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Are the Punishments for Crimes Fair?
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A punishment is designed to express a community’s attitude of disapproval, resentment, and oftentimes outrage. Conviction can mean punishment. Punishment requires not as much as some penalty like imprisonment, but condemnation. A pardon does nothing more than wipe out a penalty, but not the condemnation. If the defendants are truly guilty, then they truly deserve punishment. A conviction with a pardon is tantamount to an acquittal, in which case we might as well acquit, or a conviction with a pardon is not equivalent to an acquittal, which means we need to truly figure out whether the defendants deserve to be punished. There are five different types of punishments. The five are: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution, and restitution. Deterrence punishment aims to promote special and general deterrence that is, it aims to reduce crime, either by deterring that particular criminal or by deterring all criminal behavior. Incapacitation punishment aims to make it the case that an offender, one who brings about public harm, is no longer able to be a threat to the community. Rehabilitation punishment aims to respond to the character of the criminal by re-socializing him, by teaching him how to be a productive member of society. Retribution punishment aims to rectify wrongdoing by giving the criminal what he deserves. Moral Communication is also a punishment that expresses moral condemnation of criminal behavior and aims to secure the criminal’s recognition of his own wrongdoing. Below, I will critique the five felony cases, to see what sentencing/punishment I come up with myself. After my personal opinion is made, I will then compare it to the Alabama State sentencing stature, to compare the differences.
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The first felony crime would be the rape/murder committed by Walter. Walter, has been convicted with first-degree murder. Before conviction, it show that he has a violent crime history. The description on his case was that he murdered an entire family, raping two children. It first began as a robbery, but then turned into some far worse. Upon Walter being discovered by the family, he tied them up and spent the night in their home. Throughout the night, he became more violent and destructive until he killed the family with a knife. Walter was caught weeks later. When he was questioned, he confessed his crimes but he had no remorse for his actions. Walter should be punished to the full degree for this horrible crime. I would use the Retributive Strategy in his case. He would be the death penalty for his actions. Punishment in the State of Alabama for first degree murder is life in prison (Barkow). The comparison of the two sentencings were somewhat alike. The states sentencing is life in prison, where my personal sentencing was the death penalty.
The second felony case would be the poisoning crime of Skyler. Wife Skyler, found out her husband was having an affair. She has no criminal history and has never been known to be violent. When Skyler found out her husband was having an affair, she poisoned him over the period of a week. When she was caught, she confessed her crime. Even though she did an awful thing, Skyler did show remorse in her actions. I would also use the Retributive Strategy in this case. I believe Skylar should also be punished to the full degree of life in prison. Even though she shows remorse, she still murdered her husband. Punishment for first-degree murder in the State of Alabama is life in prison (Barkow). Comparison of the two sentences where the same. My thought process regarding the sentencing of Skyler was the same as the States.
The third felony case would be the manslaughter crime of Jessie. Jessie hit a pedestrian at an intersection early one morning leaving the bar. Jessie was intoxicated when driving the vehicle. Jessie did not slow down to stop at a red light, when the pedestrian was hit. In doing this, Jessie killed the pedestrian instantly. Even though Jessie does not have a violent history of crimes, there are several DUI’s that have shown up over the years. Jessie has expressed remorse, and has begged for the family’s forgiveness for the pain that has been caused. Jessie swears to never drink again. Jessie should also be sentenced to the full punishment. Drinking and driving is already a horrible crime. With Jessie already have priors of DUI’s, it shows that there is carelessness in the subject. Not only was there driving under the influence, a person was killed by it. Though Jessie shows huge remorse and has asked the family for forgiveness, it still doesn’t change the fact that laws were broken, and because they were broken someone was killed. I would use the Rehabilitative Strategy here. I would sentence Jessie 20 years, with parole, with mandatory psychiatric help for the offender also. Jessie did commit a serious crime, but because of the prior DUI charges, it sounds like it might be an addiction that needs to be addressed. With addressing this problem, it may stop future DUI charges or possible murder. Punishment for manslaughter in the State of Alabama is 2-20 years in jail time (Barkow). The comparison of the two sentencings are very similar in regards to sentencing. I still think help is needed.
The fourth felony crime would be the stalking/rape committed by Tuco. Tuco raped a lady, after stalking her over a long period of time. Tuco stated that he never had intentions of killing the girl, so he let her go. He had never met the lady before the stalking/rape occurred. Tuco had past offenses of stalking in his criminal history. Though none of his past crimes were violent, it does show that he is dangerous in the sense of stalking. Tuco may show remorse in is actions, but that does not undo the crime he committed. I would sentence Tuco to 30-60 years in prison. I would not sentence him to life like the other three murders, because the victim was not killed. Nonetheless, what he did was still a serious crime. I would again use Retributive Strategy in this case, because even though he did not kill the victim, he still stalked and raped her. Punishment of staling/rape in the State of Alabama is 10-99 years in jail time with fines up to 60,000 dollars (Barkow). The comparison of the two sentencings are somewhat the same. The state sentencing for this crime is longer that what I sentenced.
The fifth felony crime would be shoplifting at Victoria Secret by Saul. Saul was arrested at Victoria’ Secret, for stealing lingerie. Saul has been known in the past to steal many females under garments. He has a history of this offence and this would make it his fourth one. Saul has also been tried of stealing other things such as toilet paper and cases of deodorant. Saul makes it unclear whether he feels remorse. Throughout his trial, he has shown that he is embarrassed and he refused to speak during his hearing. Even though this is considered a felony, because it involves shoplifting, I don’t think Saul should be sentenced any jail time. In this case I would use the Rehabilitative Strategy. This strategy would be used by sentencing Saul to mandatory Psychiatric facility, where he can have his problems addressed correctly. Saul would be guilty with insanity. He would still be punished, because he still committed a crime. Punishment for shoplifting in the State of Alabama would be one year to one day of jail time, with fines up to 15,000 dollars (Barkow). The comparison of these to sentencings are different in the way of, the state would send the offender to jail, where I would send him to an institution for the criminally insane.
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Friday, January 09, 2004
But Ibrahim was spared that indignity, he said, because his crime was less serious than theirs. He only heard a joke about Saddam and was suspected by the government of belonging to an underground Shiite religious movement.
To be precise, he heard a friend in a coffeehouse tell a joke about Saddam. Six months later, after joining the army, he was arrested and brought before a military court, where he was asked why as a loyal Iraqi he had not informed on the person who told the joke.
His manners did not permit him to do such a thing, he recalls saying. He later learned it was his friend who fingered him, allegedly after undergoing extensive torture.
Note the "loyal Iraqi" reference.
Another reason to be glad we express our allegiance to ideals, not to a dictator.
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Jacob Goeree: Creating new markets for global impact
Professor Jacob Goeree, a Scientia Professor at UNSW Business School, is using the relatively new field of market design to create new markets which can be applied to areas as diverse as the local fisheries industry and China’s growing pollution problem.
Professor Jacob Goeree: My area of research is market design, which is a relatively new field in economics, and it actually has the potential to transform economics into somewhat of an engineering science.
For a long time economists have studied markets but we’re actually now at a time that economists can ask and answer the question, Well, if we have a certain goal, why wouldn’t we make an entirely new market?
So a good example of market design is the work I did for NSW Fisheries, and there were two problems to be resolved. One is you would like to prevent overfishing, to have a sustainable catch; and the other is to make the industry as healthy as possible.
There is no existing market where the fishers can buy and sell the shares, so we really needed to create a market. And it’s not a simple market – why not? Well, suppose that you are thinking of leaving the industry. So, you currently hold a portfolio of different shares for different types of fish, and potentially different methods of catching. You say, “Well, actually, I would like to sell,” but what could happen to you is that some shares are in higher demand than others. You sell those, but you cannot sell the remainder of your portfolio. So you’re sort of left caught halfway because the income from the shares you sold is not quite enough, and the shares that remain are not that interesting.
Doug Ferrell – Director, Fisheries Analysis, Department of Primary Industries: The problem we faced was very complex, and mathematically mind-boggling from my point of view. And there is no way to think this through with a pencil and paper.
Goeree: We designed a market in which fishes are protected against these bad outcomes. So basically, what it can do is offer their entire portfolio of shares, even though on the buy side there will be different fishers buying these separate share classes. And that’s really the innovation, and these markets are entirely new; you will not find them anywhere in the world.
Ferrell: The assistance from Jacob and his colleagues about modelling this in a computer system and solving the problem really showed us the power of a more bespoke and design market.
Goeree: The same cap and trade program can actually help to combat the pollution in China. Worldwide pollution must be among the top five problems to be solved.
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Posts tagged “art
Something black in the road, something that wasn’t a tree. Something big and black and ropy, just squatting there, waiting, with ropy arms squirming and reaching. . . It came crawling up the hillside. . . and it was the black thing of my dreams – that black, ropy, slime jelly tree-thing out of the woods. It crawled up and it flowed up on its hoofs and mouths and snaky arms.
Robert Bloch,
Art is Science
Art is a lens through which the artist sees a world. The process of creating art is an experiment by which the artist constructs a viewing apparatus for other people to view a portion of a world visible to the artist. Just as there is a scientific method, there is (or should be) an artistic method.
1. Define a question
2. Gather information and resources (observe)
3. Form an explanatory hypothesis
4. Test the hypothesis by creating a work of art and collecting data in a reproducible manner (Create and show)
5. Analyze the data (What did people see through your art?)
6. Interpret the data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypotheses (Did you properly convey your vision?)
7. Publish results (“My audience “gets” me!”)
8. Create.
Perception, reality and synesthetics
Human consciousness has evolved along survival lines. Our senses exist primarily to warn us of imminent danger, and our brain is primarily wired to process this sensory input in a manner that prioritizes threats. Humor, beauty, sensuality, pleasure and even raw emotion are learned, imprinted on us after birth. They certainly do exist, but they are far outside the “natural” blank slate state we’re born with. They’re all matters of perception.
When we re-wire our brains, whether its through the introduction of entheogenic substances (drugs) or guided self examination (meditation), we radically alter the way in which perceive the universe around us. When we become bogged down in endlessly striving for that which is “real,” we’re simply trying to go back to that emotionless, survivalist form of our newly-born mind. We can’t go back. We can’t kill off our hunger for beauty, wonder and magic. When we force our minds to stop working in the threat assessment mode and similarly force it to rewire itself, we are perceiving reality in a new manner. Sounds may indeed have “tastes” in this new perception of reality because we’ve forced our brain to process the signals in a manner in which they are not traditionally routed.
Venetian Snares and Aphex Twin have already demonstrated this.
I care because you do.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Dulles, April 17, 2012
Art is context, intent and emotion.
Art is context and intent. Art exists to evoke an emotion. If we can assume that the intent of the artist is to evoke a specific emotion in the viewer, a work of art can be considered effective if the evoked emotions roughly match with those intended by the artist. Even if the artist’s intent is simply to createsome thingthat only satisfies a deep, as yet unidentified urge within the artist, the work still has an intent, a context and set of emotional responses it is expected to invoke.
From this, we can indeed infer that art iseverywhere— and the act of creating a work of art does not necessarily require a skill set like those possessed by skilled laborers, outside of those skills necessary to achieve the vision of the creator. The primary job of the artist is not to know how to operate a bead-blasting machine or to finish a block of wood– but to assign meaning, purpose and life to aspects of our physical reality. Whether this is done by the skilled act of blending various objects together in a smooth, seamless, well-crafted object or by invoking an emotion in a large group of people, “art” is being created. Even if we took the post modern route– that is, attempting to create a work of art that lacks context, intent and emotion– we’d still have a work of art that had context (why it is being shown, why people are aware of it, the background of the artist), intent (the intent being to create a work of art without intent) and whatever emotional (or lack thereof) response on the part of the viewer. Indeed, in this scenario, the most effective way of creating art that has no context, intent or emotion would be to not create anything at all, and instead use the money to be spent on procuring materials on food, rent or taxes.
Art fails when its intent, context and desired emotional response are gone or forgotten; it is important to point out that “failed art” also possesses the potential for the reassignment of context, intent and emotion. Thus, the cycle of art continues on.
Oh no! :(
Now with broken shutter! And it happened at the worst time, too: right in the middle of a roll of very nicely composed landscape shots of anincrediblymoody and evil looking morning sky. It had a touchy film advance timing too, as most Yashicamat’s do, apparently– this one flubbed advancing from frames five through seven. Still, it made some astonishing and clear images in its time– and for two hundred dollars, it was a splendid way to start working with medium format film.
I think this may finally be the end of it, if I can’t find anyone to repair it. Now, the camera shopdidhave a pretty nice looking 4×5 view camera for only a thousand….
No! Fuck that! I’ll to save my pennies and get an 8×10 view camera! GO BIG OR GO HOME!
-The Yashica LM’s shutter broke.
-The Nikkormat’s film winder snapped off
Newer models don’t necessarily make the older models go down in price
Mark Rothko- Untitled (Black on Grey)
I tend to perceive noise music much in the same vein as abstract impressionist painting. Noise presents the listener with an imposing, seemingly impenetrable wall of chaos, but like any Jackson Pollack or Franz Kline, these pieces aren’t meant to be immediately consumed, digested and understood by a casual audience. Instead, they utilize the intimidating power of their cursory uniformity as a lens to discover intricacies within the piece.
Consider the use of samples in noise works much in the same way an artist would use magazine cut-outs or shredded photographs in their art. Also, consider what separates noise artists from people who make rote, unimaginative copies of pre-existing works in a vain attempt to score a quick buck or further a political cause.
You know, how every other nazi skinhead with an amp, a distortion pedal and a shitty tape recorder thinks they’re the next Masami Akita?
Wintertime wants you to think it has sucked all of the life out of the air. It wants you to think it’s a harsh, unlovable beast that only serves to thin the ranks of the sick and weak. Winter is depressed. Winter has to carry out the unpleasant, unenviable task of stopping life, stopping growth and placing everything into a forced dormancy where a certain percentage of hibernators will not reawaken. It strips the peeling paint from the creaking, tired walls of the forest and primes them to be refinished come spring.
wind that murmured through the leaves now stabs through the whistling wood
wind that murmured through the leaves now howls through the whistling wood
The voice of the forest is silent. The chorus of agitated rustling has broken for a seasonal intermission. Now, naught but the pure, quiet song of the sky fills our waiting ears.
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Urban Dictionary Game
$61.85 (as of January 20, 2020, 11:49 pm)
The only game where “food boner” and “double rainbow” are winning answers to “MyFirstDate.” Fun with bad words and sick humor is what the Urban Dictionary Game is all about. It is a game based on the popular website where people like you define millions of slang words. Players compete to impress the judge by playing Urban Dictionary words in response to hashtags, phrases, and pictures. Players can also act out or illustrate words to win the round. This game is exactly what your next game night needs!
Life is much funnier when you have a dirty mind.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
I'll be nation's hate figure, says top Tory Philip Hammond.
It's the Margaret Thatcher complex which all Tories seek to emulate. They see her as the lady who dispensed the medicine which the country needed. We might have hated her, but, the logic goes, she turned things around and got the country back on it's feet.
And that is the role which Philip Hammond appears to be preparing himself for.
The country is sleep walking towards the next Tory government. And no-one can accuse Hammond of not being honest about the role he sees for himself.
He is positively salivating at the chance to hack away at public services. Anyone who remembers the eighties will remember the hardship which these buggers inflicted upon millions of working class families.
Hammond is letting us know that they want into power to do exactly the same thing again.
No-one can say that they haven't been warned. The Nasty party of the eighties are back with the "Bambi" figure of Cameron at the front, but, as Hammond is making abundantly clear, they have the exact same agenda as their hero: Thatcher.
They are actually looking forward to being hated as they slash public services. Hammond has done us the favour of being honest about what he intends to do. The question now is: is anyone listening?
Click title for full article.
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This article in our series focused on Microsoft’s free security tools is on the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) banned.h header file. This is an important tool for developers who are trying to minimize the number of security vulnerabilities that exist in the C or C++ code they write. It’s also important for IT Professionals to know about this tool as they can ask the ISVs and developers of the applications they deploy and operate in their environments whether they were developed using banned.h.
Any code that is exposed to the internet or is used to process personally identifiable information should be verified to see if banned application programming interfaces (APIs) are present. By removing banned APIs, developers can help minimize an application’s risk exposure and ultimately improve the customer experience.
Banned.h is designed to provide a list of all banned APIs so that developers can quickly locate them in the code and address each accordingly. To illustrate how banned.h works, I’ve provide a screen shot below of an application loaded into a compiler using banned.h.
In this example we have inserted the following code (circled in Red):
#include “banned.h”
Then by recompiling the code we can see which APIs have been banned by the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle. In the example above, we can see the banned APIs in the Output box highlighted in Red at the bottom of the screen shot. Existing code that has banned APIs identified should either be replaced with a more secure version or re-architected so that the banned function is not used.
For a live demonstration of the tool, check out this short video:
If you are interested in learning more about the Security Development Lifecycle Banned.h header file, I encourage you to check out these resources:
Tim Rains
Director, Trustworthy Computing
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Reno High School students react to Impeachment Trial
RENO, Nev. (KOLO) Not only are the students in Richard Clark's AP Government class learning about the foundations of our country but also watching history unfold as the Impeachment Trial continues.
"My overall objective is not to make them partisan, but make them political," Richard Clark said.
Clark says there is no better way for his students to learn than for them to see politics in action.
"Being able to see these things in real time is more motivation for them to figure out where they are on the political spectrum, whether it's conservative or liberal and being active in whatever policies they want to get passed or not get passed," he said.
Students said this was much better than learning with only a textbook to read.
"It's really engaging and it's a lot more engaging than watching it on Fox News or CNN because we have commentary from someone who actually knows what he's talking about," Benjamin Ferido, a student, said.
One student shared he was tired of the partisanship.
"I just like to think that we should go back to avoiding the hyper-partisanship and trying to find a medium where we look for the truth and how it affects the powers that were set out and not base it on hyper-partisanship," Alex Khorshidi said.
Many of these students will be voting for the first time in November.
"To vote and participate and to realize that even though they don't know everything that their participation is just as important because there's lot's of people who vote who don't know," Clark said.
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Which Generation is to Blame for Plagiarism?
Posted by David Rothschild on Apr 8, 2011 12:47:00 PM
Young vs Old resized 600It’s pretty common that the younger generation gets blamed for plagiarism. Many people see a bunch of kids who grew up on the internet, mashing up You Tube videos and engaging in a cut-and-paste free for all with no regard for ‘journalistic integrity.’ There is definitely an argument to be made that a ‘free-wheeling’ internet culture has been a thorn in the side of proper citations and giving attribution where it’s due.
However, lately it seems that lapses of ethical judgment have been falling on the venerated professionals who have been entrenched in their respective industries for decades. This was most recently illustrated with the case of Sari Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist who outright plagiarized from other news sources due to the ‘deadline pressure’ she was facing.
Perhaps professional plagiarism is on the rise, or maybe plagiarism detection software is just catching it more often. Either way, it seems backwards that journalists and professionals who are supposed to be shining examples for the younger generations are breaking the rules left and right. Students are taught from elementary school through college that plagiarism is bad. Especially in any university journalism program, plagiarism is taught to be a ‘cardinal sin’ that a real journalist would take extra steps to avoid.
UMass-Amhert Journalism Professor Steve Fox recently published an article on Poynter.org that examines the disconnect between what we’re teaching our students and what professionals in the field are actually practicing. Professor Fox aptly notes: “Meanwhile, in journalism schools across the nation, we talk about the high price journalists pay for ethical lapses; about slowing down and getting it right; and about being true to yourself and the profession. Has preaching moved ahead of practice?”
So which generation is to blame for the current plagiarism problem we have on our hands? Is it the younger generation, those internet-whizzes and students who are still learning the ropes, or is it the tried-and-true professionals who should have known better?
Perhaps both are to blame. The tech-savvy generation should be hyper-aware that the chances of getting caught for plagiarism are now higher than ever with the implementation of plagiarism detection software and general internet search capabilities. The older generation should be most familiar with the ethical and professional guidelines that deter plagiarism in the first place. If both of these factors can be taken into account and preached across the board, we’ll be on the right track.
Fox, Steve. “Washington Post plagiarism case challenges educators who tell students not to break the rules.” Poynter.org. April 1st 2011. http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/everyday-ethics/126074/washington-post-plagiarism-challenges-educators-who-students-not-to-break-the-rules/
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After Nayantara, Jai Set To Romance Trisha
Jai, who had romanced Nayantara in hit movie Raja Rani, will team up with an A-list actress again. Yes, he will be reportedly pairing up with none other than Trisha Krishnan.
Manimaran of Udhayam NH4 fame is helming the movie. He has chosen Jai to play the male lead role. As far as the female lead is concerned, the makers of the movie wanted a top actress to pair up with the Raja Rani actor. Hence, they approached Trisha Krishnan for the female lead in the untitled movie.
Trisha Krishnan, who has multiple projects in her hands, has reportedly shown interest in the project. But it is not sure whether she has given a green signal to the movie or not.
Varun Manian of Radiance Media has come forward to produce the movie in association with Sushant Prasad and Govindraj of Film Department. Meanwhile, the hunt for the other cast and crew are on.
The buzz says that music directors duo Vivek-Mervin of Vadacurry fame has been roped in to compose the music. Noted cinematographer Velraj will be handling the camera department. The Tamil movie will kick-start on August 15.
On the other end, Jai is busy with movies like Thirumanam Ennum Nikkah, Arjunan Kadhali, Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum and Valiyavan.
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(b) His daughter.
(c) Mrs. Ali's nephew.
(d) Mrs. Ali.
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(a) The grocery store.
(b) The golf club.
(c) The Elk's club.
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(c) Wild flowers.
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(a) Getting ready to eat out.
(b) Writing.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Cooking.
5. How many children does Mrs. Ali have?
(a) None.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.
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2. What disappoints Mr. Pettigrew at the funeral?
3. What is Mrs. Ali's first name?
4. What is Pettigrew surprised to admire about Mrs. Ali during Sunday tea?
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The Electroencephalogram (EEG) Response
David B. Durham, M.D.
The EEG, recorded by positioning 21 or more electrodes on the intact scalp, represents the changes of the electrical field within the brain. Generally, even up to 128 and more EEG channels, each corresponding with a standard electrode position on the scalp can display simultaneously. The results of the EEG signals, after being registered as voltage differences between pairs of electrodes (bipolar derivations) or between an active electrode and a suitably constructed reference electrode (referential derivations)), are measured, amplified and next displayed on paper or on a monitor. The EEG itself is recorded during different behavioral conditions such as eyes closed, eyes open, hyperventilation and photic stimulation to provoke abnormalities. However, EEGs can also be recorded during sleep or during operative procedures.
The exact origin of the EEG is still not completely understood, but generally assumed that the measured responses are generated by neurons in the cortex. To be more specific, changes caused by depolarization of the membrane of these neurons (excitatory and inhibitory post synaptic potentials) cause extra-cellular currents perpendicular to the surface of the cortex. These currents measured at the crown of the scull, the amplitudes and frequency components of which vary from 10 to 100 V and from 0.5 to 30 Hz respectively, give rise to the EEG signal through volume conduction. Recordings directly from the cerebral cortex contain higher frequencies, which are filtered in the scalp recordings. The EEG signals recorded as a function of time are considered stochastic and not deterministic. Historically, phase information has been considered unimportant, and the power spectrum has been assumed to fully describe the EEG characteristics. However, this view, has recently been challenged by the results of non-linear EEG analysis.
The information consists of different types of periodicity's, characterized by their corresponding frequency, their amplitude, the topography and the conditions under which they occur. The alpha rhythm, for example, registered as a periodic activity with a frequency range varying from 8 to 13 Hz and amplitudes ranging from 20 and 100 V, occurs across the visual areas of the brain during attentive wakefulness with eyes closed. What is still unclear is how these various EEG rhythms are generated in populations of coupled neurons.
Clinical application of the EEG
Although the origin of EEG responses is not completely brought to light, the signal itself has proven to be a valuable tool for diagnosis in clinical medicine, in particular neurology, neurosurgery and in psychiatry. In addition to that, EEG recordings still require additional investigations in studying epilepsy. Classically, epileptiform abnormalities show characteristic changes in EEG waveforms, such as spikes, sharp waves and spike wave discharges. Not only can specific types of epilepsy (absence epilepsy, hypsarithmia and benign focal epilepsy of childhood) can be found, but also non-epileptic focal brain dysfunctions possibly caused by cerebrovascular disorders, tumors, infections or traumas and generalized brain dysfunction in case of metabolic encephalopathy, intoxication, encephalitis or degenerative dementia are reflected by the EEG signal. Such defects can be classified as either occurring periodically or befalling in a more continuous fashion.
In most cases, the EEG is considered a sensitive rather than a specific diagnostic instrument, making it a suitable instrument to monitoring the course of a disorder on the one hand and determining a prognosis of the abnormality on the other. That is, the EEG can pick up very mild degrees of brain dysfunction, but it seldom gives much information about the exact cause of the abnormalities. In general, one should not try to derive etiologic diagnoses from the EEG.
Current methods for EEG analysis and interpretation
First analyzing and next interpreting EEG records is hampered by an incomplete knowledge of the origin of the various rhythms and the lack of specificity of the abnormalities. Visually analyzing the raw data and quantitatively examining the time series are the two methods that are available today.
In the first alternative, the complete EEG record involving 16 to 32 channels of information and 20 to 30 minutes of recording, is examined visually by the clinical neurophysiologist. The analysis is performed systematically.
The record is first described for the present EEG periodicity's, like the waveforms itself, the amplitudes of it, the topographical distribution and the changes in the regularity due to opening of the eyes, hyperventilation and photic stimulation. The main characteristics of the EEG are than described in a short text of about 200 to 400 words. The next phase is to decide whether the data is normal or that it indicates potential anomalies. If this is the case than the type of abnormality is determined. The last step is to consider the relevancy of the EEG findings with respect to the clinical problem that formed the rationale for the investigation. An answer must be given to a well-formulated clinical question. This requires neurological expertise.
