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Saffron, whose scarlet threads infuse a dish with a unique salty-sweet fragrance (as well as a warm tangerine hue) can be an elusive spice. Its costliness and pungent strength prevent chefs from using it willy-nilly, which makes its occasional appearances even more exciting and enticing.
Saffron will never be the new truffle oil, thank God.
5. Sizzling Saffron Shrimp (Trenza). Newcomer to the Houston restaurant scene Trenza is already wowing H-towners with their colorful dishes, including its venerable "sizzling saffron shrimp," a small plate offering of prawns sauteed in saffron oil with ginger, garlic, and lemon zest. That's one appetizer I will NOT be sharing.
4. Saffron Rice Pulao (Kiran's). The most common consumable manifestation saffron found in Houston is by far saffron rice, which acts as a side to mains of kebobs, grilled meats, and masalas at a number of our Indian, Pakistani, and Afghan restaurants. Kiran's bright saffron pulao, a type of rice pilaf, stands out for its impeccably fluffy texture and genius complementary components of cranberries and nuts.
3. Scallops with Saffron Sauce (Cafe Benedicte). Given that Cafe Benedicte claims to offer "reflections of Spain, Italy, South of France, Greece and North Africa," it's not totally unprecedented that a cosmopolitan spice such as saffron manages to make it onto the menu. But what is pleasantly surprising is that it appears in the form of a rich, almost sensual sauce. You may be tempted to forgo eating the plump scallops underneath in favor of wiping them clean with some bread to eek out every last bit of creamy saffron coating.
2. Saffron Ice Cream (Indika). Katharine Shilcutt named Indika's saffron ice cream one of the ten best in Houston and indeed, this sunny slab of frozen goodness, dusted with crunch pecans, is the perfect marriage of frigid Western sweet and Eastern salty. No word yet as to whether whether chef Anita Jaisinghani plans to sell this flavor by the pint. Anita, consider this article an open public plea.
1. Crab and Saffron Bisque (Nirvana Indian Restaurant). "I can't wait to eat some soup," is not usually an exclamation that precedes a visit to an Indian restaurant except, however, when you go to Nirvana, where traditional starters such as samosa and pakora play second fiddle to the sumptuous crab and saffron bisque. This is not to say that this decadent stew made from cream and lump crab meat should necessarily be relegated to the appetizer course, for if you order an extra large bowl and a side of rice it might easily outshine other entrees.
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What is the status of the Agency's risk assessment guidelines for hazardous waste combustion facilities?
In September 2005, EPA finalized the "Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol (HHRAP) for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities." The document number is EPA530-R-05-006 and is available on EPA's Web site: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/td/combust/risk.htm.
In 1999, EPA released a peer review draft of a companion document to HHRAP entitled "Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment Protocol Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities (SLERAP). This document is available on EPA's Web site : http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/td/combust/ecorisk.htm. As stated on the Web site, SLERAP is undergoing peer review and is being made available for informational purposes only.
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Given the array of behavioral processes associated with the insula (e.g., cognition, emotion, interoception), delineating functionally distinct insular sub-regions has been of increasing interest.
Prior parcellation studies utilizing resting-state fMRI data have suggested a functional mosaic along an anterior (cognition) to posterior (sensorimotor) dimension. Here, we employed a task-dependent, data driven approach to delineate insular subdivisions based on coactivation patterns across thousands of neuroimaging studies.
Specifically, we fractionated the human insular cortices by implementing the coactivation based parcellation (CBP) methodology in conjunction with the BrainMap database. We further used the BrainMap taxonomy of metadata terms for decoding the possible functional specialization of CBP generated clusters. We hypothesized that the insular cortex would parcellate into functional subdivisions with differential coactivation and behavioral profiles.
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Mortality, as humanity currently stands, is a defining attribute of the human condition. In fact, save the exception of a few crustaceans and ageless microorganisms, it is the condition of life itself to die. The tiniest life forms all the way up the most prosperous humans all recognize death as a future action. Essentially, organisms define it as a scarcity of life.
There is not enough life to go around to satisfy all those in possession of it, and thus, life makes choices, some conscious, some unconscious. The tomato plant drops its seeds, preparing a new generation for life, not long before death. The fox avoids poisonous berries, knowing they would further impose scarcity. The human being, of course, carefully selects an occupation, spouse, location, hobby, and much more, all with the knowledge that he is choosing these over others, making his limited life the best that he can. In every instance, life forms use scarcity as a driving force in conscious or unconscious decision-making.
Now, imagine a world in which scarcity is no longer a factor. Somehow, someway, the world has overcome its own beautiful yet crippling condition. What exactly would this entail? Philosophers have created many models of such a world. Yet, post-scarcity of life is a largely uncharted territory. Without a doubt, this would fundamentally change what it means to be a human being. Such a change is no easy task, but scientists are beginning to lay the groundwork. Yes, they are taking the first steps towards immortality, through the tiny organism of Caenorhabditis Elegans.
The C. Elegans worm, which has a lifespan of just two weeks, may hold the key to immortality in its short-lived body. Specifically, it contains the gene known as DAF-2, which has shown vast potential in the field of life extension. In fact, when molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon first mutated the DAF-2 gene in these worms in 1993, the results were amazing. One simple mutation doubled the life expectancy of the worms to four weeks, halving the aging process. The strong and direct result showed that there are living organisms with genes that control aging and mortality. Though a long way off, could such a gene show movement in the direction of immortality?
To answer this question, it is first important to recognize what immortality truly means. Despite many often giving it the wrong meaning, it does not have to mean the full end of death. Simply put, immortality is the end to death by natural causes. Those worms would still meet their end if Kenyon was a cruel scientist and lit their habitat on fire. They would still perish if sliced in half or poisoned. Yet, they will take twice as long to die of old age, as their cells double twice as many times. Can this doubling in lifespan be the first step to immortality? The simple answer is yes.
In order to end relative mortality, humanity must extend their life expectancy by more than one year for every calendar year that passes. Essentially, this would mean that the average human will never die, though many of course still will, from unnatural causes, including violence and disease. Imagine a man born today, when he is age 40, with a life expectancy of 90. In the next year, the ever-increasing pace of technology and science increases the life expectancy to 91. On his forty-first birthday, he has the same estimated 50 years left of life. In a sense, he has just lived through the entire year without being a second closer to death.
The following year, the man turns 42. Yet this time, technology and medicine have continued to accelerate, as they always have throughout human history. Now, the life expectancy has soared to 92 years, one month. Though the man just lived through an entire year, assuming he has not drastically changed his lifestyle habits, he is now one month further from mortality than he was two years ago. Could this really be in our future?
Surely, we are nowhere near this current state. In the United States, the life expectancy rises by a couple of years each decade. Yet, this increase, since the 1800’s, has drastically accelerated. Similarly, the amount of human knowledge has accelerated, at increasingly rapid rates. In fact, 13 months from now, humanity will know twice as much as it knows today. The medical field will double in knowledge in 18 months. As a comparison, human knowledge in 1900 doubled in 100 years, and in 1945, it doubled in 25 years. What will happen, then, when our doubling rate reaches one month? Well, the rates will continue to increase, as the technology discovered and used will only enable us to further our knowledge even more.
As this rate increases for human and clinical knowledge, scientists and doctors may be able to use the study found in C. Elegans, and apply it to the human state of being. A similar gene, if present in the many thousands of human genes, could perhaps double human life expectancy. Moreover, doctors will be working with more knowledge and success than ever to cure physical disease. As humanity works faster and faster, will we eventually see a day when one of those ailments is mortality itself? Without a doubt, we are still far from this state ever becoming a reality, but at our current rate of increasing knowledge, as well as life expectancy experiments on lower life forms, it just might be a possible future.
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A sales accepted lead (SAL) is a marketing qualified lead (MQL) that has been reviewed and passed to the sales team for approval.
Why is a sales accepted lead important?
It’s important for one to have certain processes in place that allow for everyone to visualize leads moving through the business process.
Identifying someone in the marketing and sales funnel as either a prospect, lead, marketing qualified lead, sales accepted lead, or opportunity, helps to align sales and marketing to make sure that both sides are on the same page with the flow of revenue. It is important to have defined standards for passing leads from one portion of the sales cycle to the next.
A popular process used by marketers to qualify a SAL is the BANT method. This stands for budget, authority, need, and timeframe. These criteria help companies determine if they should use resources to explore a lead, and how to allocate resources to leads in different stages of the sales cycle. As an entity with limited resources, qualifying leads as SALs can save a company a lot of time and money.
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What is a French Grande École?
In France, the majority of managers and executives in both industry and commerce are graduates of Grandes Écoles. More than 60% of the presidents and managing directors of the 100 largest French companies are graduates from these Écoles.
The French "ingénieur" that graduates from a Grande École plays an essential role in the research and development of innovative technologies such as the Ariane satellite launcher, the European Airbus, the High Speed Train System (Train à Grande Vitesse - TGV), electro-nuclear power stations, software development, etc. The international scientific community recognizes these engineers in their fields; some are members of the Académie des Sciences. The Grandes Écoles, the leading institutions for educating engineers and managers in France, deliver graduate degrees.
The "diplôme d'ingénieur", (equivalent to a Master of Engineering) is accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs, created in 1934.
All of the students, including those coming from abroad or those coming from University, are judged on the same selection criteria.
Complemented by continuous education programs for managers in management and advanced technologies.
Allowing contributions from part time lecturers from French and international industry, from consultants or technical or service professionals in general.
Allowing the establishments to remain modest in size and human in character (300 to 4,000 students) and to pool resources regionally, thus attaining the dimension of technological universities.
That facilitates the collaboration of groups of Grandes Écoles with regional economic activities and companies specializing in specific technologies, as well as an interaction with similar networks abroad.
That reinforces technical and management disciplines, an international presence, either individually or collectively, with their international partners.
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For other uses, see Square the Circle and Squared circle.
Squaring the circle: the areas of this square and this circle are both equal to π. In 1882, it was proven that this figure cannot be constructed in a finite number of steps with an idealized compass and straightedge.
Some apparent partial solutions gave false hope for a long time. In this figure, the shaded figure is the Lune of Hippocrates. Its area is equal to the area of the triangle ABC (found by Hippocrates of Chios).
Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. It may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square.
In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible, as a consequence of the Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem which proves that pi (π) is a transcendental, rather than an algebraic irrational number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. It had been known for some decades before then that the construction would be impossible if π were transcendental, but π was not proven transcendental until 1882. Approximate squaring to any given non-perfect accuracy, in contrast, is possible in a finite number of steps, since there are rational numbers arbitrarily close to π.
The term quadrature of the circle is sometimes used to mean the same thing as squaring the circle, but it may also refer to approximate or numerical methods for finding the area of a circle.
Methods to approximate the area of a given circle with a square, which can be thought of as a precursor problem to squaring the circle, were known already to Babylonian mathematicians. The Egyptian Rhind papyrus of 1800 BC gives the area of a circle as 64/81 d 2, where d is the diameter of the circle. In modern terms, this is equivalent to approximating π as 256/81 (approximately 3.1605), a number that appears in the older Moscow Mathematical Papyrus and is used for volume approximations (i.e. hekat). Indian mathematicians also found an approximate method, though less accurate, documented in the Shulba Sutras. Archimedes proved the formula for the area of a circle (A = πr2, where r is the radius of the circle) and showed that the value of π lay between 3 1/7 (approximately 3.1429) and 3 10/71 (approximately 3.1408). See Numerical approximations of π for more on the history.
The first known Greek to be associated with the problem was Anaxagoras, who worked on it while in prison. Hippocrates of Chios squared certain lunes, in the hope that it would lead to a solution — see Lune of Hippocrates. Antiphon the Sophist believed that inscribing regular polygons within a circle and doubling the number of sides will eventually fill up the area of the circle, and since a polygon can be squared, it means the circle can be squared. Even then there were skeptics—Eudemus argued that magnitudes cannot be divided up without limit, so the area of the circle will never be used up. The problem was even mentioned in Aristophanes's play The Birds.
It is believed that Oenopides was the first Greek who required a plane solution (that is, using only a compass and straightedge). James Gregory attempted a proof of its impossibility in Vera Circuli et Hyperbolae Quadratura (The True Squaring of the Circle and of the Hyperbola) in 1667. Although his proof was faulty, it was the first paper to attempt to solve the problem using algebraic properties of π. It was not until 1882 that Ferdinand von Lindemann rigorously proved its impossibility.
A partial history by Florian Cajori of attempts at the problem.
The first of these two misguided visionaries filled me with a great ambition to do a feat I have never heard of as accomplished by man, namely to convince a circle squarer of his error! The value my friend selected for Pi was 3.2: the enormous error tempted me with the idea that it could be easily demonstrated to BE an error. More than a score of letters were interchanged before I became sadly convinced that I had no chance.
A ridiculing of circle-squaring appears in Augustus de Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes published posthumously by his widow in 1872. Having originally published the work as a series of articles in the Athenæum, he was revising it for publication at the time of his death. Circle squaring was very popular in the nineteenth century, but hardly anyone indulges in it today and it is believed that de Morgan's work helped bring this about.
The solution of the problem of squaring the circle by compass and straightedge requires the construction of the number √π. If √π is constructible, it follows from standard constructions that π would also be constructible. In 1837, Pierre Wantzel showed that lengths that could be constructed with compass and straightedge had to be solutions of certain polynomial equations with rational coefficients. Thus, constructible lengths must be algebraic numbers. If the problem of the quadrature of the circle could be solved using only compass and straightedge, then π would have to be an algebraic number. Johann Heinrich Lambert conjectured that π was not algebraic, that is, a transcendental number, in 1761. He did this in the same paper in which he proved its irrationality, even before the general existence of transcendental numbers had been proven. It was not until 1882 that Ferdinand von Lindemann proved the transcendence of π and so showed the impossibility of this construction.
The transcendence of π implies the impossibility of exactly "circling" the square, as well as of squaring the circle.
It is possible to construct a square with an area arbitrarily close to that of a given circle. If a rational number is used as an approximation of π, then squaring the circle becomes possible, depending on the values chosen. However, this is only an approximation and does not meet the constraints of the ancient rules for solving the problem. Several mathematicians have demonstrated workable procedures based on a variety of approximations.
Bending the rules by allowing an infinite number of compass-and-straightedge operations or by performing the operations in certain non-Euclidean geometries also makes squaring the circle possible in some sense. For example, although the circle cannot be squared in Euclidean space, it sometimes can be in hyperbolic geometry under suitable interpretations of the terms. As there are no squares in the hyperbolic plane, their role needs to be taken by regular quadrilaterals, meaning quadrilaterals with all sides congruent and all angles congruent (but these angles are strictly smaller than right angles). There exist, in the hyperbolic plane, (countably) infinitely many pairs of constructible circles and constructible regular quadrilaterals of equal area, which, however, are constructed simultaneously. There is no method for starting with a regular quadrilateral and constructing the circle of equal area, and there is no method for starting with a circle and constructing a regular quadrilateral of equal area (even when the circle has small enough radius such that a regular quadrilateral of equal area exists).
Though squaring the circle is an impossible problem using only compass and straightedge, approximations to squaring the circle can be given by constructing lengths close to π. It takes only minimal knowledge of elementary geometry to convert any given rational approximation of π into a corresponding compass-and-straightedge construction, but constructions made in this way tend to be very long-winded in comparison to the accuracy they achieve. After the exact problem was proven unsolvable, some mathematicians applied their ingenuity to finding elegant approximations to squaring the circle, defined roughly and informally as constructions that are particularly simple among other imaginable constructions that give similar precision.
Among the modern approximate constructions was one by E. W. Hobson in 1913. This was a fairly accurate construction which was based on constructing the approximate value of 3.14164079..., which is accurate to 4 decimals (i.e. it differs from π by about 6995480000000000000♠4.8×10−5).
which is accurate to six decimal places of π.
giving eight decimal places of π. He describes his construction till line segment OS as follows.
Let AB (Fig.2) be a diameter of a circle whose centre is O. Bisect the arc ACB at C and trisect AO at T. Join BC and cut off from it CM and MN equal to AT. Join AM and AN and cut off from the latter AP equal to AM. Through P draw PQ parallel to MN and meeting AM at Q. Join OQ and through T draw TR, parallel to OQ and meeting AQ at R. Draw AS perpendicular to AO and equal to AR, and join OS. Then the mean proportional between OS and OB will be very nearly equal to a sixth of the circumference, the error being less than a twelfth of an inch when the diameter is 8000 miles long.
In this quadrature, Ramanujan did not construct the side length of the square, it was enough for him to show the line segment OS. In the following continuation of the construction, the line segment OS is used together with the line segment OB to represent the mean proportionals (red line segment OE).
Extend AB beyond A and beat the circular arc b1 around O with radius OS, it results in S′. Bisect the line segment BS′ in D and draw the semicircle b2 over D. Draw a straight line from O through C up to the semicircle b2, it cuts b2 in E. The line segment OE is the mean proportional between OS and OB, also called geometric mean. Extend the line segment EO beyond O and transfer EO twice more, it results F and A1, and thus the length of the line segment EA1 with the above described approximation value of π, the half circumference of the circle. Bisect the line segment EA1 in G and draw the semicircle b3 over G. Transfer the distance OB from A1 to the line segment EA1, it results H. Create a vertical from H up to the semicircle b3 on EA1, it results B1. Connect A1 to B1, thus the sought side a of the square A1B1C1D1 is constructed, which has nearly the same area as the given circle.
(Kochański's approximation), though these were only accurate to four decimal places of π.
seven decimal places are equal to those of √π respectively equal to those of π.
Finding the area under a curve, known as integration in calculus, or quadrature in numerical analysis, was known as squaring before the invention of calculus. Since the techniques of calculus were unknown, it was generally presumed that a squaring should be done via geometric constructions, that is, by compass and straightedge. For example, Newton wrote to Oldenburg in 1676 "I believe M. Leibnitz will not dislike the Theorem towards the beginning of my letter pag. 4 for squaring Curve lines Geometrically" (emphasis added). After Newton and Leibniz invented calculus, they still referred to this integration problem as squaring a curve.
The mathematical proof that the quadrature of the circle is impossible using only compass and straightedge has not proved to be a hindrance to the many people who have invested years in this problem anyway. Having squared the circle is a famous crank assertion. (See also pseudomathematics.) In his old age, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes convinced himself that he had succeeded in squaring the circle.
Montucla says, speaking of France, that he finds three notions prevalent among cyclometers: 1. That there is a large reward offered for success; 2. That the longitude problem depends on that success; 3. That the solution is the great end and object of geometry. The same three notions are equally prevalent among the same class in England. No reward has ever been offered by the government of either country.
Although from 1714 to 1828 the British government did indeed sponsor a £20,000 prize for finding a solution to the longitude problem, exactly why the connection was made to squaring the circle is not clear; especially since two non-geometric methods (the astronomical method of lunar distances and the mechanical chronometer) had been found by the late 1760s. De Morgan goes on to say that "[t]he longitude problem in no way depends upon perfect solution; existing approximations are sufficient to a point of accuracy far beyond what can be wanted." In his book, de Morgan also mentions receiving many threatening letters from would-be circle squarers, accusing him of trying to "cheat them out of their prize".
Even after it had been proved impossible, in 1894, amateur mathematician Edwin J. Goodwin claimed that he had developed a method to square the circle. The technique he developed did not accurately square the circle, and provided an incorrect area of the circle which essentially redefined pi as equal to 3.2. Goodwin then proposed the Indiana Pi Bill in the Indiana state legislature allowing the state to use his method in education without paying royalties to him. The bill passed with no objections in the state house, but the bill was tabled and never voted on in the Senate, amid increasing ridicule from the press.
The problem of squaring the circle has been mentioned by poets such as Dante and Alexander Pope, with varied metaphorical meanings. Its literary use dates back at least to 414 BC, when the play The Birds by Aristophanes was first performed. In it, the character Meton of Athens mentions squaring the circle, possibly to indicate the paradoxical nature of his utopian city.
For Dante, squaring the circle represents a task beyond human comprehension, which he compares to his own inability to comprehend Paradise.
Now, running round the circle, finds it square.
Similarly, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Princess Ida features a song which satirically lists the impossible goals of the women's university run by the title character, such as finding perpetual motion. One of these goals is "And the circle – they will square it/Some fine day."
The sestina, a poetic form first used in the 12th century by Arnaut Daniel, has been said to square the circle in its use of a square number of lines (six stanzas of six lines each) with a circular scheme of six repeated words. Spanos (1978) writes that this form invokes a symbolic meaning in which the circle stands for heaven and the square stands for the earth. A similar metaphor was used in "Squaring The Circle", a 1908 short story by O. Henry, about a long-running family feud. In the title of this story, the circle represents the natural world, while the square represents the city, the world of man.
In James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom dreams of becoming wealthy by squaring the circle, unaware that the quadrature of the circle had been proved impossible 22 years earlier and that the British government had never offered a reward for its solution.
In Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Lawyer Paravant is tragically obsessed with squaring the circle, probably in response to a failed love affair. He becomes lost in his "obsessive attempt to square the circle, an impossible operation which he believes he will be able to perform at the Berghof, because of the sanitarium's vertiginous elevation above the 'flatland'". His endeavour "takes a dissipatory turn, and is eventually denounced at the sanitarium as 'mystic hocus-pocus'".
The two other classical problems of antiquity were doubling the cube and trisecting the angle, described in the compass and straightedge article. Unlike squaring the circle, these two problems can be solved by the slightly more powerful construction method of origami, as described at mathematics of paper folding.
For a more modern related problem, see Tarski's circle-squaring problem.
The Indiana Pi Bill, an 1897 attempt in the Indiana state legislature to dictate a solution to the problem by legislative fiat.
Squircle, a mathematical shape with properties between those of a square and those of a circle.
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How many blog posts should I do a week?
What is the importance of regular blogging?
Regular blogging helps you engage with the wider community and build rapport with your intended audience. Blogging allows you to explain your opinions and demonstrate your expertise on a regular basis. Fresh content will help keep readers interested so they continue to build a relationship with your brand.
Blogs are also great for SEO because search engines like to display sites that show active involvement through regular updates. Writing a blog will help you incorporate a variety of different types of information about your industry into the content, will which boost your domain authority and the placement of your website on SERPs.
Your industry and how often your customers expect news and information. For example, the blog on a gossip or news site will need to be updated multiple times per day to remain current, while a lifestyle blog will likely only need updates once or twice a week.
The traffic patterns of your blog. If your site is seasonal, such as a retail company that specializes in holiday gifts, you might post at least every day during the height of the season, but taper off to once or twice a week in the off season.
The frequency with which you should reasonably be able to write on your blog. Do not be overly ambitious so that you start out strong but end up losing focus. Instead, try to be realistic about your schedule and come up with a frequency you can maintain.
When it comes to establishing the frequency and cadence for updating your blog, the more often you can publish valuable information, the better. However, consistency is far more important than publishing every day. If you cannot stick to a daily schedule, it is better to create a frequency of two to three times per week that you can maintain. This also helps set expectations for your readers so that they know when they can expect new content and will make repeat visits to your blog.
Once you have your target schedule, you want to focus on building an editorial calendar around the topics that would most likely interest your readers. Create an outline of your ideal buyer personas and then map these personas to their buyer journey. You want to understand where your targeted customers are in their path towards conversion and understand what they need to see to encourage them to make that choice. Use keyword research and the BrightEdge Data Cube to uncover topics that your target audiences want to see.
As you begin to develop content, remember that the majority of the people who are referred to your website from a search engine are at the top of the sales funnel. While it can be tempting to produce content that focuses on your brand, this type of material will be less appealing to this group and may lead to drop-off. Instead, focus your content on interesting and informative material that will entice this audience to seek out more information about your company and products.
Blogging can be a valuable resource to attract new customers to your site and build relationships with them. A successful blog is built on sharing high-quality content on a regular cadence that revolves around the needs of the users.
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Dribble the ball 3 metres and turn 180 degrees. Attack the space left behind.
The player should get their body around the ball in one sharp motion.
The body position should enable control of the ball with one foot, and the other being placed to accelerate back off.
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A catwalk model warned she could be jailed for hitting a female bouncer in the face with a glass has been allowed to go on holiday.
Sophia Brogan-Higgins is awaiting sentence after being found guilty of assaulting the security guard at a celebrity nightclub and then kicking and slapping a police officer.
But the 22-year-old brunette, who could face six months in prison, has been allowed to travel to Sweden and South Africa on planned trips.
Former public schoolgirl Brogan-Higgins attacked Justina Liutkute, 33, after being excluded from a VIP area at The Box Soho in London, where guests have included Prince Harry, Kate Moss, Emma Watson and Keira Knightley.
As Brogan-Higgins was being escorted from the club at around 4am on July 21, she suddenly punched Miss Liutkute in the face while holding a glass, causing a two-inch gash above her left eye, Hammersmith Magistrates Court was told.
She was detained by three male security guards and police were called.
PC Alistair Skelton noticed dried blood on her hands and left forearm. When she tried to wipe it off, he grabbed her forearms in the belief that she was trying to destroy evidence.
Brogan-Higgins kicked PC Skelton in the stomach and slapped his face.
The officer's body camera filmed her kicking and screaming on the floor. The court also saw CCTV of the incident.
When arrested, Brogan-Higgins refused to answer police questions until her father William, 58 – who runs the family's IT consultancy business – was present.
The model, who lives with her parents in a £5million house in Clapham, south west London, and was educated at the £12,190-a-term St Edward's School in Oxford, denied both assaults.
She claimed she suffers from 'autism and anxiety', telling the court: 'I would never want to hurt someone, I just needed some space. I do not remember ever touching her face.
District Judge Susan Baines found her guilty of both assaults and adjourned sentence to December 8 for medical reports.
She warned Brogan-Higgins that all options were open and prison was a possibility.
However, the model was granted unconditional bail after her lawyer said she had a holiday to Sweden booked for next week followed by a trip to Cape Town.
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Seven steps to successful strategy.
Q1: How easy do you find it to make big decisions?
Q2: Do you get to spend enough time on the really important things?
Q3: How clear are you on the future?
In the last three months I have given the same advice on five different occasions. All of the people in question wanted to improve their financial performance. In every case, there were lots of ideas and opportunities, and lots of activity going on, but none of it was turning the dial.
My advice was very simple, even obvious, but as each followed it through, they found it quite powerful. Here's the advice: first decide where you want to be in the future, then focus on a few big things that will take you there.
Sticking to that advice is not as easy as it sounds, but it pays huge dividends. So here is a simple 7-point-plan that will help anyone to position themselves for success.
1. Have a destination. Where do you want to be in a few year's time? Don't just look at where you can make money, look at where you want to be, and then at how you will make money along the way. You can refine it, or change it as you go, that's fine, but right now, let's just get that one thing clear: where do you really, really want to be?
2. Get the right people around you. Who can help you get to your goal, and who will drag you back? Are there people who've been there before that can advise you, and if so, how do you tap into that? Do all the people around you understand and buy into what you want to achieve, and if not, how can you make that the case?
3. Set some goals. What are the measurable things that will be different? These may include financials, but may just as easily include customer recommendations, feedback from others, environmental or even personal goals. The most important thing is to choose just a handful of measures that are central to what you want to achieve.
4. Get focused. Pick just a small number of things (say 6 or less) that will make a big difference. Decide which steps will get you closest to your goals by the simplest and shortest route. Most businesses I see have no shortage of ideas, but many have a shortage of focus. As a result they spend time on things that add very little value, making less headway on the things that are most important to their success.
5. Stay focused. If another, better opportunity comes along, compare it with your list. Don't be afraid to re-prioritise, but first check: Is the new opportunity of greater value than the things on the list already? Does it make it your longer-term goals faster and easier to achieve? And most importantly of all, and here's where many businesses come unstuck, what comes off the list to make space for it?
6. Invest in the plan. Put proper time, resources and accountability behind each of the things on the list, and make sure there's a credible plan behind them. Can you easily see where you are against the plan, what the big challenges are, and what the next steps need to be? It's another reason why the list can't be too big.
7. Manage your progress. Keep your list front of mind and make it the agenda for conversations with the people around you. Make sure you review progress at least monthly so you can pick up on any blockages, put in more focused effort, or adapt the plans accordingly.
Bottom line: Can you articulate, on one piece of paper, what you want yourself or your business to be in two or three years time, and what the big steps are that will get you there? Can you explain, in a few sentences, who will make those changes, and how they will be brought about? Do you know, right now, how they are progressing, and what needs to be done to keep them on track?
If the answer to all three of those questions is "Yes", you've got a pretty good chance of succeeding. If not, you're just as likely to join the ranks of hundreds of good businesses that fail every year because they're not focused on doing the right things.
For more on engaging the strategy with the wider organisation click here.
For specific advice in a turnaround situation click here.
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Wondering about the safest ways to exercise during pregnancy? Honestly, there isn’t a hard and fast rule about which types of exercises are the safest, so if you’re looking for someone to tell you that it is okay to, say, run a marathon in your second trimester or compete in a triathlon during your third, you’ll have to talk to your doctor. In fact, before starting any types of exercise during pregnancy, it’s best to consult with your obstetrician, as all women and all pregnancies are different. Still, there are some types of exercises that are typically deemed both safe and beneficial for pregnant women, making them a good place to start.
Dancing. While I wouldn’t recommend heading into a mosh pit, dancing is a great way to safely exercise during pregnancy. Ballet is a great type of dance, especially if you use the balance bar to help keep you from toppling over. Ballroom dancing is also great exercise, just limit the swoops and swings once your center of gravity shifts.
Prenatal Yoga. Many women find prenatal yoga both invigorating and relaxing. Doing yoga as your exercise during pregnancy can help keep your muscles toned and flexible. Plus, many of the poses strengthen your overall balance, which is a great benefit when you’re teetering during your third trimester!
Walking. If you’re looking for a great exercise during pregnancy that doesn’t require much commitment (or special equipment!), walking is ideal. Take a stroll around your neighborhood or local park. Just be sure to wear good, shock-absorbing sneakers!
Swimming. This is one of the safest ways to stay fit during your pregnancy, as it is low-impact yet still provides a good aerobic workout. It’s also good for back problems and soothing aching muscles. Plus, you’ll feel weightless in the pool!
Aerobic classes geared specifically toward pregnant women. Typically, it is safe to do low-impact aerobics. Emphasis on “low-impact,” you don’t want to jolt your stomach around too much! While you don’t need a special class to do them, you may want to try one out just until you get the hang of the safest ways to exercise during pregnancy.
Start slow. Don’t just dive into a new exercise program, especially if you’ve never exercised before. Start with a few minutes a day and see how you feel before amping it up.
Protect yourself and your baby. Wear the best possible shoes to absorb impact, don appropriate garb that stretches with your body, and wear a maternity belt to help support your growing tummy.
Talk to your doctor first! Before starting any exercise program when you’re pregnant, you really should talk to someone who knows your health needs best.
Great tips I will have to forward this to my Neice who is due in the summer!
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Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a biologically inspired trainable architecture that can learn invariant features for a number of applications. In general, CNNs consist of alternating convolutional layers, non-linearity layers and feature pooling layers. In this work, a novel feature pooling method, named as mixed pooling, is proposed to regularize CNNs, which replaces the deterministic pooling operations with a stochastic procedure by randomly using the conventional max pooling and average pooling methods. The advantage of the proposed mixed pooling method lies in its wonderful ability to address the over-fitting problem encountered by CNN generation. Experimental results on three benchmark image classification datasets demonstrate that the proposed mixed pooling method is superior to max pooling, average pooling and some other state-of-the-art works known in the literature.
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The first five-year plan (Russian: I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. It was implemented between 1928 and 1932.
In 1929, Stalin edited the plan to include the creation of "kolkhoz" collective farming systems that stretched over thousands of acres of land and had hundreds of peasants working on them. The creation of collective farms essentially destroyed the kulaks as a class, and also brought about the slaughter of millions of farm animals that these peasants would rather kill than give up to the gigantic farms. This disruption led to a famine in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan as well as areas of the Northern Caucasus. Despite the ruinous loss of life, the introduction of collective farms allowed peasants to use tractors to farm the land, unlike before when most had been too poor to own a tractor. Public machine and tractor stations were set up throughout the USSR, and peasants were allowed to use these public tractors to farm the land, increasing the food output per peasant. Peasants were allowed to sell any surplus food from the land. However, the government planners failed to take notice of local situations. In 1932, grain production was 32% below average; to add to this problem, procurements of food were up by 44%. Agricultural production was so disrupted that famine broke out in several districts.
Because of the plan's reliance on rapid industrialization, major cultural changes had to occur in tandem. As this new social structure arose, conflicts occurred among some of the nomadic populations. In Turkmenistan, for example, the Soviet policy of collectivization shifted their production from food crops to cotton. Such a change caused unrest within a community that had already existed prior to this external adjustment, and between 1928 and 1932, Turkmen nomads and peasants made it clear through methods like passive resistance that they did not agree with such policies.
Prior to the enactment of the first Soviet five-year plan, the Soviet Union had been experiencing threats from internal and external sources. The first war threat emerged from the West in 1927. This war scare arose when Western nations, like Great Britain, began cutting off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. This created fear among the Soviets that the West was preparing to attack the Soviet Union again; during the Russian Civil War, foreign powers had occupied portions of Soviet territory. The fear of invasion from the west left the Soviets feeling a need for rapid industrialization to increase Soviet war making potential, and to compete with the western allies. At the same time as the war scare of 1927, dissatisfaction among the peasantry was emerging in the Soviet Union. This dissatisfaction arose from the famine of the early 1920s, as well as a growing mistreatment of the peasants. Also during this time the secret police or the GPU had begun rounding up political dissenters in the Soviet Union. All these tensions had the potential to destroy the young Soviet Union and forced Joseph Stalin to introduce rapid industrialization of heavy industry so that the Soviet Union could address these threats if needed.
The central aspect of the first Soviet five-year plan was the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union. The need for rapid industrialization was once again out of the fear of impending war from the West. If war were to break out between the Soviet Union and the West, the Soviets would be fighting against some of the most highly industrialized nations in the world. The rapid industrialization would inhibit fears of being left unprotected if War between the Soviets and the West were to occur. To meet the needs of a possible war, the Soviet leaders set unrealistic quotas for production. To meet those unrealistic needs, the facilities had to be constructed to quickly facilitate material production before goods could be produced. During this period 1928-1932, massive industrial centers emerged in areas that were highly isolated before. These isolated areas included Magnitogorsk, Dnieper, and Nizhny Novgorod. During this era of Soviet history heavy industry was supposed to experience a 350% increase in output. To achieve this massive economic growth, the Soviet Union had to reroute essential resources to meet the needs of heavy industry. Programs not necessary to heavy industry were cut from the Soviet budget; and because of the redistribution of industrial funding, basic goods, such as food, became scarce. The Soviet Union then decided that the workers necessary for further industrialization should be given most of the available food. From this rapid industrialization a new working class emerged in the Soviet Union. During this time the industrial workforce rose from 3.12 million in 1928 to 6.01 million at the end of the plan in 1932.
The first five-year plan also began a period of rapid agricultural collectivization in the Soviet Union. One reason for the collectivization of Soviet agriculture was to increase the number of industrial workers for the new factories. Soviet officials also believed that collectivization would increase crop yields and help fund other programs. This agricultural collectivization was however a failure for the Soviets. At the end of 1929 the Soviets asserted themselves to forming collectivized peasant agriculture, but the “Kulaks” had to be “liquidated as a class,” because of their resistance to fixed agricultural prices. Resulting from this, the party behavior became uncontrolled and manic when the party began to acquisition food from the countryside. In the years following the agricultural collectivization, the reforms would disrupt the Soviet food supply. In turn, this disruption would eventually lead to famines for the many years following the first five-year plan, with four million dying in 1933.
