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My name is Jenny Sharpe and I am 17 years old. I have been involved in FUNDaFIELD for many years and have sold thousands of paper bead jewelry, made by these Ugandan refugees. Over this past summer, I traveled to Uganda with FUNDaFIELD and was able to meet some of the women and learn about their story. I can't imagine what they must have gone through fleeing from their homeland and starting a new life. They were able to make a new lives for themselves and their families by making paper beads for FUNDaFIELD after previously crushing rocks for under a dollar a day. These women are now facing yet another problem, development. The IDP camp where they are currently living has been sold, and they need to relocate by the holidays. Help us fund their trip to Northern Uganda, their home they had to flee 25 years ago.
We need to relocate 229 refugees to Northern Uganda before bulldozers arrive in December to close their IDP (Independently Displaced Person) camp.
JOSEPH KONY STARTED IT ALL
“At just eight years old, Aburi witnessed most of her family being killed by Joseph Kony and the LRA - her parents, brothers, sisters, and an uncle. Their heads were chopped off with a panga. Aburi only survived because the soldiers didn’t notice she was still alive. The blood from others had spilled onto her so it appeared as though she was also dead. She laid very still for what seemed like hours. When it was finally safe to run, she climbed aboard a truck and traveled with the army for protection.”
It was 1991, when Aida Anek and Aburi Aneno fled their villages in Northern Uganda to escape Joseph Kony’s rebel war. They were just young girls with no money, no home and no family. They traveled mostly on foot, about 400 kilometers, from Northern Uganda to Kireka.
Eventually they found themselves at Acholi Quarters, an IDP camp filled with refugees with similar stories of devastation. Desperate to earn money, they broke rocks, larger rocks into smaller rocks, for less than a dollar a day.
Sadly, this past summer, the women ran into a new issue: DEVELOPMENT.
The IDP camp's land in Acholi Quarter has been sold. The refugees need to find new homes. For the second time in 25 years, they have to start over.
Now that Joseph Kony has left Uganda, the women dream of taking their families home - to their friends, family, and their old way of life.
Unfortunately, the women simply do not have the means to make this dream a reality before the bulldozers arrive this December, that is unless we help bring them home by the holidays.
WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN
We need to transport 31 women and 198 children, a total of 229 people, home by the December holidays.
But providing transportation isn’t enough, we need to temporarily provide for their basic needs and give them the fresh start they deserve.
"BASICS" WILL COST $28,000
TRANSPORTATION for 229 people and their belongings: $3,145.19
FARM TOOLS for each family: $594.52
FARM SEEDS for each family: $1,189.04
SCHOOL FEES for 150 students: $13,808.16
SCHOOL UNIFORMS for 150 kids: $2,186.29
TEMPORARY HOUSING, mud huts: $6,904.08
"LUXURIES" WILL COST AN ADDITIONAL $15,000
SCHOOL LUNCHES for 150 students: $5,607.45
DRINKING WATER WELL: $8,822.57
Just like you and I didn't choose the world we were born into, these women didn't choose to be refugees. By pure chance, they had their lives torn apart by war and poverty. Now, you and I have the chance to give them and their children a fresh start and the future they deserve.
THE COST IS $188 TO RELOCATE EACH PERSON
The cost to relocate 229 people and provide temporary support is $188 per person.
A family of four would is $752 and a family of seven will cost $1,316.
Please help us beat the bulldozers and get them home before the December 2014 deadline.
• Donate. Each dollar brings us closer to the goal.
• Decide to relocate one person by raising $188.
• Decide to relocate one family.
• Form a "Beat the Bulldozer" Crowdrise team of your own. Ask your family and friends to help you secure 19 donations of $10 to relocate one refugee or 76 donations of $10 to change the lives of a family of four. Click on the FUNDRAISE FOR THIS CAMPAIGN icon to set up your team!
• Share your holiday and ask for early donations in lieu of holiday gifts.
• Use your social media skills to spread the word to everyone you know!
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
The amazing women want you to know how much they appreciate your support and have crafted a beautiful, “Home for the Holidays” necklace just for you. They want to send one to each donor who raises $188 and relocates one person. Lets help distribute all 229 of them.
Together we can make a difference in the lives of 229 refugees.
ABALO FLORENCE – 3 children ages 18,14,10
ABER JUDITH – 6 children ages 18,16,14,10,7,4
ACIRO SANTINA – 3 children ages 10,7,5
ADEE DOREEN – 6 children ages 16,15,13,13,10,8
ADIBO CHRISTINE – 5 children ages 20,17,14,10,8
ADOCH JENNIFER – 7 children ages 7,6,5,4,3,2,1
AKELLO ESTHER ODONG – 9 children ages 22,20,17,16,15,9,7,6,4
AKELLO PASKA – 8 children ages 17,16,15,9,7,6,4,2
AKOT JOSEPHINE – 5 children ages 12,11,10,8,1
AKUMU HELLEN – 6 children ages 3,12,16,18,14,5
AMOLO STELLA – 5 children ages 1,3,5,6,8
ANECK AIDA – 12 children ages 23,19,17,16,15,9,7,6,4,2,17,6
ANECK IRENE – 7 children ages 11,9,8,4,3,2,1
ANENO JESICCA – 5 children ages 18,16,14,10,7
ANYIRI ESTHERINA – 6 children ages 22,20,19,17,15,15
AOL ALICE– 7 children ages 13,5,2,15,17,18,16
ATIM MONICA – 6 children ages 4,3,1,7,5,10
AUMA ESTHER – 11 children ages 16,15,9,7,6,4,2,6,5,1,12
AYAMO DOREEN – 7children ages 15,9,7,6,4,2,6
AYOO JENNIFER – 4 children ages 15,12,9,5
AYO SABINA – 4 children ages 15,12,9,5
AYUGI BETTY – 7 children ages 16,9,8,4,3,2,1
ACHAYO BEATRICE – 5 children ages 9,7,6,3,1
AKWERO SANTA – 6 children ages 14,12,11,1,3,6
KIKO MARY – 6 children ages 10,9,8,7
LABUK DOREEN – 13 children ages 23,19,17,16,15,9,7,6,4,2,17,6,6
LAKOT SYLIVIA – 6 children ages 16,14,13,8,9,6
LANGOYA JESICCA – 5 children ages 14,12,11,8,4
LANYERO CHRISTINE – 5 children ages 17,16,1,4,5
OCHAYA MARGRET – 8 children ages 20,17,16,15,12,10,6,8
OKELLO CHRISTINE – 7 children ages 13,12,7,5,3,1,10
More information can be found at:
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Sew Fun by Deborah Fisher
Interweave/F+W Media; $26.99
When I was little I was always doing various craft projects. One year my family spent a summer in Beijing living in a hotel and boredom led to my creating an entire wardrobe out of tissues for my various Barbie dolls. Spoiler alert: there were a lot of capes and togas. Then there was my teddy bear that I hand-stitched from curtain scraps and embroidery thread when I was six. At some point I will find and photograph my first crochet project, which is an amorphous, mostly orange with blue and turquoise accents vaguely-oval shaped ripply blob. Seven year old me had high hopes of it turning into a skirt somehow. And then at fourteen I started my LotR-inspired collection of elf couture. When I think back to my childhood it feels like I’ve always been working on something.
When Interweave Publishing contacted me recently about reviewing a new book on crafting with kids I pretty much died of cuteness overload as soon as I saw the cover. Yes please! (Note: Interweave provided me with a copy of Sew Fun; all opinions and rambling anecdotes are my own.)
Sew Fun is Deborah Fisher’s creation as a way to engage kids in crafting. The book is divided into sections based on type of crafts: dress-up projects, stuffed animals, playtime accessories, and home and party decorations. Each project is designed with tiny humans in mind and includes a section of suggested tasks for kids.
My first impression after flipping through the book is that it looks like Anthropologie for kids. Like check out this amazing storybook play blanket. It’s two-sided, for daytime and nighttime. Is it ok that I want to make this to put on my wall??
Also this bunny is happening. I don’t even care that I’m 27. I need an army of these little guys.
This quilt would be a great way to show-case those cute prints that we dress-making addicts sometimes buy because it’s a cute print and then don’t know what to do with it because it’s not really wearable. We all have a bunch of those in our stashes, don’t lie.
There’s also a plastic insert in the back with pattern pieces printed on lovely paper (not as thick as Megan Nielsen patterns but not the gross super-thin tissue stuff).
Deborah talks about safety tips, craft ideas, and sewing techniques, and and gives lots of suggestions about how to make crafting fun and engaging for both kids and adults. She says specifically that this isn’t a book for kids, but a book meant to bring out the inner child in grown-ups and to involve kids in the process.
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Scott Edmunds - February 21, 2013
The BBSRC has just released an excellent video and article on crowdsourcing killer disease outbreaks very relevant to our recent commentary and blog postings on the OpenAshDB
Scott Edmunds - February 13, 2013
Open Science and crowdsourcing versus Ash Dieback (and the Tweenome revisited, with and update on our E. coli genome datasharing adventures)
Scott Edmunds - December 27, 2012
Our new paper on the SOAPdenovo2 genome assembly tool shows how our open peer review system works, adding transparency to scientific publishing
Scott Edmunds - December 21, 2012
A brief history of data citation, and an overview of our battles getting DOIs cited in the references of a number of journals.
Scott Edmunds - December 16, 2012
GigaScience organised a session last week at the ISCB-Asia/SCCG conference in Shenzhen on “Workflows and Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics”.
Scott Edmunds - November 15, 2012
New research in GigaScience on the genome of the Wuzhishan minipig genome, a model breed for cloning and xenotransplantation research
Scott Edmunds - October 17, 2012
The worm that turned (epigenetics) GigaDB, GigaScience’s associated database, has had a number of new datasets just added, many for data types previously not hosted. Today marks the publication of new research in our sister BMC journal Genome Biology shaking up the epigenetics field by shattering the assumption that DNA methylation is absent in nematodes. […]
Scott Edmunds - September 28, 2012
Big-science goes local: read more on the democratization of sequencing demonstrated by the crowdfunded Puerto Rican parrot genome
Scott Edmunds - September 12, 2012
Bioinformatics with a Swiss Flavour at ECCB 2012, where we have a write-up of the European ISCB conference on bioinformatics.
Scott Edmunds - September 5, 2012
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Fill your Easter weekend with something other than chocolate eggs with these cute and simple ideas.
EASTER BUNNY CUPCAKES
These cupcakes (see above!) are almost too cute to eat and so simple to make – boxed cake mix and pre-made icing makes things even easier and no-one will mind! Popping the eyes, nose and ears onto the cakes is great fine motor practice.
White cake mix
(plus eggs etc. as per box instructions) Vanilla icing
Pink crystallised sprinkles
Mini chocolate chips
Make the cupcakes and spread a good layer of icing on top.
Give each bunny a pink smartie nose and chocolate chip eyes.
Now for the ears: get a pair of scissors (a job for the adults) and cut the marshmallows diagonally. Immediately dip the sticky side into your pink sprinkles to make the insides of the ears.
Voila – bunny cakes!
RICE BUBBLE NESTS
Let the kids add the eggs to these tasty nests but make sure you handle the hot chocolate.
200g chocolate melts
2 cups Rice Bubbles Mini eggs
Spray oil, for greasing tin
Lightly grease a 24-hole mini muffin tin Microwave the chocolate on medium for two minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until it has melted.
Add Rice Bubbles to the chocolate and stir. Spoon your Rice Bubbles mixture into the muffin tin (a large tablespoon for each nest). Mould the mixture to form a basket shape. Add eggs to your nests.
FINGERPRINT EASTER EGG
This one is perfect for finger isolation plus extra fine motor points for cutting and sticking too!
Draw an egg shape onto some card and cut out. Your child can help with the cutting if they’re able to use scissors.
Encourage your child to add as many different coloured fingerprints to the egg.
Stick the egg onto different coloured card.
For more simple hand and fingerprint ideas visit
MAKE AN EASTER SENSORY BIN
If you have a child with sensory issues, Easter makes a great theme for sensory bins. Coloured rice, fake grass, play-doh ‘eggs’, fluffy chicks, plastic bunnies – the ideas are endless. The internet is your friend here with so many sources of inspiration. Here are just three different versions we found online:
VISIT LEARN IMAGINE PLAY FOR INFO ON HOW TO CREATE
AND NEXT COMES L HAS A GREAT IDEA FOR A SENSORY BIN WITH WATER BEADS
HOW ABOUT COMBINING A SENSORY BIN WITH SOME NUMERACY SKILLS PRACTICE?
Acrylic eggs, chalkboard paint and coloured chalks are all you need to create these decorated Easter eggs with a difference. Using acrylic eggs instead of real ones makes them a little more robust and likely to stand up to any pressure.
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Walter Earl Brewer, 70, of Whatley died March 26, 2012 at his residence.
He was born June 21, 1941. He was a native of Jackson. He was a member of United Methodist Church of Jackson. He was retired from Olin Corporation as a purchasing agent.
Survivors include his wife, Enid Joy Waddill Brewer, Whatley; two daughters, Robin Brewer Walters, Evergreen, Rochell Amanda Brewer Manuel, Houghton Lake, Mich.; four grandchildren, Doree Noel McAdams, Joshua Michael Walters, Jonathan Matthew Walters, Jason Matthias Walters.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Willy Walter and Helen Louise Thickston Brewer.
Visitation will be Friday, March 30 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Lathan Funeral Home in Grove Hill. A graveside service will be Friday, March 30 at 2:30 p.m. at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saraland with Rev. Jackie Davis officiating.
An online guest book may be signed at www.lathanfuneralhomes.com.
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[coreboot] CoreBoot and Payloads
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Mon Feb 2 17:29:02 CET 2009
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Piotr Brostovski <p.brostovski at levigo.de> wrote:
> Ok, i tried to make an image with the gpxe.lkrn file first.
> The result is:
> file gpxe.lkrn
> gpxe.lkrn: Linux/i386 Kernel, Setup Version 0x207, zImage
> mkelfImage --kernel=gpxe.lkrn --output=gpxe.elf
> file gpxe.elf
> gpxe.elf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linkedfile:
> corrupted section header size.
use readelf. Most (bfd-derived) ELF tools have a bug w.r.t. elf files
that has been there for 10 years.
> Image checksum: 2f79 != computed checksum: 8562
> Can not load ELF Image.
This is actually a different error I believe.
I'll be working with this later this week possibly and will let you
know how it goes.
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Are you looking for new ways to finance your established business, or perhaps you’re just on the point of launching a new business and you need to secure funding to get you started?
Whatever stage your business is at, there are plenty of places to turn for financial assistance but there are just as many factors to consider when deciding which option to take.
If you’re in the process of starting a new business, or your business has been in existence for less than 24 months, it may be possible to obtain a government backed start-up loan. Other stipulations for eligibility include:
- You must live in the UK.
- You are at least 18 years old.
Government backed start-up loans charge a fixed interest rate of 6% per year, and the loan can be repaid over 1 to 5 years, with no fee for early repayment. There’s no application fee either.
These personal loans are unsecured, up to £25,000, and must be used for business purposes only.
To find out more, visit https://www.gov.uk/apply-start-up-loan
The Gov.uk website also carries a list of companies and organisations that may offer funding in the form of loans or grants, plus business advice and support, to businesses at all stages in their development.
To find out more, visit https://www.gov.uk/business-finance-support
The major banks all offer medium to long-term business loans, to businesses at all stages, from start-ups to companies wishing to expand.
Any bank will base their decisions on whether they grant you a loan on,
- your business plan, projections and business figures
- your credit history
- whether they feel you will be able to pay back the loan, especially if your business is not successful
A bank loan will be secured against your assets, so for instance, your home or business premises.
You can generally borrow money up to £125,000, depending on the assets the loan is secured on.
For a business whose income is changeable, a bank overdraft could be the way to go.
It provides a readily available and quick cashflow service that you can use during periods when income is lower than s comfortable or required. When your income picks up again, you can repay the bank overdraft amount.
You will be charged interest on any overdrawn balance and the bank is within their rights to demand the outstanding overdraft amount be repaid immediately if they feel that the service is being misused. Alternatively, they may suggest that the overdraft is converted into a bank loan.
Business cash advance
This is a relatively new service in the UK but can provide a short-term finance solution.
You receive a cash advance (between £10,000 and £100,000) from a broker. This amount is paid back as your customers pay you for your goods or services via card payments.
The percentage that you pay per transaction is generally around 20% of the value of that transaction.
You will be required, however, to use a Process Data Quickly (PDQ) terminal for card payments, have a minimum of 1 year’s trading statements for your PDQ, and an average minimum monthly customer spend by card payment of £3,500.
Business cash advances are often used by hotels, health and beauty businesses and high street stores.
With asset-based loans, such as leasing and hire purchase, you borrow money against an existing asset, such as property, business premises, or business equipment. If you fail to keep up your payments, the asset is re-possessed.
Whether you use leasing or hire purchase, the benefit of asset finance is that you don’t have to pay for a new item all in one go. You can space out the payment on a monthly basis.
However, you should check the guidelines on ownership with whichever form of asset finance you choose.
If you can get a business angel on board (a sole investor, network of investors, or syndicate who provide funding in exchange for shares in your company), then you may find that their involvement not only brings financial benefits but a whole host of valuable advice and support too.
You will be required, however, to provide a realistic business plan with growth projections, have the correct business figures to hand, and be willing to provide shares in your business.
Crowdfunding is a way to raise money through a business sponsorship page.
Investors tend to provide small amounts of money each, joining together with other investors to raise money with a particular goal in mind, such as getting a project or invention off the ground.
Investors are generally private individuals so the amount of money you may raise in this way may not be very large. However, it can be a great way to judge the popularity of a product or idea, and of course an excellent way to raise awareness of your business too.
A micro loan will only provide a ‘micro’ amount. This is a small loan ranging from £5,000 to £25,000, repayable over one to five years.
If you really only need a small amount of money and you want an arrangement that is individual to your situation, this may be the way to go.
However, the interest rate for micro loans can be higher than other types of financing and always worth checking before entering into a loan agreement.
Many community development finance initiatives (CDFIs) are currently operational in the UK. Set up to assist individuals and businesses who would generally be turned down for financing by banks and lending companies, CDFIs can provide bridging loans and other finance arrangements.
To be eligible, you will generally have to be a micro-business (sole trader or no more than two employees), social enterprise, or operate in a disadvantaged area of the UK.
If the idea of approaching a bank or other lender is too daunting and you want to save on interest payments (although this is not always the case), then borrowing money from a family member may be an option.
You already know each other so there is a level of established trust. If they do request interest on their loan to you, then it may be at a lower rate than with a bank or other lending institution.
The downside to this kind of arrangement is any upset or damage that may be caused to your relationship, should the agreement fall apart.
Other things to consider
Whatever option you decide on, there are a number of questions you should ask yourself before approaching anyone for business funding:
- How much money do you need? Not how much money would you like.
- Do you need the money, or could you cut down on costs?
- Do you have savings or investments that you could use?
- Do you have a business plan in place, with projections and business figures?
- Have you researched the viability of your business, or the reason you are borrowing the money? Will potential funders see it (and you) as a good investment?
- What exactly will you use the money for?
- When do you need to receive this money by?
- How soon could you pay it back?
- How will you pay it back? Should your business fail to bring in income immediately, how will you make your loan repayments?
- Will this be short term funding or long term?
- How healthy is your credit history? Can you provide an explanation for any unfavourable credit history?How legal advice can help
Deciding where to turn for a way to finance your business can be a complicated process. Knowing which form of finance would suit your business best requires an in-depth knowledge of business practices and a realistic view of your business’ future.
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If there is one piece of advice I could offer you, it is to wear sunscreen.
If there is a second piece of advice I could offer you, get a 2% cashback card.
There has been a fair amount of digital ink spilled (borrowing a term from my friend Shawn), over the best everyday card. In fact, the reason for this post was primarily spurred by Freequent Flyer. But he’s not the only one. In fact Miles to Memories (note, there is no malware, just a rogue ad, so fear not by clicking the link), writes about the best card to use. Of course, he (Shawn) has more fish to fry than I.
The fact remains, unless you are the biggest of travel hackers, in which case I mean, churning credit cards, (even Chase), you are probably best having an easy to use 2% cashback card, because, cash can often be king. For example, you could have the Citi Double Cash:
Or, the Fidelity American Express (which I call Fido):
Each of the two provide 2% cashback without an annual fee. This should be your lowest common denominator of a credit card. For those of you that are married, and have spouses that may not be crazy mile and point collectors, one of these cards is the one you give them and say: Use. These are the cards you use when you don’t know of a better card. If you’re not in a Staples (Ink), Target (RedBird), a Grocery Store (Old Blue Cash, Wells Fargo, AMEX Everyday), or a Gas Station (refer previous grouping), this is the card you use.
So I leave you with this: Always have a reliable 2% cashback card. It will never do you wrong.
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Writer John Judis presciently published an important book about American politics about a decade before its time called "The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust" in which he accurately observed the seeds of discontent among the American public and its mistrust of political institutions. He saw the Tea Party coming before it was born. In the wake of David Brat's recent win over Eric Cantor he analyzed the race and helpfully defined the right-wing populism that drove it:
American populism is rooted in middle class resentment of those who are seen as enjoying the benefits of the goods and services the middle class produces without having earned them through work. Its ideology is what historians call “producerism.” It first appears in the Jacksonian Workingmen’s Parties and then in the Populists of the late nineteenth century. But it takes a leftwing and a rightwing form.
Facing an ailing economy, leftwing populists from Huey Long to Paul Wellstone primarily blame Wall Street, big business and the politicians whom they fund. Rightwing populists from George Wallace to Pat Buchanan also blame Wall Street, but put equal if not greater blame on the poor, the unemployed, the immigrant, and the minorities, who, like the coupon-clipper on Wall Street, are seen as economic parasites.
We see the two strains of populism springing up in both political parties with more and more energy. On the left the Elizabeth Warren wing is gaining steam. Her rousing cri de guerre from the last campaign -- "you didn't build that" -- speaks directly to these middle-class anxieties in the language of common good that left-wing populists like to hear. Indeed, she's been speaking and writing books about it for more than a decade.
But who's really speaking for the right on these issues? George Wallace is long gone and Pat Buchanan has been exiled from polite company. Under the yoke of their 1 percent benefactors and the demographic time bomb of a non-white majority, you have Paul Ryan and other Washington GOP players trying to walk the fine line between Wall Street's needs and the base's antipathy toward immigrants. Ted Cruz? Not really. He's an Ivy League lawyer with a gift for demagoguery but he doesn't really have that common touch you need to be a true populist.
There actually is one right-wing populist speaker out there who has no trouble getting right to the heart of the matter: Sarah Palin. Sure, she's something of a joke to the mainstream and nobody thinks she'll ever run for anything again. But her celebrity remains formidable as she uses the modern communications technologies to stay in touch with her followers. And she speaks their language perfectly.
Her article for Breitbart.com yesterday was ostensibly about pushing for President Obama's impeachment and it got quite a bit of play in the media. But that was almost incidental. What she spoke to was the populist anxiety that's permeating the right wing at the moment, anxiety that's increasingly focused on the "economic parasites" of the poor and the immigrant while paying some lip service to the exploitation of the Big Money Boyz who are pulling the strings. Palin's language is widely mocked by the cognoscenti, but it is as authentic as it gets when she expresses middle-class angst in right-wing terms:
The federal government is trillions of dollars in debt, many cities are on the verge of insolvency, our overrun healthcare system, police forces, social services, schools, and our unsustainably generous welfare-state programs are stretched to the max. We average Americans know that. So why has this issue been allowed to be turned upside down with our “leader” creating such unsafe conditions while at the same time obstructing any economic recovery by creating more dependents than he allows producers? His friendly wealthy bipartisan elite, who want cheap foreign labor and can afford for themselves the best “border security” money can buy in their own exclusive communities, do not care that Obama tapped us out.
Have faith that average American workers – native-born and wonderful legal immigrants of all races, backgrounds, and political parties – do care because we’re the ones getting screwed as we’re forced to follow all our government’s rules while others are not required to do so. Many now feel like strangers in their own land. It’s the American worker who is forced to deal with Obama’s latest crisis with our hard-earned tax dollars while middle class wages decrease, sustainable jobs get more scarce, and communities become unrecognizable and bankrupted due to Obama’s flood of illegal immigration.
Who’s looking out for the American worker? Who has their backs? Who fights for them?
She hits all the right-wing populist hot spots: government debt, crumbling cities (where the "wrong people" live), a healthcare system that's "overrun" (by people who don't deserve to use it) an entire public sector that's being starved because of our "overly-generous" welfare programs. The "leader" (in scare quotes) is creating unsafe conditions on behalf of the bipartisan elites who can buy their own border security and don't care about the "Average Americans" like Sarah Palin who are broke and feel like "strangers in their own land" (the one stolen from others and settled by immigrants). If only she added a Buchananesque "you didn't build that -- Jose" it would have been the bizarroworld image of the Elizabeth Warren speech.
Notice that Palin emphasizes the words "American worker" rather than middle class, thus evoking a kind of blue-collar vibe, which she has always done going back to the 2008 campaign in which she often showed solidarity with the "guys in steel toed boots." But she's making a play for others as well, like office workers and retail clerks and police officers, middle-class workers and small business owners who are still under pressure in an economy with stagnant wages, crumbling infrastructure and stingy services. Unfortunately, most of their problems can be traced to the income and wealth disparities created by the policies enacted on behalf of the 1 percent. And the fact is that no members of government have pushed those policies more fervently and relentlessly over many decades than the Republican Party. If "the worker" was their concern they have a funny way of showing it. And yes, the Democrats have certainly been complicit in advancing those policies. But they can at least boast of the fact that they have mostly avoided outright blaming immigrants and the poor for the stagnation of the middle class and the fading of the American Dream.
There are some areas of agreement among the left and right populists. They are both hostile to the "wealthy bipartisan elite" although for somewhat different reasons. It's possible there could be some common legislative ground if both sides were sincere in their desire to rein in money in politics. But Sarah Palin's words speak of a different priority -- the visceral hostility toward immigrants and the obvious belief that they and other poor people are at the root of "workers'" problems. One certainly hopes that the poor and immigrant populations aren't seen as chips in a negotiating session on these issues, but it wouldn't be the first time that such devil's bargains were made.
The real impediment to any agreement is the fact that most of the populist right is being funded and informed by the same wealthy interests they claim are destroying America with their immigrant-loving ways. These wealthy interests are actually less concerned about keeping their cheap immigrant labor (there are many ways of skinning that cat) than they are about the fact that the Republican Party is in grave danger of locking itself out of the executive branch for generations if it is seen as being overtly hostile to Latinos. They've invested a lot of time and money in the GOP and they do not wish to lose their grip on power simply because Sarah Palin and her friends don't like immigrants. But there's not much they can do about it -- they've been stoking this right-wing populist base for decades now and that fire is now burning out of control.
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I’m currently working on my November presentation for the CapArea Sharepoint group. My speech will be on PowerShell and how to use it with Sharepoint to help with governance. That’s right, I dropped the G word.
Sharepoint is taking off within organizations because it is easy to use, and offers an entryway to advanced capabilities such as BI, Enterprise Content Management, Records Management and more. However, as these portals gain popularity, the enterprise rushes to come up with a Sharepoint governance plan. This usually involves stopping any growth or development on the platform, and talking about your feelings around Sharepoint and forcing it into a process similar to all of your bespoke ASP.NET applications. At which point it loses the flexibility and agility that made it an attractive platform in the first place.
Every governance step for the end user, (contact help desk, security review, management review, change control) that is introduced around your portal is going to dissuade some users, which decreases the reach and the penetration of your platform. What does this mean for IT managers and architects, Do we have to keep our hands off and hope everything goes well on this platform?
Of course not, effective management is needed across IT and this is no different. This is where the idea of Sharepoint Assurance comes in, moving “governance” closer to the users. We can provide both a flexible platform for collaboration, and a well managed IT infrastructure. I like the roles and schedule listed here, but I want to highlight the role of the business unit. In my experience, this is where the majority of change, collaboration and value is generated. Unfortunately, they all have different views of the elephant. Therefore, asking them to have to interact with th “Enterprise Architecture” committee, will generally doom or slow any innovation.
The central IT management needs to form a few strict guidelines that cannot be broken. (lines between customization/custom app development, branding, security & auditing). Beyond these rules, business units should be free to customize as they see fit. Then administrators at the farm, application, site collection and web level need to have the tools for reporting, auditing and managing that gives insight and assurance to the Sharepoint infrastructure without burdening the environment with a onerous governance methodology. | <urn:uuid:e993046b-03b1-482c-976b-6a2011effb16> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.mobiusdevelopment.com/2008/10/14/sharepoint-assurance/ | 2017-06-27T22:23:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321938.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627221726-20170628001726-00457.warc.gz | en | 0.951772 | 471 |
We offer Zoner services non-stop. Each service is provided with a guarantee of availability at contract level and sanctions in case of the service availability dropping below guaranteed level.
Gauging of availability is provided by a Zoner software monitoring system. The availability of services is constantly checked.
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Landscape Maintenance Contractors In Teaneck NJ
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Your Brain on SLEEP!
Sleep is, for many, the ultimate neuro-hack. But even with all the sleep optimization tools available, quality Zzz's remain a challenge for many. Almost half of all Americans say they feel sleepy during the day and 35.2% of all adults in the U.S. report sleeping on average for less than 7 hours per night.
Getting a good night’s sleep requires timing and precision of what to release, where in the brain to release it, and when to release it. In a nutshell: sleep isn’t simple. It’s a complex ensemble of multiple interacting molecules and pathways that are dependent on circadian rhythms and is strongly influenced by our behaviours, thoughts, and environment.
The good news is that the brain can effectively regulate all of these different factors with the right support. But in order to support the sleep process, we must first understand the neuroscience of sleep.
SLEEP 101: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF SLEEP
Sleep is a regulated process. The things that are most essential for survival and reproduction—activity, appetite, circadian rhythms, sex, temperature, thirst—are all controlled in a small part of the brain called the hypothalamus. The self-regulation of sleep means we don’t get to decide how much sleep we need — It is decided for us.
Sleep researchers use the “Two-Process Model Of Sleep Regulation” as a way to think about how the need for sleep builds during the day. The longer we have been awake, the greater the need to sleep becomes. This is called “homeostatic sleep drive” or “sleep load.” A circadian wake drive (sometimes called clock-dependent alerting) counters the growing physiological drive to sleep, allowing us to stay awake and alert until bedtime.
The stress system plays a large role in sleep, with the quality of sleep being influenced by stress and the hormones and messenger molecules we make in response (e.g., cortisol, epinephrine, norepinephrine). GABA (full name, gamma-aminobutyric acid) signalling is also very involved in sleep. GABA reduces neuronal excitability throughout the brain. It is important for promoting calmness and relaxation, decreasing stress, and inducing sleep.
When we do go to sleep, it is a time of work. While we are asleep, consciously unaware of our surroundings, the brain and body have lots of important jobs to do. Clean-up, detoxification, recovery, regeneration, and repair tasks are night jobs. Memory consolidation and dreaming also occur at night; they require brain work. This work, just like work during the day, takes cellular energy. The mitochondrial networks within cells that make this energy play an important, and overlooked role in sleep.
One of the main priorities of the brain is to keep us safe, which is also work. This is a good thing, because, as the character, Melisandre from the Game of Thrones says, “The night is dark and full of terrors.” Hearing remains active during sleep. It’s for this safety reason that the brain will be more active in an unfamiliar environment (this is called the first-night effect and occurs commonly in a new hotel room) and less so when we are in an environment it has learned is safe, like our own bedroom.
And lastly, sleep is not a uniform state. There’s non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM or dreaming sleep). Within NREM there are different stages, with deep sleep being the most restorative (and the hardest to get enough of). The neurotransmitters needed to optimize one, can interfere with the other.
THE ROLE OF MELATONIN AND LIGHTING IN SLEEP REGULATION
Melatonin is the key darkness time-keeping molecule humans use for signalling it's time for sleep. When there’s a large enough build up of “sleep load”, it only takes a little easing off of the “wake drive” for sleep to occur naturally. This easing-off is signalled by the natural nighttime increase in melatonin. In a simplified sense, the surge in melatonin tells the brain now's the time to finally experience the sleep load that's accumulated throughout the day.