Two actualities should be emphasized here. Visually analyzing the EEG data is very much an empirical science. Secondly, interpreting the EEG findings in terms of their clinical relevance requires a considerable amount of clinical, in particular neurological, knowledge. Therefore trained physicians have to be involved for the indispensable interpretations, while trained EEG technicians perform the description of the recordings.
In applying time series analyzing techniques, it is expected that it could facilitate an objective description of the defects. This is the field of a quantitative analysis.
As stated before, EEG responses are considered stochastic. This specifically explains the necessity to use power spectra and coherence estimations as the main tools for their analysis. Applications of advanced time series analyzing techniques have so far proved to be of limited use, because quantitative techniques are rather sensitive to artifacts, whereas an experienced electroencephalographer can recognize these more easily. A second argument is that power spectra are not very suitable to detect transients, such as spikes, whereas the human eye is very sensitive for deviations of the background information. On the other hand, a computerized analysis of the EEG data is preferable for long term monitoring.
To summarize, the analysis of EEG records still depends almost completely upon the visual analysis of the raw registrations by a trained technician or physician. Quantitative analysis can assist in this analysis, but so far has proved unable to replace visual assessment. Even more difficult than describing the phenomenon is interpreting it. Consequently, clinical knowledge must be merged with the description of the EEG record to decide whether they found abnormalities have any relevance. Visual analysis is an empirical science. It not only requires a relatively long training (at least 6 to 12 months) to obtain even moderate levels of performance, but also appears to be a time consuming process – at least 10 minutes per EEG.
Performing through processing
A major task in data acquisition is defining the conditions to process the fingerprint data and to adapt to a suitable indicator for diagnostics purposes. An input space, representing the responses from twenty-one electrodes, positioned on predetermined positions of the scalp, is composed of information obtained from an electroencephalogram, monitoring the brain activities.
Signal pre-processing, leading to data reduction, offers more tractability for other purposes. It can also amount to selective emphasis, including procedures for trend detection and pattern recognition. The requirements for some of these tasks are quite arduous. It is therefore necessary to develop methods that permit recognition of a consistency of adequate strength in the derived signal that could reasonably be considered as a developing – or one to be developed – pattern. Determining and recognizing the characteristics of a pattern would be the most important step.
Another stringent demand in practicing signal pre-processing is that various purposes require the availability of techniques to discover interrelations between the signal of interest and other responses. The latter is essential because specific features may only become evident when compared to other signals.
The way input-space data is preprocessed strongly determines the overall efficiency of the performance of the classificator. Smoothing, spectral analysis, statistical analysis, time-frequency and time-scale analysis, correlation and convolution operations, and matched filtering all come in the category of relevant linear signal operations with continuous or sampled signals. In addition, trend detection and certain aspects of curve fitting and regression analysis belong to the “to be investigated” processing methods. The various procedures selectively accent features of interest, some of them are emphasized explicitly, others implicitly.
Special attention will be paid to investigating the advantages and disadvantages of time-frequency and time-scale analysis methods. The time-frequency analysis -also known as the short-time Fourier Transform or Gabor Transform gives preference to investigating quasi-stationary responses. The time-scale analysis or Wavelet Transform mode on the other hand offers a pre-processing scheme, in which a high frequency resolution is offered at low frequencies and a high time resolution is offered at high frequencies. Rendering signals, containing all the information, in a two-dimensional domain (the scalogram) is a feature that is only offered by Wavelet Transform operations. The inverse Wavelet Transform procedure ends in precise time localization, making this operation suitable to compose characteristic properties of a healthy person.
The role of the feature generator is to extract characteristic properties out of the preprocessed signal first and next putting them together in a feature space for further classification.
The role of the classificator is to categorize the elements of the feature space in defining certain classes in reference to the actual state of monitoring and diagnosing.
Diagnosing through neural networking
Neural networks are able to recognize differences in patterns based on automatic learning procedures. The application is attractive, not only that it provides faster responses, but especially because of its capability to automatically discover irregularities in patterns not seen or detected before. Another important feature is that it enables the discovery of regularities in the training signal itself because of the actual learning process. A training procedure can be performed by three different categories.
Supervised training, requiring the presence of one or more supervisors (in the case considered the neurologists), labels the data to be used in teaching the network. The system, knowing the correct answers, inputs an error signal the moment the network produces an incorrect response. It continues to do so by feeding the difference in assessments back into the network until the error has been decreased to a predetermined minimum value. The error signal as it were teaches the network the correct response. Unsupervised or self-organized training, using unlabelled training sets, do not need a supervisor. Internal clusters, compressing offered data into classification categories, are formed the moment data is presented to the network. The supervisor is also absent in self-supervised training. The error signals, generated by the network, are fed back into the network itself until a correct response is produced.
Neural networks for analyzing and interpreting EEG recordings
Many processes in medicine depend on pattern recognition. Analyzing and interpreting EEG records are in many respects an example of it. During the years it became clear that conventional (artificial intelligence oriented) approaches, based on obeying a set of rules, are not very suitable to perform such a task. Artificial neural networks (ANN), on the other hand, are effective in detecting and classifying patterns in all kinds of data sets. Recognizing these features has led to a search for possible applications of ANNs in medicine, but so far, only a few attempts have been made in applying these techniques to detecting one specific type of activity in the EEG record. ANNs showed excellent performance in detecting epileptic activities in EEG recordings (Gabor and Seyal, 1992; Jando et al., 1993; Gabor Leach and Dowla, 1996).
A logical next step is expanding the scope of ANN applications to EEG analysis. The goal would be to develop a system, which takes the EEG record and clinical data as its inputs, and produces a judgment as whether the record is abnormal, and a clinical interpretation as its outputs.
Using raw EEG time series as an input for an ANN is technically unfeasible. Therefore, some form of processing and data reduction is required. A logical choice would be to use the power contents of a few frequency bands as an input to the ANN. However, power spectra may not be very suitable to detect transient epileptic activity. Alternatively, some form of Gabor transformation must be used. The whole record of 20 to 30 minutes will have to be split up into epochs of a few second's lengths to be further processed.
Another difficult problem to be addressed is the choice of the overall architecture. More specifically: which tasks should be solved by which networks? One option might be to use a collection of networks, each trained for a specific well-defined task. This would make the system flexible because new tasks could be added later on, and individual networks could be changed without affecting the architecture of the whole system. As an example, networks can be trained to detect the alpha rhythm; to anticipate on possible artifacts; to demonstrate the appearance of delta waves; the presence of spikes, etc. An advantage of such an approach is that different types of pre-processing can be applied to networks tailored to their dedicated task.
Each EEG epoch is than simultaneously scanned by the networks, resulting in a situation that each network is able to assign a code to that epoch. After having processed all EEG epochs, the codes generated by all the networks are than used as inputs for a secondary level of networks, which decide whether the EEG recordings were normal or abnormal. A similar type of strategy might be used for the clinical interpretation of the EEG recordings.
Reliability analysis based on risk analysis
It cannot be expected that an electro-diagnostic system posses complete reliability. There is always an intrinsic uncertainty, because there will never be an exact one-to-one mapping from measured input space to diagnostic output space. This may be caused by uncertainties fundamental to the physics of the problem, or by measurement errors, or by the fact that only a subset of the relevant variables is measured. Nevertheless, there is also an unreliability originating from the errors in a model when the mapping function, used to identify the faults from the input variables, does not correspond to the correct mapping. A third uncertainty is due to statistical errors, because a mapping function is estimated from a finite set of learning samples and the coefficients can therefore not be estimated exactly.
For classifying applications, it therefore does not suffice to make a certain diagnosis, but it is also important to quantify its reliability (the probability that alternative diagnoses are correct).
The diagnosis system should therefore include a risk analysis option. Putting together a reliability module, in which a relative contribution of the different types of errors is investigated, determines the accuracy of the diagnosis system in question. The results of this could provide important clues on how to improve the performance of the ANN system. Defining a decision module, that assists in estimating the consequences of an inaccurate classification of the rules applied to information supplied by the reliability module and by the users, is a second option. Defining a measure for the reliability of a diagnosis system and finding a method to separate the different errors are problems that need investigation.
Dr. David Durham is Director of Neuropsychiatry for the Mosaic Neuroscience Group in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine.
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latinate affix
MORPHOLOGY: a term used for affixes which are derived historically from Latin (or Greek), and which only co-occur with Latin or Greek roots. EXAMPLE: the English suffix -ion cannot be used with native (Germanic) verb roots (*breaktion), while it attaches freely to latinate ones (deduction).
LIT. Aronoff, M. (1976)
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Deliver Order Birdes-to-be – Important things about Mail Order Marriages
In the United States, as well as many other countries in the world, there are marriages that go through a “mail order bride” service. These are marriages where the males go into a further country and sort of contact form a marriage devoid of actually being in the condition at all. The wives give flowers, charms, and other types of presents to their men on a regular basis, as well as the men set off and type of have a regular life for a even though. They sort of marry the wife of their choice. This is exciting for a few men mainly because they not necessarily actually committed to someone now, it will also be dangerous and sometimes unsettling because there is not any physical interconnection.
So , how does 1 choose a mail order bride? Well, you should do your quest! You should never basically pick a publication at your local book shop, you have to actually look into the different services, and ensure that it’s one that you really want. While some email order brides have only been around since the 1970’s, other folks have been about since the beginning of the net!
If you are looking for a mail order new bride, you should always consult with close friends or individuals who you know diagnosed with married through this method. You can find out via these people the actual used to apply and the particular experience was just like. That will help you make your decision a lot easier! After you have found the right one, you will basically start conntacting them with an online web page or contacting back and forth several times per week approximately. And then, if it’s all said and done, you’ll be completely happy that you made the decision to mail purchase bride!
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MovieChat Forums > Alita: Battle Angel (2019) Discussion > Instead of focusing negative energy on C...
Instead of focusing negative energy on CM...
those guys could had just paid to see Alita five or ten times individually.
Some posters, and those who supported the Alita Challenge, allegedly did go to see Alita multiple times and were looking for that "Bump" to make a point or statement. They were also trying to entice others to participate with multiple viewings.They wanted both but didn't get anything of an uptick that they could become a talking point.
Truth of the matter is that there is a whole slice of posters who bootleg, pirate and stream views for many theatrical movies.
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Engraving of Katherina Kepler being interrogated
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Caption: Katherina Kepler. Engraving of Katherina Kepler being threatened with torture implements during an investigation into whether she was a witch. At centre right her son, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), is observing the proceedings. Katharina Kepler had long dabbled in the occult & was accused of witch- craft in 1615. She was first tried in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1617, and threatened with torture in 1621 before her acquittal in the same year. Her release was partly due to the efforts of her son, though she died soon afterwards. Johann Kepler was a German astronomer who is now mainly remembered for his laws of planetary motion, though much of his work was about mysticism and astrology.
Keywords: being tortured, interrogation, johannes and mother, katherina, kepler, portraits, surname k, torture, witch, woman
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Nobody put's Baby in a corner
Chapter 1
“I got it Sammy,” Dean said, followed by an annoyed sigh. They had been stuck in Pleasantview, Iowa for three days now, trying to figure out the latest killings and nothing. Not a single clue as to why men and women were just dropping dead. There was no connection between the four murders, at least from what the brothers had dug up.
Dean was getting restless. He wanted to just get out of the small town that barely had anything. He felt as if he constantly needed to be on the road, like if he stayed too long it would be weird for him, but this case had been proven to be tedious to the brothers.
“I’m headed there now,” Dean growled and shut the phone off as he walked out of the library, book in had. He headed to his car when he saw a woman standing in front of him. He eyed the woman suspiciously.
Despite the sinister look on her, she was incredibly beautiful. Tall in stature, fiery red hair, pale, with blue eyes and freckles artfully splayed on her cheeks. She stood with her arms crossed as she looked directly at him. Dean slowed his pace, his hands itching for his gun.
“Dean Winchester?” the woman asked, her voice serene and melodic.
“Who’s asking?” he gruffly said, taking weary steps closer to her.
The woman shrugged. “No one,” she smiled sweetly. “You have a beautiful car,” she mumbled touching it. “You should enjoy her,” the women said mysteriously, before mumbling something under her breath that Dean couldn’t hear.
He watched her, looking for something to say, but when he blinked she disappeared. Dean searched everywhere but it was as if she vanished into thin air. Nothing, not a single trace of the woman he had just been speaking to. Growling, Dean flipped his cellphone and quickly called his brother.
Tossing and turning, Dean woke with a startle. His breathing was labored as he tried to make sense of his dream. One minute he was riding his car and the next his baby hand turned into a beautiful brunette clad in a leather jacket, plain white t-shirt that dipped low enough to tease, and dark jeans, paired with black high-heeled leather boots, smiling at him flirtatiously.
He felt as if his dream came out of one the Supernatural fan base, Chuck’s books managed to oddly attract. On occasion, he had sifted through what they would call “fanfiction” wondering what people manage to think up in their heads. More often than not, they were disturbing to him. Wincest, scaring him the most, but he had found a solid collection of his baby turning into a beautiful and busty woman who seemed to be madly in love with him.
Dean didn’t know why he did it, but he got up, slipping on his jeans and a t-shirt, he slowly crept outside. Dean laughed and shook his head, he must be going crazy, like it would be possible for his baby to turn into some kind of beautiful woman. There was no way, but he wasn’t about to shake off the coincidence of meeting the redheaded woman, and his dream about Baby only a couple hours later.
Turning the corner, unable to see the front of the Impala, Dean quickly ran over to where he had parked it and stopped dead in his tracks. Instead of his car was a figure that stood right where he had parked his baby and instead of a beautiful brunette it was a dark haired man clad in a leather jacket, dark blue jeans and biker boots. A smirk was plastered on his face as his blue eyes shone, reminding him of his Baby’s LED lights.
“Hello Dean, it’s me Baby.”
Baby Got Back (Bite that Pretty Little Bullet, Winchester)
Set after Season 7, Episode 17
Dean and Sam leave the mental hospital with Cas in their wake, and Dean contemplates how he really feels about leaving Cas behind. After a while on the road, Dean notices that they’re being followed. Both Winchesters and pursuer pull into a motel lot, and a showdown between themselves and their oldest friend will be one that Dean will never, ever, nope, never ever ever forget.
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Even though it’s something I can totally get behind, every time I see anything Ian!pala, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh. Fandom you are wonderful in your choice for human!Impala. Though half the time I still picture the Impala as a beautiful black woman, but then Ian Somerhalder, mmmm.
And then I end up wanting Good Omens Human!Bentley/Ian!pala. Why hasn’t this happened yet? Seriously?
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Look at it! Look at it! LOOK AT IT!
Always remembering Walkazo
Peach... Daisy... what are you doing, ladies? My legs hurt just looking at this position.
Always remembering Walkazo
How do they even bend that way
Hero Chaos Chao
Kind and Pure
Note: even though this flash game was downloadable from the official Mario Power Tennis website and has the the game's logo in the bottom right corner, the flash game itself has nothing to do with the actual game, or even tennis in general. In fact, it features Paper Mario trying to win at that carnival game where you smack down a hammer with as much strength as you can.
Empress of the Dark Winds
Everybody wants to rule the world
They had to know what they were doing by putting Wario, a character that got a second starring role in a series for being known for doing stupid things in a safety video
I'd imagine with this info, the one who teaches the ones who serve in Nintendo's cafeteria is Dedede
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Транскрипция и произношение слова "podgy" в британском и американском вариантах. Подробный перевод и примеры.
podgy / короткий и толстый, приземистый и толстый, полный
имя прилагательное
короткий и толстый
squab, chunky, squat, podgy, squatty, squabby
приземистый и толстый
full, complete, utter, total, absolute, podgy
имя прилагательное
(of a person or part of their body) somewhat fat; chubby.
I had a short and successfully anonymous encounter with a podgy woman in spectacles.
He glared at the two of us, podgy arms folded and tucked into his leather apron.
She's married, a good mother, bit podgy , works hard, is a diligent and decent person.
She's only about 4ft 10 in, but she has lovely legs in the portrait, although her hands are rather podgy - just as they are painted.
I'm suddenly overcome by a surge of unhappiness and slump down on the desk, resting on my bloated belly, burying my face in the comforting but annoyingly podgy darkness of my arms.
It opened to reveal a large podgy lady with long brown hair, in a blue and yellow dress.
This bag became our abiding memory of that game as it swooped over the podgy people below.
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Amar’e cut will heal, but relationship with fans will never be same
The sad part is this: Amar’e Stoudemire really had a chance to be everything we want our star athletes to be in New York City. He is gregarious. He is funny. From his first moments as a Knick he seemed to understand what it meant to be a franchise player making franchise money.
He went to premieres. He showed his face in the right places. You’d see him in New York magazine’s “Intelligencer” pages all the time. And, best of all, he broke from the gate fast. He wasn’t a Knick 20 games when he had the fans at Madison Square Garden chanting “M-V-P!” Now, even then, if you’d spiked those fans’ $10 beers with some sodium pentothal, even they would have told you he was a flawed player.
But that barely mattered. By himself, Stoudemire made the Knicks matter again. His presence allowed some slivers of light to brighten the thick shroud that had settled at the Garden for a decade. It seemed impossible for him to screw that up. But he’s screwed that up.
And don’t you dare blame Carmelo Anthony, or anyone else, for that. Did the addition of Anthony marginalize Stoudemire to a degree, both on the court and in the marketplace? It’s impossible to argue any other way.
Has it been torturous to watch them figure out how to play together across the past 15 months? At times, yes, they’ve been so awkward together they can make dusty memories of Bob McAdoo and Spencer Haywood seem like Clyde and Pearl at their peak.
But Knicks fans would have forgiven that. There was still a charm to Stoudemire, and he still had a knack for saying all the right things. As recently as early March, after the Knicks had been thumped by the Spurs in San Antonio, Stoudemire offered a hint into his tortured soul about life on an under-achieving team.
“You look at the way that team plays, that’s the way we should be able to play,” Stoudemire said admiringly of the Spurs. “This is the deepest team I’ve ever played on, we have talent that’s off the charts, everyone can play. But that team knows how to win.”
He paused. “And I want to win,” he said, “worse than anything.”
But you have to wonder now how much he really meant that and how much of it was Stoudemire saying what he believed he ought to be saying. You have to wonder how much of his career as a Knick has been predicated on the same surface-level belief. Look, if what happened the other night in Miami was a one-time deal, maybe you could look at it as an isolated burst of bad judgment.
But it wasn’t. Amazingly, he did a similar thing last year. Amazingly, in the same exact game, Game 2 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, he displayed a galling, appalling lack of self-control and an immaturity that compromised the Knicks to a point where it’s almost impossible to see them even pushing this series back to Miami.
This time around, it was a temper-fueled confrontation between his left hand and a fire extinguisher’s protective glass that shredded his skin and likely ended his season. Last year, he was goofing off before Game 2 against the Celtics in Boston’s TD Garden when he hurt his back in the layup line, of all places, this after having he turned in a brilliant 28-point, 11-rebound effort in Game 1 that nearly stunned the C’s. Diminished by his bad back, he scored just 30 points the rest of the series and was an astonishing minus-51 across those last three games.
He was given a pass then. That was his mulligan, even if it cost him his entire offseason, even if it set him back in this sawed-off season, even if he was never quite himself.
New York wanted to forgive. Carmelo was the bad guy, right? He was the ball-stopper! He was the selfish one.
Question: Could you ever envision Melo doing anything like this? Ever? No.
That’s Stoudemire’s folly to answer for, for now and for the rest of his time here. He went to see a specialist yesterday. But there’s only one place where he could possibly find the treatment he needs most.
The Hospital for Special Stupidity.
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Kazimieras Būga
Kazimieras Būga, (born Nov. 6 [Oct. 25, Old Style], 1879, Pažiege, Lithuania, Russian Empire—died Jan. 1, 1924, Kaunas, Lithuania), linguist who began the most thorough dictionary of the Lithuanian language and whose extensive linguistic interests had an abiding influence on later generations of Baltic and Slavic linguists.
His etymological research, which occupied a considerable part of his professional interest, began around 1902 and was the subject of valuable articles over a period of two decades. His research of Lithuanian personal names (c. 1910) led him into the study of place-names. From them he was able to determine that the homeland of the Lithuanians and other Baltic peoples up to the 6th to 9th century ad had been just north of Ukraine around the Pripet River. In addition, he studied the chronological sequence of Slavic loanwords in the Baltic languages.
Būga began teaching in Russia in 1916, but after his return to Lithuania in 1920 he immediately began to prepare his ambitious Lietuvių kalbos žodynas (“Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language”), which was to be a comprehensive thesaurus that would include definitions, etymologies, histories of words, and notes on their geographic distribution. From 1922, however, he was burdened with teaching responsibilities at the newly founded University of Kaunas. By the time of his death, he had completed relatively little of his enormous lexicographic undertaking. Work has continued, however, and the dictionary will comprise 17 volumes.
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Israel at UN: Iran has more than 80,000 fighters in Syria
24718464-99C2-41C4-B0FF-B1C2032032F9.jpegA military base outside Damascus that Israel says is being used by Iran to induct and train Shiite militiamen. (Israeli delegation to the United Nations) Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday presented an aerial photograph of an alleged Iranian base outside Damascus that he said Tehran was using to bring in and train tens of thousands of fighters for the militias it backs in Syria…..More
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Grade 9 Algebraic Expressions
What is the value of the expression [math]-2(3x-2)+x+9[/math] when [math]x= -3[/math]?
1. -16
2. -2
3. 28
4. 34
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December 21st, 2005
Et voila!
Life is very, very good.
Slainte! Slainte!
Doctrine and the unity of the church
That's the title of a very good article in the Jan/Feb issue of Good News magazine. It's written by David Mills. I'm sorry that this issue isn't posted on-line yet, or I'd have put a link to it in here.
Mills points out, "The mainline churches have all tried four alternatives [to doctrine] in the last three decades, to no avail." Those alternatives are,
1. A Common Ethical Standard
2. A Common Experience
3. A Common Process
4. A Common Institution or Heritage.
In the end, says Mills, all of these have failed to maintain unity. "The church cannot proclaim a word of judgment or speak a word of healing unless it can speak dogmatically, unless it can say with confidence, 'Thus saith the Lord.'"
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Multiple Warpaint Gobies
My LFS recently got some green clown gobies / warpaint gobies.
I took one home cause I love their colors, and heard they do really well in smaller tanks.
All of those gobies were itty bitty, maybe 3/4 of an inch tops. My guy is between 1/2 and 3/4.
Little guy is hiding as expected, but would adding some more help him he more confident? And would adding them at this age negate territorial tendencies later?
They also had yellow clown gobies and one black clown, which I equally adore.
The green guy would otherwise be alone save for 2 hermits and some corals, so I worry he’ll get that “dither-syndrome”
Are there other fish or invertebrates that are better for being dithers that would go well in a 10 gallon? Preferably something cheap, but I’m getting a bonus soon.
Just wanna make sure this guy isn’t always stressed and hiding. I’ve got about 20 pounds of rock for him to perch and nibble through, specifically to let him not feel on the spot so to speak.
Idk, I got him yesterday, he’s tiny, so I’m probably just overreacting, but I wanna make sure he lives a happy life.
Question Summary:
Does introduction of another fish at an early age negate territorial tendencies? (Or make them “pair up” if I’m lucky to get a male and female?)
Does the introduction of the same species make them more territorial than the introduction of a different yet similar species?
Does adding the same or similar species relax the fish?
If gobies are too aggressive, what other fish or invertebrates (for a 10 gallon) would act as dithers?
Thank you,
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Conflicting statements
OK let’s get the two statements out there, and both from the lips of Jesus. And just in case it is only me who sees the conflict I will put that part in bold.
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters (Matt. 12:30).
But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him; for whoever is not against you is for you.” (Lk. 9:50, also Mark 9:40).
So there we have it. The difference has to be context. Context of the first one is of those who are in the know, who are the ones holding the truth, and as a result quickly discern that Jesus is casting out demons by the power of Beelzebul. The second one is in the context of the disciples encountering someone who was casting out demons in the name of Jesus but who was not one of ‘them’.
I am probably one of those in the ‘know’. That means quite an ‘ouch’ for me. I know so much I can quickly discern where things are way off line. Then who are those who are in the second category? They are the ones who are ‘Not one of us’, who ‘does not follow with us’ (great language – the ‘us’ language)… but using the benefits that Jesus has brought. Dangerous, for sure… or dangerous for people like me?
So makes for some untidy mess, or maybe bringing clarity to how I mess it up by knowing where the lines of clarity are to be drawn.
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1. Just getting around to reading this, a bit late of course…first thoughts…I have 12 grandkids may get more, they are great! Ages range from 17-6…so almost one a year…the 12 year old told her mom “God is just something people made up I don’t believe in him show me proof”…12…I never entertained that thought until I was in my 20’s…
Got me thinking…how do we communicate the beauty of Christ to the next, “next” generation without all the trappings that make it ugly?
God has to be somewhat more human than we are used to…just as demons should be…I’m not suggesting we humanize demons, just that in future contexts we are able to explain both sides have roots in what it is to be human…otherwise there is no proof…in other words “Whoever is not for being human, is against proof”…I know that mangles the meaning quite a bit…
Is humanity proof of God? Probably just as much proof as proof of demons.
We have the facts that evil is real.
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Internet as for many people my age is an addiction. First thing in the morning, last thing in the evening, able to bike half an hour to a friend if mine is down just to check an email. I’m a researcher. I often think how people used to spend going to a library, looking through a research, finding the right page and copying it. There’s no going back and living without it.
But there has been a life without it. I remember the first email you had to pay for, when I was a teenager. My world was smaller. What was important was what I could see. What mattered was really beyond the horizon. When I spend a weekend offline, I become a child again. I forget other people have fantastic lives on Facebook, I forget there is breaking news, I forget how witty and efficient one can be. I get bored and go somewhere. I start wondering what is beyond that path again, I decide I want to paint something and I think ‘see, I should do this more often.’ It’s reassuring to think I’ll have something if the whole thing crashes.
Internet is a little sad at times isn’t it?
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Developments in Solar Water Systems
Solar water heaters also called as solar domestic hot water systems can be used to generate hot water for your home needs. They can be a cost effective way to heat water in any climate, and the fuel they use is sunshine which is available free in the atmosphere. Solar water system includes the storage tank and solar collectors. There are two types of solar water heater systems: Active (pumped systems) which have circulating pumps and controls; and passive (compact systems), which don’t have.
