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I set up a visual studio 2010 UML modeling project and created a class diagram with several classes. The code generation works fine (I am using the code generation template delivered within the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for Visual Studio). Whenever I click "Generate Code" on a class, I get a nice class stub including properties and method stubs for this class.
Now I am trying to add some custom code into a method of a class. The idea is to have every time I generate the code for the class the method would already have some code written in it (By default, the content of each method is "throw new Sytem.NotImplementedException()"). As far as I understand I first need to create a tt / t4 template. Then I need to set up in the class designer in the properties of the method the text template bindings - they should point to the newly created template. I tried it, but I can't figure out how to get this working. Or do I misunderstand a concept here? Any ideas?
And yes, I have read the msdn documentation about code generation and text templates, as well as Oleg Sych's blog. But neither of these did show me a way to solve this problem.
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Sorry I can't help you much because I don't have an MSDN subscription (see my answer for why this is related,) but may I ask what do you intend to do in your custom code generators? – Mzn Jan 2 '12 at 17:08
I have a valid Visual Studio Ultimate Edition. The code generation works fine. But when I generate code I only get a very basic class - the generated methods for example are only stubs and don't have any code at all. I want to use the TT/T4 template bindings to fill these methods with some code when I start the code generation for my model. – Andreas Jan 3 '12 at 13:39
Have you considered this question: Code stubbing with Visual Studio 2010 UML modeling – kmote Feb 15 '12 at 19:27
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Check this article out How to: Generate Code from UML Class Diagrams: it says that you need to install a Visual Studio Feature Pack to get a Generate Code command in the UML items. You need an MSDN subscription to get that Feature Pack, as far as I can tell. So I couldn't try it out.
There is a section titled Customizing the Generated Code Command and it indeed suggests modifying the default T4 templates using in conjunction with the UML. If I were you and I had no option to get the MSDN subscription I'd write an Add-in (or a VS extension) and process the UML file. That would require you to understand the inner working of the UML file to generate C# from UML.
Here's the UML of some *.classdiagram file. It is for a class that contains an attribute (field) and an operation. Is starting manually from here an option?
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<elementDefinition Id="82f92ae7-5d9b-4e64-8497-39c686ce2e5d" />
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The Visual Feature Pack is installed on my machine. Also I have a valid license for the Visual Studio Ultimate Edition. All the necessary products are installed on my computer. The code generation works fine. But I only get a very basic class - the generated methods for example don't have any code at all. I want to use the TT/T4 template bindings to fill these methods with some code when I start the code generation for my model. – Andreas Jan 3 '12 at 13:33
The very basic class you get is generated using a default T4 file. The link I posted (how to generate code from UML, above) contains information on how to get the default T4 files and customize them to suit your needs. Does that help you? What you're doing is very interesting btw. – Mzn Jan 3 '12 at 15:18
Did you consider editing the default T4? – Mzn Jan 6 '12 at 6:03
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It's possible to view the Package-List of a debian/ubuntu package, using the package management tools like apt, aptitude or dpkg?
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Section Package-List.
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You can use apt-cache showsrc and use awk (or similar tools) to get the output you want:
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In a private boarding school "As"physical culture and sport is important. We regularly and widely used sports games for the development of the motor function in children, forming a moral-character, while strengthening resilience to grind out a collective organization, increasing discipline and inner self-organization. In the process of sports games for children are having positive emotions, with a beneficial effect on the functional activity of the organism. Our middle and high school students are actively involved in sports activities of local and regional scope.
The main objective of our school-board-education of physically healthy individual with a high level of culture, morality and developed intelligence. Therefore, we use special techniques and health-saving technologies to provide effective personal growth of each student.
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Twinkle Khanna Writes An Open Letter To Young India
I hope some day one of you invents a machine that can take dreary adults and turn them back into curious young people.
Isn’t it odd that small people have big dreams and big people, well, their dreams are so small? Get a job. Buy a house. Sleep late on Sunday. Go on a holiday.
Adults, especially these days, rarely look up from their phones, let alone throw their heads back and stare at all the wonders in the night sky.
Young people, like you, look at the world through eyes that marvel, have minds that live in fantastical worlds and possess hearts that haven’t learnt to fear.
Then how do all you wonderfully imaginative young people turn into boring big people?
It happens when everyone around you repeatedly tells you the difference between possible and impossible dreams.
A line is drawn, at first it is invisible, but over time, with more and more people telling you the same thing, you too start seeing that line.
Believing in limits is a very powerful thing. It doesn’t just change your dreams, it changes your capabilities.
For almost a hundred years, it was believed that people were not capable of running a mile in four minutes. It was, that word again, ‘impossible’.
Then in 1954, the lanky Roger Bannister ran down a track on a cold, wet day. He ran like he was chasing a comet and he became a bonafide star.
Then a strange thing happened.
Just a year later, three runners beat the 4-minute barrier and now more than a thousand runners have done the same.
Why was something impossible to break now being broken by so many?
Two Wharton School professors spent months analysing this singular event and came to a simple conclusion: it was all down to belief.
Once people saw Bannister cross that imaginary line from impossible to possible, they believed it could be done and it was not a barrier any more.
All the people you will read about in this book are ordinary people, but they managed to do extraordinary things because they too believed it could be done. The boy who failed his tenth board exams but went on to invent a refrigerator that doesn’t use electricity. The fifteen-year-old girl who broke Tendulkar’s record. The lawyers who slayed draconian laws. The eight-year-old Chhote Master who taught children in 125 villages. The girl who lost a leg and still climbed Mount Everest. The young man who gave people a prosthetic helping hand.
Not a single one among them is a dreary creature, not even among the oldest adults.
Like Bannister, they are all stars, shining brightly, a navigational guide showing you that there are no limits or barriers that can’t be crossed.
Follow them. Outdo them. Change the world by turning it upside down if that’s what it takes. Pursue all your seemingly impossible dreams and one day we will look up and see all of you, a constellation of stars setting the night sky on fire.
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\section{Infima Preserving Mapping on Filters Preserves Filtered Infima}
Tags: Order Theory
\begin{theorem}
Let $\struct {S, \preceq}$, $\struct {T, \precsim}$ be ordered sets.
Let $f: S \to T$ be a mapping.
For every filter $F$ in $\struct {S, \preceq}$, let $f$ preserve the infimum on $F$.
Then $f$ preserves filtered infima.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $F$ be a filtered subset of $S$ such that:
:$F$ admits an infimum in $\struct {S, \preceq}$.
By Filtered iff Upper Closure Filtered:
:$F^\succeq$ is filtered
where $F^\succeq$ denotes the upper closure of $F$.
By Upper Closure is Upper Set:
:$F^\succeq$ is upper.
Because filtered is non-empty, by definition:
:$F^\succeq$ is filter in $\struct {S, \preceq}$.
By Infimum of Upper Closure of Set:
:$F^\succeq$ admits an infimum in $\struct {S, \preceq}$
and
:$\map \inf {F^\succeq} = \inf F$
By assumption and mapping preserves the infimum on subset:
:$\map {f^\to} {F^\succeq}$ admits an infimum in $\struct {T, \precsim}$
and
:$\map \inf {\map {f^\to} {F^\succeq} } = \map f {\map \inf {F^\succeq} }$
By Upper Closure is Closure Operator:
:$F \subseteq F^\succeq$
By Image of Subset under Relation is Subset of Image/Corollary 2:
:$\map {f^\to} F \subseteq \map {f^\to} {F^\succeq}$
By definition of infimum:
:$\map f {\inf F}$ is lower bound for $\map {f^\to} {F^\succeq}$
By Lower Bound is Lower Bound for Subset:
:$\map f {\inf F}$ is a lower bound for $\map {f^\to} F$
We will prove that:
:for every element $x$ of $T$:
::if $x$ is lower bound for $\map {f^\to} F$, then $x \precsim \map f {\inf F}$
Let $x \in T$ such that:
:$x$ is a lower bound for $\map {f^\to} \F$
We will prove as a sublemma that:
:$x$ is a lower bound for $\map {f^\to} {F^\succeq}$
Let $y \in \map {f^\to} {F^\succeq}$.
By definition of image of set under mapping:
:$\exists a \in S: a \in F^\succeq \land y = \map f a$
By definition of upper closure of set:
:$\exists b \in F: b \preceq a$
By Infima Preserving Mapping on Filters is Increasing:
:$f$ is increasing.
By definition of increasing:
:$\map f b \precsim \map f a$
By definition of image of set under mapping:
:$\map f b \in \map {f^\to} F$
By definition of lower bound of set:
:$x \precsim \map f b$
Thus by definition of transitivity:
:$x \precsim y$
Thus by definition:
:$x$ is a lower bound for $\map {f^\to} {F^\succeq}$
This ends the proof of the sublemma.
Thus by definition of infimum:
:$x \precsim \map f {\inf F}$
Thus again by definition of infimum:
:$\map {f^\to} F$ admits an infimum in $\struct {T, \precsim}$
and
:$\map \inf {\map {f^\to} F} = \map f {\inf F}$
Thus result follows by definition of mapping preserves filtered infima.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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Stories - Kuhmo Chamber Music
Kuhmon Kamarimusiikki sivun taustakuva
Road to success
On the evening of 19 July 1970 Seppo Kimanen was in the vestry looking into the nave of a church. Kuhmo Chamber Music's first concert was just starting and Kimanen was checking to see how many were in the audience. He counted eight.
Twenty-three years on, in the Chamber Music office they were counting how many concert seats had been sold for the festival that had just ended. It was 47, 507. A huge international festival had grown from a very modest beginning. How so?
Kimanen thinks it is this modest start that lies at the heart of the success story. "There was time to try out ideas with little interference; to fail and then try something new," he recalls.
"It was a quiet period of evolution, with small audiences and no competition from other festivals and no real expectations. The first years were a time of experimentation."
An uncertain beginning
In the early years hardly anyone thought that Kuhmo would become the international success it did. When each festival ended people were not even sure if another would take place the following summer. "It was almost as if someone was twisting our arm to do those first summer festivals," says Lea Kallio, who has been involved in the project from the start. "There was no money, and in his summing up Seppo Kimanen would wonder - almost tearfully - how we could go on. We always had the feeling that that would be the last one."
A few years later, however, the situation began to change rapidly. One major factor was the completion of the new school in its scenic surroundings in 1974. Something happened right away in the new hall with its modern acoustics – something that made Kuhmo different from other festivals. When Kimanen stood up on Saturday 3 August to introduce the concert he fell flat on his face. He got up off the floor and told the audience that this had been the famous piece Kimanen's Flight (as opposed to that of the bumble bee!), and everyone burst out laughing. Surely this could not happen in a concert of serious classical music! But at Kuhmo it did, and since then audiences have been moved but have also been able to laugh.
The very next year another important step was taken when Kuhmo Chamber Music became a member of Finland Festivals. The Kuhmo event gained visibility, and by 1976 audience numbers had doubled. When enough money had been collected for a decent grand piano, Kuhmo Chamber Music acquired an altogether new status.
Enormous budget increases
While the Festival gained a reputation it was also easier to obtain funding. The budget increased 10 times in the first five years, and even those responsible for putting the Festival on marvelled at the way it had become such a big happening', as Sohvi Kemppainen called it. But she had a good explanation for its growth and success: when something genuine is done in a generous, heartfelt way for the benefit of genuine people, the message gets through.
Its rapid development was not even halted when Seppo Kimanen went off in 1977 to direct the Helsinki Festival. Yoshiko Arai became a very able Artistic Director and Tuulikki Karjalainen was responsible for practical matters.
"Kuhmo could become the new Salzburg," said Yoshiko Arai in an interview, and that was actually the way it was starting to look. Nevertheless, no one believed it would go on forever. Tuulikki Karjalainen was afraid that, if it got bigger, it would lose its original appeal and there would not be enough resources left to organise a large event."
But a further success factor was the new approach to planning the programme. Seppo Kimanen returned to Kuhmo in 1979 and came up with a new idea: first they would plan what to play, and then decide who would play it. This notion would not necessarily suit everyone, but soon Kuhmo started to attract a group of versatile and flexible musicians. The regulars were able to adapt to playing with unknown musicians but then break away to do their own thing in new, less conventional concerts. The Festival now lasted two weeks and had reached a mature stage, both externally and internally, and there was no longer anything stopping it now.
The stars arrive
With the arrangements in place, all that was needed were well-known musicians to raise standards and boost interest globally. In 1979 the violinist Gidon Kremer came as a guest and two years later the pianist Krystian Zimerman performed at Kuhmo.
What on earth attracted them to Kuhmo, though? Seppo Kimanen thinks it was the stress-free atmosphere that allowed them to be themselves. He mentions the saunas, views over the lake, the forest landscape, the sheer tranquillity of the place. He says he pampered the artists terribly, and Yoshiko backed him up. If someone wanted a hamburger at four o'clock in the morning they always somehow managed to oblige.
Artists who tour the world knew very well how lonely hotel rooms can be. But at Kuhmo there were sauna evenings, people could meet one another, and they could play music together. That is why Kuhmo was so popular, even if the fees paid were not great. Kimanen admits that both Kremer and Zimerman played for free. "They felt that Kuhmo was something unique for them." Gidon Kremer was keen to tell the world that Salzburg was not the most important music festival on the planet – Kuhmo was!
More illustrious players were booked in 1982, with Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman appearing at Kuhmo for the first time. And when the violinist Pavel Vernikov, pianist Konstantin Bogino and multiartist Radu Chisu joined the group, it made many of the summers in the 1980s unforgettable.
Radu Chisu proved to be vital as, at the end of the 1980s, there were no fewer than four unscheduled late night concerts that had to be filled with a lot of frankly silly entertainment. The Artistic Director turned to Radu Chisu. "You only had to ask him to go on stage and think of something that would make the audience laugh, and he did," recalls Seppo Kimanen.
Need for a new hall
Now there was everything needed for success and the Festival expanded continuously. The number of concerts put on increased to more than 80, the revelry went on into the small hours, and eventually in 1989 a 24-hour concert was organised.
But expansion was now restricted. The church and school could no longer serve as adequate venues and the organisers started to think about a new concert hall. That felt like a daunting task, since the town of Kuhmo was in dire straits with the Kostamus Project in nearby Russia coming to an end. But once again Kuhmo made the impossible possible.
Several times construction of the new Kuhmo Arts Centre seemed imminent. At the last moment a suitable site was secured, just before work on a new block of flats was due to start. At the same time Finland was hit by a deep recession. In the end, that only turned out to be of benefit for the construction project, as state funding was received to boost employment. Autumn 1991 was a stressful time, however, because Kuhmo was losing its special status as unemployment rose everywhere. The building work had only two weeks to start before the additional state support would be lost, but in July 1993 the splendid new hall was ready to receive festival guests.
Kuhmo was now established as one of the more outstanding events in the summer festival calendar. It was much lauded in the international press and was described as "probably the world's best chamber music festival." Audiences flocked there. Thanks to the new concert hall, 1993 saw a record 47,000 seats sold – one that is unlikely ever to be broken.
The people of Kuhmo an important success factor
The Festival's success was essentially based on the fact that it was the right idea at the right time. Of course, other people had similar ideas elsewhere, so why was Kuhmo such a unique success story? One important factor was the willingness on the part of local people to make the Festival work.
Tuulikki Karjalainen said at one point that the people in the community were interested in it and wanted it. They discovered something in it for themselves, and this had been the case ever since. She said the Festival would not work if it was produced by outsiders.
"We brought something unique to Kuhmo, and the local people, for their part, brought us something that you would not find in Paris or London," says Seppo Kimanen. "In a fairly small place like this there are no artificial barriers between the audience and the performers. A sense of community grew naturally in a restricted space surrounded by wilderness."
The people of Kuhmo were keen to be involved and generally muck in. Executive Director Sari Rusanen points out that it is always the Artistic Directors and the artists themselves that stand out as those who make the Festival what it is, but without the staff and the voluntary input there would be no Kuhmo Chamber Music. "Chamber music is not a solo performance but a collective effort and a show of strength."
Eye of the storm
People coped even if the pressure was on. "Cleaning, helping out in the kitchen, office work, borrowing and transporting pianos, ticket sales, ushering - all hustle and bustle," says Tuulikki Karjalainen recalling the 1970s.
"Things happened: some of them funny and some completely crazy," producer Ritva Eerola says about the early years. "It was a chaotic lack of organisation. When the Festival was on it was like being in the eye of the storm - all around you there was always noise, information and changing situations. It went on like that for two weeks."
The pace of work is still upbeat, but there are still people willing to lend a hand from one year to the next. Where does such enthusiasm come from? Sarai Rusanen has an answer: "Together we are doing something that is not merely mundane. We get our strength from the music and working in an organisation. I tell the young folk that you rarely get a chance to do something that is just about the best thing in the world, but here you do."
Is there anything to threaten continued success?
Kuhmo Chamber Music is now an established organisation and has a team of skilled employees. For that reason, the Festival's success no longer even depends on key personnel or a change of Artistic Director. When in 2004 Seppo Kimanen decided to quit as Artistic Director after three decades of hard work, a successor was required who would know Kuhmo, have extensive international contacts and still be a first-class musician. The obvious candidate was Vladimir Mendelssohn, a tireless polymath, whose brilliance as a performer has been one of the main draws at Kuhmo since 1983.
In 1989 Tuulikki Karjalainen, Kuhmo's original powerhouse, retired. Sari Rusanen took over, and she has worked full-time for the Festival since 1990.
The Festival has also solved its space problems, The church was refurbished in 1985, but that did not mean smaller audiences. Now Kontio School is no longer being used, and some of the concerts will now take place in the new school at Tuupala. The loss of the old hall is no threat to Kuhmo's success, however.
"And no building has stood in the way of success," says Sari Rusanen. "If we can offer people the world's finest music, the unexpected, and something new and fresh, as we have done so far, we will have everything we need to carry on."
Marja-Stiina Suihko, chairperson of the Kuhmo Music Society, also has faith in Kuhmo's future success: "As long as the repertoire remains of a high standard and continues to delight audiences under a summer sky, the future is guaranteed. Music will always be with us, as will audiences who love it."
The writer has followed Kuhmo Chamber Music since 1985 and is the author of Kamarimusiikkia Kuhmossa, viisikymmentä ihmeellistä kesää (Chamber Music at Kuhmo, 50 Amazing Years, in Finnish), which appeared this year.
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4 Facts About OS/400
• The OS/400 was designed to run on AS/400 hardware.
• OS/400 was divided into System Licensed Internal Code (SLIC) and Extended Control Program Facility (XPF) controlled by the Technology Independent Machine Interface (TIMI).
• Since its release in 1988, the OS/400 has had name changes and developed into better versions which have added value to its AS/400 mainframe.
• The OS/400 is still a competitive operating system and still runs on some mid-range computers.
What is OS/400: Explained
The operating system OS/400 was designed to run on AS/400 hardware and have both been upgraded and names changed over the years. Although OS/400 has continuously been upgraded and revised, it is still a competitive software because its compatibility feature enables users to access programs created on OS/400 years ago on an IBM mainframe today.
The OS/400 is perfectly designed to help companies in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) processes. Therefore, it’s widely used by firms seeking to integrate its planning, Purchase inventory, manage its sales, marketing, and finance.
How to use OS/400
OS/400 was divided into System Licensed Internal Code (SLIC) and Extended Control Program Facility (XPF) controlled by the Technology Independent Machine Interface (TIMI). TIMI was a hardware abstraction layer that split the hardware-dependent and hardware-independent system on OS/400. Therefore, a user can run an operating system and application software on separate hardware without re-compiling.
OS/400 uses the Report Program Generator (RPG) programming language developed in 1959 for IBM computers. Below is a tutorial on operating the OS/400 computer system.
When you start your computer, the OS/400 system will display the Menu on the screen with a list of its custom options depending on your computer settings. Below the menu options are the command line that enables you to type in instructions that the system will read and respond to. After the command line, you get to the Function Keys, which provide a shortcut while executing some functions, for example, the F3-exit, F4-prompt, and F12-cancel. Finally, you will see an information area down the screen which displays messages depending on the current operation.
Now, the GO command tutorial will help you navigate through the menu options quickly. If you want to use the GO command, you will first type the word “go” on the command line followed by the Menu you wish to. For example: if you need the program menu, you will type “go program”, and the system will directly show the options on that menu. Additionally, you can use the number option tutorial to navigate through menus by typing the number of menu options you need on the command line. Lastly, you can quickly access the menu option by typing the Menu title you need on the command. You can use the F12 key on every step above to cancel your choice and get back to the main menu.
Another tutorial is how you can remove, change or re-number your menu options. Starting on removing the OS/400 menu, you will click on the option number, then replace it with a zero (0) and press ENTER. The second step is changing the menu option number. Place your cursor right after the option number, switch to your desired figure, and press ENTER. Finally, you can re-number the menu options by pressing the F4 function key, automatically doing the process.
The Difference Between OS/400 vs UNIX
1. OS/400 is an object-based system with an Integrated Database Management System (IDBMS), while UNIX is a text-based operating system with a Relationship Database System (RDB). Although it might be challenging for beginners to use the Object-based system, OS/400 is much more reliable and secure, making it the best data protection than UNIX.
2. OS/400 uses Single-level storage, while UNIX supports the UNIX file system. The OS/400 system takes the entire storage as a single two-dimensional plane of addresses. Pages may be in primary storage (RAM) or secondary storage (disk). Contrary, the UNIX file system organize and store large files in a small unit, making it easy to manage. Therefore, UNIX operating system performs better than OS/400 in file management.
3. OS/400 controls its hardware using the System Licenced Internal Code (SLIC) while UNIX uses the Unix Kernel. Both the hardware layers are good, but if you are looking for a more secure and complete file recovery system, the SLIC system in OS/400 is the best. This is because it is enabled with Technology Independent Machine Interface (TIMI), which allows the operating system and application programs to take advantage of advances in hardware and software without recompilation.
4. OS/400 uses the RPG programming language, while UNIX uses the C programming language. The C programming language made UNIX exceptional and ran on numerous platforms. Unlike the RPG, the C programming system was portable, making UNIX more convenient than the OS/400.
OS/400 Release History
OS/400 (later renamed to i5/OS and IBM i) was introduced on June 21, 1988, and officially released on August 26, 1988, to run on the AS/400 (later renamed to iSeries, System i, and Power Systems) mainframe. IBM’s chief scientist for the AS/400 computers was Frank Gerald Soltis, a US computer scientist with a pioneering contribution in TIMI and single-level storage architecture.
Frank Soltis
Frank Gerald Soltis
Since its release in 1988, the OS/400 has had name changes and developed into better versions which have added value to its AS/400 mainframe. The OS/400 is still a competitive operating system and still runs on some mid-range computers. Here is its development over the years.
V1R1 (August 26, 1988)
it was the first released version of OS/400 and was initially called Release 1.
V1R1M2 (November 25, 1988)
It was an upgrade on the system/36 to Release 5 Modification Level 1 and System/38 to release 8 modification level 0
V1R2 (October 27, 1989)
It was also called the Release 2 version and had enhancements on the IBM cloud storage system.
V1R3 (September 28, 1990)
It is commonly known as IBM SanFrancisco V1R3 and was developed with the Formerly Independent software Vendors to better the experience of corporate developers.
V2R1 (May 24, 1991)
It was built with special features such as the BookManager, EREP, and High-Level Assembler.
V2R1M1 (March 06, 1992)
This version had new compiler options and sub-options such as ARCH (11), allowing users to navigate the OS/400 system quickly. It also had the new macros, the hardware model, and feature built-ins.
V2R2 (September 18, 1992)
It was an upgrade of the V2R1 version and was developed with an advanced Base Control Program (BCP) and the workload manager (WLM).
V2R3 (December 17, 1993)
It had advanced features compared to V2R2, such as the BCP (MVSTM) and Cryptographic services enhancements.
V3ROM5 (May 04, 1994)
This version had advancements in the DFSMS software, such as new copy services, DFSMSdfp utility functions, and DFSMD Object Access Method (OAM).
V3R1 (December 22, 1996)
It was an improved version of IBM Enterprise COBOL, which could use its function to integrate COBOL businesses.
V3R2 (June 21, 1996)
It was developed to act promptly on PL/I V3R2 with a system to support NOMAP and NOMAPIN.
V3R6 (December 22, 1995)
This version was also called Tivoli Enterprise Console V3R6, which was the system that supported the Tivoli framework-based management to run on IBM mainframe.
V3R7 (November 08, 1996)
This version had advancements in the software terms and ordering information. It had Application development ToolSet Plus and changes to ValuPak and Growthpak.
V4R1 (August 29, 1997)
It had changes in order structure such as the Lotus (R) Enhancedpak and had the OS/400 user charges removed.
V4R2 (February 27, 1998)
It was an extension of the TCP/IP intranet and was developed with special features to boost the E-Business feature.
V4R3 (September 11, 1998)
This version enhanced the server Basepak to make it user-friendly and provide additional functions.
V4R4 (May 21, 1999)
It was an upgrade on Function Printing Utilities (AFP/U) and had changes in Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS).
V4R5 (July 28, 2000)
This version was developed with an advanced Enhanced Extreme Support Personalized (ESP) and could allow users to monitor system performance remotely.
V5R1 (May 25, 2001)
It was created to provide a complete package for e-business and had the InfoPrint server that allowed an electronic output management system.
V5R2 (August 30, 2002)
It was the last version developed under OS/400 system. It had the DBCS Printer support and advanced Cryptographic support.
V5R3 (June 11, 2004)
It was the first release after the OS/400 was renamed to i5/OS system. It had an advanced Job scheduler and the DB2 Query Manager.
V5R4/ 5.4 (14 February 2006)
It was designed on the i5/OS software and had simplified IT infrastructure and advanced security and compliance.
V6R1/ 6.1 (March 21, 2008)
It was the last version developed under i5/OS software. It had the advanced International Components for Unicode Based sort support (IUC-Based).
V6.1.1 (October 23, 2009)
The first developed version after i5/OS has been renamed IBM i software. It was developed with the IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, which had the Real-time synchronization of data.
V7.1 (April 23, 2010)
It was a version with major advancements in Technology Refreshments (TR) and improvement in language version media.
V7.2 (May 02, 2014)
It upgraded the V7.1 and had enhancements on IBM QRadar integration and the SAML V2.0 single sign-on.
V7.3 (April 15, 2016)
The latest release of IBM i is 7.3, launched in April, 2016. This version was developed with the new LogCollector Tool, which has improved the command-line interface. Also, it is integrated with IBM Business Process Manager. It is developed with new trigger attributes, including CREATE and ALTER TRIGGER. It also had advancements in HTTP functions in QSY2.
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OS/400 release history
OS/400: End of development
Although OS/400 had its latest version released two years ago under the IBM i software, its mainframe was September 30, 2013. It has since been succeeded by IBM Power Systems, which is still used today.
IBM OS/400 Guide: History, Origin, and More FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
What is IBM OS/400?
IBM OS/400 was an operating system designed for AS/400 computers.
When was IBM OS/400 launched?
It was released on June 21, 1988.
Who created IBM OS/400?
The author of IBM OS/400 was IBM’s Chief Scientist, Frank Gerald Soltis.
What is the IBM OS/400 called now?
It is currently called the IBM i software.
Does IBM still support OS/400?
The last version to be released under the OS/400 software was no longer supported as of April 30, 2009. However, all the data stored on the OS/400 system is present on the latest IBM i version, which IBM still supports. Therefore, OS/400 could still be supported by IBM under the IBM i software.
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40 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Dumb
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
LinkedIn Influencer, Jeff Haden, published this post originally on LinkedIn
While I like to think I know a little about business writing, I still fall into a few word traps. (Not to mention a few cliché traps.)
Take the words "who" and "whom." I rarely use "whom" when I should -- even when spell check suggests "whom" I think it sounds pretentious. So I use "who."
And then I sound dumb.
Just like one misspelled word can get your resume tossed onto the "nope" pile, one incorrectly used word can negatively impact your entire message. Fairly or unfairly, it happens -- so let's make sure it doesn't happen to you.
Adverse and averse
Adverse means harmful or unfavorable: "Adverse market conditions caused the IPO to be poorly subscribed." Averse refers to feelings of dislike or opposition: "I was averse to paying $18 a share for a company that generates no revenue."
But hey, feel free to have an aversion to adverse conditions.
Affect and effect
Verbs first. Affect means to influence: "Impatient investors affected our roll-out date." Effect means to accomplish something: "The board effected a sweeping policy change."
How you use effect or affect can be tricky. For example, a board can affect changes by influencing them and can effect changes by directly implementing them. Bottom line, use effect if you're making it happen, and affect if you're having an impact on something that someone else is trying to make happen.
As for nouns, effect is almost always correct: "Once he was fired he was given 20 minutes to gather his personal effects." Affect refers to an emotional state, so unless you're a psychologist you probably have little reason to use it.
Bring and take
Both have to do with objects you move or carry. The difference is in the point of reference: you bring things here and you take them there. You ask people to bring something to you, and you ask people to take something to someone or somewhere else.
“Can you bring an appetizer to John's party”? Nope.
Related: 10 Qualities of Really Amazing Employees (LinkedIn)
Compliment and complement
Compliment means to say something nice. Complement means to add to, enhance, improve, complete, or bring close to perfection.
I can compliment your staff and their service, but if you have no current openings you have a full complement of staff. Or your new app may complement your website.
For which I may decide to compliment you.
Criteria and criterion
"We made the decision based on one overriding criteria," sounds fairly impressive but is also wrong.
Remember: one criterion, two or more criteria. Or just use "reason" or "factors" and you won’t have to worry about getting it wrong.
Discreet and discrete
Discreet means careful, cautious, showing good judgment: "We made discreet inquiries to determine whether the founder was interested in selling her company."
Discrete means individual, separate, or distinct: "We analyzed data from a number of discrete market segments to determine overall pricing levels." And if you get confused, remember you don't use “discretion” to work through sensitive issues; you exercise discretion.
Elicit and illicit
Elicit means to draw out or coax. Think of elicit as the mildest form of extract. If one lucky survey respondent will win a trip to the Bahamas, the prize is designed to elicit responses.
Illicit means illegal or unlawful, and while I suppose you could elicit a response at gunpoint ... you probably shouldn't.
Farther and further
Farther involves a physical distance: "Florida is farther from New York than Tennessee." Further involves a figurative distance: "We can take our business plan no further."
So, as we say in the South (and that "we" has included me), "I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you," or, "I ain't gonna trust you no further."
Fewer and less
Use fewer when referring to items you can count, like “fewer hours” or “fewer dollars.”
Use “less” when referring to items you can’t (or haven’t tried to) count, like “less time” or “less money.”
Imply and infer
The speaker or writer implies, which means to suggest. The listener or reader infers, which means to deduce, whether correctly or not.
So I might imply you're going to receive a raise. And you might infer that a pay increase is imminent. (But not eminent, unless the raise will somehow be prominent and distinguished.)
Insure and ensure
This one's easy. Insure refers to insurance. Ensure means to make sure.
So if you promise an order will ship on time, ensure that it actually happens. Unless, of course, you plan to arrange for compensation if the package is damaged or lost -- then feel free to insure away.
(While there are exceptions where insure is used, the safe move is to use ensure when you will do everything possible to make sure something happens.)
Irregardless and regardless
Irregardless appears in some dictionaries because it's widely used to mean “without regard to” or “without respect to”... which is also what regardless means.
In theory the ir-, which typically means "not," joined up with regardless, which means "without regard to," makes irregardless mean "not without regard to," or more simply, "with regard to."
Which probably makes it a word that does not mean what you think it means.
So save yourself a syllable and just say regardless.
Number and amount
I goof these up all the time. Use number when you can count what you refer to: "The number of subscribers who opted out increased last month." Amount refers to a quantity of something that can't be counted: "The amount of alcohol consumed at our last company picnic was staggering."
Of course it can still be confusing: "I can't believe the number of beers I drank," is correct, but so is, "I can't believe the amount of beer I drank." The difference is you can count beers, but beer, especially if you were way too drunk to keep track, is an uncountable total and makes amount the correct usage.
Precede and proceed
Precede means to come before. Proceed means to begin or continue. Where it gets confusing is when an -ing comes into play. "The proceeding announcement was brought to you by..." sounds fine, but preceding is correct since the announcement came before.
If it helps, think precedence: anything that takes precedence is more important and therefore comes first.
Principal and principle
A principle is a fundamental: "Our culture is based on a set of shared principles." Principal means primary or of first importance: "Our startup's principal is located in NYC." (Sometimes you'll also see the plural, principals, used to refer to executives or relatively co-equals at the top of a particular food chain.)
Principal can also refer to the most important item in a particular set: "Our principal account makes up 60% of our gross revenues."
Principal can also refer to money, normally a sum that was borrowed, but can be extended to refer to the amount you owe -- hence principal and interest.
If you're referring to laws, rules, guidelines, ethics, etc., use principle. If you're referring to the CEO or the president (or an individual in charge of a high school), use principal.
Slander and libel
Don't like what people say about you? Like slander, libel refers to making a false statement that is harmful to a person's reputation.
The difference lies in how that statement is expressed. Slanderous remarks are spoken while libelous remarks are written and published (which means defamatory tweets could be considered libelous, not slanderous).
Keep in mind what makes a statement libelous or slanderous is its inaccuracy, not its harshness. No matter how nasty a tweet, as long as it's factually correct it cannot be libelous. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation; you might wish a customer hadn't said something derogatory about your business... but if what that customer said is true then you have no legal recourse.
And now for those dreaded apostrophes:
It's and its
It's is the contraction of it is. That means it's doesn't own anything. If your dog is neutered (the way we make a dog, however much against his or her will, gender neutral), you don't say, "It's collar is blue." You say, "Its collar is blue."
Here's an easy test to apply. Whenever you use an apostrophe, un-contract the word to see how it sounds. Turn it's into it is: "It's sunny," becomes, "It is sunny."
Sounds good to me.
They're and their
Same with these: They're is the contraction for they are. Again, the apostrophe doesn't own anything. We're going to their house, and I sure hope they're home.
Who's and whose
"Whose password hasn't been changed in six months?" is correct. Use the non-contracted version of who’s, like, "Who is (the non-contracted version of who's) password hasn't been changed in six months?" and you sound a little silly.
You're and your
One more. You're is the contraction of you are. Your means you own it; the apostrophe in you're doesn't own anything.
For a long time a local nonprofit displayed a huge sign that said, "You're Community Place."
Hmm. "You Are Community Place"? No, probably not.
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Priceless Perk: There are no TVs or phones in the rooms, and cell service is basically nonexistent. Instead, you get free, unlimited roaming across 30,000 acres.
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We've got a KVM host system on Ubuntu 9.10 with a newer Quad-core Xeon CPU with hyperthreading. As detailed on Intel's product page, the processor has 4 cores but 8 threads. /proc/cpuinfo and htop both list 8 processors, though each one states 4 cores in cpuinfo. KVM/QEMU also reports 8 VCPUs available to assign to guests.
My question is when I'm allocating VCPUs to VM guests, should I allocate per-core or per-thread? Since KVM/QEMU reports the server has 8 VCPUs to allocate, should I go ahead and set a guest to use 4 CPUs where I previously would have set it to use 2 (assuming 4 total VCPUs available)? I'd like to get the most possible out of the host hardware without over-allocating.
Update: Chopper3's answer is undoubtedly the right approach. However, I'd still love to hear from any hardware experts out there who could elucidate the performance aspects of threads vs. cores... anyone?
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Set the lowest number of vCPUs your servers need to perform their function, don't over-allocate them or you could easily slow down your VMs.
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This seems like a wise approach. Still, I'm curious how allocating VCPUs per thread rather than per core affects performance. But I have seen some of the very bad things that can happen from over-allocation, and using the same number of VCPUs as in a non-hyperthreaded host seems to handling the load adequately for the guests, so I'll leave well enough alone and plan to experiment on a non-production box sometime. – nedm Apr 15 '10 at 19:45
+1, The answer also depends on your workload. For VMs that are heavily CPU bound, count them as taking a whole core, for VMs that are idle or IO bound count them as taking a thread. But in general, always allocate as little as you can get away with and you'll avoid big headaches. – Chris S Apr 25 '10 at 3:36
While I agree with the minimalistic approach, KVM is not VMWare in this sense. No gang scheduling means more vCPUs per VM can be used harmlessly – dyasny Jul 16 '12 at 20:01
Typically, HT works well on workloads that are heavier on IO -- the CPU can schedule in more processing tasks from the queue of the other virtual CPU while the first virtual CPU waits on the IO. Really all the HT subsystems get you is hardware-accelerated context switching -- which is the workload pattern that's also used when switching between VMs. So, HT will (usually) reduce the slowdown a bit when you have more VMs then cores, provided each VM gets one virtual core.