While melatonin is often thought of, and typically described, as a sleep hormone, it is a darkness hormone—it’s produced at night in animals that sleep at night (like us) or are active at night (like many big cats and rodents). Instead of being a sleep-inducer, melatonin plays a vital time-keeping role, synchronizing sleep-wake cycles with other parts of physiology and with our environment.
Most of us achieve the best sleep results when our sleep and wake drives are synchronized to the sun's schedule, which is why lighting plays such a large role in sleep-wake rhythms. The most obvious circadian rhythm is the one that induces sleep at night, wakes us in the morning and keeps you alert and active during the day. This rhythm is strongly influenced by light and darkness. Nighttime bright light exposure, especially to certain colors (e.g., blue light) can interfere with the sleep-wake activity rhythm, suppressing melatonin production and keeping you up longer.
At Haven, we believe that achieving restorative sleep is far more than just taking sleep-inducing herbs before bed, hitting the GABA brake hard a bit before bedtime, or a dose of melatonin many times higher than what our brain naturally makes. Sleep that restores is the result of comprehensive support of the molecules and pathways that are involved in stress, relaxation, sleep load and circadian sleep-wake rhythms.
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During his recent appearance on HBO’s The Shop, Tom Brady weighed in on quite a few topics.
One of those topics was in regards to whether or not a football player could ever be considered the GOAT (Greatest of all time).
The reason for Brady sharing his thoughts on that subject is because LeBron James once said that an NFL player can never be considered the GOAT because they only play on one side of the ball.
As you will see by his response, Brady took the high road.
“I’m not a big comparison thing like that and it’s because really it just depends what style you like,” Brady said, via NFL.com. “You could say, well, you’re maybe the most accomplished. I would say, OK, yeah, I’ve won a lot of games, Super Bowls and so forth. But my style of play might not fit everybody else’s, what their view of what that position should be. I can really just be the best with the body that I was given.
“There’s certain things that I certainly cannot do. And I have the awareness to realize, OK, I can’t do those things. You can’t do everyone else’s job. I can’t block, tackle, run, catch. I sure as hell can’t run. But I can throw the (expletive) out of the ball. So let me just do that, and let me do that really well. And if I can do that, then the team certainly can use me for that.”
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More than 700,000 new cases of cancer worldwide in 2020 were attributable to alcohol consumption, according to a population-based modeling study.
Men accounted for about three-quarters of these cancer cases, which most commonly affected the esophagus and liver, reported Harriet Rumgay, BSc, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer's Cancer Surveillance Branch in Lyon, France, and colleagues.
And while heavy drinking patterns contributed most to these alcohol-related cancer cases, "we estimate that light to moderate drinking of the equivalent of around one or two alcoholic drinks per day was accountable for more than 100,000 cases of cancer in 2020," wrote Rumgay and her colleagues in an article in The Lancet Oncology.
Even drinking 10 grams daily contributed 41,300 new cases of cancer in 2020.
As pointed out by the authors, alcohol is causally linked to multiple cancers, including cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colon, rectum, liver, and breast – cancers that accounted for 6.3 million cancer cases, and 3.3 million deaths globally in 2020.
In their study, the authors established levels of alcohol intake per person, per country, using 2010 data from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health (assuming a 10-year latency period between alcohol consumption and cancer development), and combined them with new cancer cases in 2020 to estimate the number of alcohol-associated cancers in each country.
Estimates for alcohol intake were based on data including alcohol production, tax and sales data, surveys, and tourist alcohol consumption. Rumgay and her colleagues then converted alcohol consumption estimates to the amount of alcohol consumed per day.
Rumgay and colleagues calculated that globally, there were an estimated 741,300 cases of new cancers (4.1%) that could be attributed to alcohol consumption in 2020, with males accounting for 76.7% of these cases.
Cancers attributed to alcohol included:
- Esophageal (189,000 cases)
- Liver (154,000)
- Breast (98,300)
- Colon (91,500)
- Rectal (65,100)
- Pharyngeal (39,400)
- Laryngeal (27,600)
The regions with the highest proportions of cancer cases that could be attributed to alcohol were Eastern Asia (5.7%) and Central and Eastern Europe (5.6%), while North Africa (0.3%) and Western Asia (0.7%) had the lowest proportion.
When separated into drinking categories the authors estimated that moderate drinking (up to 20 g/day -- the equivalent of 1 to 2 drinks) contributed 103,100 (13.9%) new cases of cancer, while risky drinking (20-60 g/day -- equivalent to 2 to 6 drinks) contributed 291,800 (39.4%) new cases and heavy drinking (>60 g/day -- equivalent to >6 drinks) contributed 346,400 (46.7%) new cases.
The authors noted that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic should be taken into account when considering health outcomes in 2020.
"The cancer incidence estimates for 2020 used in our study do not account for changes in the reporting of cancer due to disruptions caused by health systems closures and the concerns of individuals, among other reasons," wrote Rumgay and her colleagues. They also pointed out that the pandemic might have affected drinking patterns, as was suggested by a study showing an increase in binge drinking in the U.K.
Rumgay and her colleagues also observed that, with the link between alcohol consumption and economic development, an increase in alcohol consumption is projected in countries such as China and India.
"With increases in alcohol consumption predicted until at least 2030 in several world regions, action must be taken to reduce the avoidable burden of cancer attributable to alcohol," they urged.
In a commentary accompanying the study, Amy C. Justice, MD, PhD, of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, wrote that understanding the burden of cancer associated with alcohol use and how best to intervene is limited by an inability to get accurate measures of alcohol exposure.
For example, she noted that relying on commercial sales is problematic because a quarter of consumption occurs outside government-controlled channels. And self-report surveys underestimate alcohol use among heavy drinkers and persons with health conditions that are exacerbated by alcohol, such as HIV and hepatitis C infection.
"Unless we address limitations in measurement, we might be underestimating health risks, especially cancer risks, associated with alcohol," she wrote. "This might be especially true among individuals who are most vulnerable. The sooner we start accurately measuring alcohol exposure, the sooner we can understand the true excess burden of cancer attributable to alcohol, and effectively intervene."
Rumgay had no disclosures.
Co-authors had no disclosures.
Justice had no disclosures.
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A Little Wake-up Call
by depressedchildren reviews
After waking up from a horrible dream Sakura's life takes a turn for the...well something? She only hopes it will be good and will end better than her dream suggests her life will. The secret family trade is hers to learn, and in the process she will become a stronger kunoichi. Sometimes all it takes is a little wake up call. Warning: strong language, no pairings decided or planned
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 45 - Words: 379,233 - Reviews: 653 - Favs: 1,103 - Follows: 1,264 - Updated: 1/23 - Published: 7/7/2013 - Sakura H., Team Seven
by True Radical Dreamer reviews
Blind loyalty is simple. The problem only begins when the world makes you open your eyes. Sakura-centric, AU, pre-timeskip.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 27 - Words: 182,032 - Reviews: 932 - Favs: 1,184 - Follows: 1,351 - Updated: 12/17/2016 - Published: 8/19/2009 - Sakura H.
by RhiannanT reviews
Book two in the Outcast's Alley series. Having accepted his place in the Court, Tobias must learn how to fulfill it, as well as handle new revelations about his parentage.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 3 - Words: 15,706 - Reviews: 516 - Favs: 1,399 - Follows: 1,633 - Updated: 12/11/2016 - Published: 9/23/2010 - Harry P.
Against the Odds
by PolarPanther reviews
Magic was not the only secret hidden in Harry's ancestry. With nothing more than an old clue and a desperate wish, Harry travels through unfamiliar places and braves unknown danger to find his family.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Naruto - Rated: T - English - Family/Friendship - Chapters: 15 - Words: 136,575 - Reviews: 1984 - Favs: 5,073 - Follows: 5,981 - Updated: 11/25/2016 - Published: 9/12/2009 - Harry P., Naruto U.
Life in Reverse
by Min Daae reviews
Home is where you make it. Or, the AU where Loki falls to Earth after Thor, wanders around trying to work out what to do with himself, and somehow ends up working for SHIELD. Mostly because supervillains are so plebian.
Thor - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 26 - Words: 130,665 - Reviews: 806 - Favs: 1,957 - Follows: 2,215 - Updated: 9/5/2016 - Published: 8/3/2012 - Loki
Cerulean Silver vs Amber Gold
by hikaranko reviews
Edward Elric has been put on his stupidest assignment yet: babysitting. Everyone else calls it undercover work. To Ed, it's babysitting. But there's more to this assignment than what's on file... FMAHP crossover, DxHr. please review! Chapter 41 FINALLY UP. CURRENTLY BEING REPOSTED WITH EDITS TO AO3
Crossover - Harry Potter & Fullmetal Alchemist - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 42 - Words: 263,388 - Reviews: 2102 - Favs: 1,562 - Follows: 1,428 - Updated: 8/30/2016 - Published: 3/20/2006 - Hermione G., Draco M., Alphonse E., Edward E.
by Annerb reviews
Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why. In-progress.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 6 - Words: 137,457 - Reviews: 182 - Favs: 715 - Follows: 850 - Updated: 5/29/2016 - Published: 4/19/2011 - Ginny W.
Applied Cultural Anthropology, or
by jacobk reviews
... How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus. Albus Dumbledore always worried about the parallels between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. But let's be honest, Harry never really had the drive to be the next dark lord. Of course, things may have turned out quite differently if one of the other muggle-raised Gryffindors wound up in Slytherin instead.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 18 - Words: 162,375 - Reviews: 2701 - Favs: 4,452 - Follows: 5,711 - Updated: 4/27/2016 - Published: 4/26/2013 - Hermione G., Severus S.
Harry & the Mysterious Curse of the GirlWhoLived
by Lord Jeram reviews
Harry always knew that there was something unique about him. In a way, the arrival of the Hogwarts acceptance letters was almost expected... except, why are they all addressed to 'Harriet Potter?
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 17 - Words: 134,880 - Reviews: 752 - Favs: 1,683 - Follows: 2,299 - Updated: 3/3/2016 - Published: 9/22/2010 - Harry P.
by Solaris242 reviews
Humanity never developed FTL. The Prothean archives contained no technology, no Element Zero, just a warning. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy for two thousand years, restricted to their only system, how will humanity have changed when they first meet the Turians? AU, alternate history of humanity and First Contact.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 18 - Words: 40,604 - Reviews: 1877 - Favs: 5,319 - Follows: 6,280 - Updated: 3/1/2016 - Published: 5/7/2013
by Black Dragon Queen reviews
SLASH! MPREG An injured Barricade goes to Sam with an odd request-a truce between himself and the Autobots. But with the other Autobots inbound what will happen to our favorite interceptor? - NC17 Version on LJ, AFFnet & AO3! '07 Movie verse ONLY. This was started before the sequential movies so this is not compatible to either RotF/DotM/AoE.
Transformers - Rated: M - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 200 - Words: 868,527 - Reviews: 4806 - Favs: 1,394 - Follows: 1,195 - Updated: 2/11/2016 - Published: 3/3/2008 - Barricade, Bumblebee, Sam W.
by DeGlace reviews
One grinning shark–man. One pink–haired medic. Ankles. Teeth. Kisame x Sakura. Yes, you read that right.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 26 - Words: 70,111 - Reviews: 1084 - Favs: 1,513 - Follows: 1,073 - Updated: 12/23/2015 - Published: 7/9/2006 - [Kisame H., Sakura H.] - Complete
The Daddy Thing
by Ruinous Crow reviews
Kushina's early demise changes everything. Who said that mothers were more important than fathers?
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 12 - Words: 101,260 - Reviews: 735 - Favs: 3,149 - Follows: 2,478 - Updated: 9/19/2015 - Published: 1/28/2012 - Naruto U., Minato N. - Complete
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
by Less Wrong reviews
Petunia married a biochemist, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter, and a world of intriguing new possibilities to exploit. And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Professor McGonagall, and Professor Quirrell... COMPLETE.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 122 - Words: 661,619 - Reviews: 32882 - Favs: 20,144 - Follows: 16,086 - Updated: 3/14/2015 - Published: 2/28/2010 - Harry P., Hermione G. - Complete
by Silver Queen reviews
Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you don't.
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 25,491 - Reviews: 942 - Favs: 2,268 - Follows: 1,985 - Updated: 12/25/2014 - Published: 12/7/2012
In The Blood
by justplainrii reviews
Almost 30 years after the end of the war, Sasuke discovers that a clone was made of his brother. He doesn't handle it well. Especially when other clones begin to surface, and all signs point to an old foe being responsible. A mystery.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 174 - Words: 803,477 - Reviews: 1044 - Favs: 432 - Follows: 314 - Updated: 11/13/2014 - Published: 8/4/2010 - Naruto U., Sasuke U., Ino Y., Karin U. - Complete
Forging the Sword
by Myst Shadow reviews
::Year 2 Divergence:: What does it take, to reshape a child? And if reshaped, what then is formed? Down in the Chamber, a choice is made. (Harry's Gryffindor traits were always so much scarier than other peoples'.)
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 15 - Words: 152,578 - Reviews: 3057 - Favs: 7,421 - Follows: 9,019 - Updated: 8/19/2014 - Published: 5/26/2007 - Harry P., Ron W., Hermione G.
by The Antic Repartee reviews
Hiccup didn't see the point in stopping Astrid as she ran off towards his village—towards his father—with his most desperately protected secret. He was leaving anyway. A coming-of-age tale. Deviates from movie. Borderline bromantic-comedy.
How to Train Your Dragon - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 40 - Words: 308,130 - Reviews: 4571 - Favs: 7,402 - Follows: 3,168 - Updated: 6/12/2014 - Published: 9/12/2010 - Astrid, Hiccup, Toothless, Gothi - Complete
by Vathara reviews
Dragon's fire is not so easily extinguished; when Zuko rediscovers a lost firebending technique, shifting flames can shift the world... Follows "Theft Absolute".
Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Family - Chapters: 91 - Words: 757,722 - Reviews: 8548 - Favs: 5,690 - Follows: 3,280 - Updated: 1/18/2014 - Published: 9/24/2009 - Zuko, Iroh - Complete
by Tajjas reviews
The Sky People's technology helps to save Tsu'tey after the battle, but he isn't quite sure what to think of the broken Sky Person in the wheeled chair that keeps coming to visit him while he's recovering. Friendship fic, AU for obvious reasons.
Avatar - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 37 - Words: 126,966 - Reviews: 722 - Favs: 1,270 - Follows: 1,279 - Updated: 1/7/2014 - Published: 4/29/2010 - Tsu'tey, Jake S.
Hermione Granger and the Great Idea
by Mnsk reviews
To eleven-year old child genius Hermione Granger, the Wizarding World is ancient and almost incomphrehensible. Can she really leave her advanced muggle knowledge behind? Not a chance. With one idea, she sets out to change the world. (Written a long time ago, and now discontinued. I just like to look back on it sometimes).
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 12 - Words: 56,679 - Reviews: 158 - Favs: 238 - Follows: 346 - Updated: 10/16/2013 - Published: 10/18/2012 - Hermione G.
World in Pieces
by Lomonaaeren reviews
AU after the last chapter of DH. Harry gets pulled into another universe to deal with the problem of Voldemort there. But that is not the worst thing that could happen. Mostly gen, with Snape mentoring Harry. COMPLETE.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Angst/Adventure - Chapters: 25 - Words: 172,078 - Reviews: 1745 - Favs: 3,457 - Follows: 2,535 - Updated: 9/26/2013 - Published: 2/9/2011 - Harry P., Severus S. - Complete
Feathers, Fangs and Flames
by Nauro reviews
Harry gets bitten by Lupin in third year. Now he questions himself and his life and struggles against his inner wolf. It's Harry finding support from both Cho and Ginny, questioning if anything good can happen for him. Fighting for the truth, himself, and those dearest to him, Harry wants to see Cho and Ginny safe. Werewolf's life is never simple.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 50 - Words: 207,304 - Reviews: 372 - Favs: 505 - Follows: 568 - Updated: 7/30/2013 - Published: 10/17/2011 - Harry P., Cho C.
Five Kingdoms for the Dead
by Evil Is A Relative Term reviews
After the Forest of Death, Sakura comes to realize that being weak is no longer an option. However, she finds that change is sometimes painful and that truth doesn't always come easy. Luckily, she'll have some help along the way.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 41 - Words: 220,628 - Reviews: 3397 - Favs: 3,757 - Follows: 1,910 - Updated: 5/31/2013 - Published: 9/18/2008 - Sakura H., Neji H., Itachi U., Sai - Complete
by Mnsk reviews
In which muggleborn Hermione Granger ponders the (lack of) physics in the Wizarding World, and exasperates many Wizards in the process.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,825 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 63 - Follows: 47 - Updated: 5/11/2013 - Published: 1/12/2013 - Hermione G., Harry P. - Complete
by Animus of Masada reviews
An asari exploration vessel discovers Earth in the 2030's...and the first contact scenario has incredible implications for both species. What does humanity look like through alien eyes? Where do they go from here? /-AU: no Reapers, completely disconnected from the plot of the games, but mostly faithful to the setting. Told from many points of view.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 16 - Words: 51,333 - Reviews: 1263 - Favs: 2,480 - Follows: 2,580 - Updated: 4/10/2013 - Published: 8/12/2011
by PennyOfTheWild reviews
[there is an art to falling apart.] Their village is built on blood and tears. Founders. Tobirama narrates. Not 625 compliant.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,895 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 43 - Follows: 8 - Published: 3/27/2013 - Madara U., Hashirama S., Tobirama S. - Complete
Ashes to Ashes
by The Wacky Wannabe Writer reviews
What if the wonderfully coincidental meeting at the Dragon Jasmine never happened? Alone, forced to assume the role of the faceless Lee in the occupied Ba Sing Se, Zuko struggles to protect his newfound allies against the ruthless Fire Nation.
Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: M - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 34 - Words: 273,567 - Reviews: 672 - Favs: 614 - Follows: 664 - Updated: 1/10/2013 - Published: 2/26/2009 - Zuko, Jin
Dirty Old Men
by Crimson Siyrean reviews
After being forced to take seduction classes, the girls decide to take revenge on the opposite sex by showing them just what they've learned about using their feminine wiles. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long to realize that perhaps they've bitten off a bit more than they could chew when getting involved with an older man. Large Ensemble Cast Genma/Hinata Kakashi/Tenten main
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 38 - Words: 152,410 - Reviews: 1501 - Favs: 1,026 - Follows: 1,074 - Updated: 10/10/2012 - Published: 4/12/2009 - Kakashi H., Tenten, Hinata H., Genma S.
The Disillusionment of Draco Malfoy
by Little Witch1 reviews
...and His Accomplice Hermione Granger. DH AU. Short chapters. Two people, dissatisfied with their roles in the war, decide to make a change.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 34 - Words: 30,888 - Reviews: 227 - Favs: 200 - Follows: 312 - Updated: 8/6/2012 - Published: 9/22/2010 - Draco M., Hermione G.
Naruto: Myoushuu no Fuuin
by May Wren reviews
A seal had managed to defeat and imprison the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the strongest demon to ever exist. It was just ink on paper-or a stomach, as the case may be-and it held so much power… 'Yeah,' Naruto decided 'I gotta get me some of that.'
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 9 - Words: 92,529 - Reviews: 4348 - Favs: 13,252 - Follows: 12,280 - Updated: 7/16/2012 - Published: 1/28/2011 - Naruto U.
The Lives Worth Saving
by cywsaphyre reviews
Naruto, at 26, has lived through 10 years of war. At the end, with nothing left to call home, he sends himself back to the beginning, to the day of his younger self's graduation, in an attempt to change it all. Time travel AU.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 8 - Words: 133,545 - Reviews: 3703 - Favs: 11,363 - Follows: 10,933 - Updated: 5/6/2012 - Published: 2/3/2012 - Naruto U.
by Deborah Peters reviews
In 1998, Severus Snape was given a second chance. In 1976, he has to figure out how to take it.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 21 - Words: 94,312 - Reviews: 1055 - Favs: 1,517 - Follows: 1,622 - Updated: 9/28/2011 - Published: 9/7/2010 - Severus S., Lily Evans P.
Of All Things Slytherin
by Meow-Mix-91 reviews
"The nerve of the little chit to dare aim a wand at him; he would make sure she paid dearly for such impertinent displays. His ego would not allow such transgressions to go unpunished...She really couldn't be more -sickeningly- Gryffindor."
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 19 - Words: 77,183 - Reviews: 574 - Favs: 643 - Follows: 814 - Updated: 5/29/2011 - Published: 7/7/2007 - Salazar S., Hermione G.
He Said, She Said
by AK-47 reviews
What would have happened if Aang hadn't recovered Katara's necklace?
Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 11,939 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 31 - Updated: 4/17/2011 - Published: 2/26/2011 - Katara, Zuko
Broomsticks and Shuriken
by Lady Red 88 reviews
Things go a little bit crazy when the minds of Uchiha Sasuke and Harry Potter are accidently switched. Evading Orochimaru is the least of Harry's problems. Boggarts? Sasuke doesn't even know the half of it. 5th Year. R & R if you please. REVISED 29/10/11
Crossover - Harry Potter & Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 10 - Words: 57,450 - Reviews: 340 - Favs: 541 - Follows: 732 - Updated: 3/28/2011 - Published: 11/28/2008 - Harry P., Sasuke U.
Dragons in the Sun
by donahermurphy reviews
Fire Lord Ozai favors a more permanent solution to the problem of Zuko, and the spirits disagree.
Avatar: Last Airbender - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 3 - Words: 7,799 - Reviews: 394 - Favs: 1,321 - Follows: 1,576 - Updated: 3/8/2011 - Published: 12/15/2010 - Zuko
All Hail The Hokage
by hewhoistomriddle reviews
What do old soldiers do when the war ends? Hashirama, Madara, Mito.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,491 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 51 - Follows: 10 - Published: 3/1/2011 - Hashirama S., Madara U. - Complete
Who’s Afraid of the Dentists’ Daughter?
by TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel reviews
Muggleborn Hermione Granger is sorted into Slytherin, but after a nasty prank goes wrong and gives her red eyes, her classmates become convinced that she’s the Dark Lord’s heir.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,620 - Reviews: 587 - Favs: 1,732 - Follows: 2,079 - Updated: 2/15/2011 - Published: 2/22/2010 - Hermione G.
The Not So Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
by Oy Angelina reviews
An alternate take on what could have been if Eclipse ended a little differently for Bree Tanner and what she might have done with her new lease on life. Features the Cullens, the Volturi, the La Push Pack and many other favorites from the Twilight Saga
Twilight - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Drama - Chapters: 13 - Words: 64,455 - Reviews: 729 - Favs: 525 - Follows: 516 - Updated: 2/9/2011 - Published: 6/7/2010 - Bree, Alec
Playing with Evil
by R.G. Waffles reviews
Canon/ Slight AU - After one change causes Team 7's teamwork to deteriorate completely, Kakashi thinks it's about time he adjusts his training tactics. A story about overcoming disabilities, fixing friendships, and discovering relationships.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Drama/Friendship - Chapters: 14 - Words: 119,751 - Reviews: 261 - Favs: 191 - Follows: 116 - Updated: 12/10/2010 - Published: 1/17/2010 - Complete
by Random One-Shot reviews
A knight is not soon parted from her princess. Mostly Tatsuki's POV. AU after episode 13.
Bleach - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 15 - Words: 69,651 - Reviews: 227 - Favs: 350 - Follows: 360 - Updated: 11/14/2010 - Published: 5/29/2007 - Tatsuki A.
The Strange Disappearance of SallyAnne Perks
by Paimpont reviews
Harry recalls that a pale little girl called Sally-Anne was sorted into Hufflepuff during his first year, but no one else remembers her. Was there really a Sally-Anne? Harry and Hermione set out to solve the chilling mystery of the lost Hogwarts student.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 11 - Words: 36,835 - Reviews: 1561 - Favs: 3,713 - Follows: 1,201 - Updated: 10/8/2010 - Published: 8/16/2010 - Harry P., Hermione G. - Complete
Harry Potter and teh Sparkly Hufflepuff
by kmfrank reviews
What started as DLP being our typical internet tough guy selves on some new member's terribad story about some wolves no one gives a f*ck about has turned into a legendary crackfic.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Twilight - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 13 - Words: 16,515 - Reviews: 31 - Favs: 74 - Follows: 43 - Updated: 9/18/2010 - Published: 8/22/2010 - Harry P., Edward - Complete
These Are All Things You Don't Understand
by Novocain reviews
Prostitution and assassination and the way of the shinobi are for Kakashi, and firsts and lasts and middles will never involve those nimble hands or chapped lips stretching in a bright, happy smile against his hip. There is no other choice, Sandaime says.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 13 - Words: 40,504 - Reviews: 437 - Favs: 514 - Follows: 527 - Updated: 8/17/2010 - Published: 4/7/2008 - Kakashi H., Minato N.
by nimblnymph reviews
Seduction is like a double edged sword. You never know when you'll go from being the seducer to being the seduced. KakaSaku
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 27 - Words: 347,047 - Reviews: 1846 - Favs: 2,513 - Follows: 1,142 - Updated: 8/9/2010 - Published: 6/10/2008 - Kakashi H., Sakura H. - Complete
Take It or Leave It
by kc-archive reviews
Akatsuki & Sakura. After a moment of shock, Sakura realized that two fully grown, fully naked men were sitting squished uncomfortably together in her bathtub.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 14 - Words: 79,648 - Reviews: 2486 - Favs: 2,926 - Follows: 1,727 - Updated: 8/8/2010 - Published: 6/21/2007 - Akatsuki, Sakura H. - Complete
Her Secret Santas
by SpeedDemon315 reviews
AU This just goes to show how far Secret Santa can get out of control and yet could possibly lead to a serious romance. Oneshot. For Vesper chan’s Christmas challenge. /Orochimaru x Sakura x Hidan\
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,057 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 57 - Follows: 9 - Published: 12/21/2009 - Orochimaru, Sakura H. - Complete
The Tshirt incident: Retaliation & Escalation
by Pika-la-Cynique reviews
Sequel to 'the T-shirt Incident' fic and the 'Jareth's Tshirt' pic. Goading the Goblin King into a twitching fury is the sort of dangerous idea that can get a girl into very, very hot water indeed... Utterly JxS. EDIT 11-08: PART DEUX begins at last!
Labyrinth - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 11 - Words: 57,550 - Reviews: 785 - Favs: 1,173 - Follows: 906 - Updated: 12/20/2009 - Published: 5/30/2007
Voyeurism At It's Worst
by CayshaGriffin reviews
I didn't mean to see Batman and the Joker kissing, it just happened! Batman/Joker slash, slight OC voyeurism. Enjoy!
Batman Begins/Dark Knight - Rated: T - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 9 - Words: 13,348 - Reviews: 143 - Favs: 94 - Follows: 95 - Updated: 11/7/2009 - Published: 10/25/2008
by Warriora reviews
Sasuke wants revenge. Naruto wants his friend back. Dumbledore has the solution. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura travel to Hogwarts to protect Harry while Dumbledore, Akatsuki, and Voldemort conspire in the background. Shippuuden, Half-Blood Prince.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 12 - Words: 70,586 - Reviews: 522 - Favs: 590 - Follows: 598 - Updated: 10/19/2009 - Published: 7/23/2009 - Harry P., Naruto U.
Across Dimensions: Parting Reality's Veil
by Taliath reviews
AU/AD. Namikaze Naruto has led a charmed life under the protection of the Fourth Hokage. But now, after sacrificing himself for his home, he finds himself waking up in an entirely new world, surrounded by a village that despises him.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 9 - Words: 63,392 - Reviews: 1955 - Favs: 2,848 - Follows: 3,022 - Updated: 9/27/2009 - Published: 5/25/2008 - Naruto U., Jiraiya
by Dens Serpentis reviews
7th year fic. Hogwarts is the safest place in the Wizarding World. What happens when its teachers are struck down and it's separated from the rest of the world, leaving the students to fend for themselves? No slash, pairings undecided. No HBP or DH.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 6 - Words: 27,262 - Reviews: 340 - Favs: 641 - Follows: 743 - Updated: 1/23/2009 - Published: 3/24/2005 - Harry P.
by Cyprith reviews
Eventually, something had to break. A fun Sarah/Jareth 100-prompt table.
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 48 - Words: 5,277 - Reviews: 274 - Favs: 207 - Follows: 211 - Updated: 12/17/2008 - Published: 9/6/2008 - Jareth, Sarah
A Stab in the Dark
by Sparkly-elf reviews
Jerusalem is dangerous, her husband warned her. But she thought she was strong, independent, and she soon found out how terribly wrong she could be.
Assassin's Creed - Rated: M - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 11 - Words: 55,208 - Reviews: 268 - Favs: 217 - Follows: 178 - Updated: 10/4/2008 - Published: 1/7/2008
What is Right: Year One
by Emma Lipardi reviews
Harry finds himself making a decision to give it all up just to change what has happened. What he doesn't realize is that he gets a second chance to set it right.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 19 - Words: 87,258 - Reviews: 3607 - Favs: 6,284 - Follows: 3,784 - Updated: 10/2/2008 - Published: 1/30/2006 - Complete
The League Of Truly Extraordinary Gentlemen
by VioTanequil reviews
They say criminals are unsuccessful psychopaths while businessmen are successful psychopaths. Someone out there deemed that wrong and hired a psychologist to prove that the Gotei 13 Captains are the successful psychopaths. And they just might be right.
Bleach - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 5,274 - Reviews: 43 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 33 - Updated: 8/22/2008 - Published: 6/22/2008
Skywarp's Transformers Drinking Game
by Dreamchylde reviews
Our favorite immature Decepticon prankster has devised his own drinking game. Heavy emphasis on 'his' drinking game. Charmingly puerile with Skywarp's unique ability to twist anything to the Nth degree of vulgarity. Rated T. Not for the faint of spark.
Transformers/Beast Wars - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,581 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 57 - Follows: 2 - Published: 8/20/2008 - Complete
by Dreaming of Everything reviews
--Gen, OC, 1st person-- I expected to live an ordinary life: I was wrong. I was kidnapped, captured, by Decepticons. They needed a human hostage. I knew I was going to die. I didn't know when. And I lived with that... It changes you. This is my story.
Transformers - Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19,232 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 95 - Follows: 17 - Published: 6/30/2008 - Complete
Wolf in Sheep's Clothes
by Jack of All Suits reviews
The threat of the Sands of Time has faded; or has it? The Dark Prince has fallen back into Babylon, and as the two princes are forced to work together, will they find the Sands still hold sway in the world? -Ch. 2 edited-
Prince of Persia - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 12 - Words: 28,062 - Reviews: 107 - Favs: 34 - Follows: 25 - Updated: 5/25/2008 - Published: 3/24/2006
by nightDREAMERms reviews
She squeaked out, “I should wreak revenge!” Unknown to the outside world, Inner Sakura pumped her fist in the air. Hidan leant over and whispered into Kakuzu’s ear, “When you were five, did you even have a freakin’ clue to what ‘wreak revenge' meant?
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 14 - Words: 62,380 - Reviews: 157 - Favs: 92 - Follows: 107 - Updated: 4/19/2008 - Published: 7/20/2007 - Sakura H.
Mother of the Morning
by Goggleplex reviews
When Sakura turned 14 she was kidnapped by order of Orochimaru and was never seen again. Eight years later she finally escapes his lair with her life and children. All ten of them. The Haruno Clan is very, very powerful... discontinued
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Family - Chapters: 4 - Words: 12,442 - Reviews: 40 - Favs: 25 - Follows: 32 - Updated: 12/21/2007 - Published: 12/2/2007 - Sakura H.
Butterfly and Kyuubi
by Irritus185 reviews
A butterfly flaps its wings and creates a hurricane on the other side of the world. The littlest changes create the biggest differences. The seal of Kyuubi no Kitsune, altered to fit his needs, and Naruto's path takes a grand deviation. Where will it lead
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 33,012 - Reviews: 74 - Favs: 151 - Follows: 219 - Updated: 10/11/2007 - Published: 9/30/2007 - Naruto U., Kyuubi/Kurama
Shame and Fame
by ckret2 reviews
The day before Obito died, he babysat his cousin. The day after Obito died, Itachi cried for the last time. Obito had no idea how much he'd changed Itachi, and the Uchiha clan would pay the price for his good intentions. [Oneshot.]
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,708 - Reviews: 157 - Favs: 688 - Follows: 104 - Published: 5/15/2007 - Torune, Itachi U. - Complete
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The smallest change reviews
What if Tsunade hadn't accepted Sakura as her apprentice? But then, Sakura remembers, she already has a Sensei...Kakashi Hatake.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,040 - Reviews: 21 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 16 - Updated: 12/10/2008 - Published: 7/31/2008 - Sakura H., Kakashi H.
