians use the Nile River? - The Nile River has played an extremely important role in the civilization, life and history of the Egyptian nation. One of the most well known river Nile facts is the river's ability to produce extremely fertile soil, which made it easy for cities and civilizations to spring up alongside the banks of the Nile. The fertile soil is contributed by the annual spring floods, when the Nile River overflows onto the banks. Much of the Egyptian nation consists of dry desert land. Throughout most of the year, very little rain falls on Egyptian deserts. This has remained true for thousands of years. The abundant Nile River provided much needed irrigation, even in ancient times. This waterway also provided a source of drinking water, and source of irrigation for farming as well as papyrus reeds that could be used for a variety of purposes such as paper and building materials.
Nile Crocodile Facts - The Nile Crocodile has been a major component of the Egyptian culture and way of life since the first Egyptians settled along the fertile banks of the Nile. Most Nile Crocodiles are approximately 4 meters in length, although some have been reported as longer. The animals make their nests along the banks of the Nile River, where the female may lay up to 60 eggs at one time. Some three months later the babies are born and are taken to the water by their mother. They will remain with her for at least two years before reaching maturity.
Not only is the Nile River one of the main rivers of Egypt, but many would in fact; say it is the primary river of Egypt. The Nile River has certainly played a critical role in the history of this mysterious nation.
Today, exotic and sophisticated cities like Cairo grace the banks of the Nile River, as they have for thousands of years. Individuals interested in experiencing the Nile up close and personal can journey along the famous river aboard riverboat cruises that depart from numerous cities along the bank.
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How many km in 1 miles? The answer is 1.609344.
1 metre is equal to 0.001 km, or 0.00062137119223733 miles.
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How is water used in the body?
Drinking adequate levels of water produces motilin in the intestinal tract, motilin produces the necessary rhythmic contractions of the gut to move waste through the system ready for evacuation. Motilin also acts as a transmitter of satiety or fullness when water extends the stomach. Lack of water consumption fails to send the correct signals and can disturb the digestive process resulting in discomfort and other related symptoms.
Coffee, tea, alcohol or caffeinated drinks are not included in the above values.
Often the signal for thirst is confused with a feeling of hunger. Next time you reach for a snack, consider taking a drink of water instead, that might just answer your body's "call for water".
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Some of the other amnesties included one during September 2003 in connection with the adoption of the republic's new , and then another between mid-2006 and January 2007. When he is asked by Chechen insurrectionists to accompany them on their missions, he dons a camouflage-pattern South Ossetian Army raincoat to protect his identity. However, Stepashin did actively call for a military campaign against Chechen separatists in August 1999 when he was the prime minister of Russia. Another offensive against the remaining mountain strongholds was launched by the Russian forces in December 2000. Some Chechen rebels also carried out against in Russia. Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya.
According to the 2001 annual report by Amnesty International: There were frequent reports that Russian forces indiscriminately bombed and shelled civilian areas. Because of this continued Russian rule, there have been minor guerilla attacks by separatist groups in the area. Throughout the years Russian officials have often announced that the war is over. Attacks throughout the country became a grim reality of the new war and involved explosions in cities and towns, on planes and public transport. Russian and Soviet rule Chechen rebellion would flare up whenever Russia faced a period of internal instability. High estimates of these two wars range of up to 150,000 or 160,000 killed, as put by Taus Djabrailov, the head of Chechnya's interim parliament. In 1783, Russia and the kingdom of signed the , under which Kartl-Kakheti became a Russian.
Hundreds of Chechen civilians and prisoners of war were extra judicially executed. Though they were allowed to return to their homeland decades later, the Chechen populace maintained their dislike of the Russian-dominated Soviet government. According to reports, Chechen fighters frequently threatened, and in some cases killed, members of the Russian-appointed civilian administration and executed Russian captured soldiers. Close to 480 active insurgents are currently fighting in the mountains under leadership of field commander according to official data. Attacks and border clashes On 16 November 1996, in Kaspiysk Dagestan , a bomb destroyed an apartment building housing Russian border guards; 68 people died. This war is considered an extreme embarrassment to Russiaball even to this day.
In February 2003, the , estimated that some 11,000 servicemen have been killed, with another 25,000 wounded, since 1999. Effects Main article: Civilian casualty estimates vary widely. By the time the second war began, federal authorities had designed and introduced a comprehensive system to limit the access of journalists to Chechnya and shape their coverage. On 12 October 1999, the Russian forces crossed the Terek and began a two-pronged advance on the capital Grozny to the south. The wars in Chechnya, and the associated Caucasian terrorism in Russia, were a major factor in the growth of intolerance, , and racist violence in Russia, directed in a great part against the people from Caucasus. According to a 2007 poll only 11 percent of Russians said they were happy with media coverage of Chechnya.
The Chechen Campaign 2000-Present During the Dagestan Campaign, Russia suffered from several terrorist attacks in which powerful explosions destroyed apartment buildings in cities throughout the nation. It annexed a part of territory of the former. The fighters, in turn, blackmail corrupt officials who embezzle lavish funds from Moscow. By late 1994 the broke out and after two years of fighting the Russian forces withdrew from the region. Three people died on 23 April 1997, when a bomb exploded in the Russian railway station of Armavir , and two on 28 May 1997, when another bomb exploded in the Russian railway station of Pyatigorsk. The areas immediately north of these new nations remained part of the new Russian Republic, though their populations largely were not Russian. Since the Chechen conflict began in 1994, cases of young returning embittered and traumatized to their home towns have been reported all across Russia.
In one nationwide poll in 2005, 71% of respondents said they didn't trust their police at all; in another, 41% Russians said they lived in fear of police violence. In March 2005 the court issued the first rulings on Chechnya, finding the Russian government guilty of violating the right to life and even the prohibition of torture with respect to civilians who had died or forcibly disappeared at the hands of Russia's federal troops. Independent analysts say there are no more than 2,000 armed separatist combatants still fighting, while Russia says only a few hundred remain. On November 12, 1999, the was raised over Chechnya's second largest city, , when the local Chechen commanders, the Yamadayev brothers, defected to the federal side; the Russians also entered the bombed-out former Cossack village of Asinovskaya. Both Chechen wars became systemic factors in shaping today's Russia.
In 1999, the Russian government forces started an anti-terrorist campaign in Chechnya, in response to the. Inter-war period Elections took place in January 1997, and Maskhadov was voted President to a five-year term, who sought to maintain Chechen sovereignty while asking Moscow for help in rebuilding Chechnya. Ontario: Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly. After a vicious air campaign against Ichkeria, a ground offensive in October began the Second Chechen War. Governmental, social and life remain hobbled by , kidnapping, and other criminal activity; reports by the Russian government estimate that the sector is twice the Russian average and the government is widely perceived to be and unresponsive. И мы планировали выйти к Тереку в августе-сентябре.
The Russian was established in in 1577 by free who were resettled from the to the. Human rights and terrorism A Russian officials and Chechen rebels have regularly and repeatedly accused the opposing side of committing various including kidnapping, , , , , and assorted other breaches of the. After heavy fighting, Russia seized the Chechen base in the village of , west of the city. On March 2, 2004, following a number of cross-border raids from Georgia into Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Dagestan, Gelayev was killed in a clash with Russian border guards while trying to get back from Dagestan into Georgia. Retreating was a humiliation for Russia's military machine that less than a decade earlier had presented a seemingly formidable threat to the entire Western world. On 26 August 1999, Russia acknowledged bombing raids in Chechnya. In August 2005, Djabrailov gave a conflicting figure of 160,000 killed, mostly Russians.
I was prepared for an active intervention. Battle for the mountains Zhani-Vedeno ambush, March 2000 Heavy fighting accompanied by a massive shelling and bombing continued through the winter of 2000 in the mountainous south of Chechnya, particularly in the areas around Argun, Vedeno and Shatoy, where the fighting involving Russian raged since 1999. In August and September 1999, in association with the born Ibn al-Khattab, Commander of the Mujahedeen led two armies of up to 2,000 Chechen, Dagestani, Arab and international and Wahhabist militants from Chechnya into the neighboring Republic of Dagestan. Practically all the local Chechen media are under total control of the pro-Moscow government, Russian journalists in Chechnya face intense harassment and obstruction leading to widespread , while foreign journalists and media outlets too are pressured into censoring their reports on the conflict. He reads his Koran whenever he is torn between staying one of Russia's constituent republics and becoming an independent state. Within the Russian government, there was a concern that allowing Chechnya substantial autonomy might lead to a — other regions within the already-fragmented former Soviet Union might choose to follow suit. Since 2005, the insurgency has largely shifted out of Chechnya proper and into the nearby Russian territories, such as and ; the , for its part, has focused on the stabilization of the.
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With so many choices available, where are the best places to find candle holders for sale?
Candles give a very special ambiance to a room. When lit, their gentle candlelight adds atmosphere and romance to any occasion. When unlit, the candle becomes an accessory or a piece of interior design that complements a room or situation. In order, however, to show a candle off to its full advantage, a candle holder is required that ensures that the candle is both held safely and also looks great.
Buying the perfect candle holder can sometimes be tricky. There are many different types and styles, including outdoor lanterns and floor standing candle holders. While tea light candle holders may look fantastic with tiny tea lights, they are unlikely to suit giant pillar candles. Likewise, special pillar candle holders are likely to dwarf small candles. Finding stores and other outlets with extensive ranges of candle holders for sale will help to ensure the perfect purchase.
There are many places where candle holders can be found. Most large candle stores sell a range of candle holders. These are either sold as sets with a matching candle or sold independently of the candle. Stores that specialize in candles will often have candle holders that have been chosen to complement or enhance their range of candles. These specialist stores are an ideal first stop when looking for candle holders for sale.
Antique Stores: As candles are one of the oldest and most traditional forms of lighting, it is hardly surprising that antique shops often have a wide range of candle holders. These can make an interesting alternative to their contemporary counterparts and antique accessories look great in all environments. Wooden candle holders in particular are very traditional. Wood ages beautifully and develops a deep rich patina that looks great when combined with any type of candle.
Flea Markets and Garage Sales: Unusual and different candle holders can often be found at flea markets and other places that sell used items which are not necessarily antiques. These can be great places to find all sorts of 'treasures', including candle holders, which can be purchased for a few dollars. These candle holders may be as good as new or may need revamping in order to give them a new lease of life.
Craft Markets and Exhibitions: Many crafts people sell their work through craft markets and exhibitions and this can be a great way to find handmade candle holders. These make a great complement to many room types. Artisan candle holder makers are also often delighted to take commissions - perhaps to create special candle holders for a wedding or party. This is a good way to meet artists and crafts people and discuss any special requirements.
Remember postage. The cost of delivery can add significantly to the price of a candle holder, particularly for larger and heavier items.
Check measurements. When candle holders are shown in photographs, it can sometimes be difficult to assess the size of the design. This might mean the holder is too big or small for its desired location.
Compatibility with types of candle. Some candle holders are designed for a specific type of candle and therefore might not adapt to other types. Pillar candle holders, for instance, often have a middle spike to hold the candle in place. Tea lights would not fit onto this type of candle holder.
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how to use the sdk built-in methods to make it compliant with the GDPR.
To be compliant with the GDPR, the SDK must receive an explicit opt-in from the user to be authorized to collect these information.
authorizes the SDK to collect the phoneId and the location data of the user.
authorizes the SDK to collect various analytics, which allows to determine if the SDK can correctly run on the device and if so, runs correctly on the device.
The SDK comes with several methods to help you to manage the opt-ins.
The method optinsNeverAsked from the HerowInitializer return true if the opt-ins have never been asked.
The method updateOptin from the HerowInitializer allow to update the optin permission.
Once, all the opt-ins have been updated, you must notify the SDK about it calling allOptinsAreUpdated from the HerowInitializer.
the remote synchronization of the opt-ins with the Herow Platform.
If the user is off-line, or the synchronization with the Herow Platform meets an error, the SDK will automatically retry to synchronize the opt-ins with the Herow Platform later on.
Keep in mind that the user can updated the opt-ins at any time. Always think to call the method allOptinsAreUpdated when the opt-ins have been updated.
Use the method isOptinAuthorized from the HerowInitializer to check the status of an opt-in.
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Saving enough to live comfortably in retirement is a top financial concern for many people. By investing time in financial planning, you can explore ways to ensure a steady flow of income after you stop working. Successful planning may even allow you the option of retiring early.
Once you begin to control your finances, the best financial planning strategy to use is to save and invest at least 10% of personal income regularly. Depending on your age you could put the money in long term growth opportunities (like mutual funds) or more conservative investments such as deferred annuities. Other important financial planning basics include controlling the use of credit cards, minimizing other expenses and taxes, planning and reviewing as much as possible, and, above all, living below your means-in other words, spending less than you make so you actually have something to use for financial planning.
What will be the sources of retirement income?
When learning about financial planning for retirement, you'll find that you usually need 60% to 100% of current income to live comfortably, provided you are currently living in relative comfort. This percentage varies depending on the expenses you have now, which will probably not come into play as much once you retire such as costs attributed to children (food, clothes, education, etc.) and any debt expenses you may currently have (credit cards, student loans, car loans etc.).
For most individuals, there are four basic retirement income sources: social security, pensions, employer tax-deferred savings plans (such as a 401K), and personal savings (including IRA's)-all of which play a role in financial planning. Many of these sources of income can be used to finance an annuity plan, enabling you to accrue even more income.
Annuities can help you both save for retirement and supplement your income when the time comes to retire. Deferred annuities assist you in tax deferred savings to fund your retirement planning. Immediate annuities give you the peace of mind of a guaranteed monthly income covering your lifetime or a certain number of years.
Single Premium Immediate Annuities (SPIAs) are purchased with a single deposit amount. As the name implies, the annuity usually starts making regular monthly payments to you immediately after you turn over the funds to the insurance company..
This type of annuity resets the interest rate credited to your account each year. The interest rate guarantee extends for one year at a time.
This type of annuity offers an interest rate which is guaranteed over a longer period of time, usually between three and ten years. This annuity is sometimes referred to as being "CD-like" because it is similar to a CD (Certificate of Deposit) you buy at a bank. These annuities can be cashed in early, but just like CD's, there are surrender charges associated with an early withdrawal.
This type of annuity offers a stock market-driven investment with potentially attractive returns and a guaranteed minimum return. There are several indexing methods used to determine account values, each with its own variations and benefits.
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The Atomic Simulation Environment is a powerful python library for setting up, running and analyzing molecular simulations. I have been using it and contributing to it since around 2002 when I used the ASE-2 version in Python 1.5! The new ase-3 version is much simpler to use, and much more powerful. This paper describes some of its design principles and capabilities. If you use ASE, please cite this paper!
Usually, metal oxides grow in a single, most stable crystal structure at a particular set of conditions. For example, TiO2 grows in the rutile structure for a large range of pressure and temperature conditions, but under some conditions it can also grow in the anatase structure. In this paper we show that epitaxial stabilization can be used to influence which crystal structures are observed for the growth of tin oxide. Tin oxide is normally only observed in the rutile structure. We grew tin oxide as an epitaxial film on a poly-crystalline substrate of CoNb2O6 which has an α-PbO2 crystal structure. We found that both rutile and α-PbO2 structures could be found in the film, and that the structure correlated with the orientation of the underlying grains. In other words, the orientation of a substrate can influence the structure of an epitaxial film, enabling one to grow films in crystal structures that may be metastable, and unobtainable in bulk samples.
Molecules interact with each other when they adsorb on surfaces and these interactions are coverage dependent. Modeling these interactions is a challenge though, because there are many configurations of adsorbates on the surface, and the surface changes due to the interactions. To mitigate these challenges, one often simplifies the model, e.g. by using a cluster expansion or lattice gas Hamiltonian. These approaches have their own limitations though, and are not that useful for modeling dynamic processes like diffusion. Using molecular potentials enables the dynamic simulations, but not at the same level of accuracy as density functional theory. In this work we use density functional theory to train a neural network, and then use the neural network to model coverage-dependent adsorption isotherms and the dynamics of oxygen diffusion on a Pd(111) surface. We show the neural network can capture the onset of surface oxidation, and that the simulation results have comparable accuracy to the DFT calculations it was trained from.
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The music tearing up Billboard’s Hot 100 this week.
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Communicate the value of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM).
The ACOEM CME Program will enhance learners’ knowledge, competence and performance of skills in the core content areas, and facilitate physicians’ effectiveness and efficiency as they carry out their professional responsibilities.
The curriculum is designed to support the professional growth of OEM providers, with a focus on the prevention of work-related injury and illness and optimizing outcomes if a work injury or illness is evaluated and treated, whether their practice is focused on providing clinical care that promotes optimal functioning in a safe and healthy workplace; promoting the health of populations of workers; or providing OEM specialist expertise to complicated medical issues.
With enhancement of skills via an ongoing commitment to lifelong learning, ACOEM provides its users an unparalleled and expanding educational menu that prepares them for maintenance of licensure and certification in the practice of state-of-the-art occupational and environmental medicine.
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Let’s demand mental healthcare reform from our policymakers. Because better policy leads to better public health. It’s time to advance mental health education. To promote prevention and early intervention. And to improve access to quality care.
The best way to tackle our mental health crisis and save individuals from years of hardship, is to catch disorders and respond to them early on. It can be challenging to overcome a mental health condition in adulthood after symptoms have been ignored and left to worsen. By teaching our youth how to discuss, recognize and respond to emotional crises, we are creating future generations that are equipped with the skills they need to manage symptoms and lead happy lives.
There are three steps to this process — prevention, early detection and intervention. Lawmakers should fight for the implementation of preventative services that begin immediately after birth. Once born, parents should have easy access to services that strengthen their home and the emotional wellbeing of themselves and their child, such as parenting programs, social emotional learning, in early education, and community building initiatives. Mental health screening should be made mandatory for parents and children, and if a diagnosis arises, there should be professionals on site to inform the family of their treatment options. Other preventative programs such as workplace training for employers, public education training for teachers, and local partnerships between families, schools, courts and healthcare providers, should be funded so that leaders across disciplines have the knowledge to recognize and respond to mental health problems.
Beyond prevention, advocates and community leaders should call for ongoing screening services and school-wide intervention programs, such as those that dictate when law enforcement should be called during a mental health crisis of any policies that dissuade students from seeking needed accommodations. Federal legislation should work to improve the quality and oversight of treatment facilities, specifically those in lower income communities, so that care is evidence based, ongoing, and specific to the needs of each child. Treatment plans should take into account the dynamics of each family, and should include the full continuum of care, such as therapy, medication, peer support services and mindfulness based activities. And policymakers should look to implement laws that call for the ongoing training and licensure of educators and youth leaders, as well as the removal of any laws that support seclusion or restraints for youth battling a mental condition.
Mental illness impacts people of every country, ethnicity, age, gender, sexuality, class and occupation. It does not discriminate, which means that our healthcare systems shouldn’t either. Unfortunately, cultural bias remains strong and impacts who receives care, how they receive it, the diagnoses they’re given and the treatment plans that are put in place.
Cultural competence refers to the ability of a provider to meet the social, cultural and linguistic needs of patients. It’s no surprise that people coming from different backgrounds have different ways of expressing mental health challenges. Without doctors that understand their cultural viewpoint, it is extremely hard to accurately reach and treat everyone who needs help. Lawmakers should prioritize the recruitment and training of staff from minority communities in countries around the world. Schools and clinics should work to enhance representation amongst their staff. It’s been shown that people are more likely to trust and confide in those who are similar to them. We should expand cultural competence training to all existing professionals and community leaders so that they are equipped to recognize warning signs in people from outside communities. Additionally, we must work to create materials that are based off the experiences of people from specific cultures — a one size fits all approach will never work. Programs must increasingly be designed with multicultural perspectives in mind, as well as plans for implementing them in a wide range of communities.
People battling mental health conditions have hobbies, careers, families, interests and future goals just like everyone else. They aren’t second class citizens and they should never be treated as such. Unfortunately, discrimination within the system runs rampant in countries around the world. Those battling mental illness are frequently forced into care they don’t want, restrained, denied jobs, ostracized and secluded from their communities. It must be a priority to create legislation that protects these individuals and empowers their success and happiness moving forward.
Patient rights span everything from policies regarding autonomy, community inclusion, access to care and privacy. For starters, policy should protect the autonomy of every individual, and ensure that they have the right to make decisions about their own care and recovery. People should not be coerced or forced into treatments they don’t want. Voluntary services should be the standard. In cases where a person poses a risk to others or themselves, outside intervention may be considered. Similarly, people should never be physically abused or restrained via chemicals, seclusion, shackles or other abusive measures. Governments should enhance efforts into uncovering, monitoring and shutting down the use of these methods.
From a community perspective, individuals should never be kicked out of or kept from schooling, housing and jobs because of their diagnosis. Legislation should work to weed out discrimination in these areas and punish institutions that continue to uphold stigmatized processes. Inclusion should be promoted through community programs that help to enhance an individual’s connection with their immediate surroundings. Lastly, privacy laws must have the right to control their personal records, and have a say over who can see and access their healthcare information. Healthcare providers should provide in-depth information about their privacy and confidentiality standards to all patients, and institute policies that ensure individuals are notified of any potential scenario in which records may need to be shared, such as court orders, requests by an employer, or cases in which abuse is disclosed during therapy.
All around the world, people battling serious mental illness are locked up rather than placed in treatment. In some countries, incarceration rates and conditions are worse than others. What remains constant, is that when underprivileged individuals go without the care and necessities they need, their likelihood of arrest and imprisonment is far higher than it should be. Once incarcerated, people often face poor conditions, spiraling mental health, and an increased likelihood of suicide or recidivism. They are kept from the services and treatment they need to recover, and create a massive burden on law enforcement and federal budgets, despite the majority of crimes being low level and non violent.
Across societies, we should be working to keep mentally ill individuals out of jail, off the streets and away from violent crime. There are many factors at play here — poverty, addiction, homelessness. To confront them simultaneously, community leaders and criminal justice reform organizations should partner with mental health professionals, law enforcement, policymakers and prison staff to fight for two key goals — implementing better mental health services in prisons, and funding preventative services to keep people from arrest.
Individuals have a right to treatment, even when they’re behind bars. Statues should be enacted to expand treatment options, including medications, within prisons around the world. Once released, treatment should be made accessible for those battling severe mental illness in order to lessen the likelihood of recidivism. Crisis Intervention Programs, as they’re called in the US, should be implemented so that law enforcement is trained to handle psychiatric crises and keep individuals from arrest. They also serve as a way to get the broader community invested in creating change. Other initiatives may include community support groups and programs that offer emotional guidance and keep kids off the streets, or re-entry programs that help people assimilate after release. And finally, lawmakers should fight for legislation that keeps nonviolent, low level offenders out of prison, and instead, places them in rehabilitation programs or therapy.
High quality and ongoing mental health care remains a luxury. No matter the country or region you live in, it’s unlikely that the majority of individuals have the time, money and resources to engage in productive treatment within their existing healthcare system. Breaking down financial, geographic, and stigma-related barriers to care is key in sparking widespread change. Until mental health services are accessible for all, we will continue to face a myriad of cross-cultural dilemmas, such as poverty, homelessness and addiction, as well as a worsening mental health crisis in countries around the world.
People battling mental illness should have access to all clinically approved medications and evidence based treatments in the country they reside in. They should not be kept from certain treatment options because of a limited healthcare plan, and those who are uninsured, should be provided outlets for reaching the same quality of support as those on insurance. Mental health screening should be made mandatory in communities and schools around the world. Lawmakers should work with school systems to update curriculums and school programs, so that students are both learning about mental health at a young age, and encouraged to discuss it with adults and peers. Comprehensive support services should be funded so that low income communities in particular have access to a wide range of treatment options, as well as complementary services such as transportation to and from therapy, peer-to-peer support groups and housing and education initiatives. Healthcare providers and workplaces should create parity between physical health benefits, and those for mental illness, so that services are affordable and consistent. Once in treatment, individuals should not be forced to change medications by a new provider, if symptoms are being managed and controlled effectively. However, they do have a right to treatment or provider changes if they see fit.
I pledge to fight for mental health reform in my community and urge others to get involved.
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Why is this episode(s) one of the best?
To be fair, we're cheating a little bit with this one, as it's a multi-parter. That is going to be the case with a lot of these as Power Rangers really excels when it gets to have a miniseries/TV movie. Dark Wish was one such event.
The episode portrays the young adults who are the Power Rangers as real people. They've been fighting for 4 months, and they've grown tired of it. They have magic, and they abuse that magic not for personal gain, but to do their jobs. They have access to a genie, but they aren't allowed to use it to wish their enemies away. This grates on them, until the enemies trick them into using that genie, get a wish of their own, and never become the Power Rangers in the first place.
Teaming up with their enemy Koragg to set the world back to the way it was (Koragg having been betrayed by the current enemy general in charge, and along the way forming an amazing truce with friendy troll, Phineas) the rangers head to another dimension atop a dragon, fight a horde of zombie knights, and parlay with a tribunal of magical deities to reverse their wish. When their request is denied, they get sent back to their new, colorless world, and instead of falling into despair without their magic, take a stand against the bad guys.
The tribunal awards their courage by returning their old world to them, and eventually granting them new powers and zords to boot.
Dark Wish exceeds because it is essentially a cinematic story told in three parts for television.
For all the good Dark Wish does in one sitting, taking it as separate parts really doesn't do it any favors. While Part 2 is a really engaging episode on its own, and I could have just picked that for 19th place, the plot of the episode doesn't work with just the middle piece.
Part 1 of Dark Wish is unnecessarily slow. The monsters for this episode, the Barbarian Beasts, are extremely forgettable villains. Two of them are subjected to footage burning (i.e. they had dedicated episodes in Super Sentai, but were relegated to cannon fodder for Power Rangers) and two of them, while still effective, are just not fun characters. 50 Below speaks about as fast as Cleveland playing an auctioneer on Family Guy, and Fightoe only becomes useful after being killed and stuffed into a mechanical puppet by Imperious.
No one is really a wooden character in these episodes, and that's great, but the effects used for some of the original footage are cringe-worthy. (Fireheart animation, you kill me every time.) Power Rangers is by no means expected to have great cgi, but it has certainly had better than that.
Ask a fan of Power Rangers what his favorite thing to see on screen is and you may be surprised at the answer. Sure, we love the suits. We love the weapons. We love the zords. But, the thing we most enjoy is seeing the rangers fighting, without their suits. Civilian fights are something that made Mighty Morphin' a power house; it showed that even without their powers, these kids could save the world.
Mystic Force, for these episodes anyway, brought a balance. They had powers, sure, but they needed to rely on their ordinary fighting prowess to get themselves through the battle. That balance is something I'm personally hoping for in the new film, and if the trailers are any indication, they're right on the money.
Tickets are available for regular sale as of tomorrow, March 6th!
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Why change reality, and if we can should we?
I know that some people think that they can alter personal reality.They can manipulate events to achieve the outcome that they desire, either for themselves or other people. The interesting question is then, how could they possibly do that? What mechanism makes this possible? Also, if it is possible should we be doing it in the first place.
Well, as far as I can see there are several methods.
These include using prayer, spells, visualization or by intention. The next key question is, are they using the same mechanisms or are they doing something completely different? For instance could they be using intervention by a higher power or using physics or some thing completely different?
– Are we using the forces available in the inherent structure of matter?
– Is a supreme being, or other outside force, interceding on our behalf?
-Or is it something completely different?
Before I look at more detail on the various ways people seek to manifest exactly what they want, I have to ask, a fundamental question. If we can, should we? I often compare our life on Earth to a sort of interactive video game. If we seek advantage this way, even with the best of intentions, are we disadvantaging others? Are we interfering with their free will? The answer depends, of course, on the fundamental nature of our reality itself, and what is believed about our purpose here.
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As music lovers, what are we looking for in a high-end audio speaker? The closest approach we can reasonably make to recreating the perception - the feeling - of being in the presence of live music. Timbre, inner detail, and dynamic impact are all a part of this. But perhaps the most elusive aspect is image density - that is, the perception that the sound-source images we hear in space have body and weight to them. This goes beyond the pinpoint imaging of a good mini-monitor, and beyond the rich sense of envelopment of a good omnidirectional system, though it includes aspects of both.
The key to recreating sound images that feel like the real thing is to set up a powerful, diffuse, spectrally correct, fairly late-arriving reverberant field. When done right, the ear-brain system interprets this reverberant energy as confirmation of the imaging cues in the first-arrival sound and we perceive those sound images as having realistic density.
The Dream Maker LCS system uses a high quality pair of main speakers to generate the desired first-arrival sound, and then a pair of separate, dedicated, highly directional upfiring array modules adds the extra spectrally-correct reverberant energy, with the required time delay coming from the long path this energy takes bouncing off the ceiling before reaching the listening position. The Late Ceiling Splash configuration is the invention of James Romeyn, and could be considered an advanced evolution of the controlled-pattern bipolar configuration first seen in the original award-winning AudioKinesis Dream Maker.
The separate LCS modules allow a great deal of placement flexibility, along with spreading out the physical location of the bass sources within the room, which improves the in-room bass smoothness.
Type: Four-piece Late Ceiling Splash (LCS) system.
Driver complement per side: One 10" studio-quality woofer; four 5" woofers; three 1" polymer-diaphragm compression drivers on low-coloration waveguides.
Bass loading: Bass reflex, each enclosure tunable via two pluggable ports.
Treble adjustment: High quality external resistors allow user-adjustable top-end "tilt".
Main module dimensions: 42" tall x 15" wide x 17" deep, 97 pounds.
LCS module dimensions: 13" tall x 14" wide x 20" deep, 45 pounds.
Efficiency: 92 dB/1 watt. Voltage sensitivity (relative to 2.83 volts input) is 92 dB in 8-ohm configuration, and 86 dB in 32-ohm configuration.
Power Handling: 500 watts RMS thermal.
Typical in-room bandwidth: Mid 30's to 20 kHz.
The main modules and LCS modules can be purchased separately, so the system can be acquired in stages. The main modules are $5900/pair, and the LCS modules $2900/pair, + shipping. Choice of wood veneers oak, maple, and walnut. Custom veneers and paint additional cost.
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(CNN) -- American swimmer Aaron Peirsol reclaimed his world 100-meter backstroke record as he became the first man to go under 52 seconds in winning the event at the U.S. National Championships in Indianapolis.
Aaron Peirsol lowered the world 100m backstroke record for the sixth time in his career.
The Californian clinched his place at this month's world championships in Rome along with fellow Olympic hero Michael Phelps, who opened his program with victories in the 200m freestyle and 200m butterfly.
Peirsol, who turns 26 in two weeks' time, trailed Matt Grevers at the halfway stage but came home strongly to win in 51.94 seconds.
Olympic silver medallist Grevers finished second in 53.11.
Peirsol took back the record from Spain's Aschwin Wildeboer Faber, who swam 52.38 on the backstroke leg of the 400m medley relay at the Mediterranean Games on July 1.
"It was a beautiful race," Peirsol told the USA Swimming Web site. "I knew I could do something special tonight. I'm a little speechless. I've said it before: anyone can win a gold medal or set a world record at any time. There's something to be said for consistency."
Peirsol, who beat Phelps in the event at the Charlotte UltraSwim in May, had set the previous best mark of 52.54 when winning gold in Beijing. His latest effort is the sixth time he has lowered the world record.
Phelps, who won an unprecedented eight gold medals in China, was unhappy despite setting the fastest times in the world so far this year in both of his events.
He won the 200m butterfly in 1:52.76, being pushed close by 20-year-old Tyler Clary of Michigan, who was second in 1:53.64.
Phelps, who was banned for three months when he was pictured smoking drugs at a party after returning from Beijing, earlier won the 200m freestyle in 1:44.23.
"I'm not happy unless I'm swimming my best times," Phelps told the LA Times. "This is the first time I've been shaved and tapered where I didn't hit my best times, and that's not something I'm used to.
"There are some things that I'm fired up about that I'm keeping inside. I'm not going to talk about those things because I'm just going to use them as motivation."
His coach Bob Bowman said Phelps, who has been back in the water for only five months since his Beijing heroics, would probably be happier with his times once he had time to reflect on them.
"He's just getting back into racing and realizing there are some things he can control and things he can't," Bowman said. "We can only do as well as we can do with the training we put in.
"If you had asked me a while ago if he'd go 1:52 and 1:44, I'd have been surprised. So I'm very pleased. I think he's ahead of where we initially thought he might be."
Wednesday's racing also saw 15-year-old Elizabeth Pelton qualify for a second event for the showpiece in Italy starting on July 26.
Having qualified in the 200-meter individual medley on Tuesday, she earned a place in the 100m backstroke after finishing second to Haley MacGregory.
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How will I know if my attorney has filed my EB-5 application?
If I hire an immigration attorney for the whole EB-5 process, how will I know that the different applications I have to file are actually filed by the attorney? Are there specific receipts I can ask for or a way to check the exact status of my EB-5 application? A green card is already going to take a long time to get and I don't want there to be any extra delays.
An experienced EB-5 immigration attorney will provide USCIS or the National Visa Center (U.S. consulate) reception notices indicating the timely filing of the required EB-5 petitions and applications.
You will receive a receipt from USCIS.
Your attorney should be regularly communicating with you and providing you with copies of receipt notices. Not doing so may be malpractice.
Your lawyer should give you a copy of the filing and a copy of the actual receipt! Then you will know it was filed, and when.
Yes, you may ask your attorney to determine that in fact your I-526 petition has been timely filed. You should be able to obtain a copy of a Notice of Receipt on Form I-797, which will show the date that the I-526 petition was received. With such receipt, you can also go online to confirm that the petition was filed as well.
Ask your attorney for a copy of your complete application. You will receive a Notice of Receipt from USCIS.
Your attorney should be providing you with updates on your case, including providing confirmation of the filing receipt (issued by USCIS upon filing) for the EB-5 immigrant investor petition (I-526 petition) and following its approval, the adjustment of status application (if you are processing in the United States) and immigrant visa processing (if you are processing while abroad).
You can ask for the government filing receipt, and/or a copy of the filing.
You will receive receipt (known as Notice of Action) from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) within few days after your application has been filed. Also, your attorney will also receive a courtesy receipt. The status of an application can be checked online at USCIS''s website.
If your attorney has filed a petition on your behalf, he or she should receive a notice from USCIS. This notice should have a receipt number. You can use this receipt number to check the status of your application at: https://egov.uscis.gov. This site will give you basic info regarding your case. Furthermore, it is your attorney's duty to be responsive, so do not hesitate to ask.
We send our clients a complete copy of the submittal with the FedEx tracking information. A week or so later an official receipt will come from the government and we forward this as well.
If the petition is filed, USCIS will generate a receipt notice for you. On that receipt notice, you will see the receipt number. You can track your case status by entering your receipt number on USCIS's official website: USCIS.gov.
When an application is filed with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, both the attorney and the applicant will receive receipt notices.
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Will AI become the new Esports champions?
OpenAI announced their Artificial intelligence system for the moba DOTA. The theory behind this system is that pro players can play on their level and even learn from “the computer”.
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CISPA allows for voluntary information sharing between private companies and the government in the event of a cyber attack. Supporters argue that CISPA is necessary to protect the U.S. against cyber attacks from countries like China and Iran. But opponents say that it forces companies to share users' private information with the government due to a liability clause. This, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, "essentially means CISPA would override the relevant provisions in all other laws—including privacy laws." It has also been questioned if the new measures under CISPA would constitute a violation of users' 4th Amendment right, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Why is the White House threatening to veto the bill?
The White House has threatened to veto CISPA, in part because it does not require private companies to anonymize data prior to sharing it with the government. Because of this, personal communications such as emails and text messages could be shared with the government (with your identifying data), or your cloud storage company could share your stored files.
So why try to pass it again?
The bill sponsors admitted that, as originally crafted, CISPA was not likely not pass the Senate or obtain President approval. Because of this, a number of amendments have since been introduced. More than a dozen proposals were approved, but most notably: companies can only use information they receive for cyber-security purposes, not to help their business; federal authorities can't hold on to shared data and use it for "national security purposes"; clarification that CISPA does not authorize hacking; and a rule that incoming cyber data will be handled by Homeland Security and the Justice Department. However, a last-minute amendment that would prevent companies from requesting passwords to employee's social media accounts was voted down 224-189, with Republicans constituting the majority.
CISPA has since moved on to the Senate, where senators can consider and approve the bill as crafted, or write their own cyber-security legislation. If the Senate opts to pass a bill that differs from the House version, the two sides must agree on the proposed legislation "in conference," before sending it on to the White House to gain President Obama's signature.
If you would like to voice your opposition to CISPA, more information can be found on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website.
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What Are the Differences between Jams and Preserves?
Jam is made from all parts of the fruit, resulting in a thick, textured fruit spread, but doesn't contain large pieces of fruit.
Both jams and preserves contain pectin, found in apples.
The difference between jams and preserves becomes apparent when spread on toast.
The difference between jams and preserves is how the fruit is prepared. Preserves contain whole fruit or coarsely chopped fruit depending on the size of the produce used. Jams contain mashed or even finely chopped fruit. It is a falsehood that preserves do not contain pectin. Both jams and preserves will contain pectin or the recipe will use some other thickening trick.
How the fruit used in fruit preserves is handled depends on the size of the fruit. When making preserves, small pieces of fruit, such as blueberries, would be used whole. Medium size pieces of fruit, such as strawberries would be cut in half or in quarters. Large pieces of fruit, such as apples would be coarsely chopped.
On the other hand, to prepare soft fruit for jams, the fruit is typically placed in a bowl and crushed into a pulpy substance with a potato masher. Small chunks of the fruit will remain, but the size of the fruit pieces will be very small. Soft fruit can also be cut into small chucks, but this takes more time and the end result is basically the same as mashing. Hard fruit used in jams, such as apples, is prepared by finely chopping the fruit.
The difference between jams and preserves is easily seen when both are spread out on a slice of bread. For example, strawberry jam will spread very easily and will streak the bread with a strawberry jelly and small pieces of fruit. Strawberry preserves will be harder to spread because suspended in the sugar gel will be larger, chunky pieces of fruit which will impede the spreading. Both jams and preserves, however, will taste about the same. Some canners feel that preserves retain the fresh fruit taste better than jams.
Pectin is a substance naturally found in fruit and also added, when necessary, to fruit spreads to thicken the condiment. Some canners believe another difference between jams and preserves is that jam recipes use pectin when the fruit does not naturally contain enough pectin and preserves use some other method to thicken the spread when necessary.
In fact, pectin can be added to preserves when required without needing to change the name of the spread to jam. Also, jams can use alternative thickening methods and do not have to include pectin. Preserves and jams can be thickened by including some slightly unripe fruit along with ripe fruit. Unripe fruit has a higher concentration of pectin than ripe fruit. These condiments can also be thickened by adding lemon, along with the sugar, to encourage the natural pectin to leach from the fruit.
What Are the Best Tips for Homemade Preserves?
What Are the Best Tips for Preserving Fruit?
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Have you ever read the book The Five Love Languages? The author posits 5 'languages' are spoken when we are loving someone, or being loved. In order to feel loved, we must have our love language spoken to us. The five languages are: words of affirmation, acts of service, physical touch, quality time, and gifts. It can be difficult to speak the love language of someone else, if you do not have the same love language.
