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These Are Not The Gayest Cities in America
Not in this order, at least. In a sorta-sociological article on The Daily Beast today, Richard Florida documents what he believes to be the the 20 gayest cities in the country. Are his conclusions correct? Eh, not really.
As Choire Sicha points out on /b/'s next target, The Awl, Florida is using a strange metric. He's going by number of same-sex couples living together. This measures the number of settled gays and lesbians, but does that really make a city gay? Shouldn't the gayest cities be the ones that feel the most culturally queer? Florida's number one and probably everyone's number one is San Francisco, duhhh, but number two is Petaluma? The New York metro area is number eleven? Florida, no.
Where are Atlanta and New Orleans, the gay capitals of the south? Why is Miami number 20 instead of, uh, like number three? Why are we even bothering to measure such an unmeasurable thing? Maybe determining this all by number of domestic couples is a (noble) attempt to normalize and mainstream the whole gay thing. Who knows. We just know that Florida's list is all off.
Now we're curious. How gay is your city? New York City is pretty durn gay, though that might just be the circles we run in. Places we don't go, like Murray Hill? Not at all gay. So, y'know, it can all be pretty relative! Where do you live? Is it overrun with gayness, or blessedly normy?
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[mythtv-users] IR transmitter help
Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Sun Jul 3 14:18:35 UTC 2011
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Kyle Gordon <kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com> wrote:
> Isn't the point here that an IR flash would be obscured by the already
> visible _visible light_ flash?
Yes, that's it exactly. I'm well versed in using digital cameras to
detect IR flashes, as I wrote in my original post:
I tried swapping the emitter with the one
from my old TiVo, which has the same size jack,
but when I do that I don't see it blinking either
visibly or in the IR (on a digital camera display).
This technique works well with an emitter that doesn't also emit a
"surprisingly bright" visible light flash. The TiVo emitter doesn't
blink visibly, so I can verify that that one doesn't work, but I don't
know if that's because of a hardware fault or a compatibility problem.
My questions to this list are:
Has anyone tried substituting a TiVo IR emitter into an HP mceusb unit
and had it work?
What are the most likely causes for this problem? Given that the
emitter is blinking, could there still be a software configuration
problem? If it's a hardware problem, should I just buy a new IR
emitter, or replace the whole thing? If I buy a new emitter, are
there voltage or other compatibility differences I need to look out
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07-12-05 Celina tennis is only for daytime
By Timothy Cox
If city residents want to use the new tennis courts being built at Celina High School, they will have to do so when the school tennis teams aren't using them and while the sun is still shining.
Plans for Celina City Council to donate $40,000 toward lighting the five courts fell through at Monday's council meeting amid fears the state auditor's office would question the city's payment plan. City officials were willing to make the donation if it came from the city's electric department but not if it must come from general fund tax dollars.
Even though most council members said they support the donation, the issue died without a vote over fears auditors would not allow the money to be paid from the city electric fund.
Councilman Collin Bryan ripped state officials for their refusal to grant a formal opinion on the matter. State auditors office representatives have given only general advice on the issue. "It's an absolute crime," Bryan said.
"You have to do it first, then they tell you you're wrong," Auditor Pat Smith said. The lack of lights at the courts -- which are being built through a private fund-raising effort -- will not affect the high school tennis teams. The tennis squads play and practice during daylight hours; the lights would have simply benefited the public. The school district had agreed to assume maintenance responsibilities of the lights and had agreed to pay for the electricity to run them.
Safety-Service Director Jeff Hazel said state auditor's office officials have indicated it would be allowable to donate the lights if they were paid with tax dollars. To pay for the donation with electric money, the project should directly benefit or promote the electric utility, Hazel said he was told.
If city officials had made the donation from the electric fund and been later cited by the auditor's office, the money would have to be repaid from general fund tax money. City officials cannot justify the expense from the cash-strapped general fund, especially since they likely will ask voters this fall to approve a new tax levy.
Although some volunteers who helped raise money to build the courts are upset with the city's decision, school administrators understand the issue, councilman June Scott said. As public officials, school administrators understand some of the perils and pitfalls of public finance, he said.
The light project might not totally die. It was suggested the project could be revisited in the future or scaled back to only light one or two of the five tennis courts.
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Crude falls by over $1/bbl on US potential oil reserves release
17 August 2012 07:18 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Crude futures declined on Friday, with ICE Brent futures falling more than $1/bbl amid news that the US Government is considering releasing supplies from its strategic oil reserves, while comments from the Israeli President eased Middle East concerns.
At 05:48 GMT, October Brent crude on London’s ICE futures exchange was trading at $114.19/bbl, down by $1.08/bbl from the previous close. Earlier, the North Sea benchmark fell to a session low of $113.90/bbl, down by $1.37/bbl.
September NYMEX light sweet crude futures (WTI) were trading at $95.10/bbl, down by 50 cents/bbl from the previous close. Earlier, the US benchmark fell to a session low of $94.98bbl, down by 62 cents/bbl.
The US Government is reviewing the possibility of releasing supplies from its strategic reserves amid concerns that a rise in gasoline prices is having a negative impact on the economy and reducing the effectiveness of sanctions against Iran.
Supply concerns also eased after Israeli President Peres indicated that his country would not pursue unilateral military action against Iran and believed the US would prevent Tehran from successfully developing nuclear weapons.
Iran claims that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes and has denied accusations that it is developing nuclear weapons.
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Buffett Would ‘Love’ $15 Minimum Wage
Mon, 03/03/2014 - 2:32pm
Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
Speaking on CNBC Monday morning, the renowned businessman Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said he would approve of a minimum wage hike to $15 an hour — if it hurt nothing else in the economy, which he says isn’t the case. President Obama has recently campaigned for a minimum wage hike to $10.10, and has even mandated as such for federal contracts. But Buffett would like to see workers paid more — if it didn’t also lead to job cuts.
Buffett said: “If you could have a minimum wage of $15 and it didn't hurt anything else, I would love it. But clearly that isn't the case.”
Many have argued — including the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) — that raising the unemployment rate could have dramatic negative impacts on the economy. The CBO said the $10.10 proposal would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people but would also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs. It would lift 900,000 people above the federal poverty line by 2016, but higher costs would likely influence business owners to shed positions, and might lead to higher costs for consumers.
Clearly, these are the negative impacts Buffett spoke of Monday morning. Instead of a minimum wage hike, Buffett has instead centered his focus on raising the Earned Income Tax Credit, which gives money back to those who earn beneath a certain income level based on the number of children they have — $14,340 or $19,680 if married filing jointly, with no children, up to $46,227 ($51,567 married filing jointly) with three or more children.
He said, “I think you can accomplish way more through the earned income tax credit without negative effects.”
Despite his reservations over an increased minimum wage, he continues to advocate for deeper efforts to address income inequality, an issue he says is “something a very rich country should address.”
An increase to the Earned Income Tax Credit would have little to no impact on manufacturers, as employees would see their take-home pay increased after tax season without any additional investment. And while many manufacturing employees do make far above minimum wage, there are hundreds of thousands who earn far less — they could see marginal increases to their salary. Whether or not manufacturers would then move to shed positions is questionable at best.
Buffett did advocate for Obama’s current $10.10 proposal.
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/economy/buffett-minimum-wage/index.html
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OW2 Programming Contest 2009
OW2 and Scilab are organizing a joint open source programming contest in 2009.
The Contest ceremony will be held in will be held in September 18-20, 2009, in Tianjiabing Building multifunctional conference centre of Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, city of forest, the capital of Guizhou province, located amid the inland southeastern area, China Excellent City of Tourism.
Competition Purposes
The competition is sponsored for Chinese students and technicians to improve the ability to study and manage OW2 middleware, and it can also provide an opportunity and a stage to express your own talent in computer programming. What's more, it is a competition that exhibits the demeanor of college students in science and technology and enhance the intercommunication and cooperation of own college student with one another. The competition advocates the time spirit of "freedom, share and creation". This competition campaign is conducted by the technicians from France and China, and the main target of the competition is to improve the communication and cooperation between two countries.
Rules of Contest
Academic staff and students of university and research institute, engineers of industrial and business organizations, and all other professionals.
Participants should select a topic among the list of topics provided for the OW2 contest (under construction). Once they have selected a topic, they should go to the Registration page? for registration instructions.
Technical requirements
1. Participants can select a topic in the list provided on the OW2 Contest webpage.
3. The software will be developed using the Trustie collaborative infrastructure. It should include appropriate documentation for installing and running the software, as well as examples and tests. The language for code comments and documentation should be English.
Award Selection
The Award Selection process includes three stages:
1. Shortlist of entries by an Expert Team.
2. Peer-evaluation on the Internet, and.
3. Final selection by French and Chinese Scientists.
In the first stage, 16 works will be shortlisted from all the received submissions. Peer-evaluation on the Internet will be made by all contestants. Finally, the French and Chinese Scientist Team will decide on the awards to be given, taking into consideration the results of the first and second stages.
1. First prize: a maximum of one students and one academic advisor will be invited to visit the OW2 team for one week
2. Second prize: up to FIVE awards will be given. (Each Award: Internship t.b.c.).
3. Third prize: up to TEN awards will be given. (Each Award: RMB 500).
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Florent BENOIT France
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Jacques CAYUELA France
Pascal DECHAMBOUX France
Didier DONSEZ France
Pierre DUBOIS France
Fran�ois EXERTIER France
Pierre-Yves GIBELLO France
Andrea GIOIA Italy
Jun HAN China
Jeremi JOSLIN France
Michael KLEINHENZ Germany
Laurent LAUDINET France
Goulven LE JEUNE France
Alexandre LEFEBVRE France
Ge LI China
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Adrien LOUIS France
Antonio MAJORI Italy
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Miguel VALDEZ FAURA France
Julien VIET France
Jun WEI China
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13 HaMakom: Beyond Figure and Ground
One way to look at the relationship between El and YHVH is that of figure/ground. You know these images: a graphic that looks like a goblet one moment and then two people looking at one another the next (to use but one example). It all depends on how your brain is processing the information you get from the graphic. What you see—goblet or people—is figure, what you don’t see is ground. El is what you see; YHVH is what you don’t. El is figure; YHVH is ground. But what is the graphic when no one is looking at it?
What is the graphic when you turn it over so you are no longer creating figure or ground? This is what I call HaMakom, The Place.
HaMakom is another name for God our ancient rabbis invented, and it is a brilliant one. God is not “a place” in the universe, but The Place in which the universe happens. To me this is similar to St. Paul’s definition of God as that “in whom I live and move and have my being,” (Acts. 17:28). You can’t image this Place. It has no shape, no limits, nothing on which to build a theology or a religion.
Some people use HaMakom to mean the Omnipresent One, but that is too limiting. HaMakom is the Place in which one-ness and two-ness happen. HaMakom is nondual: not one, not two, but that which embraces both. Which means that HaMakom is not not one and not not two either. It is and isn’t at the same time. It is the ultimate paradox that, when grasped, frees you from everything for everything.
Of course HaMakom can’t be grasped in any logical way, but I think it can be intuited.
Baruch Spinoza, the 17th century Jewish philosopher (yes, I claim him as one of us, though he himself my have moved beyond such labels), taught that there are three ways of knowing the world. The first and least helpful (but no less necessary) is experience. We extrapolate what is so from the experiences we have. This kind of knowing is limited because our experience is limited and often random and misleading.
For example we experience the sun rising in the morning and setting at dusk when in fact the sun does neither. It is the turning of the earth that gives us the illusion of a rising and setting sun. Similarly with our notions of “up” and “down.” We say airplanes go up into the sky, but in fact there is no up or down. Airplanes go out and in: when taking off they go out from one source of gravity (the earth), and when landing they go in to that same source of gravity.
So knowing based on experience is limited and often misleading. We need to correct it with the second kind of knowing, reason. Reason is the capacity to know the essence of a thing, to know it adequately and perfectly. Reason shows us how all things are the result of the happening of all others things. Remember everything is happening, everything is a verb and there are no nouns in the universe. Our experience shows us what is happening or that something is happening, our reason shows us how and why what is happening is happening as it is. But even reason isn’t sufficient to grasp the whole of what is happening, or, better still, the whole that is happening. For this we need the third level of knowing, intuition.
Intuition reveals what the Buddhists call pratītyasamutpāda, the dependent–origination of all things. Everything happens with everything else. This isn’t the doctrine of cause and effect because that assumes there is a cause separate from and resulting in an effect whereas pratītyasamutpāda says cause and effect arise together: cause produces effect and effect produces causes at the very same instant.
Nothing is separate, nothing happens of itself or over time. With one exception: God. But not God as El or YHVH but God as HaMakom. The happening of happening is just so; happening just happens and has no cause. This happening happening is HaMakom and “knowing” that there is this happening happening is the work of intuition.
I’m not done with this idea, and when and if this blog becomes the book it is intended to be I will have lots more to say about HaMakom, but I am going to leave it for now. Otherwise I will get lost in the weeds of reason when it is my intuition I need to cultivate. So think about this and add your musings to the comments section of the blog. Help us move from reason to intuition if you can.
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Hardy heart: Cumberland teen remains active despite defect at birth
Hardy heart: Cumberland teen remains active despite defect at birth
CUMBERLAND — It may be hard to imagine a die-hard athlete who was born with a heart defect, but Ted Russell is a teen who defies convention.
The 18-year-old Greely High School senior, who plays soccer and lacrosse and runs indoor track, had a relatively uneventful birth.
"He was a normal weight, he was full-term, everything seemed fine," Ted's mother, Pam Russell, said last week, adding that the child was with her and her husband, Don Russell, for about an hour before he was was taken to the nursery. "... It was when he left us that all of a sudden everything kind of crashed ... a nurse came running into our room and said 'don't go to the nursery, there's something wrong with the baby.'"
Ted had turned blue, and attempts to give him oxygen kept failing. He was diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries – his aorta and pulmonary artery, the two major vessels carrying blood away from the heart, were switched, with the aorta arising from the right ventricle instead of the left.
The connection between between the right and left sides of Ted's heart closed, as it should. But when it did, he was no longer getting oxygen.
"He was breathing – things looked normal, his heart was beating and everything – but as he would breathe, the oxygen that would go from his lungs to his heart would just get pumped back to his lungs," Pam Russell said.
"It was pumping un-oxygenated blood through the body," Ted Russell explained.
With his brain and other important areas of the body no longer getting oxygen, the situation had become critical.
Doctors administered drugs, but Ted was still not getting enough oxygen. So they used a catheter to enlarge another connection between the two sides of his heart. Ted's heart was essentially being made to function as it did when he was in the womb.
Ted was taken from Maine Medical Center in Portland in a specially equipped ambulance with a cardiologist and two nurses to Children's Hospital in Boston.
Don Russell said he and his wife were in a state of shock: trying to be optimistic, but knowing little about their son's condition. "Frankly, we were really lucky that Maine Med was on top of it, the pediatrician on call was on top of it. A pediatric cardiologist was brought in, and he diagnosed it immediately. A lot of things had to work just right for this to go as well as it did," Don Russell said. "... They don't give you as a parent many choices, which is a good thing ... because you're not capable of making the choice."
The Russells spent the next two weeks in Boston, waiting for their son's fate to be determined. Ted, who had a nurse watching him 24 hours a day to keep him alive, underwent surgery at the age of four days to switch his arteries.
"You're basically dealing with a tiny heart the size of a plum, maybe. And the major arteries aren't very big at all, and the capillaries all have to be switched, and they're the size of our human hair, basically," Don said.
Ted was kept alive on a heart-lung machine during the approximately six-hour surgery.
It took a few years for Ted to understand how close a call his birth had been. He continues to be in the care of a cardiologist, and he has annual checkups to ensure his heart continues to function normally. In his younger days, Ted dreaded visits to the doctor for fear he would be restricted from playing the sports he loves, but he continued to receive a green light.
Growing up, he never felt different from other children, aside from the scar on his chest. Within about two weeks of learning to walk he started running, and his parents noted that he had two speeds: fast and asleep.
"The doctors never said I had to do anything different, so I kind of just was like every other kid," he said.
"It was pretty clear as a little kid that he was going to be active," Don said. "He just was an active kid, and took naturally to athletics."
Ted's first cardiologist was cautious, recommending he play goalie if he were to participate in soccer, and take up less strenuous sports. His next cardiologist was a triathlete who could understand the athlete's perspective.
Among the methods used to determine the condition of Ted's heart is a stress test, which isn't the teen's particular favorite.
"I get all these wires hooked up to me, and then I have to run on a treadmill, and they push you until you almost collapse," Ted said. "They want to see you at the most exertion possible, so they make the thing go uphill, and you have to be sprinting, basically ... just to see if, when I work that hard on the lacrosse field or soccer field, that nothing's going to happen, and (my heart) is strong enough to handle that."
Ted also continues to take part in a Children's Hospital study that follows the neurological development of youths who had arterial switch operations.
Don pointed out that the concern is that the surgery performed when Ted was four days old keeps up with his growth.
"Since it was such a major surgery, (the testing) probably will be a lifelong thing," Ted said. "And I kind of would like it to be a lifelong thing, just because if there's something going on, I kind of want to know about it, so I can get it fixed right away."
Although his son and many other children go through the kind of obstacle Ted faced at birth, it doesn't have to be a stopping point, Don pointed out.
"You can hopefully get the right kind of treatment," he said.
Electronically, Ted's heart has a couple of extra blips which might not normally exist, Pam said, along with a heart murmur, and sounds and rhythms that are not always normal. The tests check to see if those abnormalities go back to normal after occurring or get worse.
Causes can vary, Pam said: they can be hereditary, environmental, or totally random.
If he were to give advice to parents of children with a congenital heart defect, Ted said he would recommend they offer the same kind of wide berth that he has had with his own parents. "With the second opportunity (at life) given," he said, "I would put forth all your effort into doing whatever your kid feels like they can do with their life, just because it's such a special gift that they've been given."
Pam and Don noted the importance of getting the doctor's OK for the youth's activities.
Don recommends those parents do their homework and understand what they are dealing with, and "let your child dictate within reason where they want to go, and don't superimpose your own fears and anxieties and inhibit your child from doing what they want to do. You've kind of got to let it go; you get a second chance like that, it would be too bad to not take advantage of it."
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I understand that Firewire 400/800 and Thunderbolt have DMA enabled, and a malicious hardware device can easily read and manipulate system memory at will. If I disable the software drivers for these devices, would that prevent such reading/writing? Or is the only way to protect against DMA by desoldering the controller or injecting epoxy in the ports?
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Is this really a realistic threat in your environment? Do you really expect people to have the ability to be able to attach custom hardware to your computer in order to perform an attack? If they have physical access to your computer, why wouldn't they simply perform many of the easier attacks? – Zoredache Jul 10 '12 at 16:36
This may, in fact, be the easier attack. If you are operating customs at the border of a nation with repressive data privacy laws, a single engineer can make a device that unlocks locked screens on laptops and retrieves encryption keys from RAM with a DMA attack. It is not uncommon when traveling abroad that you may be separated from your laptop for long periods of time at customs, and you don't know what is being done it. So it best to err on the side of caution. This also requires minimal training on the part of the attacker. Simply plug and play. – directedition Jul 10 '12 at 17:01
Simply enable full-disk encryption and turn off your laptop before crossing the border? Then hope that they don't think Rubber-hose cryptanalysis is needed. If you are using full disk encryption with a strong password, and your system is off so the key isn't in memory, there really isn't anything they can do other then attack you or try to install some kind of keyboard capture device. – Zoredache Jul 10 '12 at 17:06
Indeed, that is a practical mitigation tactic, but it might not always be feasible for every user. Or a user may simply forget to shutdown before going through security. Being able to advise them to simply disable the ports when they go traveling would be great. But of course, such a suggestion would be reckless if the hardware controllers will still allow DMA in that circumstance. Hence the question. – directedition Jul 10 '12 at 17:17
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Disable both interfaces in BIOS and then password protect the BIOS configuration. Additionally, remove the drivers/modules from kernel for both. Also mind, that DMA attack is possible through ExpressCard interface that many notebooks have. One of the more drastic measures is to fill the ports with silicon gel (or similar) or unsolder them (greater chance to damage something if you are not experienced).
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Is there an equivalent to disabling in BIOS for the Mac? My hope is that I can advise people to protect themselves without needing make irrecoverable changes to the hardware. – directedition Jul 10 '12 at 17:58
Found this on the net: "The Mac does not have a BIOS to enter. The equivalent would be the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) to access this (which is traditionally referred to as Open Firmware hence the O and F key combination) press Command-Option-O-F keys during startup." – Matrix Jul 10 '12 at 18:07
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for! – directedition Jul 10 '12 at 18:13
Blogs and papers seem to support the assertion that EFI password will block these attacks. CF: breaknenter.org/2012/02/… and research paper: freddie.witherden.org/pages/ieee-1394-forensics – adric Aug 28 '12 at 18:31
There's something called a jumper that'd like to say hi to your BIOS/EFI password :p – Thomas Aug 29 '12 at 6:42
To avoid DMA attacks on Mac through FireWire or Thunderbolt, you just need to setup an EFI password. This will disable raw DMA access (confirmed by Apple Tech Support).
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Citation needed. – dionyziz Mar 25 at 23:39
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Ok, I Am Vindicated! Drones Spy On Us
A few months after 9/11, we were crossing the second part of the Triborough Bridge out of Manhatten. I was sitting in the passenger seat and looked up in the sky -- it was a very clear night -- and I saw something hovering high above the East River. I thought it was a helicopter but t wasnt. I could see the shape of it and it looked like a small jet. I thought, "wTF? Only helicopters can hover like that that; not moving in the sky, not little jets." ( I should add that I've been a bird watcher for years and am used to looking skyward and identifying birds by their shapes, their wingspan, the type of flight -- chickadees, eg, have a bobbing flight) I mentioned this to a few people. I was sure it was a surveillance aircraft watching the city in some way. Some people said it was probably a harrier jet. I had a feeling it was unmanned, like a satellite, even though it was vaguely jet-shaped and lower in the sky then a satellite. Well, here it is -- a drone, of course. It can zoom in on a person waving 15,000 feet below it. Of course, it is being sold as something that protects us and solves crimes. If someone panted a bomb in a building and blew it up, the footage from the drone is computerized and stored for days. You can go back to the day of the bombing and watch everyone who came and went from the building. Which, of course, means that political dissidents an be watched as well.
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Attractions near Manhattan's Theatre District
Attractions near Manhattan's Theatre District
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New York City attractions
Here are a few fun, interesting attractions nearby.
Toys ‘R’ Us: It’s not just any Toys ‘R’ Us, guys. There’s a ferris wheel inside! Plus a bunch of life-sized toys (like Barbie’s Dream House that you can walk through and huge Lego characters), a video game section, costumed characters, a candy shop, and so many toys. Like, mountains and mountains of them. The best part is you can go in and have fun, but not buy anything.
Rockefeller Center: There are actually a bunch of things to do here. In the winter, ice skating in the infamous rink is always an option. Then there’s the Top of the Rock Observation Deck (which gives you a gorgeous look at the city from above), a tour of the actual Rockefeller Center (guided by a historian, and it’s not as boring as it sounds, I swear), and NBC Studio Tours (see the set of SNL!).
Spot the Naked Cowboy: Okay, so, he isn’t always out, but the Naked Cowboy has become a staple in NYC. He’s a street performer who wears a cowboy hat and boots, and his guitar. It makes him look like he’s nude, but I assure you, he is not. He’ll stop and pose for photos, if that’s what you’re into. Kind of weird strange, but you know, it’s New York.
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum: When you really think about it, going to a museum full of wax figures is sort of odd. Factor in that the figures are made to look like real people and it feels even creepier. But whatever, it’s also fun! If you like celebrities, this is a great place to stop; some of the figures are impeccable (like the newly-installed Whitney Houston tribute). You can take your pictures with them, too, so your Facebook friends think you were eating lunch with George Clooney.
Other contenders: M&M store (shopping); Dave and Buster’s (arcade/food); Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (museum); City Sightseeing (bus tour); Times Square History Tour (walking tour); Regal Lowes Cinemas (movie theater).
What are your favorite attractions near the theater district?
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Basil Mung Bean Salad
1 cup mung beans, cooked according to directions on bag
5 cups diced or thinly sliced cabbage and carrots
1 large handful of fresh basil (about a cup), coarsely chopped
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 avocado, sliced
sea salt to taste
1. In a large skillet, heat the olive oil on medium low. Add the carrots and cabbage, and saute about 3 minutes.
2. Add the mung beans, and continue to saute, stirring occasionally, until the cabbage is translucent, about 5 minutes.
3. Add sea salt to taste.
4. Stir in the basil and saute another minute.
5. Take off the stove and add in the sliced avocado.
Serves 4.
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Whether jinxed by sophomore curse or suffering from the incessant overexposure their debut album's breakout hits "Buddy Holly" and "Undone (The Sweater Song)" spawned, Weezer's second album was a decided commercial disappointment. A more likely culprit seemed Rivers Cuomo's distaste for that hype, leading to a firmer, more provocative hand on the band's fortunes on this 1996 release. That sensibility produces an aggressive, culture-mocking left turn of a single in "El Scorcho," and a sonic approach that is often as cluttered and dark as their debut had been sunny and carefree. The album's loose concept (it was structured around Madame Butterfly) is so slack it likely escaped many listeners, even with the acoustic closer "Butterfly" dropping a final hint. Yet there are flashes of the more familiar Weezer charm in the frustrated romance of "Pink Triangle," the catchy chorus of "The Good Life," and even "Falling For You's" more muscular approach.
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Pinkerton... Greatest Weezer Album Ever?
Even though, most of todays Weezer listeners love the Blue Album over all others, I beg to differ. Pinkerton is the most personal, is filled with the most heart, and has some of the best lyrics every written by Weezer. It doesnt fall into a trap of being too "Pop" like the Green Album, and isn't over-played like Make Believe. When I first started listening to Weezer, I loved the Blue Album and discounted Pinkerton, as everyone else did. But, after a while, i started really listening to it and found out that it is more than just a sophomore flop, as a lot of breakout bands have, it is truly a soulful album and is by far, the Greatest Weezer Album... Ever. So buy it now, folks, you wont regret it. P.S. go on google and search for pinkerton's symbolism to Madama Butterfly, Puccinis second orchestra, whcich was also a flop, and see some pretty awesome stuff. -peace
Weezer's best, and one of the best of the 90s.
Pinkerton is superb. No Weezer album makes better use of "the art of noise" than this one -- another Itunes reviwer has called it "sloppy-but-beautiful," which is a good way to put it. The tension in the combination of noise and sweetness is what energizes the music. The more pretty the melodies become, the more the songs are laden with noisy guitars or coarse singing, especially in "El Scorcho" or "Pink Triangle." This is what prevents the songs on the album from quickly becoming old hat, as happens, unfortunately, with many of the best songs on the Green Album. Finally, the aggressiveness of the sound and production values combined with the tuneful, singable melodies brings out the themes of love's frustration, elusiveness, and pain. The narrator spends the entire album trying to find love. He tries to replace it with sex ("Tired of Sex"), gets caught in destructive interia ("No Other One"), questions the search itself ("Why Bother?") longs for some action ("The Good Life") and seems to resign himself to the uncertainty of it all ("Falling For You"). Finally, "Butterfly" ends it all on a beautifully sad note: love is elusive as a Butterfly, and just as hard to catch. But once he catches it, it dies. Few things in life are harder than finding love and keeping it alive. Pinkerton is a brilliant album because it captures this human truth and presents it beautifully, with plenty of pain and frustration along the way.
It's funny because some of you complain and say that everyone just likes weezer now that they're cool again, and all the bull, but it is true. I however, don't listen to the radio, and don't give to $#!ts about "popular culture" heard the song El Scorcho introveniously, it being the background music to a animated short I saw, and was instantly taken aback by how incredible a song it was. I, not knowing who weezer was a the time, purchased pinkerton immediately, because of how good El Scorcho was. I didn't even know anything about them, and here are people accusing me of jumping on the band-wagon when it was months later that I even heard the song Beverly Hills, while flipping past Fuse, one afternoon. How dare you make up my own story for me. What kind of high-horse does someone like you ride to think that you're so special because you're devout? Not everyone is a clone like you seem to believe, I didn't like them until I heard a song from the Album I supposedly "hated" when it came out, sorry, I was 6. I don't think I really cared that much about music back then, I was still learning how to read well. I hate people who think they are so special and everyone else is bland and the same, not everyone is so blank, I have my own opinion, and I express it.
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Smart upgrades to build into a home
Consider lifestyle when picking options
December 09, 2006|By Allison E. Beatty
Wondering which options to select in your new home? Before getting too focused on granite countertops and other design changes, consider some options that can be difficult and costly to add later.
One major change to consider adding during construction is a taller foundation. While this type of change is not as exciting as a decorative farm sink or a warming drawer, it is particularly important for those who want to finish their basements in the future.
Many builders include 8-foot high basements as a standard item, for example. By upgrading to a 9-foot height, a homeowner will gain the extra headroom and allow ample space for the heating and cooling ductwork that will go in the ceiling.
"Look toward the structure of the house before you look at the fit and finish," said Court Airhart, president of Airhart Construction. "The fit and finish is easy to change later."
At Airhart Construction, the cost to upgrade to a 9-foot ceiling in the basement starts around $3,500, depending on the size of the home.
The key to selecting the right options is to think about how you will use the home and your future plans. Those who plan to expand their families, adding children or by having in-laws moving in, should consider where those family members would sleep. Does the house have space that can be converted into a bedroom or bathrooms at a later date?
The area over a garage often makes a good space for a bedroom, but the space should be prepared early on. The floor joists could be installed, for example. And the interior opening to that space should be designed so that it flows with the second-floor hallway.
"If someone is planning to finish the space over the garage later we want to run heating and air ducts between the joists to keep air at a uniform level," said Curtis Perlman, project manager for Empeco Custom Builders.
When getting a ranch floor plan, home buyers should consider whether they want to finish off part of the attic space in the future. With some floor plans, the builder could add floor joists and other framing during construction to make that process easier. Also, buyers should look for a floor plan that includes enough headroom in the second-floor area so that costly roof changes are unnecessary.
The garage is another option that sometimes is overlooked. While a two-car garage might work for a few years, many buyers find they need more storage. "Adding a three-car garage now is a lot less expensive than adding it later," Airhart said.
Any changes to staircase configurations also should be planned while the house is being built. Staircases are an integral part of the floor-plan layout, making future changes complicated and costly.
Kimball Hill Homes has a floor plan that includes an option for a split staircase. Instead of a traditional straight design, the staircase would go up halfway, then have a landing that splits into two sides. One side goes to the kids' bedrooms while the other goes toward the master suite.
"The kids go one direction and the parents go another way," said Ruth Stefl, sales manager for the builder. "Aesthetically, it's pretty because it breaks up the long staircase."
This option is about $3,900, depending on the railings and other details. But the staircase also will eliminate about three feet of space from a second-floor bedroom.
Windows are another option that should be weighed carefully when selecting a floor plan. Will key rooms receive ample natural light? "Sometimes there is an option for adding a window in a garage or kitchen or adding a decorative window to let in more light," Stefl said.
In those cases, home buyers should consider the extra cost and how difficult it would be to add windows later. In many instances, it is less costly to add windows during construction. Some builders do not allow drastic changes to the windows, however, as it affects the overall production schedule and other factors, such as the placement of wiring.
In custom homes, there are other niceties that also should be considered during construction. Those who want the warmth of radiant heat under their feet in the bathroom should plan ahead. This way the builder can add the piping under the floor before tile or other flooring material is laid.
The use of radiant heat also can affect the heating system in the house, as some types require a boiler instead of a gas forced-air system. Others operate with electricity and are designed for smaller areas, Perlman said.
When selecting options, think carefully about future plans and priorities. Talk with the builder early to discuss what types of changes can be completed more easily during construction. This can save some major headaches and expenses down the line.
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I have a PDF document intended for long-term (many years, maybe decades) archival which I would like to digitally sign with my personal certificate to ensure its integrity.
As far as I understand, I need to timestamp the signature in order to ensure it remains valid even after certificate expiration.
Let's say I use a trustworthy TSA. From what I understand they sign the timestamp with they own signature.
Now, let's suppose the original TSA bankrupts or is compromised and its certificates revoked. Will my document remain readable without warnings?
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Aren't there some timestamp services that are based on publishing hashes? – CodesInChaos Jul 25 '12 at 14:26
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It would seem that the answer is no. If the TSA's private key is compromised (and thus revoked), the time stamp signature cannot be trusted as whoever compromised it could sign documents with old time stamps. Surely users would want to be warned before accepting a time stamp signature from a compromised certificate.
It seems then if this is your threat model, you have the following (and maybe more) options:
1. Get a signed time stamp from multiple TSAs. If any one is not revoked, that signature can still be trusted.
2. Use threshold signing, so that an attacker would have to compromise a number of parties in order to forge signatures (which is much less likely than compromise of a single party).
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Time stamps, just like regular signatures, are valid only as long as the certificate connected to them is valid.
In other words, time stamp becomes useless in the same moment as the TSA ceases operation, is compromised, etc.
The solution to this problem, is to get few time stamps on one file and regularly time stamp it before any of the TSA certificates is about to expire. The cryptographic format governing this for PDF files is PAdES-A.
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Time stamps are also signatures; see for instance RFC 3161 which is the most commonly used time stamp format. In particular, such time stamps also rely on certificates (the TSA certificate), and thus also expire.
So you need regular time stamping; whenever the latest time stamp is about to expire (but before expiration), you need to obtain a new time stamp computed over the previous time stamp. Such chaining is described in several standards, including PAdES (which supports embedding signatures and time stamps within the PDF file itself); a somewhat clearer description of time stamp chaining is Evidence Record Syntax.
To survive unexpected loss of a TSA before the time stamp expiration date (e.g. due to a compromise), you can use several TSA and interleave them in the chain: you get a time stamp from TSA A, and immediately after another time stamp from TSA B (computer over the time stamp from A). Whenever either time stamp is about to expire, expand the chain with two extra time stamps, again from A then from B. With interleaving, you can survive the loss of either TSA (but, of course, not of both).
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I would encourage to take a look and different Cryptographic Timestamping methods.
My favourite schemes are: distributed, Linking-based and hybrid schemes like Linked and signed.
The last one Linked and signed especially in distributed model seems very strong and does not relay on PKI (when signing fails, there is always linked scheme behind).
Let's take this, as example scheme: http://www.guardtime.com/signatures/technology-overview/ (please click on each section to roll-out it and read contents). It uses distributed hash-tree structures, periodically collects in calendar database and print top-tree hash in Markets section of Financial Times.
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Normal Lengths of Time for Heat Cycles in Female Dogs
by Naomi Millburn
Some "in season" dogs experience frequent urination.
Some "in season" dogs experience frequent urination.
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Once your female puppy is sexually mature and capable of reproducing, she'll begin routinely going into heat. This usually happens about two times every year in dogs. The heat cycle is characterized by telltale hormonal swings in pets. If you get your pooch spayed, however, she'll cease going into heat permanently.
Typical Duration of Heat Cycles
Canine heat cycles generally last two to three weeks, indicates Vetwest Animal Hospitals. The exact lengths of heat cycles differ with every dog. While male dogs are drawn to females from the first days of their heat cycles, the females don't accept mating advances until a little time has passed. Female dogs are generally only open to mating with males for roughly half the time of the heat cycle, according to the ASPCA. They typically become fertile between nine and 16 days after the start of heat, when they begin to ovulate.
Behavior During Ovulation
When female dogs in heat start to ovulate, they permit male dogs to breed with them, says Vetwest Animal Hospitals. They also often invite mating encounters at this time, with body postures that involve stiff hind limbs and raising their bottoms in males' directions. Females may attempt to break free from their homes, all in their tireless, hormone-fueled searches for male breeding partners. Some female dogs take it as far as diligently digging their own exit tunnels below gates in their owners' yards. The length of ovulation is approximately four days in female dogs, according to John Ross, author of "Dog Talk".