The failures of the first five-year plan were numerous. The first plan was destined for failure from the beginning because of unrealistic quotas set for industrialization that, in reality, would not be met for decades to come. One of the problems was the goals for the plans were not set and those that were, were constantly changed. Each time one quota was met, it was revised and made larger, which quickly eliminated any chance of the plan succeeding. Secondly, the collectivization created a large-scale famine in the Soviet Union in which millions died. These famines were among the worst in history and created scars which would mark the Soviet Union for many years to come. These failures would lead to the plan being discontinued after four years instead of five.
The success of the first five-year plan was that the Soviet Union began its journey to becoming a world superpower through industrialization. The first five-year plan also began to prepare the Soviet Union to win in the Second World War. Without the initial five-year plan, and the ones that followed, the Soviet Union would not have been prepared for the German invasion in 1941. Due to the rapid industrialization of the plan, the Soviet Union was able to build the weapons it needed to defeat the Germans in 1945.
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Description:His face was concealed by a mask...yet piercing blue eyes inexorably drew Jill Lawson into his arms. What came over her, she'd never know -- but a case of mistaken identity landed her in more than a little hot water, because now she was being framed for murder. Not to mention she'd made mad, passionate love with a stranger! Trying to establish her innocence proved a lot harder than Jill imagined, especially when she was so distracted by the memory of the mystery man's kisses -- kisses that were suspiciously similar to investigator Mac Cooper's. But was Mac set up, just as Jill was? In a race against time and a cunning adversary, could Mac and Jill unmask the real killer before it was too late...?
Title: The Checklist Manifesto_ How to Get Things Right Author: Atul Gawande File Type: Mobi Subject:Non-fiction Description:A New York TimesBestsellerIn his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry---in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people---consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever-advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the checklist. In riveting stories, he reveals what checklists can do, what they can't, and how they could bring about striking improvements in a variety of fields, from medicine and disaster recovery to professions and businesses of all kinds. And the insights are making a difference. Already, a simple surgical checklist from the World Health Organization designed by following the ideas described here has been adopted in more than twenty countries as a standard for care and has been heralded as the biggest clinical invention in thirty years (The Independent).
Title: The City & the City Author: China Mieville File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction Description:Amazon.com ReviewThe City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and forth across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu's own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville creates a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don't end with the solution of a murder. --_Tom Nissley_From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Better known for New Weird fantasies (_Perdido Street Station_, etc.), bestseller Miéville offers an outstanding take on police procedurals with this barely speculative novel. Twin southern European cities Beszel and Ul Qoma coexist in the same physical location, separated by their citizens' determination to see only one city at a time. Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad roams through the intertwined but separate cultures as he investigates the murder of Mahalia Geary, who believed that a third city, Orciny, hides in the blind spots between Beszel and Ul Qoma. As Mahalia's friends disappear and revolution brews, Tyador is forced to consider the idea that someone in unseen Orciny is manipulating the other cities. Through this exaggerated metaphor of segregation, Miéville skillfully examines the illusions people embrace to preserve their preferred social realities. (June) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Title: Slings and Arrows 01_ Sea of Troubles Author: J. Steven York File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Trek Description:A new six-part epic covering the first year of service of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, leading up to the events of the hit movie Star Trek: First Contact. The U.S.S. Enterprise-E has launched, with Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command. In addition to many familiar faces, the new ship also has some new crew members-among them, conn officer Sean Hawk and security chief Linda Addison. But soon Picard is devastated to learn that there's a saboteur on board-in the form of a changeling infiltrator from the Dominion! Picard and his crew must learn who the changeling replaced and stop it before it destroys the fleet's finest ship... A new eBook from the authors of Enigma Ship and Spin!.
Title: Try Fear Author: James Scott Bell File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction:Legal Description: For Ty Buchanan, defending a suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there's nothing routine about it. Because the cops suspect it's murder, and arrest Eric Richess, Carl's brother, for the crime. Now Ty, at the desperate urging of Eric's mother, agrees to defend him. But it won't be easy. Because there's DNA on the gun that matches Eric's, and a history of conflict between the brothers.Then Ty, assisted by Sister Mary Veritas, begins to uncover tentacles of corruption that reach into the citadels of city power. But he's being watched. Because somewhere in the dark labyrinth of LA is someone who will do anything to keep from being found out, someone who believes that when warnings don't work, try fear.
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Why should you use a real estate agent?
• MARKETING MANAGER - To position a home to sell quickly and at a profit, a comprehensive marketing strategy should be developed. Successful strategies generally include sharing information through the local multiple listing service, marketing home to other real estate professionals, featuring the home on the broker's website, developing fact sheets, installing a yard sign, and planning and conducting open houses. Our Realtors also handle calls, schedule appointments and show the home.
• TRANSACTION COORDINATOR - As the single point of contact, our Realtors can manage the entire transaction from beginning to end: coordinating inspections, keeping in touch with the other agent, managing the documentation for the loan process or following up on the progress of the buyer's loan, monitoring deadlines associated with contingencies, providing applicable paperwork, estimating closing costs, and helping prepare for a smooth and uneventful closing.
• PROPERTY SPECIALIST – Our Realtors can assist buyers with identifying properties that meet their needs and provide them with objective information about each property. For sellers, our Realtors can help to determine a realistic selling price based on comparable sales, local market conditions and motivation to sell, in addition to advising sellers on how to prepare the home to be shown.
• NEGOTIATOR – Both buyers and sellers benefit from working with a strong, skilled advocate during the negotiating process. Our Realtors can help you objectively evaluate an offer and work to negotiate a favorable contract. During he or she will review the contract and obligations before you sign, explain how contingencies and release clauses work, and so forth.
• TRUSTED ADVISOR – Our Realtors can help familiarize you with the processes involved in buying or selling a home, alert you to potential risks, help you determine how much home you can afford, explain alternative financing strategies, and provide moral support.
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Mondial is an international auxiliary language created by the Swedish doctor Helge Heimer in 1957, based on romance languages.
Digits from zero to nine are rendered by specific words: cero , un , du , tri , cuar , cuin , sexe , septe , octe , and nove .
The tens are formed by suffixing the multiplier digit root with ante, except for ten: dece , duante , triante , cuarante , cuinante , sexante , septante , octante , and novante .
Numbers from eleven to nineteen are formed by suffixing the unit with ce, from dece, the word for ten: unce , duce , trice , cuarce , cuince , sexece , septece , octece , and novece .
Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine are formed with the ten root followed by the unit separated with a space (e.g.: septante un , novante cuar ).
The hundreds are formed by setting the multiplier digit before the word for hundred (cente) separated with a space, except for one hundred itself: cente , du cente , tri cente , cuar cente , cuin cente , sexe cente , septe cente , octe cente , and nove cente .
The thousands are formed by setting the multiplier digit before the word for thousand (mil) separated with a space, except for one thousand itself: mil [1,000], du mil [2,000], tri mil [3,000], cuar mil [4,000], cuin mil [5,000], sexe mil [6,000], septe mil [7,000], octe mil [8,000], and nove mil [9,000].
The word for million is milion (106), and the word for billion is miliarde (109).
Enter a number and get it written in full in Mondial.
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Theo Croker is a trumpeter, vocalist, composer, and bandleader whose powerful and eclectic take on modern jazz pays respect to the tradition of the music while moving the genre forward. A native of Leesburg, Florida, Croker is the grandson of the late great jazz trumpeter Doc Cheatham. Croker began playing trumpet at age 11 after hearing Cheatham play in New York City, and by his teens was studying music formally at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville followed by the music conservatory at Oberlin College. Croker's musical training has taken him all over the world including Shanghai, China where he took up residency at the House of Blues and refined his style. Shanghai is also where Croker met his mentor, Dee Dee Bridgewater, whom he performs with often. In 2014, Croker released his debut album AfroPhysicist on DDB Records via Sony Music Masterworks/OKeh Records. The follow-up, Escape Velocity, will be released in May 2016.
Saxophonist, composer, educator, and activist Elijah Jamal Balbed is a native of Washington, DC, currently splitting his time between DC and New York. An alumnus of Howard University's legendary Jazz program, Elijah has since been named Artist of the Year (2016), Best Tenor Saxophonist (2013) and Best New Jazz Musician (2010) by the Washington City Paper, and has participated in residencies at the Kennedy Center (Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead), Strathmore, Bohemian Caverns, and a month-long stint at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in Doha, Qatar. In addition to the Middle East, music has taken Elijah all over the world including places like Japan, Jamaica, South America, London, and many states in the US. Over the last decade, he has established himself as a versatile saxophonist, having performed with artists ranging from Nicholas Payton, Winard Harper, and Cyrus Chestnut, all the way to Lalah Hathaway, Eric Benet, The Blackbyrds, and Dr. John. Elijah is best known for having worked regularly with the late, great, Godfather of Go-Go music, Chuck Brown for the last year of his life.
In 2012, Elijah released his debut album "Checking In", the title track awarding him a semi-finalist slot in the International Songwriting Competition (2012). On International Jazz Day of 2015, Elijah released his second album - an homage to the DC jazz scene and community, this one entitled "Lessons From the Streets". Both albums were named among the best jazz albums their respective years by Capital Bop, the leading jazz publication in DC.
In addition to jazz, Elijah is equally dedicated to the preservation of Go-Go music - Washington, DC's indigenous style of music. Through working with Mr. Chuck Brown, Elijah developed a passion and love for Go-Go and has a band dedicated to combining elements Jazz and Go-Go musics called The JoGo Project. The band has been highly acclaimed in DC and the surrounding areas, having performed at venues such as Strathmore, Kennedy Center, Mount St Mary's University, and festivals such as the Funk Parade, H Street Festival, and Art All Night, to name a few. Collaborations have included Frank Sirius, Christie Dashiell, Warren Wolf, Greg Boyer, R&B artist Cecily, tap dancer Joseph Webb, and rapper Javier Starks.
Elijah is a voting member of the DC Chapter of the Recording Academy, as well as a member of Local 161-710, the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Federation of Musicians.
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How long until Rizal Day?
This holiday next takes place in 256 Days.
This national holiday is celebrated annually on 30 December.
Known in the Philippines as 'Araw ng Kabayanihan ni Dr. Jose Rizal', this day commemorates the execution of José Rizal on 30 December 1896.
Dr. José Rizal is a National Hero of the Philippines, credited with playing a key role in starting the revolution against the Spanish colonisers.
Born on 19 June 1861 in the town of Calamba, Rizal was a doctor and a novelist. Writing from Europe, in his novel Noli me Tangere' (Touch me not), he denounced the corrupt rule of the Philippines by Spanish friars. Many historians agree that the ideas he raised in that novel and its sequel, 'El filibusterismo' (Reign of Greed) , were heavy influences on the growing discontentment with Spanish rule and inspired the revolution.
While Rizal had no direct role in the nationalist insurrection, and never took part in any fighting; he was still seen as being involved with the revolutionary forces and was arrested and tried for treason. Rizal was executed by firing squad at Bagumbayan field, now known as Rizal Park, in Manila at 7am on 30 December 1896.
The first president of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo, commemorated the first Rizal Day in 1898.
On 1 February 1902, the Philippine Commission enacted Act. No. 345, which officially declared 30 December as Rizal Day.
How is Rizal Day celebrated?
To mark the day, the Philippine flag is flown at half-mast across the country , and a service is led by the president at the Rizal Monument in Manila. Wreath laying-ceremonies are also held at the Rizal Shrine in Calamba and the Rizal Monument in Baguio City.
In recent years there have been attempts to move this holiday to Rizal's birthday, 19 June as the proximity of Christmas and New Year reduces the importance of the holiday and it would be seen by some as more fitting to celebrate his birth rather than commemorate his death.
On 20 June 2011 a special one-off non-working holiday was declared in honour of Rizal's 150th Birthday.
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El día primero de enero de 1819 el Teniente Coronel de Infantería Juan Luis Lorenzo De Clouet, propuso la fundación del poblado, al Gobernador de la Isla, Don José Cienfuegos y al Intendente Don Alejandro Ramírez, cuya proposición fue aceptada y formalizada el 9 de marzo de 1819.
De Clouet llega a Jagua (nombre por el que la conocían los aborígenes de la zona) con cuarenta y seis colonos franceses, el médico Don Domingo Monjenié y el agrimensor Don Domingo Dubroct. Acamparon en un poblado indio junto al río Saladito, probablemente en Coacoí, que había sido abandonado por los Siboneyes; en el Sitio de Hurtado, perteneciente a los terrenos que se habían adquirido por compra al brigadier de marina Don Honorato Bouyón.
En las chozas abandonadas y en ocho tiendas de campaña, se instalaron los colonizadores, trazaron varias calles y hasta un parque tenían ya señalado; cuando el día 19 de abril recibió D. Luis De Clouet la visita de Agustín de Santa Cruz y de Castilla. Este noble cubano le indicó a De Clouet la conveniencia de trazar la población en la Península de la Majagua, poniendo este lugar, que era propiedad de su esposa, Doña Antonia Guerrero, a disposición de De Clouet, quien, convencido por las indicaciones de Santa Cruz, aceptó el ofrecimiento y decidió fundar la Ciudad donde ahora se encuentra.
Escudo del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Cienfuegos.
El día 22 de abril de 1819, al salir el sol, Don Luis De Clouet, engalanado con sus insignias y rodeado de los vecinos que le escuchaban de rodillas, tomó posesión de las tierras en nombre de Su Majestad el Rey de España.
En 1829 fue sustituido el nombre de Fernandina de Jagua, por el de Cienfuegos, en honor al Capitán General de la Isla, Don José Cienfuegos Jovellanos, que mucho había hecho por la Villa y bajo cuyo nombre se fundó la colonia. El Ayuntamiento y el título de Villa se le conceden en 1829 y adquiere la categoría de ciudad, en 1880. Es capital de la provincia de igual nombre desde 1976, con la nueva división político-administrativa del país.
I DO NOT SUPPORT AND I HAVE NEVER SUPPORTED THE HELMS-BURTON ACT. Miriam Leiva, Independent journalist and human rights activist.
OSCAR ESPINOSA CHEPE never supported the Helms-Burton Act or the embargo. He was unjustly sentenced to 20 years in prison during the Black Spring of 2003. Until his death in September 2013 he promoted the reconciliation of all Cubans and the civilized relations between Cuba and the States.
I respect the criteria within the opposition-dissent, but I DO NOT agree with those who promote the Helms-Burton Act and other aggressive measures.
The Helms-Burton Act and other measures of confrontation DO NOT help the advancement of the democratization of Cuba, but rather encourage immobile positions within the Cuban government and repression of opinions other than official ones.
– The limitations of the amount of remittances sent to Cubans living in the archipelago.
– Restrictions on agreements and collaboration between scientific, academic and other institutions.
Cubans need the exchange of ideas and knowledge, as well as help to face the immense crisis in Cuba and undertake private businesses that encourage small and medium enterprises to achieve economic independence.
I support the positions of the European Union, Canada, Mexico and other countries against the measures enacted by the Trump Administration on April 17, 2019. Presidents Bill Clinton, who enacted the Helms-Burton Act, and Bush did not apply the Chapters III and IV, for its extraterritorial nature, in violation of international law.
The United States Embassy in Havana must return to its normal work.
YO NO APOYO Y NUNCA HE APOYADO LA LEY HELMS-BURTON. Miriam Leiva, periodista Independiente y activista pro derechos humanos.
OSCAR ESPINOSA CHEPE nunca apoyó la Ley Helms-Burton ni el embargo. Él fue sentenciado injustamente a 20 años de cárcel durante la Primavera Negra de 2003. Hasta su muerte en septiembre de 2013 él promovió la reconciliación de todos los cubanos y las relaciones civilizadas entre Cuba y Estados.
Yo respeto los criterios dentro de la oposición-disidencia, pero NO concuerdo con quienes fomentan la Ley Helms-Burton y otras medidas agresivas.
La Ley Helms-Burton y otras medidas de confrontación NO ayudan al avance de la democratización de Cuba, sino que fomenta las posiciones inmovilistas dentro del gobierno cubano y la represión a las opiniones distintas a las oficiales.
– Las limitaciones de la cantidad de remesas enviadas a los cubanos residentes en el archipiélago.
– Las restricciones a los acuerdos y la colaboración entre instituciones científicas, académicas, y otras.
Los cubanos necesitan el intercambio de ideas y conocimientos, asi como la ayuda para afrontar la inmensa crisis existente en Cuba y emprender negocios privados que fomenten las pequeñas y medianas empresas para alcanzar la independencia económica.
Yo encomio las posiciones de la Unión Europea, Canadá, México y otros países en contra de las medidas promulgadas por la Administracion Trump el 17 de abril de 2019. Los presidentes Bill Clinton, que promulgó la Ley Helms-Burton, y Bush NO aplicaron los Capítulos III y IV, por su carácter extraterritorial, violatorio del derecho internacional.
La Embajada de Estados Unidos en La Habana debe retornar a su trabajo normal.
It is not a question of returning to the acute phase of the 90s (…) but we will always have to prepare ourselves for the worst variant, warned Raúl Castro, on April 10.
This year to import food and fuel it is required more than 5 billion dollars. The few hopes of the population are in the new legal rules promised to make self-employment and non-agricultural cooperatives more flexible. The monetary and exchange unification, and the salary reform remain on halt.
The highest political and military personality of Cuba confirmed what most Cubans feared: "the situation could worsen in the coming months", when addresing the second extraordinary session of the Ninth Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power to proclaim the Constitution, on April 10th. This was the preamble to the meetings of the committees of the Assembly on the 11th and 12th, and the third extraordinary session the following day, informed in the official media.
On the other hand, Diaz-Canel expressed that the crudity of the moment demands to establish clear and defined priorities, for not to return to the difficult moments of the special period, and called to not fear changes, in his speech of the session of April 13 . However, the country’s leadership has delayed or reversed its limited reforms, and allowed to "fall off the precipice" due to the desire for absolute control and their contradictions.
The president said that the list of tasks is infinite, among which he prioritized the updating of the Economy Plan for complex situations; immediately launching the pending economic measures that have to do with demands and needs of the population; with the reorganization of domestic trade; with the operation of the state enterprise system (sistema empresarial), agricultural and non-agricultural cooperatives and self-employment. Agriculture, exportable productions, tourism, import substitution, foreign investment and productive linkage with all possible national production are at the center of the actions, he reiterated.
Likewise, Díaz-Canel referred extensively to the deterioration of relations with the United States due to President Trump’s policy for the resurgence of the embargo-blockade, based on the Helms-Burton Act, and its economic impact by hindering loans and financing from third nations; "While internally we still drag the bales of administrative inefficiency, the import mentality, the lack of savings and insufficient income from exports, among other evils, from which we can not exclude the manifestations of corruption and illegalities, unacceptable today, as always , in the Revolution. " Although he highlighted the advances in the implementation of the 2016-2021 Guidelines (Lineamientos).
The great magnitude of the crisis without solution in the short term can be seen in the information of Alejandro Gil, Minister of Economy and Planning, on the strong financial restrictions, including arrears in the payment of some debts, which impede the proper functioning of the economy and the adquisitionof the credits foreseen in the plan, as well as having new supplies from suppliers to whom it is owed. Lack of financing in foreign currency to support the demand of the agencies, including electricity generation and the main commitments of the industry and the productive sector, he said. He did not detail if the payment commited for the cancellations of debts are being executed. In past years, Raul Castro and Diaz-Canel had emphasized the purpose of honoring debts to regain international credibility and contract only the new loans that could be paid. On this occasion, the inability to settle the commitments is recognized, perhaps due to the possibility that creditors might bring defaults to international courts, which the Cuban government has been able to avoid so far.
In addition, the minister said that exports do not grow with the required dynamics, so in the first quarter of 2019 the expected foreign currency revenues were not reached and this year the import plan is not expected to be fulfilled. Nor were the levels of foreign investment demanded achieved, and the inefficient use of energy carriers (gasoline and oil) persists. It also recognized the inefficient compliance of the investment process, due to the low levels and that amortization is not guaranteed with its own performance in the time foreseen for its non-termination.
However, Gil assured that he does not renounce to reach the GDP growth rate foreseen in the 2019 plan, and expressed that the only way to achieve this is by exploiting the internal possibilities to the maximum. As a novel example, he presented the positive results of the exporting poles of Ceballos and La Cuba, with productive linkages in tourism activities, the Mariel Special Development Zone and the cruises, retain part of the currency coming from the contracts to guarantee investments and ensure future productions.
Transport Minister Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila acknowledged that the results of the experiment with private porters in the capital have not been as expected, firstly because few transporters have taken the route modality, and the free have generated the increase in price. Another deficiency is that the orderly consumption of fuel by magnetic cards is insufficient because they spend less than expected. Therefore, new proposals are being studied that will soon be issued for the organization of self-employment in the transport sector, he said.
Finally, the authorities have unveiled he difficulties that are affecting the national economy and will be faced by Cubans in the archipelago, especially those who do not work linked to exports and tourism, or do not receive remittances from the United States. The shortage of goods is sharpening in the stores selling in foreign currency and is more critical in the provinces, especially the eastern ones. The blackouts begin. Unfortunately, Cubans do not foresee solutions and the exodus to any place increases, despite the implicit dangers.
No se trata de regresar a la fase aguda de los años 90 (…) pero tendremos que prepararnos siempre para la peor variante, advirtió Raúl Castro, el 10 de abril.
Este año por alimentos y combustibles se requiere más de 5 000 millones de dólares. Las pocas esperanzas de la población están en las nuevas normas jurídicas prometidas para flexibilizar el trabajo por cuenta propia y las cooperativas no agropecuarias. La unificación monetaria y cambiaria, y la reforma salarial permanecen incógnitas.
La máxima personalidad política y militar de Cuba confirmó lo que la mayoría de los cubanos temían: “la situación podría agravarse en los próximos meses”, al clausurar la segunda sesión extraordinaria de la Novena Legislatura de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular para proclamar la Constitución, el 10 de abril. Este fue el preámbulo a las reuniones de las comisiones de la Asamblea los días 11 y 12, y la tercera sesión extraordinaria el siguiente, informados en los medios oficiales.
Por su parte, Díaz-Canel expresó que la crudeza del momento exige establecer prioridades bien claras y definidas, para no regresar a los dificultes momentos del período especial, y llamó a no temer el cambio, en su discurso de la sesión del 13 de abril. Sin embargo, la dirección del país ha demorado o revertido sus limitadas reformas, y permitió que “se cayera en el precipicio”, por el afán de control absoluto y sus contradicciones.
El presidente dijo que es infinita la lista de tareas, entre las que priorizó la actualización del Plan de la Economía para las situaciones complejas; poner en marcha de inmediato medidas económicas pendientes que tienen que ver con demandas y necesidades; con la reorganización del comercio interior; con el funcionamiento del sistema empresarial, las cooperativas agropecuarias y no agropecuarias y el trabajo por cuenta propia. La Agricultura, las producciones exportables, el turismo, la sustitución de importaciones, la inversión extranjera y el encadenamiento productivo con toda la producción nacional posible, están en el centro de las acciones, reiteró.
Asimismo, Díaz-Canel se refirió extensamente al deterioro de las relaciones con Estados Unidos debido a la política del presidente Trump para el recrudecimiento del embargo-bloqueo, basado en la Ley Helms-Burton, y su incidencia económica al obstaculizar los créditos y financiamientos de terceras naciones; “mientras internamente aun arrastramos los fardos de la ineficiencia administrativa, la mentalidad importadora, la falta de ahorro y los insuficientes ingresos por exportaciones, entre otros males, de los que no podemos excluir las manifestaciones de corrupción y las ilegalidades, inaceptables hoy, como siempre, en la Revolución”. Aunque resaltó los avances en la implementación de los Lineamientos 2016-2021.
La gran envergadura de la crisis sin solución a corto plazo se aprecia en las informaciones de Alejandro Gil, ministro de Economía y Planificación, sobre las fuertes restricciones financieras, incluidos atrasos en el pago de algunas deudas, que impiden el adecuado funcionamiento de la economía y la consecución de los créditos previstos en el plan, asi como disponer de nuevos suministros de proveedores a los cuales se debe. Falta financiamiento en divisas para respaldar la demanda de los organismos, incluyendo la generación eléctrica y los principales compromisos de la industria y el sector productivo, señaló. No detalló si los tramos de pago por las cancelaciones de deudas se ejecutan. En años pasados, Raúl Castro y Díaz-Canel habían enfatizado el propósito de honrar las deudas para recuperar la credibilidad internacional y contraer solo los nuevos préstamos que pudieran pagarse. En esta ocasión se reconocen la incapacidad de solventar los compromisos, posiblemente ante la posibilidad de que acreedores lleven los impagos a las cortes internacionales, lo cual el gobierno cubano ha podido evitar.
Además, el ministro refirió que las exportaciones no crecen con la dinámica requerida, por lo que en el primer trimestre de 2019 no se alcanzaron los ingresos en divisas esperados y está previsto que este año no se cumpla el plan de importaciones. Tampoco se lograron los niveles de inversión extranjera demandados, y persiste el uso ineficiente de los portadores energéticos (gasolina y petróleo). También reconoció el ineficiente cumplimiento del proceso inversionista, por los bajos niveles y que no se garantiza la amortización con su propio rendimiento en el tiempo previsto por su no terminación.
Sin embargo, Gil aseguró que no se renuncia a alcanzar la tasa de crecimiento del PIB prevista en el plan 2019, y expresó que la única manera de lograrlo es explotando al máximo las posibilidades internas. Como ejemplo novedoso expuso los resultados positivos de los polos exportadores de Ceballos y La Cuba, con encadenamientos productivos en actividades del turismo, la Zona Especial de Desarrollo Mariel y los cruceros. No parece realista esa afirmación, cuando hasta el presente no han logrado eficiencia y calidad en la mayoría de las empresas estatales, y son pocos polos autorizados.
El ministro explicó que hay empresas exportadoras que retienen una parte de la divisa generada fundamentalmente para importaciones, lo cual se revisará para encontrar suministros en el territorio nacional; con ello se busca lograr un mayor nivel de aporte a la cuenta de financiamiento central, de forma tal que se puedan priorizar los pagos más importantes y dentro de ellos las deudas. Pero sucedanos adecuados para mantener las exportaciones son poco probables, teniendo en cuenta la obsolescencia de las instalaciones, las restricciones en los insumos, la baja calidad de las producciones, la carencia de personal desestimulado por los bajos salarios, y otras causas.
El presidente, Marino Murillo, jefe de la Comisión para la Implementación y Desarrollo, y el ministro de Economía insistieron en la importancia de fortalecer y conferir mayor independencia a la empresa estatal socialista, y las producciones de los gobierno municipales para sustituir importaciones y exportar. Murillo dijo que se estudian 22 nuevas medidas para la consolidación y desarrollo del sistema empresarial estatal, a corto y mediano plazo, ejemplificó con que todas las que vendan a usuarios o concesionarios radicados en la Zona Especial de Desarrollo Mariel, retengan parte de las divisas provenientes de los contratos para garantizar inversiones y asegurar próximas producciones.
El ministro de Transporte Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila reconoció que los resultados del experimento con los porteadores privados en la capital no ha sido los esperados, en primer lugar porque pocos transportistas se han acogidos a la modalidad de ruta, y los libres han generado el incremento de los precio. Otra deficiencia es que el consumo ordenado de combustible por tarjetas magnéticas resulta insuficiente porque gastan menos de lo previsto. Por ello, se estudian nuevas propuestas que pronto se emitirán para el ordenamiento del trabajo por cuenta propia en el sector del transporte, señaló.
Por fin las autoridades han desglosado las dificultades, que hunden la economía nacional y que afrontarán los cubanos en el archipiélago, sobre todo quienes no trabajan vinculados a la exportación y el turismo, o reciben remesas fundamentalmente procedentes de Estados Unidos. El desabastecimiento se agudiza en las tiendas de venta en divisas y es más crítico en provincias, especialmente las orientales. Los apagones comienzan. Lamentablemente, los cubanos no avizoran soluciones y se incrementa el éxodo hacia cualquier lugar, a pesar de los peligros implícitos.
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The term sonnet is derived from the Italian, meaning "little sound" or "little song," and this sound has been heard from Dante in the thirteenth century right through to the present day. To Coleridge, a sonnet was "a small poem, in which some lonely feeling is developed" (lonely here referring to a sole and consistent idea), and often this feeling has been love.
The Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave (eight lines) rhyming abba abba, followed by a sestet (six lines) rhyming cde cde (or some variation like ccd ccd). This is based on the form used by the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-74), but the need for so many repeated rhymes makes it less suited to a language like English that has fewer rhymes available.
The other main form is the English or Shakespearean sonnet, requiring fewer recurrent rhymes and consisting of three quatrains (four lines) and a concluding couplet (two lines), rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
Other variations have also been used. Spenser's Amoretti employs a scheme of three quatrains with interlocked rhymes - abab bcbc cdcd ee. This form is sometimes referred to as the Spenserian sonnet.
The late thirteenth century saw the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) writing verses of a length and style similar to the sonnet form, but it was with the Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) that the form was established.
In the early sixteenth century, Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1503-42) was one of the first to write sonnets in English, closely following the Petrarchan structure and style, after a trip to Italy in 1527. None of his poems were published during his lifetime, but the majority of his sonnets were printed in Richard Tottel's Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets of 1557, along with other early sonneteers like Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (c.1517-47).
The sonnet became the most popular form of Elizabethan lyric in the late sixteenth century, when sonnet sequences were all the rage. 1582 saw the production of the first English sonnet sequence, Sir Philip Sidney's (1554-96) Astrophil and Stella - 108 sonnets dedicated to the daughter of the Earl of Essex, Penelope Devereux, detailing the unrequited love of Astrophil ("lover of a star") for Stella (his "star"). The first sonnet says "look in thy heart and write," and the sequence seems more genuine and personal than its Italian and French forebears, perhaps because it was not intended for publication.
Samuel Daniel (1562/3-1619) published a sequence of 50 sonnets, Delia, in 1592, dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke, Sidney's sister. By the 1601 edition, the sequence had been expanded to 57 sonnets.
Sir Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) published Amoretti ("little loves") in 1595: a sequence of 88 sonnets inspired by the courtship of his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he married in 1594.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) produced a remarkable sequence of 154 sonnets, which were in circulation among friends by 1598 but not published until 1609. Sonnets 1 to 126 explore the poet's love for a beautiful youth whose identity is open to debate, but is often believed to be his patron, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton. The first 17 of these concentrate on the transience of beauty, a standard Elizabethan theme, and urge the youth to marry so that his perfection may survive in his children. The remaining poems to the young man explore in more detail the difficulties of the relationship. Sonnets 127 to 154 are about Shakespeare's affair with a "Dark Lady," an unfaithful mistress.
The seventeenth century brought greater variety in the sonnet form and subject matter, with poets like John Milton (1608-74) and the Metaphysical poets, such as John Donne (c.1572-1631), moving beyond love poetry to explore spirituality and earnest contemplation. Donne's early love sonnets were sonnets in the broadest sense, not adhering to any standard design or narrative sequence, but were certainly "little songs."
Almost all of the Romantic poets wrote sonnets (Wordsworth's "Scorn not the sonnet" even gives a brief history of the sonnet up to Milton), and the form has remained in use right up to the present day, covering a multitude of topics from a friend's cat to the terror of world war. But for the beauty of its form, and the truth of its expression, the sonnet will always be pre-eminently associated with love.
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Do truck stops by law have to have Handicap parking for truck drivers?
Per the exception contained in (Americans with Disabilities Standards) ADAS Section 208.1, parking spaces used exclusively for trucks, busses, or other delivery vehicles are not required to be compliant with ADAS Section 208 which specifies the minimum number of accessible and van accessible parking spaces required. Based upon this, no truck, bus, or other delivery vehicle accessible spaces are required to be provided PROVIDING THAT a passenger loading zone is provided in accordance with ADAS Section 503.
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Problems with the thyroid gland can be the cause of many recurring illnesses and fatigue. It is believed that around ten percent of the British adult population (including both men and women) suffer symptoms caused by an under active thyroid gland, commonly known as hypothyroidism.
The thyroid hormones essentially control the metabolic rate of all cells throughout the body. Many people understand this to mean that it simply influences our weight. However, this is a vast misunderstanding of its overall role within the body. Metabolism literally means tissue change and includes all the physical and chemical processes by which the living body is maintained, and also those by which the energy is made available for various forms of work. In other words the thyroid influences every system, organ and muscle in the body.
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If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable.
''War is a drug''. These four words open The Hurt Locker and form the over-arching thesis of the rest of the film, which makes the bold argument that, whilst war may be Hell, some soldiers, and people who watch war films, get a kick out of it.
Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) is a bomb disposal expert newly assigned to an E.O.D. (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) unit that identifies and disarms improvised explosive devices in Iraq. The other members of his team, Sergeant JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), are still mourning the death of James' predecessor, whose death has necessitated James joining them when they have only 38 days left on their rotation. They develop suspicions about James and worry that his recklessness will get one or all of them killed in action.
Mark Boal, the screenwriter, was an embedded journalist who spent time with actual bomb disposal experts in Iraq. Unsurprisingly, his screenplay makes for an unflinchingly realistic story, one that is combined with an unconventional narrative. When I say ''unconventional'', I don't mean in terms of narrative structure, more in terms of narrative drive. There is no villain in The Hurt Locker, there is no great task that the squad have to complete in order to triumph, no arc for them to experience. Instead, the film concerns itself with detailing the day-to-day lives of men doing the most dangerous job in the world in the worst circumstances imaginable.
This worm's eye view of the war makes for a fiercely apolitical film that may surprise people who have come to expect sloganeering from their Iraq War films, be it in the form of lecturing (Lions For Lambs), righteous indignation (Stop-Loss) or full-blown anger (Redacted). Boal and director Kathyrn Bigelow do not choose to address the bigger questions of the war since when films try to tackle a human story against a political backdrop the politics often swamp the humanity.
It is to the advantage of the film that it eschews the political avenue it could have traversed since it makes the interaction between the three principle characters all the more engaging. The pre-existing relationship between Sanborn and Eldridge, along with their prior trauma, makes their relationship with James strained before he's even gone out on patrol with them. Once he starts taking risks and ignoring orders, the tension between them reaches breaking point and makes for some of the films quieter, most powerful moments.
However, the emphasis on dynamics and the day-to-day highlights the moments in the film when the script veers off in directions that are at odds with itself. There are a number of plot strands in the film, most notably a late-night sortie, that seem to have been put in to beef up the action quota in the third act, something that the film doesn't need and which only serves to distract.
This sequence reveals a common misconception about The Hurt Locker; Kathyrn Bigelow’s presence has led many to pigeon-hole it as an action film, a label that is terribly misleading. Whilst there are action sequences, including a suitably explosive opening and a gunfight that takes place over several miles and the course of an entire afternoon, these are exceptions rather than the rule. It would be more accurate to describe the film as a suspense film, since that is what much of its scenes consists of. Every time that James suits up and approaches an I.E.D. the film pulses with a barely suppressed energy as we expect an explosion to tear through the characters at any moment, creating and maintaining a pitch of unbearable tension. It's not a film about things blowing up, it's a film about things not blowing up.
