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What foods an individual eats is affected by the ability to access foods. Economic status, geography, and politics have influenced the diets of people throughout history. Poverty is linked to malnutrition , while economic growth and a rise in population pose new nutritional problems. Ironically, diets high in complex carbohydrates and fiber in poor economic times give way to consumption of foods high in sugars and fat when economic conditions improve.
Between 1995 and 1997, among countries that showed an increase in per capita incomes, average caloric consumption also showed a significant increase. Between 1970 and 1972, and between 1996 and 1997, world consumption of calories from complex carbohydrates fell by 30 percent while the consumption of calories from meat increased by a third (33%) and those from vegetable oil by almost half (46.2%). As nations become wealthier, people move from eating "a poor man's diet " of high levels of grains, fruits, and vegetables to consuming diets with more fats and sugar. Fat still remains the food for the rich—with more income, people start to eat more meat and poultry, and vegetable oils become more available. Combined with cane and corn sugars, vegetable oils are used to produce baked goods and snack foods high in calories.
Young Chinese attend a weight-loss lecture in Shanghai. A trend toward obesity in many nations is accompanied by obsession over body image. During 2002, several citizens of Asian nations died and hundreds were sickened when they took a popular diet pill that was known to cause health problems.
Toward the end of the twentieth century, economic growth among developing countries caused the phenomenon of the Westernization of traditional eating patterns. Industrialization and modern transportation brought baking technology and Western food styles to developing countries. New and tasty foods high in fat, sugar, and salt became the choice of the new rich. Trendy fast foods, soft drinks, and meat products replaced traditional ethnic foods.
Fortunately, in many emerging societies the poor are still unable to afford Western fast foods, and are thus spared the ills of high consumption of fats, meat, and sugars. For example, many people in India still spend more than half their income on food consumed at home, compared to the average American, who spends less than 8 percent of his or her disposable income on home-cooked food.
The American diet, much like that of many industrialized nations, derives its calories from fats, sugars, and animal products in foods prepared or processed away from home. One out of every three meals in America is consumed away from home. From 1990 to 2000 there was a 14 percent decrease in the number of meals eaten at home. In 1977 only 16 percent of all meals and snacks were eaten way from home. By 1995, this rose to 27 percent. In 1995, away-from-home foods provided 34 percent of total caloric intake, an increase from 18 percent in 1977. In addition, eating at home does not always mean cooking. Supermarkets and grocery stores provide thousands of ready-made meals, frozen foods, and processed meals that require little preparation at home.
Total fat consumption in the United States increased from 18 percent in 1977 to 38 percent in 1995. According to Lin and Frazao, away-from-home foods deliver more calories in fat and saturated fat and are lower in fiber and calcium than home-cooked foods. The average total calories consumed by Americans rose from 1,807 calories in 1987 to 2,043 calories in 1995. Since away-from-home foods deliver more fat and more calories, the trend of eating out can become a health hazard. People tend to eat more from restaurants and fast-food places because many eating establishments "supersize" their portions. Customers feel that they get their money's worth when they receive more food than they need.
Childhood and adulthood obesity are on the rise. Between 1988 and 1994, 11 percent of U.S. children and adolescents aged six to nine years of age were overweight or obese . During this same period, 35 percent of the American adult population aged twenty and over were obese, compared to 25 percent during the years 1976 through 1980. The rising trend in obesity pervades the Middle East, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Brazil, Japan, South East Asia, Australia, and China.
Since being overweight is associated directly with many chronic illnesses, such as heart disease , hypertension , hyperlipidemia , cancer , stroke , and type II diabetes , an increase in the incidence of overweight and obesity is a serious concern. The top three leading causes of death in the United States during the 1990s were heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Diabetes ranked seventh in 1997—it was not even in the top ten in 1987. The U.S. Surgeon General reported in 1998 that type II diabetes, an adult health problem related to obesity, was being seen in children as young as four years old. Diabetes among adults increased by 70 percent between 1990 and 1998 among individuals 30 to 39 years of age; by 41 percent among individuals 40 to 49; and by 31 percent among those 50 to 59. By 1998, 16 million American adults suffered from diabetes. In addition to the health threat, obesity can cause emotional pain due to social stigmatization, discrimination, and lowered self-esteem. In 2000, the World Health Organization estimated that there are 1.2 billion obese individuals around the world.
The increase in the number of fast-food restaurants, supermarkets, and restaurants in developing countries, and the rising trend of eating meals away from home, present a global challenge to ensure that food is appealing and safe. Many countries have agencies that set and regulate standards for food safety. In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has the task of regulating and inspecting meats and poultry during slaughter and processing, while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for conducting tests, setting standards, and enforcing laws regulating food quality and processing. FDA inspectors check restaurants to make sure that they practice food safety regulations. FDA officials also review the safety of chemicals that manufacturers use as food additives . Importing foods from countries where food safety is not strictly monitored presents a global health threat.
The biggest problem with food safety is food poisoning . Some bacteria and viruses that cause food poisoning are: Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella, Campylobacter, and yersinia. Bacteria, viruses, toxins , parasites , and chemical contaminants can all cause food-borne illnesses, and it takes only a small amount of contaminated food to cause severe food illnesses.
Abaya-wearing women in Saudi Arabia wait in the ladies-only line to order a quick meal. In developing nations, the popularity of fast-food alternatives to traditional cuisines has prompted debate over the nutritional and cultural impacts of Westernization.
Signs and symptoms of food-borne illness may present within thirty minutes of eating contaminated food, or they may not show up for up to three weeks. While some food-borne illnesses may last for a couple of days, some may last for weeks. Severe cases can be life threatening.
SEE ALSO Convenience Foods ; Fast Foods ; Obesity .
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1997). "Update: Prevalence of Over-weight Among Children, Adolescents, and Adults—United States, 1988–1994." Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report 46:199–202.
Lin, B. H., and Frazao, E. (1977). "The Nutritional Quality of Foods at and Away from Home." Food Review 20:33–40.
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Camping is all about getting away from the fast pace of our day-to-day lives to slow things down for a while and enjoy the simple things. For many of us, technology plays a large part in speeding up our lives and making them easier so that we can do more. Being in a world where we are always connected can get exhausting, and its nice to have a break from it all and turn off for a while. That being said there are many pieces of technology that have been created to improved our time spent in the woods without taking away the authentic experience.
This is a tool that many of us take for granted in our everyday lives, but on more difficult and remote trips, is a tool you cannot go without.
A company called spot has come up with a Satellite tracking system that allows you to notify friends and family of your GPS position and status, mark waypoints, track your progress on Google Maps, or notify rescue officials in an emergency no matter where you are.
I know when I write cell phones everyone is thinking, wait he just said that this was to be less connected, I'm confused? There are many different uses for cell phones and I am going to mention the uses for your phone that do not require service and still add to the unconnected experience.
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Due to the multiple benefits from cattle, there are varying beliefs about cattle in societies and religions. In some regions, especially Nepal and most states of India, the slaughter of cattle is prohibited and their meat may be taboo.
Cattle are considered sacred in world religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and others. Religions in ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Israel, ancient Rome, and ancient Germany held similar beliefs.
Majority of scholars explain the veneration for cattle among Hindus in economic terms, which includes the importance of dairy in the diet, use of cow dung as fuel and fertilizer, and the importance that cattle have historically played in agriculture. Ancient texts such as Rig Veda, Puranas highlight the importance of the cattle. The scope, extent and status of cows throughout during ancient India is a subject of debate. According to D. N. Jha, cattle including cows were neither inviolable nor revered in the ancient times as they were later. A Gryhasutra recommends that beef be eaten by the mourners, after a funeral ceremony as a ritual rite of passage. In contrast, according to Marvin Harris, the Vedic literature is contradictory, with some suggesting ritual slaughter and meat consumption, while others suggesting a taboo on meat eating.
The Chandogya Upanishad (~ 800 BCE) mentions the ethical value of Ahimsa, or non-violence towards all beings. By mid 1st millennium BCE, all three major Indian religions – Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism – were championing non-violence as an ethical value, and something that impacted one's rebirth. According to Harris, by about 200 CE, food and feasting on animal slaughter were widely considered as a form of violence against life forms, and became a religious and social taboo.
Milk cows are called aghnya "that which may not be slaughtered" in Rigveda. Yaska, the early commentator of the Rigveda, gives nine names for cow, the first being "aghnya".
According to Nanditha Krishna, the cow veneration in ancient India during the Vedic era, the religious texts written during this period called for non-violence towards all bipeds and quadrupeds, and often equated killing of a cow with the killing of a human being especially a Brahmin. Nanditha Krishna stated that the hymn 10.87.16 of the Hindu scripture Rigveda (~1200–1500 BCE) condemns all killings of men, cattle, and horses, and prays to god Agni to punish those who kill.
Many ancient and medieval Hindu texts debate the rationale for a voluntary stop to cow slaughter and the pursuit of vegetarianism as a part of a general abstention from violence against others and all killing of animals. According to Harris, the literature relating to cow veneration became common in 1st millennium CE, and by about 1000 CE vegetarianism, along with a taboo against beef, became a well accepted mainstream Hindu tradition. This practice was inspired by the beliefs in Hinduism that a soul is present in all living beings, life in all its forms is interconnected, and non-violence towards all creatures is the highest ethical value. Vegetarianism is a part of the Hindu culture. The god Krishna, one of the incarnations (Avatar) of Vishnu, is associated with cows, adding to its endearment.
According to Ludwig Alsdorf, "Indian vegetarianism is unequivocally based on ahimsa (non-violence)" as evidenced by ancient smritis and other ancient texts of Hinduism. He adds that the endearment and respect for cattle in Hinduism is more than a commitment to vegetarianism and has become integral to its theology. The respect for cattle is widespread but not universal. Some Hindus (Shaktism) practice animal sacrifice and eat meat including beef at certain festivals. According to Christopher Fuller, animal sacrifices have been rare among the Hindus outside a few eastern states and Himalayan regions of the Indian subcontinent. To the majority of modern Indians, states Alsdorf, respect for cattle and disrespect for slaughter is a part of their ethos and there is "no ahimsa without renunciation of meat consumption".
The interdiction of the meat of the bounteous cow as food was regarded as the first step to total vegetarianism.
The earth-goddess Prithvi was, in the form of a cow, successively milked of beneficent substances for the benefit of humans, by deities starting with the first sovereign: Prithu milked the cow to generate crops for humans to end a famine.
Kamadhenu, the miraculous "cow of plenty" and the "mother of cows" in certain versions of the Hindu mythology, is believed to represent the generic sacred cow, regarded as the source of all prosperity. In the 19th-century, a form of Kamadhenu was depicted in poster-art that depicted all major gods and goddesses in it.
The reverence for the cow played a role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British East India Company. Hindu and Muslim sepoys in the army of the East India Company came to believe that their paper cartridges, which held a measured amount of gunpowder, were greased with cow and pig fat. The consumption of swine is forbidden in Islam. Because loading the gun required biting off the end of the paper cartridge, they concluded that the British were forcing them to break edicts of their religion.
A historical survey of major communal riots in India between 1717 and 1977 revealed that 22 out of 167 incidents of rioting between Hindus and Muslims were attributable directly to cow slaughter.
The cow protection was a symbol of animal rights and of non-violence against all life forms for Gandhi. He venerated cows, and suggested ending cow slaughter to be the first step to stopping violence against all animals. He said: "I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world", and stated that "The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection."
Jainism is against violence to all living beings, including cattle. According to the Jaina sutras, humans must avoid all killing and slaughter because all living beings are fond of life, they suffer, they feel pain, they like to live, and long to live. All beings should help each other live and prosper, according to Jainism, not kill and slaughter each other.
In the Jain religious tradition, neither monks nor laypersons should cause others or allow others to work in a slaughterhouse. Jains believe that vegetarian sources can provide adequate nutrition, without creating suffering for animals such as cattle. According to some Jain scholars, slaughtering cattle increases ecological burden from human food demands since the production of meat entails intensified grain demands, and reducing cattle slaughter by 50 percent would free up enough land and ecological resources to solve all malnutrition and hunger worldwide. The Jain community leaders, states Christopher Chapple, has actively campaigned to stop all forms of animal slaughter including cattle.
The texts of Buddhism state ahimsa to be one of five ethical precepts, which requires a practicing Buddhist to "refrain from killing living beings". Slaughtering cow has been a taboo, with some texts suggest taking care of a cow is a means of taking care of "all living beings". Cattle is seen in Buddhism as a form of reborn human beings in the endless rebirth cycles in samsara, protecting animal life and being kind to cattle and other animals is good karma. Not only do Buddhist texts state that killing or eating meat is wrong, it urges Buddhist laypersons to not operate slaughterhouses, nor trade in meat. Indian Buddhist texts encourage a plant-based diet.
cows are our kin most excellent from whom come many remedies.
having seen the truth of this cattle they never killed.
and so aware they graceful were, well-built, fair-skinned, of high renown.
While in the world this lore was found these people happily prospered.
The term geush urva means "the spirit of the cow" and is interpreted as the soul of the earth. In the Ahunavaiti Gatha, Zarathustra (or Zoroaster) accuses some of his co-religionists of abusing the cow.Ahura Mazda tells Zarathustra to protect the cow.
The lands of Zarathustra and the Vedic priests were those of cattle breeders. The 9th chapter of the Vendidad of the Avesta expounds the purificatory power of gōmēz - cow urine. It is declared to be a panacea for all bodily and moral evils, understood as which it features prominently in the 9-night purification ritual Barashnûm.
According to the Hebrew Bible, an unblemished red cow was an important part of ancient Jewish rituals. The cow was sacrificed and burned in a precise ritual, and the ashes were added to water used in the ritual purification of a person who had come in to contact with a human corpse. The ritual is described in the Book of Numbers in Chapter 19, verses 1-14.
Observant Jews study this passage every year in early summer as part of the weekly Torah portion called Chukat. A contemporary Jewish organization called the Temple Institute is trying to revive this ancient religious observance.
Traditional Judaism considers beef kosher and permissible as food, as long as the cow is slaughtered in a religious ritual called shechita, and the meat is not served in a meal that includes any dairy foods.
Some Jews committed to Jewish vegetarianism believe that eating beef is prohibited.
Islam allows the slaughter of cows and consumption of beef, as long as the cow is slaughtered in a religious ritual called dhabīḥah or zabihasimilar to the Jewish shechita.
Although slaughter of cattle plays a role in a major Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha, many rulers of the Mughal Empire had imposed a ban on the slaughter of cows owing to the large Hindu and Jain populations living under their rule.
The second and longest surah of the Quran is named Al-Baqara ("The Cow"). Out of the 286 verses of the surah, 7 mention cows (Al Baqarah 67-73). The name of the surah derives from this passage in which Moses orders his people to sacrifice a cow in order to resurrect a man murdered by an unknown person. Per the passage, the "Children of Israel" quibbled over what kind of cow was meant when the sacrifice was ordered. Classical Sunni and Shia commentators recount several variants of this tale. Per some of the commentators though any cow would have been acceptable but after they "created hardships for themselves" and the cow was finally specified, it was necessary to obtain it any cost.
The ancient Egyptians sacrificed animals but not the cow, because it was sacred to goddess Hathor, and due to the contemporary Greek myth of Io, who had the form of a cow.
In Egyptian mythology, Hesat was the manifestation of Hathor, the divine sky-cow, in earthly form. Like Hathor, she was seen as the wife of Ra. In hieroglyphs, she is depicted as a cow with a headdress.
In Celtic mythology, the cattle goddess was known as Damona in Celtic Gaul and Boann in Celtic Ireland.
In Greek mythology, the Cattle of Helios pastured on the island of Thrinacia, which is believed to be modern Sicily. Helios, the sun god, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. A hecatomb was a sacrifice to the gods Apollo, Athena, and Hera, of 100 cattle (hekaton = one hundred).
In Norse mythology, the primeval cow Auðumbla suckled the ancestor of the Frost Giants, Ymir, and licked Odin's grandfather, Búri, out of the ice.
Among the Visigoths, the oxen pulling the wagon with the corpse of Saint Emilian lead to the correct burial site (San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja).
Today, in Hindu-majority countries like India and Nepal, bovine milk holds a key part of religious rituals. For some, it is customary to boil milk on a stove or lead a cow through the house as part of a housewarming ceremony. In honor of their exalted status, cows often roam free, even along (and in) busy streets in major cities such as Delhi. In some places, it is considered good luck to give one a snack or fruit before breakfast.
Constitution of India mandates the protection of cows in India. The slaughter of cattle is allowed with restrictions (like a 'fit-for-slaughter' certificate which may be issued depending on factors like age and gender of cattle, continued economic viability, etc.), but only for bulls and buffaloes and not cows in fourteen states. It is completely banned in six states with pending litigation in the supreme court to overturn the ban, while there is no restriction in many states. This has created communal disharmony in India and frequently leads to unwanted incidents.
Gopastami, a holiday celebrated by the Hindus once a year, is one of the few instances where cows receive prayers in modern-day India. While the cow is still respected and honored by most of the Indian population, there has been controversy over the treatment of the cows during the holiday. Because cow slaughtering is only legal in two Indian states, cows must be transported around the country in rather poor conditions, usually train or by foot. This lack of sacredness toward the cows alarms many animal activists and some dedicated Hindus.
In Nepal, the cow is the national animal. Cows give milk from which the people produce dahi (yogurt), ghee, butter, etc. In Nepal, a Hindu-majority country, slaughtering of cows and bulls is completely banned. Cows are considered like the Goddess Lakshmi (goddess of wealth and prosperity). The Nepalese have a festival called Tihar (Diwali) during which, on one day called Gaipuja, they perform prayers for cows.
Cows roam freely and are sacred. Buffalo slaughtering was done in Nepal at specific Hindu events, such as at the Gadhimai festival, last held in 2014. In 2015, Nepal's temple trust on announced to cancel all future animal sacrifice at the country's Gadhimai festival.
The beef taboo is fairly widespread in Myanmar, particularly in the Buddhist community. In Myanmar, beef is typically obtained from cattle that are slaughtered at the end of their working lives (16 years of age) or from sick animals. Cattle is rarely raised for meat; 58% of cattle in the country is used for draught power. Few people eat beef, and there is a general dislike of beef (especially among the Bamar and Burmese Chinese), although it is more commonly eaten in regional cuisines, particularly those of ethnic minorities like the Kachin. Buddhists, when giving up meat during the Buddhist (Vassa) or Uposatha days, will forego beef first. Almost all butchers are Muslim because of the Buddhist doctrine of ahimsa (no harm).
During the country's last dynasty, the Konbaung dynasty, habitual consumption of beef was punishable by public flogging.
In 1885, Ledi Sayadaw, a prominent Buddhist monk wrote the Nwa-myitta-sa (နွားမေတ္တာစာ), a poetic prose letter that argued that Burmese Buddhists should not kill cattle and eat beef, because Burmese farmers depended on them as beasts of burden to maintain their livelihoods, that the marketing of beef for human consumption threatened the extinction of buffalo and cattle, and that the practice and was ecologically unsound. He subsequently led successful beef boycotts during the colonial era, despite the presence of beef eating among locals, and influenced a generation of Burmese nationalists in adopting this stance.
On 29 August 1961, the Burmese Parliament passed the State Religion Promotion Act of 1961, which explicitly banned the slaughtering of cattle nationwide (beef became known as todo tha (တိုးတိုးသား); lit. hush hush meat). Religious groups, such as Muslims, were required to apply for exemption licences to slaughter cattle on religious holidays. This ban was repealed a year later, after Ne Win led a coup d'état and declared martial law in the country.
In Sri Lanka, in May 2013, 30-year-old Buddhist monk Bowatte Indrarathana Thera of the Sri Sugatha Purana Vihara self immolated to protest the government allowing religious minorities to slaughter cows.
A beef taboo in Ancient China, known as niú jiè (牛戒), was historically a dietary restriction, particularly among the Han Chinese, as oxen and buffalo (bovines) are useful in farming and are respected. During the Zhou Dynasty, they were not often eaten, even by emperors. Some emperors banned killing cows. Beef is not recommended in Chinese medicine, as it is considered a hot food and is thought to disrupt the body's internal balance.
In written sources (including anecdotes and Daoist liturgical texts), this taboo first appeared in the 9th to 12th centuries (Tang-Song transition, with the advent of pork meat.) By the 16th to 17th centuries, the beef taboo had become well accepted in the framework of Chinese morality and was found in morality books (善書), with several books dedicated exclusively to this taboo. The beef taboo came from a Chinese perspective that relates the respect for animal life and vegetarianism (ideas shared by Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, and state protection for draught animals.) In Chinese society, only ethnic and religious groups not fully assimilated (such as the Muslim Huis and the Miao) and foreigners consumed this meat. This taboo, among Han Chinese, led Chinese Muslims to create a niche for themselves as butchers who specialized in slaughtering oxen and buffalo.
Occasionally, some cows seen weeping before slaughter are often released to temples nearby.
Historically, there was a beef taboo in Ancient Japan, as a means of protecting the livestock population and due to Buddhist influence. Meat-eating had long been taboo in Japan, beginning with a decree in 675 that banned the consumption of cattle, horses, dogs, monkeys, and chickens, influenced by the Buddhist prohibition of killing. In 1612, the shogun declared a decree that specifically banned the killing of cattle.
This official prohibition was in place until 1872, when it was officially proclaimed that Emperor Meiji consumed beef and mutton, which transformed the country's dietary considerations as a means of modernizing the country, particularly with regard to consumption of beef. With contact from Europeans, beef increasingly became popular, even though it had previously been considered barbaric.
In Kudus, Indonesia, Muslims still maintain the tradition of not slaughtering or eating cows, out of respect for their ancestors, who were Hindus, allegedly imitating Sunan Kudus who also did as such.
In religiously diverse countries, leather vendors are typically careful to clarify the kinds of leather used in their products. For example, leather shoes will bear a label identifying the animal from which the leather was taken. In this way, a Muslim would not accidentally purchase pigskin leather, and a Hindu could avoid cow leather. Many Hindus who are vegetarians will not use any kind of leather.
Judaism forbids the wearing of shoes made with leather on Yom Kippur, Tisha B'Av, and during mourning.
Jainism prohibits the use of leather because it is obtained by killing animals.
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The Hindu god Krishna is often shown with cows listening to his music.
Prithu chasing Prithvi, who is in the form of a cow. Prithu milked the cow to generate crops for humans.
A pamphlet protesting cow slaughter, first created in 1893. A meat eater (mansahari) is shown as a demon with sword, with a man telling him "don't kill, cow is life-source for all". It was interpreted by Muslims in British Raj to be representing them. Redrawn the Raja Ravi Varma (c. 1897).
^The protection of cattle and prevention of cattle slaughter is not limited to Buddhists in India, but found in other Theravada countries such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar and others.
Его толстые пальцы принялись методично, сантиметр за сантиметром, ощупывать ее тело. Росио упала на него сверху и начала стонать извиваться в поддельном экстазе.
Когда он перевернул ее на спину и взгромоздился сверху, она подумала, что сейчас он ее раздавит. Его массивная шея зажала ей рот, и Росио чуть не задохнулась. Боже, поскорей бы все это закончилось, взмолилась она про .
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How many sections are on the MCAT?
There are currently 3 sections on the MCAT: Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Verbal Reasoning. There will be changes to the MCAT in 2015.
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This article is about the heroine of the Book of Esther. For the book of Esther, see Book of Esther. For other uses, see Esther (disambiguation).
Esther[a] is described in the Book of Esther as a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus (commonly identified as Xerxes I, reigned 486–465 BCE). In the narrative, Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, refuses to obey him, and Esther is chosen for her beauty. The king's chief advisor, Haman, is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian, Mordecai, and gets permission from the king to have all the Jews in the kingdom killed. Esther foils the plan, and wins permission from the king for the Jews to kill their enemies, and they do so.
Her story is the traditional basis for Purim, which is celebrated on the date given in the story for when Haman's order was to go into effect, which is the same day that the Jews killed their enemies after the plan was reversed.
According to most scholars, the name Esther is derived from the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar and/or the Persian word stara, "star".
The Book of Daniel provides accounts of Jews in exile being assigned names relating to Babylonian gods and "Mordecai" is understood to mean servant of Marduk, a Babylonian god. "Esther" may have been a different Hebrew interpretation from the Proto-Semitic root "star/'morning/evening star'", which descended with the /th/ into the Ugaritic Athtiratu and Arabian Athtar. The derivation must then have been secondary for the initial ayin to be confused with an aleph (both represented by vowels in Akkadian), and the second consonant descended as a /s/ (like in the Aramaic asthr "bright star"), rather than a /sh/ as in Hebrew and most commonly in Akkadian.
Even in Talmudic times it was realized that the name Esther was of foreign origin. According to one opinion mentioned in the Talmud (Tractate Megillah 13a) and Yalkut Shimoni (1053:7) as well as Targum Sheni the name Esther comes from אסתהר (‘īstəhăr), the morning star Venus. Modern scholars starting with Assyriologist Peter Jensen added on to this by connecting Esther with Ishtar Babylonian goddess of the planet Venus, and this view came to be adopted by almost all commentators.
A. S. Yahuda conjectured that the name Esther is derived from a reconstructed Median word astra meaning myrtle. This would match her Hebrew name as recorded in the Bible, Hadassah, also meaning "myrtle".
In the narrative, King Ahasuerus is drunk at a festival and orders his queen, Vashti, to appear before him and his guests to display her beauty. When she refuses to come, he deposes her and seeks a new queen through a sort of beauty pageant. Esther, an orphan daughter of a Benjamite named Abihail and under the protection of her cousin Mordecai, who are members of the Jewish exile community in Persia, is chosen.
Later, Mordecai refuses to bow to Haman the Agagite, who was recently made Ahasuerus' highest advisor, and Haman requests and is given permission to order all the Jews in Persia to be killed. When Esther learns of this, Mordecai tells her to reveal to the king that she is Jewish and to ask him to repeal the order. Esther hesitates, saying that she could be put to death if she goes to the king without being summoned and the king does not want to see her; Mordecai urges her to try. She goes to the king, and the king welcomes her, and says he will give her anything she wants. Instead of asking directly about the order, she invites the king and Haman to a banquet the next day. During the banquet, the king again asked Esther if there is anything she wants, and this time she asks the king to spare her life and that of all of the Jews. The king asks who was threatening them, and she names Haman. Haman throws himself at her feet; the king thinks that Haman is attacking her and orders him to be put to death, and gives all Haman's possessions to Esther. Esther tells the king about Mordecai's role in her life, and the king makes Mordecai his highest advisor. Esther then asks the king to revoke the order, and king allows Esther and Mordecai to do so, however they wish. They send out an order in the king's name that Jews can assemble and defend themselves, and can kill anyone who threatens them, and their families, and take their goods. On the thirteenth day of Adar, the same day that Haman had set for them to be killed, the Jews do so in one city, killing 500 people but not taking plunder, and they kill around 75,000 the next day again not taking plunder, and then they feast.
The Jews established an annual feast, the feast of Purim, in memory of their deliverance. Haman set the date of Adar 13 to commence his campaign against the Jews. This determined the date of the festival of Purim.
Dianne Tidball argues that while Vashti is a "feminist icon", Esther is a post-feminist icon.
Abraham Kuyper notes some "disagreeable aspects" to her character: that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.
The tale opens with Esther as beautiful and obedient, but also a relatively passive figure. During the course of the story, she evolves into someone who takes a decisive role in her own future and that of her people. According to Sidnie White Crawford, "Esther's position in a male court mirrors that of the Jews in a Gentile world, with the threat of danger ever present below the seemingly calm surface." Esther is related to Daniel in that both represent a "type" for Jews living in Diaspora, and hoping to live a successful life in an alien environment.
According to Susan Zaeske, by virtue of the fact that Esther used only rhetoric to convince the king to save her people, the story of Esther is a "rhetoric of exile and empowerment that, for millennia, has notably shaped the discourse of marginalized peoples such as Jews, women, and African Americans", persuading those who have power over them.
Given the great historical link between Persian and Jewish history, modern day Persian Jews are called "Esther's Children". A building venerated as being the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran, although the village of Kfar Bar'am in northern Israel also claims to be the burial place of Queen Esther.
There are several paintings depicting Esther, including one by Millais. Esther before Ahasuerus is one of the most commonly depicted parts of the story.
The status of Esther as a canonical book of the Bible has historically been under dispute. For example, in the first several centuries of Christianity, Esther does not appear in the lists of books produced by Melito, Athanasius, Cyril, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others. Additionally, no copies of Esther were found at Qumran in the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Nevertheless, by the fourth century CE, the majority of Western churches accepted Esther as a part of their Bibles.
Esther is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod on May 24. She is also recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches. "The Septuagint edition of Esther contains six parts (totaling 107 verses) not found in the Hebrew Bible. Although these interpretations originally may have been composed in Hebrew, they survive only in Greek texts. Because the Hebrew Bible’s version of Esther’s story contains neither prayers nor even a single reference to God, Greek redactors apparently felt compelled to give the tale a more explicit religious orientation, alluding to "God" or the "Lord" fifty times." These additions to Esther in the Apocrypha were added approximately in the second or first century BCE.
^ /ˈɛstər/; Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר, translit. ’Estēr), born Hadassah (Hebrew: הֲדַסָּה, Modern: Hadasa, Tiberian: Haḏasā.
^ Littman, Robert J. (January 1975). "The Religious Policy of Xerxes and the Book of Esther". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 65 (3): 145–155. doi:10.2307/1454354. JSTOR 1454354.
^ Brettler, Marc; Newsom, Carol; Perkins, Pheme (2018). "Esther". The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Oxford University Press. p. 715. ISBN 9780190276065.
^ Mary Joan Winn Leith (2011). Coogan, Michael D. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 9780195377378. Esther, cognate with Ishtar... and/or the Persian word stara, "star".
^ Fox, Michael V. (2010). Character and ideology in the book of Esther (2nd ed.). Wipf & Stock. p. 30. ISBN 9781608994953. The name Esther is derived from either the name of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar or the Persian word stdra, "star".
^ Emil G. Hirsch; John Dyneley Prince; Solomon Schechter. "ESTHER - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
^ Huehnergard, John (2008-04-10). "Appendix 1: Afro-Asiatic". In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia. Cambridge University Press. pp. 225–46. ISBN 978-1-13946934-0.
^ Rahmouni, Aïcha; Ford, J.N. (2008). "Section 1, The Near and Middle East". Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts. Brill. p. 86. ISBN 978-900415769-9.
^ Offord, Joseph (April 1915). "The Deity of the Crescent Venus in Ancient Western Asia". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: 198. JSTOR 25189307.
^ The Soncino Babylonian Talmud: Megillah (PDF). Soncino Press. pp. 47–48n15.
^ a b The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. At the University Press. 1910. p. 797.
^ Cassel, Paulus (1888). An explanatory commentary on Esther : with four appendices consisting of the second Targum translated from the Aramaic with notes : Mithra : the winged bulls of Persepolis : and Zoroaster. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark. p. 300.
^ Koller, Aaron (2014). Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought. Cambridge University Press. p. 38n11. ISBN 9781107048355.
^ Yahuda, A. S. (1946). "The Meaning of the Name Esther". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2): 174. ISSN 0035-869X.
^ Yahuda, A. S. (1946). "The Meaning of the name Esther". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 78 (3–4): 174. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00100413. ISSN 1474-0591.
^ Abusch, T. (1999). "Ishtar". In Karel van der Toom, Bob Becking, Pieter W. van der Horst, eds. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. 2nd extensively rev. ed. Brill. p. 455.
^ Barton, John; Muddiman, John (2001-09-06). "Esther". The Oxford Bible Commentary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19875500-5.
^ Hirsch, Emil G.; Prince, John Dyneley; Schechter, Solomon (1936). "Esther". Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co.
^ Crawford, Sidnie White. "Esther: Bible", Jewish Women's Archive.
^ Tidball, Dianne (2001). Esther, a True First Lady: A Post-Feminist Icon in a Secular World. Christian Focus Publications. ISBN 978-1-85792671-2.
^ Kuyper, Abraham (2010-10-05). Women of the Old Testament. Zondervan. pp. 175–76. ISBN 978-0-31086487-5.
^ Zaeske, Susan (2003). "Unveiling Esther as a Pragmatic Radical Rhetoric". Philosophy and Rhetoric. 33 (3): 194.
^ Vahidmanesh, Parvaneh (5 May 2010). "Sad Fate of Iran's Jews". Payvand.
^ Schaalje, Jacqueline (June 2001). "Ancient synagogues in Bar'am and Capernaum". Jewish Magazine.
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Beal, Timothy K. (1997-12-11). The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther (1st ed.). London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41516780-2. Postmodern theoretical apparatus, e.g., Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas.
Fox, Michael V. (2010-04-01). Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther: Second Edition with a New Postscript on a Decade of Esther Scholarship (2nd ed.). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock. ISBN 978-1-60899495-3.
Sasson, Jack M. (1990). "Esther". In Alter, Robert; Kermode, Frank (eds.). The Literary Guide to the Bible. Harvard University Press. pp. 335–41. ISBN 978-0-67487531-9.
Kahr, Madlyn Millner (1968). The Book of Esther in Seventeenth-century Dutch Art. New York University.
Webberley, Helen (Feb 2008). "Rembrandt and The Purim Story". The Jewish Magazine.
White, Sidnie Ann (1989-01-01). "Esther: A Feminine Model for Jewish Diaspora". In Day, Peggy Lynne (ed.). Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-45141576-6.
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Suppose you graphed every single point of the form \((2t + 3, 3-3t)\). For example, when \(t = 2\), we have \(2t + 3 = 7\) and \(3-3t = -3\), so \((7,-3)\) is on the graph. Explain why the graph is a line, and find an equation whose graph is this line.
I'm incredibaly confused if someone could help that would be AMAZING!!
x=2t+3 and y=3-3t for t is any real value.
Why do you multiply by 6?
Well I am glad that you got it.
Pity there was no 'thank you' thrown in there while you were at it though.
A 'thank you' is always appreciated.
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The Fastly edge cloud platform recently open-sourced Lucet, its native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. Lucet may enable edge developers to build custom solutions for the edge at scale without limitations imposed by vendors, languages, or application programming interfaces (API).
Lucet is designed around WebAssembly (Wasm) and the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). Developers may write programs using any language which compiles to WebAssembly, such as Rust, TypeScript, C, or C++. WASI allows to run Wasm code beyond the browser, on any platform which implements the predefined WASI interfaces. Lucet may leverage the security, near-native speed, multi-language characteristics of WebAssembly on any WASI-supporting platform.
Developers may thus write for the edge in the programming language of their choice and may lift potential vendors and API limitations and implement custom solutions to technical and business problems such as A/B testing or authentication.
While Fastly only recently open-sourced Lucet, Lucet has been used in production for several months as the engine powering Fastly's Terrarium project. Documentation and examples are available in the Lucet repository.
WebAssembly describes itself as "a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine (...) designed as a portable target for compilation of high-level languages like C/C++/Rust, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications". It is now implemented by the four major browser engines. WASI is a system interface for the WebAssembly platform aiming at running WebAssembly programs on any devices, computers, or operating systems.
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To make the chocolate pudding: In a medium saucepan, whisk together 1/4 cup cornstarch and 1/3 cup sugar. Whisk in 3 cups milk and 1/2 teaspoon salt, then set over medium-high heat.
After about 10 minutes, the mixture will thicken slightly. Reduce the heat to medium-low, then whisk in the chocolate and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Continue to cook until thickened, about 2 minutes longer. Turn off the heat, then whisk in 2 tablespoons butter.
If there seem to be any lumps, pass the pudding through a fine mesh strainer. Transfer to a bowl, then cover with plastic wrap placed directly on the surface of the pudding. Chill for at least 30 minutes.
To make the peanut butter pudding: Prepare the peanut butter pudding in the same way as you did the chocolate pudding, using the remaining ingredients, but substitute the peanut butter for the chocolate.
For the candied pretzels: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. In a medium saucepan, stir together the sugar and water. Cover and set over medium-high heat. Let the mixture boil for 5 minutes before removing the lid.
Cook the sugar until it becomes a deep copper color and starts to smoke. Turn off the heat, then immediately stir in the pretzel sticks.