Heat Cycle Clues
If you're not sure whether your dog is in heat, you might be able to tell by observing behaviors that are so typical of the cycle. Other key clues might be able to help you identify whether your pet is indeed in heat -- and keep track of how long the cycle is lasting, too. Dogs in heat usually seem especially heedful and attentive to their surroundings, according to ASPCA. They often seem more uneasy, wound up and irritable than normal, too. Physical signs also can be handy for figuring out if a dog is in heat. When heat cycles start, dogs usually experience swelling of their vulvae, says veterinarian Cheryl Yuill of VCA Animal Hospitals. The swelling is often subtle. Discharge with blood in it is also an indication. As heat progresses and female dogs become open to mating, the blood in the discharge diminishes.
Starting Heat
It's impossible to guess exactly when a young female dog will start going into heat. Female dogs, for the most part, however, begin going into heat when they're between six months and two years of age. Large breeds usually mature later than those of smaller ones. If you want to ensure that your young pup never goes into estrus for even a day, consult your veterinarian about getting her spayed.
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How To Rearrange The Xbox One's Dashboard Pins
The June 2014 update for the Xbox One lets you rearrange the square "pin" icons that decorate the left pane of the system's dashboard and serve as the console's game/app shortcuts. That's handy! So how do you do it? And why might you need a mirror? We can explain and make it easy for you.
1. Have SmartGlass (And update it)
Sorry, but you can't rearrange your pins on the Xbox One itself. You might have had visions of waving your hands in front of a Kinect, channeling your inner Tom Cruise as you moved each pin. Nah. It might be nice to do it on the system via a controller or Kinect, but it makes the most sense to do it with a touchable interface. Hence, SmartGlass, which you can get for an Android, iOS, or Windows Phone device. If you already have the app, make sure it's updated.
2. Swipe over to your Pins in SmartGlass
And click the three-dot icon...
How To Rearrange The Xbox One's Dashboard Pins
That takes you to the "my pins" view, where you can do the rearranging.
3. Press and drag the pins to rearrange them
This will feel normal for anyone who has used a smartphone or tablet interface before, though you might be thrown off by the fact that the pins are vertically stacked.
So if you grab, say, the Ryse one from the left-hand column...
How To Rearrange The Xbox One's Dashboard Pins
... and you want to move it one square to the right, you'll see that the one below it (Titanfall) moves up. And the one that was on top of the column next to it (Dead Rising) slides over and under to be the bottom pin on the original column. See?
How To Rearrange The Xbox One's Dashboard Pins
Plan accordingly!
You can also tap a pin and select "unpin" to remove it.
4. Prepare for your newly-arranged pins to flip
It's not clear why Microsoft did this, but when you're editing your pins, you're actually editing a horizontally flipped arrangement of your pins. What's left is right. What's right is left. (At least cats are not playing with dogs.)
Thus, what you see in SmartGlass while editing your pins is a mirror of what'll appear on your console.
How To Rearrange The Xbox One's Dashboard Pins
When you take one step back out in SmartGlass and just start swiping through the SmartGlass dash? Then you see your pins in their proper order.
How To Rearrange The Xbox One's Dashboard Pins
If you are smart enough to be using 21st-century electronics, you can handle this. We just thought you'd like to be forewarned before assembling the perfect left-to-right arrangement.
As far as your console keeping up with the changes you made, it seems that you have to load a game or app or anything else to nudge the Xbox One into executing the rearrangement. Do that, and it'll take.
5. Oh, wait. You knew how to create a pin, right?
Just in case all this was a cart before your create a pin in the first place, all you had to was—using the Xbox One- find an icon for a game or app you like, possibly in the "my games & apps" section; press the three-line "hamburger" button on the Xbox One controller (to the left of the X button); and select "pin to home."
By making a pin you've essentially created a shortcut to start the game or app from the front of the Xbox dashboard rather than having to dig to find it. Creating a pin sends it to the front of your pin stack. Which brings us full circle to why you might want to rearrange your pins.
There you go. Easy peasy.
With that, you can customize and configure your Xbox One dashboard and get to your favorite stuff faster. A rare win for those of us who want some control over what's on our console's dash!
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Drawing 3 cards one at a time vs. Drawing 3 cards simultaneously - Those nasty probability questions!
[For a detailed conceptual discussion of several methods, read the excellent comments by Mike and novemberfive.]
It's 'probably' too early in the year for this, but...
This is one of those typical probability questions that all students struggle with until they have enough experience to feel comfortable. When away from these for awhile, most everyone needs to revisit this kind of question and work through the theory again. It's so elusive...
Here's a typical version of this question:
Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52. What is the probability that they will consist of a king, a queen and an ace?
Do you feel totally comfortable when seeing these? Imagine how most students feel. They either have a strong concept here or they get that queasy feeling and express, "I don't like these!"
So here's the issue:
Is there one method you have found for these that makes sense to most students or should multiple methods be demonstrated (and shown to be equivalent)?
To get you started:
Method One: For the denominator, select all 3 cards 'simultaneously' in C(52,3) ways. The numerator is more interesting, so I'll leave that to you.
Method Two: Analyze one card at a time without replacement. Thus, the probability that the first card will be a king is 4/52, etc. Of course, most of you know the 'catch' here, but the method can still work if...
Method Three: Yours!
Thursday, August 30, 2007
9991 M&M's were eaten by a group of freshmen...
Here's a warm-up you can give to your Algebra 2 (and beyond) students to welcome them back to math class after a summer of brain drain. NO CALCULATOR ALLOWED! This oughta' set the tone...
A total of 9991 M&M's were eaten by a group of Freshmen. Here are the facts:
(1) Each freshman ate the same number of M&M's.
(2) There was more than one freshman.
(3) Each freshman ate more than one M&M.
(4) The number of freshman was less than the number of M&M's each freshman ate.
How many M&M's did each freshman eat?
Work in your groups of 3-4. You have 3 minutes. First team to arrive at the correct number AND explain their method, gets to eat ______________.
Let me know how many groups solved it or your thoughts about the appropriateness of this question.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
An Algebra 2 Sign with 'Composite' Meanings...
Ask your students for a couple of reasons why this might be hanging up in a math classroom!
Some more thoughts on splitting the Carnival...
You may want to read the comment I posted on John Armstrong's, The Unapologetic Mathematician. It's the 23rd psalm, oops, I meant comment, listed there and it does represent my strong feelings about where we are in all of this 'bifurcation' business. I'm hoping we can move on now.
The next edition is coming out next week over at Learning Computation and I will be hosting the following one on 9-21. I will have several suggestions for the format of submissions at that time, so I'm hoping you will follow this thread over the next few weeks. Actually, Kurt over at Learning Computation has anticipated most of what I will be requesting so please read his article on the Carnival thoroughly - it's very thorough and well-written. He also has some fascinating information on the site and Social Rank. Why should we be surprised that there are computer science whizzes trying to develop new tools for ranking blogs and websites. Why would they do it other than for commercial gain? Because they can, I suppose! Why did a teenager in Glen Rock NJ spend countless errors trying to unlock the secrets of the iPhone? Because he could! (earning instant fame and a new car in the process). The opportunities for technophiles to instantly change the world are now endless...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Searching for Gold in Geometry - An Investigation
Those of you who found your way here via Carnival of Math Edition XVI, may also want to read some of the more recent posts:
A Preview of an Interview with Lynn Arthur Steen
Algebra 2 End of Course Exam - Latest Info
Singapore Math - Part III - Info from the 'Source'
Another Problem from Singapore Grade 6B Placement Test
If you're interested in more geometry investigations, look through the labels on the sidebar. There are many geometry activities and challenge problems for your students or for your pleasure...
[As promised, scroll down to the end of this post to see some links to the best references I have found for the golden triangle and related topics.]
The following detailed investigation is designed for geometry students. Questions 7 and 8 are designed for students who have had some basic trigonometry, which is sometimes included in a geometry course. You may want to save this for an extended activity or project for later in the year, but if you want to inspire your group earlier, show them what they will be able to solve by the time the course is over! Feel free to comment and make corrections and suggestions. There are many excellent online references for the triangle below. I will provide these links after you've had a chance to explore and to feel the 'Gold Rush'.
The isosceles triangle shown above doesn't seem very special but you may feel differently after the journey we're about to embark on.
Here are the given: ΔPQR is isosceles, PQ = PR. RS bisects ∠PRQ. ∠P = 36 degrees, sides PQ and PR have length x and base QR has length 1.
1. Draw a regular pentagon and all of its diagonals. How many triangles can you find that are similar to ΔPQR?
2. Determine the measures of all the angles in ΔPQR.
3. Explain why PS = SR = QR.
4. Here is the key step: Using similar triangles, show that x satisfies the equation:
x2 = x+1.
5. Solve to show that x = (1+√5)/2.
6. You've now shown that the ratio of the longer side of the isosceles triangle to its shorter side is (1+√5)/2. Note that this number is also the ratio of PS to SQ (why?). You've struck gold! This number is known as the Golden Ratio and is usually denoted by the Greek letter Φ (phi), pronounced 'fye'. Research this number and write five fascinating facts about it.
7. Think you're done? You've only scratched the surface. We will now relate all of this to a trigonometric value of 36°. You recall that cos 30° = √3/2, cos 45° = √2/2 and cos 60° = 1/2. Well, these are not the only angles whose cosine or sine can be expressed in exact form using whole numbers and square roots! Here's your challenge:
Show that cos 36° = Φ/2 using 2 methods:
(a) The Law of Cosines in ΔPSR
(b) Let M be the midpoint of segment PR. Now work with with ΔPSM. Show your results are equivalent.
8. Since we're having fun with trig, let's show that sin 18° = (Φ-1)/2 using 2 methods:
(a) Bisect ∠SRQ and use a triangle.
(b) No geometry - just use a half angle identity. Show that the results are equivalent!
9. If you feel there's much more to be mined here, you're right. Perhaps you could find the sin or cos of other angles that are multiples of 18°! Have fun!!
(a) cos 36
Click on 'One solution" to get more details. Prof. Wilson from UGA has an awesome problem-solving page that is accessible to high school students as well.
(b) Exact trig values
An exceptional site from UK that develops the theory of exact representations of certain trig values using radicals. Worth reading through it. I found this after the fact but I learned a great deal.
(c) Pentagram and the Golden Ratio
Another wonderful site with excellent diagrams and an historical account showing the development of the golden ratio. Once you start reading this, you will not want to stop - bookmark this one!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
As a new school year begins - words to inspire...
I always enjoy reading quotes (excellent bathroom reading), particularly those that challenge and provoke (kind of like teaching!). I also admire the brilliance of those who can speak volumes in the fewest possible number of words.
Here are a few I found with my own interpretations as well as a couple that have been guiding principles in my career. Some are loosely paraphrased from memory, so if you know the original, please share...
Let's start with some humor, although you may not find it so.
(Bumper sticker) If you can read this, thank a teacher.
My addition : Never follow too closely. (there's a double meaning there!)
(Seen on a T Shirt): 3/4 of all students don't understand fractions; the other half don't like them.
(This is not the original which I can't quite recall - but the message is the same)
Now onto more serious thoughts...
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher....One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. [Carl Jung]
My thoughts: What did a wise teacher once say to me -- Dave, just remember, you don't teach math, you teach children.
My thoughts: I almost want to make another joke about fractions but this truism should stand alone. I never thought of myself as a great performer but in reality I gave 5x5x40x35 performances, some of which were definitely better than others! Ever notice how some former teachers become stand up comics...
Those who are incapable of teaching young minds to reason, pretend that it is impossible. The truth is, they are fonder of making their pupils talk well than think well and much the greater number are better qualified to give praise to a ready memory than a sound judgment.
[Oliver Goldsmith]
My thoughts: This should provoke some strong feelings. I've asked many teachers why they don't ask more probing questions in a lesson. I often get the following type of reaction, "I tried, but I wind up having to answer the questions myself, so what's the point." Perhaps, it's enough to ask the questions... the next quote says it better...
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. [Henry Adams]
When the National Science Foundation asked the "breakthrough" scientists what they felt was the most favorable factor in their education, the answer was almost uniformly, "intimate association with a great, inspiring teacher." [R. Buckminster Fuller]
My thoughts: None needed
My thoughts: I guess I was mediocre, good and superior in my career. I'll leave it to others to judge how great I was.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given. [Bertrand Russell]
My thoughts: I believe they work hand in hand. It would be hypocritical of me to downplay the importance of what is being taught.
And last but not least, the oft-quoted but still the most meaningful for me...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. [Henry Adams]
I was hoping not to get melancholy about not starting a new school year with the rest of you but these quotes are having an effect on me. Have a wonderful year as you touch another group of lives. Please share your favorite quotes here with all of us.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Carnival of Math Edition XV - A Monu'mental' Effort by John Kemeny
Outrageously funny, bizarre at times, brilliantly clever...
There's no other way to describe the latest edition of the Carnival of Mathematics over at John Kemeny's website. From the wildly amusing rating system for classifying math posts to the over-the-top graphics, I'm amazed that John was able to get this published on time. Well worth waiting for and it leaves little doubt that the CoM is alive and well. And, oh, by the way, John absolutely did justice to each of the submissions. Enjoy it!
The only problem for me (and every other host) is that I have to follow John's act in a few weeks and this is one tough act to follow.
Congratulations, John and in the true spirit of your blog entitled, a mispelt bog, let me add that this edition of the Carnival was mind-blogging!
A Trig Mnemonic Revisited with Texify!
Some time ago, I posted a piece about math mnemonics. Buried near the bottom was my feeble attempt to make a table showing a well-known (?) fascinating pattern for sin and cos values for the common angles in Quadrant I. Over the years, some students have found this to be as useful as memorizing ordered pairs on the unit circle or deriving everything from 30-60-90 and 45-45-90 (which I still prefer personally). I've seen students make this table at the top of their trig unit exam - they figured it was worth the effort! I'm reprinting this today using an image created in LaTeX and the absolutely wonderful and easy to use Texify website. This has been a real boon for those using Blogger since LaTeX has not yet been supported. Many math bloggers have been using it for a while now and I'm sure they appreciate its power and simplicity as much as I do. Its author is Andrey Burkov and Ars Mathematica gives him proper credit here. Certainly if an old dog like me can learn new tricks like this, anyone can! By the way at the Texify site, there is an extremely well-written tutorial with many examples to follow. I suspect I will be using this a lot for my new posts and perhaps cleaning up my old. Let me know if the table below is as readable as it appears to me. and, of course, if you like the pattern, you can tell me that too!
The original post used the klutziest of notations and was barely readable. This should be a lot better! I omitted the row for the tan function which is just the quotient of rows 2 and 3:
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
[Wonderful discussion going on in the comments dealing with math terminology and the underlying concepts embedded here. As always, my post is just the appetizer. The main course is to be found in the comments section. If you enjoy this discussion you may also want to visit some of my recent posts touching on Singapore Math and a review of an important book by Alec Klein on teaching gifted children.]
The following is similar to a question that appeared on the PSAT a couple of years ago. The College Board has been testing recursively-defined sequences for some time. Students take the test, then it's 'out of sight, out of mind'. Educators may want to explore the ideas behind these problems in much greater depth. Recursive sequences are an important topic and are now included in many sets of standards. Should this be viewed as exclusively a high school topic?
Consider the sequence 11,6,5,... defined as follows:
Each term after the second is the nonnegative difference of the two preceding terms.
What numbered term has a value of zero?
Things to ponder beyond the answer...
(1) Is this question appropriate for middle schoolers?
(2) Would the terminology nonnegative difference be problematic for some students?
Note: This is the actual wording from the exam. Would you have reworded this using absolute values?
(3) If an educator wants students to develop these ideas in a more extended investigation, how much preliminary groundwork needs to be laid if any? It's important for our students to understand that mathematical researchers often start with specific examples like this without knowing the general relationship. They analyze many specific examples looking for patterns just like students can be trained to do.
(4) How many particular examples would students need before they can begin to formulate an hypothesis? Should the first two terms be restricted to positive integers (or even integers for that matter!)? Should the instructor suggest different starting values or allow the students to explore? As always, the issue is the role of the instructor while students are exploring. Teachers inexperienced with facilitating these kinds of investigations can benefit from observing those who have been doing this for awhile. It ain't obvious and it sure ain't easy!
(5) Would most students conjecture that the sequence will eventually become 'stable' at some point if the initial two terms are integers? Would middle schoolers be able to explain why this would happen?
(6) Do you think some students would be able to formulate a general theory for this type of sequence? Develop a formula for the number of terms required for the terms to reach zero? How many students in middle school or high school would suggest starting with decimals or even irrational numbers like pi? Is there ever an end to these investigations?
Well there is an end to this post! [Notice that the original question seems less significant now.]
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Singapore Math - Part II - It isn't just the materials!
I've always believed we can learn so much from observing what and how children learn in other cultures. I've received permission from Jenny, a representative of Singapore Math, to post a few of the questions from the Grade 6B placement Test and discuss them. This post will focus on Question 13:
Last month David and Mary saved some money in a ratio of 3:5. This month they saved an additional $154 together, and David now has three times as much money as he had last month while Mary has two times as much money as she had last month. How much money did they save last month?
Jenny is the curriculum advisor for the US based distributor of Singapore Math, has an intimate knowledge of the materials and how they they are implemented. From looking at the 6A Placement Test, which included some algebra, I had assumed that children would solve this using a variable x as follows:
Dave Mary
Originally 3x 5x
Additional ___ ___
Afterward 9x 10x
Therefore the additional savings would be 6x and 5x for Dave and Mary respectively.
Thus, 11x = 154 and x = 14. Originally, Dave and Mary saved 8x or (8)(14) = $112.
Straightforward, right?
Well, the children in Singapore are taught a visualization for complicated ratio problems like this which, in my opinion, powerfully lays the foundation for algebra. Instead of the variable x that I used, children are shown how to represent the given ratio using unit bars and solving for the value of a unit:
David and Mary saved money in a ratio of 3 : 5
|----|----|----] D
After this month, David now has three times as much, and Mary now has two times as much.
|----|----|----]----|----|----|----|----|----| D
The total additional amount is $154.
From the diagrams, you can see that there is an additional 11 units. Therefore:
11 units = $154
1 unit = $14
Last month they saved 8 units together.
8 units = $14 x 8 = $112
I had to adjust to this when first reading it. I had mistakenly assumed that the children were introduced to traditional variables earlier on and would be encouraged to use them. But then I began to realize what was different here. Many of our children (including secondary students) struggle with complicated ratio problems (even uncomplicated ones!). I needed to imagine seeing the unit bar construct through the eyes of a young child. The idea of using a visualization of a unit bar for a 3:5 ratio doesn't seem to be that significant at first blush, but now I think it is. Instead of representing the original quantities as 3x and 5x, children can see these quantities in a tangible way. More significantly, they can draw the effect of multiplying Dave's savings by three and Mary's by two. I needed to step back here to appreciate this. Jenny explained that children do not use unit bars for all ratio problems, just for the most complicated ones. So what are we saying here? You mean, it's not enough to just buy Singapore Math materials and give it to kids in our classrooms? Teachers need to be trained in how to implement them successfully? You mean there's no easy short-cut here? You think!
I want to personally thank Jenny for her graciousness in replying so thoroughly to my naive questions. I will have more to say about this but I await your thoughts...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Carnival of Math to the 2nd Power?
John Kemeny is hosting the 15th Edition of the CoM on 8-24 and you can submit your articles here. However, there are no more Carnivals scheduled at this time.
In the most recent edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, Vlorbik reported that there has been a call for change in the structure of the carnival. This idea was first raised by yours truly in the Tenth Edition of the Math Carnival and recently again by Michi over at his blog. Look here for the ongoing dialogue I've been having with John Armstrong and Michi (read the comments). John feels strongly that the Carnival has been heavily weighted toward math education of late and I agree. Since that is my main area of interest, I'm not overly upset about this but I do agree that the research-advanced mathematics side has taken a hit. I made a proposal that we split into a Carnival of Math Ed (K-14 oriented) and a Carnival of Research Mathematics (John's and Michi's idea). Although previous comments have suggested many are satisfied with the status quo, John feels that we already have a 'de facto' separation. I suggested we take the current temperature of the water by inviting comments. I volunteered to be the home base for the Carnival of Math Ed site but I would welcome support from others, particularly the most frequent contributors to the math ed blogosphere who have the time to take on this project. John volunteered to be the moderator of the Research group. He also suggested that we run the Carnival monthly and I agree. This would enable more to contribute and make the day of the each Carnival more of a significant event. If you're wondering why we seem to be ignoring Alon, the original architect of the Carnival of Mathematics, that is not the case. I am deeply appreciative of the monumental efforts made by Alon but he recently has decided to drop from the blogosphere and, presumably, the Carnival as well. I know he would want someone to pick up the reins and keep this moving. Alon, if you read this, I hope you will share your thoughts. There will be some technical problems to overcome involving the submission of posts and registering the 2 Carnivals of Math with the main Carnival site, but I'm sure we can work this out.
If I receive very few replies to this proposal, I may move forward on my own or with John , since we are willing to accept this challenge. Waiting to hear from you...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Singapore Math - Primary Math 6B Placement Test...
[Note: As promised, I have now posted a lengthy comment to this post, which only scratches the surface. I welcome your comments.]
Although Singapore Math is no secret to many homeschooling parents and districts around the country, I thought that the sample placement test for Grade 6B, available for free downloading, might lead to some fruitful discussion. Pls try all 14 questions before commenting. I did and I will have much to say later. There are many other placement tests at the same site so have fun! Go to the Singapore Math home page for background if needed.
Mean & Median of Arithmetic Sequences on SATs/Standardized Tests - The BIG IDEA!
Here are two standardized type questions that students sometimes struggle with. Those who do well on these kinds of questions know the key is to understand the basics of arithmetic sequences. The 2nd question is a bit more sophisticated. What changes did I make to complicate the picture?
1. The median of a set of 20 consecutive integers is 14.5. What is the mean of the first 10 of these?
2. The mean of 98 consecutive odd integers is 44. What is the greatest of these numbers?
(c) N = (L-F)/D + 1
Can you guess what these variables represent?
Hint: This is a variation on a well-known formula for arithmetic sequences.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Fallout from the Sieve of Eratosthenes - Combinatorial Activity for Counting Primes
Middle schoolers are often introduced to the famous sieve mentioned in the title to find which numbers, say from 1 to 100, are prime. This is a common activity in which all the multiples of 2 are first crossed out, then multiples of 3 and so on. The following is a combinatorial (counting) activity that may help them (and more advanced learners as well) appreciate just how beautiful this method is and how it can be generalized to demonstrate the endlessness of primes. In the process, middle schoolers will review the concepts of multiples, common multiples as well as composite vs. prime numbers. The 2nd activity below is for upper-level students although middle schoolers can certainly try it.
Consider the first 3 primes; 2, 3, and 5. Children know what the next one is and that there are many more after that up to 30, but, for this activity, tell them that they will find, by elimination, the remaining primes up to 30. Specifically, using the famous sieve algorithm, they will determine there are SEVEN more primes up to 30 by eliminating all the numbers that are divisible by 2, 3 or 5! Sounds like you've seen this many times? Wait...
Note: DO NOT have students use colored markers or pens to cross out numbers. It tends to obliterate the marks underneath that are needed for analysis.
Middle School Activity (standard sieve approach):
1. List the positive integers up to and including 30.
2. Cross out the multiples of 2 in your list using a slanted /. Explain how you could have determined that 15 numbers were crossed out without using your list.
3. Now cross out all the multiples of 3 from the original list using the \ mark. How many numbers did you cross out this time? How could you have determined this without your list? Count how many numbers have been crossed out twice. How could you have determined this without your list?
Note: In some applications of the Sieve method, students cross out only from the remaining numbers, not from the original list each time. Since our objectives here involve developing the idea of common multiples and also combinatorial methods, students are instructed to cross out some numbers more than once. This is not unusual in many texts or workbooks.
4. Now cross out all the multiples of 5 from the original list. Use the --- mark for this. How many numbers were crossed out? How could you have determined this without your list?
5. Count how many numbers were crossed out exactly once. Describe these numbers.
Note: Students may have difficult expressing this and some discussion is needed. For example, they might at first say "Numbers divisible by only two." This is a fine response but how can the instructor build on this?
6. Count how many numbers were crossed out exactly twice. Describe these numbers.
7. Explain why there was only one number crossed out exactly 3 times.
8. There should now be EIGHT numbers remaining which have not been crossed out. Are these numbers all prime?
9. Ask more questions!
Notes: We know that students (of all ages!) have difficulty with the issue of the number 1 not being regarded as prime. The accepted definition of prime requires that the number have exactly two distinct factors. Seems arbitrary, huh? Besides 1, most students will assume that the remaining seven numbers necessarily have to be prime, however this method does not guarantee that! If we used the above sieve up to 50, then 49 would be left over as well! Subtle...
How could older students have attacked this without making a list, using more sophisticated combinatorial methods? The idea behind the above activity was to first identify the numbers that were divisible by 2, 3, OR 5. After eliminating these and the number 1, students were to consider the remaining numbers, which all happen to be prime. The remaining part of this activity deals with combinatorial methods needed to COUNT how many numbers are divisible by 2, 3 or 5 without first making a list. Some will still need to make the list!
Consider the list of the positive integers up to and including 30. The following set of questions is designed to get an accurate count of the numbers that are multiples of 2, 3 or 5 and then to consider the remaining numbers.
1. Explain why there are 15 multiples of 2 in this list without actually counting or listing them!
2. Explain why there are 10 multiples of 3 in the original list without...
3. Explain why there are 6 multiples of 5 in the original list without ...
4. Thus far we appear to have accounted for 15+10+6 = 31 numbers in this list which are multiples of 2, 3 or 5. Since there are only 30 numbers to start with, what went wrong! Explain carefully.
Note: The method of 'overcounting' is a critical one for many set-theoretic and counting problems.
5. By now you realize that we need to compensate for the numbers that were counted more than once. Show that 10 numbers were counted more than once.
6. To compensate for these duplications, we can adjust the count: 31 - 10 = 21. Thus it appears that there are 21 numbers in our list that are divisible by 2, 3 or 5. In fact, there are 22! What went wrong! [If you don't believe this, make a list and count!!].
Note: This is subtle. The number 30 still needs to be counted.
7. Ok, we have hopefully established that there are 22 numbers that need to be eliminated from our original list of 30. Thus, there are 30 - 22 = 8 numbers remaining. One of these 8 is not prime. Which one?
8. If you haven't already done so, make a list of the 30 numbers and actually work through each of the steps above to verify your results.
9. What do you think? Is this a good method for counting how many primes there are in a particular list? Would it be practical for counting how many primes there are up to, say, 210 given that 2, 3, 5 and 7 are prime? Where did 210 come from? Why might this method fail to produce only primes?
Summary Comments:
Although this post seemed to be about a sieve for primes, you've probably figured out that it really became an activity to solve the problem of counting how many of the 30 numbers in the list were not divisible by 2, 3 or 5. I'm sure you are thinking that there are many others ways we could have counted the multiples of 2, 3 or 5. Your students may object to the above method and suggest a 'better' one. For example, count all the even numbers up to 30 first. Then count the odd multiples of 3, then the powers of 5 . No duplications, short and sweet, right? However, the set-theoretic method of counting with duplications, then compensating is actually more powerful and can be generalized to longer lists of primes. Embedded in this activity is the subtle notion that there cannot be a finite number of primes. Do you think students would recognize that on their own?
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Inside or Outside? A Geometry Investigation...
[A special thanks to Mike for correcting the error I made in question 3 below. It has now been updated!]
Students in geometry often see problems involving inscribed and circumscribed circles, squares, triangles and other polygons. Questions involving such diagrams often appear on standardized tests and on math contests as well. Although this particular post focuses only on ratios of areas involving squares, equilateral triangles and circles, I am planning a series of investigations which delves far more deeply, requiring students to discover and verify more general relationships for polygons of n sides. Further, as the number of sides of the polygons increase, students will be asked to analyze the ratio of the areas of the circumscribed to the inscribed polygons and consider if they approach a limiting value. Thus this series of activities prepares students for the calculus as well. Students are also introduced to the duality principle, useful for later study in advanced geometry. A strong background in geometry is needed and, at some point, a knowledge of trigonometric ratios is required. This could be a culminating project for a marking period or the year. I hope you enjoy this and will save it for the school year or ...
Note: Although it would appear to be more logical to have students determine ratios for the triangles first (n = 3), the diagram shows the squares (n=4) on top because the analysis is somewhat easier.
Note: Although this is couched as an investigation for the classroom, my readers are invited to attempt the questions below and suggest various approaches to finding the ratios. Those experienced in this topic will find each question fairly straightforward, however, consider the bigger picture here! Those whose geometry is rusty will need to review some basic properties of circles and polygons.
1. The diagram at the upper left depicts a circle circumscribed about a square and a second circle inscribed in the square. Verify that the ratio of the area of the inscribed circle to the area of the circumscribed circle is 1:2.
2. The diagram at the upper right may be thought of as the dual to the first diagram, in that each circle has been replaced by a square and the square by a circle. Show that the ratio of the area of the inscribed figure to the area of the circumscribed figure is invariant, that is, it remains 1:2.
3. The diagram at the lower left depicts a circle circumscribed about an equilateral triangle and a second circle inscribed in the triangle. Show that the ratio of the area of the inscribed circle to the area of the circumscribed circle is 1:4.
4. Similar to #2 except that the circles and the triangle have now been interchanged. Again, show that the ratio is invariant.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Carnival of Math XIV Gets A Head Start!
The 14th edition of the Carnival of Math is out there for your pleasure a couple of days ahead of schedule over at Vlorbik on Math Ed. This is an excellent edition with links to a wide variety of worthwhile math blogs at all levels from K-8 through advanced. Similar to a suggestion I had offered in the 10th edition of the Carnival (which I hosted), there is now a call to consider a Carnival of Research Mathematics. Although the consensus back then was to keep one math carnival intact, the idea of splitting it appears to be gaining momentum, particularly since the last couple of carnivals seemed to be weighted more heavily toward math ed. As long as each has enough of a following, I believe this can benefit both ends of the spectrum. I could add more here, but go enjoy the latest Carnival!
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Sequel to "What did Pi say to i?" and more...
I can't believe I'm doing this but one of my students asked me if I heard the other half of the joke. Here's the original:
"What did pi say to i?"
"Get real!"
Here's the other half:
"What did i say to pi?"
"Be rational!"
[Ok, at least it's not about Math Wars and Learning Styles!]
At that moment I became possessed and asked:
"What did one-half say to one?"
"You're so full of yourself!"
I'm afraid of where this will lead so I'll sign out now. So, do math teachers really have the corniest sense of humor and do they really think they're funny?
Monday, August 6, 2007
Two Geometry Problems - Dozens of Methods to Ponder...
ABCD is a rectangle in both figures. Figures are not drawn to scale.
1. In Figure 1, E is the midpoint of side BC. If the area of AECD is 1, what is the area of ABCD?
2. In Figure 2, E is a point on side AB such that AE:EB = 3:1. F is a point on side BC such that
BF:FC = 2:1. If the area of DEFC = 1, what is the area of ABCD?
(a) Although the first question is very similar to an actual SAT problem, both questions admit multiple solution paths and strategies that can help students develop both their spatial reasoning and analytical skills.
(b) The first question is similar to some textbook questions and would be rated as above-average difficulty on the SAT's, although most visiting this site would not consider it difficult. There are many variations on these kinds of problems. The most famous one is to consider the figure formed by connecting the midpoints of the sides of a rectangle and showing its area is half of the whole.
(c) The 2nd question is more discriminating and requires more than intuition.
(d) How many of today's students have a well-developed sense of fractional parts of the whole?
(e) Try to imagine how a variety of learners, say 9th or 10th graders, would approach these. Do you think the majority would attempt a visual approach - cutting up each irregular shape into common figures or perhaps dissecting the entire rectangle into equal parts? Would any students consider plugging in arbitrary lengths for the sides of the original rectangles even though specific values are given (one could then use similarity to finish it)? Is it a good strategy to encourage students to assume each rectangle is in fact a square? How many students would attempt an algebraic setup?
(f) What is the point of spending so much time discussing various approaches to a problem? Is it really worth the time expended when there is so much more material that one must complete? You all know my "less is more" mentality and that there are no shortcuts to developing problem-solving facility.
(g) Which is more important for learning to take place: Allowing the student to struggle but arrive at a solution with some strategic guidance from the instructor OR Allowing dialogue to occur enabling students to see how their peers are approaching it? What kinds of questions might the instructor ask in facilitating the activity? What exactly is our role when students are engaged? Is there a course one can take or a book from which educators can learn such pedagogy or does one learn from experience and/or from their peers?
(h) Is this more about solving geometry problems or developing problem-solving skills? Will I ever stop asking such inane questions...
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Saturday, August 4, 2007
A Couple of Interesting Links...
Very nice logic problem in the sidebar over at Text Savvy.
Because it involves only a few possibilities, it is a great way to open the school year without causing undue frustration. Students will enjoy the feeling of accomplishment when they solve it!
Also, I posted a comment on a fascinating piece of research over at Joanne Jacobs blog. The post is entitled No evidence for 'learning styles'.
While I agree with the researcher and the other commenters that a school district's approach that tries to match individual instruction to each child's modality is unreasonable, I take exception to research that attempts to invalidate theories by only looking at extreme cases of its application. Certainly, competent caring teachers try to create a classroom environment that is accepting of different strengths and weaknesses and attempt to provide explanations of concepts in a variety of ways. I referred to the Rule of Four in math pedagogy, a critical part of current thinking about maximizing learning in the math classroom. 'Learning styles' has become an inflammatory term that raises the hackles of most bloggers and educators in general. I expect that my comment will not be well-received and most likely will be ignored! | <urn:uuid:39e1def9-bf73-4893-b599-ec96063ff80e> | http://mathnotations.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html | en | 0.962345 | 0.053273 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
224 F2d 522 McClain v. United States
224 F.2d 522
Elijah McCLAIN and Margie Mae McClain, Appellants,
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 15195.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
June 30, 1955.
Ernest D. Jackson, Sr., Jacksonville, Fla., for appellants.
Thomas A. Larkin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., James L. Guilmartin, U. S. Atty., for appellee.
SIMPSON, District Judge.
On the morning of February 23, 1953, Detective Sergeant Runyon and uniform Sergeant Anderson of the Jacksonville, Florida Police Department, visited the home of Elijah McClain, also known as Lige McClain, and Margie Mae McClain, his wife, in the sparsely settled northwest section of that city. Elijah was sitting on his back porch, and gave the officers permission to look around his yard and inside his house. No one else was there. The officers found nothing of interest, but noticed a dark blue 1940 Mercury sedan parked just off the dirt street behind Elijah's house.
In the early afternoon of the same day, the same two officers were patrolling north on Moncrief Avenue, near 15th Street in a Chevrolet police cruiser, with Anderson driving and Runyon as front seat passenger. This location is in the northwest section of the city, but considerably closer to downtown than the McClain home, and Moncrief Avenue is a main arterial street leading to the outskirts of the city. Here they met and recognized Elijah McClain driving south in the blue Mercury seen earlier in the day. Both officers recognized car and driver. Anderson recognized McClain's wife, Margie Mae McClain as being in the right front seat, and noticed that there was a third person in the car, seated either on the front seat also or on the rear seat. Runyon noticed that there were other persons in the car but did not, at this time, know their identity.
Traffic was light and the police car made an immediate U-turn and followed the Mercury south, about a block to halfblock behind, at the same speed, but keeping the Mercury always in sight. At first, the Mercury was travelling slowly, but soon speeded up, to the extent that the officers decided to make a speeding or reckless driving arrest, but first to continue observation of the car and its occupants (actually no traffic arrest was ever made). After proceeding 10 or 12 blocks, the Mercury suddenly turned off into a side street, further increased speed, and began turning at each corner, circling and back-tracking over unpaved streets.
Alas, for Elijah, and alike alack, his steed, to his misfortune, was Mercury in name, but not in fact, and proved no match for the doughty police Chevrolet in pursuit. Further, Elijah possessed none of the miraculous powers of his illustrious namesake, so stirringly recounted in Kings and Chronicles.
