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How come edges frequently so boring? CSS provides you with plenty of choices for dressing your edges but most Web-site designers, when they customize the edges whatsoever, concentrate on developing a border that's only a thin black (sometimes another color) solid line. While it's perfectly acceptable to produce edges like this, this means that the Web site designs are likely to look nearly the same as almost every other Web site made with CSS.
The conventional border is designed in CSS as: border-style: solid border-width: 1px border-color: black Or perhaps in shorthand as: border: solid 1px black There is nothing wrong with this particular border, it is simply boring .
Hopefully, after you have look at this article, you will have a better appreciation from the options you've for styling your edges, and also you will not limit you to ultimately only a plain black or colored border.
May possibly not seem sensible to show from the border, in the end, most elements in HTML possess the border hidden or off automatically. However for elements like images it's wise to inform the browser to depart the border off. This way, should you result in the image a hyperlink , it will not come in your design by having an ugly colored border around it.
border-style: none Observe how linked images look with and without edges . There's additionally a border-style: hidden which is comparable to the border-style: none style. The only real distinction between hidden and none would be that the hidden style prevents every other border from exhibiting around that element while using the falling apart edges model in CSS 2.
The very first three styles (dotted, dashed, and double) operate in every modern browser. The 4 starred (*) styles (groove, ridge, inset, and start) fail to work in Ie.
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“Recruiting” simply means enlisting new members to join a group. This could apply to sports teams, the military, and certainly to your company.
In business, a recruiter is someone who helps people find jobs, and jobs find people. If you’re a recruiter, you could work for an organization to fill vacancies in your org chart from within the company. You could also work for a third-party staffing agency that helps place workers into open positions, both temporary and permanent. Sometimes, third-party recruiters are referred to as headhunters. Although this term is a bit passé, it hints at the essence of the role from all perspectives: to cast a wide net hunting for qualified candidates, and then to pursue and capture the best ones.
At a big-picture level, as a recruitment professional, your role is to implement your organization’s hiring strategies, including policies that encourage employee diversity and inclusion, and the practice of optimizing and promoting your employer brand.
Day to day, your role relies heavily on knowing the talent landscape (and being able to make informed decisions that will shape your hiring strategy). Once you’ve found your talent pool, you’ll also need to draw initial interest, and have strong interviewing skills to find the right person for the job. You might also find yourself giving performance tests, assisting with background checks, and fulfilling a few non-recruitment Human Resources (HR) functions, too, such as helping to retain your hires and processing promotions, transfers, and terminations.
Creative, analytical, and organizational skills are key for this job, as is having great communication skills — including the ability to tell a compelling story. What’s more, you have to be resourceful as the sourcing aspect of a traditional recruiting role is an art form in and of itself. You could tap into your own professional and personal networks. You could incentivize referrals from your existing employee base. You could play the numbers game, reaching out to candidates unsolicited through email, phone, LinkedIn’s InMail messaging, or text. You could use strategic marketing tactics to build your candidate pipeline, and continue to draw qualified job seekers, building and cementing relationships and trust. You can also use a recruiting platform, such as LinkedIn, to streamline your recruiting and hiring process. Regardless of the route you choose, in the end, you’ll want to flex your strategic sales muscles to “close deals” and have candidates accept their offers.
Are there different kinds of recruiters?
As a recruiter, you can be a generalist, particularly early in your career. But some of the most successful recruiting professionals are specialists, sticking to either a particular size of company, a specific level of employee, or a specialized industry. There are many types of recruiters specializing in many arenas, but here are a few.
These recruiters are on the payroll of large and fast-growing enterprise companies and startups. They partner with hiring managers — the people who will be managing and working with their new hires — to identify target traits, skills, experience levels, and other criteria for specific open positions.
These recruiters typically place people in short-term (“temp”) roles or for the purpose of specific (and finite) projects. Like other recruiters, they match candidates to desired skill and experience levels. They also consider factors such as availability and hourly rates. Staffing recruiters typically work for staffing agencies. They can be sought by either employers or job seekers; their ultimate goal is to connect the two, finding a match that will fit the project.
These recruiters work at third-party executive search firms and other agencies. Rather than recruiting on a non-exclusive, contingency basis (see below), retained recruiters are “retained” for a specific, dedicated, and exclusive search. Retained searches are commonly applied to executive-level roles, including C-suite roles such as CEO or CFO.
Contingency recruiters may place full-time or part-time employees, in either contract-to-hire or direct-hire opportunities. The word contingency indicates that they’re bounty-based prospectors, paid only if and when they introduced the employer to the new hire. Fees range from 15-35% of the employee’s first year’s salary. In this sense, contingency recruiters, or classic “headhunters,” compete against one another, racing to find the final, winning candidate. These searches are typically not exclusive, and there could be two or more search firms competing to make the placement.
This type of recruiting helps out-of-work job seekers — from the recently laid off employee to a stay-at-home parent returning to work — find their way back into the workforce. Outplacement recruiters typically offer non-placement services, too, as part of a staffing company that’s hired by companies to help their downsized workers find jobs after they are let go. These might include career counselling, interviewing coaching, and resume grooming.
What’s the difference between recruiting and other talent management roles?
From the outside, corporate initiatives such as talent acquisition and talent management look very similar to recruitment. All of these functions deal with attracting, evaluating, and hiring workers at an organization. The difference can be a subtle one: it’s tactical.
If talent acquisition is an overall business strategy, then recruitment is the boots-on-the-ground, fuel injection system that lubricates the hiring-engine pipeline. And while talent acquisition is often considered an ongoing and strategic commitment to the business, recruitment is a fairly linear, straightforward process that’s main objective is to fill vacancies (and usually, as quickly as possible).
In the overwhelming majority of cases, a recruiter’s salary or fee is paid for by the employer. But there’s no question that your work benefits both employers and job seekers. For employers, you fill open roles, making smart matches to build a team and support the company. But you also serve an invaluable function for job seekers that may be looking to benefit from a resume polish, a practice interview, or a role-playing salary negotiation. Any preparation you can provide bolsters your short list of candidates for stakeholder consideration. And this is good for almost everyone in the process.
The perks of being a recruitment professional are numerous. It’s a role that can teach you highly transferable people skills, and effective tactics in communication, marketing, negotiations, and sales. Often an entry level position to start, the role can quickly lead to bigger opportunities — whether in the broader realm of Talent Management or HR, or simply up the ladder and into management. For contingency recruiters that hit their mark, the role can be extraordinarily lucrative, particularly if you constantly bring in the right candidates. Finally, you can develop a sizeable network spanning a variety of industries. As the eyes and ears of the job market, both for employer and employee, recruiters are invaluable to the process of finding, vetting, and hiring employees.
Recruiters follow a hiring process that’s fairly standard for each applicant. Below are some suggestions for optimizing this process.
First, partner with your hiring managers to determine staffing needs, identify vacancies, and list the requirements for each position. What are the basic skills an applicant needs in order to be considered? They should directly relate to the identified duties and responsibilities of the position. You don’t want a computer programmer who doesn’t know the latest coding.
You’ll find many resources online — and even toolkits like this — for how to write an ideal job posting. It’s best to be straightforward about what you’re looking for, and to be descriptive about what the job entails, listing both big picture objectives and day-to-day responsibilities. You might want to mention how the job impacts your company’s overall success and helps to fulfill its mission and vision. If your organization has a strong employer brand or culture, then talk about this as well, so that you attract job seekers that can see themselves at the company and disqualify people that don’t. Try to make your post engaging, while making your headline informative rather than vague. Finally, be concise; if your posting is too long, it may turn off your most qualified candidates. Up to six bullets per section is all you need.
If this isn’t the first role you’re recruiting for in this industry and at this level, then chances are, you already have a database of potential candidates. Either way, you might want to tap into your network — personal or professional. Send the post and invite your contacts to share it around. Use other sourcing methods, such as LinkedIn Recruiter, too. Note that for cold outreach, it can be incredibly effective to have your hiring manager reach out instead of (or in addition to) you. Make your initial outreach friendly but concise, with a description of the role and an attention-getting subject line. And if you’re upholding a specific policy, such as helping to increase your company’s diversity, then strategize your wording carefully.
Review resumes, first disqualifying candidates that don’t meet basic criteria. For those that qualify, you might perform in-person or phone screener interviews, administer a work assignment test, or use another evaluation method. Pare your list down to the best candidates. And now it’s time to start interviewing.
Most recruiters have a bank of interview questions they use, some tailored toward a specific company, culture, department, industry, and/or function. You can customize these questions to this particular candidate base. You might also add questions particular to this role. Again, you’ll find plenty of resources online that provide helpful tips and methodologies (here’s one blog post). Schedule in-person interviews with stakeholders to dig a little deeper than candidates’ resumes might reveal.
With the criteria so far met, now it’s time to pass judgment on each candidate. You can assess factors like experience, work ethic, cultural add, and professional presence (punctuality, poise, and confidence). Huddle with your hiring manager to discuss their findings — and narrow your list down to a few top picks.
If a candidate’s gotten this far, it’s probably worth knowing what the expectations are, on both ends. Open up talks for salary requirements, benefit packages, etc., even if someone else will be negotiating compensation.
Passive candidates are people that have a job already, so they may not actively be looking for another role, but are open if something great came along. Most of the time, passive candidates are thought of as the cream of the crop among candidates: they’re successful, qualified, and highly employable. Your job is to get them to see why the opportunity you have is better for them than their current role. Woo them, dangle carrots, hint at golden eggs.
It’s been said that when it comes to the most qualified and quality candidates available at any given time, 10% of them disappear in a matter of ten days. Meanwhile, the average time it takes for companies to fill a position is around 29 days. So, the quicker you are to the draw and the less hesitant you are in the process, the better luck you’ll have finding the best candidates for the job.
Job postings are great — and a well-written job description can often lead you to find your dream candidate. But they’re not your only source for talent. Sometimes, the best prospects come from using out-of-the-box thinking, such as a targeted Recruiter search or outreach to your own network. Tap old professional circles, social media boards, personal contacts, and more.
Many industry recruiters underestimate the importance of specialization and insider knowledge. If you’re recruiting inside a specific field, you should get to know the industry like the back of your hand. Use stats, industry trends, data points, and lots of conversations with people who work in the field.
You’re now the face of the company to talent, so it’s important you know your company’s story, history, mission, company direction, and all the reasons that set you apart from competitors. Recruiting efforts will be rewarded tenfold by a strong employer brand, so put as many marketing dollars behind this that you can.
The biggest companies, nonprofits, and government agencies can be set in their ways, and may have been using the same hiring processes for years, if not decades. Sell your leadership team on the benefits of updating and upgrading your recruiting tactics. Use what’s happening in the market today, use data to back up your claims, and demonstrate the specific technologies you’d like to bring on board. Show them how you’re a forward-thinking recruiter, with next-level processes that will bring the right candidates to your company.
Consider a strategy where you bolster your own “brand” of recruitment. No longer do you have to convince people to trust the product or job or candidate you’re trying to sell them. But instead, you get your audience (whether hiring manager or job seeker) to trust you as a person. Then, you have a better shot at guiding them towards the results you want. Proceed with outreach efforts with the understanding that these are just the beginnings of conversations that may not yield fruit for a long time. In fact, keep a positive mindset about the potential of every new contact and interaction — because you never know what those seeds might bloom into later on.
Examples of smart sourcing include automated job boards and recruitment processes, talent databases from third-party recruitment agencies and specialists, and smart social media tactics. Companies spend a lot of money on talent acquisition, particularly on sourcing and attracting top candidates. By using smart sourcing technologies, you can cut costs and give yourself a leg up.
Every recruiter needs help at some point — whether it’s with narrowing down a talent pool, creating a pipeline of candidates, staying organized, or building an employer or personal brand. LinkedIn Talent Solutions’ products can help you manage the recruitment process, start to finish.
Find candidates based on skills, experience, and interests through real-time data and smart targeting. Plus, see people who viewed a job, but didn’t end up applying.
Reach out to a candidate with a personalized InMail or message, or send templated messages to more than one at a time using our InMail-batch feature.
With our search insights tool, project folders and tags, you’ll be armed and ready with the streamlined messaging and data your leadership expects when you’re presenting your case.
Integrate your ATS with Recruiter, so you can access candidate records, collaboration tools, and other important data.
LinkedIn Pipeline Builder is a tool used to create and edit custom landing pages with personalized messaging just for them. It works seamlessly with Recruiter and can track views and communicate with leads.
Advertise job opportunities via sponsored ad content to target members based on job function, region, skills, seniority, or other criteria.
Excite candidates with landing pages personalized just for them (based on role, team, company or recruiter).
Once your leads show interest via a customized landing page, you can reach out to them to follow up.
LinkedIn Career Pages showcases your culture, brand, and job opportunities using rich media, photos, recruitment videos, and more.
Use photos, video, and slideshows to tell your company story, along with tailored messaging to get the interest of just the right candidate.
Access analytics to track, improve, and share how your employer brand is helping your recruitment goals.
Use targeted ads to drive leads back to your customized, branded pages.
For more helpful tips on recruiting, download The 2018 Ultimate Recruiting Toolbox for Talent Pros.
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The 1975 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. The selectors for the 1975 season included the Associated Press (AP).
The 1975 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Bud Moore, the Jayhawks compiled a 7–5 record (4–3 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 262 to 180. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.
The team's statistical leaders included Nolan Cromwell with 333 passing yards and 1,223 rushing yards, and Waddell Smith with 205 receiving yards. Rick Kovatch, John Morgan, and Steve Taylor were the team captains.
The 1975 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Kansas Jayhawks.
The 1976 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In their second season under head coach Bud Moore, the Jayhawks compiled a 6–5 record (2–5 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 260 to 251. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.
The team's statistical leaders included Nolan Cromwell with 273 passing yards, Laverne Smith with 978 rushing yards, and Waddell Smith with 221 receiving yards. Cromwell and Chris Golub were the team captains.
Robert W. "Bud" Moore (born October 16, 1939) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Kansas from 1975 to 1978, compiling a record of 18–26–1. In his first season in 1975, Moore was named Big Eight Coach of the Year and was runner up to Woody Hayes of Ohio State as the Football Writers Association of America National Coach of the Year. Moore led his team to a 23–3 upset over eventual national champion Oklahoma, breaking the Sooners' 37-game unbeaten streak and handing coach Barry Switzer his first loss.
The Jayhawks switched to the Wishbone formation when Moore came to Lawrence. Kansas' wishbone was piloted by quarterback Nolan Cromwell, who was named 1975 Big Eight Offensive Player of the Year and later went on to an 11-year Pro Bowl career as a defensive back with the Los Angeles Rams.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama and a graduate of the University of Alabama, Moore played football and coached for the Crimson Tide under Bear Bryant, serving as Bryant's first offensive coordinator in 1974. He also was an assistant under Charlie Bradshaw at the University of Kentucky, Gene Stallings at Texas A&M University, and Bill Dooley at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the Paul W. Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award in 1995. The award is given to a former University of Alabama athlete in recognition of character, contribution to society, professional achievement, and service to fellow man. Moore is a member of the University of Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame, and will be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame on April 27, 2019.
After retiring from coaching, Moore entered private business. In 1994, he was honored on National Philanthropy Day by the West Florida chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. He has been active in bird dog field trials and showing Tennessee Walking Horses, having raised and owned multiple national champions in both venues.
Football Digest was a sports magazine for fans interested in professional American football, with in-depth coverage of the National Football League (NFL). The magazine modeled the Reader's Digest idea, to bring the best in football journalism from newspapers and magazines that the fans would have otherwise not had an opportunity to read.
The final issue was published in November 2005.
It also had its own independent All-Rookie team which began in 1971 and its own All-pro team which began in the 1980s. The All-Pro team was chosen by the editorial staff which gave them the freedom to choose otherwise less-publicized players on the second-team selections. By interviewing coaches and players the editors felt they got the inside "scoop" on who the "sleepers" were for an All-Pro Team.
Kathleen Nolan (born 1933), American actress.
Keith W. Nolan (May 7, 1964 – February 19, 2009) American military historian of the Vietnam War and author of Irish and Swedish descent.
Philip Nolan, main character of the short story "The Man Without a Country"
Norwood Vann (born February 18, 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former American football player who played five NFL seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Raiders in the early 1980s.
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Washington(CNN) During a tense exchange late Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris pressed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about whether he had discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation with anyone, including any individuals at the law firm founded by the President's personal attorney.
On the second day of confirmation hearings, the California Democrat asked the appellate judge whether he had "ever discussed special counsel Mueller or his investigation with anyone."
After answering "with other judges I know," Kavanaugh was asked if he had discussed the probe with anyone who works at Kasowitz Benson Torres, the New York law firm founded by President Donald Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz.
Kavanaugh replied that he's unsure he knows everyone who works at that law firm and asked the senator if there was a specific person she was talking about.
"I'm not remembering, but I'm happy to be refreshed or if you want to tell me who you're thinking of," Kavanaugh said.
"You've been speaking for almost eight hours to this committee about all sorts of things you remember," Harris said. "How can you not remember whether or not you had a conversation about Robert Mueller or his investigation with anyone at that law firm?"
Harris fired back, "I think you are thinking of someone, and you don't want to tell us."
"If there is a list of names he can be given of the lawyers to whom she is referring, I think that's fine," Lee said. "But I think it's unfair to suggest that an entire law firm should be imputed into the witness's memory when he doesn't know who works at the law firm."
Harris, who has been mentioned as a 2020 presidential contender, returned to questioning Kavanaugh, asking him again if he had a conversation with anyone about Mueller's investigation.
"The fact that it's ongoing, it's a topic in the news every day, I talk to fellow judges about it. It's the courthouse in the District of Columbia. So, I guess, the answer to that is yes," the Supreme Court nominee said.
Once again, Harris asked Kavanaugh if he spoke with anyone employed at Kasowitz's law firm about the special counsel investigation, arguing that he can answer the question without a list of its employees.
"I'd be surprised but I don't know everyone that works at that law firm," Kavanaugh said, adding, "I'm not remembering anything like that but I want to know a roster of people and I want to know more."
Harris then moved on to other points of questioning, but not before she told Kavanaugh "clearly you're not going to answer the question."
Kavanaugh responded to the questioning again on Thursday saying he hasn't had any "inappropriate" conversations about the special counsel's Russia investigation "with anyone," adding he doesn't "recall any conversations of that kind with anyone."
"I don't recall any conversations of that kind with anyone at that law firm," Kavanaugh said during the third day of hearings. "I haven't had any inappropriate conversations about that investigation with anyone."
The law firm also issued a statement to CNN on Thursday, saying, "There have been no discussions regarding Robert Mueller's investigation between Judge Kavanaugh and anyone at our firm."
Harris pushed back against the law firm's denial, telling CNN, "They're not under oath."
Asked if she didn't believe them, Harris said again, "They're not under oath. The question was asked under oath."
A Democratic aide told CNN that "we have reason to believe that a conversation happened and are continuing to pursue it." No further details were provided by Harris to Kavanaugh during the hearing, and she said she would have questions for the record for Kavanaugh about the issue.
Currently a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Kavanaugh, 53, was nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump in July to replaced retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, he could establish a conservative majority on the nation's highest court for decades. The third day of his confirmation hearings continues Thursday.
This story has been updated to reflect additional developments.
CNN's Phil Mattingly, Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju and Dana Bash contributed to this report.
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How many players can be connected to a MUSH at once? There are 3 factors which affect the answer to this question.
Each player connection comes in over a TCP/IP socket, and each socket require that the operating system allocate it a "file descriptor", a number which refers to that socket. In addition, each file which is opened by the MUSH process (standard input, standard output, standard error, one for each log file, one reserved for reading help/news/events files, one to accept connections) requires a file descriptor.
When you run out of descriptors and the MUSH tries to open another one, it will likely either crash or hang. Since the MUSH requires about 10 descriptors for itself (6 if you define SINGLE_LOGFILE), subtract that from the hard limit to figure out how many players you can support.
There's also a practical limit. The more players you have connected, the more work the CPU has to do to service the process, the more memory will be used (for player objects and for all those queued commands), and the more load will be placed on your network connection. At some point, your game will begin to lag increasingly. Once again, little can be done unless you have a budget for better hardware.
Finally, you can set a limit on how many players your MUSH will accept in your mush.cnf file. Usually, you just want to set your login limit at the highest practical value, taking the above things into consideration. So, if you've got a max of 64 file descriptors, and you don't define SINGLE_LOGFILE, figure you can have 54 players connected, and set login_limit accordingly. Remember, however, that your admin and players with the login @power can connect even over your login_limit, and if they run out your file descriptors, expect bad things to happen.
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Reality and Fiction: The culture of not hearing "no"
Yesterday I had a phone call from an insurance sales rep, trying to persuade me to upgrade my insurance policy. I explained that we can't afford to pay any more for insurance, and that we have policies in other companies too. Nothing seemed to be getting through, and he just kept up the sales pitch until I hung up. Then he called back and said, "The call seems to have been disconnected". I told him that I was trying to say "no" to his offer, and he said, "You didn't have to hang up, you could just say that you're not interested!". So I said, "I'm not interested, thank you", and he finally accepted this and ended the call.
This got me thinking about how difficult it is for people nowadays to hear "no". We are often taught to stand up for ourselves and learn how to say "no" to things we don't want, but at the same time we are not being trained to hear and accept when other people say "no".
It starts in childhood. Parents nowadays seem to think that children will be permanently damaged by hearing any rejection. Children learn that they can always get their own way eventually. I remember when I was growing up a request had two possible answers, "yes" and "no", and it if was "no", that was final. Sometimes I got an explanation for the "no", such as "we can't afford it" or "we don't have time", but even without any explanation, I had to accept the "no". This was a good preparation for reality, in which people can't always have everything they want. I grew up knowing that I was not the centre of the universe and that other people had needs and wishes, too.
Another major culprit in the culture of not hearing "no" is sales training. Sales people are taught to "overcome resistance" and have answers for any "objections", and they often become persistent to the point of harassment. This approach has leaked into general life, where people are encouraged not to take "no" for an answer and to keep on trying until they get what they want. Sometimes this stems from a sense of entitlement, and sometimes this sort of persistence is seen as the sort of "hard work" that deserves to be rewarded.
Ultimately, the inability to hear another person's "no" reflects a very self-centered culture in which the self is considered much more important than the other. Selfishness has become not only accepted but cherished, while empathy and consideration are often considered signs of weakness. People who think only of themselves and cannot hear another person's "no" may end up accused of sexual assault without understanding what they did. In the same way the sales rep yesterday couldn't understand that I was refusing his offer, I think it is possible that some men don't understand a woman's "no" in more intimate situations. I know that I often feel "raped" (metaphorically) by aggressive sales reps and selfish people in general.
One of the most important things we can teach and learn in life is the importance of listening, of really hearing and seeing each other, and having empathy and understanding for others even when this is inconvenient for our own desires. I hope some way can be found to get this message across before society becomes even more selfish and aggressive.
I know what you mean. Some years ago when things were financially better sales representatives from banks called in the middle of your afternoon nap to offer you a credit card or a loan. Now it is phone company representatives who are trying to sell a new phone contract. They don't accept a no. I always try to be gentle, I realise they have to do their job but in the end it is my time and my phone line they are taking advantage of. As for children I couldn't agree more.AriadnefromGreece!
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Located at Cruice Park is the Durundur Station Memorial, a sandstone monument in tribute to 6 of Queensland's early settlers - the Archer brothers. The explorers and pastoralists who've a number of locations throughout Queensland either named by them or in honour of them.
Who were the Archer Brothers?
The Archer brothers were the sons of William Archer, a Scottish timber merchant. 6 of the 7 brothers played a major role in the colonisation of Queensland, with the first of the brother's, David, arriving in Sydney in 1834. He was soon joined by William and Thomas in 1838. The brothers had planned to seek out pastoral lands on the Darling Downs, but this initial plan did not come to pass as all the best pastoral land had been staked out already by the time William and Thomas arrived in Australia. Instead, they turned their attention to the Stanley River region and established Durundur Station which is now the site of Cruice Park near present day Woodford.
Durundur was just the start of the brothers' quests for prosperity.
Thomas and David explored the Burnett Region and Fitzroy River, establishing Eidsvold and Coonambula runs, while Archibald Archer became a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1867 and served the state for 17 years. Brother Colin Archer not only became a successful shipbuilder in Norway, but was also the first to sail the vessel - Ellida, up the Fitzroy River to present day Rockhampton.
The Archer brothers named their station 'Durundur', which is the aboriginal name for the Moreton Bay Ash (Eucalyptus tessellaris). with the ambition to use the land for sheep breeding. However, the property proved unsuitable for sheep, so instead, Durundur became a base camp for travellers and pioneers.
Naturalist and explorer Ludwig Leichhardt stayed at Durundur for several months in 1843 and 1844, as he explored south-east Queensland. The property also became a popular stop for miners looking to strike it lucky at the Gympie Gold Fields.
Looking straight out through the doorway to the ridge on the near horizon you can see a tall hoop pine, a stout bunya pine and a large stand of bamboo. This is the original site of 'Durundur' homestead.
The first home was built on that site by the Archer brothers in 1841 and was a rough slab building cut from local timbers. This was followed by a much grander home built from Red Cedar that burnt to the ground in 1879, never to be rebuilt.
In 1841 it is believed to have been the most Northerly inland settlement of the colony of New South Wales not accessed bu ship. (The colony of Queensland was not declared until 1859) Brisbane remained as a penal settlement until 1842 and as a result an exclusion zone kept all freehold settlements at a distance of 50 mls (approx. 80 kms).
This monument was designed and created by Woodford Sculptor Guy Robinson and commissioned by the Woodford Historical Society with funding from the Moreton Bay Regional Council. The artist would also like to thank Jeff Horsley for his assistance transporting and installing this monument.
The 'Durundur Monument' was officially unveiled by Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AC The Governor of Queensland 26th October 2013.
Interested in Learning More about Durundur?
If your interested in reading a little more about what happened to the Durundur property in the 1900's, Bill Kitson published the article 'Repurchasing estates: the transformation of Durundur'.
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Have you ever wanted to convert an image of yourself into a cartoon?
Here's a simple shell script that allow you convert any images to a cartoon image.
echo -e "Cartoonify version 1.0\nUsage: $this [-v] input.jpg output.jpg\n"
command -v convert &>/dev/null || error "ImageMagick is not installed"
echo "Cannnot find file $input"
echo "Converting $input to $output"
convert -quiet -regard-warnings "$input" -colorspace RGB +repage "$tmpA1"
You can put the -v if you want the debug mode.
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Taylor County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,906. The county seat and largest city is Butler.
Georgia's location within the U.S.
Taylor County was created on January 15, 1852, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from portions of Macon, Marion and Talbot counties.
The County is named for Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States.
Militia districts in the county included Prattsburg 737, Hall 743, Reynolds 741, Butler 757, Cedar Creek 1071, and Whitewater 853.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 380 square miles (980 km2), of which 377 square miles (980 km2) is land and 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2) (0.8%) is water.
Taylor County is dissected by the Fall Line geological formation. The upper half of the county is located in the Piedmont region and consists of gently rolling hills and clay-based soils. The lower half of the county is located in the Upper Atlantic Coastal Plain and is markedly flatter and the soil more sandy. The Flint River marks the entirety of the county's northeastern border.
The county is driven by a largely agricultural economy. Peaches, strawberries, pecans, peanuts, watermelons, and cotton are the most commonly raised crops. Lumbering is also important to the local economy. The county is heavily forested in most areas due in part to the many large plantation pine farms. There are also many desirable hardwood forests, especially along the Flint River basin and tributary streams. The southwestern portion of the county is covered with large sandhills that have given rise to several stable sand mining operations.
The county supports a very healthy population of animals, including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, eastern cottontail, raccoon, coyote, bobcat, nine-banded armadillo, Virginia opossum, red-tailed hawk, and the federally endangered Florida gopher tortoise. Taylor County is home to five of North America's venomous snakes (eastern diamondback rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, Carolina pigmy rattlesnake, eastern coral snake, water moccasin, and copperhead), representing every North American family of venomous snake.
The dominant tree species are southern red oak, post oak, longleaf pine, loblolly pine, sweetgum, and red maple. Taylor County contains the largest stands of Atlantic white cedar in the state of Georgia. These stands can be found along much of Whitewater and Little Whitewater creeks and are at the heart of a growing movement to conserve these unique plant communities for posterity.
The vast majority of Taylor County is located in the Upper Flint River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin), with the exception of a tiny corner of the county just north of Georgia, which is located in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Walter F. George Lake sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.
As of the census of 2000, there were 8,815 people, 3,281 households, and 2,283 families residing in the county. The population density was 23 people per square mile (9/km2). There were 3,978 housing units at an average density of 10 per square mile (4/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 55.39% White, 42.56% Black or African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.93% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races. 1.85% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 3,281 households out of which 30.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.50% were married couples living together, 20.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.40% were non-families. 27.60% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.12.
In the county, the population was spread out with 26.90% under the age of 18, 9.00% from 18 to 24, 28.10% from 25 to 44, 22.80% from 45 to 64, and 13.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 95.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.60 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $25,148, and the median income for a family was $30,000. Males had a median income of $30,278 versus $20,241 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,432. About 20.20% of families and 26.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.90% of those under age 18 and 24.70% of those age 65 or over.
In the mid-2000s, Taylor County was noted in national news media as being one of the last areas in the South to hold racially segregated proms. Taylor County High School's first integrated prom was held 2002, but was not repeated the following year. The event was the basis for the 2006 movie For One Night.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 8,906 people, 3,522 households, and 2,342 families residing in the county. The population density was 23.6 inhabitants per square mile (9.1/km2). There were 4,563 housing units at an average density of 12.1 per square mile (4.7/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 58.5% white, 39.3% black or African American, 0.6% Asian, 0.1% American Indian, 0.7% from other races, and 0.8% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.8% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 17.3% were American, 10.9% were English, and 8.4% were Irish.
Of the 3,522 households, 32.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.8% were married couples living together, 19.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 33.5% were non-families, and 30.1% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.04. The median age was 39.7 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $25,237 and the median income for a family was $35,819. Males had a median income of $40,995 versus $25,919 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,693. About 25.9% of families and 33.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39.9% of those under age 18 and 30.7% of those age 65 or over.
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India Value Invest: Company in stratosphere?
I was analyzing a particular company named Mcnally Bharat Engineering recently and found its valuations reaching stratosphere without any reasons. The company seems to have a very large order book of the size of INR 5000 Crore but the financials of the company are not at all anything to write home about. The company paid more than INR 48 Crore of interest in FY2008-09 and has already paid INR 34.58 Crore worth of interest in the last three quarters of this financial year. Surprisingly the company's total debt stood at around INR 150 Crore at the end of FY2009. I am unable to understand why the company should pay so much interest on so little debt. Most probably the working capital debt is very high since the balance sheet mentions current liabilities of INR 643.77 Crore and sundry debtors of INR 652.17 Crore. Till last year, the company's PBDIT (Profit Before Depreciation, Interest, and Tax) at INR 102.2 Crore was more than twice that of interest payment of 48.42 Crore. But in the last two quarters, it has fallen below the ratio of two. Generally, bonds of a company are good if this ratio is at least 4. And this is at a time when the company is having the best environment for its business. As mentioned in the Security Analysis Chapter VII, bonds of a company should be bought based on any one of the two things: the character of the company's business or the ability of the company to weather destruction in demand. This particular company does not fall in the first category since Capital Goods is a highly cyclical business . So the company must have a lot of margin of safety to pay its debt during recessions which is missing from the financials of the company. If the bonds of a company are not safe, how can an investor give INR 1125 Crore worth of valuation to its equity? I would provide an update to this analysis when there is an article in any of the online media community about default of this company. Stay away from this company!!!
Interesting analysis, the moment i read the post i was reminded of Prof Aswath Damodaran's excellent post on Stock Vs Flow accounting http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2010/04/stock-versus-flow-my-thoughts.html . This looks like a classic case of the company hiding its debt by paying it off at the end of the FY . Hence the disproportionate interest/book debt. This could have been easily detected if only we had quarterly Balance sheets in India.So clearly Mcnally seems to be employing short term debt throughout the year and paying it off cleverly in March/Apr to make the B/S lok clean.
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Australia had imagined that a powerful statement in the Champions Trophy might be a catalyst, but their performance was limp, their captain Michael Clarke is injured, and their hold on the Champions Trophy - as ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball commentary put it "the last trinket on Australia's mantelpiece" - is now in danger of falling into the fireplace.
For much of the day the Edgbaston crowd was able to soak up the pleasurable sight of two of its own proceeding calmly along, although it was only when victory was achieved that confidence reigned that Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott, as two Warwickshire batsmen should, had perfectly assessed batting requirements.
When Trott was caught at the wicket for 43 from 56 balls, chasing a wide one delivered around the wicket by the left-armer, Mitchell Starc, England's second-wicket pair had put on 111 in 22 overs and uncertainty hung around the ground about whether their programmed approach, on a day when Alastair Cook's decision to bat first was a straightforward one, would yield the desired outcome.
Bell departed four overs later, his 91 occupying 115 balls, as James Faulkner bowled him with a straight ball which kept a little low, a fact the batsman communicated somewhat theatrically by falling to his knees after his stumps were broken. He has seemed slightly out of sorts in recent months, but this proved to be a match-winning innings of consummate judgment.
Australia were fined for maintaining a slow over-rate in their defeat to England in their Group A encounter at Edgbaston. Javagal Srinath, the match referee, found the side to be one over of the target at the end of the game, taking allowances into consideration. The captain George Bailey, who accepted the penalty without contest, was fined 20% of his match fee while his team-mates were docked 10%.
Bell's contribution was neat and discerning, studded by occasionally pleasing drives, Trott occupied himself diligently in that self-absorbed way of his, his innings containing a solitary boundary.
He was shaken out of his cocoon of contentment only once when he seemed entirely taken aback to find Australia's keeper, Matthew Wade, raging at him after the pair got in a tangle as Wade chased an inaccurate return. A few minutes later, having contemplated the mix up, he allowed himself a slightly disturbing smile.
England's plan was to take advantage of the last 15 overs, beginning with the batting Powerplay. But batting Powerplays are not often to England's tastes. It is as if they are contrary to the national character, resented for artificially intruding on the normal order of things, about as popular as a wind turbine in a Cotswold village, both having the potential to bring energy but often bringing resentment.
Instead, they stalled. The late-order marauders, Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler, fell cheaply within three balls of each other and it took a judicious 46 not out from 37 balls from Ravi Bopara to heal the breach. The average score at Edgbaston in ODIs was 224 but as the sun blazed down, this was not an average batting day.
Things might have turned out differently if Bell had been run-out without scoring. When Cook played Starc to backward point, David Warner pulled off a diving stop and sprung to his feet to throw down the stumps, with both batsmen at the wicketkeeper's end. Cook was just in his ground and Bell was a yard alongside him, but the ball careered into the leg side and, much kerfuffle later, England had stolen two overthrows.
Australia's bowling attack sorely lacked a specialist spinner on such a gripping surface and, among the pace bowlers, Mitchell Starc was a disappointment.
Then with the bat they never got going. David Warner and Shane Watson constitute as destructive an opening pair as exists in one-day cricket, but there was barely a whimper from either as they fell by the 15th over with the scoring rate barely three runs an over.
Warner's feet were fast as he carved at a ball angled across him from Stuart Broad and presented a diving catch to Buttler. Broad almost removed Watson, too, as a leading edge flew beyond Cook's grasp, diving to his left at slip. But Watson soon fell, his inside edge caught by Cook at gully, after the ball arced gently off the pad.
