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Stop everything. Make granola. Have you ever wondered why your homemade granola doesn’t give you joy? Why you don’t eagerly look forward to throwing it into your yogurt every morning? I am willing to wager that it’s because you made it too complicated. And you didn’t use enough coconut. Coconut is the surprising key to […] | <urn:uuid:4dc2db5e-29c2-4055-84d4-aa9b92c82d38> | {
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
The Golem
One of the strangest legends of Jewish mystical folklore is the story of the Golem. The best-known example is the story of the Golem of Prague, made by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel to protect the Jews of Prague from Christians incited by sermons at Eastertime. Eventually, after performing its defensive duty, the Golem stopped obeying Rabbi Judah Loew's orders and the Rabbi was forced to destroy it.
From the Hebrew word for "formless mass," golem refers to the product of a mystical procedure that turns a shapeless lump of clay or mud into a living being, capable of performing service for its maker. The procedure relies on the power of words to create and destroy: the maker imbues the golem with life by speaking or writing words related to the names of God into the formless mass, and it takes shape and gains the power of movement -- but not of speech. When its usefulness is at an end (or when it develops a dangerous will of its own), the golem's maker can destroy it by repeating the words in the reverse order or erasing their written form.
In 2006, columnist Froma Harrop noted that Barack Obama described himself in his second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope: "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views... my treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete."
Today, in August 2011, Froma Harrop has made some interesting headlines by calling TEA Party movement members "terrorists" -- this while heading a project called Restoring Civility for the National Conference of Editorial Writers. But what's been overlooked in the kerfuffle over her name-calling is the topic of the column in which the name-calling appeared: Democrats Also Need a Presidential Primary in 2012. It concludes:
But Democrats would do themselves a huge favor if they had a living, breathing leader as their presidential candidate in 2012. Won't someone step up?
And she's hardly the only Progressive lamenting the failure of Obama to fulfill their ambitions. On Slate, Jacob Weisberg paints a lurid image of Obama as passive and ineffectual:
And in the New York Times, Drew Westen, professor of psychology at Emory University, writes that Obama seems passionless and even rudderless:
It seems clear that Obama was flattering himself when he described himself as a blank screen. He is a golem: a shapeless mass of unformed political opinions and feel-good slogans who animated himself into national political life with the power of words. He began with his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then followed with The Audacity of Hope (mirroring the way he used Dreams From My Father to become a statewide politician in Illinois), and finally with his campaign speeches in 2007-2008. And along the way, his formlessness allowed both Progressives and more moderate voters to believe that he was assuming the form of their faithful servant, a being that would do the heavy lifting of fixing a broken nation and creating a cross-party coalition behind his preferred solutions.
But having spoken himself into being, President Obama had no idea what he existed for. He assumed that slogans, pronouncements and speeches would be as effective in creating public policy from his shapeless mass of ideas as it was in turning him into a President-like figure. Amazingly, in thirty months in office, he hasn't learned that incantations are not sufficient to the task of negotiating policy decisions with Congress. Even very recently, his press secretary Jay Carney expressed exasperation on Obama's behalf at press suggestions that the President might be expected in the course of his job to write down comprehensive proposals to implement his policy positions.
The final evidence that Obama is no blank screen but an animated being is that the Progressives now realize that they can't change him merely by changing a channel or projecting a different image onto him. In fact, they can't control him at all -- and the fact that they are so outraged to realize that fact indicates that they indeed saw themselves, not him, as the makers of the Golem. They believed that they called him into being and thus should be able to uncreate him, but they are learning that they were merely swept along in his process of self-creation and that they are now powerless to stop him from lumbering aimlessly, crushing their Progressive ideals.
The story of the Golem was made into a so-so Roddy McDowall movie in 1967. But that was a masterpiece compared to the Obama version.
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Now considered a hotbed of teaching jobs and it's not far from Bangkok either. But is it a decent place to live as well as work?
The Lonely Planet guidebook says......?
We don't have a full guide online for this place yet so we've pulled together the advice from in and around the area that we think may be helpful. Nonthaburi is most certainly not a 'tourist hot spot'.
Nonthaburi Market has become somewhat trendy with those who want to see some real Thailand and it is very real (and hot) with old style, pedal-powered rickshaws and cheap stuff.
There is also Koh Kred, although that might be classed as in Bangkok.
There are lots of English programs and mini English program schools in this province and most of them employ a number of foreign teachers as well as a small number of “International Schools”, which are basically more expensive English programs but with better marketing.
There are a few language centres out this way if that is your thing. Just hit the shopping malls to find these. But most of this work is in the evenings and on the weekends.
In terms of salaries, up to 50K is available at English program schools and there is a lot of opportunity for private teaching with the booming middle classes in this area.
There are now two legitimate "international" schools, with real teachers drafted in from overseas, with Denla British School and Ruamrudee appealing to well off Thai parents. Also lots of private work preparing kids to learn at the schools the parents are paying top money to attend.
How far from Bangkok or civilization?
Nonthaburi is Bangkok in all honesty. The border just isn’t marked and just seems like a continuation, The MRT to Bang Yai is working to the new Central Westgate, IMPACT Arena sits within it, too.
There are still some pockets of greenery further out, such as Sai Mai, and also areas with very few foreigners. A lot of farangs who teach out here will live in North-west Bangkok and commute to work from there.
What's the place like for nightlife, eating out etc?
As Bangkok is so close, there is no need for much farang style nightlife. If you want that sort of thing, go to Bangkok. There are however plenty of Thai style clubs and “pretty girl karaoke bars’ galore.
Food as always in Thailand is excellent, with every road having somewhere very good. There is no real speciality other than Japanese food, which seems to be everywhere and always middling in quality.
There are some Thai-style restaurants that cater to farangs, such as Maria restaurant, but generally if you want Western food, you get to know the best places quite quickly.
There are now a number of international restaurants of a fairly high standard. French, Italian, Spanish, Indian and others are all represented as well as more Japanese and Korean restaurants than you can ever visit.
How much to rent a house or basic apartment?
Some smaller condos with a pool go for 5-8k a month. Some nicer Bangkok-style condos are opened on the MRT route and coming in at 6-8k for one-bedroom and double that for two bedrooms. (maybe more).
Renting a house depends on the size and shape and whether it's furnished or unfurnished. There are lots of Thai 'moobarns' (housing estates) with houses to rent and prices run the whole spectrum from 10,000 a month to 40,000 baht a month and more.