Pour the mixture onto the prepared sheet pan and spread it out. Let this cool completely, about 30 minutes. Break into small pieces for serving. If you have leftovers after you've assembled the puddings, store them in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Layer the chocolate and peanut butter puddings, then top with whipped cream, a pinch of flaky salt, and some pieces of the candied pretzels. If you have leftover pudding, do not top it with whipped cream or pretzels; it will keep, covered with plastic wrap, in the refrigerator for 3 days.
Could I substitute something non-dairy for the cream that would work just as well?
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Pickling is a popular method of preserving food. According to Wikipedia, it is also a pretty ancient procedure – although the origins of pickling are unknown, the ancient Mesopotamians probably used the process 4400 years ago. By placing a product in a specific solution, it is possible to drastically increase its shelf life. In other words, it's a method that lets us store food for later consumption.
If you're a Python developer, you might one day find yourself in need of a way to store your Python objects for later use. Well, what if I told you, you can pickle Python objects too?
Serialization is a process of transforming objects or data structures into byte streams or strings. A byte stream is, well, a stream of bytes – one byte is composed of 8 bits of zeros and ones. These byte streams can then be stored or transferred easily. This allows the developers to save, for example, configuration data or user's progress, and then store it (on disk or in a database) or send it to another location.
Python objects can also be serialized using a module called Pickle.
One of the main differences between pickling Python objects and pickling vegetables is the inevitable and irreversible change of the pickled food's flavor and texture. Meanwhile, pickled Python objects can be easily unpickled back to their original form. This process, by the way, is universally known as deserialization.
Pickling (or serialization in general) should not be confused with compression. The purpose of pickling is to translate data into a format that can be transferred from RAM to disk. Compression, on the other hand, is a process of encoding data using fewer bits (in order to save disk space).
Serialization is especially useful in any software where it's important to be able to save some progress on disk, quit the program and then load the progress back after reopening the program. Video games might be the most intuitive example of serialization's usefulness, but there are many other programs where saving and loading a user's progress or data is crucial.
It does have, however, some important limitations as well. Most importantly, by default, only a limited subset of Python built-in types can be represented by JSON. With Pickle, we can easily serialize a very large spectrum of Python types, and, importantly, custom classes. This means we don't need to create a custom schema (like we do for JSON) and write error-prone serializers and parsers. All of the heavy liftings is done for you with Pickle.
It is important to remember that pickling is not a language-independent serialization method, therefore your pickled data can only be unpickled using Python. Moreover, it's important to make sure that objects are pickled using the same version of Python that is going to be used to unpickle them. Mixing Python versions, in this case, can cause many problems.
Additionally, functions are pickled by their name references, and not by their value. The resulting pickle does not contain information on the function's code or attributes. Therefore, you have to make sure that the environment where the function is unpickled is able to import the function. In other words, if we pickle a function and then unpickle it in an environment where it's either not defined or not imported, an exception will be raised.
It is also very important to note that pickled objects can be used in malevolent ways. For instance, unpickling data from an untrusted source can result in the execution of a malicious piece of code.
First, we have to import the pickle module, which is done in line 1. In line 3 we define a simple, three element list that will be pickled.
In line 5 we state that our output pickle file's name will be test_pickle.pkl. By using the wb option, we tell the program that we want to write (w) binary data (b) inside of it (because we want to create a byte stream). Note that the pkl extension is not necessary – we're using it in this tutorial because that's the extension included in Python's documentation.
In line 6 we use the pickle.dump() method to pickle our test list and store it inside the test_pickle.pkl file.
I encourage you to try and open the generated pickle file in your text editor. You'll quickly notice that a byte stream is definitely not a human-readable format.
Now, let's unpickle the contents of the test pickle file and bring our object back to its original form.
As you can see, this procedure is not more complicated than when we pickled the object. In line 3 we open our test_pickle.pkl file again, but this time our goal is to read (r) the binary data (b) stored within it.
Next, in line 5, we use the pickle.load() method to unpickle our list and store it in the unpickled_list variable.
As you can see, this example is almost as simple as the previous one. Between the lines 3 and 7 we define a simple class that contains one attribute and one method that changes this attribute. In line 9 we create an instance of that class and store it in the cucumber variable, and in line 10 we set its attribute color to "green".
As you can see, thanks to the Pickle module, serialization of Python objects is pretty simple. In our examples, we pickled a simple Python list – but you can use the exact same method to save a large spectrum of Python data types, as long as you make sure your objects contain only other pickleable objects.
Pickling has some disadvantages, the biggest of which might be the fact that you can only unpickle your data using Python – if you need a cross-language solution, JSON is definitely a better option. And finally, remember that pickles can be used to carry the code that you don't necessarily want to execute. Similarly to pickled food, as long as you get your pickles from trusted sources, you should be fine.
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How to Pronounce the Chinese City "Shenzhen"
Since Shenzhen was designated the first "Special Economic Zone" and an experiment in market capitalism in China in 1980, it has appeared frequently in Western news media. Today, it has a population of around 10 million people, with about twice that many in the larger metropolitan area. Considering that the city had little more than 300,000 citizens in 1980, it's one of the fastest growing cities on record, even though the growth has recently slowed down considerably. The city was chosen as a Special Economic Zone because of its proximity to Hong Kong. Shenzhen is written 深圳 in Chinese, which means "deep" and "ditch (between fields)."
We're going to provide a quick and dirty explanation of how to pronounce the name so you have a rough idea of how to say it, followed by a more detailed description, including analysis of common errors.
Shen - Pronounce "sh" in "sheep" plus "an" as in "an apple"
Zhen - Pronounce as "j" in "jungle" plus "an" as in "an apple"
If you want to have a go at the tones, they are high, flat, and falling respectively.
Note: This pronunciation is not correct pronunciation in Mandarin. It is our best effort to write the pronunciation using English words. To really get it right, you need to learn some new sounds (see below).
Pronouncing names in Chinese can be very hard if you haven't studied the language; sometimes, it's hard even if you have. Many letters used to write the sounds in Mandarin (called Hanyu Pinyin) don't match the sounds they describe in English, so simply trying to read a Chinese name and guess the pronunciation will lead to many mistakes.
Ignoring or mispronouncing tones will just add to the confusion. These mistakes add up and often become so serious that a native speaker would fail to understand.
If you study Mandarin, you should never ever rely on English approximations like those above. Those are meant for people who don't intend to learn the language! You have to understand the orthography (i.e., how the letters relate to the sounds). There are many traps and pitfalls in Pinyin you have to be familiar with.
Shēn (first tone): The initial is a retroflex, unaspirated, fricative. What does that mean? It means that it should feel like the tongue is slightly curled backwards as when saying "right", and then pronounce a hissing sound (such as when urging someone to be quiet with "Shhh!") This is close to "sh" in "sheep," but the tongue tip is farther back. The final is reasonably easy to get right and sounds close to the short description above ("an" in "an apple").
Zhèn (fourth tone): This syllable is fairly easy to get right if you get the "shen" right. The only difference between the two is that "zhen" has a small stop in front of the hissing sound; you can think about it as a small and rather soft "t." This type of sound is called an affricate, a combination between a stop and a fricative. The final part is pronounced the same as in "shen."
Now you know how to pronounce Shēnzhèn (深圳). Did you find it hard? If you’re learning Mandarin, don't worry, there aren't that many sounds. Once you learn the most common ones, learning to pronounce words (and names) will become much easier!
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We are renovating our kitchen and have a designated space for our fridge which has a height limit of 63.5".
will fit in there. In our dreams it would be 63.5 high by 32" wide. This space was designated for the fridge back in the 50's or 60's when this size was common.
The space is nested in an old chimney and I can't extend the height. Please help... thanks!
I'm sorry to say that I did a bit of research and was unable to find any refrigerators in the US made with that height If you end up going much less than 65" it goes right down to a compact refrigerator.
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Diagnosis plays a central role in medicine, and getting it right is pivotal in helping the patient to get the appropriate care. Making a diagnosis is a complex exercise, because patients don’t come with labels saying I suffer from this condition or that one. There is probably no task more challenging for a doctor than making the correct diagnosis. The doctor needs to be a detective in order to figure out what’s wrong, and it’s because there is so much that we still have to learn about the human body, that diagnosis is still a very uncertain art. It takes considerable clinical acumen to make the right diagnosis, which is why one in every ten diagnoses is wrong. Diagnostic error is the leading cause of medical malpractice claims in the US, and is estimated to cause 40,000-80,000 deaths annually. It’s because misdiagnosis can do so much harm, that we need to ensure that the diagnostic process is timely, accurate, reliable, and efficient if we want to make medical care safe.
When do diagnostic errors occur?
A diagnostic error occurs when either the diagnosis is wrong, missed or delayed. The cause of diagnostic error is often multi-factorial, and it could be a result of cognitive errors, which are mistakes in the doctor’s thought process, perhaps because he is rushed; system errors, for example, because of a lack of communication, as a result of which an abnormal lab result is overlooked; and a combination of both. A diagnostic error is more closely associated with some specialties than others, such as radiology, geriatrics and emergency medicine. They are common in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) as well, where patients have multiple complex problems. Interestingly, it is not only the rare disease that is the subject of diagnostic error; it is the misdiagnosis of common diseases such as heart attack, cancer and stroke which causes the most harm.
Doctors are taught to follow a disciplined process in order to make the right diagnosis. This involves collecting information from the patient by taking a history, doing a clinical examination, and ordering lab tests. The clinical data then needs to be analyzed and processed. The systematic method that doctors use to come to the right diagnosis is called differential diagnosis. The doctor makes a list of possible diagnoses in order of probability, and then tests the strength of each diagnosis by asking further detailed questions, ordering more tests, or referring the patient to specialists. A differential diagnosis checklist helps physicians avoid the most common cause of diagnostic error-failure to consider the correct diagnosis as a possibility. Ideally, a number of potential diagnoses will be ruled out as the investigation progresses, and only one will remain at the end. Of course, given the uncertain nature of medicine, this is not always the case. Technology can also aid doctors to help minimize diagnostic errors. Medical digital databases like Watson @ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/ and Isabel @ www.isabelhealthcare.com can be utilized intelligently to boost the doctor’s diagnostic accuracy, by serving as diagnosis support systems. They do not replace the doctor, but act as a safety net by reminding him to consider all possibilities, so he does not overlook a particular disease.
-There is more than 20,000 human diseases, and most doctors don’t know about the rare ones, which is why these are often missed.
-Not all doctors are alike, and while a general practitioner is well versed in common diseases, a specialist would know a lot more about the rare diseases(in his specialty).
-Some doctors will avoid tests, because they don’t want you to pay extra for tests which are not likely to be helpful. This works well for the majority, but can result in a misdiagnosis for the small percentage that might have a rare disease.
- It really is quite sad how little time a doctor will typically spend with a patient. In reality, doctors have to shoot from the hip; although they’ll hit the mark with most common diseases, they can get tricked by rarer conditions.
-Medicine can be complex and the human body can fool even the smartest doctors.
- Samples could get contaminated or mixed up, or the test procedure might be done improperly-for example, if the laboratory technician is unqualified, or the lab is poorly equipped. This can be a major problem in India, where quality control is often lacking.
- A problem with all medical tests, no matter how well they are performed, is that they may give rise to false positives and false negatives. Let me False positives and false negatives- A problem with all medical tests, no matter how well clarify. False positives are test results which are abnormal (‘positive’), even though the patient has no disease. A false positive result causes needless anxiety, and will often lead to a situation in which the patient will have to undergo even more tests to prove or disprove the previous results. Conversely, test results which are normal (‘negative’), even though the patient does have the disease are called ‘false negatives’. These results could also cause problems, because they may induce a false sense of security, thereby leading to a delayed or missed diagnosis. Most tests have a wide range of normality, and can only very rarely yield a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer as to whether a patient has a particular disease or not.
The unreliability of medical tests also poses a major problem for patient safety in India today. The most obvious reason can be attributed to laboratories whose functioning is marred by poor quality control, unskilled manpower and obsolete equipment. There is little ‘policing’ or retesting; this results in subpar standards.
After all, even a science graduate with a six-month diploma in laboratory technology can set up a medical lab today, if he so desires. Most people tend to rush to the nearest laboratory to get their tests done, but such haste can be a big mistake. After all, if the laboratory is not reliable, how can you trust its report? You should try and go to the best laboratory possible- your life can depend upon your test results!
-The most likely way for a patient to contribute to a misdiagnosis is attempting to diagnose themselves, without professional medical advice.
-Sometimes patients don’t tell their doctor everything, either because they are embarrassed, or they feel that it’s minor, and not worth mentioning.
-In some cases, patients don’t get diagnostic tests done, even when a doctor has ordered these. This can occur due to oversight, financial constraints, complacency, laziness or embarrassment.
What can patients do to reduce diagnostic error and harm?
- A majority of the diagnoses made by doctors are correct , and are far more likely to be accurate than your own. Never self-diagnose based on what you have read on the Internet, in books, or gathered from amateur advice. Doctors are trained to see signs that patients don’t.
- A trained specialist is even less likely to make a wrong diagnosis than your family doctor.
- Ask your doctor to explicitly name his diagnosis. Sometimes the doctor may not be sure what the diagnosis is, and a good doctor will be willing to share this uncertainty with you. He can give you a list of his top three guesses, and then describe how he plans to eliminate them, one by one. Sometimes the doctor may not tell you what the name of the condition he suspects is, not because he wants to keep you in the dark, but perhaps because he doesn’t want to scare you with a serious sounding name. Other doctors feel that patients won’t understand the diagnosis anyway, while others assume that patients don’t want to know.
- It is hard to assess the accuracy of your diagnosis unless you understand what it is, and the basis on which it was made. Exactly what is the diagnosis? How sure is your doctor? What are the other possibilities? What other diagnoses has your doctor ruled out? What other related diseases are possible? Which ones have been tested for or ruled out?
1.What else could it be?
2.Is there anything that doesn’t fit?
3.Is It Possible I have more Than one problem?
- Getting the opinion of two or more doctors reduces the chances of a wrong diagnosis. If the two diagnoses match, then the chances of a wrong diagnosis are much lower. And if they don’t match, then this is a puzzle that needs to be solved in order to get to the correct diagnosis. Many online second opinion services allow you to consult with world-renowned specialists from the comfort of your home. Lots of health insurers also offer their customers a free second opinion service, to help them make sure that their diagnosis is correct.
CrowdMed (www.crowdmed.com) uses the wisdom of the crowds to help solve diagnostic puzzles. It is an online medical crowdsourcing platform where you can submit information about your symptoms, medical history, tests, scan results and other pertinent data. This community of “medical detectives” then suggests diagnoses, and CrowdMed’s algorithms aggregate these medical differentials and distill them down to a probable list of diagnostic suggestions for you. This has an extremely high degree of accuracy, and is well worth exploring, especially when your doctor is stumped.
- If there are multiple diagnostic tests for your disease, consider having another type of test done.
- If you don’t trust your test results, you might want to get them repeated at a different laboratory.
- To reduce the risk of becoming a victim of diagnostic errors, always make sure you have originals of your tests. Make extra copies, preferably in digital format. These can be very helpful if you need to get a second opinion. You should also make sure that your doctor examines your original scans and X-rays, and not just the reports, because his interpretation may be different from the radiologist’s. If you have undergone a series of scans, they should be arranged in chronological order, so that the doctor can compare them easily.
- The best way to feel confident about your diagnosis is to be well- informed and understand how it was made, Knowledge is power! You can use an online symptom-checker to help you make sense of what the diagnostic possibilities are. The trouble with many of these is that they may needlessly scare you; so you have to resist jumping to the conclusion that you have an incurable medical disease when you go online.
Even though patients don’t have the medical tools and diagnostic skills that doctors do, they are the experts on their illness. An accurate medical history is the most valuable tool in helping the doctor to come to the right diagnosis, and often is far more valuable than expensive tests and esoteric scans.
It was Sir William Osler who said–“Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.” Sadly, doctors are often too busy to take a proper history, and patients are often too disorganized, as a result of which they may fail to provide the doctor with valuable medical clues. Make detailed notes about when your symptoms started; what makes them better or worse; what treatments you’ve tried so far; and how they are related to taking medications, eating a meal, exercising, or a certain time of day.
By being clear, complete and accurate, and writing down your story in a structured format, it’s easier for the doctor to review your history, so he can make the right diagnosis!
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How can unnecessary infrastructure resource disparity be avoided?
Service implementations can unnecessarily introduce disparate infrastructure resources, thereby bloating the enterprise and resulting in increased governance burden.
The supporting infrastructure and architecture can be equipped with common resources and extensions that can be repeatedly utilized by different services.
Enterprise design standards are defined to formalize the required use of standardized architectural resources.
If this pattern leads to too much dependency on shared infrastructure resources, it can decrease the autonomy and mobility of services.
Services use the same standardized infrastructure resource for the same purpose. Note, however, that they do not share the same implementation of the resource.
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The Battle of Neresheim (11 August 1796) saw a victory of Republican French army under Jean Victor Marie Moreau over the Habsburg Austrian army of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. Pursued by Moreau's Army of Rhin-et-Moselle, Charles launched an attack against the French. While the Austrian left wing saw some success, the battle degenerated into a stalemate and the archduke withdrew further into the Electorate of Bavaria. Neresheim is located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany a distance of 57 kilometres (35 mi) northeast of Ulm. The action took place during the War of the First Coalition, part of a larger conflict called the French Revolutionary Wars.
In the Rhine Campaign of 1796, two French armies successfully breached the Rhine River to invade Germany, Moreau's army in the south and Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's Army of Sambre-et-Meuse in the north. The French armies operated independently while Charles commanded both Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour's Army of the Upper Rhine in the south and Wilhelm von Wartensleben's Army of the Lower Rhine in the north. Charles hoped to concentrate superior strength against one of the two French armies. To keep his enemies separated, the archduke wished to lure Moreau south of the Danube River by crossing to the south bank. To allow his columns to cross the river safely, Charles attacked the French, hoping to push them back. Though he failed to defeat the French, the battle gave the archduke enough space to get his troops over the Danube without interference. Though he had a chance to join his army to Jourdan's in the north, Moreau soon crossed to the south bank in pursuit.
On 8 June 1796, the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle commanded by Jean Victor Marie Moreau numbered 71,581 foot soldiers and 6,515 cavalry, not counting artillerists. The army was formed into a Right Wing under Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino, a Center led by Louis Desaix and a Left Wing directed by Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr. Ferino's three divisions were led by François Antoine Louis Bourcier, 9,281 infantry and 690 cavalry, Henri François Delaborde, 8,300 infantry and 174 cavalry and Augustin Tuncq, 7,437 infantry and 432 cavalry. Desaix's three divisions were commanded by Michel de Beaupuy, 14,565 infantry and 1,266 cavalry, Antoine Guillaume Delmas, 7,898 infantry and 865 cavalry, and Charles Antoine Xaintrailles, 4,828 infantry and 962 cavalry. Saint-Cyr's two divisions were under Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, 7,438 infantry and 895 cavalry, and Alexandre Camille Taponier, 11,823 infantry and 1,231 cavalry. With artillerymen, Moreau's host counted a total of 79,592 soldiers.
Originally, the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle was opposed by 82,776 Austrians and allies under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser. But 25,330 Austrians were soon transferred to Italy and Wurmser went with this force on 18 June. Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour was appointed the new commander of the Army of the Upper Rhine. The former leader of the Army of the Lower Rhine, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen was replaced by Wilhelm von Wartensleben so he could take overall command of both Austrian armies.
On 24 June 1796, the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle mounted a successful assault crossing of the Rhine River in the Battle of Kehl. The French sustained losses of 150 killed, wounded and missing out of 10,065 engaged. The Swabian Regional Contingent defenders numbered 7,000 soldiers in eight foot battalions, eight horse squadrons and two artillery batteries. The Swabians suffered over 700 casualties and lost 14 guns and 22 munition wagons. Moreau's forces inflicted a second defeat on a force of 9,000 Swabians and their Austrian allies under Anton Sztáray at Renchen on 28 June. This time the French reported only 200 casualties while inflicting 550 killed and wounded on their enemies. In addition, the French captured 850 soldiers, seven guns and two munition wagons. During this period of maneuvering, Moreau switched the positions of two of his wings. Ferino still commanded the Right Wing, but Desaix now commanded the Left Wing while Saint-Cyr led the Center.
On 30 June, Latour's Army of the Upper Rhine was divided into a Left Wing under Michael von Fröhlich, a Center led by Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg and a Right Wing that Latour personally controlled. Fröhlich's wing was made up of eight battalions and 12 squadrons of Austrians organized in two brigades. Fürstenberg's command consisted of 17 battalions, five companies and 10 squadrons, including Swabians and Bavarians, organized into five brigades. Latour's wing had 25 battalions and 58 squadrons organized into five divisions under Prince von Fürstemberg, Johann Mészáros von Szoboszló, Johann Sigismund Riesch, Karl von Riese, and Sztáray. There were an additional six battalions and six squadrons holding Mannheim and one battalion garrisoning Philippsburg. Archduke Charles was approaching with an Austrian division under Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze and a Saxon division under General von Lindt. Hotze directed 16 battalions and 20 squadrons in three brigades while Lindt commanded nine battalions and 19 squadrons in five brigades.
With Desaix on the left and Saint-Cyr on the right, Moreau pressed north up the east bank of the Rhine to the Murg River. The French thrust severed Austrians under Fröhlich and French Royalists under Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé from the remainder of Latour's army. Ferino's wing pursued Fröhlich and Condé to the southeast and seized the region around Freiburg im Breisgau. On the Murg, Desaix won a minor victory over Latour in the Battle of Rastatt. By this time, Archduke Charles arrived from the north with 20,000 reinforcements. The archduke planned to attack on 10 July, but Moreau preempted him by one day. In the Battle of Ettlingen on the 9th, both commanders tried to hold with their left wings and attack with their right. On Moreau's right, Saint-Cyr was successful in driving back Konrad Valentin von Kaim's Austrians near Frauenalb while Taponier's division pushed back Lindt's Saxons near Neuenbürg. On the French left, Desaix captured Malsch twice but was ultimately driven out. Despite having won the battle on his right flank, Charles feared Saint-Cyr's advance might cut him off from his supply base at Heilbronn so the archduke ordered a retreat to the east.
Archduke Charles stopped long enough at Pforzheim to transfer his military stores to the army's wagon train. Moreau was surprised by his foe's decision to disengage and took several days to digest this information. The French commander planned to attack Pforzheim on 15 July, but by that date Charles was retreating farther to the east. On 21 July, there was a skirmish at Cannstadt near Stuttgart. There were 8,000 Austrians in nine battalions and eight squadrons involved in the clash. From Cannstadt, Charles retreated toward Schwäbisch Gmünd with Moreau following his enemies at a leisurely pace. Meanwhile, the isolated Austrian left wing withdrew through Villingen with Ferino in pursuit. The Swabians and Bavarian began negotiations with the French to quit the war while the Saxons marched away to the north to join Wartensleben's army. When Charles left the banks of the Rhine he left behind 30,000 troops in garrisons at Mannheim, Philippsburg, Mainz, Königstein im Taunus and Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. On 29 July at Biberach an der Riss, the Swabian Regional Contingent was disarmed by Fröhlich on the instructions of Charles. These subtractions left Charles with only three-quarters of the strength of Moreau. On 2 August, Moreau's troops bumped into the Austrians at Geislingen an der Steige and for a week afterward there was constant skirmishing with Charles' rear guard. Saint-Cyr occupied the city of Ulm on 8 August 1796. Two days later, Charles was joined by his left wing. At this time Ferino was at Memmingen to the south of the Danube.
On 13 July in Desaix's Left Wing, the division of Delmas consisted of the 50th and 97th Line and 16th Light Infantry Demi-Brigades and four squadrons each of the 7th Hussar and 10th and 17th Dragoon Regiments. Delmas' brigade commanders were Jean Marie Rodolph Eickemayer, who had been recruited from Mainz, and Maurice Frimont. The division of Beaupuy was made up of the 10th, 62nd and 103rd Line and the 10th Light Demi-Brigades, 4th and 8th Chasseurs à Cheval and the 6th Dragoons. Beaupuy's brigadiers were Gilles Joseph Martin Brunteau Saint-Suzanne and Dominique Joba. Bourcier's Reserve division comprised the 93rd and 109th Line, the 1st and 2nd Carabiniers and the 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 14th and 15th Cavalry Regiments. All demi-brigades had three battalions, all Cavalry regiments had three squadrons, while the Carabiniers, Chasseurs, Dragoons and Hussars had four squadrons.
A report from 7 August 1796 showed that Saint-Cyr shuffled the brigades in the Center so that Duhesme's division had only one while Taponier had the other three. In Duhesme's division, Dominique Vandamme's brigade was made up of the 17th and 100th Line Infantry Demi-brigades, two squadrons of the 20th Chasseurs à Cheval and a detachment of the 11th Hussars, a total of 5,272 infantry and 292 cavalry. Taponier's division included the brigades of Antoine Laroche Dubouscat, Claude Lecourbe and Henri François Lambert. Laroche directed 5,124 soldiers of the 21st Light and 31st Line Infantry, Lecourbe commanded 5,878 men of the 84th and 106th Line and Lambert controlled 5,888 troops of the 93rd and 109th Line. Two squadrons of 240 sabers from the 2nd Chasseurs à Cheval were attached to Lecourbe's brigade. Altogether, there were 22,162 foot soldiers, 532 horsemen and 433 gunners in Saint-Cyr's command. In addition to the other units, the 9th Hussars were normally attached to Taponier's division.
Archduke Charles wished to prevent the army of Moreau from joining with his colleague Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse. The Austrian commander hoped to withdraw to the south bank of the Danube but the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle was following too closely. By attacking Moreau, the archduke hoped to push the French back in order to prevent their two armies from merging and to give his own troops enough room to cross the Danube safely. Also, he wanted to lure Moreau into crossing the Danube and separating himself from Jourdan. Moreau's army was extended across a front 25 miles (40 km) wide. Charles drew up plans to attack on 11 August. He sent one column to cross to the north bank of the Danube at Günzburg to get behind the French right flank. His troops were ready to move at midnight, but heavy rains slowed several of his assault columns. On the 10th Saint-Cyr with Taponier's division, drove the Austrians in his front out of the village of Eglingen. Urged on by Moreau, Saint-Cyr balked because he believed that the enemy were in strength nearby. Before anything more could be done, the heavy rain began and made it impossible to fire the cannons on both sides. Moreau refused to let his subordinate withdraw to a more defensible position or to order Duhesme's division to move closer. The only concession Moreau would make was to send up one regiment of Carabiniers to patrol in front of Taponier. To be on the safe side, Saint-Cyr stationed Lecourbe and one demi brigade at Dischingen where there was a bridge over the Egau River. Meanwhile, Duhesme stayed well to the south at Medlingen in the Danube valley.
The Austrian archduke commanded 43,000 men while Moreau led 44,737 troops. Charles massed his main strength against Saint-Cyr, who commanded 30,426 soldiers if the nearby Reserve was included. On the right flank, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein led the Advance Guard while Sztáray led the Reserve. They would operate against Bopfingen and seize the Neresheim-Nördlingen road. Charles personally led 5,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry on Dunstelkingen in the center. To Charles' immediate right, Hotze directed 7,500 foot and 1,800 horse toward Kösingen and Schweindorf. To Charles' immediate left, Latour's 5,500 troops would clear Eglingen and Dischingen. On the left flank, Fröhlich was in charge of the force that would cross the Danube behind the French right flank. He would cooperate with Riese's troops. The outnumbered Duhesme was to be assailed by 7,000 infantry and 2,400 cavalry. Once they crushed the French right flank, 3,000 men under Karl Mercandin were to attack Dischingen while the rest were supposed to circle behind Moreau's army and keep it from escaping.
The sudden Austrian advance at dawn caused the 150-strong regiment of Carabiniers to retreat at the gallop. Saint-Cyr's light cavalry, led by Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, lost heart at seeing the heavy cavalry fleeing and fell back, leaving the French infantry at Eglingen without support. The Austrian horse fell on the flank of Lambert's brigade, routing its six battalions. This left Taponier's division with 12 battalions to face Charles' assault. At this moment Moreau arrived at Saint-Cyr's headquarters. Before riding off to consult with Desaix, the French army commander placed Bourcier's division in support nearby and agreed to have the Left Wing attack the Austrian right flank. Saint-Cyr deployed nine battalions at Dunstelkingen while keeping Lecourbe's three battalions to protect his right rear at Dischingen. At 9:00 AM the Austrians attacked this position but were beaten back. Their artillery set Dunstelkingen on fire but this actually helped prevent the Austrians from advancing. Moreau then returned from his meeting with Desaix to inform Saint-Cyr that the Left Wing's attack would be delayed until Delmas' division could be recalled from the extreme left.
Hotze seized Kösingen but found himself facing a new French line on high ground between him and Neresheim. He attacked this position but was repulsed by Desaix. On Hotze's right, Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan drove the Austrians back to Schweindorf. The Austrians took Bopfingen but found that the French were moving south to assist the center. The clash at Bopfingen was fought by the Duke Albert Carabinier Regiment Nr. 5 and the Siebenburger Hussar Regiment Nr. 47. Desaix had little trouble fending off these advances. But a message came from the far right that said Duhesme's division was in trouble. Riese attacked Duhesme at Medlingen, forcing him to retreat. A large force of Austrian cavalry reached Giengen to block the French retreat, but Duhesme escaped to the northwest. Mercandin ended the day 3 miles (5 km) short of Dischingen and Riese moved west to Heidenheim an der Brenz rather than making a sweep into the French rear. Fröhlich's column only got as far as Albeck, north of Ulm. Duhesme's division lost some cannons and was not able to rejoin Saint-Cyr for three days. The Center's artillery park at Heidenheim hurriedly displaced north to Aalen. This left Saint-Cyr's troops with no reserve artillery ammunition and dependent on supply from Bourcier's small artillery park. Moreau appeared a third time at Saint-Cyr's headquarters promising that Desaix would soon attack the Austrian right flank. Though Saint-Cyr was in a tight spot, in fact, Charles became anxious about Moreau's commitment of the French Reserve.
The Austrians declined to launch any more serious assaults on Taponier's division and by 1:00 PM the contest degenerated into an artillery duel. Part of Lambert's brigade was rallied and reoccupied Heidenheim. The Austrians threatening the French right flank began withdrawing to Dillingen an der Donau. For the fourth time that day Moreau came to see Saint-Cyr, this time accompanied by Desaix. They informed their colleague that Delmas' division was not available yet and it was too late to attack the Austrian right that day. Everything would be ready the next day. Charles hoped that Moreau might concede defeat, but the morning of 12 August found the French army still in position. Charles then gave the order to fall back. Worried about the artillery ammunition shortage, Moreau did not attack Charles' right, but neither did he panic and retreat. Instead he held his position all day on the 12th waiting for confirmation that the Austrians were withdrawing across the Danube.
Moreau deserved criticism for spreading his forces too widely but he can be credited for keeping his composure despite the defeat of Duhesme. But Moreau now fell into a fatal strategic error. Charles entertained a desire to combine forces with Wartensleben at the earliest opportunity in order to defeat Jourdan's army. When Charles withdrew to the south bank of the Danube, he left Moreau free to stay on the north bank and join with Jourdan. Charles hoped to lure his opponent onto the south bank which would take Moreau farther away from Jourdan. In fact, Moreau did not begin to advance until 14 August and then he headed for the Danube crossings. Meanwhile, Charles retreated rapidly, increasing the distance between his army and Moreau, but also giving himself more room to maneuver. On 18 and 19 August Moreau's army finally crossed to the south bank of the Danube. But on the 17th the archduke made a crucial strategic move. Leaving Latour with 30,288 troops plus Condé's 5,000-6,000 men, Charles and 28,000 troops recrossed to the north bank, heading for a rendezvous with Wartensleben. Ignoring this move, Moreau moved steadily to the east on the south bank of the Danube. Napoleon later wrote of Moreau, "One would have said that he was ignorant that a French army existed on his left". The next actions were the Battle of Amberg and the Battle of Friedberg, both on 24 August 1796.
↑ 14.0 14.1 Nafziger, George. "French Army of the Rhine-and-Moselle, 13 July 1796" (PDF). US Army Combined Arms Center. Retrieved 2 October 2014. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> This source placed the 93rd and 109th Line in the Reserve rather than in the Center.
↑ Phipps (2011), p. 321. This source stated that Laroche's brigade was routed but twice afterward said that it was Lambert's troops that ran away.
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Protagonist Harry Potter, aided by Dumbledore Harry is a small, modest boy who is coming of age. Dumbledore helps protect Harry from Voldemort while the boy studies and hones his skills. Because of his exceptional magical abilities, Harry is destined to succeed Dumbledore as leader of the forces of good. Harry doesn’t always like being famous, but he is willing to risk his own safety to fight Voldemort. Harry’s driving motive is his concern for others.
Antagonist Voldemort, aided by Quirrell Voldemort seeks revenge on Harry for stripping him of his power. Voldemort hates Muggles and cares little about the lives of others, in direct contrast to Harry. Voldemort cares little about Quirrell, and is only using the teacher to get the Sorcerer’s Stone and eternal life he desires. Voldemort’s driving motive is his self-interest in power.
Climax Harry stops Voldemort from obtaining the Sorcerer’s Stone With Ron and Hermione’s help, Harry is able to track down the Voldemort-possessed Quirrell and keep the Stone out of his hands long enough for Dumbledore to return.
Outcome Voldemort’s spirit flees, Quirrell dies, and the forces of good triumph Voldemort has fled and shall return another day, but Harry has kept the Sorcerer’s Stone out of the hands of evil. Dumbledore ultimately destroys the Sorcerer’s Stone in order to keep such a situation from repeating itself.
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How to pick the right Boston neighborhood to live? Make a list of important factors when choosing your neighborhood. You should start to form some basic questions around your lifestyle. Things that will impact your day to day happiness such as proximity to things that you do everyday.
-Do you have kids? Do you need to be close to a park or specific school so the daily commute to school is close.
-Do you want to be close to your work? Do you want to be able to walk or just use public transportation to work. Is your job far enough that you need a car or would you need parking?
-Do you have a certain lifestyle or gym that you need to be close to? Some people are regimented in their workouts and like to be close to places like Equinox or grocery stores like Whole Foods.
-What kind of home do you want to live in? Do you want a single family, condo or townhouse. Some people may want to consider a multi-family to offset the mortgage.
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This emoji doesn’t even start to demonstrate the way I’m feeling at the moment! To say I’m totally gutted that 25 years of work has been wiped off the Internet through no fault of my own would be a major understatement.
It’s not lost – just not accessible – I have the complete database with almost 1.8 MILLION entries on my own desktop and of course backed up off site. I have a slightly older copy of the web site and waiting for the company concerned to return my USB with a complete copy of my web site.
STAGE 1: I need technical help to get my older version Joomla web site and large SQL database together with my domain name up and running on a DIFFERENT web hosting site. I have sent out emails to some contacts who may know someone who knows someone who could help. At the moment I don’t have the money to pay for such help and am planning to do some crowd-funding to help with that.
But of course I can’t even start the funding process until I know how much Stage 1 would cost.
STAGE 2: I also need to get funding for Stage 2 which is to convert to the latest version of Joomla.
How did this all happen? Well I certainly won’t be disclosing company names until I have my USB returned with a complete back-up of my ‘current’ site!
I continued to automatically pay monthly invoices sent by Company E but controlled by Company F.
I was told that Company F wanted to get rid of Company E‘s server and wanted to transfer all users over to Company F‘s newer server.
I spent some time testing my full web site and database on the new server – gave the go-ahead to transfer – and then WAITED.
Was then notified by the techo at Company E that Company F had cancelled to transfer of the remaining users.
In the meantime I had been trying to do a full back-up of my database and web site but it kept stopping part way through – realised it was a problem on the Company E server.
Until March 2016, Company E was still functioning and whenever there was a hiccup on this older server, the technical support would fix it – usually within minutes.
March 2016 – tried to contact the technical support only to be told the staff from Company E had been ‘let go’ and I would need to talk to technical support from Company F.
Since March 2016 I have been trying UNSUCCESSFULLY to contact technical support staff from Company F.
The automatic monthly payments have continued as have additions to the database.