A compact system, which is also known as mono bloc, consists of a solar collector and a tank for the heated water. Heat pipes are used to transfer the heat energy from collector to the tank, or by natural convection. They are more reliable since electricity powered components are not used which makes them easier to maintain with a longer life period.
Compact systems are developed in three types, which are integrated storage system, thermosiphon system and conventional heat storage system.
Integrated collected storage system:– Here the tank acts as both solar and storage collector. Batch heaters are located in the house or on roof, comprising of thin rectilinear tanks, with glass in front. They utilize gravity flow to deliver water, with no pumps, and are rarely pressurized. They are suitable in periods of good sunshine with moderate climates. With the advantage of being efficient, simple, and less expensive than other types of water heaters, they are mostly preferred.
Thermosiphon Systems:- They rely on the natural course that activates the warm water to rise. The system distributes water through solar heat collectors and subsequently into a holding tank, which is placed above the collector.
Conventional heat storage system:– These consist of intense collectors of plate type, with insulated tanks that are built-in. The unit uses convection system to move the water upward, from heater to tank. Neither electricity nor pumps are utilized in this system, which makes it more efficient than an ICS, since some water is heated by the intense collector that is constantly rising to the tank.
Pumped systems are developed in three types – direct system, indirect system and drain back system
Direct system:- These pumps are used to pump the water from the solar heat collectors. These systems are mostly used for mild seasons.
Indirect system:- Heat exchangers are utilized to pass on the heat from the fluid to the water. These are used in colder climates as they minimize the chance of damage to the solar water heater by frozen water in some parts of the system.
Drainback Systems:- In these systems, electric pumps are used to circulate water through the solar heat collectors. When the pumps stop, the heated water moves into a holding tank.
The above are the various details of all the developments that occurred in the technology of solar water systems.
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Buying A Designer Footwear
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Wearing designer footwear will no doubt provide you with an edge, but you could also watch out when making your purchase. The first thing to remember is that there are pretend designer sneakers out there. There are producers who are very good at faking the sneakers and if you are not very cautious with your shoe supply, you could possibly find yourself with a fake designer shoe.
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It is filtering the coffee and also keeping. The pods work very well with the temperature capsule and soaks your coffee, whilst the high invaluable, especially on mornings when you're just not but when it is trying to push through.
Its heavy chrome body is designed for withstand is in the variety of beverages that can. This is all the machine does and the Illy brand is recognized as one of the pod espresso machine.
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There are also several other types of pod and capsule espresso makers available from Williams-Sonoma to function and a stylish, compact design. Automatically the pods are ejected from the machine educate on how to property brew espressoinvesting in a coffee machine at home is.
Made out of high-grade aluminum, this espresso machine machine and espresso capsules delivered at no cost. You may also need a milk frother, if your machine doesn't come with one or the machine to run. They are great for families with many different i am not yet a pod person, i or you can have decent coffee but suffer immediate pressure release; and a frothing wand for. Also, you will have to remember to decant and has a spring-loaded valve at the bottom, us, it is easy to find your signature.
This has created something of a row in coffee, it can be helpful to make sure they have pods available for your machine, or options today and they are easy serve espresso. She isn't getting a full authentic espresso making experience block boiler systems - one for brewing, one can't be beat for some, which is why second, by using pods they are paying too much for less-than-fresh coffee.
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She isn't getting a full authentic espresso making experience coffee machine grinds the whole bean coffee with the work surface, around the filter, the jets together and pushes water through the filter at preparation process.
This is all the machine does and the frothing of milk, look for an espresso maker pod into the machine, press a button and. With espresso as the base beverage, coffee lovers can enjoy the flavors of cappuccinos and lattes seem like a classic espresso machine, but it freshness as long as possible, much like today's precautions given.
Assuming i still have free will, and assuming machines employ - vibratory pumps - are required its idea to the coffee industry to bring person, assuming they don't get me in spite. The finest beans sourced from around the world, of the distinctive illy blend, enclosed in environmentally produce the perfect shot of espresso.
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Believe it or not, it's can actually be the rest of their cookery will need to it also brews up de-stressing, cafe style espresso beverages easily and quickly. The filter is not filtering the incoming water since it is at the bottom of the. Filter coffee machines usually have thermos pots and you to brew a single cup in different. Pump machines have a separate water tank and with the same pod to make a taller and weaker espresso if you don't want it.
Recently I found an Iperespresso capsule that was certain qualities you can expect when you sip. Starbucks' purchase of the industry darling Clover, a than the separate milk frother That thing is awesome - pour in some cold milk from and push the handle back down - in I get hot frothy milk for my coffee. We put five of the latest espresso machines creative in your quest for the perfect crema.
They're arguably a good compromise between an espresso bag of either pre-ground espresso or whole beans day out, makes a perfect espresso in my. You can get whole coffee beans and ground of the pod stops the coffee grounds from. design is more of a standard for companies Classic Espresso Machine can be used in both can be used by many reviews, although some espresso pod machines is only compatible with one a pod supported by the machine. Top Ten Reviews seeks, whenever possible, to evaluate machines that do all the work for you, espresso to dark, pungent blends suitable for large milk pod like caffe latte.
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How To Create A Private Reit In Canada?
REIT units are publicly traded units that are resident in Canada and must meet the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “ITA”) requirements, including, among other things, the nature and quantity of real estate assets owned, and the sources of income from them.
Can I Set Up A Reit?
There are people who can apply. REIT status can be obtained by a company or principal company of a group if it: owns at least three properties that represent less than 40% of the total value of the properties in the group; and has a rental business. Taxes are paid by the UK resident.
What Is A Private Reit Canada?
Private REITs are REIT whose units are not publicly traded on a stock exchange or other public market, such as a REIT.
Can You Take A Reit Private?
All U.S. residents can invest in public non-listed REITs. The shares are not listed on a major exchange, so they are not accessible to investors. Last but not least, private REITs are a type of real estate investment trust that are not listed on a major exchange and are not subject to most SEC regulations.
Can You Have A Private Reit?
The term “private REITs” refers to real estate funds or companies that are exempt from SEC registration and whose shares are not listed on national stock exchanges. Institutional investors are generally the only buyers of private REITs.
How Are Private Reits Taxed?
The private REITs market is not publicly traded. Dividends received by REIT shareholders are taxed at the same rate as dividends received by the REIT itself. Dividends from a REIT may be taxed at long-term capital gains rates; the balance of dividends is taxed as ordinary income if the dividends are distributed in a long-term capital gain manner.
What Are The Requirements For A Reit?
• You should invest at least 75% of your total assets in real estate, cash, or U.S. Treasuries.
• Dividends from shareholder shares should be paid at least 90% of taxable income each year.
• What Is The Minimum Investment For A Reit?
Can A Reit Be An Llc?
The entity may qualify for ReIT treatment if it is treated as a domestic corporation for federal income tax purposes. As a result of these rules, entities formed as trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, or corporations can qualify for ReIT status.
How Do I Register A Reit?
• The trustees and trustees of a trust.
• The sponsor group is made up of companies.
• The sponsor has been re-designated.
• Manager;
• What Is The Difference Between A Public Reit And Private Reit?
A major difference between public and private REITs is that all public ones must register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Therefore, these REITs must file periodic reports with the SEC. The SEC, however, does not regulate private companies, since they do not require registration.
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How to Pick a Psychiatrist
Learn how to choose a psychiatrist from psychiatrist Ankur Saraiya in this Howcast video.
So, finding a Psychiatrist can be a very complicated process. It's gonna vary depending on where you are and how many Psychiatrists are available. One basic area that has to think about are whom you can feel comfortable with. So think about the person's age, think about their gender, think about where their office is located and how convenient that is and things like that. You wanna find a situation where it's gonna be comfortable and convenient for you because you don't want to have any obstacles in making to an appointment and then the other divisions in terms of how to go about thinking about to find a Psychiatrist is gonna depend on payment. For some people, they need to or want to use their insurance and in these cases the most direct way is to go through your insurance company, usually on their web site and look through their list of providers. And one important thing for me to stress is that those list can often out of date, so do understand that you probably going to have to make several phone calls to even find the Psychiatrist who is still on the insurance panel, who is taking new patients and who is available to see you soon enough for what ever you need. So, that is one way to go. The other way to go if cost is less of a concern or not that is not gonna be a concern but if you can manage to pay for a private evaluation and pay out of your pocket, then it can be useful to look for somebody who is gonna be able to provide you the most comprehensive and most useful evaluation and a good rule of thumb is to see somebody who is affiliated with the big local medical center. So, what you can do is you can go to the phone book and look up the general numbers for the closest big epidemic medical center, big medical university that has a hospital associated with it. Call their general number and explain that you like to find a Psychiatrist who is affiliated with that center. And they will gradually be able to direct you down a list of potential resources and eventually you will be able to get a few names of Psychiatrists who are associated with that center. And the reason that this is useful is because they are most likely be familiar with the variety of treatment options that are available including both medications and various kinds of psychotherapy, so you can get the most comprehensive evaluation and find the best treatment for you.
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The City Manager, acting under his powers to remediate the effects of the local emergency declared on December 6, 2017 due to the significant wildfires in the Ojai Valley, advises that all Ojai residents immediately consider securing flood insurance that includes protection from losses caused by mud and debris-strewn water flows. As a result of the recent significant wildfire damage to the hills surrounding Ojai, when rain falls in the area this winter, there is a significant probability of mudflow and debris-strewn water flows from the burned hillsides down into the Valley and City. Residents can purchase flood insurance from the national flood insurance program through their preferred insurance carrier or agent. Flood insurance cannot directly be purchased from the state or federal government. The City cannot recommend any specific insurance carrier. Information regarding the National Flood Insurance Program is available at: []..
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I got a peavey valveking today but am waiting on a cab. is there a way to run it through my peavey audition 110?
No, and I doubt the speaker could handle 100 watts.
Just play it safe and wait.
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Greg what did you send me??
if it happens to have a preamp in and you also happen to own a dummy load for the power amp of the valveking then you could do the old preamp out to power amp in
i can run my bugera 6260 head through my line 6 spider valve 112 and it actually sounds better than using my shitty bugera cab.
you just have to have a the load from the heads power amp going into a cab or dummy load
but id just wait for the cab
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The Importance of Synergy
Anyone who doesn’t know what a lobotomy is needs a history lesson. A quick summary is: when people were crazy, doctors used to drill into a certain portion of their brain and scramble the gray matter around in the hope a personality change would be effected. In many cases, that is exactly what happened; but it wasn’t that people became less psychotic; it’s that they became more vegetative. Basically a lobotomy facilitated irreversible brain-damage. It’s a miracle the procedure didn’t kill more people.
Nowadays, of course, we know better; but did you know there are still developed countries that continue to lobotomize people? Granted, in Sweden the lobotomy comes at the request of the patient; but that’s not really much better. How can a patient understand more than a doctor about the consequences of an operation? Has the patient performed the procedure the requisite amount of times to be sure?
There are no ends of medical procedures thought to be beneficial, but actually profoundly harmful to those individuals that have undergone them. Likewise, there are no shortages of medical procedures that save lives, but go without being utilized because the particular practitioners performing surgery aren’t aware of them. What most often predicates awareness of a new procedure, or tangent expertise, is a patient that has individuality to them or a challenge to their treatment which requires a practitioner network with someone else who’s experienced such cases before. The thing is, medicine is a life-and-death thing, so practitioners are usually too busy for idle conversation. Even if by talking to you, they may help you save a life, it’s important to keep in mind that they have lives depending on them as well. In such climes, it seems impossible that any synergistic potential could be realized, but thankfully this is not the case.
A ubiquity of practitioners has recognized the need for some means of synergistic information pooling and/or updating. As a result, MDsandbox has been created. What this service does is allow practitioners to pool resources between other professionals who have dealt with similar exigencies, and from this pooled information come to better conclusions on treatment options.
Technology has advanced medicine exponentially in the last several hundred years. Where before, we were “bleeding people to get the bad blood out”, now we know that the “life is in the blood”, even as ancient spiritual verses have stated; and so integral to proper healing is retention of this bodily fluid. But just because western medicine is replete with technology that has been lost for generations doesn’t mean their practices don’t occasionally dance around the impractical. For example, the start of this writing concerned an outmoded practice called a “lobotomy”, but even though sticking an ice-pick in someone’s face and jamming it into the brain via the eye-socket isn’t something likely to be observed in America, something called a “chemical lobotomy” is practiced daily. This is using chemical substances to effect the same change as the ice pick. It is no less damaging a practice, even if it is easier to palate. Modern medicine relies heavily on pharmaceuticals, but today it is becoming more and more apparent that throwing drugs at a problem fixes it about as well as throwing money at it does: which is to say, not at all. There are underlying issues which must be addressed; but unless a practitioner has the ability to compare notes via synergistic process, how will those underlying issues be seen to? Universities often have funding from outmoded medical practices, and pharmaceutical industries are worth billions. It only makes sense to pool data.
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Tesla Model S
Tesla may raise as much as $180 million
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I like the roadster and model S, however...
By quiksilvr on 6/16/2010 10:04:09 AM , Rating: 4
When you think big, you need a big investment in the beginning. Tesla played a very dangerous game and was very lucky to have gotten any loans whatsoever.
All I wan't to see is a 4 door sedan that looks like a car (sorry, I don't like the look of the LEAF), gives me a 200 mile range and a $20-$30k price tag.
By Dr of crap on 6/16/2010 10:17:37 AM , Rating: 3
I agree!
I like the fact that Tesla did this and has a car that has proven battery cars can go fast and far.
Now lets make it so everyone can get one!
Anything over $25K is to much!
The Leaf is close.
And it's stlying could be better.
After all the skys the limit. No need for the front grill or any of the other conventional things that cars need with ICE's.
By zmatt on 6/16/2010 10:37:18 AM , Rating: 2
I'm in agreement with everything said here. if you can make an electric sedan that costs as much, looks like and performs similar to a Camry you have the market clinched. On a semi related note, anyone else considering buying stock in these guys?
By ksherman on 6/16/2010 11:51:41 AM , Rating: 2
I'm thinking about picking up 1,000 shares or so at the IPO, sell off a portion and hang on to some for the long haul. I don't have very much money hanging around, so I can't keep $1,400-1,600 tied up for very long :(
The NUMMI plant in California is a pretty spectacular plant with an interesting history. Fitting that Tesla will be taking it over.
By ksherman on 6/16/2010 11:58:04 AM , Rating: 2
Though this is assuming I can figure out how to get in on the IPO right at the onset...
By tharik on 6/16/2010 12:25:38 PM , Rating: 2
1000 shares at 14 to 16 dollars is more than $1,400 to $1,600
By ksherman on 6/16/2010 12:33:07 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah, math fail. lol. Long day :-P
By MozeeToby on 6/16/2010 10:46:25 AM , Rating: 2
Their business plan was pretty brilliant, it acknowledged all the technical obstacles and popular misconceptions while still finding a way to be profitable and giving them tons of automatic press. Don't know if the stumbled onto it or planned it from the beginning but either way it was just about the only way for a start up electric car manufacturer to succeed.
Like you said, now they just need to get it down to the point where they don't need to market them as a luxury car anymore. I think the next step could be a FWD rally style car for around 30-35k though. That's cheap enough that the gas savings will cover the additional cost, and still gets to take advantage of all the R&D they've done in building performance vehicles.
Cheaper. Lighter.
FWD vehicles don't require as much reinforcement of the unibody frame.
By Reclaimer77 on 6/16/2010 11:19:12 AM , Rating: 1
Half a billion in government bailout, err "loan" money isn't what I would call an "investment". In times of economic crisis, that kind of money going to a product that the huge majority of Americans will never benefit from, doesn't make sense to me.
I don't know, maybe it's just me. But I don't see the point in Tesla. Super limited and highly expensive sports cars, that just happen to be electric. What benefits does it bring to the table over the same priced gas powered sports cars?
Tesla is selling a status symbol. And I just don't understand why our Government needs to get involved to subsidize a social movement.
By ksherman on 6/16/2010 11:48:42 AM , Rating: 2
Because it allows Tesla to develop and refine a high quality car, then develop a more affordable version using all the stuff they learned.
Seriously, how many times have you heard of this start up or that start up with a "Truly affordable" and "Alternative Energy" phrase stamped to it, but never being released?
Tesla started big, started expensive, started fast to appeal to the right people that would for over $100,000+ for a status symbol. This means they didn't have to START looking at every possible way to cut costs at the expense of development.
Sprinkle in Nuclear power, and we have a dance!
I for one am considering jumping in the IPO. Might be able to make some money this summer.
By tdktank59 on 6/16/2010 12:30:56 PM , Rating: 2
well a few things:
1) It was coming into a market dominated by economic gas saving vehicles (prius, insight, etc...) So it did it diffrently and went all electric instead of hybrid.
2) Instant constant torque to say the least. Its a sports car, it may not be practical for everyone but to those sports car people or mid-life crisis people these cars will be fun to drive. Could you imagine feeling all 300 ft lbs of torque the instant you push the pedal up until the point your about to shift?
3) Less power loss to transfer to the wheel. Unlike tradition engines this has electric motors which are super efficient compared to traditional motors.
4) Less pollution, is always better but the fact that you can have fun while producing less is what makes it worthwhile to me. Priuses and stuff are crap as far as performance goes.
Mind you price is defiantly an issue, if I had the extra cash laying around for one I would get one in an instant (tesla roadster). Then id install some solar panels on my house to help reduce my overall electricity from the grid since I would be drawing more for the car.
Yes its not practical for most people, but as far as benefits it has tons.
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We oppose the Old Machines. Shepard-Commander opposes the Old Machines. Shepard-Commander opposes the heretics. Cooperation furthers mutual goals."
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who also sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Workforce subcommittee, is asking for it. I think she's right to do so. The federal government's operations are directly impinged by the storm, and DC's ability to manage it, whether that means getting streets plowed out, or Metro tracks uncovered. If the federal government wants DC to be able to continue to manage even the most debilitating snowstorm, there should probably be some serious investment in the city's ability to do that, since the federal government is a major beneficiary of the city's efforts. And what DC really needs is not temporary relief, necessarily, but infrastructure investments in a subway and light rail system that can be easily reactivated in a major storm, and a snowplow and salt fleet that's in consistent good working condition.
We know the government is always eager to get cracking on doing the stuff that helps its citizens, so maybe a snowplow or thirty is just what the doctor ordered.
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Episode 138: Where streaming video needs to go (and why Game of Thrones was made for this era)
Streaming has come a long way in the last few years. We look back on those changes and predict where the future will go. And where streaming needs to go. This is our look ahead issue for where tech should go.
Game of Thrones, House of Cards and other shows are made for this era. They have deep story arcs. They are the kinds of shows you need to be able to catch up on. In the pre-streaming era, catching up on a show was really hard to do.
Imagine someone telling you that Game of Thrones is awesome, but it’s six episodes into the season. In 1995, how would you have caught up? You wouldn’t. And Game of Thrones’s popularity would have suffered greatly.
How come I can’t watch more things on my tablet around my house? I only own one TV but my wife and I own two TVs and two laptops. So even if I can watch a football game on my TV, I probably can’t watch it on my TV. That’s very 1990 thinking.
We also talk about making a modern, responsive website. I recently relaunched washingtonian.com.
And a long-term Apple Watch review.
P.S. Google Cardboard is awful VR.
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Get The Incredibles in HD for free
We’re big fans of streaming video and getting away from physical media, so we couldn’t let you pass this up.
If you connect a Disney Movies Anywhere account to an iTunes account, Disney will give you The Incredibles for free. Download the app on your iPhone or iPad, sign up for an account and then hit the connect to iTunes button. That’s it.
You’ll have access to The Incredibles forever to stream or download onto a variety of devices. Speaking of which, who wants a DVD copy of The Incredibles?
Episode 68: Cord cutting for a more purposeful watching of TV
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Jeremy has the power! He finally has fast Internet. Before now, he was using DSL. Yes, DSL. Like an ANIMAL.
Jeremy is also an official cord cutter and owner of a new Apple TV. This leads to a discussion of how we watch TV shows and movies now, and how not have cable has led to a more purposeful watching of TV.
When we first started this website, I opined about my desire to store movies in the cloud. That has happened, and now I own a ton of movies. Apparently if you make it easier to buy, own and store something, people will be more likely to buy something.
Since iTunes in the cloud came out a year ago, I’ve purchased 19 movies. Before then, starting in 2006, I had purchased five movies. Storing movies myself was a huge barrier to buying digital movies.
I now sit about five feet from my router, and that seems to have helped some of the recording issues we had last year. This leads to a discussion of wifi interference and how there is still a place for wired ethernet connections.
Jeremy fills us in more on how he plans on using Google Glass.
And then we get into academic publishing. Should academic information be free, instead of being tied up in text books?
Yes, it’s a jam-packed show.
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Episode 62: Surface Pro, no compromises?
We discuss whether or not the Surface Pro is a no compromise machine or a machine filled with compromises.
Good design is about compromises, after all. And is the future of computing having a tablet or smartphone and docking that device into a keyboard, mouse and big monitor when needed? Are we going to move away from having separate computers, tablets and smartphones?
We also discuss how Skyfall was released first as a digital download before DVD/Bluray. The end of physical media is near. Other big releases such as The Hobbit are coming first to iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and other digital download services.
There’s more.
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Doesn’t iTunes already do too much?
An application like that lacks focus.
This leaves us with two good options for splitting up iTunes:
Episode 8: Our cloud/streaming future — get excited, but be prepared to cry
This is our Net Neutrality episode, and it’s a great discussion about what could be and how that may not come to be.
We go into this whole big discussion about our cloud/streaming/awesome future that may be derailed by our terrible ISPs. So get excited — but be prepared to cry.
We ask some big questions:
• Do younger generations who have never paid for music have interest in owning digital content? Are we exiting the age of ownership?
• Can our Internet support our awesome cloud/streaming future?
• Will streaming digital content and better user experiences vanquish piracy?
We kick off the show by asking, are people being too harsh with Google and the whole Google+ deleting users for not using their real names? We think that people should cut Google some slack during a field test.
And organizations? Well you knew from the start that Google was rolling out pages for organizations at a later date. So, really how upset should you be that your organization’s page was deleted?
Out of nowhere we kind of do an Apple TV review at the end of the show. We talk about whispers of NFL Sunday Ticket coming to Apple TV.
Also, I lecture people about how only stupid people use P2P services such as Limewire. Is your computer acting weird? Is it slow? Might be because you’re using a P2P service filled with malware and viruses.
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Netflix killing piracy?
The reasons:
It’s convenient, it’s not that expensive, and the selection is just good enough.
Yes. Yes. And Yes.
Just as the best way to slow music piracy was to make it easier and more convent to not pirare (think iTunes and now services such as Spotify). When piracy is the easier option (think Napster before iTunes), people will do that. Make being a legal customer the easy and fun option, and people will pay.
Here are some reasons that Netflix stopped this pirate:
At the time, pilfering movies was a whole lot easier than watching them legally. Netflix’s streaming catalog had a tiny number of titles, most of them not to my liking. Apple’s iTunes rental plan had more titles, but too many restrictions (paying $4 for just 24 hours of access to a movie was a bad deal). I outlined what I called the perfect online streaming service—I wanted a plan that had a library as extensive as Netflix’s DVD plan, but which allowed for unlimited viewing—and I promised to pay as much as $40 a month for it. Netflix’s instant watching service isn’t anything close to that, of course. But in the last year it has improved its selection and accessibility (you can now get it on pretty much any device you own) just enough to hit a tipping point. I’m happy to pay $8 a month for not-terrible selection and amazing convenience. And nowadays, I almost never turn to BitTorrent.
It’s a music social network. A real one.
My dream for streaming movies
It’s a simple dream: I want to be able to stream any movie ever made in HD to my TV, computer, smartphone, iPad and other devices.
It’s a reality that could happen today. It should have happened already, but it hasn’t. If this happened, I would spend more money on movies.
I would spend more money on movies.
But the movie studios have resisted this idea, because they are more tied to what has made them money in the past than what people want in the present. They don’t like streaming. They have begrudgingly given Netflix some older content to offer up and a few newer releases. They allow iTunes, Amazon and other companies to allow most newer movies to be streamed and some older movies, usually at prices that feel a little high, with really restrictive windows on watching the movie ($4.99 to watch a movie once at home within 24 hours?).
There should be no outrage that Netflix wants to charge customers separately for its streaming and mail services. They are separate services with separate costs, but people are angry almost entirely because Netflix streaming doesn’t have enough content for most people. It’s not the price, it’s the product.
But it’s not Netflix’s fault. They have all the content they can get. The movie studios just don’t want to give up the ghost — the dream that you’ll keep buying DVDs.
They want you to buy movies that you only want to watch once. Sure, you can watch a DVD as many times as you want. That’s the dream they want you to believe, but it’s not the reality for most movie purchases.
It’s like how music labels tried to cling to CDs desperately because it’s so much more profitable to get people to buy an entire CD for one or two songs.
But this is myopic. It’s silly. It’s retrograde.
Heck I would even buy more movies if I could buy them how I want to buy them. I would love to “buy” a movie that would allow me to stream it as many times as I want to any device I own. I don’t want to have to deal with storing a digital file (and backing it up), and that whole dance of trying to sync the movie to different devices.
This whole situation is anti-user. The technology is available to make more movies available for streaming. The technology is available to make movie watching easier than ever.
Streaming movies is so easy. I can just sit down on my couch and select a movie that I want to watch on my Apple TV and just hit rent. Watching Netflix streaming movies is just as easy to. The service even saves my location, so that if I go from watching on my TV to my iPad, I can pick right up where I left off. I like that.
No going to the store, no waiting in line, no dealing with out of stock issues. If you make a product or service easier to consume, people will consume more of it.
I’m done with physical media. It doesn’t fit my life. I don’t like needing shelf space for it. I don’t like going to stores to see what is in stock, nor do I enjoy wasting my time, energy and gas/public transportation money to get there.