The balance of England's side gave Australia a chance with fifth-bowling duties to be shared between Ravi Bopara and the callow offspin of Joe Root, the latter with only one ODI wicket to his name. But this was a somewhat abrasive pitch which aided their chances of survival release and Hughes, losing patience, tried to pull Root off a length and was lbw.
The wicket which as good as confirmed England's victory - Mitchell Marsh rattling one into Eoin Morgan's midriff at backward point - also took James Anderson past Darren Gough as England's leading wicket-taker in ODIs. Five balls later, Matthew Wade followed, albeit reluctantly, initially hoping that Hot Spot would not reveal his thin edge, then plotting an escape because the ball might have dropped short of Buttler's gloves, but umpire Dharmasena's decision was upheld.
Bailey's half-century tried to hold Australia together, but he was wading through sand and his desperate attempt to go big against James Tredwell's offspin caused his downfall at long-on.
No Finn, no Swann. It was easy to believe that England were deliberately keeping two of their most potent bowlers out of sight of the Australians ahead of the Investec Ashes series.
England insisted that it was not the case. But they would, wouldn't they?
Swann had a none-too-serious sore back which had not prevented him bowling in the nets; Finn was omitted purely for reasons of form, perhaps influenced by the fact that now he is back on his long run, and comfortable with it, and the last thing England need is any long run, short run confusion ahead of the Ashes. Tim Bresnan's ability to draw life from the dry surface, most marked when he cut one back to bowl Adam Voges, justified the choice.
The Champions Trophy is a valid tournament in itself, not just some sort of Ashes points-scoring contest. That said, when Australia began their minimum of 13 meetings against England this summer with a gentle leg-stump half volley from Starc, which Cook flipped through backward square for four.
The roars of approval from the Eric Hollies Stand possessed a significance that England supporters hoped would last all summer long. By the end of the day they were even more convinced that it would.
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We study the problem of multiset prediction. The goal of multiset prediction is to train a predictor that maps an input to a multiset consisting of multiple items. Unlike existing problems in supervised learning, such as classification, ranking and sequence generation, there is no known order among items in a target multiset, and each item in the multiset may appear more than once, making this problem extremely challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel multiset loss function by viewing this problem from the perspective of sequential decision making. The proposed multiset loss function is empirically evaluated on two families of datasets, one synthetic and the other real, with varying levels of difficulty, against various baseline loss functions including reinforcement learning, sequence, and aggregated distribution matching loss functions. The experiments reveal the effectiveness of the proposed loss function over the others.
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Why do I need to wear a hearing aid that sits behind my ear? My audiologist says it is better but I see people wearing tiny aids that sit in their ear and they seem to hear very well.
There are lots of factors to take into consideration when choosing a style of hearing aid. The range of devices available is very broad from tiny devices that are completely in the ear canal to implantable devices with external and internal components like the cochlear implant. The style of devices depends on the type of hearing loss, the degree of loss, the shape of the ear, personal preference and ear health factors among others.
In general, the smaller the hearing aid, the lower the power, so people who use these tend to have low to moderate hearing loss and so may appear to be doing better because they don’t need so much help!
There are exceptions to the bigger = powerful rule as the completely in-the-canal devices can be pushed a long way down the ear canal, thereby increasing the sound pressure level at the eardrum. This means that it takes less power for these devices to get more volume. They are still not suitable for profound hearing losses. Also, some people’s ear canals are simply not large enough to accommodate this style of hearing aid or are an unusual shape which makes it hard for the device to fit in the ear - you could have a sharp bend or a very narrow canal which could make wearing an in-the-ear device difficult. Depending on the loss, aids that sit behind-the- ear can be fitted with very narrow tubing and a simple dome that sits in the ear avoiding issues with ear canal shape and size. These also allow fresh air and natural sound into the ear canal. For some people, the sensation of wearing the hearing aid in-the-ear and the subsequent effect of hollowness or loudness of their own voice is unpleasant and so prefer an open style of device. Smaller aids can also mean less functionality such as less hearing programs or no telecoil. However in these hi-tech days of remote controls, streamers and remote microphone technology, even very small devices have more and more options. The most important thing is to ensure that you discuss your individual wishes and concerns with your own audiologist to make sure that you choose something that is right for you. The audiologist can guide you and provide expert advice on clinical aspects of the fitting. Some people are happy to sacrifice a little on the functionality or sound quality to obtain the style of the hearing aid they want and that is a choice that only the hearing user themselves can make.
Second Answer: Different styles of hearing aids suit different people. The main reason why people choose the behind the ear style aid with an earmould which sits in the ear is that they are much more powerful. With the in-the-ear style, even though they can now accommodate much greater losses than in the past, you are still limited by the physical size of the aid and the way it sits in the ear canal and concha. Sometimes components such as a telecoil have to be left out of the in- the-ear aids to save space and this can reduce the functionality of the device for the user. The other reason why a behind the ear aid could be preferable is because the earmould can be made very open in what we call a skeleton style with a big air vent which lets lots of fresh air and natural sound into the ear. These are often better for people with tinnitus, good low pitch hearing or ear health issues. More recently we have seen very open devices where there is no earmould but simply a tube carrying sound from the aid to the ear and a dome to hold the tube in place. It is important to discuss all the aspects of your device decision with the Audiologist so you can make an informed decision for this important choice.
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I don’t think other people have this sort of crippling fear. But it’s actually completely crucial for modern humans. And the rejection of this specific paranoia, combined with the current rise of social media behemoths, is enabling the worst stifling of human thought since the Dark Ages.
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What are the soft skills that young employees are missing that their older colleagues value the most? They can be boiled down to some key behaviors in three “old-fashioned” categories: professionalism, critical thinking and followership. Let’s take a closer look at the first.
Most young employees are entering your organization straight from school, where they’ve probably become accustomed to a luxurious form of “pretend adulthood,” where room and board are covered by tuition, they are surrounded by their peers and friends, and they have access to the resources of their college or university.
Even after they arrive in the workplace, young employees are still only a call or text away from their parents, who are likely to have been what I call “helicopter parents on steroids.” Your young employees may be on their own now, for the first time, after being raised by parents who scheduled, managed and supported their every move.
Communication practices are habits, and most young people are in the habit of remote, informal, staccato and relatively low-stakes interpersonal communication because of their constant access to smartphones and social media.
Much of what older, more experienced people might see as matters of professionalism – such as attitude, self-presentation, schedule and interpersonal communication – are what young adults are more likely to consider personal matters of personality, style or preference, which are none of their employer’s business.
It’s possible to coach new young employees on soft skills, building them just like any other skill they might need.
Make them aware: Name the skill, and describe what it means to the organization.
Make them care: Explore what the skill means to them in their role.
Sell it: Explain the self-building value of the skill.
Break it down: Spell out exactly what needs to be done, step by step.
Make it easy: Use ready-made lessons and exercises whenever possible.
Involve them: Give them credit (and maybe even extra credit!) for self-directed learning.
Make it practical: Spotlight opportunities to practice on the job.
Follow up, follow up, follow up: Provide coaching-style feedback to reinforce training whenever possible.
When it comes to improving professionalism, teaching the soft skills of good self-evaluation is a good place to start. Regular, productive, honest self-evaluation against clear standards is what really drives learning and growth.
Regular, productive, honest self-evaluation against clear standards is what really drives learning and growth.
More and more organizations are integrating into their cultures a regular practice of measuring, but, too often, what is measured most is removed from what individuals feel they can actually control. Therefore, the numbers employees are always hearing about don’t tell them much about their own performance and how they can improve. When it comes to using self-awareness to drive continuous improvement, the key is measuring concrete actions that are within the control of the individual.
For every project, there should be a project plan, including every goal and deadline along the way, complete with guidelines and parameters for every goal.
For every recurring task and responsibility, there should be standard operating procedures, maybe with checklists or other tools.
Using time and activity logs to track day-to-day actions can be helpful in understanding how and when an employee is using his or her time.
Get your employees into the habit of regular self-evaluation by measuring concrete actions within their own control.
If they learn and develop the habit of using these kinds of self-evaluation tools, you will help them get on the path to continuous improvement. These tools also give you a great way to provide ongoing guidance, direction, support and coaching about their work. Their scorekeeping will also double as a great source of ongoing real-time documentation, making everyone’s job easier.
Bruce Tulgan is the founder and CEO of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a management research and training firm, as well as RainmakerThinking.Training, an online training company. He is the best-selling author of numerous books, including “Bridging the Soft Skills Gap” (2015). Bruce can be reached by email, or you can follow him on Twitter @BruceTulgan.
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If we recognize that a given polynomial follows a certain pattern, we can use that pattern to factor the polynomial.
• the second term is twice the product of the factors being squared: 10x2y = 2(5y)(x2).
Thus, the factorization is (5y - x2)2.
You can multiply to check the factorization.
Check the form of 16w2 - 81y6.
• the second term is a perfect square: 81y6 = (9y3)2.
Thus, the factorization is (4w + 9y3)(4w - 9y3). You can multiply to check the factorization.
The polynomial 16w2 + 81y6 is not a difference of two squares because the terms are added rather than subtracted.
The polynomial 16w2 + 81y6 cannot be factored using integers.
We can also use patterns to factor the sum or difference of two cubes.
• the second term is a perfect cube: 27x6 = (3x2)3.
So, the polynomial is a difference of two cubes.
Thus, the factorization is (2y - 3x2)(4y2 + 6x2y + 9x4).
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Discuss the moral and economic implications involved in the movement. Ethical behavior in business is consistent with the principles, norms, and standards of business practice that have been agreed upon by society. Society is unhappy with greed and corruption of wealth inequality prevalent in the U S. The wealth of the United States people is only held by 1% of the U.S. population (“Occupy Together”. 2011).
The Occupy movement was brought on by ongoing financial fraud and wanting the wrong doers to be brought to justice. The main goal of the movement is to separate money from politics. The occupation of Wall Street was proposed by a Canadian based abti-consumerist organization called Adbusters, to protest a growing disparity in wealth , and corporate influence on democracy. The issue being; they represent the 99%, and have the goal of ending the greed and corruption that the wealthiest 1% of Americans have (“Occupy Together”. 2011). The Occupy Wall Street movement wants the wealth to be more eqaully distribted.
The goal is to rebuild the wealth, based on policy reform such as policies to shrink and eliminate the influence that corporate america has on politics. The movement wants to reform the current tax structure, create new jobs, reform health care, and improve policies that involve environment and energy, improve the current state of the educational system, and create anti-war policies (Hayat, 2011).
Analyze each of the implications identified above against the utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to determine which theory best applies to the movement. Support your position with examples and evidence. I feel as though the Utilitarianism theory best applies to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. “Utilitarianism is the moral doctrine that we should always act to produce the greatest possible balance of good over bad for everyone affected by our actions ( Shaw, 2011)”. Some things that manifested the situation where the general sense of wealth inequality, and the corporate influence of our government. According to Congressional Budget Office (2007), “between 1979 and 2007 income of the top 1% of Americans grew by an average of 275%. From 1992-2007 the top 400 income earners in the U.S. saw their income increase 392% and their average tax rate reduced by 37%. In 2007 the richest 1% owned 34.6% of the country’s total wealth and the next 19% owned 50.5%. The top 20% of Americans owned 85% of the country’s wealth” (Use of Evidence in Analysis of Budget and Economic Policies).
When President Obama was elected, the movement thought that change was going to come. They were hoping that he would pass laws to help regulate the banking systems, and bring the financial fraudsters to justice. When Adbusters saw that this was not going to happen Occupy Wall Street was born.
Those participating in the sit in want a better quality of life and to be politically heard. The group represents themselves as the 99% of humanity that will not tolerate the 1% greed and corruption of corporations (Malito, 2011). The ethical change that this movemenet is looking for is better business ethics with accountability, foreclosures, bailouts to corporations, executive bonuses, educational debts, and outsourced labor leaving people without health care and jobs, these ethical dilemmas are a portion of the movement against business practices. The message is lack of systems protecting human rights and the lack of systems caring for individuals.
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How does water affect earth surface?
Water can affect the surface by erosion because over time it slowly carries away dirt and rock. This is how the Grand Canyon was created. The Colorado River slowly carried away rock and earth to create the Grand Canyon that we know today.
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"Above my pay grade" is NOCANDO. Broken into four parts instead of three, that phrase reads "NO C AND O." Each of those five strange phrases makse sense when CO is added to the beginning (and the clue is ignored). However, I question if anyone who rejects a plea for assistance with a job by saying "No can do" is refusing because the task is more appropriate for a worker in a higher pay grade. I think "No can do" is just a euphemism for "I don't want to help you."
"Orly arrival" is AVION, which is not used in English. East, in Essen" is OST, which is not used in English. "Eau in Ecuador" is AGUA, which is not used in English. "Show of support" is AYE, which is not any kind of "show" but rather is a spoken word. "About" is INRE, a Latin term used in business documents and correspondence but never, as far as I know, in actual conversation. "Back to back" is ACHE, which is.....umm.....well, I'm not sure exactly what that means.
"__ corda: played using the piano's soft pedal" is UNA. The una corda pedal -- it's Italian for "one string" -- was introduced in the late 1700s. Depressing the pedal shifted the keyboard slightly to the right so when notes were played, the hammers struck only one string instead of three, thereby making the notes softer. Modern-day pianos have strings that are so close together, there is no longer the "una corda." When the pedal is depressed and a note is played, the hammer strikes two strings. The notes are softer but not as soft as they would be on a piano from the 18th century.
In closing, here is something to think about: Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car is not called a racist?
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What are the pros and cons of a career in visual communication design? Get real job descriptions, career prospects and salary information to see if becoming a visual communication designer is right for you.
In visual communication design, a creative field that includes graphic design, digital media and environmental graphics, designers work to create design layouts, Web pages and multimedia designs. Check out the pros and cons of a career as a visual communication designer to find out if it's right for you.
Visual communication designers are creative, highly trained and technologically savvy visual messengers who use combinations of images and type to inform, sell, persuade or even provoke. The titles they hold usually refer to their area of specialization, including graphic designer, multimedia artist or Web designer. Some designers choose to focus on print, and their work can be found in advertisements, books, magazines and newspapers or on the packages of your favorite products. Multimedia artists and Web designers work on a digital level to create animated features, films, video games and websites. Visual communication designers who specialize in environmental graphics produce large-scale projects, like signage and exhibition displays.
As a visual designer, you are usually employed on either a staff or a freelance basis by advertising agencies, design firms and product developers. You use traditional and contemporary tools like pencils, paper and computer graphic software to plan and execute designs for both print and electronic media. Be it an advertisement, a publication layout or a storyboard for an animated feature, you'll begin with a simple sketch. However, this is not a leisurely profession - most visual designers work according to production schedules and tight deadlines.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), from 2012 to 2022, employment opportunities for multimedia artists and animators and graphic designers are expected to increase by 6% and 7%, respectively. This is slower than the average growth rate for all other professions. As of May 2014, multimedia artists and animators earned a median annual salary of $64,000, while graphic designers earned a median annual salary of $46,000. Industries with the highest levels of employment for multimedia artists and animators include motion picture and video, computer systems design, advertising, software publishing industries and information services. Major employers of graphic designers include motion picture and video, publishing companies, advertising agencies and specialized design services.
A bachelor's degree is usually required to enter the field of graphic design, according to the BLS. While several bachelor's degree programs are available, the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) considers a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) to be a more suitable degree for serious design students who want to become professional artists or designers. Two-thirds of the coursework in a BFA program is concentrated in the visual arts, while only one-third of the B.A. program is focused on visual arts.
A technology company in Bloomington, IL, is advertising for a visual designer with 'Jedi-style' computer software skills and a strong background in print design. While the job description does not specify the need for a degree, candidates should have the communication, persuasive and organizational abilities necessary to sell their ideas to the company's clients and bring projects in on time and within budget.
An international staffing leader in San Jose, CA, is looking for a visual designer with three years experience or a relevant degree and in-depth knowledge of standard graphic design software. This person will be responsible for producing interactive media for the Web, PC applications and interactive television.
A college in Danville, KY, has an opportunity for a visual and Web designer to create advertisements, billboards, magazines and promotional videos. A bachelor's degree and five years of experience in the field is required, preferably in higher education or the nonprofit environment.
A start-up computer software company in San Francisco, CA, needs a senior visual designer with a minimum of five years of experience to work directly with the founder and chief executive officer. Candidates should have the ability to manage multiple design projects, including Web applications, creative collateral materials and displays.
If experience and talent are what you need to stand out in the field, how do you get into the field in the first place? The BLS states that a high-quality portfolio is often the make or break factor in getting a job. In addition to undergraduate studio projects, some schools have publications departments that design internal and external materials. These projects would give you the opportunity to include published work in your portfolio. As you become more technically proficient, you might also want to consider approaching a company for freelance work. With the increased use of digital technology, you can make your portfolio more assessable and demonstrate your design skills by creating an online portfolio.
Illustrators use pencils, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolors or even computer software to produce fine and commercial artwork. They can work with art directors, editors and writers. According to Salary.com, painters and illustrators can expect to earn a median annual salary of $38,000 as of March 2012. While an art education or degree is not always required to work as an illustrator, it is difficult to acquire these skills without some formal instruction and training, as reported by the BLS.
Industrial designers conceptualize and plan the products we all use everyday like appliances, cars, furniture, household items, toys and technology goods. Their ideas, just like those of visual communication designers, often begin with a sketch. In May 2011, the median annual salary of an industrial designer was $61,000, stated the BLS. To enter the field, most candidates need to have earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design, engineering or architecture.
Interior designers plan the interior spaces of houses, offices, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and airport terminals. Like graphic artists, they also use aesthetics, color and space to execute their designs. In May 2011, the median annual salary of an interior designer was $48,000. A degree from a 2-year or 4-year program in interior design is the minimum requirement for entering the field, as reported by the BLS.
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Locals here in the Sakha Republic - the largest and coldest region in the Russian Federation - are hoping the US actor will personally accept the statuette as recognition of the appreciation of his admirers over his role in latest movie The Revenant but also in his overall career.
When it was first announced earlier this month, the prize was reported around the world but now jewellery company Kierge has completed the impressive statuette in five days.
It was unveiled as DiCaprio waits to see if he will win the Oscar for Best Actor in the Academy Awards.
Tatyana Egorova, who organised the Siberian Oscar, said the star had 'made the world a little bit better and happier' with his many roles.
She has contacted the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to inform them of the award and is awaiting a response.
'Any official award, even prestigious, is formal, and expresses the opinion only of a small group of people,' she said. 'We have the right to present our favourite actor with the people's award.
'It is also our reward - a grateful response to Leonardo DiCaprio, who dedicated his Golden Globe to the world's indigenous peoples, that is, to us, the inhabitants of the Far North of Russia.
The Siberian statuette features a male figure made of silver with pronounced Asiatic features holding a gold 'choron'. This is a ritual cup of the Yakut people - a symbol of peace, harmony, spiritual unity and good intentions'.
I hope so,it is a great honor for Leonardo.
To paraphrase a famous movie quote: "if you make it, he will come"! Knowing Leo, he is just the type who will come and accept the award in person. Keep your fingers crossed, folks! Good Luck!!
It's beautiful, as are the chorons, and I hope he visits you all to accept his award.
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There are all sorts of ways of taking notes!
You can use a graphic organizer or make a memory map.
1. Use some sort of easily understood organizational system.
2. Include accurate supporting details.
3. Use as few words as possible.
4. Only use words you understand.
6. Add colour-coding and illustrations.
7. Make good use of space.
9. Show evidence of great effort.
10. Show evidence of deep thinking.
12. Include your given and surname, division number and the date.
1. Start with a dash.
2. Leave a space after the dash.
3. Do not start with a capital letter.
4. Use as few words as possible.
5. Rephrase and use your own words if possible; use quotation marks if you copy exactly.
6. Do not use a period at the end.
8. Leave out verbs if possible.
1. Choose the key words and concepts in your rough notes.
2. Choose a graphic organizer.
3. Decide how to divide your notes into sections that match your organizer.
4. Code your notes into sections.
5. Get some plain white paper and sketch out the organizer shape.
6. Write your notes in the various sections. Use ink.
7. Add coloured illustrative bits to make organized notes.
8. Add the source of information, your name and division number.
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Who is the zodiac’s most self- contained person? Many would say Capricorn, the goat. Born in the very dead of winter, Capricorns have a spare, prudent, and preserving nature, that creates a sense of loneliness, ironically something that appeals to their nature.
Capricorn is the tenth sign of the zodiac, represented by the goat.
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I live in Washington State. When I tell people that they always say, "Oh, that’s such a pretty state." Which is true, mostly.
You see, the Cascade Mountain Range runs down the length of the state from Canada to Oregon cutting the state roughly into a western third and an eastern two-thirds. The Cascades is a barrier geographically, climatologically, culturally, economically, and politically. The Washington State most people think of when they praise its beauty is what those of us living in the rain shadow of the Cascades call "The Wet Side." That's the side with the Seattle metropolitan area, with Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. That's the side with Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens, and the majestic Olympic Mountains. That's the side that has 78% of the population of the state. That's the side of the state with the headquarters of Fortune 500 companies Microsoft, Costco, and Weyerhaeuser. It's where Boeing builds most of its planes. It's the side with trees and green vegetation.
The Eastern two-thirds of the state are quite different. A large part of it is the Columbia Basin that runs roughly from Grand Coulee Dam to the Oregon border, from the Cascades to the rolling, wheat-covered hills of the Palouse. Scrubbed clean by ice age mega-floods (parts are called "The Scab Lands") and in that aforementioned rain shadow, here you only see green vegetation if someone is irrigating it. And there's a lot of irrigation of potatoes, corn, wheat, alfalfa, apples, and grapes for the famous Basin wineries. The economy is mostly agriculture, which lately is paying worse than usual. Then there are the sparsely populated, mountainous counties along the Canadian Border, the farmland of the Palouse in the southeastern corner, and the foothills of the Rockies along the Idaho Border. Spokane is the second largest city in the state, and Spokane County the fourth largest county.
And the east side of the state is "Cougar Country."
There are two major universities in Washington State: the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington State University in Pullman. The contrast couldn't be more stark. UW (also known as U-Dub) is in the state's largest city. It is the largest university in the Pacific Northwest. It is considered one of the "Public Ivies" (universities that are public or state owned but are on a par with the Ivy League). It has for decades led the country in research grant dollars. Its medical school is world class.
Spokane which is 75 miles due north on slow, two-lane roads. It is 8 miles from Moscow, Idaho (home of the University of Idaho). It is known for its agriculture and animal husbandry programs (which is earned it the nickname "Cow-tech"). And most of the east side of the state is considered "Cougar Country." And the Cougar fans (or simply "Cougars") support their "Cougs" come hell or high water or losing seasons or whatever may come. Even as a UW alum and supporter and fan, I have to admit the Cougs are more virulent in their support of their school. The potato storage pictured at right is an example (this is located along a major east-west highway in Eastern Washington).
And I have to admit, the WSU alumni are more supportive. For example, there was a competition that the alumni who donated the most money to Habitat for Humanity got their flag to fly at the top of the Space Needle during the week of the Apple Cup, the annual rivalry football game between the two schools. The Cougs won and not but a small margin.
So I live in Cougar Country but I'm a "Husky." And I'm not quiet about it. I have a big purple W on the back window of my car (Husky's colors are purple and gold) and University of Washington licence plates. I often wear Husky T-shirts and polos. And I never lose a chance to tweak some Cougar about their team (assuming the Huskies win the Apple Cup as they did this year). And Cougars never fail to tease me if the Huskies don't win the Apple Cup (like last year).
But even in Seattle (home of UW) the aura of support for the Huskies is nothing like it is in Eastern Washington for the Cougs. It's pervasive with crimson clothes, license plates, and the WSU logo (see above) everywhere. In fact, I might be (due to my rebellious streak) more supportive of UW than I otherwise would be because I'm so steeped in WSU support.
But it's all in fun. I've yet to meet a Coug who couldn't take good-natured ribbing about their team. And if a Coug gets smart with me I just smile and point out how the Cougars "couged" their first bowl game in 10 years. And I'm looking forward to Friday's Fight Hunger Bowl, when the Huskies will be playing the Cougars (of BYU).
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Ethnocentrism is the act of judging another culture based on preconceptions that are found in the values and standards of one's own culture – especially regarding language, behavior, customs, and religion. These aspects or categories are distinctions that define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity.
William G. Sumner defined ethnocentrism as "the technical name for the view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it." He further characterized ethnocentrism as often leading to pride, vanity, the belief in one's own group's superiority, and contempt for outsiders. These problems may occur from the division of societies into in-groups and out-groups. Ethnocentrism is explained in the social sciences and genetics. In anthropology, cultural relativism is used as an antithesis and antonym to ethnocentrism.
The term ethnocentrism was coined by Ludwig Gumplowicz and subsequently employed by social scientist William G. Sumner. Gumplowicz defined ethnocentrism as the reasons by virtue of which each group of people believed it had always occupied the highest point, not only among contemporaneous peoples and nations, but also in relation to all peoples of the historical past.
Although central to anthropology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, the concept of ethnocentrism has been defined and characterized so variously that some scholars have spoken of the "disutility of the ethnocentrism concept" and have wondered whether any conclusions could be drawn from the large body of research on ethnocentrism.
William Graham Sumner proposed two different definitions. In the 1906 Folkways, Sumner stated that "ethnocentrism is the technical name for this view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it." In the 1911 War and Other Essays, he wrote that "the sentiment of cohesion, internal comradeship, and devotion to the in-group, which carries with it a sense of superiority to any out-group and readiness to defend the interests of the in-group against the out-group, is technically known as ethnocentrism."
In 1996, Robert K. Merton commented that "although the practice of seeing one's own group as the center of things is empirically correlated with a belief in superiority, centrality and superiority need to be kept analytically distinct in order to deal with patterns of alienation from one's membership group and contempt for it."
People raised in a particular culture that absorb the values and behaviors of that culture will develop a worldview that considers their own culture to be the norm. If people then experience other cultures that have different values and behaviors, they will find that the thought patterns appropriate to their native culture are not appropriate for the new cultures. However, since people are accustomed to their native culture, it can be difficult for them to see the behaviors of people from a different culture from the viewpoint of that culture rather than from their own.
Ethnocentrism can be explicit or implicit. Explicit ethnocentrism involves the ability to express feelings about outsiders (people from other groups). Implicit ethnocentrism refers to the inhibition of the feelings for outsiders.
It is somewhat difficult for us to recognize that the value which we attribute to our own civilization is due to the fact that we participate in this civilization, and that it has been controlling all our actions from the time of our birth; but it is certainly conceivable that there may be other civilizations, based perhaps on different traditions and on a different equilibrium of emotion and reason, which are of no less value than ours, although it may be impossible for us to appreciate their values without having grown up under their influence.
Boas and his colleagues promulgated the principle that there are no inferior races or cultures. Cultural relativism in anthropology is a methodological principle, indispensable for investigating and comparing societies in as unprejudiced way as possible without using a developmental scale that is usually irrelevant. Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that any human science had to transcend the ethnocentrism of the scientist. Both urged anthropologists to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in order to overcome their ethnocentrism. Boas developed the principle of cultural relativism where context plays an important role in the understanding of other people's values and Malinowski developed the theory of functionalism as guides for producing non-ethnocentric studies of different cultures. Classic examples of anti-ethnocentric anthropology include Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Malinowski's The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929), and Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture (1934). Mead and Benedict were two of Boas's students.
Scholars are generally agreed that Boas developed his ideas under the influence of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Legend has it that, on a field trip to the Baffin Islands in 1883, Boas would pass the frigid nights reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In that work, Kant argued that human understanding could not be described according to the laws that applied to the operations of nature, and that its operations were therefore free, not determined, and that ideas regulated human action, sometimes independent of material interests. Following Kant, Boas pointed out, for instance, the starving Eskimos who, because of their religious beliefs, would not hunt seals to feed themselves, thus showing that no pragmatic or material calculus determined their values.
There is no broad consensus as to the cause of ethnocentrism. Various areas of social and biological science have developed theories as to how ethnocentrism works. The social identity approach to psychology suggests that ethnocentricity is caused by a strong identification with one's own culture that links one's self-esteem to a positive view of that culture. It's theorized that in order to maintain that positive view, people make social comparisons that cast competing cultural groups in an unfavorable light.
Research published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) suggested that ethnocentrism may be mediated by the oxytocin hormone. It was found that in randomized controlled trials "oxytocin creates intergroup bias because oxytocin motivates in-group favoritism and, to a lesser extent, out-group derogation."
In The Selfish Gene, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writes that "blood-feuds and inter-clan warfare are easily interpretable in terms of Hamilton's genetic theory." Simulation-based experiments in evolutionary game theory have attempted to provide an explanation for the selection of ethnocentric-strategy phenotypes.
Realistic conflict theory assumes that ethnocentrism happens due to "real or perceived conflict" in between groups. This also happens when a dominant group may perceive the new members as a threat.
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Do you live in Webster?
Webster is a city located in Sumter County, Florida, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 805. According to theU.S. Census Bureau's 2004 estimates, the town had a population of 819. The ZIP Code for this city is 33597, which is also shared by Oak Grove, St. Catherine, Croom-a-Coochee, Tarrytown, Linden, and part of Mabel.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2). 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
As of the census of 2000, there are 805 people, 294 households, and 209 families residing in the city. The population density is 608.2 inhabitants per square mile (235.5/km²). There are 353 housing units at an average density of 266.7 per square mile (103.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 56.15% White, 34.53% African American, 0.87% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 4.60% from other races, and 3.35% from two or more races. 15.16% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 294 households out of which 36.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.8% are married couples living together, 26.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.9% are non-families. 25.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.70 and the average family size is 3.19.
In the city the population is spread out with 31.3% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 81.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $18,000, and the median income for a family is $25,000. Males have a median income of $28,523 versus $22,361 for females. The per capita income for the city is $9,823. 30.6% of the population and 28.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 29.8% of those under the age of 18 and 21.8% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
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Summarize your expertise in greater detail Craig Myers, Founder of CR Myers & Associates, is a seasoned veteran of many years as a financial consultant. Craig’s style and ability have garnered him national prominence and recognition. He and his financial services group have utilized cutting edge products and services that have considerably and consistently grown their clients’ net worth and retirement assets. Most fundamental to Craig’s wealth strategies is his strict adherence to fiduciary principles and the preservation of his client’s wealth.
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As your friend who read the books has probably already told you, next season of Game of Thrones will finally get to the shocking twist where dreamy Icelandic band Sigur Rós shows up. Or so says EntertainmentWeekly, who report that the trio is currently outside their native home Beyond the Wall to shoot a cameo in Croatia for the upcoming run of the hit HBO series. It's not being revealed who they'll play, or if Jónsi's going to stab a cello bow into a character you really like or something, but them being a wedding band probably isn't out of the question.
This won't be the first time musicians have appeared in Game of Thrones. Members of Snow Patrol and Coldplay have previously shot guest parts, while Nikolaj Coster-Waldau probably did keyboard/vocals in a short-lived Danish new wave band of the late '80s. You can just tell.
\n\nAs your friend who read the books has probably already told you, next season of Game of Thrones will finally get to the shocking twist where dreamy Icelandic band Sigur Rós shows up. Or so says EntertainmentWeekly, who report that the trio is currently outside their native home Beyond the Wall to shoot a cameo in Croatia for the upcoming run of the hit HBO series. It's not being revealed who they'll play, or if Jónsi's going to stab a cello bow into a character you really like or something, but them being a wedding band probably isn't out of the question.\n\nThis won't be the first time musicians have appeared in Game of Thrones. Members of Snow Patrol and Coldplay have previously shot guest parts, while Nikolaj Coster-Waldau probably did keyboard/vocals in a short-lived Danish new wave band of the late '80s. You can just tell.
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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development is on the verge of destroying Europe's largest field genebank and replacing it with commercial cottages. The Pavlovsk experimental station outside St Petersburg holds more than 4,000 varieties of fruits and berries, and according the Pavlovsk station's director, "more than 90% of the collection is found in no other research station."
The collection survived the German siege of Leningrad during WWII, and one of Vavilov's assistants reportedly starved to death protecting all these edible seeds. If you're wondering why seeds are worth dying for, remember that this seed bank is preserving rare genetic traits that could one day help farmers save entire nations from famine. With global warming growing worse by the day, it's only going to become more critical that we have a wide variety of plants we can try cultivating in a new climate.
Urge the President of Russia to save the seedbank and the important genetic information it is storing.
I'm writing to ask you to save the Pavlovsk experimental station outside St Petersburg. This seedbank stores genetic information for more than 4,000 varieties of fruits and berries, and more than 90% of the collection is found in no other research station. Humanity cannot afford to lose this valuable information or even risk its damage.
Historically, humans used more than 7,000 plant species to meet their basic food needs, but today only about 150 plant species are commercially grown. With global warming growing worse by the day, it's only going to become more critical that we have a wide variety of plants to try cultivating in a new climate. Please recognize the value of this seedbank by insisting that the Russian Ministry of Economic Development abandon plans to build commercial housing in its place.
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The world's a mess. How do thoughtful people make sense of it all? In this series we've asked a number of our authors to suggest a book, philosopher, work of art - or anything else, for that matter - that will help to make sense of it all.
The world we live in is a dangerous and confusing place. In my quest to make sense of it, I'm returning to Marxism and Freedom - 40 years after reading it for the first time.
It was written by the founder of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism, Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987). I read the book for the first time in 1979: the year Margaret Thatcher was elected in Britain, and the formal beginning of the neoliberal counter-revolution. Dunayevskaya called it a "changed world". At that point the book was already over 20 years old, but I found something refreshing about its engagement with Marxism as a living philosophy connected with daily life struggles.
My return to Marxism and Freedom here in 2019 has focused on some of its ideas that might help orient our thinking in the present. This, at a time when we're facing the morbid stages of neoliberalism in its neo-fascist and authoritarian-nationalist forms: from Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro to Donald Trump in the US, from Turkey's Recep Erdoğan to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Dunayevskaya (who was born Raya Shpigel but took her mother's maiden name) was not an academic but a revolutionary intellectual schooled by organisations and their struggles. She joined the revolutionary movement in the United States as a teenager in the early 1920s, and was kicked out of the Communist Party at age 18 after asking for a discussion about Leon Trotsky. He was a leading Marxist revolutionary who was expelled from the USSR in 1929 after criticising Joseph Stalin.
Dunayevskaya joined the Trotskyist movement. She is probably best known as Trotsky's Russian language secretary in Mexico, which is where he settled after his expulsion and where he was assassinated in 1940. By the time he died, Dunayevskaya had broken with Trotsky over his defence of the Soviet Union after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939.
She argued that Russia was a state-capitalist rather than a socialist society, and held that Marx's theory of liberation had been transformed into its opposite by the Communist Party intelligentsia to justify a ruthless totalitarian system.
reestablish Marxism in its original form, which Marx called 'a thoroughgoing Naturalism, or Humanism'.
Prefiguring what is now called intersectionality, she highlighted "new passions and new forces" that emerged in freedom struggles. She argued that activists and intellectuals must keep their ears open to these new voices and new articulations of freedom that had often been silenced or ignored.
She also declared the African and Asian decolonisation movements that developed after the end of World War II epochal, as they raised the question of human relations as a "totality of devotion to the struggle for freedom".
The brilliance of Marxism and Freedom, and its re-articulation of Marx's Marxism as a theory of liberation, is that it was written in collaboration with miners, autoworkers and students who contributed to "a new understanding". The point was not only that people think, but also that people in struggles develop new ways of knowing through experience, dialogue and self-reflection.
All this was exciting to me as a 21-year-old who had already become cynical about programmatic socialist groups that often viewed movements as fodder to be mobilised. I probably didn't understand it fully at the time, but I remember meeting Dunayevskaya in 1985 just after the year-long British miners strike had suffered an historic defeat.