Gabriel can be hard to love. He's prickly. The only way he likes to be touched is by being punched, kicked, and shoved (Tae Kwon Do and general shoving as you walk down the street- typical teenage junk). He's much more into sarcasm than affirmation. He feels that if you do something for him (like make his bed), it's taking away from his ability to learn to be responsible (his words). He likes to get gifts, and treasures them for years, and this may be his love language. However, it would be my guess that his language is quality time. The problem is that he is an introvert and needs time alone. Needless to say, it's hard to love him.
Xavier's primary love language is probably physical touch. But, Xavier is special in that he just exudes love. He spends a lot of his day trying to find someone to cuddle up next to. He constantly tells me people how beautiful they are. Xavier frequently does things for people, like bring them drinks and breakfast in bed. He goes out of his way to spend time with you and is totally focused on you while he's doing it. He also gives people gifts. I can't count the number of times he's brought me flowers. But, is he easy to love? Well, the fact of the matter is that I believe his love language is physical touch. Since he spends a large portion of his time cuddled up next to me, it's easy to love him.
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The Olympics has turned from a celebration of human physical performance that once transcended global politics and popular culture into a propaganda event for the dominant interpretation of global politics and popular culture. It is no longer about athletics and who wins the athletic competition – it is now concerned with shaping our perceptions of what it means to compete with each other, and why we probably shouldn't celebrate winning at all. It has become an embarrassing mess for the entire human race, and it's time to stop wasting resources, time, and attention span on it.
There are two distinct problems: the Games themselves, and the media coverage of the Games, which shapes the public's perception of everything about them.
The Olympic Games were originally contested in ancient Greece, and consisted of a combination of athletics and equestrian events that derived primarily from the most practical of considerations of physical prowess – warfare. Various footraces, throwing contests, and jumping events comprised the ancient Games, which were held in the familiar four-year interval for about a thousand years.
Reconstituted in 1894, they have changed quite a bit over the past century. They now include three basic types of contests: 1.) games such as Golf, Baseball, Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball, where the athletes compete within the framework of a “score” generated within the rules of the game; 2.) artistic judged events such as gymnastics and diving, where the athletes attempt to get as close as possible to a standard for the contested movement developed by their governing organization, and judged for conformation to the standard by the consensus opinion of a panel of expert judges and 3.) athletic events such as the races, the heavy field events, and Weightlifting that generate an objective quantitatively measured score, and combat sports such as wrestling and fencing that generate a win or a loss.
Of these three types of contests, the athletics events display the greatest fidelity to the original idea of the Olympic Games. As far as I'm concerned, the addition of men's and women's Golf was the best indication of the developing intent of the IOC.
The arguments against the Olympics are important. The Olympics are no longer the most important event within most of the sports contested. The professional versions of the games events have their own world championships, at which the best athletes compete for Real Money, not just medals. All sports within the International Olympic Committee have their own annual World Championships, meets that happen more frequently than every four years and which form the basis for the training schedules of most athletes.
The Olympic Games are hideously expensive to host, and the taxpayers of the host nation are often left with a burdensome debt and several abandoned facilities for their trouble. In essence, Greece spent billions of dollars it didn't have to build facilities it doesn't need to host a competition for which NBC Sports could sell advertising.
There are basically two types of competitors at the Olympic Games: those who have been caught using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) and those who have not been caught using PEDs. This is true of all human athletic competition, so somebody please tell Bob Costas that when the stakes are even marginally high competitive people will do anything it takes to win.
Is this cheating? I guess this depends on your definition of cheating, and not everybody has the same definition, because the concept itself is quite subjective. If you are offended by the idea that essentially everybody entered in the Olympics every four years has taken or is taking some type of a very wide selection of substances that improve athletic performance, then you'd better find something besides high-level sports to watch. Sorry, but this is the truth of the matter, sincere denials notwithstanding.
Possibly in reaction to this, NBC Sports, the de facto owner of the Olympic Games, just doesn't include the “testosterone” sports in their coverage – unless there is a severe injury that looks very bad (good) on TV. Swimming is fine (no hairy men), all women's sports are fine (no hairy men), gymnastics, ditto (basically a children's sport), skiing is okay (hair doesn't show through lycra), and the equestrian events are just fine (horses are innocent even if hairy). What you will not see are more than one or two Weightlifters, shot-putters, hammer throwers, or discus throwers. Javelins are too pointy, as are epees and sabers, and such weapon-y things are threatening. Basically, you get to see activities you would personally enjoy on a Sunday afternoon – you know, wholesome stuff without the slightest whiff of meanness, bullying, or testosterone.
These errors of omission are quite thoroughly intentional, and are designed by the people who present the vast majority of most people's exposure to the Olympics, 99% of whom are not watching the internet feeds. The Media controls the popular culture, and control is, by definition, not accidental. If you lose in the preliminaries of the 100m Freestyle, you get out of the pool and leave, and everybody's fine – you went swimming; if you lose in Freestyle Wrestling, you were beaten. And we just can't have that.
But even more offensive to sensible people everywhere is the abject silliness of the media coverage of the Olympic Games. The focus of the coverage has shifted from the sports and the athletes' performances to the human interest stories that are, at best, extremely peripheral to the contests. My impression, and probably yours too, is that NBC Sports is far more concerned about the uplifting story of the athlete's mother who overcame cancer, the athlete's brother who is overcoming a learning disability, the athlete's gender-fluid husband who is overcoming workplace discrimination, or the athlete's dog who was just yesterday hit by a gas-guzzling SUV driven by a White Man who was on his way to the Board of Directors meeting of a Private Company that contributes to Global Warming than about the athlete's performance in the sport it is ostensibly covering. The feel-good story of two women, one of whom is a rugby player and the other a stadium manager, who got engaged on the field after a rugby game following a two-year romance in Brazil (we seem to know a lot about this) apparently justifies the incessant, annoying, repetitive commercial breaks, which have generated NBC a reported $1.2 billion in ad sales for the 2016 Games.
The time has come to move past the Olympic Games, and to move past NBC's attempts to use them as a restructuring device for society even while they make billions of dollars in the process. As the internet develops, NBC will become obsolete, but until then, do yourself a big favor and do not allow them to ride the coattails of sports into your brain.
This article originally appeared on PJ Media on August 16, 2016.
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Fans of The Last Jedi movie can find memorabilia of all kinds from the popular franchise. If your favorite character is Poe Dameron, you may want to search for his signature jacket. There are numerous options you can select from to capture the look of the jacket. I myself am a fan of the character from the new Star Wars series of films. The pilot Poe Dameron reminds me of a bit of Luke Skywalker's character in the original trilogy. His skill as a pilot, his friendship with his droid BB-8, and the sometimes brash decision making skills that often save the day make him an easy hero character to the new films. Trying to find the right memorabilia of my favorite lead character from the new trilogy of Star Wars stories. Some examples of memorabilia I have found related to Poe Dameron is a BB-8 droid laundry hamper and a storage bin. Looking for a jacket is more of a challenge compared to finding other items related to Poe Dameron's character. The character's jacket and his orange and white rebel pilot uniform are perhaps his most signature style moments in the new trilogy. A Poe Dameron jacket is a fitting item for everyday use over your work or casual clothes. A Poe Dameron jacket may also be used for costumes or for Star Wars events. Maybe you'd want to go to a The Last Jedi movie screening while wearing the jacket. How do you find a jacket like Poe's? With an effective online shopping, you should be able to find exactly what you would like for your Poe Dameron jacket.
Poe Dameron's signature jacket in The Last Jedi is a stylish leather jacket that he wears throughout the film when he isn't flying. The jacket is a dark brown color. The recognizable white and red rebel symbol is on the arm of the jacket. There are two different options on how to get Poe Dameron's jacket from The Last Jedi.
The easiest method of finding Poe Dameron's jacket is to shop online to try to find a replica from a good novelty item seller. A simple internet search should help you pull up a number of online shops that may carry the Poe Dameron jacket. A durable jacket will likely cost more, but it is worth it because that means it can be worn regularly without falling apart.
You may be able to find the jacket in a regular store. It is more likely that you will be able to find accessories to go with a Poe Dameron jacket in a regular stores it's difficult to find a novelty item like Poe's jacket in a regular store.
The Last Jedi Poe Dameron jacket should be fairly simple to obtain or construct. I tested out both methods to get a Poe Dameron rebel jacket. The first option of acquiring a jacket from a novelty online seller is significantly simpler. I recommend doing this option if you are strapped for time or want something long lasting.
It's simple to find a novelty online seller that carries Poe Dameron's The Last Jedi jacket. All you have to do is type in a search engine "The Last Jedi Poe Dameron's Signature Jacket". You will find a list of novelty sellers. Due to the popularity of the film it should be easy to find plenty of novelty sellers that carry memorabilia related to The Last Jedi and to Poe's character. You want to find the right seller though. At Independence Brothers we can make a replica jacket that looks exactly like the one Poe wears in the film. The jacket is made of quality leather material. The jacket has a total of six pockets. Four pockets on the outside of the jacket. Two pockets are on the inside of the jacket. The jacket has an open closure. On the arm of the jacket is the resistance symbol in red and white. This jacket is a high quality made item. It is a well-made and durable jacket, constructed from high quality materials. Before looking anywhere else, think about ordering this custom made beauty from Independence Brothers.
In The Last Jedi film, Poe generally dresses in his jacket and some simple clothing items you can easily get your hands on. He wears a light beige colored shirt with a pair of dark olive green pants and boots. You can wear a beige or white colored shirt with the jacket. Dark olive dress pants should be perfect with this jacket or if you want to dress closely to how Poe dresses. Grey or black pants should work too, even though these colors aren't the closest to what Poe is wearing in the film. Simple black doc martens boot season would look great with this jacket.
The Last Jedi Poe Dameron jacket is a must for anyone who is a fan of the character. I recommend that you stick to purchasing a high quality Poe Dameron jacket made of leather from a novelty shop. This will last longer if you intend to use the jacket for regular use. Styling up the jacket is fine for a costume party or Star Wars movie watching party. Or perhaps you want to dress casually like Poe as well with your everyday style. Remember while you look for your jacket these words from Poe Dameron says in The Last Jedi: "We've pulled crazier stunts than this."
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Innocent XIII, born Michele Angelo Conti, Roman Catholic Pope from 1721 to 1724, was the son of the Duke of Poli, and a member of a family that had produced several popes, among them Pope Innocent III, was born in Rome on the 13th of May 1655, served as nuncio in Switzerland, and, for a much longer time, in Portugal, was made cardinal and bishop of Osimo and Viterbo by Clement XI, whom he succeeded on the 8th of May 1721. One of his first acts was to invest the emperor Charles VI with Naples (1722); but against the imperial investiture of Don Carlos with Parma and Piacenza he protested, albeit in vain. He recognized the Old Pretender, "James III" and promised him subsidies conditional upon the re-establishment of Roman Catholicism in England. Moved by deep-seated distrust of the Jesuits and by their continued practice of "Accommodation", despite express papal prohibition, Innocent forbade the Order to receive new members in China, and was said to have meditated its suppression. This encouraged the French Jansenist bishops to press for the revocation of the bull Unigenitus; but the pope commanded its unreserved acceptance. He weakly yielded to pressure and bestowed the cardinal's hat upon the corrupt and debauched Dubois. Innocent died on the 7th of March 1724, and was succeeded by Pope Benedict XIII.
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1.Slice onions. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a pan.
2. Add cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, fennel seeds, nutmeg, onions, ginger, garlic and coconut.
3. Fry till the onions turn brown.
4. Let cool. Mix green chilies and grind into a paste.
Very hot curry masala.. As the name suggests, it is used in curries to enhance the flavor.
1) Replace dry coconut with fresh one.
2) Replace green chilies with dry whole red chilies.
3) Add 2 tsp coriander and cumin seeds each and 2 tsp poppy seeds.
4) Add 4 green cardamoms.
5) Add 1 black cardamom (masala velachi).
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Henry Alfred Kissinger ist ein US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler und ehemaliger Politiker der Republikanischen Partei. Der Deutschamerikaner Kissinger spielte in der Außenpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten zwischen 1969 und 1977 eine zentrale Rolle; er war Vertreter einer harten Realpolitik wie auch einer der Architekten der Entspannung im Kalten Krieg. Von 1969 bis 1973 war Kissinger Nationaler Sicherheitsberater, von 1973 bis 1977 Außenminister der Vereinigten Staaten. 1973 erhielt er gemeinsam mit Lê Đức Thọ den Friedensnobelpreis für ein Waffenstillstands- und Abzugsabkommen mit Nordvietnam. Von 1977 bis 1981 war Kissinger Direktor der amerikanischen Denkfabrik Council on Foreign Relations.
Context: I've always acted alone. Americans like that immensely. Americans like the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse, the cowboy who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else. Maybe even without a pistol, since he doesn't shoot. He acts, that's all, by being in the right place at the right time. In short, a Western. … This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique. Interview with Oriana Fallaci (November 1972), as quoted in "Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview" in Vanity Fair (December 2006) http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/hitchens200612; Kissinger, as quoted in "Special Section: Chagrined Cowboy" in TIME magazine (8 October 1979) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916877,00.html called this "without doubt the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press" and claimed that he had probably been misquoted or quoted out of context, but Fallaci later produced the tapes of the interview.
Context: We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape — to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance. "The Vietnam Negotiations", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2 (January 1969), p. 214; also quoted as "A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerilla army wins if he does not lose."
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Evaluate the comfort and environment of each hotel through the experience of each hotel, and then publish the valuable information on the website or app to people who need to know about the hotel. When it comes to "hotel experiencer," most people think of the word "cool." Can I stay in a star hotel for free and earn tens of thousands of yuan a month? It's naive to think that a career is very easy. First, a lot of preparatory work needs to be done before the evaluation. In order to explore new hotels, once you open your eyes every day, you will look for hotels on the Internet. Once you look for hotels, you will spend more than ten hours. When visiting hotels, you will also spend a certain amount of manpower and financial resources. Second, before entering the hotel, pay attention to whether there is a waiter to drive the door; After entering the hotel, pay attention to how long it takes to check in and whether it is easy to find the elevator entrance. The smell of the hotel lobby should also be recorded, because a good star hotel will spray perfume, different hotels taste different, high-end business people attach great importance to this. Third, we must observe the details of the stay in detail, from the room bathroom, service, price, food and transportation and other five dimensions evaluation, and attach a large number of words, pictures and video description of the accommodation experience report. The selected report, after the evaluation of the website expert group, is released online, providing reference for many users. Picture and text reflect details: professional hotel evaluators generally check in a room as a guest, it is necessary to use the mobile phone to shoot; Check in experience observation micro: bathroom towel number, flower sprinkling hot water speed, room bed linen cleanliness, the location of the socket and the number of sockets. There are other details that video may not be able to show, such as the service attitude of the hotel staff, check-in status and any other details will be detailed in the log.
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TL;DR: In this article, we’ll get a quick refresher on NgRx basics and get up to speed on more features of the NgRx ecosystem. We'll then walk through how to add Auth0 authentication to an NgRx app. You can access the finished code for this tutorial on the ngrx-auth GitHub repository.
I remember when Rob Wormald, an Angular Core Team member, first wrote ngrx/store at the end of 2015. It was a tiny library implementing Redux in Angular (store.ts was a single file with 66 lines of code!). Fast forward a few years and NgRx is much more than a simple library — it’s an entire ecosystem with over 120 contributors! Learning to think in the Redux pattern, while also keeping up with the various structures and pieces of NgRx, can be a challenge at first. Don’t worry, though — we’ve got your back.
In this article, we’ll do a quick refresher on NgRx concepts and learn about what has changed in its ecosystem in the last year. Then, we’ll look at how authentication works in NgRx and how to add Auth0 to an NgRx application.
"I'm learning about adding authentication to an NgRx application."
While we have a great tutorial on managing state with ngrx/store and implementing Auth0, a lot has changed with NgRx since then. Let’s do a quick recap of what hasn't changed — the fundamental concepts of NgRx and the Redux pattern.
State is an immutable data structure describing the current status of parts of your application. This could be in the UI or in the business logic. State can represent a range of different things, from whether to show a navigation menu to whether a user is logged in.
You can access that state through the store. You can think of the store as the main brain of your application. It’s the hub of anything that needs to change. Since we’re using Angular, the store is implemented using an RxJS subject, which basically means it’s both an observable and an observer. The store is an observable of state, which you can subscribe to, but what is it observing?
The store is an observer of actions. Actions are information payloads that describe state changes. You send (or dispatch) actions to the store, and that’s the only way the store receives data or instructions on how to update your application’s state. An action has a type (like “Add Book”) and an optional payload (like an object containing the title and description for the book Return of the King).
Write your actions first. This lets you plan out the different use cases of your application before you write too much code.
Don’t reuse actions or use action sub-types. Instead, focus on clarity over brevity. Be specific with your actions and use descriptive action types. Use actions like [Login Page] Load User Profile and [Feature Page] Load User Profile. You can then use the switch statement in your reducer to modify the state in the same way for multiple actions.
Remember: good actions are actions you can read after a year and tell where they are being dispatched.
Once the store receives an action to change the state, pure functions called reducers use those actions along with the previous state to compute the new state.
If you’re feeling lost on the basics of the Redux pattern, one of my favorite introductory resources is Dan Abramov’s Egghead course on getting started with Redux.
With the basics covered, let’s look at some additional concepts in NgRx we'll need for this tutorial.
Selectors are pure functions that are used to get simple and complex pieces of state. They act as queries to your store and can make your life a lot easier. Instead of having to hold onto different filtered versions of data in your store, you can just use selectors.
// Feature selectors get registered first.
// Then you can use that feature selector to select a piece of state.
To learn more, check out this talk from ng-conf 2018 on selectors by David East and Todd Motto.
You can see that the effect is listening for the LOAD_DATA action, and then calls the ApiService to get the data and return a new action.
Using effects ensures that your reducers aren’t containing too many implementation details and that your state isn’t full of temporary clutter. For more information, check out this tutorial from Todd Motto on using effects.
One of the most common complaints about NgRx is the amount of repetitive code that it takes to set up an application and add new features (never say "boilerplate" around NgRx Core Team member Brandon Roberts!). Part of this is due to the NgRx philosophy to focus on clarity over brevity, and to front-load the work of app architecture so that future feature additions are easy and straightforward. At the same time, there can be a lot of repetition in the code you write — adding a new reducer, set of actions, effects, and selectors for each new feature. Luckily, Angular CLI schematics are here to help.
Schematics for the Angular CLI are blueprints to generate new code quickly and are a huge time-saver. NgRx has its own set of schematics that you can take advantage of when writing your application. These schematics follow best practices and cut out lots of repetitive tasks. They also automatically register your feature states, wire up your effects, and integrate into NgModules. Awesome!
This will generate a store for you at the root of your application and register it in your AppModule. Pretty cool!
For more information on NgRx schematics, check out the repository readme and this excellent ng-conf talk by Vitalii Bobrov.
We’re caught up on the latest and greatest with NgRx, so let’s learn how to implement authentication in NgRx.
"I'm learning how to use schematics, selectors, and effects to add authentication to an NgRx application."
We’re going to use a heavily simplified version of the official ngrx/platform book collection app to learn the basics of authentication in NgRx. To save time, most of the app is done, but we’ll be adding Auth0 to protect our book collection through an Auth0 login page.
You can now visit http://localhost:4200 to see the running application.
We'll also be taking advantage of NgRx schematics to help us set up authentication in this app, so I've added them to the project and set them as the default.
Our app currently has the book library (found in the books folder), as well as some basic setup of NgRx already done. We also have the very beginnings of the AuthModule. The UserHomeComponent just lets us go to the book collection. This is what we'll protect with authentication.
The first phase of this task will be the basic scaffolding of the authentication state, reducer, and selectors. Then, we’ll add Auth0 to the application, create our UI components, and finally set up effects to make it all work.
Before we get started, I need to make a couple of side notes.
First, because this article is focused on how to set up authentication in an NgRx app, we're going to abstract away and over-simplify things that aren't specific to NgRx. For example, we won't discuss tying the book collection to a specific user or setting up authentication on the back end. Check out our tutorial on Angular authentication to learn more about those things. Instead, you'll learn the mechanics of adding the necessary state setup, adding actions and reducers to handle the flow of logging in, and using effects to retrieve and process a token.
Second, almost all NgRx tutorials need a caveat. In the real world, if you had an application this simple, you most likely wouldn't use NgRx. NgRx is extremely powerful, but the setup and learning curve involved prevent it from being a fit for every application, especially super simple ones. However, it's tough to learn these concepts using a large and complex sample application. My goal in this article is to focus only on teaching the core concepts of NgRx authentication so that you can apply them to your own larger application. For more on this subject, see Dan Abramov's iconic article You Might Not Need Redux.
The first step to adding authentication to an NgRx app is to define the piece of your state related to authentication. Do you need to keep track of a user profile, or whether there is a token stored in memory? Often the presence of a token or profile is enough to derive a “logged in” state. In any case, this is what you’ll want to attach to your main state.
We’re going to keep it very simple for this example and just detect the presence of a valid token. If we have a valid token, we'll toggle a global piece of state called isLoggedIn.
We'll come back to the reducer in this file once we've defined our actions in the next section.
In a more complex application, you’ll need to think through the state of other pages that use authentication in addition to your overall authentication state. For example, it’s common for login pages to need pending or error states. In our example, we’ll be using Auth0’s login page, which will redirect our application to a login screen to authenticate, then back to the application. Because of this, we won’t need to keep track of our login page state in this example.
User clicks the “Log In” button to trigger the Auth0 login screen.
After going through the Auth0 authentication process, the user will be redirected to a callback route in our application.
Once that’s done, the user should be redirected to a home route.
If the user refreshes while logged in, the authentication state should persist.
Login — to trigger the Auth0 login screen.
LoginComplete — to handle the Auth0 callback.
LoginSuccess — to update our authentication state isLoggedIn to true and navigate to the home route.
LoginFailure — to handle errors.
CheckLogin - to see if the user is still logged in on the server and update the state accordingly.
Notice that only the LoginSuccess action will modify our application state, which means that one will need to be in our reducers. The rest of these actions will use effects.
User clicks “Log Out” button to trigger a confirmation dialog.
If the user clicks “Cancel,” the dialog will close.
If the user clicks “Okay,” we’ll trigger the Auth0 logout process.
Once logged out, Auth0 will redirect the user back to the application, which should default to the login route when not authenticated.
LogoutCancelled — to close the logout dialog.
LogoutConfirmed — to tell Auth0 to log out and redirect home.
We’ll use the LogoutConfirmed action to reset our authentication state in a reducer in addition to telling Auth0 to log out. The rest will be handled with effects.
We should end up with actions, effects, and reducers folders inside of src/app/auth with corresponding TypeScript files prefixed with auth (e.g. auth.actions.ts).
It's helpful to stop and re-run ng serve to prevent getting some errors at this stage.
You can see that, in our example, we’re only using a payload for the LoginFailure action to pass in an error message. If we were using a user profile, we’d need to define a payload in LoginComplete in order to handle it in the reducer. Instead, we'll just be handling the token through an effect and an AuthService we'll create later.
Do you notice how thinking through the actions in a feature also helps us identify our use cases? This keeps us from cluttering our reducers and application state because we shift most of the heavy lifting to effects.
Now let’s circle back to authentication reducer (state/auth.reducer.ts). Since we’ve figured out what our actions are, we know that we’ll only need to change the state of our application when the login is successful and when the logout dialog is confirmed.
Notice that the LoginSuccess case toggles the global isLoggedIn state to true, while the LogoutConfirmed case returns us to our initial state, where isLoggedIn is false.
We’ll handle the rest of our actions using effects later on.
We've defined our isLoggedIn state, actions related to our login process, and a reducer to modify our application state. But how do we access the status of isLoggedIn throughout our application? For example, we’ll need to know whether we're authenticated in a route guard to control access to the home and books routes.
We’ve now got all the basic scaffolding set up for an authenticated state. Let's start setting up our authentication process.
Once you've got your account, you can set up an application to use with our NgRx project. We'll only be setting up a Single Page Application (SPA) in Auth0 since we're using the Google Books API as our back end.
Go to your Auth0 Applications and click the "Create Application" button.
Name your new app, select "Single Page Web Applications," and click the "Create" button. You can skip the Quick Start and click on Settings.
Add http://localhost:4200 to both Allowed Web Origins and Allowed Logout URLs.
Copy down your Domain and Client ID. We'll use them in just a minute.
If you'd like, you can set up some social connections. You can then enable them for your app in the Application options under the Connections tab. The example shown in the screenshot above utilizes username/password database, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Note: Under the OAuth tab of Advanced Settings (at the bottom of the Settings section) you should see that the JsonWebToken Signature Algorithm is set to RS256. This is the default for new applications. If it is set to HS256, please change it to RS256. You can read more about RS256 vs. HS256 JWT signing algorithms here.
Note: if we were using an API identifier, we would add an audience property to this configuration. We're leaving it out here since we're using the Google Books API.
This file stores the authentication configuration variables so we can re-use them throughout our application by importing them. Be sure to update the YOUR-AUTH0-CLIENT-ID and YOUR-AUTH0-DOMAIN to your own information from your Auth0 application settings.
We're now ready to set up the main engine of authentication for our application: the authentication service. The authentication service is where we’ll handle interaction with the Auth0 library. It will be responsible for anything related to getting the token from Auth0, but won’t dispatch any actions to the store.
We're setting the different URLs here in the service in case multiple places in the application need to perform this redirection.
We'll now need functions to handle logging in, setting the authentication, and logging out, as well as a public getters for our URLs and whether we're logged in. We'll use a flag in local storage to track that the application is authenticated. That way we can check for that flag and call checkSession to update our state.
Auth0 is handling logging in and logging out, and we have a setAuth method to set the local storage flag. If we needed to return the token for use in the store, we'd do that here. We're going to handle much of the flow of our authentication using effects. Before we set those up, though, we're going to need some components.
We've got the authentication service set up, but now we need to build out our UI. We'll need components for logging in, a callback component for Auth0 to redirect to, a logout dialog, and a logout button on our user home screen. We'll also need to add some routing, and we'll want to add a route guard to lock down our home route and redirect users back to the login route if no token is found.
We need to create a login route with a simple form that contains a button to log in. This button will dispatch the Login action. We'll set up an effect in just a bit that will call the authentication service.
Notice that we'll be passing the onLogin function into our form, which will dispatch our action.
We should be able to build the application, navigate to http://localhost:4200/login, and see the new form.
Of course, nothing will happen when we click the button, because we don't have any effects listening for the Login action yet. Let's finish building our UI and then come back to that.
Once Auth0 successfully logs us in, it will redirect back to our application callback route, which we'll add in this section. First, let's build the CallbackComponent and have it dispatch a LoginComplete action.
Once again, if we build the application and run it, we're now able to navigate to http://localhost:4200/callback and see the new component (which, once again, will do nothing yet).
For logging out of the application, we'll need a confirmation dialog, as well as log out buttons on the user home and books page components.
And that's it! Now we just need to add the logout confirmation.
We're going to use Angular Material to pop up a confirmation when the user clicks log out.
You're probably seeing an error in the console at this point. That's because there is one thing that the CLI didn't do for us. We need to create an entryComponents array in the NgModule decorator of AuthModule and add the LogoutPromptComponent to it.
Entry components are components loaded imperatively through code instead of declaratively through a template. The LogoutPromptComponent doesn't get called through a template, it gets loaded by Angular Material when the user clicks the Log Out button.
We'll create an effect for Logout to open the prompt, listen for the response, and dispatch either LogoutCancelled or LogoutConfirmed when we wire everything up in just a bit.
We've added our login and logout components, but we want to ensure that a visitor to our site can only access the home route if they are logged in. Otherwise, we want to redirect them to our new login route. We can accomplish this with a CanActivate route guard.
Let's break down what's happening here. When this guard runs, we first call the function checkStoreAuthentication, which uses the selector we created to get isLoggedIn from our global state. We also call checkApiAuthentication, which checks if the state matches authenticated on our AuthService (which we get from local storage). If these are true, we return true and allow the route to load. Otherwise, we redirect the user to the login route.
We'll want to add this route guard to both the home route (in our AuthModule) and our books route (specifically, the forChild in BooksModule).
We did it! If we run ng serve, we should no longer be able to access the home or books route. Instead, we should be redirected to login.
Note that we haven't added any sort of 404 redirecting here. To do that, we'd want to add a wildcard route and a PageNotFoundComponent to redirect to. You can read more about wildcard routes in the Angular docs.
We just have one last UI piece to add. We need to dispatch the CheckLogin action when the application loads so that we can retrieve the token from the server if the user is logged in. The best place to do this is in the AppComponent (src/app/app.component.ts).
You won't notice anything different when you run the application, because we'll be calling checkSession on the AuthService from an effect. So, let's put it all together by creating effects that will control logging in and out in addition to checking for persisted authentication.
Alright, friends, we're ready for the final piece of this puzzle. We're going to add effects to handle our authentication flow. Effects allow us to initiate side effects as a result of actions dispatched in a central and predictable location. This way, if we ever need to universally change the behavior of an action's side effect, we can do so quickly without repeating ourselves.
All of our effects will go in auth/effects/auth.effects.ts, and the CLI has already connected them to our application through the AuthModule. All we need to do is fill in our effects.
// Delete both of these lines.
We'll use all of these in our effects.
Let's add our log in effects first.
Let's break down what's happening in each of these.
Login — calls the login method on AuthService, which triggers Auth0. Does not dispatch an action.
Login Complete — calls parseHash$ on AuthService, which returns an observable of the parsed hash. If there's a token, this effect calls setAuth, clears the hash from the window location, and then dispatches the LoginSuccess action. If there's not a token, the effect dispatches the LoginFailure action with the error as its payload.
Login Redirect — This effect happens when LoginSuccess is dispatched. It redirects the user to home (using the authSuccessUrl property on the AuthService) and does not dispatch a new action.
Login Error Redirect — This effect happens when LoginFailure is dispatched. It redirects the user back to login (using the authFailureUrl property on the AuthService) and does not dispatch a new action.
On your first login, you'll need to click the "Sign Up" button to create a user. Alternatively, you can manually create users from the Auth0 dashboard. In either case, you'll receive an email asking you to verify your email address. Your first login to the application will also trigger an "Authorize App" screen requesting permission. Just click the green button to continue. Once you're all signed up and logged in, you'll be redirected to the home route, where you can click the button to view the book collection. Of course, we can't log out yet, so let's add the effects for that now.
Note: You can also use Google to sign up and log in. However, be aware that you will need to generate a Google Client ID and Client Secret in order to complete this tutorial.
This is great, but if we refresh the application, we'll lose the access token. Because we already set up the flag in local storage and the route guard is checking for that flag, our application will appear to be logged in on refresh. However, we haven't called checkSession yet through Auth0, so we'll no longer have the token. Let's add the effect for CheckLogin to fix that.
When CheckLogin is dispatched, this effect will call checkSession on the AuthService, which, like parseHash, returns token data. If there's token data, the effect will call the setAuth method and dispatch the LoginSuccess action. If there's an error, the effect will dispatch LoginFailure. Those actions will work the same way as with logging in - navigating to home on success or login on failure.
Let's check if it works. Run ng serve, navigate to http://localhost:4200, and log in. Once we're back at the home route, refresh the page with our browser. We should not be redirected back to the login route, but remain on the home route. Awesome!
Here's a challenge for you: how might you update this feature so that you can persist the previous route, too? That way a user would land back on books when refreshing.
Let's add our final two effects to finish off this application.
Logout Confirmation — This effect will display the log out confirmation dialog. It will then process the result by dispatching either the LogoutConfirmed or LogoutCancelled actions.
Logout — This effect happens after LogoutConfirmed has been dispatched. It will call the logout function on the AuthService, which tells Auth0 to log us out and redirect back home. This effect does not dispatch another action.
Running ng serve again should now allow us to log in, view the book collection, and log out. Be sure to check if we can also log out from the home route!
Remember, you can access the finished code for this tutorial here.
We've spent time laying the foundation of a basic authentication flow in a very simple application. However, we could easily apply this same setup to a much more complex application. Scaling the setup is very minor, and adding new pieces of state, new actions, or new side effects would be relatively easy. We've got all the building blocks in place.
For example, let's say you needed to add the access token to outgoing HTTP requests as an Authorization header. You've already got what you need to get this working quickly. You could add tokenData to the authentication state and create a selector for it. Then, add the token data as the payload of the LoginSuccess action and update the effects that use it. Once that's all set up, you could then create an HTTP interceptor to select the token data from the store and add it to outgoing requests.
Now that the foundation of the authentication flow has been built, the sky is the limit for how you want to extend it. My goal for this tutorial was to keep it simple while helping you understand some new, fairly complex concepts. I hope you can take this knowledge and use it in the real world — let me know how it goes!
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Pivotal Response Treatment, or PRT, was developed by Dr. Robert L. Koegel, Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel and Dr. Laura Shreibman, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Pivotal Response Treatment was previously called the Natural Language Paradigm (NLP), which has been in development since the 1970s. It is a behavioral intervention model based on the principles of ABA.
PRT is used to teach language, decrease disruptive/self-stimulatory behaviors, and increase social, communication, and academic skills by focusing on critical, or "pivotal," behaviors that affect a wide range of behaviors. The primary pivotal behaviors are motivation and child's initiations of communications with others.
The goal of PRT is to produce positive changes in the pivotal behaviors, leading to improvement in communication skills, play skills, social behaviors and the child's ability to monitor his own behavior. Unlike the Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) method of teaching, which targets individual behaviors, based on an established curriculum, PRT is child directed. Motivational strategies are used throughout intervention as often as possible. These include the variation of tasks, revisiting mastered tasks to ensure the child retains acquired skills, rewarding attempts, and the use of direct and natural reinforcement. The child plays a crucial role in determining the activities and objects that will be used in the PRT exchange. For example, a child's purposeful attempts at functional communication are rewarded with reinforcement related to their effort to communicate (for example, if a child attempts a request for a stuffed animal, the child receives the animal).
Psychologists, special education teachers, speech therapists and other providers specifically trained in PRT. The KoegCertification program.
Each program is tailored to meet the goals and needs of the child as well as family routines. A session typically involves six segments during which language, play and social skills are targeted in structured and unstructured formats. Sessions change to accommodate more advanced goals and the changing needs as the child develops.
What is the intensity of a PRT program?
PRT programs usually involve 25 or more hours per week. Everyone involved in the child's life is encouraged to use PRT methods consistently in every part of the child's life. PRT has been described as a lifestyle adopted by the affected family.
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Northern Epirus (Greek: Βόρειος Ήπειρος, Vorios Ipiros, Albanian: Epiri i Veriut) is a term used to refer to those parts of the historical region of Epirus, in the western Balkans, that are part of the modern Albania. The term is used mostly by Greeks and is associated with the existence of a substantial ethnic Greek population in the region. It also has connotations with political claims on the territory on the grounds that it was held by Greece and in 1914 was declared an independent state by the local Greeks against annexation to the newly founded Albanian principality. The term is typically rejected by most Albanians for its irredentist associations.
The term "Northern Epirus" started to be used by Greeks in 1913, upon the creation of the Albanian state following the Balkan Wars, and the incorporation into the latter of territory that was regarded by many Greeks as geographically, historically, culturally, and ethnologically connected to the Greek region of Epirus since antiquity. In the spring of 1914, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was proclaimed by ethnic Greeks in the territory and recognized by the Albanian government, though it proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916 and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916. In 1917 Greek forces were driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 awarded the area to Greece, however the area reverted to Albanian control in November 1921, following Greece's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War. During the interwar period, tensions remained high due to the educational issues surrounding the Greek minority in Albania. Following Italy's invasion of Greece from the territory of Albania in 1940 and the successful Greek counterattack, the Greek army briefly held Northern Epirus for a six-month period until the German invasion of Greece in 1941.
Tensions remained high during the Cold War, as the Greek minority was subjected to repressive measures (along with the rest of the country's population). Although a Greek minority was recognized by the Hoxha regime, this recognition only applied to an "official minority zone" consisting of 99 villages, leaving out important areas of Greek settlement, such as Himara. People outside the official minority zone received no education in the Greek language, which was prohibited in public. The Hoxha regime also diluted the ethnic demographics of the region by relocating Greeks living there and settling in their stead Albanians from other parts of the country. Relations began to improve in the 1980s with Greece's abandonment of any territorial claims over Northern Epirus and the lifting of the official state of war between the two countries. In the post Cold War era relations have continued to improve though tensions remain over the availability of education in the Greek language outside the official minority zone.
The term Epirus is used both in the Albanian and Greek language, but in Albanian refers only to the historical and not modern region.
In antiquity, the northern border of the historical region of Epirus (and of the ancient Greek world) was the Gulf of Oricum, or alternatively, the mouth of the Aoös river, immediately to the north of the Bay of Aulon (modern-day Vlorë. To the south, classical Epirus ended at the Ambracian Gulf, while to the east it was separated from Macedonia and Thessaly by the Pindus mountains. The island of Corfu is situated off the coast of Epirus but is not regarded as part of it.
Rather than a clearly defined geographical term, "Northern Epirus" is largely a political and diplomatic term applied to those areas partly populated by ethnic Greeks that were incorporated into the newly independent Albanian state in 1913. According to the 20th century definition, Northern Epirus stretches from the Ceraunian Mountains north of Himara southward to the Greek border, and from the Ionian coast to Lake Prespa. The region defined as Northern Epirus thus stretches further east than classical Epirus, and includes parts of the historical region Macedonia. Northern Epirus is rugged, characterized by steep limestone ridges that parallel the Ionian coast, with deep valleys between them. The main rivers of the area are: Vjosë/Aoos(Greek: Αώος, Aoos) its tributary the Drino (Greek: Δρίνος, Drinos), the Osum (Greek: Άψος Apsos) and the Devoll (Greek: Εορδαϊκός Eordaikos). Some of the cities and towns of the region are: Himarë, Sarandë, Delvinë, Gjirokastër, Tepelenë, Përmet,Leskovik, Ersekë, Korçë, Bilisht and the once prosperous town of Moscopole.
Many of the region’s settlements are associated with the Trojan Epic Cycle. Elpenor from Ithaca, in charge of Locrians and Abantes from Evia, founded the cities of Orikum and Thronium on the Bay of Aulon. Amantiawas believed to have been founded by Abantes from Thronium. Neoptolemos of the Aeacid dynasty, in charge of Myrmidones, founded a settlement which in classical antiquity would become known as Bylliace (nearApollonia). Aeneas and Helenus were believed to have founded Bouthroton (modern-day Butrint). Moreover, a son of Helenus named Chaon was believed to be the ancestral leader of the Chaonians.
Remains of 6th century baptisery in Butrint.
The first arrival of Greek speaking tribes in the region of Epirus may date around 2100 BC., at the same period they took control of the area of lake Malik. During the Middle Helladic period (1900–1600 BC) these tribes took possession of northern Epirus and created two entities.
The earliest recorded inhabitants of the region (c. 7th century BC) were the Chaonians, one of the main Greek tribes of ancient Epirus, and the region was known as Chaonia. During the 7th century BC, Chaonian rule was dominant over the region and their power stretched from the Ionian coast to the region of Korçë in the east. Important Chaonian settlements in the area included their capital Phoenice, the ports of Onchesmos and Chimaera (modern-day Saranda and Himara, respectively), and the port of Bouthroton (modern-day Butrint. Tumulus II in Kuc i Zi near modern Korçë is to date to that age (c. 650 BC) and it is claimed that it belonged to Chaonian nobles. The strength of the Chaonians prevented other Greeks from establishing colonies on the Chaonian shore, however, several colonies were established in the 8th-6th centuries BC immediately to the north of the Ceraunian Mountains, the northern limit of Chaonian territory. These include Aulon (modern-day Vlorë), Apollonia, Epidamnus (modern-day Durrës, Oricum, Thronion, and Amantia.
