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Some helpful hints for completing the Pre-Course: 1. Duration of the assessment is 30-45 minutes. 2. You must start and finish in the same sitting. 3. Do not switch computers because your work will not be saved. 4. Do not use the back button. 5. The code for ACLS is ACLS15. 6. The code for PALS is PALS15.
The completion of this Assessment is a mandatory part of the course and is a requirement in receiving your certification. Click on the link below to start the assessment.
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If you love the fashions of the jazz age, Art Deco style jewelry is a great way to incorporate vintage beauty into your modern wardrobe. These styles, which features the repeating geometric motifs and sleek glamour of the 1920s and 1930s, work just as well for contemporary women as they did for the flapper girls of the past century.
Understanding what makes a piece Art Deco can help you build a great jewelry wardrobe from this era. Whether you're purchasing antique pieces or collecting modern reproductions, you'll find that most items from the 1920s and 1930s include some or all of the following characteristics.
Although yellow metals also made an appearance during the Art Deco era, the majority of these pieces are made of cool-toned metals or imitations of them. This lends Deco pieces a sleek, modern appearance and a sophistication that calls up the 1920s.
Another element of the majority of Art Deco jewelry designs is filigree work. Filigree involves delicate openwork designs that sometimes suggest lace, and it was very popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Commonly, these lacy designs feature flowers, leaves, or swirls, but they sometimes echo the overall shapes and lines of the central gemstone.
Geometric designs are also a defining feature of the Art Deco look. Sometimes a variety of geometric shapes are used together to create a complex piece with interesting lines. Often, these shapes have straight lines and angles, although curves are sometimes part of the design. You'll also see perfect symmetry in many pieces.
Many examples of Art Deco-style jewelry have enameled elements. Enamel involves fusing molten colored glass to metal, and it's a great way to add color or contrast to a piece. In the Deco era, many jewelry items featured black, blue, green, or deep red enamel, but you can find pieces in almost any color. It's popular on fine jewelry, as well as costume pieces.
Although diamonds and clear imitation diamonds were hugely popular during the 1920s and 1930s, many Deco-style pieces also have colored or opaque gemstones. In costume jewelry, these 'stones' may be paste, glass, or high quality imitations. You'll find pieces that have colored stones as the central focus, as well as items with colored or opaque accents.
In contrast to the sleek, geometric shapes of the Deco period, many authentic and reproduction pieces also include some elements that swing or move with the wearer. Hanging pendants and drop earrings are popular in both fine jewelry and costume examples. Many brooches and pins also have a teardrop bead or hanging piece that swings from the main portion of the design. You'll also see long, layered strands of pearls or beads that have lots of dangly movement.
Most Art Deco-style pieces have more than one element of period design. To really represent this era, a great piece of jewelry will feature two or three typical Art Deco elements.
Because of its classic beauty and gorgeous design elements, Art Deco-style jewelry is timeless. Whether you're a fan of vintage jewelry or simply love the look of this specific era, you'll find that these pieces work well in your jewelry wardrobe.
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One might think that a monograph focused on scribal errors, as Leonard Neidorf's The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior is, would be very limited in what it has to offer.
This book contains examples of the original manuscript and a description of the scribal style used, the text of the The Words of Gad the Seer in modern Hebrew font and in English translation, and a long commentary in Hebrew on each chapter.
After a chapter on scribal practice and editing issues, he discusses the tradition of creative use of source texts by English historians, particularly Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Matthew Paris.
Hanson proves an apt subject for a discussion of scribal culture.
As the sample shows, both authorial and scribal manuscripts might contain dramatis personae lists, but no authorial fair copy by a professional dramatist contains a list.
terms "the scribal elite," that is, those formally trained as interpreters of the Torah.
Bach's chorale harmonizations, scribal copies assume the status of primary sources.
Among the topics are the papyrus manuscripts, the Greek minuscules, the Greek lectionaries, the Diatessaron of Tatian, the Syriac versions, the Coptic versions, the Ethiopic version, the Armenian version, the Gothic version, the use of the Greek fathers for New Testament textual criticism, scribal tendencies in transmission, analyzing and categorizing New Testament Greek manuscripts, criteria for evaluating readings in textual criticism, modern critical edition and apparatuses of the Greek New Testament, and reasoned eclecticism in New Testament textual criticism.
Because of the abundant source materials, he spends a good proportion of the chapter dealing with scribal schools (edubba) and education in the Old Babylonian period.
It is elegant and finely written including graphical features and scribal devices forbidden by Maimonides in the rules that he codified for writing a Torah scroll, indicating that it was written before his rules were widely accepted.
Has the oldest Torah scroll in the world been found in Italy?
In postexilic times a library seems to have developed in Jerusalem, and the scribal culture dedicated itself to writing down the most important traditions of Israel.
Tappy and R Kyle McCarter, Literature, Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context [Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008]) for widespread use of the Phoenician script in Judah-Israel and other parts of the Northwest Semitic world into the ninth century (BCE), a phenomenon which he believes testifies to"continued cultural contact" and a"trans-regional Phoenician scribal apparatus," The third chapter provides a judicious survey of types of material in the Northwest Semitic epigraphic record, including some tantalizing indicators of a tradition of monumental inscriptions in ancient Israel (p.
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What number does the hardware (the voting units people have to participate in the vote) allow?
Depending on the equipment this can be 10, but in some cases the number can be a lot higher, like 999.
10 is a good maximum as people can make their choice by pressing a single button.
10 is also probably the maximum number of questions that you can comfortably fit on a single slide to show on a screen.
Providing more options can make a lot of sense in, for example, a market survey, where you want exact figures like people’s age, weight or income.
Then you might want ask the audience to type in the correct number and ask them to confirm.
Please note that going higher than 10 will require people to press the ‘confirm’ button again.
It might be tempting to limit the number of possible answers to make it easier for the participants to make their choice.
However, make sure that every possible situation is covered. If you are asking the participants for their age and you have 4 options: ‘20-30’, ‘31-40’, ‘41-50’ and ‘more than 50’, be sure to also cover the lower end of the scale. You never know if a 19-year-old is in the audience, so add ‘Less than 20’ even if you believe the chances are slim that there will actually be one in the room.
The above example might sound obvious, but there can also be less obvious situations. Suppose you ask for the profession of the participants. You might have included all categories that are relevant according to your knowledge, but still it might be good practice to add ‘Other’, just in case.
So, as you see, the appropriate number of answers depends on the situation, but the general message is: ask for what you need, not more and not less, and bear in mind the practical limitations of the equipment and displaying the results.
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Enables safe waste disposal in different environments through various applications.
What Sanitation Solution is right for you?
The right sanitation solution for you will depend on the type of waste, as well as the desired application and disposal method. JoJo’s wide range of sanitation solutions include septic/conservancy tanks, mobile chemical toilets as well as pit toilets and pedestals, offering solutions to suit various needs and applications.
A septic tank is used for the disposal of sewerage only. It brings about the digestion of organic matter and discharges the black water into a French drain to soak away into the ground over time. It requires minimum maintenance, as each component has a specific function and is designed accordingly.
As it is chemical-resistant, a conservancy tank is used for the disposal of both black and grey water. It serves as temporary storage only, requiring the waste to be pumped out whenever the tank is full. This is done by licensed hauling companies who dispose of the waste accordingly.
Pit toilets and pedestals are used in areas without regular sewerage removal and limited access to water. This typically includes informal settlements, farms and environmentally sensitive locations.
Mobile or Chemical Toilets are ideal for building and construction sites, or any event where a temporary toilet solution is required.
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Throughout history, chamomile has been synonymous with healing, purity, and beauty. The earliest use of the herb was recorded in 1550 B.C.E., as evidenced in one of history's most important medical volumes, Eber's Papyrus. Its medical use dates back to medical antiquity when the early physicians, such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Asclepius, made use of it in their natural healing methods and prescriptions. The Egyptians dedicated chamomile to the gods, believing that it emulated the sun and would cure malaria. It was also widely used as a cure for fever, as a main ingredient in embalming oils for its ability to repel insects, and was highly prized as a cosmetic by the Romans. Chamomile is one of the nine sacred herbs of the Lacnunga, an ancient Anglo-Saxon herbal manuscript that was recorded in the 10th century. In medieval times, the petals were used for fragrance ambiance and used during rituals and ceremonies.
The chamomile family includes plants of the Asteraceae family, including Chamaemelum nobile syn. Anthemis nobilis (Roman/English chamomile, ground apple, whig plant, perennial chamomile, Sailor's Button, double chamomile, camomile/camomille) and Chamomilla recutita syn. Matricaria chamomilla or syn. M.recutita (German/Hungarian chamomile, Manzanilla, Pin Heads, chamomilla/camamilla, single chamomile, true chamomile, Matricaria).
Roman chamomile is found in many native countries throughout Europe and is cultivated in Germany, France, Spain, Morocco, and parts of Eastern Europe. The various species of chamomile require specific growing conditions and are varied in presentation. The word 'chamomile' is derived from the Greek words for earth apple, referring to its pleasing scent, which is reminiscent of apples. German chamomile is native to Europe and Northwest Asia, where it grows wild. This species of chamomile it has a very pleasant, sweet, grassy, and slightly-fruity aroma with flower blooms that resemble daisies. German/Hungarian chamomile is the most widely available for medicinal use and is chemically distinct from the Roman and English variety. Roman chamomile was not actually cultivated by the Romans; it was discovered by a British botanist. He discovered the herb growing wild and brought it back to England, where it is one of the primary forms of chamomile now cultivated. Chamomile was brought over to North America and was planted by the colonists, where the seeds found their way into the natural habitat and flourished into fields, yards, and gardens.
Chamomile is used in various forms and preparations. Powdered chamomile flowers are used for both health and beauty and medicinal ingredients are generally compounded through water or solvent extraction via various plant parts. The flowers are often used by themselves through a reduction of the blossoms with a mortar and pestle to be used as an herbal compression or mask. In this form, it may be applied for external inflammation or irritation. The blossoms may also be steeped as a strong tea and used as a fomentation or poultice. As a natural and holistic beauty preparation, it is used as an herbal cicatrisants, which diminishes the appearance of scars and hyperpigmentation, and as a vulneraries, which protects the skin from wounds, bruises, and inflammation. Chamomile is excellent for inflamed skin and telangiectasia, due to its ability to reduce blood pressure and aid in decreasing swelling. The healing and antiseptic power of chamomile is said to be more healing than seawater. Several of the chamomile species are used in various forms as antiseptics, disinfectants, and bactericidals as well.
The therapeutic properties of German chamomile include analgesic, anti-allergenic, antispasmodic, antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, carminative, cicatrisant, emmenagogue, hepatic, digestive, seditative, vermifuge, vasoconstrictor, and vulnerary.
The therapeutic properties of Roman chamomile include analgesic, antispasmodic, antiseptic, antibiotic, antineuralgic, anti-inflammatory, anti-infectious, antidepressant, antiphlogistic, antispasmodic, bactericidal, carminative, cholagogue, cicatrisant, emmenagogue, febrifuge, hepatic, sedative, nervine, digestive tonic, sudorifc, stomachic, vermifuge, and vulnerary.
Quercetin – Quercetin is a flavonoid that has been reported to have an antihistamine effect. Its intracellular enzymes may inhibit a histamine release. This factor may explain why chamomile may be beneficial for contact dermatitis and photosensitivity.
Choline – Choline is a water-soluble nutrient that is usually grouped with B vitamins.
Fructose and Glucose – Fructose and glucose are sugars.
Coumarins (umbelliferone and herniarin) – Coumarins have antifungal and antitumor activities. They also have blood-thinning properties, thus increasing the blood flow in the veins and decreasing capillary permeability.
Fatty Acids – Linoleic and palmitic acid are fatty acids.
Vitamin C – Vitamin C is an antioxidant.
Beta Carotene – Beta carotene is a terpinoid, one of the most potent antioxidants that is reputed to stimulate cellular communication. Beta carotene reduces the ultraviolet-induced redness from sun exposure.
Tannin – Tannin is a naturally-astringent molecule.
Salicylic, Caffeic, and Gentisic Acids – These acids have various compounds that lend to an anti-inflammatory and calming effect.
Pectic Acid – Pectic acid, or polygalacturonic acid, contains pectin, a transparent, gelatin-like substance.
Chamomile should not be used internally, except under medical supervision. Clients should avoid chamomile if they have an allergy to daisy, ragweed, aster, marigold, or chrysanthemum; this plant may cause allergy-type symptoms. It should also not be used during pregnancy, as it is considered a uterine stimulant. Chamomile should not be used by those taking oral blood thinners as it contains coumarin, which may thin the blood and increase the chance of excessive bleeding.
Freed, M. (n.d.). Backyard Medicine: Chamomile.
Riverside biochemists published in the online edition of the National Academy of Sciences.
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9. Provital Group. (n.d.). Chamomile oil.
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What should entrepreneurs and startup employees do when the next crisis hits? First, how much personal effort are they still willing to make, after accepting that previous efforts amounted to little? Second, what access to cash do they have left, and how willing are they to gamble with it? And third, what is the proven viability of the company’s business model? Examples from three entrepreneurs who pressed on despite the dot com crash illustrate why these questions are useful.
After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Judging by the economy’s overall performance, there is no need for immediate concern. But for entrepreneurs who prefer to be safe than sorry, the question remains: what should you do when the next crisis hits?
The answer is different for entrepreneurs and start-up employees than for investors. For most investors, the options are straightforward: sell shares to limit financial losses, hold shares and hope everything will blow over, or buy shares if there’s a belief the market has bottomed out. Either way, the gains and losses are mostly financial, and while the right choice may be hard to determine, the options are clear.
For entrepreneurs and employees, however, it’s not that simple. Imagine having put not only your money into a project, but also your sweat, tears, and time. When you’ve invested some of the best years of your life in a company, changes in the macroeconomic environment can be particularly tricky to navigate. You’re forced to consider not just what choice offers the best financial outcome, but also the best result in terms of your — and often your family’s — wellbeing.
When the next crisis does hit, I’d argue entrepreneurs and startup employees should ask themselves three crucial questions, to help decide whether continuing to work on your company is worth your while.
First, how much personal effort are you still willing to make, after accepting that your previous efforts amounted to little? After all, when a crisis hits, the time you have put into your company and many of the results obtained will be wiped out, and it would take considerable additional effort to even return to square one.
Second, what access to cash do you have left, and how willing are you to gamble with it? Here also, a crisis would make it necessary to relabel a lot of previous financial investments as sunk costs, while future investments and their returns should get re-assessed based on new, less favorable market realities.
And third, what is the proven viability of your company’s business model? If a company was profitable before the crisis hit, it is reasonable to assume it can be so again. But if there had never been any hint of profitability or even revenues, it might seem naïve to assume it would yield returns now.
Assessing these factors can help entrepreneurs and startup employees come to the right conclusions faster. Foresight is better than hindsight, after all.
Several individuals I spoke to for my book, Before I Was CEO, provide a helpful guide. I interviewed them about one of the last big crises for startups: the dot-com crash of 2000-2001. As the book’s title suggests, the people I talked to ended up becoming CEOs of successful companies: one became chief executive of a publicly-listed company, Infosys; another of a large private company, The Weather Company; and a third of a successful startup, Plumbee.
But when they went through the rollercoaster that was the dot-com crash, their then-companies’ future was uncertain, and so was their personal outlook.
Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder of the India-based Infosys, saw his company’s market value on NASDAQ drop 90% from 2000 to 2001. David Kenny, then CEO of Digitas, a U.S.-based online advertising agency, went from multi-millionnaire-on-paper in March of 2000 (his company was one of the last to go public), to struggling to keep the company afloat only a few weeks later. And Raf Keustermans, then CEO of CyGaNet, a European online community tools and services startup, hadn’t even been able to properly scale his company when the crash started in the U.S.
All of them decided to put up a fight and face the crisis head on. With the above questions in mind, it’s possible to assess why.
First, consider the question on the willingness to continue one’s own efforts. For Raf, even with a company that had a lot to prove (his was a local start-up) and a lot to lose (his angel investors’ money), he felt it was worth it for him personally double down on his company. He had quit college, and his only other work experience was junior marketer in an ad agency. Making his personal exit options limited. But, still only in his early twenties, he had plenty of energy left to make his first venture a success. The time he had so far spent on CyGaNet was time others had spent in college auditoria and bars, so in a way he was still at the start of his career.. He decided to continue the struggle and make the best out of it.
Other founders and early employees may not be as willing to continue spending personal efforts and time. It’s good when we learn from failure, but it can really be sad to fail and get stuck. The years of your life you have spent on a project, unlike the capital invested, are always a sunk cost: while money can come back, your youth and most productive years won’t. So once your financial losses are clear, the only thing left to save from a company’s bankruptcy may be your own time. It’s worth considering that when you decide to stay and put up a fight for your startup, or let it go.
Second, consider the question how much cash is left in your company or can be raised, and how financially secure you are at home. If you do have access to more cash, how willing you are to throw it into what could be a bottomless pit? That was a question David Kenny had to address with Digitas. And to up the ante, the stakes in his personal life were even higher. In his mid-thirties, he had two young children at home, making every week, day, and hour missed at home count. If he was going to miss out on that, he had better make it worth it. Fortunately, however, his wife had independently earned enough money in her job that they didn’t have to worry about not being able to feed their family. On top of that, Digitas, where he was CEO, had just raised $223 million through its IPO in March of 2000, valuing the company at $1.4 billion. In other words, Kenny had a strong financial basis both at home and in the company, and so felt up to the task of trying and keep Digitas afloat.
That was possible, because the money Digitas had raised just before the crisis was still in the company’s bank account. It was firepower that could be put to use. The financial structure of a company isn’t always that solid. If your company has burnt through the cash generated from early investors, and revenues dry up because of a crisis, it may be better to call it a day. Bringing in more money through debt or equity – or worse, from your own pocket – may be like throwing it in a bottomless pit. In that case, it may be better to call it quits sooner rather than later, and mentally write off any shares or options you held.
Kenny however did believe in the fundamental idea of Digitas, which was that digital advertising was the future. If he could weather the storm, he figured, his company might be one of the last ones standing and win market share in an otherwise thinned-out market. And besides, he had a lot of personal upside: the stock options he had negotiated on his arrival were somewhere between 5-10% of the total. If he could turn around the company, he would be a multi-millionaire.
He thus embarked on an arduous journey, working days and nights, cutting costs wherever he could, and all the while trying to keep revenues flowing in. It left him with some scars – he had to fire many colleagues and miss a lot of family time – but it ultimately paid off financially. Digitas took years to recover to its pre-crisis levels, but it did survive and thrive. In 2006, CEO Kenny sold the company to Publicis for $1.3 billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation. Kenny himself had already sold 1.5 million shares in 2005, and had another 7 million left in 2006, securing another $20 million on the day of the sale.
Finally, consider the question of your business model. Even if you do have time and money left, it may still be better to call it quits if your business model hasn’t proven itself. Conversely, if you do have a viable business model, rest assured the sacrifices you’re about to make will likely be worthwhile.
Kris Gopalakrishnan is a case in point. The danger of the crisis was never really that his Infosys could go out of business. His challenge was to preserve what he built, perhaps more so on a personal level than financially so. Infosys, known by many as an Indian IT outsourcing company, had been in business for almost 20 years when the stock market crashed in 2000-2001. It had been profitable since many years. But Infosys shares, which were listed on NASDAQ, lost about 90 % of their value during that time, and the business was hurt.
Kris and his fellow founders could by now easily trade their shares, and choose a bird in the hand over two in the bush. Similarly, having spent almost two decades working for the firm, they could decide to hand over the executive reigns. They had options. But they had gone through enough ebbs and flows to know their company was on solid ground. And as lifelong friends and partners, they would also throw away what had been a rich social life, as well as a professional partnership, if they walked away now.
Why would they do that? It had taken the company and its eight founders almost eight years to get to their first $1 million dollars in revenue. In those early years, they practically lived together in the small office they had. “The first 10 years was about survival,” he told me. “It was about making enough money to get around, to grow slowly.” It took them another few years (until 1993) before they went public. But since then, and until 1999, the stock price had multiplied 85 times. The 90% drop was thus relative. By now, these men were certain their business model was viable, and they were willing to sit the crisis out. They also stayed on in their respective executive positions, thus keeping their partnership alive.
It worked. The rise of Infosys after the crisis was much more spaced out than that in the years prior – 10 years to be exact. But over the course of that decade, the company did recover to 85% of its dotcom bubble high. Of the eight founders, four also became CEO after the crisis, including Gopalakrishnan. It provided them with the pinnacle of each of their careers, and a continuation of their lifelong partnership. The lesson is that when a business model is proven, a stock market crash shouldn’t necessarily lead to major strategic revisions or to drastic revisions of the executive team. In at least some cases, if you keep the compass steady, at some point the situation will normalize.
That realization won’t soothe individual employees or founders in the midst of a storm, and it isn’t guaranteed unless certain conditions are met. But is important to ask yourself whether the slumps and crises are worth it for you personally, and for the individual company you work for. When the next financial crisis hits, figure out why you’d go on, or whether it’s best to limit your losses – personally as well as financially. Because while you can’t erase your past you always have the decisive hand in your future.
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Is Gideon's bible in my hotel room a problem?
I'm not exactly sure how a standard hotel room contract works, but assuming I am renting the room and have ownership-like responsibilities for everything in it, is it a problem if there is a Gideon's bible in the room? What about other non-Jewish religious items, like a picture/statue of Buddah?
In regards to whether you have ownwership with a rental.
This was in response to whether one can carry on Shabbat from ones room to another's room without an Eiruv Chatzeros.
One should not daven facing a mirror or painting. According to some authorities, if there is a Gideon Bible in the room, it should be placed in a drawer prior to davening Derech Pikudecha (Lo Sa'aseh #11: Hagah), Shaylos U'teshuvos B'tzel Hachochma 2:84.
Whether such paraphernalia is considered avodah zara at all.
In regards to the objects of Buddhism, they are definitely considered avodah zara.
Rambam, Avodah Zarah 6:7, which rules that if the status is made for show, and not for idolatry, it is permitted to derive benefit from it.
Taz (141:2) writes that this is only true under circumstances of itchazek, meaning that there is concrete reason to suspect idolatry.
Although Shach disputes this, today the vast majority of statues are made as works of art and not as idolatry, and unless one has concrete reason for suspecting otherwise, there would be no prohibition on keeping the statue.
However the above only applies to being lenient in profiting from a sale and ownership(cf. Look Here above). So whether its a problem to own them at all is debatable.
These are all generalities though, any action taken should be consulted with a qualified Orthodox Rabbi.
It's all hotel property (or it may even belong to some religious group, not the hotel), not yours. So it's not your problem. The best thing to do is just ignore it.
Here's a quick test: if you were out at a conference and lightning struck the hotel room and burned it down, would the hotel expect you to pay for a new bible? Of course not! (If you damaged their property, that's a different story.) Not your responsibility, property-wise? Then not your responsibility, religion-wise.
The Talmud talks about owning Chametz on Passover; there were Jews who had to store food for the Persian army in their houses. The arrangement was that the Jews had financial responsibility over it, i.e. if the house burned down due to lightning strike, the Jew would be expected to replace the food. This means the food is the Jew's responsibility, and thus if it's Chametz, he couldn't have it in his house on Passover.
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I know the difference between AM and FM, but could anyone explain to me what is the differences between single side band AM and conventional FM?
So far as I know the SSB modulation will reduce the transmitting power. But what is the exact function of SSB AM compared to FM ?
Hope someone can explain to me, thank you!
First of all, you're not 100% right that SSB will reduce transmit power.
I often keep talking on SE about power spectral density. So let me start with that again and first assume that we have a radio that has fixed output power of 100 W.
So let's first take a (simplified) look at AM: We have a carrier and two sidebands. One sideband, the part in red on the picture, actually carries useful information. The carrier is not needed, if we can precisely tune to the frequency, and the other sideband is just a copy of the red sideband. What is important is that when we sum the power over the frequency, we'd get the full power that the transmitter can provide. So for 3 kHz of audio bandwidth, we have 6 kHz of RF bandwidth and 100 watts unevenly spread out over that range.
Now when we're looking into SSB, first we need to better define AM. The usual colloquial AM is actually amplitude modulation, double sideband with carrier.
SSB is also AM, just as you mentioned, but it's amplitude modulation, single sideband with suppressed carrier.
In this case, for 3 kHz of audio bandwidth, we'll have our 100 W spread over not 6 kHz, but just 3 kHz. Furthermore, the carrier is eliminated as well, reducing the wasted power even more. Also, only the useful information from the red sideband is transmitted. So we can either run SSB at lower power, and get same useful density as with AM, or we can run SSB at high power and get much higher density compared to AM, resulting in better signal.
In this case, we'll usually get wider spectrum than usual AM which will be from around 10 kHz (European CB) to 25 kHz (older "wideband" FM transceivers, still used for amateur radio in some areas). The usual formula is BW=2*(Baudio+MaxDeviation). So for our 3 kHz of audio and deviation of 2 kHz, we'll need 2*(3+2)=10 kHz of bandwidth. It should also be noted that until recently, it was difficult to get low deviation values.
So again, we'll be spreading out our 100 W over wider bandwidth. On the other hand, FM does not suffer from the same issues as the AM does, so we basically get better audio quality from FM than we get from AM. The downside is that FM requires "large" bandwidth, resulting in lower power spectral density at the receiver. For line-of-sight communications, usually, the received power is more-or-less OK, so we can afford to waste some bandwidth for higher audio quality.
On the other hand, when we need to cover grater distances, this can be an issue, and that's why SSB is often used. On shortwave, we also have the problem of bandwidth. One FM channel is around 3 SSB channels, so in cases where bandwidth is highly constrained, FM can be a problem.
So why aren't we just using wide SSB on VHF/UHF, where we have plenty of bandwidth?
Well, the reasons are a bit historical. Basically, FM is much more immune to badly adjusted transmitters and receiver frequencies, compared to SSB and it's more difficult to create stable frequency reference in a mobile rig. Furthermore, up until recently, it was a bit hard to make a small, compact, SSB transceiver. In the meantime, FM infrastructure already entrenched itself, so there's not as much demand for such devices.
Firstly, FM is a constant-envelope modulation, meaning the amplitude is constant. SSB, being a kind of amplitude modulation, obviously does not have a constant amplitude. Consequently, FM can employ a non-linear amplifier which is more power efficient, and thus has a longer battery life in mobile operation.
Secondly, SSB signals add with each other and also noise linearly. This can be good or bad, depending on what you are trying to accomplish. For example, aviation communications use AM so if two stations transmit at the same time, both can be heard. With FM, only the stronger station will be heard due to the FM capture effect. Bad for air traffic control, but it also means better noise rejection in the demodulated audio.
Also, SSB channels are narrower, only as wide as the baseband passband. For voice channels this is typically 4 kHz. The width of an FM channel depends on the deviation in use, but for VHF amateur use channels are usually 15 kHz wide. As the channel gets wider, the noise power in it increases, and assuming a constant transmitter power, this means signal-to-noise ratio goes down.
So as a general rule, a narrower channel means more range for every watt of transmiter power. This makes SSB a better choice for long paths on HF. On VHF and higher, range is usually limited by terrain and not power. The natural noise floor is also lower. This makes the power efficiency of SSB less important, and the increased signal quality of FM tends to win out in most applications. Long or weak path VHF applications such as moonbounce, EME, or 6M DX huntin favor SSB over FM for this reason.
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In 62 BC, Pompey returned victorious from Asia. The Senate, elated by its successes against Catiline, refused to ratify the arrangements that Pompey had made. Pompey, in effect, became powerless. Thus, when Julius Caesar returned from a governorship in Spain in 61 BC, he found it easy to make an arrangement with Pompey. Caesar and Pompey, along with Crassus, established a private agreement, now known as the First Triumvirate. Under the agreement, Pompey's arrangements would be ratified. Caesar would be elected consul in 59 BC, and would then serve as governor of Gaul for five years. Crassus was promised a future consulship. Caesar became consul in 59 BC. His colleague, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, was an extreme aristocrat. Caesar submitted the laws that he had promised Pompey to the assemblies. Bibulus attempted to obstruct the enactment of these laws, and so Caesar used violent means to ensure their passage. Caesar was then made governor of three provinces. He facilitated the election of the former patrician Publius Clodius Pulcher to the tribunate for 58 BC. Clodius set about depriving Caesar's senatorial enemies of two of their more obstinate leaders in Cato and Cicero. Clodius was a bitter opponent of Cicero because Cicero had testified against him in a sacrilege case. Clodius attempted to try Cicero for executing citizens without a trial during the Catiline conspiracy, resulting in Cicero going into self-imposed exile and his house in Rome being burnt down. Clodius also passed a bill that forced Cato to lead the invasion of Cyprus which would keep him away from Rome for some years. Clodius also passed a bill that gave the populace a free grain dole, which had reviously just been subsidised. The First Triumvirate was the political alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Unlike the Second Triumvirate, the First Triumvirate had no official status whatsoever; its overwhelming power in the Roman Republic was strictly unofficial influence, and was in fact kept secret for some time as part of the political machinations of the Triumvirs themselves. It was formed in 60 BC and lasted until Crassus' death in 53 BC. Crassus and Pompey had been colleagues in the consulship in 70 BC, when they had legislated the full restoration of the tribunate of the people (the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla had stripped the office of all its rights except the ius auxiliandi, the right to rescue a plebeian from the clutches of a patrician magistrate). However, since that time, the two men had entertained considerable antipathy for one another, each believing the other to have gone out of his way to increase his own reputation at his colleague's expense. Caesar contrived to reconcile the two men, and then combined their clout with his own to have himself elected consul in 59 BC; he and Crassus were already friends (modern consensus as to the beginning of the friendship to be as early as 65 where a young Caesar supported Crassus's proposal to make Egypt tributary to Rome), and he solidified his alliance with Pompey by giving him his own daughter, Julia, in marriage. The alliance combined Caesar's enormous popularity and legal reputation with Crassus's fantastic wealth and influence within the plutocratic Equestrian order (ordo equester) and Pompey's equally spectacular wealth and military reputation.
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In August 1914, Russia entered the First World War, and with it, the Imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict from which they would not emerge His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was 10 years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day to day life as a Grand DuchessIn August 1914, Russia entered the First World War, and with it, the Imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict from which they would not emerge His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was 10 years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day to day life as a Grand Duchess until abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March 1917 Held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Olga s diaries during the wartime period have never been translated into English until this volume At the outset of the war, Olga and her sister, Tatiana, worked as nurses in a military hospital along with their mother, Tsarina Alexandra Olga s younger sisters, Maria and Anastasia, visited their own infirmaries to help raise the morale of the wounded and sick soldiers The strain was indeed great as Olga records her impressions of tending to the officers who had been injured and maimed in the fighting on the Russian front Concerns about her sickly brother, Aleksei abound, as well those for her father who is seen attempting to manage the ongoing war Gregori Rasputin appears in entries too, in an affectionate manner as one would expect of a family friend While the diaries reflect the interests of a young woman, her tone increases in seriousness as the Russian army suffers setbacks, Rasputin is ultimately murdered, and a popular movement against her family begins to grow At the point Olga ends her writing in 1917, the author continues the story by translating letters and impressions from family intimates, such as Anna Vyrubova, as well as the diary kept by Nicholas II himself Finally, once the Imperial family has been put under house arrest by the revolutionaries, observations by Alexander Kerensky, head of the Provisional Government, are provided, these too in English translation for the first time Olga would offer no further personal writings as she and the rest of her family were crowded into a basement of a house in the Urals and shot to death in July 1918.The Diary of Olga Romanov RoyalWitness to the Russian Revolution, translated and introduced by scientist and librarian Helen Azar, and supplemented with additional primary source material, is a remarkable document of a young woman who did not choose to be part of a royal family and never exploited her own position, but lost her life simply because of what her family represented.
The Diary of a Young Girl The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The Diary of Anne Frank arvadacenter Her diary was the one place for privacy in her attic hiding place It holds her fears, her hopes, her laughter, her grief Her belief that in spite of everything, people are truly good at heart has moved readers for than seventy years. Diary A diary is a record originally in handwritten format with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period A personal diary may include a person s experiences, thoughts, and or feelings, excluding comments on current events outside the Home The Diary The Diary is a mobile care management platform that promotes effective, value based outcomes and increased patient participation. The diary Anne Frank House Anne didn t just keep a diary She also wrote tales and planned to publish a book about her time in the Secret Annex After the war, Otto Frank fulfilled her wish Since then, Anne Frank s diary has been translated into than languages Discover the story behind the diary of Anne Frank. Breaking Benjamin The Diary of Jane YouTube May , Breaking Benjamin latest album DARK BEFORE DAWN featuring the singles Failure, Angels Fall, and Ashes of Eden is available now Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank, B.M Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank, B.M Mooyaart, Eleanor Roosevelt on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank s remarkable diary has become a world classic a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell The Diary of a bookseller made me think I m not so crazy after all It appears there are way crazier people in the world It also appears most of them frequent this book shop. The Diary of Anne Frank When the Nazis come, Anne s diary is hidden and after the war one of the community comes back and like Ishmael retrieves the diary and very much tells the tale Anne s diary, the hopes and dreams of a teenage girl caught up in a world of hate she couldn t comprehend, is now classic literature. Watch The Diary of Anne Frank Prime Video The Diary of Anne Frank The Critical Edition is just as good with details about Anne and the Frank family, as well as the rest of the people in the Secret Annexe The Hidden Life of Otto Frank is excellent too if you want to know about Anne Frank.
Helen Azar is a public librarian specializing in history She grew up in a Russian speaking household and as a child used to translate paragraphs from children s books and magazines for fun.While researching for her first book, Helen visited Russia several times, and as part of the library school academic curriculum worked in the Rare Book Fund at the Museum at Tsarskoe Selo, which holds the imperial book collection, including that of Catherine the Great and the last Tsar Nicholas II.Helen s professional scientific training and a passion for Russian history led to co authoring several articles on the identification of the remains of the last Tsar and his family.Currently Helen works at the Free Library of Philadelphia and is part of a team of librarians that runs popular local history programs.
Had tea. Had lunch. Like a very bad twitter feed from the last days of the Russian Court.
Not worth the effort to translate. I have always had a avid interest in her family was very disappointed in what was written. She mostly visited family members and wrote sugary letters to her father.
This is a great way to read about the Romanovs.
Interesting and gives a glimpse of what Olga's life was but absolutely pointless, I don't think her diaries should have been published as they bring nothing new about the Tsar family life, the war or the revolution.
I found this very interesting. Loved that is was a mixture of Olga's diary, the Tsars diary, memoirs of friends and family, and letter to friends and family. Perfect for those who have like to read about the Romanovs.
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In any event, there is no reason to believe that the intake of fluoride beyond the age of five would have any effect on the tooth decay rate. The report makes it clear p 2 9 that "evidence on which to base an actual requirement for fluoride is scant This would take resources not available to those whose cause is not favoured, as is the report under review, by the public purse.
Failing to include all requested information can cause your LOI to be disregarded. What should the subject line be? We know MWTC will be there for us as we follow up on contracts in this market and explore new markets abroad.
Enamel fluorosis is termed an "adverse cosmetic effect" rather than a "functional adverse effect", even in its most advanced forms p 8 Do not address a letter of intent to the admissions committee. Browning earned a Bachelor of Arts in English language and literature from the University of Virginia.
The number of medical school applications has again increased this year.
The "confirmation" that dental fluorosis is an "adverse cosmetic effect" rather than an "adverse functional effect" will be hailed by fluoride promoters as it fits well the preconceived notion. Finkel repeatedly observed candidates who undermined their chances of success with poorly compiled application materials, underdeveloped personal statements and inadequate interview skills.