Familiar story? Between 2 and 5 hours at a time waiting on the phone to speak to a technical support person.
Problem? I didn’t have a Company F Customer Number and without that I couldn’t speak to technical support!
Night times and weekends since March 2016 – hours and hours on the phone with no progress.
Week after week I would fill in an online contact form for Company F – received an email with a Reference Number and then received a follow up email saying I wasn’t a customer!
Then before Christmas Company F told me via email that my web site was too large and if I didn’t reduce the size it would be shut down! I couldn’t even access it!
So, more intense efforts to speak to technical support – the emails they sent couldn’t be read in any email options I had – Outlook, Gmail etc. etc. I eventually downloaded a free file reader so I could at least view the email – chock-a-block full of html code which I had to strip to try to read the email.
Every effort to speak to someone at Company F hit a brick wall because I didn’t have a Customer Number with them.
Beginning of January – my web site had disappeared from the Internet.
More ridiculous hours spent on the phone and eventually received an email from technical support explaining my site was too big and I had to get a Company F Customer Number and transfer my web site to their new server – it appears that with only a handful of Company E customers on the old service they decided to pull the plug. I argued that it wasn’t my job to transfer it as I had already approved the transfer back in March when they sacked their employees. Apart from that I didn’t have a copy of my web site as they had prevented me doing a backup.
I foolishly agreed to become a Company F Customer – it was going to cost me less that what I was still paying for the Company E service and they would have my Domain Name transferred and my web site back up and running on their swanky new server by MORE THAN A WEEK AGO – they would send me an email the day after to update me on everything.
Why didn’t you tell me that a few weeks ago? The answer was basically … wanted to sign you up as a customer.
They agreed to send me a copy of my web site and database – I had to send them a USB with a fully paid return post bag so they could sent it back to me, then I should go and find another web hosting company that was in the business of hosting web sites!
Express Posted and waiting for the USB to come back.
And this is how I feel now!
And I definitely need some help … Please.
If the number of people who have emailed me complaining about not being able to access my database were willing to contribute, it would be easy!
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Is crowdfunding the best option for raising capital?
If you’re considering launching a new product, solution or next-gen business idea, you might have heard that crowdfunding could be a unique way to garner attention and raise capital. But is crowdfunding the most effective way to get you the necessary funds, and are there potential shortcomings that you should know about in advance?
Put plainly, crowdfunding is a way to collect a bunch of financial contributions instead of looking for just one large investment — commonly achieved via websites such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo. These sites often highlight innovative ideas that are brand new to the market — launching to a wider audience and getting exposure that would have been time-consuming and much more costly through traditional methods.
Most crowdfunding platforms use a rewards model, allowing would-be entrepreneurs to provide incentives in order to get the crowd to fund their concept.
The most common incentive is providing the product or service when it’s ready, without additional charge. Some entrepreneurs utilize a tiered structure, where a small contribution preorders the product while a larger one garners additional perks, such as a special edition item or even a chance to collaborate with the developers on its final design. For early adopter consumers, getting in on the ground floor for a new product would have a great appeal.
Once the incentive structure is in place, most sites set a time limit on the idea’s profile. Nobody wants to look through abandoned ideas, so the time limit ensures that investors are only seeing active projects whenever they look for something to back.
That said, not all crowdfunding sites require a rewards model be in place.
GoFundMe is one example of a popular crowdfunding platform with no incentive structure. Instead, backers pledge their support for causes that they believe in. Patreon is another platform that allows artists, musicians and other content creators to solicit monthly contributions to support their work, rather than a specific project. There are also a few sites that allow investors to purchase a tiny equity stake in the idea they are backing, turning the process into a more traditional investment.
The biggest advantage of crowdfunding is that entrepreneurs are generally allowed to hold on to their equity. Backers get a product in exchange for their contribution, leaving full control of the idea to the original developer. If the idea ends up being worth millions, this can prove to be very significant. It also allows entrepreneurs to maintain unquestioned control over their company’s day-to-day operations.
Crowdfunding also creates an instant customer base with a vested interest in a given concept. Backers pick projects to support because they think they’re cool — meaning that they want to have it first. They’ll often go to great lengths to help promote the idea to their friends, family and anyone else who might listen on social media. After all, if an idea fails to resonate with the masses the way backers expected, they lose this cool factor.
Consumers are increasingly looking for products online, so an active digital presence can really help grow your brand, build awareness, positive sentiment and make consumers more likely to choose you in the future. And since crowdfunding is generally conducted entirely online, entrepreneurs can foster a meaningful relationship with their audience via multiple channels in creative ways that don’t have to cost an arm and a leg.
The time limit is essential for crowdfunding platforms to maintain a fresh inventory of ideas, but many of the downsides are tied to this restriction. Most platforms utilize an ‘all or nothing’ model that prevents entrepreneurs from keeping any of the money they collect if they fail to reach their stated goal. Failing to meet your goals can turn the entire endeavor into a costly waste of time.
Underestimating the capital needed can prove even more disastrous. Once an entrepreneur keeps a backer’s money, they are legally and ethically obligated to provide whatever incentive was promised in exchange. If they’re unable to deliver, the resulting litigation is likely to prevent the company from ever getting off the ground.
Some entrepreneurs see crowdfunding as a shortcut, but be warned it will take just as much (or more) preparation, business planning and effort to convince your backers. The digital-savvy and hyper-selective audiences demand a complete business plan detailing what their money will be used for regardless of how much they invest.
The online component of crowdfunding also requires business owners to live online and build support for the duration of the campaign, leaving little time for other duties. There are professional agencies that help manage crowdfunding campaigns, but using them adds to the costs that crowdfunding platforms already deduct from the money raised.
Crowdfunding is a relatively new and potentially thrilling way for would-be entrepreneurs to raise money, but it’s not right for everybody.
Before you get started, look at all your funding options to determine if you have the right resources in place (time, money, expertise) to venture into a crowdfunding model. Talk to other business owners who have had successful (or unsuccessful) online campaigns and ask them for tips on getting started. Investigate the various crowdfunding sites and learn which ones will give you the appropriate platform to connect with your audience.
This process is just a starting point, and it can get a lot more complicated — so it pays to do your homework before jumping in headfirst. Once you’ve made an initial assessment, it’s time to get deeper into your analysis to choose a platform, crunch numbers and treat the crowdfunding just as seriously as you would any other business lending opportunity.
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Hip hop music and culture is a genre that was birthed in the post-civil rights era of America; bred in the streets of New York and Los Angeles (Boyd, 1997; Chang, 2005; George, 1998; Quinn, 2005). As the music and culture evolved throughout the 80s and 90s, the genre grew more oppositional in nature; overt forms of expression that involved narratives of political resistance, economic mobility through ghetto conflict and struggle, and overt sexual exploits, had garnered in much success and much criticism (Boyd, 1997; Boyd, 2002; Chang, 2005; Quinn, 2005; George, 1998). This cultural dissent that hip hop embodies, makes hip hop a target for social moralists of all races and political interest; moralists that include many in the black community.
The guiding theme from many of the hip hop detractors in the African American community is that "hip hop is bad for black people." Not only do many in the black community believe hip hop is detrimental to black existence, but they also feel it destabilizes the efforts of African Americans to obtain social and economic mobility. Thus, hip hop undermines the gains of the civil rights movement who fought so diligently to make racial equality a reality for African Americans (Goff, 2008). However, a man that would become the first black president in U.S history would arguably defy this notion of hip hop undermining the reality of what a black person could achieve in America more than ever.
In 2004, a young Senator from Illinois was introduced into the national spotlight by virtue of an electrifying speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention. This young Senator went by the name of Barack Hussein Obama; and this speech would make him an instant political phenomenon (Basu, 2004; Freedland, 2009).
From the 2004 Democratic Convention, Obama developed a massive following of supporters across the country who wanted him to run for president. On his quest to the presidency, a timeline began that would involve big-time hip hop artists and big-time hip hop controversy. In November of 2006, Obama had a meeting with hip hop superstar, Ludacris, about Ludacris' Youth/Aids "Kick Me" campaign; a campaign that was motivated to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among innercity youth ("Sen. Obama," 2006).
Around the same time, Obama had dinner with another hip hop superstar, Jay-Z. The dinner involved his upcoming plans to run for president, which were still in doubt at the time (Winfrey, 2009). Then on February 10, 2007, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the President of the United States (Barabak, 2007). As the campaign became underway, Obama's relationship with hip hop began to be more public. In a Black Entertainment Television (BET) interview, he was asked by BET journalist at the time, Jeff Johnson, "Do you like hip hop?" His answer was, "of course." He admitted he was currently listening to Jay-Z's album, American Gangster, and that he was also a fan of hip hop star, Kanye West ("USA President," 2008).
Admitting he was a fan of hip hop, with his nearly relaxed response, "of course," wasn't as innocuous of an answer as one might think. During the time of this interview, BET initiated a series called Hip Hop vs. America, which featured a panel of scholars, journalists and social activists within hip hop and within Black America debating intensely about hip hop and what it represented (Rose, 2008).
Publication information: Article title: Paint the White House Black!! A Critical Discourse Analysis Look at Hip Hop's Social, Cultural, and Political Influence on the Presidency of Barack Obama. Contributors: Richmond, Sanford K. - Author. Journal title: The Western Journal of Black Studies. Volume: 37. Issue: 4 Publication date: Winter 2013. Page number: 249+. © The Western Journal of Black Studies. COPYRIGHT 2013 Gale Group.
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How is the feast of Id al Fitr prepared in Muslim countries ?
Id al Fitr is, by far, the most popular feast of Islam.
The feast is preceded, on the night of the 26th to 27th day of Ramadan by 'Laylat al-Qadr' or the 'Night of Power': the celebration of the revelation of the Koran to Mohammed..
It is a 'blessed night', a night of great religious fervour, that pious Muslims spend at the mosque, chanting the Koranic text.
At this time of the year, you will see a wind of solidarity blowing in the Muslim world.
For example, in the Maghreb, neighbours, cousins and friends come together to lend a hand and prepare cakes. Children and husbands help the preparations by bringing huge plates, laden with eastern pastries, which were baked in the local bakery who hired out their ovens for the occasion. Otherwise, the men are in charge of shopping (almonds, honey, and pistachio flour) and supervising the domino games played on the footpath in front of the local grocery store!
Muslim children spend the afternoon, visiting other families, of all religions, and sing a little song in return for some coins or sweets.
The local Bishop writes a congratulatory letter and accompanied by a delegation, visits the local Immam and hands it to him.
The feast begins, early in the morning at the local mosque, by prayers in common. They are followed by a sermon preached by the Immam.
Then, after this long period of fasting, it is the opportunity of eating more plentiful meals in the family, to visit relatives and to exchange greetings.
It is also a feast for the children who sport new clothes and are offered presents.
The whole social life is full with cheerfulness and joy.
It is also the religious duty of every Muslim, to think of the poor by giving charity (Zakat) and food.
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Problem:- Write a Hackerrank Solution For Day 17: More Exceptions or Hacker Rank Solution Program In C++ For " Day 17: More Exceptions " or Hackerrank 30 days of code Java Solution:Day 17: More Exceptions solution or Hackerrank solution for 30 Days of Code Challenges or Hackerrank 30 days of code Java Solution, Day 17: More Exceptions solution, or C/C++ Logic & Problem Solving: Day 17: More Exceptions or Hacker Rank Solution For Day 17: More Exceptions.
Logic:- As we solve day 16 problem this is an extension of that problem. So in this problem we have to do More Exception, Basically in this problem two parameters will be given N and P and we have to calculate N^P as we know that we can not find the root and square root of negative number or in this problem while N and P are positive programs will work fine and if any N and P were Negative than Run Time error occur for handling this type of error(Run Time) we use Handler called Exception. Consider a below Input and output and check the answer in Explanation section.
Explanation:- As the given input first line is a total number of input then First input, a second input, third input and last forth input. First input is 3 (N) and 5 (P) so N^P or 3^5 is equal 243 same for second input 2^4 is equal to 16 But in third input (-1)^(-2) this can't be for avoid this type of error(Run Time Error) we use Try-Catch(Exception Handler). Now if the user enters third input than our program finds a runtime error and throw a control to catch block(print the message in the catch block).
n and p should be non-negative.
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Are the web content management systems (WCMs) that many digital publishers and web content producers use today outdated? Yes, according to a new report authored by Mountain View, Calif.-headquartered market research and analysis firm Frost & Sullivan, entitled "Web Content Management Systems: So Five Years Ago."
Automattic, the company behind web publishing platform WordPress, announced the expansion of its VIP Featured Partner Program to include interactive agencies. The company will also expand to new platform partners, such as Facebook and Flipboard. By expanding the VIP program, these partners will be able to promote their services and features to large-scale sites, including top media companies, sports leagues, and Fortune 500 companies.
Magnolia announced the company will be offering a preview of its new Magnolia CMS 5.0 at the Magnolia Conference in September. According to the company, Magnolia CMS 5.0 will be focused on an entirely new user interface, where content is created and edited with customizable apps.
With more than 6,500 employees, a number of locations, and a broad mandate, managers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock health care system are responsible for a steady and diverse stream of projects at any given time. Dartmouth-Hitchcock's interim director of content and publications, communications and marketing, Ryan Newswanger, supervises a wide range of short and long-term web projects at any given time. His team was using a content management system and basic project management software to keep track of the team's activities, but was struggling to keep projects on track and on time. Newswanger felt his team constantly risked missing deadlines. He decided that deeper insights were needed into the entire scope of the projects he managed in order to better meet deadlines, but also to set realistic goals and project requirements.
Critical Mention, a provider of media intelligence, announced the debut of AllMedia, a platform designed to allow clients to collect and curate user-generated video content as well as provide analytics for that content. This new platform will include millions of online information sources as well as cloud-based tools for users.
Allen Press announced the company's online journal hosting platform, Pinnacle, will now feature mobile optimization, called Pinnacle for Mobile. Publishers will now be able to present content across all major mobile platforms while controlling access from the institution out to the end users and their devices. Content can be displayed on iOS, Android, and RIM.
Doo has announced the beta launch of a cloud-based service which the company says can collect data from multiple sources while it organizes and stores the date in a single secure place. By storing data in one location, the company believes companies will have less clutter to look through while searching for documents. The app is now available for download for OS X while the iOS and Android apps will be ready for download in a few weeks. Once the apps are available for Android, Doo's app can be fully integrated with Google Docs.
The largest blogging platform in the UK, OverBlog, has announced a new platform which the company says will bring together the various social media postings of bloggers into one live stream. By bringing together the aggregated posts from a variety of social platforms, including blogs, the platform will enable bloggers to assemble their postings in one location.
Both KnowledgeLake and Kiefer Consulting are very much involved in working with SharePoint users and the two companies have announced a partnership to give SharePoint customers enhanced document management. KnowledgeLake provides electronic capture and workflow solutions to SharePoint users while Kiefer provides business solutions to users. This joint venture will enable Kiefer customers to extend their SharePoint capabilities to include full document imaging, records management and web content management capabilities.
Online and mobile presentation app maker Brainshark has announced new features and enhancements for its Slideshark Team Edition, which is used to share PowerPoint presentations on the iPad. The company says the most significant of the changes will be multi-user access to team content and storage through a folder system which will allow team members to manage, organize, track, and delete content as needed.
Gladson, a provider of syndicated consumer packaged goods, product images and content, has announced the availability of a new service offering called "e-Content Made Easy." The company says this will provide manufacturers with solutions for managing the creation, hosting and deliver of econtent.
Big brands in non-media industries (beverage and automobile companies, for instance), as well as smaller companies and even nonprofits - none of which are likely to have either the extensive volume of content or the in-house personnel and expertise to manage that content that the big media companies do - may begin looking for video management and publishing solutions that match more modest needs. thePlatform now offers just such a solution aimed at those potential customers.
Impelsys has announced that its latest digital publishing software platform, iPublishCentral 4.0, is now available. The company says this platform will allow publishers to warehouse, deliver, distribute, market and sell their ebooks without making significant capital or engineering investments on their own.
A partnership has developed between ConceptShare and OpenText in a move that both companies feel its customers will benefit from. The partnership aims to allow distributed creative and marketing teams to initiate reviews, view and annotate creative assets in OpenText Media Management, and track stakeholder feedback, change requests, and approval status.
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If you’re in the holiday spirit of giving, why not consider donating a few dollars to some organizations in Chicago who make urban and community gardening possible, transform communities, and feed the less fortunate?
NeighborSpace: Chicago’s land-trust for community gardening.
Let’s Go Chicago: Leading the energy transition, sprouting green opportunities in Chicago.
North Lawndale Greening Committee: Urban beautification through gardening.
Su Casa Catholic Worker: Home to an urban garden where produce for their soup kitchen is grown.
Growing Home: Social enterprise providing transitional jobs through urban farming.
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Please help improve it by adding dated informations, images and videos about Chad Michael Murray.
Following Murray's starring role on "One Tree Hill" in 2003, he appeared on the cover of several mainstream magazines such as "Rolling Stone" and "People"
Jonathan Penner - He co-wrote the script for the 2003 The WB-produced re-imagining of "The Lone Ranger", starring Chad Michael Murray and Nathaniel Arcand, and later the 2017 horror film "The Bye Bye Man"
In 2005, Murray starred in "House of Wax"
Paris Hilton - After appearing in episodes of the popular TV-show The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams, and Veronica Mars, she got her first major role in the horror thriller film House of Wax, in which Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and Jared Padalecki starred.
In 2010, Murray played Alicia Keys's love interest in her music video for "Un-Thinkable "
Murray released a novel in September 2011, titled 'Everlast' In August 2011, it was announced by The CW that he will make a guest appearance as Lucas Scott in the upcoming and last season of "One Tree Hill"
In March 2012, it was announced that he had been cast as the male lead in ABC's pilot "Scruples"
Mimi Rogers - In March 2012 she was cast alongside Chad Michael Murray in the ABC drama pilot, "Scruples" where she plays Harriet, a "powerful and vindictive magazine editor"
On August 29, 2014 he has been cast in the role of Agent Jack Thompson for upcoming Marvel's new series "Agent Carter"
Heather Graham Pozzessere - In November 2016, it was announced that Pozzessere would co-author Chad Michael Murray in writing his second novel titled "American Drifter"
On February 8, 2019, it was announced that Murray was cast in a recurring role as Edgar Evernever on The CW drama "Riverdale"
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Teenage girls are usually affected by many challenges that parents need to learn more and also discover more about them. A parent can learn more about these issues from websites or sharing with other parents or even counsellors to ensure that they help their daughters. One of the major challenges that affects girls more abundantly than their male counterparts during teenage is low self-esteem. The attitude an individual has towards themselves which is usually evaluated emotionally is what is described as self-esteem and parents need to read more about it from various websites. Daughters who have a poor attitude towards themselves and can also be quite critical to themselves can be described of having low self-esteem.
Parents can learn more and discover more on what to look out on their daughters to discover more on how they view themselves. There are certain characteristics including dissatisfaction, self-criticism, hypersensitivity in case of criticism, resentment towards their critics, fear of doing mistakes that is highly exaggerated, always avoiding anything that may displeasing, perfectionism, pessimism, being envious as well as showing neurotic guilt that parents can use to learn more about depression in children. There are various causes that parents can read more about from websites and discover more about them so as to get help for their children. The various causes of low self-esteem including physical appearance, genetic factors, issues with mental health, the social economic status of a person, social media, emotional experiences as well as peer pressure.
The parent need to build a relationship with their daughter and learn more on what is causing this low self-esteem in them. Once they learn the cause of low self-esteem, they can discover more of a suitable step that will help the daughter overcome the challenge. There are various ways that parents can read more about from websites and instill them in the daughter to overcome low self-esteem. Some of these solutions include enhancing awareness about the situation hence healthy response to issues, being non-judgemental and living in the moment which enables them to choose actions wisely and the girls can learn more about them to become better. Self-esteem can be enhanced also by talking to people such as counsellors or church leaders to overcome it. Other ways that can help solve low self-esteem are practising meditation and also writing journals on what going on in their mind.
Once these daughters are able to overcome low self-esteem, they will feel worthy, acceptable, adequate, competent and also to feel loved by those around them. Confidence can also be enhanced leading to the child being happy of themselves at all times. This will enable them to socialize easily and make friends in school and other social places.
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Fatma Mazen, Rania Ahmed AbulSeoud, Amr M. Gody "Genetic Algorithm and Firefly Algorithm in a Hybrid Approach for Breast Cancer Diagnosis". International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) V32(2):62-68, February 2016. ISSN:2231-2803. www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
Feed-forward neural networks are popular classification tools which are broadly used for early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. In recent years, a great attention has been paid to bio-inspired optimization techniques due to its robustness, simplicity and efficiency in solving complex optimization problems. In this paper, it is intended to introduce a Genetic Algorithm based Firefly Algorithm for training neural networks. The proposed algorithm is used to optimize the weights between layers and biases of the neuron network in order to minimize the fitness function which is defined as the mean squared error. The simulation results indicate that better performance of the Firefly Algorithm in optimizing weights and biases is obtained when being hybridized with Genetic Algorithm. The proposed algorithm has been tested on Wisconsin Breast Cancer Dataset in order to evaluate its performance and the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by comparing its results with the existing methods. The results of the proposed algorithm were compared with that of the other techniques Firefly Algorithm, Biogeography Based Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization and Ant Colony Optimization. It was found that the proposed Genetic Algorithm based Firefly Algorithm approach was capable of achieving the lowest mean squared error of 0.0014 compared to other algorithms as mean squared error values for other algorithms were 0.002 for Firefly Algorithm, 0.003 for Biogeography Based Optimization, 0.0135 for Ant Colony Optimization , 0.035 for Particle Swarm Optimization.
Kumar, G. Ravi, G. A. Ramachandra, and K. Nagamani., "An Efficient Prediction of Breast Cancer Data using Data Mining Techniques.", International Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology (IJIET), VOL: 2, PP: 139-144, 2013.
Miguel, LETÍCIA FLECK FADEL, and L. F. Fadel Miguel, "Novel metaheuristic algorithms applied to optimization of structures." , WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on APPLIED and THEORETICAL MECHANICS , VOL:7, Issue:3, PP: 210-220, 2012.
Arora, Sankalap, and Satvir Singh, "The firefly optimization algorithm: convergence analysis and parameter selection.", International Journal of Computer Applications , VOL:69, Issue:3, PP:48-52, 2013.
I. Boussaid, J. Lepagnot, P. Siarry, "A survey on optimization metaheuristics.", Information Sciences, ELSEVIER, VOL: 237, PP: 82–117, 2013.
Kıyan, Tüba, and Tülay Yıldırım, "Breast cancer diagnosis using statistical neural networks.", Istanbul University – Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, VOL: 4, PP: 1149-1153, 2004.
Thongkam, Jaree, Guandong Xu, and Yanchun Zhang, "AdaBoost algorithm with random forests for predicting breast cancer survivability.", 2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), IEEE, 2008, PP: 3062-3069.
Alickovic, Emina, and Abdulhamit Subasi, "Data Mining Techniques for Medical Data Classification.", The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT), 2011, PP: 11-15.
Salama, Gouda I., M. Abdelhalim, and Magdy Abd-elghany Zeid, "Breast cancer diagnosis on three different datasets using multi-classifiers.", International Journal of Computer and Information Technology, VOL: 1, Issue: 1, PP: 36-43, 2012.
Swathi, S., S. Rizwana, G. Anjan Babu, P. Santhosh Kumar, and P. V. G. K. Sarma, "Classification Of Neural Network Structures For Brea St Cancer Diagnosis.", International Journal of Computer Science and Communication, VOL:3, Issue:1,PP: 227-231, 2012.
Senturk, Zehra Karapinar, and Resul Kara, "BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS VIA DATA MINING: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SEVEN DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS." , Computer Science & Engineering: An International Journal (CSEIJ), VOL:4, Issue:1 , PP:35-46, 2014.
Saxena, Shweta, and Kavita Burse, "A Survey on Neural Network Techniques for Classification of Breast Cancer Data.", International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), VOL:2, Issue:1,PP:234-237, 2012.
Azar, Ahmad Taher, and Shaimaa Ahmed El-Said, "Probabilistic neural network for breast cancer classification." Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, VOL:23, Issue:6,PP: 1737-1751, 2013.
Pal, Saibal K., C. S. Rai, and Amrit Pal Singh, "Comparative study of firefly algorithm and particle swarm optimization for noisy non-linear optimization problems.", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA), VOL: 4, Issue:10, PP: 50-57, 2012.
Hashmi, Adil, Nishant Goel, Shruti Goel, and Divya Gupta, "Firefly algorithm for unconstrained optimization." IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering , VOL:11, Issue:1, PP:75-78, 2013.
Wdaa, Abdul Sttar Ismail, "Differential evolution for neural networks learning enhancement.", Doctoral dissertation, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, PP: 1-69, 2008.
dos Santos, Ariane F., Haroldo F. De Campos Velho, Joao Gerd Z. De Mattos, Saulo R. Freitas, Manoel A. Gan, Homailson L. Passos, and Eduardo FP Luz, "A parametric study for firefly algorithm by solving an inverse problem for precipitation field estimation." , Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling, 2012.
Mo, Yuan-bin, Yan-zhui Ma, and Qiao-yan Zheng. "Optimal Choice of Parameters for Firefly Algorithm.", In 2013 Fourth International Conference on Digital Manufacturing & Automation (ICDMA), IEEE , 2013, PP: 887-892.
Kaya, Yılmaz, Murat Uyar, and Ramazan Tekin. "A Novel Crossover Operator for Genetic Algorithms: Ring Crossover.", Global Journal on Technology , VOL:1, 2012, PP: 1286-1292.
Mirjalili, Seyedali, Seyed Mohammad Mirjalili, and Andrew Lewis, "Let a biogeography-based optimizer train your multilayer perception.", Information Sciences, ELSEVIER, VOL: 269, PP: 188-209, 2014.
Ibrahim, Ashraf Osman, Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, Nor Bahiah Ahmad, and Sultan Noman Qasem, "Three-Term Backpropagation Network based on elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm for medical diseases diagnosis classification.", Life Science Journal, VOL: 10, Issue: 4 , PP:1815-1822 , 2013.
Santra, A. K., and C. Josephine Christy, "Genetic algorithm and confusion matrix for document clustering.", International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI), VOL: 9, Issue: 1, PP: 322-328, 2012.
MLP, classification, meta-heuristic optimization, breast cancer, Firefly Algorithm (FA), Genetic Algorithm (GA).
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Parsley is rich in vitamins and minerals, combined together it holds the key to amazing skincare properties to help improve overall health. Below are some of the benefits associated with parsley.
1) Acne: The herb has antibacterial properties that help fight bacteria that cause acne. Parsley can cleanse the skin and detoxify the body too.
2) Wrinkles: Parsley is a rich source of vitamin C that is responsible for the production of natural collagen. As we know, collagen irons out fine lines and wrinkles.
3) Reduce pore size: The vitamin C is also beneficial for nourishing the skin and closing pores. The increase in collagen reduces the size of the pores.
4) Scars: Consuming parsley increases the level of natural collagen which removes blemishes like dark spots and scars.
5) Smooth skin: This antioxidant, vitamin C is instrumental in naturally increasing repair and reproduction of the cell. This process helps enhance the skin and reduce skin problems.
6) Tired eyes: Vitamin A and C work together to ease out tired eyes and renew the cell growth to give you sharper-striking eyes.
7) Controls oil: The collagen produced from parsley helps regulate the production of oil on the skin.
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Choose the proposal that would leave Wisconsin taxpayers the worst off in Gov. Tony Evers' 2019-21 budget proposal.
Repealing Wisconsin's right-to-work law would mean that private-sector labor organizations could require new employees to join a union and pay union dues as a condition of getting a job.
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How quickly can you compute the remainder when dividing img style="width: 8px; height: 12px; margin-right: 0.069em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/120/0031.png"img style="width: 8px; height: 12px; margin-right: 0.038em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/120/0030.png"img style="width: 8px; height: 12px; margin-right: 0.042em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/120/0039.png"img style="width: 8px; height: 12px; margin-right: 0.041em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/120/0038.png"img style="width: 8px; height: 12px; margin-right: 0.041em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/120/0033.png"img style="width: 9px; height: 12px; margin-right: 0.014em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/120/0037.png" img style="width: 6px; height: 8px; margin-right: 0.041em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/085/0039.png"img style="width: 6px; height: 8px; margin-right: 0.014em;" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/Main/Regular/085/0037.png" by 120143? Why would you even want to compute this? And what does this have to do with cryptography?
Modern cryptography lies at the intersection of mathematics and computer sciences, involving number theory, algebra, computational complexity, fast algorithms, and even quantum mechanics. Many people think of codes in terms of spies, but in the information age, highly mathematical codes are used every day by almost everyone, whether at the bank ATM, at the grocery checkout, or at the keyboard when you access your email or purchase products online.
This book provides a historical and mathematical tour of cryptography, from classical ciphers to quantum cryptography. The authors introduce just enough mathematics to explore modern encryption methods, with nothing more than basic algebra and some elementary number theory being necessary. Complete expositions are given of the classical ciphers and the attacks on them, along with a detailed description of the famous Enigma system. The public-key system RSA is described, including a complete mathematical proof that it works. Numerous related topics are covered, such as efficiencies of algorithms, detecting and correcting errors, primality testing and digital signatures. The topics and exposition are carefully chosen to highlight mathematical thinking and problem solving. Each chapter ends with a collection of problems, ranging from straightforward applications to more challenging problems that introduce advanced topics. Unlike many books in the field, this book is aimed at a general liberal arts student, but without losing mathematical completeness.
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In mortar and pestle, pound all wet ingredients until pasty and add the ground up dry ingredients, which you have ground up in a coffee grinder. As an alternative method, read the following paragraph.
In spice grinder, combine all dry ingredients and grind until powdery. In blender, grind wet ingredients until pasty. You may need some oil to help move the ingredients. Now add the dry mixture and combine in blender until well mixed. Store in container in refrigerator.
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The earliest instance of a dog being used by the police to chase and attack criminals and felons is not very clear. History states that the Belgium Police in Ghent used dogs that patrolled with the team during night shifts as early as 1859. In this DogAppy post, read about the evolution of police dogs and find out which are the top 10 police dog breeds best suited for the job.
A Loyal Friend and A True Hero!
A police dog that dies while serving its duty is given a hero's send off by being honored with a complete police funeral.
Police dogs are dogs specifically trained to assist law enforcement teams like the police force, investigation bureaus, crime and felony departments, and other government and federal agencies as well. The most popular breeds that are trained to become police dogs are German Shepherds, Doberman Pinschers, and Rottweilers. Other breeds like Boxers, Bullmastiffs, Labrador Retrievers, Terriers, and Bloodhounds are also trained to serve in this line of duty.
A police dog is also referred to as a K-9 (a homophone for canine). The first ever Police K-9 units, which specialized in police dog programs, were formed in 1907 in the United States of America. New Jersey, South Orange, and New York City were the first ever cities that incorporated dogs on their police teams.
Initially, police dogs were trained only to patrol, sniff out criminals in hiding, and locate missing personnel and property. With time, the scope of using a police dog's sensory prowess increased and they were being trained to specialize in drug and poison detection, search-and-rescue operations, bomb and explosive detection, and criminal tailing, tracking, and locating. Soon, specific dog breeds were being extensively trained to specialize in varied law enforcement tasks.
Doberman Pinschers, Rottweilers, Belgian Malinois, American Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, and other muscular breeds are trained as public order enforcement dogs. These dogs, traditionally, chase a felon or a suspect who has tried to flee from a crime scene. Their image as a strong, sturdy, and well-built dog prevents the suspect from resorting to creating a threat or danger.
Foxhounds, Schnauzers, Cocker Spaniels, and Basset Hounds are some breeds that are trained to become illicit substance detection dogs. Their strong sense of smell aids officers in sniffing out illegal substances like poison, drugs, weapons, or explosives.
Australian Shepherds, Coonhounds, German Shepherds, and Labrador Retrievers are trained and developed as tracking dogs, their main objective being sniffing and tracking down missing objects, people, or trails of escaped convicts and felons.
Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, Bloodhounds, and Beagles specialize extensively as cadaver-sniffing dogs. They possess extremely sensitive smelling skills. These dogs are used to sniff out decomposing bodies to locate corpses, dead bodies, and human remains. Their sense of smell is so strong that they can sniff out a body under running water, rivers, lakes, etc.
Find more details about the top dog breeds that are used on the police force and by the law to avert, prevent, detect, and solve crime.
The most popular breed to be trained as a police dog, the German Shepherd (German: Deutscher Schäferhund) is a typical public law and order enforcement dog. Its strong points include obedience, high-level intelligence, quick learning capability, and strength. Its primary motive is to run and chase a suspect who has tried to flee from the clutches of the officers. It rarely fails to catch hold of the felon, and is specifically trained to detain the suspect until the arrival of the officer.
Quick Fact: German Shepherds possess the ability to scan and search out an area almost four times faster than man.
Sometimes, instead of being classified as a separate breed, the Malinois is considered a variety of the Belgian Shepherd Dog. These dogs are extremely obedient and easy to train. The Malinois is a dog which is trained to attack. They are extremely sensitive, and respond immediately to threat and danger. They are also trained to protect their male companion (the officer), and track criminals, evidence, drugs, and IEDs. Unit Oketz of the Israel Defense Forces replaced their German Shepherd police dogs with this breed since they have a slighter build, and are less likely to be affected by heatstroke.
Quick Fact: The Belgian Malinois is known for displaying the highest level of energy among all dog breeds.
The Rottweiler is characterized by displaying a very strong desire to control its surroundings. Some of its other abilities are obedience, eagerness to work, devotion, and high-intensity alertness. Their responsiveness to stimuli is most developed, which makes them highly efficient police dogs. This is a dog known to have 'exceptional' strength, which is a quality that is very effectively utilized by police forces at crime scenes. Rottweilers serving on law enforcement teams are also trained to protect the officers from any possible threat or danger.
Quick Fact: Rottweilers are a stubborn breed. Consistent training is a must for these dogs.
Alert, obedient, energetic, loyal, determined, and fearless are just some of the words that describe the Doberman Pinscher breed of dogs. This dog was 'developed' by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, a man from Germany who longed for a dog that served as a guard as well as a companion to him. Herr Dobermann bred a variety of dogs to develop a breed which would possess specific characteristics from each breed; thus the Doberman Pinscher was born. Originally bred as a guard dog, the Doberman is now one of the fore-runners among the breeds used on police and law and order teams. Its incredible strength and highly effective ability to track humans and illegal entities like explosives and drugs makes it an efficient police dog.
Quick Fact: The Doberman Pinscher was originally bred for personal protection.
A very intelligent dog, the American Staffordshire learns new commands very quickly. They are an agile breed of dogs and hence make excellent guard and police dogs. They are very, very strong dogs, a quality required to be on the police force. With proper guidance and training, their qualities of strength, agility, loyalty, and obedience can be channeled into solving the most difficult of crime cases.
Quick Fact: The American Staffordshire Terrier requires a lot of exercise.
A dog known to have a 'zest for life', the American Pit Bull Terrier is also known to be very aggressive and dangerous. It is highly agile and is known to be an excellent climber. This quality of efficient fencing is an added advantage when the dog is serving on the police force. Its tough exterior, clubbed with a powerful build, strong physique, and effective intelligence, makes it the best choice as a police dog.
The American Pit Bull is banned from a lot of countries and organizations owing to its inherent aggressiveness towards human beings, and other animals as well.
Quick Fact: The Pit Bull is the only breed to have featured on the cover of Life magazine, thrice.
The first thing to be noticed about a Boxer is its strong and athletic built. Its aggressive appearance is what partly qualifies it to be a police dog. Extremely courageous, fearless, and confident, the Boxer forms a very important part of the law enforcement team it is put on. Trained to be an 'attacker', it is also highly efficient in responding to dangerous activity, sniffing suspicious entities like poison, drugs, and humans as well. A Boxer's jaw is extremely strong and its bite can be very painful.
Quick Fact: Boxers gained popularity in the United States only after the World War II, where they were used as military guard dogs.
