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How much is in a fifth of alcohol?
A fifth is a unit of volume formerly used for distilled beverages in the United States, and is equal to one fifth of a gallon, 4⁄5 quart, or 253⁄5 fluid ounces; it has been superseded by the metric system, 750 mL.
Cattle are ruminants, meaning their digestive system is highly specialized to allow the use of poorly digestible plants as food. Cattle have one stomach with four compartments, the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum, with the rumen being the largest compartment.
Who invented the donut hole?
The hole in the doughnut was invented by a 16-year-old sailor named Hanson Gregory. In 1916, the Washington Post interviewed Gregory, the man who claimed to have invented the modern donut back in 1847. Gregory was tired of eating greasy and undercooked donuts with raw dough on the insides.
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Asperger’s Syndrome is a disorder in which a person has difficulty communicating with others; developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships; and engaging in flexible, lively, and wide ranging interests and activities.
Treating Asperger’s requires one initial and essential step, a thorough assessment of the child or adult. Someone, preferably an Asperger’s psychologist, should find out all that is possible to know about the person’s social, behavioral, and emotional background, from birth to the present. It is especially important to know how the person communicated as a child, including how language was used in interacting with others, how the child shared interests, emotions and feelings with others, the use of body language, facial expression and other ways of communicating nonverbally.
This assessment also includes gathering information about narrow, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities, examples being fascination with World War II airplanes, train schedules, or spiders.
An assessment of the child’s sensitivity to sensory input, lights, sounds and touch, is also important as is an understanding of routines or lack thereof, as a child and in the present. Children with Asperger’s tend to become distressed at small changes in their surroundings. They have difficulty with transitions and often are rigid about what should or should not be happening around them. These needed to be assessed to determine if Asperger’s is a dominant part of the person’s condition.
1. Explicitly instructing the child on how to interpret other people’s social behavior. The meaning of eye contact, tone of voice, facial and hand gestures, and non-literal communication such as humor, figures of speech, irony and metaphors can all be taught, much like the teaching of foreign language.
2. Monitoring the child’s own speech should be taught, focusing on volume, rhythm, context and social situation.
3. Drawing up a list of problematic, disruptive behaviors, such as interrupting, throwing tantrums, yelling, raging, and disobeying, along with a list of the consequences both for engaging in those behaviors and acting in a different, more positive way.
4. Encouraging an active social life with other children, particularly around mutually enjoyable activities or shared interests.
5. Linking specific frustrating or anxiety-provoking experiences and difficult feelings like anger and fear, so that the child is able to gradually understand how feelings come about.
6. Showing how the child’s actions impact other people, both those who are familiar and unfamiliar to the child. Having the child practice engaging with others is often necessary, as simply explaining how to act is not usually effective.
7. Teaching the child how to infer and to predict what is likely in social situations, to understand why people do what they do and anticipate the outcome of social interactions. This helps the child be more flexible in thinking about why other people are doing what they do and in responding to them.
Considering psychotherapy. This can be very useful for children with Asperger’s who struggle with anxiety, sadness, low self-esteem and feelings of rejection.
9. Incorporating medication. Children with Asperger’s who suffer from depression, anxiety, obsessions and compulsions or other psychological and emotional difficulties can often benefit from medication.
10. Using vocational training, focusing on job interview etiquette and workplace behavior, can help considerably in achieving self-sufficiency for the older teen or adult. Also, fostering the development of talents and special interests, whether they translate into marketable skills or not, encourages self-esteem and self-reliance, both of which are foundations for success in life.
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This article is more of a look at Vectors vs. Pixels, which will help you understand the difference better.
According to Wikipedia.com, Vector graphics are the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Pixels are the smallest item of information in an image, and are normally arranged in a 2-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots or squares.
Most computer drawing programs, such as Microsoft Paint and Adobe Photoshop, utilize pixels to create art. The above example is somewhat of an exaggeration, as it was in fact created in Photoshop, and only made to mock a difference between the two. Pixels, also known as "Raster Images", are OK when it comes to computer or web-related images, but can become blocky when expanded from an original state. On the other hand, Vectors have the ability to be maximized forever and never lose their crisp quality, which makes them ideal for printing on mediums such as posters, magazines, or t-shirts.
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In 1990 Albania had the youngest population in Europe, with the average age at twenty-seven, Albanian youth had been discontented and restless for some time before the regime began to make changes. Although efforts were made to keep Albania isolated from the rest of the world, television broadcasts from other European countries reached Albanian citizens, and the young could see "bourgeois" lifestyles and the political ferment that was occurring elsewhere in Eastern Europe. In addition, the working class was suffering the dire consequences of Albania's declining economy, and conditions were worsened by a terrible drought in 1989. In October 1989, workers and students in the southern district of Sarandë staged protests against the regime's policy of work incentives, and several protesters were arrested. A more serious protest had occurred in May 1989 at the Enver Hoxha University at Tiranë. At first students were simply demanding better living conditions, but their grievances soon acquired a more political character and were treated as a distinct threat by the regime. Although the protest eventually ended without bloodshed, it caused the regime to reassess its policy toward young people and to consider such measures as improving living standards and educational facilities in order to ease the discontent that had been building up among students.
Alia and his colleagues dismissed the Soviet Union's concepts of glasnost and perestroika as irrelevant to the Albanian experience. Demonstrating his ideological purity, Alia claimed that communism collapsed in Eastern Europe because these states deviated from orthodox Marxism. At the Ninth Plenum of the party's Central Committee in January 1990, however, Alia announced some modest political reforms. In addition, he presented limited economic reforms that called for some management authority at state farm and enterprise levels and for improvements in wage and price regulations to increase the role of material incentives.
In general, Alia's reforms suggested that the party leadership was nervous and defensive, and Alia seemed anxious to convince the Central Committee that Albania should not follow the path of other East European countries. Albanian leaders seemed to fear that anything but very limited reform could lead to the social and political upheaval that had occurred elsewhere in Eastern Europe. But Alia's half-measures did little to improve the economic situation or to halt the growing discontent with his regime.
Some Albanian intellectuals, such as the sociologist Hamit Beqeja and the writer Ismail Kadare, recommended more radical changes, particularly with regard to democracy and freedom of the press. As their demands grew, these intellectuals increasingly clashed with the conservatives in the party and state bureaucracy. In October 1990, it was announced that Kadare, Albania's most prominent writer, had defected to France. The defection dealt a blow to Albania's image both at home and abroad, especially since the writer had sent a letter to Alia explaining that he had defected because he was disillusioned with the slow pace of democratic change in the country. The official reaction to Kadare's defection was to condemn it as a "grave offense against the patriotic and civil conscience" of Albania, but his work continued to be published within the country.
More about the Government and Politics of Albania.
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There are a lot of strange myths about alcohol and underage drinking swirling around out there, so let’s take a second to put some things straight. Find below a list of 10 common myths about alcohol that don’t hold up against the facts.
1. Myth: Alcohol is less harmful than other drugs.
Fact: Like other commonly misused substances, alcohol is highly addictive and causes tens of thousands of deaths every year. In fact, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), alcohol is linked to approximately 88,000 deaths per year, more than the 64,000 deaths to drug overdoses in 2016, making alcohol-related deaths the third leading cause of preventable deaths in the country.
2. Myth: All of my peers are drinking.
Fact: It may seem like drinking is everywhere, but according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) about two-thirds of teens are not drinking.
3. Myth: Beer, wine coolers, and wine are safer than liquor.
Fact: Although it’s true that hard liquor may have a high alcohol percentage than beers and wines, alcohol is alcohol, and what matters is how much is consumed. A beer may contain 4-7% alcohol, wine 12%, and hard liquor closer to 40%—meaning a glass of beer, is about the same alcohol content as a 1.5 shot of vodka. A certain amount of any alcoholic beverage will pose the same risks.
4. Myth: If adults can drink in a healthy manner, so can kids.
Fact: Because the teenage brain is still developing, alcohol affects it differently. Research has shown that drinking causes more damage to the developing brain and that underage drinking drastically increases the likelihood of developing an alcohol disorder later down the line.
5. Myth: I can sober up quickly if I need to with coffee, a cold shower, a greasy meal, or walking it off.
Fact: Not so! You might trick yourself into feeling a bit soberer after a coffee and a shower, but it takes about two to three hours for just one drink to be metabolized by the body, no matter if you have a big meal, walk it off, or whatever other measures you take. All you can do is wait.
6. Myth: If we changed the drinking age from 21 to 18, there would be fewer problems with young people’s drinking habits.
Fact: In fact, a lot of thought went into the 21 minimum drinking age. Since 1984, when the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21, deaths related to driving while under the influence have decreased annually by the thousands.
7. Myth: Most teen drinking deaths happen because they decided to drive drunk.
Fact: Although drunk driving is extremely dangerous to the driver and others, studies have shown that in fact, drunk driving accidents account for only about one-third of underage deaths linked to alcohol. The other two-thirds of alcohol-related deaths in teens are due to alcohol-related homicide, suicide, poisoning, and other accidents.
8. Myth: Everyone stands the same risk of developing an alcohol addiction.
Fact: Anyone is susceptible to developing an alcohol disorder, but not everyone is subject to the same likelihood. There are various factors to consider, including hereditary factors, mental health conditions, and the age when a person began drinking in the first place, which is all to say that one person might be able to drink now and then without developing a serious addiction while someone else may not.
9. Myth: People of the same height and weight can drink the same amount of alcohol safely.
Fact: Alcohol affects different people in different ways depending on a long list of variables. For instance, some health conditions can change the way our bodies react to alcohol, or medications can also have unpredictable interactions with alcohol. Other factors include age, gender, the rate of consumption, diet and more. Just because one person can drink a certain amount without needing to go to the hospital doesn’t mean someone of the same size and weight can do the same.
10. Myth: Because Europeans can drink at an earlier age, they drink more responsibly and have fewer drinking-related problems.
Fact: Though kids in America often like to say kids in Europe drink more responsibly because of the lower drinking age, the data actually does not support the claim in the least. In one study of 15-16-year-olds in 35 European countries, the data suggest that kids in these countries drank more often and drank more heavily than kids in America.
What a healthy relationship looks like, and what it doesn’t look like.
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Answer the following questions related to which colors should be selected for Web pages.
Which color evokes excitement and energy.
This color is considered faddish, youthful and energetic.
This color is seen as the hottest of all colors. It is seen as playful, sociable, happy, and childlike.
This color is associated with the splendor and heat of the sun and is also associated with imagination and enlightenment. People see it as cheerful and mellow.
This is the ultimate earth color, associated with stability and is used in promoting foods.
This is a restful color that is also considered reliable, dependable, and inspires confidence.
This color offers the widest array of color choices (when mixed with other colors). It is considered cool, clean and used in marketing personal hygiene and beauty products.
This color is associated with sensuality, spirituality, futuristic tendencies, and is considered regal.
This color is associated with purity and simplicity.
This color is sophisticated, powerful, elegant, and expensive It gives the message of strength when used in consumer products.
Red text on a dark blue background is a good match for a Web page.
There are three primary colors. What are they.
If you mix two primary colors you will get a secondary color.
It is possible to get primary colors by mixing other colors.
What are your secondary colors?
When you mix the primary colors of yellow and blue you get green.
To get one of the tertiary colors you need to mix one primary color and one secondary color together. The opportunities for tertiary colors are endless.
Analogous colors are the ones that are located directly across each other on the color wheel: red and green, blue and orange, purple and yellow.
Analogous colors are located next to each other on the color wheel.
When you mix red and blue you get purple.
Complimentary colors, when used in combination with each other compose a striking contrast. Such color combinations are usually used for standing out some elements on the website.
I Think I Coud Find Your Favorite Color With 5 Questions?
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The tragedy of April 26, 1986 has become a landmark in the Belarusian history dividing it into pre- and post-Chernobyl periods.
The damage the republic has suffered as a result of the catastrophe is outrageous. According to specialists, it has totaled about $235bn or 32 annual budgets of the pre-tragedy period and has affected practically all spheres of human activity in the regions. Farm lands and pastures have been excluded from agricultural use, while forest, mineral, organic, fuel and other resources are used restrictively. Among other losses incurred to the regions is closure of enterprises and companies, output reduction, low payback of funds invested to construction and melioration, expenditures for resettlement of people, reshaping of numerous branches, ensuring safe living conditions and social security for residents of the contaminated regions, medical care and recuperation.
Gomel oblast took the brunt of the Chernobyl impact.
More than 135 thousand people from 470 townships and villages (295 of them were located in Gomel oblast) had to resettle from the worst affected territories to safer regions of the republic.
For the post-tragedy years the oblast developed a system of radiation monitoring and control, as well as a system of protective measures in agro-industrial production, which is financed from the state budget. The region is carrying out a set of measures aimed at improving medical services to the victims of the catastrophe. There is a system of social protection of all categories of the affected population.
At the moment the republic has been implementing a program on mitigation of the Chernobyl catastrophe consequences. The president of the republic supervises realization of the state policy on overcoming the Chernobyl catastrophe consequences. The president makes regular visits (not fewer than twice a year) to the contaminated regions to examine the issues on social protection of the affected population, the development of concrete measures aimed at minimization of the Chernobyl catastrophe consequences.
Various foreign charitable organizations from Germany, England, Japan, Italy, Austria, Belgium, the USA and other countries render significant support to Gomel oblast in mitigating consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe. They supply drugs and medical equipment, organize probation periods for Belarusian doctors in western clinics, arrange recuperation trips in foreign countries for children from the most contaminated regions.
Recently on the initiative of the UN and World Bank mission the oblast launched projects on rehabilitation of the contaminated territories. The projects seek the support of the international community in getting loans for putting in industrial infrastructure and creating new jobs in the affected regions hence providing an opportunity for the local dwellers to raise their social security.
The leadership of the oblast shares the same opinion. No foreign help, however substantial it be, could help liquidate all socio-economic and psychological consequences of the catastrophe. They can be overcome by means of speedy development of the region’s economy. This is why in international cooperation on the Chernobyl problem the region’s leadership lays emphasis on search for investments, creation of joint stock companies, expansion of trade-economic ties with foreign countries.
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A prevailing view in medicine is that free radicalsi, including reactive oxygen species (ROS), are unwanted and potentially harmful by products from numerous sources including normal cellular metabolism (eg. mitochondrial respiration, NADPH oxidases, CYP p450 transformation), industrialization (eg. air pollution), ultraviolet radiation and smoking1. Strong evidence indicates that prolonged exposure to excess ROS is a common denominator in many important chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, macular degeneration, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as well as aging2. This evidence has fostered a common misconception that all levels of ROS are "bad". It also has contributed to widespread, regular use of supplemental antioxidants for prevention and/or treatment of chronic disease. Current scientific evidence, however, supports ROS as important physiological signals as well as suggests there are times when supplemental antioxidants might not provide benefit and could even cause harm.
It is well documented that ROS, either in constant low levels or in transient bursts, are important signals in numerous physiological processes including inflammation, cellular growth and differentiation, activation of the immune system, stem cell differentiation and renewal, autophagy, mitochondrial biogenesis, vasodilatation and insulin sensitivity.1, 3, 4 Redox biologyii involving ROS also can support tissue repair and regeneration5; this discovery, as well as others, challenges the mitochondrial free radical theory of aging.6 ROS-associated mechanisms also help maintain a healthful microbiome, promote intestinal stem cell proliferation and support intestinal homeostasis.3 Diurnal regulation of glucocorticoid synthesis in the adrenal cortex also requires a ROS-dependent signal.7 Signaling by ROS is a common and important part of normal physiology.
Different preclinical studies demonstrate that supplementation with antioxidants interferes with the beneficial adaptive effects of small, transient increases in ROS, resulting in increased tissue damage by subsequent oxidative stress.8 In a study using Caenorhabitis elegans, antioxidants such as Vitamin C, N-acetyl-cysteine and resveratrol "both lengthen and shorten lifespan, dependent on concentration, genotypes and conditions."12 Moreover, increasing reports suggest that antioxidant supplements provide no benefit, or could even be detrimental, to the performance of healthy athletes.13 Exercise-induced ROS contribute to the health benefits of acute exercise by increasing antioxidant and cellular defense mechanisms, augmenting angiogenesis and triggering positive adaptations in skeletal muscle including mitochondrial biogenesis, increased insulin sensitivity and muscle fiber hypertrophy12; antioxidant supplements interfere with these beneficial ROS signals. The potentially negative effects of antioxidant supplementation depends on the intensity, duration and type of exercise as well as longer term training effects;12 suggesting that different types and doses of antioxidants might benefit some athletes, some of the time. Most interventional studies using antioxidants to prevent chronic diseases have failed to show benefit compared to placebo,8 also challenging the usefulness of recommending antioxidant supplements to all people.
In conclusion, it is important to recognize that ROS signaling only becomes potentially harmful, and "bad" if it's too strong, lasts too long or arises in the wrong place at the wrong time. Recognizing potential benefits of ROS-associated signaling supports more cautionary usage of antioxidant supplements. Current evidence suggests that the most optimal way to recommend antioxidants is through personalized methods, individualizing the type and dose according to the patient needs, which are ideally identified using laboratory or point-of-care tests for oxidative stress.14 Measuring antioxidant levels in the body is currently an inexact science, with many variables and an as yet unestablished consensus baseline level;15 although it still provides value in identifying those patients where antioxidant supplementation would provide the most likely benefit. Numerous misconceptions about ROS and antioxidants still exist.16 It is important for health care practitioners to be aware of these misconceptions as well as the current science regarding the double-edged sword of ROS, this information will be helpful in making the most beneficial recommendations to their patients.
i Free radicals are defined as small diffusible molecules that are highly reactive because of an unpaired electron. The two more common classes of free radicals are reactive oxygen species (ROS) (i.e. super-oxide, hydrogen peroxide, singlet oxygen, hypo-halous acids and organic peroxides) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) (i.e. nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide). ROS and RNS interact and have similar targets. However, for the purpose of clarity, this text will only refer to ROS.
1. Nathan, C., and Cunningham-Bussel A. Nat Rev Immunol. 2013;13(5):349-361.
7. Kil, I.S., et al. Mol. Cell 2012; 46, 584–594.
13. Merry, T.L., and Ristow, M. J Physiol. 2016;594:5135-5147.
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The wealthy dying father of a terrorist attack victim establishes a foundation seeking to rid the world of terrorism and recruits Robert to be the tip of his sword.
Fully funded, and given unauthorized access to a government watchlist, Robert begins to take out his targets with ferocious impunity while keeping himself invisible to the world around him. That is until he finds a stray dog outside his apartment and meets the lovely clerk at the DMV.
As the world attributes his attacks to a vigilante they name "Paladine," Robert must infiltrate deep into the heart of ISIS on American Soil and stop their plans to cause a level of destruction that would make 9/11 look like a fender-bender.
The story is a fun adventure of espionage, military tactics, and a cat-and-mouse hunt for the infamous vigilante. Robert takes out increasingly difficult targets until his big mission near the end. The story also satisfied my private dark fantasies surrounding retribution against radical terrorism.
The characters were pretty flat, but I wouldn't call them one-dimensional. Each behaved as one would expect. I would have liked to be inside the characters' heads more, learning about what drove them.
I give Paladine a solid four stars and look forward to following Robert Garcia's adventures.
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If you are a dog owner, it is a good idea to get a dog crate for your best friend. Crate training is a very effective training tool for adult dogs and puppies. It may take a little time and effort to train your dog to use the crate, but it can prove very useful.
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John and Brus are freshmen at the primary school. Their first home task is to learn some integer numbers. It is not so hard for the guys and they decide to impress their teacher by learning all lucky numbers between A and B, inclusive.
As you already know from the previous year contest 4 and 7 are lucky digits, and all the other digits are not lucky. A lucky number is a number that contains only lucky digits in decimal notation.
After learning all lucky numbers in [A, B] range John and Brus still have some free time and now they decide to learn additionally each lucky number N that is out of [A, B] range, but the reversed number of N is in this range. Here reversed number of N is the number N written in decimal notation, but the order of digits is reversed. For example, the reversed number of 447 is 744 and reversed number of 774474444 is 444474477.
You are given integers A and B and your task is to find the total number of lucky numbers learned by John and Brus.
The first line contains single integer T – the number of test cases. Each test case consists of a single line containing two integers A and B separated by a single space.
For each test case print a single line containing the total number of lucky numbers learned by John and Brus.
1 ≤ A ≤ B ≤ 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (1047).
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THERESA May has survived a vote of no confidence in the Commons - meaning she has clung on as PM for a little while longer.
But she suffered the worst defeat in British history last night when her MPs voted to kill off her Brexit deal.
She has kept her Plan B secret so far - but after losing she will have to come clean about the next steps within three days.
Tonight she confirmed she would be inviting Jeremy Corbyn and other opposition leaders to Downing Street for talks - but the Labour boss has already said he probably won't go.
He wants her to rule out a No Deal Brexit first, something she's unlikely to.
A massive defeat on Brexit sees the PM's rivals scrambling to take advantage - with critics on all sides keen to force their preferred outcome.
Tory Nick Boles and Labour's Stephen Kinnock are leading figures in the "Norway Plus" movement - arguing Britain should consider joining the European Economic Area.
That would mean the UK staying in the EU's single market.
One possible mechanism for the plan is a bill tabled by Mr Boles giving control of Brexit to the Commons "Liaison Committee" of senior backbenchers.
The likes of Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab wrote a letter this week urging Mrs May to offer the EU an ultimatum.
They are adamant that Britain can secure a "Canada Plus" trade deal allowing us to abandon most European regulations.
Yesterday Labour's Chuka Umunna, Tory rebel Dominic Grieve and opposition leaders published a draft law which would enact a fresh vote on Brexit.
It would require Article 50 to be delayed to allow time for the referendum to be held some time in the spring.
If Mrs May's deal fails, the legal default is that we will leave the EU without a deal on March 29.
A number of Brexiteers now regard this as the best option and are opposing the withdrawal agreement on those grounds.
Last week they approved a motion which blocks the Government from spending money preparing for No Deal, and they would almost certainly table further such votes over the coming weeks.
Cabinet ministers remain adamant that a version of Theresa May's plan will eventually pass the Commons, even after she lost tonight.
The PM was recently encouraged by a chat with Angela Merkel where the German leaders suggested more concessions could be possible.
Thanks to an amendment masterminded by Dominic Grieve, she will have just three days to reveal her next steps.
Based on past experience, the most likely outcome is that she will stubbornly plough on with a version of the current deal regardless of the scale of her defeat.
A second vote on the withdrawal agreement could then take place as early as next week - or as late as March.
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This is a Korean name; the family name is Shin.
Hyun Song Shin (Hangul: 신현송) is a South Korean economic theorist and financial economist who focuses on global games. He has been the Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) since May 1, 2014.
Previously, he was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University since 2006, though he took a leave in December 2009 to advise South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on the international economy as well as help set the agenda for the G-20 Seoul summit in November 2010.
Shin obtained a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (Magdalen College) in 1985, an MPhil in Economics from Oxford's Nuffield College in 1987, and a DPhil in Economics from Oxford's Nuffield College in 1988. Shin became a Research Fellow in 1988 and Tutorial Fellow in 1990 at Magdalen College, Oxford.
In 1994 he moved to the University of Southampton, where he became a Professor of Economics. He moved back to Oxford in 1996 as a University Lecturer in Economics and Faculty Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College. In 2000 he became a Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics. In 2006 he moved to Princeton University.
Shin was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the European Economic Association in 2004, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. He was awarded the R. K. Cho Economics Prize in 2009.
In December 2009, Shin was named chief advisor to President Lee Myung-bak on international finance. He played a major role in formulating South Korea's macroprudential policy and helped develop the agenda for the G-20 during Korea's presidency, which culminated in the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit on November 11–12, 2010.
In September 2013 the Basel, Switzerland–based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that Shin would begin a five-year term as its Economic Adviser and Head of Research starting in May 2014. In that role he would also serve as a member of the BIS Executive Committee.
Global coordination games belong to a subfield of game theory that gained momentum in 1998 when he published an article with Stephen Morris. Shin and Morris considered a stylized currency crises model, in which traders observe the relevant fundamentals with small noise, and show that this leads to the selection of a unique equilibrium. This result is in stark contrast with models of complete information, which feature multiple equilibria.
In 2011 he won the second Financial Times annual essay contest on banking regulation sponsored by the International Centre for Financial Regulation. He wrote about how the G-20 major economies could increase financial stability with macroprudential regulations that "leans against the credit cycle" using examples from the UK, South Korea, and the United States. Specifically, he "advocated a global tax on non-core banking liabilities as the best way to deflate bubbles".
Shin argues that "financial firms systematically take more risk as asset prices rise", which means that the financial system's vulnerability "cannot be measured by price indicators like credit spreads or volatility. Instead, analysts should focus on quantities like the amount of assets on intermediary balance sheets and the liquidity and maturity mismatches between those assets and the liabilities used to fund them".
He is known for this 2010 book which opens with a quote from an anonymous risk manager who says: "The value added of good risk management is that you can take more risks". He then says that financial risk is endogenous, due to the thinking expressed in this quote and makes an analogy with London's Millennium Bridge in which the instability was also endogenous. When the bridge lurched to the side, everyone adjusted their footing at exactly the same time, to avoid falling over, and this caused a synchronized oscillation.
Martin Wolf credits him with coming up with the explanation for the huge global overreaction (called the "taper tantrum") to United States Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke's hint that he might taper quantitative easing in May 2013. Shin presented this theory at a conference on Asia at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in December 2013. Shin suggested that it was caused by the growth of demand for the private-sector bonds of emerging economies, and the resulting excess global liquidity.
Stephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin (1998), "Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Self-Fulfilling Currency Attacks", American Economic Review, 88 (3): 587–97.
^ a b c "Hyun Song Shin". Bank for International Settlements. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
^ Schnabel, Isabel; Shin, Hyun Song (2004). "Liquidity and Contagion: The Crisis of 1763". Journal of the European Economic Association. 2 (6): 929–968. doi:10.1162/1542476042813887.
^ "Professor Shin Hyun-song Won the Cho Rakkyo Award". Yonsei University News. May 25, 2009.
^ "Korea's Shin to become BIS adviser, Borio to head MED". Central Bank News. September 9, 2013.
^ "Company Overview of Bank For International Settlements". Bloomberg Businessweek.
^ Masters, Brooke (January 31, 2011). "Princeton professor wins essay contest". Financial Times.
^ M.C.K. (January 29, 2013). "How should central banks think about the financial system?". The Economist.
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How can NOAA best inform and support the Nation’s efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change?
Adaptation efforts help to manage climate-related risks and minimize impacts to communities, ecosystems, and economies. The actions of putting into place the plans, policies, and regulations for adapting to climate variability and change are largely the responsibility of local and municipal governments, with guidance from state and federal agencies and the support of academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, private industry, and academic institutions. NOAA provides information, tools, and services to support decision makers at all levels to prepare for and respond to climate variability and change through adaptation.
Key impacts and vulnerabilities are identified across regions and sectors.
NOAA will advance understanding of impacts and vulnerabilities of human and natural systems to climate variability and change. This requires integrating NOAA’s capabilities in science (physical, natural, and social), services, and stakeholder engagement. NOAA is experiencing a rapidly growing demand for climate information at scales (e.g. local-to-regional) useful for decision and policy makers.
Improved and sustained assessments of risks and impacts.
NOAA will organize and strengthen capabilities in the sustained assessment of climate risks and impacts on physical, natural, and human systems. This work will leverage and inform existing assessment efforts (e.g., U.S. National Climate Assessment, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Assessments will be conducted in partnership with decision makers to ensure that their information needs are addressed.
The demand for NOAA’s climate information, tools, and services is increasing, as decision-makers work to prepare for the impacts of climate variability and climate change. Meeting this demand will require regular interaction between stakeholders and scientists.
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Not all cat scratching posts are created equal, and if the one you choose isn’t quite right, your cat will be sure to let you know.
Assuming the scratching post you chose meets with your cats’ approval, here are eight tips for getting them to use it.
1. Choose a scratching post that’s tall enough for the cat to get a good stretch and so stable it won’t topple over on her when she’s scratching. Most cats love using a post that’s about 33″ tall.
2. The best scratching pads are long and wide , so kitty can stretch out and take a nap after she’s done scratching.
3. Some cats are horizontal scratchers, some are vertical scratchers, and some are both. Before you invest in a scratching post or pad, observe your cat and try to determine her scratching preferences.
4. Put the scratching post at the entrance to a room you use often or against a piece of furniture the cat’s already scratching. A good location for a second post is near where she likes to sleep. If you bury the post in a dark corner somewhere, changes are she won’t use it.
5. Rub catnip on the post and sprinkle it on the base.
6. Hang an enticing toy from the top of the post. so she’ll go there to play.
7. Play with her beside the post. Drag a toy across the base so she can feel the surface as she’s chasing the toy and realize how much she likes it.
8. Never rub her paws up and down the post. That could frighten and upset her so much she’ll refuse to use the post.
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This is a small ceramic bottle, found as part of an excavation of an ancient site along the banks of the Yellow river in Shaanxi province in north-central China. The north-central plains have revealed remains of some of the oldest settlements in China. Being over 5,000 years old makes this bottle one of the oldest objects in the Asian Art Museum's collection.
The bottle comes from a gravesite. Pottery jars and other items made of bone and stone were often buried with the dead and are the most frequent type of object to turn up in a dig of this kind. Possibly, it was used during the owner’s life, although we do not know for sure. It might have been made specifically for the person’s burial, or it could have been the one of the occupant’s favorite possessions, perhaps it carried medicine or a special drink. Its small size suggests it was for personal use, rather than for utilitarian purposes.
This bottle comes from a small villages, where people lived for a short time, practicing some farming mixed with hunting and gathering. The villagers had domesticated dogs and pigs. The staple food was millet grain. Simple weaving made of hemp would have been produced, and cord marks on pots suggest a lot of basketry was used. Families lived in egalitarian arrangements, without much differentiation of gender roles–meaning that the archaeological record gives little indication of one group dominating the other–and without much indication of social stratification. Housing remains suggest the villagers lived in clusters, possibly clans. Dwellings were partially sunken in the ground, with simple, raised platforms that may have been used for sitting and sleeping. Graves were found beyond the perimeter of the village. Some children were found buried in urns under the houses or within the walls of the dwellings.
How was the bottle made?
The bottle was handmade of local earthenware (a type of clay) and fired at a low temperature. The bottle has a flat base, a mushroom-shaped mouth and fans out in the middle of the body. It was painted dark red with geometric patterns around the body and neck of the bottle.
Why is this piece important?
This bottle provides direct evidence of early ‘painted pottery’ cultures–so-called because of the characteristic painting of designs on ochre-colored earthenware jars and bottles. The general group of cultures throughout central China during the early Neolithic period are called Yangshao, after the name of the original site that was found. Banpo refers to the specific phase (in time) and it is also the name of the site, which can still be seen outside the modern city of Xian. The bottle also shows how long ago, Chinese potters took an interest in forming vessels with interesting patterns on them, an early harbinger of the centuries of ceramic traditions to come.
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Arguably Hollywood's most celebrated and enduring screen horror icon, Boris Karloff embodied legendary movie monsters and madmen in such films as "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Mummy" (1931), "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932), "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), "Isle of the Dead" (1945) and "The Body Snatcher" (1945) over the course of a four-decade career. He began as an obscure background player, essaying exotic types in silent films and serials until 1931, when his sympathetic turn as the Monster in "Frankenstein" made him an international star. For the next two decades, Karloff was the undisputed king of movie horror, while cultivating a lively presence in more dramatic and even comic fare on television and stage. He remained exceptionally popular into his seventh decade, especially among young viewers, who were entranced by his avuncular narration for "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!" (CBS, 1966). A beloved figure both on and off-screen, Karloff's performances - both chilling and charming - remained the gold standard by which all subsequent horror actors were measured.