Use a one- or two-sentence closing statement that reiterates your interest, thanks them for their time, and expresses how you look forward to next steps in the admissions process.
While DRI lays out the parameters for conducting risk assessments in Chapter 3, it ignores application of those parameters particularly egregiously with respect to fluoride in purporting to establish a "tolerable upper intake level'.
Here are some tips for writing a noteworthy letter of intent: What is a medical school letter of intent? Finkel repeatedly observed candidates who undermined their chances of success with poorly compiled application materials, underdeveloped personal statements and inadequate interview skills.
It is not surprising to note that Health Canada is one of the contributors. Not a single one of those studies was a randomized control trial. Commercial Service; the Canadian Consulate; UM alumnus Kyle Washington; and many others in planning events designed to maximize business success potential.
The authors refer to the papers by Fejerskov where his statements can be used to support their bias. Be specific about what you saw and liked during your interview day.
Step 1 Address the letter to the medical school dean or director of admissions. Highlight your accomplishments to distinguish yourself. It is important to use the specific name of the recipient. Medical school admissions have become increasingly competitive of late — especially in this weaker economy.
This Institute of Medicine Report ignores a vast body of contrary evidence that undermines the seemingly sure positions that it seeks to impose on an unquestioning public.
For a 70 kg adult, a Health Canada survey 18 gives 3. We find that letters of intent make a difference. If you are planning to send additional grade reports or other documentation, mention that at this point.
This applies to all ranges of schools, from the best schools or most competitive schools in the country, to the least competitive schools.
The report states that these values are "set to protect the most sensitive individuals in the healthy general population such as elderly individuals who tend to have a decreased glomerular filtration rate " p S Should I write a letter of Intent before I interview? The tables showing the Adequate Intake AI and Tolerable Upper Levels UL are calculated to defend the concept that current intakes are "necessary for good dental health" and are at levels that are "safe".
The safety of fluoride tablets or drops. The authors of the report also deal with the effects which occur at very low intake of fluoride which they term "negative balance".Since you have just taken the effort to research the term “recommendation letter for nurse practitioner school”, you most likely are getting ready to embark on a highly rewarding and in-demand new future.
What it is: Like a letter of intent, a letter of interest should express your enthusiasm for a medical school’s academics, offerings, and culture. Moreover, you should highlight ways in which you will fit with and enrich the student agronumericus.comon: Los Angeles, CA USA.
What are medical school “letters of intent” and what role do they play in the medical school admission process? A letter of intent is like a love letter that’s sent to a medical school: it expresses an applicant’s fervent wish to enroll at that one particular school, stating why the applicant feels so strongly about the school, its environment, student.
Writing a leave letter to an employer is a very simple and straightforward task.
It is necessary to keep the letter short and concise while stating the reason in clear terms.
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What time does Manny Pacquiao Vs Timothy Bradley fight start?
The Manny Pacquiao Vs Timothy Bradley PPV fight starts at 2:00 am UK time, I'm guessing the main event itself should start around 4:00 am, but if some of the fights on the under-card go the distance, then Pacquiao/Bradley could start as late as 5:00 am.
For those of you who are planning on staying up late to watch the fight, enjoy your night!
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Hardy made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001) and has since played in such films as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, Hardy portrayed "Mad" Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Bane, and Dunkirk (2017). He starred as Eddie Brock / Venom in the antihero film Venom (2018).
Hardy's television roles include the HBO war drama miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama miniseries The Virgin Queen (2005), ITV's Wuthering Heights (2008), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2013–2017). He created, co-produced, and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.
Hardy married producer Sarah Ward in 1999; they divorced in 2004. From 2003 to 2004, he had a relationship with actress Linda Park. They lived together in London and also co-starred in the drama Roger and Vanessa in 2004. He had a son (born 2008) with his girlfriend at the time, assistant director Rachael Speed, whom he met on the set of The Virgin Queen. in 2005. They separated in 2009 after being together for four years. In 2009, Hardy began a relationship with actress Charlotte Riley, after they met on the set of Wuthering Heights. They married in July 2014. In October 2015, Hardy's wife gave birth to a son.
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In the State of Israel, where millions of Jews live together in one small geographic area, there are, and have always been, a dozen (sometimes 15-20+) Jewish political parties.
Is a community as divided and fragmented as Israel currently is, not in danger of disintegrating or being destroyed by its enemies?
This means that some divisions (less than two dozen) are normal and necessary; but to much division (two dozen plus) is destructive.
Just as every human body is a total unity divided into many different parts (organs, bones, personality types etc.), social, political and religious bodies are also made up of many different religious, social and political parties.
Thus, while Judaism and the Jewish People have always been one religion and one nation; their one wholeness has always been the sum of many different parts.
In Biblical days, the People of Israel were divided into three or four distinct groups based on the number of Mitsvot they were subject to.
First, the twelve tribes of Israel were divided into Levites, who were responsible for running the Temple in Jerusalem, and the remaining eleven tribes; with more Mitsvot applying to the Levites than the rest of Israel.
Second, the tribe of Levy was divided into the clan of Kohanim, who were responsible for the Temple service ritual offerings; and the other clans who were just regular Temple Levites, with the Kohanim being subject to many more Mitsvot than even the Levites.
Third, all Israelites were divided by gender; with many more Mitsvot applying to men than women.
First Kohanim, second Levites, third Jewish men in general and fourth; Jewish woman, who are not called up to read Torah at all.
In Conservative Synagogues there are only the first three categories, and in Reform Temples where tribal and gender equality is stressed there is only one category: Jews.
The new groups, parties and sects within the Jewish People in the post Biblical period were no longer tribal and inherited.
They were geographical and cultural i.e. Hellenistic Jews and Israeli Jews; religious i.e. Scribes Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and political; Herodians, Zealot and Sicari anti-Roman revolutionaries and disciples of the sages/rabbis.
In Medieval times diversity among new groups was reduced and constricted primarily to geography; Sephardim and Ashkenazim and to some extant to philosophy; Kabbalists and Talmudists.
However, the Ashkenazim in the modern age are divided into several religious sects: Hassidim, Anti-hasidim, modern Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and several smaller groups.
So, is the warning of Rabbi Yohanan that Israel did not go into exile until there were “twenty-four sects [kitot] of minim.” still valid today? Yes and no.
Some divisions are normal and necessary; but extreme and intolerant division is destructive.
As we have seen, from the time of Jacob’s descendants Israel has been divide into twelve tribes. From the time of Aaron descendants, the tribe of Levy has been separated from the other tribes.
From some time after the Maccabbees the Essenes and the Pharisees separated (Pharisee means separatist) from the Sadduces and by the first century there were over a dozen separate parties in Israel.
But even so there did not have to be fragmentation and destruction. The sin that caused the destruction of Jerusalem was the political and religious extremism that led to unrestricted, unlimited hate.
“Why was the First Temple destroyed? Because of three things which existed in it: idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed. …But why was the Second Temple destroyed, since at that time people were involved in study, mitzvot, and deeds of kindness?
What kind of hatred was there?
of the desecration of the Sabbath.
the morning and evening prayers were abolished.
the children of the schools remained untaught.
the people did not feel shame (at their hatred) toward one another.
no distinction was drawn between the young and the old.
one did not warn or admonish (against despising the) other.
much of scholarship and learning were despised.
there were no longer men of hope and faith in their midst.
her laws were founded upon the strict letter of the Torah and were not interpreted in the ways of mercy and kindness.
Thus, it was not the variety of parties and sects that doomed Jerusalem in the first century. It was the ‘senseless hatred’ resulting from the strict, uncompromising, overly self-righteous, intolerance of many of the parties that doomed Jerusalem.
May it not happen again.
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Baseball is so well-rooted in Japan that it’s hard to believe the game’s origins lie abroad. Annual spectator figures are well over 20 million, dwarfing Japan’s second most popular spectator sport, football, which draws in about 5 million. Nor is the following limited to the professional leagues: the All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series and the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League (a league between six major universities in Tokyo) are also key events on the baseball calendar for the media and fans alike.
Horace Wilson, an English professor who worked at Kaisei School (now Tokyo University), is widely considered to have introduced baseball to the country when he taught a small group of students the game in the early 1870s. The first professional league was founded in 1936 and this gave rise to Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in 1949, today the largest competitive league in Japan. NPB consists of two circuits: the Pacific League and the Central League, each of which contain six teams who play each other in a 144-game season that runs from early April to October. At the end of the season the top two teams from each circuit play off against each other in the Japan Championship Series held in November, a best-of-seven competition that decides the grand champion.
The rules differ slightly between the two circuits: the Pacific League employs the “designated hitter” rule (a player designated to bat in place of the pitcher), while the Central League does not.
How can I watch a baseball game?
With five professional baseball teams in and around the Tokyo area and each team typically playing 5-6 games per week, getting tickets is relatively easy. Tokyo Dome (home to the Yomiuri Giants) and Meiji Jingu Stadium (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) are the two baseball stadiums in Tokyo and tickets can be purchased directly from each team’s official website. Yokohama Stadium (Yokohama Baystars) is another option being only 45 minutes by train from Tokyo. Ticket prices typically range from ¥1,000 ($9) to ¥6,000 ($54) and can be purchased on the day, but it’s always best to book ahead.
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Known for his big smile and an even bigger afro, Billy Preston died in an avalanche of health, legal and financial problems. It was easy to forget the dizzying talent behind early albums bearing titles like The Wildest Organ in Town and The Most Exciting Organ Ever.
Preston had been unresponsive since the previous November, in fact, when he finally died on June 6, 2006. Recurrent drug problems framed his final days, decades after close collaborations with the Beatles led to a string of solo hits in the '70s and a lengthy stint with the Rolling Stones. At 59, Preston had voluntarily entered rehab, where acute respiratory failure brought on by swelling around his heart pushed him into a coma. A battle over his estate raged for a decade longer.
None of it matched up with Preston's lighthearted public persona. He was specifically invited into the sessions that produced the Beatles' Let It Be in order to keep the peace among the band's warring factions. He appeared on the group's April 1969 single "Get Back," which was credited to "the Beatles with Billy Preston" – a first for a sanctioned band release – as well as its B-side, "Don't Let Me Down." He also played on "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Something" from 1969's Abbey Road. Taking part in the Beatles' 42-minute performance -- their final public performance -- on Jan. 30, 1969, on top of the Apple building in London remained special to him.
"Musically, my favorite moment was on the roof for Let It Be," Preston told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004. "It was a struggle for them," he added in 2001. "They were kind of despondent. They had lost the joy of doing it all."
The Beatles signed Preston to Apple Records, and George Harrison produced two of his solo albums. He later appeared at Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, and collaborated on a string of the group's solo projects, including Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Dark Horse, Extra Texture (Read All About It), Thirty Three & 1/3 and Gone Troppo; John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and Sometime in New York City; and Ringo Starr's Ringo and Goodnight Vienna.
He scored major solo hits with upbeat R&B songs like "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from Nothing," along with the synth-driven funk instrumental "Outa-Space," before beginning a lengthy collaboration with the Stones. Preston was part of the sessions for some of the band's most acclaimed albums, including Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St. and Tattoo You.
He also appeared on Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'n Roll, Black and Blue and various concurrent tours. By 1976, Preston has his own solo spot during Rolling Stones shows. They too eventually drifted apart, but Preston stayed involved with the Stones over the years, appearing on "Saint of Me" from Bridges to Babylon and on Mick Jagger's solo album Wandering Spirit. "Billy was a fantastic and gifted musician – a superb singer in both recording sessions and onstage," Jagger told the Guardian upon Preston's death. "He was great fun to be with, and I will miss him a lot."
Along the way, Preston was a sideman on Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On and on Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. He co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful," a hit for Joe Cocker. But legal troubles dogged him into the '90s, as Preston served nine months in a drug rehabilitation center after pleading no contest to cocaine and assault charges in 1992. "I wanted to keep the high that I felt onstage," Preston admitted in an interview with People. "After the crowds go home, you are left alone. Especially when you travel, there is no one there for you."
He was sentenced to prison five years later for violating probation; he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in an alleged scam in 1998. Preston gamely tried to return to the gospel music of his youth, and later rebounded to work with Eric Clapton (Me and Mr. Johnson), Ray Charles (Genius Loves Company), Neil Diamond (12 Songs) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Stadium Arcadium). "[Jail] was a great lesson, an awakening. I needed to reflect, to get rid of some of the dead weight around me," Preston said years later. "You take the bitter with the sweet and I have to say it was my faith that kept me going. I had nothing else to fall back on."
Born William Everett Preston on Sept. 2, 1946, in Houston, he grew up in Los Angeles as a child prodigy. By age 10, he was backing gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. Later, he was given lessons by Charles, worked with Sam Cooke and starred as the young W.C. Handy in the film St. Louis Blues. A 1962 tour of Europe with Little Richard gave Preston the opportunity to meet his boss' opening act, an unknown band called the Beatles.
Preston's connection to the Beatles continued late into his career. He toured with Starr in 1989, performed at 2002's Concert for George, recorded an album called Billy Preston's Beatles Salute in 2004 and appeared with Starr onstage for an anniversary concert honoring the Concert for Bangladesh in 2005.
Still, he died in 2006 after a disputed bankruptcy filing. Preston's surviving friends and family finally reached a tentative agreement over the remains of his fortune in May 2015, eight years after his death. They wouldn't work out the final language for another year. Some $2 million in royalties was split among a bankruptcy trustee and two other groups, Preston Music Group Incorporated and the William Preston Trust. PMGI, which is led by Preston's longtime friend and manager Joyce Moore, received all of his personal items, copyrights and intellectual property.
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The ancient Egyptians believed that, when they died, they would be judged on their behaviour during their lifetime before they could be granted a place in the Afterlife. This judgement ceremony was called "Weighing of the Heart" and was recorded in Chapter 125 of the funerar text known as the "Book of the Dead".
The ceremony was believed to have taken place before Osiris, the chief god of the dead and Afterlife, and a tribunal of 43 dieties. Standing before the tribunal the deceased was asked to name each of the divine judges and swear that he or she had not committed any offences, ranging from raising the voice to stealing. This was the "negative confession". If found innocent, the deceased was declared "true of voice" and allowed to proceed into the Afterlife.
The proceedings were recorded by Thoth, the scribe of the gods, and the deity of wisdom. Thoth was often dipicted as a human with an ibis head, writing on a scroll of papyrus. His other animal form, the baboon, was often depicted sitting on the pivot of the scales of justice.
The symbolic ritual that accompanied this ritual was the weighing of the heart of the deceased on a pair of enormous scales. It was weighed against the principle of truth and justice ( known as maat ) represented by a feather, the symbol of the goddess of truth, order and justice, Maat. If the heart balanced against the feather then the deceased would be granted a place in the Fields of Hetep and Iaru. If it was heavy with the weight of wrongdoings, the balance would sink and the heart would be grabbed and devoured by a terrifying beast that sat ready and waiting by the scales. This beast was Ammit, "the gobbler", a composite animal with the head of a crocodile, the front legs and body of lion or leopard, and the back legs of a hippopotamus.
The ancient Egyptians considered the heart to be the centre of thought, memory and emotion. It was thus associated with interlect and personality and was considered the most important organ in the body. It was deemed to be essential for rebirth into the Afterlife. Unlike the other internal organs, it was never removed and embalmed separately, because its presence in the body was crucial.
If the deceased was found to have done wrong and the heart weighed down the scales, he or she was not though to enter a place of tourment like hell, but to cease to exist at all. This idea would have terrified the ancient Egyptians. However, for those who could afford to include Chapter 125 of the Book of the Dead in their tombs, it was almost guaranteed that they would pass successfully into the Afterlife. This is because the Egyptians believed in the magical qualities of the actual writings and illustrations in funerary texts. By depicting the heart balancing in the scales against the feather of Maat they ensured that would be the favourable outcome. The entire ceremony was, after all, symbolic.
Following the Weighing of the Heart, the organ was returned to its owner. To make quite sure that this did happen, Chapters 26-29 of the Book of the Dead were spells to ensure that the heart was returned and this it could never be removed again.
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Assess your financing needs. While starting a business from home can be more affordable than starting a traditional business, you will still need money to get started. As you form your home business idea, think about how much money you will need to buy inventory, buy your production equipment, or cover any other initial costs. If you don’t have a lot in savings, you can also get a business loan to get started, but this would mean qualifying for and then subsequently being responsible for a loan, which can be difficult for a new business. Consider your financing options carefully as you set up your home business.
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Ensuring that your dog gets ample amount of exercise is a pet owner responsibility. Most dogs are well suited for endurance type activities, which means they are perfect workout partners for us humans. Not only can they keep up with us, but they can push us to work harder simply due to their enthusiasm and willingness to do what we ask them to. So instead of looking at exercising our pets as a responsibility (e.g. a chore), perhaps we should look at it as a privilege?
Longer lifespans. Both the human and the dog is likely to live a longer life if they are fit and exercise regularly. The Purina study showed that thin littermates lived about 2 years longer than fat ones, which translates to roughly 10-15% longer life span. To put this in human terms, a 10-15% longer life means an extra 10 years or so (assuming an average life span of a human is near 73 years).
More active and fuller lives. Exercising with your dog daily means that both of you will be strong and have sound bodies. This means that you will both very likely live more active and fuller lives. When your dog is fit, they will be better able to handle whatever comes their way.
Human Animal Bond. A family that exercises together, stays together. At least when it comes to you and your dog. Exercising with your dog can create a remarkable bond between you two. This is for 2 main reasons: 1) the simple act of doing something together strengthens the bond and 2) exercise can cause both you and your dog to experience a feeling of euphoria, (aka runner’s high) and experiencing this feeling of joy together can cement the bond like virtually nothing else.
Smarter Dog, smarter human. Regular exercise has a positive impact on brain function so both you and your dog might become smarter, retain memories longer, and perhaps become more curious as well. All of which can enrich the experience of and improve the overall quality of life.
Fun. Last but not least, exercising with your dog is more fun than exercising alone. I often find myself smiling when I am out on the trails running with our dogs. I can see how much they enjoy running with me, and their enjoyment reflects back to me. In fact, all of us seem to wear a big grin on our faces as we go up and back on our route.
While these are my 5 top reasons to exercise with your dog, I know there are many more that could be added to the list. What are some of your favorite reasons?
5 great reasons. I exercise my dogs to keep them in shape for their competition work during the summer so they don’t get hurt and have to be laid up.
That’s always a good thing – when the pants fit.
Anymore I exercise for the same reason my Humans do, keep fit and trim, or try.
Those are 5 great reasons ~ we exercise every day to stay fit, in shape, and avoid pent-up energy for relaxed puppies while we’re not home!
I watched the entirety of your playlist & loved it, particularly the Pooch Hotel in West L.A.! It made me miss civilization so bad. I can’t wait to move closer to it again!!
Thanks for sticking through that list…we haven’t done any vids in awhile, will have to get that camera out soon.
hahaha! I love that first photo! Steve’s face! hahaha!!!
We have really been taking advantage of getting out with the dogs more since our overly extended winter is over. I love this time of year because everything is just starting to bloom, and the smells are everywhere, so my huskies noses are getting a good workout as well!
We got the fun part covered for sure. Eko and Penny are still holding out hope the “smarter human” part of the equation kicks in eventually.
Dogs are great ice breakers.
I love knowing that our dogs will have a longer life, because they’re healthy. I also love that each door to our house represents something to the dogs. The front door means we’re going on a drive or company’s here. The side door means we’re going to play. The back door means that we’re going to go hang out.
Exercising is definitely more fun with a pup! I have always hated getting sweaty and gross, so normally having to walk any distance when it gets up to 80 degrees would make me very cranky, but watching Barley splash in the lake to cool off makes me smile.
If something isn’t fun, people are not going to do it for very long and walking dogs, seeing the world in a whole new way every day is fun. Inspiring post.
Fun is our favorite reason! Everything is more fun with a buddy, and a dog is always there and ready to go and have fun!
Ah…to be outside walking or running with my dog. I can think of no better way to start my day. It clears my head before for the day starts. And Garin loves to be outside in the fresh air no matter what the weather or activity.
All great reasons. #5 is probably my favorite.
Excellent information. Exercise is so important for both us and our beloved dogs. We do agility, which is running and obstacles, which keeps Earl incredibly fit. Ethel will soon be old enough to start, but right now, she is still developing.
I’ve always been a self titled exercise junkie! 🙂 I’ve been pretty sad that my studies have recently kept me from doing what I want to do. But rejoice! I’ll be rejuvenating my exercise routine as soon as I graduate. The dogs on the other hand we have to exercise or they go nuts!
I want them to live long healthy lives so we’re very good about diet and exercise with them. Now, if only I had someone to monitor my diet and force me to exercise i’d be set!
IT is harder to be self-motivated sometimes.
We just love exercising with the dogs! Its so much fun! We have had to adjust some of our activities with one senior and one pup, but we are flexible, and just try to have fun and work their body and brain!
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Great reasons! We also like to exercise together so we both stay fit and trim!
I love all of these reasons, but far and above keeping us all healthy and happy is the most important to me! I always find myself smiling when playing, walking, or jogging with the dogs….their happiness is contagious.
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Mr. N makes me notice all the wildlife lol. The ones that he wants to eat (bunnies, squirrels) and the ones that want to eat him (coyotes, hawks).
A regular dog exercise routine is also great for preventing boredom. When you need to go out, and can’t take them with you, it helps to give them exercise so they’re more likely to sleep while you’re away.
Being active with your dog(s) is the greatest feeling ever! I just spent the entire day in the backyard with the Boys. Fun in the pool, then racing up the hill in the yard, tossing frisbees, balls, and just hanging out. We are all exhausted, but it feels so good!
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What does an organic label tell about the product?
It is important to note that an organic label applies to the production process, ensuring that the product has been produced and processed in an ecologically sound manner. The organic label is therefore a production process claim as opposed to a product quality claim.
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A praised Grammy winner, Ziggy Marley was considered a leading talent in the music industry. Marley worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Cool Runnings: The Reggae Movie" with Third World (1986), "Married to the Mob" (1988) starring Michelle Pfeiffer, "Men At Work" (1990), "Slaves of New York" with Bernadette Peters (1989), "Some Girls" (1989) and "True Identity" (1991) starring Lenny Henry. In the nineties and the early 2000s, Marley devoted his time to various credits, such as "Road Trip: Comedy Central on Tour With H.O.R.D.E." (Comedy Central, 1995-96), "Arthur" (PBS, 1996-2014), "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC, 2002-) and "Real Time with Bill Maher" (HBO, 2002-). In the early 2000s and the 2010s, Marley lent his talents to projects like the Will Smith and Robert De Niro blockbuster "Shark Tale" (2004), "Into the Blue" with Paul Walker (2005), "Africa Unite" (2008), "Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore" (2010) starring James Marsden and "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?" with Tyler Perry (2010). Marley last worked on "Saving My Tomorrow" (2014-15).
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How often do you take time-out for yourself or even to listen to your favorite music? I know I don't do it as often as I should. The type of music I am talking about is music that is light and easy to listen to. I usually pick instrumental only songs, this way I avoid overbearing emotions and the need to sing along that lyrics can produce. Light classical music works great for this, however, you know what best works for you.
Turn off the TV and do not multitask, just sit with your thoughts (or the lack of them) for a little while. Doing this even if it's for five minutes, will make a huge impact on your decision making and well being. Don't have time to dedicate a few minutes? Well, you'll be surprised to find out that the Earth will keep spinning and life will go on whether you finished all of your work or not. Taking this break forces you to stop and be present, and what a wonderful and calming feeling that is. For more detailed information on how music affects us and promotes health, read this article.
Below are some of my favorite music picks, give them a try, you might just like them!
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Hier siehst du eine Auflistung mit einigen Infos der Motoren die A als Kennbuchstaben haben.
AAA 120 163 2,8 6 07/94 - 12/97 Golf VR6 : "CN", "GUS"
AAA 120 163 2,8 6 02/95 - 12/96 Passat VR6 : "CN", "GUS"
AAA 120 163 2,8 6 07/94 - 12/97 Vento VR6 : "CN", "GUS"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 03/92 - 07/95 Golf "BRA"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 08/92 - 12/98 Golf "CDN"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 08/92 - 12/98 Golf "USA"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 03/92 - 12/98 Golf "USA", "CDN"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 08/92 - 01/94 Jetta "BRA"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 08/92 - 12/98 Jetta "CDN"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 08/92 - 12/98 Jetta "USA"
ABA 85 115 2,0 4 08/92 - 12/98 Jetta "USA", "CDN"
ABD 40 55 1,4 4 11/91 - 09/94 Golf Monomotronic, Kat, "A"
ACC 66 90 1,8 4 04/95 - 05/96 Golf "BR"
ACC 66 90 1,8 4 08/92 - 12/98 Golf "CDN"
ACC 66 90 1,8 4 08/91 - 07/94 Golf "MEX"
ACC 66 90 1,8 4 08/93 - 07/95 Jetta "CDN"
ACC 66 90 1,8 4 08/92 - 01/94 Jetta "MEX"
ACD 34 46 1,6 4 10/92 - 07/03 Tipo 1 "MEX"
ACX 78 106 2,0 4 08/91 - 12/94 Passat "CN"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/96 - 12/98 Golf "BR"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 07/96 Golf "BR", "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/94 - 07/96 Golf "BR", "RA"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 12/98 Golf "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 07/96 Golf "MEX", "RCH"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/96 - 12/98 Golf "RA"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/96 - 12/98 Jetta "BR"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 07/96 Jetta "BR", "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 07/96 Jetta "BR", "RA"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 12/98 Jetta "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 02/94 - 07/96 Jetta "MEX", "RCH"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/96 - 12/98 Jetta "RA"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/99 - 09/01 Polo "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/95 - 07/96 Vento "BR", "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/95 - 07/96 Vento "MEX"
ADC 85 115 2,0 4 08/95 - 07/96 Vento "MEX", "RCH"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/96 - 12/98 Golf "BR"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/93 - 07/96 Golf "BR", "MEX"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/93 - 12/98 Golf "MEX"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/93 - 07/96 Golf "MEX", "RCH"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/93 - 12/98 Golf "RA"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/96 - 12/98 Jetta "BR"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 02/94 - 07/96 Jetta "BR", "MEX"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 02/94 - 12/98 Jetta "MEX"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 02/94 - 07/96 Jetta "MEX", RCH"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 02/94 - 12/98 Jetta "RA"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 03/98 - 09/01 Polo "MEX"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/95 - 12/98 Vento "MEX"
ADD 66 90 1,8 4 08/95 - 01/97 Vento "MEX", "RCH"
ADP 74 100 1,6 4 01/97 - 10/97 Passat "F"
ADX 40 54 1,3 4 10/94 - 04/97 Polo "ET"
ADY 85 115 2,0 4 07/95 - 05/96 Golf "J"
ADY 85 115 2,0 4 07/95 - 05/96 Vento "J"
AEA 55 75 1,6 4 10/94 - 07/95 Polo "F"
AEE 55 75 1,6 4 06/97 - 05/98 Caddy "F"
AEE 55 75 1,6 4 07/95 - 07/96 Polo "F"
AEG 85 115 2,0 4 09/99 - 06/01 Golf "MEX"
AEG 85 115 2,0 4 01/98 - 04/01 Golf "NAR"
AEG 85 115 2,0 4 12/98 - 05/00 Golf "NAR", "MEX"
AEG 85 115 2,0 4 11/98 - 01/05 Jetta "MEX"
AEG 85 115 2,0 4 11/98 - 05/01 Jetta "USA", "CDN"
AEG 85 115 2,0 4 01/98 - 05/01 New Beetle "USA", "CDN"
AEH 74 100 1,6 4 05/99 - 05/05 Bora "CN", "GUS"
AEH 74 100 1,6 4 01/98 - 05/04 Golf "CN", "GUS"
AEN 81 110 2,5 5 05/95 - 12/95 Transporter "CN", "GUS"
AEP 79 107 2,0 4 01/95 - 12/97 Golf "CN", "GUS"
AEP 79 107 2,0 4 01/95 - 12/97 Vento "CN", "GUS"
AER 37 50 1,0 4 07/96 - 12/99 Polo "F", "TN"
AFT 74 100 1,6 4 03/98 - 09/98 Golf "F"
AFT 74 100 1,6 4 12/95 - 04/96 Polo "F"
AFX 74 100 1,6 4 01/98 - Polo 1,6 Ltr.
AFY 85 115 1,8 4 01/97 - 04/00 Passat "CN", "GUS"
AGU 110 150 1,8 4 02/99 - 04/01 Bora "J"
AGU 110 150 1,8 4 08/00 - 06/01 Golf "BR"
AGU 110 150 1,8 4 06/97 - 07/01 Golf "J"
AHB 42 57 1,7 4 07/96 - 09/00 Caddy Kombi, Kastenwagen SDI Diesel, "F"
AHL 74 100 1,6 4 10/96 - 06/99 Passat "F"
AHS 55 75 1,6 4 07/95 - 12/99 Polo "J"
AJN 85 115 1,9 4 05/00 - 04/01 Golf TDI, "B"
AKL 74 100 1,6 4 09/98 - 04/99 Bora "F"
AKL 74 100 1,6 4 10/97 - 04/99 Golf "F"
ALD 37 50 1,0 4 01/00 - 09/01 Polo "TN"
ALH 66 90 1,9 4 06/00 - 05/01 Jetta TDI, "RA"
ALH 66 90 1,9 4 11/98 - 06/04 Jetta TDI, "USA", "CDN"
ALH 66 90 1,9 4 06/01 - 06/04 Jetta TDI, "USA", "RA"
ALH 66 90 1,9 4 01/98 - 06/00 New Beetle TDI, "USA", "CDN"
ALH 66 90 1,9 4 06/01 - 06/04 New Beetle TDI, "USA", "CDN"
ALH 66 90 1,9 4 06/01 - 06/04 New Beetle TDI, "USA"
ANX 40 54 1,4 4 05/96 - 08/99 Polo "A"
APH 110 150 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA"
APH 110 150 1,8 4 01/98 - 05/01 New Beetle "USA", "CDN"
APK 85 115 2,0 4 06/00 - 01/05 Jetta "BR"
APK 85 115 2,0 4 06/00 - 01/05 Jetta "BR", "RA"
APK 85 115 2,0 4 01/98 - 07/05 New Beetle "BR"
APQ 44 60 1,4 4 09/96 - 05/98 Caddy "F"
AQY 85 115 2,0 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "J"
AQY 85 115 2,0 4 01/98 - 07/05 New Beetle "RA"
ASY 47 64 1,9 4 09/07 - Fox MPV "RA"
AUM 110 150 1,8 4 06/97 - 07/01 Golf "J"
AVH 85 115 2,0 4 09/98 - 05/00 Bora "MEX"
AVH 85 115 2,0 4 02/01 - 06/01 Jetta "MEX"
AVH 85 115 2,0 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA"
AVH 85 115 2,0 4 08/00 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA", "CDN"
AWD 110 150 1,8 4 08/00 - 06/01 Golf "MEX"
AWD 110 150 1,8 4 06/97 - 07/01 Golf "NAR"
AWD 110 150 1,8 4 06/00 - 05/01 Jetta "USA", "CDN"
AWM 125 170 1,8 4 02/01 - 11/05 Passat "MEX"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 01/05 - 05/07 Bora "RA"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/07 - 12/13 Clasico Jetta GLI "MEX"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/01 - 12/13 Jetta "MEX"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/01 - 01/05 Jetta "MEX", "RA"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/01 - 01/05 Jetta "USA", "CDN"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 03/04 - 01/05 Jetta "USA", "MEX"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "MEX"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA", "CDN"
AWP 132 180 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA", "MEX"
AWU 110 150 1,8 4 07/05 - 09/10 New Beetle "RA"
AWU 110 150 1,8 4 12/07 - 09/10 New Beetle "RCH"
AWU 110 150 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA", "CDN"
AWV 110 150 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "MEX"
AWV 110 150 1,8 4 01/98 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA"
AWV 110 150 1,8 4 06/01 - 07/05 New Beetle "USA", "CDN"
AWW 110 150 1,8 4 06/97 - 07/01 Golf "NAR"
AWW 110 150 1,8 4 06/00 - 05/01 Jetta "USA", "CDN"
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James Milner plays the position Midfield, is 33 years old and 175cm tall, weights 70kg.
In the current club Liverpool played 4 seasons, during this time he played 194 matches and scored 24 goals.
How many goals has James Milner scored this season?
In the current season James Milner scored 9 goals.
In the club he scored 9 goals ( Capital One, FA Cup, Premier League, Champions League, Friendlies, Champions Cup). James Milner this seasons has also noted 6 assists, played 5045 minutes, with 34 times he played game in first line.
James Milner shots an average of 0.18 goals per game in club competitions.
Last season his average was 0.02 goals per game, he scored 1 goals in 55 club matches.
In the current season for Liverpool James Milner gave a total of 33 shots, of which 11 were shots on goal. Passes completed James Milner is 84 percent.
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The overall auto industry had grown by 6.81 percent in 2016-17, while the study of the previous years was different. In 2015-16, it was 3.78 percent, 7.06 percent in 2014-15 while in 2.13-14, it was 3.54 percent. The lowest ever, 2.49 percent was in 2012-13.
In PV segment, the growth of sales increased 14.32 percent with the sale of 1, 44,297 units, while the rival Hyundai Motor India raised their sale up by 9.98 percent with the sale of 44,008 cars.
If you look at Mahindra motors, they boast of an increase of sales with 21.66 percent at 15,990 units.
The Indian rival Tata Motors increased their sale 38.14 percent with the sale of 18,832 units in November last year.
The two-wheeler sales have been increased 23.49 percent in November last year by selling 15, 35,277 units which is much higher than the data of November 2015 that shows the sale of only 12,43,246 units.
The sale of motorcycles has been increased by 23.25 percent at the sale of 9.59,122 units, while the sale of the same month in 2016 was 7, 78,173 units.
Market leader hero MoroCorp posted that their sales have increased a lot last year. The count was 5, 10,749 units as against 4, 14,709 units in 2016. The sales raised 23.15 percent.
The Bajaj auto noticed their rise with 1.56 percent while the Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has increased its sale remarkably with 56.13 percent to 1.50,420 units against the meagre sale of 96,338 units in November 2016.
Looking back to the scooter sale, the total sales were 5, 06,267 units in November last year proves the increase of 30.25 percent compared to the sale of November 2016.
Commercial vehicle sale has been increased remarkably by 50.43 percent at the sale of 68, 846 units in November- SIAM said.
Along with the increase in sales of bikes and scooters, the sale of passenger vehicles in India has been increased noticeably. It raised by 14.29 percent.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) declares that the sale of utility vehicles grows exceptionally to 2, 75,417 units (2017) as against 2, 40,983 units (2016).
What are the probable reasons for the growth of this sale? There are some certain reasons that raised the sale of the car last year. Some of them are mentioned here.
“The GST implementation had led to uncertainty and fear in the minds of people who thought that prices will go up. This led to strong growth in April-June period.”- said Rakesh Srivastava, director (Sales & Marketing) at Hyundai India.
Apart from this, the per capita income has been increased that raised the sale of the bikes and four-wheelers.
The awareness with adventure motorsports has been increasing gradually in India and the enthusiasts are practising in it. This is also the reason for the growth of automobile sales.
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Why have we never learned about this?
My name is Miya Eberlein and I am a rising junior at UCLA. I am studying molecular and cellular development biology, and I hope to one day become a dentist to help spread smiles to all. My favorite extracurricular activities include paddling for the UCLA Dragon Boat Team, as well as practicing taekwondo. I entered this contest because growing up as a Japanese American, I felt that the bravery of the Nisei soldiers during World War II was a topic that was rarely covered in any history course I took. I feel that their bravery and fortitude should be remembered and revered for generations to come.