A Spitz (dogs characterized by long thick fur, muzzles, and pointed ears), the Akita Inu originated first in the mountains of Japan. Dominance, independence, and extreme strength are some of the qualities found in an Akita Inu. They are known to respond aggressively when they sense danger, any kind of suspicious activity, or suspicious human behavior. Although an intelligent and courageous breed, they can sometimes be spontaneous, and therefore need appropriate training. Akitas serve as a highly effective police dog, displaying qualities of strength, responsiveness, and alertness.
Quick Fact: In Japan, all-white Akita's are given the highest reverence.
Characterized by its regal appearance, power, and athletic build, the Cane Corso is a descendant of canis pugnax, dogs that were used by Romans in wars. They are, thus, inherently capable of attack and defense, a characteristic needed in police dogs. Strong, well-built, very intelligent, and easy-to-train, these dogs make for the perfect police dogs. A Cane Corso is not a fighting dog and is not trained to attack. It is, however, categorized as a public law enforcement dog that chases fleeing suspects and detains them until the arrival of the officer.
Quick Fact: Cane Corso means 'protector' in Latin.
Bullmastiffs do not require to be trained as guard or police dogs, as guarding and policing is said to come naturally to them. The Bullmastiff is practically a cross breed between a Bulldog and a Mastiff, and hence inherits the characteristics of both these breeds. These dogs are known to enjoy tracking, and hence are used as efficient tracking and locating dogs. They specialize in sniffing out bombs, explosives, drugs, poisonous material, important evidence, and other suspicious entities which are of high importance while solving a case. Strong, powerful, and sensitive, these dogs are quick learners and can be easily trained to work in complete accordance with the law.
Quick Fact: During the nineteenth century, Bullmastiffs were nicknamed 'Gamekeeper's Night Dog', for their ability to hunt down poachers.
The long-standing association of man with dogs has been a strong one. Not only has the dog been a faithful friend and guardian, it has also proven its mettle by serving on some of the best law enforcement teams to solve the deadliest and the most heinous crimes.
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Which running shoes last the longest?
I’m an avid runner and it’s pretty normal for me to wear running shoes almost every day. Do you have any recommendations as to which running shoes last the longest?
One of the best things about running shoes is that they are versatile and can be used for far more than just running - you can walk in them, lift weights, do chores, run errands, and even pair them with some cute “athleisure” attire for brunch with friends.
There are many different brands and styles of running shoes on the market today. Some people prefer to run in minimalistic running shoes because they are lighter and feel “faster” on the person’s feet when they are running. However, a lighter weighted shoe will also mean that they have less material, cushioning, and support than shoes with thicker soles and more cushioning and material, and thus probably will not last as long.
So to figure out which shoes are best for you, you need to consider both how often you wear them and your preferred running shoe. If you are a runner who DOES prefer to run in lighter, more minimalistic shoes then I would suggest investing in two pairs of shoes: one minimilistic shoe that you use JUST for running, and the other pair of shoes that you use for everything else (walking around, grocery shopping, hiking, etc) that are thicker and more supportive.
However, if you are totally set on just having one pair of shoes to use for everything, then it makes more sense to buy a thick, wide, supportive shoe. A lot of running shoe brands make some excellent models of these types of shoes: ASICS, Brooks, Saucony, Mizuno, etc. These models might run you over $100, but they will last 3 to 6 months, depending on how much you run in them. You can get them with gel inserts that will provide great cushioning and support for a long time, and soles that can take a beating for many weeks before they start to get worn down.
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What bird can it be?
Rattle it! Rattle the trap!
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Changes to the License Agreement The first question you should try to answer is "why the data on my flash device is incorrect so that JFFS2 rejects to deal with it? If the users provide you with user names, passwords, or other login information or personal information, you must make the users aware that the information will be available to your application, and you must provide legally adequate privacy notice and protection for those users.
Is it a bug or am I the bug? I superglued these plastic spacers to PCB before lacquer, because it is easier to mount it like that. I thought that I would compile my own openwrt, but that wasn't that simple. The hardware is very nice for that kind on price, the board and connections seem well done.
This package provides support support for setting callerid in Asterisk. Installing Android Studio is just as simple — we have a guide on how to install it here. This package provides support support for executing arbitrary authenticate commands in Asterisk. You can also install any of various packages which provide tools to help you write basic man pages, and then tweak the output if necessary: JFFS2 generates messages, is there a problem?
This is an unneeded wasting of time. The second case is when the mount binary that is being used does not play nicely with the above format. For the most part it will be handled in the background for you. There are some mechanisms to ensure, that the write-buffer is flushed. When these changes are made, Google will make a new version of the License Agreement available on the website where the SDK is made available.
Please, read thisand this and realize this difference. These locations must be configured correctly before the Platforms and Tools tabs will function properly. Tried to load modules and firmware and nothing.
Also please, do not forget to erase your flash before flashing the image. If you have ever done unclean reboots — this is harmless. This kind of behaviour may also be observed after a system crash.
And one of its drawbacks is that mount time as well as memory consumption grow linearly with growing flash size. This package provides support support for checking if a channel is available in Asterisk.
This package provides support to record a sound file in Asterisk. The files need to be loaded onto the USB disk by mounting it on a host machine first. This package provides support a trivial application to read a variable in Asterisk. Exchange Email- I work for a Computer Company that blocks access to their Exchange Server and although I've requested access repeatedly, they deny me every time.
If not all components of a platform are installed, the box for that platform is filled. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
This package provides support support for symbolic Asterisk Extension Logic in Asterisk. Copy some files to the JFFS2 file system and unmount it.and assuming they didn't change much, we already have some code for the a80 (in the a23 sdk) Yay!
Some news about A80! Check the /r/android wiki first to see if your question can be found there. If you're simply looking for tips on how to spruce up your device, look through the old /r/android weekly threads for some ideas.
Mar 19, · BusyBox for Android is the most advanced BusyBox installer. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable/5(26K). Jun 07, · BusyBox for Android версия: nandwrite, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, - Update the target SDK to Android Nougat - Bug fixes and other miscellaneous improvements Busybox Pro vapk (4,75 МБ) Спойлер (Прошлые версии).
Recovery - Ebook download as Text File .txt), PDF File .pdf) or read book online. vfat mknod mkswap modinfo modprobe more mt nameif nanddump nandwrite nc nice nmeter nslookup ntpd od patch pgrep pidof ping6 pkill pmap southshorechorale.com getopt grep groups gunzip head hexdump hostid hostname httpd hwclock ifenslave inetd inotifyd install.
Hi, I'm running Android R on an iMX53 based platform.
The platform has nand flash and I am attempting to use mtd utiliities nandwrite. Build of mtd-utils with android toolchain.
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How Can A Beginner Get Started Setting Great Quizzes?
Do you have an online business? One of the best ways to generate more targeted traffic to your website, capture leads and engage the customers is to make an online quiz. Creating quizzes might not be your area, but it is not easy to do it using online quiz creator. A few resources will also help you to publish the quiz.
Creating a quiz using technology saves much time and effort as compared to the traditional way of creating an on-paper quiz. In fact, this was a reserve of few gifted individuals.
When you get started on a quiz, it is a learning experience like no other. By the time you finish, you will have learnt much about the entire process yourself.
The first step is to determine the kind of quiz you want to create in order to determine the most suitable resources that you should use.
This is type of quiz where a specific score is assigned for each core. The final quiz score will be compared with set of some pre-defined ranges based on result that a person who takes a quiz falls into a specific range and will be slotted to a category.
For example, a quiz question can be "Are you healthy"? If your score falls between 1 and 25, you are very healthy; 25 and 50 you are slightly healthy; 50 and 75 you need to check your health levels 75 and 100 you are unhealthy and need to do something about it.
When you prepare this kind of quiz, know that each question has a right answer and a wrong answer. You have to set a minimum number of correct questions called the passing score so that quiz takers who select enough correct answers that match or beat the passing score can pass.
For example, you can set a question asking quiz takers the number of countries they know. If you have 20 questions, the passing score can be 15 out of 20.
This is a new type of quiz that you do not assign a score but just an outcome. It is mostly carried on social media. Based on their selection, quiz takers are assigned an outcome that is selected the most.
You can, for example, ask what kind of animal are you? Lion, brave and calculating; a hare - small but cunning; camel - slow but resilient.
The advantage of using technology is that they help you to create any of above quizzes within a short time. You just follow the provided steps to create a fun to play quiz. They have many features, statistical insights and stylish options for making a quiz to be more interesting.
A good online quiz should have great usability, should be neat and have tools to enable you published a quiz on your site.
If you want to create an online quiz branded on your website, find one that has a number of gaming elements, learning principles and social features.
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Advantages of Industrial Adhesives? What are the advantages of industrial adhesives? Do you know what? Let's take a look at the industrial adhesive bonding advantages introduced by Huitian New Materials!
Industrial adhesive bonding can solve the problem of durability of the product for engineers, without worrying about degradation and affecting mechanical fixing. When applied to bonding materials of various materials, the industrial adhesive first coats the surface, fills the gap, and starts the polymerization. After curing, industrial adhesives produce a degree of durability through chemical reactions and can be bonded to a variety of materials. Industrial adhesives are bonded and sealed with good adhesion to different materials. These materials can vary in construction, modulus, coefficient of thermal expansion, and thickness. The use of industrial adhesives produces a continuous bond interface that, in addition to bonding, can also be sealed. The joints thus prevent leakage and reduce aging, and are not affected by harsh working conditions such as chemicals or extreme temperatures.
Resist the harsh working environment To make the joints resistant to the working environment, the adhesive must be chosen to deal with any special situation. The properties of the polymer are specifically tailored to certain needs, such as the reaction to oxidants or solvents.
Industrial adhesives also create an electronically insulating layer between the two surfaces to reduce the corrosion caused by bonding different metals.
Moreover, adhesive structures rarely cause physical failure due to stress cracks and fatigue. The traditional fixing method is replaced by modern bonding technology, and the pneumatic application with no trace and beautiful appearance is realized. The use is endless. Design innovations Industrial adhesive bonded products are durable and widely used in plastics, metals, glass, rubber and composites. Innovated and improved by designers, it can now be used in a variety of industries, including aviation, automotive, wind, sports, construction, railway and general assembly operations.
Shear, cracking, peeling stress, industrial adhesives have a variety of toughened epoxy adhesives and toughened methyl methacrylate adhesives, specifically to deal with the problem of poor shock absorption or poor control. Reducing fatigue cracks, bonding lines help to reduce the formation of cracks, so things bonded with industrial adhesives are naturally safer, reducing fatigue cracks by reducing stress concentrations.
This is particularly the case in the transportation market for roads, railways and aviation. Secondly, sports, leisure markets such as carbon fiber racing and golf clubs also have this concern. Toughened epoxy and acrylic toughened epoxy or toughened acrylic can come in handy because of their strong adhesion to these widely used metals, thermoset composites and thermoplastics. The use of junction energy diffusion facilitates the diffusion of energy at the bond point and maintains the required stiffness, even when used with mixed materials and auxiliaries. In addition, industrial adhesives are good at reducing vibration and sound insulation.
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The preamble of the United States Declaration of Independence declares: ""whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter and abolish it, and to institute new Government." Occupy Wall Street is an assertion by 99 percent of Americans that our government denies us "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." The movement should create a new Declaration of Independence.
In the eighteenth century, the momentum for the American Revolution was fueled by egregious British taxation policy. Initially, colonists were loyal to King George III and asked him to intervene with parliament on their behalf. When George instead declared them to be "in rebellion," representatives of the original thirteen states adopted the Declaration of Independence.
Momentum for the current American Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, has been fueled by egregious fiscal policy that has worked for the benefit of the wealthiest 1 percent and to the detriment of everyone else. At the onset of Occupy Wall Street, the 99 percent remain loyal to America. They've asked Washington to intervene in their behalf. Some conservatives have declared them to be "in rebellion." This sets the stage for a new Declaration of Independence.
The problem for Occupy Wall Street is focus. By the time the original Declaration of Independence was signed, American colonists had one objective: leave the British Empire and create a democracy. In contrast, Occupy Wall Street has a laundry list of demands ranging from job creation to abolishing the electoral college.
Nonetheless, Occupy Wall Street is driven by a unifying vision, the perception that the US system is broken. Unfair. That it works for the benefit of the 1 percent but not the other 99 percent. In this sense the current situation is like that in 1776 where our British overlords denied that, "all men are created equal"endowed"with certain unalienable rights"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
The challenge for Occupy Wall Street is to channel widespread discontent into a focused set of objectives that restores democratic process and drastically reduces economic inequality. First there must be a succinct problem statement, such as: The United States has shifted from democracy to plutocracy. Control of the government is no longer in the hands of the people, the 99 percent, but instead is in the hands of the rich, the 1 percent. Democracy must be resurrected.
Next, there has to be a concise set of objectives. Here are three suggestions.
1. Limit the scope of capitalism. The global economy is ruled by multinational corporations and governed by an ideology that believes corporations are special "people" without souls, motivated solely by greed, and doing whatever it takes to maximize profit. Because corporations are not democratic, the existence of humongous multinational companies threatens the democracies they operate in.
Occupy Wall Street has proposed actions to limit the power of capitalism: Repeal corporate "personhood." Break up monopolies (including the "too-big-to-fail" banks.) Limit the political power of corporations. Clearly, the 99 percent will no longer allow capitalism to pervert democracy.
2. Promote economic equality. Economist Nouriel Roubini observed that at the level of economic inequality currently gripping the US, the average citizen's ability to participate in democracy is restricted and the American economy, dependent upon consumer spending, is debilitated. The 99 percent feel they have worked hard and played by the rules but are sliding backwards and now have less opportunity, security, and political power.
Economist Robert Reich proposed taxing the rich: raising the top marginal tax rate to 70 percent and levying "a 2 percent annual surtax on all fortunes over $7 million." Reich and others have proposed a tax on all financial transactions. Warren Buffett and others have suggested that all income be taxed as ordinary income. Clearly, a fair economy requires that the 99 percent have a much bigger slice of US wealth.
3. Reduce the role of money in the American political process. The core problem is that the 1 percent use money to abuse the system. They are able to create tax loopholes because they are wealthy. They have political clout because they have great resources. In effect, the US has recreated the ancient plutocratic system where rich people were given more votes than the poor.
Occupy Wall Street has proposed actions to take money out of our political process: Limit the political power of corporations. Repeal the "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision. Drastically restrict the roll of lobbyists in Washington. Enact comprehensive campaign reform. Take political ads off the airwaves. Clearly, the 99 percent will not have political power until the playing field is leveled.
Thomas Jefferson believed that the United States would have to reinvent itself periodically; that in order for democracy to continue to flourish fundamental changes would be required to deal with new circumstances. That's where we are now: Occupy Wall Street indicates the need for a new Declaration of Independence and a new form of government.
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Overview: A nursery group with several locations around the UK employs 400 people. The company has been using the human resources software, People Inc. for a number of years and recently decided they needed to have a better way of managing the hours their employees work. P&A added on-line timesheet registration to their system. By accessing custom screens via the Employee Intranet (ESS), employees could then enter their hours and related information for managers and then HR to approve these in the human resources software.
Context: To save time on data-entry, an automated process within the human resources software, People Inc. system creates a monthly schedule for all employees for the coming month. These are based on the work patterns recorded for each employee and any holidays or other absence that has been booked.
An employee then uses the Employee Intranet (ESS) to check these hours. If they have worked according to their schedule that month, all they do is confirm that the hours are correct by ticking a box.
If there are other factors (overtime, holiday, or they have worked for another cost centre for a period of time during that month) then the employee adds this information to the system.
If new holiday or absence records are recorded in this way, these are automatically inserted into the standard absence history screen once the timesheet is confirmed (without the employee having to submit a separate absence request). Employees register any overtime worked. The nursery runs a flexi-time scheme; this enables employees to choose which of the overtime hours they have work are paid for and which they will ‘roll-over’ into the following month. Employees may work for another cost centre (or department). If that is the case, the nursery needs to be able to cross-charge this. The employee therefore makes a note of this as well.
Once all information is updated, the employee confirms this is correct by ticking a box (and saving). Their manager then checks the hours worked and authorises them. If there are overtime hours to be paid, HR will then authorise these.
Conclusion: This solution means that the nursery can collect timesheet information quickly, efficiently and accurately, and that by using the human resources software, they have full records of how many hours have been worked. It also means they have details of the amount of resource that each department has used and in particular how much resource has come from another department.
The hours are combined with hourly rates to generate pay figures. This saves the HR department several days a month because they do not have to calculate the pay information manually. They also have outsourced their payroll to us.
HAVE YOU FOUND YOUR HR SOLUTIONS?
Call P&A Software on 01908 265111 for some helpful advice or visit our Solutions page.
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Essay question: In a digital age, proliferation of social media has had a dramatic impact on organisations. To date, much of the research efforts focused on the ways social networking affects organisations’ marketing and branding processes. However, more investigation is required into the positive and negative effects of social networking on the processes and practices of management of organisations.
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How do I hire an AV Coordinator? GENERAL DESCRIPTION: This position has responsibility for the proper functioning of the arena audio and video distributions as well as game scoring equipment.
- Perform daily operations of the audiovisual systems (audio, RF headend, RF distribution and intercom).
- Set, operate and strike all aspects of the audiovisual and scoreboard systems for Toyota Center events, including basketball, hockey, third party and internal events.
- The setting and striking of media TVs and game scoring systems.
- Assist Game Operations with technical aspects of gameday production.
- Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot and repair components of the audiovisual systems.
- Set, operate and strike press conferences.
- Route proper audio and video signals to private- and common-area monitors, broadcasters, replay control room and team video rooms.
- Work with CATV provider to maintain sufficient level of clean RF signal to televisions in all areas of the arena.
- Oversee maintenance and repairs with contractors/vendors.
- Assist team video personnel, broadcast personnel and third party technical personnel.
- Route proper audio and video feeds between TV truck dock, video studio and audio control rooms.
- Provide departmental support for day-to-day audiovisual needs of the arena.
- Organize and maintain all equipment in designated storage and work areas.
- Perform periodic and accurate systems checks.
- Establish AV requirements with Event Coordinators prior to events to ensure efficient event operation.
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities for assigned part-time staff in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include: training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; addressing issues and solving problems and regularly communicating with staff.
- Demonstrates our One Team philosophy of Passion, Accountability, Customer Focus, and Teamwork.
- High School graduate, college degree preferred.
- Minimum 3 years experience in live audio setting.
- Excellent customer service skills confirmed through proven ability to interact well with people and help others.
- Will demonstrate basic knowledge of audio, RF, amplifier control module software and DSP control software and characteristics.
- Portrays a professional image to meet company dress code requirements.
- Working knowledge of audio editing software.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, walk, use handle or feel, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk and hear.
- The vision requirement includes close vision and ability to adjust focus.
- Nature of position requires physical mobility and the ability to lift a minimum of 20 pounds.
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This regimental history begins with page 56.
Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Peters): 2 NCOs, 20 privates, 1 R launcher, 6 antitank launchers, and 9 panzerfausts.
Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rudnick): this outfit nearly remained in the same order as it had been before due to its low casualty rate. The new strength: 3 NCOs, 18 privates, I R launcher, 6 anti-tank launchers, and 9 panzerfausts.
Anti-Tank Platoon (Sergeant Hackerland): 2 NCOs, 20 privates, no R launchers, 7 anti-tank launchers, and 9 panzerfausts.
In the early afternoon &emdash; as almost always around that time of the day &emdash; the American attacked the new defensive positions of I. Battalion near Volkenrath with weak infantry and tank forces. The assault was repelled and the Americans suffered casualties. In the course of the attack, Corporal Melcher (a replacement of 11/20) and Grenadier Gulich (until then Jager 37) disabled a tank each at Volkenrath. Because the company was still in the process of reorganizing that day, there was no clear distribution of the soldiers over the platoons. I can thus only speculate that both of them were in 1st Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Peters) under I. Battalion. 2nd Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rudnick) had been assigned to II. Battalion while 3rd Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Hackerland) had taken up positions at the railroad embankment Nothberg-Knippmuhle as anti-tank reserves of GrenReg 89. In the late afternoon the Americans assigned stronger tank forces (about 40-50 tanks)for another attack on Hastenrath. We did notice this preparation early enough and were able to break it up with heavy artillery fire. The impact of our shelling was so much that there was no further American attack in the whole sector of GrenReg 90 on 11/22.
In the afternoon I observed from a group of houses in Bohl how approximately one American company came sneaking out of the forest near Bohlerheide and quietly went to assault Hastenrath form the flank. It was my side-job to serve as "battlefield observer" for the regimental staff Apparently, they thought there were still parts of GrenReg 89 in the western parts of the town. As they came closer to Hastenrath they advanced in spurts, squad by squad, repeatedly throwing themselves on the ground. I have fired at them with my assault rifle despite the long range between us. I didn't achieve any impact. Thus I ran in order to find a mortar position. As soon as I found one, I ordered the leader of the mortar platoon to fire at the American infantry. I don't know if he had any "success" because he had to set up an observer post first since they could not see anything from their firing position.
On 11/23 enemy pressure on II. Battalion increased mightily in Eschweiler-Bohl, and the pressure on the positions of I. Battalion in Volkenrath as well. But the Americans didn't have much success. GrenReg 89 retreated to Nothberg and Bergrath because of the enemy gains in the neighboring sectors. III. Anti-tank Platoon was assigned to I. Battalion/ FusReg 27 that stood in combat at Hucheln. Since the American elected to advance along the Autobahn south of DurwiB with tanks, we vacated the city of Eschweiler without a fight in the night 11/23-11/24. On 11/24, due to this American attack, I. and II. Battalion GrenReg 89 also retreated to Weisweiler. The company CO of 7./89 and the staff sergeant of II. Battalion both hit a tank at Point 168. Fortunately, the regiment did not have many casualties in the time from 11/21 through 11/24. Even l4th (PanzerJager) Company lost only 4 men (3 wounded, 1 MIA) during that time. On 1 1/25 the American attacked the positions at Weisweiler with strong infantry and tank forces.
Four tanks were disabled in the tough defensive stand of I. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Peters), which stood "Am Oberen Schildchen" with I. Battalion GrenReg 89. Sergeant Peters, and Corporal Moller, who along with his gunner were wounded in the course, shot down the tanks. Two other gunners (Private Bauer and Grenadier Miller) burnt to death in their assault on a tank, which they had shot and set ablaze from too close of a range. Three tank crews had to abandon, some of the tanks were burning.
2 NCOs and 10 men wounded, 1 NCO and 17 men MIA, in part wounded and in captivity.
On 11/25 one NCO and two privates arrived at the company as replacements. Combat strength in the evening of 11/25 was one officer, five NCOs, and 30 privates. On 11/26 the American attacked the positions of GrenReg 89. They had to be slightly shifted to the rear in parts of Weisweiler. The assault was as powerful as the one the previous day. Lieutenant Reinke, CO of 3./89 wrote to me that his company was fully wiped out in combat with strong American forces in the woods behind the brickyards. He himself had been very fortunate to have been taken out of the battle zone after having received a serious injury.
14th (PanzerJager) Company had the following casualties that day: five men dead, 2 NCOs wounded, one man MIA. Of the five dead, Lance Corporal Baade and Grenadier Behrend burnt to death after they had shot a tank ablaze from close range.
In the evening of 11/26 the badly bruised GrenReg 89 had to leave the heavily damaged positions in Weisweiler. The CO of I. Battalion/GrenReg 89, Captain Ripcke later was awarded the Ritterkreuz_for the outstanding defensive effort at Weisweiler. We had to retreat to Frenz and the area around the Frenzerburg and while doing so even had to seal off and clear out American infiltration in that area. II. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rudnick) and II. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Hackerland) left I. Battalion/FusReg 27 with direction Langerwehe and then was listed as missing for two days because no one had told me that they had been deployed to the Combat Group First Lieutenant Breese, 4./27.
On 11/27 I. and II. Battalion were assigned to Combat Group Brager of I. Battalion FusReg 27 due to the heavy casualties that had been suffered. The same went for I. Antitank Platoon (Sergeant Peters).
This Combat Group Brager, to which I. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Peters) now belonged, took up positions in the recently cleared area at Frenzerburg and Frenz. Combat Group First Lieutenant Breese with II. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rudnick), which had just been combined with the remainders of III. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Hackerland) (1 sergeant and 3 men), went back to positions in Langerwehe. In the evening of 11/27, I. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Peters) reported 2 dead and 1 MIA, II. Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rudnick) I wounded and 9 MIA including Sergeant Hackerland.
On 11/28 the American attacked in the sectors of both Combat Groups, near Frenzerburg almost exclusively with infantry because of the flat meadows.
On 11/28 I sneaked into the Frenzerburg Estate with my runner coming from Langerwehe and using the bushes in the meadows for cover. I wanted to organize the deployment of our last tank-breakers and panzerfausts along with Sergeant Peters. At that point half of the Frenzerburg was occupied by us, the other half by the Americans. There was only a narrow courtyard in between. That night I met my old comrade from I ./89, First Lieutenant Schriewer. He wanted to take a patrol and liberate German prisoners, some of them wounded, who were held in a house away from the fighting. As I learned the next day his plan worked. It has been said that 50 American prisoners were taken as well in the operation.
The situation of the two Combat Groups was nearly unchanged on 11/29. At dusk Lieutenant Colonel Lemcke, regimental CO of GrenReg 89, gave me the order to lead a paratrooper company to the Frenzerburg to relieve the troops there. We reached there without losses following my hidden trail.
On 11/30 or 12/1 paratrooper units relieved both Combat Groups. These paratroopers looked like angels to us, the tired and weary soldiers (3rd ParaDiv).
The "inventory of men and equipment" rendered the result that 14th (PanzerJager) Company had suffered heavy casualties in the running fights between Volkenrath and the Frenzerburg from 11/21 through 11/30. They are listed below.
Anti-Tank Platoon (Sergeant Peters): 4 dead, 3 wounded, 3 missing, overall 2 NCOs and 8 men.
Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rudnick): 3 dead, 4 wounded, 12 missing, overall 2 NCOs and 17 men.
Anti-Tank Platoon (Sergeant Hackerland): 3 wounded, 14 missing, overall 1 NCO and 16 men.
We had also lost I mortar and 14 tank-breakers.
In that period of time, between 11/21 and 11/30, 5 tanks were disabled and 2 more set on fire. The tanks set on fire hadn't been reported to me at first because the platoon leaders mistakenly thought that only destroyed tanks counted, but not those that were merely burning. In my opinion a burning tank is damaged enough to be out of commission for the rest of the battle most of the times.
The infantry-like deployment of 14th (PanzerJager) Company can be traced with help of the papers of the staff of GrenReg 89, e.g. how many "assault and close-range- combat days" were reported.
09/18:I. Battalion attacks Diepenlinchen from Werth: participants: 1st and 2nd Anti-tank grenade-launcher Platoons.
09/19:I. Battalion in defense of Diepenlinchen and WeiBenberg: participants: 1st and 2nd Anti-tank grenade- launcher Platoons.
09/20:I. and II. Battalion in defense of WeiBenberg, Hill 283, Hochwegerhof, and Duffenter: participants: 1st and 2nd Anti-tank grenade-launcher Platoons.
participants: 1st Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Hackerland), parts of 2nd Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Knirsch), and parts of the company squad and PanzerJager command.
participants: remainders of 1st Anti-tank Platoon, 2nd Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Knirsch), 3rd Anti-tank Platoon (Sergeant Rommerskirchen), 5th Anti-tank gun Platoon (JG 37), and 6th Anti-tank gun Platoon.
11/18:I. Battalion in sector Albertsgrube-Albertshof: participants: 2nd Anti-tank Platoon (Sgt. Knirsch) and PanzerJager command.
II. Battalion at the shooting range Eschweiler Forest and at Donnerberg: participants: 4th Anti-tank Platoon and PanzerJager command.
11/20:I. Battalion at Albertsgrube/Hastenrath/Volkenrath: participants: remainders of 2nd Anti-tank Platoon and platoon of Sgt. Peters (remainders of 3rd and 6th platoons).
II. Battalion at Hundsgracht, Bohl, Eschweiler: participants: 4th Anti-tank Platoon (Sgt. Rudnik) and PanzerJager command.
I. Battalion FusReg 27 was deployed in Hucheln).
and 2 Anti-tank Platoon (Sgt. Rudnick) and remainders of 3rd Anti-tank Platoon (Sgt. Hackerland).
Unfortunately, it is quite possible that some of the fighting actually occurred one day earlier as listed because the reports from the anti-tank platoons could not always be filed on the day of the battle. The same one-day differential may have also occurred in the data of 12th VGD and in the daily bulletin of the Army Corps. The American First Lieutenant Earl and his division faced the same difficulties. According to his sources the attack on Hastenrath-Scherpenseel occurred on 11/16 while my sources indicate that it was 11/17/44. Now, this was a larger attack, and we were both there. However, 3rd US Armored Division only attacked Werth on 11/16/44 thereby winning the jump-off line for Earl's tank-driven assault.
The defensive strength of GrenReg 89 and 14th (PanzerJager) Company dwindled daily after 11/21 due to the extreme losses of personnel and equipment. As a consequence of the immense American superiority on the materiel sector, proven by extremely heavy artillery fire and constant tank assaults with 40-50 tanks in our regimental sector alone (and the tanks could even be replaced when disabled), it was impossible to hold the positions any longer. Had the soldiers of GrenReg 89 not fought till they dropped, much like every German soldier did, the slow and steady retreat would have turned into a "mass exodus into captivity."
I have written up this list using all my papers from the war and it is representative for every outfit. In fact, I know that the casualties of my guard companies were even higher.
Combat strengths of 1/2/10 or even 2/10 were not rarities!
This listing does not only include the total personnel losses but it also distinguishes between the different periods of time of the defensive battles and between the platoons. I have done this in such detail to honor the effort of each platoon.
Today, after so many years have passed I want to conclude that this 14th (PanzerJager) Company has always made the impossible look easy, especially given the poor state of training. I do not want to sound boastful and I do not want to diminish the efforts of the other companies in GrenReg 89, but this has to be acknow1edged. The company has defied the immense American superiority in materiel, in part in unsuitable positions, and it has inflicted such damage among the tanks that the tank assaults in our sector were scald back and even had to be called off on certain days.
This extraordinary achievement of the company has not been mentioned in any daily bulletin of 12th VGD or any other superior office; most likely this is so because the full scope of the defensive success was overshadowed by the steady retreat of the front. It may have even gone unnoticed. Nobody has ever been able to count the number of tanks the company shot down. My "count" of September 1946 only includes those tanks that were still standing on the battlefield after two years. Only the American knew how many tanks were lost. Today, American veterans tell us that the losses of tanks were disastrous, i.e. in a scope of unimaginable severity compared to the previous engagements. Even if this fact is reported by a "battle-unproven" tank commander, who is prone to overestimate such a scenario, the more cautious approach of the later battles and the numbers o tanks shot down there, show the scope of our efforts.
These defensive successes of 14th (PanzerJager) Company are even more impressive once one considers that the company had been reequipped in July and August 1944. 7.5 cm anti-tank guns had been replaced with rocket tank-breakers and grenade-launcher type43, without any additional training on the new guns for either the crews at the time or the reserves and replacements. Additionally, it has to be considered that after the battle for Diepenlinchen on 11/18, 19, and 20, only about half of the troops that had been trained very briefly in the Dirschau area were left.
That we still could inflict such heavy damage on American tanks at Albertshof, Werth, Hastenrath, and Scherpenseel. as well as Weisweiler, has to be attributed to the great vision, courage, and endurance of each and every gunner, but even more so to the experience and leadership qualities of the old officers and NCOs. It doesn't matter whether the cadres were used as platoon leaders, platoon squad leaders, group leaders, or gun commanders or gunners, they all did a great job.
It was always the battle experience gained at the eastern front that was particularly valuable. Wherever an American tank assault bogged down under the losses of tanks, these old cadres of 14th Company always formed the core of the defense. These old, wily veterans showed poise in the face of tanks rolling straight at them and then opened fire when the time was just right. They dared to fire at the tanks that were rolling at them, dared to fire at the attacking tanks even though they knew they would draw a barrage from the other tanks and/or artillery in response. Almost every time the gunner hitting a tank was wounded himself. This courage and vision caused the young and inexperienced comrades to follow the lead of the wily veterans. The old core of the company often managed to motivate the young replacements to such efforts that the young guys were high on the list of soldiers that shot down tanks.
What is left today is to thank all the comrades of 14th (PanzerJager) Company, GrenReg 89 for their willingness to sacrifice themselves, their courage, their endurance, and their acceptance of strains that are without equal.
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"Women didn't fight in World War II"
Fact check: Women did not fight in World War II.
The purpose of rhetorically loaded questions like 'did women fight during World War II' is to frame arguments so opposition is impossible or seen as indefensible, the answers given, whatever they may be, how factually accurate or grounded in reality they are, simply do not matter because the question, or statement, is rhetorical, not meant to be queried or answered. When understanding and knowledge, educating (of self or others), is not the goal, objecting in any sense is to deny the statement, and its makers, veracity and rhetorical absolutism; some women did fight, so women fought, their contributions to combat are equal to and no less valid than men's, so no argument is to be had.
This rhetorical assertion is false, but again this never mattered.
At the heart of this argument is a motte and bailey fallacy (castle/keep) in which a contentious proposition (motte/keep) is defended by an easier one - the degree to which the argument might be true (bailey/castle); because A is true so too is B. So, did women fight during the war, yes; did women volunteer to fight or were they conscripted, yes; therefore, women fought during the war (castle), the degree to which this might have occurred, or its significance, being irrelevant (keep).
There are caveats to these points that, as is always the case with history, require those arguing females fought during the war ignore and dismiss inconvenient truths, especially when brought to their attention, the ideologically inconsistent and broader realities warfare presents, that the vast majority of those 'fighting' (or whatever synonym might be used to describe militarised armed combat), and dying, were and still are, male.
The argument then is not whether women fought, it's that they were not specifically involved in combat, they did not fight as uniform soldiers (more on this below, Ed.), which means the objection to female characters in games like Battlefield V become one of being thematic accuracy to this fact and the period being represented in the game, a rationale upon which these games are/were ostensibly sold, inclusion of any kind then being a matter of thematic fidelity or *cough*"accuracy"*cough* to the period portrayed (cf. Battlefield I controversy).
With that said, if not ignored as is suggested above, answering a rhetorical question in a way that stimulates actual discussion typically elicits the inevitable and predictable rhetorical rebuttal; "well what about the female Soviet snipers, or the female French resistance?".
Of the estimated 450,000 snipers the Soviets used throughout the war less than 1% of the overall total, approximately 2,500, were female. Does the background to this matter, their inclusion being a concession that addressed differences of opinion between Soviet military brass (traditionalists) and Party leadership (progressives) - female snipers serviced the combat requirement demanded by Stalin but kept them off/away from front line combat as favoured by Soviet military brass, both attitudes being part of a greater compromise that had the Soviets desperate to recoup numbers lost early on to Germany on the Eastern Front. Interestingly however, per-capita, female snipers were awarded more medals, received more commendations, for their actions than their male counterparts which may have more to do with propaganda than disproportionate bravery or knack for staying alive.
Similarly, of the estimated 500,000 French Resistance active towards the latter part of the War, approximately 10-20% were female, most of whom, like other resistance groups, spent more time fighting each other (for ideological motivated reasons) than they did the occupying German army. Given the nature of the resistance it's not known exactly how many engaged in actual combat or fought, all that is know is that some did engage their respective enemies.
At face value, whilst all of this does mean some women unquestionably fought during World War II, it would be disingenuous at the very least, even insulting to the memory of the millions of men and boys who stepped-up, fought and died, to suggest the War as relates to combat, was in any sense a female fight as the question rhetorically implies.
And to show just how absurd the argument, and dirty War, actually is, the same sentiments can in fact be said of children fighting during the War, school-aged minors under 18 conscripted or forcibly 'volunteered' into combat, the most egregious perhaps being the Japanese Imperial Army's juvenile suicide bombers, or Germany's Hitler Youth, used extensively during the defense of Berlin as it fell. In other words, more children engaged in enemy combat than women, does this then justify the inclusion and exploitation of child soldiers in popular media and entertainment. Or extending the argument still further, more people of different ethnicities fought than women, so there should be more BAME representation in games before that of females.