Born William Henry Pratt on Nov. 23, 1887 in the London district of East Dulwich, England, Boris Karloff was the youngest of nine children by Edward John Pratt, Jr., Commissioner of Custom Salt and Opium for the Indian Salt Revenue Service, and a distant relative of Anna Leonowens, whose stories about life in the royal court of Thailand served as the basis for the musical "The King and I." He attended Kings College in London in anticipation of following his brothers into the diplomatic field, but Karloff dropped out in 1909 to travel across Canada, where he worked as an itinerant laborer, which caused him to develop back problems that persisted throughout his life. He eventually fell in with an Ontario-based touring company of actors with whom he would crisscross the United States for the next decade. At this point in his life, Karloff adopted his stage name, which he frequently cited as a combination of a family surname and a first name chosen for its exotic sound. However, scholars have cited the possibility that Karloff assumed the moniker to avoid embarrassing his siblings with his chosen profession, all of whom had become members of the British Foreign Service.
He eventually arrived in Hollywood, broke and desperate for work. He soon found bit player gigs in countless silent films and serials, many of which utilized his dark complexion - the result of Anglo-Indian blood in his family tree - and saturnine, heavy-lidded features to play mystics, high priests, American Indian warriors and foreign heels of every stripe. He made his first foray into supernatural-themed films with "The Bells" (1925) as a mesmerist whose alleged mental powers helped to root out a murderer. But Karloff was soon back to bit parts, and supplemented his income by working as a truck driver. He earned notice for his turn as a vengeful ex-con on the trail of a fellow former prisoner in Howard Hawks' gritty "The Criminal Code" (1931). The film was one of 15 pictures he made that year, but all were overshadowed by "Frankenstein," director James Whale's take on the classic Mary Shelley novel of science gone wrong. Buried under layers of Jack Pierce's iconic, flat-topped makeup and a brace that forced him to walk in a stiff, corpse-like gait, Karloff nevertheless projected pathos, terror and vengeful fury without a full line of dialogue - or billing in the film's opening credits, which listed him as "?" A considerable success for Universal Studios, "Frankenstein" instantly minted the 44-year-old Karloff as a horror star on par with Bela Lugosi of "Dracula" fame (1931), who would become his frequent onscreen nemesis in subsequent years.
By 1932, Karloff was Universal's monster-in-resident, tackling a host of infamous figures in what would become a roster of classic horror films. He was a terrifying, inhuman butler in Whale's offbeat "The Old Dark House" (1932), then essayed Sax Rohmer's fiendish villain in "The Mask of Fun Manchu" (1932) before donning even more intensive makeup to play an undead Egyptian priest in Karl Freund's "The Mummy" (1932). His rogues' gallery soon came to encompass a religious fanatic in John Ford's "The Lost Patrol" (1932), a perverse Satanist in Edgar G. Ulmer's macabre "The Black Cat" (1934), a scientist transformed into a killing machine by his own invention in "The Invisible Ray" (1936) and a sadistic, club-footed executioner in "The Tower of London" (1939). Karloff also played Chinese detective Mr. Wong in three features during this period, as well as a heroic doctor wrongly imprisoned on "Devil's Island" (1939), among countless other films during this period.
But he was best known as the Monster, whom he would refer to as "the best friend [he] ever had," and whom he would twice reprise on film in the 1930s. His lonely, lovelorn creature was spurned by a feral Mate (Elsa Lanchester) in Whale's dizzyingly surreal "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), then as a dull sidekick to Bela Lugosi's ripe performance as the crippled shepherd, Ygor, in "Son of Frankenstein" (1939). But the series soon descended into B-movie territory, and Karloff would turn over the Monster to other actors for sequels, including Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Glenn Strange, none of whom could equal the humanity of his classic performance.
Cut loose from the role that made him a star, Karloff began the 1940s in a string of low-budget potboilers like "The Ape" (1940), a grotty chiller about a scientist who impersonated an escaped circus ape in order to obtain human spinal fluid for his clandestine experiments. He found greater rewards on the Broadway stage, where he appeared in the original production of "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1941) as a killer whose recent plastic surgery transformed him into a lookalike for. Boris Karloff. The actor was also a staple on radio dramas and comedies, for which he gamely spoofed his King of Horror image. Off-screen, he helped to form the Screen Actors Guild, and often spoke out about grueling conditions on sets like the ones he experienced in the early stages of his career. He was also a dedicated contributor to charities, especially those involving children, and frequently dressed as Santa Claus to deliver presents to hospitalized kids during the holidays.
In 1945, he left Universal to sign a three-picture deal with producer Val Lewton at RKO. Their resulting collaboration produced three of Karloff's best horror films since the early '30s: "Isle of the Dead" (1945), with Karloff as a Greek general on a plague-ridden island; "The Body Snatcher" (1945), which reunited Karloff and Lugosi in a story of 19th century grave robbing; and "Bedlam" (1946), with Karloff as the cruel head of a 18th century asylum. All three were critically acclaimed, if not financially successful, and restored Karloff's faith in a genre with which he would remain forever entwined.
The 1950s saw Karloff lend more of his time to television and stage, though he would also remain a consistent presence in horror films throughout the decade. His feature output during this period was consistently lightweight fare; there was a reunion with Abbott and Costello for "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953) and agreeable programmers like "The Haunted Strangler" (1958) and "Corridors of Blood" (1958), which co-starred Christopher Lee, a horror star on the rise. In "Frankenstein 1970" (1958), an absurd updated take on the Monster and its maker, he played Baron von Frankenstein, who used atomic energy to animate his creature, which was revealed to have its creator's face in the final frames - an awkward if well-intentional nod to Karloff's star-making role. On television, he enjoyed a greater range of roles, including turns as King Arthur, Don Quixote and Joseph Conrad's Kurtz from "Heart of Darkness," as well as countless turns on anthology dramas and suspense/supernatural programs. The stage was also a frequent destination, where Karloff earned a Tony nomination for "The Lark" (1952) as the bishop who orchestrated the execution of Joan of Arc. He also made an ideal Captain Hook in a 1950 musical production of "Peter Pan" with songs by Leonard Bernstein.
Though age and illness slowed Karloff physically in the 1960s, he remained remarkably busy throughout the decade. He enjoyed renewed popularity as the host of "Thriller" (NBC, 1960-1962), one of the best horror anthology series ever produced for television. And he became a horror icon in residence for the low-budget studio American International Pictures (AIP), which also counted Vincent Price and Peter Lorre among its resident boogeymen. Karloff teamed with both actors for "The Raven" (1963), a comic tale of warring sorcerers for director Roger Corman, who re-used the film's sets for "The Terror" (1963), a low-budget ghost story with Karloff and a pre-fame Jack Nicholson. AIP would cast Karloff in a string of features during the '60s, including the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation "Die, Monster, Die!" (1965), "The Curse of the Crimson Altar" (1968) with Lee and Barbara Steele, and even a pair of its beach party movies. These appearances made Karloff a popular figure among young moviegoers, many of whom had not been born when he appeared in "Frankenstein." He subsequently boosted his youth appeal tenfold by narrating "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!" an animated adaptation of the children's book by Dr. Seuss about a surly creature (voiced by Karloff) who schemed to disrupt a community's Christmas celebration. Karloff also narrated the story for a 1966 soundtrack LP that earned him a Grammy nomination. The special eventually became a holiday television perennial that introduced new viewers to Karloff with each passing year.
Karloff's healthy declined dramatically in the 1960s; emphysema and other physical ailments robbed him of the ability to stand for long periods of time or breathe without an oxygen tank. Yet he continued to act, summoning his strength for the duration of a take before collapsing into an off-camera wheelchair. Most of his work during his final years was forgettable, including a string of incomprehensible horror films made in Mexico. But in 1968, he gave one of his final performances in "Targets," a low-budget thriller by Peter Bogdanovich which juxtaposed the final days of an aging screen horror icon (Karloff) with the dawn of a new kind of terror: a seemingly all-American young man (Tim O'Kelley) on an inexplicable shooting spree. "Targets" provided Karloff with a dignified coda for one of Hollywood's most legendary careers.
Karloff's final years were spent at his cottage in the village of Bramshott, England. He was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1969, and succumbed to the illness on Feb. 2, 1969. However, Karloff remained a star, even in death. His four Mexican films eventually saw release in the early 1970s, and episodes of an unreleased anthology series called "The Veil" (1958) were assembled into feature films that surfaced on late night television. An illustrated likeness of Karloff also continued to serve as the elegant but sinister host of a comic book series, initially titled "Thriller" but later changed to "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery," which ran for two decades after his death. In 1997, his depictions of the Monster and the Mummy were commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp series celebrating classic movie creatures.
Achieved star status with his appearance as the monster in James Whale's "Frankenstein"
Played the Frankenstein monster for the third and final time in "Son of Frankenstein"
Enjoyed considerable Broadway success as the villainous Jonathan in the comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace"
Acted in final film, "The Curse of the Crimson Altar"
Helen Vivian Soule. Married in 1924; divorced in 1928.
Dorothy Stine. Married in 1930; divorced in 1945.
Evelyn Helmore. Married in 1946 until his death.
George Pratt. Actor. Elder brother who had a short stage career.
Sara Karloff. Mother, Dorothy Stine; survived him.
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Translation:My grandmother was cooking mushrooms.
What is wrong with "My grandmother has cooked mushrooms."?
If she 'has cooked' them succesfully, that means she "ugotowała" them. "gotowała" is imperfective.
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Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Kennedy/Johnson, red denotes those won by Nixon/Lodge, orange denotes the electoral votes for Byrd/ Thurmond by Alabama and Mississippi unpledged electors, and a vote for Byrd/ Goldwater by an Oklahoma faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory, and is generally considered to have won the national popular vote by 112,827, a margin of 0.17 percent. The issue of the popular vote was complicated by the presence of several unpledged electors in the Deep South. Fourteen unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their vote for Senator Harry F. Byrd, as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960 presidential election was the closest election since 1916, and this closeness can be explained by a number of factors. Kennedy benefited from the economic recession of 1957–58, which hurt the standing of the incumbent Republican Party, and he had the advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. Furthermore, the new votes that Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic president, gained among Catholics almost neutralized the new votes Nixon gained among Protestants. Kennedy's campaigning skills decisively outmatched Nixon's, who wasted time and resources campaigning in all fifty states while Kennedy focused on campaigning in populous swing states. Nixon's emphasis on his experience carried little weight for most voters. Kennedy used his large, well-funded campaign organization to win the nomination, secure endorsements, and, with the aid of the big-city bosses, get out the vote in the big cities. Kennedy relied on Johnson to hold the South, and used television effectively. In 1963, Kennedy was assassinated and was succeeded by Johnson. Nixon would later successfully seek the presidency in 1968.
The major candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination were John F. Kennedy, Governor Pat Brown of California, Senator Stuart Symington from Missouri, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson from Texas, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, Senator Wayne Morse from Oregon, and Senator Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota. Several other candidates sought support in their home state or region as " favorite son" candidates without any realistic chance of winning the nomination. Symington, Stevenson, and Johnson all declined to campaign in the presidential primaries. While this reduced their potential delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention, each of these three candidates hoped that the other leading contenders would stumble in the primaries, thus causing the convention's delegates to choose him as a "compromise" candidate acceptable to all factions of the party.
The next step was the primaries. Kennedy's Roman Catholic religion was an issue. Kennedy first challenged Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin primary and defeated him. Kennedy's attractive sisters, brothers, and wife Jacqueline combed the state looking for votes, leading Humphrey to complain that he "felt like an independent merchant competing against a chain store." However, some political experts argued that Kennedy's margin of victory had come almost entirely from Catholic areas, and thus Humphrey decided to continue the contest in the heavily Protestant state of West Virginia. The first televised debate of 1960 was held in West Virginia, and Kennedy outperformed Humphrey. Humphrey's campaign was low on funds and could not compete for advertising and other "get-out-the-vote" drives with Kennedy's well-financed and well-organized campaign. In the end, Kennedy defeated Humphrey with over 60% of the vote, and Humphrey ended his presidential campaign. West Virginia showed that Kennedy, a Catholic, could win in a heavily Protestant state. Although Kennedy had only competed in nine presidential primaries, Kennedy's rivals, Johnson and Symington, failed to campaign in any primaries. Even though Stevenson had twice been the Democratic Party's presidential candidate and retained a loyal following of liberals, his two landslide defeats to Republican Dwight Eisenhower led most party leaders and delegates to search for a "fresh face" who could win a national election. Following the primaries, Kennedy traveled around the nation speaking to state delegations and their leaders. As the Democratic Convention opened, Kennedy was far in the lead, but was still seen as being just short of the delegate total he needed to win.
The 1960 Democratic National Convention was held in Los Angeles, California. In the week before the convention opened, Kennedy received two new challengers when Lyndon B. Johnson, the powerful Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the party's nominee in 1952 and 1956, officially announced their candidacies (they had both privately been working for the nomination for some time). However, neither Johnson nor Stevenson was a match for the talented and highly efficient Kennedy campaign team led by Robert F. Kennedy. Johnson challenged Kennedy to a televised debate before a joint meeting of the Texas and Massachusetts delegations, to which Kennedy accepted. Most observers believed that Kennedy won the debate, and Johnson was unable to expand his delegate support beyond the South. Johnson received all 33 of Georgia's votes at the Democratic National Convention and was chosen by Georgia. Stevenson's failure to launch his candidacy publicly until the week of the convention meant that many liberal delegates who might have supported him were already pledged to Kennedy, and Stevenson—despite the energetic support of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt—could not break their allegiance. Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot.
During the campaign, Kennedy charged that under Eisenhower and the Republicans the nation had fallen behind the Soviet Union in the Cold War, both militarily and economically, and that as president he would "get America moving again." The Eisenhower administration had established NASA in 1958, but Kennedy believed that the Republican Party had ignored the need to catch up to the Soviet Union in the Space Race. He promised that the new Democratic administration would fully appreciate the importance of space accomplishments for the national security and international prestige of the United States. Nixon responded that, if elected, he would continue the "peace and prosperity" that Eisenhower had brought the nation in the 1950s. Nixon also argued that with the nation engaged in the Cold War with the Soviets, that Kennedy was too young and inexperienced to be trusted with the presidency - Nixon was only four years older than Kennedy. Had Nixon been elected, at 48 years, 11 days, he would have been the fourth-youngest president at the date of inauguration. Kennedy, by contrast, was 43 years, 236 days, on the date of his inauguration; the second-youngest man to begin a Presidency (at 42 Theodore Roosevelt, who assumed the Presidency upon the assassination of President William McKinley 60 years previously, was the youngest).
Despite the reservations Robert Kennedy had about Johnson's nomination, choosing Johnson as Kennedy's running mate proved to be a masterstroke. Johnson vigorously campaigned for Kennedy and was instrumental in helping the Democrats to carry several Southern states skeptical of him, especially Johnson's home state of Texas. Johnson made a "last-minute change of plans and scheduled two 12-minute whistlestop speeches in Georgia". One of these visits included stopping in Atlanta to speak from the rear of a train at Terminal Station. On the other hand, Ambassador Lodge, Nixon's running mate, ran a lethargic campaign and made several mistakes that hurt Nixon. Among them was a pledge—not approved by Nixon—that as president, Nixon would name a Black person to his cabinet. The remark offended many Blacks who saw it as a clumsy attempt to win their votes.
However, up to 20,000,000 fewer viewers watched the three remaining debates than the first. Political observers at the time felt that Kennedy won the first debate, Nixon won the second and third debates, while the fourth debate, which was seen as the strongest performance by both men, was a draw.
A sample of how close the election was can be seen in California, Nixon's home state. Kennedy seemed to have carried the state by 37,000 votes when all of the voting precincts reported, but when the absentee ballots were counted a week later, Nixon came from behind to win the state by 36,000 votes. Similarly, in Hawaii, it appeared as though Nixon had won there (it was actually called for him early Wednesday morning), but in a recount, Kennedy was able to come from behind and win the state by an extremely narrow margin of 115 votes.
In the national popular vote, Kennedy beat Nixon by less than two tenths of one percentage point (0.17%)—the closest popular-vote margin of the 20th century. In the Electoral College, Kennedy's victory was larger, as he took 303 electoral votes to Nixon's 219; 269 were needed to win. A total of 15 electors—eight from Mississippi, six from Alabama, and one from Oklahoma—refused to vote for either Kennedy or Nixon. Instead, they cast their votes for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, a conservative Democrat, even though he had not been a candidate for president. Kennedy carried 12 states by three percentage points or less, while Nixon won six by similarly narrow margins. Kennedy carried all but three states in the populous Northeast, and he also carried the large states of Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri in the Midwest. With Lyndon Johnson's help, he also carried most of the South, including the large states of North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. Nixon carried all but three of the Western states (including California), and he ran strong in the farm belt states, where his biggest victory was in Ohio.
Nixon's campaign staff urged him to pursue recounts and challenge the validity of Kennedy's victory in several states, especially in Illinois, Missouri, and New Jersey, where large majorities in Catholic precincts handed Kennedy the election. However, Nixon gave a speech three days after the election stating that he would not contest the election. The Republican National Chairman, Senator Thruston Ballard Morton of Kentucky, visited Key Biscayne, Florida, where Nixon had taken his family for a vacation, and pushed for a recount. Morton did challenge the results in 11 states, keeping challenges in the courts into the summer of 1961; however, the only result of these challenges was the loss of Hawaii to Kennedy on a recount.
However, a special prosecutor assigned to the case brought charges against 650 people, which did not result in convictions. Three Chicago election workers were convicted of voter fraud in 1962 and served short terms in jail. Mazo, the Herald-Tribune reporter, later said that he "found names of the dead who had voted in Chicago, along with 56 people from one house." He found cases of Republican voter fraud in southern Illinois, but said that the totals "did not match the Chicago fraud he found." After Mazo had published four parts of an intended 12-part voter fraud series documenting his findings, which was re-published nationally, he said, "Nixon requested his publisher stop the rest of the series so as to prevent a constitutional crisis." Nevertheless, the Chicago Tribune (which routinely endorsed GOP presidential candidates, including Nixon in 1960, 1968 and 1972) wrote that "the election of November 8 was characterized by such gross and palpable fraud as to justify the conclusion that [Nixon] was deprived of victory." Had Nixon won both Illinois and Texas, he would have ended up with exactly 270 electoral votes and the presidency, with or without a victory in the popular vote.
Many conservative Southern Democrats were opposed to the national Democratic Party's liberal platform on supporting civil rights and voting rights for African Americans living in the South. There was a call from segregationists for electoral votes to be withheld or to be cast to Harry F. Byrd, an independent candidate. Both before and after the convention, they attempted to put unpledged Democratic electors on their states' ballots in the hopes of influencing the race: the existence of such electors might influence which candidate would be chosen by the national convention, and, in a close race, such electors might be in a position to extract concessions from either the Democratic or Republican presidential candidates in return for their electoral votes.
This was the first election where the winning candidate received a majority of the electoral votes although the second-place candidate carried a majority of the states. As of 2016 [update], it has happened once more, in 1976.
Although the vote in both Alaska and Hawaii was very close in 1960, the election would foreshadow their future political leanings: Alaska has continued supporting Republicans in all but one election since ( 1964), while Hawaii has been carried by Democrats in all but two subsequent elections ( 1972 and 1984).
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RISC, or Reduced Instruction Set Computer. is a type of microprocessor architecture that utilizes a small, highly-optimized set of instructions, rather than a more specialized set of instructions often found in other types of architectures.
We will first examine MIPS in detail as an example of an early RISC architecture to better understand the features and design of RISC architectures. We will then study pipelining to see the performance benefits of such a technique. Then we will look at the advantages and disadvantages of such a RISC-based architecture as compared to CISC architectures. Finally, we will discuss some of the recent developments and future directions of RISC processor technology in particular, and processor technology as a whole in general.
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The name to give the package when saved. You can preface the name with a path. For example, to save a package with the name myPackage to the File System folder, the parameter would be @"File System\myPackage".
The name of the server to save the package to.
The following code example shows a package being saved to the File System folder, with a name of myFolder2. The example then checks if the package was saved by calling the ExistsOnDtsServer method.
// File System folder on the Integration Services service.
// Verify that the package was saved by calling ExistsOnDtsServer.
' File System folder on the Integration Services service.
' Verify that the package was saved by calling ExistsOnDtsServer.
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It is a physiological condition that results from a disruption in the body's circadian rhythms, also known as the body clock. It is seen as a circadian rhythm disorder.
Symptoms tend to be more severe when traveling eastward compared with westward.
Jet lag can cause headaches, insomnia, and irritability.
Circadian rhythms regulate sleep and other bodily functions.
When circadian rhythms are significantly upset due to traveling, it is called jet lag.
Ways of reducing symptoms include changing your sleeping patterns, avoiding alcohol and caffeine, and getting enough sunlight on arrival.
Air travel can cause jet lag, especially long-haul flights going from west to east.
It can result from traveling across time zones or from doing shift work.
The more time zones a person crosses in a short period, the more severe the symptoms are likely to be.
Jet lag is related to a disruption in activity and a lack of synchronization in the brain cells of two parts of the brain.
The older a person is, the more severe their symptoms will normally be, and the longer it will take for their body clock to get back into sync.
Children usually have milder symptoms, and they recover faster.
To understand jet lag, we need to know about circadian rhythms.
Circadian rhythms, or the body clock, are 24-hour cycles in the biochemical, physiological, and behavioral processes of our bodies. They regulate daily activities, such as sleep, waking, eating, and body temperature regulation.
Jet lag appears to involve a disruption in two separate but linked groups of neurons in the brain. These neurons are part of a structure called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN is located below the hypothalamus at the base of the brain.
The group of neurons involved in REM sleep finds it harder to adjust to the new cycle, and the two groups become out of sync.
What puts the body clock out of synch?
The body clock is driven by an internal time-keeping system, but it is affected by external environmental factors, such as the light-dark cycle of night and day.
When the body clock gets out of synch and needs to be reset, jet lag results.
Traveling across different time zones and going through daylight and darkness cycles that are different from the rhythms we are used to can cause our body clock to get out of synch. Other causes include shift work and some sleeping disorders.
Jet lag affects patterns of sleeping and waking and of eating and working.
Hormone regulation is key to body clock synchronization. When jet lag happens, hormone levels get out of sync with the environment. Body temperature also varies according to the body clock.
Jet lag will continue until all these factors can respond properly to the new environment.
Why is it harder to travel from west to east?
When travelling eastward, symptoms feel more severe, because our bodies have less time to recover. Travelling westward adds hours to our days whereas travelling eastward reduces them. This means that our bodies have less time to adjust and synch up with a circadian rhthym when flying east.
Traveling from north to south or south to north can cause additional problems, as the seasons are different.
However, for jet lag to occur, there must be an east-west or west-east movement. Flying directly south from Chicago to Santiago in Chile may cause discomfort, but it will not lead to jet lag.
In addition, jet lag does not usually occur after crossing just one or two time zones. The more time zones one crosses, the worse the symptoms may be.
The World Health Organization (WHO) points out that drinking alcohol or caffeine during or before the flight may worsen symptoms. For one thing, these can both add to dehydration. The air inside an airplane cabin is drier than natural air at ground level, and this too can worsen symptoms.
Drinking alcohol increases the need to urinate, which can disrupt sleep. Also, while alcohol often induces sleep, the quality of sleep will be lower. In addition, the hangover effect of alcohol can worsen the effects of jet lag and travel fatigue.
Caffeine can also disrupt sleep patterns. It is best to drink water while flying.
Other factors that can worsen symptoms include stress and spending a long time sitting uncomfortably.
People who can stretch out or lie down and sleep during a flight are less likely to experience jet lag.
There may be a link between environmental levels of oxygen and jet lag.
The pressure in an airplane's cabin is lower than the pressure at sea level. This means that the amount of oxygen reaching the brain may be reduced when people are flying.
This can lead to lethargy and a higher risk of more severe jet lag symptoms. Researchers have suggested that oxygen modulation therapy could be used to reduce the effects of jet lag.
Researchers have found that people traveling on commercial flights face changes in air pressure that can lead to lower levels of oxygen saturation. This can result in discomfort after 3 to 9 hours, and symptoms that resemble those of altitude sickness.
Symptoms of jet lag vary.
Sleep problems are a common effect of jet lag.
Factors that affect which symptoms occur and how severely include the number of time zones crossed and the individual's age and state of health.
A range of actions can be taken to help reduce symptoms.
There is currently no treatment for jet lag, but some lifestyle adjustments can help minimize the symptoms.
Physical fitness and health: People who keep physically fit, rest properly, and eat a well-balanced diet appear to have fewer and less severe symptoms than someone who is less fit.
Controlling underlying medical conditions: Existing medical conditions, such as lung disease, heart disease, or diabetes, can make symptoms worse. Ask your doctor for advice before making a long-haul trip.
choosing flights that arrive in the early evening local time, so that you can aim to sleep around 10.00 p.m.
Avoid heavy meals or strenuous exercise.
Spend time outdoors preferably in sunlight.
Sleep at a "normal" time for the destination time zone.
The sooner a person can adapt to the local timetable, the sooner the body clock will adapt to the new environment.
People who travel regularly for work should make sure they get regular exercise.
One study has indicated that wearing sunglasses during part of a long-haul flight may help the body adjust to the new time zone by altering their light patterns.
Researchers investigating the role of melatonin and other hormones in the function of the body clock have suggested that one day, drug therapies may be available for people who experience difficulties due to shift work or jet lag.
Some people already take melatonin as a dietary supplement to help with jet lag, but there is not yet sufficient evidence to confirm its effectiveness.
People who know they are prone to severe jet lag might consider breaking a long journey en route, or traveling overland, if possible.
Nordqvist, Christian. "Jet lag: What it is and how to beat it." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 20 Dec. 2017. Web.
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Рие́лтор (от англ. realtor, произносится [riːəltɔːr]), риелторская фирма или агентство .... Увы, это уже печальные страницы архива преступности.
Перевод контекст "риэлтор" c русский на английский от Reverso Context: Она самый плохой риэлтор в ... The woman's the worst Realtor in New Jersey.
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From real (in real estate) and -or. Coined by Charles N. Chadbourn in 1916, on the model of Latin agent nouns ending in -tor (such as actor, creator), to refer to real-estate professionals who are members of the National Association of Realtors, a trade association in the United States.
New Jersey Realtors® is the voice for real estate in New Jersey and serves as a leading advocate for the real estate industry and private property owners.
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On 7 March 1944 Tokyo announced that the Japanese invasion of British India had begun. By mid-month, the Japanese 31st Division had crossed the Chindwin River in northern Burma, advancing on a wide front towards Imphal and Kohima. In bitter jungle fighting from early April, the British Fourteenth Army under Field Marshal Slim held the Japanese assault on Kohima Ridge. By late June the Japanese were in headlong retreat.
Kohima ranks for strategic importance with Alamein, Midway and Stalingrad. The increasing dominance of Allied airpower in the region in the aftermath of the battle was a major factor in turning the tide of the war in East Asia against the Japanese.
Drawing on documents and diaries from Japanese as well as Allied sources, Arthur Swinson, who served at Kohima, not only presents a thrilling and fascinating tale of heroism and combat action, but also analyses the political background to and long-term impact of a clash described by Mountbatten as 'one of the greatest battles in history'.
Article: 'Battled in Space, engraved in Time' published by The Assam Tribune on 11th September.
Arthur Horace Swinson was a British army officer, playwright, historian and BBC producer. He served in the 2nd British Division at Kohima. The author of some twenty works of non-fiction, Arthur Swinson died in 1970.
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Lua is a scripting language that can be embedded in any application that can provide hooks for its C API. Version 2.0 of its JIT compiler is in Beta and includes a completely re-written VM based on a trace compiler and an interpreter written in assembler.
Lua means Moon in Portuguese, and it was released internally by a group of three professors, namely Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, back in 1993. Since then, the language has passed through a number of versions, the latest being Lua 5.1.4, released in 2008.
Lua is a general purpose embeddable scripting language with a syntax borrowed from Modula, with some influences from SNOBOL, AWK, C++, and Lisp. Scheme has also influenced the language over time. The data-description syntax came from SOL (Portuguese for 'Sun'), a language created by Ierusalimschy and later replaced by Lua. Other characteristics of the language are: functional, object-oriented through extensions, prototype-based and garbage collected.
Lua has a C API allowing it to be easily embedded in applications written in various languages. The API is divided in a core API and an extension library. The binary package is extremely small at 200-700 KB depending on the platform. Lua runs on any operating system that has an ANSI or ISO C compiler. Practically, it runs on all flavors of Unix/Linux, on Windows, but also on handheld devices with ARM or Rabbit microprocessors/controllers.
a collection of key and data pairs (known also as hashed heterogeneous associative array), where the data is referenced by key. The key (index) can be of any data type except nil. An integer key of 1 is considered distinct from a string key of "1".
By placing functions and related data into a table, an object is formed. Inheritance (both single and multiple) can be implemented via the "metatable" mechanism, telling the object to lookup nonexistent methods and fields in parent object(s).
2009 also marks the first release of the long-awaited LuaJIT 2.0. The whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up and relentlessly optimized for performance. It combines a high-speed interpreter, written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.
An innovative trace compiler is integrated with advanced, SSA-based optimizations and a highly tuned code generation backend. This allows a substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic language features. It's destined to break into the performance range traditionally reserved for offline, static language compilers.
While Lua can be embedded in all sorts of applications, it has found more acceptance among game creators. The main reason besides its performance is the ability for a game developer to interrupt the game and tweak various parameters then to continue the game without actually stopping it to perform a rebuild. Games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, the Star Wars series, and dozens of others have made use of Lua during development. There are also other types of applications using Lua or instrumented to use it, with examples including Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Apache HTTP Server (through module mod_lua), MySQL Proxy, nmap, and many others. There are also at least two web frameworks written in Lua: Kepler, and Orbit.
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Alberto Dou came from a high ranking family in Catalonia, the marquises of Olèrdola, a recently created Barcelonese nobility. His schooling was in Olot, his native city, where he obtained his baccalaureate in 1930. He then went to Madrid where he entered the School of Civil Engineering, the Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, in the Polytechnic University of Madrid. While Dou was studying civil engineering in Madrid the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. To understand Dou's reaction to this conflict we need to give a few brief comments about this war.
The war began with an uprising in July 1936 which was essentially a military plot. The uprising failed but then it developed a more religious aspect with the Nationalists taking the role of the church against secularists. But it also had aspects of a class war of industrialists and bankers against urban workers and of centralists against liberal regionalists. Where did Alberto Dou stand in all this? He was a deeply religious man and his Church was certainly encouraging its followers to join the Nationalist cause led by the Fascist Francisco Franco. However, Dou was from Catalonia which was the centre of the Republican cause. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Dou joined the Nationalist army and was sent to the front, first as a Private and later promoted to Alférez Provisional Ⓣ. He played a part in the Nationalist campaign that attacked the Republican forces at Aragon in March 1938. The Nationalists fairly quickly defeated the Republicans and took control of parts of Catalonia. It appears that following this, Dou was involved in a dispute with some fellow soldiers in his unit on whether Catalan is or is not a true language. When the captain heard that his men had been carrying out this argument, he lined up the men and challenged anyone who defended Catalan to take a step forward. Dou took that step forward and as a consequence he spent the rest of the war in a disciplinary battalion.
