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The benefits of seeing a transcript of a signed to spoken language interpretation
Maartje De Meulder and Andy Carmichael
Interpreting from a signed into a spoken language can be the ‘elephant in the room’. Signed language interpreters often perceive that this is their weakest working language direction (Napier, Rohan & Slatyer 2005). For deaf people to trust that an interpreter produces an accurate and effective rendition is often a leap in the dark because we do not have a real-time mechanism to monitor how we are being interpreted. Most of the time the elephant just stays where it is: we go about our business and do not talk about our concerns or curiosity regarding signed to spoken interpretation, and just hope that it isn’t too bad.
This is no different for deaf academics, even though, in our profession, our signed utterances typically have to be interpreted into a spoken language which we may well be able to read and write to a high academic standard. Therefore, it is crucial that interpretations in this language direction are of high academic quality. How can we evaluate this, and is it worth doing so at all?
Deaf academics and interpreters use specific strategies to assess the (quality of) the spoken language output in situations of simultaneous interpreting, for example when giving a presentation.
Some of these strategies are proactive:
• giving interpreters a full written-out version of the presentation;
• giving interpreters a list of terms with phonetic descriptions of how to pronounce specific words;
• making sure interpreters read relevant publications so the register they use reflects that of the deaf academic;
• pre-meetings to discuss deaf academic’s signs for specific/technical language;
• a full ‘dry run’ of the presentation together, in person or online.
Other strategies enable real-time control:
• asking for a team interpreter to relay the spoken interpretation through sign language, i.e. do a re-interpretation (this obviously has several drawbacks);
• using real-time captioning or CART services (which of course can have errors too).
Yet other strategies are post-situ:
• discussing with interpreters how they got on with interpreting into a spoken language (e.g. choice of specific words or phrases);
• checking with friends or colleagues who are familiar with the deaf academic’s discourse and comfortable with giving feedback (actually few people can do this and/or are comfortable with this because they are either not aware of the deaf academic’s register/not really comfortable with giving feedback/have no clue about what sign language interpreters are actually doing);
• audio-recording interpreters, and discussing the transcript with them.
The last strategy is the most time consuming but also seems to be the most effective method to assess signed to spoken language interpretation, although not in real-time, especially when working with designated interpreters.
This post focuses on one such strategy: discussing a verbatim transcript. The first time Maartje used this strategy was after her PhD defence in 2016. Her signed defence was video-recorded, and there were cameras on the interpreters as well so their performance (both visual and audio) was recorded too. The spoken interpretation was transcribed verbatim and compared against the signed version (see De Meulder, Napier and Stone 2018).
Working together for a keynote presentation
In July 2019, Maartje gave a one-hour keynote presentation at the World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) in Paris: “Sign language rights for all, and forever?”. The full presentation in International Sign is available here, as well as the slides. The keynote was based on a presentation she gave a few months before at a conference in Oslo, although the beginning and end of the presentation were different, and some of the arguments were finetuned. Andy interpreted this presentation.
Maartje specifically asked for Andy to interpret her keynote in Paris too, since they could build on their experience working together in Oslo and because he’s one of her designated interpreters for conferences where English is the main spoken language. They also see each other semi-regularly socially, which means they know each other also outside of professional contexts, and are familiar with each other’s way of thinking, sense of humour, and use of different registers.
At the WFD conference, there were about 800 people in the room and the presentation was live-streamed to two other rooms containing several hundred more people.
Photo courtesy of Hasan Dikyuva (Twitter)
The audience was a very mixed group of deaf people from around the globe, with varying abilities in International Sign. For the presentation Maartje signed International Sign and Andy worked to English. This was interpreted back into French Sign Language (LSF) on the stage and also on the main screen, since LSF was one of the official conference languages (see picture above). It was also interpreted back to a number of national signed languages, by (hearing and deaf) interpreters who were standing or seated at various locations in the audience in the three rooms, and who had headphones to hear Andy’s voice. Several other deaf interpreters in the audience worked with deafblind participants. There were also English captions on one of the side screens, provided by automated speech recognition technology. However, the quality of the captions was poor, and according to the translator who transcribed the interpretation for this post, the captions on the day only covered 60 to 70 percent of what Andy said.
Maartje sent Andy slides and notes beforehand. During lunch break on the day right before the presentation we had some 15 minutes prep time in the interpreters’ room, mainly to fill in the LSF interpreters who would also be on the stage. Andy had an extremely high workload, not only on the day itself but also on the days before (and after) the talk, with the presentation happening on the third of five straight 12 hour-working days.
After the conference, Andy realized that both the signed and the spoken version were formally recorded by the conference team and could therefore be compared against each other. We got permission from conference staff to receive the recordings (including the captions), and asked a translator to transcribe verbatim the voice recording of Andy’s target text rendition. This gave us a transcript of 9 pages (6,300 words).
Comments on the transcript
Maartje is happy with the quality of the signed to spoken rendition. She generally finds it to be an accurate reflection of her personal and academic register (i.e. how she would talk to people about the topic of this presentation, and how she would write about it academically). Actually, this should not come as a surprise. We were both well prepared, we worked together for this presentation before, we are well attuned to each other etc. This shows the value of a designated interpreter model. The transcript also makes clear that the rendered spoken output for a specific presentation is not an ad hoc rendition but the product of collaboration which must be seen on a timeline with previous collaborations, preparation, debriefing, knowing each other in other contexts, etc.
So rather than really use the transcript to asses quality of the spoken language output, our discussion was more about interpreting practices and strategies, for example nuances and word choices, audience design, and the benefits for deaf academics of seeing a verbatim transcript of a signed to spoken language interpretation.
Word choices, and the importance of audience design
[Time indications in the sections below refer to the YouTube video of the presentation.]
When reflecting on the transcript, in some instances Maartje would have made different word choices, such as when Andy said “But many of these languages still cease to exist. They become extinct because nobody uses them” – Maartje actually meant and also signed that speakers drop the languages they speak, cease to use them because there is nobody to use them with. Andy added some of this in his next sentence: “There’s no reason or rationale for using them, so they then switch to using other majority languages.”
In one other instance Andy said “… so I’m interested in how language policies, uhh, connect to politics, political theory.” The brief hesitation and repetition here was also because Maartje signed “POLICY” in BSL, then “POLITICS” as she knows it from VGT and after that “POLITICS” in ASL (2:42-2:44 and video clip 1).
Video clip 1
A few renditions (maybe two over the whole presentation) were not exactly as Maartje meant it but all in all did not completely change the source message. For example, Andy said “So this language deprivation concept is very much from the United Nations, we see this less so in the European context”, while Maartje actually signed “United States”.
When reflecting on the transcript, we discussed that a lot depends on the context and on audience design. Languages “ceasing to exist” and “becoming extinct” might not be the proper lingo for an academic applied linguistics conference audience, but in the context of this specific WFD conference might be appropriate, even if it was not Maartje’s exact intention. The context of the WFD conference (800 strong audience, time pressures, etc.) also did not warrant interruption. Interpreters often have to make split second decisions, evaluating how worthwhile it is to interrupt someone. Also, we did not discuss specific word choices in advance (which would have been more necessary for an academic conference) but rather focused on the key message Maartje wanted to convey, and the specifics about the strengths and weaknesses of each argument Maartje presented, because these were the core of her presentation.
Andy from his side noticed there was some “interpreted text” in the rendition, and also that he used the word ‘so’ too much. An example of “interpreted text” (which shares features with “presenter speak”) is “There are seven main claims, you may well have more, please do uuh inform me of them” (6:00), where right at the end of the sentence the word “them” should have been “those” (Maartje asked the audience to let her know if they thought of other claims). Another example contains a false start and then an ungrammatical sentence: “The first argu…, the first thing that I the first argument that I propose: sign languages are among the languages that deaf people use…” (7:26).
Spoken language interpretation as a relay for other interpreters
For the presentation at the WFD congress, the interpretation to English was not only meant for the audience, but also for the national (hearing) sign language interpreters in the audience. Andy thus functioned as a relay for them. This influenced his target lexical and grammatical choices a great deal. Because his colleagues often will have English further down their repertoire than native or near native fluency levels, he would ensure his lexical choices are widely dispersed in global English. For example one instance he initially used a word (“milieu”) that was too obscure and then did a repair fixing it with a more accessible version (“media”) and bookmarked that with yet another option (“area”): “… we need to assure that our rights are conferred in that milieu, in that media, in that area too.” He would also simplify his sentence structure, as well as ‘doubling up’ by giving alternative phraseologies to key concepts (such as with “milieu”, “media” and “area” above). When Maartje signed “LOBBY” as a verb (5:29 to 5:31 and video clip 2) Andy provided three wordings for one concept in his target rendition: “… we’re making these stands, why we’re lobbying, why we’re canvassing …”.
Video clip 2
Another example of doubling, or rather ‘hedging’, is where Andy transmitted the concept of ‘interconnectedness’ which Maartje clearly signed “INTERCONNECTED” (6:32 to 6:38 and video clip 3), but also offered an alternative: “… and overlaps and there’s interconnectedness between them but I will deal with them one by one.”
Video clip 3
This all has to be balanced though with fidelity to the source message, so interpreters should not be ‘dumbing down’ the sophistication of the original message. If the register choice in the source message is not appropriate for the audience, then that is the presenter’s responsibility primarily.
What do we learn from this?
Analysing transcripts in this way is time consuming and not feasible to do for every single presentation. The benefits however go beyond assessing the quality of the spoken language output and improve working relationships with interpreters. Another potential benefit, in some cases, is that deaf professionals can leverage the lexical choices made by interpreters, who are in many cases native users of languages such as English, to influence their own lexical choices for those concepts in future writing and presenting. For example Maartje read Andy’s use of “a thorny argument” or “a spectrum of strengths and weaknesses”, and took note of these for future writing.
Another benefit of seeing a verbatim transcript is that deaf professionals can see written down all the phatics, fillers and redundancies that are part of normal speech and therefore turn up in interpretations. Hearing people don’t like silences and actually need some of these breaks from pure content to process the information, especially during a one-hour talk. So, being aware of how much of these are within “normal range” for a hearing presenter speaking with authority is useful. Then, if you are looking at a transcript of a less successful interpretation, you may be able to identify specific issues from the placements, frequencies and types of fillers. The transcript should also be checked with the signed source text (if available) to rule out lack of clarity of the source message as a reason for excessive fillers.
We want to highlight that this strategy is not suitable to use at any stage of the working relationship with interpreters. When you are working with a new interpreter for the first time and record them right away this could possibly be perceived as a professional affront. The strategy could work if there is an existing working relationship, a basic level of trust to build on, and if you are both positive that you want to continue to invest in the working relationship. It also implies that interpreters working in these settings are confident enough to have their work stand up to professional (and in this case public) scrutiny, and that deaf professionals are prepared to scrutinize their own presentation skills and language use. This is not self-evident and for some interpreters and deaf presenters might be outright scary, but we believe this contributes to stronger working relationships and better outcomes.
Maartje De Meulder is lecturer/senior researcher at University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. She specializes in Deaf Studies and applied language studies. As a deaf academic, she is a ‘super user’ of sign language interpreting services, and interested in how deaf academics and interpreters work together. She’s on Twitter as @mdemeulder
Andy Carmichael grew up in the Scottish Deaf community, trained and qualified as an interpreter in England first of all, and has since worked across the globe in a multitude of settings, his working languages being English, BSL, Auslan, and IS. Andy now works full time as an interpreter at Heriot Watt University, and is currently chair of the Association of Sign Language Interpreters UK. He’s on Twitter as @AndyCar70
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Men in general aren’t exactly well known for always taking great care of themselves. But, when you think about it, every man owes it to himself, and to his family (if he has one) to stay healthy.
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Eating something healthy every morning means you’ll be less likely to be so hungry later on that you end up grabbing some unhealthy snack that won’t do you any favors. Eating breakfast also boosts your metabolism.
Seven to eight hours of sleep a night. That’s the ticket to living longer, being a healthier weight, stressing less, and remembering more stuff.
Do you like having teeth? If so, buy some floss! You can brush all day long, and still not touch all the bacteria-filled gunk hiding out between your teeth. Also, did you know that bacteria can actually increase your heart disease risks?
Umm, you kinda do it anyway, so why not use it to help you de-stress and calm your nerves? For a super-quick, super-calming exercise, slowly breathe in through your nose as you count to seven, letting your chest and stomach expand. After a second or two, slowly exhale through your nose, again counting to seven. Do this several times a day, especially when something is stressing you out. Get in a little stretching while you’re at it! Yoga class, anyone?
You know exactly how much fat and how many calories are in your favorite restaurant dish, right? Believe us…you have no idea. Cooking more gives you better control of your nutrients and calories. Don’t forget to cook lean meats, along with lots of colorful vegetables and whole grains.
Men feel emotionally and physically outstanding when they have an active sex. According to WebMD, there are countless health benefits attributed to sex, including a stronger immune system, lower heart disease risks, and even lower prostate cancer risks. Just make sure that you’re protecting yourself and your partner every time, getting regular STD screenings, and consistently taking the proper STD treatment if necessary.
Men are well-known for being kinda stoic and tight-lipped when it comes to their probelm. Men are also well known for being more stressed and having more heart health issues. Is there a connection? Possibly! So, talk to a loved one about things that are bothering you. A good listener really does help boost your health.
So. About that gut. Your waist circumferance should be less than half your height. If it’s higher, then you’re at a higher risk of either having a heart attack, becoming a diabetic, and even having less testosterone. You do not want any of these things. In addition to eating right, exercise is the best way to keep your body and mind in great shape. So get in at least an hour of activity most days of the week. This includes cardio and weight training.
Again, men are notorious for just not liking the doctor’s office. Little secret: very few people actually do. However, doctors help you stay healthy. Staying healthy makes you and everybody else happier. So, at the very least, visit your doctor once a year for an annual check-up, report any problems that come up immediately, make sure you get in all necessary screenings, and be sure to keep a copy of your medical history and your medical records. Just in case.
In addition to regular doctor visits, at least once a month, do a self-check of your entire body. Nobody knows your body the way you do, so if you get used to the way your body looks and feels, you’re more likely to quickly spot any problems and talk to your doctor about them. This includes checking your testicles for bumps, a rough/hard patches, and how they’re hanging (one should hang slightly lower than the other).
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tweezers to remove a splinterSplinters are painful and can be an unfortunate part of camping.
They can, however, happen to anyone, and there are a few things you need to know about how to get rid one as soon as possible. You don’t want it settling in and you don’t want to unnecessarily irritate the area. Here some things you can do to remove a splinter the quickest, easiest way possible.
1) Wash With Water (Gently)
The first step is to wash the area with water. Use a gentle motion so as not to cause irritation. Then dry thoroughly.
2) Create Baking Soda + Water Paste
Create a baking soda + warm water mix. This will serve to protect the area from infection and also to assist with removal of the splinter.
3) Apply To Area
You are going to take the paste and gently dab it around the area and on top of the splinter. Make sure it is all over the area and surrounding skin.
4) Wait 24 Hours Before Attempting Removal
The last step and the one you have to be careful with is going to involve removing the splinter. Take a tweezer and do this gently. Pull in the direction the splinter entered (you may want to have a small magnifying glass to assist with this) and gently remove the splinter from under the skin.
This simple remedy can be very effective in removing those annoying splinters before they become a problem for you.
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File Sharing: What You Need to Know
This article was published in The California Aggie on October 26, 2005. Click here to view the Aggie version.
The temptation to illegally download music, movies, and software can be a big one, but the "free" goods pale in comparison to the consequences, which might entail academic probation, suspension from campus Internet services, and a lawsuit.
During the 2004-05 school year, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notifications filed against UC Davis were the lowest they'd been in three years, but 2005-06 is not off to an equally low start. And at least 75% of such transgressions are committed by students, which means you need to be aware of the risks involved so you don't become part of that statistic.
How File Sharers Get Caught
File sharing is easy to detect. A whole new industry of companies paid to find illegal file sharing employ scanning technology that identifies computers providing copyrighted material.
The Security Hazards of File Sharing
Most people believe that downloading a single movie or a few songs won't put them at risk of being caught. The problem lies, however, in signing on to a peer-to-peer file sharing program. Once you've done so, everything contained on your computer is available for upload to other members whenever you're on the Internet, which is any time your computer is turned on if you're on ResNet or DSL. If another peer-to-peer member asks for a file on your computer, the software happily sends it without you knowing it.
Think about it: your social security number, stored passwords, and other private data you wouldn't want strangers accessing is available to someone looking for more than entertainment. Can you say "ID theft?"
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• Install the latest security patches on your operating system.
• Scan new software with your antivirus program before installing it.
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• Executable (.exe) files install immediately on your computer, so don't click on one unless you know what it is and who it's from.
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Pirating, UC Davis, and You
Students whose computers are found to be trading media illegally, even if a visitor used the computer to do so, are required to meet with Student Judicial Affairs. Internet access is terminated until that process is complete, and possibly permanently, depending on the circumstances. Worse still, names are tracked and warnings go in academic files for the duration of college careers.
Staff and faculty also face sanctions if caught sharing illegal files, and yes, they too have done so.
If you are accused of illegal file sharing, either on the giving or receiving end, the university cannot protect you from being sued. A lawsuit begins when, instead of sending a DMCA notification to the Internet Service Provider (the university if you're using ResNet, a campus connection, the modem pool, or campus wireless), the copyright owner asks a court to issue a subpoena for the ISP to turn over the file sharer's name. When UC Davis receives a subpoena, it does its best to contact the individual first, but it must respond. After that it's between you and the copyright owner, and you can bet the process will be a lot more expensive than an ything you got free through the peer-to-peer service.
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If you are operating a business in Liverpool, you may wonder what the fire safety laws are for this particular city in northwestern England. In each part of the UK, these safety laws might differ, and you must know exactly how to comply with them in your particular region. Fire safety laws can also change over time. It is important to comply with them as long as you are in business. Here is an overview of fire safety laws for businesses that you should know about to keep your business compliant with a fire risk assessment in Liverpool.
Fire Fighting EquipmentOverview Of Fire Safety Laws
Fires can start very easily, and in most cases are preventable. They are typically the results of some type of carelessness, or a lack of inspections that prevents the potential of fires from being detected. It is important to adopt all of the proper behaviours associated with fire safety in order to prevent something that could be catastrophic. In general, there are three factors involved with the start of any fire. They must have a source of ignition which means there could be heaters, naked flames, or electrical equipment that is in disrepair. Second, there must be a source of fuel. This could be furniture, waste materials, packaging materials, or any type of dry cellulose in the form of wood or paper. Finally, all fires need to have oxygen to burn. If all three of these factors are concurrent, fires will begin.
Why You Must Have A Fire Safety Risk Assessment
Any owner of a business in Liverpool must have a fire safety risk assessment done regularly. These findings will keep the establishment safe. It will address many factors including the fire safety measures that must be implemented and maintained to reduce the potential of fires getting started. Additionally, fire prevention strategies can prevent the loss of life, which is the main reason for doing these assessments. The B38 Group must deliver fire safety information to Liverpool offices in order to be compliant.
Qualifications Of Those That Provide Assessments And Repairs
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To Track or Not to Track
Zachary McCoy, a restaurant worker in Florida, received a surprising email from Google. Google’s legal support team was letting him know that the local police department demanded some of his Google account data. Unless he tried to block it in court, they would release the data in seven days.
Not knowing what he had done, but noticing a case number, he began to search for the information. He found there was a burglary of a woman’s home within a mile of his and his roommates’ house. Knowing he had nothing to do with this, he contacted his parents who in turn hired a lawyer for him.
Their lawyer found out that they were looking for a “geofence warrant,” which just sweeps up all Google data from all GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connections nearby.
It turns out that McCoy uses an app on his phone called RunKeeper to record his bike rides. He found he passed by the victim’s home a few times within one hour, which is actually part of his normal frequent loops he makes all the time.
Even if you are innocently using your apps with GPS that keep track of your activities, you may be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Fitbit is Being Sold
So apparently Fitbit will belong to Google. Google was looking to expand their wearables division. Google has already been in this space with Google Wear OS and Google Fit. This will help bring together Fitbit’s technology with Google’s. The deal will cost Google about $2.1 billion. The deal is expected to be finished in 2020.
Fitbit, a pioneer in the fitness tracking industry, had already devised wearable smartwatches with their fitness tracker built in. The Versa2 Smartwatch has Alexa built in, as well as Spotify, a sleep tracker, heart-rate tracker, Fitbit pay, and various other apps. We can only speculate whether or not that will change in the future, especially about Alexa vs the Google assistant. It starts at $199.95.
The Fitbit Versa Lite Edition Smartwatch has heart-rate tracking, sleep tracking, apps and notifications and starts at $159.95. The Fitbit Ionic Smartwatch has personal coaching, built-in GPS, can store music, track heart-rate. It runs $249.95.
Other products are trackers: Charge 3 costs $149.95; Inspire starts at $69.95; Ace 2 for kids starts at $69.95 and is for ages 6+. In addition they also have Aria scales (Aria Air and Aria 2). Aria 2 will costs $129.95 while Aria Air is $49.95. They connect through apps to the fitness trackers as well. You can also accessorize your trackers and watches with a variety of different bands.
Source: Google
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@article{RisseKussmaulKruegeretal.2012, author = {Risse, Sebastian and Kussmaul, Bjoern and Kr{\"u}ger, Hartmut and Kofod, Guggi}, title = {Synergistic improvement of actuation properties with compatibilized high permittivity filler}, series = {Advanced functional materials}, volume = {22}, journal = {Advanced functional materials}, number = {18}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {1616-301X (print)}, doi = {10.1002/adfm.201200320}, pages = {3958 -- 3962}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Electroactive polymers can be used for actuators with many desirable features, including high electromechanical energy density, low weight, compactness, direct voltage control, and complete silence during actuation. These features may enable personalized robotics with much higher ability to delicately manipulate their surroundings than can be achieved with currently available actuators; however, much work is still necessary to enhance the electroactive materials. Electric field-driven actuator materials are improved by an increase in permittivity and by a reduction in stiffness. Here, a synergistic enhancement method based on a macromolecular plasticizing filler molecule with a combination of both high dipole moment and compatibilizer moieties, synthesized to simultaneously ensure improvement of electromechanical properties and compatibility with the host matrix is presented. Measurements show an 85\% increase in permittivity combined with 290\% reduction in mechanical stiffness. NMR measurements confirm the structure of the filler while DSC measurements confirm that it is compatible with the host matrix at all the mixture ratios investigated. Actuation strain measurements in the pure shear configuration display an increase in sensitivity to the electrical field of more than 450\%, confirming that the filler molecule does not only improve dielectric and mechanical properties, it also leads to a synergistic enhancement of actuation properties by simple means.}, language = {en} } @article{KussmaulRisseKofodetal.2011, author = {Kussmaul, Bjoern and Risse, Sebastian and Kofod, Guggi and Wache, Remi and Wegener, Michael and McCarthy, Denis N. and Kr{\"u}ger, Hartmut and Gerhard, Reimund}, title = {Enhancement of dielectric permittivity and electromechanical response in silicone elastomers molecular grafting of organic dipoles to the macromolecular Network}, series = {Advanced functional materials}, volume = {21}, journal = {Advanced functional materials}, number = {23}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {1616-301X (print)}, doi = {10.1002/adfm.201100884}, pages = {4589 -- 4594}, year = {2011}, abstract = {A novel method is established for permittivity enhancement of a silicone matrix for dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) by molecular level modifications of the elastomer matrix. A push-pull dipole is synthesized to be compatible with the silicone crosslinking chemistry, allowing for direct grafting to the crosslinker molecules in a one-step film formation process. This method prevents agglomeration and yields elastomer films that are homogeneous down to the molecular level. The dipole-to-silicone network grafting reaction is studied by FTIR. The chemical, thermal, mechanical and electrical properties of films with dipole contents ranging from 0 wt\% to 13.4 wt\% were thoroughly characterized. The grafting of dipoles modifies the relative permittivity and the stiffness, resulting in the actuation strain at a given electrical field being improved by a factor of six.}, language = {en} } | <urn:uuid:e14ec2e3-0397-449f-95b1-bf34bb3547a2> | https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/export/index/bibtex/searchtype/authorsearch/author/%22Kr%C3%BCger%2C+Hartmut%22/start/0/rows/10/institutefq/Institut+f%C3%BCr+Physik+und+Astronomie/author_facetfq/Kofod%2C+Guggi/subjectfq/permittivity+enhancement | en | 0.877189 | 0.19304 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Scan using multiple math equations
Hi, I am having trouble creating a scan with multiple equations. I was hoping someone could help. Here is what I am trying to achieve.
1. I want the close to have crossed above the following combined level, therefore
[close x
2. The level I want the close to exceed the sum of three periods and I have tried to express this in the following equation;
The average of yesterday's H/L/C times 2 minus yesterdays low, represented below;
[[[[Yesterday's High + Yesterday's Low + Yesterday's Close]/3]*2] - Yesterday's Low]
but that is not the end, I also want to add the average of two days ago H/L/C times 2 minus 2 days ago low, represented below;
+ [[[[2 days ago High + 2 days ago Low + 2 days ago close]/3]*2] – 2 days ago Low]
Finally, I want to add a third days average of three days ago H/L/C times 2 minus 3 days ago low, represented below;
+ [[[[3 days ago High + 3 days ago Low + 3 days ago close]/3]*2] - 3 days ago Low]/3]
I want cross above level to be represented by the equation output of the three days, not just the first day. That is why I have tried to group them in this manner.
• markdmarkd mod
edited June 24
Do you get an error message ?
What is it?
It looks like it should pass syntax. Does it? If not, it may be more than the parser can handle in one line (in other words, nested too deep).
It might help to run each equation individually - i.e. close x day 1's equation, then close x day 2's equation, etc.
If that works, try combining 2 days - close x day 1 + day 2; and then close x day 1 + day 2 + day 3, then finally divide the sum of the 3 days by 3.
If the individual equations work, but it fails at some point when combining them, then it's likely to much for the scanner.
Another possibility is the scanner can handle it but the server is killing it for running too long. Try it against just the dow 30 or sp100.
• Thanks Mark. Yes, run individually, the syntax is correct and the scan is successful. Once I add the second equation into the mix I get a "cannot parse error". I suspect it is that the nesting is greater than the scan can handle as I need multiple sets of brackets to ensure the math is correct. However, support has told me it should work but no matter what I try, other than individually, it fails. Appreciate the input...
• markdmarkd mod
edited June 25
When you add the second statement, try putting another set of brackets to contain the two statements, so
[close x [ [statement 1] + [ statement 2] ] ]
Then, if that works, try putting a bracket after the "x" and before the first bracket of the first statement, and one more bracket just before the "/3]. It may not understand that you want to divide the sum of all three statements by 3.
[close x [ [statement 1] + [ statement 2] + [statement 3] ] /3 ]
Sounds counter intuitive - but if support says its not nested too deep, that might be it.
• Or, you could try reducing the math by substituting .67 (or .66666 etc.) for /3 * 2.
[[a + b + c+] /3] * 2]
[ [a + b + c +] * .67]
• Thanks Mark! I will see if that can work for me. Appreciate your help...
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‘Private-hire’ driver held for raping teenager
A MAN who claimed to be a GrabTaxi driver and who tricked his teenage victim into trusting him and then raping her was arrested this morning (Sept. 7, 2018), INN News reported.
Pol Maj-Gen Sompong Chinduang, deputy head of Metropolitan Police Bureau, said Visanu Chanthayoi, 34, was arrested at a petrol pump on Charansanitwong road and his car and 2 mobile phones seized.
This followed a complaint filed by the 15-year-old girl that the suspect had raped her in his vehicle at the U-turn beneath the Bangkok-side of Krung Thon bridge on the night of August 19 when she was returning home after completing a special assignment.
The victim said the suspect pretended to be a GrabTaxi driver and reached her through this ride-hailing and ride-sharing service’s application.
Police said this suspect had previously raped other teenagers younger than 15 years of age in adjacent Nonthaburi province.
Police added that the suspect would park his car near educational institutions and used a chat application to reach his young teenage victims.
When they agree to take a ride in his vehicle, he would get close to them and then gave them his mobile phone number so that they could reach him directly and not have to pay the GrabTaxi fee.
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Stone Arabia
I’m right in the middle of Dana Spiotta‘s Stone Arabia. It’s good. It’s really good. Somewhere in the first few pages is a line that has yet to leave me alone. Read it slowly.
“Bad art
smells human
in all the wrong ways.”
What do you think of that? Does it make sense? How do you make sense of it? What does she mean?
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2 responses to “Stone Arabia
1. Donna
Methinks the author is trying too hard to be clever. At first read it sounds profound…but pull it apart and it’s just a way of saying bad art is like body odor. I refuse to dig for deeper meaning, call me obtuse.
2. Laurene Miller
OK, I’m calling you obtuse. I would say the author is actually being clever, not just trying. The key word is “human.” What it means is that bad art reflects the personality flaws of the artist in a way that makes them unendurable, like a bad smell. From what I’ve seen of it, bad art usually reeks of vanity. Great art is also “human” — which means it reflects the flaws of human beings, too, but the greatness of the art makes those flaws touching or understandable. In great art, the flaws draw us closer by reminding us of our own humanity, rather than repelling us.
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Internet Engineering Task Force Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
INTERNET-DRAFT Research Lab, IIJ
Expires: Feb 22, 2003 Aug 22, 2002
IPv4 mapped address considered harmful
Status of this Memo
provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task
may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
To view the list Internet-Draft Shadow Directories, see
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
The internet-draft will expire in 6 months. The date of expiration will
be Feb 22, 2003.
IPv6 address architecture [Hinden, 1998] defines IPv4 mapped address.
The representation is used in IPv6 basic API [Gilligan, 1999] to denote
IPv4 destinations on AF_INET6 socket within the API. At the same time,
there are protocol proposals that use IPv4 mapped address on wire.
Therefore, IPv4 mapped address has two meanings, and they are not
distinguishable from the userland applications. This draft discusses
security threats due to the dual use of IPv4 mapped address. It also
discusses threats due to the additional complexities introduced by IPv4
mapped address.
1. Dual meaning of IPv4 mapped address
IPv6 basic socket API [Gilligan, 1999] defines the use of IPv4 mapped
address with AF_INET6 sockets. IPv4 mapped address is used as an
internal identifier for IPv4 peers, on AF_INET6 sockets. The API is
designed with IPv4/v6 dual stack nodes in mind. When an IPv4 packet
reaches an IPv4/v6 dual stack node, kernel IPv4 layer will handle it,
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then passes it up to TCP/UDP layer. When TCP/UDP layer finds an
AF_INET6 listening socket, it will pass the packet to the listening
socket as if it was from the corresponding IPv4 mapped address. Let us
call it "basic API behavior" in this draft.
Some of the translator technologies such as SIIT [Nordmark, 2000] uses
IPv4 mapped address in header fields of actual IPv6 packet on wire.
These technologies are designed with IPv6 only nodes in mind. It is
assumed that IPv6 packets with IPv4 mapped address will be handled by
IPv6 layer then by TCP/UDP layer, and reaches an AF_INET6 socket. Let
us call it "SIIT behavior" in this draft.
2. Threats due to the use of IPv4 mapped address on wire
When userland application on top of AF_INET6 API sees peers with IPv4
mapped addresses (like by getpeername(2) or recvfrom(2)), it cannot
detect if the packet actually was IPv4 (IPv4 mapped address appeared due
to basic API behavior) or IPv6 (SIIT behavior).
This ambiguity creates chances to malicious party to trick victim nodes.
Here are a couple of examples:
o By transmitting IPv6 packet with ::ffff: in IPv6 source
address field, applications that assume basic API behavior will be
tricked to believe that the packet is from the node itself (IPv4
loopback address,
o By transmitting IPv6 packet to firewall device, with IPv4 mapped
address corresponds to address inside the firewall (like
::ffff: as the IPv6 source address, malicious party could
bypass IPv4 filtering rules and inject traffic inside the firewall.
o Assume that the victim node is an IPv4/v6 dual stack node. By
transmitting IPv6 packet with IPv4 mapped address corresponds to IPv4
broadcast address (::ffff: in IPv6 source address
field, to TCP/UDP port that swaps IPv6 source and destination address
(e.g. UDP port 53, DNS), malicious node can trick the victim node to
generate improper IPv4 broadcast traffic; This is because basic API on
the victim node will emit transmission requests to destination IPv4
mapped address, ::ffff:, into IPv4 traffic.
3. Other threats related to IPv4 mapped address
3.1. Access control complexity
RFC2553 section 3.7 adds complexity to access controls. Due to the
additional complexity, it is likely that there will be many mistakes in
access controls.
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Due to RFC2553 section 3.7, AF_INET6 socket will accept IPv4 packets.
On an IPv4/v6 dual stack node, if there is no AF_INET listening socket,
normal administrators would believe that there will be no access from
IPv4 peers. However, if AF_INET6 listening socket is present, IPv4
peers will be able to access the service.
To protect applications from this threat, every access control logic has
to have a special case handling for IPv4 mapped address. It is
impossible to enforce such a requirement to every application
4. Suggested protocol change
o In IPv4 address architecture document [Hinden, 1998] explicitly state
that IPv4 mapped address is for use within basic API [Gilligan, 1999]
, and basic API only. Forbid any other uses.
o Move any document that suggests the use of IPv4 mapped address on wire
to historic, due to security reasons.
The above change will remove the threat due to the use of IPv4 mapped
address on wire.
Another way is to deprecate RFC2553 section 3.7, however, due to the
wide deployment of applications that use IPv6 basic API, the option is
not feasible.
5. Suggested implementation tips
5.1. Kernel/library developers
o Do not support IPv4 mapped address on AF_INET6 API (RFC2553 section
3.7). By doing so the kernel TCP/UDP code will be greatly simplified,
and will reduce the likelihood of security-sensitive kernel bugs.
o Implement 2553bis [Gilligan, 2002] IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, and make
the default value to on (the default value suggested by the document
is "off"). This has almost the same effect as the previous bullet.
With the approach you still have to implement complex in-kernel
interaction between AF_INET and AF_INET6 socket, which can lead to
security-senstive kernel bugs. Also, once a userland application
turns the socket option off, your system will become vulnerable. The
change will make your stack incompatible with 2553bis section 3.7 and
o Drop any IPv6 native packet with IPv4 mapped address in any of IPv6
header fields as well as IPv6 extension header fields. It will make
the system incompatible with SIIT.
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o Drop any IPv6 DNS response that contains IPv4 mapped address.
5.2. Application developers
o In EVERY userland application check the IPv6 source address, if it
embeds bad IPv4 address. This approach is impossible in reality, as
it's hard to know what is "bad" address, and there are millions of
coders in different places. There is no way to enforce this rule.
o Do not try to utilize RFC2553 section 3.7 (IPv4 traffic on AF_INET6
socket). Implement server applications by using AF_INET and AF_INET6
listening socket. Explicitly set IPV6_V6ONLY socket option to on,
whenever the socket option is available on the system.
NOTE: Due to the lack of standard behavior in bind(2) semantics,
this may not be possible on some systems. Some IPv6 stack does not
permit bind(2) to, after bind(2) to ::. Also, there is no
standard on how IPv4 traffic will be routed when both and
:: listening sockets are available on the same port.
6. Security considerations
The document talks about security issues in the use of IPv4 mapped
address. Possible solutions are provided.
7. Change History
none yet.
Hinden, 1998.
R. Hinden and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" in
RFC2373 (July 1998). ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2373.txt.
Gilligan, 1999.
R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, and W. Stevens, "Basic Socket
Interface Extensions for IPv6" in RFC2553 (March 1999).
Nordmark, 2000.
E. Nordmark, "Stateless IP/ICMP Translator (SIIT)" in RFC2765 (February,
2000). ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2765.txt.
Gilligan, 2002.
R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, J. McCann, and W. R. Stevens, "Basic
Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6" in draft-ietf-ipngwg-
rfc2553bis-06.txt (July 2002). work in progress material.
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Author's address
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
Research Laboratory, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
Takebashi Yasuda Bldg.,
3-13 Kanda Nishiki-cho,
Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 101-0054, JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-5259-6350
Fax: +81-3-5259-6351
email: itojun@iijlab.net
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“When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Not only has Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiates a cordial ‘understanding’ with Adolf Hitler, guaranteeing peaceful relations between the two nations.”
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“Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.”
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The Ballet Lover exposes the beauty and cruelty of ballet, the performances, the back stage moments, and the personal dramas of the famous ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalia Makarova as seen through the eyes of an American female journalist.”
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Long working hours at the office to take a toll on the employees. Coupled with that is the time taken in commuting to and fro from the office. Desk jobs have also increased with the advancement of technology. Most things happen over the phones or through the internet facilities. Therefore, employees do spend most of the time either working on desks or traveling for work. It not only eats up the time but takes its toll on the physical and mental health. There is hardly any time to exercise before leaving for exercise or after reaching home from work. They get too tired to work out after working long hours at the office.
Thus, more and more offices are setting up the mini to significant gyms in the office for their employees. They too want the people to be physically and mentally fit. It is good for the productivity of the office. There will be less number of employees asking for leave due to ill health and doctor visits. You too can set up a gym at your office. Just keep in mind some of the factors below.
1. Space, Design, and Budget
The first thing that you need to do is identify the area in your office complex. This will help you decide how much to invest in setting it up and also the kind of equipment you can place there. Make a floor plan and design your gym. Spend the money to set up the gym, and you can safely ask the employees to pay a nominal amount for the use. This could be on daily, weekly, monthly, or annual changes.
2. Permission
Once you have made a plan and budget, seek the permission to set up a health club or gym at your office. Also, keep in mind whether you are putting up just a couple of basic machines for the employees to use during office hour breaks or is it a full-fledged gym which they can use just before or after office timing. Permissions should be taken accordingly.
3. Routine and payments
Permissions in hand, plan a routine for the use of the gym as well as for the best health benefit. This is according to various needs of employees like weight loss, bodybuilding, simple fitness routine, etc. Take the help of professional for planning this. You don’t want any failures and injuries after all.
4. Gym Trainer
Hire a gym trainer who can help your employees with their individual needs and training. He or she should be well qualified and with a license to train at gyms and health clubs. Your employees will thank you for this gesture.
5. Reception
Once these primary and initials steps are taken, do up the area that you have allotted. Make a reception area where a proper register is kept. This is also the log book so that you know who is using the gym and when. This will help to make out payment bills in case you are planning to charge your employees for using the gym facilities.
6. Ventilation
A good gym needs excellent ventilation. You can either go in for air conditioners; or fans or open windows for fresh air. You must do this to avoid cases of respiratory problems. Fix a couple of exhaust fans to remove body odors too.
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A dimly lit room is no gym. It has to have bright lights for that open and motivating factor. Choose from a variety of decorative and other light fittings. Allow a lot of natural sunlight too.
8. Equipment
The kind of equipment and the number of pieces that you put in depends upon the size of the room and the type of gym you want. Even if it’s a simple workout room, it needs some basic equipment like cycles, cross trainers, walkers, twisters, stretchers, benches, weights, etc. Remember to place a weighing scale and a height recorder too. Hang a wall clock which is large enough for everyone to see and thus strategically placed. Keep a couple of yoga mats and other exercise mats too. Keep a few skipping ropes too.
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11. Flooring
To avoid accidents in the gym, the floor tiles should be anti-skid. You can fix mats all over or in strategic places. Avoid loose rugs which will make people trip and fall.
Happy and healthy people who get such cool gyms to work put will always be motivated to work for you. They will come in fresh if they use it in the morning, and look forward to working out after office hours too. Having a gym at the office also makes the employees look forward to coming to office, especially if they do mechanical and routine wok every day.
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A customer service button is a alert device that is placed at various locations around a store or business. When a customer presses the button it alerts another device where a sales person or customer service rep can then respond to the customer's needs. The easiest customer service call buttons to install are wireless.