This is the inherent absurdism of the argument - when and to what degree is the question answered, and by whom. The futility of pandering to demands made of it mean, rather than finding a way to introduce female characters to Battlefield V in a way the user-base would understand and appreciate, EA-Dice chose instead to insert them front-and-centre with little (rational) explanation, gamers then being told they were bigots, racists, ableists, misogynists, anti-women by some vocal members of EA-Dice, boosted by click-hungry games press, and egged on by social media activists and cultural critics.
Unfortunately for those engaged in this sort of bullying, and it is bullying, railing back at the criticisms with the specious counter-narrative addressed above, this only proved gamers correct; the characters inclusion had little to do with improving the game and was instead a direct response to external non-stakeholder forces and in clear deference to servicing faux 'dialogue' obfuscating an ideological agenda.
Put more plainly, EA-Dice chose to pander to the demands of outsiders who care little for games except their being an avenue to hijack for their own political and cultural purposes, insulting customers from whose purchase's salaries are paid. Low pre-orders, conflicts with other games, release-date pushback, drops in stock price, and parting ways of those involved will tell if doing this is ultimately a good move.
- The dark side of diversity: "positive discrimination" (reverse discrimination).
A great deal of the controversy surrounding BFV kicked-off when one of the projects design directors (Alan Kertz) was widely reported to have suggested publicly the inclusion of female characters was not to improve the game but head-off what appears to be a rhetorical/theoretical situation involving his daughters concerns about female soldiers in games - "I knew this was going to be a fight when I pushed for female soldiers in Battlefield. I have a daughter, and I don't want to ever have to answer her question of 'why can't I make a character that looks like me?' with 'because you're a girl'. I fundamentally feel to my core this [forced female inclusion] is the right way, and I will find myself on the right side of history.". Notwithstanding the apparent advocation of under-aged and inappropriate gaming, rather than help his (young?, uneducated?, illiterate?) daughter understand why, give her tools of discovery and understanding, he chose to redefined history to fit his (not hers) ideologically distorted world view, one that requires adherents ignore the real world in favour of personal fictions and imaginings no-one can argue against ("they are my lived experience"), a particularly odious example of someone in a position of power and authority using the 'personal is the political' principle as leverage to unduly influence others without argument, agreement or consent. Not only is this a disservice to his daughter, it also fundamentally disrespects others contributions to the conversation because they proffer disagreeable sentiments.
The incontrovertible truth of biology and nature and how they relate to history and warfare is simply that women are more valuable to society than men because population numbers can be replenished far more quickly with few men than with few women - throughout history civilizations in the latter situation died because they were not stabilised soon enough after significant reductions, by warfare, pandemics, natural events etc. Over time, hundreds-of-thousands of years, this biological reality has always governed fe/male species relationships whether it passes the sniff-test of a given ideology developed in better times.
It's worth noting these two examples constantly crop up in almost every instance of discussing this topic because they're easily defendable talking points, the motte (keep) to the larger bailey (castle). In furtherance to the initial rhetorical question, this new rhetorical statement is not being asked for educational purposes, but instead to substitute an ill-informed rote proposition that filters subtleties with a singular assertion that cannot be argued against.
To put this number in to greater context, the Soviet armed forces are estimated to have been some 34,000,000 individuals, of which snipers constitute around 8% of the total (c.450,000), female snipers being c.0.01% of that same total.
Soviet Party politics were such that all citizens were supposed to be subject to the same requirements, obligations and demands the party might make, if soldiers were needed women should be as subject to conscription as men - service therefor not being a question of ability but allegiance.
Much of the Soviets top-brass in the military were grounded in what might be considered traditionalist, Tsarists or pre-revolutionary mid-to-late 19th Century thinking, that women were to be kept off the battlefield for very real and practical reasons (cf. fn.1 above).
Despite Soviet Brass and Party leaders being at loggerheads over the inclusion of women in the military, once it happened officials seized the opportunity to propagandise greater female participation in society at large, not for the individuals good but instead through their contributions as a group. For the sniper this meant the medals, awards and commendations were to show women being equally as capable as men, thus equally able to secure Soviet rule and expansion. In other words, it was not about women, it was about Party allegiance at a time the Soviets were still reeling from the Revolution and first World War.
Rates of female inclusion and participation in resistance groups across Europe vary a great deal because concise records were rarely kept, so today, depending on source, the same information outlet may cite different numbers depending on inherent politically biases. For example, the subsection of the main Wikipedia article on the French resistance dedicated to women, "French Resistance - Women", cites 11% participation rate whereas associated with the 'feminism portal', "Women in the French Resistance", 15-20% is cited. What's missing from this are the reasons why those numbers may be relatively high; men being otherwise conscripted to fight or assist the German occupation depending on their being for or against it.
The French resistance was not as unified fighting force as romanticised in popular culture, many were variants of Socialists, Communists, Marxists, Revolutionaries, which more often than not, meant they were more likely to fight and sabotage each other's efforts than that of the German threat, all in vein attempts at political, ideological supremacy. Such in-fighting caused so much strife to the Allied efforts in fact, the British stopped assistance drops (weapons, intelligence, supplies etc.) because it was more often put to unintended use, resistance groups fighting one another instead of the German war machine.
The Imperial Army is known to have 'forced' schools (coerced compliance through threats of severe penalties and punishments) to 'volunteer' children for combat, minors between the ages of 14 and 17, many of whom saw combat.
By the start of the War nearly 9,000,000 boys and girls were part of the Hitler Youth, most being later conscripted to fight. Towards the end of the War many were still fighting, some of whom defended Berlin as it fell.
The character was given a prosthetic mechanical arm similar to designs befitting the period.
Typical click-bait sensationalism aside, who may or may not be sympathetic to the cause at hand.
EA chief creative officer (CCO) Patrick Soderlund: "And we don't take any flak. We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don't understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don't buy the game. I'm fine with either or. It's just not ok." (emphasis added) [source], a statement that may have been partly responsible for Battlefield V's poor numbers at time of writing (late August).
Originally a creation of corporations as a means to promote brand awareness, Culture-Jacking has since been co-opted by activists to become a useful tool in the 'any means necessary' arsenal to inject alternative narratives into popular culture, bypassing traditional means of transmission and distribution, but also their testing and validation, especially necessary for ideas with the potential to change society.
"An Update on Battlefield V [release date]"
"Electronic Arts Stock Is Tanking on a 'Battlefield' Fail" et al.
Patrick Soderlund and others apparently within the team developing Battlefield V, and source to much of the controversy, have left the EA-Dice. The fact that parties leaving were all involved in the ongoing debacle perhaps speaks to their being fired rather than their choosing to part ways amicably.
interesting and well said kat.
The following is not officially verified by EA's own data (will likely have to wait for the next EA financials for that) but according to Eurogamer a UK tracking agency (Chart-Track, who appear to be compiling data on behalf of ukie) are suggesting sales of Battlefield V (physical copies) are down by a significant margin, "fewer than half" in their first release week.
The news obviously begs the question: which aspect of the grievance marketing campaign is responsible for the poor sales numbers for Battlefield V? Calling gamers racists, ableists, misogynists, anti-women bigots? Being told "don't buy the game"? Or just the general disparaging miasma click-hungry, historically revisionist, games press and associates have created over the past few years, eagerly aided and abetted by social media mouth-pieces and cultural critic talking heads bullying anyone in disagreement.
agreed. considering the way long term fans of the series were treated, and the amount of money and time they invested in previous battlefield games, this one deserves to fail financially. games should be made for gamers, not people who despise gaming culture.
The coverage for the game is going to be interesting, MCV for example is trying to brush the sales failure under the rug, excusing it through a later release date than BF1.
#BattlefieldV went "unnoticed" by no one but a press now fully complicit in it's dire returns. #GrievanceMarketing and willfully negative bullying coverage doesn't work, @EADICE & other publishers engaging in it only have themselves to blame.
To expand a little on the tweet, at what point can a Corporation hold its employees and/or press coverage responsible for such colossal losses in the first week (basically 40% of Battlefield 1's sales). Whilst it would be difficult to challenge the whole 'free speech' excuses the press might be able to exercise in their defense, the willfully negative and ideologically driven bullying coverage should make publishers of all stripes, not just EA-Dice, extremely gun shy of engaging with outlets that use grievance tactics and click-bait to generate headlines to the detriment of the brands they might be covering.
good points. i wonder how long it will take companies to wake up to this?
They've always know this, it's literally the first law of running a business; "never insult the customer" (or "the customer is always right"). The problem Corporations face now is that they've allowed individuals with ulterior or perhaps being generous, misguided motives and ideologies into positions of power who can redirect resources towards those aims instead of the companies. There are better ways to address the concerns they may have than the intentional misappropriation of resources as they have been doing the past few years - what they're doing isn't the consequence of bad performance, i.e. doing a poor job, it's the result of hijacking resources they have no business doing for personal gain (virtue signalling at the expense of the company).
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Currently, water on Mars' surface and atmosphere exists in two states: gas and solid. At the poles, the interaction between the solid water ice at and just below the surface and the gaseous water vapor in the atmosphere is believed to be critical to the weather and climate of Mars. Phoenix will be the first mission to collect meteorological data in the Martian arctic needed by scientists to accurately model Mars' past climate and predict future weather processes.
Liquid water does not currently exist on the surface of Mars, but evidence from Mars Global Surveyor, Odyssey and Exploration Rover missions suggest that water once flowed in canyons and persisted in shallow lakes billions of years ago. However, Phoenix will probe the history of liquid water that may have existed in the arctic as recently as 100,000 years ago. Scientists will better understand the history of the Martian arctic after analyzing the chemistry and mineralogy of the soil and ice using robust instruments.
Recent discoveries have shown that life can exist in the most extreme conditions. Indeed, it is possible that bacterial spores can lie dormant in bitterly cold, dry, and airless conditions for millions of years and become activated once conditions become favorable. Such dormant microbial colonies may exist in the Martian arctic, where due to the periodic wobbling of the planet, liquid water may exist for brief periods about every 100,000 years making the soil environment habitable.
Phoenix will assess the habitability of the Martian northern environment by using sophisticated chemical experiments to assess the soil's composition of life-giving elements such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and hydrogen. Identified by chemical analysis, Phoenix will also look at reduction-oxidation (redox) molecular pairs that may determine whether the potential chemical energy of the soil can sustain life, as well as other soil properties critical to determine habitability such as pH and saltiness.
Despite having the proper ingredients to sustain life, the Martian soil may also contain hazards that prevent biological growth, such as powerful oxidants that break apart organic molecules. Powerful oxidants that can break apart organic molecules are expected in dry environments bathed in UV light, such as the surface of Mars. But a few inches below the surface, the soil could protect organisms from the harmful solar radiation. Phoenix will dig deep enough into the soil to analyze the soil environment potentially protected from UV looking for organic signatures and potential habitability.
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We need to stop for a moment and discuss truth. Truth has been a problem for modern societies since the advent of science and the Industrial Revolution. The problem is people confuse facts with truth.
A fact is something that is independently verifiable. If I tell you that a diamond is made of carbon, you can perform a test on a diamond and verify it. The nature of fact is often viewed as objective because of this. This is led many people to believe that facts are the most reliable criteria upon which they can make decisions.
Now, I am not trying to say that facts are unreliable. Reality has shown us that what we often call facts are subjective. It is a difference between Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity. Both are based on observable facts, but Newton was not exposed to the same types of theories that Einstein was.
While the facts about gravity did not change, our subjective perception of them did, granting us a deeper understanding. The reason it is important for us to understand this is so that we can embrace the openness of mind the scientific method requires if our understanding of the universe is to continually expand. That is why scientists refer to everything is a theory, because it is always possible, even if highly unlikely, that new evidence may come to light, and radically change our understanding of a given issue or topic.
Unfortunately for humanity, many developed a rigid dogmatic approach to science and religion. They confused fact and truth.
Let me give you an example: the calcium and iron in your body were forged in the nuclear furnace of a star. When that star died, that calcium and iron was spread into the galaxy, collected on our planet, taken in by other plants and animals, and then consumed by you. That is a fact.
The truth is that we are made, as Carl Sagan used to say, of star stuff. We are the children of the stars. They gave their lives so we might live. Every creature that you meet, see, or interact with is the direct descendant of the stars.
Facts are analytical products. They are derived from processes designed to safeguard them against the biases and prejudices of people.
Most often truth can only be spoken through symbolism and metaphor. In the example I gave before, no star literally gave birth to you, but that makes it no less true. When I say we are the children of the stars that is meant to explain our relationship with them, and to show our interconnectedness with a vaster universe than most of us realize we are connected to.
Facts and truths have different functions, which makes fact more important in some respects, while truth is more important in others.
If you are going to build a table, it is important that you first utilize the facts: a table requires no less than three legs. The number of legs and the materials out of which it is made rely on the size and loadbearing capacity for the desired finish table. The truth is, there are certain design and form motifs that make a table beautiful. These are relational, and cannot be arrived at through analytical study. Taste and form and fashion changes over time, whereas the physics of table construction do not. To make a good table requires the the facts of basic engineering and the truth of an artist.
This is what made the iPod and the iPhone so successful.
The problem we face today is that people have confused the function and purpose of facts and truths. A facts remains a fact whether or not you believe in it. A truth can remain a truth whether or not you believe in it. The problem is a truth cannot supersede a fact, and facts often have no bearing on the truth.
The fact is, if you jump off a cliff, you will fall and be injured, possibly even killed. It does not matter what truths you believe. If the truth is you dearly love something, facts will often do nothing to sway you one way or the other. Facts tell you what something is and what will most likely happen when this happens to that. Truth tells you what your relationship and interaction is was something and offers insight into how to react.
This is why when I discuss religion I like to use the word mythology rather than doctrine or dogma. Doctrine and dogma are too easily confused for facts.
If I tell you, God is a Trinity, there is no objective analytical test that can be independently performed by a skeptic to prove whether I am right or wrong. As a result, many so-called rationalists choose to reject out of hand anything that cannot be independently verified. They say that this truth, like all the claims of religion, must be accepted on blind faith. Nothing could be more wrong.
Truth is judged by the outcome of its implementation. The fruit of an idea is easy to discern. What was the fruit of racism? Hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and the reduction of an entire class of people to second-class citizenship. A bad tree bears bad fruit. What was the fruit of Gandhi's idea of satyagraha? Independence without war, and the reclamation of dignity for many peoples. A good tree bears good fruit.
The apostle Paul taught us what fruit we are to look for, "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things (Galatians 5:22 – 23)."
So if I tell you, you should give money so you can get wealth, it should be obvious to you immediately that this is a bad tree that will produce bad fruit. It encourages greed, gluttony, and invalid sense of self-importance. If I tell you, if you can give a donation to your local soup kitchen, he will help the hungry and homeless in your area. That is a good tree producing good fruit. The fruit of that action is love, kindness, generosity, and even faithfulness to your fellow human brothers and sisters.
The power and truth of a mythology does not rely on its connection to the facts of the world, but on the fruit that it bears in your life and in society.
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How much is Donal Logue Worth?
Donal Logue net worth: Donal Logue is a Canadian-Irish actor who has a net worth of $3 million. He is best known for his role on the television sitcom, Grounded for Life, and also for his recent work in films and on Law & Order: SVU. Logue has had notable roles in the popular films, The Tao of Steve, Sons of Anarchy, Vikings, and the detective series Terriers. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Irish parents; and was the only son in a family of four children. Logue lived most of his childhood in El Centro, California and after high school studied History at Harvard University. Aside from a few TV movies, his first film appearance was in 1992 in the film, Sneakers. In 1994, he guest starred on Northern Exposure, and also appeared in an episode of The X-Files. By the late 90s, Logue had more than 40 movie appearances to his credit, and his fame and acting career continues to grow today. Logue has homes in both Los Angeles and Oregon that he shares with his wife and two sons, and when he is not acting he is heavily involved in soccer; he also travels back and forth to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland where his mother lives. Logue lives in the United States but holds both Irish and Canadian citizenship.
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Having trouble falling asleep? Do you regularly wake up at the same time each night and have trouble falling asleep again? You could improve the quality of your sleep through cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).
CBT is designed to modify behaviours or beliefs that have a negative impact on various chronic health issues. In the case of insomnia, it aims to correct certain harmful beliefs or attitudes, such as anxiety regarding the lack of sleep, and to give helpful tips on improving sleep quality.
For example, CBT might recommend keeping a sleep journal for a few weeks in order to paint a realistic portrait of your sleep patterns (e.g. problems falling asleep, waking up frequently or inability to fall asleep again after waking up) and to evaluate the person’s habits.
Since sleep problems vary from one person to another, CBT must be tailored to the individual’s needs. For example, if anxiety and negative thoughts are the root of the problem, the goal will be to control those thoughts or replace them with a positive attitude. This is the “cognitive” aspect of CBT and the cornerstone of the treatment.
Relaxation and meditation are often used to calm negative thoughts and improve sleep. Another approach is to learn how to be passively awake, i.e. without worrying about the fact that we “need” to fall asleep. These approaches can be very effective, especially when the person really commits to them and takes the time needed to master them.
Working together with the cognitive aspect of CBT, the “behavioural” component is designed to improve the behaviours that are harmful to sleep. For example, for some people it may be to remove all screens from the bedroom (television, computer, cell phone), while for others it may be to avoid stimulants in the hours preceding sleep (coffee, nicotine, intense exercise, etc.) or to establish a bedtime routine (getting up and going to bed at the same time every day).
Don’t hesitate to ask for help if you suffer from insomnia!
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A ladder is leaning against a house at an angle inclined 45 degrees from the ground. If the ladder touches the house 7 m height from the ground, how far is the base of the ladder from the house?
There is a 90 degree triangle (right-angled triangle) formed between the house, the ground, and the ladder. We are given that the angle at which the ladder inclines is 45 degrees, so given any dimension of the triangle, we can determine the other dimensions, using the trigonometric ratios. Since we are given the dimension opposite the angle in question, and we need to find the length adjacent to the angle, we can use the tangent property, ie tan 45 degrees = 7/x where x is the distance of the ladder base from the house. Since tan 45 = 1 then 7/x=1, ie x =7 m. so the ladder is 7 m from the house.
At 100 C, for the following reaction: 2NOBr (g) <======> 2NO (g) + Br2 (g) Kp =60.6 One hour after NOBr was introduced into the reaction vessel, the contents were analyzed, and it was found that the reaction quotient Q was 30.3. In which direction is it likely that the reaction will proceed?
The reaction quotient Q is less than the equilibrium constant Kp, so this suggests that the ratio of products to reactants is less than what it is at equilibrium. The reaction will then move so as to bring the state to equilibrium i.e. supply more products, by moving in the forward direction.
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Follow the instructions on this webpage to change your Mozilla Firefox homepageMozilla Firefox search engine (default search engine).
1. Click the Open menu icon in the Mozilla Firefox Toolbar and go to Options.
2. To change your Mozilla Firefox search engine click Search on the left sidebar and chose your default search engine from the drop-down list.
3. If you want to add another search engine that is not available in the One-click search engines list then click the Add more search engines… link at the bottom of the page.
4. On Add-ons page select the new search engine you want to use by hovering your mouse over the selection and clicking the + Add to Firefox button that appears.
5. Click the Add button on the Add Search Engine notification window. To make the new search engine the current search engine select the Make this the current search engine radio box and click Add.
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Tell me this isn't the creepiest thing you've ever seen on a hike.
One of my favorite hikes in the Catskill Mountains in New York involves passing by a once grand hotel that now sits in ruins - the Overlook Mountain House.
The hotel was built during a tourism boom in the Hudson Valley, but it burned down in 1875. It was rebuilt, burned down again in the early 1920's, and was rebuilt again using concrete.
The third rebuild was never finished, and the shell of the buildings were sold to New York State. What remains of the Overlook Mountain House sits right in the middle of the trail up to Overlook Mountain.
Though I'm not aware of ghost stories related to the Overlook Mountain House, it's still eerie passing by the old buildings, especially close to dark. Hearing leaves rustling, twigs breaking, and otherwise common outdoor sounds makes me extra jumpy.
With Halloween just around the corner, it's a perfect time to turn your hiking planning toward potentially spooky hiking destinations. Some trails have happy storied histories while others, not so much. If you love things like folklore, ghost stories, haunted houses, and everything in between, take a peek at these ten haunted hiking trails across the United States.
I've been on the Batona Trail in New Jersey and to Mammoth Cave National Park, but luckily escaped both without seeing any ghosts...I think! Have you done any of these? Thanks to Healthlisted.com for sharing the infographic!
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Is it weird craving something cold while feeling the flue coming?
today was such a day. I felt horrible the whole day and all I wanted to eat was vitamin loaded fruit.
Smoothie bowls are so convenient, you can pre make them and store them in the freezer. all you have to do in the morning is to let the mixture thaw for a bit (obviously always depending on the climate situation where you live).
I mostly get papaya when they are on sale at the grocery store (because they are pretty expensive here in Switzerland). So it's actually not too often that I get papaya for myself and I always appreciate it a lot and cherish papaya as a "treat" for myself. I even by them when on discount (because of bruises) and freeze the papaya (cut in chunks).
I know, this is maybe not the most seasonal breakfast bowl right now, and I do feel a little guilty at some point when using too much exotic fruit. Trying to balance it out with plenty of Swiss apples and carrots.. And, I really hope that I will be brave enough, one day, to challenge myself for a fast when it comes to food from out of country.
Let's face it: we pretend to be starry-eyed idealist with our net bags but then on the other hand side we eat tons of avocado, pineapple, mango, salmon, algae, soy aaaaaand so on.
Public commitment: I try, because I cannot promise that I can renounce completely, will give my very best to mostly buy regional and seasonal food and as much as I can from farmers on the market.
Ok, another side note: I bought cilantro on the farmers market and in the end she told me that it's from M E X I C O (I really thought they grew it in their greenhouse, which some of the farmers do). I then was about to give it back (I was really really really embarrassed by myself, how can I go to the farmers market & want to buy from the source and then end up like this)?
- when vegetables from another country: organic ones!
- It's about change: apples & carrots are actually so versatile.
Any other things, which help you??
let's head over to the recipe ;) ah and I was out of my favourite granola from THE TINY FACTORY - which is a sad story, because if you ever had it, you will understand. So I had to bake my own again and remembered how I started my blog 4,5 years ago.. will be sharing the recipe in my next post, and some coconut flour health benefits.
add everything to your blender and blend until creamy. Don't blend the mixture for too long since you don't want it to be too runny. Top it with your favourite things.
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Judeofascism.com: Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron lashes Jewish state for its sadistic transformation of Gaza into a besieged “prison camp"
Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron lashes Jewish state for its sadistic transformation of Gaza into a besieged “prison camp"
David Cameron has described Gaza as a ''prison camp'' and appealed to the Israeli Government to allow the free flow of humanitarian goods and people in and out of the Palestinian territory.
Mr Cameron's comments came during a visit to Turkey, where relations with Israel have been strained since Israeli troops stormed a flotilla of ships carrying supplies to Gaza in May, killing eight Turks and one Turkish-American.
Speaking in Ankara, the Prime Minister denounced the attack on the flotilla as ''completely unacceptable'' and restated his call for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver a ''swift, transparent and rigorous'' inquiry.
Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has severely limited the movement of people and goods since 2007, has sparked outrage in Turkey, which provided the organisers and the bulk of the participants for the flotilla.
Today Mr Cameron said: ''The situation in Gaza has to change. Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions.
And he added: ''The Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla was completely unacceptable.
Mr Erdogan said Gaza resembled "a sort of open-air prison" and described the Israeli army assault on the aid flotilla as "piracy".
"The fact that this blockade has not been lifted is a tragedy," said the Turkish PM.
Addressing the raid on the flotilla, he said: "This attack in international waters can only be termed piracy. There is no other word to describe it.
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Over the last fifty years scientists have found in nature enough evidence of a previously unknown natural phenomenon that, although similar to "traditional" Tsunamis, may in fact cause an incomparable level of destruction along the coastlines. Such wave of huge proportions will be probably triggered in the Atlantic Ocean anytime in the next 500 years thus posing a daunting threat for the East Coast of America, North Africa and Europe.
Waves of this type are called Mega Tsunami. They are so great that they can reach several hundred meters in height, travel at the speed of a jet aircraft and get up to 12 miles (20 Kilometers) inland.
A mega-tsunami is an extremely rare and destructive phenomenon that strikes the world every few thousand years. Unfortunately, as seen in the documentary above, there is a concrete possibility that it will occur again in the near future. A mega-tsunami has almost unlimited power to cause utter destruction and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Even the most powerful waves, the tidal waves known to science by their Japanese name Tsunami, cannot create such destruction.
A mega-tsunami is an informal term to describe a tsunami with initial wave amplitude (height) much larger than usual tsunamis. Mega-tsunamis are several tens, hundreds, or possibly thousands of meters high and they are able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world.
Generally, a tsunami is caused by an earthquake near the shore or underwater. Normal tsunamis usually originate from offshore earthquakes, submarine landslides and undersea volcanic activity, and range from barely perceptible waves to walls of water up to 300 feet high. The biggest submarine earthquakes can shift the ocean bed up or down by around 10 metres and that produces tsunamis on that sort of scale, but not very much bigger.
Normal tsunamis created by an earthquake on the ocean floor have only small wave heights while off shore. They also have a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long) and they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a slight swell usually of the order of 30 cm (12 inch) above the normal sea surface. However, the height of normal tsunami waves increases dramatically when they reach land as the base of the wave pushes the water column on top of it upwards.
By contrast, something massive is needed to create waves with such a great height in the case of a mega-tsunami. So, what kind of event can create a mega-tsunami? Unlike usual tsunamis, mega-tsunamis are caused by giant landslides and other impact events such as volcanic eruptions or huge asteroids crashing into the sea. These phenomena rapidly displace large volumes of water, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water.
Huge earthquake-induced rockslides next to bodies of water can generate mega-tsunamis since the massive amount of water displacement increases the wave size more than a submarine earthquake. Luckily, huge landslides and the mega-tsunamis that they can generate are extremely rare. In most cases, tsunamis caused by rockslides, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some underwater earthquakes, dissipate quickly and rarely affect coastlines distant from the source due to the small area of sea affected. However, a massive landslide can give rise to much larger local shock waves (solitons = solitary waves that can travel for long distances without changing their shape or losing energy).
However, in some cases, they can generate a mega-tsunami that can reach the height of hundreds of meters. That is the case when a massive landslide occurs in a limited body of water and the resulting wave is unable to disperse, just as it happened in Alaska where a major rock fall generated the Lituya Bay tsunami. It was the largest tsunami wave ever observed anywhere in the world and it was caused by a rock fall in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958.
The Lituya Bay mega-tsunami was triggered by an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 occurred along the Alaskan Fairweather Fault, which runs beneath the north-western spur of Lituya Bay. A massive volume (approximately 40 million cubic meters) of rock alongside the Gilbert Inlet sloughed off into the water, generating a wave which reached the incredible height of 525 meter (1,720 feet) on the opposite side of the inlet. Down the inlet itself, the initial wave reached a height of 600 feet (120 meter) moving toward the ocean at 100 mph (160 km/h).
Five square miles of land surrounding the bay were inundated and stripped of all vegetation and wildlife. The tsunami sunk three solitary fishing boats anchored in the harbour and moved inland as far as 3600 feet. However, the tsunami's energy and height diminished rapidly away from the source area and, once in the open ocean, it dissipated and was hardly recorded by tide gauge stations.
Image: Mega-Tsunami: The 1958 wave at Lituya Bay was rather large!
On October 9, 1963, approximately five years after the Lituya Bay disaster, an enormous landslide of about 260 million cubic metres of forest, earth, and rock, fell into the reservoir of one of the highest dams in the world, the Vajont Dam on Monte Toc, Italy, at up to 110 km per hour (68 mph). The resulting displacement of water caused 50 million cubic metres of water to overtop the dam in a 250-metre high megatsunami wave. The flooding destroyed the villages of Longarone, Pirago, Rivalta, Villanova and Fae, killing 1,450 people. More than 2,000 people (some sources report 1,909) perished in total.
Image: The Vajont Dam as seen from the village Longarone in 2005, showing approximately the top 60-70 meters of concrete. The 200-250 meter wall of water that overtopped the dam and destroyed the village would have obscured virtually all of the sky in this photo.
The following video shows a physics-based computer simulation of a landslide mega tsunami in an alpine reservoir. Large rock falls and landslides off steep slopes adjacent to mountain reservoirs can generate water waves that can overtop the impounding dam and cause massive flood destruction below. That is the case with what happened at Vajont Dam, Italy in 1963.
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Should guinea pigs eat broccoli?
Are guinea pigs allowed to eat alfa hay?
NO Never feed AlfaAlfa to a guinea pig! It gives them upset stomach, and sometimes diarriah.
Does a guinea pig eat lots of hay?
I don't know if I'd say a lot, but guinea pigs do eat a type of hay called timothy hay.
How much should you sell your guinea pigs for?
Should guinea pigs eat romaine lettuce and how much a day?
you should try to stay away from lettuce, especially iceberg lettuce, it isn't very nutritious. your better off feeding spinich, bean sprouts, bok-choy and other green leafy veg Answer: yes but it can ONLY be romaine lettuce.
How much daily vitamin c does a guinea pig need?
Can guinea pigs eat timothy hay?
Yes. They also like green leafy vegetables like lettuce, also carrots and fruits like apples and pears.
Should my two 20 week old female guinea pigs have a different diet when they eat guinea pig pellets with added vitamin c drops a lot of timothy hay and water with a few spinach and cucumber pieces?
How much does a guinea pig eat in a day?
How much should a guinea pig coast?
It depends on the store. If you go to petco (like me) they are around 80 probley, But if you go to a local pet store they are probley cheaper but sometimes guinea igs there are not as healthy. Hope this helped!
Why do guinea pigs eat so much?
not only does the guinea pig eat much but every other animal but the pig. every animal but the pig can eat until it barfs but the pig stops himself from eating so much.
How much should you feed your guinea pig?
well if you give your guinea pig food and when he eats it all and there is no more food in his food bowl you should refill it again. guinea pigs eat a lot but you can also set a schedule on feeding your guinea pig.
Why does your guinea pig eat so much?
What and how much does a guinea pig eat?
Can guinea pigs be covered with hay?
Can guinea pigs have hay fever?
Depends on the kind of hay you give your guinea pig. If your guinea pig is a pregnant mother or a growing baby, then you should give him/her Alfafa hay. If your guinea pig is NOT a pregnant mother or a growing baby, then he/she should be given Timothy hay.
At what age can a guinea pig eat timothy hay?
How many vitamins should a guinea pig have daily?
Can Guinea Pigs Have Hay?
Is hay essential for guinea pigs and why?
Why do guinea pigs need hay?
Hay helps guinea pigs (and rabbits) with their teeth. It helps keep them nice and trim, you must provide your guinea pig with an unlimited supply of hay everyday.
What and how much do guinea pigs eat?
Can guinea pigs eat horse grass hay and alfalfa?
Yes you can and you can usually find them in pelleted form in pet stores.
What do you do if a guinea pig is not eating much?
How much alfalfa hay should you feed your guinea pig?
How much hay can guinea pigs eat?
They like to nibble all the time they are awake, however like humans they need vitamin c. so hay alone is not appropriate.
How much food do guinea pigs need or should have daily?
You should keep their cage with timothy hay and veggies all day they will eat when they want too.
Do guinea pigs eat hay and grass?
Is hay good for guinea pigs?
How much should guinea pigs drink and eat?
you just put in the food and water. Your guinea pig will eat and drink until it is full.
What daily foods can your guinea pig eat?
What does it mean when a guinea pig eats a lot of timothy hay?
Well, it usually means your piggy is healthy! guinea pigs LOVE timothy hay, and it should be available to them at all times.
How much orange can guinea pig eat?
The technical term is "pretty orange". The ratio would be 100% orange fur, to 0% other fur. Improved: Guinea pigs can eat as much as they like, physically. However, they should only eat about an eighth (1/8) of an orange a day.
What do guinea pigs eat and how much?
How much attention do guinea pigs need daily?
How do you know if a guinea pig is eating to much?
Why do guinea pigs have to eat timithy hay?
As it is edible for them and helps wear down their teeth. People feed timothy hay to guinea pigs that aren't pregnant or young as if you give a normal guinea pig alfalfa hay (which is for pregnant guinea pigs and young guinea pigs), it will be too high in calcium (I think) which is bad for them.
Is it a bad thing for guinea pigs to eat a lot of hay?
What will happen if a young guinea pig eats Timothy hay instead of alfalfa hay?
It could get indigestion? Only feed your hamster what the store you bought them from tells you to or what the vet recommends. Mine eats pellets though and sometimes I give it sunflower seeds but this is already an adult hamster.
What do you do when the guinea pig will not eat and does not move much?
He is probably sick and you should take him to a vet. He could also be dieing but you cant do anything about that.
How much hay should you put in your guinea-pig cage?
What kind of hay do guinea pigs eat?
Can you give guinea pig hay?
What kind of hay does a guinea pig eat?
Timothy hay for an adult, alfalfa for a baby. There alternatives for timothy such as oat grass, but timothy hay is really best.
What kind of hay should a guinea pig eat?
Do Guinea Pigs have to eat fresh hay or can they just eat the hay pellets?
Three basic foods that guinea pigs must have 24/7 include: 1. Fresh Water 2. Fresh Hay 3. Guinea pig pellets Pellets are NO substitute for a hay.
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Even the best and brightest of leaders have blind spots, and often these unproductive behaviors that you may not see are visible to everyone else. These behaviors create consequences for you, your team and your company.
Here is a look at common blind spots and advice for recognizing and resolving them.
1. Going at it AloneSymptoms: Refusing offers of support, withdrawing from others, not talking about stresses or anxiety, and not including others in decision making.
Why it’s damaging: Isolating yourself creates anxiety and uncertainty to others, leaving room for frustrations to build and for people to fill in the blanks, spread rumors, and withdraw their efforts.
What to do: Talk to others about your tendencies to solve problems alone and ask them to point out when you are withdrawing, so you can stop excluding and start including.
2. An “I Know” AttitudeSymptoms: Having an answer for everything, fixed views, not listening, diminishing what others have to say, and arguing with anyone who does not share your point of view.
Why it’s damaging: Others feel devalued and angry. Innovation and creativity comes to a halt as the “I know” leader dominates the conversation and shoots down new ideas.
3. Treating Commitments CausallySymptoms: Not making or keeping commitments, not delivering when promised, not providing a clear commitment, and making casual promises without the intent to keep them.
Why it’s damaging: People can no longer trust your word, and it reduces your credibility. The environment becomes overrun with sloppy promises, accepting excuses over results, and not holding each other accountable.
What to do: Be absolutely clear about what you are committing to. If you must take back a commitment do so prior to the promised deadline and take accountability for your impact.
4. Not taking a standSymptoms: Lacking clarity and direction on issues, not making decisions, reversing decisions already made, and lack of decisiveness.
Why it’s damaging: Confidence is lost in leaders who wait for consensus, are slow to reach decisions, or are unclear on their stance. Others spend their time trying to second guess what you really want.
What to do: Be clear about what you want and are willing to commit to, and stop making others read your mind.
Why it’s damaging: Others see their leader not demanding excellence and become discouraged. People want to be on a winning team and leaders lose support as people adopt a “nothing is ever going to change” attitude.
What to do: Take a look at why you are holding back. Why is this idea as good as it gets? Raise your level of leadership awareness and lead by example. This will inspire others.
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"Václav Neumann recorded Mahler's fifth symphony twice (as he also did with the seventh, sixth, and ninth symphonies ). The present recording, recently released in a new incarnation from Berlin Classics in their "Basics" series (check Amazon in Germany or GB for availability - but it is also included in the Brilliant Classics Mahler set: Mahler: The Complete Symphonies (Box Set)) , was recorded with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in 1967. Later, in the late seventies and early eighties, Neumann recorded a complete cycle for Supraphon: Gustav Mahler: Symphonies. Even if that later recording of the fifth (1977) also has its merits, it is no match for the present outstanding recording.
First, Neumann's interpretation is of higher voltage in the earlier Berlin Classics recording. This is especially evident in the adagietto, a beautiful, intense, and flowing performance, which stops at 9.40. But, of course, the other movements are also stunning. Second, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 1967 is superior to Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in their 1977 incarnation. Third, the Berlin Classic recording is technically superior, with its spacious and warm analogue sound.