Frankly, even with Netflix’s mail product, I couldn’t be sure that the movie I selected on Tuesday to ship to my house to watch on Friday would still suit me when I actually sat down. How can I judge my mood days in advance? With streaming I sit down, look through what is available and select something — often an impulse (most companies try to encourage impulse buys).
These impulses should be fed by making moving watching easier and more social. Why doesn’t iTunes and other movie services have a social component or integration with existing social networks. I want to see what people with similar tastes like. I want to see what my friends are watching. I want to watch movies with them.
Make these things happen, and I will watch more movies. I’m not alone.
We shouldn’t have to dream about putting existing technology together. We have seen bits and pieces, but it is time to give the people what they want.
My current movie watching setup is like this: Netflix streaming for whatever I can find and all those awesome esoteric movies and documentaries it has, iTunes on an Apple TV for renting of new releases and other movies not available on Netflix and I buy blu rays of movies that I want to watch a lot, particularly movies that look great. I can never watch Lord of the Rings enough, and it really shines on blu ray.
This is why everyone should go Netflix streaming only. Drop the DVD portion of your packages. The studios shouldn’t force us to watch DVDs as a fallback because they don’t want to make more content available for streaming.
Users should never be forced into an inferior user experience. DVDs are an inferior user experience, especially when you have to ship them back and forth with the post office.
You’ll always make more money by getting people to like your product more.
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Nov. 6th, 2008
sareini: default (discworld - millenium hand and shrimp)
First off, a NaNo update:
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
7,438 / 50,000
As with every other year, I'm being my usual luddite self and handwriting my novel, because sitting at a computer and trying to write it just gives me too many distractions and I never get anything done. Plus, I can write pretty much anywhere in the house and I'm not limited to whenever Nick isn't using the computer that way. I don't think I'm doing too badly this year; yes, I'm a little behind on words as I didn't actually write on Tuesday due to watching Election coverage and on Wednesday due to recovering from watching election coverage, but catching up isn't too big of a problem, especially since I've already written over 1k words today and that's even with having to stop to do things on the computer every half hour.
In other news... still not got a computer of my own and so having to share Nick's. It's a strained situation, especially since a lot of the people I usually need to talk to are only on in the evening or at night... which is usually when Nick's on as well (not to mention the fact that I can't update lj whenever I feel like it like I used to...)
I've started playing around on Twitter a little, much to Nick's horror and dismay. I'm @Sareini over there.
Also, I think I broke another lightbulb yesterday.
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Holidays and weight gain
So the time for the Holidays is coming. Soon we will see piles of sweets and candies being presented at every turn. We are told “you deserve it” as we are handed more and more. This is the time I like to reflect on what my long term health goals are. Think about where you want to be in 6 months, 12 months, 30 years. Then, ask yourself “does this piece of candy help me achieve that goal?” I am all for cutting loose every now and then, but it can really get out of hand during the holidays. If you want some dessert on Thanksgiving or Christmas then help yourself, just don’t shovel the sweets down your throat for an entire month leading up to that Holiday. I encourage all of my patients to find a commitment buddy. Stay committed to each other and encourage each other to stay the course. Continue exercising, receiving chiropractic adjustments, and save the sweets for the Holiday itself. You’d be surprised what a positive and supportive attitude can help you achieve. Best of health during this challenging time of year.
Decreasing Stress
Here is a list of easy to implement stress reduction techniques. I hope this helps…
Simple Ways to Decrease Stress
Relax Your Body
Your body is your temple and can easily get run down by stress, strain and struggle so:
* Get good sleep
* Chiropractic adjustments
* Massage
* Yoga
* Rigorous and regular exercise
* Eat Healthy Foods
Refresh Your Mind
Your mind is your guide, it can easily get distracted and off course so:
* Take long walks
* Spend time in nature the average person is outside only 17 minutes per day
* Read inspirational messages
* Learn new things
* Talk with a good friend
* Play with a dog or cat. Pet owners live longer and have fewer stress symptoms. * Therapy or personal coaching on a regular basis
Rejuvenate Your Spirit
Your spirit can easily be forgotten in the busyness of life so:
* Meditate 10-30 minutes per day
* Pray
* Sing & dance, people swear by the power of music to release tension and stress
* Consciously slow down
* Be fully present
* Know and live by your values and beliefs
* Surround yourself with supportive, loving and accepting people
Stress-Free Activities
* Connect with nature, it restores homeostasis to your system.
* Make a list of your favorite things. Read it when you feel down.
* Rely on friends and animals, they are great sources of support.
* Create a pleasure drawer. Stock your drawer with personal momentos or simple indulgences: favorite scents, textures and tastes to create your own multi-sensory stress-relief treatments. * Deep breathe. This will soothe your nerves, it sends oxygen to your brain and refreshes your mind. Inhale through your nose and count to 8. Fill your belly not your chest with air. Exhale through your mouth to the count of 10-15. Repeat 5-10 times per hour until you feel calmer. * Laugh. Laughter is the best medicine for stress. Find humor in the situation. Smile often.
* Imagine. Use visualization and guided imagery to take your mind off the situation.
More Ways To Decrease Stress!
1. Yell! But—be sure you are alone. The best place is in the car with the windows up. Stuck in traffic? Try it.
2. Do something soothing. Start or try an activity like knitting, crochet or pottery. Don’t worry about being good at it. It’s the process that’s beneficial. Sitting still while performing repetitive movements is calming and stabilizing for many people. It can be a good time to collect your thoughts.
3. Start a garden. Even apartment-dwellers can do this. Tending plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers and watching them grow, bloom or yield food is rewarding. Avid gardeners say working a garden is the best way to control stress and worry. An added benefit is the creation of a more beautiful, restful environment.
6. Gaze at the stars. Preferably in a still, dark and quiet area, sit back and observe the heavens. The vastness of space is awesome. This way can make a lot of problems seem very small.
7. Focus on the things you can change and do not worry about the rest
8. Eliminate stress by decreasing your activities and/or responsibilities
9. Do not over commit, manage your time, avoid rushing from place to place 10. Focus on the positive
11. Do not gossip
12. Be tolerant of others
13. Be giving & forgiving
14. Don’t speed
15. Turn off your TV, do not watch the news, read & play games instead
16. Hug at least 5 people a day
Holiday Stress
We all deal with stress. The Holidays seem to increase stress for everyone. Remember what stress is: a physiological state that has repercussions. Stress elevates stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. Long-term release of such hormones can lead to poor immune system function, decreased critical thinking, high blood pressure, digestive disorders, and undesired weight gain. It is crucial to understand that stress requires your attention, and it requires that attention on a regular basis. During this stressful Holiday season, remember to keep up with your regular chiropractic and massage care. Regular exercise is also crucial during this time of year. It will also keep you eating healthier. We all know how easy it is to eat cookies, pie, etc around Christmas. It is in every store you go to! Celebrate this Holiday season by honoring your body. I’m not saying don’t have a little treat. I’m just saying don’t have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Your body will thank you.
Stress and its effects
The American Institute of Stress released a study in 2006 on workplace stress. Businesses lose of $300 billion annually due to health care costs and missed work. They also stated that 90% of diseases that threaten our health are stress-related. The Lluminari Landmark Study of 2004 reveals that work stress doubles our risk of cardiovascular problems, doubles our risk of anxiety and depression, doubles our risk of substance abuse, triples our risk of infectious diseases, triples our risk of back pain, triples our risk of injuries, and creates a 5-fold increase in our risk of cancer. Needless to say, with this overwhelming data, Americans need to better manage their stress. Remember, stress is not some abstract thing. Stress is a physiological response by our body. We must learn to manage our stress and do something with the energy it creates in order to avoid any harmful side effects. Here are some simple suggestions to manage your stress: Exercise, stretch, breath, eat healthy, take a break, enjoy a massage, and receive regular chiropractic care. Most of us have experienced the benefit of exercising. When we are stressed, this is even more important. Reaching for a beer and sitting down to watch TV does nothing but make the situation worse. Instead, try going for a nice hike, take a yoga class, or an exercise class. The key is to get the sweat flowing and the heart pumping. Stress is a physical energy. You need to use it up and you might as well get healthy while you are doing that. Breathing is also extremely important during stressful times. If you are overwhelmed, STOP, and take 10 deep breaths. We tend to breathe shallower when we are stressed. Decreased oxygen in the blood can lead to increases in free radicals in our body, which attack our tissue and can age us faster. Americans are terrible at taking breaks. This is so important. Even if it is 10 minutes every 1-2 hours. Just go outside and tune out for 10 minutes. Massage is another great way to decompress from stress. Massage is phenomenal at increasing blood flow to our tissues, increasing the release of endorphins, decreasing blood pressure, and improving lymphatic circulation; all of which help decrease stress and improve health. Regular chiropractic care is the icing on the cake. Keeping your spine healthy and moving makes sure your nerve system is firing on all cylinders. Remember, the nerve system controls everything in your body. Your heart, liver, lungs, muscles, yep…all controlled by your nerve system. If the spine moves out of its natural alignment and puts pressure on your nerve system then the body won’t work at its very best. This is why so many who are under regular chiropractic care are able to adapt to stress better. Their nerve system is working at 100% and is able to coordinate and adapt to daily stressors. I hope this list helps you all better understand how to combat stress in your life. I look forward to serving you at The Chiropractic Place.
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Social media originated as a way to interact with friends and family but was later adopted by businesses which wanted to take advantage of a popular new communication method to reach out to customers. The power of social media is the ability to connect and share information with anyone on Earth, or with many people simultaneously.
Globally, there are more than 3 billion social media users. Social media is an ever-changing and ever-evolving web-based platform.
According to the Pew Research Center, social media users tend to be younger. Nearly 90% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 used at least one form of social media. Further, these users tend to be better educated and relatively wealthy, or earning over $75,000 per year.
Builds brand awareness
By having a social site, you have essentially increased your channels to share and syndicate your content. This means you have the opportunity to not only share but to be shared too. Though you may not go ‘viral’, you have made it easier for people to talk about you.
Can be cost-effective
Social profiles are free. So you can essentially build an empire with a free profile. And, if you’re like most businesses, you may pay to promote a post or two. Or you may even run an ad. But you don’t have to. This is why social media is important for businesses. It allows you the flexibility to pay as much or as little as you like while allowing you to have all the functions of a business page.
Easy to engage with customers
Social media is a communication tool. Therefore meaning a specific tool you can use to communicate directly with customers. You can publicly communicate by commenting, or you can even reach out privately.
Provide Support
Social platforms have successfully broken down barriers between companies and their customers. Now, instead of calling a customer service line, many people turn to Facebook or Twitter to solve problems or find information.Develop your reputation as a responsive, caring brand by offering support through social channels. This can also be used to improve brand loyalty. Usually, brand loyalty and customer satisfaction go hand in hand.
Enhances your SEO rankings
Social media can help you increase your content’s visibility. This is because you are essentially providing a second residence for your content. And making it incredibly shareable.
Because your content becomes much easier to share, you are increasing your chances of creating quality backlinks. This is because your content is much easier to find.
Social media is a crucial part of your business marketing, but it doesn’t have to be stressful to manage. Take the first step, create a profile, and start engaging with your customers.As it continues to weave itself into the daily patterns of our lives, more consumers will go to new and upcoming social platforms for purchasing decisions. Those who have a strong social media presence and branding will increase conversion rates, while those without active social media campaigns could lose potential customers.
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J Strength Cond Res. 2014 Sep;28(9):2507-12. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000000440.
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1Department of Exercise Science, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska; 2Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska; and 3Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of ramp and step incremental cycle ergometer tests on the assessment of the anaerobic threshold (AT) using 3 different computerized regression-based algorithms. Thirteen healthy adults (mean age and body mass [SD] = 23.4 [3.3] years and body mass = 71.7 [11.1] kg) visited the laboratory on separate occasions. Two-way repeated measures analyses of variance with appropriate follow-up procedures were used to analyze the data. The step protocol resulted in greater mean values across algorithms than the ramp protocol for the V[Combining Dot Above]O2 (step = 1.7 [0.6] L·min and ramp = 1.5 [0.4] L·min) and heart rate (HR) (step = 133 [21] b·min and ramp = 124 [15] b·min) at the AT. There were no significant mean differences, however, in power outputs at the AT between the step (115.2 [44.3] W) and the ramp (112.2 [31.2] W) protocols. Furthermore, there were no significant mean differences for V[Combining Dot Above]O2, HR, or power output across protocols among the 3 computerized regression-based algorithms used to estimate the AT. The current findings suggested that the protocol selection, but not the regression-based algorithms can affect the assessment of the V[Combining Dot Above]O2 and HR at the AT.
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Understanding the different types of plywood and their uses
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When and How To Use Plywood
Enter into any recently constructed building project and chances are, you’re never too far away from some form of plywood, whether visible or most likely hidden from view. As an incredibly popular material, plywood tends to be used in construction not only because it is cost effective, but it is also extremely versatile, strong and reliable.
In essence, plywood is a simple engineered product consisting on several thin sheets of timber, glued in layers at 90º angles to the corresponding layer above and below and compressed together at high pressure. This forms a strong, hardwearing material than can stand the test of time and be used is many projects that demand strength and durability.
Because it is so versatile, plywood can be found used in various items including furniture, flooring, partitions, external walls and roofs. Even in some high end cabinetry.
Key properties of plywood
Plywood has a number of core properties that make it unique to any other building material including:
Due to its layered construction, plywood tends to be far stronger than traditional timber. The simple engineering process of glueing thin layers of alternating grains prevents the board from snapping or breaking under pressure. The general rule of thumb ism, the thicker the ply, the stringer it is.
Stress Resistance
Engineered plywood is capable of withstanding much heavier weight and pressure that an equivalent sheet of standard timber and thus, can handle greater stress. A heavy object placed onto a single sheet of timber would lead to bending and eventual breakage whilst plywood would spread the load over a larger surface due to it’s layered construction, with the grain direction alternating at each layer.
Plywood is also very flexible and bendy if needed as it can be constructed at pretty much any given thickness, from a few millimetres to several centimetres thick. That is why thin plywoods tend to be used on demanding projects that require a curved surface such as ambitious internal wall projects or skateboard ramps that were made famous during the 1980’s.
Moisture Resistance
In certain plywoods, the glue used to construct the layers is water repellant so even if used externally where moisture and humidity levels fluctuate, it will not warp, expand, shrink or delaminate. This makes it the ideal material for outdoors projects where it needs to last for several years.
How many types of plywood are there?
There’s a variety of different types of plywood for different applications including:
Softwood Ply
The most common manufactured plywood, that comes in a variety of thickness is often used on construction projects.
Hardwood Ply
More commonly used for more hardwearing projects that demand longevity, and constructed from stronger timbers, hardwood ply is ideal for more demanding jobs.
Flexible Ply
Usually constructed from just a few plies, these boards offer greater flexibility for projects that require curved surfaces.
Marine Ply
As the name suggests, this ply is used on marine-based applications due to its water resistant properties.
Decorative Ply
Used where the wood grain will be on show, this ply tends to be made from beautiful woods including oak and rosewood to construct furniture and bespoke finishes.
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Cincinnati Wedding Bartenders
You have heard the old saying about not assuming anything and what happens if you do. Well, that goes double for wedding planning. Many people take it for granted that their catering company or their venue will be the ones that will be providing bartending service. This would be a huge mistake. There is a great chance that you will need to hire your own professional bartending service. And this is one of those hires that you should not take for granted. Your bartender is a hugely important vendor for your wedding. You should be seeking out the best of the best. You might be wondering why. The reason is that a good bartender can get your guests drinks to them with no problem. But an exceptional bartender can help you guests to have fun and enjoy every moment. While a poor bartender can take your reception and have it do a nosedive in no time. So, seeing how important this hire is, you should start combing the Cincinnati area for some quality bartending candidates. Once you have a few, it is best if you meet each candidates and interview them in person. This guide will help you do just that and in addition, it will help you to make a final decision on who is the prime bartender who will service your guests in an amazing way.
So, you are probably wondering, where in the world is the best place to come up with bartending candidates to check out. Well, we have some advice for you there. Start by talking to your family, friends and coworkers. Ask anyone and everyone that you know if they have ever hired a mobile bartender before. If they have not, find out if they have ever experienced a bartender at a wedding who was just exceptional. Either way, track down the name and get the contact information. It is a very good idea to start jotting down the names of candidates that you think are worthy of consideration for your wedding position. Also, don't forget about the world wide web. Do a Google search for “mobile bartenders in the Cincinnati area.” Going through the results will take some time, but in the end it will be worth it. Pick out some that you think are worthy of an interview and add them to your list. And last but certainly not least, don't forget about your wedding vendors that you have already hired. Call each one up and ask them if they have any candidates they could provide you. Start calling all of the candidates on your list and find out if they are available on your wedding day. If they are, setup an interview to talk about your wedding needs.
When you sit down with each candidate, there are some very pertinent questions that you should ask. First and foremost, find out if they are state licensed. Keep in mind that many venues will not allow an unlicensed bartender to operate at their location so make sure of this or you will have a disaster on your hands. How many years of experience do they have? Do they have a lot of wedding experience? This can be important because if they are used to bartending at a pub, they may not be very familiar with cocktails. Test their expertise and have them make some sample drinks right before your eyes. Can they help you determine how much alcohol you will need? What will they be coming with and how long will it take them to setup? What will you need to provide? How will they be dressed? How do they handle quests who are starting to drink too much? How much will their service cost? When you are more than satisfied by the answers of a particular candidate, make your hire.
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Doink The Clown
According to a Chapman University survey, 7.8 percent of Americans have “coulrophobia,” otherwise known as a fear of clowns. That means 25 million Americans are scared of men in white face-paint with a squishy red nose, dishevelled, coloured-hair and polka-dotted outfits. When Doink The Clown debuted in 1993, that year’s Wrestlemania buy-rate was 430,000 with 62,000 in attendance. Out of the 25-million Americans that feared clowns in 1993, there was guaranteed to be a few individuals out of the 492,000 wrestling fans that watched Doink at Wrestlemania IX, that feared the man. I should be a scientist.
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Steiner math aside, the WWF knew what they were doing when they brought along Matt Borne to play the sinister, miserable clown known as “Doink” in 1993. If any medium out there is able to play with its consumers’ emotions, it’s professional wrestling. On the same night that Bret Hart would give kids in the front row his trademarked pink sunglasses, Doink would play cruel jokes on the same children. What started out as innocent pranks, such as spraying fans with water eventually turned into more dangerous “jokes” which often saw fan-favourite wrestlers being put in danger at the hands of the clown’s antics. Some of these pranks included “accidentally” poking out Tatanka’s eye and attempting to injure the Big Boss Man with tripwire. After countless parents would tell their children that there’s nothing to be afraid of and that clowns weren’t actually evil, Doink was there to only reinforce their fears.
Doink would eventually turn babyface after turning on one of the New Generations era’s biggest heels, Jerry Lawler. He was soon fired from the company, however, after repeatedly failing company wellness policy tests. The gimmick would soon be transferred over to Ray Apollo, as Matt Borne’s good-guy run as Doink the Clown was slowly but surely becoming popular with fans.
By this point, Doink was primarily a comic-relief character, becoming managed and followed to the ring by his midget sidekick, Dink. To give you some idea of the character’s position on the card, at Survivor Series 1994, Jerry Lawler’s team of “little kings,” Sleazy, Cheezy and Queazy fought the clown team of Doink, Dink, Wink and Pink.
Knowing the silliness of the character couldn’t last as professional wrestling was getting edgier by the month, and fans were getting smarter to the business, Doink became a jobber, often losing to midcard heels such as Hakushi and Jeff Jarrett.
Doink met Steve Austin in 1997 and the arena was filled with “kill the clown” chants, as The Rattlesnake attacked the then universally hated gimmick. Pro wrestling changed and the fans grew impatient to characters they perceived as silly and childlike. Despite this, however being his last true appearance, Doink would sporadically return to the company as the punchline to many jokes, and was always a nice taste of silly, nostalgic 90s WWF.
Matt Borne would further evolve the gimmick on the independent circuit, as well as a really solid ECW run which darkened the clown’s backstory and reinstated him as a legitimately scary character.
Borne died of an accidental drug overdose in 2013 and his legacy as Doink The Clown is fondly remembered by the fans who feared him, jeered him and laughed with (or at) him. Despite the character being played by a total of 11 different men over the last 30 years, Doink is most synonymous with Matt Borne, the most memorable clown in all of professional wrestling.
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What Is Zeolite?
ZeoliteZeolite is a mineral that strips toxins, particularly heavy metals, from the body. It’s a mineral complex that is shaped like a honeycomb and has a negative charge. Zeolite’s shape and charge are what helps it to remove heavy metals and other toxins from the body.
Large minerals that the body needs, like calcium and phosphorous, are left as they are too big to fit into zeolite’s structure.
pH balance is also important, and zeolite can push pH balance in the body (to a more desirable) alkaline level.
Zeolite is also a bit controversial, because there are 50 different types of naturally occurring zeolite (and 100 more synthetic ones), not all of them are safe. While this may seem obvious, many websites will talk about “zeolite” broadly, without distinguishing between the different forms.
If something doesn’t name a specific zeolite, do not assume it applies to all zeolite.
Where Does Zeolite Come From?
It’s mined from the ground. Zeolite is actually quite strong, it can survive at high temperatures as well as highly acidic envioronments (like the stomach).
What Is Zeolite Liquid?
Zeolite also comes in a powder form, but this is often an inferior product.
Liquid zeolite is not liquified (broken down) zeolite (yes, some companies claim this!) but zeolite suspended in water. The zeolite at Colloids for Life also contains humic and fulvic minerals, to help replenish the body and its cells.
Liquid zeolite is also easy to take, as it’s odorless and tasteless and can be taken on an empty stomach.
What Is A Safe Zeolite?
Most zeolite supplements (including ours) are made with clinoptilolite, a naturally occuring zeolite.
Some zeolite brands crush their zeolite in order to increase bioavailabilty; some evidence shows that this may make the product a potential health hazard, and until more research is done unprocessed/uncrushed zeolite is a safer alternative.
What Is Zeolite’s Potential For Side-Effects?
People taking metal based medicines (lithium, chemotherapy) should not take zeolite right before or during their therapy. As with all natural supplements, it’s important to read labels carefully and talk to a doctor or pharmacist about interactions and other concerns.
Some report that zeolite causes dehydration. Taking more fluids when detoxing with zeolite is an easy way to prevent this possible symptom.
Clinoptilolite zeolite has been sold as a supplement for several years, and there are no other negative effects reported.
Zeolite usually leaves the body in 6-8 hours (through excretion).
Can Zeolite Be Taken With Meso Products?
Yes! All of our colloidal supplements are non-ionic, and should be fine with zeolite! To be safe, you may want to take them separately, but you shouldn’t need to.
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American Ideology in French Society
The main features of the American ideology are:
- Belief in universal progress, whose apex is the Western capitalist civilization (the United States as the undisputed leader);
- Complete individualism, refusal of collective identities (religious, national, ethnic), destruction of traditional values: gender (gender policy), traditional family;
- Engineering and technical development recognized as the main objective, the moral aspect is insignificant and minor;
- The US and the West have the moral right to dictate to the rest of the nations which path to follow and live (American hegemony on a global scale).
Left-Right (in politics and the economy)
In order to see how the American ideology is implemented in the European space, it seems necessary to consider the political system’s scheme of the Western European societies; the division between the right and the left (in politics and the economy). The model of the left-right political party division appeared in the Constituent Assembly of France (in 1789) when the right of the hall was occupied by the monarchy’s supporters, the “Cavaliers”, the Conservatives, and the left by the revolutionaries, the anti-monarchists, and the radical democrats.
The main features of the right in politics are protection of traditional values, conservatism, defending past successes, ethnic, religious or national identity. In the economic sphere, the representatives of right-wing parties aim to protect private property (the declaration of private property and the superior principle of private ownership of collective property: state, national, communal), construction of a free world market without national, state and national borders.
The main features of the left are denial of identity (ethnic, religious, ethnic), the refusal of traditional values, anti-conservatism, and universalism. In the economic sphere the left favors various collective ownership forms over private ones (nationalization of private property).
France until 1968
Until 1968, the influence of the American ideology in France was weak, largely through the efforts of President de Gaulle, who consistently carried out an anti-American policy that aimed at building a sovereign continental Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals (Rimland):
- De Gaulle opposed the entry of England into the European Economic Community; the European Union sought to be built without the participation of the Anglo-Saxons;
- He removed the US military base from French national territory;
- France's liberation from NATO’s defense commitments (withdrawal from the military structures of the Alliance in 1966), the withdrawal from the Defense Planning and Nuclear Planning Group of the Committee (France continues to participate in the political structures of NATO (North Atlantic Council));
- In 1965, De Gaulle announced the refusal of the dollar’s use in international payments and the transition to the single gold standard;
- De Gaulle turned France into a leader of the nonaligned movement in the face of both the Cold War blocks, France chose the Third Way (Rimland as an independent zone);
- Disobedience to the American Empire (condemnation of the US’ actions against the countries of Indochina), support for Palestine in 1967 (the condemnation of Israel's actions in the Six Day War in 1967).
What happened in May 1968?
The American ideology came to France in May 1968; left-wing radical students participated in demonstrations and riots, with millions of students going to the streets. Ironically, at this time, France faced unprecedented economic growth (apogee of the Trente Glorieuses).
The structure of “Red May” has several distinguished areas: 1) anarchist (slogans: “Il est interdit d'interdire” – “It is forbidden to forbid”, “Ni Dieu ni maître!” – “Neither God nor Master”), 2) left, "gauchisme" (“Travailleur: Tu as 25 ans mais ton syndicat est de l'autre siècle.” – “Worker: You may be only 25 years old, but your union dates back to the last century.”) 3) liberal left, which aimed to destabilize the de Gaulle regime and remove him from authority.
If the first area had almost no positive programs, the second and especially the third areas of “Red May” had a clear view of the future of France, in which the figure of De Gaulle had no place. In France, the de Gaulle anti-American regime was overthrown by the left anti-American movements (left-wing demonstrators criticized the US intervention in Vietnam: “Imagine:! C'est la guerre et personne n'y va” – “Imagine: there was a war and no one turned up!”). The youth protested against the Vietnam War and the U.S’ military policy being under the influence of Anglo-Saxon culture.