Shortly, with the police car gaining steadily, and now almost on top of the Mercury, the Mercury slowed suddenly in the sand ruts of an unpaved street, and its occupants speedily abandoned ship. Margie Mae McClain and one Peter Thornton fell or jumped out the right side of the Mercury. Officer Runyon alighted and collared Peter Thornton and when Margie Mae stumbled and fell in the sand he apprehended her also. If Elijah was without miracles, he was not without speedy foot and stout wind, and in about a block through backyards, under clotheslines and over fences, he outdistanced and eluded Sergeant Anderson, who had taken out after him. Anderson gave up the chase and rejoined Runyon. The officers found two 5-gallon jugs filled with non-tax-paid moonshine whiskey between the front and rear seats of the Mercury. One jug was covered with a burlap bag and one was in plain view. A check of the records showed the Mercury registered to one Henry Williams at a different address than Elijah McClain's, and Henry was never found.
A few days later, Internal Revenue Agents "adopted" the case, Elijah McClain being arrested on a Commissioner's warrant. The three occupants were indicted and went to trial before a jury in the Court below on pleas of not guilty to a 1-count indictment, charging each with possession of the contraband whiskey, in violation of Title 26 U.S.C.A. § 2803(a).1 The government proof was substantially as above set forth, and at the close of the government's case, and again at the close of all the evidence, motions for judgment of acquittal by each of the McClains were denied by the District Judge.
Elijah's defense was a denial of presence in the Mercury car and denial of possession or any knowledge of the moonshine whiskey. Margie Mae took the stand and accounted for her presence in the car by stating that it was driven by Henry Williams, that she and Peter Thornton bought vienna sausage and a loaf of bread at the market at Moncrief Avenue and 8th Street (a point between 15th and Moncrief, where the officers spotted the car, and 4th and Johnson Streets, where the chase ended); she testified she and Thornton entered the front seat of the car at that point, being picked up by Henry Williams; she denied connection with, or knowledge concerning the moonshine whiskey in the Mercury, asserting that she had no occasion to look in the tonneau of the car.
The officers, in rebuttal, testified that the Mercury made no intermediate stops after they started following it, and further that they found no vienna sausage and no bread when they searched it. Also, Margie Mae's testimony was strongly impeached in several particulars by a statement made to a Revenue Agent shortly after her arrest.
The trial jury returned verdicts of guilty as to each of the McClains, and reported failure to agree with respect to Peter Thornton's guilt. On motion of the government, the case was dismissed as to Thornton. Both McClains were adjudged guilty and received sentences in the custody of the Attorney General, Elijah for one year, and Margie Mae for two years.
Government counsel, in cross-examining both McClains, questioned them about prior convictions for crime, and made an abortive attempt to lay a predicate for impeachment by questioning them about prior City of Jacksonville Police Court convictions for liquor ordinance violations. Each defendant denied each of the convictions about which he or she was questioned. This tack was abandoned by the U. S. Attorney and the jury was fully instructed to disregard all questions along this line in the Court's general charge in the following language:
"Now, in this trial there were introduced, or questions were asked concerning former convictions, and they were denied, and the Government has not introduced any evidence to prove those, so those matters are not in evidence before you and not to be considered.
"As far as you and I and everyone is concerned they were not; there were no former convictions of these defendants. And so you should disregard those matters — those questions and answers — as to both of those defendants entirely. You must do that and not consider that."
Both appellants here complain of error in this regard and urge it as ground for reversal.
Police Court convictions for violations of city ordinances are not convictions of crime. Crime is an act committed in violation of public law, a law coextensive in application with the boundaries of the state which enacts it.2 Such a conviction is, therefore, not admissible as affecting the credibility of the defendants as witnesses.3
Moreover, since intent is not an element of the offense of possession of non-tax-paid spirits, the record of such convictions is not admissible here to show a prior course of similar actions, as evidence tending to prove intent. In our view of this case the records showing prior violations of city ordinances were not admissible for any purpose.
However, scrutiny of the record shows that each defendant denied being convicted in the Police Court on each case inquired about, and thus made no damaging admissions. The government attorney did not introduce any proof of any such convictions. Finally, in the language quoted above, the trial Judge clearly and specifically made it plain to the jury that these matters were entirely withdrawn from their consideration. No further instruction along this line was requested by the defendants, and indeed, nothing further was required. It is therefore our holding that no prejudicial error is made to appear in this connection.
We proceed to a consideration of the sufficiency of the evidence, which is the main additional ground urged by each appellant for reversal. The recital of the evidence hereinabove amply demonstrates that there was sufficient proof before the jury to justify the jury in finding Elijah McClain guilty.
As to Margie Mae McClain, we are convinced that this is not so. No concert of action was shown as to her, nor any act calculated to aid or abet the commission of the crime by Elijah, or by Peter Thornton, the other joint defendant. It may be inferred that she had knowledge that a crime was being committed (since one glass jug was uncovered and open to view, even to one riding in the front seat), but mere knowledge of the commission of the crime by another does not prove guilt. Nor does mere presence at the scene. Possession must be proved by some showing of dominion and control. This proof is entirely lacking here as to Margie Mae McClain. Her motion for judgment of acquittal was improperly denied at the close of the government's case, and again at the close of all the evidence.
Counsel for the appellee strongly urged in his brief and in oral argument that the weakness of the government's case against Margie Mae was cured by her taking the stand and the government's successful impeachment of her as a witness. But this simply gave the jury grounds to disbelieve her as a witness, and helped not at all to supply the fatal deficiency in the proof of her guilt. The government's proof was hence no stronger at the close of all the evidence than it was when the government rested its case in chief. Grounds only for suspicion and conjecture were still present: grounds for conviction were still absent. The other questions raised by the appellants are without merit and do not warrant discussion.
The judgment and conviction of the defendant Elijah McClain is affirmed; the judgment and conviction of the defendant Margie Mae McClain is reversed and set aside with directions to the trial Court to enter judgment of acquittal as to her.
Affirmed in part.
Reversed in part.
1. "(a) Requirement. No person shall transport, possess, buy, sell, or transfer any distilled spirits, unless the immediate container thereof has affixed thereto a stamp denoting the quantity of distilled spirits contained therein and evidencing payment of all internal-revenue taxes imposed on such spirits. * * *" 26 U.S. C.A. § 2803(a).
2. Ex parte Hollwedell, 74 Mo. 395, 401; Carter v. Duluth Yellow Cab Co., 170 Minn. 250, 212 N.W. 413.
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Husbands in the Labor & Delivery Room
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When it comes to labor and delivery, you're the star of the show, natch, but your husband or partner will probably be right there with you -- with an up-close-and-personal ring-side seat. How will he react to seeing the birth of his child?
MRS.LYONS29 said her husband was wonderful -- and not even a bit nervous -- when he witnessed the C-section delivery of their baby. She asked other moms in Pregnancy how their husbands reacted to childbirth. I've compiled a few of the responses.
How some husbands and partners reacted to watching the birth of their child:
My husband thought it was awesome -- he said it was the most beautiful/gross thing he's ever seen. -- abellvalerie
My DH was fine until he got squirted with amniotic fluid! When our dd came out, a large gush of water hit him and everyone else near my feet. His face turned three shades of red then four of green. It was so funny, but the poor guy was disgusted. -- lovemybabys1106
My son was born at home and I was squatting at the end of our bed with my SO sitting behind me. He was basically holding me when our son was born, and we saw him emerge and I heard him whisper, "Oh my God..." in my ear in the sweetest, softest voice I've ever heard him use. He was in awe! -- Pandana
My husband was excited but grossed out -- he's since been referring to my vagina as "ground zero" and my baby is 8 months old now. He was a bit annoying, too -- "There's the baby's head. Wait! He went back inside. No, wait, there's the head!" I didn't need anyone to tell me what he was doing -- I could feeeeel it! -- Lovin_LiL_ViC
What about you? Is your husband or SO nervous about the birth? Or if you've given birth before, how did he do in the labor and delivery room?
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Human spirit rises out of great music at Skaneateles Festival's Week Two
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By Caroline Manring Contributing writer Warning: this first part isn’t going to be fun. Imagine losing someone you love. Imagine losing your hearing. Imagine being whipped, starved, handed a gun before you’re 12, watching a city burn or seeing your brother march toward you in battle. Imagine being mocked because you are poor, degraded because of the color of... Full story » | <urn:uuid:833769b4-7a14-4d90-bc3a-9aa70167419b> | http://topics.syracuse.com/tag/Schumann/index.html | en | 0.81339 | 0.050374 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I recently registered a website : cinematrailers.net.
I was aware that this domain was expired ( registered in 2007 until 2011)
My question is when I go to view the registration date on this domain, it says 2012 instead of 2007.
Why is that when it was clearly registered in 2007?
And will this affect seo? I was under the assumption that the domains age would be great for seo, but now I'm not sure.
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If the domain was expired and you purchased it from a registrar, rather than transferring ownership directly from the old registrant, then the creation date would be reset. That said, there might still be links to it from other places on the web, which is more important in terms of Pagerank.
Matt Cutts, Google's head of web spam, answered the SEO question a while back in a YouTube video. Short answer: don't worry about the creation date listed in the WHOIS data.
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Great answer, thanks! – Matt Walker Dec 18 '12 at 19:12
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TreeTops Zip Line Canopy Tour
Experience a world-class zip line canopy tour through the old-growth hemlock forests of the New River Gorge, West Virginia.
Experience a world-class zip line canopy tour through the old-growth hemlock forests of the New River Gorge, West Virginia. Built using tree-safe methods, TreeTops Zip Line Canopy Tour is recognized as one of the best in the nation. Even squirrels don't have this much fun in trees!
A canopy tour is a combination of 10 ziplines, 5 cable bridges, and many stationary tree platforms put together using natural surroundings. It's a way to view the local flora and fauna from areas that are normally otherwise inaccessible. TreeTops Zip Line Canopy Tour will take you through ten zips, five cable bridges, overviews of Mill Creek and one rappel station. There are two observation stations for onlookers. These stations are accessible by a hiking trail that goes near the canopy tour platform. Spectators may hike the trail at their own risk.
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TreeTops Canopy Tour is structured to blend with the natural surroundings of forest. It was created with thorough site selection and surveying, environmental ground work and and access points with minimal branch and brush removal. We focused on keeping nature unscathed and used West Virginia’s natural beauty and complexity to create this unique experience.
Are Reservations Necessary for TreeTops Canopy Tour?
Reservation are recommended. Each Treetops Canopy Tour can accommodate groups of 8 guests per tour and approximately 90 total people per day. To ensure that you can participate, we highly recommend you make a reservation but we will attempt to accommodate walk-ins as possible.
Who Can Take a TreeTops Canopy Tour?
It's a good idea to consult your family physician to determine whether you are physically capable of handling an increase in activity, adrenaline and short walks up hills. Canopy tours by nature are an adventure activity. Heights effect each participant differently. You can expect to feel an increase in adrenaline, which triggers an increase in respiration, heart beat and pulse. TreeTops Canopy Tour has five sky bridges and two short hikes. The longer hike is 830 feet at a 20% grade and the second is about 200 feet. You need to be in good enough condition to walk up those hills.
Is there a weight limit?
Yes, you must weight between 90 and 260 lbs.
Do You Run Canopy Tours In Bad Weather?
Yes indeed! Canopy Tours run rain or shine. We temporarily close the course during lightning storms or high winds. If we know in advance that we will be closed, we will try to contact you. If your Canopy Tour is canceled, we will offer you the option to participate in another activity, rebook for a different day or time, or issue a rain check.
How Large Of A Group Can You Accommodate?
The answer is 8! Our trees are huge. The platforms are approximately 10-12 feet in diameter and can comfortably hold 8 guests plus the two tour guides. For this reason and others, we will combine small groups or split large groups to make a tour of 8 plus two tour guides. Tours leave every 30 to 45 minutes, so a large group would be split into groups of 8 and staged every half hour. We can accommodate approximately 90 guests a day.
What If I Am Afraid?
Most people are anxious or nervous prior to starting. Our professional guides will review the procedures, explain the hazards and quickly reassure you. You will be double clipped onto 2 steel cables, which are capable of supporting more than a ton of weight. However, at anytime during the practice zip you can opt out. Once we start down the canyon we will land in trees up to 80 feet off the ground, making it more risky to beg off.
What Is The Conservation Fee Used For?
Great question! TreeTops Canopy Tour traverses through and lands in many Eastern Hemlock trees. These trees are in danger from the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, a small white insect that attaches to the underside of Hemlock leaves. Over a five to ten year period, the Adelgid sucks the nutrients from leaves, ultimately killing the tree. Part of your canopy tour fee—$1 per person—will help treat, preserve and maintain this small section of Hemlock forest along Mill Creek from the Wooly Adelgid.
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I got my nickname when I was 16 while visiting my girlfriend Kelly at the time in El Salvador. She was an exchange student who had to move back home, I went to visit her for christmas and new years. I do not speak any spanish, so during my time there conversations with anybody other than her direct family was very limited.
So I ran around in the streets screaming "I am the Great White Chupa Cabra", when at a bar or diner, i would also say it. My girlfriend thought it was cute, and the peoples reaction was funny. I would say it will I laid 20 bucks down at the Bar and said drinks are on the Chupa Cabra....and when i gave a 5 dollar tip to a lady, she thought it was a joke. She started crying when she realized it was really her tip (I guess it was 3 days pay maybe even a weeks worth at the time.)
I've seen a man laying in the street being stripped of his clothes and belongings, no movement my guess he was dead. I rode with Rafa (Kellys brother) to some guys house and waited in the car. He went in and shot him...come to find out it was the guy who murdered his girlfriend in a car accident while he was driving drunk, before i got there. The man was not guilty of any charges and laughed about it. I didn't know what he was doing till after it had been done.
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US shale boom could add up to 0.8% to GDP
13 September 2012 20:55 [Source: ICIS news]
BOSTON (ICIS)--The boom in US shale oil and gas production could add up to 0.8 percentage points to US GDP over the long run, the chief economist of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) said on Thursday.
“This oil and gas boom represents a positive shock to the US economy, which should be able to capitalise on these developments. Long-term economic growth potential could be boosted by 0.3 to 0.8 percentage points per annum,” said Kevin Swift, chief economist of the ACC.
Swift spoke at the 5th annual ICIS World Chemical Purchasing Summit in Boston, Massachusetts.
“Shale gas is the most significant development for the US chemical industry in 75 years, since the 1930s when new plastic resins such as nylon were being introduced,” he said.
Abundant shale gas is not only providing cheaper feedstocks for the US chemical sector, but lowering electricity costs for manufacturing, the economist noted.
Swift estimated that by 2017, there would be an additional $121bn (€94bn) in output from eight US gas-intensive manufacturing industries from the shale gas advantage.
This includes $70.2bn from chemicals, $33.3bn from plastics and rubber products, as well as lesser amounts from the fabricated metal, iron and steel, paper, aluminium, glass and foundry sectors.
He also projected that the shale gas dynamic would directly generate $72.0bn in capital investment and construction by the eight industries to build and expand capacity, leading to a one-time boost of $207.6bn in economic activity.
It would also lead to the direct creation of 200,000 high-paying jobs and another 979,000 jobs in the supply chain through indirect effects, said Swift.
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Dr. Gawande: Teams at heart of better care
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Dr. Atul Gawande received widespread attention after The New Yorker published his 2009 article about two Texas towns that were starkly different from each other in heath care costs and the culture of their medical communities.
In one, a culture of profit-making led doctors to over-treat patients. In the other, costs were significantly lower because the doctors worked more as teams when treating a patient and focused more on quality of care than money.
The clarity with which Gawande described the issues involved has made the article almost required reading for anyone working to solve the nation’s health care problems.
Gawande, an associate professor at the Harvard University medical and public health schools and director of the World Health Organization’s program to reduce surgical deaths, was interviewed briefly after his UNC-Chapel Hill commencement address on Sunday. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Q: Your story on the Texas towns was in 2009. Five years later, how are we as a nation doing with the health care system?
A: We’ve come through this very contentious time, but we have embraced the idea that people belong in this health care system and the tenor of debate has really shifted. So, it’s no longer about whether we’re getting people in, it’s about how we get people in.
And that’s a tremendous shift. So where we are is about how you make it work, both how you make coverage work and be sustainable and how you make the system work, because the reality of our care is that as people encounter the health system who didn’t have insurance or who had it all long. We’re watching health care take away money for education – it’s the biggest competitor for the entire state budget – watching it take money out of people’s wallets and paychecks and creating debt at the national level.
The terrain has shifted so that now we’re in a place where we understand more is not better, and that spending more does not equal better care. We’re suddenly discovering that the 5 percent sickest patients account for half of our health care costs, and that the system doesn’t work for the sickest and the people with the greatest suffering.
A 20-minute office visit doesn’t work when you have five different problems and more than 10 different medications. Neither does the emergency room and neither does the hospital.
You really need a team of people who help you move through all of the needs that you have. And across the country, we’re watching health systems transform themselves into helping the people who are the sickest rather than just the people you can churn in and out of your office quickly.
Q: That’s the cowboy-versus-pit-crew metaphor you used in the Texas story.
A: Absolutely. You’re still seeing surveys with doctors saying “If I had known it was going to be like this I wouldn’t have gone into this profession.” And yet we’re having more applicants to medical school per seat than we have in decades.
Q: Where are some of the places this pit-crew approach is springing up?
A: It is in every state. You’re seeing primary care innovators pulling together, you know, people call it the medical home, but to me it’s the team ensuring that you’ve got the primary care that people have always thought about and talked about. It’s been enormously successful all over the country in reducing the likelihood that people end up in an emergency room or hospital.
A lot of this has been at places that were already on the lower end of the cost curve. So you see around the country enormous growth of these kinds of places in both coasts and along the upper Midwest, but in the lower Midwest and in the South, you have incredible pioneers. You have a number of great examples across Arkansas, and I know you have folks here in this Research Triangle area who have been creating teams.
Q: Why are you still practicing? On the surface, that wouldn’t seem to be the highest and best use of your skill set.
A: It’s mostly selfish reasons, honestly. It’s my least stressful day of my week, being in an operating room, when there’s no email, no phone calls and you’re just doing one thing. And ironically, in the operating room, I can do it and 98 times out of 100 it’s gone right –a 2 percent complication rate. Anything else in daily life is actually not that predictable. That’s one.
The second part of it is, it’s a reality check. Every time I think I have explained the world and what we have to do, you meet another patient and it’s always more complicated than you think. You see how you’re making forward progress, but you also see all the things you didn’t think of.
Q: A lot of what you do is taking complex things and simplifying. Is there a process you go through to start burning through the fat and simplifying?
A: It’s always an invention process. So it starts with discovery. I never quite know whether it will turn out to be a piece of writing or research, or something that becomes a big project we have to carry out with a group of people, or a policy matter.
I’ll take a problem that we’re tackling now: Why are C-section procedures going through the roof? The most common procedure in the country now is a C-section. More than 35 percent of women who have delivery, it’s by C-section. And if you make a map of the country, the likelihood of having a C-section, depending on where you are, is from 7 to 70 percent.
So, my method is dig in deep, learn as much as I can, talk to lots of people, and maybe it’s going to become something I write about because it needs that kind of creative understanding. Maybe it turns out to be, as this case has turned out, an experiment, there isn’t enough information, people are guessing what the problem is. And so you don’t have a story to tell yet.
If so, one of my colleagues who is an obstetrician has decided well, let’s try gathering a bunch of data then trying some experiments. What’s the difference between a place at 10 percent versus 60? Is it the people? What is it?
It may become a whole project. We have a project in South Carolina trying to see if we can lower the surgical death rate following what came out (after) the book I wrote about using basic processes in health care.
It’s almost like a follow-on from the book.
This is a partnership between the (nonprofit) laboratory I have, the South Carolina Hospital Association, and it has been under way for about three years. We’ve also spent a little over a year partnering with the North Carolina hospital association bringing that here.
Some of the questions about health care can be answered by policy and things that people do in state legislatures and Washington. This stuff, how are you going to get the C-section rate down? How are you going to make it so that primary care really works? How are you going to take what we know already saves lives in surgery and make it work at a whole state level? I don’t think it’s really about whether you pass one law versus another law. It’s about building a professional culture, incentives and a system that comes together and works.
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The Macon mayor's race
I continue to have no idea who will win the Macon mayor's race. But Amy Morton has a poll up on her blog.
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A decidedly unscientific poll, but have fun.
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I grew up a Christian (Methodist), but I come from a pretty liberal upbringing. My mother is a democrat & was never forceful on believing a certain way. I grew up with church and prayer, though, and all throughout my life feared death, yet through my suffering of clinical depression and dealings with suicidal thoughts and actions, oftentimes craved it all the same. Over time I began to question more and more the belief that some spiritual creature--a creator of all things--could possibly exist, and as time went on, and I woke up the fact that it wasn't prayer or god that helped me through the darkest times in my life, but was simply MY own will to get up and go on, I realized how silly the entire religious ideology sounds. Of course I began to read and research and learn through science, and eventually everything made any belief in any such being completely obsolete. I am happier now, and I feel freer in that I no longer worry that I may not be "good enough." I have morals based on my own empathy for those less fortunate and those that suffer, and I know based on the idea that in order for society to continue, morals must JUST BE. Right and wrong need not come from a book written by men, but need to come from within one's own heart. I am no longer confined to religious indoctrination.
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NYC restaurant dishes up silent treatment - TODAY.com
NYC restaurant dishes up silent treatment
Diners at Eat restaurant Ted Shaffrey / AP
In this frame grab from video, patrons dine at a restaurant called "Eat," on Oct. 6, 2013, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The restaurant in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood is serving up a four-course meal of organic, locally-sourced food, but isn't allowing any chit-chat.
Quiet, please. Your dinner will now be served.
Nicholas Nauman, head chef at Eat in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood, said he was inspired to pitch the tight-lipped consumption sessions after spending time in India, where Buddhist monks take their breakfast without exchanging words.
"It's just an opportunity to enjoy food in a way you might not have otherwise," said the chef, noting that the sounds of forks on dishes and cooks in the kitchen provide some background noise to the experience. "There's such a strong energy in the room."
The silent-dining experience, experts said, seems to fit with other attention-getting shticks that many restaurant owners and chefs often resort to in the notoriously competitive restaurant business.
At Moto, in Chicago, diners can eat the menu. In Paris, London, Barcelona and Moscow, restaurant-goers at Dans le Noir? — French for "In the Dark?" — are served in the pitch-dark. And pop-up restaurants — where one chef takes over another's restaurant for the night — have long been the rage.
"As a mother of two 15-year-old boys it is kind of a fantasy to go do that," Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of Epicurious.com, said of the silent-dining experience at Eat. "But as someone who pays money to go out, I would feel like I'm in some kind of silent film; it would be incredibly difficult."
At a recent evening at Eat, restaurant-goers didn't seem to mind the silent treatment as they noshed on salads and sipped their soups.
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A paleontology exam from 1901
This exam was administered by Dr. John C. Merriam to an undergraduate class in paleontology in December 1901. As you can see, paleontological education has changed somewhat over the past century, and the answers to the questions Merriam posed to his students have altered and expanded, in some cases radically.
Paleo exam from 1901
A transcription of the exam:
1. Give a short account of the growth of the science of palaeontology up to the time of Darwin.
2. In what kinds of rock do fossils occur? How have these rocks been formed? How did the fossil remains become embedded in them?
3. Explain the uses of fossils in palaeontological correlation.
4. What is natural classification of organisms? Why is palaeontology of importance in working out a satisfactory scheme?
5. Judging from the history of the mammals of South America, what conclusions can be drawn as to the relations of that continent to N. America, Africa, and Australia in former geological periods?
6. Discuss the use of fossils in determining the character of the earth's climate in past periods. Describe this use in determining the existence or non existence of climatic zones.
7. Give an outline history of the Echinodermata, Brachiopoda, Cephalopoda, and Vertebrata. What evidences of general evolution do we obtain from a study of the history of these groups?
8. Discuss in detail a good example of recapitulation, showing how the stages of ontogeny parallel those of phylogeny. Why do the ontogenetic stages repeat those of the phylogenic series?
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Under the gun: Why the NRA's political tactics don't work in Canada
August 5, 2011
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Gun rights advocates have a far tougher time in Canada than in the United States.
The National Rifle Association is good at what it does. Good at mobilizing its members and good at lobbying Congress. Canadian groups trying to do the same thing are largely stymied in their efforts.
The NRA's political tactics just don't work in Canada, and it’s largely because of the way the governments of Canada and U.S. are structured.
Most don't think of the NRA as the “little guy,” but in Canada they are.
“This is the nerve center and this is where all our political work and grassroots activism stuff all happens from here,” said Tony Bernardo, the director of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, a gun-rights lobbying group fashioned in the mold of the NRA.
The NRA's political arm in the U.S. is also called the Institute for Legislative Action.
Bernardo says he coordinates with the NRA, relying on their expertise or supplying them with expertise when he can, in the same way that gun control advocates coordinate efforts across the border.
"Lobbying is not a deep dark mysterious exercise,” Bernardo said. “It's educative. A lobbyist is a teacher.”
Bernardo's group works out of a sparsely furnished six-room office in a one-story brick office park just north of Toronto.
Sixth in a series
The cities of Chicago and Toronto are the same size. Chicago has about 450 murders a year. Toronto? About 60. In the series, Under the Gun: Murder in Chicago and Toronto, WBEZ’s criminal and legal affairs reporter Robert Wildeboer asks: Why?
As a gun-rights advocate, he's got an uphill battle in Canada. For starters, he has a hard time getting his own base excited. “The problem we have in Canada is that of Pavlov's dogs. We've had restrictive handgun regulations in Canada since 1935 so all the shooters that are out there right now have never known anything different,” Bernardo said.
Then there's the fact that Canada's got a parliamentary form of government. In the U.S. the NRA can focus its attention on individual legislators, winning them over one by one.
In Canada, representatives have to vote with their party, or else they get kicked out of the party and can't run in the next election. For Bernardo, that means instead of exerting all his power on one legislator at a time, he has to convince a whole party that his policies make sense.
“It takes longer for things to happen. You educate a member of parliament, and that member of parliament passes that information to other members of parliament until basically you've got the party,” he said.
Convincing a whole political party is hard, and Bernardo is further hampered by federal spending limits. In a national election, advocacy groups, like a gun-rights group for example, can spend only C$150, 000.
Michael Bryant (WBEZ/Rob Wildeboer)Michael Bryant, the former attorney general of Ontario, made a name for himself by clamping down on gun violence. “Third parties, lobbyists, lobbies, in a Canadian election? Not a pivotal role at all.”
He says the Canadian version of the NRA is limited in what it can spend on elections, plus they can't really buy influence with legislators because Canadian politicians don't raise that much money.
Canadian law limits their spending to about a hundred thousand dollars per election, and that's for a seat in the federal parliament, the Canadian counterpart to Congress.
“Somebody supports me in my campaign by making a donation to my campaign of a thousand dollars which would be about the maximum that they could donate and they want to meet with me about an issue, obviously there's a pressure to meet with them because they supported me financially,” Bryant said. “Well there just aren't that many people in that category and there can't be that many people in that category because of the spending limits that are in place. In the United States, I can't imagine how many meetings have to be taken by congressman and senators by their donors because they have to spend so much time raising money.”
Bryant says the Canadian spending limits mean there's not enough money for candidates to get on TV. “The level of debate that takes place is driven by information that's been filtered through the media as opposed to commercials with what I would say is misleading information,” Bryant said.
Mike Quigley, a Democratic congressman representing the 5th district of Illinois on Chicago's North Side, said people are deathly afraid of the NRA. “I think the American public would like to see reasonable gun control legislation, middle ground but the NRA has this headlock on Congress that they have like no other lobbying group, put a stranglehold on thoughts about gun.”
Quigley been pushing gun legislation and speaking out against the NRA.
“If anyone wonders that we occasionally have victories, no. This is total defeat, running from the battlefield. Republicans make no pretense of this. They're pro-gun but the democrats have run from the battlefield,” he said.
Quigley says the NRA doesn't let politicians take the middle ground in the gun debate in this country. “They warn people, you're either with us a hundred percent or we're gonna tell people to be against you.”
He says most races are so close that legislators don't want to risk losing a couple percentage points because they were targeted by the NRA, so they stay mum on even seemingly sensible gun control measures.
Under the parliamentary system in Canada, members have to vote with their party so they're not vulnerable to this individualized pressure from lobbying groups, one of the reasons Bernardo has such a hard time getting political traction.
Quigley can criticize the NRA because his urban liberal district isn't exactly the bread and butter of NRA membership.
And he says the NRA has given up on him, but the director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, Richard Pearson, has set his sights on the congressman. “There's some people that just simply don't like firearms and they want to get rid of all of them and he's one of ’em, and we're after him. We're gonna go after ’em right in their own home district and we're gonna make it as difficult as possible for them.”
Pearson says they don't want to give up any middle ground because gun control advocates want more and more middle ground and they never stop. “There is no compromising with these people because they always want to compromise on the compromise and pretty soon you have nothing left so we're not going to compromise,” he said.
Tony Bernardo (WBEZ/Rob Wildeboer)The political fight is inextricably linked in Pearson's mind with freedom. Firearms protect the people from tyranny, and while there are downsides to firearms ownership, it's worth the price to ensure our freedom.
Trying to counter the assertion that the NRA is eliminating the middle ground in the debate over guns, Pearson was asked if there was some sensible legislation to improve public safety that they could support.
“See I think everybody in Quigley's district should have a 9-millimeter in their pockets. Now, why doesn't he meet us on the middle ground there. I want to meet on our middle ground, not his middle ground.”
Back in Toronto, in his somewhat vacant office space, Tony Bernardo looks on the American gun debate with pleasure. “I'm really delighted to see that our American friends have seen through the lies that have been purported by the anti-gun groups. States are loosening firearms laws. They've recognized the fact that the two things, crime and firearms are not related to each other.”
Bernardo says he'll keep pushing for gun rights, within the parliamentary system, with the spending limits. He's focused on the debate over rifles right now and will deal with Canadian handgun rights another day.
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Social Media Day: How Has Your Organization Evolved?
10 Social Media Organizational Attributes
Happy Second Social Media Day! While marketers, PR experts, social media professionals and business executives may differ in how they define social media, they’d all agree that social media has changed how products and services are marketed. In the past year, social media has evolved from a small marketing test to an integral part of the marketing plan that enables a business to achieve its goals. Further, it’s difficult for firms to claim that they can’t participate when the IRS, the police and hospitals participate on social media in positive ways to increase engagement with the public.
Here are ten elements that distinguish social media as it’s currently implemented in businesses and organizations.
1. Requires effective brand monitoring. From a marketing and messaging perspective, it’s important to have the best brand monitoring your firm can afford to track and listen to the conversation and respond to mentions where appropriate. (Note: In reality, only about 2% of mentions require interaction.) On a related note, firms need to create and implement social media guidelines and a crisis management plan to decisively engage when and where it’s necessary. Firms also should develop a social media contingency plan to ensure continuous coverege when social media lead(s) are out of the office.
2. Determines critical brand attributes and provides brand guidance. As brand concierges, marketers are responsible for determining the key brand elements and related images and associations to aid positioning which Trout and Ries’ defined as the battle for your consumers’ mind.
3. Drives content creation across the purchase process. Social media is driven by content and the context of the message. Social media has extended company engagement across the purchase process. In particular, social media has underscored the value of customer ratings and reviews as well as the need for post-purchase support.
4. Increases the efficiency and velocity of markets. Social media has facilitated the speed and distribution of information sharing. As a result, it’s much easier for consumers to get competitive pricing information. For businesses, this translates to lower prices and thinner margins.
5. Must be integrated across your organization. As social media usage matures, it needs to be incorporated into your organizational activities. In particular, understand that anywhere you have a presence, prospects and customers will use it to resolve customer service issues. Social media can be used for other areas of your business as well.
6. Involves dedicated head count. Social media isn’t a program you start and put on autopilot. It requires real people who understand your business and brand, who’re trained to respond and interact with the public. Many companies find that, at a minimum, you need a social media manager although the job may span a few different job titles.
7. Has transformed organizations. In particular, social media requires that businesses have a greater level of transparency, particularly in their public interactions. Understand that this doesn’t require a tell-all approach.
8. Embraces consumer engagement. In the social media ecosystem, customer engagement is needed. Among the most effective forms of social media is social sharing where content is shared across platforms and networks. This helps disperse your marketing message at no cost.
9. Requires financial resources. Contrary to the belief that social media is free, social media requires funding to cover the cost of the people who implement your social media plan and the cost of content creation and distribution.
10. Needs metrics tied to its strategic goals. As social media continues to evolve and become integrated into your marketing plans, it requires metrics that are tied to your marketing goals.
At the heart of social media is the ability to build social relationships with prospects and customers by listening and actively participating in the social media ecosystem. As social media evolves, marketers must be involved and adapt to the changing landscape.
Happy marketing,
Heidi Cohen
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sweetness. And flowers. In a very convoluted, non-linear post that will probably try your patience no end.
I had forgotten. This will sound a little sad, but I had totally forgotten.
A guy who likes you - who isn't totally wrapped up in his own issues and insecurities and needing to keep distance and play it cool and test you and blah blah blah - will do sweet things for you. Just because he feels like it.
Like buy you flowers when he's at the farmer's market picking up food for the dinner he's going to make you. And then when you are sitting at his table drinking your favorite beer and trying to pet his dog, who wants nothing to do with you because you are clearly a rival for his affection, he will explain the choice of flowers. He's noticed that whenever you walk down the street together, you are always poking your nose in someone's garden.
This is a complete tangent, but if any of you like Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient), he has a memoir called Running in the Family, which is one of my favorite books ever. At some point in the book his grandmother takes to cutting any flowers she wants from any garden she wants. And his father gets really, really annoyed at continually having his flowers cut. So he stops growing anything that will appeal to her and founds the Cactus and Succulent Society of Ceylon.
But me, I'm not that extreme. I just smell them. Especially lilacs, which remind me of my Gramma Lillian. I'm sad they're so ephemeral. And so during the short period that they're in bloom, I smell every single one I pass.
Once a woman looked up from her gardening as I was sticking my nose in her lilacs. I almost said that I just wanted to smell her bush but fortunately every once in a while I have an idea of how wrong something will sound. So I just said hi and complimented her flowers.
The good thing is, I look pretty innocent. So nobody assumes I'm up to anything nefarious while skulking in their bushes.
Betty used to always carry gardening shears in her purse. Enormous, slightly rusted, metal scissors. Whenever we saw something appealing on the side of the road (not in a private garden) she'd pull over and make me get out and cut it.
Once, years ago, they stopped her at the airport security and pulled out her foot-long hedge trimmer and said, "Madam, you have a large scissors in your purse. "And Betty very breezily said, "Oh, I always carry that! You never know when you'll need one!" And that was that. She sailed through, hedge clipper in hand.
It was a long, long time ago, in a much more innocent world.
But do you have some idea why my version of the world doesn't necessarily match up with normal people's?
So back to the dinner and the flowers and the current sweetness. Seriously, I had forgotten. I had forgotten that a guy will call to see how you are. Not necessarily to make plans, because you already have some, or to ask anything of you. Just to say hello. And then will call again the next day. To say hi again. To chat about the weekend. Or just because.
Seriously. I had stopped, well, not even expecting, but wanting anything of men. At all. It's not that I stopped dating. But dating had stopped having any kind of emotional component. I turned that off after getting too hurt and choosing too many damaged - like damaged in childhood, the kind that no amount of therapy gets you past - men who had nothing emotional to offer and who trust and open up to nobody.
And suddenly I am surprised with someone who barely knows me but knows me. Who notices things. Who offers support, kindness, sweetness. Who doesn't seem to have any agenda. Who is just nice.
1. Lovely post - thoughtful calls to say hello are one of life's greatest things. And thanks for the book recommendation. I posted my top 25 movies and should move on to books.