After the Civil War ended in 1939, Dou returned to Madrid and continued his studies in civil engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. However, he also began taking mathematics classes but every morning before classes began he would attend mass at the convent of the Trinitarian Fathers. He was awarded a degree in Civil Engineering in 1943 and, for his outstanding work, he was awarded the Manuel Becerra Extraordinary Prize. In the same year he entered the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus. Already he was studying mathematics and he worked towards a philosophy degree from the Faculty of the Society of Jesus in Sarriá and a mathematics degree from the University of Barcelona. For his philosophy degree he wrote a dissertation, Probability, Statistics and Truth, supervised by Ramón Puigrefagut, based on the work of Richard von Mises. He was awarded a philosophy degree in 1949 and a bachelor's degree in mathematics in the following year. He was awarded the Extraordinary Prize for his work in mathematics.
The preparation of classes, the attention to students, the administrative tasks, absorbed so much of my time that it was virtually impossible to do any research. It occurred to me that the solution to finding some quiet time during which to study was to request periodically, every four or five years, a one-year leave of absence and to spend it in university centres abroad.
He established contacts with many of the leading mathematicians such as Fritz John, Alberto Calderón and Jacques-Louis Lions. In 1959-60 he made a research visit to the Courant Institute of the University of New York and, in the same year, took the opportunity to visit the University of Chicago where he established a close relation with Antoni Zygmund and Alberto Calderón. He spent the academic year 1963-64 at the Mathematics Research Center of the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he worked with Rudolf Langer (1894-1968). In 1969-70 he visited the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, while in 1974 he returned to the Courant Institute to spend a semester there.
Dou's main areas of research were Differential Geometry, the Theory of Elasticity, and the Variational Theory of Partial Differential Equations. For example, early in his career he published Rang der ebenen 4-Gewebe Ⓣ in the Journal of the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Hamburg (1955), La representación simétrica de los cuatritejidos hexagonales Ⓣ (1957), El principio de Saint-Venant en las vigas Ⓣ (1961), Beam with a ring for cross-section, excited by longitudinal and body forces in the Proceedings of the International Conference 'Partial Differential Equations and Continuum Mechanics' held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (1961), El teorema de unicidad en elasticidad plana Ⓣ (1962), and Sistemas diferenciales ordinarios lineales con coeficientes constantes Ⓣ (1962). Also in 1962 he published obituaries of Wilhelm Blaschke and of Julio Rey Pastor.
In order to achieve a degree of unity, to be relatively comprehensive, and to have a reasonable length, this new text directs attention only to the Cauchy problem for a single equation and for systems of equations. The content is divided into four main divisions which deal with methods of solution; existence, uniqueness and continuation of solutions; systems of linear equations; and numerical methods. ... the author's material is vital and well-organized; his presentation is beautifully balanced with informality and rigour; and his style is fluid and fluent. Within the reasonable scope that he has set, the author has written an excellent text.
Introduction. Part I: The historical development of the mathematical method. Chapter 1, The Greek period; Chapter 2, From J Saccheri to B Riemann; Chapter 3, The arithmetization of analysis. Part II: Analysis of the mathematical method. Chapter 1, Logicism; Chapter 2, Formalism; Chapter 3, Formal theory of numbers; Chapter 4, Intuitionism.
Chapter I: First order partial differential equations. (A) Semilinear equations: (1) Introduction, (2) Integral surfaces and first integrals, (3) The Cauchy problem; (B) The general equation with two independent variables: (4) Monge curves, (5) The Cauchy problem, (6) The method of the complete integral, (7) The example p2 + q2 + f(x, y) = 0; (C) The equation with more than two independent variables: (8) The Cauchy method, (9) The Hamilton-Jacobi method. Chapter II: Introduction to second order equations. Typical examples from applied mathematics: (1) The membrane equation, (2) The heat equation, (3) Equations of elliptic type.
This book is the result of lectures which the author gave at the Universities of Madrid and Notre Dame (Indiana), and represents the first part of a planned "Introduction to the theory of partial differential equations''. Thus, the part under review is completely introductory in nature.
In collaboration with Alfredo Mendizabal he wrote Ecuaciones en derivadas parciales y su resolucion numerica Ⓣ which was published in 1973.
For me the most enriching experience that occurred came when I was the Rector of the University of Deusto and presiding over the opening ceremony of the 1976-77 session. When the Secretary finished reading the Report for the academic year 1975-76, a group of law students came to the presidential dais on their own initiative and tried to read the written counter-memorial they carried with them. A noisy commotion immediately broke out. I stood up, asked for silence, and authorised them to read their counter-memorial. When the reading was over, it seemed that they were going to leave, but I indicated to them that they should remain and listen to us since we had listened to them; and they stayed.
However, Dou only remained at the University of Deusto for two years before, in 1977, he returned to Madrid when he accepted the position as rector of the Catholic Institute of Arts and Industries and of the Catholic Institute of Business Administration. These institutes were run by the Society of Jesus and had merged in 1960. In 1978, one year after Dou took up this position, these institutes merged with the Comillas Pontifical University which was also run by the Society of Jesus. When he had come back to Madrid from San Sebastián in 1977 Dou also returned to his Chair of Mathematical Analysis III (Differential Equations) at the UCM.
In addition to his research in Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, and the Theory of Elasticity, Dou wrote articles on the foundations of mathematics. For example El infinito en matemáticas Ⓣ (1968), El teorema de incomplitud de Gödel Ⓣ (1969), and Fundamentos de la Matemática Ⓣ (1970). He wrote about artificial intelligence in articles such as Implicaciones de la inteligencia artificial para el conocimiento humano Ⓣ (1972) and about the history of mathematics in articles such as Logical and historical remarks on Saccheri's gometry (1970), Las matemáticas de Galileo. Estudio histórico sobre Ⓣ (1986), and Euclides (1986). He also wrote about the meaning and impact of science and technology on society in articles such as Aspectos Moral y Social de la investigación Ⓣ (1965), Humanismo en el año 2000 Ⓣ (1973), Un sacerdote en la Universidad Ⓣ (1974), and El sentido de la técnica Ⓣ (1984).
His interest in the history of mathematics is clearly seen from the fact that after he retired from his positions in Madrid in 1983 he went to the University of Barcelona where he was given the position of Professor Emeritus, teaching the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. He published many articles on the history of science while in that position. For example, Orígenes del cálculo de Variaciones Ⓣ (1988), Mathematics in Spain in the 17th century (1989), Orígenes de la geometría no Euclidiana: Saccheri, Lambert y Taurinus Ⓣ (1992), The emergence of the consciousness of the possibility of a new non-Euclidean geometry (1993), Matemáticos españoles jesuitas de los siglos 16 y 17 Ⓣ (1997), Las Teorías del movimiento de los proyectiles y de las paralelas de Aristóteles a Einstein Ⓣ (1999), Influencias negativas de la cultura y en particular de la filosofía en la emergencia de la primera geometría no Euclídea Ⓣ (2000). He also wrote many articles on science and theology, for example El científico cristiano, la humanidad y la Iglesia Ⓣ (1988), A propos de la théologie du sens: Le langage sur Dieu Ⓣ (1992), Els científics i la fe cristiana Ⓣ (1993), and Scientists and the Reformulation of Gospel Message (1996).
Dou received many awards and honours for his outstanding contributions. In 1960 he was elected President of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society succeeding Julio Rey Pastor. On 12 June 1963, Dou delivered his inauguration address as a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences occupying the place left vacant on the death of Rey Pastor. In 1974 he received the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise for his qualities as a teacher. In 1989 he received the Gold Medal of the College of Civil Engineers, and finally Honorary Doctorates from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in 1984 and from the University of Málaga in 2002.
The teacher who passionately gives a university course, whether or not he is aware of it, also imparts a vision of the cosmos and of life, and students, whether they want it or not, whether they know it or not, are critically impacted by the course, either towards an acceptance or to a rejection of human values or pseudo-values, independently of the mathematical contents or of the discipline that is taught. Personally, for me, after living for a while in a kind of schizophrenia between religious values and mathematical values, I soon came to the conclusion that they converged on a single humanism. I have sometimes summed it up in one sentence: From the pulpit to the dais there is no continuous solution.
He never concealed his prevailing Jesuit status, he lived in the way of the Jesuits without ostentation, but without complexes, without dramatic tears or false steps. He was able to be faithful to his time and his destiny with a simplicity that was always exemplary.
Seldom have I seen so much human simplicity in a scientific personality with such deep values.
He gave his life passionately to the University and always made his knowledge a genuinely university service.
With his death, Spanish science and culture suffer the loss of a privileged and wonderfully open mind that, impregnating a ubiquitous footprint in many fields, will always endure in the memory of all those who were offered his teaching, collaboration and friendship. Rest in peace.
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Nonprofits employ 16% of Maine workers and are essential partners in our state’s workforce development efforts, so understanding nonprofit compensation trends is a critical element of attracting and retaining talent to our state.
What compensation trends stand out from MANP’s recently released Report on Nonprofit Wages + Benefits in Maine?
1. Nonprofit employment reflects the continuing economic recovery.
Ninety-three percent (93%) of organizations expect employment to stay the same or increase in the coming 12 months. There were significant drops in the percentages of organizations contracting bookkeepers, project managers, and grant writers as compared to 2016, which indicates employers are more confident in the economy and therefore more willing to commit to permanent hires.
2. But, Maine’s strong economy is not translating into gains for nonprofit employees.
The Benchmark Hourly Wage—used to track the average wage across 27 core positions in the survey over time—rose just 2.8% over the past two years, lagging behind inflation of 6.2% during that same time period. Only one-third (34%) of the full-time positions included in the benchmark saw an increased average salary as compared to 2016; just 13% of full-time benchmark jobs saw increases in excess of inflation. Benefits as a percentage of wages stayed level with 2016, so also behind inflation.
3. Rising insurance costs continue to strain employers and pinch employees.
More than three-quarters of respondents (78%) offer group health insurance up from 73% in 2016 and the vast majority of these pay at least half of employee premiums. This is still behind pre-recession levels, however, and three quarters of those offering this benefit reported rate increases during their last renewal period, more than in 2016. Employees are feeling the weight of these rate hikes in the form of higher premiums, co-pays, and deductibles as nonprofits pass along at least some portion of the costs to employees.
Plus, more than half of responding organizations leave it to their employees to fund their own retirement: 38% of organizations offer no plan and 13% offer a plan with no employer contribution.
4. Gender disparities remain in both hiring and pay.
As in the past, women tend to run the smaller organizations, while men are more likely to run the largest ones. Overall, female-identified executive directors are paid 81 cents on the dollar as compared to their male-identified counterparts. This gap closes almost completely, however, for organizations with budgets under $1 million.
Overall, the 2018 report paints a concerning picture for nonprofits as well as their employees.
Yes, nonprofits expect to increase staffing, but if nonprofits are unable to offer competitive wages will they be able to hire qualified employees to advance their missions? Will the sector’s top talent seek employment elsewhere? As senior leaders retire, will younger leaders be willing to step into their shoes? How will the effects of tax reform in late 2017 affect nonprofits?
One can hypothesize that under investment in human resources is a result of the budgetary pressures of shrinking state and federal funding, lack of funding for operating support, rising healthcare costs, and uncertainty about donor behavior under tax reform.
Nonprofits employ almost 20% of workers in Maine, and are critically important to Maine’s economy and quality of life. This report suggests that nonprofits—and the policymakers, funders, and donors that care about their missions—must give higher priority to sustaining the nonprofit sector’s most important resource: human capital.
Nonprofits are complex and strategic organizations that provide essential community infrastructure; they rely on their human resources. Market comparison studies are a starting point for developing compensation strategies to recruit and retain talented employees. Objective salary data is essential to nonprofits that must justify organization compensation levels to their boards, the IRS, and the general public.
This report is not a definitive answer on what nonprofits should pay their employees, but provides a frame of reference for what organizations are paying, and should be used to inform thoughtful conversations about compensation.
Find a free snapshot of the report, as well as ordering details. MANP members receive a 50% discount on this essential tool.
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Read article: "Klaus Huber - Focus on Mankind"
Klaus Huber, bom in Bem (Switzerland) on 30th November 1924; studied Composition with Willy Burkhard in Zurich and with Boris Blacher in Berlin; 1959 intemational breakthrough as a composer: first performance of the chamber cantata Des Engels Anredung an die Seele at the World Music Days of the IGNM in Rome; 1964-73 director of the composition class at the Academy of Music in Basel; 1966/68/72 director of the composition seminars at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Bilthoven / The Netherlands; 1969 founds the Intemational Composers' Seminar in the Kiinstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland); 1970 Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn (for Tenebrae); 1973-90 director of the composers' class and of the Institute for Contemporary Music at the State Conservatory in Freiburg; 1978 Art Prize of the city of Base I; 1979-82 president of the Swiss Composers' Association; 1984 starts his intemational activities as a guest composer; 1991 retires from teaching in Freiburg, working intemationalIy from now on as a freelance composer and guest professor. Frequently invited as Composer in Residence to festivals in Europe, North America and Asia. 2007 awarded the European Church Music Prize by the city of Schwabisch Gmiind; 2009 Music Prize Salzburg and Emst von Siemens Music Prize.
Klaus Huber was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, of the Academy of Arts Berlin and of the Free Academy of Arts Mannheim, an honorary member of the IS CM and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg. He lived in Bremen and Panicale (Italy). He was an honorary citizen of Panicale, where he founded the concert series ”Musica insieme Panicale” in 1998. Since 1975 his works have been published by Ricordi. The autographs are available in the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel.
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Does this mean Jesus Christ was created?
The Greek term for "firstborn" is prototokos.
"Firstborn of every creature" does not mean that Christ was "born first" in the sense of being the first created being. Rather it refers to Christ's position of supremacy over all of creation by virtue of the fact that He is the Creator of all things (verse 16).
Notice the word "For" at the beginning of verse 16. This word introduces a reason or explanation for what Paul had just said in verse 15. Why is Christ the firstborn of every creature? It is because He created all things (verse 16).
The word "firstborn" in Colossians 1:15 refers to positional priority not temporal priority. See Exodus 4:22 where Israel is called God's "firstborn." Israel was not the first nation that God brought into existence, but positionally as God's chosen and privileged nation Israel was supreme. In Psalm 89:27 King David is placed as firstborn, but David was actually the last-born son of Jesse! The term obviously was not used to denote chronological order. Thus the term is used in Colossians 1:15 to express Christ's priority to and preeminence over creation. He outranks every created thing because He is the Creator!
There is a Greek word which means first created (protoktistos) but Paul did not use this word of Christ.
The Jehovah's Witness translators of the Bible (New World Translation) have added the word "other" four times in Colossians 1:16-17 even though it is not in the Greek text. Their view is that Jehovah created Christ and that Christ then created all other creatures! However this contradicts John 1:3 which says that everything that was made was made by Christ. If Christ was made (as the Jehovah's Witnesses wrongly teach), then John 1:3 would imply that Christ made Himself (which the Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach). Instead, John 1:3 teaches that Christ is the uncreated Creator!
Colossians 1:17 teaches that Christ is before all things. If Jehovah created Christ, as Jehovah Witnesses teach, then we could say that Jehovah is before all things. (Jehovah existed even before Christ was created, according to Jehovah's Witness doctrine.) But it would not be true that Christ is before all things. This is why the Jehovah's Witnesses must insert the word "other." [Christ is before all (other) things.] Remove the word "other" (which is not found in the Greek text and should be removed) and the verse contradicts Jehovah Witness doctrine. Those who believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Creator-God have no problem with these verses exactly as they are in the Greek text. There is no need to insert the word "other."
God gives serious warning to those who wrongly add to His Word (Rev. 22:18).
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What has happened to Egypt throughout time? We examine Egypt both through historical, political and societal means. We travel to important landmarks, eat true Egyptian food and investigate what living in Egypt is actually like.
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Exposure to other parts of Canada is possible.
You might already be aware that measles have been making an unwelcome comeback over the last year. With the rise of so-called "anti-vaxxers," the once rare illness is now becoming more common, especially amongst young children.
TL;DR A woman infected with measles visited two clinics across Montreal between January 28-30, 2019. The clinics cannot be named, but those not vaccinated are at risk of exposure. The woman also spent time in both Toronto and Montreal airports during the contagious period, meaning thousands more could be exposed. More details below.
But it's one thing to hear about the issue and another to be personally affected by it. Unfortunately for Montrealers, if you happened to have visited a health clinic during the last week of January, you might want to go see your doctor ASAP is you are experiencing troubling symptoms.
Why? Well, you may have been exposed to measles.
The city's Public Health Agency is warning of the possible exposure between January 28 and January 30, 2019. A woman who had travelled to Montreal from Europe visited two clinics across the city on these days, she was later confirmed to have measles that she likely contracted while in Poland.
Since she visited these clinics, which cannot be named due to policy, during the contagious period of the illness, it is possible that anyone not vaccinated against measles could be infected. Children are most at risk, as it is the leading vaccine-preventable death in the world for youth.
Although the clinics aren't being named, the advisory applies to the Centre-Sud-de-I'île-de-Montreal area. This includes clincis and hospitals in Ville-Marie, Southwest, Verdun, and the Plateau-Mont-Royal.
The issue is that the two Montreal clinics aren't the only places this woman went while she was contagious with measles. She took connecting flights to Montreal from Toronto, meaning it is possible that hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been exposed to the illness already.
The Montreal public health agency is advising people with symptoms such as fever, cough, runny nose, conjunctivitis, and red spots all over the body to call in before heading over to a clinic. Complications such as brain damage and even death are a risk to pregnant women and infants, as well as anyone with a compromised immune system.
Those not vaccinated with measles may begin showing signs of symptoms over the next coming weeks. Stay tuned for any information on outbreaks.
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Humans and animals can rapidly and effortlessly recognize a wide range of acoustic stimuli. In order to achieve this accurate classification, the auditory system is capable of processing rapid variations in the acoustics of sounds. These processing capabilities offer straightforward use for many discrete stimuli, characterized by a stereotypical sequence of spectrotemporal features. However, a much wider class of stimuli can be recognized, which are not as strictly characterized. A waterfall, for example, features a spectrogram, which does not contain a single sequence of spectrotemporal features, but instead is composed of a mixture of spectrotemporal features, whose properties and occurrence times are only statistically defined.
Stimuli which are defined based on their statistical composition of spectrotemporal features have been termed "acoustic textures", in analogy to visual textures, such as fur, marble, and grass. Previous results using natural textures suggest that in order to recognise such sounds, the auditory system somehow summarizes or at least produces a condensed representation by combining the statistics of lower-level activity (McDermott? et al. ).
In this study, we focused on the dynamics of sound statistics integration. We investigated how subjects detect a change in the statistics of an artificial texture. A recent work established that it is possible to find a neural correlate of the accumulation of sensory evidence in the low-pass EEG signals (<6Hz) in the Centro-Parietal Posterior area (CPP) (Connell et al., 2012). We think this signal is a relevant tool for investigating how the brain gather information about a sound.
Instead of using natural sounds, we chose a more reduced approach. The stimulus was generated constraining the marginal frequency distribution of cloud of tones. The present paradigm is close to profile analysis used in earlier studies because subjects are asked to assess the spectral shape of the stimuli. However we introduce here a dynamical aspect to the task in the sense that subjects have to constantly monitor and integrate the statistics of a sound in order to report a change occuring at a random timing.
We used a tone cloud, i.e. a train of short overlapping pure tones from a range of 2.2 octaves (400 to 1840 Hz divided in 8 frequency bins), governed by a marginal distribution of occurrence probability (Figure 1, left panel). This distribution is different from trial to trial. The duration of each individual tone was 30 ms and at each chord the number of tones per frequency bin depended on the value drawn from the marginal distribution for a particular frequency bin. The marginal distribution was then altered at a random time during the stimulus presentation (after 0 to 8 second of the first sound), resulting in the appearance of a change. The change consisted of an increment in the probability of occurrence of tones in two of the eight frequency bins (Figure 2). Subjects were instructed that a change would occur on every trial and that their task was to press the response button placed in front of them whenever they heard the change, but within 2 seconds after the onset of the change. The outcome of each trial was either a False Alarm (click before the change), Hit (click during the 2 seconds of sound after the change) or Miss (no click). Performance for each condition was computed as (Hit nb) / (Hit + Miss Nb).
Figure 1: A: marginal distribution of the tone frequencies. B: Cochleogram of the tone cloud with the embedded change at 5 seconds (white dashed line).
Figure 2: Marginal distribution used after the change. Two possible increments of different size are shown, in orange and red.
Although we found several parameters influencing the subject performance, here we will only present the contextual effect of the duration of the first part of the sound (or timing of change). Figure 3 shows that there is a strong influence of both the size and the timing of the change on subject performance. Early changes (for timings of change < 2s) were more difficult to detect by subjects. This effect is mirrored by reaction times (data not shown here), namely that early changes were correlated with longer reaction times. We hypothesize this effect could be due to the uncertainty about sound statistics in the first few seconds of the stimulus presentation.
Figure 3: Performance with respect to the timing of the change (n = 9 subjects). Performance for early changes is worst than for late changes.
This task seems to be appropriate for studying accumulation of sensory evidence since subjects have to integrate local sounds statistics in order to detect a potential change. We think the effect depicted in Figure 3 could be used for investigating how the the uncertainty about the statistics of the initial sound could impact the integration of change-related sensory evidence.
EEG recordings were performed with a 64-channel signal (BrainVision?) at a sampling rate of 1 kHz. Changes occurred after 0-8 seconds of sounds (according to a modified Poisson distribution), and subjects had 2 seconds for reporting the change by pressing a button. Outcome of each trial was either Hit, Miss, or False Alarm (FA). Three difficulty levels were used, each 120 times (total number of trial for each subject = 480, ~1 hour recording). At the end, of the recording, sound was stopped and subjects were asked to press randomly the button in order to isolate a purely motor component. EEG recordings were down-sampled at 62.5 Hz, and then low-pass filtered at 6 Hz. Each Hit and False alarm trials were locked on the response time. We then subtracted the individual average motor component for each subject before avergaing across subjects.
Is there a neural correlate of sensory evidence accumulation for sound textures?
Although the tone cloud we used is quite reminiscent of the random dot cloud used in visual tasks, we wanted to show that accumulation of sensory evidence is also necessary for performing this task. Figure 4 shows the topographic display of the EEG recordings for one subject. Only Hit trials were kept, and all trials were response-locked. One can see an increase of activity in the CPP region up to 500 ms before the button press. This activity peaks at the timing of decision, and then decays afterwards. This different characteristics match the features one could expect from a decision variable signal.
Figure 4: Topographic plot of EEG recordings. Hit trials are clustered by the difficulty of each trial (~40-100 trials in each condition).
For visualizing the time course of this CPP activity, we selected 6 electrodes centered on the CPP area. Figure 5 displays the average across subjects for different difficulty. Unfortunately the low number of subjects (n=3) impedes any statistical analysis. However, one may see a steeper slope for the easiest condition (red trace) than for the 2 others more difficult conditions. This may correspond to the fact that the build-up rate is increased for easy-to-detect changes.
Figure 5: Average of the 6 CPP electrodes (n= 3 subjects) as a function of trial difficulty. Motor response was removed from the individual trace of each subject.
Are false alarms based on sensory evidence?
Subjects indicated after the experiments that the false alarms they reported was based on a sensory input in the stimulus. One can wonder whether sensory features due to the stochastic nature of the stimulus could elicit an increase in the CPP activity just before the response in false alarm trials. Figure 6 shows that these false alarm trials are preceded by an increase in the CPP activity, altogether with the Hit trials. Moreover, we response-locked the miss trials (without any actual button press) with the median reaction time across all trials. CPP activity stays pretty low for this condition, suggesting that misses are correlated with an absence of response at the level of the CPP electrodes.
Figure 6: False alarms are correlated with a increased CPP activity.
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Cool your pet on your way to the vet., Get them in the car to the vet and run the air conditioning to keep them cool. You can also use a spray bottle to lightly cool them with water. Do not submerge your pet in ice water as this can be more dangerous.
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Write this joke and its answer in standard English orthography. Note that the joke has spaces between words. When you hear speech, however, you do not hear breaks between words. So, to spice it up a bit, the answer to the joke does not give you the word boundaries. I put some spaces in to help you keep your place, but these resulting groups do not correspond to word boundaries. In both cases, I have given you the vowels in transcription. Enjoy!
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Input text: The man is 12 inches in front of the entirely silver woman. he is facing her. the woman is under the small willow tree. the ground is dirt. it is partly cloudy. The top hat is -3 inches above the woman. it is 16 inches wide. A enormous screwdriver is -2 feet behind the hat.
what does "entirely" do ?
it overrides the normal thing of applying the color (or substance or texture) to the dominant part for the object and gives entire object that surface property.
Note: I don't remember if all surface properties (like shiny or transparent) use the dominant part by default or not, but those that do would get overridden by "entirely".
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How can I tell if a vacant house is for sale of if it's a landlord waiting for a tenant? I've seen a lot of vacant properties that have 100% equity. I'm looking to fix and flip.
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1. To remove or dissipate by melting, vaporization, erosion, etc.: The worker was ablating the metal surface with intense heat.
It would appear that the icebergs are ablating faster than scientists had anticipated.
After a heavy rain, the top soil ablates from the field and runs off into the stream.
2. In medicine, to amputate or otherwise to destroy a biological function; for example, of a bodily tissue by cutting, with a laser, or by means of burning with electric heat: The doctor ablated the abnormal number of warts that had formed on Colleen's body with electrocautery.
The doctor indicated that she would ablate the lump from Tanya's leg.
After Patrick's crushed foot was ablated in an accident, he learned to walk and to run with a prosthetic foot and shoe.
1. A reference to taking away or removing: The city trash department was charged with the ablative task of clearing the streets after the severe storm.
2. Tending to be removed or vaporized at very high temperatures: The ablative material on the rocket cone fell off.
3. In grammar, applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other Indo-European languages: The ablative case is the removal, separation, or taking away; that is, indicating direction away from, or time when.
Grammatical "cases" are changes in form that are made of nouns or pronouns to reflect how they are used in sentences. For example, the noun "men" is changed to "men's" and the noun "woman" is changed to "women's" to show possession. Nouns in English once had several case forms, but the only one used today is the possessive case.
Pronouns continue to change case forms to show their relations to the rest of the elements in a sentence. The three cases of pronouns are "nominative", "objective", and "possessive" cases.
A grammatical case used in some languages to indicate movement away from something, removal of, separation from, or source of: The ablative case corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "from", "away from", and "concerning".
Raymond's sister had to memorize lists of ablative cases when she was studying a foreign language at school.
All of the ablative cases which the author used made the story interesting but a bit convoluted.
The nominative case shows that the noun or pronoun is being used as the subject of the verb: "The students learned about subjects in the English class and they usually know that verbs show what the subjects are doing."
Object of the verb: "Jessica's complimentary remarks about Mike's work made him feel good."
Object of a preposition: "Everyone went home after the meeting except Phil.
1. The heat shields of space vehicles, which melt or wear away during the reentry into the earth's atmosphere: The scientist created a new ablator which could withstand extreme heat.
2. The outer surface of a spacecraft or missile: Ablation is the erosion of the protective outer surface, or ablator, of a spacecraft or missile resulting from aerodynamic heating caused by travel at hypersonic speeds during reentry through the atmosphere.
The ablators on the spacecraft were welded into place using a specialized metal that would withstand great heat.
The change of one root vowel into another one to show a variation of tense, part of speech, or meaning: The following ablauts show how certain verbs change their tenses: swim, swam, swum; sing, sang, sung; drink, drank, drunk; sink, sank, sunk; and many other irregular verbs.
The students were asked to find the single example of an ablaut in the poem that they memorized.
The grammar teacher wrote several examples of ablauts on the chalkboard for the students to study.
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This essay focuses on the benefits of recycling and analyzes how it positively impacts our environment. Some benefits of recycling include reduced costs on energy, reduced potential health risks, reduction of landfills, and converting waste into reusable sources.
Recycling benefits the communities of Chicago and Schaumburg in several ways. In Schaumburg they have what is called Single Stream Recycling, which is designed to reduce different sorting in order to increase the different recycled items. This recycling system also helps residents to become more engaged in recycling (Village of Schaumburg). Schaumburg has a set of rules and guidelines for the materials allowed for recycling in an acceptable condition. The Village makes sure that materials being recycled are useful for potential valuable resources. They have great ways that help motivate residents to recycle, which have been beneficial to the town and increased its rate of recycling. Residents can also earn money by recycling based on the materials they wish to recycle. This process also helps those who are out of work and need to earn an income. For many in Schaumburg, recycling has become a necessary thing.
This picture represents recycling by the type of material/product. Much like how Schaumburg’s recycling process does their recycling on a daily basis, instead of blending all recyclable materials together.
One of the greatest benefits of recycling is conserving energy. By becoming more energy efficient, we can reduce energy costs and keep more money in our pockets. According to Consumer Reports-article, “Cut Your Energy Bills,” recycling saves two hundred and fifty dollars a year. However, this is still not enough money per year seeing as how recycling saves the least amount of money. (Consumer Report). Rewards are also given based upon how much a household recycles based on the weight of the materials collected. A household is given $250 in a program called Pay as you throw (Consumer Report). Most people choose not to recycle because they think that a certain item would not be able to be reused and recycled. Luckily in Schaumburg, there is a list of materials that are acceptable for proper recycling. This is beneficial because the more information people have; the more efficient they will be when they recycle.
Recycling has benefits that help us outside of our environment as well by creating reuse centers. According to Chicagorecycling.org, the Creative Reuse Warehouse was made to conserve reusable items in order to prevent them from going to the landfills. For example, you may find scraps of foam core, piles of ribbons, and boxes of broken crayons that were spared from sitting unused in a landfill (chicagorecycling.org). Also, known thrift stores such as The Salvation Army and Goodwill are considered as reuse centers. These stores are known for recycling used clothing that people donate, rather than just throwing them away in the garbage. Shoppers can go to these places and find clothes for a much cheaper price than in another retail store. This is prime example of a recycling benefit because it helps others who may be short on income and cannot afford high-priced clothing. These stores are very popular and have a diverse clientele who purchase used items such as clothing, books, movies, shoes, furniture. Because thrift stores benefit a number of people and utilize reusable items, they are one of the most efficient ways of recycling.
According to Biocycle World’s article, “Composting Renewable Energy and Sustainability,” recycling helps address climate change issues because it is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Biocycle). The article shows that we need to gain more knowledge about recycling and take action since it is up to us to get involved with recycling and become more in tune with our surroundings.
Recycling is not just a simple matter of throwing cans into the recycling bin and putting paper into the paper-only bin, it is about our society as a whole utilizing recycling to make for a better future. From reducing energy, to recycling personal belongings that are collected and sold in thrift stores, to the many benefits of reuse centers, recycling is the key to maintaining a sustainable future.
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In this paper, we propose a generalized Unsupervised Manifold Alignment (GUMA) method to build the connections between different but correlated datasets without any known correspondences. Based on the assumption that datasets of the same theme usually have similar manifold structures, GUMA is formulated into an explicit integer optimization problem considering the structure matching and preserving criteria, as well as the feature comparability of the corresponding points in the mutual embedding space. The main benefits of this model include: (1) simultaneous discovery and alignment of manifold structures; (2) fully unsupervised matching without any pre-specified correspondences; (3) efficient iterative alignment without computations in all permutation cases. Experimental results on dataset matching and real-world applications demonstrate the effectiveness and the practicability of our manifold alignment method.