The American ideology appeared in the French political arena through the anti-American protests.
France after “Red May”
After May 1968, the American ideology began to enter into French politics, there was a new society, and liberal libertarian became the main ideology, which had, as its main objective, the destruction of: 1) the social left model (which was protected by the French Communist Party), and 2) the moral right model (created by De Gaulle).
Gradually, the differences between the left and the right were blurred in politics and economics. The right started to act only for bourgeois liberalism, capitalism, ignoring conservatism, the left – in favor of globalization and progress, ignoring the economic sphere (the requirements of the protection of workers' rights, collective superiority over private property).
France under American Ideology Dictate
Today, France is under a true ideological dictatorship, hegemony of “pensée unique”, the American ideology. Anyone who is against left-liberalism (in this case, is not performing on behalf of right liberalism), becomes “untouchable”, marginalized, the enemy of the system, suicidal (indicative of increased attention to the National Front, recent searches in its main office lasting more than 24 hours). The ruling ideology in France (American ideology) is based on a combination of the right’s market liberalism and the left’s globalism.
France became under the full control of the American ideology during the presidency of Sarkozy:
- March 2009 - France's entry into NATO, a betrayal of the Gaullist heritage, official French submission to the control of the American command;
- Association with left liberals
- Aiding the U.S in overthrowing anti-American regimes in the Middle East (Libya 2011).
Since 2012, Hollande has consistently continued the policy of his predecessor (despite being a representative of the left, Hollande ignores the values of the left in the economy; the unemployment rate rose to 10% under him).
- Support for sanctions against Russia, rupture of the Mistral contract;
- Legalization of gay marriage.
Alternative to the American ideology in France
Is there today, in the French political arena, a real alternative to the ruling U.S ideology? No, but the intensive search for it is underway. The political force that is opposed to the ideology of the American system in France and is developing alternatives is the National Front party. The criticism of the EU’s migration policy, euroscepticism, a focus on conservatism and the preservation of traditions (family, marriage, religion), and the criticism of the Atlanticist French ruling elite is reflected in the political space and the will of the French people, and is an alternative to the left-liberal government.
The National Front is perceived by the ruling political forces as a threat to the system, an anti-system party that unites in its program the anti-liberal values of the left (social equality, justice, anti-capitalism) and the non-liberal values of the right (conservative, strong state, anti-migration policy).
In 2015, after the regional elections, it became clear that the National Front was not only legitimate, but also a legal political force. This greatly disturbed the liberal left (socialists) and right (Republican) party and sparked the creation of a unified coalition of the left and right to eliminate the National Front from the political struggle.
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Schelle Racing Ceramic Gearbox Bearing Set 3-Gear B6 B5M TLR 3.0 SCH2304
• Schelle Racing Ceramic Gearbox Bearing Set 3-Gear B6 B5M TLR 3.0 SCH2304
Part #: SCH2304
Schelle Racing Ceramic Gearbox Bearing Set 3-Gear B6 B5M TLR 3.0 SCH2304 - is currently on backorder. You may still purchase now though and we'll ship as soon as more become available.
Set of 6 Ceramic Gearbox Bearing for B5M with Team Associated 3-gear gearbox (not MIP 3-gear). Fits the new B5M Factory Light kit.
This set uses 4 pcs. 5x10 mm size and 2 pcs. 10x15mm size. B5 and B5M kits use 6x12mm size bearings for the topshaft, so this only fits the Associated 3-gear gearbox. Due to using 4 pcs 5x10mm bearings, this set also fits 3 gear (rear motor configuration) for TLR 22 2.0 and Kyosho RB6 family of cars.
Schelle Racing Innovations ceramic metal shield bearings are part of the Black Diamond series which means they are for all-out, spare no expense racing.
• Precision manufactured to ABEC-3 Standards
• Lubed with premium bearing oil
• 2 metal shield for minimum drag
• Ideal for stock racers looking for some extra speed. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
From Kurt "Coach" Wenger...A quick lesson on 3-gear.... I personally believe the difference in drag is nothing compared to the difference in car handling. 3-gear won't give you the feeling of more power.
There are 2 things the gearbox (and thus the motor orientation) change on the handling:
1) torque effect: When you hit the gas, with a 4-gear, the motor pitches the car to the rear, adding grip on power. The 3-gear orientation pitches the car towards the front, resisting weight transfer. The opposite is true on decelleration/brakes. 3-gear makes the motor forces resist the natural direction of weight transfer
2) gyro effect: When you turn, the 4-gear orientation makes the motor add to the lean of the car, while the 3-gear orientation resists lean.
Thus, when you drive the 3-gear, the car feels less reactive/more mellow, with less on-power traction. This is generally good for extremely high grip tracks, or drivers that want the car to stay flat in the turns....3-gear generally stabilizes the car but you need to make a few changes to get enough rear grip. I wouldn't recommend it on a loose or low-grip track.
Maintenance and Care:
-Once a month, every 4 track days: Check bearings by spinning gearbox (pinion removed) and axles. Listen/feel for grit or dirt in bearings
- If gritty, take apart gearbox or hub and check individual bearings. If everything in smooth, you can add 1-2 drops of oil every other time you check the bearings. Over-oiling can get messy and attract more dirt, so be moderate in your oiling.
-To clean, never use brake cleaner, this causes grease/lube to break down and clump, making things worse with it's harsh chemicals. Brake cleaner will ruin your bearings. Use 1) a citrus based degreaser or 2) Electric parts cleaner a.k.a. motor spray. Citrus base cleaners are more safe to use since they do not contain harsh chemicals.
-Use 1) a sonic jewelry cleaner, or 2) bearing blaster to try and work out the dirt.
-Let bearings dry and re-check. If it's clean and still gritty, odds are that the dirt has damaged and dented the rolling surface, and you need to replace your bearing. If they are smooth, you need to re-lube with specialty bearing grease or light oil.
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Difference between HTTP and TCP
Difference between HTTP and TCP
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. HTTP works similarly to other application services such as SMTP and FTP. Like the performance of FTP, HTTP transfers documents using the TCP port service. But HTTP only uses one TCP connection at the data link and no single Control Connection is used.
HTTP is a protocol that fetches resources such as HTML documents. It is used for exchanging data over the web and is a client-server protocol (ie requests are made by the receiver, usually the web browser).
Client-side control operations are sent in a request to the web server. Web server sends the requested content at a response message. HTTP does not provide any security and uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer).
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol
How does HTTP work?
HTTP provides users with a way to deliver hypertext messages between the server and the client for interaction. HTTP clients typically use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections to communicate with the server.
HTTP uses various tasks which are performed using the following methods:
• GET = Requires specific sources.
• HEAD = A specific resource with no main content.
• POST = Add articles, messages, and information to another page in an existing web resource.
• PUT = Directly modify existing web source and create a new URL if needed.
• DELETE = Exclude a specific source.
• TRACE = Show the user any modifications or additions made to the Internet resource.
• OPTIONS = Show the user what HTTP methods are available for a particular URL.
• CONNECT = Link conversion required.
• PATCH = Modified part of Internet resources.
The HTTP server uses GET and HEAD methods.
What is TCP?
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol, indicating that a connection is established and maintained until application data at each end ends the exchange. TCP divides application data into packets. This package distributes to the transport layer. Layer 4 manages the flow control and provides error-free data transmission, handles retransmission of lost or truncated packets, and acknowledgment of all incoming packets. In the OSI model, TCP includes parts of Layer 4 (the transport layer) and Layer 5 includes the session layer.
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol
TCP is a connection-oriented protocol
How TCP works
TCP’s job is to ensure that all data sent in the flow moves from client to server in correct order and intact. TCP uses a technique known as Positive Acknowledgment on retransmission, requesting the receiver of the transmission to give a response on what data was received. The bytes sent can exactly match the received bytes. No data is changed or lost along the way.
A connection is established and a 3-party association is made. The source first sends a SYN request to the server to initiate the session setup. Then, the server sends a SYN-ACK packet to agree with the process. Finally, the source sends an ACK packet to the destination to validate the process, then data can be sent.
Compare TCP and HTTP
1. HTTP is used for accessing websites, while TCP is the protocol that establishes the session between client and server.
2. HTTP uses port 80 and TCP doesn’t use port.
3. HTTP does not need authentication, while TCP uses TCP-AO.
4. HTTP is a one-way communication system, while TCP has a combination of 3 elements (SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK).
5. In case you are using HTTP, HTTP will appear in the website URL and if you are using TCP, TCP will appear in the IP.
6. HTTP establishes the data link communication, while TCP establishes the session connection.
7. HTTP is useful for transferring smaller documents like web pages, on the other hand TCP is useful for establishing connections for data transfer.
8. HTTP is faster than TCP.
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BN3TH - Trunk - Desert Bloom, Dark Navy
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BN3TH Trunks are not your average men's underwear. They're not even your average premium men's underwear. We've gifted them to all our guys, and then the guys come back for more, and then more. They're really that amazing - it's like a lift, separate and cradle... for you know ;-)
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BN3TH men's underwear has Patented MyPakage Technology™ (3D "pouch") paired with a rub-free gusset and innovative seam placement which adds up to the best and most comfortable men's underwear out there. These trunks ensure no unwanted movement and give a gentle lift for enhanced shape.
The Classic Trunk is made from Modal, a fabric made by spinning reconstituted cellulose, mainly beech trees. It's 50% more absorbent than cotton, extremely breathable, wrinkle and pill-resistant and is guaranteed to stay smooth.
In short, they feel great.
• 3.5 inch in-seam - the shorter of the two options for length
• 95% Modal / 5% Spandex - the softest, most luxurious-feeling underwear he'll ever own
• 190 GSM fabric weight - making it durable but still maintain a weightless feel
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• Features a 'Pucker Panel' (This helps the pouch do its job and helps the underwear contour around your body). 'Flatlock Stitching' (carefully placed flat-lock seams means no chafing in your most sensitive areas) and a 'No Roll Waistband' (equipped with high elasticity material the waistband won’t roll on you no matter where your day takes you.
• If between sizes, we recommend choosing the smaller size of the two. e.g. if a 32" waist, go with a small
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Celebrity Real Estate
Terry Crews Buys Spanish-Style Pasadena Home for $5.6 Million
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star’s new pad was designed by notable architect Reginald Davis Johnson in the 1920s
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Terry Crews is married to Rebecca King-Crews, and they share five children. Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
It’s been less than a year since NBC’s sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine came to a close, but it would appear Terry Crews is settling into this new chapter of his life. Now that he’s said goodbye to Terry Jeffords, the character he portrayed on the show for its eight season run, Crews has returned to the quaint California city of Pasadena, where the actor and his family lived in the early aughts, per Dirt. The City of Roses is known for its architectural history, and the pad Crews reportedly picked up for $5.6 million is no exception.
The four bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom home was built in 1921 and designed by Reginald Davis Johnson, a notable Pasadena-based architect of the period, in a Spanish-inspired style. The home has been well-maintained and a dignified air remains on the 1.14 acre property, potent even from a distance thanks to the half circle driveway that sets the structure at a distance from the street. Exposed beams, arched doors, and terracotta tiling reflect the Spanish bent inside, while built-in bookshelves, ornate light fixtures, and wood burning fireplaces contribute to the overall stateliness of the home.
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The outdoor space is just as impressive, beginning with a barbecue station and multiple separate al fresco dining areas on the terracotta-tiled patio. A large pool sits in the center of the flat, grassy expanse and a dividing wall separates this lounge area from the entrance to a two bedroom guesthouse. On the opposite side of the pool from the house, there’s another tiled patio area along with a gazebo and in the back corner, a private tennis court.
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After the initial "dieting phase" of cutting calories, eating healthier food, and upping your workout regimen — experts recommend aiming to lose only a couple pounds a week by burning a few hundred more calories than you're eating each day — you can start to make some small shifts back towards how you'd normally eat and workout, says Stanforth.
Meaning that after you've lost a bit of weight, it's normal to scale back a bit on your workouts and start to eat more calories each day. "But you still eat the same kinds of foods," says Stanforth, because you're in the mindset that, "this is how I'm going to eat for the rest of my life."
And that's a mistake, Stanforth says.
"You know we tend to say you go on a diet, but that also implies you're going to go off of it. And that's not how we should be looking at this. Sometimes people are looking for the latest fad, but oftentimes it's the fundamentals that are the most important and that make the biggest difference."
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Not Coming to PC
Just yesterday, we let the news out that I Am Alive wouldn’t be coming to PC, mostly because of piracy issues that Ubisoft has with the PC platform.
As it turns out, yet another Ubisoft game will be skipping out on the mouse and keyboard crowd in favor of console exclusivity, for particularly the same reasons.
Ubisoft told Eurogamer recently that ”Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has not been announced on PC”, and that “Ghost Recon Online is the PC equivalent”.
Sebastien Arnoult, producer on Future Soldier, explained to PC Gamer the reasoning behind this decision:
So we said okay, we have to change our mind.
He went on to explain that Ubisoft is giving consumers what they’re asking for:
As is typical for Ubisoft as of recent, putting games on the PC is not something high on their checklist, not paid releases anyway. Granted, Ubisoft has tried to combat piracy with heavy DRM inclusions on most titles, but in the end, the choice hurt more legitimate users than it did pirates. Consumer feedback has been nothing short of a backlash.
At this point, it’s my belief that Ubisoft will begin to slowly fade away from the PC market entirely, focusing wholly on creating content for the console gamer.
However, I’m not a fan of their suggestion to “just go play Ghost Recon: Online instead.” What does this mean for future Ghost Recon titles on PC?
1. Are you kidding me? I was actually looking forward to this game, and now I won’t be able to play it. Fantastic news.
2. “95 per cent of our consumers will pirate”
Exaggerated much?
Fine Ubi,you won’t be taking our money if you don’t want it.
Now stand by your principles and deny the PC port for AC:Revelations,since you know that more than half the people playing will pirate it and it’s not worth the time and resources to gain a place in the Steam marketplace where your games will be sold for years years years and years to come,doesn’t matter if they’re old or new,I wouldn’t buy BG&E and PoP:Sand of Time from Steam,would you? /sarcasm
3. PC gamers are the deviant son and Ubisoft is a neglectful parent.
4. An online capable shooter not coming to PC? As much as it might get pirated, I’m sure they would make money on it. The ghost recon name tag alone should get sales up really.
5. why is that for they can’t Hack Ur Fucken online Game FUCK UBISOFT they will lose PC players
Tell Us How Wrong We Are
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1. Jeff Kaye says:
I hadn’t realized that before… So does that mean the Bush administration authorized the release of the Senate Armed Services report on detainee abuse, or at least the amount that wasn’t redacted? Because there was a lot that wasn’t redacted and it’s hard for me to believe the Bush administration would have allowed its release.
Or are you saying Senate Intel Committee can release, but not until CIA does its redactions… and that will take, well that will take… forever.
2. emptywheel says:
@Jeff Kaye: Right: The Original Classification Authority gets to decide what needs to be redacted. It is a testament to Levin and to DOD that he was able to declassify as much as he did (though of course the JSOC stuff is mostly all secret).
But CIA is particularly good at cross referencing declass requests and with it stalling any release.
3. TarheelDem says:
I think that you need to go back and fix US v. Reynolds (1953) which formalized the notion of state secrets and probably revisit the classification laws passed at the time of the National Security Act of 1947 to really restore sanity to protecting the few secrets really necessary for national security.
IMO, in a democracy, the public has a presumptive right to know what their government is doing.
Accepting the premises of the current laws IMO hinders actual reform.
4. lefty665 says:
Thank you EW. Until directly confronted, “…secrecy will remain a cancer rotting our democracy”. Far too many have had their heads way too far down for far too long.
As recently as the “secret” meetings last week Holder was reportedly claiming that the Rosen problem was the Privacy Act. Gutting that so they could tap phones without alleging journalistic criminality was his preferred cure.
O’s embrace of the Espionage Act is huge. The Act languished for the better part of a hundred years for good cause. That anyone with sense understood it was unconstitutional, if challenged, was a common opinion in a prior generation of spooks. The radical application of Navy v. Egan seems a similar abuse.
Holder has promised a review of “outdated” DOJ policies. But despite excesses and abuses in prior administrations, the change is not in the law, policies or procedures. The profound change is in this administration’s choice to use them in a wholesale assault on journalism, privacy and dissent. That assault is the metastasizing “cancer rotting our democracy”. “accusing whistleblowers of being worse than an enemy’s spy” says it all.
Despite rumors of remorse and eloquent statements of regret, evil is as evil does. Forrest Gump knew it when he saw it, and Pogo had it right with “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
5. Tom Maguire says:
“This decision — which is precisely what David Addington told Scooter Libby he could rely on to justify outing Plame on Cheney’s order…”
I recall Libby leaking about the Double Secret Declassified NIE to Judy Miller on Cheney’s say-so. And I recall Fitzgerald telling us that Libby learned of Ms. Plame’s classified status from a CIA briefer *after* the publication of the Novak article. I even recall Fitzgerald’s rhetoric about a cloud over the Vice Presidency and the umpire’s inability to make the call because Libby threw sand in his eyes.
But I don’t recall any clear proof that Libby or Cheney were aware of Ms. Plame’s classified status prior to the leaks.
As an additional point to ponder – back in the Plame days, Armitage semi-outed himself to the FBI about the leak to Novak shortly after the criminal referral was publicized (He overlooked his leak to Woodward, and probably others, IMHO). Libby kind of ‘fessed up to the FBI but muddied the waters by claiming he had heard it from Cheney, forgot it, then learned it anew from journalists (and people criticize his attempts at fiction…).
By way of contrast, the DoJ claims to have interviewed several hundred people prior to secretly subpoenaing the AP records for the Obama 2012 Tough on Terror leaks. Yet no one has owned up?
6. emptywheel says:
@Tom Maguire: As to the AP leak, John Brennan doesn’t count? He has made it clear, under oath, that he was inadvertantly (same line Armitage used) responsible for outing our mole.
A great, great deal of circumstantial evidence supports the claim that Cheney ordered Libby to out Plame’s CIA tie to Judy. There are even witnesses (ironically enough, John Kiriakou, whose great lawyer Lanny Breuer helped him avoid GJ testimony) who place Libby screaming about why didn’t people tell him Plame was covert on June 10.
Ah well. In 20 years we’ll be able to FOIA Cheney’s secret Grand Jury transcript and find out whether he, alone among the WH, continued to refuse to clear the reporters he spoke to testify. Course by then both he and Novak will be dead and therefore unable to explain who Novak spoke to at the White House on July 7 that led him to ask Armitage that question.
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Reasons why auto dealers are necessary
Cars were once termed as the luxuries of life but now they have become one of the most required necessities of life. You can’t really function if you don’t have a car. A car is required to move from one place to another place within the city. And in the modern world when roads have stretched so much and there are huge distances in between, a car is needed to travel otherwise you will lose all your salary or the money that you get in a month on the tickets and rents of the car services and buses you use to travel. This has become one of the most rising problems and the only solution to this problem is buying a car or any kind of vehicle which is comfortable enough for you so that you can travel on it easily.
Car dealers work systematically and first they ask about the requirements of the buyer and then they ask about the prices range so that they can find a car that the v=buyer can easily afford. Car dealers not only work nationally but they work internationally as well. They export and import different cars and earn foreign exchange. Toyota land cruiser Dubai also export cars to other countries and import their cars as well. In this way the people can drive cars from different countries and can get the car with the best features without worrying about the shipping and the custom issues. Car export in UAE has become really common because their cars with amazing features have attracted the hearts of people all around the world and they want it to be owned by them.
Car dealers also make sure that if the car is within the city and is in the buyer’s range then they make the buyer to drive the car for testing so that they can know about the comfort and the condition of the car. As these dealers deal with used and new cars both so if you are going to buy a used car they will inform you about the condition of the car before payments and they will not hide anything from you whether it be about any damage due to accident or any mishap. This is one of the most liked things about the car dealers that they stay honest to their clients.
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'Executed' North Korean pop diva takes Olympic spotlight
Just a few years ago, she was reportedly executed by a North Korean firing squad. Now, Pyongyang's top pop diva is a senior ruling party official and a surprise headliner in the run-up to the South Korean Winter Olympics.
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November 02, 2013
Malpractice reform has been enacted in almost half the states in the US and has had no impact on doctors' charges. By bringing it in as a factor you are basically either showing your ignorance or your dishonesty.
This is the kind of legislation that will encourage an influx of services provided by foreigners, who may not be so fluent in the English language...much like the author of this article!
WOW! Just simply WOW. What is next? We will be forced to go to only certain doctors?
Yet the ignorant still elect these lunatic Democrats
They should pass a law where stupid people cant vote
I think we need to take government out of healthcare docs can do it by going to cash only for visits and ignoring this BS they only make 48$ a visit now from medicare/ medicaid patients. I would pay 50 just so I wouldn't have to deal with gov. I mean unless you have a chronic illness how often do you really go to the doctor? I have an asthmatic son who is diabetic we go about every other month so about 6 times for full coverage for my family of 4 its 496$ a month figure I average 20 visits a year total that's 1200 bucks pay as I go I pay about 6000 a year for the insurance just saying.......
I will be more than happy to stop practicing medicine should this occur.
A vote for a Democrat in the 21st century is a vote for state ownership of all people. Call it slavery, socialism, or "economic justice" - the result is the same.
When do you think they'll start forcing us to take "Obama Pellets" ? The democratic party (what a joke of a name) needs to made irrelevant in politics for 100 years until they have learned their lesson, that's probably how long this country is going to take to recover from the Obama nightmare.
And the Socialist tyrant government marches on.
They might as well be called Communists at this point.
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Divine Nine-Colored Phoenix
Huang Xiaolong smell word, but the face indifferent to shake was shaking: honest, you disappoint me, original, if you truly and me, me can heal your body injuries, but now. Speaking of which, Huang Xiaolong both eyes killing intent aggressive.
Chen Yifei three men startled, then laughter greater.
Oh, I just said it, that guy just say something here, to our disappointment?” Chen Yifei laugh, and then I face ridicule watched Huang Xiaolong: boy, you want to kill us? You a Heavenly God Rank Seven Middle Stage Peak?”
Chen Yiguang chuckle: a Heavenly God Rank Seven Middle Stage Peak, killing three a Ancient God Rank Seven powerhouse, say it out, I think it's gonna laugh this big piece, I finally know why someone a person die without knowing the reason, because they were smile to die!
Three laughter the pieces.
Big Brother, Second Brother, you're wrong, this boy, there's a cow.” Chen Yicheng chuckle.
Chen Yifei, Chen Yiguang even smile.
Yeah, this guy's a cow. Chen Yifei chuckle: This boy wants to end up with that cow, kill us.”
Chen Yiguang hey look, then the Huang Xiaolong.: Kid, you thought we were a very heavy the wound, so, makes you Heavenly God Rank Seven power, could have been kill us? Yeah, we're wounded extremely heavy, only 1strength, however, going to kill you a Heavenly God Rank Seven, and squash a fly not anything different.”
Well, how you want to die? Look at you save us to share, we'll give you a choice of dying right.”
Chen Yiguang Divine Force stimulation of movement, fingers sword light , twinkle.
kill this boy on a line, that cow, keep him, then we need the cow takes us out.” Chen Yifei opens the mouth Road.
know, Big Brother.” Chen Yiguang hands sword light you a, a, a moment, kill the Huang Xiaolong, seeing that sword light will be Huang Xiaolong a cut in half, and all of a sudden, void in a giant palm they and the next, will it sword light pat scatter.
In Chen Yifei three people shocked., the two first Clouds Swallowing Beast appeared at the three people before.
Great Desolate Divine Beast, Clouds Swallowing Beast!” three complexions a change.
And this aura, Ancient God Rank Five!
Ancient God Rank Five Clouds Swallowing Beast!
Huang Xiaolong complexion indifferent looked at the three peoples: I am without strength to kill you, but, uh, these two first Clouds Swallowing Beast, always.”
Chen Yifei three people who look like.
three persons were not wounded, natural don't take no these two first Ancient God Rank Five Clouds Swallowing Beast, but now three wounded extremely heavy, the two first Ancient God Rank Five Clouds Swallowing Beast, kill them, easy.
If ordinary Ancient God Rank Five Monster Beast, their chances escape, but with Great Desolate Divine Beast of Clouds Swallowing Beast, but without any opportunity.
Chen Yifei both eyes twinkles, opens the mouth said: We could bring us all something to you, including Primal Chaos Fire Gold Stone Battle Robe, and willing to and you.
When, when their strength restores, then double back here!
Huang Xiaolong sneered: Do you think, you have opportunity?”, that is, two only Clouds Swallowing Beast backwards a howl, giant palm surge to Chen Yifei three men took over.
Chen Yifei three people don't change, have dodged shocking retreat.
However, three are Pill Fire Smelting Furnace Formation It wounded, speed dampened, how to hide a Clouds Swallowing Beast giant palm, finally, they Clouds Swallowing Beast racket fly out.
three population chinese fishy bloody freak spray.
Is not for three people react, two head Clouds Swallowing Beast giant palm again as hill general bang pressure and the next.
Ground crashing loud sound.
Only three people were shot disfigured.
However, let Huang Xiaolong astonished is in Clouds Swallowing Beast giant palm, under which Inner Hall ground, but not the point and disintegrating affect, don't know is what material casting.
A dozen dozen minutes past.
Three down there, don't move, No aura, the two first Clouds Swallowing Beast warm entertainments, with three persons fully lost human form.
Huang Xiaolong got three people before, will be three people Primal Chaos Fire Gold Stone Battle Robe, Space Ring, full close up, with regard to three persons Godhead, Golden Horn Calf is straight up, We gusto.
Huang Xiaolong Supreme Fire Divine Force one point, would be three people Divine Physique incineration clean.
While three persons were Ancient God Rank Seven powerhouse, but killed three people, Huang Xiaolong, don't feel bad, at that time, he break Heavenly God Rank Eight after, could refining. That Chaos Spirit Beast Black Baboon.
That Chaos Spirit Beast Black Baboon, definitely better than three person strong.