2. One of my all time favorite quotes is:
It's from Dune.
It kind of sad that we all get so jaded sometimes that we're surprised when good things happen... but I guess that's life. I know it happens to me on a regular basis.
3. We had a lilac bush outside of our kitchen window when I was growing up. I can remember the windows open, and the smell filling the house. It's one of my most pleasant childhood memories.
Happy to hear that you are being treated as you deserve to be.
4. So nice men actually do still exist? I was beginning to wonder...
Feel free to send some up my way :)
5. HKW - I love having movie recommendations! I don't know if you will like this book, but I love how he writes. And his family was fascinatingly nutty.
VVK - That's an excellent quote. I loved Dune. Yes, it's true - we've all become pretty jaded. But then every once in a while, we get a very nice reminder.
FK - Oh, that's a gorgeous image! I love the smell of lilacs sooo much! And thank you :).
Miss B - I had no idea they still did, but apparently they do! Actually, there are several nice guy bloggers down here...
6. Hey - I'm heading to Chicago this weekend. I hope I haven't missed the lilacs!
This sounds like a very nice situation for you. Enjoy!
7. Oh, HURRAY!!! I can totally relate: It was really hard to accept that T. was just naturally...nice. :) I kept expecting him to turn into an ogre or a loser like the other guys I had been with. I was even scared because I felt I wasn't deserving of such a fabulous and NICE guy.
My advice: ENJOY IT!! REJOICE IN IT!! And KNOW you deserve it. :) Oh, and keep us posted on the developments, will ya? ;)
8. DCup - I hope for you that the lilacs are still out! Have a great time and travel safely.
G&D - I'm so happy for you that things are going so well with T. And I will definitely take your advice! This is fun!
9. oh wow... i had totally forgotton too. and yesterday a guy called "just to chat." this confused me, and i was suspicious of his motives. and after we hung up i sat there trying to figure out what that was about. like you i had stopped wanting anything... the emotional component was (and maybe still is)absent. but reading this made me realize that i have forgotten: sometimes people do things to be nice. without an agenda. just because they like you. thanks for helping me remember!
10. H - That describes my feeling exactly! Why is he calling me? What does he want? Why is he calling me again? I'm glad you got a nice "just to chat" call!
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The Superjet program hit uncertainty last year after one plane crashed in Indonesia during a promotional flight, which investigators said was due to pilot error and Jakarta air traffic control's lack of a minimum safe altitude system.
"For an unknown reason the control system for engine number one failed and the crew decided to abort the take-off," the source said. It was not clear how many passengers were on board.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has championed the project which aims to compete with regional jet makers such as Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier and help Russia shake off its reputation for poor air safety.
The project is led by Sukhoi - part of state-owned United Aircraft Corporation, an umbrella corporation Putin created in 2006 to reorganize and revive the country's aircraft industry - in partnership with Italy's Finmeccanica.
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GetYou gets $1.1M to bridge the first impression gap
The company launches in beta to allow people to find out how others perceive them on social media
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I always hear people talking about the difference between the real person and their "social media identity." What that means is that social media allows people to shape themselves into the kind of person they want to be. Are you really depressed and sad all the time? Only share your happy posts and everyone will think you're fine. See how that works?
The question is, though: are you successfully projecting the person that you want to be? Are you putting up a picture that is supposed to scream, "I'm mature!" but instead does the exact opposite? There's really no way to ever find out.
GetYou, a new social feedback platform, is trying to solve that problem by solving the first impression gap." It allows users to find out how both strangers, as well as friends, perceive them on social media. The company launched in beta on iOS and Android on Tuesday, and also announced that it raised its first funding, a $1.1 million seed round from venture capital firm RDSeed and angel investors, including Wix founder Avishai Abrahami.
Founded in 2013, the Tel Aviv-based GetYou's first application is a game that allows people to use only the picture of another person to try to guess things about them, such as their age, occupation and relationship status. Both users will then get to see the results.
Right now, the platform only takes the information from a person's Facebook profile, though the company is planning to add other social networks, like Twitter and Google+ in the near future.
From the perspective of the person who is guessing the answers, they get to see how intuitive they are, GetYou founder and CEO Dr. Orit Mossinson told me. And from the other person's perspective, they get to see how others perceive them.
"There is a disconnection between how we perceive ourselves and the way other do. You may think you get someone, but they might be a totally different person," she said, "We want people to see how they misjudge people."
Ultimately, the site's goal is bridge the gap between people who may think they have nothing in common.
"As an Israeli, I'd love it if someone from Iran saw someone from Israel and thought it was their next door neighbor," she said. "I want them to see that others are more intelligent than they think, and to see that they have something in common."
While other sites do allow people to judge and rate each other, like Tinder and LinkedIn endorsements, she told me that no other site has developed a "full feedback cycle over the Web," like GetYou is doing.
"Today’s feedback cycle is lacking, with only likes or comments and that is not enough," Mossinson said. "There is no direct approach for when I want to get to know new people or new content, and we believe we have full platform for that final frontier."
The money that the company has raised will be used to further develop the platform, as well expand the GetYou's marketing efforts.
"We want to change how people interact by empowering people and allowing them prove to the world how they really are," said Mossinson. "We hope the platform will help to acknowledge the fact people are not just as they seem at first glance."
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Three Nights, Three Men, Three Dreams
by Marilynn M. Wilkins
part 1 of 2
It was yesterday’s panic attack, the crying and rage that prompted Beatrice to accept the offer of a weekend trip to Raleigh. On the way to Dallas Love Field, she recalled the scene in her mother’s kitchen as she pounded her fists on the counter and screamed repeatedly. “Why did you take the suit to the cleaners? Why the hell did you have the suit cleaned?”
The suit, besides being a classy black suit, was the one she wore on September 11, 2001. Her mother made a simple mistake. She didn’t know that Beatrice felt cleaning the suit violated the memory of the people whose bodies she watched fall to the pavement below the Twin Towers, that she wanted to preserve the blood and bits of tissue clinging to the fabric, hold in her memory the scene of the first plane crashing into the towers.
On 9/11,she and two business associates from The New York Stock Exchange witnessed the impact of the first jet as they stood on the street a mere three blocks away. A huge ball of flame shot several hundred feet out from Tower One. None of the three spoke for a moment but Beatrice thought to herself, “That’s American Airlines, just like Daddy used to fly. This is no accident.”
They ran toward the Towers, not away. Did they think they could help the victims? Later, they agreed. Yes, they thought they could. When the second plane hit, she immediately dialed her parent’s home in Texas on her cell phone and left a message. It would be some full twelve hours before they would hear from her again.
During those twelve hours the unthinkable occurred. The three interlocked arms and ran, side by side until their energy was depleted and they could no longer run. When they finally stopped long enough to look at each other, the white of their eyes was the only white area discernable. Their hair, matted with debris and heavy smoke was sticky and stiff. Their clothes covered in muck.
They made their way to the ferry, where someone washed them with a water hose and allowed them to board. Beatrice had gone into work early that day, narrowly escaping death. Why.
That night she removed her grandmother’s diamond brooch from the suit before placing it in a plastic garment bag. It stayed there through months of alternate weeping mixed with gratefulness until moving home to Dallas and the ultimate scene that occurred when her mother innocently took the suit to be cleaned.
Still, she thought the decision to move home and pursue a master’s degree in business was the right decision. New York was different and so was she. She never revealed to anyone what the 9/11 had done to her, how depressed she felt. Most of all, she never revealed the suicidal thoughts she harbored. Maybe they would go away.
* * *
Beatrice’s new friend, Janice, whom she met at the university, filed the flight plan to Raleigh and they wheeled out to the runway. It was a smooth, uneventful takeoff. The Texas skyline was beautiful and seemed to promise a weekend of relaxation. The pink, apricot and yellow color of the sky was stunning.
After crossing several state borders, an accumulation of dark clouds threatened an otherwise perfect flight. It was apparent that the Cessna 182 RG would head right into a nasty thunderstorm. As a postscript to what the girls observed, the air traffic controller advised that all planes would have to land at the Asheville airstrip instead of Raleigh.
“Now they tell me,” Janice said, a concerned look on her face. An updraft followed by a sudden downdraft caused the single engine Cessna to lurch as though made of flimsy balsa wood. Bolts of lightning zigzagged like finite, crazing cracks in china plates across the sky. “Secure all of the loose items you can find, will you Beatrice? We don’t want to get hit by flying luggage and handbags.”
Beatrice secured the loose items. Dark storm clouds loomed ahead in the sky. The clouds reminded Beatrice of the smoke and debris of 9/11. She gripped the armrest of the seat, her heart pounding, reluctant to reveal her anxiety to Janice. Her eyes got misty, an occasional tear rolling down her cheeks. Through misty eyes, she realized there was an opening in the clouds. The two girls looked down at the tiny airstrip in Asheville.
* * *
“Don’t underestimate Asheville,” he said. He was the owner, mechanic and maintenance man of the airport. He recommended The Grove Park Inn for their overnight stay and also agreed to drive them into town. “It’s a famous inn. Back in the thirties, F. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lot of time there. His wife was in the mental hospital nearby.”
He rolled the window down a few inches, leaned out a bit, and took a deep breath. “Ah, smell that mountain air?”
They approached the inn, nestled in the side of a mountain. Beatrice noticed a tennis court and swimming pool. Maybe this delay wouldn’t be so bad after all.
Once inside the inn, Janice offered to check them in. Beatrice collapsed into a comfortable chair, a trickling fountain surrounded by tropical plants nearby. She closed her eyes, then, opened them slightly.
A gallery of black and white photos hanging on the wall near a massive rock fireplace attracted her attention. She walked to them, walking from photo to photo, intrigued when she realized they were all photos of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
One photo, taken with a woman wearing a thirties style dress prompted a second and third look. A jeweled initial pin adorned the woman’s lapel. Beatrice’s eyes enlarged in disbelief. The woman was her grandmother, her mother’s mother. The pin on the dress in the picture was one Beatrice inherited. The pin she wore on the black suit on 9/11.
* * *
“Mommy. We’re stuck in a place called Asheville.” Beatrice cradled the phone receiver beneath her chin as she talked, unzipping her luggage at the same time.
“Why are you stuck, Beatrice?”
“We ran into a huge thunderstorm. They re-routed us. Mommy, you know something? I just saw Grammy in a picture in the lobby of this hotel. She’s posing with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the famous writer.”
“Let me know when you get to Raleigh,” her mother replied.
“Did you hear me? A picture of Grammy with Fitzgerald.”
“Amazing how thunderstorms can accumulate so quickly.”
Beatrice retrieved her nightgown from her bag and began to twirl it around and around by its straps. It looped over her forearm and then unwound again. She sat down on the edge of the bed, disgusted because her mother refused to acknowledge what she had said to her. “How come we never talked about that? How come we never talk about anything in the past?”
“That was too long ago. It didn’t seem important.”
“Frankly, she seems to be hugging him in more than a friendly way.” She was happy to be able to challenge her Mom. Her family kept a lot of “secrets.” She had discovered a family secret! She felt more than happy. She felt mischievously delighted!
“Whatever I know, I’ll tell you when you get home. Believe me, I know very little.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll let you know our plans.” Beatrice closed the conversation by giving her mother the physical address of Grove Park Inn and her room number.
She walked to the picture window and opened the drapes. An unbroken double rainbow arching across the sky above the picturesque mountains welcomed her. Grammy always told her that an unbroken rainbow was a very good omen. She undressed, put on her nightgown and fell across the bed without removing the comforter. She fell asleep in seconds.
* * *
“It took forever for you to get here.” The voice startled her. She sat up in bed to locate its origin. The voice came from the man sitting in a chair in the corner of the room smoking a cigarette. “Ouch,” he said.
He threw the cigarette on the floor, stomped it out and began to suck on his finger. “ I’m out of practice. They told me not to do earthly things while I was here. But, I did it anyway. Guess drinking is out of the question, too.”
He picked at the burn holes in his tweed jacket with his finger. “Old holes. How are you, Beatrice?”
She didn’t speak for a moment. “Who are they and who are you?”
“Never mind about that. Better late than never I always say. We put our heads together and created a thunderstorm, just to get you here.”
“You did?” She sat on the side of the bed and looked back over her shoulder. Her body was still in the bed. She lay down and again and then sat up. It didn’t work. There was two of her. “Marvelous illusion, don’t you think? Someone has to be here to answer the phone while we’re away. Come with me.”
“Where are we going? I must change.” She barely finished the sentence when she looked down at her body clothed in a lavender evening gown. Her fingers felt a string of pearls around her neck. Her toes wiggled against the straps of sparkling silver evening shoes.
“Madam?” He lifted a fur stole from the dressing table stool and held it out to her. “They’re waiting patiently, I’m sure.” He grinned impishly and took her by the hand. The smile was very familiar as was his tweed suit. His blond hair was parted slightly off center and his mustache so blond that it resembled beer foam clinging to his upper lip. F. Scott Fitzgerald!
The sable coat felt dreamy against her skin. “Where did you say we’re going?”
“Story paradise, the land of fiction. Destination, your choice. Which story would you like to visit?”
“Cinderella,” she replied, looking down at her beautiful dress. That’s the way the clothes made her feel, like Cinderella.
The look in his eyes changed immediately. He looked down at the floor. “Try again.”
“Winnie the Pooh?” she replied.
He sat on the side of the bed, head in hands. “Fairy tales, fairy tales. People always want fairy tales! That’s not real life. Not a real story. Not literature!”
For Whom the Bell Tolls,” she replied firmly. What could be more real life or more tragic that lost love during wartime?
Fitzgerald clutched his shirt near his heart. “What a blow. I suppose you heard that, Ernest.” He looked up at the ceiling. She looked up at the ceiling. Fitzgerald crooked his finger at Beatrice, beckoning her to come closer.
She walked over and bent down, her face in close proximity to his. He pushed her blond chin-length hair away from her ear and whispered. “The Great Gatsby.”
She stood up and dutifully repeated. “The Great Gatsby.”
“Excellent choice! Outstanding! Shall we be on our way?” He looked so happy. His pale blue eyes suddenly filled with enthusiasm.
He took her hand and they began to float together towards the big window, his touch as light as vapor. In a spectacular Peter Pan-like maneuver they floated through the glass and into the midst of pine trees.
Music, laughter and the clink of cocktail glasses played like a sonata heralding their arrival in the garden of a two-story mansion. Scores of people dressed in elegant evening clothes milled around, an occasional burst of laughter erupting in the evening air. Yet no one seemed to respond to their arrival.
Fitzgerald led her to a long table laden with ice sculptures and glasses filled with sparkling drinks. “Shall we indulge? Daisy and Gatsby should show up soon. Daisy’s such a beautiful little fool. Gatsby, well, her never gets what he wants even though he’s filthy rich. You aren’t going to cry at the end of the story, are you?”
Beatrice was about to respond when a large man dressed in safari garb, carrying a hunting rifle, walked out of the adjacent shrubs. He walked directly to Beatrice and extended his hand. “Francis Mac Comber. Pleased to meet you.”
Fitzgerald set his glass on the table and immediately stepped between Beatrice and Mac Comber. “Get out of my story! Go back to Ernest’s lion hunt!” He shoved Mac Comber and Beatrice stepped back, bewildered by Fitzgerald’s behavior.
“Ernest, I know you’re in there,” Fitzgerald said, directly his comments to rustling shrubs at the edge of the garden. Mac Comber stood and straightened his clothing, grabbed the rifle and returned to the shrubs as quickly as he had arrived. Low mumbling voices faded in a few moments.
“Watch him run! He’s such a coward!” Fitzgerald again raised the crystal glass to his lips as he spoke. “Oh, yes. I was wondering if you were going to get emotional about the outcome of my story, The Great Gatsby.” He looked directly over the rim into her blue eyes.
“I’ve been crying about everything lately. Really depressed actually.”
“I know. We know.”
“I must ask you about the picture in the lobby of the inn. Did you and my Grammy, well, did you have an affair?”
“I drank a lot of beer that summer. Acted like a fool most of the time. Even tried to kill myself. But, I do recall that she was a beautiful woman. Her husband, the doctor from Texas, showed up and took her home. It was really like a dream. Life is but a dream you know.” His eyes filled with tears and he turned away so that she couldn’t see. “You look so much like she was that summer, I can barely tolerate it.”
“You were concerned about me crying?”
Fitzgerald turned and faced her. “In the end, it’s your choice. Cry forever or be happy. I lived and wrote my own tragedy and, I might add, died doing it. The tragedy you witnessed in New York was totally out of your control. I ‘m trying to help you.”
Beatrice moved toward him to wipe away a stray tear slowly falling towards the rim of the glass.
The phone ringing on the night stand startled her. She expected Fitzgerald to be on the other end of the line. She looked around to try to find a champagne glass or something else from her dream. “Ready for breakfast?” Janice asked.
“I had this crazy dream. It was so real! Give me twenty minutes. I’ll meet you in the dining room.” She removed her nightgown, washed her face and put on a clean pair of khaki slacks. She was about to thrust her arm into a long-sleeved cotton blouse when she noticed something on the floor near the chair by the window. She walked over, bent down and picked it up. It was a cigarette, barely smoked. The tiny lettering on the cigarette read, Lucky Strike.
* * *
“I’ll have two eggs scrambled. Two strips of bacon, no, better make that four. Hash browns and two pancakes on the side, juice and coffee,” Beatrice told the waiter.
Janice shot her a sideways glance. “Hungry, are you?”
“I can’t control my appetite. I’ve gained twenty-five pounds. Guess it makes me feel better to eat.” She took the cigarette from her shirt and laid it on the table. “I found this on the floor of my room this morning. It wouldn’t mean anything if it weren’t for the strange dream I had last night.”
Janice picked up the cigarette gingerly. She hated cigarettes. “You said something about a dream on the phone. Tell me.”
Proceed to part 2...
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I don't think my son is ready for Kindergarten. Our school district is saying I HAVE to enroll him. What are my options? Is this true?
Our preschool teacher suggested that he stay another year in preschool because he needs more time with small motor skills and he is immature. His birthday is June 6 so he is too old to do the "transitional kindergarten". The school district said we HAVE to enroll him. If we choose to enroll him in a more academic preschool or private kindergarten they said next year they will enroll him into first grade. That enrollment is done by age. What are my options? Can they do that? I hear conflicting stories and everyone puts down the public school system.
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Art of the Orc: Mordor Strategy
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Name: Art of the Orc: Mordor Strategy
Author: Demonbird/Lollercopter
Date Submitted: 2006-03-07 21:08:35
Game Version: 1.02
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The Art of the Orc
The following is a guide to Mordor, who many consider to be "weak" or underpowered. The thing many people don't understand about Mordor is that their entire army should be based around Orcs, and abilities that can be used to buff them or debuff the enemy to make them weaker vs Orcs.Mordor should play a war of attrition; hit the enemy with wave after wave, swiftly, and they have no time to recover. Expect your orcs to die, but how fast or slow they die is what is arguable. The rapidity at which Orcs can be made and sent to the base is what makes them so good. Strength in numbers. Remember that. If your game lasts more than 20 minutes, you are doing something wrong or the enemy is a god.
Follow this Building Strategy.
Learn Eye of Sauron
1builder-Orc Pit
2builder 97%+ Slaughterhouse
2builder 97%+ Slaughterhouse
OrcPit1 Queue 2 Orc battalions
1builder Orc Pit
OrcPit2 Queue 1 orc battalion asap
You will now have 2 orc battalions. Send them at the enemy.
OrcPit1 and OrcPit2 should be hotkeyed and constantly making orcs.
Fortress-Queue Doom Pyres ASAP.
You should have 2 orc battalions at the enemy base (avoid creeps) and 1 on the way. If there is a beacon on the map, now is the time to capture it. If it is more than halfway th e map away, do not waste time capturing it Use the 2 orc battalions to kill outlying resource buildings. If the enemy is competent, he will have 1-2 regiments of units.
Use the eye on your orcs, and constantly bring in more orcs up to a limit of 5 battalions. Destroy resource buildings/"barracks'" first. If your orcs survive still, continue to wipe all buildings/workers out. Queue a Nazgul (horse). You should have full pop limit by now, so have another builder construct a slaughterhouse. I have never built over three slaughterhouses, 2 orc pits, and 1 doom pyre in any of my games. Be sure to keep pumping out orcs.
Your orcs at the enemies base should be dead now, and now your Nazgul should be out. Send in the 4-5 orc battalions you have back to the enemy when the eye is back. When you reach 5 PP, learn War Cry or Battle shout, w/e its called. Use Eye of Sauron + War shout on all orcs when they're grouped together. Target any enemy units in your way, and plow through them (no early game units can beat these uber buffed orcs). If they have heroes, ignore them, and go to the buildings if there are any. At this level, heroes are very weak vs. mass amounts of orcs, not in the matter that orcs can kill them, its just that the heroes cannot kill the orcs.
Remember to keep queueing Orcs on your Orc Pits, and when you have a surplus of money, order either the Mouth of Sauron or save for a Felbeast. Once you reach 5 PP, reached tainted ground, or w/e. Use this on your next wave of orcs. The three first tier powers + 5 orc battalions + level 2 nazgul = obscene early game power.
By the time you've slammed the enemy with 3-4 such waves of orcs, there is no way they can continue living on. This strategy works particularly well on Men/Elves, and decently against Mordor/Isengard/Dwarves. No idea how it works on goblins.
One of the more important things with this strategy is what I like to call the Art of the STANCE DANCE. What stance dancing is is switching to stances when they can be used to their fullest extent. Here are some examples:
1. Orcs on your flank are being hit by infantry. Switch to defensive stance with these orcs, as chances are he won't notice the change and will continue to attack these orcs instead of the others.
2. Calvary are hitting your orcs. Switch all orcs to defensive, as they won't be hitting anything as they are trampled. As soon as the calvary are "bogged down", switch back to battle/offensive stance.
3. You are molesting the enemy's base unhithered. In other words, you're blowing shit up and the enemy can't/isn't doing anything about it. Switch all orcs to offensive stance. You will notice a difference. If there is ANYTHING save the bulding in questions defenses attacking you, do not use this. When attacking fortresses, this shouldn't be used unless the fortress is virtually defenseless.
And theres a part of my strategy for you. I formed it through a course of about 12 games, and if you have anythnig to add or if you think theres some kind of weakness in it, i'd be glad to hear from you.
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Embroidered Buttons
These are elegant little decorative buttons similar to ones that were used on clothing during the late 1500's and early 1600's. They are similar to ones pictured in books by costume historian Janet Arnold [footnote]. Though they are easy to make and cost next to nothing in supplies, they do take a long time and are tedious and fiddly. Give yourself several days or weeks to complete these for your costume.
The buttons pictured at right are dark blue with gold thread and gold beads sewn onto the top of each. The shank created by the wrapping process still hangs like a tail from each one.
What you'll need:
a packet of 1/2 inch wooden beads
6-strand cotton embroidery floss
gold or silver metallic thread
(I suggest DMC brand on a spool)
2 embroidery needles
Use the smallest needle you can thread. This will become important later as you try to wrap the thread through many layers. You will use one needle for the cotton floss and another for the metallic thread.
Begin by cutting a 20" length of embroidery floss. Separate the 6-strand floss into two 3-strand twists. There's kind of a trick to this if you have never embroidered before: flatten the end of the floss with your fingernail so the individual strands separate, look for a natural split in the twist, pull three strands away from the other three. You now have two 20" lengths of floss. Lay one aside for later and thread the other through your needle.
Thread the first wooden bead onto your strand of floss, about 3 inches from one end. Hold the floss against the bottom of the bead as you begin to wrap the threaded floss around the bead using the needle to guide it through the center hole. After a few stitches you will not need to hold the "tail" end of the floss so tightly. Continue wrapping thread around the bead, taking care to lay it evenly as you go. Use your fingers to push threads together so you get nice even coverage. The first part will go easily, but it will get harder to push the needle through the center of the bead as you wrap more thread around it.
When you get down to the last couple inches of floss you should have covered your bead completely. If you were not able to cover the bead and arrange the floss well enough, consider this a learning experiment and start over with a longer piece of thread and a new bead. It's not worth unwrapping the first mistake.
When you have covered the bead completely and you are satisfied with it, tie off the last couple inches of thread to the tail you left when you began. Leave the threads hanging from the button. You will need them to hold onto and to attach the finshed button to your costume garment.
Make several buttons.
Thread the second needle with your gold thread. About 12" is enough. You will not be covering the button with as much metallic thread as you used for the first layer.
Make several loops of the gold thread as you did for the cotton floss. Space the metallic threads so that you have 4, 6, or 8 strands making a nice pattern on the button. Tie off your gold thread to the tail on the bottom like you did before.
Your button is now finished and ready to apply to your costume.
Pictured at right is a set of moss green buttons with gold thread attached to the epaulet shoulders of a green velvet gown.
Footnote: These buttons look like the ones pictured in Patterns of Fashion 1560-1620, by Janet Arnold (Macmillan/Drama Book, 1985) on pages 23-42, and in illustrations 148, 161-163, 178, 194, 268, and 298. There is absolutely NO documentation to prove that the method above is the way they were made. These instructions should not be considered as an authoritative source for documenting historical costuming techniques.
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Flexible planning in cities: the rise of Charter Cities?
Investors frequently cite rigid, slow, and cumbersome planning as an inhibitor to investment.
Trends of rapid population growth and urbanisation have ensured that many of the world’s cities are far from functionally optimal. The speed at which populations have moved into cities over the last fifty years or more has resulted in the haphazard growth of cities, with many lacking the design and innovation required to fulfil their potential as drivers of national economic growth.
Professor of Economics and Director of the Urban System Project at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Paul Romer, however, offers an innovative solution which could fundamentally alter the approach that cities take towards urban planning, the introduction of the charter city.
What is a charter city?
A charter city is a city which is governed by its own specific charter document, rather than by any state, provincial, regional or national laws. These charter cities would be founded in new Greenfield locations and the charter would govern all forms of social interaction. Essentially, by founding a new city, and not trying to implement radical solutions in existing cities, new residents would be required to agree with the points of the charter before they moved in, which would limit the risk of any potentially violent resistance.
In order to create these new cities, national governments would need to play one of three roles. The first could be that of a host; a government which has the required unoccupied land to host the new city. Secondly, a national government could act as a source, a country which supplies the new residents, albeit they move voluntarily of their own free-will. Thirdly, a government could act as a guarantor. In this instance, a national government must make a credible commitment that the new charter will be enforced and will have the force of law.
The inherent advantages of charter cities
Paul Romer likens the establishment of charter cities to start-up businesses. While fixing the problems with existing cities is an unenviable task fraught with problems, by contrast the creation of a charter city offers a clean slate from which to create a city which is intelligently designed and suited to modern living.
Romer claims that charter cities will not only attract the affluent and mobile, but also the working poor, who will be more able to find affordable housing, “because someone profits by offering it to them.” Romer’s proposed governors will ensure that the vision for the city is followed, while investors will have a long term vested interest in the effective design of the city as without its residents flourishing they will see no return.
Romer stresses that the goal is not to create a utopian city, but to encourage innovation and competition, which ensures that the best cities flourish and others can learn and build on the progress made. This transference of best practice it is hoped will not just be between charter cities, but between charter cities and existing cities too.
The main criticism levelled at Romer’s theory is the viability of such an undertaking in such a constrained investment environment. Even if long-term investors can be secured, and a suitable area of land can be acquired, the construction of a new city from scratch requires a huge commitment by all stakeholders to build the kind of modern infrastructure expected by new residents.
While Romer’s charter cities appear on the surface to be an ambitious proposition, governments in the developing world are already beginning to demonstrate an interest in the possibility. While there are many pieces of the puzzle to be put in the place, superficially charter cities certainly offer an answer to the question of how cities can better ensure that urban development takes place on their own terms.
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[CLUG-chat] Paying for linux?
Abraham van der Merwe abz at frogfoot.net
Fri Mar 26 14:30:44 SAST 2004
Hi John >@2004.03.26_14:07:41_+0200
> Just wanting to clear sommit up here.
> As far as I've always been concerned, linux has always been free and
> always will be free. I can understand that a packaged linux distro can
> be charged for if it comes with manuals and additional software that is
> licensed or whatever, but what about the code etc from these.
> Take for example Redhat Enterprise. That is no longer free, or is it -
> but in theory you could still get hold of the source code if you wanted.
> Another example would be SuSe and the Novell story - You can't download
> the ISO's now, but you can still install via ftp off their server (Or
> download the lot and stick onto a DVD)
> Is a day likely to come where one cannot just download the latest
> version of any particular unless you pay people money for it ??
Theoretically it is possible, but it is about as likely as finding life on
Venus. There will always be people who want free software and there will
always be people who are willing to help realise that goal(s). Look at the
Debian project. Debian, for instance, will always be free and it is also
becoming more popular as people start realising that the foundations of
the Debian project is solid (i.e. it is not run by a company and therefore
there can never be a conflict of interests between the OSS community and
company X).
Also, even if they do find small green men on Venus and Debian disappear
from planet Earth, most of the Linux software is released under the GPL and
it will therefore always be legal for someone to buy the distribution and
redistribute the bulk of it to the rest of the world at no/little cost.
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When we consider the function $f(x)=1+x+x^2+x^3+...+x^n$ where $n$ tends to infinity, we can rewrite this as $$f(x)=1+x(1+x+x^2+x^3+...)=1+x(f(x))\qquad (1)$$ After some algebraic manipulations, we arrive at $$f(x)=\frac{1}{1-x}\qquad (2)$$ This expression is used to assign a "sum" to certain divergent series. If we take another look at (1), however, we can also write $$f(x)=1+x(1+xf(x))$$ from which we can deduce that $f(x)=\frac{1+x}{1-x^2}$. Of course, we can produce infinitely many functions that satisfy $f(x)$ in this manner, but I only see (2) in the literature. Is there a good reason for this phenomenon? Thanks,
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$1-x^2=(1-x)(1+x)$ so you did not find a new solution.
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Aha! Thank you user9325! I don't want to insult you with your good answer, but I feel a tad stupid now. I will accept it as soon as the minimum time to wait is over. – Max Muller May 5 '11 at 13:11
It's not stupid to ask "stupid" question. There is one aspect I did not address: Your functional equation is wrong for $x=1$ which is not so surprising as the series is divergent there but it shows that this kind of functional equation demands some subtleness in general. – Phira May 5 '11 at 13:17
All right, what kind of "subtleness" do you mean? Is it perhaps related to Tauberian theorems? – Max Muller May 5 '11 at 13:22
No, I just meant that a functional equation is not unique without thinking about the domain of the function. – Phira May 5 '11 at 13:28
Notice that
$$f(x) = \frac{1+x}{1-x^2} = \frac{1+x}{(1+x)(1-x)} = \frac{1}{1-x}$$
so you end up with the same function.
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And you can cancel $1+x$ because the series does not converge for $x=-1$. – lhf May 5 '11 at 13:11
Interestingly, you can just plug $x=-1$ into both sides of the formula, and get $1-1+1-1+1-1+\cdots = 1/2$. – Chris Taylor May 5 '11 at 13:14
Indeed! It is called the Cesaro Summation of Grandi's Series ;) See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi%27s_series – Max Muller May 5 '11 at 13:19
that's Cesàro summation. – lhf May 5 '11 at 13:19
Let $f(x) = \sum x^k$ and let $g(x) = 1/(1-x)$. Then where $f$ makes sense (namely for $|x| < 1$) the functions $f$ and $g$ agree. This answers your last question "Is there a good reason for this phenomenon?"
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Ok, I'm having a slight bit of confusion writing my own jQuery UI widget plugins. The problem lies in the destroy function. In the docs, it says to put the default destroy first then write other things particular to the widget after it.
// now do other stuff particular to this widget
See http://jqueryui.com/docs/Developer_Guide
However in their example scripts (those being the actual pluings for jQuery Ui released code, does it the opposite. The
$.Widget.prototype.destroy.apply(this, arguments);
is at the end of the function. See http://dev.jqueryui.com/browser/trunk/ui/jquery.ui.progressbar.js (and all of the other built in widgets as well)
So which is it? The way the current widgets are written, or by the explanation in the code comment in the Developer_Guide?
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I would personally put it at the end, in case anything crazy happens, but make sure anything you've created gets destroyed, then let the base methods do their work. From a practical standpoint?
It doesn't matter
It's just a matter of taste, and even in the 2 examples you linked, the taste of the developers writing them differed (or changed over time)...not a big enough issue for the documentation to be consistent.
Disclaimer: Opinion here!
Usually in cases like this, I think it's safer to stay with the convention of the code instead of the documentation. You're actively running the code in your browser, it's passing the jQuery unit tests, it's what's running...not the documentation which may or may not be accurate or outdated. I know I'm guilty of this, and that I'm not alone...I don't update the documentation all that often, not near as often as I refactor/improve the code at least :)
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When I run a script manually using root it is working fine. when I execute the same script inside cron it is not running. I checked the cron is actually calling the script but the script is not executing. I exported the output of echos in the script to the text file but the text file is didn't logged anything. Please check this cron
*/10 * * * * sh /var/www/sym_monitor/restart.sh > /var/www/migrate/root_restart.txt
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Try: /bin/sh -c '/var/www/sym_monitor/restart.sh > /var/www/migrate/root_restart.txt' or simply: /var/www/sym_monitor/restart.sh > /var/www/migrate/root_restart.txt. You may have to set the executable bit of restart.sh for the latter to work. – jaume Feb 14 '13 at 11:53
Change > to &> to log error messages as well. If that doesn't help, could you post the shell script? – Dennis Feb 14 '13 at 13:20
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The cron entry is correct only if you're using crontab -e to add it. If you add it directly to /etc/crontab you need to include the user name to run it under.
The cron should spool to /var/spool/cron/ if successfully created.
Check the script permissions, chmod +x.
It's good practice to include the full path to the shell, /bin/sh, or just exclude it altogether.
*/10 * * * * /bin/sh /var/www/sym_monitor/restart.sh > /var/www/migrate/root_restart.txt
Also, are you including the shebang line in the script? It should start with #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash
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And it is a good idea to give the full path to any executables called, and files used. – vonbrand Feb 15 '13 at 3:22
Try adding the following to end of your crontab line:
2> /var/www/migrate/error.log.txt
Now for a couple of conjectures (you might have added the scripting to the question, if it not too long):
Check in your scripting to see if you have a line settine the PATH variable to the same thing that you have when you do:
echo $PATH
Remember that things started in cron do not execute any of the shell initialization files that happen when you login.
Are you sure that the file has at least READ permission....a shell script needs more than simple EXECUTE permission. You might have included a ls of the file too.
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Older Persons in Emergency Situations: A Case Study of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Technical report
Publication details
Number of pages: 24
Publication date: 2013
Languages: English
As society continues to age, considerations for action and policies to cope with the needs and capacities of older people, people with disabilities, and others who need support in a disaster are critical. In the case of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (1995), statistics showed that there were 6,433 deaths, 43,792 injured and 510,000 homes damaged. Older people were found to have higher mortality rates: among immediate casualties, 53% in Kobe City and 56.6% in Hyogo Prefecture overall were aged 60 and above. Among later earthquake related deaths: 90% were aged 60 and above.
Considered as the “first aged society earthquake” in the world, this case study report reflected on the situation of elderly victims and survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake through the perspective of the disaster cycle and synthesized measures perceived to be necessary for the future in terms of general health emergency preparedness, response and recovery; and specific concerns for older people during evacuation, temporary sheltering and permanent relocation. Storytelling groups since the earthquake struck were created to meet students to relay experiences about the disaster and provide lessons for the future. Narrations from older people of their experience, resilience and lessons learned are preserved at the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial - Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution. | <urn:uuid:f6170927-1542-4c2b-9546-b725761d6b59> | http://who.int/kobe_centre/publications/older_persons_in_emergency_2013/en/ | en | 0.960223 | 0.031837 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Thursday, November 20, 2008
World Kitchens - Teriyaki Beef Jerky, 3.5oz
World Kitchens - Teriyaki Beef JerkyDuring my visit up to Seattle earlier this month, I was walking through a QFC store to see what local brands of jerky they might have, and saw this 3.5 oz package of World Kitchens beef jerky. What really caught my eye was the pieces of meat viewable inside the package.