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- Two kidneys that produce urine.
- The left and right ureters that the urine travels through on leaving the kidneys.
- The muscular urinary bladder, which receives the urine from the ureters and temporarily stores it.
- The tube called the urethra through which urine passes from the bladder out of the body.
- The working unit of the kidneys is the nephron, composed of a nephron tubule, its associated blood vessels, and the interstitial fluid in which both are immersed.
Protozoa, what are the disadvantages of protozoa?
what are the disadvantages of protozoa?
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Lady Zannah, also known as Zealot, is from the planet Khera, where she was part of one of the leading political and cultural groups known as The Coda. On Earth, she became a prominent member of the WildC.A.T.s.
Zannah was one of the few fertile Kherubim and therefore she was picked to mate with Lord Majestros of the other leading faction of Khera, the Pantheon. In this union she gave birth to a daughter named Kenesha. However, because Zannah desired to be a warrior rather then a priestess like other Kherubim mothers, her mother Lady Harmony declared the child dead, took a lover and claimed her as her own. This meant Kenesha was brought up as her sister and Majestros was told the child had died.
Thousands of years ago Zannah became one of the Kherubims who had become stranded on Earth when the explorer ship she was on crash landed after battling a Daemonite warship. It was only due to her (then) lover Stratos that she was able to survive, as he was able to get her into one of the ships rescue pods. Not long after she joined the earth war between Kherubim and the Daemonites who wanted to take the planet over.
Zannah and the other survivors were scattered, but found they could easily hide amongst the human population. The Daemonites, while less humanoid used their powers of possession and shape-shifting to hide amongst the population. It was then that the next few millennia was spent waging a secret war, unknown to average humans.
Not long after crashing on the planet did Zannah start to train human females in The Coda fighting tradition. She even took part in the Trojan War on the Greek side. The payment she was to receive was the 99 baby girls to add to her new Coda. During the war she helped the warrior Ulysses come up with the idea for the Trojan Horse, for her part she spared the royal family, so the massacre would not affect the women and children. The rest of the Coda would not allow such a betrayal of the tenants she had taught them, even from its own founder. She also further earned their contempt when she refused to kill her ally Artemis in a duel she had won. She was then cast out into exile.
It was during her exile that she came across the witch Tapestry and was forced into being her slave, in return for Kenesha's life being spared. She was a slave for many centuries through which the witch tried to brainwash her into thinking like her, but Zannah stayed true to herself though wasn't completely the same. It was during this time that she was taught dark sorcery by Tapestry, though because of its corrupted nature she would refuse to use it for many years after she had escaped.
In the 1900s Zannah took the name Lucy Blaze and joined Team One, alongside fellow Kherubim survivors Emp, Majestros, and John Colt. She would form a short lived relationship with John and they have a child, she then gives the child to a Siberian family for the child's protection. (The child would later become Stormwatch member Winter, who remains unaware of his true parentage). The team battle the evil Helspont on the first mission. Helspont is a Daemonite Lord and has formed a group known as the Cabal, made up of post-humans and Daemonites. The Daemonite wanted to destroy all humans using nuclear missiles so the Daemonites could rule the planet. Team One fought him and one of their members Regiment succeeded in destroying the only missile left at the cost of his life. The team disbanded after.
Years later, now going by the name Zealot, she came into contact with a human male named Cole Cash. Zealot trained Cole in Coda fighting arts but despite his training he still preferred firearms to edged weapons. Cole later took the secret identity of Grifter. The pair would join forces with Lord Emp in gathering half blooded Kherubim to form the WildC.A.T.s.
During her time on the team she again fought Helspont and his followers. This time he wanted to bring Daemonites to Earth, they foiled his plans. When Voodoo joined the team she also trained her in Coda fighting techniques. It was during this time that Zealot would be brought face to face with her old master Tapestry and the group she had hired. The WildC.A.T.s became involved and the battle even caught the attention of Mr. Majestic and Savant.
Zealot later was involved in the discovery of a crashed Kherubim ship, which the team used to travel back to Khera. Khera turned out not to be the utopian society they had thought it to be, even Zealot was confused as her memory was very different then what she had remembered of her homeworld. Zealot learned along with the rest of the team that the war against the Daemonites had ended thousands of years ago, and they were now second class citizens living in slums and ghettos. Zealot's attitude toward the situation strained her relationship with Voodoo. Also the Coda wanted to kill her hoping she would become a martyr for their cause. Zealot was disgusted and along with the rest of the team returned to Earth. Upon returning they found they had been replaced by a new team. The new team was Mr. Majestic, Savant, Ladytron, Max Cash and Tao. However, Tao was revealed to had been manipulating the team into starting a gang war and she almost killed Tao when they attacked him, but Majestic killed him first. However, it was reveal later that Tao staged his death and had a hypnotized shape-shifter Mr. White in his place.
Zealot was recruited by Department PSI to be a part of Wildcore when they had to deal with a group of aliens known as the D'rahn. She gained intel using a alien database, kept by a group of alien exterminators known as the Puritans. She learned that the D'rahn seek to hunt down earth's Kherubim, during the intel gathering, the D'rahn attack the military base killing the Chasers who protect it. The only people to make it out of the base alive are Zealot, the leader of the Chasers Brawl, and the leader of the Puritans, General Grant. Grant turns out to be a Daemonite in disguise and swears his faction's loyalty to the D'rahn, in turn the D'rahn enlighten them and they become more powerful. Wildcore is able to erase all but ten names of the earth-bound Kherubim, though they are not able to save any of the names left over but one. His fiance Alea is enlightened and she joins Wildcore. At the advice from Ferrian, Wildcore sought for Majestic for help, and their sorcerer ally Azrum to go look for Tapestry to get her help. Majestic joins the battle and kills the Typhon of the D'rahn causing them to retreat. Tapestry is found to have imprisoned Azrum and enslaved Zealot, she then reshapes the world, but Ferrian regains his memories and saves them. In the escape the team loses two members and Zealot left the group.
Zealot then returns to the WildC.A.T.s. During a mission involving Daemonite tech being used to turn humans into super soldiers in an Irish village, Zealot tries to save a group of children and is mortally shot. After being shot the village was caught in an explosion and the team believed her to be dead. In truth she was in hiding from various Coda factions, whom she was hunting down in secret, and had a one night stand with a drunken Grifter, who then joined her in her quest. F.B.I. agents soon tracked her down and sends Agent Orange, who unbeknownst to them is under Jack Marlowe's control. The Coda also tracked her down and sends Sarin to capture her, Agent Orange and his agents. Zealot was tortured and about to be executed when Ladytron, under Grifter's control, Mr. Dolby, the Beef Boys and C.C. Renozzo are sent after her. They eventually are freed and the Coda and their base were destroyed.
Sometime later Mr. Majestic requested her help after his time-travel adventure revealed a world controlled by the Daemonites. Zealot, Majestic and Desmond go off in search of a ancient Kherubim tech known as a Planet Shaper. They are attacked by Helspont on their journey. Desmond merged with the device and the they find out that the Kherubim grew in power by enslaving species on planets and taking over that world and that Daemonites were a race that fought back against their control. Soon a rogue Kherubim of the Shapers Guild named Javen arrived. He wanted to use the Shaper and remake Earth into a new Khera and use Majestic's DNA to breed a new race of Kherubims. However, he found that Majestic's body was breaking down due to his dimension and time travel and attempted to take their child Savant as the next best thing. During the battle Majestic made Zealot reveal that she was in fact Savant's mother and he was her father. He then went off to stop the Kherubims forces on his own.
Some time later a Kherubim named Nemesis made an appearance and it was revealed that she was at one time the lover of Majestic and he used his position to get her trained as a member of the Coda despite her being an Adrastea. Later Zealot and Nemesis became rivals and friends, but because of politics Majestic could not continue a relationship with her and was ordered to mate with Zealot. Nemesis was later framed for the death of Coda members by a Brotherhood of the Sword member named Raven and Zealot swore vengeance against Nemesis, not knowing the truth. Sometime in 2005 Zealot caught up with her, who was killing Brotherhood members. Zealot and the WildC.A.T.s attacked her only to lose easily. She was then bested by Mr. Majestic, who took her to the Halo building where the truth was revealed. In ensuring the battle against the brotherhood Zealot, Nemesis and Majestic made peace with each other and fought side by side, and Nemesis in turn risked herself to stop Raven but is saved at the last minute by Majestic.
Following after Armageddon, Zealot and the rest of the Wildcats fought all manner of mutations and beasts to bring refugees back to the Halo building in Los Angeles for safety. She and her team were repeatedly, violently confronted by a overzealous Majestic, who wanted the building's supplies of Halo Batteries. After a later hostility with Majestic was altogether pacified, he told the Wildcats that he intended to offer them a chance to live on his Hawaiian kingdom. But disallowed some for being "undesirable", in which Zealot was included for lacking the capability to breed since the birth of Savant. When hearing this, Zealot was especially concerned of her daughter and demanded to know from Majestic as to what happened to Savant since she had left for him. Majestic, however, retorted to the fact that their daughter had always been on her own without the truth of her true parents.
After refusing Majestic's offers and the departure of Nemesis and Backlash, Zealot and the Wildcats were later called from help in Hawaii by Backlash and Nemesis who discretely warn of Majestic. Suspicious, Zealot and the Wildcats left for Hawaii on a feign 'visit'. When Majestic left Hawaii with Spartan to Asia, Zealot and Nemesis silently communicated each other through a training session of the problem. She then realized from Nemesis that Majestic had forcefully kept Savant imprisoned as a breeding mare through test tubes in bringing "pure" Kheran heirs. After releasing Savant, Zealot and the others barely escaped and returned to the Halo building where it was under attack by Daemonites. Zealot and Grifter helped in clearing out the invading Daemonites and allowing the building's refugees to board the MIRV, before everyone escape with the destruction of the Halo building.
Zealot and her team later helped John Lynch and Team-7 in stopping her former teammate-turned villain, Tao, who intended to become a god from stealing the powers of Void, Providence and Max Faraday. During the midst of battle against Tao, Zealot and her daughter Savant were sent by Spartan in recruiting Majestic's help. Upon seeing each other, however, Zealot and Majestic briefly fought each other after the later was still outrage over Nemesis' apparent death until Savant clarified them and informed that Tao was at fault for Majestic's behavior and indirectly responsible for Nemesis' death. When Zealot and her allies gained the power of the Creation Equation and subsequently facing her worst fear, in which Zealot was manipulated into trying to kill her own daughter while Majestic tries to prevent them. Following Tao's defeat, Zealot was granted a new and improve version of her costume patterned after her original attire.
When the Wildcats were looking for The High in Colorado, Zealot and the others were summoned to UnLondon by the Authority and offered the chance of leaving Earth on the Carrier. Zealot decided to stay on the planet and soon joined in the conflict against the militant Knights of Khera, which she greatly acknowledged of their notoriety. She and some of Earth's heroes were sent to the North Pole in succeeding to destroying one of the Knights' terraforming machines. After the Knights' defeat, Zealot and Maul decided to leave the Wildcats after hearing Spartan, who became the de facto leader of Earth's superhumans, of unifying Earth which she vehemently disagreed and preferred on training humanity into a defense force.
Following the three month period of Earth's reconstruction, Zealot claimed African nation of Zanzibar as her protectorate. After this, she recruited willing women across Africa into her own Coda army dedicating to her claim of defending Earth from alien threats. Though her Coda is fewer in numbers, Zealot had Jeremy Stone to artificially impregnate some of her volunteers to produce more female warriors through Kheran technology. This, however, cost the lives of some of the volunteers under the experimentation given that the technology are only specifically suited to Kherubims. Zealot was not concerned of this after Jeremy Stone had informed her of this, much to Jeremy's shock. Eventually, Midnighter, who was carefully concerned of Zealot's agenda since her departure from the Wildcats, investigated Zanzibar and learned of the Coda's fatal birthing process. Ultimately, Zealot and Midnighter engaged in single combat. Throughout their fight, the two were evenly matched as they argued back and forth of their flaws in which Zealot struck a chord in Midnighter in being unable to saved his adopted daughter Jenny Quarx. Eventually both combatants were literally grabbing at each others' throats when Maul, who grew tired of the violence and the guilt for cooperating with Zealot's plan, intervened to stop their fight. As he did this, Zealot was about to slice him out of reflex. Immediately, Maul had no time to avoid this and shrunk down at the subatomic level, in which everyone thought he disintegrated. Zealot was shocked of what she had done, but didn't believe that her sword disintegrated him. She was then chided by Midnighter, who points out that not only did she "kill" Maul but also lost him to maintain the machines for the pregnancies. But Zealot just coolly told him that she and the Coda will move elsewhere and continue their mission in protecting Earth, in which Midnighter vowed that he would follow and stop her wherever she went.
Kherubim Physiology: Zealot is Kherubim, and a Kheribum noble meaning all her abilities are enhanced to various degrees, extremely long-lived, and nearly immortal. Her vocal cords are highly developed allowing a far wider range of tones than what is possible for a human being.
Enhanced Senses: Zealot's senses are more developed than those of earth humans; most notably her sight and hearing. She is easily at human peak as far as her ability to note detailed objects. Her hearing on the other hand is very enhanced. So much so that she was able to pick out gunfire aboard a ship despite the sound that it made crashing upon the beach. Additionally, she was able to pick out the presence of a trained Black Razor group who were hidden quite well.
Superhuman Stamina: Zealot has a very high level of endurance. Her body and will are so strong, she will continue to try and fight even against overwhelming odds and when pain wracks every portion of her form. As a note, this isn't invulnerability. Simply a very high pain threshold.
Enhanced Durability: As a Kheribum her skin, bones, and muscle tissues are denser and super-hard compared to a normal human. A regular bullet will not adequately harm her. She and her sister Savant for example, can be harmed by armor piercing bullets, but not regular bullets.
Accelerated Healing: She can regenerate damaged or destroyed bodily tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. She can regenerate from anything, even injured tissue, brain cells (nerves), missing limbs and organs. Gunshot and stab wounds, cuts, and broken bones can perfectly heal in a few minutes.
Enhanced Immunity: Her body neutralizes all detrimental contaminants making him immune to all poisons, toxins, venom, viruses, bacteria, diseases, disorders, parasites, allergens, and radiations.
Immortality: As a Kheran, Zealot possesses virtual immortality. Her race is extremely long lived and she has been on Earth for literally the whole of human civilization and is showing no sign of growing old anytime soon. She is for all intents and purposes biologically immortal.
Superhuman Agility: Zealot has a level of agility that is quite literally astonishing. Her agility, balance, flexibility, dexterity, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of an Olympic gold medalist, with a quickness far beyond norm. She's capable of feats such as vaulting off of walls, going from flips into a vertical stomp, adjusting her rate and direction when in terminal velocity fall and is essentially, well over Olympic level as far as her ability to flip, dodge, dive, spin and move about. This, coupled with her strength and endurance makes her a formidable fighter alone, not to mention fighting skills.
Superhuman Strength: As a Kheran, Zealot is naturally stronger than a normal human, this ability is further compounded by her extreme level of training and abilities as per her status as Coda Majestrix, and level of experience. She can lift/press up to two tons of weight with effort and in addition to this, knows how to best apply her strength as she once kicked out of a body hold placed on her by the far stronger Maul.
Telepathic Communication: The ability to project a dreamy vision of flowing white energy; read minds, view and erase memories of others with or without the person's consent.
Teleportation: She can send herself and/or anyone to anyplace she/they wish to visit without any space/time restrictions.
Mystical Blasts: The ability to generate powerful blasts of arcane force.
Matter Reconstruction: The ability to reconstruct matter such as clothes into a different form and appearance.
Mystical Manipulation: Twists and subvert other magic's cast at her; return energy projections sent to her back to their source without loss of momentum or power.
Master Martial Artist: With weapons that are older then some civilizations and a status that placed her as the head of an order of warrior women. Zealot has literally been described as one of, if not the deadliest assassin on the planet. Her fighting abilities are unmatched among the coda, with and without a blade. And she can hold her own against virtually anyone, including those physically better then her, in one on one and even group combat. She is more than a match for the best of the best. Her range of martial arts knowledge spans almost all arts known to man and include the alien fighting arts of the Coda.
Weapons Master: Her skills with weapons mainly focus on the use of bladed weapons such as the Coda Clef blade and the katana blade; as well as the one and two handed sword. She is also an expert marksman, though not on the scale of Grifter. She is skilled in the use of throwing objects, such as daggers and the bladed weapons connected to the back of her armored costume.
Mental Illness: Zealot hides emotions and is prone to obsessive tendencies.
Since Armageddon Zealot had started a sexual relationship with Grifter.
Almost no one in the Wildstorm universe can beat Zealot hand-to-hand skill wise. Backlash and Midnighter come close, yet in the end, Zealot has weapons older than him and her superhuman attributes. With a sword, she has shown herself to be unmatched.
Zealot has appeared in the following non-WildStorm Image publications: Savage Dragon #13 (Erik Larsen version) and 41.
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An alternative title for my presentation would be Sales + CSM = Happiness & $$$ (CSM = customer success management).
Why should we all care? Everything has changed.
Subscription Economy: customers only pay for what they need, they stop paying once there is not good value.
Customers are more knowledgeable: 80% of the buying process will happen before any human to human communication.
Power of Advocacy: prospects, customers, and former customers are all connected and they like to tweet.
When it comes to revenue, it’s not just about getting new bookings anymore. In the subscription economy, you need to focus on renewals, upsells, and cross-sells in order to be successful.
This means that most of your revenue is going to come after your initial booking. According to most models, only 5% to 30% comes from the initial sale. 70% to 95% of the lifetime value comes after the point of the sale.
For customer success managers, we know that happy customers are more likely to buy than unhappy customers. There is a lot of value and revenue available from happy customers.
1 – Buy CSM a coffee/beer and get them to tell you about their favorite customers.
2 – Buy CSM a coffee/beer and brainstorm with them the customers where you think there is the most opportunity for you to grow.
4 – Have a CSM present one customer success story at your weekly sales meeting.
5 – Send a survey to the end users of your customers and then review the results with your sponsor. Ask them to rate your service (1 to 5) and list the top three benefits.
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The geometry of a stream channel is controlled by both water and sediment movement, which reflect regional climate, geology , and human land use in a given drainage basin.
This series of photos shows common channel geometries. Clockwise from top left: (a) a braided portion of the Pjorsa River in Myrdalssandur, Iceland; (b) a shallow, meandering stream in New Brunswick, Canada; (c) a deeply incised meander bend (305 meters [1,000 feet] below the canyon rim) of the San Juan River in Utah (United States); and (d) the dendritic (branching) drainage network of a stream system in Kakadu National Park, Australia.
moves downslope into stream channels. Some streams alternate between periods of low flow (or no flow) and sudden flash floods because the drainage basin is normally dry but occasionally receives intense thunderstorm rainfall that rushes quickly downslope as runoff. Other streams have a fairly constant discharge year-round because they are either supplied or amplified by groundwater .
The sediment supplied to valley bottoms is controlled by climate and local geology, which together determine the rate of weathering that transforms bedrock into unconsolidated sediments. Sediment transport in a stream channel is controlled both by the supply of sediment from the hillslopes and valley bottom, and by the energy of flow available to transport the sediment. Depending on particle size, sediment may move as dissolved load , suspended load , or bedload .
Stream channels exist in a variety of geometries. They may be braided channels with multiple flow paths that are constantly dividing and rejoining among vegetated islands or unvegetated stream bars. Braided channels have highly erodible banks and the channel may constantly shift from one side of the valley to another.
In contrast to braided channels, meandering channels have a single, sinuous (winding) flow path with a series of meander bends. As water flows through each bend it moves faster along the outside of the bend and slower along the inside. The slower flow drops some of the sediment it is carrying, creating a point bar on the inside of the bend. The faster flow erodes sediment from the outside of the bend.
With time, each meander bend migrates laterally toward the outside of the bend. This process would cause the channel as a whole to become more sinuous with time unless some of the meander bends are shortened by a cutoff. The process of cutoff usually occurs during a flood, when the rapidly moving mass of water takes the shortest path, cutting a new straight channel across the inside of the bend, and isolating the former meander bend as an oxbow lake. Meandering channels are thus very dynamic, with local changes in channel geometry occurring constantly.
During floods, streamflow may exceed the capacity of the channel to contain it. As floodwaters spill out of the channel and across the valley bottom, the water encounters much more frictional resistance from trees and other objects. The velocity of the water decreases dramatically, and the sediment being transported is dropped onto the floodplain . Much of this sediment deposition occurs immediately beside the channel, creating linear mounds parallel to the channel called natural levees .
Some sediment is deposited beyond the levees, creating a floodplain. A floodplain is the portion of the valley bottom dominated by stream processes, rather than by sediment coming directly from the hillslopes as landslides, for example. The floodplain may also be described based upon the average frequency with which it floods.
Because stream channel geometry reflects water and sediment movement along the channel, any change in water discharge and sediment transport will cause a corresponding change in channel geometry. When the increased discharge of a flood brings more sediment downstream, sediment deposition may transform a meandering channel into a braided channel. Or, a flood transporting little sediment may have so much erosive energy that it dramatically erodes the stream banks and scours the streambed, enlarging the width and depth of the channel. These changes may persist for decades after the flood, or smaller flows may quickly reshape the channel to its pre-flood configuration.
Human activities may alter the stream channel in either persistent or temporary ways. For example, a city government may try to stabilize the streambank next to which an apartment complex has been built by shoring up the streambank with riprap . But the next segment of channel downstream then may experience increased bank erosion as the sediment-impoverished flow leaves the riprapped channel segment.
The most pervasive channel alterations are those that seek to contain floodwaters within a limited area and those that seek to increase the efficiency of both navigation and the downstream flow of water. Containment may be accomplished with artificial levees that prevent floodwaters from spreading across the floodplain; channelization that straightens and deepens a channel; retention basins that store floodwaters and release them slowly downstream; or a seawall that prevents storm surges from moving inland and upstream. The efficiency of a channel may be increased by removing obstacles to flow such as large woody debris or large boulders, or by channelization. Any change in channel form that increases the speed and energy of floodwaters may lead to severe bed and bank erosion along weaker portions of the channel, or to enhanced flooding downstream, if the channel engineering is not done in an integrated manner that accounts for downstream effects.
Stream channels are dynamic systems constantly responding to natural and human-induced changes in downstream water and sediment movement. When humans attempt to manage streams, unforeseen consequences are sometimes created. Understanding the natural checks and balances that create and maintain streams will allow work to be performed in unison with those natural mechanisms, rather than against them.
SEE ALSO Groundwater ; Stream Erosion and Landscape Development ; Stream Hydrology ; Weathering of Rocks.
Knighton, David. Fluvial Forms and Processes: A New Perspective. London, U.K.: Arnold,1998.
Ritter, Dale F., R. Craig Kochel, and Jerry R. Miller. Process Geomorphology, 4th ed.New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Schumm, Stanley A. The Fluvial System. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1977.
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Publication and archival of scientific results is still commonly considered the responsability of classical publishing companies. Classical forms of publishing, however, which center around printed narrative articles, no longer seem well-suited in the digital age.
In particular, there exist currently no efficient, reliable, and agreed-upon methods for publishing scientific datasets, which have become increasingly important for science. In this article, we propose to design scientific data publishing as a web-based bottom-up process, without top-down control of central authorities such as publishing companies.
Based on a novel combination of existing concepts and technologies, we present a server network to decentrally store and archive data in the form of nanopublications, an RDF-based format to represent scientific data.
We show how this approach allows researchers to publish, retrieve, verify, and recombine datasets of nanopublications in a reliable and trustworthy manner, and we argue that this architecture could be used as a low-level data publication layer to serve the Semantic Web in general.
Our evaluation of the current network shows that this system is efficient and reliable.
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After purchasing a drone to do aerial videography for a business project of mine, I decided to get my commercial drone license, after already having a private pilot license, and offer my services so that I could enjoy more time flying the drone on the side for fun. I have a bit of a creative eye for photography/videography and do my best to capture shots in the most dynamic and immersive way possible by being more three-dimensional as a pilot and highlighting the details as best as I can. I do light photo and video editing as well to help enhance your project.
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Alexander Hamilton was an advocate for a strong central government.
In the article below, Professor Cecilia Testa writes about the role of federalism in the United States. She speaks of how centralized provision of certain goods - public goods - can overcome the incentive individuals have to free ride. Alexander Hamilton was very familiar with these issues and his emphasis on federalism laid the foundation for the unification of separate and disparate states into one country, the United States of America.
As one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton played an important role in shaping the US institutions that we still observe today. The US constitution - which would develop into a model followed by modern democracies around the world - resulted from a marriage between ideals and interests. As states agreed to relinquish some of their powers to a national government, they also required their interests to be represented at the national level. Thus, the US Constitutions established that the legislative power would be shared between two chambers: the House, representing the will of the people, and the Senate, representing those of the states. Importantly, to guarantee equal representation to the members of the federation, the constitution established that all states would elect two senators. Bicameralism and equal representation of the states remain a pillar of American democracy.
Some at the Constitutional Convention, particularly Alexander Hamilton, preferred an even stronger national government than the one they created. But why? What are the advantages of a strong national government from an economic perspective? To answer this question, first of all we need to understand why governments should play a role in the economy. Remember that before the thirties, during the so called period of dual federalism, the role of national government in the US remained limited. For example, the power of federal government to tax income was only established by the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1913. Income tax collection and spending however significantly rose during the First and Second World Wars. This pattern of expansion of the national government prerogatives in times of war is not just a US feature. For example, Britain first introduced an income tax in the budget of 1798 to finance the Napoleonic War. More generally, as national governments are in charge of national security, the raise in military expenditures associated with wars often provides an important push toward the development of state capacity, consolidating and extending the role of government well beyond what is required in times of war.
National security – or defense – is typically controlled by national governments for good reasons. While in principle the citizens of a country could pay private armies to provide defense, private provision of defense capabilities would typically be hampered by individual incentives to free-ride. Unlike most goods we buy for our own private consumption, defense is not a private good. When we buy our own clothes, we can exclude other people from wearing them if we want to. On the other hand, if somebody else wants to wear our clothes, we would not be able to wear them. In short, our clothes – as private goods – are excludable and rival in consumption. We can easily see that this is not the case for defense. Once a country has invested in a system of defense, all individuals living in the country will be protected, since it would be hardly possible to exclude some individuals from enjoying a safer country; nor will anyone be less safe because its neighbor or fellow citizen is protected by the existing defense system. In other words defense, as a public good, is non-excludable and non-rival. As a result, the provision of this type of goods generates externalities, e.g. if some individuals were to provide defense, the positive effect of defense would also be felt by other individuals living in the same country but not contributing to the provision of the good.
Consider now what would be your individual incentive to invest in defense knowing that if every other fellow citizen is making this investment, whereas you are not, you will be nevertheless protected. Remember that this is a public good, so if your fellow citizens pay to get it provided, you cannot be excluded from being protected! Clearly, while you may be better off having a defense system in place rather than not, you will be even more satisfied if you could get the defense system paid by everybody else but you! In other words, while you recognize the importance of having a defense system, you have a strong incentive to free-ride. As your fellow citizens will face the same incentives, if you were to rely on voluntary contribution to pay a private army to defend your country, incentives to free-ride would lead to little or no defense provided. A central government who has the ability to compel individuals to contribute to national security will be able to overcome the free-riding problem and provide the efficient level of defense by choosing the amount of military spending that maximizes the well-being of the society. This sort of arguments applies to the provision of any public good, and provides an important rationale for why governments should intervene in the economy to correct market failures and provide the efficient level of public goods.
But to what extent should public goods be provided by a national government as opposed to sub-national entities, such as states, regions, counties, cities, etc.? In the real world, the degree of centralization of government functions varies substantially. Decentralization is most pronounced in countries with a federal structure, like the United States, where federal states have extensive powers to tax and spend revenues. In unitary states, such as for example France or the United Kingdom, taxation and spending decisions are more centralized. Why do countries adopt different degree of centralization? Since governments intervene to address market failures arising when the efficient provisions of goods requires some degree of cooperation among individuals, then the optimal degree of centralization must follow the same logic, e.g. tasks should be assigned to the level of government that is in a better position to correct market failures. For goods or services that are shared by a large population and are associated with externalities that go well beyond the borders of sub-national units of government, centralization is more appropriate. National defense, protection of property rights, providing air and water quality, national highways, railways are all good examples of goods falling in this category. On the other hand, goods and services that are bound to be accessed by relatively small populations and whose externalities are likely to be limited to the sub-national administrative unit (e.g. state, region, city), decentralization is more appropriate. Compulsory education, police, fire protection, garbage collection, street sanitation, libraries, parks and recreation, are goods and services that would typically fall in the domain of local governments.
Although economic efficiency is an important consideration in choosing the degree of decentralization in government intervention, we must not forget that this is not the only value determining the choice between a federal and a unitary state. The building of the United States of America teaches us that the values of democratic participation and representation were crucial to the adoption of a federal structure. Remember that in the eighteenth century, people of North America were not Americans, but identified with their own states. Thus, federalism was essential to bring together individual states with their strong identities into a single country.
Discuss in the comments below which goods or services should be provided by the federal government and which should be left to sub-national entities, such as states, regions, counties, cities, etc.
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In the alt text it should be "Even now* ,my cartwheel is better than Nephew's"
Ah, famous last words, "and now grandpa will do a somersault".
I laughed so so much. Reminds me of the time I said I could totally definitely still do a split. I mean, I still did it, I couldn't walk properly for days, but I did it!
well, today is the day I finally get around to posting how much I love this work.
This is brilliant! I was crying from laughter. Thank you!
The hyperbole of the fracture lines on the map, the crater, the elephant - all flawless. Bravo!
A "wheel of misfortune" tale from high school. After a night of underage drinking, 5 or 6 of us were given a ride by someone's older brother. He came in a large van with a collapsed wheelchair in the back. We all piled inside and one of the drunks decided to sit on the wheel for the ride home. Not long into the journey, the van made a sharp turn. The wheel rider quickly spun sideways, causing him to vomit all over most of us.
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If as some have suggested religions are viruses of the mind, then it might make sense to separate the components of any given religion into two parts. The first part being those things which are necessary to maintain viral infection and which assist in the infection of new hosts. The second part is the payload: Those instructions which the virus writer wishes those who have been infected to carry out or execute.
First I should explain quickly the analogy at the beginning of the article. The analogy is not mine, but its truth may not be immediately apparent if you have not heard it before. A religion like a virus requires a host, it exists only in the minds of its followers. Just as a virus uses the cellular machinery of the cells which it infects to make more copies of itself, religions generally cause those infected by them to attempt to recruit others to the religion. The analogy with biological viruses only fails in that biological viruses always damage their hosts to some extent, whereas in some cases religions can have a positive effect.
A religion like any other virus requires a means to infect new hosts and means to ensure that infection is as persistent as possible. In some cases this part of the can be coded extremely simply. The prohibition by the catholic church of masturbation as well as any effective form of birth control helps to ensure recruitment of new members to the faith. The pyramid selling approach is simple, but can be effective. For example the Jehovah's witnesses function using a system where only those members of the faith who have racked up the greatest numbers of conversions are allowed to enter heaven.
However such simple mechanisms to ensure replication are more likely to produce an immune response in the host. That is to say when the instruction is costly to the host, or has a feeling of being arbitrary, it is more likely that the infection will fail to take hold or that it will be terminated. For this reason more subtle means of ensuring replication are typically required. A truly classic strategy is to imbue in the infected population the idea that they are privileged, chosen, or righteous and specially beloved of God. Vanity is mans greatest weakness and this is one of the most successful strategies to date. It has some value in terms of infecting new hosts, because the faithful generally wish to spread their good fortune to (a select group) of others (success here is somewhat hampered by the insufferable smugness of those affected by this meme). That said the real power of this strategy is in suppressing the host's immune response. To reject the religion the host must also reject the idea that they are special and better than the rest of humanity. Few are capable of this level of humility.
The next tool of choice is territorial expansionism. This is usually paired with the previous strategy, since it is easier to kill and enslave other humans and take their land when you believe that you are better than them, or if you believe that they are doomed anyway because all uninfected humans are doomed. Territorial expansion and forced conversion can be encouraged in a number of ways.
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What are the most sustainable options for cooking "appliances." Obviously any appliance or cooking device that utilizes petroleum-based gas to fuel their heat source is going to be unsustainable. But what are the best options that are sustainable?
If you live remotely, and have lots of wood or other biomass growing out back that you can harvest by hand, and that will grow at least as fast as you harvest it, then that is probably the most sustainable cooking fuel. However, this sort of cooking is typically 30-40% efficient, so high inputs are needed for a given output.
For everyone else, then induction hobs, well-insulated convection ovens and microwave ovens powered by electricity generated from renewable sources are the most sustainable cooking media, as long as the cooking devices are sent for repair or recycling at the end of their lives.
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On May 2, 1885 (133 years ago) (1885-05-02), Clark W. Bryan founded Good Housekeeping in Holyoke, Massachusetts as a fortnightly magazine.
In 1891, the magazine became a monthly publication.
Good Housekeeping is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.
Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include Somerset Maugham, Edwin Markham, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Parkinson Keyes, A. J. Cronin, Virginia Woolf, and Evelyn Waugh.
Cover from August 1908 made by John Cecil Clay.
In 1900, the "Experiment Station", the predecessor to the Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI), was founded. In 1902, the magazine was calling this "An Inflexible Contract Between the Publisher and Each Subscriber." The formal opening of the headquarters of GHRI - the Model Kitchen, Testing Station for Household Devices, and Domestic Science Laboratory - occurred in January 1910.
In 1909, the magazine established the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Products advertised in the magazine that bear the seal are tested by GHRI and are backed by a two-year limited warranty. About 5,000 products have been given the seal.
In April 1912, a year after Hearst bought the magazine, Harvey W. Wiley, the first commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1907–1912), became head of GHRI and a contributing editor whose "Question Box" feature ran for decades. Beginning with a "Beauty Clinic" in 1932, departments were added to the Institute, including a "Baby's Center", "Foods and Cookery", and a "Needlework Room". Some functioned as testing laboratories, while others were designed to produce editorial copy.
After the passage of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell sought to promote a government grading system. The Hearst Corporation opposed the policy in spirit, and began publishing a monthly tabloid attacking federal oversight. In 1939, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Good Housekeeping for "misleading and deceptive" guarantees including its Seal of Approval, and "exaggerated and false" claims in its advertisements. The publisher fought the proceedings for two years, during which time competing editors from the Ladies Home Journal and McCall's testified against Good Housekeeping. The FTC's ultimate ruling was against the magazine, forcing it to remove some claims and phraseology from its ad pages. The words "Tested and Approved" were dropped from the Seal of Approval. But the magazine's popularity was unaffected, steadily rising in circulation and profitability. In 1962, the wording of the Seal was changed to a guarantee of "Product or Performance", while dropping its endorsement of rhetorical promises made by the advertisers. In its varying forms, the Seal of Approval became inextricably associated with the magazine, and many others (e.g., McCall's, Parents Magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens) mimicked the practice.
In 2012, the test kitchen of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute was implemented into a new instructional cooking, nutrition, and exercise TV show on the Cooking Channel, entitled Drop 5 lbs with Good Housekeeping.
Good Housekeeping began to be published in the United Kingdom in 1922. William Randolph Hearst appointed Alice Maud Head initially as assistant editor. Head rose to be the Managing Director, as well as purportedly being the highest paid woman in Europe. As Hearst's deputy, Head would make decisions on his behalf about not just editing, but also buying for him St Donat's Castle, expensive art objects, and three giraffes for his zoo. Head remained head until 1939.
In Latin America, the magazine was known as Buenhogar and was published in the United States and Latin America by Editorial América.