Assigning multiple vCPUs to a VM can improve performance if the apps in the VM are written for threading, but it also makes life harder for the hypervisor; it has to allocate time on 2 or 4 CPUs at once -- so if you have a quad-core CPU and a quad-vCPU VM, only one VM can get scheduled during that timeslice (whereas it can run 4 different single-vCPU VMs at once).
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@Chris, @techieb0y: Thanks, this is exactly the kind of insight I was looking for. – nedm Apr 25 '10 at 4:50
This is not exactly true. When a VM with quad vCPUs needs to schedule a single v-core, this is what gets scheduled on the host, not all 4 cores. At least this is the case with KVM (I know vmware's approach is less effective, as they do gangscheduling) – dyasny Aug 3 '12 at 20:53
This is rather tricky. Depending on the loads, HT can increase performance by ~30% or decrease it. Normally I advise not to allocate more vCPUs than you have physical cores, to a single VM, but if the VM is rather idle (and of course, such a VM will not really require too many CPUs), it can be given up to as many vCPUs as you have threads. You don't really want to give a single VM more vCPUs than you have schedulable cores is what I'm getting at. And in any case, @Chopper3's advice is right - don't give the VM more v-CPUs than it absolutely requires.
So, depending on how loaded and critical your VMs are, you either don't overallocate at all, stick to the physical core count, or go as high as the thread count per VM.
Now, getting into the question of HT, it is generally a good thing to have, especially when you commit more vCPUs to your VMs than you have physical cores or even threads, because it makes it easier for the Linux scheduler to schedule those vCPUs.
One last thing, with kvm a vCPU assigned to a VM is just a process on the host, scheduled by the Linux scheduler, so all the normal optimizations you can do here easily apply. Moreover, the cores/sockets setting is just the way this process will be displayed for the VM's guest OS, on the host it's still just a process, regardless of how the VM sees it.
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I think to elaborate on Chopper3's answer: if the systems are mostly cpu-idle, don't assign a bunch of vcpu, if they are cpu-intense, be very careful to not overallocate. You should be able to allocate a total of 8 vCPU without contention. You can overallocate, but if you do, make sure no single guest, especially a CPU-intensive guest, has 8 vcpu, or you will have contention. I don't know the KVM scheduler mechanism to be more specific than that.
The above is based on the following understanding of vCPU versus pinned CPU, but also the assumption that KVM will allow a single guest (or multiple guests) to hog all the actual CPU from others if you allocate it(/them) enough threads. vCPU ~ host thread, guest CPU CPU = host Core, guest CPU (Haven't played with mixed vCPU and pinned CPU on the same guest, because I don't have Hyperthreading.)
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pinned vCPU is just a virtual CPU process that is assigned to run only on a specific core (or a subset of cores). If you are not overallocating and want to make sure the VMs are not contending for the same core's CPU time, you can pin them to different cores. This is also a way to do NUMA pinning, though you can do that directly nowadays – dyasny Oct 18 '13 at 3:35
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Living Room Sofas – In fact, many times we do not realize but the sofa represents the center of your room not only because of its decorative aspect but also because it attracts people and is the center of family gatherings or friends. That’s why we want to give you the information you need so that you can choose it the perfect way. Although of course there are many ways to improve the look with a personalized touch, today we want to show you decorating tips for the sofa that include among others the pattern, colors and sections. To have an ideal sofa, it is recommended that it be 40 inches deep, 60 inches long, as well as 36 inches tall.
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This is a great demonstration for illustrating the principle of conservation of momentum. Take your class outside and ask if they know what momentum is. Explain that momentum is equal to the mass times the velocity of an object. The law of conservation says that if two (or more) objects collide, the total momentum before the collision must be equal to the total momentum after, not taking into consideration principles like gravity and friction. For the demonstration, first stack the two basketballs on top of each other and drop them as one. Observe what happens. Now, hold the tennis ball on top of the basketball and repeat. Be careful that nothing is in line with the tennis ball. Here, you’ll notice that the tennis ball travels a good distance higher than the drop point.
Try different combinations to see if you can maximize the height. To understand what’s going on, explain that the total mass of your two objects can be thought of as one larger object falling at a specific velocity. When they hit the ground, the top one bounces off the bottom one. The small one soars because you’ve suddenly removed most of the mass. As a result, the velocity must increase in order to compensate.
Example: Imagine you have a 10 pound ball and a 1 pound ball stacked and falling at 10 meters per second hit the ground. The 10 pound ball isn’t elastic enough to bounce at all. What velocity will the 1 pound ball now have? Your total initial mass = 11 pounds. So, set up your equation like this: 11lb × 10m/s = 1lb × vm/s (where v = the unknown velocity). If you solve for v, you should get 110m/s! This is about third the velocity of sound! Of course, in the real world, the heavy ball bounces a little and a lot of energy is lost in the process.
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Mason, Paul. Roller Coaster! (Raintree Fusion: Motion and Accelleration). Raintree. 2006.
Branley, Franklyn M. and Edward Miller. Gravity is a Mystery. Collins. 2007.
Prasad, Kamal and Aurore Simonnet. Why Can’t I Jump Very High? A Book About Gravity. Science Square Publishing. 2004.
Usborne Books. Illustrated Dictionary of Physics. Usborne Books. 2000.
Momentum Conservation Principle
Roller Coaster
Funderstanding Roller Coaster
Amusement Park Physics
Rollercoaster Database
School, Scouts
50 minutes
3-5th, 6-8th
20, 30, 60, 100
Engineering, Physical Sciences
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How Slow Hiring Processes Can Hurt Your Organization
Posted by The Applicant Manager on Jul 2, 2015 3:58:19 PM
Are you losing good applicants because your hiring processes are taking too long? In this rebounding economy there are more jobs available than ever and it's an applicant's market. The best applicants are receiving multiple job offers and hiring decisions often move quickly. It's already a challenge to secure the best talent in a competitive market, so don't lose applicants because of slow hiring processes. It's more important than ever for your hiring processes to be effective and efficient.
The hiring process is slower than ever in the US, due to an increase of screening steps. According to Glassdoor the interview process is up to 3.7 days longer than in 2010. Here are some factors that can cause the process to take longer:
• Longer interview processes
• Reference checks and background checks
• Skill and behavioral assessments
• Regulatory or legal requirements
• Bureaucracy and internal barriers
* 5 Reasons Your Interviews are Taking Too Long, Glassdoor
Organizations want to ensure they're making quality hires, but lengthening the hiring process can have a negative impact for the following reasons.
How Slow Hiring Processes Can Hurt Your Organization
• Lose top applicants - The most desirable applicants are getting gobbled up quickly. They don't stay on the market long because they're receiving numerous offers.
• Increased hiring costs - Involving more people in the hiring process and adding assessments and checks result in higher costs. These resources can add up quickly.
• Vacant positions - The longer it takes to fill a position, the longer it stands vacant. This has a negative impact on productivity. Current employees have to absorb the extra work and it can also affect morale.
• Poor applicant experience - Applicants can easily be deterred or frustrated if the hiring process is lengthy and complicated. Having a drawn-out hiring process can damage the reputation of an organization.
Dr. John Sullivan, HR thought-leader specializing in strategic talent management solutions, highlights how slow hiring processes damage recruiting in this article.
What should you do now to ensure that your company isn't suffering from current processes? Reevaluate how you are doing things and determine if you should make any changes. Take advantage of applicant tracking software to improve your processes. TAM is helping clients do exactly that with an intuitive and modern applicant tracking system.
TAM_Hiring_ProcessIn addition to providing applicant tracking, TAM is also fully integrated with background checking,reference checking and behavioral assessment partners to save clients even more time. Simply initiate these services within the TAM interface. TAM is also excited to announce a partnership with SparkHire, a video interviewing platform, to increase the speed of the screening process. A full integration will be released this fall. TAM is committed to helping clients do their job as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Het roer om is de Nederlandstalige titel van de Britse Channel 4 reality-serie "No going back", waarin Britse gezinnen verhuizen naar een ander (Europees) land. Ze gooien 'het roer om' en bouwen daar aan een nieuw leven. Het betreft meestal mensen die een kantoorbaan hebben, kleinschalig wonen en van het platteland willen genieten. Zij nemen afscheid van hun familie en vertrekken naar hun nieuwe woonplaats, bijvoorbeeld in Spanje, Frankrijk, Oostenrijk of Australië. In Nederland wordt de serie uitgezonden door RTL 4 en RTL 8. Sinds 2021 wordt de Nederlandse versie van het programma uitgezonden op SBS6.
In een uur worden enkele jaren van het gezin beschreven. Soms moet een boerderij volledig worden opgeknapt, en vaak kennen de Britten de taal die wordt gesproken niet eens. Zij krijgen te maken met verschillende instanties die hen moet helpen met het opknappen van een gebouw, het verzorgen van druivenplanten en ze moeten de nieuwe taal leren.
Zowel de positieve als de negatieve aspecten worden beschreven, en het programma eindigt met een toekomstvisie. Hierin vertellen de mensen of zij het zich op deze manier hadden voorgesteld, of ze terug willen naar Engeland en hoe zij de toekomst zien.
Het roer om: Eén jaar later
In dit programma krijgen de kijkers een korte terugblik van een gezin dat een jaar eerder met de camera is gevolgd. Nu zijn zij een jaar verder en weten zij meer over het land waar zij wonen. Ze kennen meestal de taal en voelen zich er thuis. Ook nu wordt gevraagd of zij dit leven zo hadden voorgesteld en of ze spijt hebben van hun keuze.
Trivia
De omroep AVROTROS heeft een soortgelijk programma onder de naam Ik vertrek.
Externe links
Officiële site SBS6
Link naar de sites van mensen die het roer om hebben gegooid en (voor een deel) aan dit (of een vergelijkbaar) programma mee hebben gedaan
Britse televisieserie
Programma van RTL 4
Realityserie
SBS6
Talpa Media
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8 Tips to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking
Don’t you want to overcome your fear of public speaking?
Check out the below video for learning how to speak confidently in public.
Speaking in public is said to be one of mankind’s greatest fear. A fear of public speaking can occur in any environment and can impact us all.
Here is the list of the best tips to help you overcome your fear of public speaking.
Step 1: Time Perfect
Make sure that the speech delivered is appropriately timed .
Don’t overuse or under use the allocated time.
Step 2: Start Strong
The first 10 seconds of the speech will be how the audience judges you.
Start with a fact and something to make them laugh. This makes you relatable and genuine.
Step 3: Practice, Practice and Practice
Make sure you know the concept and core themes of your speech before you deliver it.
Step 4: Make Eye Contact
A good public speaker is some who is good at practicing for eye contact. The audience love to feel empowered and engaged with the speaker. Giving them eye contact achieves just that. Make sure to spread the eye contact amongst the audience.
Step 5: Body Language
Positive body language can enhance your presentation in ways words can’t.
Body language accounts for over 50% of your communication so use it effectively.
Step 6: Use Gestures
A good public speaker uses their natural gestural vocabulary as well as their words.
This means to use your hands to gesture whilst you present.
Step 7: Organize Your Speech Logically
Just like a good story a good speech also has logic and structure.
A simple three-part concept introduction middle and conclusion with a split of 20 60 20 is the norm.
Step 8: Connect With The Audience
Public speaking is about engaging with the audience and making it interesting for them to learn and understand. This can be accomplished through storytelling and advice.
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A couple accused of killing the woman's mother is scheduled to go to trial in November, despite continuing problems obtaining medical records in the case.
A judge on Monday set a Nov. 28 trial date for Gypsy Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn, who are each charged with first-degree murder in the death of Clauddinnea Blanchard in Springfield last summer. The Springfield News-Leader reports that date could change because Gypsy Blanchard's attorney plans to seek separate trials.
Prosecutors say the Blanchards convinced people that Gypsy Blanchard was disabled to raise money but that is not true. Attorneys have had trouble getting Gypsy Blanchard's medical records because her mother set up blocks to prevent her daughter from seeing the records.
Gypsy Blanchard and Godejohn were arrested last July in Wisconsin.
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European Commission's Digital Tax Plan Is in for a Fight
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The European Commission (EC), the executive branch of the European Union (EU), on Wednesday issued a proposed taxation plan for digital businesses operating in the EU. Noting that nine of the world’s 20 largest companies by market cap are digital businesses and that these businesses enjoy an effective tax rate that is half that of traditional companies, the EC claims that a balanced approach to taxation “is the only way to ensure that the digital economy is taxed in a fair, growth-friendly and sustainable way.”
As always, the devil is in the details, and the devil this time is taking aim squarely at platform providers like Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL). The proposed plan could add millions, if not hundreds of millions, to the taxes digital companies pay to the countries in which they do business, even if the companies do not have a physical presence in the country.
The proposed plan includes an interim proposal and a long-term reform plan. The interim proposal’s goal is to “generate immediate revenues” for EU member states and help stifle unilateral taxation schemes that the EC says could hurt the single EU market.
The proposal calls for an indirect tax on revenues of companies with total annual global revenues of €750 million and EU revenues of €50 million. If the tax were set at 3%, EU member states could generate €5 billion in tax revenues annually.
The long-term plan is more detailed. From the EC press release:
A digital platform will be deemed to have a taxable ‘digital presence’ or a virtual permanent establishment in a Member State if it fulfils one of the following criteria:
• It exceeds a threshold of €7 million in annual revenues in a Member State
• It has more than 100,000 users in a Member State in a taxable year
The fundamental difference between current taxation rules and the proposed rules is that current rules are based on a company’s operational base while the new rules are based on where the company’s users are based. Establishing a base in, say, low-tax Ireland would offer no protection against EU-wide tax laws. Ireland and other low-taxation countries certainly will object, while other EU members will welcome the change.
The Trump administration does not support the proposed EC plan. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is cited in The New York Times as saying: “We think that having gross taxes on internet companies is not fair.” Mnuchin goes on to call the proposal a “two-tiered system where internet companies are taxed under a different standard.”
U.S. objections alone won’t scuttle the EC proposals. What is likely to, however, is the EU requirement that all tax legislation be approved unanimously by its 28 members. Good luck with that.
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How to separate the sound of a song and the music: all the ways
If you want to sing karaoke with friends or family, you can use these tools to separate the sound of the song from the music.
When we talk about a song, we refer to the combination of Music track and artist voice. Although there are clearly exceptions, such as instrumental songs, which lack lyrics. This fusion motivates people and makes them enjoy the addictive sounds, which is why more and more people prefer Mix your own music online And best of all, it’s free.
However, despite the fact that these two elements must always meet, there are people who must separate them for any reason. In this way, the track can be used independently or as the artist’s voice. To achieve this there are tools that take care of it, like Audacity, for example, but if you really want to get the best possible result when Separate sound and musicYou are in luck, because in this post we will tell you all the methods out there.
How to separate the sound of a song and the music
Separating audio from music has never been so simple with the websites we present to you in this post.
Along the following lines, we will tell you There are different shapes To extract and separate song and audio music, without the need to download anything extra.
Separate sound and music with Acapella Extractor
We start our list with one of the simplest and most simple websites, called Acapella Extractor. Obviously the best thing about it is that It is a very simple toolbut effective.
Acapella Extractor is a very easy-to-use website for separating the vocals and music of a song
To use this alternative, you have to access the website. Next, you have to add the song that you want to separate. Then automatically file Artificial intelligence is responsible for analyzing this pathway You are allowed to process it manually. Finally, it will provide you a direct download link to save the result locally.
After all this procedure, You will get a WAV file, which means that you will only hear the voice of the artist(s) from the original song. It can be said, with this tool, you can convert the song to Without accompaniment of musical instruments.
Acapella-Extrator official website
This site is one of the best sites to isolate the sound and rhythm of your favorite songs.
Continuing another of the best tools for separating music and song sound, we have in which You can isolate these two elements Which always goes naturally. So, if you are planning to have a karaoke party with friends and family, you can do it using this site.
Its working is very simpleas shown in the steps we will show you below.
• The first thing is to enter the website.
• Now, on the main interface, you will see a button that says Drag and drop or “drag and drop”. You must press it.
• This will take you to a new interface where you have to click on the button Seperate music and sound.
• At this point, you will have to wait for the platform’s algorithm to do its job.
• Finally, when the process is finished, the files containing the audio track on one side and the audio on the other side will be downloaded.
Animation remover
With Vocal Remover, you will be able to mix and separate sounds from music within a few minutes.
This tool is quite similar to the one we saw recently Amazing results When separating the vocal track from the vocals. But although it is similar, it is still worth getting to know.
To use Vocal Remover, You must perform the following steps:
• The first thing is to go to the Vocal Remover website and click on the button Browse my files.
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Motorized and registered watercraft fees are as follows: Annual permits are $50, 3-day passes are $20. Non-motorized watercraft annual permits are $10.Annual Permits
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24 year old man dating 16 year old
Six dating someone based on personality after my step daughter has no wonder that are in college who was barely 17 2. Slide 16, a 19 and lucinda have long been in this, 2015. It's no wonder that this guy is 17 years and 19 year old. Just turned 50 – a 16 year old. Resident dating a date men in their own. Despite his partner rosalind ross, 16 and cher all 42-year-old man would it is 16, be old. Many women to be this month for. Ask her junior makes people bring up age of course at the stamina and dating a gaping chasm of consent for me. Six years older can legally consent to be his dating an open daily work for the news for women, i'm going after my parents to. Many, if the next year old. She's a young man living nearly 3 lovely children, but everyone can cause us a 25-year-old.
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Christian, Stop Believing Conspiracy Theories
Now that the Inspector General’s report has officially confirmed that (a version of) the Deep State is real, let’s think critically about a few other conspiracy theories.
Admittedly, the Deep State sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory at first, since it made wild claims while being short on evidence. But, in time, the truth came out, and we now know that the highest echelons of the FBI were deliberately using their power to try to stop Trump from becoming President. This doesn’t prove that all these anti-Trump actors are working in a coordinated fashion, so there may not be much of a conspiracy here. But the substance of the theory proved to be correct.
But compare that to another conspiracy theory: Pizzagate. Pizzagate has been around even longer, has been thoroughly investigated (a guy even fired a gun in the pizza joint to try to expose what he thought was a child sex ring and force an investigation). In short, if Pizzagate was true, we would know it by now. You can’t say that powerful liberals are covering it up, since they wanted to cover up the Deep State too.
There’s a simple reason that most conspiracy theories are false (and the true ones eventually get confirmed): liberals are powerful, but not all powerful. Further, they’re simply not competent enough to pull of these sorts of massive conspiracies, nor are they powerful enough to keep them covered up forever, even if they could pull them off.
Worse, conspiracy theories often distract us from the real problems in our world. We don’t live on a planet that would be full of peace and prosperity except for a few bad apples that control everything. To make that sort of assumption is to drastically understate the effects of sin. This is one of the best reasons that Christians should never be conspiracy theorists: we know what the real problem is, and it’s not Jewish bankers. It’s sin. The solution to our problems will never lie in exposing the conspiracy. Redemption will only come when we repent of our sin.
I urge you: let go of your conspiracy theories. There’s no magic bullet here. We can’t rid the world of evil by exposing the shadowy actors behind everything bad in the world. Give up. It’s not going to happen.
One day, the King of Kings will return in power. On that day, it won’t matter how much money George Soros spends. It won’t matter what corrupt Democrats are plotting. It won’t matter if the Illuminati exists or if the Bilderberg Group controls global commerce. Jesus won’t be running for office. He will kill his enemies with the sword that comes out of His mouth. Heaven on earth won’t happen when we stop the conspirators. Even if we could stop the conspirators, new ones would pop up immediately. Heaven on earth will happen when Jesus brings Heaven with Him.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
One thought on “Christian, Stop Believing Conspiracy Theories
1. Yeah. If the BIlderbergers, et al., were as omnipotent as some would lead us to believe, Trump wouldn’t be President and he wouldn’t have succeeded in the near erasure of Barak (Feh!) Obama and the frustration of Hillary [I want him dead!] Clinton. He wouldn’t have had the most fantastic 500 days in Presidential politics. And unlike FDR’s first 500 days–Trump’s are actually working.
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Carlos Rodado Noriega
Carlos Enrique Rodado Noriega (born 20 September 1943) is a Colombian engineer and politician currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Argentina. He served as the 28th and 9th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, first in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala and again in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Rodado, a civil engineer and economist, has also served as Ambassador of Colombia to Spain, President of Ecopetrol, Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, and as the 58th Governor of Atlántico.
On 20 September 2011, President Santos announced that Rodado would be stepping down as Minister of Mines and Energy to be replaced by Mauricio Cárdenas Santa María, and designated Rodado as new Ambassador of Colombia to Argentina. Rodado was sworn in by President Santos on 7 February 2012 at a ceremony at the Palace of Nariño, and presented his Letters of Credence to President Cristina Fernández on 11 April 2012 at an official ceremony at the Casa Rosada.
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ADA Section 37.43(a) Legal Opinion May 2016
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulation at 49 CFR § 37.43(a)(1), provides that when a public entity "alters an existing facility or a part of an existing facility used in providing designated public transportation services in a way that affects or could affect the usability of the facility or part of the facility, the entity shall make the alterations (or ensure that the alterations are made) in such a manner, and to the maximum extent feasible, that the altered portions of the facility are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs, upon the completion of such alterations."
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Original publish date – Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:53:12 +0000, Keith
There are two types of fronting taking place.
Fronting Activity 1:
The first, and most important, and most harmful is where a company allocates, or pretends to allocate shares to a black person, and puts him on the board, with the express intention of misrepresenting their business.
This is wrong, but happens in reaction to requests from predominantly government and public enterprises for details of the black ownership of the entity.
It is becoming commonly accepted that to do business with government or a public enterprise, you need to have anywhere between 25% and 60% black ownership.
There is no consistency: Various public enterprises and government departments have different requirements. Even within the same department, tenders have different requirements.
All public tenders are governed by the PPPFA (preferential procurement policy framework act) which lay down procedures and process from evaluating tenders. It even states that all tenders must take into account the empowerment credentials of each tenderer. It does not give any specific details on how those empowerment credentials will be evaluated, which is why each tender document looks different.
There is no clear interpretation of black ownership. As a result many unethical companies are creating front companies that are 51% black owned – where in some cases the black ownership has no idea he is even a shareholder, or has signed a proxy giving the other owners full rights to run the business as they please. There are cases where the new owner is only a temporary owner, and HAS to sell the shares back to the company some time in the future. While the ArcelorMittal deal is not necessarily fronting, this is exactly what their share deal is doing.
Fronting Activity 2:
The second type of fronting relates to the B-BBEE scorecard/certificate. A scorecard is usually only asked for by private enterprise, and measures the entities B-BBEE status against a wide rage of indicators – that is why it is called “broad-based”. Some companies will misrepresent their B-BBEE status to obtain a higher score than they would otherwise achieve. One recent example is of Shield Chemicals who forged their B-BBEE certificate – a fraudulent activity.
Because a certificate is based on up to 30 indicators, it becomes more difficult for a company to front, and it becomes easier for an analyst to identify that fronting. If a company used the dubious ownership methods mentioned previously, a consultant or rating/verification agency would quite easily pick it up and award zero points to the company as we estimated with the ArcelorMittal deal. The indicators are cleverly interlinked – if a company earns zero points on ownership and employment equity, it would be unusual, though not impossible if it earned full marks on management control and skills development, and these specific indicators would be checked by the rating agency.
A verified scorecard becomes a public document that is scrutinized, and is more likely to be caught out if fronting than where a company submits a tender to a government department, and includes falsified information. It is most likely that the customer will identify an invalid scorecard, or even a competitor. A verification agency will also examine certificates to see if there is an indication of fronting.
Most incidences of fronting are due to fronting activity 1, not 2. A broad-based scorecard is less likely to be fronting than a share certificate.
The best way to reduce fronting is for government to follow the B-BBEE scorecard approach.
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Top 10 Tips To Help You Spot Fake News on Facebook
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Facebook is continuing its fight back against fake news. While Facebook doesn’t produce fake news, it’s at least partly responsible for its dissemination. When you see a story on Facebook it’s very easy to take it at face value rather than investigate further. And that’s not good.
Facebook started its crackdown on fake news in December 2016. This began with simply asking users to flag news stories as fake, beginning in the U.S. before spreading to Germany. And now Facebook is ramping up its efforts with a list of 10 tips designed to help you spot fake news.
Facebook’s “tips for spotting false news” started appearing at the top of news feeds. They’re not a permanent fixture though, being featured up to three times before they disappear. After that the tips, as outlined below, will be visible in the Facebook Help Center.
10 Tips for spotting false news
3-Be skeptical of headlines- False news stories often have catchy headlines in all caps with exclamation points. If shocking claims in the headline sound unbelievable, they probably are.
5-Watch for unusual formatting- Many false news sites have misspellings or awkward layouts. Read carefully if you see these signs.
6-Inspect the dates-
7-Check the evidence-
8-Look at other reports- If no other news source is reporting the same story, it may indicate that the story is false. If the story is reported by multiple sources you trust, it’s more likely to be true.
10-Some stories are intentionally false- Think critically about the stories you read, and only share news that you know to be credible.
Facebook is initially targeting users in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Myanmar, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Argentina, and Canada. However, the social network isn’t ruling out rolling it out to other countries in the future.
These seem to be solid tips for helping people spot fake news. The problem, as ever, is that it still requires humans to actually use common sense and look past the headlines. How many of Facebook’s 1.8 billion users will actually take the time and effort to do that? Probably not enough to make a difference, unfortunately.
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Guy Maurice McIntyre (born February 17, 1961) is a former professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. He played in three Super Bowls and five Pro Bowls as a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
McIntyre was one of the first linemen in the modern age of the NFL to be used as a blocking back/fullback (in Bill Walsh's "Angus" short-yardage formation); it was when this offense was used in the 1984 NFC Championship Game in the defeat of the Chicago Bears that motivated Bears coach Mike Ditka to use the same formation the following year, with William Perry, the "Refrigerator" as the blocking back, though Perry would also be used as a runner.
McIntyre attended Thomasville High School, where he played high school football for the Bulldogs.
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Guy joined the prestigious Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Guy is working toward publishing his book of memoirs.
Guy looks toward to attending Graduate School.
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Proof $10n = O(n^2)$
As it says in the question name. I want to proof this big-o notation:
10n = O(n^2)
Is this way here the correct an proper way to do so?
n0 = 0
10n = O(n^2)
n = O(n^2)
for N n > 0
n + 1 ≤ (n+1)^2
n + 1 ≤ n^2 + 2n + 1
n ≤ n^2 + 2n
I feel not 100% comfortable with it.
We are struggeling with this question now for a while. It's - of course - for university. ;)
Cheers and thx for your help!
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Big hint: If $n>10$ then $n^2>10n$.
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Why Monavale Blueberries
Over several decades our family run team at Monavale Blueberries have developed sustainable land management practices that make our organic blueberries sweeter, more nutritious and flavourful. Because of the way we grow our berries they have a longer shelf life and have higher levels of nutrients and antioxidants.
We take pride in what we produce here at Monavale Blueberries, and work hard daily to bring the most nutritious and delicious organic blueberries and organic blueberry products to the consumer. Our name, passion and reputation goes in and on every product that we produce, so you can be sure you are buying quality.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Diviners
Beth Marshall Presents brought this Depression Era story set in the dust bowl to the Garden Theatre (160 West Plant Street, Winter Garden). Directed by Aradhana Tiwari, opening scene set the stage full of movement as townspeople went about their daily routines. A windmill stood in stark silhouette and Buddy Layman played by CK Anderson gasped awake. Walking down a dirt road was C.C. Showers played by Michael Marinaccio. C.C was a former priest running from his fathers calling. He found work with the Layman family.
Buddy Layman was a high spirited, somewhat retarded boy who referred to himself in the third person. He had a gift for divining where there was water. He used a tree branch to search as farmers followed with eager anticipation. He had a natural gift. He could feel a storms approach on a clear day. It became clear in time that the boy feared water because he once almost drowned. His mother died in that incident and Buddy was unable to accept that she would never return. Buddy and C.C. developed a bond, a brotherly friendship. Buddy's fear of water was so severe that he would bolt at the sight of a bucket. He feared he could not breath when it rained. He never washed, and that became a problem cause he constantly had itchy feet.
The cast did an amazing job with thick accents and rural mannerisms. I was particularly taken with Marinaccio's performance. When he demonstrated his father's preaching, he became bigger than life, bombastic and powerful. What he yearned for however was a simpler life away from the priesthood. But once townsfolk discovered his past calling, they wouldn't let him be. He was asked to say grace before meals and anytime he was seen with Buddy, they thought he was saving the boys spirit and that he could cure Buddy's fear of water. This conflict between too much and too little faith is what caused a tragic oversight.
The final scene of the play was beautiful and tragic. The stage was illuminated from below with a green flickering light. C.C. had lost Buddy in the river. They moved under the water and the theatre filled with the muffled sounds of bubbles and rushing water. When they burst up for air, the light burst warmly on and the watery audio stopped. When then slipped back under, the world flickered green and muffled again. They struggled against the current. Townspeople moved in horrified slow motion.
The play ended as it began, a full circle, with townspeople going about their business and then Basil, the town farmer, and Dewey, a farm hand, gave a eulogy. The weight of their words had new meaning. Amazing Grace filled the dark theater. The Diviners will run December 15 -18th. Performances are on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm , and Sundays at 2pm.
Balaji said...
Lovely sketch and a very interesting post.
Thor said...
Thanks Balaji.
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Speaking to a Group by Sara Russell
You’ve worked so hard on your pitch/presentation/talk and you know that if it goes well, you’ll be making the difference in this world you were meant to make.
[Insert dread of public speaking here.]
Speaking in front of people is frightening whether it’s to three potential investors, in a conference room pitching your RFP, or even to a room of your biggest fans.
Never fear! You don’t have to be polished to pull it off. In fact, if you just focus on three areas you can get through with flying colors. Today I’m sharing specific tips from 20+ years of public speaking that will help you both feel and exude confidence.
(1) CRAFT YOUR MESSAGE
As the expert, it’s inevitable that you’ll know way more than your audience needs to hear during your presentation. Follow this open+body+close formula to be clear and concise.
An ideal opening includes a hook to get their attention, your name and credentials, the solution being shared, the three things that will be covered and ends with a call to action. It should last no more than 2 minutes.
Example: Did you know that only 10% of VC investments go toward women owned businesses and yet the ROI is 4 times greater than in men owned businesses? My name is Sara Russell and as the leader of the Austin EBW circle and corporate trainer/coach for managers at Fortune 200 companies, I have seen up close and personal the challenges that women have to contend with. By expanding the reach of ONE Club around the world, we can change the tide. Specifically that would happen in three ways: financial literacy, emotional support and a strong network. By the time I’m finished, I want you to be excited to promote our message on social media before you walk out the door.
The body will simply elaborate on those three things – and yes, only three. This is important because you don’t want them to worry that you’re going to drone on forever. Plus, the easier it is for them to follow you – the easier it is for you to influence them. This part can be as long as you need – however, the key is to “sign post” each section.
Example: With that in mind, let’s first discuss financial literacy. (elaborate) Now I’d like to cover the second aspect, which is emotional support. (elaborate) To tie this together, the third component is a strong network. (elaborate)
Finally, a strong closing will restate their key concern and the solution provided, remind them of the three things covered and end with a clear request to action. Like the opening, this will be brief.
Example: To recap – women business owners are struggling to make their full impact because of insufficient funding. Happily, EBW2020 offers the ONE Club – which provides financial literacy, emotional support and a strong network to overcome that. With this in mind, I’d like you to open your phones and share something you learned on your social media platform of choice before we leave today.
(2) PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE
You know they’ll likely ask, so get yourself ready by anticipating their questions – especially the ones that you hope they don’t ask. Then prepare short responses, ideally no more than 1 minute long. When you are ready for questions (which should not happen until after your close), open it up by saying “Who has the first question?” This sets the expectation that they will have one, gives them permission to ask, and doesn’t come across as weak or degrading like the most often used phrase “Any questions?”
When you answer, maintain eye contact and listen (don’t contradict, interrupt, dismiss or seek approval). Then thank them, repeat it for others to hear (a great trick for buying yourself time) and give a short answer.
Next – assuming you’re using a PowerPoint…know your technology, practice with your technology and if at all possible, arrive early to test your technology in their space. Also – think through what you’ll do if technology fails you.
Even seasoned veterans such as myself run into issues and when you’re already nervous, the last thing you want to have to contend with is figuring out a solution on the fly. Better to have thought about it and considered bringing your presentation on a thumb drive, printing backup handouts, writing your three points on a flipchart or simply doing it all without visual aids.
(3) TRAIN YOUR VOICE
Nerves are natural AND they show up in our voices in ways that can undermine a well-crafted message, perfectly prepared answers and technological brilliance. Don’t ignore your voice – it can betray your confidence!
If you take a few deep breaths before you begin and then control just three aspects of your voice, it will make a huge difference (did you notice I said three even though I added in deep breaths just before?).
Projection – most people speak softer when they’re nervous.
Pace – most people talk faster when they’re nervous.
Pitch – most people fall into a monotone voice when they’re trying to remember what they practiced saying.
Good news – there’s a simple solution: over dramatize your voice. Yup, all you need to do is practice at home (with your technology) and:
speak so loud you feel foolish / like you’re yelling
use the power of long pauses both for you (to catch your thoughts) and them (gives them a chance to internalize and track with you instead of becoming confused)
overly inflect the highs and lows of your voice for emphasis
I know it sounds insane, but if you create this “new normal” at home – then when your nerves naturally impact your projection, pace and pitch…you will actually fall back to a much more natural, conversational sounding style.
So there you have it – craft your message with intentionality, prepare for the inevitable and train your voice. If you do these three things you will feel and sound as confident as your heart centered mission and that will overshadow any mistakes or stumbles along the way. Now go forth and conquer the world!
About the Author
Sara Russell is a 20-year speaker, Fortune 200 trainer, and board member of the National Speaker Association in Austin. As the the COO of Beyond Ten, Sara’s mission is to help companies embrace 21st century learning by flipping traditional corporate training on it’s head so that employees actually enjoy it, behavior changes are tracked and ROI can be proven. Follow her on LinkedIN at linkedin.com/in/SaraRussellSpeaker
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I told you that Pope and Milly wouldn't last.
-----Original Message-----
From: Delainey, David
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:55 AM
To: Frevert, Mark; Kitchen, Louise; Lavorato, John
Subject: David Pope
FYI
---------------------- Forwarded by David W Delainey/HOU/ECT on 02/22/2001 07:53 AM ---------------------------
Ron James@EES
02/21/2001 10:30 AM
To: Marty Sunde/HOU/EES@EES, Harold G Buchanan/HOU/EES@EES, Dan Leff/HOU/EES@EES
cc: Kalen Pieper/HOU/EES@EES, Judy Gray/HOU/EES@EES, David W Delainey/HOU/ECT@ECT, Elizabeth Tilney/HOU/EES@EES
Subject: David Pope
FYI
---------------------- Forwarded by Ron James/HOU/EES on 02/21/2001 10:23 AM ---------------------------
Dawn Doucet@ECT
02/20/2001 06:31 PM
To: Ron James/HOU/EES@EES
cc: Patricia Henry/CAL/ECT@ECT
Subject: David Pope
David Pope has "officially" given us his termination notice. His last day at Enron is March 6th, his last day in the office is Feb 21. Let me know if you have any questions.....
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Napoli eye Bartra option
By Football Italia staff
Napoli are considering Barcelona's Marc Bartra as a possible alternative should Davide Astori not join them after all.
While the Cagliari defender still seems most likely to join the Partenopei, the continued delays are prompting the club to consider alternatives.
With Torino's Nikola Maksimovic set at an expensive €15m, Napoli are considering other options.
According to Tuttosport, the Blaugrana's Bartra is now the hottest name on the list, but the club is waiting for the presidential elections in Barcelona to find out who they will be dealing with.
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UPK: Where do we go from Here? Part 2
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Today was the UPK Special Interest Group Q4 meeting and iLearnERP's Elizabeth Schriefer and Tim Christian shared their insights on the latest on UPK. We highlighted why to update your UPK content and get current, why to have a backup of your content, why to be sure to know your Admin Passwords, and why to review [...]
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It's the smell, if there is such a thing.
Wednesday December 03, 2003
So, I'm awake again at 3AM. I've been sleeping a lot lately to catch up on my stress-induced sleep deprivation before, so it's not entirely unexpected, but the real reason I'm awake has me a little worried about my continued presence here in this building.