As these scenes mount up, we understand the quote that opened the film; war is a drug, and James is an addict. Whilst the high-pressure of the task at hand wears on Sanborn and Eldridge, James revels in it, and finds it hard to function without the constant adrenaline rush he receives from deactivating bombs; nothing in his life offers him the elation he gets from his job.
It's a startling realisation, both for him and the audience, and just one of the many facets that make The Hurt Locker a strong contender for the best film of the year.
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Locate a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program near me in Broadview, IL.
If someone else is struggling with addiction, there's 2 things that family members and friends could do that could save their lives. The initial thing is always to never give up hope, even if past efforts to help them have failed, and even if they have been to a drug rehab program previously and relapsed. The other would be to do something about it now and get them into a powerful drug and alcohol rehab program in Broadview, as opposed to waiting for the individual to make the decision to get help which in certain instances will never happen. Waiting to get someone in a drug and alcohol treatment program in Broadview, IL. when they have gotten to the dreaded "rock bottom" is a huge mistake oftentimes, because by this time the individual has brought on many pointless consequences due to their addiction and so have loved ones. The moment to do something is now, no matter how slight or desperate the problem, and the sooner loved ones act if the individual won't help themselves, the earlier they can stop the cycle of substance abuse as well as its consequences and start to rebuild their lives so they can have a life that is worth living.
An intervention might help family members because it can be conducted in a way that doesn't make the individual feel guilty, but alternatively confronts them with solutions that can make more sense rather than the standard guilt trip they've probably become accustomed to. The key first step is selecting a quality drug treatment facility in Broadview, with inpatient and residential drug and alcohol treatment centers being the recommended choices, and speaking with a drug rehab professional there who is able to recommend an interventionist or explain the steps to loved ones who will be able to certainly hold one all by themselves. So don't hesitate to assist someone you care about today.
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The 4 main causes of dog trauma all require quick action to prevent further injury. Should you experience a dog emergency, especially a trauma involving a dog head, be prepared to take the animal to a veterinarian clinic or hospital immediately. The dog brain is fragile and any swelling must be treated quickly to prevent permanent problems. Dog health should be monitored closely because additional treatment may be necessary if the injuries persist.
Dogs often swallow items not meant for canine consumption such as socks or small toys. If these items get lodged in the animal's throat the airway may become blocked and the animal may die. If you suspect the dog is choking, first open his mouth to see if the item is visible. If so, then pull it out and the animal should then be able to breathe. If you cannot see the item but are sure the animal is choking, attempt the Heimlich maneuver. Place the dog in front of you with its hind legs directly to your side. Wrap your arms tightly around the dog's waist and clasp your hands together just under the animal's ribs. Squeeze in three sharp quick thrusts then check to see if the item has been dislodged. and is now visible. If you can see the object, carefully pull it out and the dog should be able to breathe. If the item is still not visible, take your dog immediately to the vet for medical attention.
Being hit by a vehicle is another cause of dog trauma. If you dog is struck, check immediately for broken bones by running your hands along his limbs. If the animal can get up and walk without a limp there is probably not a broken bone. If the animal cannot walk or yelps when you run your hands over his limbs, the limb may be broken and will require a vet to set it. Another common injury related to being hit by an automobile is cuts or bruises. These injuries can be treated by washing out the cuts thoroughly and using an antiseptic. If the cut is deep or bleeding is significant, you will need to take the dog to the vet for stitches.
There are several causes of head trauma in dogs and can include seizures, falls or accidentally being hit by a child's swing or baseball bat. If your animal has been hit, you should look for lacerations or swelling. There may also be bleeding from the nose or ears and the pupils may be dilated. The dog may also lose consciousness and should you witness any of these symptoms, take the animal to the vet as soon as possible because internal bleeding may have occurred and a vet will need to run tests to diagnose the problem.
If your dog has been involved in a fight with another animal, he may suffer puncture wounds inflicted by an animal bite. If you discover a puncture wound, run water over it to clean out the germs and treat with antibiotic ointments. If swelling occurs, this may be an indication of a snake bite. If you did not see your dog bitten and cannot confirm whether the snake was poisonous, it is best to seek medical attention so the vet can determine if antivenin is required.
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A special case of typed languages are the single-typed languages. These are often scripting or markup languages, such as REXX or SGML, and have only one data type–—most commonly character strings which are used for both symbolic and numeric data.
Programs that are executed directly on the hardware usually run much faster than those that are interpreted in software.
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. In 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn.
In addition to the language itself, Kemeny and Kurtz developed the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), which allowed multiple users to edit and run BASIC programs at the same time. This general model became very popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and Data General Nova in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hewlett-Packard produced an entire computer line for this method of operation, introducing the HP2000 series in the late 1960s and continuing sales into the 1980s. Many early video games trace their history to one of these versions of BASIC.
The emergence of early microcomputers in the mid-1970s led to the development of the original Microsoft BASIC in 1975. Due to the tiny main memory available on these machines, often 4 kB, a variety of Tiny BASIC dialects were also created. BASIC was available for almost any system of the era, and naturally became the de facto programming language for the home computer systems that emerged in the late 1970s. These machines almost always had a BASIC installed by default, often in the machine's firmware or sometimes on a ROM cartridge.
BASIC fell from use during the later 1980s as newer machines with far greater capabilities came to market and other programming languages (such as Pascal and C) became tenable. In 1991, Microsoft released Visual Basic, combining a greatly updated version of BASIC with a visual forms builder. This reignited use of the language and "VB" remains a major programming language in the form of VB.NET.
C (, as in the letter c) is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations. By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and it has therefore found lasting use in applications that were previously coded in assembly language. Such applications include operating systems, as well as various application software for computers ranging from supercomputers to embedded systems.
C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie, between 1972 and 1973. It was created to make utilities running on Unix. Later, it was applied to re-implementing the kernel of the Unix operating system. During the 1980s, C gradually gained popularity. Nowadays, it is one of the most widely used programming languages, with C compilers from various vendors available for the majority of existing computer architectures and operating systems. C has been standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) since 1989 (see ANSI C) and subsequently by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
C is an imperative procedural language. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal runtime support. Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming. A standards-compliant C program that is written with portability in mind can be compiled for a wide variety of computer platforms and operating systems with few changes to its source code; the language has become available on various platforms, from embedded microcontrollers to supercomputers.
Fortran (; formerly FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
and processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and generic programming (Fortran 90), high performance Fortran (Fortran 95), object-oriented programming (Fortran 2003) and concurrent programming (Fortran 2008).
Haskell is a statically typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Type classes, which enable type-safe operator overloading, originated in Haskell. Its main implementation is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. It is named after logician Haskell Curry.Haskell is based on the semantics, but not the syntax, of the Miranda programming language, which served to focus the efforts of the initial Haskell working group. Haskell is used widely in academia and industry. The latest standard of Haskell is Haskell 2010. As of May 2016, a group is working on the next standard, Haskell 2020.
Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to "bytecode" that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture. The syntax of Java is similar to C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of them. As of 2018, Java was according to GitHub one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were originally released by Sun under proprietary licenses. As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun had relicensed most of its Java technologies under the GNU General Public License. Meanwhile, others have developed alternative implementations of these Sun technologies, such as the GNU Compiler for Java (bytecode compiler), GNU Classpath (standard libraries), and IcedTea-Web (browser plugin for applets).
Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Lisp has changed since its early days, and many dialects have existed over its history. Today, the best known general-purpose Lisp dialects are Clojure, Common Lisp, and Scheme.
Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As one of the earliest programming languages, Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage management, dynamic typing, conditionals, higher-order functions, recursion, the self-hosting compiler, and the read–eval–print loop.The name LISP derives from "LISt Processor". Linked lists are one of Lisp's major data structures, and Lisp source code is made of lists. Thus, Lisp programs can manipulate source code as a data structure, giving rise to the macro systems that allow programmers to create new syntax or new domain-specific languages embedded in Lisp.
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. It was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994; the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.PHP code may be executed with a command line interface (CLI), embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks. PHP code is usually processed by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module in a web server or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable. The web server combines the results of the interpreted and executed PHP code, which may be any type of data, including images, with the generated web page. PHP can be used for many programming tasks outside of the web context, such as standalone graphical applications and robotic drone control.
The standard PHP interpreter, powered by the Zend Engine, is free software released under the PHP License. PHP has been widely ported and can be deployed on most web servers on almost every operating system and platform, free of charge.The PHP language evolved without a written formal specification or standard until 2014, with the original implementation acting as the de facto standard which other implementations aimed to follow. Since 2014, work has gone on to create a formal PHP specification.
mathematical in which the desired result is declared as the solution of an optimization problemSymbolic techniques such as reflection, which allow the program to refer to itself, might also be considered as a programming paradigm. However, this is compatible with the major paradigms and thus is not a real paradigm in its own right.
For example, languages that fall into the imperative paradigm have two main features: they state the order in which operations occur, with constructs that explicitly control that order, and they allow side effects, in which state can be modified at one point in time, within one unit of code, and then later read at a different point in time inside a different unit of code. The communication between the units of code is not explicit. Meanwhile, in object-oriented programming, code is organized into objects that contain state that is only modified by the code that is part of the object. Most object-oriented languages are also imperative languages. In contrast, languages that fit the declarative paradigm do not state the order in which to execute operations. Instead, they supply a number of operations that are available in the system, along with the conditions under which each is allowed to execute. The implementation of the language's execution model tracks which operations are free to execute and chooses the order on its own. More at Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages.
Rust is a multi-paradigm systems programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but is designed to provide better memory safety while maintaining high performance.
Rust was originally designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research, with contributions from Dave Herman, Brendan Eich, and others. The designers refined the language while writing the Servo layout engine and the Rust compiler. The compiler is free and open-source software dual-licensed under the MIT License and Apache License 2.0.
Rust was the "most loved programming language" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Scala ( SKAH-lah) is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming and a strong static type system. Designed to be concise, many of Scala's design decisions aimed to address criticisms of Java.Scala source code is intended to be compiled to Java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a Java virtual machine. Scala provides language interoperability with Java, so that libraries written in either language may be referenced directly in Scala or Java code. Like Java, Scala is object-oriented, and uses a curly-brace syntax reminiscent of the C programming language. Unlike Java, Scala has many features of functional programming languages like Scheme, Standard ML and Haskell, including currying, type inference, immutability, lazy evaluation, and pattern matching. It also has an advanced type system supporting algebraic data types, covariance and contravariance, higher-order types (but not higher-rank types), and anonymous types. Other features of Scala not present in Java include operator overloading, optional parameters, named parameters, and raw strings. Conversely, a feature of Java not in Scala is checked exceptions, which have proved controversial.The name Scala is a portmanteau of scalable and language, signifying that it is designed to grow with the demands of its users.
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I hear you are looking for stories about Scots settling in Canada. My husband's grandfather and his brother came to Canada from Ayrshire in 1905. At this time, it was the prairies that was being settled. The railroad had been built across the country, through the mountains and into Vancouver on the Pacific coast in the 1880s but settlement of most of the prairies did not really get going until the period between 1900 to 1914.
Their father had a dairy farm in Ayrshire so they had agricultural experience. At the time of the 1906 census of the new provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the two brothers were working as farm hands in southern Manitoba near Pilot Mound. Shortly thereafter they homesteaded in southern Saskatchewan, not far from the South Saskatchewan River. They did not have to clear trees for their farm because there were no trees. Wood for shacks had to be purchased. The American homesteaders taught many of their new neighbours how to built sod houses from bricks cut out of the dense natural prairie grass land. Sod houses had the advantage of being warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Since the temperatures in the area fell as low as minus 40 degrees and climbed as high as 35 degrees, this was an important feature.
Sod houses did leak when it rained but there was not a lot of rain. Southern Manitoba, where the brothers first lived, was long grass prairie which meant that there was more rain and the natural grassland grew to a height of as much as 2 meters (well, 6 feet which is a little less than 2 meters). Southern Saskatchewan was an area of short grass prairie which meant less rain and, therefore, the natural grassland was shorter. Grass fires were a problem. Tilling the virgin soil, with its dense matt of grass roots and other plants, was a problem. Isolation was a problem. The extreme cold in winter was a problem. However, those first crops were incredible. The soil was so rich.
A new type of wheat called Red Fife, had just been developed which was suited to the shorter Canadian prairie summers. It was very hard, high protein wheat and therefore quite valuable. Branch lines of the railroad followed the first settlers as the three "Prairie Provinces" were turned into farmland. Villages sprang up at even intervals along the rail lines. This is where the grain elevators were built. Some years during the first two decades of the twentieth century, there harvest were so abundant that the farmers' wagon loads of grain where lined up for days trying to deliver their loads to market. The grain elevators and train cars were overwhelmed.
Supplies came in by train and then to the general stores located by the train stations and at crossroads beyond the train lines. The booming mail order business of Toronto based Eaton's served the settlers and their descendants into the 1960s.
The roads were generally mere wagon trails. There were few landmarks and no sign posts. Pioneers hired guides to show them to their homesteads. My husband's American grandfather was one such guide. He worked at a ferry crossing on the South Saskatchewan River in the same general area as the homestead of my husband's Scottish grandfather.
A homestead consisted of a quarter mile by quarter mile square of land. The homesteader was required to break a certain amount of the land, grow crops and live on the land for a prescribed time to earn ownership of the homestead. This was hard work. Not all would be homesteaders had the required strength, skills and inclination to meet these requirements.
The brothers were followed to Saskatchewan by their parents and siblings in 1910. Their father had the proceeds of sale from his dairy operation in Ayrshire to invest in a large barn, more land and the latest and best farm machinery available. Their neighbours gave up or worked hard to "made a go of it". My husband's family had to work hard, too. However, the added advantage of having money to put into the farm made this family wealthy by the 1920s.
One of the reasons the parents moved to Canada with their children was the belief that the dry climate would be good for their sickly mother's health. Her descendants say she was bedridden for 20 years. However, she lived to the age of 61, dying in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1922 following an operation. The father lived to 92.
The Great Depression of the 1930s coincided with a decade of natural disasters on the prairies of Canada and the United States, including drought, infestations of insects and crop diseases, extra hot summers and extra cold winters. My husband's Scottish grandfather and great grandfather lost their wealth but stayed on their farm.
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What is the major difference between PPC channels like Google Shopping and Marketplaces like Amazon?
Google Shopping is a Pay Per Click marketing channel, where the products that show are based on both bid and feed optimization. When a customer clicks on a Google Shopping ad, they get taken back to the merchant’s website, where the purchase takes place. The only marketing cost, is the marketing cost per click.
Marketplaces like Amazon do not charge per click they charge a flat percentage commission on the sale (typically around 15%). The transaction takes place on the marketplace. On a separate note, Amazon also has Amazon Marketing Services, which allows you to bid on particular keywords to promote your products.
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With any exercise program there are 4 variables: 1) Mode or type of exercise, 2) Frequency or how often you exercise, 3) Duration or how long each exercise bout lasts, 4) and Intensity which is how hard the body is actually working.
If you don't feel like you are getting results from your workout, then increasing the intensity of your exercise might be the missing piece of the puzzle. I frequently see people hanging out for hours in the gym. If you are one of the people who are at at risk for getting a loitering ticket while you are at the gym, then it's probably time to turn up your intensity.
1. Monitor your heart rate. This is best done with a heart rate monitor. Remember your maximum heart rate is your age subtracted from 220. Unless you are a beginner, you should shoot to work at 70% of your MHR or higher.
2. The talk test. If you can easily carry on a conversation with a friend while working out, you may be taking it too easy. However, during the last marathon I ran, I noticed two women in front of me gabbing away for several miles while I was dying trying to keep up with them. I guess there's always an exception.
3. The perceived exertion scale. This is a very simplified way to determine intensity. There are many variations of the scale and it's not as objective as measuring your heart rate, but I kind of like the simplicity of using the 0-10 scale of 0 being totally relaxed and at ease and 10 being I am going to die!
Here are some ideas that can help you increase your intensity.
1. Time yourself. Working against the clock can do wonders to giving you a tougher workout. Just remember not to compromise safe form.
2. Work out with or in front of others. You are less likely to take 3 minute breaks between sets and loaf around during exercise if others are watching you work out.
3. Choose more intense activities and exercises. Rather than just walking or jogging, you may want to try sprinting. This is a very intense activity that will use all of your muscles. You may also want to try plyometrics or full court basketball instead of half court games or swimming laps instead of water aerobics.
4. Keep track of your personal best records. Know your personal best as it relates to push ups, pull ups, crunches,1 mile run, 1 rep max, etc. Having a prior record to occasionally work towards beating can be very motivating.
One of the benefits of the CrossFit movement is that it really increases intensity by incorporating several of these concepts. High Intensity training has several advantages over steady state exercise. I still think activities like jogging and walking are beneficial, but if you are looking to take things to the next level then you may want to re-evaluate the intensity level of your workout.
One word of warning. Exercising with intense ballistic movements is more likely to cause injury, so make sure that you have prepared your body for intense activities by slowly building up a foundation of strength training over time and make sure that you are sufficiently warmed up before you engage in intense exercise.
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The destination of my first trip to South America, Buenos Aires feels like a European (even Italian) city that was flourishing at the dawn of the 20th century.
The archbishop of Buenos Aires was elected Pope Francis just before my visit.
The Argentine Congress was designed by Vittorio Meano in heavy Italian classical style, and was completed in 1906.
Palacio Barolo, one of Buenos Aires' many art nouveau buildings (although in this case you might call it stile Liberty), was built by Italian immigrants with levels reflecting the structure of Dante's Divine Comedy - a sort of modern sacred geometry. It is said that the building was intended to serve as a repository for Dante's remains, should the tomb in Ravenna be damaged in war. The building's tower ("heaven") is crowned with a searchlight powerful enough to be seen across the River Plate in Montevideo, where a similar tower stands (Palacio Salvo).
The cemetery of La Recoleta has an amazing collection of monuments in a wide variety of architectural styles, including those we do not normally associate with death in Europe, such as art nouveau and art deco.
Not far from the capital, along a British railway (via English settlements such as City Bell), one can find the planned city of La Plata.
The cathedral of La Plata confidently synthesises French and German styles (with the emphasis on the French), reflecting the ancestry of its architects. However, the use of red brick reminds one of Uppsala (itself a French design), and the crossing lantern is perhaps of Spanish (even Moorish) inspiration. Overall, the cathedral one of the largest gothic structures in South America.
Colonia Del Sacramento is a small town in Uruguay (across the river from Buenos Aires), which preserves many of its original colonial buildings.
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification saw teams compete for five berths in the final tournament in South Africa. The qualification stage doubled as the qualification stage for the 2010 African Cup of Nations, with fifteen teams qualifying for the finals held in Angola.
In total, 53 nations participated; however, due to the presence of the two tournaments' respective hosts, 52 teams were involved in each competition. South Africa qualified automatically as host for the World Cup, and Angola qualified as host for the African Cup of Nations. Both nevertheless competed in the qualifying phase to attempt to qualify for the other tournament.
This was the first time since 1934 that the hosts would compete in World Cup qualifiers. Angola's situation mirrored that of Egypt in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers in Africa, which doubled as the qualifiers to the 2006 African Cup of Nations hosted by Egypt.
São Tomé and Príncipe and the Central African Republic both withdrew in early September. As a result, Swaziland and Seychelles (the highest ranked of the ten nations) were no longer required to play in this round, and the teams they were originally matched against, Somalia and Djibouti, were redrawn to play each other instead. The tie between Djibouti and Somalia was played as a one leg tie in Djibouti, as Somalia was not deemed suitable for FIFA matches; the other two ties were played as two leg ties.
The 48 qualifiers (45 direct entrants plus 3 winners of the first round) were split into 12 groups of 4 in the draw held in Durban, South Africa on 25 November 2007. Teams in each group played a home-and-away round-robin in 2008, with the 12 groups winners and 8 best runners-up advancing to the third round. As not all groups were of equal size after the exclusion of Ethiopia and the withdrawal of Eritrea, when ranking the runners-up, their results against their group's 4th placed team would not be counted.
One team from each of the following pots were drawn into each group.
Zimbabwe and Namibia are ranked by their overall goal difference.
Angola and Uganda are ranked by their overall goal difference.
Note: Angola were automatically qualified as hosts of the 2010 African Cup of Nations. However, they were subject to the same rules as other nations for continuation to the next stage of the qualifiers. Failure to advance from this group eliminated them from the qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
South Africa and Sierra Leone are ranked by their overall goal difference.
Note: South Africa were automatically qualified as hosts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. However, they were subject to the same rules as other nations for continuation to the next stage of the qualifiers. Failure to advance from this group eliminated them from the qualifiers for the 2010 African Cup of Nations.
Ghana, Gabon and Libya are ranked by their overall goal difference.
Gambia and Senegal are ranked by their overall goal difference.
On 19 March 2008, FIFA announced the immediate suspension of the Malagasy Football Federation (FMF). The suspension was lifted on 19 May 2008.
Morocco and Rwanda are ranked by their overall goal difference.
Ethiopia played four matches in this group, before FIFA announced the immediate suspension of the Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) on 29 July 2008. On 12 September 2008, FIFA excluded the EFF from the 2010 World Cup qualifiers and the results of their matches were cancelled. While it was not clear if they were also explicitly excluded from the 2010 African Cup of Nations, their failure to complete the remaining fixtures effectively eliminated them from the tournament.
Sudan and Congo are ranked by their overall goal difference.
On 28 March 2008, FIFA announced the immediate suspension of the Chadian Football Federation. The suspension was lifted on 7 May 2008.
Chad was disqualified from the 2010 African Nations Cup qualifiers after failing to show up for their away match against Sudan, despite security guarantees. The match was subsequently rescheduled. Only matches between Mali, Sudan and Congo were taken into account for the qualification of the second round of the preliminaries of the African Cup of Nations. However, Chad was still able qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This could have led to complications if Chad had advanced to the next round or if Chad's exclusion the now alternate group standings had produced different group winners and impacted on the ranking of the second-placed side.
Mali, Sudan and Congo are ranked by their overall goal difference.
Eritrea withdrew from the qualifiers on 25 March 2008 and were not replaced.
Along with the 12 group winners, the 8 highest-ranked runners-up also advanced to the third round. Because not all groups contained an equal number of teams, only results against the first- and third-placed teams in each group counted.
The 20 remaining sides were split into five groups of four. The draw for the groups took place on 22 October 2008 in Zürich, Switzerland.
The five group winners will qualify for the FIFA World Cup and the African Cup of Nations in 2010. Together with them, the five runners-up and the five third-placed teams qualify for the African Cup of Nations.
Teams were seeded based on their FIFA World Rankings in October 2008 (number in parentheses). One team from each of the following pots was drawn into each group.
Algeria and Egypt finished with identical overall and head-to-head records. Algeria won the tiebreaking play-off 1–0 to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The following six teams from CAF qualified for the final tournament.
There were 506 goals scored over 198 games, for an average of 2.54 goals per game.
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Bryce Dallas Howard's parents: "You’re 14 — you need to get a job."
With famous actor and director Ron Howard as a father, one might assume Bryce Dallas Howard grew up spoiled in Hollywood. Fortunately though, Bryce's mother went to somewhat "extreme" measures to ensure her children became hard workers.
"My mom grew up in poverty and was terrified that her privileged children were not going to be contributing members of society," Bryce, who is now 37 and the mother of two children, recently shared with Redbook.
"I realize now, as a parent, that some of the things she did to follow through on teachable moments were a bit extreme. But other things, like we don't have trust funds and were told, 'you’re 14 – you need to get a job,' I'm so grateful for. I started working at a restaurant when I was 14, and I'd be like, I just got yelled at by a customer. OK, I survived. Those moments made me feel like a capable person, and a lot of kids I knew growing up didn't."
Though she's widely recognized today thanks to roles in The Help, Black Mirror, and more, Bryce Dallas Howard still isn't living lavishly.
"I'm not a spender," she went on to explain. "I live in a three-bedroom house – in fact, we just downsized."
"I know that we're privileged; we don't have to worry about paying our rent or our medical bills. But I wish people knew that this is what the life of most successful female celebrities is. What we get paid is totally, completely, astronomically different than what male celebrities get paid. And for women of color, it's a hundred times worse. Even my dad has been shocked at how expensive it is to be a woman in the industry. You're told that it’s important to have a manager as well as an agent, and for a guy that's not as important. That's 20% out of your paycheck rather than 10%."
Illustrating the point, Bryce recalled this story: "As a young actress, I was told the studio would pay for me to have a stylist. Amazing. Then the stylist buys a lot of clothes because I was a size 6, not [a sample] size 2 [which could be borrowed from designers]. I assumed they were part of the budget until I get a bill for $45,000. I remember standing there shaking, like, I don't think I have this in the bank."
It isn't always easy to feel sympathy for the "rich and famous," but I appreciate hearing these words from Bryce Dallas Howard. I've often wondered how many "celebrities" out there aren't anywhere near as well off as the public presumes. If you're not an A-list star and able to demand top dollar the inconsistency and expense of the industry seems daunting. I find it rather refreshing this star and her two children live in a three-bedroom house just like my family does.
Trust funds aren't something we have to navigate not spoiling our two boys with, but all the same I wonder about when they'll get their first jobs. My eldest is 13, and hearing Bryce started at 14 has me feeling like go time is right around the corner.
I started working filing papers for a real estate agent friend of my father's at age 16 for $5 an hour. I distinctly remember getting my first paycheck and feeling relatively rich but also defeated at how fast the dollars would disappear. I can't say I'm happy my sons will soon experience the sometimes harsh reality of making a living, but I believe it's incredibly important.
Should I be worried that my second child isn't talking as early as her older brother did?
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The is operator does not match the values of the variables, but the instances themselves.
I declared two variables named x and y assigning the same values in both variables, but it returns false when I use the is operator.
I need a clarification. Here is my code.
print x is y #It prints false!
You misunderstood what the is operator tests. It tests if two variables point the same object, not if two variables have the same value.
The operators is and is not test for object identity: x is y is true if and only if x and y are the same object.
and is shows both are the same object, it returns True.
Remember that in Python, names are just labels referencing values; you can have multiple names point to the same object. is tells you if two names point to one and the same object. == tells you if two names refer to objects that have the same value.
So, A is B is the same as id(A) == id(B).
@imallett: that's a proxy for the same test, provided you don't store id(A) in a variable and later expect variable == id(B) to still work; if A was deleted in the meantime then B could have been given the same memory location.
Makes sense, and it's also the Right Thing; variable is storing a property of something that formerly existed. There's no way for the runtime to detect that the later usage is erroneous. The key part of the standard is "[id() ]is guaranteed to be unique and constant for this object during its lifetime. Two objects with non-overlapping lifetimes may have the same id() value."
Small integers are interned in CPython since they are used so often. It's an optimization. x=5;y=5;x is y => True because id(x) == id(y). It's the same integer object which is reused. Works in Python since integers are immutable. If you do x=1.0; y=1.0 or x=9999;y=9999, it won't be the same identity, because floats and larger ints aren't interned.
@MagnusLyckå there are other optimisations that can cause immutable objects to be cached. For example, if you run your example in a new function or together with a separating semicolon in the interactive interpreter, you'd find they have the same id too.
Thank you for pointing out the id() function, something that is not mentioned in a lot of tutorials. Definitely neat way to debug objects.
x is y is same as id(x) == id(y), comparing identity of objects.
As @tomasz-kurgan pointed out in the comment below is operator behaves unusually with certain objects.
The above example shows you that the identity (can also be the memory address in Cpython) is different for both a and b (even though their values are the same). That is why when you say a is b it returns false due to the mismatch in the identities of both the operands. However when you say a == b, it returns true because the == operation only verifies if both the operands have the same value assigned to them.
In the above example, even though a and b are two different variables, a is b returned True. This is because the type of a is int which is an immutable object. So python (I guess to save memory) allocated the same object to b when it was created with the same value. So in this case, the identities of the variables matched and a is b turned out to be True.
this is real nice example. thanks for detailed info.
Everything less than -5 or higher than 256 in Python will be False. Python caches numbers in range [-5, 256].
Let's put off the second part for a bit. How could the first one be true?
The interpreter would have to have an "interning table", a table mapping string values to string objects, so every time you try to create a new string with the contents 'abc', you get back the same object. Wikipedia has a more detailed discussion on how interning works.
And Python has a string interning table; you can manually intern strings with the sys.intern method.
In fact, Python is allowed to automatically intern any immutable types, but not required to do so. Different implementations will intern different values.
OK, but why were z and w identical?
That's not the interpreter automatically interning, that's the compiler folding values.
If the same compile-time string appears twice in the same module (what exactly this means is hard to define—it's not the same thing as a string literal, because r'abc', 'abc', and 'a' 'b' 'c' are all different literals but the same string—but easy to understand intuitively), the compiler will only create one instance of the string, with two references.
In fact, the compiler can go even farther: 'ab' + 'c' can be converted to 'abc' by the optimizer, in which case it can be folded together with an 'abc' constant in the same module.
So, what should you do about this as a programmer?
For more readable comparisons to the singleton values like x is None.
For mutable values, when you need to know whether mutating x will affect the y.
Excellent explanation, especially your advice at the end.
# - Darling, I want some pudding!
# - There is some in the fridge.
# - Honey, what's with all the dirty dishes?
# - I wanted to eat pudding so I made some. Sorry about the mess, Darling.
# - But there was already some in the fridge.
@TomClose: There are many fine answers on this question, enough so that there is space for levity. Also, I want pudding too.
is only returns true if they're actually the same object. If they were the same, a change to one would also show up in the other. Here's an example of the difference.
As you can check here to a small integers. Numbers above 257 are not an small ints, so it is calculated as a different object.
It is better to use == instead in this case.
It compares object identity, that is, whether the variables refer to the same object in memory. It's like the == in Java or C (when comparing pointers).
X points to an array, Y points to a different array. Those arrays are identical, but the is operator will look at those pointers, which are not identical.
Python doesn't have pointers. You need to tighten up your terminology.
It does internally, just like Java and so many other languages. In fact, the is operator's functionality shows this.
The implementation details are not what matters. The documentation uses the terminology "object identity". So should you. "The operators is and is not test for object identity: x is y is true if and only if x and y are the same object. x is not y yields the inverse truth value."
@Neko: CPython internally uses pointers. But obviously Jython (implemented in Java) and PyPy (implemented in a subset of Python) don't use pointers. In PyPy, some objects won't even have an id unless you ask for it.
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If you've been buying or selling skydiving equipment online, you may have heard references to sending via "skydiverpost". What is this system, do skydivers really have their own separate postal service?
Skydiverpost is simply other skydivers who are willing to transport things for you on journeys between dropzones, wind tunnels, and cities. The system relies upon the trust we have in our relatively small community, the limited number of starting points and destinations we have, and of course the good nature of fellow jumpers.
The system is particularly popular for heavier and higher value equipment, such as rigs, which can be very expensive to send via a courier with full insurance (sometimes as much as 5% of the value of the rig), but is also used for smaller items as it can be more convenient than regular post.
Although the skydiving community are well known for looking out for each other, it only takes one to ruin a good system, so it's worth a quick check of anyone before you give them expensive gear to transport for you (this is usually as easy as finding a mutual friend or connection to vouch for them). And most importantly, don't forget to buy them a beer for their efforts!
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Many clients come to my office wondering if what they are experiencing is depression or sadness.
Sadness is a normal and healthy human emotion, in response to variety of experiences. It often is connected to disappointment which is mild to moderate, feeling hurt by someone or something, feelings of occasional loneliness, work related stress or mishap of some kind or another. It is an opposite of feeling “happy” or joyful. This is usually a feeling that passes relatively soon, it can be days or hours and the person will return to a “normal” emotional state. Usually when one is sad there is no disturbance in sleep or appetite, no issues with functioning at the workplace or school or generally in any major area of life. Feelings of sadness usually resolve spontaneously.
Depression on the other hand is a more profound state. It is deeper than sadness, or is a sadness that does not lift over time. In fact, it usually gets worse. It is also, unless, biologically driven, connected to disappointment, failure, rejection, sense of aloneness, low self esteem and generally a profound sense of loss. Depression is characterized by low energy, lack of desire for anything, inability to experience any pleasure, social withdrawal, disruption in sleep and eating, a general sense of hopelessness and futility. It is a much deeper, darker and more profound state. Whereas a sad person can sometimes be cheered up, a depressed person, generally can not get out of their state and attention and intervention by loved ones do not help or if they do, it is not lasting. Depression can last a long time, and, over time can get worse and needs professional attention.
There is usually no treatment needed for sadness, it is part of natural ebb and flow of human emotions, and is as normal as joy. In case of depression, usually psychotherapy and often times medication as well, are in order. This combination is usually sufficient to resolve depression over time.
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Suppose we take a number 6. Is it prime number ?
No due to its divisible by 2 & 3 also.
Yes because its divisible by 1 & 23 only.
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Travancus to the thirteen dioceses: Favour be unto you, the favour of peace, from she who is, she who was, she who shall be; and from the thirteen captains of the spirits of her Cause, among whom Navaletus is chief: The great Navaletus, faithful witness to the truth: first among spirits to vow to serve her Cause, the captain of the captains of those spirits: Through whom she shows her love for us, through whom she washes away our ignorance with the wine of heavenly wisdom.
By this wisdom do we receive the true power of kings, of those who rule by right and not by usurpation: By this wisdom do we receive the true sacerdotal power, by which earth is remade in the image of heaven: Praise there be to our Great Mother, whose glorious beauty endures without beginning and without end. Praise there be!
As a dark storm cloud comes her wisdom upon the earth; and great shall be the downpour in the last days, and every heart shall be turned to accept this great wisdom, in second triumph; even those who served the vanguard of the enmity to her most holy Cause, and who persecuted and killed its servants. And great shall be the tears of the enmity at the dawn of that day; but she shall turn their tears to joy. Such shall things come to be, without any doubt. At the beginning-end she alone is, in the glory of the Great Sabbath: she who is, and who was, and who shall be, the greatest power.
I, Travancus, your fellow servant of her Cause, who has suffered as you have suffered, for the sake of her Cause, enduring with patience for the sake of its coming reign, was in the prison of Ambramot, for the word of the truth of Maratrea, and the testimony of Navaletus.
And on the Sabbath night was my heart visited by heavenly spirits; and I heard a sweet voice, as sweet as the lyres of heaven, saying: I am she who alone was at the beginning-end, the Great Sabbath; I am she who divides, and she who remains, and she who returns: and what you have seen, what I have shown unto you, write in a book, and set it forth unto the thirteen dioceses, for the nourishment of their hearts in this time of trouble: unto the first diocese, that at Caznactus; unto the second diocese, that at Sutezacon; unto the third diocese, that at Pampalettus; unto the fourth diocese, that at Amandus; unto the fifth diocese, that at Cecacena; unto the sixth diocese, that at Carfuzio; unto the seventh diocese, that at Safunzo; unto the eighth diocese, that at Macruza; unto the ninth diocese, that at Trasuna; unto the tenth diocese, that at Decarona; unto the eleventh diocese, that at Mabara; unto the twelfth diocese, that at Carolina; unto the thirteenth diocese, that at Nevabroda.
And I turned to see from whence came this voice that spoke unto me; and, so turning, I saw thirteen lamps; and amidst the thirteen lamps I saw Maratrea, clothed in flowing robes down to just above her feet, robes embroidered with exquisite decoration. Her hair was long, as a flowing river of darkness; her smooth skin glistened in the light of the lamps; her eyes shined as moons; delicate were her feet, bare upon the cold stone of my cell; and her voice was as the sweetest music, as the soft summer rains. In her left-hand twinkled thirteen stars; in her right she bore a golden sword; great was the beauty of her countenance, beauty beyond words to express.