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What is the benefit or purpose of using unfiltered olive oil.
That total donut hole Rachael Ray said she was asked what extra virgin means, and she said, "that just means it's unfiltered". It's hard to imagine a more ignorant answer. Personally I'm a skeptic with regard to any benefit from unfiltered oil, and I have watched olive oil being made in the wilds of Umbria. And I now live in an olive producing "terroir". To be certified as extra virgin there needs to be measurable level of acidity and to be DOC the olives must be local.
Unfiltered olive oil is also different with its appearance (dark green); looks cloudy because it has fruit particles on the bottom of the bottle - similiar to pulp in orange juice. Many say it has better or more pronounced fruity or peppery taste. Careful though, unfiltered olive oil will eventually ferment, and look on the bottle for a expiration date, so use quickly. It's best use in my opinion is drizzling overy brushetta, roasted vegetables, eggs or tossed with pasta or used to did bread in.
Any unfiltered oil supposedly has more nutrients, and appeals to people who want less processing. More done, something is missing.
Unfiltered has a fuller, stronger flavor. I like to put a little on right before I serve a dish for that spicy olive oil flavor.
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Before we had any punctuation, it was difficult to separate and coordinate ideas. Punctuation also tells readers when to breathe, especially when reading aloud, and helps them comprehend the meaning of sentences. When used effectively, it guides readers through a piece of writing. It also tells readers how writing should sound when they read it aloud, even if reading silently.
When we speak, we use pauses and gestures to emphasize meaning, and we vary the tempo, stress, and pitch of our voices to mark the beginning and end of units of thought. In other words, we "punctuate" our speech. We punctuate writing for the same purposes, drawing on a whole set of conventional devices developed to give the reader clues to what we are trying to communicate.
The first of these devices is spacing: that is, closing up or enlarging the space between letters or words. For example, we don't "runwordstogetherthisway." Instead, we identify a word as a word by setting it off from its neighbors. Spacing is the most basic of all punctuating devices.
yes madam jones was heard to say to the owl like old dowager without a doubt the taming of the shrew by shakespeare would be a most appropriate new years present for your husband.
To make this passage intelligible, we need to add two other kinds of punctuation: (1) changes in the size and design of letters, namely, capitals and italics; and (2) marks or points, namely, periods, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, and other special signs.
"Yes, Madam," Jones was heard to say to the owl-like old dowager, "without a doubt, The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare would be a most appropriate New Year's present for your husband."
1. END PUNCTUATION. Capitals, periods, question marks, and exclamation points indicate sentence beginnings and endings.
2. INTERNAL PUNCTUATION. Commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and parentheses within sentences show the relationship of each word or group of words to the rest of the sentence.
3. DIRECT-QUOTATION PUNCTUATION. Quotation marks and brackets indicate speakers and changes of speaker.
4. WORD PUNCTUATION. Capitals, italics, quotation marks, apostrophes, and hyphens indicate words that have a special character.
1. Punctuation is a part of meaning, not a substitute for clear and orderly sentence structure. Before you can punctuate a sentence properly, you must construct it properly. No number of commas, semicolons, and dashes can rescue a poorly written sentence.
2. Observe conventional practice in punctuation. Though many of the rules are not hard and fast, still there is a community of agreement about punctuating sentences. Learning and applying the punctuation rules that follow will help you observe these conventions.
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Can a foreign spouse’s child(ren) work legally before obtaining permanent residence?
Yes. An Application for Employment Authorization (form I-765) can be filed in the United States by the foreign spouse’s child(ren) with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) along with the permanent residence application to request issuance of an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) to allow the foreign spouse’s child to work legally in the United States until such time as the permanent residence application is decided. Upon approval of the Application for Employment Authorization (approximately 90 days), the foreign spouse’s child can apply for and receive a social security number and can begin to work legally.
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French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of Sephardi Jewish heritage (during that time, Algeria was part of France), and Eva's father is of Swedish, French, and Breton descent. She has a fraternal twin sister, Joy. Eva left French school at 17. She switched to English in Ramsgate, Kent, and went to the American School in France for one year. She studied acting at Saint Paul Drama School in Paris for three years, then had a 10-week polishing course at the Weber Douglas Academy of dramatic Art in London. She also studied directing at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University. She returned to Paris as an accomplished young actress, and played on stage in several theater productions: "La Jalousie en Trois Fax" and "Turcaret". There, she caught the eye of director Bernardo Bertolucci. Green followed a recommendation to work on her English. She studied for two months with an English coach before doing The Dreamers (2003) with Bernardo Bertolucci. During their work, Bertolucci described Green as being "so beautiful it's indecent".
Born to French-Algerian actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist Walter Green. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of Sephardi Jewish heritage. Eva's father is of Swedish, French, and Breton descent. Her paternal great-grandfather was French Breton composer and music critic Paul Le Flem.
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Talk about a filmmaker who’s dropped off the radar. John Carpenter is an undisputed genre master, responsible for some of the coolest horror/fantasy films of the 20th century, with a tremendous body of work that puts him in some very select cinematic company. I mean, come on! This guy gave us Halloween, The Fog, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, and Escape From New York, not to mention exemplary lesser efforts like They Live, Dark Star, In The Mouth of Madness, Starman, Christine, and Assault on Precinct 13. (For completists, his 1979 made-for-TV biopic Elvis with Kurt Russell is sensational). That said, Carpenter hasn’t exactly been pushing himself lately. Since 2001’s uneven Ghosts of Mars, he’s mostly been collecting residual checks for all the lame remakes of his earlier films.
The Ward isn’t a spectacular return to form, but it ain’t bad. It’s a modest little fright film that plays out like a cross between Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor and something decidedly more Hitchcockian. Set in “North Bend, Oregon in 1958,” (Editor’s note: I used to live one town over from North Bend. This wasn’t it.) Kristen (Amber Heard) is a runaway who can’t remember her earlier life or why she burned down a farmhouse. The kindly authorities stick her in an asylum run by the mysterious Dr. Stringer (Jared Harris, from Fringe, Dead Man, and Happiness, among other things) and peopled by an oddball assortment of young lady lunatics. Not only is Kristen forced to endure some unsavory psychiatric ordeals (“Here. Bite down on this or you’ll bite your tongue off.”) but she and her fellow inmates end up getting stalked by the vengeful ghost of Alice, a former patient.
You’ve seen this sort of thing before, and there are probably a few plot twists too many, but it’s good to see Carpenter, every bit the craftsman his name implies, doing what he does so well in The Ward, namely exiling the viewer to a darkly menacing world where no one can be trusted.
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Review essay: Can progressive education save America’s schools?
In Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools, Tom Little and Katherine Ellison describe Tom’s experiences, personal joumey and knowledge of progressive education. During a pilgrimage to 45 progressive schools, Tom set out to visit schools that unabashedly called themselves progressive and asked the question, "What is progressive education?" This essay first reviews the book around six core strategies identified as progressive, and then provides a discussion in the context of 20th century curriculum ideologies. Differences between ideologies are what lead to the dualism that makes education divisive. The current state of education reveals a new surge for change. By avoiding the -isms that force the dichotomy in education, progressive education strategies can play a more central role in curriculum.
The purpose of this empirical study is to determine how and to what extent the use of animations impacts auditory acquisition, one of the key learning fields in 6th grade grammar, as measured by students’ academic success and completion rates. By using a pre-test and post-test design, this emrical study randomly divided a group of Turkish 6th graders into an experimental and a control group, who were taught the same standard lessons (as set forth in the Turkish annual lesson plan) by the same teacher for a period of 10 weeks. In addition to the standard lessons, the experimental group was also shown animations. The results revealed that phonetics performance improved for both the experimental and the control group, but that the group who had been shown the animations improved much more than the group who had been instructed via traditional methods only.
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of religion on Turkish early childhood teachers’ factuality judgments and reasoning. Participants responded following questions about the story of “Moses’s stick”: 1) Can Moses run water from a dry fountain just by hitting his stick to the ground? 2) Why, or why not? 3) Would you read this story to your children in your classroom? 4) How would you respond to your children in your classroom if they ask you, “Could Moses flow water from a dry fountain just by hitting his stick to the ground?” Findings revealed that 82.4% of the participants responded to the first question affirmatively, 83% provided religious reasoning for their response, 72% would not read this story to their children and 56% provided religious explanation for question four. In-service education on the nature of science, epistemology, the philosophy of science, the historical development of science, and scientific thinking, through which teachers can acquire scientific attitudes and practice scientific discussions should be provided. Thus, they can internalize science and understand that science is not an isolated discipline that is practiced in universities, but rather, in secular life it is the core of everyday living.
The purpose of the study is to examine employees’ individual attitudes towards diversity management and respect for diversity in secondary education in views of secondary school administrators and teachers, and to explore the relationship between these concepts. According to the results of the study, administrators and teachers in secondary schools display positive individual attitudes and behaviours towards diversity. School administrators and teachers’ organizational norms and values associated with diversity are positive. However, there is a low positive relationship between respect for diversity and diversity management.
Keywords: Diversity, Diversity Management, Respect for Diversity.
The overall purpose of this study is to explore secondary school students’ images of scientists. In addition to this comprehensive purpose, it is also investigated that if these students’ current images of scientists and those in which they see themselves as a scientist in the near future are consistent or not. The study was designed in line with the case study research in a qualitatively manner. The working group is of totally 175 (95 boys, 81 girls) secondary school students enrolled in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade of a public school located in the province of Adıyaman. Data were collected through drawings during the drawing activity and interviews conducted with the selected drawings’ owners in order to explore images of scientists. Elements take place in the drawings which are investigated by two of science education expert and one of art expert were analyzed in accordance with certain categories appearing in the related literature. Furthermore, fifteen pictures among others were randomly selected and their owners were asked to imagine themselves as a scientist in the near future and consequently depict and draw on a paper their imagination. For further information, interviews were carried out to determine the differences between the first drawings and the second ones. It is concluded that 68% of secondary school students draw a natural scientist or scientists, 2,28% of those draw a social scientist or scientists and finally the rest draw no scientist. The rate of drawings including only one scientist is %66,85 while the rate of drawings possess more than two scientists %4,57. On the other hand, the rest of the drawings are without any scientist. There is no obvious difference in all categories selected in the context of the study according to grade level and gender. The study revealed the possibility of the fact that secondary school students’ images of scientist are substantially formed by the content of prevailing mainbooks and workbooks including activities in the classrooms. When talking about scientists, the majority of the students depict a naturel scientist who works more often in the laboratory, especially male and bespectacled. In addition, students mostly consider people as a scientist who work in the field of natural sciences. Consequently, doing science is an individual effort in an indoor environment rather than a set of group activity. Finally, data from interviews show that most of the students have a dream of being scientist in their future careers.
The relationship between metacognition in real life situations and study skills and habits was examined using a sample of college students. Results showed no significant relationship between these two variables nor was there a significant relationship between study skills and reaction time as measured on the metacognitive test. However, there was a positive significant correlation between study skills, and high school and college GPA's; a significant negative relationship between high school GPA and reaction time; and a positive significant correlation between high school GPA and metacognitive test scores calculated based on reaction time. High school GPA was significantly related to study skills and to the relationship between study skills and academic performance as opposed to college GPA. The importance of college GPA as a significant predictor of study skills depends on whether or not students grades were assigned objectively without manipulation or inflation.
Science, Technology, Society, Environment (STSE) is an education movement that started and developed from 70s through early 2000s. Although this movement had lost emphasis in recent years, it is one of the most important educational reform attempts in science education history. Today, concepts like Socio Scientific Issues (SSI) or Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education are more prevalent. STSE reform aims making science more relevant for students while helping them attain scientific literacy. If applied well, this approach is very powerful in achieving this aim. This study explores the effect of an elective course on students’ competencies in STSE education. Turned in assignments and presentations of 22 participants were the source of data, which was analyzed through content analysis. Results show that students were able to achieve high competency in certain areas of STSE education, while having difficulties in others. This study may have implications for university level STSE courses.
The purpose of this research was to examine whether loneliness might play a mediating role between perceived social competence and cyberbullying in Turkish adolescents. The participants were 326 high school students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Cyberbullying Scale, the Perceived Social Competence Scale, and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Relationships between loneliness, social competence and cyberbullying were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and predictions of each variable by the domains of the other were calculated with Linear Regression Analysis (LRA). Findings showed that perceived social competence, cyberbullying and self-efficacy were related to each other’s. Hierarchical Regression Analysis results indicated that loneliness partially mediated the relationship between perceived social competence and school burnout.
Turkish preservice science teachers have been taking a two-credit astronomy class during the last semester of their undergraduate program since 2010. The current study aims to investigate the relationship between preservice science teachers’ astronomy misconceptions and their attitudes toward astronomy. Preservice science teachers were given an Astronomy Attitude Test and a conceptual test at the beginning of their astronomy course. Three students from each of three attitude levels (low, medium, and high) were selected for interviews and asked to explain their conceptual test responses in depth. Generally, low-attitude students had more misconceptions and gave non-scientific, low-level explanations, whereas middle- and high-attitude students gave more scientific explanations. The results suggest that students develop negative attitudes about a subject in which they lack knowledge.
Because students learn from each other as well as lecturers, it is important to create opportunities for collaboration in writing classes. Teachers now benefit from access to plagiarism detectors that can also provide feedback. This exploratory study considers the role of four review types, open and anonymous, involving the students themselves, peer and tutor reviewing, and anonymous digital review by means of plagiarism detectors. Eighty-seven freshmen from Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, participated. Throughout the term, feedback was provided by four sources: the tutor, peers, software, and by students themselves. At the end of the term, written assignments were self and peer reviewed, and graded by the course lecturer. Results indicated that higher-scoring students could manage both self and peer review tasks more effectively. The study suggests that academic writing and reviewing skills are related, and that integrating review skills into evaluation procedures may result in a more reliable assessment.
This study investigates the relationships between Internet addiction and the areas of life satisfaction and positive or negative affects in Turkish adolescents. The research sample comprised 358 students studying in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at four different middle schools in Canakkale city centre during the 2012–2013 academic year, of which 189 (52.8%) were females and 169 (48.2%) were males. Of the participants, 131 (37%) were sixth graders, 90 (25%) were seventh graders and 137 (38%) were eighth graders. The Internet Addiction Scale, the Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience were used as data collection instruments in the study. Research data was analysed using Pearson's product-moment correlation technique and multiple linear regression. The results indicated that there was a significant negative correlation between Internet addiction and school and family satisfaction, and a significant positive relationship between Internet addiction and negative affects. The regression analysis results indicated that school satisfaction and negative affects are important predictors of Internet addiction. The results suggested that increasing adolescents’ school satisfaction and developing their ability to regulate their emotions might be useful in decreasing Internet addiction.
Football is enjoyable and meaningful together with the fans. However, the hate crimes (racism, discrimination, humiliation, xenophobia and Islamophobia) are social diseases of some fan groups, and threaten public safety and the social life. UEFA has been determined to fight against hate crimes in football by creating a network called FARE, and by implementing a road map called 10-Point Action Plan since 2003. The purpose of this case study is to analyze the Turkish Football in relation to the UEFA’s 10- Point Action Plan against Racism. The findings of this study revealed that the policies implemented in Europe with success were hardly put into practice in Turkey. No policies were developed to implement the UEFA’s 10-Point Action Plan and the recommendations of the European Commission were not taken into consideration in Turkey. Although the football produces a very significant economic resource, no funds were allocated to education of Turkish football fans.
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In other words: I like listening to podcasts. Listening to podcasts is really my only hobby. I do other things as an excuse to listen to podcasts.
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We're all familiar with the famous Australian Shiraz; however, it's time we learn more about some other wine varietals produced in different parts of the Australian continent. Take a look at some of the finest ones by perusing through the following Tastessence article.
Australia happens to be the largest wine exporter of the New World countries, 2nd largest wine import source into the US, world's 4th largest wine exporter, and the 7th largest wine producer in the world.
Australian wines haven't had a good reputation; however, today the wines from this continent have turned a new leaf. In fact, they've transformed and risen like a phoenix out of the ashes, soaring high enough to compete with classic wines from the Old World countries. Today, Australia is known to be one of the leading producers of quality wine, and what's even better is that they are moderately priced wines (not referring to the iconic Penfolds Grange, which is priced at over $35,000).
Although Australian Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs have had a lower profile, as compared to their cousins from France, New Zealand, and so on, today's western Australian wines are touted to be amongst the finest in the world. They are complex, elegant, and marked by finesse. Australians love their own wine and prefer to drink it, rather than the imported ones. In fact, only 16% of wines sold are those that have been imported. So, there definitely has to be something exceedingly special about them, even though they've been undervalued across the globe.
Riesling is very popular in Australia, with most Aussies preferring to drink this wine during the hot summer months. Australian Rieslings from Adelaide Hills, and Clare and Eden Valleys are known to be some exquisite-tasting, complex white wines. The southern part of the continent is mostly known for its dry Rieslings. This white wine varietal is available from the bone-dry to the sweet variety due to the residual sugar, which is very well-balanced by its high level of acidity. Introduced to the continent in the mid-19th century, Australian wines are mostly bone-dry unlike their German cousins.
Note: Look for Riesling from Clare or Eden Valley; however, Australian Rieslings are known for their consistency, so it should be overall of good quality.
These dry whites are pungent, crisp, and refreshing. With an intense citrusy, lemony-tart and lime sherbet flavor, and a floral overtone that is distinctive of an Australian Riesling, these wines are very dry. Some burst with the flavors of peach, apricot blossoms, tangerines, stone fruit, and spices. Mature Rieslings have a distinctive petrol or kerosene-like aroma.
Fish such as smoked mackerel, salmon, etc., crab, oysters, sushi, and even poultry.
Also known as Syrah in France and other parts of the world, this wine is the most popular Australian wine across the globe. It is produced from the grape variety―Shiraz, which also happens to be the most widely planted red wine variety in the country. Australia's Barossa Valley is known for its rich and fruity (plum) wines, while those from Central and Southern Victoria are known for their more peppery wines. A medium-bodied wine with medium tannin content, this wine is a must-try.
Note: Since the flavor and style of Shiraz vary from one region to another, purchase the ones from Barossa Valley to ensure good quality. The Yellow Tail Shiraz is also a good value option.
This easy-to-drink wine is bursting with flavors of blackberry, plums, and peppers, and hints of cocoa, tar, mocha, and liquorice emanating from it. Some may feature stronger notes of pepper, while in others the plum flavors leaps forward.
It goes well with barbecued meats, grilled food, and spicy cuisine, like Indian or Mexican.
The earlier or old Australian Chardonnays weren't so popular across the globe, and probably you wouldn't have expected to see this wine on the list, but it's true; the new age Chardonnays are definitely in! Unlike their ancestors, the new improved ones aren't heavily oaked, overripe, or overly buttery. Instead, they are fresher, citrusy, and are produced from grapes that have been harvested earlier. The Chardonnays from Adelaide Hills, Yarra Valley, Margaret River, and Mornington Peninsula stand out the most.
Note: Avoid Chardonnays from southeastern Australia, because they still offer the older, unappealing varietal.
With a lesser oak influence, this versatile born-again wine bursts with flavors of fresh melons and lime, and notes of caramel, pineapple, etc., that combine excellently with the acidity of the wine. They also have a slight mineral base to them, which gives them an interesting complexity. The flavors of this improved version are sure to pleasantly surprise you.
Cream-based pastas, fish, poultry, etc.
Pinot Noir, as we all know, is a fussy grape that requires the right climatic conditions to grow in. While Burgundy provides the best climate for these grapes to flourish in, Australia has also managed to grow some decent Pinots. The finest Australian Pinot Noirs are known to hail from Mornington Peninsula, Tasmania, and Yarra Valley. This soft tannin red wine is reasonably priced in Australia as compared to the French Pinots.
Note: A Pinot Noir from Gippsland region is worth a try, if you manage to get hold of it.
Bursting with fruity flavors of plums, cherries, and raspberries in its youth, Aussie Pinots are embedded with notes of mushrooms, dried fruit, tea leaves, and spices. They are lower in alcohol and tannin content. Aged Pinots, on the other hand, offer more earthy, smoky, and chocolaty flavor.
Game birds, mushroom-based dishes, soft cheeses, grilled Mexican food, etc.
With 150 years of history in Australia, these are among the finest and most expensive dry red wines produced across the globe. While the Cabs from Bordeaux region of France are very popular, those from Australia's Margaret river and Coonawarra are also well-known. With a climate that bears semblance to that of the Bordeaux, Margaret River hosts the perfect climate for growing this varietal, so as to produce some of the finest Bordeaux-style red wines that are quite mineral-flavored.
Note: Look for Cabs from Margaret River or Coonawarra for good quality ones. Like any other wine, the quality differs from region to region.
This highly aromatic wine will sweep you away with its rich blueberry, blackberry, plum, cherry, vanilla, and warm spice flavors. With hints of eucalyptus, cedar, cassis, and cigar, these full-bodied wines are intensely complex, yet have a light fruitiness and juiciness from the fruit.
Dishes prepared in tomato-based sauces, red meats, etc.
Like the famous wine critic Robert Parker says, "... there can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself." So, go purchase some Australian wines, drink them, and find out for yourself how the wines from this continent fare. Try them out with different foods and discover interesting food pairings of your own. Drink, enjoy, and learn!
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I’ve been thinking a while if it was useful to digitalise a psychometric instrument that measures gender dysphoria in adults. Even though I have mixed feelings about the impact such a questionnaire may has, I thought I will try and see what happens. Experiencing difficulties with mental health can be very isolating. The place we look first for information and support is the internet. And sometimes all it takes is a little certainty to reach out for help. I don’t know if this questionnaire will be useful for everyone, but it might be for some and that’s worth a try.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) writes “gender dysphoria involves a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which he/she/they identify” and differentiates “gender dysphoria is not the same as gender nonconformity, which refers to behaviors not matching the gender norms or stereotypes of the gender assigned at birth” (APA, 2016).
The ‘Gender Identity/Gender Dysphoria Questionnaire for Adolescents and Adults’ (GIDYQ-AA) has 27 questions measuring an overall score and four sub-scales: subjective-, social-, somatic- and sociolegal-indicators.
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Treat yourself to a test drive in the 2016 Hyundai Veloster With less than 40,000 miles on the odometer, this hatchback hits the mark with consumers demanding economical versatility! It features a standard transmission, front-wheel drive, and an efficient 4 cylinder engine. The engine breathes better thanks to a turbocharger, improving both performance and economy. Hyundai infused the interior with top shelf amenities, such as: 1-touch window functionality, a tachometer, variably intermittent wipers, heated seats, front fog lights, cruise control, and remote keyless entry. Storage solutions are integrated throughout the interior, demonstrating thoughtful attention to detail. Enjoy your favorite music via the stereo system, which includes a CD player with MP3 capability, steering wheel mounted audio controls, and 8 speakers, providing excellent sound throughout the cabin. Hyundai ensures the safety and security of its passengers with equipment such as: head curtain airbags, front side impact airbags, traction control, a panic alarm, an emergency communication system, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. Brake assist technology provides extra pressure when applying the brakes. It also arrives with a Carfax history report, providing you peace of mind with detailed information. We pride ourselves in the quality that we offer on all of our vehicles. Please don't hesitate to give us a call.
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Is chlorine-treated water harmful to houseplants? In a word, no. Still, many people attest that chlorine-treated water is harmful to plants. This maybe due to the concentration of chlorine early in the morning, when water has been standing all night in the pipes. To be safe, allow the tap to run a few minutes prior to gathering water. Its good to know that chlorine disappears rapidly upon aeration. If you really want to be sure on the safety of water, let the tap water sit overnight in a pail before applying to plants. Nevertheless, fluorine does not go away.
plants that exhibit some reaction to fluorine in tap water. In some areas of the country, foliage shows tip burning when the soil or water carries as little as 1/10 ppm of fluorine. Because some municipal water supplies contain as much as ten times this amount (added to reduce tooth decay) the use of rainwater, well water, or water from a defrosted refrigerator is highly encouraged for these plants. Make sure your rainwater is not acidic.
fluoride, there is no need to be alarmed since it's easy to correct. Just add some limestone or gypsum to counteract its effects. When using gypsum, add 1 teaspoon per 5-inch pot of soil. If you prefer using lime, put 2 teaspoons per 6-inch pot. Offsetting fluoride in tap water is also quite simple. Use a "Hydrion" paper dispenser to test the pH or acidity. When the water tests acid, just add a little lime to bring it up to around pH 6 or 6.5 (nearly neutral). At this level, fluorides are bound and plants won't absorb them. Doing a litmus paper test can also be used to find out the acidity of your water or potting soil.
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How to cope with sleepless nights.
You want to help with the baby, but you have to be sufficiently wide-awake in the morning to cope with work. Try negotiating with your partner for her to do the night-time caring during the week in exchange for helping her at the weekends. Consider co-sleeping, or if that only makes matters worse, sleep in a spare bed for a while.
You want to see as much of your baby as possible, but you have to put in the hours at work. Is overtime important for the extra money, or would it be better to spend time with your baby?
Some will understand what you're going through, while others won't. Talk to the ones who can empathise.
You don't want to ask your partner to make love before she is ready, but you do want to be close to her again. Try a little cuddling and stroking and then take it further if she seems happy. Otherwise, wait a bit longer - her body is tired and perhaps still sore. Talk it through with her. She needs time to recover.
Talking to other dads should be useful. You'll almost certainly find that your concerns are common and it helps to know that other people have survived!
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US President Donald Trump is reportedly seething over the special counsel's damning portrayal of his protracted campaign to thwart the Russia investigation.He directed much of his ire at former White..
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How can I set up the NetBeans working environment to be portable?
If you use NetBeans in the office and at home, you might be considering to install NetBeans on an external portable USB drive so that you can take it with you.
The answer is similar to FaqNetworkDrives: Running an IDE from a USB drive is likely too slow to be usable in daily life.
Make certain you have the same JDK installed (in the same paths) on the machines where you use the USB drive - or copy the JDK on the drive too. The same applies to web servers / version control systems / runtimes, whatever is applicable.
Download the OS-independent.zip distribution of NetBeans. Unpack it on your usb stick.
The directories you need to copy are the netbeans userdir (.netbeans directory), and of course your project directories.
Check whether you have a global netbeans.conf file: If yes, make certain it is identical to the one in your userdir to prevent unexpected behaviour in either environment.
In your netbeans installation directory, open /etc/netbeans.conf in a text editor.
assuming X is your USB stick's drive name.
Change the path to the JDK from #netbeans_jdkhome="/path/to/jdk" to e.g.
Make sure to remove the hash sign to uncomment.
Make certain that as much as possible is on the local hard drive. Start with the JDK and the userdir (FaqAlternateUserdir). In NetBeans 7.1, use the --cachedir option to keep disposable caches on a local disk.
It's probably easier and more efficient to install the IDE on both sides, and then to use a version control system to sync the configurations.
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Graham Jacobs (LIB), who has been the sitting MP for the abolished seat of Roe since 2005.
One of the state's largest electorates, Eyre extends from the Shire of Yilgarn to the South Australian Border, and from Boulder through Kambalda to Norseman, Esperance and Ravensthorpe. The local government areas covered include the Shires of Yilgarn, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Coolgardie and Dundas, as well as most of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder that lies outside of Kalgoorlie itself.
The new electorate of Eyre is a safe Liberal seat with an estimated margin of 14.9%, replacing the previously ultra-safe Liberal seat of Roe, margin 31.8%, and the safe Labor seat of Murchison-Eyre with a margin of 8.1%. Eyre has been created from 9,300 voters from Roe, where the Liberal two-party vote was 81.9% in 2005, 6,400 from Murchison-Eyre with a Labor two-party vote of 60.7%, and around 1,300 voters from Kalgoorlie where the Liberal vote was 53.5%.
The redistribution has revived Eyre as an electorate name, but the new electoral laws means the seat is much larger in both area and population than it was in previous incarnations. Eyre was first created as an electorate in 1950, when it was represented by Labor's Emil Nulsen. Nulsen had represented the electorate of Kanowna from 1932 until its abolition in 1950, then Eyre until it was abolished in 1962. Nulsen served as a cabinet minister for 14 years as part of four different Labor government. Eyre was revived as an electorate name in 1989 and was represented until 2001 by Labor's Julian Grill, who had previously represented Yilgarn-Dundas 1977-83 and Esperance-Dundas 1983-89. On Grill's retirement, Eyre was won by John Bowler. Eyre was abolished in 2005 and replaced by Murchison-Eyre, a name that had also been used for local electorates between 1968 and 1989. The new Eyre includes both Esperance and Boulder, making it a very different electorate from previous incarnations of seats with this name.
Eyre is an electorate with two distinct ends, with Labor polling strongly in the Goldfields districts transferred from the abolished seat of Murchison-Eyre, while the Labor Party vote is negligible in the southern parts of the electorate previously in the seat of Roe. Labor's two-party vote was above 65% in mining centres such as Coolgardie and Kambalda and over 60% in Boulder. But in Esperance, the Labor Party struggled to reach 25% of the two-party preferred vote, and was even lower in the smaller rural communities. The Liberal Party two-party vote ranged from 21.3% at Kambalda Primary to 90.9% at Cascade Primary School to the east of Esperance.
Dr Graham Jacobs was a local Esperance GP for three decades and former President of the WA Rural Doctors Association. Born in Victoria but raised in Esperance, Jacobs was also a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve. After a previous attempt in 1989, Jacobs won the seat of Roe at the 2005 election and won the seat following the retirement of National MP Ross Ainsworth. Jacobs has had an eventful year, filling the role of Party Whip, using his power to convene a party meeting and move a spill motion in the leadership when the Troy Buswell chair sniffing allegations first surfaced. Jacobs has built a high profile in his home base of Esperance for his championing of the closure of the local port to lead exports after large numbers of local birds began to die as a result of lead poisoning. His National Party opponent Suzie Williams was born in Zambia on the day before her parents were forced to flee from political upheaval. They settled in Australia and Williams was educated in Kambalda and Kalgoorlie. Following studies in nursing and IT, she travelled through the Middle East and Europe before returning to the family hardware store in Boulder. She has since joined her husband in their innovation business servicing the mining industry. Williams is a member of the Boulder Promotion and Development Association and a former City of Kalgoorlie Boulder Councillor.
With his base in Esperance included, Graham Jacobs should be able to easily win this seat for the Liberal Party.
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Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature to start. Preheat oven to 350° F. Prepare cupcake pans by lining them with cupcake liners. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together. Mix in the chocolate chips with the dry ingredients and set aside. In the bowl of a large stand mixer, cream the butter until it is smooth and has no lumps. Add in the granulated sugar and mix on high until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs one at a time, making sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl after each addition. Add in the vanilla. Once the eggs are fully incorporated, slowly add in the sour cream. Add in half the sifted dry ingredients and mix only until incorporated. Add the milk and then remainder of the dry ingredients, making sure to combine but not over mix. Fill each cupcake liner about ½ - ¾ full with the batter. The batter will be very thick. Bake for approximately 12 minutes, or until the cakes spring back to the touch. Allow to completely cool before frosting.
Make sure the ingredients are at room temperature before starting. In the bowl of a standing mixer, cream the butter until it is smooth and has no lumps. Add in the sour cream and combine with the butter. Slowly add in the sifted confectioner's sugar until completely combined. Add in the vanilla. Mix on high until light and fluffy. Frost the cupcakes just before serving and top with fresh strawberries.
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Rate this project The Xubuntu development team has announced the release of Xubuntu 18.10, the latest version of the official Ubuntu variant with Xfce as the preferred desktop environment. This is Xubuntu's first release that uses a development build of Xfce 4.13, an upcoming version that will deploy GTK+ 3 as the default toolkit: "The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 18.10. Highlights: several Xfce components and applications were updated to their 4.13 development releases, bringing us closer to a GTK+ 3-only desktop; elementary Xfce icon theme 0.13 with the manila folder icons as seen in the upstream elementary icon theme; Greybird 3.22.9 which improves the look and feel of our window manager, alt-tab dialog, Chromium and even pavucontrol; a new default wallpaper featuring a gentle purple tone that greatly complements our GTK+ and icon themes. Known issues: at times the panel could show two network icons - this appears to be a race condition which we have not been able to rectify in time for release; in the settings manager, the mouse fails to scroll applications in settings manager (GTK+ 3 regression)." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information and screenshots. Download: xubuntu-18.10-desktop-amd64.iso (1,437MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project Version 18.04 of Xubuntu, an Ubuntu variant that ships with the popular Xfce desktop, is now ready for download: "The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 18.04. Xubuntu 18.04 is a long-term support (LTS) release and will be supported for 3 years, until April 2021. Highlights: some GNOME applications are replaced with corresponding MATE applications for improved consistency with almost identical set of features; the Sound Indicator plugin is replaced with the Xfce PulseAudio plugin in the panel, improving the control of volume and multimedia applications from the panel; the new xfce4-notifyd panel plugin is included, allowing users to easily toggle 'do not disturb' mode for notifications as well as view missed notifications; significantly improved menu editing with a new MenuLibre version; better support for HiDPI screens, better consistency and other improvements from the Greybird GTK+ theme." Read the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes and known issues. Download: xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso (1,361MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). Also available from OSDisc.
Rate this project The Xubuntu team has announced the release of Xubuntu 17.10. The new version includes significant improvements to accelerated video playback on Intel video cards. The distribution also includes support for driverless printing and includes the GNOME Font Viewer by default. "The GNOME Font Viewer is now included by default. This application simplifies viewing and installing fonts. Client side decorations (CSD) now consume much less space with the Greybird GTK+ theme. New device, mimetype, and monochrome panel icons have been included with the elementary-xfce icon theme. We usually link directly to the Ubuntu release notes, but there are several significant improvements that affect all flavours and our users: Accelerated video playback with Intel hardware should now work more reliably out of the box. The changes might also bring some performance improvements for Parole and Chromium users. Bluetooth and USB audio devices should now work better by default due to changes in BlueZ and PulseAudio. Driverless printing has been added to Ubuntu. This provides support for most modern printers: IPP Everywhere, Apple AirPrint, Mopria, PCLm, and Wifi Direct as supported. Other printers can still be added from the Printers dialog." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: xubuntu-17.10-desktop-amd64.iso (1,251MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project The Xubuntu project, a community edition of Ubuntu featuring the Xfce desktop environment, has announced the release of Xubuntu 17.04. The new release features some applications and Xfce components which have been ported to GTK+ 3 and this release includes bug fixes for Mugshot along with a new mini-mode for the Parole media player. "Several Xfce panel plugins and applications have been ported to GTK+ 3, paving the way for improved theming and further development. Core Xfce libraries exo and libxfce4ui have also been updated with full GTK+ 3 support, the latter adding support for Glade development in Xubuntu with the installation of libxfce4ui-glade. The Greybird and Numix themes have also been refreshed with improved support for the toolkit. Camera functionality has been restored in Mugshot, Parole introduced a new mini mode and improvements for network streams, and a number of welcome fixes have made their way into Thunar and Ristretto. Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection (sgt-puzzles), an addicting collection of logic games, has been included along with the new SGT Puzzles Collection." Further details can be found in the Xubuntu 17.04 release announcement and in the release notes. Download: xubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso (1,275MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project The Xubuntu project has released a new version of the project's Xfce-oriented distribution. The new release, Xubuntu 16.10, shares a package base with Ubuntu 16.10 and will be supported for nine months. The new version of Xubuntu features Xfce desktop packages built with the GTK+ 3 toolkit, which replaces the legacy GTK+ 2 toolkit. "The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 16.10. Xubuntu 16.10 is a normal release and will be supported for nine months. This release has seen little visible change since April's 16.04, however much has been done towards supplying Xubuntu with Xfce packages built with GTK+ 3, including the porting of many plugins and Xfce Terminal to GTK+ 3. Those GTK+ 3 ports can, if one wishes to test them, be installed from one of the team's development PPAs. Known issues: Thunar is still the subject of a few bugs, though they all appear to revolve around similar issues; on some hardware the password is sometimes required twice when returning from suspend." Further details about this release, along with a list of known issues, can be found in the project's release announcement and release notes. Download: xubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso (1,234MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project The Xubuntu team has announced the release of Xubuntu 16.04. The new version carries the code name Xenial Xerus and will receive three years of security updates. One of the bigger changes in this release is the package manager front-end, Ubuntu Software Centre, has been replaced by GNOME Software. "The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 16.04. Xubuntu 16.04 is an LTS (Long-Term Support) release and will be supported for 3 years. The final release images are available as Torrents and direct downloads from http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/. As the main server will be very busy in the first few days after release, we recommend using the Torrents wherever possible." Additional information on the Xubuntu 16.04 release can be found in the project's release announcement and in the technical release notes. Download: xubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso (1,184MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). Also available from OSDisc.