Nitchada Village is in Nonthaburi and is home to many super rich expats.
Shopping malls, department stores?
Central Westgate is the newest swanky shopping mall to open in the area but there are quite a number of shopping malls and 'community malls' around. You won't be short of anywhere to shop.
There is Central Rattanthibet (Robinson, Tops) and The Mall Ngamwongwan not so far away, either. There is Esplanade at Khae Rai to watch movies in style and workout at the gym.
How is mobile / internet coverage?
As good as True internet is on that particular day.
Being a foreigner is a benefit rather than a curse around here. Chatting to foreigners still provides excitement for Thai girls too shy to go to Bangkok to work, and locals are grateful that you live out here rather than in the bright lights of the capital city.
If you're looking for trouble, then Khao San Road or Soi Cowboy in Bangkok would both be a far better bet.
Taxis, buses....or horse and cart?
Minibuses, vans and public buses are everywhere and it's an easy place to get a taxi. That's because a lot of the taxi drivers live out here. Don' forget the MRT train either. There is also the boat to take you into Bangkok.
Main advantages of living there?
It is Bangkok without being Bangkok. There are no stupid tourists, there are no tourist prices and no Thai vendors hassling tourists - yet if you want the high life, Bangkok is just a 200 baht taxi fare away or even cheaper if you can get to the MRT (60 baht to Sukhumvit).
Salaries are decent as there is little competition and costs are lower.
Some people love living in Bangkok itself - some people prefer the suburbs.
And what are the downsides?
The traffic can be heavy at times because there is always a lot of construction and road development going on.
Prices of things are rising due to 'Bangkokisation' and with the extension of the BTS, etc.
Any local attractions?
Koh Kret is a popular “island” on the Chao Phraya River and a nice place to escape the hustle and bustle of city life for a few hours.
It's relatively easy to get to Impact Arena (which is Thailand's biggest concert and exhibition venue) And if you're a football fan, you can cheer on SCG Muang Thong Thani, who are one of Thailand's biggest premier league teams.
There are also some smaller-scale floating markets dotted around.
You are so close to Bangkok that you are spoilt for choice really.
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As an E-Commerce site owner, you’d like your users to be able to find the product they’re looking for as quickly as possible. In order to help them out, you put Filters in your categories. You may also be tagging campaigns with elements in the URL that could be perceived as different links to the same page. Often the more you add for usability the more direct links with variables in the URL you create. This means more names for what is perceived as the same thing.
The way Magento handles these filters is by adding a s Query String (the part after the question mark in your URLs). While it is a common practice and works great for the users, the search engines see each page with a different set of Query String as a different page altogether.
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In this way when you have shown engines 10 different ways to get essentially the same page, they treat them all as one and not as a major duplication issue on your site.
The canonical tag looks like this: “<link rel=”canonical” href=”” />” where the href attribute points at the default version you want Google to use when referring to that page.
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• If you prefer that search engines index only product pages, set Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Products to “Yes.” Then, set Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Categories to “No.”
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I was wondering if it's possible to print a binary tree in breadth first order while using only O(1) space?
The difficult part is that one have to use additional space to memorize the next level to traverse, and that grows with n.
Since we haven't place any limitation on the time part, maybe there are some inefficient (in terms of time) ways that can achieve this?
Any idea?
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Is this homework? – Ted Hopp Nov 7 '11 at 16:10
@Ted It's a potential interview question. – clwen Nov 7 '11 at 16:11
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This is going to depend on some finer-grained definitions, for example if the edges have back-links. Then it's easy, because you can just follow a back link up the tree. Otherwise I can't think off hand of a way to do it without O(lg number of nodes) space, because you need to remember at least the nodes "above".
Oh wait, of course it can be done in O(1) space with a space time trade. Everywhere you would want to do a back link, you save your place and do BFS, tracking the most recent node, until you find yours. Then back up to the most recently visited node and proceed.
Problem is, that's O(1) space but O(n^2) time.
Another update
Let's assume that we've reached node n_i, and we want to reach the parent of that node, which we'll call wlg n_j. We have identified the distinguished root node n_0.
Modify the breath-first search algorithm so that when it follows a directed edge (n_x,n_y), the efferent or "incoming" node is stored. Thus when you follow (n_x,n_y), you save n_x.
When you start the BFS again from n_0, you are guaranteed (assuming it really is a tree) that at SOME point, you will transition the edge (n_j,n_i). At that point you observe you're back at n_i. You've stored n_j and so you know the reverse edge is (n_i,n_j).
Thus, you get that single backtrack with only two extra cells, one for n_0 and one for the "saved" node. This is O(1)
I'm not so sure of O(n^2) -- it's late and it's been a hard day so I don't want to compose a proof. I'm sure it's O((|N|+|E|)^2) where |N| and |E| are the size of the sets of vertices and edges respectively.
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I suppose no back-links is involved, or the question would be trivial. – clwen Nov 7 '11 at 16:25
I'm not familiar with this IDDFS mentioned below, but if it works as advertised, that's a little better, O(lg lg #nodes). – Charlie Martin Nov 7 '11 at 16:31
@CharlieMartin: could you elaborate the second example a bit more? If you need to use BFS for each backlink, and for each backlink in that BFS also use a BFS, it seems like you will need more than O(1) space? – Groo Nov 8 '11 at 8:37
I still don't understand how this should work. Let's say you are 20 levels deep in your hierarchy at one point, and you need to backtrack back to 19th level. How can you "start the BFS again" and "at some point transition the edge" if all you have is an incoming node for a node in 20th level? What about all the other nodes you need to traverse before getting here? Consider this Wikipedia image, for example: you are at node "e" currently. How would your algorithm know that the next node to be printed is "f"? – Groo Jan 23 '12 at 18:03
You know where the root node is, no? If you don't, then change the algorithm to save the root node when you start; that adds only a constant amount of space, so it's still O(1). Now, every time you want to "backtrack", you start from the root node. You're guaranteed to find the node you're at again eventually (otherwise how'd you get there the first time?). – Charlie Martin Jan 24 '12 at 19:13
I know that this is strictly not an answer to the question, but visiting the nodes of a tree in breadth-first order can be done using O(d) space, where d is the depth of the tree, by a recursive iterative deepening depth first search (IDDFS). The space is required for the stack, of course. In the case of a balanced tree, d = O(lg n) where n is the number of nodes. I honestly don't see how you'd do it in constant space without the backlinks suggested by @Charlie Martin.