In 330 BC, the tribes of Epirus were united into a single kingdom under the Aeacid ruler Alcetas II of the Molossians, and in 232 BC the Epirotes established the "Epirotic League" (Greek: Κοινόν Ηπειρωτών), with Phoenice as one of its centers. The unified state of Epirus was a significant power in the Greek world until the Roman conquest in 167 BC.
Christianity first spread in Epirus during the 1st century AD, but did not prevail until the 4th century. The presence of local bishops in the Ecumenical Synods (already from 381 AD) proves that the new religion was well organized and already widely spread inside the Greek world of the Roman and post-Roman period.
In Roman times, the ancient Greek region of Epirus became the province of Epirus vetus ("Old Epirus"), while a new province Epirus Nova ("Epirus Nova") was formed out of parts of Illyria that had become "partly Hellenic or partly Hellenized". The line of division between Epirus Nova and the province of Illyricum was the Drin River in modern northern Albania. This line of division also corresponds with the Jireček Line, which divides the Balkans into those areas under Hellenic influence in antiquity, and those under Latin influence.
When the Roman Empire split into East and West, Epirus became part of the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire; the region witnessed the invasions of several nations: Visigoths, Avars, Slavs, Serbs, Normans, and variousItalian city-states and dynasties (14th century). However, the region’s culture remained closely tied to the centers of the Greek world, and retained its Greek character through the medieval period.
In 1204, the region was part of the Despotate of Epirus, a successor state of the Byzantine Empire. Despot Michael I found there strong Greek support in order to facilitate his claims for the Empire’s revival. In 1281, a strong Sicilian force that planned to conquer Constantinople was repelled in Berat after a series of combined operations by local Epirotes and Byzantine troops. In 1345, the region was ruled by the Serbs of Stefan Dušan. However, the Serbian rulers retained much of the Byzantine tradition and used Byzantine titles to secure the loyalty of the local population. At the same time Venetians controlled various ports of strategic importance, like Vouthroton, but the Ottomanpresence became more and more intense until finally in the middle of the 15th century, the entire area came under Turkish rule.
Interior of Saint Nicholas of Moscopole.
Following the Ottoman conquest, local authorities were exclusively Muslim, ethnically either Albanian or Turkish. However, there were specific parts of Epirus that enjoyed local autonomy, such as Himarë, Droviani, or Moscopole. In spite of the Ottoman presence, Christianity prevailed in many areas and became an important reason for preserving the Greek language, which was also the language of trade. According to the Ottoman "Millet" system, religion was a major marker of ethnicity, and thus all Orthodox Christians (including Aromanians and Orthodox Albanians) were classified as "Greeks", while all Muslims (including Muslim Albanians) were considered "Turks". This view would continue to influence Greek perceptions of the territory for much of the 20th century.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, inhabitants of the region participated in the Greek Enlightenment. One of the leading figures of that period, the Orthodox missionary Cosmas of Aetolia, traveled and preached extensively in northern Epirus, founding theAcroceraunian School in Himara in 1770. It is believed that he founded more than 200 Greek schools until his execution by Turkish authorities near Berat. In addition, the first printing press in the Balkans, after that of Constantinople, was founded in Moscopole(nicknamed "New Athens") by a local Greek. From the mid-18th century trade in the region was thriving and a great number of educational facilities and institutions were founded throughout the rural regions and the major urban centers as benefactions by several Epirot entrepreneurs. In Korce a special community fund was established that aimed at the foundation of Greek cultural institutions.
During this period a number of uprisings against the Ottoman Empire periodically broke out. In the Orlov Revolt (1770) several units of Riziotes, Chormovites and Himariotes supported the armed operation. Northern Epirus took also part in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1830): many locals revolted, organized armed groups and joined the revolution. The most distinguished personalities were the engineer Konstantinos Lagoumitzis from Hormovo and Michail Spyromilios from Himarë. The latter was one of the most active generals of the revolutionaries and participated in several major armed conflicts, such as the Third Siege of Missolonghi, where Lagoumitzis was the defenders' chief engineer. M. Spyromilios also became a prominent political figure after the creation of the modern Greek state and discreetly supported the revolt of his compatriots in Ottoman-occupied Epirus in 1854, during the Crimean War. Another uprising in 1878, in the Saranda-Delvina region, with the revolutionaries demanding union with Greece, was suppressed by the Ottoman forces, while in 1881, the Treaty of Berlin awarded to Greece the southernmost parts of Epirus.
Picture of the official declaration of Northern Epirote Independence in Gjirokastër (1 March 1914).
With the outbreak of the First Balkan War (1912–13) and the Ottoman defeat, the Greek army entered the region. The outcome of the following Peace Treaties of London and of Bucharest, signed at the end of the Second Balkan War, was unpopular among both Greeks and Albanians, as settlements of the two people existed on both sides of the border: Northern Epirus, already under the control of the Greek army, was awarded to the newly found Albanian State, while the southern part was ceded to Greece.
In accordance with the wishes of the local Greek population, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, centered in Gjirokastër on account of the latter's large Greek population, was declared in March 1914 by the pro-Greek party, which was in power in southern Albania at that time. Georgios Christakis-Zografos, a distinguished Greek politician from Lunxhëri, took the initiative and became the head of the Republic. In May, autonomy was confirmed with the Protocol of Corfu, signed by Albanian and Northern Epiroterepresentatives and approved by the Great Powers. The signing of the Protocol ensured that the region would have its own administration, recognized the rights of the local Greeks and provided self-government under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
However, the agreement was never fully implemented, because when World War I broke out in July, Albania collapsed. Although short-lived, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus left behind a substantial historical record, such as its own postage stamps.
World War I and following peace treaties (1914–21)Under an October 1914 agreement among the Allies, Greek forces re-entered Northern Epirus and the Italians seized the Vlore region. Greece officially annexed Northern Epirus in March 1916, but was forced to revoke by the Great Powers. During the war the French Army occupied the area around Korçë in 1916, and established the Republic of Korçë. In 1917 Greece lost control of the rest of Northern Epirus to Italy, who by then had taken over most of Albania. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 awarded the area to Greece after World War I, however, political developments such as the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22) and, crucially, Italian, Austrian and German lobbying in favor of Albania resulted in the area being ceded to Albania in November 1921.
With the intervention of the League of Nations in 1935, a limited number of schools, and only of those inside the officially recognized zone, were reopened.
During this period, the Albanian state led efforts to establish an independent orthodox church (contrary to the Protocol of Corfu), thereby reducing the influence of Greek language in the country's south. According to a 1923 law, priests who were not Albanian speakers, as well as not of Albanian origin, were excluded from this new autocephalous church.
Tomb of the unknown soldier, Greek Parliament. Several place names of Northern Epirus, where the Greek army participated, are inscribed on both sides.
In 1939, Albania became an Italian protectorate and was used to facilitate military operations against Greece the following year. The Italian attack, launched at October 28, 1940 was quickly repelled by the Greek forces. The Greek army, although facing a numerically and technologically superior army, counterattacked and in the next month managed to enter Northern Epirus. Northern Epirus thus became the site of the first clear setback for the Axis powers. However, after a six-month period of Greek administration, the invasion of Greece by Nazi Germany followed in April 1941 and Greece capitulated.
Following Greece's surrender, Northern Epirus again became part of the Italian-occupied Albanian protectorate. Many Northern Epirotes formed resistance groups and organizations in the struggle against the occupation forces. In 1942 the Northern Epirote Liberation Organization (EAOVI, also called MAVI) was formed. Some others joined the left-wing Albanian National Liberation Army, in which they formed a separate battalion (named Thanasis Zikos).
During October 1943–April 1944, the Albanian collaborationist organization Balli Kombëtar with support of Nazi German officers mounted a major offensive in Northern Epirus and fierce fighting occurred between them and the EAOVI. The results were devastating. During this period over 200 Greek populated towns and villages were burned or destroyed, 2,000 Northern Epirotes were killed, 5,000 imprisoned and 2,000 taken hostages to concentration camps. Moreover, 15,000 homes, schools and churches were destroyed. Thirty thousand people had to find refuge in Greece during and after that period, leaving their homeland. When the war ended and the communists gained power in Albania, a United States Senate resolution demanded the cession of the region to the Greek state, but according to the following post war international peace treaties it remained part of the Albanian state.
After World War II, Albania was governed by a Stalinist regime led by Enver Hoxha, which suppressed the minority (along with the rest of the population) and took measures to disperse it or at least keep it loyal to Albania. Pupils were taught only Albanian history and culture at primary level, the minority zone was reduced from 103 to 99 villages (excluding Himarë), many Greeks were forcibly removed from the minority zones to other parts of the country, thereby losing their fundamental minority rights (as a product of communist population policy, an important and constant element of which was to pre-empt ethnic sources of political dissent). Greek place-names were changed to Albanian ones, and Greeks were forced to change their personal names into Albanian names. Archeological sites of the Ancient Greek and Roman era were also presented as "Illyrian" by the state.The use of the Greek language, prohibited everywhere outside the minority zones, was prohibited for many official purposes within them as well. As a result of these policies, relations with Greece remained extremely tense throughout most of the Cold War. On the other hand, Enver Hoxha favored a few specific members of the minority, offering them prominent positions within the country's system, as part of his "tokenism" policy. However, when the Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev asked about giving more rights to the minority, even autonomy, the answer was negative.
CensorshipStrict censorship was introduced in communist Albania as early as 1944, while the press remained under tight dictatorial control right up until the end of the Eastern Bloc (1991). In 1945, Laiko Vima, a propaganda organ of the Party of Labour of Albania, was the only printed media that was allowed to be published in Greek and was accessible only within Gjirokastër District.
Resettlement policyAlthough the Greek minority had some limited rights, during that period a number of Muslim Cham Albanians, that were expelled from Greece after World War II, were given new homes in the area, diluting the local Greek element. Moreover, during this period a number of new settlements, consisting of Muslim settlers, were created as a buffer zone between the recognized 'minority zone' and regions of unclear ethnic consciousness.
Stalinist Albania, already increasingly paranoid and isolated after de-Stalinization and the death of Mao Zedong (1976), restricted visitors to 6,000 per year, and segregated those few that traveled to Albania. The country was virtually isolated and common penalties for attempts to escape the country, for ethnic Greeks, were execution for the offenders and exile for their families, usually in mining camps in central and northern Albania. The regime maintained twenty-nine prisons and labour camps throughout Albania, that were filled with more than 30,000 "enemies of the state" year after year. It was unofficially reported that a large percentage of the imprisoned were ethnic Greeks.
The state attempted to suppress any religious practice (both public and private), adherence to which was considered "anti-modern" and dangerous to the unity of the Albanian state. The process started in 1949, with the confiscation and nationalization of Orthodox Church property and intensified in 1967 when the authorities conducted a violent campaign to extinguish all religious life in Albania, claiming that it had divided the Albanian nation and kept it mired in backwardness. Student agitators combed the countryside, likewise forcing Albanians and Greeks to quit practicing their faith. All churches, mosques, monasteries and other religious institutions were closed or converted into warehouses, gymnasiums, and workshops. Clergy were imprisoned, and owning an icon became an offense that could be prosecuted under Albanian law. The campaign culminated in an announcement that Albania had become the world's first atheistic state, a feat touted as one of Enver Hoxha's greatest achievements. Christians were prohibited from mentioning Orthodoxy even in their own homes, visit their parents’ graves, light memorial candles or make the sign of the Cross. In this respect, the campaign against religions hit ethnic Greeks disproportionately, since affiliation to the Eastern Orthodox rite has traditionally been a strong component of Greek identity.
1980s thawThe first serious attempt to improve relations was initiated by Greece in the 1980s, during the government of Andreas Papandreou. In 1984, during a speech in Epirus, Papandreou declared that the inviolability of European borders as stipulated in the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, to which Greece was a signatory, applied to the Greek-Albanian border. The most significant change occurred on 28 August 1987, when the Greek Cabinet lifted the state of war that had been declared since November 1940. At the same time, Papandreou deplored the "miserable condition under which the Greeks in Albania live".
Post-communist period (1991-present)Beginning in 1990, large number of Albanian citizens, including members of the Greek minority, began seeking refuge in Greece. This exodus turned into a flood by 1991, creating a new reality in Greek-Albanian relations. With the fall of communism in 1991, Orthodox churches were reopened and religious practices were permitted after 35 years of strict prohibition. Moreover, Greek-language education was initially expanded. In 1991 ethnic Greeks shops in the town of Saranda were attacked, and inter-ethnic relations throughout Albania worsened. Greek-Albanian tensions escalated in November 1993 when seven Greek schools were forcibly closed by the Albanian police. A purge of ethnic Greeks in the professions in Albania continued in 1994, with particular emphasis in law and the military. On 10 April 1994, Albania announced that two of its soldiers had been killed in an attack on a military camp in Peshkepi, close to the Greek border. The attack was claimed by the Northern Epirus Liberation Front (MAVI), which had officially disbanded at the end of World War II.
Tensions increased when on 20 May 1994 the Albanian Government took into custody five members of the ethnic Greek advocacy organization Omonoia on the charge of high treason, accusing them of secessionist activities and illegal possession of weapons (a sixth member was added later).Sentences of six to eight years were handed down. The accusations, the manner in which the trial was conducted and its outcome were strongly criticized by Greece as well as international organizations. Greece responded by freezing all EU aid to Albania, sealing its border with Albania, and between August–November 1994, expelling over 115,000 illegal Albanian immigrants, a figure quoted in the US Department of State Human Rights Report and given to the American authorities by their Greek counterpart. Tensions increased even further when the Albanian government drafted a law requiring the head of the Orthodox Church in Albania be born in Albania, which would force the then head of the church, the Greek Archbishop Anastasios of Albania from his post. In December 1994, however, Greece began to permit limited EU aid to Albania as a gesture of goodwill, while Albania released two of the Omonoia defendants and reduced the sentences of the remaining four. In 1995, the remaining defendants were released on suspended sentences.
In recent years relations have significantly improved; Greece and Albania signed a Friendship, Cooperation, Good Neighborliness and Security Agreement on March 21, 1996. Additionally, Greece is Albania's main foreign investor, having invested more than 400 million dollars in Albania, Albania's second largest trading partner, with Greek products accounting for some 21% of Albanian imports, and 12% of Albanian exports coming to Greece, and Albania's fourth largest donor country, having provided aid amounting to 73.8 million euros.
In Albania, Greeks are considered a "national minority". There were no reliable statistics on the size of any ethnic minorities, while the latest official census (2011) has been widely disputed due to boycott and irregularities in the procedure.
According to data presented to the 1919 Paris Conference, by the Greek side, the Greek minority numbered 120,000, and the 1989 census under the communist regime cited only 58,785 Greeks although the total population of Albania had tripled in the meantime. Estimations by the Albanian government during the early 1990s raised the number to 80,000.
However, the area studied was confined to the southern border, and this estimate is considered to be low. Under this definition, minority status was limited to those who lived in 99 villages in the southern border areas, thereby excluding important concentrations of Greek settlement and making the minority seem smaller than it is. Sources from the Greek minority have claimed that there are up to 400,000 Greeks in Albania, or 12% of the total population at the time (from the "Epirot lobby" of Greeks with family roots in Albania). Most western estimates of the minority's size put it at around 200,000, or ~6% of the population, though a large number, possibly two thirds, has migrated to Greece in recent years.
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization estimates the Greek minority at approximately 70,000 people. Other independent sources estimate that the number of Greeks in Northern Epirus is 117,000 (about 3.5% of the total population), a figure close to the estimate provided by The World Factbook (2006) (about 3%). But this number was 8% by the same agency a year before. A 2003 survey conducted by Greek scholars estimate the size of the Greek minority at around 60.000. The total population of Northern Epirus is estimated to be around 577,000 (2002), with main ethnic groups being Albanians, Greeks and Vlachs.
Approximate extent of the recognized (after 1945) Greek 'minority zone' in green, according to the 1989 Albanian census. Greek majority areas in green.
The Albanian Government continues to use the term "minority zones", in violation to human rights issues, to describe the southern districts consisting of 99 towns and villages, which they have recognized majorities of ethnic Greeks. In fact it continues to contend that all those belonging to national minorities are recognised as such, irrespective of the geographical areas in which they live. However, the situation is somewhat different in practice. This results in a situation in which the protection of national minorities is subject to overly rigid geographical restrictions restricting access to minority rights outside these zones. One of the major fields that it has a practical application is that of education.
Protests against irregularities in 2011 censusThe census of October 2011 included ethnicity for the first time in post-communist Albania, a long-standing demand of the Greek minority and of international organizations. However, Greek representatives already found this procedure unacceptable due to article 20 of the Census law, which was proposed by the nationalist oriented Party for Justice, Integration and Unity and accepted by the Albanian government. According to this, there is a $1,000 fine for someone who will declare anything other than what was written down on his birth certificate, including certificates from the communist-era where minority status was limited to only 99 villages. Indeed, Omonoia unanimously decided to boycott the census, since it violates the fundamental right of self-determination. Moreover, the Greek government called its Albanian counterpart for urgent action, since the right of free self-determination is not being guaranteed under these circumstances. Vasil Bollano, the head of Omonoia declared that: "We, as minority representatives, state that we do not acknowledge this process, nor its product and we are calling our members to refrain from participating in a census that does not serve the solution of current problems, but their worsening".
According to the census, there were 17,622 Greeks in the country's south (counties of Gjirokastër, Vlorë, and Berat) while 24,243 in Albania in general. Apart from these numbers, an additional 17.29% of the population of those counties refused to answer the optional question of ethnicity (compared to 13.96% of the total population in Albania). On the other hand, Omonoia conducted its own census in order to count the members of the ethnic Greek minority. A total of 286,852 were counted, which equals to ca. 10% of the population of the country. During the time the census was conducted, half of these individuals resided permanently in Greece, but maintained strong contacts with their homeland.
Minority's representation on local and state politicsThe minority's sociopolitical organization from promotion of Greek human rights, Omonoia, founded in January 1991, took an active role on minority issues. Omonoia was banned in the parliamentary elections of March 1991, because it violated the Albanian law which forbade 'formation of parties on a religious, ethnic and regional basis'. This situation resulted in a number of strong protests not only from the Greek side, but also from international organizations. Finally, on behalf of Omonoia, the Unity for Human Rights Party contested at the following elections, a party which represents that Greek minority in the Albanian parliament.
In more recent years, tensions have surrounded the participation of candidates of the Unity for Human Rights Party in Albanian elections. In 2000, the Albanian municipal elections were criticised by international human rights groups for "serious irregularities" reported to have been directed against ethnic Greek candidates and parties. The most recent municipal elections held in February 2007 saw the participation of a number of ethnic Greek candidates, with Vasilis Bolanos being re-elected mayor of the southern town of Himarë despite the governing and opposition Albanian parties fielding a combined candidate against him. Greek observers have expressed concern at the "non-conformity of procedure" in the conduct of the elections.
In 2004, there were five ethnic Greek members in the Albanian Parliament, and two ministers in the Albanian cabinet. Politicians from the Greek minority have also become MPs for other parties, as Spiro Ksera and Kosta Barka for DPA; and Anastas Angjeli, Vangjel Tavo for SPA.
Land distribution and property in post-communist AlbaniaThe return to Albania of ethnic Greeks that were expelled during the past regime seemed possible after 1991. However, the return of their confiscated properties is even now impossible, due to Albanian's inability to compensate the present owners. Moreover, the full return of the Orthodox Church property also seems impossible for the same reasons.
Bilingual road sign, in Albanian and Greek, near Gjirokastër.
Greek education in the region was thriving during the late Ottoman period (18th-19th centuries). When the First World War broke out in 1914, 360 Greek language schools were functioning in Northern Epirus (as well as in Elbasan, Berat, Tirana) with 23,000 students. During the following decades the majority of Greek schools were closed and Greek education was prohibited in most districts. In the post-communist period (after 1991), the reopening of schools was one of the major objectives of the minority. In April 2005 a bilingual Greek-Albanian school in Korca, and after many years of efforts, a private Greek school was opened in the Himara municipality in spring of 2006.
The return of the confiscated property of the Orthodox Church and the freedom of religious practice.
Functioning of Greek language schools (both public and private) in all the areas that Greek populations are concentrated.
The Greek minority should be allowed to found cultural, religious, educational and social organizations.
Illegal dismissals of members of the Greek minority from the country’s public sector should be stopped and same rights for admission should be granted (on every level) for every citizen.
The Greek families that left Albania during the communist regime (1945–1991), should be encouraged to return to Albania and acquire their lost properties.
The Albanian government should take the initiative to conduct a census on ethnological basis and give its citizens the right to choose without limitations their ethnicity.
In 1994 the Albanian authorities admitted for the first time that Greek minority members exist not only in the designated 'minority zones' but all over Albania.
In April 1994, Albania announced that unknown individuals attacked a military camp near the Greek-Albanian border (Peshkëpi incident), with two soldiers killed. Responsibility for the attack was taken by MAVI (Northern Epirus Liberation Front), which officially ceased to exist since the end of World War II. This incident triggered a serious crisis in Albanian-Greek relations.
The house of Himara's ethnic Greek mayor, Vasil Bollano, has been the target of a bomb attack twice, in 2004 and again in May 2010.
On August 12, 2010, ethnic tensions soared after ethnic Greek shopkeeper Aristotelis Goumas was killed when his motorcycle was hit by a car driven by three Albanian youths with whom Goumas allegedly had an altercation when they demanded that he not speak Greek to them in his store. Outraged locals blocked the main highway between Vlore and Saranda and demanded reform and increased local Himariote representation in the local police force. The incident was condemned by both the Greek and Albanian governments and three suspects are currently in custody awaiting trial.
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How does occultism regard vegetarianism? It regards it very favorably, and that for many reasons. These reasons may be divided into two classes: those which are ordinary and physical, and those which are occult or hidden. Let us see in detail why a vegetarian diet is emphatically the purest and the best.
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Upon finding out that they could not get a pet dog, Zoe and Joey decide to make one after their mom discusses a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) process that could help them satisfy their wish. Zoe and Joey Make a Friend is a book that encourages children to explore the use of found materials and objects to build a pet dog. It included the themes recycling, resourcefulness, creativity, and STEAM and is geared towards the primary/intermediate aged child (ages 6-10).
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Most people recognize whether they have a high or low self-esteem. But what is self-esteem exactly and how does it impact our everyday life?
Self-esteem is the degree to which we feel worthy, valuable and confident, and these feelings or beliefs greatly affect our well-being and social interactions. Low self-esteem is associated with feelings of self-criticism, self-doubt, shame, social isolation and suppressed anger. Low self-esteem is also a symptom of several mental health conditions including depression.
Self-esteem is learned in childhood, and there are many factors that can impact healthy development. Criticism or abuse from parents and caretakers, receiving little or no positive reinforcement for accomplishments, and having a learning disability that is stigmatized may foster a low self-esteem. Unless address in childhood, these young people will develop into adults with low self-esteem.
Even adults with healthy self-esteems can develop issues when they are faced with sudden life challenges they perceive as failures, such as legal or financial troubles, divorce, losing a job, and struggling with addiction.
At any point in our lives, when events might cause us to question our worth or value, therapy can help us gain perspective. People suffering from low self-esteem can work with a therapist on becoming more self-aware, confident, and assertive.
One of the biggest boosts to self-esteem comes from a feeling of accomplishment, and a professional therapist can help people identify specific activities that can give them a confidence boost. In addition, many therapists can work with clients to help them develop self-compassion, so they may treat themselves with the same kindness and encouragement they do others.
It is common for therapists to use goal-directed therapy with people struggling with low self-esteem. Solution-focused and cognitive behavioral therapies tend to work best, and some therapists will also try animal assisted therapy, which can be incredibly effective in younger patients or those suffering as a result of a physical impairment.
The longer a person has lived with low self-esteem and been the victim of negative self-talk and criticism, the more they can be helped by therapy. Breaking self-destructive patterns will require proven tools and protocols that a professional therapist can offer.
When your self-esteem suffers, your quality of life does as well. Seeking treatment from a professional therapist is a great way to gain perspective and confidence, and acquire new habits based in self-love and self-compassion.
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Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) accounts for 20% to 25% of all bronchogenic carcinomas and is associated with the poorest survival of all histologic types . SCLC is most often a lesion of the central portion of the lung but is occasionally found in the peripheral portions [2, 7]. In contrast to other major types of lung cancer, SCLC is highly sensitive to both chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which results in initial significant improvements in the survival of patients with this disease but the overall results remain unchanged in the following years due to development of drug resistance and death of the patients .
Yun et al observed that the age-adjusted incidence per 100,000 person-years (standard Poisson regression analysis) for small cell carcinoma was 0.5 (95% CI: 0.2-1.4) for never smokers, 3.5 (95% CI: 0.4-27.3) for former smokers, and 11.1 (95% CI: 1.5-82.9) for current smokers. In this study 83.6%, 14.5%, and 1.9% patients were current smoker, former smoker, and never smoker, respectively. The age-adjusted incidence rates of small cell lung cancer per 100,000 person-years ranged from 6.0 to 11.1 for men and 1.0 to 2.5 for women in different periods during 1975 to 2003 in a report from Osaka, Japan . Intensity of smoking, duration, age at starting, and dose are all directly associated with all histologic types of lung cancer, although the odds ratio (OR) is lower for adenocarcinoma than other cell types . Yun et al , based on the multivariate-adjusted relative risk for current smokers observed the strongest association with smoking for small cell lung cancer (relative risk, 21.7; 95% CI, 8.0-58.5) followed by squamous cell carcinoma (relative risk, 11.7; 95% CI, 7.1-19.4) and then adenocarcinoma (relative risk, 2.1; 95% CI, 1.6-2.7). Sobue et al observed that for current smokers, the relative risk for combined small cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma was 12.7 (95% CI: 4.7-34.7) and 17.5 (95% CI: 4.9-62.1), while for adenocarcinoma it was 2.8 (95% CI: 1.6-4.9) and 2.0 (95% CI: 0.8-5.0), for men and women, respectively. According to Baldini and Strauss , women who smoke appear to be at higher risk of developing small cell lung cancer than squamous cell lung cancer, whereas men who smoke have a similar risk for the two histologic conditions. Yun et al observed that 88.7% small cell lung cancer cases had >20 years' history of cigarette smoking and 90.7% smoked >10 cigarettes per day. Khuder et al reported that early age at initiation of smoking significantly increased the risk of small cell carcinoma (odds ratio = 3.0; 9% CI, 1.18.4). Whereas quitting smoking reduced the risk of squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma, it did not affect the risk of small cell lung cancer.
The frequency of SCLC among all lung cancer cases in histopathologic samples ranges from 12.2% to 15.8% in various studies (Table 1) [9, 10, 12, 15-17]. In men the frequency was higher (range, 13.0 to 15.7%) than that in women (5.1 to 12.4%) [10, 12, 17] and in an autopsy study in men the frequency was very high (28.9%).
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Permanently STOP Being A Slave To Nicotine And Cigarettes. This Book Is One Of The Most Valuable Resources In The World When It Comes To Easy Ways To Eliminate Smoking Addiction And Revitalize Your Body.
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Does hair grow quicker if you cut it?
I believe this is an old wives tale and cannot see how it could be true, the same as nails don't grow quicker if you cut them ... however there are a lot of rumours in my daughters year at school - can anyone confirm?
Cutting hair does remove split ends which could otherwise travel up the hair shaft and unnecessarily damage more of the hair strand.
It's not true per say, but it is in theory.
When hair splits its keep splitting moving back up the hair shaft, meaning hair gets whispier, finer, shorter from the length, as you hair still grows at the root at the same speed, your hair 'appears' to stop growing or slow down, this is because its breaking off.
You cut off the damaged dead ends (half an inch) as your hair has grown about an inch to an inch n half in this time you are left with half an inch to an inch of healthy hair that is strong and not splitting, then 6-8 weeks later have another trim, cut of just the dead ends and keep doing this your hair will grow longer faster and stay strong.
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Context: There is a lacuna of studies on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Indian context. Aims: (i) To identify the prevalence of ADHD in primary school children, (ii) To identify the gender difference in the prevalence of ADHD, (iii) To compare the distribution of ADHD among different socioeconomic status, (iv) To identify the presence of any co-morbid factors associated with ADHD. Settings and Design: This is a cross sectional study of school aged children selected from four different schools in Coimbatore district. Materials and Methods: Seven hundred seventy children aged between 6 and 11 years were selected from four schools in Coimbatore district after obtaining informed consent from their parents. The presence of ADHD was assessed by using Conner's Abbreviated Rating Scale (CARS) given to parents and teachers. The children identified as having ADHD were assessed for the presence of any co-morbid factors by administering Children's Behavioural Questionnaire (CBQ) to the teachers and Personal Information Questionnaire to the parents. Statistical Analysis: Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) 10 software, Mean and Standard Deviation, and student's t test were used for statistical analysis. Results: The prevalence of ADHD among primary school children was found to be 11.32%. Prevalence was found to be higher among the males (66.7%) as compared to that of females (33.3%). The prevalence among lower socio-economic group was found to be 16.33% and that among middle socio-economic group was 6.84%. The prevalence was highest in the age group 9 and 10 years. Conclusion: The present study shows a high prevalence of ADHD among primary school children with a higher prevalence among the males than the females.
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What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Islam and Muslims? Sadly, I feel I can already anticipate the most common response. Perhaps some of the responses will pertain to some form of terrorism or oppression of women. If not directly stated, then these thoughts are at the very least on many peoples’ minds.
Honestly though, I don’t blame anyone for having these initial perceptions, because it seems that every day there is another story that negatively portrays the religion of Islam and its followers. Among these include suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, misogyny, childish responses to offensive cartoons, honor killings — all pitifully linked to being committed in the name of Islam. There is a persistent portrayal of my faith associated with violence and animosity, and I understand that as a result, it is only natural for some to have developed a mistaken preconception of Islam.
However, what I ask of all of you is to put these initial perceptions aside, and give Islam another chance. One can approach this religion of more than a billion followers in the world today in two ways: with the objective of satisfying a preconception that Islam is a barbaric religion or with an open mind not influenced by these negative preconceptions.
Sabih Khwaja ([email protected]) is president of the UW Muslim Students’ Association and is a junior majoring in biochemistry.
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Original Southern Rock and Country racing.
Drivin' Sideways is the brainchild of a former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist/songwriter , Mike Estes, and his neighbor and former Skynyrd tour manager, Paul Abraham. The two were a part of a major promotion at the Daytona 500 to introduce a CD entitled HOTTER THAN ASPHALT, a various artists project by SONY/Columbia Records that celebrated Nascar. Although the two had attended Nascar events in the past, nothing prepared them for what they witnessed in Daytona. 150,000 screaming Nascar Diehards on the edges of their seats, in eager anticipation of the dropping of the Green Flag that begins America's Race. It was a wonderful experience that left them in awe of the sport of stock car racing, and with a desire to write more songs about their favorite past time.
The first song the two penned is entitled The Intimidator, a rocking tribute to Dale Earnhardt and his legacy that was handed down to him by his father, Ralph, A Nascar pioneer. Since the actual writing and recording of the song, Dale Earnhardt Jr., the son of The Intimidator, has entered the sport by winning the Busch Grand National Championship, and several Winston Cup events. Sadly, The Intimidator was killed in a racing accident on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, and is greatly missed.
The second song the two wrote is entitled The Ballad of Junior Johnson, a true story about another racing legend, who began his driving career as a moonshine runner in the mountains of North Carolina. The song was debuted by Performance Racing Network at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, with huge accolades from the announcers and by Junior, himself. He praised the writers by saying this song is as close as anyone has gotten to the true story of my life.
The third song written is entitled What Else Would I Do On Sunday?, an anthem-like song written for the fans of the sport. The song was praised by New York Newsday, by saying Racing finally has a much-needed anthem.
Jack Hurst, country music reviewer of the Chicago Tribune, says this CD is surprisingly good, and I would recommend it not only to Nascar fans but to anyone that likes good Rock and Roll. He punctuated the review with a three and a half out of four stars rating.
Estes and Abraham penned three more songs together and the members of the band and Estes penned the remaining four tracks on the CD. The other titles include: Nascar Diehards, a rocking song about the obvious; Asphalt Angels, entirely written by Bird, the bassplayer, a poignant tribute to the fallen heroes of the sport; The Iceman, a driving melody about Winston Cup Champion, Terry Labonte; That's Just Racin', an up tempo foot stomper about race day ups and downs of stock car racing; Racetrack Romance, a catchy country tune about a love affair that has its beginnings in the grandstands of Charlotte Motor Speedway; Boy Wonder, a power ballad about Winston Cup champ, Jeff Gordon, who actually introduced the debut of the song on Nascar Country, a syndicated radio show; Yellow Flag Blues, a bluesy rock rendition about the advantages and disadvantages of the waving of the caution flag.
The band, Drivin' Sideways, aligned themselves with a favorite charity of Nascar, Speedway Children's Charities, and donates a large portion of the profits from the sales of the CD to this very worthwhile cause. The band has played many events for the Nascar family, including a Children's Charities event at Billy Bob's in Texas, preceding the Inaugural race at the Texas Motor Speedway, a street rally in Bristol, TN, preceding the Spring race at BMS, and most recently, an event that was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, DC. FEMA has entered the Nascar game in order to gain exposure for their emergency preparedness program, Project Impact.
The songs of Drivin' Sideways have been embraced by Nascar fans everywhere, thanks to the Nascar Country radio network and John Boy and Billy's Big Show, both syndicated out of Charlotte, NC to the World. Sideways songs are also played on over 800 radio stations across America.
If you are reading this, and have a love for the sport of stock car racing or if you just love good music, this CD is a must for you and all the race fans/music lovers in your family.
WARNING: Drivin' Sideways will NOT be responsible for speeding tickets and/or any other moving violations incurred while listening to this recording.
This is a FUN cd built around the NASCAR theme! It's great southern rock and roll put together by Mike Estes (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Classic Southern Rockers, periodically sits in with Southern Rock Allstars).
I loved every single track on the CD! It was even easy to find in the search. Keep up the Good Work!
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economy) systems [ 1]. In addition to reaching goals, AI and cybernetics both consider how systems can learn; however, while AI considers using stored representations as a means of acting intelligently, cybernetics focuses on grounded and situated behaviors that express intelligence and learning based on feedback and interaction [ 2].
Currently, we are seeing a growth in AI systems based on machine-learning techniques that exhibit forms of intelligent behavior by creating representations from large amounts of data. Some examples include computer-vision systems that accurately identify and label objects in images and speech-input systems that can understand natural language. Much of the focus in recent AI has been on training systems to exhibit intelligent behavior, such as image recognition.
CInsights → Cybernetics can provide a useful framework for augmenting designers in creating human-centered interactive AI-enabled products. → Designers will no longer explicitly craft the interactions between a product and a user. Instead, we will need to design the meta-systems that design a product’s interactions.
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did meryl streep sing in the movie postcards from the edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her 1987 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title. The film stars Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid.
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Are Easter lilies poisonous to a dog or a cat?
Easter lilies are everywhere this time of year, but many people do not know that the Easter lily along with Tiger, Asiatic, and Stargazer lilies, are dangerous, and potentially fatal to cats. If a cat ingests 2-3 petals or leaves, pollen or water from the vase, it can result in acute kidney failure. Some signs to look for if you think your cat has in eaten a leaf will be vomiting, which then may subside, lack of appetite and your cat will appear to be depressed. If your cat consumes any part of the plant, bring your cat and the plant immediately to the veterinarian for medical care. The quicker you receive treatment, which may include induced vomiting and intravenous fluids, the better the prognosis. It is imperative that care is received within 18 hours of ingesting the leaves or damage to the kidneys will be irreversible. Fortunately for dogs the plant is not toxic, but ingesting the leaves may leave your pooch with an upset stomach. If you have an Easter lily in your house be sure to keep it out of reach of your kitty and when a leaf or bloom dies cut if off the plant before it falls to the ground so your cat will not have a chance to eat it.
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Take resume advice, as an example.
Advice on improving your management resume can get stale.
Despite the flood of advice, many people remain confused about how best to modernize and write their best management resumes.
One challenge is that the one-size-fits-all resume advice discounts that not all careers are alike; not all education levels are alike; not all skill levels are alike.
In short, not all management resumes should be alike.
Also, for job seekers to conduct a successful job search in today’s job market, they need also need to realize the job-search landscape has changed dramatically in a few short years.
To create an effective resume, be certain your resume is written for today’s audience, not a 1980s or 1990s hiring audience.
1. Be aware of CERTAIN words that make recruiters and hiring managers cringe.
Maybe you are all of these, but including them (and other) overused buzzwords won’t convince employers to grant you interviews.
Forgo the use of these words in favor of specific examples of accomplishments that demonstrate evidence of those traits in action.
Without the “show,” employers have little use for the tell.
So, can you relay to employers that you are a passionate, detail-oriented, and motivated team player?
This is where accomplishments come into play.
Tell employers what you did to show your passion … your attention to detail … your motivation level … your experience driving team performance.
(Example of Passion) Piloted and sought funding for a new emergency response program that assisted more than 1,000 displaced workers caught in Hurricane Sandy. Secured $261,000 in corporate donations to complement the company’s $750,000 contribution that supplied temporary housing, clothing, and food to employees.
(Example of Detail-Oriented Behavior) Identified a $51,000 accounting discrepancy expected to cost the company thousands in IRS tax fines/late fees. Implemented additional auditing systems and cross-training to staff to safeguard against future accounting errors.
(Example of Team Performance) Implemented advanced Scrum framework to the IT team, which improved software deliverability and improved overall team performance.
Remember, it’s not about telling employers you’re hardworking, strategic, and so on.
It’s about giving hiring managers the “proof” that you are these things.
2. Understand ATS and AI hiring.
When applying for a job, do you know what happens when it gets uploaded to a company website, LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, or wherever?
For better or worse, when you apply for a job online, all too often your document is first “seen” by computer eyes.
In the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about applicant tracking systems.
Haven’t heard about applicant tracking systems?
Well, ATS software works a lot like Google search.
Let’s pretend for a moment that you and I need to hire a Marketing Manager.
If you haven’t noticed, KEYWORDS are highly relevant when writing your resume.
Every resume you write should be written for two audiences.
But, let’s take ATS one step further.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Recruitment is essentially hiring 2.0.
But, AI recruitment software doesn’t stop there.
AI recruitment looks at other sources as well and essentially “grades” job candidates from a collection of data.
We’re seeing this in action with LinkedIn’s competitive intelligence data that’s being offered to Premium members.
Yet, AI software takes this competitive data one step further.
3. Don’t use outdated and old-fashioned resume layouts.
If you are afraid of trying something new, how will you ever stand out from other job seekers?
Approximately 99.5% of the jobseeking population use either a chronological or combination resume layout.
So, which of the two should you use?
Chances are a chronological layout is the right one for you.
But, there’s the boring chronological resume layout and then there’s the “spiced up” chronological layout.
See the below before and after example.
Both of these management resumes are chronological.
But, the “after” version has a lot more body and visual appeal. It also contains relevant keywords, accomplishments, and so on.
Why use a spiced up “after” version?
A revised layout like this one gives readers a pattern interrupt.