Rate this project The Ubuntu Release Team has announced the availability of new beta test images for select community editions. The new development release, which carries the designation 16.04 Beta 1, is recommended for testers only and is not considered suitable for daily use. "This beta features images for Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu. Pre-releases of Xenial Xerus are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavour developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. Download: lubuntu-16.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (868MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), ubuntu-mate-16.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,592MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), ubuntu-gnome-16.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,252MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), ubuntustudio-16.04-beta1-dvd-amd64.iso (2,693MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), ubuntukylin-16.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,558MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), xubuntu-16.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,227MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project The Xubuntu team has announced a new release of their distribution which combines packages from the Ubuntu repositories with the Xfce desktop environment. The new release, Xubuntu 15.10, swaps out Gnumeric and AbiWord for the LibreOffice productivity suite. The new release also includes version 4.12 of the Xfce desktop. The 15.10 release has the following highlights: Xfce4 Panel Switch for backup and restoration of panels. Included are five preset panel layouts. LibreOffice Calc and Writer and now included. These applications replace Gnumeric and AbiWord respectively. A new theme for LibreOffice, libreoffice-style-elementary is also included and is default for Wily Werewolf. Greybird accessibility icons for window manager. Known issue: gmusicbrowser is known to crash on close." Further information can be found in the distribution's release announcement and a full list of changes and new packages are provided in the release notes. Download: xubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso (1,052MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project The Xubuntu development team has launched Xubuntu 15.04. The Xubuntu distribution is based on packages pulled from the Ubuntu repositories and offers users Xfce as the default desktop environment. The latest version of Xubuntu ships with Xfce 4.12 and improves the appearance of Qt-based applications running in the Xfce environment. "Xubuntu now uses Xfce 4.12, which was released on February 28. The new release has brought both some new features and many bug fixes over the old 4.10/4.11 components. For a complete changelog for Xfce 4.12, see the 4.12 changelog on Xfce.org. In addition to the new Xfce release, the 15.04 release has the following highlights: New/Updated Xubuntu Light/Dark colour schemes in Mousepad, Terminal; Mousepad colour scheme set to Xubuntu Light by default; Better appearance for Qt applications out of the box (default to GTK theme); Redundant File Manager (Settings) menu entry removed." Further information can be found in the release announcement and a full list of changes are provided in the release notes. Download: xubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso (963MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project The Ubuntu family of distribution is one step closer to version 15.04 as the first beta builds of Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE and now also Xubuntu get ready for testing: "The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 15.04 Beta 1. This is the first beta towards the final release in April. The first beta release also marks the end of the period to land new features in the form of Ubuntu feature freeze. This means any new updates to packages should be bug fixes only, the Xubuntu team is committed to fixing as many of the bugs as possible before the final release. New features and enhancements: LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings tool added; development wallpaper introduced; XFCE Panel now has an intelligent hiding mode...." See the general announcement as well as Xubuntu's own release announcement for more details and known issues. Download links: kubuntu-15.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,218MB, SHA256, torrent), lubuntu-15.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (678MB, SHA256, torrent), ubuntu-gnome-15.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,005MB, SHA256, torrent), ubuntukylin-15.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,307MB, SHA256, torrent), ubuntu-mate-15.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (1,094MB, SHA256, torrent), xubuntu-15.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (957MB, SHA256, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 14.10 has been released. Xubuntu is a desktop Linux distribution focusing on usability and performance through its classic Xfce desktop. From the release announcement: "The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.10. To celebrate the 14.10 code name 'Utopic Unicorn' and to demonstrate the easy customisability of Xubuntu, highlight colors have been turned pink for this release. You can easily revert this change by using the theme configuration application under the Settings Manager; simply turn Custom Highlight Colors 'Off' and click 'Apply'. Of course, if you wish, you can change the highlight color to something you like better than the default blue. Starting with Xubuntu 14.10, you should use pkexec instead of gksudo for running graphical applications with root access from the terminal for improved security." See also the release notes for a full changelog and a list of known issues. Download: xubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso (979MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist).
Rate this project Pasi Lallinaho has announced the release of Xubuntu 14.04, a desktop distribution shipping with the latest development build of the Xfce desktop, version 4.11: "The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.04. Xubuntu 14.04 is an LTS (long-term support) release and will be supported for 3 years. The highlights of this release include: Light Locker replaces XScreenSaver for screen locking, a settings GUI is included; the panel layout is updated, it now uses Whisker Menu by default; Mugshot is included to allow editing personal preferences; MenuLibre for menu editing with full Xfce support replaces Alacarte; a community wallpapers package which includes work from the five winners of the wallpaper contest; GTK+ Theme Config to customize desktop theme colors; updated artwork, including various enhancements to themes as well as a new default wallpaper." Here is the release announcement with known issues and acknowledgements. Download: xubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso (913MB, SHA256, torrent). Also available from OSDisc.
Rate this project The second alpha release of Xubuntu 14.04 and several other members of the Ubuntu family (but without Ubuntu itself) is now ready for download and testing: "The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2. As often expected with very early cycle releases, this release has some issues which we will be working to resolve before the final release. Notably, it is impossible to successfully use the alpha 2 to set up an auto-resized system automatically. You will not be able to set the partition sizes. Other known issues: top ruler missing from AbiWord; keyboard input method closing unexpectedly; Ubiquity window spans monitor width; desktop items have background; Thunar not always automounting USB; resize bar missing when running auto-resize install option." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: xubuntu-14.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (894MB, SHA256). Other distributions that opted to participate in alpha 2 testing include Edubuntu (release notes, download), Kubuntu (release notes, download), Ubuntu GNOME (release notes, download) and Ubuntu Kylin (download).
Rate this project Pasi Lallinaho has announced the release of Xubuntu 13.10, an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system with Xfce - a stable, light and configurable desktop environment: "The Xubuntu team is delighted to announce the release of Xubuntu 13.10! Some of the highlights for Xubuntu 13.10 include: a new version of xfce4-settings has been uploaded, bringing amongst other things a new dialog to set up your displays; a tool for changing your theme colors easily, gtk-theme-config, has been added to the default installation; new wallpaper; new releases of our GTK+ themes (with GTK+ 3.10 support) as well as the LightDM greeter, fixing many visual bugs; updated documentation. Known problems: indicator sound no longer functions with Xfce indicator plugin; gmusicbrowser's albuminfo plugin is deactivated by default and causes the app to hang if enabled...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: xubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso (842MB, SHA256, torrent).
Rate this project While Ubuntu developers no longer release development milestones, many of the Ubuntu derivatives continue using the traditional development model, with regular alpha and beta releases. Today is the beta 1 release day for many of them, including Xubuntu: "The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the release of Xubuntu 13.10 'Saucy Salamander' beta 1 today. With this beta, we hope to have all of the most important features ready. We now seek people to actively test and identify bugs so we can squash them before our final release. Some of the highlights of the release include: new version of Xfce Settings with a new dialog to set up your monitors; improved themes with GTK+ 3.8 support and bug fixes; a new tool to change your theme colors; updated version of Gnumeric." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: xubuntu-13.10-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso (832MB, SHA256). Other links to beta 1 releases: Edubuntu (announcement, download), Ubuntu Studio (announcement, download), Kubuntu (download), Lubuntu (download), Ubuntu GNOME (download) and UbuntuKylin (download).
Rate this project Pasi Lallinaho has announced the release of Xubuntu 13.04, a desktop Linux distribution featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment: "The Xubuntu team is glad to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 13.04. Xubuntu 13.04 will be supported for 9 months and will need other media such as a USB device or a DVD to install. What's new in Xubuntu 13.04? Xubuntu 13.04 is mostly a maintenance release, and there aren't many new features. However, there are some changes, which include: Gnumeric and GIMP are reintroduced on the ISO image; new application versions - Catfish 0.6.1 and Parole 0.5.0 with many bug fixes; updates for the Greybird theme and a new wallpaper; duplicate partitions are no longer shown on desktop or Thunar; updated documentation. Starting with 13.04, the Xubuntu images will not fit on standard CDs. This is an effect of changing the target size to a 1GB USB device." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: xubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso (801MB, SHA256, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 12.10, an official Ubuntu project providing a desktop operating system with Xfce as the distribution's preferred desktop, has been released: "The Xubuntu team is glad to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 12.10, code-named Quantal Quetzal. Xubuntu 12.10 will be supported for 18 months. New features: Xfce 4.10; completely rewritten offline documentation; in the application menu, all settings-related launchers are now grouped under the Settings Manager; updated artwork, including new wallpaper, documentation looks and updates to LightDM, Greybird and Ubiquity slideshow; new versions of Catfish and Parole. Notable bug fixes: no more window traces or 'black on black' in installer." Read through the brief release announcement and the more detailed release notes for additional details and known issues. Download (SHA256): xubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso (693MB, torrent), xubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso (694MB, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 12.04, a brand-new version of the popular Ubuntu flavour featuring the Xfce 4.8 desktop, has been released: "The Xubuntu team is very proud and happy to announce the release of Xubuntu 12.04, code-named 'Precise Pangolin'. Xubuntu 12.04 is a Long-Term Support release (LTS) and will be supported for three years per the Xubuntu LTS plan. Release notes: the i386 images use a non-PAE kernel, the non-PAE kernel will not be available in future Xubuntu releases; some default shortcuts have been changed, added and deleted; pavucontrol is used instead of xfce4-mixer due to latter not supporting PulseAudio; the Alacarte menu editor is installed by default and will work with Xfce-related menu items as well; lots of appearance improvements, including new branding...." Read the release announcement and release notes for additional details. Download (SHA256): xubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso (680MB, torrent), xubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.iso (695MB, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 11.10 is the latest version of the official Ubuntu variant featuring the light and elegant Xfce desktop environment: "There are a few times when, through hard work and diligence, we get things right. The developers and contributors of Xubuntu 11.10 believe they have it right. They are proud to announce the release of Xubuntu 11.10, 'Oneiric Ocelot'. Through the outstanding efforts of all involved, this sleek and smooth release offered for your enjoyment and use. Changes for this release include the following applications included by default: gThumb, pastebinit, and onboard. The team has also chosen to switch from GDM to LightDM as the default display manager and from Mousepad to Leafpad as the default text editor." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download (SHA256): xubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso (677MB, torrent), xubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso (693MB, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 11.04, an official Ubuntu flavour featuring the Xfce desktop, has been released: "Xubuntu 11.04, code-named the 'Natty Narwhal', is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu." What's new? "Xubuntu wallpaper has been updated for this release. The wallpaper is designed to integrate well with the new graybird theme. The installation slideshow has been updated, and really displays the best of Xubuntu. The Elementary Xubuntu icon theme has been updated. Xubuntu is using the Droid font by default, since it is a lightweight, good visibility font. The newly released Xfce 4.8 is included. The menus in Xfce 4.8 are now editable with any menu editor that meets the freedesktop.org standards." See the release announcement and release notes for a list of major changes. Download (SHA256): xubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso (689MB, torrent), xubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso (688MB, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 10.10, an official Ubuntu variant featuring the Xfce desktop environment, is out: "Xubuntu 10.10, code-named 'Maverick Meerkat', is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu. Some of the highlights include: Xubuntu now uses Parole, the Xfce Media Player, to provide an improved audio/video experience; Xfburn has replaced Brasero for a more resource-conscious CD/DVD burning tool; Xfce task manager has replaced GNOME task manager, providing similar function with fewer resources required; Gnumeric has been updated to version 1.10.8, and AbiWord is now version 2.8.6; a brand-new theme from the Shimmer team has been introduced." Read the release announcement and release notes to learn more about the new release. Download (SHA256): xubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso (697MB, torrent), xubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso (693MB, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 10.04, a popular Ubuntu variant featuring the Xfce desktop environment, has been released: "Xubuntu 10.04, codenamed the 'Lucid Lynx', is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu. Building on the success of Xubuntu 9.10, Xubuntu 10.04 looks forward to continuing the tradition of being a light-weight and easy-to-use Linux distribution built on top of the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu. Some of the highlights of the 10.04 release include: Xubuntu now uses PulseAudio to provide an improved audio experience; settings menu has been tidied to make it easier to configure your Xubuntu desktop; the Ubuntu Software Center introduced in Ubuntu 9.10 replaces the 'Add/Remove...' option provided in earlier Xubuntu versions; XSane has been replaced in favor of SimpleScan to ease setup and operation of scanners." See the release announcement and release notes for additional details. Download (SHA256): xubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso (681MB, torrent), xubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso (695MB, torrent).
Rate this project Xubuntu 9.10, an Ubuntu variant featuring the latest Xfce desktop, is now also available: "Xubuntu 9.10, code-named the 'Karmic Koala', is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu. It integrates the latest Xfce desktop release with the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu, resulting in a light-weight and easy-to-use Linux distribution. New features: Xfce 4.6.1; includes the Exaile 0.3.0.x music player to make enjoying podcasts, streaming radio, audio books, and music library easier than ever before; Xfce power manager provides a more integrated power management experience; improved notify-osd integration with the Xfce desktop; faster application load times and reduced memory footprint for a number of your favorite Xfce applications...." See the release announcement and release notes for more details and upgrade notes. Download (MD5): xubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (664MB, torrent), xubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso (673MB, torrent).
Rate this project Next, it's the turn of Xubuntu 9.04, an Ubuntu variant featuring the Xfce desktop, which was also released today: "Xubuntu 9.04, code-named the 'Jaunty Jackalope', is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu. It integrates the latest Xfce (4.6.0) desktop with the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu, resulting in a light-weight and easy-to-use Linux distribution. Highlights: faster boot times; a new Xfce Settings Manager dialog with better integration of each of the settings modules; a new configuration system - Xconf; a new desktop menu that follows the freedesktop.org menu standards; an upgraded notification-area; Gigolo, a new application to allow access to remote file systems; new Xubuntu artwork...." See the release announcement and release notes for upgrade instructions and other information. Download (MD5): xubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso (617MB, torrent), xubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso (632MB, torrent).
Rate this project Next, the release of Xubuntu 8.10, a desktop distribution designed for users and fans of the Xfce desktop: "The Xubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is their latest result: Xubuntu 8.10, which brings a host of excellent improvements built on the rock solid Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment. New Features since Xubuntu 8.04: newest AbiWord 2.6.4 word processor with tons of bug-fixes and new features; improved multimedia experience by including the Listen multimedia player; light-weight search front-end called Catfish; Seahorse - a GTK+ front-end for GnuPG; X.Org 7.4; Linux kernel 2.6.27; encrypted private directory; Network Manager 0.7; DKMS; Samba 3.2; PAM authentication framework; Totem BBC plugin...." Read the complete release announcement for further information. Download (MD5): xubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso (589MB, torrent), xubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64.iso (600MB, torrent).
Rate this project Next, it's the turn of Xubuntu to announce their latest release, version 8.04: "The Xubuntu developers are constantly bringing you the absolute latest and most stable software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is their latest result: the Xubuntu 8.04 LTS, which brings a host of excellent new features: Xfce 4.4.2, featuring the latest round of bug fixes from the steadily-improving Xfce 4 desktop environment; Linux kernel 2.6.24; PolicyKit with fine-grained control over user permissions, PulseAudio sound server; X.Org 7.3; the settings manager; Thunar file browser, Firefox 3.0 beta 5; Brasero and Transmission..." Read the rest of the release notes for more information. Download (MD5): xubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso (544MB, torrent), xubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso (551MB, torrent).
Rate this project Completing the big Ubuntu release day is Xubuntu 7.10: "The Xubuntu team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the latest release of the Xubuntu Linux operating system - 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon'." What's new? "The latest version of Xfce, 4.4.1, is included in this release, featuring many bug fixes and updated translations. A new theme, MurrinaStormCloud, using the Murrine Engine so it is faster than the themes in previous releases. The most important software updates in Gutsy are the new Pidgin 2.2.0, which is the new name for Gaim, and the new GIMP 2.4, but also includes minor updates to other software. Firefox extensions and plug-ins can now be installed through Add/Remove." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (MD5): xubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso (566MB), xubuntu-7.10-desktop-amd64.iso (570MB); also available via BitTorrent.
Rate this project Xubuntu 7.04, a light-weight Ubuntu variant featuring the Xfce desktop, is now available for download: "Thank you to everyone who has helped make Xubuntu 7.04 a reality. Thousands of you have helped code, test, translate and promote Ubuntu and everyone can celebrate today's release. Xubuntu 7.04 contains new innovative features like the revolutionary Windows migration assistance and the Xfce 4.4 stable desktop environment. Already known as a great lightweight desktop environment, Xfce version 4.4 includes a number of improved features that make it a worthy alternative to more memory-intensive desktops such as GNOME or KDE." More details in the release announcement and release notes. Download (MD5): xubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso (565MB), xubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso (569MB).
Rate this project Jani Monoses has announced the release of Xubuntu 6.10: "The Xubuntu community is happy to announce the release of Xubuntu 6.10, codenamed 'Edgy Eft'. This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures. Visible changes since Xubuntu 6.06: newer XFce desktop environment (4.4 RC1) which brings trashcan support in Thunar and the panel, accessibility settings for the keyboard, and other improvements and fixes; new artwork for the boot splash, login screen and wallpaper; more mature gxine media player replaces Xfmedia; newer versions of Firefox, AbiWord and Gnumeric...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download (MD5): xubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso (528MB), xubuntu-6.10-desktop-amd64.iso (533MB).
Rate this project Not to be left behind, Xubuntu 6.06 has also been released: "Today sees the first launch of Xubuntu 6.06 LTS. This version of Xubuntu will be supported for 3 years on the desktop, and brings you all of the latest XFce goodness." Xubuntu's new desktop features: "XFce 4.4beta1 including a more flexible panel, many panel plugins and icons on the desktop; Thunar file manager; GDM desktop manager; Gnome Office (latest AbiWord and Gnumeric); Evince document viewer; Xarchiver archive manager; Xfburn simple CD burner; Xubuntu System Tools for GUI system administration...." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Xubuntu 6.06 CD images for three architectures can be downloaded from this directory; here is a quick link to the i386 CD: xubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso (649MB, MD5).
Rate this project Jani Monoses has announced the second beta release of Xubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake": "The Ubuntu / Xubuntu teams are proud to present the second beta release of Xubuntu 6.06. New since Beta 1: the artwork is more consistent, and it is going to be further polished for the release; the Xarchiver archive manager is added; several new panel plugins are added (battery, weather, xkb, verve, etc.); the XFce core components are updated to 4.4beta1 or later snapshots to fix several bugs and to add new translations." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (i386): xubuntu-6.06-beta2-live-i386.iso (650MB, MD5).
Rate this project Jani Monoses has announced the first public beta release of Xubuntu, the latest addition of the growing tree of Ubuntu derivatives: "We are pleased to announce that the first public beta release of Xubuntu, the latest official addition to the Ubuntu family of derivative distributions has arrived. Xubuntu is built around the solid Ubuntu core and the friendly and relatively light-weight XFce desktop environment, with the specific goal of providing a nice user experience even on older hardware. This release includes a recent code snapshot of the upcoming XFce 4.4 desktop environment." Find more details and changes in the release announcement. A full set of live and installation CDs for three architectures is available in the download directory; here is a quick link to the i386 live CD image: xubuntu-6.06-beta-live-i386.iso (378MB, MD5).
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A roadmap, in business, is a document that helps to lay out the current position that the business is in, the direction the business is currently going towards, and the steps to realise its end goal.
Effectively, a business roadmap defines the strategy of a business or organization. It helps employees and those part of the business to better understand the actions taken and the strategic reasons behind them. This also means that goals can be 'mapped out', helping to clarify the different steps that need to be completed in order to reach a specific goal.
A business roadmap is often presented as a timeline, and is a clearly presented set of milestones.
What are the components of a road map?
Normally a roadmap will contain the following things: project goals, timelines, separated tasks, milestones, potential risk / problematic areas.
Why should you build a roadmap?
-Roadmaps incorporate time, which is what differentiates a roadmap from a business plan. This allows for more meticulous planning and more structure in your implementation.
-They help with prioritization. At every stage of the roadmapping process, the focus is on the most important things.
-With a roadmap, your company can better and more easily communicate strategic plans and future objectives to customers, investors and stakeholders.
-Finally, building the roadmap together ensures that each team member has a sense of understanding, gaining insights as the functioning of different areas are shared within the same space in order to reach a common goal.
Roadmaps should not be a static resource and should be continuously updated to fit with the current project.
Show how your strategy will boost your company's growth with a single effective visual aid.
Show your concept/business/project development on an ascending graph.
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Cali is Colombia's third-largest city and one of the country's major business centers. The city's culture, history and nightlife also make it one of Colombia's top tourist spots, especially as the country has made strides in becoming a safer destination for international travelers. Tourists can explore the history of the sugar industry that still leaves a tinge of sweet odor in Cali's air, try one of the world's top sailing spots and stop by a club to see why the city is known as the world's salsa capital.
Cali's airport, Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport, is about a 15-minute drive north of the city in Palmira. The airport is Colombia's second busiest, and you can find direct flights to Cali from numerous international gateway cities as well as regular connections from Bogota. By car or bus, Cali is about a 10-hour drive from Bogota, though the U.S. State Department advises against using buses or traveling on roads outside of major cities in Colombia. Because Cali is close to the equator, temperatures generally stay between 66 and 99 degrees F year-round. The rainy seasons run from April to June and September to November.
Notable landmarks in Cali include the Cali River and the "El Gato del Rio," or "river cat" statue, along with several smaller cat statues designed by local artists; the Gothic-style La Ermita Church; the Cristo Rey monument, a 42-meter statue of Christ comparable in size to the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro; and the Calima Gold Museum. The city is a short drive from the Hacienda Piedechinche in Santa Elena, which houses a museum detailing the history of sugar cane plantations in the area, as well as the Hacienda El Paraiso, the former home of author Jorge Isaacs that served as the inspiration for his romantic novels.
Cali's shopping options include the La Alameda Gallery, an open market where you can politely haggle for local crafts and fruits, as well as the massive Chipichape shopping mall, which derives its name from the onomatopoeic sound of a passing train. Golfers can try out several courses, including the 18-hole Farallones country club course and Club Campestre. Nearby Calima Lake boasts the third-strongest winds in the world, making it an ideal spot for sailing. When the sun goes down, you can show off your moves at one of the city's numerous salsa night clubs, and you can sign up for a lesson at one of Cali's salsa schools if you need some practice first.
You'll find a few global hotel brands in Cali, including InterContinental, Radisson and Mercure, but the city also has dozens of local hotels to explore. Several hotels are small boutique properties, such as the Jardin Azul and the Ofi Hotel. The city's first five-star hotel, Hotel Spiwak Chipichape Cali, opened in October 2010, with more than 200 rooms connected directly to the Chipichape Mall. Most major hotels in Cali offer some level of Internet service.
Violence, terrorism and kidnappings associated with rebel armies and drug warlords have diminished significantly in Colombia since peak levels in the 1980s and 1990s. Even so, the U.S. State Department maintains its travel warning for Colombia and specifically notes an uptick in Cali's murder rate. In particular, the State Department advises travelers to take taxis only when called via telephone dispatch or the airport taxi booth, as hailing a cab from the street puts them at a higher risk of robbery. Additionally, ProExport suggests travelers stick to bottled water.
Baker, Michael. "Tourism in Cali, Colombia." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/tourism-cali-colombia-35912.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
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Where can I rent the cheapest cars at Colombo - Bandaranaike?
Rent the car of your dreams at Colombo - Bandaranaike from a wide variety of models. Relax and enjoy each and every moment with your friends or family.
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With unemployment so high, what is the most critical piece of advice on “self-marketing” (above and beyond a great resume) you would give to an individual searching for a new job?
I’d like to post your advice on my website with a plug for your blog.
First, you should define what you’re really good at and passionate about and how this can benefit an employer–this is your “brand.” It’s important to be objective and realistic, and not overstate what you’re really capable of.
Second, you need to determine the kind of role or position you’re interested in. This needs to be a position that is both interesting to you but also a good fit with your skills and experience.
Then, you need to develop a marketing program that enables you to communicate your “brand’ with companies and recruiters. There are many ways to do this, but I think that LinkedIn is a great platform to communicate your personal brand. With LI, you can share an abbreviated resume, increase credibility with personal recommendations (consistent with your personal brand), make relevant book recommendations, import your blog to demonstrate expertise, provide updates with Twitter, etc.
In short, you should use every means possible to communicate your personal “brand” with companies and recruiters so that they fully understand who you are, what you do, and how you are different, special and better than other potential candidates for the role you’re interested in.
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It appears that the textbook version of Diffie-Hellman is susceptible to man in the middle attack and the use of digital signatures could prevent this attack from occurring.
Alice has a pair of public/private key (SKa,PKa).
Bob has a pair of public/private key(SKb,PKb).
Alice uses Bob public key PKb to encrypt her secret key Ka.
Is this how authenticated diffie-hellman key exchange using digital signatures is normally done? If not, how is it normally done?
Why do we bother with this form of key exchange where the sender and receiver must send their keys to each other before using the combined key when we can just encrypt the key using the senders private key followed by the receiver public key and send it to the other party?
Are there any flaws with my implementation of authenticated Diffie-Hellman key exchange?
Your description is a bit confused and appears to be wrong. In particular, we see Alice computing here Diffie-Hellman half gKA and then proceed to send... her Diffie-Hellman secret KA to Bob, which is not at all what she should do.
Alice generates (randomly) her secret KA and computes gKA.
Bob generates (randomly) his secret KB and computes gKB.
Alice sends gKA to Bob.
Bob sends gKB to Alice.
Alice computes (gKB)KA, using her secret KA and the value sent by Bob.
Bob computes (gKA)KB, using his secret KB and the value sent by Alice.
By the magic of mathematics, Alice and Bob ends up with the same value, which is the shared secret that they thereafter use for whatever cryptography they need to talk to each other.
For the authenticated variant, the same computations are done; but Alice and Bob also own asymmetric key pairs usable for digital signatures, and they use them: Alice signs whatever she sends to Bob, and Bob verifies that signature (using Alice's public key). Similarly, Bob signs what he sends to Alice, and Alice verifies that signature (using Bob's public key).
Note that a no point whatsoever does Alice send KA (he "DH secret") to Bob in any form. Neither does Bob send KB to Alice. And there is no encryption anywhere. You may encounter many tutorials that purport to explain digital signatures in terms of encryption (usually as "encryption with the private key"). These explanation are remnants of older times (the late 1970s, in fact, in the original Disco era) and are, in fact, plain wrong and very confusing. So don't think in those terms. Signatures are signatures, encryption is encryption.
Authenticated DH is what is done in, for instance, in SSL/TLS with the "DHE" cipher suites. It is also what happens in SSH (version 2).
The "permanent" key pairs owned by Alice and Bob may be unfit for anything else than signatures. A source of confusion (again) is that there is not one algorithm called RSA; there are at least two, one for encryption and one for signatures, and they appear to be able to use the same kind of key pairs. However, even if a RSA key pair can be used both for encryption and signatures, there are good reasons not to do so. There are also other signature algorithms (e.g. ECDSA) whose keys cannot be used (at least not easily) for encryption.
Using ephemeral DH secrets provides Forward Secrecy, which is good. Namely, the permanent keys of Alice and Bob must be stored somewhere; so they could, potentially, be stolen afterwards. With simple RSA-based key exchange (no DH, Alice encrypts a random session key with Bob's public key and Bob decrypts it), the ulterior key thief could use it to decrypt a past session. With the DH and the signatures, this issue does not occur; even if Alice's and Bob's signature private keys are revealed afterwards, their past communications cannot be decrypted. The whole concept of forward secrecy revolves around the idea that the "DH secrets", being generated on-the-fly, kept in RAM only, and destroyed immediately after completion of the DH key exchange, are immune to ulterior theft.
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I read this article and wanted to share it with you: Homeschooling with Humble Confidence https://blog.sonlight.com/homeschooling-humble-confidence.html.
There’s a tendency among homeschooling parents to try convincing the rest of the world that the path they’ve chosen for education is the best. Not the best for their child, their family, or their current season of life. Just the best. Period.
Where Does Overbearing Homeschool Confidence Come From?
On the positive side, some of these moms and dads are in the honeymoon phase of homeschooling, feeling excited about their new adventure and eager to evangelize everyone to their newfound discovery. They’re looking at homeschooling through rose-colored glasses.
Others have been homeschooling for quite some time and have a well-rounded, more realistic perspective of the journey. Those families are fully aware of the cons, but remain convinced they’re far outweighed by the pros.
From a more negative angle, there are homeschool parents who are a defensive because of unsupportive comments from people close to them. They feel compelled to defend their decision and maybe go a bit to the extreme in doing so.
Still others have had homeschooling go well for them, so they pat themselves on the back and fish for compliments.
What Does Overbearing Homeschool Confidence Look Like to Others?
Regardless of what’s prompting this homeschool marketing campaign of sorts, it generally comes across to others as ignorance, insecurity, or pride. Have any of those three traits ever convinced you to change your perspective on something important? Do you feel drawn to people who demonstrate those qualities toward you when you’re in disagreement about something?
Of course not; this type of behavior is totally counter-productive.
The mom whose kids are active and happy in public school won’t benefit from your sharing stats on social media about homeschooled kids outscoring their peers on tests.
People will roll their eyes at your lack of knowledge when you compare the amount of money a public school gets per student compared to how much you spend to homeschool one child.
The school staff who pour themselves into far more kids each day than you’ll ever have under your roof will not feel respected when you stereotype public school employees.
The dad paying for private school isn’t going to gain anything by your condescending remark about wasting money on tuition when you can give your kid a better education at home for less.
Does that mean we never talk about the perks homeschooling with people or ignore the problems with other schooling options? No, but it does mean we need to homeschool with a correct attitude. Once we’ve determined homeschooling is the best option available for our child at a particular point in time, we need to move forward with both humility and confidence, understanding it may not be the best available option for another child at the same point in time. In fact, it may not be an option at all.
We should focus our energy on homeschooling our own kids, not trying to convince others to homeschool theirs or make them believe we’re doing what’s best for ours. The respect we want people to show toward our choice to homeschool is the same respect we should show toward their decision to choose otherwise. The freedom we want in exercising our belief that it’s a wise choice is the same freedom we need to extend to those who believe differently. The truth is there are kids floundering and excelling, both academically and with the rest of life, in every single school setting. We would do well to remember that.
Value education itself more than where it happens.
Trust that other families are doing what they believe is right for them, remembering that we don’t know—nor is it our business to know—all the factors that went into their decision.
Support local schools by volunteering on their campuses, donating supplies to their classrooms, and buying tickets for their performances and games.
Share both the highs and lows of homeschooling in our own lives, the advantages we’ve had and the struggles we face, rather than making broad generalizations that pit homeschooling against other options.
Praise the accomplishments of kids in brick and mortar school as eagerly as we do those who are homeschooled.
Acknowledge that every schooling option has strengths and weaknesses—objective ones that are inherent and subjective ones that vary by teacher, school, district, child, family, and season of life.
Be approachable, sharing information about homeschooling with people when they’ve felt comfortable enough with us to ask questions.
Remember that actions speak louder than words. The way we live our lives as homeschooling families—including how we treat those who are opposed to, uninterested in, or unable to take part in homeschooling—will do far more to make or break people’s views about homeschooling than any article, statistic, or anecdote we share with them.
Let’s demonstrate humble confidence as we educate our kids at home.
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Correct any capitalization errors in the following sentences.
1. Faith Hope is Executive Director at the Charity Foundation.
2. John Doe is the Roberta Roe Professor of Anthropology at Oxford.
3. Former Vice President Al Gore is an author and an environmental activist.
4. The evening’s highlight was a talk by Economist Adam Smith.
5. The first lady will attend the event.
Original: Faith Hope is Executive Director at the Charity Foundation.
Correct : Faith Hope is executive director at the Charity Foundation.
When a job or office title follows the bearer’s name, it is almost invariably not capitalized.
Original: John Doe is the Roberta Roe Professor of Anthropology at Oxford.
Correct : John Doe is the Roberta Roe Professor of Anthropology at Oxford.
Titles for holders of endowed professorships are capitalized in all references; this sentence was originally correct.
Original: Former Vice President Al Gore is an author and an environmental activist.
Correct : Former vice president Al Gore is an author and an environmental activist.
When an adjective precedes a job or office title, the title is also treated as a description and is not capitalized.
Original: The evening’s highlight was a talk by Economist Adam Smith.
Correct : The evening’s highlight was a talk by economist Adam Smith.
Words that identify a person’s occupation or role but are not specific titles are not capitalized.
Original: The first lady will attend the event.
Correct : The First Lady will attend the event.
Honorifics (also including “Your Honor,” “Her Royal Highness,” and the like) should always be capitalized.
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Gonzalo Higuain celebrates after scoring Real Madrid's third goal against Sporting Gijon on Saturday.
(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo was to the fore as Real Madrid came from behind to defeat Sporting Gijon 3-1 on Saturday night and move three points clear of Barcelona at the top of Spain's La Liga.
Former Real reserve player David Barral shocked the home fans with the opening goal eight minutes after halftime when he beat the offside trap and fired into the roof of the net past goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
But the expensively assembled Madrid team responded immediately, with Rafael Van Der Vaart making up for an earlier missed header as he pounced after Gijon keeper Juan Pablo failed to deal with Ronaldo's swerving free-kick.
Pablo was booked after protesting that the Dutch midfielder had appeared to use his hand to control the ball before smashing in the rebound.
Real took the lead in the 57th minute with another opportunist goal as midfielder Xavi Alonso netted his second of the season as he nodded in at the far post after Ronaldo rose highest to power a header which was destined to go well wide of Pablo's goal.
Gonzalo Higuain, who scored a hat-trick against Valladolid last weekend, wrapped up the victory 11 minutes later when he cut in from the right and surged towards the Gijon penalty area before slotting in a low left-foot effort.
It was the Argentina forward's 20th league goal this season, and sealed Real's 14th win from 14 at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Coach Manuel Pellegrini, who received a vote of confidence from Real's directors after the disappointing last-16 exit from the Champions League two weeks ago, was not happy with the way his team played.
"We did not have a good first half, we did not have the creativity to break through Sporting's defense," the Chilean said.
"But what's important is that after the goal we conceded we knew how to react and we improved a lot in the second half. The team won and that's the most important thing."
Barcelona, who face English club Arsenal in the quarterfinals of Europe's premier club competition, can draw level on 68 points with victory at Real Zaragoza on Sunday.
Sevilla's hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League were dented by a 2-0 defeat at Barcelona's city rivals Espanyol in Saturday's late match.
Striker Dani Osvaldo headed an eighth-minute opener and then doubled the lead on the breakaway after an hour to leave Sevilla four points behind third-placed Valencia, who host Almeria on Sunday.