Customer Service Call ButtonThese buttons solve a problem that retail stores are having in that they can't find or afford the staff to properly run the store. Therefore interested customers are less likely to find the assistance they need from staff. A study by trade journal Chain Store Age found that consumers are 93% more likely to buy something when they can get the help they need. In addition they are 85% more likely to buy more than planned so the average sale revenue also goes up.
One of the main reasons people shop in stores versus online is that they can touch a product and ask questions about it. If they can't find a sales associate to get assistance and complete the transaction, then they will be more likely to buy online anyway.
To stop theft of high ticket items, these items could be placed in locked display cases if the customer has easy access to staff to let them touch the product. They can then be directed to the nearest cash register to check out. So in addition to higher revenue, the call buttons reduce "shrinkage" or loss.
Our wireless customer service call buttons let you record a message that is broadcast to a handheld 2-way radio that staff members carry. We can match frequencies of existing radios if you already have them. The messages can be customized so you already know where the customer is calling from.
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Margaret Thatcher’s Greatest Achievements
Posted by on Apr 23rd, 2013 | Last modified on Apr 6th, 2020
Last updated on April 6th, 2020 at 11:02 am
Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and all the media interest has released my inner Tory Boy, even though I once won the mock election at school with our ‘New Communist’ party (on the eve of New Labour’s victory in 1997). Although I may not agree with every policy her government implemented, this post will mostly ignore the criticisms of Thatcherism and instead focus on her undoubted achievements, many of which are inter-related. Anyway, while people try to attribute such things as unemployment and the decline of the coal mining industry as legacies of Thatcher’s government, my view is that these were inevitable and could have been far worse without her reforms. Indeed, by the end of the Thatcher era there was less unemployment than under Labour in 1979, while the previous Labour government closed far more mines than she ever did and it was their relationship with the Trade Unions and general self-interested economic incompetence that ruined British industries in the first place.
When Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street in May 1979, she took control of a country that was in a permanent state of decline, while the Winter of Discontent, the previous coal mining strikes, the three-day week, rolling blackouts, rubbish piling up in the streets and even the dead being left unburied had clearly illustrated that the unions were in control of the country and that Britain was a shadow of its former self, viewed with pity by the rest of the world.
Margaret Thatcher had a particularly consistent and clear political philosophy with a deep conviction that the country had been run the wrong way. This combined with her supreme self-confidence and tenacity meant she was willing to make unpopular decisions, take risks and do the things she thought were necessary to enable people to be free and create wealth and thus change the fortunes of the nation. In effect she did not want government to continue to try to run (or rather crush) Britain, but let the British people have a go again.
The Falklands War
In essence, the successful campaign was a virtuous war fought against an aggressor in order to defend Britain’s interests and support a people’s right to determine how they are governed. It was Britain’s first military victory since 1945 and made Britain feel proud, strong and assertive again. The relatively swift victory and the steadfast nerve Thatcher had displayed in acting so decisively captured the world’s attention and turned her into a respected stateswoman on the international stage.
Right to Buy Scheme
Through the right-to-buy scheme Margaret Thatcher gave some of the poorest and previously disenfranchised people in society a way to buy their own homes. Council tenants who had never even thought of owning their own homes were free to become homeowners, thus letting aspirational, hard-working people improve their security and increase their wealth by owning property and having more of a stake in society.
Supply Side Reforms and Entrepreneurship
Thatcher’s government eventually smashed the grip the public sector and government held over the country and created a far better environment for entrepreneurial people to thrive. When she became prime minister in 1979, the top tax rate was a pernicious 98%; the bottom rate was 65%. However much or little you earned, you were paying most of your money in taxes, making any business activity or desire to be self-sufficient very difficult. When Margaret Thatcher left office in 1990, the top tax rate was down to 40% and the bottom tax rate was 25%. By cutting taxes and regulation people could keep and spend more of their own money, businesses thrived and the British economy was revitalised.
The Thatcher years saw the establishment of hundreds of thousands of small businesses that in modern Britain form the backbone of our economy. The previously entrenched class system was weakened, more people moved into the ‘middle class’ and the previously impossible concepts of upward mobility and ‘bettering yourself’ became common. At the end of her time in government there was far more respect and reward for hard work, enterprise and risk.
Foreign Investment
Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to harness the power of the global market rather than try to hold it back and her policies changed the business environment sufficiently to make Britain a favoured destination for foreign investment in Europe. Privatisation, in particular, helped open up the economy and provided many opportunities for foreign investors. Taxes were lower, strikes were down, productivity and GDP growth were much improved and foreign investors were now queuing to get in as opposed to fleeing and avoiding the country as they had previously done. This trend was symbolised by Nissan’s groundbreaking investment in the North East of England and statistically FDI inflows tripled to $30.5 billion in 1990 from $10.1 billion in 1980, according to UNCTAD.
She also got the government to partner with the delivery strengths of the private sector to implement key infrastructure investment projects. Canary Wharf, one of the country’s first enterprise zones, was one such project that through tax concessions, incentives, and reduced regulations attracted high levels of private sector investment. Over 100,000 people now work at Canary Wharf which has helped to regenerate a large part of East London and attracted a lot of foreign business and investment to the UK.
Big Bang, in 1986, was essentially about deregulating the Stock Exchange and was so called because the reforms were expected to dramatically increase market activity. It enabled 100 per cent outside ownership of member firms, so that London could operate on a modern, properly capitalised basis as an international financial centre. The plan was to reprise the City’s golden age, when London was the world’s greatest financial centre, disbursing capital and credit around the globe, before the guns of August 1914 changed everything. The plan came to fruition, neither Frankfurt or Paris mounted a credible challenge to London as the top European financial centre and by the new century, London was ahead of both New York and Tokyo in global terms, with the City becoming a real cash cow for successive British governments.
Defeat of the Trade Unions
When Thatcher first came to power she knew that her primary target would be the organised labour movements which had wrecked the economy and made the country ungovernable, in particular the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), up to 1m strong, led by Arthur Scargill.
The NUM’s strike tactics were getting more militant, but previous Labour and Conservative governments had only made the problem worse by cowing to their demands. A showdown was inevitable, although Thatcher had to bide her time until when the NUM went on strike in the winter of 1984-85, ostensibly about pay and conditions, but they really intended them to lead to mass discontent turning to violent regime change.
Mrs Thatcher successfully faced down and outlasted the miners, arguing that it was a battle for the right of management to manage over the arbitrary use of union power, in the process reforming union procedures to allow the democratic method of secret ballots, banning secondary picketing and lessening the possibility of coercion.
The number of strikes went way down and her victory effectively ended the union problem for good. By defeating the strikes Margaret Thatcher sent a message loud and clear that striking won’t work anymore and for the British economy it was the most important thing she ever did. The unions try to claim that Thatcher destroyed manufacturing in Britain, however British factories increased output by 7.5 per cent during her premiership (according to the Office for National Statistics).
Privatisations and Share Ownership
The economy was further transformed with the series of privatisations that took place in the 1980s. Thatcher swept away previous state monopolies and transformed daily life in a way we now take for granted. Suddenly, people had cheaper and more efficient power supplies and businesses could drastically cut costs.
She privatised industries through selling shares to the public so that millions of Britons became the first in their family to own stock in a company. Previous loss-making companies such as British Airways and Rolls Royce soon became profitable allowing the public to receive income and capital from their shareholdings and meaning these companies also now paid taxes on their profits rather than the taxpayer having to pay to keep them afloat.
Mrs Thatcher’s privatisation revolution spread around the world. The post-communist countries embraced it and by 1996 Russia had privatised some 18,000 industrial enterprises. India dismantled the Licence Raj (a legacy of British Fabianism) and unleashed a cavalcade of successful companies. Across Latin America governments embraced market liberalisation. Whether they managed well or badly, all of them looked to the British example.
The End of the Cold War
Mrs Thatcher’s biggest legacy has to do with the spread of freedom, the defeat of totalitarianism in its most vicious form in the Soviet Union and the revival of a liberal economic tradition that had gone into retreat after 1945. Many things caused the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, but the clarity of Mrs Thatcher’s beliefs and the influence she gained on the world stage was a vital factor.
She was the first British politician since Winston Churchill to be taken seriously by the leaders of all the major powers. She was a heroine to opposition politicians in eastern Europe, mobbed wherever she went behind the Iron Curtain and lauded as a herald of freedom. She formed a triumvirate with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II to engineer the downfall of Soviet communism.
Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister before Reagan was elected President and her liberal economic example made it possible for Reagan to then become President. Thatcher was a staunch Cold War warrior and Reagan often looked to her for guidance and leadership in how to deal with the Cold War. However, it was her diplomacy and friendship with Gorbachev combined with her influence over President Reagan that meant talks were started to end the Cold War. Therefore, not only did she save Britain from becoming a third-world satellite state of the Soviet Union, together with Reagan she hastened the end of the Soviet Empire without starting any actual wars and helped to promote new thinking in the Kremlin.
Thatcher inherited a legacy of socialist state planning and crippling taxation, both of which hugely reduced Britain’s international competitiveness. The political class had also been in thrall to union power and the country faced constant threats of paralysing industrial action. Britain was mired in defeatism, fatalism and negativity with the IMF loan under the Callaghan administration making Britain an international laughing stock.
Margaret Thatcher won the argument for a new kind of Britain and despite having to make unpopular decisions she was victorious in three elections, shifting the centre of gravity of British politics dramatically to the right in the process. So much so that the New Labourites of the 1990s concluded that they could only rescue the Labour Party from ruin by adopting the central tenets of Thatcherism with Tony Blair declaring that “the presumption should be that economic activity is best left to the private sector”.
Her policies aimed at reducing the size of the state, cutting tax and empowering the individual, combined with deregulation, privatisation and much needed reductions in union power, created the conditions for the booming enterprise economy of the 1980s. The fact that capitalism and democracy are today seen as the best and only viable forms of political economy (I think the term ‘social democracy’ is ultimately a bit of an oxymoron) is largely because Margaret Thatcher fought her battles, won the arguments and became an inspiration for other countries around the world.
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Tooth diseases.
Teeth problems.
Diseases related to the teeth are different and affect almost all of the people. Going to the dentist regularly and follow a careful oral hygiene every day allows us to control the onset of these diseases and to treat them as soon as possible.
Each person is more or less susceptible to dental disease, but in general, they mainly depend on oral hygiene and nutrition. Doctors recommend brushing teeth at least twice a day and flossing once. Also, it is preferable to follow a varied diet that includes fruits and vegetables, and avoid sugary foods and drinks.
Excessive consumption of sugar and poor oral hygiene are in fact the basis of most dental diseases.
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The most common dental problem is a toothache. A toothache can have various causes, first of all, tooth decay that is caused by the erosion of tooth enamel by acids that are produced in the mouth.
Acids are produced by bacteria that feed on the sugars consumed by a person. When bacteria proliferate they begin to corrode the enamel until a hole is created on a tooth. This erosion may reach the dentin to the pulp, causing infections, abscesses, even up to tooth loss.
The accumulation of plaque and poor oral hygiene are also the sources of another type of diseases, those that affect the gums.
Gum disease.
The first stage of gum disease is called gingivitis, which is the only stage that is reversible. If not treated, gingivitis may lead to a more serious, dangerous form of gum disease, called periodontitis.
Periodontitis can also cause tooth loss, and because gum diseases may have no warning signs, regular dental checkups and periodontal examinations are vital.
Other conditions of the mouth that may be related to dental diseases are, for example, bad breath. Halitosis is a very widespread condition; is it depends on gum disease, cavities, oral cancer, dry mouth and bacteria on the tongue, whether it is chronic halitosis can be solved by consulting the dentist.
Sensitivity is another common state; sensitive teeth can have several reasons, including cavities, fractured teeth, worn fillings, gum disease, exposed tooth root.
Tooth diseases.
Dry mouth also is a condition not to be underestimated and to bring to the attention of the dentist. Dry mouth can be very harmful to the teeth because saliva has a disinfectant effect, and its lack can cause an increase in tooth decay.
Finally, there are several types of mouth ulcers, which usually disappear on their own within one to two weeks. If the ulcer lasts more you have to make it look a dentist.
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Best Drinks High In Protein? Your Questions Answered!
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Hi Frugal Fitness. I really appreciate your videos, good job. I am looking to increase my daily protein intake but I am having trouble eating enough meat daily and it isn't very convenient. What can i drink that has high protein ? -YouTube Subscriber
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Well, unless you want to drink pure eggs like Rocky Balboa and risk salmonella, your best bet is probably low fat milk and/or whey protein. I recommend drinking some skim or 1% milk for a good source of complete protein and other nutrients. I usually buy store brand skim milk, just make sure it is Growth Hormone and Antiobiotic Free (it will say on the label). If you have the extra cash, you could even buy "Skim n More" or "True Moo" which is extra concentrated and maybe higher quality skim milk that tastes richer and contains an extra 2 grams of protein per serving. Soy milk is a solid option but it is more expensive and the flavored options such as Vanilla have too much sugar in them compared to protein content. You also want to remember that the casein protein in milk is much slower digesting and has a little different amino acid profile than the faster digesting soy milk protein. You are right though that you can often drink more calories / nutrients compared to eating the same amount. Also, it can be much more convenient to grab or mix a protein drink than carry around coolers and tupperware containers filled with perishables like tuna, salmon, egg whites, and grilled chicken breasts.
Whey, casein, soy, or egg protein powder can be added to water, milk, or soy milk and could even be blended up with dozens of potential ingredients such as ice, peanut butter, fruit, juice, yogurt, flaxseed, supergreens, fiber powder, creatine, pre-workout mixes (such as NO Xplode), cocoa, mocha powder, and pretty much anything else you can think of for performance or palatability. You can obviously buy pre-made drinks in cartons or bottles but you will be paying $2-4 a piece which can add up fast, especially if you drink multiple protein shakes per day like myself. I also don't like how they concentrate some of these drinks into solutions that are way too thick, but that's just me. Weight gainer powders like CytoGainer, Monster Mass, N-Large, etc are mostly just whey protein powders diluted with fillers such as maltodextrin and a tiny amount of micronutrients and creatine so I don't recommend them for most people.
You can also technically drink egg whites / egg substitute like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (such as Egg Beaters) but I wouldn't recommend it haha :)
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When a 4100-iSIC or SDL500R data logger is powered, it defaults to TTL mode for connection via the 900 MHz radio module. There are times when it is convenient to connect directly to iChart. For example, while configuring, calibrating or updating the firmware of an iSIC. To interface with the logger via RS-232 serial connection, the mode must temporarily be changed.
1. Open iChart without a current project.
2. For a 4100-iSIC, use a DB-9 data cable to connect the iSIC to the PC. For an SDL500R, use a UW-USB-232P cable to connect to the PC.
Figure 1: Connection with DB-9 serial cable
3. From the menu bar, select Advanced | Terminal.
4. Confirm that the correct PC COM Port is correct and set the Connection to Direct Connect. Make sure the “Use iSIC” box is unchecked. Click Connect. The Terminal window will appear.
5. Cycle the power to the logger:
To cycle power to an iSIC logger, remove the two black fuses on the left-hand side of the mounting plate. Replace the “Battery” fuse to reapply power.
To cycle power to an SDL500 logger, remove any D-cell batteries installed inside the battery ports, and disconnect the USB cable at the end connected to the SDL500 top port. Reconnect the cable to the top port to reapply power.
6. It will take up to 30-45 sec for the Terminal to display the messages received from the logger as it reboots. The two lines beginning with % show the permanent and temporary communication settings, respectively. If temporary communication is shown as %232, then the iSIC is configured for direct connection. If %232 does not appear for the temporary communication, cycle power again and hit <Esc>232 (the Esc key and then 232) immediately when “NexSens” appears.
Figure 2: Data logger in RS-232 mode
Once in 232 mode, iChart can now communicate with the 4100-iSIC or SDL500R logger through the serial connection.
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Why Pride Month Is Important
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Posted on June 24 2019
Why is pride month important
Pride Month is finally here! Now while I'm getting excited about going to my first Pride Parade, there are people out there who ask why Queer Pride Month is necessary, and why it's a thing. It is vital for many reasons, some of which lie in its history.
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There were 'Annual Reminder' parades as early as 1965; public reminders that the LGBTQAI+ community doesn't have the same fundamental civil rights as others - just because of how and who they love. However, the critical turning point for the modern Pride movement is the Stonewall Riots, otherwise known as the Stonewall Uprising. In the early hours of The Stonewall Inn in New York City, on 28th June 1969, the police raided the Stonewall Inn - but this time, queer people fought back. Laws prohibiting public sexuality in the 1960s meant that there were minimal options for queer people, and raids of queer establishments were routine. Enough was enough. The international queer rights movement was born.
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The first gay pride event happened in 1970 to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Pride parades have sombre roots. The first gay pride event was a march where people held signs and chanted: “Say it clear, say it loud. Gay is good. Gay is proud.”
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Gay pride marches have evolved into pride parades - a jubilant, proud display of the LGBTQAI+ community that celebrates people for who they are. It's a reminder to the world that we exist. It's a glorious embodiment of 'we're here, we're queer, and we will live our lives without fear'.
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Despite the progress that has been made over the years, we still live in a heteronormative society. This means that people are usually assumed to be 'straight' unless they say otherwise. Look at how many queer films and TV shows there are compared to hetero ones. There are significantly less queer films and shows, aren't there? In 2018, only 18.2% of movies released by seven major studios featured LGBT+ characters, though it is still an improvement from 2017's 12.8%. Plus, there's the whole queerbaiting phenomenon, which has no place in today's society. Moreover, there's the fact that people feel that they “have to come out”. People shouldn't have to come out. People shouldn't have to explain themselves. People shouldn't have to defend who they are and the characteristics they were born with. If we lived in a truly equal and accepting world where people were free to be who they are, and not be forced into boxes that humans are too messy and complicated to fit perfectly into, then there wouldn't much need for a pride parade.
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Pride parades inspire people to be their authentic selves. It helps and liberates young queer people to come out and feel like it's okay to be themselves. The famous YouTuber Dan Howell came out recently, and his struggles and awful experiences with queerphobia are commonplace and part of the reason why Pride Month is need - why queer pride parades are needed.
Pride Month is a time of celebration and remembrance. We remember the brave people who fought for our right to live; it's a celebration of love, acceptance and individuality.
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Here's the thing: straight people don't need allies or fight for their right to marry, have children, worry whether it's okay to hold their loved one's hand, defend their relationships, plead for rights, or worry about their rights and protections being taken away. These are privileges that are taken for granted. Straight people aren't discriminated against because of their sexuality. Straight rights and protection of families, homes and jobs are assumed.
Pride Month reminds people how privileged they are not to need straight pride.
We live in a world where LGBTQAI+ people are invariably told that they're wrong and that they're not okay. But this doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. Take Sphen and Magic for example, Australia’s famous gay penguin couple. Queerphobia and discrimination against others because of their sexuality only exist in humans.
To conclude, we have Pride Month to stand for love, acceptance, remembrance and the freedom to be ourselves. We have much to be grateful for, though the specifics will be different between individuals. You can count on me attending my first pride parade with my head held high and a smile on my face, partying alongside my LGBTAI+ siblings and showing everyone that it's okay.
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How to Create Alternative Text for Images for Accessibility and SEO
If you create or publish digital content of any kind, it’s likely by now you’ve at least heard something about the importance...
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If you create or publish digital content of any kind, it’s likely by now you’ve at least heard something about the importance of creating content that’s accessible for people with disabilities. Alternative text (also called “alt text”) helps ensure people who are blind or visually impaired, or who may have other physical or cognitive disabilities can access and understand visual content such as images, charts, and graphs.
In the United States, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all digital content be accessible to people with disabilities. Other countries have their own requirements. For people who use screen readers or other assistive technologies to access digital content, accessible content is essential to ensure they are able to access and understand the content in the same way that someone who does not require assistance would.
What is alternative text?
Alternative text, in its simplest form, is background code added to a digital image that allows a screen reader or other assistive technology to describe the image’s content and meaning to those who cannot see the image or may be unable to process the image due to a cognitive disability.
It’s used in several ways:
• Screen readers and other assistive technologies use it to describe the image to users so they can access and understand the content.
• In browsers where images are blocked, the alt text is displayed in place of the image.
• Search engines use it to determine the content and context of images.
Screen readers can tell when an image is present, but they cannot analyze their content. The alt text is read in place of the image to give users understanding of the image’s meaning and context.
How to add alt text to images
Unfortunately, there is no one way to add alternative text. Different software platforms do it in different ways. Check your software’s documentation or help files for information on how to add alt text to your images from within that platform.
In Microsoft Word, for example, right-click on the image and choose Add Alt Text. Then, add your text into the alt text window in the sidebar that opens. When you’re finished, simply close the sidebar and your alt text will save with the image.
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Alt text vs. captions
Alt text and captions are similar in many ways. Both provide a description of the image and context of how the image fits in with the rest of the content. However, alt text is typically “behind the scenes,” whereas captions are visible to anyone accessing the page. Furthermore, captions may not always include a full description of the image and its contents, as they are typically used to enhance or provide context for a visible image.
However, captions can be more useful for accessibility purposes. Captions are especially helpful for images that might require a lot of alt text to accurately describe. Rather than creating long and less useful alt text, longer descriptions can be made using a caption. Then, the alt text can give a brief description of the image and suggest the user look to the caption for a more complete description and/or context.
Alternative text best practices
Creating good alt text isn’t a science — it’s more of an art. Too short and it may not give enough detail. Too long and it can be tedious. But here are a few things to keep in mind when you’re creating alt text.
1. Accurately describe the content and function of the image
People who use assistive technology rely on the contents of the alt text to give them not just what the image contains, but any context for the image if it’s not readily available. Depending on the complexity of the image, it may be better to provide context in the text of your content to avoid overly long alt text.
2. The shorter the better, but not too short
One of the main concerns with alt text is the length. Many screen readers* will read either all or none of the alt text as written. In other words, there is often no way for someone using an assistive technology to skip ahead to find more relevant content or to pause and go back to something they didn’t understand. If the most relevant content is at the end of your alt text, the user would have to listen to all of the irrelevant information before discovering why the image is included.
Give enough detail to accurately describe the image, but avoid minute details that don’t necessarily enhance the meaning of why the image was included.
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For example, in the image above, there are a number of ways you could describe it depending on what it’s trying to convey in the context of the surrounding content.
It would be tempting to just describe it as a computer screen. And, in some cases that might be enough. But, in an article about using screen blur to hide sensitive information, you may need to describe the image as a computer screen with the file tree blurred for privacy.
If the article was about a specific type of coding and the image was attempting to show an example of that code, you may need to go into more detail about what code is displayed.
Or, maybe the article is about the width of bevel on the computer screen, so there would need to be detail about that, instead.
In this sense, creating good alternative text is more of an art form rather than a science. Your alt text should be long enough to accurately describe the image, but not so long as to be cumbersome.
3. Use proper punctuation and spelling
Most screen readers* will read the alt text exactly as it appears, spelling and punctuation mistakes included. In programs like Microsoft Word, there is no way to check the spelling or grammar of your alt text, so you’ll want to be extra careful.
Similarly, you must use proper punctuation or your alt text may sound like a really annoying run-on sentence, or worse, not make any sense at all.
In fact, it’s not a bad idea to create a new document where you can compose the alt text using Word’s built-in spelling and grammar checkers and then, when you’re satisfied and it’s mistake-free, copy and paste it into the alt text window of whatever software you’re using.
Most modern browsers automatically check for spelling, so if you’re writing something in a content management system (CMS) or into Google Docs, it’s likely your spelling and grammar will be checked, but it’s good practice to proofread regardless.
Pro tip: Make sure your content reviewers also check to make sure your alt text is a correct description of the image, uses proper spelling and grammar, and is clear and concise when they’re reviewing the rest of your content.
4. You don’t need a title for accessibility, but it can be helpful for other reasons
From an accessibility standpoint, giving your image a title isn’t necessary. Most screen readers won’t even bother with it. However, the title will show up as a tool tip when someone browsing your website hovers over the image. The title can also help search crawlers better grasp the image’s content and purpose.
That said, you should never sacrifice clear and concise alt text that accurately describes the image in favor of scoring an extra point or two on the SEO scale.
5. Don’t include “image of,” “photo of,” etc.
When a screen reader encounters an image, it will tell the user that it has encountered an image. So, if your alt text included the phrase “image of,” the screen reader would say something like, “Image. Image of computer screen …”
6. If your image contains text, it must be included in the alt text
Because any text within an image would not be readable to a screen reader, it must be included in the alt text if it is relevant to the image’s meaning and context with the surrounding content.
A sign reading "ASK MORE QUESTIONS" in all-caps on a wall between two analog clocks.
Looking at the image above, depending on the context and intent, it may be necessary to describe in the alt text that the sign reads, “Ask more questions.” If it’s notable to better understand the intent, you may also need to describe that the text is in all-caps.
However, in an article about how to place a sign on a wall where the actual text of the sign isn’t important, you may just need to describe that the image shows a sign centered between two wall clocks.
As noted in the Alt text vs. captions section above, if an image contains a lot of text, it’s typically better to include this information in a caption instead. You may also include it in the surrounding text content. In these cases, you would want to note in the alt text that further information about the image is included in the caption or body of the text.
Because of the guidelines for keeping alternative text relatively brief, for images with markup and text like what you might create in Snagit, I suggest using the caption or surrounding text to describe the relevant markup and text. It will be far easier and useful for users.
7. Don’t rely on your accessibility checker
Many content creation tools, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat come with useful accessibility checkers. They scan the content and look for typical mistakes content creators make that could render the content inaccessible. They’re great and you should definitely use them to check your content.
But there’s a problem: Your accessibility checker can check that alt text exists, but it can’t determine the quality of that alt text. For that reason, it’s a good idea to have your content reviewer also double-check your alt text content to ensure it’s useful and correct.
8. Images with links must include the link destination in the alt text
Another tennent of accessible content is that all hyperlinks should describe to the user where it will take them. For that reason, links like “click here” or “visit us” are typically a no-no.
In the same way, an image that functions as a link should also describe to the user where the link will take them. For example, if you have a button on your page that reads, “Download a free trial,” your alt text should read something like, “Link: Download a free trial.”
Alt text for charts, graphs, and tables
Charts, graphs, and tables present a particularly tricky issue when it comes to alternative text. Because they tend to present a relatively large amount of information, any alt text could end up being quite long and difficult to follow. As such, I highly recommend using a caption that accurately describes the chart or graph content and its relevance to the rest your content. Your alt text could then just describe the chart’s title and note that a full description of the content is available in the caption or text content.
How would you describe the chart above (from our recent article on our original research into workplace communications) to someone who can’t see it? Keep in mind that your alt text (or, more likely, caption or body of the content) would need to provide all of the relevant information so that they might understand it in the same way as someone who can see it.
In this blog article, because the information in the chart isn’t necessarily relevant to the point I’m trying to make, I could simply describe it as a complex chart of information about millennials’ preferences for visual tools at work. If this article was about the research, I would need to describe the actual content in alt text, or more appropriately in the body of the surrounding content.
Unlike images, most tables are accessible to screen readers. A user is able to move through the table to get the relevant information if they chose. However, alt text can provide a brief description of the table and an overview of what it contains so that the user can decide if they want to access the table or not.
Alt text and SEO
Alt text is essential for creating accessible content. However, it comes with a bonus: it also can help with SEO!
That said, the highest and best purpose for creating alt text is to improve the accessibility of your digital content. Trying to game the system by stuffing your alt text with inappropriate keywords or other irrelevant information can actually be harmful.
In this article from Google about image publishing, they note that they use image alt text to understand the subject matter of the image and how it relates to the rest of the content. They also suggest creating alt text that focuses on “creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and is in context of the content of the page.” Google notes that alt text that is stuffed with inappropriate keywords or alt text that isn’t relevant to the image or the rest of the page content risks having your site seen as spam.
Similarly, Yoast, maker of one of the most popular WordPress plugins for SEO, recommends making sure you use your article keyword when possible and when appropriate, but they expressly say not to stuff your keywords into every bit of alt text.
While this is a good overview on basics for creating alternative text for images and SEO, it’s certainly not the last word not the subject. Many organizations have their own guidelines for creating alt text, while others may not even realize they need it at all!
Are you creating alt text for images included in your digital content? I’d love to hear your suggestions, ideas, and struggles!
*Note: Due to differences in how various assistive technologies handle images and alt text, this article is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of how all assistive technologies behave. Instead, consider the suggestions here a set of guidelines for ensuring that alternative text for images is accessible to the greatest number of people.
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13 Strange Cat Behaviors Explained
By Gabrielle Feldman
#1 Chattering
You have probably heard your cat emit a fast and intense teeth chattering- especially when they spot a bird while gazing out of a window. Behaviorists speculate that this is because your cat is frustrated that they cannot get outside to hunt prey. They also may be excited and slightly aggravated.
Others say that this strange jaw movement may be your kitty’s natural instinct that allows their muscles to prepare for the act of killing prey. Either way, this behavior is completely normal for your feline.
Photo Credit: Robyn Anderson Flickr
#2 Rubbing
When your kitty rubs his head on you, he is doing more than just showing you affection and saying hello. He is actually doing something that behaviorist’s call “bunting”. Pheromones are actually being released from his head and it is his way of showing ownership over you. Just as a cat would rub on furniture to leave his scent to mark his territory- he is showing pride in that you are his.
#3 Bring You Kills
Behaviorists have a few theories on why your cat is persistent in his pursuit of leaving you “gifts”. Even though this habit may be perceived as a gross one- your kitty is acknowledging you as a member of his group, and is sharing his hunting success with you. He could be thanking you for taking care of him or perhaps you pay more attention to him when he generously brings you rodents, birds, or insects.
If this is a behavior you would like to curb of your outdoor cat, try putting a bell on his collar so that it is more challenging to hunt.
#4 Eating Non-Food Items
Does your cat enjoy chewing on non-edible items such as wools, cloth, inedible plants, plastic, or metal? This could be a sign of a rare condition in cats called pica. Often the cause of this is unknown; however, some proposed reasons include mineral deficiencies, anemia, hyperthyroidism, genetics, boredom, and stress.
If your cat is showing symptoms of pica, it is time to have a full examination by a veterinarian in order to rule out any underlying problems.
Photo Credit: sharyn morrow Flickr
Treatment may include dietary adjustments, placing bitterants, such as “Grannicks Bitter Apple Spray” on the chewed objects, providing multiple small meals throughout the day rather than one or two large meals, providing stimulation through games, social interaction, and alternative chews.
#5 Feline Kneading
When your cat presses his paws into you, and massages back and forth- this can be a rather enjoyable feline behavior. Your kitty’s instinct to do this traces back to their earliest days of nursing. By pressing his paws on his mother’s mammary glands, it encouraged better milk production. When your cat does this as an adult he is either content, and showing that he is happy, or he is trying to alleviate stress and the habit is one to calm him down. Either way, take it as a compliment that you remind him of his mommy!
#6 If I Fits, I Sits
Cat’s ability to fit themselves “comfortably” into tight spaces never ceases to amaze, or entertain us for that matter. There are plenty of comfy places they could rest instead, like say that cat bed you purchased them. So why do they choose to curl up in boxes, bathroom sinks, small baskets, etc.?
Photo Credit: Paula Flickr
Small spaces make your cat feel safe and secure. If they were out in the wild, they would not want to be unprotected in an open area because this would make them more susceptible to predators. Felines also have a natural instinct to ambush. By hiding in small tiny spaces they are able to watch and observe their surroundings from a distance.
#7 Cat Eyes
One minute your cat’s eyes are glued on you, the next he seemingly wants nothing to do with you. So what gives?
When your cat is staring you down he is probably just trying to get your attention. If the stare is intense, this “staring contest” could mean that he is on high alert about someone or a situation. It is advised to not look at your cat directly in the eyes. As with any animal, cats see this is an act of aggression in preparation for a fight.
Have you ever noticed your kitty slowly blinking at you? Behaviorist call this act “kitty kisses.” These slow blinks are your feline’s way of showing affection and telling you that they like and trust you. If you blink slowly back at them, they most likely will continue to blow “kitty kisses” your way.
Other times you couldn’t get him to look at you if your life depended on it. Just like humans, cats appreciate alone time. When he needs some quiet solitude, give him his space. This will strengthen his respect for you and don’t worry- he will seek you out when it’s cuddle time!
#8 Kitty Litter Fail
Urinating or defecating outside the litter box, known as inappropriate elimination, is the most common behavioral complaint of cat owners. Understanding the underlying causes of this condition—and how to treat them appropriately—can help ease the frustration and rebuild the bond between cat lovers and their feline friends.
Inappropriate elimination can be caused by medical or behavioral issues.
Medical causes commonly include:
· Bladder and urinary tract conditions, such as cystitis, infection, bladder stones or urethral obstruction (inappropriate urination)
· Colitis, constipation or anal sac disease (inappropriate defecation)
· Pain or discomfort, including arthritis or other conditions affecting the nerves, muscles or joints
Photo Credit: Laura Bittner Flickr
Behavioral causes commonly include:
· Stress or anxiety due to other pets or changes in the household (moving, the birth of a child, visitors, etc.)
· Box, litter, location and maintenance preferences
The first step in finding a cause for inappropriate elimination is to see a veterinarian.
While many cat owners believe their feline friends are “misbehaving” when they urinate or defecate outside the litter box, more often than not, the cat is simply trying to avoid a painful trip to the litter box. For more information about inappropriate elimination, you can read more here.
#9 2 a.m Zoomies & Cat Calls
Don’t you just love when you’re fast asleep and you’re jolted awake by the sound of your cat barreling down the hallway? Or fluffy is yowling away while you’re trying to get a good night’s sleep? Most house cats have an enormous amount of energy that is pent up during the day and needs to be released. This combined with their nocturnal instincts to hunt during the night may wreak havoc on your sleep.
We recommend regularly exercising your cat during the day in order to avoid random sprints throughout the house in the middle of the night. You can also try feeding him right before you go to bed, and to curb the desire to hunt at night you may want to try providing her with food puzzles to keep her engaged while you snooze.
If your excessively vocal cat is a senior, this could signify a serious, yet treatable condition. We recommend that you book an appointment with your vet if this is the case.
#10 Ear-Itation
If you notice that your kitty’s ears are twitching back and forth- it’s time to slowly back up. This is one way that they express anxiety or agitation. However, if their ears are just slightly pointed upright, this means that they are alert and simply listening intently to their surroundings.
Photo Credit: Dmitry Marochko Flickr
#11 Rolling Around
Rolling around on their back leaves them in a vulnerable position, so if fluffy is doing this in front of you- take it as a compliment! He feels safe around you and you have earned his trust. A roll on the floor means that he is trying to engage you in a little play time.
#12 Oh You’re Using That?
Magazines, laptops, books, clothes you’ve laid out, you name it- your cat loves to lay on it at the exact time that you’re using it. Your kitty knows if he plops himself down on whatever you’re paying attention to- chances are, he will get some affection.
Photo Credit: Janet 59 Flickr
He is also leaving his scent on your belongings, as a way to claim his territory that you are indeed his.
#13 Knock It Off!
For no apparent reason, your cat randomly starts batting things off of the table, and calmly watches it fall to floor. This can be a rather frustrating antic as a cat owner- but your kitty is not just trying to aggravate you, we promise.
You know what they say about cats and curiosity, well it is as simple as that- he is just curious and potentially bored! Although this is entertaining for him, you may want to try stimulating him with some new toys if you’d like to curb this naughty habit.
Did you like this article? You may enjoy reading about how to create a cat friendly home or what makes us a gold level certified, cat friendly practice
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Best Ever Outrageous Brownies
This recipe is the chocolate lovers dream! The Best Brownies Ever are chocolaty, fudgy, soft and melt in your mouth delicious. It is our most requested brownie recipe and I make 2 pans of these and give them as part of our gratitude gifts we hand out each year.
Every year we make a point to take the time to give a gift of homemade goodies and cards to those people who have touched our lives. Family, friends, postal carriers, neighbors and store clerks are all included. You get the idea. One year we had our truck in the shop a lot and the service tech was so helpful that he was on our list that year.
We started this tradition of gratitude gifts 6 years ago and it is possibly my favorite part of the holiday season. Embracing the spirit of giving really sets the season off in the right direction, especially since Munchkin was born. She is in the spirit of giving already and told me "Mommy, we need to help the kids that have no houses because we are vewwy fornuatate (very fortunate)".
DO.I.NEED.TO.TELL.YOU? That was probably the proudest moment of my life. Give me a moment to gush please. {{{gush}}} OK. I'm good now.
Our family and friends are pretty sure they are getting a basket each year and start teasing about what they want in the basket next year, pretty early on. Usually by Easter we are hearing about the Pecan Pie Bars and The Brownies. I can not think of one person that disliked either of these fabulous treats.
I am so excited to finally share our Best Ever Outrageous Brownie recipe with you. They are rich, chocolaty, fudgy and so soft they will melt in your mouth. Made with a truckload of chocolate and a sprinkling of coffee you are going to get the most amazing chocolate taste in these brownies with an incredible depth of flavor that you will not forget.
Get baking. Your loved ones will thank you for it!
And we have included kitchen tips to make dinnertime less stressful.
Helpful Tips to make The Best Ever Outrageous Brownies:
• You can also cook this recipe in (2) 9x13 pans. Or bake one 9x13 and halve the recipe if you like.
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Yield: 48 or 24 Large
The Best Ever Outrageous Brownies
prep time: cook time: 35 minstotal time: 35 mins
• 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter
• 1 pound plus 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, divided
• 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate
• 8 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
• 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• unsweetened cocoa, to dust pan
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Butter a 12 x 18 x 2-inch baking sheet and dust with cocoa (this keeps the brownies from having a white powdery appearance)
3. Melt together the butter, 1 pound of chocolate chips, and the bittersweet chocolate in a microwave safe medium bowl. Heat in 30 second increments until melted. Stir between each heating. Allow to cool slightly.
5. Add 1 cup flour, baking powder and salt to a sieve and sift into chocolate mixture.
6. Toss the remaining 12 ounces of chocolate chips with 1/4 cup of flour. Add them to the chocolate mixture and stir to combine.
7. Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
8. Bake for 30-35 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Half way in between cooking time; rap the baking sheet against the oven shelf to force the air to escape from between the pan and the brownie dough. Use care not to overbake! Allow brownies to cool thoroughly, cut into 48 brownie squares.
9. Serve and enjoy!
Recipe adapted from Ina Garten
Originally published 12/4/13
1. Fudgy brownies with shiny tops? Outrageous alright!
2. Sounds like a Paula Deen recipe
3. The 1/4 cup flour used with the 12 oz. chocolate chips, is that in addition to the 1 1/4 cups called for or is it the 1/4 cup?
Sorry if it's a dumb question, just want to get it right.
I can't wait to make them.
Happy Holidays
1. That is part of the ingredient list. Add 1 cup at first. Hope that helps. Enjoy!
2. Thank you Donna. It helps me. :)
4. Made several times, took me an hour to make it first time, had to keep rewinding TiVo while Ina breezed along like it was no big deal, made a huge mess of my kitchen but in the end, coworkers devoured the whole huge pan in minutes!!! Since then, I've made them several times and it's become easier and easier and quicker too, it's just way too expensive with the amount of stuff but I never managed to halve the recipe; it's surely the best tasting brownies ever!!!
5. Can you melt on the stove top?
6. Can you use pan spray instead of the butter and cocoa?
1. Yes! That would be good too. Enjoy and let us know how it goes.
7. I made these brownies and they were fabulous. When I went to cut them, I found huge hunks missing. It seems my kids, grandkids and daughter in law decided to to "taste". We wound up putting the cooled pan on the table and just cutting out chunks.
8. another brownie in my book is a bonus! Thank you for sharing this yummy recipe xoxo
9. no unsweetened baking chocolate where I live. Can I substitute with baking cocoa?
1. I have not tested baking cocoa. So I can not say how it would work. Where do you live? In the baking aisle near the chocolate chips you will find all sorts of baking chocolate bars. Look for one that says unsweetened. Or you can pick it up here:
10. can I substitute bittersweet chocolate with good quality dark chocolate?