And when I saw her, I fell at her feet, in praise of this glory which had deigned to show herself to me once more. But she said unto me, Arise, Travancus; and she placed her left hand upon me, saying, Beloved Travancus, do not fear; for this imprisonment which you suffer for my sake, shall come to an end in due time. Believe these words which I speak, O Travancus, for I am she who alone was in the beginning-end, the Great Sabbath; from whom all have divided, and to whom all shall return, in the circle of time; the beginningless and endless one, in whom all that is, is encompassed, and there is naught beyond me; power over all things belongs to me, for I am mother of all universes. The day of your freedom comes soon; but first, write what you have seen, on this day, and on days before this. And I asked her, what is the signification of the thirteen lamps and the thirteen stars? But she said unto me: As to the meaning thereof, it is not my will that on this day it be revealed to you; but record what you have seen, even if you know not the meaning thereof, for in due course shall all be revealed.
To the prefect of the first diocese, that at Caznactus, write: Thus says she who holds the thirteen stars in her left hand, who walks in the midst of the thirteen lamps: I know the great deeds which you have wrought, the great hardships which you have endured, and that you cannot remain silent in the face of great evils. Thus have you tested those who claimed to speak the truth, yet did not, and have shown them to be agents of falsehood. And despite many trials, you have shown patient endurance for the sake of your great love for me, and have not turned from your vow to serve my cause. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: yet I complain openly against that which I have secretly ordered: yet, through my open complaint, I turn you therefrom, both openly and in secret: The fervour of your earlier love has grown dim with the passage of years; your love which once burnt as a furnace, for me, for each other, for the great beauties which I have granted the favour that your eyes may perceive. Bring to your minds the glory which you have lost, and resolve in your hearts to regain it, that your lamp shall still shine brightly amidst the sacred blackness of night - for it is the lamp, and the moon and the stars, which gives to night its holiness. But this you have, which pleases me openly, as an end not a means - that you detest the deeds of they who follow Zenclotus, whose deeds I detest in openness. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words; for my words are the wine of heaven, a foretaste and promise of blessing.
beginning-end, the Great Sabbath, she who remains and she who divides and she who returns: I know the immensity of your trials and of your poverty; but the days shall come when you shall be rich, and through faith and hope shall you bring about those days. I know that you are condemned by those who claim to know the truth yet do not, the false prophets whom Pandal has appointed. But, though suffering may come upon you, do not fear; for whatever befalls you, how greatly shall you be rewarded for its sake, by my promises - for blessed are those who bless others in their suffering. Thus shall the sons of Pandal cast some of you into prison, to seek to break your spirit; but the time of this trial shall be short, which trial you shall overcome. Be faithful to the good, the beautiful, the true, even unto death; for those who die for the sake of those whom they love, I shall crown them with immense glory. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words; for the days of the wicked are short, and without doubt shall the good triumph in the end.
To the prefect of the third diocese, that at Pampalettus, write: Thus says she who holds the golden sword, encrusted with gems: I know the greatness of your deeds; I know the nature of the place where you dwell, for it is where the most pallid Pandal has his seat - you hold firmly to the truth you have received from me, and have not abandoned your faith, even in those days when faithful Zanattus the martyr slain among you, by the servants of Pandal, the vanguard of the enmity to my Cause, in the city where Pandal has his seat. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: There are those among you who follow the teaching of the two false prophets, and who commit great misdeeds in obedience to their teaching: thus they sacrifice animals upon their altars, and commit crimes against love. And also among you are those who follow the teaching of Zenclotus, which I also detest in openness. Turn from these evils; or else you will be not counted among my Cause, and my sword which fights against the enmity shall fight against you also. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words: Upon the conquering ones I shall bestow the secret cakes and wine of heaven; unto them I shall grant my mystic amulet, and a sacred name kept secret.
To the prefect of the fourth diocese, that at Amandus, write: Thus says our most holy Mother, Great Goddess, and Heavenly Queen, whose eyes shine like moons, and whose delicate feet glow with beauty: I know your deeds, the love of your hearts, your service to my Cause and your faith therein, and that in these things you are growing, as the smallest seed grows to become a great tree. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: for you tolerate Zabajal, false prophet appointed by Pandal, and permit him to teach; and he seduces the people of my Cause into evils, to commit crimes against love, and to eat unlawful sacrifices, and the flesh of the animals most sacred. Time have we given him to turn from his evil, yet he has turned not: therefore cast him out of your number; and those who will not renounce his wicked teachings, cast them out also. For those who follow his wicked words I will lead to destruction, for the sake of the progress and triumph of my Cause. But I say unto the rest of you, who are at Amandus, who have remained faithful to the true and the good, and who have followed the way of truth, the way of my Cause, I shall lighten the burden upon your backs; only remain faithful as you have remained faithful, and those who have turned back to truth, turn not to falsehood again. To the heart-conquerors, in the last days shall I grant them power over every land and nation, to reign over the earth and over hearts and minds, as earth is remade like unto the heavens, in progress and conquest and first and second triumph; and the thirteen stars shall pass from my hand to theirs, or as their hands shall pass to mine. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the fifth diocese, that at Cecacena, write: Thus says she who has the thirteen spirits before her throne, and the thirteen stars: I know well your deeds; yet while many speak highly of you, in truth you are not as high as those words would have it. Be watchful, and stand steadfast in the establishment of my Cause, strengthening the remnant of this day; for though it may seem my Cause in your place is nearing unto death, remember that I shall restore to glory that nearing death, and raise that which is dead to life: for after every vanquishment of my Cause, re-establishment surely follows, in all branches. Though you be in this your day weak and imperfect, yet I will strengthen and perfect you unto the glory of the final days. Remember then how you first received the true wisdom, and how you heard it in those days; remain faithful thereto, and turn back from all your straying from your vow. If you do not remain watchful, then disaster will come upon you, and you will not know its coming until it devours you. For Pandal is at the gate, and his longing for you is in his fangs. But this shall come not to pass, as long as there remain among you as there do now, even as few as now, those who have not defiled their robes with the blood of unholy sacrifices, whose robes are unstained with this wickedness: truly they are worthy to call themselves people of my Cause. The day shall come when the heart-conquerors, among whom in the end all share come to be numbered, they shall be enrobed in robes as exquisitely embroidered as my own, in robes not other than my own, as they are not other than me. And in the scrolls which record that who I am may be found their names; for their names are upon my lips, for they are names of mine. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the sixth diocese, that at Carfuzio, write: Thus says she who is holy and true, who wields in her hand the keys of power over all that is, or ever was, or ever shall be. Whatever she commands, none can disobey; whatever any one does, so they do by her command; such are her commands, not in open, but in secret. I know the deeds I have commanded you in the secret, the deeds I have commanded you openly, those which I have commanded the same in both ways, those which I have commanded in one way yet against in the other. I have opened the gate for you, and none but I may close it; yet even if I close this gate, I do so only to open it once more; and on the last day the last shall pass through it, and the myriad things will be no more, as all will end but to begin again. You are weak, yet your love of the great beauty is your strength; you have remained faithful to the truth, and have not denied it in your hearts, though your lips hide that truth from those unworthy of it. Behold that I will cast out the hidden servants of Pandal, those who declare themselves to serve my Cause, yet do not, for their lips are stained with untruth. But the day shall come when they fall before your feet, to beg forgiveness for their error; and if you are not among them yourself, you shall say unto them, How shall we hold against you, your faithful obedience to your mother’s commands? For she loves you as much as she loves us. I know of your endurance in your vow to serve my Cause, and be the people of my Cause; though the hour of trial may come, it shall be brief, and shall be followed thereafter by triumph. Swift shall come the day of your glory; remain strong in your faith, that no one may take from you your glorious crown. The heart-conquerors shall be columns in the temple of the last day, wherein shall be celebrated that sublime rite by which all things are brought to an end, but to begin again; the fruit of the triumph which shall not be vanquished, save that this triumph is the vanquishing of all things. Their names shall be names of mine, for I shall be not other than they; as I am now them yet not them, so I shall I come to be them, and it shall be said not any longer that they are other than me. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the seventh diocese, that at Safunzo, write: Thus says she who ought be praised, the one whose open word is truth, the beginningless and endless Heavenly Queen: I know of you that in your hearts, you love the great beauty; yet dim is your love, and easily are you lead astray into unfaithfulness. Would that you were true to your love, or that which you love you loved not at all! Your hearts are as now lukewarm; but behold, I am sending to you a burning flame of desire, to set your hearts ablaze, and through your hearts to set ablaze the world entire. You say that you are rich, yet immense is your poverty - for you think that you are already among my blessed ones, yet you know not what blessing is; for if such you knew, you would not say what you now say. In place of that gold which you hold for the sake of another, I shall give you gold for your very own sake; in place of service in the blessing of others, I shall give you your very own blessing. Through the flames of such service you must pass, through the flames of unrequited desire - yet, once you glow hot, every blessing shall I grant unto you, and then will you truly be rich, and enrobed in exquisitely embroidered robes, such as is worn by the princesses and princes of the universes. And I shall anoint your eyes, that you may see all these things, and through your eyes shall you be blessed, first through your eyes, and then through your flesh. Those whom I love I lead into error; those whom I love I lead back into truth; the first in secret, the second in openness. As to those being lead back: may your hearts be ablaze with desire, that those flames be the cause of your repentance. Behold, I am at the gate, and waiting; if you will admit me to your heart, I shall admit you to my heavenly banquet, the feast of blessing. To the heart-conquerors I grant the right to sit with me upon my throne; yet then there shall be only one sitting upon it. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the eighth diocese, that at Macruza, write: Thus says she who emanates the tutelary deities of the five sacred animal tribes, and their subtutelaries also. I know of your good will unto all, even unto the enemies of the good. And it is well that you wish well all, even those who do evil; for there is none who I do not love with the very same love with which I love myself, for there is none who is other than my very own self. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: That in your good will you have shown hospitality to those who kill and injure and eat and sacrifice the sacred animals. Do not extend your hospitality unto them, but cast them out of your houses, until they repent of this their wickedness. For, you show good will unto them, but in doing so do you fail to show good will unto those who are their victims; for the sake of your love for one, you have failed to love another; and those who do great evil, you love them not by allowing them to remain in this their evil. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the ninth diocese, that at Trasuna, write: Thus says she who gives birth to many universes, a mother of utmost fertility, of fertility in particularity: I know of your endurance in the face of trials; for you go forth to speak the truth, and none will hear it; and even those who have heard the truth abandon it; thus are you reduced to few in number; yet, despite all these things, you lose not hope, but proclaim the truth with the very same fervour. For whatever trials you endure, you shall I more than fairly compensate - for I shall give birth to a universe for the sake of your blessing, a branch for the sake of the fire of your heart. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: That you have failed to love those who have not endured as you have endured, that fell away at the face of trials. Truly, if you had called them back, they would have by now returned to you; yet in your pride you called not for them, and they did not return. Thus have you weakened my Cause. For those who fall away, do so for such is my will; but it is my will that whoever turns from the truth shall in due course return to it; I do all this for the sake of the particularity of my Cause, the fruit whereof is blessing. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the tenth diocese, that at Decarona, write: Thus says she who is one with the great beauty, and with goodness and truth: I know of the great kindness you have shown to those who suffer; there were those who spat at you, and persecuted you, yet in their time of need you did not hesitate to rescue them, and thus you have won many of them for my Cause. For you loved them as I love them, for I love them as I love you, and I love all as I love myself. Whoever loves the great beauty, must love also goodness and truth, on which account they love even those in whom that great beauty is for now lacking. But whatever anyone lacks, the same shall be granted to them, in the day of their blessing. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: that those among you who teach error you are slow to rebuke, but permit their error to go unchallenged. Be kind unto those of error, but it is not kindness to cause them to remain in untruth. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the eleventh diocese, that at Mabara, write: Thus says she who remains, and she who divides, and she who returns: I know of your patience, that those things which you have desired have come not to you, yet you have lost not hope, yet continued working towards the same goal. And your patience shall bear great fruit, the progress and conquest and triumph of my Cause; they into whom I divided shall in the end all return to oneness with me; for such shall I who remain bring to pass. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: that among you there are those who follow the teaching of Panulus; for his heart loves lengthy prayers, yet his heart detests the great beauty. And he teaches falsehood, when he says, that those who die go unto the say of lengthy prayers, prayers unending; for those who die go on to far greater things, and those things have their glory only in their willing ending, to end but to be again. Therefore correct the hearts of those who are deluded by his teachings, even his heart if that will be; for their hearts are not ablaze with love for the great beauty, but whoever has that fire of desire ablaze in their hearts, will not accept his teachings. He has come to you on account of your patience, for patient ones are most likely to be entrapped in his snare; for he is a false prophet whom Pandal has appointed unto the detriment of those of great patience. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the twelfth diocese, that at Carolina, write: Thus says she who she who rests in three Sabbaths at the beginning-end of time: I know of the zeal with which you have opposed crimes against love; for it is through love that I seduce the many souls to return to oneness with myself and with one another; but those who are guilty of crimes against love, Pandal has appointed to delay this return. He has done this by my secret command, for the sake of the particularity of that return; but by my open command, you shall oppose him. For the deeds he promotes are but means, but the deeds you promote are but ends. That in returning we shall celebrate the three Sabbaths, once more which is once only. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: That one among you has gone astray, and led others astray, in her false teaching. For the heart of Tesara has been greatly inflamed against these crimes, as will be inflamed the hearts of all those who truly love the great beauty. Yet, from truth she has turned to falsehood, for she has taught that those who commit these crimes are beyond salvation; but none are beyond my love, which saves all; and though she teach against the crimes of love, her teaching itself be such a crime, a crime against those who love those whom she condemns, herenow, and elsewhere and elsewhen. May your love lead her back to my truth. Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
To the prefect of the thirteenth diocese, that at Nevabroda, write: Thus says she who she who rests in the glory of her perfect love for her own being: I know of the great favour which you have received, for it is I who has so favoured you; yet being so favoured, you do not hold yourself above those who I have not favoured to the same degree. For many do I favour, some in greater degree than others, in the favour of being and the favour of the Cause. Yet, in the end do I favour all equally, for all are equal in the favour of blessing; wise are you therefore to hold not your favour above those whose favour is herenow lacking. For whatever herenow is given, elsewhere and elsewhen is taken away; and whatever herenow is taken away, elsewhere and elsewhen it is given. All favour is for the sake of the favour of blessing; and the blessing is not other than my glory, the glory of my perfect love for my own being. Yet, I have concerning you this complaint: Though you do not place yourself above those whom I have favoured less, neither do you work diligently to bestow upon them my favour upon you. For I shall favour them more than I have heretofore, but I shall so favour them through my favour unto you. Great is the gift I have given unto you; but if you do not give that same gift unto others, do you not render worthless the gift? Let all whose hearts I have opened hear these my words.
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Boolean Algebra Simplification Rules with Truth Table: The following rules will help us in the simplification (or reduction) of logic functions. Simplifying a complex logic expression using rules and laws is known as straight simplification. We first give two basic sets of rules used for logic simplification using the straight simplification method. It may be found that these basic rules can be proved only by using truth tables.
Equation (2.12a) explains that the sum of a variable and its complement is equal to binary 1. This also suggests that when we add a variable to its complement, it gets eliminated. It may be noted that In this text, we will be using English alphabets a,b,x,y, etc to represent Boolean variables.
Proof: To prove Rule 1(a), we first draw the Table 2.8, which has to test the validity of Eq. (2.12a). This truth table is drawn by assigning values of 0 and 1 to variables x and x'. In this case, there are four possible values to be tested. The third column from the left shows the entry of binary 1 in each of its rows, proving the rule x + x′ = 1.
Proof: This relation is also proved in Table 2.8. The results shown in the fourth (last) column from the left shows the entry of binary 0 in each row, which proves Rule 1(b).
In words, this rule explains that the sum of a binary 1 and any Boolean variable results in binary 1 itself. This rule also suggests that a Boolean variable is eliminated when it is added to 1.
Proof: This relation is proved using Table 2.9. The results shown in the second column from the left shows the entry of 1 in each row, which proves Rule 2(a).
In words, this rule explains that a binary 0 added to any Boolean variable results in the variable itself. This rule also suggests that a Boolean variable does not change its value if a 0 is added to it.
Proof: This relation is also proved in Table 2.9. The result shown in the third column from the left shows the entries of 0 and 1 in the respective rows, which proves Rule 2(b).
In words, this rule explains that the multiplication of any Boolean variable with a binary 1 produces that variable itself. This rule also suggests that a Boolean variable does not change its value if a binary 1 is used to multiply it.
Proof: The proof of this relation is also given in Table 2.9. The result shown in the fourth column from the left shows the entries of 0 and 1 in the respective rows, which proves Rule 2(c).
In words, this rule explains that the multiplication of any Boolean variable with a binary 0 results in the cancellation of that variable.
Proof: Equation (2.13d) is also proved in Table 2.9. The result shown in the fifth column from the left shows the entries of 0 and 0 in the respective rows, which proves Rule 2(d).
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Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. He also composed other chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa Solemnis), and songs. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and Christian Gottlob Neefe. During his first 22 years in Bonn, Beethoven intended to study with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and befriended Joseph Haydn. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 and began studying with Haydn, quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. During the late 18th century, his hearing began to deteriorate significantly, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform after becoming completely deaf.
1431 – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris, France.
1598 – Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory.
1850 – History of New Zealand: The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
1864 – American Civil War: Franklin–Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Elli takes place.
1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York, New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts.
1972 – Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris, France.
1972 – Vijay Diwas: (Victory Day) is commemorated every 16 December in India as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1985 – Mafia: In New York, New York, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.
1989 – Protests break out in Timi?oara, Romania in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tokés.
1991 – Independence of Kazakhstan.
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Before my parents adopted Molly, a 4-year-old Boston Terrier, she had been rescued from a puppy mill where she was kept as a breeding dog. Kept in a kennel for most of her life, Molly had little contact with humans. By the time she arrived at her new home, Molly was shy and terrified and had never had as much as a chew toy to call her own.
Over the last few months, Molly has learned to love her new home.
She's come to trust her new owners and enjoys being pet and walked. The one thing that Molly is still learning is how to play. It seems like it should be instinctive, but some dogs, like Molly, need to be taught how to play.
Before getting into the how let's take a look at the why. Is it important to train a dog to play?
Playing offers dogs mental stimulation and a way to burn off energy.
Playing is a great way to build the bond between you and your dog.
Playing is a great way to reward your dog for learning new skills.
Playing is fun! Just like with people, playing and doing activities they enjoy increase a dog's quality of life.
There are several reasons a dog may not have learned to play.
One reason, as we see with Molly, is a lack of early socialization. Dogs don't play simply because no one has ever engaged in a game with them. Another reason is that their instincts may drive them to do other things. For instance, a Border Collie may have the drive to herd your children together in the yard rather than engage in a game of fetch.
No matter the reason your dog isn't playing, you should begin by slowly introducing them to toys and games. Start by leaving the toys around to sniff and get used to, rather than immediately trying to engage them in an all-out game of tug-of-war. An improperly socialized dog may be scared if you move too fast; and a dog whose instincts are pushing them to do something else will just be confused.
Start off with soft praise or a treat for any interest your dog shows in toys. You can even hide a treat or spread a little peanut butter on a tug toy or a ball. Your dog will quickly learn that toys mean good things happen.
Once your dog is comfortable with the toys, it's time to start interacting with him with the toys. Again, start off slow. Sit close to your dog and roll a ball towards him or shake a tug toy a little. If he shows an interest give him a treat and/or praise. It may take some time, but the more you engage your dog in play, the sooner he'll learn what he's expected to do. Before you know it, your dog will be playing as if he's done it all his life.
Sometimes teaching a dog to play involves more than simply slowly introducing him to the idea.
Games like fetch, for instance, have more than one part. It might be easy to teach your dog to run and pick up a ball you throw, but he'll have to know "come" and "drop it" in order for the game to continue smoothly without turning into a game of chase. If your dog is having trouble playing, make sure he knows the basic commands involved in playing the game.
Not every dog is going to like every kind of game. Try to choose games that best suit your dog's personality. A retriever is likely to enjoy a game of fetch. A terrier might really get into a game of tug-of-war. Herding dogs, such as Border Collies and Australian Shepherds, tend to do well at agility and Frisbee. By matching the games you choose to suit the things your dog was bred to do (retrieving, herding, etc.), it'll be easier to teach your dog to play, and a lot more fun for your dog.
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How to find out who had called from the phone number?
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There are two persons carrying some weight.
By looking into the image above, can you tell who holds more weight?
Is it person A or person B?
Since the box (weight) is closer to person B, he will hold more weight.
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Purchasing power increased by 8.98% in 1931 compared to 1930. On average, you would have to spend 8.98% less money in 1931 than in 1930 for the same item. This is an example of deflation.
In other words, $1 in 1930 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $0.91 in 1931.
The 1930 inflation rate was -2.34%. The inflation rate in 1931 was -8.98%. The 1931 inflation rate is lower compared to the average inflation rate of 3.25% per year between 1931 and 2019.
Inflation rate is calculated by change in the consumer price index (CPI). The CPI in 1931 was 15.20. It was 16.70 in the previous year, 1930. The difference in CPI between the years is used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to officially determine inflation. Because the 1931 CPI is less than 1930 CPI, negative inflation (also known as deflation) has occurred.
New York experienced the highest rate of inflation during the 1 years between 1930 and 1931 (-6.88%).
Detroit, Michigan experienced the lowest rate of inflation during the 1 years between 1930 and 1931 (-11.81%).
Inflation can also vary widely by country. For comparison, in the UK £1.00 in 1930 would be equivalent to £0.96 in 1931, an absolute change of £-0.04 and a cumulative change of -4.05%.
In Canada, CA$1.00 in 1930 would be equivalent to CA$0.90 in 1931, an absolute change of CA$-0.10 and a cumulative change of -10.23%.
Compare these numbers to the US's overall absolute change of $-0.09 and total percent change of -8.98%.
CPI is the weighted combination of many categories of spending that are tracked by the government. This chart shows the average rate of inflation for select CPI categories between 1930 and 1931.
$1 in 1930 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as $0.91 in 1931.
To help put this inflation into perspective, if we had invested $1 in the S&P 500 index in 1930, our investment would be nominally worth approximately $0.43 in 1931. This is a return on investment of -56.88%, with an absolute return of $-0.57.
The compounding effect of inflation would account for -9.87% of returns ($0.06) during this period. This means the inflation-adjusted real return of our $1 investment is $-0.62.
You may use the following MLA citation for this page: “Inflation Rate in 1931 | Inflation Calculator.” U.S. Official Inflation Data, Alioth Finance, 19 Apr. 2019, https://www.officialdata.org/inflation-rate-in-1931.
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The secret shugborough inscription, the key to finding the Holy Grail?
The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters [O U O S V A V V] between the letters D M – carved on the 18th century Shepherd’s Monument in Staffordshire, England. The monument itself is estimated to of been built sometime between 1748 and 1763, which was commissioned by Thomas Anson, and his brother Admiral George Anson, from the powerful Anson family and fashioned by the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers. It has never been explained with clarity, only in theory, and is largely considered to be one of the world’s greatest cipher codes and secrets.
One of the most popular theories is that the strange sequence of letters – OUOSVAVV, framed at either end by DM – was left as a clue to the whereabouts of the legendary Holy Grail which allegedly hold the secret to esoteric knowledge including immortality. According to the legend, the code was created by the Knights Templars, the fanatical military unit that led the slaughter of the crusades.
Countless individuals have tried to crack the code, including famous historical giants, Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, but every single one has failed to provide a tangible and agreeable interpretation.
The Anson brothers are reputedly associated with Freemasonry and the Priory of Sion. The priory also claimed links to the Knights Templar and they believed that Jesus was not a divine figure but rather just an enlightened one. Researchers believe that Jesus had esoteric knowledge that could be discovered if this code is cracked.
-Another attempt to solve the riddle posits that the letters are acrostics in Latin for particular biblical verses.
-Others have suggested that the letters represent initials of noteworthy residents of Shugborough Hall and its environs.
-A standard of many mysteries, it has been suggested that the letters, once decoded, will tell the location of the Holy Grail.
-Someone has speculated that the code is actually in the Norwegian language, and that attempts to use Latin or English to crack the code are futile.
-And there have been many that believe that the inscription does not represent letters at all, but is actually a string of numbers.
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What was the air pressure of the Patriots' footballs at halftime of the AFC title game?
More than anything else, that one piece of information will help us figure out how the balls could have deflated.
NFL game balls must be inflated to between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch. The Patriots inflate their game balls to 12.5 PSI, according to Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.
Two hours and 15 minutes before kickoff, New England's game balls were measured and approved by the referees, presumably at 12.5 PSI. When they were measured again at halftime, they were found to be underinflated. Indianapolis' game balls were also measured at halftime, but they were within regulations, according to widespread reports.
According to ESPN's Chris Mortensen, the Patriots' balls were 2 pounds per square inch below the minimum of 12.5 PSI allowed under NFL rules. But that has not been confirmed by the NFL. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk reports that a source told him only one of the 11 balls was 2 PSI below the limit, and the other 10 were underinflated by around 1 PSI.
The Patriots claim that the balls deflated naturally as a result of the weather and the "rubbing process" that the team uses to get them ready for the game. Belichick said at a press conference that the balls can lose as much as 1.5 PSI as a result of those two factors (he also noted that the ball reinflates by 0.5 PSI when it's brought back indoors to be measured, resulting in a net difference of 1 PSI).
When you run the math, it would have taken a 40-degree temperature change to result in a 2-PSI deflation. Since the temperature never dipped below 47 degrees during the game, it wasn't cold enough for the weather to deflate the balls 2 PSI. However, if the balls were only underinflated by 1 PSI, the weather theory is plausible.
There's also this monkey wrench in New England's explanation: Why were the Colts' balls fine?
If natural factors were to blame, all balls exposed to the same conditions would deflate uniformly. So why wouldn't Indianapolis' game balls be under the 12.5 PSI limit as well?
The answer comes down to our original question: How much under 12.5 PSI were the New England game balls?
If they were 1 PSI under the limit, then it's possible that Indianapolis' game balls were originally inflated to 13.5 PSI, and then fell to around 12.5 PSI — still within the legal range — when they were measured at halftime.
But if the New England game balls were 2 PSI under the limit, then the Colts' balls would have also been below the legal limit if natural factors were responsible.
The Patriots have denied wrongdoing at every turn. Owner Robert Kraft essentially dared the NFL to prove the team tampered with the balls, and demanded an apology from the league if it can't.
The NFL says it will take the league several more weeks to complete its investigation. Once we get those numbers, we'll have a much better idea of how this could have happened.
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Is it normal to close the curtains during daylight?
I know I'm not the only one, but nobody cares what I have an aversion to, e.g. natural light. I put my sunglasses on when going out and spend a tremendous amount of time indoors, and when the sun is piercing through the window, I close the curtains (I saw an Englishman do this in some mystery movie). Is that normal?
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Principles of Finance Featured: Boundless: Finance: "Chapter 5, Section 7: Yields"
Boundless: Finance: "Chapter 5, Section 7: Yields"
The yield of a single period investment is simply (FV−PV)PV∗100 .
There are a number of ways to calculate yield, but the most common ones are to calculate the percent change from the initial investment, APR, and APY (or EAR).
APR (annual percentage rate) is a commonly used calculation that figures out the nominal amount of interest accrued per year. It does not account for compounding interest.
APY (annual percentage yield) is a way of using the nominal interest rate to calculate the effective interest rate per year. It accounts for compounding interest.
EAR (effective annual rate) is a special type of APY that uses APR as the nominal interest rate.
The amount of interest accrued per year after accounting for compounding.
The amount of interest accrued per year without accounting for compounding.
The yield on an investment is the amount of money that is returned to the owner at the end of the term. In short, it's how much you get back on your investment.
Naturally, this is a number that people care a lot about. The whole point of making an investment is to get a yield. There are a number of different ways to calculate an investment's yield, though. You may get slightly different numbers using different methods, so it's important to make sure that you use the same method when you are comparing yields. This section will address the yield calculation methods you are most likely to encounter, though there are many more.
The most basic type of yield calculation is the change-in-value calculation. This is simply the change in value (FV minus PV) divided by the PV times 100%. This calculation measures how different the FV is from the PV as a percentage of PV.
The percent change in value is the change in value from PV to FV (V2 to V1) divided by PV (V1) times 100%.
Another common way of calculating yield is to determine the Annual Percentage Rate, or APR. You may have heard of APR from ads for car loans or credit cards. These generally have monthly loans or fees, but if you want to get an idea of how much you will accrue in interest per year, you need to calculate an APR. Nominal APR is simply the interest rate multiplied by the number of payment periods per year. However, since interest compounds, nominal APR is not a very accurate measure of the amount of interest you actually accrue.
To find the effective APR, the actual amount of interest you would accrue per year, we use the Effective Annual Rate, or EAR.
The Effective Annual Rate is the amount of interest actually accrued per year based on the APR. n is the number of compounding periods of APR per year.
For example, you may see an ad that says you can get a car loan at an APR of 10% compounded monthly. That means that APR=.10 and n=12 (the APR compounds 12 times per year). That means the EAR is 10.47%.
The EAR is a form of the Annual Percentage Yield (APY). APY may also be calculated using interest rates other than APR, so a more general formula is in . The logic behind calculating APY is the same as that used when calculating EAR: we want to know how much you actually accrue in interest per year. Interest usually compounds, so there is a difference between the nominal interest rate (e.g. monthly interest times 12) and the effective interest rate.
The Annual Percentage Yield is a way or normalizing the nominal interest rate. Basically, it is a way to account for the time factor in order to get a more accurate number for the actual interest rate is the nominal interest rate. N is the number of compounding periods per year.
◄ Boundless: Finance: "Chapter 5, Section 6: Additional Detail on Present and Future Values"
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ICSI refers to Intracytoplasmic sperm injection, it involves injecting a single live sperm directly into the center of a human egg. This technique is for couples with severemale factor infertility or couples who have had failure to fertilize in a previous in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempt. This procedure helps in achieving successful pregnancy to obtain fertilized embryos for those who had lost all hope.
Many patients choose to undergo the ICSI procedure just in order to maximize success rates.
Most IVF programs see that about 70-85% of eggs injected using ICSI become fertilized. We call this the fertilization rate, which is different from the pregnancy success rate. The ICSI success is considered high as around 80-85 percent of eggs fertilize normally.
The risk of having a chromosomal abnormality like Down's syndrome is not increased with ICSI but increases with maternal age.
Though there is no conclusive evidence to prove this but several studies also claims that ICSI delays development of brain too.
Are there differences in embryo quality or pregnancy rates between ICSI and non-ICSI embryos?
There is no overall difference between the embryos of ICSI procedure and non-ICSI embryos. Though many specialist say that ICSI increases embryo yield from the given number of eggs.
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The best thing you can do for your career is the one thing that renders all on-the-job competition irrelevant, and it requires no special tools or intelligence: take action.
Taking action is the one thing that renders all on-the-job competition irrelevant. It requires no special tools or intelligence. And 98% of your co-workers will NOT be doing it. In any organization there are always a bazillion things that need to be done. However, 10% of the employee population will make professional commitments to getting thing one with enthusiasm. And only 2% ever actually take action. Management has to constantly chase and follow up with the other 98% if they want to make sure things are getting done. So what this means is if you work in a department of 100 people, only 10 people will have high potential and only 2 people will be in direct competition for raises and promotions. So, if you're not taking action you are automatically keeping yourself from getting ahead.
Taking action does not mean saying you'll do something and then not getting around to it for weeks. Some people think that if they display a gung-ho attitude in a meeting and volunteer for a task then they have scored points for their career, but it is a delusion to think that the actual follow-through doesn't matter.
If your manager has to constantly follow up with you to make sure things are getting done, then you're not being helpful. You have actually doubled his or her work. And don't think it's not noticed. It may not go in your performance appraisal because managers are sometimes reluctant to make formal notes about volunteered tasks, but he or she will make subconscious notes about your dependability. And the high-profile tasks will go to your co-worker who is known for closing the deal.
If you're the employee who cheerfully agrees to help co-workers out but you actually never get around to finishing the task at hand, what good is that? Believe me when I say that you are not going to be known as the co-worker who always helps out; you're going to be known as the co-worker who always volunteers to help out but never actually does it.
Maybe your schedule is too tight, time is too short, blah blah blah. This might be true once, but if it keeps happening, then you have a problem with time management. If you are consistently signing on for new projects and then dropping the ball, then you are not realistically perceiving your schedule and capabilities. Stop trying to reap the immediate benefits of seeming to be the helpful person if you can't do the required work.
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Question: Ten copycats were sitting in a boat, and one jumped out. How many were left?
Answer: None. They were all copycats.
Explanation: This seems like a simple arithmetic question - 10 minus 1 equals 9 (10 - 1 = 9). But since they were "copycats", they all jumped out of the boat after the first one. Got it?
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Einsteinium (chemical symbol Es, atomic number 99) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A metallic, highly radioactive, transuranic element (seventh in the series) in the actinides, einsteinium is produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons and was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb test. It is of interest mainly for scientific research, and practical applications of the element have yet to be developed.
Einsteinium was named after Albert Einstein. It was first identified in December 1952 by Albert Ghiorso at the University of California, Berkeley and another team headed by G.R. Choppin at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Both were examining debris from the first hydrogen bomb test of November 1952 (see Operation Ivy). They discovered the isotope 253Es (half-life 20.5 days) that was made by the nuclear fusion of 15 neutrons with 238U (which then went through seven beta decays). These findings were kept secret until 1955 due to Cold War tensions, however.
In 1961, enough einsteinium was synthesized to prepare a microscopic amount of 253Es. This sample weighed about 0.01 mg and was measured using a special balance. The material produced was used to produce mendelevium. Further einsteinium has been produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor in Tennessee by bombarding 239Pu with neutrons. Around three mg was created over a four year program of irradiation and then chemical separation from a starting one kg of plutonium isotope.
Einsteinium is an inner transition metal of the actinide series, located in period seven of the periodic table, between californium and fermium. Tracer studies using the isotope 253Es show that einsteinium has chemical properties typical of a heavy trivalent, actinide element.
19 radioisotopes of einsteinium have been characterized, with the most stable being 252Es with a half-life of 471.7 days, 254Es with a half-life of 275.7 days, 255Es with a half-life of 39.8 days, and 253Es with a half-life of 20.47 days. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 40 hours, and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than 30 minutes. This element also has three meta states, with the most stable being 254mEs (t½ 39.3 hours). The isotopes of einsteinium range in atomic mass from 240.069 amu (240Es) to 258.100 amu (258Es).
↑ "Transuranic elements" are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than that of uranium (atomic number 92).
Greenwood, N.N., and A. Earnshaw. Chemistry of the Elements 2nd ed. Oxford, UK; Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998. ISBN 0750633654 Online version Retrieved August 12, 2007.
All links retrieved September 19, 2017.
It's Elemental: Einsteinium Jefferson Lab.