After viewing a boring layout, giving readers something new to look at attracts a more attentive mind.
This version also gives individuals the ability to better skim the relevant content.
Do you consume more content when it’s presented in paragraph form or broken up by category, bullets points?
Resumes are now in color.
Sure, certain career fields will always prefer only black and standard Times New Roman font.
However, many more industries appreciate creativity.
When learning more about ATS systems, you’ll quickly discover that there is quite a bit of design you can integrate into a resume that “doesn’t play well” with ATS systems.
Though, consider that not all hiring companies use ATS.
Therefore, this gives you the freedom to add visual elements with limited negative repercussions.
A little touch of color, a tasteful, well-placed graphic, and different font selection can do wonders.
You can view a few additional resume examples that show are creative flair.
5. Create a big impact with visually engaging snippets of important information.
What this means is that you should be putting your “best career stuff” up front.
Within the top section of all your job-search documents, ALWAYS tell readers about what makes you ideal and unique.
Notice how certain achievements are bolded or listed in such a way that they attract attention.
This management resume has “Turnaround Expert; Brought Operation to #1 in Market Share” listed in an unlikely place.
Although this bit of advice isn’t ATS-compliant, it’s a neat tactic for those you know who are going to read your resume.
Anyone skimming this person’s resume will immediately see this impressive achievement.
Put all your “career goodness” in highly noticeable locations in your resume.
Leveraging unique, advanced resume techniques like these will go a long way to helping your management resume stand out.
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Canek is one of the most charismatic wrestlers Mexico has ever had, one of the biggest lucha box-office draws ever and also a well-known wrestler in Japan, as he'd often tour for Antonio Inoki's New Japan Pro Wrestling during the 80s.
Canek, who was an impressive athlete during all his life and a former bodybuilder and amateur wrestler, made his professional debut as El Universitario at age 18. The history goes like this: El Matematico no showed a main-event at the Arena Jardín, so the promoter (a part time wrestler called Black Bat II) asked the young man him to sub Matematico. So that day, "Universitario" teamed with El Angel Azul (Blue Angel) to take on El Profeta and El Chilango García. Several months after that fight, his first partner, Angel Azul, sold him one of his outfits and then El Príncipe Azul (Blue Prince) was born. Under that name he was quite successful, as he took the mask and then the hair of Ultratumba, and also the hair of El Noruego, plus that same year 1972 he was prized with the best wrestler of Villahermosa, Tabasco award. It should be noted that the wrestlers that first trained him were Indio Azteca, Maciste, El Remington I and El Chacal.
He later decided to get a new name, so he came up with the name Canek, based on the name of the Mayan warrior Jacinto Canek. Canek's debut match also happened to be during the 1st card ever at a new building that later would become one of the most important Mexican arenas during the 80s: El Toreo De Cuatro Caminos. That 24th of March of 1973, Gallo Tapado and Chicano Power fought "Kanek" (spelled like that) and TNT in the main event, while As Charro and Tony Salazar faced El Lince and El Cóndor in the semi main-event.
In Mexico City, Canek started training with the Mexican-Korean former wrestler Felipe Ham Lee, Sugi Sito, and the original Fantasma de la Quebrada, at the Ham Lee Gym. Some time later, Ham Lee got René Guajardo to book Canek for a few tours around Northern Mexico, but in the first match Canek had a bad day and he was so terrible that Guajardo sent him back to Mexico City. However, some time later, Guajardo was in the capital and saw Canek again, but this time Canek put on a hell of a match so René invited The Mayan Prince to wrestle for his promotion during a whole year. There, Canek won the Northern Mexico Heavyweight Title defeating Jose Torres, the masks of El Destroyer (Marco Tulio, Antifaz's dad), Lemus, and the hair of Sunny War Cloud, Ruben Juarez, and the same Jose Torres.
In 1975, Francisco Flores decided to try to finish with EMLL's monopoly of the lucha libre business in Mexico and create a big independent promotion. The 29th of January, the UWA (Universal Wrestling Association) was born, and it had a debut card full of stars, a show in which Canek wrestled too, teaming with Dory Dixon and Sunny War Cloud to lose against the dream team of Mil Mascaras, Ray Mendoza and El Solitario. In this new promotion, Canek wrestled as a rudo.
Canek started to rise to real stardom after he won the National Light Heavyweight Title defeating "El Galeno Del Mal" Dr. Wagner (Sr.) the 15th of January of 1978 in Mexico City. He'd lose that title a few months later (June 20, 78) against Dos Caras in Pachuca, Hgo. This was the start of one of Mexico's most important rivalries ever.
With Mil Mascaras out of the country most of the time cashing the big paychecks from Japanese and American promoters, and Guajardo and Mendoza getting older, the UWA needed a new generation of leaders, and Canek and Dos Caras were perfect for those positions. As Dos Caras would join his brother Mascaras on his Japan tours most of the time, Canek became "the chosen one". The 27th of September of 1978, Canek defeated Lou Thesz to get his first ever UWA World Heavyweight Title reign. By defeating Thesz, Canek gained international exposure. Around the same time, the UWA got a talent trading deal with the New Japan Pro Wrestling office. Japanese superstars like Antonio Inoki or Riki Choshu would come to Mexico to wrestle against Canek, and also, Canek would travel to Japan to face superstars like Tiger Mask or Tatsumi Fujinami.
Canek's big matches against the foreign superstars at the UWA headquarters of El Toreo de Naucalpan drew huge gates to the point that this formula kept being used for more than a decade. New Japan would send a couple of their big stars at a time, those would usually trade the UWA title with Canek just to lose it in the big re-match a couple of months later.
In October of 1983, Canek vacated the UWA title and decided to try wrestling in the US. He had already wrestled in the States, as he participated in the '81 and '82 editions of the New Japan hosted MSG Tag Leagues (first teaming with Super Maquina, then with Perro Aguayo) and the '70 edition of the MSG singles tournament, but this time he went to wrestle in Texas. After three weeks he decided he preferred to wrestle in Mexico, though in the future he had several other small So-Cal and Northern Texas tours, and in the late 80s he wrestled many times at Los Angeles' Olympic Auditorium.
During the 80s he basically main evented the UWA cards against every foreign big name available. Some of his most memorable matches were the one in which he defended his UWA title bodyslamming and defeating Andre the Giant in two straight falls (Feb 12, 84), his 3rd fall draw against Hulk Hogan (Sept 2, 84), and his title defense against "The Lariat" Stan Hansen (Sept 30, 84) which he won via DQ. Of course Canek would also defend and trade his UWA title with national talent, in fact, from mid-83 to late-89 the UWA wouldn't have a foreign heavyweight champ (though Killer had a foreign rudo gimmick). Some of the national workers Canek wrestled against were Perro Aguayo, Scorpio, Enrique Vera, Villano III and Dos Caras.
But "los independientes" (name that the UWA and its wrestlers received) had so many important wrestlers that many times they booked big tag team main events, like the 16th of Jan, 82 when Perro Aguayo and Canek drew against Tamba and Andre The Giant, or the time (around Jul-Aug, 82) the weird team of Hulk Hogan and Gran Hamada defeated Aguayo and Canek.
The UWA kept using the Canek vs. foreign challengers formula to death using other talent like Pat Patterson, Big Van Vader, Vampiro, Buffalo Allen (Bad News Brown), P. N. News, Konnan, Ricky Santana, Miguelito Perez, King Haku (Meng), Bam Bam Bigelow and Kokina (Yokozuna). However from 1992 to 1994, with the rising popularity of AAA, the UWA kept slowly dying until it finally closed its doors with Canek being the final UWA World Heavyweight title holder.
In 1992, Canek had some Japanese tours performing in the Wrestle Dream Factory and W*ING promotions. While competing at this last promotion he had a singles match against Mil Mascaras. Also in 1993 Canek started wrestling for EMLL and on 03/26/93 he gained the CMLL Tag Team titles teaming with Dr. Wagner Jr. and defeating the team of Vampiro & Pierroth Jr. in a best of 3 match series that was the finals of a tournament for the vacant titles. That title was vacated on November of 1994 as Canek stopped wrestling for "La Empresa" due to an elbow injury.
Canek wrestled for AAA in a limited capacity where he smartly was used for big angles and important matches where he still defended his UWA belt, which he temporary lost from August 15, 1999 to September 6 against Cadaver De Ultratumba.
Even though always a very solid quality wrestler, he never was an off-the-charts performer like Dos Caras or Solitario. However his incredible amounts of charisma, popularity, box office power, and the fact that his mask is one of the most beautiful and meaningful hoods ever seen, made him the Mexican idol and lucha libre legend he is now.
Canek returned to CMLL on April 30, 2004, immediately feuding with Dr. Wagner Jr.. When the Doc switched to the tecnico size, Canek mirrored him and switched to being a rudo. As part of the build up to an mask match between the two, Canek lost the UWA World Heavyweight Championship to Wagner.
Events have stalled from there. The mask match date never got set, and was seemingly forgotten for the time being. Wagner's tecnico turn (and Atlantis' rudo turn) lead the Doctor to other feuds. Canek was left without a big rivalry and his trademark championship. To fill the void, Canek feuded with other aging heavyweights, like Rayo de Jalisco Jr. and Head Hunter I, and also won the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship.
When Canek returned to CMLL, there was talk that the promotion only took him back, and gave a part time spot to one of his sons (Canek Jr.), on the promise that Canek would lose his mask in their ring. That hasn't happened yet.
Canek's a ponderous wrestling at this point of his career, but the fans still see him as a living legend. His signature power moves still get over to those who've seen him and know him.
early mask design at age 21. Revista LUCHA LIBRE 1973.
At age 21 w. early mask design, Revista LUCHA LIBRE 1973.
(1) Relevos Suicidas vs. Ultimo Vampiro & El Mexicano; (2) 4 way match with Wagner Jr. & Rayo Jr.
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How about we travel to South America for the authentic recipe of dulce de leche? Dulce de leche is a milk jam that is popular with Argentines, Chileans and Uruguayans.
It is found everywhere in the world, but especially in Argentina since the seventeenth century. Dulce de leche is everywhere: in pancakes (more specifically in a traditional pancake cake called torre panqueques), on waffles, or on toast for breakfast. But some people prefer to taste it directly from the pot with a spoon!
Dulce de leche is very simple to make and can be kept well for several months in sterilized jars. The technique for success is to use a little elbow grease, because it must be stirred all the time with a wooden spoon so that it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
There are many stories about the origin of dulce de leche. In Argentina, legend has it that this milk jam appeared after a fortuitous event that occurred in the city of Cañuelas in 1829, during a meeting between General Lavalle and his cousin (and political enemy), General Juan Manuel de Rosas.
The two protagonists were about to meet to sign a peace treaty on the ranch of the latter located in the area of La Matanza, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Lavalle was the first to arrive and, as we was tired, he rested on the bed of Rosas to take a nap. The servant of Rosas, who was boiling milk with sugar to prepare a lechada (a popular preparation known at the time as an emulsion) to accompany the mate in the afternoon, found Lavalle sleeping on the bed of her employer. Outraged, she thought of this act as an act of disrespect and went to warn the guards. Shortly after, Rosas arrived, and did not get angry with Lavalle. He begged the maid to bring the mate back with the milk. She remembered then that she had left the milk and sugar on the stove and let it reduce for longer than expected. As she returned to look for the lechada, the maid found a thick, brownish cream with a sweet taste. This milk jam actually pleased Rosas and he shared it with Lavalle while discussing the points of the peace treaty. Dulce de leche was born!
The same story is also told in other countries, but on a battlefield and with Napoleon and his cook as protagonists. In 1998, the famous Argentine chronicler Víctor Ego Ducrot, in his book on the Argentinian gastronomy Los Sabores de La Historia, explains that the anecdote of Rosas is actually a myth derived from a mysterious story that had occurred twelve years prior in Chile. According to him, the introduction of this milk jam along the river Plata (Rio de la Plata) and Peru would have occurred after the arrival of the Army in the Andes Mountains in Chile in 1817. Also, it turns out that the main person responsible for the popularity of the dulce de leche was the Argentine liberator José de San Martín, who instead of sweetening his mate with the traditional milk emulsion lechada, used milk jam (called manjar). San Martin loved this dulce de leche so much that he decided to go to Peru on an expedition with several bottles of milk jam for him and his men.
In Brazil, there is a story dated 1773 that mentions the availability of dulce de leche in the state of Minas Gerais.
In Paraguay, the story of its creation is between 1819 and 1825.
Argentinian historian Daniel Balmaceda, in his book La Comida en historia Argentina, relates that dulce de leche was created in Indonesia, South-East Asia, and that it was later shipped to the islands of the Philippines, around the 6th century. Filipino navigators from the Pacific then introduced it to America, first to Mexico, and from there, dulce de leche spread throughout the continent.
Since 1998, the Dulce de Leche Festival has been celebrated every October 11th. The “World Dulce de leche Day” is celebrated in Argentina to pay homage to the national dessert, declared “Food and Culinary Cultural Heritage of Argentina”. The choice of the date is not random! According to the official version, October 11th would be the day of 1829 when Rosas’s maid accidentally invented the national milk jam.
Hugely popular in Latin and Central America, its consumption has spread to different parts of the world, although it has not been able to reach levels recorded in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In Argentina, the highest consumption was recorded in 2012, reaching 3.10 kg per capita (per year), followed by Chile with 1.8 kg. The sweet milk production plants in Argentina produced, according to 2010 data, a historic record of 131,000 tons of milk jam, of which 7,186 were exported (Chile is the main importer). Average annual production during the decade 2001-2010 was 115,500 tons, or 14.7% more than in the 1990s.
This milk jam is commonly known as dulce de leche in Argentina, Bolivia, Central America, Spain, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Ecuador and some provinces of Colombia. However, you can find it under other names around the world.
People call it arequipe in Colombia and Venezuela.
In Nicaragua, milk jam takes the name of bollo de leche (to avoid any confusion, it is distinguished from a sweet delicacy called cajeta de leche, which is produced from dulce de leche and which is solid).
In Mexico, people talk about cajeta when they refer to a milk jam made from goat’s milk. If this same dulce de leche (made from goat’s milk) is prepared in the oven, allowing the sweetened milk to evaporate and scorch, people talk about cajeta quemada or dulce de leche horneada. If whole cow’s milk is used, then it is simply called dulce de leche.
In Cuba, people enjoy fanguito.
In Chile and Panama, dulce de leche is called manjar.
In Ecuador, it is known as manjar de leche.
In Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, there is a milk jam called manjar blanco or manjarblanco.
In France, dulce de leche takes the name of confiture de lait. A less caramelized version is typical of the regions of Brittany, Normandy and Savoy.
Doce de leite is the national dulce de leche in Brazil and Portugal.
There are two recipes for making dulce de leche. The first one uses a can of sweetened condensed milk, which is placed in a saucepan in a bain-marie for 2 to 3 hours over low heat. This method gives a dulce de leche that is thicker, grainier and lighter in color than the one I am sharing with you. The difference lies also in the taste.
This method works very well but it takes more than two hours and the taste is closer to that of sweetened condensed milk. The visual result is the one closest to the most popular (the lighter version of dulce de leche), but is not as close to the taste of the traditional dulce de leche.
I am sharing with you the traditional recipe, that is to say the second method which is a recipe made with milk, sugar, and baking soda.
As someone who has tested both methods, I can tell you that the traditional recipe made with milk is the best. It has a rich taste of milk and is very creamy.
Dulce de leche (or milk jam), is produced by the simmering of milk and sugar. It is a very popular ingredient in Latin America and Spain.
Pour the two tablespoons of water into the bottom of a saucepan and thoroughly wet the bottom of the pan with this water.
Then pour the milk, baking soda and sugar.
Heat over medium heat, while stirring to dissolve the sugar.
Once the preparation begins to boil, lower the heat and simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally for about 45 minutes.
At this point, the preparation should have thickened.
Continue cooking, stirring very frequently until the mixture thickens and turns golden brown.
Stop cooking when the consistency suits you. However, make sure the mixture does not to get too thick as it hardens a little while cooling.
Pour the jam into a glass jar.
Dulce de leche can be kept in the refrigerator.
I just love Dulce de leche and have to do it on a regular basis for ONE reason… Mamma, my filipina step-mother (which incidently is younger than me…) just even loves it more than me, especially in my recipe of Dulce dde leche ice-cream… Each month, when she comes visit us, I prepare 5 liters of it, and she succeeds to eat it all over 2-3 days !!! Now, I add also to my ice-cream little cubes of “swiss caramels de foire” or “canadian sucre a la creme” which is basically a candy made of 50% unwashed sugar and 50% heavy cream, cooked until it gets a sandy texture, dropped on a silicone pad and chopped.
I also do my ice-cream “the rich way”, with only cream, milk and dulce de leche.
You should give it a try 😉 It is absolutely delicious !
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psql: FATAL: permission denied for database "project2_core"
I would have expected that the user is not allowed to do anything before I explicitly do GRANT USAGEon the schema and then GRANT SELECT on the tables.
Where is my mistake? What am I doing wrong? How can I achieve what I want (that a new user is not allowed to do anything before explicitly granting her the appropriate rights.
EDIT Following the advice by @daniel-verite, I now revok all immediately after creating the database. The user dietrich is not allowed to create a table any more. Good. BUT: Now, also the owner of the database, project2, is not allowed to create a table. Even after issuing GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE project2_core TO project2 and GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA public TO project2, I get an error ERROR: no schema has been selected to create in, and when I specifically try to CREATE TABLE public.WHATEVER ();, I get ERROR: permission denied for schema public. What am I doing wrong?
To know what ALL means for a schema, we must refer to GRANT in the doc, (in PG 9.2 there are no less than 14 forms of GRANT statements that apply to different things...). It appears that for a schema it means CREATE and USAGE.
On the other hand, GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE... will grant CONNECT and CREATE and TEMP, but CREATE in this context relates to schemas, not permanent tables.
Regarding this error: ERROR: no schema has been selected to create in, it happens when trying to create an object without schema qualification (as in create table foo(...)) while lacking the permission to create it in any schema of the search_path.
The crucial thing to understand here is that privileges are not heirachical and are not inherited from containing objects. ALL means all privileges for this object not all privileges for this object and all contained objects.
If you do not specify the schema to create an object like a table in, the database engine uses the search_path, and by default the public schema is first on the search_path so the table is created there. Everyone has rights to public by default, so the creation is allowed. The users' rights on the database are irrelevant at this point, as the user isn't trying to do anything to the database object its self, only a schema within it.
It doesn't matter that you haven't granted the user any rights other than granting CONNECT on the database, because the public schema permits all users to create tables in it by default. Daniel has already explained how to revoke that right if desired.
If you want to delegate every right explicitly, revoke all from public, or simply drop the public schema. You can create a new template database with this change applied if you want to. Alternately you can apply it to template1, but that'll likely break lots of 3rd party code that assumes that public exists and is writeable.
This might make more sense if you look at a filesystem analogy.
then I cannot create anything within /dir1, because I do not have write permission. So if I touch /dir1/somefile I will get a permission denied error.
However, I do have permission to look inside /dir1 and to access contained files and directories, including /dir1/dir2. I have write permission on dir2. So touch /dir1/dir2/somefile will succeed, even though I don't have write permission to dir1.
Same thing with databases and schemas.
If you REVOKE ALL (as other answers suggest), you will also prevent users from having USAGE permissions. USAGE means that users can use the permissions assigned to them, so if you remove that then your users will not be able to list or access tables that they have access to.
See also: How to create a read only user with PostgreSQL.
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Why you should start investing in share market?
You should start investing in share market right now!!! I am not saying this for fun of saying it, I mean it.
Take a simple example, Suppose you had Rs. 50,000 in year 1995. You had 4 options to invest this money.
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Investment in share market and real estate is a clear winner here. Second is Gold.
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Instead of buying the motorcycle, if one would have invested in company he could by 5 BMWs.
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M3 for Batch Processing (hereinafter referred to as M3 for BP) is a framework for high - speed processing of tasks expressed in the form of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). It is provided as the execution platform of "Asakusa Framework™ (*1)" for efficiently developing and operating batch processing of business systems.
It is optimized to maximize execution performance in multi-core/multiprocessor environments on a single node, realizing faster operation batch processing and lower TCO at a higher level.
(*1) Asakusa Framework™ is a framework for performing large-scale core batch processing on the parallel distributed processing infrastructure, and it is open source software. Asakusa Framework™ supports Hadoop® MapReduce, Spark™ and M3 for BP as its parallel distributed processing engine.
Some batch processing of the business system takes place over several hours to several tens of hours in the host, the mainframe, and the database. In order to shorten the processing time in this area and to cope with the increase in throughput, there was no choice but an expensive scale-up solution until several years ago.
So, as a more cost-effective scale-out solution, developed by Nautilus Technologies Inc. open_in_newis Asakusa Framework, a framework for leveraging Hadoop® MapReduce and Spark™, which is a distributed processing infrastructure.
Asakusa Framework has shortened the batch processing time that took tens of hours to several tens of minutes. However, MapReduce targets TB to PB, Spark targets large data of hundreds of GB to TB, and small to medium data (several GB to tens of GB) is not the target.
Since most of business data such as backbone system is this small medium size data, even if Asakusa Framework is applied to batch processing, the overhead associated with distributed processing has become relatively large, and there was a limit in speedup . In addition, MapReduce and Spark needed to prepare multiple nodes, the difficulty of operation was an obstacle to adopt.
With the latest two-way server, more than 80 CPU cores and terabyte-class memory can be mounted on a single node. In the past, it became possible to execute data on a single node which could not be processed unless it was decentralized using multiple nodes. So, in order to solve these problems, M3 for BP was jointly developed by Fixstars and Nautilus Technologies open_in_new.
Fixstars has been specializing in programs executed between heterogeneous platforms = "heterogeneous computing" and has been developing software for Cell Broadband Engine™ and GPUs. For OpenCL, which was created for heterogeneous computing, Fixstars has been providing compiler products and application development services from early on, as well as programming seminars and writing books for software developers.
Asakusa on M3BP provides a set of functions to use M3 for BP as its execution platform for batch applications created using the Asakusa Framework development base including Asakusa DSL. In Asakusa on M3BP, by using M3 for BP as the execution platform, it becomes possible to process the business batch for Apache Hadoop and Spark described using Asakusa Framework at high speed on a single node. Especially for small to medium size data, it was able to achieve higher performance than Spark though it was a single node.
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"F1 2009" redirects here. For the video game based on the 2009 Formula One season, see F1 2009 (video game).
Jenson Button and Brawn GP secured the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship titles respectively in the Brazilian Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the season. It was both Button and Brawn's first Championship success, Brawn becoming the first team to win the Constructors' Championship in their debut season. Button was the tenth British driver to win the championship, and following Lewis Hamilton's success in 2008 it was the first time the Championship had been won by English drivers in consecutive seasons, and the first time since Graham Hill (1968) and Jackie Stewart (1969) that consecutive championships have been won by British drivers. Also notable was the success of Red Bull Racing, as well as the poor performance of McLaren and Ferrari compared to the previous season.
Ten teams participated in the Championship after several rule changes were implemented by the FIA to cut costs to try to minimise the impact of the global financial crisis. There were further changes to try to improve the on-track spectacle with the return of slick tyres, changes to aerodynamics and the introduction of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) presenting some of the biggest changes in Formula One regulations for several decades.
The Brawn team, formed as a result of a management buyout of the Honda team, won six of the first seven races, their ability to make the most of the new regulations being a deciding factor in the Championship. The Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari teams caught up in an unpredictable second half of the season, with the season being the first time since 2005 that all participating teams had scored World Championship points. Sebastian Vettel and Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello were his main challengers over the season, winning six races between them to finish in second and third respectively.
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship: Teams competed with tyres supplied by Bridgestone.
The Chinese Grand Prix was brought forward from its October date to April to become the third round of the championship.
Abu Dhabi made its first appearance on the F1 calendar under the name Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a race being held at the Yas Marina Circuit on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi on 1 November – the final round of the 2009 season. That meant the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was the new final round of the 2009 season, replacing the Brazilian Grand Prix as the traditional final round since 2004.
The Japanese Grand Prix changed circuits from the Fuji Speedway in Oyama to the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka.
The Canadian Grand Prix and the French Grand Prix were removed from the calendar.
Banned since 1998, slick tyres were re-introduced for 2009.
A ban on aerodynamic appendages resulted in the 2009 cars having smoother bodywork.
The front wing was lower and wider than in 2008.
The rear wing was higher and narrower.
The FIA released preliminary technical regulations for the 2009 season on 22 December 2006, and were revised several times to accommodate the findings of the Overtaking Working Group (formed in response to concerns that passing in wheel-to-wheel racing was becoming increasingly rare) and the increasing need for cost-cutting in the sport in the wake of the economic crisis.
Slick tyres returned for the first time since they were banned for the 1998 season. Bridgestone continued to be the sole supplier of tyres, and drivers still had to use both compounds of tyre during a race. Soft tyres were differentiated by a green marking around the sides of the tyres, rather than a white marking in a groove as used in 2008. Further, wet tyres were renamed "intermediate" and extreme-weather tyres were renamed "wet".
The aerodynamic regulations were radically altered for the 2009 season. The front wings were made lower and wider, while rear wings were changed to be higher and narrower. As well as the changes in the dimensions of the wings, bodywork became much more regulated with many of the additional components seen in previous seasons (including barge boards, winglets and turning vanes) removed, making 2009 cars noticeably different in appearance than in previous years. The diffuser at the rear of the car was moved back and upwards. Many other minor chassis components were also standardised. The aim of the new aerodynamic regulations, as well as the reintroduction of slick tyres, was to decrease reliance on aerodynamic downforce and increase mechanical grip with the aim of making wheel-to-wheel racing easier.
For the first time, cars were allowed to use driver adjustable bodywork, in the form of adjustable flaps in the front wing. The flaps could be adjusted by up to six degrees, limited to only two adjustments per lap. Adjustable front wings were designed to improve downforce when following another car, another change designed to improve overtaking.
Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, a regenerative braking device designed to recover some of the vehicle's kinetic energy normally dissipated as heat during braking, were introduced for the 2009 season. The recovered energy can be stored electrically, in a battery or supercapacitor, or mechanically, in a flywheel, for use as a source of additional accelerative power at the driver's discretion by way of a boost button on the steering wheel. The regulations limit the additional power to around 82 hp (61 kW) of 400kJ for six seconds a lap. The systems were not made compulsory, and because of concerns about both limited performance gains and safety implications only four teams opted to use the system during the season.
While the FIA were planning on introducing a budget cap to limit the amount of spending by Formula One teams in 2008, the amount was not agreed upon and the budget cap idea was dropped. Instead, costs were brought down by a complete ban on in-season testing, a forced reduction in wind tunnel usage, the sharing of more data during race weekends, an increased minimum engine lifespan and gearboxes had to last for four races, and a penalty of five places in the starting grid was applied, should a driver change it during the weekend before the start of the race.
Each driver was limited to a maximum of eight engines throughout the season, in addition to four engines for practice/testing purposes; using additional engines resulted in a 10-place grid penalty for each additional engine used. To aid improvements in reliability, the engines were detuned from 19,000 RPM to 18,000 rpm.
The rule stating that the pit lane is closed during a Safety Car period was scrapped in 2009. The rule was introduced in 2007 to prevent drivers rushing back to the pits to refuel, possibly speeding through a danger zone, but software was successfully developed to solve this problem. The pit lane speed limit was also increased from 50 mph (80 km/h) to 62 mph (100 km/h).
The FIA initially declared that the driver with the most wins at the end of the season would be the winner of the 2009 Formula One World Championship, but dropped the decision because of opposition from teams and drivers. Formula One Teams Association argued that FIA could not change the rules this close to the season's start without the full agreement of the teams. Other proposals rejected by FIA were the introduction of a new points system with the scale 12–9–7–5–4–3–2–1 and to award medals for first, second and third place.
FIA President Max Mosley announced dramatic rule changes for the 2009 season in a bid to improve the spectacle of the sport, with the cars undergoing major changes in an effort to increase overtaking. The design changes significantly altered the design of the cars, incorporating wider and lower front wings, taller and narrower rear wings, and a reduction on aerodynamic bodywork. Also introduced were slick tyres and Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, as well as implementing cost-cutting measures in a response to the rising costs of competing.
Honda announced in December 2008 they would be leaving Formula One with immediate effect, as a result of the automotive industry crisis. After a winter of uncertainty, it was confirmed on 5 March 2009 that the team would compete in the 2009 season as Brawn GP, with Mercedes engines, following a management buyout led by team principal Ross Brawn, and would retain the services of both Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello as drivers. Anthony Davidson, who competed for the Honda-backed Super Aguri team before their early withdrawal in 2008, joined Brawn as a test driver.
Force India joined Brawn GP in using the Mercedes engines by signing a five-year deal until 2013, having ended their previous supply contract from Ferrari. The retirement of Red Bull Racing driver David Coulthard led to the appointment of Sebastian Vettel as his replacement, who left the Scuderia Toro Rosso team after a successful previous season including winning the Italian Grand Prix. Toro Rosso, a team designed to develop new Formula One drivers, saw co-owner Gerhard Berger sell his half-stake back to Red Bull, claiming that the new regulations would "leave no room for improvement for a small team like STR", Franz Tost took over as team boss. Filling Vettel's race seat in Toro Rosso was Sébastien Buemi, who as part of the Red Bull Junior Team competed for Trust Team Arden in the GP2 Series.
The Drivers' World Championship would be decided in the traditional manner of points scored after Bernie Ecclestone's idea that the driver who won the most races be declared as the champion was scrapped following protests from the Formula One Teams Association. The teams were less successful in their attempts to have the long-running French and Canadian Grands Prix kept on the calendar, with the organisers of both events pulling out due to financial issues. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix made its début appearance as the last round of the season, at the Hermann Tilke-designed Yas Marina Circuit. The race, starting at sunset, was Formula One's first day-night race.
The first multi-team testing session took place at Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona in November 2008, two weeks after the end of previous season. All teams, except Toyota, took part in the testing session where some teams tested their new aerodynamics package and slick tyres. The new look cars did not suit everyone's taste, with BMW Sauber's test driver, Christian Klien, labelling the car the ugliest car he'd ever seen. On 9 March, testing at Barcelona featured for the first time Brawn GP, who made an immediate impact by leading the times early in the day. The test, the first in which all teams used their 2009 cars, had BMW Sauber leading the times while Brawn GP finished fourth. On day three, Brawn GP's Jenson Button was fastest by just over one second to Ferrari's Felipe Massa, while Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello went even faster the next day. At the other end of the timing sheets, reigning Champion Lewis Hamilton's McLaren team were struggling to adapt to the new regulations, often 1.5 seconds off the pace. Massa stated he had never seen McLaren so far behind.
A major source of controversy throughout the winter season were the rear diffusers. Three teams – Toyota, Williams and Brawn GP – launched their cars with a diffuser that uses the rear crash structure in order to generate additional downforce, labelled "double diffusers". These designs were quickly protested, and just days after the cars were unveiled, rival teams asked the FIA for a clarification on the matter.
On the Wednesday of the season opening race in Australia, an official complaint was launched by the seven other teams against the rear diffusers of the Williams FW31, Toyota TF109 and the Brawn BGP 001 saying that they were illegal. The FIA scrutineers disagreed, declaring the cars legal. The other six teams filed an unsuccessful appeal which was heard on 14 April 2009 – the week prior to round three of the championship, the Chinese Grand Prix.
Button won in Australia giving the newly formed Brawn GP their first win on their début; he subsequently won five of the six following races; and then he didn't win any of the remaining ten races of the season.
The season opened at the Australian Grand Prix, won by Jenson Button with teammate Rubens Barrichello in second, giving the team a 1–2 on its début. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel had been running in second until he collided with BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica. The accident meant the race finished behind the safety car, with Toyota's Jarno Trulli eventually classified third despite McLaren's false protest he had illegally overtaken Lewis Hamilton. Reigning champion Hamilton was disqualified from the Australian race for lying to the stewards and at the following Malaysian Grand Prix there were reports he was on the verge of quitting. The race was equally dramatic, being stopped because of monsoon-like conditions, meaning only half points were awarded for only the fifth time in F1 history. Button mastered the changing conditions for his second win, while quick starting Nico Rosberg dropped to eighth when the race was stopped. In the interval between races, the controversial double diffusers, used by Brawn, Williams and Toyota, were declared legal by the FIA, ending the fight over their use. The Chinese race also took place in wet conditions, with the rain throughout the duration of the race necessitating a safety car start and causing several accidents. Vettel led teammate Mark Webber to Red Bull's first win in Formula One, ahead of the two Brawns and McLarens.
Dry conditions at Bahrain saw the Toyota team gain the front of the grid, but Button managed to fight up from a fourth-place start, and overtook race leader Timo Glock on his first pit stop. Hamilton and Räikkönen, in fourth and sixth respectively, gave their 2008 championship winning teams the best finishes of a disappointing season start. The Spanish Grand Prix was a battle between the Brawn teammates, with Barrichello getting ahead of polesitter Button while a first lap incident forced the retirement of four drivers. Button followed a different pit-stop strategy and passed Barrichello during his stop, leading Brawn's second one-two of the season. Red Bull was the closest team to Brawn finishing third and fourth, while Felipe Massa's fuel shortage lost him places as he slowed to finish the race. Button won in dominant fashion at Monaco, leading the majority of the race from pole position ahead of his teammate Barrichello and Räikkönen, who scored Ferrari's first podium in 2009. At the Turkish Grand Prix Vettel started on pole but lost the position to Button on the first lap. Button went on to win, followed by Webber and a closely pursuing Vettel. Barrichello's car developed a gearbox problem, and incidents with Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Sutil resulted in Brawn's first retirement of the season. By winning six out of the first seven races, Button had opened up a 26-point lead on his teammate, with Vettel a further six points behind.
Red Bull and their drivers reduced the respective championship leads of Jenson Button and Brawn GP during the mid part of the season.
The British Grand Prix was seen as a turning point, being dominated by Red Bull with Vettel leading home Webber, in dry conditions. Button was not on the podium for the first time this season, finishing sixth. Red Bull also dominated the following German Grand Prix with Webber taking his first pole and race win, despite being given a drive through penalty. Ferrari were also showing signs of improvement, Felipe Massa finishing third in what would be his final race of the season. He was hospitalised after being hit on the helmet by a flying spring when he was travelling at 162 mph in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The accident overshadowed the race, with a lightly-fueled Fernando Alonso on pole retiring early in the race, which was won by Lewis Hamilton. Jaime Alguersuari finished his début race ahead of Buemi, the Toro Rosso test driver replacing the fired Sébastien Bourdais. Post-race, the Renault team received a suspension for the European Grand Prix, for an incident where Alonso's tyre came loose on the race track following a pit-stop error. An appeal overturned the decision, and the team raced in Valencia.
During the summer break, BMW Sauber announced their withdrawal from Formula One racing due to poor results and lack of financial sustainability. The team would compete until the end of the season, while BMW attempted to sell the organisation. Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher was originally set to replace the injured Massa, but the seat was taken by test driver Luca Badoer due to Schumacher's neck injuries. Also replaced was Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr., who complained of unfair treatment by team management, in favour of GP2 driver Romain Grosjean.
Force India and McLaren both came from the midfield to the points in 2009.
The European Grand Prix in Valencia provided the first win for Rubens Barrichello after Hamilton lost the lead with an error in the pits; he finished second while both Red Bulls failed to score. At the Belgian Grand Prix Giancarlo Fisichella gained Force India's first pole position, and his second-place finish behind Kimi Räikkönen gave their first points. Button's title charge was undermined by poor qualifying and a crash, involving him, Hamilton, Alguersuari and Grosjean, ending their races. Following the race Badoer, who had qualified and finished last in both races, was replaced with Giancarlo Fisichella after his performance at the Belgian race. Vitantonio Liuzzi in turn took the vacant Force India drive. Brawn returned to form in Italy, with Barrichello leading home the team's fourth 1–2 of the season. Lewis Hamilton crashed on the penultimate lap, but came back by winning the next race at Singapore. Webber's crash ended his chance of winning the championship. Vettel kept the opportunity of winning the Drivers' title with a dominant display in the Japanese Grand Prix, with Toyota's Trulli gaining what would prove to be Toyota's final podium before their withdrawal at the end of the season. Toyota teammate Glock was injured during qualifying, and a cracked vertebra meant he was replaced by reserve Kamui Kobayashi for the final two races.
The Drivers' and Constructors' Championships were both decided at the penultimate race in Brazil. Storm affected qualifying at Interlagos gave Barrichello pole during Formula One's longest qualifying session, while title-rivals Button and Vettel started from 14th and 16th respectively. During the first lap, three incidents led to the retirement of three cars and a fire in the pit-lane, with Button taking advantage to move up the grid. Button fought up to fifth position by the race end, securing enough points to clinch the title. Mark Webber took the lead after Barrichello pitted and won the race, followed by Robert Kubica, to give BMW Sauber their joint best result of their final season and his only podium result in 2009. Lewis Hamilton completed the top three after starting 17th on the grid, moving him and McLaren above Kimi Räikkönen and Ferrari respectively in the Championships. The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, taking place at sunset, rounded out the season, with another win for Vettel and Red Bull's fourth 1–2 result of the year, awarding Vettel and the team second place in both championships.
In a scandal dubbed "Crashgate" by the media, allegations of race-fixing during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix emerged during the second half of the 2009 season from former Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. Over the course of the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Piquet, who had been sacked weeks earlier by Renault, claimed he was asked to crash at the Singapore race in a strategy designed to aid teammate and eventual race winner Fernando Alonso. Renault were handed a two-year suspended ban from the sport after the FIA World Motor Sport Council decided the team's managing director, Flavio Briatore and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds had asked Piquet to crash. Both had left the team before the WMSC hearing, where they were given life and five-year suspensions respectively. It had been rumoured Renault were prepared to quit the sport at the end of the 2009 season had the team been heavily punished, but the FIA found Briatore and Symonds solely to blame and chose to suspend Renault's ban.
Points were awarded to the top eight classified finishers.
If two or more competitors had the same number of points (including 0 points), their positions in the Championship were fixed according to the quality of their places. Under this system one first place was better than any number of second places, one second place was better than any number of third places, and so on.
– Half points were awarded at the Malaysian Grand Prix as less than 75% of the scheduled distance was completed due to heavy rain.
– Half points were awarded at the Malaysian Grand Prix as less than 75% of the scheduled distance was completed.