I don't think it's correct for us to try and solve it for others. I think what we have to do is to create the conditions for everyone to be able to experiment with choices, in love.
When we met she spoke to me about the importance of worker-intellectuals to Marxist-Humanism. Here she included the black auto worker from Detroit, Charles Denby, the author of Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal. They met in the late 1940s and remained colleagues until his death in 1983.
I have just the man to fill Stalin's shoes -- my foreman.
Marxism and Freedom remains alive to me in 2019. It's not only because we live in an age of myriad crises that threaten humanity, but the book reminds humanity to keep our ears and minds open to new and often unthinkable revolts.
In this moment of violent suppression, new forms of struggle continuously emerge and reach for a future. It is here that the ideal and the real are revealed as being not far apart: where Marx's humanism as a living body of ideas is enlivened by real movements for freedom.
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Can we negotiate our child's financial aid award?
In some cases, yes. If you decide to appeal all or part of the award, follow the instructions in the award letter. In most cases, this will involve a polite business letter or email to the financial aid administrator (FAA) and a follow-up telephone call or meeting. Because the FAA may handle a number of similar requests, it's important to clearly label your correspondence. You should also be persistent in following up on your request, but not to the point of being a pest.
The financial aid administrator has authority to exercise "professional judgment" to reduce the loan component of your child's aid package and/or increase the scholarship, grant, or work-study component. Your chances of successfully renegotiating your child's aid package are best in two situations.
The first situation is where you have any special circumstances that affect your ability to pay your expected family contribution (what the federal government's financial aid form says you can afford) or any additional shortfall (the difference between your child's financial need and what the college offers in its aid package). Examples of special circumstances include the disability of you or your spouse, a recent job loss or prolonged unemployment, unusually high medical expenses, long-term care costs for an elderly relative, or some other situation that puts above-average constraints on your current income and savings. By contrast, a general plea of an inability to pay will likely fall on deaf ears — most parents make financial sacrifices to send their kids to college. If you have a special circumstance, you should provide written documentation to the financial aid office.
The second situation is where your child has been accepted at two direct competitor colleges, and one has offered a more generous financial aid package than the other. This strategy works best with direct competitors. Although many colleges don't care if they lose an applicant to a more (or less) selective college, they generally don't like to lose an applicant to a direct competitor. In this case, you might contact College A and inquire if it could possibly match the amount of grants, scholarships, and/or work-study that College B offers. Of course, your child must have the qualities that College A is looking for.
Underlying your success in either situation will be the principle of supply and demand. Your chances will be best in the years when colleges are vying for limited applicants, as opposed to the years when applicants outnumber the available college slots. Your child's high school guidance counselor should be able to give you an idea of the competitiveness of any particular college year.
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You have received an email from your English-speaking pen friend Robert.
Write him an email to thank him and his family for their hospitality, then invite him to stay with you.
I hope you too will come to visit. It will be great, I'll look forward to meeting you and your friends. However, in my city there are a lot of wonderful sights, so it will be impossible to see them in a short time.
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Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Dancers"
Dancers possess an aura of self-confidence and an ability to enjoy themselves more in social situations . does this sound natural?
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "aura"
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Dandelions"
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Dander"
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "dandoles"
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It was actually some minor portion of African Americans that originated and created the one drop rule, and later on it was transferred as a white supremacist tool and a symbol of racism.
Explain this. I find it hard to believe that African Americans historically could direct and control something as powerful as identity when they had little control over anything else.
I'm very anti one droppist by the way.
African Americans DID in fact have control and power. African Americans and blacks does NOT mean helpless. It was only a small group of African Americans that advocated and created a one drop rule, and many WHITE gentry and upper class whites rejected such, because many of them had admixed race ancestry. It was later during Jim Crow from 1931 to 1967 that the one drop rule was imposed, and it was more so racist to whites than it was to blacks but it did do a lot of damage to blacks, because as a result many blacks these days and those that identify as such use it for their own person and political interests and games and as a form of racist bullying.
The one drop rule is stupid racist doctrine and it's dead but sadly it's many people of color that keep it alive.
It may not have soley been blacks and some AAs fault, but they sure as heck play a big role in keeping it alive.
It irks me to no end when blacks in interracial relationships support such foolishness or when whites in interracial relationships support such nonsense.
If blacks want BLACK children, they need to have children with other fellow BLACK spouses. This way there is no confusion or questioning.
Mariah Carey explains being "Multi-Racial/Bi-Racial". MC does a good job breaking it down. Kudos to MC.
I could also claim that I wrote this sentence in ancient Latin with just as much justification.
Sometimes I wonder if Barack Obama would come out 50/50, considering he's a first generation mulatto unlike most mulattoes out there.
"Mulatto" is first generation, historically. Modern biracial people do not use the term, and often consider it pejorative.
If they are conspicuously mixed then they are not real whites.
All shilly-shallying about percentages aside, in the US if a person can be identified by casual visual appearance as not being "all white,he won't be considered "real white" regardless how he identifies himself. Those whites who discriminate will discriminate.
There are many conspicuously mixed whites. Whiteness is not about racial purity. White racial purity is a myth.
The people who intend to discriminate do not care.
For those who do not intend to discriminate, it does not matter.
Again, varies by region, time period, etc. For example, only 100 years ago, in Ohio, Obama would have been seen as WHITE man.
No, that did not work for my great-grandfather in Dayton, whose father was Scottish.
If you think that's really true, then you should be able to produce some period literature from the 1800s in which the authors portray mixed whites boldly proclaiming their racial mixture as respected members of their communities. Mark Twain? Anyone? If it was commonly acknowledged, it would have been mentioned in the period literature.
"The mayor of Sparta was a handsome man, dusky of skin reflecting the heritage of his African grandfather...."
No, you don't see that anywhere. When mulattos do appear in period literature, they are always tragic. Race-mixing is never portrayed positively.
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Use the table below, to generate details of atypical lengths of corridor the PCs encounter during their dungeon exploration. The GM can use these descriptions as nothing more than window dressing or they could form the basis of a trap or provide a hint as to an upcoming encounter.
This corridor is suspiciously clean. No dust or mud covers the floor and no cobwebs cloak the ceiling.
Four torch sconces jut from the walls of this corridor. Three are empty, but the fourth holds a fresh, unused torch.
Large, jagged claw marks mar one of the corridor’s walls. The gouges are deep; in one lurks the remains of a single great claw or fingernail.
A small shaft pierces the corridor’s ceiling. Originally a natural crack in the rock, the builders of the place used it for ventilation. The shaft is narrow and links this corridor with the level above (or the outside world).
A drainage gulley cuts through the floor of this corridor. Shallow, moist mud fills the gulley and the floor is subtly angled to direct water into the gulley. The PCs—of course—may suspect a more sinister reason for the angled floor.
The mortar in the walls and ceiling is old and crumbling. Water oozes through the exposed cracks and mould grows on some of the brickwork.
Section of the floor have moved and shifted. Thus, the floor is uneven and difficult to traverse at speed. Small puddles lurk between the stones.
Mottled green and brown mould grows across the corridor’s ceiling. In places, cold water drips though the mould to form greenish puddles on the uneven floor.
This length of corridor is unremarkable save for a bricked-up doorway roughly halfway along its length. The brickwork is clearly of much more recent construction than the surrounds.
The corridor’s ceiling has been—unevenly—whitewashed. Strange, faded whorl-like patterns decorate the ceiling. They seem completely random in design and yet hint at the madness undoubtedly lurking within the artist’s mind.
These will really get paranoid players going – the first one that perhaps a gelatinous cube has been through the hall . . .
Number ten – great place to conceal a magical rune or symbol of some sort . . .
And the illustration by William McAusland is fantastic!
Glad you liked in Shawn. Unleash them on your PCs!
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I has recently joined the clans, and I was taking a quiet night walk in West Athen near the Miiir shop when I heard the sudden scream from the clan guards shouting "You'll regret coming here Grizzzley". Then the sounds of weapons fire filled the night. I ran toward the sounds taking cover as I moved closer. The guards kept shouting warnings but their words were drowned in the firefight.
Then just as fast as the noise had started it stopped. I thought the guards had chased away the attacker, until I got to the scene of the crime.
Three guards were laying on the ground, dead. Looking around carefully I saw one man reloading his weapon. I was able to do a quick ID scan on him, revealing his name, Milford 'Grizzzley' Vallone, a unit member of the Omni-Tek Detachment known as The Avengean Guard (TAG). Doing a quick search on the organization I discovered their official motto, "MoK will serve Omni-Tek until there are no clans to be removed.", which would explain the actions of the attacker.
The soldier looked around ready for combat; the few citizens who had been nearby either ran away or were taking cover in fear. There was no opposition for him.
He then began to run, I hoped he was withdrawing after attacking, going back to omni territory. That thought was corrected when I saw him run straight for Athen City. I followed behind him, leaving enough distance between us so that I could run or hide from him if he looked back.
Running straight into the city the guards shouted a warning and then opened fire. Commanders were fighting to defend the security of their town. The omni soldier did not speak a word, his hostile actions spoke for him. The fighting continued until once again guards were laying dead on the ground. Then the most unexpected thing happened, the soldier vanished from view where he stood. He had been gridded out, probably after succeeding in his attacks.
In less than ten minutes I had seen half a dozen guards dead, giving their lives to protect clan territory, to keep the common citizen safe from any threat. After asking the guards and some local citizens they commented that these attacks are becoming a daily routine; where omnis either alone or in teams do hit and run attacks, staying long enough to kill guards and then retreating before a larger number of defenders were dispatched to their location.
Omni-Tek claims the clans are terrorists, that they attack their innocent employees, yet here is evidence that their own people are attacking the clans in a military 'hit and run' style. Neither Athen City nor West Athen are considered a military target, civilians live and work there.
The corporation points the finger at their opponents tactics, yet their best do exactly the same thing. I haven't heard of any attacks in Omni-1 in months, so the likely hood of the attacks being in retaliation are slim. Are OT Detachments under the command to frighten and terror clan cities to weaken the morale of the clans?
It looks to me like that is their plan. Many citizens felt angry and scared that their town and their homes were no longer safe from the corporation any longer. Should the clans truly unite and strike back in force, I for see many omnis will regret their hostile actions.
Until that time, if you're walking in Athen or West Athen and you hear weapons fire, take cover and pray for the guards to eliminate whatever threat they're dealing with.
I hope that after reading this report, clan citizens take warning and are more careful in our cities and towns.
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The rise of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) threatens to derail decades of progress in controlling the disease, according to a new report in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
TB kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, including HIV/AIDS. In 2015, TB was estimated to have killed 1.8 million people. Six countries account for 60% of the total number of cases of TB worldwide - India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa1.
The report is being launched at a conference at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, co-funded by the South African Medical Research Council and the South African Thoracic Society3.
Writing in a linked Comment, Dr David W Dowdy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, concludes: "Ultimately, Dheda and colleagues are describing an epidemic that is at a crossroads. Every year, strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis will emerge that are more transmissible, more difficult to treat, and more widespread in the community. Yet we also have more tools at our disposal than ever before. And unlike for most other drug-resistant pathogens, we have evidence that, with a comprehensive response, drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemics can be rapidly reversed. Over the next decade, it is quite possible that we will see a drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic of unprecedented global scale. But it is also possible that the next decade could witness an unprecedented reversal of the global drug-resistant tuberculosis burden. The difference between these two outcomes lies less with the pathogen and more with us as a global tuberculosis control community and whether we have the political will to prioritise a specific response to the disease. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is not standing still; neither can we."
Article: The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis, Prof Keertan Dheda, PhD et al., The Lancet Respiratory, doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(17)30079-6, published online 23 March 2017.
3. Conference details: Saturday, 25 March 2017, 08:45 - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory - Cape Town.
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. "Global rise of multidrug resistant tuberculosis threatens to derail decades of progress." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 24 Mar. 2017. Web.
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What are the steps required to use the Defender Token Programming Wizard?
1. To start the Defender Token Programming Wizard, from Active Directory Users and Computers, click Defender on the menu bar. Note: The Defender menu option will be displayed after you have selected the Defender OU.
2. Select Program Tokens from the menu. Alternatively, select Program on the username Properties, Defender tab.
3. The Defender Token Programming Wizard (Welcome) dialog box is displayed.
4. Click Next. The Defender Token Programming Wizard (Token Types) dialog box is displayed.
5. Select the option button for the token type that you want to program, then click Next.
Please refer to the Defender Token Administration Guide for additional details regarding this process. You may download a copy here: Defender - Release Notes and Guides.
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Oreo's parent company Mondelez International Inc said last month that it decided to invest $130million in building four new production lines at a plant in Mexico, but US plants will stay open.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his claim on Tuesday evening that he would stop eating Oreos, citing the cookie maker's decision to close a plant in Chicago and move it to Mexico.
'I'm never eating Oreos again,' Trump, who originally took a stand against the cookie on Friday, said, adding that he would consider it if he could find some that were made in the United States. Trump's claim is partly true.
Oreo's parent company Mondelez International Inc said last month that it decided to invest $130million in building four new production lines at a plant in Mexico, which will replace nine older production lines at its Chicago plant.
Guzzinati said the decision to invest in the Mexico plant came after discussions with union representatives for workers at the Chicago plant.
She said the company determined that the new production lines would cost $46million less per year in Mexico than in Chicago, and said labor was 'one of many factors'.
Guzzinati noted that Oreos continue to be made in some US plants, including in New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia.
Mondelez, which also makes Chips Ahoy cookies and Trident gum, has said its 'supply chain reinvention plan' is part of its broader push to slash costs and improve productivity.
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The BFI played SALOME and WILDE SALOME in a double bill followed by a Q&A led by Stephen Fry with Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain. What follows is thus a combined review of all three events.
SALOME is Al Pacino's passion project of complex origin and it stubbornly defies categorisation. It began as a project to both put on a theatrical revival of Oscar Wilde's play directed by Estelle Parsons but clearly heavily influenced by Al Pacino in the lead role of King Herod, but also in the role of film-maker, for he simultaneously directed a film version of the play (SALOME) as well as a documentary of the making of the film and play (WILDE SALOME). To say that the resulting movies are operating on many meta levels is an understatement. This is all made more complex by the fact that the theatrical production wasn't a full staged production but rather something of table reading in costume. Although clearly the actors were not using the "book" to guide them but acting the lines off book. That decision, its ramifications and reasonings, was behind some of the hostile reviews the show received. To add to the confusion, Pacino isn't filming the play at the theatre, but rather re-creating it each day on a soundstage before the play takes place back at the theatre each night. It's a gruelling schedule, and one that clearly took its toll.
So let's start with the play, Salome. Oscar Wilde tells the familiar tale of Herod's lust for his chaste stepdaughter and niece Salome, her genuine but rejected love for John the Baptist, and her subsequent transformation into seductive woman exploiting her uncle's lechery to exact the death of the prophet that scorned her - a man so transparently holy that even the dissipated Herod can recognise the danger in killing him. It's a play that is unlike anything else that Wilde ever wrote - there aren't any witty aphorisms and it is resolutely a play about SOMETHING in sharp contrast to Earnest. The lush language - heavy use of layered repetition and doom-laden confrontation - maybe stems from Wilde trying to understand his own irrational love for Bosie - the callow boy who endangered and rejected him - and the inevitable tragedy of submitting to such passion. It's a play that few forget who have ever seen it - a play that can transcend many varieties of interpretation and production.
In the Estelle Parsons production, filmed for SALOME, the play is pared back so far that it is the words that absolutely command our attention. The actors remain on stage, except for the odd flashback to a filmed banquet, largely inert except for the pivotal dance of the seven veils. It took a while to get used to the static quality and extreme artifice but soon the words and the powerful performances worked their magic. Jessica Chastain is utterly believable as the chaste girl turned vengeful lover driven insane by her passion. I was also particularly impressed by Kevin Anderson as Jokanaan - his power and purity is evident. And in the darkly comic role of nagging wife, Roxanne Hart is superb as Herodias. In fact, if anything the weak link is Al Pacino, whose performance involves those linguistic ticks that descend into parody, and whose choice of accent is puzzling. Still, one cannot deny that he is superb in the pivotal final scene when even Herod is frightened by and revolted by Salome's madness. The resulting film is emotionally exhausting, as it should be - provocative, daring and challenging. It is a must see.
By contrast, the documentary about the making of the film and play, WILDE SALOME, is a mess - and all the more disappointing because Pacino managed to get such insightful people to talk to him - Gore Vidal, Tom Stoppard among them - but didn't give them enough space. I got the sense that Pacino didn't really know what the film was about. Was he making a behind the scenes documentary about putting on the stage play and then filming it? Was he making a documentary about his personal response to the play? Was he making a film about the life of Oscar Wilde and how it fed into the play? The fact is that all of these strands rub up against each other in a documentary that feels crowded, disorganised and, in truth, like a vanity project. We get a little of the mayhem in putting on both play and film. We don't really understand the choices to do a table-read or behind Pacino's accent. Only Jessica Chastain is allowed to explain a little of her method. We get glimpses into Wilde's great life and work but very little of Pacino's journey through it. In fact, for a man who allows himself to look rather grumpy and demanding in the doc (something he admitted in the Q&A that he played up for the cameras) we can very little of his internal response to Wilde at all. The result is a mish-mash - too heavily reliant on extended excerpts from the play - and thus redundant alongside it. I would frankly have rather heard the eloquent Stephen Fry discussing the play for 95 minutes than this.
SALOME has a running time of 81 minutes and is rated R.
WILDE SALOME has a running time of 95 minutes and is rated R.
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Binary-options-and-Indicators I have decided to share another tutorial that I previously shared on the BOD forum. This Binary Options Tutorial is all about using indicicators along with Binary options. I do a small fast Nadex bet and take you through a quick 20 minute trade using a chart with RSI and Bollinger bands as indicators to illustrate our views on popular indicators and how we fit them into our trading plans.
IMO I have a somewhat different way of looking at indicators and if you find them confusing or unrewarding on your binary options trades then this different perspective might help you.
OK before we get to charts and trades and bears OH MY lets get a few things straight. Friends Romans countrymen I come not to bury indicators but to praise them When they are in their proper place in the process of planing a trade. Firstly anyone with the patience of job that made it through that other post knows that I like to look at the bigger picture stuff and plan around the people in the markets. So I mentioned that USDYEN call trade guys are so fond of and I did say that I had been taking some puts but still felt the market really wants to go up and that CALL trade still has institutional traders and investors behind it.
So I got no problem following the money taking calls. Before I got a signal the first there was a plan and a perception of where this currency was in my mind. So I got a call and this is where indicators come in to my game. Indicators can help me be Objective and consistent and INDICATE to me when the markets are in line with the plan I already had.
I am sure you have heard the trend is your friend well think about it how many friends do you have that disagree with everything you have to say and just argue with you all the time. You probably got no friends at all like that if you think about it and the trend is the best friend you can have on the market so I use indicators to indicate to me when me and my friend are seeing eye to eye. What I am getting at is indicators are best used to indicate something and that is there name somewhere along the way marketing and liers and people with no F'n idea of what they are talking about started everyone thinking traders can use indicators to PREDICT the markets.When you put indis in their proper place and use them properly as just indicators there is a lot less confusion and they are a lot more useful for their original intent. That is it my strange and demented way of looking at indicators is just to use them as indicators.
OK lets do some little trades and look at a signal.
For the purposes of the trade I am about to show you I would like to focus on just RSI and the Bollinger Bands you can see on my chart.
At some point yes we might do a signal service done one back in the day but I will talk to David before I mention anything more about that and we still got some work to do on what we want to offer this time around. You don't want to pay for signals cool, that is one of the reasons I am sharing my views for free. So many guys want to see ITM percentage but IMO the more telling sign is how the guys behind the signals plan & trade. OK off my soapbox with that topic.
The signal was a Soft call USDYEN the suggested entry range was 92.67 through 92.71 and of course on a call I want to get in as low as I can so I would shoot for 92.67 or lower if I were at an offshore broker. That signal is based on a strategy for 45 minutes but I went into a demo on Nadex just because Botz might read this and I know how he loves that platform LOL and I done some trades 20 minutes in and out. 92.71 or higher offshore then No problem I will catch the next ride.
Now how is this indicator most commonly used? It is used most commonly to predict when a market is overbought or oversold. The problem is that this is better used as an indicator in my opinion. Conventional wisdom will say that if RSI is above 70 the market is overbought or if it below 30 the market is oversold. there are a few people who use it differently more like how I view it.
and when RSI is above 60 it is indicating we are in a BULL Market. Lets touch on something else here some people use RSI or MISUSE it in my opinion trying to predict when a market is crossing over into being bullish by watching RSI cross 50. There are 100 numbers here and they are indexed into sets of 10 that is where the name comes from so if I owe you $100 and pay you $50 how confident would you as a human being ( because that is what the market is made up of ) be that I am going to pay you the entire $100? Now if I owed you $100 and paid you $60 might that make you feel a bit more confident that I am going to pay you the $100 I owe you?
Trading does not have to be so complex if you look at it in a simple fashion IMO. So now that you know these numbers you can see RSI was indicating $58.47 of the $100 owed had been paid back to you and we are INDICATING being right at a BULLISH MARKET. I am about to do a Binary options Call so that sounds good my friend the trend agrees with me there.
OK lets get the usual stuff out the way. John Bollinger came up with this tool at some point in the 1980s so it is relatively new. This indicator just shows a band around the prices based on the previous numbers the asset was traded at. I like to use this indicator like this, after you have seen the bands tighten that tells you the market is consolidating (sleeping ). When a human is not sleeping what are they? Awake, so there's nothing complicated there at all see, if you just use it as an indicator. When you load these on MT4 you will find them under trend because they are another great indicator to put on and look at an illustration of where the trend has been going.
You can see the bands were tight ( market consolidating or asleep ) so you know it is going to wake up and go either up or down and that is not a prediction it is what you can really see based on what you are looking at on my pic above. Market woke up and started moving upwards and RSI said it was right at being bullish and the nice lady trader weeks ago said it was bullish and a HUGE company like Sony said they like the USDYEN bullish. Now am I a genius for just being observant and putting indicators in their proper place? NO, Really no one has to be IMO.
OK this was just some trades I took based on the signal and sold fast for some profits. I got a call so I took an ITM trade that was above my strike price ( notice how it cost more and I am willing to buy more contracts ) and I got a trade Out the money because we were not quite there yet. Inside the 20 minutes I was holding these full day contracts the market went up and this resulted in a fast $50 after fees on this PAPER TRADE. I was just having fun and my net is up and down due to the storm in my area.
Now if I would have done it on an offshore broker then I would have done a 45 min call and took whatever they were offering at the time ( 69 - 74% probably ). That is all for now and remember when Alfred is Talking Markets you can take it to the bank!
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class: center, middle # autoCaret ## make 🤖 machine learning easier ### Greg C, Michael M, Rock B ### 2016/12/7 --- class: left # Meet Andy. Andy is a data analyst. <img src="images/slide1_andy.png" width="40%" height="40%" align="right"/> ### Andy’s skills: 1. SQL 2. Regex 3. BI tools like Tableau 4. Novice R programming --- class: left # Meet Scott. Scott is a data scientist <img src="images/slide2_scott.png" width="40%" height="40%" align="right"/> ### Scott’s skills: 1. Machine learning 2. Advanced Stats 3. Experimentation 4. Expert R programming --- # Analyst Andy's boss wants him to be more like Data Scientist Scott <img src="images/slide3_boss_andy.png" width="103%" height="103%" align="middle"/> --- class: left # But machine learning is hard! <img src="images/slide4_andy.png" width="40%" height="40%" align="right"/> ### Analyst Andy has to learn: 1. More `R` 2. Validation & splitting 3. Pre-processing 4. Feature Selection 5. Model Training 6. Model selection 7. Ensembling 8. Validation 9. Model Extension, etc --- class: left # Enter `autoCaret`! <img src="images/slide5_r.png" width="30%" height="30%" align="right"/> ### What is it? - An `R` package for data analysts - Automates training binary classifiers - Has an easy to GUI via an R Studio Add-in - Wraps the `caret` and `caretEnsemble` packages - Allows the analyst to learn in the language they will progress into --- class: left # autoCaret helps Andy adapt his skills <img src="images/slide6_autocaret.png" width="105%" height="105%" align="middle"/> --- # Andy can train a full model in 1 line of `R` ```r library(autoCaret) library(mlbench) data(Sonar) mod <- autoCaret::autoModel(Sonar, Class, progressBar = FALSE) ``` --- # Andy also gets very useful information about what happened! ```r summary(mod) ``` <img src="images/slide7_summary.png" width="90%" height="90%" align="middle"/> --- # A GUI allows him to further compare and explore his models ```r autoCaret:::autoCaretUI() ``` <img src="images/autoCaret_model_summary.gif" width="70%" height="70%" align="middle"/> --- class: left # autoCaret helps make Andy be more like Scott <img src="images/slide8_andy_scott.png" width="95%" height="95%" align="middle"/> --- class: center, middle # Thanks! autoCaret is available on [**github**](https://github.com/gregce/autoCaret). More info on the project, the package and its features can be found at [**autocaret.info**](http://autocaret.info). Slides created via the R package [**xaringan**](https://github.com/yihui/xaringan) using [R Markdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com).
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Ode on a Grecian Urn The Portrayal of Eternal probity and the Sufficiency of Beauty in john Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn Imagine the following: a bride dressed in white on her wedding day, poisonous manpower chasing by and by women, the lingering subject of love, or a peaceful, unspoilt town. What do these topics have in common? Through the usage of these topics, John Keats portrays the infrastructure of eternal purity and the sufficiency of sweetheart end-to-end his numbers, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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October « 2014 « Nothing in Biology Makes Sense!
Celebrating Alfred Russel Wallace with … a symposium of only straight white men?
Perhaps rather naively, I didn’t anticipate the amount of publicity our letter regarding the upcoming public Wallace Centennial Celebration would generate. I had hoped to start a discussion about the issues surrounding diversity and safety in STEM that were raised, and I’m glad to say that this has happened. I have had several very thoughtful and productive conversations with the event organizers and I can confidently and emphatically say that issues surrounding diversity and equality are very important to them. In various ways they’ve each shown this commitment, throughout their careers, through concrete actions.
I asked one of the organizers to help summarize the history of the event. Paraphrasing our discussion: In this specific case the original grant submission included women speakers (4 of 8 speakers) but for various reasons they were ultimately not able to participate. The event organizers wanted to host speakers who are not only excellent scientists and speakers but are also knowledgeable about Wallace and his legacy, which led to a narrow set of selection criteria and led to the original publicized lineup. The revised lineup includes two remarkable women, one an historian of science, and the other an evolutionary medicine specialist.
Update, 29 October: It’s been brought to my attention that the list of symposium speakers now includes Soraya de Chadarevian and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, which suggests that the organizers are making some changes.
Update, 25 October: I’ve amended the headline of this post to better reflect, I hope, that what the letter and its signatories object to is not the inclusion of white men on the symposium panel, but the lack of inclusion of similarly accomplished folks from groups that are systematically underrepresented in science. As I note below, the panelists are highly accomplished, and appropriate for the Wallace Centennial—but the panel could include women as well without compromising the prestige or topicality of its membership.
2014 marks a century since the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is recognized as co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of evolution by natural selection. Appropriately, the University of California Los Angeles is holding a symposium of biologists and natural historians to celebrate Wallace’s life and work. Unfortunately, the panel of speakers chosen for the symposium doesn’t exactly reflect the diversity of humanity, or even humans who are biologists and natural historians. Although there are lots of very accomplished folks on the panel who will likely give interesting talks, they’re all straight (so far as I know) white men. That’s right, the Alfred Russel Wallace Centennial fails the gay bar test pretty spectacularly.
UK Resource Centre for Women in SET recently posted a study that found that only 12% of female late stage PhD students intend to pursue a career in academia. The Guardian does an excellent job summarizing the findings, as well as explaining why this is a terrible thing.
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I really need your advice and assistance! I am in my late thirties and have been exercising consistently for a number of years. I can proudly say that I enjoy a happy and healthy life full of different activities. The issue at hand for me is that I feel I have reached a point where my body is not responding to my training routine anymore. I do weightlifting, I jog, and I attend dancing classes. I have about 3 or 4 kilos that I can't seem to get rid of. Can you please offer me ways to deal with this issue? It is truly frustrating. What kind of exercises do I need to perform in order to get rid of those stubborn kilos that are driving me nuts?
Many exercisers face your problem at some point in their training period. This is called your “training plateau.” This occurs because you have gained basic strength and now it is the time for your workout to be done more systematically. By doing so, you will continue to gain strength and also increase muscle growth. There are ways to beat the training plateau, some of which include exercise selection, exercise method, exercise repetitions, and extended exercise sets.
Before going thoroughly over each one, let me tell you that each body responds differently to any workout practice. That is to say, if you compare yourself with others, you are bound to be disappointed because what works for someone else may not work for you and vice versa. There are things such as morphological factors, genetic strength, and heart and lung capacity to consider. My advice to you is to carefully read the following techniques and try to implement them in your workout program. You will be surprised with the difference they can make in the results of your training.
You need to select new exercises or do a variation on your exercise routine. For example, if you work your legs on the leg press machine, try to select a leg exercise on the Smith machine; this will work your legs with different dynamics effectively. Even if you change the position of your feet on the leg press machine (closely placed feet, V-shape feet, high or low on the platform…), you will work slightly different muscles, and this will break your leg workout routine. You can do that for any major muscle group, and you should. By changing your exercise selection periodically, you will avoid a training plateau and even monotony.
Changing your exercise method is to perform your exercise with different resistance. For example, instead of exercising your biceps using dynamic constant resistance method (doing the whole range of motion with a barbell or dumbbell), work them by static resistance (hold your arms at a 90 degree angle with the barbell or dumbbell). Since you have a partner, have her help you to raise heavy weight and hold it still. Another example of changing the exercise method is to perform your pushups statically (get in pushup position; lift your body off the floor until you get your arms at a 90 degree angle and hold still until you fall down).
Like the name implies, you need to change the exercise repetitions. For example, if you are on a routine of performing 12 to 15 repetitions on each set, change it to 8 to 10 repetitions a set and use heavier weight. You can even do 6 to 8 repetitions with more challenging weight, as long as you change the number of repetitions periodically (every 3 to 4 weeks). Changing the exercise repetitions will enable you to stimulate different muscle fibers and give you more strength as a result.
Another way to break free from a training plateau is to extend your exercise sets. For example, instead of resting after performing 10 shoulder presses (using 75 percent of your maximum strength, which will fatigue 25 percent of your shoulder muscle fibers), immediately reduce the weight by about 20 percent, and do extended sets of 4 to 7 repetitions. By so doing, you will stimulate additional muscle fibers that were not engaged in the first set, which will result in more strength, growth, and different development.
These are some ideas that will help you to overcome your training plateau. You need to allow time for muscle recovery because resting is part of your training program. Smart exercisers, evidently like you, strive to train for results. Such results can be achieved by training intelligently.
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If there's one piece of advice we hear often, it's that it is always good to read the fine print. Why should it be any different for a company's financial statements? If the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flow make up the core of a company's financial information, then the footnotes are the fine print that explain this core.
However, what is often not provided along with this wise advice is a set of instructions on exactly how to read a company's footnotes. This article will not only explain what footnotes are, but what they mean and how to use them to your financial benefit.
Pick up any financial report and you'll always find references to the footnotes of the financial statements. The footnotes describe in detail the practices and reporting policies of the company's accounting methods and disclose additional information that can't be shown in the statements themselves. In other words, footnotes expand on the quantitative financial statements by providing qualitative information that allows for a greater understanding of a company's true financial performance over a specified time period.
Footnotes information can generally be split into two different areas. The first deals with the accounting methods a company chooses to formulate its financial information, such as revenue recognition policies. The second provides an expanded explanation of important company operational and financial results.
This area, which tends to be at the beginning of the footnotes, identifies and explains a company's major accounting policies. These footnotes are broken into specific accounting areas (revenue, inventory, etc.), which detail a company's policy with regard to that account and how its value is determined.
For example, one of the most important financial measures is revenue. In the footnotes, you will often find a revenue recognition note, which describes how a company determines when it has earned its revenue. Due to the often complex nature of business operations, the point at which a sale can be booked (put on the financial statements) is not always clear cut. This section will give an investor valuable insight into when a company books revenue. For example, Ford Motor Co. recognizes a sale at the time that a dealership takes possession of a Ford vehicle.
There are two things to focus on when analyzing a company's accounting methods found in the footnotes. The first thing is to look at a company's accounting method and how it compares to the generally accepted accounting method and industry standards. If the company is using a policy that differs from others in the industry or one that seems far too aggressive, it could be a sign that the company may be trying to manipulate its financial statements to cover up an undesirable event or give the perception of better performance.
As an example of using revenue recognition at car company X, let's assume that instead of booking revenue upon ownership transfer, company X books the revenue when a car is produced. This strategy is far too aggressive, because company X can't ensure that dealerships will ever take possession of that car. Another example would be a magazine company that books all of its sales at the start of the subscription. In this case, the company has not performed its side of the sale (delivering the product) and should only book revenue when each magazine is sent to the subscriber.
The second item of importance to examine is any changes made in an account from one period to the next, and the effect it will have on the bottom-line financial statements. In the company X example, imagine the company switched from the delivery method to the production method. Booking revenue before goods are transferred would increase the aggressiveness of company X's accounting. The company's financial statements would become less reliable, because investors would not be sure how much of the revenue was derived from actual sales, and how much represented product that was produced but not delivered by company X.
It is important when tackling this area to first gain a basic understanding of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) standards of computing financial information. This will allow you to identify when a company is not following this standard.
The financial statements in an annual report are supposed to be clean and easy to follow.To maintain this cleanliness, other calculations are left for the footnotes. The disclosure segment gives details about long-term debt, such as maturity dates and interest rates, which can give you a better idea of how borrowing costs are laid out. It also covers details regarding employee stock ownership and stock options issued, which are also important to investors.
Other details mentioned in the footnotes include errors in previous accounting statements, looming legal cases in which the company is involved and details of any synthetic leases. These types of disclosures are of the utmost importance to investors with an interest in the company's operations.
Another important focus when looking at the disclosure segment is what is left off of the financial statements. When a company is meeting accounting standards, the rules may allow it to keep a large liability off the financial statements and report it in the footnotes instead. If investors skip the footnotes, they will miss these liabilities or risks the company faces.
Although footnotes are a required part of any financial statement, there are no standards for clarity or conciseness. Management is required to disclose information "beyond the legal minimum" to avoid the risk of being sued. Where this minimum lies, however, is based on management's subjective judgment. Furthermore, footnotes must be as transparent as possible without harmfully releasing trade secrets and other pertinent information about things that give the company its competitive edge.
Another problem with the footnotes is that sometimes companies attempt to confuse investors by filling the notes with legal jargon and technical accounting terms. Be suspicious if the description is difficult to decipher—the company may have something to hide. If you see situations in which the company is writing only a paragraph on a major event or issue, or using convoluted language to skirt it entirely, it may be wise to simply move on to another company.
Informed investors dig deep, looking for information that others typically wouldn't seek out. No matter how boring it might be, read the fine print. In the long run, you'll be glad you did.
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What's the difference between wystarczająco and dość?
In this context they're synonymous. However, the original sentence is a bit incorrect - it should rather be "wystarczająco dużo miejsca" = sufficiently much room, to be literal (vs simple "dość miejsca"), therefore it's going to be deleted as there's no other way to change it.