11. Donna, do you know if expresso powder can be subbed for the instant coffee granules? Is so, how much? Thx!
12. Hi! I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I want to prepared a Layer Cake with at least three or four cakes with an 8" round pan. Do you think this quantity should be enough to make four cakes? Thank you
1. This is a BROWNIE recipe not a cake recipe. They are the complete opposite of a cake. If you want variety in your desserts instead of all cakes, this could be an option. Just Google what you're wanting to do (cakes), double check serving size and how many your pan serves and go from there in deciding what you want to do.........Good Luck!
13. can you give smaller size ingredient measurements?
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Strolling uphill into narrow streets The romantic atmosphere of La Butte in the18th arrondissement. The presence of the artists and the Moulin de la Galette.
Montmartre---Le-Chat-Noir---Inside-Paris-ToursMontmartre is obviously one of the most attractive tourist spots in Paris with the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur overlooking the city, its picturesque narrow winding streets, still haunted by the memories of the prominent artists who dwelled there at the beginning of the 20th century.We’ll try to find our way far from the crowds, treading the romantic alley of the Chateau des Brouillards, with glimpses at quiet delightful “squares” and a few beautiful Art Deco facades. We may not taste the wine from the only vineyard in Paris.The atmosphere is very different at the bottom of the “Butte Montmartre”. It is Pigalle , still famous for its many night clubs, cabarets and concert halls.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher
Daniel Craig's Mikael Blomkvist does most of the investigative heavy lifting. Christopher Plummer's Henrik Vanger is the head of the corrupt family whose mysteries Blomkvist is trying to unearth. And the titular character doesn't get involved in this central mystery until more than halfway through the movie. But it is Lisbeth Salander ― tiny, pierced and angry, a brilliant researcher and damaged soul, as portrayed by relative newcomer Rooney Mara ― who leaves an indelible impression in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Director David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club), working from a script by Oscar winner Steven Zaillian, based on the hugely successful trilogy from Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson, does a deft job of handling two different narratives. The primary one is of Blomkvist, a famous journalist whose career has been derailed after attacking a prominent industrialist, being hired by Henrik Vanger to solve a 40-year-old mystery: what happened to his young niece, whom Vanger believes was a victim of one of his powerful, Nazi-sympathizing family members. Meanwhile, 24-year-old Salander, a ward of the Swedish state, with a lifelong history of violence and mental instability, battles against her handlers, at least one of whom exploits her weakness for his sexual satisfaction.
Salander resists conventional Swedish society, but her skills as a hacker and researcher are unparalleled; when Blomkvist wants to hire her, his pitch is to help him find "a killer of women," which fits perfectly into Salander's quests for justice. Together, Salander and Blomkvist form an unconventional team ― he the blonde, blue-eyed stoic journalist, her the scary, underground-dwelling rebel ― but the relationship is so compelling that it almost overshadows the mystery they're ostensibly trying to solve in this first film.
Fincher is clearly as invested in Salander and Blomkvist's relationship ― and the foundations of what's to come in Larsson's subsequent novels ― as he is in unravelling the evils hidden within the Vanger family. He spends more than half the movie establishing Salander as a brilliant researcher and damaged victim of powerful authority figures in her life; less time is spent on Blomkvist's role at Millennium magazine (and his relationship with its publisher, played by Robin Wright), which would play a greater role in subsequent films. Stylistically, he doesn't go "full Fincher" ― seemingly gone since Benjamin Button is the near-darkness cinematography ― and like in Zodiac and The Social Network, the director's fascination with processes provides both tension and character insight. He just likes to watch talented people do good work, and that extends not just to characters, but also to actors like Mara.
The biggest stylistic flourish in fact comes from the opening credits ― a cool series of liquid metal images morphing between keyboards and humanoid figures, all set to Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," as interpreted by Karen O and soundtrack composers Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) and Atticus Ross. | <urn:uuid:37711d3c-f3c7-4a48-af07-45251b71ad94> | http://swollenmembers.exclaim.ca/film/article/girl_with_dragon_tattoo-directed_by_david_fincher | en | 0.967392 | 0.03348 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Impressive First Ladies of the US. . .
The US have a long history of its Presidents, but we shouldn’t ignore the First Ladies in the White House who also made an impression on our mind by being both brainy and graceful. With Donald Trump swearing in as the 45th President of the US, many eyes are also focussed on his wife, Melania Trump.
With this point in mind, let us recall 10 most influential First Ladies of the US who made a mark and won our heart.
1. Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison was the wife of US President James Madison who had earlier served as a hostess in Thomas Jefferson’s White House. As the First Lady, she would organize social events to host the foreign guests and dignitaries. She played a major role during the War of 1812 by saving many national treasures stored in the White House as the British were approaching to occupy it.
2. Edith Wilson
Edith Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson played a major role in the history of the US. After her husband was majorly paralyzed during his second stroke, she took up the task of the administration deciding what should reach the President and what not.
3. Eleanor Roosevelt
She is regarded to have changed the meaning of being the First Lady. She was not only an arm candy first lady but took an active role for a number of causes like civil rights, women equality, the New Deal and many more. After the White House, she played a major role in the foundation of the UN, served as the Board of Directors of the NAACP, and also aided in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4. Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy graduated with a degree in French literature from Vassar and George Washington University. She is famous for introducing the White House to America through a televised tour. She was highly revered for her sense of fashion and the poise and dignity she showed after her husband’s assassination.
5. Betty Ford
Betty Ford, wife of US President Gerald Ford was the first woman to openly discuss psychiatric treatment. She opened the Betty Ford Center to help people struggling with addiction and substance abuse. She also advocated Equal Rights Amendment and legalization of abortion. She also talked about breast cancer awareness.
6. Rosalynn Carter
She married President Jimmy Carter and was one of the closest advisers of the President. She even attended a number of cabinet meetings and was an advocate of mental health issues. She was also the honorary Chairperson of the President’s Commission on Mental Health.
7. Caroline Harrison
Wife of President Benjamin Harrison, she had a major role to play in renovating the interior of the White House and had the first Christmas tree erected there. She was also an advocate of women’s rights and the first President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
8. Sarah Polk
Sarah Polk was one of the highly educated First Ladies of the US. She even used her education to assist her husband James K Polk and also wrote correspondence for him. She was also known for her expert speeches.
9. Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton was one of the most powerful First Ladies that the US has seen. She played an active role in directing policies in the field of health care. She also headed the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She was also vociferous about women and children’s issues. She also backed important litigations like the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
10. Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama attended the Princeton University and the Harvard Law School and worked as a lawyer afterward. She mentored her husband Barrack Obama when he was just an apprentice in a Chicago law firm. As a First Lady, she advocated the Let’s Move campaign which was a fight against childhood obesity and to promote healthy eating habits.
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Datre 116 – it doesn’t matter what another person does, it only matters what ‘you’ do
Datre answers Robert and Christine.
JOHN: Today we have a question from Robert, and his question is… “What are your impressions of the work of Robert Monroe and the Monroe Institute?”
DATRE: Well, we had John explain that to us and what that was all about and what it is is just an ‘exploration’. Now there are those peoples that want to find out about where they can go and what they can do and are yet fearful of doing it on their own, and not knowing how to go about it, and many other things that come into ‘exploration’. And so, rather than work with themselves and try to figure it out, and do those things on their own, they will read a book that will tell them how to do it or go someplace and have someone guide them and watch them in what they’re doing, so they can eliminate that which you call your ‘fear’. That is all that they do is to… it is like a meditation where they tell you, ‘now close your eyes and do this and do that and do something else’. And then they take you through different steps to go to see different things and so forth and so on.
Now, the ‘guided’ meditation is fine for some individuals. But there are other individuals that don’t want that at all. Because, that is ‘not’ where they go. You see, because of your different levels of what you understand and what you ‘perceive’, will take you into different areas of ‘exploration’. So some peoples will want to know how to go and sit on top of a roof and see what’s up there. Or want to go on down the street and see what’s going on down there and do that kind of ‘exploration’. Then there are others that want to get totally away from their bodies and go visit other countries. Then there are others that want to go into what you call ‘different’ realities to ‘explore’ and OBSERVE. There are others that want to make connection with that which you call the dead-zone. There are still others that want to go into that which they call past lives.
Actually, all that is, in everyone of the instances that I have described so far, and I may have missed some, but that will give you a good idea of what we perceive is, its an “exploration”, you’re learning to explore. You’re learning to explore without the body. That’s what it is all about, being comfortable being “out” of the body, knowing that you can come back into it. And many are afraid to do it by themselves; for fear that they might not be able to come back.
So you see, when you go someplace where they ‘tell’ you what to do, you feel secure that those people will come and get you if you can’t get back by yourselves. Well, because you’re “attached”, you never ‘can’ get away from yourself, so it is something that is ‘not’ to be feared. But, because ‘fear’ is such a big number, that is why people go to ‘other’ people to help them in their explorations.
So, you can do it whatever way you want to, it doesn’t matter. If you want to do it with somebody else, in a group, fine. If you want to go into a class and take instructions, fine. If you want to do it on your own, fine. It doesn’t matter which way you do it, it’s all up to you. Continue.
JOHN: Our next set of questions is from Christine. And her first question is… “I am really grateful to be receiving your information, it is like a gift when I turn on my computer to find something from you! I have often found that when I have a question I sit and think about it and inevitably the answer comes to me, and I think the question I sent you recently need not be answered by Datre, I have the answer already! Is it possible that I can tune into Datre or am I just using my intellect to figure things out or, alternatively, am I tuning in to “mass consciousness” thoughts? It feels like I am catching the wave of thought which is “transmitted” to us… or am I fooling myself?”
DATRE: No, you’re not fooling yourself. What we have said, this information brought through a physical construct, carries a vibration, and you can pick it up that way. The other way it can be picked up is, through that which you call a piece of paper with the writing on it, that you read. Because, actually, all you’re doing is reading symbols. And the symbols are translated by you, for your understanding. Two people can read the same information and understand it in two different ways. So all the symbols do is to show you what ‘you’ want to know.
The same way with that which you call your computer. There’s nothing but symbols on that screen. And you interpret them for ‘your’ understanding, not for anybody else’s.
So what you’re doing is, you have questions and things you’re wondering about. In order to form a question, you have to know the answer. So in forming the question, you can’t quite figure it out for the ‘brain’ to understand it. That’s the interesting thing about physicality, that ‘you’ have to ‘train’ the brain. So when the information comes from Datre, you read it, and ‘oh, I understand’. You understand, because you had the answer, but you couldn’t get it into the brain. Okay, now you understand, you have the answer that ‘you’ are looking for. You put that into the brain, and that becomes another resource. That’s as simple as it gets. Continue.
JOHN: And her next and final question is… “Many of these ideas are not new to me and even the ones that shift my consciousness are very comfortable, it is as if I have been growing towards this all my life. Some months ago I saw the “URANTIA” book, I don’t know if you are familiar with it, but I was not able to read it except for some brief passages, I felt as if this information was not ringing altogether true, and what really put me off was the fact that it has become a cult type of thing, which the authors did not want in the first place. But I suppose I needed to read some of it in any case, otherwise I would not have noticed the book. Isn’t this human existence fun? Can’t wait to see what’s next!”
DATRE: All right, now you were disturbed by the fact that it has become a ‘cult’ thing and from your standpoint, it is not of importance to you. But, in order to, shall we say, notice your ‘benchmark’s’ you will pick up things from time to time, to show yourself where your understanding is – very simple. Now, do not be concerned that that has become a ‘cult’ thing. You see anything that becomes ‘popular’ becomes a ‘cult’ thing as far as the information is concerned. Now, you call it a ‘cult’ thing, simply because it is connected to the ‘New Age’ community, which is “spiritually based”.
All right now, something else that is of importance to ‘some’ individuals that are interested in… Oh, let’s see, what could we call it? Something that would have a lot of different angles written about it, and people were interested in it and they would read it. All right, I thought of something – psychology. How many books are written in regards to psychology?
You start out in your universities with that which you call psychology 101, psychology 102, you go on and if you don’t like the first couple of sessions you take, you quit. But you’ve been exposed to it. Now those that become ‘fascinated’ by it will continue. And they read and they read and they read. They read all kinds of things that have been written about psychology, by many, many different authors. And, there again, you could take ‘one’ of those authors that has been very popular, and everybody gravitates to, and call that a ‘cult’.
You see, simply because it has that “spirituality” connected with it, you call it a ‘cult’. If its psychology, and everybody gravitates to a certain writer, and a certain book, that could be call a ‘cult’. But because its psychology, you don’t use that word. Do you see what I’m getting at? Don’t be concerned that it’s a ‘cult’. Don’t be concerned that people get ‘stuck’ there, because that is their choice, that’s their decision.
You can take individuals that are interested in any of this information and you can take them just so far and then they’ll stop dead still. And that’s where they stay. That’s what they will do for the rest of this lifetime existence that they’re living at the present time.
Do you call “astrology” a cult? I do not know. But how many people, they begin to look for answers. They’re beginning to try to understand different things. And they get into “astrology” and they’re stuck there for the rest of their lives. They’re “stuck” because they ‘want’ to stay stuck. Any of these things that you get into and you wish to pursue, you ‘stick’ yourself. So it does not matter, because it doesn’t matter what another person does, it only matters what ‘you’ do. We will leave you now.
We are Datre.
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Ask the class how you know that someone is your friend. Try to get as many responses as possible but you are looking for some of the items on the following list:
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Have them take the following quiz to see if they are a good friend. Ask them to close their eyes then read each question and have them think to themselves their answers.
1. Are you nice and kind to others?
2. Do you share and take turns?
3. Are you a good listener?
4. Do you like it when your friends are happy?
5. Do you keep your promises?
6. Do you say nice things about others?
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• If you answered yes to any of the quiz questions are you going to continue to do that?
• End with a review of the ‘I will’ statements for Trustworthiness and see how people who are trustworthy make great friends.
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There are two core questions which a trial resolves. The first question is what is the applicable law given the charges and the second question to be answered is what are the facts we accept as true. When you put those two together, you have a verdict.
A judge decides what the applicable law is in any case and the jury decides which facts are true. If the parties “waive” a jury, then a judge can decide both the law and the facts and render a verdict on his/her own.
Let’s take an assault trial for example. Typically an accuser will testify x, y and z happened to them. Let’s just say for argument sake they say the defendant pushed them into a wall and hit their face with an open hand.
Perhaps others present during the incident testify as well and maybe a police officer who came later too takes the stand. Let’s also suppose for our hypothetical the defendant also testifies and admits to the conduct — but says they did so in self defense. The Judge will monitor the testimony, rule on objections of the parties and allow the jury to hear evidence and testimony lawfully admitted.
When the evidence is complete, the Judge will issue a Jury Charge to the jurors which guides their deliberations. The charge will contain the applicable law and will request the jury to answer one or more questions based on what they saw and heard in court.
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The issue arise from inserting object(file) in a cell, and the object took up more than a few cells.
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What you exactly need? Do you want the columns to be auto-fit or you need to fix the width of the column?
Hi @livejm,
If you just want to set the column as auto-fit. Then follow the below 2 steps
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2. Use Send Hot Key activity as like below
Hope this helps you.
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I need to manually set a fix width and height for each column.
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I have several species range maps (as polygons) that overlap/stack. From this, I am trying to identify areas of highest biodiversity. Ideally, I'd like to create a new polygon layer, where 1 part is the area where 20 ranges overlap, part 2 is the area where 19 ranges overlap, etc.
I am using QGIS and Spatialite as my primary tools.
Thanks for any help that might be offered.
My inclination is to suggest to convert the polygons to rasters, such that each raster pixel has either value 1 (part of the polygon) or NULL (outside the polygon). THen just merge all the rasters into one. THis will give you a raster with values from 0 up to the maximum number of species ranges. This raster can be converted back to a vector polygon.
Two possible workflows:
Using GRASS:
1. loop thru all polygons converting each to a raster with v.to.rast use=value value=1
2. merge rasters into one with r.series method=sum
3. convert back to vector with r.to.vect feature=area
Using gdal:
1. loop thru all polygons and convert to raster with gdal_rasterize -init 1 (You need gdal >=1.8 to create a new raster, otherwise you must have a raster with 0 values everywhere in advance)
2. merge rasters with gdal_merge.py
3. convert back to vector with gdal_polygonize
HTH, Micha
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Why do I feel a moral obligation, or a moral guilt when I participate in activities that are morally neutral? For instance, last night I went out – I kissed a guy and I feel, wrong, bad, unsettled about it. I’m not in a relationship and the kiss was consensual from both parties, so why do I feel uncomfortable about what I have done?
I guess this could stem from some sort of societal role that I feel I should fulfil. The idea that female promiscuity is ‘slutty’ or ‘degrading’. Or the values my parents hold, that being intimate is private and special and not something to be handed out easily. Or perhaps I feel like the act was simply out of character, so much as to rattle me up a little and question the genuinity of what I’ve done.. Did I really want to?
Either way what the experience has done is close me up. I don’t want to be promiscuous or flirty. I don’t want to be ‘easy’. The only reason I can directly attribute these feelings to is a sense of self-worth. Perhaps I was seeking some sort of intimacy with a guy in order to top up any insecurities I had. I don’t believe that I place my worth as an individual in the way I am viewed by others but of course having a guy find you attractive is a blanket of reassurance. So instead of the act being empowering and strong. It was carried out from a place of weakness and self-doubt – and that’s why I feel unsettled.
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Neurons, atoms, chemicals that’s what makes up the earth, the universe, the sun, the stars but do they make up us? The idea of a soul or some kind of ghost like self within our physical body of mass, is not a new one, nor is it dismissed as insane. But I just can’t believe it. I mean looking from a realism perspective I must assume that everything in existence is observable, in some sense. Now I don’t mean that everything that exists can be seen by the naked eye, in fact I am not discriminating against the other senses at all. As smell and touch are equally as ‘true’ as site. What I mean is what is deemed true in existence is what has sensory observability, e.g planes, birds, stars and pasta. Arguably various scientific theories such as the multiple universe theory suggest that our finite senses don’t allow us access to observation of everything, I mean I can’t ‘see’ numerous universes, but if enough substantial evidence was posed in favour of such a theory then I would consider it potentially correct.
So back to the original preposition, do we have a soul? When looking at ourselves in a materialist sense, I.e a bundle of biology, it proves no more ludicrous to assert ourselves to obtaining a ‘soul’ than to conclude that my radiator has a soul since both objects are no more than a combination of atoms functioning in a specific way. Of course our brains are far more complex than a radiator but does that really progress to the resultant conclusion of a soul? Of course not, where is the evidence that complexity evokes the need for a soul? Well I guess our ‘conscience’ our dillusioned sense of free will and ‘spirit’ I shan’t discuss free will, as I have in a previous post. But the concept of a soul, to me, comes under the same category as the sense of free will that is that they are both ‘illusions’ our conscience or moreover just ‘conscience’ is as a result of billions of neurons and the atoms they are made up of creating a persistent illusion of ‘self’ I am no more a being than a radiator. Infact ‘I’ do not exist. No one does. We are all just complex constructions.
That may sound somber but surprisingly it isn’t all doom and gloom, it means we can never die because there is no ‘we’ and any sense of ‘death’ is just a break down in the atoms and neurons that have created the embodiment of a highly complex structure. It also means that the possibility of existence is almost infinite as it relies on no more than a collection of substances. For example if programmed correctly, with the right atoms and components it would be possible to make a fully functioning ‘human’ with just as much rights as any other natural biological person. To conclude we are no more advanced than artificial intelligence, and we have no say, in anything, even the perception of a ‘self’ is formed from biology. We are not. But conscience is.
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Nothing within you is ever lost. If you ever feel like you’ve lost who you are, you haven’t, it’s just fallen apart. All the bits are there, but they’re not together so they’re not functioning properly. It’s like a jigsaw in a jar. It can begin perfect, all pieced together but a little knock to that jar and the pieces fall apart, some might remain in clumps and that’s what remains of ‘you’. You might remain kind and caring and opinionated but loose confidence and personality. You haven’t lost it, they’re just not pieced together yet, but they will be. The jar is your skull, containing your brain, all you need to do is get the pieces together, get them functioning. But you’re never lost, gone, empty. You’re always there you’re just not always working as a unit. All it takes is combing the pieces into a more confident you, a more content you. It can take time, but during that time, don’t loose hope, hope isn’t something that relies on a jigsaw piece, it’s external of the puzzle, and it’s what’ll fix the puzzle.
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We’re excited to announce another native product integration to our community of Storjlings!
Duplicati is a popular, easy-to-use, open source GUI that makes it easy to back up your data to the decentralized cloud. Because Duplicati can be used on any Linux, Windows, or macOS device, the Storj Labs community can now easily store encrypted backups of their personal data to Tardigrade and take advantage of the many benefits of decentralization.
Duplicati has a strong and active community on GitHub, and is a fan-favorite of many security professionals due to its open-source, auditable nature, and the product’s emphasis on encryption and reliability.
“The Tardigrade integration for Duplicati is a great way for MSPs to easily, efficiently, and performantly back up their customer data,” said Kevin Mitchell, CEO of Marrs Data. “Due to the distributed nature of the platform, Tardigrade is a great storage destination for disaster prevention and recovery, decreasing the global recovery time objective for backups significantly versus legacy providers.”
The newest version of Duplicati has implemented a native integration with Tardigrade that simplifies the process of backing up data to the decentralized cloud. Users simply enter their configuration information and can start scheduling backups at whatever cadence they prefer.
Tardigrade is now supported as a native storage destination
In this post, we’ll give a 500-foot overview of the tool, and how it enables you to easily incorporate a more resilient, secure, and non-correlated backup solution to upgrade your disaster prevention and recovery practices—no matter if you’re backing up your device at home or thousands of devices across your organization.
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Duplicati is an easy-to-use, intuitive GUI that makes it easy for non-technical users to harness the power of the decentralized cloud.
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Duplicati is very easy to install with a few clicks, with support for leading operating systems like macOS, Windows, Debian, Fedora. The application is easy to install in a Docker container.
Check it out here: https://www.duplicati.com/download.
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Antonio Brown could quit over his helmet? Let us explain
Kornheiser on AB's helmet situation: 'This can't be good' (1:02)
Tony Kornheiser and Frank Isola share their opinions on Antonio Brown refusing to play football for the Raiders without his old helmet. (1:02)
Oakland Raiders receiver Antonio Brown is threatening to leave football forever, reports ESPN's Adam Schefter, because his helmet of choice is prohibited for use in the NFL.
Yes, that's a real sentence about a real thing that's happening right now. Let's dive in.
This can't be real.
Why won't the NFL allow him to wear it?
The NFL has a longstanding policy that requires all players to wear helmets that have been certified by the National Athletic Equipment Reconditioners Association (NAERA). And NAERA won't certify the helmet because it is more than 10 years old, according to the league source. Like all products and technology, helmets are frequently updated over time. Every player is made aware of the policy, so Brown should not have been surprised that it would be disallowed in 2019.
Editor's note: A league source said last week, and an NFL spokesman said Monday morning, that the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) would not certify Brown's helmet because it was more than 10 years old. In fact, NOCSAE licenses the certification process to the National Athletic Equipment Reconditioners Association (NAERA), and NAERA is the group that does not certify helmets that are more than 10 years old.
What is he supposed to wear instead?
In April, the NFL and NFL Players Association released an updated evaluation of 40 helmet models, 34 of which are approved for use in 2019. Half of the approved models are manufactured by Schutt. The Air Advantage is not among those listed.
Who cares? Helmets are helmets, right?
Many players are attached to particular helmet models. Some feel they have been well-protected and don't want to try something different. Others make decisions based on aesthetics. And some try new models and can't get used to them. According to Schefter, Brown believes that his best alternative protrudes and interferes with his vision.
But to never play again because of it?
Yes, that's an extreme reaction -- even for a player of Brown's history. There's no sense trying to explain that one.
What would happen if he wears the old one anyway?
In April, the NFL announced a related but separate policy that banned certain helmets that performed poorly in laboratory testing. The onus was put on teams to ensure that no player had access to or wore a banned helmet. If a team was found to have known about a player wearing a banned helmet, or to have facilitated the use of one, it would be subject to league discipline, an NFL executive said at the time.
Is that why Tom Brady changed helmets this season?
Yes. Brady was able to wear his old helmet for one extra season in 2018, as part of a grandfathered NFL policy, but he has moved to an approved model for this season.
King: AB's immaturity is on full display with helmet demand
Peter King summarizes Antonio Brown's helmet issue with the NFL as nonsensical and a lack of maturity.
Would Brown be disciplined?
Not by the NFL, it appears. But the Raiders could address it through team discipline if they chose. And because the NFL policy prevents Brown from practicing or playing in the old helmet, he would be in breach of his contract and be subject to losing that week's game check.
Does Brown have any chance of winning the grievance?
It's difficult to see how, as long as the NFL policy is to allow only NAERA-approved helmets and NAERA won't certify Brown's helmet. Allowing a player to use an uncertified helmet, one that presumably protects him less effectively than more updated models, would strike against the NFL's decision to make helmet choice a primary tenet of its health and safety platform.
What would happen if Brown actually retired?
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IT WAS the “Coke and fries” comment that signalled the death knell for a controversial deal between vitamin company Blackmores and the Pharmacy Guild.
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The Scoop with Szmuc: LGBTQIA+ - The Meanings Behind the Letters
This week on The Scoop with Szmuc Her Campus FSU Contributor Lauren Pleasants will be taking over Sharon's column to discuss something a little more serious than usual.
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Acceptance and understanding of the full range of genders, sexes, and sexualities is beginning to finally gain some real momentum. We can legally marry our partners, no matter who they may be, and people at not only getting more comfortable with the idea of everything, but coming out is becoming much easier for those who have spent much of their lives behind the doors society has shut us behind for so long. These DSGs (Diverse Sexualities and Genders) are slowly but surely on their way to being a casually identified part of society, but do you know what they all stand for and truly mean? If not, do not sweat it!
It’s Lauren here, back to give everyone a lesson in the different genders and sexualities present in the world. Everyone is so used to the gender binary, male and female, the idea that sex matches gender, and that sexuality is a choice. Well, today I am here to rock your world and teach you a little lesson that will shake everyone from the heteronormativity we have all been so brainwashed to believe in. This lesson will be in the form of a vocabulary list, so follow along as I blow your mind (and maybe even teach you about something you identify as and didn’t even know it!).
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Biological Sex: the biological parts we were born with, whether it be a vagina and all its parts, a penis and all its parts, or both. Biological sex does not always align with gender.
Gender: how a person identifies, whether it be male, female, trans, fluid, or choose not to conform to one at all. Because someone identifies as female does not necessarily mean that their biological sex is feminine.
Cisgender: the biological sex a person is born with aligns with their gender.
Lesbian: a female who is attracted to other females, generally between two cisgender people.
Gay: a male who is attracted to other males, generally between two cisgender people. Sometimes as umbrella term used to describe homosexuality.
Bisexual: someone who is attracted to two genders, generally to males and female, all people generally cisgender. This can also include two genders that do no fall in the gender binary. The level of attraction between the two does not have to be equal split 50/50.
Transgender: an umbrella term to cover the entire trans community. Generally pertaining to someone whose gender does not align with their sex assigned at birth.
Queer: sometimes used as an umbrella term to describe the entire LGBTQIA+ community. Often used to describe sexualities that don’t operate within the gender binary.
Questioning: someone who is not sure of their gender/sex/sexuality and is exploring themselves.
Intersex: someone who was born with both male and female sexual organs, with XXY chromosomes.
Asexual: someone who lacks or has low interest in sexual attraction towards others. This can range from either having little desire for sex, to no desire for sex whatsoever.
Aromantic: someone who has little to no interest in romance or forming romantic relationships.
Pansexual: someone who is attracted to anyone of any gender expression or sex.
Demisexual: someone who does not experience sexual attraction without first forming a strong emotional attraction/bond with another person, generally through a romantic relationship.
As you can see, there is a lot that we were not taught growing up, and now is the time to get educated. Yes, there is a lot to learn and it may take some time to get used to these terms and ideas, but understanding these and utilizing them properly will propel us forward in breaking out of heteronormativity so we can live in a world where we can be anything and anyone beyond that.
Here’s the biggest thing: it is okay if you slip up or need help understanding these. You cannot know something without it being explained to you, and those that identify with any of these genders or sexualities understand that. We aren’t trying to make things difficult so you slip up and we can get upset. We are trying to explain everything so everyone can understand each other.
Learn the terms, explore the internet for more, and really get to know what it all means. You could really make someone’s day by understanding who they are or at least showing that you sincerely want to learn.
*If anything is left off this list or is labeled incorrectly it is not intentional. If you see a problem with this list feel free to comment and add onto it in a respectful manner. Thank you.
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View Full Version : Negatives in the fridge?
Marcus Leonard
12-May-2002, 12:10
I have a quite substantial body of MF and a growing body of LF negatives, stored in clearfile plastic sleeves, inside the usual plastic boxes. Summers in New Je rsey can be quite warm and humid, and I am a little concerned about my negative's longevity. Would it be a good idea to store them in a waterproof box inside a refrigerator? Does anybody experience any troubles with this method? Or with printing from a negative after, let's say, 15 years in the fridge?
12-May-2002, 12:59
Marcus, once the film has been developed, fixed, and properly washed, there is no need for refrigeration. In fact, if moisture is allowed to condense on the film, it could cause damage. Store your negs in archival envelopes, or sleeves. Keep them in a dark, dry place in an archival storage box, and don't subject them to excessive heat. If the temperature is comfortable for you, it will be OK for your negs. The waterproof box idea makes sense, but you would need to bring the negs back to room temp. before opening it or you'll risk condensation that may ruin the film.
12-May-2002, 13:33
This is quite indirectly related to the original question, but thought I would mention it. Brett Weston stored his negatives in old refrigerators. I don't thin k the refrigerators worked or were plugged in, they just seemed liked sturdy protective storage containers that might withstand a natural disaster.
tim atherton
12-May-2002, 16:57
You might want to do some research on this, as you could be opening yourself up to a whole can of worms if you aren't careful. Storage standards for colour and black and white are different, and you don't mention which you are storing. However, for black and white, the basic standard (without checking my books at work) is in a constant 20c at 40% RH with no cycling of either - ie not hot/cold dry/humid. Which is your problem.
Now, your fridge probably has higher humdity than the humidity outside and over time, a "watertight" box probably isn't actually water and moisture tight - and you will also trap any existing moisture in there as you can't vacuum seal it. The way you would store negs in a fridge would need to be in vacuum sealed foil packets (which is what we do for nitrate negs in a freezer). Even then, I'm not sure there is a lot of point in keeping them in a fridge.
Your best bet would be to read up in a booklet/book on the care and preservation of photographic materials, put out by someone like the Library of Congress - there are a bunch out there (the Canadian Conservation Institute puts out some good pamplets on this). And maybe call your local museum and talk to the Conservator. But basically, talk to soemone who knows what they are talking about. Ohterwise, you may well do more harm than good.
Here's somwhere to start http://www.loc.gov/preserv/care/photo.html
A standard for color materials is The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs. by Wilhelm, Henry tim a
Doug Paramore
13-May-2002, 09:01
Fridges are notoriously damp places that promote growth of all kinds of fungi. Even in a moisture proof package I think you would be asking for trouble. For long term storage in the fridge, you would need a package that will remain moisture proof for years, which would be a difficult thing to find if you intend to open the package to remove negs you want to print.
13-May-2002, 10:34
Nonsense, refrigeraters are generally very dry. The problem is the humidity you will bring in the plastic bag from the outside. Just squeeze all the air that you can out of the package and be sure that it's tightly sealed. There are some compartments with added humidity for storing veggies -- don't use them.
george jiri loun
13-May-2002, 17:09
I haven't seen "a very dry" fridge in my life-time yet... Just the opposite - as soon as you open them, the humidity of the air outside goes happily inside... Even the small amount of the humidity in the package (the waterproof box) is enough for fungus to thrive. I know - I have kept some sheet film in my fridge for several years in a box I believed tight enough and the film was ruined - by fungus...
Sal Santamaura
13-May-2002, 20:52
OK guys, the answer is: *frost-free* refrigerators, when working properly, have low humidity in the main refrigerator compartment. Freezer compartment humidity is high. Don't take my word for it; see Wilhelm's book "The Preservation and Care of Color Photographs." Should you wish to store color negatives or transparencies this way, and you place them in ziploc bags (double bagging is preferable), the small amount of moisture that condenses on the outside of the bags when opening the door in humid weather will be of no consequence. As soon as the compressor cycles on again it will dry off the bags, never permitting condensation to form inside them. So says Henry Wilhelm. I wouldn't bother going through this for black and white negatives unless you fancy yourself the next Ansel Adams and think the world couldn't live without your work. Otherwise, properly stored black and white negatives (even those based on acetate, which eventually "vinegar") will outlast you and several generations of your decendents.
13-May-2002, 22:34
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There is a range of different styles to suit each individual mentor-mentee pairing. Styles range from the traditional to the long-distance, meeting the needs of every situation.
Keep reading to learn more about some of the most common types of mentoring and determine which could be the best method for you and your mentor/mentee.
1. Traditional one-on-one
Traditional mentoring is the most common form. It consists of a one-on-one structure where both mentor and mentee meet and communicate regularly at a regularity determined by both parties (e.g. Wednesdays, fortnightly).
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Distance mentoring is often utilised when the mentor and mentee are in different locations. It is not a particularly common method of mentoring, as communication is such an important part of the mentoring process and therefore, more convenient alternatives are sought out.
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Group mentoring consists of one or two mentors working with a number of mentees, usually within an organisation that matches employees. This method is typically utilised when there is a shared interest e.g. mentors are all working towards the same goal.
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A Mentoring Circle is a ‘mentoring support network’ for friends and colleagues. Within these groups, members support and encourage each other’s professional and personal growth, from all levels.
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Minute mentoring is based on the concept of speed-dating in that it provides the opportunity for people to meet one-on-one at an event, for a few minutes at a time, and in this time, mentors are able to convey their knowledge and wisdom in a condensed format.
This form of mentoring is fast-paced, time-efficient and is a great networking opportunity for both mentors and mentees.
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Invisible mentoring is done from afar. Invisible mentors are ones who are observed by mentees and may not even be aware that they are mentoring. Gonzaga University describes the Invisible mentor as “personify[ing] a potential future to the protégé or provide an example of how to achieve various career milestones.”
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Reverse mentoring works in the opposite way, in that more senior members of staff are paired with newer/younger employees. In doing this, a cross of generations helps to bridge the gap in fields such as technology and social media where the senior staff get to learn and gain new perspectives on advancements that they may not understand and junior staff get the opportunity to spend time with the senior staff and get experienced advice.
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Castle Cardiff (Welsh: In welsh Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval stronghold and Victorian Gothic restoration chateau situated in the downtown area of Cardiff, Wales. The first motte and bailey palace was worked in the late eleventh century by Norman intruders over a third century Roman stronghold. The château was dispatched either by William the Conqueror or by Robert Fitzhamon, and framed the core of the medieval town of Cardiff and the Marcher Lord an area of Glamorgan. In the twelfth century the manor started to be reconstructed in stone, most likely by Robert of Gloucester, with a shell keep and considerable guarded dividers being raised. Further work was directed by The sixth Earl of Gloucester in the second 50% of the thirteenth century. Cardiff Castle was over and again engaged with the contentions between the Anglo-Normans and the Welsh, being assaulted a few times in the twelfth century, and raged in 1404 amid the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr.
Subsequent to being held by the de Clare and Despenser families for a few centuries, the stronghold was gained by The thirteenth Earl of Warwick and Comte de Aumale in 1423. Master Warwick directed broad work on the palace, establishing the fundamental range on the west side of the château, commanded by a tall octagonal pinnacle. Following the Wars of the Roses, the status of the stronghold as a Marcher domain was repudiated and its military centrality started to decay. The Herbert family assumed control over the property in 1550, redesigning portions of the primary range and completing development work in the external bailey, at that point involved via Cardiff's Shire Hall and different structures. Amid the English Civil War Cardiff Castle was at first taken by a Parliamentary power, however was recaptured by Royalist supporters in 1645. When battling broke out again in 1648, a Royalist armed force assaulted Cardiff in an offer to recover the mansion, prompting the Battle of St Fagans simply outside the city. Cardiff Castle got away potential devastation by Parliament after the war and was rather garrisoned, presumably to secure against a conceivable Scottish intrusion.
In the mid-eighteenth century, Cardiff Castle go under the control of the Stuart line, Marquesses of Bute. John, first Marquess of Bute, utilized Capability Brown and Henry Holland to remodel the primary range, transforming it into a Georgian manor, and to scene the château grounds, annihilating a considerable lot of the more established medieval structures and dividers. Amid the principal half of the nineteenth century the family turned out to be very rich because of the development of the coal business in Glamorgan. In any case, it was The third Marquess of Bute who genuinely changed the mansion, utilizing his tremendous riches to back a broad program of remodels under William Burges. Burges redesigned the mansion in a Gothic restoration style, pampering cash and consideration on the fundamental range. The subsequent inside structures are viewed as among "the most glorious that the gothic recovery ever achieved". The grounds were re-finished and, following the disclosure of the old Roman stays, recreated dividers and a gatehouse in a Roman style were fused into the stronghold plan. Broad arranged parks were worked around the outside of the manor.
In the mid twentieth century, The fourth Marquess of Bute acquired the stronghold and development work proceeded into the 1920s. The Bute grounds and business interests around Cardiff were sold off or nationalized until, when of the Second World War, little was left aside from the manor. Amid the war, broad air assault covers were worked in the palace dividers; they could hold up to 1,800 individuals. At the point when the Marquess kicked the bucket in 1947, the mansion was given to the City of Cardiff. Today the mansion is kept running as a vacation spot, with the grounds lodging the "Terminating Line" regimental historical center and understanding focus. The palace has additionally filled in as a scene for occasions, including melodic exhibitions and celebrations.
1st– fourth hundreds of years AD
The future site of Cardiff Castle was first utilized by the Romans as a cautious area for some years. The primary fortress was most likely worked about AD 55 and involved until AD 80. It was a rectangular structure a lot bigger than the present site, and shaped piece of the southern Roman fringe in Wales amid the victory of the Silures. When the outskirt propelled, protections turned out to be less significant and the stronghold was supplanted with a grouping of two, a lot littler, fortresses on the north side of the current site.
A fourth fortress was worked amidst the third century so as to battle the privateer risk along the coast, and structures the premise of the Roman remains seen on the stronghold site. The post was practically square in plan, around 635 feet (194 m) by 603 feet (184 m) enormous, developed from limestone brought via ocean from Penarth. The fortification's sporadic shape was dictated by the River Taff that streamed along the west side of the walls. The ocean would have come a lot nearer to the site than is the situation in the 21st century, and the fortress would have straightforwardly neglected the harbour. This Roman fortress was most likely involved in any event until the finish of the fourth century, however it is misty when it was at long last abandoned. There is no proof for the re-control of the site until the eleventh century.
Eleventh century
The Normans started to make attacks into South Wales from the late 1060s onwards, pushing westwards from their bases in as of late involved England.Their development was set apart by the development of mansions, regularly on old Roman locales, and the production of provincial lordships. The reuse of Roman destinations delivered extensive reserve funds in the labor required to build huge earth fortifications.
Cardiff Castle was worked amid this period. There are two potential dates for the development: William the Conqueror may have manufactured a château at Cardiff as right on time as 1081 on his arrival from his journey to St Davids. Alternatively, the main Norman stronghold may have been built around 1091 by Robert Fitzhamon, the ruler of Gloucester. Fitzhamon attacked the area in 1090, and utilized the mansion as a base for the control of the remainder of southern Glamorgan throughout the following few years. The site was near the ocean and could be effectively provided by ship, was very much ensured by the Rivers Taff and Rhymney and furthermore controlled the old Roman street running along the coast.