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Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 1 Page and Header: 3, Views of Older Adults Through History 1. A nurse who works on a subacute medical unit of a hospital is discussing the increasing population of older adults on the unit with a colleague. Which of the colleague's following statements about older adults is most accurate? A) “Fortunately, Social Security ensures a sufficient level of income for people over 65.” B) “It helps that older people don't have to directly incur any costs for their medical care.” C) “Most of the older clients on the unit will have come to us from nursing homes.” D) “It's reassuring that people are starting to show more concern for older adults than in decades past.” Ans: D Feedback: The formation of the Administration on Aging, enactment of the Older Americans Act, and the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare all occurred in 1965. Since that time, society has demonstrated a growing concern for its older members. Myths about older people include the belief that Social Security ensures them an adequate income, that they do not have to pay for medical care, and that most older adults live in nursing homes.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 2 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 4, Population Growth and Increasing Life Expectancy 2. A public health nurse who directs a homecare program that serves an area with a large population of older adults is conducting a long-term strategic plan. Which of the following phenomena should the nurse take into account when planning for the future? A) While life expectancy will continue to rise, the percentage of older adults in the United States relative to the overall population will decrease. B) By 2020, it is expected that over one-third of Americans will be over the age of 65. C) Both life expectancy and the percentage of people over 65 in the population will increase in coming decades. D) Chronic conditions, such as diabetes, are expected to bring a gradual decrease in the number of older adults by 2020. Ans: C Feedback: Both life expectancy and the percentage of individuals over age 65 are expected to increase in coming years. About 17% of the population is expected to be over 65 by 2020.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 3 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 4, Population Growth and Increasing Life Expectancy 3. A nurse who practices in a long-term care facility is providing care for a 101-year-old black female. The nurse's coworker states, “It's gratifying that black people in this country are finally reaching the same levels of health that white people are enjoying.” How can the nurse best respond? A) “Actually, the difference in life expectancy between black people and white people is growing, not shrinking.” B) “We've not yet arrived at a place where the life expectancies are equal between black and white people, but the gap is decreasing gradually.” C) “Black women do tend to live longer than white women, but the overall life expectancies when men are included are not yet equal.” D) “You're right. Since the 1980s the life expectancies of black and white Americans have remained nearly the same.” Ans: A Feedback: Since the 1980s, the gap between life expectancies of black Americans and white Americans has been increasing rather than decreasing. Black women do not tend to live longer than white women.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 4 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 5, Marital Status and Living Arrangements 4. Which of the following phenomena most likely accounts for the fact that more women than men live alone later in life? A) Women tend to both live longer than men and marry men older than themselves. B) Men tend to have greater access to care facilities due to higher incomes and savings. C) Men are more likely to live with younger family members following the death of a spouse. D) Social pressures tend to stigmatize older men who live alone. Ans: A Feedback: The facts that women live longer than men and often marry men older than themselves account for their higher rates of living alone in old age. Men are not noted to have greater access to care facilities, to be more likely to live with younger family members or to face stigma for living alone.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 5 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 6, Income and Employment 5. Which of the following statements most accurately captures the financial status of older adults in the United States? A) The percentage of older people living below the poverty level has been increasing. B) The financial needs of most older adults are well met by Social Security income alone. C) The recent decline in housing prices has made many older adults “asset rich and cash poor.” D) Women 65 years of age and older is the fastest growing group of employment. Ans: C Feedback: The percentage of older people living below the poverty level has been declining, with about 10% now falling into this category. Most older people depend on Social Security for more than half of their income. Although the median net worth of older households is nearly twice the national average because of the high prevalence of home ownership by elders, many older adults are “asset rich and cash poor.” The recent decline in housing prices, however, has made that asset a less valuable one for many older adults. There has been a significant rise in the percentage of middle-aged women who are employed, although there has been little change in the labor force participation of women 65 years of age and older.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 6 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: D4 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 8, Health Status 6. A care aide employed on a geriatric medicine unit of a hospital expresses frustration that “old people get sick so much more often than young people.” What is the nurse's most appropriate response to this statement? A) “In fact, the prevalence of obesity and accompanying chronic illnesses mean that young people actually have more chronic conditions than older adults.” B) “It's actually a myth that older adults require more hospitalization than young people.” C) “Actually, older adults experience fewer acute illnesses than younger people, it's just that they tend to take longer to recover from them.” D) “With the increase in life expectancies in recent years, most older people actually live free of chronic diseases until very late in life.” Ans: C Feedback: The incidence of acute illness is lower among older adults than younger adults, though recovery times tend to be longer. Older adults tend to have a higher incidence of chronic illness and require more frequent and longer hospitalizations.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 7 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: D4 Cognitive Level: Knowledge Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 8, Health Status 7. Which of following statements most accurately captures the role of chronic illness in the lives of older adults? A) Chronic illnesses constitute the leading cause of death for older adults. B) More older adults die from acute illnesses than from chronic diseases. C) While chronic diseases used to be the leading cause of death, this is no longer the case. D) While cancer rates have fallen, other chronic diseases remain a common cause of death. Ans: A Feedback: Chronic illnesses constitute the leading cause of death for older adults, exceeding those attributed to acute illnesses. The presence of heart disease as a cause of death has decreased in recent years, while at the same time cancer has become more prevalent.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 8 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 9, Impact of the Baby Boomers 8. The board of a large chain of hospitals has commissioned a strategic plan in order to meet the care needs of baby boomers in coming years. Which of the following trends constitute a sound basis for understanding the baby boomer generation and conducting future planning? Select all that apply. A) Baby boomers tend to have fewer children than members of earlier generations. B) Adjusted for inflation, baby boomers have lower incomes than their parents had. C) Due to technology, baby boomers have more leisure time than other adults. D) Baby boomers perform physical exercise more frequently than other adults. Ans: A, D Feedback: Baby boomers have had fewer children than generations that preceded them and they tend to exercise more often. Their incomes tend to be higher while they enjoy less leisure time.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 9 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Knowledge Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 9, Provision of and Payment for Services 9. The family of an 85-year-old man who has been admitted to hospital with exacerbation of his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has expressed concern about their ability to pay for his present and future care. Which of the following statements most accurately conveys the reality of payment for care services by older adults? A) The high value of assets owned by older adults makes the financial burden of care minimal for most older adults. B) Payment for long-term care of adults is most often covered by private insurers. C) Most older adults have their basic care needs provided in a long-term facility. D) Overall, federal money pays for more care than do older adults themselves or private insurers. Ans: D Feedback: Most money for the care of older adults comes from federally funded programs. The burden of payment is still significant for most older adults and a minority of older adults receive care in an institutional living environment.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 10 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Teaching/learning Objective: 3 Page and Header: 8, Health Status 10. Which of the following statements by the daughter of an 87-year-old resident of a nursing home would the nurse most likely want to correct or clarify? A) “It seems like more and more people are living well into their 80s like my mom.” B) “My mom has a house worth loads of money but little cash flow, like many older adults.” C) “It seems like heart disease is getting more common even though people live longer than they used to.” D) “There are more women living to my mother's age than there are men.” Ans: C Feedback: The incidence of heart disease as a cause of death is on the decline. More Americans are indeed achieving old age and many older adults have valuable assets but little cash flow. Female longevity continues to exceed that of males.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 11 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Comprehension Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 1 Page and Header: 3, Views of Older Adults Through History 11. In ancient times, the relationship between age and the value afforded to individuals was generally: A) Positive: with advanced age came increased value B) Negative: respect declined as age increased C) Variable: respect was different in different cultures D) Cyclic: respect moved back and forth between positive and negative Ans: C Feedback: Attitudes toward the aging varied among cultures. The ancient Chinese, for example, believed that the elderly deserved honor and respect, whereas the ancient Romans had little respect for the elderly, customarily killing them first in the nations Rome conquered.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 12 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Difficult Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 1 Page and Header: 3, Views of Older Adults Through History 12. Twentieth-century laws regarding health care for the elderly trace their roots back to: A) England's 17th-century Poor Laws B) Child labor laws of the 19th century C) The Biblical commandment “Honor your father and your mother” D) The tradition of respect for the elderly passed down from ancient Roman law Ans: A Feedback: Laws enacted in 20th-century America provided some measure of financial security and some level of health care for all persons aged 65 years and older, just as did the Poor Laws of 17th-century England that acted as a “safety net” for the elderly and the destitute. The child labor laws protected the young but offered no help to the elderly who were left at the mercy of their families. The Biblical commandment to “honor” provides a moral guideline but no practical benefit in terms of financial or health support. Ancient Romans deplored the elderly, and no tradition of respect for the aged was incorporated into the Roman legal code.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 13 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Knowledge Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 9, Impact of the Baby Boomers 13. A new patient is not satisfied with the conditions of the nursing home, takes a highly active role in her health care, and, because of her ability to access information, has as much knowledge as her health care providers on some health issues. This new patient is most likely: A) A young-old female baby boomer who just turned age 65 B) An old woman 75 to 85 years of age C) An old-old woman over age 85 D) An elite old woman older than 100 years Ans: A Feedback: The patient has the predicted characteristics of a baby boomer entering the senior years.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 14 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Comprehension Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 4, Population Growth and Increasing Life Expectancy 14. Gerontological nursing will become an increasingly important profession, compared with in the past, because: A) More people will be presenting with the same health care challenges B) More elderly are living in increasingly squalid living conditions C) A greater number of people are surviving the previously hazardous period of infancy D) More people are spending a longer time span in old age Ans: D Feedback: More people are achieving and spending longer periods of time in old age than ever before in history. Declines in living conditions, increased prevalence and incidence of the same health problems, and higher survival rates during infancy do not account for the increased importance of gerontological nursing.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 15 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: B Cognitive Level: Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 4, Characteristics of the Older Adult Population 15. Which of the following factors should a nurse prioritize when planning the care of older adults? A) The high prevalence of mental impairment among the elderly B) The diversity of the older adult population C) The fact that most older people live below the poverty line D) The lack of family support that is the norm among the elderly Ans: B Feedback: Individuals aged 65 years and older vary widely in their health status, interest, cultural backgrounds, and health care needs. The population is not generally impaired mentally. Also, only 15% live below the poverty level. The majority live in a household with a spouse or other family member.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 16 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 4, Population Growth and Increased Life Expectancy; 5, Table 1-1 16. From the late 1980s to the present, the gap in life expectancy between individuals in the Caucasian and African American communities has widened. Which of the following most clearly accounts for this trend? A) Acute illness in the black population has increased B) Infant mortality and complications of childbirth in the white population have declined C) The life expectancy of African Americans has not increased at the same rate as that of the white population D) Deaths from homicide in the white population have increased Ans: C Feedback: The gap in life expectancy between white individuals and African Americans has widened because the life expectancy of African Americans has not increased at the same pace as that of Caucasians. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services attributes this decline to an increase in deaths from homicide and AIDS.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 17 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Difficult Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 8, Health Status 17. Two related and important trends in the elderly population are: A) The growing gap in life expectancy between males and females and the number of women living alone B) The increase in life expectancy of white and black people. C) The continued burden of acute disease and the low levels of education among the elderly D) The increased burden of chronic illness and the shifting causes of death with advancing age Ans: D Feedback: The role of chronic illness in death rates is both significant and represents a shift from the past. The gap in life expectancy between men and women is narrowing. The life expectancy of black people has been recently declining. The generation now entering the senior years is better educated than generations past.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 18 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Comprehension Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 6, Income and Employment 18. It is important for the nurses to be aware of their patients' financial situations, which can affect patients' nutritional needs and access to medical care. Which of the following applies to the majority of older people? A) Own their own homes and have sufficient monthly income B) Get more than half their income from Social Security and live above the poverty level C) Are an increasing percentage of the labor force but are “cash poor� D) Are retiring at earlier ages and so live below the poverty level Ans: B Feedback: Less than 15% of older people live below the poverty level. Social Security is the main source of income for more than half of all older adults.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 19 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Comprehension Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 8, Health Status 19. What is the most important factor contributing to limitations in self-care and independent living among the elderly? A) Lack of family support B) Low financial assets C) Acute illness and injury D) Chronic illness Ans: D Feedback: Chronic illnesses are noted to have a significant impact on the quality of life of older adults. These illnesses are more prevalent than acute illnesses and supersede deficits in family and financial support.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 20 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: D4 Cognitive Level: Knowledge Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 8, Health Status 20. Which of the following statements best captures an aspect of illness in older adults? A) Death from heart disease is increasing in this population. B) Death from cancer is increasing in this population. C) Chronic illnesses are less common than in younger people. D) Several acute illnesses are often present that must be managed simultaneously. Ans: B Feedback: In the elderly population, the cancer death rate has increased in the past three decades; deaths from heart disease have declined. Several chronic conditions are often present and must be managed simultaneously.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 21 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Difficult Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 9, Provision of and Payment for Services 21. What are the most important competing forces that influence health policy for the elderly? A) Cost containment versus quality of care B) Acute care versus the burden of chronic disease C) Private insurance payments versus Medicare support D) Long-term care at home versus nursing home services Ans: A Feedback: Policy discussions most often pit cost containment (reducing expenditures) against quality of care (which may mean increasing expenditures). Seniors require relatively less acute care than younger patients do; their health problems are more often chronic. Because all persons over age 65 are entitled to health coverage through Medicare, insurance considerations are fewer than with younger patients. And whereas one in four seniors requires nursing home care at some time, nursing home residency is not typically long term.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 22 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: C2 Cognitive Level: Knowledge Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 3 Page and Header: 9, Impact of the Baby Boomers 22. When compared with elderly populations of the past, persons entering their senior years between 2015 and 2030 will have: A) Fewer chronic diseases but more acute illnesses B) Greater support from their children and spouses C) Better education and greater wealth D) Fewer needs for hospital or nursing home care Ans: C Feedback: The baby boomer cohort attained higher levels of education and economic status than past generations. They have, however, fewer children and the same (or greater) burdens of chronic disease and needs for health care as their parents did.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 23 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: D4 Cognitive Level: Application Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 8, Box 1-3 23. Which of the following patient histories is most likely for a person older than 65 years of age? A) In the last year, Patient F has been treated for a skin rash, a sprained ankle, and influenza B) Patient G takes medications daily for arthritis pain relief and reduction of blood pressure levels C) Patient H complains of chronic fatigue, stress-related allergies, and acid reflux after meals D) Patient I has been to the emergency room three times in the past year for ear infections and allergy attacks Ans: B Feedback: Arthritis and heart conditions are among the most common chronic conditions of the elderly. Daily medications to reduce arthritis pain and decrease blood pressure are common. The other histories are more likely for younger patients.
Origin: Chapter 1- The Aging Population, 24 Chapter: 1 Client Needs: A1 Cognitive Level: Comprehension Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 2 Page and Header: 10, Table 1-4 24. Hospital management is reviewing departmental statistics. Which of the following departments most likely has the highest death rate of patients over age 65, and why? A) Oncology, because the elderly have been exposed to more carcinogens in their long lifetimes B) Cardiology, because, despite a decline in recent years, heart disease remains the number one cause of death among the elderly C) Endocrinology, because the elderly already have compromised immune systems D) Neurology, because stroke and Alzheimer's disease together cause more deaths of the elderly than any other conditions Ans: B Feedback: Heart disease is the leading cause of death among persons 65 years of age and older.
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Create a new audience in the specified user profile service application.
Specifies the service application where the new audience will be created.
Specifies the site subscription containing the audiences to update.
The name of the audience to create.
PS C:\> New-SPAudience -UserProfileServiceApplication "30daa535-b0fe-4d10-84b0-fb04029d161a" -Identity "Human Resources" -Membership Any -Owner domain\user -Description "All members of the Human Resources department."
This example creates a new audience named "Human Resources" in the user profile service application with ID "30daa535-b0fe-4d10-84b0-fb04029d161a".
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Si quieres averiguar cuál es tu nivel de inglés para elegir el grupo en el que deseas matricularte en el American Institute, ponemos a tu disposición esta sencilla prueba para que veas tus niveles de conocimientos de gramática y comprensión del idioma.
En la primera parte (números 1-12) se evalúan los conocimientos de gramática. En esta parte hay que escoger la palabra o palabras que completa(n) correctamente la frase.
En la segunda parte (numeros 13-20) se evalúa la comprension. En esta parte hay que escoger la frase que tiene el significado igual o más similar a la frase propuesta.
Cuando completes el examen automaticamente se corregirá y verás el nivel que te corresponde y si lo deseas podrás recibir los resultados via email.
1.- Ted _____ to work five days a week.
2.- The sick man asked the girl _____ a glass of water for him.
3.- Inside, the old house was _____ a church.
4.- You'd rather watch T.V. this evening _____ ?
5.- Does she want this book or _____ one.
6.- She's old and she can't climb the stairs on _____ .
7.- He isn't going to learn Spanish and _____ .
8.- He knew some English words long _____ he could speak English.
9.- This coat is very long. Can I see a _____ one?.
10.- Yesterday afternoon was very wet, and sarah _____ out.
11.- Peter has been trying for an hour, but his car still _____ start.
12.- By next Saturday, Tom _____ a whole month without smoking a cigarette.
13.- Lady Fender liked to have her friends for the weekend.
Lady Fender liked her friends on weekends but not at midweek.
Every weekend Lady Fender went away with her friends.
Lady Fender liked to telephone her friends every weekend.
Lady Fender's friends often came to her house on weekends.
14.- If he has found the book, he will bring it today.
He has brought the book today.
Maybe he will bring the book today.
He has stopped looking for the book.
He has found the book but he hasn't brought it.
15.- Susan ate even more sweets than Mary did.
Susan ate many sweets but Mary ate none.
Mary was still eating sweets when Susan stopped.
Neither Mary nor Susan ate more than one or two sweets.
Mary ate many sweets but Susan ate still more.
16.- It's unlikely to rain this afternoon.
There's no chance of rain this afternoon.
The afternoon looks like it will be dry.
The afternoon will probably be wet.
It will rain this afternoon.
17.- She is sitting in a hotel room. Through the window, she sees a fat man.
She looks through the window and sees the fat man.
The fat man is looking in through the window.
She and the man are in a hotel room.
The fat man wants to open the window and come in.
18.- You're on time, Joe said to him.
It isn't time yet, you're too early, Joe said to him.
You must take more time, Joe said to him.
You haven't got time, Joe said to him.
You've come at the right time, Joe said to him.
19.- We're surprised to hear that our team won the match.
It's almost certain that our team will lose the match.
It's hard to believe that our team has lost the match.
We're sure that our team is going to win the match.
We thought that our team would lose the match.
20.- As soon as he waved his hand, she turned away.
She turned away because he waved his hand too soon.
He saw her turn away and he waved his hand.
He waved his hand and at once she turned away.
He waved his hand at the same time as she did.
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Text: Mariko Takei will offer a range of artistic and cultural activities as a place to link between Tokyo and its surrounding region as well as East Asian arts communities.
Having 3 floors above ground and one below, it consists of galleries and academic institutions that hold exhibitions and various events, as well as sharing offices, offering an open space for people who are involved in various field of artistic and cultural activity to have wide communication. The occupied galleries include ‘g3’ by Shigeo Goto, ‘+81 gallery +lab’ by creative magazine +81 among others. These galleries are not only showcasing artworks of emerging artists but also offering a range of activities by delivering their own distinctive projects.
The name “3331” stands for the traditional Edo Ippon Tejime-handclap translated into numbers. This traditional custom, 3 sets of 3 handclaps plus one clap at the end, has been used when people want to show their appreciation since the Edo period. Based in Chiyoda-ku where is used to be known as Edo at that time, 3331 Arts Chiyoda will bring new life of art and culture into Tokyo and beyond, and will become one of places for you to stand by when you visit the central east area of Tokyo such as Kanda, Akihabara and Ueno.
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HILL, WILLIAM GREEN (1801–1860). William Green Hill, early Texas patriot, the son of Jordan and Mary (Green) Hill, was born in Franklin County, North Carolina, in 1801. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1830, after the death of his young wife in childbirth, he went to Texas and settled in what is now Brazoria County. In 1835 he entered the Texas army as a private in Fannin's Brazos Guards, although he was already known as "Colonel" Hill. He was a member of Capt. John Yorkqv's company. He fought at the battle of Concepción on October 28, the Grass Fight on November 26, and the siege of Bexar on December 5–10, 1835. He was elected a first lieutenant of cavalry in December 1835 and a captain of cavalry on January 1, 1836. He was the first signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independence on December 20, 1835, and was one of the six signers appointed as a delegation to present the declaration to the General Council at San Felipe. In January 1836 he was ordered by Travis to contract for uniforms and equipment and to collect recruits for the defense of San Antonio. From June to October 1836 he served in Capt. Washington H. Secrest's company of Columbia (Washington) Cavalry.
In December 1836 Hill was elected a senator of the First Congress of the Republic of Texas from the Brazoria District to fill the vacancy of James Collinsworth, who had been elected to the Supreme Court. He was a member of St. John's Masonic Lodge No. 5, Brazoria and Columbia. Hill received 960 acres of land for services in various campaigns in 1835–36 and one league and one labor of land in 1838. He lived in Bernard in a residence known as Waverly and later put together a large plantation between East Columbia and Orozimbo Plantation that he called Osceola. In the census of 1860, the year he died, he was listed as a wealthy Texan with property real and personal valued at $186,862.
Hill married Mary Catherine Hall in Madison County, Alabama, in February 1825, and they had two children, one of whom, Thomas Elihu Hill, served in the state legislature in 1862–63. On February 25, 1836, Hill married Elizabeth (Eliza) Martha Westall, the daughter of Thomas Westall. Eliza Westall was already twice widowed; her first husband was James Elijah Brown Austin, the brother of Stephen F. Austin. William and Eliza Hill had six children. Hill died in Brazoria County on June 30, 1860. In his nuncupative will he asked to be buried beside his wife Eliza, who had died in 1847.
Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Phelps McCormick, Scotch-Irish in Ireland and America (1897). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
Handbook of Texas Online, Helen B. Green, "HILL, WILLIAM GREEN," accessed April 25, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhi27.
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Check out nine surprising facts about the route that once served as the gateway to the American West.
1. The Oregon Trail didn’t follow a single set path.
While most Oregon-bound emigrants traveled a route that passed by landmarks in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon, there was never just one set of wagon ruts leading west. Pioneers often spread out for several miles across the plains to hunt, find grazing patches for their animals and avoid the choking dust clouds kicked up by other wagon trains. As the years passed, enterprising settlers also blazed dozens of new trails, or cutoffs, that allowed travelers to bypass stopping points and reach their destination quicker. These shortcuts were especially popular in Wyoming, where the network of alternative pathways meandered more than a hundred miles north and south.
2. A pair of Protestant missionaries made one of the trail’s first wagon crossings.
Frontier explorers and fur trappers blazed the rough outlines of the Oregon Trail in the early 19th century, but the route was initially considered too demanding for women, children or covered wagons to navigate. That changed in 1836, when newlywed missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman took a small party of wagons from St. Louis to the Walla Walla Valley to minister to Cayuse Indians. 28-year-old Narcissa became the first white woman to traverse the Rocky Mountains, and her colorful letters home were later published in Eastern newspapers, convincing many would-be pioneers that it was possible for their families to survive the journey west. Still, it wasn’t until 1843 that the pioneer dam finally burst. That year, Marcus helped lead the first major wagon train of around 1,000 settlers along the Oregon Trail, an exodus now known as the “Great Migration.” Traffic soon skyrocketed, and by the late-1840s and early 1850s, upwards of 50,000 people were using the trail each year.
3. The iconic Conestoga wagon was rarely used on the Oregon Trail.
Popular depictions of the Oregon Trail often include trains of boat-shaped Conestoga wagons bouncing along the prairie. But while the Conestoga was an indispensable part of trade and travel in the East, it was far too large and unwieldy to survive the rugged terrain of the frontier. Most pioneers instead tackled the trail in more diminutive wagons that become known as “prairie schooners” for the way their canvas covers resembled a ship’s sail. These vehicles typically included a wooden bed about four feet wide and ten feet long. When pulled by teams of oxen or mules, they could creak their way toward Oregon Country at a pace of around 15 to 20 miles a day. They could even be caulked with tar and floated across un-fordable rivers and streams. Prairie schooners were capable of carrying over a ton of cargo and passengers, but their small beds and lack of a suspension made for a notoriously bumpy ride. With this in mind, settlers typically preferred to ride horses or walk alongside their wagons on foot.
4. The trail was littered with discarded supplies.
As traffic on the Oregon Trail increased, a bustling industry of frontier trading posts sprang up to supply food and equipment for the five-month haul. In popular jumping-off points like Independence, Missouri, unscrupulous merchants made a killing by conning frightened pioneer families into buying more provisions than they actually needed. The overloading meant that many sections of trail became junk heaps filled with discarded food barrels and wagon parts. Broken down prairie schooners and dead draft animals also littered the roads, and it wasn’t unusual to see personal items like books, clothes and even furniture. Fort Laramie in Wyoming eventually became known as “Camp Sacrifice” for its reputation as an Oregon Trail dumping ground. During the Gold Rush of 1849, pioneers reportedly abandoned a whopping 20,000 pounds of bacon outside its walls.
5. Indian attacks were relatively rare on the Oregon Trail.
Contrary to the depictions of dime novels and Hollywood Westerns, attacks by the Plains Indians were not the greatest hazard faced by westbound settlers. While pioneer trains did circle their wagons at night, it was mostly to keep their draft animals from wandering off, not protect against an ambush. Indians were more likely to be allies and trading partners than adversaries, and many early wagon trains made use of Pawnee and Shoshone trail guides. Hostile encounters increased in the years after the beginning of the Civil War, but statistics show only around 400 settlers were killed by natives between 1840 and 1860. The more pressing threats were cholera and other diseases, which were responsible for the vast majority of the estimated 20,000 deaths that occurred along the Oregon Trail.
6. Pioneers left behind graffiti on “register rocks” along the trail.
Along with painting messages and mottos on their wagon canvasses, pioneers also developed a tradition of carving their names, hometowns and dates of passage on some of the stone landmarks they encountered during their journey west. One of the most notable prairie guest books was Independence Rock, a 128-foot-tall granite outcropping in Wyoming dubbed “The Register of the Desert.” Thousands of travelers left their mark on the rock while camping along the nearby Sweetwater River. Those in a hurry sometimes even paid stonecutters a few dollars to carve their messages for them. In addition to Independence Rock, pioneers also left behind signatures on Register Cliff and Names Hill, two other sites in Wyoming.
7. Most Oregon Trail pioneers didn’t settle in Oregon.
Only around 80,000 of the estimated 400,000 Oregon Trail emigrants actually ended their journey in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Of the rest, the vast majority splintered off from the main route in either Wyoming or Idaho and took separate trails leading to California and Utah. The California Trail was eventually traveled by some 250,000 settlers, most of them prospectors seeking to strike it rich in the gold fields. The Utah route, meanwhile, shuttled roughly 70,000 Mormon pilgrims to the lands surrounding Salt Lake City.
8. One of the trail’s most famous pioneers made the crossing by wagon, train, automobile and airplane.
American Oregon Trail pioneer and writer Ezra Meeker.
One trip on the Oregon Trail was more than enough for most pioneers, but Ohio native Ezra Meeker eventually made the trek a half-dozen times using nearly every available means of conveyance. The unusual odyssey began in 1906, when the 76-year-old jumped behind the reigns of a covered wagon and retraced the steps of his original pioneer journey from 54 years before. Meeker was concerned that the legacy of the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, so he made frequent stops to give lectures on its history and install homemade “Meeker Markers” at pioneer landmarks. The trip made him a national celebrity. Crowds gathered to mark his arrival in major cities, and he eventually piloted his wagon all the way to Washington, D.C. for a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt. Meeker went on to journey the Oregon Trail several more times by wagon, train and automobile. His final crossing came at age 94, when he made the trip in a biplane flown by famed pilot Oakley Kelly.
9. Wheel ruts from Oregon Trail wagons are still visible today.
By the time the last wagon trains crossed in the 1880s, mass migration on the Oregon Trail had left an indelible mark on the American frontier. Decades of prairie schooner traffic carved up certain sections of the trail, leaving imprints in stone and wearing down grasslands so much that nothing grows on them to this day. These pioneer wagon ruts can still be seen in all six of the states that once encompassed the trail.
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Celebrities have a habit of dying in weird places, including toilets. What has caused so many rich and famous throughout the ages to have their final moments on the commode? From medieval monarchs to early Christian theologians, legendary architects to ground-breaking comedians, tons of tragic historical deaths came on the crapper.
While many of these people either suffered with addiction or had health problems unrelated to their bowel movements, they all died in the same place - the toilet.
One of the most famous singers to ever grace an American stage, Elvis Presley shot to fame in the 1940s and 1950s where he sang, danced, and acted his way into the country's hearts. Best known for songs like "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Jailhouse Rock," the hip-gyrating star made women swoon. But he became addicted to drugs, leading to him being the most famous person to kick it on the crapper.
Elvis was going to the bathroom in his Graceland mansion on August 16, 1977, when the years of drugs he'd taken finally began to catch up with him. The King fell off the toilet and into a pile of his own vomit. Later, it was revealed an extreme cocktail of drugs caused his passing.
After a tragic home life, the actress who would become known as Judy Garland took the stage and screen by storm. Like Elvis, she suffered from an addiction to drugs, but that didn't put a damper on the luster of her great career, which included a starring role in The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy. Her daughter, famed entertainer Liza Minnelli, followed in her footsteps.
Personal problems, ranging from nervous breakdowns and suicide attempts to bizarre behavior on set, led to the downfall of her Hollywood career. This was attributed to the cocktail of pills Garland regularly took, including barbiturates and amphetamines. At the age of 47 in 1969, Garland died on the toilet; her fifth husband found her body. Reports say Garland died sometime between 3 am and 4 am, her body slumped over the toilet with the bathroom door locked.
This monarch was German by birth - his dad, George I, was a distant cousin of the last ruler, Queen Anne, and inherited the throne because he was a Protestant. George II didn't get along with his dad at all, and they fought by allying with different political factions in England (the pattern repeated itself with George II's son, Frederick Louis). It was during George's reign that the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 took place.
George died in a manner not befitting his royal status, though. In 1760, George was straining to get things moving in his intestinal tract, when things went wrong. He fell off the toilet, and his servant ran in to help him after hearing what was described as a "noise louder than the royal wind." But it was too late - George wound up dying soon after. Doctors found that a ventricle in his heart had burst.
The king of Bohemia in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Wenceslaus III was a flash in the pan as a ruler. He gave up his rights to the Hungarian crown in order to pursue the throne of Poland, but died before he could raise an army to conquer that country.
Who offed him? A mysterious assassin, who barged in on Wency while he was sitting on the toilet. In 1306, the killer attacked the king with a spear and offed him while Wenceslaus was sitting on the toilet.
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The personal information of cannabis users in Canada is sensitive and can present significant risks and potential liabilities to cannabis retailers. The British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued guidance to help cannabis retailers and purchasers understand their rights and obligations under the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act. The guidance is useful for cannabis retailers and purchasers throughout Canada.
Canadian private sector personal information protection statutes — the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act, the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act and the Québec An Act respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector — are based on internationally recognized Fair Information Principles, which include: identifying purposes, consent, data minimization (limiting collect, use, disclosure and retention), safeguards and openness. Cannabis retailers in British Columbia must comply with each of the Fair Information Principles as reflected in the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act.
On October 16, 2018, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia issued guidance titled Protecting Personal Information: Cannabis Transactions, to help private sector cannabis retailers and cannabis purchasers understand their rights and obligations under the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act.
The guidance explains that cannabis users’ personal information is “very sensitive”, because cannabis is illegal in most jurisdictions outside Canada and some countries may deny entry to individuals if they know they have purchased cannabis. The guidance addresses a number of important issues. Following is a summary.
Cannabis retailers must obtain individuals’ informed consent before collecting their personal information, which requires cannabis retailers to inform individuals about what personal information is being collected and the purposes for the collection.
Cannabis retailers may use personal information only for the purposes for which it was originally collected.
The purchase of cannabis products from online retailers will require the collection of personal information, which presents additional security risks that cannabis purchasers should consider.
Cannabis purchasers concerned about using their credit card to purchase cannabis should consider using cash instead.
Cannabis retailers should collect and record the minimum amount of personal information necessary for reasonable, disclosed purposes.
Cannabis purchasers should not provide a cannabis retailer with more personal information than is necessary. For example, an individual’s medical information or other similar personal information is not required to purchase cannabis products in person.
Cannabis retailers can minimize the possibility of unintended disclosures of personal information by not recording customers’ personal information. For example, a cannabis retailer might request and review an individual’s government issued identification to verify the individual’s age, but there is no need for the retailer to record that information.
Cannabis retailers who offer a membership club or distribute to a mailing list may collect email addresses for individuals who sign up, but should consider not collecting individuals’ names for those purposes.
Cannabis retailers should use video surveillance only if less privacy-intrusive measures (e.g. a security guard) are not successful, and must notify individuals with clearly visible signage so they can choose to shop elsewhere if they do not want their image recorded by the surveillance system.
Cannabis retainers should keep personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was originally collected, and then the personal information should be securely destroyed.
Cannabis retailers must securely store the personal information they collect from cannabis purchasers and the personal information of the retailers’ employees.
Cannabis retailers must designate an individual to be their privacy officer responsible for compliance with privacy laws.
Cannabis retailers must protect the personal information in their custody or under their control by making reasonable security arrangements to prevent unauthorized access, collection, use, copying, modification or disposal of the information. Cannabis retailers must use physical, technological and administrative security measures to safeguard personal information. For example, unique electronic identifiers for staff and cannabis purchasers, passwords, encryption, firewalls, restricted employee access to information, and deleting personal information that is no longer needed.
Cannabis retailers should conduct regular risk assessments and monitoring to ensure compliance with privacy laws.
Storing personal information in the Cloud means there is likely disclosure of the personal information outside Canada. It is more privacy protective to store personal information on a server located in Canada.
Cannabis retailers must develop policies and practices (including a process to respond to privacy complaints) for compliance with privacy laws.
Cannabis purchasers should ask how their personal information used for a membership club or mailing list will be stored by the cannabis retailer.
Cannabis purchasers should ask retailers whether they store their personal information on servers outside Canada, and only purchase cannabis from retailers who store personal information in Canada.
Cannabis retailers should be mindful of the sensitivity of their customers’ personal information, and should take appropriate measures to safeguard that information and protect it against unnecessary disclosures, including disclosures to third party service providers (e.g. payment service providers). Failure to protect customers’ personal information might expose a cannabis retailer to significant costs and potential liabilities. For example, Health Canada’s alleged unauthorized disclosure of approximately 40,000 medical marijuana users’ personal information, by sending them oversized envelopes addressed to their name with a return address to the Marihuana Medical Access Program, is currently the subject of a class action lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada.
The guidance issued by the British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner is generally consistent with previous guidance issued by Canadian privacy commissioners regarding the handling of personal information by private sector organizations, and may be useful for cannabis retailers and purchasers in all Canadian provinces and territories. However, certain aspects of the guidance (e.g. comments regarding the use of cloud services to store personal information outside Canada) might be more restrictive than required for compliance with Canadian personal information protection statutes and current best practices.
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Scribd /ˈskrɪbd/ is a digital library, e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.
Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures. Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. Subscribers can access unlimited books a month from 1,000 publishers, including Bloomsbury, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.
Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books".
Scribd began as a site to host and share documents. While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic papers. His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research published. Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share written content online. He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the summer of 2006. There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.
Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document reader. The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds. In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008. It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online. That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd. The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on Scribd, including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark.
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and MediaBistro. ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009. In August 2010, many notable documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral, including the California Proposition 8 ruling, which received over 100,000 views in about 24 minutes, and HP's lawsuit against Mark Hurd's move to Oracle.
In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-books. This gave users unlimited access to Scribd's library of digital books for a flat monthly fee. The company also announced a partnership with HarperCollins which made the entire backlist of HarperCollins' catalog available on the subscription service. According to Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, this marked the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog. In March 2014, Scribd announced a deal with Lonely Planet, offering the travel publisher's entire library on its subscription service.
In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription offering with 10,000 titles from Simon & Schuster. These titles included works from authors such as: Ray Bradbury, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ernest Hemingway, Walter Isaacson, Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and David McCullough.
Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription service in November 2014 and comic books in February 2015.
In February 2016, it was announced that only titles from a rotating selection of the library would be available for unlimited reading, and subscribers would have credits to read three books and one audiobook per month from the entire library; unused credits roll over to the next month.
Scribd's unlimited service launched on February 6, 2018, and includes access to an unlimited number of books and audiobooks, alongside unlimited access to news, magazines, documents, and sheet music, for a monthly subscription fee of US$8.99. However, under this unlimited service, Scribd will "occasionally [...] limit the titles that [members are] able to access within a specific content library in a 30-day period." The previous credit system for books and audiobooks were removed.
In October 2018, Scribd announced a joint subscription to Scribd and The New York Times for $12.99 per month.
In November 2014, Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription library. Wired noted that this was the first subscription service to offer unlimited access to audiobooks, and "it represents a much larger shift in the way digital content is consumed over the net." In April 2015, the company expanded its audiobook catalog in a deal with Penguin Random House. This added 9,000 audiobooks to its platform including titles from authors like Lena Dunham, John Grisham, Gillian Flynn, and George R.R. Martin.
In February 2015, Scribd introduced comics to its subscription service. The company added 10,000 comics and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Archie, Boom! Studios, Dynamite, IDW, and Valiant. These included series such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, X-O Manowar, and The Avengers. However, in December 2016, comics were eliminated from the service due to low demand.
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers and smartphones. In April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature called "Readcast", which allows automatic sharing of documents on Facebook and Twitter. Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its integration of Facebook social plug-ins at the Facebook f8 Developer Conference.
Scribd rolled out a redesign on September 13, 2010 to become, according to TechCrunch, "the social network for reading".
In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscription service, allowing readers to pay a flat monthly fee in exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribd's book titles.
The company was initially funded with US$120,000 from Y Combinator in 2006, and received over US$3.7 million in June 2007 from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey Hills Group. In December 2008, the company raised US$9 million in a second round of funding led by Charles River Ventures with re-investment from Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO and founder of Yammer and Geni, joined Scribd's board of directors in January 2010.
In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital. In January 2015, the company raised US$22 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures with partner Keith Rabois joining the Scribd board of directors.
In July 2008, Scribd began using iPaper, a rich document format similar to PDF built for the web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page. iPaper was built with Adobe Flash, allowing it to be viewed the same across different operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced non-Flash support for the iPhone). All major document types can be formatted into iPaper including Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenDocument documents, OpenOffice.org XML documents, and PostScript files.
All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows published documents to either be private or open to the larger Scribd community. The iPaper document viewer is also embeddable in any website or blog, making it simple to embed documents in their original layout regardless of file format. Scribd iPaper required Flash cookies to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.
On May 5, 2010, Scribd announced that they would be converting the entire site to HTML5 at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. TechCrunch reported that Scribd is migrating away from Flash to HTML5. "Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman tells me: 'We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.'"
Scribd has its own API to integrate external/third-party applications, but is no longer offering new API accounts.
Since 2010, Scribd has been available on mobile phones and e-readers, in addition to personal computers. As of December 2013, Scribd is available through the various app stores on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire and Nook tablets.
Scribd has been praised by several newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. The company has been dubbed the "Netflix for e-books" by Wired, and is a known pioneer of the "all-you-can-read" model for e-books. Its founders, Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, have been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc. 35 Under 35.
In April 2015, Los Angeles favorably reviewed Scribd's subscription service by saying, "Subscribing to Scribd is sort of like shopping at Trader Joes: you may not find every product you want, but it sure as hell is convenient, inexpensive, and downright delectable." Scribd has grown to more than 100 million users in 75 countries who use the site on a monthly basis. As of June 2015, the Scribd app has been downloaded 5.7 million times on Android and 3.3 million times on iOS.
Scribd has been accused of copyright infringement. In September 2009, American author Elaine Scott alleged that Scribd "shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors". Her attorneys sought class action status in their efforts to win damages from Scribd for allegedly "egregious copyright infringement" and accused it of calculated copyright infringement for profit. The suit was dropped in July 2010.
In 2007, one year after its inception, Scribd was served with 25 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices.
The Guardian writes, "Harry Potter author [J.K. Rowling] is among writers shocked to discover their books available as free downloads. Neil Blair, Rowling's lawyer, said the Harry Potter downloads were 'unauthorised and unlawful'...Rowling's novels aren't the only ones to be available from Scribd. A quick search throws up novels from Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Jeffrey Archer, Ken Follett, Philippa Gregory, and JRR Tolkien."