Why demons shouldn't be left unsupervised reviews
One-shot. In an attempt the tame their demons, Naruto and Gaara both give them human forms during the spring festival. But one thing leads to another, and they learn why demons shouldn't be left unsupervised, especially whilst around girls. Sakura's POV.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,049 - Reviews: 40 - Favs: 86 - Follows: 16 - Published: 8/31/2008 - Sakura H., Kyuubi/Kurama - Complete | <urn:uuid:efd50731-09c0-41f6-a0a3-30693a2084f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1123198/HolyChicken | 2017-02-20T13:31:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170562.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00159-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.856545 | 8,220 |
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can justly be expected from no other pen but that of your operose Doctor Bentley.
Let us, therefore, at present acquiesce in the dubiousness of their antiquity, and think the authority of the past and present times a sufficient plea for your patronizing, and my dedicating this poem: especially since in this age Dedications are not only fashionable, but almost necessary; and indeed they are now so much in vogue, that book without one is as seldom seen as a bawdyhouse without a Practice of Piety, or a poet with money. Upon this account, Sir, those who have no friends, dedicate to all good Christians; some to their booksellers; some, for want of a sublunary patron, to the manes of a departed one. There are, that have dedicated to their whores : God help those hen-pecked writers that have been forced to dedicate to their own wives! But while I talk so much of other men's patrons I have forgot my own; and seem rather to make an essay on Dedications, than to write one. However, Sir, I presume you will pardon me for that fault; and perhaps, like me, the better for saying nothing to the purpose.
You, Sir, are a person more tender of other men's reputation than your own, and would hear every body commended but yourself. Should I but mention
your skill in turning, and the compassion you showed to my fingers' ends when you gave me a tobacco-stopper, you would blush, and be confounded with your just praises. How much more would you, should I tell you what a progress you have made in that abstruse and useful language the Saxon? Since, therefore, the
recital of your excellences would prove so trovblesome, I shall offend your modesty no longer. Give me leave to speak a word or two concerning the poem, and I have done. This poem, Sir, if we consider the moral, the newness of the subject, the variety of images, and the exactness of the similitudes that compose it, must be allowed a piece that was never equalled by the moderns or ancients. The subject of the poem is myself, a subject never yet handed by any poet. How fit to be handled by all, we may learn by those few divine commendatory verses written by the admirable Monsieur le Bog.
Yet since I am the subject and the poet too, I shall say no more of it, lest I should seem vainglorious. As for the moral I have taken particular care that it should lie incognity, not like the ancients, who let you know at first sight they design something by their verses. may look a good while, and, perhaps, after all, find that the poet has no aim or design, which must needs be a diverting sùrprise to the reader. What shall I say of the similies, which are so full of geography that you must get a Welshman to understand them ? that so raise our ideas of the things they are applied to? that are so extraordinarily quaint and well chosen, that there is nothing like them? So that I think that I may, without vanity, say, Avia Pieridum peragro loca, &c. Yet, however excellent this poem is, in the reading of it you will find a vast difference between some parts and others; which proceeds not from your humble servant's negligence, but
But here you diet. This poem was begun when he had little victuals, and no money; and was finished when he had the misfortune, at a virtuous lady's house, to meet with both. But I hope, in time, Sir, when hunger and poverty shall once more be my companions, to make amends for the defaults of this poem, by an Essay on Minced Pies, which shall be devoted to you with all submission, by,
HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse
retains A Splendid Shilling! he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie, or Town Hall' repairs; Where, mindful of the nymph, whose wanton eye Transfix'd his soul, and kindled amorous flames, Chloe, or Phillis; he each circling glass Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale Or pun ambiguous, or conumdrum quaint; But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And hunger, sure attendant upon want, With scanty offals and small acid tiff (Wretched repast!) my meagre corpse sustain, Then solitary walk, or doze at home In garret vile, and with a warming puff Regale chill'd fingers, or from tube as black As winter-chimney or well-polish'd jet Exhale mundungus, ill perfuming scent ! Not blacker tube, nor of a shorter size, Smokes Cambro-Briton (versed in pedigree, Sprung from Cadwallader and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he O’er many a craggy hill and barren cliff,
1 Two noted alehouses at Oxford in 1700.
Upon a cargo of famed Cestrian cheese,
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The Micro1401-3 is a low cost, versatile data acquisition unit. The on-board processor with high speed memory is optimised for real time processing, free from the constraints of the host computer operating system. Fast and accurate sampling coupled with simultaneous output offers extensive on-line experimental control.
Fast data acquisition and analysis
The Micro3 records waveform data, digital (event) and marker information and can simultaneously generate waveform and digital outputs in real-time for multi-tasking experimental control. It features high-speed waveform capture at rates up to 500kHz with 16-bit resolution. The 32-bit RISC processor allows complex on-line analysis while freeing time for the host computer to perform other tasks, such as data manipulation and further analysis.
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Egypt is seen as showing little patience for Hamas, telling the organization it would not step in to prevent Israeli counter-attacks on the terror group.
By United With Israel Staff
Protests by Palestinians against the ruling Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip continued into the weekend. The unrest was said to be the result of the worsening economic plight of the residents, as Hamas has apparently been spending much of its resources on finding new ways of attacking Israel and less on improving the lives of its people.
An unverified video showed one of the protestors showing such great despair that he set himself on fire.
Hamas security forces were reported to be suppressing the protests.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), based in Ramallah, called on Egyptian authorities to step in to call Hamas to order and prevent any additional violent confrontations. Hamas overthrew the PA in the Gaza Strip in 2007.
The Egyptians have been working on mediating a cessation of Hamas attacks on Israel as well.
Cairo has been losing patience with Hamas, making clear to the organization, according to reports, that it would not step in to prevent Israeli counter-attacks after rockets were fired from Gaza into the Tel Aviv area and southern Israel on Thursday night and Friday morning.
The internal unrest against Hamas in Gaza lasted for three days, through Saturday.
Though no longer controlling the Gaza Strip since pulling out civilians and the IDF in 2005, Israel has provided humanitarian aid to the Strip and has worked together with the United Nations and Qatar recently to achieve this goal.
According to reports, Qatar has also been called upon to try to bring calm between the Palestinian protestors and the Hamas leadership in Gaza.
Efforts to supply economic aid to Gazans have included a plan to earmark monies towards specific projects instead of blindly providing cash, which would open the door for more finances to go for additional terror activity instead of providing social welfare assistance.
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NEW YORK - In the day and age of the pass-happy offense, few college running backs are able to climb too highly in their schools' all-time record books. With so many teams switching to west coast-type packages that rely so heavily on the aerial attack, handing the ball off to the tailback just doesn't seem to be as big of a priority as it once was.
However, for Kansas State's Daniel Thomas, nothing could be further from the truth.
Thomas, who played his final collegiate game Thursday in the Pinstripe Bowl, racked up 90 yards and three touchdowns in a 36-34 loss to Syracuse. In doing so, he moved into second place on K-State's career rushing chart behind Darren Sproles. Thomas, who finished with 2,850 yards in two seasons, entered the game ranked third, 58 yards behind quarterback Ell Roberson's mark of 2,818.
Thomas summed up his emotions in a few short words.
"It's a great feeling," he said. "We've had some great backs that have come through Kansas State. To be No. 2 in such a short period of time, it's a great feeling. I feel like now I can just sit back and enjoy those accomplishments now that the season is over with."
On his first carry, the Wildcats' second play from scrimmage, Thomas broke free along the left side and went 51 yards for a score. By the end of the first half, he sat alone in second place. His total of 2,850 yards trails only Sproles' 4,979 yards amassed from 2001-04.
Thomas wasn't done leaving his mark, as he scored twice more in the contest to push his season touchdown total to 19. That's good for the second highest total in a single season, trailing the 20 scores posted by Mack Herron in 1969.
By scoring three times, Thomas moved past the previous second-best mark of 17 scores, which was achieved by Sproles in 2002 and quarterback Jonathan Beasley — now an offensive graduate assistant on the K-State coaching staff — in 2000. He crossed the goal line 30 times in his Wildcat career, which is fourth on the team's all-time list.
With hopes of the NFL now on the horizon, Thomas took a few minutes to reflect on his brief career in Manhattan. So, with his name now cemented in the top-five of several rushing categories, what will one of K-State's best-ever running backs miss the most about the Little Apple?
"Just running out of the tunnel on Saturdays at Bill Snyder Family Stadium," he said. "That's really the main thing. (I'll miss) the fans we have and playing in front of the fans."
Though he may not be a part of next year's squad, Thomas also had plenty of good things to say about the immediate future of the program and said fans should be in for a fun season, particularly because of his potential successor in the backfield.
"They're going to be a better team next year," Thomas said. "They've got a running back that's going to be there, Bryce Brown. He's going to be real good, so they should get ready to watch him play as well." | <urn:uuid:69607522-afb7-4bdc-ab77-4fa1af6747c4> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://cjonline.com/sports/football/2010-12-30/thomas_2nd_in_career_rushing | 2015-08-31T17:52:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644066275.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025426-00186-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986294 | 671 |
WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in Webster, N.Y., say the man who lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and “do what I like doing best, killing people.”
Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that the man’s sister hasn’t been found yet. He said 62-year-old ex-convict William Spengler armed himself with three weapons and set his house afire to lure first responders into a death trap.
Two firefighters were shot dead and two others are hospitalized. Spengler killed himself as seven houses burned around him Monday. | <urn:uuid:374612cc-a996-4144-b639-7fa3a1a20a25> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/25/man-who-shot-firefighters-left-note-saying-he-wanted-to-do-what-i-like-doing-best-killing-people/ | 2017-06-24T10:36:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00461.warc.gz | en | 0.980507 | 147 |
Briefs: Bosman to play softball at MSOE
Bosman to play
softball at MSOE
Sturgeon Bay High School senior Alyse Bosman is planning to play softball at Milwaukee School of Engineering next school year.
Bosman batted .303 with 23 hits and 23 runs scored in 25 regular-season games for the Clippers. She had six doubles, one triple and one home run.
Bosman played catcher this season and threw out seven runners on attempted steals. She was a three-year starter for the Clippers.
MSOE competes in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference and at the NCAA Division III level.
college track award
Carleton College junior Amelia Campbell of Sturgeon Bay was chosen Central Region Field Athlete of the Year for the NCAA Division III track and field outdoor season.
It’s the second consecutive year that Campbell has won the award.
Campbell won the heptathlon, placed second in the long jump and fifth in the javelin at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference meet.
Still time to register for
Crossroads Trail Run
The sixth annual Crossroads Trail Run is scheduled for June 20 at Crossroads at Big Creek Learning Preserve in Sturgeon Bay.
The run/walk event has distances of 2-, 5- and 10-kilometers.
To register or for more information, visit www.CrossroadsRun.com | <urn:uuid:6a7550d7-ecdb-4bca-813a-e9af97d0fc00> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-co/sports/2015/05/22/briefs-bosman-play-softball-msoe/27779483/ | 2021-06-19T12:29:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487648194.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20210619111846-20210619141846-00316.warc.gz | en | 0.940835 | 292 |
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>wrote:
> Farhan Husain <russoue(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I can provide any other information needed and also the data if anyone
> > wants.
> What did the query plans look like in both databases?
> In Postgres you can get the query plan with
> EXPLAIN ANALYZE select ...
> You can leave out the ANALYZE if you can't wait until the query completes
> it will have much less information to diagnosis any problems.
> Gregory Stark
> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
> Ask me about EnterpriseDB's Slony Replication support!
I am doing the EXPLAIN ANALYZE now, it will take about 1 hour and 20 minutes
again. I will get back to you once it is finished. Do you know how to get
the query plan in MySQL?
Mohammad Farhan Husain
Department of Computer Science
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
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OMEALS are a great option for so many different areas of life. For the weekend adventurer to the athlete, and the prepper to the outdoor enthusiast, we know that OMEALS make a great companion to your very many facets. In fact, we are quite versatile and we have carefully designed our meals and their packaging to be able to accommodate our fans and friends for a variety of needs. Did you know that you can consolidate your OMEALS? Did you know that you could re-use your bag for future meals? Here’s a few tips on consolidating your OMEALS:
1. Carry multiple OMEALS food pouches in one bag. If you are familiar with our packaging, then you know that our outer bag where you add your preferred liquid contains a sealed pouch of food inside. One hack that many of our hikers and backpackers have taken up is to open a few of your favorite meal bags, remove the heating packs and food pouches, and store them all in just ONE bag. This saves you room in your backpack and can help consolidate all your meals in one spot. But, how will you heat them up at different times? This is a common question we get asked as well. You can actually re-use that bag up to 30 times! This means that you can carry less and have less waste to bring back with you by simply combining all your meals for your trip into one OMEALS bag. You will need a new heating pack each time you are ready to steam, so be sure to bring those along as well.
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We are passionate about making your adventures as customizable as possible! When it comes to making our meals work for you, we have thought of it all. With the quickest and most convenient (& delicious) outdoor meal on the market, we want to be sure that you can enjoy OMEALS from anywhere and everywhere! | <urn:uuid:0223d37a-1f98-4de8-af00-1a03429b185e> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://omeals.com/shop/tips-on-consolidating-your-omeals/ | 2021-10-27T18:46:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588242.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027181907-20211027211907-00002.warc.gz | en | 0.972076 | 525 |
By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Hergé’s classic “clear line” style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant, supremely beautifully drawn short stories — often featuring his innocent, magnificently-quiffed Jopo de Pojo, or his orotund scientist character, Anton Makassar.
Under Swarte’s own exacting supervision, Is That All There Is? will collect virtually all of his alternative comics work from 1972 to date, including the RAW magazine stories that brought him fame among American comics aficionados in the 1980s. Especially great pains will be taken to match Swarte’s superb coloring, which includes stories executed in watercolor, comics printed in retro duotones, fiendishly clever use of Zip-a-Tone screens, and much more. (There’s even a story about how to color comics art using those screens, with Makassar as the teacher.)
Other noteworthy stories include Swarte’s take on an episode from Hergé’s early days, a Fats Domino story, a tribute to the legendary “Upside-Downs” strip, and a story titled simply “Modern Art.” | <urn:uuid:50994f64-f57f-493f-8b27-cc36dc06ebbc> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=11004 | 2014-12-23T02:04:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802777454.142/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075257-00002-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927154 | 275 |
Learn about Torrontés — taste profile, popular regions and more …
The signature white grape of Argentina, Torrontés is unapologetically fun and distinctively fragrant. In many ways it bears a striking resemblance to Muscat (and in fact is an offspring of Muscat of Alexandria), but the primary difference between the two is that Torrontés is almost always vinified to produce a decidedly dry wine. Grown extensively throughout Argentina, it performs best in the Salta region. Small amounts are also planted in neighboring Uruguay.
Tasting Notes for Torrontes
Torrontés is a dry or off-dry white wine. Notes of rose petal, geranium, stone fruit, Meyer lemon, ripe melon and orange blossom leap out of the glass, and the palate refreshes with a healthy dose of acidity and a streak of salinity. Torrontés should be consumed in its youth to highlight its vibrancy and primary fruit flavors.
Perfect Food Pairings for Torrontes
Torrontés needs no food—it is delightful on its own as an aperitif wine. However, it can be quite a pleasant pairing with Asian or Indian cuisine, especially coconut curries. Stick to lighter fare like poultry, pork or seafood in sauces that are flavorful but not heavy.
Sommelier Secrets for Torrontes
If you’re in search of a new summer sipper, look no further than Torrontés. These wines are always inexpensive, delightfully refreshing and are best enjoyed in the sunny outdoors at a picnic, poolside or on the porch.
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Target Agora Verde - AV02 - 90% Tungsten Darts - Steel Tip - 23g 25g
Inspired by the original Agora range - Agora Verde features a combination of spectacular precision milling and radial grooves to create a premium, yet accessible dart design.
The dart features a Verde Electro Plated Coating for added durability.
In the Box:
3 x 90% Tungsten, Electro-Plated Coated, Steel Tip Barrels
3 x Target Pro Grip Shafts
3 x Target Agora Verde Pro Ultra Flights
23 Grams - 54.00mm x 6.45mm
25 Grams - 54.00mm x 6.70mm | <urn:uuid:ead48529-1fb7-4ddb-8509-f7de5f5c34d4> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.matchdarts.co.uk/target-agora-verde---av02---90-steel-tip-tungsten-darts---2325-grams | 2020-10-26T23:49:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107892710.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026234045-20201027024045-00246.warc.gz | en | 0.67201 | 150 |
"I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter."
~ Author Unknown
~ Christmas Moose
CHRISTMAS CAPPUCCINO MOUSSE
~ Decadent & delicious ... what Christmas is all about!
1 1/2 cups whipping cream
4 large organic eggs
8 oz. chopped good bittersweet chocolate
4 tsp. instant espresso powder
1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Unsweetened whipped cream
chopped chocolate covered espresso beans (Trader Joe's)
fresh mint sprigs
- Separate whites from egg yolks. Let stand at room temperature.
- Whisk 1/4 cup cream and eggs yolks in saucepan. Set over low heat and cook, whisking constantly for 2 minutes or until mixture thickens. Add chocolate & espresso powder; stir until smooth. Remove from heat.
- In large bowl, whisk egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar and continue to whisk until whites begin to mound. Gradually add sugar, whisking constantly until stiff peaks form. Fold chocolate mixture into whites, blending well.
- In chilled bowl, whip remaining 1 1/4 cups whipping cream to soft peaks. Whisk in vanilla extract. Fold whipped cream into chocolate mixture until barely blended (note visible streaks of white).
- Spoon into individual mousse dishes or glass 6-cup serving bowl. Cover carefully with plastic wrap to avoid marring surface. Chill until set.
- Spoon mousse from large bowl onto desert plates. Garnish with dollop of whipped cream and sprinkle with chopped chocolate espresso beans. Arrange mint leaves on side with 3 cranberries to resemble holly and serve immediately. (6-8 servings)
Follow me in merry measure,
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My praises to Gregg Janus for his op-ed concerning career technical education (Herald, May 20). He captured a difficult dilemma we as a nation are facing in education. As a teacher at Durango High School for the last eight years and previously in Farmington, I have seen how the policy of college readiness for all has evolved and affected students seeking vocational job training or flexible pathways toward graduation.
There are many students with tremendous innate ability who seek flexibility in an education system that will lead to the career they want – meaning not necessarily college. Although it is stated in the district and school strategic plans that flexible pathways toward graduation will be developed, efforts are thwarted by graduation requirements. In Durango, our credit requirements for graduation have been driven by the recommendations of the Colorado Consortium of Colleges and adopted by the board of education. Over the years, these requirements have increased, becoming specified to a greater degree, making it more difficult for students to take either electives of personal interest or achieve dual credit.
The partial outcome of this policy is not only that the school has lost CTE programs and electives, but students have lost interest and struggled with relevance. I am glad to see the pendulum swinging back after 40 years; maybe it needs a bit of a push. | <urn:uuid:8466a16a-81fb-453f-8b7d-5d2d0082914a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120530/OPINION03/705309930/-1/taxonomy/Students-need-flexible-path-to-graduation | 2016-07-01T19:55:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97434 | 257 |
A simple sketch for illustrating the airflow of a wider vortical system in between two atmospheric layers. [uvs]
The UVS research predicates a tornado is formed with an atmospheric free vortex manifested by an intensified jet stream of its vortical system.
A simple sketch for illustrating the airflow of a vortical system in between two atmospheric layers. [uvs]
The grounding for its epistemic theories of truth: The underlying vortical structure and mechanism of a tornado as explicated with its hypothetical construct based on the UVS model, elucidated its delusional observations that render its misconceptions, mysteries, and anomalies. Thus, its cognitive paradox was simply dispersed, and all the related natural phenomena were then qualitatively analysed in the conceptual framework of UVS by inductive reasoning for explicating with their empirical evidence to predicate by abductive reasoning.
See the UVS topics on "The UVS' philosophy of science" and "Overviews of the UVS research" that elaborate on the methodology for the evaluations of natural phenomena, and "Unisonal vortex mechanism" that elaborates on the unisonal vortical chain reaction.
When an intensified subtropical jet stream of its polar vortex and another intensified jet stream of the satellite polar vortex interacts on a low altitude troposphere of lower cloud level in winter rushing down into warmer valley with freezing air, it could also spawn a chain of satellite vortices in the lower cloud level to render the phenomenon of a tornado cluster.
An intensified subtropical jet stream of the polar vortex rendered by a torque-induced precession from the Solar System alignment effect, can generate a chain of atmospheric vortices that are subjected to localized factors, such as the dragging effects of landmass[uvs] in the Tornado Alley rendered by the valley between Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains.
The altitude of atmosphere is directly affected by Solar System alignment with tidal effect. When aligned Sun, Moon and other planets has a strong focused gravitational effect on North Indian Ocean side during winter of northern hemisphere, the atmospheres on top of United States would have a very low altitude cause by tidal force[w]. In winter nights, the mainland of United States within latitude of 30°N and 40°N is right on plane of the ecliptic[w]; this could subject the region to the maximum effects of external torque-induced precession.
See the UVS topic on "The Great White Spot on Saturn" that elaborates on how a chain of satellite free vortex cluster were periodically observed to have manifested by the axial-tilt of Saturn with its revolving precession effect.From the UVS perspective, the Earth on its rotating axis would aid to drive a cyclonic vortex that spins in the same direction of its differential force, and this works against an anti-cyclonic vortex; cyclonic tornadoes therefore would occur more often than anti-cyclonic tornado.
Based on unisonal vortex mechanism[uvs], the strength and wind speed of an atmospheric vortex is at its maximum at the bottom portion of a nested vortex column. And tornado has a distinct feature of an upward vortical air stream that could levitate debris at the bottom of its nested vortex column in its vortical air boundary.
This vortical air boundary is a vortrex[uvs] formed by a bounced back reaction of its vertical downdraft[w], which vortically pushes in from the higher up atmospheric surface into the vortex column. Coupled with its spiraling horizontal force, the resultant reaction is a powerful upward spiraling jet of air stream that could lift roof top of a family house or toss a small vehicle into mid air in a projectile manner across a football stadium.
The UVS research predicates the upward spiraling jet of air stream of a tornado is formed by vortical reactions of a clear air vortex with a vortical momentum that has bounced off the ground.
Though relatively short lived at the vertex and very small in size as compared to a hurricane, with focused energy discharging in a small diameter vortex eye, the damaging force a tornado can exert directly on an obstacle with its high speed upward spiraling jet of air stream can be even more powerful than a hurricane, albeit with a much smaller capacity affecting a smaller region.
From the UVS perspective, the mechanism of an underlying atmospheric vortrex that could lift debris in its vortical boundary, or forms the water column in a waterspout, is similar to how a dust devil[uvs] is being impelled by its nested clear air vortex to lift up charged dust particles in a nested atmospheric layer, which tightly warps around the nested vortex column.
From the UVS perspective, waterspout is a troposphere vortex (i.e. nested atmospheric vortex formed in troposphere with several atmospheric layers) landed on water. Its upward spiraling jet of air stream in the nested vortrex that tightly wraps around its nested vortical column, could vortically push water up into its outer nested vortical column to form as a skin of water column.
See the UVS topic on "The vortices of Jupiter" that illustrates on how storms on the atmospheric layers of Jupiter, are being driven by its nested polar vortex pair, the underlying mechanism is similar to the mechanism that forms and drives tornadoes to mangiest on Earth.
See the digital copy of a French book "Toujours les tourbillons" authored by Charles Louis Weyher in 1911. Translated as "Always the whirlwinds", it illustrated and described with intricate details for the experiments on the mechanism that emulate atmospheric vortex and underwater vortex formations.
and animation credits:
The inception of this UVS topic was in 2007 with ongoing updates since.
Disclaimers: The treatise of Universal Vortical Singularity (UVS) in its epistemological paradigm shift, is fundamentally unconventional. Its hypotheses grounded on a generally unheard-of UVS model, bound to have shortcomings, such as loose ends, errors, and omissions errors. Many details and assumptions in its propositions have yet to be further researched, probed, evaluated, validated, or verified. Its implicit explanations are for casual understanding of the UVS topics presented in the UVS worldview, so if any term or statement is offensive in any manner from whatsoever perspectives, is most regretted. Links to other sites do not imply endorsement of their contents; apply appropriate discretion whenever necessary. Also, the content of the UVS topics, from time to time could be arbitrarily modified without any notice.
Viewing tips: Despite the presentations of the UVS web pages has went through much accommodation for their viewings on smart phones, they are still not entirely friendly to these mobile devices. For the best experiences, use a MS Windows based PC or computer system with Java enabled browser for running its interactive applets. (Such as Java Applet of Moiré pattern, JPL Small-Body Database Browser, and Planet Finder.)
Copyright information: This UVS web site is for non-profit purposes and not for commercial use. Wherever possible, direct credits to the origins of the works or images were provided, be it on fair dealings, with explicit permission from their owners, or the materials were believed to be from the public domain. | <urn:uuid:4c3aec01-6570-47a8-8e09-b5770d8aaec5> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | http://www.uvs-model.com/WFE%20on%20Tornado%20Alley.htm | 2021-10-24T05:30:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585911.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024050128-20211024080128-00057.warc.gz | en | 0.926726 | 1,488 |
IPI System (Intelligent Push-Button Indicator)
Firing Modes includes semi-auto, 3 burst, and Full Auto
LED Light Display Format
9 1/2" Aluminum Barrel
Sleek, Custom Design Receiver
Reactive Trigger Response, Up to 14 shots/sec
Vizion TM Rear Cocking System
Two Trigger Finger w/Regulation Trigger Guard
Adjustable Trigger Pull
Expansion Chamber with Fore Grip
Tournament Velocity Adjuster
Vertical Ball Feed
Low Pressure Chamber
Bottom Line Set-up w/ Stainless Steel Hose
Quick Disconnect Pin
External Recharge Port
Operates effectively on CO2 or Compressed Air
Spare Parts Kit
Java 9.6 volt Rechargeable Battery
Java Battery Charger
The Kingman Spyder Imagine is older, so while it may be available used and in a few cases new, it is not commonly available anymore.
Shoots fast if thats your thing (im geeting a phantom)
Chops like hell,stock barrel sucks, gas hog, battery hog,
This marker is ok if your into speedball and dont mind buying upgrades every week, im into woodsball (dont ask why i bought a imagine) and like one simple upgrade when i want it not when i need it.
if you want tospend more money buy an a-5.
today when i played it stopped shooting not because of my co2 or my cheap hopper and i dont think the battery had anything to do with it because i changed it but it stll didnt work! I still havent figured it out.
My friend owns this gun. Hes had it for three months but he had never used it until today. He tried shooting it at the chrono. it wouldnt work. he took out the co2 and it was fine. he took the gun apart and he still couldnt find anything. he let my other friend who knows a lot about paintball look at it and he couldnt find anything wrong. he had to use a crappy rental
Buy the vs1 or the imagine. this thing doesnt even deserve to be called a spyder.
i will give it a better rating when it gets fixed but it should work out of the box
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The spyder imagine can only go 14 bps, so that is a major weakness. now people can go 25-30 bps. this gun is horribly outdated. it comes with a short inaccurate barrel, no eyes, no acs, a cheap grip, and a crappy asa/line. it is very heavy compared to other guns out today. it is comfortable and affordable, but way outdated. DO NOT BUY THIS! get a real gun.
It is a good gun. If you are someone who is wanting to play in tournoments, it is probably the best one out there. It is also good in playing in the woods. With the speed of full auto, three rd burst, and semi up 14 shots a sec, it rocks! When you know where the other people are, you can just go full auto and get all of them at once. | <urn:uuid:725d9b42-98be-4c86-90ff-87c648c70cf0> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/?prod=1199&page=71 | 2015-01-27T10:37:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122238694.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175718-00026-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934834 | 684 |
Very bare bones
It only has 6 fixed positions where you can place blocks instead of widgets that can go on a lot of places. So if you wanted your custom block to go somewhere specific it is not really possible.
What we wanted was widget position functionality with rule conditions.
Hopefully they will improve this module.
Comment from Aheadworks:
Johan, thank you for your feedback.
Currently, Custom Static Blocks has 6 fixed positions that can be used on Home, Product and Category pages as well as at Shopping Cart and Checkout.
However, we are planning to improve an upcoming version of the extension by adding the widget positions. Hope you will like it. | <urn:uuid:27fffb72-f0e0-4346-8ba4-17b7c5f53855> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-2-extensions/custom-static-blocks | 2020-04-01T17:56:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505826.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401161832-20200401191832-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.947656 | 137 |
Federal law required that a percentage of local public works using federal funds must be awarded to minority groups. The petitioners challenged this law as violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court upheld the law.
Mr. Chief Justice Burger announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion in which Mr. Justice White and Mr. Justice Powell joined.
We granted certiorari to consider a facial constitutional challenge to a requirement in a congressional spending program that, absent an administrative waiver, 10% of the federal funds granted for local public works projects must be used by the state or local grantee to procure services or supplies from business owned and controlled by members of statutorily identified minority groups.
In May 1977, Congress enacted the Public Works Employment Act… which authorized an additional $4 billion appropriation for federal grants to be made by the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration (EDA), to state and local governmental entities for use in local public works projects. Among the changes made was the addition of the provision that has become the focus of this litigation. Section 103 (f) (2) of the 1977 Act, referred to as the “minority business enterprise” or “MBE” provision requires that:
Except to the extent that the Secretary determines otherwise, no grant shall be made under this Act for any local public works project unless the applicant gives satisfactory assurance to the Secretary that at least 10 per centum of the amount of each grant shall be expended for minority business enterprises. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “minority business enterprise” means a business at least 50 per centum of the stock of which is owned by minority group members. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, minority group members are citizens of the United States who are Negroes, Spanish-speaking, Orientals, Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts….
On November 30, 1977, petitioners filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin enforcement of the MBE provision. Named as defendants were the Secretary of Commerce, as the program administrator, and the State and City of New York, as actual and potential project grantees. Petitioners are several associations of construction contractors and subcontractors Their complaint alleged that they had sustained economic in- jury due to enforcement of the 10% MBE requirement and that the MBE provision on its face violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and various statutory antidiscrimination provisions.
After a hearing held the day the complaint was filed, the District Court denied a requested temporary restraining order and scheduled the matter for an expedited hearing on the merits. On December 19, 1977, the District Court issued a memorandum opinion upholding the validity of the MBE program and denying the injunctive relief sought….
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed,… holding that “even under the most exacting standard of review the MBE provision passes constitutional muster.”… Considered in the context of many years of governmental efforts to remedy past racial and ethnic discrimination, the court found it “difficult to imagine” any purpose for the program other than to remedy such discrimination….
The MBE provision was enacted as part of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977….
The sponsor stated that the objective… was to direct funds into the minority business community, a sector of the economy sorely in need of economic stimulus but which, on the basis of past experience with government procurement programs, could not be expected to benefit significantly from the public works program as then formulated. He cited the marked statistical disparity that in fiscal year 1978 less than 1% of all federal procurement was concluded with minority business enterprises, although minorities comprised 15-18 % of the population. When the amendment was put forward… Rep. Mitchell reiterated the need to ensure that minority firms would obtain a fair opportunity to share in the benefits of this government program….
The legislative objectives of the MBE provision must be considered against the background of ongoing efforts directed toward deliverance of the century-old promise of equality of economic opportunity. The sponsors… in the House and the Senate expressly linked the provision to the existing administrative programs promoting minority opportunity in government procurement, particularly those related to § 8 (a) of the Small Business Act of 1958….
At the time the MBE provision was enacted, the regulations governing the § 8 (a) program defined “social or economic disadvantage” as follows:
An applicant concern must be owned and controlled by one or more persons who have been deprived of the opportunity to develop and maintain a competitive position in the economy because of social or economic disadvantage. Such disadvantage may arise from cultural, social, chronic economic circumstances or background, or other similar cause. Such persons include, but are not limited to, black Americans, American Indians,
Spanish-Americans, Oriental Americans, Eskimos, and Aleuts….
The guidelines accompanying these regulations provided that a minority business could not be maintained in the program, even when owned and controlled by members of the identified minority groups, if it appeared that the business had not been deprived of the opportunity to develop and maintain a competitive position in the economy because of social or economic disadvantage….