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How does transaction confirmation work in bitcoin-qt? I suppose, client does not have addresses index with balance on each of them (because there is not such console/bitcoind commands). Looking through all of the blocks - it is too slow.
Transaction processing is a function of mining. Each time a block is found observed transactions become included in the block chain and get one confirmation. The Bitcoin protocol is designed to have an adjusting difficulty to ensure that blocks are not generated at a speed greater than that> This ensures the gradual distribution of new coins into the economy as well. So long story short this is the model that Bitcoin uses and it is one of the few shortcomings of performing transactions.
As transactions occur, the client tracks their effects on its own balances. If you add a new account, it will have to scan all unspent outputs to find any for that account.
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Create a reusable framework for an adventure video game. Within a package named "adventure", define base classes Player, Monster, and Game. This package will form a reusable framework; clients of the framework will instantiate objects of these classes or subclasses. Design the classes to be extended. Clients can extend the adventure.Player, adventure.Monster, and adventure.Game classes and use their client-specific subclasses instead of the base classes.
There is always exactly one Player per Game. There may be an unlimited number of Monsters, possibly of different subclasses. By default, a game consists of Monsters appearing occasionally at random, chasing, and attacking the Player. Each time the Player is attacked, he or she loses a random number of "health points" and the Monster also loses a random number of health points. When a Monster's health points drops to 0, it is removed from the game. By default, when the Player's health points drop to 0, the player loses and the game is over. By default, if a player defeats 100 monsters, he or she wins the game and the game is over.
Together, the Game, Player, and Monster classes should implement these ground rules in a way which distributes responsibility logically among the classes and allows clients to override the rules in their own subclasses.
The Game should manage a window (either an applet or a standalone frame) with a graphical representation of the Player and Monster(s); each Player and each Monster should manage its own appearance via a draw() method. (See the ChaseGame.java sample for an example of drawing multiple objects.) Monsters can attack the Player only when they are touching the Player. You an use any reasonable method for making the Monsters chase the Player, and letting the user move the Player. The graphics can be very simple, as in the ChaseGame demo. You can also vary the appearance of different kinds of monsters to make it obvious which subclass you're dealing with; see the Scribble example code for ways to draw images on the screen. If you like, you can implement a double buffered drawing surface to make the animation smoother, as in the Scribble example.
For most games, the default game play works fine, but they need to customize the Player and Monster classes (to change the chase behavior, the combat behavior, or the UI representation, for example). To do this a client would first subclass Player or Monster, and subclass Game to create their subclass instead of the default base class. Some games may require a mixture of Monsters -- for example, a game might produce 25% snakes, 50% trolls, and 25% dragons instead of just one subclass.
To do this, use the Factory Method pattern. The Game class should specify factory methods makePlayer() and makeMonster(). A subclass of Game will override one or both of these to produce specific subclasses. The game should still work (with boring, default monsters and player) if the subclass does not override makePlayer() and makeMonster(). The subclass of Game is responsible for figuring out the correct subclass of Player and Monster to create. Normally, the Game base class only calls makePlayer() once per player lifetime, but calls makeMonster() each time it decides a new monster needs to appear.
You may want to consider using a common base class for Monster and Player, since they share a number of commonalities (they both move on the screen, they both engage in combat, etc.) This is an internal implementation detail that shouldn't matter to the client of the adventure package.
The movement of the player can be handled by event listeners, similar to the Scribble example. The monsters can be handled in one of two ways, either by a timer event (which causes all of the monsters to move) or by a set of independent threads, as with the ChaseGame demo.
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Best 3D Printing PensWhat is a 3D Pen and How does it work?
3D printing technology first came to light in the 1980’s. The idea started to significantly take off in the year of 2012, when developers had perfected the advanced digital layering process derived from Computer Aided Designs (CADs). In late February of 2013, the company 3Doodler announced a prototype to Engadget, trying to encourage funding for their new project of a 3D printing pen. The company ended up receiving funding for over 2.3 million, and a short-while later, they released the world’s first 3D printing pen.
3D printing pens use almost identical technology as traditional 3D printers do, they’re just more compact and convenient. Even miniature 3D printers generally weigh in at around 25 lbs, and with 3D printing pens being just under 5 inches, the drastic size difference makes them much easier to maneuver. However, the compact size of 3D printing pens do contribute to their trivial differences from traditional 3D printers. 3D printing pens are only compatible with two different materials, and their design potential is a bit more minimal, but still very intriguing.
All 3D printing pens come equipped with a power cord, and most come with international outlet options to conform to the households of consumers all over the world. Once the device is powered up and running, the thermoplastic material has to be inserted into the correct compartment. 3D printing pens often use two common thermoplastics as drawing material: Polylactic Acid (PLA) or Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). These specific thermoplastics are often used in mainstream 3D printing as well. PLA is said to be more adaptable when it comes to retaining color, while ABS tends to result in a more secure and sealed design. Both thermoplastics are fairly eco-friendly due to PLA deriving from natural components, and ABS being so easy to recycle.
Once the stick of PLA or ABS has been inserted into the 3D printing pen’s cartridge, the heating process will begin. The heating process generally takes anywhere from 55 seconds to 2 minutes. Right after you have fed the entire stick into the compartment, you can press the extrusion button or foot pedal in order to initiate the drawing process. Foot pedals are recommended for more controlled speeds and extensive time periods, but the extrusion button works just fine as well. It may take a few seconds for the material to start to appear, but the heating and preparation process is a seemingly quick one overall. It is recommended to start the drawing process shortly after the pen has reached the necessary temperature, because once the pen has been idle for a minute or two, it begins to automatically cool down. This of course, slows down the process, so it’s better to start sooner rather than later.
Drawing with a 3D printing pen almost resembles using a glue gun. From the installation of the cartridges, to the actual drawing process, many have said that the two are exceedingly similar. Just like with glue guns, various nozzles are available for consumers to accommodate the lines to their desired thickness or texture. The nozzles are available in different shapes as well, enabling artists to create ribbon-like designs or triangular strokes. 3D printing pens also come with various speeds, usually just slow and fast, in order to cater to specific designs and skill-levels. Those first starting out may want to stick with a slower speed, as well as those who are looking to create more intricate designs. Faster speeds are great for artists who are more advanced, or want to create something quick and abstract.
One important aspect to note, is that while one of the main selling points of 3D printing pens is the ability to create a design in mid-air, a base is always needed. In order to successfully draw an air-bound design, it is required that a solid base is built, so that it can be used to reinforce and stabilize the design. Without a solid support system, the design will just fall flat, so an adequate base is essential. Once a solid foundation is created, the artist can additionally build to it as they please, creating a design that seems to be completely built in the air.
Once the liquified material hits the air, it solidifies rapidly in order to hold the creation in place. Fortunately, the thermoplastic comes out at a tolerable temperature, so artists do not have to worry about injuring themselves if they accidentally come in contact with the material. However, the nozzles can retain high temperatures shortly after coming in contact with the thermoplastic, so it is wise to be cautious of the pen’s tip. After the material is cooled and solidified, it should result in a sturdy and lively recreation of the imagined design!
What is the Cost of a 3D Printing Pen?
Since most 3D Printers are often sold for upwards of $1,000 USD, many are amazed at how inexpensive most 3D printing pens are. 3Doodler, the first ever to come out with a 3D printing pen, offers their product for just $99. For a product equipped with such advanced technology, it is a pleasant surprise to know that companies are offering them at such affordable prices. The pens can also be found at common retailers such as Brookstone and eBay, which just adds to their appeal of convenience even more.
Due to the idea of 3D printing pens only being shy of 2 years old, different prototypes and beta-versions are constantly being developed and improved. New variations are currently being funded as we speak, as well as updated versions of popular brands pending to be released. While the process is not perfected by any means, the advancements in traditional 3D printing technology serve as an optimistic comparison as to how much 3D printing pens could improve in due time. Hopefully upcoming developments will provide consumers with more versatile material options, as well as a battery-operated option to add a sense of portability to the devices. The growth in 3D printing technology has been so substantial in the past 30+ years, that it will be fascinating to see what the future has in store for 3D printing pens and accessories.
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Why are the waters around the Galapagos Islands so rich with marine life? It’s because the islands are in a very special spot. Oceanographically speaking, they are at the intersection of five major ocean currents. Along with the equatorial surface weather, these ocean currents help dictate the islands’ climate and their unique ecology, both above and below the water.
At the equator, the Humboldt turns west, helped by the Earth’s rotation and seasonal winds, and joins the South Equatorial Current before heading straight toward the Galapagos. The cool waters of these ocean currents help keep the islands’ climate mild, especially in the summer and fall. Right now, we’re at the start of this “dry season,” marked by generally cloudy skies, cooler temperatures and misty rain in the highlands called garúa.
Around November, the “wet season” starts as warmer waters arrive from the northeast via the Panama Current, which flows down from Central America. This current isn’t nearly as rich in nutrients as the Humboldt, but it does make for warmer diving with better visibility, as well as sunnier skies and an explosion of green on land.
That’s three ocean currents so far. Then, in between the South Equatorial Current and its northern counterpart (too far north to directly affect the islands), the wind-driven North Equatorial Countercurrent flows from west to east, threading the needle between the two westward-flowing Equatorial Currents.
Lastly, and possibly most importantly, is the Cromwell Current, aka the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent. Until now, we’ve been talking about surface ocean currents, but the Cromwell flows about 300 feet down, from west to east along the equator. When it hits the Galapagos from the west, it’s deflected toward the surface, bringing yet more cool, nutrient-rich water.
Does that sound familiar? Like the Humboldt, the Cromwell Current offers an example of upwelling. As ocean organisms die, they sink and decompose into their component parts. Whenever the cold water that holds these nutrients is brought to the surface, it stimulates the growth of microscopic organisms called phytoplankton, the base of the oceanic food chain. Like plants, phytoplankton photosynthesize sunlight, so they stay near the surface. More phytoplankton means more marine life, and lots of phytoplankton means a living aquarium like the Galapagos.
For a more visual representation of ocean currents, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center created a time-lapse computer model called Perpetual Ocean.
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Abstract: Style transfer usually refers to the task of applying color and texture information from a specific style image to a given content image while preserving the structure of the latter. Here we tackle the more generic problem of semantic style transfer: given two unpaired collections of images, we aim to learn a mapping between the corpus-level style of each collection, while preserving semantic content shared across the two domains. We introduce XGAN ("Cross-GAN"), a dual adversarial autoencoder, which captures a shared representation of the common domain semantic content in an unsupervised way, while jointly learning the domain-to-domain image translations in both directions. We exploit ideas from the domain adaptation literature and define a semantic consistency loss which encourages the model to preserve semantics in the learned embedding space. We report promising qualitative results for the task of face-to-cartoon translation. The cartoon dataset we collected for this purpose will also be released as a new benchmark for semantic style transfer.
TL;DR: XGAN is an unsupervised model for feature-level image-to-image translation applied to semantic style transfer problems such as the face-to-cartoon task, for which we introduce a new dataset.
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What are the problems of IKEv1 aggressive mode (compared to IKEv1 main mode or IKEv2)?
As far as I understood the problem, the difference between IKEv1 Aggressive and Main Mode is how the hashed PSK is sent.
Of course, the PSK itself is never sent to the other side as both sides need to prove to each other that they know the PSK and if one side was sending it to the other one, of course, the other one will now know it. Instead, each side calculates a hash value out of several session related values and the PSK, and sends this hash to other side which is also able to calculate the same hash using the same session values and its own PSK. If the PSK used on both sides was the same, the hashes will match. The way how initiator and responder calculate that hash is slightly different, of course, so one side cannot simply send back the hash it received from the other side as that would also prove nothing. Yet, all values used to calculate the hash must be values that the other side will know just from the data of the current or previous exchanged packets, except for the PSK that each side must simple know.
Main Mode first performs a DH Key Exchange, resulting in secure key on both sides. After that has happened, all communication between both sides is always encrypted and thus not readable by an attacker who is only able to capture traffic between those two sides. The PSK hash is transferred after the key exchange, that means the calculated hash is already encrypted. Also some of the session values required to calculate that hash are sent in the same packet at the hash itself, so these values are also encrypted. An attacker who can just read interchanged traffic will not be able to see the hash, nor will he be able to get all the session related values required to even calculate it. He first had to break encryption or the DH Key Exchange.
Aggressive Mode on the other hand, sends the hashed PSK together with the DH Key Exchange payloads, as well as all the values required to calculate the hash in the very first responder packet and this packet cannot be encrypted because the key exchange has not yet completed. So an attacker, who can just read interchanged traffic, will get the unencrypted hash and also has access to all values that are required to calculate it, except for the PSK itself, of course. Now all that an attacker has to do is brute forcing the PSK, which can be very easy, if it is a poor PSK that is either very short, very simple or cannot stand up to a dictionary attack.
A man-in-the-middle attack is not required for this attack scenario as you are not trying to break the key exchange, you are trying to guess the PSK and you can do so "offline", as you have all the other values required for calculation and a hash that will tell you when you've found the right one. To perform the same attack on a Main Mode connection, you must perform a man-in-the-middle attack which means it's not enough to just see the traffic, you must be able to capture, manipulate and then forward the traffic to break yourself into the DH Key Exchange in realtime. Only then you will get an unencrypted version of the hash and the other values required to calculate it. While also possible, that's a lot harder than just sniffing some outgoing traffic somewhere.
Of course, it all depends on the strength PSK. If your PSK is 64 totally random alphanumeric characters, well, good look brute forcing that. Winning the same lottery ten times in a row is probably more likely than guessing that PSK and trying all possibilities will need more time than our sun is going to exist. The problem is rather that a lot of people don't even understand what a PSK is and consider 1234 secure enough.
Summary: Aggressive Mode is not really less secure than Main Mode. Both can be broken and both can be broken by the same attack. The difference is only, to get the values required for such an attack, it's enough to be able to sniff some traffic in Aggressive Mode (just sniffing two packets is enough), whereas in case of Main Mode you must perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the DH Key Exchange to even get the required values to make the attack possible. Once you have the value, it's equally hard to guess the PSK.
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The Independence of Brazil comprised a series of political events that occurred in 1821–1824, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Empire. It is celebrated on September 7, the anniversary of the September 7, 1822 date regent Prince Dom Pedro declared Brazil's independence from Portugal. Formal recognition came with a treaty signed by Brazil and Portugal in autumn, 1825.
The land now called Brazil was claimed by Portugal in April 1500, on the arrival of the Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral. The Portuguese encountered Indigenous nations divided into several tribes, most of whom shared the same Tupi-Guaraní language family, and shared and disputed the territory.
Though the first settlement was founded in 1532, colonization was effectively started in 1534, when Dom João III divided the territory into fifteen hereditary captaincies. This arrangement proved problematic, however, and in 1549 the king assigned a Governor-General to administer the entire colony. The Portuguese assimilated some of the native tribes while others slowly disappeared in long wars or by European diseases to which they had no immunity.
By the mid-16th century, sugar had become Brazil's most important export due to the increasing international demand for sugar. To profit from the situation, by 1700, over 963,000 African slaves had been brought across the Atlantic to work in Brazil. More Africans were brought to Brazil up until that date than to all the other places in the Americas combined.
Through wars against the French, the Portuguese slowly expanded their territory to the southeast, taking Rio de Janeiro in 1567, and to the northwest, taking São Luís in 1615. They sent military expeditions to the Amazon rainforest and conquered English and Dutch strongholds, founding villages and forts from 1669. In 1680 they reached the far south and founded Sacramento on the bank of the Rio de la Plata, in the Banda Oriental region (present-day Uruguay).
At the end of the 17th century, sugar exports started to decline but beginning in the 1690s, the discovery of gold by explorers in the region that would later be called Minas Gerais (General Mines) in current Mato Grosso, Goiás and the state of Minas Gerais, saved the colony from imminent collapse. From all over Brazil, as well as from Portugal, thousands of immigrants came to the mines.
The Spanish tried to prevent Portuguese expansion into the territory that belonged to them according to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, and succeeded in conquering the Banda Oriental in 1777. However, this was in vain as the Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in the same year, confirmed Portuguese sovereignty over all lands proceeding from its territorial expansion, thus creating most of the current Brazilian borders.
During the invasion of Portugal (1807), the Portuguese royal family fled to Brazil, establishing Rio de Janeiro as the de-facto capital of Portugal. This had the side effect of creating within Brazil many of the institutions required to exist as an independent state; most importantly, it freed Brazil to trade with other nations at will. After Napoleon's army was finally defeated in 1815, in order to maintain the capitol in Brazil and allay Brazilian fears of being returned to colonial status, King John IV of Portugal raised the de-jure status of Brazil to an equal, integral part of a United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves, rather than a mere colony, a status which it enjoyed for the next seven years.
In 1820 the Constitutionalist Revolutionerupted in Portugal. The movement initiated by the liberal constitutionalists resulted in the meeting of the Cortes (or Constituent Assembly), that would have to create the kingdom’s first constitution. The Cortes at the same time demanded the return of KingDom João VI, who had been living in Brazilsince 1808, who elevated Brazil to Kingdom as part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in 1815 and who nominated his son and heir prince Dom Pedroas regent, to govern Kingdom of Brazil in his place on 7 March 1821. The king left for Europe on April 26, while Dom Pedro remained in Brazil governing it with the aid of the ministers of the Kingdom (Interior) and Foreign Affairs, of War, of Navy and of Finance.
The Portuguese military officers headquartered in Brazil were completely sympathetic to the constitutionalist movement in Portugal. The main leader of the Portuguese officers, General Jorge Avilez, forced the prince to dismiss and banish from the country the ministers of Kingdom and Finance. Both were loyal allies of Pedro, who had become a pawn in the hands of the military. The humiliation suffered by the prince, who swore he would never yield to the pressure of the military again, would have a decisive influence on his abdication ten years later. Meanwhile, on September 30, 1821, the Cortes approved a decree that subordinated the governments of the Brazilian provinces directly to Portugal. Prince Pedro became for all purposes only the governor of the Rio de Janeiro Province. Other decrees that came after ordered his return to Europe and also extinguished the judicial courts created by João VI in 1808.
Dissatisfaction over the Cortes measures among most residents in Brazil (both Brazilian-born and Portuguese-born) rose to a point that it soon became publicly known. Two groups that opposed the Cortes' actions to gradually undermine the Brazilian sovereignty appeared: Liberals led byJoaquim Gonçalves Ledo (which had the support of the Freemasons) and the Bonifacians led by José Bonifácio de Andrada. Both factions had nothing in common in their goals for Brazil, with the sole exception of their desire to keep the country united with Portugal as a sovereign monarchy.
The Portuguese deputies of the Cortesshowed no respect towards the prince and openly mocked him and so the loyalty that Pedro had shown towards the Cortes gradually shifted to the Brazilian cause. His wife, princess Leopoldina of Habsburg, favored the Brazilian side and encouraged him to remain in the country while the Liberals and Bonifacians made open representations. Pedro's reply came in 9 January 1822, who, according to newspapers, spoke: “As it is for the good of all and for the nation’s general happiness, I am ready: Tell the people that I will stay”.
After Pedro's decision to defy the Cortes, around 2,000 men led by Jorge Avilez rioted before concentrating on mount Castelo, which was soon surrounded by 10,000 armed Brazilians. Dom Pedro then "dismissed" the Portuguese commanding general and ordered him to remove his soldiers across the bay to Niterói, where they would await transport to Portugal.
Jose Bonifácio was nominated minister of Kingdom and Foreign Affairs in 18 January 1822. Bonifácio soon established a fatherlike relationship with Pedro, who began to consider the experienced statesman his greatest ally. Gonçalves Ledo and the liberals tried to minimize the close relationship between Bonifácio and Pedro offering to the prince the title of Perpetual Defender of Brazil. For the liberals, the meeting of a Constituent Assembly for Brazil was necessary, while the Bonifacians preferred that Pedro grant the constitution himself to avoid the possibility of similar anarchy to the one that occurred during the first years of the French Revolution. The prince acquiesced to the liberals’ desires and signed a decree in 3 June 1822 calling for the election of the deputies that would gather in the Constituent and Legislative General Assembly in Brazil.
Pedro departed to São Paulo Province to assure the province’s loyalty to the Brazilian cause. He reached its capital on 25 Augustand remained there until 5 September. When returning to Rio de Janeiro on 7 Septemberhe received mail from José Bonifácio and his wife Leopoldina. The prince learned that theCortes had annulled all acts from the Bonifácio cabinet and removed the remaining power he still had. Pedro turned to his companions that included his Guard of Honorand spoke: “Friends, the Portuguese Corteswant to enslave and pursue us. From today on our relations are broken. No ties unite us anymore” and continued after he pulled out his blue-white armband that symbolized Portugal: “Armbands off, soldiers. Hail to the independence, to freedom and to the separation of Brazil”. He unsheathed his sword affirming that "For my blood, my honor, my God, I swear to give Brazil freedom" and cried out: “Independence or death!”. This event is remembered as "Cry of Ipiranga". When arriving in the city of São Paulo on the night of September 7, 1822, Pedro and his fellow companions had spread the notice of the Brazilian independence from Portugal. The Prince was received with great popular celebration and was called “King of Brazil” but also “Emperor of Brazil”. Pedro returned to Rio de Janeiro on September 14and in the following days the liberals had spread pamphlets (written by Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo) that suggested the idea that the Prince should be acclaimed Constitutional Emperor. OnSeptember 17 the President of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro,José Clemente Pereira, sent to the other Chambers of the country the news that theAcclamation would occur in the anniversary of Pedro on October 12. On the following day the new flag and arms of the independent Coronation of Emperor Pedro I onDecember 1, 1822.
The official separation would only occur on September 22, 1822 in a letter written by Pedro to João VI. In it, Pedro still calls himself Prince Regent and his father is considered the King of the independent Brazil. On October 12, 1822, in the Field of Santana (later known as Field of the Acclamation) Prince Pedro was acclaimed Dom Pedro I, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil. It was at the same time the beginning of Pedro's reign and also of the Empire of Brazil. However, the Emperor made it clear that although he accepted the emperorship, if João VI returned to Brazil he would step down from the throne in favor of his father.
The reason for the imperial title was that the title of king would symbolically mean a continuation of the Portuguese dynastic tradition and perhaps of the feared absolutism, while the title of emperor derived from popular acclamation as in Ancient Rome. On December 1, 1822 (anniversary of the acclamation of João IV, first King of the House of Braganza) Pedro I was crowned and consecrated.
The war between the Brazilians and Portuguese lasted from February 1822, with the burst of first skirmishes between militias, to November 1823, when the last Portuguese garrisons surrendered. In land and naval combats it involved both regular forces and civilian militia on both sides.
In the newly created Army and Navy the Brazilians had forced enlistment including foreign immigrants. They also made use of slaves in militias as well as freeing slaves to enlist them in army and navy. The land and naval combats covered the territories of Bahia, Cisplatina, Rio de Janeiro and the vice-kingdom of Grão-Pará. Maranhão and Pernambuco (which then embraced also what today are the States of Ceará, Piauí and Rio Grande do Norte) were also places where fighting occurred.
Fights between militias took the streets of the main cities of the mentioned territories in 1822 and in land, despite the arrival of additional forces from Portugal along the year of 1822 but the last quarter; the Portuguese forces although had neutralized the home-born militias in some cities like Salvador, Montevideo and São Luís, failed to defeat the militias in most of cities as well the guerrilla forces in the country side and when came 1823, while the Brazilian army had enlarged replacing its losses of men and supplies; the remaining Portuguese forces, already then on the defensive, were shortened of men and means, found themselves compelled to restrict their sphere of action to resist in some province capitals, that were also strategic seaports, as for example Belém beyond the already mentioned Montevideo, Salvador & São Luís do Maranhão.
At sea, the Brazilian action was led by Thomas Cochrane. There was a shaky beginning due to sabotage done by the significant number of Portuguese in the crews. By 1823 the navy was reformed and the Portuguese members were replaced by Brazilians (released slaves and white men under forced enlistment) and foreign mercenaries (British and Americans). The Brazilian navy succeeded in clearing the coast of the Portuguese presence and isolating the last Portuguese land troops. By the end of that year they had pursued the remaining naval colonial forces across the Atlantic as far as the shore of Portugal.
There are still today no reliable statistics related to the numbers of, for example, the total of the war casualties. However based upon historical registration and contemporary reports of some battles of this war as well as upon the admitted numbers in similar fights that happened in these times around the globe, and considering how long the Brazilian independence war lasted (22 months), estimates of all killed in action on both sides are placed from around 5,700 to 6,200.
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Have you made Chicken and Andouille Gumbo?
1. Season and brown chicken in oil (lard, bacon drippings) over med-hi heat.
2. Add sausage (cut in 1/4" rounds) to pot and saute with chicken.
3. Remove both from pot. Make roux with equal parts of oil and flour to desired color (I make a dark chestnut color).
4. Add onions, celery, green pepper, and later garlic to roux, stir continuously until vegetables reach desired tenderness.
5. Return chicken and sausage to pot and cook with vegetables, continuing to stir frequently.
6. Gradually stir in liquid and bring to boil. Reduce to simmer and cook for an hour or more.
7. Season to taste. Approximately 10 minutes before serving, add green onions.
8. Gumbo may or may not be served over rice. Adding sherry at the table is also an option.
9. File may be placed on the table for individuals to add to their gumbo if they wish.
10. 1/4 to 1/2 tsp per serving is recommended. File - a fine green powder that is young dried and ground sassafras leaves, used in gumbo for flavor and thickening.
11. The word file means to twist or make threads.
12. If you put the file directly into the gumbo while it is cooking, that is what you will end up with, a liquid that is rather stringy as you bring your spoon out of the bowl.
13. Ugh! Do it right, let each person add their own at the table.
14. If making roux over very high heat, the oil you use must be free of food particles to avoid burning.
15. If you scorch your roux, even slightly, while you are making it, throw it out, and start over again after you have thoroughly cleaned the pot.
16. When making an okra gumbo, add 4-6 cups of cut okra to trinity, saute, and cook together with roux.
17. (remember, the Cajun cooking trinity is onions, celery and green pepper).
This recipe is a good source of Vitamin A with 14% of your daily recommended intake per serving. This recipe is high in Vitamin C with 45% of your daily recommended intake per serving.
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Wheat, Milk, Gluten, Bell Pepper, MSG, Poultry, Spring Onion, Garlic, Celery, Beef, Onion allergies.
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Learn some of the basics of home and roof performance to help with your decisions about your roof. Familiarity with these terms will help you with decisions about your roof and your home.
Air Sealing: The practice of installing appropriate materials, such as caulk or foam, to stop airflow in certain areas of a home.
Blower Door Test: A test used to measure a home’s airtightness and locate air leakage paths. A blower door is a powerful fan that mounts into the frame of an exterior door. The fan moves air in or out of the house, changing the air pressure inside to exaggerate air leaks through unsealed cracks and openings. Technicians use these tests to determine the air infiltration rate of a building, identify locations to be sealed, and measure results of air sealing work.
Building Envelope: The assembly of elements comprising the exterior enclosure of a building, including walls, roof, foundation, windows, and doors.
Combustion Safety Test: Combustion safety is the general term for evaluating fuel-burning equipment in the home. In general, these procedures include checks for fuel leaks, carbon monoxide, and to ensure that waste gases exit the home through the chimney or venting system.
Diagnostic Tests: Procedures used to measure and assess the performance of components of the home using specialized testing equipment, including blower door testing and combustion safety testing. Diagnostic tests are often conducted before and after the installation of home upgrades to measure the net improvement and to ensure that safety standards have been met.
Ductwork: A network of metal, fiberboard, or flexible tubes throughout a space which delivers air from an HVAC unit to the respective zones of a home or office.
Energy Efficiency: The concept of using less energy to provide the same service.
Greenhouse Gas: A gas that traps the sun’s heat in the atmosphere. When these gases are trapped in the atmosphere (and not reflected back into space), the planet becomes warmer than it would be otherwise. This process is commonly referred to as the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons, and nitrogen oxides; gases which are produced and sometimes released to the atmosphere when generating energy to power our homes.
Home Energy Upgrade: Individual home improvement measures or packages of measures completed to reduce energy consumption in the home.
Home Performance Assessment: An evaluation of a home’s condition and energy performance conducted by an expert in Home Performance with ENERGY STAR.
Home Performance Contractor or Home Performance Professional: A company or individual who installs or supervises the installation of home energy upgrades. This company or person may specialize in energy assessments, home inspections, or improvements related to air or duct sealing, insulation, HVAC, or other related services.
Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Sponsor: Organizations that take on the responsibility of administering home performance programs in local markets. Sponsors are instrumental in developing and supporting markets for home performance services following the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR approach. Sponsors are responsible for fostering the market for home performance services by managing and monitoring the performance of their implementation vendors and participating contractors to ensure that quality standards are met.
HVAC: The equipment, distribution system and terminals that provide, either collectively or individually, the processes of heating, ventilating or air conditioning to a building or portion of a building.
Indoor Air Quality: Attributes of the air inside a building (indoor climate), including gaseous composition, humidity, temperature and contaminants.
Insulation: Insulation materials run the gamut from bulky fiber materials such as fiberglass, rock and slag wool, cellulose and natural fibers to rigid foam boards and sleek foils. Bulky materials resist conductive and, to a lesser degree, convective heat flow in a building cavity. Rigid foam boards trap air or another gas to resist conductive and convective heat flow. Highly reflective foils in radiant barriers and reflective insulation systems reflect radiant heat away from living spaces, making them particularly useful in cooling climates. Other less common materials such as cementitious and phenolic foams and vermiculite and perlite are also available.
Renewable Energy Technologies: Technologies that produce sustainable, clean energy from sources such as the sun, the wind, plants, and water. These include biomass, geothermal, hydrogen, hydropower, ocean, solar energy, and wind.
Weatherization: A category of home energy upgrades which includes sealing and insulating the building envelope. Also a term used to refer to DOE’s Weatherization Assistance Program, which provides home energy upgrades to low income populations.
Weatherstripping: An energy efficiency measure that involves installing a material to seal air leaks around components that open, close and generally move (exterior doors and windows).
Whole House: A holistic view of and approach to home performance which treats the house as a system, with components including building, mechanical, environmental and occupational.
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Should I get vaccinated if I’m trying to get pregnant?
Some vaccines can’t be given during pregnancy, so it’s best to take a look at your immunization record prior to getting pregnant. If you’re like most women, there’s a good chance you haven’t thought about vaccinations since you were school-aged. Are you up to date? Do you need any boosters? If you are fully immunized prior to pregnancy, you will protect your new baby from these diseases for the first 6-12 months of life. If you get a vaccine that contains a live virus (e.g., measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox), you should wait 4 weeks before becoming pregnant. Talk to your health care provider about getting your immunizations up to date.
Which vaccines are important to consider before and during pregnancy?
Rubella (German measles). This illness can be very dangerous for your baby and is most dangerous in early pregnancy. This vaccine is not given during pregnancy, so it is important that you have immunity prior to becoming pregnant.
Hepatitis B. Your job, lifestyle, or health history may put you at risk of becoming infected with hepatitis B. This vaccine is safe for use during pregnancy.
Influenza vaccine. You can get the flu vaccine any time prior to or during pregnancy as there is no known risk to the baby. Getting the flu when you’re pregnant can be very uncomfortable and pregnant women are at increased risk for serious complications from the flu, so vaccination is even more important.
Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis. Recently, pertussis was added to the tetanus-diphtheria vaccine. Pertussis is a transmissable respiratory infection that poses the greatest risk to infants less than 4 months old. There have been outbreaks of pertussis in Canada in recent years. Regardless of vaccination history, it is recommended that all pregnant women receive the Tdap vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Reduced Acellular Pertussis) between 21 and 32 weeks of gestation. You should be vaccinated with Tdap in every pregnancy. Once you are vaccinated, your body will make antibodies that provide protection to your newborn. The vaccine is safe for the mother and the fetus.
Varicella (chickenpox). Varicella is not common during pregnancy, but can cause severe illness and increased rates of maternal and infant mortality. You should be immunized for varicella prior to pregnancy if you do not have immunity, particularly if you work with young children, are a health care worker, or have emigrated from a tropical region.
Other vaccines. Special circumstances may require you to have additional vaccines. For example, if you are travelling to areas of the world where vaccine-preventable disease (e.g., polio, tuberculosis) are common, you may need these vaccines. Discuss your vaccination status and needs with your health care provider before becoming pregnant.
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How does one defend a constitutional theory that's out of the mainstream? Critics of originalism, for example, have described it as a nefarious "Constitution in Exile," a plot to impose abandoned rules on the unsuspecting public. This framing is largely mythical, but it raises a serious objection. If a theory asks us to change our legal practices, leaving important questions to academics or historians, how can it be a theory of our law? If law is a matter of social convention, how can there be conventions that hardly anybody knows about? How is a constitution in exile even possible?
This objection is overblown. Legal rules don't always directly reflect common agreement; they can also reflect those agreements indirectly, through conventions that operate at a higher level of abstraction. (We can have social agreement that we're bound by the Internal Revenue Code, even though we don't all agree on -- let alone remember -- everything the Code requires.) So long as we share certain conventions that lead to unconventional conclusions, out-of-the-mainstream theorists can accurately claim to describe our own legal system rather than a foreign or invented one that they hope to impose. The theorists' job is to identify shared premises and to show that they really are shared, even in the face of widespread disagreement at the level of conclusions.
In any case, if this kind of objection did have force, it wouldn't be a problem just for out-of-the-mainstream theories like originalism. Virtually no modern legal theory accepts every change in constitutional practice as actually changing the Constitution. Because history moves at its own pace, any theory with meaningful conditions for legal change will often be violated in practice. In other words, any Constitution worth its salt will spend a good bit of time in exile.
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At first I thought, "This could be a decent way to spend a Sunday night. It can't be that bad."
I think I can sum this thing up in one sentence: Holy Christ, I hate Cameron Diaz.
I can't remember the last movie I saw with her in it, but she started annoying the hell out of me about 15 minutes in (and to be honest, I'm surprised it took that long). I'm not too big on Tom Cruise either and the deadly combination of both of them didn't work out too well.
Lots of other problems with the movie too, but that's beside the point.
About halfway through, I'd had enough. I couldn't leave, so I did the next best thing. I took a nap. It was way better than the movie. I'm just kind of pissed that I paid eight bucks for it.
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Why is there no blood on the sword? There is a freshly severed head on the ground!
Yes, there a many beheading scenes in the history of art! Especially from this time period. I really love how different the executioner looks from the saints. The saints are painted much softer than he is.
He looks more weathered or rugged than the others?
Yes, I agree, I love how the painter is telling us about the characters through their facial features.
What are the golden circles on their heads?
Those are representations of halos indicating that the figures being put to the sword are saints. They are also the only part of the painting, other than the detail on the saint's brocade, created using gilding. Beginning in the mid-1450s, halos gradually began to be represented more three-dimensionally but by the High Renaissance (in the mid-1500s) they became unfashionable, usually reduced to a nimbus (a semi-transparent halo).
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How many times have you thought those words? You see a television show or movie or read a book and, even if you like it, a little voice inside your head says, "Yeah, I could do something better." I've thought it on several occasions and gone on to write scripts or books because of it. One time, I saw an interesting science fiction film, a small indie movie made with a minimal cast and mostly no special effects, which was quite impressive given the genre.
Yet, I found it lacking, as the actions of the three main characters didn't ring true to me. Thus, I drew up an outline for a script of my own. It's still in the works as another project popped up after I saw the cable television series, Outlander.
If you're not familiar with Outlander, it's quite good. The show comes from a series of books, which tell the story of an Englishwoman that goes to Scotland, with her husband. There she goes back in time when she visits one of the stone circles, similar to Stonehenge, which are common throughout Great Britain.