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An interesting special case is heaps.
From heapq docs:
How a tree represented in memory (indexes of the array):
1 2
3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
In this case nodes in the array are already stored in a breadth first order.
for value in the_heap:
O(1) in space.
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BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — In agony due to a gunshot wound from an ambush that had just killed two comrades, a Connecticut police officer’s bodycam shows him hobbling back behind a police cruiser and firing a single bullet at the suspect. Investigators say the shot was fatal.
“Shots fired, shots fired, more cars, send everyone,” a breathless Officer Alec Iurato said, according to a segment of body camera footage released Sunday. It’s part of a preliminary report by the state’s Office of the Inspector General in connection with Wednesday’s shooting in the town of Bristol.
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Amped, the situation changes entirely. (By "amped," I mean it's connected to either good-sounding computer, or a suitable portable amp.) Formerly wan music has detail and punch. Unlike some headphones, which can be picky with source material, the DT880 sounds appealing with a symphony, or playing an old demo tape.
But how does it compare to a world-class headphone like, say, Sennheiser's HD800? You might not be interested on putting down so much money for a pair of headphones, but the difference is obvious. There's more of a sense of space - thanks to the angled speaker design and bigger ear cups. There's more richness in the trebles, and more streamlined bass. Comparing the two headphones, you get a feeling for "the law of diminishing returns." At what point does a pair of headphones do the job well, and at a good price?
At DT880 costs around $300 new, under $200 used and in good condition. That's less than a fifth of the price of the HD800. It's a solid value.
But no matter the price, the DT880 (600 Ohms) demands some kind of amp to fully flesh out the sound.
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3. HeretixAevum
"I can see why it's considered a classic, but not quite what I'm after"
Build Quality and Design
Sound Quality
*Rest To Come*
Update 17/11/2016
I will unfortunately have to abandon this review for the foreseeable future. I no longer own the headphones and I really can't be bothered finishing this review off memory. I stand by the scoring, and my comments in the summary, pros and cons concisely sum up my thoughts on the DT880. It's a good headphone, it really is. It's the most satisfied I've been with a full sized can since starting my headphone journey in 2010, resulting in me keeping them for a good 2 and a half years. But, in the long run, I decided that the sound was a bit too cold and analytical, and maybe slightly too bright and lacking a little bit of body for me to enjoy anymore. By no means bad, but I prefer something a little warmer and musical sounding.
The next headphone I'll be giving a shot will be either the HD650 or 600 in an attempt on really finding my end-game headphone for home use. Whichever I end up with I shall review next.
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Filipino Poets
Fuck yeah.
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Archeology, by Eliza Victoria
Not satisfied with the sight of bodies placed side by side, they powered up the tractors and started crushing bones beneath the machinery, folding and re-folding until anonymity was achieved. Years later, experts went down there on hands and knees, digging up limbs powdered and scattered like the kitchenware of a lost culture. One of them peered up at the impossibly blue sky and remarked at the wind, What a nice place to fly kites. Somewhere in the four hundred bags they had filled so far was the boy who once ran on this field, burning his fingers with the beauty of ascension. The interns always cried whenever the bags were sieved. In the white glare of the examination rooms, the bones and the pottery shards looked the same.
A mother had already been handed four hollow pieces of her child’s rib cage, and days after the burial, she was seen walking around the clearing, at one point bending down to pick up a pebble. The place was sacred to her. Every piece of the place was sacred to her. During a storm, as she held on to the walls of her house, the wind gave her an idea and now she respected every open ground. Who knew how strong a wind could blow? Who could foresee the extent of a body’s transformation? She put an end to the habit of kicking at loose soil whenever she was angry or pensive. Her face took on the shape and lines of a tourist lost in an unknown land, peering at eyes, searching, searching. This could be my child, she whispered to herself, and held the pebble close to her chest.
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The Discovery of Landscape, by Lawrence Ypil
When we saw the city,
We believed again in time.
Line of the tall spires and the bend
Of a bright sky.
We believed again in space.
Light of the large looms
and the roof of the great eye.
We believed again in perfectibility
(if not perfection), in the fresh
(if not the new).
We named it progress. The past
was not warm, so we named it dead.
We named everything we could not touch
Passed. We believed
Again in what was large.
Might of the long road and
The risk of the big wish.
When we made the step back.
Look. There. Clear measure
Of the flock on the far tip,
Of all the missed trips.
When we saw the city—
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The Gospel According to the Blind Man, by Marie La Viña
"I see people looking like trees and walking,” said the blind man,
after Jesus touched him the first time.
What he said baffled even the human god.
He asked in wonder, “Is this the world?”
Then the god lifted his holy palms, wet with spit,
and held them over the man’s eyes.
But already he was healed.
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Rowena, at Camp Lookout, by Edith L. Tiempo
It’s now a century, since
Keats heard the soft pipes play
A darkling tune,
Blowing and breathing
From cold marble stone.
Now the cold stars burn
Blue holes above this slope,
And she cries, “Old magic trick! That star’s
No more―its light
Is from a million years ago!”
The thought I render sotto voce
Is spoken to the past―
Another time, another place
Catapulting, star-like,
To this young girl on the slope,
That far child that she was,
Crying out (as now)
A startled praise:
(“A Look, a rambler rose-vine hung with bloom!”)
That past day flinging here, star-fashion,
So that finished rose and vanished star,
In a wondering cry,
Endure as one.
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Yours, Etcetera, by Paolo Manalo
The height of graffiti in bathroom stalls.
The heart’s crude affection etched on a tree.
On sidewalk pavements, initial encounters.
Sometimes a name, sometimes a number
Where you could be reached. Imaginary or otherwise
You were here.
You are here. Addressing the fine
Print of certificates, walking
Papers: the many forms to fill out
Before you fill in.
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Subterranean, by Eric Gamalinda
Let me be the first to say
that I know the name for everything
and if I don’t I’ll make them up:
dukkha, naufragio, talinhaga.
Just like the young
whose hearts give no shame,
I love the excesses of beauty,
there is never enough sunlight
in the world I will live in,
never enough room for love.
I fear none of us will last long enough
to prove what I’ve always suspected,
that the sky is a membrane
in an angel’s skull,
trees talk to each other at night,
ice is water in a state of silence,
the embryo listens to everything we say.