When we are required to pass on the constitutionality of an Act of Congress, we assume “the gravest and most delicate duty that this Court is called on to perform.” Blodgett v. Holden, 275 U.S. 142, 148 (1927) (opinion of Holmes, J.). A program that employs racial or ethnic criteria, even in a remedial context, calls for close examination; yet we are bound to approach our task with appropriate deference to the Congress, a co-equal branch charged by the Constitution with the power to “provide for the… general Welfare of the United States” and “to enforce by appropriate legislation” the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment….
Here we pass, not on a choice made by a single judge or a school board, but on a considered decision of the Congress and the President. However, in no sense does that render it immune from judicial scrutiny and it “is not to say we ’defer’ to the judgment of the Congress… on a constitutional question,” or that we would hesitate to invoke the Constitution should we determine that Congress has overstepped the bounds of its constitutional power….
The clear objective of the MBE provision is disclosed by our necessarily extended review of its legislative and administrative background. The program was designed to ensure that, to the extent federal funds were granted under the Public Works Employment Act of 1977, grantees who elect to participate would not employ procurement practices that Congress had decided might result in perpetuation of the effects of prior discrimination which had impaired or foreclosed access by minority businesses to public contracting opportunities. The MBE program does not mandate the allocation of federal funds according to inflexible percentages solely based on race or ethnicity….
In enacting the MBE provision, it is clear that Congress employed an amalgam of its specifically delegated powers. The Public Works Employment Act of 1977, by its very nature, is primarily an exercise of the Spending Power…. This Court has recognized that the power to “provide for the… general Welfare” is an independent grant of legislative authority, distinct from other broad congressional powers…. Congress has frequently employed the Spending Power to further broad policy objectives by conditioning receipt of federal monies upon compliance by the recipient with federal statutory and administrative directives. This Court has repeatedly upheld against constitutional challenge the use of this technique to induce governments and private parties to cooperate voluntarily with federal policy….
The MBE program is structured within this familiar legislative pattern. The program conditions receipt of public works grants upon agreement by the state or local governmental grantee that at least 10% of the federal funds will be devoted to contracts with minority businesses to the extent this can be accomplished by overcoming barriers to access and by awarding contracts to bona fide MBE’s. It is further conditioned to require that MBE bids on these contracts are competitively priced, or might have been competitively priced but for the present effects of prior discrimination. Admittedly, the problems of administering this program with respect to these conditions may be formidable. Although the primary responsibility for ensuring minority participation falls upon the grantee, when the procurement practices of the grantee involve the award of a prime contract to a general or prime contractor, the obligations to assure minority participation devolve upon the private contracting party; this is a contractual condition of eligibility for award of the prime contract….
… Had Congress chosen to do so, it could have drawn on the Commerce Clause to regulate the practices of prime contractors on federally funded public works projects…. The legislative history of the MBE provision shows that there was a rational basis for Congress to conclude that the sub-contracting practices of prime contractors could perpetuate the prevailing impaired access by minority businesses to public contracting opportunities, and that this inequity has an effect on interstate commerce. Thus Congress could take necessary and proper action to remedy the situation….
With respect to the MBE provision, Congress had abundant evidence from which it could conclude that minority businesses have been denied effective participation in public contracting opportunities by procurement practices that perpetuated the effects of prior discrimination. Congress, of course, may legislate without compiling the kind of “record” appropriate with respect to judicial or administrative proceedings. Congress had before it, among other data, evidence of a long history of marked disparity in the percentage of public contracts awarded to minority business enterprises. This disparity was considered to result not from any lack of capable and qualified minority businesses, but from the existence and maintenance of barriers to competitive access which had their roots in racial and ethnic discrimination, and which continue today, even absent any intentional discrimination or other unlawful conduct.
Although much of this history related to the experience of minority businesses in the area of federal procurement, there wag direct evidence before the Congress that this pattern of disadvantage and discrimination existed with respect to state and local construction contracting as well. In relation to the MBE provision, Congress acted within its competence to determine that the problem was national in scope. Although the Act recites no preambulary “findings” on the subject, we are satisfied that Congress had abundant historical basis from which it could conclude that traditional procurement practices, when applied to minority businesses, could perpetuate the effects of prior discrimination. Accordingly, Congress reasonably determined that the prospective elimination of these barriers to. minority firm access to public contracting opportunities generated by the 1977 Act was appropriate to ensure that those businesses were not denied equal opportunity to participate in federal grants to state and local governments, which is one aspect of the equal protection of the laws. Insofar as the MBE program pertains to the actions of state and local grantees, Congress could have achieved its objectives by use of its power under 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. We conclude that in this respect the objectives of the MBE provision are within the scope of the Spending Power….
We now turn to the question whether, as a means to accomplish these plainly constitutional objectives, Congress may use racial and ethnic criteria, in this limited way, as a condition attached to a federal grant… Congress may employ racial or ethnic classifications in exercising its Spending or other legislative Powers only if those classifications do not violate the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. We recognize the need for careful judicial evaluation to assure that any congressional program that employs racial or ethnic criteria to accomplish the objective or remedying the present effects of past discrimination is narrowly tailored to the achievement of that goal.
… Here we are not dealing with a remedial decree of a court but with the legislative authority of Congress. Furthermore, petitioners have challenged the constitutionality of the MBE provision on its face; they have not sought damages or other specific relief for injury allegedly flowing from specific applications of the program; nor have they attempted to show that as applied in identified situations, the MBE provision violated the constitutional or statutory rights of any party to this case. In these circumstances, given a reasonable construction and in light of its projected administration, if we find the MBE program on its face to be free of constitutional defects, it must be upheld as within congressional’ power….
Our review of the regulations and guidelines governing administration of the MBE provision reveals that Congress enacted the program as a strictly remedial measure; moreover, it is a remedy that functions prospectively, in the manner of an injunctive decree. Pursuant to the administrative program, grantees and their prime contractors are required to seek out all available, qualified, bona fide MBE’s; they are required to provide technical assistance as needed to lower or waive bonding requirements where feasible, to solicit the aid of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, the Small Business Administration or other sources for assisting MBE’s to obtain required working capital, and to give guidance through the intricacies of the bidding process The program assumes that grantees who undertake these efforts in good faith will obtain at least 10 % participation by minority business enterprises. It is recognized that, to achieve this target, contracts will be awarded to available, qualified, bona fide MBE’s even though they are not the lowest competitive bidders, so long as their higher bids when challenged, are found to reflect merely attempts to cover costs inflated by the present effects of prior disadvantage and discrimination…. There is available to the grantee a provision authorized by Congress for administrative waiver on a case-by-case basis should there be a demonstration that, despite affirmative efforts, this level of participation cannot be achieved without departing from the objectives of the program…. There is also an administrative mechanism, including a complaint procedure, to ensure that only bona fide MBE’s are encompassed by the remedial program, and to prevent unjust participation in the program by those minority firms whose access to public contracting opportunities is not impaired by the effects of prior discrimination.
As a threshold matter, we reject the contention that in the remedial context the Congress must act in a wholly “color-blind” fashion….
In… school desegregation cases we dealt with the authority of a federal court to formulate a remedy for unconstitutional racial discrimination. However, the authority of a court to incorporate racial criteria into a remedial decree also extends to statutory violations. Where federal anti-discrimination laws have been violated, an equitable remedy may in the appropriate case include a racial or ethnic factor…. In another setting, we have held that a state may employ racial criteria that are reasonably necessary to assure compliance with federal voting rights legislation, even though the state action does not entail the remedy of a constitutional violation….
When we have discussed the remedial powers of a federal court, we have been alert to the limitation that “[t]he power of the federal courts to restructure the operation of local and state governmental entities is not plenary…. [Al federal court is required to tailor the scope of the remedy to fit the nature and extent of the . . . violation.” Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman, 433 U.S. 406, 419-420 (1977)….
Here we deal . . . not with the limited remedial powers of a federal court… but with the broad remedial powers of Congress. It is fundamental that in no organ of government, state or federal, does there repose a more comprehensive remedial power than in the Congress, expressly charged by the Constitution with competence and authority to enforce equal protection guarantees. Congress not only may induce voluntary action to assure compliance with existing federal statutory or constitutional antidiscrimination provisions, but also, where Congress has authority to declare certain conduct unlawful, it may, as here, authorize and induce state action to avoid such conduct….
A more specific challenge to the MBE program is the charge that it impermissibly deprives nonminority businesses of access to at least some portion of the government contracting opportunities generated by the Act. It must be conceded that ’by its objective of remedying the historical impairment of access, the MBE provision can have the effect of awarding some contracts to MBE’s which otherwise might be awarded to other businesses, who may themselves be innocent of any prior discriminatory actions. Failure of nonminority firms to receive certain contracts is, of course, an incidental consequence of the * program, not part of its objective; similarly, past impairment of minority-firm access to public contracting opportunities may have been an incidental consequence of “business-as-usual” by public contracting agencies and among prime contractors.
It is not a constitutional defect in this program that it may disappoint the expectations of nonminority firms. When effectuating a limited and properly tailored remedy to cure the effects of prior discrimination, such “a sharing of the burden” by innocent parties is not impermissible…. The actual “burden” shouldered by nonminority firms is relatively light in this connection when we consider the scope of this public works program as compared with overall construction contracting opportunities. Moreover, although we may assume that the complaining parties are innocent of any discriminatory conduct, it was within congressional power to act on the assumption that in the past some nonminority businesses may have reaped competitive benefit over the years from the virtual exclusion of minority firms from these contracting opportunities.
Another challenge to the validity of the ” MBE program is the assertion that it is underinclusive–that it limits its benefit to specified minority groups rather than extending its remedial objectives to all businesses whose access to government contracting is impaired by the effects of disadvantage or discrimination. Such an extension would, of course, be appropriate for Congress to provide; it is not a function for the court….
The Congress has not sought to give select minority groups a preferred standing in the construction industry, but has embarked on a remedial program to place them on a more equitable footing with respect to public contracting opportunities. There has been no showing in this case that Congress has inadvertently effected an invidious discrimination by excluding from coverage an identifiable minority group that has been the victim of a degree of disadvantage and discrimination equal to or greater than that suffered by the groups encompassed by the MBE program. It is not inconceivable that on very special facts a case might be made to challenge the congressional decision to limit MBE eligibility to the particular minority groups identified in the Act…. But on this record we find no basis to hold that Congress is without authority to undertake the kind of limited remedial effort represented by the MBE program. Congress, not the courts, has the heavy burden of dealing with a host of intractable economic and social problems.
Congress, after due consideration, perceived a pressing need to move forward with new approaches in the continuing effort to achieve the goal of equality of economic opportunity. In this effort, Congress has necessary latitude to try new techniques such as the limited use of racial and ethnic criteria to accomplish remedial objectives; this especially so in programs where voluntary cooperation with remedial measures is induced by placing conditions on federal expenditures. That the program may press the outer limits of congressional authority affords no basis for striking it down.
Any preference based on racial or ethnic criteria must necessarily receive a most searching examination to make sure that it does not conflict with constitutional guarantees. This case is one which requires, and which has received, that kind of examination. This opinion does not adopt, either expressly or implicitly, the formulas of analysis articulated in such cases as University of California Regents v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978). However, our analysis demonstrates that the MBE provision would survive judicial review under either “test” articulated in the several Bakke opinions. The MBE provision of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 does not violate the Constitution.
Mr. Justice Powell, concurring.
By the time Congress enacted § 103 (f) (2) in 1977, it knew that other remedies had failed to ameliorate the effect of racial discrimination in the construction industry. Although the problem had been addressed by antidiscrimination legislation, executive action to remedy employment discrimination in the construction industry, and federal aid to minority businesses, the fact remained that minority contractors were receiving less than 1% of federal contracts Congress also knew that economic recession threatened the construction industry as a whole. Section 103 (f) (2) was enacted as part of a bill designed to stimulate the economy by appropriating $4 billion in federal funds for new public construction. Since the emergency public construction funds were to be distributed quickly, any remedial provision designed to prevent those funds from perpetuating past discrimination also had to be effective promptly.
Moreover, Congress understood that any effective remedial program had to provide minority contractors the experience necessary for continued success without federal assistance. And Congress knew that the ability of minority group members to gain experience had been frustrated by the difficulty of entering the construction trades. The set-aside program adopted as part of this emergency legislation serves each of these concerns because it takes effect as soon as funds are expended under PWEA and because it provides minority contractors with experience that could enable them to compete without governmental assistance.
The § 103 (f) (2) set-aside is not a permanent part of Federal contracting requirements. As soon as the PWEA program concludes, this set-aside program ends. The temporary nature of this remedy ensures that a race-conscious program will not last longer than the discriminatory effects it is designed to eliminate. It will be necessary for Congress to re-examine the need for a race-conscious remedy before it extends or re-enacts § 103 (f) (2)….
A race-conscious remedy should not be approved without consideration of an additional crucial factor–the effect of the set-aside upon innocent third parties…. In this case, the petitioners contend with some force that they have been asked to bear the burden of the set-aside even though they are innocent of wrong-doing. I do not believe, however, that their burden is so great that the set-aside must be disapproved…. The PWEA appropriated $4 billion for public work projects of which it could be expected that approximately $400 million would go to minority contractors. The Court of Appeals calculated that the set-aside would reserve about .25% of all the funds expended yearly on construction work in the United States for approximately 4% of the Nation’s contractors who are members of a minority group…. The set-aside would have no effect on the ability of the remaining 96% of contractors to compete for 99.75% of construction funds. In my view, the effect of the set-aside is limited and so widely dispersed that its use is consistent with fundamental fairness.
Consideration of these factors persuades me that the set-aside is a reasonably necessary means of furthering the compelling govern- , mental interest in redressing the discrimina- tion that affects minority contractors. Any marginal unfairness to innocent non-minority contractors is not sufficiently significant–or sufficiently identifiable–to outweigh the governmental interest served by § 103 (f) (2). When Congress acts to remedy identified discrimination, it may exercise discretion in choosing a remedy that is reasonably necessary to accomplish its purpose. Whatever the exact breadth of that discretion, I believe that it encompasses the selection of the set-aside in this case….
In the history of this Court and this country, few questions have been more divisive than those arising from governmental action taken on the basis of race. Indeed, our own decisions played no small part in the tragic legacy of government-sanctioned discrimination. See Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896); Dred Scott v. Sanford, 19 How. 393 (60 U.S.) (1857). At least since the decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the Court has been resolute in its dedication to the principle that the Constitution envisions a Nation where race is irrelevant. The time cannot come too soon when no governmental decision will be based upon immutable characteristics of pigmentation or origin. But in our quest to achieve a society free from racial classification, we cannot ignore the claims of those who still suffer from the effects of identifiable discrimination.
Distinguishing the rights of all citizens to be free from racial classifications from the rights of some citizens to be made whole is a perplexing, but necessary, judicial task…. I believe that the use of racial classifications, which are fundamentally at odds with the ideals of a democratic society implicit in the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, cannot be imposed simply to serve transient social or political goals, however worthy they may be. But the issue there turns on the scope of congressional power, and Congress has been given a unique constitutional role in the enforcement of the post-Civil War Amendments. In this case, where Congress determined that minority contractors were victims of purposeful discrimination and where Congress chose a reasonably necessary means to effectuate its purpose, I find no constitutional reason to invalidate § 103 (f) (2).
Mr. Justice Stewart, with whom Mr. Justice Rehnquist joins, dissenting.
“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens…. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color…. “Those words were written by a Member of this Court 84 years ago. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 559 (Harlan, J. dissenting). His colleagues disagreed with him, and held that a statute that required the separation of people on the basis of their race was constitutionally valid because it was a “reasonable” exercise of legislative power and had been “enacted in good faith for the promotion [of] the public good…. Id., at 550. Today, the Court upholds a statute that accords a preference to citizens who are “Negroes, Spanish-speaking, Orientals, Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts,” for much the same reasons that Plessy v. Ferguson was wrong, and I respectfully dissent.
The equal protection standard of the Constitution has one clear and central mean-ing–it absolutely prohibits invidious discrimination by government. That standard must be met by every State under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…. And that standard must be met by the United States itself under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently suspect and presumptively invalid….
On its face, the minority business enterprise (MBE) provision at issue in this case denies the equal protection of the law… The statute, on its face and in effect… bars a class to which the petitioners belong from having the opportunity to receive a government benefit, and bars the members of that class solely on the basis of their race or ethnic background. This is precisely the kind of law that the guarantee of equal protection forbids.
The Court’s attempt to characterize the law as a proper remedial measure to counter-act the effects of past or present racial discrimination is remarkably unconvincing. The Legislative Branch of government is not a court of equity. It has neither the dispassionate objectivity nor the flexibility that are needed to mold a race-conscious remedy around the single objective of eliminating the effects of past or present discrimination.
But even assuming that Congress has the power, under § 5 of the Fourteenth ” Amendment or some other constitutional provision, to remedy previous illegal racial discrimination, there is no evidence that Congress has in the past engaged in racial discrimination in its disbursement of federal contracting funds. The MBE provision thus pushes the limits of any such justification far beyond the equal protection standard of the Constitution. Certainly, nothing in the Constitution gives Congress any greater authority to impose detriments on the basis of race than is afforded the Judicial Branch. And a judicial decree that imposes burdens on the basis of race can be upheld only where its sole purpose is to eradicate the actual effects of illegal race discrimination….
The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to ensure that every person must be treated equally by each State regardless of the color of his skin. The Amendment promised to carry to its necessary conclusion a fundamental principle upon which this Nation had been founded–that the law would honor no preference based on lineage. Tragically, the promise of 1868 was not immediately fulfilled, and decades passed before the States and the Federal Government were finally directed to eliminate detrimental classifications based on race. Today, the Court derails this achievement and places its imprimatur on the creation once again by government of privileges based on birth.
The Court, moreover, takes this drastic step without, in my opinion, seriously considering the ramifications of its decision. Laws that operate on the basis of race require , definitions of race. Because of the Court’s decision today, our statute books will once again have to contain laws that reflect the odious practice of delineating the qualities that make one person a Negro and make another white. Moreover, racial discrimination, even “good faith” racial discrimination, ” is inevitably a two-edged sword. “[P]referential programs may only reinforce common stereotypes holding that certain groups are unable to achieve success without special protection based on a factor having no relationship to individual worth.” University of California Regents v. Bakke, supra, 438 U.S., at 298 (opinion of POWELL, J.). Most importantly, by making race a relevant criterion once again in its own affairs, the Government implicitly teaches the public that the apportionment of rewards and penalties can legitimately be made according to race–rather than according to merit or ability–and that people can, and perhaps should, view themselves and others in terms of their racial characteristics. Notions of “racial entitlement” will be fostered, and private discrimination will necessarily be encouraged….
There are those who think that we need a new Constitution, and their views may someday prevail. But under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage is the practice of racism-not even “temporarily” and not even as an “experiment.”
For these reasons, I would reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
Mr. Justice Stevens, dissenting.
The interest in facilitating and encouraging the participation by minority business enterprises in the economy is unquestionably legitimate. Any barrier to such entry and growth–whether grounded in the law or in irrational prejudice–should be vigorously and thoroughly removed. Equality of economic and investment opportunity is a goal of no less importance than equality of * employment opportunity. This statute, however, is not designed to remove any barriers to entry. Nor does its sparse legislative history detail any insuperable or even significant obstacles to entry into the competitive market….
It is unfortunately but unquestionably true that irrational racial prejudice persists today and continues to obstruct minority participation in a variety of economic pursuits, presumably including the construction industry. But there are two reasons why this legislation will not eliminate, or even tend to eliminate, such prejudice. First, prejudice is less likely to be a significant factor in the public sector of the economy than in the private sector because both federal and state laws have prohibited discrimination in the award of public contracts for many years. Second, and of greater importance, an absolute preference that is unrelated to a minority firm’s ability to perform a contract inevitably will engender resentment on the part of competitors excluded from the market for a purely racial reason and skepticism on the part of customers and suppliers aware of the statutory classification. It thus seems clear to me that this Act cannot be defended as an appropriate method of reducing racial prejudice.
The argument that our history of discrimination has left the entire membership of each of the six racial classes identified in the Act less able to compete in a free market than others is more easily stated than proved. The reduction in prejudice that has occurred during the last generation has accomplished much less than was anticipated; it nevertheless remains true that increased opportunities have produced an ever increasing number of demonstrations that members of disadvantaged races are entirely capable not merely of competing on an equal basis, but also of excelling in the most demanding professions. But, even though it is not the actual predicate for this legislation, a statute of this kind inevitably is perceived by many as resting on an assumption that those who are granted this special preference are less qualified in some respect that is identified” purely by their race. Because that perception-especially when fostered by the Congress of the United States–can only exacerbate rather than reduce racial prejudice, it will delay the time when race will become a truly irrelevant, or at least insignificant, factor. Unless Congress clearly articulates the need and basis for a racial classification, and also tailors the classification to its justification, the Court should not uphold this kind of statute….
The ultimate goal must be to eliminate entirely from governmental decisionmaking such irrelevant factors as a human being’s race. The removal of barriers to access to political and economic processes serves that goal. But the creation of new barriers can only frustrate true progress. For as MR. JUSTICE POWELL and MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS have perceptively observed, such protective barriers reinforce habitual ways of thinking in terms of classes instead of individuals. Preferences based on characteristics acquired at birth foster intolerance and antagonism against the entire membership of the favored classes. For this reason, I am firmly convinced that this “temporary measure” will disserve the goal of equal opportunity….
… [R]ather than take the substantive position expressed in MR. JUSTICE STEWART’S dissenting opinion, I would hold this statute unconstitutional on a narrower ground. It cannot fairly be characterized as a “narrowly tailored” racial classification because it simply raises too many serious questions that Congress failed to answer or even to address in a responsible way. The risk that habitual attitudes toward classes of persons, rather than analysis of the relevant characteristics of the class, will serve as a basis for a legislative classification if present when benefits are distributed as well as when burdens are imposed. In the past, traditional attitudes too often provided the only explanation for discrimination against women, aliens, illegitimates, and black citizens. Today there is a danger that awareness of past injustice will lead to automatic acceptance of new classifications that are not in fact justified by attributes characteristic of the class as a whole.
When Congress creates a special preference, or a special disability, for a class of persons, it should identify the characteristic that justifies the special treatment. When the classification is defined in racial terms, I believe that such particular identification is imperative.
In this case, only two conceivable bases for differentiating the preferred classes from society as a whole have occurred to me: (1) that they were the victims of unfair treatment in the past and (2) that they are less able to compete in the future. Although the first of these factors would justify an appropriate remedy for past wrongs, for reasons that I have already stated, this statute is not such a remedial measure. The second factor is simply not true. Nothing in the record of this case, the legislative history of the Act, or experience that we may notice judicially provides any support for such a proposition. It is up to Congress to demonstrate that its unique statutory preference is justified by a relevant characteristic that is shared by the members of the preferred class. In my opinion, because it has failed to make that demonstration, it has also failed to discharge its duty to govern impartially embodied in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Water Well Types
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Groundwater is one of Missouri’s most vital natural resources. If you just consider public water supplies, more than 94 percent of the 1,191 primary public water supply systems listed in the 2007 Census of Missouri Public Water Systems use groundwater. Combined, they provide water to a population of more than 1.82 million residents, or nearly 36 percent of the 5.07 million residents who receive their water from public water supplies. In addition, there are some 500,000 residents, mostly rural, that are self supplied. Nearly all of them rely on groundwater.
Water well construction has been regulated in Missouri for many years. Public water supplies have been regulated far longer than private water supplies, principally to ensure that the water provided by them meets appropriate water quality standards. Private wells have been regulated since 1985 when the Water Well Drillers Act became law. However, the quality of water produced by private wells is not monitored or regulated by the department.
Department of Natural Resources' regulations determine the type of well that is required for a particular use. Wells producing water for human consumption are either 1) private domestic wells, 2) multiple family wells, 3) non-community public water supply wells, or 4) community public water supply wells. The determination as to which type of well is required is based on the number of service connections, the number of people served, and the length of time during a year the population is served.
Private domestic wells are those that serve from one to not more than three families, provide water to fewer than 25 people on a permanent basis, and produce less than 70 gallons of water per minute. Multiple family wells can serve from four to 14 service connections, but must serve a permanent population of less than 25 people daily at least 60 days each year. Generally, any well serving nine or more single-family dwellings, apartment units, or condominium units, will need to meet community public water supply well specifications because it will likely be serving a permanent population of 25 or more people. Private domestic wells and multiple family wells are considered private wells, and are administered by the Wellhead Protection Section, Division of Geology and Land Survey (in Rolla, phone: 573-368-2165). The construction standards for the different types of private wells vary depending on location. The standards that apply to a private domestic well in northwestern Missouri, for example, are considerably different than what apply to a well in the Ozarks. There are six drilling areas in the state, each having different minimum construction standards. There are also three special areas and four sensitive areas where special rules apply. The rules and regulations pertaining to the construction of private domestic wells, multiple family wells, heat pump wells and monitoring wells are can be found in the department publication "Missouri Well Construction Rules: Private Water Wells, Heat Pump Systems, Pump Installations and Monitoring Wells."
Most private domestic wells and multiple family wells can be constructed by permitted water well contractors without prior contact with the Wellhead Protection Section. However, wells drilled in the special and sensitive areas require differing lengths of casing depending on the exact location of the well. Minimum casing depths for those wells can be obtained from the Wellhead Protection Section. A casing depth form can be downloaded and sent to the Wellhead Protection Section.
The remaining types of wells that provide water for human consumption are considered public water supply wells, and are administered by the Public Drinking Water Branch, Water Protection Program, Division of Environmental Quality in Jefferson City, 573-751-5331. Non-community public water supply wells are those with 15 or more service connections, or those that regularly serve an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days out of the year. They are not intended to supply a permanent population on a 24-hour per day, year-around basis. Non-community public water supplies are either transient or non-transient systems. The Public Drinking Water Branch can require engineering plans for any public water supply well. However, this requirement may be waived for transient non-community wells provided that the well sites meet the minimum recommended distances from potential contaminant sources. Transient non-community wells are those that serve a changing population such as at a campground, motel, or restaurant. Non-community wells constructed for certain uses such as supplying schools and large businesses that employ more than 25 people and that use the water more than 6 months per year are classified as non-transient, non-community wells. Non-transient, non-community wells must have engineering plans prepared, reviewed and approved before the well can be constructed. The construction standards for non-community public water supply wells can be found in "Standards for Non-Community Public Water Supplies, 1982."
Community public water supply wells are those with 15 or more service connections, or that regularly serve 25 or more people on a year-round basis. Community public water supply wells serve towns, cities, subdivisions, and mobile home parks. They generally serve the same population on a continuous basis, and must be designed by a registered professional engineer. The engineering plans must be reviewed and approved by Public Drinking Water Branch before construction on any regulated part of the supply may begin. The construction standards for community public water supply wells can be found in "Design Guide for Community Water Systems."
The Public Drinking Water Branch must be contacted before construction begins on any public water supply well to determine if it is a non-community or community supply, and if an engineer is required. The Water Resources Center provides casing depth specifications and total depth recommendations for all public water supply wells. Casing depth specifications for non-community wells will not be provided until the Department of Natural Resources’ regional office serving that area has approved the well site. The casing depth form used for private wells can also be used for public water supply wells. However, it should either be faxed to 573-368-2193, or mailed to:
Department of Natural Resources
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P.O. Box 250
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Nation overall and most states unprepared for crisis
December 13, 2006
by Gayle White
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States is inadequately prepared for disease, disaster or bioterrorism, according to a new report from a health advocacy group.
Georgia ranks somewhere in the middle of the states — short on nurses, pneumonia vaccine and readiness to receive emergency supplies, but adequate in seven other areas.
Kansas and Oklahoma scored highest in preparedness, according to the report, "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism." California, Iowa, Maryland and New Jersey were rated lowest, prepared in only four of 10 categories.
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CONCACAF (The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Associations of Football) announced today the official launch of the new continental club championship, the CONCACAF Champions League, which will commence in August 2008. The CONCACAF Champions League will replace the Champions’ Cup, which will cease to exist after the 2008 edition.
The CONCACAF Champions League will feature a representative from Canada for the first time in CONCACAF history. In addition to Canada, there will be four teams each from both Mexico and USA; three sides from the Caribbean; two clubs each from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama; and one representative each coming from Belize and Nicaragua.
“We are very excited about the fact that a Canadian team will have a berth in the CONCACAF Champions League,” said Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi. “As you know, the Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC formed a strategic alliance last October and one of our objectives remains to play matches against each other throughout the 2008 season.
“We feel, more than ever, that this is a terrific opportunity to stage an exciting tournament, showcasing the top professional clubs in the country. To that effect, we are accelerating our discussions and we are confident we will be able to make an announcement in the upcoming weeks.”
The CONCACAF Champions League will see a Confederation record number of 24 teams from all sectors of the CONCACAF region participating. The preliminary round begins in August 2008, with the first CONCACAF Champions League winner to be crowned in late April 2009.
Eight clubs (two Mexican, two USA, and one each from Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador) will be seeded and progress directly to the first round of the CONCACAF Champions League, while the Caribbean spots have been increased to three teams for this event.
The remaining 16 teams will be paired in eight home-and-away preliminary match-ups taking place from 26-28 August and 2-4 September.
The preliminary round winners will join the other eight seeded teams in the group stage, which will consist of four groups of four. All the teams in each group will play each other in a round-robin system during six match dates (three home games, three away games) from 16 September – 30 October.
The top two clubs from each group will advance to the knockout phase, where they will play home-and-away elimination ties. The quarterfinals will commence in February 2009, with the semifinals to begin in March and the two-leg final set for late April.
The CONCACAF Champions League winner will qualify as CONCACAF’s representative for the 2009 edition of the FIFA Club World Cup.
2008-09 CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Calendar of Events
End July: All qualification completed, draw for preliminary round
26-28 August: Preliminary Round, First legs
2-4 September: Preliminary Round, Second legs
Early September: Group Stage Schedule Announced
16-18 September: Group Stage – Match Day 1
23-25 September: Group Stage – Match Day 2
30 September – 2 October: Group Stage – Match Day 3
7-9 October: Group Stage – Match Day 4
21-23 October: Group Stage – Match Day 5
28-30 October: Group Stage – Match Day 6
24-26 February: Quarterfinals, First legs
3-5 March: Quarterfinals, Second legs
17-19 March: Semifinals, First legs
7-9 April: Semifinals, Second legs
21-23 April: Final, First leg
28-30 April: Final, Second leg
December: FIFA Club World Cup
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Matt Smith’s girlfriend has the bad end of their deal.
A few nights a week the couple goes to the University of Toledo’s practice court so Smith, a junior on the basketball team, can put up 100 free throws.
"I count my misses. She counts my makes," Smith said.
That’s why she has the bad end of their deal. Smith is making free throws at an astounding rate — his girlfriend’s count often reaching the high 80s — and is among many Rockets who have enjoyed considerable gains at the line.
One season after leading the Mid-American Conference in free-throw percentage, Toledo is threatening to shatter a 23-year-old league record. Entering today’s home game against Miami, the Rockets are second in the nation at 78.8 percent — a whisker higher than Kent State’s 78.4 clip from 1988-89.
Catching Davidson, which leads the country at 80.7 percent, is not impossible.
"This team has done a great job of buying into making foul shots, but there’s no particular secret of what we’re doing," coach Tod Kowalczyk said.
Every returner from last year, when Toledo led the league at 72.6 percent, has experienced a spike. Rian Pearson has jumped from 68 percent — "which was unacceptable to me" — to 75 percent. Not surprisingly, the MAC’s leading scorer has upped his average from 16.4 to 18.2.
"We talked with him about if he can get to 75 percent, now that becomes 19 to 20 points a game," Kowalczyk said. "So the motivation for him is he wants to score more points, which in turn helps the team."
Julius Brown has improved by six percent to 78, and Reese Holliday by 10 percent to 81. Even Dominique Buckley, who seemingly could go nowhere but down after making 89 percent in 2011-12, checks in at 90 percent. Although Richard Wonnell’s sample size is small — 3 of 4, 75 percent — he is better by 15 percent. Freshman Josh Lemons has blended in nicely with the trend, making 85 percent and scoring six of his 18 points at the line.
Only Nathan Boothe (23 of 34, 67 percent) is below 70 percent among regulars.
"We take it personal to try to get better each and every day, and I think we’ve done a good job of that," Smith said.