I enjoyed the story, but, as with so many other movies, television shows and books, I found a couple faults. I felt the time travel mechanism was weak and the main characters attempting to change history just didn't work as a plot device. Let's face it that is a very difficult type of story to pull off.
Over the years, I've seen stories about the Kennedy assassination, Pearl Harbor and even one about trying to kill President Charles de Gaulle of France. The latter was the book and movie The Day of the Jackal.
Jackal, this story, in both media, was an outstanding, exciting thriller. I thought about how the author and, later filmmaker, managed to achieve that. After all, people reading the book and seeing the movie went in knowing that the assassin was going to fail. How do you make that kind of story compelling?
The Jackal was not about assassination.
The story focused on the cat and mouse game between the killer and the police and saved the actual attempt on the life of de Gaulle, at the very end. By then, reader or viewer is deep in the story, caught in its web. She or he is on the edge of their seat wondering how it's going to end.
This got me to thinking. Could I write a time travel story with a better plot line? Well, I could sure try!
Coming up with the time machine mechanism was easy enough. Then I pondered what should be the main plot. Should I pull the old predetermination cliché, where the characters are supposed to be there, where their actions cause the very event they're trying to prevent?
I immediately got the old "been there, done that" feeling. What if I just ignored the whole issue of creating a temporal paradox and merely told a story of life in the era I chose to set the story? No, that’s too wimpy!
Then I made my decision. They would go for it and change history. Of course, there was always the question of degree. Would it be a little change, a big change or maybe a bit of both?
To find out, you'll have to buy my book. Forgive me for the shameless plug, but I have a manuscript ready to publish. Yes, I've signed with a publisher. The working title is The Long Journey Home. My publisher is the Champagne Book Group.
I dedicated my new book to my late brother.
We're shooting for a release in summer 2018. Oh. For those of you who have kept track of my stories over recent years, you’ll understand this final point. I’m dedicating the book to my brother, Stephen.
The next time you get an urge to see if you can do better: go for it. You never know what your future might hold.
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Tells the story of the first London Blitz - six raids by German bombers in eight nights in 1917. This title focuses on the events of August 1918 and the countdown to the incendiary raids that would have destroyed much of London and Paris had they not been called off at the very last minute.
'Fighting was raging on the other side of the Channel, but in London, in the warmth of a drowsy late-September afternoon, the war seemed a long way away. The roads were strangely quiet and deserted, for petrol restrictions had reduced motor traffic almost to zero. London seemed breathless, in the tense expectancy of disaster. The alarm was given soon after nightfall. At Biggin Hill and a score of other airfields, pilots scrambled from their quarters and sprinted for their aircraft. Within seconds the air was full of the noise of engines, as the squadrons taxied out and took off into the ever-darkening sky'."The First Blitz" is told in two parts, each detailing the events of a single week. The first part tells the story of the first London Blitz - six raids by German bombers in eight nights in 1917. Part two focuses on the events of August 1918 and the countdown to the incendiary raids that would have destroyed much of London and Paris had they not been called off at the very last minute.
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From Goodreads:In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
I found this one really thought provoking! I kept asking myself what I would do if I were Cassia - if I found myself in this world where all our choices are made for us.
I loved Ally Condie's writing style. There is something very beautiful about it and it really held my interest. The story and style is not action packed and intense - but there is something very gripping about it. I found I didn't want to stop reading - I wanted to get to know Cassia more and more. What was really interesting for me was how Cassia grew. I loved watching her start to realise that she should make choices - that not everything about the society is as good as she thought it was. The rose tinted glasses definitely come off so to speak!
I found the whole premise for this book really intriguing. The society has so much control over every aspect of peoples lives. Everything is monitored and enforced by them. What you eat, what you do, who you are partnered with, how many children you should have. They even control when you die! It is scary when you think about it too much because of how possible it potentially feels. How can you fight something that is that powerful? And even more chilling is the acceptance - that the characters take it all for granted because they don't know any different - they don't realise they should be questioning it!
The characterisation was superb. I loved Cassia's family - especially her grandfather. And, of course, Ky and Xander were great. I could honestly understand what Cassia saw in them both. And although I wasn't disappointed with the love triangle - both boys are wonderful - I think I may be rooting for the wrong one! I guess time will tell!
I'm really looking forward to seeing where Ally Condie is taking us. I get the feeling it will be an impressive journey and I can't wait for the next book in the series.
Kate Kaynak is the author of the Ganzfield series. Minder is the first book in the series (my review is here) and Adversary is the second.
What was the inspiration behind Minder and the Ganzfield series?
Minder started as a thought experiment. I'd recently completed reading the Sookie Stackhouse books and the Twilight saga, and I realized both series had telepathic characters who could only fall in love if they met someone whose thoughts they COULDN'T read. I started to consider what kind of a person a telepath COULD love…as well as what kind of a person wouldn't mind being in a relationship with someone who knew their every thought.
I love all the different psychic abilities. What kind of research did you do for the novel?
Most of the special abilities found in the Ganzfield world are found in parapsychology, which is a fringe area of psychological research. I used a few books like Reading the Enemy's Mind to learn more about the U.S. government's former psychic spy program: Project Star Gate (yes, it really existed). I also looked into historical claims of special abilities such as those of William Underwood; he was the first person to claim to have pyrokinesis, the ability to control fire. I've got a background in psychology, so I drew on that to work out how to enhance and control special abilities in the brain. The settings are real places in New Jersey and New Hampshire. Oh, and I named most of the bad guys after ex-boyfriends.
I adored Trevor! Do you have a favourite character from the series – or one you find it easier to write for?
I love writing from Maddie's point-of-view, and I have a major book-crush on Trevor that my husband only tolerates because Trevor's partially based on him. The romance was a delight to write, since the emotions of a sixteen-year-old in love for the first time were so intense. Beyond that, I simply adore Drew; he cracks me up.
If the Ganzfield books were made into a TV series or Movie who would be your ideal cast?
I've only cast two people in my head.
How many books are planned for the series? Can you give us any hints on what’s in store for the characters?
I've been a voracious reader since I was six years old, and I started writing short pieces in high school and at Yale. The Ganzfield books aren't the first novels I've written--but they're the first GOOD novels I've written.
What is a typical writing day like for you? Do you have any ‘must-haves’ before you can start?
I have three kids under age six at home, so I do most of my writing after they’ve gone to sleep at night. I also have a playlist of songs that put me into the Ganzfield world, including Gary Jules' version of Mad World, Scissor Sisters' Fire with Fire, Muse's MK Ultra, Velvet Chain's Strong, Glenridge's Angels, and Regina Spektor's Fidelity.
Are there any YA books you would recommend? Perhaps something you have read recently that completely blew you away.
There's SO much great stuff out there these days, including some amazing series! I'm currently catching up with Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires--start with Glass Houses. In the past year...Scott Westerfield's Uglies, Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Garcia & Stohl's Beautiful Creatures, Kristen Cashore's Graceling, Holly Black's White Cat, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey, and Paranormalcy by Kiersten White. Keep an eye out for Jennifer L. Armentrout's Half-Blood; I loved the manuscript enough to pitch it at Spencer Hill--it comes out in September of 2011. Those are the stand-outs.
Thanks Kate! I love that you use your ex-boyfriends names as the villains! Classic! And I love your pick for Trevor - it's just as I pictured him!
The premise for this one really appealed to me – I love anything to do with psychic abilities so this fits the bill perfectly.
All of the characters in this are wonderful. Maddie really grew on me – she has great inner strength as well as a strong moral compass. I absolutely adored Trevor – he is really sweet and caring and I really enjoyed the romance that develops between the two of them. It does get a bit mushy in places – but it's the kind that left a big goofy smile on my face so I’m not complaining! I also really liked the relationship between Maddie and Dr Williamson – there is obvious affection there and I really enjoyed their interactions. I also liked Seth – he comes off as a bit annoying at times but I’m really interested to see how he features in the future. The rest of the ‘gang’ are fun – and you get to know them all pretty well and there is definitely room for some interesting stories for them all.
I’m really looking forward to reading the next book in the series. Not only am wanting more Maddie and Trevor but I have my suspicions on where Maddie gets her gifts so I am really excited to read more to see if I am correct! A great start to what I believe will be a really addictive series!
Published 20 January. This one looks AWESOME and I've been hearing great things. Can't wait to get stuck in!
This one hits the shelves 3 March - VERY excited about this one. It's a departure from the supernatural titles that are on Atom's list so far and it sounds as if it will be amazing!
How much do I love the cover for this one? And it sounds sooo good! It's published January.
This is published 12 April - and the cover is lovely and shiny - VERY pretty. I believe it's set in the same world as the author's Darkest Powers series so it's definitely one to watch out for!
One Seriously Mess Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite by Tom Clempson.
This one sounds like great fun! Pitched as Louise Rennison for boys - sounds awesome if you ask me. Published in June.
The first in a trilogy and published June - with the second to follow in August and the third in October. Sounds like one for fans of The Hunger Games or Gone.
This is also to be a Movie and the book is more of a collaboration than a novelisation - the film trailer looks AMAZING so I am now doubly excited! This is published February.
I ADORED Lois Duncan when I was a teen and am super excited they are re-releasing her books. First up are I Know What You Did Last Summer, Don't Look Behind You and Killing Mr Griffin. Apparently they have all been updated slightly by the author so they are fresh for a new generation to enjoy! They are published March, April and May. Hopefully my favourite, The Eyes of Karen Conner (aka The Third Eye) will be getting a re-release soon too - I love that book!
I'm really looking forward to reading Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder when it's released in the UK in January and I absolutely LOVE the UK cover - Mira really out did themselves I think - I really love the font for the title and the image is very eyecatching. So, I'm definitely voting for the UK cover this week - but I do like the US one and the way she's ripping through the cover.
This was such a great week! I went to London on Tuesday to Atom for a blogger party - It was a great day (I also couldn't resist having a *quick* look in Waterstone's in Piccadilly) and I got some great books - and there were cupcakes!
I also picked up copies of the New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn in their amazing white covers. There are absolutely gorgeous! And I picked up a copy of Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink which I have been meaning to read for ages.
I LOVE this cover! I love the design on the corners, and the way the image of the girl continues to the back. It's officially my favourite Meg Cabot cover and I can't wait to get my hands on it! Just check out the synopsis - doesn't it sound AMAZING?
As many of you know I am a big fan of this series - they are great fun and this one is no exception.
Taking the same format as the previous books in the series, the narration is split between the two main characters. This time Quinn is the Drake brother of choice - but it's really Hunter's story. She is a student at the Helios-Ras Academy and comes from a family of vampire hunters. I liked her straight away. She comes across as dependant, strong and kind. Quinn is a bit of a 'ladies man' but immensely likeable - although I think Nicholas is still my favourite brother! I'm glad we get to catch up with him and Lucy, as well as Solange, Kieran, Logan and Isabeau. I also really liked Connor (Quinn's Twin) and am hoping to see more of him in future installments.
The story in this one moved away from the Drake family and is instead centered around the Helios-Ra Academy. There is a bit of a mystery to solve and Hunter finds herself in the middle of it. I really enjoyed it, although I thought Hunter was a bit too trusting at times. But it is all great fun and I raced through the book to find out what happens. My only complaint is I would have liked more resolution to Hunter's more personal storyline - but perhaps this will be explored at a later date in future novels.
From Goodreads: In a world where angels are beyond redemption, Alex thinks he's found one that might deserve mercy. Alex is a ruthless assassin - of angels. Forget everything you've heard about them before. Angels are not benign celestial creatures, but fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans, draining them of their vitality until there is barely anything left. As far as Alex is concerned, the only good angel is a dead angel...until he meets Willow. She may look like a normal teenager but Willow is no ordinary girl. Half-angel, half-human, Willow may hold the key to defeating the evil angels. But as the hunter and the hunted embark on an epic and dangerous journey and Willow learns the dark and terrifying secrets of her past, Alex finds himself drawn to Willow...with devastating consequences. Eoin Colfer reinvented the fairy, Stephenie Meyer reinvented the vampire, L.A. Weatherly reinvents the angel! This is a heart-pounding, knuckle-whitening, paranormal romance action-adventure for fans of the "Twilight" series. This is the first in a devastating new trilogy.
To say I loved this book would be a massive understatement. It completely and utterly blew me away! I just loved everything about it, and yes, Alex is definitely a major plus!
I really liked how the story alternates between Willow and Alex. I've said in the past I really enjoy this style of narration and it works really well here. It's easy to distinguish between the two voices - helped by the authors switch from first person narratiive for Willow to a third person narration for Alex's parts of the story. I loved both characters from the get-go. Alex has that 'Dean Winchester' thing going for him - or at least he did for me. I spent a great portion of this novel itching to watch my Supernatural DVD's- but the book was too good to put down so I easily resisted! He's just... I can't quite put my finger on it but I just adored him. And Willow was a character that had me rooting for her right from the start. Really likeable, caring and strong. I could also picture the two of them together - so it was very easy for me to buy into their relationship as it progresses.
Weatherly has a very accessible writing style and a skill for writing both high action scenes and slower, more character driven ones. I was suprised by how much story is packed in to this book. There's loads of action, an epic love story and the mythology is just brilliant! The whole thing is such an adrenaline rush! So much happens that I just didn't see coming - I spent large portions of the book going 'Whoa!'or 'OMG!' and then the rest sighing (Te Amos Alex!) because the romance is soooo good!
I apologise for the rather fan-girl review but I really can't recommend this one highly enough! I can't wait for the next in the series - role on June!
From Goodreads: Kylie Galen has had a lot of crap tossed in her lap. Her parents are getting a divorce. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn’t put out. Her grandmother died and now Kylie’s acquired a stalker. Unfortunately, she’s the only one who seems to be able to see the stalker. And that gets her sent to a psychologist’s sofa.
From Goodreads: Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
I really liked Ethan in Beautiful Creatures but I absolutely adored him in this one. The whole book was really his story and his journey to make sense of the supernatural world he has suddenly found himself in. He really steps up to the plate and I loved his loyalty and courage. For me, his is voice is the anchor to this series, and through him we get to watch all the events unfold and interact with all the amazing characters.
Amma and Link are back and on fine form. We also get more Marian, and the introduction of a new character Liv. I really like her and thought she was a great addition. Unfortunately, we get less Lena but because this is more Ethan's story I didn't find it too much of an issue. I did miss her presence and the connection they had in Beautiful Creatures but that added to the pull of the story - I wanted them to get it back.
This is much more of an adventure than Beautiful Creatures. The pacing and plotting is brilliant - I found myself really surprised with a number of revelations and, unlike Beautiful Creatures, I did not lose track of anything that was going on. What I really enjoyed was that as the reader I knew what had happened the night of Lena's Birthday whereas Ethan did not. I couldn't wait for him to find out - but it also meant I understood Lena's actions even when he didn't. I liked that Lena had trouble dealing with her choice - it make the story much more honest and gives it an emotional reality that paranormal stories need in order to make them believable.
I'm really interested to see what direction the authors take this now. Considering the ending of this one I assume there will be another in the series - at least I hope there will be. I am really invested in these character and love the world - I'm really looking forward to more. A great continuation of what I hope will be many books in the series.
From Goodreads: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
I really liked this one. It's one of those stories that pulls you in with a slow building intensity that works superbly. I loved that it was narrated by Ethan - not only did I really like him but having it told from his point of view insured the book caught my interest. Other authors may have gone with the more obvious choice of having Lena narrate the story.
I really enjoyed all the mythology and having it set in the South. It gave it an authentic feel and made the book incredibly atmospheric - with a kind of claustrophobic sense of life in a small town with everyone knowing everyone else's business. I don't want to say too much about the story because I went into it not really knowing much about it and I really enjoyed the mystery aspect - having to work it out alongside the characters.
My favourite aspect of the book is Ethan and Lena's budding relationship. It is one of those intense attractions we've come to expect from this type of paranormal story but it also feels as if a gradual and genuine connection develops alongside this intensity. I really liked both characters and am looking forward to seeing how their story progresses in Beautiful Darkness.
A minor complaint would be that I occasionally lost track of what was going on. There were a couple of scenes that came across somewhat fragmented and I had trouble working out what was happening - even after a reread. This didn't affect my enjoyment though - in some ways in added a bit more mystery to the proceedings - but it did interrupt the flow a little bit.
I adored the ending and it sets the next book up as a must read for me. I am looking forward to immersing myself back into this world and spending time with these characters. Can't wait!
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May 1, 2013 . List and describe the five stages of copper mining including .. cookware); industrial equipment (e.g. manufacturing machinery); and.
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What is a serial communication?
In telecommunication, the process of sending data sequentially over a computer bus is called as serial communication, which means the data will be transmitted bit by bit. While in parallel communication the data is transmitted in a byte (8 bit) or character on several data lines or buses at a time. Serial communication is slower than parallel communication but used for long data transmission due to lower cost and practical reasons.
Serial communication – you are shooting a target using machine guns, where bullets reach one by one to the target.
Parallel communication- you are shooting a target using a shotgun, where no. of bullets reach at the same time.
Asynchronous Data Transfer – The mode in which the bits of data are not synchronized by a clock pulse. Clock pulse is a signal used for synchronization of operation in an electronic system.
Synchronous Data Transfer – The mode in which the bits of data are synchronized by a clock pulse.
Baud rate is used to measure the speed of transmission. It is described as the number of bits passing in one second. For example, if the baud rate is 200 then 200 bits per Sec passed. In telephone lines, the baud rates will be 14400, 28800 and 33600.
Stop Bits are used for a single packet to stop the transmission which is denoted as “T”. Some typical values are 1, 1.5 & 2 bits.
Parity Bit is the simplest form of checking the errors. There are of four kinds, i.e., even odd, marked and spaced. For example, If 011 is a number the parity bit=0, i.e., even parity and the parity=1, i.e., odd parity.
RS232C “Recommended Standard 232C” is the recent version of Standard 25 pin whereas, RS232D which is of 22 pins. In new PC’s male D-type which is of 9 pins.
RS232 is a standard protocol used for serial communication, it is used for connecting computer and its peripheral devices to allow serial data exchange between them. As it obtains the voltage for the path used for the data exchange between the devices. It is used in serial communication up to 50 feet with the rate of 1.492kbps. As EIA defines, the RS232 is used for connecting Data Transmission Equipment (DTE) and Data Communication Equipment (DCE).
Universal Asynchronous Data Receiver &Transmitter (UART) used in connection with RS232 for transferring data between printer and computer. The microcontrollers are not able to handle such kind of voltage levels, connectors are connected between RS232 signals. These connectors are known as the DB-9 Connector as a serial port and they are of two type’s Male connector (DTE) & Female connector (DCE).
Voltage Levels: RS232 also used as ground & 5V level. Binary 0 works with voltages up to +5V to +15Vdc. It is called as ‘ON’ or spacing (high voltage level) whereas Binary 1 works with voltages up to -5V to -15Vdc. It is called as ‘OFF’ or marking (low voltage level).
Received signal voltage level: Binary 0 works on the received signal voltages up to +3V to +13 Vdc & Binary 1 works with voltages up to -3V to -13 Vdc.
Line Impedances: The impedance of wires is up to 3 ohms to 7 ohms & the maximum cable length are 15 meters, but new maximum length in terms of capacitance per unit length.
Operation Voltage: The operation voltage will be 250v AC max.
Current Rating: The current rating will be 3 Amps max.
Dielectric withstanding voltage: 1000 VAC min.
Slew Rate: The rate of change of signal levels is termed as Slew Rate. With its slew rate is up to 30 V/microsecond and the maximum bitrate will be 20 kbps.
The ratings and specification changes with the change in equipment model.
RS232 works on the two-way communication that exchanges data to one another. There are two devices connected to each other, (DTE) Data Transmission Equipment& (DCE) Data Communication Equipment which has the pins like TXD, RXD, and RTS& CTS. Now, from DTE source, the RTS generates the request to send the data. Then from the other side DCE, the CTS, clears the path for receiving the data. After clearing a path, it will give a signal to RTS of the DTE source to send the signal. Then the bits are transmitted from DTE to DCE. Now again from DCE source, the request can be generated by RTS and CTS of DTE sources clears the path for receiving the data and gives a signal to send the data. This is the whole process through which data transmission takes place.
For example: The signals set to logic 1, i.e., -12V. The data transmission starts from next bit and to inform this, DTE sends start bit to DCE. The start bit is always ‘0’, i.e., +12 V & next 5 to 9 characters is data bits. If we use parity bit, then 8 bits data can be transmitted whereas if parity doesn’t use, then 9 bits are being transmitted. The stop bits are sent by the transmitter whose values are 1, 1.5 or 2 bits after the data transmission.
For mechanical specifications, we have to study about two types of connectors that is DB-25 and DB-9. In DB-25, there are 25 pins available which are used for many of the applications, but some of the applications didn’t use the whole 25 pins. So, the 9 pin connector is made for the convenience of the devices and equipments.
Now, here we are discussing the DB-9 pin connector which is used for connection between microcontrollers and connector. These are of two types: Male Connector (DTE) & Female Connector (DCE). There are 5 pins on the top row and 4 pins in the bottom row. It is often called DE-9 or D-type connector.
How can a transmitter, transmits and the receiver receives data successfully. So, the Handshaking defines, for this reason.
Handshaking is the process which is used to transfer the signal from DTE to DCE to make the connection before the actual transfer of data. The messaging between transmitter & receiver can be done by handshaking.
If there is no handshaking, then DCE reads the already received data while DTE transmits the next data. All the received data stored in a memory location known as receiver’s buffer. This buffer can only store one bit so receiver must read the memory buffer before the next bit arrives. If the receiver is not able to read the stored bit in the buffer and next bit arrives then the stored bit will be lost.
As shown in below diagram, a receiver was unable to read the 4th bit till the 5th bit arrival and this result overriding of 4th bit by 5th bit and 4th bit is lost.
It uses specific serial ports, i.e., RTS & CTS to control data flow.
In this process, transmitter asks the receiver that it is ready to receive data then receiver checks the buffer that it is empty, if it is empty then it will give signal to the transmitter that I am ready to receive data.
The receiver gives the signal to transmitter not to send any data while already received data cannot be read.
Its working process is same as above described in handshaking.
In this process, there are two forms, i.e., X-ON & X-OFF. Here, ‘X’ is the transmitter.
X-ON is the part in which it resumes the data transmission.
X-OFF is the part in which it pauses the data transmission.
It is used to control the data flow and prevent loss during transmission.
RS232 serial communication is used in old generation PCs for connecting the peripheral devices like mouse, printers, modem etc.
Nowadays, RS232 is replaced by advanced USB.
It is also used in PLC machines, CNC machines, and servo controllers because it is far cheaper.
It is still used by some microcontroller boards, receipt printers, point of sale system (PoS), etc.
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Explore Madrid and its historical center during a sightseeing tour of the city's most important sights, including beautiful green areas and picturesque streets.
Your tour will begin at Plaza de España, and will first take you to the Temple of Debod, an Egyptian temple that was rebuilt in Madrid in the mid 20th century. Following this, you will visit the Puerta de San Vicente, the Campo del Moro, the Royal Palace and the cathedral and la Catedral de Almudena. Afterwards, the tour continues to the Royal Basilica San Francisco el Grande, a unique Christian church with one of the world's biggest domes.
Following the Royal Basilica, you will enter La Latina, a lively district with many restaurants and bars. From there, the route leads you to Plaza Mayor, one of Madrid's biggest and oldest squares, and onward to the small streets and plazas of the old Madrid de los Austrias quarter until you will arrive at the famous Plaza de la Villa where the city council was located from the 1700s until the early 21st century. Afterwards, you will visit Plaza de Oriente and finally, before returning to the starting point, the Teatro Real, Madrid's famous theatre that first opened its doors in 1850.
The Madrid Historical eBike Tour takes you on a 2-hour city tour that will lead you to many historical sites in the center of Spain's capital. You can explore Madrid without any effort, and see the amazing old town as well as the recently refurbished area around the Manzanares River. This fun tour through the nicest quarters of Madrid includes many monuments, picturesque squares and old streets, as well as beautiful parks and the city's typical old town.
Your guide will wait for you in front of the Monument to Cervantes at Plaza de España.
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What is best about the Orthodox Church�holding true to early teachings and traditions�also presents its greatest challenge: making sure tradition doesn�t trump appropriate treatment of others. While many prize the richness of the Orthodox Church, our traditions can lead to exclusion of some from fully participating in the community of Christ. It�s a fine line, preserving ancient rites without marginalizing particular groups, within a patriarchal structure, and is ripe for discussion, particularly as it pertains to women.
Many Orthodox Christians immigrated to this country in the early 20th century, at a time when the United States experienced unprecedented social, economic, and technological change. The last forty-five years have especially afforded women immense opportunities; the Orthodox Church, however, somewhat secluded from secular society, has been slow to distinguish between those customs or traditions that reflect Christ�s teachings and those that result merely in differential treatment of women and men. As a result, Church culture treats women differently depending upon whether they are single/married, parenting/childless, or at-home/working. By maintaining outdated assumptions about women as wife and mother, Church leaders have created a culture difficult for young women to reconcile, for they live secular, modern-day lives with expanded opportunities, but are diminished as Orthodox Christians.
Church leaders, most familiar with their �boomer� moms and sisters, may be unaware of how radically different life is for a millennial young woman. Unlike 3rd-generation Orthodox women, our daughters don�t have memories of grandparents settling in a new country, building bedrock church communities. They don�t have, or crave, the ethnic glue that held communities together, but rather seek Churches that are not ethnocentric as they are fully integrated into present-day society. They graduate college having had equal access to social groups, athletics, and academics; they rock the boat, assume their place at the table, and are accustomed to being heard and being successful. Some describe these young women as aggressive, disrespectful, and unladylike; instead, why not regard them as talented, discerning, and energetic?
This shift has had a huge impact on work, marriage, and family choices. Millennials delay marriage to pay off college loans before joining incomes. They seek relationships with people who affirm their passions and talents, which often result in blended religious marriages. For those who marry, children are not a given, with an increasing number choosing to be childless; and some remain single, finding rewards in pursuing professional endeavors. Universally, these young women are in the workforce, in traditional and nontraditional ways: some work part-time in hourly wage jobs, others run at-home businesses, while others climb corporate ladders, serve on boards and hold public office.
Our millennial daughters are celebrated in the workplace but diminished as parishioners in Orthodox Churches. For some, Orthodox traditions have scarred them as teenagers�they cried when they couldn�t serve alongside their brothers at the altar, might have sat bewildered if confined to sitting on one side of the Church, and felt marginalized if they weren�t allowed to read the epistle or sing with the chanters.
For them, in this modern time, it�s unimaginable that mere biology preempts full participation in Church alongside their brothers. And this belittlement continues as they emerge into adult years as Church members. Our daughters are ridiculed for the way they look. They might be told to put on a skirt, cover their shoulders, cover their heads and uncross their legs, and they question why these standards apply only to women. They have been tapped on the shoulder in the communion line and asked if they are menstruating. They are defined as a possible mate and offspring-bearer for the seminarian, an uncle, or a son. And, they are told subtly and overtly, that only two meaningful life choices await them: marriage or monastery.
Marriage and monastic living are indeed high callings, but not the only way for our daughters to live out their Christ-centered vocation. By solely defining them as mate and offspring-bearer puts them in a box and does not honor their potential contributions. Our daughters are changing the world as lawyers, teachers, actresses, and scientists. The church needs to focus on what they are doing presently and see how their talents can be used in Church ministries.
Sorting out what is tradition and what is cultural attitude about women�s place will be challenging for the Orthodox Church as an institution with only males at the top. But that doesn�t mean it�s not doable. There are ways to bring a diversity of ideas and life experiences to the top, and mitigate the �group think� attitudes about the role of women in the Church. To start, Church Hierarchs could launch a public campaign to bring women into all aspects of administration and leadership positions at the parish, diocesan, and archdiocese board of trustees level. They could expand training and employment opportunities for women to serve as outreach workers in missions, teaching and preaching. Orthodox Chaplaincy continues to thrive and can be made stronger by blessing more women who are trained to function in this manner. And as discussed for decades, allowing girls to be altar servers in our Churches sends a strong message that their service is valued. Furthermore, re-establishing the historical female diaconate increases their capacity to serve, and allows, among other things, for women-to-women pastoral counseling, a ministry that is still needed in our churches today.
�There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.� If we focus on Galatians 3:28, the Orthodox Church would align Church culture to Christ�s teachings, help the Church sort out what is tradition and what is a cultural attitude and ensure our young, talented women are fully engaged and participating as members of Christ�s Church without shame, marginalization or harassment. Launching an effort to address these attitudes and bring women into administration and ministerial positions can re-shape culture, build up the Body of Christ and help young women find their spiritual home in the Orthodox Church.
Jennifer Nahas is the co-founder of Brigham Nahas Research Associates (BNRA), a Massachusetts firm specializing in evaluation research that promote success for young people in high school, college, and beyond. She was the former Executive Director of Orthodox Christian Fellowship and is the proud mother of two millennials.
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The given goods cannot be found in the e-shop at present.
Make sure that the given address in written correctly.
Use the search (help line will offer you appropriate phrases).
You can try to go through the catalogue of the goods.
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Non disclosure agreement for investors refers to a deal between at least two parties, that makes one of them legally responsible for revealing any information marked as confidential. The agreement should clearly specify what classifies as confidential information.
In the case of startup companies, a well-written non-disclosure agreement protects the newly-founded company's intellectual property. This is a crucial step in dealing with potential investors because it prevents situations where confidential information could be revealed to competitors or the investor attempting to steal the new company's business plan and replicate it. Most investors, however, always refuse to sign such agreements when dealing with startups, making a founder asking for such a deal look inexperienced and naive.
A professional may refuse to sign a non-disclosure agreement because of legal or trust issues, expenses, or loss of reputation.
From a legal perspective, a non-disclosure agreement severely limits a potential investor's possibilities. Most such investors analyze hundreds of companies and business plans in order to decide where to invest. Therefore, signing such a large number of non-disclosure agreements would create conflicts of interest, especially in situations where the investor's past experience with other companies may prove valuable when advising a startup.
Another major issue stopping investors from signing non-disclosure agreements is trust. A very important element in the relationship between founders and investors is mutual trust, and asking the investor to sign such an agreement is likely to be perceived as a sign he or she is not trusted by the other party. It also diminishes the investor's trust in the founder's business skills or moral qualities, undermining the relationship from the start.
Drafting such a contract also creates additional expenses. Hiring professionals to review the terms of the deal is also an extra cost for the investor. This consumes time and resources.
Not disclosing crucial information about a startup is in the investor's long-term interest because if that particular investor gains a reputation as someone that cannot be trusted it would certainly hurt their chances of other startups working with them in the future. It's a situation where the market tends to regulate itself, eliminating the need for a non-disclosure agreement by making it in everyone's best interest that confidentiality be kept.
The best way for a startup founder to protect intellectual property when discussing a potential investment is, first of all, to carefully select any potential investor based on referrals and reputation. Then, in initial meetings, the big picture must be presented to the investor, instead of crucial information and technical details regarding the business. That information can be gradually divulged later on as the relationship grows stronger.
There are exceptions to the rule that says a founder should not ask an investor for a non-disclosure agreement. Such situations may be when some specific information or idea has not been patented yet or when the company in question is not a startup but a larger, more well-established enterprise looking for investors. The best way to proceed in such a situation is to ask legal professionals to properly write the agreement.
A good way to protect your intellectual property is by properly vetting investors to make sure they don't have investments in companies that operate in the same markets as you. In situations like that, investors might be tempted to use the newly-acquired information to help other companies in their portfolio.
Another thing to be concerned about as a company founder is for a potential investor to share valuable information due to negligence. Documents sent online can easily be shared and forwarded many times over, so a good idea might be to present all important documents in person rather than on the internet.
However, before the owners of newly-founded companies need to worry about an investor misusing their good ideas, they first must worry about actually convincing an investor to listen to their pitch. Getting potential investors to spend their valuable time listening to you is a big enough challenge, and insisting on a non-disclosure agreement only makes things harder for the founder.
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In the spring of 1778 an invasion of British East Florida was organized by Georgia Governor John Houstoun and Continental Army General Robert Howe.
However, the two men could not agree on overall command of the expedition, and Houstoun refused to share his plans with Howe, leading to organizational and logistical difficulties. Howe, in command of 1,100 regulars was waiting for Georgia and South Carolina militia companies to arrive when he learned on June 18 that Loyalist Thomas Brown and 300 men were at Fort Tonyn on the Florida side of the St. Mary's River. On June 28 his men crossed the St. Mary's in a move that was observed by Brown's scouts. Brown decided to retreat from the fort, which he burned after removing everything he could take with him.
Brown then sent a company of men to circle around behind the Continentals while the rest of his men hid along the road heading south from the fort. British Major Mark Prevost had established a defensive position at Alligator Bridge, about 17 miles (27 km) south of the fort. Howe sent General James Screven and about 100 cavalry south on this road. The men Brown sent to flank the Continentals were betrayed by deserters and ambushed, with most of them captured or killed.
Howe then sent General James Screven and about 100 militia cavalry to find Brown, who retreated before Screven's advance. The leading edge of Brown's men entered Prevost's camp relatively casually, but his rear was chased in by Screven. Prevost's regulars quickly took up positions and began firing on Screven's men, while some of Brown's men went around to come at their flank. In pitched battle, men on both sides went down, Screven was wounded, and some of the Patriot militia narrowly escaped being trapped before Screven ordered the retreat.
The Battle of Alligator Bridge took place on June 30, 1778, and was the major engagement in Colonel Elijah Clarke's third and final unsuccessful campaign to conquer East Florida. In a disastrous battle, Clarke's 300 Georgia militiamen went up against a far larger force composed of British regulars, Tories, and Indians. His defeat left the area firmly under British control.
As with previous failures in the region, Southern politicians refused to grant Continental Army officers full command of their militias. So, while General Robert Howe waited with about 400 regular troops at Fort Tonyn to the north for Georgia Governor John Houstoun and South Carolina General Andrew Williamson to arrive with their militias, Clarke pursued an enemy detachment that had just been routed from an outpost to the west of the fort. He and his men were stopped at Alligator Bridge, where Major Marc Prevost had established hasty field fortifications.
In the fortifications were 500 British regulars, along with 200 more outside of them; also outside were around 100 Rangers. Clarke took a detachment of mounted men and attacked what he saw as a weak point in the British line. He expected to break the line and pour the rest of his men into the breach. But the horses had trouble getting through the tangle of brush and logs that had been set up specifically as an obstacle course; when they cleared this, they reached a ditch that was designed for the same purpose. The ditch was too wide for the horses to clear with one jump, and this was the moment the British chose to begin shooting and shouting. Clarke was wounded and nearly captured, after which he ordered a recall. Some say he was spurred on by a counterattack of British troops posted outside of their earthworks. Whatever the reason, Clarke withdrew, having lost nine men killed in action. He lost more to hunger and sickness, leading to the collapse of the 1778 invasion.
The site of the bridge has long been supposed to have been in central Callahan, where a marker has been placed, but some historians believe that the actual site of the bridge was somewhat farther east.
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What does HIPs look like?
1. Significant investment of time and effort by students over an extended period of time.
2. Multiple interactions with faculty and peers about substantive matters.
3. Students experience diversity (people and ideas).
4. Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback.
5. Periodic, structured opportunities to reflect on and integrate learning.
6. Opportunities to discover relevance of learning through real-world applications.
7. Performance expectations set at appropriately high levels.
8. Public demonstration of competence.
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Trekkie (or Trekker) is a term used to describe a fan of all or part of the Star Trek fictional universe.