Cardiff Castle was a motte-and-bailey structure. The old Roman dividers had fell and the Normans utilized their remaining parts as the reason for the external palace border, burrowing a cautious channel and hurling a 27-foot (8.2 m) high bank of earth over the Roman fortifications. The Normans further partitioned the château with an interior divider to frame an internal and an external bailey. In the north-west corner of the manor a wooden keep was developed over a 40-foot (12 m) tall earth motte, encompassed by a 30-foot (9.1 m) wide moat. The motte was the biggest worked in Wales. The general region of the mansion was around 8.25 sections of land (3.34 ha); the inward bailey was around 2 sections of land (0.81 ha) in area. Mills were fundamental to neighborhood networks amid this period, and the palace factory was situated outside the west side of the stronghold, nourished by the River Taff; under nearby primitive law, the inhabitants of Cardiff were required to utilize this plant to crush their very own grain.
The vanquished grounds in Glamorgan were given out in bundles called knights' expenses, and a considerable lot of these knights held their territories on condition that they gave powers to secure Cardiff Castle. Under this methodology, called a palace monitor framework, a few knights were required to keep up structures called "houses" inside the manor itself, in the external bailey. Anglo-Saxon laborers settled the area around Cardiff, carrying with them English traditions, albeit Welsh rulers kept on decision the more remote regions freely until the fourteenth century. Cardiff Castle was a Marcher Lord an area, appreciating extraordinary benefits and autonomy from the English Crown. The medieval town of Cardiff spread out from the south side of the castle.
12th–14th hundred
FitzHamon was lethally harmed at the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106 and passed on in the blink of an eye a while later. Henry I at that point gave the palace in 1122 to Robert of Gloucester, the lord's ill-conceived child and the spouse of FitzHamon's little girl, Mabe. After the fizzled endeavor of Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror's oldest child, to take England from Henry I, Robert of Normandy was detained in the château until his passing in 1134. Robert of Gloucester held the mansion amid the pained long stretches of the Anarchy in England and Wales, and passed it on to his child, William Fitz Robert. Around the center of the century, potentially under Robert of Gloucester, a 77-foot (23 m) wide, 30-foot (9 m) high shell keep was developed over the motte, alongside a stone divider around the south and west sides of the inward bailey. The polygonal shell keep has engineering connects to a comparable structure at Arundel Castle.The building work was presumably attempted because of the risk presented following the Welsh uprising of 1136.
Pressures with the Welsh proceeded, and in 1158 Ifor Bach struck the stronghold and took William prisoner for a period. A further assault followed in 1183. By 1184 town dividers had been worked around Cardiff, and the West Gate to the town was built in the hole between the stronghold and the waterway. William kicked the bucket in 1183, leaving three little girls. One of these, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, was pronounced the sole beneficiary to the domain by Henry II. This was in opposition to lawful custom in England, and was done all together that Henry could then wed her to his most youthful child Prince John and in this way give him broad grounds. John later separated Isabel, yet he held control of the manor until she wedded Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1214.
Upon Isabel's demise in 1217 the manor went through her sister to Gilbert de Clare, winding up some portion of the Honor of Clare, a noteworthy gathering of homes and strongholds in medieval England. The mansion shaped the focal point of the family's capacity in South Wales, in spite of the fact that the de Clares commonly liked to live in their palaces at Clare and Tonbridge. Gilbert's child, Richard de Clare, sixth Earl of Gloucester, completed structure work at the château in the late thirteenth century, building the Black Tower that shapes some portion of the southern entryway seen today.On the ground floor the pinnacle contained the Stavell Oged and Stavell Wenn loads, with three rooms built above them. Richard was additionally likely in charge of revamping the northern and eastern dividers of the internal bailey in stone. The inward bailey was come to through a gatehouse on the eastern side, secured by two round towers and later called the Exchequer Gate. The protective work may have been provoked by the risk presented by the threatening Welsh pioneer Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales.
Richard's grandson, Gilbert de Clare, the last male de Clare, passed on at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and the stronghold was given to Hugh Despenser the Younger, the dubious most loved of Edward II.Poor harvests and cruel administration by the Despenser family supported a Welsh defiance under Llywelyn Bren in 1316; this was pounded and Llywelyn was hanged, attracted and quartered Cardiff Castle in 1318 on Hugh's requests. The execution pulled in much analysis from crosswise over both the English and Welsh people group, and in 1321 Hugh captured Sir William Fleminge as a substitute for the occurrence, first keeping him operating at a profit Tower and afterward executing him in the stronghold grounds. Strife between the Despensers and the other Marcher Lords broke out before long, prompting the palace being sacked in 1321 amid the Despenser War. Despensers recuperated the palace and held it for the remainder of the century, regardless of the execution of Hugh Despenser for conspiracy in 1326. Under a 1340 contract conceded by the Despensers, the château's constable was made the accepted civic chairman of Cardiff, controlling the nearby courts.
15th– sixteenth hundreds of years
The South Gate, demonstrating the reestablished fifteenth century Black Tower and the barbican tower.
By the fifteenth century, the Despensers were progressively utilizing Caerphilly Castle as their principle living arrangement in the area instead of Cardiff. Thomas le Despenser was executed in 1400 on charges of plotting against Henry IV. In 1401 resistance broke out in North Wales under the administration of Owain Glyndŵr, rapidly spreading over the remainder of the nation. In 1404 Cardiff and the stronghold were taken by the agitators, making significant harm the Black Tower and the southern gatehouse simultaneously. On Thomas' demise the palace passed first to his young child, Richard, and on his passing in 1414, through his girl Isabel to the Beauchamp family. Isabel first wedded Richard de Beauchamp, the Earl of Worcester and after that, on his passing, to his cousin Richard de Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick, in 1423.
Richard did not procure Caerphilly Castle as a feature of the marriage settlement, so he start redeveloping Cardiff. He fabricated another pinnacle close by the Black Tower in 1430, reestablishing the entryway, and broadened the motte protections. He likewise built a generous new residential range in the south-west of the site somewhere in the range of 1425 and 1439, with a focal octagonal pinnacle 75-foot (23 m) high, brandishing guarded machicolations, and highlighting four littler polygonal turrets confronting the inward bailey. The range was worked of Lias ashlar stone with limestone utilized for a portion of the subtleties, set upon the goad bases normal for South Wales and joined pieces of the more established fourth and thirteenth century dividers. The structures were impacted by comparative work in the earlier century at Windsor Castle and would thus shape remodels at Newport and Nottingham Castles; the octagonal pinnacle has design connects to Guy's Tower, worked at around a similar time in Warwick Castle. A blossom garden was worked toward the south of the range, with private access to Richard's chambers. Richard likewise reconstructed the town's more extensive barriers, including another stone scaffold over the River Taff watched by the West Gate, completing the work by 1451.
Cardiff Castle stayed in the hands of Richard's child, Henry and Henry's little girl, Anne until 1449. At the point when Anne kicked the bucket, it gone by marriage to Richard Neville, who held it until his demise in 1471 amid the time of common difficulty known as the Wars of the Roses. As the contention advanced and political fortunes rose and fell, the palace go from George, the Duke of Clarence, to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to Jasper Tudor, the Duke of Bedford, back to Richard Neville's significant other Anne, back to Jasper lastly to Prince Henry, the future Henry VIII. The rising of the Tudor tradition to the English position of royalty toward the finish of the wars proclaimed an adjustment in the manner Wales was regulated. The Tudors were Welsh in starting point, and their standard facilitated threats between the Welsh and English. Thus, cautious strongholds turned out to be less significant. In 1495 Henry VII formally disavowed the Marcher domain status of Cardiff Castle and the encompassing regions, bringing them under ordinary English law as the County of Glamorgan.
The Crown rented the mansion to Charles Somerset in 1513; Charles utilized it while he was living in Cardiff. In 1550 William Herbert, later the Earl of Pembroke, at that point purchased Cardiff Castle and the encompassing domains from Edward VI. The external bailey contained a scope of structures right now, and broad structure work was done amid the century. The Shire Hall had been worked in the external bailey, framing some portion of a walled complex of structures that incorporated the lodgings for the conventional twelve holders of château watch lands. The external bailey additionally included plantations, gardens and a house of prayer. The palace kept on being utilized to confine hoodlums amid the sixteenth century, with the Black Tower being utilized as a jail to hold them; the apostate Thomas Capper was scorched at the mansion on the requests of Henry VIII. The meeting collector John Leland portrayed the keep as "an incredible thing and solid, however at this point in some ruine", yet the Black Tower was viewed as in decent shape. In the inward bailey, the Herberts manufactured an Elizabethan augmentation toward the north end of the principle extend, with enormous windows looking onto another northern greenery enclosure; the southern patio nursery was supplanted by a kitchen garden.
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In 1610 the cartographer John Speed delivered a guide of the château, and noticed that it was "enormous and in decent shape." In 1642, in any case, common war broke out between the opponent Royalist supporters of King Charles I and Parliament. Cardiff Castle was then claimed by Philip Herbert, a moderate Parliamentarian, and the mansion was at first held by an expert Royalist army. It was taken by Parliamentary powers in the early time of the war, as indicated by famous custom by a sneak assault utilizing a mystery way. The Royalist authority William Seymour, the Marquess of Hertford, at that point assaulted the palace thusly, taking it in an unexpected strike. Parliamentary powers and neighborhood troops at that point promptly assaulted the stronghold, retaking it following five hours of battling and reinstalling an army. In mid 1645 Mr Carne, the High Sheriff, defied Parliament, taking Cardiff town however at first neglecting to catch the palace. The King sent powers from Oxford, under the order of Sir Charles Kemys, to fortify Carne however Parliament despatched a maritime squadron to offer help to their powers from the ocean. A little fight followed before the stronghold was taken by the Royalists.
With the Royalist military position the nation over intensifying, King Charles himself came to Cardiff Castle that July to meet with neighborhood Welsh pioneers. Relations between his authority in the area, Sir Charles Gerard, and the general population of Glamorgan had crumbled severely and when Charles left the manor, he was gone up against by a little armed force of furious local people, requesting to be given control of the palace. These clubmen then announced themselves the "Serene Army" and expanded their requests to incorporate close freedom for the area. After arrangements, a trade off was found where the regal army would stop the château, to be supplanted by a nearby Glamorgan power, told by Sir Richard Beaupré; consequently, £800 and a power of a thousand men were guaranteed to Charles. In September, Charles came back to South Wales and reneged on the understanding, disbanding the Peaceable Army, yet his military position in the district was falling. The Peaceable Army's pioneers exchanged sides and constrained the surrender of Cardiff and the stronghold to Parliament in mid-September.
With the flare-up of crisp battling in 1648, a Royalist armed force of 8,000 new enlists was summoned under the direction of General Rowland Laugharne and Sir Edward Stradling, with the plan of retaking Cardiff. Parliamentary powers in Brecon under the direction of Colonel Thomas Horton moved rapidly to fortify the stronghold, in spite of the fact that with just 3,000 men they were substance to hold up until a bigger armed force under Oliver Cromwell could touch base from Gloucester. With time against them, the Royalist armed force assaulted, prompting the skirmish of St Fagans just toward the west of Cardiff, and an overwhelming Royalist rout.
After the war, Cardiff Castle got away from the insulting, or purposeful harm and annihilation, that influenced numerous different mansions. Most likely in light of the risk of a genius Royalist attack by the Presbyterian Scots, a Parliamentary army was introduced rather and the stronghold stayed flawless. The Herberts proceeded to claim the mansion as the Earls of Pembroke, both amid the interregnum and after the reclamation of Charles II. The mansion's constable kept on going about as civic chairman of the town of Cardiff, controlling the gatherings of the town's burgesses, bailiffs and council members; the Herberts generally selected individuals from the more significant nearby upper class to this situation amid the period.
Woman Charlotte Herbert was the remainder of the family to control Cardiff Castle. She wedded twice, recently to Thomas, Viscount Windsor, and on her demise in 1733 the château go to their child, Herbert. Herbert's little girl, Charlotte Jane Windsor, wedded, in November 1766, John, Lord Mount Stuart, who rose to turn into the Marquess of Bute in 1794, starting a family line that would control the palace for the following century.
In 1776, Lord Mount Stuart (later made The first Marquess of Bute in 1794) started to revamp the property with the aim of transforming it into a living arrangement for his child, John. The grounds were profoundly modified under a program of work that included Capability Brown and his child in-law, Henry Holland. The stone divider that isolated the internal and external baileys was devastated utilizing black powder, the Shire Hall and the knights' homes in the external bailey were crushed and the rest of the ground in part leveled; the entire of the territory was laid with turf.Considerable work was completed on the primary lodgings, pulverizing the Herbert increments, building two new wings and evacuating a large number of the more seasoned highlights to create an increasingly contemporary, eighteenth century appearance. The keep and motte was deprived of the ivy and trees that had adult them, and a winding way was set down around the motte. The motte's canal was filled in as a feature of the finishing. A late spring house was worked in the south-east corner of the mansion. Further work was moved toward the property, including a revealed proposition to rooftop the keep in copper, embed new windows and transform it into a get together space for moves, yet these undertakings were stopped by the (at this point) Marquess' child's passing in 1794.
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In 1814 Lord Bute's grandson, John, acquired his title and the stronghold. In 1825 the new Marquess started a succession of interests in the Cardiff Docks, a costly program of work that would empower Cardiff to turn into a noteworthy coal trading port. In spite of the fact that the Docks were not especially beneficial, they changed the estimation of the Butes' mining and land interests, making the family monstrously well off. By 1900, the family bequest possessed 22,000 sections of land (8,900 ha) of land in Glamorgan.
The second Marquess wanted to live on the Isle of Bute in Scotland and just utilized Cardiff Castle every so often. The manor saw little venture and just four full-time workers were kept up on the premises, implying that prepared nourishment must be brought opposite the kitchens at a close-by inn. The manor stayed at the focal point of the Butes' political power base in Cardiff, be that as it may, with their group once in a while named as "the Castle party". Amid the fierce challenges of the Merthyr Rising of 1831, the Marquess based himself at Cardiff Castle, from where he coordinated activities and kept Whitehall educated regarding the unfurling occasions. The administration of the then town of Cardiff was at last changed by an Act of Parliament in 1835, presenting a town gathering and a city hall leader, separating the connection with the manor constable.
John, third Marquess of Bute, acquired the title and palace in 1848. He was then not exactly a year old, and as he grew up he came to loathe the current stronghold, trusting that it spoke to an average, contemptible case of the Gothic style.Young Lord Bute connected with the planner William Burges to embrace the redesigning of the manor. The two shared an energy in medieval Gothic Revivalism and this, joined with Bute's gigantic money related assets, empowered Burges to reconstruct the property on an excellent scale. Burges carried with him nearly of the majority of the group that had bolstered him on before activities, including John Starling Chapple, William Frame and Horatio Lonsdale. Burges' commitment, specifically his investigation into the historical backdrop of the château and his compositional creative ability, was basic to the change.
Work started on Lord Bute's transitioning in 1868 with the development of the 150-foot (46 m) high Clock Tower. The pinnacle, worked in Burges' mark Forest of Dean ashlar stone, framed a suite of lone ranger's rooms, containing a room, a hireling's room and the Summer and Winter smoking rooms. Remotely, the pinnacle was a re-working of a structure Burges had recently utilized in an ineffective challenge section for the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Inside, the rooms were extravagantly adorned with gildings, carvings and kid's shows, numerous symbolic in style, portraying the seasons, legends and tales. In his A History Of The Gothic Revival, composed as the pinnacle was being constructed, Charles Locke Eastlake composed of Burges' "unconventional gifts (and) rich extravagant." The Summer Smoking Room rested at the highest point of the structure and was two stories high with an inner gallery that, through a solid band of windows, gave perspectives on the Cardiff Docks, the Bristol Channel, and the Glamorgan wide open. The floor had a guide of the world in mosaic. The model was made by Thomas Nicholls.
As the remainder of the stronghold was created, work advanced along the remainder of the eighteenth century extend including the development of the Guest Tower, the Arab Room, the Chaucer Room, the Nursery, the Library, the Banqueting Hall and rooms for both Lord and Lady Bute. In plan, the new château pursued the course of action of a standard Victorian nation house intently. The Bute Tower included Lord Bute's room and finished in another feature, the Roof Garden, highlighting a model of the Madonna and tyke by Ceccardo Fucigna. Bute's room contained broad religious iconography and an en-suite restroom. The Octagon Tower pursued, including a rhetoric, based on the spot where Bute's dad passed on, and the Chaucer Room, the top of which is considered by history specialist Mark Girouard to be a "sublime case of Burges' virtuoso".
The focal piece of the château involved a two-story banqueting lobby, with the library beneath. Both are tremendous, the last to hold some portion of the book nut Marquess' immense library. Both included expand carvings and chimneys, those in the banqueting corridor portraying the stronghold itself in the season of Robert, Duke of Normandy. The enhancement here is less noteworthy than somewhere else in the château, as quite a bit of it was finished after Burges' demise by Lonsdale, a less gifted painter. The Arab Room in the Herbert Tower remains anyway one of Burges' magnum opuses. Its jam form roof in a Moorish style is especially outstanding. It was this room on which Burges was working when he kicked the bucket and Bute set Burges' initials, and his own, and the date 1881 in the chimney as a remembrance. The focal part of the manor likewise incorporated the Grand Staircase, recorded in a watercolor point of view arranged by Axel Haig.
Burges' insides at Cardiff Castle have been broadly commended. The student of history Megan Aldrich considers them among "the most heavenly that the gothic recovery at any point accomplished", J. Mordaunt Crook has depicted them as "three dimensional travel papers to pixie kingdoms and domains of gold", and John Newman adulates them as "best of all the dream strongholds of the nineteenth century." The outside of the palace, in any case, has gotten an increasingly blended gathering from commentators. Law breaker respects the variegated and sentimental outline of the structure, however designer John Grant considered them to show a "beautiful if disturbed mix" of changing chronicled styles, and Adrian Pettifer censures them as "disjointed" and too much Gothic in style.
Work was likewise done on the château grounds, the inside being straightened further, devastating a significant part of the medieval and Roman archeological remains. In 1889, Lord Bute's structure works revealed the remaining parts of the old Roman post out of the blue since the eleventh century, prompting archeological examinations being done in 1890. New dividers in a Roman style were worked by William Frame on the establishments of the firsts, complete with a recreated Roman North Gate, and the external medieval bank was stripped away around the new dividers.
The grounds were widely planted with trees and bushes, including over the motte. From the late eighteenth century until the 1850s the manor grounds were totally open to the general population, yet confinements were forced in 1858 and as a substitution the 434 sections of land of land toward the west and north of the palace was moved toward Bute Park. From 1868, the stronghold grounds were shut to the open through and through. Stables were fabricated just toward the north of the mansion, yet just half were finished amid the nineteenth century. The Animal Wall was worked along the south side of the manor, brightened with statues of creatures, and the Swiss Bridge – a blend of summerhouse and stream traverse the waterway by the West Gate. Cathays Park was based on the east side of the stronghold, yet was sold to the city of Cardiff in 1898.
twentieth and 21st hundreds of years
John, the fourth Marquess, gained the stronghold in 1900 on the passing of his dad, and the family homes and speculations around the manor started to quickly decrease in size. Cardiff had developed massively in the earlier century, its populace expanding from 1,870 out of 1800 to around 250,000 out of 1900, yet the coal exchange started to lessen after 1918 and industry endured amid the wretchedness of the 1920s. John just acquired a piece of the Butes' Glamorgan bequests, and in the primary many years of the twentieth century he sold off a great part of the rest of the advantages around Cardiff, including the coal mineshafts, docks and railroad organizations, with the main part of the land intrigues being at long last sold off or nationalized in 1938.
Advancement take a shot at the stronghold proceeded. There was broad reclamation of the medieval brick work in 1921, with draftsman John Grant revamping the South Gate and the barbican tower, and recreating the medieval West Gate and town divider nearby the château, with the Swiss Bridge being moved in 1927 to account for the new West Gate advancement. Further archeological examinations were done into the Roman dividers in 1922 and 1923, prompting Grant overhauling the northern Roman gatehouse. The second 50% of the château stables were at long last finished. The Animal Wall was moved during the 1920s toward the west side of the palace to encase a pre-Raphaelite themed garden. The fantastic staircase in the primary range was detached during the 1930s. World War II, broad air-attack covers were burrowed out inside the medieval dividers, with eight unique segments, ready to hold up to 1,800 individuals altogether, and the château was additionally used to tie torrent expands over the city.
In 1947, the John, the fifth Marquess, acquired the manor on the demise of his dad and confronted significant passing obligations. He sold the absolute last of the Bute arrives in Cardiff and gave the mansion and the encompassing park to the city in the interest of the general population of Cardiff; the family banner was brought down from the manor as a major aspect of the official hand-over service. The palace was ensured as an evaluation I recorded structure and as a booked landmark.
Cardiff Castle is presently kept running as a vacation spot, and is a standout amongst the most prevalent locales in the city. The mansion isn't completely outfitted, as the furnishings and fittings in the château were expelled by the Marquess in 1947 and along these lines discarded; a broad rebuilding has been done, in any case, of the fittings initially intended for the Clock Tower by Burges. The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, established in 1949, was housed in the stronghold's primary range for a long time, yet moved into the manor's previous stables north of the mansion in 1998. Another understanding focus, which opened in 2008, was worked close by the South Gate at an expense of £6 million, and the manor likewise contains "Terminating Line", the joint regimental gallery of the first The Queen's Dragoon Guards and the Royal Welsh.
The palace has been utilized for a scope of social and get-togethers. The château has seen different melodic exhibitions, including by Tom Jones, Green Day and the Stereophonics, with an ability to oblige over 10,000 people. Amid the 1970s the palace was the setting for a succession of military tattoos. | <urn:uuid:7c2ecdb7-893f-4142-b2b9-c38ad79a524b> | https://2let2cardiff.com/castle-cardiff | en | 0.966208 | 0.045751 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Studio changing file profile on save! Bad!
I have found an issue with Studio (1.5.3). I only realized it recently but when opening a
TIFF file with a given color profile, in this case Pro Photo, it saves the file as sRGB!!!
Same happens if the file is AdobeRGB. NOT GOOD!
Forgot to mention that it happens when used standalone.
Could you supply a little more info such as PC environment (Mac/Win) etc., and if you are using File-> Save or Save As … in my case I get the following dialog every time I save or save as where I can select the color space, etc. …
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Texas Lieutenant Governor candidates think brain death shouldn’t apply in pregnancy
Yes, you read that right.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse candidates for Lieutenant Governor in Texas think that you can’t be dead until you are not pregnant and dead.
According to the Star-Telegram when the four candidates for Lieutenant Governor were asked about the Muñoz case, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, state Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, all said the judge shouldn’t have allowed Ms. Muñoz’s body to be removed from life support.
Dewhurst’s comments: “I’m a strong believer of the sanctity of life. … This baby could have been born. If I had been in that judge’s shoes, I would have ruled differently.”
Staples: “I do believe the court erred in this situation.”
Patrick: “There is nothing more precious than the life of a baby in the womb. … We are born in the image of God. Whenever we have the opportunity to preserve life, we should.
And Patterson? “We should always err on the side of life,” and, “I think we have to change the law,” and “We have conflicting statutes.” That last statement actually shows he ignorance or disregard of the no-DNR statute that the hospital erroneously applied to Ms. Muñoz body. When it was written it was not to invalidate any pre-existing legislation, such as the definition of death.
Either the four candidates for Lieutenant Governor haven’t taken the time to avail themselves of the facts of the case (that brain death is death) or they want the bodies of dead women to be defiled in some sort of Frankensteinian horror.
This is beyond disgusting, it’s terrifying.
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1. This is beyond disgusting, it’s terrifying.
It is. The triumph of religion over common sense and humanity.
2. The fetus was not viable because of the SEVERE lack of oxygen that killed this poor woman.
They were warned that this would be the case.
Most importantly, the hospital REFUSED to admit this woman was pronounced brain dead, their spokesperson REFUSED to discuss it at their press conference…and THAT is how they skirted the existing law, in order to promote their “fetal rights” agenda.
If they had admitted she was brain dead, that means legally dead and they would not have been able to keep her corpse on life support.
They constantly referred to her as a “patient” , which she was not, from the time she was pronounced brain dead.
They abused this family beyond belief!
It is as illegal, as it is grotesque to strip away her rights and her families rights in order to promote their RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL agenda.
The family ought to be able to sue them for $ millions, for the HORROR they were put through.
“The Associated Press reported that, according to attorneys Jessica Janicek and Heather King, Marlise Muñoz’s fetus has suffered fluid buildup in its skull and deformed “lower extremities,” as well as an undetermined heart condition.
The four candidates for Lieutenant Governor in Texas do not have a CLUE about the law in their own state, AND they IGNORED the state of the fetus….it wasn’t viable no matter HOW long this travesty were to continue.
ALL of them disqualified themselves with their moronic statements.
1. Although I believe the family should have been allowed to withdraw Mrs. Munoz from life support in November, no one knows if the fetus would it have been viable had it gone to term. It was not viable at the point she was taken off life support as the pregnancy was not far enough along – something both sides agreed upon. Also, the hospital did acknowledge Mrs. Munoz was brain dead, but was not applying the law properly. Sad case. Families should be able to make these decisions, not the government or hospitals.
1. The foetus could not have made it to term though. If you think it could then you’re ignoring the basic biological facts of life. You cannot gestate a foetus inside a corpse.
Women are not just ambulatory uterine cavities. Foetuses don’t just magically appear and grow, they are built bit-by-bit from the body of their mother. They leach minerals and nutrients from her bones, her teeth and her blood. They feed on whatever she does, her blood circulates inside them providing both nourishment and oxygen. Blood that is constantly created, filtered and maintained by the woman’s circulatory system.
Guess what? Corpses can’t do any of that. The body is dead, it is breaking down, and simply pumping oxygen in won’t help.
Foetuses can’t be grown or nourished by dead women. Women in a PVS? Sure. Women who should be allowed to RIP? Not a chance. New cells aren’t being made, nothing’s being repaired or replenished .
The childlike GOPthink that believes that Jebus makes babies magically grow and that all they need is a uterus with a blood supply is bizarre. The fact that would-be politicians anywhere but the Republic of Gilead actually think like this is horrific.
3. The GOP is so radical down there that going against the party line would likely doom their chances of election. Thus we can’t be sure those guys were actually telling the truth about their position.
We still shouldn’t vote for them, though.
4. Oh, yes, by all means, let’s “preserve life”…unless it is a hungry OLDER non-fetal child, or a woman, or a poverty-stricken young adult going to war for pay and three meals a day. Hypocritical asshats.
1. This. If the foetus had survived to term and had suffered the inevitable effects of oxygen deprivation and of drawing life support, nutrition and. the basic building blocks of its mind and body from a deteriorating corpse, the GOP would have been first in line to deny it medical or social assistance. GOP automatons only care about foetuses, not the babies that they become.
5. I will point out that these statements were made by the Republican candidates for Lieutenant Governor. The blog post is not clear about this important fact.
6. Please do not insult doctor Frankenstein by comparing his work and mistakes to the demented gibberish these 4 idiots said either from genuine conviction or because they want to be elected by the GOP voters.
7. So, having kept a corpse in the hospital for weeks, what do you bet that the insurance company denied payment, on the not unreasonable grounds that providing medical care to a corpse is not a covered expense, that the hospital sent a bill to the widower?
1. My thoughts exactly.
The whole situation is one giant fuck-up caused by letting religion leak into reality. God has no place in a hospital. Hospitals are about medicine and science, they’re there to save lives. If someone wants to save souls instead then they should seek employment in a church.
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You don’t have to have doctorate to dig into the Scriptures. You can do deep studies on your own without knowing the original languages. Here are some things that you can do that even the scholars appear to neglect to do:
Read the contexts with the main thought as a thread. Yeah, most scholars know this, but not all do it. Sometimes people read Scripture like a driver concentrating on the road and not considering the cars behind and beside, and without knowing where they are going and why they’re in the car in the first place. Writers have a point, a purpose, and a theme. Sometimes their purpose is presented in the form of a list of morals of Christian behavior like in Romans 12. You’ll be lost in the book of Romans without knowing the context when see the words “law”, “flesh”, “righteousness”, and “works”. Remember that commands can stand alone in simplicity and not in figurative language, but understanding the principles, the heart and spirit of a command, comes from the context. The context includes the immediate verses before and after a passage, and the context includes the remote chapters and in books throughout each testament of Scripture. Start with the immediate context and then the remote. The more context you know, then the more insight you can offer straight from the Scriptures. Remember to also look at who is speaking to who, because Christ’s instructions for the Apostles are not always for all Christians, and God’s instructions to Noah, Moses, and the Israelites are not for Christians to obey but to learn from.
Parse the verses. This is essential the most immediate context to consider. A lot of insight can be gained by recognizing the grammar within a passage. Simply, look for the subject, the verb, the object, and then progress to the adverbs, adjectives and their prepositions, and you will be able to clearly see the precision of Scripture. Just brush up on your grammar and how to diagram a sentence.
Look up the original words for an English word. Most people do not know that there may be half a dozen different words behind one English word appearing again and again. For example, do a study on love or worship. Use an analytical concordance and, or Vine’s word-studies to find all of the words in Greek and Hebrew.
Look up the original word behind a specific English word in a specific verse. A Bible program is the easiest way. Though I cannot support the Calvinism in, this is a good source to get a translation like the KJV with Strong’s number, which are numbers following each word. Download the Thayer’s lexicon too and then click on the Strong’s number for the word and a definition. You can also use an interlinear Bible or also called a polyglot that present the English with the original Hebrew or Greek below and sometimes these have Strong’s numbers too.
Find the precise meaning of a Biblical word by doing a word-study. I find it more trustworthy to use an analytical concordance like Young’s over a lexicon (dictionary). Analytical concordances give a concise definition and allow you to look at every usage of each word and this leads to the next step on doing a word-study. Most people do not know how to use a lexicon though most people think they do. These will take every single word used to translate a Biblical word as the meaning of the Word when they wouldn’t use the English dictionary this way. This would be like some taking the word “light”‘s 45 definitions to mean both “spiritual illumination or awareness; enlightenment” and “a person who is an outstanding leader, celebrity, or example” at the same time and in the same context. Some people take the definition of a word and use all its definitions and words to their own interpretation.
Do word-studies in the original languages. By doing a word-study, you can do the work of a scholar, like the author of a lexicon who can err, and define the term within its Biblical usages. Vine’s Word-Studies are great, but thanks to Analytical Concordances (like Young’s) and free Bible computer programs, you can do the work of scholars. E-sword like other Bible programs allow you to search a specific word in the original language by running a search by Strong’s numbers. Just download and install a Bible with Strong’s numbers. Find the word you want to reference and then search the Strong’s number and get a list of the word’s uses. To see the definition of a word, start with its most narrow and concise definition then broaden the definition in limits, but keep to one definition rather than a dozen words. Do a word-study on the word “worship” and you see how powerful this is study is. If you want to do a quick study (rather than search 200-1000 uses of a word sometimes), just use the Biblical book or writer that used the word and this will narrow your study. This could theoretically fall short when you cannot easily define words as used in other sources, but this has never been issue for me yet.
Organize your word-study. Organize the context and application of the uses of the word-study, so that you will have more useful study for others. For example, if you studied the word for love “agape”, then divide the verse into categories about loving God, the brethren, your enemies, and so forth. This helps also defining a word.
Know the grammatical significance of a form of a word. With general knowledge of grammar in addition to English, you could translate the Scriptures for yourself. In fact, Guy Woods wrote a book about being able to do that called “How to Read the New Testament Greek”. Use a Bible with RMAC, “Robinson’s Morphological Analysis Codes”. These codes follow words like Strong’s numbers and usually only with Strong’s numbers. You can get this from e-Sword too. Download with the RMAC code following each word. These letters represent the grammatical form of each word, and you get very good at translating, but it be better to learn to just translate. You can take this a step further and test the grammatical understanding by searching the RMAC codes.
Learn about the culture. Dig into archaeology and look for what evidence that archaeologists use to reach their conclusions and then draw your own without bias. The updated Halley’s Handbook will give you a good introduction into archaeology. Don’t forget the writings of the time as well. Manuscripts from Josephus to the early Christian writing of Clement of Rome unto Eusebius are very important in understanding the world, but please remember to look for their sources as well. You can also reach back into pagan history with Diodorus Siculus and a number of others. Be careful and make sure that you are not applying a heretic or false writing into your resources.
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The rocky and rugged area just to the north of Parramatta in the 1800s was a haven for bushrangers. It was known then as the ‘Northern Rocks’ although we now refer to it as North Rocks.
On Saturday afternoon, 19 June 1830, Dr William Jamieson Sherwin, first Australian born medical practitioner, was returning to Parramatta from a house call on Windsor Road. Near the bridge crossing Darling Mills stream, at the junction of Windsor and North Rocks Roads, two men emerged from the bushes, took hold of the doctor’s horse’s reins and led him off into the thick bush.
“We want money, doctor, we are starving,” they demanded. The doctor explained that he had just come from a visit to a patient who had not been able to pay him and consequently he did not have any money to give to them. The bushrangers did not believe the story and searched him. They found a gold watch and a case of surgical knives. The bushrangers thought they could sell the watch for at least two pounds (£2). Dr Sherwin pleaded with the men saying “Its value to me for family reasons is beyond the power of money to cover.”
“Play fair with us and we’ll tell you what we’ll do,” the bushrangers replied. “You ride to the pub and get the money we say it’s worth and we’ll meet you here again when you coo-ee, and in return for the money we will hand over the watch to you.”
The doctor agreed and rode into Parramatta where he was only able to borrow 30 shillings (30s.) about £1.10 pounds. Although worried that he had not secured the total money demanded, Dr Sherwin rode back to the appointed area and called out to the men. They emerged from the bushes and returned the treasured watch despite the shortfall in cash. Dr Sherwin rode straight back to Parramatta and reported the incident to Chief Constable John Thorn.
Three days later whilst patrolling Windsor Road, Thorn was attacked by two men firing muskets. Thorn returned fire and shot one man dead, later identified as John Macnamara, a convict from County Cork, Ireland, transported to Australia on the ship Isabella in 1823. As a reward for stopping the bushranger, Thorn received a grant of one square mile, 640 acres [259 hectares] in the current suburbs of Pennant Hills and Thornleigh. The suburb of Thornleigh is named after him.
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Why Should You Choose Full Body Laser Hair Removal?
Adding full body hair removal to the list of things lasers are useful for is now a reality. If you’re tired of having to constantly shave and or use tweezers, or never want to suffer through the pain of waxing again, lasers are an alternative worth considering for hair removal.
Full body laser hair removal is mostly done through a cosmetic procedure in many states because more and more people are used to thinking about it.
Why Should You Choose Laser Hair Removal
The Aiming Process
The laser in this sense is a highly concentrated light beam that directs is to the follicle. The skin pigment in each follicle swells as it absorbs the light, thus preventing the growth of the hair within. This process will only affect the hair follicles that are in the growth process, leaving the dormant ones to rest in peace. There is no anesthesia required for treatment, as it often is a relatively simple and painless experience.
Benefits of Using Full Body Laser Hair Removal
The area that the laser process can target is the most attractive part, as typically the areas are the sensitive parts of the body. Areas such as the underarm, the face, the bikini line, and other areas of the body are the main focus of those who typically have hairs removed via laser.
Many people have tried before to remove the hair of those areas as painlessly as possible, but with options such as shaving and waxing, there is simply no way to avoid pain. Using a laser to remove those hairs is the favorable option for the ease and comfort of the process.
Another benefit of a full body laser hair removal is the precision of the procedure. It is possible to remove only the dark hairs of an area, leaving the rest of the skin untouched. This is alien to the other processes, which target only a swathe of skin and remove mostly everything.
Speed is also another huge benefit of laser hair removal, as an area the size of a quarter can be targeted every second. This allows treatments to small areas of the body, such as the upper lip, to require no more than a minute of the patients time. Larger areas, such as the legs or the back, can typically be done in under an hour.
Lasting Effects
There is also a lasting effect from using a laser. Typically after only three to five sessions, hair growth of the targeted area is permanently stunted. This is due to targeting the follicles that were growing, which each session getting a new batch of growing pores. After a handful of sessions, the body simply doesn’t have any follicles left in the growth stage leaving the skin clear.
The typical procedure is a similar experience for every patient. First, the hair of the targeted area is trimmed as close to the skin as possible, typically within a few millimeters. Then the laser is calibrated to your exact hair type with changes made depending on the color, location, and thickness of the hair.
It is not uncommon for both the technician and the patient to have to wear eye protection, but do not worry: there is no real threat to your skin via the machine. Often a cooling gel will be applied to the area to help the light penetrate your chilled skin. Then typically a test pulse – one zap with the laser- to check for bad reactions. If there is not one, the full procedure is administered.
After the full body laser hair removal is used you will typically be given a cream to apply to the area. Your next treatment often will occur four-to-six weeks later, and treatments will continue until the hairs stop growing.
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Fixing the white screen problem on a Tekway DST1062B oscilloscope
The Tekway DST 1062B (also known unter the Hantek or Voltcraft brand) is an inexpensive 60MHz digital storage oscilloscope, which is very much hackable and has proven to be worth its weight in gold pressed latinum.
More recently, my scope became affected by the infamous white screen problem, which apparently is a problem quite common to this model and its 100MHz or 200MHz siblings.
The Tekway/Hantek white screen of death
The screen just goes white, but the scope otherwise responds to pressing buttons, etc. so it appears not to be completely dead.
Some research revealed bad connections inside the scope as a possible culprit:
But in my case, that did not do anything.
More research brought me to a couple of messages within the famous Tekway hacking thread on the EEVBlog-Forum:
Forum member “bbf” told me during a conversation, that he had replaced the 3.3V regulator, but did not remember exactly, which regulator he used.
With this information, I went to examine the power supply. The 3.3V rail is powered by a KA78R33 regulator, which is rated for a maximum current of 1A. I removed it in order to power the 3.3V rail directly from my bench supply.
That’s a lot of load for the stock 3.3V regulator
And there we have it. The KA78R33 is under a constant load of almost 1.3A. Also using the bench supply I could play around with the exact voltage and I found out, that the scope is very sensitive about the voltage being correct. A voltage drop down to 3.2V will make the screen go white again.
To make things worse, the KA78R33 is completely potted in plastic, which I don’t imagine to be the best idea in terms of heat dissipation.
So we obviously need a beefier 3.3V regulator. I decided to go for a LM1085 which is rated for 3A, so we have plenty of safety margin. Also, it is almost pin compatible with the KA78R33, if inserted “the other way around”. Also, the LM1085 does not have GND but Vout on it’s housing, so one needs to be careful to not have it touch anything it’s not supposed to.
So with the new regulator, the scope works like a charm again.
Originally, the scope was sold as fanless, which was a big selling point for me back then. Inside, there happens to be a place to mount an 50mm 12V fan, also the power supply has a 12V rail just to power a fan. To be on the safe side from now on, I installed a fan. I just replaced the 12V regulator with a 9V one in order to keep fan noise down.
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Everywhere we turn (cough, mainstream porn), the most creative, exciting, wildly unpredictable and tantalizing act out there is reduced to a) genital to genital, b) mouth to genital, and maybe, on a really good day, we get some mouth to mouth or mouth to boob action. But considering that our long, luxurious, intricate bodies are, in fact, rife with the magical terrain of an infinitude of pleasure-hunting, electricity-inducing nerve-endings—why would we ever ignore that? And while women are known to have more in the way of erogenous potential, men are hardly limited to their penises, people. The main difference here is that women have been encouraged to explore more than men, possibly because men find it “easier to cum,” as though that were the sole point of sex. The truth is, men and women share many of the same ecstatic territories.