I am afraid for the child skipping rope
on the corner of my street,
the girl on the train with flowers in her hair,
the man whose memory is entirely
in Spanish. I am more afraid of losing consciousness
when I go to sleep, or that in my sleep
I will grow old and forget how desire
once drove me mad with wakefulness.
Just like the perfect seasons
they will die
and I will die
and you will die also;
no one knows who will go first,
and this is the source
of all my grief.
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Geography Lesson, Conchitina Cruz
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Sorrow, by Rolando S. Tinio
The rubber tree by the boulevard is sad
and so is the acacia behind the rubber tree.
The whole world seems about to rain.
My love has left me, she is gone.
The water, ashen as always, is sad
and so are the three rusty ships by the bay,
and behind them, the clouds like melting lead.
My love has left me, she is gone.
The coconut leaves droop,
delicately swaying
to the wind that lashes, the playing
children unmindful
of sadness’ edge that is sharp like a knife, like a razor.
And I remember a song full of despair,
like a stinging wound squeezed some more.
And I remember my love who has gone
like a cloud pausing for some time,
then moving on to its many journeys through the sky
and which I think will never, never again pass by.
trans. Mikael de Lara Co
Nalulumbay ang puno ng goma sa gilid ng bulibard
at ang puno ng akasya sa likod ng goma.
Mukhang uulan sa buong mundo.
Wala na ang mahal ko, iniwanan ako.
Nalulumbay ang tubig na laging kulay-abo
at ang tatlong bapor na kulay-kalawang sa laot,
at sa likod, ang ulap na parang tinggang natunaw.
Wala na ang mahal ko, iniwanan ako.
Nakatungo ang mga dahon ng niyog,
marahang pakampay-kampay
sa hanging humahampas, naglalarong
anaki’y mga batang walang kamalay-malay
sa talas-kutsilyo, talas-labaha ng lumbay.
At naalala ko ang isang awit na puno ng hinagpis,
parang sugat na humahapdi, lalong tinitistis.
At naalala ko ang wala nang mahal ko
na naparaan sa aking mundo,
parang ulap na bumitin nang ilang saglit,
saka nagpatuloy sa maraming lakad sa himpapawid
at, sa tingin ko, hindi na, hindi babalik.
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Spaces, by Arkaye Kierulf
In this room I was born. And I knew I was in the wrong place: the world. I knew pain was to come. I knew it by the persistence of the blade that cut me out. I knew it as every baby born to the world knows it: I came here to die.
Somewhere a beautiful woman in a story I do not understand is crying. If I strain hard enough I will hear a song in the background. She is holding a letter. She is in love with Peter. I am in love with her.
Stand on the floor where it’s marked X. I am standing by your side where it’s marked Y. We are a shoulder’s length apart. I’m so close you can almost smell the perfume. If I step ten paces away from you, there could be a garden between us, or a table and some chairs. If I step another 20 paces there could be a house between us. If I continue to walk away from you in this way, tramping through walls and hovering above water, in 80,150,320 steps I will bump into you. I can never get away from you, and will you remember me? Distance brings us closer. There is no distance.
In 1961 I was in Berlin. It was a dusty Sunday in August. In the radio news was out that Ulbricht had convinced Khrushchev to build a wall around West Berlin. I remember it precisely: By midnight East German troops had sealed off the zonal boundary with barbed wire. The streets along which the barrier ran had been torn up. I lived in that street. It was the day after my birthday. I remember the dust covering the sky. I remember being scared. Father had not returned from the other side. The Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse had orders to shoot anyone who would attempt to defect. Father had not returned.
Happiness is simple.
Sadness forks into many roads.
Before the time of Christ, Aristotle believed that the earth was the center of the universe because he needed a stationary reference point against which to measure all other motions: a rock falling, a star reeling through the sky, his heart beating against his chest like a club. He needed to believe in certainty, in absolute space. Without it, the world would not be known absolutely. Without it, the world cannot be known.
Twenty centuries later Hendrik Lorentz needed to believe that every single molecule in the universe must move through a stationary material called the aether, as every human being in his various turnings must move through God. Scientists looked everywhere for proof of this aether. And everywhere they found nothing.
I have sometimes been accused of being a bore. I beg to differ: people laugh at my jokes, and I’m handsome. I would like now to talk more about myself: I don’t like going to airports and hospitals. They make me uneasy. In both cases, somebody is always going to leave. I was born in 1983, and have never been to Berlin. But I have a memory of being in Berlin in 1961. I have a memory of something that never happened.
I would like to elaborate on myself, but you will understand if I talk instead about the sky in Berlin in 1961: it was covered with dust. There were no birds. There was no sky.
Memory is brutal because precise.
She said: give me more space. I said: don’t you love me anymore? She said: give me more space. I said: why? Did I do something wrong? Is there something wrong? Is there someone else? When did you stop loving me? In what precise moment? In what room? What city?
I held her tight as one who’s about to lose his own life holds on. Then she said: give me more space. I said: no.
I have only one purpose: to live intensely.
I wish I never met you
and I wish you never left.
You taste like a river in June.
I’m going to say something important. Look at my face. Ignore my eyes. Just listen to me. But listen only to the timbre of my voice, not to what I am saying. They are different. They are two different rooms. The first is an exhibition of despair, the second only an explanation.
The first is all you have to listen to. So listen carefully because I cannot repeat myself:
“Everything/ one suspects to be true/ is true.”
In 1879 a boy is born in Germany. At age five he’d throw a chair at his violin teacher and chase him out. In time he would develop the capacity to withdraw instantaneously from a crowd into loneliness. At twenty-six he would publish his theory of relativity in Annalen der Physik. He looks crazy, but he is certain: there is no aether, no absolute space.
Sometimes they thought it was the words.
What they wanted to say could not be said.
They fixed the TV, vacuumed the rug,
dusted the furniture, looked out the window.
Sometimes she would purposefully lose hold of
a plate and it would smash to the floor.
Then they would have something to say,
only to begin to say it then stop.
Look at this box. It is empty except for a diary, a book, and this picture in my hand. Now look at this picture. It weighs nothing and occupies almost zero space. I can slip it in anywhere and it will fit: inside the diary, under the box, through a crack on the wall. If I tear it several times, it will occupy a different volume, many and various. It mutates, you see. If I burn it, it will smoke into the air. It will take up a whole expanse.