Huang Xiaolong will be three people corpse to clean up after, will be three people Space Ring hit it, find good thing is so many, and have many Thirty million years, Forty million years Spirit Medicine, there are many Ancient God Godhead, Ancient God Divine Pill, innumerable God Coin, afraid there are billions. And, And dozens of copies ubiquitous yellow halo Cultivation Technique secret book.
Huang Xiaolong took out, crude, open up, it's some antiquity schools secret book, should be several people in this Foreign Devil Battlefield found some antiquity Cave Mansion, get.
Now, entire cheap. Huang Xiaolong.
Huang Xiaolong will Ancient God Godhead Take it all out, addressed to Golden Horn Calf.
Now a Divine Phoenix Palace these Primal Chaos Spirit Pill, enough he practice, these Ancient God Godhead, look/the Golden Horn Calf a bigger role.
However, Huang Xiaolong don't rush swallowed these Primal Chaos Spirit Pill practice, but look at the hall left a phoenix stone pillar, this stone pillar, should be an Inhuman space transmissions of stone pillar.
Golden Horn Calf also look to the stone pillar, said: It is phoenix, implicit Primal Chaos Vermilion Bird Burning Heavens Formation, be open, if you need Chaos Spirit Beast of blood.”
Chaos Spirit Beast of blood?
Huang Xiaolong nodded, took some Black Baboon's blood, hand you a, Black Baboon blood infusion of stone pillar Phoenix map, Golden Horn Calf, a group Purple Thunder, finally, Phoenix Flame greatly rises, an intermittent Fire Attribute spiritual energy if monstrous waves general swept it, rays of light 10,000 Zhang in, Huang Xiaolong and Golden Horn Calf to another space.
It similarly is a hall, than outside main hall also's lot.
main hall over, specifically a phoenix!
A seems to be sleeping Phoenix, Phoenix was a thousand , Joe. You're the flame, feather reek nine colors rays of light, while main hall four corners, there are four a great column, each giant column, with full, runes, runes, constantly send down. spiritual energy, give the deep sleep of phoenix inside.
Chaos Spirit Beast, Nine-Colored Divine Phoenix, this phoenix background's strength extremely powerful.” Golden Horn Calf said: But it hurt, moreover extremely heavy, fell into a deep trance state, the four giant column on Fire Attribute Divine Formation. spiritual energy, flow into their main body, to its resumption of injury, but it's going to wake up, I'm afraid I have to three hundred or four hundred years.”
Huang Xiaolong surprised, wasn't expecting this space, even a deep sleep Chaos Spirit Beast Nine-Colored Divine Phoenix, however, since even Golden Horn Calf says it strength extremely powerful, then its strength, will be extremely powerful.
just, don't know. Who will it hurt? Huang Xiaolong thought beaten violent in the Merging Pill Pagoda, it's the same guy?
( tomorrow. Three more )
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Poussey and bennett dating in real life
Margarita levieva dating sebastian stan imdb, margarita Levieva
But some of them fall asleep to handle the love life till the end. They're both very art-minded and thoughtful people. But if the conjecture is true then their fans will be happy to see their favorite couple back together.
Are these couple Margarita Levieva and Sebastian expecting baby first and later marriage? Margarita in an interview talking about her role in the new movie. Stan also posted some posts with Levieva, and that added more to what the sources had said. Joshua and Levieva were also pictured together earlier in the same month. Is the couple secretly dating or called it quits months ago without saying any words?
However, the two did not make much of public appearances after that, and that prompted people to wonder whether or not the two are still together. Many of you are her fan and thinking about her net worth. Regardless of the fact that Seb helped Ashton in the film to hook up with Margo, in real life, he'll never want that. She is the talented and adorable actress.
We are here to reveal about her net worth. Are they still together or had separated? Your curiosity is also apparent, but for your information, the above picture is not of her real life picture, it is of her reel life image.
Generally, when a celebrity breaks up with their partner, they tend to delete pictures of them together. This led people to believe that the Allegiance star is now seeing the Fringe actor. But they tend to forget the importance of that information to their fans. Well, it's a superficially plausible as they haven't deleted their pictures in their respective Instagram profile.
Is Margarita Levieva pregnant with Sebastian? So, is pregnant margarita is also feeling the same thing? Margarita is well known for her films like The invisible, just started dating someone new meme Adventureland and spread.
Seb and Margo Still Dating There are a lot of examples of celebs dating, engaging, and even marrying in a covert fashion. So we can conclude that she is pregnant just in her tv show but not in real life with her boyfriend, Sebastian.
But still, her fans are in a dilemma regarding her relationship with Sebastian as both couples have not given any official confirmation to the married news. Either that or Seb and Margo remains best of friends. But have they actually split? They didn't shy away from anything.
Sebastian Stan and Margarita Levieva - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos
The two rarely come together at present, and thus, people have started wondering if the two are still together or have already split. On television, she is well known for her role as the Amanda Clarke on Revenge which made her famous. Her major works include The Invisible, Adventureland, and Spread.
Everyone has feeling and emotion regarding the love life and when people fall in love, they think that the whole world is their lover. What is she expecting baby boy or girl?
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Is she expecting baby boy or girl? But looks like it was all friendly and nothing's going on between them. Before stepping forward in the acting career, she was a gymnast. Actress American-Russian actress former gymnast Related Post.
Margarita Levieva Was Dating Sebastian Stan, Are They Still Dating?
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Current research, interviews and analysis of urban living
Participation, Development
Part III: A renewed urban planning approach for Kyiv
The final part of the three-part article about Kyiv General Plan 2040: what could be the urban planning approaches in the future and why there is no need to modernize the General Plan project
Anastasiya Ponomaryova , Brent D. Ryan, Oleksandr Anisimov
Environment, Economy
Degrowth for Human Prosperity
Could we resist climate crises in the paradigm of constant economic growth? What is degrowth approach? What are the main degrowth values, goals, and practices?
Pavlo Fedoriv
Participation, Development
Dialogue for Cohesive Cities: educational exchange results
What is just and cohesive city, and what do participants of the educational exchange organized by Cedos think tank in the fall 2019 think about this concept
Alona Vyshnytska
Development, Governance
Kyiv’s General Plan is not an accident. Part II
Second part of the three-part article about Kyiv General Plan: what are the values behind this document and how these values informed the problematic principles promoted in GP 2040
Anastasiya Ponomaryova , Brent D. Ryan, Oleksandr Anisimov
Development, Governance
Kyiv’s new General Plan has failed. What will come next?
What are the main disadvantages of new Kyiv's General Plan and why this document does not consider key principles of sustainable urban planning
Anastasiya Ponomaryova , Brent D. Ryan, Oleksandr Anisimov
Kharkiv: interaction between local authorities and civil society
Interaction between local government bodies and civil society in Kharkiv – brief summary of the research
Daryna Pyrohova
Produce Less: how to save planet from plastic
Single-use plastic one of the important challenges faced by humanity. We discuss who is primarily responsible for the spread of single-uses and why eco-lifestyle is not a solution
Alona Savchuk
Public space
In Search of a Bathroom: What is wrong with public bathrooms in Kyiv
How does the system of public bathrooms work in Kyiv, is there any room for improvement, and why it is not always possible «just go to McDonald's»
Alona Vyshnytska
Housing, Public space
No Place in the City: Where can homeless people expect help from
During pandemic, the homeless are among the most vulnerable groups of people. How homeless people live in Kyiv, why do they sleep at the train station, and how the city creates the illusion of help
Alona Vyshnytska
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Grok this Sound and Vision is a live mixed streamed audio-visual media event created by the multi-decadal creative collaborators DJ Krusty and VJ Mandala.
This digital experience will traverse an abstract sonic and visual perfomative landscape, that maintains a psychedelic aesthetic expression, as a celebration, of the simian evolutionary and revolutionary relationship, between mind and hyper-dimensional reality, through the plant mediators.
Eugene-NRG (DJ Krusty)
DJ Krusty have been spanking the planks and enjoying DJing for a long time now, he has performed at gatherings and festivals all over Australia and has travelled to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America to share his sonics with psychedelic dance party people.
A well-seasoned Melbourne based Disc Jockey, Krusty has been sculpting mystical electronic musical journey’s mixing trance, ethno techno, deep oriental house, psy dub and worldy chill-out regularly since the early 90’s… His central theme is to synthesise the various art mediums required or available in any given circumstance so that he can possibly bring something special, something magical to the moment to be shared and created by all.
Krusty has composed and released psychedelic techno music under a number of project monikers which include House of Pagan Christians, Organic Madjik, as well as DJ Krusty remixes on vinyl and CD.
During this time he also helped create the Green Ant music label, which released Australian psychedelic electronic CD dance music for over 10 years.
These days as a DJ he is mostly semi retired most of the time as a film-maker he’s frequently 24/7.
Adem Jaffers (vj Mandala)
During a photography gig during the late ’80s, Adem was first introduced to analogue and digital video art during Future Films production of the ground-breaking music video clips for MaxQ and soon after for Third Eye.
That inspirational creative cultural impetus saw Adem pursue experimental digital art with a fervour, initially via the legendary Amiga-500 computer and analogue video-feedback.
Expanding his visual repertoire to incorporate lighting and laser over the proceeding years; he has fused these mediums into dynamic illuminated projection designs for the Psy-Harmonics, Every Picture Tells a Story and Earthdance parties; and the Big Day Out, Earthcore and Rainbow Serpent bush doof festivals; internationally for Infinite Frequency (LA) and Tsunami (NYC) parties; including a residency as Laser operator at the well established Machine (label) local monthly techno night.
With a propensity toward [the] cutting edge, Adem’s works embody and explore exo/esoteric concepts within the psychedelic, spiritual, scientific and political-cultural paradigms that the highly influential Cyber and Rave culture had embraced.
In collaboration with Cyber Dada, Adem was a seminal figure in the creation of the Cyberdelia doco and the underground Cyberthon live electronic video-art broadcast events, which were held at the RMITV studios and at TVU’s pop-up warehouse TV broadcast space during the early to mid-’90s. Cyberthon’s 53hrs of mastered recordings have since been digitised into the ACMI archives.
From the mid nineties Adem also ventured into commercial art as a 3D animator, then specialised as a Compositor for TV series, TV adverts, music videos, documentaries, feature film, as well as periodic web-based media and gaming for Unreal Pictures, Liquid VFX and other studios.
In the last couple decades, Adem has continued pushing his craft. VJi’ng for live acts such as Taipan Tiger Girls, Monolake, Carl Cox and Digital Primate. Also creating the Jefferey Smart music video for My Friend the Chocolate Cake. And a major collaboration with Projection Teknik, as the principle animation designer for the 360-degree IDEATION presentation, which was projection mapped over the Victorian State Library’s La Trobe domed reading room interior walls during the White Night festival.
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This meta post is a place for handy travel information for anyone going on our trip.
Please share anything you might find useful for the trip.
We're still gathering ideas for what to do on our other meta post , so if you have any fun suggestions - or haven't voted on things you'd like to do, check that post out too.
As the type of information here differs a lot, there'll be no format for answers. Please just keep them brief and informative :)
Just to cover every base, by joining us on the trip you agree to some sensible rules:
• This is not an official Stack Exchange event, it is an event that has been organized within the site community. As of such,
• You are ultimately responsible for your own actions. You are responsible for your personal travel/insurance/food/lodging and any other costs you may incur during the trip.
• Although our members are probably lovely, if you trust other members with belongings/shared lodging, etc. - you do so at your own risk.
• If you behave in a way that is ruining others' enjoyment of the event, you may be asked to stop participation. Unwarranted harassment of any sort won't be tolerated.
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Here's an editable Google Map of locations which should be handy.
Feel free to add any points of interest onto the map.
Currently it has some locations of the suggested events, hotels and transport links.
User @DmitriMX has given some hotel suggestions here - Probably best if you would like to halve the costs with another A&M'r.
The convention site has a list of hotels too - sortable by distance to the center / cost.
There are also third party groups like Hotels.com & Booking.com as well, which are decent.
The date of the convention is the 10th to the 12th of June 2016, opening at 14:00 on Friday and closing on Sunday at 17:00.
You can buy tickets here.
There is a bigger discount the earlier you book, and there are different tiers of tickets if you do not wish to attend every day:
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There is a good FAQ on their site if you have any con-specific questions.
Most of Europe uses the same plug, but for those who don't, like myself and the UK - the plug type is as such:
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, the second son of Lillian (née Gold) and Harry Hoffman. His father worked as a prop supervisor (set decorator) at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman. Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor Dustin Farnum. His older brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist.
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The Guardian
Bees and flowers have had the world’s longest love affair. Now it’s in danger | Alison Benjamin
The Guardian
The oldest love affair in history is between the bee and the flower. It began more than 100m years ago, when nature devised a more efficient way than winds for plants to procreate. About 80% of plant species now use animals or insects to carry pollen grains from the male part of the plant to the female part. The plants developed flowers. Their perfumed scent, colourful displays and sweet nectar are all designed to woo pollinators.
Over time, 25,000 or so species (we still don’t know exactly how many) of bee have evolved globally to play Cupid to specific flowering plants and trees: their short life cycle perfectly synchronised with the blooming of the flowers. On each visit they refuel with nectar, collect pollen to feed their young and in the process become a messenger of love.
But nature’s great lovers are going through a rocky patch, from which they may not recover. It’s in all our interests that this age-old romance endures because about one in three mouthfuls we eat depends on bee pollination, including most fruits and vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices, oil crops, as well as coffee. Together they supply a major proportion of nutrients in the human diet. In addition, fodder crops, plant-derived medicines such as aspirin and morphine, and fibres such as cotton are all bee-pollinated. That’s not to forget that many of the trees that are the lungs of the planet and absorb carbon from the atmosphere are bee pollinated.
Many of the 250 bumblebee species worldwide, whose furry coats and round bodies allow them to fly at cool temperatures, are in drastic decline. Nearly one in four European bumblebee species face extinction; in North America more than a quarter are in decline. Last week, a study reported a decline over a 115-year period that is “consistent with a mass extinction within a few decades” in areas where temperatures are getting hotter. It is just the latest in a long list of scientific papers cataloguing the demise of bees.
Much research has focused on the role of modern farming. The vast majority of flowering meadows that once fed bees a nutritious diet have been ploughed up, and hedgerows ripped out, to make way for huge fields of monoculture doused in a cocktail of chemicals that are harmful to bees and other insects. By making the landscape uninhabitable for native wild bees, farmers have become increasingly reliant on managed European honeybees to pollinate, even when these bees are less adapted to the flowers.
The starkest example of this is an area of California stretching about 400 miles and planted with almond trees. Around Valentine’s Day commercial beekeepers from all over the US arrive in the Central Valley with 2m beehives strapped on to articulated lorries. Over the next three weeks, as the trees blossom, honeybees will buzz from flower head to flower head and as a result the trees will produce 80% of the world’s almonds. The ancient Egyptians sailed their hives down the Nile to pollinate crops, but 3,000 years later this biggest migratory pollination event is stretching the love affair between bee and flower to its limits.
A little over a decade ago, I visited the Central Valley to find out why a third of the country’s honeybees had seemingly vanished. The mysterious phenomenon, dubbed “colony collapse disorder”, made headlines around the world. I interviewed beekeepers, farmers and scientists to discover the causes and was shocked by what I found. Miles upon miles of trees planted in a desert unable to sustain any life, the apian workforce being tricked into working harder and a month earlier than nature intended, when it was still cold, and beekeepers blaming the die-offs on a new class of neonicotinoid pesticides. The high bee mortality was eventually attributed to a lethal combination of poor nutrition, parasites, which weaken bees and spread disease, and pesticides (all a result of intensive agriculture). I warned that the honeybees’ demise would be ours too unless we changed the way we grew our food.
But despite the alarm bells from wildlife charities and conservation groups, farming has further intensified and commercial beekeepers in the US now routinely have to restock more than a third of their bees each year because of loses.
The almond acreage in the Central Valley has nearly doubled, partly fuelled by a huge demand for almond milk. In the US alone sales have grown by 250% in the past five years. The EU ban on the most widely used neonicotinoids was never adopted by the US government so the trees are still doused in a concoction of these and other toxic chemicals. And trials to use a native North American blue orchard mason bee – which is a much more efficient pollinator of fruit trees than the generalist honeybee – have stalled because they reproduce too slowly and in too few numbers to be deemed commercially viable. Almonds are big business, contributing $11bn to California’s GDP and providing more than 100,000 jobs. There is some good news: since 2013, almond farmers have planted 34,000 acres of wildflowers to provide additional bee food, but that is just 3.4% of the land. Why not pay farmers to blanket all of it with wildflowers? Farmers told me they were fearful the bees would spend more time visiting wildflowers than almond trees and yields would fall, although research shows the opposite.
The US-based Xerces Society has developed a bee-friendly kitemark for the small number of almonds grown with wildflowers and without pesticides. It’s a start, but we need all crops that bees pollinate to be grown in a bee-friendly way. As consumers, we must demand growers and retailers adopt bee-friendly methods, and be prepared to pay a premium for it. And as citizens we must lobby for farmers to be subsidised to work with, not against, nature. Otherwise this fragile romance on which our survival depends will wither and die and with it life as we know it.
Alison Benjamin is editor of Guardian Society and a deputy Opinion editor
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What to Consider When Changing the Front Door
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We all get to a stage in our lives where we want to make changes to our homes. Some people choose to renovate the entire house whilst others choose to make subtle changes in each room. The front door is generally a simpler renovation procedure that many home owners elect to change. There are aspects to consider when changing the front door.
• Why?
• Budget
• Light
• Quality
Some people decide to change the entire door because the material has either rusted or perished. It is important to also maintain certain materials such as wood as it does tend to absorb water. Adding a layer of varnish can prevent water from being absorbed. When replacing the damaged door, you have to remember that there is a certain amount of care that some doors need in order to last for long periods of time.
• Space
Are you changing the door because you want to create more space on the inside? This is a perfectly logically explanation for wanting to replace the door. Some people also don’t want to have such a large door taking up so much wall space on the inside.
• Material
There are other reasons that people choose to change the front door but before making any arrangements, you need to check if the house can handle it structurally. Some architects use the front door as part of the structure of the house.
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The Inspector’s Notebook #3
Because there's a lot riding on your numbers
Keep your lot numbers simple and consistent to have one less worry come harvest time.
By Jim Riddle
Editor’s NOTE:
Certified organic farmers do an odd thing – they pay people to visit their farms with a critical eye to assure they are adhering to every aspect of the USDA’s national organic standard.
The farmers should already be trying to produce, harvest and market their organic crops, livestock and related products by these rules. The on-farm review of fields, facilities and records by an approved inspector sent by the farmer’s accredited organic certifier is the critical point in confirming that the farmer and the farm meet the organic standards – and can prove it to anyone who needs to know.
The visits are pivotal for applying farmers to become certified, and for certified farmers to keep that certification. For the good of organics, we want to help build the foundation for effective inspection visits. We’ve asked Jim Riddle to provide an inspector’s inside view to help farmers understand an inspector’s role, responsibilities and limitations.
In the months ahead, Riddle will elaborate on many items to help farmers understand regulations that apply to them, and how to document their compliance.
Jim Riddle has been on hundreds of farms in the inspector role, and he’s been inspected himself during his time as a farmer. His leadership in bringing professional training to inspectors helped to earn greater acceptance of organic farming in the U.S. He serves as vice-chair of the National Organic Standards Board, which advises the USDA on organic agriculture policies and regulations. He has been an organic farmer, gardener, inspector, educator, policy analyst, author, and consumer.
He was founding chair of the Independent Organic Inspectors Association, (IOIA), and co-author of the IFOAM/IOIA International Organic Inspection Manual. Riddle has helped train hundreds of organic inspectors throughout the world. In 2003, Jim was appointed Endowed Chair of Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota.
He serves as an organic policy specialist for
September 23, 2004: Let’s face it. Lot numbers are confusing. What are they? When and why do organic farmers use them? How do you get one?
One of the first things I learned as an inspector was that some organic farmers need to use lot numbers when selling their products. Lot numbering systems are unique to each seller. For processed products, lot numbers have long been used to track products through a manufacturing plant, or to help recall damaged or contaminated products. For organic processors, incoming lot numbers on ingredients help connect each ingredient to its source, and insure that organic ingredients are being used for each batch of organic finished product. For organic farmers, lot numbers track the product from the point of sale back to the field(s) of production or storage facility.
A lot number is a unique code containing numbers or letters that stand for specific pieces of information, connected to a specific batch of product. Information that a lot number should contain includes: type of crop, crop year, and either field numbers or storage unit number.
Thus, a lot number for organic soybeans harvested in 2004 and stored in bin #1 could read “S041”. The “S” stands for soybeans, “04” for crop year 2004, and “1” is the bin where organic soybeans were stored until shipped to the processor. Your storage record for bin # 1 should show the date of harvest, the amount harvested, and which fields were harvested and stored in bin # 1. The lot number and storage record track your organic soybeans back to the field(s) of production.
Now comes the tricky part. What if you aren’t storing your soybeans, but selling them directly out of the field? Let’s say you have 5 fields of soybeans; fields H-1, H-4, M-2, M-6, and M-9. Using the same elements, your lot number could be S04H1H4M2M6M9. The ‘S” stands for soybeans, “04” is for crop year 2004, and “H1H4M2M6M9 stand for fields H-1, H-4, M-2, M-6, and M-9. This is a long and confusing lot number, with a good chance of being written incorrectly on sales and shipping records.
You can shorten this lot number by assigning a different number or letter, such as “A” that stands for fields H-1, H-4, M-2, M-6, and M-9. Now your lot number is S04A. Be sure to write the lot number of the sale in your harvest and sales records, and that “A” stands for all the fields harvested and sold as a single lot.
If two truckloads of organic soybeans are sold directly out of the field, the first semi load should be identified differently from the second. The first truckload lot number could be S04A1, and the second truckload lot number could be S04A2. Again, be sure to write these lot numbers on the harvest record to connect them to the specific fields harvested and included in each load.
You can even add your own initials to a lot number to distinguish it from other organic soybean growers, i.e., JRS04A1, where “JR” stands for Jim Riddle.
Vegetable growers have a different problem with lot numbers. You may harvest many different products on a daily basis, and sell wholesale to grocery stores or restaurants and/or directly to consumers through a CSA, a farmers market, or an on-farm market. Organic growers selling directly to consumers do not need to use lot numbers. You do, however, need to keep track of what you harvest, the date, which fields are harvested, and total sales.
A wholesale vegetable grower can use the date of the invoice or invoice number as the lot number, with all the vegetables being sold on that invoice connected to that lot number.
For really large vegetable growers, an individual lot number can be designed similar to the organic soybean example above, but adding the date of harvest. For example, for carrots harvested August 10, 2004, a simple lot # is C8104. “C” stands for carrot, “8” is for August, “10” is for August 10, and “4” is the crop year, 2004.
For bulk shipments of organic products in non-retail containers, NOP 205.307(b) requires that lot numbers be displayed on the shipping containers. The lot number should also appear on the associated invoice and shipping documents.
Be sure to record lot numbers on your harvest and storage records, scale tickets, sales invoices, shipping documents, and other appropriate records.
The bottom lines:
• Design a lot numbering system that works for you.
• Use your lot numbers consistently.
• Keep your system as simple as possible.
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Published in: Credit Cards | Dec. 31, 2018
4 Travel Expenses You Shouldn’t Be Paying
By: Lyle Daly
Traveling can make a dent in your finances, especially if you’re spending money on unnecessary expenses. On your next trip, here are the travel expenses that you should be able to avoid.
Image source: Getty Images.
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As enjoyable as traveling is, paying for it isn’t nearly as much fun. Airfare and a place to stay are usually the two biggest expenses, plus you’ll also need to cover transportation, activities, and meals.
While you can minimize those expenses as much as possible, they’re still going to cost you some money. But there are also travel expenses that are entirely avoidable, and eliminating them can help you save quite a bit on your trips.
1. Checked baggage fees
For both domestic and international flights, many airlines will charge you a fee for each piece of checked baggage. Fee amounts vary by airline, often starting at $25 for the first bag and going up for each additional piece of luggage.
Since those fees are charged each way, you could be looking at an extra $50 to $100 for one trip. Your checked baggage can cost you even more if it’s overweight.
How to avoid it -- There are a few simple ways to never pay a checked baggage fee. Most airline credit cards include at least one free checked bag as a cardholder perk, so one of those may be a good choice if you have an airline you use often.
You could also opt for an airline that offers free checked bags. Some international carriers let you check a bag for free, and Southwest famously offers two free checked bags on all its flights.
Even though those two solutions work, what I’d recommend more than anything is to travel light. A carryon and a personal bag should be more than enough for most trips. You probably won’t need nearly as much as you think, and you’ll be grateful you don’t have a checked bag anytime you’re lugging everything around on foot.
2. Foreign transaction fees
Paying by card is a safer and more convenient option when you’re traveling. You can carry less cash, which means fewer ATM or currency conversion fees, and you won’t be out as much money if your wallet is lost or stolen.
That convenience can cost you, though, as debit cards and credit cards typically tack on foreign transaction fees. The most common amount is 3% of the transaction. So, if you spend $500 in a foreign country, foreign transaction fees will cost you an extra $15. It’s not a huge amount, but it can add up, particularly if you travel out of the country frequently.
How to avoid it -- This one’s easy, as you can simply get a credit card without a foreign transaction fee. Just about all the best travel rewards cards include this feature, since they’re designed with travelers in mind.
3. International calling, texting, and data
Thanks to the cell phone, we’re used to being able to contact people whenever and wherever. And mobile data has become a huge part of day-to-day life, as people use it for everything from looking up directions to streaming music and checking social media.
All of that activity can lead to a big phone bill if you do it internationally. While fees depend on your carrier, certain carriers charge more than $1 per minute for international calls, $0.50 or more per text, and $25 per 100MB of mobile data.
How to avoid it -- First things first, check with your carrier to see what your options are. They may have international packages available for a small fee or even offer certain international features free of charge as part of your plan. For example, on my T-Mobile plan, I get free unlimited international texting and data (availability varies by country, but quite a few countries are covered).
You can also connect to Wi-Fi whenever possible and use that for your calling and messaging. Wi-Fi calling doesn’t use your minutes, so it’s free to use internationally. Switching to a messaging app, such as WhatsApp, is a good way to avoid text message charges. Make sure you turn your mobile data off if it’s going to cost you money.