Maybe you know exactly what you like. Maybe you don’t. Whatever you do, keep in mind that this journey is one that necessitates communication: let your partner know what you like, whether with words, sounds, breathing, or full-body jolts—as the case may be. Consider the following 12 unexpected erogenous zones a quick and dirty guide to some of the lesser-known goddess pleasure zones that may just be harbouring your hidden explosions:
1. Ears
Ears are considered one of the most potent erogenous zones. The nerve-endings in your ear are anything but nonchalant. Personally, all it takes is some hot breath on any part of my hungry ear, and I’m wet, shivers coursing through my entire body. Call me receptive. Some find that the area right behind their ear, by the hairline does it. Kissing and sucking the earlobes can trigger intense arousal. Or your partner can up the intimacy factor by whispering sweet everything into your ear.
2. Hair and face
Has your lover ever touched your eyelids, eyebrows, temples, cheeks, or hair? It can be incredibly intimate. Have your partner gently kiss your eyelids, temples and cheeks, stroke your hair or hold onto it firmly. A pre-sex head massage sounds about right, yeah? Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD says that a scalp massage releases the hormone oxytocin, which calms us while increasing arousal at the same time.
sexy hair
3. Feet
Foot fetishes are pretty common (among men) it seems. The feet contain pressure points that trigger arousal and they’re also packed with nerve endings. New York City sexpert Ian Kerner PhD suggests incorporating licking and sucking into a foot massage, using the mouth only 20% of the time to "minimize the oddness potential." Sex vlogger Shallon Lester has an idea I quite like: Have your partner pull your knees up, massaging the arch of your feet as he kisses you deeply, and laces his fingers through your toes (as if holding hands with your foot).
4. Inner thighs
Nice and close to what many consider the main event, this spot will make most of us feel freaky fast. Your partner doesn’t need special skills: the lightest touch of this highly sensitive zone can be highly arousing. According to Health24, softly stroking, licking and kissing the inner thigh is where it’s truly at.
5. Lower stomach/abdomen
Some women have actually been able to reach orgasm through core exercises (aka “coregasms”), so paying attention to this zone is a resounding yes. Amy Levine, an NYC-based sex coach and educator says this spot is also likely to cause your vaginal muscles to “contract from the anticipation, boosting your arousal and possibly leading to climax without direct genital contact.”
sexy stomach
6. Pubic mound
This oft-ignored area above the pubic bone is padded with tissue that can feel incredible when stimulated properly. “Your pubic mound is connected to your genitals and sexual response thanks to sensitive nerve endings and glands that emit pheromones, natural body scent, and sweat,” says Shannon Chavez, a psychologist and certified LA sex therapist. Your mons, as it’s sometimes called, is considered one of the strongest "love-generating" erogenous zones, along with your vulva.
7. Back/Hips
When the women of Reddit were asked what erogenous zone men most often overlook, Dandelioness was quick to reply, "Shoulders, spine, anywhere on my back drives me wild. Also, my hip bones. Mmm!” The sacral nerves—a cluster of nerves on the small of a woman's back— are directly connected to her vagina, and are a source of GREAT pleasure. Ask your partner to massage the area, and see how you feel. Personally, I adore having my guy hold onto my hip bones. Gets me going every time.
8. Neck
Neck kisses are almost always a turn-on. In fact, women ranked the nape of the neck above the breasts as an erogenous zone. It’s an extremely sexy place in part because of its vulnerability. Have your partner start with the sides of your neck, kissing or brushing it gently with his lips, or fingers.
9. Nipples
For lots of women, the nipples are a key stimulation spot (yes, nipple orgasms are real for some). Personally, my breast and nipple sensitivity varies depending on the time of the month. Definitely worth exploring!
10. Ass
"You'd think something that's so often used has lost all feeling," says NYC sex researcher Zhana Vrangalova. But the ass is right up there when it comes to erogenous zones. Some like soft strokes, some firm grabbing, and some like intense spanking. Only you can say for sure, and there are several ways to find out.
11. Armpits
If you can get past a little sweat, hair, and taboo, the armpit is a highly respectable pleasure-stop. “The sensation of being tickled teeters on the brink of sexually thrilling,” says relationship expert Cory Beth Honickman. “The experience can also be mutually relishable because the hormones that are released can be very intoxicating for the person performing the act as well!”
12. The mind
There’s no getting around it. The mind is and will always be the greatest pleasure point. Try to connect with your partner on a deeper, more intellectual/emotional level. Best case scenario: it’ll make any physical stimulation a whole lot better for both of you.
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Blackheart Man
Blackheart Man is the debut album by Bunny Wailer, originally released on 8 September 1976, in Jamaica on Solomonic Records and internationally on Island Records.
The songs on the album are regarded as the finest written by Bunny Wailer, and explore themes such as repatriation (“Dreamland”), and his arrest for marijuana possession (“Fighting Against Conviction”, originally titled “Battering Down Sentence”). The album features some of Jamaica’s leading musicians and also contributions from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh of The Wailers on backing vocals, and the Wailers rhythm section of Carlton and Aston Barrett on some of the tracks. The origins of the album title goes back to Wailer’s childhood in the Jamaican countryside, where he grew up in the same village as his friend Bob Marley.
Recorded: August 1975, Aquarius Recording Studios, Kingston, Jamaica
Released: September 8, 1976
Genre: Roots Reggae
Length: 45:50
Label: Solomonic, Island
Producer(s): Bunny Wailer
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Around the world, casinos and online gambling sites are being legalized, now the Canadian government are looking seriously at sportsbook gambling. Canada has seen a dramatic decrease in revenues from its casinos and the government sees the legalization of sportsbook gambling in the casino as a means to aid casinos during these hard times.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says that he has encouraged the provinces to follow suit and actively engage stakeholders so that laws may be amended and sportsbook gambling be legalized.
Canada’s current laws makes sportsbook gambling illegal and there is still major opposition to gambling. However, finance may indeed have a louder voice and overcome current obstacles. Those opposed to sportsbook gambling (and indeed any form of gambling) believe it is immoral to make money from problem gamblers. The argument is valid of course but not all gamblers are problem gamblers. Those in favour of sportsbook gambling say that some of Canada’s casinos are already equipped to handle sportsbook gambling.
Legalizing sportsbook gambling in casinos near the United States border will draw more American visitors to Canada. Increased tourism is good for both Canada and the ailing casino business in Canada. Sportbook gambling is already very popular and people participate in this activity whether legal or not and it may serve governments around the world well to legalise sportsbook gambling and earn their share of the revenues from it.
Legalising sportsbook gambling would not only be beneficial to the government concerned but also to gamblers. The sportbook gambling industry would then have to conform to given standards, this would ultimately lead to the protection of gamblers.
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The How & Why of Leaky Gut
I love stumbling upon notes from medical school. There's some good stuff in there! One of my favorite topics, by far, was and is leaky gut.
Leaky gut also known as intestinal hyperpermeability, is when the cells in the intestines are no longer tight and instead have too much space between them.
Intestinal cells are normally held together by a mechanism called tight junctions. Normally tight junctions allow water and small particles to pass through. When tight junctions are no longer tight, too much space allows for large molecules to pass through, which leads to digestive upset and inflammation.
First and foremost, leaky gut is a symptom, not a disease. It can be an underlying problem in a number of illnesses. Here are few reasons why leaky gut can occur:
Stress hormones - yikes, a doozy! Just another example of how the gut and brain are connected. See my previous blog post for more in-depth examples.
Exposure to toxins - this includes bacterial toxins, like shiga toxin, and food toxins, like carageenan and excess alcohol.
Nutritional deficiencies - especially low vitamin A and Zinc can cause increased permeability in the intestines.
Disrupted sleep cycles - hello again gut-brain connection!
Medications - The big 5 are medications that cause increased intestinal permeability are: antibiotics, NSAIDs, birth control pills, steroids, and antacids.
These are the heavy hitters for intestinal hyperpermeability, but there are quite a few more.
If this list is terrifying to you, please don't worry. There are a lot of treatments for leaky gut and for increasing overall gut health! . Stay tuned next week for how to treat a leaky gut. Be well!
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The Most Popular Cosmetic Surgery in the World
As any cosmetic surgeon in Beverly Hills will tell you, procedures that were once considered mildly embarrassing as recently as 20 years ago are now done so openly that many clients stop by on their lunch hours to have them performed. Chin implants, face lifts and even breast augmentation procedures have become nearly as common and socially acceptable as manicures. So, what is the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure in the world? You probably guessed it: liposuction.
The Perception of Liposuction
Why would anyone need liposuction? Isn’t body fat something we have the ability to control? Can’t regular trips to the gym contour the body just as effectively? Not exactly. Many of us, despite rigorous strength training and strict attention to diet, have fatty tissue deposits in our abdominal, hip or thigh regions that might mar the overall shape of our physique, or hide the muscular definition we’ve worked so hard to develop.
The idea of liposuction is to permanently remove those fatty deposits for good. The results of liposuction are permanent, as long as you maintain your current healthy lifestyle and habits. To many, lipo offers a winning outpatient solution to finally achieving the body contours you’ve already struggled so long to achieve.
Liposuction is by no means the lazy person’s answer to fitness or beauty. In Beverly Hills, where it can never be argued that residents achieved their successes by lounging on the couch all day, liposuction is really just part of the landscape. If eating right and exercising haven’t given you the slim lines you’d hoped for, remember that there’s a good reason that liposuction is the most popular cosmetic procedure in the world.
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Soon We Kayak Down the LA River
Starting this Memorial Day you can Kayak, yes, Kayak down the LA River again. The totally bonkers experience of going down the river in the major metropolitan of LA starts up again this June as it's only allowed during the Summer. Can anything be wilder than navigating and going down a river in such a major city? It's like being in a dystopian future finding your way through a city reclaimed by nature.
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Bird brain? Study says chicks count like we do
Humans are not the only ones to count from left to right. Researchers in Italy found that mental number lines, where numbers rise from the smallest on the left to the largest on the right, come naturally to newborn chicks too.
In experiments at the University of Padua, three-day old chicks were trained to find food behind a panel bearing five bright spots. Once they had become familiar with that, they were confronted with two panels bearing different numbers of spots.
Footage of the chicks showed that when faced with panels that had only two spots, the birds consistently looked behind the left of the two panels. But when faced with eight spots on each panel, they went poking around the righthand panel.
The researchers repeated the experiment with a different set of numbers and found that the chicks again went right for higher numbers and left for lower ones.
Rosa Rugani, who led the study, said the findings suggest that newborn chicks might share the human tendency to map numbers in space, from the lowest on the left, to the highest on the right.
Writing in the journal Science, she argues that the ability probably evolved millions of years ago, before human ancestors split from those of modern birds. “During evolution, the direction of mapping from left to right rather than vice versa, although in principle arbitrary, may have been imposed by brain asymmetry, a common and ancient trait in vertebrates, prompted by a right hemisphere dominance in attending visuo-spatial and/or numerical information.” | <urn:uuid:efee02fd-1c94-48fb-b878-7467d234d3b7> | https://zedie.wordpress.com/tag/university-of-padua/ | en | 0.963185 | 0.119611 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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2/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
SNUFFLES IN RABBITS by Richard Maser, D.V.M.
Part 1 - Separating Fact from Fiction
Part 2 - Prevention
Part 3 - Treatment
Part 1 - Separating Fact from Fiction
Any rabbit breeder who has been involved with raising rabbits for any length of time will be painfully familiar with the disease condition commonly called “snuffles”. Snuffles is an inflammation of the nasal passages and sinuses, resulting in sneezing and a mucus discharge from the nostrils. It is caused by a highly contagious bacteria called Pasteurella multocida. Often the first sign detected is sneezing in the rabbitry. Closer examination may reveal rabbits with a thick whitish yellow nasal discharge. The nasal discharge stimulates the rabbit to rub its nostrils with the inside of its front legs, which will result in the matting of the hair on the inside of the front legs. Any rabbit demonstrating these signs can be diagnosed with 100% certainty as having snuffles. There is no such thing as just a “cold” in rabbits. There are virtually no other respiratory diseases in rabbits. Nor has there ever been a recorded case in the veterinary literature of a rabbit having allergies of any type. Rabbits do not become “allergic” to wood shavings. Most allergies in animals are not manifested by a runny nose as they are in humans. Allergies in animals most commonly cause itchy skin and reddened mucous membranes.
Often where a problem arises is at rabbit shows. The breeder has no sick rabbits in his or her rabbitry. They are all in excellent condition. On the day of the show, the rabbits are placed in a carrier, driven often for several hours in a car or truck, and then cooped at the show. Shortly after cooping, the rabbit or rabbits begin sneezing and have a watery discharge from the nostrils. This is the point where some breeders claim, “it’s allergic to the wood shavings. He is never on wood shavings at home.” This of course, is incorrect. Many rabbits carry Pasteurella multocida in their nasal cavity without showing any clinical signs of disease. Between 20% and 70% of the rabbits in any given rabbitry may be such asymptomatic carriers. An asymptomatic carrier rabbits immune system can keep the number of Pasteurella organisms in check, and hence prevent disease signs from appearing, but it cannot completely eliminate them from its body. If the rabbit becomes stressed in any way, its immune becomes weakened, allowing the Pasteurella organisms to multiply unchecked. Once the population of Pasteurella in the nasal cavity passes a given number, sneezing and a mucus discharge begin. Stresses which weaken the immune system include hot weather, kindling, lactation, change of diet, other disease problems, drafts or car rides. The trip to a show very commonly poses a great enough stress to rabbits to push an apparently healthy rabbit over the edge from being a subclinical carrier to an active clinical case. And it can occur in a period as short as one hour.
It is extremely important that rabbits with snuffles at rabbit shows be isolated from the rest of the rabbits at the show. Sneezing spreads huge numbers of Pasteurella bacteria through the surrounding air in aerosol form, which is inhaled by all the surrounding rabbits, who have also had stressful car rides, and who are now much more susceptible to infection by Pasteurella than normal. But the story becomes more complicated. There are five different strains or “serotypes” of Pasteurella multocida. Serotypes A, B, C, D, and E. (Just as there are many strains of “common cold” in humans.) If in your rabbitry, the rabbits are carrying Pasteurella multocida type A, your rabbit will develope antibodies to type A organisms as part of their immune system response. If one of your rabbits is at a show, and the rabbit in the coop next to him is sneezing and dispersing type B, C, D, or E Pasteurella through the environment, your rabbit will not have effective antibodies against them. Hence, he becomes infected with a new strain. You then take him back to your rabbitry at the days end, and he starts spreading this new “hot” strain to all the rest of your rabbits, none of whom have antibodies against that strain. Within a day or two, rabbits that never left the rabbitry may start sneezing and having runny noses. The rabbit that went to the show may or may not be exhibiting any signs. If you took several rabbits to the show, you can’t be sure which one of them or if all of them are spreading the new bacteria. If sick (sneezing) rabbits are removed from the showroom, the risk of their transmitting their variety of Pasteurella to the other rabbits is greatly redused.
There is nothing so frustrating as taking your best stock to a show, to pick up snuffles there, and having to ultimately cull those rabbits. It is especially serious for the small hobbiest, who may only have a dozen rabbits, and who cannot afford to cull his show rabbits without wiping out his or her breeding program as well. Breeders must be vocal in their disapproval of rabbits with signs of snuffles at shows being left in the showroom or worse, being placed in their classes by judges. Breeders also must leave at home animals exhibiting clinical signs of snuffles instead of trying for that last Grand Champion leg. In virtually every show catalogue under the list of show rules, it states, “sick rabbits will be removed form the showroom.” The rule is there and there is good reason to enforce it. Unfortunately, there are times it is not enforced, perhaps for fear of the stink that will follow when someone’s animal is prevented from showing. Snuffles should not be a fact of life for rabbit breeders. It can be a controllable disease if all breeders agree to abide by common sense rules, and remove sick animals from the showroom.
Part 2 - Prevention and Part 3 - Treatment will be on this website March 2007
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Essay Around Islam: Could it be A Religion For Peace
Essay Around Islam: Could it be A Religion For Peace
The essay with regards to Islam unveils the subject of the most popular foi in the world Islamic and its heritage. To be express it is the most popular belief on the Planet . Provides the first place simply to Christianity. Islam has with regards to 1 . 6 billion devotees in more rather than 120 areas. It is amazingly enough this Islam is definitely the youngest religion . It appeared only within the VII hundred years AD. It can be known to be the state religion with 28 states. The proponents of Islamic are called Muslims. They are usually divided into two denominations: Sunni and Shia . The general public worship can be traditionally performed in Arabic. In spite of it’s youth talking in in terms of beliefs, Islam possesses quite interesting as well as rich background has developed a lot of traditions and the several acts associated with worship referred to as ‚The Main ingredients of Islam‘ . About, there are a lot stereotypes about this faith, which have made an appearance in recent period. Unfortunately, for many individuals the name of ‚Islam‘ is unido with terrorism. And it is easy explain: the facts say that half a dozen out of 7 terrorist behaviors were wholly commited by Islamic organizations related to Al-Qaeda. Today we will seek to explore this problem. We will hit into the past of Islam and learn certain facts about its customs, belief and behaviors of worship. And, what is even more important, during this Islamic composition we will are looking for whether Mahometismo is a religion of peacefulness or the prototypes about it are actually true.
How everthing has started?
Islam appeared within the 7th millennium in Heaven, where paganism previously had been reigning. As well as Christianity and also Judaism had originated from the age-old forms of monotheistic Abrahamic croyance. Muhammad is often considered to be the very founder with Islam. He was born within Mecca. Muhammad was a shepherd and had been earning his / her living by just caravan exchange. In 610 in age of 40 the person declared their self a messenger and diviner of the lone God Jesus. Then he begun to preach the newest monotheistic religion, which they named Mahometismo. By the way, the phrase ‚Islam‘ is actually translated while ‚obedience‘ or maybe ‚devotion for you to Allah‘. Within the sermons Muhammad urged people to believe in the only real God, remarked about the brotherhood of believers and reflexion of common moral tips. After Muhammad’s death the theocratic express named Caliphate was established. Caliphs got all of the secular and also religious authority.
It is quite interesting to mention in your Christianity as contrasted with Islam article that the Muslims as well as Christian believers consider Overhoved and Event to have also been the first individuals on the The earth. They also position among their prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses in addition to Jesus. To ensure the Muslims don’t believe that Muhammad was the director of their certitude. They only just believe your ex to have ended up the last diviner (‚The Stamp of the Prophets‘). In their judgment, he reconditioned the true trust. Moreover, the very Bible experiences about the design of the world as well as human, in regards to the Flood and others are altered in the sacral Muslim e-book Quran.
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Typically the religious Islamic acts with worship
There are four main works of worship ion Islam. They are labeled ‚The Keystones of Islam‘. Every friends of this religion is obliged to fulfill all of them. They have been made during the duration of Muhammad. Such as are:
• ? alat (the prayer that must be committed become every Muslim);
• Zakat (a form of charitable organisation, which comprise of order essay papers online 2 . five per cent of fighter’s income);
• Sawm (the extremely fast which should be seen during Ramadan);
• Hajj (the pilgrimage so that you can Mecca that must be committed by means of every friends of Mahometismo at least once of their life);
• Jihad (diligent develop spreading of Islam).
The word ‚jihad‘ is converted as ‚struggle‘. This statement is noted in every essay regarding Islam and terrorism. Jihad includes six aspects: mind jihad that means inner progression on the path to often the God; jihad of a sword which means the very fight through unbelievers; jihad of the center which means network . fighting by using one’s passion; jihad within the language (which means signing of what moral in addition to disapproving for immoral things); jihad of your hand which implies disciplinary measures used for criminals). Many people be aware of term ‚jihad‘ wrongly. They think of jihad only as of jihad with the sword and just ignore several other aspects of this idea. Today often the armed sort of jihad is commonly employed by a lot of terrorist financial concerns in order to make a case for ideologically all their actions. Also, jihad is a only form of warfare which is certainly permitted by the Muslim legislation. Nevertheless, there are plenty of peaceful Muslims in the world, who all consider the quiet meaning for jihad to become one of the components of their certitude.
Another point about the Muslims is that they part themselves into two communities: Sunni along with Shia. non-etheless, Islam isn’t going to experience the big division as other famous religions conduct.
Islam fails to bear with homosexuality, feminism and a lot of other phenomena which can be tolerable for that U. Nasiums. and European countries. To get more information about the rights from the minorities you may read the essay on gay liberties.
Females role on Islam
Muslims‘ attitude to women of all ages is another exceptional trait connected with Islam. In order to write adult females in Islamic essay, this article be surely beneficial for a person. According to the Islamic law wedding ceremony can’t be made. It means of which marriage is definitely impossible with out consent with the woman. Yet , it is not always true used. Besides, lady can’t marry non-Muslim dude. In the same time, Muslim many men able to marry Christian or possibly Jewish person. Though this procedure considered to be reprehensible, it is not prohibited. Islam moreover allows gentlemen to overcome their wives or girlfriends, if they go against. It is fair to say this infringement about women’s correct is wide-spread in Mahometismo countries. For instance , 99% of girls in Egypt were broken. There is no explained marriage era in Yemen, a quarter of females get married previously they are 12-15 years old. All women in Islamic countries own undergone woman’s circumcision. With Sudan the exact stated wedding age is definitely 10 years outdated. Women’s data is a few different times less critical than the proof of men. In most Islam nations it is quite hard and almost impossible to confirm an function of violation. Moreover, raped woman may be blamed for adultery. Devoid of permission of a men person can’t marry, travel, come to be treated and also receive a college degree.
Your mentality to Mahometismo absolutely hinges on you, but you should remember that each religious beliefs as any additional phenomenon seems to have both advantages and drawbacks, so you shouldn’t be too the radical writing some terrorism as well as Islam article, which could be written in your case by university or college paper producing service.
Terrorism is the problem of existing importance to the global group. There are particular lessons specialized in the safeguard against terrorism in the classes of many places. Besides scholars and students have to generate essays in terrorism. In the present day a lot of governmental and cultural organizations make use of terrorism in order to achieve their objectives and take care of their needs. One of terrorist’s aims will be to give press to their strategies and feelings , which specifically are far too radical to be accepted by the society. Those who operate via terrorism are classified as terrorists. Prossionals usually outline this event as deliberate use of dread (fear) specifically in violent application form . A short while ago it has become one of several major areas of the world politics life. Authorities of the biggest countries are worried about this challenge. They make an attempt to unite for the health of protection against world-wide terrorism. Them considered to be an important danger for the mankind. Right now terrorism has grown into more widespread every day. The exact synonyms from the word ‚terror‘ are ‚coercion‘, ‚intimidation‘ plus ‚frightening‘. The phrase ‚terrorism‘ again has France origin along with derives through the word ‚terrorisme‘. Previously, the following term recommended some chaotic actions in the government, currently its significance have changed. In modern-day newspapers or news report you are prone to come across this word which means a size killing with incent noncombatant for faith based or governmental purpose . In this coursework about terrorism we stored some basic information regarding terrorism, the role on the globe history, varieties and impact on the todays busy lifestyles. Besides you can find here quite a few contemporary methods of fighting using this international problems.
History of the terrorism: where are its origins?
There are lots of different experiences on the time frame of terrorism origin. A few scholars think that the trend appeared during the 3rd millennium BC, if the father connected with Alexander the excellent was assassinated. However , the mediocre ones claim that the start of the terrorism history lies in the 1st century AD, when the group of Sicarii Zealots was initially active on Judaea Area. They are normally thought to be the primary terrorist in the human history. Most of their terror has been mainly aimed against the pro-roman Jewish the aristocracy. The classic sort of the impressive terrorism was the assassin group. They reached the high a higher standard development throughout sabotage plus violent ways of goals prosperity. Their motivation simply quite clear, however was definitely related to certitude. Adherents of the organization have been elusive. Their whole name fearful the caliphs and sultans of that moments, military emperors and distributors of the priesthood. If you are keen on the assassin subject, you could possibly use some exploration paper writer services to expose this issue as part of your essay at terrorism. One of the later terroristic organizations was initially ‚Narodnaya Volya‘, which came out in Russian federation in 1878. The individuals of this community wanted to launch the socialism into the united states based on the massive Russian peasantry. They solidly believed in typically the efficiency of your terrorist diets and widely used them. Typically the Irish Republican Brotherhood can be worth staying mentioned. It previously was founded throughout 1858. These folks known for by using modern timed explosives mainly cities in the Great Britain. The main terrorism within the modern indicating has been molded in the twentieth century. Scholars tend to shift the Modern Period into three periods:
• The period for spread from the revolutionary thoughts in Spain, Europe and also South America in the end of the nineteenth century;
• The of anti-colony movement;
• The time scale related to the actual of ‚New Leberals‘;
• The period related to the process of globalization.
The term ‚terrorism‘ itself first of all appeared inside the description regarding Jacobin Membership during the ‚Reign of Terror‘. It was the time of violence which happened after the start of French Trend. It was because of the contradiction between a couple political part: Jacobins in addition to Girondins. By the way, it is a wise course of action to write some Reign Miedo essay so as to improve your information about the period on the Revolution in France, which could be written for you through professional essay or dissertation writing company. | <urn:uuid:dacf8373-4da6-4515-8f18-d1de1c6e0828> | http://ponylreal.cz/essay-around-islam-could-it-be-a-religion-for/ | en | 0.963218 | 0.022104 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Titel: Multivariate Algorithms for Machine Scheduling Problems
Abstract: Machine scheduling problems are a long-time key domain of algorithms and complexity research. In those problems, we are generally given a finite set J of jobs with certain characteristics, and we must find a schedule for processing the jobs on one or more machines, which also may have their individual specifications. Typical characteristics of a job are its processing time, its release date, its due date, or its importance reflected by an integer weight. A significant amount of research has been devoted in the past 60 years towards designing polynomial-time algorithms which approximate the value of optimal schedules (for various objective functions). A novel approach to machine scheduling problems are multivariate algorithms, which aim to find a provably optimal schedule at the expense of an increased run time, which is permitted to depend moderately exponentially on the job characteristics or other structural parameters. We survey some recent algorithms in this paradigm, present some novel results, and discuss several challenging open problems in this exciting research area.
Prof. Jansen
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How Brands Can Help People When Moving
According to a survey, seven out of ten people who relocated said that their mobile phones helped them to stay connected and be reached by people they know after moving. Seven out of ten people said that they used their mobile phones to get media entertainment while they are in the period of moving. Their mobile phones are also useful in searching packing boxes online so they can find deals.
A research conducted by Facebook IQ delved deeper into the feelings of people and how they discuss their move and it was revealed that majority of these homeowners consider their mobile phones as their lifeline during the moving process. A recent survey was conducted with 4,000 participants from all over the UAE, Britain, Poland, Netherlands and France.
The research showed that social media played a big role for people who are moving homes. The research was also able to record the conversion data showing the purchases that people make months or days before they have to move. This is a useful tool for marketers if they want to help people by offering their products such as home insurance and cardboard boxes – only a few of the things people need when they move. A decade ago, this would not have been possible without mobile phones and social media platforms where telemarketers get the chance to connect with people.
The survey revealed that over half of the participants are moving from one city to another but within the same country while 20 per cent of them are moving from one country to another. Those who are living in Britain are the ones with the lowest chance of moving to another country with only 15 per cent compared to the UAE where 32 per cent of participants said that they are planning to move to a new country, the same with Poland where the rate is 20 per cent.
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An anonymous leak from a Discovery Channel employee revealed that the network's popular Shark Week series would conclude with "An epic look at shark-based weather phenomena and their effects on human life in urban environments." When pressed for more details, the leaker confirmed everyone's worst fears and revealed that he was referring to Sharknado.
Shark Week, by contrast, has a slightly more sane reputation. The annual Discovery event began in 1987 to "raise awareness and respect for sharks"1. The event was also, like everything on Discovery, supposed to be at least vaguely educational. However, over the years, the content of Shark Week has gone from, "Look at the interesting shark!" to "OH MY GOD GIANT SCARY SHARK!!!" But the Week, and perhaps the network, reached new lows when Shark Week 2013 with a documentary about a team that discovers that Megalodon sharks are still alive (Megalogon being an enormous prehistoric shark that you should totally google). The documentary was convincing, entrancing, and according to the tiny text at the bottom of the screen at the end, completely fake. But really, John Oliver expresses the offensive bullshittiness of the situation better than I do.
John Oliver on Sharks
According to the Discovery leak, the finale of Shark Week will be even more spectacular. Sharknado will be prefaced with a black screen bearing the message in large white text and voiced-over, "What you are about to witness is a dramatization of an event that top meteorologists say has a 90% chance of occuring in your lifetime.". (Our investigative reporters that "top meteorologists" meant an unemployed twentysomething who had watched Sharknado while drinking six beers. He was being paraphrased; his original words were, "Dude, this is totally gonna happen to me!") At the same time, this text will be at the bottom of the screen "This is not actually real. The events of Sharknado are in no way actually possible. Ha ha! Fooled ya!". Of course, the black text might not show up on the black screen, but, "That's the point."
1. Okay, I quoted Wikipedia, so sue me.
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We are seeking a seasoned Estimator with experience in architectural millwork.
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Compensation package inclusive of medical benefits, dental, 401k, vacation etc.
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No, you won't get two free Delta tix on Facebook
Facebook Delta tickets hoax
(story and photo: Cory Howard, Executive Producer Interactive,
Two of these in one day. Honestly, we could probably write an article a day for every scam on Facebook, but after we posted the warning about the Jayden K Smith hoax, we noticed another oldie but goodie (badie?) making it's way across our feed on Monday: The Delta ticket scam.
The post isn't new, but seems to be getting popular again, with plenty of people falling for it.
It claims that Delta is giving away free tickets simply because it's their 88th birthday (the company is actually 93 years old). If you click on it, it could lead to malicious websites.
RELATED: Jayden K Smith warning on Facebook is new version of an old, fake message
If you receive it on your timeline, Facebook actually wants you to report it as spam.
You should always go to the legitimate Delta Airline/Airways Facebook page to verify the authenticity of a promotion before taking part in it. Spread the word!
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Written as part of a challenge called Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, details are available at https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/fffaw-challenge-week-of-july-26-2016/
Jonathan had finished installing the final tripwire. The electric fence had been burrowed underneath. Scent markers, mole repellents, harsh chemicals, bundles of human hair, everything short of armed combat has led to rows of plants dissapearing overnight.
“Eden was populated by a snake. The snake simply made us suffer but left the food alone! He did not seem to believe destroying all food sources was appropriate. Save a single apple! These horrific beasts…..these horrific spawn…I don’t know if I need to use silver tips to defend my garden.” Jonathan stares out along the perimeter. His long rifle would do just fine, but the bleeding hearts that eat from the grocery oppose this idea with laws. “Let the varmints take away their can opener! Chew the compressor out of their fridges!”
He looks at the harvest wheelbarrow, empty. He sighs. “It was a work of love. There is no share with these critters. They take and take. Why can’t they understand a little is OK?! They know no limits!” The one groundhog looks at his friend.
His empty eyes looks at all the food for just him alone. He never appreciates the hard work done to loosen the soil. Last time it was sharp rocks under the fence. Then the electric fence. Poison that bleed into his good as well. Noises to scare them off. They were under attack. The farmer stole their families home. Then locked them out.
The rivals locked in a fierce struggle. The outcome will never completely be said. Just escalating tactics.
“I’ll harpon which ever ones of you dare step here.” Jonathan steps off the board. He hears a thud. His shin burns. He set off his own trap. This time it’s a bruise.
22 thoughts on “Rivals
1. Ground hog vs. The farmer. Fighting for survival of their families both. What’s too much to a groundhog? Why does the farmer hurt them, so.? What’s a little to the farmer? Do they define ‘a little’ the same?
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1. Hehe I know. My Grandma always complained about the birds. Of course, I had two dogs who adored peas and would both eat any they could reach. My first dog a chihuahua cross, loved baby carrots and dug them up, leaving the neat little tops. Not only the garden animals to worry about, but pets too if you’re not careful 🙂
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How Art Helps People With Mental Health Issues
Everyday stress can have a profound effect on our mental health, and that is shown by nearly 20% of Brits suffering with some form of mental health problem. That number is staggering, and it exceeds the numbers that affect people with other serious health conditions such as cancer and cardiovascular problems.
However, in this modern era, there is no longer the stigma attached to mental health that there once was. People are free to talk about their problems and issues to friends, family and random helpline assistants. Regardless, one of the best ways for people to combat their mental health issues is through art. Birmingham local Alexander Rhys is a leading light for that.
He has gone on to open his own gallery in the centre of Birmingham despite having mental problems that began from his childhood when he was bullied. But why can art have such a profound impact on our mental health?
Powerful Tool in Battle Against Mental Health Issues
The popularity of engaging in the arts is increasing year or year as a way to improve our wellbeing. The factor that contributes to an overwhelming increase in health is down to the fact that art can help a person feel engaged. The best way to combat any issues in mental health is by being creative, and the results have backed that up. The ability to use art has enabled sufferers to tell their story using pictures instead of words, and that is the crucial factor that has seen it become so popular across the United Kingdom.
One of the biggest factors for sustaining mental health problems is because people feel lonely and isolated. This factor will impact everybody at some point in their life, and it could be down to a range of things. It could revolve around friends leaving the local area, a passing of a relative or decreasing health conditions.
Art can help on this front with the inclusive programs that they have. This enables people to form new friendship circles with likeminded people. Immediately after making new friends, the mental health problems will begin to ease. By using art as an outlet, people will feel less alienated and isolated, and instead, they will feel included and heard.
This social element has also had a massive impact for people of older ages. Those that are in care homes can feel down a lot of the time, but the addition of art groups has increased social interactions, both between residents and staff. These can help improve the mood of individuals while also having a positive effect on a person’s wellbeing.
Positive Effects
Mental health problems in the UK can be reduced massively with non-medical approaches to it. Not only will it ease the pressure on the already-stretched NHS, but it will offer new options to people that suffer from mental health issues.
Making art gives people a greater responsibility to maintain their own health and levels of independence. It would be a positive idea for any person suffering from mental health to embrace the art world.
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Tarot card symbols have been used for centuries to express deep feelings and instruct readers. These images are thought to reflect a person's state of mind, their spiritual state, and even a detailed description of their path. Decades ago, the practice of tarot cards were used to predict the future. Today, they are used to guide a variety of people. People can use the cards for everything from fun to self-improvement. There are many ways to use a person's color, gemstone,eyedronicity, or even esoteric (hidden) meaning. A common misconception is that tarot cards are only an opaque reading. They are, in fact, just as rich in description as a clairvoyant reading, yet a little more flexible in their options. After all, these are just probables; the future is never a set in stone.
composure, poise, and confidence Through the tarot's straightforward approach to guidance, you will leave doubt and questions at the door. There are no "shoulds" or "should nots" with tarot cards. Instead, each card induces a movement, a shift in energy, and a healing occurs.
You can fake it, but you cannot erase It - The tarot will continue to offer its subtle messages even while you play a card game or make a statement about yourself. You can't master the tarot by avoiding playing or by denouncing a card before you see its message. Accepting a card in a deck, or even focusing on a specific card, while ignoring others, doesn't jeopardize your ability to perceive the information they represent. A tarot reader offering their interpretation without playing cards or showing you the entire spread is a deception.
Your mind must be in control of the spread if you want to read the Tarot. -Neither the rote learning nor the emotional attachment TO the spread works if you do not remain in control of your mind and your emotional state. If you can't trust your own mind, ministries, or books that regurgitate information for a public consumption, and personal self-study are a waste. In order to increase your tarot ability, increase your level of control, self-awareness, and honesty.
Tarot decks have no rituals or ceremonies - Tarot readers are healers and bringing the unusual into the ordinary. Readers are human, but their abilities do not lie only in the human part of them. Tarot training does help, but if your talent lies only in the ability to spell, no matter how brilliant that ability is, you do your best by a human standard. Strive for excellence, but be prepared to accept less than perfect results along the way.
The Tarot's wisdom should reside in each individual, but so often it's surrounded and swayed by symbolism. It's great to increase your understanding and confidence in yourself when you embark on your own journey of self-awareness, but avoid becoming dependent on symbols or divination at the cost of losing your unique expression of the archetypal images.
It can be helpful to study with a trusted professional who practices the contained teachings of a particular discipline. The loss of a loved one can be overwhelming, and you may feel as though you are uniting your reason with the plight of others who no longer exist, but this is all a part of the trap of life. No matter who you are or what talents you have, you are the bringer of judgment. No past actions are forgotten and no wrong deeds are done. You must face each moment with the awareness that your reason for wanting to save someone is because they need you. If you are unconscious in this way, the pain is multiplied when you realize that you carried this burden for someone else.
If you are consciously aware, the depth of the feelings that you portray to others will evolve. A genuine concern for others only comes out of your own needs for yourself and such an act cannot be done without insufferable pride. Human relations are probably the most direct path to caring for others, but this can be dangerous territory. Do what you do as an act of love, not obligation. You can't oversample the truth of life or the teaching that love alone is the answer.
The Tarot does not ask that you place your wishes in the needs of others. Your success is your success alone and no one else's. Through the care of the archetypes you can help and encourage others into realizing their God Given Destiny simply by pointing them to the Light and Away from the shadows. The Tarot's wisdom is meant todefense-oriented, not offense. Get off the pity party and focus on making a difference for the greater good.
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My Writing Process + Sand and Smoke Sequel is Drafted!
Good news! Today I hit the end on the first draft of the sequel to Sand and Smoke! There are still a number of things to clean up and revise, but if all goes well, I’m really hoping to publish it sometime in August next year. I’ll probably begin accepting pre-orders and reveal the title sometime before the end of this year (2020) by the way.
So I think there is a trend of writers, authors, traditionally published or indie or self-published, sharing their writing process with others? I thought I would hop on that trend! So here’s some info about how I write.
First thing, every project is different.
My writing project changes a lot. It might seem weird then that I am sharing my writing process. But even though how I write changes with every project, I do still have a process. I have a few steps I go through every time I write something new.
At the most fundamental level, my writing process can be broken up into three steps:
1. Idea
2. Write
3. Revise
Let’s talk about step one. Technically, an idea is just the very, very starting point. It might not even resemble a story. An idea could be, for instance, a boy with a lightning bolt scar on his head. We recognize that as Harry Potter, but someone who knows nothing of Harry Potter would be able to imagine a million different books using that idea. The original idea for my book, Sand and Smoke, was a world with dragons and cowboys in it. Personally, I get my ideas at random times throughout the day. I usually don’t try to force this step. I keep a page of notes on my phone and write down an idea whenever it comes to me. That might be when I’m about to go to sleep, when I’m taking a shower, or even when I’m driving. If I come up with the idea when I’m driving, I usually either try to remember it for as soon as I come to a stop, or I pull over and jot it down. The vast majority of ideas I never actually use. Sometimes, I combine two ideas. I love doing that. If an idea is really good, it will end up sticking in my head, and then I will start to develop it and proceed to the next step. When I first started writing, these ideas were usually just things I thought sounded cool. Such as, in college, when I had an idea to write about a pigeon living in NYC. Lately, I’ve been working harder to differentiate these ideas that sound cool in my head from those that have more commercial appeal.
After the idea comes the concept. The difference between an idea and a concept is that a concept is more specific and actually lays out the bones of the story. For me, this usually involves a lot of character work. Who is the protagonist? What do they want? I try to envision what sort of books my book would go next to on the bookshelf.
In my opinion, it’s smart to give some time to concepting. I usually do it like I’m soaking a pot to wash later. In other words, I don’t just sit down and concept, it goes on in between other things during my day. My version of concepting is pretty much just daydreaming lol. There are exercises that you can do, however, such as loglines, premise lines, or things like that to help with concepting.
I usually do some work with character before I start writing. I’ve found that I’m naturally great at writing plot, but I have to really put in effort to get good characters. Each project, it’s a little different how I build my characters. For some books, I have created whole worksheets with things like hair color, eye color, backstory, love life, etc. Other books, I’ve written monologues in a character’s voice, describing their backstory and who they are. For one of my projects recently, I tried envisioning the characters as people I know, family or friends, and basing their decisions, the way they speak, and the clothes they wear, off of one person.