How many more times
are you going to let the world
hurt you?
My father is an incorrigible storyteller. He would tell the same stories in different ways. I wouldn’t know which ones to believe. So I believed all of them. “There is no story that is not true,” said Uchendu.
Father would point at the TV. He would repeat lines, rehearse the beginnings and ends, explicate with his hands the elaborate twists and turns of every road.
He said: “I am dying.”
I said: “But aren’t all of us dying.”
And I thought the world
was about this leaving,
not about anybody’s leaving
but about this leaving.
The next day it was the same.
A beautiful woman walks into a room. The room is dark. There are no windows. There is one light bulb but any time now it will go off. I pretend not to notice and look away, my heart beating against my chest like a club. If I strain hard enough I will hear a song in the background. What other forms of happiness are there than this?
In 1989 the Berlin wall falls down.
I believe in love only when it rains.
To appreciate the value of land, one need only look into a painting: so much beauty. Buying land means buying the layers of beauty directly above it. It means buying the sky above it. And the birds above it, the clouds, the gods.
In truth you are buying a corner of the universe. You are saying: this is my room. You are saying: I live here. Here I exist.
Your sadness is immaterial. You did
not come into the world to be happy.
You came to suffer/survive.
How many words have you spoken in your life?
How many did you mean?
How many did you understand?
Somebody picks up a phone. He dials a number. His voice travels a thousand miles into another country. On the other end somebody picks up and hears the voice. Who is this?– This is me. The phone is hung up. The voice travels back a thousand miles.
Elsewhere somebody picks up a phone and before he could dial forgets the number.
Sometimes wars are waged because there are too many people in too few rooms.
Memory is incomplete–lost.
The world is incomplete–vanishing.
Nothing more happens. You open your eyes and it’s over.
Memory is brutal.
Memory is precise.
In the next room people I do not know are talking with hushed voices. Their secret slips out the window like a cat. It is raining, and I press my ear to the wall. I imagine that one of them is smoking a cigarette. I imagine that one of them is covering his mouth in surprise.
When my aunt died the doctors said the fat clogged her arteries. Every week she visited the hospital, and every week the vein on her wrist had to be ripped out so a catheter could be stuck into her body to suck out her blood. You could see the plasma pass through a filter and then back to the body. If you put your ear to her wrist you would hear her heart.
Before my uncle died the heart attacks were so excruciating he said he’d prefer to just die. They transported him to the hospital, and on the way to the emergency room his heart gave. Mother said my uncle ate too much pork and drank too much beer. She wonders if he’s going to be happy in heaven.
In some house in some province in some country in some novel there is a story of a man a father a child a lover who dies because of too much sadness.
Nobody thought that what was wrong was the love.
She said: give me more space.
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Third World Geography, by Cirilo F. Bautista
A country without miracles
sits heavy on the map,
thinking of banana trees rotting
in the sunlight.
The man who watches over it
has commandeered all hopes,
placed them in a sack,
and tied its loose end.
He goes around carrying it
on his back.
When asked what is inside,
he says, “Just a handful of feathers,
just a handful of feathers.”
That’s how light the burden
of government is in peace time—
any tyrant can turn it into a metaphor.
You kneel on the parched earth
and pray for rice. Only the wind
hears your useless words.
The country without miracles
tries to get up from the page,
but the bold ink and sharp colors
hold it down.
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Yeltsin learning the right stuff, needs to apply it
WASHINGTON -- Is he for real? Boris Yeltsin, that is.
Is the former Moscow Communist Party boss our kind of democrat?
President Bush seems to think so. Then again, Mr. Bush needed a sandwich good-news summit as much as Mr. Yeltsin did. So the platitudes and praise were inevitable.
Like two canny politicians, they presided over an everybody-wins trade-off: an awesome missile-reduction agreement that will retire Russia's most dangerous nuclear weapons in exchange for incentives to help Mr. Yeltsin with his economic reforms.
Both basked in the summit exposure. Even the weather cooperated. And not surprisingly, Mr. Bush gave Mr. Yeltsin a ringing endorsement.
Indeed, if Mr. Yeltsin merits Mr. Bush's A-plus rating, there is a new era dawning in relations with Moscow and for the Russian people as well.
It means far fewer nuclear weapons -- therefore a safer world -- and more rubles that can be diverted to a better life for the people.
It also makes possible a U.S.-Russian business relationship that can help American corporations tap into Russia's rich resources while perhaps rescuing Russia from economic disaster.
The nuclear agreement, to be enshrined in a treaty within three months, is probably irreversible. It will be legally binding. It is one-sided in the United States' favor, and a good deal for Mr. Bush and whoever is president during the 10 years or so it will take to get rid of two-thirds of the two nations' strategic nuclear arsenals.
And Mr. Yeltsin, or whoever succeeds him -- he has said he won't seek re-election in 1996 -- benefits immensely from the economic relief of reversing the nuclear arms race.
But was Mr. Bush being a little too euphoric about the "new era" and about Mr. Yeltsin himself?
The truth is, Mr. Yeltsin is newly converted to democracy. He is presiding over ministers, a parliament and people who have no experience in democracy or a free-market system.
The coup last August against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev failed, but the resistance to reform that inspired it has not dissolved.
Mr. Yeltsin, like Mr. Gorbachev, is under pressure both from hard-liners who do not want a Western capitalist system and from impatient liberals who are not satisfied with the results.
He may have to bend, at times.
Besides, like all leaders, Mr. Yeltsin is a product of the system that nurtured him.
The Communist governments that ruled Russia for 70 years encouraged neither democratic habits nor the spontaneity and spiritual freedom that made democracy and capitalism a success here.
Mr. Yeltsin is just now learning the ropes. He is catching on fast, and even adopting some of the populist mannerisms that Americans equate with democratic leaders:
The ready handshake. The thumbs-up sign. Shirt-sleeve speeches. Autographing pictures.
"There will be no more lies -- ever," Mr. Yeltsin promised in a speech to Congress.
Like Mr. Bush, he even did the vision thing.
Invoking the idealism that Americans like to think they are guided by, and sometimes actually are, Mr. Yeltsin declared: "History is giving us a chance to fulfill President Wilson's
dreams, namely, to make the world safe for democracy."
The reversal of the nuclear arms race will help. So will U.S. economic support. And Mr. Yeltsin's visit may encourage Congress to approve a $24 billion international aid package.