If you read my original review of World Kitchens that I did in May 2006, I gave them a dog treats rating. That was their "one pound" sized bag. The meat tasted somewhat rancid, as if it were mixed with some kind of internal organs, maybe liver, I dunno. I got the sense that it was a chunked beef jerky, because they were all small bite-sized chunks, but with other chopped stuff mixed in. The meat crumbled apart in my mouth, and didn't really give me a meat-like chewing satisfaction.
But this 3.5 oz bag had different looking meat inside. I'm not sure if the meat in this 3.5 oz bag is an updated meat consistency, or if it's always been different than their one pound bag. Nonetheless, it's a different jerky than the one I reviewed before.
Interestingly, there are two USDA Establishment numbers on this 3.5 oz bag, one for Knauss Foods, and another for Bruce Pac in Woodburn, OR. Bruce Pac is the actual distributor, and owner of the World Kitchens brand. This bag is also stamped, "Natural Style", where as the one pound bag I reviewed before doesn't have that stamp. But it's still stamped, "product of Brazil" on the bottom.
Sliced beef, water, brown sugar, sugar, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, spice, papaya juice, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, powdered onion, powdered garlic, citric acid, soy sauce powder, sodium nitrite.
The tastes I pick up from the surface of these pieces is a medium level sweetness, and I think a hint of soy sauce flavor. Moving into the chewing, I can get more of a salty taste, and a pungent taste that resembles something of the ginger in teriyaki sauce.
Well, it's certainly a better jerky than the previous stuff I reviewed back in May 2006.
It doesn't have that liver-like meat taste that it used to have. In fact, it doesn't have any meat taste at all; I suppose that's better than tasting like liver. Well, I can taste some slight hints of meat, but it's something I have to think about to find.
In terms of teriyaki flavoring, I wouldn't totally consider this as having a teriyaki flavor. I can taste the sweet, and that pungent taste normally produced by ginger, and a slight bit of soy sauce. But I don't see those components marrying together as teriyaki. At least, if I were snacking on this as opposed to analyzing this, I wouldn't get the sense that I'm having teriyaki beef.
I'd say the dominant taste of this jerky is that pungent quality. I'm guessing that it's produced by the onion and ginger, or maybe in conjunction with another ingredient. But it's not a strong taste.
Coming in second, is the sweetness from the surface, and the third strongest flavor is that slight bit of soy sauce plus salt. And even in terms of saltiness, I don't really see this as being salty despite the 580mg of sodium per serving.
But all of those tastes are not strong. Overall, this jerky has a low-to-medium level flavor intensity. It doesn't taste bad, but it doesn't offer much enjoyment either.
Meat Consistency
These appear to be slice of whole meat, sliced average thickness, and in small to medium sized pieces.
This is a soft and tender style of jerky, with a slight bit of moisture. It's very easy to tear apart, particularly with the grain, and very easy to chew.
It has a rather mushy chewing texture, even the drier pieces tend to be more mushy than they are fibrous.
For the most part it's a clean jerky, leaving no residue on my fingers and no pieces on my lap. But I do note that there is a good deal of crumbled pieces sitting in the bottom of the bag.
I found no pieces of fat, tendon, or gristle.
Snack Value
I paid $5.49 for this 3.5 ounce package at a QFC store in Seattle, WA. That works out to a price of $1.57 per ounce, putting this in the average price range.
For general jerky snacking purposes, this offers a decent value for the price. But that's about all it offers, a decent amount of snacking value. It offers a low-to-medium level flavor intensity, and a lackluster chewing satisfaction. But overall, it doesn't taste bad.
As a teriyaki variety, it offers a poor value because I didn't get a sense of teriyaki flavor. If you're looking to spend money on a jerky that will give you a strong teriyaki flavor, you're not going to get much mileage from this.
I'm giving this a fair rating.
I think this 3.5 oz bag of World Kitchens teriyaki beef jerky is a better jerky than their one pound bag. I don't know if their one pound bag still has the same jerky that I reviewed two-and-a-half years ago, or if it's just like the stuff in this 3.5 oz bag. But overall I'd consider it below average in terms of taste and meat consistency. First, it doesn't offer much taste with its low-to-medium level flavor intensity. Second, it doesn't live up to its teriyaki advertisement. And third, it has a mushy chewing texture.
I could overlook the mushy chewing texture if the flavor was exceptional. But considering this jerky is somewhat light on taste to begin with, it needs a quality meat consistency to help push this up to a higher rating.
While I wouldn't buy this jerky again, it's at least something I can still eat and not pass off to my dogs. Though, it wouldn't bother me to at least share it with them!
A good beer to have with this would be a brown ale.
Rating: Fair
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Quantum effects in the brain
Dale A Trynor dalet at nbnet.nb.ca
Tue Jan 7 22:53:42 EST 2003
"Richard S. Norman" wrote:
> wrote:
> >Physicist Henry Margenau (quoted by Sir John Eccles) states that the
> >components of the brain 'are small enough to be governed by
> >probabilistic quantum laws' and are 'always poised for a multitude of
> >possible changes, each with a definite probability'.
> >
> >Is Margenau's view (that actions in the brain might be subject to
> >quantum effects) generally accepted withnin science?
> >
> >N.B. The blurb for the forthcoming Quantum Mind 2003 Conference on
> >Consciousness, Quantum Physics and the Brain to be hosted by the
> >University of Arizona states "recent experimental evidence suggests
> >quantum nonlocality occurring in conscious and subconscious brain
> >function, and functional quantum processes in molecular biology are
> >becoming more and more apparent."
[snip, had to try and snip something and its still too long]
> Planck's constant is 7 x 10 ^^-34 J s. That corresponds to
> about 10^^-13 kcal sec/mol (compare with reactions measured
> across the membrane at 0.1 eV). Of course you have to account for
> event duration or frequency to make the units comparable, but still
> most neural activity really does occur at the macroscopic, classical
> level.
Dale Trynor wrote:
I hope I am forgiven here for making up terminology as needed. I am also
probably out of date and risk having re inventing the weal. Assuming that
such a field as soul mechanics becomes a reality, how could one explain a
phenomenon with no energy of its own also having the ability to influence
the working of a mind that requires energy for decision making. Its also
to be remembered that much of the mind works fine perfectly deterministic,
after all we prefer that our vision reflects what we see and not what we
dream up. However anything that requires a free choice is quite a
different mater and must have cells that have this random property to
I have long come to the conclusion that chaos may be essential, For
example if one has 3 outputs randomly selected then no energy becomes
required in making it become selective. In this way any soul quanta could
become a chaotic attractor and so influence outcomes without the
requirement for an energy source. This is the very thing that computers
are not good at.
I risk sounding even more stooped than I am, but what are the chances that
the same chaotic flapping of the wings of a chicken when its head is
chopped off might also be based on a similar type of chaos as is also
essential to the function of a mind.
> There is no need to search for quantal activity to understand what we
> really do observe in the brain. Yes, there are still a lot of things
> we don't understand about brain activity, but most neurobiologists
> seem to think that this does not seem to be a fruitful direction to
> look, Penrose and microtubules notwithstanding.
I believe that in time, what I have taken liberty to call soul mechanics
will be shown to have similarities to quantum mechanics but that
similarities do not necessarily require them to be the same thing. Some
time ago I did some posts looking at the idea of a stereo lithographic
method of recreating a mind as it would allow one to recreate one while
only being required to understand how the individual cells worked.
Potentially a big subject, especially if one dares to consider wanting to
examine many of the possibilities on how to do this, so I will restrain
myself here. Such a method would eliminate the requirement of
understanding how it was wired. One of the possible outcomes of such
research would be where one could recreate a mind with a vastly larger
scale that's also better for study and is easier to re create. Obviously
if the mind is dependent on quantum theory as believed then such changes
in scale would render it unable to operate while ones that were done to
scale would work.
I would not be surprised if soul quanta's are used by the brain as a
communications medium of its own. I would also not be surprised if such
peculiar possibilities as one being able to measure its volume but not its
center and or its center but not its volume as in a similar related
Heisenberg uncertainty type of thing yet to be discovered.
Perhaps one of the more interesting arguments for the complexity of the
human mind being the most complex organ its to be noted the fantastically
meager amount of genetic code to create one puts this into question.
For example the human genome is about 3 billion base units but only 3% can
be clamed to do anything reducing to 90 million. Of this only I believe it
was 25% of this remainder is used to create the brain reduces this again
to 22.5 million. Converting the for base units so they can be expressed in
binary and you need 2 bits each that can be used to address the 4 base
units. Because a byte is 8 bits rather than just the 2 we can reduce the
22.5 million to equal about 6 megabytes when in its binary equivalent. Yes
that's right I have had printer drivers have been about that large.
If I have missed any new terminology's I am not surprised its been a few
years sense I have read up on this. Besides I will bet its been covered in
information theory and I simply was unaware of it all and in that case
please will someone help inform me. But if not, it seams appropriate to
differentiate such things as adapted complexity, fundamental complexity,
repetitive complexity and etceteras when describing the complexity of the
mind, as I have illustrated by the one example above. So has anything been
done along these lines?. It could prove that even a parrots brain may
match a humans in something I suppose you could call origin or DNA source
complexity. Any opinions or information on this.
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Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt put it the best in the subhead for his Apple Earnings Smackdown article this morning when he said "Apple management may have found a way to tame the wild beasts of Wall Street." What he was referring to was the fact that most Wall Street analysts were actually quite close on their estimates of how Apple performed in the second quarter of its fiscal year, thanks to new guidance rules that had been announced by CFO Peter Oppenheimer in January. The Smackdown is a quarterly roll call of analyst estimates and how well various institutional and independent analysts fared in their educated guesses of Apple performance.
On the Q1 2012 earnings call, Oppenheimer stated that the company would no longer give analysts conservative forecasts, or as Elmer-DeWitt put it: "Rather than tell them what the company was reasonably confident it could achieve the following quarter, it would offer a range of guidance that reflected what it believed it was likely to achieve (emphasis is Elmer-DeWitt's)."
Oppenheimer's pronouncement appears to have been embraced by the financial wizards, as 26 of 62 analysts picked the March quarter revenue and earnings within 2.5 percent. That's a vast improvement over the 2011 estimates for the same quarter that were off by a combined average of 11 percent. And while independent analysts used to do a much better job of making accurate estimates than the pros, the difference was essentially non-existant this time around.
Perhaps between better guidance from Apple, closer estimates by analysts and the company's agressive dividend payout and stock repurchase plans, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Oppenheimer may have developed a method to sooth the nerves of Wall Street and hopefully halt the recent slide in the value of the company's share price.
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How is the economy affecting people?
Asked by bubbleblue (52 points ) June 11th, 2009
From my own experience I observed anxiety and impatient behavior. Money has become an issue of power. People that are having financial difficulties need to counter balance their self image by always being on the edge and as an effect lose concentration. Maybe this can explain the energy drink explosion.
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hungryhungryhortence's avatar
In less than a year, I’ve seen over 100 people laid off from my company, most of those who were homeowners lost their mortgages and of the employees remaining, several have lost their mortgages and some of the college students dropped out of classes. Many people have had relatives and friends move in with them, people coming from out of state even. Stress is definitely real, money or lack of it is a real issue but far as energy drinks go, I haven’t noticed much about it- people still walk around with bottled water more than anything.
basp's avatar
It is very bleak here. The other day in staff meeting, after discussion of how bad the budget is, boss asked if anyone had any good news.
One person announced that his college educated son had found a job after an eighteen month search. We all stood and cheered and clapped for him.
This college educated kid got a seasonal position in a packing shed sorting fruit….. And we were thrilled for him. That just about sums things up….
nayeight's avatar
I work in retail and people have definitely become SUPER stingy. If we get any customers in the store, they come in and try and haggle for the lowest price they can get by pointing out tiny surface scratches and demanding damage discounts. A lady came inthe other day looking for paper lanterns. They weren’t on sale so she left. Paper lanterns run anywhere from $4–12. She was driving a brand new bmw.
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DarkScribe's avatar
There is a huge increase in craziness – read the headlines. Domestic violence is way up, divorces are down, people are eating out less, and not making waves at work. McDonalds is opening sixty-five new stores here in the next twelve months, they have never had such high returns.
casheroo's avatar
I think the most horrifying is all the families in the news, where the father (usually) kills his entire family, and then himself. It’s heartbreaking. I can’t imagine.
Midnight_Blue's avatar
>kills his entire family,
The same type of thing happened in the 1929 crash according to various commentaries on the subject. People can’t face what appears to an insurmountable loss, the need to start again, not just with nothing, but with a large debt. The middle class, the genuine middle class, is hit hardest in that they are unable to cope. Working class are more used to functioning in a life without safety nets.
casheroo's avatar
@Midnight_Blue The safety net part makes sense. I guess because my husband and I are in working class, him repeatedly getting laid off due to economy, us having to get credit cards to buy things, not having any money…it’s not new to us. He reads the stories as well, and just doesn’t understand it.
YARNLADY's avatar
The situation is going exactly as the social scientists of the 1960’s projected it would, and nearly all because of overpopulation.
dynamicduo's avatar
I have felt absolutely no repercussions whatsoever. I am maintaining the same level of lifestyle I’ve always had, and so are those around me. In fact, if I only based my knowledge on what I personally experience, I would not be able to tell you there was a recession, it’s has that little of an impact to me. And I’m not some rich trust fund kid, I’m a working gal.
Garebo's avatar
That is definitely a unique observation, the energy drink thing, I have to think about that one. On a positive note, what I have been experiencing is there is a stronger sense of community – people are less superficial and more engaging. And people are more compassionate since they are feeling the same pain, and they can finally empathize because their ego’s have been crushed. Yes, the opposite is noticeable too, drivers are extremely nuts with rage and people are more impatient in business, at least in my business.
Tenpinmaster's avatar
My company has whetherd pretty well the economic strain but not completely unphased. Frozen salaries, positions not being filled when people leave, and tightening of resources have defiantly been observed. I know a lot of people without jobs that have been looking for a long time with no success. It’s almost impossible to find a good, full time job now with the economic conditions.
Coloma's avatar
Thought I’d resurrect this thread 5 years later.
It is now June 29, 2014 and I too was smug and unaffected between 2008–10, except for the abysmal drop in interest rates that cost me almost $600 a month in passive income from my savings. THAT sucked, but I was still okay.
By the end of 2010 I had lost one job and my second, weekend job, that originally was just for fun, was going under.
My employer could no longer afford a $1,600 a month store space as people had virtually quit spending. I still wasn’t too concerned, figured I would find more work fairly easily. Hah! After dozens and dozens of applications, interviews and lots of false hope, I continued to go through my savings and used my credit cards to carry me on certain expenses.
By the end of 2012 my ship was sunk and I was forced to give up my home and property, sell most of my belongings, give up a most treasured pet and had to move back into town in a room mate situation at age 53.
The trickle down effect has ruined me and I have little hope of ever regaining my former lifestyle let alone retire. It still sucks and things are not getting better if you ask me.
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GIBSON: A bus system like Charlotte's would offer many benefits
March 26, 2011
Ron GibsonQuestion: What is one big idea from another city that you’d like to implement here?
A huge concept from another city that I would like to implement here would be the overhauling and expansion of the city’s bus service known as Indianapolis Public Transportation Corp., or IndyGo. Charlotte, N.C., a city of similar size, operates approximately 325 buses with 74 routes on a budget of $110 million while IndyGo has an annual budget of $55 million with only 150 buses and 29 routes.
How does Charlotte run twice the number of buses on nearly three times as many routes as IndyGo? Money and management!
Why doesn’t Indianapolis have a thriving bus system? The demand is there; ridership was up about 5 percent last year.
It’s estimated that 20 percent of residents have no access to transportation. Transportation would add to the quality of life, and promote tourism and economic development.
Frankly, there is no excuse for this city’s current mass-transit system. I believe the citizens deserve the amenity of a bus system to get anywhere in the city in a timely manner the way they should be able to depend on other basic public services such as police and fire protection. However, it boils down to dollars and management.
There is a lot of talk about IndyConnect, but there are too many obstacles, such as legislative approval and obtaining dedicated funding sources for the $10 billion price tag. Therefore, there will not be a regional mass transportation system within the next 10 to 15 years.
The IndyConnect concept assumes the city of Indianapolis will implement a significant expansion of IndyGo. So, why not start today?
IndyGo’s current funding source depends on 25 percent to 30 percent of property tax revenue, plus state and federal funding and bus fares. Charlotte’s bus system is mostly supported by a sales tax. Being realistic, no politician in his or her right mind would advocate for any tax increase in this economic climate. Thus, it will take creative sources of funding to grow IndyGo.
There are 10 school corporations plus 20 public charter schools that must provide transportation for students. In other major U.S. cities, students use public transportation to get to and from school. Why can’t we promote the city’s bus service for public schools, colleges and universities, such as the partnership with IUPUI? A series of agreements that contract school bus services would help school corporations’ shrinking transportation budgets and greatly enhance IndyGo bus services.
For initial expansion capital, a portion of the monies from the sale of the water company should be directed to IndyGo to reduce the amount of wear and tear on the streets and roads by promoting use of the city’s bus system versus automobile usage. While the current administration has been creative in funding the Capital Improvement Board and other projects such as North of South using tax revenue, we should be as creative in growing a necessary amenity such as an adequate bus system that promotes a much more quality city and promotes economic development.
Marion and surrounding counties have scores of thousands of people who want to go many places at various times. With IndyGo, the only place you can go is downtown and, if there’s a route to your destination, you might be able to get there. To get back, you must go downtown again and change buses again.
That archaic routing was necessary in the days of trolley cars and electric buses; we must modernize. This requires some money, of course, but more important, a customer-centric approach to meeting the needs of citizens and visitors alike. Use of tax dollars is sadly necessary to provide the meager bus service of today.
My administration will pursue every avenue to grow IndyGo into a quality service that will be the envy of cities everywhere.•
A consultant, Gibson is a former City-County councilor and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Indianapolis. Send comments on this column to ibjedit@ibj.com.
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January 1984
Questions Presented
1. An attorney inquires whether his belonging to a barter association would comport with the Code of Professional Responsibility. In payment for his services he would receive "trade dollars" or "units" that could then be used to obtain goods or services from other members of the association. Members pay a join-up fee, annual dues, and a percentage on all "purchases" to the association. The organization promises that if it is not successful in bringing the new member a certain level of "units" during the first year, the membership fee and dues will be refunded.
2. If an attorney may properly belong to a barter association, can he pay court costs himself and receive barter units in payment for those costs?
Bartering in a one-on-one situation has been practiced throughout history and has been and remains ethically permissible for attorneys. The new form of barter associations, however, presents a number of ethical problems. The barter association promises to provide its attorney members with a certain level of business or refund their fees and dues. This guarantee violates DR 2-103(E): "A lawyer shall not knowingly assist a person or organization that recommends, furnishes, or pays for legal services to promote the use of his services . . . ." The barter association does not meet the requirements of any of the exceptions to this disciplinary rule. In fact, one of the association's rules and regulations provides for a bonus to members who introduce and sponsor new members.
Participation in the barter association also violates DR 2-103(C) which bars a lawyer from giving anything of value to an organization to recommend or secure his employment. The entire thrust of the barter group here is to promote the use of its members' services. The more business generated among its members, the more profit the barter organization makes. The membership fee, annual dues, and percentage fee on each transaction, which an attorney member would be required to pay, must all be considered as the giving of value to secure employment.
Additionally, the percentage charge on each transaction may involve an impermissible sharing of legal fees with a non-lawyer. DR 3-102.
ABA Informal Opinion 1430 mentioned several other problems with a bartering exchange organization, including:
1. The rules of the exchange do not contemplate the duty of an attorney to refuse employment in some circumstances as expressed in EC 2-30 and DR 2-109. Since fees paid to the exchange by a lawyer member are based upon the employment of the lawyer by other exchange members and since the lawyer's membership is subject to cancellation or recall by the exchange . . . the lawyer may not have sufficient freedom in refusing a member's case.
2. Another possible problem could arise in the termination of a lawyer as a member of the exchange. e.g., does the lawyer have a duty to continue with the representation of an exchange member/client or can he withdraw?
3. There are also potential conflict of interest problems depending upon the definition of the lawyer's relationship with the exchange and its members. e.g., can the lawyer represent an exchange member against the exchange, a member against another member, or a nonmember against a member? ABA Comm. on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Informal Op. 1430 (1979).
Since the answer to the initial question is no, the Committee does not address the second question.
Bartering on a one-to-one basis is ethically permissible. However, participation in a barter association in which the attorney would exchange his services for barter units that would then be used to obtain goods or services from other members of the association, with a percentage on all purchases being paid to the association, is ethically improper. The committee does not address whether a bartering organization may be devised that would satisfy the requirements of the Code of Professional Responsibility. (9-0.) | <urn:uuid:227c5d9b-b6ac-475e-a349-8f457e624a9f> | http://www.law.uh.edu/libraries/ethics/Opinions/401-500/o410.html | en | 0.972073 | 0.024241 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Sheryl Crow diagnosed with brain tumour
Cancer survivor Sheryl Crow reveals she has been diagnosed with a benign brain tumour.
6 June 2012, 12:00am
Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow
American singer, songwriter, producer and actress Sheryl Crow, 50, has revealed that she has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. However, she has reassured her fans that the cancer is benign.
Crow, a mother of two, had been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2006 which had been successfully treated during the same year.
In an interview with Las Vegas Review-Journal, Crow said she had insisted on a brain scan after repeatedly forgetting the lyrics to her own songs.
"I haven't really talked about it," she told the newspaper, adding that she had been diagnosed last year but wanted to keep the news a secret.
Crow said she had a history of memory loss dating back to the 1990s when she forgot the lyrics to A Change Would Do You Good while singing in a show in Las Vegas.
"I worried about my memory so much that I went and got an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). And I found out I have a brain tumour," she said.
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Rock On Love
The sextet currently known as Rocn Son
Steve Satterwhite
There was a time when a young man with a dream in his heart and a guitar in his hand had to go to the City of Angels to make it as a rock and roll star. That was then. This is now. In the past decade, the Latin divisions of nearly every major recording label have migrated east. For Latin rockers like Roc'n Son, the road to stardom runs through Miami.
The Cuban-born band members studied music together in the early Nineties in Havana's rigorous schools for the arts. After graduation keyboard player Raul del Sol ended up in Argentina; his kid brother, percussionist Joel del Sol, found himself in France; drummer Leo Garcia landed in Uruguay; singer Eduardo Rodriguez in Mexico; bass player Eduardo Madareaje in Venezuela; and guitarist Ahmet Barroso in the United States. Just over four months ago, the friends reunited in South Florida to form a band.
"We're not political immigrants," explains Raul del Sol, Roc'n Son's leader. "We're not even economic immigrants. We came to Miami to pursue our profession." The rockers went about that task diligently, drawing on the discipline of their early training. Their first rehearsals took place in the cramped confines of a mobile recording studio. The musicians and their instruments barely fit in the borrowed truck's four square feet, but they still made room to practice several hours a day, four days a week.
By the time the group moved into more spacious digs, Roc'n Son had fused the diverse musical influences soaked up by each member in third countries. The foundation of their sound, however, is summed up in the band's name. "Roc," the international noise of youth, was invented in the United States but is played with passion from Havana to Patagonia. Son is the traditional Cuban dance music, blending European harmonies and instrumentation with African rhythms.
Rather than strictly adhere to rock and roll's typical straight-ahead beat, Roc'n Son riffs around the syncopated suspensions that characterize son and salsa. "It's not just the arrangements," notes Rodriguez, the lead singer, who danced at Havana's famed cabaret the Tropicana and with a host of pop stars before giving his vocal chords a try. "The melodies might be rock, but the timbre of the voice is always son."
Better known as Chino, Rodriguez sets the Roc'n Son tone not only with his throat, but with his sinuous movements and often-outrageous attire. In Chino's dance Roc'n Son's musical mix can be seen, not just heard, as aggressive poses familiar from rock punctuate the subtle Afro-Cuban undulations of his torso and pelvis. His fashion sense is just as eccentric. He's been known to don bug-eyed sunglasses and red rubber pants, West African skirts, and Chinese pajamas.
The musicians who back the novice singer have been in the business long enough to know that image sells sound. "Listen, Chino's voice is good," Raul del Sol concedes, "but more than that, he gives us style; he gives us a look." The long-haired dancer can carry a tune well enough by U.S. rock standards, but his high cheekbones and chiseled torso certainly help the melody along. A gaggle of giddy female fans swoons and sings at every show, presaging the teen appeal the band hopes to have.
Del Sol makes no effort to hide Roc'n Son's commercial aspirations. He eschews the provocative stance taken by the veteran rockers he knew while living in Buenos Aires. "Argentine rock tends to be very political," he observes. "We had enough of that growing up in Cuba." Instead del Sol writes songs about love, dance, and having a good time. "But that doesn't mean they're superficial," he contends. "What's more profound than love?"
"For us pop is a way to translate the music we grew up with into a language anyone can understand," Roc'n Son's songwriter explains. Here on the home turf of Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin, more and more recent arrivals strive to translate their own music into a language everyone will buy.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal judge is issuing no immediate ruling after holding on hearing on whether Utah can prohibit plural marriage.
Kody Brown and his four wives, stars of the reality show "Sister Wives," claim the law is unconstitutional.
The Browns did not attend the hearing Thursday in Salt Lake City.
The judge spent most of the time grilling a state lawyer on why he shouldn't throw out Utah's bigamy law. It's stricter than the laws in 49 other states - most of them prohibit people from having multiple marriage licenses.
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There are lots of weird fitness gimmicks that leave me wondering if they actually work (Shake Weight anyone?), but I'll do all sorts of crazy things in the name of fitness, and I'll try anything once. These three wacky workouts have the science to back up their claims.
While cruising around Central Park in an outdoor elliptical contraption garnered a lot of stares, a quick 10 minutes had my core engaged and heart pumping. The ElliptiGO combines the benefits of working out on an elliptical with the cardiovascular element of running and bicycling all while looking like a self-powered Segway.
“ElliptiGO riders stand in a natural upright position. This posture encourages the rider to use his/her core muscles for balance and power and also provides muscular toning for the upper body/arms,” says Bryan Pate, Co-Founder and Co-President of ElliptiGO. “It is designed to emulate the experience of running outdoors while eliminating the impact. The ElliptiGO provides a high-intensity, low-impact ‘running-like’ workout experience outdoors allowing runners and fitness enthusiasts to get the cardiovascular benefits of running without the associated damage to the knees, back, hips or feet.”
And just because you’re swapping gear doesn’t mean you’re losing any benefits: 30 minutes of hard riding on the ElliptiGO is similar to a good 30 minute run in terms of aerobic conditioning and calorie burning.
AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill
Last week I headed to Equinox for a training session with Eugene Koenig on AlterG’s Anti-Gravity Treadmill. No, it’s not what you think… you’re not running in mid-air, rather you’re running (feet on the treadmill) with a percentage of your body weight removed. Originally developed for NASA astronauts, the Anti-Gravity Treadmill uses Advanced Differential Air Pressure technology for training and rehabilitation purposes. If injured, the treadmill allows for a slow integration of weight-bearing exercises (while provided an aerobic workout). Athletes use the treadmill to keep up mileage while reducing impact caused by running so they can concentrate on postural corrections and speedwork (reduced body weight allows you to increase the speed).
To run in the contraption you have to wear special neoprene shorts (pictured) which basically zip into the treadmill, creating a pressurized, airtight enclosure. The machine calibrates your body weight, then you can play with the speed and remove up to 80% of your body weight in 1% increments. It felt a bit weird a first, but eventually my waddle turned into a normal run, and I was able to push a 7-minute mile (which is a far cry from the normal 12-minute miles I run… running is not my forte!).
“Alter-G’s performance treadmill is a highly effective athletic conditioning tool for both recreational and competitive athletes by allowing the user to train longer, run faster, gain additional strength and enhance cardiovascular performance while minimizing impact and stress on their joints,” its website says. Check out videos of the treadmill in action here.
After a 30-minute run I felt slightly drunk trying to walk normally again (but it was a happy buzz)! And while I broke a sweat, I wasn’t as winded as usual post-run. Since I was able to concentrate on correcting my gait and foot strike without fear of falling (because I was literally attached to the machine, pictured), I felt soreness in my glutes and hamstrings whereas usually my quads take the brunt of workout. Plus, there was no next-day shin splint pain!
Yoga Hammocks
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I don’t have any photos of the AntiGravity Yoga class I took at Crunch a few months ago, but I still remember how sore my arms felt afterwards. Yoga is known for its slimming yet strengthening routine, and integrating the yoga “hammocks/wings” into the practice only amplifies the upper body workout.
I thought the yoga hammocks would make my job easier… I was in for a big surprise. Using the long, flowing fabric as a soft trapeze we swung, twisted, lifted and bended into inverted poses I wouldn’t have been able to perform otherwise. (Although my favorite pose was the final rest, savasana, while wrapped up in my individual cocoon.)
The benefits of practicing with the yoga wings/hammocks is that it facilitates inversions (i.e. hanging upside down) which has been shown to help relieve compressed joints, elongate the spin, help with lower back pain, improve circulation and reduce stress.
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Is it OK ... to use a caravan?
Leo Hickman's guide to a good life
Before she recently took up the post of secretary of state for air miles, Margaret Beckett, as environment secretary, had the happy coincidence of also being the country's most famous caravanner. She, along with the owners of the UK's almost one million "leisure vehicles" (caravans, motor- homes and caravan holiday homes), are members of a growing breed that has always celebrated its closeness to nature. Shunning the cramped flights and concrete box rooms of the package holidays in the sun, caravanners prefer to spend their nights parked up under the stars with the freedom, and lightness of foot, to move on in the morning to wherever they choose.
Interesting, then, that they have long been the target of so much ire. A good proportion of this - let's admit it - hatred comes from the "get off my road" variety of driver who will risk head-on collision if it means not having to spend another mile looking at the back end of a caravan. Any motorists heading to the south-west in the summer, for example, will probably have experienced these emotions. But when a "climbing lane" for trucks and caravans was trialled on the Naish Hill stretch of the M5 in 2004 it was judged by the Highways Agency not to have conclusively eased the congestion (even though, to the chagrin of the Caravan Club, it still pushed on with the scheme that concluded with the opening of a permanent climbing lane last week). Is this criticism fair, then?
Another source of fuel for the critics is the "blot on the landscape" argument. Last month the laird of the Inner Hebridean island of Colonsay announced that the 100 islanders had agreed to ban caravans and motorhomes from travelling by ferry to the island. "The locals thought they spoiled the appearance of the island and their owners did not contribute to a very fragile economy, where the season is short and every penny across the counter helps," says Alex Howard, head of Colonsay estate.
The Caravan Club calls the decision "tourism fascism", and argues that caravanners contribute £1bn to the British economy each year.
But it does seem fair to ask just how much a host community benefits when caravanners bring their own food, bed and transport. This leads to the most pressing issue - the direct environmental impact of caravans and motor-homes. It doesn't really seem that sensible to bring a sink, loo, shower, sofa, mattress, crockery et al with you when you go on holiday, especially when, combined with the weight of the towing vehicle, it can all add up to several tonnes. The Caravan Club, for example, is "disappointed" that the weight limit for the B-category licence under the proposed Third European Driving Licence Directive will not be 4.25 tonnes as opposed to 3.5 tonnes for motor caravans. As with cars, the trend for caravans and motorhomes is for ever bigger models. The extra weight and drag from towing a caravan also increases fuel use considerably. And the fuel consumption of a large motorhome can be as poor as 5-10 miles per gallon.
But the counter-cry from caravanners is that they tend to holiday within the UK and, therefore, don't need polluting flights abroad. With dozens of models to choose from it's hard to make an accurate comparison, but with a modest campervan - say, the VW Caravelle - the comparisons between carbon dioxide emissions do seem favourable, even with flights to Europe. For example, a 1,000km trip (London to Cornwall and back with some small diversions) in a Caravelle (174PS, 2.5-litre diesel) will emit, on average, 224kg of carbon dioxide, according to the Vehicle Certification Agency, whereas a 2,000km short-haul flight (broadly equivalent to Heathrow to Marseille return) will produce about 300kg per passenger. But most leisure vehicles will be carrying at least two people - plus people might fly much further than the south of France for their holidays.
With bigger leisure vehicles the comparisons clearly become far less favourable. A larger Mercedes Sprinter motorhome, according to the Energy Savings Trust, would emit 350kg of CO2 over the same journey as the Caravelle. But, as ever, the train beats both - a 1,000km trip would emit 40kg of CO2 per passenger.
If you do use a leisure vehicle, reducing weight wherever possible is important. Transporting water - either fresh water or as sewage - in onboard tanks doesn't make any sense, unless you are within a particularly sensitive area and are instructed to do so. How the sewage and any other waste is dealt with at any caravan park or campsite is a key question to ask. Consult the Caravan Club ( or Camping and Caravanning Club ( for more information about each prospective site, as well as for driving tips (every half-bar under-inflation in tyre pressure increases fuel consumption by 5%). The Windermere Camping and Caravanning Club Site in the Lake District, for example, has won a number of awards and been hailed as the most environmentally friendly campsite in the UK.
Finally, never be tempted to pull over and stop for the night away from the crowds on a lonely layby. In New Zealand, the land of the campervan, the problem is called "freedom camping" and is blamed for roadside waste as well as providing little benefit to the local community. Motor Caravan magazine is running a campaign called Stopovers UK to lobby for more official roadside sites, similar to the many aires across France, in part to curb this illegal urge.
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Your iPhone Wish-List
Making the most of MultiTouch
Andrew's mailbag With over 100,000 downloads of the iPhone SDK, and a $100m pot of money available for developers, there's no doubt Apple's MultiTouch UI has a lot of potential.
But, er... what for? Here are a few of your suggestions:
The Good
Web radio player that (yeah, I know) runs in background while using browser
Will Cooper
An SSH Client (X Windows would be great too). Not being tied to a network for two years.
David Hall
ssh/scp OpenIpSec native aim (we know that's on it's way) MMS VNC video and audio recorder asian language input dictionary / translation widget
Lynda Leung
I am trying to rig something now using a jail broken ipod touch, and an IR blaster hooked up to my PC. Unfortunately VNSea doesn't like multi-monitor displays.
I's got to be a port of the SONOS ( contoller software, the current controller is chunky, slow, and runs out of charge far too quickly ... I dribble at the prospect of this on my iTouch
Nick Rich
Actually, that's one of the infuriating aspects of the iPhone: while the chipset fully supports Bluetooth services, the software stack is crippled. So applications like Salling's Clicker need their own Bluetooth stack.
Some other suggestions weren't so sensible.
The Sad, the Mad, the Bad...
GPS with world wide support should be available as a standard feature from the start without subscribing to some service. World wide phone support. A real storage capacity option. The classic video player has 160GB why can't the iphone have that option.
George Dolmat
Well George, GPS is free... if you all you need is co-ordinates. But maps cost money - recall how much Nokia paid for Navteq last year (over $8bn).
As for large storage, that means either flash or a hard disk. I think the iPhone is heavy enough as it is without adding the latter - and adding the former would add around $1,500 to the price of an iPhone today. (32GB SSDs retail for over $500, while the MacBook Air's 64GB option adds around $1,000 to the price.) We'll get there, but not yet...
Some more -
1. Two finger finger painting.
2. A shift key that actually works with two fingers. IE, you hold down shift to capitalize the letter you are pressing with another finger. (Current iPhone build doesn't do this for some odd reason as it is the most obvious immediate use of multitouch.)
3. Musical instrument. A kind of on screen guitar neck with virtual strings. Instead of playing other people's music, make your own and podcast it. Hey! How about an iPhone version of Garage Band!