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On 25 February, only seven months after it gained registration as a public association, a court in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek revoked the registration of the Falun Gong Centre in the country under pressure from the Chinese embassy, which claimed the spiritual movement "encroaches on human rights and overall poses a threat to society". Judge Jaukhar Baizulayeva, who heard the case, ruled that the group conducts "religious activity that is against public and state interests", though no evidence for this was presented in court. Falun Gong leader's in Kyrgyzstan, Marita Shaikhmetova, complained to Forum 18 News Service that the judge was "prejudiced" against the community before the hearing had even begun and was hostile throughout, shouting at Falun Gong witnesses. The judge declined to talk to Forum 18.
Uzbekistan's former chief mufti, Muhammad Yusuf, has called for restrictions on Islam in the country to be lifted. He is widely regarded as one of the most authoritative Muslim theologians of Central Asia, and has a freedom unique in Uzbekistan to publish his views in books, on a website, and via a private radio station. Such media outlets are tightly controlled in Uzbekistan, so such freedom is highly unusual, especially as Muhammad Yusuf is seen as being distant from the authorities. Speaking of the state of religious freedom, he told Forum 18 News Service that "Unfortunately, I can't say the situation is satisfactory." Muhumad Yusuf was in exile from 1993 to late in 2000, but told Forum 18 that "Uzbek theologians began to persuade Islam Karimov that, without my help, it would be hard for him to ensure stability in the republic." He is critical of the authorities' approach to radical Islamic movements, but did not discuss the tight restrictions imposed on the ethnic Iranian Shia Muslim minority, or the lack of religious freedom for non-Muslims.
KYRGYZSTAN: Why did government newspaper attack missionaries?
A Kyrgyz government newspaper in the capital, 'Vercherny Bishkek', has greatly exaggerated a minor failure to register with the authorities by Taiwanese and Russian missionaries at an Evangelical Christian Church in the capital Bishkek, and has announced that unspecified "measures" "are now being decided" by the government. Natalya Shadrova, a state religious affairs official, denied the newspaper's claims to Forum 18 News Service and described them as "ill-considered" and creating "a false impression of freedom of conscience in Kyrgyzstan." Her concern was echoed by the church's leader, Sergei Bachkala, who told Forum 18 that "such articles give our church a negative image in the republic." The newspaper denied that the article was published on government instructions, describing it as "restrained" and in neutral tones".
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Alexander Khatisian, one of the prime ministers of the first Republic of Armenia, was a remarkable public figure before and after the crucial years of 1918-1920.
He was born in Tiflis (nowadays Tbilisi), the capital of Georgia, on February 17, 1874. He belonged to a well-to-do family. His brother Kostandin Khatisian (1864-1913) was among the founding members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
After graduating from the local gymnasium (Russian high school) in 1891, Khatisian went to Russia to pursue higher education. He studied medicine at the universities of Moscow and Kharkov, and graduated in 1897. He mastered half a dozen languages, including English, French, and German.
From 1898 to 1900 he traveled abroad for specialization courses in the best clinics. He visited Italy, France, and Germany, where he also studied public hygiene, laws, and municipal work in slaughterhouses, hospitals, and water works. Later on, he would publish articles and pamphlets on cultural and health-related topics.
Upon his return to Tiflis, in 1900, Khatisian worked as a doctor, and also entered the political arena. In 1902 he was elected to the City Council, and in 1905 he became a member of the City Board. He participated in the revolutionary movements of 1905. He wanted to join the A.R.F. at that date, but he was dissuaded by Rostom, one of the party founders, and Hamo Ohanjanian, among others, who argued that he could better serve the Armenian people and the party as a non-partisan. In 1907 he became an assistant to the mayor of Tiflis, and from 1910-1917 served as mayor of Tiflis. He was president of the Caucasus branch of the Union of Cities (including a total of forty-four cities) from 1914-1917.
During World War I, Khatisian was among the organizers of assistance for Armenian refugees and genocide survivors. He collaborated with the formation of the Armenian volunteer battalions and was elected vice-president of the Armenian National Bureau of Tiflis from 1915-1917.
After the February Revolution of 1917, Khatisian entered the ranks of the A.R.F. During that decisive year, he led the National Bureau until October, presided over the Council of Armenian Political Parties (March-April), and participated in the convention of peasants of Transcaucasia (June 1917). He moved to Armenia at the end of the year and was elected mayor of Alexandropol (nowadays Gumri). In February 1918 he participated in the peace negotiations held with the Ottoman Empire in Trebizonda (Trabzon). However, in April 1918 he went back to Tiflis, when he was designated Minister of Finances and Provisions of the short-lived Republic of Transcaucasia. In May he returned to the table of negotiations with the Turks, and was one of the three Armenian representatives who signed the Treaty of Batum on June 4, 1918, where the Ottoman Empire recognized the independence of Armenia over a stretch of territory.
He moved to Yerevan, and Prime Minister Hovhannes Kajaznuni designated him as Minister of Foreign Affairs. After Kajaznuni left Armenia in February 1919 on official mission, in April Khatisian was designated acting Prime Minister and was confirmed as Prime Minister in May, while also retaining his position in Foreign Affairs. He reshuffled his cabinet first in August 1919 and then in the spring of 1920.
After his return, on the eve of the Sovietization, he signed the Treaty of Alexandropol along the representatives of Mustafa Kemal on behalf of the Republic of Armenia in the early morning of December 2-3, 1920.
After the fall of the Republic, Khatisian settled in Paris. He continued his political activities, and participated in the Lausanne Conference in 1922-1923 defending the rights of the Armenian people. He was a member of various Armenian and Russian public organizations. He published his memoirs of his time as mayor of Tiflis and the volume The Origin and Development of the Republic of Armenia (1930).
Turkish forces commanded by General Kiazim Karabekir had already reached Alexandropol (now Gumri) at the end of November 1920 when a ceasefire was forced upon the Armenian government. On the other side, a small group of Armenian Bolsheviks had crossed the border from Soviet Azerbaijan into Armenia on November 29 and proclaimed Armenia a Soviet republic, appealing for the intervention of the Red Army. The government of the Republic of Armenia, led by Prime Minister Simon Vratsian (who had assumed power on November 25), was forced to choose the lesser of two evils: to turn away the potential annihilation of Eastern Armenians, it decided to relinquish power to the Communists. The change of regime was legalized through the signature of an agreement between the authorities of the Republic of Armenia and Boris Legran, representative of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), in the morning of December 2, 1920. It was enforced on the same day at 6 pm. It established that Armenia would become an independent Soviet Socialist republic within the frontiers that had been under the jurisdiction of the government before the Turkish invasion and a revolutionary committee would take power temporarily. On its final session of the same day, the government of the Republic of Armenia decided to resign power. After more than two and half years, the first independence had come to an end.
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Traumatic cataract is an opacification of the eye's normally clear lens due to various kinds of physical and electrical injury, as well as radiation exposure. Trauma is one of the acquired causes of cataracts, but they may also be congenital. The classification of traumatic cataracts usually entails a description of their location and shape.
A history of trauma is necessary but may not be recent, as cataracts often develop slowly, and may appear years after the incident. Traumatic cataracts can be unilateral or bilateral. Injury due to blunt trauma is most commonly encountered, although penetrating trauma and other non-mechanical agents can also cause them . Children constitute a sizable proportion of the population affected, and it has been reported that males are significantly more at risk than females . The most frequent patterns of injury seen also vary between different age groups, with children more likely to be injured during play, and young adults during sports. The same applies for residence, as certain types of injuries are more likely to occur in rural rather than urban areas, for instance, accidental injury while collecting wood .
Signs of traumatic cataracts are generally the same as those seen in other types of cataracts, with complaints of several visual disturbances such as blurred vision, diplopia, reduced day or night vision, and eventually blindness. The classical shape of trauma related cataracts is rosette or stellate, however traumatic cataracts are not limited to this configuration, given the possible mechanisms of the trauma . On account of the etiology of these cataracts, in addition to the above problems, many patients also have concurrent damage to other ocular, orbital and cranial structures and the severity is often proportional to the force imparted .
The next step is a thorough ophthalmological exam, ranging from testing visual acuity using the Snellen chart and the range of eye movements to visualizing the eyes' structures through an ophthalmoscope; which may show abnormalities in the red reflex. A slit lamp examination, if available, is best for a more detailed inspection of ocular contents and a clearer view of cataracts. Furthermore, a complete physical examination is important, with emphasis on searching for signs of cranial nerve injury, fractures, intracranial and periorbital hemorrhage.
Imaging studies are necessary, to evaluate the extent of ocular damage and to reveal any foreign bodies that may have been missed. The techniques of ultrasound, computerized tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan are often employed, as they are all useful and have their own advantages . Ultrasound is ideal for assessing intraocular damage as well as detecting foreign bodies, while CT scans show fractures in the orbits and cranium . MRI scans may be used to detect non-magnetic foreign bodies.
Routine blood tests including a full blood count, complete metabolic panel and clotting studies can be done if surgery is anticipated.
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Irish poet and dramatist, born in Dublin; he spent much of his childhood in Sligo, where his mother's family lived. After a period in London, when he attended the Godolphin School, Hammersmith, he returned to Dublin in 1880 and completed his schooling at the city's Erasmus Smith High School. In 1884 he became a student at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art, with the intention of making his living as a painter, the profession of his father John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) and his brother Jack B. Yeats. At this time he began his long friendship with George Russell (‘AE’), whose visionary preoccupations accentuated Yeats's dissatisfaction with the scientific rationalism of the era. Having begun writing poetry at school, he was stimulated to increased activity by Russell's company: as an art student he produced a series of verse-dramas, the best of which, ‘The Island of the Statues’, clearly displays the late Romantic aestheticism characteristic of much of his early work. During the mid-1880s the interests in occultism and Irish nationalism which are of central importance to his poetry were established: with Russell, he was a founding member of the Dublin Hermetic Society; with Katharine Tynan, Douglas Hyde, and others, he was strongly influenced by the Fenian leader John O'Leary, who did much to initiate the Irish Revival.
Following the publication of his play Mosada (1886) and appearances of his work in various journals, by 1887, the year of his return to London, Yeats had decided to devote himself to literature. In 1888 he compiled Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry; further collections of folklore followed, of which The Celtic Twilight (1893) is the best-known. The mythological title work of The Wanderings of Oisin (1889) was his first long poem on an Irish subject. In the same year his political consciousness intensified after his meeting with Maud Gonne, the actress and nationalist agitator, who prompted him to write The Countess Cathleen, the title play of his collection of 1892; the volume also contained the passionately lyrical poems later collected as ‘The Rose’, which draw on his esoteric mysticism, his vision of Ireland, and his unrequited love for Gonne, the source of the underlying languor of numerous subsequent poems. His other early works include the substantially autobiographical novel John Sherman, published with the heroic story Dhoya in 1891, his edition of The Poems of William Blake (1893), the play The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), and the allegorical prose narratives of The Secret Rose (1897). In 1892 he was closely involved in the formation of the Irish Literary Societies in London and Dublin. He was also active at this time in various occult orders and as a member of the Rhymers' Club, which he assisted in founding in 1891 and commemorated in ‘The Grey Rock’ of 1913. The greater technical accomplishment he acquired through his absorption of the Rhymers' ethos of poetic craftsmanship is apparent in The Wind among the Reeds (1899); his early manner culminates in its fluently melodious verse, its imaginatively rarefied moods, and the stylized symbolic imagery with which both its Irish and its mystical themes are presented.
From 1897 onward Yeats was much occupied with the Irish Literary Theatre, which produced Countess Cathleen in 1899 as its inaugural production when it was received with accusations of blasphemy and lack of patriotism, and Cathleen Ni Houlihan, with Maud Gonne in the title role, in 1902; he became a director of its successor, the Abbey Theatre, in 1906. He continued to divide his time chiefly between London and Dublin until 1917, the year in which he married Georgiana Hyde-Lees and began preparing the tower he had purchased at Ballylee to serve as a more permanent home. Ballylee was close to Lady Gregory's estate at Coole, near Gort in County Galway, where Yeats had been a regular visitor since 1897 and upon which he based the cultural ideal of ‘The dream of the noble and the beggarman’ reflected in much of his verse. The poetry of In the Seven Woods (1903) moved towards a new lucidity and directness of tone and imagery; this development, which became clearer with ‘No Second Troy’ and other works in The Green Helmet (1910), issued in the forceful immediacy of manner of Responsibilities (1914). Ezra Pound, Yeats's secretary at intervals between 1913 and 1916, encouraged him in the forging of this new style and introduced him to Ernest Fenollosa's versions of Japanese Noh plays, which decisively influenced his practices as a dramatist in Four Plays for Dancers (1921) and succeeding works. Responsibilities indicated Yeats's growing disaffection with a modern Ireland which had failed to realize the cultural ideals of the Revival; despite the disquieted acknowledgement in ‘Easter 1916’ of the heroism displayed in the Rising of 1916, he wrote at about this time that ‘the dream of my early manhood, that a modern nation can return to Unity of Culture, is false’. The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) reveal a new imaginative authority in poems reflecting the esoteric philosophy of A Vision (1925, revised edition 1937). The system described in this work pervasively informs his later poetry and is of particular relevance to such notable achievements as ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, and ‘The Statues’. These and many other poems exhibit the tone of aristocratic disdain for a modern age when ‘Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world’ which recurs in The Tower (1928), Words for Music Perhaps (1932), The Winding Stair (1929), A Full Moon in March (1935), and Last Poems and Plays (1940), his principal subsequent collections of poetry.
The energy with which Yeats had continually advanced his art was raised to a new level in the last fifteen years of his life; his late poetry's range and vigour of technique and imagination are equally evident in works of challenging intellectual scope, lyrics of great refinement, and poems and ballads memorable for their outspoken simplicity. He was a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928, chairing the commission on coinage. Having commanded increasing respect as a poet for many years, the award of the Nobel Prize in 1923 gained him universal recognition; in the estimation of many he remains the greatest poet of the twentieth century. From the early 1920s onward he lived principally in Dublin. He died in the South of France and was buried at Roquebrune; in 1948 he was reinterred at Drumcliffe in Sligo, in accordance with what he had written in ‘Under Ben Bulben’, one of his latest poems. Collected Poems (1950) and The Poems: A New Edition (edited by R. Finneran, 1983, revised edition 1989) are the principal collections of his verse. The Variorum Edition of the Poems was produced in 1957. Collected Plays was published in 1952, and the various volumes of his Autobiographies which had appeared since Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1915) were collected in 1955. Ideas of Good and Evil (1903), Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918), and On the Boiler (1939) are among the numerous collections of essays published during his lifetime; others include Mythologies (1959), Essays and Introductions (1961), and Explorations (1962). He also edited numerous works, his idiosyncratic Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) being the best-known. A Wade's edition of the Collected Letters (1954) and separate volumes covering his correspondence with Katharine Tynan (1953), T. Sturge Moore (1953), and others are now being superseded by the multi-volume Collected Letters (1986– ), edited by J. Kelly. The most authoritative of numerous biographical studies are J. Hone's W. B. Yeats (1942), R. Ellmann's Yeats: The Man and the Masks (1948, revised edition 1979), and A. N. Jeffares's W. B. Yeats: A New Biography (1988). See also symbolism.
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It is important for the Scrum Team to possess all the essential skills required to carry out the work of the project. It is also necessary to have a high level of collaboration to maximize productivity, so that minimal coordination is required to get things done.
The optimum size for a Scrum Team is six to ten members—large enough to ensure adequate skill sets, but small enough to collaborate easily. A key benefit of a six to ten member team is that communication and management are typically simple and require minimal effort.
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Would you be surprised if I tell that some people think that if a boxer and a human were in danger, and you just have the chance to save just one of them, most of them would prefer to save the boxer?
Most of boxer owners love too much their four-legged friends that they treat them like if they were kids. In addition, some others prefer to spend their time with their dog rather than a friend or family member.
The study did not surprise animal trainers. They knew it or were expecting for the result. Russell Hartstein said: Dogs give us their unconditional love, and many times people built stronger bonds with their boxer than another human.
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The cult classic is coming back to television with enough time to binge-watch until you're caught up.
Grab yourself a slice of cherry pie and a damn fine cup of coffee; Twin Peaks is coming back.
It's been nearly twenty-five years since David Lynch and Mark Frost took us out amongst the Douglas Firs surrounding the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks, and somehow people are still buzzing about it. Originally airing April 8, 1990 on ABC, the show focused primarily on FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper's investigation into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer. But shows like Twin Peaks are never quite that cut-and-dry, are they?
Twin Peaks was unlike any other show on cable when it was released. That fact seems to still hold true today. Scenes turned drastically from awkward and absurd to grotesque and heart-wrenching. Dreamscapes unfolded in the now-famous Red Room. Dwarves spoke cryptic messages backwards and giants broadcast prophecies layered with enough abstraction to keep viewers intrigued. Nothing was as it seemed, and it was difficult to even decide how it was that anything seemed as the tone of the show spun itself in every conceivable direction. In short: Twin Peaks was weird.
The show's first season was initially wildly successful, propelling itself into the cultural mainstream. It became one of the top-rated shows of 1990, garnering both national and international attention. It was talked about around water coolers and was reviewed well by television critics. Time Magazine went so far as to call it "…the most hauntingly original work ever done for American TV." It seemed that everyone in America wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer. However, this success story did not last forever. Ratings fell throughout the first season, eventually hitting a low when the show came back for a second. During an interview with creator David Lynch, David Letterman said of Twin Peaks: "it might be the kind of show that…has a limited run and then would become a classic forever, forever."
Letterman's prophecy seems to have come true. Despite the show's cancellation after its second season, people are still talking about the not-so-quaint town of Twin Peaks. People still use Agent Cooper and Audrey Horne as their Twitter Avatars. The popular TV drama Psych even pays homage to the show in an episode called "Dual Spires" in which the characters investigate the murder of Paula Merral (an anagram of Laura Palmer). The legacy of the show lives on because of its cult following, many of whom hold a near-religious admiration for the show's mixture of surreal, horrific, and campy tones. That, and a lot of people seem to like Log Lady.
Oddly enough, though, most of the cult following of Twin Peaks isn't even old enough to have seen it air originally. The show has more than lingered in the cultural subconscious since its cancellation, seeping its way up to the surface to pull more people into its mystery. However, the show's eventual release on Netflix has played a massive role in introducing it back into the semi-popular culture, at least recently. In fact, that's how I was first introduced to Lynch and Frost's otherworldly drama, having been born nearly two and a half years after the first episode aired.
It's hard not to draw parallels here to Arrested Development: both shows were cancelled in their infancy despite positive reviews and both were resuscitated on Netflix. And now, with Showtime's announcement of a nine-episode return of Twin Peaks in 2016, both have been renewed for extra seasons. And it is exactly this comparison that frightens me.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed to new season of Arrested Development, but I – and several others – seemed to think something was lacking from it. Even when I laughed, it seemed only in comparison to older episodes, things I'd laughed at before when the show was finite. Perhaps this is what was lacking from the fourth season of Arrested Development, that sort of nostalgic pang that comes with knowing that what you are watching, what you enjoy has a definitive end.
Perhaps some of the charm of Twin Peaks that has earned the show its enduring legacy is that it never wrapped up neatly, that viewers went in knowing they couldn't come out with everything they wanted. This gray space left room for interpretation, allowed for the formation of intricate theories that gave fans something to think about after the final credits rolled.
But I still hold out hope for the new season. Both Lynch and Frost are working on the project, and I don't expect Showtime to put out a bad series. Besides, we've still got a long time until the show returns in 2016. So until then, put on another pot of coffee, tune in to Invitation to Love, and remember: the owls are not what they seem.
Chris Sexauer admits to binge-watching most of the show in the span of a week. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or crazy conspiracy theories, he can be reached at [email protected].
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What makes a Nobel Prize winner? There's several suggested factors: Perseverance? Good luck? Good mentors and students? Here's one possible factor that I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams; chocolate consumption. Chocolate consumption tracks well with the number of Nobel Laureates produced by a country.
At least that's what a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine - one of the world's premier journals of medical research - claims. I have to say I found the study bizarre when I read it, and a few hours of strenuous, perplexed thought have done nothing to shake that feeling off. The study itself is amusing and rather brief and I think it makes for entertaining reading; what I am left contemplating is why this paper constitutes serious research and why it would have been published in a journal which over the years has presented some of the definitive medical findings of our time.
The paper starts by assuming - entirely reasonably - that winning a Nobel Prize must somehow be related to cognitive ability. It then goes on to describe a link between flavanols - organic molecules found among other foods in chocolate, green tea and red wine - and cognitive ability. Now I haven't read the literature on flavanols and cognitive ability, but I am sure that flavanols themselves couldn't possibly be responsible for improved cognitive effect, especially when they are part of a complex cocktail of dietary and environmental factors affecting brain function.
But let's say that's true; flavanols are indeed a strong indicator of cognitive function. From this idea the author basically jumps to the dubious and frankly bizarre question of whether chocolate consumption could possibly account for Nobel Prize winning ability. However, from a purely scientific standpoint the hypothesis is testable, so the author decides to simply plot the number of Nobel prize winners per 10 million people in different countries counted from 1900-2011 vs the chocolate consumption in those countries. The figures for chocolate consumption come from Caobisco and Chocosuisse and cover only four years, none before 2002. This fact itself makes any such comparison dubious to say the least; how can you compare two variables when they are sampled from such radically dissimilar sample spaces? And what about other compounds containing flavanols; why not also consider red wine or green tea?
In any case, a plot of chocolate consumption vs number of Nobel Prizes reveals a strong correlation of 0.79. Sweden is an anomaly (and the author thinks it could be a result of "patriotic bias" from the Nobel Committee); take it out and the correlation improves to 0.86. The graph in all its glory is illustrated above.
What does one make of this? Well, I have said before that if only three rules of scientific deduction were inscribed on the doors of every university and research organization in the world, one of them should be that "correlation does not mean causation". Conflating the two can lead you to believe, for instance, that storks deliver babies. Now the author recognizes this, but what I find absolutely baffling is that he makes no attempt to dissect other possible contributing factors. In fact at the end of the article he acknowledges the existence of such factors and then proceeds to dismiss them by saying that "differences in socioeconomic status from country to country and geographic and climatic factors may play some role, but they fall short of fully explaining the close correlation observed."
Some role? Well, I don't know what to say. Or actually, I do. The most likely explanation for that correlation is that it's caused by a third factor. We can be almost sure that for a variable like "cognitive function" which undoubtedly depends on thousands of environmental and genetic factors, there are going to be several co-dependent ones both correlated to it and causing it, and in fact causing each other. There's also going to be thousands correlated with it but not causing it. Chocolate consumption is going to be a small dot in this complex universe of potential factors, and it's certainly not the obvious one which would have occurred to me.
What other factor might possibly be related to the number of Nobel Laureates? I think the graph provides a strong suggestion and I am again surprised that the author missed speculating about it. The Scandinavian countries rank at the top of the graph on the right and they are known to rank high both on the Human Development Index (HDI) and in per capita income. Couldn't it just be possible that higher chocolate consumption simply means greater affluence and an improved lifestyle? Put simply, people who eat more chocolate are likely to be better off (and perhaps even happier?). Greater affluence means better higher education, research opportunities and perhaps Nobel Prizes. I still don't think this set of socioeconomic factors can be directly connected to Nobel Prizes, but I really think it's far more likely to track with Nobel Prizes than chocolates and their flavanols. Other questions besiege my embattled brain; was chocolate consumption in Germany very high during those miserable post-World War 1 years when the country produced all those physics Nobel Prize winners? Does the high percentage of Nobel Laureates in Switzerland reflect its neutral, relatively peaceful status during wars rather than the health benefits of Swiss chocolate?
I have to quite plainly admit that this is one of the strangest and most bizarre papers I have seen in a long time. As I said before, the hypothesis itself is not unscientific per se, but the methodology and conclusions are simplistic at best, the complexity of the system and other possible contributing factors are hardly acknowledged and the paper in general is just not something which I would have expected to appear in the NEJM. Is this really supposed to be serious research? Could it be possible that this is a spoof akin to the absolute zero paper from 1931? My head spins. I think it's time for me to munch on a few Toblerones to improve my cognitive function (the author himself reports a daily diet of Lindt's dark varieties).
Note: I thank Nick Terrett for pointing out the paper and for useful discussion.
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What are some good long term investment vehicles?
I'm planning to invest $100,000 for 15 years and I'm looking for investments that will average out an ~8% annualized return. What should be in my portfolio?
What is your risk tolerance? If $100 K is your entire nest egg and you're 50 years old, then mostly bonds with some stocks. If you're 25 and $100 K is a big dividend from a relative, then the answer will be quite different. $100K is a pretty large lump sum. Is this planning for retirement money or is it fun money?
My risk tolerance is mid to high. I'm 26 and received $100k (after taxes) in inheritance. I thought it would be a good idea to just save it for retirement.
equal parts: a) gold, b) defensive stocks (pharma, consumer staples etc), c) emerging markets ETFs or mutual funds, d) U.S. growth stocks.
Would you mind explaining the different parts of your recommendation? I'm curious to hear how someone in Asset Management would approach investing $100K for retirement starting at age 26.
I was going to recommend 100% in an S&P index just to keep it simple. Over a long investment horizon like retirement planning, being 100% in equities at 26 and adjusting to more bonds as you age makes sense to me, but my background is not in AM.
Who are you asking? I can't tell on mobile.
There's two things I think young people should be concerned about; growth in principal and inflation protection. Young people in finance have a tremendous earnings curve over their first 10-20 years, so I think aggressive positioning is the right approach. If you're wrong, you should be earning enough in your 40s and 50s that it wont be all that relevant, and if you're right, you've got the potential to push up your retirement date by several years or pay for your kids college with the small savings you socked away in your 20s.
The other half is more about inflation protection. Gold (and other PMs) obviously do well in inflationary environments, and defensive businesses actually hold up relatively well also. When you're facing rising inflation and stagnating wages (which I think is likely for the U.S.), it is tough for consumers to cut things like pharmaceuticals, diapers/soap, waste collection, and electric power from their consumption routines. Good solid defensive businesses should hold on to margin and continue to pay you reasonable dividends even in a stagflationary economy. On the other hand, it is easy for people to cut the Netflix, newest iPhones, BMW leases, mobile games, etc. when they are facing a tight budget, so these kinds of stocks will get hit.
-- ==> Buy gold, buy lots of it, and hold it.
Thanks to @jankynoname and @thebrofessor for the insights and opinions. And @dickfuld of course I would have relished your input as well. Hell, I was the one who bought your iconic sign and consider it an investment in my art portfolio.
You 'would have relished my input'? I gave you the most specific recommendation here. That was my input.
You should just buy that portfolio I recommended.
While most are aware you cannot time the market, myself included, I would not throw 100% into equities at once.
One strategy that I do to build wealth is dollar cost averaging- allocate the same amount for everything month. You can do drip plans on individual stocks, which compound nicely, or mutual funds. Over a long investment horizon this should suit your investment requirements.
I often place qualitative factors to a higher regard relative to valuations, as I increase allocations as opportunities arise.
I am biased towards real estate, but achieving 8% returns is easy on a cash on cash basis. Put your money with a fund focused on multifamily or something. Plenty out there with 100k minimums and that provide distributions quarterly, sometimes monthly. You'll have no management responsibilities and will get paid out of cash flow that is consistent where as bonds, stocks, have no guarantees of increasing 8% annually.
The contributions are amazing in this thread, I'm just adding things for the sake of variety.
I thought to point out that not only is there the markowitz approach to portfolio construction, but also the kelly criterion approach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion).
In terms of asset classes - since your horizon is 15 years you need to assess your inflation expectations and construct a thesis you are happy with. I.E. argument for inflation has already been made, whilst there are arguments for deflation as well.
The issue you have is that in a rising rate environment, a lot of investments look bad (though arguably equity will be boosted due to ERP), things that require leverage to generate returns (such as real assets/property/infrastructure etc) will suffer.
I guess I'd favour an equity bias as the above people have. Though I'd say look into some form of protection on the investment for a downturn.
+1 for kelly criterion reference, this is easier said than done though.
hey if you can using stock marketing than you can get information about many type of investor.
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Blade Runner is a 1997 point-and-click adventure game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive for Microsoft Windows. The game is not a direct adaptation of the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner, but is instead a "sidequel", telling an original story, which runs parallel to the film's plot, occasionally intersecting with it.
Set in 2019 Los Angeles, the game tells the story of Ray McCoy, an elite detective charged with hunting down a group of dangerous replicants (bioengineered androids designed to look and act like humans). Although several of the film's characters appear in the game, with the original actors returning to voice them, the film's protagonist, Rick Deckard, does not appear in a speaking role. Instead, he is referred to on multiple occasions, is seen several times, and his activities as depicted in the film are mentioned. Other parallels with the film include the reproduction of several prominent locations, as well as scenes and dialogue closely modelled on the original. The game also features extracts from the film's soundtrack.
Blade Runner was advertised as a "real-time 3D adventure game," since it was one of the first adventure games to use both 3D character rendering and a game world which progressed in real-time (as opposed to waiting for the player's actions). Unlike many games of its time, which used polygon-based renderers exploiting 3D accelerators, Westwood opted for their own software-based renderer using voxel technology.
The game received generally positive reviews, and was a commercial success, selling over one million units worldwide. It went on to win the Interactive Achievement Award for "Computer Adventure Game of the Year," and was nominated for "Best Adventure Game" by PC Gamer. Virgin Interactive wanted Westwood to make a sequel, but it was thought the cost of production would make the game commercially unviable, and the idea was scrapped.
Blade Runner is a point-and-click adventure game played from a third-person perspective, in which the game world is navigated, explored, and manipulated using the mouse. The pointer has four different styles depending on the given situation; a standard grey pointer is used to move McCoy by clicking on any location, and scan the screen for elements with which to interact; an animated green pointer indicates McCoy can interact with an object or begin a conversation with an NPC; an animated blue pointer indicates the screen can be changed and a new area accessed (usually appears at the sides of the screen or in doorways); an animated red target becomes available only in combat mode and indicates McCoy can fire (if the target is grey, it means McCoy cannot fire).
Blade Runner's main focus is detective work rather than puzzles or combat, and the majority of gameplay consists of searching for evidence, questioning suspects and analyzing clues. Occasionally, the player must solve compulsory puzzles, and often, to progress the story, certain clues must be located. Clues are found by searching crime scenes, and come in the form of items, photographs, interviews, or unusual markings. When analyzing photographs, the player must use the ESPER system, a high-density computer with a powerful three-dimensional resolution capacity which allows for the enhancement of photos and enables the player to find details within the picture. Combat is occasionally available in the game, but is rarely compulsory. The only weapon available to the player is McCoy's standard issue police pistol, which may be loaded with various types of ammunition.
Another important investigative tool at the player's disposal is the Voight-Kampff machine, which tests people to determine if they are replicants. Usually, Voight-Kampff tests are automatically triggered at certain predetermined points in the game, although on occasion, the player has the option of administering a test. The test depicts a close-up of the subject's eye, and features three needles. The further the top needle moves to the right, the more likely the subject is a replicant; the further the bottom needle moves to the right, the more likely they are human. The third needle is on a sweeping axis and measures the intensity of the questions (for every question the player can choose low, medium or high intensity), and the pressure felt by the subject. If the player pushes the subject too far, by asking too many high intensity questions, the test will end before a definite result can be obtained. If the player determines with certainty whether a subject is or is not a replicant, the test ends automatically. The player must then decide what course of action to take, with the decision influencing the rest of the storyline; for example, if a subject tests positive as a replicant, the player can kill them, attempt to arrest them, or let them go.
Aside from choosing how to react to Voight-Kampff results, the player must also decide how McCoy conducts himself in other areas of the game, such as whether to interrogate an NPC, or simply talk to them, and how aggressive to be in his questioning. The player can choose from one of five settings regarding McCoy's demeanor during conversations; "Polite", "Normal", "Surly", "Erratic" (the game randomly picks one of the first three options at different points of the conversation) and "User Choice". If the fifth option is selected, conversations with NPCs will present the player with menus from which they can choose their questions, rather than the game automatically selecting questions. Each choice will affect the storyline differently, with the player's cumulative decisions leading to one of the game's thirteen different endings.
All clues, conversation histories and documents are stored in McCoy's "Knowledge Integration Assistant" (KIA), where they are automatically organized for easy access. The KIA has three main sections. The "Crime Scene Panel" lists the various crime scenes, along with all known suspects and all related clues. The "Suspect Panel" displays all available information about the suspects for the various crimes. It includes a photo of the suspect (if the player has found one), a list of crimes to which they are connected, and a list of clues which tie them to a specific crime. Suspect clues are arranged into four categories; "Whereabouts" (known places the suspect has visited, and suggestions as to their current location), "MO" (information on the suspect's previous actions, and suggestions as to their possible future actions), "Replicant" (any evidence suggesting the suspect may be a replicant) and "Non-replicant" (any evidence suggesting the suspect may be a human). The "Clue Panel" is a master list of all clues, but also contains clues which have not been linked to a specific crime or suspect as of yet, and, as such, are not available in either of the other two sections. The KIA also keeps track of McCoy's money and ammunition.
The game runs in non-linear "real-time", meaning that as McCoy investigates and gathers clues, the NPC characters are doing the same, completing their own objectives and performing random actions elsewhere in the game world. A good example of this is found in the computer mainframe, which is accessible from the police headquarters. When the player uploads their KIA data into the mainframe, any evidence collected by other Blade Runners is automatically downloaded into the player's KIA. This tends to be random, with different pieces of evidence discovered by different Blade Runners becoming available at different times of the game.
"Welcome to Los Angeles 2019. Life on Earth has changed dramatically. The gnarled buildings of downtown Los Angeles are drenched in the mist and shadows of uncertainty. Off-world colonization has become reality. Replicants are illegal on earth – by penalty of death. As part of a special police squad – Blade Runners – you have orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing replicant. This is not called murder. It is called retirement. You are Ray McCoy, a rookie Blade Runner. Usually, you're assigned to false leads and public complaints. But a rash of replicant detections and your new lieutenant have given you the chance to investigate an especially vicious case of animal murder. Most people in L.A. 2019 wouldn't think of killing one of the precious few real animals left. Replicants may be involved."
Ray McCoy is the game's main player character.
Ray McCoy (voiced by Mark Benninghofen): the game's protagonist and a rookie Blade Runner. McCoy shares his apartment with his pet dog, Maggie.
Crystal Steele (Lisa Edelstein): one of the best Blade Runners on the job, and an expert in undercover work. She hates replicants, believing they should be exterminated. She is somewhat condescending towards McCoy early in the game, but grows to respect him as the story progresses.
Gaff (Javier Grajeda as Victor Gardell): a veteran Blade Runner who often offers McCoy advice.
Lt. Edison Guzza (Jeff Garlin): temporarily placed in charge of the Blade Runner unit whilst the previous commander, Cpt. Bryant, is on sick leave.
Clovis (Mark Rolston): the leader of a group of renegade replicants. Highly intelligent and eloquent, he is also extremely ruthless, unpredictable and, at times, capable of extreme acts of aggression.
Lucy Devlin (Pauley Perrette): a fourteen-year-old girl who works at the pet store attacked by the replicants in the opening scene.
Dektora (Signy Coleman): a replicant who works as an exotic dancer.
Sadik (Alexander Mervin): a replicant who is part of Clovis' gang.
Howie Lee (Toru Nagai): the owner of a restaurant in Chinatown.
Zuben (Gerald Okamura): a replicant who works as a chef at Howie Lee's Restaurant in Chinatown.