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For the 1978 season Frank was to sign the Australian Alan Jones, who had won the Austrian Grand Prix the previous year. In 1978 Williams and Jones were able to score an excellent second place at the United States Grand Prix. Williams had moved from being the team that jokes were made about to one that was taken seriously by rivals. In 1979 Head was to design the FW07. This was the teams first ground-effect car, a technology first introduced by Colin Chapman and the Lotus Team.
With Jones and Clay Regazzoni Williams now had a very competitive team. Regazzoni was to win the teams frist Grand Prix at the British Grand Prix. Jones would also win the German, Austrian, Dutch, and Canadian Grand Prix. Jody Scheckter was to win the 1979 Championship but in 1980 Alan Jones would make it his and the teams World Championship. For the 1981 season Carlos Reutemann was to lose the tile to Nelson Piquet by a narrow margin.
For the 1982 season Williams was to have the services of the talented Keke Rosberg who won the Drivers title that year after winning only one race. Frank was to soon realise that to compete at the top levels of Formula One he would need the support of a major manufacturer, such as Renault or BMW, to be able to compete. Frank was to look towards Honda, who was developing its own turbo-charged V6 engine. The deal between Honda and Williams was finally settle early 1983. For the 1984 season Head was to design the ungainly FW09.
Keke Rosberg was able to score a victory in the United States Grand Prix at Dallas. In 1985 Head was to design the teams first carbon-fibre chassis, a technology pioneered by the McLaren team, the FW10. British driver Nigel Mansell had joined the team to partner Rosberg. The team was to score four wins with Rosberg, winning in Detroit and Australia, and Mansell winning in European Grand Prix and in South Africa. Frank had taken his team to the upper heights of Formula One.
The team was on a high but in March 1986 Frank Williams was to face the most serious challenge of his life. While returning to airport at Nice Frank was involved in a car accident which was to leave him paralysed. Williams was not to return to the pit lane for almost a year. Despite the lack of Frank's presence the team, in the 1986 season, would win 9 Grand Prixs and the Constructors Championship. Despite the fact that Williams had won the constructors Championship their engine partners were frustrated by the fact that neither Williams driver, Mansell or Piquet, did not win the drivers championship.
The situation reached the point where the partnership between Honda and Williams was terminated at the end of the 1987 season. This was made even harder to understand when Nelson Piquet was to win the 1987 Drivers Championship. Williams was made to secure the resources to run Judd engines for the 1988 season. This was a move that was to achieve few results. The team did not win a single race this season.
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So 3 races in, which rookie impresses you most?
Formula E. Rome e-Prix. Jaguar Win.
Will the 2019 Preseason F1 Testing produce an encouraging result for Williams?
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Motivated by active learning, the paper presents algorithms for adaptive submodular maximization subject to a cardinality constraint, in the streaming and secretary settings. (Both algorithms process a stream of examples in random order and are limited to query at most k labels. The streaming setting allows the algorithm to keep a bounded-size buffer of examples that have been observed but not yet labeled. The secretary setting disallows such deferred decisions.) The algorithms are very simple. Both of them generalize the algorithm of Bateni et al. for the submodular secretary problem in the obvious way: divide the input stream into k contiguous blocks of size n/k, and simply try to pick the element of each block that makes the biggest marginal contribution, given previously labeled elements. The performance guarantees for these algorithms are fairly small constant-factor approximation guarantees (0.15 and 0.08, respectively) proven under a novel assumption called "policy-adaptive submodularity" which generalizes adaptive submodularity in the natural way to this context, and which seems like a plausible assumption to make for the intended applications.
In my opinion, the marginal contribution of the paper beyond prior work on adaptive submodularity and the submodular secretary problem is too weak to warrant inclusion in NIPS. The streaming setting is well-motivated for this type of problem, but paper's technical contribution strikes me as too incremental. A question about the experiments (Section 5): what set function f was used as the submodular function in the experiments? The paper doesn't seem to explain this point.
The paper proposes the class of policy-adaptive submodular functions, a subclass of adaptive submodular functions, and shows that this new class of functions includes some existing utilities for pool-based active learning. The paper then explores the use of this class in stream-based active learning and proposes two algorithms for the stream and secretary settings. Both algorithms are shown to have theoretical performance guarantees compared to the optimal pool-based algorithm.
Although the notion of policy-adaptive submodular functions is interesting, I think it is only a marginal improvement from adaptive submodularity. Theorems 4.1 and 4.2 in the paper make sense, although the constant factors (0.16 and 0.08) are quite small. Does the small constants come from the fact that we compare the stream-based algorithms with the optimal pool-based algorithm? I think it would be more useful to also compare the proposed algorithms with the optimal stream-based algorithm. For example, I feel that we may be able to compare the AdaptiveStream algorithm with the optimal stream-based algorithm that selects one item from each of the k segments, even with only adaptive submodular utility functions. I think the paper should spend more space to explain their new definition, theorems and proof ideas. The pseudo-codes in Algorithms 1 and 2 can be simplified to make more space. I think the current manuscript lacks some insightful discussions of the new definition and theorems. For the experiments, I think it would also be useful to compare the proposed algorithms with other stream-based active learning algorithms, not just those restricted to the stream or secretary settings in this paper.
The paper proposes a new class of utility functions: policy-adaptive submodular functions. It provides a general framework based on policy-adaptive submodularity that can adapt existing pool-based methods to stream-based settings. The authors also give theoretical guarantees on their performance.
This is an interesting paper. The problem studied in the paper can be influential to active learning field. The paper is well-presented and easy to follow. However, the technical part is rather incremental. Some comments are listed below that need to be clarified. 1. The figure 3 is too hard to read. 2. What are the differences between the proposed framework with existing methods of submodular maximization in the stream and secretary settings? How their performance would compare with the proposed framework?
This paper studies the budgeted active learning problem (as under a cardinality constraint) in the stream-based setting. The paper assumes that data arrives in a stream in a RANDOM order, and provide analysis for both the steam and secretary settings, when the objective function satisfies a notion called policy-adaptive submodularity. This property is an extension of submodularity to the adaptive setting, but stricter than adaptive submodularity (in the sense that it considers the gain of a policy as opposed to the gain of a test; however in the adaptive setting a partial realization changes not only the distribution of a test outcome, but also the structure of a policy, and this policy-adaptive submodularity imposes a stronger constraint). The authors show that several adaptive submodular objective functions in active learning also satisfies policy-adaptive submodualriy, and then proposes algorithms stream-based learning. Finally the results are backed-up by the evaluation of the stream and secretary algorithms against pool-based algorithm on UCI WDBC and MNIST dataset.
This paper studies the active learning problem under the streaming setting. The authors propose a class of policy-adaptive submodular functions, which is shown to be satisfied by some existing utility functions people define for active learning. Two algorithms are given for optimizing the policy-adaptive submodular functions under the streaming and secretary setting. However, the proposed algorithms as well as their analysis are very similar to Bateni et al. 2013.
I think the paper is overall well-written and the streaming active learning problem considered here is interesting. My biggest concern is the novelty of this work: the proposed algorithm AdaptiveSecretary is almost identical to the submodular secretary algorithm proposed in Bateni et al. 2013, so is the analysis. AdaptiveStream, on the other hand, is only trivial modification of AdaptiveSecretary, so is its analysis. My current assessment of the paper is borderline. I am more willing to accept the paper if more empirical results are available. For example, (1) the current paper considers only one submodular utility function (AluMA), and it would be interesting to show comparison of the proposed algorithms in terms of many other adaptive submodular utility functions. (2) baselines other than uncertainty sampling are needed. (3) it would also be interesting to test classifiers other than SVM. One minor suggestion: Line 92-99 may be removed since it is a bit repetitive with previous sections.
The paper proposes a general framework that can convert any pool-based active learning method to a stream-based active learning method when the objective function that represents the informativeness of sets of data is monotone and policy-adaptive submodular. Policy-adaptive submodular functions, which are an extension of adaptive submodular functions, are defined in the paper as set functions that their expected marginal gain of a subset is more than expected marginal gain of its superset according to a policy of adding items. Two simple algorithms for stream setting and secretary setting are proposed. These algorithms guaranty constant approximation factors of the optimal solution. The presented algorithms are compared with uncertainty sampling methods on two datasets.
The paper is well written and is innovative on the definition of policy-adaptive submodularity. Despite the interesting results of the theoretical part, the experimental section is weak. Only one pool-based method and its corresponding stream-based algorithms are considered and the comparisons are just on two datasets.
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How to trim unnecessary space from the string in SQL Server?
To trim unnecessary blank spaces from the string in SQL Server, we use LTRIM or RTRIM functions.
To remove all spaces, we can use both LTRIM and RTRIM functions.
Notice the output of above code snippet below.
In first case, the output is coming along with left side and right side blank space.
The third column removes spaces from right side and then left side and gives the actual string without any blank space either side.
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Haiti has a rich legacy of beautiful sloping reinforced concrete roofs with diverse shapes, including: hyperbolic parabolid, hyperbolic parabolid groin, folded plate, ribbed, hipped, and curved. Haitians normally complete the final storey of their houses by installing sloping concrete roofs, many of which survived the 2010 earthquake. I estimate that there are more sloping concrete roofs in Haiti than in all of the other Caribbean islands combined.
Since the 2010 earthquake, Haitians are being led to abandon their cultural building aspirations and accept less than appropriate house designs. Let me explain.
The Caribbean is one of the most hazard-prone regions on Earth. Its inhabitants face the threat from a diverse set of natural hazards including: earthquakes, hurricanes, torrential rainfall, floods, landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes, and now the predicted negative effects of climate change.
Once structures are built in the Caribbean, they become vulnerable to a diverse set of progressive weakening factors including: the corrosion of steel reinforcement, moisture penetration of timber, masonry, and concrete elements, and insect damage to timber frames. For these reasons, the Caribbean is one place where buildings should be constructed to be safe during natural hazards, and durable (less vulnerable to progressive weakening).
There are a variety of effective masonry structural designs for houses built in the hazard prone Caribbean region. Some carry relatively low risks of failure because they are relatively simple to construct, and the building methods are relatively forgiving – meaning that small deviations from the design have negligible impact on the structural integrity of the building. They can also be constructed quickly, with less equipment resources, and are durable.
The masonry structural designs that have generally been recommended for the construction of post-earthquake houses in Haiti are more risky, expensive, and time consuming to construct. The structural integrity and durability of the finished houses are highly dependent upon adequate construction equipment, skilled labour, and competent supervision. Small deviations from the chosen design can render the finished house unsafe during subsequent natural hazards and less durable.
Our inspection of many of the houses built and/or supervised by United Nations (UN) agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and the Haitian Government, confirms that the combination of the more risky structural design chosen and the construction methods used, have resulted in substandard permanent houses. These houses are typically vulnerable to: collapse during an earthquake, roof loss and possible collapse of the walls during a major hurricane, and high maintenance.
During my first deployment to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, the person who facilitated my travels around Haiti told me that the maid wanted me to inspect the house that she was renting. Requests to examine cracks in houses were commonly made to me through third parties like my facilitator, who could speak both English and Creole.
The maid was renting the upper floor of a two-storey masonry house. Following my examination of the cracks that caused her concern, I determined that the house was structurally stable and would not collapse. When the facilitator explained my conclusion, I watched the fearful anxiety in her face melt into cheerful gratitude. I had seen this dramatic change in facial expressions many times in Haiti, and as at other times, it still filled me with immense gratitude for the opportunity to serve others in this way.
As usual, persons from neighbouring houses swarmed, desperate to learn the determination of the structural engineer for the houses that they occupied. To the right of the maid’s house was a two storey masonry house that I determined to be stable. To the left was a two-storey masonry house that I determined to be unstable.
During the night, there were after-shocks. When I arrived at work the following morning, the maid gave me a tight hug. The houses that I determined to be stable did not collapse. The one that I determined to be unstable had collapsed.
The anxiety of the maid and her neighbours was similar to the Haitian government who was desperate for technical, management and financial assistance and solutions after the 2010 earthquake. Those building professionals soon convinced the leaders of the various UN agencies, NGOs including charities, and the Haitian Government to use confined masonry walls and lightweight roofs as shown below.
I arrived in Haiti for my first of 7 deployments in February 2010. I believe that I was the lone structural engineer in Haiti advocating for concrete roofs and reinforced masonry walls. But it seemed that anyone who was not advocating “confined masonry” and “lightweight roofs” was not taken seriously by those responsible for directing donor funds towards permanent housing solutions in Haiti.
Let me first address the lightweight roofs. All of the thin profiled metal sheets that I have seen on Haitian houses constructed after the 2010 earthquake are vulnerable to tearing at the connections during hurricanes. The torn metal roof sheet shown below (Hurricane Emile, Grenada, 2005) was significantly thicker than the thin sheets that I have seen commonly used in Haiti.
Let me now address the confined masonry method. Confined masonry may be an appropriate solution for the solid brick masonry houses found in countries in Europe and Asia that that collapsed during recent earthquakes. However, in my opinion, the appropriate solution for the hollow concrete block masonry units that are typically used in the Caribbean is reinforced masonry. This reinforced masonry solution is detailed in the building codes of the Caribbean Community of nations (CARICOM) of which Haiti is a member.
In order to facilitate safer building practices in Haiti, I suggest that consideration be given to the following.
Sustain the legacy of beautiful sloping concrete roofs in Haiti, by facilitating technical assistance to help Haitians build their concrete roof structures safely.
Urge the government of Haiti to critically examine the advice that they have received, and consider the more appropriate, less expensive, less risky, faster-to-construct and stronger reinforced masonry solution.
Facilitate the effective training of Haitians to international building standards to facilitate the trade of their services in the Caribbean region.
Following my 7th deployment to Haiti in November 2012, I remain convinced that our structural engineering assistance to Haiti should be directed towards helping Haitians build what they wanted, but in a manner that is economical, safe during natural hazards, and durable. None of us have a mandate to change their cultural building aspirations.
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Commonly used hand-filled dental filling instruments are composed of a handle portion, a connecting portion, and a working end or a blade end. The joints are often bent at a certain angle for flexible use in the oral cavity. The direction of the bend often has a right bend (R) and a left bend (F). The type of hand-held instrument is often indicated by a 3- or 4-digit number in the middle of the handle: the first digit is the number of millimeters of the blade width × 10, the second digit is the number of millimeters of the blade length, and the third digit is the direction of the blade. The angle (percentage) with the long axis of the handle. The 4-digit number is the percentage between the first and second digits indicating the direction of the blade end and the arbor.
The spoon consists of a handle and two working ends. The working end is in the shape of a spoon and the peripheral edge is sharp. There are large, medium and small models. It is used to scrape off septic, inflamed tissue and temporary sputum filling; cut the pulp. Take care to keep the sharpness of the key and the cleaning inside the spoon. When the edge becomes dull, the outer edge can be polished with oil stone, and the small stone tip is polished by the inner edge of the spoon.
The filler is filled with cement, amalgam, drug or gutta-percha for filling or root canal treatment.
(1) Cement filling device: two working ends, one end is a smooth surface filling device, used to fill the paste-like material. The other end is a flat blunt-type filling device for the use of a paste-like filling material, and can be used for filling the adjacent cavity of the posterior teeth with a paste-like material.
(2) Far-filler: The structure is similar to the cement filling device, but the flat blunt-type filler end intersects the handle at a right angle, and is dedicated to the filling of the distal middle cavity of the tooth.
(3) Amalgam filling device: the working end is cylindrical, and the end surface is a smooth surface or a striped grid for filling silver mercury. There are large, medium and small models at the working end (Figure 6-11).
3. Amalgam engraving machine The working end is oval or diamond-shaped disc. Used to engrave the shape of a silver-mercury filling body. Take care to maintain the angle and smooth edges of the engraver's working end.
4. Amalgam smoother The working end is in various forms, often round or pear-shaped, and smooth and smooth. The trimming of the amalgam filling body after filling, smoothing the surface, so that the edge of the filling body is in close contact with the wall of the hole.
5. Blending knife and blending plate There are two kinds of adjusting knife: stainless steel and plastic. Plastic adjusting knife is used to prepare tooth materials. The blending plate has glass plate and disposable cardboard for blending various materials. Pay attention to keeping the knife and the mixing plate clean and disinfected.
6. Root canal irrigator is made on the basis of the injection needle. The tip of the needle can be used to blunt; or the tip of the needle can be closed, and a small hole is opened on the side of the needle, so that the rinsing liquid is sprayed from the small hole without being injected into the apical fora hole, the rinsing effect is better, and the postoperative operation can be reduced Discomfort.
7. Amalgam conveyor consists of a push handle, a conveyor sleeve that is bent at an angle, and a spring bolt head. The prepared amalgam is placed in the mouth of the delivery sleeve, and the silver amalgam is pushed out by pressing the handle to compress the spring plug, and is delivered to the cavity filled with the teeth.
8. Other flat shapers, formed sheets and formed sheet clips, wedges, Briault probes, sterile cotton rolls, sterile cotton balls, vascular clamps for holding X-ray films, metal rulers (No. 2), and paper Hey. Maintenance of hand-held instruments: After each use, wash and dry and disinfect; oil should be cleaned once every two weeks to keep the instrument lubricated and not rust.
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In her four-and-a-half-hour Archive interview, Ruth Warrick (1916-2005) talks about her beginnings as "Miss Jubilesta," which led to a brief career in radio drama. She recalls her early chance meeting with Orson Welles, which led to her being cast in the groundbreaking feature film "Citizen Kane" as the wife of Charles Foster Kane. She discusses her years under contract at RKO, and speaks of her friendship with Welles - who encouraged her to enter daytime drama. Warrick recounts her early experiences on live television, and outlines getting cast on her first daytime drama, Guiding Light. She describes working on the daytime serial As the World Turns, which led to her being cast as "Hannah Cord" in the popular nighttime drama Peyton Place, opposite Ryan O'Neal and Mia Farrow. She recalls being cast as "Phoebe Tyler" in Agnes Nixon's All My Children, and discusses All My Children's groundbreaking and sometimes controversial storylines. She concludes by commenting on what daytime drama does best, and speakis of various people with whom she has worked. Michael Rosen conducted the interview in New York City on June 29, 1999.
"When I first signed up to do soaps, I would hear, 'How can Mrs. 'Citizen Kane' belittle herself in a soap opera?' But Orson Welles told me, 'That's nonsense. The best acting on television is in the daytime. Those people are the real storytellers. They're the real actors and actresses.' I was very grateful for that. And I tend to agree."
Ruth Warrick on meeting Orson Welles and being cast in the feature film "Citizen Kane"
Ruth Warrick on developing her All My Children character "Phoebe Tyler"
On being cast in "Citizen Kane"; on her parents' reaction to her becoming an actress; on filming "Citizen Kane"
On acting in "Citizen Kane"; on the controversey surrounding the release of "Citizen Kane"
On being cast on All My Children; on her All My Children character "Phoebe Tyler"
Ruth Warrick on her All My Children character "Phoebe Tyler"
Ruth Warrick on the relationships of her All My Children character "Phoebe Tyler"
Ruth Warrick on acting in Orson Welles' feature film "Citizen Kane"
Ruth Warrick on acting in the feature film "Citizen Kane"
Ruth Warrick on the controversy surrounding the release of the film "Citizen Kane"
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Find out which stocks hardly helped at all in the Dow's big move.
Since August 2010, the Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES:^DJI) have risen from below 10,000 to within a fraction of a point of 20,000. Doubling in just over six years is an impressive feat, especially given that the Dow also pays a respectable dividend yield of more than 2% on top of its rise. Yet although all 30 stocks that are currently in the Dow have risen over that period, some haven't done nearly as well as the overall average. In particular, Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), IBM (NYSE:IBM), and Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) have underperformed the Dow since 2010. Let's look more closely at these stocks and whether they can start pulling more of their weight in 2017 and beyond.
Wal-Mart hasn't exactly done badly over the past six years, rising 57%. Yet the retail giant has seen several big moves in both directions over that timeframe, and the state of its once-commanding big-box business is far from the colossus that long-term investors became familiar with throughout most of its history.
Wal-Mart has faced numerous challenges that it hasn't yet entirely conquered. On one hand, the benefits that Wal-Mart gained during the financial crisis had started to peter out by 2010, and many shoppers started to prefer slightly more upscale retail establishments compared to the famous discount department store. On the other hand, competition from online retailers has only gotten fiercer during the 2010s, and the resulting negative pressure caused same-store sales slumps that lasted for years before finally reversing themselves. More recently, labor cost issues have played a role in holding back profit growth, and efforts to build up its e-commerce presence have met with only mixed success. To play a bigger role in the Dow, Wal-Mart will have to establish that its efforts to revamp stores and offer new services will keep it competitive with its retail peers.
IBM has the longest pedigree of Dow membership of these three stocks, having joined the average in 1932. Throughout much of the second half of the 20th century, IBM was a key leader in the technology industry, creating the personal computer and helping to drive its widespread adoption across the globe both for businesses and consumer use. Even when the hardware arena became less specialized and more of a commodity business, IBM adapted by entering the software and services field to tap into higher margins. Yet returns have slowed, with just a 58% gain since late 2010.
In recent years, IBM's efforts to reinvent itself have met with greater skepticism. The move toward cloud computing and data analytics has led IBM to make further changes, including its decision to sell off a key server business in 2014. With the company's Watson cognitive-computing system, IBM hopes to find a wide variety of applications for clients to use, ranging from offering better customer service to assisting healthcare professionals with diagnosis and treatment decisions. The key question for IBM is whether it can keep making progress quickly enough to keep up with nimbler competitors. If it can, then the stock's contribution to the Dow's upward movement could become more important in the future.
Finally, Caterpillar has been one of the hardest-hit Dow stocks over the past six years. A huge rebound in 2016 brought its total return since late 2010 to nearly 70%, but as recently as early 2016, Caterpillar's performance was flat during the period.
The main problem that Caterpillar has faced is an unprecedented confluence of bad industry conditions among its key customers. One by one, poor performance in construction, infrastructure, mining, and energy has conspired to hold Caterpillar back, and customers have been sluggish in replacing aging equipment and boosting capital spending to acquire new products. The prospects for better commodity prices in the future helped push the stock higher over the past year, and health in commodities will be the best opportunity for Caterpillar to keep regaining ground and make a bigger impression on the Dow in the future. Yet if global conditions deteriorate, then Caterpillar could start weighing on the Dow again, as it has throughout much of the past several years.
The Dow has done well for investors with its double since 2010, but it's inevitable that not every stock will pull its weight. Looking forward, though, there are things that Caterpillar, IBM, and Wal-Mart can do to try to keep up more effectively with their Dow peers in 2017 and beyond.
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Key Point: Autistic subjects had 67% more neurons in the prefrontal cortex. | Ultrasound Autism Connection?
Key Point: Autistic subjects had 67% more neurons in the prefrontal cortex.
Context: Autism often involves early brain overgrowth, including the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Although prefrontal abnormality has been theorized to underlie some autistic symptoms, the cellular defects that cause abnormal overgrowth remain unknown.
Objective: To investigate whether early brain overgrowth in children with autism involves excess neuron numbers in the PFC.
Design, Setting, and Cases: Postmortem prefrontal tissue from 7 autistic and 6 control male children aged 2 to 16 years was examined by expert anatomists who were blinded to diagnostic status. Number and size of neurons were quantified using stereological methods within the dorsolateral (DL-PFC) and mesial (M-PFC) subdivisions of the PFC. Cases were from the eastern and southeastern United States and died between 2000 and 2006.
Main Outcome Measures: Mean neuron number and size in the DL-PFC and M-PFC were compared between autistic and control postmortem cases. Correlations of neuron number with deviation in brain weight from normative values for age were also performed.
Results: Children with autism had 67% more neurons in the PFC (mean, 1.94 billion; 95% CI, 1.57-2.31) compared with control children (1.16 billion; 95% CI, 0.90-1.42; P = .002), including 79% more in DL-PFC (1.57 billion; 95% CI, 1.20-1.94 in autism cases vs 0.88 billion; 95% CI, 0.66-1.10 in controls; P = .003) and 29% more in M-PFC (0.36 billion; 95% CI, 0.33-0.40 in autism cases vs 0.28 billion; 95% CI, 0.23-0.34 in controls; P = .009). Brain weight in the autistic cases differed from normative mean weight for age by a mean of 17.6% (95% CI, 10.2%-25.0%; P = .001), while brains in controls differed by a mean of 0.2% (95% CI, −8.7% to 9.1%; P = .96). Plots of counts by weight showed autistic children had both greater total prefrontal neuron counts and brain weight for age than control children.
Conclusion: In this small preliminary study, brain overgrowth in males with autism involved an abnormal excess number of neurons in the PFC.
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Tennis Scoring: Why count one point as fifteen in tennis?
Nobody knows for certain where the scoring system in tennis came from. However, there is a certain logic behind it. It makes sense to count each game as one game, so if each point also counted as one point, then the score could be confusing, For example, if one side is winning 3-1, 1-2, then it could be difficult to keep track of the score. Counting points by 15 removes that confusion, but why choose 15? Why not some other number, like 10, or maybe even a letter?
There are other number systems that seem equally strange, but have a different logic. For example, there are 360 degrees in a circle, and there are 60 minutes in an hour. Those numbers were chosen since they can be divided by many other numbers (including 15) without having a fractional part left over. These days, it would make more sense to divide a circle into 100 degrees and it would make more sense to divide an hour into 100 minutes. Better still, divide one day into 10 or 100 hours and divide each hour into 10 or 100 minutes. But we are stuck with ancient traditions, nobody is complaining, and it is likely to stay that way for a long time.
Units used to measure mass, length and currency also have long histories. The craziest is the old English system where 12 inches = 1 foot, 3 feet = one yard, 12 pence = one shilling, 20 shillings = one pound, and so on. Given that tennis had its origins in France during the Middle Ages, it is likely that the scoring system was based on an old French counting system. In French, a quinzaine is a quantity of 15, in the same way that a dozen is a quantity of 12. The French word for 15 is quinze (nothing to do with quince fruit). Counting by 15 was therefore common, and it included an old coinage system where a gold crown coin was valued at 60 sous, although the system changed many times as the various kings of France kept changing the monetary system. Big bets were placed by the rich and famous on games of tennis in the Middle Ages, with 15 sous awarded to the winner of each point. At least, that is how some historians have interpreted the scoring system. It is a plausible explanation, but by no means certain.
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I'm telling you, Bayek, I am so close to my dream. If only I was given the chance, I know I could become champion. I mean, wealth, luxury, fame! What more could a woman want?
Kensa (born c. 85 BCE) was an Egyptian gladiatrix and a friend of the Medjay Bayek during the reign of Ptolemy XIII. Kensa was eventually recruited into the Hidden Ones.
During her childhood, Kensa befriended Bayek and taught him the ways of her tribe, hunting and trapping. Eventually Kensa's tribe had to move on. Several years later in 70 BCE, Kensa met up with Bayek, Aya, and the street urchin Tuta in Thebes while Bayek was searching for his missing father, Sabu. They learned that Menna, a grave robber who had attacked Bayek's home years earlier, was also in Thebes. With Seri and Neka, two of Kensa's family, the quartet hunted for Menna.
Neka was captured and tortured, but ultimately rescued by the others. During the battle Menna fled on a chariot, with Bayek and Kensa pursuing. Kensa shot Menna's driver dead, and Menna perished in the subsequent crash.
Kensa got word that Sabu was being held in a pit on the island of Elephantine; she joined Bayek and Aya in their search for Sabu. Under the cover of a sandstorm the group infiltrated the island, but instead of Sabu, they found a deranged man in the pit. After they escaped the guards, Sabu revealed himself to the group. Bion, the man hunting the last of the Medjay, arrived at the same trap and was injured, but escaped.
During the Ptolemy XIII's visit to Siwa in 49 BCE, Kensa was taken as a slave and exploited by Lucius Septimius and his clan. She eventually managed to escape and fled the village, making her way to the city of Krokodilopolis in the Faiyum Oasis. There, she was taken in by Felix Martialis, the owner of the Krokodilopolis Arena, who trained her to become a gladiator.
A year later in 48 BCE, Kensa was reunited with Bayek, who had come to the city pursuing Shadya's killer and the Order of the Ancients member The Crocodile. Catching up with Bayek, Kensa helped him gain access to the arena, where they formed a team alternately called The Guardians of Siwa or The Siwan Warriors. Together, Kensa and Bayek fought and climbed the ranks to challenge the arena champions, the Gallic brothers Diovicos and Viridovix. After defeating them, Kensa learned of Bayek's true motives for entering the arena; Bayek believed them to be responsible for Shadya's death. Kensa offered to help him, though Bayek refused and left the arena.
The next day, Kensa was employed as a bodyguard by Berenike, Shadya's true killer and a member of the Order of the Ancients, though in this task Kensa ultimately failed.
In time, Bayek invited Kensa to join the Hidden Ones, an offer which she accepted.
Whilst it is not required in order to complete the mission, Kensa may be killed during the assassination of Berenike; regardless, Kensa is not mentioned again.
Even if Bayek killed Kensa, a papyrus informing that Kensa was still a gladiator in Faiyum can be found in the Bureau of the Hidden Ones, indicating that she survived the encounter.
The name Kensa is derived ultimately from Arabic كَنْز (kanz) meaning 'treasure'.
In the official Assassins Creed: Origins prequel novel Desert Oath, Kensa has her name spelled as Khensa.
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Summary Sentence: The School of History and Sociology presents the final speaker in the spring 2018 speakers series, Dr. Nancy Reynolds from Washington University, St. Louis.
The School of History and Sociology welcomes Dr. Nancy Reynolds, Associate Professor at Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Reynolds will give a talk on "Urgency, Waste, and the Affective Politics of Construction at Egypt's Aswan High Dam." The talk is from 4:00 - 5:30 in Old CE room 104. All are welcome.
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Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is built on seven hills at a place where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic Ocean. It is a port city with a very rich history and a vibrant modern culture. Some of the city's trademarks are its old squeaky trams, hilly narrow streets in the districts of Alfama and Bairro Alto, and numerous elegant squares.
Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe. It was called Felicitas Julia during Julius Caesar's times.
After the Roman rule, Lisbon was conquered by Muslim forces from North Africa and the Middle East, so many mosques were built in the city.
In the 12th century, the city was reconquered by the Crusaders, and it has been a major political, economic and cultural center of Portugal ever since.
During the Age of Discovery (a period of European history when overseas exploration started), many expeditions left from Lisbon, including Vasco de Gama's famous journey to India in 1498. At the same time, Lisbon served as the main European hub for trading spices, sugar, textiles and other goods with Africa, India and the Far East.
In 1755, the city was nearly completely destroyed by an earthquake, when 85 percent of Lisbon's structures were ruined.
Portugal has been a republic since 1974, and it is now an important member of the European Union.
Built in the 16 century, this fortified tower played an important role during the Age of Discovery in Portugal, having served as a part of the defense system. The tower sits on the bank of the Tagus River, and it is considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal.
Beige and white on the outside, the structure consists of two parts: the bastion and the four-story tower on the north side of the bastion. Tourists are welcome to visit the interior of the tower, and to enjoy truly breathtaking views of the river from one of the tower's terraces.
São Jorge Castle stands tall at the top of a hill just above the historic center of Lisbon. It dates from medieval times, and it was built as a fortification by the occupying Moorish forces (the Moors were a group of North African Arab people) in the 10th century. When it was renovated in the 14th century, the castle counted as many as 77 towers.