Sevilla, knocked out of the Champions League by CSKA Moscow in midweek, will lose fourth spot if Mallorca draw with Atletico Madrid on Sunday.
Athletic Bilbao moved to within a point of Mallorca after drawing 2-2 with Getafe on Saturday, with both teams reduced to 10 men.
Pablo Orbaiz put the Basques ahead but was sent off seven minutes before halftime, with Getafe having earlier drawn level through Manu (32).
Fernando Llorente restored the hosts' lead from the penalty spot with 10 minutes left after Miguel Torres received a second booking, but Pedro Leon leveled on 86.
Bilbao edged ahead of Deportivo La Coruna on goal difference after the Galicians suffered a shock 2-0 defeat at home to relegation-threatened Valladolid.
Basement club Xerez won 2-1 at home to second-bottom Tenerife to leave the islanders level with Valladolid on 23 points.
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Sebastian Vettel is a 32 year old German Athlete, Racer with a net worth of $94,711,000.. Vettel has shown that he has control of his cash; he spends less than he makes. Therefore we estimate that Mr. Vettel earns millions of dollars per year after his management, cars, houses and legal costs.
Bottom Line: By controlling his lifestyle and spending less than he makes, Sebastian earns $8,077,500 per year after lifestyle, taxes and other expenses.
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Is Glencore (GLNCY) a Great Stock for Value Investors?
A key metric that value investors always look at is the Price to Earnings Ratio, or PE for short. This shows us how much investors are willing to pay for each dollar of earnings in a given stock, and is easily one of the most popular financial ratios in the world. The best use of the PE ratio is to compare the stock's current PE ratio with: a) where this ratio has been in the past; b) how it compares to the average for the industry/sector; and c) how it compares to the market as a whole.
This level actually compares pretty favorably with the market at large, as the PE for the S&P 500 stands at about 20.2. If we focus on the long-term PE trend, Glencore's current PE level puts it below its midpoint over the past five years. Moreover, the current level is fairly below the highs for this stock, suggesting it might be a good entry point.
Further, the stock's PE also compares favorably with the industry's trailing twelve months PE ratio, which stands at 30.9. At the very least, this indicates that the stock is relatively undervalued right now, compared to its peers.
We should also point out that Glencore has a forward PE ratio (price relative to this year's earnings) of just 9.3, so it is fair to say that a slightly more value-oriented path may be ahead for Glencore stock in the near term too.
Right now, Glencore has a P/S ratio of about 0.3. This is significantly lower than the S&P 500 average, which comes in at 3.3 right now. Also, as we can see in the chart below, this is below the highs for this stock in particular over the past few years.
As we can see, the stock is trading almost at its median value for the time period from a P/S metric. This does not provide us with a conclusive direction as to the relative valuation of the stock in comparison to its historical trend.
In aggregate, Glencore currently has a Zacks Value Style Score of A, putting it into the top 20% of all stocks we cover from this look. This makes Glencore a solid choice for value investors, and some of its other key metrics make this pretty clear too.
For example, its P/CF ratio (another great indicator of value) comes in at 6.2, which is better than the industry average of 7.8. Clearly, GLNCY is a solid choice on the value front from multiple angles.
Meanwhile, the company's recent earnings estimates have been mixed at best. The current year has seen one estimate go higher in the past sixty days compared to none lower, while the next year estimate has seen zero upward and one downward revision in the same time period.
As a result, the current year consensus estimate has risen by 3% in the past two months, while the next year estimate has decreased nearly 1%.
Glencore is an inspired choice for value investors, as it is hard to beat its incredible lineup of statistics on this front. Moreover, a strong industry rank (Top 36% out of more than 250 industries) further supports the growth potential of the stock.
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In this present day and age, a car happens to be a necessity for many. It makes commuting to work easier unless you happen to live in the city and enables you to carry out daily tasks with ease. Due to bad credit, some people struggle to get a car on finance, however, for some they’ve been able to make it a reality. This can be a great feeling as well as a reason to celebrate. However, there are many things to consider when it comes to maintaining it as well as keeping a good financial standing. If somebody close to you has just bought a new car, this article is going to list three valuable things that you can give new car owners.
One of the most important things you can give a new car owner is financial advice. One of the most important tips is for them to keep up with their car payments. This is imperative if they have good credit as not doing so could set them back significantly. On the other hand, if their financial standing wasn’t already great, this could make it much worse. Some tips you can offer them for keeping up with their car payments include making as large down payments as possible, not taking a loan longer than five years, and limiting all automotive expenses to fifteen percent of their income. You could also advise them to set up automated payments as well as set reminders so that they don’t forget payments due to busy schedules.
Other presents you can give to a new car owner is car-related gifts. This could be anything that enables them to maintain their car as this is key if they want to keep it in the best condition possible. Some holiday gifts for new car owners to consider include anything from a truck organizer to keep the items in their car tidy, safety equipment such as jumper cables, a strong flashlight, or a first aid kit. If they have pets, seat covers are also a good idea to protect the seats and save money on replacing them due to wear and tear. Ideally, gifts that help with car maintenance are best as they could help save them money in the long run and prevent damages that tend to happen over time.
In addition to the ideas mentioned above, encouraging roadside assistance is another way to help a new car owner. There are several options for roadside assistance, so it’s key that they choose the one that’s most suitable for them. AAA happens to be a relatively good provider, and they offer perks such as discounts on home and auto insurance, free maps and travel guides, emergency fuel delivery, and discounts at thousands of retail locations around the world.
Being able to own a car is a great achievement. However, it is also a great responsibility that requires consistency as well as maintenance. By giving a new car owner some of the things mentioned above, however, they should enjoy the full benefits of owning and managing a car with as little stress as possible.
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I saw a book on something called "Shintaido" once, it looked a lot like Aikido. What is the relation between Aikido and Shintaido?
Nope. shintaido is derived from Shotokai karatedo, one of the Shotokan karatedo variants. Aoki Dare-dare, the founder of shintaido, was a student of Egami Shigeru, one of Funakoshi Gichin's senior students and combined what he'd learned from those two teachers with a lot of other stuff to create his own new discipline. It's got about the same resemblance to traditional karatedo as aikido has to koryu jujutsu, i.e., a gross similarity, but very little of the application or "flavor" of the older art remains.
im not sure if you made a mistake, but there is and art called --shin'ei-- taido founded by the nephew of o-sensei, noriaki inoue. it is very similiar to aikido because that is who inoue studied with.
I have heard about that too, I think it is mentioned in Stanley Pranin's "Aikido Masters".
they're two different arts : shintaido and shin'ei taido (previously shinwa taido), the later one created by Inoue Noriaki, nephew of Ueshiba Kaiso.
I read in a Shotokai website, that Egami Sensei really created Shintaido but due to political reasons, he prefered to place his student Aoki as a "front". Have you a better information on that?
Shintaido, founded by Aoki Hiroyuki, a karatedo student of Egami Shigeru, himself a student of Funakoshi Gichin of the Shotokan. The art is kind of New Age-y karatedo, with lots of strange-looking exercises and techniques of rather dubious efficacy (though fighting/self-defense are not high priorities of Aoki, from what I've read/heard). It bears little resemblance to the original Okinawan art.
Shin-ei taido, founded by Inoue Noriaki, is an aikido-like art in its own right. Inoue studied with both Takeda and Ueshiba and went on to found his own system. It has a very unique flavor, but is not all that different from some of the different types of aikido that have come to be in the years since WWII.
Other'n a vague similarity in the names, I can't see how people could mistake one for the other; they look not at all similar and have very different "flavors" to their keiko.
To add a connection between the two. Egami Shigeru's son was the head instructor of Shin Taido (he later split, I believe - the usual politics). He told me that Inoue Noriaki was a close friend of Egami senior, and had a significant influence on him, in his making his karate a 'softer' (not weaker! - relaxed, integrated body movements - Egami was incredibly strong with his "softness"), and later also influenced Aoki. The younger Egami told me that Egami and Inoue were friends rather than student and teacher, and that Aoki learned from/was influenced by Inoue without formally being his student. Therefore, Shin'ei (at that time, called Shinwa) Taido is not mentioned in the lineage.
I visited a class in 1977, and a rather bizarre thing it was. They did these lunge punches, moving half-way to front splits, and got in a circle and did repetitive Rockette kicks. They wore karate tops, white hakama and white jigatabi. They would run the length of the floor in a low crouch with long strides, palms out extended in a yearning posture. Then they did something similar to kokyu-ho (for you aiki folks) except, instead of simply grabbing the other's wrists and going from there, they would slither their bodies against one another. A couple of the guys, working with rather nubile young women, were certainly enjoying practice more than I ever did - at least in public. .
In my conversation with Egami, I asked him about this directly. In short, I said, "Sensei, I watch your students and then you and you look so different. Your students seem to be functioning in a kind of semi-controlled hysteria, and there's almost no martial energy, but a lot of sexual energy flying around. You, on the other hand, are calm - no hysteria, no gaping mouth, no heavy breathing it's like you are doing something entirely different." His reply was "that's a stage you have to go through. You work through chaos to get to calm, and we set up the opportunity to do so." I left my question there - it looked much like a lot of cult activity I've seen, although I didn't get the sense that Egami was a bad guy at all. As for the martial question, he said something quite interesting. I'd told him I did koryu, and he said, "Koryu was focused on killing, and given the weapons of the time, they had the best way to do that. Now we live in an era of guns and bombs - the twentieth century. As far as I'm concerned, there's no real use in learning how to use a sword, or even fight hand-to-hand. The only way to fight bombs is to change the world so we won't need them - that's what Shin taido is for - to create that kind of individual. Aikido, on the other hand, is sort of stuck. It claims to be an art of peace, but they still worry about being a martial art, on whether they can fight or not. To me, it's not nearly as effective as a koryu for fighting, but as long as they worry about fighting, they can't be effective in really creating peace. I think that's why you still have famous aikido teachers who hurt people so much. On some level, they know that they aren't good at either peace or war.
Aoki sensei took my father's work to the next level. Instead of using martial skill to create peace, he actually figured out an art that is peaceful rather than martial. My father fully supported that."
I never joined. At least as far as I was concerned, I didn't even agree with him. I didn't see myself doing heavy breathing in the cause of peace anytime soon. But Egami was a man worthy of respect, I think. Seemed to have nothing to prove to others, and right or wrong, was quite comfortable standing on his own ground.
Aoki sensei took my father's(Egami Sensei) work to the next level. Instead of using martial skill to create peace, he actually figured out an art that is peaceful rather than martial. My father fully supported that."
YAMANTAKA : So it is as I thought : Shintaido was created by Egami Shigeru and developed further by Aoki Sensei. Thank you, Ellis Sama!
Two books are available on Shintaido: "The Body is a Message of the Universe" (1982) and "Total Stickfighting: Shintaido Bojutsu" (2001). Both list Hiroyuki Aoki as the founder of Shintaido.
This site and a number of others list Mr. Aoki as founder.
It's very interesting to hear about the interaction between the senior Egami and Inoue. In his book, "The Heart of Karate-do," Egami Shigeru notes in passing the influence of aikido on his interpretation of karate, but doesn't specifically mention Mr. Inoue as the source of that influence. Indeed, in his book Mr. Egami seems to view his stomach surgery and the consequent weakening of his abdominal wall as a primary influence in the "softening" of his karate (kinesiology determines destiny?). In any event, in that book, Mr. Egami's students demonstrate some of the incredibly long, low stances in oi-tsuki that are similar to the long stretching stances Mr. Amdur describes.
One wonders how "martial" such stances are. Yet, according to a karate teacher I used to train with, Mr. Egami was the "real thing". His own teacher accompanied Tsutomu Ohshima to Japan when Mr. Egami was still alive. He witnessed Mr. Egami throwing students around with barely a touch--something like the demonstrations of Ueshiba Morihei. He queried Mr. Ohshima about what Mr. Egami was doing. Mr. Ohshima said it was authentic, but "could not be explained."
Good photographs of how Shintaido members play with sticks are available in the "Total Stickfighting" book. The drills are taken from Okinawan bo kata.
"So it is as I thought : Shintaido was created by Egami Shigeru and developed further by Aoki Sensei. Thank you, Ellis Sama!".
That's absolutely not what I said. In the late 60's, early 70's, several capoerista were stranded in N.Y. when their folklore dance troupe went bust. They had no visa, and no money, and they started doing capoeira on the street in Harlem. They made a real impression on kids - black martial artists doing a dance/martial form, definitely not asian. Kids started imitating and developing and changing the rules, and soon you had break-dancing. No longer capoeira, there is no jinga, there is no martial intent, they do a lot on their back (anathema in capoeira, the only parts allowed to touch the ground being the hands, feet and head). They did retain the competition of the roda in "break wars." There is no more justification in saying Egami created Shintaido than there is in saying Mestre Bimba created hip-hop.
Egami was an innovative karateka. He had a student, Aoki, who was diligent in karate, further influence to some degree by observation, informal instruction in Shin'ei taido, and he made up a whole lot based on imagination, a variety of other studies, etc. Egami remained a karate instructor to his death. Shintaido is further from Shotokai than aikido is from Daito Ryu - maybe the major difference there is that the shintaido people never found it necessary to break from or even slander their predecessor in the way that the aikido ideologues did with Takeda for so long.
Egami's son's statement, (which may or may not be true), merely asserts that Egami was pleased with and respected what Aoki had created from his roots. Shintaido looks as far from Shotokai as the leg trapping in tango does from sweeping in judo.
That's absolutely not what I said.
Egami's son's statement, (which may or may not be true), merely asserts that Egami was pleased with and respected what Aoki had created from his roots.
clearly imply, at least for me, that Egami's work was bigger than generally believed and that Aoki just developed what already existed. The shotokai site also explains the reasons Egami continued with Shotokai till his death. Also, in your post you quoted Egami Sensei as saying : "The only way to fight bombs is to change the world so we won't need them - that's what Shin taido is for - to create that kind of individual. " That implied, for me, a familiarity and participation in Shintaido, far beyond a simple support of a student.
Nothing seems to be fully proved but allows for the thought that Egami's contribution might be greater than previously thought.
Thank you again for your explanations.
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On weekends, Kyiv teems with tourists from Moscow. Train tickets for overnight Friday and Sunday rides between the two capitals have to be ordered well in advance. The number of Muscovites settling in Kyiv permanently to do business is growing, too.
To make the new migrants' lives easier, a special Russian-language LJ community has been created: moscow_in_kiev (aka Muscovites in Kiev, aka The Capital Express).
1) March 17. I intend to sit at work till very late. At noon I order pizza for 3 pm. At 3:30 pm, it's still not there and I call the company: "So, where is my pizza?" - "Oy, we tried to call you but didn't get through." - "How come?" - "Here, we're calling you at this very moment and no one's answering." After a long discussion - with the manager by then - it turned out the receptionist just hadn't noticed that they had my cell phone number written down and were calling a regular city number instead. A 10% discount for the delay.
2) March 22. I'm planning to work till around 9 pm, so at 4 pm I order dinner for 6 pm. Fifteen minutes later, a delivery person calls: "I can't find your building on the map." I explain to him how to get here and then ask: "Do you know that I've ordered delivery for 6 pm?" A pause. " Yes, I know." Five minutes later, a call from the receptionist: "Oy, we've made your pizza now by mistake. Maybe you'll take it?" A 20% discount for the mistake.
3) April 7, today. I'm ordering online. No one calls me back within 20 minutes. I remember my past experiences and call the pizza place myself: "I've ordered pizza on your site but am not sure whether my order has gone through." - "What street?" - "Gospitalnaya." - "Yes, we have your order. But you haven't confirmed it." - "But you haven't called me back." - "No, we called you but they told us..." What follows is a story at the end of which I realize that they called the ground floor of our office. I ask where they got the phone number (I listed my cell on the order). I'm amazed to hear the answer: "via a reference book." To a totally logical question on why they didn't call me on my cell - an amazing response: "We aren't allowed to call cell phone numbers." But I'm here and am ready to confirm my order. But the female receptionist is trying to prove to me that I'm not entitled to a free Coke because I'm making a order on the phone, and [the free Coke] option is available only to those who order online. I lose patience: "I don't need anything anymore!"
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How long before my flight should I get to the airport?
We recommend that you arrive at the airport 3 hours in advance of international flights, and 2 hours before domestic flights.
This is to allow time to clear security and immigration checks.
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Why use AR for social emotional learning?
Academic and social-emotional learning takes place best in different ways for different students. So, educational experiences marked by instruction that uses different modalities are most likely to reach all children and allow them to build their skills and feel that the classroom environment is suited to their preferred way of learning. Modalities include modelling, role- playing, art, dance, drama, working with materials and manipulatives, and digital media, computer technology, and the Internet. Also important for sound instruction are regular and constructive feedback, discussions that include open-ended questioning, and frequent reminders to use social-emotional skills in all aspects of school life.
Teaching idea: learn to identify one’s emotions, thoughts, feelings by creating different AR emojis.
Teaching idea: learn to consider the wellbeing of yourself and others by redesigning school interior or surroundings in AR. Learn how to problem solve, collaborate, ideate, and iterate. This is a good introduction to social action.
Class activities can be adjusted to fit higher grades or longer projects.
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don't get caught: what should I do with my hands?
I often ask participants in my presentation or speaker trainings where they think their hands belong when they are not gesturing. Most people immobilize their hands, gripping them together in front or in back of their torsos or grabbing both sides of the lectern. Your hands will best serve you during a speech or presentation if they're available for your use at a moment's notice--and that means you should hold them at rest with your elbows bent, and fingers touching, but not gripping, those of the opposite hand. You can rest one hand on the other lightly, but don't grip.
This option helps you in two ways: Your hand and arm are now free to gesture up or down without having to travel a long way (distracting to you and your audience), and you're not immobilizing them. On camera, you'll need to be gesturing near your face if your hands are to be seen. Holding them at your waist keeps them closer to the place they need to be. Most important of all: If you grip your hands or otherwise hold them still, you're more likely to make a verbal error.
Once you practice this, it will seem and look relaxed and natural, giving you the appearance of a calm, collected speaker. This technique also works for people with the opposite problem, those who gesture too much. Holding your hands at the ready can feel like a gesture and give your hands something to do other than flapping.
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Našli jsme další záznamy k osobě מיכאל אברהם.
מיכאל אברהם je pohřben(a) na hřbitově New Kiryat Shmona Cemetery v místě zobrazeném na níže uvedené mapě. Tyto informace o GPS jsou k dispozici POUZE na stránkách BillionGraves. Naše technologie vám pomůže najít umístění hrobu a také další členy rodiny, pohřbené poblíž.
מיכאל אברהם was 11 years old when Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. Adolf Hitler was a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator, Hitler initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and was central to the Holocaust.
מיכאל אברהם was 17 years old when World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
מיכאל אברהם was 25 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.
מיכאל אברהם was 36 years old when The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania"; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.
מיכאל אברהם was 49 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.
מיכאל אברהם was 61 years old when The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million US gallons (260,000 bbl; 41,000 m3) of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made maritime environmental disasters. A tanker is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier. Tankers also carry commodities such as vegetable oils, molasses and wine. In the United States Navy and Military Sealift Command, a tanker used to refuel other ships is called an oiler but many other navies use the terms tanker and replenishment tanker.
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Mauser is the common name of a German arms manufacturer, maker of a line of bolt-action rifles from the 1870s to present. Their designs were built for the German armed forces but have been exported and licensed to a number of countries since the later Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, as well as being a popular civilian firearm.
In the late Twentieth Century, Mauser continued to make sporting and hunting rifles. In the 1990s it became a subsidiary of Rheinmetall. Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH was split off and continues making rifles, while the Rheinmetal subsidiary, called Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensysteme GmbH made other products for a time before being merged into Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh. The Mauser name has also sometimes been licensed by other companies.
What was to become a Mauser, or Mouser, factory opened on July 31, 1811, when Friedrich I of Württemberg established a royal weapons factory in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest. The factory opened for business the next year, employing 133 workers.
In 1867 Wilhelm and Paul Mauser developed a rifle using an improved rotating bolt system for breechloaders based on the Chassepot (fusil modele 1866), itself a much improved version of an earlier Prussian design, the Dreyse. The Franco-Prussian war had shown their current rifle inferior to the Chassepot, so in 1871 the Mauser Model 1871 became the standard German infantry rifle.
Note that the model names of the following Mauser rifles are split between company designations and German military designations. For example, the Mauser Model 92 was not adopted by Germany, but the Mauser Model 98 was adopted as the Gewehr 98, though some designations also use the Model.
The last years of 19th Century saw a sort of "arms race" regarding developments of small arms. In 1886 the French Army introduced the Lebel Model 1886 using smokeless powder, allowing smaller diameter rounds to be propelled at higher velocities, with accuracy out to 1,000 yards; most other military rifles became obsolete. Its disadvantage was a tube magazine.
The German army introduced the best features of the Lebel in the Gewehr 88, also known as the Model 1888 Commission Rifle (Judenflinte), along with a modified Mauser action and a Mannlicher style box magazine. There was also a Carbine version, the Karabiner 88; both would be updated in the 1900s and see limited use in WWI.
Note that this was not a Mauser designed and engineered rifle, as wrongly believed by some. This weapon was designed around the new 7.92x57 cartridge commonly known today as the "8 mm Mauser" because it was used for later Mauser models. This incorporated the advantages of smokeless powder and higher velocity found in the Lebel. The cartridge was rimless which allowed smoother feeding for both rifles and machine guns. The original bullet had a round head; several redesigns including the adoption of the spitzer bullet with a sharp point and boat-tail brought the cartridge to its current potency. Only later versions of Gewehr 98, or converted 88 and 98 rifles could fire the improved "S" cartridges.
There are several Mauser variants, click the links in the menu to in the left column.
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Jack Huston was born on December 7, 1982 in London, England as Jack Alexander Huston. He is an actor, known for Kill Your Darlings (2013), Outlander (2008) and Ben-Hur (2016).
Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father is Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City where her parents divorced when she was nine. Jennifer was raised by her mother and her father landed a role, as "Victor Kiriakis", on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives (1965). Jennifer had her first taste of acting at age 11 when she joined the Rudolf Steiner School's drama club. It was also at the Rudolf Steiner School that she developed her passion for art. She began her professional training as a drama student at New York's School of Performing Arts, aka the "Fame" school. It was a division of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts. In 1987, after graduation, she appeared in such Off-Broadway productions as "For Dear Life" and "Dancing on Checker's Grave". In 1990, she landed her first television role, as a series regular on Molloy (1990). She also appeared in The Edge (1992), Ferris Bueller (1990), and had a recurring part on Herman's Head (1991). By 1993, she was floundering. Then, in 1994, a pilot called "Friends Like These" came along. Originally asked to audition for the role of "Monica", Aniston refused and auditioned for the role of "Rachel Green", the suburban princess turned coffee peddler. With the success of the series Friends (1994), Jennifer has become famous and sought-after as she turns her fame into movie roles during the series hiatus.
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The Honorable Premier of the Northern Cape, Ms Hazel Jenkins, the MEC of Health in the province, Mr Mxolisi Sokatsha, the Chairperson of the John Taolo Gaetsewe Development Trust- Ms Omphemetse Mogodi and the Chairperson of the Sishen Iron Ore Company Community Development Trust-Mr Connie Molusi officially handed over and opened the new Mosalashuping Baicomedi Community Clinic in Madibeng- Joe Morolong Local Municipality of the John Taolo Gaetsewe District.
This event was attended by Premier and her cabinet, the JTG trust members, Councilors in the District and huge contingent of community members from all villages in the Joe Morolong Local municipality.
The Madibeng population of 2 500 and the surrounding villages & farms of Eiffel,Klein Eiffel,Caledonia,Avontuur,Tweet,Ebi and Eden will receive essential health care services from the newly build clinic.
The common health conditions of hypertension, TB & HIV and Chronic Diseases are experienced by the communities. The challenge of immunization coverage and substance abuse are prominent in the area.
The clinic was constructed at a cost of R6,970,870.61. Medical Equipment at the cost of R326,200 and Nurses House Furniture at the cost of R13,000 were also procured. The total number of community members employed in the project was 32, 23 males and 9 females.
The following services will be rendered at the clinic: Comprehensive PHC package of Care (Chronic Care, TB Management, HCT, Reproductive Health services- Family planning and Cervical Screening, Health Education), Maternity services (Antenatal Care, Deliveries and Post Natal Care) ,Emergency Medical Services (Madibeng planned Satellite EMS Station),One Professional nurse and an Assistant Nurse will be on site from date of opening until full complement of staff is appointed.
The clinic will operate for 8hrs 5 days a week.
Regarding community participation, a Clinic Committee will be established with the assistance of the Ward Councilor and the Traditional Leadership. A Suggestion Box will be placed in the clinic for use by the community to raise concerns as well a come up with suggestions of service improvement..The communities will take full ownership of the clinic and assist by keeping it clean and free form vandalism.
The success of the project would not have been possible without the partners namely the Northern Cape Provincial Department of Health, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Development Trust, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality and Joe Morolong Local Municipality. This is a true reflection that working together, we can do more.
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'Who knows what would have happened if he was injury-free..'. How many times we heard it about Rafael Nadal, a tennis player who won much but who also paid over the years the physical energy he has always spent. His career saw him suffer injuries almost every year, except for 2015 where he had what described as a "mental injury", the fact of being unable to control emotions in the important moments.
We start by 2003: at the age of 17 Nadal suffers from an elbow injury during a practice in Manacor, it forces him to withdraw from what was planned to be his first Grand Slam in career, Roland Garros. 2004: scafoid stress fracture during Estoril event.
Two months of break that force him to skip the most important events of the season: Roland Garros, Wimbledon and Athens Olympics. 2005: left foot injury, three months out of competition and withdrawal from Paris Masters and ATP Finals.
He also suffers knee injury in October during Madrid Masters, that however managed to win after a remarkable final against Ljubicic. 2006: he has an issue on the soles of the left foot that cause a one month break and the withdrawal from the Australian Open.
A back injury does not allow him to continue the match against Hewitt at The Queen's Club after winning the title of all the most important clay-courts events. The treatment gives the results he hoped for and reaches his first Wimbledon final, plays ATP Finals for the first time ever losing to Roger Federer in the semifinals.
2007: new year new injury. Rafa suffers cramps to his left arm that make him lose strength and precision, another issue that adds to the usual knee injury. However Nadal does not panick: 'The only injury I had this year was knee's.
There isn't any reason to get worried and to be honest my career isn't in danger.' 2008: a tendon knee injury forces him withdraw from his quarter-finals Match against Davydenko in Paris Bercy. In this case the problem requires time to heal, so withdraws from ATP Finals after a very tiring season where he played 111 matches.
He can definitely consolate with the fact that became World No. 1 for the first time in his career. 2009: tendon issue on both knees. The loss to Robin Soderling is the first one at the Roland Garros for Rafa, who skips Wimbledon as well.
But 31 May will remain forever in the tennis history. In the same year he will suffer abdominal issues during US Open, although he still manages to reach the semifinals losing to Del Potro. 2010: once again a knee injury, this time against Andy Murray at the Australian Open in the quarter-finals.
A match played at a high intensity but that sees Rafa give up down 6-4 7-5 3-0. Nadal will recover very great in one of the most important seasons for him. 2011: adductor problem during Australian Open against Ferrer. Rafa remains on court until tue end of the match and during a medical time out is in tears.
2012: it's the biggest injury Rafa ever had in his career. He starts to have knee issues already during Roland Garros that he will win. But in Wimbledon the five-sets loss to Lukas Rosol is his last match of the season. 2014: the back injury comes in the worst moment, during the Australian Open final.
'It hurt me more losing this final instead of the 2012's one against Djokovic', Nadal said after the match. 2014: The wrist was one of the Fewer parts of Rafa's body that were not affected, but it ended in 2014 when the Spaniard player gets injured during a practice session and withdraws from Toronto, Cincinnati and US Open.
He will return to compete in Beijing. 2016: we come to our days and the issue is still the wrist, that starts to bother him after Australian Open. He has treatments until April, then withdraws from Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
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2D AI, Aim at player - even when jumping?
Short&Clear: Shoot at the player, even while jumping using an Instantiation and AddForce() or alternatively Translate, with preference to the former.
I'd post the code I have so far but it'll just make things messy essentially: If player not inside a trigger - move otherwise, Stop and shoot.
After you've rotated the projectile, you can use AddForce() using the projectiles transform.right or transform.up (depending on the natural orientation of the projectile).
Ugh, unfortunately I can't up-vote quite yet. I will put this to use tomorrow. Thanks a bunch.
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Which Stack Exchange sites have “won the internet” in real life?
The StackEgg game's terminal state, following birth out of Area51, private beta, public beta, and graduation, is "winning the internet." The progression of the game seems to indicate that this state is achieved by maintaining certain levels of content quantity and quality, user happiness, and traffic for a certain amount of time.
Stack Exchange, Inc. already communicates its notion of when sites have achieved, in real life, the other milestones simulated in the game by launching sites into private beta, public beta, and full member statuses. There is even public information about specific statistics necessary to get from Area51 to private beta, as well as some qualitative information about what SE looks for to progress a site to later stages. However, as far as I know, SE does not currently say anything about either which sites have, in reality, won the internet or what the criteria are for winning the internet.
Which sites does SE consider to have won the internet in real life?
What characteristics would indicate that a site has won the internet?
How can a site determine what to concentrate on to best get it closer to winning the internet?
To be extra-clear, this question was motivated by the game states in StackEgg, but it is about the actual lifecycle of real SE sites.
This question is only slightly tongue-in-cheek. I think that it could be possible for SE to provide serious answers to these questions, and that these answers could be a good way to communicate high-level thinking about what SE wants its graduated sites to accomplish and strive for.
Instead, sites should aspire to win individual questions when Googling for them. For instance, Skeptics is the runner-up in the Jerusalem earthquake race. Anyone investigating whether the Shroud of Turin was create by neutron particles emitted as a result of massive earthquake three days after Jesus' death will find an answer very quickly with that search. Even tiny beta sites might be "winning the internet" if they happen to rank highly in a narrow question.
Improving the correctness and clarity of answers.
In theory and given enough time, all human knowledge will be represented in Q&A form on at least one of our sites. Perhaps someone will ask Earth Sciences about earthquakes in Jerusalem and get a more comprehensive answer than my own limited debunking of an obscure religious claim. If so, the Skeptics question would still turn up as a top result for an 8.2 earthquake in Jerusalem but not for the the more general question. I would consider that an ideal outcome.
Implicitly trust that the answers on the site are better than answers found elsewhere.
Finally, reputation on those sites strongly correlates to real-life reputation in the field of study.
I don't know how many other sites share these characteristics, but I believe Craft CMS is one of them. As evidence, the founder of the company that makes the product is a top user on the Stack Exchange site. Several other employees of the company are active as well. The site comes up third when searching for Craft CMS. In this case, the experts decided they wanted a Q&A site hosted on our network, got the site through Area 51 in record time and relentlessly use it. This is the exception, not the rule.
Most of our sites are enthusiast sites. That means the experts in the topic largely ignore the related Stack Exchange site. Personally, I think there is space for people who are excited about a topic to boil down the knowledge of experts into something more digestible to the general public. There's also room for sites like Gardening, DIY, and Mechanics where the experts are too busy working outside to be much help on the internet. And there's nothing wrong with people enjoying what they do in a format (Q&A) that they appreciate using. "Winning the internet" one question at a time is a fine strategy for most sites.
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What is the Stack Exchange (Staff) process of launching a site?
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For this post, I will identify the rhetorical strategies used by Planned Parenthood on their webpage about abortion services. The artifact’s medium of delivery is the Planned Parenthood website, which has numerous pages on topics relevant to sexual health and information about available resources.
Here, Planned Parenthood makes effective appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos. The organization creates ethos by referring to their staff as “professional and caring” and able to “give you all the straight-up information you need to help you make the right decision for you. No pressure, no judgment. Just support.” These descriptors and statements construct ethos because they present employees as flexible and able to handle a variety of patients with different backgrounds. Similarly, these statements appeal to pathos because they foster a sense of comfort within audience members. By promising an environment free of pressure and judgment, prospective patients feel more at ease during the stressful process of considering an abortion. Lastly, Planned Parenthood evokes logos by offering links to other resources on the facts of abortion. They have a Frequently Asked Questions section as well as two sections on the abortion pill and in-clinic abortions, respectively.
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What machine will replace the Large Hadron Collider to further our knowledge of fundamental physics at the high-energy frontier, in the forthcoming decades?
The question is not at all a far-fetched one: these large machines require two decades to be built - and can then typically be operated for two further decades, amassing collision data that slowly but steadily improve the precision of our estimates of the parameters of nature.
Of course, there are those who hold that the absence of any hints of new physics in LHC data should lead us to put our future programs to a pause. The argument might run as follows: "let us wait and see whether we acquire some more understanding in other related fields -neutrinos, astroparticle physics, etcetera- and obtain hints on whether new physics is hiding at just a slightly higher energy scale or whether we need to attack the problem in a radically different way - then we will be able to take an informed decision on what to build or what kind of R&D to undertake."
I think this is a reasonable point of view, but I believe it would be very dangerous to bring a whole field of research to a halt, when the investments required to keep it alive are a small fraction of the moneys needed to do our business in space research - or to fund a week of military spending in middle eastern countries, for that matter.
No: I think we need to use the technological advancements we have at our fingertips now, to make a step further and open new investigations of physics at smaller distance scales. We currently believe quarks and leptons are point-like particles, but if we "illuminate" them with higher-energy probes we may get to see the first hints of their structure - this would be a huge advancement. The argument, really, is that we need to do it, because we can.
Among the various new colliders that are being proposed (CLIC, ILC, FCC-ee, a muon collider among others), the Chinese project of a high-energy electron-positron collider, CEPC, appears today the one that is making more steady progress toward becoming a thing.
A conceptual design report has now been submitted, and it consists in two very bulky and detailed volumes that explain both the accelerator and the detector and physics reach. You can check them out at the CEPC web site. For the reading challenged, here is a link (a screenshot is shown below) to a very nice video that shows the project in great detail and demonstrates how the electron and positron acceleration would proceed. Have a look!
Above: a positron beam (the reddish blob) has just been created by the interaction of electrons with a target, leaving behind a flash of bluish light.
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Though they spread across Europe relatively quickly, reaching as far West as England by 1514, it took centuries to piece together the Romani past [source: McDowell]. The Roma never kept genealogical records, allowing a nefarious mythology about the mysterious wanderers with their colorful caravans to substitute for fact. As a result, by the time a Hungarian theologian studying in Holland took an interest in unraveling the roots of the Romani language in 1760, the gypsies had become a people with a collective history that's nearly untraceable [source: Hancock].
Romani vocabulary, dappled with Sanskrit, led a series of scholars back to northern India, and genetic testing has further confirmed that the Roma emerged not in Romania, and certainly not in Egypt, but in India [source: Brownlee]. Scholars have debated the date and cause for the gypsies' exit out of India, with some postulating a migration as early as 700 AD, though many agree that it happened a few centuries later [source: Fonseca].
During the 11th century, Mohammad of Ghazni wanted to spread Islam to northern India by force, raiding the region from 1000 to 1027 AD [source: Hancock]. To ward off the Muslim warriors, the local Hindus organized an army referred to as Rajputs, which was defeated by the Ghaznavids and taken captive. Then along came the Persian Seljuks who conquered the Ghaznavids and took the Rajputs out of northern India into modern Turkey as their empire expanded [source: Hancock]. By 1300, the Rajputs had coalesced into a multi-ethnic group and crossed from Asia into the Balkans, which remains their adopted homeland. These displaced warriors are widely thought to be the gypsies' predecessors.