In 1967, science fiction editor Arthur W. Saha applied the term "trekkies" when he saw a few fans of the first season of Star Trek wearing pointy ears at the 25th World Science Fiction Convention, on the day Gene Roddenberry showed a print of "Amok Time" to the convention. Saha used the term in an interview with Pete Hamill that Hamill was conducting for TV Guide concerning the phenomenon of science fiction.
The Trekkie phenomenon did not catch on with general public consciousness until years after the show was cancelled in 1969. The show began syndication in reruns during the early 1970s and the first fan convention devoted to Star Trek opened in 1972 in New York.
Some Star Trek enthusiasts prefer the term "Trekkie", while some others self-identify as "Trekker". Self-identification as a "Trekkie" became even less popular after a famous national television parody in 1986; several self-described "Trekkers" were quoted as saying they "had a life" (contrasting themselves from "Trekkies").
In the 1991 TV show Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special, Leonard Nimoy attempts to settle the issue by stating that the term 'Trekker' is the correct one.
In the documentary Trekkies, Kate Mulgrew stated that Trekkers are the ones "walking with us" while the Trekkies are the ones content to simply sit and watch Star Trek.
The issue is also shown in the film Trekkies 2, in which a Star Trek fan recounts a supposed incident during a Star Trek convention where Gene Roddenberry used the term "trekkies" to describe fans of the show, only to be corrected by a fan that stood up and yelled "Trekkers!" Gene Roddenberry allegedly responded with "No, it's 'Trekkies.' I should know — I invented the thing." Roddenberry has also allegedly used the term "Trekker" in interviews and personal appearances, arguably proving that he did in actual fact not consider either term to be the correct one. Generally, fans of film and television franchises make up their own nicknames, as with the "Browncoats" who are fans of the Firefly television series.
Star Trek fans who believe Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the best series of the franchise adopted the title of Niner following the episode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", in which Captain Benjamin Sisko formed a baseball team "The Niners".
There are many Star Trek fan clubs, among the largest currently being STARFLEET International and the International Federation of Trekkers.
Some Trekkies regularly attend Star Trek conventions (called "cons").
There is a persistent stereotype that amongst Trekkies there are many speakers of the constructed Klingon language. The reality is less clear-cut, as some of its most fluent speakers are more language aficionados than people obsessed with Star Trek. Most Trekkies have no more than a basic vocabulary of Klingon, perhaps consisting of a few common words heard innumerable times over the series, while not having much knowledge of Klingon's syntax or precise phonetics.
Trekies will listen to music from star trek, and make and listen to filk about it. Whilst more extreme trekkies will wear a full Trek uniform, most will only wear the ears, and the top or a star trek t-shirt, and the rest of their outfit will be exxencially normal.
Imfo save for the last paragraph from wikipedia, image from deviantart.
Just for the record, I don't mean to offend any 'Trekkers'. It's just that I use Trekkie, Wiki uses trekkie, the whole world uses trekkie. It just sounds better.
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When I first decided to give yoga a go I thought it was just about twisting your body into uncomfortable-looking poses. I soon learned that it was more than that, and that yoga is really about the connection of your breath to your mind and body. What I also didn’t realize is the wide range of benefits that yoga can provide for general mental well-being. Indeed, yoga is great for promoting relaxation and the development of stress coping skills, which makes it a great tool for individuals who suffer from anxiety.
You can work on physical strength with any kind of exercise, however yoga is unique in the way it allows you to be mindful. When you practice yoga you are encouraged to be in the present moment. Some of the poses can be challenging and require focus on each of the muscles of your body from head to toe. As you flow through poses there is also concentration on how you time and control your breath. Many people find that this connection of breath and body allows them to let go of any anxieties or negative thoughts they may be experiencing. Yoga very much utilises the principles of mindfulness, encouraging individuals to acknowledge thoughts and let them go with the breath and body as a point of focus.
Similar to other forms of exercise, practicing yoga can improve mood and everyday function. The word yoga means to unite. Whilst it is a very individual practice, it can also bring a sense of belonging to the wider community. When you are in a yoga class, you are encouraged to focus on yourself and your own mind and body. However, many people find that chanting, meditating, and challenging their body physically with a group of people brings a sense of social cohesion and positive energy.
It is evident that yoga can reduce anxiety and help induce a deep state of physiological relaxation. The regulated breathing and poses used in yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system which calms the body and reduces stress. Muscle tension is also released as rarely used muscles are utilized. Further, some evidence suggests that certain poses assist the body to reduce inflammation and increase immunity, counteracting the negative effects stress and anxiety has on the body. Overall, it is evident that yoga reduces physical stress and tension in the body.
While some of the poses may look challenging, yoga is for everyone. The poses can be done in many variations based on level of physical ability. Those who practice yoga are always encouraged to listen to the limits of their body and only do what feels comfortable for their body. I would encourage everyone to give yoga a try. Whenever I leave yoga class for the week I notice that I am significantly more relaxed in both mind and body so I hope that you can have the opportunity to experience this too.
Lululemon stores in the CBD, Doncaster, Camberwell, Brighton and Chadstone offer complimentary yoga classes suitable for beginners. See their website for further details (under community events for each store location).
Inner Smile Yoga offers a range of affordable classes at the Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre in Altona.
There is a Meditation class on Monday evenings offered at the Williamstown Community and Education Centre.
Meditation class is held on Tuesdays at the Manningham City Square in Doncaster.
While all yoga can be beneficial for anxiety, there are several studios which offer classes or workshops specifically for individuals with anxiety.
A simple yoga breathing technique which I use whenever I need to calm my mind and body is called square breathing.
Step 1: Visualize a square in your mind. Starting at the bottom left corner, inhale as you count to four and imagine that you are moving along the side of the square to the top left corner.
Step 2: Hold your breath for four counts as you travel from the top left to the top right corner of the square.
Step 5: Repeat this process. As your breath deepens you can extend the length of the breath that you take and take more than four counts. Notice the effect this has on your mind and body. Most people find that this focus on breathing allows them to quieten their thoughts and slow their heart rate as they continue.
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Details about the case are quite specific, and the case report heralds from a town in Minnesota. It describes, in very specific detail, the management of a patient who presented to the emergency room in shock from cardiac tamponade after a catheter ablation procedure for right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia.
Is this unique case report Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant?
I would say, according to our current definition of HIPAA's requirements for de-identification of "personal health information," such a case report is not HIPAA-compliant. Nor could such a case be mentioned on a blog for that matter, even though it presents important information for people dealing with these patients.
There is an important quality-of-care role in telling clinical case-report stories. Specific case reports can bring important specific clinical details to the attention of the medical community. For instance, if doctors had not been willing to describe several cases of pulmonary vein stenosis or two cases of esophageal perforation in a major medical journal years ago, how many more people might have been injured as a result?
Yet HIPAA stipulates that there are "18 little rules" that doctors must follow when they report important clinical cases, and often it is the specific clinical scenario that highlights the case's importance. But since all patient care is local, a doctor's location therefore implies a patient's location at a certain time. As a result, specific patient case reports more often than not expose HIPAA's: "small cell problem:"
The "small cell" problem violates HIPAA, and HIPAA means business: millions of dollars of "business" that gets released in press releases from the Department of Health and Human Services when they catch their prey.
But doctors should not be afraid of publishing case reports, especially since there are good reasons for them clinically. Further, when doctors make good-faith efforts to conceal patient's personal information in those reports, they should not be subject to threats of HIPAA's "small cell" problem. Simply put: the "small cell" problem is HIPAA's, not the doctors'. Extending the definition of personal health information as defined by HIPAA to include "any other unique identifying characteristic" about a patient's case limits doctors' ability to improve care to our patients while greatly increasing our legal culpability for that effort.
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When planning your next trip to Dinosaur Valley State Park make sure you pack your swimsuit. At the park, you are allowed to swim anywhere on the river unless otherwise stated or roped off. The most popular swimming area can be found at the Blue Hole. This is an old-time swimming hole that offers a depth of 20' and provides swimmers with clear water. Dinosaur tracks of Theropods can also be found in this area. Another popular area to swim would be at the main track site. This area is not nearly as deep as the Blue Hole, which allows children of all ages an opportunity to enjoy the water.
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Transposer chacune des phrases suivantes à la forme négative contractée du prétérit.
They were watching a movie.
We drove through New York.
Quelle proposition correspond à la transposition de la phrase suivante à la forme négative contractée du prétérit ?
We are not rent a car.
We didn't rent a car.
We haven't rent a car.
We rented not a car.
We were driving a car.
We not were driving a car.
We were not drive a car.
We drove not a car.
We were not driving a car.
She was listening to the radio.
She listened not to the radio.
She didn't listening to the radio.
She wasn't listen to the radio.
She wasn't listening to the radio.
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Tahiti has a long and rich history. The islands were first settled by migrating Polynesians as early as 500BC. They were later discovered by European explorers during the 16th century and eventually colonized by France. Now officially known as French Polynesia, Tahiti is an autonomous overseas country of the French Republic.
The great migration from Southeast Asia began around 4000 BC, in which daring seafarers sailed the open ocean in their large double-hulled canoes—using only the sun, stars, wind, ocean currents, and flight patterns of the birds—to navigate to new islands.
Researchers conclude that Tonga and Samoa were settled as early as 1300 BC. From there, another migratory wave brought these new explorers even farther eastward, reaching the Marquesas around 500 BC.
Over the next several centuries, the voyages continued north to the Hawaiian Islands, east to Easter Island, and south to the Tuamotu Archipelago and the remaining Tahitian Islands. Raiatea, known historically as Hawaiki, eventually became the religious and cultural center. From there, around 1000 AD, the canoes proceeded to the Cook Islands and New Zealand, completing the Polynesian Triangle.
The era of European exploration began when the mysterious "ships without outriggers" started to arrive. In 1520 Ferdinand Magellan spotted the atoll of Puka Puka in the Tuamotu Archipelago while sailing to the Philippines.
In 1595, Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira was returning to the Solomon Islands and happened upon Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas. Then in 1606, Pedro Fernández de Quiros discovered a number of the Tuamotu Atolls. This was the last of the Spanish explorations in the Pacific during that era.
Captain Samuel Wallis was the first documented explorer to discover the island of Tahiti. He anchored the British vessel HMS Dolphin in Matavai Bay on June 23, 1767, and claimed the island in the name of King George III. Soon after, Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville, unaware of Wallis's arrival, landed on the opposite side of Tahiti and claimed the island for France in 1768.
In April 1769, Captain James Cook made his first trip to Tahiti aboard the HMS Endeavor to watch the Transit of Venus. He later returned, visiting Moorea, Raiatea, Taha'a, Huahine, Bora Bora, Tupai and Maupiti, which he named the Society Islands. European fascination with Tahiti and the South Pacific expanded once Cook and his crew brought back the first map of the islands and illustrations of the indigenous flora and fauna.
This intrigue was piqued even further as news spread of the famous mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty, led by Lieutenant Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh in 1789. Soon, every country in the Western world wanted to attain paradise. The arrival of British and French missionaries in the 1800s provoked a rivalry between England and France for control over the islands, and this forever changed the way of life in Tahiti.
The native Pomare Family ruled until December 29, 1880, when Tahiti finally became a French colony. In 1957, the islands were reconstituted into a French Overseas Territory and given the official name French Polynesia.
In the early 1960s, a large harbor was built in Papeete, an international airport was built in Faa'a, and a huge crew descended onto the islands to film the movie Mutiny on the Bounty. These rapid changes quickly brought French Polynesia into the modern age.
In 1977, the French government granted autonomy to French Polynesia; then on February 12, 2004, it became an overseas country of the French Republic.
"...but nothing on Tahiti is so majestic as what faces it across the bay, for there lies the island of Moorea. To describe it is impossible. It is a monument to the prodigal beauty of nature."
Tahitians inherited a rich and vibrant culture from their ancient ancestors. Polynesian artistry—which includes weaving, woodcarving, and tattooing—is grounded in the mythology of that heritage. Each sacred tradition tells a colorful story about life, love, and their enduring relationship with nature.
Tahitians are the proud guardians of their cultural heritage and therefore represent the beauty of timeless tradition. They love to celebrate their customs through artwork, song, and dance. These warm, welcoming Polynesians possess an innocent and carefree spirit. Their philosophy, aita pea pea, meaning, "not to worry," is truly the Tahitian way of life.
Before the arrival of European missionaries, Polynesian clothing was traditionally made from tapa cloth, which consisted of dried pandanus leaves, coconut fibers, and breadfruit bark. The local women at that time wore one single garment, called a pareo, wrapped around their waist. Today, this colorful article of clothing, like a sarong, is made from two yards of dyed fabric and can be worn by both men and women in a variety of ways.
The missionaries not only introduced fabric to the islands, but also taught the local women the art of patchwork. Today, these matriarchs, affectionately known as Tahitian "mamas," sew colorful quilts known as tifaifai. Each tapestry is unique, made from handmade floral appliqué designs meant to reflect their inherent love of nature. Now a treasured wedding gift, it is wrapped around the couple during a traditional Polynesian wedding ceremony.
Music, along with dance, is an integral part of everyday life in the islands. The instruments are minimal, but the sound is reverberant. Tahitian music can best be identified by the fast tribal rhythms of the wooden drums known as pahu. These drums, traditionally covered in sharkskin, are played alongside the toere, a long cylindrical drum with a split down the side for higher pitched percussion. Other traditional instruments include the pu, or conch shell, the vivo, or nose flute, and the ukulele.
Tahitian dance is the most authentic reflection of Polynesian culture. This extraordinary display of passion and vitality was once linked to all aspects of island life, including prayer, celebration, welcoming and storytelling. The signature tamure, or fast hip shaking motion, has become an unmistakable trademark of this captivating art form, matched only by the resounding rhythms of the Tahitian drums.
The tattoo, derived from the Tahitian word tatau, is an ancient art form used to express identity and personality. Nearly everyone in ancient Polynesia was marked by the tattoo, indicating one's genealogy and rank within society. For young men in this culture, each tattoo was a badge of honor, a sign of courage, and a testament of manhood—since they endured months of agony to complete their mark. The process is now more streamlined, but the designs and their significance remain the same.
"All the time our visits to the islands have been more like dreams than realities: the people, the life, the beachcombers, the old stories and the songs I have picked up..."
In Tahiti, an abundance of fresh seafood, tropical fruits, and organic vegetables are treated to the culinary talents of international chefs. The cuisine is usually French with Polynesian influence, providing a fusion of gourmet flavors prepared with locally sourced ingredients.
The public marketplace in Papeete, Le Marché, is where the locals find the freshest fare, including vegetables, fruit, vanilla, and brightly colored fish. This vibrant marketplace is best on Sunday mornings, but well worth a visit any day of the week. In addition to food and floral arrangements, artists sell woven baskets, woodcarvings, and Tahitian textiles.
Across the boulevard from Le Marché is the waterfront promenade, Vai'ete Square, where the famous food trucks known as Les Roulottes open nightly to serve a range of affordable meals. Snacks include Chinese food, French crepes, steak sandwiches, pommes frites, fresh fish, and pizza. The food and atmosphere are both excellent.
The signature dish in Tahiti is poisson cru, or raw fish. The flavor defines the essence of the destination—sweet, tender, refreshing, and exotic. It consists of raw tuna marinated in lime juice and mixed with a delicious blend of diced vegetables and coconut milk.
The islands of Tahiti are a geographical marvel. Believed to have formed from a series of underwater volcanic eruptions, they emerged millions of years ago from the depths of the ocean. Seemingly untouched by time, the islands today are still as beautiful as ever.
The archipelagos consist of high volcanic islands and low coral atolls. Over time, volcanic islands start to sink below the surface. The surrounding coral, which needs light to survive, grows upward and gradually separates from the subsiding island. Eventually the volcano disappears, leaving behind the inner lagoon within a string of coral islets known as an atoll. Rangiroa is an example of this phenomenon, while Bora Bora could be considered a partial atoll since the center of the island is still above water.
The inner valleys are also brimming with hidden waterfalls, natural pools, and winding rivers. The island of Tahiti is especially aqueous, from the cascading Fautaua Falls to the streaming Papenoo Valley and the vast Lake Vaihiria. These interiors are ideal for island exploration, whether by hike, Jeep Safari, or even canoe. The Faaroa River on Raiatea, for instance, is the only navigable river in French Polynesia and therefore accessible by canoe, kayak, or motorboat.
On the volcanic islands, high jagged peaks rise dramatically from lush interiors. The panoramic views from these vantage points are well worth the trek. These iconic hillsides played an important role in ancient Polynesian culture. Many myths and legends are used to explain their shape, whether describing the hole in Mount Mouaputa on Moorea, or the silhouette of a pregnant woman on the fertile island of Huahine.
The bird population is the most noteworthy in French Polynesia, with over one hundred species among the islands. The coastal birds, such as boobies, tropicbirds, and terns, feed from the lagoon but roost on land. The shore birds, such as Pacific heron, golden plovers, and tattlers, are seasonal migratory species. The land birds include the reed warbler, the rare Marquesas kingfisher, and the colorful ultramarine lorikeet. Tikehau is home to the largest colony of sea birds, providing a natural aviary on its aptly named Bird Island.
The calm lagoon waters of French Polynesia are home to countless species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and sea turtles. Encounters include tuna, snapper, parrotfish, angelfish, clown fish, butterfly fish, and triggerfish, as well as manta rays, moray eel, and reef sharks. For this reason, the islands of Tahiti are the ultimate locale for snorkeling and scuba diving.
"With wide open eyes I would plunge under the transparent water that is green as absinthe in its depths."
Exotic plants and flowers flourish in the rich tropical soil surrounding French Polynesia. Varieties include bird of paradise, hibiscus, red and pink ginger, orchids, and roses. Floral adornment is anchored in Polynesian culture; thus flowers are often worn or gifted in the form of decorative leis and heis (crowns).
The Tiare, or Tahitian gardenia, is the national emblem of French Polynesia. When placed behind the left ear, the flower signifies the person is taken; when placed behind the right ear, it signifies the person is romantically available. One variation of this flower, the Tiare Apetahi, is so rare and delicate that it cannot be grown anywhere else in the world.
The islands' signature scent, monoï oil, is made from coconut oil infused with the fragrant Tiare flower. Used in every spa in Tahiti, this hydrating oil promotes smooth, healthy skin and serves as the base for an entire range of soaps, lotions, and cosmetics.
The vanilla in Tahiti is exceptionally rich and fragrant. Grown from an orchid plant, the Tahitian variety is a rare species with an incredible aroma and international acclaim. The beans are more supple and richer in oil than many species, making them highly desirable among connoisseurs. The islands of Huahine and Taha'a are most famous for their vanilla plantations.
The warm Tahitian lagoons are also ideal for the cultivation of the exquisite and highly prized black pearl. The distant Tuamotu Atolls are blessed with an abundant population of the Pinctada margaritifera, the only oyster in the world capable of producing the rich hues characteristic of these unique island gems—from light silver to the darkest of grey with shimmering tones of pink and green.
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Create a short motion picture that talks to their brand message: “Today’s creativity is tomorrow’s change.” The aim was to inspire the audience to engage with the wider community brought together by our client, and the potential to widen their own network through this.
One minute video using supers spliced with footage that relays some key phrases The Merrier stands for and intends to live by. We created an evocative and energetic video that propelled viewers to action and attentiveness.
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What do you hate about dating?
When your date is so annoying and just bragging about himself.
Dating is like a freaking job interview! If I could just him my resume and get it over with.
When your date is not paying attention to what you are saying and just want to talk all the time.
The thing that I hate about dating is the guessing game. Guessing what she wants to eat, where to eat and so many more. Women can be so complicated sometimes.
It's a long tedious process. I don't have the patience for all that crap.
I hate that it's the same old dance every single time and it's honestly tiring to always put on a face.
I absolutely hate it when someone I'm interested in isn't interested in me.
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Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are. The intent of this guideline is to help users find the content they need and allow them to keep track of their location. These tasks are often more difficult for people with disabilities. For finding, navigation, and orientation, it is important that the user can find out what the current location is. For navigation, information about the possible destinations needs to be available. Screen readers convert content to synthetic speech which, because it is audio, must be presented in linear order. Some Success Criteria in this guideline explain what provisions need to be taken to ensure that screen reader users can successfully navigate the content. Others allow users to more easily recognize navigation bars and page headers and to bypass this repeated content. Unusual user interface features or behaviors may confuse people with cognitive disabilities.
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Why was the flu season so bad?
The flu vaccine used was less effective.
The strains of flu were stronger and deadlier.
The number of sick people who passed along the flu to others was higher.
Also go to the CDC website to learn more about the flu vaccine and prevention.
To read about all those deaths from an illness we consider to be a “normal” one is heartbreaking. Let’s try to prevent another deadly year as we take steps to protect ourselves knowing a new flu season is coming.
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Here is a list of my top five reasons for seeking out products made in America.
This one is pretty obvious. Buying a larger percentage of products made in USA helps stimulate the economy through the creation of new jobs, reinvestment of our money and creates a demand for more companies to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.
When products are made overseas there is little to no regulation of working conditions. Sweatshops are notorious for child labor, forced labor and other human rights violations. Buying products made in America is a good way to avoid supporting these grave labor atrocities.
Most countries manufacturing goods for sale in the USA do not have environmental protections laws, or they are not enforced. Companies that keep their manufacturing in the US are subject to EPA regulations to help protect the land, air and water. Additionally, a made in USA product’s carbon footprint is smaller because it has less less distance to travel.
Items made in China have become infamous for massive safety recalls. Products made in America are tested and inspected for safety standards set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. This helps protect our families from dangers posed by toxins, health risks and safety hazards.
Buying locally strengthens our communities. Supporting local shops helps promote the work of local craftsmen, small business owners and the future of manufacturing in America. When purchasing goods made closer to home, a larger percentage of profits are reinvesting in the community they are sold in.
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10. State v. Taylor, 98 Ohio St.3d 27.
Pursuant to R.C. 2945.71(C)(2), the state must bring a defendant arrested on felony charges to trial within 270 days of his arrest. If the defendant is held in jail in lieu of bail on the pending charge, each day counts as three days. R.C. 2945.71(E); If an accused is not brought to trial within the speedy trial time limits, the court, upon motion, must discharge the defendant. R.C. 2945.73(B). State v. Broughton, 62 Ohio St.3d 253 (1991).
For purposes of computing how much time has run against the state under R.C. 2945.71 et seq., the time period between the dismissal without prejudice of an original indictment and the filing of a subsequent indictment, premised upon the same facts as alleged in the original indictment, shall not be counted unless the defendant is held in jail or released on bail pursuant to Crim.R. 12(I).
However, when new and additional charges arise from the same facts as did the original charge and the state knew of such facts at the time of the initial indictment, the time within which trial is to begin on the additional charge is subject to the same statutory limitations period as the original charge. The 10th District has found speedy trial violations in this instance. The best case for the defense in the 10th District on this issue is State v. Vickers, 10th Dist. No. 10AP-318. Here are the facts in Vickers: On July 15, 2007, the area humane society removed several dogs from the defendant's premises, believing that they were being used in dog fighting. On July 17, 2007, a complaint was filed against defendant alleging five misdemeanor charges. On July 18, 2007, a felony complaint was filed in municipal court charging defendant with one count of dog fighting. On July 27, 2007, that felony complaint was dismissed for future indictment.
On August 8, 2007, a third complaint was filed in municipal court, charging the defendant with 12 misdemeanor charges. On November 14, 2007, the defendant entered pleas of guilty to several of the misdemeanor counts arising out of the two complaints, and he was sentenced on December 19, 2007. On April 28, 2008, a ten-count indictment was filed in the common pleas court against the defendant. The defendant filed a motion to dismiss on speedy trial grounds, which the trial court granted. On appeal, the 10th District first found that the April 28, 2008 indictment and the complaints filed in municipal court arose out of the same set of facts and that such facts were known to the state at the time the original charges were filed. Therefore, the Court then found the pertinent inquiry was whether a finding that all of the offenses arose out of the same facts required the court to find that the speedy trial clock ran continuously from July 18, 2007 to April 28, 2008.
The Vickers decision is important to all criminal lawyers in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. If felony charges are filed in the municipal court that are later dismissed for future indictment, trial counsel must analyze the case for speedy trial violations when the State files an indictment on facts that arose out of the same set of facts that were known to the state at the time of the original charges were filed. However, the State will argue that time is tolled from the date the charges are dismissed for future indictment and the subsequent indictment.
This remains a murky area and ultimately needs cleaned up by the Ohio Supreme Court.
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Why does it take Garry Wills 317 pages to explain Lincoln's 272 words delivered at Gettysburg? Because Lincoln's address was that magisterial and Wills' scholarship that magnificent. Wills, 84 at this writing and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, wrote Lincoln At Gettysburg in 1992.
While not dueling for oratory greatness, Lincoln's 272 words eclipse the famed oratory giant Edward Everett, the principal speaker at the dedication whose 13,000 words took two hours to deliver.
Wills explores the context and the text of Lincoln's famed address, but more than that, the forces that shaped his communication in general and this speech in particular. Readers are treated to the influences of Greek Revival, the "Culture of Death" of that day, the Transcendentalism of Theodore Parker, and the theory and oratory power of Daniel Webster.
The author also demonstrates Lincoln's mastery of thought and style. For Lincoln, the Civil War was about preserving the Union more than freeing slaves. He used the moment to connect people to the Declaration and Constitution -- "a single people dedicated to a proposition" -- and it was unity around that proposition that pushed the issue of slavery in our country toward obsolescence.
As to style, Wills shows us that Lincoln rendered obsolete the communication methods of his day, a mere thirty minutes after Everett spoke. The author's treatment of the power of words, along with the insights from Hugh Blair, Mark Twain, and John Hay is worth the price of the book.
Wills won the Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln At Gettysburg and it is not hard to understand why. This is not light reading, but it is fascinating and so insightful.
1. Scholarship: Put on your deep diving gear; Wills plumbs the depths of this speech, taking us down through cold waters of history to the works of Pericles and Thucydides.
2. Communication: Lincoln At Gettysburg is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication. It is enlightening, educating, and fascinating.
3. Context: Will deftly relays the "need for artful words to sweeten the poisoned air of Gettysburg." Each side claimed fifty thousand dead, wounded, and missing. Residents were forced to plant around bodies in the fields and gardens. Contractors were bidding to bury the bodies of soldiers, a work that intern 100 bodies a day. Will takes the speech out of our classrooms and puts us at Gettysburg.
4. Myth explosion:For years I have believed the myths that Will quickly dispels: (1) The Gettysburg Address was composed "on the fly." (2) That Lincoln was not pleased with the speech, e.g. purportedly saying, "That speech won't scour." Not so.
5. The Tycoon: Wills gives us glimpses of Lincoln through the eyes of his 25-year-old secretary, John Hay (who would later serve as Secretary of State to two Presidents.) Hay referred to Lincoln as "The Tycoon." These interactions are interesting and particularly helpful in examining the power of Lincoln's communication.
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What positive idea would you like to share that would have the greatest impact in District 3?
As your Council member, I will work for the well-being of residents of District 3 and the City of Greensboro. I would like to hear from you so I can better serve our community.
The City of Greensboro has something for everyone. Our award-winning parks and recreation areas, historic buildings, national landmarks, cultural offerings, and diverse, friendly residents make Greensboro a great place to call home. With the sophistication of an urban center and the charm of a small town, Greensboro provides the perfect balance of lifestyles for those who live, work, and play here.
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Umbrella Games acaba de publicar Minescape, una reinvención del "Buscaminas" adaptada para Smartphones. Con una factura técnica envidiable. Si quieres un juego para pensar, no lo dudes. Tras un par de minutos iniciales en los que adaptarse a la mecánica a seguir dispondremos de una gran cantidad de niveles.
Minescape funciona de la siguiente forma. Unos puntos conectados con otros presentan un número que indica a cuántas bombas están conectados. Tu misión es interceptar las bombas haciendo un rápido cálculo ya que cada nivel nos da un tiempo límite.
Redungeon es un juego muy divertido que nos traslada a una mazmorra infinita que se va generando aleatoriamente. En este juego somos un héroe que podemos controlar con una sola mano y nuestro dedo pulgar. Deslizar hacia arriba, izquierda, derecha… Para movernos mientras esquivamos una gran variedad de obstáculos y recogemos monedas que más tarde servirán para comprar vidas y desbloquear premios.
En líneas generales es un juego muy divertido y que te engancha, vamos. Pero tiene un defecto desde mi punto de vista y es el constante acoso con la publicidad. Yo, que suelo ser bastante tolerante con la forma de ganarse la vida de los desarrolladores no comparto en absoluto que desde el minuto uno mueras y ya quieran presentarte un vídeo publicitario. Video que puedes saltarte pagando monedas o reiniciando la partida. Dicho todo esto, no deja de ser un juego con una excelente jugabilidad y buena factura técnica.
Más de lo que aparenta en un principio. Tras esos preciosos gráficos que parecen de caramelo y unos controles sencillos (sólo nos movemos de izquierda a derecha) se esconde todo un juego de plataformas en el que para ir avanzado debemos sortear obstáculos en el momento preciso. Ni más, ni menos. Hacen falta reflejos y calcular muy bien como superar cada prueba que nos impone cada uno de los 21 niveles de Pitweenk.
Factura técnica muy buena, gráficos muy correctos y sonidos estilo 8-bits nos devuelven a tiempos de Mario y Sonic con unos controles sencillos acordes a la capacidad táctil de nuestros iPhone. Uno de esos juegos en los que te atascas en algún nivel y te das de cabezazos hasta que no consigues pasar al siguiente, y lo digo por experiencia.
La versión gratuita es el juego completo pero incluye publicidad.
La mecánica de Bonecrusher es sencilla. Somos una calavera que puede moverse de izquierda a derecha dando toques en la pantalla. Mientras, los enemigos intentarán aplastarnos cuando intentemos recoger huesos, que son algo así como bonus para nosotros.
Buena factura técnica, un juego sencillo para pasar unos niveles en los ratos libres. Eso sí, hay que tener muy buenos reflejos.
Este es uno de esos juegos que considero perfectos para lo que es un smartphone. Sacas el teléfono mientras vas en el autobús o esperas el Metro, echas una partida rápida y ya continuarás más tarde. .
Risky Rooms viene con 50 niveles, de apariencia sencilla. Eres un cuadrado y tú única misión es avanzar entre peligros tocando la pantalla. Un toque avanzas, sueltas toque y te paras. Así de simple. Lo difícil es hacerlo en el momento adecuado. A pesar de la apariencia tan sencilla del juego lo cierto es que es de una factura técnica muy cuidada y el ambiente "dark" da un toque muy chulo. Aviso a navegantes, el juego desespera lo suyo. A partir del nivel 5 ya comienzas a morir unas cuantas veces tratando de pasar al siguiente.
Sencillo juego donde lo único que hay que hacer es tocar la pantalla para movernos de izquierda a derecha y esquivar diversos obstáculos. La puntuación aumenta según ayudamos a nuestra medusa protagonista a subir a la superficie. Siguiendo la moda Flappy Bird pero añadiendo 2 controles en vez de uno. Visualmente precioso.
The look & feel of 8-bit retro games is alive. Even in the more and more powerful iPhone there is room for this sort of games. Nostalgic is alive. This is a list of some of the best 8-bits type games in the App Store. Enjoy.
According to a review from Padywac: The first Across Age was very fun, addictive and well worth the price! This follow up game is even better! Super fun! A little heavy on the dialog in the beginning, but that eases up until the end. Buy this game! You will not be disappointed! I just hope they come out with a third.
Build your own home and survive in a random generated world full of danger. Monsters, treasures and lot of secrets. For Minecraft fans. Retro style and funny and colorful pixelated graphics.
Explore random generated worlds in both survival or creative mode. In this game limit is your imagination. I literally spent hours in this fantastic game. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off the dangerous mobs.
Very addictive, Tiny Tower lets you build a tiny tower and manage the businesses and bitizens that inhabit it!
The Black Dragon has stolen the treasure of Faraway Kingdom.
You, faithful Knight - follow the Princess’ order to slay the Dragon and retrieve the treasure!
When bandits bust out of jail, it's up to you, Sheriff, to catch them. Journey across vast plains on your trusty steed. Dive into flooded town ruins. Take missions to earn extra money, then spend it on fancy hats and shiny belt buckles. Gamble at casinos and drink at saloons. The legend of the Old West rides again!
You can two things. Stay alive, run and kill zombies. Very good retro look. Very good controls.
From the same developer behind the classic Amiga racers, Nitro (Psygnosis) and ATR (Team17). More than 500 five stars ratings. Very fun racing game. Very easy to play. It is like the old arcade machines racing games.
If you liked the 90's 8 & 16 bit platforms games generation this your place. I have collected here the best iPhone Platforms Games I have played so far. Enjoy! Feel free to add suggestions in comments.
Race at lightning speeds across seven classic zones as Sonic the Hedgehog. Run through loop-de-loops as you collect rings and defeat enemies on your mission to save the world from the evil Dr. Eggman. The Mega Drive Classic from 1991 revamped for iOS.
The new Platforms game on the App Store. Think, run & jump! 21 Levels, 21 Stars, dozens of enemies! Easy left-right controls. Pitweenk is an awesome platform game for iPhone with a simple gameplay and cool graphics. Did I mention it is very addictive?
Drop Wizard is an action arcade game. You will play as Teo, a wizard on a quest to save his friend turned into stone by an evil warlock. Clear all the levels, face bosses, collect power ups, score epic combos and many more in this great game.
Mario Bros feel. "Lep's World" is a platformer, with nearly 175 million downloads!
Be nimble... be quick... and help Lep find his gold. It's hidden in a range of awesomely well-designed levels, and he's determined to find it all! Now a classic on the App Store.
5/5 - "The best game ever! I love it so much, I can't stop playing it!"
5/5 - "It's a lot of fun, regardless of your age!"
5/5 - "This is the best app on my iPad, by far! Highly addictive!"
When the bandits bust out of jail, it's up to you, Sheriff, to round 'em up. Journey across vast plains on your trusty steed. Dive into flooded town ruins. Take on mini missions to earn extra cash, then spend it on fancy hats and shiny belt buckles. Gamble at casinos and drink at saloons. The legend of the Old West rides again!
You will play as THE Bernie O'Tag in an action/adventure/platformer/runner that will push you to the brink with a challenge worthy of the old school. Awesome cell shaded graphics.
Supporting MFi controller! When idols die - legends are born!
More than 25 years ago Armin Gessert developed with GIANA SISTERS one of the first Jump'n Run games for the Commodore 64. The console manufacturers got anxious and tried to stop the sisters. The end seemed close. But they failed and GIANA SISTERS with packaging has become a rare collector's item. Revamped old school classic with a Mario Bros feel.
From the creators of the award winning platform game League of Evil comes Ravenous Games' new action platformer Random Heroes!! Excelletn 8-bits console graphics.
Love pixels? Like platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun! Very fun game with an old school platformer feel.
Following the events of Episode I, Metal Sonic has returned to form a formidable alliance with Dr. Eggman! To face this new evil, Sonic will have to call upon an old friend to help him save the day! Now joined by Tails, race across four brand new Zones and take down fearsome new badniks with deadly combination moves in order to put an end to this dastardly duo’s plans!
Join legendary platforming hero Rayman for a new adventure on your favorite mobile device!
If you enjoyed Rayman Jungle Run, winner of the App Store’s BEST of 2012, you will love Rayman Fiesta Run and its new wacky Fiesta world! Lunge for cocktail umbrellas, leap on limes and punch those piñatas…the sky’s the limit!
RUN, JUMP, SLIDE, and HOOK!
Collect coins and find hidden Golden Shorts!
Watch out for enemies and spikes!
Swordigo is now free! If you own an earlier version of Swordigo, you will continue to have an ad-free experience and will receive the coin doubler in-app-purchase for free after updating.