In March 2009, the passwords of several Comcast customers were leaked on Scribd. The passwords were later removed when the news was published by The New York Times.
In July 2010, GigaOM reported that the script of The Social Network (2010) movie was uploaded and leaked on Scribd; it was promptly taken down per Sony's DMCA request.
Following a decision of the Istanbul 12th Criminal Court of Peace, dated 8 March 2013, access to Scribd is blocked for Internet users in Turkey.
In July 2014, Scribd was sued by Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind and a blind Vermont resident, for allegedly failing to provide access to blind readers, in violation of the Americans with Disability Act. Scribd moved to dismiss, arguing that the ADA only applied to physical locations. In March 2015, the U.S. District Court of Vermont ruled that the ADA covered online businesses as well. A settlement agreement was reached, with Scribd agreeing to provide content accessible to blind readers by the end of 2017.
To counteract the uploading of unauthorized content, Scribd created BookID, an automated copyright protection system that helps authors and publishers identify unauthorized use of their works on Scribd. This proprietary technology works by analyzing documents for semantic data, meta data, images, and other elements and creates an encoded "fingerprint" of the copyrighted work. BookID is available for free for authors and publishers whether or not they choose to make their content available through the Scribd platform.
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P-1A visas are granted to athletes or teams that are “internationally recognized.” This visa also allows non-professional athletes who participate at an internationally recognized level of performance; professional or amateur ice skaters performing for a theatrical production; and amateur athletes or coaches who perform in the highest level of amateur performance in their home country to enter the United States.
P-1B visa is granted to a person who is an essential part of an internationally recognized entertainment group. He or she must sustain and have a relationship with the group for at least a year.
How long can I stay in the US on this visa?
The athlete or team could stay in the United States for the duration of the season, itinerary, and contract, not exceeding one year.
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java singleton pattern, should all variables be class variables?
If a class implements a singleton pattern, should all the variables be declared static?
Is there any reason they shouldn't be declared static? Does it make a difference?
No. The singleton pattern just means that a single instance is the only instance -- it does not mean "make everything statically accessible".
The singleton pattern gives you all the benefits of a "single instance", without sacrificing the ability to test and refactor your code.
The point I'm trying to make is that there is a difference between how functionality should be consumed (which depends on context), and how functionality should be initialized.
It may be appropriate that in most cases your object will only ever have a single instance (for example, in your final production system). But there are also other contexts (like testing) that are made much more difficult if you force it to be the only choice.
Also, making something static has more significant implications than just "only one instance of my class should be accessible" -- which is usually the intention.
Further, in software I've worked on, the initialization and lifecycle of objects is often controlled by someone else (I'm talking about DI here) -- and making something static really doesn't help here.
In one common singleton pattern, you do not use statics. You code the class to use ordinary fields, you initialize in the constructor, and then you arrange to execute new MyClass() once, storing the results in some static place.
No, the only thing that is usually static is the reference to the singleton itself (and there are other ways to store that reference, too, such as JNDI or dependency injection containers).
The reason for not declaring fields as static (even though in a singleton pattern you will need only one instance of them) is that this gives you the flexibility to create another, slightly different instance of the normally singleton class. You may want to do that in special situations, such as for testing.
Even if you do not (think you) need that flexibility, there is no reason to give it up. Declaring a field as static has no benefits that you would lose.
I may at some point decide a singleton was a bad idea for that class and having class-level variables will make refactoring harder.
With object-level variables, they only come into existence when you instantiate the singleton. With class-level, they're always there.
Bottom line: I've never been able to think of a disadvantage to having them as object-level so that's how I do it. The above two disadvantages to class-level may be minuscule but they're there. It probably comes down to personal preference in the end.
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Would you lose a customer over 50 cents?
Would your business be willing to risk losing a customer over 50 cents? I know one that is.
I received a surprise when I reviewed the latest bank statement for one of my business accounts. My bank had imposed a mysterious 50 cent fee for something called "Currency Straps Ordered." It wasn't a lot of money, but I didn't want my bank to get in the habit of charging random fees, so I decided to give them a call.
You may already know what a Currency Strap is, but I had to do some digging to find out. It is a bundle of cash that has a paper "strap" around it to keep the bills together. Banks give them to businesses who work with cash. I've also seen them in quite a few action movies and spy thrillers when someone has a dufflebag full of cash.
My consulting business doesn't use currency straps, but I was still charged 50 cents for one. How?
I had visited my bank branch to deposit some checks into my account. At the end of the transaction, the teller had asked if there was anything else she could help me with. I realized I needed to get some tip money for an upcoming trip, so I asked her to give me change for a $20. Little did I know that this was considered a "currency strap" in the banking world. Gotcha!
The teller didn't advise me of the 50 cent charge, or I certainly would have gotten change elsewhere. It may be in the fine print of my banking agreement, but I don't remember seeing it. This fee was an unpleasant surprise.
It took 15 minutes on the phone with a customer service representative and then a branch manager to get to the bottom of this unexpected charge. To her credit, the branch manager quickly reversed the charge and was empathetic, but she also explained this was their corporate policy.
I'm now thinking of moving my accounts to another bank. It's not just the 50 cents, but all of the fees I've had to worry about avoiding lately. This bank clearly wants to make their money on fees, not service.
The only surprises your customers should ever receive are pleasant ones.
It's probably not worth Chase-ing a customer away for a lousy 50 cents.
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What are the Bundle of Rights?
The rights of use to a property that are owned by the owner or conveyed to the new buyer. In a general sense, we do not purchase a house, we purchase the right to use that house. Bundle of rights typically include the right to enter and use, sell, lease, give away or stop an individual/company from doing a certain thing.
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To calculate glass weight = 2.5kg per square meter per millimetre of thickness. i.e. 1 square metre of 4mm clear would be 1 x 4 x 2.5 = 10kg.
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At the same time, I am alarmed by the violence and destruction at some events, like when counter-protester Heather Heyer was murdered and 19 others injured during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August. As a city planner, I believe we have a responsibility to protect the right to peaceably assemble and encourage civic engagement by designing safe public places for protests and other free-speech demonstrations.
But while planning has the ability to foster productive protests, it can also have the opposite effect. Take for example the historic town square, which once functioned as a central meeting place where residents could gather, debate politics, and hold demonstrations. Many modern American cities have removed those spaces in favor of new development. Places like Gateway Park in my own city of Minneapolis were essentially reduced to large sidewalks to make way for vehicles, leaving little room for assembly and forcing demonstrators into roads. Other outdated planning principles have become obstacles to safe assembly, too, including disjointed public spaces, physical barriers like large water features or fixed seating that prohibit large crowds, and a lack of adherence to crime prevention through environmental design principles, reducing natural surveillance and lighting.
Instead of turning to planners to help solve this issue, Minnesota and other states are looking to legislation to fine protesters for blocking traffic. This is counterproductive to encouraging an engaged citizen base — and it treats people unequally. Many citizens are frequently without free, unrestricted access to spaces to assemble. Minneapolis, for example, does not have a public space owned by the city to hold demonstrations; property is held by the park board, regional government agencies, or private companies.
Planners must preserve and provide more spaces that can hold large public demonstrations. We can look to old and new examples across the U.S. for guidance. In San Francisco, the large Civic Center Plaza has been home to countless demonstrations throughout its long history, from the civil rights movement to the recent March for Our Lives protests. In the Midwest, Cleveland Public Square was redesigned after a $50 million-dollar project coinciding with the 2016 Republican National Convention. It now serves as a hub for political and social activities, including protests against elected leaders.
Creating places to accommodate these activities is not difficult, but it requires intentional design. Spaces in high-traffic areas with residential and commercial uses create more eyes on the space, while simple design decisions like retractable bollards can provide flexibility and increase safety. Materials like paving systems can delineate different zones of activity to help organize pedestrian traffic during a protest. Established cities might think they don't have the space for this, but look at what New York City did in 2009: It reclaimed Times Square from vehicles and gave the space back to pedestrians, and since, it's been the home of dozens of activist demonstrations.
As planners, we spend so much time trying to figure out why we cannot get residents involved in municipal plans, projects, and politics, but at the same time, we fail to provide space for civic engagement to naturally occur. Planners are uniquely situated to help design these spaces to ensure they are equitable and open to all citizens. It is our job to provide spaces and opportunities for residents to get involved and participate in their cities without fear for their safety or threat of legal repercussions.
This article was originally published in the July issue of Planning Magazine.
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Pete Kuykendall (1938 to 2017) was an American 'bluegrass' musician and songwriter. Peter Van Kuykendall was born in Washington DC, USA, on January 15th 1938, and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He attended Washington–Lee High School, and was an avid record collector from a young age. While his mother was a piano teacher, he himself played clarinet in his junior and high school concert bands, and he would very often listen to 'country' and 'bluegrass' music on the 'WARL', 'WGAY' and 'WWVA' radio stations. He learned to play all the 'bluegrass' instruments, but his primary instrument became the five-string banjo, which he played as a member of 'The Country Gentlemen' from 1958 to 1959. After high school, Kuykendall studied at the Capitol Radio and Electronics Institute (CREI) and was a deejay for 'WKIK' in Leonardtown, Maryland, as well as for 'WFCR' in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from CREI, he got married and worked for a short time as a recording division technician in the Library of Congress, transferring recordings from fragile discs and cylinders to magnetic tape. He also worked as a broadcast technician at 'WETA-TV 26' in Washington DC. He then built Wynwood Recording Studio in the basement of his house in Falls Church, Virginia, and recorded Mississippi John Hurt there in 1964, plus many other 'blues', 'bluegrass' and 'country music' performers over the years. Kuykendall also produced several albums for his old group 'The Country Gentlemen', including "Nashville Jail" in 1964. In the late 1950s, he wrote several articles and discographies for "Disc Collector" magazine focussing on the careers of Bill Monroe, 'Reno and Smiley', 'Flatt and Scruggs' and the 'Stanley Brothers'. He also composed and arranged songs, often using his stage name 'Pete Roberts', some of which became standards in 'bluegrass', including "Down Where The Still Waters Flow", "I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)" (used in the soundtrack of the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou", and featured here), "Journey's End", "No Blind Ones There", "Out On The Ocean", "Remembrance Of You" and "Rollin' Stone". As well as owning his studio, he also ran the publishing company 'Wynwood Music'. Kuykendall was a co-founder of "Bluegrass Unlimited" magazine in 1966, and in 1970 became its editor, also writing many articles for it. He and the magazine staff went on to produce the Indian Springs Bluegrass Festival near Hagerstown, Maryland, on seventeen occasions. Pete Kuykendall died in his sleep at a nursing facility in Warrenton, Virginia, on August 24th 2017, aged 79.
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Perimeter and grounds security The first line of safety for a government institution is the physical barrier that controls, and limits, access to the grounds. This can include fencing, gates and security cameras. Access control systems that allow for remote monitoring from a central location ensure that all visitor access is controlled.
Main entrances The main entrance may include a physical access component through an automated door opening such as an automatic sliding, revolving or swinging door. Electronic access control systems can be added to tailor security levels to suit different times. They can also be integrated with surveillance cameras and security systems controlled from a central point, logging the details of visitors who have entered.
Administrative areas Essential to maintaining everyday operations, administrative environments such as offices and storage facilities require specialized products such as master key systems to prevent unauthorized keys and logical access solutions to allow access to networks or information. From high-security deadlocks on secure storerooms to padlocks for lockers, all products need to be strong and robust.
Asset tracking Intelligent key cabinets and lockers easily integrated into wider access control solutions deliver additional protection through real-time audit-trails, tagging, and traceability of the facility’s most important assets..
Emergency exits An emergency exit or panic exit device must allow fast and efficient evacuation during emergency circumstances, and but still remain an important part of the building’s primary security by restricting access or ensuring entry at all other times. Stringent requirements for emergency evacuation and fire safety mean there is a high demand for security and steel doors.
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Question: What bread is good for French toast, other than white bread?
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If there are only five steps to becoming self employed, why doesn’t everyone do it? Here’s the thing: everyone can become self employed if they have discipline, drive, and the ability to overcome some tough working situations. Learn how to find self employment opportunities, and find success.
There may be five steps that lead to self employment, but everything hinges on one simple skill: the ability to find work. Through self-promotion, die-hard job seeking, ad placing or a combination of efforts, everyone who wants to succeed as an independent contractor has to succeed at finding paying customers. Learn how to make the process a little easier.
Obviously, the first step to becoming self employed is to have a resume that highlights skills, education and experience in the professional’s chosen field. It does very little good to start any type of job hunting without having a great resume ready, so get one ready!
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Great essay by Ted Nordhaus and Alex Trembath which goes agains both climate alarmism and ignorance, but paints a realistic, pragmatic perspective on a manageable future, that demands radical steps nevertheless: Is Climate Change like Diabetes or an Asteroid?
Diabetes is not benign. It is not a “natural” phenomena and it can’t be cured. It is a condition that, if unmanaged, can kill you. And even for those who manage it well, life is different than before diabetes.
But at three or four degrees of warming, all bets are off. And it appears that unmanaged, that’s where present trends in emissions are likely to take us. Moreover, even with radical action, stabilizing emissions at 1.5 degrees C, as many advocates now demand, is not possible without either solar geoengineering or sucking carbon emissions out of the atmosphere at massive scale. Practically, given legacy emissions and committed infrastructure, the long-standing international target of limiting temperature increase to two degrees C is also extremely unlikely.
It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity: It isn’t hyperbole to say that fossil-fuel executives are mass murderers. We should put them on trial for crimes against humanity.
Temperaturanstieg in der Arktis lässt sich nicht mehr aufhalten: Selbst wenn die Ziele des Pariser Klimaschutzabkommens umgesetzt werden: Die Temperaturen in der Arktis werden laut Uno bis 2050 um mindestens drei Grad Celsius steigen.
England could run short of water within 25 years: The country is facing the ‘‘jaws of death”, Sir James Bevan said, at the point where water demand from the country’s rising population surpasses the falling supply resulting from climate change.
Pigeons With Tiny Backpacks Are Gathering Climate Data Now: Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom have developed a tiny set of sensors that can be strapped onto the backs of pigeons. Rick Thomas, the research fellow who leads the project, uses the birds to collect data on urban microclimates—the block-by-block variations in temperature, humidity, and winds that affect living conditions in major cities.
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Great technique is something we all want! How to get faster fingers? Not necessarily by just practicing slowly, and certainly never from just practicing fast. The key is to figure out which finger connection is not working, where the stumbling block is, and how to smooth that over. Some of my favorite ways to fix problems are: 1. Playing a passage at tempo, then decreasing the tempo so as you repeat, it gets slower each time 2. Red Light/ Green Light practice: Play one beat plus a note and then stop, start on the next beat plus a note and stop, etc, 3. Play the phrase from the last pair of notes flawlessly, and add one more note working to the beginning of the phrase, so now you are playing 3 notes, etc, until the whole passage is played. Notice how many of these solutions involve breaking it down into smaller sections! Look in the mirror to 'see' the fingers that are out of synchronization. For piccolo, make sure to pick up the fingers a bit more since the instrument is smaller: adding more curve to the fingers. These tips should help you get your fingers flying!
Vibrato is a characteristic of flute tone, and styles of vibrato change with general shifts in musical taste. If my ear is drawn directly to vibrato, there is usually some kind of problem: maybe the vibrato is forced (produced with a closed throat) or it is too wide and disturbs the pitch. Tasteful vibrato often depends on the musical result desired, but in general, vibrato is integral to the tone itself. It enhances the beauty of the tone and does not draw attention to itself. Vibrato gives spin, color and motion to the more static notes: i.e, we don't generally vibrate on moving 16th notes. I find a slightly more shallow vibrato that is also a bit slower is useful to aid projection in tutti orchestral passages: a more tightly wound vibrato is less appropriate in this circumstance. And sometimes on big tutti chords, no vibrato is the correct choice.
Think of vibrato as a musical paintbrush and apply different intensities according to the musical demands.
There are lots of pedagogical articles advocating 'the right way' to sit and stand. It is always interesting to note that most players never consciously think about their posture in the creative moment: what is practiced every day just happens as a matter of muscle memory. When we teach, we need to remind students about ergonomics so that they learn how to sit/stand in the most efficient and relaxed manner when they practice and perform. For lesson and solo performances , as well as daily practice, standing is the preferred stance. Rather than focusing on which foot to place forward, I like to find a comfortable, tall balanced posture: relaxed and efficient. You must consider all the angles of the arms, head, neck, flute and torso. The legs and feet need to support the body weight. There are plenty of options for 'correct' posture that work, and lots of players change stance (shifting foot placement) mid way thru a performance. When seated, it's all about finding the correct angle of arms, neck, head, flute, and torso, with the additional angle created at the hip joint. Hyperextension of the lower back is not desired when sitting. Keep reminding your students about good posture at every lesson so that their bodies learn great position naturally without paying attention to dogmatic ideas. Consider Alexander Technique or Body Mapping to become more aware of these issues in your own playing. Use a mirror, and encourage students to listen to their bodies so they can 'self correct'.
There is an art to effective practice. Accomplishing goals will be assured with good planning. A good teacher needs to help students learn how to practice at an age/skill appropriate level. For beginners, this may mean helping them remember to practice 5 times a week by keeping a practice chart. I like to require beginners to discuss their progress each week. It does not take long for students to see that the weeks where they make the most progress are the weeks where they were being the most consistent with their practice. Time management strategies are helpful for busy college students often juggling the demands of work and student life. Blocking out 4 separate one hour practices is as effective if not MORE so, than a single 4 hour practice room marathon session. Adult amateurs often face roadblocks to practice time because of the demands of their busy lives, or often a fear of failure, so helping them learn to love the creative time of practice is key. Progress = Practice! For each level, and for each student, there is a key to help them unlock their creative potential.
Be a teachable student! Come to all your lessons prepared and with a willingness to explore and learn. I'm always amazed by the number of students whose main contribution to lessons are excuses as to why they have not completed their preparation. It is easier than EVER to prepare: there are free downloads of scores, youtube offers free videos of almost any performance worldwide and you can bring your music with you on your ipod , tablet or smartphone to study wherever you go! Digital downloads are almost instantaneous. I remember going to the library to get scores and purchasing CD's, which were quite a luxury on a college student's budget. Becoming the musician you desire to be starts NOW and with everything you do. Bring questions to your lesson, and bring opinions too. After all, lively discussions can only happen if each person brings something to the table. Be excited to learn and keep that fire through all your practice sessions. Work, grow, explore, improve and create.....becoming an artist means being a good apprentice first.
It seems quite ironic that we always need to spend a good amount of time playing slowly and carefully in order to build up to breathtaking speeds in technical passages. Remember that you need to establish muscle memory and starting slowly is the sure pathway to success. But, play mindfully so that you are fully engaged. ALWAYS play smaller sections and try playing them in different octaves (for example if it's a low register passage, try playing in the middle register since the fingerings are mostly the same), Try playing the passage from right to left: all these tools can help 'wake up' the brain and fingers and lead you to success. When going for the final push of fast tempos, I try the 'add a note' method: play two notes in the passage at tempo, repeat several times, then three notes, repeat, until you have a full beat's worth of notes. Then add on the next beat's worth in similar fashion. And if you make an error, really analyze WHY it happened: until you figure out what went wrong, you might be frustrated and keep repeating the error. Building reliable and sparkling technique is the result of careful and deliberate work!
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Perez Prado : Big band charts from the Perez Prado Orchestra.
A range of big band arrangements made famous by Perez Prado and his orchestra.
Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban band leader, organist, pianist and composer who became known as "King of the Mambo". Although a native of Cuba, he moved to Mexico in 1949, formed his own band and signed with RCA Victor. He quickly rose to prominence, helped in part by Sonny Burke's reworking and subsequent release of "Qué rico el mambo" as "Mambo Jambo". and toured extensively in the United States. Perez Prado's style differed from earlier Mambo concepts. It was written for a bigger, brassier orchestra and featured catchy musical counterpoint between reeds and brass, plus Prado's now famous grunts that he injected into many of his recordings.
Which famous charts might you know?
Prado's best known charts include "Guaglione", "Mambo Jambo", "Patricia", "Cerezo Rosa" - also known as "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" - and "La Cucaracha".
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Running Time: 2 hours 9 minutes.
I decided to do the studio recording as well because it is slightly different and why not. This will obviously be much shorter.
The experiment is for me to compare how I review this recording to my previous review of the same opera. Is it the score or the recording that determines the star-ratings?
Scene 1: A forest clearing near a spring.
0: The prelude ** is shimmeringly beautiful and does not include the choral prologue. Although long, almost five minutes, it does not feel its length. One of the themes is the love theme which recurs a lot and develops as the opera progresses.
4: The first vocal music is the hunting chorus *.
6: Eteri’s sad song **. It consists of a single movement and is followed by a repeat of the hunting chorus as Abesalom and Murman comes upon her.
12, 18: Abesalom’s first address to Eteri ** is rather nice, I like how not shrill the tenor is. Murman interjects and Eteri confronts Abesalom. The number climaxes in a trio **. The scene ends with Murman storming out and a slightly-Rossinian system of battery chords.
Scene 2: Somewhere near Eteri’s dwelling (?).
25: After a joyous interlude Abesalom declares that he will marry Eteri. She responds nicely but the real flowering of the number occurs when they sing simultaneously **.
27: Murman’s aria *** in which he bemoans the fact that Eteri will never love him, is oddly noble considering what he will do.
0: The act opens with a long but energetic choral sequence for the courtiers awaiting the wedding ceremony ** which is interspersed with orchestral interludes. The royal procession to the Cathedral sounds like it’s from the soundtrack of a Cecil B. DeMille bible epic, but not a bad piece at all if not all that long (two minutes). The chorus gets back into gear, first males then females then both. The king makes his address.
12, 17: The first quintet ***, a beautifully delicate but short piece, is followed by more lush orchestral and choral interludes until a toast is given by a tenor soloist followed by the second quintet *** which is even more beautiful and full of distinctly Georgian rhythms. It is also much longer. It ends abruptly.
19: A reference to the love theme which will return at the end of the opera appears at this point * as Murman presents his wedding gift for Eteri (a neckless, but an enchanted one which causes her to become ill).
22: Abesalom’s sister Princess Marekh entertains with a mild little song *.
25: The ballet *** a series of Georgian dances. For once a totally authentic ballet! It ends the act with Eteri’s collapse.
0: After a brief but noble instrumental introduction we have Abesalom’s sobering aria about the state of Eteri’s health *. It has a surprisingly bel canto effect in the vocal line.
8: Female courtiers arrive with Eteri, they really don’t do much but the melody in the orchestra is quite lovely *. Abesalom makes a strong break out and engages in a dialogue with his mother and sister. Eteri needs to find treatment outside of the palace. Murman gives his advice (obviously to further his own designs on Eteri).
13, 16: A beautiful ensemble which seems to be based on a folk melody wells up ***. Abesalom makes the painful decision to allow Eteri to go with Murman (more love theme a very strong moment ***).
19: The high drama of the act finale ***. The orchestra fades out.
0: The act begins with a lovely aria con coro **.
4, 9: The arrival of Abesalom *, the love theme returns. His duet with Murman takes a while to warm up. But when it does it is nice **.
11: Suddenly there is a happy theme and a second duet for the two men ***.
19: The dialogue between Abesalom and his mother leads to a duet between her and Eteri with a hauntingly beautiful tune ***.
23: Marekh gives us another of her songs, this time better *** and eventually joined by Eteri in a joyous duet and finally a quartet with the Queen and a tenor nobleman (not Abesalom).
25: Watch for the love theme as the opera turns into the finale. Two parts, first a beautiful eight minute death scene for Abesalom ***. It starts off almost in the same way as the comic quartet but rapidly takes a turn for the romantic. Apart from a single glowing melody which will end the opera, it almost sounds like a Verdi-style ensemble. Abesalom dies.
33: The remainder of the opera, about six minutes, consists of Eteri’s suicide, death, and the musical resolution of the work, *** of course as it ends on that miraculous love theme, split by– that Georgian polyphonic chorus! I will never get enough of that theme! I wish I were Georgian just because of this one golden melody! I cried.
This is, generally, the most performed Georgian opera in any given year and annually opens the National Opera in Tbilisi. This year it is in fact the only Georgian opera being performed according to OperaBase, although a few years ago it was overtaken by another Paliashvili opera Daisi (Twilight) which was his second opera from 1921.
Generally speak, the results were the same or close to the same but there were some exceptions where some numbers got higher or lower ratings. This had to do with the singing and instrumental quality but also the way in which the nuances of the score are more clearing brought out in the studio recording. An extremely beautiful A?
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"A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god".
"Un quadro è finito quando ha l'ombra di un dio".
"A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished".
"Un quadro è finito quando l'artista dice che è finito".
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Waking up in a strange room, Natalie finds herself disoriented. In fact, her name is only a thought. Even her face is a mystery, so she looks into the mirror to discover a young woman with short brown hair and brown eyes. Where is she? And why can't she recall the simplest of details? She is further perplexed by her enormous, pregnant belly.
Searching for clues, Natalie combs through closets and shelves, hoping to connect with something... anything. But when she settles on a child's play room, and begins to explore a toy train set, she is transported to another realm, where wild storms and vast bodies of water engulf her. She hears words from an unknown source telling her about the trials she must face... trials that will have an impact on many. But is she up for the task?
The natural forest setting, and the whimsical songs offered a magical backdrop, which was initially quite lovely! However, too much attention was given to the songs and descriptives, which began to feel repetitive as the story progressed. Conversely, not enough attention was given to character development, or to important plot points surrounding the meaning and significance of the trials.
Certain aspects of the story felt underdeveloped and awkward. Further, the move to have Natalie look into a mirror to have her physical features described to the reader could have been handled differently. In order for the story to make sense, the author had to spell out what was going on, by way of a new character presented near the end. Still, the concept was unique, and the other realm was imaginative and vivid.
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News broadcasting is the broadcasting of various news events and other information via television or radio. The content is usually either produced locally in a newsroom, or by a broadcast network. It may also include such additional material as sports coverage, weather forecasts, traffic reports, commentary and other material that the broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience.
Television news refers to disseminating current events via the medium of television. "News bulletins" or "newscasts" are programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on world, national, regional or local news events. Television news is very image-based, showing video of many of the events that are reported. Television channels may provide news bulletins as part of a regularly scheduled news program. Less often, television shows may be interrupted or replaced by "news flashes" to provide news updates on current events of great importance or sudden events of great importance.
Cable news refers to channels which are devoted to current events 24 hours per day. The originator of this format from which the name derives is CNN (as well as CNN International and CNN-IBN), which originally stood for cable news network in reference to the then-new phenomenon of cable television. As satellite and other forms have evolved, the term cable news has become something of an anachronism but is still in common use; many other channels have since been established, such as BBC World News, BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera, France 24, STAR News, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Press TV, teleSUR and ABC News Now. Some news channels specialize even further, such as ESPNews (sports from ESPN), CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Fox Business Network (financial).
A term which has entered common parlance to differentiate cable news from traditional news broadcasts is network news, in reference to the traditional television networks on which such broadcasts air. A classic example is the cable news channel MSNBC, which overlaps with (and, in the case of breaking world-changing events, pre-empts) its network counterpart NBC News.
The world's first dedicated 24-hour news channels were BBC World News and CNN.
Radio news is the same as television news but is transmitted through the medium of the radio. It is more based on the audio aspect rather than the visual aspect. Sound bites are captured through various reporters and played back through the radio. News updates occur more often on the radio than on the television - usually about once or twice an hour.
At most news/talk radio stations, newscasts run from :00-:06 minutes after the top of each hour. Some stations produce the entire six minutes on their own. Others begin with a network newscast, which covers national and world news, followed by a 2- or 3-minute local newscast. Most of the time, time is taken out of the news "window" for commercials and a weather forecast. In larger cities, traffic reports are also included. Some stations do traffic only during rush hour while others cover traffic around the clock.
Local TV news stations normally broadcast 3-4 times a day: 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning; noon; 5:00 and 6:00 in the evening; and 10:00 or 11:00 at night. Some stations carry newscasts at 7:00, 8:00, 11:00 or 11:30 in the morning or 4:00 or 4:30 in the afternoon. Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like "Daybreak," "Good Morning (insert city here)," "Live at Five," "Eleven @ 11:00," or "Nightcast." These names are intended to set one station apart from the rest, especially for viewers who are chosen for audience measurement surveys. If the respondent was unable to provide a channel number or call letters, the newscast title is often enough for the appropriate station to receive Nielsen ratings credit.
Radio station newscasts can range from as little as a minute to as much as the station's entire schedule, such as the case of all-news radio.
More often, AM stations will air a 6 1/2 minute newscast on the top of the hour, which can be either a local report, a national report from a radio network such as CBS Radio or ABC Radio, or a mix of both local and national content, including weather and traffic reports. Some stations also air a two minute report at the bottom of the hour.
In some parts of the world there are 'rolling news' TV channels that broadcast news 24 hours a day, such as CNN in the United States or BBC News in the United Kingdom. Many news reports presented on the Internet are updated 24 hours a day.
Newscasts consist of several different elements, introduced by a news presenter or presenters. The presenters read 'links' and do interviews.
Most news stories come in the form of short 'packages'. These are pre-recorded reports usually lasting from one to five minutes. News reporters gather and edit together interview clips, pictures and their own 'pieces to camera' to tell a story. They script and record a 'voice-over' to explain the pictures and link the elements together.
Some stories are done as live reports. This can be a reporter on the scene of a story either being interviewed by a studio presenter (sometimes known as a 'two-way'), a reporter interviewing one or more other people, or simply live pictures and sound of an event. The sound and pictures are sent back to the TV station via fixed cable links, bounced off a satellite through a satellite truck, or sent through microwave radio transmissions from a vehicle carrying a microwave transmitter. With the growth of "rolling news" channels the use , with help of the technical director, floor director and a crew of people running audio, graphics, telepromptor, and cameras. Most news shows are broadcast live.
The invention of telecommunications and broadcasting has resulted in "the uncoupling of space and time." Spatial distanciation no longer required temporal distanciation. Information can be transmitted over long distances with hardly any delay.
Broadcasting, especially news programs, have changed the way we perceive many people, ideas, jobs, etc.
^ Thompson, John (1995). The Media and Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 19.
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Finally! I got to where so long wanted .
National Park Torres del Paine - one of the most famous wildlife sanctuaries of the planet and one of its most beautiful places. It is the main tourist trump Chile and , in fact, for him , and people come here . Not all , of course , but most certainly . Statistics did not collect himself , but if in 2005 it was visited by over 2 million people , now the figure is many times more (though debatable ) . In the park you can get , in my opinion , of any city in South America. The question will be only in price and time. Directly connected with the park city of Puerto Natales, which though has an airport , but apparently not so much to serve large aircraft . It can be reached only by car or bus . If you choose the bus , the important thing is now to find the right city to ensure that all was not so expensive.
If you arrive in Buenos Aires , the best choice - the city of El Calafate, because he belongs to Argentina and you will not have to change trains in the capital of Chile - Santiago. There you can catch in 5 hours to go to the Perito Moreno Glacier 's tracking or in the capital area - El Chalten town with its famous Mount Fitzroy .
Border of Argentina and Chile in the south of South America overlap a bit strange (apparently gave Argentina Chile all mountain areas, and himself took the plains of Patagonia ) . Therefore , the choice of returning to the city for the flight, you need to choose the city of the country in which you are. For example, a flight from Ushuaia to Punta Arenas Santiago passes through ! and it is such a great hook , and, accordingly, the price of tickets .
Generally , South America cheaper just to fly through Buenos Aires . Santiago until the ticket is not as expensive as if you were taking it directly from Moscow to transfer in Europe, and Uruguay to reach - 200km . You can buy a ticket for $ 50 on a large ferry Buquebus and 4 hours to reach the capital - Montevideo . Well, it's like who and what .
Generally, coming to Puerto Natales , and the entire city center consists of restaurants and offices of different travel agencies. Applying into the first - and you immediately sell bus ticket . Ticket with free time . On it you can once get to the park and out of the park .
Normal bus departure time - 14:30 . Go 2-4 hours. Why so ? I do not know - it is written on the ticket that the journey time of 4 hours and arrived 2 .
City , in principle, no longer what is not needed, except for a transshipment base for tourists. Though so if you count that such unnecessary and towns in Russia overall. And then stagger on it with tremendous tourists backpacks and photographed. The main attention is focused on the city bus station. It was from there buses to the north - in Calafate and the South - in Torres del Paine , Punta Arenas .
In Chile, I just did not like the food , and the atmosphere after Argentina chtoli some more conservative . Dollars do not take currency is considered almost in the thousands. $ 1 - 500 Chilean pesos . Somehow without scope.
In the middle of the road , the bus stops at the cafe and shop with food.
In the park , it is desirable to come with their tents and sleeping bags , because overnight at Refugio costs about $ 50 per night and about $ 20 for breakfast , and then they need to walk more , and sometimes it can be tiring to climb the mountains , the legs and was not listening well , if there's a place for camping. Yes, the beds at Refugio is not much and you can easily run out of them .
The rules of the park says that should not be installed outside the tent camping .
If you do not take it with no tents, no sleeping bag , then you can safely take it all for rent .
Entrance to the park - about 40 U.S. dollars. You are given a map, which shows the popular routes and time of their passage .
The park is beautiful , but not everywhere . For the most part it looks like any other mountain -plain areas.
Entangled in the Torres del Paine will not work - the rocky path traced well of grassy areas . Also many pointers (there's even a pointer to the direction of motion for horses ) . Yes, you can navigate in the park on horseback , but it is expensive .
In the mountains met compatriot - Dmitri. He's already a year traveling in South America , and the park was already 7 days and visited the most remote places.
Here Refugio Cuernos. The beds are not hard and not soft . Sleeping bag still needs to be covered - at night is pretty cool and the outdoor temperature drops to 0 degrees.
Besides the mountains and lakes in the park to photograph nothing. Well, if only the guanaco , but the park itself is rare to find them - only on departure.
But so look campsites .
Then you can see the area damaged by fire not long ago. Israeli citizen , made a fire in the wrong place and eventually burned very large area of the park. The result - took the 3.5 years + state paid compensation in Chile restoration of the park for its citizens .
Showed pictures , after which it was decided not to go there , because they were absolutely not something for which I came here .
I wanted to see the lake Pehoe, whose photos adorn many posters and posters in various magazines . And I saw him, precisely in the color scheme , in which he wanted.
And as I have said in previous posts , glacial lakes of Patagonia begin to glow blue during inclement weather .
While I went to the lake and saw the same catamaran dovozit tourists to the other side where there is a bus stop.
Buses stop at the park in 3 places and you can choose any .
Yes, Chile mysterious country, at least in the Torres del Paine special puzzles I have not noticed. Liked alpine lake. Water in it, probably, very clean, although it is unlikely to temperatures suitable for bathing. But there has fabulous scenery, though, on the edge of the light differently and can not be. Pro-Israeli arsonist - it's certainly something. Imagine sure which sounds it - to come this far and go to jail because of your fire here so out of control. I was thinking, God forbid there be lost. Unprepared tourists in Patagonia will be very difficult. Despite this, I would gladly visited Torres del Paine, would visit local parks and lakes. I know that in Peru there are also high-altitude lakes, but they are there are even higher. And in general, if you do not know what it is Chile, then for some pics you'd think it was some of Ireland or the north of Scotland, and even Iceland. There is also a similar nature, only vegetation is a little different. And the houses there are also similar to some Scandinavian hinterland. Generally, it becomes clear why 9 years ago Torres del Paine visited many as two million people. For the sake of such beauty money do not mind. Been there, and will certainly be something to remember.
For some time now my husband the opportunity to live for yourself. For this is the time and, well, of course, means that are necessary for any trip to any country. Travel to South America, we have included in their immediate plans. Especially because the area attracts its beautiful places. Read a lot about Chile, watched videos about this country but unfortunately did not have the opportunity to visit her, to see firsthand its natural protected areas, which is famous in Chile, including its National Park Torres del Paine. Know about him, and have seen many times, but only on the materials travelers who've been there. I would like us to himself and there pobyvat.Hochetsya visit the mountain lake. Like I've met in Kazakhstan, Tien Shan mountains. Went to the mountains and Lake Issyk admired that resembles the color of the lake Pehoe. The place is very beautiful - just a fairy tale. Photos of you very, very cool, look at them, read to your information about this trip, and just really want to definitely visit these incredibly beautiful place. I think that we soon realize his dream into reality.
I always dreamed of going to South America, do not know why this continent attracts me like a magnet. Have the opportunity to visit such beautiful places, such as the national park Torres del Paine, Chile, which is, I believe it would be the greatest happiness for me. Frankly, the first pictures I did not like. City some dark and empty, there is something missing. Subsequent photos just gorgeous, they are dazzling. Is our land there are some wonderful places, like a fairy tale? And what a mountain! Now I understand why there are so many tourists gathers, I think that feeling of all seen simply unrealistic. Of course, live in Refugio expensive there take fifty dollars per night, breakfast and twenty dollars, so kudos to the author for advice to take a sleeping bag or tent ... But here the question arises - how to sleep in his tent safely? I'm honestly a little afraid, though, if we assume that you will go to the National Park Torres del Paine not one becomes calmer. I would like, taking with him a husband. Although he is certainly not a fan of wanderings. Husband laughs, says that I get lost in two meters, doubts that I was not lost in the mountainous and plain areas, but I did not listen, as trampled paths, which can be easy to navigate, will point the right way. I can imagine how clean the air in the national park Torres del Paine, how cool to enjoy it and absorb health. After living in the city to breathe exhaust fumes from cars, and it certainly can not be useful. I wonder whether there is in these places poisonous animals, snakes, for example? I'm terribly afraid of this, I would like to be assured that you will not meet on the road some creeping muck. I hope that those are not there. Lake struck by its beauty. The water is like a marble, the photographs such views are simply fascinating. Surely, they can not catch fish and swim as a national park, or is it possible? Watching Refugio Cuernos, we note that in the house all decorated modestly, but has everything to feel comfortable. It is wooden, with comfortable beds. I loved the photos of the author, they are just gorgeous, it would be great to see them, I hope that someday my dream fulfilled and I still see the national park Torres del Paine with their own eyes.
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Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as head of the State. The British constitution, unlike those of most countries, is not set out [излагать] in a single document. Instead it is made up of a combination of laws and practices which are not legally enforceable [могущий быть принудительно осуществленным в судебном порядке], but which are regarded as vital to the working of government.
The stablility of the British government owes much to the monarchy. Its continuity has been interrupted only once (the republic of 1649-60) in over a thousand years.
Today the Queen is not only the head of State, but also an important symbol of national unity. Her complete official royal title is 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms [королевство] and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith' [защитница веры], but she is usually referred to as Her Royal Highness or Queen Elizabeth.
According to the law the Queen is head of the executive branch of the government, an integral part of the legislature, head of the judiciary, the commander-in-chief of all the armed forces of the Crown and the 'supreme governor' of the established Church of England [англиканская церковь]. While that sounds like a lot of responsibility, the real power of the monarchy has been steadily reduced over the years to the point where the Queen is uninvolved in the day-to-day operation of the government. She is impartial and acts only on the advice of her ministers.
The Queen, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles and the other members of the royal family take part in traditional ceremonies, visit different parts of Britain and many other countries and are closely involved in the work of many charities.