When I actually start writing a novel, short story, screenplay, or TV pilot, my writing process usually takes me from beginning to end rather quickly. I write consistently, and I don’t worry too much about making things perfect. I do sometimes go back and revise as I write. Lately I’ve been setting deadlines for myself and I’ve gotten good at finishing books by a deadline. Back in college, I remember that I would have deadlines set for me by my teachers, so I think I got accustomed to this. I’ve found that sometimes having a deadline can lead to subpar-quality, if the deadline is unrealistic. The important thing is to remain flexible, but consistent. I’m currently on a schedule writing five days a week, but in the past I’ve succeeded on schedules writing as little as two days a week. If something isn’t working, I’ll re-evaluate how I’m spending my writing time on those days, but I won’t just give myself those days off because for me, consistency is key.
I’ve found that the first draft is about getting the right beats of a story. So, while I might go back and revise, or even adjust my deadline, for something like a protagonist who gets dragged on a quest instead of having their own motivation and choosing the quest, I wouldn’t do the same if my protagonist just said something that was totally out of character. For me, the first draft is about hitting the right plot points in the right way.
In the last step of my writing process, revision, I try to fix any “continuity errors” first. That means anything like a character who exits a room, then speaks as if they’re still in the room, or a character whose name changes midway through the book, or anything like that. Sometimes, I’ll have other changes I imagined while writing but didn’t want to take the time to do yet. I’ll do these changes at the same time. Most of the time, after that, I send the piece to a friend or fellow writer who can provide some critique. After that, it changes a lot what I do from piece to piece.
In general, the time from idea to actually writing can vary greatly. I’ve had ideas before that I don’t work on for years. Sometimes, I’ll start concepting right away. Sometimes, I’ll concept for a really long time and not write the thing. Sometimes, I’ll start writing and decide the idea/concept isn’t worth finishing. Lately, once I’ve invested the time to start a piece, I’ve usually seen it through to the end.
So that’s my writing process! When I am writing, here are some resources that influence how I write:
Dan Harmon’s Story Circle, a great resource for structure. I have this memorized:
Save The Cat! by Blake Snyder, more structure, also breakdown of story tropes and types of stories, and the save the cat trick to make your protagonist more likeable:
Aristotle’s Poetics, provides an excellent overview of the core components of a story, I think about these components religiously when revising, and frequently when writing. : A website that lists all the tropes in stories that have existed in many mediums (TV, literature, movies, videogames, comics, etc). I’ve used this when I’ve done outlines, but it also has value as just a place to explore every once in a while, to get more knowledge of tropes for when you are writing.
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
But when?
Actually, it seems that scientific evidence has revealed that feathers evolved in dinosaurs long before they were changing into birds (source: And in fact, the growth of feathers was not a quick change. It wasn’t like flipping a switch. It was instead more like moving a slider.
Which in fact makes me think about dragons.
Since I have taken such an interest in writing about dragons in my novels, I do think about them quite often. They are traditionally portrayed as reptiles, either as western dragons with huge bat-like wings, scales (like dinosaurs!), and four feet. Or eastern dragons with a more snake-like appearance. Either way, they might easily be categorized as reptiles if they existed.
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Blue Flashing on Reset
Sometimes on applying power to an electron the device goes into listening mode. If we cycle the power again or press the reset button the electron will continue with the normal sequence.
As I understand the device goes into listening mode when:
1. Initiated by the user - Not the case here
2. No sim card - Not the case here
3. Sim card loose - Don’t think this is the case as it reconnects without any movement of the sim card. Also we are seeing this across multiple devices
4. Sim damaged - not the case as the sim works thereafter
One of the suggestions is a cold boot. This requires someone to be present
Is there any way to get the Electron to enter into the startup cycle again after a certain period. At present if this happens to any of our devices we have to go physically into the field and press the button/ cycle the power.
You can use SYSTEM_THREAD() enabled to keep your code running while in Listening Mode. That way your firmware can “supervise” the state of the device and act apropriatly.
You can also try adding a STARTUP() macro that sets a timeout for Listening Mode (Cellular.setListenTimeout()).
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The record industry against the world
The EFF undertakes a review of the recording industry’s war against file sharing on the fifth anniversary of the launching of the RIAA’s first case.
Meanwhile, the RIAA is suing an attorney who seems to work overtime for defendants sued by the RIAA: here and. Amongst other things, Mr Beckerman maintains a checklist of tips for people facing an action by the RIAA: they won’t be directly applicable here, but who knows what food for thought you may find. If you want to get a better understanding of how the US litigation works, read Mr Beckerman’s article from the Judges Journal here.
And the RIAA is appealing (more here) the Jammie Thomas decision, seeking to be heard before the retrial.
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Throughout my prevailing concept of cultural issues on this research, I have drawn most of my illustration from marketing researches currently done in China. Chinese culture is portrayed by theoretical ideologies encountered during Cultural Revolution.
Culture is defined as a set of essential understandings that members of a society share in common. These set of essential understandings are often not stated. Cross-cultural communication can be defined as a process of communications between citizens from different cultural background.
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Some of the major cross-cultural issues that may Impact Company A’s marketing approach in this situation are; Cultural factors, differences in systems of laws, unethical behavior, rules of conduct, clear guidelines, right to choice, efficiency and effectiveness, religion, and education.
Cultural differences and the expectations affect all business transaction globally. Therefore, it is important for the USA marketers to understand the culture and expectations of the Chinese people. For example, the Chinese have self-control in terms of their communication style such as their value for silence as they reserve it for cautious judgment and reflection.
The Americans on the other hand value talking, view silence as a tough negotiating technique, and tend to be uncomfortable when there is a gap of silence in the conversation. Furthermore, the Chinese also are shy in communication and give hints to others about what they really want; this contrasts with the frankness in American culture.
Another difference is a context versus content orientation. In China, guanxi, which is a set of connections or relationships, form the context of business. When Chinese managers negotiate a contract, they rely on the context in which the contract was negotiated as opposed to Americans who rely on the content of the contract. The specific words, the dates, the amounts, the tasks are spelled out clearly and are very vital for an American manager.
The above may impact an American’s company marketing strategy in that the Americans might be forced for example to value context of the contract as opposed to content, hold spells of silence in their negotiation and also be able to understand a Chinese managers hinting..
The instances such as illegal campaign contributors, bribery, knowingly selling defective goods, and hiding information represent cross-cultural misconduct identified above and can lead to contrasting business performance. USA for example is prohibited to engage in bribery in business despite the fact that the company faces jail terms and heavy fines.
One of the impacts of cross-cultural ethical differences in marketing strategies between the United States and China is that the American managers must make sure that an agreement with a Chinese manager must never lead to shame sometimes-extraordinary efforts to preserve face may be necessary.
This is because in the Chinese culture courtesy is highly valued as well as righteousness, ethics and honor. Therefore, it is very important for the Chinese people to avoid shame both for themselves as well as for others. Cause of shame to someone else is taken seriously and the offended person can even revenge.
Another impact is the use of advertisements, for Americans it is acceptable to advertise and even exaggerate as it promotes a product and is useful to create fantasy in showing the needs the product satisfies. This is in contrast with the Chinese culture where people value the inner beauty more than the look or style, and if advertisements are not done properly, they may not fit the Chinese culture.
It is of great importance for the American marketers to choose appropriate words in promoting their products in China. Therefore, the focus of advertisements should be on delivery of product edification as well as understanding and also trying as much as possible to avoid loss of face as well as avoiding comparative advertisements.
In China, people are both superstitious about their business success and are concerned with numbers. Therefore using a luck number like 1688 for a house number or a business phone number is important for them. This is because such a number when pronounced in Cantonese means ‘all the way to riches’.
The Chinese people also believe that if someone says something bad about their business it will actually come to pass and might even cause a downfall of the business. Americans on the other hand believe in hard work and that through it one can achieve anything they desire to. For Americans to succeed in business in China they must be knowledgeable as well as sensitive to Chinese beliefs.
Another impact is in considerations of the society’s assumptions about the relationship between man and nature. Americans are of the view that man should dominate nature in contrast with the Chinese who are of the idea that man must live in harmony with the nature.
In this case, therefore American must be careful to avoid being perceived as polluters and destroyers of nature and old artifacts. It is vital for Americans to understand and respect Chinese position; otherwise, business dealings with them may be difficult. The American managers must have great patience.
This is because the Chinese people value stability and preservation of the status quo. To them changes should be evolutionary, in contrast Americans who value progress and change even at the expense of traditional values. Therefore, the American managers must respect the values of the Chinese people to be able to do business with them comfortably. Employing an expert in the other side’s culture and business practice can be the best insurance of success in China for American marketers.
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Demystifying Linux Containers(LXC)
Containers are the future when it comes to using and shipping applications. But Linux containers or LXC can be used for more than just that. This article covers the use of LXC on a daily basis as well as for production.
Demystifying Linux Containers(LXC)
Although Containers get their popularity after extensive use of docker by Docker Inc, which is in market since 2013 but linux also have their own Containers from several year from now. These native linux Containers are named LXC(or simply linux container). LXC project has been their since 2008 and is actively being maintained/supported by Cannonical Ltd. It is more of set of tools(more technically API) which gives you interface to create a container using linux namespaces and cgroups(Control Groups). Linux namespaces (mnt,pid,net,ipc,uts, user) is a feature of kernel used for different type of isolation whereas cgroups are used to set limitation over resources(mostly hardware resources like memory and disk size) use by any process.
Mount namespace(mnt): A process views different mount points other than the original system mount point. It creates a separate file system tree associated with different processes, which restricts them from making changes to the root file system.
PID namespace(pid): PID namespace isolates a process ID from the main PID hierarchy. A process inside a PID namespace can have the same PID as a process outside it, and even inside the namespace, you can have different init with PID 1.
UTS namespace: In the UTS (UNIX Timesharing System) namespace, a process can have a different set of domain names and host names than the main system. It uses sethostname() and setdomainname() to do that.
IPC namespace: This is used for inter-process communication resources isolation and POSIX message queues.
User namespace(user): This isolates user and group IDs inside a namespace, which is allowed to have the same UID or GID in the namespace as in the host machine. In your system, unprivileged processes can create user namespaces in which they have full privileges.
Network namespace(net): Inside this namespace, processes can have different network stacks, i.e., different network devices, IP addresses, routing tables, etc.
LXC is a set of tools that make it possible to use these feature and create something that is called as a container. Containers are nothing but a very lightweight VMs with less amount of isolation. This less isolation cause due to absent of hypervisor layer, which make containers to use the same kernel as of host system. But this absence also make container's more widely usable as the overhead of configuring/necessity of hypervisor has gone and now you can select which resources you wish to isolate according to your use. So lets dive into Linux Container space.
Getting Started with LXC
For our demonstration purposes I am using LXC in Ubuntu 16.04. LXC has great support on Ubuntu since LXC project is backed by Cannonical Ltd, which is also the publisher of Ubuntu operating system. But you can also install LXC on any other linux distribution through their official repositories.
In your ubuntu machine install lxc and lxc-templates by using this in your terminal
$sudo apt install lxc lxc-templates
Once you have lxc toolset install you can check your default configuration by
$sudo lxc-checkconfig
Now since we have LXC installed on our ubuntu system, we can now create our first container
$sudo lxc-create -n mycontainer -t ubuntu
This will download a ubuntu container from internet and save it in your storage with name mycontainer. you need to remember -n option, as it will be used at most of the places to give your container name. -t templatename defines the template we want to use. There are many other distribution templates available for lxc. You can find them at /usr/share/lxc/templates.
Fig-1Fig 1: Available templates for lxc
You can see all available container you have created by using lxc-ls.
Creating a container doesn't mean it is running. To run the container you need to use lxc-start tool.
$lxc-start -n mycontainer
This will start your first container in background. You can check all the running containers by using lxc-ls also with passing option –fancy.
Fig-2Fig: lxc-ls --fancy output showing state of container with other details
This will show the state of all your containers with little more specs. You can also use lxc-top to list the running container with resources it use.
Fig-3Fig: lxc-top output
Now to start using your container all you need to do is attach to the container. To get directly access to the container as root without authentication you can use lxc-attach
$sudo lxc-attach -n mycontainer
this is mostly not recommended due to root login, so in place you can use lxc-console
$sudo lxc-console -n mycontainer
this will give you login prompt (default username is ubuntu with password as ubuntu).
To detach from the container just press Ctrl-a followed by q.
If you are using LXC for development or testing purposes then their is high probability that you came across a scenario where you require architecture system different then your current host. LXC has templates for most of the cpu arch like i836, powerpc and armhf etc.
To create the container of different architecture you just need to supply --arch= on lxc-create command. Or you can even view the full list of template and select from them through this command.
$sudo lxc-create --template download --name mycontainer
Fig-4Fig: lxc-create can also use to select templates on fly.
You can stop a container using lxc-stop or freeze/pause a running container using lxc-freeze and then lxc-unfreeze to unfreeze it. lxc-destroy will delete the container image. To use these tools all you need to do is pass -n containername with these commands.
lxc-console or lxc-attach give you access to the shell inside the container but you did not always want that to happen. Many times you just want to run a single script or command inside the container. For that purpose lxc provides lxc-execute.
$sudo lxc-execute -n mycontainer – ip addr
This will give you the ip address of interfaces inside the container rather then your host.
Lxc also support cloning and snapshotting of container. To clone a container you can use
$sudo lxc-copy -n mycontainer -N newcontainer
To clone your container it must not be in running state. We will discuss the snapshotting in next section.
Configuring Linux Container
Till now we have used lxc tools for general uses. But when you are using containers in production or development environment there is more controls and option you need to make your work done.
To configure a container you must know how to use config file. But first you need to know where is your containers actually in your disk? The answer is at path /var/lib/lxc/yourcontainername*. Inside this path you will find rootfs directory which is the root of your container(also can be called backing store) and a config file.You can change this container’s path while creating container using lxc-create by passing parameter -P newpath or –lxcpath=PATH. You can even create a separate partition and use it as the root filesystem of container. The default backing store which is /var/lib/lxc/containername/rootfs* is called dir backing store. Other available options are lvm, loop, brtfs, zfs,aufs, overlayfs and rbd. With -P option you can only define the path of your containers rootfs but the container will still be dir container.
So to change the backing store you can use -B backingstoretype with lxc-create and lxc-clone (to clone it into another container of different backing store).
A strong feature that lxc come with is container's snapshot capability. You can create a snapshot using *lxc-snapshot *
Snapshot is not supported for dir based container, so before snapshot you have to clone it to container of type aufs or overlayfs.
$sudo lxc-snapshot -n mycontainer
this will save the snapshot with name snap0. Now whenever you do some uncertain changes in your container you can just create a snapshot before it and can restore it later with
$sudo lxc-snapshot -r snap0 -n mycontainer.
To list all snapshot of a Container
$sudo lxc-snapshot -L -n mycontainer
Fig-5Fig: Basic snapshot operations
To configure your container every container has config file at path /var/lib/lxc/yourcontainer/config. You can use this file for almost every possible changes you can do with lxc including but not limited to networking, setting cgroups limitations, profiling and other common container related configuration. For example you can mount external folder inside container through adding following line in config file of your container
lxc.mount.entry = /mnt/share /root/share none ro,bind 0.0
We will discuss more about config file in next part of this series.
How LXC is different from docker and Vms
LXC (or LXD) is created to replace the work of Vms as they are really heavy to use and can be unmanaged if run in large amount. The only difference it has with Vms is that container have same kernel layer as of host whereas Vms provide full isolation.
So linux container are there to run a whole linux machine (or simply multiple services) inside the isolated environment provided by linux kernel. Whereas docker are replacement of traditional way of running application, by running it in isolated environment i.e docker container are made to run a single application inside there container. LXC container are even capable of nested containerization means you can even run docker or any other container inside lxc container without any issue. In general they don’t care what is running inside them all application will treated same inside the container. We will discuss little more about that comparison in next part also.
So for next part we will discuss about using config file, networking in lxc, a practical application of container, some project extension of lxc and few more topics. Stay tuned!.
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Ep. 14 Transcript: Data Collection & Celebrity vs. Personal Birth Charts
The Astrology Podcast
Transcript of Episode 14, titled:
Data Collection and Celebrity vs. Personal Birth Charts
With Chris Brennan and Kenneth Miller
Episode originally released on February 20th, 2014.
Transcribed by Gülşen Altay
Transcription released November 10th, 2018
Copyright © 2016 TheAstrologyPodcast.com
CHRIS BRENNAN: Hi. I am Chris Brennan and you are listening to the astrology podcast. Today is Wednesday, February 19, 2014 and this is the 14th episode of the show. You can find the show at the astrologypodcast.com and you can also listen to us on iTunes.
My co-host today is California based astrologer Kenneth Miller. Kenneth is a graduate of Kepler College and he specializes in Indian astrology. His website is celestialintelligencer.net.
Our topic today is the subject of birth data collection and the general debate over whether it is better to use celebrity birth charts as examples or the charts of people you know like friends or family members.
With that introduction out of the way. Kenneth, welcome to the show.
KENNETH MILLER: Thank you. It is good to be here
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah, I am glad to have you on. I have been meeting to for quite a while now. I am glad we finally did it.
KENNETH MILLER: Yes, me too. It is always fun talking to you.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Before we get into our main topic of discussion I just had a few pieces of news that I want to run through and announcements to make.
The first one is that Geoffrey Cornelius and Maggie Hyde are going to be speaking in New York on March 28-29-30. They are going to be doing a series of seminars on the practice of astrology as divination at the Edgar Cayce Center in Manhattan and this is being organized by Adam Elenbaas through his Nightlight Astrology School. If you like to find out more information about it, you can go to nightlightastrology.com.
Other than that there is three big conferences this year. One of them just took place or the fourth actually just took place in Australia. I think the Australians just had a conference in Tasmania last month that was successful from the sound of it and I want to mention three conferences that are coming up this year, just for people who might be interested in attending.
The first is the Northwest Astrological Conference, they are having their big 30th anniversary. It has been 30 years of having conferences there in Seattle and this is going to be a big one so that is May 22 -26, 2014 and I will giving two lectures at that conference. I definitely recommend attending it. The second one is the Astrological Association of Great Britain is having a conference, September 12-14, 2014 in Wyboston Lakes which evidently is near Cambridge and then finally the third big conference this year is the International Society for Astrological Research is holding a conference in Phoenix, Arizona, September 25-28, 2014 and this at least in terms of the US will be one of the big conferences of the year and there is a lot of people speaking there, I will be giving two lectures and a workshop. I am actually really looking forward to that and I hope to see a lot of people there.
Finally one other piece of the news, I have recently finished recording several new workshops for my Introduction to Hellenistic Astrology course. One of them is on the Basic Techniques of Hellenistic Astrology. It is actually a pretty comprehensive lecture that is 13 hours long, it is basically a workshop. Then another one on the Arabic Parts or the Lots such as the Part of Fortune and then the rationale for it and then another one on using the Triplicity Rulers of the Sect Light to determine eminence in a person’s chart. I just add it all of these lectures to the course.
And if you are interested in…, there has been a few people who have asked me to do more episodes of the podcast or what can I do to help support the podcast?, and really the best thing you can do if you wanna help to support this podcast is to sign up for one of my online courses because having people sign up for stuff like that helps me to have time to and sort of resources to do other things like this podcast so definitely sign up for one of those courses like the Hellenistic astrology course if you are interested in seeing me do more episodes of this.
Finally Kenneth has a new course that he is about to start teaching through Kepler College on Indian astrology for Westerners. Kenneth, could you mention a little bit about that?
KENNETH MILLER: Yeah, it is going to be thought through kepler.edu and it is a 10 week course that will basically by the end of it allow someone to be able to do, what I hope I mean my ambition is about the end of the course they will be able to do, you know read a manuary, reading of a chart using the Indian style and Indian rules. It is designed with the Western astrologer in mind although really if you had little or no background it would also work. I mean I am adding extra components to the course for people that are branded new to astrology, that people that know something about astrology, you know want me to review or watch but it will take you through you know basically serving the major techniques of natal analysis and predictive work.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Excellent, that sounds really good and what does that begin?
KENNETH MILLER: It begins the first week of April.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Okay, people can go to Kepler’s website which is kepler.edu in order to find out for more information or sign up for that.
CHRIS BRENNAN: All right. Excellent. Well, then let’s get started with our topic today and our topic is the general issue of birth data collection but also this specific debate that comes up sort of everyones in a while in the astrological community about what type of birth chart is the best to use as an example and this came up for me recently because I have been recording all these new lectures on specific techniques for my Hellenistic course and this let me to build…, I realized a need to build a better library of specific example charts just in order to do demonstrate how to use some of these specific techniques and so I went about basically going through some of the different birth data collections, not just my own private files for clients or people I know but also looking through things like Astro-Databank for celebrity birth charts and trying to find out what celebrities we actually have birth times for or which ones we don’t have birth times for so this let me to become more sort of familiarize myself with this whole issue of birth data collection and actual repositories like the Astro-Databank website of birth data collections and it also brought up this interesting sort of practical issue which is what astrologers should put more emphasis towards in terms of when they are trying to demonstrate astrological techniques whether it makes more sense to use the charts of people you know and what the pros and cons of that are like people, you know like your friends or close friends or family members or people that you can actually talk to and interact with versus using the charts of famous people or celebrities who have stood out or have done something important to notorious in the world in some way. Yeah and I brought this up in a discussion forum and I noticed that astrologers are a little bit divided on this and there is different astrologers that seem to go more in one direction and lessen another or seem to emphasize certain points in one and other points in another so I thought we could have a discussion about that so why don’t we start off by just, I mean, how do you feel about that issue? Do you incline more towards using personal charts or celebrity charts?
KENNETH MILLER: Well, that is a great question and I incline more to what I called the charts of ordinary people.
KENNETH MILLER: And I have always inclined that way because I find…, my argument for that in terms of teaching astrology is that typically celebrity charts are too easy to read and when you learn astrology and all you are looking at is famous people and then you do the chart of your cousin, you know what seemed very clear in Madonna’s chart now seems very muddy, you know most people have omit to life and that is tougher to see astrologically then someone who has got a stellar you know famous life.
KENNETH MILLER: I think there is a place, you know as we continue this discussion ………. I am not totally against using famous people but I think that when you are learning astrology focusing on ordinary people will make you a better astrologer because it just sharpens your reasoning ability as you can assort out the mixed bag that you find with normal folk.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure so that becomes one of the pros and cons both of those that…
CHRIS BRENNAN: …famous people are celebrities that they tend to have specific things in their chart that they really stand out and sometimes they tend to manifest or take some of their basic chart placements to their fullest extent whereas for some normal people things may not maybe a little bit nuanced or a little bit more complicated in terms of how will they fill out certain placements in the chart as what you are saying?
KENNETH MILLER: Let me give you just an example and then we may get into more of the pros and cons.
KENNETH MILLER: I have a teacher in India who was teaching us what in Indian astrology is called yogas, you know the basically aphorisms that you know certain combinations produce that kind of results and he threw up two charts and he said one of these charts is an internationally known speaker and author and the other one is also a writer, you know published writer but nowhere near, you know is not, you know nearly is famous, not nearly is wealthy, just he is written a couple of books as an adjunct, this is normal career which was something else and so we went through trying to figure out which chart was which and it was a very interesting exercise to kind of see like, ‘Yes you can see that both of these people have an inclination to write’ but the famous person ended up being Deepak Chopra and his chart was just you know exemplified that much more so where is the chart of ordinary person who had two books published in his field, you know it was a much lesser success and that stuck in my mind as a great teaching thing about just like putting up two charts and having the class kind of worked out who is what.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure. Yeah, that make sense and I mean that becomes one of the benefits of using celebrity charts that they do tend to exemplify certain techniques or certain placements much more dramatically but then I guess one of the points then is it becomes much more less practically useful when you actually trying to take what you learn by going through a bunch of celebrity charts and dealing with people that are high profile or extraordinary individuals and then attempting to do what astrologers are doing most of time in terms of the actual practise which is working with normal people that are not necessarily extraordinary or are not necessarily well-known or celebrities for some reason.
KENNETH MILLER: Yeah, I think in the old day…, quote unquote the old days and I think this supplies East and West, I mean you can clear certainly it is in the Indian material and you can tell me about the Hellenistic but there is you know when authors are writing their delineation texts they tend to be kind of over the top in describing ‘Okay, you know Venus is in Taurus it means this’ and it is used a lot of dramatic language and it was so that the person reading it with sort of memorized the principle…
KENNETH MILLER: …even though in real life you might rarely have an extreme manifestation of that or there are always…, you know in astrology there is always mitigating factors. Right?, I mean there is 12 x12x12 factors and more depending what you are throwing into the chart and I think maybe our modern version of that is the celebrity charts like here is the celebrity chart that really exemplifies a particular manifestation of a configuration.
KENNETH MILLER: And so kind of memorized that but you know if you see that in someone else’s chart you know it may not have the exact same stellar results.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah, that makes sense and that is a good analogy just because that is one of the things that often does turn people off like especially modern astrologers that are trying to look at text on traditional astrology like Medieval or Hellenistic or Indian texts is that they will tend to just stayed extreme manifestations of a specific placement and sometimes that comes off as way to either improbable or sort of off-putting because it is going to that extreme when most charts will have multiple mitigations occurring from one reason or another. Yeah, so that is a good analogy.
Okay, in defence then let’s go, so you are going to take the more personal charts is being a little bit better so I will just for the sake of argument defend celebrity charts…
CHRIS BRENNAN: … for the sake of this debate so one of the things I would defend celebrity charts with is that the lives of celebrities, especially the more, the high profile this celebrity tend to be much more well documented than normal people and in some instances for example you have biographies that are written about them or movies or sometimes their diaries are available like for example Kurt Cobain’s diary was published after he died at some point so in some instances you can have much greater inside into a celebrity’s life than you can with the normal person who for the most part at least their lives tend to be much less well documented because there are fewer people that are focused on them or few people that are paying attention to them so to speak so that is one argument I would make for celebrity birth charts as a useful approach to take when looking for example charts.
CHRIS BRENNAN: What would you think? I mean, what is your due? Do you counter that? I am sure there is a counter.
KENNETH MILLER: I mean, you know first of all I think we are both…, this isn’t a black and white, we are passion at one side or the other. I mean I am going to say for reasons when we get to the ordinary ……. I think that is quote unquote better but I think there is a place for the celebrity chart and examples where you have someone’s diary, I think that is gold. I mean you have really how at least their perception of their own life, you know there is your life and there is what other people perceive it to be and there is what you perceive it to be and all three of those things can be slightly different but I think it is gold to have someone’s diary, now in the case of a lot of famous people we maybe don’t have that and all we have is kind of people looking in from the outside and making judgements and I think the danger of some biographies and movies, you know especially if the writer is good, things can be conflated with reality, you know imaginary conversations, you know this is how it might have gone but you know as we read it or as we watched it, you know we take it in a as if it were real.
KENNETH MILLER: And can we know especially with modern celebrities, can we really know what it is going on in their personal life?, you know I mean things may look great but you know who knows unless some tragedy becomes public.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right, that is definitely one of the major downfalls is that you are with celebrities oftentimes looking at it from the outside, from the perspective of whatever news or information happens to be available to you whether or not that is an accurate depiction of that person’s life like for example often dealing with tabloids and things like that can sometimes be speculative or can sometimes just make things up in terms of facts about a person’s life and often doesn’t necessarily tell you how they are feeling about it or how they are experiencing things in the same way that if you have a close friend or something you can speak to that person and actually talk to them and learn about not just some specific event that occured in their life on a specific date but also how day felt about it and how they reacted to it and what that period of their life was like to them in terms of their subjective experience of it.
I mean, I guess I don’t wanna set this up as a debate because both of us I think take more of a middle ground position in terms of I think both celebrity charts and personal charts have their place so really the point this, is more to just discuss the more pros and cons of each rather than to debate it necessarily.
KENNETH MILLER: I mean, I think it is where I come down on the issue is if I could only have one, what would I pick?, and I would pick ordinary people because most of my clients are ordinary and that is how I am going to sharpen my skills. As I mention it is just…, I mean and this isn’t something I have…, as we are talking I realize, you know it is a belief I had that celebrity charts are easier to read, I should really have someone, you know give a set of charts to my students and say ‘Okay, here is the set of 10 famous people and they are famous in different areas but they are you know very famous, can you identify what they are famous that?’, because my feeling is this, it would be relatively easy to do that but I don’t actually ‘No’, that is just might be a false belief but I mean it just seems when I have gone through celebrity charts it does seem like ‘Well, you know no wonder Madonna is as famous as she is or these people are as famous as they are’ because they just have these prominent fixtures that you don’t get with ordinary people are, if you do get them they are mixed with a bunch of other factors that kind of brain down so that they are not quite as well-known.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure. Yeah and I guess if I had to come down to, I would probably maybe go more towards aside of using celebrities more, just because they do tend to be more interesting and at least in terms of using them as an example like to demonstrate something as you are basically trying to convey…, you are trying to teach a technique essentially anytime you are using these example charts whether it is in a lecture, to like an audience or whether you are teaching students in a course or whether it is in a book or an article, the purpose is that you are usually just trying to demonstrate how some astrological technique or principle works and one of the things that happens is with celebrities usually at least you have like a baseline of if it is a famous celebrity you know who this person is and everybody has a general understanding of what they have done like if you mention like Barack Obama right now everybody has a general idea of who he is, different people may have different personal subjective beliefs about you know what is doing or how good of a job he is doing but at least there is a certain baseline and everyone is kind of cludent about who that person is as soon as you invoke their name whereas with a personal chart at least for the purpose of demonstration for an example no one has an idea who you are talking about and therefore requires a lot more explanation, you have to explain a lot more about who that person’s life is and what the backdrop is in order to be able to successfully demonstrate what you are trying to convey about the technique and I feel like sometimes that requires a lot more work on your apart and there is something that will always be missing because you, the astrologer who is work with this chart, is probably done a lot of work looking into this person’s life and you have sort of intimate familiarity with it so you understand the importance of using that specific example whereas everyone else doesn’t or only understand it is to the extent that you clue them into it.
KENNETH MILLER: I am so happy we are coming down with the difference here. This is great. I would argue that…, Okay, I find that because people have a bunch of ideas that they bring to the charts so you bring at Obama’s chart, people already know something about Obama’s life and now they going to filter everything about that chart through what they already know.
KENNETH MILLER: And so they are going to…, they are going to ignore some things and they are going to pay attention to things that jaw with what they already know. When I put out the chart of an ordinary person it really forces and I am talking about you know in certain teaching things what I did the chart of an ordinary person all they can bring to the problem is astrology, not…, they can’t benefit from any biography that they might know or stuff they have heard on TV or you know things they have seen, they just have to kind of rely and that is why I find using the chart of ordinary people, I mean my argument is look my student’s is, it just…, it sharpens their ability to be able to actually do readings on normal people when they are confronted with the ordinary, I don’t find that it requires more work because it is just for me at least because I just give whatever I need to give about the person, you know when I first started as a professional astrologer I don’t do this anymore but for the first several years when someone require me about a reading, I would say ‘Yeah, why not you send me your birth data and then send me a couple of highlights or significant or things that happen in your life that you thought were fated just so I can make sure that the birth time kind of matches your life’ and that is what I would ask for and sometimes I would get back pages of detail personal history so I have this set of charts so I have this like detailed biography of an individual. I don’t know why brought that up but that is just something you don’t mean really ask for it and some people would just do it and it gives you a lot of, you know research material especially if they are like good with dates.
KENNETH MILLER: And I guess we will get further down in our talk, we will get into some of this data collection, the ethics of using ordinary people and things like that but yeah, I haven’t found it is any tougher me. I can explain someone’s life in a couple of minutes just like I can explain someone’s famous life in a couple of minutes but what I find is, what I am avoiding is, all the stuff you are brained to the chart automatically .
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure and yeah, that is a really good point. I mean so two counterpoints then, one of which is that it is still possible for the person to have biases when it comes to people they know, especially the closer the person is to the person the more there might be certain biases that are they bringing to the interpretation of their life, at least whatever extent we are talking about things other than just actual specific events that occurred in a life whatever trying to actually characterize the quality, you know if a person is talking about one of their parents for example they might be you know having their interpretation of their parent’s life and the significance of it or the quality of certain events might be filtered through whatever their experience is and they are sinastries of what have you with that specific parent and what they think about them or like their friend’s life and if their friend is in some career or in some relationship and they don’t think that, that is a great relationship and therefore they filter it through that lens or what have you so some element of biases is still possible and one of the things that is tough about using personal charts is that the audience then is forced to completely rely on you as the reporter of that person’s life and if it is not I guess I am thinking about this in terms of if I rewrite a book tomorrow or what I am doing right now writing a book on Hellenistic astrology and I am trying to use charts and some of those charts, you know you almost want people to then go and be able to research and verify if what you were saying about a person’s life was correct and sometimes I write or use certain charts with that in mind that this can be… if you clarify the falsified…
KENNETH MILLER: Okay, let me interrupt you. I think that is a great use of famous charts so that is someone came…, this is where as exemplary of examples of certain principles using a famous person who that someone can read a biography or do some online research and find out more about their life and see how these principles work out, I think that is a good use of it. I am talking about when I am teaching people how to delineate natal charts, I think it is aside more with the ordinary chart examples because it forces them to think more astrologically and rely less on what they are already know about the person bringing as a filter. I think your point or counterpoint was great in that yeah, there is always going to be bias whether I am giving you a client I have you are getting my perception of it but any famous person we have, I mean there is I think no matter what there is always some bias there to a greater or lesser extent depending on the person and personality of the astrologer and you know what your relationship with the person or what you know about the famous person or whatever but I think yeah, if I were writing a book like that I would probably do a mix of famous and ordinary, again the distinct to the ordinary to me is just sharpens astrological judgement because it requires you to juggle you know a few more factor, you know a little more complicated factors and make more complicated decisions. Like I said I know a lot of people that have been studying astrology as a hobby for years, for years and years and then you give him a chart to read so ‘This is the chart, it is a you know 35 year old woman who works as an eter… ‘, you know give it one line thing and they look at it and they like they drop blank, I mean they are so used to famous people, it is hard for them to like do an ordinary person so that is the context where I think the ordinary chart is valuable.
KENNETH MILLER: I mean they are both valuable as we are saying.
CHRIS BRENNAN: And I mean even aside from biases with celebrities that can be major issues also sometimes just about whether or not their biographies or the facts about their lives are correct and in some instances you will see some famous people are some celebrities falsifying events about their lives or certain things in order to control their image and that definitely becomes a major issue that astrologers have to consider as well when they are dealing with celebrity birth charts is whether you know the facts that we know about their lives really are facts whether those are accurate representations of their life. For example I was trying to research the rapper Eminem’s birth data recently and I was trying really hard to get hold of his birth time and I found out that some of the charts that people were using about 10 years ago closer to when he started to becoming really famous when he first got a major record label they wanted him to appear younger so he would appeal to a younger audience and so they are actually putting out they were saying there is a few years younger than he actually was and they are giving out false birth year and this is coming directly from his publicis then from his record label so everybody took it as correct and you can see charts from 10 or 15 years ago with people using false data for him but then even once that was clarified that was like a deliberate sort of false piece of data that was put out by him, he later was under the mistaken impression that he was born in like Kansas City, Missouri but in fact later his mom wrote a sort of biography about him in which she pointed out that he was mistaken and then he was born in a town like a hundred miles away somewhere else in Missouri and so even he didn’t know his correct city of birth and I think he even until very recently, until it was corrected just a few weeks ago when I submitted a correction that was listed in Astro-Databank as the wrong city of birth so that anybody who rely just on that would have been mistaken.
KENNETH MILLER: In addition to that just emphasizes your point, last year I attended the World Affairs Conference in Boulder which is a political scientific cultural event of people prominent in their field and one of the scientific panels I set at, the topic came up about the wikipedia entry of the scientist who are well-known in their field and they were all like ‘Yeah there is all this…, there is wrong information and I even go on to try to fix it and it is like rejected by the wiki editors’…
KENNETH MILLER: … so it is yeah, you have to take everything with a grain of salt, you know even things you think will be fairly straight forward like ‘This guys have prominent you know cancer researcher, let me see what it says in wikipedia.’, they are just statements of false things that somehow got crapped in there that are apparently not so easy to correct.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure. Yeah, I had an issue with that I was using Kurt Cobain as an example for one of these lectures on the triplicity rulers for eminence and a specific timing technique last month in this lecture and the wikipedia articles said that his parents got divorced at the age of when he was 7 years old and this had a huge profound effect on his life and then even have a citation of footnote to back that up to one of the biographies is written about him to validate that, that little fact way that was in his bio but then I went in follow the link and it took me the Google books where it had that specific page of the biography where it clearly said that his parents were ….… just after he turn 9 years old so two years later so even things that are stated in sometime you know we are using wikipedia as an example but this can be true of other things as well.
CHRIS BRENNAN: It is sort of like a example of a broader issue that you have to be careful about when you are working with celebrity charts that you might not run into as much if you are dealing with somebody who you can actually talk to and ask about their life or get documentation from them but even things that are supposedly sided and sourced can sometimes be mistaken.
Okay so then there is a separate issue about, so we are talking about the validity of the data and I mention Eminem as specific example of somebody who put out whose record company encouraged him to put to say he was younger than he was but then there may be this other separate issue when it probably comes out more with politicians than anyone else but it is possible as an issue with other people but there is some politicians who are reputed to put out false data because they specifically don’t want astrologers presumably to be able to look at their birth charts so there is some people at least for example Hilary Clinton is claimed to have put out different birth times deliberately because she has been asked many times over the years what time she was born and it is not public informations and nobody truly knows what her birth time is and she may have given different birth times to different people so that is another issue that you are run into, not just with biography but just with getting accurate birth data from celebrities to begin with.
KENNETH MILLER: Right, right.
CHRIS BRENNAN: And sometimes you have to rely on if they tell you their birth time that is the best you can get and sometimes if we can get that, that is really great but sometimes that is not even reliable either because the person could give you a false time deliberately or they might not remember it correctly because normal people don’t think about you know what time they are born, there is also to different reasons why even a word of mouth sort of birth time is not necessarily reliable.
KENNETH MILLER: Right. It is an issue.
CHRIS BRENNAN: That is an issue not actually brings us to one of other topic which is just into the collection of birth data. One of the systems that is become widely used which is the Rodden Rating system which is just there is an astrologer named Lois Rodden who became very interested in birth data collection and she built the huge database of birth charts both of celebrities and as well as normal people and she used to publish books that had specific collections of birth charts either of celebrities but also have regular people or sometimes just people that were grouped into specific categories like people who had died violently or people who had life threatening illness or what have should divide them into different groups but eventually she developed this thing called the Rodden Rating system or that we called the Rodden Rating system now and it is not the best system but it is the main system that everybody is using at this point and it is good for people to familiarize themselves with. I mean I usually try in use it for example like the Mountain Astrologer requires you to cite into specifically state what the Rodden Rating is any of birth data that you use in an article in the Mountain Astrologer. I mean do you use it?, or do you usually cite it? or How do you feel about it?
KENNETH MILLER: That is a great… I pay attention to it. I guess I should start citing it. I don’t use anything that is not AA.
KENNETH MILLER: That is just my unstated rule but I guess in the articles I read I should be explicit about that because I haven’t been but just as a point of reference and even knowing that can be off, you know I think trying to write an article or publishing a piece…, there is nothing more frustrating to me than reading an article and getting to the end and seeing that it was an unknown birth time or it was, you know maybe we should go over the different levels. I mean there is the birth certificate…
CHRIS BRENNAN: … or that was rectified that is the best scenario. Right?
KENNETH MILLER: Yeah or the rectified in other words someone, the astrologer….. with the birth time to get it fit the point that they wanted to make.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right and that is the worst instance that is where you get the end of the article and you just hold your head in your hands and you throw the article away from you across the room.