Get ready for the GREATEST platformer with the most responsive controls to hit the App Store yet!
The world needs your help! Evil scientists worldwide have joined forces forming a "League of Evil"; the only super agent who can stop them is YOU!
As a specially trained agent you can double jump, flipping your way over obstacles. You are also trained in wall jumping gaps to reach new heights. So get ready to show your sick acrobatic moves across 160 challenging levels! Fight your way through your mission and find the mad scientist to deliver a well earned pixel punch in the face!
Use your finger to morph the landscape, propelling the mysterious creature Petit to safety. Pull, swipe, and tap gadgets such as tendrils, air geysers, and pulleys to complete clever puzzles. Set to a poignant orchestrated soundtrack from composer David Ari Leon, Contre Jour both delights and bedevils from start to finish.
A must have if you played the Sega 16-bit generation in the 1990's. Fantastic controls and awesome feel of playing like in a gamepad. Five big worlds and dozens of levels. Mickey Mouse returns to star in Castle of Illusion, a fantastical reimagining of the Sega Genesis classic. When the evil witch Mizrabel kidnaps Minnie, it’s up to Mickey to brave the dangers of the Castle of Illusions to rescue Minnie.
This game was elected one of the Best App Store Games 2012. RUN, JUMP, and SLIDE to save the day! Collect coins and find hidden Golden Shorts! Earn more stars with faster times!
90's edition of Sonic CD adapted to iOS. 9/10 IGN. 5/5 Toucharcade. Sonic travels to the distant shores of Never Lake for the once-a-year appearance of Little Planet - a mysterious world where past, present, and future collide through the power of the Time Stones that lie hidden within it.
21 Levels, 21 Stars, dozens of enemies!
"Simple, funny, cool and very addictive"
"One of the best platforms games of the App Store!!"
"Highly recommend to check it out!"
"For Mario and Sonic fans"
"Pitweenk is one of the best iOS platform games"
"Incredibly good and addictive game"
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Donald Trump, left, filed a complaint against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for suing him and calling his university a "scam."
Real estate mogul Donald Trump has filed a complaint against New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, accusing him of misconduct.
The complaint, filed Monday with the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, accuses Schneiderman of soliciting donations from the Trump organization for his re-election campaign while investigating Trump University based on "a few isolated complaints" from former students.
It also says that, when Schneiderman first sought the attorney general's office in 2010, he made at least two unannounced visits to the Trump Organization's offices, "at a time when his campaign was struggling," to personally request that Trump contribute to his campaign." Trump says he subsequently made a contribution of $12,500.
The investigation into Trump University -- a real estate school -- began in 2011, shortly after Schneiderman was sworn into office. The Attorney General, who is up for re-election in 2014, filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school this past August, accusing it of fraud.
"The lawsuit is nothing but a shakedown of a politically attractive target," reads the complaint. "Mr. Schneiderman commenced a defamatory, unstatesmanlike and, ultimately, jury-pool-poisoning media campaign to publicize the lawsuit."
The lawsuit against Trump and his company is described in the document as "false, unsubstantiated, materially misleading, legally [and] deficient."
"Donald Trump and his associates will say and do anything to avoid talking about the facts in this case. Mr. Trump's outlandish conspiracy theories and outright distortions will not distract Attorney General Schneiderman from pursuing justice for the students victimized by Mr. Trump and his scam university."
Trump's complaint also objects to Schneiderman's characterization of Trump University as a "scam from top to bottom" and a "phony university with phony instructors." He also objected to Scheiderman's denigration of the school as a "bait and switch," a phrase that the New York Attorney General used during interviews on CNN.
The complaint, dated Dec. 2, was provided to CNN by Trump's attorney, Jeffrey Goldman.
Trump University has since been renamed the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.
--CNN's Rande Iaboni contributed to this story.
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There are many benefits of eco-friendly homes, but just what is building green?
Building Green is a Process of Design and Construction that Reduces or Eliminates Items Negatively Impacting our Climate and Environment.
The main goal of green building is to protect and preserve our precious natural resources which improves not only our quality of life but that of future generations as well.
Traditional home construction can be disastrous for the environment. It can involve deforestation, groundwater disruptions, heat island creation, wetland drainage, and wildlife destruction. From the lot to the materials used in construction, there are many points that make up green construction.
According to a report by the EPA, approximately 160 million tons of debris from building construction and demolition is generated each year. This accounts for more than 26% of non–industrial waste creation in the country.
Another alternative to designing an entirely new home is to purchase an existing home and renovate it to include green features. Homebuyers can create their dream homes while reducing their ecological footprints by minimizing the use of raw materials, using already-developed land, and recycling materials.
Indoor air quality is an essential component of health and safety. By incorporating sustainable indoor air quality techniques into building construction, this ensures good indoor air quality throughout the building's life cycle.
Building Green is Efficient Use Of Energy And Water And The Use Of Renewable Sources Such As Wind Or Solar Energy.
According to the EPA, renewable energy systems–solar electric, wind electric, micro-hydropower, and hybrid electric–can supply some or all of a green home's electricity needs.
Reduce your energy consumption by using renewable energy sources such as daylighting, geothermal, groundwater cooling, passive solar heating, and photovoltaics.
Building Green is Choosing a Environmentally Conscious Design that is Adaptable and also has a Positive Impact on the Occupants.
The home's design is one of the most important factors to consider when constructing a green home. It affects the home's entire life cycle–site selection, design, materials development, construction, operations, maintenance, and deconstruction. Moreover, the home's size impacts costs for the lot, design and construction, and long-term use like energy and maintenance.
Earth is the only home we have. It provides us with food, water, the air we breathe, and supplies we need for shelter. We do not want to pollute our home and make it uninhabitable. We should all do our part to conserve and preserve this beautiful earth we call home.
It is also important to keep in mind, not only can residential homes be "green". Green construction can also apply to schools, government buildings, office building, hospitals, and more.
To order our Building Green CE course and more, visit our Real Estate CE course catalog or call 888-895-8839 to speak to a member of our support services team.
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In the Fall of 2012, while I was painting the stairs up to my bedroom, I was contemplating the upcoming writing Challenge, NaNoWriMo. (National Novel Writing Month). I had made up my mind to write the sequel to "Capture the Wandering Heart", but there was unrest in my imagination.
I had the storyline in my head. It would be easy to just go with it, but something was wrong. I couldn't get into it like I wanted to. While I painted I felt that I needed to do something completely different so that the writing would stay fresh.
The1970s are special to me because that is the time period in which I became a young person on my own. The story of Betty Barnes almost wrote itself. I hope you enjoy "Six Miles From Nashville." I strive to write books that cause the reader to pause and think a little. They are not terribly deep, but hopefully, the reader will see something that will aid them in their life's walk.
Book I of the Nashville Series released in 2013 is about Betty Barnes, a girl from Guymon, Oklahoma who is a 1974 graduate of high school on her way to Bible College in Missouri. Through a series of events she finds herself in a cafe six miles from Nashville.
Betty Barnes finds herself hundreds of miles away from her Guymon, Oklahoma home. Since leaving for a large Bible College in Missouri, her life has been twisted around. Not that things weren't already a challenge for her with her brother in Vietnam and her heart bleeding from a recent break up.
Book II of the Nashville Series released in 2013 continues Betty's story and introduces her brother who was a POW in Vietnam. He must decide whether to face his past or plow through it to the future that offers hope and promise.
After receiving a letter from a private investigator in regards to the child she put up for adoption over two years ago, Betty's life was further complicated. Her hopes were high that she might be able to mother the child she gave away only to be faced with court appearances and setbacks that stretched her faith in God to the limit.
How much could one year change a woman? Would Debbie Williams ever overcome the stigma that followed her after her incarceration? Long before she endured her first lock-up, she was a widow who had given up on love. If she had ever entertained the idea of remarriage, all hope for that disappeared with the clang of her prison door. Why did her life become even more complicated after she served her time? This was no time for a man to show interest, or was it? Maybe the old Debbie was gone and ready to live. The freedom she experienced was more precious to her since it had been restored.
Bruce happily left the job at the mechanic shop in Oklahoma City for a new life on a ranch near Elk City. He was nursing a broken heart from the rejection of a woman he had begun to love. Who was he kidding? No woman would want to take on a man like him and his four children. They had just begun to heal after the death of their mother. He believed the cowboy life of his childhood was a better fit for them and he was ready for whatever might come his way.
Kathy discovered that she could make better money driving a truck and hauling crude oil than using the bachelor degree she had toiled to earn. Her parents were wary of her choice of occupation and yearned for her to be married and provide them some grandchildren. Their urging produced the opposite results, sending her far away from Woodward, Oklahoma. She was self-sufficient until the day she met a cowboy.
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Here are a brand new clip and photos from the next episode of the Helix TV Show created by Ronald D. Moore.
Suspicion and death stalk the base…team members begin to realize that no one is quite who they seem to be. That should be synopsis for the fifth episode of the series titled The White Room.
Helix stars Billy Campbell (Dr. Alan Farragut), Kyra Zagorsky (Dr. Julia Walker), Jordan Hayes (Dr. Sarah Jordan), Hiroyuki Sanada (Dr. Hiroshi Hatake), Catherine Lemieux (Dr. Doreen Boyle), Neil Napier (Dr. Peter Farragut), Mark Ghanime (Major Sergio Balleseros) and Meegwun Fairbrother (Daniel Aerov).
The fifth episode of Helix airs January 31st, 2014.
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Let's explore the etymology of Hannibal Lecter's name, to see if we can confirm that he represents a personification of evil Jews, and of Satan. Starting with Hannibal's last name, Lecter is related to the name Lechter, which is derived from the name Lichter. Lichter is a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) occupational surname for someone who made candles or possibly for someone who tended a light, from an agent derivative of from Middle High German lieht, Yiddish likht 'candle', 'light'.[a] Due to this name symbolism, we see that Hannibal Lecter represents Jews, within some context.
Left: The nine-branched Hanukiah.[Image from the Wikipedia 'Menorah (Hanukkah)' page, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.] Above: Lecter bites Officer Pembry on the face in Memphis.
Let us now analyze Lecter's first name. The name 'Hannibal' means "grace of Ba'al" from the Phoenician hann "grace" combined with the name of the god BA'AL. Hannibal was the name of a Carthaginian general known for his cruelty, who threatened Rome during the Second Punic War in the 3rd century BC.[c] BA'AL is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning "master" or "lord" that was used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant. Worship of all such spirits was rejected as immoral, and many were in fact considered malevolent and dangerous.
As can be seen, the etymology of Lecter's first name confirms that he represents a personification of Satan, and this taken with his last name indicates a correspondence between evilness and certain Jews. As we've already observed, Lecter represents evil hermaphroditic Jews (recall from part 8 of the analysis, that the hermaphroditic aspect of Lecter is due to the 'femaleness' within him, insofar as he corresponds to the witch, Baba Yaga).
b. Wikipedia, 'Hanukkah'. Web, n.d. URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah.
c. Wikipedia, 'Hannibal'. Web, n.d. URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal.
d. Wikipedia, 'Baal'. Web, n.d. URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal.
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Get a new challenge for the given user.
Get the minimum length of the user-password.
Revert the session back to anonymous.
Is the user able to login via the browser-interface?
true if a login-ui could be provided.
p_request - The request to pe processed.
p_strLoginName - The user's login name.
p_strLoginDomain - The user's login domain.
p_bFailIfUserNotFound - If set to true the method will return null if no matching user is found in the database.
An error code defined in WebSessionBroker.
The minimum length of the user-password.
p_strSessionId - The unique session identifier.
p_strPayloadC - The encrypted new password.
p_strResponse - The client's response to the authentication challenge.
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What should be their application to the producers and users of free software with specific reference to medical care?
We consider the care of children important, yet apply different standards to those who are paid to attend children, than to those who provide help or supervision free of charge in their own homes, despite that these can be the same children. Regulatory efforts are therefore not a cut and dry system of applying rules purely and solely to achieve a uniform outcome but, in many cases, in the aim of achieving a "generally right thing".
In the context of Patient Management Software (PMS), including Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software, I would offer the considerations below.
I am hoping that any Regulatory agency striving to foster quality would do so without an unduly expensive process that stands to extinguish the type of diversity and innovation seen with small and notably free software projects. Projects which can ill-afford the expensive hoops better-survived by large institutions, to the latter's eventual and strategic benefit.
In the case of "products", we customarily regulate quality mainly, if not purely, only up to the original point of sale to the consumer. Only extra-ordinarily is there an expectation of still meeting the original standard at the point where a product is secondarily redistributed. Some goods like pre-owned automobiles, despite that they may have suffered a decline in quality, remain adequately examinable by any consumer who would acquire it.
The quality management system (QMS) standard is, in the case of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, a proxy for the actual inspection, and testing, and any repair or other alteration of the software which – in a free (liberated) open source software or "FLOSS" model – is a freedom fully accessible to the consumer. This has been largely if not entirely unavailable to users of non-free, closed-source "proprietary" software, at least traditionally.
For convenience, and despite that not all of the last-named above fits the following description, let us in the worst case scenario refer to it hereafter as opaque lock-in software (OLIS). Let us also take the view that despite such a label, a well-managed OLIS could achieve a high-level QMS and could surely help to achieve quality health care delivery, albeit at costs that can be substantial.
Setting aside all contractual relationship elements, and focussing only on quality, and in a scenario where the producers of a particular FLOSS or even OLIS software version would not have made explicit (nor obtained certification of) their quality management system, the question becomes whether the deployment and usage of the software by the end-users would be any different than if the end-users had written their own software.
The Regulator must therefore ask itself whether it will outlaw all end-user modification of generic tools which would then serve these users' own needs, since typical EMRs – despite being "packaged" – already combine "off the shelf" component tools which combine a database, a programming language, a connection server and a graphical user interface. To argue that the end-user who built their own EMR from a word processor (which within it may have or link to database and sort and manipulate functions in addition to internal programming languages) is a false argument.
The Regulator must then consider that – if it will not outlaw these uses – then on what basis would it disallow the sharing of copies of such software systems among such users with common needs. The next extension is the concept of multiple individuals or groups within a community, each deploying a copy for their own use. If such a group put everyone's record in a single giant database used by all – not that we should – there would be no distribution from its point of origin. This form of EMR, despite that it would be a giant EMR, would presumably be exempt. This is, in fact, what some government facilities do, and the reasoning under which government bodies can write or multiply-deploy software exempt from government's own Medical Device QMS requirements bears re-examination.
Regulators can fail to appreciate that in designating software divorced from hardware to be a Medical Device, they are bringing under Regulatory control either virtual devices or, in the case of centrally-deployed and remotely accessed systems, software as a service which the regulators risk defining as then regard as out of scope. What will be the regulatory stipulations when medical practitioners would subscribe to a service hosted outside of Canada, where not already precluded by privacy legislation? What then of the public who might choose to host their personal health information on a system like Google Health. Surely this is a Patient (Health) Management Software, therefore shall Google Health be multinationally regulated to require certification and licensing?
There is a danger that the Regulator would here be seen as not exercising quality requirements that place accountability where it lay. In the case of consumers of traditional OLIS, their accountability for using the software is shifted upstream to the locus of control because, as consumers, they can only try to influence, but cannot control, their source of manufacture, nor be helped to discern any of its failings through internal inspection. That forms the basis for a Regulator to require of the OLIS manufacturer a certification for the QMS as a the proxy to safe and effective function of the software.
Where however a patient management software is made available to those who could come and help themselves to it, whether on an internationally-available server computer or through point-to-point sharing within a user community per any of the scenarios above, the accountability should be on the users, except where they would have conjointly assigned an upstream QMS proxy that accepted and undertook this responsibility. In the case of a FLOSS software, this could be a community-supported non profit corporation, but there exist presently mainly just appeals to principle for such investments.
In absence of such an arrangement among a user base, and where their EMR had not achieved ISO 13485 certification (be the EMR of type OLIS or FLOSS), each user group – for example, each medical practice – should be responsible to document their own QMS.
There is a precedent for this, in the existing requirement for doctors working in the private sector to establish their privacy policies and privacy practices. These, any patient can request to be shown. So too should it be for any medical device(s) that are in use. One can argue that it could be transformative for the public, as patients, to be more-transparently provided with evidence of QMS processes which, in many practices, may commonly be inadequately defined.
The benefit of such an approach would be to drive medical practices to higher levels of collaboration and co-operation and adoption of quality practices, whether those would be through such work at the community collaborative level, or whether it would be achieved on their behalf through a proxy of a non-profit organization (where they would build one to achieve the certification) or through an OLIS or FLOSS entity.
Even while we want satisfactory QMS in place, whether this be a case of the consumer inferring it, from an EMR having ISO 13485 certification, or a case of a QMS that is demonstrable by its users absent the formality of certification, may be less important to quality delivery. Here seems the important point – where any medical users would have the capacity to use any non-certified software, the objective should not be to obstruct the use of the software, but to require the users to develop and make available documentation for their own QMS. This approach would place the pressure where it should reside. One could even extend the argument, by asserting a duty on doctors to document a QMS around their _non_-electronic patient record system. Their need for better quality patient information management, and care delivery, would create a movement to adopt EMR functionality where, and how, it would add quality and value. This would drive adoption of EMR functionality for the right reasons!
Medical practices which would rather align inside an established quality system, such as a certified OLIS or community-supported FLOSS entity might provide, would achieve part of their work done for them. Many doctors do tell me "I would rather just pay somebody the extra, to provide me something that has already been worked out, than to have to do it myself". Many would find it simpler to just go with a certified OLIS "vendor". But we should also look to ways to get the medical community to abide or support the costs of OLIS and FLOSS softwares that did not yet get certified. That would make them better softwares, which should be the point of all this.
The Regulator-approved registrars could be approached to identify a process in which medical offices which use computers for anything more than billing and scheduling – and arguably (per above) even those who don't – should have to provide QMS documentation as to their records management, including any electronically-assisted care components that are not ISO 13485 certified. The impact on the practice must be non-injurious. In any one practice, in any one year, it should be limited to something like a half day of time for the doctors in the practice, and a cost of maybe $200 per full time doctor-equivalent capped at $1000 per practice. This could be deployed under a random audit system, with an intensity that fell within the joint capacity of Registrars and Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons – the long-standing regulatory bodies for care delivered by doctors – with whom such a process development should naturally reside.
Short of such a system, I cannot see that the Regulator could come up with an approach that would take account of the fact that doctors who use self-made systems, and those which don't, may also be using many other electronic patient management tools independent of what may or may not be an ISO 13485 certified EMR.
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Can foreign workers receive unemployment benefits?
Dear Shami, in the case of dismissal, you can receive unemployment benefits under certain conditions. After briefly mentioning unemployment insurance, I will give information about these conditions.
In Turkey, the Unemployment Insurance Act (Law no. 4447) was enacted in 1999 and was put into effect as of June 2000. The purpose of the said Act is to regulate rules and principles of the application of the unemployment insurance and to ensure that payments and services envisaged in the Act are provided to the insured persons in the event that such persons become unemployed.
Unemployment insurance is compulsory for both employers and workers. The height of the contributions to be deposited calculates itself as follows: employee's interest: 1 percent, employer's interest: 2 percent, interest of the state: 1 percent. The basis for calculation is the gross income. Insured employees who have lost their jobs without their fault and are keen to have a new job receive that benefit.
The daily unemployment benefit is 50 percent of the previous net earnings of the insured, being calculated by taking into account the earnings of the last four months that constitute the basis for the premium. Unemployment benefits are paid to the unemployed worker on a monthly basis at the end of each month. According to the above-mentioned Act, unemployment insurance benefits cannot exceed 80 percent of gross minimum wage.
For the first six months of 2010, the maximum unemployment insurance benefit is 583.20 Turkish Liras. For the same period, the minimum unemployment insurance benefit is 291.60 liras.
Finally, in terms of unemployment benefits applications, foreign or domestic workers have no distinction.
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Three years later, he was convicted of murder and arson, and subsequently served over 14 years in prison.
In the interviews printed in Lords of Chaos, Vikernes discusses his background and childhood.
Lords of Chaos also includes an interview with his mother, Helene Bore (the book and a newspaper depicted there refer to her with the given name 'Lene', In the Lords of Chaos interview, Vikernes recalls that when he was 6 years old, the family moved for about a year to Baghdad, Iraq, because Vikernes' "father was working for Saddam Hussein", developing a computer program.
Interested in music from a young age, he began playing guitar at the age of 14 and became part of the early Norwegian black metal scene in 1991 when he founded Burzum.
In 1992, he was allegedly involved in burning down at least three Christian churches in Norway, along with other members of the scene.
By early 1993, he had recorded four albums as Burzum and another with fellow black metal band Mayhem.
In August 1993, he was arrested and charged with the murder of Mayhem guitarist Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth.
He began his blog and You Tube channel, entitled Thulean Perspective, in 2013.
Through his writings and videos he promotes an ideology which he calls "Ôðalism", based on a Blood and Soil-derived form of nationalism and the re-adoption of native European values and belief systems, such as elements of traditional paganism.
Echoing this sentiment, he writes in Vargsmål: "For each devastated graveyard, one heathen grave is avenged, for each ten churches burnt to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged, for each ten priests or freemasons assassinated, one heathen is avenged." When asked whether the church burnings were linked to Odinism or Germanic neopaganism he replied: "The point is that all these churches [i.e. The journalists were summoned to an apartment and reportedly warned that they would be shot if the police were called.
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Why the computer is slow when starting up?
My computer runs really slow when starting up and also when shutting down or logging off. When I log on I get the same messages or errors. One says something about a run time error out of memory and another says something about my network being down and asks to troubleshoot. I troubleshooted and nothing seemed to work. I basically lost a network connection as well as the internet connection and have had some memory problems. Most of my exsisting programs dont work as well. Do you have any idea on how to help?
The "run time out of memory" error you are getting means you computer is out of memory There is no more memory available and this is why programs won't start up First you need to un-install any programs on your computer that are not needed Then i suggest upgrading your memory If you increase the memory on your pc the performance will be better and the pc will run smoothly.
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John Ashcroft, President Bush's choice for Attorney General, faced a more difficult confirmation hearing than any other of his cabinet nominees. Democrats pointed out that Ashcroft has long opposed the Roe vs Wade decision, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. They also brought up his opposition to racial desegregation of schools and black voter registration efforts in his home state of Missouri when he was first the state's attorney general and then the governor there.
Several Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed doubts that Ashcroft could be counted on to enforce laws related to abortion, civil rights and other matters in light of his outspoken opposition to these very same laws over the years.
Nevertheless, even before Ashcroft's confirmation hearing ended, a few Democratic Senators dropped their opposition to him and announced that they would vote for his confirmation as head of the Justice Department, since he is an "honorable" man, Republican leaders said that they would have the support of all 50 Republican members of the Senate.
Of course, Kennedy and a few Democrats hinted they might filibuster against Ashcroft's confirmation in the full Senate. But Orrin Hatch, the senior Republican member of the Judiciary Committee declared that if Democrats in the full Senate filibustered against Ashcroft's nomination, such a step would be "tantamount to outright warfare."
Eight years ago, the Republicans were ready to take that step. The Democrats then controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. Yet the Republicans made Clinton withdraw nominees they considered to be "too liberal."
The Democrats are now in a stronger position than the Republicans were then, with the Senate split evenly between themselves and the Republicans. Yet they are not willing to do what the Republicans did.
In other words, the Democrats are ready to say they are on the side of women who want to protect their right to abortion, on the side of black people who want to protect their right to vote and send their children to decent public schools.
But they aren't ready to act on it!
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Identify factors that might increase your risk for gum disease.
Periodontal disease (also called "gum disease") is a chronic bacterial infection of the gums and bone supporting the teeth. It is caused by certain bacteria that are found on teeth and in the spaces between the teeth and gums. Diagnosing gum disease and getting appropriate treatment is important. Why? Because if left untreated, the disease can progress, which may lead to tooth loss. On top of that, research continues to show that gum disease may have an effect on several serious health conditions. This means that having regular dental check-ups and any needed treatment for gum disease is important not only for your mouth, but for your overall well-being.
Gum disease is the most significant dental disease affecting adults. According to recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), half of Americans aged 30 or older have periodontitis, the more advanced form of periodontal disease. This equals approximately 64.7 million Americans.1 The good news is that it's treatable, and like many other health conditions, the earlier you diagnose and treat, the better the outcome.
This tool is designed to help you and your dentist identify factors that might increase your risk for gum disease. Take the quiz by clicking on the link below and share the results with your dentist at your next dental check-up.
Please note that this tool serves to provide a guideline as to your risk for gum disease. It is possible to have this disease without obvious warning signs, which is why regular dental checkups are so important.
Douglass, Chester W., DMD, PhD, "Risk assessment and management of periodontal disease," Journal of the American Dental Association, Vol. 137, November 2006, p. 275-325.; Ira B. Lamster, DDS, MMSc, "Antimicrobial mouthrinses and the management of periodontal diseases: Introduction to the supplement," Journal of the American Dental Association, Vol. 137, November 2006, p. 5s-9s.; Eke, Paul I. and Genco, Robert J., "CDC Periodontal Disease Surveillance Project: Background, Objectives, and Progress Report," Journal of Periodontology, Vol. 78, No. 7 (Suppl.), p.1366-1371.; "American Academy of Periodontology Statement on Risk Assessment," Journal of Periodontology, Vol. 79, No. 2, p. 202.; "Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Periodontal Diseases," Journal of Periodontology, Vol. 77, No. 9, p. 1607-1611.
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Below is a synopsis of the article which will appear in full in the Kildare Nationalist next week.
Michael Smyth was born at Rosetown, Athgarvan, Newbridge, on 9 March 1888 to Terrance and Anne Smyth, both of whom were born at Rosetown. He was educated at Two-Mile-House National School though his mother had taught him to read and write at home.
By 1911, still at Rosetown, Michael was a postman and became actively involved in the Labour Party/ITGWU shortly after being elected as a Labour member to Kildare Co. Council and also Newbridge Town Commission/Council in 1920. He remained a Co. Councillor for some 38 years, standing down in 1967.
He became Secretary of the new Company of Volunteers formed in Athgarvan in June 1914. A split occurred and a new company of Irish Volunteers was formed with Michael as Company Captain in September of 1915. He was deputed to buy arms and ammunition but found it difficult to get them from the Curragh Camp. He became Secretary of the National Volunteers and arranged to buy weapons and ammunition from them for some £300 – some of these were sent to Dublin in March 1916.
Michael had mobilised the Athgarvan Comapny on Sunday of Easter Week but saw the countermanding order and did not march to Dublin. They remained mobilised for the week, awaiting further instructions. He was arrested on 2 May and lodged in Hare Park, the Curragh. From there he was brought to Richmond barracks on 8 May and deported to Wandsworth Jail on 2 June and interned in Frongoch Camp on 26th June – number 1124, Hut 24, North Camp. He was tried at Wormwood Scrubs Prison for receiving ‘£300 in German gold’ to buy arms, found guilty and sentenced to two years in jail. Returned to Frongoch, he took part in a hunger strike in November and was detained in South Camp Frongoch until 23 December 1916 when the general release of prisoners was made.
At home in Ireland he once again became active in the cause – he was appointed Kildare Battalion Commandant in December 1920 as the War of Independence raged. He received a Death Notice ‘By Oder H.M.F.’ (Her Majesty’s Forces) to force him to desist from these activities.
Arrested on 3 July 1920 by a party of Black and Tans Michael was badly beaten and imprisoned at Newbridge Barracks from 7-13 July. He was transferred to the Curragh and later to Mountjoy in October until he was released on 14 January 1922 as part of the General Amnesty. Michael remained neutral during the Irish Civil War.
He remained in politics becoming one of the driving forces of Labour in Co. Kildare and was elected to the Senate in 1943.
On 17 Oct 1934 he married Miss Annie Murphy, daughter of Mrs Alice Murphy and the late Patrick Murphy, Belan Avenue, Moone. His best man was Senator William Cummins and Michael and Anne honeymooned in London.
Newington House is in the townland of Christianstown (Ord. S. 17) and the parish of Feihcullen, which is partly in the barony of East Offaly, but chiefly in that of Connell. Feighcullen comprises 3,835 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. According to the Tithe Applotment Books of 1826 Newington House, the residence of Samuel Neale, comprised 131.2.0 ARP with a rateable value of £13.5s.41/2d. In the entry for Feighcullen in Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary of 1837 ‘the gentlemen’s seats are Newington’ House, the residence of Samuel Neale, Esq. According to Griffith’s Valuation of 1853 the occupier of Christianstown was Sarah E. Neale and the lessor Samuel Neale, whose house, offices and land comprised approximately 507 acres at an annual rateable valuation of £414.
The Kildare Observer of 22 September 1883 carried an advertisement for a midwife, which referred to Joseph Manly Neale, Esq., M.D., Newington House, as Honorary Secretary of the Robertstown and Kilmeague Dispensary District. In 1887 J. Manly Neale, Newington House, was nominated as a land valuer by the Irish Land Commission. In April 1899 Dr. J.M. Neale was appointed warden of the Robertstown Dispensary District. Dr. Neale seemed to be a collector of archaeological artefacts as the Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society mentioned, on two separate occasions, that he had in his ‘possession’ a granite cap or top-stone of a sculptured Celtic cross and ‘a panel belonging to the Wellesley monument, which was carried off, and is now used as an ornament in the garden’.
The 1901 census returns for Newington – a first class house with twenty rooms – are as follows: Joseph Manly Neale (63); Irish Church; head of the family, who was born in Co. Kildare. His wife was born in Dublin. They had two daughters and one son – Samuel (23) – all born in Co. Kildare. A series of advertisements and meadow sales from 1910 to 1928 established that Newington was the residence of J.M. Neale in 1910 and Samuel Neale from 1911. It is assumed then that J.M. Neale died before the 1911 census as in the returns Samuel was described as a farmer and head of the family, while his mother was described as a widow.
'In the goods of Samuel Neale, late of Newington, Newbridge, in the County of Kildare, Gentleman, deceased.
All persons claiming to be creditors of the above-named deceased, who died on 21st March, 1947, are hereby requested to forward particulars of their claims (in writing) forthwith to the undersigned Solicitors for the Exequtrix.
Mrs. Samuel Neale was a prominent member of the Kildare Archaeological Society until her death. Newington House was sold and later demolished and a new residence built on the property.
Everything had to be done neatly. There were periodic inspections for tunnels. All operations were kept as secret as possible in case of spying. We agreed that whichever tunnel was through first would be made available to the other teams, so that all could escape at the same time.
After a few weeks we got word that one was ready. The escape was planned for that night. Newbridge was an old cavalry barracks. There was a large manhole in the square. It was connected with an old main sewer. The authorities had shown nervousness about this, thus drawing attention to its possibilities. The sewer ran right through the centre block, into the Liffey about 300 yards away. The tunnel was dug from a ground floor room into the sewer.
Each block of four rooms was self-contained and each room held nearly twenty men. Word was passed to everybody who knew of the tunnel. No person could leave his block, by order on penalty of being fired on by the sentries. At about seven each night a whistle was blown and each man had to withdraw from the square to (presumably) his own block until morning. There was no check afterwards, however, on the occupants of each block.
The tunnel was not in our block and a few minutes before whistle time we got ready to move in silently to the escape block. A message was however passed to us that the escape had been postponed until the following night. When the whistle blew we went to our own rooms.
The following morning whilst in bed somebody whispered in my ear that 70 men had escaped. It was true. The information given to us at the critical moment the night before was wrong. We moved into the empty escape room and took it over.
The authorities knew nothing of the escape. It was in our favour that the day was Sunday. The prisoners here, as in Limerick, also looked after themselves. The soldiers merely acted as guards on the outside.
On Sunday usually, there was little or no connection between them and us. Before an hour, the escape was known to all the prisoners. It was made clear, however – with the aid of butchers’ knives from the cookhouse – that drastic measures would be taken against anybody trying to pass out information. As it happened, no information was passed out.
We knew nothing of the working of this tunnel – all who did were gone. A wiry, diminutive lad – Hussey of Killarney – was selected to make an inspection that morning. He came back, leaving his shoes outside – perhaps that he would have an excuse of going out for them again, or to prove that he had made the journey.
We decided to escape that night. We found it would be impossible to get away by day. And now we had a bit of trouble. We prisoners had our own commanding officer. He now approached us and claimed the right to take over control, as he was anxious that a batch of key Dublinmen would escape first. We very reluctantly agreed on condition that ours should be the second batch.
When the whistle blew in the evening for everybody to go to their blocks, there were up to two hundred men in the escape block. We waited. An hour passed. We wondered what was delaying the first party. They were patiently waiting in a ring round the tunnel entrance in the escape room.
At last the O/C called for attention. It was now about 8.30. The escape was called on, he said. He had definite information, he said, that there was an armoured car outside with machine guns trained on the mouth of the tunnel. Naturally and very correctly, of course, he refused to be responsible for sending unarmed men to their deaths. After the order his men fell back from round the coveted spot. We edged in and took their places. At that moment we felt responsible to no-one but to our individual selves. Turning to them I said “Are we going to drop it?” There was no doubt about their “No”. I lifted the neat square board that covered the hole, and threw it aside – the bed underneath which it was hidden had already been moved earlier that night. Hussey, the guide, went first, and each of us who had elected to come followed him.
After about a dozen feet, we got into the sewer. We were able to crawl without difficulty on our hands and knees. The distance seemed long. It seemed to take over an hour. The noise made by the crawling line – about 25 of us – seemed very loud. We passed under a sentry box. It seemed almost incredible that he could not hear us.
Tom O’Brien had a new blue suit on. Earlier in the night he had carefully wound a cloth round the legs to preserve it. He was after me, I kept asking him how his suit was. It was unnecessary to ask.The knees of our trousers were soon worn through, and then the skin began to come off at the knees and palms.
There was a disused sawmill on the bank of the river. The sewer passed beneath it. The architects of the tunnel knew their geography well and they bored right up into the mill house. The entrance to the river had been blocked with iron bars by the Free State authorities. We waited to give a helping hand until all were up. We decided that five of us should make the first attempt to cross the river – the others to wait until they were sure that everything was in order, and then come as they wished.
We crawled out in single file, turned to the right along the bank for a hundred yards, in order to avoid going too close to where we knew there was an outpost, and then struck straight across the river. The river was high enough to cleanse us after the sewer. O’Brien carried his cigarettes and matches in safety under his cap. Suddenly a light shone down on us, along the river. We froze, crouching where we were, expectantly. It slowly lifted, turned aside, and passed on. It was probably the light of a car travelling the Naas road.
We climbed a steep bank on the other side, into a large field. Then we were free.
Never again do I hope to experience the exultation I felt going up that field – the joy of being free.
When we reached the top of the field, we were together. Suddenly from behind, I heard my first name called. I waited. A young lad came running up, 15-years-old Tully O’Sullivan of Tralee. He asked me to take him with us.
Thinking he would be too great a liability to us and to himself I advised him to go back and link up with another party. He pleaded and I consented. Just then another figure loomed up. Nash from Newcastle West. He like O’Sullivan had also stolen after us, and he pleaded to be allowed accompany us. He had been wounded previously and on that account, perhaps we consented.
*** … us glowed the huge wall of light, forming a ring of death in the barbed wire around the camp.
We didn’t bless the whitethorn hedges – favoured by the farmers in Kildare and Dublin – through we had to force our way.
After about an hour we heard continuous bursts of gunfire coming from the direction of the camp. We knew the escape had been discovered. We later learned that one party of escapees – not the one that came with us – had been caught under fire. We heard afterwards that some were killed and wounded. One wounded man, swept down the river, got into a friendly house and escaped. Some went back through the sewer again. We heard also that one went astray in a smaller offshoot and got stuck there.