The biggest gain belongs to Smith, who is hitting 89 percent — a growth of 17 percent — and leads the MAC because Buckley is short of the required number of made free throws to be eligible. Smith also leads the league in 3-point field goal percentage at 44 percent (22 of 50).
"There’s not a single guy that I don’t trust making foul shots at winning time," Kowalczyk said of the period at the end of a game when things get tense.
One of the team’s accomplishments from the line includes making all 20 attempts against Chicago State, and 26 of 27 against Bowling Green. Against the Falcons, Pearson became the first Toledo player since Tyrone Kent in November, 2008, to make at least 10 free throws in a game without a miss.
The Rockets (9-10, 5-3) hit 28 in a row before finally missing last month in the MAC opener at Kent State. Smith saw his streak of 22 straight end Saturday at Northern Illinois.
Is his inclination for making free throws rubbing off on his girlfriend?
"Nah," Smith said. "She’s a great rebounder though."
NOTES: Kowalczyk said the NCAA has not ruled on the eligibility of Spaniard Angel Aparicio. Kowalczyk had hoped the forward would be able to play a week ago. ... Transfer Justin Drummond will sit out practices the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his foot. He will be eligible next year. | <urn:uuid:7e04f4f7-3f51-4638-81cf-738ffbb103e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.toledoblade.com/UT/2013/02/06/Smith-Buckley-have-Toledo-Rockets-on-record-setting-pace-of-free-throw-shooting.html | 2016-06-29T20:17:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971537 | 843 |
This morning we released a new MAG Public Beta update. The new MAG Public Beta update includes a new PSN Title update (version 1.30) and new game data. This new MAG Public Beta release includes over 8,000 updates and fixes, too many to list in detail. You can start downloading it now to have it ready for when the servers open at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
Some of the patch highlights are:
- Framerate improvements in all environments
- Vote/ Kick implemented
- Art and lighting updates to all levels
- Art updates to weapons, vehicles and objects
- Animation improvement and updates
- Client patching improvements
- Design tuning on all environments (attacker/defender, out of bounds, sightlines, routing…)
- Tuned all skills (skill point expense, skill trees, skill effects)
- Tuning pass on experience rewarded for all actions (resuscitate, heal other, destroy turret, destroy motor pool….)
- Tuning pass on player & leadership experience progressions
- Full audio tuning pass
- Bunker, APC, and Spawn camera adjustments
- Lowered initial spawn times for attackers and defenders for all gametypes
- Update Major/Minor victory and loss percentages and conditions for all gametypes
- Updated Domination gametype scoring values
- Improved weapon feel and hit feedback
A lot of the changes are based directly on feedback from the MAG Public Beta community. Please keep this feedback coming, it really helps us improve the title.
If you are not yet a part of the MAG Public Beta there is still time. If you pre-order MAG at GameStop in the US or EB Games in Canada you receive access to the MAG Public Beta. And remember, from November 9th until November 20th the only way to access the MAG Public Beta in North America is to pre-order MAG.
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CANTON, Mass. – King Philip got off to the perfect start to Wednesday night’s Hock Cup semifinal at Canton. The Warriors jumped out to a 14-2 lead and cruised to the win in the opening set. From that point on, nothing came easy, as the battle of league champions went back-and-forth over the next three sets and both teams had to grind out every point.
KP was able to use its strength at the net, led on the outside by sophomore Ahunna James and in the middle by senior Nicole Coughlan, to power past the Bulldogs. The Warriors won 3-1 (25-12, 27-29, 25-22, 25-20) and advance to Friday night’s final.
“I was surprised [at the start],” said KP coach Kristen Geuss, “but I certainly knew they were going to come back so I didn’t want us to let our guard down at that point because they’re such a good team.”
She added, “It gave us a little bit of confidence. It gave us that cushion so I think we were able to be a little more comfortable out there.”
Canton coach Pat Cawley credited her 10 seniors for their resilience and leading the team back after that very tough opening set.
“These 10 seniors who are graduating couldn’t be better people to be in the gym with every day,” she said. “Obviously we had a really slow start. Those other three sets, I couldn’t be more proud of my kids, the way they played. They gave it everything they had. They went all out.”
Nothing went right for the hosts at the start. Serve-receive was off, passing was off, hitting was off and KP took full advantage.
Coughlan had a pair of kills and a pair of blocks in the early going, Lily Carlow had a pair of aces, and James got off to a quick start with a pair of kills, as KP jumped all over the Bulldogs to build a 14-2 lead.
Canton tried to get some momentum going with good swings by Shannon Malloy and Angie Elias, but Sami Shore’s accurate tip, back-to-back points for Coughlan, and a kill from Giovanna Fruci put and end to any thoughts of a comeback. Coughlan was dominant and she closed out the set with a pinpoint tip, her seventh point in the first, to put KP up 1-0.
Liz Bickett smashed Canton into the lead to start the second set and the Bulldogs looked intent on making sure the match was not a sweep. Their defense improved, turning many of the points into long rallies. Steph Trendell and Nikki Desjardins were able to chase down everything on the back row and keep balls alive.
“I just feel good that my kids gave it everything they had, especially after losing the first set by so much,” said Cawley. “It’s hard to come back in volleyball after that. I just told them to forget it, we’re starting over, and they did. We battled.”
KP continued to be strong defensively as well, with libero Emma Brooks and Carlow prominent on the back row, and started to mix things up offensively, getting James more and more involved on the outside. She had seven kills in the second set alone.
“She’s only a sophomore, so I look forward to see what she can do in the future,” Geuss said of James. “Her and Nicole are definitely our weapons, but I think our setters (Lauren Peterson and Stella Bailey) are doing a good job moving the ball around a lot more than we have to kind of mix it up a little bit and keep their blockers off-balance a little bit.”
After Brooks found an open spot with a kill from the back row and Coughlan smashed another spike down the middle, KP had opened up a 14-8 lead and it looked like the Warriors may start to pull away. Instead, Canton stormed back with seven of the next eight points, including a kill for Bickett and block for Anna Verille, to tie the set at 15-15.
A James kill made it 20-17 but Canton forced a long rally capped by an Elias swing and neither side seemed able to grab momentum, as the atmosphere got as loud as any match this season. Shore had a hit called on the line, but Verille answered. Then Coughlan hit the end line with a kill but a diving dig by Desjardins kept a point alive for Elias to somehow find an open area with a bump.
Canton had the first set point after a Bickett block at 24-23 and her tip gave the Bulldogs another chance at 26-25, but first Coughlan then James had the answer. James saved another set point to tie it 27-27, but Sydney Gallery came off the bench for a big block and Elias hit the line for an ace to close out a 29-27 win for the hosts.
“They were super scrappy,” said Geuss in praise of Canton. “We had to work for every point. That was not an easy match.”
The Bulldogs coming back to win in the second set the stage for two more hard-fought sets in which neither team could put the other away.
KP took a 15-6 lead in the third, following another kill by Fruci, but Canton continued to fight, winning 10 of the next 13 points to get back within two. After a couple of errors, Elias had a block and two kills to make it 20-19. After another kill and a KP shot into the net, the Bulldogs had come all the way back to tie it at 21-21.
But, another pair of errors put KP back in front and the Warriors were able to put themselves on the brink of the final with kills from Camryn Buckley and Coughlan.
In the fourth set, KP again was able to put together a run and grab the lead. An 8-0 run, including a pair of Coughlan kills, put the Warriors up 14-8. Canton never got closer than four points the rest of the set.
Behind a pair of kills from James down the stretch and a block and two kills from Coughlan, KP was able to keep Canton at arm’s length, despite the best efforts of Elias and Bickett. It was fitting that Coughlan, the senior closed out the match with yet another big swing off the Canton block.
“I’m grateful that we had a season and I’m grateful that we could all hang in there so we could have the Hock Cup,” said Cawley. Canton finished the season at 10-2. She added, “It is a little taste of the postseason for them. We don’t really peak until the last 10 matches and this season you blink and it’s over and we’re just raring to go and find our way.”
King Philip (11-1) advances to the Hock Cup final to face Kelley-Rex co-champion Franklin. The teams split their two regular season matchups.
Geuss said, “We’re thrilled to be here. This was great competition for us and hopefully it will set us up for Friday. Hopefully it’s going be a good match and hopefully we show up to play the way we’ve been playing.”
The Warriors, the 2-seed out of the Kelley-Rex division, extended their unbeaten streak to seven straight matches with a convincing 3-0 (25-13, 25-18, 25-18) sweep of the Davenport 3-seed Oliver Ames in the first round of the Hockomock Cup. It’s the sixth straight sweep for King Philip.
Buoyed by the strong serving from Emma Brooks in the first two sets, the powerful swings and blocks at the net from Nicole Coughlan from start to finish, the reliable defense of Lily Carlow, the consistent sets from Lauren Peterson and Stella Bailey, and the timely plays from every other player that stepped onto the court, King Philip was strong in all facets of the game in a match they trailed just once, albeit briefly in the second set.
“They’re working really well as a team right now,” said King Philip head coach Kristen Geuss. “I’ve got a lot of depth on the team so in practice, when we play 6-on-6, it’s very competitive. We’ve got two good groups and at any given time, I have someone I can throw out there and they’ll do a great job. I think that helps us the most. They’re talking a lot more, I think they are just more comfortable being out there. We have half the games so we’ve had half the time to get up to speed.”
It was Brooks’ serving that created the separation for the hosts in each of the first two sets. With the Warriors and Tigers locked in close competition, Brooks stepped to the service line and it resulted in an 8-0 run in both sets, turning a close set into a comfortable lead for the Warriors. She had just one service error in 19 attempts.
“She’s got a good floater,” Geuss said “When it’s moving around like that, it’s tough to [receive] and for them to watch it hit their arms. There’s a lot of movement and she puts a lot of speed on it.”
When Brooks reached the service line in the opening set, KP had just taken an 11-9 lead after a kill from sophomore middle Sami Shore. Brooks had four straight serves that never came back over, including an ace on the fourth attempt. When OA did get it back over, a nice hit from senior Camryn Buckley gave KP a 16-9 lead and forced the visitors into a timeout.
Coughlan smashed a kill out of the timeout to keep the run going and two more strong serves never made it back over; a net violation on KP finally ended the run but the hosts held a 19-9 lead. Carlow (ace) and James (block) put the finishing touches on the set to take a 1-0 lead with a 25-13 decision.
The second set played out similarly, OA getting early points on good serves from sophomore Maddie Homer, a kill from Jordan Bennett, and a nice tip on the second touch from junior setter Hadley Rhodes. KP kept pace with a nice kill off the block from James and another good hit from Coughlan that OA couldn’t get back over.
A serving mistake put Brooks on the line for King Philip with an 11-10 lead and by the time she rotated out, the Warriors turned that small advantage into a 19-10 lead. During that run, Brooks had a pair of aces, Coughlan had a kill and two block kills, and Bailey caught the OA defense with a pass over the net on the second touch.
Coughlan and James both had good swings down the stretch and the Warriors clinched a 2-0 lead on a kill from Buckle to take the second set, 25-18.
“They kind of figured out what we were doing so I give them credit, they came back at us but I think our serving really helped us,” Geuss said. “Our serving was really consistent. Emma had a great run of serves, and when our serves are on, we’re more confident. We’ve been playing well, hopefully we’re on a roll and we’ll continue to play well. The competition is only getting better and better so we just have to rise to the competition but the girls are having fun right now.“
A kill from Coughlan started the final set, Peterson and Carlow each had an ace early, and Shore fooled the defense with a perfectly weighted tip over the block. King Philip led from start to finish in the third set and got some big swings from James down the stretch to ice the win.
King Philip volleyball (10-1) is set to travel to top-seeded Canton, who won yet another Davenport division title this season, on Wednesday at 5:30. Oliver Ames will play in a consolation game on Wednesday.
This time around, not only did the Scarlet Hawks put on an encore performance on the defensive side of the ball, they were even better than a week ago.
Milford handed King Philip its first league shutout in over a decade, and its first division loss to a team besides Mansfield since 2015 in a 12-0 shutout of the Warriors.
Behind a pair of interceptions and a goal line stand that changed the complexion of the game, the Scarlet Hawks earned one of their biggest league wins since joining the Hockomock in 2013.
“Our kids get down hill and they play physical football,” said first-year Milford head coach Dale Olson. “We just went through the grinder… Attleboro, Mansfield, King Philip to open the season. We knew [today] wasn’t going to be pretty, and it certainly wasn’t at times, but we got a great defense. To hold that team…they’re big, physical, they have a tremendous running back. I don’t know how much they ran for today but it couldn’t have been a lot. KP hasn’t lost too much in the Hock [recently] so to beat them, I couldn’t be prouder of the kids.”
Not only did the Hawks keep the Warriors out of the end zone, they limited the visitors to under 200 yards of total offense and held KP to just 2-for-12 on third down. KP was forced to punt six times, had one turnover on downs, and two interceptions.
“We just can’t move the ball so it’s been difficult,” said KP head coach Brian Lee. “Overall I’m pleased with our defensive effort. For a team of 140-pound guys, I think we’re doing pretty good. We’re out there fighting. We had some momentum, we had the long drive and get all the way down and we don’t score…that really was difficult, could have been a boost for us. It’s just frustrating because we were in it.
“It doesn’t get any easier. Mansfield is a lot meaner and a lot more experience. For us not to be able to just go lean on our culture a little bit in this game was a little disappointing in this game.”
King Philip’s defense did its part to keep the Warriors in the game but the Scarlet Hawks hit on one big play in the first half and cashed in one good field possession in the second half to find the end zone twice. Senior quarterback Brady Olson (8/28, 190 yards, two touchdowns) hooked up with classmates Carter Scudo and Max Martin in the end zone for the two scores in the game.
For Milford, getting the ball to Scudo was a priority. Scudo lined up in the backfield (11 carries, 97 yards) and at receiver (two catches, 93 yards, touchdown) to get involved as much as possible. It was evident the Hawks were trying to get him the ball as much as possible and he rewarded them early, taking his first carry for 30 yards on the third play of the game.
In fact, neither team had much success on offense early on as the first quarter ended scoreless. KP’s first drive ended on an interception from Evan Hazard and the Warriors punted on their next two series. Milford turned it over on downs on its first series and went three-and-out on its next two drives.
Scudo was on the receiving end of Milford’s biggest play of the first half. On their fourth drive of the game, the Hawks were faced with 3rd and 13 but a penalty against the KP secondary gave Milford 10 yards and another chance at third down. Brady Olson hit Scudo on a quick slant and Scudo broke free of his man and sprinted his way to the end zone for a 60-yard touchdown and a 6-0 lead (after the PAT was blocked) on the first play of the second quarter.
“We didn’t make a ton of plays in the passing game but we made a couple of big plays,” Olson said. “We tried to move Carter around because through the first two games, we weren’t getting our best kids enough touches. We got him in the backfield, and he’s an explosive kid and there were a couple of times he was so close to breaking it and being gone. So it was good to get him more involved.”
King Philip looked poised to respond with a scoring drive on its own, albeit in different fashion, but came up just inches shy. The Warriors relied on the ground game, giving carries to Crawford Cantave (17 carries, 56 yards) and Mike Malatesta (seven carries, 47 yards). Junior quarterback Charlie Grant (8/19, 69 yards) connected with Eli Reed for a key third down conversion, and Malatesta bulldozed his way inside the 10-yard line.
Milford’s defense held but on 4th and goal from the five, Grant fired a pass near the pylon but the receiver was held. With pass interference, not an automatic first down anymore, KP had a second chance but just 4th and goal from the 3-yard line. Grant kept it and the pile moved close to the goal line but the referees ruled he was down before crossing the line, giving Milford the ball back just an inch outside the goal line.
“What a huge stop,” Dale Olson said. “If they get in there, now it’s a tie game…but we’re big and physical too. I think that’s propelled this program and what we want this program to be moving forward, we want physical kids. To stop them down on the six-inch line like that? [King Philip] is even bigger than Mansfield is upfront so I couldn’t be prouder of our kids.”
King Philip received the opening kick of the second half but the Hawks stuffed the Warriors on a 3rd and 2 and forced the visitors to punt. A high kick went out of bounds at the KP 46-yard line, giving the Hawks good field position to start the second half.
The Hawks moved the ball but a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty backed Milford back up. That only delayed the drive as Brady Olson dropped a 30-yard pass down the sideline into the hands of Matt Varteresion to move the sticks. Two plays later, Olson went play action before hitting Martin on a slant to the right for another touchdown. KP’s Hunter Hastings blocked the extra point to make it 12-0 with 7:45 left in the third quarter.
The Warrior defense did its part to stay in the game. On the final four drives of the game, the Hawks were forced to punt twice after a total of 10 yards, and turned it over on downs inside the red zone on back-to-back possessions.
“We only gave up 12 points, we’re supposed to win with that,” Lee said. “We’re supposed to win that game only giving up 12 but we haven’t been able to figure out a constant response on offense yet. And we lost another starter so it’s only getting harder.”
Even as the KP defense put a stop to the Hawks’ offense, the Warriors couldn’t move the sticks in the second half. King Philip went three-and-out on its first three drives of the second half, punted after getting one first down on the fourth drive, and had its final drive of the game come to an end with Scudo hauled in an interception in the end zone during the final minutes of the contest.
Milford football (2-1) will hit the road for the first time this season when it travels to take on rival Franklin on Saturday at 12:00. King Philip (2-1) will look to bounce back from its first loss when it takes on league-leading Mansfield on Saturday at 6:30.
ATTLEBORO, Mass. – King Philip has developed a reputation for being able to grind out victories, relying on its defense and special teams to pull out close games. On Saturday afternoon at Attleboro’s Tozier-Cassidy Field, the Warriors bolstered that reputation.
KP recorded only 43 yards of offense in the first half, had only one play from scrimmage in the third quarter (a fumble), and only had two drives in the game that lasted more than three plays, but they still walked off the field with a 17-3 victory and a 2-0 record.
“I don’t know how?” KP coach Brian Lee replied when asked about his team’s ability to win the game despite its struggles. “I don’t know if we deserved to. I don’t think those numbers are very good…we’re trying to get things organized and it doesn’t feel like it’s coming together for us yet.
“The kids did enough. They made a big play bringing it back and that’s the difference in the game. Special teams actually played well.”
Special teams was the spark that got the Warriors going on Saturday. Jake Silveria’s 52-yard punt pinned Attleboro inside its own 10. After a three-and-out, Jonathan Joseph’s punt return put KP at the Bombardiers 22 to start its second drive. Mike Malatesta dove for two yards on fourth and one to keep things moving to the Attleboro 11.
Charles Grant just missed a touchdown pass to Drew Danson towards one corner of the end zone (landed just out of bounds) and on third down Anthony Salviati made a great breakup on the other side of the field to keep KP, momentarily, off the board. Matthew Kelley stepped in and made a 28-yard field goal (the first of his varsity career) to make it 3-0.
After admitting that his team lost the physical battle up front in the season opener against Milford, Attleboro coach Mike Strachan was pleased with his team’s effort up front.
On their third possession, the Bombardiers started to pick up some first downs in the running game. Alexander Bakowski (23 carries, 67 yards) was the primary back on Saturday and he had success getting to the edge. Blake Garzaro’s two-yard sneak on third and one kept the drive moving and his hard count drew an offsides penalty on fourth and three for another first down.
After getting to the KP 33, Attleboro tried to look downfield with Crawford Cantave making a good play to knock away one pass to Christian Dame and two passes to Salviati falling incomplete. The Bombardiers moved the ball much better on Saturday, but still struggled to finish drives.
“That’s what we’re going to improve on,” Strachan said of his team’s improvement up front. “Bakowski did a good job and Michael got going a little bit more on offense but we just don’t have that team, breakaway speed and that’s the difference. We matchup [with KP] and that’s a battle right there.”
KP went three-and-out to give Attleboro back the ball in the closing minutes of the half. Michael Strachan broke a 19-yard counter to the Warriors 27. Three plays later, on fourth and two, Attleboro elected to go for a 36-yard field goal. Pat Zarba went up the middle and blocked the kick, which was grabbed in stride by Cantave and he had no one in front of him, racing 72 yards for the game’s first touchdown.
“In a game like this, it’s going to be about possessions,” said Strachan about the decision to go for the kick. “You saw what they did in the fourth quarter, they grind it and that’s what we do. Hindsight, I was trying to get back to the point where we could tie it up. I thought we had momentum at the time. We were moving the ball.”
Attleboro got the ball to start the second half and didn’t look like it was going to give the ball back until the quarter was over. The Bombardiers put together a 17-play, 64-yard drive that ate up more than 10 minutes off the clock.
Strachan powered ahead for two yards to convert a third down, another hard count drew an offsides call to convert a second third down, and Garzaro hit Salviati on a slant for 12 yards to convert on fourth and eight. It was his only completion of the game.
On third and five, Freddy Wheaton broke a 12-yard run up the middle to get down to the KP eight, but there the KP defense stiffened. Hunter Hastings stuffed Strachan for a two-yard loss back to the nine and a pass to Dame in the back of the end zone fell incomplete. Colby Briggs split the uprights with a 26-yard kick, cutting the lead to 10-3 and recording Attleboro’s first points of the season.
Malatesta returned the ensuing kick out to the 41, but the first snap of the drive was fumbled and recovered by Wheaton. KP had less than 20 seconds of possession in the third.
KP got the ball back at its own 10 and finally strung together a few plays to switch field position around. Cantave (17 carries, 66 yards) started to work between the tackles, powering the Warriors out to the 31. KP converted twice on third down (one on an offsides penalty) and moved 54 yards on 12 plays. After stalling at the Attleboro 36, they pinned the Bombardiers back to their own seven.
Down by a touchdown, Attleboro nearly hit a big play on first down, but the bomb to Salviati was just out of his reach with no KP player between him and the end zone. The Bombardiers tried four passing plays in a row, but none connected, giving the Warriors back the ball.
Cantave put the game out of reach just two plays later, finding a seam for a four-yard touchdown and a 17-3 lead with just 1:55 remaining.
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RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic under construction in Belfast, Ireland, ca. 1910.
Ten workers on construction beams.
Boilers awaiting installation in the hull.
RMS Titanic's stern, propellers and rudder.
The RMS Titanic ready for launch. The ship was constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour where was part of the Harland and Wolff shipyard.
A general view of Titanic in the fitting-out berth following her launch. The final stages of construction and outfitting were carried out here.
On March 6, 1912 Titanic (right) had to be moved out of the drydock so her sister Olympic, which had lost a propeller, could have it replaced.
Titanic leaving Belfast for her sea trials on April 2, 1912.
Titanic under sea trials.
Titanic poses for its builders portrait after completion.
The elegant grand staircase leading to the First Class salon.
Main dining room of the RMS Titanic.
The reading room on the upper promenade.
RMS Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure.
RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912.
Strollers on the the Second Class promenade deck of the Titanic had no inkling of the doom that awaited the splendid ship in a chunk of ice floating in the North Atlantic. This photo was made on the short run from Southampton to Queenstown, England, by Rev. F.M. Browne, who fortunately got off the Titanic at Queenstown. His camera was full of historic photos like this one.
A grimly prophetic photo of the Titanic's bridge and one of its lifeboats was made by Rev. F.M. Browne, a passenger who got off the doomed ship after the short run from Southampton to Queenstown, England. More than 2,200 persons (passengers and crew) were aboard for the maiden voyage of the magnificent vessel, but only 711 survived the disaster. Later investigation revealed that the Titanic had enough lifeboats for about 1,200 persons.
The Titanic leaves Southampton, England on April 10, 1912, in one of the last known photos before she went to her watery grave. The photo was taken by Henry William Clarke, chief engineer of the Southampton docks, and given to the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1968 by Clarke's daughter, Mrs. R.H. Hooper of Richmond. Its historical importance lay undiscovered in museum files for thirty years.
This is the killer. It is the actual iceberg which caused the British luxury liner Titanic to sink. The 46,000-ton vessel was still going at a speed of 25 miles per hour when she hit the iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later the magnificent ship was under, with the loss of 1,517 lives.
German artist Willy Stoewer depicted this scene of the tragic sinking of the Titanic. He was well-known for his sea-themed paintings, particularly of ships sinking. He did not witness the sinking of the Titanic, and so this rendition contains some historical inaccuracies, notably: the presence of multiple icebergs and smoke billowing from the No. 4 funnel (rearmost), which was actually a dummy.
One of Titanic's lifeboats before recovery by the crew of the RMS Carpathia.
It's a high moment in the annals of real-life sea adventure as one of the crowded Titanic lifeboats is hoisted aboard the rescue ship Carpathia. When rescue operations were completed, the Carpathia carried a total of 711 survivors of the Titanic tragedy on to New York, which had been the ill-fated liner's destination.
Paperboy hawks a copy of the Boston Daily Globe, giving a revised estimate of the dead and saved in the Titanic sinking disaster.
Second Officer Charles Lightoller was the most senior Titanic officer to survive the disaster. Off-duty at the time of the collision, Lightoller took charge of the lifeboat evacuation on the port side of the Titanic. Diving clear as the ship went down, he clung to an overturned lifeboat and would be the last survivor pulled from the water by the crew of RMS Carpathia.
Alexander James Littlejohn was a First Class Steward on the RMS Titanic shortly before (left) and after the Titanic sank (right). The two pictures were taken six months apart and show the effect that shock had on his appearance by turning his hair white.
One of the most famous survivors of the Titanic sinking was Mrs. Margaret T. Brown. She had boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg. During the sinking she assisted passengers in boarding lifeboats, finally being persuaded to board Lifeboat 6 herself and insisted on the boat returning to the vicinity of the sinking Titanic to try to recover more survivors. Her story was the basis of the Broadway musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Row upon row of plain granite headstones in Halifax cemetery mark graves of 125 victims of sinking of the Titanic.
Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith had built a reputation as one of the world's most experienced sea captains, and commanded all of the White Star Line's newest liners after 1904, culminating with the Titanic He became known as the "Millionaire Captain" because the upper class passengers requested that he be in command of the ships they sailed on. Reports differ as to his final moments on the Titanic, and his body was never recovered.
A memorial to "The Heroic Musicians of the Titanic, who died at their posts like men". Musicians Wallace Hartley (bandmaster, violin), Roger Marie Bricoux (cello), Theodore Ronald Brailey (piano), John Wesley Woodword (cello), John Frederick Preston Clarke (string bass, violin), John Law Hume (violin), Percy Cornelius Taylor (piano) and Georges Alexandre Krins (violin) all perished with the ship.
Charles Melville Hays was the president of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. He had travelled to England to secure financing for the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway), and was returning to Canada for the planned opening of the Chateau Laurier hotel (a Grand Trunk property) in Ottawa on April 25, 1912. He helped his wife and daughter into a lifeboat, but expecting a rescue ship to arrive before the Titanic sank, had returned to his cabin to gather belongings. He perished along with a son in law and his secretary. | <urn:uuid:32c5e8cd-b310-4b4d-871a-febeec30af0d> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.windsorstar.com/news/canada/Photos+Titanic+story+photographs/6418849/story.html | 2015-03-28T16:36:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131297622.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172137-00039-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971814 | 1,337 |
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One Trick to Fussy Cutting and using your Copic Markers
Hello crafty peeps! Today I’m sharing a super-duper cute card made with Newton’s Nook Stamps, Hedgehog Hollow. Are you a fan of Fussy Cutting? Well, if you are — Here’s One Trick to Fussy Cutting and using your Copic Markers. Today is my last post as guest designer and I’ve been so honored to be apart of their amazing team throughout this last month. This little hedgehog stamp set is from their new release and comes with some darling sentiments that are versatile.. Notice how I double stamped the hedgehog to give him some dimension on the mushroom. I was going to do the basic reddish-brown mushroom but then decided to go all colorful. It kinda reminds me of The Smurfs Cartoon. (I’m really hoping there were not any of you who are like, ‘ What is The Smurfs Cartoon!!)
How to …
I try to give some type of tip or tutorial in my posts.. so here it is. I love the way my images come out when I break down and do some fussy cutting.Also, I really wanted to make this little guy look 3D, so I stamped him twice, one for my base and the other for my dimension. The image on the bottom doesn’t have very many coloring details, he’s actually colored pretty flat – bla! As for the the image I did some fussy cutting on.. is the one I put all of my Copic Details into. None of the mushrooms were double stamped, I just stamped them the one time and used a dimensional to adhere to my scene.
When I cut out an image I like to get as close as I can to the outline of the stamp, which sometimes leaves a little white. Here’s One Trick to Fussy Cutting that will stay with you for e-v-a! To get rid of that white area and make it seem like you are a PRO-cutter all you need to do is go along the edge of the paper using the side of my Copic Marker with N5.I believe this works with any image that you have stamped in a black outline, or dark ink. If you have stamped in a different color then I would suggest using something close to that color you stamped your image in.
Before One Trick to Fussy Cutting – adding N5..
After adding N5..
- Doesn’t adding that little bit of color make a huge difference! I do this little trick anytime I color and then cut something out. It makes my cutting look so precise.
- Hedgehog – E44,E43,Ee30, E31, E33, E17 W3, W5,
- Mushrooms – R22, R24, R2, R29, N5, E33, E35, E30, E37, B00, B12, B2, YG63, Y21, YG17, V09, V06, V05, V00, RV19, RV17, RV11
- Grass – YG63, YG17, YG21,
- Sky – BG000, BG00
I hope you will try my One Trick to Fussy Cutting! Thank you again, Newton’s Nook for having me. I really hope you enjoyed my cards throughout the month.
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Great idea, I’ll have to give it an try. I very seldom ever fussy cut, but use my Brother ScanNCut to cut out my images But most of the time that I have to fussy cut I do it with an Xacto knife on a glass mat. This makes it real easy to cut.
Great idea Mindy, the example look great. When I have to fussy cut I do it on a glass mat and a Xacto knife, this make the cutting go real fast and even.
Beautiful card and so beautiful colourized.
Thank you for joining at Stamping Sensations this month.
Oh how SWEET!! You rocked with those cute mushrooms in the fabulous colors. This scene is adorable!
Great fussy cutting and tip-love the cute hedgehog love all the coloured mushrooms—Thank you for joining us at Simply papercrafts
Just gorgeous! Incredible colouring and a great fussy cutting tip too!
Thank you for joining us at The Pencil Case! Jane (DT) xxx
This card is absolutely adorable! Your fussy-cutting and coloring skills are amazing!
This is super cute. Love fussy cutting and I always use a marker along the cut edges too, but I usually use black because most of my image I stamp with black ink. This hedgehog is so cute sitting on the mushroom and love the dimension you a added. Surely hope everyone knows the smurfs 🙂 There is no excuse not to since the recent newer smurfs movies!!
Thanks so much for sharing!!
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RESOLUTION NO. 2000-27 <br />RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE <br />SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POWER AUTHORITY <br />FINDING AND DECLARING THE PROPOSED BURBANK <br />POWER PLANT (AKA MAGNOLIA POWER PROJECT) TO <br />BE A STUDY PROJECT, AUTHORIZING STUDIES TO <br />ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF THE BURBANK POWER <br />PLANT (AKA MAGNOLIA POWER PROJECT), AND <br />AUTHORlZING THE COLLECTION AND EXPENDITURE <br />OF CERTAIN FUNDS ]RELATED THERETO <br />WHEREAS, the City of Burbank owns a generating station site located in the City of <br />Burbank (the "Site"); and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Burbank has commenced preliminary feasibility studies for the <br />construction and operation of a new combined cycle generating unit with capacity of <br />approximately 240 to 270 megawatts at the Site (the "Burbank Power Plant, aka Magnolia Power <br />Project") that is expected to be financially competitive in future electricity markets and that <br />would help protect its customers from price volatility; and <br />WJAEREAS, the City of Burbank and the Southern California Public Power Authority <br />(the "Authority") believe that the Magnolia power Project (together with possible future <br />generating facilities undertaken by the Authority) will enhance reliability as a result of <br />diversification of generating resources; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Burbank has requested that the Authority make the proposed <br />Magnolia Power Project a "Study Project" as provided in the Authority's Joint Powers <br />Agreement, dated as of November 1, 1980 (as amended, the "Joint Powers Agreement"), with <br />the ability for other members of the Authority to participate; and <br />WHEREAS, certain other members of the Authority have indicated an interest in <br />participating in the Study Project; and <br />WHEREAS, to expedite the commencement of work relating to the Study Project, the <br />City of Burbank has agreed to pay all costs of the Study Project (other than any costs paid <br />pursuant to the Authority's Resolution No. 2000-28) until such time as one or more other <br />members of the Authority agree to share the costs of the Study Project; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Burbank has expressed its desire to have other members of the <br />Authority agree as soon as possible (but not later than December 1, 2000) to share the costs of <br />the Study Project (each member that so agrees being referred to as a "Study Project Participant"); <br />and <br />WHEREAS, a Study Project Participant may withdraw from the Study Project at any <br />time (subject to paying its applicable portion of costs incurred prior to such withdrawal); and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Burbank has requested that the Authority enter into all necessary <br />or desirable contracts and other arrangements to facilitate the Study Project; and
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* Until 515 PM CDT.