KENNETH MILLER: Yes, and scream.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right, very dramatically because you can’t use that. I mean, it is not…, and that is a probably valid topic to have and debate to have in and of itself which is that I always thought of it was given that it is really bad form to rectify a chart and specifically to use a rectified chart in an article where you are trying to demonstrate some specific technique or some specific concept and I was took that as a granted. I think you do as well but I have run into actual astrologers, there are some astrologers like I had a debate once with them Axel Harvey astrologer from Montreal who argues that you should rectify every chart that every chart should be rectified and no birth time, no matter where it comes from is valid until you rectified it because his point is that you know for all we know the birth time that is recorded could be wrong and the only right really to validate that in his mind is to rectify it so that the chart works properly and that you don’t have a correct chart until you know quote unquote works properly whatever that means to you in terms of how you rectify charts.
KENNETH MILLER: Okay. Let’s deconstruct that a bit. I think maybe there is a point in terms of dealing with your clients, you can maybe make that argument right in any case that you want to have someone be… Okay, I am going to get on my horse, make sure I don’t post too far of topic but I would like the state of research generally in astrology is very poor that is my perception of it but it is generally poor and what the first step I think we need to take is to present our research in such a way that someone else if they want it to could duplicate your results and come up presumably with the same thing and when someone is rectifying every chart they are using as an example unless I know exactly what their rectification methodology is so that I would arrive the exact same, you know rectified time they are, it is pointless for me to incorporate that into my own research, at least if we are agree to use AA data or the best data, we are generally going to be in the ballpark of what is right but I mean there is a point, someone has on their birth certificate, they were born at 03:43 pm, I have no doubt that someone looked at the clock and saw that but when they looked is the issue, was it a few minutes after birth?, or was the clock off?, you know that is why I have introduced kind of a new…, this will be my first public presentation of it but I have a small set of data that I call AA plus which is the birth was witnessed by someone whose watch had been synchronized to the atomic clock in Colorado within the last day and so at least we know exactly what time that person was born.
KENNETH MILLER: And we have the ability in the technology. I mean there is no reason why that can’t be the norm you know for astrology gets more popular and parents are paying more attention, there is no reason why that can’t be the norm. I mean their clocks now that automatically adjust themselves to the atomic clock, you know through radio waves and what not. I mean there is no reason for us not to have super accurate times now but at least have AA. I mean if someone is like ‘I did this research on how two charts and I rectified each one and these are the results I came up with’, again how am I going to duplicate that work unless I know the exact methodology of rectification that doesn’t involve judgement call so that I can arrive the exact same rectifications that the original researcher did.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Well, I mean any of if you do know the exact methodology, it is a pretty high likelihood that you won’t agree with your rectification because different astrologers use different techniques and place different emphasis on different variables because of the different schools of astrology in partially do the lack of standardization of astrological techniques.
KENNETH MILLER: I mean I know an astrologer who does rectification not every chart but people who pay him the rectifi…, maybe they have kind of unknown birth time and they are paying for rectification and when he arrives this rectification, he says ‘Now look if a year from now you find your birth chart and it is different from this time, I am going to say we stick with this time because the events of your life so fit this’ and you know especially if predictions made about the future which is a really weird thing, I mean that is not necessarily something I would do, I kind of go with ‘If we find out that you are born at such a such a time, let’s use that’, even if it is quote unquote harder for me as an astrologer. I mean we wanna…, this is what I think it is great the conference coming up on divination and astrology. I think it would be great to have a podcast where we discuss you know divination versus science because astrology I think does straddle both those things but if we are going to be able to, you know if you do some sort of research project and I read it, it would be nice that it was written in such a way that if I wanna do duplicate your work I could…
KENNETH MILLER: …right now and find out ‘Yeah, I have got the same results, Chris did’ or I thought I should introduce other variables and I got this other result, you know anyone out there who is doing research when you publish it, please publish it with a sufficient detail that someone else if they want to do, can try to duplicate it.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure, really quickly I guess since you have mentioned a few times, let’s just go through the Rodden Rating system briefly so that people who may not be familiar with it understand what we are talking about. The highest level is AA data or double A data which is evidently either data, birth data that comes from the birth certificate itself or from some other record that was written at the time of the individual’s birth like a birth record, like a note that…
KENNETH MILLER: … baby book entry of how a lot a birth times were it was like the person’s like baby book and it was written so and so was born at such a such a time.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah, I got hold of president Ford’s birthday book recently in order to confirm his birth time and that is where it was recorded whereas for Nickson actually I was researching all the presidential data to see who presidents of last century who had birth times for in, who we didn’t or who the birth time was not, was kind of sketchy and Nickson was actually listed as being from his birth certificate but then I found where his birth time was actually recorded and it was a note, it was a handwritten note on the little scrap of paper that was written by the nurse who is there when he was born and it was published like a photograph of that scrap of paper was published in a biography that somebody who was working for like writing a very favorable biography who wanna attempt to get elected one of the 1960s elections wrote about him so it was like the family sanction sort of book that was published about him so and that is kind of different like knowing whether it comes from the birth certificate or whether something that is being put out by the candidate themself as their birth time. Anyway either of those would count like a birth certificate or something written at the time of birth. Next in the hierarchy is just A data which is set to be data that is from memory usually from the individual stating that they think they were born around this time or that their parents say that they were born that they remember the person being born around that time or sometimes from news reports so it is not from the birth certificate but it is from a news report that says the person was born around some specific time.
Next is B data which is from a biography or an autobiography about the person for example I think Bill Gates’ is widely used birth data comes from a biography that was written in the early ‘90s by him although there is some conflicts over whether that is correct. C data…
KENNETH MILLER: Autobiography, written by him you said.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sorry, it was written by somebody else so it is just a biography.
KENNETH MILLER: Biography. Okay.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah. C data is used with caution because the original sources unknown or the data is thought to have been rectified so for some reason there is a lot of rectified data that is mention in the notes on Astro-Databank and this kind of bothers me because it is a little bit worthless to have hundreds of different astrologers notes about what time that they rectified but that is C data. Then there is DD data which is dirty data where the origin is muddy, the source is unreliable or there are multiple times, two or more birth times that are recorded. X data is a date without a time. XX data is the date itself is in question or there two or more variations of the date and that is it as far as the Rodden Rating system guides
KENNETH MILLER: Let me ask you this, you may not answer this but if I take a DD chart and rectify it and people like my rectification is that elevated to C level?
CHRIS BRENNAN: Which is that a…, No, I mean it would still be, I think there was a little bit more leeway for some reason for rectification prior to the past 10 years like I don’t think they are accepting rectified data now.
CHRIS BRENNAN: And they never really used that. I mean because there were some people like…, I think that category is there because there is some people like Joan Quigley who was Reagan’s personal astrologer in the 1980s and she rectified his chart and use the specific time so that kind of elivates there a little bit because there is a specific reason.
KENNETH MILLER: I agree. Yes, the forty year astrologer rectified the chart and continue to work with you, I can see where that would come that C level.
KENNETH MILLER: Because you are starting with AA, A or B info to begin with usually. Right?, rarely I mean are you going to have someone say G, I have no idea when I was born.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Well. Yeah, hopefully I mean I do…
KENNETH MILLER: … hopefully.
CHRIS BRENNAN: There are people I mean that happens
KENNETH MILLER: Yes, I have had a few calls from people like that.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure. I mean I don’t wanna usually personally do charts without birth times because so many of my techniques are so time dependent. I do rectification. I have started doing that…, I have been doing that for several years now but I only rectify charts where you know they have some general idea that it was within in a few hours during that day so that it is really just a choice especially since I use whole sign houses of narrowing it down to correct rising sign and there is the types of rectifications all do just because then that limits variables that you have to deal with where is in a 24 hour period you mean there are a lot of potential charts that could fit the person’s life because like every 12 hours you have an exact reversal of the charts, it is obvious why you get conflict.
KENNETH MILLER: I think we should also say in defence of rectification that there some charts that are quote easy to rectify that there is a big astrological change in a relatively small amount of time and it is very easy you know the person turned out to be a baker instead of a candlestick maker, you know then especially if the persons lived in their adulthood and you are like ‘Do you like, more like this or that? It is much more like that’, so some of these where they are like it, rising sign changes, it becomes relatively easy, to rectifying other charts are really hard to rectify because you know you sort of it is not such a clear cut difference over the time spent that is in question.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right. Yeah, that is definitely the case. Okay, back to our main topic.
KENNETH MILLER: Yes, please.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Let me see where we left off, some celebrities have put out false data possibly…
KENNETH MILLER: …I guess ‘Okay, so question everything’ but you know we do the best we can what we have that celebrity charts typically exemplify certain points easier because that is why they are famous, that is why they rose up, that is why they become known to everyone in the world or significant you know population and my argument for the ordinary chart is that ‘Yes, they are harder to read’ but because of that your skill as an astrologer you know if you are wanting to do reading things for regular people is enhanced by having you sharpen your judgement because you are having to sort through typically more factors and it is a little more complicated.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure and definitely with people you know especially people are too close to if you are talking to like a boyfriend or girlfriend or like a brother or sister, family member or close friend, you know and if you are spending a lot of time around that person, you know the nuances of their life and there is something fascinating about following a person’s chart and looking at their transits or seeing you know just knowing the person and seeing their life play out and seeing how their chart fits them in sometimes very subtle ways that is a lot more striking and a lot more informative or educational than you know just looking at some celebrity and looking at you know that my …… has been in the news recently for something and therefore and then speculating about what transits are coinciding with that or what have you.
CHRIS BRENNAN: When you really know very little about the nuances of her life and what is happening right now, so that is definitely one of the major plusses in terms of personal charts is just the ability to study very subtle and nuanced things and to get a sense for the person’s chart and how those placements work out or how certain timing techniques because there is also sometimes very subtle things that occur in a person’s life that you would overlook, if you are a biographer, if you are somebody standing outside of it.
CHRIS BRENNAN: But if you are a lot closer to it, you can actually notice it and see it in person and realize what that is correlating with.
KENNETH MILLER: Can I bring up the ethical…
KENNETH MILLER: …dimension of this? Some people have, some astrologers occasionally will talk about how ethical is it to analyze charts of celebrities and what not?, and then when you use ordinary charts ‘Have you gotten permission from your clients?, or where you have gotten the data from to be able to share that with other astrologers.’ and I have just let me start this by saying imagine a world, the world of tomorrow where astrology is much more dialed into the culture, I mean is it possible that there could be some sort of hypallage for astrologers where now birth data is protected private information like medical information is now and that is his only released, you know is it really in a world that took astrology seriously you would have false…, you know like we think some politicians are doing now that very clean releasing different times ….. skating it , you know we may not have the ……. of having the access that we do now.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah, I mean this is a weird area because of there is a bit of contradiction really in the astrological community right now when it comes to this because on the one hand about in the past ten years all of the major astrological organizations have adopted ethic skid lines and one of those that are very specific on is that you are not is client confidentiality and then you are not allowed to share client birth data without their permission so that there is a sort of privacy caused built into the ethics rules that most astrologers had agree to adopt when they join one of these organizations and it is generally known. I mean that is generally rule it is almost like an unspoken rule that is pre-straightforward but then on the other hand when it comes to celebrities because they are not clients so obviously some people can explain that away as a result of that because you are not dealing with them privately but astrologers seem to have this different where they seem to treat celebrities the same way that maybe it is just a cultural thing because you know culturally it seems like we treat celebrities once a person becomes quote unquote a celebrity or becomes famous for something we treat them as if they don’t have a personal life or that their personal life is now subject to the public domain for some reason.
KENNETH MILLER: Yeah, they sacrifice that for fame but you know I am wondering, you know if famous people took astrology seriously…, again the otherworld of tomorrow where astrology is taken more seriously if they would be like I have not put data out there. I don’t wanna pick up the Mountain Astrologer and see some, you know analysis of my career. It is kind of interesting that divide I mean we do, we think ‘ Well, they release their birth data so it is all fair game’ but the people that they are releasing their birth data don’t know, you know it is not like they know that I am asking your birth time so I can you know publish your info in the Astro-Databank so that astrologers can you know play with it till the end of time
CHRIS BRENNAN: Well. Yeah, some of them know, some of them most probably don’t know but that is an interesting ethical debate that it seems like I don’t feel like it is talked about because there is just general acceptance that celebrity birth data that astrologers try in get hold of it, it is kind of fair game, probably do that a general treatment of celebrities in terms of their personal lives and that might be worth thinking about us sort of an ethical or philosophical issue where to draw the line when it comes to the use of celebrity birth charts and when then it is appropriate when it is not or what have you.
KENNETH MILLER: Now in reviewing the literature, you know Valens ten volumes how many celebrity charts were in there versus charts of ordinary people?
CHRIS BRENNAN: Several, but he doesn’t say like that is what is funny now in retrospect, there has been over the past century since Valens has been recovered from his textbook from the second century, people have actually had to look, had to research and have noticed like Holden pointed out that one of these charts where he just mentions occasionally is like an example of eminence happens to be like one of the Roman emperors and Valens doesn’t say that he just says this person did this and he was born on this date, happens to be the date data, I forgot which emperor it was but it was one of the…, it was like Nero or somebody.
CHRIS BRENNAN: That was also but you know there is issues there because it became outload because the astrologers were making public predictions about like the data of emperors and stuff and the emperor’s eventually kind of got annoyed by this and outload and bend astrologers from doing that several times during the course of the Roman emperor…, Empire and so there is a little tension there as well in terms of the laws surrounding that.
KENNETH MILLER: One of the cultural differences I have noticed in contemporary astrology books, American and English versus Indian 20th century, 21th century textbooks is that we tend to in our books do famous people. I mean it might be a few ordinary people thrown in there but the book the examples tend to be famous in most of the books I come across and yet when you look at the Indian literature, number one there will be dozens and dozens and dozens of example charts in a typical book and many of them will be ordinary people with maybe a few politician you know a few well knowns in there but there will be like many many ordinary people but it is interesting they tend to have a lot more example charts, lot more. I mean when I was working on my thesis which was looking at how relationship astrology is practiced in India and here in contemporary times and the cultural differences and I noticed then relationship books, I mean there would be scores, I mean sometimes a hundred example charts in a book that was only 120 pages and there is nothing like that in the number of example charts in the West.
KENNETH MILLER: That is just kind of a interesting cultural difference there but …
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah. I mean, if you committed yourself to using the charts of like clients for example then you would have a lot of more charts to use versus if you are using celebrity charts then that is going to be a little bit more sparing since there is more limited data pool.
CHRIS BRENNAN: I wonder if that is cultural or what that is in terms of why that difference is or maybe it is just a tendency because for quite a while now in western astrology, celebrity charts have been prominent peace of sort of textbooks so if that is just a part of the tradition that has been continued or what that is.
KENNETH MILLER: And I have no idea. I mean, my guess is that the Indian astrologers not asking the client or I could be told wrong on this but my impression is I mean when I have had readings in India from Indian astrologers no one said ‘By the way can I use your chart as a teaching example?’, I mean no one like never ask me about that but that is something I do ask my clients, ‘Can I use your chart in this if I would hold you know your name or whatever?’, and oftentimes I have got a ‘Yes’, you know it is rare to someone says no I want to keep confidence and alright, fine and I mark it as such.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right. Yeah, I feel the same way or that is usually what I do just ask them and make sure it is sort of documented that they are okay with that and also not to is like pressure them into that because some people don’t want their chart out there. I mean, there are astrologers who don’t necessarily want their chart out there.
KENNETH MILLER: Yes, there are.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right so that I mean that is, you know even a thing in and of itself that ties into this as a sort of piece in terms of this debate over, you know celebrity charts for personal charts and then whether all celebrity charts, are fair game, you know is everyone’s chart fair game and our astrologer’s chart fair game as well if that is the case. Yeah there is a lot of little nuances and details surrounding this.
CHRIS BRENNAN: All right. Well, were there any other major points where did we come to with this debate about celebrity charts or personal charts? I believe you are coinciding the point that I was right and that you are going to start using more celebrity charts. Right?
KENNETH MILLER: No, no. I think we came to a draw or there is a place for both…
CHRIS BRENNAN: Okay. I made a mistake.
KENNETH MILLER: … and in the ideal world… Well. Okay, if we should each answer this question so my ideal world, if I am trying to get it to point across it might go okay, here is an example of how you would see wealth, let’s look at Bill Gates chart and see how obvious that is. Now I am going to give you three charts of ordinary people that are wealthy but not on the level of Bill Gates and how do we write of that judgement?
KENNETH MILLER: Because again it is just I think you learn a lot more astrology doing charts than reading books and I would argue you learn a lot more astrology by trying to really understand the charts of ordinary people because they are just harder to read so getting at skill at that will make you I would argue a better astrologer.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Sure. Yeah, I mean I definitely just recommend both and that is where I am going at this point is kind of half and half maybe since sometimes that celebrities for all the you know there is other pros and cons and there is many pros and cons for private charts as well and sometimes it is useful. I mean especially for me doing Hellenistic astrology and talking about like eminence techniques or talking about time lord techniques that are supposed to show peak periods in a person’s career or what have you, sometimes that really is helpful to have a really striking example of that where a person becomes famous like all of the world and that is not like debatable or it is somebody or everybody knows became famous at the specific point when they did this specific thing.
KENNETH MILLER: Okay so let me ask you this Chris. Should I even bother learning eminence?, because what is the likelihood of me getting a client that is going to somehow rise to a worldwide eminence. I mean is there a technique that is only…, okay, so you get one and a hundred or one and a thousand, you know that becomes supereminent or is the eminence kind of defined culturally where in someone’s field or neighbourhood or village the chart shows the prominents within the context of where they are in their life.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yeah. I mean I think it means different things, there is a certain like relativity to it, there is relative to a certain extent like especially timing techniques like with zodiacal releasing and you see somebody hit a career peak period, you know you see one person hit that and he is Al Gore and he just became the Vice President of the United States in 1992 or whatever 1994 versus you see somebody else hit that and I mean I have a specific example in mind of a client but it is not probably a good example because they are like a doctor, they became the head of a hospital recently.
KENNETH MILLER: That is good.
CHRIS BRENNAN: That is not like a world-renowned like person who became ….
KENNETH MILLER: But within the context of their life in their field they became prominent.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Yes and they hit a career peak period and became eminent within their own field whatever that is. I mean and you see that I mean you see that happening also, you know with people that were like a fast food joint, fast food restaurant in hitting peak period and becoming like employee of the month or something. I mean it is relative to the person’s life oftentimes but you do get those unique instances where the person goes on to do something extraordinary and it is worth I think being able to identify that.
KENNETH MILLER: You could sealing the point but the charts of ordinary people equally illustrate the eminence principle.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Well, they do within the context of certain techniques like zodiacal releasing.
CHRIS BRENNAN:…where it specifically designed not to show eminence per se but peak periods relative to the person’s career and life direction, with other techniques like you know the triplicity rulers of the sect light which is more eminence oriented. I am not sure that you do necessary it is as relative but that technique some of the eminence techniques unfortunately get mixed in with techniques that are supposed to show the stability and support in level of good fortune that the person has so that is kind of problematic because sometimes when you are looking at in the context of a normal person’s life, it is just how stable or supportive their environment tends to be in that specific part of their life versus what they actually become eminent. Yeah, so it is little mixed there, I guess I would coincide that there is some level of it being relative to who the person is and what their context is.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Okay. Well, I guess then we have been talking about an hour so I guess we can wrap up this episode of the show unless you have any other thoughts about this topic.
KENNETH MILLER: I think we have exhausted it for now.
KENNETH MILLER: And I think we had explored the pros and cons of everything and I think we have arrived there is a place for both and I think we both agree that if you are going to write an article, please don’t use rectified charts to make your point.
CHRIS BRENNAN: And the worst thing also that astrologer could do because I have seen some astrologers do this is rectified chart and then pass it off as a legitimate birth time that was recorded or something like that.
KENNETH MILLER: That is just lying.
CHRIS BRENNAN: Right. I mean that is not cool.
All right. Well, I am sure there is something I have forgotten or something I meant to mention there is probably other additional points in arguments that people could make so anyone listening to the show we would love to hear…
KENNETH MILLER: Yes, please.
CHRIS BRENNAN: … some feedback so please post some comments in the comment section of the page on the astrologypodcast.com that contains this episode and let us know what you think or if you inclined towards using celebrity charts or personal charts and if there is any specific arguments that might be made in favor of one approach or the other.
All right. Well, that is it for this episode of the show. Thanks for coming on, Kenneth. I hope to have you on again in the future to talk about some other topics.
KENNETH MILLER: Yes. Thanks for having me. It was great and I will be happy to come back.
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As we all know, actor and politician Karunaas was recently tested positive for Corona Virus. The news created a huge buzz on social media and among the people of Tamil Nadu. He is currently admitted to a hospital in Chennai and is under medical treatment. He is said to be stable and in good health. Having said that, Karunaas’ son Ken has shared an official statement on his Twitter page, updating about his father’s health condition. He also requested people who came in close contact with Karunaas in the last few days to get tested. Additionally, Ken also requested everyone to stay safe from the virus.
Ken Karunaas’ official statement read, “Hello all. As you all know my father has been tested positive for Covid-19. Since he's a politician and a social worker he's been visiting his constituency and many other places in the past days and has got exposed to the virus. He's stable and has been hospitalized and we are also safe.
Thank you for all your calls and texts regarding his health condition. People who were in contact with him in the last few days kindly get yourself checked and isolate. Our humble request to all, kindly stay home and stay safe. Please don't leave your house unless it's an emergency because it will mentally affect your family members and your own health. Thank you. Ken".
On the work front, Ken made his debut as an actor with Dhanush’s critically acclaimed blockbuster hit film, Asuran, directed by Vetri Maaran. Ken Karunaas’ performance as Chidambaram won the hearts of the audience and the film gave him the right kind of start to pursue his acting dreams. His combination scenes with Dhanush was well received by the general audience and interestingly, there were some funny memes related to his character.
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Visionary Philanthropy
3 April, 2018
Ultra high net worth individuals and the global fight for a brighter future
Christoph Courth, Anna-Marie Harling
While the notion of charity dates as far back as the beginning of civilization, the world’s first philanthropists of scale really only started to emerge in the early 20th century; to this day, Rowntree, Carnegie, and Rockefeller are names that are still known and admired for supporting causes close to their hearts.
In the 21st century, philanthropy is on the rise. There is increased wealth creation globally, especially among entrepreneurs who have a higher propensity to give back, and more wealth is being generated in developing countries by those who have seen and/or experienced poverty and inequality first hand. And thanks to technology, the world has become much smaller, making it difficult to ignore the myriad issues humanity faces presently.
While celebrities and the super-wealthy may be on the front pages of coverage related to this increased giving, giving is not limited to these individuals. The rise of the millennial generation, whose social conscience is a defining part of their identity, and development of technology-enabled giving are some of the factors supporting the trend of growing philanthropic sentiments. In this new era, a more diverse list of admired philanthropists has emerged: Zuckerberg, Gates, Masiyiwa, Branson, and Premji, among several others.
For philanthropists, and indeed everyday activists, who operate in a modern, connected, and information-driven world, a specific set of targets has been established, namely the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the UN, the annual investment gap to fund the SDGs in developing countries is USD 2.5 trillion annually until 2030. To put that into perspective: one year’s funding gap is roughly equivalent to the GDP of the UK in 2017. The SDGs are about realizing the future we want, based on equality, sustainability, and opportunity for all. However, without the mobilization of private wealth, which Deutsche Bank estimates to be around USD 250 trillion, there are 2.5 trillion reasons why this future will not come to fruition.
But there is hope, as both philanthropy and impact investing are growing. According to a recent report from UBS and Campden Wealth,1 over 75% of family offices plan to increase or maintain their level of giving in the coming year, and over 40% plan to increase their allocations to impact and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) investments. While there are no truly global statistics, based upon the data that is available we estimate that in 2015 at least USD 500 billion was donated globally. To contextualize this figure, it is equivalent to the combined 2015 profit of the top 10 most profitable companies, twice over.2
However, despite this growth, philanthropy is not working as best as it could. With so much capital flowing towards fighting the world’s greatest challenges, be it food security or climate change, one would expect there to be countless examples of large-scale success. The reality is there are not that many.
One example of success could be the coalition of foundations supporting the near eradication of polio through the mobilization of resources and the engagement of both the public and private sectors, which resulted in the World Health Organization taking Nigeria off the list of polio-endemic countries in 2015. Another example is the conservation success story of the southern white rhino. With less than 100 of these rhinos left in the wild in the early 1900s, the species has now rebounded to around 20,000, arguably thanks to the tireless commitment of philanthropic conservationists.
We believe there are three inherent tensions at the heart of philanthropy that must be overcome to truly unleash the power of private capital for social good:
• Passion is not enough. All philanthropists have something in common: the founding impulse or passion to engage was born in their hearts. They saw something, felt something, and experienced something that made them stand up and take action. Yet passion, by definition, is not strategic; it comes from the heart and does not equal action.
• Collaboration is often an afterthought. Much of Western philanthropy follows an individualistic tradition and is often seen as a means of self-expression. Despite the rhetoric around collaboration, the reality is most people want to do something that they can shape themselves.
• Risk-taking is avoided. For most philanthropists, time is in short supply. In addition, impact is notoriously hard to measure. Therefore, many prefer to follow tried-and-tested approaches rather than those more innovative and risky, even though these may have the potential to offer higher returns.
However, the leading philanthropists of the 21st century are breaking through these barriers and giving hope. We have identified 10 traits shared by these philanthropists, shown below.
On balance, as these traits become ever more the norm, the future of philanthropy and its impact on the world look bright indeed.a
10 Traits Shared by Leading Philanthropists
1. 1. They know business is good for philanthropy
The most successful philanthropists take their business acumen and apply it to their philanthropic activities, embracing calculated risk, focusing on outcomes, working towards key measurable targets, etc. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, who together founded the Omidyar Group, are a great example of adopting this approach.
1. 2. They define, refine, and focus
Success in achieving philanthropic goals comes to those who identify an issue and focus the majority of their resources on developing a solution for it. Having a clear focus allows one to develop issue-specific expertise and partnerships, enabling cost-effective investment in staff and resources. For example, one of the world’s largest private funders of medical research, The Wellcome Trust, has just three core areas of focus.
1. 3. They use the right engine and the right vehicle
The right engine and vehicle help to facilitate cost-effectiveness, calculated thinking, and appropriate systems alongside an impactful public image. Examples of successful structures that philanthropists have used include Chris Hohn linking his hedge fund directly to his Children’s Investment Fund Management. Others, such as The Prince’s Charities and The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, use umbrella structures that house independent organizations that benefit from the cost-effectiveness of a central administrative parent.
1. 4. They know there is no gain without risk
Governments and businesses survive on reputations built on a positive image of success, and as such are often averse to risk. Philanthropists, however, enjoy almost total freedom to prototype novel approaches, experiment, tackle difficult questions, and take risks using fast analytical feedback systems that ensure learning.
1. 5. Their philanthropy is a global passport
There are countless examples of impactful philanthropists operating solely within the borders of their own nations, particularly those whose countries have high levels of poverty and inequality. However, generally speaking, in the interconnected world in which we live, the most renowned philanthropists are those who are not bound by borders and who operate on a transnational scale, tackling issues that are not restricted by geopolitical lines.
1. 6. They know they are not alone
Today’s social issues are often not islands; rather, they tend to be linked, forming part of an intricate web that is, in most cases, too large for any one solution or organization to tackle successfully. Therefore, partnering with the right organizations or individuals is paramount to maximizing capacity to bring about substantive change. Warren Buffett’s 2006 pledge to donate 83% of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation perfectly demonstrates that even the first- and third-richest people in the world recognize the need to join forces to achieve the change they seek.
1. 7. They are more than just their philanthropy
High-impact, strategic philanthropy realizes that one’s financial investments cannot be in conflict with one’s philanthropic investments. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, for example, follows a mission-related investment philosophy to ensure its investment practices align with its philanthropic goals. With over USD 30 million in grants allocated in 2015, yet over USD 830 million3 in investable assets, the managers of the fund have understood the power of strategic investing.
1. 8. They may fail, but they measure, evaluate, and then succeed
The greatest philanthropists are those who understand the importance of asking challenging questions, and they use qualitative and quantitative measurement systems that are ethically, culturally, and cost appropriate. At times, interventions will not succeed, as philanthropy is, essentially, an experiment in attempting to build a better world; however, learning from those failures and sharing these lessons with others will help drive greater impact and efficiency in the future.
1. 9. They are not afraid to stand up and lead
Today’s philanthropists operate in a world of heightened visibility and many are starting to see the value of putting their head above the parapet in order to inspire others. There are countless examples of those who have become philanthropic role models, including Charles Chen Yidan in China, the Zuckerbergs in the US, Jamie Cooper in the UK, Jannie Mouton in Africa, or the Carvajal family in South America. Many of these individuals have signed the much-publicized Giving Pledge, been recipients of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, been listed a ‘Hero of Philanthropy’ by Forbes magazine, or received some other honor for having taken a philanthropic stand.
1. 10. They have a vision for a better tomorrow, either in this life or the next
American philanthropist, businessman, author, and politician Michael Bloomberg said the single best thing you can do for your children is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children. He has pledged the majority of his wealth to doing just that. Alfred Nobel signed over his estate to the establishment of the Nobel Prizes, and Andrew Carnegie set up the Carnegie Endowment; both of these initiatives are still operating to this day.
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How to Build E-Commerce Customer Loyalty through Supply Chain
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In theory, developing a supply chain is simple: you store products, pick and package items upon receiving orders, then ship the products to the listed addresses. But what happens when deliveries are delayed, products are damaged, and customers decide they no longer want their orders?
Brands that aren’t organized and committed to presenting a uniform customer experience through their supply chains have an uphill battle ahead. After all, 65 percent of a company’s business comes from existing customers. It also costs anywhere from five to 25 times more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain a returning one. And, if a store lowers its churn rate by just five percent, it can increase its profitability by 25–125 percent.
Now that you’re on board, let’s discuss how to build e-commerce customer loyalty through your supply chain.
1. Real-Time Shipment Tracking
Our world is more connected than ever, so it’s no surprise that customers want to know the status of their online orders at all times. Give your customers closure and transparency (and save your customer service team a lot of time handling delivering queries) with automatic shipment tracking emails that send to customers every time their shipment reaches a new leg of its journey. For example, “Picking products to package” or “Product left warehouse” could be the first notification with subsequent updates providing location updates, such as “Departed Memphis International Airport via Freight Flight 390878 at 5:25 p.m.” or “Arrived at Sacramento FedEx receiving, preparing for ground delivery.”
It’s important not to bombard customers with pedantic updates while still keeping them in the know at every major stage of the fulfillment process. Real-time tracking also helps you avoid customer-service blow ups on matters outside of your control. Since you don’t have control over the actual delivery of your products, if something goes wrong that will delay the shipment, the customer will instantly get a notification and adjust their expectations. Nobody likes delays, but guests will appreciate the proactive communication, and likely won’t hold it against your brand personally. Real-time tracking is also helpful if your product requires a signature on delivery or a customer to be present, such as in a high-trafficked location where package theft occurs).
2. Optimize Inventory to Avoid Out of Stocks and Backorders
Maintaining adequate inventory levels is undoubtedly simpler for an e-commerce store than a brick-and-mortar. However, with e-commerce, purchasing volumes can change in an instant, especially with seasonal trends. When an e-retailer isn’t prepared, out of stocks and backorders abound. This not only loses you the sale but also breeds dissatisfaction in the customer—they tried to buy something from you, but you couldn’t fulfill your end of the deal. If you host your store with a platform like Shopify and sell everyday products online such as electronics, you can bet the customer will bounce off your site and search for the product elsewhere. In other words, poor inventory management costs you sales (and in all likelihood, a customer) you’ll never get back.
3. Affordable On-Time Deliveries
Love it or hate it, Amazon has single-handedly changed consumer expectations around shipping cost and delivery times. While you may be scratching your head trying to figure out how to offer two-day free shipping, don’t kill your business by lowering your margins to the point where you’re barely making any profit. Instead, there are a couple things you can do.
Offer a free-shipping threshold (e.g., “Free Shipping on Orders over $50!”). The specific amount will depend on what you sell and your operating margins, but offering a free-shipping threshold entices customers to buy more from you and still get the intrinsic value of not having to pay for shipping. The other thing you can do is be as transparent as possible about your shipping costs. If you wait until the last checkout screen to display your shipping costs, you’ll lose customers on principle alone. Even if the customer purchases anyway, they may still be left with a bad taste in their mouth and look to other brands for future purchases.
4. No-Hassle Returns
E-commerce return rates hover around 30 percent. For online clothing stores, that rate can exceed 40 percent. Returns and online shopping will be forever entwined to some degree, but stores can help their bottom lines and reputations by focusing on a smooth and efficient return experience. The first step is to expect returns. This is the only way to develop processes that reduce operating expenses and ensure customer satisfaction.
Have customers go through a few forms to process their return. These forms will allow you to gather the return information and product condition to determine how it’ll be handled once your fulfillment process receives it. Automate prepaid shipping labels to send via email once the customer finalizes the return. And, if packages can be given to the mail service right from the guest’s address, you’ve officially made their experience as seamless as possible. As a final touch, refund the customer as soon as you receive the returned items. A quick and easy return experience can still turn sour for customers if they have to wait for their refund.
If you can do all this, keep your head up; you may have lost the sale this time, but offering a no-hassle return process will keep you in the customer’s mind next time they’re looking to buy.
5. Prompt & Positive Communication
Whether it’s a negative product review or a customer asking whether a package will require their signature on delivery, every guest interaction needs to be helpful, positive, and timely. One or two of the three won’t cut it. Consider that 57 percent of customers would stop using a brand if they had a negative review go unaddressed, and 42 percent of customers would stop using a brand if the company didn’t have a real-time customer support line.
If the customer’s query can’t be answered right away, they should still receive a quick and upbeat response explaining that they’re working on the support ticket and will have an answer in a specified time frame. If a rep answers a customer’s question, but takes a week to respond to the ticket, the customer will understandably be annoyed. If messaging is ever relayed in a less-than-positive manner, then the timeliness and thoroughness of the answers will be diluted.
In addition to maintaining a live-support line and regularly monitoring for reviews about your brand, build in features that save your customer reps time and facilitate customer knowledge discovery. Things like a concise, yet in-depth FAQ section and live chatbot program will alleviate your reps from continually handling the same support tickets.
Ninety-two percent of loyal customers rank price and value as the top reasons why they stay loyal to brands, but even these things can’t compensate for mal-performing customer service, fulfillment, and reverse logistics processes. Building loyalty through the supply chain starts with meeting customer expectations and is fueled by ongoing positive communication, stellar guest service, and reliable supply chain operations.
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What a RWC it has been already !
After all of the build up day was one of the most entertaining days of rugby we’ve seen in yea
Day 1
Japan vs Russia
They say Japan had 4 years to build up to this RWC opener vs Russia and at the start of the match you could see the early nerves. with Russia taking the early lead through a hashed take under the high ball from Tupou.
Japan rallied back and eventually in the second half took over with a 30-10 win.
To be fair it wasn’t the most entertaining matches, but it was grea to see Russia with their fighting spirit.
I hope Vladimir Putin was watching this match to see the type of potential this Russian team has, and you never know what a bit more investment could do for Russian rugby in the future….
Day 2
Wallabies vs Fiji
This game did not disappoint !
Fiji were up for it and made very carry, every tackle count.
Lead by inspirational captain Dominiko Waqaniburotu, Reece Hodge probably thought ‘why is everyone picking on me with a few bump offs from the Fijians, but you have to give Reece credit, he kept running great lines and carrying the ball with confidence even if it meant being smashed around a bit, he always stepped up and never backed down.
Fiji went into the half ahead and with all of the momentum.
At halftime, the Wallabies realised ‘Mate we should just hold onto the ball so these big bruising Fijians stop hurting us’ and they did exactly that.
The Wallabies starved the Fijians of the ball for 6-8 minute periods, and when they did turn the ball over the Wallabies suffocated the Fijians on defence.
They deflated the Fijians and the momentum had all but fizzed away in the 2nd half, after all of the tackling they had to do they had nothing left in the tank.
The Wallabies rolling mauls were a saviour for the team and showed how can it can be a weapon for teams that face big sides, get low, drive the legs and control the ball – tick, tick and tick.
The Fijians showed a lot of promise and will look back at that match as the one that got away.
An Observation….
There’s something about the Wallabies that pacific island nation teams seem to exploit, we’ve seen it over the years and even in recent weeks with their final RWC warm up match vs Manu Samoa.
It’s not an arrogance, because the Wallabies aren’t that type of team, but almost a soft underbelly thats always exploited by teams from the islands.
In comparison, the All Blacks seem to be the big bogey team for teams such as Fiji, Manu Samoa and Ikale Tahi Tonga, but vs the Wallabies they seem to grow and arm and the confidence soars.
It’s a culture change that the Wallabies will want to work on as one day it could prove costly at another RWC.
France vs Los Pumas
It was always going to be a massive match between these two teams, in the in nicknamed “pool of death”.
France did what France do, they live for World Cups. The first half they took over the game and were all over the Pumas.
Romain Ntamack (9) and Antoine Dupont (10) kicking games were on point and constantly putting the Pumas under the pump.
You had to scratch your head on what the actual game plan was for the proud Argentinean team in the first 40.
The second half was a different story, I have no doubt Mario Ledesma let his side know to go back to the basics and hold onto the ball.
With ball in hand, the Pumas made their intentions known by storming back from 20-3 at halftime to 21-20 in the 68th minute.
But you could just sense this wasn’t enough against the French.
For some reason, the Pumas started putting the ball in the air to try put the French under pressure when all they needed to do was play the ball inside the French half and centre the game in front of the posts draw potential penalties which would no doubt come via French frustration.
The French came back deservedly to win the game, you’ve got to admire how the French just seem down and out, but they hang in there and strike at the perfect time.
This is going to send cries all over Argentina, but Nicholas Sanchez is not the man who’s going to steer the nation to their first RWC Title.
The game management just isn’t there and is what is needed for the Pumas, little chip kicks and constantly turning to the referee and asking for penalties does nothing for the team.
I would’ve like to see Jaguars 10, Joaquin Diaz Bonilla, be rewarded for a great season with the Super Rugby side and get a chance to shine at the RWC. He can distribute, he runs the game well and proved he can step up vs South African, Australian and New Zealand Super sides.
All Blacks vs Springboks
AAll Blacks left wing George Bridge scoring during their RWC2019 match at International Stadium, Yokohama, Japan. Rugby World Cup. 21 September, 2019. NZ Herald Photograph by Mark Mitchell
NZH 22Sep19 –
I spent most of the time yelling at the TV in excitement and nervousness….
The first 15 minutes it was all the Springboks, they were playing with such confidence and everything they touched turned to gold.
The All Blacks just weren’t in the game and you felt this could be the Springboks game to lose. Richie Mo’unga and Beauden Barrett fittingly went “not on my watch” and the two playmakers started orchestrating & fixing the All Blacks attack with some pinpoint kicking and putting players into space.
It’s as if you blinked and the All Blacks were 0-3 to 17-3 in a matter of minutes.
In the second half, the Springboks shot off to a strong start and at 17-10 in the 47th minute and then came on the changes, which had both teams going pound for pound, big hits, big carries, trading penalties and points ‘titt-for-tatt’.
Eventually, the All Blacks pulled through with the win adapting their game on the run, and the leaders like Ardie Savea making crucial turnovers and stifling any potential momentum swing back to the Boks.
Interesting selections for the All Blacks over the last few months and with this week leaving certain names out of the squad for the game, but I’ve noticed the All Blacks from the Richie, DC, Nonu, Snakey, Kaino era has evolved. Those players were the most reliable players you could ever ask for, you knew what they were going to do, you just didn’t know how to stop it.