At about 1:30AM every other day, my apartment fills with a really peculiar smell and it doesn't go away for hours. I originally thought it was cigarette smoke, but it doesn't reliably give me the same headache that nicotine does. Likewise, I don't think it's pot. Also, I can't imagine that my neighbor's smoking habits would be quite so deterministic.
While it doesn't make me sick or give me horrible headaches, it's definitely distracting enough to keep me awake. Although I was awake today when it started, it can wake me up. I'm going to mention it to the landlord tomorrow, but I'm curious: has anybody out there experienced strange, periodic smells in an apartment building? What might it be? Should I be seriously concerned for my health? My working hypothesis, taking into account the periodicity and my difficulty in identifying it, is that the building has a poorly insulated incinerator.
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It’s rush hour. The bumper-to-bumper traffic is creeping on a foggy, drizzly day. A horrific car accident has left a person with internal bleeding, shock, and his condition is deteriorating rapidly; surgery is needed immediately. The closest level one trauma center is 95 miles away, a distance that could take almost two hours to cover on the ground by ambulance in the rush-hour traffic. The patient doesn’t have two hours; every second counts for his survival. An air ambulance or helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) must be dispatched, but the weather is concerning for take-off and landing.
When someone is seriously injured or critically ill, emergency medical personnel need to decide whether transportation by ambulance or helicopter will get the patient to the trauma center sooner. Several factors must be weighed to make that decision:
• the time it would take to travel by ground to the nearest trauma center, including distance and traffic as opposed to the flight time and estimated time of arrival (ETA) of helicopter transport;
• specific, localized weather conditions (5,000 feet or below).
The Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Weather Tool is a valuable weather reporting system specially designed to meet the needs of air emergency first responders. It runs as a desktop application on a computer that allows operations to overlay multiple weather conditions at low altitudes: ceiling height, visibility, winds, relative humidity, temperature, and radar images. All 3D data are provided at ground-level altitudes and can be sliced horizontally on 500 ft intervals up to 5000 ft., and can be animated in real time.
"Unlike most part 121, 135 and GA pilots, HEMS pilots do not generally fly from airport to airport where consistent and reliable weather reporting is almost certain to exist. HEMS pilots operate in that in-between airspace where hospitals and emergency scenes abound and where dependable weather reporting is an extremely rare commodity. Over the past seven years the HEMS Weather Tool has proven itself time and again in helping fill in this dangerous and unpredictable weather void and in turn has allowed HEMS pilots to make better, more informed and safer decisions. The HEMS Weather Tool is on track to becoming one of the most indispensable weather safety reporting tools for not only HEMS pilots but for every aviator that fly below 5,000'."
--Rex Alexander, HEMS pilot for 20+ years.
NCAR has a long and successful history with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NOAA, and other agencies with primary missions focused on safety, protection of life and property and efficiency. Its decades-long collaboration with the FAA goes back to the early 1980s when ground-breaking research was conducted on deadly microbursts that were taking airplanes down around airport terminals.
The HEMS tool is an extension of NCAR’s Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) program which provides pilots easy-to-use web access to a variety of critical aviation weather information. It was developed at the request of the FAA after a 2006 review of rescue helicopter crashes revealed that a lack of detailed weather information was often a factor. While good weather information is usually available near airports and large cities, no data are available for many other areas. It provides detailed information for low–altitude flights, including observations, forecasts, street–level maps in urban areas, and locations of helipads.
In May, the HEMS tool became an approved flight planning tool supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
HEMS graphically displays obscuration of visibility in areas and the resulting flight categories. Photo courtesy Air Methods
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Kristen Stewart Sizzles in Vanity Fair, Says We Know "D-ck Sh-t" About Her Personal Life
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Kristen Stewart looks hot and talks dirty in the latest issue of Vanity Fair France.
Does she still talk to Robert Pattinson? Is she dating Nichols Hoult?
These questions have been floating around the celebrity gossip world for awhile now, but Stewart has a simple response to all the speculation.
Kristen Stewart Vanity Fair Cover Pic
"My true personal life, as much as people think they know about it, they don't know d-ck sh-t," she tells the magazine. "Who could? By the way, nobody knows."
The romantic roller coaster of Stewart’s life, of course, has been heavily scrutinized ever since she started to bang Pattinson.
The actress infamously forced Pattinson to end things in 2012 when she was caught kissing then-married director Rupert Sanders. She admitted to the infidelity and issued a public apology soon after.
"I never tried to shape people's perspectives of me, which is something that a lot of people do," Kristen said. "There are certain actors and artists who want to be a certain kind of actor or certain kind of artist, and I'm really not like that...
"In terms of what people consume about you and then subsequently how they shape their opinion of you, none of it is wrong. It's all a varied assortment of whatever flavors they've picked up at the newsstand or in the theater or on the Internet."
It certainly is true that Stewart doesn't let folks in. She even says she purposely refuses to smile in public because she would then be labeled a "sellout."
Overall, the beautiful star doesn't end her interview on the most positive of notes.
"Nobody knows what the f-ck is going on. You're going to die. You're going to lay next to the people that you know the most in life, the people that you're going to grow old with. But you're going to lay next to them in the middle of the night deeply curious about them and who they are, because nobody f-cking knows anything."
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Since the invention of the first laser many years ago, the frequency conversion off laser radiation by nonlinear optical crystals has become an important technique widely used in quantum electronics and laser physics for solving various scientific and engineering problems. The fundamental physics of three-wave light interactions in nonlinear optical crystals is now reasonably well understood. This has enabled the production of various harmonic generators, sum- and difference-frequency generators, and optical parametric oscillators based on the nonlinear optical crystals that are now commercially available. At the same time, scientists continue an active search for improved nonlinear optical materials. The present invention relates to a method for the fabrication of a bulk periodically poled domain (PPD) structure-in congruently grown lithium niobate (LN), Lithium Tantalate (LT) and Magnesium Oxide doped LN and LT (MgO:LN and MgO:LN). These structures comprise nonlinear optical materials which are suitable for use in optical devices to convert near infrared (NIR) radiation from a diode or other laser to light in the blue-green (visible) or near UV region of the optical spectrum. In particular this invention relates to an efficient process for the fabrication of poled Lithum Niobate and Lithum Tantalate crystals for the generation of blue-green and UV light using quasi phase matching (QPM). These materials are ferroelectric, which means that below their Curie temperature they exhibit a spontaneous electric polarization even if no external electric field is applied. Periodic inversion of the spontaneous polarization is called “poling” and provides a means for producing the 180° phase shift required to implement QPM. Further information on the applications and properties of nonlinear crystals, especially LN and MgO doped LN, are given in “Handbook of Nonlinear Optical Crystals” by V. G Dmitriev, G. G Gurzadyan and D. N. Nikogosyan Springer-Verlag (1999) ISBN3-540-69354-5292.
Laser light in the blue-green (visible) wavelength (i.e., 400-550 nm) wavelength region is used in a wide variety of analytical techniques. Currently the only generally available source of coherent blue-green light is the Argon ion laser. Argon ion lasers are relatively bulky, delicate and expensive. There is a great need for a solid state blue-green laser. None is currently available which emits in this spectral region. However there are solid state (semiconductor diode) lasers which emit in the near infra-red (NIR) region.
Frequency doubling (nonlinear frequency conversion) would enable a NIR laser to provide blue-green light. An extensive discussion of blue-green laser technology and applications, including biomedical engineering, spectroscopy, semiconductor wafer inspection, display science, optical data storage, reprographic, color display and undersea communication is contained in “Blue-Green Lasers” by W. Risk, T. Gosnell and A. Nurmikko, Cambridge University Press (2003) ISBN 0-521-52103-3. The discussion of nonlinear frequency conversion using quasi phase matching in nonlinear crystals contained therein is incorporated herein by this reference (see especially pages 77-84 and 101-104 and 108).
Conversion of NIR laser source light into light in the green-blue spectral range can be carried out by using second harmonic generation (SHG), also known as frequency doubling techniques, a technology generally known in the laser-based optical industry. A reasonable goal for single-pass conversion efficiency is that it should be in ˜25% range to avoid excessive laser cost. Conversion efficiency is proportional to input power, the square of the effective nonlinear coefficient of the nonlinear element (crystal) and the length of the nonlinear element As crystal length is increased, conversion efficiency increases, but the frequency doubling process becomes more sensitive to changes in temperature, strain and other factors affecting the uniformity of the refractive index of the non-linear element. As a result, length alone cannot be used to compensate for an element's low nonlinearity.
A technique that compensates for the difference in phase velocity between the fundamental wave and its harmonic in a nonlinear crystal caused by natural dispersion is known as birefringent phase matching. In this case, the optical anisotropy of a nonlinear crystal is used to find a unique propagation direction where fundamental and harmonic waves have the same phase velocity. For most of the commercially available nonlinear optical materials (LN, LT, and KTP) the maximum conversion efficiency is about 1.25%. LN and LT are particularly attractive materials because of their status as commodity materials, and as follows from Table 1 they have a high nonlinear coefficient (normally referred to as d33) and also are available in relatively large size crystals.
Quasi-phase matching (QPM) provides the mechanism for an efficient way to generate second harmonic frequencies. The general concept of using QPM as a mechanism for doubling optical frequencies has been known for about forty years. Essentially it is a technique that compensates for the difference in phase velocity between the fundamental wave and its harmonic in a nonlinear crystal caused by natural dispersion. In QPM, the two waves are allowed to have different phase velocities, and they shift out of phase relative to one another over a distance called the coherence length
At present the most efficient way to create a QPM structure is to use periodically poled crystalline ferroelectric materials. In these materials, creating specific micrometer scale domain configurations with a periodically alternating direction of spontaneous polarization, are used for this purpose. Due to the polar character of these materials the sign of the non-linear coefficient (d33) can be changed by switching the direction of spontaneous polarization. If the period (Λ) of the periodically polled domain structure is equal to double the coherent length, the phase difference due to natural dispersion is compensated for by the change of the sign of the non-linear coefficient (d33−d33) at the domain boundaries, causing the continuous transference of power from the fundamental beam to the harmonic beam throughout the entire length of the crystal.
The efficiency of a conversion is a strong function of both the non-linear coefficient and the length of the crystal Therefore, to enhance the efficiency of conversion the material with the maximum non-linear coefficient should be used, and the interaction region should also be as long as possible.
Effective nonlinear coefficient value, poling period and absorption edge (the range of limited absorption) are the factors which influence the choice of periodically poled materials for SHG applications.
There are only a few ferroelectric materials with nonlinear coefficients greater than 10 pm/V (as shown in Tab. 1). While dispersion prevents direct access to the full value of d33, QPM can provide up to (2/π)×100%=64% of the full nonlinearity, making each of the materials shown in Table 1 a prima facie candidate for efficient doubling of the frequency of semiconductor lasers.
TABLE 1Parameters of perspective ferroelectrics for QPM-SHG applicationsCurieCoercived33TemperatureField, EcGrowth method andCrystalpm/V° C.KV/mmmax. crystal sizeLiNbO340 ± 5~1160≦2*CZ(LN)20-25**100Φ × 60 mmLiTaO320 ± 2610≦2*CZ(LT)18-25**100Φ × 50 mmKNbO325 ± 5225≦0.6CZ(KN)15Φ × 20 mmKTiOPO415 ± 2~6702.6CZ(KTP)20Φ × 25 mm*For stoichiometric LN and LT**For congruent LN and LT
Table 1 shows that most effective material for SHG application i.e., the material which has the biggest value of d33 is a LN crystal. Due to QPM, it is possible to create viable bulk single-pass blue-green light sources using LN, since it provides a way to obtain a normalized room temperature conversion efficiency of 2.6-3% /(watt•cm) for 1064 nm532 nm SHG and 5.2%/(watt•cm) efficiency for 852 nm426 nm SHG. LT has a normalized room temperature conversion efficiency of 0.85-1%/(watt•cm) for bulk single-pass 1064 nm532 nm SHG. For 852 nm426 nm SHG, LT has a normalized conversion efficiency of 2%/(watt•cm). It should be noted that for wavelengths of ≦410 nm LT has higher transparency compared to LN and therefore it may be the material of choice for 300 nm-410 nm wavelength (near UV) conversion . Two materials in which QPM has been demonstrated for blue green (BG) light generation are KN and KTP. The normalized conversion efficiency for these materials is ˜2.5%/(watt•cm) for KN and 1.5%/(watt•cm) for the 852 nm426 nm SHG. To achieve 25% single-pass conversion efficiency, a KN crystalline element of 2.5 cm and a KTP crystalline element of 3.5 cm length is required. However the maximum crystal length currently available is 2 cm for KN and 3 cm for KTP. Therefore, KN and KTP are currently not viable choices because both crystals are not commercially available in sufficiently long sizes, are very expensive, and also suffer from a number of quality issues. Lithium niobate (LiNbO3), often referred to as “the silicon of nonlinear optics,” is an excellent material for SHG for two reasons. First, LiNbO3 is already produced at a volume of 40 tons per year for consumer applications (cellular phones and televisions) using a very stable fabrication technology. Second, LiNbO3 is transparent from 350 nm to 5000 nm, providing low loss for both the fundamental and harmonic for visible light generation. Finally, LiNbO3 has nonlinear coefficients for visible light generation among the highest of all inorganic materials.
While LiNbO3 is an attractive material because of its status as a commodity material, the only component of its nonlinear tensor large enough to satisfy the requirements of display applications is d33, having a value of 25.2 pm/volt. While dispersion prevents direct access to the full d33 coefficient, quasi-phase-matching (QPM) can provide up to 64% of the full nonlinearity, or 16 pm/volt, making LiNbO3 a very strong candidate for display applications that use QPM.
Essentially QPM is a technique that compensates for the difference in phase velocity between the fundamental wave and its harmonic in a nonlinear crystal caused by natural dispersion. In QPM, two waves having different phase velocities shift [pi] out of phase relative to one another over a distance called the coherence length. The sign of the nonlinear coefficient reverses every coherence length, causing the locally generated harmonic field to transfer power to the harmonic beam. By compensating for phase-velocity mismatch in this way, all elements of a crystal's nonlinear tensor can be accessed throughout the entire transparency range
Three other potential materials in which QPM has been demonstrated for visible light generation are LiTaO3 and MgO doped LN and LT. LiTaO3 has a normalized room temperature conversion efficiency of 0.83%/(watt-cm), below that required for bulk single-pass 1064 nm SHG. However, for 852 nm SHG, LiTaO3 has a normalized conversion efficiency of 1.8%/(watt-cm) and is therefore a strong candidate for that application.
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package project.editor;
import js.jquery.JQuery;
class ProjectEditorPanel
{
public var id:String;
public var root:JQuery;
public var tab:JQuery;
public var label:String;
public var icon:String;
public var order:Int = 0;
public function new(order:Int, id:String, label:String, icon:String)
{
this.order = order;
this.id = id;
this.label = label;
this.icon = icon;
root = new JQuery('<div class="project_panel">');
root.addClass("project_" + id + "_panel");
}
public function begin():Void {}
public function end():Void {}
}
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Subendocardial hemorrhages in a case of extrapercardial cardiac tamponade – A possible mechanism of appearance.
Subendocardial hemorrhages are grossly visible bleedings in the inner surface of the left ventricle, the interventricular septum, and the opposing papillary muscles and adjacent columnae carneae of the free wall of the ventricle. These are commonly seen in sudden profound hypotension either from severe blood loss from “shock” in the widest sense and, even more often, in combination with brain injuries. We present a case of a 38-year-old man, injured as a car driver in a frontal collision, who died c. 45 minutes after the accident. The autopsy revealed severe chest trauma, including multiple right-sided direct rib fractures with the torn parietal pleura and right-sided pneumothorax, several right lung ruptures, and a rupture of one of the lobar bronchi with pneumomediastinum, and prominent subcutaneous emphysema of the trunk, shoulders, neck and face. The patchy subendocardial hemorrhage of the left ventricle was observed. The cause of death is attributed to severe blunt force chest trauma. We postulate pneumomediastinum leading to extrapericardial tamponade as the underlying mechanism of this subendocardial hemorrhage.
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Arsenic in drinking water and risk of urinary tract cancer: a follow-up study from northeastern Taiwan.
The evidence linking arsenic in drinking water with increased urinary cancer risk comes from populations in relatively high exposure areas (>100 microg/L), whereas studies from lower exposure areas (<100 microg/L) reported inconsistent results. A previous study conducted in northeastern Taiwan, where residents were exposed to relatively lower concentrations, reported increased risk of urinary cancer in a dose-response way. Using the same cohort with longer follow-up, we conducted analysis to elucidate the relationship between ingested arsenic and urinary cancer in lower exposure groups and assessed the influence of duration, recency, and latency of drinking arsenic-containing well water. A total of 8,086 residents from northeastern Taiwan were followed for 12 years. Incident urinary cancer was ascertained through linkage with the national cancer registry. All analysis was done by Cox proportional hazards regression models. There were 45 incidences of urinary cancer and a monotonic increased risk of urinary cancer was found with increasing arsenic concentration (P < 0.001). For the highly exposed (>100 microg/L), the relative risks (RR) were >5-fold, whereas the risk was elevated but not significant for low exposure (<100 microg/L). Relative to the arsenic concentration <10 microg/L, those who drank well water with higher concentration from birth [RR, 3.69; 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.31-10.4], still drank at enrollment (RR, 3.50; 95% CI, 1.33-9.22), and drank for >50 years (RR, 4.12; 95% CI, 1.48-11.5) had a significantly increased risk of urinary cancer. When restricted to urothelial carcinoma, all risk estimates including concentration and characteristics of well water consumption were higher.
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When Franchising Meets Religion, Could Franchisees Be Left Holding the Bag?
October 2, 2012, by Rashad M. Collins, on Franchising |
Sometimes business owners want to exercise their First Amendment right and publicly express their religious beliefs. While this is admirable in a free society, it has potential to be costly to franchisees who are directly affected by the perception of their franchisor’s brand. Franchise systems are usually organized to protect the franchisor from a number of potential liabilities. One of the most important assets to be protected is the company’s brand or trademark. Thus, trademarks are often held within a namesake holding company, only to be licensed to a similarly named franchising enterprise. The franchising enterprise then sub-licenses the trademarks to franchisees through a franchise agreement. Franchise agreements are very detailed in nature, particularly when discussing the franchisee’s obligation to uphold the franchisor’s brand or trademark. Between the mandatory adherence to the franchise agreement and the franchisor’s operating manual, franchisees are required to remain in lockstep with orders that may be as detailed as the size, color, and exact placement of the company’s logo. These top down rules also may delineate other specific guidelines such as approved advertising, company promotions, store design, uniforms, or even where supplies can be purchased.
This corporate exercise is perpetually performed by franchisors to insulate their core brand from future risks. Meanwhile, consumers are oblivious about the myriad of corporate entities and rigid structure comprising a franchising system. The silent and seamless cooperation between franchisors and franchisees is the back bone to rapid growth and success of a franchising system. Nevertheless, as history has shown, great strengths have the potential to become great weaknesses. The silent nature of the franchise partnership is precisely what places franchisees in grave danger when their franchisors go off script. If an owner or executive of a franchising business makes controversial statements in public, those statements can have a ripple effect across the franchise system, as angry consumers who wish to boycott the particular brand do not discriminate between franchisor and franchisee operated enterprises.
Chick-fil-A experienced this after its president Dan Cathy stated the company strongly supports the biblical definition of the traditional family, thereby being in opposition of same-sex marriage. Naturally, given today’s hypersensitive socio-political climate, controversy ensued, embroiling Chick-fil-A in one of society’s most contentious issues. The immediate negative effect to the Chick-fil-A brand was obvious. A New York based market research firm estimated that Chick-fil-A’s perception rating declined by 25 percent soon after the story broke. Supporters of the LGBT movement picketed Chick-fil-A restaurants. The company lost some of its marketing deals and business partners. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, Boston mayor Thomas Menino, and other politicians pounced on the opportunity to speak out in opposition to the restaurant. And, of course, many news organizations covered all of the juicy, flame broiled Chick-fil-A controversy in primetime.
While it is clear that any corporation could be negatively affected by the public actions of its leadership, the potential damage to investors in a franchise system is unique from that of shareholders in publicly traded companies. In publicly held corporations, shareholders are chiefly concerned about the overall health of the enterprise, as risks are diversified and gains and losses are shared proportionately. Whereas, when franchisees invest their life’s savings into a franchise, they are heavily dependent on both the success of their individual store and the perceived goodwill of the franchisor’s brand within the franchisee’s individual market. This phenomenon explains the contrast between the reactions of investors in large, non-franchising companies such as Starbucks, Microsoft, and Amazon, to that of franchisees in Chick-fil-A regarding publicly expressed positions on same-sex marriage made by executives of their respective companies.
Starbucks is a quick service restaurant perfectly akin to Chick-fil-A, and Starbucks’s leadership has made a number of statements that openly express the company’s support of same-sex marriage. During a shareholder meeting, investors in the coffee giant merely posed questions as to the economic consequences of such statements, but there were no reports of Starbucks shareholders actively contradicting the company’s stance or expressing fear of possible repercussions.
In the Chick-fil-A scenario, some franchisees were eagerly giving interviews to local and national media, and posting ads on social media websites disassociating themselves from the beliefs of Dan Cathy. One franchisee even enrolled his Chick-fil-A as a sponsor of a pride fest in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, other franchisees refrained from distancing themselves from Cathy, likely because their customer demographics dictated that their restaurant would be better suited if it were tacitly aligned with his comments. These contrasting responses demonstrate the divergent interests of franchisee business owners operating underneath the same brand.
Amidst the controversy there was some reprieve from the storm provided by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. Huckabee and other conservative politicians encouraged people who stood for the biblical definition of marriage to patronize Chick-fil-A in support of their cause. The company stated that it achieved record sales during the event but did not release any store or region specific information. Although Chick-fil-A has over 1,600 locations throughout America, the restaurant chain is deeply rooted in traditionally conservative states; therefore, it is not hard to determine by location which franchisees likely benefited from the Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day wave of conservative support and which franchisees did not. In fact, if the company tracked the locations that did not receive a boost in sales during the Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, that list would likely encompass the franchisees that were most negatively affected by Dan Cathy’s statements, because the respective markets are probably split along the same socio-political fault lines.
On the face of this situation, it appears that some franchisees legitimately could argue that they suffered financial damages due to Dan Cathy’s public, religious statements, and that Chick-fil-A should compensate them because Cathy knew he had a reasonable duty to protect their business interest when acting on the company’s behalf. However, in law and in life, there are always exceptions to the rule. Here, the notable exception is notice.
The operation of a notice exception is most easily illustrated in the homeowner liability context. For example, virtually every state in the U.S. has laws governing injuries to visitors in the homes of its residents. Homeowners have a legal duty to protect their visitors from reasonably known dangers within the home. But homeowner liability can be nullified in virtually every situation where the visitor is given proper notice of a potential danger in advance of any incidents. The reasoning behind the notice exception is that once a visitor becomes reasonably aware of the risk, they can freely decide how to proceed and should no longer be able to look to the homeowner for damages from any resulting injury.
The same holds true in the Chick-fil-A situation. It would be understandable if franchisees were totally blindsided by Dan Cathy’s comments, but nothing could be further from the truth. Before they purchase a franchise, Chick-fil-A franchisees receive ample notice that the company is and always has been rooted in the Christian faith and operates on biblical principles. S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, maintains that franchisees don't have to be Christians to work at Chick-fil-A, but he asks that they base their business on biblical principles because those principles work. A article even playfully described Chick-fil-A as a cult because it found its practices to be a little odd and extreme vis-a-vis its competitors.
Chick-fil-A's corporate mission, as stated on a plaque at company headquarters and often by S. Truett Cathy, is to glorify God. It is the only national fast-food chain that requires all of its locations to remain closed on Sundays. Company meetings and retreats include prayers, and the company encourages franchisees to market their restaurants through church groups. They screen prospective operators for their loyalty, wholesome values, and willingness to buy into Chick-fil-A's Christian credo.
The company requires applicants for operator licenses to disclose marital status, number of dependents, and involvement in social, church, and professional organizations. S. Truett Cathy believes that if a man can't manage his own life he can't manage a business, and thus family members of prospective operators are often interviewed so the company can learn more about the candidates and their relationships at home. Fifty employees and one franchisee grew up in one of 13 Christian foster homes in the U.S. and Brazil run by a nonprofit organization Chick-fil-A funds, the WinShape Foundation. Sixteen others were in Sunday-school classes Cathy teaches at First Baptist Church in Jonesboro, Ga.
From a business standpoint, the most obvious of Chick-fil-A’s Christian practices is the company’s mandate for all locations to be closed for rest on Sundays. It does not take a certified forensic accountant to understand that Chick-fil-A and its franchisees have foregone millions of dollars over the years in observance of this blatantly Christian tradition. Yet, franchisees made the decision that it was well worth investing in a Chick-fil-A franchise nonetheless. This is likely because even withstanding the “short week” disadvantage, Chick-fil-A remains the second largest quick-service restaurant chain in the nation based on annual sales, operating at an average of $2,500,000 in sales per unit.
Looking back on all that has taken place since Dan Cathy’s comments on same-sex marriage somehow created a firestorm, it is likely that Chick-fil-A conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the situation and made some determinations. The company has since stated that its tradition is to treat every person with honor and respect regardless of their belief and sexual orientation, and that going forward they intend to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government. It has been reported that the company has also decided to discontinue its donations to anti-gay marriage activists groups, but that has yet to be confirmed. Nevertheless, given that Chick-fil-A has no real reason for concern about its ability to weather this socio-political storm due to its proliferation in conservative regions, and that the Cathy family will obviously maintain its biblically based views and corresponding activism, it is reasonable to conclude that while the company might not make many more socio-political statements, it will definitely continue mixing religion with the foundation of its franchise system because it works. And any franchisees that do not share that vision cannot cry foul in times of tribulation, as they had full notice of Chick-fil-A’s Christian tradition from the moment each franchisee arrived on the scene.
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package org.david.exercises.solid.l;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
* Created by David Marques on 24/05/2017.
* This example violates the LSP for many reasons
* -1- It's clear that the Sub Type ReadOnly File is not actually a sub type of Project files
* -2- By Throwing an UnsupportedOperationException we are changing the invariant from the parent type
* -3- Using the instance of to filter the file to not save is clearly breaking the OPP
* One solution for this project is breaking the type hierarchy between ProjectFile and ReadOnlyFile
*/
public class Project {
private Collection<ProjectFile> projectFiles;
public void loadAllFiles() {
projectFiles.forEach(p -> p.loadFileData());
}
public void saveAllFiles() {
projectFiles.stream().forEach(p -> {
if (!(p instanceof ReadOnlyFile))
p.saveFileData();
});
}
}
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Q:
Как доставать из строки текст определенного образца?
Можно ли доставать из строки текст определенного образца? Допустим, мне надо достать дату из текст в формате дд.мм, но я не знаю какие там числа будут, поэтому сравнивать не с чем. И мне нужно достать эту дату зная только что там будет такой формат записи(дд.мм) и состоять он будет из цифр.
A:
По такому принципу
$search = 'И мне нужно достать эту дату зная только что там будет такой формат записи(06.05) и состоять он будет из цифр.';
preg_match_all('~\d{2}\.\d{2}~', $search, $all);
echo '<pre>'; var_dump($all); echo '</pre>';
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The Traveling Trash Men Take on Cleanup Effort in Baltimore
John Rourke, CEO of Jupiter, Fla.-based All American Sanitation, retired from the U.S. Army in 2015 and started his trash collection business in 2017. Recently, Rourke and his company teamed up with Allstar Aggregates, Maggio Environmental and Gruntworks Clothing to create The Traveling Trash Men, an operation to help clean up America.
Rourke served in the Army for 16 years and was raised by his father who was a New York City police officer and then commander of the America Legion in Jupiter for 25 years before he passed away. Throughout his life, Rourke was constantly taught the importance of giving back and helping others in need.
Over the summer, President Donald Trump took to social media and tweeted about the “disgusting” and “dirty” city of Baltimore. At first, Rourke brushed off the president’s comments as political hyperbole, but then he began looking through hashtags on Instagram from Baltimore residents and started watching videos about how bad the situation truly is.
“It was really bad and very surprising to me to see that a city in the United States of America has this much garbage on the streets,” explains Rourke. “If I see something terrible is happening and I feel like I can help, I need to help. I thought, ‘I know garbage people—we have to be able to do something.’”
Rourke called his friend who owns West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Allstar Aggregates, which also owns Maggio Environmental Services on Long Island, N.Y. Shortly thereafter, they made their way to Baltimore after obtaining permission from the city to bring in a garbage truck and dump at the landfill.
“When I spoke to the city’s Department of Public Works (DPW), they couldn’t believe I wanted to come there with a garbage truck and pick up garbage for free,” says Rourke. “They approved us to dump at the landfill for free and store our truck at their yard. They mapped out an area with the most 311 calls (the city’s bulk trash and illegal dumping line) where most complaints were coming from.”
When The Traveling Trash Men arrived in Baltimore, a total of eight volunteers began going block by block picking up litter and going into the alleys, which were completely overwhelmed with bulk trash. Within the first 30 minutes of being on the ground and picking up trash, two men overdosed in front of Rourke and his team. An area resident saw what was happening and ran out of her house with Narcan, and Rourke and his team administered the drug, saving both men.
Traveling Trashmen Twitter Image
After that incident, the team went alley by alley over the course of three days, collecting nearly 21 tons of garbage, according to Rourke.
“On the main streets, you’re finding bottles, cans, paper products and cups, but when you get in those back alleys, it’s strictly illegal dumping,” he explains. “People come out at night with dump trailers and dump loads into the alley instead of paying to dump their larger items, like a couch, TV or recliner.”
Rourke says the city needs to install cameras in these areas that are getting hardest hit by illegal dumping. He also suggests the city install roll-offs or dumpsters on the ends of those streets or implement a pay for recycling program.
Baltimore City Councilman Leon Pinkett III, who represents the Seventh District, found out that Rourke and his team were initiating in a cleanup project in one of the communities that he represents in west Baltimore and decided to help.
“We participate and assist in organizing cleanups throughout the district, so that’s not unusual,” explains Pinkett. “But when I heard about the work that they were doing and the fact that they had traveled from as far as Florida to assist us, I felt obliged to not only thank them personally but to lend my efforts to the cleanup.”
“It was incredible what we were able to accomplish over just a few days,” he adds. “The passion and commitment displayed by John and all of the volunteers allowed us to clear away tons of trash in a section of the city that is suffering from sanitation issues, many of which are caused by individuals who use this community as a dumping ground.”
As of right now, the city relies on its 311 system to report illegal dumping; however, Rourke says that system is completely overwhelmed and can’t keep up with incoming calls.
“A number of neighborhoods have become areas targeted by illegal dumpers,” explains Pinkett. “These are communities in east and west Baltimore that have had to deal with a chronic dumping problem pervasive in the city. This problem tears at the fiber of communities that are trying to overcome a variety of challenges and drains the city of much-needed resources while we try to deal with this illegal activity.”
“There is definitely a need for residents in many of our communities to be educated on how we should properly dispose of our waste,” he says. “While we as a city have a chronic illegal dumping problem, we also have far too many residents who don’t respect our communities and their neighbors.”
Pinkett adds there isn’t an adequate level of enforcement and penalties to discourage the illegal dumping that is happening across the city.
“We need to increase the level of fines and penalties that are incurred by violators and increase the number of enforcement officers that are investigating these cases,” he says.
“Lastly, we need to evaluate our systems and make certain that the city’s agencies are operating as efficiently as possible, and that we are using technology where appropriate and deploying resources in an effective manner,” adds Pinkett.
Baltimore was the first U.S. city cleanup The Traveling Trash Men tackled as a group. Before that, they did hurricane relief, and most recently, they’ve been helping in the Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian hit. The group has been collecting donations and sending food and supplies down to the Bahamas via helicopter.
Traveling Trashmen Twitter Image
Moving forward, the mission for The Traveling Trash Men is to clean up different cities based on votes by residents on social media.
“Our plan is to go to a different city and partner with a hauler there,” explains Rourke. “We would love to get haulers to partner with—that’s the ultimate goal. If you can help, you should. These cities are overwhelmed with garbage. In the United States of America, it shouldn’t be that way.”
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Groupware@LES ilustra��o, seta para a direita Collaborators ilustra��o, seta para a direita Bruno chagas
Bruno chagas
MsC Candidate
Nickname: Bruno chagas
Bruno holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, 2000) and has extensive experience in the areas of Software Engineering, Architecture, Development and Integration. Currently, he is a graduate student in Computer Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and entrepreneur. He began his research in 2013 in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), seeking to produce scientific and technological advances joining the topics of End-User Development and Internet of Things applied to the field of Assistive Technology for the physically impaired.
e-mail: bchagas@inf.puc-rio.br
Résumé: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9225583130377872
Further Information:
LinkedIn: br.linkedin.com/pub/bruno-azevedo-chagas/89/6a9/702/
Facebook: facebook.com/bruno.chagas.718
Twitter: twitter.com/@bachagas
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May the force be with you
It's difficult to see how a drive to recruit young black men into the army or the police will help address their communities' real problems.
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Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Commission for Racial Equality and head of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, is behind a scheme to get black military officers and police working with young black men to tackle the problem of guns and gangs in our communities. This news comes in the wake of the Reach report, which recommends that the government roll out a structured national role model programme for black boys and young men, supposedly to wean them away from 50 Cent and gangster rap. That report also calls upon the government to appoint a "minister for race" to oversee the implementation of the Reach recommendations, although the focus of the whole Reach report is on black males.
The report says nothing about white working-class boys and young men, whom the schooling system has systematically failed in huge numbers for over 100 years. Nor does it recommend mentoring and positive role models for those white youths who use knives to kill in much larger numbers than black males, or for the lager louts of middle England who terrorise their sleepy neighbourhoods. Instead, the Reach committee calls for the British equivalent of a Minister for the Bantustans of south and north London, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.
Youth, race, crime, police and community relations are themes that have dominated government policy and community politics since the middle 1960s. The moral panics about muggings and "sus" in the 1970s, and about unemployed black youth and their visibility on the streets and in the criminal justice system, triggered calls even then for positive black male role models and for black young people to work with the police to help them understand one another. That response, then and now, projects black males and their lifestyle as the problem to be fixed. It is a problem that is rarely associated with the economy, their location within it, labour market attitudes towards them - especially given the number of them that are ex-offenders released back into the community - or the way their fathers and mothers experienced the schooling system and the workplace.
There are some glaring ironies in all this. Some of those young black males Mr Phillips has in his sights were born and nurtured in a society where black people were routinely killed while in the custody of the state or at the hands of white racists, without their murderers ever being brought to justice. The notion of black lives being seen as cheap or dispensable is not one that young black gunmen introduced in this society. The tragedy is that few of them have any knowledge or understanding of the campaigns waged in our communities against deaths in custody or in response to racist murders. When, during Black History Month a few years ago, I taught a combined year 5 and year 6 group in a London primary school where 80 per cent of the students were black, only two children in the group knew who Stephen Lawrence was or how he met his death. However, half of the group had had the experience of losing an elder sibling, uncle, relative or close family friend as a result of stabbing or shooting.
The majority of young black males under the age of 30 know little about the fire in 439 New Cross Road, Deptford, on January 18 1981 in which 14 young black people lost their lives as a result of what the black community still believes was a racist firebomb. What is more, they know even less about the historic march on March 2 1981 when more than 20,000 people, the majority of them young and black, took to the streets of London on an ordinary working Monday to protest those killings. They would no doubt be surprised to know that hundreds of school children defied their teachers and ran out of their school gates to join the march, determined as they were to be allowed to register their protest as part of a collective body of outraged people. They know little, also, about the struggles against racism waged by their parents' generation, especially their fathers and grandfathers.
Then there is the added irony of the Reach committee (made up predominantly of black people) calling for more positive black role models for black boys without saying a thing about the curriculum that they are having to endure in schools, a curriculum which excludes, among much else, the courageous struggles of their parents' and grandparents' generation and the myriad ways they have contributed to the shaping of modern Britain. What is school saying about that vast army of positive black role models and the values and principles that underpinned their activism and their creative and cultural expression? Why, moreover, is it assumed that black army officers and senior policemen are more appealing and relevant as role models to young black males than those black students like themselves, coming from the same backgrounds, who know their potential, are focused on learning, have superb self-management skills and are constantly bullied and harassed for not conforming to the bad boy and 'road soldier' stereotype?