"Emotionally, how can you abandon a man like this?" remarked Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the Republican whip in the House.
The answer probably is that you can't.
Democracy and quitting the Communist Party may have occurred to Mr. Yeltsin late in life, but the conversion evidently is genuine.
At the summit, he said and did the right things. He signed the right documents. He made the right promises, including a vow to search for any surviving American MIAs from past wars, including Vietnam.
Now he will go home and try once again to jump-start the economy and promote democracy in a country where history is blotted with the cruelties of the czars and the Communists.
The hope is that even in his brief visit to Washington, Kansas and Canada the Russian leader learned a little more about democracy and will be ready and able to apply it at home.
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Question: Is Ought And Should The Same?
Is ought a formal word?
Ought to has the same meaning as the modal should, and it is used in the same ways, but ought to is less common and more formal than should.
Modal verbs are verbs that are not conjugated.
They are used to signal things like obligations, expectations, advice, and suggestions..
What is the difference between should and ought to?
Should and ought to have the same meaning, although ought to is much more formal and is not commonly used in spoken English. Supposed to refers to what other people think is right, while should expresses what you think is right.
What does can mean?
to be able to; have the ability, power, or skill to: She can solve the problem easily, I’m sure. to know how to: He can play chess, although he’s not particularly good at it. to have the power or means to: A dictator can impose his will on the people.
What does ought not mean?
◊ Ought is almost always followed by to and the infinitive form of a verb. The phrase ought to has the same meaning as should and is used in the same ways, but it is less common and somewhat more formal. The negative forms ought not and oughtn’t are often used without a following to. — used to indicate what is expected.
What is the biblical definition of ought?
Definition of ought (Entry 3 of 4) : moral obligation : duty.
What is the past tense of ought to?
In case of “ought to” form the past by using “ought to have”. For example: You ought to have been more careful. “Ought to” is a semi-modal, I would say. Modal verbs (can, shall, may) have very clear past tense forms (could, should, might).
Can you use ought without TO?
Ought is usually followed by ‘to’ and an infinitive: You ought to tell the truth. Sometimes it is used without ‘to’ or a following infinitive in a formal way: I don’t practise as often as I ought.
What is the negative form of ought to?
The negative is formed by adding ‘not’ after ought (ought not to). It can be contracted to oughtn’t to. We don’t use don’t, doesn’t, didn’t with ought to: We ought not to have ordered so much food.
What do you mean by ought to?
The negative form of ought to is ought not to, which is sometimes shortened to oughtn’t to in spoken English. 1. phrase. You use ought to to mean that it is morally right to do a particular thing or that it is morally right for a particular situation to exist, especially when giving or asking for advice or opinions.
What is the question tag for ought to?
Re: Question tag for ought to We do have the form ‘oughtn’t’ – so this could be used as a tag where an opposite way tag is used. We don’t tend to use this form very often in modern English, possibly because it sounds a bit pretentious. Most grammars advance ‘should’ as an acceptable alternative.
Should ought to examples?
She should find a better job. OR She ought to find a better job. He should consult a doctor. OR He ought to consult a doctor.
When we use ought to in a sentence?
1 “Ought” can indicate correctness or duty, often when criticizing the actions of another. She ought to slow down so she doesn’t get a ticket. 2 “Ought” can indicate that something is probable. Three minutes ought to be long enough.
How do you use had better in a sentence?
When the advice is strong, use had better with or to show the negative result of not following your advice. You’d better take an umbrella or you will get wet. He’d better remember to wear a neck-tie or they won’t let him in the restaurant. I think I had better take them or they will get lost.
Where do we use ought to?
Like should, the verb ought to does not have a past form. It is only used with reference to the present and the future….to express an obligation or an expectation that someone should do something.You ought to listen carefully.We ought to leave now.Lucy ought to go by herself.People ought to be a bit nicer to us. | <urn:uuid:ef8d857b-50c1-4f9c-bd62-0e17b75c9023> | {
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Tennessee death row inmates dying of natural causes
Tennessee death row inmates dying of natural causes
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NASHVILLE (AP) - Many inmates awaiting execution on Tennessee's death row never make it to the execution chamber.
The Tennessean reports that since 2000, nine death row inmates have died of natural causes and one committed suicide. Six have been executed.
In November, inmate Paul Dennis Reid died of heart disease in a hospital while awaiting execution for a 1997 killing spree that led to seven deaths. The newspaper reports that the state spent nearly $600,000 on Reid's prison housing and medical costs.
Death penalty supporters say such costs prove that the criminal justice system takes too long and allows too appeals. Opponents say the costs prove that the death penalty is a waste of money and that life sentences would save taxpayers millions.
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Bride dies of heart attack at her wedding, so groom marries her sister 11 months ago
The original bride's body was simply moved to another room.
A wedding in India took a gruesomely morbid turn when the bride died from a heart attack just before completing her wedding rituals, prompting the groom to end up marrying her younger sister.
The wedding took place on May 27 in the village of north Indian village of Samaspur, according to the Times of India. It was between a woman named Surbhi and a man named Mangesh Kumaar from a nearby village.
The two were exchanging traditional flower garlands during a ceremony called the jaimala, when Surbhi collapsed. Despite a doctor trying to treat her, he later declared her dead from a heart attack.
However, the day's festivities reportedly continued, but with a new bride. After Surbhi's body was moved to another room in the house, her younger sister Nisha married the groom instead.
The bride's brother Saurabh told a local news channel: "We did not know what to do in the situation. Both the families sat together and someone suggested that my younger sister Nisha should be married to the groom."
Surbhi's uncle said: "It was a tough call for our family. One daughter lay dead in one room and the wedding of another daughter was being solemnised in the other room.
"We have never witnessed such mixed emotions.
"The grief over her death and the happiness of the wedding have yet to sink in."
Just a few weeks ago, another Indian wedding made the news because of last-minute change of circumstance, as a bride in the Maharajpur town of Uttar Pradesh married a member of her groom's wedding party because her husband-to-be had ran off partway through the ceremony. The bride simply selected a new man from her ex's groomsmen and agreed on the match. | <urn:uuid:3b5d88ef-cdf6-47d0-bb7e-4ccc9b07bd73> | {
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What Is Nifty | NSE | SGX Nifty | Impact On Traders | Differences | FAQ
SGX Nifty stands for Singapore Nifty and if you are dealing in the share market and trading, there is absolutely no way you can afford to not know about what is Singapore Nifty.