Over the years, it served as a royal palace, a soldier's hospital and, occasionally, as a theater. São Jorge Castle was severely damaged in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and has lost its strategic importance since.
The castle complex offers an impressive view of the historic part of the city. It is also very rich in sightseeing-worthy places itself, as it consists of the castle, the ruins of the royal palace, gardens, and a spacious square. The main square Praça d'Armas is beautifully decorated with bronze cannons and statues, and definitely one of the most visited attractions in Lisbon.
This 12.3 kilometers (7.6 miles) long bridge is a relatively new structure in Lisbon, having opened for traffic in 1998. It is the longest bridge in Europe, and is supported by additional 4.8 kilometers (3.0 miles) of access roads, which makes the overall experience of seeing the bridge from afar even more amazing.
On average, the bridge serves 52,000 cars and trucks each day. In order to be able to withstand such traffic, Lisbon's strong winds and unforeseeable weather conditions, the bridge was built to survive an earthquake up to 4.5 times stronger than the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
Crossing this bridge is a great way to realize how magnificent the Tagus River is, and move between northern and southern regions surrounding Lisbon.
Bairro Alto is Lisbon's most popular nightclub district. The streets of Bairro Alto are long, narrow and colorful, shaped by three to four-story buildings and asymmetric facades. The city of Lisbon has invested greatly in the remodeling of the district in recent years, so many new bars, shops and traditional Portuguese restaurants were open.
Bairro Alto is the youth neighborhood of Lisbon. The district gives a great insight into Lisbon's subcultures, and it is a perfect place to familiarize yourself with fado, Portuguese traditional music. Cars are restricted in Bairro Alto, which makes you feel isolated from city noises and traffic jams.
With very warm weather in the summer, and mild winters, Lisbon is a popular tourist destination all year round. Yet, as it often rains, it is advisable to always carry an umbrella or a raincoat with you.
If you are in the mood for a long, uphill walk, Bairro Alto can be reached on foot. Otherwise, you should go with funiculars (a railway going up and down a mountain), which promise some stunning views of the city.
Cabo de Roca, the westernmost point of Continental Europe, is less than an hour away from downtown Lisbon, so it is a perfect destination for a half-day tour.
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to take money from an ATM.
What does "in the mood" mean?
The main square is beautifully decorated __________ bronze cannons and statues.
The neighborhood gives a great insight __________ Lisbon's subcultures.
The tower __________ an important role during the Age of Discovery.
Vasco de Gama Bridge was built to survive an earthquake 4.5 times __________ than the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
You can see the bridge __________ afar.
When did Vasco de Gama leave Lisbon for his famous expedition to India?
Why was the city nearly completely destroyed in 1755?
Because there was a big fire.
Because of the Great War.
Because there was an earthquake.
Who reconquered Lisbon in the 12 century?
What was traded in Lisbon between different traders from Europe, Africa and the India?
Over the years, São Jorge Castle served as a royal palace, a soldier's hospital and a theater.
Over the years, São Jorge Castle mainly served as the royal family's summer house.
Belém Tower was very important during the Age of Discovery because it served as a lighthouse.
Belém Tower was very important during the Age of Discovery because it served as a part of the defense system.
"Bairro Alto is a very popular area, so you should be prepared for frequent traffic jams."
"Being in Southern Europe, Lisbon has very pleasant and warm summers."
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There are a wide range of tasks in the maintenance of our car, either by disbelief or lack of knowledge usually send the mechanic but the truth is that they are very simple and can perform them ourselves in the comfort of our home and adapting to our time.
One of these tasks is called oil change, and highlight step that is carried out so coarsely.
First we highlight the importance of the lubricant, which irrigates our engine and without him running our car would not be possible as it performs vital tasks such as reducing friction and lubrication temperature control parts that keep our engine running.
To begin, we must first identify the crankcase cover, we will tend to lower the car models and find a cover to protect it when removing find a plug for easy identification.
Some people recommend performing this task with the engine cooling stage and not completely cold, but it really depends on the type of oil as it is important to remove flow to remove the plug , and the fluidity or viscosity of the oil is determined by its temperature, what I respect I recommend them PROCEED with the engine cold.
When removing the cap carter place a bowl or tray, there began to be deposited oil slowly and gradually.
Then withdraw the oil filter usually located in the center of the engine but is easy to identify, we need to remove a key chain or otherwise force of arms, removing it carefully to avoid breaking the seal.
On removal notice that still contains oil so it is necessary to remove it carefully.
Some people recommend in this state to start the car for about 15 seconds, and this facilitates cleaning expelling the residual lubricating oil system, but the truth is that we will leave this to the professionals, if you still want to do it is important not to lead by the measured car oil, as this depends on where the meter bulb is located, thus more than 15 seconds can finish with the life of your engine.
Once the sump drain plug again will place the same, we will apply the new oil filter and post the new lubricant in the amounts indicated by the official manual of our car.
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The autograph essay is a personal story written in the first person about your life and experiences. Be sure to write with your own voice when writing your autobiography. We' re here for biographies, not autobiographies. Find examples of autobiography and informative content. Imagine, Marshall, to create a guided magazine in which others can also write about their lives.
Vomit writes an essay on autobiography Like yourself. tbh I really love to write research papers.
What is the best way to start an autobiography about yourself?
The autobiography is a tale an autobiographer talks about his own world. With one of the following 7 strategy you will find an easy way to find a dignified concept for your autobiography: 1) Build a past - present - forward. Add a wealth of experience from different phases of your lifetime to show how, when and why you recognized that profession is your vocation.
Demonstrate that you already have some skills and experiences (if any) in the selected area, while still understanding the importance of continuing career advancement. Talk about individuals (parents, teacher, boyfriends or celebrities) and special circumstances that have encouraged you to decide on this work. If you write about your idols, don't neglect to focus on YOU (what you have won, learned and done).
Talk about some major changes in your own lives to show that you are moral and have learned a great deal from your work. Pollution plays an important part in your daily work. You are free to debate environment or welfare matters if you really take charge of them and they are in some way related to your subject (for example, this may be a good option if you plan to go to law or politics).
Debate positives and negatives to show why you think your world is not always a rose bedside.
The autograph is an autograph story about your own lives and experience in the first one. University often requires this kind of paper in admission proposals. If you are a prospective employee, you may want to learn about your own career. The press and journals are also interested in autobiographic articles by celebrities or people worth reporting on.
One very long autobiographic essays makes an autobiography, a favourite literary style. Seem to be simple to spell and have a boring repertory, it is important to start an autobiographic paper with a spicy aphorism. Look at your public to understand the aim of the paper. Applicants are not required to submit an article to a renowned journal for publishing.
Identify what the public is looking for and adapt the paper to this use. Choose the topic of the paper before you start to write. It is the subject that connects the paper, and an article without a subject is just a collection of coincidental memories. Begin an article with a topic to make your work consistent and easily understandable.
The topic of an autobiographic essays for the school can be, for example, "Resilience in the face of difficulties". Do a paper before you start. Draw the different parts of the attachment. Like history, an essays has a beginning, a center and an end. Begin with a straightforward, thought-provoking phrase.
Do not start with "in this article I will about....". Keep in mind that the aim is to awaken interest and interest in the readers, who are likely to have already studied innumerable autographs. One example: "The summer Joe was released, I teached my mommy to use a shotgun" makes the readers learn more about what was.
he first movement did not initiate a life-affirming incident. Do not start the paper with a specific date and proceed in chronological order until you reach your workstation. You will not in the first phrase or anywhere else in the paper make up incidents that have not taken place or make up discussions that have not taken place.
Since 2006 he has been a professional writer.
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Elementary students should learn about fingerprinting.
Learning forensic subjects in elementary school gives students a basic idea how DNA, fingerprints or analysis may lead to the police capturing a suspect after committing a crime. Since the students are young, it is important to find age-appropriate lessons to teach. Hands-on forensic activities are not only entertaining but also provide students with a deeper understanding of how certain analysis methods work.
One important aspect of a crime scene is recovering possible fingerprints left by a suspect. Students can use simple materials to illustrate how a suspect leaves behind fingerprints, and then gather them for further identification. You will need a medium to large paintbrush, clear packing tape, charcoal briquette and an index card for each student. Provide each student with an approximately 2-inch piece of masking tape, as well as a blank index card. Use the paintbrush on the briquette, until you have a light coat on the brush from the charcoal dust and paint a students index finger. Next, the student may press her index finger to any non-paper surface in the classroom, though it should preferably be glass or her desk to avoid dirtying up the walls. Have the student press the packing tape to the print in order to lift it from the surface, and then tape it to the index card in order to see it better.
Understanding splatter patterns is important.
Blood splatter or other material splatter is important to a crime scene because it illustrates where the victim and suspect were standing during the crime. Recreate a splatter for analysis by using two small water balloons outside. Have the students fill two of the balloons, and gather the class to an area outside such as the blacktop or sidewalk. Have one student throw the balloon directly onto the ground, and have the second student throw the balloon at an angle, about a foot away from himself. Next, have the students analyze what they see—for example, the direction of the splatter, why the two are different and why the size of the splashes can indicate what direction the balloons were thrown in.
Each person has different teeth impressions.
Understanding how teeth play a part in solving a crime is important, and studying the impressions may help identify a victim. A hands-on activity for students to participate is by making her own teeth impression. Cut plastic foam plates into six wedges, giving each student two wedges. Use one plate for three students, so the amount of plates you need depends on the class size. Place two wedges, one on top of the either, and have the student place them into the mouth with the widest part at the teeth. Instruct them to bite down firmly but not through the plate. Next, the students will take the plate wedges from the mouth and label them accordingly as “Top” or “Bottom” to indicate which jaw the impressions came from. Have the students analyze what they notice about the impressions, such as characteristics, missing teeth or gaps between teeth.
Leiva, Laura. "Forensics Activities for Elementary Students." Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/forensics-activities-elementary-students-6400065.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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Abandonment: the desertion by anyone who has assumed the responsibility for care or custody.
People with disabilities are 3 times more likely to experience violent victimization as other adults and adolescents and 3 times more likely to be sexually abused as children.
Why are so many people with disabilities victims of abuse?
Several factors contribute to people with disabilities experiencing higher rates of domestic and sexual violence. Isolation within a community, reliance on caregivers for personal care, and limited transportation can all create unsafe situations. Perpetrators may perceive people with disabilities to be easy targets because of societal stereotypes and extremely low prosecution of perpetrators of crime against people with disabilities.
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- Faith and understanding go hand in hand: Understand that you may believe; believe that you may understand.
- True happiness consists in knowledge of God.
- Father, Son and Spirit coinhere in the Godhead as the faculties if memory, intellect and will coinhere in the human mind.
- Individual beings in the midlle empirical world have developed out of the primeval matter God created ex nihilo with the help of seminal powers implanted in it.
- Not only sin but also guilt has been transmitted from Adam as a consequence of the 'Fall' by way of concupiscence, which Christ alone has avoided.
- As a consequence of Adam's sin, humankind was condemned, but God has chosen to predestine some to salvation as an act of grace while permitting others to be lost.
- The church on earth is a mixed body of saints and sinners outside of which there is no salvation.
- So long as human civilization lasts, there will be two 'cities', one composed of those who desire to serve themselves and to grasp worldly power, the other of those who desire to serve God and who would forfeit power.
Augustine was educated as a rhetorician in the former North African cities of Tagaste, Madaura, and Carthage. Between the ages of 15 and 30, he lived with a Carthaginian woman whose name is unknown; in 372 she bore him a son, whom he named Adeodatus, which is Latin for 'the gift of God'.
Inspired by the philosophical treatise Hortensius, by the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, Augustine became an earnest seeker after truth. He considered becoming a Christian, but experimented with several philosophical systems before finally entering the church.
For nine years, from 373 until 382, he adhered to Manichaeism, a Persian dualistic philosophy then widely current in the Western Roman Empire. About 383 Augustine left Carthage for Rome, but a year later he went on to Milan as a teacher of rhetoric. There he came under the influence of the philosophy of Neoplatonism and also met the bishop of Milan, St. Ambrose, then the most distinguished ecclesiastic in Italy. Augustine presently was attracted again to Christianity.
He returned to North Africa and was ordained in 391. He became bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) in 395, an office he held until his death.
Augustine's doctrine stood between the extremes of Pelagianism and Manichaeism. Against Pelagian doctrine, he held that human spiritual disobedience had resulted in a state of sin that human nature was powerless to change. In his theology, men and women are saved by the gift of divine grace; against Manichaeism he vigorously defended the place of free will in cooperation with grace.
Augustine died at Hippo, August 28, 430.
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Is Zoltan Hargitay Gay ?
Zoltan Hargitay is an American actor, popular with many films some of them are on Retroactive (1997), Reflections on a Crime (1994) and T-Force (1994). He is a son of an actress in film, theater, and television, Broadway star, Jayne Mansfield and a Hungarian-American actor and Mr. Universe 1955, Mickey Hargitay. Zoltan is a married person, but there is no information about his wife in social sites.
Zoltan Hargitay was Zoltan Anthony Hargitay on August 1, 1960, in Sanat Monica, California, the USA to Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay. She is American and belongs to the White-American ethnicity.
After his parents' divorce, he started living with his mother and step-father, Ellen Hargitay and he took his step-dad last name, 'Hargitay'.
He was raised along with his four siblings, Mariska Hargitay, Miklos Hargitay Jr., Jayne Marie Mansfield, Tony. Hargitay lost his mother in the car accident.
Zoltan Hargitay is best known for his work in 1994 movies, T-Force and Reflections on a Crime. He also appeared in action drama movie, Retroactive which was released in 1997.
Zoltan Hargitay is quite secretive about his personal life and that might be the reason, he never shared his private stuff to media. As per some online sources, he is married but no further information has available.
Hargitay is the brother-in-law of Peter Hermann who is a popular actor and former brother-in-law of Dana Hargitay. He is a grandson of Vera Jeffrey and Herbert Palmer. Zoltan is an uncle of Jianni Cimber.
Zoltan Hargitay is not a controversial star, so there is no information about his affairs on social sites. He visited Jungleland in Thousand Oaks.
Hargitay hasn't revealed the real figure of her net worth but it is assumed to be in thousands of dollars.
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Why isn't anyone talking about how to convert my retirement accounts into retirement income?
Draw retirement income in a tax advantaged way.
Collect Social Security while still working.
Create a strategy to protect your income and investments.
Ensure you don't outlive your money.
Minimize the downside of market exposure.
Spouses are urged to attend.
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Which states have laws that require rest periods?
7 States have rest periods requirements: California, Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
Under California state law, many workers are entitled to take uninterrupted half-hour lunch breaks and regular paid ten minute breaks during shifts of 3½ hours or more. California law provides that employees who are not permitted to take the meal and rest periods allowed under California Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 5 must be paid one additional hour of pay for each day that the rest periods are not permitted, and one additional hour of pay for each day that the thirty minute meal periods are not taken.
Colorado law requires an employer to give its employee a paid, uninterrupted 30-minute break for every five hours worked. Additionally, each employee is entitled to a 10-minute break for every four hours worked.
Lunch Periods Employers are required to give employees a reasonable period for lunch as close to the middle of their scheduled work shift as possible but no sooner than 3 hours or longer than 5 hours from when their shift starts. Rest Periods Employees are entitled to a 10 minute paid rest break during each 4 hours worked.
A paid rest break of at least 10 minutes is required for each 4 hours worked. The rest period must be provided no later than the end of the 3rd hour of the shift.
If an employee works more than 5 hour in a shift, they must be allowed at least a 30 minute meal period. The meal period cannot start prior to 2 hours into the shift or later than 5 hours into the shift. This meal period does not have to be paid if the employee is relieved of all duties for the entire period.
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This paper proposes a deep learning architecture based on Residual Network that dynamically adjusts the number of executed layers for the regions of the image. This architecture is end-to-end trainable, deterministic and problem-agnostic. It is therefore applicable without any modifications to a wide range of computer vision problems such as image classification, object detection and image segmentation. We present experimental results showing that this model improves the computational efficiency of Residual Networks on the challenging ImageNet classification and COCO object detection datasets. Additionally, we evaluate the computation time maps on the visual saliency dataset cat2000 and find that they correlate surprisingly well with human eye fixation positions.
In this paper, we propose a novel application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to the synthesis of cells imaged by fluorescence microscopy. Compared to natural images, cells tend to have a simpler and more geometric global structure that facilitates image generation. However, the correlation between the spatial pattern of different fluorescent proteins reflects important biological functions, and synthesized images have to capture these relationships to be relevant for biological applications. We adapt GANs to the task at hand and propose new models with casual dependencies between image channels that can generate multi-channel images, which would be impossible to obtain experimentally. We evaluate our approach using two independent techniques and compare it against sensible baselines. Finally, we demonstrate that by interpolating across the latent space we can mimic the known changes in protein localization that occur through time during the cell cycle, allowing us to predict temporal evolution from static images.
In the problem of determining the asymptotics for the number of points moving along a metric tree, a polynomial approximation that uses Barnes’ multiple Bernoulli polynomials is found. The connection between the second term of the asymptotic expansion and the graph structure is discussed.
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Sasaki Rena (Kitagawa Keiko) is a beautiful woman with excellent memory and intelligence. She becomes a private detective and risks her life to chase down evil private detectives, because her younger sister was murdered by a stalker. The person that provided information to the stalker on her sister's location was a private detective.
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To improve the bleak situation of breeding Black-tailed godwits in The Netherlands, we can either aim to improve survival or productivity. A more detailed knowledge of how much we have to improve either one can equip us with knowledge on where to place the levers that might enable us to stop the population decline. In this paper, we use empirically gathered demographic estimates to predict the future of Black-tailed godwits in The Netherlands with the help of an analytical population model. Under the best conditions (high adult survival and high reproductive output) the Dutch breeding population of Black-tailed godwits will drop under 15 000 breeding pairs as early as 2060, while when assuming more realistic starting values, we predict less than 10.000 breeding pairs by 2030. Survival is hard to modify, given the already very high annual survival of godwits. Therefore we aim at predicting how much reproduction has to improve to stabilize the population decline. Under the very best scenario, which is rather optimistic, reproductive success must reach values of at the very least 0.85 fledged young per pair and year for every godwit pair breeding in The Netherlands for every year. The realization of this will be difficult, as it has to be negotiated with respect to economical expectations of grassland owners. We conclude that the goal to stop the population decline of Black-tailed godwits breeding in The Netherlands is a very ambitious and heartening goal, but not a realistic one under the current conditions. In the light of the demands of agricultural politics and economics, it is questionable if we will be able to take the measures necessary to stop or at the very least slow the decline of the Black-tailed godwit in The Netherlands.
Does Prunus serotina always act as an invasive species?
Prunus serotina, a North-American tree species, is widely considered an aggressive invasive species in Western Europe. Opposite to prior studies, which focussed mostly on areas heavily invaded by P. serotina, we studied long-term (60 years) forest development in the Liedekerke forest reserve in Flanders, Belgium, located in an area with a low propagule pressure. Aerial photographs (1944–1986), forest inventory data (for 1986, 1996 and 2006), and tree ring data were used to reconstruct the invasion pattern of P. serotina, to infer the underlying mechanisms, and to predict the future role of P. serotina in the forest reserve. Long-distance dispersal events and windows of opportunity triggered the invasion of P. serotina. Colonization was directed by connectivity to seed sources and light availability. The presence of native shrub species, the quick canopy closure, and the recalcitrant herb layer hampered further establishment. Closing the windows of opportunity for invasive species might be an effective measure to mitigate their aggressive behaviour.
During the last decades of the 20th century the biodiversity of the agricultural landscape in the Netherlands decreased strongly. To illustrate this process a comparison was made between data of the occurrence of breeding birds and plants in the northern part of the Gelderse Vallei (situated in the central part of the Netherlands) in the seventies of last century and in 2002. Inventories were made in 1 by 1 kilometer topographical grid cells. We found that especially shrub-nesting and common farmland birds (including meadow birds) have strongly decreased, while woodland-birds and several species of waterfowl have increased. We also found that the plant species of nutrient-poor habitats have strongly decreased and plant species of nutrient-rich habitats have probably increased. It is concluded that most negative changes in characteristic bird- and plant populations have been caused by major changes in the landscape due to agricultural development and urbanization. Our results coincide with general patterns in the rest of The Netherlands.
The nature reserve Het Friesche Veen was acquired in 1985. The reserve features a terrestrialization mire. Most of it consists of alder carr as a result of succession after abandoning from agricultural exploitation. A small part is still open mire, and the management authorities aim to maintain it by annual hay making. We recorded permanent plots during the past two decades of which the vegetation dynamics in the community dominated by Calamagrostis canescens are shown. The plots revealed similar trends for all communities dominated by Calamagrostis canescens, Phragmites australis and Carex lasiocarpa repectively. The number of plant species declined, whereas the cover of Sphagnum spp. increased to 100% (fig. 1), probably as a result of the increasing effect of rainwater lenses in the peat soil. Hence, the target of Sphagnum-rich reeds will be met in the future. It seems that the target of species-rich Caltha palustris fen meadows will not be reached.
The ecological quality of lake Grevelingen is slowly decreasing. This is likely a result of oxygen depletion caused by lack of tidal movement which leads to stratification and accumulation of organic material in low dynamic areas. Observed effects include the presence of large white mats covering more than 10% of the bottom of the entire lake, the absence of benthic organisms and an increased turbidity. Until recently the origin of the white mats remained unknown. Sampling and microscopic research carried out in 2008 revealed that these mats are formed by at least four different species of Beggiatoa spp. This bacterial genus often occurs in marine sediments, especially with low levels of oxygen en high levels of organic compounds. Beggiatoa bacteria oxidize sulphide to sulphate. However, under low oxygen condition sulphide is transformed to sulphur (and H2O) and white sulphur mats become visible on the sediment surface. Thus, the white mats in lake Grevelingen are an indicator of low oxygen conditions. To halt the observed ecological decline in lake Grevelingen it is necessary to gain detailed knowledge about the presence of these white mats and the processes in and near the bottom leading to oxygen depletion (hypoxic conditions) resulting in the formation of these mats.
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In graph theory, the planarity testing problem is the algorithmic problem of testing whether a given graph is a planar graph (that is, whether it can be drawn in the plane without edge intersections). This is a well-studied problem in computer science for which many practical algorithms have emerged, many taking advantage of novel data structures. Most of these methods operate in O(n) time (linear time), where n is the number of edges (or vertices) in the graph, which is asymptotically optimal. Rather than just being a single Boolean value, the output of a planarity testing algorithm may be a planar graph embedding, if the graph is planar, or an obstacle to planarity such as a Kuratowski subgraph if it is not.
Kuratowski's theorem that a graph is planar if and only if it does not contain a subgraph that is a subdivision of K5 (the complete graph on five vertices) or K3,3 (the utility graph, a complete bipartite graph on six vertices, three of which connect to each of the other three).
Wagner's theorem that a graph is planar if and only if it does not contain a minor (subgraph of a contraction) that is isomorphic to K5 or K3,3.
The Fraysseix–Rosenstiehl planarity criterion, characterizing planar graphs in terms of a left-right ordering of the edges in a depth-first search tree.
The Fraysseix–Rosenstiehl planarity criterion can be used directly as part of algorithms for planarity testing, while Kuratowski's and Wagner's theorems have indirect applications: if an algorithm can find a copy of K5 or K3,3 within a given graph, it can be sure that the input graph is not planar and return without additional computation.
Other planarity criteria, that characterize planar graphs mathematically but are less central to planarity testing algorithms, include Whitney's planarity criterion that a graph is planar if and only if its graphic matroid is also cographic, Mac Lane's planarity criterion characterizing planar graphs by the bases of their cycle spaces, Schnyder's theorem characterizing planar graphs by the order dimension of an associated partial order, and Colin de Verdière's planarity criterion using spectral graph theory.
The classic path addition method of Hopcroft and Tarjan was the first published linear-time planarity testing algorithm in 1974. An implementation of Hopcroft and Tarjan's algorithm is provided in the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms by Mehlhorn, Mutzel and Näher . In 2012, Taylor extended this algorithm to generate all permutations of cyclic edge-order for planar embeddings of biconnected components.
Vertex addition methods work by maintaining a data structure representing the possible embeddings of an induced subgraph of the given graph, and adding vertices one at a time to this data structure. These methods began with an inefficient O(n2) method conceived by Lempel, Even and Cederbaum in 1967. It was improved by Even and Tarjan, who found a linear-time solution for the s,t-numbering step, and by Booth and Lueker, who developed the PQ tree data structure. With these improvements it is linear-time and outperforms the path addition method in practice. This method was also extended to allow a planar embedding (drawing) to be efficiently computed for a planar graph. In 1999, Shih and Hsu simplified these methods using the PC tree (an unrooted variant of the PQ tree) and a postorder traversal of the depth-first search tree of the vertices.
In 2004, Boyer and Myrvold developed a simplified O(n) algorithm, originally inspired by the PQ tree method, which gets rid of the PQ tree and uses edge additions to compute a planar embedding, if possible. Otherwise, a Kuratowski subdivision (of either K5 or K3,3) is computed. This is one of the two current state-of-the-art algorithms today (the other one is the planarity testing algorithm of de Fraysseix, de Mendez and Rosenstiehl). See for an experimental comparison with a preliminary version of the Boyer and Myrvold planarity test. Furthermore, the Boyer–Myrvold test was extended to extract multiple Kuratowski subdivisions of a non-planar input graph in a running time linearly dependent on the output size. The source code for the planarity test and the extraction of multiple Kuratowski subdivisions is publicly available. Algorithms that locate a Kuratowski subgraph in linear time in vertices were developed by Williamson in the 1980s.
A different method uses an inductive construction of 3-connected graphs to incrementally build planar embeddings of every 3-connected component of G (and hence a planar embedding of G itself). The construction starts with K4 and is defined in such a way that every intermediate graph on the way to the full component is again 3-connected. Since such graphs have a unique embedding (up to flipping and the choice of the external face), the next bigger graph, if still planar, must be a refinement of the former graph. This allows to reduce the planarity test to just testing for each step whether the next added edge has both ends in the external face of the current embedding. While this is conceptually very simple (and gives linear running time), the method itself suffers from the complexity of finding the construction sequence.
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James Bond movie fans will have to wait for one more year to see Daniel Craig reprising the role in the upcoming untitled Bond 25 movie. As per the latest update, the film is now expected to be released on April 8, 2020.
The news of James Bond movie being pushed back by two months was confirmed via the franchise's official Twitter account with a tweet that read, "The release date for Bond 25 has changed. Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli: "We are absolutely thrilled to be releasing Bond 25 on 8 April 2020."
Apparently, this is not the first time when the forthcoming spy-thriller movie has been pushed back. Prior to this, acclaimed director Danny Boyle quit the project over creative differences, which reportedly halted the project for some time.
James Bond movie producers had announced in 2018 that Boyle is no longer associated with the project.
After Danny Boyle left the project, the studio hired Cary Joji Fukunaga. It was announced that the filming of the upcoming James Bond movie will begin in March at Pinewood Studios and will release on February 14, 2020. But now the movie's official premiere date has been changed.
As per a report by Variety, the decision to push back Bond 25 will reportedly give the movie's director some additional time to finish the large budget spy-thriller movie.
As per several speculations, Bond 25 is going to be the last film to feature Daniel Craig as British-spy. There have been several alleged reports that the studio is reportedly planning to cast a new younger actor to play the iconic role. There were talks that either Idris Elba or Bodyguard TV series star Richard Madden may get the chance to play James Bond.
"Look, there's no point in making excuses about it, but it was two days after I'd finished shooting the last movie," he said. "I went straight into an interview and someone said would you do another one and I went 'No!'"
Daniel later stated that he wishes to go out on a high note, via The Guardian.
Is James Bond going to die in upcoming movie?
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Sum the character Jacob from Hopebreaker up in three words.
Name three songs that would make the movie soundtrack for The Memory Magus.
More Than a Memory (Garth Brooks), I Don't Want to be a Memory (Exile), Mind is the Magic (Michael Jackson).
In your own words, how do you narrowly define the broad genre "speculative fiction' and what do you believe you offer to this vast genre that differs from other authors?
The definition is in the first word -- it's all about speculation. If fiction is about asking questions, then speculative fiction is about asking the question: "What if?" So, for the example of Hopebreaker, what if there were no more human births, and what if contraceptive amulets were used to stop women giving birth to demons, and what if a smuggler found himself caught up in a bitter war between the Resistance and the Regime? Speculative fiction covers many popular genres, including fantasy, science fiction, and, to some degree, horror. What if we lived in a world of knights and dragons? What if there was One Ring to rule them all? What if there was time-travel? What if there really were vampires and werewolves? It could be from the most plausible scenario to the most fantastic, but it's often about other realities, even ones that seem like they intersect with our own.
I think it's mostly a matter of forcing myself to sit down and write, whether I feel like it or not. Often after the first few minutes, which might be a chore, something "clicks," I feel "in the zone," as it were, and things start to flow without resistance. Alternatively, if I feel I'm not getting anywhere with a scene, I may need to scrap it and start fresh, or come back to it later. In most cases, however, inspiration is invoked, not waited for.
Name the title of any book (and author) that describes your writing style.
That's a difficult one, as I'm not sure there is a single book or author that encapsulates my style. There's probably a bit of Dickens, a tid-bit of Tolkien, and a dose of King, among others. I would hope that readers find my style unique.
n the world of Altadas, there are no more human births. The Regime is replacing the unborn with demons, while the Resistance is trying to destroy a drug called Hope that the demons need to survive.
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On the eve of the First World War, the threat of civil war loomed in Ireland as Nationalists and Unionists has armed themselves and had established militant groups (the Irish Volunteers and the Ulster Volunteers respectively) in pursuit of their aims. The Ulster Covenant had already established the Unionist commitment to oppose Home Rule by any means necessary, which included force, and despite what nationalists continued to believe, Unionists were willing to use violence if it had to in order to prevent Home Rule.
It is generally agreed that the First World War had put a stop to the violence for a time as both nationalism and unionism were called upon to support the British war effort. A potential war was averted, ironically, by another larger war. By the end of the War, the rise of republicanism had swept away the support for Home Rule that had existed before the war and the question of devolution rather that outright independence became irrelevant.
What I am interested in is what might have happened had a civil war unfolded in Ireland (presuming that the war on mainland Europe had not taken place or had happened at a later date). I'm inclined to believe that Unionists might have succeeded in the war given the militarily superior Ulster Volunteers in comparison to the Irish Volunteers and the possible refusal of the British Army to engage after the Curragh incident. Of course, the Nationalists may have succeeded as well (although probably only with the support of the British Army), or the war might have had no decisive outcome and may have ended up back where it had started, or "status quo ante bellum". In the aftermath of such a war, the country might well have been partitioned or the very notion of home rule might have been dropped completely (even if the Nationalists had won), or it would have eventually been implemented (but probably being unable to govern properly in Ulster).
In any case, the war would have left the country devastated, and would probably have only enhanced the dire economic condition that Ireland was in at the time. Thousands would likely have been killed as a result and violence would likely have returned at a later date, as the war would probably have solved little politically.
We were lucky to have been spared of such a conflict (although the one which followed in Europe was undoubtedly far more tragic and damaging), but had it taken place, what do you feel would have been the outcome?
You have missed the point. If the first world war had not happened the imperial parliament would have had to implement the act of parliament, which was passed and signed into law by the monarch, giving self rule to the island of Ireland.
That would have been the rulers of a world wide empire, with a security force capable of enforcing that rule, implementing their decisions.