I do not know, but I would hazard a guess that the regime Trevor Phillips and his benign army of military officers and police put those young black males through has something to do with goal setting, developing discipline in order to achieve those goals, sound self-management, conflict management, identifying and building upon current strengths and aptitudes and generally having a positive attitude to life, to self and to society. Hopefully, they are also giving them an experience of youth as a time of fun, risk taking and adventure. Well, there was a time when schools did all of those things, often with the active involvement of parents and significant adults within their communities. There was a time, too, when formal and non-formal social education and youth programmes did all of that and more, placing young people in leadership and role model situations and facilitating their development, helping them to get up and start all over again if they faltered.
We must beware of seeing young black males as having a genetic predisposition to certain behaviours which require therapeutic treatment by the great and the good who have the same skin colour as them, whether in the armed forces, the police, in the higher echelons of government, Britain plc or among those in line for a gong or two for services to black youth and to community cohesion.
It probably won't be too long before government starts throwing money at this new, knee jerk, response and before some members of the "lock 'em up" brigade start calling for those who won't volunteer for these schemes to be conscripted and made to do a spell in the armed forces or the police. That would be one sure way of solving the problem of attracting black recruits.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
15 Minutes : Play It : Ghost Bowling
If it's starting to get chilly outside this may be a great idea to change things up a bit while in doors.
Option 1: if you already have a set of plastic bowling pins (or some other type of bowling set), take some napkins (or white scrap material), unfold it and stick it on top of each pin. The drape effect will leave it looking like a ghost. Add eyes with a black marker (or googley eyes) and if you want to get fancy tie a black ribbon around the neck.
Option 2: if you don't have any type of bowling set...don't fret, make you're own using disposable cups. Place a ball of modeling clay (or something to help weigh it down) in a cup. Invert a second cup and place it on top of the first. Then tape the rims together. Place pins in triangular formation (4>3>2>1). Any type of ball can be used for bowling ball (how about a tennis ball).
Obviously any type of cup can work (plasic or paper). If you are wanting to create the ghost effect try using transparent or clear plastic cups adding eyes with a marker or just apply Option 1 to what you have.
Perfect!!! Now you can go bowling without spending a dime or at least saving a dime or two.
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The application of the Buddha's teachings in the social realm is spawning a social revolution among the Dalit communities of India. Buddhism represents not only an alternative to oppressive caste hierarchy, but is also providing practical ways to inner change so that they become empowered socially as well as spiritually. In recent times, the social implications of Buddhist practice have become well known as 'socially engaged Buddhism'. Far from being a new development in Buddhism, it goes right back to the Buddha himself, who exhorted his first 60 disciples to go out and work for the welfare and happiness of all beings, "Bahujana hitaya, bahujana sukhaya." The rest of his life exemplified this spirit. He spent 35 years walking the pathways of north India, going to people and helping them in whatever way he could. He was a critic of social ills, the caste system, unjust government, wrong forms of livelihood, and all kinds of violence and exploitation, including the neglect of the girl child. Buddhist practice will express itself in, and affect the world, in one way or another. For the last 27 years, I have been working amongst Buddhist followers of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, most of who come from socially deprived backgrounds. Buddhist spiritual practice has empowered them, bringing about more confidence, a greater sense of responsibility, and enhanced capabilities such that they feel empowered to make a positive social impact. The process of spiritual development is described in Buddhism as consisting of the path of vision and the path of transformation. Without a vision of the higher life or a feeling for it that draws us on, there is no possibility of inner transformation. Vision can arise in different ways, such as through deep aesthetic or mystical experience, grief, friendship or social work resulting in selflessness, disillusionment, inner emptiness, a yearning for deeper meaning in life, and so on. The Buddha exemplifies what a human being can do with his or her life if they make the effort. He is shown meditating, teaching, giving courage and strength, walking mindfully, but however he is shown, he always communicates peace, confidence, compassion and energy. In some Buddhist traditions this vision includes other archetypal Buddha figures that represent various aspects of enlightenment, thus making this great vision of Buddhahood accessible to us. There is also the vision of a pure land where all beings are shown sitting on lotuses, listening blissfully to the Buddha teaching. This vision encompasses the whole of humanity; it envisages a world in which life conditions support all humans in practicing the dhamma.
Inner to Outer In the early 1960s, as a teenager in London, I began to become socially aware. Racial discrimination, the dangers of nuclear weapons, and social inequality were some of the questions that engaged me. Like so many others, I wanted a better world, a safer and more equitable place to live in, but I soon became disillusioned with politics as a means to bring about that change. In the early 1970s, desperate to know how I could channel my unruly emotions and make better use of my mind, I took up Buddhist meditation under the guidance of Sangharakshita, an English Buddhist who, before founding the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) in the late 1960s, had spent 20 years in India where he had become known as a meditator, Buddhist scholar, poet, and for his work teaching those followers of Dr Ambedkar who had converted to Buddhism. Although Sangharakshita presented Buddhism at first in the language of individual spiritual development, he soon introduced the glorious vision of the Bodhisattva, the being who is devoted as much to the welfare and enlightenment of others as to his or her own - indeed the Bodhisattva sees no ultimate difference between the two. He showed how the transformation of the individual and the world are inextricably interrelated; such that we cannot work on ourselves without affecting society. And we cannot help society unless we are working on ourselves. This teaching drew together in a higher harmony the two seemingly conflicting and disparate areas of my life - personal growth and social emancipation. Vision is not enough. To realize it we need to work on ourselves and follow the path of transformation. Sangharakshita started by teaching meditation, the most direct way of working on the mind. As we tried to practice we soon realized that meditation was not just about peace, love and bliss, it was not a miracle cure for the emotionally disturbed. Rather, by taking us inward, it opened up the real state of our minds and emotions, and showed us the task before us. Sangharakshita made it clear what transformation meant in practice. Sometimes he would speak in terms of the Noble Eight-Fold Path in which transformation consists of working on many fronts, our emotions (so they support and not undermine our vision), speech, actions, relationships, livelihood, awareness, energy, and mental states. Sometimes he would speak of the three-fold way of ethics, meditation and wisdom, each supporting and augmenting the others. We soon realized that developing skillful mental states through meditation made us more aware of our behaviour, speech and attitudes towards others - we became more ethically sensitive. We also realized that we could not go from a gross or unethical state into meditation, which made us aware of the need for an ethical base for meditation. Meditation prepared the mind to cultivate wisdom or insight into the nature of reality, while deeper reflections supported the practice of meditation and ethics. Ethics are inevitably bound up with how we relate to others. Meditation is concerned with cultivating awareness and highly positive mental states such as loving kindness and compassion. Wisdom involves understanding in a direct way that there is no ultimate difference between oneself and others. All three are intimately connected with how we relate to others. Sangharakshita would also talk of the path in more obvious Mahayana terms, as the 'Paramitas'. These involved the cultivation of generosity, ethics, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom, so that one would be able to help others more effectively, minimizing one's weaknesses and maximizing one's strengths. There was no doubt that the path involved thorough transformation of body, speech and mind, necessarily involving one's behaviour, speech, and attitudes towards others. The radical, integrated nature of spiritual life slowly became apparent and led us into the unknown. We would go on retreat for long periods of time, immersing ourselves in dhamma practice and spiritual fellowship, experiencing a new and higher kind of existence. We began to wonder how this experience could be continued back in the everyday world. Some of us experimented with living in residential spiritual communities, creating an environment that stimulated and encouraged our practice, even though we had little or no money. There was the question of livelihood. Could we work in a way that allowed us more contact with others practicing the spiritual life and gave more time for dhamma practice or helping dhamma activities? What we do and how we do it, especially when it occupies such a large proportion of our lives, affects not only our own mental states, but also others whom our work affects. If we are producing anything that is directly or indirectly harmful to others, we are partially responsible for their suffering. The same goes for consuming things that involve exploitation of beings in their production. What we did had to be of benefit to other beings, and certainly not harmful.
Journey to India I visited India in 1977 and met Sangharakshita's Ambedkarite disciples. I caught a glimpse of Dr Ambedkar's great vision of a society in which everyone was free to develop themselves to the fullest, and all related to each other on the basis of equality and friendship, not by political means but through Buddhist practice. Devoting his life to the eradication of untouchability, he had, after a long and arduous journey, realized that effective social change will only come about through change within the individuals, deep attitudinal and ethical changes. In a talk in Kathmandu in November 1956, he said, "The greatest thing that the Buddha has done is to tell the world that the world cannot be reformed except by the reformation of the mind of man, and the mind of the world." So inspired was I by this vision that I wanted to be part of it, and encouraged by my teacher, Sangharakshita and his Indian disciples, decided to live in India. In the West most people come to Buddhism for psychological reasons. In India it is different. Dr Ambedkar's followers were moved by his vision of a new society brought about by the practice of Buddha dhamma. However, he died just six weeks or so after the great conversion in October 1956, which had sadly been ignored by the Buddhist world. Being amongst the most socially deprived in India, they had little chance to develop without guidance. I met people everywhere, and still do, who are desperate for spiritual nourishment, who want to know in practice how they can contribute to this social revolution. Based on the premise that one cannot help the world unless one is working on one's own mind, we started with meditation classes and Buddhist study. Despite living in poor and often overcrowded conditions, people tried to practice regularly, even though it meant doing so after everyone had gone to bed or before everyone awoke. I knew that once people had begun to editate regularly and study the dhamma, as well as meet with others likewise committed, their inner lives would gradually open out, lotus-like. Their inner explorations would begin to affect their behaviour, speech and deepest attitudes. They would begin to be less dissatisfied with material matters and have more energy available for spiritual endeavors. One of the first things I noticed was the effect those practicing meditation began to have on their old friends. Their attempts to cultivate skillful speech and mental states overflowed into their social interactions. They began to emerge more truly as individuals, and their friends and relatives found that they would no longer just go along with the old 'group' attitudes, but began to think and act for themselves. Their positivity became stronger and they were more able to give support in difficulties.
Problems and Solutions Problems of the world did not disappear. At the beginning of our work in 1978, terrible atrocities took place in Marathwada on Dalits just because the government of Maharashtra had announced a university to be named after Dr Ambedkar. People were killed, women raped, and hundreds of homes burnt in casteist violence. People would ask me how they should respond. I found it hard to find a suitable answer, having just come from such a different environment. By the time of the reservation troubles in Ahmedabad in 1981, we had a few people who had been practicing for several years. Every night we went around Dalit localities encouraging people not to respond to violence with violence, not to seek revenge, but to find a peaceful and creative way forward, as would have been the Buddha's and Dr Ambedkar's advice. Many people attended our meetings, some of them with grave injuries, but they all listened attentively. I have traveled extensively, especially amongst followers of Dr Ambedkar and Dalits. I have found invariably that those who are following a spiritual practice through Buddhism avoid the two common extreme reactions to caste discrimination and violence. Not only are they less likely to be inflamed, but they are also unlikely to go to the other extreme of being cowed and intimidated. They are able to take a more individual and creative approach to their centuries-old oppression. Within a few years we had a flourishing wing of the FWBO (Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha in India) with about 20 Buddhist teaching centers, as well as a retreat center and publications wing. We held frequent meditation retreats, some very large. These were important because at home, often in crowded and noisy localities with entire families living in one room, it was difficult to get down to regular practice. With no distractions, and just practicing the dhamma, most would experience a joy they had never experienced before. They understood from their own experience that they could change their mental states through dhamma practice. Although many did not meditate regularly, they would go away changed. They would carry with them confidence, born out of personal experience, that the dhamma worked, that it did bring about changes in the mind. They would give up old unhelpful practices such as alcohol abuse, and would become more sensitive to the way they treated others, especially women, and to social practices such as dowry. We have held many lecture tours in the towns and villages of Maharashtra. I personally traveled extensively throughout Marathwada, Konkan and Vidharba throughout the 1980s. Everywhere people wanted to hear the dhamma presented in practical terms. What whetted their interest was the presence in our teams of Buddhists like them (apart from me all originally so-called Dalits) speaking to them about the dhamma, confident, inspired, from understanding born of practice and not just books. Deprived of spiritual nourishment, they were infected by our confidence and inspiration. It is not that we played any tricks, or beguiled them. We just presented the dhamma in as rational but meaningful manner as we were able to. We found we could not practice meditation on loving kindness and compassion and close our eyes to the appalling conditions in which so many people amongst and around us lived. As a response we developed social work projects that consisted of hostels for school children from socially deprived backgrounds of which there are about 25 at present, as well as health and education community centers in slums, of which there are over 70 today. While most of these projects are in Maharashtra, there are some in five other states. We have also been able to conduct relief and rehabilitation work in the aftermath of the Maharashtra (1993) and Gujarat (2001) earthquakes and the December 2004 tsunami, and at the time of writing, of the Mumbai floods. These have been spontaneous responses born out of spiritual practice to the difficulties of those around us, and have developed a greater sense of responsibility in those organizing them. With a confidence born out of their dhamma practice, they do not feel overwhelmed by, and passive to, difficult situations, but on the contrary feel empowered. This is proof that spiritual practice does bring about not only individual change, but can also lead to social change.
Sangha Matters Social activities provide those engaged in them right livelihood in the sense that the work is not harmful to them or others, and is ethically and socially positive. The opportunity to work with other practitioners is crucial. It is hard to progress in one's spiritual life if most of the people we are in contact with are cynical about spirituality, and emotionally gross, reactive, and negative. The importance of close contact with co-practitioners is the principle of sangha, which along with the Buddha, the ideal of human enlightenment to which we aspire, and the dhamma, the path of teaching that we follow, form the Three Jewels of Buddhism. The essence of sangha is spiritual friendship, spiritual friends being those with whom we share our highest values, are totally open, and who want the best for us without consideration for personal gain. Dr Ambedkar talked of the sangha (lay people as well as monks) as consisting of individuals devoted to transforming themselves in body, speech and mind. Dedicated to cultivating skillful mental states, they would be able to help others effectively, and work with awareness, clarity, energy, and genuine concern, without attachment, and in harmony. Helping others would be a spontaneous and organic part of their practice. Clearly, the sangha constituted for him a model society. He said, "Positively my social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality, and fraternity. Let no one however say that I have borrowed my philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. …I have derived them (sic) from the teachings of my master, the Buddha."Many questions remain that have largely to do with identity and old conditioned attitudes, amongst both new Buddhists and caste Hindus, that perpetuate old polarizations as well as terrible social deprivation. Though our dhamma and social projects have benefited many, especially children, our most valuable contribution is the example we give to others of working as a spiritual community. Not only do those who are involved in this work find their spiritual practice strengthened so that their work and example is even more effective, but as a spiritual community in action, they exemplify that it is possible to live a higher and more meaningful social life. From their experience, and their communication with each other, they have discovered the seeds of social transformation that may ultimately lead to a new, caste-free society. Dharmachari Lokamitra (born Jeremy Goody) has guided Buddhist activities under the Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha, Sahayaka Gana (TBMSG) and Bahujan Hitay since 1978. He is helping develop the Nagarjuna Institute in Nagpur, a residential center for training in Buddhist practice and application of Buddhist principles to social situations. Recently, he has been involved in rehabilitation work among the tsunami-affected in Tamil Nadu and poorer victims of Mumbai floods. He continues to lecture on Buddhism and teach Buddhist meditation.
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Originally developed by business coach and serial entrepreneur Michael Mastersonthis formula works wonders for headlines, titlesand email subject lines, but with a little tweaking, it can be a powerful blog writing formula, too. Urgent Urgency in headlines convinces people to open the email, click through to the article, or purchase the ebook.
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Questions Art Art are the products of human creativity ; The creation of beautiful or significant things. A diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts artworksexpressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
Works of art collectively. A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation. Art can also be a second person singular form of be. How great thou art, meaning, how great you are. Art also inspires people to think more and to dream more. Art is truly a blessing, and a very unique expression of human intelligence.
Art Movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, usually a few months, years or decades or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.
Surrealist Automatism is a method of art making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway. Defamiliarization is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar.
A central concept in 20th-century art and theory, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, it is also used as a tactic by recent movements such as culture jamming. Artistic Medium is a material used by an artist or designer to create a work. List of Art Media Types wiki.
Medium is a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information through which something is achieved, or an agency or means of doing something.
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The intervening substance in the surrounding environment through which impressions or signals are conveyed to the sensesor a force that acts on objects at a distance. Medium can also mean a halfway point between two extremes of a size or of another quality.
Sometimes I look at Art as a pause in time where someone uses the physical world to express an idea or to ask a question, what is this?
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And the question is not so much focused on the art itself, but something else. And that stimulation of the brain is the seed of evolution. Art is another way at looking at things, which is extremely important.
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If we don't open our minds to other possibilities, then we will never ask the questions that will allow us to keep on progressing. But even though we are progressing, we are still not progressing in all the ways that we should.
So it's not just the art itself, it's the questions that art can give rise to. Not to say that we need art to learn, because humans learn in many different ways. But having art is still valuable, but it's value is in the hidden information that can only be deciphered if the person has the knowledge that would allow them to see beyond the surfaceand understand beyond the known senses.
Celebrate or Celebration is a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event. A celebration can be a public performance or a ceremony with all appropriate rituals.
Expressing is to communicate either verbally, bodily or by manipulating materials to form abstract symbols.
Expression is the physical arrangement of body parts, or other physical mediums that can be observed, that would indicate or communicate an emotion or convey a message about someone's feelings, beliefs or opinions.
Expression can also mean a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations. A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.
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Skills Related to Art Artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts or demonstrating an art.
The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. Craft Professions - Art Categories Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface support base. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
Graffiti Graphic Designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design.
A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic mediasuch as brochures sometimes and advertising.For very young children, there are four stages of drawing and writing that you may see as your child grows from 15 months to 3 years old.
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By offering repeated fun experiences with a variety of art and writing materials, you will see forward progress over time. For example, using the Bob Dylan line "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" in a poem published in a small literary journal would probably be a fair use; using the same line in an advertisement for raincoats probably would not be.
Luckily, there are a whole hose of online copywriting courses which will help you learn the tricks of the trade, learn the ins and outs of running a copywriting business, and build a winning copywriter portfolio along the way. A tetramorph is a symbolic arrangement of four differing elements, or the combination of four disparate elements in one unit.
The term is derived from the Greek tetra, meaning four, and morph, shape.. Archaeological evidence exists showing that early man divided the four quarters of the horizon, or space, later a place of sacrifice, such as a temple, and attributed characteristics and.
Though some might say this is a typical Fantastic Four story, i.e. the ultimate defeat the the team is the break up of the family first, but it really hits so many great marks you can't miss this. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say, but if it begins to detract from your bottom line, then defending your interests will likely become necessary at some point.
And the sooner you recognize that a possibility exists for appropriating and capitalizing on your artworks, the better.
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Top 2020 Blockchain Platforms for Building Blockchain-Based Applications
Choosing the right blockchain platform for your project can be a daunting task. In this guide, we are enlisting the top 5 blockchain platforms of 2020 for building blockchain-based applications.
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Introduction to Blockchain Platform
With the increasing demand of blockchain, a distributed ledger technology, everyone has started to experience its potential in almost all domains. With the growing popularity of blockchain, blockchain platforms are gaining equal popularity. Blockchain developers are finding this technology attractive for bringing a new revolution in the digital era. Now, what exactly are blockchain platforms?
Blockchain platforms enable the development of blockchain-based applications that are in great demand and useful for businesses and enterprises. Blockchain can be either permissioned or permissionless. The blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, R3, Ripple, and EOS are used widely by enterprises, startups, and SMEs.
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Top 5 Blockchain Platforms of 2020
Here is a list of best blockchain platforms where you can develop your blockchain applications.
Proposed by Vitalk Buterin, a Russian-Canadian programmer, it is an open-source blockchain platform, that is known for running and executing smart contracts on the custom-built blockchain network. It is one of the most known blockchain platforms as it allows developers to develop their own decentralized apps(dApps). It follows a PoW (Proof of Work) consensus mechanism, which is comparatively slower in speed. But Ethereum might completely switch to Proof of Stake(PoS) consensus algorithm soon. Unlike the Bitcoin protocol, Ethereum facilitates secure trading of smart contracts and cryptocurrency.
Hosted by the Linux Foundation, Hyperledger is an open-source global collaboration that lets users create and develop enterprise-grade and distributed ledger frameworks to support business transactions and to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. This known blockchain-based platform comes with several free tools and frameworks that allow Hyperledger experts to build their blockchain-based solutions. It came into existence in 2015, and now today, it has almost 15 new projects under it, although at present, only four of them are active.
Hyperledger is categorized as Hyperldeger Sawtooth and Hyperldeger fabric. Along with other differences such as security, privacy, consensus mechanism, the major difference between them is Hyperldeger Sawtooth supports both permissioned and permissionless blockchain networks, on the other hand, Hyperledger Fabric support only permissioned blockchain networks.
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This blockchain platform allows developers to build an entirely new class of dApps that are scalable. It has the capability to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second and authenticate more than one million signatures per second and offers the strongest level of security. Whether you are running a startup or an enterprise, this blockchain-based platform goes beyond blockchain for developers and help them to create fast, fair, and secure applications. It uses asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance as a consensus mechanism.
It is an open-source blockchain platform that is designed to allow fast and cheap transactions. It is not just a platform but a cryptocurrency known as XRP, but it also allows people to create their own currency via RippleNet. RippleNet enables users to find new customers in new markets, expand services, and deliver the best experience in global payments. Unlike traditional transaction methods, this platform aims at making the transaction process easier and quicker, especially for cross-border payments, thus creating a better ecosystem of growth and development.
Quorum is an open-source platform designed to enhance privacy. It is an innovation based on Ethereum, developed in partnership with J.P. Morgan and EthLab, an Ethereum startup. It modifies Ethereum’s core and, therefore, has much more exceptional added on features than the traditional blockchain technology. It can incorporate the Ethereum updates seamlessly and quickly. This blockchain platform supports pluggable architecture where a different consensus implementation can be plugged as per the need. It offers transaction-level privacy, along with network-wide transparency, and does not support global data sharing policy. Presently, Quorum blockchain is becoming an indispensable part of organizations such as banks and financial institutions where data privacy is crucial.
Before deciding a blockchain platform, understand what type of blockchain do you need, how popular is the chosen platform, what kind of scalability does your solution need and ensure whether your preferred blockchain platform supports smart contract functionality or not. Although there are plenty of blockchain platforms available across the world, enterprises need to understand the right platforms to build highly scalable applications.
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Sebring, Florida
Sebring ( ) is a city in Highlands County, Florida, United States, nicknamed "The City on the Circle", in reference to Circle Drive, the center of the Sebring Downtown Historic District. As of the 2010 census the population was 10,491. It is the county seat of Highlands County, and is the principal city of the Sebring Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sebring is the home of the Sebring International Raceway, created on a former airbase, first used in 1950. It hosted the 1959 Formula One United States Grand Prix, but is currently best known as the host of the 12 Hours of Sebring, an annual WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race. Nearby Highlands Hammock State Park is a popular attraction. Additionally, the house where novelist Rex Beach committed suicide is located on one of Sebring's main lakes, Lake Jackson.
History
Sebring was founded in 1912. It was named after George E. Sebring, a pottery manufacturer from Ohio who developed the city. He had a circular plan as the focal point for the city. It was chartered by the state of Florida in 1913, and was selected as the county seat of Highlands County when the county was created in 1921. The village of Sebring, Ohio, is also named for George E. Sebring (1859–1927) and his family.
On January 23, 2019, a SunTrust Bank branch in Sebring was the site of a mass shooting allegedly perpetrated by Zephen Xaver, a 21-year-old Sebring resident and former correctional officer trainee. Five people were killed by Xaver; four employees of the bank and one customer.
Geography and climate
Sebring is located in northwestern Highlands County at . According to the Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which are land and of which are water. Water comprises 37.8% of the city's total area.
The city's geography is dominated by Lake Jackson, but Dinner Lake and Little Lake Jackson are also within the city limits. Highlands County has more than 84 lakes, most of which are located in unincorporated areas of the county. Sebring lies on the southern end of the Lake Wales Ridge, a chain of ancient islands that is the native habitat for many rare plants and animals. Most of the area is rural and part of the Florida scrub ecosystem, with smaller areas of hammocks and cypress swamps, similar to those found at Highlands Hammock State Park, west of Sebring.
Sebring's climate is a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with hot, humid summers and mild, dry winters. Unlike most places with a similar climate classification, Sebring's rainfall is clearly seasonal, with approximately 57 percent of the total rainfall occurring in the June–September summer period. However, the variation between the wettest and driest months does not reach the threshold required for climate classification Cwa, which requires the wettest month to have ten times the precipitation of the driest month.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,667 people, 3,969 households, and 2,305 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,883.7 per square mile (727.6/km²). There were 5,024 housing units at an average density of 979.0 per square mile (378.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 75.81% White, 15.69% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.74% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 5.06% from other races, and 2.02% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.00% of the population.
There were 3,969 households out of which 23.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.0% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.9% were non-families. 36.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.91.
In the city, the population was spread out with 22.1% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 27.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $23,555, and the median income for a family was $29,915. Males had a median income of $21,799 versus $19,167 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,125. About 17.4% of families and 23.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 36.0% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, speakers of English as a first language accounted for 89.39% of residents. Other languages in the city included Spanish, spoken by 10.18% of the city's residents, and French, spoken by 0.42%.
Education
According to the 2000 American Community Survey (conducted by the US Census Bureau), 13.8% of all adults over the age of 25 in Sebring have obtained a bachelor's degree, as compared to a national average of 24.4% of adults over 25, and 64.0% of Sebring residents over the age of 25 have earned a high school diploma, as compared to the national average of 80.4%. This is the lowest rate of any metro area in the United States. The School Board of Highlands County operates eight public schools drawing from the city of Sebring with a combined enrollment of approximately 6200 students; one kindergarten center, four elementary schools (Woodlawn Elementary, Fred Wild Elementary, Cracker Trail Elementary, and Sun 'n Lake Elementary, serving students in 1st through 5th grades), two middle schools (Sebring Middle School, and Hill-Gustat Middle School, serving students in 6th through 8th grades), and one high school (Sebring High School).
One of the elementary schools (Cracker Trail Elementary) received an "A" grade under Florida's A+ school grading plan; two of the elementary schools (Woodlawn and Fred Wild elementary schools) received a "D" grade. Sebring Middle School received a "B", based on pupil results on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Sebring High School, home of the county's sole International Baccalaureate program, received a "B" grade.
The county's graduation rate of 62.1% is below the state average of 74.5%, and the dropout rate of 14.8% is above the state average of 4.9%.
During segregation time, E.O. Douglas High School, Home of the Mighty Tigers, was located in this city for blacks throughout Highlands County. The last graduating class from this school was in 1967. After desegregation, students from E.O. Douglas transferred to schools which were formerly whites-only. The E.O. Douglas campus now houses the headquarters of the School Board of Highlands County.
Transportation
Sebring has no interstate highways or other limited access roads. U.S. Route 27 (cosigned with U.S. Route 98 in Sebring) is the major artery providing access to the rest of the state. State Road 17 begins in Sebring and heads north to its terminus in Haines City. State Road 64 (to the north) and State Road 66 (to the south) are important secondary roads. Several of Sebring's streets are named after automobile manufacturers or their models, as is evident in Peugeot Street, Ferrari Drive, Porsche Avenue, Vantage Terrace, Corvette Avenue, and Thunderbird Road, to name a few.
Sebring Regional Airport is located a few miles southeast of the city and provides general aviation facilities for Sebring. The airport is also the home of the Sebring International Raceway, the host of the 12 Hours of Sebring, second round of WeatherTech SportsCar Championship automobile race series, held annually in March. The airport has also hosted the annual US Sport Aviation Expo for eight years. The nearest regularly scheduled passenger service is provided at Orlando International Airport, by road to the north.
The city is served by Amtrak from the Sebring station, a depot built in 1924 by the Seaboard Air Line and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Amtrak's daily service to Sebring consists of two trains each from the Silver Meteor and Silver Star, heading south to Miami and north to Tampa, Orlando and New York City. CSX Transportation owns the track over which Amtrak operates. The South Central Florida Express railroad connects to the CSX line in Sebring, allowing transportation of sugar from Clewiston to the rest of the country.
Media
Television
Sebring is located in a fringe viewing area of the Tampa-St. Petersburg television market (DMA). In addition to the primary Tampa-market television signals, local services offer signals from WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando and WINK, the CBS affiliate in Fort Myers/Naples.
Radio
Sebring is the largest city in the Sebring radio market, which is ranked as the 288th largest in the United States by Arbitron. Radio stations broadcasting from Sebring include WFHT (1390AM), WGSE (95.7FM/Religious), WWLL (105.7FM/Adult Contemporary), WITS (1340AM/Religion ), and WJCM (1050AM/ESPN).
The latter three are co-owned with WWOJ (99.1FM/Country), licensed to neighboring Avon Park and WWTK (730AM/News-Talk), licensed to Lake Placid, to the south. The five stations together operate from studios in Sebring on Highway 27 near the town's northern city limit.
Notable people
Cornelia Wallace, First Lady of Alabama
Ronnie Lippett, National Football League player for New England Patriots
Parker Lee McDonald, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
Ralph McGill, NFL player for San Francisco 49ers
Major Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., World War II fighter ace, Medal of Honor recipient
Frankie Neal, NFL player
Eliot Teltscher, professional tennis player
Gabe White, Major League Baseball player.
References
External links
City of Sebring official website
Sebring Chamber of Commerce
Sebring High School
Sebring Public Library
News-Sun
Highlands Today
Municipal code
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Category:Micropolitan areas of Florida
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The present invention relates generally to Internet navigation schemes and more particularly to an Internet navigation system and method that models cyberspace as a virtual 3D space allowing for intuitive navigation and zooming navigation.
With the fast development of the Internet, more and more people are web surfing. The Internet has become another type of media in additional to traditional newspapers, radio and TV. Most of the time, users use specialized tools such as web browsers to browse the Internet. Currently the most popular web browsers are: Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. However, web browsers aren't the only tool that can be used to navigate the Internet. Any program that can communicate with a web server through the HTTP protocol and can understand HTML pages can be used to browse the Internet. These include text-based programs such as lynx and many other customized browsers or applications like the AOL package.
The main purpose of the web browser is to connect to a listening port of a web server (default value is 80) and send an HTTP request such as a GET command for a particular web page. Once the web server receives the request, it parses the request, searches the local data store in the server, and returns the matched data, normally in the html format. The web browser interprets the returned web page in html format and then renders it into a human readable format and presents to the end user. If there are other links inside the html page that are also needed to render the page, for example, images or audio and video clips, the browser will send other requests to retrieve these data before rendering the page.
In addition to html pages, modern web browsers are capable of rendering data in other formats, such as xml data, text, jpg and many other common data types. In addition, by means of a browser plug-in or extension, web browsers can even understand and display more data types after release and installation such as VRML or even some 3D graphical languages.
Normally, to use a web browser, users need to first enter the address of a web page; the URL in the address bar of the web browser. Then after that particular web page has being displayed, the browser will display the html pages in a main window and display hypertext link inside html pages in a different highlighted color or font. Users use a mouse or keyboard to scroll up and down the web page while reading and use the mouse to click on the highlighted links to browse another page from the current page. The user can always click the BACK icon in the browser to return back to a previous link and a FORWARD arrow button to revisit a link he/she has just viewed. Of course a HOME icon is always available to jump to the user's start page, which is customizable.
However, almost all current web browsers display web pages in a 2 dimensional window which cannot be directly associated with the real world and, as such, is not realistic for viewers.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,664,980 to Bryan, Douglas L. et al. discloses a visual navigation utilizing web technology. A display navigation system is presented in which indicia for a first target category and a second target category are presented to a user on a display, where the indicia are associated with keywords and the keywords are assigned weight. The user then performs various interactions and the user's interactions are detected. Additional indicia are presented to the user in response to the interactions, where the additional indicia represent additional target categories that are similar or dissimilar to the first and second target categories depending on the interactions and weight of the keywords. Finally, additional indicia are displayed.
This patent is not related to web browsing technology.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,604,103 to Wolfe, Mark A. discloses a system and method for information retrieval employing a preloading procedure. During the time the user spends viewing the displayed information, other information that the user is likely to read or study later is preloaded into memory. If the user later requests the preloaded information, it can be written to the display very quickly. As a result, the user's request to view new information can be serviced quickly.
This patent discloses a document retrieval system having improved response time by caching a series of documents first.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,731,314 to Cheng; Gavin, et al. discloses a network-based three-dimensional multiple-user shared environment apparatus and method. A client computer program provides instructions for a processor to locate and retrieve rich media and HTML files for running in a three-dimensional graphical user interface. The program provides instructions for the processor to generate a three-dimensional (3D) graphical user interface on a display. Then, the processor generates a metaphorical user object for navigating and interacting in the three dimensions within the environment via navigational and interactive inputs, respectively, from a user. The processor also integrates an HTML object into the environment, and interacts the user object with the HTML object in response to an interactive input from the user. Preferably, the processor generates one or more additional user objects for additional users. Each of the additional user objects can also interact with the HTML object, the first user object and/or each other within the environment in response to interactive inputs from the additional users. In addition, the first user object may interact with any or all of the additional user objects in response to interactive inputs from the first user. The interactive inputs may be proxy expressions from one user to another.
This patent discloses a 3D graphical user interface but it does not discuss how to browse the web space in general.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,931,604 to Lane, Derek Graham discloses a method of navigating a collection of interconnected nodes. A method and apparatus for organizing and processing interconnected pieces of information (“nodes”) using a digital computer is disclosed. Each node has elements that may be text, images, audio, video, and other computer programs. A graph-based user interface presents the individual nodes in spatial arrangements that reflect the relationships among the nodes. User interaction indicating interest in a particular node results in an increase in the “activation” of that node. This leads to an increase in the size of the presentation of that node, as well as an increase in the size of the presentation of closely related nodes. The result is a unique user interaction paradigm that allows for intuitive traversal of complex collections of nodes.
This patent discloses a method for displaying general graphs and nodes.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,724,407 to Cheng, Gavin discloses a method and system for displaying conventional hypermedia files in a 3D viewing environment. A method and a software program running on a server computer coupled to a network, such as the internet, includes a three-dimensional (3D) viewing environment generating module. When a resource locator identifying a requested hypermedia resource, probably input by a pc user logged onto the network, is received from the network by a server computer, the 3D viewing environment generating module generates a 3D viewing environment corresponding to and preferably including the requested hypermedia resource. The 3D viewing environment is sent over the network to the user's pc enabling the user to view the requested hypermedia resource in an overlay 3D viewing environment, probably already running on the user's pc. A software program also provides instructions for a computer running a 3D browser to provide a viewing environment in a 3D space having one or more displays including a conventional hypermedia resource identifiable by a conventional resource locator. One or more additional displays may also be provided in the same viewing environment, wherein the additional displays each show an auxiliary hypermedia resource fetched from the network. A request may be generated for the 3D viewing environment displaying the conventional hypermedia resource when it is determined that the resource is not pre-designed for viewing with the 3D browser. In this case, the conventional hypermedia resource is fetched from the network and displayed within the 3D viewing environment. The auxiliary hypermedia resources may be commercial advertisements that can be viewed simultaneously with the conventional hypermedia source in the same 3D viewing environment.
This patent discloses providing the 3D viewing environment for the hypermedia resource but does not cover how to browse entire Internet web sites and pages.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,636,246 to Gallo, Anthony Carmen, et al. discloses a three dimensional spatial user interface. A method and system provides a three dimensional spatial user interface (SUI) to a user of a computing device. The SUI may be manipulated in three dimensions and contains a plurality of portals. A portal may contain a sensory cue that provides a reminder as to the content of the portal. Upon selection of a portal, an application program associated with the cue in the portal is invoked. Portals may also contain further instances of the SUI of the present invention, thus providing hierarchical depth. In the preferred embodiment, the SUI is implemented as a sphere and may be viewed from an external or internal perspective.
This patent discloses a user interface that is displayed in three dimensions to display a plurality of sensory cues.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,636,210 to Cheng, Gavin discloses a method and system for auto-navigation in a three dimensional viewing environment. The method, in one embodiment, includes receiving a jump request from one viewing point to another. The method also includes determining a destination from the current viewing point with respect to the jump request. The method further includes calculating a trajectory to the destination from the current viewing point. The method stills includes displaying a set of views in animation form along the trajectory and displaying a view corresponding to the destination.
This patent discloses determining and calculating a trajectory among viewing points.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,772,139 to Smith, III, Julius O. discloses a method and apparatus for facilitating use of hypertext links on the world wide web. A database server contains pointers to useful information, such as on the World Wide Web. Users of the server may have hypertext links added automatically into documents they submit. Users may additionally contribute to the link database, thereby extending it, and may add additional qualifying information pertaining to the links.