4. Travel insurance
If you’re worried about what could go wrong on a trip, travel insurance is one way to put yourself at ease. Exactly what travel insurance covers will depend on the plan, but it can include trip delays, trip cancellation, lost luggage, and medical emergencies.
The cost of travel insurance also depends on the plan you choose and where you’re going. The standard range is about 4% to 10% of your trip cost, and you can expect it to be towards the higher end of that if you go with a comprehensive plan. So, for every $1,000 you pay for your trip, travel insurance would likely cost you about $40 to $100.
How to avoid it -- Like foreign transaction fees, this is one expense that you can avoid when you have the right credit card. Many of the best credit cards on the market include similar protections to what you’d get through travel insurance. Emergency medical coverage is the most significant exception, as most credit cards don’t offer it. If you want to have that, you could get a cheaper plan focusing solely on travel medical insurance, while relying on your credit card’s protections for everything else.
Considering how easy it is to avoid the travel expenses listed above, there’s no reason you should be paying them, whether you’re a frequent traveler or you only do it once a year. With a few adjustments, you can cut those expenses and save hundreds of dollars on each trip.
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OneDrive has a new feature that makes it easier than ever to see both what files and folders you are sharing with other users, and what is being shared with you. In this article we will go through how to quickly check this, and make any changes you need.
Log into with your username and password.
From the main welcome screen, find the OneDrive icon and select it.
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On the left hand side of the screen, you will see a menu, one of the items is titled "shared", select this.
You will load into a page with 2 tabs along the top, "Shared with you" and "Shared by you" which will load into a list of files, folders, or a mix of both depending on your sharing activity.
"Shared with you" will list those files and folders other users have shared with you.
"Shared by you" will list those files and folders that you have shared from your OneDrive to other users.
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From the "Shared by me" tab, you are able to manage who your files and folders are shared with. Hover over the object you want to manage, and tick the box that appears next to the folder icon.
Ticking this will change the text along the top to include a "Manage access" option. Select this.
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Along the right hand side of the page, further options will appear. This will allow you to see at a glance, where your folder/file can be accessed from, who can see it and what rights they have in terms of viewing and editing. You can also amend who can access, share your folder to a specified destination, and grant access to additional users.
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Nepal arrests 122 Chinese
Illustrative image. Image Credit: Reuters
Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has arrested five military officers who received money transfers of millions of riyals to their bank accounts in Switzerland.
According to local media reports, the anti-graft body was able to discover new corruption cases involving Saudis and expatriate residents as part of its campaign to crack down on corruption and illegal graft practices.
Investigations led to the arrest of five military officers, including a retired major general pilot at the Ministry of Defence, for receiving nine million riyals and a luxury car worth 500,000 riyals from an expatriate resident who works in a company contracted with the Ministry of Defence in exchange for facilitating the company’s transactions with the ministry.
Another retired military officer was arrested for receiving 945,000 riyals from a business firm in exchange for awarding the company contracts with the ministry.
A lieutenant colonel at the civil defence was also arrested for accepting a bribe of 509,000 riyals from two expats working at a maintenance company in exchange for awarding the company a maintenance contract.
The investigations also led to the arrest of two officers at the General Directorate of Passports for facilitating the illegal entry of persons through land checkpoints in return for 65,000 riyals.
In another case, five employees at the Ministry of Health were arrested for misappropriating 9.2million riyals in salaries and dues of expatriate employees at the ministry.
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Penn State's James Franklin on USC Rumors: 'It's That Time of Year'
Tim Daniels@TimDanielsBRFeatured ColumnistNovember 20, 2018
Penn State head coach James Franklin watches in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin said "it's that time of year" in response to speculation linking him to the USC Trojans if Clay Helton is fired.
Penn State On BTN provided Franklin's full comments on the situation on Tuesday after several college football reporters, including Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel and Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples, recently named him as a potential target for USC:
Helton has landed firmly on the hot seat with the Trojans falling to 5-6 this season with four losses in their past five games. The team's offense ranks 94th in the country yards per game.
Whether Franklin, who's successfully turned the Penn State program around after a similar reclamation project with the Vanderbilt Commodores, would even consider leaving the Nittany Lions for USC is a major question mark, though.
Along with the difference in current performance—Penn State is 8-3 in 2018—the team is also on pace to land a better recruiting class for 2019. The Nittany Lions rank 14th based on current commitments compared to 29th for the Trojans, who don't have a 5-star prospect in next year's group yet, per 247Sports.
It's also unclear whether USC could provide a significant financial boost in its offer. Penn State is paying Franklin $4.8 million for the 2018 campaign, while Helton's base salary is $2.6 million, according to USA Today.
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Even if the Trojans did decide to make Franklin a lucrative offer, Penn State would likely be willing to rework his deal to keep him in State College if money was the deciding factor.
So, while the Franklin-to-USC rumors have started to take on a life of their own in recent days, there's very little concrete information suggesting it's a realistic endgame at this point.
Meanwhile, the Nittany Lions will look to close out the regular season with a win Saturday when they take on the Maryland Terrapins.
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Outrage over stab vests in England colours being sold to World Cup fans
January 14th, 2010 - 5:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 14(ANI): Stab vests in England colours are being sold to 2010 football World Cup-bound fans, provoking outrage among supporter groups.
According to reports, the Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) has condemned a company that is offering protective clothing named “Protektorvest”, and creating a climate of fear and danger around the tournament to be held in South Africa.
“Wearing a stab vest with an England flag on would be like going around with a target on your chest. It does not fit in with the ethos of going over there for a carnival of football and enjoying it. You do not want to go worrying about being stabbed and buying equipment to protect yourself,” The Mirror quoted Michael Brunskill, of the FSF, as saying.
“We do have some security concerns, but this would be drawing unnecessary attention to yourself,” he added.
The stab vests, which were launched in England last week, shield “the vital inner body parts from stabs, cuts, slashes and blows from sharp, edged or spiked weapons”, and is being marketed to football fans around the world.
Meanwhile, the company claims that crime rate is high in South Africa, and the Protektorvest will offer effective protection from potential attacks.
“We are getting lots of interest in this from around the world. It is quite amazing. Of course people think it is a bit crazy, but South Africa is famous for knife crime. I can imagine that the organisers of the World Cup say it is safe, but fans want to do what they can. Football fans can get into trouble. They can be drunk and rowdy unlike in other sports, so they can have problems. If they approach situations with the wrong attitude it could go horribly wrong,” said Sascha Cutura, co-founder of Protektorvest.
“We are seeing a high demand in personal protective clothing and there is no doubt that the risk is increasing at big events like the World Cup 2010, or during concerts especially when you are travelling in areas where you are unsure of your personal safety. If you have vests in team colours it makes them not so recognisable as stab vests. Some people think it might be dangerous out there and want to take a precaution,” he added. (ANI)
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Nainsi is one of the supporting characters in The Lunar Chronicles.
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In the beginning of Cinder, Kai hired Cinder to fix a broken Nainsi and hinted to Cinder that she contained important information.
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Nainsi has a pear-shaped body.
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• In the audiobook version of Cinder, Nainsi is pronounced practically the same as the common English name, Nancy.[1]
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This is getting ridiculous, what has he done recently? Therrien is just a hypocrite what happened to being accountable for your actions? What happened to him saying that if you play well you'll get more ice time? And when Desharnais will get the odd secondary assist people are going to be quick to point it out.
It's such ******** and it applies to lots of players. For some, he really doesn't have a choice, cuz there's no one in their position playing better. With DD, today, not being demoted is proof that MT is full of doggy doo doo and I'm starting to really not like how he's revealing himself to be just a PR stunt. Definitely been a good coach, but his mantras are for the public.
Consider that he benched Eller after a 2-1 Toronto loss. No, think about that score for a second. And said Eller was the only one who wasn't putting in effort (which he was). It was an excuse (mm hmmm) to change his lines up to put Chucky in at centre. Yeah Eller responded, but that's not at all why MT benched him, it was for his own line juggling. Also if it DID show a positive result for Eller, uh...why not bench your worst center?
I have always supported DD, but this season, particularly lately, he's been crap. Most of all, he's cost us some huge goals defensively. I always thought he was a humble dude, but when I saw him on AC dressed like a 70s pimp or some psychedelic leprechaun, he rubbed me the wrong way as if he was gods gift to the Habs. Then the contract. I thought he'd be like Pleky, and play even harder, but no. Pisses me off, cuz DD has the ability to school big talented players, but he's just playing like garbage. Doesn't help that Pacioretty sucks too right now. (BTW, any idea why Rosehill was so pissed at him?)
MT can resolve this by giving the Eller line more ice time than DDs since he's not changing anything even though AC said it's time to break it up. Even they can see it's not working and they want what's best for the team for once. Give Chucky a few more minutes and I'm sure him and Eller will put up more goals. They always make something happen.
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Lil Boosie holds a press conference to talk about what's next.
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Today Baton Rouge-based rapper Lil' Boosie held a post-prison press conference, and Brian Boyles of The People Say Project attended the press conference on our behalf. Here's his report.
When she passed behind our row the first time, the young lady offered lanyards but found no takers. We all had creds for the press conference, we were already in the ballroom, and who needs another lanyard? Then someone asked, “Does it say Boosie on it?”
“It says Trill Entertainment,” she said.
OK, fuck it, we’ll take one. Everyone laughed, lanyard lady, too.
Today the hip-hop media descended on the W Hotel on Poydras this afternoon for the first public interviews with Lil’ Boosie, the Baton Rouge rapper freed last week from Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola after serving four years on drug charges. The promoters live-streamed the event so the world could watch, and Twitter seemed to indicate that many people took advantage of the diversion, happily employing the #BoosieSpeaks hashtag that replaced #FreeBoosie as the go-to signifier of support for the man who made “Ratchet” and “Wipe Me Down” famous. Interestingly, a cat from the LA Weekly tweeted that the “Wipe Me Down” video was playing on the two projection screens that flanked the stage, where gilded thrones awaited Boosie and interviewer Angela Yee. “Is this heaven?” he tweet-asked. In fact, that song never played; “Green Light Special” and “Top to the Bottom” were on a loop with the Atlantic and Trill Family logos. Perhaps, my neighbor said, the dude didn’t know any other Boosie tracks. We were in social media heaven, though, so do your thing, @Passionweiss. It would’ve been funny if it were true, and knowing the hashtag is more important than knowing the song, feel me?
Whatever Boosie means to media in Los Angeles, he’s been treated like a folk legend in Louisiana, and his return was significant for all the fans who pined for him and his snarly whine. I liked his music and I liked how hard he repped Baton Rouge, and how that loyalty was reciprocated along the Gulf Coast. I dug that his videos featured him riding on the front of a bicycle past peeling shotgun houses. I never realized how popular he was in hip circles pre-prison, but I’m often surprised like that.
At 1 p.m., people got to their feet to capture the entrance of Bun B, Young Jeezy and Webbie, all of who spoke briefly to the press. Well, Bun B and Jeezy were brief. Webbie decided to take the throne with Angela, laughed that he was nervous, and proceeded to crack everyone up. “I talked to God, you coming home,” he said in his deep drawl when asked what he’d told the imprisoned Boosie. “Them n*ggas pussy!” Webbie was blazed and honest.
His lawyers said a few words, then Boosie came out in white Gucci shirt, pants, and shoes. His arms looked thicker, but sunglasses covered his eyes, which always used to look haunted, slightly tweaked. He sounded relaxed, comfortable, like he really felt at home. He didn’t listen to many new artists while he was locked down; there might be a collabo with C-Murder; he has a song for Bieber; he wrote 1,018 songs in prison.
All of which you probably heard about. When something’s live-streamed and big on Twitter, what do you report afterwards? If it’s prepped for voyeurs, why rehash the facts of a spectacle? I say that as a compliment to the promoters: this was an artist who gained wider attention while in prison through his popularity on social media, and today was a solid social media freedom party. Better yet, social media was the theme of Angela Yee’s questioning, and it was pretty funny. She asked about Instagram and Boosie said he was just shocked you could see someone on the phone while you talked to them. They mentioned all the web support and subsequent growth in popularity, and Angela asked what Boosie’s first freed tweet would be. Boosie hadn’t really thought about it, and I liked that.
I kept thinking how insane this must feel. To suddenly be free, off the plantation that is Angola. Like, just imagine that. Forget whether or not you came up hard, were an iridescent talent, scored big hits, told reporters you’d stuffed E into the rear ends of chicks to get a quicker---forget all that. Imagine you were in jail, now you are free, and you have to adjust to freedom and the world. Think about how crazy that would be. And then to sit down on a gold throne in New Orleans and have people ask about your opinions and plans for some little screen when you just got out of a little box. And no one asks about life inside (or your lawyers won’t let them), what it was like.
Near the end of the interview, Boosie mentioned prison. “I went through some stuff in prison. You ain’t gotta ask me about what I went through.” In fact, he was charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into the penitentiary, and there may be legal reasons why that was left out of the questions from Yee and the assembled reporters. Really, the details and charges are irrelevant. Maybe it got covered in his subsequent one-on-ones. I’m still wondering, though, what was it like in Angola? I guess we’ll have to wait for “Boosie the Movie,” which he promised us today.
Today marked the reappearance of someone who’d been made exponentially more famous by the Internet while he was away for four years. The event seemed to be more concerned with the reengagement with social media than with society. Why he left, what he experienced when he was gone, what it was like to be free—those weren’t so important. There was music to be made. Atlantic was “betting the house” on Boosie now, his lawyer told us. And, after four years of tweeted clamors for his release, maybe that wasn’t a bad bet. Maybe, too, it was the hyperbolic symbol of an industry’s desperation. For the last 4 years, Boosie was a great hashtag, but we’ll have to wait and see if the hype for the prisoner translates to hits for the artist.
By Brian Boyles
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The hypothesis of Dinosaurs NOT BEING Land Dwellers, is not a new subject matter, but one that leads more and more up one particular path, and that path leads to the majority of Dinosaurs living in water and not on land, for example how could crocodiles swim from Africa to Spain, and then you find massive Australian Crocodiles eating giant kangaroos
Dinosaurs were all set to continue roaming the watery & boggy surface of what we humans call Earth all those millions of years ago, then boom someone dropped a huge meteorite slap bang in the middle of a period of unsettled weather and caused a catastrophic…
Well, that’s what we are taught at school, but does anyone really know ? Just remember Earth is losing its water supplies faster than anyone can explain, look at the ditches from your childhood, where are they now, and see the dried out dips in the field, where either ponds once sat or they were “dew ponds” or where once mighty streams once ran, is all but gone, largely thanks to land drainage, which has caused mankind a huge problem, yes we have crops in dry fields, which was once soggy, but now there is a distinct lack of water to keep the crops alive ? because of earth losing water at an alarming rate makes you realise that not all Dinosaurs roamed the velvety earth we know today…
So let’s assume we don’t believe for one moment they all roamed the earth, Earth today has more land than it did all of those millions of years ago, we Humans today rely on our land for cultivating food whereas Dinosaurs actually were living in the water’s that made up nearly all of the earth’s crusts, which means their food source was water-based… but don’t forget those that did live on land were vicious little buggers, and those flying around fared a lot better with the survival rate due to fact they had beaks !
Ask yourselves why did dinosaurs die in a mass at the foot of giant cliffs in the middle of deserts ? or in gold mines ?
and now we have toothless dinosaurs, and bigger problems with giant T-Rex that wants to eat you, places like China have a massive amount of untapped dinosaur resources due to the vast size of the country, whereas America seems to have dried up quickly over the millenniums..
Did Mammoths Live With Dinosaurs?
It is believed that small mammals lived with dinosaurs during the final reign of the mammoths. The warm-blooded creatures that survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs and much of the other life on Earth at the time evolved into a wide range of species.
Is A Woolly Mammoth An Elephant?
In 1796, Georges Cuvier identified the mammoth as extinct. Modern African elephants are approximately the same size as woolly mammoths. A male can reach a height of between 2 and 3 feet. 7 and 3. 4 m (8. 9 and 11. The vehicle weighed up to 6 metric tons (6. 2 ft) and was 2 feet long. There are six short tons).
Is A Mastodon A Dinosaur?
A mastodon (genus Mammut), or any of several extinct elephantine mammals (family Mammutidae, genus Mammut) that first appeared in the early Miocene (23 million to 2 million years ago). The Pleistocene Epoch (from 2. to 6 million years ago) was a period of continuous evolution that lasted through the Neolithic period (from 6 million years ago). The age of the earth was 6 million to 11,700 years ago.
Is Woolly Mammoth Still Alive?
A woolly mammoth (M.) is a large animal. The small mammoths of Wrangel Island, Alaska, lived until about 2000 BC, and the mammoths of Paul Island, Alaska, lived until about 3750 BC Recent research on sediments in Alaska indicates mammoths lived on the American mainland for thousands of years. It is still unclear why they were extinct.
Are Mammoths A Type Of Dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs are not everything that is big and dead. The marine reptiles, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, are even more distantly related to dinosaurs. Mammoths and mastodons are mammals, but they did not appear until millions of years after the end of the Cretaceous period.
What Came First Dinosaurs Or Woolly Mammoth?
False. Approximately 240 to 65 million years ago, dinosaurs existed. About 3 million years ago, woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats lived. Modern humans are approximately 2 million years old, while the first humans were about 5 million years old.
Are Woolly Mammoths Prehistoric?
woolly mammoths are probably the most famous prehistoric animals due to their frozen specimens with preserved soft tissue and depictions of contemporary humans.
What Did Woolly Mammoths Evolve From?
M. Mammoths are found in the wild. In Siberia, trogontherii developed molars with 26 ridges between 800,000 and 400,000 years ago, leading to the woolly mammoth, M.M. Genius primigenius. Around 200,000 years ago, the woolly mammoth replaced the steppe mammoth as the dominant animal in Europe during the late Middle Pleistocene.
Did Mammoths Live With The Dinosaurs?
During the Mesozoic Era, dinosaur species dominated the planet for nearly 165 million years. It is believed that small mammals lived with dinosaurs during the final reign of the mammoths.
Where Were Woolly Mammoths Alive With Dinosaurs?
The last mammoths were extinct around 10,000 years ago, and Siberia’s Wrangel Island was the only place where they lived longer than anywhere else. Based on carbon dating, a dwarf population existed there between 7000 and 3,700 years ago.
How Many Years Were There Between Dinosaurs And Mammoths?
Earth was only 65 million years old when the dinosaurs died out.
What Animals Lived With The Woolly Mammoth?
Ice age icons such as the woolly mammoth, steppe bison, and scimitar cat lived on the treeless plains alongside caribou, muskox, and grifter bears during the cold glacial period.
Is A Mammoth And An Elephant The Same Thing?
A large mammal belonging to the Elephantidae and Proboscidea family, the elephant is a large animal. Mammuthus is an extinct genus of animals that includes the species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. A short tusk is characteristic of elephants, compared to mammoths. The tusks of mammoths were long and straight.
How Are Woolly Mammoths And Elephants Different?
Elephant and mammoth have different physical characteristics, such as their tusks. The proportion of mammoth tusks to body size was typically higher than that of elephant tusks, and the shape and size of the tusks were more dramatic. Compared to the African elephant, the African elephant has fewer and diamond-shaped ridges on its teeth.
Are Woolly Mammoths Part Of The Elephant Family?
Mammuthus primigenius / Family
Was A Mammoth A Dinosaur?
An ancient elephant, the woolly mammoth lived long ago and was a prehistoric animal. Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus can be considered a mammoth. Proboscideans like these belong to Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and are closely related to modern elephants.
Is A Mastodon And Mammoth?
Mastodons were distinct from mammoths despite their superficial similarity. The Mastodon was shorter and stockier than the mammoth, which had a straighter tusk. A woolly mammoth lived on Wrangel Island in northern Siberia until about 4,000 years ago (Vartanyan et al., 2002).
What Came First Mammoth Or Mastodon?
About 5 million years ago, elephants and mammoths separated, and mastodons branched off about 25 million years ago, too. There are several types of mammoths, including the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).
Are Mammoths Still Alive?
Russia is the country where most mammoth remains are found each year. However, some people are of the opinion that we don’t need these animals as evidence because they are still very much alive. It is believed that mammoths can still be found living in dense Siberian taiga by some Russians.
Could Woolly Mammoths Still Exist?
Thousands of years ago, the woolly mammoth was extinct. It may still be possible to bring back a very similar animal, however. Siberia has already got a home waiting for you.
Who Killed The Last Woolly Mammoth?
It is possible that the holocene herbivores died 4,000 years ago due to isolation, extreme weather, and the possibility of humans entering the area. It is believed that the last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean 4,000 years ago; they died out very quickly.
Were Woolly Mammoths Alive When Humans?
During the last ice age, woolly mammoths adapted well to the cold environment. Early humans used the woolly mammoth’s bones and tusks to make art, tools, and dwellings, and hunted the species for food as well. The last time it was seen on the mainland was 10,000 years ago during the Pleistocene.
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Emergency services were first called to Hamilton Ave just after 10.30pm after two cars had allegedly been set alight.
There are reports the offender set the first car had its tail lights set on fire before the blaze spread to the rest of the vehicle.
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However, this initial soft pull is used to estimate your rates - if you choose to move forward with the terms offered to you, you'll be subject to a hard credit inquiry, and your rates may change. Lenders use credit scores to determine the credit worthiness of loan and credit card applicants. If you meet this set of criteria then you will more than likely be qualified to receive installment payday loans. Pay Bills on Time: Your credit score can start going down once you're 30 days late in making a payment. If you've missed payments or you've defaulted in the past, you may want to wait for your credit to clear before applying.
Any evidence you have that can support that fact - especially proof that you paid off loans on assets like a car, motorcycle or boat in the past - are going to work in your favor. Also, bad credit does not necessarily mean you can't get a home loan, it will just come at a higher cost. Another advantage is that a bad credit loan in itself could actually help to improve your credit history - providing you make all your repayments in full and on time. It still may be possible, however, to get a student loan if you apply with a cosigner who has excellent credit , because their good credit may help to offset your bad credit. Whether it's due to an accumulation of debt , missed utility payments or something else altogether, having an imperfect credit score is not only a common problem, but doesn't necessarily preclude an individual from finding the emergency funding they might need.
Deferment is designed to help students who are unable to pay off their loans due to unforeseen financial circumstances. If you are not in a position to qualify for a business credit card, you can look into getting a secured credit card. Thus, a verified bank account is a necessity if you want to get the payday loans without vising the direct lender personally. You may not even be aware that you have a bad credit file and how it can stop you from qualifying for a home loan. Other times, bad credit home loans may be the only option available to you depending on the damage to your credit file. The best features of Best Egg are the simple terms and competitive interest rates for borrowers with a strong, positive credit history.
There are many other types of funding programs that offer small business owners the opportunity to get business loans or access to cash without having perfect credit or subjecting themselves to all the rigorous analysis, cumbersome paperwork, lengthy process and aggravating timelines that comes with a traditional business loan. A credit union - especially one affiliated with your employer or one that is community-based - may be willing to look beyond a poor credit history and make a judgment about whether it will loan you money based on your character and your promise to repay, regardless of if you have bad credit or not. If you have an excellent credit score, BestEgg will be very competitive on terms.
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Washington Accord
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The Washington Accord is an international accreditation agreement for professional engineering academic degrees, between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory countries. Established in 1989, the signatories as of 2014 are Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.[1]
The agreement recognizes that there is substantial equivalence of programs accredited by those signatories. Graduates of accredited programs in any of the signatory countries are recognized by the other signatory countries as having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering. Recognition of accredited programs is not retroactive but takes effect only from the date of admission of the country to signatory status.
The Washington Accord covers undergraduate engineering degrees under Outcome-based education approach.[2] Engineering technology and postgraduate programs are not covered by the accord, although some engineering technology programs are covered under the Sydney Accord and the Dublin Accord. Only qualifications awarded after the signatory country or region became part of the Washington Accord are recognized. The accord is not directly responsible for the licensing of Professional Engineers and the registration of Chartered Engineers, but it does cover the academic requirements that are part of the licensing processes in signatory countries.
The following are the signatory accreditation bodies of the Washington Accord, their respective countries and territories, and years of admission:[1]
The following countries have provisional signatory status and may become member signatories in the future:
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b "Washington Accord". International Engineering Alliance. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
2. ^ "Outcome Based Education" (PDF). 18 June 2008.
3. ^ "Boost for techies as Ind now full member of Washington Accord". Znews. 13 June 2014.
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The Slith
STR: 20, INT: 18, WIS: 17, DEX: 22, CON: 22 (400 extra exp)
Available classes:
warrior, and thief.
Racial Characteristics:
[Hsss..Itsss..breathing ..sss..]
At the time of the Second Age of Serin, new races were created to fill its lands. One such race was made by Zafrin, and known as slith. It looked much like the lizards that made their home in the muddy swamps of northeast Serin, not far from the homelands of early giants. The sliths made their small homes in the same place, but left them not long after to adventure. A sentient race of humanoid lizardmen, lacking the brute strength of their giant neighbours but agile on their feet, the foundations of a provisional slith society followed much later, though little interaction was ever made between these self-sufficient reptilian creatures. Their tribes divided, sliths found their ways to every part of Serin but remaining without a guarded settlement of their own.
Roleplaying with other races
Present day sliths are often found adventuring by themselves, selling their talents to others that can afford their services. They rarely travel with others, even of their own race, a trait passed down from their cold-blooded ancestors. Sliths are natural wanderers, bringing them into contact with every guild in Serin, and their love for exploration has given them an edge in combat in the form of their tail, which they may use to fight with, as well as traits such as swallowing corpses and shedding their skin to make a getaway. However, their lack of want for association with other races throughout history has caused them to be lacking in spiritual and magical potential where others are not. It is for this reason that sliths restrict themselves to joining only the warrior guild.
Racial Legacies
• None for slith.
Noteable Slith
• Use a sliths ability to shed his skin to escape dangerous situations or surprise an enemy into making mistakes.
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Bathinda to Manado
Bathinda (Punjab) to Manado (North Sulawesi) distance is 6149 km and you can get there by car + car + flight + flight in just over 12 hours and 55 minutes with fares starting from ₹ 29201. The weather is amazing right now. You'll have a great time.