And to add to the speculation maybe the Ulster crisis was one of the causative factors of why the first world war itself broke out.
You need to explain that a bit more.
Why - because the Kaiser perceived Britain to have Civil War pending in its back yard?
Also the question arises is were the Germans stoking the flames in Ulster deliberately? Don't forget they supplied guns to both sides and I remember reading an account by a later senior Civil servant in Ireland who said that German Intelligence were crawling all over Ulster in those years.
The weird thing about the 1914 crisis is that for all the marching and parading and even importing arms, neither of the rival Volunteer groups really considered fighting each other.
In Cavan for instance, the Ulster and Irish Volunteers used the same halls for drills on different days and there doesn't seem to have been any problems. The radical IRB element at the core of the Irish Volunteers insisted that they were not out against the Ulster Volunteers, but rather that they admired their methods of facing down the British and were standing up for 'their own rights of citizenship'. In Newry during the Easter Rising the National Volunteers (at that point the bulk of the 1914 Vols) and the Ulster Volunteers took turns guarding the railway station to make sure the 'Sinn Feiners' couldn't attack it.
I could be wrong about this but I'm pretty sure the confrontation that was on the cards, if any was between British state forces and whichever of the Volunteer movements they decided to face down. The UVF to enforce Home Rule or the IV to disarm them. In either case (and I admit this is pure speculation) my opinion is that in 1914, there would have been some skirmishes but that the will to really fight the British Army did not exist on either side. Yet. Remember that despite the strong IRB influence, John Redmond exercised a strong degree of control over the Volunteers in 1914, and fighting the British was not something he wanted to do.
That said, people at the time speculated that in the event of an army operation to suppress the UVF, Catholics especially in Belfast would have borne the brunt of reprisals. Which seems likely given what happened later.
World War I led to the suspension of Home Rule even though it had passed the final stages and could have been enacted.
Had it been enacted there is no doubt the Unionists would have fought to remain in the Union and would have been supported by the Conservatives.
It might even have led to another civil war in Britain with Liberals against the Conservatives who were militantly opposed to Home Rule while the UK was suffering from industrial unrest.
Once the killing started the grudging admiration between the UVF and the IV would have been gone and it would have been kill or be killed.
It is not unusual when wars start particularly civil wars for people who were good friends to turn into bitter enemies overnight.
It was just as likely that an outbreak of war in Ireland in 1914 might have been the trigger for World War I as the assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
It has been suggested that this was the main reason Britain entered WW1.
Constitutionally, the king was not obliged to appoint a PM from the largest party. I think given George V's opposition to Home Rule at the time, that it is not impossible that he might have sacked Asquith and appointed Bonar Law or a general to lead the govt had an attempt been made to impose All-Ireland Home Rule.
Ironically, this ensured longterm that most of Ireland would be lost to the British Empire.
There is no way the Nationalist side could have won such a civil war at that time. The Unionists had 5 million of rounds of ammunition from Germany, and 30,000 rifles. The Irish Volunteers had 10,000 rifles and maybe 1000 rounds of ammunition.
Its interesting to speculate what Germany was playing at. Perhaps they hoped to tie down British forces suppressing unrest or fighting a civil war in Ireland/UK so that they wouldn't intervene on the Continent. But surely it would have made more sense then to arm the Nationalist side more? But then in 1914 they did sent the Aud-Norge submarine with 20,000 rifles which would have made a big difference in rebalancing the equation had it not had to be scuttled when the British intercepted it. Maybe they didn't expect the British army to collude with the Unionists and thought Britain would be distracted putting down Unionist opposition to Home Rule, and when they heard of the Curragh Mutiny decided to arm the Nationalists too.
The British might have allowed the northern Unionists to take control by force of the nine Ulster counties but put the British Army between Ulster and the rest of Ireland to allow Home Rule in the south.
Home Rule did not actually dissolve the union, it was more like devolution. And it's not at all certain that the UVF would have fought British forces.
There was zero prospect of the Liberals and Conservatives in Britain resorting to arms against each other.
As I was trying to point out, the Irish Volunteers and UVF displayed no willingness to start killing each other in 1914. Even in early 1922 which was the closest we came to such a scenario there were still substantial restraints on nationalist versus unionist violence.
And the other thing about 1914 is that Home Rule even at that date would have meant partition, which Redmond was prepared to concede and which would have satisfied most Ulster unionists.
Or we could assume that they would have enforced home rule and fought against the unionist to ensure its enactment. Or they could have enacted home rule and stayed out of the ensuing civil war.
Or they could have enacted home rule and stayed out of the ensuing civil war.
Yeah right. And let the Germans exploit the situation here to set up a base to attack Britain? Not likely.
The Irish Volunteers had no more than 2,000 rifles, certainly nowhere near 10,000.
The Ulster Volunteers bought their rifles from private contacts in Germany, not the state. So the Germans were not arming the UVF per se. The German state's consignment of arms to the Irish Volunteers was in the very different circumstances of 1916.
A base where and whose side were they going to take?
Traditionally the Brits saw Ireland as the backdoor to Britain - a potential base for enemies. They would have feared we would side with Germany in the hope of getting the North back and full independence, in return for Germany having a base to use against Britain.
It was in British interests to have some sort of pro British state in Ireland. The British may have had good intentions in trying to introduce Home Rule but when it came down to it they were unlikely to allow an all Ireland state to be set up with the possibility of it being anti British or ambivalent to British interests. Such a state would have had to have supported Britain in WW1 & WW2.
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Program: Play Stations - I Love ABA!
A great program for teaching or increasing appropriate play skills would be: Play Stations.
I usually teach this during NET portions of the session, and the specific way it is implemented will vary according to client age, current play ability, and the setting. So what follows should really be considered a template that will need to be individualized to your specific client(s).
Teaching play stations would be ideal for a client with play deficits, to teach independence/leisure activities, or for pre-school age clients struggling in that setting.
Many of my young clients spend their time at pre-school/daycare wandering aimlessly around the room, or engaging in problem behavior. In that type of setting there's often less of a strict schedule of activities, and more "free play" time with multiple choices around the room. So the client would be at a disadvantage if they are unable/unwilling to interact with the play choices.
A play station is just an all-contained area for play with a related group of toys. For example: clay/Play Dough area, play kitchen area, water play area (I like to include sensory play as well), blocks/Lego area, etc. Think of a typical pre-school classroom. The room usually will have specific play areas sectioned off, in what teachers often call "centers". Toys stay in the specific designated area, and there are many choices available for the children to rotate through.
A play station could also include one themed toy, such as a carwash toy, a marble maze toy, or a railroad set. The options are endless.
I like to label the play areas, this can be done textually or visually, and also include teaching prompts for both the therapist team and the parents/caregivers. A huge benefit of this program for me, is that it's often so easy to generalize to the parents/outside of therapy sessions.
Teaching prompts for the therapist team could include current targets that can be embedded into the play. For example, at an art play station the therapist could embed color ID, tracing/writing, imitation, one step instruction, sharing or turntaking, and multiple fine motor targets ("open the ______","pick up the _______, "use the scissors to cut", etc.). Mastered targets could also be embedded as a maintenance skill or to target generalization across stimuli.
Teaching prompts for the parents or family could include suggested ways to interact/engage the child with the play, as well as a handful of teaching examples (that have been modeled for the parent during therapy sessions). For example, at a water play station the parent could start an imitation game of pouring out water, implement manding trials to have the child request, or redirect the child to a play station activity when the parent needs to take a phone call, do laundry, etc.
F: "Don't worry, I'm on the way to help."
F: "I'll save you again"
C: "Thank you Mr./Ms. Firefighter."
Over time this script prompt can be faded, the acting roles can be alternated, and the language used can vary for spontaneity. For example, the firefighter can pretend to be unable to put the fire out to see how the civilian will respond.
Keep in mind that this program is aimed at teaching play skills, meaning it should be FUN!
If the client isn't enjoying interacting with the play stations then reinforcement needs to be examined, perhaps the time interval is too high, perhaps the adult isn't all that fun to play with, or maybe the play choices available just aren't that interesting.
Does the client love straws? Iron Man? Beads? My Little Pony? Insert their interests/likes into the play stations, and remember to bring along lots of creativity when designing their play choices.
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This is a article about The Lost Generation, writers who relocated to Paris in the post WWI years.
Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, a number of intellectuals, poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years. Paris was the center of it all.
American poet Gertrude Stein actually coined the expression "lost generation." Speaking to Ernest Hemingway, she said, "you are all a lost generation." The term stuck and the mystique surrounding these individuals continues to fascinate us.
Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date.
There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. Others usually included among the list are: Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Ernest Hemingway was the Lost Generation's leader in the adaptation of the naturalistic technique in the novel. Hemingway volunteered to fight with the Italians in World War I and his Midwestern American ignorance was shattered during the resounding defeat of the Italians by the Central Powers at Caporetto. Newspapers of the time reported Hemingway, with dozens of pieces of shrapnel in his legs, had heroically carried another man out. That episode even made the newsreels in America. These war time experiences laid the groundwork of his novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929). Another of his books, The Sun Also Rises (1926) was a naturalistic and shocking expression of post-war disillusionment.
John Dos Passos had also seen the brutality of the war and questioned the meaning of contemporary life. His novel Manhatten Transfer reveals the extent of his pessimism as he indicated the hopeless futility of life in an American city.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as the portrayer of the spirit of the Jazz age. Though not strictly speaking an expatriate, he roamed Europe and visited North Africa, but returned to the US occasionally. Fitzgerald had at least two addresses in Paris between 1928 and 1930. He fulfilled the role of chronicler of the prohibition era.
His first novel, This Side of Paradise became a best-seller. But when first published, The Great Gatsby on the other hand, sold only 25,000 copies. The free spirited Fitzgerald, certain it would be a big hit, blew the publisher's advance money leasing a villa in Cannes. In the end, he owed his publishers, Scribners, money. Fitzgerald's Gatsby is the story of a somewhat refined and wealthy bootlegger whose morality is contrasted with the hypocritical attitude of most of his acquaintances. Many literary critics consider Gatsby his best work.
"This land here cost twenty lives a foot that summer...See that little stream--we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it--a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation."
The Lost Generation writers all gained prominence in 20th century literature. Their innovations challenged assumptions about writing and expression, and paved the way for subsequent generations of writers.
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Dragons represent the primary feature of Dragon Mania Legends and are the very foundation of the game. These inhabit the world of Dragolandia, along with many other human characters, and can be found working alongside or against the player. There are hundreds of species of Dragons in the game, each species having a unique appearance. Almost all Dragons are able to breed with one another to produce more Dragons, battle against other Dragons, or even produce Gold.
Dragons hatch from eggs and then transition from their baby stage to their adult stage upon being fed. Feeding is the only way to strengthen and grow a Dragon. Dragons do not age past their adult form, only increase up to a maximum level through feeding, thus Dragons are immortal. At Level 4, the young Dragon assumes its adult form and can then breed, train, improve its skills at the Dragon Academy and participate in various battles in the game.
The only way for players to get rid of their own Dragons is to sell them. Chronos and Clan Dragons are the only unsellable Dragons in the game.
There are several ways to obtain Dragons. The most common way is to breed them in the Breeding Den, the only place where they can be bred. They can also be bought from the various shops in the game, such as the Main Shop or Dungeon Shop, using a specific currency. There are several Base Dragons in the game, each embodying a different Element, which can be purchased with Gold from the Main Shop when the user reaches a certain level. These are the only ones that can be purchased in exchange for this currency.
Some Dragons in the game can only be bred or bought during a limited-time period. However, there are many other Dragons that are unbreedable. Clan Dragons and Boss Dragons are such Dragons, with the former being attainable only through Clan-related activities and the latter by purchasing in exchange for Gems after several conditions have been met or, in some rare cases, through limited bundles or promotions. There are also Dragons that are won through competing in the various events that take place in the game, either against other players or against the game itself, or as part of a Clan completing various quests or competing against other Clans. Other Dragons are earned through different battle settings, such as those in the Clockwork Dungeon, Enchantment League, Dragon League and Heroic Mode.
Once a Dragon egg is obtained, regardless of the method, it must then be incubated in the Hatchery until hatched. The only Dragon that does not come from an egg is Chronos, a Dragon that possesses no Elements or rarity and is obtained through a unique method. Eggs that that do not come from breeding will be found in the Template:Icon under the tab and can be sent to be incubated from there. After hatching the Dragon, it will need to be placed in a fitting Habitat. The Book of Dragons comprises all the Dragons in the game, except Clan Dragons and Chronos.
With the exception of Chronos and Clan Dragons, players can have more than one of the same species of Dragons. The player can also not come into the possession of more than one of the same species of a Boss Dragon, unless that Dragon is made available for purchasing in a bundle, promotion or sale.
Most Dragons that are acquired through a method other than buying or breeding are not usually available to be bought as duplicates until they are obtained and hatched by the player and then subsequently placed in a Habitat on any of the player's islands. Normally-Breedable Dragons and Dungeon Dragons, VIP Dragons (as long as the player has the necessary VIP level), Boss Dragons (as long as they are beaten at least once in Normal Mode), Dragons that are currently time-limited breedable, and Dragons that are currently part of a promotion or bundle in the Main Shop can always be purchased without prior presence on the islands. However, the first three category of Dragons must first be unlocked as the player progresses through the game.
Dragons that can be purchased as duplicates will usually be buyable in exchange for Gems. Base Dragons are always purchasable in exchange for Gold while Dungeon Dragons are always purchasable in exchange for Dungeon Tokens. There is no limit to how many Dragons of the same species a player can obtain through breeding, as long as that particular Dragon is currently breedable. Additionally, Card Dragons (a type of Dragons that are obtained only in exchange for matching Dragon Pieces) can be obtained as duplicates since there is no limit to how many matching Pieces a player can have for any of those Dragons.
Dragons obtained through Enchanted Breeding are unbuyable, even if they are present on the player's islands. With very few exceptions, Divine Dragons are also unbuyable. Lastly, Chronos is unbuyable, as well, and can only be obtained once by finding various shards of Chronosian Seals while exploring ruins.
Since, for some Dragons, their presence on the islands is necessary to purchase duplicates of them, those obtained through a method other than buying or breeding will most likely never be obtainable again if they are sold.
Almost all Dragons in the game possess certain characteristics known as Elements and rarity. These characteristics determine their breeding and hatching time, as well as battle and Gold-producing attributes known as stats. There are three different stats for Dragons who possess them; Health, Attack and Gold per Hour. Stats increase whenever the Dragon increases in level. Clan Dragons and Chronos have no stats, while Boss Dragons possess only the first two stats.
Update 3.3 turned the Gorilla Dragon, Leopard Dragon and Sea Turtle Dragon into Enchantment-Breedable Dragons.
Update 3.2 changed the VIP levels at which the VIP Dragons are obtained. Prior to this update, the Mystic Dragon was obtained at Level 2, the Elixir Dragon at Level 4, the Midnight Dragon at Level 6, the Calavera Dragon at Level 8, the Quadwing Dragon at Level 10, and the Tiki Dragon at Level 12.
Update 3.0 made Heavy Metal Dragon obtainable only through matching Dragon Pieces. Prior to this update, it could be obtained through events and the cost to purchase it as a duplicate was 1,250 Gems.
Update 2.9 discontinued the Razor Dragon and Blueflame Dragon as prizes for completing collections in the Dragon Codex and made the Steampunk Dragon and Bighorn Dragon purchasable as duplicates.
Update 2.7 made the Rastafari Dragon obtainable through Weekly Dragon Pieces. Before this update, it was an Event-Only Dragon and the cost to purchase it as a duplicate was 865 Gems.
Update 2.6 introduced Clan Dragons.
Update 2.3 introduced Enchantment, which can be used to enhance the Attack and Health of Dragons and to breed new Dragons.
Starting with this update, the Cookie Dragon, Kangaroo Dragon and Piggy Bank Dragon are no longer obtainable through Daily Quests and are now found in regular card packs. Prior to this update, the cost to purchase them as duplicates was 840 Gems, 1,600 Gems and 1,500 Gems, respectively.
All iOS users that were active during the release of this update were rewarded with the Fireball Dragon.
Update 2.1 discontinued the method of obtaining the Tick Tock Dragon through connecting the game to an Apple Watch.
Update 2.0 introduced Card Dragons and made the Liquid Fire Dragon and Mummy Dragon to be obtainable only through matching Dragon Pieces. Prior to this update, the Liquid Fire Dragon could be obtained through events and the cost to purchase it as a duplicate was 950 Gems, whereas the Mummy Dragon was available for purchasing through real currency on one occasion and the cost to purchase it as a duplicate was 1,050 Gems. Additionally, the Tick Tock Dragon can now also be obtained through matching Dragon Pieces in addition to connecting the game to an Apple Watch.
Update 1.9 introduced the option to rename Dragons.
With the introduction of the Dragonscale League in this update, the Mech Dragon, Tsunami Dragon and Warlord Dragon are no longer obtained from the top spots of the Diamond League but from those of the new league.
Update 1.8 introduced VIP Dragons.
Update 1.5 introduced the Light and Shadow Elements, as well as unlockable Elements for Legendary Dragons. It also made Steampunk Dragon (and other subsequent Dragons obtained through Heroic Mode) and Tick Tock Dragon unpurchasable. Prior to this update, the cost to buy duplicates of the Steampunk Dragon was 3,000 Gems while duplicates for the Tick Tock Dragon cost 900 Gems.
Starting with this update, in addition to breeding, the Bee Dragon can also be obtained as a reward from the Daily Prizes.
Update 1.4 introduced the method of obtaining Dragons through the Totem of Friendship.
Update 1.3 introduced the methods of obtaining Dragons through the Friend System and Clockwork Dungeon and made the Hammerhead Dragon obtainable as part of a promotional reward in the Dragon League rather than events.
Before this update, the Agent Dragon and the Lynx Dragon were the two weekly Dragon League prizes on rotation. They were first given for the top three spots then later for the top ten. Starting with this update, they are obtainable as a promotional reward within the very same competition.
Update 1.1 introduced the method of obtaining Dragons through defeating specific quests in Heroic Mode.
The breeding time for the first Tribal Dragon obtained through this method was changed from 5 minutes to 12 hours, as are all subsequent Tribal Dragons. There was no change to the hatching time, which remains 5 minutes.
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Here is a person want to cross the street, but the traffic is too heavy. Can you help him avoid these fast car and reach to the station safely? Good luck!
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Transmission: Automatic Color:Black Interior Color: Average Vehicle Review: (0 reviews) I chose this over the BMW X5, Acura MDX and Mercedes R 350 because: EcoBoost - very fast Seats 7 2 sunroofs, 1 that can open Touchscreen nav Parks itself Has paddle shifters Very luxurious.
Transmission: Automatic Color:Black Interior Color: Black Average Vehicle Review: (0 reviews) I love this car it rides nice has so many options and have gotten so many compliments on it. I would recommend this car to women especially as it is so classy.
I chose this over the BMW X5, Acura MDX and Mercedes R 350 because: EcoBoost - very fast Seats 7 2 sunroofs, 1 that can open Touchscreen nav Parks itself Has paddle shifters Very luxurious.
I love this car it rides nice has so many options and have gotten so many compliments on it. I would recommend this car to women especially as it is so classy.
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Are waterproof boots too hot for desert hiking?
A: Indeed, Suzie, waterproof boots are hotter than non-waterproof boots. In some conditions, they'll be much hotter. After all, when it's 100 degrees out, would you rather wear a light, breathable nylon shirt or a waterproof parka, even a so-called waterproof-breathable one? True, the parka is supposed to breathe and keep you more comfortable, but really warm temps will render this moot. For that reason, I remain lukewarm (no pun intended) to the concept of waterproof boots. In a cool, wet climate, I'm willing to buy it. Otherwise, forget it.
For you, I'm inclined to recommend really breathable boots that use a lot of mesh fabric. For example, if you can find them over your way, the Merrell Mesa Ventilator Mid ($80 U.S.; www.merrell.com) is a comfortable, light boot that uses leather and mesh construction for high breathability. Waterproof? Not on your life. But in hot conditions, ideal. It comes in a low-cut, trail-runner model for $75 if you need a less clunky, lighter shoe. The Vasque Breeze ($110; www.vasque.com) offers similar materials in a slightly heavier boot for bigger loads.
Otherwise, look for an all-leather boot without a waterproof insert: Scarpa's Delta M3 ($219; www.scarpa.net) is a superb example. Its 2.8-millimeter leather uppers meet the criterion of "waterproof," but it's still much more breathable than a boot with a waterproof insert. Too hot in the desert? Well, possibly. Some people are prone to hot feet and some are not. And, it's good for either extended day hikes or big weeklong trips. Lowa's Tanark Mid ($170; www.lowaboots.com) is a similar boot, though a little less rugged than the Scarpa.
Remember, too, that a good pair of light, wicking socks will go some way to helping mitigating foot sweats. Pairs from SmartWool (www.smartwool.com) or Wigwam's line of Ultimax hiking socks (www.wigwam.com) should help keep your dogs drier.
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There’s a lot of buzz right now around ad blocking. Depending on your perception, you might consider ad blocking a savior… or a growing problem. Both points of view are valid, to some degree. What appears to be a certainty, however, is that the use of ad blockers is expected to grow exponentially.
Ad blocking, in technical terms, is the act of selectively downloading material when visiting a website or using an app, thus “blocking” the unwanted items from loading. Most often this refers to ads, but it can cover anything, like embedded media, social widgets or tracking beacons.
This software also can run at other levels. For example, more sophisticated users can change settings on their operating system so that no ad networks are contacted, no matter which browser or application is used. Others install software on their entire network (on the Internet router for a house or business) so that it works for everyone in that location. Some companies, like Shine, even create software to sell directly to mobile carriers to block ads.
Carrier-level blocking actually breaks net neutrality in the U.S., so it’s unlikely to ever be ubiquitous. However, recently there has been a rise in the use of zero-rating — allowing some data to not count against a customer’s bill, e.g., Spotify streaming for T-Mobile — which could potentially be used to make advertisers pay for data and take away some of the bandwidth cost from users. This also has come under scrutiny as another potential violation of net neutrality.
Why would someone use an ad blocker?
There are four main reasons someone would use an ad blocker: performance, privacy, security and a better experience.
Performance. The average page has dozens of ad tags, and ad providers are typically built with no regard to performance (loading hundreds of tags, images, megabytes of video, etc.), so preventing all of this from loading drastically speeds up the website.
Privacy. Most ad networks and tracking systems (like Google Analytics) collect information about user behavior and pages visited, which can lead to privacy issues. Ad blockers stop all of this and make it easy to browse privately.
Better experience. Ad formats have evolved from simple banners to rich media, and are at the height of intrusiveness today with things like outstream video (video instantly appearing in between paragraphs of an article) and in-image banners (banner ads layered on top of other images). These ads are often annoying and disrupt the user from viewing the content that they’re actually trying to read in the first place. This only leads to negative effects and is arguably the biggest reason for using ad blockers.
Because ad blocking is mostly accomplished through browser plug-ins, it makes sense that it only works against ads on websites. Apple’s iOS has recently allowed for content blocking extensions in its Safari browser, so now it’s possible to block ads on mobile websites, as well. Both iOS and Android also allow for third-party browsers that can come with ad-blocking abilities built in.
Ads in native mobile and desktop apps are mostly immune as they have no extensions (and can’t be affected by browser plug-ins). Sponsored content that’s embedded directly by the publisher is also unaffected (like messages written naturally within an article or read aloud in a podcast). Some boutique custom pieces like the Netflix-sponsored articles on WSJ.com can be blocked, but are usually left alone because they are good-quality content.
First-party ad serving is a gray area and basically refers to the website publisher serving ads from their own domain (the way ads on Facebook’s website load from facebook.com). This usually implies that these ads are sourced directly and can get around ad blocking because blocking the domain would block the entire site.
Advertisers won’t really be affected much. They still have a massive amount of website traffic available, along with lots of other channels, like social and mobile, to which to shift their spend. As more content is heading toward closed platforms and apps, advertising will only become more integrated and harder to remove.
Publishers are the most affected because they lose out on ad revenue when visitors block ads. There are ways around this, such as using first-party ads and producing sponsored content, but that requires a lot of time and effort and only works for top publishers with the reputation and large audience in which advertisers are interested.
Mid-size and long-tail publishers can’t do this effectively — they lack the scale and infrastructure to be viable. Some publishers have tried paywalls, but that comes with a steep decline in users willing to pay, and only works for very high-quality, exclusive or niche content. Publishers that tried using messages to ask ad blocking users to whitelist their sites have seen almost no effect — and actually saw an increase in the ad-blocking rate by alerting users who weren’t using it.
There are efforts to improve the experience, like Blendle for micropayments and Facebook Instant Articles, but the revenue situation is far from concrete. Nobody knows if it will actually work and be sustainable, but the future is probably a combination of distributed access through closed platforms, different technologies employed by websites and more sponsored content.
This would be a big change, and likely would need a standardized API in order for publishing systems to work with ad networks to seamlessly render content and ads in a single pass. Content-delivery networks can also potentially do this by automatically rewriting the page to include ads with the content as it’s loaded.
Analytics are also something not mentioned much, but are just as affected. Services like Google Analytics, Chartbeat, MixPanel and dozens of other companies that don’t serve ads but help site owners analyze what their audiences are doing are starting to see their stats become useless as a large and important part of the audience is now invisible. They will likely have to move to server-side first-party tracking, as well.
Advertising won’t be going away anytime soon. Ads are a fundamental part of the web ecosystem and have allowed for the massive growth in content and destinations. They are the reason Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and countless other services exist.
There are only two methods to compensate content producers: pay directly or get free content in exchange for ads. While there is constant innovation in micropayments and subscriptions, the truth is that many people, in countless surveys, have shown they just aren’t willing to pay for the typical content that’s delivered on the web. Articles are worth fractional cents, and there is too much friction with micropayments, especially for content that’s consumed only once.
Given all of this, online advertising still remains the fastest, most passive, most anonymous (compared to direct payment methods) and most universally accessible way to subsidize and view content.
Publishers that chase short-term revenue while lowering content quality and output.
Advertisers that constantly demand more attention and measure success through forced engagement.
Ad networks (the primary culprit) with slow, heavy ads that disrupt the user experience while ignoring basic privacy and responsibility.
But it’s not all doom and gloom; the best part is that this is a completely solvable problem. Advertising is a great model, but what is fundamentally wrong today is the implementation. It’s not advertising itself, but how it’s done that’s causing this current backlash.
As the industry evolves, what we’ll likely see is fewer ads (which increases scarcity and actually raises prices and revenue) with more streamlined and non-intrusive units that are focused on content rather than obtrusive in-your-face messages. There will be more focus on privacy and ensuring users feel comfortable with how their data is used. Advertisers will craft more creative pieces that actually entertain and inspire. Banners will still be around, but in-image, rich media and outstream video will need to go.
Instinctive is one of the companies ahead of the curve today with seamlessly delivered native units showcasing quality branded content. Not only does it mean a better user experience, but it also delivers better performance, more engagement and stronger brand awareness for advertisers.
Advertising is definitely in a rough spot today. Ad blocking is both good and bad for the industry, but one thing is for sure — it’s a change that has been desperately needed and just might result in a better future for the entire web.
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The network is trained with rms prop gradient descent and a mini batch size of 8.
RELU and Adam gradient descent optimisation seem to work well on this data.
Next, we connect a GRU and Feed Forward layer with Sigmoid activation and train the neural network with rms prop gradient descent, learning rate of 0.003 and batch size of 32 for 30 epochs.
Next, the LSTM network is trained for 10 iterations using rms prop gradient descent and a hidden memory size of 128.
The network is trained with Adam gradient descent and Gaussian weight initialisation for 20 epochs.
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New programmers always ask what language they should start with and I tell them they should learn Python first. Here are some reasons to start your self-taught programming adventure with Python!
1. It has wide applications and is used in a variety of fields.
Python is used by computer scientists, data scientists, biologists, business analysts, physicists, and sociologists, as well as popular apps like Dropbox and Youtube. You can use it on all kinds of projects on all kinds of devices.
2. Python programmers have some of the highest salaries in the US technology industry.
Python programmers are only outdone regarding salary by those who use Swift. The average salary for a Python programmer is $92,000 a year.
3. The demand for knowledgeable Python programmers is growing.
More and more job openings for Python programmers are being created as the language grows in popularity, meaning that learning Python could very well land you a job.
4. It’s quick to code in Python.
In plain and simple terms, the number of characters you have to type to get something done in Python is much fewer than in other languages.
5. Python is easily readable for humans, making it beginner-friendly.
Python reads more like English than other languages, meaning that it’s easier to get the hang of the syntax.
6. Python has a vibrant community continually creating resources.
The amount of reference material, guides, and creations using Python is immense. This means that you can look at how other people are doing similar things to help you get started on your own program.
Also, check out all the coding-themed events on the Python homepage! And there is nothing quite like PyCon, a yearly conference for all things Python.
7. It has replaced Java as the most popular language being taught to freshmen at universities in the US.
If you were going to get a traditional degree, you would probably learn Python first. Don’t fall behind your college-educated peers by neglecting to learn a language that’s so popular!
8. It will allow you to focus on learning big-picture concepts instead of toiling over minutiae.
Unlike other languages, you won’t have to laboriously deal with confusing syntax. Instead, you can quickly create functional programs and learn the sort of stuff that will really give your knowledge a boost!
9. Its construction helps you master the basics of good programming style, like indentation and naming conventions.
If you learn Python first, you will be all set up to develop good programming habits that will help your code be clearer to human readers later on like always using indentation.
10. The curve to learn Python is gradual rather than steep.
You can pace yourself with beginner, intermediate, and advanced resources, and you don’t have to learn advanced concepts to create basic programs.
11. It comes installed on UNIX and Linux machines.
If your device doesn’t already have it, it’s easy to download.
12. The language is open source and free to use.
You don’t have to pay anything to get started learning Python!
What language was your first? How does it compare to Python? Let us know in the comments below!
I have spent the last year coding in python. I’ve worked in Java and RoR and frankly I LOVE python.
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Drop this into the category of: This could happen to anyone. In an interview broadcast Sunday by C-SPAN, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made the following comment: “I did go to law school. I didn’t practice law, but I did go to law school.” A writeup of the interview by ABC News’ Shushannah Walshe, however, got it wrong causing a Twitter mess for CNN’s Lizzy O’Leary. Walshe, who wrote up the interview, tweeted that the story had been corrected 15 minutes after being published and that she had been working off a transcript that got it wrong.
O’Leary scrubbed her initial tweet on the issue which called out Romney for saying that he had not gone to law school, despite Romney not actually saying that. “Uh, but he DID go to law school,” she had said, linking to Walshe’s writeup on Yahoo! News.
Then came the O’Leary’s admission: “I was wrong on Romney law school comment. Looks like mis-transcribed quote in posted story,” she tweeted, linking to C-SPAN’s original video. “Totally my fault for trusting a transcript without listening to the raw interview,” she said in a forthcoming followup.
O’Leary gets double points for acknowledging that she deleted her incorrect tweet: “Deleted inaccurate Romney tweet so it doesn’t bounce around,” she wrote.
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Diego Mendoza, Christian Kaul, Julio Martinez-Trujillo; Working memory and feature-based attention independently modulate the perception of coherent motion in human observers. Journal of Vision 2009;9(8):142. doi: 10.1167/9.8.142.