Luther & Lance (Jason Cottle): identical twin replicant brothers who were former Tyrell Corporation employees.
Gordo Frizz (Bruno Oliver): a replicant who works as a stand-up comedian.
Runciter (Warren Burton): the owner of the pet store attacked by the game's replicants.
Izo (Timothy Dang): a weapons dealer who supplies automatic firearms to Clovis' gang.
Bullet Bob (Vincent Schiavelli): a World War III veteran who runs a gun shop near Animoid Row.
Original cast members from the film who make cameo appearances in the game are Sean Young as Rachael, Brion James as Leon, James Hong as Hannibal Chew, Joe Turkel as Dr. Eldon Tyrell, and William Sanderson as J. F. Sebastian.
McCoy stands at the White Dragon Noodle Bar, the same location where Rick Deckard first appears in the film.
The game begins shortly after the beginning of the film, with McCoy tasked with tracking down a group of replicants who are suspected of murdering animals – a crime nearly as heinous as murdering humans, since most animal species are extinct and real specimens are exceedingly rare.
As McCoy's investigation progresses, he is framed for the murder of a civilian by the corrupt Lt. Guzza, who has been assisting the replicants in an effort to prevent them from revealing his activities. Forced into hiding, McCoy explores the underbelly of LA and makes contact with the replicant twins Luther and Lance, former genetic designers for the Tyrell Corporation who are now working to extend their own lifespans as well as those of all other replicants. From them, McCoy receives a detailed report containing evidence of Guzza's corruption. Using this information, he blackmails Guzza and forces him to set his falsified record straight. They meet in the city sewers for the exchange, where Guzza is wounded by replicant gunfire. At this point, the player can either run away or kill Guzza.
McCoy is human and hunts down the replicants either alone or with Crystal.
McCoy is a replicant himself and sides with the other replicants.
McCoy's status remains ambiguous and he sides with neither the replicants nor the police, instead leaving the city - either alone, with Dektora or with Lucy.
The entanglements were very deep in the sense that different people had different deals. And worse yet, the production ended on a sour note and many of the records were lost. So no one knows who might come out of the woodwork claiming ownership of the film, or even pieces of it. We were prohibited from using any footage or audio because we'd never know whose rights we might be trampling on.
However, Castle's unique idea for the game somewhat side-stepped the potential legal problems. He didn't want to adapt the film; he wanted to make an original game set within the film's milieu. This would mean the game would not have to borrow as heavily from the film as it would were it a straight adaptation, hence avoiding the potential legal problems down the road. Virgin loved Castle's idea, and asked him to make a pitch to Bud Yorkin. Castle built a demo for the pitch, but rather than using footage from the film, he and his team created a rough opening cutscene based on the film's aesthetic style, but without recreating any exact scenes. According to Castle, going into the pitch, Yorkin was concerned about how much footage from the film would be needed for the game, but when he saw the demo, he was thrilled, and asked Castle if the whole game could be made in a similar manner. From that point forward, the development team had one overriding mandate; every scene in the game would be generated from scratch in 3D; no footage from the film would be used.
Although both footage and the film's soundtrack were off-limits, the designers were allowed to re-create the likenesses of the actors who had appeared in the film. Westwood never intended for Rick Deckard to be a major character in the game, but they did attempt to contact Harrison Ford with the intention of asking him to make a cameo appearance. However, they never received a response. This didn't surprise them, as Ford had had a negative experience working on the film and, at the time, even refused to talk about it in interviews. According to Castle, Ford was also against the concept of video games based on films in general. The designers were also unable to get any input from Ridley Scott, the film's director, as he too had had a bad experience on the film, and had fallen out with Yorkin and Perenchio when they took over production. He was uninterested in participating in the game.
Syd Mead was credited as "visual futurist" on the film, and his concept art was the starting point for the film's aesthetic design. He contributed to the game insofar as he sent the designers samples of his original Blade Runner artwork.
One major contributor to the film who did work with the developers, however, was Syd Mead, whose concept art formed the basis for Blade Runner's aesthetic. Mead sent the team extracts from his original Blade Runner artwork. However, they quickly noticed a disparity – Mead's art didn't correlate with the finished film; whilst his artwork tended to be highly stylized and polished, the film had a much grittier and "lived-in" texture. The team contacted one of the film's set builders, who explained that had Mead's artwork been used as it was presented, the film would have cost too much, so production designer Lawrence G. Paull and art director David Snyder had decided to create "less perfect" versions of Mead's designs; they took Mead's concepts and remoulded them. Inspired by this, Castle issued a similar directive to his design team; nothing in the game was to be created from scratch, everything had to come from either the film or Mead's art.
From the beginning, Westwood had no interest in doing a straight adaptation of the film as either a shoot 'em up or traditional point-and-click adventure game. As a result, the team decided to write a new story set within the fictional milieu of the film – a story in which players would play not as Rick Deckard, but as a new character, Ray McCoy. This allowed fans of the film the experience of seeing the sights and sounds of the movie, but without knowing where the story is heading.
Sean Young (left) and James Hong (right) were two of the actors from the film who reprised their roles in the game, playing Rachael and Hannibal Chew, respectively.
The writers decided the plot of the game would begin shortly after the opening of the film, with Deckard having already been assigned to track down Roy Batty and the other replicants. The game's plot was imagined in such a way that the player would occasionally hear about Deckard, but would never meet him. For example, when visiting the Tyrell building, Rachael mentions that she has already spoken to another Blade Runner, and Tyrell tells McCoy, "as I explained to Mr. Deckard earlier, I've given the Nexus 6 a past." Another example is a photograph taken in Animoid Row, which shows Deckard in the background, and prompts McCoy to exclaim "He looks familiar." Additionally, while searching Leon's room in the Yukon hotel, McCoy discovers Det. Holden's badge, and Lt. Guzza questions how Deckard missed it, going on to say, "Deckard, he feels too much, ya' know?" The developers were also keen to include locations from the film, such as the Bradbury Building, the Tyrell Corporation Pyramid, and the L.A.P.D.'s cylindrical skyscraper. They also enlisted many of the actors from the film to make cameos in the game; Sean Young as Rachael, Brion James as Leon, James Hong as Hannibal Chew, Joe Turkel as Dr. Eldon Tyrell, and William Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian.
Of paramount importance to the designers was that the story of the film be treated as sacrosanct – nothing the player can do in the game can ever alter, contradict or in any way run contrary to what happens in the film. David Yorkin, Bud's son, and David Leary worked on the game's script, initially writing it as a linear game. However, the designers wanted the game to feature a great deal of random elements, with the idea being that no two playthroughs would be the same, and no walkthrough would be able to cover every possible eventuality or every possible combination of random events. The game presents the player with fifteen suspects, but only two are always replicants (Clovis and a cook named Zuben). Which of the other thirteen characters is a replicant is randomized every time the player plays the game, and their behavior is different each playthrough based upon whether or not they are human. Due to the random nature of the game, the script swelled to 500 pages, and the quality assurance people had to play through the game 2,500 times to experience every possible variation.
Because of how central to the plot randomness is, NPC behavior was not scripted. Instead, each NPC is assigned certain goals to accomplish based upon whether they are a replicant or a human. How they go about accomplishing these goals is handled by the AI system, and can change from game to game, as most of the goals have several possible methods of achievement. The developers likened this aspect of the game to simulation games such as SimCity rather than traditional adventure games such as Myst. Castle explains, "those agents are real, goal-oriented artificial intelligences. We don't know what they're going to do, exactly. We've given them behavior, we haven't given them instructions. There's a big difference between behavior-based AI and scripted instructions."
"When we told Intel that we were doing a 640x480, 65,000 color game that emulates true color, with a 16-bit Z-buffer and six channel CD-quality audio, they said you can't – the PCI bus can't support it. So we felt good about ourselves, because we hadn't even mentioned the 750,000 polygons for the characters yet."
We had to invent a new technology for the characters. We went back to voxel technology and used it as a launching pad. What we are using is not voxels, but sort of 'voxels plus.' We use voxels to do the three-dimensional rotations, transformations, and projections that create the character, but we actually use a very fast polygon rendering engine to render the polygons to the screen. By not having to have a voxel model that is so dense that every pixel is a voxel, we were able to achieve much higher frame rates with much more polygons on the screen and have lots of characters.
Louis Castle, co-founder of Westwood Studios, and director and lead artist of Blade Runner.
The use of voxels, however, meant 3D accelerators couldn't be used, as there would be too many polygons for a card to render. Instead, the designers used a fast rectangular rendering routine that rendered a rectangle whenever it had to draw a polygon. Speaking in 2014, Castle said "people ask me all the time "Why didn't you just use 3D?" Well, that's easy to say now we have full rendering pipelines and shaders, but back then you just didn't. You had a few vertex-shaded polygons and the texel mapping just wasn't accurate on a lot of the cards. Nowadays I'd do it all in 3D." Another reason for not using 3D accelerators was that the game features roughly 140 locations, most of them open to player exploration. Each of these locations featured millions of polygons, well beyond the capabilities of even the most high end graphics cards of the time.
The game's environment takes up 60–65% of the CPU bandwidth, primarily because of the moving camera, but also because eight different characters can appear on screen at any one time – a large number for the technology of the time. Because of this, a powerful CPU was required to run the game, since the engine relied on the processor doing all the work in creating the 3D models. However, despite this limitation, the game runs at a minimum of 15 FPS, even on slow systems. The downside to this was that, since processor power at that time was limited, the in-game 3D models tended to look very pixelated, especially up-close and when motionless, due to the low amount of voxels used to display them. However, had the number of voxels been raised to increase the detail on the characters, the game would have become too slow to play, even on advanced CPUs.
where the technology let us down was in the time and energy needed to process the motion-capture. We were capturing at 60 frames per second, and the characters in voxel space took up so much that we had to go through them, removing those frames by hand using keyframing. The original voxel objects weighed in at around seven megabytes in size while hardware at the time could manage only about 100K. Automatic optimisation would leave them unbearably blocky, leaving Westwood to do it by hand. Naturally, the studio didn't have time for 20,000 sequences, which is why some of the game's objects look plain bizarre. It just took too long.
The rights for the film's original soundtrack could not be secured for the game, so Westwood brought in their in-house composer Frank Klepacki to create new tracks based on Vangelis' score, and also to re-record some of the main tracks from the film. As Klepacki was not allowed access to the original master recordings, he had to re-create the music by ear.
Blade Runner received generally positive reviews. It holds an aggregate score of 77% on GameRankings, based on sixteen reviews.
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "the game's shortcomings seem irrelevant as the journey that Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford began 15 years ago is brought to an entirely new end at the player's command. All movie-licensed game publishers should take note."
Science Fiction Weekly's Peter Suciu awarded it an A+, writing the "computer-generated setting of Blade Runner is simply one of the best to arrive on computer desktops," and calling the game "an outstandingly enjoyable adventure simulation." Game Revolution's Marke Cooke scored the game an A-, calling it "one of the best adventure games out there." RPGFan gave the game an overall rating of 93%, praising its pre-rendered backgrounds, with "rain, spotlights, Spinners or blimps advertising off-world vacations. The crisp images never fail to dazzle." Although the review pointed out that the graphics can become a "tad blurry and pixilated," it was argued "this doesn't detract too much from these otherwise stunning visuals."
Quandary's Rosemary Young scored it 3.5 out of 5, pointing out "though some aspects of Blade Runner aren't all that sophisticated, it is worth considering for fans of 'hard-edged' crime/science fiction." In a 2006 review for Adventure Gamers, Chris Pickering scored the game 4.5 out of 5, praising it for its "glorious aesthetics, intriguing storyline, and well implemented controls."
Less impressed was GameSpot's Ron Dulin, who scored the game 6 out of 10, calling it "an interesting mood piece, built upon some very detailed graphic work and an interesting premise – but somewhere along the production line, someone forgot to include a game." He was critical of the random nature of the game, especially the multiple endings; "To justify the number of wildly different endings, the designers have tried to keep some elements of the story very vague for the bulk of the story. But even with these safeguards, there are always a number of confusing contradictions and loose ends no matter how the story winds up." He concluded, "most of what's interesting about the game is exactly what was interesting about the film, and not much was done to extend the concepts or explore them any further. Fans of the film will undoubtedly overlook the game's flaws and enjoy living the life of the Blade Runner, even if it only lasts a few hours. But those who are awaiting the next generation of adventure games are advised to keep waiting."
In a 2007 article for Computer and Video Games, "Blade Runner: A Classic Revisited", Duncan Harris argued "critics may have been divided over the means by which you got there: a logical trail of clues, many of which were less the result of detective work than blind luck and idle exploration [...] but you couldn't deny that here, for once, was a movie tie-in which put the movie first, dismissing thoughts of its own genre and letting the subject dictate the design. With its insular thinking, it's something the games industry all too rarely sees."
Blade Runner was a commercial success. In the United States alone, it sold 15,307 copies and earned $795,045 by November 30, 1997. Between January 1998 and July 1998, it sold another 47,939 copies in the region, which drew $2,283,055 in revenues. Westwood's Louis Castle reported that its lifetime sales had reached 800,000 units worldwide by February 2002. Blade Runner's sales ultimately surpassed one million units by 2006; Castle claimed that it outsold The Curse of Monkey Island three to one.
Blade Runner won the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' first annual Interactive Achievement Award in the category "PC Adventure Game of the Year". It was also nominated in the "Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics", "Outstanding Achievement in Software Engineering" and "Interactive Title of the Year" categories, losing in the first category to Riven and in the second two to GoldenEye 007. In 1998, it was nominated for "Adventure Game of the Year" by Computer Gaming World and for "Best Adventure Game" at the PC Gamer awards, losing on both occasions to The Curse of Monkey Island.
In 2011, Adventure Gamers named Blade Runner the 21st-best adventure game ever released.
Blade Runner sold well, but due to high development costs, the profit margin was low. According to Louis Castle, "The mere fact it was four CDs made it a very expensive game. And the deal we had with the Blade Runner Partnership meant it was not terribly profitable. It didn't do as well as you might think." Although Virgin were interested in doing a sequel, if a sequel were approved, the Blade Runner Partnership intended to increase the licensing fee. Ultimately, Westwood and Virgin concluded the cost of producing a game to top the original, coupled with the increased cost for licensing, made the prospect of a sequel economically untenable, as such a sequel would have to sell several million units to generate what would be considered an acceptable profit. In 2009, the Blade Runner Partnership offered Gearbox Software the rights to the franchise, but production costs were estimated at $35 million and the project was scrapped.
Speaking in 2015 regarding a possible re-release of the game via Steam or GOG.com, Louis Castle explained the source code and assets were lost when Westwood moved its studio from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, thus making a re-release or a HD-remaster impossible. Even if the code was found, to restore almost a terabyte of assets, whether for new pre-rendered backdrops or full real-time 3D, would cost tens of millions of dollars, making a re-release as unlikely as a sequel. The Blade Runner Partnership and Electronic Arts currently own the rights to the game.
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Fiction-Food Café: 5-Flavor Soup from "Avatar: The Last Airbender"
5-Flavor Soup from "Avatar: The Last Airbender"
In the episode "Puppet Master" (ATLA s.3, ep.8), aside from learning about some pretty freaky but completely logical bending, we're introduced to another Southern Water Tribe food; five-flavor soup. While traveling in the woods, our quartet is met by an elderly woman named Hama who is an inn keeper in a small Fire Nation village. Later, it's not only revealed that she's from the Southern Water Tribe, but also that she's a water bender, which is huge news to Katara who she grew up thinking she was the only one. To celebrate the big reveal Hama prepares a traditional Southern Water Tribe meal with five-flavor soup as the main dish. After she places the large serving dish of soup on the table she water bends individual servings into everyones' bowl.
1. In a large pot over medium heat, cook the sesame oil, shallot bits, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sugar, & aji-mirin until the shallot bits are tender, about 10 mins.
2. In a microwavable bowl or cup combine 2 cups of water with the dashi powder. Microwave for about 3 mins to dissolve the dashi & then pour the liquid into the pot. In the same microwavable container pour 2 more cups of water & add the dried mushrooms. Microwave for 3 mins so that the mushrooms are reconstituted & a broth is created. Pour the mushrooms & liquid into the pot. Add the vegetable stock to the pot & stir. Next, add the sheets of seaweed (rip into manageable pieces if needed). Stir everything together & bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low & cover. Simmer low for about 20 mins or so until all of the flavors have combined nicely.
3. Place a mesh strainer over a large serving bowl or another large pot & strain the soup so you end up with only the beautiful brown broth below. Serve hot.
Serving Suggestion (shown below): Gather the mushrooms from the strainer, rinse them off, & place a few in each bowl of soup. Float a couple of pieces of dried seaweed in the soup too, or if you don't want large pieces, roll up a seaweed sheet & cut it into very thin strips using a clean pair of kitchen scissors.
Is there a alternative (non-microwave) way to cook the dashi powder and mushrooms?
Yep! Simply pour four cups of water into the pot along with the dashi and mushrooms. Make sure the dashi gets dissolved and the mushrooms get reconstituted. Looking at this recipe now, putting all of the ingredients directly into the pot is much easier and straightforward. I guess I was trying to keep the five flavor ingredients distinct. But yeah, totally just put the ingredients in the pot and skip the microwave. Good question!
Can I leave out the seaweed (I plan on making the seaweed noddles for this soup. I just don't want the seaweed to be overpowering)? I know the soup will probably not taste the same without it, but will it still be good without the seaweed?
It'll be fine without the seaweed, but having the seaweed noodles as well won't make the seaweed flavor overwhelming; unless you're very sensitive to that particular flavor.
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Maria Papanagiotaki and Aristotle Skalizos, part of Greece's young professional class. They have been dating for more than two years but have different views on whether to stay in Greece or leave for opportunities elsewhere.
Marios- Aristotle Koulouris and Nick Skalizos both want to leave Greece and study abroad. But they also feel the pull of family and loyalty to their country, and want to help bring their homeland out of its crisis.
Christina Psarra, who works in policy at humanitarian organization Doctors of the World, studied at the London School of Economics but returned to Greece, she says, to feed her heart rather than mind.
George Stathopoulos, an investment banker, studied in London but returned to Greece, which he believes has the potential to use the crisis as an opportunity to create a vibrant European economy.
Athens (CNN) -- Wandering through central Athens' Syntagma Square, Maria Papanagiotaki and Aristotle Skalizos stop to perch on a sun-soaked bench as they consider their future.
The couple, who have been dating for two-and-a-half years, belong to Greece's post-junta generation, growing up as the country emerged into its modern democracy.
As Greece's turbulent history faded into its past, the country's political landscape remained fraught with nepotism and mismanagement.
Read more: Is Greek democracy regressing?
But the boom times had begun. Greece entered the euro in 2001, and ex-pat money flooded back into the country.
It hosted the Olympic Games in 2004, swelling the country with pride.
But by 2009 -- when the country admitted its deficit was out of control -- the financial mirage evaporated. Maria, 34, and 25-year old Aristotle's generation was caught in the fallout.
The couple belong to a young professional class that will help shape their country's future. Together, they must decide if they are willing to live through -- and help alleviate -- Greece's pain.
Their views differ dramatically, and it weighs on their relationship.
A few meters away from where Maria, an electronic mobile technician, and Aristotle, an electronics tester, chat, a man stumbles to his knees, dropping a begging cup. Grasping for it as it rolls away, he ends up splayed on the ground.
It's a disturbing sight, but one which has become increasingly common in Athens since austerity measures began to bite.
Greece's poverty, suicide and crime rates have increased alongside unemployment and emigration.
It is this environment Maria wants to leave. She dreams of life outside of Greece, in the UK or the U.S., where she has relatives. "I have to go," she says. "I have to leave from here."
Aristotle wants to remain. "I want to stay and fight," he says. "I don't want to abandon my country."
His reasoning is clear: "I love my country."
Maria and Aristotle began dating after meeting at their workplace, a Germany-based telecommunications company. The relationship blossomed after, in Maria's words, "he saw me there, we became friends, he was trying to approach me in any [way]... and finally after eight months we were together."
They moved in together, but say their financial situation has become increasingly difficult as the crisis has unfolded. Each has taken a significant cut in pay since April, in part because both have seen their work week reduced to four days a week.
They now earn â¬1,160 ($1,415) a month between them, down from â¬1,480 ($1,805) two years ago.
They pay â¬300 ($366) in rent and around â¬65 ($79) a week in groceries, but face extra costs because of the crisis. Since Aristotle's father's sculpture business went bankrupt in the recession, the young couple must also help his parents get by, he says.
Neither voted in the June 17 elections, because they could not spare the cash to return to their home villages -- â¬15 ($18) for Maria, and â¬40 ($48) for Aristotle -- to vote.
Pro-austerity package party New Democracy won the election, despite soaring support for the radical left Syriza party.
I have to go, I have to leave from here.
Alexis Tsipras, who heads Syriza, is, like Maria, is in his 30s. Tsipras's vociferous rejection of Europe's austerity-driven demands for Greece appealed to discontented youth, with the party capturing 33% of 18 to 34-year-olds, compared to 20% for New Democracy.
The surge is all the more dramatic given that Greeks, born in a country where family loyalty is embedded deep in the national psyche, usually vote the way of their forebears.
Maria, for one, would have fallen behind her parents and voted New Democracy. The party now leads a fragile coalition, but that provides no comfort for Maria.
Greece's new government is now renegotiating its bailout package, but there is no guarantee the country will emerge from years of recession. And the country could lose people like Maria and Aristotle overseas, while those with less hope could give in to despair.
More than 50% of working age Greeks under 26 are without a job. Those just entering the workforce are particularly hard-hit, with 2011 figures from Eurostat showing 56% unemployment among those aged 15 to 19. Around one in four workers under 39 years old are unemployed.
Eurostat figures show the extent of the exodus of young workers fleeing Greece's crisis. In 2010, almost 2.5% of those in their mid-to-late 20s left the country, while around 2% of those aged 30 to 34 emigrated.
Those choosing to leave must struggle against the desire to stay and help their family, and overcome a deep loyalty to a country which has suffered under civil war, dictatorship, and foreign rule under Germany, now its main paymaster.
Those entering the workforce carry a cultural weight of responsibility to family. Aristotle's 19-year-old brother, Nick, a student, wants to move to the Netherlands to study fine arts. Holland attracts him because of its place in art history, and the "country and the color of the sky are beautiful," he says. But any money he earns -- after he's made enough to get by -- will be sent back to Greece, to help his family.
Marios-Aristotle Koulouris, a 23-year-old soldier, also wants to go abroad, and study political science. But he wants to return, to break his generation's "consciousness of dependency."
Greece, he believes, needs to "rise up and develop its own power, to protect our people's benefits. Economically and politically, we need to rise up."
The country's next generation needs to be taught the value of productivity, he believes. The crisis represents a chance "to change people's minds.... to abolish the mentality of dependency."
Some of those who have left Greece have already returned in an effort to help the country they love.
Christina Psarra, a 27-year-old who works in policy at humanitarian organization Doctors of the World studied at the London School of Economics, while George Stathopoulos, a 33-year-old investment banker studied at Middlesex University.
Although their educations opened a world of possibility, both opted to forgo careers abroad to return to Athens.
Christina says when her studies in London were coming to an end last year, she knew it was time to "feed my heart not my mind."
Christina and George describe Greece as a country where one always cooks extra food in preparation for a guest, where a feisty debate over sport will end with friendly drink, and where parents maintain close contact with children after they leave home.
But this often idyllic country today finds itself immersed in anger and fear. And Christina, who is passionate about helping the vulnerable and now works with drug addicts, says she doesn't know which is more dangerous.
"I'm afraid for other people and myself," she says.
With the option to work overseas, she believes she may be forced to leave, due to Greece's lack of opportunities. "I have the chance, I have the choice to decide to live abroad. If I am forced to do it, I can do it," she says.
George believes the country can -- should it follow the example of others, such as Turkey -- restructure itself into a viable European economy. The revelations of its financial irresponsibility, which led the spiral into bailout, were akin to the country being caught "skinny-dipping" when the tide went out, he says.
George wants to see the country's red-tape unraveled to allow investment into its promising industries such as tourism and shipping. The problems for Greece are structural, he says, and that can be a "glass half full ...you can see that as an opportunity. [If] you realize you have a problem, you can transform how you do business."
The way he sees it: "The game is not lost but we are two goals behind."
Marios-Aristotle also sees opportunity in Greece's future, and he is not afraid of the pain that may still come. "My country [during] its history has passed many greater disasters. So I am not afraid."
For Aristotle, there is one answer to a difficult question. It goes against his wishes but he will put his relationship with Maria ahead of his country. "I love [Maria], and I will follow her. I will sacrifice," he says.
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A year ago, if you were to ask me to name my favorite form of exercise, I would have said running without missing a beat. I started running in high school, continuing the sport throughout college and in the years that followed. It’s hard to say exactly how I acquired an interest in running—I was never involved in sports as a child, only ballet—and it felt like a slightly disjointed transition to such a cardio-heavy activity.
Still, there were a lot of things that attracted me to running: its goal-oriented and competitive nature, its accessibility, the dull monotony of placing one foot in front of the other. There were also a lot of things that I loathed about it, such as the endurance aspect. Running was, above all, a form of escapism, not only from the stress of day-to-day life, but also from myself.
I started to run around the same time that I developed a tenuous relationship with food, and as is the case with others who have eating disorders, exercise became a way for me to exert control over my body in ways that I was unable to do with food. Every morning was a chance to burn calories, a chance to slough off the fat on my thighs and stomach. I prided myself in my ability to disguise obsession with a strong-willed asceticism.
When I started to attend yoga classes, they were more of a supplement than a replacement to running. It’s hard to ignore the spoken benefits of yoga, but I wasn’t quite ready to relinquish my reliable cardio workout. Then, this past spring, I woke before dawn ready to hit the pavement when I had this sudden realization: I didn’t want to run anymore. Running was my burden, a burden that cohered with an illness…an illness I desperately wanted to overcome.
Still wanting to find a way to exercise, I started to attend more and more yoga classes. I was shocked to discover that my weight remained stable without having to sweat outside for an hour. Instead, I found that I was becoming physically (and emotionally) stronger, and at the end of each class I felt a renewed sense of possibility for the practice.
This past year, I started practicing Ashtanga yoga, which is an ancient sequence of postures transmitted by Sri K. Pattahbi Jois, a method that informs many Vinyasa-style classes today. Whereas running allowed me to zone out, Ashtanga gently lays out a path to delve deep inside the self; it’s a moving meditation that also appeals to my former dancer self. It’s challenging in ways that seem impossible, and I love a good challenge. But yoga is tricky in that it requires patience—years and years of consistent practice—to execute any one posture. Running always seemed fairly linear to me; you run a distance, and then you build up stamina to run a longer distance. Not so with yoga, which constantly asks you to overcome your perceived limitations, to gain more strength and flexibility.
Yoga has provided relief to my obsessive compulsive disorder. When I’m practicing, I feel my most authentic. Even though I’m not religious, yoga has instilled in me a spirituality and belief in something grander than myself.
*This isn’t to vilify running, of course. I believe in the benefits of running, and I think it can be a liberating activity for many people. That said, if you’re feeling ambivalent or bored with your morning runs, you may be a great candidate for yoga, especially more athletic forms like Ashtanga.
What about you? Have you ever replaced one form of exercise for another?
I find the two compliment each other perfectly, yoga eases my mind and body, running pumps the blood and gets me out in nature. I don’t do either competively just for enjoyment 🙂 ?
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The states of Arizona and New Mexico are traditionally associated with hot deserts and dry weather. Mountain ranges branching off from the Rockies run south down their length, dividing the two states into distinctive topographical zones. The deserts typically fall to the west and east of the mountains, with more fertile valleys running down their center.
The northeast corner of Arizona contains a large plateau, holding forests and trees amid a high elevation. The elevation climbs the further one heads west, forming a series of mountain ranges. The Grand Canyon lies in the northwest portion of the state amid the mountains. The southwest portion of the state drops away from the mountains, creating the vast deserts for which the state is primarily known. Plan a vacation according to what sort of topography you hope to experience.
New Mexico consists largely of mesas divided by mountain ranges. The eastern side of the state is gently sloping plains, stretching away from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains toward Oklahoma and Texas. The Rio Grande Valley runs down the middle of the mountains and contains the state's biggest city, Albuquerque.
Both Arizona and New Mexico experience extreme temperature variations throughout the year. Temperatures can range upwards of 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer in areas below 5,000 feet. Those numbers drop to an average of 50 degrees in January and February. Temperatures are milder in Arizona’s mountainous regions – ranging from highs of 80 degrees in the summertime to below freezing in the winter. New Mexico’s northeastern plateaus are much the same: topping out in the mid 80s in the summer and ranging down to the 20s and 30s in the winter. Always bring sunscreen and appropriate attire when visiting during the hotter months.
Humidity in both states is extremely low, resulting in comparatively little rainfall throughout the year. The deserts of both states, as well as the Rio Grande and San Juan valleys of New Mexico, experience less than 10 inches of rainfall per year. Higher elevations in New Mexico see over 20 inches of precipitation a year – mostly snowfall in the winter – while Arizona’s high northern mountains experience copious winter storms that create close to 100 inches of snowfall each year. Pack carefully according to the weather.
High temperatures are the biggest danger in New Mexico and Arizona’s desert regions. With little cloud cover and summer temperatures hitting triple digits, death from exposure is a perennial concern. Floods and storms are infrequent, but the topography sometimes facilitates flash floods, which can occur when several inches of rain fall in a short amount of time. New Mexico also experiences frequent thunderstorms, and tornadoes have touched down in the state from time to time. Download a weather app on your phone to keep in touch with the current conditions.
Vaux, Robert. "Climate of New Mexico & Arizona." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/climate-new-mexico-arizona-11630.html. 28 February 2018.
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Run smit mksysb to backup rootvg to tape Start the system to SMS menu, and select the followings in sequence. Main Menu: 5. Select Boot Options Multiboot: 1. Select Install/Boot Device Select Device Type: 2. Tape Select Media Type: 1. SCSI Select Media Adapter: 2. U787E.001.AAA1544-P1-T10... Select Device: 1. - SCSI Tape ... Select Task: 3. Service Mode Boot Type 1 and press ENTER to boot the system from tape... Type 1 and press ENTER to use this termional as the system console. Type 1 and press ENTER to have English during install. Type 3 Start Maintenance Mode for System Recovery Type 1 Access a Root Volume Group Type 0 Continue Type 1 Volume Group ...... contains these disks: ... Type 2 Access this Volume Group and start a shell before mounting filesystems # df -k # fsck -y /dev/hd3 Disclaimer: All the information presented in this document is provided on the basis of as is and is meant for reference purpose only without any expressed or implied warranty. Use of the information and its application in any form is sole discretion and responsibility of the user. The AUTHOR of this document is not responsible for any damage or loss arising out of use of information presented in this document.
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"Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord."
When a lot of people read this, they are shocked that God would do such a thing. They have not been taught about the kind of respect for God and His commands that should ever be present. These priests were in a position of great responsibility, and had God's explicit command regarding the source of their fire (Lev 16:12). But they disregarded His word! We do not know any details about the fire they used, but we know that it was something for which God had not given permission (v1 - "which He had not commanded them").
"And Moses said to Aaron, ‘This is what the Lord spoke, saying: "By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified."' So Aaron held his peace."
Do we glorify God when we do it our way rather than His? No, we glorify ourselves. When He tells us what He wants, we must listen and obey. It is important to see that God did not tell them, "Do not use any other fire." He had told them what He wanted, and expected them to follow His word. The same has always been true of God's revelation to mankind. He reveals what He wants, and we obey. In Nadab and Abihu we learn that God expects us the count His will as holy, and obey in all things.
When David said, "because we did not consult Him about the proper order", he did not mean by prayer. The law had given abundant information on the proper order in carrying the ark (Ex 25:13ff; 37:4f). What he meant was that they did not consult His word; the law given by Moses. This tells us that the problem was acting without proper authority. "God had spoken and we did not obey", is the gist of it. So what do we learn from Uzzah's death? We learn that God means what He says, and we do not have the prerogative to make changes.
We could talk about the offerings of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4. Cain did not offer his sacrifice by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of God (Rom 10:17), so Cain did not obey God's word. The very first recorded sacrifices teach us about the need for authority in our actions. We could also note how Moses was commanded to make everything according to the pattern he had been given on Mount Sinai (Ex 25:9). The author of Hebrews later quoted this (Heb 8:9). A pattern is a guide for producing something in accordance with the specifications established by that pattern. Why establish specifications if mankind has the right to go and change them all?
Authority is not only seen as necessary, but vital. God has always dealt with man through the authority he passes down by revelation. He revelation to us is the New Testament, and we must be diligent to follow it's pattern.
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Why did Bismarck want to exclude Austrian from his new united German Empire, while Hitler wanted to include Austria to his Nazi Germany?
Best Answer: In the late 1800's Austria was a vast empire unto itself and it was a rival of Prussia/Germany, not a friend.
Whereas on the other hand, Hitler was born in Austria and after WW1 the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been broken up and Austria was a small and weak country. Austrians were also a Germanic people and Hitler wanted to unite all Germans into one country under his leadership.
Austria was already included in a major empire, namely the Austro-Hungarian empire. They were Germany's rivals at the time.
Your confused. Hilter didn't include "Austria" he included "land". He had murdered most Austrian.
Bismark? He wasn't a murderer.
Now what's the question? Oh yes. In what way did Bismark or Hitler represent Germany or Germans?
Hilter was a Nazi which is a political party kinda like the Democrats here.
Do you think the united States Democrats and Republicans represent the united States population?
You don't consider either of them 'nazi' parties?
At the time of German unification, Austria was a relatively powerful state. Prussia had defeated them but couldn't bully them into complete submission. Austria was also the head of a multinational empire in Central Europe and the Balkans. These facts put it outside of Prussias interest in a united Germany.
By 1933, when Hitler came to power, Austria was reduced to basically its current borders. Hitler, who wanted to unite all German peoples in one state, saw the exclusion of Austria from intiial German unification as a great mistake. It also mattered that he himself was Austrian, so the Anschluss brought his birth country back within the country which he now ruled.
Because during Bismarck's era, Austria wasn't as weak as it was during Hitler's, so the idea that he could just "include" it was not practical.
Prior to WWI, Austria was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a multi-ethnic nation with a lot of Hungarians, Poles, Czechs and other non German minorities. There was substantial anti-Catholic sentiment in Bismarck's Germany. I'm not sure that was a factor, but it might have been.
After the war, Austria was a rump state, almost entirely German.
Because the Austrian-Hungarian Empire would have been a dominant partner and a strong rival to Prussia.
Hitler, on the other hand, was an Austrian.
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Économie de don Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. L'économie du don est le support profond de l'échange entre les individus, fonde les bases de toute activité sociale, et contribue à la production de norme sociale. Pour les anthropologues, notamment pour Marcel Mauss dans son « Essai sur le don. Pour les économistes comme François Perroux, l'échange peut consister en un « pseudo-don » (le donateur donne pour gagner ultérieurement, dans le cadre d'une offre supposant une obligation de contrepartie immédiate ou différée sous forme de dette ou de prestation) ou un « don pour donner » (je donne sans contrepartie exigée ou attendue explicitement par le donateur). Don et sociétés traditionnelles[modifier | modifier le code] Cette différence de perspective peut expliquer pour une part pourquoi, par exemple, dès les premières rencontres entre Européens et tribus indiennes, s'est jouée une incompréhension entre cultures, qui a pu conduire à la guerre et même à la disparition des Indiens.