Now the catalogue of fifths is crowded with excellent performances; Barshai (Brilliant Classics), Kubelik (Tahra, DG, Audite), Walter (SONY), and Schwarz (Everest), just to name a few. But after listening to this performance several times, I want to rank it among the finest on record. I think it needs to be rediscovered - as also is the case with his other early Mahler recordings (the seventh and ninth in particular, which are both outstanding).
One of the highest peaks in M5 performances.
is among the very best of this symphony and an absolute recommendation.
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I am confused by the powder line, I use Multicoat system with F4 gun, the powder feeder is Twin-120-A. do we need to change the powder line every time when we spray the bondcoat and topcoat? Is there a solution for this situation, we can spray the bondcoat and topcoat without change the powder line.
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Does our solar system move through the universe like a cloud moves through the sky or are we completely stationary?
Our solar system orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, is rotating and our solar system lies in one of the spiral arms of the galaxy. The solar system is orbiting around the centre of the galaxy. It takes the solar system 225-250 million years to complete an orbit. This is sometimes referred to as a cosmic year.
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A sports reporter, Warwick Lane is calling on people to potentially save lives by joining the stem cell register.
The 25-year-old from Newark is teaming up with Anthony Nolan in a bid to find matches for people across the world.
Warwick was first diagnosed with blood cancer acute myeloid leukaemia in April 2017.
He underwent four rounds of chemotherapy, which brought him to remission by the time he left Nottingham City Hospital five months later.
Following a routine blood test in July, his doctors found the leukaemia cells were once again present in his blood.
A further bone marrow biopsy confirmed the cancer had returned, with Warwick returning to hospital to start further treatment.
'The phone call to tell me they had found these cells in my blood was completely devastating because I knew how hard I had worked to beat this illness the first time around,' he said.
'Everything in life was falling into place perfectly, and then in a matter of moments everything had stopped.
As part of his treatment, he will have to undergo a stem cell transplant, which is hoped will prevent further recurrence of leukaemia in the future. Warwick will receive cells from a healthy person, with the same tissue type, to replace and repair his own damaged cells.
'My doctors have told me that I have a healthy number of matches for my bone marrow, which has taken a huge weight off my mind,' Warwick said.
'I consider myself one of the lucky ones. There will be people like me out there who will be hoping and praying that a match comes through.
Following his initial treatment, Warwick had taken up running and was due to compete in the Newark Half Marathon this weekend for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Fliers promoting Anthony Nolan will be distributed in bags at the end of the race, while the charity will be at the event in Scone and Devon Park from 8:30-12:30pm, recruiting people at the event to join the register. Anyone who can't make it can also sign up online.
Similar plans are being touted for the Bassingham Bash on September 1, where Warwick was also due to run.
'People often ask me what they can do to help,' Warwick said. "I'm not the kind of person who asks for much from others but seeing people get behind this and on the donors list would be incredibly humbling.
'I have made some great friendships with people in the sporting world during the years I've worked here, and it would be great to see as many individuals, clubs and teams get involved as possible.
'The messages of support I have received from everyone has once again been overwhelming.
'Offering to donate your bone marrow to help someone in need would be the best practical way to help and the biggest gift you could give.
Warwick is already looking at life beyond cancer and is hoping to one day compete in the likes of tennis and badminton at the British Transplant Games.
'Warwick is bravely sharing his story to raise awareness and support the 2,000 people each year who, like him, need a stem cell transplant. I would encourage anyone who is aged between 16-30 and in good health to consider joining the Anthony Nolan register.
'Joining the register involves filling out a form and swabbing your cheeks. If you are a match for someone, 90% of stem cell donations take place via the bloodstream in a straightforward process.
'We particularly need more young men to join the register. They account for more than half of all donations but make up just 16% of the register,' said Alex.
At the weekend we will be recruiting people to the register at Newark Half Marathon. Be one of #WarwicksWarriors and spread the word among your friends and family.
Find out more about joining the stem cell register.
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I know this is not a very pleasant subject but crime is everywhere!!
We heard there are groups of men and young kids that will surround you and push you around then steal your wallet, cellphone and whatever else they can lay their hands on, specially at the stations, mad: ....so how do we prevent this ??
Yes, it is not a pleasant subject but it is everywhere in the world you travel. If you look lost, sleepy or just not attentive in a large mass of people, you can be targeted.
Personally, I've felt quite safe in Italy, even when walking alone through the cities, including Florence, Milan and Rome and Venice. I'd say I'd be more careful in Milan and Rome, just because there are lots more tourists around as well as locals so just more people in general. This just means being aware and looking around you at people too, not just the monuments!
- train stations are hubs of mass people so it is easy for them to grab and then run - make sure you have all your belongings close to you, and a good grip on suitcases at all times. Stay on the lookout, and attentive. They prey on those that look tired and maybe sleepy. Even if you've never been into a city, all train stations look and work the same way - the tracks where the trains arrive, the only exit is toward the station, large boards indicating arrivals and departures, the central ticket office. If you look arrive and look for the info on the boards and head to your track, you already look like you know what you're doing and attentive.
- bags and cameras: keep bags/backpacks closed with the zipper, it makes it harder for anyone to stick their hand in without you realizing it. Keep bags across your chest and in front, not in the back, if you ride public transportation.
I tend to keep camera out when I am out and about, keeping bag closed so that I don't forget and leave it open.
- if you're ever surrounded by kids asking for money, get away and don't try to say no or reason with them. They are used as distractions while generally an adult grabs something else. This generally happens when there aren't too many people about, so stick to the main streets at night. During the day all of the cities have lots of people about, just try to not too mixed in with crowds where you are touching other people - a pickpocket loves those! I've heard the bus line in Rome that heads to the Vatican can get really crowded and thus targeted by pickpockets... I've ridden it, it was crowded but I just put my backpack in front of me and went to stand by a window, so that I wasn't pressed on all sides by others. Easier to keep a lookout for unwanted "touching" that pickpockets do.
- keep money and cards divided, among wallet, purse, pockets... never carry everything all together. You don't want to take out ever and show large quantities of money on the streets, like if you're at a market.
In the almost 15 years that I've been in Italy, I've been robbed once here in Florence and it wasn't in the center where the tourists hang out - I was on my bike, feeling very relaxed and happy and heading home after I had just visited Palazzo Vecchio. I placed my bag into the bike basket without thinking about it. I realized only later I was being followed by two on a scooter, who waited until I was out of any crowd, pulled along me and the one in the back just stuck his hand in the basket and they took off with my bag. I lost my camera, phone and wallet and I was so sad but I've learned to be more vigilant of my surroundings now, I was definitely distracted that day and should have heard them behind me for a while. I also no longer place my bag anywhere else other than on my body!
If anyone can add any other tips or suggestions, please do!! Traveling is lots of fun, we just have to remember to stay attentive and generally we can avoid the unpleasant experience of having anything of ours, or ourselves, taken advantage of!
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What is the level of emissions caused by Dutch aviation?
The Dutch aviation sector was responsible for almost 13 billion kg in CO2 emissions. This includes emissions in airspaces outside of the Netherlands. It does not include emissions by foreign airlines flying to and from the Netherlands. In recent years, aviation has accounted for approximately 6.5 percent of total CO2 emissions by the Dutch economy. The contribution made by aviation to total greenhouse gas emissions, in so-called greenhouse gas equivalents, has been lower, namely slightly under 6 percent. This is due to limited emissions of nitrous oxide and methane in aviation.
CO2 emission levels from aviation activities are closely linked to the number of aircraft movements, in turn related to economic developments. The rate at which CO2 emissions increase has clearly levelled off after 2000.
Emissions from international aviation activities are not included in the IPCC calculations of greenhouse gas emissions and fall outside the scope of the Paris climate agreement.
In 2016, nitrogen oxide emissions from aviation activities amounted to nearly 75 million kg. In recent years, aviation has accounted for approximately 16 percent of total nitrogen oxide emissions by the Dutch economy. The contribution to total emissions of acidifying substances - in so-called acid equivalents - is smaller, around 9 percent. This is due to the fact that aviation releases relatively little sulphur oxide and zero ammonia emissions.
Compared to CO2 emissions, nitrogen oxide emissions are less closely linked to the number of aircraft movements. Emissions of nitrogen oxide increased sharply over the years 2012-2015. This was followed by a decline in 2016.
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Help positioning my website in the first or second page of google search.
Hello, i need help positionating my website on google.
I really need that in a month or two the website appear at least in 4th page when the people search the keywords. If that happened i can have work for 3 months or 4 months.
My website it's kinda special, because it have a lot of "competitors".
Actually, i have sitemaps, analytics, responsive site, search console, robots.txt.
Please read the description and says if you can help me. I need a person who can accept the challenge.
The keywords would be: youtube mp4 online, youtube video downloader online, youtube 3gp online, youtube webm online, youtube video converter online, youtube flv converter online.
Please i need a person who really can help, i know i am paying less, but i don't have more.
I can pay 45$ per week, but before i release the milestone, i will need a document that contains your work for that week ( i don't care if you only take 4 hours or 2 days per week).
Thanks for read the description.
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Automated software testing is becoming more and more important for many software projects in order to automatically verify key functionality, test for regressions and help teams run a large number of tests in a short period of time. With the growing number of web-based applications this is changing, however, as verifying and testing web-based interfaces is easier and there are various tools that help with this, including free open source projects..
Selenium is a popular automated web testing tool and helps you automate web browsers across different platforms. Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who have taken steps to make Selenium a native part of their browser.
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This article is about the administrative body formed in 2000. For the similar body that existed until 1986, see Greater London Council.
The Greater London Authority (GLA), also known as City Hall, is the devolved regional governance body of London, with jurisdiction over both counties of Greater London and the City of London. It consists of two political branches: the executive Mayoralty (currently led by Sadiq Khan) and the 25-member London Assembly, which serves as a means of checks and balances on the former. Since May 2016, both branches have been under the control of the London Labour Party. The authority was established in 2000, following a local referendum, and derives most of its powers from the Greater London Authority Act 1999 and the Greater London Authority Act 2007.
It is a strategic regional authority, with powers over transport, policing, economic development, and fire and emergency planning. Three functional bodies — Transport for London, the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and the London Fire Commissioner — are responsible for delivery of services in these areas. The planning policies of the Mayor of London are detailed in a statutory London Plan that is regularly updated and published.
The Greater London Authority is mostly funded by direct government grant and it is also a precepting authority, with some money collected with local Council Tax. The GLA is unique in the British devolved and local government system, in terms of structure (it uses a presidential system-esque model), elections and selection of powers. The authority was established to replace a range of joint boards and quangos and provided an elected upper tier of local government in London for the first time since the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986.
The GLA is responsible for the strategic administration of the 1579 km² (610 sq. miles) of Greater London. It shares local government powers with the councils of 32 London boroughs and the City of London Corporation. It was created to improve the co-ordination between the local authorities in Greater London, and the Mayor of London's role is to give London a single person to represent it. The Mayor proposes policy and the GLA's budget, and makes appointments to the capital's strategic executive such as Transport for London. The primary purpose of the London Assembly is to hold the Mayor of London to account by scrutiny of his or her actions and decisions. The assembly must also accept or amend the Mayor's budget on an annual basis. The GLA is based at City Hall, a new building on the south bank of the River Thames, next to Tower Bridge.
The GLA is different from the Corporation of the City of London with its largely ceremonial Lord Mayors, which controls only the Square Mile of the City, London's chief financial centre.
In 1986, the Greater London Council was abolished by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. Many people have surmised that the decision to abolish the GLC was made because of the existence of a high-spending left-wing Labour administration under Ken Livingstone, although pressure for the abolition of the GLC had arisen before Mr Livingstone took over, and was largely driven by the belief among the outer London Borough councils that they could perform the functions of the GLC just as well.
The Labour party adopted a policy of a single, directly elected Mayor (a policy first suggested by Tony Banks in 1990), together with an elected Assembly watching over the Mayor; this model, based on American cities, was partly aimed at making sure the new body resembled the erstwhile GLC as little as possible. After the Labour party won the 1997 general election, the policy was outlined in a White paper entitled A Mayor and Assembly for London (March 1998).
Simultaneously with the elections to the London Borough councils, a referendum was held on the establishment of the GLA in May 1998, which was approved with 72% of the vote. The Greater London Authority Act 1999 passed through Parliament, receiving the Royal Assent in October 1999. In a controversial election campaign, the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, attempted to block Livingstone's nomination and imposed his own candidate. In reaction, Livingstone stood as an independent candidate, resulting in his expulsion from the Labour Party and in March 2000, was elected as Mayor of London. Following an interim period in which the Mayor and Assembly had been elected but had no powers, the GLA was formally established on 3 July 2000.
Transport for London (TfL) – Responsible for managing most aspects of London's transport system, including public transport, main roads, and traffic management, and administering the London congestion charge.
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime – Responsible for overseeing the Metropolitan Police Service, which provides policing throughout Greater London. Replaced the Metropolitan Police Authority in January 2012 under the provisions of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
The London Fire Commissioner – Administers the London Fire Brigade and co-ordinates emergency planning. Until April 2017 this was the responsibility of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA).
The London Legacy Development Corporation and Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, which are Mayoral development corporations. Before April 2012 the London Development Agency (LDA) was responsible for development across London but was wound up following the Localism Act 2011. The London Legacy Development Corporation and Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation were set up using powers in the Localism Act to create Mayoral development corporations.
In November 2005, the government published a consultation document reviewing the powers of the GLA, making proposals for additional powers, including waste management, planning, housing, and learning and skills. The result of the consultation and final proposals were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 13 July 2006.
As of 2006, London generates 42 million tonnes of carbon emissions per year, 7% of the UK's total. 44% of this comes from housing, 28% from commercial premises, 21% from transport, and 7% from industry.
The Mayor's energy strategy planned to cut carbon emission levels by 20% by 2010 and 60% by 2050 (although achieving the first of these targets is unlikely).[needs update] Measures taken to achieve this have included the creation of the London Climate Change Agency, the London Energy Partnership and the founding of the international Large Cities Climate Leadership Group.
The London Sustainable Development Commission has calculated that for housing to meet the 60% target, all new developments would have to be constructed to be carbon-neutral with immediate effect (using zero energy building techniques), in addition to cutting energy used in existing housing by 40%.
After the 2016 elections, Labour has the largest representation on the GLA with the mayor as well as twelve assembly members, followed by eight from the Conservatives, two Greens, two UKIP, and one from the Liberal Democrats.
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If you're like me, when you travel you don't want to just do the touristy things that are safe on land. You might also be looking for the more exciting things that a destination has to offer. From snorkeling, to bungee jumping, and even whitewater rafting, if you want to capture these amazing experiences you are going to need a camera that can take the beating that some of these activities can cause.
Now everyone knows just how well the GoPro cameras are at holding up to the elements. They are used to film everything you can think of, and have even been found underwater two years after someone lost the camera, only to find out the data was safe. Aside from their durability, the GoPro series of cameras offers a vast array of mounts, grips, and other ways to ensure that you get everything you are looking to capture. From grips, to tripod mounts, floating mounts, and even dome mounts for those amazing underwater/above water shots at the same time. These are a versatile camera that offers up to 4K shooting for video, in a small package.
That is why I wanted to talk about using the GoPro Hero 5 Black camera (this should also work with the Hero 6) as a vlogging camera. Especially for traveling, this is probably a camera that cant be beat for its versatility, especially for the money. So, the items that you will need to allow yourself to use the Hero 5 Black as a vlogging camera are; the Hero 5 Black, a housing for the camera that offers a cold shoe mount, a grip/tripod to hold, the external mic adapter, and an external mic. Now, lets break down the parts one by one.
The other main component of this is the microphone. Now, don't skimp and buy the cheapest one, because sound quality is way more important than you would think in a video. The Rode VideoMic Mini offers great sound, needs no batteries, and is smaller in size which is great for someone vlogging while traveling.
This is the piece that really ties everything together. Without the housing to hold the microphone above the GoPro, and to mount the flex mount or other grip to, you wouldn't be able to vlog really. There are many options on the market, but this is the one I use.
Obviously this is the most important part of this vlogging setup, but the camera is a versatile work horse in my experience. This waterproof and rugged camera can film up to 4K, and will allow you to use it almost anywhere. What other vlogging setup can have the mic taken off and be used in the water to capture amazing shots? None.
This is my favorite way to grip my GoPro while using it for vlogging. This flexible tripod mount allows you to put the camera up and way with a bend in the tripod, making your arm holding it not so visible, but keeping you perfectly in the shot. It is also from a great company that makes tons of other awesome mounts for all GoPros.
Now the only other piece of gear that you are going to need is the GoPro external microphone adapter. Unfortunately, GoPro charges $50 or so for this piece of gear, but it is a necessary evil that you are going to need. As others have found, most generic adapters do not work with the Hero 5 Black, so you are really stuck paying that price.
The best part of this is that the total cost, excluding SD card and spare batteries is only $373. That is a small investment in comparison to even the Canon T6i Creator Bundle, that is over $600. GoPro's are easy to learn, offer a wide variety of uses, and are compact enough to even fit in a pocket while traveling. Keeping you vlogging longer, and having more fun.
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She also recommends women speak with a licensed therapist for advice.“It’s important to find your emotional center and get strong emotionally, so you can figure out who you are and what your goals are when it comes to dating.As Heather explains, “Women need to dedicate time for physical health.A date is always an exciting event, especially when you’re young – it brings so many new emotions.I notice that lots of people who were married for maybe 10 years or less seem to say…we got married early, found out it didn’t work, and then later remarried and have found long term, happiness with their next partner/spouse. ) increase the number of potential men for you, but I think you will see that age is only a number, unlike it was, say if you were 30, dating a 20 year old. Go on dates, but don’t force the serious relationship. What I also notice is that I don’t seem to hear any/as many happy stories about people (like me) who were married 20-25 years, got divorced, and then found happiness/ marriage, etc again. I have always believed that 50’s is in fact, no-man’s land, whether you are single, married, divorced or widowed, the reason being that you aren’t really young anymore, but you aren’t old either. I am me and all I can do is live life to my potential. The thing that bothered me most about your email is this part: You write: “found happiness/marriage etc. You were smart enough to avoid jumping right back into the dating scene while the wounds were fresh.Now that you have spent long enough putting the pieces back together, what next? And how do you go about meeting women now that you are older?
As I look forward and begin to think about the possibility of future relationships, I can see that dating over 50 might be difficult. So, not only does a large age range, (let’s say 42-57 perhaps?
As she explains, “As a caveat, when a woman navigates life after divorce, it really is about creating a starting point around these four priorities in her new found identity/chapter, where she is no longer in a relationship.
The goal is to create a fulfilling life for herself – whether she ends up in another relationship or not – where these pillars encompass her life.” Before ending up with her current partner, Heather’s dating experiences ran the gamut of good and bad, and she learned a lot along the way.
Anyway, here are a few tips that can help you make your dating experience after divorce less painful.
Even if you’re over 40, there’s still hope for you.
Civil unrest, warfare, and foreign invasions added to the difficulties.
After leaving his shoe on top of a car, Bean finds himself hopping around town to retrieve it.
Make men believe the relationship is starting to slow down a little, not sure what will evolve and not really.
In my opinion squeezing too hard during masterbation can do the same thing.
The groom, 31, graduated in 2004 from Cocalico High School in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and earned a BA in communications from Temple University Honors Program. The bride resides in South Amboy, New Jersey; the groom, in Carteret, New Jersey.
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What is the added value for me to be in this forum ?
All input provides value as long as those who receive it are open to perspectives which may be different than their own. It's an opportunity for all involved to learn and from that, new potentials are born.
Exchanging ideas on the fly and in real time with a group of credible peers sparks new ideas that are useful not only to the group asking the question but to me personally as well. Some of the best creative thinking is born this way.
We get to share in your knowledge and experience. Hopefully you can derive some value from our input. Only time will tell but my own experience is that participation has been useful.
Such interaction helps to stretch us, reduce our blind spots, and provide opportunities to leverage our gifts to inform others and mutually sharpen thoughts, ideas, and plans with other key influencers.
Give and Take, share and exchange, and this all is knowledge. If we have knowledge and expertise, its not meant to be kept in closed doors or with yourself, it means we need to share it with others and learn from experience and expertise of others. That's what this forum is all about.
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During the last Ice Age, glaciers covered the ocean as well as the land, killing photosynthetic algae that lived in the ocean. With algae in small numbers, they were able to remove only a fraction of CO2 from the atmosphere. With no check on its accumulation, CO2 increased in the atmosphere, causing the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect ended the Late Proterozoic Ice Age roughly 550 million years ago, inaugurating a new warm period. The lush plant growth of the Carboniferous Era (350-280 million years ago) confirms that the climate was warm and that CO2, essential for plant growth, was abundant. Around 230 million years ago, the continents gathered into a single landmass called Pangea. Being near the equator, Pangea's climate was tropical. Even warmer was the Cretaceous Era (135-65 million years ago). Temperatures soared 20 degrees F (11 degrees C) warmer than in the current era. Forests covered Antarctica. Ocean currents again carried warm water to the poles. The transit of warm water to the poles caused polar water to be only 40 degrees F (4 degrees C) cooler than equatorial waters. The difference today is 75 degrees F (24 degrees C). The water at the bottom of the ocean, now near freezing, was then 25 degrees F (14 degrees C) warmer. Coral reef, which requires warm water to survive, grew 1,000 mi. (1,609 km.) closer to the poles than it does today. Antarctica was warm enough to support the growth of forests.
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How often does a person stop and think about how the parts of his or her body are connected? The chances are there are not that many points throughout the day that a person stops and thinks about his or her body unless there is need such as personal injury or bodily harm done. The truth is that the body is designed to work together and when one area of the body is struggling other body parts could be affected as well. Neuropathy is one of those conditions that could affect other parts of the body.
Neuropathy is a complex condition of the nerves that affects the mobility of the hands and feet as well as the joints. When neuropathy develops in the body, it implies that somewhere along the peripheral nervous system damage has occurred and it is now affecting other areas of the body such as the hands and the feet. Neuropathy is when there is a breakdown in communication between the brain, spinal cord and nerve cell endings; when there is a breakdown in communication between the brain and the nerve cell endings the brain is slower to respond to the nerve cell endings causing a delay in communication thus leaving the nerve cells prone to injury.
Neuropathy in feet is when the nerve cell damage occurs mostly in the foot area making it difficult for the feet to sense and feel things correctly therefore leaving them prone to further complications such as injury, infection or amputation. Neuropathy in feet is one of the areas of the body that is affected by neuropathy and treating neuropathy is crucial to the betterment of life as well as decreasing the amount of pain and limitations that neuropathy can have. Foot hygiene is a crucial part of neuropathy in feet treatment and maintaining good foot hygiene can reduce the chances of amputation due to infection.
Neuropathy in feet treatment could also include acupuncture, electrical nerve stimulation and even the use of prescription medications or herbal supplements. Neuropathy in feet can be very painful and it is important that those who have been diagnosed with it stay in communication with his or her medical professional so as to avoid a complete loss of mobility.
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Alright, I'm heading home for Thanksgiving, and am going to try to explain to my kids what this holiday is all about. If the explanations I've given to foreign friends of ours is any indication, it's not gonna go over well.
We're thankful for native Americans having helped our forefathers survive harsh winters upon arrival in North America, the same native Americans whose populations were decimated by our guns and germs in the ensuing decades, but we're still thankful darnit!
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Here is a question that I get asked often.
Q. My allergies have really been bothering me lately. I noticed that goldenrod is in bloom and wondered if that was the culprit. It's a pretty plant but do we need to try to keep it from blooming?
A. Allergies are bad this year but goldenrod is not the problem. Goldenrod has heavy pollen that doesn't blow around and cause allergies. It is simply a beautiful wildflower and excellent for attracting beneficial insects including the pollinators. The bad plant and the culprit in this case is ragweed, both common ragweed and giant ragweed. Its white flowers do have some positive attributes but probably more negatives.
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Tropical houseplants can be very easy to care for over the long run if you make sure to give your tropical houseplants a proper start. Many agree that the initial efforts to ensure that your tropical houseplants are given a good start are well worth the rewards that a tropical houseplant gives. Tropical houseplants are a cost effective way to clean indoor air in addition to being aesthetically appealing. According to a NASA study, it is suggested that at least one potted plant per 100 square feet of home or office space is needed to be an effective air cleaner.
Some of the most important factors that need to be considered when caring for a houseplant are listed below. In order to find which factors are most important to the growth of the individual tropical houseplants that you wish to have, look for a care tag that should be on the plant at the time that you purchase it. These tags often describe specific precautions that need to be taken in the case of that specific plant.
1.Be careful that you do not under-water or over-water your plants. The benefit of buying houseplants is that they are forgiving if you are not perfect at watering them. So long as you notice the signs of over and under-watering you can correct a potential problem before anything serious happens to your plant.
2.You can determine whether or not the plant needs to be watered by checking to see how moist the soil is.
3.A typical houseplant needs to be watered only once a week. You may need to water your plant a little more or a little less but anything too drastic does more harm than good.
4.When watering, do so evenly so that all of the soil is completely saturated.
5.Use a good potting soil when you pot your plants. Houseplants need soil that contains and promotes nutrients, adequate drainage, and proper aeration.
6.Light is an essential part of what keeps plants alive. Houseplants cannot create the energy that they need to grow of they do not have light to fuel the process of photosynthesis.
7.Different tropical houseplants need different amounts of light. For those plants that need more light a southern facing window will have the most sunlight. For plants that need only a little exposure to the sun, try placing them on a western or eastern facing window.
8.Fluorescent lighting actually provides adequate light quality for your indoor plants so houseplants can technically grow even if there is no window nearby.
9.Lighting needs for tropical houseplants can range from 8 hours a day to 16 hours a day depending on the plant and the season.
10.The ideal temperature for growing tropical houseplants is between 60-80 degrees. Most households are between these temperatures anyway. This is why the average person can care for a tropical houseplant without ever leaving home.
11.Using a fertilizer on your tropical houseplants can help to jumpstart their growth and make for a more lush plant. Make sure that you buy the proper kind of fertilizer and that it is used according to the directions that come with the fertilizer.
12.The pot that you choose to plant your houseplant in will be a deciding factor in how large it is able to grow. Small pots do not allow for too much plant growth while plants can spread to fill larger pots.
13.You want to make sure that you pot your houseplant in a pot that does not restrict air flow and that allows for proper drainage. Not allowing for drainage means having your tropical houseplant susceptible to root rot.
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Were the LD-ROM² BIOS ever dumped into ROM images?
An add-on for the TurboGrafx-16 console, the TurboGrafx-CD was the first-ever consumer device to use CD-ROMs as storage media for video games. Released as the PC Engine CD-ROM² System in Japan (that's "cee dee rom rom" by the way, not "cee dee rom two" or "cee dee rom squared"), it was a success in its native country, where it got to the point that more PC Engine games ultimately ended up being released on CD-ROM than on the initial HuCard format. Unfortunately for NEC, this same level of success did not translate well in the U.S. due to the TurboGrafx-16 itself being a commercial failure in the states.
There were four versions of the System Card BIOS, plus two regional variants for the U.S., with the fourth and final version adding support for Super CD-ROM² discs.
Inside all of the system cards is the following message. For example, it can be found at 0x3FAE0 in US System Card v. 2.0. This can also be seen in most, if not all, games for the TurboGrafx-CD.
System Card Version 1.0 was included with the launch shipments of the CD-ROM² Interface Unit in 1988 (which did not include the actual CD drive, by the way; that had to be bought separately). Note the lack of a superscript 2 next to "CD-ROM" in the title, which was added in subsequent revisions.
Exclusive to this version is a hidden debug mode, which is accessible by holding Up-Right + I + II on the controller and pressing Select. This debug screen allows user to modify save data stored inside the System Card's memory backup. This debugging mode would be disabled in subsequent revisions.
Version 2.0 was included in later shipments of the CD-ROM² System sometime in 1989 (around the time they started selling the Interface Unit and CD drive as a set). It served as the basis for the TurboGrafx-CD BIOS, which features a different title screen to go along with the different naming of the platform and its add-on in the U.S. Unlike HuCards, CD-ROM² discs are all region-free.
Version 2.0 introduced support for CD+G discs, allowing users to turn their consoles into a karaoke machine.
System Card Version 2.1, released in 1990 exclusively in Japan, was the first System Card that was sold as a stand-alone, intended to be a replacement for users who had their original System Cards lost or damaged. Its only new feature was its ability to auto-detect disc changes.
The Version 3.0 BIOS was launched in Japan in 1991. It was initially available built-in with the PC Engine Duo, a model of the console with an integrated CD drive, but was quickly offered as an upgrade to owners of the original CD-ROM² System in the form of the Super System Card, and later as an updated model of the add-on itself known as the Super CD-ROM² unit. The later models of the Duo (Duo-R and Duo-RX) also have this BIOS built-in. Version 3.0 increases the amount of buffer RAM from 64kB to 256kB, hence the addition of the word Super. Games that required this BIOS, which are labelled Super CD-ROM² discs, will display an incompatibility notice when loaded on a prior System Card.
This BIOS was released in the U.S. 1992 and was similarly offered built-in with the Turbo Duo (the U.S. version of the PC Engine Duo) or as an upgrade for the TurboGrafx-16/CD in the form of the Super System Card (which was available primarily as a mail order). For the U.S. version of this BIOS, NEC went through the bare minimum effort of localizing it by simply removing the "PC Engine" from the title screen. This was due to distribution of TurboGrafx-16 software and hardware shifting from NEC's U.S. subsidiary to Turbo Technologies Inc. (a joint venture between NEC and Hudson Soft), who opted to abandon the TurboGrafx-CD branding for the CD games in favor of keeping the CD-ROM² and Super CD-ROM² branding used in Japan.
The Arcade Cards, released in 1994, were the final set of upgrades to the PC Engine CD-ROM² System and came in two variants. The Arcade Card Duo, designed for PC Engine consoles equipped with the Super CD-ROM², adds 16-Megabits of D-RAM on top of the 256kB of buffer RAM within the hardware. Unlike previous System Cards, the change was purely on a hardware level and there was no BIOS update this time, keeping it strictly on Version 3.0. People who were still using a PC Engine console with the original CD-ROM² System add-on could opt for the Arcade Card Pro instead, which essentially combines the functionalities of the Arcade Card Duo and the Super System Card into one by adding the 16-Megabits of D-RAM from the former on the top of the 192kB of added buffer RAM and BIOS update from the latter. Arcade CD-ROM² discs, which are games that require an Arcade Card, will display an incompatibility notice after loading if the hardware setup does not meet the requirements.
The Arcade Cards were never released in U.S., as both the TurboGrafx-16 and Turbo Duo were already discontinued by 1994. However, a Japanese Arcade Card can be used on a U.S. console through a gray market converter or by installing a region mod into the console, allowing it to play Arcade CD-ROM² discs. As with the Japanese consoles, the Turbo Duo requires the Arcade Card Duo, while the TurboGrafx-16/CD combo requires the Arcade Card Pro.
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1. The young man often left his wife for a time.
2. In these times his wife felt unhappy and insecure.
@ 1: The first expression is probably ok. But is it quite common to use it or would it be better to say "for a certain/indefinite (period of) time?
@ 2: The second expression would probably not be acceptable. Have you got any suggestions how to express this idea? "During this period of time" / "During this time"?
Looking forward to your replies!
This is a common expression that indicates a certain period of time which is not specified. Usually, we think of it as a short period of time, perhaps any amount up to a month or so, but usually not much longer than that.
This phrase is used most often to refer to the time period we are living in at the moment, which would be a range of time. An example might be anything in the last ten years. Your examples of: "During this period of time" / "During this time", would work very well for this.
But it could also mean any year during what we call the modern era, which could be the last one hundred years. It isn't definite.
However, since the sentence you use as an example mentions a wife, "in these times" would refer to the time period that is being discussed which involves the wife, so it would be a short time period. Context would explain which time period you mean.
Yes - it's a matter of what "In these times" refers to - usually, on its own (not defined in another sentence) and means "these days" or "in the present era" - it can be years long.
In these times, we use cars to move around; our ancestors used horses.
I think "These days" is much more common.
The young man often left his wife for a time. In these times his wife felt unhappy and insecure.
"For a time" is "for a relatively short period of time". As FounDit says, I wouldn't use it for more than a month. If it were a month or two, I'd say "The young man often left his wife for some time."
In this short paragraph, "In these times" means "In the times he left her alone".
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For the Rebirth comic book, see [[:The Flash (2016)]].
The Flash is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name. The character's first incarnation, Jay Garrick, first appeared in Flash Comics #1. When the Silver Age Flash Barry Allen was introduced, that character took over Flash Comics numbering and the series was retitled as The Flash.
Although the Flash is a mainstay in the DC Comics stable, the series has been canceled and rebooted eight times. The first series featuring Barry Allen was canceled at issue #350 in the event of the character's death in the universe altering event Crisis on Infinite Earths. When Wally West succeeded Allen as the Flash, a new series began with new numbering in June 1987. That series was briefly canceled in 2006 in the wake of the Infinite Crisis event, but was restarted with its original numbering in 2007, only to be canceled again in 2008 in the wake of Barry Allen's return in Final Crisis and The Flash: Rebirth. The series was revived for a third volume by writer Geoff Johns and artist Francis Manapul after the completion of the Blackest Night event in 2010. A fourth volume was launched in 2011 as part of The New 52. A fifth volume was launched in 2016 as part of DC Rebirth.
Volume 1 starred Barry Allen as the Flash and the series assumed the numbering of the original Flash Comics with issue #105 (March 1959) written by John Broome and drawn by Carmine Infantino. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "The Flash" was a streamlined, modernized version of much that had gone before, but done with such care and flair that the character seemed new to a new generation of fans. The Broome and Infantino collaboration saw the introduction of several supervillains many of whom became part of the Rogues. The Mirror Master first appeared in issue #105 and the following issue saw the debuts of Gorilla Grodd and the Pied Piper. Captain Boomerang first challenged the Flash in issue #117 (December 1960) and the 64th century villain Abra Kadabra was introduced in issue #128 (May 1962). Another villain from the future, Professor Zoom first appeared in issue #139 (September 1963).
Kid Flash and the Elongated Man were respectively introduced in issues #110 and 112 as allies of the Flash. One of the most notable issues of this era was issue #123 (September 1961), which featured the story titled "Flash of Two Worlds". In it, Allen meets his inspiration Jay Garrick, after accidentally being transported to a parallel universe where Garrick existed. In this previous continuity, Garrick and the other characters of the Golden Age only existed as comics characters in the mainline shared universe. This brought about a new concept in the formative stage of what would become the DC Universe, and gave birth to the current conceptualization featuring it as a multiverse.
Barry Allen married his longtime love interest Iris West in issue #165 (November 1966). Infantino's last issue was #174 (November 1967) and the next issue saw Ross Andru become the new artist of the series as well as featuring the second race between the Flash and Superman, two characters known for their super-speed powers.
The series presented metafictional stories featuring comics creators appearing within the Flash's adventures such as the "Flash — Fact Or Fiction" in issue #179 in which the Flash finds himself on "Earth Prime". He contacts the "one man on Earth who might believe his fantastic story and give him the money he needs. The editor of that Flash comic mag !" Julius Schwartz helps the Flash build a cosmic treadmill so that he can return home. Several years later, the series' longtime writer Cary Bates wrote himself into the story in issue #228. Four months after the cancellation of his own title, Green Lantern began a backup feature in The Flash #217 (Aug.-Sept. 1972) and appeared in most issues through The Flash #246 (Jan. 1977) until his own solo series was revived. Schwartz, who had edited the title since 1959, left the series as of issue #269 (January 1979).