Attending to a visual stimulus feature selectively modulates activity in visual neurons, resulting in a space-independent perceptual enhancement of the attended feature (feature-based attention, FBA). We investigated whether holding the representation of a visual feature in working memory (WM) produces a similar effect. We further asked whether the effects of WM and FBA occur independently of each other. In three different experiments, seven subjects fixated a dot in the middle of a computer monitor while they identified the direction of a brief pulse of coherent motion in a random dot pattern (RDP) with 0% coherence located eccentrically. Simultaneously, they performed another task that required them to either: a) attend to the motion direction of a second RDP co-occurring with but far from the pulse (FBA-only Experiment); b) remember the motion direction of a previously presented RDP (WM-only Experiment); or c) both (a) and (b) concurrently (WM-FBA Experiment). We found that mean performance in the pulse direction identification task was significantly higher when either the attended direction (FBA-only Experiment, p=0.05, paired t-test), or the remembered direction (WM-only Experiment, p=0.004) was the same as the pulse direction, relative to when it was opposite. This suggests that visual features held in WM (likewise attended features) are preferentially perceived. In the WM-FBA Experiment, mean identification performance was highest when both the remembered and the attended directions were the same as the pulse direction, lowest when both were opposite, and intermediate when one was the same and the other opposite. A two-factor ANOVA revealed significant main effects of WM (p=0.04) and FBA (p=0.03), and a non-significant interaction between these two factors (p=0.25). Our results suggest that WM and FBA can independently modulate motion perception in humans.
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Japanese sales flyer for the arcade game.
X-Men is an arcade game produced by Konami in 1992. It is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name. The character designs of the X-Men and the supervillains in the game are based on the 1989 X-Men pilot episode X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men. In the game, players control one of the six playable X-Men to defeat their enemy Magneto. Konami made a six-player version of the game utilizing two screens housed in a deluxe cabinet.
An HD port of the game by Backbone Entertainment was released by Konami on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade on December 14, 2010 and December 15, 2010 respectively, followed by mobile versions for iOS and Android devices. It is no longer available for purchase as of 2013.
The player chooses one of six X-Men: Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler or Dazzler. Their objective is to stop the villain Magneto from wreaking havoc on human civilization. They must fight through enemies from the comics such as an army of hundreds of Sentinels, mutant crocodiles, Reavers and supervillains such as Pyro, Blob, Wendigo, Nimrod, The White Queen, Juggernaut, and Mystique. Later, Magneto kidnaps Professor X and Kitty Pryde, prompting the heroes to go on a rescue mission. The heroes fight their way to Island M and ultimately to Magneto's base on Asteroid M where the final battle takes place.
The object of the game is to progress as far as possible while surviving attacks from Magneto and his minions. The character is controlled with a standard joystick, an attack button, a jump button, and a mutant power button. In addition to right and left, the character can move up and down the screen as well which adds a three-dimensional feel to the game. Every character is able to fight with punches, kicks, or other close combat attacks. Each character also has a unique mutant power which can be used to defeat multiple enemies on the screen at once. The use of a mutant power is very effective, but also costly since it causes a character to lose three health points. Normally, a character who drops below four health can no longer use any mutant powers, but it is also possible for characters to obtain bonus mutant powers which can be stored like items. In the Japanese version, the power items are used up before the health, and there are also power-ups and health packs throughout the levels.
Depending on the machine, the maximum number of simultaneous players varies from two to six. The six-player version is particularly unusual because it has two contiguous screens (one screen in the usual place for an arcade game, the other in the cabinet below, reflected by a mirror one side of the screen) which created the effect of a single, "double-wide" screen set up, similar to Tecmo Bowl.
On October 9, 2010 Konami revealed that the game would be coming to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. The game was ported by Backbone Entertainment with the original US and Japanese ROMs and was released on December 14, 2010 and December 15, 2010 respectively. The Xbox 360 and PS3 port features drop-in local or online multiplayer for up to six players (only four local players possible on the XBLA version), as well as custom matchmaking and adjustable difficulty. Players can also choose between the US and Japanese versions of the game, the latter of which features power-ups and health packs. All of the voices were re-recorded by Bang Zoom Entertainment due to licensing reasons, but the script retained the infamous lines from the original game, including "I am Magneto, master of magnet!" and "Welcome to die!". In the re-recorded script, only two voice actors were used for male and female characters (Kyle Hebert and Mela Lee, respectively).
The game was delisted from both digital stores at the end of 2013.
On June 2, 2011 Konami also released the game in the iTunes App Store to be played on iOS devices, as well as in the Android Market. The game remained largely identical to the original, with the addition of on-screen controls for smartphones. In June 2014 the app was no longer available in the US iTunes App Store.
IGN gave the HD port of the game a score of 7.5, saying "The game is incredibly simple and repetitive... And yet it works. It's simply a blast to play with friends." Many websites and reviewers such as Gouki.com stated that having unlimited Continues without penalty for all modes has cheapened the classic experience, especially Online play.
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Is it Possible to Over-Drip?
If you're new to the world of vaping, you may be wondering what the difference is between dripping and traditional vaping. Dripping is an advanced vaping method that is known to provide intense satisfaction when done properly.
However, before you attempt to drip, it's important to know how to do this properly. Otherwise, you could end up damaging your equipment or, at the very least, wasting precious vape juice.
Dripping is vaping style that has become extremely trendy among more advanced vape enthusiasts. This method of vaping involves pouring a tiny bit of e-liquid directly onto the coil to enjoy intense flavor and enormous, thick clouds. Many believe that dripping also intensifies the throat hit that comes from the nicotine that's in vape juice.
Many vapers prefer dripping because of how it allows them to have complete control over every hit. When done properly, this vaping method can also extend the life of your coils and stretch out your e-liquid. One disadvantage of this vaping style, however, is that it requires much more time and labor than conventional vaping. It also requires a very steady hand.
To drip properly, you need to have the right equipment. While some conventional vaping devices are compatible with this vaping style, it's best to invest in a tank that's specially designed for dripping. You'll enjoy a much more consistent and satisfying experience. Today, you can find a wide variety of drip-friendly tanks at vape shops.
Step #1: Remove the drip tip from your tank. Then, take your e-liquid bottle and pour three or four drops of vape juice directly onto the coil.
Step #2: Place the drip tip back onto the tank. Then, take a couple of hits.
Final Step: Repeat this process.
By pouring too much e-liquid onto the coil. This will cause the coil to flood, resulting in spit back and gurgling. Your tank may also leak. By over-pouring, you're essentially wasting e-liquid.
The other way that you can over-drip is by taking too many hits after pouring e-juice onto the coil. Because you've only placed a small number of drops onto the coil, the number of hits that the vape juice will produce are limited. Once you've vaped the small amount of liquid that's on your coil, the coil will become dry again. This will result in dry hits that burn your throat and potentially burn out your coil.
When executed properly, dripping can be an enjoyable way to vape that offers several unique advantages. By following this guide, you should be able to drip without any problems.
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I have Hepatitis C and lyme. What protocol would you recommend?
I would recommend you use the Hepatitis C protocol sold by Dry Creek Herbs in California. I used it myself with very good effect. It can help the lyme protocol be more effective as it enhances immune and liver function tremendously. In addition, I would recommend the knotweed, cat’s claw, and the eleuthero tincture.
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What’s the difference between job searching and career development?
The two pursuits often include the same activities—polishing a resume, networking, and finding opportunities (paid or unpaid) to use your skills. It’s the motivation behind these actions that makes them different.
Job searching has short-term goals, and produces concrete results: a job offer. Career development is ongoing, and doesn’t have to have immediate results to be extremely beneficial. Most people who have thought about career development have a clear idea of where they want to be in 5, 10, or 20 years. They’ve considered what role work plays in their lives, and know what activities make them feel fulfilled.
Another important difference between job searching and career development is a person’s attitude toward his or her employment, and the choices she or he makes. A person interested in career development looks at every job prospect or volunteer activity and asks how that position fits into his or her long-term career goals.
Career development can mean making sacrifices, such as choosing between a high-paying job not in a chosen field, and a lower-paying, part-time, or contract position that is related to the field. A short-sighted job seeker, on the other hand, is more likely to take a job based only on the pay, a convenient schedule, or the location. This job seeker may not be concerned about the skills he or she could gain on the job, a potential new network, or how the job will add to his or her resume.
Is career development realistic in times like these when any job is hard to come by? How can you make career development a priority when the financial reality is that you need to find a well-paying job in any field as soon as possible?
Find a job that allows you the time to continue activities in your preferred field. If you are working regular weekday hours, for example, dedicate one or two evenings or the weekends to your career development. Set a timeline for how long you are willing to work in a job not related to your career and adjust your career plan accordingly.
Seek out volunteer positions, internships, job shadows, and other activities, sometimes called work-based learning, which will increase your skills and help you learn about your preferred career field as you earn money with a non-related job.
Continue to build your network in your chosen career field. Stay active in professional organizations. Set up informational interviews on a regular basis. Participate in online communities by asking and answering industry-related questions and posting useful information.
Examine your career development plan on a regular basis. Monitor your progress on your short- and long-term goals. Remind yourself of your professional and personal priorities, and assess what you are doing to support these priorities.
A successful job search will lead to a job. That’s what a job search is for. But is that job part of your career plans? Will it help you achieve your long-term goals? Paying attention to your own career development will allow you to look at your work history, and your life, and see how the choices you make today will improve and shape your future career success.
That’s what career development does that a job search can’t.
What a great post. The difference between a job and a career can be subtle to many folks, but this post helps to really differentiate the two by comparing job searching and career development. Speaking of informational interviews, I have started a blog that has examples of informational interviews, which I agree are a vital part of building a network.
As someone who has recently made a change in my career development, I found this posting incredibly helpful. It’s important to remember that a career path is one that you have the power to change.
Because career development is gradual, and ideally continuous, the benefits may take time before they are realized. It seems that career development takes place in several stages and in many forms. As a grad student, I have found that career development is a deliberate process that is essential to my growth as a professional, as well as an individual.
I think this article is very helpful. It is important to note that looking for a job is a short term endeavor while looking for a career is a lifetime endeavor. Job hunts focus only on the surface level characteristics of a person. Searching for a job seems like the destination while a career is a journey that gets you to the destination.
I also think it is important to continue to explore your interests and hobbies.
This is a very informative blog entry for anyone who is asking themselves the question of whether or not to develop thier skills or find a new job. In an economy like this where jobs are hard to come by it is important to research all of your options. This blog gives you a good base to start from.
I should have paid more attention to the jobs I was working at well before I decided on a career. Fortunately, the jobs that I had gravitated towards and worked in the past related to the career field I am currently pursuing. It’s never too late to plan out the career you want to be in 5, 10, 20 years from now.
While I feel I have always understood the importance of career development, I am learning first hand just how important it is to maintain career development at all stages of a career, not just when considering making a career change. Just because a career choice might be ‘set’ and the employee may be very happy, growth and development does not stop, or should not stop for that matter. Having worked in my industry for 14 years, I am seeing how the business world has changed and how as an employee I have changed. Reinforcing the important fact: constant career development is essential.
Learning the difference between career development and job seeking has been influential in my life as it has helped me to realize not only where I want my career to take me, but how I can contribute to my chosen career in such a way that empowers me and helps me to achieve success as I define it.
Career development is important in all of our lives as ultimately our chosen careers will have a direct impact on the happiness and sense of fulfillment we feel in our lives outside of our careers.
Many people now days are faced with the situation where they are in a spot with trying to find a job, none the less a job that falls into their planned career path. I like that this article has such a positive tone to it. That though people may be put in the position to take on a job that may not be on their intended path, that there are still ways to make your career path shine through. Sacrificing by taking a better paying job, or any job for that matter while you are still working hard in other areas such as networking and volunteering. sometimes we may have to make career decisions that don’t fit so well, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t make these situations work to our benefit. Great ideas in this article.
I think that this is an important point to make – you may not have a particular job forever, but you can always benefit from continually exploring who you are as a person and what your long term goals and desires are. I am glad to see that many colleges are beginning to focus on a person’s continuing development (with tools such as Strengths Quest) and not just helping them get a job when they graduate.
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Syrian anti-government protesters march during a demonstration in the town of Kafr Nabel on Friday.
Barzeh, Syria (CNN) -- At least nine people were killed in an angry day of protests across Syria on Friday, six in the restive western city of Homs and three others in the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
Demonstrators also massed in Aleppo, Hama, and other locations, according to activists and videos surfacing on the Internet, and they come on what has been a weekly rite: Countrywide anti-government protests after Muslim prayers every Friday since the country's unrest began more than three months ago.
Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told CNN that along with the six dead in Homs, two were killed in al-Qadam and another in Daraya -- both Damascus suburbs. Abdulrahman said the death toll since mid-March is more than 1,360 civilians and more than 340 army and security personnel.
State TV reported that "armed men" in al-Qadam shot at anti-riot forces and citizens, killing a civilian. Footage showed people with their faces covered throwing rocks. The report said armed men shooting at police and civilians in Homs killed a police officer and attackers assaulted the labor union headquarters and wounded one person.
It is unclear whether those fatalities are among the six reported by the human rights group.
Human rights activists have said that Syrian security forces have been launching violent crackdowns on peaceful protesters since mid-March. World powers have denounced the regime for its fierce clampdown on protests. Syria, however, has disputed the criticism and has blamed the bloodshed on "armed groups."
But the Syrian regime has made significant gestures amid the mounting criticism. Earlier this week, it allowed opposition activists to hold a gathering, and on Friday, the government escorted international reporters, including CNN's Arwa Damon, to anti-government protests.
She witnessed a protest of a few hundred people in the Damascus suburb of Barzeh, hearing people chant for freedom and call for the downfall of the regime. Protesters changed "peaceful, peaceful" around a massive Syrian flag.
Despite warnings from government minders of danger, Damon and a CNN crew broke away to look around and talk to others.
Last week in Barzeh there had been violence, with at least five people killed, and bullet holes in a number of buildings illustrated the violent aftermath.
CNN journalists met a man who said his 27-year-old son was killed weeks ago, and others showed spots where other casualties occurred.
Damon spoke to a man who said he was a doctor and worked in a tiny room that served field hospital to treat injured demonstrators. He said people were afraid they'd be arrested if they went government hospitals and chose to be treated there. Some bled to death, the doctor said.
People on the street in Barzeh told Damon that there haven't been armed elements among protesters. But many of them covered their faces with scarves for fear of being identified and then detained by security forces. Despite the risks, they said, they believe their movement has the resilience to succeed.
While anti-government demonstrators insisted that Syria can't exist as long as President Bashar al-Assad is in power, the sentiment was different elsewhere in the area.
In the heart of Damascus, there was a demonstration in support of al-Assad. It was a festive-like atmosphere with people extolling the president.
"God, Syria and only Bashar," they said.
Security personnel were out in force in Aleppo preventing demonstrators from gathering in the neighborhood of Seif el Dawla, where a protest was planned, said a human rights activist communicating with CNN from Aleppo via text message.
"I tried to go to Seif el Dawla but they stopped the taxi and checked my ID," said the activist, who for fear of reprisals from the government, only gave his first name "Sanharib." "If your address shows that you aren't a resident, you can't even get in," he said.
In the rural northwestern region of Jabal Zawiya, crowds of protesters could be heard over the phone denouncing the government of al-Assad, a day after Syrian tanks and helicopters launched deadly raids through villages in the surrounding area.
"They killed a young woman named Fatoum Hallaq," said a resident named Mohammad Ismail in a phone call with CNN, as protesters chanted anti-government slogans in the background. It is unclear whether she died on Thursday or Friday.
"She was hiding among ruins. There was a pyramid next to her. They bombed the old pyramid and she died there."
The region of Jabal Zawiya is home to the ruins of several ancient Byzantine "dead cities" which activists claimed Syrian security forces shelled on Thursday.
A video uploaded to YouTube on Friday, purportedly filmed in the western city of Homs, showed men carrying a man whose white shirt was drenched blood, through the streets of the city.
State TV also reported that two security forces were wounded when "armed men" opened fire at security personnel and citizens in Homs.
Thousands are protesting in the western city of Hama, according to a state TV report, and videos purportedly from that western city showed mass gatherings.
Videos purportedly from Qamishli in the Kurdish region, Abu Kamal in the east, and the coastal city of Latakia have surfaced on the Web.
CNN is not able to independently verify the reports.
This comes as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned attacks by Syrian forces on protesters, saying time was running out for al-Assad to begin a meaningful political dialogue with anti-government demonstrators.
Clinton's remarks followed reports a day earlier that busloads of what an activist called "government thugs" were brought into Aleppo, one of Syria's largest cities, to break up a demonstration. The activist did not want to be named for security reasons.
"I'm just hurt by recent reports of continuing violence on the border and in Aleppo, where demonstrators have been beaten, attacked with knives by government-organized groups and security forces," Clinton said during a news conference with Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite in Vilnius.
"It is absolutely clear that the Syrian government is running out of time. There isn't any question about that."
Clinton said al-Assad's government must allow "a serious political process that will include peaceful protests to take place throughout Syria and engage in a productive dialogue with members of the opposition and civil society, or they are going to see increasingly organized resistance."
"We regret the loss of life and we regret the violence, but this choice is up to the Syrian government. And right now we're looking for actions not words, and we haven't seen enough of that," she said.
CNN's Ivan Watson, Rasha Qass Yousef, Yousuf Basil, Nada Husseini, Jomana Karadsheh, Arwa Damon, Hala Gorani, Yesim Comert and journalist Vaidotas Beniusis contributed to this report.
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Inspect the activity area and eliminate potential hazards. Check that the activity surface provides safe traction. Set boundaries for the activity a safe distance from walls and obstacles. Provide a safe distance between activities. Check that the batter has sufficient room for an uninterrupted swing of the lacrosse stick.
One participant per group is designated as the batter. The remaining participants are fielders. Each participant receives a lacrosse stick.
Participants set up four floor markers as bases in a large circle. The last floor marker is set up in the middle of the circle to act as home base.
The batter uses a lacrosse stick to send a ball into open space in any direction.
The batter then tries to touch as many floor markers as possible before being thrown out by the fielders. The batter can run to any of the floor markers to start while the fielders try to trap the ball with their lacrosse sticks and get to a floor marker before the batter does.
Participants rotate once the play comes to an end.
Participants determine a scoring system and keep track of their own score (e.g., 1 point for each base they touch).
The leader asks open-ended questions to help participants refine their movement strategies and tactical solutions during the activity. Examples include: As a batter, how do you decide on the most optimal location on the field to send the ball so that it is more difficult for the fielding players? As fielders, what strategies can you apply to be more effective in bringing the ball back to a floor marker? As the batter, how do you decide which floor marker to run to and why? How does communication come to play in this game if you are a batter or a fielder?
Stop the play once a player has trapped the ball.
Use throwing and catching before progressing to using the lacrosse stick.
Decrease the distance between the floor markers.
Allow the batters to choose the object they want to send and how they want to send it (e.g., kick a soccer ball, throw a rubber chicken, bat a beach ball).
Have the batter send away three balls.
Pass the ball to all fielding participants before bringing the ball to a floor marker.
Throughout the activity, consider highlighting the following skills, concepts, and strategies for striking and fielding a ball while using an implement. Note that this list is not exhaustive, and further learning opportunities may arise during the task.
This game was originally played by a large number of participants and was played to help solve disputes in time of conflict as well as to keep participants in good physical condition. Lacrosse also prepared players for their role as peacekeepers in the community.
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Integer factorization is a process of decomposition of a number into a product of its prime divisors. It is believed that the process of factorization is from the computational point of view very complex, hence it is used in many cryptosystems (e.g. RSA). Prime factorization may be also used to find the least common multiple or the greatest common divisor of two integers.
The complexity of integer factorization is often left unclear. If we look at the classical implementation of the factorization, which iteratively tries to divide a number with all number less or equal to its square root, one may think that the complexity is polynomial (square root of ). However this conclusion is not correct.
The complexity of algorithm is defined as a function of the length of the input, not its numerical value. The twice as big input has two times more digits. Because the input is in the n-ary (binary, octal decimal...) numeral system, the numerical value is growing exponentially. Hence the complexity of the algorithm in respect to the length of the input is exponential.
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BE THE ENERGY YOU WISH TO ATTRACT.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you! This cheesy and over-hyped holiday isn’t just a chance for you to express your love to those around you, but consider it a chance to give yourself some SELF LOVE. In this post, I will be discussing the importance of self love, weaving in some personal updates and also some tips for improving self love. If I had to summarize this whole post into one sentence, it would be this: Loving yourself is the most important thing you can do for yourself and those around you.
Before I get into the nitty gritty, I’ll share what’s new in my world. During the holiday season, I was doing some serious hustling to meet a business goal I set for myself, primarily to open up my online shop in order sell some original paintings and prints. Originally, my goal was to have a few paintings and a few options for high-quality prints. Doesn’t sound like such a big undertaking, right? The plan was to start small. Well, I can tell you that I am not very good at being reasonable, because in the middle of organizing it all, I seemed to think it was not much more work to just put up ALL of my products in the shop, rather than just a few to start with. The problem with that is this: IT WAS HARD.
Of course, just like any goals we set, we come up against challenges, problems, and deadlines. Throughout the hectic frenzy of setting up the online shop, I had many obstacles, including having to ask a colleague for tech help…on a Sunday. I posted desperate pleas in my biz Facebook groups for solutions to my coding problem. I lost sleep due to stress and worry. In my sleep-deprived state, I sent the wrong files to the printer, which resulted in not getting the correct prints made. All of this was happening while I was working a full time teaching job, during the busiest time of the school year (report writing). NOT a smart choice by me.
And you know what? All the unreasonable pressure I put on myself to meet this goal, however innocently, resulted in two unfortunate outcomes: I did not enjoy this experience, and I did not sell a single item online. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that it didn’t work. With hindsight, I can say that I did get a lot out of the experience, like learning how to open an online shop, how to manage the many steps involved, what kind of expectations to place on myself next time around. Though I did I gain knowledge and experience, it wasn't what I expected to gain (financial profit). The way I approached my business goal was over-ambitious for what resources and time I had available, and most definitely not sustainable. Definitely a big learning experience.
So. I allowed myself to close the shop, enjoy a relaxing Christmas back home, and regroup. I came into the new year with the plan to live a more balanced life. Which leads me to the topic of mindfulness. I began an 8-week mindfulness class, in which I am still only up to the start of week 6. Mindfulness has been a part of my life for over a year now, but I never learned about it from an expert, just dabbling in some mainstream meditation apps up until I began this class. Over the past six weeks, I have been practicing the recommended activities and exercises. Perhaps it’s not a shock to learn that I have seen an improvement in such a short time!
I haven’t mastered anything yet, but I am learning and seeing how it improves my mood and ability to handle stress. Being mindful really isn’t a complex notion, though it does take a lot of practice. To be mindful simply means to be aware of the present moment, which often involves focusing on your breathing. Being intentional with how you view your thoughts. Learning to react to events in a more mindful way. But really…. It’s mostly focusing on your breath.
To spread the simplicity of this idea, I have created a free download for you! You can CLICK HERE to get my mindful artwork. I recommend you put it on your wall by your workspace, or save it to your phone screen to remind yourself through the day. Inhale, exhale, repeat. A simple exercise to do.
A free artwork for you! Click the image to get a high-resolution download!
Which brings me full-circle, to the topic of today’s post: self love. Having love and respect for yourself is SO SO SO important. If you don’t know how, I have some tips from the current book I’m listening to on Audible, it’s called the The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. He’s the guy who created all those Chicken Soup for the Soul books way back in the day, which I used to love. The tips you see below are mostly from his book, found HERE.
A little sidebar: I’m not an expert. I’m just a person who wants to improve her life. However, I have done tons of reading and research about personal growth over the last few years. In my humble opinion, giving yourself love and respect means striving to be your best self, for you and for your loved ones. Doing a self care routine is of course a part of it, like doing a face mask or taking a hot bath. However, when I say “self love” in this context, I mean having self respect and trying to become the best version of you. Other people may disagree and say that self love is something else, and that’s okay! Though the next section will make more sense if you get what my definition is.
Take 100% responsibility for where you are right now.
It may be unexpected to hear this, but please read with an open mind. If you rely on complaining or blaming, then you are creating conditioned responses to things that you don’t like.
Replace complaining with taking action and/or making requests.
If you don’t like the reality of a situation, you can change your response. The day you change your responses, from conditioned responses to a more intentional approach, is the day your life will begin to get better.
Give yourself direction by focusing on what makes you happy and intentionally doing more of it.
What qualities make me unique?
How do I express these qualities when interacting with others?
What does a perfect world look like to you? Imagine it’s here in the present. Write a list in the present tense about what a perfect world looks and feels like.
Combine your answers to these to create a sort of personal mission statement, or a purpose statement. Notice how this task requires you to connect your unique talents with making the world a better place.
What do you love to do? Make a list of 20 things!
What do you want? Make another list!
Having a vision means you are more likely to be successful. What do you want your life to be like? To feel like? To look like? I’m new to vision boards, but making one might help you visualize this.
If you don’t believe you can, no one else will either.
Realize what your limiting beliefs are and make efforts to eliminate them.
in order to achieve my potential of contributing positivity and abundance to the world.
My plan is to create a visual with that statement, and put it up somewhere I will see everyday. Maybe on the fridge or somewhere I will see everyday. It will serve as a reminder of what is important to me, and who knows, might be uplifting in the early mornings when I don’t feel so empowered.
I want to say a big thank you to those of you who have read this far into the post! I really appreciate that you’ve chosen to spend your valuable time reading what I have to say. All of what I’ve said today really boils down to this: you MUST love yourself in order to live your best life. Having self love is not just about self care, moisturizing, getting enough sleep, and so on. It’s about striving to reach your potential, being the best version of you, so that you can be a source of positivity in the world. So that you can find happiness and purpose, being a great partner, friend, colleague, daughter, son, pet owner, etc. It’s something I am just beginning to be conscious of and take action on.
I know that life gets stressful and overwhelming. I often feel that way. Practicing mindfulness, or at the very least breathing in and out intentionally, can help you on your path to self love. Don’t forget to download my free artwork that can serve as a daily reminder to you! Cheers to you for reading this blog post. As my goofy husband often says: You’re a rockstar!
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Are you are a software engineer who loves education? Do you want to meet lots of new people and teach engineers how to use Elasticsearch? Come join us at Elastic! In this role, you will support our global team of Education Engineers through creating and developing new educational materials for classroom and online training. You will also help maintain existing courseware and create software tools for interactive learning.
This opportunity has a direct influence on helping us grow and expand our education program by creating new courses for in-person and on-demand as well as helping build a certification program. The education materials you help build will be used by thousands of people every year!
Our ideal candidate thrives in an autonomous setting, taking the initiative to independently deliver results, as most of the team works remotely and we are happy to consider you wherever you live.
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In late October, Polish Alpine Club (PZA) members Wojtec Kozub, Marcin Michalek and Krzystof Starek began tackling a 1400-meter virgin north face in the heart of Nepal's Khumbu Himal. The wall lies on Melanphulan (6571m), a peak six kilometers south of Ama Dablam (6812m) that has a distinctly sharp summit and has been climbed only once on record, in 2000.
Their first day, October 30, the trio climbed 300 meters above their advanced base camp (5100m) and dug a snowy tent platform below the crux. The next day, three pitches higher, they determined that there was no hope of bivying above; to reach the summit, they would need to climb in a push. They retreated to their tent and prepared for an alpine-style effort, which they began the following afternoon. They climbed through the crux in the dark and, in daylight, continued up fluted snow and ice, up to 85 degrees. Thin ice on a few "psychologically demanding" pitches forced dangerous runouts. The trio reached the summit ridge after 32 hours of continuous climbing.
The remaining 100 meters on the ridge crossed deadly and unprotectable cornices too menacing to attempt. Disappointed, the Poles rappelled their route, using V-threads already in place at belays. They returned to the tent at 6 a.m., seven hours after beginning the descent. Despite efforts to stay warm, all three climbers developed frostbite on their toes during the 39-hour push. After a brief rest, they returned to advanced base camp.
The Poles graded the 18 pitches ED2/3: AI4/5 85 degrees.
Upon returning to Poland, Kozub, Michalek and Starek won the PZA's Jedynka award. Other award nominees included the first Polish 9a (5.14d), the winner of the Speed Climbing World Cup, the first Polish climb of Kangchenjunga, and a Polish repeat of Silbergeier (8b+ [5.14a]), a difficult multipitch route in the Swiss Alps.
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Body acne is an underrated problem. More than 50% of people with acne on the face also have acne on the back, chest, and other areas of the body. Unfortunately, as many people are often embarrassed about their body acne, roughly 75% of people with body acne never tell their doctor and seek the appropriate treatment. However, body acne is totally treatable with the use of natural, plant-based ingredients.
Similar to facial acne, body starts with the proliferation of bacteria on the skin along with the obstructed sebaceous glands (i.e. "clogged pores), and the subsequent inflammation that causes pimples.
Back acne is the most common form of body acne, but it can also develop on the chest, shoulders, arms, legs, and buttocks. There are also many external factors can trigger or exacerbate body acne. These include friction from tight-fitting and/or sweaty clothes, the frequent use of thick oily body lotions and massage oil, an unhealthy diet, stress, and hormonal changes.
What natural ingredients help treat body acne?
There are several natural ingredients that have proven to be valuable in the treatment of body acne. Here are the top 10 natural remedies to get rid of back acne fast.
2. Aloe Vera: This soothing plant extract is a quadruple threat with anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiseptic and antimicrobial properties. Aloe vera gel can help kill the acne bacteria, reduce inflammation, and promote healing of the skin.
3. Vitamin C: Ascorbic acid is a natural astringent derived from citrus such as lemons and oranges. Vitamin C is naturally antibacterial and helps remove dead skin cells and unclog pores.
4. Green Tea: The compound catechins in green tea have antibacterial properties that help fight acne-causing bacteria. Green tea is also a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent that can reduce the redness and inflammation caused by acne.
Natural ingredients can certainly help with body acne. That being said, the proven most effective way to treat and prevent body acne is with a combination of medical-grade ingredients (i.e. Benzoyl Peroxide and Salicylic Acid) along with plant-based ingredients. This combination, which can be found int he MDacne Body Acne Treatment, results in a significantly more efficacy while reducing and preventing irritation.
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We are facing a major crossroad before us in the world of agriculture. The decline in healthy food production is contributing to increasing illness and disease in our population globally. Along with this, we find a negative impact on our environment as well. Where will this story end?
In a world of food abundance, millions of people suffer from poor nutrition. In some parts of the world, the poor have inadequate access to energy from food to meet their energy requirements. In these locations, food shortage is often a seasonal phenomenon and micronutrients are also generally lacking in the diet, mostly from poor agriculture practices and insufficient nutrition in our depleted soils worldwide. Elsewhere, there is a stable supply of energy but the poor have monotonous diets lacking in essential micronutrients. In other places a “nutrition transition” is under way in which the poor and other consumers enjoy sufficient access to energy, and indeed often consume excessive amounts, but the quality of their diets is unhealthy owing to a combination of factors relating to nutrition and lifestyle. Excessive consumption combined with more sedentary lifestyles, often associated with urbanization, contributes to an increasing incidence of obesity and chronic disease such as diabetes in countries still plagued by undernutrition. A combination of these nutritional problems adversely affects about 2 billion people worldwide.
The relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is far more complex than the relationship between food production and food consumption or the economic relationship between food supply and food demand. Increased food production raises the availability of food, but by itself does little to ensure that poor and vulnerable people have access to the food that is produced. Nor does the gross quantity produced say much about the quality or nutritional value of people’s diets. The persistence of malnutrition as a global public health concern despite the successes in increasing agricultural production belies any notion that malnutrition and undernutrition can be solved entirely from the supply side. How then can agriculture, with its customary focus on productivity and yields, more effectively contribute to improved nutritional outcomes?