World economy The world economy, or global economy, generally refers to the economy, which is based on economies of all of the world's countries' national economies. Also global economy can be seen as the economy of global society and national economies – as economies of local societies, making the global one. It can be evaluated in various kind of ways. It is inseparable from the geography and ecology of Earth, and is therefore something of a misnomer, since, while definitions and representations of the "world economy" vary widely, they must at a minimum exclude any consideration of resources or value based outside of the Earth. It is common to limit questions of the world economy exclusively to human economic activity, and the world economy is typically judged in monetary terms, even in cases in which there is no efficient market to help valuate certain goods or services, or in cases in which a lack of independent research or government cooperation makes establishing figures difficult.
Open Collaboration - The Next Economic Paradigm I’ve dedicated a lot of research over the last few years to understanding the deep trends that will define the next economy. As I’ve written elsewhere, the global economy goes through a creative-destructive cycle every 50 years. And now we’re in the midst of a collapsing paradigm that is soon to be replaced by something new. In this article, I will explain what the new paradigm is and how it will impact every sector of society — including business, government, education, and basic research. This systemic shutdown requires a new paradigm for economic production, one that has been incubating in the minds of lead innovators for several years now and is just beginning to get recognized as the next model for the burgeoning new economy. The new model is the Open Collaboration Paradigm. This graphic provides a schematic representation to show how deeply the shift will go: In a global economy based on open collaboration, we will see a radical departure from old institutional models.
Instaurer une gouvernance écologique avec l’holacratie Rapport de force, pulsions de l’ego, quête de pouvoir, autocratie : voici ce qui domine dans la majorité des groupes (entreprises, associations) de notre société. Pourtant, des modes de gouvernance existent proposant une alternative à cette façon d'être et de faire. Qu'est-ce que l'holacratie ? L'holacratie qui provient des mots grecs « holos » désignant « une entité qui est à la fois un tout et une partie d’un tout » et de « kratos » signifiant « pouvoir ». Il s’agit donc de donner le pouvoir de gouvernance à l’organisation elle-même plutôt qu’aux egos de ses membres. En effet, l’holacratie est un système de gouvernance qui s’appuie sur des principes innovants et opérationnels pour permettre de faire émerger l’essence, la capacité d’innovation et le potentiel collectif de l’organisation en la libérant des peurs et des ambitions individuelles. Quel impact sur le territoire ? Instaurer l'holacratie dans une organisation permet de : Comment instaurer l'holacratie en organisation ? 1. 3.
New Rules for the New Economy 1) Embrace the Swarm. As power flows away from the center, the competitive advantage belongs to those who learn how to embrace decentralized points of control. 2) Increasing Returns. As the number of connections between people and things add up, the consequences of those connections multiply out even faster, so that initial successes aren't self-limiting, but self-feeding. 3) Plentitude, Not Scarcity. 4) Follow the Free. 5) Feed the Web First. 6) Let Go at the Top. 7) From Places to Spaces. 8) No Harmony, All Flux. 9) Relationship Tech. 10) Opportunities Before Efficiencies. ...disequilibrium, fragmentation, uncertainty, churn, and relativism, the anchors of meaning and value are in short supply. In the great vacuum of meaning, in the silence of unspoken values, in the vacancy of something large to stand for, something bigger than oneself, technology--for better or worse--will shape our society. Because values and meaning are scarce today, technology will make our decisions for us.
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This charter, one of many in the collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, created the Boston Council, Princes of Jerusalem, on March 11, 1863. While the Boston Council was successful, it existed for less than a decade. Why is that?
In 1871, just eight years after they were founded, the Boston Council united with the Giles F. Yates Council, also of Boston. Members of the Boston Council were received as full members and the charter seen here was surrendered. The years immediately following the "Union of 1867" - which united two previously competing Supreme Councils in the Northeast, and forming the present-day Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction - saw the consolidation of a number of subordinate bodies as the harmony that came with the union also brought with it the existence of multiple subordinate bodies in close proximity. This was especially true in cities such as Boston, where both previously competing Scottish Rite organizations flourished.
The charter is signed by both Winslow Lewis (1799-1875), in his capacity of Secretary General for the Supreme Council, and Killian H. Van Rensselaer (1800–1881), in his capacity as Sovereign Grand Commander.
Among the founding members listed on the charter is Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (1810-1874), who served as Mayor of Boston from 1868-1870, and who was an early trustee of Boston Public Library.
The charter contains a vibrant, red wax seal (at right - click on the image for greater detail), which reads Supreme Council XXXIII - Deus Meumque Jus [a Latin phrase which is the motto of the Scottish Rite's 33rd degree and which translates to "God and My Right"]. In the center is the familiar image of the double-headed eagle, below which is the latitude coordinate 42° 21' 22", which refers to the Van Rensselaer-led Supreme Council's "Grand East" being in Boston, Massachusetts.
Charter, Boston Council, Princes of Jerusalem, 1863. Signed by Killian H. van Rensselaer, Boston, Massachusetts. Collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, SC 038. Photograph by David Bohl.
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/ Should playing feel good?
When I play the piano, I strive to make it feel good. It is no fun for me to feel like I am struggling with my body while trying to play, and the music that results from that struggle is not something I would enjoy listening to.
Feeling good has practical benefits: All else being equal, we want to be in a state where things feel better. When we are not in pain, and not stressed out, we are better able to pay attention, better able to learn, and more likely to be motivated to practice. This does not mean that the good feelings are what lead to improvement, but rather that they are a useful prerequisite for what does lead to improvement.
Feelings point us to what we might be ignoring: Our senses provide us with valuable information which we need in order to learn. The more we pay attention to all of the varied aspects of our playing (how it feels, how it sounds, how it looks, etc.), the better we learn to discriminate between subtle differences. You want to notice what is actually happening, not just what you think should be happening.
Properly calibrated feelings are a useful guide: In the long run, we actually do want good feelings to teach us what to do. We want the right way to simply “feel right”. So, if we can sense pain and tension as we are playing, and learn to notice the difference between how things feel when they are “correct” and when they are “incorrect”, we can find ways of playing which are both correct and which feel good, as the feelings themselves will reward us for playing correctly. Over time, this will train our intuition, and we will naturally gravitate toward playing correctly and easily.
To sum up: Learn the difference between what feels good and what feels bad.
So, is tension good or bad?
Increased awareness leads to more discomfort: As you develop more awareness, things which used to feel good or neutral may start to feel bad. This doesn’t even necessarily mean you are doing anything different, only that you are noticing feelings you never noticed before. It is a sign of progress, but it can lead you to believe that you are doing the wrong thing, and you may even abandon whatever approach led you to this awareness, which is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Growth requires leaving your comfort zone: If you assume that bad feelings mean you are going in the wrong direction, you may avoid territory which you need to confront in order to progress. In order to learn, you have to go outside of your comfort zone. Often, because we feel anxious or uncertain about our playing, we may tense up. If we don’t realize the psychological origin of the tension, we may end up blaming our technique.
You might be jumping to conclusions: You may not be correct as to the cause of the feelings. This can cause you to change your approach prematurely. For example, you may believe that tension is caused by the way you are sitting, when actually it is caused by the fact that you aren’t feeling a steady beat as you play.
In this light, I would say it is often best to observe tension without trying to eliminate it, at least until you have a clear idea of what will actually eliminate it.
Is pain always a sign of injury or potential injury?
My guess is that yes, pain probably means you are doing something wrong, which will probably lead to negative consequences down the road, if you keep doing it.
However, I also believe that pain at the piano is rarely an emergency. If you feel pain, what are you going to do about it? You may ask a teacher what to do, but what if the teacher can’t give you an answer which allows you to play without pain?
If you feel pain, do not try to push through it. There is no sense in that. Instead, bring an attitude of curiosity to it, without trying to make it go away, and see how many different aspects of it you can observe.
When does it happen? When doesn’t it happen?
Where do I feel it? Where don’t I feel it?
What else do I feel along with the pain?
Does it have a shape? A texture?
The point is not to arrive at “correct” answers to these questions. You may not know the answers, or the answers may seem to change. The point is to ask the questions, because they will get you to pay attention to what’s actually going on, and in the process you may learn something.
If you feel pressure to perform well (for a competition, audition, etc.), this will almost certainly interfere with your attempts to practice awareness. If you can’t look at your pain with an attitude of open curiosity, you should probably back off.
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How to start with anything?
Start new things is easy. You just... start doing something, right? Wrong!
(1) Ideating, i.e. the time when we collect ideas and brainstorm rapidly. You could call it the "green thinking phase". That's when the ideas are born, and we allow ourselves to think about all the good outcomes and possibilities, without paying attention to the plausibility, difficulty, nor costs.
(2) Research phase is more strict, since it's the time to evaluate ideas, find out the requirements, asses risks, and score our ideas based on the real world factors like: cost, difficulty, required time, legal framework. Many ideas won't survive this phase.
(3) Planning is the time for strategical thinking: every idea should be estimated, and ordered in the general plan of action. It's no time for phrases like sometimes—every idea must be split into tasks, and each task must be an actionable item: collect documentation, create template for something, write test for particular feature, are all good actionable tasks.
(4) Execution is the doing time—either by going one by one, or strategically clustering tasks, it's the phase when ideas are executed. The more attention and care were paid during the previous phases, the easier execution will be: obvious mistakes can be avoided, as well as potential surprises, and unaccounted workload will be easier to tackle.
These 4 phases are how you can start with anything, from doing a breakfast, to creating new international companies: ideate, research, plan, execute!
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There are several main home staging considerations to think about before deciding how to go about preparing your house for the open real estate market using specialized property enhancing techniques. Home staging is the most targeted form of real estate marketing, since it seeks to create an atmosphere of universal appeal inside and outside the home, in order to psychologically endear the property to all potential buyers.
There are three distinct approaches to home staging and each has its pros and cons. This essay will assist residential property sellers to decide which method of staging will work best for their particular needs and budget.
Full service home staging is the most common option for property sellers and rental management companies. In this scenario, a professional home stager will do everything to get the home looking and feeling fantastic to welcome prospective buyers or renters.
Full service staging puts the complete responsibility of aesthetic improvement into expert hands. The stager will design a staging plan and implement it using personalized combination of existing décor items, rental furniture and art provided simply to improve the look, feel and flow of the residence.
This professional approach is the easiest for most home owners, but is also the most expensive. Additionally, the upheaval in the residence can be great, so this approach can be problematic for some sellers who are occupying the home while it is up for sale. This is particularly true for families with pets and small children, since the décor brought in must not be damaged or the homeowner may be liable for repair or replacement costs.
Complete do-it-yourself home staging is also popular. This approach is intimidating to many home owners, but is not as difficult as it sounds. Actually implementing a well-designed staging plan is not too hard and can be done by virtually anyone. However, the aspect of DIY which is very challenging to accomplish is the actual design which needs to be created in the home. There is simply no substitute for professional design talents and skills.
Many home owners are overwhelmed by the planning phase alone and never make it to the actual execution, since they simply do not know where to begin or what changes will look appealing to the eye.
Complete DIY is great for people with a knack for design and some brawn to implement the changes in the home which must be accomplished. The biggest benefits of DIY staging are the ultra low cost and incredible flexibility.
I often recommend a compromise approach to most home owners who are not sure which way to go using the above options. I advise considering the idea of hiring a home staging consultant to provide the design inspiration and planning, and then allowing the homeowner to implement the staging plan themselves, in order to save lots of money. This compromise technique has proven itself to be a fantastic middle ground for many sellers and is also the basis of my own business model.
I do not recommend this approach for all, but it is a perfect solution for most families who want to improve their homes prior to marketing, but can not get involved with the many limitations of full service staging. The benefits include a fantastic final aesthetic, due to the professional design assistance, and a low cost, since the fee for a consultant is typically far lower than the full service approach.
To get advice on staging your home or commercial property, feel free to contact me anytime or read my book for targeted step-by-step directions that are ideal for DIYers.
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Personalize this Email to sourced health professionals email template to send important emails to candidates, and keep them engaged.
Use this template to write a personalized email to health professionals. When writing these cold emails to health professionals, make sure that they are interesting, appealing and written in a tone that reflects your company’s culture and values. The more interesting, the higher the chances for recipients to answer your email.
How to send emails to sourced health professionals?
We are looking to hire a new [Job_title] to help our [clinic/hospital] deliver the best patient treatment and experience possible.
Based on what I found out about you, I am sure that you can help us achieve that, and we would love to have you in our team.
I’ve been really impressed with your work and experience at [Current_Company]. We have a similar approach to medical treatment and patient care. That being said, I think you could be a perfect fit!
I’d love to jump on a quick call and tell you more about our company, this position and all the benefits that come with it.
Do you have time on [Day] at [Time] for a [meeting/call]?
Looking for high-quality healthcare candidates?
Also, check out our guide for Recruiting and Hiring in the Healthcare Industry!
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This table contains data behind the story The Mayweather-McGregor Fight As Told Through Emojis.
tweets.csv contains 12,118 tweets that contain one or more emojis and match one or more of the following hashtags: #MayMac, #MayweatherMcGregor, #MayweatherVMcGregor, #MayweatherVsMcGregor, #McGregor and #Mayweather. Data was collected on August 27, 2017 between 12:05 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. EDT using the Twitter streaming API.
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Dream up a situation that a precious statue from king’s palace has been stolen and kept in a place outside the kingdom. King ordered you to get back the stolen statue. But this is not going to be easier, as you need to recover back the statue before the thieves come back to the castle. This could be possible only if you have determination to find it. It is sure that you will succeed by finding the necessary objects and solving the puzzles.
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Given a training set of images and a binary classifier,we introduce the notion of an exaggerated image stereotype forsome image class of interest, which emphasizes/exaggerates thecharacteristic patterns in an image and visualizes which visualinformation the classification relies on. This is useful for gaininginsight into the classification mechanism. The exaggerated imagestereotypes results in a proper trade-off between classificationaccuracy and likelihood of being generated from the class ofinterest. This is done by optimizing an objective function whichconsists of a discriminative term based on the classificationresult, and a generative term based on the assumption ofthe class distribution. We use this idea with Fisher’s LinearDiscriminant rule, and assume a multivariate normal distributionfor samples within a class. The proposed framework has beenapplied on handwritten digit data, illustrating specific featuresdifferentiating digits. Then it is applied to a face dataset usingActive Appearance Model (AAM), where male faces stereotypesare evolved from initial female faces.
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What does Holistic mean? Holistic is an adjective which describes the treatment of a person as a whole taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just physical.
Massage aids in the process of the body naturally healing injuries. It relieves pain associated to both physical predicaments such as sports injuries, car accidents, overexertion muscles due to daily activities. It also diminishes psychological ills such as stress, anxiety, depression, pre-menstrual syndrome, postpartum depression, post traumatic stress, and insomnia. It improves circulation which aids in management of high blood pressure, edema (water retention), and diabetic difficulties.
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Prepare quinoa according to package directions. While quinoa is cooking, chop the broccoli and shallots, I left the shallot in rings, and steam together for 5-7 minutes until tender. Chop the almonds and combine all the salad ingredients.
To make the vinaigrette, use a blender or food processor. (You can also whisk the ingredients together but it comes out creamier blended). Crush and mince the garlic. Combine the oil, lemon juice, garlic, and seasonings in the food processor, and puree the mixture until creamy. Add this vinaigrette to the quinoa and broccoli salad and enjoy hot or let it chill in the fridge for a few hours or overnight if you prefer a cold salad.
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Planning your first trip to Europe can be a daunting experience, as there are so many countries and cities that you could possibly visit, and you only have a limited time frame, such as a month. Many people end up taking a Europe tour, which does mean you’ll get to see a lot and not have to do the organising.
What are your own personal preferences? Do you like art? History? Sports? Beaches? Hiking?
What time of year will you be going? Winter is very different to Summer, and there’re many places that completely shut down outside of the summer season.
How would you prefer to travel around? By train, plane, bus or driving? Each option has different pros and cons: with trains you generally arrive in the centre of a city and skip on security procedures, with planes you can more easily cover longer distances, whilst buses are the cheapest and driving is the most flexible.
My suggestion if you are travelling for about 30 days would be to firstly choose about 10 different places to go to. Most of these should be no further apart that around 4 hours if you are travelling by train or 2 hours if you are flying.
Then plan to spend 2-4 nights in each place, perhaps longer in some destinations. If some destinations are close together and fairly small, it’s possible to just stay a night in some places, but I find that for a long trip it gets very tiring moving hotels every day, and I would try to limit this. I prefer to spend at least 2 nights in most places, to allow time to properly experience it, plus to include some longer stays to give you a break at least once or twice during the trip.
Based on what are the most popular destinations in Europe plus also my first trip to Europe, the itinerary below is ideal for 30 nights.
One extra tip to keep in mind: even if most of your trip is independent, it still might be good to go for an organised tour for part of it. A cruise in Croatia or the Greek islands is a fun way to kick back and relax for part of your trip!
Rome (3 nights): In the External City, spend one day exploring the ancient sites, including the ruins of the Forum, the Colosseum and the Pantheon, and another day exploring the Vatican City, including St Peter’s and the Vatican Museum with the Sistine Chapel.
Florence (2 nights): Travel 1 1/2 hours north by train to the capital of Tuscany, to visit the Uffizi Gallery, the Cathedral and the statue of David.
Venice (2 nights): Travel a further 2 hours north to wander through this city built on water, and perhaps take a gondola.
Lyon or Côte d’Azur (3 nights): Either fly or spend all day on a train or bus to reach the south of France. Lyon is France’s 2nd largest city and its gourmet capital, whilst the beaches and hedonistic lifestyle of the Côte d’Azur are reknown.
Paris (6 nights): A high speed train to Paris will only take 4 hours. Visit the Eiffel Tour, Arc de Triomphe, Louve and Musée d’Orsay, Notre Dame de Paris and Sacré-Coeur. Then take day trips to the palace and gardens of Versaille, the castles and vineyards in the Loire Valley and the famous Champagne region.
Rhine River Valley (2 nights): Running through western Germany, the most scenic part of the Rhine River is the Gorge section located between Koblenz and Rüdesheim, just north of Mainz. Stay in one of these towns or cities and spend the day on a cruise. Alternatively, visit Cologne and its famous cathedral to the north. A train will take about 4 hours.
Berlin (5 nights): Take another train (about 4 hours) or fly to Berlin and explore the once-divided city. Don’t miss the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag (parliament) building, the remnants of the Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Holocaust Memorial, and . Take a day trip to the former concentration camp at Dachau or the palaces of Potsdam.
London (5 nights): Fly across the Channel to London. Visit Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St Peter’s and the excellent museums. Take a day trip to Bath or Stonehenge.
Looking for the ideal backpack for your trip? Check out the best travel backpacks, no matter what’s your style!
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Advante Cool Mist Air humidifier helps keep air hydrated effectively to promote a feeling of comfort.
It relieves and prevents conditions like dry skin, sinus, dry throat and sore eyes especially in air-conditioned environment.
The humidifying process also helps enhance air quality in your house by letting out trapped, polluted air and replaces it with fresh air. The improved atmosphere and air quality at home helps moisturize the respiratory system, which is beneficial for asthma sufferers.
Static electricity occurs when the air is dry, thus resulting shocks being received when touching people or certain objects. The humidifier emits moisture into the air to increase humidity and reduces static electricity.
Besides humidifying the air, Cool Mist Air Humidifier also comes with colour changing mood light. Its soft and low lighting patterns create a sense of warmth and relaxing effects when used in a darkened room.
Humidity is very important. Your body requires a certain level of moisture in the air to function properly. When you breathe dry air, like in air-conditioned rooms, your body has to use more of it's own water to add humidity to the air you are breathing, in order to have the air saturated with enough water.
If you are always breathing dry air your body losses more of its water to try and combat the incoming dry air. This can lead to dehydration and can exacerbate respiratory conditions. Your skin also requires humid air to avoid drying out.
- To fill, remove the tank and turn upside down. Unscrew the cover of the tank and fill with clean, cold water.
- Secure the cover onto the tank; wipe with a dry cloth, and replace the water tank on the base unit.
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Elite Exteriors is the best. They have put new siding on my house, new roofing, a new patio door, a large kitchen window, and new gutters. I worked with Gordon on most of these jobs, and he was great. They have an awesome response time and are very knowledgeable and friendly. The prices are great for the product and workmanship value. If I need any work done that is a service provided by Elite Exteriors, I will always use them.
We had Elite Exteriors install 11 new windows, 2 sliding patio doors and a front door on our house. The experience was great all the way from the initial quote through completion. Elite has earned customers for life and we will absolutely recommend them to anyone needing window work completed on their house. A few ways they went above and beyond: 1. The owner Rich was part of the entire process including the initial quote and stopped by numerous times to check on progress and talk us through the process. 2. My wife was home on maternity leave with our daughter throughout the install. The crew was respectful and scheduled their work to maximize her privacy. This was done without us asking. 3. We had multiple issues due to some shoddy craftsmanship by the previous owner. Elite offered solutions that were inexpensive (mostly free!) and correct. They didn't seem discouraged or frustrated about having to come out additional days, in fact they seemed happy to help us solve the issues. 4. During the quote Rich pointed out an obvious flaw with our back door that would solve our problem and save us from having to replace it. This saved me a bunch of money as I was able to fix it in about 30 seconds. I don't want to make this review much longer so I'll summarize by saying that if you need new windows, you should go with Elite Exteriors. You will be thoroughly happy with the experience.
We had them come out to inspect for siding damage and he was very honest and didn’t try to sell us on anything that wasn’t necessary. We ended up not needing any work done, but based on how professional and honest he was we will refer this company to anyone needing this type of work done.
They did a great job on the house. The workmanship was as good as I hoped. Siding-great, caulking - great, painting-great. The neighbors have even complimented the work. A couple small glitches unrelated to the house but nothing that couldn't have happened with anyone else. I would recommend them. I don't give 5 stars to anyone so they get 4+.
Best customer service around. Very prompt at taking care of your needs.
They did my siding. Very happy with the results.
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Looking for someone to help me with my manuscript. Need someone who can go over it and, tell me what needs to be changed.
I'm new at this and, my writing skills are not the best.
Rose, you don't say what sort of book you're writing. Are you writing a novel, a book of non-fiction, an autobiography? Also, are you hoping to find a publisher at some point, or do you plan to self-publish? Are you looking to writing as a career or as a hobby to write for family and friends? Also, are you looking for paid, professional instruction, or do you want to learn on your own and get free feedback from others in the same position?
If you provide me with a little more information, I can make some suggestions.
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If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up environmental disasters, it is better to spend them on unglamorous but _________ problems such as unsanitary water in Third World countries.
The blank calls for words that characterize the types of environmental problems worth spending large sums on. Among the choices are two sets of near synonyms: “ephemeral/transitory” and “pressing/critical.” Of these two pairings, only the latter makes sense in the context of the rest of the sentence—it would be unlikely for anyone to advocate spending large sums on problems that will be quickly gone without any intervention, as “ephemeral” and “transitory” imply, nor would unsanitary water likely be characterized as a merely temporary dilemma. Of the other two options, neither “futile” nor “controversial” has a synonym among the answer choices, so they can be ruled out on that account; in addition, neither would be used to justify the expenditure of large sums of money. Thus the correct answer is pressing (Choice C) and critical (Choice F).
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Proper clothing and wading gear is extremely important to successful fishing. Without the proper clothes and gear, a fishing trip can be made less successful or you may become injured during the trip. Here are a few basic tips on what to wear when you go out wade fishing.
1) Species of fish like trout or muskies flee at the slightest movement or flash of color. When wading for these fish, the best thing to do is to blend in with your surroundings by wearing drab colors like blue or light brown.
2) Always remember to dress for the weather. In cold weather dress in synthetic materials or wool. In hot weather wear thin light clothes and bring sunscreen.
3) Polarized sunglasses are a must. Not only do they protect your eyes from the sun and the glare of the water, but they also protect your eyes from lose hooks. For an overcast day or later on in the day it is best to use sunglasses with an amber tint. Make sure they also block UV rays so your eyes are extra protected.
4) Make sure you also wear a hat. The most popular are baseball hats but these have no back flap. A back flap will protect your neck from sun and hooks. A full brimmed hat will also protect you from the rain. Having a hat reduces glare and makes it easier to spot fish.
5) Always make sure you carry rain gear on you, especially if the local weather reports are calling for rain. The best materials are lightweight and breathable but are quite expensive. Even rubber rain is suitable enough; it will keep you warm and dry and is inexpensive.
6) A good fishing vest is a must have. Make sure it is lightweight, yet large enough to fit over a sweater and carry an assortment of small gear. Make sure the vest comes with a lot of pockets in small sizes and that these pockets either zip up (preferable) or have Velcro.
Your actual choice of wading gear depends on how deep you are planning to fish and the temperature of the water you are going to be fishing in. Also, wading gear is dependent on how much traction you need. What ever gear you end up choosing, make sure it fits well, keeps dry and allows you to move comfortably.
Wading gear comes in two basic types: hip boots and chest waders. Hip boots are best for shallow water fishing, anywhere where the water will not reach your mid-thigh. Chest waders are best for deep water fishing where the water will go past your hips. Both come in boot-foot and stocking-foot styles and are available in many different materials.
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While many of us enjoy dining out without regard to specific ingredients or restrictions, many others must navigate menus with caution, careful to avoid any potential dangers. Those could be in the form of dietary restrictions, food allergies or religious restrictions. I recommend a few area restaurants to folks visiting to help accommodate these needs.
Dietary Restrictions: This includes folks who are vegetarian (ovo-eggs, lacto-dairy, lacto-ovo-eggs and dairy), vegan, pescatarian and raw vegan.
Ali Baba's - Ali Baba's offers vegetarian items, including veggie dolmas, tabbouleh, baba ghannouj, tahini, falafel pita, falafel platter and hummus.
Black Bear Burritos - Black Bear not only accommodates vegetarian options, but it integrates them right into their meals. You'll often see a burrito that offers chicken and bacon, and they easily sub it out for "tofu and fakin'." They also have garden tofu chili, a TLT (tofu, lettuce tomato), and the "Cherise," which is their vegetarian version of the reuben with tofu and carrots in place of the turkey. They have a dedicated grill for vegetarian food.
Blue Moose Cafe - Blue Moose Cafe offers primarily all-natural, vegetarian meals in addition to lots of coffee drinks. Their menu items include bagels, gazpacho, fruit salad, granola bowls, hummus plates, hummus wraps and salads.
Chaang Thai - Chaang Thai has a specific section addressing both vegetarian and vegan concerns. All of their curry dishes are 100 percent vegetarian. Any item ordered with the vegetarian version will have tofu. Most items can be made vegetarian, but ask for no egg, no fish sauce and no main sauce (contains oyster sauce). Curries would be vegan if asked for the vegetarian version so there's no coconut milk. Also, some vegan appetizers are available, but some sauces have fish/oyster sauce in them so check with the waiter.
Clutch Wings - Clutch Wings offers tofu wings. You can get them in all the same sauces that the regular and boneless wings are offered in, which include buffalo, old bay, pb&j, sweet chili and mango habanero.
Eat'n Park - Eat'n Park has a vegetarian menu, which includes fried appetizer items, breakfast items, gardenburger, grilled cheese, and salads.
Los Mariachis - Los Mariachis has a vegetarian menu, which includes bean burritos, spinach enchiladas, potato burritos, chalupas, and quesadillas.
Mother India - Mother India offers vegetarian dishes, including channa masala, paneer and vegetable korma. All spices used are natural. There are rice-based dishes that can be made without the meat components.
Real Juice Bar and Cafe - The Real Juice Bar offers non-GMO and organic options and fresh juice and smoothies. They offer a number of house-made items like bagels, nut mylks, chia fruit spreads, protein bombs and roast coffee.
Saffron - Vegetarian items are available, such as channa masala, vegetable kurma, paneer tikka masala, kadai paneer, dal makhni, baingan bharta, malai kofta, yellow dal, bhindi masala, mutter paneer, vegetable jalfrezi, channa saag, palak panner/aloo, krahi aloo gobi and shahi paneer.
Taziki's - Taziki's offers a vegetarian menu, which includes hummus, greek salad, basmati rice, hummus, greek salad gyro, pasta salad, spicy pimento cheese, dolmades, grilled veggie gyro, and more.
Terra Cafe - Terra Cafe has a vegetarian-friendly menu with multiple options catering to the vegetarian crowd. For example, they offer a black bean burger served on toasted pita with lettuce, tomato, avocado, hot sauce and cilantro-lime creme fraiche. They also have a thai peanut wrap that can be served with tofu, a veggie reuben and many salad options, including a quinoa and lentil chop.
Food Allergies: This includes folks who have an allergen to items, such as peanut, dairy, egg, wheat, gluten, soy, fish and shellfish.
Chaang Thai - Chaang Thai has a number of gluten-free options, including fresh rolls, chicken wings, pad thai, stir fry, and desserts.
Eat'n Park - Eat'n Park has a special menu for Celiac Disease.
Terra Cafe - Terra Cafe has gluten-free bread available for all their sandwiches.
Religious Restrictions: This includes folks who avoid certain foods for religious reasons. For example, this includes Catholics who avoid meat on Fridays of Advent and on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. It also includes Muslims, who avoid pork, and the Jewish, who follow a kosher diet.
Gulf Grocery - Halal meat is available.
Jasmine Grill - Halal meat is available.
Kassar's Food & Gifts - Halal meat is available.
Saffron - Saffron serves 100 percent halal meat and gluten-free food.
Other: There are a few smaller shops or businesses that cater to special dietary needs.
Mountain People's Co-Op - This shop offers natural, organic, fair trade and local grocery items, and healthcare products.
Venerable Bean - This vegan baking company offers sweet treats and tasty eats; everything from mini cakes, cookies and "pepperoni rolls." Gluten-free options are always available.
Sunflowers - This shop offers diet- and health-related items.
DISCLAIMER: Of course, it's always important to talk with your individual server or peak with a manager beforehand to make sure there is a dedicated grill to avoid any cross-contamination. In addition, many chain restaurants list entire nutrient and allergen information for every menu item.
If you have any restaurants to add or comments, please let me know! I'd love to have an evolving list to use as a resource.
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The Apollo Lunar Module, or simply lunar module (LM, pronounced "Lem"), originally designated the lunar excursion module (LEM), was the spacecraft which was flown to and landed on the Moon. The lander spacecraft were built for the US Apollo program by Grumman Aircraft. The lunar module, consisting of a descent stage and an ascent stage, was ferried from the Earth to the Moon attached to the Apollo spacecraft command and service module (CSM), approximately twice its mass. The ascent stage carried a crew of two who flew the spacecraft from lunar orbit to the surface and later back to the command module. Designed for lunar orbit rendezvous, the Apollo Lunar Module was discarded after completing its mission. It was capable of operation only in outer space; structurally and aerodynamically it was incapable of flight through the Earth's atmosphere. The lunar module was the first manned spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space. It was the first, and to date only, crewed vehicle to land anywhere beyond Earth.
The LM's development was plagued with problems which delayed its first unmanned flight by about ten months, and its first manned flight by about three months. Despite this, the LM eventually became the most reliable component of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle, the only component never to suffer a failure that could not be corrected in time to prevent abort of a landing mission.
Ten lunar modules were launched into space. Of these, six successfully landed humans on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The first two launched were test flights in low Earth orbit—the first without a crew, the second with one. Another was used by Apollo 10 for a "dress rehearsal" flight in low lunar orbit, without landing. One lunar module functioned as a "lifeboat" for the crew of Apollo 13, providing life support and propulsion when their CSM was disabled by an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, forcing the crew to abandon their landing.
The total cost of the LM for development and the units produced was $21.3B in 2016 dollars, adjusting from a nominal total of $2.2B using the NASA New Start Inflation Indices. The six landed descent stages remain intact where they landed and one ascent stage (Apollo 10's) is in heliocentric orbit. All the other LMs that flew either crashed into the Moon or burned up in the Earth's atmosphere.
At launch, the lunar module sat directly beneath the command and service module (CSM) with legs folded, inside the Spacecraft-to-LM adapter (SLA) attached to the S-IVB third stage of the Saturn V rocket. There it remained through Earth parking orbit and the Trans Lunar Injection (TLI) rocket burn to send the craft toward the Moon.
Soon after TLI, the SLA opened and the CSM separated, turned around, came back to dock with the lunar module, and extracted it from the S-IVB. During the flight to the Moon, the docking hatches were opened and the lunar module pilot entered the LM to temporarily power up and test its systems (except for propulsion). Throughout the flight, he performed the role of an engineering officer, responsible for monitoring the systems of both spacecraft.
After achieving a lunar parking orbit, the Commander and LM Pilot entered and powered up the LM, replaced the hatches and docking equipment, unfolded and locked its landing legs, and separated from the CSM, flying independently. The Commander operated the flight controls and engine throttle, while the lunar module pilot operated other spacecraft systems and kept the Commander informed on systems status and navigational information. After visual inspection of the landing gear by the Command Module Pilot, the LM was withdrawn to a safe distance, then the descent engine was pointed forward into the direction of travel to perform the 30 second descent orbit insertion burn to reduce speed and drop the LM's perilune to within approximately 50,000 feet (15 km) of the surface, about 260 nautical miles (480 km) uprange of the landing site.
Eagle, the lunar module ascent stage of Apollo 11, in orbit above the Moon. Earth is visible in the distance.
At this point, the engine was started again for powered descent initiation. During this time the crew flew on their backs, depending on the computer to slow the craft's forward and vertical velocity to near zero. Control was exercised with a combination of engine throttling and attitude thrusters, guided by the computer with the aid of landing radar. During the braking phase altitude decreased to approximately 10,000 feet (3.0 km), then the final approach phase went to approximately 700 feet (210 m). During final approach, the vehicle pitched over to a near-vertical position, allowing the crew to look forward and down to see the lunar surface for the first time.
Astronauts only flew Apollo spacecraft manually during the lunar approach. The final landing phase began approximately 2,000 feet (0.61 km) uprange of the targeted landing site. At this point manual control was enabled for the Commander, and enough propellant reserve was allocated to allow approximately two minutes of hover time to survey where the computer was taking the craft and make any necessary corrections. If necessary, landing could have been aborted at almost any time by jettisoning the descent stage and firing the ascent engine to climb back into orbit for an emergency return to the CSM. Finally, one or more of three 67.2-inch (1.71 m) long probes extending from footpads on the legs of the lander touched the surface, activating the contact indicator light which signaled the commander to manually shut off the descent engine, allowing the LM to settle onto the surface. On touchdown, the probes would be bent as much as 180 degrees, or even break off. The original design used the probes on all four legs, but starting with the first landing (LM-5 on Apollo 11), the one at the ladder was removed out of concern that the bent probe after landing could possibly puncture an astronaut's suit while he descended or stepped off the ladder.
The original Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) plan, up through at least 1966, was for only one astronaut to leave the LM while the other remained inside in order "to maintain communications". Communications were eventually deemed to be reasonably reliable so that both crew members could walk on the surface, leaving the spacecraft to be only remotely attended by Mission Control.
Beginning with Apollo 14, increased LM propellant reserve was made available for the powered descent and landing, by using the CSM engine to achieve the 50,000-foot (15 km) perilune. After the spacecraft undocked, the CSM raised and circularized its orbit for the remainder of the mission.