The gypsies themselves, however, only believe one fact about their history with absolute certainty: They came from India [source: Roma Foundation]. Lacking a homeland and a documented history makes it difficult to connect the dots among all of the tribes, and writers who have spent time with Roma around the world often mention the people's general disinterest in the past. For gypsy tribes, their ethnic history merely extends across the memory span of their oldest member [source: Fonseca].
As the Roma moved into Western Europe, they weren't received with open arms. Beginning in the early 15th century, thousands of Roma were forced into slavery for more than 400 years in regions of modern-day Romania [source: Fonseca]. Elsewhere, the darker Romani complexion, mottled dialects and non-Christianity attracted xenophobic discrimination, which persists even today, despite the fact that many present-day gypsies are Christian. Refused service in stores, the Roma sometimes resorted to thievery, and refused employment, they often relied on entertainment-related jobs, such as music and fortune telling, to make ends meet [source: Hancock]. The Roma likewise met the gadje, or non-Roma, with suspicion as well, resisting cultural assimilation and remaining on the shunned outskirts of mainstream society.
The most egregious example of Roma persecution occurred during World War II. In 1937, the Nazis amended the Nuremburg Laws to include "gypsies" as classified second-class citizens and ordered them sent to concentration camps [source: Fordham]. While the Jews suffered the greatest number of casualties during the Holocaust, the Nazis also gassed Roma families by the thousands. By the end of the War, an estimated 500,000 European Romani had been executed, and gypsies refer to the extermination as porraimos, or "the great devouring" [source: Godwin]. Yet as a horrifying testament to the cross-cultural revulsion directed toward the gypsies, their Holocaust experience was never addressed during the Nuremburg trials. Since World War II, only one Nazi was ever officially punished for crimes against gypsies [source: Fonseca].
During the 12th century, as early Roma settled in the Peloponnese region around the Greek isles, local residents began mistakenly calling them Egyptians, which would gradually morph into "gypsy". Apparently, the Romani had migrated from a region along the Adriatic coast known as "Little Egypt" and others claimed outright to be Egyptian [source: Hancock].
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For anyone interested in building community and activism, events are a mainstay of tribe creation. But gatherings come with challenges. Some, including lectures, film screenings, organized walks, workshops, and multi-day conferences, are large and need advance structure, organization, planning, and funding. While there are a lot of conference centers, they can be cost-prohibitive for some, which creates a tension as creative people with a great deal to offer are left out. Many organizers, understanding this tension, seek new ways to throw conferences, and many are turning to the gift economy model to do so.
How do gift-based conferences differ from traditional gatherings? The two main tenets of gift economics are trust and service: trust in your community to hold and support you, and service to the thing or idea that is being created by the gathering. You might be in service simply to building community around the event or a group project, or maybe you are in service to creating of a piece of art or a permaculture installation. Serve whatever it is you are creating. Acknowledging with each decision these two main features of the gift economy will help the gathering be successful on every level.
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For other uses, see Currency (disambiguation).
A currency (from Middle English: curraunt, "in circulation", from Latin: currens, -entis), in the most specific sense is money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially for people in a nation. Under this definition, US dollars (US$), pounds sterling (£), Australian dollars (A$), European euros (€), Russian rubles (₽) and Indian Rupees (₹) are examples of currency. These various currencies are recognized as stores of value and are traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies. Currencies in this sense are defined by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance.
Other definitions of the term "currency" are discussed in their respective synonymous articles banknote, coin, and money. The latter definition,[clarification needed] pertaining to the currency systems of nations, is the topic of this article. Currencies can be classified into two monetary systems: fiat money and commodity money, depending on what guarantees the currency's value (the economy at large vs. the government's physical metal reserves). Some currencies are legal tender in certain political jurisdictions. Others are simply traded for their economic value. Digital currency has arisen with the popularity of computers and the Internet.
Originally money was a form of receipt, representing grain stored in temple granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia and later in Ancient Egypt.
In this first stage of currency, metals were used as symbols to represent value stored in the form of commodities. This formed the basis of trade in the Fertile Crescent for over 1500 years. However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store. A trade could only reach as far as the credibility of that military. By the late Bronze Age, however, a series of treaties had established safe passage for merchants around the Eastern Mediterranean, spreading from Minoan Crete and Mycenae in the northwest to Elam and Bahrain in the southeast. It is not known what was used as a currency for these exchanges, but it is thought that ox-hide shaped ingots of copper, produced in Cyprus, may have functioned as a currency.
It is thought that the increase in piracy and raiding associated with the Bronze Age collapse, possibly produced by the Peoples of the Sea, brought the trading system of oxhide ingots to an end. It was only the recovery of Phoenician trade in the 10th and 9th centuries BC that led to a return to prosperity, and the appearance of real coinage, possibly first in Anatolia with Croesus of Lydia and subsequently with the Greeks and Persians. In Africa, many forms of value store have been used, including beads, ingots, ivory, various forms of weapons, livestock, the manilla currency, and ochre and other earth oxides. The manilla rings of West Africa were one of the currencies used from the 15th century onwards to sell slaves. African currency is still notable for its variety, and in many places, various forms of barter still apply.
These[clarification needed] factors led to the metal itself being the store of value: first silver, then both silver and gold, and at one point also bronze. Now we have copper coins and other non-precious metals as coins. Metals were mined, weighed, and stamped into coins. This was to assure the individual accepting the coin that he was getting a certain known weight of precious metal. Coins could be counterfeited, but the existence of standard coins also created a new unit of account, which helped lead to banking. Archimedes' principle provided the next link: coins could now be easily tested for their fine weight of metal, and thus the value of a coin could be determined, even if it had been shaved, debased or otherwise tampered with (see Numismatics).
Most major economies using coinage had several tiers of coins of different values, made of copper, silver, and gold. Gold coins were the most valuable and were used for large purchases, payment of the military and backing of state activities. Units of account were often defined as the value of a particular type of gold coin. Silver coins were used for midsized transactions, and sometimes also defined a unit of account, while coins of copper or silver, or some mixture of them (see debasement), might be used for everyday transactions. This system had been used in ancient India since the time of the Mahajanapadas. The exact ratios between the values of the three metals varied greatly between different eras and places; for example, the opening of silver mines in the Harz mountains of central Europe made silver relatively less valuable, as did the flood of New World silver after the Spanish conquests. However, the rarity of gold consistently made it more valuable than silver, and likewise silver was consistently worth more than copper.
In premodern China, the need for credit and for a medium of exchange that was less physically cumbersome than large numbers of copper coins led to the introduction of paper money, i.e. banknotes. Their introduction was a gradual process which lasted from the late Tang dynasty (618–907) into the Song dynasty (960–1279). It began as a means for merchants to exchange heavy coinage for receipts of deposit issued as promissory notes by wholesalers' shops. These notes were valid for temporary use in a small regional territory. In the 10th century, the Song dynasty government began to circulate these notes amongst the traders in its monopolized salt industry. The Song government granted several shops the right to issue banknotes, and in the early 12th century the government finally took over these shops to produce state-issued currency. Yet the banknotes issued were still only locally and temporarily valid: it was not until the mid 13th century that a standard and uniform government issue of paper money became an acceptable nationwide currency. The already widespread methods of woodblock printing and then Bi Sheng's movable type printing by the 11th century were the impetus for the mass production of paper money in premodern China.
At around the same time in the medieval Islamic world, a vigorous monetary economy was created during the 7th–12th centuries on the basis of the expanding levels of circulation of a stable high-value currency (the dinar). Innovations introduced by Muslim economists, traders and merchants include the earliest uses of credit, cheques, promissory notes, savings accounts, transactional accounts, loaning, trusts, exchange rates, the transfer of credit and debt, and banking institutions for loans and deposits.
In Europe, paper money was first introduced on a regular basis in Sweden in 1661 (although Washington Irving records an earlier emergency use of it, by the Spanish in a siege during the Conquest of Granada). As Sweden was rich in copper, many copper coins were in circulation, but its relatively low value necessitated extraordinarily big coins, often weighing several kilograms.
The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced the need to transport gold and silver, which was risky; it facilitated loans of gold or silver at interest, since the underlying specie (money in the form of gold or silver coins rather than notes) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note; and it allowed a division of currency into credit- and specie-backed forms. It enabled the sale of stock in joint-stock companies and the redemption of those shares in a paper.
But there were also disadvantages. First, since a note has no intrinsic value, there was nothing to stop issuing authorities from printing more notes than they had specie to back them with. Second, because it increased the money supply, it increased inflationary pressures, a fact observed by David Hume in the 18th century. Thus paper money would often lead to an inflationary bubble, which could collapse if people began demanding hard money, causing the demand for paper notes to fall to zero. The printing of paper money was also associated with wars, and financing of wars, and therefore regarded as part of maintaining a standing army. For these reasons, paper currency was held in suspicion and hostility in Europe and America. It was also addictive since the speculative profits of trade and capital creation were quite large. Major nations established mints to print money and mint coins, and branches of their treasury to collect taxes and hold gold and silver stock.
At that time, both silver and gold were considered a legal tender and accepted by governments for taxes. However, the instability in the exchange rate between the two grew over the course of the 19th century, with the increases both in the supply of these metals, particularly silver, and in trade. The parallel use of both metals is called bimetallism, and the attempt to create a bimetallic standard where both gold and silver backed currency remained in circulation occupied the efforts of inflationists. Governments at this point could use currency as an instrument of policy, printing paper currency such as the United States greenback, to pay for military expenditures. They could also set the terms at which they would redeem notes for specie, by limiting the amount of purchase, or the minimum amount that could be redeemed.
By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium. Private banks and governments across the world followed Gresham's law: keeping the gold and silver they received but paying out in notes. This did not happen all around the world at the same time, but occurred sporadically, generally in times of war or financial crisis, beginning in the early 20th century and continuing across the world until the late 20th century, when the regime of floating fiat currencies came into force. One of the last countries to break away from the gold standard was the United States in 1971, an action known as the Nixon shock. No country has an enforceable gold standard or silver standard currency system.
A banknote (more commonly known as a bill in the United States and Canada) is a type of currency and is commonly used as legal tender in many jurisdictions. Together with coins, banknotes make up the cash form of all money. Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed a polymer currency in the 1980s; it went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988. Polymer banknotes had already been introduced in the Isle of Man in 1983. Now[when?] used in some 22 countries (over 40 if counting commemorative issues), polymer currency dramatically increases the life span of banknotes and reduces counterfeiting.
For a list of which currency or currencies are used by present-day countries or regions, see List of circulating currencies.
The currency usage is based on the concept of lex monetae; that a sovereign state decides which currency it shall use. The International Organization for Standardization has introduced a system of three-letter codes (ISO 4217) to denote currency (as opposed to simple names or currency signs), in order to remove the confusion arising because there are dozens of currencies called the dollar and several called the franc. Even the "pound" is used in nearly a dozen different countries; most of these are tied to the Pound Sterling, while the remainder has varying values. In general, the three-letter code uses the ISO 3166-1 country code for the first two letters and the first letter of the name of the currency (D for dollar, for instance) as the third letter. United States currency, for instance, is globally referred to as USD.
The International Monetary Fund uses a different system when referring to national currencies.
Distinct from centrally controlled government-issued currencies, private decentralized trust networks support alternative currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, Peercoin or Dogecoin, as well as branded currencies, for example 'obligation' based stores of value, such as quasi-regulated BarterCard, Loyalty Points (Credit Cards, Airlines) or Game-Credits (MMO games) that are based on reputation of commercial products, or highly regulated 'asset-backed' 'alternative currencies' such as mobile-money schemes like MPESA (called E-Money Issuance).
The currency may be Internet-based and digital, for instance, bitcoin is not tied to any specific country, or the IMF's SDR that is based on a basket of currencies (and assets held).
In most cases, a central bank has a monopoly right to issue of coins and banknotes (fiat money) for its own area of circulation (a country or group of countries); it regulates the production of currency by banks (credit) through monetary policy.
An exchange rate is a price at which two currencies can be exchanged against each other. This is used for trade between the two currency zones. Exchange rates can be classified as either floating or fixed. In the former, day-to-day movements in exchange rates are determined by the market; in the latter, governments intervene in the market to buy or sell their currency to balance supply and demand at a static exchange rate.
In cases where a country has control of its own currency, that control is exercised either by a central bank or by a Ministry of Finance. The institution that has control of monetary policy is referred to as the monetary authority. Monetary authorities have varying degrees of autonomy from the governments that create them. A monetary authority is created and supported by its sponsoring government, so independence can be reduced by the legislative or executive authority that creates it.
Several countries can use the same name for their own separate currencies (for example, a dollar in Australia, Canada, and the United States). By contrast, several countries can also use the same currency (for example, the euro or the CFA franc), or one country can declare the currency of another country to be legal tender. For example, Panama and El Salvador have declared US currency to be legal tender, and from 1791 to 1857, Spanish silver coins were legal tender in the United States. At various times countries have either re-stamped foreign coins or used currency board issuing one note of currency for each note of a foreign government held, as Ecuador currently does.
Each currency typically has a main currency unit (the dollar, for example, or the euro) and a fractional unit, often defined as 1⁄100 of the main unit: 100 cents = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc, 100 pence = 1 pound, although units of 1⁄10 or 1⁄1000 occasionally also occur. Some currencies do not have any smaller units at all, such as the Icelandic króna.
When there are no restrictions or limitations on the amount of currency that can be traded on the international market, and the government does not artificially impose a fixed value or minimum value on the currency in international trade. The US dollar is an example of a fully convertible currency and, for this reason, US dollars are one of the major currencies traded in the foreign exchange market.
Central banks control international investments flowing into and out of a country. While most domestic transactions are handled without any special requirements, there are significant restrictions on international investing, and special approval is often required in order to convert into other currencies. The Indian rupee and the renminbi are examples of partially convertible currencies.
A government neither participates in the international currency market nor allows conversion of its currency by individuals or companies. These currencies are also known as blocked, e.g. the North Korean won and the Cuban peso.
In economics, a local currency is a currency not backed by a national government and intended to trade only in a small area. Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods (in a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money). Opponents of this concept argue that local currency creates a barrier which can interfere with economies of scale and comparative advantage and that in some cases they can serve as a means of tax evasion.
Local currencies can also come into being when there is economic turmoil involving the national currency. An example of this is the Argentinian economic crisis of 2002 in which IOUs issued by local governments quickly took on some of the characteristics of local currencies.
One of the best examples of a local currency is the original LETS currency, founded on Vancouver Island in the early 1980s. In 1982, the Canadian Central Bank’s lending rates ran up to 14% which drove chartered bank lending rates as high as 19%. The resulting currency and credit scarcity left island residents with few options other than to create a local currency.
The following table are estimates of the 15 most frequently used currencies in world payments from 2012 to 2018 by SWIFT.
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This article is about the American footballer. For the Scottish bishop, see John Toner (bishop).
John L. Toner (May 4, 1923 – September 23, 2014) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut (UConn) from 1966 to 1970 and as the school's athletic director from 1969 to 1987. During his 18-year tenure as athletic director Toner also served in several roles with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), including as its president from 1983 to 1985. Toner was responsible for several momentous decisions in his time as athletic director at UConn, including UConn becoming a founding member of the Big East Conference in 1979, as well as the hiring of future Hall of Fame coaches Geno Auriemma and Jim Calhoun. He also oversaw the funding and construction of Gampel Pavilion.
Toner was born in 1923 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 91 in 2014.
Toner became UConn's 21st head football coach in 1966. In five seasons under Toner the Huskies compiled a 20–24–3 record. Toner resigned as football coach at the end of the 1970 season to concentrate on his position as athletic director.
Toner became UConn's athletic director in 1969, continuing a tradition of elevating someone from the football program to that position. He served in that position for 17 years until he resigned in 1987 except to oversee the construction of Gampel Pavilion.
Toner was first approached about Connecticut becoming a founding member of the Big East Conference in May 1979, but was uncertain. On May 26, UConn was given a 24-hour deadline to decide whether they would join. Toner, unable to reach the university president, unilaterally accepted the invitation.
Toner served as president of the NCAA from 1983 to 1985. During his tenure, he was involved in implementing Title IX in collegiate athletics, splitting college football into Divisions I-A and I-AA, and passing new freshman eligibility rules. He also was involved in Herschel Walker's leaving college early to join the United States Football League.
In 1997, the National Football Foundation inaugurated its John L. Toner Award, with Toner as the first recipient.
On February 28, 2009, Toner was inducted as the 29th member of the UConn Huskies of Honor.
↑ Toner, John L. "United States Public Records, 1970-2009". FamilySearch. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
↑ Canfield, Owen (October 27, 1998). "Big-Time Thanks to Coach Toner". The Hartford Courant. Tribune Corporation. p. C5. Archived from the original on March 17, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
↑ Shea, Jim (1995). Huskymania: The inside story of the rise of UConn's men's and women's basketball teams (1st ed.). New York: Villard. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-679-44887-7.
↑ UConn Athletic Communications (2009). 2009 University of Connecticut Football Media Guide (pdf). University of Connecticut. p. 119. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
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↑ "SPORTS PEOPLE; UConn Search Begins". The New York Times. January 23, 1987. p. A18. Archived from the original on March 17, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
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The gas - vapor mixture of greatest practical importance is the air - water system1. The thermodynamic behavior of this mixture affects the weather and engineered devices such as air conditioners. In these applications, air can be treated as an inert ideal gas.
1 Reference 1 (p. 252) gives a short discussion of gas-vapor mixtures.
The onset of liquid water condensation is illustrated in the p-T diagram of Fig. 5.3. The unsaturated air in state 1 has a relative humidity given by pw/psat,w(T1), where pw is specified. psat,w(T1) is located at point 1' on the liquid-vapor co-existence curve. When this gas is cooled at constant total pressure, both pw and pa remain constant until the saturation curve at state 2 is reached. The temperature at state 2 is the dew point given by Eq (5.14). Upon further cooling from state 2 to state 3, water condenses from the gas, pw (now equal to psat,w) decreases as determined by Eq (5.13), and pa increases to keep the total pressure constant. The following example illustrates this process in detail.
Example: Unsaturated air is cooled from state 1 to state 3 in a piston/cylinder container maintained at a constant pressure of 1 atm.
(c) heat removed from the container per mole of air during cooling from state 1 to state 2 and from state 2 to state 3.
(a) The saturation pressure associated with the air temperature of state 1 is on the liquid-vapor curve in Fig. 5.3 (point 1') directly above point 1. As calculated from Eq (5.13) for Ti = 35.2oC (308.2 K), psat1 = 0.0568 atm. The relative humidity is 70%, so Eq (5.12) gives pw1 = 0.0398 atm. Because the air is just saturated in state 2, the water partial pressure does not change on cooling from 1 to 2 and psat2 = pw2 = pw1. The dew point of air with this partial pressure of water lies on the saturation curve at state 2 in Fig. 5.3. From Eq (5.14), T2 = Tdp = 301.9 K (28.9oC).
What is gas mixture in thermodynamics?
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Balance the equation in aqueous acidic solution: C2O42-(aq) + MnO4-(aq) → Mn2+(aq) + CO2(g) please teach me how to do it!
During standardization of permanganate solution using sodium oxalate, can the titration between Mno4- and C2o42- at 25degree celcius be perform? state the reasons.
Balance the equation: Note: If a chemical species coefficient is "1" then "1" needs to be entered in the field before that species. MnO4– + H+ + C2O42– Mn2+ + H2O + CO2 I'm not exactly sure how to do this question..Help?
determination of the oxalate content in k2 cu(c2o4)2 .2h2o, during standardization of permanganate solution using sodium oxalate, can the titration between Mno4- and C2o42- at 25degree celcius be perform?
When 21.29 g of element A react completely with 58.37 g of E, compound A2E is formed. When 5.41 g of A react with 32.36 g of G, compound AG is formed. If elements E and G react to form EG3, what mass in grams of G is required to react with 11.94 g of E?
Carbon monoxide, CO and hydrogen, H2, react accordingly: 4CO(g)+9H2(g)-->C4H10(g)+4H2O What volume of the EXCESS REACTANT remains if 17.2L CO and 42.1L H2 are allowed to react? Assume both gases are measured at 711 degree celsius and 1.33atm.
For the following electrochemical cell: Fe(s) / Fe2+(aq) // MnO4–(aq) Mn2+(aq) / Pt(s) Which letter corresponds to the correct balanced chemical equation in an acidic solution? A. 5Fe(s) + 16H+(aq) + 2MnO4–(aq)--> 2Mn2+(aq) + 8H2O(l) + 5Fe2+(aq) B.
For the following electrochemical cell: Fe(s) | Fe2+(aq) || MnO4–(aq), Mn2+(aq) | Pt(s) Which letter corresponds to the correct balanced chemical equation in an acidic solution? A. 2Mn2+(aq) + 8H2O(l) + 5Fe2+(aq)-> 5Fe(s) + 16H+(aq) + 2MnO4–(aq) B.
4.80 L of N2, at 25 ∘C and 1.22 atm , is mixed with 1.80 L of O2, at 25 ∘C and 0.122 atm , and the mixture allowed to react. N2(g)+O2(g)→2NO(g) How much NO, in grams, is produced?
How much heat is required to warm 122 g of water by 23.0 degrees Celsius?
1.3188g of antacid is weighed and mixed with 75.00mL of excess 0.1746M HCl. The excess acid required 27.20mL of 0.09767M of NaOH for back titration. Calculate the amount of CaCO3 in the tablet.
In a measurment 0.1M Kmno4 is used.determine the volume of solution required to react with 0.158M Na2s2o3 required?
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How do i know if sterling flatware is silver?
Sterling silver flatware is most identifiable by a pattern, monogram or hallmark on the piece itself. A hallmark consists of marks, symbols or numerals from the manufacturer. Particular patterns on sterling flatware can be researched in guidebooks like Kovels' "Sterling Flatware Identification & Value Guide."
For the layman, guidebooks are an easy way to determine if sterling flatware is silver, as well as its age and value. Sterling silver is often categorized in price guidebooks by the period when it was made. European sterling silver flatware falls into the antique and rarer silver category and was produced before 1906. It typically has an identifiable hallmark, many of which are pictured in sterling flatware guidebooks. To see various flatware sterling silver hallmarks and patterns, check out http://www.antiquecupboard.com/. On collectible or newer pieces, such as sterling flatware made in America, flatware will be marked with the word "sterling" or "925." Sterling is not 100 percent pure, but a mix of metals, such as 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent copper. Sometimes there will be a mark such as "925/100," meaning 925 out of 1,000 parts are pure silver. Sterling silver is also generally heavier than silver plate because of the addition of copper. All silver tarnishes over time, but silver plate often has permanent tarnish marks that cannot be removed when cleaned with silver polish. These pieces look inferior or "cheap" because of this characteristic alone. There are other guidebooks specializing in American silver identification, such as "American Sterling Silver Flatware" by Mary Ann Dolan.
Another way to know if flatware is sterling silver is to test it with a silver kit tester. Testing kits are used for jewelry, but also can be used to test sterling silver flatware. The kit contains a stone to rub sterling silver to "rough" the surface and acid testing solution to put on the roughened surface in droplet form. There is a chemical reaction and true sterling silver or .925 will turn dark red. Depending on the testing kit, if the acid disappears, the piece might be plated. If it remains, there is a good chance the flatware piece is silver.
Test kit can be found at a jewelry supply company or at online sites like eBay. If sterling silver flatware is rare or antique, such as pieces made from foreign countries that used purer metals, it might not test correctly. This type of silver flatware will look almost gray white when properly polished and should not be tested with a kit or damage can result. Instead of testing undamaged or rarer silver flatware with a kit, bring it to a professional silversmith or antique dealer specializing in silver for proper identification and possible dating, if no hallmark is found.
"Sterling Flatware Identification & Value Guide"
How do i know if my water pump is gone?
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There are many different ways to start a craft brewery. Some people start by purchasing an already established brewery and simply converting it to brew the beers they choose to market. A more common way and one that offers greater flexibility in the cost of the startup is to build a brewhouse from the ground up.
In general, the most costly part of starting a brewery is going to focus on the equipment in the brewery. Other factors are also important to consider including processing regulations, wastewater management, marketing and promotions, and other business-related factors. Some of these allow options for cutting costs, but there is at least one place where choosing low-cost over quality is never a good idea.
Saving money on craft brewery equipment is only a good option if the equipment is top quality. Purchasing used brewery equipment is always risky as there is never an accurate picture of how it has been maintained, cleaned and operated. If the brewery went out of business and this was related to the quality of the product, it is very likely that either the production methods used or the equipment is to blame, and it is often a combination of the two.
Purchasing new craft brewery equipment may not be as costly as aspiring brewers anticipate. There are specialized craft brewery equipment providers in the United States catering to smaller production facilities. These companies offer different models and options, allowing for a brewery to start small and expand as demand increases.
Look for companies offering craft brewery equipment with a top reputation of innovation in the craft brewery industry. These companies can work with you to design a customized brewery to meet your needs both for production as well as for your budget.
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My wish is to help my young guitarists reach for the stage by providing them with a performance guitar.
Smoke on the water ..and fire in the sky .. Boom boom boom .....boom boom ..boom boom.
Keith's hand moved like water flowing and a slow ponderous low pitched thump swept through the air as his fingers flew effortlessly across the frets. The tempo grew and the heavy deep drumming reverberated in the chests of every child listening. Faces were lifted in awe and delight and bodies swayed to the rhythm as they watched the music spill from his fingers as effortlessly as rain falling. The children desperately needed to stand by his side, to stand and play along side him ...to reach for the stage, and in doing so, reach for the sky.
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SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 0 [new string 9403410] is da3472ee3b4c936b3d36e5bf7034e0a1a96df35f.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 1 [new string 9403411] is 4178d9dee33e6bb85968b66039eec10a579a79c9.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 2 [new string 9403412] is acb03bbb0df8085cb20faadb3514c06e1852ff42.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 3 [new string 9403413] is 5f412437cccf1c9759202f3930d66554e2443864.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 4 [new string 9403414] is bcc837270132039256bac6c97589e13599ac19f7.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 5 [new string 9403415] is 57c5a9343a0cf6ac3f98ccdb366e0f3263ac1a96.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 6 [new string 9403416] is d8f8167ad13e4501b010569264a967dedf3e0974.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 7 [new string 9403417] is 09cabfe8fa58c2f0b04b283a5f466c9fe0c3bebd.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 8 [new string 9403418] is f5e59280c0c059cca38e1f4ea6518a16e2e8d4e0.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and number 9 [new string 9403419] is f604e9755361d4d8e43389b038b87a9acdc9f8dc.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter a [new string 940341a] is 339c49045245fc8120f5f984109e46130e6e7dc4.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter b [new string 940341b] is 299e34cdc287cabf310873842d8e27e9622bf943.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter c [new string 940341c] is 9bd882e334ca28a42d720e8e291390325ddc35f7.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter d [new string 940341d] is 46ef64a7e197cc418ae146c9b6bd57e4a43a9ec7.
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SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter j [new string 940341j] is f431fea04bb84fa42c07823865c865965040a169.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter k [new string 940341k] is a7b22a54e20fdf31e57cf1d971dcc0b54c776921.
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SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter n [new string 940341n] is 37775d1347be0ec2e96957eadea0ab1886fc2531.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter o [new string 940341o] is b53de29a2eae6da20d3bbf7873a501fb3b03f756.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter p [new string 940341p] is d2a2d28cbfde528c4448d01c8649768650fb3056.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter q [new string 940341q] is 664a932580b3fca64363144362b12b8d30cc3f4b.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter r [new string 940341r] is 5f6bb234709702fecc9824a3de687001732e1d58.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter s [new string 940341s] is 915d9631c7187f749a3447e1a55610dd2c56ef1d.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter t [new string 940341t] is 0d193c65cf4c01a91ddb06f4ee0892b785cb1293.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter u [new string 940341u] is d51a17001076011b2827abe6a836c74fcffcb2d9.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter v [new string 940341v] is ca161b980caad7925b485a375044d47f173dbf77.
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SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter x [new string 940341x] is 35f60ea4e685314c7cc4c60250d9e6c45fb48900.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter y [new string 940341y] is f48234267ea8d1b4ecaf9e53e6e830f49641fce7.
SHA-1 value for the combined text 940341 and letter z [new string 940341z] is 638d8510ef00e3a6e3e19c4574b9a6aa8255eef9.
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In DetailAsterisk is the world's leading open-source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit with immense flexibility.This book will give you a firm understanding of Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI) development and proper AGI development practices. You will learn how to formulate Atomic AGI-enabled scripts, enabling rapid development within a well-defined Asterisk execution and runtime environment.This book builds from the simplest form of an Asterisk application, the dialplan-based application, gradually building a full understanding of AGI scripting. The book also introduces a new concept of AGI development named "Atomic AGI" or "Particle Programming". It will introduce you to various techniques of interacting with the user, where user interaction isn't limited to keypad-based input, but also includes recording messages from the user, sending output to the user, and controlling the call flow.The book takes a pragmatic approach with clear and complete examples, and a service development project ae allowing you to understand the project cycle of developing an Asterisk-based service or application.Get started with AGI development and use the dynamic features of Asterisk AGI to build your own VoIP-based telephony systemApproachThis friendly, clear tutorial takes a pragmatic approach to developing Asterisk applications, helping you to find the best solutions for your needs. Unlike most books, which simply show you how to do or what to do, this book tries to show you: "why to do?"-thus explaining the logic behind certain Asterisk development paradigms.Who this book is forThis book is intended for developers wishing to utilize Asterisk, system administrators wishing to gain better control over their Asterisk installation, and telephony service providers wishing to deploy Asterisk-based solutions to their infrastructure. You are expected to have some experience with Asterisk and a basic understanding of programming. No knowledge of Asterisk programming is required.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | What happens when a pilot dies?
What happens when a pilot dies?
The fact that a Continental airlines flight from Brussels to Newark landed safely, despite the death of the pilot, is no surprise, says David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flight International magazine.
That's what co-pilots are for, he says - to stand in for the pilot in case of emergency.
Do you need two pilots to land a passenger aeroplane?
Aeroplanes are always landed single-handed - you cannot have two pilots struggling with the controls. It's decided at the beginning of every leg which pilot is going to do the flying and which will do the supporting. Flying the plane, making the radio calls and handling all the systems is a very busy job, but it can be done - and air traffic control will give every assistance to a pilot flying on his own, making the job a lot easier.
A modern plane like the 777 can be flown from take-off to landing by a single pilot. In fact, all pilots are tested when they qualify to ensure they can handle a multi-engined jet on their own. The main reason for having two pilots is that something like this occasionally happens - though it's less common for a pilot to die than to be incapacitated by something like food-poisoning.
Pilots and co-pilots are required to choose different meals from the in-flight menu for precisely this reason.
Can a plane be landed without any pilots at the controls?
No. A system called autoland has been available to airlines since the 1960s but you have to tell it what to do next, where to go - up, down, left, right - you have to direct it. If there is someone on the flight deck to do that, the plane does not need to be flown - but it cannot be done from the ground. Also, planes cannot taxi and reach terminals by themselves.
If both pilots died, you would just have to hope that there was someone else on hand with some experience of flying an aeroplane.
In this case there were three pilots on board, a pilot and two co-pilots. How common is that?
It is essential on very long flights, Singapore to London say, to allow the pilot to have a break. It's not necessary on a regular transatlantic flight. It was probably just fortuitous they had an extra co-pilot, in this case.
Should the passengers have been told that the pilot had died?
There was no reason to tell them because they were not exposed to any risk. They were not going to face an emergency landing.
Would the request for a doctor to come forward have alarmed passengers?
Not necessarily. If the crew had drawn a curtain across the galley it may not have been obvious that the doctor was taken to the flight deck. It's another matter what the doctor would have told his neighbours when he returned to his seat.
The crew will also have faced a decision whether to leave the dead pilot harnessed in his seat, or in one of the jump seats behind the pilots' seats, or to move him from the flight deck. There is not much room on the flight deck, but moving the body could have caused passengers some consternation.
The pilot who died was aged 60. At what age do pilots retire?
They can keep flying until they are 65, but there is a rule that if one pilot is between 60 and 65 the other pilot has to be younger than 60. That is a standard set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation to reduce the risk of both pilots suffering health problems on the same flight.
How frequently do pilots undergo health checks?
They have annual medical tests until they are 60. After that it's every six months.
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Eddie Mathews is best remembered as teaming with Hank Aaron to form the Braves' one-two punch that dominated the National League in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Edwin Lee Mathews (1931-2001) was a muscular high school baseball and football star in 1949 in Santa Barbara, California. He was pursued by the Brooklyn Dodgers, who offered a $10,000 contract, although signing a free agent for more than $6,000 meant that he had to stay on the major-league roster for two seasons.
He was also courted by the Boston Braves, who offered $6,000. Eddie researched the rosters, and decided that the Braves would give him the best opportunity to start quickly. Also, he didn't want to sit on a major-league bench for two years. Mathews batted .363 with 17 homers in 1949 in his first season in pro baseball, and he had 32 homers and 106 RBI for Atlanta of the Southern League in 1950.
Mathews was promoted to Boston in 1952, and though he fanned a league-high 115 times his rookie season, he also cracked 25 homers. The next season, the franchise's first in Milwaukee, he won his first homer title, hitting 47. He provided power the next three seasons, getting 37 or more homers and 95 or more RBI from 1954 to '56. In 1957, he batted .292 with 32 homers and 94 RBI, as the Braves won the world championship. He hit .251 with 31 homers as the Braves won the pennant in 1958. Eddie won the homer crown in 1959 with 46.
Mathews hit at least 30 homers in nine seasons, four times hitting over 40. He led the league in walks four times, had 90 or more bases on balls nine times, and scored at least 95 runs in 10 straight seasons. One reason he scored so much was that he batted ahead of Aaron. Playing with Henry may have obscured Mathews's performance, but while together, they hit 863 home runs, more than Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Mathews was Aaron's manager in 1974, the year he broke Ruth's career home run record.
When Mathews joined the Boston Braves in 1952, he played the hot corner poorly, but he matured into a capable third baseman. He led the NL in putouts twice, assists three times, and fielding average once. He is in the top ten among third sackers in career double plays.
In 1962, Mathews injured his shoulder. He continued to play, but his ability gradually declined. After one year in Atlanta in 1966, he was traded to the Astros. He also played with the Tigers before retiring. Eddie was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1978.
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Evangelista Torricelli (, ; 15 October 160825 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles.
Although Evangelista Torricelli is universally credited with inventing the barometer in 1643, historical documentation also suggests Gasparo Berti, an Italian mathematician and astronomer, unintentionally built a water barometer sometime between 1640 and 1643.
Other prominent physicists and scientists include: Amedeo Avogadro (most noted for his contributions to molecular theory, in particular Avogadro's law and the Avogadro constant), Giulio Natta (the inventor of the first catalyst for the production of isotactic propylene and among the fathers of macromolecular chemistry, for which he won the Nobel prize for chemistry along with Karl Ziegler), Evangelista Torricelli (inventor of the barometer), Alessandro Volta (inventor of the electric battery), Guglielmo Marconi (inventor of radio), Antonio Meucci (known for developing a voice-communication apparatus, often credited as the inventor of the first telephone before even Alexander Graham Bell), Galileo Ferraris (one of the pioneers of AC power system, invented the first induction motor), Ettore Majorana (who discovered the Majorana fermions), and Carlo Rubbia (1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN).
The uncle then sent Torricelli to Rome to study science under the Benedictine monk Benedetto Castelli, professor of mathematics at the Collegio della Sapienza (now known as the Sapienza University of Rome).
It was in Rome that Torricelli also became friends with two other students of Castelli, Raffaello Magiotti and Antonio Nardi.