Parliament, Britain's legislature, is made up of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Queen in her constitutional role. They meet together only on occasions of ceremonial significance, such as the state opening of Parliament, although the agreement of all three is normally required for legislation.
The House of Commons consists of 659 elected members called Members of Parliament or MPs. Election to the House of Commons is an important part of Britain's democratic system. The main purpose of the House of Commons is to make laws by passing Acts of Parliament, as well as to discuss current political issues.
The House of Lords currently consists of 688 non-elected members (hereditary peers [наследственный пэр] and peeresses [супруга пэра, леди], life peers [пожизненный пэр] and peeresses and two archbishops and 24 senior bishops of the established Church [государственная церковь, официально признана государством и частично финансируется им] of England). Its main legislative function is to examine and revise bills from the Commons, but the Lords cannot normally prevent proposed legislation from become law if the Commons insists on it. It also acts as the final court of appeal. In recent years the House of Lords has undergone a process of reform to make it more democratic and representative. As a first step, the rights of some 750 hereditary peers to sit and vote in Parliament solely on the basis that they inherited their seats were removed. The remaining 92 Hereditary peers are allowed to sit temporarily in the transitional chamber until the full reform programme is in place. The next phase of the House of Lords reform would remove the remaining hereditary peers and create a partly-elected upper house.
The center of parliamentary power is the House of Commons. Limitations on the power of the Lords is based on the principle that the Lords should complement [служить дополнением до целого] the Commons and not rival [соперничать] it. Once passed through both Houses, legislation requires the Royal Assent [королевская санкция, санкция монарха (одобрение монархом законопроекта [bill], принятого обеими палатами парламента, после чего законопроект становится законом [act of Parliament])] to become law.
Parliament has a number of ways to exert control [осуществлять надзор] over the executive branch. Parliamentary committees [парламентский комитет] question ministers and civil servants before preparing reports on matters of public policy and issues can be debated before decisions are reached. However, ultimate power rests in the ability of the House of Commons to force the government to resign by passing a resolution of 'no confidence' [недоверие]. The government must also resign if the House rejects a proposal so vital to its policy that it has made it a matter of confidence [конфиденциальный вопрос; материал, не подлежащий оглашению]. The proceedings [работа] of both Houses of Parliament are broadcast on television and radio, sometimes live or more usually in recorded and edited form.
General elections are held after Parliament has been 'dissolved', either by a royal proclamation [королевская декларация (официальное сообщение по общенациональному вопросу; , о созыве или роспуске парламента [Parliament], об объявлении войны, о заключении мира)] or because the maximum term between elections - five years - has expired. The decision on when to hold a general election is made by the Prime Minister.
For electoral purposes Britain is divided into constituencies, each of which returns one MP to the House of Commons. MPs are elected by the relative majority method - sometimes called the 'first past the post' principle - which means the candidate with more votes than any other is elected.
In elections to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly [национальное собрание] for Wales and the European Parliament in 1999, forms of proportional representation (PR) were used for the first time in Great Britain. PR was also used in the 1998 elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly [ассамблея Северной Ирландии]. Northern Ireland has used a version of PR in European Parliament elections since 1979.
All British citizens together with citizens of other Commonwealth countries and citizens of the Irish Republic resident in Britain may vote, provided they are aged 18 years or over and not legally barred from [запрещать; исключать] voting. People not entitled to vote include those serving prison sentences, peers and peeresses who are members of the House of Lords, and those kept in hospital under mental health legislation [законодательство по охране психического здоровья].
Voting is by secret ballot. At a general election the elector selects just one candidate on the ballot paper and marks an 'X' by the candidate's name. Voting in elections is voluntary. In the June 2001 general election 59.4 per cent of the electorate voted, compared with 72 per cent in 1997.
Any person aged 21 or over who is a British citizen or citizen of another Commonwealth country or the Irish Republic may stand for election to Parliament, provided they are not disqualified. People disqualified include those who are bankrupt, those sentenced to more than one year's imprisonment, members of the clergy, members of the House of Lords, and a range of public servants and officials. Approved candidates are usually selected by their political party organisations in the constituency which they represent, although candidates do not have to have party backing.
The leader of the political party which wins most seats (although not necessarily most votes) at a general election, or who has the support of a majority of members in the House of Commons, is by convention invited by the Sovereign to form the new government.
The political party system is essential to the working of the constitution. Although the parties are not registered or formally recognized in law, most candidates for election belong to one of the main parties. Since 1945 eight general elections have been won by the Conservative Party and six by the Labour Party. A number of smaller parties have national and local organizations outside Parliament, and are also represented in local government.
The Government is formed by the party with majority support in the Commons. The Queen appoints its leader as Prime Minister. As head of the Government the Prime Minister appoints about 100 ministers. About 20 ministers make up the Cabinet, the senior group making the major policy decisions. Ministers are collectively responsible for government decisions and individually responsible for their own departments. The second largest party forms the official Opposition, with its own leader and 'shadow cabinet'. The Opposition has a duty to challenge [оспаривать] government policies and to present an alternative program.
Policies are carried out by government departments and executive agencies staffed by politically neutral civil servants. Over half the Civil Service, about 295,000 civil servants, work in over 75 executive agencies. Agencies perform many of the executive functions of the government, such as the payment of social security benefits [пособия по социальному обеспечению] and the issuing of passports and drivers' licences. Agencies are headed by chief executives responsible for their performance and who enjoy considerable freedom on financial, pay and personnel matters.
England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have their own legal systems, with minor differences in law, organization and practice.
Law enforcement [обеспечение правопорядка] is carried out by 52 locally based police departments [полицейский участок] with about 160,000 police officers. The police are normally unarmed and there are strict limits to police powers of arrest. Firearms must be licensed and their possession is regulated.
In British criminal trials the accused in presumed innocent until proven guilty. Trials are in open court and the accused is represented by a lawyer. Most cases are tried before lay justices [мировой судья] sitting without a jury. The more serious cases are tried in the higher courts before a jury of 12 (15 in Scotland) which decides guilt or innocence.
The civil law of England, Wales and Northern Ireland covers business related to the family, property, contracts and torts (wrongful acts [противоправное, незаконное деяние; деликт] suffered by one person at the hands of another). Actions brought to court are usually tried without a jury. Higher courts deal with more complicated civil cases. Most judgements are for sums of money, and the costs of an action are generally paid by the losing party.
The Lord Chancellor is the head of the judiciary branch of government. The administration of the law rests with [возлагать ответственность] him, the Home Secretary, the Attorney General and the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The courts of the United Kingdom are the Queen's Courts, the Crown being the historic source of all judicial power.
Judges are appointed from among practicing lawyers. Barristers [адвокат, барристер] or advocates advise on legal problems and present cases in the lay justices' and jury courts. Solictors represent individual and corporate clients and appear in the lay justices' courts. Lay justices need no legal qualifications but are trained to give them sufficient knowledge of the law.
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Passage: Ps [13:5-6] - I trust your love, and I feel like celebrating because you have rescued me. You have been good to me Lord and I will sing about you.
Point: The Lord is good to us all the time!!
Practice: When our hearts trust in the love of God we can sing to the Lord. The Lord has rescued us, let us not be shackled and burdened by our situation and circumstances. Let us be mindful of God’s unfailing love and let our hearts rejoice in the salvation of God for He is good to us. Let us put our trust in the unfailing love of God! Let our hearts sing in appreciation of God’s salvation for our souls. God has been Good to us!
Johnny is a very wise and funny young boy and a good listener too.
Exodus 23:18 Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. The fat of animals sacrificed to me during these festivals is not to be left until the following morning.
‘Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth’.
Let’s celebrate our God in purity. Cleanliness is what he wants of us. Let us long for holiness.
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The Sham Legion (Arabic: فيلق الشام, Faylaq al-Sham) is an alliance of Sunni Islamist rebel groups formed in March 2014, during the Syrian Civil War. The alliance was formed from 19 different groups, some of which were previously affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria and the Shields of the Revolution Council.
Major Yasser Abdul Rahim, field commander of the Sham Legion and commander of Fatah Halab during the Battle of Aleppo, coordinate an attack on YPG positions in Aleppo, 2 October 2015.
Sham Legion multiple rocket launcher mounted on a technical launch rockets at YPG positions in Aleppo, 2 October 2015.
The Sham Legion was formed on 10 March 2014 from 19 Islamist rebel groups in Syria. These groups operated from the Aleppo Governorate to Damascus, but were concentrated in the Idlib, Hama, and Homs governorates. The formation aimed to "unify the ranks" of non-al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist rebels in Syria. After its formation, the group took part in the Battle of Murak and Khan Shaykhun in 2014. Upon the formation of the group it distanced itself from the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood in order to achieve Saudi aid which views the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous entity while also opposing the government of Bashar al-Assad and allied Iranian and Shiite forces.
On 24 March 2015, the Army of Conquest, an alliance of Sunni Islamist and Salafist jihadist groups in Syria, was announced, with the Sham Legion as a member group. As part of the Army of Conquest, the Sham Legion took part in the Battle of Idlib and the subsequent Idlib and wider Northwestern Syria offensives.
On 26 April 2015, along with 6 other major Aleppo-based rebel groups: Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Fastaqim Union, Levant Front, Levant Revolutionaries Battalions, and Dawn of Caliphate Battalions, the Sham Legion established the Fatah Halab joint operations room. Major Yasser Abdul Rahim, field commander of the Sham Legion, was appointed commander of Fatah Halab, a position he maintained until government forces recaptured the entirely of Aleppo in December 2016.
Between 2014 and 2016, the Sham Legion was at one point a rebel group vetted by the United States and received BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles. In January 2016, the Northern Brigade was formed as part of the Sham Legion in the Aleppo Governorate.
The group participated in Operation Euphrates Shield, which began on 24 August 2016 in Jarabulus and aimed to expel the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State from the northern Aleppo Governorate. Following the campaign, Sham Legion became involved in conflict between the different Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA) factions. On 30 May 2017, after increasing inter-rebel conflict in northern Aleppo, the Sham Legion expelled the Northern Brigade from its ranks and dismissed its commander, Captain Mustafa Rami al-Kuja. The Sham Legion, along with six other TFSA groups, formed the Victory Bloc in June 2017, while the Free North Brigade, formerly part of the al-Tawhid Brigade, joined the Sham Legion on 16 June 2017.
The Sham Legion also took part in the Turkish military intervention in Afrin in 2018, with its chief commander Major Yasser Abdul Rahim serving as "key member" of the campaign's Olive Branch Operations' Room. Yasser stated that the operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Afrin District was aimed at "liberate the area from all kinds of terrorism and protect civilians, Arabs and Kurds" and that the TFSA would attempt to avoid civilian casualties. On 7 February 2018, Yasser was dismissed from his position as commander without explanation, and was replaced by Khaldun Mador ("Abu Jamil"). Khaldun, who is little-known without media coverage, is reportedly the third highest-ranking commander of the Sham Legion.
In May 2018, along with 10 other rebel groups in northwestern Syria, the Sham Legion formed the National Front for Liberation, which was officially announced on 28 May. Colonel Fadlallah al-Haji, commander of the Sham Legion, was appointed as the overall commander of the formation. On 4 June, the Martyrs of Islam Brigade, also part of the NFL, joined the Sham Legion.
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On-demand, instantaneous, or tankless water heaters have been popular in recent years, promising a better alternative to their traditional counterpart. It is an essential addition to many homes, especially if taking a shower is always a struggle for you. They are compact and energy-efficient, which are just some of the reasons why you might want to consider having one.
This section is divided into two parts. The first part will be my recommendations for an electric tankless water heater. The next part, on the other hand, is for those that are gas-powered. To summarize what you can expect in each product, refer to the table below.
If you live in a place where the temperature can drop to as much as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, this is an ideal water heater for you. It has a heating capacity of four gallons per minute. Given such, it will be able to heat two showers at a time. It can also be used for heating up to four sinks while making sure that the water temperature remains hot.
Among its innovative features, one worth noting is the Self-Modulating Technology. The latter allows the unit to become more energy-efficient without having to compromise its heating performance. With the latter, you will enjoy as much as 30% savings in your electricity bill compared to the use of a traditional heater.
To make it easier for you to monitor the temperature of water, there is a digital temperature display. As the owner, you will have complete control over how it is used. You will be able to control the temperature an increment of one degree.
Another thing that makes this an impressive product is the presence of internal jumpers. The latter will be effective in limiting the heat output of the water heater to a maximum of 105 degrees Fahrenheit. With this, you can be confident that the water output will not be heated beyond the maximum.
The materials used are also reflective of top-notch quality. For instance, brass tops are used for the prevention of electrolysis. There is also a copper heat exchanger.
If you want to have peace of mind, there is no need for you to be worried. The manufacturer offers a lifetime warranty on its parts. This means that if you need to have it repaired, you can bring it to authorized service providers and they will provide replacement parts for free. The labor, on the other hand, is not included in the warranty coverage.
From its durability to its lifetime warranty, this is a tankless water heater that you should purchase if you want a product that delivers superior functionality and reliability.
This is the perfect choice if you live in a studio apartment. Given its size and power ratings, this is ideal only for heating shower in a single bathroom. If you have a large household, this will not suffice.
The water heater is not only stylish, but also compact. If you have space limitations, there should be no problem as it has a sleek design.
One thing that is well-loved in this product is the digital temperature control, providing users with the opportunity to set the heat level based on what they are most comfortable with. That being said, you can set the heat from 80 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit at an increment of 1-degree Fahrenheit. There is also a digital display that makes it easy to monitor the temperature of water.
When it comes to durability, you will also be impressed by this product. The manufacturer used premium materials that can withstand the test of time. The heat exchanger, for instance, is made from robust brass and copper. They are also threaded, which will make replacement a snap to accomplish.
If you are concerned about the consumption of electricity, it is also worth pointing out that it is 99.8% energy-efficient.
It draws 54 amps of power, which some might find quite high, but this is typical of a water heater. To prevent problems in your electrical system, you need to make sure that there is a 60-amp breaker box that can handle the power requirements of the heater.
Lastly, the manufacturer is offering a three-year warranty on its parts. Coupled with the fact that the heater is made in Germany, you can be confident that it will deliver superior performance even through the years.
Buy this tankless water heater if you are looking for one that is to be used in a single bathroom, especially if you want one that is space-efficient.
The first thing that most of you will notice about this product is its price, especially given the fact that this is an electric model. In fact, from the three electric tankless water heaters that are mentioned in this guide, this is the most expensive. Nonetheless, once you take a look at its features and technical specifications, you will realize that the price is worth it.
As the manufacturer claims, this is the most technologically-advanced from the competitive landscape. One of the reasons for this is the Advanced Flow Control, an innovation that has been developed exclusively by the company. The latter provides automatic adjustments in the flow of water so that you will not experience temperature fluctuations.
This tankless water heater is made in Germany, which can also provide you with the assurance that the quality is second to none. The manufacturer used upgraded electronics that can withstand wear, providing an assurance that it will be long-lasting.
When it comes to installation, you will have another good reason to love this product. The manufacturer provides comprehensive instructions that will be easy for you to follow. Plus, the best thing is that there is no more need for venting.
It also comes with a sleek design. Even if the bathroom is small, it won’t eat up too much space. Nonetheless, despite being compact, its performance is impressive.
Another thing that makes this a commendable choice is the fact that it operates without making any noise. It heats your water while operating silently.
To be able to save energy, there is an auto modulation feature. This ensures that the least amount of energy will be used in the absence of having negative impacts on the heating capability of the unit.
This is the heater that you should purchase if the price is not an issue. Yes, it is expensive, but the cost can be justified by its performance and quality.
At this point, we will move to the products that are highly-recommended if you need a heater that is gas-powered.
The power of this water heater is one thing that can convince you to choose it above many others. It has a flow rate of 9.5 GPM. It does not require a lot of time before it can supply you with hot water, either in the shower or sink.
Even if you use it in a place that is at high altitude, you can be confident that its heating capabilities will still be superior. To be specific, you can use the heater at an altitude of up to 9,840 feet above sea level.
Another feature that makes it one of the favorites within the product category is the digital display. The latter does not only show the current temperature of the water that flows out, but it also shows diagnostic codes. This makes it easy for you to spot any problem and troubleshoot it before it becomes worse. There is a reliable self-diagnostic system that makes repair and maintenance a snap.
You can also use it with EZ-Link cable, although the latter needs to be purchased separately. This is going to be useful if you need to connect two units, which will enable better heating performance.
To make it long-lasting, there is a freeze protection of up to -30 degrees Fahrenheit. However, there are some negative feedbacks with regards to its durability, which makes it more important to execute proper care and maintenance for its longevity.
Lastly, it should also be noted that the manufacturer is offering an attractive warranty coverage. For the parts, the warranty is only one year, which is quite the standard. What is impressive is the warranty on the heat exchanger, which lasts for ten years.
Buy this gas tankless water heater if you do not mind the price. This is expensive, but it is highly-effective, even if you live in a large household.
With 140,000 BTU and a maximum flow rate of 6.6 GPM, this is another option that should be included in your list of choices. Although it is powerful, however, it should be noted that you should limit its use indoors as specified by the manufacturer.
If you live in a place with a warm climate, it is capable of heating up to two showers at a time. However, if you live in a place where it is cold, it can heat only one shower. Its heating capacity will be dependent on the ground water temperature.
When it comes to installation, you can expect versatility from this product basically because it can be assembled at both horizontal or vertical orientation. To complete its installation, however, you will need 4-inch Category III stainless steel, which will be required for venting.
With Energy-Star Certification, you can expect that it is going to heat your water without using too much energy. Based on its technical specifications, it has an energy factor of .81 to .83.
This gas water heater does not also run short in terms of safety features. For instance, it has built-in freeze protection, which will be useful if you live in a place with chilly temperature. There is also a flame sensor and an overheat cut-off fuse. That being said, using this product will cut down possible safety risks.
If you are still finding it hard to be convinced that this is an excellent product, you should learn about its warranty. The heat exchanger is covered for 10 years while all other parts are covered for 5 years. Nonetheless, keep in mind that for the warranty to be valid, installation should be done only by a licensed technician.
Buy this gas water heater if you have a small to medium home. It is more affordable compared to most of its competing models, plus, it has an extensive warranty.
In terms of popularity, it cannot match those that are made by well-known brands. Nonetheless, if you look beyond the brand name, you will find a lot of reasons to love this product, especially the fact that it is powerful, despite having a sleek profile.
This water heater is rated 140,000 BTU per hour. That being said, this will be more than enough for a small to medium-sized home. Its performance is comparable to what you can expect from a 40-gallon tank water heater.
The LCD display control is also a good feature that you will find in this product. The latter makes it easy to monitor the functionality of the unit, especially its temperature. To add, you can also input the temperature as desired to be assured that the heat will be in accordance with what you want.
The modulating technology is also an innovative feature that is impressive. With the latter, there are automatic adjustments that are made by the unit, making it intelligent and allowing users to save energy in the long run. The heat output is changed in an instant when there is a change in the water flow rate.
The pure copper heat exchanger is one of the reasons why you can expect longevity from this product. The material that is used makes it comparable to those that you can find at the higher end of the market.
The heat exchanger is covered up to 15 years, which is one of the longest that you can find from the product category. To be eligible, the name on the invoice should be the same as the name of the owner at the time a repair is requested or a problem is reported.
Buy this tankless water heater if you do not care about the brand. It is not as popular as the others mentioned in this guide, but its performance is worth commending.
This gas-powered tankless water heater has a maximum BTU of 150,000 flow rate of 6.6 GPM, and energy factor of .82. It has Energy-Star certification, which is a proof that it uses minimal energy when heating. If your house has two bathrooms, this will be more than sufficient to provide your heating needs.
The unit comes with a leak detection feature, which is one thing that can help in its longevity. When a leak is detected, the power is automatically turned off, which will prevent damage to the internal components of the unit.
It also comes with enhanced scale detection, which is another feature that can be attributed for its durability. This will lessen the likelihood that the unit will suffer from serious damages.
There is also an error code indicator that is incorporated in this water heater. This will make diagnostics a snap to accomplish, even on your own. The code will let you know in an instant what the problem is. As much as possible, however, avoid doing major repairs on your own as this can void the warranty of the product.
Meanwhile, to make sure that the heat will remain the same level throughout its use, it comes with an innovative temperature lock, which has the primary function of preventing unauthorized or accidental fluctuations in water temperature.
One thing that you will notice about this model is the lack of digital display and control. Nonetheless, you have the option to add a digital controller from Rinnai. However, you have to purchase it separately.
Meanwhile, for the warranty, the heat exchanger is covered for 10 years, all other parts for 5 years, and labor for 1 year. Like in the case of the other products, be sure to read the terms and conditions specified by the manufacturer.
If you want an energy-efficient and sleek gas water heater, buy this model. Nonetheless, it is not as advanced as other models since it has no digital display.
What is a Tankless Water Heaters and How Does It Work?
Before we proceed with the discussions on the top-rated products, let me first give you a primer on what is a tankless water heater.
Demand-type or tankless water heater eliminates the need for a storage tank. Since it is an on-demand water heater, it provides heated water only when it is needed and demanded. More so, since it is also called instantaneous water heater, it means that when the unit is turned on, it heats water in an instant and eliminates the need for you to wait.
In this type of water heater, heating is done directly. Once you have turned on the unit and the supply of water, cold water will pass through a pipe. As it passes, a heating element, which can either be electric or gas, will heat the water. When it comes out of the shower or the faucet, it is already heated.
Why You Need a Tankless Water Heater?
The best reason for you to have a tankless water heater is to enjoy an instant supply of hot water when you need it. There is no need for a tank to be filled with water and for such to be heated, which can take quite a while, depending on the size of the tank.
Your comfort is another compelling reason why you should have a tankless water heater at home. Imagine taking a shower early in the morning before you go to work or late in the evening before you sleep. It will be chilly! With heated water, on the other hand, you will feel more relaxed.
Energy Efficiency: As against to the water heating units with tanks, those that are tankless can save as much as 50% energy. On average, this can result in up to $100 annual savings in energy bills, but this will depend on the extent of use. It avoids wasting energy since it heats water only as needed.
Compact Size: Even if you have a small space, there is no excuse to not have this kind of heater at home. They are sleek, and hence, they will not require too much space for installation. Despite their size, it is amazing how they can deliver powerful heating performance.
Requires Minimal Maintenance: Compared to a tank water heater, those that are tankless will require lesser effort in terms of maintenance. It can last through the years without the need to do much on your end. In fact, most of them can last up to 20 years without heavy maintenance.
No Flooding: With a tank, there is a possibility that it will rupture, especially if it is made from a material that is reflective of low quality. This can lead to flooding, which can cause damage to property and costly repairs. Fortunately, with a tankless water heater, this is not going to be a problem.
Eco-Friendly: One of the ways by which it can become eco-friendly is through the reduction of energy consumption since it functions only when there is a demand. Plus, many of its parts are repairable and replaceable.
Expensive Cost: Tank heaters are known for being affordable. Tankless, on the other hand, have a higher price. The initial costs, however, can be justified by the long-term savings that you will be able to enjoy. Based on estimates, the cost of a tankless water heater is up to three times more expensive.
Possible Lag Times: Because water is heated only when needed, there is a possibility that it will lag. Meaning, the water that flows out of the shower head or faucet may initially start cold. Depending on the quality of the heater that you have, it might take a few seconds before the water becomes hot.
Limited Output: If you live in a large house and if you use showers or faucets simultaneously, using a tankless water heater can be frustrating. This is because of the limitations in its heating capacity.
Complicated Installation: In most instances, you will need a helping hand from a licensed technician, which will also prevent the warranty from being voided. You will need gas lines and venting, depending on which type of tankless water heater will be installed.
Generally speaking, tankless water heaters can be categorized into two, depending on the source of their power.
In the case of an electric tankless water heater, there is a flow-sensing device that controls the heating element. It needs to be connected to a supply of electricity. For safety purposes and to ensure its peak performance, this heater should have its own circuit breaker.
With a flow rate of up to 11 GPM, this is a good alternative if there is no supply of natural gas, such as for those who live in rural areas. This is also more expensive compared to natural gas.
If you live in the urban area where there is a supply of natural gas, this can prove to be a viable option. Compared to electric, it is more powerful, similar to how propane will perform.
Electric vs Gas Tankless Water Heaters: Which One is Better?
Initial Cost: Without a doubt, for most of you, the cost is one of the most important considerations in searching for the best tankless water heater. If you are on a budget, you should buy electric models as they are generally cheaper. Most of the electric models are priced at below $500. The gas heaters, on the other hand, can go as much as more than $1,000.
Operating Cost: If you are thinking of the long-term cost implications of using each type of tankless water heater, you should know that gas is cheaper. Nonetheless, this does not necessarily mean that it is better. Most electric heaters have an efficiency rating of up to 98%. On the other hand, for those that are gas-powered, efficiency is only usually up to 85%.
On average, it is believed that using gas as a tankless water heater can result to up to 15% more expenses. However, there are factors that will come into play, such as your location and the extent of use.
Installation: For simple installation, you should go for an electric tankless water heater. They are more straightforward to assemble. With their gas counterparts, on the other hand, installation can be more complicated as there will be a need for venting and combustion air supply, among other things. There can be lots of modifications that are required.
Regardless of whether it is electric or gas that you choose, it is important that you seek help from a professional when it comes to installation. This is because, in the case of some products, the warranty will be voided if the manufacturer learns that it wasn’t installed by someone who is authorized to do so.
Maintenance: A well-maintained heater will deliver peak performance. Between the two, electric tankless water heaters can prove to be the better option because they will not require too much on your end when it comes to maintenance. More often than not, all that you have to do is to occasionally clean the water inlet.
Meanwhile, gas tankless water heaters are more complicated in terms of their maintenance requirements. It requires annual inspection and this should be done by a trained professional. This will ensure the safe combustion of fuel, lessening the possibility that it will be a fire risk. Regular flushing is also necessary to make it less prone to the mineral deposits.
Service Life: Which one lasts longer? Both of the types of tankless water heaters can last up to 20 years. However, electric heaters are easier to maintain and less prone to wear and tear, which is why they can generally last longer. They are also easier to repair and troubleshoot, which can be seen as another reason why they are usually longer-lasting.
It is important to note, however, that there will be several factors that will have an impact on the service life of the water heater. Maintenance is one of these factors. If the water is hard and acidic, the heater can also be more prone to damages. Lastly, incorrect installation can also shorten its service life.
Size:Before anything else, you have to determine the available space where the heater will be placed. Once it is measured, it will be easier for you to choose which one is suited for your needs.
Flow Rate:Expressed as GPM or gallons per minute, this refers to the amount of water that will flow out of the shower head or the faucet in a minute. A higher number would mean that more hot water will be produced at a given time.
Power:By evaluating the power, you have to analyze how quick it will be able to heat water. For electric models, look at the kilowatts. For the gas models, on the other hand, look at the BTU. If the number is higher, this means that it will be able to heat water more effectively and quicker.
Durability:You also have to look at the materials that are used. See to it that they will be long-lasting. They should have a durable construction to offer the best value for money. They must be able to resist external elements, such as rust and corrosion, among other factors that could speed up wear and tear.
Display: It will also be good to choose a product that comes with a digital display, which will make it easy to monitor the temperature of water.
Customization: Look for a product that comes with an option to set the temperature so that you can adjust the level of heat. In many models, you can change it at an interval of at least 1-degree Fahrenheit.
Safety: There are several safety features that should be present, such as protection from overheating. To add, there should also be freeze protection, especially if you live in an area where it is extremely cold. The tankless water heater must also be made from premium materials so that it can operate safely.
Energy Efficiency: Whether you purchase one that is electric or gas-powered, you have to pay attention to its energy efficiency rating. Ideally, it should consume minimal energy without compromising its heating performance.
Warranty: It is better to choose one product that comes with an extensive warranty coverage. Pay attention to the warranty of the heat exchanger, parts, and labor, among other things. This will provide you with peace of mind knowing that the product is covered by the manufacturer against defects and problems in craftsmanship.
Reviews: If you are having difficulty deciding which one to buy, you have to rely on the feedbacks and real-life experiences of other people. Go online and look for reviews that will make it easier for you to weigh the pros and cons of the options that you have.
Now that you are done reading this post, I hope that you can easily decide which is the best tankless water heater that is suitable for your needs. At the end of the day, the decision does not rely on me. Your personal needs and preferences will be the deciding factors. Just be sure to take your time and be responsible to differentiate the options so that you can reach the right decision.
An electric model is ideal for a smaller home and if your budget is limited. On the other hand, if you do not mind spending for a more expensive product and if you have extensive heating needs for a large household, a gas-powered tankless water heater will be the better option.
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BRICS countries to launch Bank?
The BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa had planned for a pooled fund with $ 10 billion each as deposit and $ 40 billion as guarantees, with a total of $100 billion pool to fund development activity in member nations. The plan is being worked out now and in the next BRICS summit to happen in July, the nations may sign a treaty paving way for lending to start within two years.
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Abstract: This work presents a scalable solution to continuous visual speech recognition. To achieve this, we constructed the largest existing visual speech recognition dataset, consisting of pairs of text and video clips of faces speaking (3,886 hours of video). In tandem, we designed and trained an integrated lipreading system, consisting of a video processing pipeline that maps raw video to stable videos of lips and sequences of phonemes, a scalable deep neural network that maps the lip videos to sequences of phoneme distributions, and a production-level speech decoder that outputs sequences of words. The proposed system achieves a word error rate (WER) of 40.9% as measured on a held-out set. In comparison, professional lipreaders achieve either 86.4% or 92.9% WER on the same dataset when having access to additional types of contextual information. Our approach significantly improves on previous lipreading approaches, including variants of LipNet and of Watch, Attend, and Spell (WAS), which are only capable of 89.8% and 76.8% WER respectively.
TL;DR: This work presents a scalable solution to continuous visual speech recognition.
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TL;DR – What’s happened in the last 14 days?
The top 10 online estate agents account for 4.8% of all new listing. This is a lose of 0.1% on the previous 14 day period.
Purplebricks lost 1.6% market share of the online estate agency sector.
esale replaced easyproperty at number 10 in the Top 10 Online Estate Agency League Table.
High street estate agents increased new listings by +8%, beating Purplebricks (+4%) and Yopa (+4%).
The chart above ranks online estate agents based on their current popularity with house sellers (i.e. how many new clients they have taken on in the last 14 days).
Purplebricks are clear leaders taking 69.4% of all new listings secured by the top 10 online estate agents.
Yopa are in second place taking 10.9% of all new listings.
easyproeprty have dropped off the table having listed just 8 new properties in the last 14 days (compared to 10 by esale).
The chart above looks at growth, and ranks online estate agents based on the percentage change increase in new listings in the last 14 days compared to the 14 day period before that.
99homes had the best period increasing new listings from 33 to 60 (+77%).
High street estate agents (HSEA) increased new listings from 78,424 to 85,469 (+8%).
Settled had the worst period decreasing new listings from 21 to 14 (-50%).
The chart above shows the percentage of all new properties listed for sale that have been listed by the top 10 online estate agents.
In the last 14 days, the top 10 online estate agents took 4.8% share of the UK residential sales market.
This is a decrease of 0.1% from the period (09/01/2019 – 06/02/2019).
Data taken from Zoopla and Rightmove.
The chart above shows the percentage of all new properties listed by the top 10 Online Estate Agents that were listed by Purplebricks.
In the last 14 days, Purplebricks accounted for 69.4% of all new listings.
This is a drop of 1.6% compared to the previous period (23rd Jan ’19 – 6th Feb ’19).
The chart above shows a rolling analysis of new listings taken on by Purplebricks in the last 14 days.
Proportionally, Purplebricks have increased new instructions (+4%) at a lesser rate than the mainstream estate agency sector (+8%), and their overall market share of the OEA sector has dropped slightly (-1.6%).
….See you all on the 20th Feb 2019 for the next update!
The top 10 online estate agents increased their market share of new listings by 0.9%.
Purplebricks increased new listings by 44% but lost 0.5% market share of the online estate agency sector.
easyproperty displaced esale from 10th place on the Top 10 Online Estate Agency League Table.
High street estate agents increased new listings by 32%, and all of the top 10 OEAs beat this increase in instructions except House Network (+32%) 99homes (+3%) and Open House (-7%).
Purplebricks are clear leaders taking 71% of all new listings secured by the top 10 online estate agents.
Yopa are in second place taking 11.2% (up from 10.8%) of all new listings.
esale have dropped off the table having listed just 9 new properties in the last 14 days (compared to 13 by easyproperty).
easyproperty had the best period increasing new listings from 3 to 13 (+77%).
High street estate agents (HSEA) increased new listings from 53,525 to 78,424 (+32%).
Open House had the worst period decreasing new listings from 44 to 41 (-7%).
In the last 14 days, the top 10 online estate agents took 4.9% share of the UK residential sales market.
This is an increase of 0.9% from the period (26/12/2018 – 09/01/2019).
In the last 14 days, Purplebricks accounted for 71% of all new listings.
This is a drop of 0.5% compared to the previous period (9th Jan ’19 – 23th Jan ’19).
Proportionally, Purplebricks have increased new instructions (+44%) at a greater rate than the mainstream estate agency sector (+32%) but their overall market share of the OEA sector has dropped slightly (-0.5%).
New listings will be tracked fortnightly and so it will be interesting to see how Purplebricks fare in 2019.
….See you all on the 6th Feb 2019 for the next update!
Following a recent analysis of the sector, I wanted to fill in some important blanks.
Taking a snapshot of active listings (as done by PropertyRoad.co.uk) is interesting, but of limited value when trying to see how disruptive the “cheap fee” focused online estate agents really are.
Purplebricks are clear leaders taking 71.5% of all new listings secured by the top 10 online estate agents.
Yopa is indisputably in second place (taking 10.8% of all new listings) now emoov & Tepilo have ceased trading.
easyproperty has failed to make the top 10 having listed just 3 new properties in the last 14 days.
In the last 14 days, the top 10 online estate agents took only a 4% share of the UK residential sales market.
OEA market share based on new listing (not sales) will be tracked fortnightly and available on TheAdvisory.
The fortunes of Purplebricks seem to have followed market trend and Christmas seasonal slowdown.
This metric will be tracked fortnightly and so it will be interesting to see how Purplebricks fare in 2019.
Sold.co.uk – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
ExpressEstateAgency – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
Springbok properties – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
British Home Sellers – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
GetAnOffer – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
BricksMortar – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
SellSimple – Targets sellers needing to sell quickly not sellers looking to save on EA fees.
TheAdvisory is the UK’s only dedicated independent consumer advice group for home sellers. Learn more.
UK Estate Agency – What’s are the Best and Worst Changes in the last 10 years?
Part-Time Mums at the School Gate selling houses?
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Fig. 1 In nature, groundwater and surface water are connected.
The indiscriminate and sometimes excessive use of groundwater has led to questions regarding its sustainability. To what extent can groundwater be exploited without unduly compromising the principle of sustainable development? The sustainability of groundwater utilization must be assessed from an interdisciplinary perspective, where hydrology, ecology, geomorphology, and climatology play an important role. Shallow groundwater flow systems should be distinguished from deep groundwater flow systems; the former interact with surface water, while the latter do not. Generally, groundwater does not recycle as fast as the surface water, with rates of groundwater turnover varying from years to millennia, depending on aquifer location, type, depth, properties, and connectivity.
Excessive pumping can lead to groundwater depletion, where groundwater is extracted at a rate faster that it can be replenished. Unregulated groundwater use leads to the "Tragedy of the Commons," with the eventual depletion of the resource and ruin to all. The effects of excessive groundwater development tend to become apparent gradually, with time often measured in decades. To assure sustainability, studies must show that the hydrological, ecological, and other impacts of groundwater utilization are minimal. In addition to water quantity, sustainability must imply the preservation of water quality.
Groundwater is the portion of the Earth's water cycle that flows underground. Groundwater originates from precipitation that percolates into the ground. Percolation is the flow of water through soil and porous/fractured rock. The water table separates the saturated, or aquifer zone, from the unsaturated, or vadose zone, where the water does not fill all the voids or spaces in the soil or rock (Fig. 1). The general trend is for water in the unsaturated zone to move downward until it reaches the water table. On the other hand, water in the saturated zone moves primarily along horizontal hydraulic gradients, from higher to lower elevations. The ocean is the natural sink for groundwater flows.
Water is among the most precious of natural resources. In many regions of the world, the pressures of economic development are producing a surface-water scarcity. Yet in most places, groundwater can be found within a relatively short distance below the ground surface. For instance, Meinzer (1927), in his early work on plants as indicators of groundwater, reported water table depths ranging from 4 to 50 feet (1.2 to 15 meters) in Sulphur Spring Valley, Arizona; 1 to 62 feet (0.3 to 19 meters) in the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico; and 2 to 60 feet (0.6 to 18 meters) in Big Smoky Valley, Nevada.
The pervasive and seemingly abundant supply of groundwater has led to its indiscriminate and sometimes excessive use. However, this use can have diverse and often wide ranging effects on the local and regional hydrology and ecology. These interdisciplinary aspects of groundwater utilization have brought into question the concept of safe yield, defined as the maintenance of a long-term balance between the amount of withdrawal and the amount of recharge (Sophocleous, 2000). Thus, the issue of groundwater sustainability has arisen (Alley and Leake, 2004). To what extent can a region's groundwater resources be exploited without unduly compromising the principle of sustainable development? Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (The World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987).
To what extent can a region's groundwater resources be exploited without unduly compromising the principle of sustainable development?
In seeking answers to this question, we must look not only to the discipline of groundwater geology, but also to the synthesis of several related earth sciences. The sustainability of groundwater utilization must be assessed from an interdisciplinary perspective, where hydrology, ecology, geomorphology, and climatology play an important role. This article contributes to establish a solid scientific basis for this synthesis.
Flow downward until it reaches the water table, at which time it joins the groundwater proper.
Throughout millennia, groundwater has accumulated underground, seeping slowly through soil and rock, usually in the direction of the closest ocean. [A smaller portion of groundwater accumulates in closed, endorheic drainage basins lying in the interior of continents].
Shallow groundwater flow, or groundwater runoff, intercepts the land surface, feeding springs and seeping back to the surface waters as the perennial flow (or baseflow) of streams/rivers and other freshwater bodies, such as swamps and lakes. Conversely, deep groundwater flow, or groundwater runout, does not intercept the land surface, flowing instead directly into the ocean.
Shallow percolation is the source of shallow groundwater flow. On a global basis, the annual amount of shallow percolation is equal to the annual amount of baseflow that discharges into streams and rivers (World Water Balance, 1978). Since baseflow constitutes 30% of streamflow, and streamflow is about 40% of precipitation, it follows that baseflow or shallow percolation constitute (0.30 × 0.40) × 100 = 12% of precipitation (L'vovich, 1979).
By definition, deep percolation does not belong to the surface waters and, therefore, it cannot affect their quantity.
Deep percolation is the fraction of percolation that reaches the deep groundwater. In terms of volume, deep percolation is about 1/20 of streamflow (L'vovich, 1979). Therefore, on an annual global basis, deep percolation constitutes (0.05 × 0.40) × 100 = 2% of precipitation (Fig. 3). This value varies as a function of scale, from local to regional; furthermore, it has a tendency to decrease from coastal to inland regions.
Fig. 3 Global annual components of precipitation.