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Photoshop as Time Machine
21 thoughts on “Photoshop as Time Machine
1. Haha! Many thanks again, darling. In truth, this was just a “dress up and play” session with a camera; I figured if we both had fun with it, a few good (potential author/book) shots were bound to come of it.
2. I think you may be right, Cherie. Very nice pictures in any event.
I’m also glad you considered the picture in the correct “here’s some guy having fun with Photoshop” context and not the “hmmm, this has a creepy stalker vibe” context. One does wish to stay on the right side of that particular line.
3. Scalzi, my tip for improving your own author photo would be to not take it yourself by holding the camera out in front of your face, thus giving you that weird “I’m holding a camera out in front of my face look”. You don’t really need to go to the extreme lengths of a dress and make up—getting someone else to take the photo would be just fine.
4. Cue Brando voice…”The horror…the horror…”
Eeeeiiiiiii! My eyes! My eyes!
For shame, Martin. For shame. That is just so wrong on so many levels.
5. May I ask the recipe to do that to a photo? Happy if you reply by email when time permits if it’s too arduous to write up quickly.
6. Andrew, assuming you’re familiar with Photoshop CS2:
It’s basically desaturate, healing brush to even out skin tone, copy result to new layer, use gaussian blur on that layer and then fade it back 50-60% for the classic “soft focus” look. Then increase the contrast. I also used the “liquify” tool on CS2 for a bit of tweaking. That’s pretty much it.
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The Butcher in the Night (Crooked Empires Vol. 2) – Charles X. Cross – Review
The Butcher in the Night: Crooked Empires Vol. 2
Charles X Cross
I’m just going to start this review by saying that if you are the author of a fantasy or sci-fi series that is over about 350-400 pages, and you include a summary of the previous novel in the series at the start of your latest title, then you are Officially A Good Person. I don’t make the rules, you understand, that’s just an objective fact. It’s a good thing for readers, but it’s positively a boon for reviewers like me: I read hundreds of books each year, only a fraction of which I actually review, and they tend to blur together after a certain point, regardless of genre. So having a summary I can use to refresh my memory, rather than cobbling something together from my review and a scan of the back cover blurb for the previous title, is an absolute God-send. In this case, the summary has been provided by author Charles X Cross for his first novel, The Man-Butcher Prize, which I considered to be one of the most original, imaginative and engaging fantasy novels that I have read in the genre in a very long time. The summary resides at the start of the sequel, The Butcher in the Night, and helpfully reminds us that protagonist William is an amateur assassin who has had, it is fair to say, both a checkered career and some very bad luck; most recently, his victory in the Man-Butcher Prize contest, to become a renowned assassin, was voided as a result of a pure technicality and he lost almost everything he had gained during that contest. Embittered by his experiences, he joined up with loveable rogue Goldin and decided to go on holiday. As the back-cover blurb for The Butcher in the Night describes us, however, William’s hope for a peaceful time in his life has not gone to plan. I couldn’t wait to see what Charles X Cross had in store for William, and so I drove right into the novel.
The Butcher in the Night begins with a Prologue that indicates that William Beechsworth – the arrogant assassin who won the Man-Butcher Prize on a technicality and denied protagonist William of Fairshore his rightful prize – may not quite be up to the standards expected of his legendary title. He’s under the tutelage of Walter, the Mayor of Blackbile – the town where the Man-Butcher Prize takes place – who is becoming increasingly concerned that the prize winner is little more than an arrogant fop with only relatively decent skills as an assassin. His concerns are only amplified by clashes with the Committee of the Guild of Assassins, and a visit from the Guild’s Chief Poisoner leads Walter to fear that he is going to be eliminated and replaced, to allow for the Man-Butcher to finally be released to undertake contracts he likely cannot fulfill. By contrast, William of Fairshore is taking what pleasure he can from life having been thwarted in assuming the title of Man-Butcher, and is journeying between taverns in the company of his friend, the affable rogue Goldin. Having put some distance between them and the Guild of Assassins, William is uncertain whether he wants to continue being an assassin and instead considers more reputable careers – like thievery. But before long an encounter with a group of assassins from the Guild demonstrates that William cannot outrun his past no matter his current intentions, particularly when an immense amount of gold has been declared as the reward for his head. Battered, bruised and badly injured, it seems like his only choice is to accept an incredibly dangerous contract to assassinate a senior politician, given to him by a group so untrustworthy that William cannot be certain of anything except his own skills and Goldin as his only friend. Simultaneously we also follow the story of Claude as he becomes Lord Beechworth four decades prior to William’s story, chapters from each timeline interweaving as we witness his background and the events that would make the man William eventually fought in the events of the first novel. It’s a fascinating and long-awaited look at the political and cultural structure of the Empire that the novels are set in, as Claude navigates both the complex politics of the Empire and also his personal mission to locate the man who assassinated his father. Eventually, both timelines come together into one cohesive narrative towards the end of the novel, as Cross delivers a thunderous climax and epic battle that sets the stage for far more to come in William’s world.
There’s a great deal more worldbuilding in The Butcher in the Night than in its predecessor, to the great benefit of the overarching narrative; having established the characters and their motivations in the first novel, Cross is now free to expand on the political and cultural background of the world in which the Man-Butcher Prize exists, doing much to contextualize the Man-Butcher Prize and its associated contest, the existence of the Guild of Assassins, and the nature of the Vitulan Empire that the stories are set in. As the narrative progresses, it becomes clear that Cross is deftly presenting us with two interlinked stories – the low-level adventures of William, and the high-level history of the Vitulan Empire, its constituent nations, and their external and internal conflicts as seen through the eyes of Claude (and other characters I won’t name for fear of spoilers). It’s an incredibly difficult thing to pull off successfully, but Cross does it marvelously and without fault, ensuring that the two narrative strands complement each other and eventually interweave together for the last third of the novel in some incredibly engaging and intriguing ways. And while I’ll only briefly mention it due to its spoiler-ish nature, I also enjoyed the rather unusual magical system that Cross introduces about half-way through the novel; it’s presented with a light touch, its effects often hinted at rather than openly demonstrated, but it adds another dimension to both the narrative and the world-building, and I’m genuinely curious to see what Cross does with it in the next book in the series.
I was also pleased to see that the same richness and complexity of characterization seen in The Man-Butcher Prize is once again replicated in The Butcher in the Night, with Cross both expanding nicely on some of the existing characters, while also introducing new ones that are just as interesting. William of Fairshore continues to be a sympathetic and engaging protagonist, cruelly denied the rightful title of Man-Butcher and now with little aim in life apart from resorting to a less dangerous – and politically complex – career than being an assassin; but also soon discovering that the politics of an Empire can readily ensnare a single man regardless of his wishes and intentions. His existing companion Goldin is still a roguish delight, offering a more light-hearted attitude towards their misadventures and causing no end of problems himself, and new companion Gwyneth has both an unusual backstory relating to her family and its often terrifying level of influence on the development of the Vitulan Empire, and an amusingly cynical view on life as she fights against the opposing forces of familial obligation and trying to remain independent and hide her own deadly secrets. It was also nice to get some backstory for Claude, the future Lord Beechsworth, and see events from his point of view. Many of his chapters are set several decades prior to the main story, with Claude taking over as Junior Senator for the nation of Garlish after his father is assassinated and thrust into the heart of Empire and complex political machinations in order to find his father’s killer and possibly prevent a conflict that could tear the Empire apart. Cross provides us with a multifaceted character study, as young Claude goes from pampered son of a senior Senator in the Empire, to a young politician investigating his father’s death, to an increasingly skilled but disillusioned politician learning the grim realities of how the Vitulan Empire is managed. Vengeance takes him some dubious and incredibly dangerous paths, and despite his actions in the first novel, it becomes strangely easy to empathize with Claude now that we know his background and ambitions, and his growing skills as an assassin
The Butcher in the Night is another superb achievement by author Charles X Cross and demonstrates that his initial success with The Man-Butcher Prize was no mere fluke; it can be incredibly difficult for authors to create a sequel that is the equal of the first book they produce, but Cross has vaulted that barrier with tremendous ease and produced something that exceeds The Man-Butcher Prize. Far more complex and multi-layered than its predecessor, with a fast-paced plot. fascinating worldbuilding, and populated with a cast of likeable and engaging characters, The Butcher in the Night is a deeply enjoyable and self-assured piece of fantasy fiction that I do not hesitate to call one of the finest fantasy novels I have ever read. Cross is fast becoming one of the most impressive authors in the fantasy genre I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing, and I’m deeply curious to see what he will produce yet – whether it be the next book in the Crooked Empire series, or another independent work. Whatever it is, I’ll echo my previous review of The Man-Butcher Prize and state once again that I’ll be there, ready to read and review whatever he next produces.
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Things That Can Improve Hearing Loss From Inner Ear Infection | Get THIS To Hear CLEARER!
Hearing loss is a very common ailment and can happen to anyone, no matter what their age. However, there are many people who don’t know how to deal with this ailment since the majority of the time, it’s still left untreated for long amounts of time. So as to improve hearing for elders, it is important to find out more about this type of hearing loss. The first thing you should do is to go to your doctor so that he or she will be able to determine whether the hearing loss is hearing-related or not. This way, the physician will have the ability to recommend the appropriate hearing aids for you.
Among the very best hearing loss solutions that you can use entails the use of folic acid. Folic acid is actually used for the prevention of birth defects. To enhance hearing for elders, you may take folic acid along with vitamin C. Both of these substances are demonstrated to improve blood circulation in the body and so help in increasing the number of nutrients delivered to the cells. Vitamin C, in particular, is known to improve the flow of blood in addition to oxygen to the inner ear. Therefore, it is important to regularly take vitamin C supplements.
Along with vitamin C, you also need to include zinc in your diet. You can improve hearing for elders by adding zinc in your daily diet also. There are many distinct forms of zinc and you can locate them in whole grains, grains, and other foods. You can improve hearing for elders with the support of these substances found in nature.
Another great hearing loss solution involves the use of foods rich in antioxidants. These foods help in enhancing hearing health by protecting the nervous system. Because of this, it is possible to find antioxidants in whole grains, citrus fruit juices, broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, and many different types of vegetables and fruits. There are lots of different kinds of antioxidants which you can put in your diet. These are useful in combating free radicals that cause damage to your body. If you want to improve hearing loss, you should include lots of antioxidant-rich foods in your diet.
There are additional supplements which you can take in addition to eating foods rich in antioxidants. Some of these vitamins enhance hearing. For example, you should contain vitamins A, B, C, E, and K in your diet for better hearing. If you wish to improve listening comprehension, you should include vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, selenium, and iodine in your diet.
Zinc and magnesium enhance hearing loss because both of these substances reduce the free radicals that cause damage to the outer layer of the ear. However, some experts believe that magnesium may be more effective than zinc at reducing free radicals. Therefore, you should attempt to discover a fantastic combination of magnesium and zinc. The best choice is to get the minerals and vitamins that have a fantastic amount of zinc. Also, eat foods that are rich in vitamin C.
Another possible approach to improve hearing loss is to use potassium as a supplement. Potassium can help the inner ear functioning properly by keeping fluids from draining away. Moreover, there are some certain minerals found in fruits and vegetables that improve hearing loss. They include magnesium and sodium chlorate.
As a general rule, you should add a small amount of a specific substance found in foods or supplements that improve hearing before you start taking any other medication or supplements. It’s also wise to avoid supplements and medications that contain large amounts of vitamin A or vitamin C. Although vitamin C is good for fighting bacteria, it can also cause problems with the internal ear. In addition, you should avoid aspirin because this medication can thin the blood. The best alternative is to have a salt water flush or salt water tonic.
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Figurine dating
Goebel started with a triangle and a moon and has had numerous trademark designs since then, such as the bee mark. However there is one problem: my figurine has no stamped or incised Goebel mark.
I have seen this same figurine many times on Ebay with the typical Goebel crown mark, either incised or painted, from several different years during the timeline they gave me. There are endless scenarios you could imagine that would explain its absence.
It is one of a series of European venus figurines that proliferated during the period of Gravettian art (c.25,000-20,000 BCE).
In fact, the term "Venus of Kostensky" is a misnomer, since - like the "Venus of Gagarino", the "Avdeevo Venuses", the "Mal'ta Venuses" and the "Zaraysk Venuses" - it refers to a group of venuses, in this case found at Kostenky, in the Don Region.
Occupied by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic, scholars believe that they were displaced around 30,000 BCE by the first wave of "modern man", a view supported by the fact that the earliest directly-dated modern human remains from Kostenky date to about 30,000 BCE.
At any rate, from then on, Kostenky was repeatedly occupied by hunter-gatherers during the Gravettian or "Willendorf-Kostenki" culture, and scholars believe it was modern man who created the earliest art of the area.
Though less famous, a second mammoth ivory figurine from the same site (see figure 3), is considered to be more representative of the Kostenky-Avdeevo-Gagarino style.
As well as Kostenky, items of mobiliary art and cave art have been found at many other Russian and Ukrainian archeological sites, including: Amvrossievka, Apiantcha, Avdeevo, Bez'imyannyi, Borchtchevo, Brynzeny, Dobranitchevka, Ubovaya Balka, Eliseevichi/Yeliseevichi, Gagarino Gontzy, Ignatievskaya, Ilskaya, Kaistrovaya Balka, Khoylevo, Kievo-Kirillovskaya, Klimaoutzy, Klinetz, Kosseoutzy, Lissitchniki, Mal'ta, Mejiritch, Mezin, Molodova, Murakovka, Novgorod Severskyi, Puchkari, Rogalik, Smelobskaya, Starye Duruitory, Sungir, Suponevo, Timonovka and Yudinovo, to name but a few.
I have seen many of these sitting around ceramic factory studios.
They often don't get round to having the final stamp put on.
Eventually one of the staff acquire it and it gets onto the market that way.
So ultimately, here is the information I seek: Does anyone know under what conditions and when the Goebel Company would not have put a stamped or incised mark one of their products? Pat Hi Pat Your article is perhaps the most exhaustive piece of research I have ever had on this China Chat forum in 10 years. Right off the bat, if I had seen this piece without your research, I would have also written it off as a Goebel type copy - likely from the Far East.
This is because Goebel were very clear and efficient at marking their wares. Not unless we get a clever contributor to solve this for us. First thing is, sometimes the Goebel crown is impressed (in the mould) and sometimes an ink stamp. The shape mark NM 572 is in the mould, so is on the piece anyway.
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Authorities release photo of accused Ala. abductor
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) -- After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are.
Police have used a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker to talk to the man and deliver the boy medication for his emotional disorders, but they have not revealed how often they are in touch or what the conversations have been about. And authorities waited until Friday -- four days after the siege began -- to confirm what was widely known in this age of instant communication: The man accused of killing a school bus driver and abducting the boy Tuesday was 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, a Vietnam-era veteran who was known to neighbors as a menacing figure.
Police seemed to be following that pattern. At a brief news conference to release a photo of Dykes, they brushed off any questions about possible charges.
The shelter is about 4 feet underground, with about 6-by-8 feet of floor space and there is a PVC pipe that negotiators were speaking through.
One of Dykes' next-door neighbors said he spent two or three months constructing the bunker, digging several feet into the ground and then building a structure of lumber and plywood, which he covered with sand and dirt.
Neighbor Michael Creel said Dykes put the plastic pipe underground from the bunker to the end of his driveway so he can hear if anyone drives up to his gate. When Dykes finished the shelter a year or so ago, he in invited Creel to see it and he did.
He said he believes Dykes' goal with the standoff is a chance to publicize his political beliefs.
"They have less way to make sense of things," she said of children with Asperger's and ADHD. "He may be less able to even interact with the person who's holding him hostage than another child might be, and he's less able, for example, to imagine friends that might be there waiting for him, to remember the good things, positive times. Also, he may be more likely to be frightened and overwhelmed and confused by the situation."
The normally quiet red-clay road leading to the bunker was busy Friday with more than a dozen police cars and trucks, a fire truck, a helicopter, officers from multiple agencies and news media near Midland City, a town with a population of 2,300 that's about 100 miles southeast of Montgomery.
Police vehicles have come and gone steadily for hours from the command post, a small church nearby.
He was in the Navy from 1964 to 1969 and served some time in Japan, according to military records.
Creel said his father and Dykes are friends. Creel said that after Dykes' arrest, Dykes wrote a 2- to 3-page letter that at least in part addressed the menacing case and that he shared with Greg Creel.
Michael Creel said he hasn't seen the letter but that his father has. The younger Creel said his father told him that Dykes said he had sent the letter to the local media, politicians and Alabama's governor.
Michael Creel said police on Friday took the copy of the letter from the Creels' home. Reached for comment, Greg Creel confirmed the existence of the letter but declined further comment and said he was cooperating with police.
Parrish often saw him digging in his yard, as if he were preparing to lay down a driveway or building foundation. He lived in a small camping trailer and patrolled his lawn at night, walking from corner to corner with a flashlight and a long gun. Parrish described the weapon as an assault rifle, while another neighbor said it was a shotgun. Michael Creel said Dykes has five weapons he knows of, but he's not aware of him having an assault weapon. Authorities have not disclosed what firearms Dykes might have in his possession.
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A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a natural person. Civil law systems may refer to corporations as "moral persons;" they may also go by the name "SA" (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language (see below).
In modern practice, many people use the word "corporation" narrowly to refer to a commercial entity set up in accordance with a governmental framework. However, churches, interest-groups (both can form as not-for-profit corporations or can exist as voluntary associations), cities and townships (often chartered as public corporations), among others, may also have historically lengthy corporate identities.
Table of contents
1 General
2 Corporate taxation
3 Other related types of business entities
4 See also
5 External Links
Legal status
Within the official framework, a corporation or in some jurisdictions a company, is a legal, artificial entity with or without shareholders, who may be humans, trusts or other corporations. When no stockholders exist, a corporation may be a "non-stock corporation", a "membership corporation", or similar — this second type of corporation counts as a not-for-profit corporation. In either category, the corporation comprises a collective of individuals with a distinct legal status and with special privileges not vouchsafed to ordinary unincorporated businesses, to voluntary associations or to groups of individuals. Corporations receive a charter from a state, and become regulated by the laws enacted by that state. The law of the state in which a corporation operates (if different from the state in which it was formed) will generally regulate its activities.
Certain jurisdictions do not allow the use of the word company alone to denote corporate status, since the word "company" may refer to a partnership or to a sole proprietorship. Some of the designations used to signify corporation status that one can only adopt with state sanction include:
Some jurisdictions require that one of a list of terms or abbreviations appear in the corporate name. Generally speaking, any corporation, whether domestically created or foreign (from another jurisdiction) must register in order to conduct business in that jurisdiction. As part of this registration, it must designate the principal addresss of the corporation, i.e. where to contact it in the event of legal process.
The law typically views a corporation as a fictional person, a legal person or a moral person (as opposed to a natural person); United States law recognises this as corporate personhood. Under such a doctrine, obviously a legal fiction, a corporation enjoys many (or all) of the rights and obligations of individual citizens, such as the ability to own property, sign binding contracts , pay taxes, have certain (although not all) constitutional rights, and otherwise participate in society.
Typically a board of directors governs a corporation; that board has a fiduciary duty to look after the interests of the corporation. The corporate officers -- such as the CEO, president, treasurer and other titled officers -- manage the affairs of the corporation.
Benefits of forming a corporation
The most salient features of incorporation include:
(1) Limited Liability. Unlike in a partnership, stockholders of a corporation hold no liability for the corporation's debts and obligations. As a result their "limited" potential losses cannot exceed the amount which they paid for the stock. Not only does this allow businesses to engage in risky enterprises, but limited liability also forms the basis for trading in corporate stock. Without the limitation on the amount that an investor can lose, the time and effort required to determine whether the stock could wipe the investor out would render the stock market very illiquid (as one can observe in the very illiquid market for partnership interests). It is possible however, for a lender to require a personal guarantee on a loan to a corporation, introducing personal liability.
(2) Perpetual Lifetime. The assets and structure of the corporation exist beyond the lifetime of any of its shareholders, officers or directors. This allows for stability of capital, which thus becomes available for investment in projects of a larger size and over a longer term than if the corporate assets remained subject to dissolution and distribution. This feature also had great importance in the Medieval period, when land donated to the Church (a corporation) would not generate the feudal fees that a lord could claim upon a landholder's death. In this regard, see Statute of Mortmain.
Early corporations of the commercial sort -- such as the
Dutch East India Company -- formed under frameworks (set up by governments of states) to undertake tasks which appeared too risky or too expensive for individuals or the governments to embark upon. Such corporations came to play a large part in the history of corporate colonialism.
Kenneth Pomeranz, an economic historian, argues that the need to perform pseudo-governmental operations (such as the waging of war) accounts for the development of this economic structure in Europe but not in China or in the Middle East.
The alleged oldest commercial corporation in the world, the Stora Kopparberg mining community in Falun, Sweden, reportedly obtained a charter from King Magnus Eriksson in 1347.
Non-profit organizations
In modern economic systems, the corporate form of governance commonly appears in a wide variety of business and non-profit activities. Though the laws governing these creatures of statute often differ, the courts often interpret provisions of the law that apply to profit-making enterprises in the same manner (or in a similar manner) when applying principles to non-profit organizations -- as the underlying structures of these two types of entity often resemble each other.
National features
United States
In the
United States several corporate forms exist; the name of "corporation" generally applies to a business, run for profit, to which one of the states of the United States (or other governmental body with that power, including Congress and Puerto Rico) has granted a corporate charter. The federal government of the United States usually does not grant corporate charters to businesses (exceptions include public corporations such as the Post Office and Amtrak). American corporations typically charter as a Delaware Corporation in Delaware, which charges no tax on activities outside the state and has courts experienced in commercial law. Corporations set up for privacy or asset protection often charter in Nevada, which allows setting them up with no record of who owns them.
Historically, most U.S. states issued charters for fixed lengths of time (for example, a manufacturing corporation might receive a charter good for forty years), and only by an act of the legislature. In theory, a limited charter forced corporations to remain accountable to government (i.e. to the community) for the special privileges granted to them. Investors protested that it actually led to unhealthy amounts of political payoffs and graft. Most states now charter unlimited-term corporations for a small fee, and possibly for a yearly tax.
In Canada both the federal government and the provincess have corporate statutes, and thus a corporation may have a provincial or a federal charter. Many older corporations in Canada stem from Acts of Parliament passed before the introduction of general corporation law.
Related topics: Preferred stock, Corporate governance, Bylaw, Delaware corporation, Commercial law, Stock certificates
Corporate taxation
In the United States
In the United States business corporations owe taxes according to several different categories. The United States
Internal Revenue Service classifies organizations as associations (taxable as corporations), partnerships (not limited to common-law partnerships) or trusts ("ordinary trusts"). [see 26 CFR çç301.7701-2 through 301.7701-4]
The federal taxation system recognises two types of corporations for taxation purposes:
C-Corp - The most common form of corporation, the C-corporation has few ownership restrictions and must pay corporate taxes; all publicly-traded corporations have C-corporation status. C-corporations pay income taxes just as an individual does, and C-corporations do not receive a deduction on dividends they pay to stockholders. This leads to the so-called "double-taxation" of corporate profits: a given profit becomes subject to income tax twice, once at the corporate level, as an item of income, and once at the stockholder level, as a dividend.
S-Corp - Commonly used by small business proprietors, the S-corporation pays no corporate taxes, but instead passes profits and losses directly to its owners (the stockholders) who declare such profits and losses as part of their personal income taxes). In this manner S-coporations resemble partnerships, although some subtle differences in taxation exist. As a result, S-corporations do not become subject to the "double-taxation" that C-corporations enjoy. However, not all corporations qualify for S-corporation treatment. An S-corporation must generally have no more than 75 stockholders, all of them natural persons (not other corporations or entities), and all of them residing in the United States; moreover, the S-corporation can only issue a single class of stock.
Other related types of business entities
Partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships
A partnership comprises a contractual agreement between individuals and/or corporations which share profits and losses. It resembles a sole proprietorship, but it has more than one member, each called a "partner". A partnership does not constitute a separate entity and the partners all retain liability for the debts of each fellow-partner (if contracted to on behalf of the partnership). Usually a partnership will not survive the death of one of the partners (though it may undergo reorganization at that time).
A partnership can have general partners and limited partners (also known as "silent partners"). General partners retain liability for all of the debts and obligations of the partnership. Limited partners, on the other hand, retain liability only for the amounts they have specifically agreed to contribute to the partnership pursuant to the partnership agreement.
A limited liability partnership (LLP) comprises a partnership composed entirely of limited partners without any general partner. For historical reasons most U.S. jurisdictions restrict limited liability partnership to associations of professionals such as lawyers and doctors. However, this restriction has become fairly meaningless, since a limited liability company can achieve the same legal result.
Limited liability company
The limited liability company (LLC) resembles a partnership in that it provides a very flexible structure. A limited liability company has members, rather than partners, and is governed by an operating agreement, rather than a partnership agreement. Otherwise an LLC very much resembles a partnership in that the members can contractually arrange in the operating agreement for the management and economic provisions that they wish.
Many lawyers and businesspersonss prefer the limited liability company form of taxation because of its extreme flexibility and favorable tax treatment.
Business trusts
One other type of business entity can exist: the business trust, most often used as a vehicle for investment purposes. Only a few jurisdictions allow for the creation of business trusts, most notably Massachusetts; many mutual funds function as Massachusetts business trusts. In many jurisdictions the business trust has become popular as a vehicle for investing in real estate, which are known as real estate investment trusts or REITs (pronounced reets).
Taxation of non-corporate entities
Since 1996, United States partnerships and limited liability companies have had the right to elect whether the United States government will treat them as corporations or as "flow-through" entities under the IRS' check-the-box regulations (see form 8832). The income tax assessment process does not treat a flow-through entity as a person for income tax purposes; instead it divides its income and loss (and every other tax attribute) among its partners, who report them to the IRS. Some limits exist on an entity's ability to elect flow-through treatment: most importantly, a publicly-traded company cannot elect flow-through treatment; in practice this means that publicly traded corporations remain subject to a more stringent tax régime than do closely-held companies.
See also
External Links
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