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Resource management leader Veolia UK, has demonstrated its strategic commitment to the plastics economy by acquiring manufacturing assets in East London which will unlock the complete supply chain for manufacturing plastic bottles from recycled material.
Veolia will now be able to offer the complete range of services from collection of raw feedstock (waste plastic bottles) direct from people’s homes or businesses, through all the recycling steps, and back to food grade pellets ready to be blown into new plastic milk bottles.
The move will boost the UK’s domestic recycling capability, create 30 permanent jobs and enable Veolia to make and sell a high value product from the 200 million plastic milk bottles it collects annually.
Currently around 13 billion soft drinks, water and milk bottles are discarded each year and globally the environmental costs are on the increase. By recycling bottles to produce new food-grade quality plastic, Veolia will make plastic more sustainable and maintain lower costs for local councils.
Estelle Brachlianoff, Senior Executive Vice President Veolia UK and Ireland said, "We are very interested to collaborate in this space since co-operation with the manufacturing sector, the people actually making things from recovered materials, is essential in order to be successful for the long term.
"Co-operation with the manufacturing sector, the people actually making things from recovered materials, is essential in order to be successful for the long term."
Estelle Brachlianoff, Senior Executive Vice President Veolia UK and Ireland
“This is a great opportunity to work in tandem with our Rainham plastic recycling facility to turn the high density polyethylene (HDPE) milk bottles back into bottles and we are excited at mastering the full supply chain by moving into this type of manufacturing. This shows once again Veolia’s commitment to investment in the UK.”
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan said: “I am determined to redouble efforts to increase the amount London recycles so I am delighted that Veolia has purchased this important facility. This plant will be able to recycle all of the capital’s empty milk bottles – a mountain of waste that would otherwise have been sent to landfill. This is good news for London and good news for the environment.”
The new business will produce around 10,000 tonnes of high quality food grade HDPE pellets annually. Recycling this material requires 75% less energy to make a plastic bottle than using ‘virgin’ materials, and this equates to conserving enough energy to power around 20,000 homes and saving 10,000 tpa of carbon emissions. The move also complements Veolia’s recent commitment as a Core Partner to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s campaign to support the Plastics Economy. | <urn:uuid:d02a6314-f10d-4d54-81e1-401775df546a> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.veolia.co.uk/press-releases/veolia-invests-uk-plastic-recycling | 2018-08-22T04:02:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221219469.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20180822030004-20180822050004-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.9297 | 561 |
Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 by Angie Han
Dexter has to end sometime, but Showtime’s been reluctant to say exactly when. Execs have avoided confirming the end of the series, even as they’ve acknowledged that it’s “moving toward a definite end” in Season 8, and one producer has even floated the possibility of a movie sequel. Today, however, we have an indirect confirmation from CBS head Les Moonves that Dexter will really and truly be over after Season 8. Hit the jump to keep reading.
In a conversation with investors, Moonves, whose CBS Corporation is the parent company of Showtime Networks Inc., referred to the next season of Dexter as its “last season.” The drama’s continued popularity has been the main reason for keeping it afloat, even though plenty of fans would argue that the quality declined long ago. If there was any serious possibility that Dexter might return, Moonves probably wouldn’t have casually called Season 8 its last.
The possibility of a Dexter exit has been floating around since 2011, when Showtime renewed the series for two more seasons (last year’s Season 7 and the upcoming Season 8). At the time, Showtime entertainment president David Nevins admitted the series probably wouldn’t last beyond those two.
I’m not going to say with absolute certainty that this is the end, but that is the likely scenario, that the series is moving towards a definite end.
More recently, executive producer Scott Buck told THR in December he was treating Season 8 as the end, but left open the possibility of a last-minute change of heart.
We are absolutely writing it with an end in sight, but if we get told otherwise somewhere along the way, we’ll take it in a different direction. But we are definitely working toward the finale of the series. We are indeed, yes.
After a strong start, the series ran out of steam in the middle seasons, due in part to the demands of an ongoing series. That is, they couldn’t have Dexter caught or killed — or even work toward Dexter getting caught or killed — in case they needed the Bay Harbor Butcher to be up to his old tricks again come next fall. In contrast, Season 7 turned out to be the strongest in years, thanks to the higher stakes that came with moving toward an endgame.
It’s true that the network could still change their minds, and that these days even a show’s cancellation is no guarantee it won’t return eventually. Indeed, Showtime’s spokesperson is still insisting that there’s “nothing confirmed” about the fate of the series. But at this point it’s looking extremely unlikely that Dexter will be back for a Season 9.
Especially since, as Moonves pointed out, Showtime has plenty of other stuff to fill that gap:
Ray Donovan is coming on with Liev Schreiber which comes on with Dexter‘s last season starting in June. And then we have Masters of Sex, a story of Masters and Johnson, which is a very exciting show. A show that you wouldn’t see on CBS but it works on Showtime. And that comes behind Homeland in September. And just announced, we’re doing a series about the Vatican, which I think is rather timely, which Ridley Scott is directing for us. So we’re very excited about that.
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Strain Review: Eran Almog
Friday, 5:07 pm. I slip down and from the metaphoric dinosaur end and jump into my form of Fred Flintstone’s vehicle. My mind nevertheless cluttered through the That was, I barely notice my commute home and end up in the garage week magically.
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A few months ago, I described building the Ultimate Gaming Rig. If you recall, I recommended finding a discontinued MX700 over the new MX1000 due to size and balance. Well, it seems like Logitech's design team had the same ideas as I did because the G7 has returned to the MX700 ergonomics, and brought back some of the proven ergonomics of the MouseMan+ such as the single thumb button. The distinctive feature of the G7 is the 2000 dpi Laser sensor and "gaming grade" modifications such as the extra-large Teflon feet which provide a smoother glide. The mouse also features two buttons which allow you to alter the sensitivity of the mouse without having to enter a control panel. This means that you can keep the mouse in the default mode for day to day Windows use, then decrease your precision when you're working in Photoshop and finally increase your precision when playing games. This happens in hardware and on the fly without needing to go into the mouse control panel. Before using the G7, I would have called this feature a gimmick but after using the G7 as my primary mouse for an extended period of time, I now realize that this is one of the best features of the product.
With the MX700, users were expected to charge their mouse in the cradle each evening. This became a problem and I ended up using my own high capacity 2200 mAh NiMH batteries and a 15 minute charger to deal with the power-thirsty mouse. With the G7, Logitech includes two battery packs where the second battery back is always charged so that it's possible to swap a used battery for a new one in a matter of seconds. Depending on your use, the G7 batteries last anywhere from 2 to 4 days
Ever since the original bear-claw design, Logitech has always a popular mouse of choice for gamers. Over the years, Logitech has made evolutionary changes and the G7 represents the best mouse from Logitech I've seen since the MX700. The balance is spot on and so there's no need for counter weights, and the wireless signal works with the same fluidity that you expect from a wired mouse. (It samples at 500Hz) The attention to detail that Logitech has put into the G7 is even seen through small touches such as the way the mouse shows you the current sensitivity whenever the mouse is moved and fades to the current battery level when the mouse isn't moving.
I can think of no other product I've reviewed in the last 7 years that has impressed me so much. A few years ago, I gave the MX700 a 97% score and an Editor's Choice Award. The G7? It's a 99% Editor's Choice product. As you know, FiringSquad is typically tougher when it comes to handing out scores – the 99% means that the G7 is truly that impressive. There are no gimmicks – just pure performance. If the G7 was a bit lower in price, it would probably be the second product in FiringSquad history to receive a perfect score. Of course, I'm assuming that you're not left-handed.
I spent the most time detailing the Logitech G7 and Monster Music SuperDisc because they're truly the best of the bunch. In fact, I would be just as happy in my Holiday Buyer's Guide talking about just those two products. There is no right-handed PC enthusiast who wouldn't enjoy using the Logitech G7 and no audiophile (who enjoys Christmas music) who wouldn't want to own "40 Years, A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress Preview Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is a standalone expansion pack and follow-up to developer Stardock's previous game in the series, subtitled War of Magic. That 4X strategy game was highly-anticipated and slated to compete with games such as Sid Meier's Civilization V for your turn-based strategy play-time, but was released in an incredibly broken and unfinished state that it never fully recovered from. Lead designer Brad Wardell apologized profusely to fans and set out with his team to go back to the drawing board and try again.
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The Elder Scrolls Online Details Leak - Should Fans Be Excited? The Elder Scrolls Online, long rumored to be in development, was officially announced yesterday. Still in development at Zenimax Online Studios, this MMO aims to combine traditional genre mechanics with the spirit and sensibilities, not to mention setting and lore, of the immensely popular series of single-player RPGs. Though the game is set for a full unveiling in the next issue of Game Informer magazine, what appears to be the entire cover story article has been leaked to the interwebs already. In today's article, you'll find summary and analysis of all the alleged details, as well as feast your eyes on the very first screenshots and concept art from the game. Of course, the burning question now is, should you be excited?
ANNO 2070 Review
The year is 2070. The majority of life on Earth was devastated when global sea levels surged after the melting of the polar ice caps. Swaths of previously habitable land are now deep underwater, and sovereign nations are a relic of the past. But there is still hope...
This city-building RTS/simulation game from Ubisoft tasks you with re-colonizing what little land areas are left on the planet following a global warming apocalypse. Does it have what it takes to be worthy of your time and money, or should it be cast out to sea with the rest of civilization? Find out in today's review!
Hear that? It's the sound of the largest computer chip manufacturer in the world churning out new processors to power your gaming rig. This week, Intel is launching their next generation of Core CPUs, code-named Ivy Bridge. Like last year's Sandy Bridge chips, they're low-power, quad-core powerhouses that also feature integrated graphics processors. Want to find out more? Maybe check out a whole bunch of performance benchmarks on both the CPU and graphics sides of things? Well you can, in today's review!
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Looking forward to those new Ivy Bridge CPUs? In anticipation of their release later this month, Intel has already unveiled the new Series 7 chipsets designed especially to take advantage of what will be the 3rd-generation of Core processors. In today's article, we take a look at the architecture of the enthusiast variant, the Z77, and how it's used in the Intel Desktop Extreme DZ77GA-70K motherboard. Even if you're not particularly interested in the motherboard itself, you'll probably want to see some of the new features that come along with it, so read on!
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This latest release from EA/BioWare is the final entry in their trilogy of sci-fi action RPGs, putting you in a dire situation: rally the troops to save Earth at all costs. There was a lot of hype surrounding the final act of what has been a vast and highly-customizable story-telling experience, and the reception among many hardcore fans has been less than stellar. Even people that haven't played the game have probably heard about all the nerd rage going on over Mass Effect 3's ending...
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Batman: Arkham City PC Review Batman: Arkham City is the sequel to 2009’s smash-hit action game Batman: Arkham Asylum. As the name suggests, you will be reprising your role as the Caped Crusader and going against an even larger 'prison' filled with Gotham's criminals and villains. A textbook example on how to do a proper sequel, Arkham City takes what worked in the original, excised or improved upon what didn’t, and elevated everything to an even greater scope. The PC version suffered from a few months of delay, but in that time, Rocksteady worked closely to NVIDIA to implement some familiar technologies from the last game, such as PhysX and 3D Vision, along with new DirectX 11 optimizations. But how well was the whole package executed? Read on to find out!
Saints Row: The Third PC Review Saints Row is one of most unique series of games to build upon the open-world action template forged by Grand Theft Auto, and has met with plenty of critical and commercial success since it began on consoles back in 2006. This latest iteration, titled Saints Row: The Third promises the most outlandish fun and freedom of customization of them all, and in a much more PC-friendly package than its predecessor. Does it live up to those expectations and, more importantly, is it worth the price of admission? Find out in Will's latest review!
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC Review The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is Bethesda Softworks’ latest offering in their series of epic fantasy RPGs, as well as one of the most highly-anticipated PC titles of 2011. As the Dovahkiin, or Dragonborn, prepare to take the fight to the mythical beasts that have returned to the realm after centuries of slumber, all the while exploring a huge and highly-detailed open world.
The PC version of the game promises enhanced graphical fidelity, standard RPG trimmings such as hotkeys and quick-save, as well as unbridled mod support, something we’ll all be thankful for once they release that SDK. Skyrim has already sold millions of copies and set records for play-time on Steam... Find out why in today's review, which happens to be one of the biggest and most in-depth articles on the subject out there!
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Dr Fueyo and colleagues recently published the results of a phase 1 study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, which evaluated the antitumor efficacy of a modified version of a common cold virus, DNX-2401 (Delta-24-RGD; tasadenoturev), in patients with glioma.4 The dose-escalation study enrolled 37 patients who received a single intratumoral injection of DNX-2401 (group A). Fourteen of these patients had injection with through a permanently implanted catheter followed by resection after 14 days (group B).
Twenty percent of patients in group A survived longer than 3 years and 3 had more than 95% reduction in tumor volume. Specimen analyses from group B showed that DNX-2401 replicated and spread within the tumor.
According to Dr Fueyo and Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, MD, also of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, who co-developed the DNX-2401 platform, these results show two types of evidence suggesting that the oncolytic virus induced an antitumor response.
First, the authors discussed a patient treated with a single injection of the virus who had what appeared to be tumor progression on a scan taken at 5 weeks. The tumor was resected and a specimen sent to pathology.
“Pathology showed that 20% of the tumor contained cancer cells, but 80% of the mass was lymphocytes,” Dr Fueyo told Cancer Therapy Advisor. “There was a humungous inflammation within the tumor at the moment of the resection that strongly suggests that there was an immune reaction against the tumor.”
Dr Fueyo and colleagues showed that at least 20% of the patients that survived more than 3 years had changes in radiology that strongly suggested the same inflammation.
“These two things together — the radiologic images showing progression based on inflammation and pathologic confirmation of inflammation in specimens taken from the tumor that were resected — strongly suggest an immune response against the tumor,” said Dr Gomez-Manzano.
According to Dr Fueyo, while any virus may be able to induce an antitumor immune response, the question will be which is the safest.
“There are new reports about the Zika virus being modified to treat brain tumors,” Dr Fueyo said. “Yet just because we can do it doesn’t mean it is the best approach.”
The cost of oncolytic viral therapy is also a concern for Drs Fueyo and Gomez-Manzano.
Another therapy that harnesses the body’s immune response, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, was recently approved for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (tisagenlecleucel) and aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (axicabtagene ciloleucel.) Each dose of CAR-T cell therapy is customized by collecting a patient’s own lymphocytes, modifying them to direct them to attack cancer cells, and infusing them back into the patient. Novartis has set a list price of $475,000 for tisagenlecleucel and Gilead has listed the pricing of axicabtagene ciloleucel at $373,000.5
“It is bad when you are doing research in a lab and trying to develop a treatment and thinking, ‘who is going to be able to pay for this?’” Dr Fueyo said.
“The production of our virus and the final price should, however, be much cheaper than biological therapies like CAR-T cells or immune checkpoint inhibitors.”
- FDA approves IMLYGIC™ (talimogene laherparepvec) as first oncolytic viral therapy in the US [news release]. Thousand Oaks, CA: Amgen; October 27, 2015. http://www.amgen.com/media/news-releases/2015/10/fda-approves-imlygic-talimogene-laherparepvec-as-first-oncolytic-viral-therapy-in-the-us/. Accessed February 2018.
- NCI dictionary of cancer terms: oncolytic virus therapy. National Cancer Institute website. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/oncolytic-virus-therapy. Accessed February 2018.
- Andtbacka RH, Kaufman HL, Collichio F, et al. Talimogene laherparepvec improves durable response rate in patients with advanced melanoma. J Clin Oncol. 2015;33:2780-8.
- Lang FE, Conrad C, Gomez-Manzano C, et al. Phase I study of DNX-2401 (Delta-24-RGD) oncolytic adenovirus: replication and immunotherapeutic effects in recurrent malignant glioma. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Feb 12. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.75.8219 [Epub ahead of print]
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The government’s decision to dismantle 500-500 rupees has helped authorities carry 9.1 million people under the tax network as the money has lost its anonymity, the Union Finance Minister said on Tuesday, Arun Jaitley. This is about a quarter of 37 million people filing tax returns in 2015-16.
Jaitley said demonetization had given a boost to digitization and led to an increase in the number of murderers and tax revenues. The Nov. 8 announcement had also instilled fear among people about the cash deal, he said.
“A message has come out clearly according to the steps taken by CBDT post demonetization – it is no longer safe to deal with excessive money and tax money evaded … It is quite clear that those who have been indulging in all these are not Safer, “Jaitley said.
After the demonetization, there has been a rise in the collection of income tax on individuals, said the finance minister, adding that the new portal would help honest taxpayers.
Sushil Chandra, chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), said there was a 17 percent growth in gross revenue, which was Rs 1.46 lakh crore more than last year.
There was a 22 percent growth in electronic filings after demonetization, he said. The total returns presented until March were 52.8 million, and of that 98% electronic returns were filed.
The number of allocations to the PAN increased from 100,000 to 200,000 a day, and the tax department had allocated more than 300 million PAN to several people, he said.
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More than 972,000 taxpayers submitted their response without visiting the income tax office until May 12.
These contributors have provided a response of 1.3 million accounts with cash deposits of around Rs 2.89 lakh crore. Online responses have been evaluated and no further action will be taken in cases of satisfactory explanation, an official statement said.
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In this post, I am going to review one type – the multiple-choice questions. Let’s look at what you can expect.
How Many Multiple-Choice Questions Are on the CPA Exam?
You’ve probably heard that multiple-choice questions, or CPA MCQs, play an essential role in the CPA Exam. You may be wondering: Is the CPA Exam all multiple choice? What kinds of CPA exam questions will be on the exam?
The answer is no. While the exam isn’t entirely multiple-choice questions, they do comprise 50% of the CPA Exam. In fact, you’ll find MCQs on every single section of the CPA Exam.
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The number of multiple-choice questions on each part of the exam will vary. To understand, we need to break this down into the different parts of the exam.
Before we go into exact numbers, it’s important to note that each section of the exam has section blocks called testlets. For each section of the exam, the multiple-choice questions are given to the candidates in two separate testlets.
Here’s how many CPA MCQs you will find on each section of the exam:
Auditing & Attestation (AUD): 36 questions per testlet, for a total of 72.
Financial Accounting & Reporting (FAR): 33 questions per testlet, for a total of 66.
Regulation (REG): 38 questions per testlet, for a total of 76.
Business Environment & Concepts (BEC): 31 questions per testlet, for a total of 62.
Across all four sections of the CPA exam, there’s a total of 276 multiple-choice questions.
How Much Do MCQs Count Towards Your Score?
Multiple-choice questions play a significant role in your score. It’s going to be very important to study for them. Many people find they have an advantage with multiple-choice CPA exam questions since the AICPA provides the answer. You just need to choose the correct (or best) one. In contrast, on the task-based simulations, in most cases, you’ll need to supply the answer (fill-in-the-blank style).
For the AUD, FAR, REG, and BEC sections of the exam, the AICPA attributes 50% of your total score to the MCQs.
Because the AICPA allocates so much weight to the MCQs, failing a significant amount of MCQs can mean failing the exam itself. Knowing that recent reports show the pass rate for the CPA Exam is just over 50%, it’s so important to be prepared for the MCQs!
What Type of MCQs Are on the CPA Exam?
The AICPA, which creates the CPA Exam, presents candidates with a few different styles of multiple-choice questions. Here are some of the different types of MCQs you can expect to find on the exam:
Recall: These types of questions require you to use your knowledge and memory to recall the answer.
Interpretation: These types of MCQs require you to interpret what is being asked in order to determine which response is the most suitable answer.
Problem-solving: These questions require you to choose the best answer that solves the problem that’s provided to you.
It’s important to familiarize yourself with all of these types of MCQs. You might find that it’s easier to prepare for one type of these questions over the others, depending on you and your learning style.
What Material Do the Multiple-Choice Questions Cover?
The material that’s covered by the MCQs will vary according to each section of the exam. Here’s what you can expect to find on each section of the exam:
AUD: This section of the exam focuses on auditing. Some of the topics you’ll be tested on include:
Audits of issuer and non-issuer entities
Attestation engagements (such as examinations, reviews, and agreed-upon procedure agreements).
Audit engagements and non-audit engagements
FAR: This section of the CPA Exam is known to focus the most on accounting. This exam section is also said to be the most difficult. Some of the accounting CPA Exam questions will include topics like:
Accounting for businesses, non-profits, and government entities
Financial accounting and reporting methods
Compiling financial statements (e.g., journal entries and presentation)
Calculations (e.g., bonds and leases)
REG: This section of the exam is all about tax and business law, with a focus on federal taxation. Some of the topics you can expect to see include:
BEC: This part of the CPA Exam focuses on business concepts and transactions. In this section, you’ll find mostly business CPA exam questions. You’ll find MCQs related to these and other topics:
Internal control frameworks
Enterprise risk management
Marketing influence on the business environment
Remember that these are just some of the many topics that will be covered by the CPA questions.
How Difficult Are the CPA Exam MCQs?
The difficulty of the exam’s MCQs also changes based on whether you correctly or incorrectly answer the exam questions.
Every section of the CPA Exam starts out with a testlet containing multiple-choice questions that are medium in terms of difficulty. If you do well on that test, your second testlet will contain more challenging questions. However, if your performance isn’t great on the first testlet, then your questions will stay at the medium level of difficulty.
How Do You Answer the MCQs?
Since multiple-choice questions make up the majority of the exam’s questions, it’s important to do well on them. How do you increase your chances of getting MCQs correct, though?
Here are some strategic ways to answer MCQs:
Answer the question without looking at the answer first. See if you’re able to come up with the solution on your own, without looking at the answers provided on the CPA Exam. Read all of your answer options before making your final decision, but be sure to trust your gut instinct, too.
Narrow down your answers. If you’re feeling unsure about the answer of the CPA MCQ, consider using the process of elimination method. Figuring out which options aren’t the correct answer can help lead you to the correct answer.
Use the true/false method. If you’re having a difficult time coming up with the answer for a question, translate it into a true or false statement and apply it to each of the possible answers. This works exceptionally well if you have already narrowed your answers down.
Don’t spend too long thinking about your answers. When you spend too much time thinking about your answer, you’re more likely to get it wrong. You’ll also be wasting valuable time that could be better spent on the rest of the questions.
The most important thing is to avoid leaving any question blank. Remember that when you make an educated guess, you have a chance of getting the question right.
How Do You Study for the MCQs?
It’s important to study for the MCQs. And since they make up 50% of your total CPA Exam score, they shouldn’t be taken lately.
Here are some tips on how to study for the CPA MCQs:
Prepare your own flashcards. Use the flashcards to review what you have learned. This can be one of the most effective study methods for visual learners.
Take notes as you review the material. Reviewing notes can also be a great tool for visual learners.
Draw the material or make posters. Seeing the information can help visual learners memorize the material.
Read the material out loud to yourself. This can be a good way to remember it if you’re an auditory learner.
Consider planning a study group with other people who are taking their CPA Exams. Having study buddies can be a great way to have fun while studying.
If time allows, complete all of the MCQs available in your review course. Practicing questions is critical, so do as many as you can!
How Do You Prepare for the MCQs?
How can you learn what type of material you can expect to see on the test? While the AICPA has a syllabus, called the Blueprint, it’s necessary to rely on experts who have synthesized the AICPA Blueprint. The Blueprint, while informative, provides no examples, learning materials, or practice questions.
Here are some of the best ways to prepare for CPA MCQs:
Preparation books: When choosing a preparation book, it’s important to make sure that it’s up-to-date. Using a book from 2015 likely won’t help you prepare for a CPA Exam you’re taking this year. However, if you’re not a high-performing student who has just graduated, books alone may not help you to pass. Most candidates need a complete review course.
CPA review course: The right review course will contain thousands of sample CPA MCQs. This will help introduce you to some of the types of questions you can expect to see on the exam.
Video lectures: Listening to an instructor discuss the information you’re studying can be much more effective than reading a textbook. Many review courses provide 100 hours or so of video lectures for you to watch.
Audio lectures: Although audio lectures can be just as effective as video lectures, they offer one important advantage: you can take them everywhere. You can listen to audio lectures when you’re at the gym, commuting, or getting ready for bed.
Mobile phone apps: There are a number of CPA Exam apps that you can download on your smartphone. Flipping through mobile flashcards can help you memorize some of the information that you’ll need to recall for the exam.
CPA Exam test banks: Test banks act as software platforms and professional exam simulators. These banks are focused on providing you with sample CPA questions and answers. Many offer features that will help make studying easier, such as allowing you to access sample MCQs right from your smartphone!
Choosing the CPA Review Course with the Best Test Bank
There are so many CPA review courses and test banks on the market to choose from. How will you know which one is right for you?
First, it’s important to keep in mind that there’s no “best” option. You’ll want to find the review course and test bank that’s most suited to your learning style and budget.
Here are some things to take into consideration when deciding:
Cost: You’ll want to find a CPA review course or test bank that you can afford. Some courses offer financing options and money-back guarantees. However, test bank only options do not provide candidates with financing as a purchase choice. So, if you need to utilize financing, you’ll need to focus on purchasing a full review course.
Expiration: Many courses offer unlimited access, meaning your study materials will never expire. However, all standalone test banks do expire. (A standalone test bank is one you purchase to supplement the questions in your main CPA course. Or, if you’re brave, you can try to study using only a test bank.)
Audio Review: If you’re an audio learner, you’ll probably want to consider a course that offers audio review features or lectures.
Bundled Packages: While some test banks can be purchased individually, most often, they are included in the purchase of a full course.
Size: It’s important to consider the number of prep questions each course or test bank contains. Test banks contain 6,000+, 9,000+, or even 12,000+ MCQ questions! However, most CPA course providers reduce the number of questions in their test banks if you purchase it separately. Therefore, you’ll receive the most questions if you purchase a full course, not a standalone test bank.
Why It’s Ideal to Select a Course with a Large Test Bank
There are a number of advantages to choosing a course with a big test bank. Some of the benefits of big test banks include the following:
You won’t run out of practice CPA questions. With a smaller test bank, you might find that you won’t have enough prep questions to benefit you.
You’ll find that the questions cover a wider array of topics. When you choose a big CPA test bank, you’ll find that just about every area possible will be covered.
With more questions to choose from, you’ll likely find some of the most challenging sample questions.
Test banks generally allow you to create custom quizzes to help prep yourself. With more questions to choose from, you’ll be able to design a quiz that will help you best prepare for the exam.
Your CPA Exam score greatly depends on your MCQ performance, and when you know what to expect, you can study effectively and efficiently. Preparing for the exam with realistic practice questions is the best strategy for acing the CPA Exam. You can find even more CPA study tips on my website.
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Additionally, I have led webinars, such as for the Institute of Management Accountants, authored featured articles on websites like Going Concern and AccountingWeb, and I'm also the CFO for the charity New Sight.
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By some counts, there are over 2000 verses in the Christian Bible that discuss how we are to deal with the poor and the oppressed. There are so many that some have claimed that it is the largest single theme in the scriptures.
I relayed this to some friends the other day, and they doubted both pieces of information. So, I thought I would investigate.
While I do not intend to tackle all 2000 verses (was that a sigh of relief I heard out there?), I am planning to take many of the major, plain teachings of scripture on the issues that today we would call Social Justice and blog about them, one passage at a time.
The Social Justice Bible Study will go up twice a week, on Tuesdays and on Thursdays, so we can study and digest them together. This way we (myself included) can consider them together and discuss it, calmly, in the comment box following each post.
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Inclusive Sport Conference 2021
The inaugural Inclusive Sport Conference 2021 (ISC 2021) will take place from 16 to 18 March. The Conference is a signature platform where stakeholders from the disability sports ecosystem come together to share knowledge and promote inclusive practices as part of the Disability Sports Master Plan (DSMP).
ISC 2021 will be focusing on how Singapore can foster greater inclusivity with key stakeholders to build a collaborative ecosystem through partnerships as we forge forward together towards a more inclusive society through sports. Come join us and learn how we can build a more inclusive and sustainable future together!
About the Presenters
This Conference will be conducted by the following organisations and a range of speakers:
Sport Singapore is a statutory board of the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. Sport Singapore’s core purpose is to inspire the Singapore spirit and transform Singapore through sport. Through innovative, fun and meaningful sporting experiences, our mission is to reach out and serve communities across Singapore with passion and pride. With Vision 2030 – Singapore’s sports master plan, our mandate goes beyond winning medals. Sport Singapore uses sport to create greater sporting opportunities and access, more inclusivity and integration as well as broader development of capabilities.
Special Olympics Singapore is an organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Singapore Disability Sports Council is the national sports body for Persons with Disabilities, founded in 1973. It aims to transform the lives of PWDs through sport as a form of rehabilitative therapy and means to realise their potential. Besides providing platforms for learning sport, Singapore Disability Sports Council trains talents to represent Singapore at regional and international competitions. The mission is to build a vibrant and inclusive community where PWDs can pursue their sporting aspirations.
Date & Timing
ISC 2021 will take place during the March 2021 school holidays:
- 16 to 18 March (Tues - Thurs)
- 9am to 5pm daily
ISC 2021 is conducted online via Zoom.
ISC 2021 is FREE for all to attend.
NROC Coaches can claim up to 10 CCE hours from attending ISC 2021. Do note the following:
- Up to 5 CCE hours can be claimed for 1 full-day attendance at ISC 2021
- Up to 2.5 CCE hours can be claimed for 0.5 day attendance at ISC 2021
To register for ISC 2021, click here.
For the programme outline, click here.
For more details on ISC 2021, please contact Ms. Stefanie Ang at email@example.com
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In 2016, I spent 3-4 full weeks traveling to a ton of different places. I wandered through Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Colorado. I flew to Florida to see my sister before she moved. There were Christmas lights in Texas that I just HAD to see for my birthday! It was probably some of the best experiences of my life and I would not trade it for the world. After I own my home, I hope to travel like this again, but I would never have been able to take a full month off work to travel like that if I wouldn’t have had a plan.
“A budget is telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went.”
When I work two jobs and pick up extra shifts and my second job, it really isn’t to pay rent or the electric bill. When I turn down people for dining out and getting drinks because I am “broke,” I don’t mean that I don’t have money. I mean that I haven’t put any money aside in my budget for drinks and dining out right now. I limit what I spend going out because I am have other priorities for where my money is going. Without my budget, I would have never been able to travel that much while still paying all of my bills. Now I am planning to pay off all of my debt. Check out my updated debt numbers!
Here are 5 Steps to create a budget and find your missing money!
1) Write down every single thing that you EVER spend money on.
The list should be absolutely exhausted, from rent, to insurance, to fireworks on the 4th of July. The longer you get into the routine of budgeting, the more categories you will come up with and the better the system will work. To get started, I suggest rough estimates. There is always room for adjustments along the way. At the bottom of the post, is a printable for 70+ budget categories that everyone should have! I currently rent my apartment so I don’t have all of the expenses of a house, but I tried to list some of them.
If you sit down and can’t think of anything at all that you spend money on other than bills, I suggest tracking your spending for 2 weeks. For me, every month is a little different, but having a starting point is the most important part of budgeting. I bet if you start tracking your expenses, you will find that you are spending a lot more per category than you think you are.
2) Figure out about how much you spend a month (or a year) for each category.
Figuring out the monthly cost of each item can be super easy for bills that come every month, but there are some categories that can be difficult to estimate. Listing out monthly bills should be a relatively quick process. I alter them on the first of every month because I know that electric and gas for a home can change depending on the season. Some of the other categories get a little messy, but the goal is to think about how much you are actually spending.
For example, one of my categories that I have is my contacts. I know that my insurance covers $120 a year for my contacts, but that only pays for 6 months worth. Every 6 months I have to pay $120 out of pocket. This means that I put $20 a month into my budget for my contacts. This way it doesn’t “sneak up on me. To read more about my “sinking funds,” check out my detailed blog post about them!