The amount of deep percolation is of considerable practical interest from the standpoint of sustainability. By definition, deep percolation does not belong to the surface waters and, therefore, it cannot affect their quantity. On the other hand, shallow percolation is the source of the seepage to surface waters. Any amount of water extracted from shallow groundwater through well pumping effectively shortcuts the natural process, returning to the land surface amounts of groundwater that were going to eventually return to the surface waters anyway. [An exception to the preceding statement is pumping near the sea coast, where shallow groundwater may join the ocean directly. However, excessive pumping of shallow groundwater near the sea coast may lead to salt-water intrusion].
Of all of the Earth's water, only 3% is freshwater; the rest is saline (ocean) water. Of all the freshwater on Earth, 68.7% is permanently stored in icecaps and glaciers, 30.1% is groundwater, 0.3% is surface water, and 0.9% is other minor storage (Fig. 4). Thus, groundwater is about one-hundred times more plentiful than surface water. However, while surface water is typically low in salt ions, groundwater, particularly that lying at great depths, may contain high concentrations of salt ions, effectively limiting its economic use. Saline groundwaters have concentrations in excess of 1,000 parts per million (ppm). In the United States, the depth to saline groundwaters varies from less than 500 ft (150 meters) to more than 1,000 ft (300 meters) (Alley, 2003).
Fig. 4 The distribution of Earth's water.
For comparison purposes, the salinity of freshwaters is less than 500 ppm, while the salinity of ocean waters is about 35,000 ppm. Slightly saline water, for example, irrigation water, has concentrations from 500 to 1,500 ppm, while moderately saline water, such as drainage water and groundwater, ranges from 1,500 to 5,000 ppm. Highly saline groundwaters may have salinity concentrations in excess of 5,000 ppm.
Age is a major difference between surface water and groundwater. Surface waters are typically fresh, distinctly new. On a global basis, surface water recycles every 9 to 16 days with an average of 11 days (World Water Balance, 1978; L'vovich, 1979). Evaporation, evapotranspiration and surface runoff are the agents responsible for the relatively fast recycling of surface water.
Rates of groundwater turnover vary from years to millennia, depending on aquifer location, type, depth, properties, and connectivity.
Unlike surface water, groundwater does not recycle readily. Rates of groundwater turnover vary from days to years, and from centuries to millennia, depending on aquifer location, type, depth, properties, and connectivity (Fig. 5). The average time for the renewal of groundwater is 1,400 years (World Water Balance, 1978). Shorter renewal times tend to be associated with shallow groundwater, while longer renewal times are associated with deep groundwater. Significantly, renewal rates of deep groundwater are about 1/15 of those of shallow groundwater (Jones, 1997). Some fossil, or paleogroundwaters may have ages exceeding 30,000 years. Carbon dating techniques can be used to estimate the age of fossil groundwaters. These groundwaters are practically nonrenewable; once used, they are not likely to recharge any time soon.
Fig. 5 Age of groundwater.
Groundwater levels vary seasonally and annually. They are high at the end of the wet season and low at the end of the dry season; likewise, they are high at the end of a wet year and low at the end of one or more dry years (a drought period). Nevertheless, on a long-term basis (decades or centuries), naturally occurring groundwater levels tend to be steady, i.e., they undergo very little change.
Groundwater is naturally recharged upstream and discharged downstream. Recharge areas are close to mountain peaks, where precipitation is likely to be higher than in the adjacent lowlands. Shallow groundwater discharges in the valleys and other low-lying zones of the Earth's crust (Fig. 6). Deep groundwater discharges directly into the ocean.
the Gulf Islands, British Columbia.
Through human intervention, groundwater is subject to artificial discharge, that is, the process of pumping groundwater from an aquifer to satisfy a socioeconomic need. In some instances, groundwater may also be subject to artificial recharge. Some progressive communities are presently accomplishing the artificial recharge of their aquifers in order to conserve the groundwater resource.
Excessive pumping can lead to groundwater depletion, wherein groundwater is extracted at a rate faster than it can be replenished.
Excessive pumping can lead to groundwater depletion, wherein groundwater is extracted from an aquifer at a rate faster than it can be replenished. Depletion can have significant effects on surface and unsaturated subsurface (vadose) waters, and on the terrestrial, riparian, and other ecosystems which depend on these waters.
Hydraulic conductivity is the rate at which water flows through porous media (soil and porous or fractured rock), expressed in velocity units (meters per second; feet per second). Specific yield is the free-draining pore-water volume, expressed per unit of total volume. An aquifer with large values of either hydraulic conductivity or specific yield, or both, can release large quantities of water to wells or springs.
The hydraulic conductivity of an aquifer may change with position (heterogeneity) and direction (anisotropy), but generally it does not change with time. The hydraulic gradient, however, can change in time, depending on the season, but more importantly, on the rate of pumping and extent of aquifer depletion.
Fig. 7 Darcy's experimental setup.
Unconfined aquifers lie near the surface and, for the most part, constitute shallow groundwater. Confined aquifers lie at greater depths, below a confining layer and often under pressure. Confined aquifers may constitute either shallow or deep groundwater, depending on the characteristics of the regional groundwater flow (see, for example, Fig. 8). In confined aquifers, the specific yield is replaced by the storativity, to reflect the fact that aquifer releases are caused by changes in fluid pressure, and not by actual dewatering of the pore spaces.
Fig. 8 Conceptual hydrological flow system in Georgia's coastal plains.
The quaternary aquifers lie within alluvial, colluvial, glacial, or lacustrine deposits. They consist primarily of unconsolidated materials such as sand and gravel, but may also have some silt and clay. These aquifers are usually superficial; they flow through soils deposited in the valleys and other depressions of the Earth's surface throughout the Quaternary Period (1.6 to 1.8 million years BP). They are either unconfined or confined, and contain, for the most part, shallow groundwater. The hydraulic conductivity and specific yield of quaternary aquifers are usually large compared to those of other aquifers.
Tertiary aquifers can lie near the surface or at greater depths, and can be confined or unconfined. They are composed of either sedimentary or fractured rock; or, in some cases, of unconsolidated deposits lying beneath rock. Depending on their depth and connectivity, tertiary aquifers may contain either shallow or deep groundwater, or both.
The hydraulic conductivity of sedimentary aquifers is a function of the rock's porosity. For fractured rock aquifers, the hydraulic properties depend on the size, extent, thickness, density, orientation, and connectivity of the fractures. As the better known sedimentary aquifers reach their full utilization potential, fractured rock aquifers are being increasingly tapped. In some regions, fractured rock aquifers constitute a major portion of the groundwater resources. In the Australian continent, for instance, these aquifers underlie 40% of the land surface (Fig. 9).
Fig. 9 Sedimentary and fractured rock aquifers in the Australian continent.
Rates of groundwater movement in fractured rock aquifers are difficult to quantify, with yields often being extremely variable and dependent on the distribution of major fractures. For instance, a detailed study of a fractured rock aquifer in the Clare Valley, South Australia, revealed a variability in hydraulic conductivity of ten orders of magnitude, from 102 meters/day in some aquifer pump tests to 10-8 meters/day in tests on the rock cores (Love et al, 2001).
Flow velocities and contaminant transport rates in fractures or solution cavities may be high, resulting in early contaminant appearance at target wells or streams and in poor filtration/elimination of pathogens. Knowledge of fracture-flow dynamics and fracture orientation and location is essential, because fractures may cause markedly anisotropic behavior, especially with regard to contaminant transport (National Research Council, 2000). In principle, the flow direction in fractured rock aquifers can differ from the direction of the maximum hydraulic gradient by up to 90o (Love et al, 2001). Thus, preferred flow paths in fractured rock aquifers may cross surficial watershed boundaries, defying conventional hydrological characterization.
A groundwater-flow system may consist of one or more aquifers of different types. The areal extent of groundwater-flow systems varies from a few square miles or less to tens of thousands of square miles. The length of groundwater-flow paths ranges from a few feet to tens, and sometimes hundreds, of miles. A deep groundwater-flow system with long flow paths between areas of recharge and discharge may be overlain by, and in hydraulic connection with, several shallow, more local, flow systems. Thus, the definition of a groundwater-flow system is to some extent subjective and depends in part on the scale of the study (Alley et al, 1999).
Fig. 10 Types of aquifers and wells.
Pumping from a water table well lowers the groundwater levels near the well. The affected zone is known as the cone of depression, and the land surface above it, its area of influence (Fig. 11). Well pumping changes the natural direction and amount of groundwater flow within the area of influence. If two cones of depression overlap, the interference reduces the water available to each well (Fig. 11). Well interference can be a problem when many wells are competing for the water of the same aquifer, particularly at the same depth.
Fig. 11 Cone of depression, area of influence, and well interference.
The most outstanding feature of the flora of arid regions is its relation or lack of relation to the water table. On one hand are the xerophytes, adapted to extreme economy of water, which depend on the infrequent rain for their livelihood and which, during prolonged periods of drought, maintain themselves in a nearly dormant condition. On the other hand are the phreatophytes, or well plants, which habitually grow where they can send their roots down to the water table, or to the capillary fringe immediately overlying the water table; thus, they are able to obtain a perennial and secure supply of water (Meinzer, 1927).
The phreatophytes, or well plants, habitually grow where they can send their roots down to the water table.
Depletion of groundwater places at risk the survival of the well plants. In turn, the loss of vegetation can produce a domino effect on the rest of the landscape, with increased erosion, increase in surface albedo, decreased ambient moisture, and climate change.
Utilization of an aquifer implies the removal of sizable volumes of groundwater, and this changes the aquifer's natural recharge and discharge patterns. Net recharge is defined as the difference between recharge and discharge. Under pristine, or predevelopment, conditions, recharge equals discharge, and net recharge is zero (Fig. 12 A).
Under conditions of groundwater development, pumping amounts to artificial discharge. At a given site, the depletion of the aquifer and its cone of depression may effectively reduce the natural discharge to a value close to zero. In this case, net recharge is the amount of increased recharge minus the pumpage, minus the decreased discharge, if the latter is still positive (Fig. 12 B). If net recharge is zero, the water table is at steady state; if net recharge is negative, as is usually the case under conditions of aquifer depletion, the water table continues to drop gradually over time.
Fig. 12 A. Net recharge under pristine conditions.
B. Net recharge under development conditions.
In determining the effects of pumping, it is recognized that not all the water pumped is necessarily consumed. For example, not all the water pumped for irrigation is consumed by evapotranspiration. Some of the water returns to the ground-water system as irrigation-return flow. Most other uses of groundwater are similar in that some of the water pumped is not consumed but is returned to the system. Thus, it is important to differentiate between the amount of water pumped and the amount of water actually consumed.
Development conditions, under intensive withdrawal, where the water table continues to fall due to groundwater pumping at unsustainable rates.
Under the first scenario, with pristine conditions, the system is in a state of long-term equilibrium, which supports the local surface water bodies (streams, rivers, swamps, and lakes) and ecosystems (aquatic, riparian, transitional, and terrestrial). Under the second scenario, with moderate withdrawal rates, local surface waters and ecosystems are moderately affected. Under the third scenario, with intensive withdrawals, many local surface waters are substantially reduced; neighboring ecosystems are degraded and, in extreme cases, severely compromised.
The hydraulic gradient, which is subject to human intervention, controls the flow of groundwater (Darcy's Law). At a given site, recharge is proportional to the horizontal hydraulic gradient (Fig. 13). Thus, locally, aquifer depletion has the tendency to increase induced recharge, which, if substantial, can draw from neighboring connected aquifers. Geophysical and hydrogeological studies are required to determine aquifer connectivity. Under conditions of aquifer connectivity, sustained pumping may have a large area of influence, depending on the terrain's relief (flat or hilly) and horizontal hydraulic gradient.
Fig. 13 The horizontal hydraulic gradient.
Groundwater depletion has been documented in many instances. A classic case is that of Borrego Valley, in Southern California's high desert, near Borrego Springs, in San Diego County. Water levels in Borrego Valley have declined 2 feet per year (0.6 meters per year) over the past 20 years. The extracted groundwater is used for intensive agriculture as well as recreation.
Another significant example of groundwater depletion is the Ojos Negros valley, in Baja California, Mexico, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Ensenada. In the past 35 years, the water table in the valley has dropped up to 45 meters (150 feet). The extracted groundwater is primarily used to support intensive agriculture. The experience of the Ojos Negros valley is particularly sobering, because the valley derives its name (Spanish for "Black Eyes") from two oval-shaped swamps, or "cienagas" (incorrectly spelled "sienega" in Fig. 14), that existed prior to the development of groundwater, and have since dried out and disappeared in the face of protracted aquifer depletion. Other wetlands near the valley's mouth have been reduced to a fraction of their original size (Ojos Negros Research Group, 2003).
Baja California, Mexico (dated 1864).
In South-central Arizona, groundwater pumping to support population growth, including the Tucson and Phoenix areas, has resulted in water-table drops of between 300 and 500 feet (90 and 150 meters), land subsidence of as much as 12.5 feet (3.8 meters), and significant losses of riparian ecosystems. Figure 15 shows two views of the same reach of the Santa Cruz river at Martinez Hill, south of Tucson. The photo to the left, dated 1942, shows well established stands of mesquite and cottonwood trees along the river banks, indicating that sufficient moisture to support vegetation existed in the soil at that time. The photo to the right, taken in 1989, shows that the riparian trees have disappeared. Data from two nearby wells indicates that the water table had declined more than 100 feet (30 meters) due to pumping, and this appears to be the principal reason for the decrease in vegetation. The roots of mesquite on the flood plain of the Santa Cruz River have been known to reach depths of 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 meters) (Meinzer, 1927).
of the Santa Cruz river, south of Tucson, Arizona.
Depletion is not limited to semiarid and arid regions. Intensive pumping can lead to groundwater depletion in some subhumid regions as well. Figure 16 shows the historical record of water levels in a USGS well in Cook County, Georgia. The last 35 years have seen a drop of nearly 15 feet (5 meters).
Fig. 16 Documented case of groundwater depletion in Cook County, Georgia.
Groundwater depletion is a logical consequence of a commons (a natural resource used jointly by many stakeholders) exploited in the absence of regulation or sustainable practices. As with any other natural resource held in common, an aquifer tends to be viewed by individuals pursuing their own self-interests as a resource to be exploited before others are able to get to it.
Freedom in the commons brings ruin to all, since every person is compelled to increase his/her individual benefit without limit.
The theoretical framework of the "Tragedy of the Commons" is due to Hardin (1968). In a nutshell, it states that freedom in the commons eventually brings ruin to all, since every person is compelled to increase his/her individual benefit without limit in a world that is limited. Given the inherent logic of the commons, aquifer regulation appears to be the only way to avoid a reenactment of the tragedy.
The impacts of groundwater depletion are many and varied. The first and most direct impact is the loss of baseflow. Shallow groundwaters flow nearly horizontally, in the direction of the closest depression in the Earth's crust, usually towards a stream or river draining a valley. Any shallow groundwater extracted through pumping is water that does not reach the surface waters in the vicinity (Fig. 17).
(losing) towards the pumping well, reducing its baseflow.
The impact depends on the intensity of pumpage and the associated loss of baseflow. If baseflow disappears and this can be traced to groundwater pumping, the effects could be far reaching. Thus, in general, it is necessary to consider the conjunctive use of surface and groundwaters, instead of treating these two resources as separate entities, subject to different management policies (National Research Council, 2000).
The interaction between surface and groundwater varies from arid to humid climates. Perennial, or gaining streams, typical of subhumid and humid regions, augment their flow through baseflow. Conversely, ephemeral, or losing streams, typical of arid and semiarid regions, decrease their flow through transmission losses, which are the exact opposite of baseflow (Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2005). Therefore, when a gaining stream is transformed into a losing stream through aquifer depletion, a fraction of surface runoff is converted to shallow groundwater, increasing recharge. Effectively, the hydraulic gradient has been reversed; where originally it flowed into the stream, now it flows out of the stream (see Fig. 17).
loss of wildlife habitat and reduction in biodiversity.
changes in surface albedo and related climate change (Ponce et al, 1997).
Fig. 18 Other impacts of groundwater depletion.
In the absence of baseline data, it is difficult to ascertain a cause-effect linkage between groundwater development and its environmental consequences. The effects of groundwater development tend to become apparent gradually, with time often measured in decades, such as in the case of climate change (Alley and Leake, 2004). Other impacts, such as the loss of baseflow, can become apparent within a shorter timeframe, typically in a few years.
The effects of groundwater development tend to become apparent gradually, with time often measured in decades.
In many instances, it is hard to trace the observed effects of groundwater depletion to actions of the past. Thus, it is imperative that the impacts of development be carefully assessed and painstakingly monitored. Beginning at the early stages of groundwater development, cause-effect linkages should be established and contingency/mitigation plans drawn up.
Given that shallow groundwaters are intrinsically connected to the surface waters, it follows that they should not be exploited in an unsustainable manner. It is noted that aquifers may have accumulated their volumes through centuries or millennia. Therefore, a groundwater use policy based on a substantial reduction of aquifer volume would be unsustainable, particularly if the rate of replenishment is slow.
in which P = precipitation, E = evaporation (from lakes and other surface-water bodies), T = evapotranspiration (from vegetative ecosystems), Q = surface runoff (direct, or flood runoff), G = groundwater runoff (to baseflow), and D = deep percolation (runout to ocean).
Fig. 19 The basin's mass balance.
A sustainable groundwater management plan should begin by tapping deep percolation (D in Eq. 3 and Fig. 19), which would otherwise be lost to the oceans. In principle, shallow percolation (G in Eq. 3 and Fig. 19) belongs to the surface waters and, therefore, should be considered in transit through the aquifer. In practice, suitable fractions of shallow percolation may be tapped only after detailed studies show that the hydrological, ecological, geomorphological, climatological and other impacts are minimal (Sophocleous, 2000).
Shallow percolation may be tapped only after detailed studies show that the hydrological, ecological, and other impacts are minimal.
Hydrological and hydrogeological studies are required to accurately estimate percolation amounts on the local and regional scales (National Research Council, 2000). In the absence of these studies, an initial or reference estimate of deep percolation may be based on global hydrology. On an annual basis, deep percolation is approximately 1/6 of shallow percolation, or baseflow (see Fig. 3). Thus, deep percolation amounts to 2% of precipitation (L'vovich, 1979).
in which Y = sustainable yield, in units of volume per year, A = recharge surface area, to be taken as the aquifer's geographical area, and P = annual precipitation [depth per year].
To properly account for annual precipitation variability, the recommended value of P is the average of the past N years of record, in which N is the typical recurrence interval of drought events in the given geographical location. For most regions of practical interest, N varies between 3 and 25 years, being 3-6 years for arid regions, 6-12 years for semiarid regions, and 12-25 years for subhumid regions (Ponce et al, 2000).
Groundwater usage beyond the estimate of deep percolation, to include fractions of shallow percolation, would have to show conclusively that it does not adversely affect surface waters and local/regional ecosystems. It would also have to show that it does not cause a significant drop in the water table, which would set the aquifer flow system on an unsustainable course, and that it does not cause wetlands reduction, stream degradation, ground subsidence, climate change, or other impacts.
Sustainability in water quantity must imply sustainability in water quality. The human-induced loss of groundwater quality is a pervasive problem in both developed and developing nations. In the United States, extensive areas have groundwater within shallow surficial [superficial] materials, which may consist of unconsolidated deposits and/or weathered, porous, or fractured rock. These materials can reach depths of a few hundred meters and often lie above deeper bedrock aquifers. Groundwater in these surficial materials is particularly vulnerable to contamination as a result of actions or omissions of individuals and corporations (Fig. 20). These actions or omissions include inappropriate land use, overuse, negligence, attrition or obsolence, and accidents. The contamination can affect agricultural areas as well as other rural areas; in some instances, even urban areas are affected.
Groundwater in surficial materials is vulnerable to contamination as a result of actions/omissions of individuals/corporations.
Fig. 20 A plume of contaminated groundwater heading toward the well.
In a comprehensive U.S. Geological Survey study, concentrations of nitrogen in nearly half of the streams sampled in agricultural areas ranked among the highest of all streams measured. Moreover, the highest rates of detection for the most heavily used herbicides (atrazine, metolachlor, alachlor, and cyanazine) were found in streams and shallow groundwater in agricultural areas (Fuhrer et al, 1999).
In rural areas, inappropriate land use and other human activities can lead to aquifer contamination. The latter is particularly critical in those areas that are heavily dependent on groundwater. For areas where groundwater may have been designated as the sole or principal source of drinking water, the implementation of wellhead protection is a necessity. Wellhead protection is a federally-mandated strategy designed to protect public drinking water supplies by managing the land surface around a well where activities might affect the quality of the water. In some instances, aquifer contamination can be traced to onsite septic systems and lawn fertilization. Thus, pockets of urban development in predominantly rural areas must strive for sustainability by reconciling the often conflicting practices of providing drinking water from wells and disposing of wastewater to neighboring septic systems.
Great efforts have been expended on predicting the movement of water and contaminants underground. Yet it is still difficult to state with confidence if a certain land use will or will not have a specific impact on a particular water supply. Much of the uncertainty in pinpointing sources stems from aquifer complexity, including heterogeneity and anisotropy. Surficial fractured rock aquifers often defy characterization; also, contaminant transport along the fractures is dominated by advection, with little diffusion of pollutant concentration. Thus, bulk aquifer properties are rarely, if ever, adequate to determine flow paths and travel times necessary for contaminant transport studies and wellhead protection analyses (National Research Council, 2000).
The unsustainable use of groundwater stands to significantly impact a host of hydrological, ecological and other natural resources and services, including freshwater bodies, and aquatic, riparian, transitional, and terrestrial ecosystems. Baseflow will decrease and wetlands will disappear, streams and rivers will degrade, channel erosion will increase, and wildlife habitat will be reduced. Other impacts include drying up of wells, salt-water intrusion in coastal areas, and land subsidence (Fig. 21).
has been linked to groundwater pumping.
The sustainable use of groundwater should begin by tapping primarily deep percolation, and secondarily shallow percolation. The latter should be exploited only if its effects on the baseflow of neighboring streams and water bodies are shown to be minimal. Detailed hydrological and hydrogeological studies are required to determine the percolation amounts. In the absence of basin-specific studies, global values of deep percolation may be used to establish an initial, reference estimate of sustainable yield.
Baseline and time-dependent hydrological and hydroecological studies are necessary to assess and monitor the effect of groundwater use on local freshwater bodies, ecosystems, and geomorphology. To guarantee sustainability, these studies should accompany planned groundwater development.
A contaminated aquifer cannot be used as a resource. Therefore, every effort should be taken to ensure that both groundwater quantity and quality are preserved for the benefit of present and future generations.
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What does "light cone distribution" mean in QCD?
In hep-ph/0609090, Triumvirate of Running Couplings in Small-x Evolution, Kovchegov et. al. calculated the running coupling correction to the Jalilian-Marian, Iancu, McLerran, Weigert, Leonidov and Kovner (JIMWLK) equation using light cone perturbation methods.
Bubbles which comes from (regular) gluon and goes to (regular) gluon.
Bubbles which comes from instanteneous gluon and goes to instanteneous gluon.
However, he didn't look in the more involved case when we have some mixing between interactions.
The question I would like to ask doesn't requires to read Kovchegov's paper and in terms of LCPT I can phrase it also in the following way - is there an arument why the matrix elements involving both regular and instanteneous interactions (such as $\left\langle g\left|H\right|qq\right\rangle \left\langle qq\left|H\right|0\right\rangle $ or $\left\langle qq\left|H\right|qq\right\rangle \left\langle qq\left|H\right|g\right\rangle \left\langle g\left|H\right|0\right\rangle $ for example, where $H$ denotes the interaction part of the QCD Hamiltonian) should not taken into account when calculating the wave function or any higher order corrections?
I finaly got the answer - a careful calculation shows that these are identially vanishing.
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If strength and predictive ratings are the best possible rankings using the available data (game locations, opponents, and scores), why bother with limited rankings that consider only game locations, opponents, and who won and lost? The answer is that it depends on what you want to do with the ranking. If you want to attempt to predict a future game's results, you absolutely want the predictive ranking, since it uses more data. On the other hand, if you want to decide who should play for a national title, there are two problems with using the predictive ranking.
First, you are judging teams based on criteria that are different from what they are trying to accomplish. Some teams may have a style that encourages close wins, but nevertheless win most of their games; it would be unfair to penalize them for not winning by big enough margins. Second, if your ranking is actually being used in a significant way, coaches who understand it will be at an advantage, since they can manipulate game scores to maximize their team's ranking.
In a nutshell, you want the predictive ranking to predict future games, and a good win-loss ranking to evaluate past seasons.
I have defined Pr(x) to represent the prior. The game result probability function is CP(winner-loser), adjusted for game location as always. In the case of a tie, the function is instead NP(winner-loser).
An interesting question is raised, however. Do we ignore scores for all teams, or just for the team(s) being ranked in this particular calculation? Ignoring all scores may seem the easiest option, but throws out a lot of data that need not be thrown out. A common result of doing this is the overranking or underranking of entire conferences, especially in college football where most of a conference's relative ranking is based on a small number of games. To to make this ranking as accurate as possible, therefore, it is imperative to use game scores to rate games among teams being ranked in the current calculation.
all definitions have been retained from previous sections. This function is straightforward to evaluate, since oi and doi were determined in the strength ratings.
Both of these are reasonable options, but share a common failing in that they are scale-dependent. If I choose to rate teams on a zero-to-one scale using CP(r), the mean and median points would fall at different places of the probability distribution. In other words, CP(mean(P)) does not equal mean(CP(P)), nor does CP(mode(P)) equal mode(CP(P)).
This leaves the median, which is the value of r such that 50% of the probability distribution is at higher r, and 50% is at lower r. This definition value turns out to be scale invariant: CP(median(P)) equals median(CP(P)). Since the definition of the scale is arbitrary, it is preferable to rate the teams in such a way that the rating would be the same, regardless of scale. In this case, the median is the optimal choice.
Computer rankings are somewhat notorious for spitting out a set of numbers for each team, ordering the teams by their ratings, and calling that a ranking list. For my standard ranking, I prefer an entirely different approach that is conceptually more what a ranking list ought to be. The basic premise is to make a set of team-by-team comparisons, and rank teams so that (if possible) every team is deemed superior to all teams ranked behind it.
As before when measuring the strength rating, P(a,b) includes the probabilities of all games occuring and all team ratings matching their priors. The difference is that the simple Gaussian game probability function has been replaced by CP(winner-loser) for the games played by teams A and B.
As noted, this cannot be marginalized and integrated directly, so there are three ways of doing the solution.
A second option is to use a Gaussian approximation of CP(x) for each game played by teams A and B. The Gaussian approximation is just a second-order Taylor series expansion of ln CP(x) centered on the median likelihood scores of A and B and the strength ratings of all other teams. Obviously the imprecise evaluation of CP(x) is problematic, and can cause problems in the wings of the distribution.
Finally, one can forget about the N-fold integral and instead run a maximum likelihood solution. This means that, for each two-team comparison, one measures the set of team ratings that produces the highest total probability. The drawback to this method is that the probability distribution for P(a,b) is ignored altogether, thus giving no information about the shape of the wings of the distributions. In addition, one is forced to assume something about the uncertainties of a and b, which tend to be about 1.4 times the uncertainties of the teams' strength ratings.
In short, there are several ways of evaluating the problem. None is perfect, but the flaws in each are different. I have tested all three routines and find that, by and large, the results are comparable. I therefore choose the first option, which runs much faster than the others.
As an example of this at work, consider Michigan's ranking in the 2003 football ranking (pre-bowl). My system lists the Wolverines 10th in the nation, while they are 4th in the consensus computer ranking. Can I be that far wrong? I was worried that the approximations made in the computer rankings may have screwed something up. However, running through options 2 and 3, I found the same result: a ranking using only score data agrees with a ranking using only win-loss data, but my ranking (using a mix) disagrees with both.
This highlighted an interesting case that is worth elaborating on. According to a score-based ranking like my predictive system, Michigan is ranked 5th or 6th. The difference between that ranking and mine is that Michigan tended to win its games by higher margins than expected (or conversely lost a few games they should have won based on their other results). One cannot say which is right and which is wrong, of course, since predictive and win-loss rankings have fundamentally different goals. On the flip side, systems that use only win-loss results placed Michigan around #6 as well, and tend to overrate some of Michigan's top opponents, most notably Ohio State (#11 in my standard ranking, #22 in my predictive ranking), causing Michigan to be overranked. In this case, Michigan's ranking is more accurate in my system because its opponent strengths are more accurate.
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Why might a younger couple have a will?
The concerns of younger parents with minor children are different than those of grandparents. However, their concerns are the same: to prevent emotional trauma and economic loss or hardship due to a sudden unexpected life event.
Many younger couples hesitate to make a plan because they do not understand the scope of being disabled and “invisible” disabilities. Suffering from depression, a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, dementia are considered being disabled. It is common for people to suffer several health setbacks and recoveries during their lifetimes.
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Being selfish can actually help those around you.
Yes, it’s true being selfish can actually contribute to the well-being of the people around you.
It is not a good quality to be selfish all the time, but this video illustrates how one can be selfish to the benefit of the people around you.
It’s good to improve yourself personally so people who depend on you can be taken excellent care of in the long run.
For example going to college is a great way to raise yourself professionally which will pay off in many ways personally, in the form of quality employment, more money, and job stability.
Being narrow-minded in the right way can allow you to continue your education and propel your career.
This is the type of behavior that helps your future family or benefits the greater good of the world.
So go out there and focus on being self-centered to make the best version of you, because that’s how to maximize your talent to help everyone you love.
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When was Rugby first in the Olympics?
Rugby Union (15 players per team) has been in the Olympics four times in 1900 (Paris), 1908 (London), 1920 (Antwerp) and 1924 (Paris). Rugby sevens (7 players per team) has been in the Olympics once in 2016 (Rio de Janeiro).
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A new Earth-sized planet located only 11 light years away from our Solar System has just been detected by astronomers at the Earth Science Observatory (ESO). The newly discovered exoplanet, which has been designated Ross 128 b, is the closest one found orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, increasing the chances of the planet hosting alien life.
The exoplanet was found by a team of scientists using the planet-hunting HARPS instrument. Scientists estimate that the newly discovered exoplanet likely has temperatures similar to Earth. After Proxima b, Ross 128 b is the second closest temperate planet to be found.
"Ross 128 b will be a prime target for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, which will be able to search for biomarkers in the planet's atmosphere," the ESO said in a statement.
The exoplanet has been named after its host star – Ross 128 – which it orbits every 9.9 days. Scientists found that the exoplanet orbits Ross 128 around 20 times closer than the Earth orbits the Sun. Interestingly, in June, astronomers detected mysterious signals coming from Ross 128.
According to the ESO, red dwarf stars are some of the "coolest, faintest and most common" stars in the Universe, which make them the best targets for astronomers to search for when hunting potential alien worlds.
"In fact, lead author Xavier Bonfils (Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble – Université Grenoble-Alpes/CNRS, Grenoble, France), named their HARPS programme The shortcut to happiness, as it is easier to detect small cool siblings of Earth around these stars, than around stars more similar to the Sun," the ESO explained.
Unlike most other red dwarf stars including Proxima Centuri, which occasionally experience flares that in turn expose their orbiting planets to deadly ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, Ross 128 in comparison is much a "quieter" star. This may help Ross 128 b's chances of being the closest known "comfortable abode for possible life".
Scientists say that Ross 128 is slowly moving closer toward our Solar System and is expected to become our "nearest stellar neighbour in just 79,000 years – a blink of the eye in cosmic terms". When this eventually happens, Ross 128 b will usurp Proxima b's position as the Earth's closest exoplanet.
However, despite scientists' belief that Ross 128 b is likely a temperate exoplanet, there appears to be some uncertainty as to whether the planet lies within the habitable zone.
Ross 128 b's location – either inside, outside or on the edge of the habitable zone – could determine whether the planet's surface could contain liquid water.
The findings of this research are slated to appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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I know I've been asking a lot of questions - but this is out of 500 questions :/ I need help - Please!!!
6,000. This investment is considered to be an available-for-sale investment. On October 31, which is Beatrice's year-end, the stock had a market value of $20,000. Beatrice should record a: (1 point) a. Credit to Unrealized Gain-Equity for $4,000. 9. On March 15, Carter Company purchased 10,000 shares of Tonya Corp. stock for $35,000. This investment is considered to be an available-for-sale investment. On June 30, the stock had a market value of $38,000. Carter must report: (1 point) a. The $3,000 difference on the income statement as a gain. 10. If a company owns more than 20% of the stock of another company and the stock is being held as a long-term investment, which method would the investor normally use to account for this investment? (1 point) c. Historical cost method. 11. Vans purchased 40,000 shares of Skechers common stock for $232,000. This represents 40% of the outstanding stock. The entry to record the transaction includes a: (1 point) b. Debit to Long–Term Investments for $232,000. 12. Micron owns 35% of Martok. Martok pays a total of $47,000 in cash dividends for the period. Micron's entry to record the dividend transaction would include a: (1 point) a. Credit to Long–Term Investments for $16,450. . 13. Chung owns 40% of Lu's common stock. Lu pays $97,000 in total cash dividends to its shareholders. Chung's entry to record this transaction should include a: (1 point) . d. Credit to Long–Term Investments for $38,800. 14. Hamilton Company owns 51,000 of Hennie Company's 100,000 outstanding shares of common stock. Hennie Company pays $25,000 in total cash dividends to its shareholders. Hamilton's entry to record this transaction should include a: (1 point) c. Credit to Long–Term investments for $12,750.
Contribution Margin and Breakeven Point.
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Talk about a comfort food. This is a great way to use up left over ham.
Scalloped potatoes and ham is the perfect way to use up left over ham.
Melt butter in large saucepan over low heat; blend in flour, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring constantly, for about 1 minute. Remove from heat gradually stir in milk. Return to heat; cook until thickened and bubbly. Fold in ham, onion, green pepper and cheese. Pour over potatoes in a large bow. Stir gently then move into a buttered 13X4-inch baking dish; cover with foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Uncover and continue to bake for 1 hour.
This was amazing!! I made this with some leftover ham from Easter. I added a little more cheese than the recipe called for and sprinkled some paprika on top. Other than that I followed it exactly. I resisted the temptation to melt the cheese into the cream sauce. I am so glad I did. Folding the cream sauce into the other ingredients made it perfect. It is awesome that such simple ingredients can come together to make something so spectacular!!
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What should a pre-law student pursue in his/her undergraduate to bolster law school prospects?
Ex's: studying for LSAT continuously, joining any pre-law organizations, meeting with law professors, meeting with lawyers, building a network, interning at appropriate organizations, etc. I am not sure which of these activities is worth while whereas others might just be a waste of time or a fulfillment of my "preparation mindset" for law school without any actual benefits.
P.S. I will be attending Yale University in the fall, enabling me to take some cross-over classes with the law school if that is relevant at all.
Congrats on getting accepted to Yale, that is quite the achievement. You seem focused on Law school and it's great that you have a specific interest already before you even start school. Yale not only is a great school for undergrad, but it also has one of the best law schools in the country. If you like Yale, then I would strongly recommend that you meet with Yale law professors to get to know them and listen to their advice. They are going to know what's best and can serve as great resources for you for certain. The two largest factors of getting into a good law school is your LSAT score and your GPA, those two really make up I'd say 80%-85% of your law school application. While law schools do look at other things, they weigh your GPA and LSAT the most so be sure to do the best you can in those two aspects.
Believe it or not, but "pre-law" students actually do not have the highest percentage acceptance into law schools. Business majors, math majors, science majors, and philosophy majors as a percentage get accepted into law school more often than "pre law" majors. A pre-law related program will definitely get you familiar with the material, but it's not like a mini version of law school. Schools want to see that you are a multifaceted person with interests, they want to see that you are an individual. Think about all the other smart pre-law majors applying to law school who have good GPAs and LSAT score, its a lot. You will stand out to a law school if your pursue things other than pre-law as your undergraduate major. Learn a language, play an instrument, join a club (not the pre law club, join like frisbee ), demonstrate to your future law school that you're not a "one-trick pony".
Interning and gaining professional experience will definitely help your chances so look for opportunities to intern somewhere that will teach you new skills. Interning at a law firm is nice and all, but it is very possible to intern somewhere else and gain relevant professional experience. I interned three times with the U.S. federal government, two of the times were overseas and once was in Washington D.C. for example.
My above comments may seem like I am anti-law school but that isn't the case. The honest truth is that a pre-law major is no better of an assurance of getting into law school than being an English major is. Both my parents are lawyers, both didn't major in pre-law, and both went to law school in the Top Ten.
What internships should I be looking for to build an intriguing law school application?
What are good majors for undergrad to have going into law school?
What extracurriculars impress top tier law schools?
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¿Qué es el servicio militar?
¿Por qué te debes presentar al Servicio Militar?
"El Deber Militar, es el conjunto de obligaciones establecidas en la ley para los ciudadanos chilenos y que se refieren al cumplimiento del Servicio Militar Obligatorio, la participación en la Reserva y participación en la Movilización. Este deber exige: Concurrir al proceso de selección, según a la fecha y lugar indicado en las listas de llamados. Presentarse a la unidad de las Fuerzas Armadas si fuiste seleccionado Adscribirse como reservista de las Fuerzas Armadas en una unidad base de movilización, al termino del Servicio Militar Obligatorio."
David Price cast his choose Dallas Keuchel, For that reason did I. While Price was undoubtedly one of the pieces that put the Blue Jays ott Gorkys Hernandez jersey, Keuchel was that in order to Astros all season, One of the most popular reasons they made the playoffs. Pretty well he was in a Tigers uniform this season(And he was beneficial), Price wouldn t has become a Cy Young favorite(He d possibly have gotten some down ballot votes, It's possible that more), Had he remained Jay Bruce jersey. While during the sixth inning Melky Cabrera jersey, The Rockies' Charlie Blackmon was plunked in the leg by Philadelphia reducer Luis Garcia. With two outs inside of the seventh, Estevez drilled Phillies right fielder Peter Bourjos on the wrist which has a 97 mph fastball that drifted inside. Weiss said one more two hit batters"Had no relation by any means" To Anderson's throwing Franco.. Eye opening: The bullpen was bad last season and can be even worse this year Charlie Blackmon jersey. Hillcrest relievers had a 4.02 point in time, Third worst in the nation's League. And who was with solid seasons from closer RH Craig Kimbrel(39 helps you to save) And put together man RH Joaquin Benoit(2 Stephen Piscotty jersey.34 decades).
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Can the salt-advection feedback be detected in internal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?
Evidence for the assumptions of the salt-advection feedback in box models is sought by studying the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) internal variability in the long pre-industrial control runs of two Earth System Models. The first assumption is that AMOC strength is proportional to the meridional density difference between the North Atlantic and the Southern Oceans. The model simulations support this assumption, with the caveat that nearly all the long time-scale variability occurs in the North Atlantic density. The second assumption is that the freshwater transport variability by the overturning at the Atlantic southern boundary is controlled by the strength of AMOC. Only one of the models shows some evidence that AMOC variability at 45°N leads variability in the overturning freshwater transport at the southern boundary by about 30 years, but the other model shows no such coherence. In contrast, in both models this freshwater transport variability is dominated by local salinity variations. The third assumption is that changes in the overturning freshwater transport at the Atlantic southern boundary perturb the north-south density difference, and thus feed back on AMOC strength in the north. No evidence for this assumption is found in either model at any time scale.
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