So, if you are looking to procure knowledge about SGX Nifty, we are going to share some important details in a systematic way.
What Is Nifty?
Nifty is basically a sample of 50 companies in the index market that has been listed on the National Stock Exchange of India. So, the job of Nifty is to post these 50 companies on the basis of stock performance and to rank the best one at the very top.
What Is The NSE?
The NSE or the National Stock Exchange is the leading company for stock exchange and is located in India. The different companies are listed in this exchange.
What Is SGX Nifty?
SGX stands for Singapore stock exchange. Just like nifty is the benchmark index that reflects the weighted aggregate of the stocks of the top 50 Indian companies, the Singapore Nifty is a derivative of the Indian nifty index as it is traded on the Singapore Stock Exchange Platform.
The Impact Of SGX Nifty On Indian Traders
As there is a time difference between Singapore and India, Singapore Nifty helps the investors in understanding the movement of the market before the trading actually starts in India. By choosing to track Singapore Nifty, you will be able to somehow predict the performance of the Indian nifty. Even those who can’t participate in Indian stock trading can choose Singapore Nifty for the right investment options.
With the help of SGX, investors will be able to participate in different markets. These include the China A50 index, MSCI Hong Kong, MSCI Taiwan, Nikkei 225 and more.
The Difference Between Nifty And Singapore Nifty
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• The SGX Nifty is traded on Singapore Stock Exchange but the Indian Nifty is traded on the NSE
• The SGX Nifty is way more volatile as compared to the NSE Nifty
• As per the NSE rules, you need a minimum of 50 shares to trade on Nifty. Only then a contract will be made between a buyer and seller. There is no such limitation for the Singapore nifty.
• The timing for both platforms is very different. The NSE Nifty operates for only six and a half hours. It starts at 9 15 AM and closes at 3 30 pm IST. The SGX Nifty on the other hand operates for 16 hours every day. It starts from 6 30 AM and continues till 11 30 PM.
What do you mean by SGX Nifty?
SGX Nifty stands for Singapore stock exchange. It offers derivatives of the nifty index and is traded on the Singapore stock exchange.
Can Indians trade on Singapore Nifty?
No Indian residents are not permitted to trade in the SGX Nifty contracts. NRIs however can trade in it based on the rules of the country where they reside
What is the difference between NSE and Nifty?
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At least 17 people were injured when a grenade was thrown into the main mosque in the Ethiopia capital Addis Ababa after Friday prayers, a government spokesman said Saturday.
The Anwar Mosque, located in the busy central Merkato district, is one of the main places of worship for Muslims in the capital.
“So far we have no idea who is responsible for this incident,” communication minister Getachew Reda told AFP.
“17 people were injured including some seriously injured, but no fatalities,” he added.
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Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman: “So When Officials Tell You that We Must Rush to Settle with the Banks for the Sake of the Economy, Don’t Believe Them. We Should Do This Right, And Hold Bankers Accountable for Their Actions”
Paul Krugman writes today in the New York Times.
Neither of these arguments makes much sense.
The claim that removing the legal cloud over foreclosure would help the housing market — in particular, that it would help support housing prices — leaves me scratching my head. It would just accelerate foreclosures, and if more families were evicted from their homes, that would mean more homes offered for sale — an increase in supply. An increase in the supply of a good usually pushes that good’s price down, not up. Why should the effect on housing go the opposite way?
You might point to the mortgage relief that would supposedly be extracted as part of the settlement. But if mortgage relief is that crucial, why isn’t the administration making a major push to reinvigorate its own Home Affordable Modification Program, which has spent only a small fraction of its money? Or if making that program actually work is hard, why should we believe that any program instituted as part of a mortgage-abuse settlement would work any better?
Sorry, but the case that letting banks off the hook would help the housing market just doesn’t hold together.
What about the argument that getting tough with the banks would threaten the overall economy? Here the question is: What’s holding the economy back?
It’s not the state of the banks. It’s true that fears about bank solvency disrupted financial markets in late 2008 and early 2009. But those markets have long since returned to normal, in large part because everyone now knows that banks will be bailed out if they get in trouble.
The big drag on the economy now is the overhang of household debt, largely created by the $5.6 trillion in mortgage debt that households took on during the bubble years. Serious mortgage relief could make a dent in that problem; a $30 billion settlement from the banks, even if it proved more effective than the government’s modification program, would not.
So when officials tell you that we must rush to settle with the banks for the sake of the economy, don’t believe them. We should do this right, and hold bankers accountable for their actions.
Mr. Krugman is correct (and see this).
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TomoP exchange integration
This document describes how TomoP works for exchanges to allow users to make deposits privately
Exchanges will use exchange deposit address for users to deposit assets privately. To understand the exchange deposit address, let's decode the structure of a TomoP privacy address.
TomoP privacy address structure
Here's an example of a typical privacy address in TomoP
This is the Base58 format of the following data 0346226e21bdb6cc3ddcccde7ff7678af5a150bfc72433800ab45359ded501705a03c8827ebe7c19ba0358518a88351ff9d8f660dddaceac7e1d0a1b6987e711b0b3ca6f30a2
The data consists of 70 bytes (140 hex characters) including: public view key (33 bytes) | public spend key (33 bytes) | checksum (4 bytes)
Public view key and public spend key are public keys in compressed format corresponding to private view key and private spend key , of which
• Private spend key is a normal private key of users (32 bytes)
• Private view key = keccak256(private spend key)
Each user only needs to keep their single private key in order to be able to send and receive transactions privately.
When Alice wants to send some TOMO to Bob privately, Alice would take Bob's privacy address, decode the Base58 format to have public view and spend keys of Bob in order to generate a stealth address, which is used as the recipient to send TOMO privately.
The stealth address is a one time generated address that is different with every transaction. The stealth address is generated using a cryptographic scheme that only Bob could recognize as the stealth address generated for him.
What's the Exchange Deposit Address (EDA)?
Exchange Deposit Address (EDA) is Base58-encoded data of the following data:
public view key (33 bytes) | public spend key (33 bytes) | userID (8 bytes) | checksum (4 bytes)
User ID is the ID of a user on the exchange that the user will deposit to. Basically, every user of the exchange will have the same public view key and public spend key but a different userID.