Biological agriculture creates an opportunity to reverse the negative impact our world faces with conventional practices. Fields of Gold Farm & Greenhouse has created a 501(c)3 registered foundation called the Fields of Gold Foundation to help address these issues and contribute toward a positive solution. The Foundation was created to address issues and support efforts in the fields of research, development and education locally in our region of Western North Carolina.
• Creating learning experiences for educational institutions ranging from college to elementary levels, including community outreach programs.
• Supporting role in developing a community garden for the Green Meadows Community, a subsidized housing area, in Hendersonville, NC. The community garden has been regarded as a highly successful effort by the City and is currently in it’s third season of production.
• Development of further biological agriculture practices and protocols to enhance soil fertility and crop production.
• Creating a complete on-site biological soil lab for research and testing samples.
• Implementing educational programs to teach biological agriculture and support more farming opportunities regionally.
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The history of Iran, commonly known as Persia in the Western world, is intertwined with the history of a larger region, also known as Greater Iran, comprising the area from Anatolia and Egypt in the west to the borders of Ancient India and Syr Darya in the east, and from the Caucasus and the Eurasian Steppe in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south.
The southwestern part of the Iranian plateau participated in the wider Ancient near East with Elam, from the Early Bronze Age. The Persian Empire (Persia) proper begins in the Iron Age, following the influx of Iranian peoples. Iranian people gave rise to the Medes, the Achaemenids, the Parthians, and the Sasanians during the classical antiquity.
Once a major empire of superpower proportions, having conquered far and wide, Iran has endured invasions too, by Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and Mongols. Iran has continually reasserted its national identity throughout the centuries and has developed as a distinct political and cultural entity.
Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC. The Medes unified Iran as a nation and empire in 625 BC. The Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), founded by Cyrus the Great, was the first of the Persian empires to rule from the Balkans to North Africa and also Central Asia from their capital in Persis (Persepolis). They were succeeded by the Seleucid Empire, Parthians and Sasanians who governed Iran for almost 1,000 years, and would put Iran once again as the leading powers in the world, only this time amongst their arch rival, the Roman Empire and the successive Byzantine Empire.
In general history of Iran divided into two parts: before and after Islam Islam is divided.
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Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid, which means that the body needs this ingredient and it can not be produced naturally.
Phenylalanine (which is converted to phenylethylamine) must be obtained with food supplements or food sources, including meat and dairy products, oat and wheat germ products.
In order for this supplement to be most effective, the body also needs vitamins B3, B6, C, copper and iron.
Phenylalanine, as an amino acid, helps to produce proteins in the body. There are also several different forms of this supplement: L-phenylalanine, D-phenylalanine and DL-phenylalanine (this is the last combination of two closest forms).
This dietary supplement is important for the normal functioning of the central nervous system.
It is also used for the formation and synthesis of various neurotransmitters such as epinephin, dopamine and norepinephrine. All these chemicals are very important for the proper functioning of the nervous system.
Although the specific mechanisms of action of phenylalanine are still not fully understood, it is known that this food supplement crosses the blood-brain barrier and enters the central nervous system.
This "barrier" is a protective function of the red blood cells and the brain, which protects the toxins, bacteria or viruses from entering the brain and the nervous system. However, this barrier also holds many potentially useful compounds. The fact that phenylalanine can cross the blood brain barrier is inseparable from its effectiveness as a complement to enhancing cognition.
One of the most important ways in which this food supplement works is to synthesize neurotransmitters, especially dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. Recent studies also show that phenylalanine helps to produce melatonin (which is vital for the control and regulation of sleep and wake cycles).
This supplement is for tyrosine, another amino acid. It is believed that tyrosine itself is beneficial in cases of anxiety and depression. It is also important for proper metabolism and can help reduce body fat.
Signals that transmit information from the neuron to the neuro are executed faster and more efficiently.
It seems that phenylalanine has a fairly wide range of effective doses.
Clinical trials have been used anywhere from 100 mg to 5000 mg / day. Typical users take a dose of 1000 to 2000 mg per day.
It is also common to take a phenylalanine supplement with hordenin, which is a compound that prevents the fragmentation of this nootropic. The result is a longer-term effect on phenylalanine and a noticeable improvement in mood.
Although this food supplement is considered generally safe and very well tolerated, there is some related side effect. This is nausea, headache. This information should also not be used by people who are currently using antiseptic drugs and specific antidepressants (MAOIs). Always consult a doctor or a qualified medical practitioner before you start taking this or any other dietary supplement.
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The body-mind link now says- get up, get out and move!
Not only does exercise improve your mood and enhance your self esteem, your brain loves physical exercise too. Exercise is now thought to promote the growth of new brain cells. Until recently, received wisdom had it that we are born with a full complement of neurons (brain cells) and produce no new ones during our lifetime. Fred Gage from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, broke that myth in 2000 when he showed that even adults can grow new brain cells. He also found that exercise is one of the best ways to achieve this.
Angela Balding from the University of Exeter, UK, found that schoolchildren who exercise three or four times a week get higher than average exam grades at age 10 or 11. The effect is strongest in boys, and while Balding admits that the link may not be causal, she suggests that aerobic exercise may boost mental powers by getting extra oxygen to your energy-guzzling brain.
Simply walking sedately for half an hour three times a week can improve abilities such as learning, memory and concentration. Senior citizens too who walk regularly perform better on memory tests than their sedentary peers. What's more, over several years their scores on a variety of cognitive tests show far less decline than those of non-walkers. Every extra mile a week has measurable benefits - on your thinking abilities and your physique.
In mice, at least, the brain-building effects of exercise are strongest in the hippocampus, which is involved with learning and memory. This also happens to be the brain region that is damaged by elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol. So if you are feeling frazzled, it may do your brain a favour if you go for a run - or simply take a walk!
Brain storm - if you don't use these skills you lose these skills!
Some parts of the brain are still developing through adolescence (which we now know lasts until well into our twenties!) and it would seem rewires or reorganizes itself at this age. Could this explain some of teenagers' unique behavioural traits?
Prefrontal cortex The prefrontal cortex is the home of "executive" functioning, high-level thinking processes that, among other things, allow us to develop detailed plans, execute them, and block irrelevant actions. This area undergoes a bulking up between the ages of 10 and 12, followed by a dramatic decline. So…if you don't use these skills you lose these skills! If the adolescent's brain is still learning these skills, this might help explain why teenagers can sometimes seem so disorganised, irrational, poor at assessing risk and can't foresee consequences.
Corpus callosum These are nerve fibres linking the left and right sides of the brain. The parts thought to be involved in language learning undergo high growth rates before and during puberty, but this growth then slows. This might help explain why the ability to learn new languages declines rapidly after the age of 12, and certainly is involved in learning writing skills.
Pineal gland The pineal gland produces the hormone melatonin, levels of which rise in the evening, signalling to the body that it is time to sleep. During adolescence melatonin peaks later in the day than in children or adults. This could be why teenagers tend to be so fond of late nights and morning lie-ins. It is possible teenagers' 8am school starts may be a mistake. They may take less in for the first two lessons of school as they are still in biological 'sleep time'!
Right ventral striatum This area of the brain is thought to be involved in motivating reward-seeking behaviour. A study last year showed that teenagers had less activity than adults in this part of the brain during a reward-based gambling game. The researchers speculate that teens may be driven to risky but potentially high-reward behaviours such as shoplifting and drug-taking because this area is under-active.
Being able to express yourself, find pleasure in life and reach your goals is something everyone would like.
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Which was the earliest family in the orchestra? A piece of wood used for vibration of woodwind instruments.
A horror film would best be accompanied by: A minor leitmotif.
In music, what is a 'scale'? A specific arrangement of notes.
One could expect a tragic Italian opera to include: An aria in a minor key.
Based on the title, one could expect Mozart's 40th Symphony in G Minor to sound: Serious and intense.
'Tonality' is: The character of the music.
A countermelody: is when two melodies create harmony.
Barbershop quartets use: homophonic texture.
Gregorian chant was most often sung in: monophonic texture.
The song 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash features two trumpet players playing the same rhythms but different pitches. This is an example of: Homophonic texture.
A canon can be described as: Intricate polyphonic counterpoint.
When added to a note, a flag or beam: shortens the value of the note by half.
Notes are named relative to their duration of a: whole note.
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How to improve your car’s safety and security.
1.Have airbags and additional seat belts installed.
2. If possible, keep your car in a locked garage.
3. Buy a steering wheel lock if you have on street parking.
4. Get a service every 5000 - 10,000kms.
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I’m currently interviewing within my company for a position change which should turn into a raise. I currently work from about 9-5 and this new position is probably going to be more like a 9-6 work day. I’m not sure what the raise will be but I’m guessing at most around $10k (based on what others have told me). If i work an additional 52x5=260 hours per year which equates to $38.50 per hour $10k/260=$38.50 per hour. This wouldn’t be a raise it would just mean I’m being compensated below what I currently make ( on an hourly basis) to work longer. At the same time it has much more opportunity than my current job. I wanted to get the bogglehead thoughts on this.
Also, I wanted to see how others experiences have been switching positions within a company.
I switched to a modestly higher paying meaningfully greater hour job in 2005. My job before was great, steady, and offered awesome work/life balance.
New job was challenging and I really had to put in time. Fast forward to today. Most of old friends from my prior job are basically in the same job. I'm sure their jobs are great, steady and offer awesome work/life balance. I had a few rough work/life balance years, but I'm happy where I'm at with meaningfully higher compensation (as in multiples) than my old colleagues. I also feel I'm set-up for great opportunities in the future. Anyway, it was worth it for me in a comparable situation.
The normal motivation for switching positions in a company is for advancement or for better position for advancement. If that is missing it isn't clear what your motivation is.
Sometimes people move to an area that has better future business prospects hopefully avoiding a layoff. Ironically I never was able to move to a department that might have offered me a lucrative buy-out when I retired, but you can't have everything.
Some people do move because they like the work better in a different kind of job. In that case you wouldn't be calculating dollars per hour.
At the same time it has much more opportunity than my current job.
Seems like you answered your own question. Obviously every situation is different but this sounds like a good career move for you unless you have some extenuating circumstances preventing taking on this workload.
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Dennis Bourgoyne, a recent arrival to Phuket asked "I am getting to the point of committing to the purchase of a house that I have seen in Phuket. Can you outline the steps that I need to go through to make a purchase?"
That's a wide question so my response will have to be concise.
First of course you will need to find a property that you like and at a price that you are comfortable with - assuming that you have reached that stage, your next step will be to do some due diligence work on the property. If you are working through a reputable real estate agent , he can do this for you (if he has not already vetted his listings), if not it would be best to speak to a lawyer. Essentially you need to check if the property you have seen is the one described in the title deed that represents it, you need to verify that the boundaries conform with those on the title, that no one disputes the boundaries, that the vendor is indeed the owner of the property and that there are no encumbrances registered against the property that would prevent you taking unencumbered transfer of ownership (or obtaining an unencumbered registered lease).
Once all that has checked out, you need to move towards a contract. If you are buying a new home from a developer they will almost certainly have a standard contract format (the format of these varies widely depending on the type and progress of the development and as a general rule, you should always have an attorney or an experienced independent realtor read through it and give you an opinion) - but I assume in this case that you are purchasing a completed property that already exists from a private vendor. Here the standard approach would be to draw up a reservation or purchase option contract - this is a contract which binds you and the vendor to a sale of the house at a specific price in accordance to a specific schedule, and will typically set up penalties for default of either party if he defaults under the agreement.
A deposit of 10% is usually required to secure a property and closing payments will typically be expected within 30 to 60 days. Longer closing terms are sometimes agreed but usually against the payment of a greater deposit. Deposits are typically non refundable, save in the event of default by the vendor, so bear in mind that once the deposit is placed you are committed. There is typically an equal and corresponding commitment from the vendor, where he will commit to refund of your deposit and a payment of a penalty of an equal amount if he defaults on the contract. Deposit in escrow is still rare in Thailand, but it is becoming an increasingly recognized way of proceeding. It generally trades off greater security for the buyer's deposit versus a weakened claim for damages in the event of vendor default.
Beyond the price, payment and closing schedules, it's important that a contract includes clauses to cover who will pay the legal fees, transfer fees and taxes (there is a often business tax and always an income tax assessment made at the point of sale) as well as an understanding of the value at which the sale will be declared - this is typically (for tax reasons) at or close to the government minimum assessed value. You need to sit down with the vendor or someone who knows how to do the calculation of these various fees and taxes and then , generally as part of the overall price negotiation, come up with an appropriate formula for sharing these costs. There is no fixed rule, it can vary from buyer pays all to seller pays all, but it's most important that you have resolved this in advance of the transfer date. The last place you want to be working out such details is when you arrive at the Land Office.
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Tsunami (pron: 'soo-nar-me') is a Japanese word: 'tsu' meaning harbour and 'nami' meaning wave. Tsunami are waves caused by sudden movement of the ocean surface due to earthquakes, landslides on the sea floor, land slumping into the ocean, large volcanic eruptions or meteorite impact in the ocean.
Until recently, tsunami were called tidal waves, but this term is generally discouraged because tsunami generation has nothing to do with tides (which are driven by the gravity of the Earth, Moon and Sun). Although some tsunami may appear like a rapidly rising or falling tide at the coast, in other situations they can also feature one or more turbulent breaking waves.
How do tsunami differ from regular waves?
A tsunami is different from a wind-generated surface wave on the ocean. While wind-generated waves in deep water only cause water movement near the surface, the passage of a tsunami involves the movement of water from the surface to the seafloor. Interestingly, this causes the speed of a tsunami to be controlled by the water depth, with faster speeds in deeper water, unlike wind-generated waves. Consequently, a tsunami slows as it approaches land and reaches increasingly shallow water, with the distance between successive wave peaks decreasing. Because the total energy within the wave does not change, the energy is transferred to increasing the wave height (or amplitude). This is called wave shoaling.
A tsunami is often a series of waves and the first may not necessarily have the greatest amplitude. In the open ocean, even the largest tsunami are relatively small, with wave heights typically tens of centimetres or less away from the initial tsunami generation zone. Higher oceanic wave heights are sometimes observed very close to the tsunami generation zone (e.g., oceanic waves near two metres were measured close to the source of the 2011 Japan tsunami). In any case, the shoaling effect can greatly increase open ocean wave heights upon reaching the coast, with some tsunami reaching an onshore height more than ten metres above sea level. Such extreme inundation is more likely to occur nearer to the tsunami generation location (where oceanic wave heights are larger), and at locations where the coastline shape is particularly favourable to amplification of the tsunami. Most tsunami do not cause such extreme coastal inundation and the effect of small events may not be noticeable to without careful analysis of tide gauge measurements.
Most tsunami are caused by large earthquakes on the sea floor when slabs of rock move past each other suddenly, causing the overlying water to move. The resulting waves move away from the source of the earthquake event.
Landslides can happen on the seafloor, just like on land. Areas of the seafloor that are steep and loaded with sediment, such as the edge of the continental slope, are more prone to undersea landslides.
When an undersea landslide occurs (perhaps after a nearby earthquake) a large mass of sand, mud and gravel can move down the slope. This movement will draw the water down and may cause a tsunami that will travel across the ocean.
a caldera volcano collapsing after an eruption causing overlying water to drop suddenly.
Where do tsunami occur in Australia?
There is evidence that the Australian coast may have experienced large tsunami during the past few thousand years. This evidence is revealed through anomalous sedimentary deposits (such as those containing shell or coral) or other geomorphic features (Dominey Howes, 2007; Goff and Chauge-Goff, 2014). More recently, tsunami continue to be recorded in Australia with most presenting little threat to coastal communities. The significant tsunamis recorded in recent times have all been recorded at tide gauges around the country with some causing damage in the marine environment.
The tsunami hazard faced by Australia ranges from relatively low along the southern coasts of Australia to moderate along the west coast of Western Australia. This area is more susceptible because of its proximity to large subduction zones along the south-coast of Indonesia, which is a region of significant earthquake and volcanic activity.
Several significant tsunami have impacted Australia's north west coast region. The largest run-up (measured as elevation about sea level) was recorded as 7.9m (Australian Height Datum (AHD)) at Steep Point in Western Australia from the July 2006 Java tsunami. The largest reported offshore wave height was six metres near Cape Leveque from the August 1977 Sunda tsunami.
Tsunami can travel at speeds up to 950km/h in deep water, which is equivalent to the speed of a passenger jet.
Several significant tsunami have impacted Australia's north west coast region. The largest run-up resulted from the 2006 Java tsunami that was recorded at 7.9m AHD at Steep Point Western Australia. The largest reported offshore wave height was six metres near Cape Leveque from the August 1977 Sunda tsunami.
The tsunami that reach the Australia coast at Steep Point on 17 July 2006 was generated by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake south of Java. The tsunami caused widespread erosion of roads and sand dunes, extensive vegetation damage and destroyed several campsites up to 200 metres inland. The tsunami also transported a 4WD vehicle ten metres. Fish, starfish, corals and sea urchins were deposited on roads and sand dunes well above the regular high-tide mark.
Further north in the Onslow-Exmouth region in June 1994, tsunami waves travelled inland to a point four metres above sea level and washed 300 metres inland after appearing out of a calm sea. Both tsunami were generated by earthquakes in Indonesia.
In May 1960, a magnitude 9.5 earthquake in Chile generated the largest tsunami recorded along the east coast of Australia. The event generated tsunami waves of just under one metre at the Fort Denison tide gauge in Sydney Harbour. Slight to moderate damage was caused to boats in harbours at Lord Howe Island, Evans Head, Newcastle, Sydney and Eden.
The 1998 tsunami in northern Papua New Guinea was caused by an earthquake that is believed to have triggered an undersea landslide.
The 1883 eruption of Krakatau volcano in Indonesia unleashed a series of devastating tsunami that resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of lives.
What is Geoscience Australia's role in reducing risk to Australians from tsunami?
collaborates nationally and internationally to enhance the tsunami hazard risk modelling methods.
to undertake tsunami risk studies to assist local and state organisations in planning for tsunami events.
to issue the relevant tsunami warnings and bulletins for Australia and external territories as required.
What does the JATWC do?
Geoscience Australia receives real-time data from over 60 seismic stations in Australia and more than 130 international seismic stations. The seismic information is automatically analysed by Geoscience Australia's seismic monitoring and analysis systems that form part of the 24 hours a day, seven days a week operations centre. When an earthquake occurs, this system automatically computes preliminary information on the earthquake's origin time (time at which the earthquake happened), location, depth and magnitude. The Duty Seismologist assesses this information and then calculates a moment magnitude, Mwp, (similar to a Richter magnitude) to assist in determining the potential for the earthquake to cause a tsunami. If Duty Seismologist considers that the earthquake has the potential to generate a tsunami that may impact Australia, the seismologist sends the information to the JATWC office in the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne via a dedicated data link. This process is completed within 10 minutes of the earthquake's origin time.
The JATWC also receives data from the Bureau of Meteorology's sea level observations and other international sea level stations. These instruments provide real-time sea level observations that can verify whether an earthquake has generated a tsunami and, if so, monitor its path. The data are provided by coastal sea level stations and deep ocean tsunami detection sensors. Equipped with these sea level data and the Bureau of Meteorology's tsunami modeling, specially trained JATWC staff then issue a warning that is in keeping with the determined threat level. These warnings identify affected coastal regions, initial tsunami arrival times and whether the tsunami threat is to land or marine areas. Upon receiving the earthquake alert from Geoscience Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology issues a tsunami bulletin within 10 minutes of receiving the alert. The JATWC is thus able to issue tsunami bulletins within 20 minutes of the origin time of the earthquake.
maintaining tsunami bulletin and warning distribution lists at each of the Bureau of Meteorology's state and territory Regional Forecasting Centres. These distribution lists are used for both national JATWC bulletins and regional warnings. The bulletin and warning messages are also automatically uploaded to the JATWC website.
The JATWC is also part of a network of international tsunami watch centres that cooperate under arrangements coordinated by the UN's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) within UNESCO.
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I have decided to create this article about the history of some of the most famous British Warships which can still be found at Portsmouth Dockyard. The three famous ships are Henry VIII’s flagship The Mary Rose, Nelson’s HMS Victory and The World’s first all Ironclad Warship, HMS Warrior.
The Mary Rose was built in Portsmouth in 1509. One of Henry VIII’s ‘great ships’, Mary Rose was named after the king’s favourite sister Mary and the Tudor emblem the Rose. Typical of the larger sailing ships of the fleet with high castles at the bow and stern, she was one of the first ships with gun ports cut out along the side of the hull for the firing of heavy guns.
Ordered by the Navy Board on June 6, 1759, HMS Victory was designed by Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Thomas Slade. Building commenced the following month at Chatham Dockyard under the watchful eye of Master Shipwright John Lock. On October 30, 1760, the name Victory was chosen for the new ship, perhaps in honour of Britain’s “Annus Mirabilis” (Year of Victories) in 1759, during the Seven Years’ War. The work was completed in 1765, under the supervision of Master Shipwright Edward Allen. Launched on May 7 of that year, the finished 100-gun ship cost a total of £63,176.
After completing sea trials, Victory was placed in ordinary as the war had been concluded. It remained in this reserve role until May 1778, when it was first commissioned as the flagship of Admiral Augustus Keppel during the War of American Independence. Two months later, on July 27, Keppel’s fleet encountered a French fleet off Ushant and gave battle. Though the First Battle of Ushant was inconclusive, it was Victory’s baptism by fire. Two years later, in March 1780, the ship was placed in dry dock and its hull sheathed with copper to protect against shipworm.
Returning to sea, Victory served as Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt’s flagship during his triumph at the Second Battle of Ushant on December 12, 1781, and later took part in Admiral Richard Howe’s relief of Gibraltar in October 1782. With the war’s conclusion, Victory underwent a £15,372 refit and had its armament increased. With the beginning of the War of the First Coalition in 1793, Victory became the flagship of the Mediterranean fleet under Admiral Lord Samuel Hood. After participating in the capture (and loss) of Toulon and Corsica, Victory returned to Chatham for a brief overhaul in 1794.
Returning to the Mediterranean the following year, Victory remained in the area until the British fleet was forced to withdraw to Portugal. In December 1796, Admiral John Jervis made Victory his flagship when he took command of the Mediterranean fleet. Two months later, he led the fleet to victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Growing old, Victory returned to Chatham that fall to be surveyed and have its fate decided. Ruled unfit for service on December 8, 1797, orders were issued to convert Victory into a hospital ship.
With the loss of the first-rate HMS Impregnable in October 1799, Victory’s conversion orders were countermanded and new ones issued to repair and restore the ship. Initially estimated at £23,500, the reconstruction project eventually cost £70,933 due to an ever increasingly list of defects in the hull. Completed in April 11, 1803, Victory sailed to rejoin the fleet. On May 16, 1803, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson hoisted his flag aboard Victory as the commander of the Mediterranean fleet. Serving as Nelson’s flagship, Victory patrolled off Toulon as part of the British blockade of that port.
In May 1805, the French fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve escaped from Toulon. After sailing east first, Nelson learned that the French were heading for the West Indies. Pursuing them across the Atlantic and back again, Nelson finally was able to bottle them up in the Spanish port of Cadiz. When Villeneuve departed Cadiz on October 19, Nelson was able to bring him to battle off Cape Trafalgar two days later. Splitting his force in two, Nelson drove his ships in two columns into the heart of the combined French-Spanish fleet.
Aggressively attacking, the British decimated Villeneuve’s fleet, winning one of the greatest naval victories in history. During the battle Victory engaged Villeneuve’s flagship, Bucentaure (80) and Redoutable (74). After inflicting heavy damage on Bucentaure, Victory duelled Redoutable with both ships suffering heavy casualties. During the fight, Nelson was shot through shoulder by a marine aboard Redoutable. Taken below, he died three hours later as his fleet was completing the victory. After the battle, the badly damaged Victory transported Nelson’s body back to England.
By 1921, Victory was in poor condition and a campaign was started to raise money for the ship’s restoration. Moved to the oldest dry dock in the world, No. 2 Dock at Portsmouth, on January 12, 1922, Victory underwent a massive six-year restoration which returned the ship to its 1805 appearance. Victory saw its last wartime action in 1941, during World War II when it was hit by a Luftwaffe bomb which caused some hull damage. Under constant restoration, Victory is still in commission and is open to the public as a museum ship at Portsmouth.
During the early decades of the 19th century the Royal Navy began add steam power to many of its ships and was slowly introducing new innovations, such as iron hulls, into some of its smaller vessels. In 1858, the Admiralty was stunned to learn that the French had commenced construction of a Wood Mixed iron warship named La Gloire. It was the desire of Emperor Napoleon III to replace all of France’s warships with iron-hulled ironclads, however French industry lacked the capacity to produce the needed plate. As a result, La Gloire was initially built of wood then clad in iron armour.
Commissioned in August 1860, La Gloire became the world’s first ocean-going ironclad warship. Sensing that their naval dominance was being threatened, the Royal Navy immediately commenced construction on a vessel superior to La Gloire. Conceived by Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake-Walker and designed by Isaac Watts, HMS Warrior was laid down at Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding on May 29, 1859. Incorporating a variety of new technologies, Warrior was to be a composite sail/steam armoured frigate. Built with an iron hull – the world’s first fully iron built warship and Warrior’s steam engines turned a large propeller.
Central to the ship’s design was its armoured citadel. Built into the hull, the citadel contained Warrior’s broadside guns and possessed 4.5″ iron armour which was bolted onto 9″ of teak. During construction, the design of the citadel was tested against the most modern guns of the day and none were able to penetrate its armour For further protection, innovative watertight bulkheads were added to the vessel. Though Warrior was designed to carry fewer guns than many other ships in the fleet, it compensated by mounting heavier weapons.
These included 26 68-pdr guns and 10 110-pdr breech-loading Armstrong rifles. Warrior was launched at Blackwall on December 29, 1860. A particularly cold day, the ship froze to the ways and required six tugs to pull it into the water. Commissioned on August 1, 1861, Warrior cost the Admiralty £357,291. Joining the fleet, Warrior served primarily in home waters as the only dry dock large enough to take it was in Britain. Arguably the most powerful warship afloat when it was commissioned, Warrior quickly intimidated rival nations and launched the competition to build bigger and stronger iron/steel battleships.
Upon first seeing Warrior’s power the French naval attaché in London sent an urgent dispatch to his superiors in Paris stating, “Should this ship meet our fleet it will be as a black snake among rabbits!” Those in Britain were similarly impressed including Charles Dickens who wrote, “A black vicious ugly customer as ever I saw, whale-like in size, and with as terrible a row of incisor teeth as ever closed on a French frigate.” A year after Warrior was commissioned it was joined by its sister ship, HMS Black Prince. During the 1860s, Warrior saw peaceful service and had its gun battery upgraded between 1864 and 1867.
Warrior’s routine was interrupted in 1868, following a collision with HMS Royal Oak. The following year it made one of its few trips away from Europe when it towed a floating dry dock to Bermuda. After undergoing a refit in 1871-1875, Warrior was placed in reserve status. A ground breaking vessel, the naval arms race that it helped inspire had quickly led to it becoming obsolete. From 1875-1883, Warrior performed summer training cruises to the Mediterranean and Baltic for reservists. Laid up in 1883, the ship remained available for active duty until 1900.
In 1904, Warrior was taken to Portsmouth and renamed Vernon III as part of the Royal Navy’s torpedo training school. Providing steam and power for the neighbouring hulks that comprised the school, Warrior remained in this role until 1923. After attempts to sell the ship for scrap in the mid-1920s failed, it was converted for use a floating oil jetty at Pembroke, Wales. Designated Oil Hulk C77, Warrior humbly fulfilled this duty for half a century. In 1979, the ship was saved from the scrap yard by the Maritime Trust. Initially led by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Trust oversaw the eight-year restoration of the ship. Returned to its 1860s glory, Warrior entered its berth at Portsmouth on June 16, 1987, and began a new life as a museum ship.
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Do i give up the trip of a lifetime to please my father?
I've known my ex-boyfriend for 10 years. I often think he may be the one. He lives abroad, in the same country (let's say Poland) that my father is from. Recently my ex (for the 3rd or 4th time) offered to pay for me to come visit him.I just needed to pitch in about $400 (the ticket cost 1400). I was really excitied to go for a number of reasons: I haven't seen my family in "Poland" in over ten years, I haven't seen my ex in over three, and the deal was affordable.
I planned to stay with one of my aunts. My ex only lives 20 minutes away, so we'd be able to see each other often and easily... and I could avoid feeling like an "international hoe".
When I told my father I was taking this trip to "Poland" he asked about the price and I thought that was it. I didn't tell him my ex was helping me pay for it, so he assumed I was paying the entire fare. A few days later he showed me several bills and asked me to cancel my trip in order to help with these bills. He promised to pay me back. The last time I took out a cash advance (over $2000) on a credit card to help him out, he didn't pay me back, my payements SKY ROCKETED, and my credit went down a little. I took on a second job to deal with my finances and started saving money to move or to do something special, like this trip. I love and respect my dad, I really do- he is one of the smartest and most hardworking men I know. However, I really don't think this money will solve all his problems. It took me a while to save up, and it's not much. I suspect that my father genuinely needs the money, but I also think that he doesn't want me to go because he HATES my ex-boyfriend. I didn't tell him about the ex, but I'm 100% certain that he figured it out. I honestly feel like I'm giving up the trip of a lifetime to please my father. I'm incredibly sad and bitter about canceling my plans. So should I keep being "Daddy's Little girl"... or live my life and possibly damage my fragile relationship with my father?
I think you need to go to 'Poland'. Sure, your Dad needs the money, but he didn't pay you back last time and you suffered because of it - this time is probably not going to be any different, except you'll suffer twice as much. By not giving your Dad the money, you will also be teaching him a valuable life lesson on the fact that he needs to watch his finances better.
you're 26 or 27 years old, you can do what you want and your father can't stop you now. if YOU want to go on this trip to 'poland' then do it, don't let anybody stop you from what you truly want.
What to do if my mom choses my father over me.
You MUST go to "Poland". Tell you Dad that you are not so rich as he thinks about you, but you HAVE to go to "Poland". With that 400 $ you cannot solve any problem. Do not let your dad to take your life. Tell him that when you will be back you will help him. And do that, of course. But not by 1000s $-s. OK?
How can I make it work with my sons father?
NEVER do something or not do something just to please someone else. Even if that person is your father.
How to tell him that he could be a father?
Is my father's behavior abuse?
What to do about this painful relationship?
who would the dad be??
Should I be feeling annoyed about this?
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I was wondering what the "Big Crunch" would look like to an observer here on Earth???
Today we know that the Universe will go on expanding forever, however if it were substantially denser the expansion would one day be reversed, and the universe would start contracting. This contraction back down to a point is what is referred to as "The Big Crunch".
What would the contraction look like to an observer on a hypothetical planet somewhere in the universe (I won't use "Earth", as it might not even be around anymore at this hypothetical time in the future)? For most of the contraction, the only thing that the observer would notice is that most galaxies would have blueshifts instead of redshifts (most galaxies would be moving towards the observer). The daily life of the observer would not be affected in the slightest. But as the present-day observable universe started to get really small, the observer would most likely see some of the things that happened in the early universe happen in reverse. Most notably, the temperature of the universe would eventually get so high that you could no longer have stable atoms, in which case the hypothetical observer wouldn't be able to hold themself together!
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