Bates wrote The Flash #275 (July 1979) wherein the title character's wife, Iris West Allen was killed. Don Heck became the artist of the series with issue #280 (Dec. 1979) and drew it until #295 (March 1981). The Flash #300 (Aug. 1981) was in the Dollar Comics format and featured a story by Bates and Infantino. Doctor Fate was featured in a series of back-up stories in The Flash from #306 (Feb. 1982) to #313 (Sept. 1982) written by Martin Pasko and Steve Gerber and drawn by Keith Giffen. A major shakeup occurred in the title in the mid-1980s. The Flash inadvertently kills his wife's murderer, the Reverse-Flash, in The Flash #324 (Aug. 1983). This led to an extended storyline titled "The Trial of the Flash" in which the hero must face the repercussions of his actions. Bates became the editor as well as the writer of The Flash title during this time and oversaw it until its cancellation in 1985. "The Trial of the Flash" was collected in a volume of the Showcase Presents series in 2011.
Shortly before Barry Allen's death in Crisis on Infinite Earths, the series was cancelled with issue #350 (October 1985). In the final issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wally West, previously known as Allen's sidekick Kid Flash, stated his intent to take up his uncle's mantle as the Flash.
Featuring Wally West as the main character, the Flash mostly operated out of Keystone City. The second series was launched by writer Mike Baron and artist Jackson Guice in June 1987. Featuring long runs most notably by writers Mark Waid and Geoff Johns, the second volume originally went in a different direction from the series starring Barry Allen by making Wally West more flawed. This Flash could not constantly maintain his super-speed because of his hypermetabolism, and would consume gargantuan amounts of food in order to continue operating at top speed. This metabolic limitation would later be continued into Barry Allen's character for the brief television series The Flash broadcast in 1990-91, as well as The Flash series which debuted in 2014, though to a lesser degree.
Mark Waid's tenure on the title in the 1990s brought back more traditional Flash aspects from Barry Allen's era by reforming the Rogues, some of which were new incarnations of old characters, and bringing more of a sci-fi/fantasy aspect that had been lost in Flash titles since Allen's departure. Waid made Wally West much more powerful in an attempt to take him out of Barry Allen and Jay Garrick's shadows. Waid and artist Mike Wieringo introduced Impulse in issue #92 (July 1994). Wally West married Linda Park in issue #142 (October 1998).
When writer Geoff Johns stepped aboard with issue #164 (September 2000), he refocused the character on some of the Silver Age aspects by spending single issues on building the psychology of the various Rogues. Johns created Zoom, the third of the Reverse-Flashes, and fleshed out the environmental character of Keystone City in an attempt to make it unique in comparison to other fictional DC cities such as Metropolis or Gotham City.
In the wake of the "One Year Later" event and Wally West's disappearance in Infinite Crisis, DC canceled The Flash vol. 2 with issue #230 (March 2006) in favor of a new series starring Bart Allen as the Flash. The new series, titled The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, ran only 13 issues and ended with Bart's death. Mark Waid returned to the title briefly in 2007 with the series resuming with #231 to bring about the return of Wally West but the series was canceled again at issue #247 in late 2008 with the return of Barry Allen in the event series Final Crisis. Spinning out of Final Crisis, writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver created The Flash: Rebirth, a 6-issue mini-series bringing Barry Allen back to a leading role in the DC Universe as the primary Flash. Barry Allen is also an integral character in the crossover event Blackest Night, and had a self-titled limited series tying into the main event.
Variant incentive cover for The Flash vol. 3, #1 (June 2010).
In 2010, DC Comics announced that after the completion of The Flash: Rebirth and Blackest Night, Geoff Johns would return to writing a new Flash ongoing series with artist Francis Manapul. In January 2010, DC Comics announced that the series' opening arc would be launched under the banner of Brightest Day, a line-wide aftermath story to the crossover "Blackest Night". In April 2010, DC released The Flash: Secret Files and Origins 2010 one-shot, setting the stage for the status quo of the new series. It was followed one week later with the release of The Flash vol. 3 #1. On June 1, 2011, it was announced that all series taking place within the shared DC Universe would be either canceled or relaunched with new #1 issues, after a new continuity was created in the wake of the Flashpoint event. The Flash was no exception, and the first issue of the new series was released on September 2011.
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, DC Comics relaunched The Flash with issue #1, with writing and art handled by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato. As with all of the titles associated with the DC relaunch, Barry Allen appears to be about five years younger than the previous incarnation of the character. Superheroes at large have appeared only in the past five years, and are viewed with at best, suspicion, and at worst, outright hostility. In this new continuity, Barry's marriage to Iris West never took place, and he is instead in a relationship with longtime co-worker Patty Spivot. In this new series, the Flash draws deeper into the Speed Force, enhancing his mental abilities while still trying to get a full grasp on his powers, which he doesn't yet exert total control over.
As revealed in issue #0 of this series, Barry Allen's father was placed in prison for the murder of his mother. While the evidence seems to indicate his father's guilt, Barry makes proving his father's innocence a priority. The murder occurred shortly after Barry returned victorious from a school spelling bee, and Barry placed the trophy he won on his mother's grave in her memory. Barry is also part of the main cast of the relaunched Justice League series, making his debut in the series' second issue.
Writers Robert Venditti and Van Jensen and artist Brett Booth became the new creative team on The Flash as of issue #30 (June 2014).
During DC Rebirth, Barry is no longer the only Flash. It is revealed that Wally West has been lost in the Speed Force for ten years, realizing during this time that Barry is not responsible of changing the timeline after the Flashpoint crisis, the unknown entity used Barry's time travelling as an opportunity to fundamentally alter reality. The fallout of the recent Darkseid War allowed Wally to try and reach out to his former friends in the hopes of either returning or warning them of the truth, but each attempt caused him to fall further into the Speed Force. After realizing not even Linda (his traditional "lightning rod") could remember him, Wally sank into desolation and chose to appear before Barry one last time to thank him for the life he had given him. Just before Wally disappeared, Barry remembered him and dragged him free of the Speed Force. Following a tearful reunion, Wally gave Barry his warning of the true source of the universal change and the dangers to come. Because of Wally, Barry is now aware that the timeline is not reset correctly after Flashpoint and thus another alternate timeline. However, he still cannot remember his pre-Flashpoint life, such as people like Jay Garrick and the details of his feuds with the Reverse-Flash / Eobard Thawne (who now remembers their pre-Flashpoint history), and remembers Wally from their new DC Rebirth timeline history. Despite being informed by Wally that another party is responsible, Barry remains in guilt over his mistakes, and seeks to find and stop them in hopes of making amends.Although the two decide to keep Wally's return secret from Iris based on Wally's own experience with Linda, Barry encourages him to return to the Teen Titans, but also recommends that he don a new costume to reflect that he is the Flash rather than 'Kid Flash'. While Wally considers his options, Barry visits Batman to discuss the new evidence of some outside force attacking them, musing on how personal this assault appears, but despite the potential danger, Batman and Barry agree to keep their investigation to themselves until they know what they are up against.
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^ Irvine "1950s" in Dolan, p. 94: "Two popular villains debuted in The Flash #106...'Menace of the Super-Gorilla' saw Barry Allen battle Gorilla Grodd...[and] in 'The Pied Piper of Peril', Hartley Rathaway...hired himself out to criminals as the Pied Piper and became Allen's nemesis."
^ McAvennie, Michael "1960s" in Dolan, p. 101: "Writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino kept even the Flash off-balance when they introduced George 'Digger' Harkness and his hand-held rebounding weaponry."
^ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 105: "A failed stage magician from the 64th century, Abra Kadabra debuted in this story by writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino."
^ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 109: "This issue saw 25th-century criminal Eobard Thawne use his era's advanced science on an old Flash costume. The suit gave Thawne reverse super-speed."
^ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 100: "Editor Julius Schwartz, writer John Broome, and artist Carmine Infantino introduced the Elongated Man, a stretchable super-sleuth."
^ a b McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 103: "This classic Silver Age story resurrected the Golden Age Flash and provided a foundation for the Multiverse from which he and the Silver Age Flash would hail."
^ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 119: "Barry Allen and iris West's wedding day...was [DC's] most anticipated...Writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino were the team behind the nuptials in the story 'One Bridegroom Too Many!'"
^ McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 130: "Trapped on 'Earth-Prime', the Flash knew only one man could possibly help him: DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz."
^ McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 182: "Life for the Fastest Man Alive screeched to a halt after writer Cary Bates and artist Alex Saviuk played 'The Last Dance' for the Flash's wife, Iris West Allen."
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^ Manning, Matthew K. "1980s" in Dolan, p. 203: "Written by Cary Bates, with art by Flash legend Carmine Infantino, the story saw...[the Flash] accidentally break the Reverse-Flash's neck."
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^ Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 228: "Written by Mike Baron, with art by Jackson Guice, the Flash's new adventures began with his twentieth birthday party."
^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 265: "The brainchild of writer Mark Waid and artist Mike Wieringo, Impulse burst onto the scene at quite a pace. Young Bart Allen, the grandson of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, was raised in a future timeline."
^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 285: "Wally West was going to marry his longtime love interest Linda Park...thanks to writers Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn, and artist Pop Mhan."
^ Cowsill, Alan "2000s" in Dolan, p. 337: "Writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver...joined forces again to relaunch Barry Allen as the Flash."
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"He does not have a phone."
can telefonu mean mobile phone here?
But more common for mobile phone is "komórka", which evolved from "telefon komórkowy"
Yes in Polish "komórka" also means small storage room, usually outside of the building, sometimes outside of the apartment.
Yes. And in Polish "komórka" also means a small room.
In english 'cell' also means a jail (which is also a small room - in a police station or a prison).
That one's "cela" in Polish.
"komórka" is more like a place where you keep some food, a broom, and similar things.
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Define the word “anthem.” In what ways is the poem “America” an anthem?
An anthem is an enthusiastic song for a particular cause (i.e., the National Anthem is the Star-Spangled Banner). Most anthems are considered uplifting and celebratory. This poem, highly critical of America, may be a pessimistic anthem; yet, the ending -- where the poet vows to join the fight to improve the country -- can be seen as a promise and declaration of loyalty.
What is the significance of the cultural references in the poem? Do they establish setting? Do they offer particular points of criticism? What view of America do you have from the cultural details in the poem?
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot is a 2013 comedy spoof and homage to the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It debuted on the BBC Red Button service after the broadcast of "The Day of the Doctor", the official 50th anniversary special. The programme was written and directed by Peter Davison, who stars alongside fellow former Doctor actors Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, and Paul McGann. It features appearances from more recent stars of the show David Tennant, Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, and John Barrowman, as well as Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat, his predecessor Russell T Davies, and numerous others connected to the programme, all playing themselves in a more or less parodic manner.
The plot focuses on the fictionalised, disgruntled Davison, Baker and McCoy, who become embroiled in misadventures as they attempt to sneak onto the set of the official Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), (along with "The Day of the Doctor", An Adventure in Space and Time, "The Name of the Doctor", and episodes of Game of Thrones and Orphan Black).
Davison, McCoy and Baker at the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend with the picket props that were used in the episode.
On Christmas Day 2012, former Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison watches "The Snowmen" with his children. They remark on the upcoming 50th anniversary special and speculate as to whether Davison will be invited to return or if it will simply feature the most recent two Doctors, David Tennant and Matt Smith. Davison has a dream where he is invited back and given special treatment, ending with a vision of Janet Fielding telling him that none of the old Doctors will be asked to return. Over the next couple of months, he, Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker and Seventh Doctor actor Sylvester McCoy desperately await a call inviting them to star in the special. A disillusioned Davison attends a convention, where he is unrecognised by the hotel receptionist and asked by fans if he has heard about appearing in the episode. He calls current Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat, who is more interested in playing with his action figures and deletes his messages from Davison, as well as Baker and McCoy who have also called about appearing (McCoy mentions appearing in The Hobbit and Baker mentions doing I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!).
At another convention appearance, Davison, Baker and McCoy all eye Eighth Doctor actor Paul McGann suspiciously. They discuss inviting Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker to help them get involved, but when they call him he is revealed to be stuck in the Time Vortex again. McGann, having received no Doctor Who news from his agent, says he wants in on their plans – "work permitting, obviously." After the convention, McCoy returns to New Zealand to continue filming The Hobbit, but decides to return to England after director Peter Jackson leaves him sitting around doing nothing. Davison's scheme is revealed to involve the three of them (McGann has work commitments) protesting with picket signs outside the BBC Television Centre in London. Meanwhile, back in New Zealand, McCoy's disappearance has ruined a scene with Ian McKellen, though McKellan himself says to Jackson that the scene might be "a slight improvement" without McCoy. In London, a passing John Barrowman informs the three actors that Doctor Who filming now takes place in Cardiff. Barrowman abandons his secret wife and children to drive the trio there, singing show tunes all the way and giving them each a copy of one of his CDs.
The former Doctors enter the Doctor Who Experience, steal their old costumes, and with the help of Davison's son-in-law David Tennant are able to infiltrate Roath Lock and get onto the set of the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor". They are initially unsure how to proceed with getting in the special, but end up taking the place of the three Dalek operators after locking them in their room. After a close call with some security guards which leads to the trio having to hide back on the set, they manage to escape and catch a bus back to London. Davison receives a call and ignores it; it turns out to be former Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies asking for a part in Davison's project, as he has also been left out of the 50th celebrations.
In the coda, Moffat deletes the scene where the former Doctors play Daleks. However, when Moffat's editor reviews another scene, he sees the former Doctors evade the on-set security guards by hiding under shrouds in the undergallery set; the editor conceals this from Moffat, ensuring that the former Doctors appear in the special after all.
Most of the actors appear as themselves. The summary below lists their original connection to Doctor Who.
Sinead Keenan – plays a fan getting an autograph from Peter Davison at a convention. She played Addams in The End of Time (2009–10).
Georgia Moffett – played Jenny in "The Doctor's Daughter" (2008). Georgia is the daughter of Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor), and is the wife of David Tennant (Tenth Doctor). She also was the producer of The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, under her married name Georgia Tennant.
Olivia Darnley – actress friend of Georgia Tennant, and then-partner of Adam James who appeared in the Doctor Who special, "Planet of the Dead"
Ian McKellen – voiced the Great Intelligence in the episode "The Snowmen", also plays Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
John Barrowman – played Captain Jack Harkness with the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, and in the spin-off Torchwood.
Sarah Churm – plays John Barrowman's secret wife. She also played Sarah Braithwaite alongside Peter Davison in At Home with the Braithwaites.
Alice Knight – plays John Barrowman's (secret) elder daughter.
Richard Cookson – script editor for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor"
Marcus Elliott – plays a security guard. Prolific supporting artist from the 2005- series, also known as Marcus Elliot.
David Troughton – plays a Dalek operator. Son of Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor). Appeared in The Enemy of the World (1967–68), The War Games (1969), The Curse of Peladon (1972) and "Midnight" (2008).
Nicholas Briggs – plays a Dalek operator. He is the voice artist of several Doctor Who monsters including the Daleks, director and writer of several Doctor Who audio plays (as well as the overall executive producer) at Big Finish Productions.
Frank Skinner – plays a Dalek operator. He is a comedian and Doctor Who fan. He would go on to play Perkins in the Twelfth Doctor story "Mummy on the Orient Express".
Michael Houghton – plays a security guard. As Mike Houghton he was an editor in the Tom Baker and Davison eras, as well as on Davison's show A Very Peculiar Practice.
Sandra Cosfeld – production secretary for the episode "Asylum of the Daleks"
Christian Brassington – actor who played Alfred Stahlbaum in the Doctor Who audio drama The Silver Turk, writing partner of Georgia Moffett, and husband of Jennie Fava, who assistant directed the special and several series of Doctor Who.
Davison originally wrote a scene for Tom Baker. As Baker failed to respond to his emails, Davison used the same clip of unfinished Doctor Who story Shada (by way of The Five Doctors) to jokingly explain the absence.
Ben Lawrence writing in The Telegraph gave the programme 4 stars (out of 5), describing it as "a sweet, often funny homage to the show," concluding that it "was both a satisfying in-joke for Whovians and a naughty dig at the neediness of actors." Comparing the programme to the 50th anniversary special, Los Angeles Times Television Critic, Robert Lloyd, described it as "equally wonderful in its way".
After months of speculation, on 23 July 2014 it was officially announced that The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot would be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 8 September 2014 alongside "The Name of the Doctor", "The Night of the Doctor", "The Day of the Doctor", "The Time of the Doctor" and An Adventure in Space and Time as part of the limited edition "50th Anniversary Collectors Edition" boxset.
In June 2014, Eighth Doctor Paul McGann revealed that production had begun on a sequel to the special. No release date, plot or cast details were offered. However, in July 2014, Sixth Doctor Colin Baker contradicted McGann's earlier statement by telling Flicks and the City that "All I know is when I last spoke to Peter [Davison] the reaction to Five-ish Doctors has been so positive that we discussed whether it was a good idea to do another one and we agreed that we didn’t want to do one that was a pale imitation of the first. That would be anti-climactic," and that, "We have to come up with a really good idea first. There’s a couple of possibilities floating around, but nothing is set in stone. Clearly doing one about the 51st anniversary isn’t going to be interesting. It’s got to be about something else."
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^ a b Lawrence, Ben (24 November 2013). "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
^ Jeffery, Morgan (26 November 2013). "'Doctor Who': The inside story on 'The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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5 things you should do that most new floor purchasers won't do!
1) Read your floors installation instructions and warranty information! Why?
To preserve your warranty! Most flooring claims are denied due to installation error! Make sure you know what the manufacturer requires to install your new floors or choose to work with a professional flooring installer (not a general contractor or handyman) who will warranty their work. Bottom line: Flooring is the 3rd largest purchase that most people make, so take the time to understand what is required to keep your warranty intact!
2) Purchase the full project now rather than waiting! Why?
Manufacturers are constantly changing which floors are produced and the quantities they produce in order to match consumer demand. If you wait to do that other room, or choose to not do your stairs "this time" you may find that in just 1-2 years that flooring may no longer be available to you no matter how hard you search!
3) Spend extra on your stairs... its worth it! Why?
Hardwood/Bamboo flooring is beautiful, but to really let it become a focal point in your home you need to do the little things right. You can spend a very large budget on your floors, but if you go cheap when you get to your stairs, then that is the lasting picture that will impact your guests, or future buyers when you go to sell your home! Spend the extra money to buy treads and risers to match your stairs, and really make a visual impact on all your home's guests.
4) Plan on inserting an expansion space (using a T-molding) for every 25-30 linear feet of flooring! Why?
Floating floors are required to provide expansion space to avoid many flooring concerns later. The most common mistake is providing the proper expansion space on the perimeter, but without an expansion space (using a T-molding to cover the gap) to separate sections of your floor that continues for 25-30 linear feet can lead to future flooring concerns.
5) Purchase a minimum of 10% more than your square footage requirements! Why?
Installation requires many different cuts and problem solving within the your projects rooms. Even the professionals allow a minimum of 5% overage to ensure an easier installation process. Additionally, manufacturers allow a 5% discard rate for any kind of visual defect that can be spotted prior to installation according to www.nwfa.org. Most often this discard rate is not required, however the installer is required visually inspect each board for visual defects PRIOR to installation. If you have a few extra cartons remaining, consider keeping them on hand for future repairs, or for a small expansion (like expanding the floor into a closet). As we mentioned above, it can be as little as 1-2 years until you can no longer get a floor to match this project.
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Luxury fashion brand Gucci's withdrawal of a jumper following criticism that its design was offensive is the latest in a number of missteps by similar brands with a history of provocative marketing, according to Professor Qing Wang from Warwick Business School. Commenting on the story, she argues that these brands need to be more sensitive and respectful to ethnic communities.
She said: "Luxury brands used to be able to get away with provocative and eccentric ads that push the boundaries of our society and culture in the name of being creative and cutting edge. However, a long list of incidents happened recently which caused public outrages from different segments of the society seemed to suggest that either that era is now gone or luxury brands have lost touch with public sentiment. What used to be considered “creativity” has now turned into “bad taste” or even “racist”.
"The most recent incident is the new design by Gucci of the black "balaclava jumper", which covered the lower half of the face and featured a red cut-out around the mouth. The item prompted a backlash on social media by users who claimed the design was offensive. Blackface has a history of perpetuating offensive and racist stereotypes of African Americans dating back more than 200 years in the United States.
"Gucci's troubles mark the latest in a string of missteps by luxury fashion brands. Merely a few weeks before this incident, Burberry's recent advertising campaign in an effort to reach out and connect with Chinese consumers on an emotional level that have backfired. There was a blitz of criticism on Chinese social media over Burberry's "modern" Chinese Lunar New Year ad campaign, in which Chinese netizens likened its images to Asian horror films.
"Dolce & Gabbana cancelled its Shanghai fashion show amid accusations of racism. The brand posted videos of a Chinese model eating Italian foods like pizza and pasta with chopsticks. Widely seen as offensive, the campaign led to a severe backlash in China with several retailers pulling the brand's products. D&G also caused controversy in 2016 when it called an item of footwear in its spring/summer collection a "slave sandal".
"Despite the very different contexts among these incidents, one thing in common is the stereotypes that these ads or designs have invoked on ethnic communities. Such incidents may come and go, not only left a bad taste, but begged the question in the mind of the consumers of whether these ads or designs are deliberately racist? Or are the luxury brands simply lost touch with the changing public sentiment and these incidents are a reflection of bigger problems and divisions that this world is now facing?
"Whichever the answer might be one thing is clear that Western brands need to infuse more local knowledge into their global strategies. Luxury brands such as Gucci and Burberry are psychologically more distant than utilitarian brands such as Coke Cola for the consumers in order to maintain exclusivity and desirability. However, luxury brands should carefully balance the need for exclusivity and brand emotional relationships with the general public. Specifically, luxury brands need to be more sensitive and respectful (instead of being seen as cold and arrogant) to the culture of different ethnic communities and inject some warmth and empathy to the brands instead of alienation and even hatred. This is for the good of the brands themselves given the brands are now selling heavily to the consumers from those communities including the Chinese, Indian and African consumers. According to consulting firm McKinsey & Company, in recent years, Chinese shoppers have emerged as one of the biggest forces in global luxury spending. Chinese luxury consumers account for more than RMB 500 billion ($73.3 billion) in annual spending, representing almost a third of the global luxury market, and by 2025 it will account for 44 per cent of the total global market."
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Spend 6 splendid days exploring the best-known attractions of south Iceland. Visit the geysers, waterfalls, and volcanic landscapes of the Golden Circle, bathe in the famous milky blue water of the Blue Lagoon, and survey the majestic south coast of Iceland. On your final full day, you have the chance to design your own adventure by embarking on a thrilling optional activity or enjoying a relaxing day in Reykjavik. This tour takes you to the countryside during the days while you enjoy the convenience of being based in Reykjavik in the evenings.
Today is up to you! You could choose to join an exciting optional activity like snorkeling in the Silfra fissure at Þingvellir National Park, or riding a stocky and adorable Icelandic horse, or even venturing inside a volcano. Other options include enjoying a whale watching tour, riding an ATV on rugged tracks, sightseeing high above in a helicopter and exploring an ice tunnel by going Into the Glacier.
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Why you should stay away from "Do It Yourself" electric works.
The first reason is quite obvious: Electrical shocks!
If you are not properly trained and aware of safety procedures, chances to be electrocuted are very high. Electrical wiring is a safety hazard, but not if it’s done right the first time around, and the job’s performed by a reputable electrician, you can have peace of mind.
Sometimes when you do DIY repairs, most of your mistakes are visible, but sometimes it will only show up after some time. If you’re not an expert about things like electrical panels, wires, outlets, and all the other electrical jargon, you should not attempt to make electrical repairs. While there are some home repairs that you can attempt yourself, such as fixing a leaky faucet, electrical repairs are not included in that list. You should hire a professional electrician for all electrical repairs.
The worst thing about electricity is that the consequences of a poorly done repair are not always immediately visible; wires can slowly melt behind walls, waiting for the next power surge to create the little spark that can bring your whole house to the ground!
You shouldn’t take any risk on that. There is no way that a little saving is worth a whole house!
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What is the difference between a Protestant church and a Catholic church?
church and a Catholic church?
Although both Protestants and Roman Catholics share the common ground of being founded upon faith in Jesus Christ, there are significant differences between the two groups. From general observation, one can see contrasts in everything from the way that their clergymen dress, to the way their services are conducted. Unlike most Protestant churches, Catholic masses are conducted in a liturgical fashion, with much emphasis upon symbols, rituals and ceremony.
As we have said, there are many differences worth noting between Protestants and Catholics. However, the main distinction that sets them apart is the authority to which they look for their core beliefs. To help you understand this, let's first explain some of the detail about their origin in church history.
Catholic comes from the Greek, KATHOLIKOS, which means "throughout the whole, or universal," and was used as a general reference to the entire Christian church until the reformation period. However, as early as the fourth century, the Catholic church began adopting traditions and beliefs which were never a part of original Christianity as seen in the New Testament. It appears that many of these new ideas first emerged from the era of the Roman Emperor, Constantine who ruled from 313 to 337 A.D.
In contrast to his predecessor, Diocletian, who had vowed to destroy Christianity in 303, Constantine claimed a conversion to Christianity and virtually instituted it as the empire's religion by his Edict of Milan in 313 A.D. This proclamation of religious freedom brought about many positive changes for the church, and was certainly a much welcomed turnabout from the years of brutal persecution. But instead of converting completely from the old practices of paganism, this and the new Christian religion were somewhat mingled together. Since an Emperor was viewed as a god by pagan standards, and he already held the lifelong position of "Pontifex Maximus," chief priest of the pagan state religion, Constantine felt it only proper that he should also claim a high position of leadership in the church — he also authorized many of his secular officials as church leaders. This merger of a pagan, Christian and political hierarchy, produced a diluted spiritual leadership for the church, and its beliefs and doctrines thereafter became increasingly infected with a strange combination of traditions and pagan beliefs.
The Christian creed adopted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 (called for and presided over by Constantine) was theologically encouraging, but it was also in this era that the church first accepted such unscriptural ideas as praying for the dead, the veneration of angels and dead saints, the use of images, and the celebration of daily mass. This regression from scripture continued through the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D., where the worship of Mary became an official doctrine of the church, referring to her as the "Mother of God." And only nine years later in 440, Leo, bishop of Rome was the first to declare himself the successor of St. Peter and laid claim to the role of Universal Bishop, a forerunner of papal authority. While this was widely disputed, Leo commanded that all should obey him on the false notion that he held the primacy of St. Peter.
Later, Leo's successor, Gregory I, was given the title of universal "Pope" (Latin "papas" or father) by the wicked emperor Phocas in 604. He refused the title, however his successor, Boniface III, did accept it and became the first in a long line of successors to be recognized as Pope. Under the new papal authority in the seventh century, many more new beliefs were added to the church, such as the unbiblical doctrine of purgatory (593), the required use of Latin in prayer and worship (600), and prayers said to Mary, dead saints and angels (600).
One reason many of these strange ideas gained accepted credibility was because the Bible was not readily available to the common people, either in print or in translation. They had no idea what the Bible really taught. It was restricted only to priests trained to interpret it as it pleased the church hierarchy. Further, the popes claimed the authority to speak under the unique utterance of "Ex Cathedria," which in effect meant divine inspiration. Their proclamations and decrees carried supreme authority to interpret or overrule Holy Scripture, and to invent whatever doctrines or practices they wished.
The next four hundred years saw many more new beliefs added to the church: The ritual kissing of the Pope's foot (709), temporal (political) power granted to the Pope (750), worship of the crucifix, images and relics (786), holy water mixed with a pinch of salt and blessed by a priest (850), the worship of St. Joseph (890), the establishment of the college of Cardinals to elect the popes (927), the baptism of bells (965), the canonization of dead saints (995), and prescribed fastings on Fridays and during lent (998).
A break in the church occurred in 1054 over a relatively trivial issue, when the eastern church condemned the western church for the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist. The dispute resulted in Rome's attempt to excommunicate Michael Cerulararious, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who in turn, sought to excommunicate Pope Leo IX of Rome. From that time, the western (Roman Catholic) church and the eastern (Greek Orthodox) churches developed separately — each with their distinct traditions. A classic example of a church split.
As the Roman Catholic Church continued with new independence, it added even more remarkable doctrines that were not taken from the Bible. In 1079, Pope Gregory VII declared the shocking decree of celibacy for the priesthood. Peter the Hermit invented the technique of praying with rosary beads in 1090. A few of the other beliefs and practices authorized by the church were: The inquisition of alleged heretics (1184), the sale of indulgences (1190), the doctrine of transubstantiation (1215), auricular confession of sins to a priest instead of to God (1215), adoration of the wafer (1220), the forbidding of Bible reading by laity (1229), the scapular (1251), the forbidding of sharing the communion cup with laity (1414), the establishment of purgatory as an irrefutable dogma (1439), and the composition of the "Ave Maria" (1508).
Up to this point, the somewhat similar Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches were the two main institutions representing Christianity. But in the sixteenth century, events occurred which would bring a worldshaking reformation of Christian thought. A Catholic monk and professor of theology named Martin Luther, became convinced that the Bible was the only true authority in matters of spiritual instruction, and sought to reform the church with this new insight and to expose its errant doctrines.
Born in Eisleben in 1483, Luther first pursued studies in law at Erfurt, but in 1505 he chose instead to join the Augustinian Hermits in Erfurt where he studied theology. After his ordination in 1507, he was sent by his order to the university of Wittenburg to teach moral theology, and in 1512 he became the professor of biblical studies.
Luther's ambitions of reformation emerged from his lifelong search for spiritual conclusions in his personal life. After many years of studying the scriptures, he came to reject all theology based only on tradition and embraced the idea of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through faith. He believed that all our actions stem from God and that He chose to forgive the sinner by His sovereign grace — that we are justified not by our deeds, but by faith alone. In 1520, Luther wrote a treatise to Pope Leo X, called "The Freedom of A Christian," which outlined the conclusions of his study of scripture. In it, he made this famous statement: "The word of God cannot be received and cherished by any works whatever, but only by faith. Therefore it is clear that as the soul needs only the Word of God for its life and righteousness, so it is justified by faith alone and not by works; for if it could be justified by anything else, it would not need the Word and consequently, it would not need faith."
The move toward reformation began to emerge on the eve of All Saints Day, October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther announced a disputation regarding the indulgences of the church. He stated his argument in 95 theses which he posted on the north door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg — an act not especially unusual as the church doors were often used as a notice board.
The 95 Theses were not originally intended to promote a reformation movement. They were simply the proposal of an earnest university professor to discuss the theology of indulgences in light of the errors and abuses that had grown over the centuries. Although heavily academic in tone, news of them spread rapidly in Europe. All were amazed how one obscure monk from a new and unknown university could stir the whole of Europe.
The sale of indulgences, which Luther opposed, was based upon a common fear of purgatory, supposedly a painful place of temporal "purging" of the soul after death to make the soul pure for entrance into Heaven. The people would pay for the special indulgences of a priest to shorten their term in purgatory. Luther saw that this trade in indulgences was completely unfounded by scripture, reason or tradition. It was, in effect, directing attention away from God and His forgiveness and looking to man for the absolving of sins.
In December of 1517, the archbishop of Mainz complained to Rome about Luther. Confronted with opposition, Luther's stand became even more determined. He refused to recant his position, and fled town when summoned to Rome. In July 1519, during a disputation at Leipzig with John Eck, his fiercest opponent, Luther denied the supremacy of the Pope and the infallibility of general councils. He burned the papal bull which threatened his excommunication, but nevertheless, the decree came from the Pope in 1520, and he was subsequently outlawed by the Emperor Charles V at Worms in 1521. For his safety, Luther was seized and taken to Wartburg Castle under the protection of Frederick of Saxony. While there, he spent his time translating the New Testament into German so that everyone might have access to the Bible.
Eight months later in 1522, he returned to Wittenburg to begin the reform of worship away from the rigid forms of Rome. Over the next 25 years, Luther published many books in German, written to the common people so that they could judge for themselves, his doctrines and disputes with Rome. As a result, his followers continued to multiply.
In 1529, at the Diet of Speyer, the Emperor Charles V attempted to smother Luther's movement by force, but some of the German state princes stood up in protest. Thus, because of their protest, the movement began to be known as the "Protestants." What had originally been intended to bring reform to Catholicism from within, was now an ousted reformation, forced to split from the original body.
In 1530, Luther presented beliefs of the new movement at the Diet of Augsburg, in a peace-seeking, non controversial attempt to explain their views. But as a result, the division between the Catholic and Protestants remained and became more distinct. New churches began to emerge referred to as "Evangelical" or "Protestant." And from this came three other branches: The Lutherans (in Germany and Scandinavia), the Zwinglian and Calvinists (in Switzerland, France, Holland and Scotland), and the Church of England.
Significant social, political and economic changes followed the reformation, and in some ways helped to shape it further before Luther's death in 1546. But besides exposing the errant beliefs of Catholicism, the reformation which produced the Protestant church was primarily a rediscovery of the authority of God's Word and the salvation which is by faith in the savior, our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is a brief explanation of the historical origin of Catholics and Protestants, and as you can see, the disparities are many. But in the simplest of terms, the basic difference between them is the authority they look to for their beliefs. The Protestant Church generally embraces the Bible as its sole source of authority and faith, while the Catholic Church views the post-biblical traditions of the church and its Popes to have more than equal authority with scripture.
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Is it too early to start your holiday shopping? If you think it is, here’s a good reason why you might want to start: Best Buy has deals on the 9.7-inch iPad and the iPad Pro models. These aren’t older models, these are the current versions.
Best Buy also offers a two-year AppleCare plan for $99. If you order an iPad by October 31 or an iPad Pro by November 3, shipping is free. You can also pick it up at your local Best Buy store.
Best Buy is selling the 128GB iPad (Wi-Fi only) for $350. Apple sells this model for $429, so you’ll save $79.
Best Buy is selling the 32GB iPad (Wi-Fi only) for $270. Apple sells this model for $329. That’s a $59 savings.
Best Buy is selling the different configurations of the 10.5-inch iPad Pro at prices much lower than the regular price.
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What's your pace? You should be running at least a 15 minute mile in order to finish. I seriously suggest having a 5k under your belt before committing to a half marathon. It will give you some race experience and give you an estimate of your finish time.
Do you have the time? Training for a race is a serious time commitment. My training program is 19 weeks long, but if this is your first half you may want to train a bit longer. That means 3 times a week for 6 or more months. Find a running buddy to keep you motivated and plan runs even when you're on vacation.
Do you have the money? Maybe you aren't running a Disney race (which is pricey but totally worth it), but the cost of any race can still be pretty steep. Plus, you'll need a good pair of running shoes which can run you anywhere from $75 to $200. It's a good idea to start saving a few months before registration to cover all the costs.
- Find a training plan. I use Jeff Galloway's plans which are straight from the RunDisney website, but there are a ton of half marathon programs out there. Just make sure to choose one that fits your skill level.
- Measure your progress. I use the Nike running app. It measures your time, distance, and average pace. Plus it's an excellent motivator. Olympic athletes give you kudos at the end of your run and the app keeps track of every record you break.
- Treat yourself. Cut a minute off your time? Treat yourself to a new pair of shoes or a night out with friends. It's just one more thing to keep you motivated.
- Stay Healthy. Certainly if you are running 3 times a week is enough, right? Not necessarily. You still need a balanced diet to keep you on track. Stay away from fried fatty foods and alcohol. If you wanted your computer to run better would you give it a virus? Then don't do it to your body.
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What's a bridging loan? Simply put, a bridge loan (also known as a bridge loan, conditional loan or swing loan) is a kind of short-term loan that is usually taken out for a two-week to three-year time frame until longer-term finance is obtained. Like the name implies, this kind of finance is used to bridge the gulf between a maturing loan and an opening line of credit. What's more, it is used to help a company to make a profit on its business.
One of the most frequent uses of this type of short-term loan is for real estate deals, and recently they have become very much used. If a home purchaser wants to buy a new home before he sells an already owned one, a usual way is to finance the required down payment for the subsequent stay, a home equity loan or a bridging loan.
May I use a bridge loan for other things? Naturally, the loan can also be used like any other small commercial loan, i.e. to survive a hard period in private or commercial finances. However, they are mainly used to enable the acquisition of real estate, without which it would not otherwise be possible.
Just as with other bridge loans, you would be right to think that a bridge loan is more costly than a regular loan. Having short-term recourse to finance is never inexpensive, but the long-term benefit makes the cost worth it. In addition to bridge the difference between the selling prices of a new house and the corresponding mortgages while the existing house is waiting for a new purchaser, this type of credit can also help someone who is looking for a fast sell after a refurbishment, as well as those who want to buy a home at auctions.