Antonio Nardi (1598-1648?) was a Tuscan man of letters known for his geometrical work with Galileo Galilei and his disciples, Michelangelo Ricci and Evangelista Torricelli.
The transition from Cavalieri's indivisibles to Evangelista Torricelli's and John Wallis's infinitesimals was a major advance in the history of the calculus.
In this role he solved some of the great mathematical problems of the day, such as finding a cycloid's area and center of gravity.
According to his student Evangelista Torricelli, in 1599 Galileo attempted the quadrature of the cycloid (constructing a square with area equal to the area under the cycloid) with an unusually empirical approach that involved tracing both the generating circle and the resulting cycloid on sheet metal, cutting them out and weighing them.
His students included Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Raffaello Magiotti, Antonio Nardi, and Evangelista Torricelli, the inventor of the barometer and an early proponent of the air pump.
He was a friend of Evangelista Torricelli, kept close links with contemporary scientific culture, and played an important role in the development of the Galilean school.
"Belonging to that first period are his pamphlets on Solidi spherali, Contatti and the major part of thepropositions and sundry problems which were gathered together by Viviani after Torricelli's death. This early work owes much to the study of the classics."
He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo.
The column of mercury fell to about 76 cm, leaving a Torricellian vacuum above. The torr, a unit of pressure used in vacuum measurements, is named after him.
Evangelista Torricelli produced the first laboratory vacuum in 1643, and other experimental techniques were developed as a result of his theories of atmospheric pressure.
The law was discovered (though not in this form) by the Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli, in 1643.
While living in Rome, Torricelli became also the student of the mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri, with whom he became great friends.
The torr, a unit of pressure used in vacuum measurements, is named after him.
The unit was named after Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician who discovered the principle of the barometer in 1644.
However his work on the cycloid involved him in a controversy with Gilles de Roberval, who accused him of plagiarizing his earlier solution of the problem of its quadrature.
To these curves, which were also applied to effect some quadratures, Evangelista Torricelli gave the name "Robervallian lines."
"12 years before Torricelli's observations, Descartes, the French philosopher, had made the same observation, although he does not appear to have turned it to any account."
There, Chanut and Descartes made observations with a Torricellian barometer, a tube with mercury.
Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
It is so named because this problem is first raised by Fermat in a private letter to Evangelista Torricelli, who solved it.
In physics, Torricelli's equation, or Torricelli's formula, is an equation created by Evangelista Torricelli to find the final velocity of an object moving with a constant acceleration along an axis (for example, the x axis) without having a known time interval.
Torricelli is also famous for the discovery of the Torricelli's trumpet (also - perhaps more often - known as Gabriel's Horn) whose surface area is infinite, but whose volume is finite.
The properties of this figure were first studied by Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli in the 17th century.
As a result, he designed and built a number of telescopes and simple microscopes; several large lenses, engraved with his name, are still preserved in Florence.
From 1654 to 1667 he devoted himself to the study of geometry, continuing the research of Cavalieri and Evangelista Torricelli based on the method of Indivisibles.
The fact that this envelope is a parabola had been first established by Evangelista Torricelli and was later reproven by Johann Bernoulli using the infinitesimal calculus methods of Leibniz.
This experiment led to Evangelista Torricelli's research into the weight of air and his invention of the barometer.
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Let me tell you a story about Josh. When he was a kid he suffered from eczema. And, when I say suffered, I mean he really suffered. He had an unbearable urge to scratch nearly every minute of every day of his childhood. In fact, about one in every three children with eczema suffers from moderate to severe eczema.
The medical term for eczema is called atopic dermatitis. It is an irritating skin condition that is thought to affect up to 15% of the entire population. Among children, 20% to 40% will continue to be affected with eczema into adulthood.
For Josh, his eczema disappeared at age eight; however, the excruciating itchiness returned shortly after he graduated from university, and it has become a problem once again.
Eczema also runs in Josh’s family. This makes sense, since two-thirds of eczema patients have a family history of the skin condition. So just how bad were Josh’s symptoms? As a child, he had inflamed patches of skin as well as rashes around his face, behind the knees, and inside the elbows.
Very thick, scaly, red, and dry skin.
Compromised immune system: A compromised immune system is one of the key causes of eczema. The allergy-related antibody immunoglobulin E (IgE) increases in up to 80% of eczema patients from the activation of the white blood cells called type 2 T helper cells. Specialized white blood cells called mast cells are also found to be abnormal on the skin of eczema patients. The mast cells will release higher histamine levels and other allergy compounds when compared with those without eczema. Eczema patient immune systems also have an issue killing bacteria, and they are especially susceptible to severe Staphylococcus aureus infections on the skin.
Food allergies: In a study published in the journal Allergy, researchers suggest there is an association between eczema and common food allergies, such as allergies to eggs, wheat, milk, and soy. Food additives also cause a reaction, especially tartrazine (food dye), sodium benzoate, and sodium glutamate. Further evidence suggests that other common allergy food should be avoided, including peanuts, seeds, nuts, tomatoes, cereals, fish, chocolate, and citrus fruits.
Candida: Candida overgrowth is also considered a factor in eczema. High levels of candida-related antibodies in people with eczema will help indicate an active yeast infection. The journal Allergy found in 1999 that the elimination of candida with various antifungal agents can help improve eczema symptoms.
Other possible causes of eczema: Factors related to poor digestion are also associated with eczema, including low levels of stomach acid, poor detoxification, and low levels of good intestinal flora. Some people also have deficiencies in important nutrients, such as vitamin A, zinc, and the essential fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6. Other eczema triggers include prolonged exposure to water, taking long showers or baths, sweating before becoming chilled, being too cold or too hot, and low humidity during the winter.
Many doctors will often prescribe a combination of medical therapies and self-care techniques. For example, Josh was advised to wear cotton clothing instead of wool. He would also moisturize and take lukewarm baths every day. The doctor also suggested drugs such as steroid ointments and creams to help relieve eczema symptoms (i.e. inflammation and itching). Other drugs used for eczema in adults include antibiotics, antifungal or antiviral drugs, antihistamines, and immunomodulators like topical calcineurin inhibitors.
It is very important to deal with possible food triggers, especially food allergies. The first step is to determine what possible food allergies, sensitivities, or additives may be an issue. Food allergies and sensitivity methods include a food elimination diet, bio-meridian testing, bio-analysis with bio-energetic testing, and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) blood test. A food diary can also help you find out what happens when you eliminate a suspect food.
Overall, the diet should be anti-inflammatory and antifungal. The diet will be void of sugar, dairy, caffeine, alcohol, and spicy foods. It will also not contain potential food allergens, including gluten, wheat, tomatoes, and shellfish. Consider eliminating any other foods that contain yeast, mold, or sugar, including pickled vegetables, peanut butter, ketchup, processed meats, and artificial sweeteners.
Essential fatty acids are important for adults with eczema. The anti-inflammatory effects of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) are thought to improve eczema symptoms. The sources of EPA and DHA include fish oils like cod liver oil, wild salmon, and other cold-water fish.
Good sources of GLA include evening primrose oil, black currant seed oil, and borage oil. In a four-month, double-blind, multicenter study published in the British Journal of Dermatology in 1994, omega-3 fatty acid blood levels were greater in people taking six grams daily of fish oil supplementation. Ground flaxseed and flaxseed oil are also other great food sources of essential fatty acids, especially omega-3.
Probiotic therapy is necessary to help maintain a healthy balance of intestinal flora, especially for those with eczema. In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology in 2010, researchers discovered that a probiotic mixture could significantly improve eczema symptoms.
At least five billion colony forming units per day are recommended for adults with eczema. Good flora such as Bifidobacterium lactis, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Lactobacillus rhamnosus are probiotic strains vital for proper immune function, detoxification, and digestion.
People with eczema should avoid hot showers or baths, and opt for lukewarm water to help moisturize the skin. A magnesium bath is a good option for soothing and relaxing the skin. It can help your skin heal by simply adding the following to your bath: one to two cups of Epsom salts or magnesium flakes, a half cup of Himalayan or Celtic sea salt, a half teaspoon of natural vanilla extract, and 10 to 15 drops of essential oils such as lavender, chamomile, or geranium.
Another option is to take a short, lukewarm bath with colloidal oatmeal to help ease the itching associated with eczema. Soak in your oatmeal or magnesium bath for 15 to 20 minutes.
Drinking oolong tea can help calm allergic reactions from eczema flare-ups. In a 2001 study published in the journal Archives of Dermatology, researchers found that drinking oolong tea three times daily improved eczema symptoms in 63% of patients after the first month of treatment. The oolong tea was still effective in 54% of the patients six months later. The anti-allergic polyphenols found in oolong tea are responsible for the protective effect against eczema.
Similar results may also come from consuming five to six cups of green tea per day, or 200 to 300 mg of green tea extract three times daily. Other teas that can help treat eczema include black tea and chamomile tea.
Topical or internal use of licorice root is considered effective for treating eczema in adults. However, the glycyrrhetinic acid in licorice root is thought to be responsible for its anti-inflammatory effects. Atopiclair is a hydrophilic cream that contains glycyrrhetic acid. A 2006 study published in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology suggested that Atopiclair cream safely and effectively treated mild to moderate eczema in adults during a five-day trial.
The study observed 218 patients between the ages of 18 to 84. Another study found that glycyrrhetinic acid improved eczema symptoms in 93% of patients compared with 83% among those using the anti-inflammatory drug cortisone.
A combination of homeopathic remedies can also help treat eczema in adults. Arsenicum album is a good remedy for that chilly person with very dry, swollen, and itchy skin. The eczema will also be worse in the winter, and at night between midnight and 2 a.m. Other effective homeopathic remedies used for eczema include natrum muriaticum, petroleum, sulphur, mezereum, graphites, medorrhinum, psorinum, calcarea carbonica, and rhus toxicodendron.
Certain anti-inflammatory vitamins can help reduce eczema symptoms, including the combination of vitamin D and vitamin E. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in the Journal of Dermatological Treatment in 2011, researchers found that the combination of vitamin D and vitamin E reduced eczema symptoms by 64%. Taking vitamin D and vitamin E separately also reduced eczema by 35%.
Using honey on the skin can help reduce inflammation and promote healing. Honey has antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory properties that are effective against eczema. Evidence suggests that a mixture of honey, beeswax, and olive oil is useful in the treatment of eczema.
In a 2005 study published in the journal Archives of Medical Research, researchers found that honey and the honey mixture could also inhibit the growth of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus. Candida and staph infections can deplete the immune system and lead to eczema. Manuka honey in particular is thought to be the strongest honey for eczema in adults.
Since stress is a strong trigger of eczema in adults, stress relief is a must for treating eczema naturally. There are several alternative relaxation methods that can help, including yoga, deep breathing, meditation, hypnosis, aromatherapy, visualization techniques, listening to music, and acupuncture. Make sure you set aside time each day to unwind and reduce stress.
Other herbal remedies recommended for treating eczema include burdock root, turmeric, neem oil, dandelion root, grape seed extract, pine bark extract, Oregon grape root, herbavate, red clover, and St. John’s wort.
Certain herbs can also effectively reduce swelling and itching, such as witch hazel, aloe vera, chickweed, and calendula. In regards to other nutrients, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, quercetin, and vitamin C with bioflavonoids all have anti-inflammatory effects to treat eczema. Topical oils that can reduce inflammation include coconut oil and sunflower seed oil.
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On a scale of 1-5, how well did the person do in each area?
1. S/he separated the people from the problem.
2. S/he was flexible and listened to other people's interests. If they had a good idea s/he was willing to give in.
3. S/he recognized other people's interests. S/he let others know that s/he under stood where they were coming from.
4. S/he thought about people outside of the group who might be affected by the decision.
5. S/he was focused on getting a resolution that both sides could accept. S/he wasn't stuck on winning for winning sake. S/he was willing to compromise.
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In recent years, the best original song category has come in for some criticism -- never more so than in 2012, when the category only had two nominees. With movie musicals no longer a widely seen medium, were songs on film dying out? Were they still worth honoring -- especially with big production numbers in an already-long ceremony?
Last year, with Adele's hit title song for "Skyfall" taking the prize, put those fears to rest, and this year has an equally big nominee: "Let It Go," sung by Idina Menzel and the centerpiece of animated hit "Frozen," which -- unusually for a film in this category -- plays a pivotal role in the plot. In an era when even animated films have moved away from on-screen music, "Frozen" is the sort of throwback musical this category once existed to honor.
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the married co-writers of "Let It Go," told Salon this morning that they weren't sure if there'd be a "Frozen" production number at the Oscars this year. "It's different every year," said Lopez. "It would be an awesome thing to have Idina up there."
"I would hope the world would get to see her," said Anderson-Lopez.
Unusual perhaps for a best original song contender in the modern era, the pair said they spent months leading up to the composition of "Let It Go" working out character beats with the film's creative team -- "talk and talk, and work and work, to get these characters to be the kind of characters who can sustain a musical," said Anderson-Lopez. "But once we had this song slotted and [the character's] powers in place -- we came up with the hook and a day and a half later we had the song. We went to Prospect Park in Brooklyn and sat on a picnic bench and wrote it out, and the demo was recorded a day later."
Lopez, who is a previous Emmy, Tony and Grammy winner thanks to work on "Wonder Pets," "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon," noted that "usually it's a comedy song. I never get to do this sort of thing. To write this anthem of empowerment was just an incredible stretch for me."
With "Let It Go" a rarity even in its own category, is there much of a point in keeping the category alive? Lopez, naturally, said yes. "There are so few musicals that come out these days. But a good musical and a good movie musical is the best thing in the world. It lifts everyone up and they can sing the song on the way to work. That's why we're in the business."
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How to spend three days in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Known as the Wilderness City, the Yukon’s gold nugget of a capital is picturesque, pristine and steeped in history.
Welcome to the land of the midnight sun! After you arrive, pick up a rental car and drive downtown to check in at the Coast High Country Inn, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stayed during their 2016 visit. Walk to the nearby Alpine Organic Bakery, a super-cozy eatery, for freshly baked sourdough bread and fruit juice. Once sated, drive from the city core to Grey Mountain. Inch up to the top, park and then hike along the ridge, taking in the views of forest and blue-green lakes.
When you’ve had your fill of cool mountain air, drive about 30 minutes outside the city to Bean North Coffee Roasting Co., a quaint café that has a cabin-in-the-woods feel. The Caprese sandwich is delicious with a cardamom latte. Take your beverage to go and head back down the road to the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, home to northern mammals like mountain goats, foxes, muskox, lynx and caribou. After strolling the wide paths and watching the animals frolic, have a relaxing soak at the Takhini Hot Springs, which are two minutes away.
Return to town for dinner at the Dirty Northern Public House, a hipster-chic pub on Main Street. The wood-fired pizza is particularly tasty; try it with a pint of Whitehorse’s own Yukon Brewing beer. (This local is partial to Yukon Gold, an English pale ale).
Start the day with a confection and an espresso from Baked Cafe & Bakery, which brews beans from Whitehorse-based Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters. Walk around the corner to the MacBride Museum of Yukon History, where you’ll see a taxidermied seven-foot- tall grizzly bear and albino moose, as well as a fascinating exhibit on the Klondike gold rush of 1898.
Next, drive 40 minutes to the picturesque community of Carcross. Be sure to stop at the tiny “desert,” often called the world’s smallest, though the sand is actually the remains of an ancient glacial lake. The Carcross Commons, a plaza of shops and boutiques, is a good spot for lunch. Feast on the bison burger at The Bistro on Bennett and stop for a treat at Caribou Crossing Coffee before heading back to Whitehorse.
Hop aboard the S.S. Klondike, a sternwheeler that once transported food and supplies to the region; now a National Historic Site, the vessel is free to explore. Next, walk 10 minutes to G&P Steakhouse & Pizza. The intimate restaurant offers delicacies like Alaskan king crab, honey-ginger calamari and spanakopita, as well as an impressive list of cocktails. Take advantage of the long hours of daylight by capping the day off with a stroll along Main Street. Peruse fragrant skin-care products made with Yukon botanicals at Aroma Borealis, and check out local handicrafts at North End Gallery.
The Collective Good is another must-visit. I’m biased – I happen to work in this Scandi-chic shop – but there’s no denying it’s the coolest in town, offering covetable Canadian-made goodies, from soaps by Anto Yukon to pottery by Cathy Terepocki Ceramics.
Grab a bagel downtown at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, where Bullet Hole Bagels bakes its addictive bready goodness. Devour it during the 15-minute drive to Miles Canyon, where the emerald-toned Yukon River runs between two steep rock walls. Follow the marked three-and-a-half-kilometre walking trail to Canyon City, a stopping point for prospectors on their way to the gold fields. The scenic route ducks in and out of the forest as it traces the river. After your walk, fuel up with lunch back in town at Burnt Toast Café, where everything is delicious (the hearty Humble Salad is a favourite). Pay a visit to the Kanoe People, who will hook you up with all you need for a leisurely paddle down the calm river, including gear and transport back downtown.
Walk 10 minutes to Sanchez Cantina for delicious Mexican food and sangria. If it’s sunny, get a table on the patio – it’s one of the few in the city! Finish your trip by soaking up Whitehorse’s strong music scene: Hit up a live show at The Social House.
Summer is balmy in this scenic northern town, so bring layers of practical performance gear.
1 Lara Sports hoodie, $85, horseware.com.
2 Moab 2 hiking boots, $180, merrel.ca.
3 LaSpa SPF 20 daily sun protector mineral sunscreen, $44, beautysense.ca.
4 Trail 16 backpack, $35, mec.ca.
How to spend three days in Tofino, British Columbia.
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She drug Joe out of his office at midnight. When did "drug" replace dragged as the past tense of drag? The answer is: It didn't, and it couldn't, and it better not.
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What should I bring on my trip to Paris?
My wife and I (pictured) absolutely love Paris. It’s our favorite city in the whole world because of its art museums, exquisite Michelin-rated food, amazing architecture, and CHOCOLATE!
Many friends were asking us what to pack for Paris so we wrote this detailed checklist. We also include what to wear in Paris, what NOT to bring, and general FAQs about traveling there. Enjoy the city of love! Bon Voyage!
1) Passport pouch – Paris is known for its pickpockets and this little pouch makes it next to impossible for them get your valuables. It fits your passport, cash, and credit cards neatly and you can have it concealed under your clothing. Places where pickpockets are most likely to operate are crowded areas such as on public transport or around the Eiffel Tower etc.
2) Lipstick-Sized Portable Charger – The ability to carry extra device charges with you seems so high-tech, and so convenient. This little charger makes that incredibly easy to do. It uses regular USB cables and is portable so you can charge devices on-the-go instead of having to return to your accommodations to plug them in.
3) French Power Adapter – The French power outlets are quite different from those in the US, so you’ll definitely need an adapter. It’s good to choose a quality one that works in many countries so that if you go to other destinations like London you will also be able to charge your devices. This one (pictured) works in almost 100 countries and has built-in device protection via a safety fuse.
4) Travel Insurance for Paris – We’ve had our fair share of sketchy experiences in Paris especially with our housing. Having World Nomads insurance on our side gave us peace-of-mind even when things started getting weird. Additionally, medical emergencies and other unexpected trip problems happen, and you don’t want that to ruin your vacation or make a huge dent in your pocket book because you did’t pay small cost of having insurance. Just like you wouldn’t have a home without home insurance, you also shouldn’t travel without travel insurance.
6) Pea Coat: Women’s and Men’s – The daily temperature in Paris averages around 41°F in the winter and 65°F in the summer. Therefore, no matter what time of year you go, you’ll want a nice coat. We recommend checking out a pea coat for the perfect blend of warmth and style while not breaking the bank.
7) Stylish daybag – You’ll be carrying things with you, but you don’t want to ruin your stylish appearance in such a fashionable city. Try this attractive daybag to carry your shopping purchases, water bottle, camera, phone, rain jacket, umbrella and anything else you may need while exploring. It’s also very affordable.
8) Tickets to Top Paris Attractions – Unfortunately, many of the best things to see and do in Paris also have loooong lines. But if you’ve pre-booked special tickets that allow you to skip the lines then you won’t have to wait! That’s where Get Your Guide comes in. They are an amazing, affordable platform for booking tickets and short tours in advance. So if you’re planning on visiting the Louvre, going to the summit of the Eiffel Tower, exploring Versailles, cruising the River Seine at twilight or simply looking for something interesting to do in Paris then check them out!
9) Windproof Travel Umbrella – It rains in Paris roughly 15 days per month every month and often without warning. Having a compact, high-quality umbrella like this one is a must have for keeping dry in this gorgeous city. When my wife and son were visiting recently we got caught off guard when it started raining heavily even though when we left the hotel it was sunny!
10) Packing cubes – It seems counterintuitive to add an extra layer in order to save space, but trust me when I say that these packing cubes make life much easier while traveling. When I pack my items I know exactly which “cube” they’re in without having to rummage around, and I can even switch the smaller ones from my suitcase to my daybag without having to unpack and repack them.
11) Comfortable, attractive flats – Paris is a fashionable place, and it’s also a place where you’re likely to do a lot of walking. Wearing sneakers or “tennis shoes” is a dead giveaway that you’re a tourist, so opt for something more fashionable but still comfortable instead. These shoes offer a nice balance, and are comfortable enough to walk around all day in.
12) Pashmina Scarf/ Wrap – Pashmina scarves are one of the best accessories to have with you when you travel to Paris. They’re fashionable and useful, and very light and easy to pack. They’ll keep you a little warmer when you’re feeling chilly, they can be draped over your shoulders when you need to dress more modestly to visit churches, and they can be used to dress up an outfit should you decide to have a nicer dinner without going back to your room to change. This one is ultra soft but also affordable.
13) Virtual Private Network (VPN) – If I’d had a VPN when I went to Paris recently, I could have saved myself from having my credit card number information stolen while using what I thought was a secure WiFi at our Airbnb.
A good VPN like NordVPN allows you to add a layer of encryption to your Internet connection that makes it impossible for hackers to get your sensitive info. It also allows you to access any censored websites. An affordable price and one-click activation from any device make a VPN a no-brainer for any travel!
14) Water bottle with built-in filter – Most water in Paris is potable, but it never pays to take chances. It’s best to carry water with you rather than spend money on it. Having the built-in filter will give you peace of mind if you have to get water from a less trustworthy source.
15) Hanging toiletry bag – This bag is indispensable. You know you’ll be bringing a lot of toiletries and you want to keep them organized – this is the solution. It has plenty of room and a spot for everything. It also unfolds and hangs easily so that you have access to all of your toiletries without unpacking them completely. It’s the perfect option for both women and men.
16) Jet Lag relief – Long flights, plenty of shuffling from place to place, and time changes can really mess with your sleep schedule and health. These jet lag relief tablets can help prevent and treat jet lag so that you don’t waste valuable vacation time trying to recover from the flight over.
17) Flexible Phone Tripod – This clever little tripod from Fotopro is incredible. It comes with a bluetooth remote so that you can easily place your phone or camera in the perfect spot to capture you and yours in front of the Eiffel Tower without having to spend €500 on a photographer. It’s strong enough to be used with a DSLR and can be gripped to railings, branches or simply placed on a flat surface. Plus it’s super inexpensive.
What else will I need for a Paris vacation?
What should I wear in Paris?
Even though Paris is known worldwide as a fashion capital, don’t be intimidated while packing for your trip. The typical dress code in Paris is classy, sleek and color neutral. Bring staple items like dark-wash jeans, neutral breezy scarves, and comfortable but fashionable walking shoes. Think dark, slim pants, simple blouses and elegant button downs.
Weather can be unpredictable, so make sure to pack a jacket and umbrella, no matter what time of the year it is.
Women in Paris dress noticeably nicer than you might find in other big European cities. As a visitor, keep it classy by wearing dark, tailored, ankle-length pants, a sleek blouse, and comfortable ankle boots or neutral-colored sneakers (sneakers are very trendy right now among Parisians). Plan to dress in layers and bring along a lightweight jacket or scarf. In the summer, try pairing white sneakers with a sundress. In the winter, keep it simple with black and neutral colors, and add pops of color with your accessories.
Parisian men are just as fashion-conscious (if not more so) as Parisian women. The dress code in Paris for men revolves around nice shirts and ties during the workweek, and casual clothing like polos on the weekends. Go for well-fitting, tailored slacks and nice shirts in a neutral color palette. Jeans are okay too, as long as they are dark and fit well. As far as shoes, plan on bringing a few pairs of comfortable sneakers, and a pair of dress shoes. Ditch the baseball cap, and opt for a trendy fedora instead. Keep your style simple and fresh.
Seasons in Paris are similar to those in much of Europe. Temperate seasons and a fair amount of rain year-round mean that rain gear is important, and that each season has its own particular allure.
Spring is one of the two rainiest seasons in Paris, with about 9 days/month of rainy weather.
Bring a cute raincoat and closed-toed shoes for wet days, and fashionable pants or jeans and tops for everyday wear. Bring a cardigan or two and a shawl/scarf to give you an extra layer in case you get chilly. Temperatures average from 60°F to 70°F (16°C to 21°C).
Summer in Paris is the least rainy season, but not by much. You can still expect a couple of rainy days per week, but the rest of the time will be nice and warm. This is also tourist high-season, so plan for lines and elevated prices.
Shorts are not common other than at beaches, so stick to nice shirts and pants or skirts. Sundresses are perfect for nicer days. Be sure to bring a cardigan or a shawl in case there’s a chill in the air.
For shoes, the key is to prioritize comfort without sacrificing fashion.
Cute flats and sandals are always a good idea, and maybe a pair of comfortable, easy-to-walk-in heels if you plan to go to any fancier places. A rain jacket is also a good idea. Temperatures average from 70°F to 80°F (21°C to 27°C).
Autumn in Paris can be quite magical as the air cools and the leaves turn. It’s a wet season, but it’s not yet too cold to enjoy taking walks outdoors. Some days – especially in September – will still be fairly warm.
A cute rain coat is essential, as are closed-toed shoes for walking on chillier days. Most people don’t yet need a hat, gloves, or a scarf, but if you’re not accustomed to the chill you may want to pack some just in case. It’s wise to bring a light jacket or a nice peacoat, as there will definitely be times when you’ll want the warmth. Temperatures average from 55°F to 65°F (13°C to 18°C).
Winter is very wet in Paris, tied with spring for the rainiest season.
Bring your fashionable rain coat, a windproof travel umbrella, and fashionable boots and shoes. A hat, gloves, a scarf, and warmer clothing are important. Nice pants and slacks, quality leggings, sweater dresses, cardigans, and long-sleeved shirts will help keep you presentable and comfortable. Temperatures average from 45°F to 55°F (7°C to 13°C).
Sightseeing – Especially if it’s your first time to Paris, you’ll definitely want to spend a few days checking out all the iconic Paris sights like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, and the Luxembourg Gardens. For full days of sightseeing, the most important things you can wear are comfortable shoes (you’ll be standing in lots of lines, and stumbling through endless subway terminals!), and a practical crossbody bag or backpack so that you can keep all the essentials on your person (ID, cash, subway tickets). Pack casual, sleek clothing like a black sundress or dark jeans and a tee.
Museum hopping – The Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay are just two of many museums in Paris you won’t want to miss out on. Museums everywhere are usually freezing, so bring a sweater or cardigan to wear over your clothing, and consider wearing closed-toed shoes. Some museums will not allow visitors to bring in bulky handbags, so go for a small purse instead.
Visiting cafes, markets and restaurants – Paris is home to thousands of cute cafes, fresh farmer’s markets, and charming restaurants. Stylish but practical clothing will suit you well for this. Think striped shirts, dark pants, and flats.
Going out at night – The nightlife of Paris includes everything from intimate wine bars to the most upscale clubs in the world. It depends on where you are going for the night, but you can’t go wrong with a black dress, minimal makeup, and heels. For men, think nice button downs and tailored slacks. Always check the dress code before getting ready! Tie and jacket may be required in some places.
Taking an afternoon walk – One of the best (and most romantic) things to do in Paris is to go for a long walk though one of the city’s many historic neighborhoods. Choose between the romantic Montmartre, the stylish Marais, the free-spirited Canal Saint Martin quarter, the eclectic Latin quarter, or the historical Saint Germain. Wear comfortable walking shoes, a breezy dress, a sunhat, and bring and your camera!
1) DON’T PACK heavy items: It’s worth remembering that you’ll be doing a lot of walking, and that bags can start to feel too heavy very quickly when you have to lug them everywhere. I don’t recommend bringing heavy books, heavy equipment (computers, etc.) or even excessively heavy shoes – trust me, your back will thank you for following my advice.
2) DON’T BRING too many clothes and shoes: You only need about a week’s worth of outfits and two pairs of shoes. Most of the places that you’ll be staying will have somewhere that you can either wash your clothes or have them washed. This does cost about $5 a load, but doing three loads of laundry is still less expensive than paying for even one checked bag.
3) DON’T TAKE unseasonable clothing: It just adds a lot of weight and bulk to a suitcase that’s likely already going to have limited space. Look up the weather forecast for the locations you’ll be staying before you go, and pack a couple of extra layering items if you think they’re needed.
4) DON’T PACK camouflage clothing: It’s a cultural norm here in many parts of the States, but camo gear and clothing is reserved for military personnel in most of Europe, and you certainly don’t want to look like a member of that group.
5) DON’T PACK skimpy clothes or beachwear: Clothing such as cut-off jean shorts and skimpy tank tops aren’t appropriate if you want to fit in with the locals. The only place they’re acceptable in Europe is at the beach, and there aren’t any near Paris. Feel free to bring appropriate attire for swimming if your hotel has a pool, but don’t plan to wear it out of the hotel.
6) DON’T BRING excessive amounts of cash: ATMs are widely available and tend to have pretty good exchange rates (bring your ATM card and let your bank know you’re traveling before you leave), and carrying too much cash is asking for trouble. It’s easy to secure excess cash in a safe in your room, or you can simply resupply with cash in smaller increments.
7) DON’T TAKE anything that screams “Hapless Tourist!” : A good example of this is a fanny pack. You may not look like a local, but you certainly don’t want to advertise far and wide that you’re a tourist. Doing so makes you look inexperienced, and again, marks you for potential pickpocketing. It’s not as common, but it still happens, and it’s not a chance worth taking.
8) DON’T BRING expensive items or nice jewelry: It’s tempting to bring valuables, but it’s never worth the risk. Bringing these kinds of items makes you a more likely target for theft, and you could just as easily lose them yourself by mistake. It happens, and it’s better to lose cheaper versions of your favorite items than it is to lose your expensive jewelry collection.
As a guest in Paris, try not to wear lots of flashy colors all at once. Shoot for blacks, tans, whites and grays. Avoid wearing athletic clothes, as you will be immediately identified as a tourist. For shoes, skip the stilettos (at least during the day). You will be walking along cobblestone streets most of the time, so you want your feet to be comfortable. Also ditch the flip flops, and instead bring your sturdy sandals with straps.
1) About how much money will I need on a daily basis to enjoy Paris?
That depends on what you plan on doing while you’re in town since some hobbies are more expensive than others. Even so, a basic daily budget of $80 per day should cover meals, metro tickets, some attractions, and a night in a hostel dorm. Travelers who want their own room should allot about $60 extra per day, just to cover the change in accommodation costs. Of course, splitting the price of a private room with a traveling companion or two can help your budget in this regard. It’s also worth looking into reliable vacation rentals to cut down on accommodation costs. But, if you’ve got the money, Paris is definitely a place with plenty of spending options.
2) Do I need to tip servers in restaurants in Paris?
Leaving the coins you’re brought back as change is the standard reward for good service. However, it’s perfectly acceptable to leave nothing at all since waiters’ salaries are already factored into the overall cost of dining out in Europe. Even so, failing to leave at least a 5% tip in a very fancy restaurant might indicate that you’re cheap.
3) What are some good day trips from Paris?
Versailles is the best known day trip from Paris but nearby Giverny and Chartres are also nice places to visit if you have the time. Another good thing is that all of these towns can be reached using public transportation so you don’t have to rent a car to get to them.
4) Is the “Paris Pass” or the “Paris Museum Pass” worth it?
The only way to tell for certain is to do the math yourself. However, if you are a marathon traveler who can easily see multiple attractions in a day without collapsing from exhaustion, one or both of these passes might be a good deal.
On the other hand, if you are someone who likes to meander and only needs to see one or two iconic places per day, the passes might end up costing you money instead.
5) What is the best way to get around Paris?
The subway is usually an effective means of transportation but it’s a bit pricey. You can still save some money by purchasing your metro tickets in sets of 10 instead of buying them individually. Walking is another good way to get around and it is certainly cheaper than taking the metro.
6) How can I avoid lines at popular Parisian attractions?
Buy your tickets online and in advance. Sometimes doing this will even get you small monetary discounts as well.
7) What is the best time of year to visit?
The weather in Paris is at its warmest during the summer months but the city is extremely crowded from June to August when the tourist hordes descend in full force, causing the prices for attractions and accommodations to shoot upward. Even the locals leave town at this point, if they can. Paris sees far fewer crowds and more affordable prices during the spring and autumn months but the weather can be temperamental at times. Spring in particular is known for its wet weather. So perhaps the most reliably pleasant time to visit Paris would be in either September or October.
8) How can I save money while traveling in Paris?
Take advantage of free admission days at some of the museums.
Cook your own meals or at least nosh on takeout since in Europe you pay extra for just sitting down and eating in restaurants. If you do eat out, try to aim for lunchtime instead of dinner, since prices tend to be lower at lunch.
Eat the free hotel/hostel breakfast if one is available. It might not be the stuff dreams are made of but it will fill you up enough to get you to dinner.
Buy carnet books rather than purchase subway rides individually.
9) Which areas of the city are best avoided by tourists?
Most of the main tourist areas are fine but there are some neighborhoods on the fringes that aren’t a great place for outsiders to stay. In some instances, this is because they’re a long way from the action and there isn’t much to see nearby. Other arrondissements (districts) may be a little on the “dodgy” side for tourists – I encourage you to do your own research on this subject before setting out to ensure that you are making decisions with up-to-date information.
Some places to avoid include the areas around these metro stops: La Courneuve, Mantes-la-Jolie, Les Halles, Pigalle, Place Blanche, Strasbourg St-Denis, Gare du Nord, Gare de l’Est, Barbès-Rochechouart, and Château Rouge. However, traveling through most of the subway stations listed here should be fine as long as you’re not attempting to pass through them unreasonably late at night. Other places to avoid after dark include the Champ de Mars, the Belleville neighborhood, the Seine Banks, the Bois de Boulogne Park, the Saint Blaise area, and portions of the Rue Saint Denis. Travelers will also want to watch out for pickpockets near popular tourist attractions such as the Eiffel Tower.
Don’t get the wrong idea – Paris is much like any large city: there are pockets that any outsider should avoid, but the majority of the city is welcoming and fun to explore.
10) What are my options for getting from the airports to the city center?
From Charles De Galle (CDG) and Orly (ORY) airports, the quickest and easiest way to get into Paris is to take the RER subway trains. You’ll just need to keep an eye on your bags because pickpocketing can be a problem on these routes. While there are numerous buses that travel from these airports into Paris, using them can be a time-consuming process. However, those traveling from Beauvais (BVA) airport will have to use a bus to get into town if they don’t want to pay for a taxi since there isn’t a convenient train station nearby.
11) Is it safe for women to travel alone in Paris?
Yes! For the most part and in most areas, it’s perfectly safe. It’s never wise for women (or any tourist, really…) to walk around alone at night, especially in any less-than-nice neighborhoods, but basic safety precautions will protect you just fine during the day. Don’t carry loads of cash, try to blend in when possible, and avoid taking unnecessary risks. Try to plan your transportation in advance and be sure about where you’re going – you’ll look like you know what you’re doing and feel much more confident.
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