4. Mini PhotoShop. Touch up images with your fingers. (Relates to item 1.)
And on a related theme -
So here's what I want from multi-touch:
1. Don't get in the way of single-touch UI: the iPod Touch or the iPhone are small devices that are meant to be used on the go. This means I need to be able to use it with a single hand (the other one being used to grad hand holds while playing the sardine can game on the tube): device in the palm of the hand, controlling it with the thumb. So multi-touch should be there to enhance single-touch where it makes sense but not replace it for essential functions.
2. Single-touch mouse pointer, double-touch scrolling: this feature on MacBooks is just genius: 1 finger to move the mouse pointer, 2 fingers to scroll in any direction, it makes small devices much, much easier to use.
3. Rotate: move two fingers in opposite directions to rotate an image or a map view.
4. Resize: move fingers apart to scale a picture up or zoom in on a map, move them closer to scale down or zoom out.
5. Multi-controls: allow multiple controls to be actionned at the same time, such as sound equaliser sliders, all sorts of game controls, etc.
6.Multi-user games and applications: a tablet computer with a multi-touch screen could allow some very cool multi-player games using just the one computer, a bit like the good old board games of old. Or another such application could be a multi-touch electronic whiteboard, where several people in a team can use it concurrently to discuss ideas, designs, etc: easy to do with a standard white board and several pens.
A mouse pointer? No thanks. Actually most of those suggestions make the iPhone far more complicated to use than it is today. And since it's succeeded on simplicity, that's an odd direction to take.
Hi this is a question more then an app suggestion, I don't see why sdk is so interesting since apps for ipod touch and iphones some useful and some less useful are widely available through installer and for the most part quite stable so my question is what more can sdk bring to table besides what is allready being done out there by developpers which do it out of pleasure and not corporate greed?
Cheers Dom
It's the Apple way, Dom.
Here's my own, rather more mundane wishlist. Note that several of these should be provided by Apple. I've seen almost every conceivable software application tried in ten years of covering smartphones - and almost all suck.
• A built-in clipboard. A huge omission from the 1.x software stack, and an impediment to serious use. If that means a "shift" button, then so be it.
• A file system. We know it's got one, but let's see it.
• Bluetooth that works, which means OBEX and a full set of supported profiles
• Plucker, or something like it, to cache and compress web pages and RSS feeds for offline reading.
Then roll on the radio... and the iBluePod. ®
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All things Brazilian
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If you look up "concrete jungle" jungle in the dictionary, Sao Paulo must come in near the top of the list. It is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, and the nerve center of Latin America's business and economic sectors.
Sep took us to the rooftop of his old building, where we took in a panoramic view of the bustling city. The sight from atop was pure anarchy. The busy streets and swath of skyscrapers reminded me of New York City, minus the charm. We were up there just as dusk was falling, and had a good vantage point to see Sao Paulo's infamous traffic congestion. Even with a well-serviced subway, the traffic is intolerable. So much so, that many CEO's and high-executives have helicopters that transports them to and from work. You know you've made it when your taxi is a helicopter!
Aside from designer shopping, fine dining, and drinking, there is not a whole lot to do in Sao Paulo...especially for the budget weary traveller. Many people say there is no point visiting, unless you know someone. However, what Sao Paulo lacks in attraction, is made up by the warmth and friendliness of its people (well, minus the kidnappers and muggers...but they represent only a minority of the population). Luckily for us, Sep had done a legal internship in Sao Paulo the summer before, and had a lot of friends. As a result, we were able to enjoy a very traditional Brazilian day. Here's the Cole's Notes version:
1. Futebol. It should be no shocker that Brazilians are soccer crazy. While we there, the Copa American Tournament (a tourney between south american teams) was going on, so we met up with some of Seps buddies to catch Brazil vs. Paraguay.
2. Feijoada. We went to this bar, and as a precursor to the match, they were serving Brazil's national dish 'feijoada'. It consists of a stew of pork, beans, and beef that simmers in clay pots, and then covered by this dark purplish broth. The dish is served on a heaping plate of rice, chopped greens (usually kale), and lightly roasted cassava flour (looks and tastes like Parmesan). Needless to say, it was a very heavy meal!
After the meal, we got a few buckets of Heineken and sat down to watch the match. The beer came in handy, as the Brazilian side had a sub-par performance (sign of things to come) and the game ended in a draw...much to the dismay of everyone there.
3. BBQ. Following the match, we decided to forego the bar, and headed to Seps friends (Rafa) for a Brazilian BBQ. The BBQ was different from the typical North American experience. Instead of everyone having their own individual steak or other meat, everything was shared. The BBQ burned into the early hours of the morning, as Rafa would put a mouth-watering steak or two on at a time, and then cut it into thinly sliced pieces which we would all gobble up. This pattern of eating small portions, followed by a drink lasted for hours. By the end of it (4 a.m.), I had drank and eaten a lot! I was actually worried that my body would be unable to digest everything when I went to bed.
4. Caipirinha. This is Brazil's national drink, and made from cachaca ( a sugar-cane derived alcohol..kind of like rum), lime, and sugar. Given the abundance of fruit in Brazil, the lime can be substited for a plethora of options - including pineapple, passion fruit, kiwi fruit, mango, etc. Sep, our expert drinkologist, was making them all night long and they were going down easy. Too easy in fact.
5. Samba. Brazlians love their music, and it is deeply embedded in their culture. While the bbq was roaring, samba music was blasting. Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance that originated in Brazil. Everyone sings along and dances, and Rafa even brought out a few instruments which people started playing. It was quite the spectacle! Rafas mom tried to teach us the samba steps, but we were pretty hopeless. Much to the amusement of our friends, we were awkwardly swaying about instead of sambaing, but it was still enjoyable.
Between the heavy feijoada and the meat-fest that followed, my digestion system had taken a Brazilian-sized beating! But it was a really cool and fun experience to participate in a typical Brazilian bbq. Sep's friends were really chill, and we had a great time hanging out and sharing stories with them. It was more of a social event than a meal. Sep even commented that despite the busy schedules (typical work day lasts until 8 p.m.), the people make a concerted effort to relax and unwind by going out for drinks, dinner and other social activities. I think this attitude differs somewhat from the rat-race mentality we have up in North America. Perhaps this is a lesson to bring back!
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DC Shocker: Obama and Boehner Agree on Something, Sort of
Yesterday afternoon we reported on a scintillating scheduling conflict between the president of the United States and Politico.com. Recall: Barack Obama planned to address congress about jobs on the very night—September 7—that Politico and NBC News had previous aims to broadcast assorted demagogues and fringe-movement heroes competitively reciting talking points.
It should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that Obama has opted to reschedule his address to the nation following House Speaker John Boehner’s request that he do so in order to “ensure there will be no parliamentary or logistical impediments that might detract from [his] remarks.” According to The New York Times, “Congressional historians said Mr. Boehner’s move was unprecedented. ‘The Senate Historical Office knows of no instance in which Congress refused the president permission to speak before a joint session of Congress,’ Betty K. Koed, associate historian with the Senate, said in an e-mail.”
In a statement released late yesterday evening, the White House also did an admirable job reminding the American people why such rescheduling was wholly gratuitous:
“We consulted with the speaker about that the [September 7] date before the letter was released, but he determined Thursday would work better. The president is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, so he welcomes the opportunity to address a joint session of Congress on Thursday, September 8 and challenge our nation's leaders to start focusing 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the American people.”
Newt Gingrich, a former politician from the 1890’s rumored to be currently running for president, congratulated Boehner on his remarkable television-programming victory. “From one Speaker to another...nicely done John,” Gingrich wrote in a tweet and linked to Boehner’s September 8th request. Little-known context clue: Newt Gingrich once held the position of Speaker of the House around the time of the Spanish-American War. | <urn:uuid:141f004d-824b-4f67-a221-ddbdfa6191a6> | http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/09/september-8-would-work-better-for-boehner-and-obama-after-all | en | 0.959915 | 0.08528 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Monday, January 14, 2013
Matrilineal Monday: Fred Belair
Like my maternal grandfather Eugène Desgroseilliers’ matrilineal line, my paternal grandfather Fred Belair’s matrilineal line is relatively long: it extends 11 generations. His matrilineal ancestry reaches back to the early 1600s to his 8x great-grandmother Jeanne Charas.
Jeanne and her husband Pierre (Le) Camus, a merchant, did not immigrate to New France (Canada), unlike their daughter Elisabeth (Le) Camus. Elisabeth, who was from the parish of St-Sauveur in Paris, arrived as an unmarried woman in Montreal on 29 September 1659. Within one month, she married Louis Guertin, a shoemaker, originally from the province of Anjou, France.
Fred Belair's Matrilineal Ancestry:
1. Fred Belair (1889-1991)
m. 1926 Julie (Julia) Vanasse
2. Angélina Meunier (1855-1896)
m. 1879 Pierre Janvry dit Belair
3. Louise (Eloise) Drouin (1835-1890)
m. 1853 Ménésippe Meunier
4. Marie Reine Poirier (1806-1892)
m. 1829 Pierre Drouin
5. Marie Louise Rochon (1781-1835)
m. 1800 Joseph Poirier
6. Marie Louise Cadieux (1762-1813)
m. 1781 Augustin Rochon
7. Marie Louise Brazeau (1742-1764)
m. 1762 Pierre Cadieux
8. Angélique Handgrave (1695-1778)
m. 1714 Gabriel Brazeau
9. Marie Guertin (1662-1712)
m. 1675 Pierre Handgrave (Andegrave)
10. Elisabeth (Le) Camus (ca 1645-1680)
m. 1659 Louis Guertin
11. Jeanne Charas (or Charles)
m. Pierre (Le) Camus
Copyright © 2013, Yvonne Demoskoff.
1. These dates just amaze me! What history!
1. I'm pretty amazed too, Karen, that I can reach that far back in my family history!
2. WOW!!! Wonderful!!!... and amazing research.
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Manual Failover
Manual failover disconnects the clients from the database and reverses the roles of the partners. Only high-safety mode supports manual failover.
This topic assumes that you are familiar with high-safety mode. For more information, see Synchronous Database Mirroring (High-Safety Mode).
The database administrator can use manual failover for upgrading hardware or software without sacrificing availability. To use database mirroring for software upgrades, the mirror server and/or system must have already received the upgrades.
Database mirroring should be able to do a rolling upgrade, but this is not guaranteed, because future changes are unknown. For more information, see How to: Minimize Downtime for Mirrored Databases When Upgrading Server Instances.
The following figure illustrates an instance of using manual failover to maintain database availability while you upgrade a database server instance. When the upgrade is completed, an administrator may optionally fail over back to the original server instance. This is useful when the administrator wants to stop the mirroring session and use the mirror server elsewhere. In this way, a single server instance can be used repeatedly when updating a series of database server instances.
Planned manual failover
Manual failover requires transaction safety to be set to FULL (that is, high-safety mode). When the partners are connected and the database is already synchronized, manual failover is supported.
Manual failover initiates the following sequence of actions:
1. The principal server disconnects clients from the principal database, sends the tail of the log to the mirror server, and, in preparation for switching to the mirror role, sets the mirroring state to SYNCHRONIZING.
2. The mirror server records the log sequence number (LSN) of the last log record received from the principal as the failover LSN.
To view this LSN, select the mirroring_failover_lsn column from sys.database_mirroring (Transact-SQL).
3. If any log is waiting in the redo queue, the mirror server finishes rolling forward the mirror database. The amount of time required depends on the speed of the system, the recent workload, and the amount of log in the redo queue. For a synchronous operating mode, the failover time can be regulated by limiting the size of the redo queue. However, this can cause the principal server to slow down to allow the mirror server to keep up.
To learn the current size of the redo queue, use the Redo Queue performance counter in the database mirroring performance object (for more information, see Monitoring Database Mirroring).
4. The mirror server becomes the new principal server, and the former principal server becomes the new mirror server.
5. The new principal server rolls back any uncommitted transactions and brings its copy of the database online as the principal database.
6. The former principal takes on the mirror role, and the former principal database becomes the mirror database. The new mirror server quickly resynchronizes the new mirror database with the new principal database.
After failover, clients must reconnect to the current principal database. For more information, see Connecting Clients to a Database Mirroring Session (SQL Server).
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A Pirate's Life for Me!
Hellos! Sorry I haven't been updating my stuff for awhile but I had a major case of writers block and I've also been working on my Novel which I will give you a preview of soon. So here's a new Fic based on "The Pirates of the Caribbean."
Chapter 1: Docks of Port Royal
The salty sea air blew the palm trees and sails in the cove of Port Royal. Several ships were put into dock as storm clouds blew around causing an eerie sensation. A song for children was carried by the wind in an echo.
"We're devils we're black sheep we're really bad eggs drink up me hearty Yo-ho!" Near the dock two ten year old children danced around, singing and laughing. "Yo-ho, Yo-ho a pirates life for me!" Ryanna, the young girl, laughs and spins around.
"Can you feel it Goten? It is the storm of doom and shall bring pirates into our border!"
"That it is, Milady." Goten bowed smiling. Ryanna and he had been friends since birth considering their parents were life long friends themselves.
"Goten stop calling me that." Goten gave a silly grin and jumped onto the fence board.
"Do you really think we will see Pirates milady?" Ryanna rolled her eyes and shrugged. She lifts up her skirt and steps up onto the fence as well.
"I hope so; I think it would be exciting to meet a pirate. Father says I'm daft to think such thoughts." A distant horn interrupted their conversation and a bright smile came to Ryanna's face. A carriage escorted by a fleet of soldiers on horses approached the dock. The footman stepped out and opened the carriage door; Governor Damien Coutsa'n stepped out.
"Father!" Ryanna smiles and runs over. Damien's smiles fell from his face.
"Ryanna, what are you doing out in this ghastly weather?"
"I came with Goten to look for Pirates, father." Damien lets out a soft chuckle and pats her in the head.
"My daughter, all pirates who come into this bay or even a few feet from it will be charged with Piracy and given what they deserve."
"Yes a short drop and a sudden stop." Governor and daughter turn to the carriage where Goten's grandfather and the commodore of Port Royal stepped out.
"Ah, Commodore Son, Bardock, I appreciate your decisive explanation but I would not it expressed in front of my daughter." Ryanna whispers to Goten.
"What does he mean by a sudden stop?" Goten put his hands to his neck and acted like he was choking. Ryanna's eyes widen and Damien cleared his throat.
"That goes for you too, Goten." Ryanna giggles as Goten lowered his hands and laughed nervously. Turning to her father Ryanna brushed back a lock of her hair.
"Actually father I find it all fascinating. Who knows what wonders come out of living a life of Piracy?" Damien and Bardock shared a laugh.
"Ryanna you are so much like your mother; and that's what scares me." The head of the dock walks over to Damien and starts talking about the wages of the docking. Goten's curious ebony eyes then spotted a new ship pull into the dock.
"Hey Ryanna look!" Ryanna turned to Goten then to the ship.
"The Royal Pride, hmmm I've never heard of it. It must be a merchant ship. Come on let's check it out!" Both children run over and spot the captain of the new ship. He was a bit short but had a flame like hair do that made up for it. His face was stern but very handsome. He wore casual clothing fit for a sailor and a piercing in both ears. At his side was a young boy whom looked around their age. He wore similar clothing to captain and had lavender hair with piercing blue eyes to add. His loose shirt exposed his small yet rough chest and a bit of his scarred arms.
"Hey it's a boy. Let's ask him to play with us, Goten!"
"Sure, let's go!" Both run over to the boy waiting for the captain to leave before talking to him. "Hello!" Goten says to the boy extending a hand. "Welcome to Port Royal!" The boy looks up and smiles softly.
"HI," he seemed to be a bit shy and nervous as he answered and shook Goten's hand. Ryanna then spoke up.
"We're looking for pirates! Want to play with us." The boy gulped but the recomposed himself and smirked.
"Why look for pirates when you can actually be one!"
"Hey good idea, what's your name?" Goten asked now excited about playing.
"Trunks, what are your names?" Ryanna pointed to herself.
"I'm Ryanna Coutsa'n and this is my best friend Goten Son." Trunks smiled and jumped up onto a barrel.
"Now you scabrous dogs I'm the captain here, hence to braces! Set the sails, weigh the anchor!" Goten saluted.
"Yes sir!" Ryanna just laughed and clung to Trunks which surprised him a bit.
"What should I do captain?" Trunks laughed and tickled her.
"You will be my woman! You will give me pleasure and bear my children!" Ryanna laughed and ran from Trunks.
"You'll have to catch me first pirate." Trunks chased after her all up and down the dock. Ryanna's heel cracked and slipped on the wetness of the dock and she fell into the water.
"Ryanna!" Goten yelled out. "She can't swim Trunks! Somebody help!" Trunks took off his boots and jewelry quickly.
"Watch my affects." trunks dived into the water after Ryanna as Damien, Bardock, and Trunks' Father ran over.
"Goten what happened?" Damien leaned over towards the water.
"We were playing with our new friend and Ryanna tripped and fell in. Trunks dived in after her."
"Who's Trunks?"
"My son," the captain of the boat spoke up also looking over the dock trying to spot the two children. It was second later when Trunks emerged with Ryanna in his arms both of them gasping for air. "Hurry and pull them out!" Trunks pushed Ryanna up with a little help from his father's crew before he pulled himself up.
"Oh Ryanna are you alright?" Damien looked her over to make sure she was alright." Ryanna nodded and coughed a bit as she was wrapped up in a towel. Damien turns to Trunks and his father. "I give you great thank young man. You saved my daughter."
Vegeta, the captain, eyed the girl just then and shifted uncomfortably. "Say your welcome, son." Trunks stood up straight and bowed.
"Oh yes it was no trouble, I was merely helping my new friend."
"I see, what is your name again?"
"It's Trunks and this is my father, Vegeta. " Trunks professionally extended his hand. "It is a pleasure to meet you, sir." Damien was about to shake it until he saw a mark on Trunks' arm; the letter P, which stood for Piracy.
"You filthy scum, how dare you even touch my daughter!"
"Father?" Ryanna looked on in confusion. Vegeta glared and pulled trunks behind him.
"This is the gratitude we get for saving your daughter."
"Get out of my port before I send you to the gallows! You're lucky I'm letting you live!" Vegeta growled under his breath and grabbed Trunks by the collar of his neck and pushed him onto the ship. "Com on lads, back to Tortuga!"
Later on Ryanna and Goten watched sadly as The Royal Pride sailed into the distant storm. "I can't believe I finally meet a pirate and didn't even know until it was too late!"
"Yeah, talk about being Ironic. No wonder he was so good at playing the part." Ryanna sighed and turned to leave. After taking a few steps she hers a clunk on her heels. Looking down she saw she had stepped on a gold medallion. She picked it up and admired the detailed carvings with the mark of the pirate flag on it.
"Did Trunks drop this?" She looks around but Goten called her name.
"Ryanna come on your dad wants us inside!" She puts the medallion in her bodice before running over.
"I'm coming!"
Woo hoo first chappy done… lol… I had been inspired when I watched the movie like a gazillion times so I decided to write it out and now here it is… I'll probably be doing more work on this then my other stories because I have this one written out already but I promise to keep updating ASAP on all my stories… FYI if you have any questions or concerns my E-mail is thank you and review! | <urn:uuid:ee187b31-97fb-4df1-889d-e3dee43955d7> | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2345791/1/A-Pirates-Life-for-Me | en | 0.976523 | 0.08206 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Fredrick Douglas in Slavery
Fredrick Douglas describes his childhood in the plantations as a slave. In his description, slaves in the farm went through very tough living conditions and harsh treatment by the owners. He even explains how the workers were whipped, for example, Captain Anthony whips Douglas aunt in the farm. Colonel Lloyd’s valued his horses more than the workers in the farmer as he always gave them very special treatment.
Fredrick Douglas’ Childhood Among Slaves
In fact, some people are tortured and killed for failing to handle their jobs efficiently or delaying the work. More so, slaves are killed for trespassing on another person’s property. Slaves are also separated from their families so that they could not know how the other family members were doing. This could subject the slaves into a lot of pain and loneliness because they were forced to live away from their relatives. For instance, Douglas is alienated from his mother as a baby.
The slaves also face hostile living conditions and treatment because they lined in houses that were in bad shape. Although they got food, it is not of good quality and very inadequate. At times, Colonel Lloyd and his sons could beat the slaves claiming that they were disobedient. For example, Douglas says that he saw his beautiful aunt Hester being whipped by their master for disobedience. In addition, Douglas’ young brother was thrown into the ground as his masters stumped on his face. All the horrible experiences that Douglas encountered in the farm gave him very negative attitude about the farm owners as excessively brutal and inhuman.
After some time, Douglas is moved to Baltimore by his master and he finds that life in the city was much better than in the countryside. He even confirms that the rural slaves faced more challenges than those that he met in the city. “A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation” (Douglass 32). Douglas uttered these words to mean that the slaves in the plantation were subjected to a lot of pain, torture and suffering. This is because he witnessed his masters torturing the slaves including his own relatives. Douglas found out that the slaves in the city are fewer than those in the plantations.
Therefore, they were better clothed and fed and enjoy more privileges than those in the plantation. He realizes that town slaves were less looked down upon by their slaveholders as those of Colonel Lloyd whose slave were driven by whips. Furthermore, the slave holders in Baltimore dreaded the thought of becoming cruel masters unlike those in the plantations. Although the city slaveholders used their slaves, they never starved them. Nevertheless, some of these masters, such as, Hamilton mistreated their slaves as those in the countryside.
Within his first days in the city, Douglas wishes to go back to the plantation as he finds the city pavements and streets so uncomfortable for him. He even encounters hostility among the fellow slave boys in the city before he gained full moral acclimatization. Nonetheless, he realizes that he is treated more like a child than in the plantation where he was treated as a pig. This is evident in the manner in which Mrs. Auld treats her and calls her child. There, Douglas feels much at home as she stays in the master’s home with his children.
Douglas’ opportunity to live in the master’s house opened many other doors for him to enlighten himself. The hearing of the master’s frequent reading of the bible aroused a desire to learn to read and write in him. Mrs. Auld’s kind nature also motivated him to learn and therefore he requested her for lessons which she readily gave in the absence of her husband. Since Douglas was progressing fast, Mrs. Auld got stimulated to teach him. Therefore, the young boy got to learn the alphabet, reading and writing. Nevertheless, the lessons were terminated when the master found out about them.
Douglas’ Learning as Only Way Out of Slavery
The slave holders had a philosophy that forbids learning by the slaves. This is because they believed that the skills would make the slave very mischievous and stubborn. The masters fear that the learned slaves would get enlightened and would incite others against them. Additionally, masters believe that learning would make slaves rebel against them or run away as they would be unfit for such conditions. It is for this reason that the Douglas develops a rebellious spirit in him in that he discovered the cause of his social status. In fact it is this revelation that triggers a lot of desire in him to flee from slavery.
Mr. Haugh reason to object Douglas’s learning because he felt that he was going to challenge him apart form inciting other slaves. To him, slaves must remain ignorant in order to continue serving them. However, Douglas feels so relieved to discover the truth that he is determined to seek intelligence. At this point, Douglas feels that literacy is indispensable as it was the only way out of slavery. Literacy would make him a free person, decent and respected by the slaveholders. Additionally, literacy would enable him enlighten other slaves and together fight slave trade in the society.
Escape from Slavery
After many years of working in slavery, Douglas plans an escape with some other slaves that he has enlightened. However, he had fears that their plans would not succeed, and that he would be arrested. Truly, their hopes of freeing themselves are shattered when they are caught and jailed by the slave owners, but for Auld who came to his rescue. Luckily, his second attempt succeeds and he went to the North. He has hopes that he would be a freeman once there. However, he felt unsafe when he arrived since he risked being captured by slave traders. Therefore, Douglas decided to go to New York City. He was also lonely, with no food and money to use.
Thinking that he was safe there, Douglas went about looking for a job. Later, he realizes that the slave catchers are still in the city looking for slaves. Fearing to get caught, Douglas decides to stop looking for a job till he felt it was safe to do so. Another misassumption that he had about the North is that people are as poor as those in the south. Surprisingly, he discovered that they were wealthier than the southerners. He also thought that New Bedford was paradise, but later realized that blacks were discriminated. For example, they would sit on a different section in church and school from that of the whites. Douglas still finds a little difference between the northern and southern slaveholders.
He realizes that the southern ones were hypocrites since they pretended to be Christians yet they did not uphold the Christian values. In the south, many slave holders went to church, but they mistreated their slaves. That is, they made their slaves go through a lot of torture, suffering and harsh living conditions. According to Douglas, he finds that the northerners are more humane than those in the south. The northern blacks were allowed in church and schools unlike those in the south. Therefore, Douglas disliked the Southern Christian masters than those in the North.
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Arrays Vs Hashes
While both arrays and hashes can be used to store values, hashes are bit rigid in the terms of indexing, that is it is structured in a way to have a ordered list, each value in a hash has to have a corresponding key to it, and in a hash a key cannot be repeated.
Where as if you take a look at Arrays they are basically values which you can return using a index value, and each value in an array would have a index value corresponding to it. But one can easily change the values order and its corresponding index value would change too.
In a ruby hash one can sort the hash either by a key or value, versus in an array it will sort by the data it holds.
Example a simple Hash would look like something like this
hash = { 0 => “A”, 1 => “B”, 2 => “C”, 3 => “D”, 4 => “E”, 5 => “F”, 6 => “G” }
and one can retrieve the keys and values either by using the hash.keys and hash.values methods or the values by using the hash[key] notation or also by using the .each method and retrieving either the key, value or both.
Here is simple Array
array = [0,1,2,3,'a','b','c']
One can retrieve the values by using the array.index_at or by simply using array[index_number] notation.
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Scientists Finally Capture An Exploding Star’s Shockwave
scientists have captured a dying star's explosion
Astronomers have finally captured something amazing.
According to GeoBeats News, a group recently captured a dying star’s shockwave in the optical wavelength:
Astronomers have performed a great number of studies on collapsing stars, but capturing a photo of one at the moment it explodes has proven elusive.
That changed recently, as an international team of astronomers searching through a wealth of data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope found what they have long been seeking.
The image shows the bright flash of the shockwave, or as astronomers call it the shock breakout, pushing outward as the distant body turned from star to supernova.
Peter Garnavich who led the team noted, “In order to see something that happens on timescales of minutes, like a shock breakout, you want to have a camera continuously monitoring the sky. You don’t know when a supernova is going to go off, and Kepler’s vigilance allowed us to be a witness as the explosion began.”
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The combination of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae with the insecticide Imidacloprid increases virulence against the dengue vector Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
Dengue fever transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, is one of the most rapidly spreading insect borne diseases, stimulating the search for alternatives to current control measures. The dengue vector A. aegypti has received less attention than anophelene species, although more than 2.5 billion people are at risk of infection worldwide. Entomopathogenic fungi are emerging as potential candidates for the control of mosquitoes. Here we continue our studies on the pathogenicity of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae against adult A. aegypti females. With the aim of further reducing mean survival times of A. aegypti exposed to fungus impregnated surfaces, a sub-lethal concentration of the neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid (IMI) was added to fungal suspensions.
A sub-lethal concentration of IMI that did not significantly alter the daily survival rates or mean survival percentages of mosquitoes was identified to be 0.1 ppm. This sub-lethal concentration was combined with M. anisopliae conidia (1 × 109 conidia mL-1). Both the combined treatment and the conidia alone were able to reduce the survival of A. aegypti compared with untreated or IMI treated mosquitoes. Importantly, mosquito survival following exposure to the combined treatment for 6 and 12 hrs was significantly reduced when compared with mosquitoes exposed to conidia alone.
This is the first time that a combination of an insecticide and an entomopathogenic fungus has been tested against A. aegypti. Firstly, the study showed the potential of IMI as an alternative to the currently employed pyrethroid adulticides. Secondly, as an alternative to applications of high concentrations of chemical insecticides, we suggest that adult A. aegypti could be controlled by surface application of entomopathogenic fungi and that the efficiency of these fungi could be increased by combining the fungi with ultra-low concentrations of insecticides, resulting in higher mortality following relatively short exposure times.
During the 2008 Dengue epidemic in Brazil, 743,517 cases were registered, falling to 387,158 cases in 2009, resulting in 98 deaths from dengue haemorrhagic fever and 58 deaths for Dengue related complications [1]. Up until October 2010, 936,260 cases had been notified with 592 Dengue related deaths [2]. With the development of a multi-sorotype vaccine still a distant goal, the only means of reducing infection rates is to control the insect vector.
Conventional mosquito control measures in Brazil consist of year-round vigilance, continuous applications of chemical or biological larvicides, elimination of breeding sites and during Dengue outbreaks, spray application of insecticides for reduction of adult mosquito populations [3]. The efficiency of year-round interventions has been recently questioned by Luz et al.[4], who demonstrated by mathematical modeling that interventions with chemical insecticides for larval and adult A. aegypti control need only be performed at the start of the Dengue season for optimal results. Furthermore, adult control using insecticide treated surfaces and lethal ovitraps were more effective than conventional adult control measures (ultra-low volume insecticide spraying). However, a faster resistance evolution was predicted for these new approaches [4].
Studies have shown the widespread resistance of A. aegypti larvae to the organophosphate temephos throughout Brazil [5]. Resistance of adult A. aegypti to the currently used pyrethroids such as cypermethrin and deltamethrin has also been reported [6]. Therefore new approaches are urgently needed.
Chemical insecticides used in vector control interventions have undoubtedly saved millions of human lives and will continue to be of utmost importance for reducing incidences of insect transmitted diseases. However, evolution of resistance is a major concern, reducing the effectiveness of currently available insecticides. Novel lines of research are being undertaken, which include diverse approaches such as the possible release of genetically modified insects refractory to infection by the microorganisms responsible for causing diseases [7, 8], genetically modifying insects to increase susceptibility to microbial control agents [9] and the development of new insecticidal compounds (natural and synthetic) in the continuous fight against insecticide resistant vector populations. The potential of fungal pathogens for the control of the adult stage of the malaria mosquito Anopheles was first highlighted by two high impact research papers [10, 11]. Over the last year further studies of the possible use of entomopathogenic fungi for the control of malaria mosquitoes have been documented [e.g. [1215]]. The dengue vector Aedes aegypti has not received the same level of attention, although it is also a possible target for entomopathogenic fungal control agents.
Entomopathogenic fungi such as Metarhizium and Beauveria are currently used for the control of agricultural and forest pests on a world wide basis [16]. Their "rediscovery" for use against vectors has been stimulated by the fact that it is not necessary to kill a vector insect to reduce vectorial capacity. As reiterated by Thomas & Read [13], successful malarial parasite transmission is correlated with mosquito longevity: the vector is required to survive for at least the 2 week incubation period of the parasite. Therefore even small alterations in longevity can result in dramatic effects on transmission. Moreover, "non-lethal" effects of microbial infections could also reduce vectorial capacity by reducing propensity to feed, fecundity, flight/dispersal capacity and predator escape responses [10, 17].
We are currently investigating the possibility of using fungus impregnated black cotton cloths for the control of adult A. aegypti[18] by placing these cloths in strategic positions where A. aegypti females are known to rest in human dwellings. Black cloths attract mosquitoes during resting periods as they can remain undetected on these surfaces. Impregnating these cloths with entomopathogenic fungi would act as lethal baits.
This type of technique has been tested once under field conditions in Africa for the control of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae[11]. Fungus impregnated black cotton sheets hung from the ceilings of dwellings caused a 23% infection rate. This infection rate, when considered in a model for malarial transmission, predicted a 75% reduction in malarial transmission. This prediction does not take into account the other "positive" effects due to the fungi infecting the mosquito, such as the reduction in blood feeding and inhibition of malarial parasite development [10]. Reduced vectorial capacity of A. aegypti could also be expected following infection by entomopathogenic fungi, however the incubation period for the Dengue arbovirus in the mosquito is between 7 to 10 days [19], a shorter period than that of Plasmodium development in Anopheles (14 days), indicating that highly virulent isolates of entomopathogenic fungi may need to be deployed against Dengue mosquitoes.
The mosquito A. aegypti is an interesting candidate for a fungal control program as it has evolved an intimate relationship with man, and can be described as an "urbanized" vector. Dengue could be classified as a man-made problem, with increasing incidences of epidemics directly correlated to high inner city human population densities, the uncontrollable increase in the use of non-biodegradable plastic packaging, deficient local government trash collection and lack of adequate sewage systems. On one hand the close proximity with urban conurbations means that A. aegypti is a highly dangerous vector whilst on the other hand limiting the areas that need to be targeted during interventions in order to control this insect.
Knowledge of insect behavior is also paramount in the planning of control strategies. For example, the emerging A. aegypti females seek blood meals during the early morning or early evening. Thus, the use of insecticide impregnated bed-nets, highly successful for the control of malaria vectors [20], appears not to be an option for A. aegypti control. Interestingly, A. aegypti populations were significantly reduced in field trials where window curtains had been treated with insecticide [21]. Similar application technologies for entomopathogenic fungi could offer an alternative to conventional control measures. However, window curtains impregnated with fungi would have to take into consideration the fact that these microorganisms are highly susceptibility to the damaging effects of UV [22], although strategically placing fungus-impregnated cloths within dwellings out of direct sunlight could be tested for A. aegypti control.
The combination of low concentrations of the insecticide Imidacloprid with entomopathogenic fungi has been the subject of previous studies by our group aimed at improving efficiency of the fungi for the control of agricultural pest species [23, 24] and it has been shown that Imidacloprid has no effect on conidial germination [23]. IMI is a systemic insecticide of the neonicotinoid group, with contact and oral toxicity. The site of action of this insecticide is the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, therefore acting as a neurotoxin [25]. It was also found to act synergistically with Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae for the control of the Coleopteran Diaprepes abbreviatus[26].
With the aim of increasing the efficacy of an entomopathogenic fungus for the control of A. aegypti adult females, experiments were carried out to first determine the sub-lethal concentration of Imidacloprid to be combined with a highly virulent isolate of M. anisopliae (LPP 133). Experiments were then performed to investigate the minimum time necessary to significantly lower daily survival rates of A. aegypti exposed to the combined agents with the future aim of reducing A. aegypti adult populations and thus reducing the incidence of Dengue.
The sub-lethal concentration of IMI to be used in subsequent experiments was determined using the concentration-response curve of female A. aegypti. The LC50 value was 4.04 ppm (confidence limits 0.88-15.3). The concentration of IMI used was negatively correlated with survival of A. aegypti (Figure 1). The only concentration tested that did not result in significantly different survival to the untreated controls (84.6% ± 0.95) was 0.1ppm with 82.3% (± 1.97) of mosquitoes remaining alive at the end of the experiment.
Figure 1
Survival curves of female Aedes aegypti exposed to five concentrations of Imidacloprid. Note: The control survival curve is the mean of all control groups (5) used for each IMI concentration. Results are the means of three experiments for each concentration of IMI tested with 30 insects used per experiment. Data points without standard error bars had errors equal to that of the previous data point.
In order to verify the possible effect of 0.1 ppm IMI on mosquito survival following different time periods, insects were exposed to IMI for 3 to 48 h (Figure 2). All exposure times were not significantly different from the control values except for a 48 h exposure [F(5,17) = 87.69 p < 0.01], which reduced mean survival to 37.7% (± 2.69). Survival curve comparisons using the Log-Rank test also confirmed this result (p < 0.0001). Therefore exposure times longer than 24 h were avoided in all future experiments.
Figure 2
Survival curves of female Aedes aegypti exposed to 0.1 ppm Imidacloprid for different time periods. Note: The control survival curve is the mean of all control groups (5) used for each time period. Results are the means of three experiments for each time period tested, with 30 insects used per experiment. Data points without standard error bars had errors equal to that of the previous data point.