I read one story about how a couple was unknowingly spending $500 at restaurants every month between the two of them. How CRAZY! What if that is you? How much are you spending on food without even realizing it?
3) Figure out how much you income you bring in
This can be the scary one. Listing income can be messy if you have more than one form of income or an irregular income. Start by listing the main forms of income. (Jobs and other steady forms) Then list other irregular incomes. This can be altered monthly, but usually I base it on a set number of what I expect to make, then as income comes in, I usually alter my income. This is super hard as a waitress or anything with commission based income to budget, but here is how I do it!
If you have no idea how much income you make, I suggest tracking it for a month as well. You might be surprised on how much you have coming in. I know that I was extremely surprised when I found out that I was making almost double what I thought I was. I was also a little ashamed that I had been blowing through money and had pretty much nothing to show for it.
Starting a blog might be a good way to bring in some extra income for those fun expenses. If you have thought about starting a blog, check out my 7 easy steps to starting a blog! Starting your own business is an expense, but it is an investment to your future as well.
4) Figure out how much you have “left.”
Subtract your expenses from your income. This is how much you should have left every month. If it is way more than you think it should be, you may have forgot an expense. Or you may be spending way more than you thought you were. If you have more than $415 left over every month, and you never have left over money after your bills, you just found your $5000.
If you have this much missing, it is really time to get serious about tracking your expenses and seeing where your money is going because it obviously isn’t going where you think.
If, by chance, your expenses are more than your income, it is time for some change. It is time to find a different or another job. Or possibly move to a cheaper place. Cut back on your eating out or grocery bills. Stretch that penny as far as you can get. It could also mean that you need to consider getting a second job or a different job depending on how much of a difference there is between the two of them.
5) Set a Goal or a Reason to Have a Budget
Many people will give up by the end of the first month if there is no reason to have a budget. Set a goal to do something with the extra money that you are saving. Go on a family vacation that you have wanted to go on. Buy that new vehicle. Get a different car. Even to get rid of all your debt. Maybe your goal is to not get to tax season and wonder where all of your money went.
My goal is to be debt free by 23 years old. I have roughly $31,000 in debt (mostly student loans) that I am trying to pay off. This means that I have cut money from certain expenses and put it into my debt payment categories. Paying off things like my student loans and my vehicle are more of a priority to me than clothes and getting my toes done. After I am debt free, I want to buy a house so I can get a dog!
Just do it
Having a budget and living in a constant “I can’t spend money” state of mind is not fun. I do not recommend this rigid lifestyle long term. It is okay to cut your spending to make your budget work for a little while, but it won’t work forever. You need to budget to reward yourself. Budget “fun” money, “date nights,” and “splurge”
It is fun to have an extra piggy bank to put a certain category of money along with any extra or unplanned income. When you have some extra money, do something with it. But having the extra money to spend is so much better than trying to figure out where your money went at the end of the year.
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|Date:||13 Sep 1998 22:44:14 -0400|
|Organization:||University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|
SC is one of the premier conferences in our field showcasing the
cutting edge in networking, supercomputing, data intensive
applications, and other emerging technologies that push the frontiers
of high performance computing and communication. The conference will
be held this year from November 7-13th, in Orlando, Fl. As part of the
conference, SC has created a program to give students a unique
opportunity to participate in the conference, while also gaining
SC98 Student Volunteer Program Description:
*Open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
*Students must provide their own transportation to the conference.
*Students volunteer a minimum of 20-25 hours to work during the
*Technical knowledge, familiarity with multiple computing platforms,
networking, a/v equipment a plus.
In payback for their 20-25 hours of service during the conference the
*Complimentary SC98 registration. This includes admission to Monday's
opening gala, special SC98 events, and poster sessions.
*Conference proceedings on CD-ROM.
*Free hotel room during the course of their volunteer work at the
*Food during "daily business" hours at the SC98 conference. No other
support is provided.
On-line registration for the conference is now available at
If you could please pass this information to students who might
be interested it would be appreciated.
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We've established that it's difficult-to-impossible to live in London on less than the living wage, and that it's not practical to move lots of people on low incomes to the cheaper boroughs. At this point in our research we got depressed and started asking around for ideas to make it all go away.
What we found was this: housing in London is complicated. Bloody complicated. Tugging at one thread unravels a whole other tangle over here that you didn't even know about. But what it all boils down to is that London doesn't have enough housing, at all, full stop, so the extra demand pushes prices up out of the reach of not just those on low incomes, but increasingly middle incomes as well. And the solutions to sorting out the affordable housing problem would benefit all of us. We spoke to three members of the London Assembly: Andrew Boff (Conservative), Tom Copley (Labour) and Darren Johnson (Green), and London Councils about what needs to happen.
One idea to cut the benefits bill is to pay people more, an idea that Boris Johnson backed at the last Mayor's Question Time. Putting more people on the London Living Wage (currently £8.55 an hour) obviously increases their spending power; but businesses would doubtless complain about their bottom line and customers would doubtless complain about any price increase. But the fact remains that benefits are subsidising low pay. Another approach to the same problem comes from the Adam Smith Institute, which suggests lifting those on minimum wages out of tax.
Dealing with pay doesn't address the lack of actual housing, though. We can't all keep getting a pay rise to cover spiralling rents, and the simple statistic that 24% of London's children live in overcrowded homes illustrates that there isn't enough property for all of us. Boris thinks he can build enough homes to plug the gap in 10 years, which sounds optimistic at best. Everyone agrees we need to build more homes (and at a local government level, everyone agrees that the receipts from right to buy should be ploughed back into housebuilding; something that national government blocks), and there are plenty of ideas on how to do it.
London Councils and Tom Copley both called on the government to lift the cap on councils being able to borrow in order to build more housing. "Everything comes back to affordable housing," said the London Councils spokesman. Tom described how the private sector has never been able to fill the gap left by the lack of council building in the last couple of decades, and that's had a big impact on supply. A shortage of social housing pushes more people into the private rented sector, which in turn pushes up rents and makes greater calls on housing benefit. Social housing makes financial sense long term: the main taxpayer subsidy goes on the building, which is paid back in rent and the reduction in housing benefit. In fact, Darren Johnson has worked out that if the UK's social tenants rented privately, it would cost an extra £5.3bn a year in benefits (PDF).
Andrew Boff says the emphasis should be on high quality family housing. There's no point throwing up all these high rise developments of one and two bedroom apartments when families need more space, indoor and outdoor. We were sceptical about proposals to build low-rise developments with gardens instead of tower blocks, but he patiently explained that if you take the footprint of a tower plus the surrounding green space, and build 3-4 floor mews houses with gardens instead, while you wouldn't get quite the same density you would at least get homes that people want to move into that will last a century (and since we're typing this in a terrace built in 1900, we concede he has a point). Young professionals and elderly people like the convenience and security of blocks, but shouldn't London's housing stock be as diverse as the people?
But this is all long-term. Rents are increasing by double figures every year and are currently two and a half times higher in the capital than the rest of the country. We need action so Londoners rent affordably now. And that would seem to involve some kind of rent control. There are various ways that could work, but the most popular suggestions for London are pegging rent increases so they can't go above the rate of inflation, longer tenancies offering security (particularly important for families, especially where the children have settled into local schools) and the end of no-fault eviction, where a landlord can kick out a tenant at the end of the lease usually because they reckon they can get more rent from someone else, a practice Tom Copley described as "indefensible".
The idea of rent control isn't a universally popular one; Boris Johnson keeps invoking the spectre of New York and how rent control is pretty much dying out there, and the concern that applying controls would reduce the supply of property. But interestingly, our Assembly Members don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Both Andrew Boff and Darren Johnson thought that getting rid of bad landlords could be beneficial – the opportunistic, buy to let landlords who don't properly look after their tenants.
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Pair of handcrafted stoneware ceramic table lamps in a unique satin Drape glaze, with solid White Oak caps, hand-finished Satin Brass hardware and 100 percent Linen shades in White. The lamps come with brown cloth-covered cords.
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During the Vietnam War, 38 percent of U.S. draftees went to Vietnam, and draftees died at a higher rate than army volunteers. The United Kingdom drafted 8 million men during World War II. China has instituted a draft many times over its history, and 300,000 drafted soldiers helped build the Great Wall of China.
From 1965 to 1973, the United States drafted 1,728,344 people and sent 648,500 of those people to Vietnam for the war. Draftees made up 25 percent of the forces in the country. Of the combat deaths in Vietnam, 17,725, or 30.4 percent of the total combat deaths, were draftees.
The United Kingdom began drafting men for World War II in May 1939, which was before the war began. France, which was allied with the United Kingdom, pressured it to draft in preparation for war with Germany. The United Kingdom began drafting unmarried women in 1942. However, it didn't assign women to combat positions unless they volunteered for them.
The Qin Empire constructed the Great Wall of China. In addition to the drafted soldiers, the country also drafted 500,000 laborers to work on the wall. As different dynasties have controlled China, drafting has been abolished and brought back. While the law in China allows for mandatory military service, as of 2015, the country has a large population and typically has enough volunteers. | <urn:uuid:e03e7ac4-92d1-408b-abbf-0e8dcc689bf3> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.reference.com/government-politics/military-draft-statistics-a7a231f9e39bcc44 | 2018-12-12T05:09:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823738.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212044022-20181212065522-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.973965 | 290 |
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- Kill 8 flare men in the lava field ( -613, -29, -387 ) /waypoint -613, -29, -387.
- Return to Smapty for turn in
- At least 18g 29s 27c
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- Completing this quest gives -2500 faction with Sootfoot Talent Society
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1. According to NBC News, a major uptick in sectarian violence which has killed about 2,000 people since April 1st has sparked fears that Iraq is heading for a full-scale civil war that could draw in powerful regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. There are already signs that the current conflict is starting to merge with the bitter fighting in Syria, creating a war zone from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
2. According to The Times of Israel, the Israeli military held a large-scale, surprise drill on Sunday that simulated three concurrent major terror attacks on Israeli soil, including a hostage situation. Although the exercise was planned and prepared for a year in advance, the exact date was not set and it was conducted as a surprise exercise for the participating soldiers.
3. According to Reuters, once shrouded in secrecy, Israel’s David’s Sling anti-missile system went on display for the first time last week at the Paris Air Show. It is designed to protect Israel from midrange missiles.
4. According to Morning Star News, six more Christians were sentenced for practicing their faith last week, while Iran’s presidential election of a moderate politician was not expected to soften the regime’s persecution of religious minorities. While there has been optimism that the election of Rou-ha-ni and promises of reform will bring greater freedoms for persecuted religious minorities in Iran, some analysts say little will change as long as Supreme Leader Kha-me-nei controls the country’s political destiny.
5. According to Israel Today News, Lebanon is now on the brink of war, as Lebanese soldiers fought Sunni Islamist gunmen in the southern city of Sidon for a second day on Monday. The ongoing violence is fueled by sectarian rifts over the civil war in neighboring Syria.
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The grave of Burton’s bravest soldier was restored thanks to a fundraising campaign run by Andrew. William Coltman, who was born in Rangemore and later lived in Winshill, received the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry, as well as the Military Medal and Distinguished Conduct Medal twice. The decorations made him the most decorated non-commissioned officer in the First World War, where he served as a stretcher bearer.
William Coltman VC is buried in Burton, Staffordshire at St Mark’s Church, Winshill.
Andrew started the campaign after learning the grave had become derelict and overgrown, and Burtonians gave generously to raise the funds to allow the Victoria Cross Trust, of which Andrew is a patron, to complete the refurbishment. A new footplate, kerbstones and a memorial inscribed with LCpl Coltman’s status.
Following the completion of the work a memorial service was held, attended by members of the Coltman family, the Bishop of Derby, and representatives from the Mercian Regiment.
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The Bath and Mendip Partnership Teaching School is currently recruiting a new cohort of SLEs to support schools in the local area. This exciting role is about developing the capacity and capability of other leaders so that they can have the skills to lead their own teams and improve practice in their own schools.
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Recently, podcast listeners Ashley and Jason asked us to address some myths about the first black president of the United States. Both had heard different rumors claiming that Barack Obama isn’t the first to hold the distinction.
Ashley heard that one black man was sworn in and briefly held the position during drunken celebrations after Reconstruction. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to come up with anything about that particular myth, so please comment below if you’ve heard of it or know where it came from.
Jason had heard a different myth that I was able to get to the bottom of, however. He’d heard that the first president of the United States was not George Washington, but actually a black man named John Hanson.
Dick Gregory, a black comedian and activist, seems to have started (or at least perpetuated) this myth. His article claims that Hanson was both black and the first president. But, there are a couple problems with these claims. As Gregory explains, Hanson was the first president under the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and got a lot of things done in his one-year term. However, six presidents later, the Articles of Confederation failed, and gave way to the Constitution in 1789, after which George Washington was elected.
Is racism (and not the Constitution) the reason why we start counting presidents with Washington? That might seem like a plausible explanation… if Hanson were in fact black. Web sites that repeat his myth often illustrate their claim with a deguerrotype of a black John Hanson. Turns out they’ve got the wrong John Hanson.
The Library of Congress attributes this same image to another John Hanson – a 19th-century senator who promoted relocating blacks to Liberia. This makes more sense, given that deguerrotypes weren’t invented until the 1800s, and that a portrait of the first Hanson depicts a caucasian. For more on the myth, and for a picture of the white Hanson, take a look at Audrey Peterson’s blog post from American Legacy Magazine. | <urn:uuid:4e11558e-81f2-40b2-9450-7012c6e55f04> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.missedinhistory.com/blog/the-first-black-president-john-hanson/ | 2014-03-09T12:11:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999677941/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060757-00037-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970741 | 419 |
July 10th, 2002, 11:05 PM
where can I find some? Or what type of search should I do? I'm looking for uttilities that can help me find information about a certain ip address that is port scanning me and trying to connect to my computer. I'm not sure why or who they are, so I'd like to figure it out. Thank's
July 10th, 2002, 11:16 PM
or there are several software packages out there, one good one for Windows I cannot remember the name of, and its driving me nuts, cause I have it on one of my windows boxes.
July 10th, 2002, 11:17 PM
A lot of ip tools are already into your pc.
On Windows you have tracert, nslookup... type their names in a dos prompt or in the Windows help to have info about.
There also a lot of tools you can find on internet, use google, you will find variations of traceroute, soft including some simple tools in an easy to use interface...
Read tutorials about this on AO, they'll explain you how to find info with those tools.
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July 10th, 2002, 11:21 PM
Its not software piracy. I’m just making multiple off site backups.
July 10th, 2002, 11:22 PM
http://www.samspade.org - many usefull tools for lookups
nitrous.digex.net - do your lookups from MAE East, MAE West or a couple others listed.
visualroute.com - get a visual of approximate location of the IP in question
Hope this helps. Regards.
<edit> It seems I was beaten to samspade.org. Sorry for the dup. </edit>
\"I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.\"
July 10th, 2002, 11:24 PM
There is a great website out there called geektools (http://www.geektools.com). They made software that will do a whois and print it out for ya.
July 10th, 2002, 11:40 PM
Although I think SamSpade is the best, you might want to take a look at this one
From their Page:
Local Info - examine the local host and show info about processor, memory, Winsock data, etc
Connection Monitor - displays information about current TCP,UDP network connections
NetBIOS Info - get NetBIOS information about network interfaces (local and remote computers)
NB Scanner - shared resources scanner
Name Scanner - scan all hostnames under range of IP addresses
Port Scanner - scan host services (support range of addresses, like 188.8.131.52 - 184.108.40.206)
Ping Scanner - ping a remote hosts over the network (support range of addresses)
Trace - trace the route to a remote host over the network
WhoIs - obtain information on names from the Network Information Center
Finger - finger one or more users at a remote host
LookUp - look up domain names according to its IP address or an IP address from its domain name
GetTime - get time from time servers (and setup correct time on local system)
Telnet - telnet client
IP-Monitor - show in real time graphics for TCP,UDP,ICMP In,Out,Error packets
Host Monitor - monitoring the up/down status of selected hosts.
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July 19th, 2002, 07:26 PM
I just remembered the tool I was thinking of.
Its called Neo Trace.
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The music´s right name:You need meat(don´t go no further). I´m from Bazil and a have a Lp with classics named Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine with that song.
Success to you all!!!
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In Bookforum, novelist Sam Lipsyte reviews Don DeLillo’s new novel Zero K, which Lipsyte deems a return to the epic, socially engaged sweep of DeLillo’s earlier novels like White Noise. The new novel tells the story of an uber-rich man who pours his fortune into constructing a cryogenic facility so he and his family can overcome death. As Lipsyte notes, “deep-freezing humans has been a staple of science fiction for decades,” but the difference for DeLillo is that he confronts the subject at a time when cryogenics-for-the-rich is no longer the stuff of fiction, but a distinct reality. Here’s an excerpt from the review:
DeLillo has created a mysterious, funny, and profound book out of a cultural gag usually reliant on metal cylinders and dry ice. He already has, of course, written brilliant novels that draw on the gestures of more narrow-cast productions, particularly thrillers and detective novels. Back in the ’70s, he employed MacGuffins (stolen film reels, missing musical tapes) to provide momentum and let his characters wrap their metaphysical banter around loose quests. Even the Airborne Toxic Event of White Noise was in some ways a cousin to more camp menaces like the blob of The Blob fame. Now, with Zero K, he’s given us a quasi-futuristic milieu and, working from a rather limited plot device, composed a work of distinctive feeling and imagination. DeLillo makes his position clear early in the book. “This is not a new idea,” a character says, regarding the concept of cryonics. “It is an idea . . . that is now approaching full realization.”
Many will see this novel as a return to full realization for DeLillo, after years of shorter, meditative books like Point Omega and Cosmopolis. Those novels signaled, to some, a kind of phasing out of the big novels, the longer, meatier work, but their spareness could be deceiving. DeLillo’s more recent mode does not suffer from a lack of richness or nuance. The fluctuations operate on a different, more compressed scale. Others may hope this book will win back readers lost years ago when James Wood dropped into a shooter’s crouch on the grassy knoll of the New Republic, drew a bead on Underworld and DeLillo’s influence on American fiction. Zero K deserves to win old and new readers alike. It’s a marvelous blend of DeLillo’s enormous gifts. His bleak humor and edged insight, the alertness and vitality of his prose, the vast, poetic extrapolations are all evident. So is the visceral quickness and wit in the sentences. People on a bench sit in a “natural scatter.” The narrator of most of the novel grows up in a “garden apartment that had no garden,” and he has never been able to define his family’s religion: “We were Eat and Sleep. We were Take Daddy’s Suit to the Dry Cleaner.”
“I wanted to be bookish and failed,” Jeffrey Lockhart, the nervous, highly attuned, and occasionally cocky son of a billionaire financier announces. “I wanted to steep myself in European literature. There I was in our modest garden apartment, in a nondescript part of Queens, steeping myself in European literature. The word steep was the whole point.” That swerve in the last sentence points to so many DeLillo characters, earnest and awake but also aware of how certain words and phrases pin them down, enfeeble their efforts, make their goals uncertain. Whether Jeffrey managed to “steep” or not has consequences. | <urn:uuid:7c85fef5-be5b-436e-bc9a-fffb0444e7f9> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/in-don-delillos-new-novel-and-old-sci-fi-trope-becomes-reality/3583 | 2018-12-11T14:25:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823621.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20181211125831-20181211151331-00335.warc.gz | en | 0.957335 | 798 |
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Royalty and streaming companies provide capital to mining companies in exchange for the right to receive revenues correlated to the mine's metal output (royalties) or to buy a portion of the mine's metal output at an agreed upon price (streaming). Mining companies agree to these terms because they need capital for various reasons. Sometimes a mining company will sell a stream or royalty as a part of a financing package. Other times mining companies need capital and sell royalties/streams on operating mines.
Several companies operate almost exclusively through this business model, and it has been incredibly lucrative over the long term. The three big players—Franco-Nevada Corp. (FNV:TSX; FNV:NYSE), Royal Gold Inc. (RGLD:NASDAQ; RGL:TSX) and Silver Wheaton Corp. (SLW:TSX; SLW:NYSE)—have all generated above-average returns in the long run, having outperformed mining stocks, broader stock market indexes and the underlying precious metals. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, royalty and streaming companies make money in virtually any metal price environment, including during downturns. Meanwhile, all but the most efficient mining companies take large write-downs, are forced to sell non-core assets, and issue shares at inopportune times in order to stay afloat. Royalty companies were very aggressive in making acquisitions last year, including providing much-needed capital to companies such as Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; ABX:NYSE) and Yamana Gold Inc. (YRI:TSX; AUY:NYSE; YAU:LSE). This speaks to their strength, and the deals made during the bottoming phase of the cycle will serve to generate strong cash flows on the inevitable upturn, which seems to have commenced late last year.
"Silver Wheaton Corp.'s cash flow will be bolstered through mine expansions at two of its biggest streaming assets—Salobo and Peñasquito—over the next few years."
Second, royalty and streaming companies make a one-time payment in order to acquire their royalties and streams. Mining companies have to continually put capital into their projects in order to replace/increase reserves and to maintain equipment. As a result, any additional discoveries that are made benefit royalty and streaming companies at no cost. A good example of this is the stream that Silver Wheaton owns on Primero Mining Corp.'s (P:TSX; PPP:NYSE) San Dimas mine, which it purchased more than 10 years ago, back when Goldcorp Inc. (G:TSX; GG:NYSE) owned the project. Silver Wheaton now generates ~50% of its initial investment on an annual basis, and the investment has already more than paid for itself. Primero was stuck with the exploration and mill expansion bills while Silver Wheaton reaped substantial benefits as a result.
This is a phenomenal state of affairs, but there is a catch: the market has caught on and investors realize the potential of the royalty/streaming model. Mining companies have caught on as well. As a result, royalty and streaming companies now trade at fairly high multiples to cash flow, and mining companies are pricing the aforementioned advantages into their models, so that streams and royalties have become much more expensive.
Is there a way for investors to benefit from this powerful business model without overpaying for investments?
The good news is that there is. Here are three ideas.
First, while the "big three" royalty/streaming companies aren't cheap, they are not valued equally by the market. Silver Wheaton is inexpensive relative to its peers on a price-to-operating-cash-flow basis. Shares trade at ~20x forward cash flow, which sounds high. But the company's cash flow will be bolstered through mine expansions at two of its biggest streaming assets—Salobo and Peñasquito—over the next few years. The company also has exposure to some of the most efficient mines in the world, which will likely not shut down in the event of a commodity price slump. Such exposure makes up the bulk of Silver Wheaton's portfolio.
Second, in an upward-moving gold market it makes sense to assume more risk, and one way do this in royalty/streaming is to invest in Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (SSL:TSX; SAND:NYSE.MKT). Sandstorm did not have exposure to the high-quality assets and low-cost producers that Silver Wheaton did during the downturn. In fact its cornerstone stream—on Luna Gold Corp.'s (LGC:TSX; LGC:BVL) Aurizona mine—stopped generating cash flow as that mine had to shut down. Shares were hit hard as a result. However, Sandstorm was also very aggressive in the downturn, and going into a market upswing the company is positioned to grow its cash flow meaningfully. Given that it has exposure to lower quality assets than the big three, and given its rocky history, Sandstorm shares trade at a discount to its peers: closer to 15x operating cash flow. This is set to grow as various development projects go into production, and also as Aurizona goes back into production, a real possibility over the next few years.
"Terraco Gold Corp.'s goal to become a pure-play junior royalty company makes it stand out among its peers."
Finally, the best opportunities lie in junior royalty/streaming companies with exposure to high-quality assets. In a recent article we singled out Terraco Gold Corp. (TEN:TSX.V; TCEGF:OTCPK) as one such opportunity. Terraco Gold stands out given its very low market capitalization and its royalty on the multimillion-ounce Spring Valley project in Nevada. The project is held by a well-capitalized firm called Waterton Global Resource Management, which just spent millions of dollars to acquire it from a bankrupt Midway Gold and a desperate Barrick Gold. Spring Valley is currently not producing, and as a result we believe the market is overlooking Terraco's upside potential. However, we calculate that Terraco trades at less than 6x future operating cash flows. While this figure is contingent upon Spring Valley meeting certain production figures, the sharp valuation gap between Terraco and its more advanced royalty/streaming peers makes it attractive.
We note that there are stark differences between junior royalty companies, the primary one being that many are junior companies that happen to own royalties. Companies such as Almadex Minerals Inc. (AMX:TSX.V) or AuRico Metals Inc. (AMI:TSX) may own quality royalties on Ixtaca and Young Davidson, respectively, but these companies emphasize exploration and project development, the cost of which diminishes the compounding power of the royalty model (i.e., royalty income being used to further invest in royalties, whose cash flow in turn can further be invested, and so forth). It also exposes investors to some of the risks we are trying to avoid by investing in royalty/streaming companies. Terraco's goal to become a pure-play junior royalty company makes it stand out among its peers, and this in turn makes it an attractive acquisition target for any of the larger royalty/streaming companies mentioned above.
The royalty/streaming model's success has made it more difficult for investors to get quality exposure to the sector without overpaying for investments, although we've seen that it is not only possible but also potentially lucrative. The largest, most well-known names will benefit from a bull market in gold and silver, but some of the smaller companies that don't have multiple low-risk cash-flow sources (if they have any at all) can potentially outperform. Investors who are able to locate royalty companies that fly under most investors' radars will be best positioned to profit from the sector.
Ben Kramer-Miller is the chief analyst at miningWEALTH. He is well respected for his unique ability to find under-the-radar precious metals opportunities, as well as for his extensive research into rare earth elements and other critical materials. His research has been featured by Nasdaq, Kitco, Mining.com, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, Investing News Network and RealClearDefense, among others.
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1) Ben Kramer-Miller: I, or members of my immediate household or family, own shares of the following companies mentioned in this article: Silver Wheaton Corp. and Sandstorm Gold Ltd. I personally am, or members of my immediate household or family are, paid by the following companies mentioned in this article: None. My company has a financial relationship with the following companies mentioned in this article: None. I determined which companies would be included in this article based on my research and understanding of the sector.
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2015-12-05 11:56 AM
I am new to Netapp CDOT so excuse me for stupidity. I was go through the elearning for Ontap cluster fundamental ..this morning.
I have few questions that i tried researching but couldnt find an answer ..I am trying my luck here .
1. HA pair still exists in Data ontap cluster meaning .. Storage failover must be configured with partner . Help me understand this ..
Can i have cluster with odd number of nodes i.e cluster of 3 nodes or 5 nodes ?
Does it have to be in even number so that I can have a partner for each node ?
If 3 nodes cluster exist , how is HA paired among them ?
2. Can I use ontap 8.3 to simulate failover ?? I read its not possible in ontap 8.2 or below?? How can i test or configure failove in simulator ?
If you managed to do it .. can you please share procedure ?
3. One last question Smiley Happy
I just need a high level overview of step by step . ( not in details just a task by task ) I see there are many helpful blogs on step by step setting cluster ontap.
1 . Create 2 node cluster
2. Create aggr
3. Create Vserver/SVM
4. Create file or block protocol LIF for connectivity and volumes
Since failover isnt possible on simulator .. I want to know opinion from others who are using simulator to practice ? Please give me list of task that i can try on simulator
I went to try failover .it took me lot of effort to understand its not possible . I am tryin to seek help from pro's who have already used simulator and tested functinalites of cluster ontap
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2015-12-05 11:17 PM
2015-12-06 03:53 AM
Thanks for the reply
My confusion is with SFO/CFO concept
Lets say if i have 3 node cluster . How do I pair them with each other ?
As per what i read , every node need a partner to perform storage failover.. I didnt read much about it online
2015-12-06 08:38 AM
Cluster vs. HA can sometimes cause confusion, especially if you have any experience or knowledge of a cluster concept in other domains. There are a lot of common terms thrown out - redundancy, resiliency, availability, etc. Some of these tend to overlap while others have very specific meanings in context. For this post I'm just going to talk about keeping things running in one cluster with specific redundancy resources. Redundancy will mean keeping things running when something physical breaks, in a generally automatic way. I'm not extending redundancy to failover sites, etc. Where applicable I will describe the availability factor of the redundancy. Also some of the mechanisms described will be conceptual rather than really low level technical.
To start, I find it helps to break it down first physically, then logically.
"Redundancy" is fundamentally a physical concept. Doesn't matter what services the "cluster" provides - if there isn't some form of physical redundancy something will be lost when physical equipment breaks. Also, without basic redundancy there is no availability, "high" or otherwise. So we start with physical redundancy.
Data OnTap redundancy starts with the RAID layout on disk which stores extra data so the loss of disks doesn't cause data loss. Hot spares are swapped in to replace failed disks to restore the basic level of disk redundancy. Of course this disk concept is pretty basic to storage arrays.
The disk controller system also requires redundancy such that any interconnection or processing point can break. The disk shelf controllers, the cabling, all the way to the NetApp nodes must be at least paired. That is where a High Availability (HA) node pair comes into the mix. Of course you can run storage off a single node, but if the node goes down, you've lost redundancy in the chain. NetApp, in both 7-mode and cDot combines two nodes together into an HA pair. Both nodes are wired to a set of disks. The aggregates defined on those disks can be owned by either node. The owning node accesses the disk for reads and writes. The two nodes are also "wired" to each other so that writes can be stored on the NVRAM of both nodes. This ensures that the redundancy mechanism also covers acknowledged writes.
The two nodes in an HA pair only cover the disk to which they are physically attached. All disk is not wired to all nodes in a cDot cluster. Any given set of disk is wired to a single HA pair. You also cannot create "virtual" HA pairs - for instance have 3 nodes and split disk shelves between nodes 1&2, nodes 2&3, and nodes 1&3 (would be interesting). The HA pair and attached disk is a single physical unit where redundancy is created for data storage.
Aggregates are a physical storage container that lives within a single node. By extension an aggregate can only live on disks attached to that single node. So an aggregate, though "mobile", can only move between the two nodes in the HA pair. There are two types of aggregates, at a high level - cluster aggregates and user storage aggregates. User storage aggregates can be flipped between nodes in an HA pair using Storage Failover (SFO). This is a transparent operation that can be manually initiated or on-demand initiated such as when a node fails. Under the covers, cDot flips the ownership of the aggregate disks between the two HA nodes. Cluster services handle the redirection of user requests and such so that data access continues.
Cluster aggregates are singular per node. They contain the base data a node requires to boot up and start the underlying cluster services. For all intents, a node is a virtual machine on top of a base OS, as are all the Storage Virtual Machines that control user data. When a node fails or when a node needs to be restarted, the Cluster aggregate (also referred to as the "root" aggregate of the node) uses Cluster Failover (CFO) to jump between nodes in the HA pair. The surviving node is already running of course. But it can start another "node" virtual machine to read specific configurations from its partner's cluster aggregate. Thus it can act, loosely, as a proxy for that node. That is why you see CFO and SFO called out differently. For instance, in a standard "giveback" first the CFO aggregate is handed back to the original node. Then the node boots up and starts all the backend cluster services. After a time to settle and ensure the shared cluster databases are in sync, the SFO aggregates are handed back to the original node.
Thus far everything described is just in one HA pair. The actions above do not go beyond a single pair of nodes. At the core physical level, the HA pair is the building block for redundancy. As mentioned in a previous post, cDot doesn't really care about HA pairs. You could cluster a whole bunch of single nodes. The cluster itself does not provide any redundancy to node loss in that configuration.
Then what does the cluster provide? Using the underlying physical node building blocks, the cluster provides virtualization for logical storage allocations and access to data. The resources across the cluster that are virtualized are the data ports (network and fiber channel) and aggregates. You create a Storage Virtual Machine which will define volumes (storage), network access (LIFs), NAS access (CIFS/NFS), SAN access (FC/iSCSI), authentication (AD/LDAP/etc) among other services. The SVM defined elements can live on any of the physical resources across all the nodes in the cluster independent of the HA pairs. A volume can be on any SFO aggregate. An IP network interface can be on any defined network port in the cluster that can talk to the designated network. Almost all of these elements can be freely moved between the underlying physical resources across the nodes (SAN LIFs being the notable exception).
Thus the cluster can provide more logical redundancy for network access than an HA pair can, but for data access the HA pair remains the mechanism for redundancy in case of failure.