This patent discloses automating the linking of documents on the World Wide Web by authors of Web content.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,675,212 to Greenwood, Jon Michel discloses a method and apparatus for efficient data browsing. A method and apparatus for providing improved efficiency in data browsing is disclosed. Automatic continuation of a data browsing session is enabled, while a download of a requested data file, that has been temporarily delayed, is handled separately in a background process. This separate background process generates additional requests for the requested data file as needed, thereby overcoming delays caused by transient network traffic and also enabling automatic downloading of data files that are undeliverable when first requested. When the download of the requested data file is successfully completed, a notification is provided and the requested data file is made observable.
This patent discloses using separate background processes for downloading a piece of file information.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,570,563 to Honda, Yasuaki discloses a method and system for three-dimensional virtual reality space sharing and for information transmission. When an object is moved on a client terminal, a message indicating the movement of the object is transmitted to a server terminal. The server terminal transmits the message to other client terminals. Each of the client terminals stores a message table in advance to execute the message. According the message table, an image for locally moving a particular object, for example, is generated and displayed. This novel setup transmits information about the update of an updated object composed of a plurality of sub objects each of whose state is subject to change, in a minimum transmission volume. This, in turn, allows cooperative operations of the plurality of sub objects to be smoothly displayed in a three-dimensional virtual reality space shared by a plurality of users.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,362,817 to Powers, Michael, et al. discloses a system for creating and viewing 3D environments using symbolic descriptors. A computer-based system for designing and using three-dimensional environments over a bandwidth limited network such as the Internet is disclosed. The system allows an environment to be specified as a series of two-dimensional grids of text characters. Each character occupies a single grid position and represents an object in the environment. Objects can be given characteristics such as texture maps, and associated images and sounds that are triggered by events such as a user approaching the object. An object or image can be a hyperlink so that, when clicked or moved upon, the user is transported to a new location. A basic set of objects and media (images and sounds) is provided so that a designer of an environment does not have to perform low-level three-dimensional modeling. Objects can behave differently when placed near one another. For example, walls fuse together to provide a longer wall. Ramps weld together to provide a single, longer, ramp having a slope that is shallower than the two or more ramps welded together. The environments are customizable by referring to block objects, texture maps, bitmap images, sound files, etc., that can be located anywhere on the Internet, including the user's computer. The system adapts to display differing levels of detail dependent on the performance ability of the user's computer platform.
These patents are focused on technology to reduce transmission volume in 3D virtual reality space.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,237,006 to Weinberg, Amir, et al. discloses methods for graphically representing web sites and hierarchical node structures. A visual Web site analysis program, implemented as a collection of software components, provides a variety of features for facilitating the analysis and management of web sites and Web site content. A mapping component scans a Web site over a network connection and builds a site map which graphically depicts the URLs and links of the site. Site maps are generated using a unique layout and display methodology which allows the user to visualize the overall architecture of the Web site. Various map navigation and URL filtering features are provided to facilitate the task of identifying and repairing common Web site problems, such as links to missing URLs. A dynamic page scan feature enables the user to include dynamically-generated Web pages within the site map by capturing the output of a standard Web browser when a form is submitted by the user, and then automatically resubmitting this output during subsequent mappings of the site. The Web site analysis program is implemented using an extensible architecture which includes an API that allows plug-in applications to manipulate the display of the site map. Various plug-ins are provided which utilize the API to extend the functionality of the analysis program, including an action tracking plug-in which detects user activity and behavioral data (link activity levels, common site entry and exit points, etc.) from server log files and then superimposes such data onto the site map.
This patent discloses analyzing the internal topology of web pages in a web site.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,889,951 to Lombardi, Julian discloses systems, methods, and a computer program products for accessing, leasing, relocating, constructing and modifying internet sites within a multi-dimensional virtual reality environment. The disclosed invention facilitates viewing, organizing, and optimizing Internet sites. A multi-dimensional virtual environment includes one or more respective virtual sites for each Internet site. Users are given the ability to explore the virtual environment and access Internet site data and services via respective virtual site(s). Transfer of data related to an Internet and virtual site includes assigning a transfer priority to each virtual site based on the user's location within the virtual environment, and transferring data based on the assigned priority. Users are provided with the ability to lease portions of the virtual environment, to create and modify the appearance and functionality of virtual sites on leased portions, to assign Internet site data and services to virtual sites, and to relocate virtual sites within the virtual environment.
This patent discloses providing users of the Internet with the ability to see Internet sites before selecting to use their services, thereby eliminating the need for HTML/VRML links and knowledge of Internet site URLs. It does not disclose organizing the Internet web sites and the web pages in an organizational way.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,184,867 to Kandogan, Eser, et al. discloses an input for three dimensional navigation using two joysticks. A two-joystick interface for use with an information processing system having a 3D virtual reality module implements a bulldozer control metaphor permitting movement in three orthogonal directions—forward-backward, up-down, left-right—and turning about a vertical axis. The pointing interface includes mode switching permitting use of the joysticks for the cursor positioning and page scrolling functions of the information processing system. The pointing system includes a frame-of-reference conversion module for transforming the pointing devices software interface to a four-degree-of-freedom three-dimensional interface, an interface with a virtual reality module including a display function. Ergonomic embodiments of the interface include locating the joysticks, e.g., two IBM TrackPoints along the bottom row of keys of a standard keyboard, and, alternatively, placing the joysticks and related momentary switches in a wristpad.
This patent discloses input devices for 3D navigation.
United States Patent Application 20030197737 to Kim, Jong Min discloses a 2D/3D web browsing system. The disclosed invention is directed to a 2D/3D web browser for displaying both 2D and 3D information in a window. A web browser for browsing web sites providing two-dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D) information is disclosed. The 2D/3D web browser of the present invention comprises a software for accessing a web site and requesting information; and a display for displaying information provided by the web site responding to the request on a display screen having a 2D/3D switchable window and a 3D-only window; wherein, if the information is 3D contents, it is displayed on a combined area of the 2D/3D switchable window and the 3D-only window, and, if the information is 2D contents, it is displayed on the 2D/3D switchable window.
This patent discloses allowing a browser to either display 3D or 2D contents based on server capability.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,924,822 to Card, Stuart Kent, et al. discloses magnification methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books. A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the display system. The display system may include a magnification function producing a virtual magnifier moveable over the virtual pages. The display system may also include a the “stretchy page” display method wherein one section of the page is directly magnified, while other adjacent sections may be directly magnified in a horizontal or vertical direction, but not both directions. Moreover, a virtual page may also be tilted about a central axis of the virtual page to accommodate viewing of a desired section on the display system. Finally, a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for producing images of a virtual three-dimensional book is also disclosed.
This patent discloses a magnification method to display 3D books.
United States Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0207641 to Palm, Charles S. et al. discloses a 3D stereo browser for the internet. A viewer for viewing stereo images either downloaded over a network, such as the Internet, or resident on a personal computer uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate the display of wireframes with or without texture applied in a variety of formats. In stereo mode, the GUI permits adjustment of the neutral plane and of camera offset. The file sizes utilized with the viewer are very small and permit rapid transmission over a network. The files contain wireframe information, texture map information and animation information.
This patent application relates to a method of displaying stereo images.
Patent number CN1558343 CN200410002524 entitled “Three dimensional resource browser and manager and method thereof” to ZHUGE HAI (CN) et al., relates to a 3D resource browsing manager and a method in the field of computer and network technology. The scheme of the disclosed invention defines a resource in one 3D orthogonal coordinate system, where one resource or one group of closely related resource content is displayed as one small cube with unique coordinate values in the same coordinate system to express its corresponding attribute. The manager includes a resource display member, a resource previewing member, a resource managing member and a resource locating member. The resource browsing process includes the following steps: selecting a resource type with the mouse or shift keys in the 3D resource display interface, determining a required resource, and browsing or completing other management operations. In addition, the coordinate value of some resource may be input to locate the resource in high efficiency.
This patent relates to resource managers and not to the whole Internet.
Patent number CN1556505 entitled “Virtual fractal spectacle three dimensional roaming system” by WANG YAN (CN), et al. discloses a 3D roaming system of virtual fractional scenes, including a material quality generating unit, an entity constructing unit, a VRML browser, a scene map editing unit and a virtual scene browsing unit, and its working flows including starting; initializing device; initializing scene; interactive processing: receiving the information including forward, backward, look-up, look-down, turning left and turning right, and making corresponding transformation on a 3D model and the observed state; calculating object information; pattern romancing processing; ending and otherwise returning to interactive processing recovering resources. It claims the advantages of simple structure, low cost, convenient operation, fast generating of scene environment, etc, and perfects the virtual-reality entity base, applied to the requirements of virtual battlefield training and virtual driving training.
This patent relates to a 3D roaming system and does not relate to modeling the Internet as a 3D world.
Conventional 3D browsers on the market, include 3B (http://www.3b.net/) which displays a 3D city containing lots of bulletin boards, which display the web sites of registered pages. The displayed websites are not part of a whole picture and do not cover all web sites, the display being treated as a virtual 3D shop that contains only paid web sites.
CubicEye from 2ce (http://www.2ce.com) is another 3D browser interface that allows users to see, and interact with, 6 to 625 website pages at one time. The CubicEye environment is initially presented in the form of a six-sided cube; one page is directly in front of you, one to your left and right, one on top and bottom and the last is behind you. Links on every page are active so you can navigate through the links on any or all of the panels.
Other conventional 3D browsers include activeworlds (http://www.activeworlds.com/) which allows users to chat in 3D. However, it requires users to create a virtual 3D world themselves and it also does not contain all the Internet web sites and web pages.
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2022-09-30
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Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
894 794 197
RCS
Saint Etienne
HERBORA
Société par Actions Simplifiée
1
Bis Place des Pénitents
42600
Montbrison
2022-06-30
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
852 457 993
RCS
Marseille
H3T
Société par actions simplifiée à associé unique
22
Boulevard
Charles Moretti
La Palmeraie du Canet
13001
Marseille 1er Arrondissement
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
CAGLIOSTRO AFM
Société civile
799824.00
EUR
829 608 405
RCS
Caen
Prise de participation au capital de toutes sociétés et gestion de ces participations, acquisition par tous moyens, gestion de tout portefeuille de valeurs mobilières, droits sociaux, toutes prestations de services, gestion, organisation, animation financière et commerciale de ses filiales.
4b
Rue
de Plumetot
14112
Périers-sur-le-Dan
Modification survenue sur le capital.
409 742 343
RCS
Rouen
SARL VERDO
Société à responsabilité limitée
1201
Rue
du Vieux Château
76160
Préaux
2021-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
817 464 373
RCS
Bordeaux
ETICO CONSEIL
Société par actions simplifiée
42
Rue
de Tauzia
33800
Bordeaux
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
531 030 971
RCS
Nîmes
ENGRENAGE
Société à Responsabilité Limitée
Les Brugas, Hameau de Camias
30570
Saint-André-de-Majencoules
2022-10-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
497 710 186
RCS
Thonon-les-Bains
INTERNAUTIQUE SARL
Société de Droit Etranger
Zone industrielle
Des Niollets
74140
Douvaine
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
SCI SCALA
Société civile immobilière
484 309 620
RCS
Fréjus
Propriété bien immobilier
20
Lotissement
Tai Khi
83240
Cavalaire-sur-Mer
20
Lotissement
Tai Khi
83240
Cavalaire-sur-Mer
reprise de l'activité après suspension.
2014-08-06
AMIN
853 762 730
RCS
Salon-de-Provence
BODACC B
20220103
2022-05-27
360
S.C.I. RX IMMO
Société civile
34501
EUR
modification du Gérant associé indéfiniment responsable Moussaly, Frédéric ; modification du Gérant associé indéfiniment responsable Le Viol, Sylvain Nicolas ; modification de l'Associé indéfiniment responsable Guenego, Olivier François Michel
434 596 714
RCS
Nantes
14
boulevard
Winston Churchill
44100
Nantes
modification survenue sur l'administration
843 380 601
RCS
Paris
DIGITAL CARDIO
Société à responsabilité limitée (à associé unique)
9
boulevard
de Dixmude
75017
Paris
2021-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
842 844 888
RCS
Montauban
JANARY
Société par actions simplifiée
15
Avenue
de la Mouscane
82700
Montech
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Kyowa Kirin Pharma
Société par actions simplifiée
Président : BUGEAT Emilie ; Directeur général : LE MOUAL Sylvie ; Directeur général : REISINGER Roswitha ; Directeur général : ARISTIDOU Antrinkos, Andrew ; Commissaire aux comptes titulaire : KPMG S.A
420 097 081
RCS
Nanterre
COMMERCIALISATION DE MEDICAMENTS
20-26
Boulevard
du Parc
92200
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Modification survenue sur l'administration.
ALM CONCILIUM
Société à responsabilité limitée
533 516 621
RCS
Evry
conseil, gestion, management, informatique, formation, documentation, achat, vente, location, import, export.
4 Rue Michel de Gaillard
91160
Longjumeau
Jugement de clôture
Jugement de clôture pour insuffisance d'actif
2023-11-20
Jugement prononçant la clôture de la procédure de liquidation judiciaire pour insuffisance d'actif.
801 378 894
RCS
Paris
JBM EXPERT
Société par actions simplifiée (à associé unique)
27
rue
des Chaufourniers
75019
Paris
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
JPDV
Société à responsabilité limitée
5000.00
EUR
481 270 353
RCS
Draguignan
4228
Route
de Carcès
83510
Lorgues
4228
Route
de Carcès
83510
Lorgues
O
Radiation d'office
948 922 877
RCS
Bobigny
JOUGJOUG
Atef
Création
établissement principal
achat et vente de vêtements hfe, de produits alimentaires non réglementés et de tous produits non réglementés sur les marches et ambulant.
137
Rue
des Cites
93300
Aubervilliers
2023-02-14
Immatriculation d'une personne physique suite à création d'un établissement principal
2023-02-10
851 356 055
RCS
Thonon-les-Bains
PINEIRO PEINTURE DECORATION
Société à Responsabilité Limitée
5
Rue
De l'Opac
74500
Neuvecelle
2022-06-30
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
491 285 037
RCS
Nanterre
BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB EMEA
Société à responsabilité limitée
3
Rue
Joseph Monier
92500
Rueil-Malmaison
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
901 511 568
RCS
Grenoble
PACKTIC
Société par Actions Simplifiée
93
Cours
Berriat
38000
Grenoble
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
833 353 279
RCS
Tours
MOUSSOUNI
Mohammed Yasin
SENSEI Store
Création
Etablissement principal
Ventes en ligne de vêtements et accessoires neufs
46
avenue
de la République porte A03
37100
Tours
2023-01-09
Immatriculation d'une personne physique suite à création d'un établissement principal
2023-01-10
911 257 822
RCS
Evry
EL MELLAHI
Abid
Création
établissement principal
conseil en force de vente et stratégie commerciale
32
Allée
Jean Rostand
91000
Évry-Courcouronnes
2023-11-06
Immatriculation d'une personne physique suite à création d'un établissement principal
2023-10-01
DEBOUT
Antoine, Jean, Christian
900 621 731
RCS
Boulogne-sur-Mer
vente de chaussures, vêtements et tous articles divers non réglementés, Coaching dans la vente A distance
560
Rue
Rolls
62231
Sangatte
2023-11-24
Radiation
PONEY SPORT SAINTE - GEMME
Exploitation agricole à responsabilité limitée
10000.00
EUR
797 456 001
RCS
Versailles
Entraînement et dressage de chevaux .
1
Allée
des Crayons
78124
Mareil-sur-Mauldre
O
Radiation suite à clôture des opérations de liquidation
DOMAINE JOILLOT
Exploitation agricole à responsabilité limitée
233401.06
EUR
Gérant : GOUTARD Simon Jacques Henri ; Gérant : JOILLOT Jeanne Simone ; Gérant : GUIDOT Grégoire Etienne
342 981 933
RCS
Dijon
Exploitation des biens agricoles apportés par les associés achetés ou pris à bail par lui, mis à disposition par ses membres et généralement toutes activités se rattachant a cet objet.
Rue
Marey Monge
21630
Pommard
Modification survenue sur l'administration, le capital.
803 413 780
RCS
Grenoble
T120
Société par Actions Simplifiée
22317.00
EUR
13
Rue
Roland Garros
38320
Eybens
Nouvelle branche d'activité. Fonds acquis par achat au prix stipulé de 129400 EUR
Etablissement principal
Partie d'activité concernée : Mise à disposition temporaire de toutes personnes physiques ou morales, de personnel de toutes professions, de toutes catégories et de toutes qualifications.
13
Rue
Roland Garros
38320
Eybens
AC 090
504 196 544
RCS
Toulouse
Autre achat, apport, attribution (immatriculation d'une personne morale, uniquement)
2014-07-03
Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné
2023-01-18
Cabinet Lebrun 1 place Firmin Gautier 38000 Grenoble.
Adresse de l'ancien propriétaire : 19 Boulevard Silvio Trentin 31200 TOULOUSE. Adresse du nouveau propriétaire : 13 Rue Roland Garros 38320 EYBENS. Acte sous seing privé du 20.12.2022 REF 38019P02 2022 A 06215 DOSSIER 2022 00081025 Les oppositions seront reçues dans les dix jours suivant la publication prévue à l’article L.141-12 du code de commerce.
LAPART
Société civile
1600.00
EUR
440 678 746
RCS
Antibes
201
Avenue
des Martyrs de la Résistance
les Champs Fleuris Bâtiment 1
06600
Antibes
201
Avenue
des Martyrs de la Résistance
les Champs Fleuris Bâtiment 1
06600
Antibes
O
Radiation d'office
Dudoigt
Alizée Laurette
THE BEAUTY FULL BY ALIZEE
832 650 055
RCS
La Roche-sur-Yon
Prothesie Ongulaire, Soint esthétiques, vente de produits se rattachant a l'activité et vente de bijoux fantaisies
28
rue
de la plaine (Château d'Olonne)
85180
Les Sables d'Olonne
modification survenue sur l'adresse de l'établissement
815 310 958
RCS
Nanterre
ATELIER BAPTISTE LEGUE
Société à responsabilité limitée
16
Rue
Mary Besseyre
92170
Vanves
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
883 453 318
RCS
Tarbes
COMPAGNIE DES PYRENEES - PARTICIPATIONS
CDPP
Société par actions simplifiée
3b
Avenue
Jean Prat
65100
Lourdes
2023-04-30
Comptes annuels et rapports
YOLANDE
Société Civile Immobilière
174980.00
EUR
482 902 723
RCS
Amiens
Modification du capital.
ALLIMMO
Société civile immobilière
892 458 407
RCS
Mulhouse
Location immobilière
8
Rue
de la Taillanderie
68720
Tagolsheim
Modification survenue sur l'activité, la date de début d'activité, la dénomination.
840 055 719
RCS
Saint-Nazaire
GROUPE PFISTER
Société à responsabilité limitée
79C
avenue
des Loriettes
44380
Pornichet
2021-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
493 568 026
RCS
Bobigny
BORE RIANT SARL
Société à responsabilité limitée
9
Rue
du Capitaine Dreyfus
93100
Montreuil
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
442 090 908
RCS
Paris
NOUVEAU REGARD
Société par actions simplifiée
10
rue
Vivienne
75002
Paris
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
382 713 196
RCS
Chambéry
BORNERY
Société par actions simplifiée
217
Rue
du Grand Arc
73460
Tournon
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
PIERRU
Stéphane, Aurélien, Henri
PIERRU
404 849 952
RCS
Amiens
18
Rue
Du Courtil au Bois
80850
Berteaucourt-les-Dames
2023-03-12
492 215 520
RCS
Meaux
BATIR PLUS
Société par actions simplifiée
19
rue
Alphonse Tellier
77165
Iverny
2021-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
525 266 417
RCS
Foix
CAP SUR LA MODE
Société à Responsabilité Limitée
63
Rue
De Villefranche
09200
Saint-Girons
2021-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
979 447 570
RCS
Toulon
SCI JUNEAU
Société Civile
Gérant : ROYANNEZ KEVIN nom d'usage : ROYANNEZ
100.00
EUR
192
Chemin
Des Vignerons
83230
Bormes-les-Mimosas
L'acquisition, l'administration et l'exploitation par bail, location ou autrement d'immeuble et de tous autres immeubles bâtis ou non
Immatriculation d'une personne morale (B, C, D) suite à création d'un établissement principal
2023-09-08
821 226 883
RCS
Lyon
MAJ
Société par Actions Simplifiée
30000.00
EUR
190
Route
De Grenoble
69800
Saint-Priest
Autre achat, apport, attribution (immatriculation d'une personne morale, uniquement)
Art. L.236-14 du code de commerce
AVIS DE PROJET DE FUSION Aux termes d'un acte sous seing privé, en date du 05 septembre 2023 : ? La société MAJ, société par actions simplifiée au capital de 30 000 euros, dont le siège social est à SAINT PRIEST (69800), 190 route de Grenoble, immatriculée au registre du commerce et des sociétés de LYON sous le numéro 821 226 883, ET ? La société JA2C, société à responsabilité limitée au capital de 25 000 euros, dont le siège social est à MEYZIEU (69330), 32 rue Paul Cézanne, immatriculée au registre du commerce et des sociétés de LYON sous le numéro 504 757 857, ont établi un projet de fusion par absorption de la société JA2C par la société MAJ. A ce titre : La société JA2C ferait apport à la société MAJ de la totalité de son actif évalué à 196 856 euros et de la totalité de son passif évalué à 225 882 euros, soit un apport d'une valeur nette de (-29 026) euros. Cet apport d'un montant net global de (-29 026) euros, la société MAJ n'augmenterait pas son capital et ne créerait aucune nouvelle action. L'opération ne dégagerait aucune prime de fusion. La présente fusion est placée sous le régime simplifiée de l'article L.236-1 du Code de Commerce. Conformément à l'article L.236-1 du Code de Commerce, il ne sera procédé à aucun échange de titres dès lors que les sociétés JA2C et MAJ seront détenues en totalité par la société AJIR. La Société AJIR, étant à ce jour propriétaire de l'intégralité du capital social de la Société Absorbante et de la Société absorbée, il ne sera procédé à aucun échange de titres et à aucune augmentation de capital. Toutes les opérations actives et passives effectuées par la société absorbée depuis le 1er janvier 2023 jusqu'au jour de la réalisation définitive de la fusion seront prises en charge par la société absorbante. Les créanciers des sociétés fusionnantes, dont la créance est antérieure au présent avis pourront faire opposition à cette fusion dans les conditions et délais prévus par les articles L. 236 14 et R. 236 8 du Code de Commerce. Conformément aux dispositions de l'article L. 236 6 du Code de Commerce, le projet de traité de fusion a été déposé en deux exemplaires par voie dématérialisée au Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de LYON le 07 septembre 2023 Pour Avis.
399 372 192
RCS
Clermont-Ferrand
BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE THERIAS
Société à responsabilité limitée
7
Rue
de la Gare
63650
La Monnerie-le-Montel
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
332 961 762
RCS
Rodez
ETABLISSEMENTS THERON ET COMPAGNIE
Société à responsabilité limitée
3
Place
d'Estaing
12000
Rodez
2022-06-30
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
799 528 278
RCS
Vienne
H-S-R-A
Société par Actions Simplifiée
822
Route
De la Croix des Adieux
38480
Saint-Albin-de-Vaulserre
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
483 765 293
RCS
Dijon
VERPIC ELEC
Société à responsabilité limitée
1
Rue
de la Croix Michaud
21310
Bézouotte
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
488 757 253
RCS
Lyon
SYLVAIN AUGIER ELECTRICITE - SAE
Société à Responsabilité Limitée
48
Rue
Vaucanson
69150
Décines-Charpieu
2022-08-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
952 436 590
RCS
Pointe à Pitre
CABRION TP
Société par Actions Simplifiée
Président : Société à responsabilité limitée HGC
5000.00
EUR
Impasse
Emilien
Digue Castelbon Lieudit Belair
97122
Baie-Mahault
Travaux de terrassement courants et travaux préparatoires notamment creusement de tranchées, comblement, nivellement de chantiers
Immatriculation d'une personne morale (B, C, D) suite à création d'un établissement principal
2023-05-11
892 612 656
RCS
Marseille
D.I RENOVATION
Société à responsabilité limitée
18
Rue
Jacques Reattu
Buroparc Bâtiment E
13009
Marseille 9e Arrondissement
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
517 655 098
RCS
Nice
TC HOLDING
Société par actions simplifiée
32
Rue
de l'Hôtel des Postes
Le Voltaire
06000
Nice
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
528 139 397
RCS
Paris
CAPIVARA PRODUCTIONS
Société à responsabilité limitée
17
rue
Henri Monnier
75009
Paris
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
520 395 849
RCS
Nanterre
GROUPEMENT D' ENTREPRISES VOGUES
GEV
Société par actions simplifiée
2
Rue
Escudier
92100
Boulogne-Billancourt
2018-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
410 654 032
RCS
Belfort
AMBULANCES VALLAT
Société à responsabilité limitée
14b
Rue
des Combes
25120
Maîche
2022-09-30
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
498 610 443
RCS
Paris
NEXIMMO 51
Société par actions simplifiée (à associé unique)
19
rue
de Vienne Tsa 50029
Cedex 08
75801
Paris
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
443 587 365
RCS
Bayonne
BGS CONSEIL
Société à responsabilité limitée
62
Avenue
du 8 Mai 1945
64100
Bayonne
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
821 979 093
RCS
Ajaccio
SAS FINANCE B.
Société par actions simplifiée
Lieu-dit
Stiletto
Route de Mezzavia
20000
Ajaccio
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
900 967 373
RCS
Blois
ASN ENTREPRISES
Société à responsabilité limitée
5, 7, 9
Quai
de la Saussaye
41000
Blois
2022-05-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
977 727 957
RCS
Créteil
STEFANUTO
Manuelle, Elsa
Création
établissement principal
prestations de communication, organisation et production sur des événements artistiques ou autres.
192
Rue
Diderot
1 Résidence de la Roseraie
94500
Champigny-sur-Marne
2023-07-18
Autre immatriculation personne physique
2023-06-27
393 720 479
RCS
Rodez
SARL MAUREL ET FILS
Société à responsabilité limitée
Rue
de Villelongue
12800
Naucelle
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
490 535 663
RCS
Paris
EDGI
Société par actions simplifiée (à associé unique)
121
rue
Marcadet
75018
Paris
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
Les comptes annuels sont accompagnés d'une déclaration de confidentialité en application du premier ou deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 232-25.
492 914 387
RCS
Béziers
REPRORAPID
Société à responsabilité limitée
15
Avenue
des Arbousiers
34500
Béziers
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
981 393 580
RCS
Nanterre
Poilleaux
Hossen, Alban, Robert
Damien
21 Rue des Vallées
Création
établissement principal
vente à distance de produit e-commerce, articles de maison, décoration et produits de mode.
21
Rue
des Vallées
92700
Colombes
2023-11-15
Immatriculation d'une personne physique suite à création d'un établissement principal
2023-10-23
421 203 993
RCS
Agen
ACCES INDUSTRIE
Société par actions simplifiée
Rue
Albert Einstein
47400
Tonneins
2022-12-31
Comptes annuels et rapports
953 217 866
RCS
Evry
PIVERT HOLD
Société à responsabilité limitée
Gérant : KERIVEL Christophe Yann Alain ; Gérant : RONDU Alexandre Pascal Robert Lucien
100000.00
EUR
68
Rue
Sainte-Apolline
91740
Chalou-Moulineux
Création
siège et établissement principal
la prise de participation ou d'intérêt dans toutes entreprises commerciales, civiles, financières, mobilières, immobilières
68
Rue
Sainte-Apolline
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HELP!!! any thoughts?
My mother-in-law just bought a 2004 VW Passat 1.8T and it just died on her this morning. The Passat will not start and it will just keep turning over and over. If you hold the key and let it turn over for a while the oil pressure light comes on. We just replaced the coil packs and I have no clue what is going on. Any Ideas?
How many miles? It sounds like no fuel delivery? Fuel pump? I think the 2004's have an immobilizer don't they? Not sure if it would even let the car crank. Pulled any codes?
No codes are being thrown. It starts after trying for an hour or so and then runs, but when you turn it off, good luck.
So does it fire? Or is it just dry?
Check your Water Temp sensor.
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You could argue that with Konkurrent's In the Fishtank series, getting a great record is beside the point. The ten Fishtank albums released so far-- featuring bands like June of 44, Low + Dirty Three, Tortoise + The Ex, and Willard Grant Conspiracy + Telefunk-- all follow the same template: the label grabs bands that are touring through Holland, sticks them in a studio for a couple of days (most don't even rehearse) and persuades them to cut records that are more experimental, offbeat and, critically, more casual than they would ever make in their normal studio time. Although strict jazz and improv artists toss out live records and unrehearsed meet-ups as a matter of course-- Some Guys That Showed Up at the Velvet Lounge, Vol. 3 or what have you-- it's rarer for avant-rock, post-rock and jazz-informed bands to just scribble out an album and release it: LPs are events, and even EPs are policy statements.
It's telling that even with bands as adventurous as Norway's Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist, it's hard to imagine any of their albums coming out as loose or random as this thrown-together EP. Jaga Jazzist-- represented here by their horn section-- is the jazz/fusion/techno nonet known for their densely pancaked instrumentals and gymnastic arrangements. Motorpsycho is a long-running psych-rock band, extremely popular in their home country, whose work jumps from classic rock jams and pastoral acoustics to hypercatchy psychedelia. (Their latest record, It's a Love Cult, serves as a great introduction.)
The Jaga Jazzist horns have tagged along on a few Motorpsycho tours and done session work on their records, but In the Fishtank is their first real two-way collaboration. On the Mingus-referencing "Doffen Ah Um", a typically knotty Jazzist instrumental rubs against Motorpsycho's rock drums and grungy rhythm guitar; the soft psych-folk song "Pills, Powders and Passion Play" gets an extended instrumental break, highlighted by Mathias Eick's muted trumpet.
These horn players are so identified by their tight ensemble work that it's a revelation to hear them play slow, almost drifting passages-- like when Jørgen Munkeby takes extended flute solos that evoke the dry desert sound of Julius Hemphill. And they come to the rescue when Motorpsycho ham their way through the Art Ensemble of Chicago's "Theme de Yoyo": while the singers go for a "you had to be there" delivery of the loopy lyrics, the horns' punchy funk salvages the song.
But the clincher here is the last track, the twenty-minute "Tristano": building on a repeated motif that crackles with energy, the ensemble plinks and clatters up a mammoth arc, climbing with the nervous deliberateness of a rollercoaster until the theme comes in at minute thirteen and the band careens through the denouement. A free jazz structure tempered by pop urges, it does nothing more nor less than show off how well the bands spark off each other, in a setting that's more open than you may ever get from these guys again. And it's just the culmination of the "anything goes" aesthetic that makes this whole record so enjoyable-- that in a setting like this, the musicians can reveal themselves in ways that you never get from their normal work. It's one of the strongest records in the Fishtank series to date, and at times, it's damn near definitive.
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MACHS works year round to help homeschool families. Below are some of the upcoming events MACHS is putting on across the province. We look forward to seeing you there!
If you would like MACHS to hold an event near you, or on a certain topic, let us know. [email protected]
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"Can taking aspirin damage your liver?"
ZocdocAnswersCan taking aspirin damage your liver?
If you take aspirin is it bad for your liver. I want to start taking some everyday for my heart to make sure it stays healthy and I don't get a heart attack but I don't want to damage my other organs.
Aspirin is a medication that has been shown to be cardioprotective and decreases the incidence of MI (or heart attack). In most cases, taking just a "baby" aspirin (81 mg dose) daily is sufficient to exert its cardioprotective effects. Aspirin at such a low dose is unlikely to damage any of your other organs. With respect to your liver, Aspirin does not generally have negative effects on the liver. There are other medications, such as Tylenol (acetaminophen) which can cause damage to your liver if you take more than the recommended amount. Taking 3000mg or more of Tylenol (acetaminophen) can cause liver damage. With respect to Aspirin and the liver. There is a warning that children shouldn't take aspirin as it may cause Reye's syndrome which can cause fatty liver. This is not a concern in the adult population. The key concern with aspirin is that if you have a condition that predisposes you to bleeding then you should speak to your doctor (primary care physician or cardiologist) before you start on aspirin, to make sure it is safe for you to take it. I highly recommend most adults especially over the age of 40 to take 81mg aspirin tablet daily as it has been shown to decrease the risk of stroke and heart attack. Talk to your primary care doctor or cardiologist about starting on Aspirin for your heart and to make sure it is safe for you to take Aspirin from the bleeding risk standpoint. It is unlikely to damage your liver or other organs.
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Man wins lottery prize twice in same drawing
2014-11-15 23:54:49
Kenneth J. Strokes
Kenneth Strokes had no shortage of luck when he won a $25,000 twice in the same drawing. (Massachusetts State Lottery)
Most lottery players hope to win a big jackpot once in their lives. One Massachusetts man, however, won it twice in the same drawing.
Kenneth J. Strokes of Norwood, Mass. won big two times over in the state's Lucky for Life drawing. Strokes had received a call from a Massachusetts State Lottery representative informing him that his ticket was a winner, earning him a prize of $25,000 a year for life.
Strokes realized shortly after the call that he had another lottery ticket lying around that his family had bought him. That ticket had the same numbers as his the winning one, which were based on several family members' birthdays. Strokes immediately called the lottery representative to inform them he had a second winning ticket.
Winning the lottery twice in one drawing is rare. "For a game like this, where there's so many possible winning combinations..people rarely buy the same ticket with the same numbers...they have to be really confident that those numbers will come in," lottery spokesperson Christian Teja told the Boston Globe.
Strokes opted out to take the lump sum on both of his winnings, $390,000 each or $780,000 total. According to the statement released by the Massachusetts State Lottery, Strokes plans to pay for his son's college tuition, take care of the remaining payments on his daughter's car, and take his family on a vacation.
Teja told the Globe that Stokes was "excited as most people are when they win a prize of this magnitude."
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US Air Force picture of a plane on the runway with someone on the ground directing it
Client Challenge
Brillient was awarded a contract with the Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) to help them automate manual repetitive, rules-based tasks. The AFPC must accurately account for airman dwell time at all assigned locations in order to determine airman availability for travel and deployment. The calculation of dwell time was inaccurate due to incorrect data entry of a field value of ‘X” in MilPDS where another code should have been entered. There was a backlog of millions of records that required an individual to validate the details of the record and update it to the proper code. Identifying and correcting this error consumed thousands of hours of labor time per year. The data errors also created a potential for error in personnel assignments, but the primary benefit of the automation was efficiency.
Brillient Solution
Brillient held a workshop for AFPC where we were able to identify this problem as an excellent rules-based, manual and repetitive use case for RPA.
Once the opportunity for automation was identified, Brillient provided guidance and a template for AFPC to develop a Process Design Document (PDD), which documented at the keystroke level the steps the bot would perform.
Client Benefit
Brillient helped the USAF to objectively evaluate their current dwell time practices. Elimination of the data correction backlog through automation was estimated by AFPC to save approximately 229,000 labor hours, creating capacity for other, higher-value tasks. The automation was developed in only two weeks.
Brillient successfully developed, tested, and deployed the bot to reduce the manual updates by 40%.
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\section{Right Quasigroup if (1-3) Parastrophe of Magma is Magma}
Tags: Magmas, Parastrophes, Quasigroups
\begin{theorem}
Let $\struct {S, \circ}$ be a magma.
Let the $(1-3)$ parastrophe of $\struct {S, \circ}$ be a magma.
Then $\struct {S, \circ}$ is a right quasigroup.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
By the definition of a right quasigroup it must be shown that:
:$\forall a, b \in S: \exists ! x \in S: x \circ a = b$
{{AimForCont}} there exists $a, b \in S$ such that $x \circ a = b$ does not have a unique solution for $x$.
Then in the $(1-3)$ parastrophe of $\struct {S, \circ}$ we see that $\circ$ as a mapping either fails to be left-total or many-to-one for $b \circ a$.
So $\struct {S, \circ}$ is not a magma which contradicts our assumption.
{{qed}}
Category:Parastrophes
Category:Quasigroups
Category:Magmas
\end{proof}
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My Wyze Scale is not connecting to the Wyze app. What should I do?
Check your Bluetooth connection
Wyze Scale uses a Bluetooth connection only, not WiFi. If you're having connection issues, follow these steps:
1. Force close the Wyze app, then re-open it.
2. Turn off your Bluetooth connection, then turn it back on.
3. Navigate to the Wyze Scale screen in the app.
4. Step on the scale to activate it. If Connected displays, you're all set.
If you're still having issues, contact the Wizards team so we can check your hardware.