When female mosquitoes were exposed to a combination of 0.1 ppm IMI plus the entomopathogenic fungus M. anisopliae, a reduction in survival rates were observed when compared to the use of the fungus alone. The survival curves for experiments where the mosquitoes were exposed to IMI, fungus alone and combinations of IMI + fungus for three different time periods (3, 6 and 12 h) are shown in Figure 3. Treatments with fungus alone and IMI + fungus for 3 h resulted in moderate reductions in survival rates (51% and 44% respectively), significantly different from control survival (83% survival; F(3,11) = 5.11 p < 0.05), however, there was no significant difference between fungus alone and IMI + fungus (Table 1; p > 0.05). The daily survival rates for insects exposed to the different treatments for 6 h are shown in Figure 3B. Lower percentage survival was observed here and importantly a significant difference between fungus and IMI + fungus, with 26% of LPP 133 treated females surviving and only 11% survival of LPP 133 + IMI treated females (Table 1; F(3,11)= 172.05, p < 0.01), although there was no significant difference between survival curves when using the Log-Rank test. A twelve hour exposure of insects to the different treatments showed a further decline in survival rates and the mean percentage survival was significantly different when comparing fungus and IMI + fungus (Table 1; F(3,11) = 105.17, p < 0.01). Interestingly, following a 12 h exposure, there was a significant difference between the survival curves. The S50 value for IMI + fungus was estimated to be 2 days whilst exposure to the fungus alone resulted in a S50 value of 3 days (Table 1).
Figure 3
Survival curves of female Aedes aegypti exposed to 0.1 ppm Imidacloprid, LPP 133 alone and Imidacloprid + LPP 133 during three different time periods: (A) 3 h; (B) 6 h; (C) 12 h. Note: Results are the means of three experiments for each treatment tested, with 30 insects used per experiment. Data points without standard error bars had errors equal to that of the previous data point.
Table 1 Survival of mosquitoes exposed to Imidacloprid, fungus and Imidacloprid+fungus during three different time periods
Fungi are potential candidates for the control of adult Dengue mosquitoes as confirmed in the current study and previously [18, 27]. Sub-lethal concentrations of IMI when combined with LPP 133 significantly reduced insect survival rates following a 6 h exposure of adult female mosquitoes to the two agents and significantly reduced mean survival times from 3 to 2 days following a 12 h exposure. At first hand it would seem unlikely that mosquitoes would rest for 6 to 12 h on fungus impregnated surfaces in order to reap the benefit of the combined agents, however, it should be remembered that our aim is not necessarily to cause rapid mortality of the mosquito but reduce survival rates, even if by small amounts.
In experiments where mosquitoes are forced to rest on fungus impregnated surfaces, increasing exposure times from 15 min to 30 min resulted in a more rapid killing effect, with 30 min exposure times causing 100% mortality in nine days and a 15 min exposure time causing 100% mortality in fourteen days [14].
Studies of fungal infections of malaria mosquitoes have shown that relatively small changes in survival rates were sufficient to significantly reduce vectorial capacity [13]. Thus significant reductions in survival rates using LPP 133 + IMI could reflect in a decline of DENV transmission rates. This will remain to be proven in field trials. Another factor to be taken into consideration is the conidial concentration applied to surfaces onto which the mosquitoes rest and subsequently become infected. In our previous studies we selected a conidial concentration that caused 80-90% mortality over a seven day period [18], considering the incubation time of the Dengue virus. The concentration of conidia used is normally correlated to mortality rates, with higher mortality correlated to high conidial concentrations. However, ever increasing concentrations do not result in ever increasing mortality, with maximal reduction in survival rates seen when using 2 × 1010 conidia m-2[14]. The economic viability of applying very high conidia concentrations should also be taken into account.
The strategy of combining insecticides with biological control agents is an interesting approach for controlling certain agricultural pest species, allowing the use of low concentrations of chemical insecticides, reducing the environmental impact of these chemicals and lowering the time taken for the pathogen to kill its host, a limiting factor in the acceptance of these agents. Insecticides have the capacity to increase stress and alter insect behavior that may lead to improved performance of entomopathogens [28, 29].
The effects of the combination of insecticides and entomopathogenic fungi have been recently studied for the control of malaria mosquitoes. Mosquitoes pre-infected with B. bassiana or M. anisopliae showed a significant increase in mortality after exposure to permethrin when compared with mosquitoes exposed only to the insecticide, although mortality following exposure to the fungus alone was not evaluated in this experiment [15].
Another study investigated the effects of fungus impregnated window screens in combination with insecticide treated bed nets against Culex quinquefasciatus[30]. The only significant behavioral modification found was a reduction in blood feeding by Cx. quinquefasciatus, caused by the permethrin and B. bassiana treatments, although no additive effect was observed. B. bassiana did not repel blood foraging mosquitoes either in the laboratory or in the field [30].
IMI has never been tested before in combination with fungi for control of mosquitoes. IMI is not currently registered for use in mosquito control but has been tested previous against three mosquito species, including A. aegypti[31]. Neonicotinoids such as IMI were shown to be toxic to larval and adult A. aegypti, although IMI was only considered to be an interesting candidate for larval control [32]. From the results of the current study we consider that adult A. aegypti are highly susceptible to IMI, with an indirect unforced contact bioassay giving a LC50 value of 4 ppm.
Recently it has been shown that insecticide resistant populations of the malaria mosquito are equally susceptible to fungal infection as their baseline counterparts, and that fungal infection reduced the expression of resistance to the key public health insecticides permethrin and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane [15]. It has also been stated that pyrethroid resistant Anopheles gambiae were more susceptible to fungal infection that non-resistant strains [12], however as two different strains were used in these experiments is difficult to make a direct comparison.
Although we consider M. anisopliae LPP 133 to be highly virulent to female A. aegypti, it is important to take into consideration the necessity of further reducing vector survival, as the unknown factor in this putative control strategy is the length of time the mosquitoes will eventually rest on the fungus impregnated surfaces. With the aim of increasing the time that mosquitoes may rest on the fungus impregnated cloths, we attached an attractant (BG Lure™; Biogents Ltd.) to the cloths, however no increased mortality was observed (unpublished data).
The virulence of a putative biological control agent such as an entomopathogenic fungus selected for A. aegypti control is important as any small alteration in kill time could have consequences for the transmission of the Dengue virus. Interestingly, DENV infected A. aegypti became immuno-compromised due to down-regulated expression levels of numerous immune signaling molecules and antimicrobial peptides [33], leading us to speculate that these mosquitoes could be more susceptible to fungal attack than non-DENV infected insects, a further bonus to a fungal control strategy.
In this study, we investigated the possibility of combining an insecticide with an entomopathogenic fungus with the aim of reducing vectorial capacity by joint action of the two agents. It is known that no "silver bullet" solution is available for A. aegypti control and an Integrated Vector Management approach should therefore be adopted.
A. aegypti (Rockefeller strain) colonies were reared in cages at 25°C; 75% RH;16:8 L/D photoperiod and provided with a 10% sucrose solution. Insects were provided with blood meals by placing a mouse, immobilized in a wire mesh bag, in the adult mosquito cages (method approved by the University of North Fluminense Ethical Committee). Following the blood meal, oviposition occurred in beakers half filled with water and lined with filter paper placed in adult cages. Egg eclosion was stimulated by total immersion of the filter paper in water to which mouse food had been previously added (24 h) to reduce oxygen levels.
Larvae were maintained in plastic trays and fed on minced commercial mouse food until reaching the pupal stage. Pupae were separated into water filled beakers and transferred to cages before adult emergence. Recently hatched (2-3 day old) females were used for all experiments.
Concentration response curve for mosquitoes exposed to Imidacloprid
The commercial insecticide Confidor® (Bayer, Brazil) which is composed of 70% Imidacloprid (IMI) and 30% inert materials was used here. Adult female A. aegypti were exposed to filter papers impregnated with 0.1, 1, 10, 50 and 100 ppm IMI dissolved in sterile distilled water + 0.05% Tween 80. One mL of IMI was sprayed onto each side of a piece of filter paper (8 × 6 cm) using a Potter tower (Burkart Ltd. UK). Following spraying the filter papers were left to dry for 16 h before being placed in plastic pots covered with netting (12 cm diameter × 7 cm high), to which mosquitoes were then placed. The filter paper was positioned upright in the pot. Thus, the total time the mosquitoes spent resting on the filter paper can not be determined by this method as mosquitoes could choose not to land on the filter paper (see Additional File 1; Figure S1). Adult females were exposed to the filter papers for 24 h, following which time the mosquitoes were transferred to clean pots. The pots were maintained in an incubator at 25°C; 70 ± 10% RH; 12L:12D. Mosquitoes were fed on 10% sucrose offered on filter paper discs placed on the netting surface. Survival of insects was determined on a daily basis for a 7 day period and dead insects were removed during observations.
It should be noted that these toxicity tests were not carried out using the WHO recommended protocol [34] as we adopted a method that allowed mosquitoes a choice of resting surfaces, considering that in the field, mosquitoes would not be forced to rest on insecticide or fungus impregnated surfaces.
Effects of sub-lethal concentrations of IMI during different exposure times
A sub-lethal concentration of IMI, as determined in the previous experiment, was used to investigate the relationship between increasing exposure times of insects to insecticide impregnated filter papers on daily survival rates. In this experiment, mosquitoes were exposed to IMI impregnated filter papers for 2, 8, 16, 24 and 48 hours and survival monitored as stated above.
Fungal Isolates and preparation of suspensions
An isolate of M. anisopliae from the collection of the Laboratory of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the State University of North Fluminense denominated LPP133 (originally isolated from a soil sample), was used in all experiments here as it had previously been demonstrated to have high virulence against adult A. aegypti[18]. Fungi were cultured on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (Dextrose 10g; Peptone 2.5g; Yeast Extract 2.5g; Agar 20g in 1 L H20) at 27°C for 15 days before being used in experiments. Fungal suspensions were initially prepared in Tween 80 (0.05% in sterile distilled water) and conidial concentration determined using a Neubauer hemocytometer. A standard concentration of 1 × 109 conidia mL-1 was used in all experiments. Fungal suspensions were vortex mixed vigorously before applying 1 mL to each side of a piece of filter paper (8 × 6 cm) using a Potter spray tower giving a conidial coverage of 1.5 × 108 conidia cm2 on each side of the filter paper. As was the case for exposure of mosquitoes to IMI, the actual time the insects spent resting on the fungus impregnated filter paper could not be determined.
Exposure of insects to conidial suspensions formulated with IMI
M. anisopliae conidial suspensions were prepared with and without a sub-lethal concentration of 0.1 ppm IMI (see results section) and sprayed onto filter papers as stated above. Female mosquitoes were exposed to filter papers for 3, 6 or 12 hours, before being transferred to clean pots. Insect survival rates were monitored as stated above. Control groups were exposed to 0.1 ppm IMI and 0.05% Tween 80 treated filter papers.
All experiments were carried out three times with a minimum of 30 insects per treatment or control group. The homogeneity of the replicate experiments was determined using the Log Rank Test [35] at the 95% significance level and subsequently the results were pooled for survival curve analysis, mean percentage survival and standard deviation.
Statistical Analysis
Probit analysis was used to calculate the LC50 of IMI for female A. aegypti and the sub-lethal concentration of IMI was verified by one-way analysis of variance and Duncan's post-hoc test when comparing control and insecticide exposed insect mortality. Mean percentage survival over a seven day period following treatments was calculated and the results compared using one-way analysis of variance and Duncan's post-hoc test. Survival curve comparisons were carried out using the Log-Rank test. Median survival time (S50) was calculated using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Engage Consumers
January 26, 2017
2016 was the year we saw Artificial Intelligence (AI) progress from a concept everyone associated with I, Robot to a technology we have begun to use on a daily basis. AI, the development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, is being integrated into every aspect of our lives.
This past year, we have seen the rise in popularity of many products that incorporate AI. There’s Alexa, the voice of Amazon’s Echo, that provides customers with an intuitive interaction without ever having to press a button or even use a screen. Amy Ingram, the virtual personal assistant for busy executives that sets up meetings by sending amazingly human-like emails. And of course, Facebook integrated chatbots into their Messenger app, allowing businesses to deliver targeted conversations with consumers.
Now that we have begun to see the mainstreaming of Artificial Intelligence, get ready for the technology to be used at almost every level of the business sphere.
The Rise of Direct Customer Engagement
Chatbots especially, are the kind of AI being quickly implemented since they are cost-effective and they help businesses increase their one-on-one consumer interaction. Chatbots are programmed to engage in focused conversation and, when programmed properly, can provide answers to move potential and existing customers quickly through the sales funnel. Chatbots can be expertly developed in any field and provide conversational answers to consumers, presenting a much smoother interaction than that of 1-800 robots.
Facebook’s integration of chatbots within their Messenger app allowed developers to build their own bots within the app. This provided a direct line of communication with consumers. Messenger bots are now able to respond structured messages that include images, links, and even call-to-action buttons. Customers can now order apparel, make restaurant reservations, call a Lyft, review an e-commerce order, and so much more without ever having to talk with a human.
In the near future, chatbots may become the primary way a consumer finds, buys, or peruses a potential item or service. By cutting down the amount of content needed to sift through before finding the product they want, and being able to do it all through a mobile device, consumers will quickly integrate this kind of streamlined business into their purchasing timeline.
This kind of direct customer engagement should not be underestimated. For consumer-facing business, you should take time in 2017 to develop a strategy around incorporating chatbots into an app, Messenger, or your website.
The Screen-less Internet of Things
Just as AI may make call centers obsolete, it also may make our obsession with, and constant use of, screens a thing of the past as companies continue exploring with screen-less devices that can connect to the internet and carry out services that we require of them.
These devices go beyond just our phones and computers to include cars, TVs, even washing machines, and refrigerators! AI allows for technology to adapt to us: learning our preferences and even the way we talk to be able to not only complete the action we ask but also give human-like suggestions for future actions.
Moving forward, brands will continue to make advancements using AI to better handle customer interactions, recommendations, and requests – all while gathering valuable information about customer behaviors and needs. It is difficult to quantify exactly how helpful and cost effective this kind of technology and data leveraging will be, but it’s big, and it’s going to change the way the consumer finds, buys, and uses products on nearly every level. | <urn:uuid:07f733c8-e751-4fd1-8e4f-c48d497b2bdc> | https://vwm.com/blog/using-artificial-intelligence-to-engage-consumers/ | en | 0.920883 | 0.033642 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Artificial Intelligence
Get up to speed on artificial intelligence and learn how it can help you drive business value with our curated collection of insights, reports and guides.
What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is a constellation of many different technologies working together to enable machines to sense, comprehend, act, and learn with human-like levels of intelligence. Maybe that’s why it seems as though everyone’s definition of artificial intelligence is different: AI isn’t just one thing.
Technologies like machine learning and natural language processing are all part of the AI landscape. Each one is evolving along its own path and, when applied in combination with data, analytics and automation, can help businesses achieve their goals, be it improving customer service or optimizing the supply chain.
Narrow (or “weak”) AI
Some go even further to define artificial intelligence as “narrow” and “general” AI. Most of what we experience in our day-to-day lives is narrow AI, which performs a single task or a set of closely related tasks. Examples include:
• Weather apps
• Digital assistants
• Software that analyzes data to optimize a given business function
These systems are powerful, but the playing field is narrow: They tend to be focused on driving efficiencies. But, with the right application, narrow AI has immense transformational power—and it continues to influence how we work and live on a global scale.
General (or “strong”) AI
General AI is more like what you see in sci-fi films, where sentient machines emulate human intelligence, thinking strategically, abstractly and creatively, with the ability to handle a range of complex tasks. While machines can perform some tasks better than humans (e.g. data processing), this fully realized vision of general AI does not yet exist outside the silver screen. That’s why human-machine collaboration is crucial—in today’s world, artificial intelligence remains an extension of human capabilities, not a replacement.
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Why does AI matter?
Artificial intelligence has long been a subject of anticipation among both popular and scientific culture, with the potential to transform businesses as well as the relationship between people and technology at large. So, why is AI usage reaching critical mass today?
Because of the proliferation of data and the maturity of other innovations in cloud processing and computing power, AI adoption is growing faster than ever. Companies now have access to an unprecedented amount of data, including dark data they didn’t even realize they had until now. These treasure troves are a boon to the growth of AI.
A critical source of business value—when done right
AI has long been regarded as a potential source of business innovation. With the enablers now in place, organizations are starting to see how AI can multiply value for them. Automation cuts costs and brings new levels of consistency, speed and scalability to business processes; in fact, some Accenture clients are seeing time savings of 70 percent. Even more compelling, however, is the ability of AI to drive growth. Companies that scale successfully see 3X the return on their AI investments compared to those who are stuck in the pilot stage. No wonder 84 percent of C-suite executives believe they must leverage AI to achieve their growth objectives.
Agility and competitive advantage
Artificial intelligence is not just about efficiency and streamlining laborious tasks. Thanks to machine learning and deep learning, AI applications can learn from data and results in near real time, analyzing new information from many sources and adapting accordingly, with a level of accuracy that’s invaluable to business. (product recommendations are a prime example.) This ability to self learn and self optimize means AI continually compounds the business benefits it generates.
In this way, AI helps businesses adapt at speed, with a regular stream of insights to drive innovation and competitive advantage in a world of constant disruption. When scaled, AI can become a key enabler of your strategic priorities—and even a lynchpin to survival: Three out of four C-suite executives believe that if they don’t scale artificial intelligence in the next five years, they risk going out of business entirely. Clearly, the stakes are high to scale AI.
The benefits of AI
There are many ways to define artificial intelligence, but the more important conversation revolves around what AI enables you to do.
End-to-end efficiency: AI eliminates friction and improves analytics and resource utilization across your organization, resulting in significant cost reductions. It can also automate complex processes and minimize downtime by predicting maintenance needs.
Improved accuracy and decision-making: AI augments human intelligence with rich analytics and pattern prediction capabilities to improve the quality, effectiveness, and creativity of employee decisions.
Intelligent offerings: Because machines think differently from humans, they can uncover gaps and opportunities in the market more quickly, helping you introduce new products, services, channels and business models with a level of speed and quality that wasn’t possible before.
Empowered employees: AI can tackle mundane activities while employees spend time on more fulfilling high-value tasks. By fundamentally changing the way work is done and reinforcing the role of people to drive growth, AI is projected to boost labor productivity.
Superior customer service: Continuous machine learning provides a steady flow of 360-degree customer insights for hyper personalization. From 24/7 chatbots to faster help desk routing, businesses can use AI to curate information in real time and provide high-touch experiences that drive growth, retention and overall satisfaction.
AI is used in many ways, but the prevailing truth is that your AI strategy is your business strategy. To maximize your return on AI investments, identify your business priorities and then determine how AI can help.
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The future of AI
According to Accenture’s report, AI: Built to Scale, 84 percent of business executives believe they need to use AI to achieve their growth objectives. However, 76 percent acknowledge struggling with how to scale AI across their business. Until now, there hasn’t been a blueprint to getting past proof of concept into production and scale, a transition many struggle to make. At this inflection point, it’s imperative businesses take the necessary steps to scale successfully.
Define your business value
There are countless ways to use AI. How do organizations decide what to focus on? To scale successfully, start by defining what value means to your business. Then assess and prioritize the various applications of AI against those strategic objectives.
Rework your workforce
The growing momentum of AI calls for a diverse, reconfigured workforce to support and scale it. Despite early fears that artificial intelligence and automation would lead to job loss, the future of AI hinges on human-machine collaboration and the imperative to reshape talent and ways of working.
Establish governance and ethical frameworks
Organizations must design their AI strategy with trust in mind. That means building the right governance structures and making sure ethical principles are translated into the development of algorithms and software.
Applying these factors successfully can help organizations unlock exponential value and stay competitive. AI is no longer simply a "nice to have", but is critical to a business’ future.
AI ethics
No artificial intelligence introduction would be complete without addressing AI ethics. AI is moving at a blistering pace and, as with any powerful technology, organizations need to build trust with the public and be accountable to their customers and employees.
At Accenture, we define “responsible AI” as the practice of designing, building and deploying AI in a manner that empowers employees and businesses and fairly impacts customers and society—allowing companies to engender trust and scale AI with confidence.
Every company using AI is subject to scrutiny. Ethics theater, where companies amplify their responsible use of AI through PR while partaking in unpublicized gray-area activities, is a regular issue. Unconscious bias is yet another. Responsible AI is an emerging capability aiming to build trust between organizations and both their employees and customers.
Data security
Data privacy and the unauthorized use of AI can be detrimental both reputationally and systemically. Companies must design confidentiality, transparency and security into their AI programs at the outset and make sure data is collected, used, managed and stored safely and responsibly.
Transparency and explainability
Whether building an ethics committee or revising their code of ethics, companies need to establish a governance framework to guide their investments and avoid ethical, legal and regulatory risks. As AI technologies become increasingly responsible for making decisions, businesses need to be able to see how AI systems arrive at a given outcome, taking these decisions out of the “black box.” A clear governance framework and ethics committee can help with the development of practices and protocols that ensure their code of ethics is properly translated into the development of AI solutions.
Machines don’t have minds of their own, but they do make mistakes. Organizations should have risk frameworks and contingency plans in place in the event of a problem. Be clear about who is accountable for the decisions made by AI systems, and define the management approach to help escalate problems when necessary.
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Transcription profiling of human primary keratinocytes response to urocanic acid
ABSTRACT: Urocanic acid (UCA) is a major epidermal chromophore that undergoes trans to cis photoisomerisation following exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR). Although there is considerable evidence that cis-UCA suppresses cell-mediated immune response in mouse skin, the molecular events are not fully understood. In this study, we examined involvement of gene transcription in the immunomodulatory effects of cis-UCA on primary human keratinocytes. The results showed that about 400 genes were induced by UVR, 16 of which also up-regulated by cis-UCA. In contrast, trans-UCA had no effect on gene expression. The genes up-regulated by both cis-UCA and UVR were associated with apoptosis, cell growth arrest, cytokines and oxidative stress. Experiment Overall Design: RNA was extracted from primary human keratinocytes treated with trans-, cis-UCA (10ug/ml) or solar simulated UVR (12J/cm2 ~ 2-3 minimal erythema doses for fair skin), or untreated. At 24hr, the transcriptional profiles were assessed by Affymetrix HG-U133A microarray.
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What do you do for fun?
Act in local theater, knit silly items, sing too loudly in my car, garden poorly, judge people with non-prescription glasses, watch stolen television episodes, sing with a "band", and have whiskey and pop music-fueled underwear cleaning parties. With myself.
What do you look for in a submarine?
Air-tightness, I think. It helps if there's a racing stripe, though.
If you had to marry ONE Ghostbuster, wouldn’t that be pretty awesome?
No, it would be SUPER AWESOME.
If you had to bake a cake, in what shape would you bake that cake?
Penis-shaped, of course.
What song would play over the training montage of your life?
The Doctor Who theme
What is your favorite planet in the Solar System?
Uranus, because of its many wonderful uses in puns.
What is your least favorite planet in the Solar System?
Uranus, because naming all of your moons after characters in Shakespeare seems sort of pretentious.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Golden Surge
"Golden Surge"
Dancing across gold
Shinning in its majesty
Surging with power
Roy Tabora creates poetry. It might not be in haiku form or as defined by a dictionary, however the feeling and ideas expressed by his emotion dance in rhythmic song across canvas. There are times when you cannot define poetry, only appreciate it and when it comes to Tabora’s seascapes the same is true.
Creating a surge of power that falls at our feet, the ocean taunts the setting sun with its breaking waves. The sun waits patiently for the perfect moment, and then it illuminates the water with its golden glow, filling nature with warmth. The ocean beckons for you to cross the untouched sand, to come closer and taste its salty kiss. It wants you to feel powerless in its splendor, to be captivated by its majesty and swept away in its song.
Undefined and appreciated, a Tabora painting is poetry.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Gaylord Ho
Master sculptor Gaylord Ho believes that his greatest artistic inspiration comes from the observation of people’s activities and emotions. It is from this that his sculptures represent the human spirit in all of us as we strive to transcend the daily struggles of life and to become something more spiritually divine.
“I am thankful to be in position in my life that I can create art to satisfy my own soul. With that freedom to create, a newfound inspiration to share my innermost emotions and observations with collectors of my sculptures has arrived.”
Gaylord’s goal in every sculpture is to bring to life the emotion of the moment. When you look at his work, you are aware that the love and emotion Gaylord pours into his pieces is pouring back out. The movement and fluidity of the work awakens your soul and captivates your senses. As the sculpture’s emotions cleave to you, your desire to hold on is strong. It is only when you look away that you can break the bond. However, be warned, there is another Gaylord Ho sculpture waiting to take your breath away and fill you with its emotion!
Visit with Gaylord Ho on Friday and Saturday night from 7-9pm at the Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach Hotel.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
At Journey's End
"At Journey's End"
In the words of Roy Tabora, "At Journey's End" illustrates the notion and the belief that every good endeavor is rewarded. This "journey" may be small or it may be life itself and the reward is symbolized by the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The pot of gold is the breaking wave, a universal source of pleasure. The egrets in flight are the viewers (which I do not normally include in the painting) flying in the direction of the reward. Why two egrets? Because the best things in life are better shared with a loved one, always!
An artist embarks on a journey when they stand before a new canvas. They ponder the direction the brush will take, the blending of paint, and the technique they must utilize to reach their destination. It is not always an easy journey; even the most acclaimed artists can become lost in the midst of swirling colors. Why then does an artist even start when they know it’s so easy to go off the road?
There is a moment for every artist when they realize the end of their rainbow is waiting. Roy Tabora knows his destination. His mind has traveled the path for days and sometimes months waiting for the opportunity to be set free. Filled with overwhelming emotion, his hand guides the brush while listening to his inner spirit direct its path. As he reaches perfection with each stoke, he waits patiently until a place of pleasure and delight has been found. The journey is over and the reward shines bright as he shares it with us all.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Roy Tabora
Roy Tabora
For anyone that has experienced the magical beauty of the Hawaiian Islands, and wanted to capture that beauty for eternity, the paintings of Roy Tabora will hold a special place in their heart. His imagery evokes nature's beauty in a myriad of settings and may transport the audience to a time and place of his own creation. The personal interpretation of his world as seen through his eyes comes from his heart. These compositions reflect the artist's deepest convictions and silently project the emotions he feels.
However, in spite of all that has been said or read about the art, the best way to experience the art is to see it in person. When you are inches away from it, imagine the artist in that same spot where you stand and try to imagine the last stroke that was placed.
And just when you think you have experienced this art to its fullest, imagine it in your home where you can access inspiration on a daily basis, starting your day with a glorious sunrise and ending under starlit skies.
Why Art?
"Heaven on Earth"
If you google the phrase “inspired life” you will find hundreds of books, quotes, recipes and even a guru or two that tell you exactly what it is…“A life filled with passion, personal fulfillment, joy and delicious food.” You can travel down a multitude of cyberspace rabbit holes and spend hours trying to figure it out. I spent so much time searching, I forgot to get inspired!
At Tabora Gallery, your search for inspiration does not need a manual or a guru telling you how to get there. Our inspiration is simple, pure and speaks for itself. When art is created from the heart, it calls to you and asks to be yours forever. Art can inspire thinking, healing, new beginnings, goodbyes, love and so much more. It is different for everyone but the result is the same - art inspires.
The art of Roy Tabora inspires. Waking up in the paradise leaves only one choice, to embrace the feeling the islands provoke. They feed the heart and ignite Roy’s passion to create. Found in a beautiful sunrise, stormy day, or a romantic full moon, these feelings dance across the canvas forming art that inspires life.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Tabora Birthday Show
It only comes once a year and when you're Roy Tabora it comes in an art gallery full of people that share one thing, his passion for beautiful art.
As Roy says, he was created to be a painter. At the age of 6 when his brush first stroked the canvas he was "all in" and his destiny began. In a few days he turns fifty-something and to be caught in his destiny is a great thing. Over the years I have seen how his work has captured viewers and held them so tight that only tears of joy could be their release. It is because Roy's heart inspires his brush to perform magic before our eyes, evoking unknown emotions, poetry, memories and friendships that bring on an overwhelming desire.
Art for an inspired life... it's a good thing to be caught in his destiny.
Happy Birthday Roy!
Celebrate the Birthday Show as it continues Saturday, June 16 and Monday, June 18. 7-9pm
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Reproduction of Change Agents
A large force of change agents can quickly bring in not only many innovations but also a culture of innovation. A number of companies that successfully attempted turnaround from sickness showed how this can be done.
One strategy for creating numerous change agents is to identify those with fire in their belly, give them training and exposure, and empower them to innovate. Another strategy is to shock the stolid into the recognition of the need for innovations and changes, provide them with a vision of change, and provide opportunities to them to contribute innovative ideas and actions. When orchestrated, the two strategies may give excellent results in terms of yielding not only numerous innovations but also an innovationist organizational culture.
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UK industries are leading the global change for AI investment
IFS has announced the findings of an international study examining the perception and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) within core industries. The research revealed that the UK is at the forefront of a global drive for AI investment, with a huge 99% of UK respondents planning to invest in AI, versus just 80% in North America, and 83% in mainland Europe.
The study – which polled enterprise 600 decision makers working with technology including enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and field service management (FSM) – highlighted that AI would predominantly be used to make existing workers more productive (60%) and add value to products and services (48%). Just 18% of businesses said they would be utilising AI to replace existing workers, while more than 60% stated AI would either increase headcounts or would keep them the same, countering fears it will lead to job losses. Those that did plan to use AI to replace workers overwhelmingly came from large enterprises, which employ greater numbers in the process-driven roles that are most likely to be lost to automation.
The findings come at a critical time for UK industries, with labour productivity falling at the fastest pace since the global financial crisis. Manufacturing in particular has seen a significant drop in output, decreasing by 1.9%. With the sector accounting for as much as 15% of UK GDP, even a small increase in productivity could result in significant benefits to the country’s economy.
IFS’s research also revealed that global spend will focus foremost on AI to support industrial automation as momentum for Industry 4.0 surges, with 45% stating a plan to invest in the technology. Customer relationship management (CRM) and inventory planning and logistics tied for second place at 38.9 percent.
“AI is no longer an emerging technology. It is being implemented to support business automation in the here and now, as this study clearly proves,” IFS VP of AI and RPA, Bob De Caux, said. “We are seeing many real-world examples where technology is augmenting existing decision-making processes by providing users with more timely, accurate and pertinent information. In today’s disruptive economy, the convergence of technologies such as AI, RPA, and IoT is bolstering a new form of business automation that will provide companies that are brave enough with the tools and services they need to be more competitive and outflank larger competitors.”
The benefits AI can bring to output have been felt first-hand by North American packaging manufacturer, Cheer Pack, which deployed a fleet of AI-powered autonomous vehicles to robotise material movements in its US factory.
Cheer Pack’s director of IT, Alex Ivkovic noted: “We expect the costs savings to be over $1.5 m per year. In addition, each and every employee will be re-tasked to a higher-skilled position, helping us with our labour shortage.”
At a time when UK manufacturers are facing the biggest worker shortage in 30 years, adopting a similar approach would be instrumental in tackling skills challenges, enhancing efficiencies, and boosting revenues.
De Caux concluded: “The findings of the study show that the time is right for companies to reap both business and financial benefits from technology automation. Falling for the hype of AI is easy, but success requires disruption to existing business models. The technologies themselves are not a panacea, nor are they a universal solution to any problem. However, with the right data model and viable use cases, AI can support improved productivity and deliver significant benefits to both operations and the wider business. AI will be used by the vast majority of organisations in some form in the near future, extracting real value from intelligent processes, for the long-term.”
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Techno fans laugh off PM's "dangerous" label as CzechTek furore continues
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The fallout continues from Saturday's crackdown on the CzechTek party in West Bohemia, in which 1,000 riot police dispersed thousands of techno fans with tear gas and water cannon. While politicians argue over the justification for using force, the event is now being discussed up and down the country.
Vaclav Havel at a demonstration, photo: CTK
CzechTek has now become a political cause celebre, with former president Vaclav Havel turning up at a demonstration outside the Interior Ministry on Monday to protest against the police crackdown. Eyewitnesses maintain the police used unacceptable brutality to disperse the partygoers. Petr Dousa, a 29-year-old computer programmer with a young son, was one of them.
"Well it was quite unbelievable. I couldn't believe my eyes. Hundreds of riot police, a police helicopter, water cannon, even a tank was stationed on the road. But the people were just dancing to the music, they were not doing anything bad. It was like a scene from virtual reality, or maybe from a country in Asia or Africa. It was simply unbelievable."
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Those who defend the police action include the prime minister, Jiri Paroubek, who wrote a front-page editorial for today's Lidove Noviny newspaper. He wrote that those who inspired festivals such as CzechTek were known throughout Europe as well organised anarchist troublemakers. The hardcore of CzechTek were not dancing children but dangerous people, the prime minister added. But Petr Dousa says he's neither a child nor dangerous.
"That's nonsense. I'm not a dancing kid. I'm 29 years old and I pay taxes. I'm a father and the head of a family. I think I'm a very peaceful person and I just wanted to come and enjoy dancing. It's nonsense to say these people are dangerous."
And that's something echoed by one of CzechTek's organisers, who goes under the pseudonym Netdave.
"That's really not funny. All the things he said are lies. The people there were really happy that the event was being held. They didn't want any violence, they didn't want anything. They wanted to clean up the place afterwards. That's all they wanted."
A lightning opinion poll commissioned by the daily newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes found that 70 percent of Czechs believed the police were too heavy-handed, although 44 percent said the authorities had to do something. So what do the people of Prague think? We went out onto the streets to hear some views.
"I think it was completely unnecessary waste of tax payers' money. In the end, police is short on recourses and this is some 300 000 Euro spent on nothing."
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"I've heard about it and I was shocked. I thought it was an incredible over-reaction and I was horrified. As far as I know, they even had a contract to say that they can use the land. So I was really surprised."
"I think the intervention was legitimate. They urged them to leave the field at least twice, as I saw on TV. It's hard to say which part of the field is rented and which is not but if the organizers have thousands of people at the techno-party and they are not able to ensure that they don't go to other people's property, the police are entitled to intervene."
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Subcultures, by definition, attract those who see through status quo bullshit and strive for something “real” that relates to one’s own personal experience. Whether it’s hardcore punk, black metal, horror movies, homemade video games or traditionally offensive underground comics, they offer strong alternatives to more populist forms of entertainment that lack imagination and, more importantly, heart. Imagine being a young punk kid who draws comics for a small audience as a way to vent your frustrations with society’s willingness to ignore the true horrors that exist in everyday life. It’s not a living, but a passion – that thing that keeps you sane as you glide through your daily routine. Now imagine the police come knocking and you find you’re on trial for doing that thing you love. Frank Henenhotter, director of the Basket Case trilogy and Frankenhooker, tells the story of one such case that happened here in the US over 25 years ago with his engaging documentary Boiled Angels.
“…police come knocking and you find you’re on trial for doing that thing you love.”
In the early ‘90s, Mike Diana was a kid in Florida who listened to punk and traded underground comic zines with like-minded artists. His drawings depicted the debauchery he saw on the news every day filtered through the lens of the violent horror movies he so loved. They were stark commentaries of the hypocrisy of societal social norms, where certain people, e.g., priests, could molest children and get away with it simply because of their powerful status, all told with the classic punk sneer that emphasizes the satirical nature of the work. Unfortunately, the local police were frustrated by a serial killer in the state, while a team of young, new prosecutors sought to make a name for themselves. Diana became the perfect scapegoat for them both, and he found himself at the center of a major obscenity trial that would dare to push the limits of free speech in American society. Mike Diana now fought for his First Amendment rights while facing up to three years in jail against a rigged jury and a statewide news campaign that blended his story with that of the serial killer.
As a documentarian, Henenlotter tells the whole story, from the first rise of so-called “lurid” comics that lead to the creation of the McCarthy-era comics code, through the 1960s R. Crumb counterculture movement that operated outside the mainstream channels of established comics industry, and leading to the zines that would ultimately foreshadow Diana’s art. Meanwhile, we get a glimpse into the artist himself, his upbringing, his love for art, his passion for horror films that led him to make a few home-made entries into the genre and his primary forays into the zine world. In between, we hear from comics experts, i.e., artists, writers, and historians, as well as his family and the attorneys who both defended and prosecuted him.
“…helps us wake up outside the “woke” bubble.”