With that background to your specific question:
If you have a 3 node cluster, you either pair two nodes and leave one with no physical redundancy in case of hardware failure. Or you pair none of the nodes and leave them all subject to specific hardware failures. When the odd node goes offline, the data being controlled goes offline too. In practice, you either have a cluster with one node (used for small or specialized setups where on site high availability/redundancy isn't required) or your have a cluster built from HA pairs. If you want to use all the features of cDot, such as non-disruptive software upgrades, etc., you must use HA pairs.
Obviously the cluster can function with an odd number of nodes. If a node fails in a 6 node cluster (3 HA pairs) or while you are upgrading software in that same cluster, at least one node is offline for a while leaving you with a five node running cluster. But redundancy within the entire cluster has now been lost until the offline node is brought back online.
I hope this helps you.
Huron Legal | Huron Consulting Group
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2015-12-06 12:50 PM
Thank you very much for the explanation. I understand the whole concept well now. I dont want to keep this post running too long . But you have given me a direction to dig more info. I appreciate it . I am wondering now if Cluster manages logical redundacy then what could be a challenge for it to manage block storage LIF. Why cant it move block access LIF between nodes.
2015-12-06 09:04 PM
Good question. The answer is fundamental to the protocols themselves and how "redundancy" is achieved.
Whether you consider the SAN protocols or the NAS protocols, the interconnects between client and storage are a network in both. But, they are different kinds of networks. NAS protocols today that are built on top of IP networks rely on the underlying network to handle things like routing and visibility between end points.
The NAS protocols assume a single endpoint, identified by an IP address typically. The fact that there might be multiple paths to get between two endpoints is not relevant - one is chosen by the networking layers and a connection is established. Redundancy is introduced, in a sense, in that the multiple paths will work out how to get from point A to point B. The network might chose an optimal path, but typically the client has minimal influence on the path. If multiple paths are present, typically the application layer must be aware to look for multiple paths and to use them.
Since the path is not preset, and the network accepts that the path between two endpoints can be fluid, it is a simple matter to take an IP address that is currently presented on network port A and move it to network port B. The underlying network layer will fix up the delivery of information transparently to endpoint systems. You see this type of behavior in all manner of cluster-ized IP based systems. For cDot, use of multiple NAS protocol data LIFs increase potential throughput of the storage, but are not needed to provide redundancy. LIF failover policies (how LIFs failover between physical ports) cover redundancy.
SAN protocols are different. While the network is there, all connections are essentially considered to be point to point. A particular session between end points will be established along a fixed path that is pre-determined through switch zoning, LUN mapping, etc. Because each path is pre-determined, general mechanisms at the presentation layer and lower are available to manage multiple paths and select optimal paths. Consider MPIO and ALUA in the block protocols, for instance.
Because of the predetermined nature of the paths, it is not a simple matter to move a WWN from port C to port D on storage. Consider that the WWN is logged into the switch on a particular port. The client HBA has also logged into the switch and zoning has established a traffic path between two ports. There is a direction (initiator/target) to all data flows. The initiator also logs into the target. To pick up and move the connection would require all kinds of potential adjustments up the entire chain that are not built into the protocol.
iSCSI in the block world is a bit of a hybrid. Because it is based on an IP network, in theory the address could move. But since most implementations at clients follow the basics of block style storage with multi-pathing mechanisms and multi-session mechanisms, it is simpler to treat iSCSI more like FC than like a NAS protocol. Much less to be reimplemented in the OS and storage layers to treat block protocols the same.
Multiple block data protocol LIFs are needed to provide full redundancy as well as potentially increased bandwidth to a single client. It's important to have at least one block data protocol LIF on at least two separate nodes visible to every client system, otherwise access to data could be lost in a cluster. Best practice would dictate more like one block data protocol LIF per node, although you have to watch path limits as well in the clients. An 8 node cluster for instance can easily overwhelm some OS limits with respect to storage paths if you're not careful.
I hope this answer helps you.
Lead Storage Engineer
Huron Legal | Huron Consulting Group
NCDA, NCIE - SAN Clustered, Data Protection
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2015-12-06 09:59 PM
Because of the predetermined nature of the paths, it is not a simple matter to move a WWN from port C to port D on storage. Consider that the WWN is logged into the switch on a particular port.
Sorry have to chime in here. Moving WWN to different port is easy and does not cause any problem to hosts. But this does complicate implementation on storage side. Today multipath stacks are ubiquitous in operating systems, so it is easier to rely on them than implement it in storage. But there are no inherent lilmitations of FC that would make different implementation impossible. If you remember, NetApp had used WWN relocation in the past. It actually worked
2015-12-07 06:02 AM
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Myxomas are rare, accounting for 50% of benign primary cardiac tumors. Due to its versatile presentation ranging from cardiac, embolic, neurological and systemic manifestation timely diagnosis is a challenge but not impossible. We present a case of 62 year old male with a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction that was diagnosed with atrial myxoma by Point-of- Care Ultrasound (PoCUS).
A 62 year old man with previous history of stroke in 2015 was found to be less responsive in Radiology Department while booking an ultrasound appointment. Patient’s initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was 11/15 (E4V1M6). He gradually regained orientation and responsiveness in ED. Patient was tachypneic with a respiratory rate of 32, oxygen saturation of 96%, blood pressure 164/99mmHg and heart rate 112 beats/min. Patient had a systolic murmur with bibasal rales. Neurological examination revealed cerebellar signs. Electrocardiogram showed ST depression in lateral leads. PoCUS revealed an oscillating left atrial mass protruding into left ventricle. Patient was started on oxygen supplementation and underwent urgent computed tomography scan of the brain (CT Brain). Comparison made with previous CT Brain in 2015 showed multifocal chronic infarcts with underlying small vessel disease, cerebral atrophy and no intracranial bleed. Formal echocardiogram (ECHO) showed a single oscillating mass measuring 6.3 x 5.1cm seen in left atrium attached to interatrial septum, pathognomonic of atrial myxoma. Patient was treated as atrial myxoma complicated with transient ischemic attack (TIA) and started on warfarin. Unfortunately, he declined any surgical intervention.
Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary cardiac tumor in adults. The neurologic signs and symptoms seen in myxoma are usually a result of embolization. Emboli are most often myxomatous but may also arise from thrombus adherent to the tumor. Early diagnosis of atrial myxoma is important as surgical intervention yields high cure rate and prevents complications.
Atrial myxomas are rare, but should be considered as a differential diagnosis of multiple cerebral infarctions in patients with stroke .In this case, PoCUS was useful to aid with early diagnosis and treatment before new embolic or cardiac complication appears.
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“Your mecca does exist. There is a place where the government is basically nonexistent. The few police have no power, whatsoever. People rule and are in charge of their own well being. It's called the DR Congo. I mean, sure, it's rape and murder capital of the world. Cannibalism is kind of a problem. Guerrilla warfare, sexual mutilation and kidnapping are pretty rampant, but the important thing is: they love anarchy, too! I think it's working well for them.”
How many years of religious (both ancient African and Christian religion) and colonial oppression have the people of Africa suffered? I don't suppose any of that has anything to do with the state if the Congo. As far as all the crime examples and violence, Detroit and Chicago are far more dangerous than certain parts of Africa. Do you know that in 1982, in Miami, Florida, USA, the entire police academy graduating class was dead or in prison a decade later? The majority of it the result of a drug war declared by...? You guessed it: US government. You can't blame crime and violence on lack of police or laws. In fact, logic says, if you don't pass laws, there is no crime.
“So your solution is decriminalize things such as murder and rape and then all of our problems are solved? That's logic? That's great. We can all escape murders and rapes on our unicorns. There was violence long before there were laws. That's human nature.”
I believe in consensus. Has law stopped murder and rape? Law has had roughly 150,000 years to prove it is a worthy of saving us from rape and murder... how's that working out for you? You know what has slowed ALL violence over its entire tenure? Education. Education creates empathy. Empathy leads to the realization of an idea that Buddha uttered over a thousand years before Christ: “Treat one another as you wish to be treated,” a simple idea wrapped around education and empathy. We live in a world becoming less and less violent. That is a fact. And the reasons are education and understanding. Human nature has nothing to do with violence. Human nature is anchored in survival and once we all abandon punishment (because science is learning that we really have no control over ourselves) and denial of resources due to lack of capital, we will be a better people.
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In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff This is the quintessential introduction to the arguments against all other forms of governance and the ultimate defense of anarchism as personal philosophy.
Demanding the Impossible by Peter Marshall (not to be confused with an equally brilliant book by Slavoj Žižek)
Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin
Chomsky On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky, Barry Pateman
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Being honest I laid a lot of these symptoms off to post funeral stress, the 1000 mile drive back to Tampa, and a variety of excuses. Plus all the activities around my birthday, aided in my ability to ignore what my body was screaming at me. On Tuesday of this week I gave in and called Doc Infectious. He had me come right over to the office, and after checking vitals, listening to my lungs, and all the other things they do when they are searching. He also had me cough up a lung in a cup so he confirm his thought and immediately put me on 3 medications; 1) Zyvox 600mg 2x daily, 2) Colistimethate 75 mg via nebulized twice daily, and 3) MEROPENEM 3Gm/300mg via IV(takes 3 hours). Depending on how I response to these over the next couple days will dictate changes in meds.
On Monday I had two appointments, the 1st at 8 am at my Dermatology’s Dr. Office. It was what I consider a normal 6 month checkup, froze of several spots on my right arm, and had to take some samples from my left, arm, but the Doc and I know that little surgical procedures will have to done to handle these and that has been scheduled for 2 weeks out. In the afternoon I had a great session with Dr. Head, she allowed me to continue grieve for a time, then we moved on. I do appreciate that, and her style of patient management seems to work very well on me. She had given me some homework, and we discussed that, as a follow-up she is going to do some addition research which we will discuss during our next session.
After the session with Doc Head, I had dinner with the kids, it was a great meal, but I believe Allison was looking at me weird, and then on Tuesday she call to affirm that she knew I was sick. A lot of you women have that skill.
For those keeping track, I had my INR checked on 10/25 and it was a 2.3 therapeutic, which means there is no change to the medicine, and that I don’t need to have it checked again for another month.
The good news to all of this is that I believe I have avoided a trip to the hospital, which to me constitutes a major victory. Though if I had gone to the hospital I would have lost this 10 lbs. I found someplace else. And I would have been bored to tears, and lazy, and I would have just laid around. Sounds like a great live but if you have spent as much time in hospitals as I have, you would want to avoid them as much as I do.
I realized no place did I give a rating on how I feel. Well being fair I feel about 1.5 this week, both from being ill, and in part for still grieving Cassi passing.
This concludes my “How I Feel Today’s” for the Month of October. Hopefully next week I will be able to report some serious good progress. Please take care, as always thank you for your good thoughts, and as always your comments welcomed are encouraged – take care, Bill | <urn:uuid:68fb9b88-3319-4893-a569-08b00c82d236> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://dealingwithcopd.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/how-i-feel-today-10-31-31/ | 2017-05-29T09:29:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612069.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529091944-20170529111944-00041.warc.gz | en | 0.988823 | 809 |
When that urge strikes (and believe me, it will strike), you’ve got to be prepared with a plan of action. If you mention the idea of a “family reunion” to your family members without a plan, you’ll most likely end up with mayhem on your hands. The next thing you know you’ll have relatives camping out on every square inch of your floor, piling your sink sky high with dirty dishes, and making executive decisions with your remote control. In addition, you’ll become far too acquainted with the health problems and bodily functions of some of your senior relatives (Who knew that toenail fungus was so prevalent?).
So, what’s the plan of action? You’ve got to head off those pesky relatives at the pass and make sure they never plan that family reunion at your house. What’s the alternative? You’ve got to plan your family reunion on a cruise ship!
Cruise ships are the perfect setting for a family reunion. This is neutral territory, so people don’t feel they are imposing on others. It levels the playing field and takes away the control that can sometimes come into play when reunions are held on a family member’s “turf.” Plus, the best part is the cruise line does all the work — the cleaning, the cooking, and the entertaining. All your family members have to do is relax and enjoy their time together. Plus, lest we forget to mention one of the most important factors — the variety of activities onboard the ship and at the various ports of call is a perfect fit for groups who want to do some of their activities together and some separately. In other words, you’re not trapped in “family reunion” bedlam the entire time. You can take a breather at one of the many bars or lounges onboard your ship, catch a current movie in the ship’s theater, put on your dancin’ shoes for the disco, try your luck at the casino, or simply hide out in your stateroom and order complimentary room service.
If your family group has children, traditional reunions can be horrible experiences for kids! You know what I’m talking about — the endless “remember when” discussions they overhear about things they’re too young to understand, the frequent rebukes for running through the house making too much noise, and the obligatory playing with the dreadful cousins. Yikes! What kid would look forward to that? But, tell a kid they’re going on a cruise ship with a miniature golf course, a pool, a sports court, an ice rink, and a really cool kid’s activity program, and they won’t grumble about having to endure a few hours of interaction with the relatives.
Most cruise lines offer attractive rates for groups — and some offer special packages specifically for family reunions. With their all-inclusive approach (meals and entertainment are included) and hassle-free planning, booking your family reunion aboard a cruise ship is the only way to go.
Because there are so many cruise ships in the water these days, it can take a huge amount of research to determine which ship and itinerary would be the best match for your family’s reunion. So, before you plunk down the dough for a family reunion cruise, make sure you’ve consulted with an experienced travel agent — preferably one who specializes in group cruises. The service is complimentary (agents receive their commission from the cruise line) and you’ll save yourself a lot of time and hassle. | <urn:uuid:e77d0495-2feb-441b-9143-52bca42f5363> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | http://www.tetburyonline.co.uk/2019/06/ | 2021-11-29T00:38:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358673.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20211128224316-20211129014316-00541.warc.gz | en | 0.956962 | 752 |
Some seniors have a difficult time staying healthy due to poor nutrient absorption and because many prescription drugs, especially antibiotics, can cause nutrient deficiencies. However, a healthy breakfast can turn this situation around. Philadelphia 24-hour care experts recommend 5 creative breakfast meals you can serve to your elderly loved one that taste great and are packed with nutrition.
1. Quinoa Bowl
Instead of using oatmeal, serve quinoa, a Peruvian grain that is also a complete protein containing all the essential amino acids your loved one needs. Quinoa is easy to digest and is very mild in flavor. Simply prepare it just like you would oatmeal and then top it with honey and some fresh berries for a protein and antioxidant-packed morning meal.
2. Spicy Veggie Breakfast Wraps
Many seniors have a difficult time getting enough vitamins and minerals in their diets. As people age, some foods just don’t taste as good as they once did. These tasty breakfast veggie wraps can provide your loved one with a healthy dose of protein and vitamin E. Get a whole-grain wrap with minimal ingredients, and stuff it with sautéed greens, tomatoes, and scrambled eggs. Add a pinch of cumin or red pepper and chop some fresh cilantro, then top it with a zesty salsa.
3. Power Toast
Toss out the unhealthy enriched white bread and opt for a brand that only uses a few whole grains and water as ingredients. Toast the bread and spread some almond or cashew butter, then drizzle it with raw organic honey and top it with sliced strawberries. Combine this with a large glass of almond milk, and your loved one has a filling meal that is high in fiber and rich in calcium and vitamin C.
4. Greek Yogurt Fruit Parfait
This simple breakfast delivers up a full day’s worth of calcium without all the added sugar found in many store-bought processed yogurts. Greek yogurt is also higher in protein than its American counterpart. Spoon the yogurt into a glass with alternating strawberry and blueberry layers for some added antioxidants and vitamin C, then top with honey and some crushed almonds for vitamin E.
5. European Breakfast Bagel
Your loved one can have breakfast the Old World way with this amazing meal. Take a whole-grain bagel, spread it with cream cheese and dill, add some thinly sliced red onion and a few capers, and top it off with thin slices of smoked salmon. This breakfast not only includes calcium, fiber, and protein, but also a dose of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids courtesy of the salmon.
To learn more about senior nutrition, reach out to the elder care experts at Philadelphia Home Care Assistance. Our respite and live-in caregivers can prepare healthy meals, take care of grocery shopping and other errands, and help with a wide array of tasks around the house. For more information on the in-home care Philadelphia families trust, call (215) 645.4663 or (484) 643.4663 today to schedule a complimentary consultation. | <urn:uuid:01d0cf68-adab-49ad-a3ce-9b5a86d6a79b> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://www.homecareassistancephiladelphia.com/healthy-breakfast-for-seniors/ | 2017-09-22T04:28:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818688208.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922041015-20170922061015-00185.warc.gz | en | 0.927738 | 626 |
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List of Definitions for words connected with vaping!
RDA- Rebuildable Drip Atomizer. Also referred to as a Dripper. For use by experienced vapers only.
Mod- Simply put is the battery pack. Refers to both rechargable battery packs or boxes that have batteries that must be removed to be charged.
Subohm- Has a resistance level below 1 ohm. In vaping its gives a hotter burn, more taste, bigger cloud, and bigger hit.
Ejuice- Or simply said, juice, is the liquid put in tanks or on drippers to smoke. This contains your nicotine and flavor.
PG- Propelyne Glycol, causes the throat hit in the Ejuice.
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When The LEGO Group patented the LEGO Minifigure in 1978, the friendly little LEGO people came in dozens of brand new products, in three themes: Town, Space, and Castle. The third of those three was led by this set: 375 Castle. The classic yellow brick-sterpiece marked the dawn of one of the largest themes ever produced by LEGO. Composed of 767 pieces, this set had 14 minifigures hailing from 4 different factions all arriving just in time for the joust that was sure to take place, with their brick-built horses, lances, and shields, and being clad in helments and bright, colorful breastplates.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of his esteemed castle, the King of the Purple Crown has called for a joust and celebration!
His best knight, and three of the greatest knights from afar, have come hither to recreate the celebrated jousts from days of yore. Each one accompanied by their own trusty squire. Who will win this time? You decide!
- The castle comes in at just around 1000 pieces, perfect for a $100 set (And could easily be knocked down a notch or two)
- Features 4 knights, 4 squires, a guard, and an archer, each with alternate faces and alternate armor and weapons for the knights (and don’t forget the horses, too!)
- Raise and lower the castle drawbridge using the winch on the side of the battlements! (String for the drawbridge not shown)
- Modeled lovingly after castles of antiquity, but using modern construction materials!
- The inside of the castle features a path, a well, weapon and armor racks, and a tilt barrier for the joust!
- Click here for a gif animation of the castle (WARNING: Large file)
Want to see this creation as a LEGO Set? It is currently up for voting on LEGO Ideas! Be one of the 10,000 pioneers and vote for free here: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/140622/
MOC by BrickBelt
Along with a few extra minifigures, makeshift houses, and slightly altered Knights’ Kingdom II and Kingdoms sets, the horse-driven catapult rumbles into battle as the Lion Knights give weapons to the villagers and chase the frightened Dragon Knights out of town.
“This giant catapult was created for a Lego contest several years ago in which I was required to build (can you guess?) something to defend a village. You also might notice a clever use of slope bricks to simulate the female minifigure running in a dress.” – Brickster_Tim
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Shares are an integral part of every corporation. Company stock denotes a share in the ownership of a company. It represents owner’s right enterprise’s assets and net income. Owning shares can get one to shareholders meetings, make someone able to directly or indirectly participate in management decisions of a company or it can even pay dividends. Blockchain Technologies are taking the era of regular stock to the next level.
Corporations have shares, management, CEO, staff and business address. Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) based on Blockchain have none of those. Therefore, they can be much more cost effective and bring new business models. DAO is an autonomous organisation that is based on smart contracts, which are rules encoded in the form of computer code. Smart contracts have been first described in 1994 by a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer Nick Szabo as:
“A smart contract is a computerized transaction protocol that executes the terms of a contract. The general objectives are to satisfy common contractual conditions (such as payment terms, liens, confidentiality, and even enforcement), minimize exceptions both malicious and accidental, and minimize the need for trusted intermediaries. Related economic goals include lowering fraud loss, arbitrations and enforcement costs, and other transaction costs.”
The actual implementation of smart contracts appeared fifteen years later in 2009 when Bitcoin was released. This was a revolution in payments. Developments continued in 2015 with the initial release of Ethereum, a Turing complete open source smart contracts programming platform, where anyone can build his or her very own decentralised applications. I have described some of the example of DAOs in my previous blog post.
Each DAO has its own token of payment that could be understood as an equivalent of a company stock. It grants access to a whole set of operations DAO protocol offers. DAO tokens can be traded and their value could vary. One of the laws to take into account when discussing value of tokens is Metcalfe’s law which states that the value of telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users in the system (n^2). In a telecommunications network two telephones can make only one connection, five can make 10 connections, and twelve can make 66 connections.
Metcalfe’s law is a blueprint for network effects of many applications beyond simple telecommunications network. This can be a social network, such as Facebook or Twitter, a messaging app, such as WhatsApp or Telegram, etc.
In 2013 Xing-Zhou Zhang, Jing-Jie Liu and Zhi-Wei Xu showed that Metcalfe’s law is actually validated by data taken from Facebook and Tencent, a major Chinese investment holding company. They showed that the Metcalfe’s value of both Facebook and Tencent is a constant times n^2, n being the number of their users.
Metcalfe’s Law also holds for Bitcoin. Squared number of Bitcoin transactions per day is proportional to Bitcoin market capitalization. Similar insights could be derived from other DAOs.
Another model we can use to demonstrate the potential of blockchain technologies is Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner is a well respected US research and advisory firm providing IT related insights. Every year Gartner publishes its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies that identifies key trends that organisations should track to gain competitive advantage. Blockchain got covered by Gartner in July 2016 as a key platform-enabling technology.
According to Gartner, Blockchain has 5 to 10 years until its mainstream adoption. This suggests that we are still in the early markets of the Technology Adoption Life Cycle, which is a sociological model describing market adoption of high tech innovations.
According to this model, which has been extensively described in Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore , there is a massive gap between the early markets constituting only 16% of the total number of prospective adopters and mass markets constituting the remaining 84%. As Blockchain Tech is still clearly in the early markets, we are still a couple of years ahead of its mass market adoption.
I founded DECENT with this vision in mind. There have been many successful crowdsales of tokens (ICOs: Initial Coin Offerings) of Blockchain technologies. For instance, Ethereum raised $18’000’000, WAVES raised $16’500’000 and TheDAO raised $160’000’000 a couple of months ago, which was the largest crowdsale in human history . This is just another piece of evidence that Blockchain is getting attention and is on its way to mainstream markets. DECENT ICO is starting on 10 September 2016 and will last for 8 weeks. We will decentralise Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, Steam, iTunes, and much more to eliminate the unnecessary middlemen from the world of digital content distribution, reduce transaction costs and give more value to authors and content consumers.
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Remember Stattbad? There used to be this old Berlin and it's hard to let go of. The building facades were coal black and many hid secret clubs. A lot of those buildings have been torn down. Slowly eaten, naked brick walls first, then gone. Same with my TV - now it only shows black and white noise. Benni the poodle is still there. I see him walking up and down Berlin-Mitte twice every day. He can't tell us about the old days, but the old punk guy can: "Everything changes. Your present is someone else's past." His mohawk shimmers orange and green in the sunlight. The old chewing gum dots on Alexanderplatz, though, will always stay.
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The FD8162 from Vivotek is a 2MP PIR focus assist hassle-free installation WDR enhanced dome network camera. Vivotek FD8162 is an easy-to-use fixed dome network camera, featuring 2-Megapixel or 1080p Full HD resolution with superb image quality up to 30 fps. As a true day/night camera, the FD8162 features a removable IR-cut filter, maintaining clear images 24 hours a day. With WDR enhancement, users can identify image details in extremely bright or dark environments. It is especially suitable for monitoring wide open indoor environments such as building entrances, airports or applications requiring accurate identification.
- 2-megapixel CMOS Sensor
- Up to 30 fps @ 1080p Full HD
- Removable IR-cut Filter for Day & Night Function
- Built-in IR Illuminators, effective up to 15 Meters
- Built-in PIR Sensor for Human Detection
- Real-time H.264, MPEG-4 and MJPEG Compression (Triple Codec)
- WDR Enhancement for Unparalleled Visibility in Extremely Bright or Dark Environments
- Built-in Focus Assist Button for Precise Focus Adjustment
- Hassle-free Installation
- Built-in 802.3af Compliant PoE
- Built-in MicroSD/SDHC Card Slot for On-board Storage
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April 06, 2018, ©. Leeham News: In the last Corner, we discussed the pressure distribution of an aircraft’s wing when producing lift. This was with a conventional airfoil (though of the more laminar flow type).
Now we continue by looking at how a modern airliner wing achieves lift by using a “supercritical” airfoil.
The wing profile we studied in the last Corner works well to about Mach 0.6. At higher speeds, the peaky suction pressure distribution on the top of the wing causes a large speed-up of the flow into a supersonic flow. As the flow goes back to subsonic flow on the back of the profile, it will be through the strong normal shock wave we discussed in aircraft drag reduction Corners.
To fly at the cruise speeds of today’s airliners (M0.75-0.85) we need wing profiles which speed up the air less on the topside of the airfoil. Such airfoils are called “supercritical” airfoils as they keep the speed of the air on the top side close to the critical Mach for supersonic flow (still supersonic flow, but not as deep supersonic as on a conventional airfoil).
Figure 2 shows such an airfoil which was developed by Embraer for its first Jet airliner, the Emb145.
The blue wing profile and pressure curves are for a conventional NACA 23012 airfoil flying at M0.75 and the red the airfoil developed by Embraer for the ERJ145.
As we learned in the first Corner on lift, the pressure around a wing and its airflow speeds are related. Low pressure = high airflow speed. This is true also for compressible flow, tough Bernoulli’s theorem, which defines the mathematical relationship between the pressure and the speed, is not exact at these speeds.
As in the last Corner, the pressure scale (Cp) is inverse. The top of the scale is high suction (Cp is – 1.4), lifting the wing’s top surface and the bottom (Cp 0.8) a high static pressure, pushing on the wing’s bottom surface.
For the conventional wing, the higher blue curve is how the pressure changes on the wing’s top side. At first, the flow is slowed down when it hits the wing’s nose (slowing flow means the pressure goes higher than the surrounding air. It’s at Cp=0.5 at first).
The flow starts curving around the top of the nose, and as it’s curving around a convex surface the flow’s speed increases. The pressure drops all the way to -1.1. This suction peak creates a lot of lift but also a fast supersonic flow (Past Cp = -0.6 the flow is supersonic).
At 40% of the wing profile, the flow returns to subsonic through a strong direct shock. As we learned in the drag Corners, this increases the pressure and the strong shock causes boundary layer separation. We have high transonic drag.
This is what happened to the P-51 Mustang during WW2. It has a wing profile of the type we discussed in the last Corner. When diving to increase speed, the Mustang gets strong Supersonic flow on the wing’s top side and the increased drag keeps it from flying faster.
As we discussed in the drag Corners, the fully conventional airfoils of the Spitfire and Messerschmitt were even worse. The laminar flow airfoil of the Mustang didn’t create a lot of laminar flow, but its form kept the suction peak on the top side lower and by it the transonic drag lower than the other WW2 fighters.
To come to an even better wing profile than the Mustang’s, Richard Withcomb of NASA experimented with wing profiles with a lower suction peak. He could achieve this if he formed the airfoil with a less curved top side (the red airfoil in Figure 2. The form now resembles a whale, my comment).
The top red pressure curve for the wing’s top side now passes lightly into a supersonic flow (Cp = -0.6) and passes back to subsonic flow at 70% of the profile through a weak shock, which keeps the boundary layer intact.
The problem was, the lower transonic drag didn’t come for free. The lower suction meant lower lift of the airfoil for the same forward speed of the aircraft. To regain lift, the bottom of the airfoil was given a concave finish, slowing the airflow and pushing it down. This increased the bottom pressure of the wing (bottom red curve past 70% of the profile), by it increasing lift.
The flat top suction pressure and the high rear pressure on the bottom surface of the wing, have given these airfoils the nicknames “flat rooftop” or “back-loaded” airfoils.
The early methods of designing airfoils were based on shaping airfoils and measuring their lift, drag and tipping moment in wind tunnels. With the introduction of Computerized CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), one could do it the other way.
The designer decided a desired pressure distribution (and by it the airflow speeds around the airfoil). The computer would then calculate the airfoil shape which would produce this pressure profile.
This is the way the Embraer designers developed the Emb145 airfoil and wing. In the next Corner, we shall look at how we master the desire of the wing to tip over backward. | <urn:uuid:4575a52b-9880-40fd-84b3-a1125bf5d1ed> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://leehamnews.com/2018/04/06/bjorns-corner-aircraft-lift-part-3/ | 2018-12-13T02:49:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824338.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213010653-20181213032153-00057.warc.gz | en | 0.933072 | 1,210 |
Sand Art 2018 in Blooming Baroque
An entire city of sand will be built this summer in the Blooming Baroque - Ludwigsburg! How will the international sand artists stage "our" city? Which buildings are made of the unusual material? In the castle garden visitors can watch live how the huge sculptures of several hundred tons of sand take shape.
Six works of art are already finished at the opening. In the first exhibition week from 7.-11.07. Six professionals will be performing their work live. Then it's time to vote and choose the best sand artist who will be on 12.07. is chosen. At the workshop on Sunday, 29.07., A sand artist demonstrates how everyone can build a work of art themselves. On Sunday, 5.08., The builder of the most beautiful "Tröpfel castle" wins an attractive bonus. Best holiday mood is guaranteed, because sandboxes, deck chairs, summer snacks and exotic drinks transform the park into a holiday paradise.
Why do sand sculptures last so long?
Many have ever built a sandcastle on the beach. With wet sand that's pretty easy - but once the sand was dry, there was a risk of collapse. But why do the sculptures of the Sand artists last so long?
The sand artists, also called Carver, do not use the normal sand from the sandy beach, because it is very old and already washed by the tides. It is about as good for building as if you were trying to stack tennis balls. The sand used by the carver must be square and sharp-edged.
Of course, the sand slumps of professionals are also larger than normal sandcastles that you build on holiday ... but you must also take into account that for a figure 30 tons of sand and more are used. Before the carvers can get started, the sand is compacted layer by layer. And that takes quite some time, because only small amounts, ie a layer of about 30 cm thickness can be compacted, because it is very important that the sand is very compact afterwards. During compaction, the angular sharp-edged grains of sand interlock perfectly and "hold each other" firmly.
The carving of the sand sculptures is then always from top to bottom. It is important that there is a "loose" layer of sand at the bottom, where any rain can drain well and seep through.
Some carvers then sprinkle the figures with a protein-containing liquid that lays like a very thin skin around the sand sculpture, but is still biodegradable. This invisible skin gives a temporary additional protection against heavy rain, so that sand sculptures are extremely durable. | <urn:uuid:ac8d26bb-7ce7-44a5-bf4b-1959a2fe1aa2> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.blueba.de/en/sand-art.html | 2020-04-02T05:34:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370506673.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402045741-20200402075741-00313.warc.gz | en | 0.952495 | 546 |
In a new budget proposal released, President Trump calls for a 21 percent, $4.7 billion cut to specific USDA programs. Over ten years, it would cut the crop insurance program by nearly $29 billion.
The budget is drawing criticism from lawmakers and industry groups.
Crop insurers say the cuts to insurance would make it more difficult for farmers to bounce back.
In response to the budget, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley spoke in support of crop insurance, "It's important to remember that while the President proposes, Congress disposes. And ultimately Congress will write the budget. Not the President. Federal crop insurance is a premium risk management tool for farmers. It's the one thing that I hear about in the farm bill that people feel very strongly about."
Senate Ag Committee Chairs Michael Conaway and Pat Roberts say they will fight for a strong farm safety net in the budget and next farm bill.
Other administration proposals include refocusing in-house USDA research dollars to priority areas like farm productivity, ending what they call a duplicative water and wastewater loans and grant program, reducing the USDA Service Center Agency staffing, as well as funds for USDA statistical capabilities.
President of the American Farm Bureau Zippy Duvall disputed the budget proposal, saying it doesn't just hurt farmers but rural America. It would cut the whole USDA budget by $228 billion over ten years.
Duvall tweeted, "The proposed budget fails rural America. We have done more than our fair share & we need a budget that works for ag." | <urn:uuid:0e9eb7aa-5316-4a80-8baa-701d65fc4577> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://whotv.com/2017/05/25/budget-proposal-slices-ag-programs/ | 2017-07-22T00:40:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423839.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722002507-20170722022507-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.942219 | 310 |
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