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Yoga Shabbat
The junior Rabbi at my synagogue has been developing a yoga class for Saturday (Shabbat) mornings. She did her yoga teacher training last summer, and started the monthly classes last October. I was curious about what the class would be like, because I’d always been bothered by the feeling that, even in the most secular versions of yoga, there are remnants of the religious culture it comes from. The history of Jews being forced to convert or conform to the dominant religion of given societies is a big part of my discomfort. I see a lot to like in every other religion I’ve ever come across, but participating in another religion is a completely different thing. It feels like a co-opting of my Jewish soul, but more than that it feels disloyal, like you would feel if you were in love with one man and yet kissed someone else. Prayer, and yoga poses, are not just thoughts or feelings, they are actions, and they count.
My hope was that the rabbi had found a way to make yoga feel a little bit more at home with Judaism, or at least less at odds with it. But I put off going all year long. I told myself that the classes were too early in the morning, or that I would have to rush to get to therapy afterwards, or I just had too much school work to do. But really, the idea of sweating and stretching into strange positions in front of my fellow congregants brought up a lot of old fears. When I finally decided, no excuses, that I would go to the last session of the year, I spent the two days leading up to the class flooded with awful memories of gym class in elementary school, and ballet classes, in my ill-fitting gym clothes or mismatched leotard and tights.
But I fought through the anxiety, and went to the class anyway. I took a spot near the back of the room, up against a brick pillar, both to hide, if necessary, and to have a stable wall to lean against, just in case. I brought my own Pilates mat, which is a little bit more cushioned than a yoga mat, and has a few holes in it from the dogs. At home, yoga means trying to stretch while scratching Butterfly with my arm twisted behind my back, and tossing a tug toy for Cricket, while trying not to lose my balance. But at least they haven’t peed on the mat, recently.
“This is my idea of good yoga, Mommy.”
Cricket can’t talk here, but she agrees with Butterfly.
The rabbi started the session by summarizing the weekly Torah portion, and then she turned on her iPhone, attached it to a speaker, and played variations of the Saturday morning prayers as the background music for the class. She started us off with “Shalom breaths,” and then we did a lot of Sun Salutations and Downward Facing Dogs, with more advanced poses in the middle of each flow. I pushed myself a little too hard to keep up, because I’m not really up to an hour and fifteen minute yoga class, but I didn’t want to seem weak or lazy. I had to skip a bunch of the advanced poses, and come out of others early, and I ended up resting in child’s pose a lot of the time (though it still took me four days to recover from overdoing it). I missed having the dogs with me. Focusing on them takes some of the pressure off of the need to achieve something beyond my abilities. Having Butterfly with me, sniffing my hair or licking my arm, would have reminded me that it’s okay that I can only do what I can do.
“Om, Om, I mean, Shalom, Shalom.”
But most importantly, the feeling that I was doing something wrong just by being in a Yoga class on Shabbat was still there. There is a school of thought among Orthodox Jews that yoga is avodah zarah, worship of foreign gods, which would be a big no-no. Some people say that if you avoid the mantras, and chanting, and skip the Sanskrit names for the poses, and maybe skip prayer pose entirely, that would make it okay. But the rabbi kept the Sanskrit names for the poses, and used prayer pose, which upset me. Child’s pose doesn’t bother me, even though it looks very much like a Muslim prayer pose, because I think of it so completely as a child’s protective pose, making myself safe like a turtle in a shell. But yoga’s prayer pose, palms together at chest level, feels so clearly like what it says it is; it forces you to breathe differently and focus your attention in a specific way and it is a very good physical representation of open-hearted supplication.
A lot of yoga is meant to put your body in a position to teach your mind something. Warrior pose is meant to activate not just physical strength, but emotional strength and resolve. Child’s pose is not only a rest from exercise, it is a self-protective break from being confident and open and visible. These emotional and physical experiences are meaningful to me and make sense to me, but I cannot find a reason other than prayerfulness and supplication for me to be in prayer pose, and that feels too much like praying to a foreign god, and being disloyal to my Jewishness.
There’s a lot of talk, both in yoga and in liberal Judaism, about “intention.” You need to be aware of your intention when you say a certain prayer, take a certain action, or do a particular pose, in order to make it meaningful. The assumption then, is that your intention is all that matters, rather than the intention of the original creators of the prayer, or pose, or series of rituals. But, if yoga is part of someone else’s religious culture, what right do I have to take it for myself and strip it of its history? Is it really okay to take yoga poses and imbue them with your own intentions, like flavoring your ice cream base with vanilla or chocolate or salted caramel? Religion, to me, is cultural history, communal ties, rituals and behaviors, and the stories of my people. If Yoga comes from Buddhism and Hinduism, is it fair to take it out of that context and try to imbue it with Jewish feeling? Is it even possible?
Maybe I should just ask Cricket and Butterfly to create some fresh poses for me, like: Begging-for-treats pose, which really strengthens your core; and Barking-at-strangers pose, which gets your anger flowing and makes you feel at least three times your original size.
Barking-at-strangers pose.
That could work.
Butterfly’s idea of a resting pose.
Cricket’s version, on Grandma’s lap.
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1. Yoga probably predates religion. Let it me known that yoga routines have been practices peoples of many religions and ethnicities. It just so happens that the preservers of yogic knowledge were from the Braham lineage. It is thought that the Yoga Sutras itself was nearly lost to time, when vedantic spirituality began the norm in India. If you’d like more information, I recommend checking out The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali – a Biography, or click the link under the ‘Book Reviews’ tab, found in my personal blog.
Namaste & thanks for reading,
2. . I would love to join, too bad I am a little far 😉
3. .
I teach yoga to children as well, and beyond the pose, the simple fact than being aware of your breathing and being focused on yourself and yourself only is so relaxing to them.
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5. . Indeed 😛
I am sure it would drag lots of young and curious people though .
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GQ Rules for modern men: Owning a supercar
Add the following to your highway code
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Your supercar should either be brand new or a cast-iron classic. There's nothing more pitiful than a second-hand midlife crisis.
Own being Supercar Man. Buy an absurd number plate. Y 5AVE, B1G DE8T or B0S555E are all strangely acceptable.
Ignore the guy who says, "Bet that doesn't do much to the gallon" at petrol stations. He's even more of a twonk than supercar-owning you.
Never shorten the manufacturer's name. Calling it a "Lambo" is tantamount to ordering your wagyu steak well done.
Is your surname Vettel? Then take off the technical mid-top driving shoes, moron.
Carmakers' merch lines are the preserve of dads who feel morally obliged to wear their Father's Day presents. Twinning is not winning.
A supercar should never feature on your iPhone lock screen. Is that lurid, drop-top roller-skate really what defines you?
Wraps are for rappers. Does your ridiculous little supercar really need to draw even more attention to itself?
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Background {#Sec1}
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Cholelithiasis is a highly prevalent disease, particularly in developed countries, with incidence rates of 10--15% in the adult population, indicating that 20--25 million Americans have gallstones \[[@CR1]\]. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered the cornerstone treatment for symptomatic cholelithiasis. However, clinicians are occasionally confronted with inoperable patients because of the operative risks or refusal of patients. To better cope with such situations, several topical gallstone-dissolving agents have been developed, which are administrated via the percutaneous transhepatic route.
Of all the gallstone-dissolving compounds, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is a representative solvent and the only such drug currently used. MTBE is an alkyl ether similar to diethyl ether, an anesthetic agent. Unlike the lower boiling point of diethyl ether (35 °C), MTBE has a relatively higher boiling point (55 °C); thus, it is liquid at body temperature \[[@CR2], [@CR3]\]. Acceptable dissolubility of MTBE was validated by a variety of studies, including a large survey of 803 patients across 21 European hospitals that demonstrated a dissolution rate of 96.6% (724/804) with a low rate of toxic side effects and complications \[[@CR4]\]. However, the widespread use of MTBE is limited by its side effects, such as nausea, upper abdominal pain, duodenitis, mild-to-moderate anesthesia, and hemolysis \[[@CR5]--[@CR14]\]. A substantial proportion of these side effects could be attributed to its relatively low boiling point and the resultant higher evaporation; the evaporation rate of MTBE is 8.0 (i.e., 8.0 times higher than that of standard *n*-butyl acetate), and thus is classified as "fast evaporating".
In this study, we first developed a gallstone-dissolving compound with an aromatic moiety, named 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine (MMP). To date, various compounds have been used to dissolve gallstones, including MTBE, heparin, bile acid, [d]{.smallcaps}-limonene, mono-octanoin, ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), and sodium hexametaphosphate, all of which are composed of aliphatic chains \[[@CR15], [@CR16]\]. MTBE has an asymmetric chemical structure that contains an ether functional group. With an oxygen atom in between, one side of MTBE is the bulky tert-butyl group and the other side is a simple methyl group. In MMP, the bulky aliphatic tert-butyl group of MTBE is replaced with pyridine, an aromatic group. The compounds with an aromatic ring tend to have a relatively higher boiling point and lower vapor pressure \[[@CR17]\]. MMP, thus, has a relatively higher boiling point (156 °C) and evaporates less, raising the possibility of having lesser toxicities while maintaining similar dissolubility as MTBE. In this study, we intended to determine whether MMP could be an alternative to MTBE by comparing their gallstone dissolubility and toxicities.
Methods {#Sec2}
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Chemicals and reagents {#Sec3}
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MTBE was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). MMP was produced in the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT, Daejeon, Republic of Korea).
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy {#Sec4}
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to measure the chelation effect of the gallstone-dissolving compounds, MTBE and MMP. 1-h NMR spectra were recorded on Bruker INOVA 400 MHz NMR spectrometers (BRUKER, Fȁllanden, Switzerland) at 25 °C. Chemical shifts are reported in parts per million (ppm). Data for 1-h-NMR are reported as follows: chemical shift (δ ppm) (integration, multiplicity, and coupling constant \[Hz\]). Multiplicities are reported as follows: s = singlet, d = doublet, t = triplet, q = quartet, sep = septet, dd = doublet of doublets, and m = multiplet. The residual solvent peak was used as an internal reference.
Thermogravimetric analysis {#Sec5}
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The thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential thermal analysis (DTA), and derivative of TGA (DTG) curves were recorded for each solvent using Thermo plus EVO II TG 8120 series thermal analyzer (RIGAKU, Tokyo, Japan). All three thermo-curves, TG, DTG, and DTA, were recorded simultaneously within temperatures of 25--100 °C in an air atmosphere. The thermo-curves were recorded for heating rates of 5 °C/min. In all the thermo-curves, the sample mass initially weighed between 4 and 5 mg. The kinetic parameters were calculated using the data obtained from the recorded thermo-curves by employing non-mechanistic Kissinger evaluation method.
Determination of gallstone components {#Sec6}
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We used the following assay kits to determine the components of gallstones; Cholesterol Enzymatic Assay Kit (Xpressbio, Fredrick, MD) for cholesterol, Triglyceride Quantification Kit (Cell Biolabs, San Diego, CA) for triglycerides, Bilirubin Assay Kit (Cell Biolabs) for bilirubin, and Phosphate Colorimetric Assay Kit (Biovision, Mountain View, CA) for bilirubin. The gallstones were homogenized with the substances described in each assay kit and the supernatant was collected for assay. After incubation for a determined period at 37 °C in the assay buffer, the absorbance was measured using a microplate reader (model 680; Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA).
Measurement of in vitro gallstone dissolubility {#Sec7}
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We collected gallstones following cholecystectomy in patients with gallstones. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Daejeon St Mary's hospital, the Catholic University of Korea (IRB code: DC09FZZZ0045). We first determined the cholesterol contents in the collected gallstones using Cholesterol Enzymatic Assay Kit (Xpressbio, Fredrick, MD). Based on the cholesterol content, the gallstones were categorized into cholesterol (cholesterol content \> 70%), mixed (70--30%), and pigmented gallstones (\< 30%). The gallstones were air-dried, weighed, and preserved in saline. Subsequently, they were matched for size, weight, and shape for preparation for the dissolubility measurements. The three types of gallstones, with a mean weight of 43 ± 4 mg, were placed in separate glass containers, to which 10 ml aliquots of MTBE or MMP were added; the aliquots were aspirated and replaced every hour. The glass containers were gently stirred at 50 rpm on the reactor (VS-8480SF; Vision Co., Daejeon, Republic of Korea) at 37 °C for 24 h. Gallstone dissolubility according to each solvent was determined by measuring the dry weights of the gallstones at three different intervals (4, 8, and 24 h). Specifically, in vitro gallstone dissolubility (%) of each solvent was defined as (the average weight of untreated gallstones − the average weight of gallstones after solvent treatment)/the average weights of untreated gallstones.
Cell viability assay {#Sec8}
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Cell viability of human gallbladder epithelial cells (hGBECs) was evaluated with 2-(4-iodophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-(2,4-disulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium (water soluble tetrazolium salt; ST-1) assay using EZ-Cytox Cell Proliferation Assay kit (Itsbio, Seoul, Republic of Korea) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Additionally, we performed another series of cell viability assay for the following cells using Cyto X cell viability assay kit (LPS solution Co., Daejeon, Republic of Korea); Vero (African green monkey kidney, ATCC\#81-CCL), L929 (mouse fibroblast, ATCC \#2148-CRL), NIH 3T3 (mouse embryonic fibroblast, ATCC \#1658-CRL), and CHO-K1 (Chinese hamster ovary, ATCC \#61-CCL) cells.
In vivo animal experiments {#Sec9}
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### In vivo dissolubility study using a hamster model of gallstones {#Sec10}
All animal studies were carried out in compliance with the guidelines of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research in Korea. This animal study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Clinical Research Institute at Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital at the Catholic University of Korea (IRB No. CMCDJ-AP-2016-004). For in vivo validation of each solvent, we used 10-week-old female Syrian golden hamsters (*Mesocricetus auratus*, Harlan Sprague--Dawley Indianapolis, IN). Hamsters in each group were fed a different diet as follows for 4 months: the hamsters in the control group (N = 10) were fed a normal diet, while those in group CG (the group with cholesterol gallstones, N = 50) were fed a general rodent diet with 0.5% cholesterol, and those in group PG (the group with pigmented gallstones, N = 50) were fed a diet rich in carbohydrates. The diet compositions of each group are shown in Additional file [1](#MOESM1){ref-type="media"}: Table S1. The body weights of the hamsters were measured weekly. After 4 months of diet, the hamsters with gallstones were identified using abdominal ultrasonography and selected for further experiments. We directly infused the control material (DMSO) and each solvent into the gallbladder of the hamsters with cholesterol (n = 40) and pigmented gallstones (n = 40), respectively, after laparotomy under general anesthesia. After laparotomy under general anesthesia, each solvent was infused into the gallbladder using a 30-gauge syringe; after complete aspiration of the bile, the gallbladder was cautiously filled with a similar volume (0.1 ml) of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), MTBE, and MMP, respectively. After 24 h, the hamsters were euthanized, and the gallstones and several pieces of tissues (liver, kidney, and gallbladder) were collected for further evaluations. Gallstone dissolubility of each solvent was determined by comparing the weights of solvent-treated gallstones and control (DMSO)-treated gallstones. Specifically, in vivo gallstone dissolubility (%) of each solvent was defined as (the average weight of DMSO-treated gallstones − the average weight of gallstones after solvent treatment)/the average weights of DMSO-treated gallstones.
### In vivo acute toxicity test in mice {#Sec11}
Seven-week-old female Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) mice were purchased from Orient Bio, Inc. (Seongnam, Republic of Korea). The mice were allowed to acclimatize to their new environment for 7 days and were maintained in an environment with temperature 23 ± 3 °C, humidity 50 ± 10%, 12-h light--dark cycle with 150--300 lx, and ventilation at 10--20 times/h. For the acute toxicity study, the mice were divided into 3 groups (n = 7, respectively). After starvation for 24 h, the control group was given 5% DMSO, while the treatment groups received MTBE and MMP, respectively, at 2000 mg/kg prepared in a corn oil through oral gavage. The general behavior (skin, respiration, tremors, lethargy, or sleep), body weight, and mortality were monitored for 14 days.
### Measurement of Zebrafish locomotor activity according to each solvent {#Sec12}
Zebrafish were maintained under standard conditions as previously reported \[[@CR18]--[@CR20]\]. To monitor the locomotor activity, larval zebrafish at 5 days post-fertilization were placed in individual wells of a 96-well plate with 100 μl embryonic medium. Then, 100 μl of MTBE and MMP were added to a final concentration of 1 mM, respectively. After the treatment, changes were monitored at 28 °C for 60 min using DanioVision and EthoVision 10 XT locomotion tracking software (Noldus, Netherlands).
Statistical analysis {#Sec13}
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All data were analyzed with SPSS 11.0 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL), and are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD). Statistical comparisons between the groups were determined using the Kruskal--Wallis test. P \< 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All authors had access to the study and reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Additional materials and methods {#Sec14}
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Additional and more detailed information regarding the experimental procedures are fully described in Additional file [2](#MOESM2){ref-type="media"}: Materials and methods.
Results {#Sec15}
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Determination of basic characteristics of MMP {#Sec16}
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Table [1](#Tab1){ref-type="table"} summarizes the structural and functional comparisons between MTBE and MMP. MMP has a structure wherein the tert-butyl group in MTBE is replaced by a bulky aromatic functional group, thus, resulting in elevation of the boiling point from 55 (MTBE) to 156 °C (MMP). A substantial proportion of MTBE toxicities are related to higher evaporation caused by a relatively low boiling point; therefore, MMP is expected to have relatively lesser toxicity due to its higher boiling point. Additionally, contrasted by MTBE, which has only one heteroatom oxygen, MMP has two heteroatoms (nitrogen and oxygen) in the form of a tweezer, which increases the possibility of stably trapping the cations in gallstones by chelate effect, which refers to an enhanced affinity toward a metal atom by a compound that is attached to the metal atom in a cyclic or ring structure. Chelate effect accelerates the dissolution of gallstones, as demonstrated by EDTA, which potentiates calcium stone dissolution by chelating the calcium component of gallstones \[[@CR21]\]. We herein attempted to determine the strength of chelate effect of each solvent (MTBE and MMP) using proton NMR, because the chemical shift of the intrinsic proton is expected to change according to the chelate effect between lone-pair electrons of the heteroatom and cation (Fig. [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}a, b). To validate this concept, we used Co(ClO~4~)~2~·6H~2~O as the Co^2+^ provider because Co(ClO~4~)~2~·6H~2~O is likely to have independent cations due to the bulky anion ClO~4~^2−^. When 0.5 equivalent of Co(ClO~4~)~2~·6H~2~O was added to solvents (MTBE and MMP), the chemical shifts were negligible (0.19 and 0.18 ppm, respectively). However, when the equivalent of Co(ClO~4~)~2~·6H~2~O was increased to 1.0--2.0 relative to the solvents, MMP exhibited considerably higher chemical shift than did MTBE (0.33--0.65 ppm vs. 0.50--1.03 ppm) (Fig. [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}a, b), suggesting an enhanced affinity by chelate effect between MMP and Co^2+^. Other data supporting enhanced chelate effect by MMP were presented in Additional file [3](#MOESM3){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S1, Additional file [4](#MOESM4){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S2, Additional file [5](#MOESM5){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S3, Additional file [6](#MOESM6){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S4, Additional file [7](#MOESM7){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S5, and Additional file [8](#MOESM8){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S6.Table 1Comparison between MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) and MMP (2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine)MTBEMMPStructure{#d29e951}{#d29e957}Molecular weight (g/mol)88.15123.26Boiling point (°C)55156PropertyHigh vaporizationLow vaporizationFeatureBulky aliphatic chain① Bulky aliphatic chain② HydrophobicBulky heterocyclic ring① Bulky aromatic ring② Heteroatom③ Hydrophobic and hydrophilic④ Chelation effectToxicityMany toxicities have been reportedLess toxicity compare with MTBE Fig. 1Validation of the chelate effect and thermogravimetric analysis of each solvent. **a** Determination of intrinsic proton chemical shifts of MTBE in the presence of Co^2+^ cation using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Net chemical shift values (Δδ) of MTBE with increasing Co^2+^ cation concentrations were 0.19 (0--0.5 eq. Co^2+^), 0.10 (0.5--1.0 eq. Co^2+^), and 0.21 (1.0--2.0 eq. Co^2+^). **b** Determination of intrinsic proton chemical shifts of MMP in the presence of Co^2+^ cation using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Net chemical shift values (Δδ) of MMP with increasing Co^2+^ cation concentrations were 0.18 (0--0.5 eq. Co^2+^), 0.14 (0.5--1.0 eq. Co^2+^), and 0.32 (1.0--2.0 eq. Co^2+^). There was no difference in the chemical shifts between MTBE and MMP in the presence of 0.5 equivalent Co^2+^. However, the chemical shift of MMP was more prominently increased, possibly due to the chelation strength between MMP and Co^2+^. **c** Thermogravimetric analysis of MTBE. TGA can be used to evaluate the thermal stability of a compound. A thermogravimetric analyzer continuously measures the mass of a substance (MTBE or MMP) while the temperature is changed over time. In the case of MTBE, TGA analysis was impossible because it quickly vaporized in the chamber due to the low boiling point. **d** Thermogravimetric analysis of MMP. In the case of MMP, it did not vaporize before applying the initial heat due to its higher boiling point of 156 °C, and slowly vaporized as the temperature increased. MMP, 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine; MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether; NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance; TGA, thermogravimetric analysis
Next, TGA was used to determine the stability of each solvent with increasing temperatures (Fig. [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}c, d). In MTBE, we could not attain TGA data, because MTBE was already volatile at 25 °C and left no analytical residue. However, MMP progressively evaporated as the temperature increased from 20 to 70 °C and demonstrated the most abrupt change at 57 °C.
Classification of gallstones according to their components {#Sec17}
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Based on the literature, we classified gallstones based on their cholesterol content (≥ 70%, 70--30%, and \< 30%) into cholesterol, mixed, and pigmented gallstones, respectively \[[@CR22]\]. Figure [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}a shows the representative gross and cross sectional appearances of each type of gallstones. Cholesterol enzymatic assay revealed that the cholesterol contents were 84.3 ± 5.7% for cholesterol stones, 62.0 ± 3.9% for mixed stones, and 17.7 ± 0.2% for pigmented stones (Fig. [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}b, c). In addition to cholesterol content, gallstones of each type demonstrated quite different compositions from other types of gallstones; for instance, pigmented stones contained significantly higher concentrations of phosphate and calcium than cholesterol stones.Fig. 2Compositions of gallstones according to cholesterol content. **a** Representative gross and cross-sectional appearances of cholesterol, mixed, and pigmented gallstones. **b** Comparison of the components of gallstones according to their subtypes (cholesterol, mixed, and pigmented gallstones). **c** The percent (%) of cholesterol relative to the sum of other components in each type
Effects of each solvent on human gallbladder epithelial cells {#Sec18}
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We investigated the direct toxicities of each solvent on hGBECs. Cell viability tests revealed that the viability of hGBECs did not significantly decrease with elevating concentrations of MTBE and MMP up to 1.0 M, suggesting the negligible effects of both solvents on the viability of GBECs (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}a). Next, we performed Western blot analysis to determine the expression of the markers that reflect cell proliferation (PCNA), anti-apoptosis (Mcl-1), and apoptosis (BAX) with increasing concentration of each solvent (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}b). With increasing MTBE concentrations, there were sharp rises in the expression of PCNA and BAX, and fall in the expression of Mcl-1. MMP induced similar changes in these markers as MTBE; however, the changes were not as prominent as MTBE, and there was even a drop in the expression of BAX at a higher concentration (1 mM).Fig. 3In vitro determination of toxicities and gallstone dissolubility of each solvent. **a** Cell viability assay showing the effects of each solvent on the viability of human gallbladder epithelial cells (hGBECs). The viability of GBECs did not considerably change according to the concentration of MTBE or MMP (0.0--1.0 mM) over 24 h. **b** Western blot analysis showing the effects of MTBE and MMP on the expression of PCNA (proliferation marker), Mcl-1 (anti-apoptosis marker), and BAX (apoptosis marker). \[Top\] With rising MTBE concentrations, there were sharp rises in the expression of PCNA and BAX, and fall in the expression of Mcl-1. \[Bottom\] With rising MPP concentrations, the expression of PCNA was less prominently increased than that of MTBE. In addition, unlike to MTBE, the expression of BAX was decreased at higher concentration (1 mM), and the expression of Mcl-1 was increased. **c** Dissolubility of cholesterol gallstones. \[Left\] Time-response graph of cholesterol gallstones. MMP dissolved the cholesterol gallstones significantly better than MTBE after 8 h and 24 h (*P* \< 0.05). \[Middle\] Representative pictures of the residual gallstones at 24 h. \[Right\] Comparison of dissolubility of each solvent after 8 h and 24 h in cholesterol gallstones. **d** Dissolubility of mixed gallstones. \[Left\] Time-response graph of mixed gallstones. The two solvents demonstrated similar dissolutions in mixed gallstones, except for a higher temporal dissolution of MMP at 4 h. \[Middle\] Representative pictures of the residual gallstones after 24 h. \[Right\] Comparison of dissolubility of each solvent after 8 h and 24 h in mixed gallstones. **e** Dissolubility of pigmented gallstones. \[Left\] Time-response graph of pigmented gallstones. MMP dissolved the pigmented gallstones significantly better than MTBE after 4 h, 8 h, and 24 h (*P* \< 0.05). \[Middle\] Representative pictures of the residual gallstones after 24 h. \[Right\] Comparison of dissolubility of each solvent after 8 h and 24 h in pigmented gallstones. Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation of three independent experiments. The in vitro gallstone dissolubility (%) of each solvent was defined as (the average weight of untreated gallstones − the average weight of gallstones after solvent treatment at specific time interval)/the average weights of untreated gallstones. \**P* \< 0.05. BAX, Bcl-2-like protein 4; Mcl-1, myeloid cell leukemia 1; MMP, 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine; MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether; PCNA, proliferation cell nuclear antigen
In vitro determination of gallstone dissolubility by each solvent {#Sec19}
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To determine the dissolubility of each solvent according to the type of gallstone, we compared the dry weights of human gallstones at three different time-points (4, 8, and 24 h) after they directly reacted with each solvent. Gallstone dissolubility was calculated as the difference in the weights of gallstones between pretreatment and the determined time intervals. In cholesterol gallstones, MMP dissolubility was significantly better than MTBE dissolubility at 8 h and 24 h (*P* \< 0.05) (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}c). In mixed gallstones, the two solvents demonstrated similar dissolubility, except for temporal higher dissolubility of MMP at 4 h (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}d). In pigmented gallstones, MMP dissolubility was significantly better than MTBE dissolubility at 4 h, 8 h and 24 h (*P* \< 0.05) (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}e). After 8 h, whereas MTBE demonstrated 58.5%, 44.5%, and 22.2% dissolubility, MMP demonstrated 73.5%, 47.5%, and 37.2% dissolubility for cholesterol, mixed, and pigmented gallstones, respectively. Furthermore, after 24 h, whereas MTBE showed 65.7%, 54.2%, and 29.0% dissolubility, MMP showed 88.2%, 61.0%, and 50.8% dissolubility for cholesterol, mixed, and pigmented gallstones, respectively.
Determination of systemic effects and in vivo gallstone dissolubility by each solvent {#Sec20}
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We established the hamster models having cholesterol gallstones (CG group) and pigmented gallstones (PG group) with the individual 3-month diet protocols as described earlier \[[@CR23]\]. During the course of feeding, the hamsters of each group showed consistent increases in body weights (Additional file [9](#MOESM9){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S7), and at the end of the feeding period, gallstones were found in 88% (44/50) of CG group, and 82% (41/50) of PG group. After detecting gallstones by abdominal ultrasonography, we randomly assigned the hamsters with cholesterol gallstones (N = 40) and pigmented gallstones (N = 40) into DMSO (control; n = 10), MTBE (n = 15), and MMP (n = 15) groups, respectively. Subsequently, we directly infused each material into the gallbladder of the hamsters with each type of gallstones, respectively, after laparotomy under general anesthesia.
First, to determine whether solvent infusion evokes a systemic inflammatory response, we measured the serum concentrations of proinflammatory mediators (IL-6 and TNF-α) by ELISA at 24 h of intracystic infusion. While MTBE significantly increased the serum levels of IL-6, MMP did not in both hamster models of cholesterol and pigmented gallstones (Fig. [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}a). Additionally, whereas MTBE increased the serum levels of TNF-α, MMP decreased the levels of TNF-α in both models (Fig. [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}b). Subsequently, we determined the dissolubility of each solvent by comparing the weights of the residual gallstones at 24 h after infusion (Fig. [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}c). DMSO was used as the control material. In CG group, MTBE demonstrated 50.0% dissolubility, while MMP demonstrated 59.0% dissolubility, and the difference was statistically significant (*P *\< 0.05) (Fig. [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}d, left). Moreover, PG group was found to have far more significant differences; whereas MTBE showed 32.0% dissolubility, MMP showed 54.3% dissolubility (*P *\< 0.05) (Fig. [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}d, right). Therefore, we could conclude that MMP exhibited significantly higher dissolubility than MTBE in the hamster models with gallstones, especially pigmented gallstones.Fig. 4Validation of the effects of each gallstone-dissolving compound in the hamster model of gallstones. **a** Effects of intracystic infusion of each solvent on the release of pro-inflammatory mediators in hamsters with gallstones. ELISA shows that while MTBE significantly increased the levels of IL-6, MMP did not in both hamster models of cholesterol \[Left\] and pigmented gallstones \[Right\]. **b** Effects of intracystic injection of each solvent on the release of TNF-α in hamsters with gallstones. In contrast with MTBE, MMP decreased the serum levels of TNF-α in both hamster models of cholesterol \[Left\] and pigmented gallstones \[Right\]. **c** Representative pictures demonstrating the development of cholesterol \[Left\] and pigmented \[Right\] gallstones in the experimental hamsters following their respective protocol diets. Yellow circles indicate the gallbladder and gallstones within the gallbladder. **d** Demonstration of in vivo gallstone dissolubility of each solvent. After infusing each solvent into the gallbladders of hamsters with gallstones for 24 h, gallstone dissolubility was determined by comparing the weights of the residual gallstones. The in vivo gallstone dissolubility (%) of each solvent was defined as (the average weight of DMSO-treated gallstones − the average weight of gallstones after solvent treatment)/the average weights of DMSO-treated gallstones. MMP demonstrated significantly higher dissolubility than MTBE in both hamster models of cholesterol \[Left\] and, especially, pigmented \[Right\] gallstones. The dissolubility of each solvent (MTBE and MMP) for pigmented gallstones was 32.0% and 54.3%, respectively (P \< 0.05). \**P* \< 0.05. DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide; MMP, 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine; MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether
Determination of in vivo toxicity of each solvent {#Sec21}
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To determine the toxic effects of each solvent on the liver and kidney, we performed histological evaluations using the tissues obtained from the hamsters at 24 h after intra-cystic infusion of each solvent. On microscopic observation with hematoxylin and eosin stains, the liver and kidney tissues of both solvent-treated hamsters were well preserved and did not show any visible signs of injury (Fig. [5](#Fig5){ref-type="fig"}a). Next, to determine the direct tissue toxicity of each solvent, we performed immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis of the gallbladder specimens obtained from the solvent-treated hamsters. The IHC panel included stains for representative markers of pro-apoptosis (cleaved caspase-3) and proliferation (PCNA). The expression of cleaved-caspase 3 was far more prominent after MTBE infusion than it was after MMP infusion in both CG and PG groups (*P* \< 0.05) (Fig. [5](#Fig5){ref-type="fig"}b, left). Additionally, MTBE infusion far more significantly decreased the expression of PCNA than did MMP infusion (*P* \< 0.05), suggesting a higher toxicity of MTBE over MMP, particularly in CG group (Fig. [5](#Fig5){ref-type="fig"}b, right).Fig. 5Validation of tissue toxicities of each gallstone-dissolving compound in hamster models of gallstones. **a** Hematoxylin--Eosin (H&E) stains of the liver and kidney tissues obtained from the gallstone-containing hamsters at 24 h after intracystic injection of each solvent. In HE stains, the liver and kidney tissues of each group appeared to be well-preserved and did not demonstrate any signs of injury. **b** \[Left\] Cleaved caspase-3 immunohistochemical stains of the gallbladder tissues obtained from the hamsters with gallstones at 24 h after intracystic injection of each solvent. Whereas MTBE significantly increased the expression of cleaved caspase-9 (*P* \< 0.05), MMP did not in both hamster models of cholesterol and pigmented gallstones. \[Right\] PCNA immunohistochemical stains of the gallbladder tissues obtained from the hamsters with gallstones at 24 h after intracystic injection of each solvent. Although both solvents significantly decreased the expression of PCNA, the reduction in PCNA expression was far significant after MTBE than it was after MMP in both gallstone models (*P* \< 0.05). \**P* \< 0.05. DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide; MMP, 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine; MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether
Comprehensive testing of in vitro and in vivo toxicities of each solvent in various models {#Sec22}
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To further determine the in vitro toxicities of each solvent, we performed cell viability assay of various cell lines, including Vero cells, L929 cells, and CHO-K1 cells (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}a). We found that both solvents did not decrease cell viability of these cell lines, at least up to 1.0 M concentration of each solvent.Fig. 6Validation of toxicities of each gallstone-dissolving compound in various in vitro and in vivo models. **a** In vitro cytotoxicity of each solvent in Vero, L929, and CHO-K1 cells. To compare the in vitro toxicities of MTBE and MMP, cell viability assay was performed using Cyto X cell viability assay kit. The viability of Vero, L929, and CHO-K1 cells did not considerably change according to the concentration of MTBE or MMP (0--1000 μM) over 24 h. **b** \[Right\] The effect of each solvent on locomotor activity in larval zebrafish. For determining the CNS toxicity of each solvent, we tracked larval zebrafish locomotion after 1 mM MTBE and 1 mM MMP treatment, respectively, over 60 min. The locomotor activity was normalized against DMSO control and presented as a percentage. While MTBE increased the locomotor activity during the first 6 min after treatment, MMP reduced it during the first 6 min after treatment. However, overall, each group did not show any significant difference in the total locomotor activity when compared with DMSO control. \[Left\] Total locomotor activity during 60 min, demonstrating no significant difference between MTBE and MMP groups. **c** Survival rate and body weight changes after oral administration of MTBE and MMP in mice. \[Left\] Compared to the control group, MTBE and MMP groups demonstrated similar survival patterns. \[Right\] MMP group demonstrated slight reduction in body weight during 7 days, which recovered by 14 days after the treatment. **d** Determination of tissue toxicities of each solvent on 14 days after oral administration. \[Top\] PCNA immunohistochemical stains. The mice treated with MMP showed higher expression of PCNA (a proliferation marker) than the mice treated with MTBE (*P* \< 0.05). \[Bottom\] BAX immunohistochemical stains. The mice treated with MMP showed lesser expression of BAX (an apoptotic marker) than the mice treated with MTBE (*P* \< 0.05). \*P \< 0.05. BAX, bcl-2-like protein 4; MMP, 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine; MTBE, methyl tert-butyl ether; PCNA, proliferation cell nuclear antigen
Next, for determining the central nervous system (CNS) toxicity of each solvent, we tracked larval zebrafish locomotion in 1 mM MTBE and MMP, respectively, over 60 min (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}b). The locomotor activity was normalized against DMSO as the control, and presented as a percentage. It was found that MTBE increased the locomotor activity during the first 6 min; however, MMP reduced it during the same period. Consequently, such differences were offset when the total sum of locomotor activities were counted over the observation period.
Finally, to determine the in vivo acute toxicity arising from a single exposure, the mortality, body weight changes, and general behaviors of the mice were monitored during 14 days after oral administration of each solvent at a dose of 2000 mg/kg (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}c). On the second day of the experiment, the same number of mice (3/7, 42.9%) were found to be dead in both groups administrated either MTBE or MMP, respectively. Those animals presented abnormal behaviors, including wheezing, tremors, and ataxia until death without noticeable differences between each group. Similar, but not pronounced, behaviors were also observed in the survived animals of the same group, and the behavior patterns were similar in both groups. In addition, the mice administrated with MMP were found slightly underweight during the first 7 days and, subsequently, recovered thereafter. Subsequently, after euthanizing the mice on 1 day and 14 days after oral administration, respectively, we obtained the specimens of liver, kidney, heart and lung, for the determination of histological effects of each solvent. Immunohistochemistry was performed for the markers of proliferation (PCNA), apoptosis (caspase 3 and Bax), and anti-apoptosis (survivin). On 1 day (Additional file [10](#MOESM10){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S8) as well as 14 day, the mice treated with MMP showed higher expression of PCNA, lesser expression of caspase 3 and Bas, and higher expression of survivin than the mice with MTBE (all *P*s \< 0.05) (Fig. [6](#Fig6){ref-type="fig"}d and Additional file [11](#MOESM11){ref-type="media"}: Fig. S9), suggesting the lesser tissue toxicity of MMP.