What is a bridge loan like? The majority of individuals are only too conscious of how reluctantly they have become bankers and home loan and savings associations when it comes to granting loans, and part of this slippage has necessarily been bridged by creditors. This means on the one side that there are many bypassing creditors on the home buyer and businessman markets to chose from.
Be extremely careful if you are seriously considering this kind of loan and check financial benchmarking sites to see which are the most respected and affordably priced on the open mortgage markets. Actually, these credits are primarily directed at non-professional real estate buyers and lessors who want to buy a home quickly - whether at auctions or elsewhere - and therefore need a quick home loan.
It is also taken up by wealthy borrower who need a simple loan to purchase housing either as an initial purchase, buy-to-lease or for the purpose of developing. Recently, however, beneficiaries have taken up the benefits of a bridge loan just because it takes too long for conventional banks to handle requests for larger housing mortgages.
Basically, there is nothing wrong with this as long as you have a clear exits policy in the form of a straight or buy-to-lease mortgages or even a sale of the real estate. Which kind of bridging loan is right for me? When you are lacking the available resources for a home that you absolutely want, but you have not yet sold your house, a bridging loan, as already mentioned, is a useful instrument to help you reach your goals.
An overdraft loan provides an immediate fix to this issue, but what kind of loan is best for you? An open bridge is one of the most common forms of credit for those who want to buy or buy real estate. Therefore, as with any high-risk loan, the interest rate on this kind of bridge loan is relatively high, so be well equipped to repay beyond the chances of getting your new home and have the faith that you will find a purchaser earlier rather than later.
On the other end of the spectrum there is a loan called bridging it. Here the borrower already has a purchaser for a real estate, but is still awaiting the arrival of the cash sometime in the near term. Since there is less probability for the investor, a blocked bridge debt transportation berth berth curiosity tax as you person a bid to bond the selling, which you can use as department.
Both open and close bridges are not the only kinds of loans you can take out. When you want to buy a business and do not have the necessary means, there is something known as a business bridge loan that you can use. There are many different variants of this kind of loan that are tailored to the particular conditions of the borrower.
So, in the first instance, you should have a talk with a firm that has specialized in this type of loan for them to evaluate your firm and give you guidance on which loan is best for you. When you want to buy a new home through an auctionshop, selling it at auctions is the way of credit you need.
One of the major differences with this kind of loan in comparison to the others is that you have to quickly muster the money or run the risks of completely loosing on the land. As soon as you have made up your mind what kind of loan to take, you need to look for a serious creditor. There are a number of forms and scales of bridge lending providers, ranging from one-man suits to professionally run businesses governed by the city's regulatory authority: the Financial Conduct Authority or FCA (formerly Financial Services Authority, FSA).
Of course, we suggest that you go to an EZV-regulated intermediary if you want to take out a bridge loan, as they will do their best, i.e. they will only suggest a bridge if it suits your individual situation.
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was a title and honorific meaning "owner," "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods.
The Hebrew Bible, compiled and curated over a span of centuries, includes generic use of the term in reference to various Levantine deities, and finally pointed application towards Hadad, who was decried as a false god. That use was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the opprobrious form Beelzebub in demonology.
The word's biblical senses as a Phoenician deity and false gods generally were extended during the Protestant Reformation to denote any idols, icons of the saints, or the Catholic Church generally. In such contexts, it follows the anglicized pronunciation and usually omits any mark between its two As In close transliteration of the Semitic name, the ayin is represented, as Baʿal.
In the Northwest Semitic languages—Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Amorite, and Aramaic—the word baʿal signified "owner" and, by extension, "lord" a "master", or "husband". Cognates include the Akkadian Bēlu, Amharic bal (ባል), and Arabic baʿl (بَعْل). Báʿal (בַּעַל) and baʿl still serve as the words for "husband" in modern Hebrew and Arabic respectively. They also appear in some contexts concerning the ownership of things or possession of traits.
The feminine form is baʿalah (Hebrew: בַּעֲלָה; Arabic: بَعْلَة), meaning "mistress" in the sense of a female owner or lady of the house and still serving as a rare word for "wife".
Suggestions in early modern scholarship also included comparison with the Celtic god Belenus.
Like EN in Sumerian, the Akkadian bēlu and Northwest Semitic baʿal (as well as its feminine form baʿalah) was used as a title of various deities in the Mesopotamian and Semitic pantheons. Only a definitive article, genitive or epithet, or context could establish which particular god was meant.
Baʿal was also used as a proper name by the third millennium bce, when he appears in a list of deities at Abu Salabikh. Most modern scholarship asserts that this Baʿal—usually distinguished as "The Lord" (הבעל, Ha Baʿal)—was identical with the storm and fertility god Hadad; it also appears in the form Baʿal Haddu.
Scholars propose that, as the cult of Hadad increased in importance, his true name came to be seen as too holy for any but the high priest to speak aloud and the alias "Lord" ("Baʿal") was used instead, as "Bel" was used for Marduk among the Babylonians and "Adonai" for Yahweh among the Israelites. A minority propose that Baʿal was a native Canaanite deity whose cult was identified with or absorbed aspects of Adad's.
Regardless of their original relationship, by the 1st millennium bce, the two were distinct: Hadad was worshipped by the Aramaeans and Baʿal by the Phoenicians and other Canaanites.
The Phoenician Baʿal is generally identified with either El or Dagan.
Baʿal is well-attested in surviving inscriptions and was popular in theophoric names throughout the Levant but he is usually mentioned along with other gods, "his own field of action being seldom defined".Nonetheless, Ugaritic records show him as a weather god, with particular power over lightning, wind, rain, and fertility. The dry summers of the area were explained as Baʿal's time in the underworld and his return in autumn was said to cause the storms which revived the land.Thus, the worship of Baʿal in Canaan—where he eventually supplanted El as the leader of the gods and patron of kingship—was connected to the regions' dependence on rainfall for its agriculture, unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia, which focused on irrigation from their major rivers. Anxiety about the availability of water for crops and trees increased the importance of his cult, which focused attention on his role as a rain god.
He was also called upon during battle, showing that he was thought to intervene actively in the world of man, unlike the more aloof El. The Lebanese city of Baalbeck was named after Baal.
The Baʿal of Ugarit was the epithet of Hadad but as the time passed, the epithet became the god's name while Hadad became the epithet.[Baʿal was usually said to be the son of Dagan, but appears as one of the sons of El in Ugaritic sources.
Both Baʿal and El were associated with the bull in Ugaritic texts, as it symbolized both strength and fertility. The virgin goddess ʿAnat was his sister and sometimes credited with a child through him. He held special enmity against snakes, both on their own and as representatives of Yammu (lit. "Sea"), the Canaanite sea god and river god. He fought the Tannin (Tunnanu), the "Twisted Serpent" (Bṭn ʿqltn), "Litan the Fugitive Serpent" (Ltn Bṭn Brḥ, the biblical Leviathan) and the "Mighty One with Seven Heads" (Šlyṭ D.šbʿt Rašm).
Baʿal's conflict with Yammu is now generally regarded as the prototype of the vision recorded in the 7th chapter of the biblical Book of Daniel. As vanquisher of the sea, Baʿal was regarded by the Canaanites and Phoenicians as the patron of sailors and sea-going merchants.
As vanquisher of Mot, the Canaanite death god, he was known as Baʿal Rāpiʾuma (Bʿl Rpu) and regarded as the leader of the Rephaim (Rpum), the ancestral spirits, particularly those of ruling dynasties.
From Canaan, worship of Baʿal spread to Egypt by the Middle Kingdom and throughout the Mediterranean following the waves of Phoenician colonization in the early 1st millennium bce.
He was described with diverse epithets and, before Ugarit was rediscovered, it was supposed that these referred to distinct local gods. However, as explained by Day, the texts at Ugarit revealed that they were considered "local manifestations of this particular deity, analogous to the local manifestations of the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church." In those inscriptions, he is frequently described as "Victorious Baʿal" (Aliyn or ẢlỈyn Baʿal),"Mightiest one" (Aliy or ʿAly) or "Mightiest of the Heroes" (Aliy Qrdm), "The Powerful One" (Dmrn), and in his role as patron of the city "Baʿal of Ugarit" (Baʿal Ugarit). As Baʿal Zaphon (Baʿal Ṣapunu), he was particularly associated with his palace atop Jebel Aqra (the ancient Mount Ṣapānu and classical Mons Casius). He is also mentioned as "Winged Baʿal" (Bʿl Knp) and "Baʿal of the Arrows" (Bʿl Ḥẓ). Phoenician and Aramaic inscriptions describe Bʿl Krntryš, "Baʿal of the Lebanon" (Bʿl Lbnn), "Baʿal of Sidon" (Bʿl Ṣdn), Bʿl Ṣmd, "Baʿal of the Heavens" (Baʿal Shamem or Shamayin),Baʿal ʾAddir (Bʿl ʾdr), Baʿal Hammon (Baʿal Ḥamon), Bʿl Mgnm.
Baʿal Hammon was worshipped in the Tyrian colony of Carthage as their supreme god. It is believed that this position developed in the 5th century bce following the severing of its ties to Tyre following the 480 bce Battle of Himera. Like Hadad, Baʿal Hammon was a fertility god. Inscriptions about Punic deities tend to be rather uninformative, though, and he has been variously identified as a moon god and as Dagan, the grain god.
Rather than the bull, Baʿal Hammon was associated with the ram and depicted with his horns. The archaeological record seems to bear out accusations in Roman sources that the Carthaginians burned their children as human sacrifices to him. He was worshipped as Baʿal Karnaim ("Lord of the Two Horns"), particularly at an open-air sanctuary at Jebel Bu Kornein ("Two-Horn Hill") across the bay from Carthage. His consort was the goddess Tanit.
The epithet Hammon is obscure. Most often, it is connected with the NW Semitic ḥammān ("brazier") and associated with a role as a sun god. Renan and Gibson linked it to Hammon (modern Umm el-‘Amed between Tyre in Lebanon and Acre in Israel)and Cross and Lipiński to Haman or Khamōn, the classical Mount Amanus and modern Nur Mountains, which separate northern Syria from southeastern Cilicia.
Baʿal (בַּעַל) appears about 90 times in the Hebrew Scriptures in reference to various gods. The priests of the Canaanite Baʿal are mentioned numerous times, most prominently in the First Book of Kings. Many scholars believe that this describes Jezebel's attempt to introduce the worship of the Baʿal of Tyre, Melqart, to the Israelite capital Samaria in the 9th century bce. Against this, Day argues that Jezebel's Baʿal was more probably Baʿal Shamem, the Lord of the Heavens, a title most often applied to Hadad, who is also often titled just Ba‘al.
1 Kings 18 records an account of a contest between the prophet Elijah and Jezebel's priests. Both sides offered a sacrifice to their respective gods: Ba'al failed to light his followers' sacrifice while Yahweh's heavenly fire burnt Elijah's altar to ashes, even after it had been soaked with water. The observers then followed Elijah's instructions to slay the priests of Baʿal, after which it began to rain, showing Yahweh's mastery over the weather.
Other references to the priests of Baʿal describe their burning of incense in prayer and their offering of sacrifice while adorned in special vestments.
The title baʿal was a synonym in some contexts of the Hebrew adon ("Lord") and adonai ("My Lord") still used as aliases of the Lord of Israel Yahweh. According to some scholars, the early Hebrews did use the names Baʿal ("Lord") and Baʿali ("My Lord") in reference to the Lord of Israel, just as Baʿal farther north designated the Lord of Ugarit or Lebanon. This occurred both directly and as the divine element of some Hebrew theophoric names. However, according to others it is not certain that the name Baal was definitely applied to Yahweh in early Israelite history.
The component Baal in proper names is mostly applied to worshippers of Baal, or descendants of the worshippers of Baal. Names including the element Baʿal presumably in reference to Yahweh include the judge Gideon (also known as Jerubaʿal, lit. "The Lord Strives"), Saul's son Eshbaʿal ("The Lord is Great"), and David's son Beeliada ("The Lord Knows"). The name Bealiah ("The Lord is Jah"; "Yahweh is Baʿal") combined the two. However John Day states that as far as the names Eshba’al, Meriba’al, and Beeliada (that is Baaliada), are concerned it is not certain whether they simply allude to the Cannanite god Ba’al, or are intended to equate Yahweh with Ba’al, or have no connection to Ba’al.
It was the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century bce, to introduce into Israel's capital city of Samaria her Phoenician worship of Baal as opposed to the worship of Yahweh that made the name anathema to the Israelites.
At first the name Baal was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Baal was given up by the Israelites as a thing of shame, and even names like Jerubbaal were changed to Jerubbosheth: Hebrew bosheth means "shame".
Eshbaʿal became Ish-bosheth and Meribaʿal became Mephibosheth, but other possibilities also occurred.
Beeliada is mentioned renamed as Eliada and Gideon's name Jerubaʿal was mentioned intact but glossed as a mockery of the Canaanite god, implying that he strove in vain.
Direct use of Baʿali continued at least as late as the time of the prophet Hosea, who reproached the Israelites for doing so.
Brad E. Kelle has suggested that references to cultic sexual practices in the worship of Baal, in Hosea 2, are evidence of an historical situation in which Israelites were either giving up Yahweh worship for Baal, or blending the two. Hosea's references to sexual acts being metaphors for Israelite "apostasy".
Baʿal Berith ("Lord of the Covenant") was a god worshipped by the Israelites when they "went astray" after the death of Gideon according to the Hebrew Scriptures. The same source relates that Gideon's son Abimelech went to his mother's kin at Shechem and received 70 shekels of silver "from the House of Baʿal Berith" to assist in killing his 70 brothers from Gideon's other wives. An earlier passage had made Shechem the scene of Joshua's covenant between all the tribes of Israel and "El Yahweh, our god of Israel" and a later one describes it as the location of the "House of El Berith".
It is thus unclear whether the false worship of the "Baʿalim" being decried is the worship of a new idol or the continued worship of Yahweh, but by means of rites and teachings taking him to be a mere local god within a larger pantheon. The Hebrew Scriptures record the worship of Baʿal threatening Israel from the time of the Judges until the monarchy. The Deuteronomist and the present form of Jeremiah seem to phrase the struggle as monolatry or monotheism against polytheism.
However, Yahweh is firmly identified in the Hebrew Scriptures with El Elyon, whose Canaanite figure appears hostile to the cult of Baʿal even in the polytheistic accounts of Ugarit[which?] and the Phoenician cities.
Baʿal Zebub (Hebrew: בעל זבוב, lit. "Fly Lord") occurs in the first chapter of the Second Book of Kings as the name of the Philistine god of Ekron. In it, Ahaziah, king of Israel, is said to have consulted the priests of Baʿal Zebub as to whether he would survive the injuries from his recent fall. The prophet Elijah, incensed at this impiety, then foretold that he would die quickly, raining heavenly fire on the soldiers sent to punish him for doing so.
Jewish scholars have interpreted the title of "Lord of the Flies" as the Hebrew way of calling Baʿal a pile of dung and his followers vermin, although others argue for a link to power over causing and curing pestilence and thus suitable for Ahaziah's question.The Septuagint renders the name as Baälzeboúb (βααλζεβούβ) and as "Baʿal of Flies" (βααλ μυιαν, Baäl muian). Symmachus the Ebionite rendered it as Beëlzeboúl (Βεελζεβούλ), possibly reflecting its original sense. This has been proposed to have been B‘l Zbl, Ugaritic for "Lord of the Home" or "Lord of the Heavens".
Outside of Jewish and Christian contexts, the various forms of Baʿal were indifferently rendered in classical sources as Belus (Greek: Βῆλος, Bē̂los). An example is Josephus, who states that Jezebel "built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, which they call Belus"; this describes the Baʿal of Tyre, Melqart. In the interpretatio graeca, Baʿal was usually associated with Jupiter Belus but sometimes connected with Hercules. Herrmann identifies the Demarus or Demarous mentioned by Philo Byblius as Baʿal.
Baʿal Hammon, however, was identified with the Greek Cronos and the Roman Saturn (as the "African Saturn"). He was probably never equated with Melqart, although this assertion appears in older scholarship.
Beelzebub or Beelzebul was identified by the writers of the New Testament as Satan, "prince" (i.e., king) of the demons.
John Milton's 1667 epic Paradise Lost describes the fallen angels collecting around Satan, stating that, though their heavenly names had been "blotted out and ras'd", they would acquire new ones "wandring ore the Earth" as false gods. The "Baalim" and "Ashtaroth" are given as the collective names of the male and female demons (respectively) who came from between the "bordring flood of old Euphrates" and "the Brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground". Similarly, "Baal" and derived epithets like "Baalist" were used as slurs during the English Reformation for the Catholic saints and their devotees.
And Elias was most surely of the messengers. He asked his people: 'Do you not fear God Will ye call upon Baal and forsake the best of creators? God is your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients' But they rejected him, and they will certainly be called up [for punishment], except the sincere and devoted servants of God [among them], and we left [this blessing] for him among generations [to come] in later times, peace be upon Elias.
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Can you keep bantams and big chickens together?
So you are worried if you leave them together in the same coop or outdoors in the run where there is no escape the bantams might be bullied and injured or worse. Can bantams chickens live with standard birds?
Yes, you can very easily keep bantams and large fowl chickens or ducks together. It requires some care and a bit of luck but I have a few tips below that might make it much easier.
I have several quite large flocks with both bantams and large fowl chickens.
As a rule it is easier to integrate younger or larger groups of birds. So if there are more bantams than big birds or if the chickens are younger it will be easier. The most difficult thing you could do is integrate one fully grown chicken to a flock of 2 others, this is a recipe for bullying.
Space. the more room they have the better.
Feed and water. Two sources of both where one can not be seen from the other and well fed chickens are less likely to be a problem.
Older bantams and younger large fowl make the size difference less apparent.
Toys , hanging cabbages and other distractions including perches.
Time. Being in a rush is counter productive.
Hatch and raise them together as brood mates.
Choose docile easy going breeds like Barnevelders or Orpingtons.
Size, age, health, and personality are all factors that contribute to a chickens position in the pecking order and thus its status. I have successfully integrated quite a few bantam pullets into a flock of adult large birds on many occasions.
My usual time line for introducing the new chicks to the flock is 8 to 10 weeks.
The chicks must be fully feathered, and a similar size of the chickens they are joining. Skip this part if it is not an option.
It requires some strong herbs like basil, sage, mint or rosemary and a blender.
When it is dark enough for all your chickens to roost take the herb of your choice and blend it up as fine as you can without it becoming a paste or sloppy mess, just bits.
Take the blended herb and rub it all over the all the chickens from both flocks being mixed and sprinkle it in the nests and around the coop. Everyone and everything should be as herby as possible.
Let the birds wake up together in the morning together and now they all smell the same.
Keep an eye and repeat the next night if you need to.
I have used this method with great success many times.
The only thing to check for is that the big girls are not hogging all the treats. As they are so bigger that they just vacuum up all the treats before the bantams can get a beakful.
Scatter the treats around enough that the big chickens can't eat everything, they can't be everywhere at once, and the little bantams have a chance to get treats.
Adding small bantams to large more aggressive breed is not likely to end well. A sharp hard peck on the head from a grumpy hen can damage or kill a tiny bantam pullet.
A full size rooster trying to mate with a small bantam pullet can damage or hurt the little one.
Below: Some chickens can be quite nasty.
I have only once had a bad outcome from integrating small breeds into large breeds.
If they are raised together I almost always never have issues.
Will large chickens bully smaller bantams?
So your Large fowl chickens are pecking and chasing your bantams, how long will this go on for?
Actually it is quite funny but you are just as likely to have the opposite problem. The chickens do not know how big they are, only how big they think they are and I have plenty of bantams that stand up to the big hens with out a second thought.
Pecking orders need to be re-established and this can take time. You may need to keep them separate for now.
Below: Bantams are more than capable of standing up for themselves.
It is good that both flocks can see each other, but to integrate, you will need to gradually increase contact.
This should be relatively easy if they free range for part of the day. You can let both flocks outdoors late in the day just before roosting time. If there is trouble then it will be short lived.
Bantams will be need to be able to escape when big ones chase. Upturned crates or plastic totes with holes in big enough for only the bantams might help.
If you see violence, you can separate, and try again the next day. Little by little, they will get used to each other, and develop a stable pecking order, which will help them all settle down.
Whether the bantams continue to get bullied depends on how much space they have and how much opportunity to forage in good habitat.
If they are confined all day with nothing better to do, you will have problems with fighting, bullying and feather pecking, whether they are bantams or not.
How long until chickens get along?
This is age, temperament and breed specific. Between 20 minutes and 3 weeks.
My Silkies don't care at all if there are new additions to the flock, they are happy with anyone. My Orpingtons are much the same, there was a bit of staring and some rusty gate noises across the feed bowl but that had passes within a day or two.
I think they dislike change, and adding more birds is always going to be a bit of a challenge. Some birds deal with it better than others.
The most difficult chickens I had were leghorns. Weeks of sqabbling and bleeding combs over nothing at all.
Can you mix bantams, chickens and ducks together?
I have 4 female runner ducks and a drake and they have got along with my hens for years just fine, by mostly ignoring each other completely.
Just as a word of warning, chickens can sometimes find a ducks webbed toes fascinating and this can cause some pecking and annoyed ducks. It normally stops in a day or two. Ducks don't like having their feet pulled out from underneath them.
My only piece of advice is to get a similar number and size of chickens as you have ducks.
Ducks seem to get along with ducks just fine regardless of the size.
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Imagine you’re in a dark place, you are screaming at the top of your lungs but no one hears you. Yet you are so close you wish they could save you, but they cannot because they are not in the dark pit with you.
Mental Health America defines mental illness a disease that causes mild to severe disturbance in thoughts and/or any behaviour of a person resulting in an inability to cope with life’s ordinary demands or routines.
Mental illnesses such as Depression, Post-Traumatic Disorder, Anxiety are widely attached with Western origin in short, Namibians or Africans at large are still very much in denial when it comes to the realization of the existence of mental breakdowns within the African culture, for it is seen as not African.
Major Depressive Disorder (Depression) is one of the mental illnesses that is not easily identified until you seek medical help, because of this an individual can live with depression for years and it takes a toll on the person’s personal and social life. In most cases, depression is associated with personal issues such as job loss, dealing with a loss of a loved one and many other aspects of life.
Namibians are reluctant on speaking to psychologists as most African cultures consider it as unnessary and a waste of money. Compared to women, men are not open to speaking to someone or seeking treatment as most of them consider it as a sign of weakness, the man is supposed to be strong and talking about how their feelings portrays them as weak.
Depression is real and does not only mark a certain gender, in short depression does not discriminate against gender, race or social standing.
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Construct a fantastic golf restart. College golf is a distinctive environment. Being a true golf club professional requires both an understanding of golf and the way to control a leisure industry enterprise. You try to inform this to the match, and it looks like that they didn’t care too much. Even significant school teams and small college sports teams will frequently form partnerships with many organizations in the region. Possessing a coach that has been a part of each level of golf, and being effective at isan incredibly powerful recruiting tool.
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I know absolutely nothing about gardening. What I do know is that I need to cover my chain link fence with a fast growing vine. I've done some research and .
Fortunately, it is easy and inexpensive to naturalize a chain link fence with vines. Typically, hardy perennial vines (preferably evergreen) will create a permanent .
Fences are important for dividing properties and keeping creatures either in or out. However, fences are not always appealing to the eye, especially if they're .
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Dear Amy: I am a 66-year-old man who is, to put it mildly, offended by tattoos. I am not referring to the kind sailors used to get, but the ones that go all over the arms and up and down the neck, etc.
If I am in a restaurant and the server has the type of tattoos that offend me, is it acceptable for me to ask for a different server? My wife says no.
It offends me, and I am the one patronizing the establishment and spending my money. I should have the right not to be offended.
What would be the best way to ask the manager for a change of server?
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I am 22 years old, recently married and in college. My father kicked me off his health plan. I do not want insurance because I do not really want it right now nor do I want any extra payments that I cannot afford. So my question is how can I get around the health care penalty, without getting coverage? We all know this law is unconstitutional and not what this country was founded on. All this does is put college kids like me in a tough spot when trying to go to school and pay for books and room and board when your parents kick you off because you no longer live with them and married. So with that being said, what are my options.
Sounds like you have two issues, one of which is a concern about the government requiring health insurance and the other is what to do about managing the requirement.
Although you don't give your location in the state of Ohio, I would suggest that you allow some time to discuss your displeasure with your US senator. I'm sure they would make time for you.
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Qualify for an exemption for one of several other reasons, including having a hardship that prevents you from obtaining coverage, or belonging to a group explicitly exempt from the requirement.
Please see https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/the-individual-shared-responsibility-payment-an-overview for more information.
What is the difference between minimum essential coverage versus essential health benefits?
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, from a variety of other combat sports and martial arts. Various mixed-style contests took place throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s. The combat sport of vale tudo that had developed in Brazil from the 1920s was brought to the United States by the Gracie family in 1993 with the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Originally promoted as a competition with the intention of finding the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat situations, competitors were pitted against one another with few rules. Later, fighters employed multiple martial arts into their style whilst promoters were pressured to adopt additional rules aimed at increasing safety for competitors, to meet compliance and regulation and to promote mainstream acceptance of the sport. Following these changes, the sport has seen increased popularity with a pay-per-view business that rivals boxing and professional wrestling.
The history of modern MMA competition can be traced to mixed style contests throughout Europe, Japan, and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s; In Japan these contests were known as merikan, from the Japanese slang for "American [fighting]". Merikan contests were fought under a variety of rules, including points decision, best of three throws or knockdowns, and victory via knockout or submission.
As the popularity of professional wrestling waned after World War I, the sport split into two genres: "shoot", in which the fighters actually competed, and "show", which evolved into modern professional wrestling.
In 1936, heavyweight boxing contender Kingfish Levinsky and veteran professional wrestler Ray Steele competed in a mixed match, which Steele won in 35 seconds.
In 1963, "Judo" Gene Lebell fought professional boxer Milo Savage in a no-holds-barred match. Lebell won by Harai Goshi to rear naked choke, leaving Savage unconscious. This was the first televised bout of mixed-style fighting in North America. The hometown crowd was so enraged that they began to boo and throw chairs at Lebell.
During the late 1960s to early 1970s, the concept of combining the elements of multiple martial arts was popularized in the west by Bruce Lee via his system philosophy of Jeet Kune Do. Lee believed that "the best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt to any style, to be formless, to adopt an individual's own style and not following the system of styles." In 2004, UFC President Dana White would call Lee the "father of mixed martial arts" stating: "If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what works, and you throw the rest away".
Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki took place in Japan in 1976. Both fighters refused to engage in the other's style and after a 15 round stalemate, it was declared a draw. Inoki flopped to his back for the duration of the bout and kicked Ali's legs. Ali had sustained a substantial amount of damage to his legs, causing him to be hospitalized for the next three days.
In 1988 Rick Roufus challenged Changpuek Kiatsongrit to a non-title Muay Thai vs. kickboxing super fight. Rick Roufus was at the time an undefeated Kickboxer and held both the KICK Super Middleweight World title and the PKC Middleweight U.S title. Changpuek Kiatsongrit was finding it increasingly difficult to get fights in Thailand as his weight (70 kg) was not typical for Thailand, where competitive bouts at tend to be at the lower weights. Roufus knocked Changpuek down twice with punches in the first round, breaking Changpuek's jaw, but lost by knockout in the fourth round due to the culmination of low kicks that he was unprepared for.
The movement that led to the creation of the American and Japanese mixed martial arts scenes was rooted in two interconnected subcultures and two grappling styles, namely Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and shoot wrestling. First were the vale tudo events in Brazil, followed by the Japanese shoot-style wrestling shows.
Vale tudo began in the 1920s and became renowned with the "Gracie challenge" issued by Carlos Gracie and Hélio Gracie and upheld later on by descendants of the Gracie family.The "Gracie Challenges" were held in the garages and gyms of the Gracie family members. When the popularity grew, these types of mixed bouts were a staple attraction the carnivals in Brazil.
Early mixed-match martial arts professional wrestling bouts in Japan (known as Ishu Kakutōgi Sen literally "heterogeneous combat sports bouts") became popular with Antonio Inoki in the 1970s. Inoki was a disciple of Rikidōzan, but also of Karl Gotch who trained numerous Japanese wrestlers in catch wrestling.
Regulated mixed martial arts competitions were first introduced in the United States by CV Productions, Inc.. Its first competition named Tough Guy Contest was held on March 20, 1980, in, Pennsylvania. During that year the company renamed the brand to Super Fighters and sanctioned ten regulated tournaments in Pennsylvania. In 1983 Pennsylvania State Senate passed a bill that specifically called for: "Prohibiting Tough Guy contests or Battle of the Brawlers contests", and ended the sport. In 1993 the sport got reintroduced in the United States by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The sport gained international exposure and widespread publicity when jiu-jitsu fighter Royce Gracie won the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament, submitting three challengers in a total of just five minutes, sparking a revolution in martial arts.
The first Vale Tudo Japan tournaments were held in 1994 and 1995, both were won by Rickson Gracie. Interest in mixed martial arts as a sport resulted in the creation of the Pride Fighting Championships (Pride) in 1997, where again Rickson participated and won.
The sport reached a new peak of popularity in North America in the December 2006 rematch between then UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell and former champion Tito Ortiz, rivaling the PPV sales of some of the biggest boxing events of all time, and helping the UFC's 2006 PPV gross surpass that of any promotion in PPV history. In 2007, Zuffa LLC, the owners of the UFC MMA promotion, bought Japanese rival MMA brand Pride FC, merging the contracted fighters under one promotion and drawing comparisons to the consolidation that occurred in other sports, such as the AFL-NFL Merger in American football.
In 2011, the UFC reached a multi-year deal with the Fox Sports network, a tremendous milestone in the organization, bringing the sport to main stream media. The UFC also broadcasts their shows live to other networks around the world.
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Is there a way to merge two exe files into one, programmatically, so that running it would execute both older exe files together. I found some things on google about injecting code or dll files but is it possible two merge two exe files or to inject exe into exe?
1.1- The exe finds other executable files in its directory (lets call one of them as victim!) 1.2- it makes a copy of itself (lets call it newMe) 1.3- it copies the other executable found in the directory to the end of newMe. 1.4- it deletes the other executable file found and renames newMe to its victim's name.
2.1- Then it copies data from itself (from ORIGINAL_FILE_SIZE to the end of file) to a new file (lets call it newBorn.exe) 2.2- It runs itself's code and then executes the newBorn.
I said I ALMOST did it cos in this way the exe appends another exe to itself. but this could be repeated for appending and executing 2 or even 3 or more executables into one. you just have to know the ORIGINAL_FILE_SIZE of the written program.
Theoretically this is possible, but it will take some effort from your side.
You can append data to an exe file, this is how self extracting archives work. However, you'll need your own data format, similar to a file system, because you've got just one flat .exe file.
The exe you're packing your two files in must then extract those files and can finally run them.
No, your best bet is to create a .bat file (Windows) that runs both executable files.
Note, this will execute file1 before file2.
You can create your own EXE file that contains two other EXE files as embedded resources and extracts and executes each of them.
Beware that the EXE that you embed might not work if you extract it to a different directory.
Technically it is possible to embed some other exes files in your exe, some packers like upx do it. So you should be able to do the same with 2 exes.
In a unix like fashion your exe could fork, then the first process execute the first old executable, and the new process execute the second exe, maybe installing a pipe between them before.
IExpress can build an EXE which executes two other EXEs. You can build an IExpress package from the commandline.
When you run combined.exe, firstProgram.exe will execute. When it's finished, secondProgram.exe will execute. If you wanted firstProgram.exe and secondProgram.exe to run concurrently, it could be done with a change to the BAT file.
Copy data from 1 file to third one Remember the position of the eof. Add binary from second file to third. Then add at the end number (in int) of eof value. In first file should be a code which could copy whole file from this value at the end to the end of file to another file.
It's easy way to do it.
No it is not possible to "inject" one exe into another. This action is not even defined as you don't have the control over the execution internals that you do when you inject objects into one another.
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Architects design buildings and oversee the construction process of the buildings they design. They must consult with their clients to determine their needs and use computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) software to create models of their design and all its components.
Architects must be familiar with building materials, types of structures, design principles, and local zoning and building codes. Once an architect’s design is approved by his or her clients, the architect works with contractors to ensure that the building is constructed according to plan.
What kind of training is required to become an architect?
Becoming an architect requires both education and experience. There are a few ways to meet the educational standards for the profession, but the most direct path is to earn a professional architecture degree from a program accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board. There are three degrees recognized as professional degrees by the NAAB: the Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Master of Architecture (MArch), and Doctor of Architecture (DArch) degrees. A Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in architecture is considered a pre-professional degree.
BArch programs take at least five years to complete. Students in these programs take general education courses, including courses in calculus and physics. Architecture courses focus on design, the history of architecture, building materials, construction methods, and building structures. The BArch curriculum typically features several studio courses where students complete design projects and learn how to draw sketches by hand and create models using computer-aided design and drafting and building information modeling software.
MArch programs admit students from diverse educational backgrounds, including those who have completed a pre-professional program in architecture and those who have bachelor’s degrees in other fields. These programs can take more than three years to complete and include courses in architecture design, building structure and materials, and architectural history. Like in a BArch program, students complete several studio courses focusing on different themes, like tectonic, adaptive, and urban design. Students are also expected to complete a thesis before graduation.
Many BArch and MArch programs emphasize global experience and either encourage or require students to complete a study abroad experience.
Once prospective architects have graduated from a professional, accredited degree program in architecture, the next step in the training process is to complete an intern development program (IDP). These programs are administered by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). The IDP is a paid internship that lasts three years and is typically completed in an architecture practice, but may be completed in other settings as well. Throughout their internship and beyond, interns work with a mentor who is a currently licensed architect.
All states require architects to obtain a license to practice. Earning a license means meeting education, experience, and examination requirements. These requirements vary from state to state, but in most cases, architects must complete a professional, accredited degree program, complete an IDP, and pass the Architect Registration Exam.
The NCARB offers a voluntary certification program for architects who earn a professional architecture degree, complete an IDP, and pass the Architect Registration Exam. Architects in many states must meet these certification requirements in order to obtain a license, so earning the certification can make it easier to move from one state to another.
If one completes a BArch program and then an IDP, it will take about eight years to become a licensed architect. It can take a bit longer for architects who earn a MArch or DArch degree before starting their practice.
What does an architect earn?
The median yearly pay for architects in the United States was $73,090 in 2012. The lowest 10 percent of earners in this field made less than $44,600 and the top 10 percent made more than $118,230 that year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of architects in the United States will grow by 17 percent between 2012 and 2020, faster than the average growth for all occupations. While more architect jobs will be available over the next several years, competition for these jobs will be strong. The BLS predicts that architects who are well-versed in “green” or sustainable design will have the best job prospects.
What are the long term career prospects for architects?
Architects with many years of experience can work their way up to partner status at their architectural firm or become the principal of their own firm.
How can I find a job as an architect?
Architects should maintain a portfolio of the designs they’ve created through their career. New architects can feature projects they completed while in school and in internships. Your portfolio can help you attract the attention of potential employers, so when you are searching for jobs, make sure your portfolio makes it into the hands of the right person.
Some architects who are looking for work send their portfolio to any firm they are interested in, even if that firm is not advertising to hire. If you want to search for open positions, many local and national architect societies maintain job boards on their websites.
How can I learn more about becoming an architect?
The American Institute of Architects has extensive resources on its website for architects at all stages of their careers, including students, recent graduates, and the newly licensed. The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and the American Institute of Architecture Students offer helpful information on their websites as well.
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How can I adjust my sound recording levels?
Sometimes the sound levels on recordings can either be distorted, echoey or too low. You can adjust this using the flash settings on the webcam screen.
Make sure that the webcam screen is ready, and click the cog icon to access the flash settings.
You can make sure you have the correct mic using the red arrow.
You can change the recording volume using the volume slider and you can click the check box to reduce echo as well.
Test the sound and watch the green level meter move up and down. Ideally you want it to periodically hit the top, but generally maintain a level around the yellow green zone.
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