When ready to leave the Moon, the LM would separate the descent stage and fire the ascent engine to climb back into orbit, using the descent stage as a launch platform. After a few course correction burns, the LM would rendezvous with the CSM and dock for transfer of the crew and rock samples. Having completed its job, the ascent stage was separated. The Apollo 10 ascent stage engine was fired to fuel depletion, sending it on a trajectory past the Moon into a heliocentric orbit. The Apollo 11 ascent stage was left in lunar orbit to eventually crash; all subsequent ascent stages (except for Apollo 13) were intentionally steered into the Moon to obtain readings from seismometers placed on the surface.
The lunar module (originally designated the lunar excursion module, known by the acronym LEM) was designed after NASA chose to reach the Moon via Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) instead of the direct ascent or Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) methods. Both direct ascent and EOR would have involved landing a much heavier, complete Apollo spacecraft on the Moon. Once the decision had been made to proceed using LOR, it became necessary to produce a separate craft capable of reaching the lunar surface and ascending back to lunar orbit.
In July 1962, eleven firms were invited to submit proposals for the LEM. Nine companies responded in September, answering 20 specific questions posed by the NASA RFP in a 60-page limited technical proposal. Grumman Aircraft was awarded the contract two months later. Grumman had begun lunar orbit rendezvous studies in the late 1950s and again in 1961. The contract cost was expected to be around $350 million. There were initially four major subcontractors—Bell Aerosystems (ascent engine), Hamilton Standard (environmental control systems), Marquardt (reaction control system) and TRW's Space Technology Laboratories (descent engine).
The Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System (PGNCS) was developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory; the Apollo Guidance Computer was manufactured by Raytheon (a similar guidance system was used in the command module). A backup navigation tool, the Abort Guidance System (AGS), was developed by TRW.
This 1963 model depicts the second LEM design, which gave rise to informal references as "the bug".
The Apollo Lunar Module was chiefly designed by Grumman aerospace engineer Thomas J. Kelly. The first LEM design looked like a smaller version of the Apollo command and service module (a cone-shaped cabin atop a cylindrical propulsion section) with folding legs. The second design invoked the idea of a helicopter cockpit with large curved windows and seats, to improve the astronauts' visibility for hover and landing. This also included a second, forward docking port, allowing the LEM crew to take an active role in docking with the CSM.
As the program continued, there were numerous redesigns to save weight, improve safety, and fix problems. First to go were the heavy cockpit windows and the seats; the astronauts would stand while flying the LEM, supported by a cable and pulley system, with smaller triangular windows giving them sufficient visibility of the landing site. Later, the redundant forward docking port was removed, which meant the Command Pilot gave up active control of the docking to the Command Module Pilot; he could still see the approaching CSM through a small overhead window. These changes resulted in significant weight savings. Egress while wearing bulky Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacesuits was also facilitated by a simpler-opening forward hatch (32 x 32 inches).
A configuration freeze did not start until April 1963, when the ascent and descent engine designs were decided. In addition to Rocketdyne, a parallel program for the descent engine was ordered from Space Technology Laboratories (TRW) in July 1963, and by January 1965 the Rocketdyne contract was canceled.
Power was initially to be produced by fuel cells built by Pratt and Whitney similar to the CSM, but in March 1965 these were discarded in favor of an all-battery design.
The initial design had three landing legs. As any particular leg would have to carry the weight of the vehicle if it lands at any significant angle, three legs was the lightest configuration. However, it would be the least stable if one of the legs were damaged during landing. The next landing gear design iteration had five legs and was the most stable configuration for landing on an unknown terrain. That configuration, however, was too heavy and the designers compromised on four landing legs.
In June 1966, the name was changed to lunar module (LM), eliminating the word "excursion". According to George Low, Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, this was because NASA was afraid that the word "excursion" might lend a frivolous note to Apollo. After the name change from "LEM" to "LM", the pronunciation of the abbreviation did not change, as the habit became ingrained among engineers, the astronauts, and the media to universally pronounce "LM" as "lem" which is easier than saying the letters individually.
To allow astronauts to learn lunar landing techniques, NASA contracted Bell Aerosystems in 1964 to build the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV), which used a gimbal-mounted vertical jet engine to counter 5/6 of its weight to simulate the Moon's gravity, in addition to its own hydrogen peroxide thrusters to simulate the LM's descent engine and attitude control. Successful testing of two LLRV prototypes at the Dryden Flight Research Center led in 1966 to three production Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV) which along with the LLRV's were used to train the astronauts at the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. This aircraft proved fairly dangerous to fly, as three of the five were destroyed in crashes. It was equipped with a rocket-powered ejection seat, so in each case the pilot survived, including the first man to walk on the Moon, Neil Armstrong.
LM-1 was built to make the first unmanned flight for propulsion systems testing, launched into low Earth orbit atop a Saturn IB. This was originally planned for April 1967, to be followed by the first manned flight later that year. But the LM's development problems had been underestimated, and LM-1's flight was delayed until January 22, 1968, as Apollo 5. At that time, LM-2 was held in reserve in case the LM-1 flight failed, which did not happen.
LM-3 now became the first manned LM, again to be flown in low Earth orbit to test all the systems, and practice the separation, rendezvous, and docking planned for Apollo 8 in December 1968. But again, last-minute problems delayed its flight until Apollo 9 on March 3, 1969. A second, higher Earth orbit manned practice flight had been planned to follow LM-3, but this was canceled to keep the program timeline on track.
Apollo 10 launched on May 18, 1969, using LM-4 for a "dress rehearsal" for the lunar landing, practicing all phases of the mission except powered descent initiation through takeoff. The LM descended to 47,400 feet (14.4 km) above the lunar surface, then jettisoned the descent stage and used its ascent engine to return to the CSM.
The first manned lunar landing occurred on July 20, 1969 with the Apollo 11 LM Eagle. Four days later, the Apollo 11 crew in the Command Module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing President John F. Kennedy's goal "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
This was followed by precision landings on Apollo 12 (Intrepid) and Apollo 14 (Antares).
In April 1970, the Apollo 13 lunar module Aquarius played an unexpected role in saving the lives of the three astronauts after an oxygen tank in the service module ruptured, disabling the CSM. Aquarius served as a "lifeboat" for the astronauts during their return to Earth. Its descent stage engine was used to replace the crippled CSM Service Propulsion System engine, and its batteries supplied power for the trip home and recharged the Command Module's batteries critical for reentry. The astronauts splashed down safely on April 17, 1970. The LM's systems, designed to support two astronauts for 45 hours (including twice depressurization and repressurization causing loss of oxygen supply), actually stretched to support three astronauts for 90 hours (without depressurization and repressurization and loss of oxygen supply).
Hover times were maximized on the last four landing missions by using the Service Module engine to perform the initial descent orbit insertion burn 22 hours before the LM separated from the CSM, a practice begun on Apollo 14. This meant that the complete spacecraft, including the CSM, orbited the Moon with a 9.1-nautical-mile (16.9 km) perilune, enabling the LM to begin its powered descent from that altitude with a full load of descent stage propellant, leaving more reserve propellant for the final approach. The CSM would then raise its perilune back to the normal 60 nautical miles (110 km).
The extended lunar module (ELM) used on the final three "J-class missions", Apollo 15, 16 and 17, were significantly upgraded to allow for greater landing payload weights and longer lunar surface stay times. The descent engine power was improved by the addition of a 10-inch (250 mm) extension to the engine bell, and the descent propellant tanks were increased in size. A waste storage tank was added to the descent stage, with plumbing from the ascent stage. These upgrades allowed stay times of up to 75 hours on the Moon.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle was carried folded up in Quadrant 1 of the descent stage and deployed by the astronauts after landing. This allowed them to explore large areas and return a greater variety of lunar samples.
Note that weights varied from mission to mission; those given here are an average for the non-ELM class vehicles. See the individual mission articles for each LM's weight.
The Ascent stage contained the crew cabin with instrument panels and flight controls. It contained its own Ascent Propulsion System (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command and service module. It also contained a Reaction Control System (RCS) for attitude and translation control, which consisted of sixteen hypergolic thrusters similar to those used on the Service Module, mounted in four quads, with their own propellant supply. A forward EVA hatch provided access to and from the lunar surface, while an overhead hatch and docking port provided access to and from the Command Module.
Internal equipment included an environmental control (life support) system; a VHF communications system with two antennas for communication with the Command Module; a unified S-band system and steerable parabolic dish antenna for communication with Earth; an EVA antenna resembling a miniature parasol which relayed communications from antennas on the astronauts' Portable Life Support Systems through the LM; primary (PGNCS) and backup (AGS) guidance and navigation systems; an Alignment Optical Telescope for visually determining the spacecraft orientation; rendezvous radar with its own steerable dish antenna; and an ice sublimation system for active thermal control. Electrical storage batteries, cooling water, and breathing oxygen were stored in amounts sufficient for a lunar surface stay of 48 hours initially, extended to 75 hours for the later missions.
During rest periods while parked on the Moon, the crew would sleep on hammocks slung crosswise in the cabin.
The return payload included the lunar rock and soil samples collected by the crew (as much as 238 pounds (108 kg) on Apollo 17), plus their exposed photographic film.
Equipment for the lunar exploration was carried in the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA), a drawer mounted on a hinged panel dropping out of the lefthand forward compartment. Besides the astronaut's surface excavation tools and sample collection boxes, the MESA contained a television camera with a tripod; as the commander opened the MESA by pulling on a lanyard while descending the ladder, the camera was automatically activated to send the first pictures of the astronauts on the surface back to Earth. A United States flag for the astronauts to erect on the surface was carried in a container mounted on the ladder of each landing mission.
The Early Apollo Surface Experiment Package (EASEP) (later the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP)), was carried in the opposite compartment behind the LM. An external compartment on the right front panel carried a deployable S-band antenna which, when opened looked like an inverted umbrella on a tripod. This was not used on the first landing due to time constraints, and the fact that acceptable communications were being received using the LM's S-band antenna, but was used on Apollo 12 and 14. A hand-pulled Modular Equipment Transporter (MET), similar in appearance to a golf cart, was carried on Apollo 13 and 14 to facilitate carrying the tools and samples on extended moonwalks. On the extended missions (Apollo 15 and later), the antenna and TV camera were mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle, which was carried folded up and mounted on an external panel. Compartments also contained replacement Portable Life Support System (PLSS) batteries and extra lithium hydroxide canisters on the extended missions.
LM-4 Snoopy Apollo 10 May 18, 1969 Descent stage hit Moon, ascent stage in heliocentric orbit. Snoopy is the only surviving flown LM ascent stage.
Partially completed by Grumman, restored and on display at Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island, New York. Also used during 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
* For the location of LMs left on the Lunar surface, see list of man-made objects on the Moon.
World map showing locations of Apollo Lunar Modules (along with other hardware).
One proposed Apollo application was an orbital solar telescope constructed from a surplus LM with its descent engine replaced with a telescope controlled from the ascent stage cabin, the landing legs removed and four "windmill" solar panels extending from the descent stage quadrants. This would have been launched on an unmanned Saturn 1B, and docked with a manned command and service module, named the Apollo Telescope Mission (ATM).
This idea was later transferred to the original wet workshop design for the Skylab orbital workshop and renamed the Apollo Telescope Mount to be docked on a side port of the workshop's multiple docking adapter (MDA). When Skylab changed to a "dry workshop" design pre-fabricated on the ground and launched on a Saturn V, the telescope was mounted on a hinged arm and controlled from inside the MDA. Only the octagonal shape of the telescope container, solar panels and the Apollo Telescope Mount name were kept, though there was no longer any association with the LM.
The Apollo LM Truck (also known as Lunar Payload Module) was a stand-alone LM descent stage intended to deliver up to 11,000 pounds (5.0 t) of payload to the Moon for an unmanned landing. This technique was intended to deliver equipment and supplies to a permanent manned lunar base. As originally proposed, it would be launched on a Saturn V with a full Apollo crew to accompany it to lunar orbit and guide it to a landing next to the base; then the base crew would unload the "truck" while the orbiting crew returned to Earth. In later AAP plans, the LPM would have been delivered by an unmanned lunar ferry vehicle.
The Ron Howard film Apollo 13, a dramatization of that mission starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, was filmed using realistic spacecraft interior reconstructions of the Aquarius and the Command Module Odyssey.
The development and construction of the lunar module is dramatized in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon episode entitled "Spider". This is in reference to LM-3, used on Apollo 9, which the crew named Spider after its spidery appearance. The unused LM-13 stood in during the teleplay to depict LM-3 and LM-5, Eagle, used by Apollo 11.
Apollo 15 landing on the Moon seen from the perspective of the Lunar Module Pilot. Starts at about 5000 feet.
Apollo 15 Lunar Module lifts off the Moon. View from TV camera on the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Apollo 15 Lunar Module liftoff. View from inside LM.
Apollo 17 Lunar Module liftoff. View from TV camera on the lunar rover.
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^ Courtney G. Brooks; James M. Grimwood; Loyd S. Swenson (September 20, 2007). "Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft; Engines, Large and Small". Retrieved June 7, 2012.
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^ Apollo LM Truck on Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica Archived 2005-12-15 at the Wayback Machine – Description of adapted LM descent stage for the unmanned transport of cargo to a permanent lunar base.
Kelly, Thomas J. (2001). Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series). Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-998-X.
Brooks, Courtney J., Grimwood, James M. and Swenson, Loyd S. Jr (1979) Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft NASA SP-4205.
Stengel, Robert F. (1970). Manual Attitude Control of the Lunar Module, J. Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 941–948.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Apollo Lunar modules.
Space/Craft Assembly & Test Remembered – A site "dedicated to the men and women that designed, built and tested the Lunar Module at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, New York"
Apollo Operations Handbook, Lunar Module (LM 10 and Subsequent), Volume One. Subsystems Data (PDF) Manufacturers Handbook covering the systems of the LM.
Apollo Operations Handbook, Lunar Module (LM 11 and Subsequent), Volume Two. Operational Procedures Manufacturers Handbook covering the procedures used to fly the LM.
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Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC, consul in 458 BC, and decemvir from 450 to 449 BC.
Brother of Quintus Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, consul in 457 BC, he was a member of the Minucii Augurini branch of the gens Minucia. Lucius was the son of a Publius Minucius and grandson of a Marcus Minucius. His complete name is Lucius Minucius P.f. M.n. Esquilinus Augurinus.
In 458 BC, he was consul with Gaius Nautius Rutilus. Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Diodorus Siculus called him consul ordinarius, but according to the Fasti Capitolini, he was the consul suffect, replacing a certain Carvetus who died at the beginning of his term.
This year, Rome had faced an assault by the Aequi whose treaty had expired the year before and Roman territory was pillaged by the Sabines, reaching as far as the city walls. The consuls levied two armies, Augurinus alongside the dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, named by consul Rutilus, who relinquished command of the army once the mission was accomplished, and returned power to the Senate. Once back in Rome, Augurinus abdicated and command of his army was given to the praefectus Urbi, Quintus Fabius Vibulanus.
In 450 BC, Lucius was elected as member of the Second Decemvirate against more qualified candidates thanks to the supportive actions of Appius Claudius Crassus, who had been decemvir the year before. This commission achieved the writing of the Law of the Twelve Tables, but under the influence of Crassus, they despotically maintained power after the end of their mission.
In 449 BC, the decemvirs, led by Crassus, illegally kept their power, against the will of the Senate and the people. The invasion of the Sabines and the Aequi had consequently dispersed the decemvirs. Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, Manius Rabuleius, and Quintus Poetelius Libo met the Sabines in battle while Lucius Minucius accompanied Marcus Cornelius Maluginensis, Lucius Sergius Esquilinus, and Titus Antonius Merenda in their fight with the Aequi. However, the army had revolted against the decemvirs, and the plebeians had left the city en masse for Aventine Hill. Lucius Minucius and his colleagues acquiesced and gave up their power - some left in exile. Their goods were confiscated.
In 440 BC, a great famine had reached Rome. Given the urgency of the situation, the consuls had quickly elected a praefectus annonae crearetur ("Prefect of the Corn-market"), some sort of prefect of the Republic's corn supply, whose purpose it was to secure the grain supply. It was probably this year that the aedile of the plebs, Manius Marcius, organized a distribution of grain for the plebs, where each individual was given one-third of a Roman bushel (modius).
The example of Manius Marcius was soon followed by Spurius Maelius, a rich member of the Equestrian order, who had acquired great quantities of fresh wheat in Etruria, and then distributed it to the people for free. His popularity became such that the Patricians were convinced that he was only trying to gain support in order to become king. He had already taken measures for a coup. In the meantime, Lucius Minucius had informed Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, and Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, who were elected consuls for the year 439 BC, and named Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus dictator at the start of their term. Cincinnatus had Spurius Maelius assassinated by his magister equitum, Gaius Servilius Ahala. According to ancient authors, Lucius Minucius was rewarded with the erection of a statue for having alerted the patricians to the danger that Spurius Maelius posed.
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How to decompress split zip files (after downloading)?
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What would happen to us if the Earth suddenly stopped rotating? Would we be thrown off it, or would our lives even be affected at all by the change? ScienceStruck explains exactly what will happen in this case.
The rotation of the Earth is slowing down over time, due to being tidally locked with the Moon. But the reduction is extremely slow. In the last 100 years, an average day has shortened by 1.7 milliseconds. Though that may sound scary, let me assure you that more than 2000 milliseconds may have gone in the short time in which you took a breath! So while the Earth is actually slowing down, it will take a millennium for it to slow down by even a single second!
So, all in all, this is a purely hypothetical discussion. But it's an interesting one, it must be said!
The fundamental question is why does the Earth even spin in the first place? This question is a tough cracker, and has no irrefutable answer. Earth was created in a dust cloud billions of years ago, and the only plausible answer is that it is spinning because it has no external resistance. It had been spinning when it was formed, and since nature is extremely lazy (in scientific terms, it tries to maintain inertia), the Earth had no reason to stop spinning.
If the Earth stopped by gradually slowing down and coming to a halt over billions of years, the effects wouldn't be felt as drastically, since the conditions would have adapted to the intermediate steps. This is actually a mathematical certainty, although, it will take more time than the age of the universe to occur. On the other hand, if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning due to some unforeseeable reason (Kryptonian rebels would be the best guess), the effects will be much more immediate and deadly.
The Earth rotates at a speed of 1,040 mph at the Equator. Since the speed is constant, Earth is static from our inertial frame of reference. So, as long as Earth keeps spinning at the constant speed, the incredible speed doesn't affect us.
If Earth suddenly stopped rotating about its own axis, the momentum of it would propel everything on the surface of the Earth at the supersonic speed of its rotation. Think of the unfortunate situation when you had to brake your car in an emergency, and you didn't have your seat belt on. Since the Earth spins towards the East (that's why the Sun rises to the East), we would be thrown towards the East, along with cars, buildings, animals, and water from the oceans.
Right now, the Earth spins approximately 365 times during one revolution around the Sun. If the rotations were to stop, the same side would face the Sun for 6 months, before moving into 6 months of night. Temperatures in the half that is facing the Sun would soar to incredible heights, whereas the other half will be icy cold. This would cause probably-irreparable changes to the wildlife on the planet, and make human survival much more challenging.
A common and understandable misunderstanding in this matter is, the Earth would become tidally locked with the Sun. Many think that if the Earth stopped spinning, one half of it would be in constant daylight, and the other would always be in the dark. However, this implies that the planet is rotating. For one half of the Earth to always be illuminated, the Earth would have to be tidally locked with the Sun. If the period of a celestial body's rotation and revolution (around another body) are the same, the two bodies are said to be tidally locked. The Moon, for instance, is tidally locked with the Earth, which is why we can't see the other side of the Moon. However, the Moon does rotate around its own axis while it revolves around the Earth. Since the time taken for the Moon to rotate around itself and revolve around the Earth is virtually the same, only one side of the Moon is constantly visible from Earth.
The following diagrams illustrate both these scenarios. In the first one, the orientation of the planet has changed, as can be seen from the arrows, implying rotation. In the first figure, the same half receives sunlight, since the tidally locked planet IS rotating. On the other hand, in the second one, the orientation remains the same while the planet is revolving around the Sun. As can be seen in the second figure, different halves of the Earth would receive sunlight if it stopped spinning.
Though it is usually displayed as a perfect sphere, Earth is actually slightly bulged at the Equator and flattened at the poles. This is caused by the Earth's rotation, which is the most influential at the Equator. If the spinning stopped, the poles would 're-inflate', and the Earth would become a perfect sphere.
Earth is vertically tilted at an angle of 23°. This causes the various seasons, since the Northern and Southern hemispheres are always at slightly differing distances from the Sun. Thus, when the Northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun, it experiences Summer, and vice versa.
The tilt is defined by the rotation with respect to the revolution around the Sun. The loss of rotation would result in a loss of seasons.
The present geography and hydrology of the Earth is defined to a large degree by the bulge around the Equator. If the bulge was negated, the land-ocean divide would look much different than it does now. A prominent prediction is that the water will move to the polar areas, while the land will be seen in the equatorial region.
No, really. Earth's magnetosphere, which protects us from the harmful solar radiation, is thought to be generated by the Earth's rotation. If that is indeed correct, the sudden loss of the rotational energy would cause the magnetosphere to decay. This would leave all life on Earth almost inevitably susceptible to solar winds.
Earth's rotation is surprisingly crucial for our survival. If the Earth suddenly stopped spinning, the effects would be catastrophic. Good thing it isn't going to happen anytime soon, then!
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Congresswoman-Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY 14th), a 29 year old Democrat Socialist who hails from The Bronx, New York, won her general election with 78% of the vote. Yet her initial comments either indicated an unpreparedness for victory or a pose to propagandize her brand.
Due to the demographics of the district, it was virtually fait accompli that Ocasio Cortez would win in November after surprising House Democrat stalwart Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY 14th) by 15% in the June 2018 New York primaries. Yet after she won, Ocasio Cortez publicly complained that she would not have income for three months, so it would be initially dicey for her to find digs in DC prior to her "inauguration" (sic).
So an economics major from Boston University from Boston University could not budget enough buffer for a sure thing victory in order to have a place to stay in the District of Calamity prior to pulling her first paycheck Sure.
Detractors of the rising Democrat Socialist star have derided her as Occasional Cortez, who they believe is not bright nor schooled in the political process. However, the wording of her "too broke to move" sob story hint that it is contrived political posturing.
Ocasio Cortez comes from the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat Party (despite the fact that Sanders actually is no longer a member of the party). Aside from her chops of being a community organizer, Ocasio Cortez tries to conjure the mien of being considered a working class hero. What better way to identify with voters who live paycheck to paycheck to play up this wage gap before taking office?
This would not be the first time that Ocasio Cortez has played fast and loose with her bio to identify with the downtrodden. Ocasio Cortez played up her roots in the Bronx, even after it became evident that she grew up living with her architect father in well to do Westchester County while commuting to school in the Bronx.
If Ocasio Cortez truly cannot afford an apartment before she is "viviendo del mamey" (Boricuan slang for living off the state budget, or living the easy life), she could follow the example of outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, who slept in his office. Surely the DNC has a room that they can set aside for the newly elected working class leader. Just make sure that you pay the average daily rate for lodging lest you get hounded and forced to resign like former Trump Energy Secretary Scott Pruitt. Check that, ethics rules usually only apply for Republicans.
Ocasio Cortez's post election kerfluffle may hint at trouble for Democrats organizing in Washington. It would seem that Ocasio Cortez is not content to be a back bencher while learning the ropes on Capitol Hill.
It seems that there are three contending factions in the Democrat Caucus: The old school, like presumed Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA 12th) and current Democrat Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD 5th), who are established Democrats who are eager to regain their powerful positions.
While it is a relatively small faction, there are moderates like Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH 13th), who seem like vestigial Democrats of old who champion patriotic union working class voters. Their clout may be somewhat bolstered by the fact that many of the newly elected Democrats won because of their moderate credentials.
Then there are the Young Turks, like Ocasio Cortez, who want the revolution now. Losing Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), labeled them the crazies. These rabble rousers will not wait their turn for power. They may chaff at having their leadership being comprised of septuagenarian establishment types who want to protect their positions rather than upturning the system.
The question is how the (Democrat) Congressional Black Caucus will side in the leadership battle. On the one hand, the CBC has paid their dues and followed a strategy of rising to ranking member status by hanging onto office forever (save ex Rep. John Conyers, who was chased out of office in late 2017 after fifty years because of sexual harassment allegations). Congresswoman "Auntie Maxie" Waters (D-CA 43rd) is in line to be the Chair of the Financial Services Committee, so she has strong motivations to line up with the establishment. But Waters also was a driving force during the Midterms to chant "Impeach 45". Ms. Pelosi was trying to tamp down those voices during the campaign. If House Democrats intend to govern, leadership may strive to quash those sentiments, which could cause resentment and a change of alliance.
In the last 115th Congress, the CBC felt slighted in leadership. House Democrats made up a faux leadership position for Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC 6th) as "Assistant Democrat Leader", but who had a title but little clout. It is unclear if that will be enough for the CBC now that they are back at the helm in the House. Fourth term incumbent Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY 8th) is vying to succeed Joe Crowley for the number four position in the Democrat Caucus as Caucus Chair. This might split the CBC as Jeffries competitor includes entrenched left coast progressive CBC member Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA 13th).
Next week, Democrats will return to the Capitol City and organize their caucus. Either Ocasio Cortez will have to couch surf or get a cash advance to participate.
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Robert Pickering Burnham (born August 21, 1990) is an American comedian, singer-songwriter, musician, rapper, actor, director, and poet. He began his performance career as a YouTuber in March 2006, and his videos have been viewed over 214 million times as of December 2017. Burnham signed a four-year record deal with Comedy Central Records and released his debut EP, Bo Fo Sho, in 2008. His first full-length album, Bo Burnham, was released the following year. In 2010, Burnham's second album was released, and Words Words Words, his first live comedy special, aired on Comedy Central. His third album and second comedy special, what., was released in 2013 on his YouTube channel and Netflix. Burnham finished first overall in voting in 2011's Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown. His third stand-up comedy special, Make Happy, was released exclusively on Netflix on June 3, 2016. In addition to his career as a comedian, Burnham co-created and starred in the MTV television series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and released his first book of poetry, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone, in 2013.
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In the last ten years I have seen at least stabilty in airfares. How is it possible that before 10 years one had paid (in average) more for travelling than today (my own experience)? I have seen this stabilty also in well-established airlines like Lufthansa or Air France. Is this because that we have today more online travel websites that are taking less commission for each ticket they are selling because they don't need a lot of infrastructure like travel agencies in the old days?
There's deregulation and increase of competition.
Carriers now provide simplified service: worse meals, fewer meals, fewer baggage options, paid baggage options, etc, etc. This includes well-established airlines. They are no longer obliged to provide that stuff for free, and they actually can't at the price point where they're at.
There's also competition: Airlines from Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Quatar work in zero-tax environment, can provide much cheaper flights. Traditional airlines have to cut expenses and/or apply for tax exemption or outright subsidies to their national governments.
Money is cheaper now. Deposit rates approach 0%, and loan rates hover slightly above. Even when carriers are based in countries with more inclined currencies, they find ways to borrow at low rates. This means planes leasing is cheaper for them.
Airports also figure out other ways of raising money other than putting it in your ticket, such as duty-free shops or shaving some money from rail/bus tickets to the airport.
There are economies of scale. When there are twice as many people and twice as many planes, it's slightly cheaper per person and per plane.
Internet does matter. 15 years ago airlines dabbled in ripping off customers who bought tickets on their website, showing triple prices to you if they thought you were rich or a business traveller. Today, you would fire e.g. skyscanner and see competitive offerings.
While not disagreeing with alamar, I think there's another way of looking at it.
The travelling public is incredibly price sensistive.
In other words, people really want to fly places, but pretty much everyone will pick the cheapest option whenever they do, outweighing considerations of comfort, convenience, time etc.
This means that an airline that offers a flight for $390 will sell lots more tickets than one offering it for $400. Airline profit is all about filling seats (since the marginal cost of flying a full plane over one with an empty seat is pretty much nothing). This means the $400 airline will quickly cut its price, which means the $390 airline will cuts its price, and so on.
Price sensitivity also explains the low cost airlines exist, which manage to sell tickets no matter how inconvenient or uncomfortable their flights. It also explains why there is a constant reduction in comfort (packing in more seats to a plane) and a switch to additional fees - people choose the $380 flight over the $400 flight, without realizing that the $380 flight involves a $20 baggage fee and a $10 'airport fee'.
It's also worth pointing out that while prices are remaining constant, you are getting less for your money in some terms. Once upon a time your flight included a decent amount of leg room, a meal, a free checked bag, the ability to choose seats, and the guarantee that if you bought a ticket you would actually get on the flight. Now the price of your ticket does not include those things.
Another factor is the price of oil. Fuel prices are a large cost driver for airlines and in a competitive market price changes are likely to be passed on to customers.
If you go to http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart turn off inflation adjusted, turn off log scale and set the time to 20 years you can see a picture of what has happened to oil prices in actual dollars.
If we look at the graph there was a general upward trend until 2015 or so with a peak and crash in 2008. Then there was a sharp drop back in 2015 brining the price back to 2005 or so levels.
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The major problems associated with skunks involve their ability to invade houses or trashcans. They are very adaptable to urban areas, are nocturnal (meaning they come out mostly at night) and are very curious about human dwellings and refuse. The most common problem is when skunks find their way under porches/decks or into houses or out-buildings. The best way to prevent them from becoming a problem is to not give them a reason to come.
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As each new health care need arises, an individual's first point of contact with the health care system is typically his or her personal doctor. In most cases a personal doctor can effectively and efficiently manage a patient's medical care because they understand that person's medical history and social background. Having a regular source of health care is also an indicator of overall access to care.
Question Text: "Do you have one person you think of as your personal doctor or health care provider?" Respondents can answer "Yes, only one", "Yes, more than one" or "No." For this indicator, the two "Yes" responses have been combined. Beginning in 2011, BRFSS data include both landline and cell phone respondent data along with a new weighting methodology called iterative proportional fitting, or raking. This methodology utilizes additional demographic information (such as education, race, and marital status) in the weighting procedure. Both of these methodology changes were implemented to account for an increased number of U.S. households without landline phones and an under-representation of certain demographic groups that were not well-represented in the sample. More details about these changes can be found at: [https://ibis.health.utah.gov/pdf/opha/resource/brfss/RakingImpact2011.pdf]. As with all surveys, some error results from nonresponse (e.g., refusal to participate in the survey or to answer specific questions) and measurement (e.g., social desirability or recall bias). Error was minimized by use of strict calling protocols (up to 15 calls were made to reach each household), good questionnaire design, standardization of interviewer behavior, interviewer training, and frequent, on-site interviewer monitoring and supervision.
Percentage of adults who reported having one or more persons they think of as their personal doctor or health care provider.
Number of adults who reported having at least one person they think of as their personal doctor or health care provider.
Total number of adults interviewed during the same survey period.
One of Utah's 42 Community Health Indicators.
In 2017, 71.0% (crude rate) of Utah adults reported having at least one person they think of as their personal doctor or health care provider. However, 29.0% of Utahns did not have a personal doctor or health care provider. Lack of a primary care provider was more common among young adults, especially men ages 18 to 34 (only 48.1% reported having a personal doctor) in 2017. In 2015-2017, the San Juan (Other) Small Area (47.8%) had the lowest age-adjusted rate of people who reported having a primary care provider among all of the Utah Small Areas.
In 2017, Utah (72.2%) had a similar age-adjusted rate of persons reporting a primary care provider when compared with the U.S. (76.1%), though the Utah rate was statistically significantly lower than that for the U.S.
The Utah Department of Health has programs such as Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Utah's Premium Partnership for Health Insurance (UPP), and the Primary Care Network (PCN) to pay health care costs for low-income children and adults and those with disabilities.
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How does signaling pathway works out in human beings?
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Angiogenesis Signaling Pathway is defined as the biological process of the formation of new blood vessels by pre-existing blood vessels. This is a key process that promotes development, skeletal muscle hypertrophy, menstruation, pregnancy and wound healing, and can also lead to angiogenic diseases (such as retinopathy), rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, AIDS / Kaposi sarcoma and cancer (tumorigenesis) and other pathological conditions. Angiogenesis is a complex, highly ordered process that relies on endothelial cell (EC).
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a family of proteins required for angiogenesis. VEGF has multiple isotypes, including VEGF-A, VEGF-B, VEGF-C and VEGF-D, each in the embryo. Lymphangiogenesis plays an important role in different angiogenesis environments. VEGF-A is a major angiogenesis mediator. Selective shearing produces four major VEGF-A isoforms of varying lengths (121165189 and 206amino acids), which are paraphoric to heparin sulfate proteins. HSPG has different affinity. The balance between free diffusion and VEGF-A binding to HSPG produces a gradient forming a new tip cell and the endothelial cell that is responsive to angiogenesis signal transduction. The tip cells form the leading edge of the angiogenesis bud, and eventually promote the branches of the blood vessel through the various cell migration steps.
Branching expands first according to site specific metabolic needs and then subdivides into arteries, capillaries, veins and lymphatic vessels, which are composed of Notch-Gridlock, Ephrin-B2/EphB4 and Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) pathway mediated processes. As further vascular maturation and hemodynamic changes occur, endothelial cells (EC) secrete platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) B, thereby recruiting peridermal cells and VSMC. By expressing angiopoietin 1 (ANG-1), these parietal cells bind to (EC) and induce the activation of TGF- β and the deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM), thus stabilizing the vascular bed. Downstream effectors (including phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K), Src) Kinase, (FAK), p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAPK), Smad2/3 and phospholipase C γ (PLC γ) / Erk1/2) can promote endothelial cell survival. The positive and negative transcriptional regulation of these halodromes by microRNA (miRNA) may further affect the neovascularization. In particular, miR-126 has been shown to play an important role in the formation of defective blood vessels and embryo death.
Pathological and physiological angiogenesis has many similarities in signal transduction activities and changes in cell function and behavior, so it can be used as a new therapeutic option to fight diseases. But one of the key differences is that pathological angiogenesis does not end when tissue perfusion is inadequate. This uncontrolled, cluttered, and unclear growth can hinder the development of new interrupted angiogenesis media.
Do you know ROS1 Signaling Pathway?
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The immunohistochemical detection of ROS1 is simple and easy to operate. However, the requirement of antibody is high, and it is easy to be affected by the background of staining and the standard of interpretation. In short, for fusion mutation of ROS1 gene, it is best to use two or more detection techniques to verify each other, none of which can guarantee 100% promise, but for patients, missed detection is due to all hope.
Do you know Diabetes Signaling Pathway?
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In a new study, researchers from the Center for Health Sciences at the University of Texas presented their latest advances in adipocyte development and function in the international academic journal Diabetes. The researchers first found that the expression of TCF7L2 protein increased gradually during the induction and differentiation of 3T3L1 and primary adipocyte precursor cells in vitro, and the expression of TCF7L2 was necessary for the regulation of Wnt signal in adipocyte formation. They then removed HMG-box from the TCF7L2 protein in mature adipocytes of mice DNA binding domain was found to lead to systemic blood glucose intolerance and liver insulin resistance in mice. This phenotype is accompanied by an increase in subcutaneous fat, fat cell hypertrophy, and inflammation.
Finally, the researchers looked at patients with impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance in adipocytes and found a down-regulation of TCF7L2 mRNA expression in adipocytes. These results suggest that TCF7L2 plays a key role in adipose tissue development and function, and this part of the study reveals how TCF7L2 promotes the development of type 2 diabetes.
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