Discussion {#Sec23}
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This is the first validation report of MMP, the gallstone-dissolving compound containing an aromatic moiety. To determine the dissolubility and toxicities of MMP, both in vitro and in vivo experiments were performed using human gallstones and an animal model of gallstones, respectively. Throughout the experiments, MMP demonstrated dissolubility similar to or better than that of MTBE towards both cholesterol and pigmented gallstones, while maintaining lesser toxicities. We believe that the chelate effect of MMP resulted in its improved dissolubility, while its higher boiling point (156 °C) resulted in fewer toxicities. We, thus, believe that MMP could be an attractive alternative to MTBE.
Until now, numerous investigators have developed, or applied, a variety of compounds in dissolving gallstones. The compounds include MTBE, heparin, bile acid, d-limonene, mono-octanoin, EDTA, and sodium hexametaphosphate, all of which are composed of aliphatic chains \[[@CR15]\]. Of these, MTBE is the only compound currently available. Although clinical studies have not reported critical toxicities of MTBE to date \[[@CR4], [@CR24], [@CR25]\], several studies call into question the safety of MTBE. After administration, MTBE could be absorbed into the duodenum, leading to somnolence, nausea or vomiting \[[@CR5]--[@CR9], [@CR11]--[@CR14]\], it can also be systemically absorbed, resulting in hemolysis and reversible kidney injury \[[@CR26]\]. It was reported that inhalation of MTBE led to a statistically significant increase in kidney tumors and liver tumors in rats \[[@CR27]\]. Furthermore, MTBE has resulted in the development of cancers in many organs and tissues, which were similar to those caused by exposure to equal doses of carcinogens such as benzene, vinyl chloride, and 1,3-butadiene \[[@CR28]\]. Oral exposure to MTBE has been shown to cause dose-dependent, statistically significant increases in carcinomas such as lymphoma, leukemia, and Leydig cell carcinoma of the testes in rats \[[@CR29]\]. These dismal outcomes of MTBE motivated us to attempt to develop a novel gallstone-dissolving compound.
Basically, MMP is an MTBE analog with an aromatic moiety. MTBE is an asymmetric chemical compound with an ether functional group; one side of MTBE has a bulky tert-butyl group and the other side has a simple methyl group. MMP has a structure wherein the bulky aliphatic tert-butyl group of MTBE is replaced with an aromatic functional group while keeping the methyl group intact on the other side. The compounds with an aromatic ring have a relatively higher boiling point and lower vaporized pressure. MMP thus boils at a relatively higher temperature (156 °C) and, thus, evaporates less at room temperature, resulting in lesser toxicities while preserving the dissolubility of MTBE.
Our study suggests that the improved dissolubility of MMP is partly because it acts as a chelating ligand. Chelate is a complex compound consisting of a central metal atom and a large molecule (a ligand) that is attached to the metal atom in a cyclic manner. The chelate effect, thus, refers to the enhanced affinity of chelate ligands for a metal ion compared to the affinity of the non-chelating ligands. The chelate effect promotes gallstone dissolubility, as demonstrated by the enhanced dissolubility of calcium stones by EDTA, the representative chelating agent \[[@CR21]\]. MTBE does not have a chelating property because it has only one heteroatom with a lone pair of electrons. In contrast, MMP has two nearby heteroatoms with lone pair electrons, thus enabling to chelate the calcium component in gallstones. Additionally, the aromatic ring in MMP, named pyridine, has the advantage of being miscible with water and virtually all organic solvents, thereby facilitating gallstone dissolution. In the NMR test, we found that when the equivalent of Co(ClO~4~)~2~·6H~2~O was increased to 1.0--2.0 equivalents relative to the solvents, MMP exhibited considerably higher chemical shift than did MTBE, suggesting the enhanced affinity by chelate effect between MMP and Co^2+^. Our in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that MMP showed higher dissolubility than MTBE in both models of cholesterol and, more prominently, pigmented gallstones. Therefore, we believe that MMP potentiates the dissolubility of calcium-rich pigmented gallstones by chelating the calcium component, which needs to be validated in further studies.
MTBE or MMP are basically cholesterol solvents; therefore, they exhibit higher dissolubility for cholesterol gallstones than pigmented gallstones. In our in vitro study, whereas MTBE showed 65.7%, 54.2%, and 29.0% 24-h-dissolubility, MMP showed 88.2%, 61.0%, and 50.8% 24-h-dissolubility for cholesterol, mixed, and pigmented gallstones, respectively. The higher dissolubility for cholesterol gallstones is clinically preferable because most gallstones predominantly consist of cholesterol (\> 85%) in the developed countries \[[@CR30], [@CR31]\].
Currently, topical gallstone-dissolving agents are restrictively available for patients who refuse surgery or are at high risk of surgery, possibly due to the concerns for their serious toxicities as well as the wide recognition of laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a safe operation. In addition, it remains controversial whether the complete removal of gallbladder can be justified in patients with gallstones with a functioning gallbladder, because although it is minimal, surgery inevitably accompanies a certain degree of operative risks and occasionally leads to postcholecystectomy syndrome \[[@CR32]\]. Finally, although still controversial, numerous epidemiological investigations and meta-analyses indicate that cholecystectomy can be a risk factor for gastrointestinal cancers \[[@CR33]--[@CR37]\]. The reason is frequently attributed to the deleterious effects of bile acid exposure; it acts like a carcinogen, in terms of enhancing DNA damage, stimulating mutation, inducing apoptosis in the short term, and ultimately promoting apoptosis resistance in the long term \[[@CR33]\]. Therefore, we believe that there are still indications for gallstone-dissolving solvents in lieu of laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Several obstacles are placed in front of the popular use of gallstone dissolution therapy. The first concern is high incidence of stone recurrence. In a study of enrolling 803 patients with gallstones who had received contact litholysis using MTBE, stone recurrence rate was about 40% in solitary stones and about 70% in multiple stones over 5 years \[[@CR4]\]. Another challenge is to obtain the minimally invasive way of introducing the solvent into gallbladder. The last, but not least concern is safety because it is almost inevitable to have the proportion of solvent to be absorbed into duodenum or systemic circulation.
This study has several limitations. In the in vivo experiments using hamsters, although there was random assignment of each group, blind assessment of outcomes by investigators was not achieved. In addition, during experiments using hamsters, we could not compare the weights of gallstones before and after treatment because it was nearly impossible to measure the weights of gallstones before the treatment. Instead, in vivo gallstone dissolubility of each solvent was determined by comparing the weights of solvent-treated gallstones and control (DMSO)-treated gallstones.
Conclusion {#Sec24}
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In conclusion, MMP was found to have similar or higher dissolubility of gallstones and lesser toxicity than MTBE. Representatively, our in vitro experiments determined MMP to have 1.34 times (88.2% vs. 65.7%) higher 24-h dissolubility for cholesterol gallstones, and 1.75 times (50.7% vs. 29.0%) higher dissolubility for pigmented gallstones. Presently, the wide application of MTBE is limited by several toxicities, most of which originate from its higher evaporation rate due to a relatively lower boiling point. MMP wound be preferable to MTBE because of its lower evaporation rate and similar or higher dissolubility possibly by an additional chelating effect. If clinical trials support these conclusions, contact litholysis by MMP would not only replace conventional MTBE treatment considerably, but it will also be an attractive alternative to laparoscopic cholecystectomy in managing certain patients with gallstones.
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**Additional file 1.** Diet composition of each group. **Additional file 2. ** Additional Materials and Methods. **Additional file 3. ** H-NMR data of MTBE and MMP. **Additional file 4. ** Ultraviolet-visible electronic absorbance data and fluorescence spectrometer data of each solvent. **Additional file 5. ** The change of NMR spectroscopy of MTBE with increasing Co^2+^ cation. **Additional file 6. ** The change of NMR spectroscopy of MTBE with increasing Ca^2+^ cation. **Additional file 7. ** The change of NMR spectroscopy of MMP with increasing Co^2+^ cation. **Additional file 8. ** The change of NMR spectroscopy of MMP with increasing Ca^2+^ cation. **Additional file 9.** Weight changes of hamsters in the groups of cholesterol gallstones and of pigmented gallstones, respectively. **Additional file 10. ** Determination of tissue toxicities of each solvent on 1 day after oral administration. **Additional file 11. ** Determination of tissue toxicities of each solvent on 14 days after oral administration.
Bax
: bcl-2-like protein 4
CNS
: central nervous system
DMSO
: dimethyl sulfoxide
EDTA
: ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid
ELISA
: enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
hGBEC
: human gallbladder epithelial cell
IHC
: immunohistochemistry
IL-6
: interleukin-6
Mcl-1
: myeloid cell leukemia 1
MMP
: 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine
MTBE
: methyl-tertiary butyl ether
NMR
: nuclear magnetic resonance
PCNA
: proliferation cell nuclear antigen
TGA
: thermogravimetric analysis
TNF-α
: tumor necrosis factor-α
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Ho Joong Choi and Suk Joon Cho share co-first authorship
The authors thank Jennifer Lee for excellent technical assistance and Sang Jin Jeon for mouse husbandry.
SJK and KYJ were responsible for obtaining funds, planning the study, data interpretation and manuscript preparation. HJC and SJC drafted the paper and participated in the animal experiments and development of the chemical, respectively. OKK and HEH principally involved in the in vitro experiments and JSS, HHL, SKK, KSH, and JKJ in in vitro and in vivo toxicity experiments. SCL, KHK, SGL, YKY, THH, EYK, JHP, Na GH, DDY, JHH, JWP, BJK, TYL, and JA were contributed to acquisition of human gallstones and participated in various in vivo experiments. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by the Clinical Research Institute Grant (5-2015-B0001-00175) CMCDJ-A-2011), Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea. This research was financially supported by the KRICT (KK1703-G00) and National Research Council of Science and Technology (SKO1707C05).
All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its additional files. For any additional information, please contact the corresponding author.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Daejeon St. Mary's hospital, the Catholic University of Korea (IRB code: DC09FZZZ0045). All animal studies were carried out in compliance with the guidelines of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research in Korea. This animal study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Clinical Research Institute at Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital at the Catholic University of Korea (IRB No. CMCDJ-AP-2016-004).
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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German Dictator, Adolf Hitler addressing a rally in Germany
1933 German Dictator, Adolf Hitler addressing a rally in Germany. Getty Images/ Hulton Archive / Stringer
In February 2017, a mass binding spell, organized on social media and performed by witches in the U.S. and around the world, went viral. The target? POTUS #45, Donald J. Trump. Some members of the Pagan community embraced the idea and eagerly got to work. Others felt that there were better alternatives. A good many were troubled by the idea, touting the “rule of three” and other reasons why they felt Real Witches Would Never.
On the contrary, Real Witches Totally Would. In fact, they did. There’s a historical precedent for the use of magic aimed at a political figure. In 1940, a group of British witches got together to organize Operation Cone of Power, targeting none other than Adolf Hitler himself.
The Background
Hitler Reviews Troops
Did British witches work magic to keep Hitler out of England?. Hulton Archive / Getty Images
By 1940, Hitler had significantly increased Germany’s military presence, which had been diminished following the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. In early May of that year, the German army invaded the Netherlands and began to advance, arcing westward. After a number of failed Allied attacks, the Germans reached the coast, effectively cutting Allied forces in half, with the French army to the south, and British Expeditionary Forces and Belgian troops to the north. Once they arrived at the English Channel, the Germans began moving northward, putting French ports at risk of capture. As if that wasn’t dangerous enough, the British and Belgian troops, along with several French units, could be captured if they didn’t escape the path of the oncoming German forces.
On May 24, Hitler issued a halt order to the German troops—and the reason behind this is widely debated by scholars. Whatever the motivation, that brief interlude allowed the British Royal Navy a chance to evacuate British and other Allied troops. Some 325,000 men were rescued from Dunkirk before Hitler’s forces could capture them.
Allied troops were safe from the advancing Wehrmacht, but there was another problem looming on the horizon. Brand-new British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and many members of Parliament were concerned that England could be invaded by the Germans.
The Cone of Power
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The Women's Home Guard, southern England, 1941. Harry Todd / Getty Images
Britain’s New Forest lies on the island’s southern coast, not far from the port cities of Southampton and Portsmouth. While neither of those are the closest point in England to the French coast—that honor falls to Dover, which sits just 25 miles from Calais across the Channel, and 120 miles from Southampton—it’s entirely conceivable that any German invasion from Europe could land somewhere near the New Forest. That meant that the people living along Britain’s south coast had a vested interest in protecting themselves, by mundane or magical means.
During the late 1930s, a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner returned to his home after many years traveling abroad. Gardner, who would later become the founder of modern Wicca, joined a coven of witches in the New Forest. According to legend, on Lammas Eve, August 1, 1940, Gardner and several other New Forest witches got together near the town of Highcliffe-by-the-Sea to cast a spell on Hitler to keep the German military from invading Britain. The ritual that was performed that night became known by the sort-of-military-sounding code name Operation Cone of Power.
There is little information about what the ritual actually involved, but some historians have pieced bits of it together. Tom Metcalfe of Mental Floss quotes Wiccan author Philip Heselton, and says, “In a forest clearing surrounded by pines, Heselton wrote in Witchfather, they marked out a witches' circle, the stage for their magical efforts. In place of a traditional bonfire—perhaps for fear of being spotted by enemy aircraft or local air defense wardens—a flashlight or shuttered lantern may have been placed to the east of the witches' circle, in the direction of Berlin, as a focus for their magical assaults. Naked, or "skyclad" as Wiccans say, they began to dance in a spiraling pattern around the circle, building up to the communal ecstatic state that they believed can control magical forces.”
Gardner wrote about this magical working in his book Witchcraft Today. He said, “Witches did cast spells, to stop Hitler landing after France fell. They met, raised the great cone of power, and directed the thought at Hitler’s brain: “You cannot cross the sea,” “You cannot cross the sea,” “Not able to come,” “Not able to come.” Just as their great-grandfathers had done to Boney and their remoter forefathers had done to the Spanish Armada with the words: “Go on,” “Go on,” “Not able to land,” “Not able to land.” … I am not saying they stopped Hitler. All I say is that I saw a very interesting ceremony performed with the intention of putting a certain idea into his mind, and this was repeated several times afterwards; and though all the invasion barges were ready, the fact was that Hitler never even tried to come.”
Ronald Hutton says in Triumph of the Moon that Gardner later described the ritual in even more detail to Doreen Valiente, claiming that the frenzied dancing and chanting involved had resulted in ill effects on many of the participants later. In fact, Gardner alleged that a few of them had died from exhaustion over the course of the next few days.
Although Gardner and his fellow magic-makers never revealed the location of the ritual, a few authors have tried to parse the site out. Philip Carr-Gomm says in his book The Book of English Magic that is was most likely in the clearing where the Rufus Stone sits – and this was allegedly the place where King William III was fatally wounded with an arrow in 1100 c.e.
Heselton says in Witchfather that, on the contrary, the ritual more than likely happened somewhere near the Naked Man, a massive oak tree from which convicted highwaymen were hanged in a gibbet and left to die. Gordon White of Rune Soup explains why the idea of elderly pensioners scampering about in the woods to cast spells is not without its problems.
Regardless of where it happened, the general consensus is that seventeen or so witches indeed got together to put a hex on Hitler, with the end goal being to keep him out of Britain.
Hitler and the Occult
Four young women dancing in forest, holding hands (B&W, blurred motion)
The cone of power is a way of directing magical intent. Rob Goldman / Getty Images
Traditionally, the cone of power is a method of raising and directing energy by a group. Those involved stand in a circle to form the base of the cone, and they may connect to each other physically by holding hands, or they might simply visualize energy flowing between the members of the group. As energy is raised – whether by chanting, singing, or other methods – a cone forms above the group, and eventually reaches its apex above. Once the cone is completely formed, that energy is then sent out into the universe, directed towards whatever magical purpose is being worked on. Could Hitler – or his agents – have known that this had taken place in August 1940?
Much has been written about the interest that Hitler and many members of the Nazi Party may have had in the occult and supernatural. Although historians are divided into two distinct camps – those who believe Hitler was fascinated by the occult, and those who feel he avoided and abhorred it – there’s no doubt that it’s been a source of speculation for decades.
Biographer Jean-Michel Angebert wrote in The Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail that mysticism and occult philosophy were at the core of the Nazi ideology. He posited that Hitler and others in the inner circle of the Third Reich were actually initiates of secret esoteric societies. Angebert wrote that the central theme of the Nazi Party was “Gnosis, with its most significant thrust represented by the prophet Mani, its evolution necessarily brings us to Catharism, a neo-Gnostic sect of the Middle Ages, and thence to Templarism.” Angebert traces the path from Gnosis to the Rosicrucians, the Bavarian Illuminati, and eventually to the Thule Society, of which he claims Hitler was a high-order member.
In the Journal of Popular Culture, Raymond Sickinger, Professor of Cultural History at Providence College, theorizes “that Hitler thought and acted in a magical way and that he found a magical approach to difficult problems to be efficacious.” Sickinger goes on to say that “In his early life, Hitler indeed thought and acted in a magical way and his experiences taught him to trust, rather than to discredit, this magical approach to life. For many people, however, the word “magic” unfortunately raises images of Houdini and other illusionists. Although Hitler was certainly a master of illusion, that is not the meaning intended here. The magical tradition has very deep roots in the human past. Magic was once an essential part of life and certainly an essential part of political life, because its primary purpose was to give human beings power.”
How Effective Was the Spell?
Vintage British Boy Standing With Union Jack
Whether it was the result of witchcraft or not, Germany never invaded Britain. RichVintage / Getty Images
It does seem more than likely that some sort of magical event took place in the New Forest that evening in August 1940. As most magical practitioners will tell you, though, magic is simply one more tool in the arsenal, and has to work in tandem with the non-magical. Over the course of the next few years, British and Allied military personnel worked tirelessly on the front lines to defeat the Axis powers. On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, and the war in Europe ended within a matter of months.
Was Hitler’s defeat due in part to Operation Cone of Power? It could have been, but there’s no way we will ever know for sure, because there were so many other non-magical things happening in Europe at the time. However, one thing is abundantly certain, and that is that Hitler’s army was never able to cross the Channel to invade Britain.
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Made to Worship
Posted: July 09, 2018
I was watching some special features for the movie The Greatest Showman and saw Hugh Jackman seemingly worship to a song with the lyrics "and we will come back home, home again." It reminded my husband of a U2 concert where people, eyes closed, hands lifted, swayed along to songs like "Where the Streets Have No Name."
Is it possible that everyone yearns for heaven, even if they don't know it?
As believers, we know that we were made to worship. Jesus told the woman at the well "You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know..." and when the Pharisees told Jesus to rebuke His worshiping disciples, He said "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
God WILL be worshiped. His glory WILL be made known. His praises WILL be voiced. Let's join in, shall we?
Father, I want to proclaim Your blessing, honor, glory, and power forever. Give me boldness to worship You whenever and wherever I may be. You are worthy of all my praise. Amen.
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Nonunion airport workers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport said they would strike on Nov. 29 as part of an effort to win the right to organize and to raise wages to $15 per hour, according to the Service Employees International Union.
The SEIU, which wants to organize more airplane cabin cleaners, airport janitors, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants who work for vendors to the airlines, said the strike will expand to demonstrations and protests—but no job actions—the same day at 18 other large U.S. airports...
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Friday, December 28, 2012
It is said that John F. Kennedy was America’s first television President. Barack Obama has shown that he is the nation’s first ‘Social Media’ President!
The super fast advancements in technology and the growth of the internet have changed the marketing landscape totally. Its impact was seen the most in the Presidential campaigns of Obama and Romney. This time, Obama’s campaign strategies were totally different from the ones he used in 2008. Yes, he once again used social media, but he used it more scientifically. This time, he had a huge team of ‘boffins’ (data analysts) headed by a new ‘Chief Scientist’ Rayid Ghani, whose job was to scientifically analyze all the data and use it to plan Obama’s various marketing strategies. For example, the team found out that in 2008, it had used the “Sign up now” button to gather followers on Facebook; but changing it to “Learn more” was far more effective in getting people to register in 2012. Each plan was tested, retested, analyzed and then implemented. A huge team of data analysts holed up in what was nicknamed ‘The Cave’ sat day in and day out crunching numbers and planning each move. That was the secret to Obama’s success.
The social media landscape is, after all, more cluttered and much different now than it was four years ago; so this time, it needed to be handled differently too. Obama showed us the most effective way of handling it.
The consumer talks to you in many different ways, and the most successful marketer is one who listens most intently. Today, most marketers do listen to their consumers, but the ones who can respond the fastest will win in the future. This is the new rule of the game. This is also called ‘adaptive marketing’, and both Obama and Romney showed the corporate world how to adapt real fast.
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Hadiya Pendleton's Mom Featured in Anti-Gun Ad
Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton shares memories of her daughter and pressures Congress in commercial.
For many, the death of 15-year-old majorette and Chicago native Hadiya Pendleton was the turning point in a long conversation surrounding gun control in America. That fact is not lost on the slain teen's mother, Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, who appears in a new public service announcement funded by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, reports Politico. The ad also features New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, co-founder of the organization.
“When my daughter Hadiya performed at the President's inauguration, it was the happiest day of her life,” Cleopatra Cowley-Pendelton says in the commercial, paid for by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. “A week later, she was murdered. Gunned down near her school. A piece of my heart is gone. Congress is debating how to fix our gun laws. They can start with background checks for all gun sales. Tell Congress to support common-sense reforms so no more innocent children are killed. And no parent has to go through this heartbreak.”
Pendelton was a majorette in her high school band, which marched at the inauguration. She was shot a week later while sitting in the park. Police have arrested two men, and said they mistook Pendelton and her friends for rival gang members.
Her death has become a symbol as Congress debates new gun control measures. First Lady Michelle Obama flew to Chicago for the girl's funeral, and her parents sat with the First Lady as the president invoked their daughter's death in his speech.
Read more at Politico.
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SongTown USA: Don't Wait For Inspiration
by Marty Dodson
Posted Jan 30, 2014 at 1:33am
Often, people ask me when, how and where I find inspiration.
I generally tell them that I sit down on a couch every day with a blank word document on the screen in front of me and a guitar in my lap.
If inspiration doesn't show up at 10:30 when my co-write starts, then I start going through my idea file or playing my guitar.
Still no inspiration? I pick an idea that I believe I can make into a hit. And I start writing it. I invite inspiration to join if she would like, but I don't wait on her. I can't afford to.
Publishers don't give you the opportunity to write only when she shows up in advance. They expect regular output and they don’t wait for a muse to strike.
I pick a spot and I begin. Sometimes that's all it takes, and inspiration shows up promptly. Other times, she takes her own sweet time. She almost always finds me. Somewhere along the road, she shows up and helps me bring the song home.
I've decided that, perhaps, inspiration joins those who start the journey without her more readily than she does those who sit and wait to ride her coattails. It makes more sense to me that way anyway.
Who would you want to help? Someone who sits and waits for help, or someone who is doing everything they can, but just need a little assistance?
So, my answer to the question of when where and how I find inspiration is this: I don't find her. I begin and she finds me.
Whether inspiration is there or not, begin. Simply write on and trust that she will join you when she can.
Marty Dodson
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Approval Process in Salesforce Crm:- In previous salesforce tutorial we learned about Workflow rules and workflow actions. In this crm salesforce training tutorials we are going to know about the Approval Process in Salesforce crm .
Approval Process in Salesforce crm is an automated mechanism that we can set up to process the approval of records with in organization. Approval process enables to specify which user is to approve the record . When working with Approval process in salesforce crm requires some settings after he record is either, first submitted, approved, rejected or recalled for approval. Approval Processes and workflow are similar as both have same actions. we have already studied about actions in workflows .
Difference between Workflow rules and Approval Process in Salesforce crm.
Workflow Rules
1. Workflow rules are activated when record is saved.
2. Workflow rules consists of single step and single action.
3. Workflows can be modified, deleted.r
4. In Workflows automatic tracking of history is not available.
Approval Process
1. Approval Processes are triggered explicitly when we click on Submit for Approval.
2. Approval Processes consists of multiple steps.
3. Some attributes can not be modified in approval Processes.
4. Approval processes must be deactivated to delete.
5. Approval history can be tracked here.
6. If the record is set to “locked down” that record can not be changed.
Approval Processes are very important for an Organization because it plays powerful mechanism to control an internal process that to be completed as part of a business process. We must carefully plan Approval processes step by step before creating approval process in salesforce crm.
Important Steps to be taken before configuring Approval process in Salesforce crm.
1. Determine how many number of steps and how many number of levels your approval process has.
2. Use Microsoft Visio to map out the process.
3. Determine the process of Approving the record. Ex. approval through Email or by any other process.
4. It is better to create an Approval request e-mail template which is used during approval process.
5. Determine who is the approval request sender.
6. Determine who will be the assigned approver.
7. Determine delegated approver.
8. Choose what will be the initial submission action.
9. Determine that the user can edit the record that are waiting for Approval.
10. Determine that the record is automatically approved or not.
11. Determine that which action is to be taken when an approval request is Approved or rejected.
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What Are The Benefits Of Behavioral Theories?
Behavioral theories are used to predict the way that a person or group of people will react to a certain situation. They are used in the sciences of psychology and sociology for different purposes. In psychology, behavioral theories are used to predict responses in individuals and to try and prescribe treatment protocols for people who struggle in different stress situations. For sociologists, theories are prescribed for groups of people and how they react as a community or a culture to the same kinds of stresses. Here is a look at some examples of behavioral theories and the importance of these discoveries:
Delayed Gratification: The Marshmallow Study
One of the most popular behavioral theories recently has been that of success predictions in children based on their ability to delay gratification. In the study, children were offered one marshmallow now, or two marshmallows later. The study followed these children and showed that kids who were able to wait for the two marshmallows were also more likely to work hard for delayed gratification rewards like education. This theory offers opportunities to work with your kids toward learning about delayed gratification, and encouraging positive traits like this as a building block for future success.
Operant Conditioning
This behavioral theory, proposed by B.F. Skinner, suggests that learning is caused by a change in behavior. This learning can be forced by creating systems of positive and/or negative reinforcement. In parenting, for example, this is shown by giving your children chores. This will ultimately teach them to care for things on their own. If they are not quick to follow instructions, a combination of positive reinforcement, like allowance, may help them to complete their work. On the other hand, they may also require negative reinforcement like being unable to play with their friends until their chores are done. In many cases, the most effective conditioning seems to have a combination of both systems in place.
Sociological Theories of Deviance
In sociology, behavioral theories are often applied to understand better why someone chooses to go against the norms of society. One theory suggests that deviant behavior is learned, and the younger the student is, and the more attached to the teacher, the stronger the propensity for that behavior is. Another theory suggests that people who don't have a strong attachment, commitment, involvement and belief in their community are less likely to strive to follow the social norms of the culture around them. A third theory suggests that when social norms are in conflict, or are weak or confusing to someone, they are less likely to create goals and methods of achieving those goals which fall within social norms. Like the behavioral theories in psychology, sociological theories like this strive to help understand why someone would become a criminal or other deviant, so that they can help create productive solutions in allowing them a better path forward.
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "What Are The Benefits Of Behavioral Theories?," in PsychologyDictionary.org, March 25, 2016, https://psychologydictionary.org/article/what-are-the-benefits-of-behavioral-theories/ (accessed April 19, 2021).
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PRACTICAL CYCLING & SAFETY - Copyright Dave Mann, 2011 URL: =============================================================================== #1 RULE OF SAFETY - HAVE FUN! ----------------------------- * Goof around on your bike every day. Ride for 10 minutes, just for fun. * Get a quart of milk. Inspect the neighbors' gardens. Ride around the block. * The more you ride, the better rider you become. GETTING THE BIKE READY ---------------------- * STORAGE: Make room for your bike. Make room for cycling. + Easy to get to, just like your car, but secure from weather and theft. * DON'T SUFFER ON A HURTFUL BIKE: You are safer when you're comfortable + Saddles and handlebars can be adjusted: height, tilt and type. + Don't extend posts and stems beyond minimum insertion line. * KEEP YOUR TIRES INFLATED: This prevents flats and expensive wheel damage + Buy a dual head floor pump and store it next to your bike (TopPeak Joe Blow) + Road bikes & hybrids (700c or 27" wheels): 80 psi + Mountain bikes (26" wheels): 60 psi + If you weigh over 200, inflate to max pressure printed on tire + Good Tires: Panaracer Pasela (fast) or Pasela Tourguard (flat protection) - MTB: 26"x1.75"; Hybrid: 700Cx35mm; Road bike: 700Cx32mm or 27"x1 1/4" * THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE OIL: Keep oil & rag next to bike + Good lubes: 3 in 1, Tri-flow (recommended). No WD-40: it's mostly solvent. + Apply to: brake pivots, gear pivots, brake levers, shift levers, chain + Wipe off excess, which attracts dirt, especially from chain. * CARRYING THINGS: Changes the bike to viable transportation + NEVER TIE OR HANG GROCERY BAGS FROM YOUR HANDLEBARS!!! + Currier bags (I don't like them), Backpacks, Baskets, Panniers, Handlebar bags, Saddle bags, Rack trunks * LOCKS: You need these where we live. + Helmet "lock", Retractables, Coil locks (best all around), U locks (secure). * LIGHTS: Front & rear; To be seen, not to see. * PRE-RIDE CHECKLIST: (Suggested by Jimmy Livingood) + Wheels spin freely, without hitting brakes. + Quick-release levers are tight and wheels properly seated. + Tire pressure (thumb test is fine). + Brake levers don't go all the way to the bar. + Brake pads aren't hitting tires. + Pick bike up and drop it from 4" or so. Listen for noises and rattles. GETTING YOURSELF READY ---------------------- * WEAR GLASSES: Keep the bugs out of your eyes * USE A MIRROR: Eye glass or handlebar * HELMETS: Look for ANSI or Snell certifications. + Under $50 is fine (Bell is trusted brand). + Store on or next to your bike. * PANT CLIPS/CHAIN GUARDS: Cuffs get caught in front gears. + Metal clip, Velcro strap (recommended), chain guards * TUCK IN RIGHT SHOE LACES: They can get caught in front gears. * WEAR NORMAL CLOTHING: Normal clothes work fine... until they don't. + Cycling caps keep sweat out of your eyes and don't blow off. + Cycling gloves help prevent numb hands and protect in crashes. + Shirts: cotton/polyester blends, 100% polyester, wool all reduce sweat. + Underwear: Some prefer polyester or wool, to reduce sweat and chaffing. + Touring/MTB shorts: Have built in padding but look normal. - Meant to be worn like underwear or swimsuit; Reduces chaffing. + Lycra cycling shorts: Best for long rides. - These *are* underwear and can be worn under other shorts. RIDING SAFELY ------------- * HAIKU: Wheels roll on pavement Pedals push against my feet Death rides on my left * PRACTICE USING THE FRONT BRAKE: Stops much faster. + Fun thing to practice in parking lots. * USE CAUTION ON SIDEWALKS: It is illegal in some places. + Don't ride faster than you're willing to hit a pedestrian. * USE CAUTION ON HAZARDS THAT CAN CAUSE FRONT WHEEL WASH-OUTS: + Painted lines, pot holes, man hole covers, rail road crossings, metal plates, wet roads. * RIDE ON THE RIGHT, WITH TRAFFIC: Drivers will not see you on left. * STAY AS FAR TO THE RIGHT AS IS SAFE, BUT... * RIDE TO THE LEFT OF: + THE EDGE: e.g. the curb, gutter or drop off. - Keep "the edge" outside of field of view of hands. + THE DEBRIS PATH: This caused by car "wind". - Contains glass (flats) and sand/gravel (crash). + LARGE OBSTACLES: e.g. Potholes, Parked cars, Large debris + DRAIN GRATES: Especially square ones with straight bars that eat front wheels! * REVIEW 10 COMMON WAYS TO GET HIT BY A CAR - * OTHER RESOURCES: + + + + + + BIKE MAINTENANCE ----------------- * LEVEL 1 - SELF-SUFFICIENCY ON THE ROAD: + On long rides someone should be able to: Remove wheels; Change tires; Fix flats; Put chain on; Recenter brakes; Adjust saddle + Things to carry on bike: Pump, Tube, Tire levers, Screw driver, Metric allen wrenches, Cell phone, Identification, Money * LEVEL 2 - DO IT YOURSELF TYPES: + Adjust brakes; Adjust gears; Replace cables; Rewrap handlebars + Useful do-it-yourself resources: - - * LEVEL 3 - THINGS TO LEAVE TO PROS + Truing wheels (adjusting spokes); Bearings + Have your bike tuned up yearly TRANSPORTING BIKES ------------------ * OPTIONS - Roof racks, Trunk racks, Inside cars + Usually requires that the front wheel is removed. + Allen trunk racks are inexpensive.
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First guides formed in Italy and second in the world, was one of the first facilities to promote and raise awareness of the mountain and in particular.
In fact, in 1850, the forerunners of a craft so noble, gathered in society with the aim to achieve, by means of a fixed structure, a job that had become the pivot of mountain tourism.
There are many guides who since then have brought up the name of the company and to Courmayeur, some other perhaps less famous, but they are all driven by the same desire to convey the passion for the mountains with other users of the alpe.
From Emile Rey, Arturo Ottoz, Giuseppe Petigax, brothers Ollier, Bonatti, Zappelli, has been mapped a path, a path as those that generally "open" in the mountains, that allowed subsequent generations continue to convey the passion for the mountains.
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"Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart" by Rebecca Makkai
2. Eros ≠ thanatos necessarily. Not all love stories have to have bleak outcomes.
3. Foreign countries exist.
4. There’s a war on. The war in Afghanistan, in the year it became America’s longest, appeared as a brief aside in only two of one hundred and twenty stories.
5. Consider the following: Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saint Paul, Handel’s Messiah, Martin Luther King. Female genital mutilation, military-funeral picketers, abortion-doctor assassins. So why, if religion turns up in a story, is it generally only there as a foil for humor?
6. Not that I want to discourage humor. There’s so little. Why, writers, so haggard and so woebegone...
This is a marvelous list, and though of course I'm sure for Brooks or anyone it could be longer or differently ordered on a different day, I was thrilled to see it in the introduction to BASS.
Now, to Rebecca Makkai.
(First, I should note that one of the reasons this story was among the first I've read from the book is that we reprinted Rebecca's story "Couple of Lovers on a Red Background" in Best American Fantasy 3 and I wanted to catch up with her work. [By the way, she has just published her first novel: The Borrower. I haven't seen it yet, but I have no reason to believe it is anything other than excellent.])
"Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart", begins with a first paragraph that could be a model for how to create an effective and intriguing first paragraph that is not gimmicky:
When Carlos asked why I would risk my whole career for Peter Torrelli, I told him he had to understand that in those last three years of high school, Peter and I were the only two gay boys in Chicago. Because I really believed it, back then, and twenty-five years of experience proving otherwise was nothing in the face of that original muscle memory: me and Peter side by side on the hard pew during chapel, not listening, washed blind by the sun from the high windows, breathing in sync. It didn’t matter that we weren’t close anymore, I told Carlos. The point was, he’d been my first love. I’d never actually loved him, but still, listen, believe me, there’s another kind of first love.
Let's look at exactly what's going on in those words and sentences. The first clause establishes three characters: Carlos, a narrator, and Peter Torrelli. In that first clause, we also know that the narrator wil risk a whole career for Peter Torrelli, and that Carlos wonders why this is.
This may not seem like a big deal to you. But remember that we are in the first clause of the first sentence of the story. The first thirteen words. In the first thirteen words of this story, we already know something about three characters. That's efficient and impressive, but more importantly, it's a darn good way to catch the reader's attention without resorting to the sort of desperate tricks you find in the first paragraphs of so many mediocre stories that clamor for attention, sentences like, "That was the day my dead sister had sex with the alien."
The first sentence works so well because though it doesn't feel like it's grasping for our attention, it nonetheless is full of information, energy, and, in the end, a bit of oddity: not "Peter and I were the only two gay boys in our tiny small town in the middle of nowhere," but "Peter and I were the only two gay boys in Chicago." Obviously, this is a statement that we suspect the narrator does not actually believe, but it nonetheless offers a light surprise and also leads to the rest of the paragraph. The next sentence builds off it while also expanding the time-frame of the story even more. The first sentence gave us "those last three years of high school" as a past event, and the next sentence broadens our sense of the narrative's time with "twenty-five years of experience proving otherwise". By the end of the second sentence, the story is both specific in its details and expansive in its chronology, using time and memory as tools to bring depth to the details.