Now, the All Blacks have a different balance, they have mix of workers with their tight 5 and Sam Cane at 7, they now look to have two game drivers in the backs with Mo’unga and Barrett (something that has to be credited back to the British Lions in 2017 with Sexton and Farrell) and players who will work but also the X-Factor to break a game open, with Reece, Bridge, and Ardie – throw in the best passing 9 in the modern game, Aaron Smith, and this All Blacks team looks pretty good to create history with a three-peat, only time will tell. | <urn:uuid:ff830967-6fbb-4d85-a293-8d6c7d1d4ad3> | https://www.tokiservices.com/?p=4552 | en | 0.970316 | 0.024221 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Friday, December 2, 2016
Respect the results and America will always be great
I have great respect for the University Democrats accepting Trump’s presidency in the last issue’s article, as that is something many individuals are currently unwilling to do. With the hashtag “not my president” on Facebook and Twitter, and riots in the streets over Trumps’ presidency, it is a breath of fresh air to see the BU Dems accepting his presidency, regardless of how displeased they may be with the results.
What is unfortunate though is that Trump won the election fair and square, yet protests are occurring all over America, college students are having classes canceled and are running off to their safe spaces, and talk of how Hillary can still win is flooding social media. The sixth stage of grief is acceptance, and Americans who are denying that Trump will be our next President need to move on from stage five by January.
While the Dems do accept Trump’s presidency, they build a dismal picture of Trump’s America, hinting that women, LGBTQA, and religious rights will be rolled back. They even claim that we have made it through some “horrific time periods” and therefore we will prevail through Trump’s presidency as well.
I don’t think we will have to “prevail” or suffer through anything. I truly believe Donald Trump will be an excellent president, even if the only reason is to prove every protestor or crybaby who is fighting the election wrong.
Trump will not do what individuals are claiming he will. Trump has no interest in rolling back marriage equality- he has shown his support of LGBTQA rights by actions such as holding up a gay pride flag during his rallies (“Donald Trump holds high the flag for gay equality,” Washington Times). While he may be pro-life, it is unlikely that Roe vs. Wade will be overturned during his presidency, and on issues such as paid maternity leave he has showed his compassion for fighting for women (“Paid Family Leave Could Be a Reality in Trump’s America,” Time). And while Donald Trump will fight against radical Islamic terrorism, limiting the rights of everyday Muslims is not part of Donald Trump’s plan, which is clear to anyone who listens to his speeches and interviews rather than determines their opinions on Trump based on social media.
Trump has already taken many steps which show what type of president he will be. Trump and President Obama had an excellent meeting where they both showed cooperation skills and the ability to talk while putting differences aside. Trump stated he would not accept the presidential salary, as always showing he is not in this for himself (“Trump: No ‘big’ vacations, no salary as president,” USA Today). He has told any supports who are acting in a bigoted, sexist, or Islamophobic way to stop (“Trump to supporters harassing minorities: Stop it,” CNN). He is already fighting for the people, even while the people are fighting against him.
Though it may be hard for many to accept, Donald Trump will be our next president. Americans need to unite and stop trying to fight the system; whether they like it or not, Trump won fair and square. The rioting, the burning of flags, and the harassment of Trump supporters needs to stop. On the same token, any Trump supporter harassing minorities needs to cease these despicable behaviors as well. We need to come together, and give our president-elect a chance. Hoping for him to fail is hoping for American to fail.
God bless America, God Bless our next President Donald Trump. Let’s Make America Great Again.
Written by: Carissa Jones
Monday, November 7, 2016
Vote Toomey for US Senate
You log onto YouTube to watch Grumpy Cat or listen to “Closer” by Chainsmokers. You likely will be assaulted with a political add first, and there is an excellent chance that add will focus on either Katie McGinty or Pat Toomey, two candidates for the US Senate. While both candidates seem to be accusing each other of the same downfalls- catering to Wall Street while neglecting to fight for the everyday Pennsylvanian- there are specific, unbiased reasons why all voters should consider voting for Pat Toomey.
For one, Toomey will fight for PA jobs. He has already worked tirelessly to fight for PA workers, and he will not quit when re-elected. For example, Toomey engaged in bipartisan work to create the JOBS Act, a law which helped up and coming businesses break free from regulations that were harming PA growth. Toomey has also fought against EPA over-regulation that has suffocated PA coal miners under overbearing regulations.
In the same spirit of protecting a family’s income, Toomey has fought to protect taxpayers. He supports closing special-interest loopholes and lowering tax rates for all Americans, letting you keep more of the money you make. A crucial part of lowering taxes is decreasing how much money the government spends, as the more money they waste the more money they need. Toomey has fought against earmarks which allows senators and congressmen to benefit their home states on national dimes, with “pork” projects such as the $693,000 spent on beef improvement research in Missouri and Texas being a horrible display of wasted money. Toomey has helped to cut down on this reckless spending to fight for our interests and pocketbooks.
Another area where Toomey fights to protect Pennsylvanians is by working to end sanctuary cities, municipalities where politicians prohibit local law enforcement officers from working with federal immigration officers. Violent criminals are allowed back on the street so they are not deported. Recently, a criminal released from custody under Philadelphia’s sanctuary policy was re-arrested for raping a child- yet only one of the two candidates running for US Senate is against sanctuary cities.
Toomey also is very passionate about our veterans. In response to the scandal at the Department of Veteran Affairs, Toomey co-sponsored the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 to give veterans flexibility on where they receive medical care. The law also authorized an additional $10 billion to better veterans’ access to care. In addition, Pat sponsored legislation, which was then signed into law by President Obama, that made it easier for veterans to travel and visit national war memorials. He has fought for the men and women who have fought for us.
One interesting line of work Toomey has engaged in is efforts to combat Alzheimer’s disease. Toomey serves as the co-chairman of a group that is fighting effortlessly to bring awareness to Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, Toomey co-sponsored the Alzheimer’s Accountability Act which requires the National Institutes of Health to provide Congress the best estimate on funding needed to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s by 2025.
Overall, one of Toomey’s greatest strengths in his ability to reach across the aisle and work with democrats to find real solutions to real problems and support vulnerable groups in America. Breaking through political barriers and going past your party to work with politicians from the opposing side is a sign of patriotism and level-headedness, and a trait we should want in all our senators.
Toomey has been endorsed by many notable groups, a sign of how much respect he has earned. He has been endorsed by the National Federation of Independent Business, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
If you are interested in learning more about Pat Toomey, please take a look at his website: The information in this article was compiled utilizing this site. You can learn more about what Toomey has done for PA and the country, and what he will continue to do. Please consider voting Pat Toomey on November 8th.
By: Carissa Jones
Trump Policy Crash Course
How many times have you read an article or watched a video that fairly covered Donald Trump’s policies? I would guess I could count the times on one hand. There is a very good reason for this I assure you. That reason is that Trump’s policies are the best since Reagan at least, they are strong, realistic, logical and achievable. When it comes to policy, even a half-wit could see that Trump is easily the better candidate; and liberals know this, so it is given no coverage. This election has been so wrought with media bias it has been sickening. In the next few hundred words, I will be condensing and summarizing the policy info found on
Taxes. Under Donald Trump you can expect your taxes to be 2 words: lowered and simplified. Trump seeks to lower taxes across the board to spur economic growth and business. He also seeks to simplify what is now an incredibly complicated system. Each year, we waste 8,000,000,000 hours on tax code compliance. That’s 8 billion, yes billion, hours. According to his plan, 7 tax brackets will become 3, with low-income Americans having an effective income tax rate of 0. I have a hard time figuring out how anyone could find an issue with lower, more simple taxes. This plan eliminates wasteful spending on tax compliance and makes taxes easier to understand for every American.
Regulation. As an extremely experienced businessman, Donald Trump knows that regulation kills business. Every year, over-regulation costs our economy 2,000,000,000,000 dollars. Yes, that is trillion this time. Since his inauguration, not my president Obama (the worst president in history for the economy) has instituted regulation after regulation that have cost the economy at least $100,000,000. Trump will ask every department head “to submit a list of every wasteful and unnecessary regulation which kills jobs, and which does not improve public safety, and eliminate them”. Trump will also immediately cancel “all illegal and overreaching executive orders”. Under this plan, business will again thrive in America, which in turn brings prosperity for people as well.
National Defense. America’s armed forces are the smallest they have been in 50 years. The Air Force is the smallest it has ever been. The “Army is the smallest it has been since World War II”. Trump plans to make our military strong again, increasing the size of all branches and increasing funding as well as cutting the extremely wasteful spending that runs rampant in the sector. New ships will be built for the U.S. Navy toward a goal of 350 vessels. The Air Force will be provided with the 1,200 fighter aircraft that they need, as the average age of our aircraft is 27 years. Our military is weak, and we need to be strong again.
Immigration. First and foremost, Trump WILL build a wall. If you are wondering, yes Mexico will pay for it. You can read the whole plan on Trump’s website. More importantly, Trump will put an end to sanctuary cities and begin actually deporting illegal immigrants. “Under a Trump administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country.” Benefits will no longer be given to illegal immigrants and they will no longer come here because illegal immigration will be taken seriously and dealt with firmly.
Health Care. Donald Trump will repeal and replace Obamacare! President Obama said The Affordable Care Act (ACA) “would cut the cost of family premiums by up to $2,500 a year. Instead, premiums have gone up by almost $5,000 since Obamacare passed”. Donald Trump will repeal and replace! Because of the increase in costs, many “people are going without needed medical care because they can’t afford these amounts”. Over 50% of plans now have deductibles of $3,000 or more, and these will go up again in 2017. Trump will repeal and replace! Obamacare has been an absolute train wreck. Not one single American has benefitted. Premiums have skyrocketed, deductibles have often double or worse. The system may have been broken but Obamacare was not the answer, as we (conservatives) told you all the way back in 2009. The ACA has made the whole thing worse. Have you heard: Donald Trump will repeal and replace!
There are money other issues that Trump is strong on. He will fix our trade deals, spur the economy, reform our education system and take care of our veterans. You can read all of his policies in detail on his website . Our country is making progress that’s for sure, but not the kind of progress that we want to make. Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of the politicians that are destroying America. America needs change now, in 2020 it may be too late. We need someone who is strong with policies, someone who is determined to Make America Great Again. America needs Donald J. Trump.
Written by Carter Jackson
Friday, November 4, 2016
Why America Needs Trump
If you went past the title, then I want to take a moment to say thank you; not because you will listen to my opinions, but because you are one of the few people left who value not just the first amendment but more importantly the freedom of thought. That is a freedom that we Americans are slowly but surely losing. I want to approach this topic in what I see as the most straightforward way possible: directly addressing the 4 main groups of people who are, for whatever reason (in most cases general misinformation), anti-Trump, namely pseudo-Republicans, women, immigrants, and African Americans. If you hear me out, who knows, you just might agree that America needs Donald J. Trump (DJT).
Pseudo-Republicans. You belong to this category if: you are a registered Republican and are not voting for Trump. If Trump does not win this election, this group is far and away most at fault. Comprised of the likes of Paul Ryan and Glenn Beck these lifelong “Republicans” have abandoned their party’s candidate without second thought. While almost any candidate would be better than Hillary, America needs real change. None of the other candidates would have brought it. DJT is the candidate that Republicans should have been waiting for since Ronald Reagan at least, I would argue even longer.
Women. You belong in this category if: you are a woman and/or your biggest problem with Trump are comments he may or may not have made about women. Has DJT said things he should not have? Certainly. But who among us could survive if subjected to the same scrutiny? I, for one, could not. Maybe DJT said mean things about women, but a vote for Hillary is a vote for massive increases in number of Muslim refugees the USA takes in. The same Muslims who live in countries where, literally according to their law, a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s. These refugees have raped women and children in every country they have been welcomed to. Maybe DJT at some point in his life said things that degraded women; but Hillary and Democrats are in favor of welcoming refugees who treat women like animals. Which is worse?
Immigrants. You belong to this category if: you are a legal immigrant or you find yourself appalled by the comments DJT may or may not have made regarding illegal immigrants. I say “may or may not have made” because Trump actually did not make the “racist” comments that the media and Democrats would like you to believe he did. The statement that Trump called “all illegal immigrants criminals and drug dealers” is completely false. The actual quote is that “some of them are criminals” which was even followed by the statement that “some of them I am sure are good people”. Here is the simple fact: illegal immigration hurts everyone. They come and they take jobs from hard working legal immigrants and others. Democrats give them our tax dollars in the form of food stamps, cell phones etc. Illegal immigration negatively affects every American, particularly legal immigrants: the ones who do it the right way. Maybe building a wall is not the solution, but sanctuary cities and doing a whole lot of nothing sure is not going to solve the problem either.
African-Americans. You belong to this category if: you feel for any reason that DJT is racist. What kind of amuses me is the fact that this claim about Trump is not backed by anything. At least the claim that Trump thinks all illegal immigrants are criminals is backed up by a quote, albeit an out of context one. There is no evidence to support the claim that DJT is racist towards African Americans. On the contrary, there is tons of evidence to show that Democrats make promises to help people of color (POC) in order to earn their votes and then proceed to do nothing for them. So the question I have for POC is this: what do you have to lose on a candidate like Trump? The first African American leader our country has ever had, (not my) president Obama, has set race relations back to the beginnings of the civil rights movement at least. Trump will bring Americans together, instead of dividing them by the color of their skin.
America needs DJT. Our country has been headed in the wrong direction for far too long; but hey at least we are making good time. DJT has been talking about running for president for almost 20 years. All of this has led to a man finally stepping up to do something he really would rather not do because he no longer believes that anyone else will do it. Not only that, this is a man who, by election end, will have spent more than $100,000,000 of his own money on his campaign. This man is a patriot, one the likes of which I know for sure I have never seen before. What kind of man would spend his own money to be publicly ridiculed, insulted, and humiliated all to fix a country full of people who seem incapable of uttering a sentence containiing his name without including at least one expletive? The answer: a great man. That great man is Donald J. Trump. Thank you for your time. Let’s make America great again.
Written by: Carter Jackson
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Dangers of Hillary Clinton
In the past few months, voters have heard a plethora of negative accusations about Donald Trump, such as the points focused on in the Democrat’s article. Obviously, the infamous Billy Bush video and the TV ads paid for by the Clinton campaign do not picture him in the best light. However, the liberal news media still refuses to address the problems with his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
In my opinion, the shady and crooked antics of this woman are far more dangerous to our country than some “locker room talk” caught on a candid mic 11 years ago. If Hillary is elected, she might deceive the citizens of America and put us on the brink of war with Russia. Electing Hillary Clinton as president would be a terrible decision for our country.
The scariest fact about Hillary is her support of a U.S. controlled, no-fly zone over Syria. Hillary Clinton has been in support of taking control of Syria’s airspace for three years now, and the problem with this is that taking control of this airspace could mean going to war with Syria or Russia. The Marine Corps General, Joseph Francis Dunford, even said himself that a no fly zone would be a dangerous idea. Other people who are against this no-fly zone include but are not limited to, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
The worst part about this is that Hillary Clinton may have personal motives for wanting to go to war. Hillary has taken nearly $550,000 from defense industries that make money from the U.S. going to war ( So to put it simply, it is possible that Hillary Clinton wants to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives just so that the people she took money from can get rich. She talks about saving Syrians when this war would kill so many more refugees and American soldiers than if we just left it alone.
It was revealed by WikiLeaks that Hillary Clinton has said every politician needs a public image and a private image. In public, Hillary says she wants to save the Syrian refugees but in a private speech she gave to Goldman Sachs, she admits that a no-fly zone would “kill a lot of Syrians.” Hillary doesn’t care about America, she just cares about her special interest groups.
We together can stop Hillary from creating a dangerous situation that could lead to war. All we have to do to stop her is go to the polls on Nov. 8th and vote anyone but Hillary Clinton. Please, make the right choice this election day.
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Ferry Gerry?
Thursday’s Kitsap Sun detailed some of the elements in Kitsap Transit’s hopes to change the transit district size. OK, so there’s some element of fixing its boundaries to reflect the agency serves. But Richard Hayes, executive director of the agency, comes forward with no hesitation in saying he hopes the changes will help the agency get approval from voters in February for a passenger-only ferry system financed by a three-tenths of one-cent sales tax increase.
Never mind that outside the district the sales tax will actually go down. Never mind that people in those excluded areas will still get Access service and rideshare and vanpool programs. I got no e-mail today about that. I also got nothing about the fact that those residents probably still do most of their shopping in the areas they’ll pay the higher sales tax.
What I got e-mails about today was “gerrymandering.”
Any thoughts?
18 thoughts on “Ferry Gerry?
1. Yes, one or two.
First…what is ‘gerrymandering’?
If I were unable to drive, I would buy a home purposely somewhere on a bus route in order to stay independent.
The other programs you mention are fine for what they are…and for what they do. None give the independence of the city bus schedule.
I don’t know why you haven’t gotten a slew of protests over the proposed bus route change.
How many regular bus riders will be affected by the change?
Are most elderly and afraid to complain?
2. Looking at the map, it appears Kitsap Transit has eliminated most of the voting folks living in areas with the least interest in using a foot ferry into Seattle…without regard for the regular bus riders without the bus service they depend on.
No foot ferry to Seattle is worth that…imo.
3. Sharon, I’m sorry to keep butting heads with you however, please take a closer look at the map. Someone living on Provost Rd may work in Seattle. Its a six mile drive to the JC Penneys parking garage then a walk to the fast ferry. So there may be people with a big interest in this vote. But they won’t get the chance if this redistricting takes place.
4. Just another example of Dick Hayes trying to rule the world. How many Costco’s, Home Depots or other major stores are in the areas that would not get a chance to vote? The people in these areas will still have to pay the higher sales tax when shopping at a major retailer or buying a new car. They just won’t be able to have a say in whether or not their taxes go up.
5. Frank, I did take a closer look at the map. Of course it is possible folks out – anywhere – would need and vote for the foot ferry… and they should have the chance to vote on it.
It seems wrong though, to pull bus transportation away from folks who currently have and need it in order to provide a foot ferry to Seattle.
Butting heads? I call it freedom. I am glad I live in a country having the freedom to state my views and will fight to the end to preserve your right to disagree.
6. Steve, I have read KT’s plan for Passenger Only Ferry service, read your article on Tuesday, and personally spoken about the POF plan with Dick earlier this summer. Where does it say that bus transportation service will be pulled to anyone in the county? The KT POF plan can be found here: http://www.kitsaptransit.org/Board/DraftPOFPlan_Exhibits&Attachments.pdf .
Will anyone stating that bus service will be pulled from any routes on KT’s current system with POF please help me find out where it is stated? Thanks! Carlos
7. Now that the situation is explained, I withdraw my objections, commend transit and look forward to my first fast, foot ferry ride from Bremerton to Seattle.
I had not known there were no transit routes in the area of planned exclusion and that no one will be inconvenienced by the official exclusion by transit.
8. Sharon, no change in Kitsap Transit service would occur.
You misunderstand the nature of the decision the Kitsap Transit board of commissioners will make.
Routed bus service does not exist in those areas that will be removed from the district, but Access, worker-driver, and van pool services do exist — and will continue to exist.
The effect would be to provide services outside the new boundaries of the transit district, but not to allow residents of those outlying areas to vote on the passenger-only ferry (POF) tax increase.
Of course, everyone will be allowed to use the POF service, no matter where they live.
But even with everyone allowed to use the POF service, there are so few people who want to use it that the taxpayers will be paying roughly $8,000 per year per passenger.
I don’t believe any reasonable person would pay so much to provide a service to so few, and I don’t think the Kitsap Transit board of commissioners believes it either. That’s why they want to take the vote away from more than 20,000 people. They hope the people who are allowed to vote include a slim majority who won’t even look to see what the cost per passenger to us all would be.
9. Bob, how do you come with that figure of $8,000 per year per person? How do come up with a single passenger and spread it over a year? Do you take the annual projection of riders, divide by 365, then divide the total annual subsidy by 365, then divide that by the number of daily riders, then multiply that number by 365?
10. Steven, it’s no longer as easy as it was in April 2006, when the board briefing packet for the April 18 meeting contained the projected numbers of riders for each location. They removed that information from their later materials that they used when providing an opportunity for public comment.
Their April projections were based on operating regularly Monday through Friday all year round. That’s 5 days X 52 weeks = 260 days a year.
The roundtrip passengers projected at each of 3 locations were:
Kingston — 400
Bremerton — 450
Southworth — 425
The numbers in “Workshop Attachment C: Appendix A — Operating Plans by Port” in that April 18 packet show that it’s a five-day a week operation.
The numbers of passengers are also displayed as double the above numbers — in other words, counting them going and coming.
The total passengers per year are displayed as:
Kingston — 208,000
Bremerton — 234,000
Southworth — 221,000
Divide those totals by 2 to get the number of roundtrips, then divide by the projected number of roundtrips per day to get the number of days. For example, for Bremerton:
234,000 / 2 = 117,000
117,000 / 450 = 260 (days per year) [And, 260 / 5 = 52 weeks a year, in other words, five days a week service, Mon.–Fri. all year round is the basis for their projected ridership.]
Since this is a commuter service, and since commuters ordinarily make roundtrips to and from home and work, the number of people riding the new POF service would be the same as the number of roundtrips.
Kitsap Transit now collects about $28 million from their 0.8 percent sales tax.
Divide $28 million by 8 to find out what 0.1 would collect, then multiply that result by 3 to see what 0.3 percent would collect:
$28 million / 8 = $3.5 million.
$3.5 million X 3 = $10.5 million.
With a projected total of 1275 roundtrip passengers per day, that works out to $8,235 dollars per year per passenger:
$10.5 million / 1275 = $8,235.29.
If you want to take into account the fact that not all the new tax revenue would be used to pay for the new POF service, you could lower the total subsidy per passenger on the new ones — by moving part of the new money over to the existing Port Orchard to Bremerton foot ferries.
According to their plan, they would use roughly $1 million of the new $10.5 million to pay for the existing Port Orchard to Bremerton ferry, which is now subsidized with funds from their existing 0.8 percent sales tax. (The $1 million from the existing 0.8 percent sales tax that is now spent on that ferry service would then be available for land transit purposes.)
That would leave roughly $9.5 million for the new POF service.
Divide that total by the total number of roundtrips per day to find what the approximate annual subsidy per passenger on the new POF service would be, if they can meet their projections:
$9.5 million / 1275 = $7451
Then, ask yourself if they can conceivably meet their projected ridership anytime soon. The private ferry operators didn’t come close to that total. And, Kitsap Transit now says they cannot begin Southworth operations soon.
I figure an approximation of $8,000 per year per passenger is a fair estimate of the cost to taxpayers for what they get by paying the new tax — namely, 1275 people per day on the new POF service.
With the information Kitsap Transit now makes public, you can do the same sort of arithmetic by taking what they project as their revenue from fares and dividing by the fare per roundtrip to get an approximation of their projected ridership.
11. Good math.
Extending that out, then, if a commuter goes 52 weeks at a rate of $9 per round trip, that ends up being $2,340 the commuter spends. Anyone care to poke holes in mine or Bob’s numbers?
12. Steven, at least for now, you would need to express the commuters’ annual cost as a range from $1820 to $2340. The projected roundtrip fare would be somewhere in the range of $7 to $9.
13. Bob’s math is good. Unfortunately, the basis for the calculations is incorrect. Here’s why:
you have to divide the tax dollars collected into capital (buying boats and improving facilities) and operating costs. To quote from the KT plan linked in a previous post by Carlos,
“Fares, over time, should cover 60% of operations funding across the entire
schedule. It is our goal that fares cover 95-100% of operations costs on full, rushhour
boats, again assuming 25% of seats filled at the higher business-class fare.”
If you believe that buying boats that have a 30-year life benefit only 1200 people, that is fine, but not entirely accurate. It is worth taking the time to review the Aug 2006 KT document and see where the money is going.
FULL DISCLOSURE – I am in year 12 of commuting so have a personal stake in the argument.
First, not all of the money in Bob’s calculation goes directly to POF. The expansion of Park and Ride lots benefits all sorts of people who use those lots. Some may ride POF, some many not.
Where subsidies come in is in operating costs, and it is there where you have to perform the calculation. Please note that a full-time commuter will carry his/her own weight and that the operating subsidy extends to recreational riders (there is probably a better term, my brain can’t find it) on runs that aren’t full.
Page 34 of the KT plan reveals the leverage of that $8m. Six years of collecting it yields 80+ million in capital purchases, not a bad investment return to improve the transportation system of Kitsap County.
The inherent problem into taking a simple view of the $8M into 1200 round-trips is that it does not take into account the long-term nature of this program and the trade-offs presented in the KT document. Start-up costs are high in any such endeavor. The question one has to answer concerns the long-term view of ridership growth being correct. I believe it is, given the population growth of Kitsap and the slow constipation of highways in King County makes a 30-min boat ride one heck of a lot more pleasant than 45 minutes in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
If you extrapolate ridership out 5 years and divide the money over ridership then (when the majority of initial capital investment is complete), that is a much fairer view of the subsidy per passenger.
Steve, a great thread, again. Keep on blogging!
14. Both capital and operating expenditures would come from the tax revenue, so it is utterly wrong to ignore capital expenditures when calculating the subsidy per rider.
The KT plan states that all capital expenditures would come from tax revenue and none from fare revenue. Fares would pay only a part of operating expenditures.
The number of riders per year is the only basis for determining how much of a subsidy is paid by the taxpayers for each rider.
The capital expenditures would largely be made by borrowing the funds and paying them back over a long period of time, so it is incorrect to ignore the capital expenditures based on the expected life of the boats purchased. Those capital expenditures aren’t all done and paid for in the first few years.
The new tax revenue can only be used for POF service under WA law. The total collected is in fact the cost paid by our residents for what they get that they don’t already have. As I noted in my comment above, you could lower the calculated subsidy by noting the fact that KT would be able to use money it now has for things other than the PO to Bremerton ferry. But, it is still roughly $8,000 per year.
My way is correct, and Don’s is incorrect — plain and simple.
15. Bob
I disagree with you – you are using a snapshot of one year, and should take into account the useful life of the assets bought. That is the point I am trying to make. I do appreciate the respectful tone!!
16. There is one key error in Bob’s computation. He is considering the large capital costs of establishing a foot ferry program as a cost to be appreciated in one year. This is a fundementally poor assessment. The terminals and boats neccessary aren’t going to disappear after 52 weeks; they are going to sustain the program for many more years then that. This is why accountants use depreciation when factoring large capital costs over time.
17. I obviously failed to get my point across in my detailed description of the arithmetic used in arriving at an estimate of the cost to Kitsap taxpayers per passenger.
While my calculation doesn’t present a “moving picture,” I am not including all capital costs in the early years and ignoring the length of time in which those costs are paid via debt service. Instead, I am offering an estimate of the cost per passenger per year once the operations are up and running (roughly the second or third year of operations, depending on how long it takes to get Southworth going, if they get it going at all). And, I am saying that future years would involve similar costs per passenger because of the planned expansion of services as tax revenue becomes available to fund that expansion.
I am not even including all the capital costs. A substantial part of the tax revenue for capital costs would come from Uncle Sam.
Another substantial part would come from bonds to be retired over the first 20 years or so, and, as I noted before, I am not including that $20-25 million in one year as though it isn’t being paid back over time. I am instead including the annual debt service amount as part of the cost of each year’s service.
I am simply taking the annual amount of the sales tax collected in Kitsap and dividing that by the projected number of passengers. In other words, I’m estimating what we would pay for what we would get in POF service.
For those who believe that the cost would go down substantially in later years, I ask you to consider at least two things: (1)the tax revenue goes up each year, never down as initial costs are paid; and (2)the planned service would absorb all increased tax revenue by adding runs to the schedule so that the cost per passenger remains high. (Those additional runs won’t be filled by passengers, since they won’t occur during commute times — and thus also will do nothing to relieve traffic congestion.)
If someone wants to calculate the cost per passenger in some other way, here’s where you can find the October update to the KT POF plan.
If you do the calculation another way, be sure to include all the tax revenue KT expects to use for capital costs, not just the Kitsap sales tax.
I have ignored that other tax revenue, because we won’t be asked to vote on approving it. But, if you want to figure the entire cost including depreciation of all assets, etc., then include all the tax revenue, not just the sales tax we are being asked to approve.
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Drifting is big and it’s clever, but there’s always been the back room boys, the ones who just want to have fun and explore the soul-surfing side of things. Fredrik Sørlie and his Cressida are well known on the Scandinavian scene and this film goes above and beyond the usual drift sequence. In it we get to see some touge action, but we get a look behind the scenes too. I love the grassroots nature of Fredrik’s car when put together with high production values like this… So sit back and celebrate the simple movement of sideways.
Oh and if you want to know more on the 2JZ-equipped Cressida, check back later this week when our full feature on Fredrik and his Toyota drops!
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Such a good film, been watching it all day. Top work.
Sorlie rules. He has such a fun life.
Now THAT'S drifting. None of these Formula D pansies.
As cool as this is and the fact that this is drifting, not what people call drifting when they go to Sonoma Raceway or attempt to in their ugly words "SWANG" when they go to some roads whether there are people there or not. I find it strange that people still consider touge to be just "drifting" up and down these passes.
fuck helmets and roll cages...awesome video!
Great video, car, drifting, and shots but its not touge if the roads are closed or private. They are promoting more people to go out and do it legally or illegally? The 'togue' has always been there... there will always be street drifters finding abandoned roads or spots to run their cars....If they only had closed mountain passes where drifters could do it legally then cool...
Great style, high production values and a awesome Cressida to go with it :) love it! Yes drift and mountains go together like toast n jam, but it's not touge. Touge is racing, two cars and no sliding. Yes I know people are going to say otherwise but just look at the Option and Best Motoring touge story's, no drift all racing. Not bagging you Bryn but it's true. Still this video is sick and I can't wait for the feature on the Cressida!
Driveitlikeyoustoleit I forgot about all the grip driving they did on BMI. AHH the nostalgia. Now to dig up the old vids n start watching!
Got over 40 best motoring and hot version DVDs in the collection mate! Great fun!
OMG there's a lot of smoke coming out of the back, I bet his "Check Engine Light" is flashing like crazy.
Had to google "russian arm", first I thought it was that long shifter. @_@
true touge ain't drift yo, no matter what Initiaru D tells you
aussieANON Grip!!
How does this comment have so many likes?
Just because he's doing it on a backroad it makes it that much more amazing? Have you not seen Ryan Tuerck's Off Season or Tanner Foust Muholland drift? It's cool that this fellow got a chance to drift a closed backroad. Still doesn't compare him to the pros who have also done it...
@FigureSk8er so edgy
Some of you guys need to do some reading. Touge literally means pass, and refers to roads like this through mountains and hillsides. What kind of driving you do on it, doesn't matter. You can touge drift, touge race, or touge drive home to grandma.... ;-)
The song is made by our buddy Lars Dahl, and is yet to be named or uploaded anywhere.
Clearly the most exciting style of touge is touge home to grandma so you can eat the pancakes she made for you.
But seriously, I agree with you.
The song is now up on Soundcloud, just search for Tougestars:)
PaulDYuen aussieANON Indeedy. Tyres are their absolute best at 4 degrees of slip, so if you're majorly sliding you aren't going as fast as you could.
Amazing, the grassroots aspect shines through so much! Love it down to the driver and passenger not wearing helmets, and the car old street drivin Cressida with no sponsor stickers on it. Was perfection. In my own mind.
Anytime someone becomes a professional at any sort of sport, they gain hate from others who can't make it to that level. Basketball, skateboarding, racing and drifting.
aussieANON PaulDYuen FYI, I come from a racing background, so I am very aware that this is far from the fastest way to drive. But it's just sooo fun!!! :D
This guy knows how to handle a big girl ;) All I kept thinking was how fast he's drifting with all that a$$
swinging away like that. Great video and please thank Lars for the song.
sleeper_s2k Frozzy >can't make it to that level.
LOL. Not all of us have aspirations to race in FD. And racing is less about skill and more about money. Anyone can buy a seat, even if they suck ass. Sure, if they don't win they probably won't keep wasting their money, but to say that all the FD drivers are the best of the best is false.
Major sports are different (i.e. basketball, hockey, baseball, football.)
I understand not everyone strives to become a professional, but why hate on them when they get to the point at which money is basically thrown at them and their car?
I remember seeing Chris Forsberg drift before he got any sort of sponsorship, and he was still good.
neat video i luv it ... still rather straight hardcore touge (grip racing) other than touge drift ...
Fredrik Sorlie aussieANON PaulDYuen And though I do love the Cressy, how boring would this sequence be if he was just cornering though it? I think what this film does is allows you to see such fine movements in the motion of the big(ish) car, which allows you to appreciate the grace :)
ChristianClark Fredrik Sorlie aussieANON PaulDYuen I dunno, it would be pretty insane seeing a cressida doing (trying) grip.
so what part did the not so light co-driver play in this? Is that touge aswell?....
kurko Actually, we planned to do more or of a story where she was essential, but we ditched the storyline due to lack of time. Having said that, she was a great sport and seemed to have fun. And in my world, that's what it's all about :)
Fredrik Sorlie kurko i can understand and all that and its fine, maybe i came off as a bit rude. It just seemed to me like one of those things that didnt belong. Thanks for being such a good sport about it, even though I was a dick
kurko Fredrik Sorlie Name one situation where a cleavage does not belong! :D
BTW, I did not find your question particularly rude, and I could see where you were coming from. Hence the decision to address it :)
Fredrik Sorlie kurko Haha, good then. Maybe it just felt rude in my head when I was putting it together, better this way.
MartinSoerlie I can't find it!! I love this song, I searched toguestars and nothing came up :/
johnygezony MartinSoerlie But did you search Soundcloud for TougeStars? https://soundcloud.com/search?q=tougestars
Link is also in the description on YouTube :)
Fredrik Sørlie - this is amazing!
Super film, really enjoyed it........ :-)
Ahhh this is some great stuff!
Fredrik Sorlie aussieANON PaulDYuen Don't get me wrong, it's a damn impressive film, and you have some serious skills.
and brought it back he did. Very nice film.
That video is so cool! Very cool car too!
I really hate slow motion parts...
kurko I was expecting to "SEE" more. lol
Where do I sign?
It would be great if Touge was the next thing to take off. We have had Drift, we have Time Attack, bring on Touge.
So that music was legendary!!! It reminded me over the opening music to an intense scene from a 90's movie like The Rock or Days of Thunder... something Hans Zimmer would wip up. Very impressive!
Dope! This is why I love speedhunters .always producing the goods
I have no idea how I missed this til now. That was awesome.
Also encompasses all of what's wrong with this "style", an SUV with a big arse camera arm is keeping up, when sliding is quicker (rally) yeah DO IT! otherwise get on it push those corners hard!
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What is scapular retraction? Why is it important?
Today we are introducing you to the concept of scapular retraction..
Scapular retraction is a backward movement toward the midline of the body; moving the scapula back toward the spine during retraction of the shoulder girdle. [4] Scapular retraction requires the activation of the trapezius, rhomboideus major and minor muscle groups. Postural imbalances, specifically those in which the upper back is rounded and slouched, are often the result of weakness in these muscle groups.
This is even more so with individuals who have tight anterior musculature which influence posture – pectoralis major and minor being the 2 most important.By loosening the anterior musculature through stretching and utilizing exercises that involve scapular retraction, individuals may be more successful at improving their postural issues.
Here are some exercises which involve scapular retraction that are beneficial for maintaining healthy posture: [2]
Resistance Band Row
Initiate your shoulder retractor muscle strengthening with a resistance band. Sitting upright on the floor, wrap a resistance band around both of your feet, keeping your feet and legs together. Monitor your alignment in a mirrored wall to make sure your back is straight throughout the exercise. Grasp the handles of the resistance band, rolling up further on the band if your legs are shorter or you are not feeling resistance. Without moving your trunk, pull your arms toward your chest, allowing your elbows to flare out sideways at chest height and then return your arms to the starting position.
Cable Rowing
Sit as the rowing station of your weighted cable exercise machine. Position your body several feet away from the foot plate so that your knees are slightly bent between 15 and 20 degrees. Straighten your back and tighten your abdominal muscles to protect your lower back. Lean forward at your pelvis and grab hold of the bar attached to the pulley system. Place your pelvis back into the starting position and do not move your pelvis or trunk while performing the row. Pull your arms back so your hands come toward the side of your chest and then return your arms almost to the fully straightened position, taking care not to lock out your elbows or allow your shoulders to roll forward.
Transverse Cable Row
Exercise the upper and lower muscle fibers of your retractors to achieve muscle symmetry. Using a rope attachment placed on the highest setting of a pulley system, lean back slightly while keeping your body straight and your hands on the rope attachment. Without moving your legs or trunk, pull the rope toward your eyes, branching your arms out at you reach your face and then return to the starting position. Using the same setup, except placing the pulley at the lowest setting near the floor, without leaning forward, pull upward on the pulley, pushing your elbows straight up toward the ceiling and return to the starting position.
Advanced Row
Perform an advanced row while standing to work your back, abdominals, legs and stabilizing muscles simultaneously. Using either a resistance band wrapped around a pole or a pulley system set around mid-thigh height, squat into a full squat while holding the handles. Walk backward in the squat just to the point of resistance. Keeping your legs and trunk stable throughout, pull your arms back and squeeze your shoulder blades together. Return to the starting position without lunging forward.
If you are suffering from shoulder discomfort and postural imbalances are not the cause of your pain, the weakened musculature of the rotator cuff may be the culprit. The muscles of the rotator cuff include the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. Together, these muscles are known as the “glenohumeral guardians”. [1]
One of the best ways to protect the shoulder from injury during sport is to be proactive with your exercise regiment by using specific exercises that target the musculature surrounding the scapula and glenohumeral joint.
Here are some exercises to help strengthen the rotator cuff muscles: [3]
Empty Can Exercise
Stand square with a small dumbbell in your right hand. Orient your right arm at a 45-degree angle to your body and turn your right hand thumb-down. It might help to imagine that you’re emptying a can of soda just beside your right foot. Lift your straight arm up and out, maintaining the 45-degree angle to your body. Stop when your arm is almost level with your shoulder. Complete a full set, then repeat on the other side.
This exercise works your supraspinatus, which is primarily responsible for abducting your shoulder and stabilizing the shoulder blade. This muscle is the most commonly injured muscle in the rotator cuff. If the exercise causes pain, stop immediately; the pain may signal a rotator cuff injury.
External Rotation
Lie on your right side with a small dumbbell in your left hand. Bend your left arm at a right angle, tucking the elbow close against your side. Let your left forearm swing down against your body, then swing it back up to the starting position. Complete a full set, then repeat on the other side.
This works the infraspinatus. The infraspinatus externally rotates, transversely abducts and transversely extends your arm at the shoulder. According to ExRX, this is the second most frequently injured rotator cuff muscle.
Stop Sign Exercise
Stand square with a dumbbell in your right arm. Position your right arm as if you were going to do a shoulder press, elbow bent at 90 degrees, palm facing forward, weight directly above your elbow. Rotate your upper arm only, swinging your hand down to the “stop” hand signal. Allow discomfort to limit your range of motion; only rotate your arm as far as comfortably possible. Complete a full set, then repeat on the other side.
This exercise works the teres minor. Like the infraspinatus, the teres minor externally rotates, transversely abducts and transversely extends your arm at the shoulder.
Internal Rotation
Lie on your right side on a bench or table, gripping a small dumbbell in your right hand. Tuck your right elbow against your side just in front of your body, forearm sticking straight out in front of you. Rotate your upper arm so that your forearm swings up against your ribs. Lower your arm back to the starting position. Complete a full set, then repeat on the other side.
This works your subscapularis, which as the name indicates is located deep to your shoulder blades. The subscapularis internally rotates your arm at the shoulder.
[1] Paine, R., & Voight, M. L. (2013). THE ROLE OF THE SCAPULA. International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, 8(5), 617–629.
[2] http://www.livestrong.com/article/536301-scapular-retraction-exercises-for-posture/
[3] http://www.livestrong.com/article/233274-shoulder-exercises-to-strengthen-rotator-cuff/
[4] http://www.exrx.net/Articulations/Scapula.html
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