There are a few issues, though. Mike Diana seems so uncomfortable and awkward in front of the camera you wish more takes were done. On the one hand, it’s endearing to see how completely innocuous this guy is, but on the other, he does come off as a little strange, like someone you would avoid talking to, i.e., not the person you’re trying to convince the audience that he’s not a serial killer. Conversations with the news media who prosecuted him on air did nothing to dispel this, nor did they fully address their culpability in his sentence, meaning the right questions were never asked. There’s also the use of former Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra as narrator. While his battles with free speech have become punk lore, his place here seems contrived and unnecessary. To add insult to injury, nobody ever once mentioned what a complete waste of taxpayer money it was to prosecute a kid drawing comics in the name of “community standards,” but that’s Florida.
Let’s be honest about this country. Nobody takes the Second Amendment for granted. As soon as anybody mentions any sensible legislation that could prevent the mass shooting of the week, we have millionaire lobbyists and minimum wage workers alike shouting about the fantasy of the government take all our guns away. Well, what good are the guns if you can’t say what you want to say? That Second Amendment was written to follow the first, i.e., the well-regulated militia must remain intact to prevent violations against freedom of assembly, press, religion, and speech. Press. Mike Diana was a publisher exercising his right to free speech, but the guys with the guns didn’t like what he had to say, so he became the only artist ever to be successfully prosecuted in the United States. When that Second Amendment becomes the crutch to limit the first, we have a serious problem. On that note, Boiled Angels helps us wake up outside the “woke” bubble.
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana (2019) Directed by Frank Henenlotter. Starring Mike Diana, Neil Gaiman, Peter Bagge, George Romero, Jello Biafra, Suzy Solar, Luke Ilrot, Stuart Baggish.
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I am not sure you are aware, but you gallbladder has ninja-like forces waiting to do you harm. It's true. You'll be sitting about(or sleeping), minding your own business and WHAM......suddenly it's 4am and you're in screaming agony without explanation and then the next thing you know it's all flashing lights and men in blue uniforms asking questions quietly as they load up up to take you away.
I've had this PAIN I get every once in a blue moon, and a doctor told me it was probably ulcer, given my history of reflux and bad acid issues.
But early this AM......well, it wasn't like it was in the past. It was the same PAIN, in fact - but it wasn't going away, it wasn't subsiding or calming. It was getting fiercer and fiercer and well.......it was that cliche they use - IT WAS BLINDING.
I could barely think through it.
You know you're in a lot of pain when the EMTs are repeatedly poking you and commenting on your small veins, and you don't much care. By the time I got to the hospital, the pain killer I had taken in vain at home had kicked in - exactly enough to make me tired but still in pain.
I told them I thought it was an ulcer but as soon as they heard I'd never had official ulcer diagnosis they pulled all out all the big guns for testing and came back with the unexpected
"you have a large gallstone in the NECK of your gallbladder."
My gallbladder has a neck? What?
I had wondered if something unusual was up during the ultrasound when the tech kept trying "to see if it was moving" but truthfully, by then I'd had more pain killer and this and that pumped into the IV and well......I didn't much care.
So I've slept the day away, eaten broth, baked potato and toast and in general felt kinda crummy. But the agony is gone. They say it was moving, that this was causing the pain.
And I have to go see the surgeon this next week or soon. Because I have to have it dealt with.
I am so not excited.
Anonymous said...
I am so sorry...that sucks!
on the other hand, it does have to be a sneak attack, because if the gallbladder asked us for permission to inflict that kind of pain, few people would rsvp in the affirmative.
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Never heard from Verizon after canceling. Now I’m stuck with a charge-off!
Dear Speaking of Credit,
My wife & I visit the FICO Forums regularly. We have recently opened several new credit cards in place of those old start up cards. Seems the reason our score stood low was because we didn’t have enough credit cards with high credit limits. We have a small balance on a few and intend to pay off next month. Just one which we purchased lighting on for $9K. It was 12 months same as cash. Will this ultimately hurt our credit score? It is a legit purchase for our home. We should have it paid off sooner than the 12 months.
Also, we decided to try Verizon in 2013 with their trial period. Paid up front & didn’t like the service, so we canceled. Was sure we would not owe a bill since we paid up front. Never received a bill. Then it shows up on our credit report for $67.00 and a charge-off???? I have proof it was paid from my banking institution. Not sure how to dispute this type of information. I have tried before but there is nothing that resembles this for a dispute. Now showing zero balance but never has been a charge off!!!
Can you tell us how to go about getting this off of our credit? Seems very unfair to do to someone. Thank you. — Warren
Hi Warren,
Sorry about your trouble with the Verizon bill, but I have to say it warms my heart to know you’re hanging out in my old FICO Forums neighborhood! I’m sure you and your wife have learned a lot from the many knowledgeable people there.
It sounds to me that, from what you’ve described, there are two accounts that are hurting your credit score. One that, if paid in full within the year as intended, will solve itself and another that is going to take some work on your part to resolve.
For starters, I’ll address how the $9K lighting purchase you put onto (I’m assuming) a store card at zero percent for 12 months is likely to be affecting your score. Since store cards are included in credit utilization (balance/limit percentage) calculations, along with credit cards, I’m guessing that the $9K balance is taking up a good portion of that card’s credit limit and, depending on how you pay it over the 12 months, is likely to continue contributing to a higher combined utilization percentage than you’d otherwise be seeing. As you pay that balance down that percentage will go down and help your score a little at a time. Then once you’ve paid it off, be sure to leave the card open so that its zero percent utilization can continue to exert a positive influence on your score well into the future.
As for the Verizon paid charge-off, when you say it’s now showing zero I hope you mean that $0 due is what’s showing on your credit reports, because, while a charge off is never good for your score, a charge-off with a balance can be much worse. You’ll now want to get to work on removing any reference to the charge-off from your credit reports, which you can start by first obtaining your up-to-date credit reports for all three credit bureaus and then by contacting Verizon.
My best suggestion for dealing with Verizon would be to contact either someone with whom you’ve had contact in the past or their customer service department and insist on speaking with a supervisor or manager. Hopefully, you’ll be able to speak with someone who has the authority and ability to fix the error and explain that, since you paid ahead and had not received a bill or any notification after canceling, you had every reason to believe the account had been paid as agreed. Also, be prepared to provide the date and proof of your $67.00 payment, along with any written terms of their trial offer showing what was being charged for the service.
If you’re able to get some verbal agreement from Verizon that the reporting does not accurately reflect how you managed the account, request a confirmation letter indicating their intention to correct this error. Such a letter will be very helpful to your cause, though, all will not be lost if they are unable or unwilling to provide it.
The next step will be filing a dispute with the credit bureaus via certified mail (return receipt requested) that includes:
1. A very brief letter explaining how the Verizon account is not being reported according to how it was paid
2. A copy of your credit report with the Verizon charge-off highlighted
3. A letter from Verizon indicating their intention to correct the error at the credit bureau (if possible)
4. A copy of your bank statement showing the payment date
5. Any Verizon documentation showing the terms of the trial that will support your case
Also, send Verizon a copy of everything you send to the credit bureaus and allow about 30 days for the credit bureau dispute process to run its course.
If your request is denied by either Verizon or the credit bureau, you still have some options, such as contacting the National Association of Consumer Advocates, who can give you some further advice and filing a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will forward your complaint to the credit bureau and ask for a response.
I hope this helps. Let me know how it goes and if I can help any further.
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You or a loved one may lose a permanent tooth (not including wisdom teeth) at some point. Losing just one tooth can set off a cascade of events in your mouth. The first thing people tend to notice is the physical appearance of missing a tooth. Within the first month of losing that tooth, you will lose 25% of the bone in that area! This is why a lot of dentists will consider placing a dental implant or place a bone graft to prevent further bone loss. Even with just a bone graft, after six months the bone will continue to be lost slowly over time if an implant is not placed. This is also why when people lose lots of teeth, their face appears sunken in.
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Syn Free Chicken Skewers | Slimming World Recipe
I am always looking for quick, easy and delicious new recipes to try out. Someone at my local Slimming World group always makes these delicious Chicken Skewers or Kebabs - whatever you like to call them, when there's a taster week. And wow, they are SO delicious. The ingredients are cheap and you could add them to a Slimming World friendly buffet or enjoy them as a Friday/Saturday night meal and it honestly feels like you're having a 'naughty' takeaway meal!
Chicken diced
Skewer sticks (if you want)
Lemon juics
Mild/Medium Curry Powder
Low Fat Greek Style Yoghurt
1. Marinate your diced chicken by mixing up all the spices and yoghurt together.
2. Leave in the fridge for roughly 1 hour.
3. After 1 hour, place the chicken on the skewers with peppers and onions.
4. Grill for 25 minutes.
5. Serves and enjoy!
It's as simple as that, and it tastes absolutely delicious.
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Appellate Court Issues Ruling Regarding License Revocation System
When you face a drunk driving charge in Oklahoma, your driver's license is suspended. The license suspension process goes through an administrative process, which includes trying to get your driver's license back through an administrative hearing. Recently, a case was heard by the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals that could result in hundreds of people who are classified as DUI offenders getting their driver's licenses back.
The issue at hand is how long the administrative appeals process is taking. The Department of Public Safety system that is tasked with these proceedings has a backlog that is making some people wait up to two years for a hearing, which they claim is violating the right to a speedy trial. The recent ruling by the appellate court has found that having to wait two years is too long.
The Oklahoma Constitution notes that people do have a right to a speedy trial. While these people facing DUI charges often have their criminal case for the matter resolved fairly quickly, the administrative proceedings regarding their driver's license takes much longer.
In one case, a person faced a DUI in May of 2014. The criminal case was resolved in August of that year. The DPS hearing was set for July 2015, more than a year after the charge.
The ruling by the appellate court did note that keeping drunk drivers from being able to drive is crucial, but that doing so couldn't come at the expense of their right to a speedy trial. The ruling didn't note a specific time frame that would be considered speedy.
There is still a chance that the DPS could challenge the appellate ruling, which could further delay people getting their licenses. It is unknown if that will occur, but it is a possibility. Until more is known, people who are facing a revocation and DUI charges should learn their legal rights quickly. You only have 15 days to contest a revocation from the date of notification.
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1. Itachi Uchiha
As the title says, make the server automatically disconnect you if you have been afk for 10 minutes. It'll free up space and prevent server bloat
2. Itachi Uchiha
Looks great. I would like a moist sand demon boss to be in Nin Online
3. Itachi Uchiha
Some people are waiting on commissions that they ordered years ago. I think it's safe to say it's not a thing anymore
4. Itachi Uchiha
I think a nice feature would be to have a drop down menu on your ninja sheet that allows you to select any title that you have previously held as your active. This way you don't lose your "Beast slayer" title if you say, go rogue, and then never have access to it again. Also this would be a great way to handle rogue ninja ranks as well. Increase what it takes to achieve C-S rank rogue ninja and then if they actually get it, they can have it as a permanent title the moment they unlock it. I hate how if you use up your beast slayer token or hero of the toads token, you are unable to ever get those titles again. And this would be a very simple way to handle how that's done.
5. Itachi Uchiha
So here's how I thought fire was supposed to work: Highest base damage in the game because it doesn't have a homing or a stun and therefor no reliable combo setter. This way, every single attack is considered a skill shot in terms of how damage is dealt. Here's how I thought wind was supposed to work: Very strong single target attack mastery with low base damage considering as how they have now 3 stuns (Claw, Vacuum, Bullets) and a homing that is the strongest homing in the game in terms of raw power. Why is it that wind is currently higher base damage than fire while also having 3 stuns and a homing? What is fire's purpose? Wind has AOE jutsu that can deal with mobs of enemies just as easily as fire but with a longer dot, more damage, and the above stated advantages. My suggestions to ratify this: 1. Flame bullet needs to be instant cast again. Give us a reliable cancel jutsu like it was intended. 2. Vortex self stun needs to be at .8 seconds instead of being at the 1.1 seconds it is now. Your opponent can move and counter attack before your self stun ends. That can't be intended, right? The range is okay even though it doesn't match the animation because its lightning counterpart, lightning current, does low base damage without a dot. 3. Fan tornado (Level 10) needs to swap places with the level 40 fan jutsu. This discourages wind users from putting a cheeky 20 stat points into str just to get fan's most powerful jutsu. Seriously, please fix this, tornado is a big reason why int wind users are so strong right now. 4. Claw needs lower base damage across the board, I'd say by about 8. 5. Wind Bullets bug of looking down to hit all 3 bullets needed a patch last year. Please fix this. 6. lower the base damage of hurricane wind by 10 and reduce its cooldown by 5. 7. Firewall needs to be a run cast, not a slow run cast. I agree with the change from it being instant cast, it was too strong. But a slow cast wasn't necessary. 8. Burn damage across the board needs to go up by 4 damage per tic. A measly 2 damage per tic does not do the mastery that is meant to deal the highest damage due to it not having stuns or cancels the justice it deserves. Especially considering how quickly the dot fades. The advantage to the other dots is their length of time stuck on you, fire's is very fast, but should hurt more. @Ueda
6. Itachi Uchiha
If you do /ignore (Your own name) you won't be able to see your own map chat. I thought this was funny but it's probably not intended for you to ignore yourself.
7. Itachi Uchiha
Item sorting would be pretty nice.
8. Itachi Uchiha
Yeh, a global market is a feature we've been asking for for a long time. Hopefully this gets noticed
9. Itachi Uchiha
Please nerf the fan tornado to a 1s run cast. It's way too overpowered right now and is the ultimate sub punish jutsu. You get hit by a tornado and your health will be deleted by the following int wind combo. Nobody goes pure fan because they don't have to. They get 20 strength to use the fan and get tornado and then they go the rest into int. I hope this isn't intended, because this is far too strong right now @Ueda
10. Itachi Uchiha
I suggest that you read the post tag :clown:
11. Itachi Uchiha
Please bump akatsuki member limit from 10 to 15. Akatsuki needs to be able to compete with powerful orgs like Seigi. This is the way.
12. Itachi Uchiha
Ouch. I agree though. You’ve got potential, but the only outstanding one is Rumaki’s. Primal’s is a yikes. If you can make all of them as well as you made Rumaki’s you’ll go far. My advice is to start working on shading layers, that will improve your abilities :) I don’t mean to be rude, just constructive criticism.
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Hi, please add an item into the game that debuffs my stats. I want training weights that I can wear that will shame my enemies when I defeat them. Imagine, a trash talker says you’re bad at the game and you pop on those puppies and perfect them. Incredible! | <urn:uuid:b480968b-f300-4920-8057-504f11641f81> | https://www.ninonline.org/forum/profile/7894-itachi-uchiha/ | en | 0.956018 | 0.241061 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Reactivity and chaos in collisions of Atoms and Molecules
Collisions and reactions between atoms and molecules are fundamental to many parts of physics and chemistry. They control, for example, the rate at which gasses approach thermodynamic equilibrium or the production efficiency with which desired molecules can be created. In the domain of the ultra-cold, typically defined as temperatures less than 1 mK above absolute zero, quantum physics determines the "threshold" limit of these rate coefficients and classical models fail. The best atomic clocks, based on cesium and rubidium at microkelvin temperatures, are affected by these threshold collisions, while many quantum phase transition would not feasible without them.
representation of the connection between a weakly-bound lithium dimer and a scattering resonance between two ultra-cold lithium atoms in the presence of a magnetic field
A representation of the connection between a weakly-bound lithium dimer and a scattering resonance between two ultra-cold lithium atoms in the presence of a magnetic field. The horizontal axis shows the magnetic field near 54.3 mT (543 G). The vertical axis is the energy expressed in units of the Planck constant with negative and positive values corresponding to molecular dimers and scattering states, respectively.
We investigate by first-principle theoretical simulations both room-temperature and ultracold collisions of atoms and molecules. For ultracold temperatures we focus on resonant phenomena, the Fano-Feshbach resonance, controllable with external magnetic fields. These resonance have been instrumental in the observation of evidence for superfluid Cooper pairing of fermionic atoms as well as the study of Efimov trimers in bosonic atoms. Recently, it was realized that the distribution of the locations of these resonances is chaotic for highly magnetic lanthanide atoms. For room temperature collisions we focus on characterizing forward scattering processes that impart small momenta.
This research is done in collaboration with scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between NIST and the University of Maryland.
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• Reactivity of ultra-cold molecules
• Quantum chaos in the collisions of magnetic atoms
• Fundamental theory in to resonant Fano-Feshbach scattering
• Efimov trimers and few body physics
• Elastic collisions at room temperature
Selected Recent Publications:
K. Jachymski, M. Krych, P. S. Julienne, and Z. Idziaszek, Quantum-defect model of a reactive collision at finite temperature, Physical Review A 90, 042705 (2014).
Y. Wang, and P. S. Julienne, Universal van der Waals physics for three cold atoms near Feshbach resonances, Nature Physics 10, 768–773 (2014).
A. Petrov, E. Tiesinga, and S. Kotochigova, Anisotropy-Induced Feshbach Resonances in a Quantum Dipolar Gas of Highly Magnetic Atoms, Physical Review Letters 109, 103002 (2012).
T. M. Hanna, E. Tiesinga, W. F. Mitchell, and P. S. Julienne, Resonant control of polar molecules in individual sites of an optical lattice, Phys. Rev. A 85, 022703 (2012).
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Spotlight's home decor collection features beautiful wall art that will enhance any room in your home! Shop wall art prints, frames and more online.
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Choose And Hang Your Wall Art With The Expert Tips From Spotlight!
At Spotlight, you can benefit from a beautiful range of wall art, wall decorations, and even wall mirrors. Whether you need framed wall art for the dining room, or some wall hangings for the living room, Spotlight can undoubtedly provide it. If you need some additional tips on how to mount or hang your wall art, be sure to check out the information below.
How To Choose Wall Art?
There are different types of wall art you can obtain from Spotlight. Naturally, each type of wall art has its benefits. If you want to learn what those benefits are, be sure to read the overview below.
Canvas prints - This type of art resembles genuine paintings, as they are printed on classic canvas. Of course, they are still different from hand-painted paintings, as they are printed and not painted. The beauty of these prints is that they are long-lasting and durable. They can also be used in any room in the home.
Wall art prints - If you do not like your print on canvas, you can also use the so-called post print. This kind of print is often preferred by interior designers, more specifically because of its modern look. That being said, they can look more casual than canvas prints.
Wall stickers - Would you like some artwork that blends with your wall? If so, you can implement some art stickers instead. Art stickers should only be used on an empty wall though, as they can make a wall look cluttered if other wall art is used.
How To Arrange Wall Art?
There are different ways to arrange your wall art properly, this includes positioning it above a sofa, symmetrical with another piece of art, using different pieces of art to create a focal point in the room, or use a collage on your wall.
Methods for wall hanging - There are several methods to hang art in your home. While art stickers are self-adhesive, the most modern method for the easy application of artwork is command strip.
Consider your home decor - When arranging your wall art, always consider your home decor before you choose the arrangement. For traditional home decors, you can use a mix and match where arrangement is concerned. However, if you choose modern, you have to choose a cleaner and simpler arrangement.
How High To Hang Wall Art?
The general rule of thumb is to hang wall art at eye level. Of course, not everyone is as tall or as short, so you can implement some basic measurements as well. For example, most people will not hang their wall art any higher than 155 centimetres.
What Size Art Fits Your Wall?
You can be generally creative when it comes to the size of the artwork you choose. However, if you are unsure, always determine the size by the furniture nearby. For example, if you have a fireplace on that wall, the wall art should be wider than the fireplace.
If there is no piece of furniture near the wall, you can evaluate the amount of space around. For example, you can choose an oversized piece for a wall with nothing on it, or some smaller painting for a wall that gets broken up somewhere.
Where To Buy Wall Art Online?
Spotlight is the recommended place to obtain your artwork, as we offer a large range of art in different shapes, sizes, and designs. We also provide our wall art at the best prices, so you can save big on the wall art for your home by shopping at Spotlight today!
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Anatomy, Head and Neck, Laryngeal Muscles
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Anatomy, Head and Neck, Laryngeal Muscles
The human larynx is a specialized organ complexly organized of multiple tissue types. Although the intricate care, study, and surgical management of the larynx fall under the specialty of otolaryngology, knowledge of the larynx and associated conditions is beneficial for many medical specialties. Its position in the human body and unique functions allow the pathophysiology of the larynx to involve a spectrum of conditions and treatments from lifesaving respiratory interventions to improvements in voice quality.
Structure and Function
The larynx is a cartilaginous skeleton with intricate neuromuscular control. The hyoid is the only bone in the larynx and articulates with many of the extrinsic muscles of the larynx. A notable external landmark of the larynx is the anterior prominence of the thyroid cartilage. The hyoid bone is palpable superiorly, and the thyroid gland is palpable inferiorly.
The structure of the larynx divides into three basic parts: the supraglottis, the glottis, and the subglottis.[1]
The cartilages of the supraglottis are the epiglottis, two arytenoids, and two corniculate cartilages. The arytenoid cartilages contain a vocal process medially from which the vocal ligament extends anteriorly to the thyroid cartilage. The vestibular folds (false cords) are folds of mucosa positioned superolateral to the vocal ligaments. The lateral surface of the arytenoid contains the muscular process to which several intrinsic laryngeal muscles attach[1]. The aryepiglottic folds connect the superior surface of the arytenoids to the lateral border of the epiglottis. The inferior aspect of the arytenoids articulate with the cricoid cartilage. The corniculate cartilages are positioned superiorly to the arytenoids without muscular insertion. Finally, the cuneiform cartilages exist as sesamoid cartilages within the aryepiglottic folds.
The anatomy of the glottis is understood to be divided into the phonatory (anterior glottis) and respiratory (posterior glottis) portions functionally.[2] The boundaries of the glottis are relative to the structures of the supraglottis and subglottis. Its superior border is the middle of the ventricle, and its inferior border lies 1 cm beneath the vocal folds.
The inferior-most portion of the larynx is the subglottis. It extends from 1 cm below the vocal ligaments to the inferior border of the cricoid cartilage.[2] The major cartilaginous structures of the subglottis are the cricoid cartilage and the thyroid cartilage. The cricoid cartilage is the only cartilaginous structure of the larynx to surround the airway. Extending superiorly from the cricoid cartilage is the conus elasticus. At its superior most border, it thickens to form the vocal ligaments of the glottis.[3]
The primary functions of the larynx are in respiration, airway protection during deglutition, and phonation. In respiration, vocal folds are optimally in abduction, increasing the total area of the glottis to facilitate work of breathing.[4] When swallowing, the epiglottis is pulled posteroinferiorly to cover the glottis, allowing the bolus to pass safely into the hypopharynx and esophagus without compromising the airway. In phonation, the vocal ligaments, muscles and overlying mucosa are tensed and adducted to vibrate at frequencies appropriate for human speech.[4]
The development of the larynx begins on approximately the third week of gestation with the generation of the laryngotracheal groove in the 6th pharyngeal arch.[5] This groove eventually deepens to form the laryngotracheal diverticulum, also known as the lung bud. The diverticulum extends rostrally to develop the trachea and rest of the lower respiratory system. The mucosa of the larynx derives from the endoderm of the pharyngeal arches, whereas the cartilage and musculature of the larynx arise from the mesoderm.[5] The majority of laryngeal structures form from the fourth (thyroid cartilage, cuneiform cartilages, part of the epiglottis, superior laryngeal nerve, cricopharyngeus muscles, and cricothyroid muscles) and sixth(recurrent laryngeal nerves, cricoid cartilages, arytenoid cartilages, corniculate cartilages, and remaining intrinsic muscles). The second pharyngeal arch contributes to the majority of the hyoid bone, and the third pharyngeal arch develops the greater cornu of the hyoid and a portion of the epiglottis.
By ten weeks of gestation, the laryngeal inlet develops a covering membrane.[5] This membrane recanalizes to opening the larynx to the lower respiratory system and forming the vestibule of the larynx.
Blood Supply and Lymphatics
The blood supply to the originates from branches off of the thyroid arteries. The superior thyroid artery branches from the external carotid artery inferior to the greater cornu of the hyoid bone and gives rise to two arteries of the larynx: the superior laryngeal artery and the cricothyroid artery.[1] The superior laryngeal artery follows the course of the internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve and pierces the thyrohyoid membrane to give blood supply to the superior structures of the larynx. The cricothyroid artery predominately supplies the cricothyroid muscle. The blood supply to the inferior larynx originates from the thyrocervical trunk with the inferior thyroid artery. This vessel gives rise to the inferior laryngeal artery anterior to the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle and posterior to the trachea. Its course follows the course of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The venous drainage of the larynx follows a similar pattern to its supply.[1]
Lymphatic drainage is important to understand due to the aggressive metastasis of some laryngeal cancers. Though the lymphatic drainage can vary individually, there are understood consistencies. Supraglottic structures drain lymph to the deep cervical lymph nodes, which can further subdivide into levels. Subglottic structures drain lymph to the paratracheal and pretracheal lymph nodes.[1]
The major contributor of innervation to the larynx is the vagus nerve, cranial nerve X, which innervates the intrinsic laryngeal musculature. The extrinsic musculature innervation divides between the vagus nerve and the cervical rootlets.
The laryngeal branches of the vagus nerve are the superior laryngeal nerve and the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The superior laryngeal nerve has two main branches - the external branch and the internal branch. The external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve carries somatic motor fibers to the cricothyroid muscle as its sole function.[6] The internal branch enters the larynx through a foramen in the thyrohyoid membrane with the superior thyroid artery providing somatosensory innervation to the mucosa of the glottis and supraglottis. The recurrent laryngeal nerve branches inferior to the superior laryngeal nerve and supplies motor sensation to the remaining intrinsic muscles of the larynx. Also, the nerve carries somatosensory fibers to the subglottis and upper trachea.[7] Due to embryologic differences in anatomy, the course of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve differs from its right-sided counterpart. While the right recurrent laryngeal nerve descends anterior to the subclavian artery and then ascends posterior towards the larynx, the left recurrent laryngeal nerve courses around the aorta posterior to the ligamentum arteriosum of the heart.[1]
The cervical rootlets comprise the plexus known as the ansa cervicalis. The ansa provides innervation to many of the extrinsic muscles of the larynx such as the infrahyoid and suprahyoid musculature. The pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve innervates the pharyngeal constrictors, which act with the suprahyoid muscles to elevate the larynx during swallowing.
The intrinsic muscles of the larynx serve a variety of functions, many of which can be categorized by their action on the vocal ligament. The adductors are the thyroarytenoid (vocalis), lateral cricoarytenoid, and interarytenoid muscles.[8] The thyroarytenoid originates at the oblique line of the thyroid cartilage and inserts at the anterior surface of the ipsilateral arytenoid cartilage. Its functions include both adducting the cords and decreasing the tension of the vocal ligament to modulate pitch.[7] The lateral cricoarytenoid, which originates on the lateral cricoid cartilage and inserts at the muscular process of the arytenoid, adducts the cords and internally rotates the arytenoid. The interarytenoid (transverse arytenoid) muscle works synergistically with the lateral cricoarytenoid by maintaining the closure of the glottis after the cords have adducted. It originates at the medial aspect of the arytenoid cartilages and inserts into the contralateral interarytenoid muscle.[8] The sole abductor of the vocal ligament is the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle. This muscle originates at the posterior cricoid and inserts on the posterior muscular process of the arytenoid. Its action is to abduct and externally rotate the arytenoid in antagonism to the lateral cricoarytenoid muscle. The cricothyroid muscle originates at the anterolateral surface of the cricoid and inserts on the inferolateral surface of the thyroid cartilage. In contracting, it displaces the thyroid cartilage downward and tenses the vocal cords. It is the only intrinsic muscle of the larynx to receive its innervation from the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve instead of the recurrent laryngeal nerve.[8]
The epiglottis is drawn posteriorly over the laryngeal inlet to prevent bolus aspiration. The aryepiglottic muscles originate at the apex of the arytenoids and insert at the lateral border of the epiglottis. Similarly, the oblique arytenoid muscles originate at the arytenoid apex and insert at the aryepiglottic fold. The thyroepiglottic muscle originates on the internal surface of the thyroid cartilage and inserts on the margin of the epiglottis. When contracting, this muscle inferiorly displaces the epiglottis. These muscles work synergistically to close the laryngeal inlet by pulling the epiglottis posteriorly and inferiorly.
Several cervical muscles act extrinsically on the larynx to aid in phonation and swallowing. Muscles inserted on the superior aspect of the hyoid (geniohyoid, digastric, mylohyoid, thyrohyoid, and stylohyoid muscles) and pharynx (stylopharyngeus, palatopharyngeus, and pharyngeal constrictor muscles) act in conjunction to elevate the larynx. Those muscles inserted on the inferior surface of the hyoid (sternohyoid and omohyoid muscles) and the sternothyroid muscle act to depress the larynx.[8] Because of the elevation of the larynx during swallowing, physical exam maneuvers to examine the thyroid often involve the patient voluntarily swallowing to localize this gland better.
Physiologic Variants
Small variations in laryngeal musculature can affect voice quality and tone. The differences in voice quality are apparent between male and female larynxes. In males, testosterone thickens the vocal ligaments, causing deeper voice quality. The strength and fine control of the muscles is acquirable from use. Singers can gain improved fine motor control over their intrinsic muscles through years of practice to better modulate pitch. Though anatomic variations can exist in the musculature, cartilaginous variations are more frequent with the thyroid cartilage most commonly affected.[9]
While the innervation of laryngeal muscles frequently appears as described above, variations in innervation are common in the larynx. Often, the superior laryngeal nerve and recurrent laryngeal nerve branches will form a plexus, and aberrant branches will provide motor innervation to nearby muscles.[10]
Surgical Considerations
Hoarseness is a frequent complaint following long surgeries or prolonged admissions to the ICU. Often, the patient’s hoarseness is related to trauma caused by the intubation. Risk factors for intubation-related laryngeal injury are prolonged intubation (greater than 36 hours), intubation without myorelaxant drugs, large endotracheal tubes, aspiration, and coexisting presence of a nasogastric tube.[11] Occasionally, vocal cord paralysis can occur due to the prolonged compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve between the endotracheal tube balloon and the thyroid cartilage in the subglottis.
Because of its long course through the neck and mediastinum, the recurrent laryngeal nerve is subject to injury in cervical surgery (thyroid surgery, neck dissections, anterior cervical approach to the spine, etc.) and thoracic surgery (lung biopsy, aortic aneurysm repair, etc.). Surgical injury is the leading cause of unilateral vocal cord paralysis, followed by idiopathic and malignant causes.[12] Patients commonly present postoperatively with hoarseness that does not resolve over time.
Clinical Significance
Assessing laryngeal function and mobility is valuable for both the otolaryngologist and primary care physician. As an outpatient, primary care physicians can use laryngeal mirrors to visualize the larynx for basic screening purposes to investigate foreign bodies, masses, or inflammation. To better assess laryngeal function and visualize anatomy more intimately, an otolaryngologist or another trained practitioner can use a flexible laryngoscope. After the nasal administration of a topical anesthetic, the scope is passed through the nasopharynx as far as tolerated by the patient. Performing this well-tolerated procedure on an alert patient allows for outpatient visualization of the dynamic larynx. For most diagnostic visualization and biopsies, rigid laryngoscopy under sedation is necessary.[2]
Hoarseness and dysphagia can be the presenting symptoms of countless diseases. Trauma, stroke, malignancy, neuromuscular disorders, and psychiatric illness can cause combinations of these diseases. An appropriate differential can be generated based on demographics, exposures, and detailed history.
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Opinion: Gary McKinnon should not be extradited to US
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Gary McKinnon continues his fight against extradition to the US
The more I become acquainted with Gary McKinnon, the more this man excites my compassion.
McKinnon is a Scottish technical expert facing extradition to the United States. He is wanted for breaking into American military networks and downloading a picture. McKinnon has an extreme fascination with UFOs. He also has Asperger Syndrome (AS).
Two things make the McKinnon case compelling. The first is that according to expert medical opinion, he is not mentally competent; the second is that the Obama administration is keen to convict a high-profile "hacker" to help market its new cybersecurity agenda.
To the first point I can't speak with any expertise but I do know this: Autism in general, and Asperger Syndrome in particular, are not uncommon in the IT industry.
In my own professional network I know a top-tier security expert with AS. On the surface he is unremarkable except for the fact that you could boil water with his IQ. But roiling down below is a complex emotional slope prone to hysterical meltdowns and conspiratorial paranoia. I couldn't imagine this fellow lasting five minutes - let alone serving a full sentence - in a US federal penitentiary.
As to the Obama administration's fixation on getting its hands on Mr. McKinnon, I offer this. According to one US prosecutor Gary McKinnon has committed "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
Just for starters, the cyber-spies who downloaded terabytes of data on the US military's F-35 fighter jet might feel slighted by that claim. But let's examine the facts.
Searching for UFOs
Gary McKinnon has stipulated that he breached several military networks in search of suspected UFO data. In the process he caused no damage; inserted no malware; nor demanded any payments.
Granted McKinnon had no right to access this data but his crime was not much worse than a kid who took a car for a joyride. Grand theft auto this was not, prosecutorial hyperbole notwithstanding.
Although the US government claims it cost $700, 000 (£436,000) to repair damage caused by McKinnon's intrusion, this smells like an exaggerated figure. It is more likely that some embarrassed network administrators requested an array of expensive software upgrades that should have been installed in the first place.
But make no mistake. Gary McKinnon is no innocent. He was wandering around places he should not have been, doing things that he had no right to do. However, his mental state was, and remains, a salient factor.
Gary McKinnon should not be extradited to the United States. To send this unfortunate person into the American judicial system - and ultimately into a federal penitentiary - would be tantamount to a human rights violation.
The British courts are perfectly able to arrive at a just verdict, and one would hope that decision would include psychological counselling as part of its remedy.
The question remains, will the British Government have the courage to stand up for one of its own?
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Travel Accessories To Carry In Backpack For Women
We live in an era where everybody is in a rush; everybody is going somewhere constantly, traveling locally, to another town or even abroad.
Technology is surrounding us and the fast life that all feared a couple of decades ago is now a reality. But it’s nothing to be frightened off, we are human, and the human is the most adaptable of all species on this planet.
Travel AccessoriesWe are not just meant to survive, we are also meant to improve and that is exactly what we do. Women these days in the most of the parts of the world have equal rights as men.
They are involved in businesses, they can move up the ladder in certain companies if they possess the skills, education and experience required same as it is expected from men if they want to get a promotion and improve. That is why women also travel a lot.
When traveling most of the women still pay attention to how they look, dress etc. No wonder there are even fashion shows dedicated to travel clothes and dresses for women.
There is a certain dress code that is acceptable when traveling. It does not matter if it is traveling by a plane, train, bus, car, ship or any other means of longer range transportation.
If you decide to travel abroad you need to make sure that you made an Esta renewal ensuring you will have no problems traveling to another country and that you will not have to cut your trip, whether it is business related or not, short.
That means that you and your company, if you are on a business trip, will lose money and time. You certainly do not want that to happen so make sure that you do an esta renewal. Consider this as a friendly reminder.
Another most important thing that women pay a lot of attention when traveling are the travel accessories. According to lofthigher women love accessories and they pay a lot of money for accessories that will add to their style in almost any situation including traveling.
Traveling abroad means that you will spend at least a couple of hours in a certain transportation vehicle. Some trips may last up to 20+ hours. With that taken into consideration here are some of the best travel accessories for women that could help you look more stylish, feel better, and have everything you need for your upcoming journey.
One of the first things women will think of, and rightfully, are the handbags or purses. A proper handbag will not only add to your style but also it will provide you with room for other accessories and essential things for your trip.
A small bag with cosmetic and household essential is another key accessory that women simply can’t do without. You will laugh about the next thing but it has proven to be really beneficial in tough situations and that is a female urination device, I do not have to explain why, right?
Headphones for the ones that enjoy music and listening to music while you are traveling for a long period of time will make your trip more enjoyable. A mobile device of any sort, including a smartphone, laptop or a tablet. This will keep you amused for the trip as those devices have lots of options.
Those pretty much cover the most basic travel accessories that a woman will need on a trip.
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