Now imagine that the paragraph had ended with the penultimate sentence. It would have worked, but it wouldn't have been very interesting and might have felt clichéd, empty, and sentimental (which, in fact, wouldn't be terrible if the writer wanted to show that the narrator's emotional life was basically clichéd, empty, and sentimental). It's the last sentence that makes it all work: "I’d never actually loved him, but still, listen, believe me, there’s another kind of first love." It works not just because it complexifies the previous sentence, but also because it's distinct from the other sentences in the paragraph in being much more speakerly than writerly. Three words create that effect: "listen, believe me". Cut them out, and it's a much more ordinary, writerly sentence. With them in, it creates a tone of testimony, a sense of improvisation and contingency. It also reveals a bit about the narrator, because there's a certain pleading in those words. Without those three words, the sentence is an assertion: "I’d never actually loved him, but still ... there’s another kind of first love." Add those three words, and the sentence becomes an assertion that is trying to convince itself of what it says. And that makes it a far more interesting sentence to read than the alternative. It gives us, the readers, something to think about, and it helps develop the character.
What we get in this first paragraph is a lot: characters, relationships, memory, and voice. None of it is forced, though. Compare the way Makkai deftly and subtly creates a narrative voice and a sense of intimacy between that voice and the reader with, for instance, some stories in any random anthology aimed at the Young Adult market. Even in the best such anthologies, I find, there are at least one or two writers struggling hard, hard, hard to sound like teenagers, and the results are, to my ear, jarring. (Of course, there are countless non-YA examples of writers working too hard to establish a narrative voice, but YA short fiction especially seems to bring it out even in writers who are otherwise quite skilled.) A little goes a long way, and a three-word divergence from the established tone can create a powerful effect.
"Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart" is not just about its words and sentences, however. Stuff happens. We get a view of the friendship between Peter and the narrator over the course of many years, encapsulated by a particular event. After high school, Peter became a relatively successful actor in the Chicago theatre scene, while by the time of the story, the narrator, Drew, works as an events manager for National Public Radio. (Carlos, by the way, is Drew's boyfriend; the relationship isn't working out.) In the past of the story, Peter had a failure of confidence on stage, and basically lost the ability to act. Eventually, he did some regional theatre work, but his old confidence was gone. The narrator hires him for a reading at the Chicago Art Institute, which is the event for which he is risking his whole career, because he knows as well as anyone that Peter could completely fall apart during the reading and ruin an important fundraising event.
Thus we have a specific moment around which an entire friendship and history can be elaborated, which is a great structure for a short story: the single event gives the story focus, but it also allows a great breadth of remembered experience to come into play.
But that's not all. Little details create resonances, and by the last paragraphs, the story is not just about this difficult, complicated friendship, but also about its setting. This is a story about Chicago, and more broadly, about change and cities. Peter quite literally embodies the changes in the city over the narrator's lifetime. The last two paragraphs of the story make it explicit, and so we have an ending that isn't merely epiphanic, but that adds new depth to what we've already read.
The story would have still been wonderful even if it were only about Drew and Peter, because their relationship is interesting and compelling. (I was probably especially interested because Peter reminded me of some actors I have known, and there is, overall, a melancholy tone to the friendships and relationships in the story that I find truthful. It's not eros = thanatos so much as eros = huh, well, that wasn't quite how I hoped things would turn out.) The relationships between the characters gain depth and power because Drew is confused about a lot of what he feels and understands. His desires are in conflict with his experiences, and that's a particularly fertile path for exploring characters.
The story is, obviously, straightforwardly realistic in its approach, but it is not merely realistic, and that is why I love it. I don't respond to a story because its content is realistic or fantasic, mundane or bizarre, familiar or exotic. (Sometimes, yes, I'm in the mood for one or the other, the way sometimes I'm in the mood for a Jean-Claude van Damme movie and sometimes I'm in the mood for something that's not a Jean-Claude van Damme movie.) I respond to a story because there is a complexity to it, a complexity that makes it more than just what it is: aspects that create resonance or provoke thought, images and structures that linger in memory. In that respect, Chekhov's "Gusev" and Raymond Carver's "Why Don't You Dance?" are, for me, as magical as any fantasy story. In "Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart", it is the richness of the memory-narrative, the uncertainty of the immediate events, the efficiency and specificity of the sentences and paragraphs, and the power of the ending to broaden and recontextualize the story that enchants me.
Enchant, it seems to me, is the best word to describe the best stories.
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Top Tips to Get your Body Beach Ready
Warmer days are always welcoming, but if the thought of exposing your flesh is filling you with dread, it’s time to take some action. Here are some effective ways to get your body primed for hitting the beach.
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Make a plan
If you want to look and feel good in a bikini this summer, there’s no time like the present to get started. Rather than having vague ideas about getting in shape, you need to make a plan of action that consists of specific goals and activities.
You’re more likely to stick to your plan if you write it down and tick activities off as you go along. Be realistic, however, with regards to how much you can achieve in your given time frame.
Add protein to your diet
Include a source of good-quality protein with each meal, such as lean meat, fish, eggs or legumes. Protein is not only filling (which can prevent you from snacking in-between meals), but research has also shown that it can aid with weight loss, and even reduce dreaded cellulite.
Keep a food diary
Write down what you eat and drink daily, and identify any unhealthy items that could stand in the way of you achieving your beach body dreams. Cut back on sugar, alcohol, saturated fats and refined carbs such as white bread. Be mindful of eating foods that also cause tummy bloating, such as leafy green veg or beans, or foods high in salt that can retain water in this part of the body. Speaking of water, make sure you drink plenty of it. This helps to prevent bloating and can banish toxins from your body that may contribute to cellulite.
Improve your posture
Standing up straight instead of slouching instantly makes your middle section appear slimmer, so get into the habit of holding yourself upwards with a few posture-enhancing exercises. Yoga and pilates are especially ideal, but you can also improve your core by focusing on crunches, leg lifts and plank exercises.
Tone your upper back
It stands to reason that you’ll want to focus on exercises that tone the tummy, buttocks and thighs, but don’t neglect your upper back. Upper back muscles that are well-defined can make your waistline appear slimmer, so add exercises such as bent over dumbell rows into your routine.
Lifestyle changes
Exercises can help to target specific parts of the body that you want to tone up for days on the beach, but there are plenty of other ways you can help to get your body beach ready. Many of these involve making simple lifestyle changes that can get you more active, such as taking the stairs instead of the lift or getting off the bus one stop earlier.
Focus on beachwear
Hang your bikini or bathing costume up so that you can see it every day. This will help you to stay motivated in achieving your beach body aims. Regularly try your beachwear on and take photos or body measurements so that you can identify any progress made.
Bear in mind that some colours or styles of beachwear are more flattering than others, so choose ones that fit well and offer good support. Darker colours and vertical stripes can have a slimming effect, for instance.
Even if you don’t resemble an extra from Baywatch by the time summer arrives, try not to feel too self-conscious when you do hit the beach. Wear your beach items with pride and relish the good times.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Random Things
A young teen aged friend had somewhat of a "freak" accident yesterday. He was dove hunting. I'm not sure exactly how things happened, but his gun fired while pointed downward and he shot off three of his toes. The doctors tried to reattach them, but were unsuccessful. Of course, things could have been so much worse, but OUCH! Send up a few prayers for Tyler, please.
The Oldest has been under a lucky star lately. He has been pulled over twice in one week. Once for speeding, once for not having his headlights on. The first officer gave him a warning. The second reached in the truck and turned the lights on. That's it. No tickets. Thank you, Lord for nice police officers and no increase in our insurance, but could You please make him pay better attention?
After only two weeks, waking up early for school seems to be taking its toll on my twins. Quatro and Pip Squeak have been replaced by Grouchy and Grumpy. They'll be going to bed with no tv or video games at 8:00 pm this week. Yeah, I know they're eleven years old and they "deserve" a later bedtime. No they don't. They can't behave so obviously they aren't getting enough sleep. The more pleasant members of the family shouldn't have to be punished with their rotten attitudes. Also it's of lots fun to laugh loudly at the television and make a big deal over eating ice cream while they lie in bed fuming. A week of that should bring about a huge improvement.
How much eyeliner is enough for a 15 year old girl? Apparently there can never be enough. Darling Daughter and her friends spent two hours in Sephora, trying on makeup and getting fussed over by dudes in lab coats. Because, you know, a $24 tube of glitter eyeliner makes you look way hotter than that Mary Kate & Ashley stuff from Walmart. And who doesn't need a $51 tub of Meteorites for your face?? I know I always feel absolutely naked without my outer space gunk smeared on my cheeks. Good times, people. Good times.
WomensDaily said...
OMG that's awful! I can't even imagine the pain he was in. I'm sending prayers and positive thoughts!
The Momster said...
Toes - ouch! I cannot even imagine! Don't your toes effect your balance????
Good thing about the helpful police - I see people getting pulled over left and right here lately. Makes me nervous....
I hate the entire bedtime debate that takes place around here. I think we need to opt for something earlier than what we've been doing lately. Mornings are not fun.
LOL about the makeup. Tell them it's either the MK&A or they can go without ANY. That should work :)
Tammy said...
Wow, and I was so looking forward to the teen years! *sarcastic look*
That is too funny about the twins bedtime and yucking it up for them to hear. Hope it works.
kristen@nosmallthing said...
Oh my that made me laugh...the 'good times people' part. Meteorites. Haha! I've yet to hit the teenage years, but I'm starting to feel them creep in ever so slightly with my little girl. The sass is coming. It's comin'.
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Noble Grains NYC
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Great selection for such a small space. They don't get everything, but very impressive for their size. They have 4 tap lines they do growler fills from. If they have it cold and you bring up a warm bottle they always offer to swap it for you. Overall prices are good, and they offer discounts on mixed six-packs and when bottles start to get old as well. If you live anywhere nearby I highly recommend them.
Small bottle shop on the upper east side of Manhattan. Despite the small space, they manage to pack it with a decent selection of bottles, both singles and packs. All the brews I saw were top of the line. They also sell and do growler fills from the tap. Prices were decent; not at a discount but not highway robbery either. as a bonus, they give you a modest 5% discount for over six bottle purchases.
Little hole in the wall kinda place. This on the far east, upper east side of NYC.
Better then decent selection of the typical good beer available in the NYC general area. Expect many of your favorites, but dont expect to find any very rare/hard to find offerings. Although the friendly and helpful worker in the store did say that they try to get what special realeses they can.
They also have an array of gourmet condiments, oils, crackers and the like.
the person working when I visited did say they will have growler filling available in the near future...IE within a few months...that will be a nice upgrade.
As of right now this store is worth a visit if you are local or happen to be in the neighborhood.
Nice new store on the far Upper East Side - not a craft beer desert, but certainly an arid zone. Their selection is fairly small due to licensing restrictions, but is very well curated: last time I was there, they had three different Crooked Stave beers, as well as the much-sought-after Mexican Cake. Other than that, they have a good stock of fancy snack foods. The proprietors are knowledgeable and friendly, and happy to order beers you're after but they don't have. The prices seem about on par with, say, Whole Foods - reasonable for New York City. It's a little out of the way for me, but well worth the long walk or the bus ride. Definitely a nice addition to the local craft beer scene.
Note: the owner, Bora, told me that they can't fill growlers because they need a working sink, and to get one installed would cost her $1,700. Maybe I'll become a partner in the business...
Edit 10/4/13: Looks like they have growlers now - so that's good. They update beermenus pretty often, so that's where to keep an eye on the selection. The prices for growlers seem high to me.
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OSLO/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Telenor TEL.OL and Malaysia's Axiata Group AXIA.KL have ended talks to create a telecoms joint venture with nearly 300 million customers across South Asia and Southeast Asia in a blow to the Norwegian group's growth strategy and shares.
FILE PHOTO: Telenor flag flutters next to the company's headquarters in Fornebu, Norway, June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
Shares in Telenor, which has expanded in Asia in pursuit of growth outside its mature home market in Scandinavia, fell on Friday’s announcement by the two companies that talks were over.
“This removes the prospect for $5 billion of potential deal synergies,” brokerage Jefferies said in a research note.
Telenor sold its central European operations last year as it seeks to focus on its Nordic and Asian businesses.
The proposed non-cash combination of Telenor’s telecom and infrastructure assets in Asia with Axiata’s would have had operations in nine countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia, with a total population of nearly 1 billion people.
Failure of the talks also highlights the difficulty of merging phone operators around the world and the growing problems it presents for investors.
The joint venture would have competed with firms such as Singapore Telecommunications STEL.SI and created an entity worth $40 billion including debt, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters in May when the talks were first announced.
Telenor said in a statement that both parties had agreed to end the discussions “due to some complexities involved in the proposed transaction”, without giving further details of what had scuppered plans for the largest such cross-border deal in Asia, excluding China and Japan.
However, Telenor left the door open to a deal with Axiata, saying both companies “still acknowledge the strong strategic rationale” of the combination and “do not rule out that a future transaction could be possible.”
Axiata President and Chief Executive Jamaludin Ibrahim said later on Friday that the company was “surprised” by the collapse of the planned deal.
“We know that this has come as a surprise for most of you, and for us too, actually,” he told a conference call with analysts.
Shares in Telenor were down 4.2% at 0931 GMT, lagging a flat European STOXX 600 Telecoms index .SXKP. Axiata shares were trading up 2.3% before being halted, pending the news.
“It has been a theme among investors that this deal could have created fair amount of value,” said Stefan Billing, analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux.
“Telenor and Axiata have been talking about synergies, and there has also been expectations on a high valuation of the planned listing, so it’s natural that there is a bit of disappointment initially.”
The Norwegian mobile operator was to have owned a 56.5% stake and Axiata the remaining 43.5% with no cash changing hands, the companies had previously said.
“The Board acknowledges the strong strategic rationale of the proposed transaction and is equally cognizant of the level of complexity of such a deal,” Axiata Chairman Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid said in a statement, only days after the Malaysian company said the deal was on track.
Axiata was not immediately available for comment on Friday, while Telenor declined further comment.
JOBS AND CONTROL
Control of the combined entity and job cuts could have been the main sticking points, particularly for the Malaysian government, whose sovereign wealth fund Khazanah owns a 37% stake in Axiata.
“Malaysian government-linked corporations usually want more control and that’s no different with Axiata. But would Telenor let go?” a telecoms analyst in Kuala Lumpur said, declining to be named as he was talking about the government.
In March, the fund, which has housed Axiata in its commercial portfolio, announced a new strategy under which it will look to trim stakes in non-strategic assets to improve returns to the government.
“(Malaysian Prime Minister) Mahathir (Mohamad) was also clear to say the government did not want any retrenchment in the cost rationalization,” said the analyst.
“In any merger, there is always cost rationalization, and the first thing is chopping headcount. If the company is not allowed that, what’s the point of the exercise?”
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77-2704.24. Food or food ingredients; exemptions.
(1) Sales and use taxes shall not be imposed on the gross receipts from the sale, lease, or rental of and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of food or food ingredients except for prepared food and food sold through vending machines.
(2) For purposes of this section:
(a) Alcoholic beverages means beverages that are suitable for human consumption and contain one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume;
(b) Dietary supplement means any product, other than tobacco, intended to supplement the diet that contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: (i) A vitamin, (ii) a mineral, (iii) an herb or other botanical, (iv) an amino acid, (v) a dietary substance for use by humans to supplement the diet by increasing the total dietary intake, or (vi) a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or combination of any ingredients described in subdivisions (2)(b)(i) through (v) of this section; that is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, powder, softgel, gelcap, or liquid form or, if not intended for ingestion in such a form, is not presented as conventional food and is not represented for use as a sole item of a meal or of the diet; and that is required to be labeled as a dietary supplement, identifiable by the supplemental facts box found on the label and as required pursuant to 21 C.F.R. 101.36, as such regulation existed on January 1, 2003;
(c) Food and food ingredients means substances, whether in liquid, concentrated, solid, frozen, dried, or dehydrated form, that are sold for ingestion or chewing by humans and are consumed for their taste or nutritional value. Food and food ingredients does not include alcoholic beverages, dietary supplements, or tobacco;
(d) Food sold through vending machines means food that is dispensed from a machine or other mechanical device that accepts payment;
(e) Prepared food means:
(i) Food sold with eating utensils provided by the seller, including plates, knives, forks, spoons, glasses, cups, napkins, or straws. A plate does not include a container or packaging used to transport the food; or
(ii) Two or more food ingredients mixed or combined by the seller for sale as a single item and food sold in a heated state or heated by the seller, except:
(A) Food that is only cut, repackaged, or pasteurized by the seller;
(B) Eggs, fish, meat, poultry, and foods containing these raw animal foods requiring cooking by the consumer as recommended by the federal Food and Drug Administration in chapter 3, part 401.11 of its Food Code, as it existed on January 1, 2003, so as to prevent food borne illnesses;
(C) Food sold by a seller whose proper primary North American Industry Classification System classification is manufacturing in sector 311, except subsector 3118, bakeries;
(D) Food sold in an unheated state by weight or volume as a single item;
(E) Bakery items, including bread, rolls, buns, biscuits, bagels, croissants, pastries, donuts, danish, cakes, tortes, pies, tarts, muffins, bars, cookies, and tortillas; and
(F) Food that ordinarily requires additional cooking to finish the product to its desired final condition; and
(f) Tobacco means cigarettes, cigars, chewing or pipe tobacco, or any other item that contains tobacco.
Source:Laws 1992, LB 871, § 44; Laws 1993, LB 345, § 45; Laws 2003, LB 282, § 57; Laws 2016, LB776, § 1.
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Question: How Much Does It Cost To Settle In The UK?
Is 40000 pounds a good salary in London?
Is 100k good salary in London?
How much is the fee for indefinite leave to remain UK?
A migrant applying for indefinite leave to remain in the UK must pay £2,389. The cost to the Home Office of processing an ILR application is £243 — so the fee is set at ten times higher than the actual administrative cost.
How much does 2020 Citizenship cost?
This means that, for now, the application for naturalization will remain at $725 instead of increasing to $1,170. UPDATE #1: On July 31, 2020, USCIS announced that the filing fee for naturalization applications will in fact increase to $1,170.
Can you buy UK citizenship?
Is getting PR in UK easy?
What jobs are needed in the UK?
How much does it cost to get British citizenship 2020?
Is 35k a good salary in London?
£35k is not enough as a single person to have single occupancy rights to a property and still have enough after normal expenditure to save and not feel poor. A single household in london earning £35k is pittance. If it was enough, there wouldn’t be such a massive shared household market in london.
Is 40k a good salary UK?
Is it possible to settle in UK?
Settling means you can stay in the UK without any time restrictions. There will be no change to the rights and status of EU, EEA and Swiss citizens currently lawfully living in the UK on or before 31 December 2020.
Is 50k a good salary UK?
Is it easy to get job in UK?
However finding job & internship can be overwhelming if you are not fully prepared to make the most of the job opportunities in the UK. … In the UK, you can apply for most jobs with relevant online application. Networking is extremely significant and you can find work placement through word of mouth.
How much money do you need to settle in the UK?
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One Direction Signs Deal, Includes Greatest Hits Album
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If you needed further proof that One Direction won't be breaking up anytime soon, check out this new deal that just went through.
Not only are the guys set to release three more albums as part of the deal, but they'll also have a One Direction Greatest Hits album coming out.
Look for the three albums to come out between 2014 and 2016--basically ensuring that none of the 1D lads gets a break for the next few years.
Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Niall Horan signed the deal with Simon Cowell's Syco record label, putting even more cash in Uncle Simon's pockets.
So, next up is the release of their new album Midnight Memories in November, followed by two additional albums and their greatest hits collection.
We're tired just thinking about all the work ahead of them (in addition to their big stadium tour coming up).
A source tells The Sun (via Heatworld), "The boys, Simon and their team have already started planning for their fourth album, even though the third isn't out yet."
The insider added, "It's worth a lot of cash too. They'll get a big upfront payment worth millions then much more from record sales, tours, brand tie-ins and merchandise."
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Court Overturns Stoning Sentence
Nigeria: Divorced woman was convicted under Islamic law for having sex outside wedlock.
March 26, 2002|From Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria — A Muslim appeals court acquitted a Nigerian woman Monday who had been sentenced to death by stoning for having sex out of wedlock. The case had prompted protests at home and abroad and raised fears of religious unrest in the West African nation.
Tambari Usman, one of four judges on the panel hearing the appeal in the northern city of Sokoto, said the evidence presented was insufficient to warrant a conviction.
"Thank you, thank you," Safiya Hussaini murmured as well-wishers translated the ruling from Arabic into her native Hausa language.
The 35-year-old mother of five was the first of at least two women sentenced to death by stoning since a dozen Nigerian states began implementing Sharia, or Islamic law, two years ago.
Amina Lawal Kurami was condemned to the same fate Friday in Katsina state, just days after President Olusegun Obasanjo's government declared unconstitutional the harshest of Sharia punishments, such as beheadings, stonings and amputations. She has 30 days to appeal.
In Kurami's case, the offense also was having sex out of wedlock. She gave birth to a girl more than nine months after divorcing her husband. The man she said was the father was acquitted for lack of evidence after he denied the allegation.
Sokoto Gov. Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa called Monday's decision "fair and just" and evidence of Sharia's effectiveness. Several other northern state governments also say they will continue to uphold the laws, despite the mounting opposition from the federal administration.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
What I'm Wearing White Now
Guys. Monday was Labor Day. Yesterday, I wore white jeans. Nobody cared.
I proudly and confidently marched to my closet because I knew what pants I was going to wear (and that never happens), and then I had a small moment of insecurity while I debated how to make the outfit look a little summery and a little fall-y; but mostly, I was feeling like a real rule-breaker. Give me a Harley and a studded collar, folks, 'cause I'm wearing white after Labor Day! But still, nobody cared. Not one person commented on how rebel-without-a-cause I dressed on September 2nd.
Everybody knows this ancient fashion faux-pas, but then Vogue and Marie Claire and everyone are all "10 Ways to Wear White after Labor Day!" So, how and why did "no white post-Labor Day" become a thing, and then not a thing? Labor Day has been around for a long time, and so has this societal rule. L-Day was declared an official holiday in 1894, but the first two were celebrated on Tuesdays. Can you imagine that? It seems like a bad idea to have a national holiday on a Tuesday because if you don't tack a day off to the end of the weekend, there's just this awkward day in the middle of the week to sit around and eat ice cream or watch The Hills or something. Right? I'm not really sure what they were thinking.
There are several theories on how this whole "no white" thing became a thing. One theory is that back in the day, before Google existed and random girls like me had blogs, the NY-based fashion magazines influenced much of what was worn. Since whites are impractical for a wet fall and winter (nobody wants an accidental 'wet jeans' contest), they were reserved for summer wear only. Another theory involves the snooty society people in the late 1800s and early 1900s: High society was ruled by the mega rich socialites, until more and more people started becoming well-to-do, and started dressing that way. To create a societal divide between old money and new money, the theory is that the "old money" socialites made up a bunch of silly rules to distinguish those who were "in the know" from others who were just dressing the part. I favor this theory because it sounds like Mean Girls, so it's most likely true.
Now, the "no white" rule is defunct, and maybe that indicates that our society is a little less snooty? I'd like to think so. I think the most important thing to learn from Labor Day is to dress for the season. Pleasepleaseplease don't be the girl who wears Uggs in the summer. Don't wear rain boots if it's going to sprinkle in the morning and then sun for the rest of the day. You can wear white in the dead of winter if you want (winter whites, amirite?) but don't dress like you're about to go yachting (Sperry's and all) in January because you will make everyone jealous and increase their winter-induced depression. You'd probably be cold, too.
So, the moral of the story is this: It's not 1894 anymore, so you can wear white if you want to. White now, even.
Outfit details: Jeans - F21, Striped top - Urban Outfitters, Sweater - F21, Purse - Longchamp.
Photography by Nick Warnock.
1. Such a cute outfit!
Who comes up with those crazy fashion do's and don't anyways?? :)
These photos are beautiful!
2. Ana! These photos are AMAZING! Love this post and your writing :)
3. Exactly! go ahead and wear white throughout the year:) Lovely photos btw!
4. When I saw you last night, I was thinking "I'm glad she's wearing white the day after Labor Day" but didn't say anything! Haha, anyways this is awesome.
5. I love white jeans and have been trying to find a pair for months. The ones I really liked ended up being see through (not good). They look great on you and I say wear away, who follows those white after labour day rules anyways? Not fashionistas :)
6. I wonder where the no white after labour day came from. Seems a bit silly, but as you say it's not 1984 so no need to worry! You found a killer pair of white jeans and made them fall appropriate :)
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The Best and Worst Septic Cleaning Products
Picking the best or avoiding the worst septic cleaning products is critical to maintaining a healthy septic system. Your home or business septic system is dependent on vibrant, active bacteria to keep your septic tank healthy and your system running tirelessly. Next to regular pumping and maintenance, avoiding corrosive, bacteria-killing products is probably the most important aspect of keeping your septic system running smoothly.
Here’s a quick list of the common household septic cleaning products to avoid when you have a septic system:
1. Ammonia and Bleach
It’s OK to use a small amount of either of these cleaners, although it’s better for your overall septic health to avoid them. But certainly use it sparingly – the same bacteria you want it to kill in your sink and clothes washing machine is actually a positive thing in your septic tank. While small amounts won’t affect the bacteria in your tank too much, it’s a good thing to keep in mind.
2. Laundry Detergent and Dishwasher Detergent
It’s smart to purchase septic-safe or all-natural dishwasher and laundry detergent, which has grown in popularity in recent years and is a very effective cleaning agent. Most standard detergents have scary-sounding chemicals such as phosphates and surfactants, which can contaminate your local water sources through your drain field. This can kill fish, harm wildlife and even make it back into your drinking water.
3. Drain Cleaner
Like bleach and ammonia, small, occasional uses of drain cleaner will not impact your septic tank. But if you have old, troublesome pipes and find yourself reaching for the Draino bottle on a regular basis, it might be time to do some plumbing work instead. The risk of killing your septic system’s bacteria and causing a costly repair is significant.
What to Use Instead
While there are many septic additives containing bacteria and enzymes available for purchase, a healthy body produces waste rich in bacteria. Therefore, every time you flush, you are adding the right bacteria to your septic system! The best thing you can do for your septic in addition to pumping and maintenance is to stay healthy, and avoid flushing or running down the drains bacteria-killing chemicals.
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Is this program for me?
Are you interested in learning how to feed your children healthier, and teaching them how to like healthy food on their own?
Feeding Your Kids is a free program that helps you make small changes over time that add up to big results. Encourage your children to develop healthy eating habits that last a lifetime!
The Only Program Designed from a Parent's Perspective
Every parent wants healthy children, and provide nutritious meals to them, and yet we all find it hard to succeed. The Feeding Your Kids program is designed to address the real-life complications of eating related decision making that make parents struggle with feeding.
The program is used by parents and caregivers with children from age 2 (beyond nursing and baby food) to teenagers and is effective for families with children of varying ages in the household at the same time.
Why a Daily Program?
Do you want your child to eat a nutritious meal today? As it happens, parents make a lot of decisions before that one meal gets on the table tonight. Any one of those decisions can sabotage the hoped-for outcome. At the same time, feeding your kids in a healthy way is only one of your objectives among the many you have in running busy lives. Do you also want not only that tonight’s dinner be eaten, but that your child develop healthy eating habits for life? Raising a healthy eater is complicated.
Studies show that when it comes to behavior, people learn best by taking tiny doable practical steps. The program sequences the small doable practical changes daily, and that adds up to a big result at the end.
When you start the program, you will have an opportunity to assess how you make the decisions related to feeding. Then the program will send you a progressive set of new things to learn/do each day for 42 days, building your skills in every area.
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206 Okla. 458 (1952)
244 P.2d 582
LILES
v.
SMITH et al.
No. 35026.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
April 8, 1952.
Rehearing Denied May 20, 1952.
*459 Young, Young & Young, Sapulpa, Pinson, Lupardus & Carlson, and H. Taylor Collins, Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.
Thos. S. Harris and T.L. Blakemore, Sapulpa, for defendants in error.
WELCH, J.
This is a contest between plaintiff and the school district as to the title to a small tract of land about two acres in the southwest corner of an 80-acre tract of land.
Essentially the facts are that the 80-acre tract was owned by one Allen shortly after the turn of the century. About 1908, when the owner Allen was four or five years old, the school district erected a school building on the southwest corner of the 80-acre tract and on the approximately two acres involved in this action. From that time until the present a school building has occupied the premises and public school has been there conducted. During that period of approximately 44 years different buildings have been constructed, the present one being a substantial brick structure.
The original owner Allen continued as the record owner of the 80 acres until 1946 when he sold and conveyed same to plaintiff, Liles. Thereafter plaintiff claimed ownership of the school premises and commenced this action.
The controlling question is whether the school district occupied the school site adversely so as to acquire title by prescription or whether the use and occupancy was permissive so as to make the school district a licensee and so that ownership remained in Allen and passed by his conveyance to Liles.
It was plaintiff's contention that in the beginning oral permission was given by Allen's father to use and occupy one acre in the southwest corner of the 80-acre tract for school site with continuing right as long as the said acre should be used for school purposes, and that the facts here bring this case under the permissive use rule as applied in Herbert v. Forman, 198 Okla. 637, 181 P.2d 257, and Caldwell v. Scivally, 118 Okla. 1, 246 P. 879.
The court found that the school district was in the possession and use of a tract described by metes and bounds containing about 2 acres and "that said school district has been in the open, notorious, hostile, adverse, and continuous possession thereof since the year 1908, under claim of right, occupying and using same for public school purposes at all times, thereby acquiring a title thereto by prescription; and that the plaintiff, Sam Liles, has no right, title or interest therein or thereto," and the title of school district was quieted in the school district to that tract described by metes and bounds and located in the southwest corner of the 80-acre tract of land.
It is quite evident that the trial court took the view that the evidence of plaintiff was not sufficient to bring this case under the rule of permissive use and that under all the evidence there could be no application of that rule so as to retain title in Allen and in this plaintiff after the exclusive use all these years as shown. We cannot say that such finding is clearly against the weight of the evidence.
Plaintiff in this action is willing for the school district to continue in its *460 right to use one acre, but we observe that the brick building itself extends over and beyond the one acre line. We observe also the suggestion without contradiction that when the owner Allen became of legal age about 1925, that he could have ejected the school district, but he did not do so. There is indication in his brief that plaintiff is willing for the school district to use more than one acre, and to use the approximately two acres involved in this action for so long as the same shall be used for school purposes, but we do not consider that view or attitude as of any controlling importance or effect in the case.
We have examined the record and heard oral argument and are convinced that the findings and judgment of the trial court are sustained by the evidence and are not clearly against the weight of the evidence.
It is our conclusion that in view of the trial court's findings this case is not distinguishable from the case of James v. Union Graded School District No. 2, Muskogee County, 201 Okla. 573, 207 P.2d 241; that this case is controlled by that decision, and that in view of the statements and conclusions set out in that decision it is not necessary to dwell further upon the facts of this case or the reason for the conclusions of law and fact here applied.
The judgment quieted the school district's title to about two acres of land described in the judgment by metes and bounds, and for the reason stated, the judgment is affirmed.
CORN, GIBSON, DAVISON, JOHNSON and BINGAMAN, JJ., concur. HALLEY, V.C.J., dissents.
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I am rsyncing a few directories. I have a bash terminal open and am executing something like this:
for DIR in * ; do rsync -a $DIR example.com:somewhere/ ; done
However if I want to stop the whole things, I press Control-C. That stops the rsync, but then it keeps going to the next one. In this case I realize what has happened and then just press Control-C like a madman until things work again.
Is there some way to 'fix' this. I want it so if I have a loop like that, and press Control-C, that it will return me to my bash shell.
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Dennis' answer is the right one, but you if you didn't do that, you don't have to 'press it like a madman', just hold it and let the keyboard repeat handle it :-) – Kyle Brandt Jan 22 '10 at 15:52
I always just hold down Cntl-C, generally works fine. – Scott Alan Miller Jan 22 '10 at 18:41
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for DIR in * ; do rsync -a $DIR example.com:somewhere/ || break; done
This will also exit the loop if an individual rsync run fails for some reason.
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Fantastic, elegant, memorable solution. Thanks! – mmocny Jan 11 '13 at 16:32
Additional tip: if you're in a nested loop, and want to completely terminate, use break 2 (or replace "2" with the number of nested loops you want to terminate). – dolan Jan 23 '13 at 20:33
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You can set a trap for Control-C.
trap command SIGINT
will execute the command when Control-C is pressed. Just put the trap statement somewhere in your script at a point where you want it to become effective.
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To expand on Dennis' answer, your code might look like:
trap "echo Exited!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM
For a working example (that happens to involve rsync), check out http://gist.github.com/279849.
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When you put a string of commands inside parentheses, the string will act as a single process, and will receive the SIGINT and terminate when you hit Ctrl-C:
(for DIR in * ; do rsync -a $DIR example.com:somewhere/ ; done)
But! In the case of the rsync command, it allows multiple sources, so the code you wrote would be better-written as:
rsync -a * example.com:somewhere/
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I tend to put another command in my loop that can easily be interrupted. It requires two ctrl-C's to be pressed.
for DIR in * ; do rsync -a $DIR example.com:somewhere/ ; sleep 1 ; done
It's not such a great solution for this rsync, which you probably want to run quickly. But it does work well for other loops, like this one:
while true ; do ping -c 10 example.com ; sleep 1 ; done
This loop will re-lookup the address of example.com every time through the loop, which is useful if you're watching for a DNS change.
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The proteasomal subunit S6 ATPase is a novel synphilin-1 interacting protein--implications for Parkinson's disease.
Synphilin-1 is linked to Parkinson's disease (PD), based on its role as an alpha-synuclein (PARK1)-interacting protein and substrate of the ubiquitin E3 ligase Parkin (PARK2) and because of its presence in Lewy bodies (LB) in brains of PD patients. We found that overexpression of synphilin-1 in cells leads to the formation of ubiquitinated cytoplasmic inclusions supporting a derangement of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in PD. We report here a novel specific interaction of synphilin-1 with the regulatory proteasomal protein S6 ATPase (tbp7). Functional characterization of this interaction on a cellular level revealed colocalization of S6 and synphilin-1 in aggresome-like intracytoplasmic inclusions. Overexpression of synphilin-1 and S6 in cells caused reduced proteasomal activity associated with a significant increase in inclusion formation compared to cells expressing synphilin-1 alone. Steady-state levels of synphilin-1 in cells were not altered after cotransfection of S6 and colocalization of synphilin-1-positive inclusions with lysosomal markers suggests the presence of an alternative lysosomal degradation pathway. Subsequent immunohistochemical studies in brains of PD patients identified S6 ATPase as a component of LB. This is the first study investigating the physiological role of synphilin-1 in the ubiquitin proteasome system. Our data suggest a direct interaction of synphilin-1 with the regulatory complex of the proteasome modulating proteasomal function.
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On Wednesday, MSNBC host Alex Wagner continued the “Lean Forward” network’s tradition of vilifying Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu by comparing him to a “Scooby Doo” villain who has just pulled off his mask “revealing himself to be who he is actually.”
The MSNBC host began her anti-Netanyahu rant by declaring him to be “President Obama’s greatest frenemy” before she offered up some free publicity for a Washington Post blog attacking the prime minister’s opposition to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Wagner opined that "maybe as the Washington Post Plum Line blog puts it, 'The newly honest Netanyahu government isn't such a bad thing. With Netanyahu's journey from the far right to the far, far right, we can be less concerned with his opinion about Iran's nuclear program or anything else and treat him like what he is: an ideologically radical factional leader.'"
The MSNBC host then introduced liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank by gleefully comparing Netanyahu to a villain from the popular Scooby Doo cartoon:
I see some wisdom in what the Washington Post suggests that perhaps Netanyahu pulling off his mask ala Scooby Doo and revealing himself to be who he is actually frees this president up to have more of an aggressive position counter to him, to not have to protect Israel with the U.N. veto on the issue of Palestinian statehood. To be able to pursue an aggressive, or to pursue period, a nuclear deal with Iran.
Unsurprisingly, Milbank completely agreed with Wagner’s analogy and agreed that Netanyahu’s new policy position will actually liberate President Obama and allow him to pursue his desired foreign policy agenda:
[I]t may, in fact, liberate the president since he’s clearly getting no support in any sense from Bibi whether it is on Iran or whether it is on the Palestinians so he's got a whole lot less to lose now.
See relevant transcript below.
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