There were Free State posts at Naas and Blessington. It was important that we go between them. Our star carried us right through. When daylight came we approached a house for food. The poor woman had no bread. She baked us a cake on the griddle. We ate and rested in a nearby wood until nightfall.
*** … the village of Brittas. Somebody had a half crown. We bought a few bottles of stout and set out again by road.
Shortly after leaving the village, we met four officers on a sidecar – probably from the aerodrome at Tallaght! They looked at us, and we looked at them. They said nothing and passed on. We thought they must suspect us and might organise a search party. We took to the fields again.
Then Allman hurt his knee crossing a fence. We could go no further. We looked for the light of a house, but could see none. We came on a field of hay left out to feed sheep or cattle for the winter. We made a bed in a dry dyke and slept until morning.
That day we got into Rathfarnham. The two Dublin lads and I slept for a week in a loft of a cow byre. The other four found refuge – through the help of a friendly priest in a barn. The gardener supplied food. They were closeted at hand for a week, as they had to remain, as they had to remain there until Allman’s knee was better.
Then one bright Thursday afternoon, armed with one service rifle, three Webley revolvers, a bottle of iodine and some bandages and a very good map of Ireland we turned our faces to the South, out by the Hell Fire Club, down across the Dublin Mountains on our journey home. There were five of us: Allman, Hussey, Nash, O’Sullivan and myself (four Kerrymen, one from Limerick).
As we came off the mountains on the road near Glencree we heard the sound of a bugle call. We immediately took cover in a ditch, and sent young O’Sullivan forward to investigate. Being young he was not likely to be suspected. He reported back that it was a Reformatory, run by a religious order – on semi-military lines, I presume, hence the bugle.
We knocked at the door and asked for our dinner. The Superior was called and we could see that he did not like our appearance. We had to certify that our arms were for defence only (like all great nations do).
He admitted us and provided us with a very fine dinner. He didn’t seem to like our side. It was dusk when we left Glencree, and followed a grass grown road made to subjugate Michael O’Dwyer, many miles long and wide, running through a huge glen. We were tired and there was no house except the broken-down block houses sight. That night we slept under a large overhanging rock. The night was cold and there were showers of sleet. It was the end of October.
We had no overcoats and our summer clothing was thin and scanty. (We from Kerry had no connection with our homes since capture). Some of us had no shirts. They had worn out in prison, and we had made ourselves instead a sort of long undergarment, from army blankets. We slept fitfully through a very long night, huddled on top of each other, for warmth.
At daybreak, we found we were only a short distance from a house surrounded by trees. It looked big, and we suspected a military post, as we had one marked on our map in the locality. We spread out and closed in cautiously.
*** … carded slings were scattered in the open hall. The soldiers had been there and had gone.
We knocked up the caretaker – it was a shooting lodge. He lit a fire and we thawed out. He made a huge container of tea and gave us all the bread he had - not much. He said he had to bring the flour six miles from Laragh on his back.
After a few hours we set out again, keeping as far as possible to the mountains. It was safer that way. To us, mountains were a natural safeguard. They had always been our main chance of survival. We made straight for Mount Leinster, up a sheep track, over the top and down near Borris-in–Ossory.
From there straight to Slievenamon and then to the Galtees. Rivers were a difficulty – bridges are usually on or near town, and they were occupied. We forded the Slaney, and crossed the Barrow by boat. We approached the Nore about a mile underneath Thomastown and were shown a ford. It was in flood and looked high and wide.
As we sought a place to cross, we saw a party of soldiers on the other side. They saw us and retreated towards Thomastown – we guessed for reinforcements.
We had no alternative now. We got into the water and crossed. Here young O’Sullivan was nearly drowned. He was being carried off when somebody pulled him out by the hair.
We slept in outhouses, stables, in the kitchens of farm labourers’ houses. Somehow, they understood human needs and frailties better than their richer neighbours. We developed an amazing brand of lice. Their quantity and quality in such a comparatively short time was truly phenomenal.
Once (in Carlow), we approached a very large residence for our dinner. The owner had a title of some sort, and we wanted to give him a chance to atone for some of the sins of his ancestors by contributing something to the Republic. He took us into a parlour, and produced a bottle of whiskey. He probably suspected who we were, because he showed us a newspaper which gave account of the big Newbridge escape.
His good lady assisted the maids to wait on us, and presented us with a towel and soap on our departure. We found the offer slightly embarrassing.
So far we hadn’t met any of our own, and when we did it nearly proved our undoing. We went astray on the Galtees, and instead of going west we turned north into the glen of Aherlow. We struck on a Republican doing sentry duty for a Column, east of Galbally. We met the members of the Column (McCormack’s) in nearby farm-houses and were entertained royally.
*** …We made a vow that we would not rest in bed again till we reached home in Kerry.
It was Saturday night at 7 o’clock when we started out again on the last lap. We met a rabbit trapper and we pressed him into our service. He took us out of the mountains and put us on the road.
We went on by Milford, Broadford, skirted around Charleville, which was occupied. Travelling all night, we arrived in Tullylease in County Cork about 11 o’clock, and we met the people as they were coming out from Mass.We parted with Nash at Rockchapel.
At Brosna (Kerry), we said good-bye to Hussey and Pat Allman. We were to meet again. In Pat I was reminded of what I had read was not yet 20, and was then of Red Hugh O’Donnell. He was not yet 20, and was then a Battalion Commander. He had already shown before his capture, and was later to prove himself a born leader and a very brave man.
Even his fine physique could not save him, however. In four years he was dead from much hardship and many wounds.
At about one o’clock on Monday morning we reached home – Knocknagoshel, a little hill-top village beyond the Cork-Kerry-Limerick border. I knocked on the house of a friend, Charlie O’Donoghue. He got up, opened the door. He passed no remark, motioned us to sit down. He put the fire together and hung an oven. He sliced the bacon. He made the tea. We ate and went to bed.
To-morrow was another day. If we had only known it, what had happened was but a very little episode of what was to come- all part of the uneasy pangs of a nation being born.
What percentage loss of population did Kildare town experience during the famine decade 1841-1851? Why do you think Maynooth was chosen in 1795 as the location for the Royal College of St. Patrick? How does historic Maynooth or Kildare compare to other Irish towns? The answer to these and many other questions can be found in Reading the Maps: A guide to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. This is a user’s guide to the 23 atlases that have been published in this series. The book compares and contrasts the development of 21 towns around the country.
• This new publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy uses an historical and geographical approach to understand the evolution of Irish towns and cities through the ages.
• The book is richly illustrated with maps, historical plans, views, illustrations, reconstructions and photographs with several featuring Kildare.
• It explores themes such as ‘buying and selling’ and ‘amusements and pastimes’ and has chapters dealing with particular periods of urban development in Ireland from the monastic town to the nineteenth-century resort town.
• Reading the Maps is a book for everyone but also a particularly useful tool for teachers and students, with ‘test yourself’ boxes to encourage reflection and further study.
• Previously in the atlases the stories of these towns were told individually; now in Reading the Maps they are told collectively as well.
• The authors Dr Jacinta Prunty and Professor Howard Clarke are both editors of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series and have published widely on Irish towns and map history.
The answer to these and many other questions can be found in Reading the Maps: A guide to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. This is a user’s guide to the 23 atlases that have been published in this series. The book compares and contrasts the development of 21 towns around the country.
The reorganisation of St. Patrick’s Fife and Drum Band, Droichead Nua, may not be of more than passing interest to younger readers, but for many older people it will recall many memories. The history of the band stretches back to 1848 and over that century-plus of music making many members of well-known Droichead Nua families were associated with the band.
In recent years, Droichead Nua people have seldom heard their town band for it has been an up-hill fight by the few members to prevent total disintegration. Never once, however, have they failed to greet each New Year with a parade through the town on New Year’s Eve.
Over the past few years, they have been helped out by the few surviving members of the Bishopwood Band, who find themselves in the same position as St. Patrick’s.
Down through the years, St. Patrick’s Fife and Drum Band was closely associated with the independence movement - the staff in use now had its first outing at Parnell’s funeral and the bass drum was presented by the Volunteers in 1914. In 1918, the band played at Sinn Fein victory celebrations all over the county for many years played at the Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown.
At the close of the last century, when the population of Droichead Nua was little over 1,000, the town could boast of three bands – St. Conleth’s Brass and Reed Band, The Parnell Band, and St. Patrick’s Fife and Drum Band. On the death of Parnell, the Parnell Band joined with St. Patrick’s.
One of the best known Kildare horses of the early fifties, Indian Hemp, bread at Ardenode Stud, Ballymore Eustace, by Captain Spencer Freeman, died of a heart ailment early this year at California, USA.Bread in 1949, Indian Hemp, sired earners of more than £1.7 million, including £36,00 earner, T. V. Lark which is 14th in the list of leading earners. Capt. Freeman sold him as a yearling at Newmarket for over £7,000 to Sir Humohery de Trafford.Raced by Sir. Humphrey and trained by Marcus Marsh, Indian Hemp, at two won the Windsor Castle and Tattersalls Sales Stakes, was second in the Exeter Stakes and third in the royal Lodge Stakes. He was ranked at 121 pounds on the free handicap, 12 pounds below the high weighted Windy City II.Max Bell, the Canadian industrialist, bought Indian Hemp privately after he came third in the Newmarket Stakes, at three. After being beaten by a neck in the King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot, he travelled to the US in ’52 for the Washington DC International but was unplaced. In 1952 he won the Yerba Buena Handicap, came second in the lakes and Flowers and San Pasqual Handicaps, and was third in the Hawthorne Gold Cup, Washington Park, Charles E. Bidell, Tanforan, Chicago and Bay Meadows handicaps.After winning seven races and earning £42,500 he was retired in 1955. Syncicated in 1960, he was eventually moved to Mrs. Connie M, Ring’s Three Rings Ranch near Beaumont, California, where he died. Other big earners sired by Indian Hemp, include Linitt, Mr. Wag, Old Moses, Hempen, Judge Savage and Prince Hemp.Indian Hemp was among seven foals from stakes – placed Sabzy, a daughter of Stardust which Capt. Spencer Freeman sold to C.H. Jones and Son in 1954 for almost £1,000. Sazby produced four winners in the US from five reported foals, including the dams of All I Can and Starry Prince, stakes winners.
The Guy Williams Lecture on ‘Royalty in Kildare - From Henry II in 1171 to Elizabeth II in 2011’ will take place at 8pm in Aras Bhride (Parish Centre), Kildare Town, on Tuesday night, 21 June.
There will be a poetry and story night with local writer Mae Leonard at 7.30pm on Thursday night.
Just a reminder: the next meeting of the Newbridge Local History Group will take place in Sarsfield GAA clubhouse, Roseberry Room, on Tuesday 21 June at 8.30pm.
This meeting will consist of a slide show selection of the photos we have collected during the year so far - aerial photos, street scenes and the changing face of Newbridge down the years will feature in the presentation. Looking forward to seeing you all there.
meeting of the Newbridge Local History Group will take place in Sarsfield GAA clubhouse, Roseberry Room, on Tuesday 21 June at 8.30pm.
A man who played a vital role in building the House of Shaw into the largest commercial group of its kind died last week at his residence at Cardenton, Athy, aged over 90 years. He was Mr. Samuel Victor Shaw, native of Mountmellick.
The commercial empire he left behind started in Mountmellick about 1864, when his father, Henry Shaw, set up a successful little drapery. Henry’s widow took over in the 1890s, and with the help of her children opened in Portlaoise a large general drapery and footware store as an extension of the business. Her son William, managed the new premises.
In 1902 a slim fair-haired boy arrived in Athy to serve his time to drapery at the Duke St. establishment of John A. Duncan. His name: Samuel V. Shaw. His hours were long, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and for his labours he received 2/6 (12 1/2p) a month pocket money. When he had completed his apprenticeship his mother sent him to London to learn tailoring. Before he left he urged her and his brother, William, to buy Duncan’s business if it went up for sale. In 1914 a telegram he received in London from his mother summoned him home; Duncan’s premises had come on the market, and had passed into the ownership of the Shaw family.
On his return to Ireland he entered into the family business, and when his brother, William died in 1929 took over the running of the Athy branch. Under his guidance, Shaws acquired a second premises in Duke Street and entered into the hardware/furniture business. A further development in the Shaw family was in 1934 when the firm was registered as a limited private company, Shaw & Sons, and he became its managing director. His mother had died some years previously.
Under his skilful management the firm grew very much larger. It acquired the Waterford City concern, Robinson, Ledley & Ferguson, in 1940 opened a branch in Carlow in 1949, and took over the big Gaze & Jessops business in Portlaoise in 1954, and developed it further as a general hardware, farm and machinery and furniture business. His next venture on behalf of the Shaw group was to open a branch in Roscrea in 1964, and in the last decade extended their activities by opening a branch in Ballymun. Actively engaged with him in the group extensions in recent years were his sons, Billy, Mervyn and Trevor. Up to the time of his death last week, he continued to act as the group’s chief executive and signed the bulk of the cheques.
The late Mr. Shaw had many qualities that contributed to his tremendous success as a business magnate. These included a spirit of enterprise, a quiet tenacity, a feeling for the exact requirement of the customers, and a capacity to ensure that these requirements were met with civility and at attractive prices. Everybody who had dealings with him found him to be a charming, affable man of extraordinarily even temperament, and possessed of a delightful sense of humour. He tool pleasure in meeting customers on the shop floor and exchanging a few friendly words.
Outside of the group responsibilities he found relaxation and exercise in attending to his farm and in tending his garden. For years he was a prominent exhibitor of pure bread Hereford cattle at the RDS Show, and won many major awards, including the championship of the Show. A first class gardener, he took pride in his produce; vegetables and flowers. To him the simple things in life mattered greatly. He stood very high in the community, a man for whom there was deep admiration and respect, and a great deal of affections,. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, sons, Billy, Mervyn and Trevor, and daughters Mrs. Betty Kelso and Miss Rosaleen Shaw. After Burial Service in Athy Methodist Church, he was interred in the family plot in Rosnalls Cemetery, Laois.
The new scheme of 130 houses proposed to be built between the Caragh Road and the Canal Basin , was again discussed at the meeting of the Naas Urban Council on Tuesday night. A lengthy debate took place as regards the Old Gaol and a resolution was passed eventually, that it be acquired and demolished. Mr. M.J. O’Donoghue inquired that now that the Town Planner was back from when would the proposed 130 houses scheme commence. The Chairman (Mr. MI. Fitzsimons) said that apparently more land was required. Town Clerk (Mr. Whyte – Negotiations are going on. I understand that the Town Planner has been with the Department and that the Department has approved in principle the lay-out and that now it is only a matter of completing the documents. Mr. O’Donoghue – Any chance of starting development work in the near future? Chairman – We must get the loan sanctioned. Town Clerk – The big job is the preparation of the bills of quantities. Until that is done we cannot advertise. Mr. Tom Dowling said that it was apparently intended to acquire the field at the rear of Mr. Noel Dowling’s house and also the small piece of road behind Mr. Frank Dowling’s new grocery store. “I was under the impression,” added Mr. Dowling, “that the gaol site would also be developed”. Town Clerk – No. Mr. S. Curran – I thought that a ball alley was to be built there. Mr. O’Donoghue said that the acquisition of Messrs. Dowling’ lands was a new one to him. He thought that they had acquired all the land that they required eighteen months or two years ago.
The Town Clerk said that the land was necessary to provide an outlet to the main road. Mr. Jack Lawler – I was under the impression that the old Gaol was to be taken down. Surely it isn’t intended to build 130 houses up against that? They should be ten miles away from a structure like that. Mr. Dowling – I think that it is a great eyesore there. Mr. O’Donoghue – It should be taken away. Mr. Dowling – It would make a marvellous building site. Mr. Daly – Would there be any chance of a contractor demolishing it for stone? Chairman – They would be no good for building purposes. Mr. O’Donoghue – Send one of the stones to instead of the Lia Fail (laughter). Mr. Jack Lawler said that they should draw the attention of the Town Planner to this anomaly – that they did not approve of the new scheme unless the Old Gaol was taken down. Mr. O’Donoghue – Put that in the form of a resolution and the Council will back it. Town Clerk – The Council have already approved of the scheme, but we didn’t know that we would have to acquire further land.
Dear Sir – On behalf of myself and my friends I find a little time to write to you a few lines concerning the “Leinster Leader” and how we all here look forward to receiving it from home. It is indeed a treat to read all the brightly edited news and to know how all our Gaelic games and sports are progressing in the county.
During my twelve months in Palestine the “Leinster Leader” was a welcome gift from home, and even to the present day we all look forward to receiving it. The Battalion is at present stationed in Egypt, and now that our duties have been reduced a great deal, we find more time to read the news from the homeland. I most sincerely hope I shall continue to receive it throughout my active service duties in the Middle East.
I would like to mention that during my service in Austria, 1945-46 with 1st Battalion, Irish Fusiliers, I and other Kildare soldiers were always on the look-out for the “Leader.” It helped to dispel the loneliness and brought us again in contact with our friends and people. I hope the good work will continue to reach those of us in exile.
I would like to thank all connected with the “Leinster Leader” for such a fine production and such a welcome gift to those abroad. – I remain yours faithfully, J. Kelly, late of 475, Ballymanny Cottages, Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
Gunner D. Finn, a member of Round Towers GFC, was one of the most popular men in his Company, every Monday that the 33rd Battalion was in the Congo – that was the day the Leinster Leader arrived.
“The Club arranged with us to have the paper sent each week. Everyone wanted to read it, and it went the rounds of the whole Company,” he said on his return.
Now the Leinster Leader is going out weekly, at the request of the Club to his brother, Trooper L. Finn, of the Armoured Car Group in the 34th Battalion.
The attention of all those interested in horse breeding, jumping and agriculture generally, is drawn to the advertisement in this week’s issue of the County Kildare Hunt Horse and Farmers’ Association Show, which is being held at Tipper Road, Naas, on Monday, 2nd August. Over £300 in cash prizes is being offered and as will be seen from the advertisement, very valuable premiums have been provided by the Royal Dublin Society for hunter stock. The County Kildare Committee of Agriculture have also given a grant of £50 towards the prize funds.
There are classes to suit all interested in farming, while classes for vegetables, flowers and fruit ensure that all gardening enthusiasts are provided for. Nation-wide interest will be centred in the open jumping competitions, and we are glad to state that the Army School of Equitation are giving a display of jumping.
After the Show a dance will be held in Mrs. Lawlor’s Ballroom, the music for which will be supplied by Billy Carter and his Band.
The Committee have asked us to remind those interested that completed entry forms should be returned on or before the 15th instant to the Hon. Secretary at 42 Main Street, Naas.
“There are seventeen people living in a two-bedroomed house (three families) in New Row,” commented Mr. Wm. Daly at the meeting of the Naas Urban Council on Tuesday night, when a letter was read from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children drawing the attention of the Council to two families who were badly in need of houses in the urban area. It was decided to draw the attention of the County Manager to the matter.
For services with the R.A.F. in Palestine, Squadron Leader C. Harrington, M.B.E., of Natal, South Africa, who was born at Newbridge, Co. Kildare, was mentioned in despatches. He joined the R.A.F. in 1921 and was commissioned in 1941. He was made M.B.E. in 1943.
The monthly meeting of above was held in Kill National School. The Brigade Secretary, Mr. J. C. Delaney was present and gave a detailed account of resolutions which came before the Brigade meeting in Newbridge on Sunday 27th, ult. These resolutions dealt with medals, re-opening of pension claims, acquisition and division of estates, vesting of tenants in occupation over a number of years.
A lengthy discussion took place on the attitude adopted by the Land Commission towards Branch members, after which it was decided that immediate and direct action be taken.
The Brigade Secretary was directed to contact representatives from Straffan, Kilcock, Maynooth, Leixlip, Celbridge and Clane, so that they may come within the ambit of the association. It is however, a matter for regret that the Association of Old I.R.A. men was not in existence years ago, holding as it were a watching brief for all its members for just and equitable treatment.
on Thursday 23 June at 6.30 p.m.
We would like to invite you to the official launch of The Civil War in Kildare by James Durney on Thursday 23 June at 6.30 p.m.
1. That the Government be pressed to introduce a Measure embodying the chief, if not all the recommendations of the Viceregal and Royal Commissions on Poor Law Reform.
2. That a District Relief Board be established for Naas No.1 and Naas No. 2 Districts, consisting of Ten Members of the present Board of Guardians and Five Members of the County Council, with a Sub-Relief Committee of Seven acting under them, in the following Districts:- Naas, Newbridge, Kilcullen, Kildare, Clane, Ballymore-Eustace, and Blessington, for the purpose of selecting the number of deserving poor in each.
3. That the district Relief Board have the power of granting from the rates weekly pensions from 2s. to 5s. in all cases of deserving poor under the age of 70, and for this purpose and arrangement be entered into with the Postmaster-General so as to have all such pensions paid by the same method as at present adopted in paying the “Old Age Government Pensioners,” that is by cash order books payable at any Post Office, the County Council, on receipt from the Postmaster-General, to transmit twice in each year the amount stated therein required to meet all such pension payments.
4. That the present salaries of Doctors and Midwives, rents and allowances to caretakers of Dispensaries, be paid quarterly in future by the County Council.
5. That the present District Hospital be managed by a Board of Local Governors, as is at present done in the case of the Kildare Infirmary, and a set annual sum allowed for same from the rates by the County Council.
6. That the unused portion of the Naas Workhouse be sub-let at the existing head rents charged (a) for Workshops or Factories for the purpose of employing the people; (b) a County Agricultural Technical Schools; (c) a Sanatoria, or other useful purpose.
7. That the destitute weak-minded people at present located at the Workhouse be transferred to an Asylum, the cost of maintenance to be discharged by the County Council, and levied as a county charge in future.
8. That the Clerk of the Union, so far as Union charges are concerned, be directed to only raise in his estimates the required amount for three months – for instance, from the 31st March to the 30th June, 1910.
9. That all future instalments of loans charged against the Guardians be paid by the County Council, and raised by them as a Poor Rate.
10. All classes in Ireland agree upon the proposition that the eminence of the Poor Law system on the existing standard is both inefficient and unenomical. The poor Law relief, as at present administered, has only a demoralising effect, while it involves a reckless waste of money and time.
It is ludicrous to have able-bodied men and women supported out of the rates in sheer idleness. These we would propose to be ejected from the Workhouse. As for the remaining inmates, those of them who feel able to leave the House, and having a doctor’s certificate to that effect, we will give them 5s. a week conditionally – that is, they are neither to beg, steal, get drunk or, in other words, break the law; for three-serious convictions of any of the above-named will deprive them of their weekly allowance. And the sick poor we would suggest that the Hospital be renovated, and keep apartments for paying patients, and likewise to see that both paying patients and poor will be better treated than heretofore. Then as is mentioned in No. 6 of this Scheme, that every hole and corner of this vast establishment be utilised to the best advantage, so that, after some little time, it is our conviction, that this Naas Workhouse, instead of being a drag on the ratepayers, will turn into a paying institution.
Now we, the members of this Committee, consider it may not be in our power to abolish the Union just now. However, we feel that at least two good results will come from this motion. First, it will hurry up the Viceregal or some other Commission to action; and, secondly, it will prove conclusively to the world that there has been, not a fraudulent, but a terrible waste of money in the Naas Union.
That the master and several relieving officers furnish a correct report under the following headings – (1) number, age, name and former address of all able-bodied inmates at present in Naas Workhouse, male and female, stating the period resident therein; (2) number, name, age and address (if any) of all children at present in the workhouse; (3) number, name, age and address of all people receiving outdoor relief in Naas Nos. 1 and 2 districts; (4) a return of the amount paid in temporary relief by the relieving officers of the union in their several districts for the year ended 30th September, 1909.
The Clerk said the usual course was to have an important report like that printed and sent out to members, to be considered at another meeting.
The Chairman said what he considered would be the best way would be to send copies of the scheme to the members of Parliament for the county.
The Clerk said it would be first necessary that the suggestions should have the approval of the board.
Mr. J.S. O’Grady said they had no particular information in connection with the matter. They had nothing to show that the cost under the proposed scheme would be less than the present cost. Finance was the whole thing, and financial information they should have before them (hear, hear).
The Chairman said the committee considered that under the new scheme proposed the cost would be about half what it is at present.
The Great People of Caragh. Through the Arches of Time.
This book is a pictorial record of our families and neighbours, the way they lived and a snapshot of Caragh in times past.
An open invitation is extended to one and all and we look forward to seeing you there.
showing that they are still alive and well today.
interested that anything we receive will be returned to its owner.
It is winter, 1863. Rosanna Doyle, hopeful of a happy future with her soldier lover John, takes off to the Curragh camp to surprise him. But life still has some tough lessons for Rosanna to learn and she finds herself forced to join Bridget and the other ‘wren’ women of the Curragh plains. Making their homes in the furze bushes surrounding the camp, the wrens survive by offering their services to the soldiers.
Another, more distinguished, visitor is there that same winter; pressman Richard Tone has been commissioned by the great Charles Dickens to write about the women and he soon becomes engrossed in their lives.
Grounded in historical fact and based on his acclaimed radio play, Rosanna Nightwalker, and subsequent novel The Only Glow of the Day, Kildare writer Martin Malone has written a stage play of great power and tenderness which will be brought to life on the Moat stage by All Ireland winning director Barbara Sheridan.
Calling all Cycling Enthusiasts & Budding Historians!
An exhibition of historical photographs and information about bicycles and cycling down through the ages, running at Newbridge Community Library from 7th to 25th June.
In November 2010 Wordwell Books published a book of photographs of public art all around Ireland called By the way. Ann Lane, the author of the book, travelled over 16,000 miles to list 760 sites and take hundreds of photographs. The book was well recieved and since its publication Ann has been toying with the idea of a slightly follow-up book, a sort of hidden Ireland type.
'If there were any local sites/images/commemorations/beautiful hidden scene or scenic road/private gardens/quirky things in your area that you might feel would be attractive to foreign tourists - or indeed anybody - I would be delighted to hear about it/them. If there is a background story about the item that would, of course, be significant - especially if there is any legend involved. Having it publicised could help tourism in your area. I would certainly plan to include tribute statues, i.e., Bill Clinton in Ballybunion, Joe Dolan, etc., but I would have to know the artisyt of those pieces because they have to be credited in each case.
Sallins Catholic Church will be opened to-morrow (Sunday). His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, will officiate at the opening ceremony, which will consist of the blessing and dedication of the Church and the celebration of Mass.
The occasion will be one of great importance and rejoicing to the people of Sallins and district, who heretofore attended Mass at Naas, many being obliged to travel long distances, often under the most distressing weather conditions. The inhabitants old and young, have at last seen the realisation of their hopes for practically at their doors has been erected a house of worship, a compact little structure, admirably suited to their needs.
It is now more than fifteen years since the people of Sallins petitioned the Parish Priest for the privilege of having a weekly Mass celebrated in the village, and Very Rev. Fr. Norris, with that keen perception of the spiritual needs of his flock, which has been an unfailing characteristic of his pastorate, saw at once the necessity for a auxiliary Church, and gave to the petition his full support. Having obtained the sanction of the ecclesiastical authorities a committee was formed under his parentage and a collection was made for the purpose of giving effect to the project. Foremost amongst the committee were the late Mr. P.J. Healy, the late Mr. Patrick Byrne, Mr. Thos. Fleming and Mr. J.J. Flanagan, the energetic Chairman. In a remarkably short space of time the sum of £400 was realised.
Fr. Norris then conceived the idea of having a better and more up-to-date schools for the district and informed the committee of his intention to press the National Board of Education for a grant in aid of this purpose. In the early part of 1914 he was promised the necessary financial assistance and a site having been acquired the plans and specifications for the new schools were prepared. But the intervention of the world war upset all these arrangements. One of the immediate effects of the outbreak of war was the cancellation of the promised grants and the revered pastor and his willing co-operators – the people of the district – were thrown back on their own resources. Had his plans materialised he proposed that after the erection of the new schools, equipped on modern lines, the old ones should by a serious of alterations and additions be converted into a chapel of ease.
As a result of the rapid increase of the cost of building during the war years, the whole matter was left in the abeyance until 1923 when Fr. Norris and Mr. J.J. Flannigan made a new start. This time it was decided to utilise the site acquired on the first occasion for the erection of a wood and iron structure to serve as a house of worship. Tenders were invited from the leading firms in this class of building and eventually the execution of the work was entrusted to Messers. Harrison and Co. Camberwell, London. Fr. Norris now informed the committee that instead of building on the site given by G.S. and W.R. Co. he would be prepared to give the site of the school garden and adjacent ruins which he had secured some time previously. This generous offer was availed of and the clearing of the site and the laying of the concrete foundations were commenced – also the front entrance and boundary walls. Messrs. Harrison had completed their contract by February 21st 1924.
The church as finished looks rather plain in contrast to the fine examples of cut stone erected in more favoured localities. It is approached by two wide roadways. One known as School Lane – leading – from the main road affords a pleasant view of the little building with its fine entrance, and grounds planted with evergreen shrubs, and the other leads on to the Grand Canal, facilitating the parishioners in every way. These roadways have been re-surfaced and drained by the County Council, during recent weeks.
On entering one is struck by the happy arrangement of having two entrance gates and also two doors to correspond with those in the porch. The porch partition has two swing doors leading into the interior of the Church. There is also a small wicket gate and a passage for use of the officiating priest from the entrance to the vestry. The body of the Church appears much more spacious than one would imagine from its exterior aspect. It is fully seventy feet in breadth and has actual seating accommodation for 400 people.
The seats were made by Mr. T. Corcoran, contractor, Naas, and are the gift of Fr. Norris. The Church is perfectly lighted and ventilated and the Stations of the Cross look very beautiful and artistic in their oak frames, spaced as they are in the bays between each window, which is dedicated to the memory of the late Patrick and Mary Boushel, of two very worthy parishioners, is a perfect specimen of its kind. The central figure is the sacred Heart with the supporting figures of Our Lady and St. Joseph. The Alter, artistically designed, and made of pitch pine, well polished, is the gift of the late Miss Condron, Eadstown, and was made by the eminent firm of Messers Scott, Dublin, who also furnished the credence Table and Prieu-Dieu. The Communion Rail, of brass, was erected by the well known firm of Messrs. Gunning and Sons, Fleet Street, Dublin whose fine work may be seen in many Churches throughout the land. They also supplied the fine Sanctuary lamp, massive brass Candelabra and the sacred vessels and Crucifix for the Alter. On the right and left of the Chancel Arch hang two very fine pictorial representations one of the National Apostle and the other of St. Brigid. These were presented by Mrs. B. Hourihane, N.T., Sallins, in memory of her deceased husband, the late Hon. Secretary of the Church Committee. The vestries are convenient and well furnished in everything pertaining to the needs of a Church, thanks to the generosity and care of Fr. Norris who also gave the beautiful sacred vessels and vestments.
The bell which was erected by Mr. D. Corcoran, Naas, is the gift of the Very Rev. W. Lockhart, P.P., Eadstown. The people of Sallins are sincerely grateful to all concerned for the erection of a Church in their midst, fulfilling a requirement so ardently desired. To their revered pastor. Very Rev. Fr. Norris, a sense of lasting obligation is felt, for it is recognised that the earnestness and zeal with which he co-operated made success ultimately possible. He never once lost sight of the project, even when the pressure of the economic conditions compelled the committee to make an indefinite postponement of the work. On the occasion of his golden jubilee last year Fr. Norris presented the money gifts received from his parishioners to the Sallins Church Fund. A debt of gratitude is also due to Mrs. Reddy for the generous measure of her support, which went a long way, to the Chairman and members of the committee who were indefatigable, and to the farmers and others of the district whose carts, horses, etc., were readily placed at the disposal of the contractors.
Mr. D. Smyth, contractor, Sallins had charge of the carpentry section of the work, which he executed with his usual efficiency.
The soldierly figure of Mr Peter Lawlor of Pacelli Road, Naas, erect to the last despite his 79 years is gone from the scene. He died last week at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athy. His career was an unusually colourful and varied one with long service at home and overseas. Native of Halverstown, Naas, he was a former O.C. Cavalry Corps at Plunkett Barracks, Curragh Camp. He was to retain a link with the Army stretching over four decades. From O.C. in 1924 to the time when he retired from his job at the cavalry workshops, 43 years later, he was held in deservedly high esteem. Peter fought in the Dardanelles with the 1st Australians (the famous Dinkums) in the first World War and joined Michael Collins on his return to Ireland. He got his commission as Commandant in 1922.
His career as a soldier also embraced service with Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War as an officer. A much-travelled man, he worked in various parts of Canada and in eleven of the States of America. He went to New Zealand in 1911 and returned to Ireland after World War I. He also served with the Old I.R.A. for a period.
The date of his death coincided with the 50th anniversary of the death of Michael Collins. Peter was extremely proud of the fact that it was Collins who bestowed on him the insignia of rank as Commandant in the National Army. He was a loyal supporter of the Labour Party.
Mr. Lawler is survived by his wife, Mrs. Barbara Lawler, who has been a patient at the County Hospital for some time, son, Frank and daughter, Jean who is a public health nurse in Peckham, London. Military honours were accorded at the funeral to St. Corban’s Cemetery, Naas, following Requiem Maas on Thursday. The attendance included officers of the Cavalry Corps and many former comrades, as well as a big representation of the townspeople. Rev. Fr. Ramsbottom, C.C., officiated at the graveside. With him while receiving the remains on Wednesday evening were Very Rev. J. McDonald, P.P., Kill, and Rev. D. Hogan, C.C., Kill.
Newbridge railway station opened in 1846 when the Great Southern and Western Railway line reached the town. Newbridge was then an important military centre, having its own cavalry barracks and being less than three miles from the celebrated camp on the Curragh. The railway station in Newbridge was kept busy with constant troop movements, but it was also a place for meetings, sales and unfortunately, accidents.
The first stationmaster mentioned in newspaper records was Mr. Hynes, who, according to the Irish Times of 15 June 1860, was presented in June 1859 with a silver cup from the officers of the 3rd Light Dragoons. The following year the same gentleman was presented with a lever watch by Colonel Sullivan and the officers of the 5th Royal Lancers, ‘for his uniform attention to those regiments whilst stationed at Newbridge’. A court case covered in the Kildare Observer of 17 December 1881 regarding an unpaid fare mentioned Martin Tighe, Newbridge stationmaster, as the main witness. Mr. Tighe is also mentioned in Slater’s Directory of 1881 as being the stationmaster in Newbridge. In a court case covered in the Kildare Observer of 7 October 1882 we find that hay, the property of Jonathan Tarlson, stationmaster, Newbridge, was burned. In his evidence Mr. Tarlson said he had bought the hay from the late stationmaster, Martin Tighe, six months previous.
The coverage of the funeral of local man Thomas Farrell in the Kildare Observer of 20 November 1897 mentioned Mr. J. Breen, stationmaster, Newbridge, as being one of those present. The 1901 Census returns for 17 Charlotte Street, Newbridge, give Thomas Manifold as the stationmaster in Newbridge. Thomas Manifold (44) was born in King’s County and was married to Eliza, who was ten years his junior. They had two children – Honora (18) and Mary (8), both born in Co. Cork. Manifold is still stationmaster a year later as he is mentioned as in attendance at the funeral of Peter Sullivan in the Kildare Observer of 4 October 1902. The 1911 Census returns for 2 Piercetown, Newbridge, give Patrick O’Reilly as the stationmaster in Newbridge. Patrick O’Reilly (46) was born in Waterford City and had then being married to his Tipperary-born wife, Maryanne (40), for fifteen years.
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