Deposit steps:
• Generate stealth address from public view and spend keys
• For the UTXO for the stealth address, generate depositID = ECDH - userID
• Make private transaction for the stealth address and depositID
• depositID will be published to privacy smart contract
struct UTXO {
CompressPubKey[3] keys; //commitmentX, pubkeyX, txPubX
uint256 amount; //encoded amount
uint256 mask; //encoded mask
uint256 txID;
uint256 depositID; //deposit ID = ECDH - userID
Exchange deposit verification steps:
• Check if the UTXO belongs to the exchange privacy address (using private view key to check)
• Compute userID = depositID - ECDH
• Check if userID matches with one of the user IDs in their database.
• If yes, then that's a deposit transaction to the account that corresponds to the userID
Exchanges will have to generate an exchange deposit address for every user based on their public keys and userID.
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
On rights, freedoms, and wearing masks
The Charter guarantees our rights and freedoms “only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society”
Corey La Berge
Over the past couple of months, I have read and heard people complaining that government restrictions in response to COVID are an infringement of their “rights.” In a time where we are inundated with a great deal of misinformation, please accept the following as the perspective of a practising lawyer.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as a part of our constitution, is the highest law of the land. It does include things like the right to life, liberty and security of the person, freedom of expression, freedom of association, etc. These rights are not absolute. Government is quite lawfully permitted to put limits on our rights, and do so on a regular basis. Being required to obey the speed limit and wear a seatbelt or a helmet is arguably an infringement on our liberty. Likewise when we are incarcerated or subject to a probation order for committing a crime. However, the very first section of the Charter provides that the Charter guarantees our rights and freedoms “only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
Governments can impose limits on our rights and freedoms, and do so on a regular basis. We can’t simply claim freedom to do as we wish. In exchange, we receive the benefits of living in a reasonably peaceful and orderly democratic society. Our tax dollars shouldn’t pay for the consequences of irresponsible decisions not to wear a seatbelt, or speed, not wear a helmet, or drink and drive. It is somewhat reassuring to know that people can’t rob us in our home or harm us without there being consequences to their freedoms imposed by the state.
Our provincial legislature is free to enact laws that empower public health officers to make public health orders that are intended to protect the public. Public health officers doing their best to apply evidence based decision making in very novel and difficult circumstances, are reasonably empowered to impose restrictions on our liberties. We may not always like it or agree with their decisions, but so long as the restrictions can be demonstrably justified, no court is going to find that we have a right to not wear a mask, flout rules around gathering, etc. One only needs to look to our neighbours to the east to see a province that has failed to follow the advice of their own public health officers, been too lax around imposing restrictions, only to be confronted with unnecessary deaths, suffering, overworked and over run hospital staff, and conversations about opening Red Cross field hospitals to see that no court is likely to find the restrictions we’ve been experiencing here in BC to be unjustified or without rational connection to their objective.
As for “natural rights”, like “beauty”, these tend to be “in the eye of the beholder.” So no, you won’t find me endorsing, nor will you find any court endorsing, a “natural rights” argument that we are being treated unfairly or somehow being violated. You can arguably claim anything is your “natural right” — as some folks who have tried to claim to be independent sovereign states have attempted to do. Natural rights support your right to be a vigilante, steal property, or anything else you define it to do. They simply aren’t practical or realistic for any modern society. Moreover, they are easily countered by the natural rights of the rest of us claiming that it is our right to not have people in our space not wearing masks in the middle of a pandemic. Or our right not to have our families exposed to a virus you don’t know if you have or not.
One final thing. The Charter only applies against government. Charter rights do not apply in the private sector. So please don’t complain to a place of business that they are violating your Charter rights — that’s impossible. Rather, it’s the Human Rights Code that applies as against businesses to prevent things like discrimination. However, they are free to comply with public health directives and ask you to wear a mask, distance, etc. Businesses can ask you to wear a shirt, not bring in a backpack, wear a mask or whatever they like so long as they aren’t discriminating per the Code. If you want to support the economy and local business, then do as you are asked, don’t jeopardize the health and safety of owners and staff, don’t hassle them for complying with the law, and don’t expose them to being fined by trying to exercise your own personal definition of natural rights by flouting compliance.
So let’s please be kind to one another, respect one another’s distance, wear a mask and avoid gathering as we are quite lawfully and rightfully being directed.
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Episode #97 – Product Owners, INVEST, Continuous Delivery
Featured speakers:
Clayton Lengel-Zigich Clayton Derek Neighbors Derek Roy van de Water Roy
Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Roy van de Water and Derek Neighbors discuss:
• Product Owner Availability
• Delivering Value
• Continuous Delivery vs Deployment
• Backlog Gardening
Clayton Lengel‑Zigich: Welcome to another episode of the Agile Weekly Podcast. I’m Clayton Lengel‑Zigich.
Derek Neighbors: I’m Derek Neighbors.
Roy van de Water: I’m Roy van de Water.
Clayton: We’ve got a few topics today. The first one we start out with is Product Owner Availability on a Scrum team. If I’m a product owner, how available should I be to the team? Should I be sitting there, waiting for them to ask me something?
Roy: In my perfect world, yeah. You’ll be sitting with the rest of the team, not necessarily waiting to be asked something but you’re available if something is needing to be asked. In the mean time, there’re some of the other things that you can do, like backlog grooming and communication with stakeholders, that type of thing.
Clayton: You’re saying actually be available…if the team needs something from me, I should be available almost immediate?
Roy: I don’t know about should. If I was a team member, that’s what I would want. I don’t know if that’s realistic to set an expectation like that. I don’t know if I can say, “You need to be available within two minutes of me having a question”. That might be a bit excessive.
Derek: I would say as close to immediate as possible, is desired. What is doable is an entirely different story, probably for every team, every organization.
Roy: Every product owner.
Derek: Every product owner. Part of availability is…we were talking about Jim McCarthy before we came in here, and the core protocols. One of them is presence. Physical presence of a product owner is key to availability because its not just about being able to ask questions, but there’s also a fear of how do we talk about product.
There’re so many times as a developer where you’re working on something, and you’re really talking not about code, but you’re talking about experience or you’re talking about a functionality or interpretation of conditions of satisfaction or acceptance criteria, whatever you want to call them. Where if there is that kind of physical proximity or presence, it allows for a product owner to say, “Hey, that doesn’t really matter, don’t bother arguing about it. Just go ahead and implement it.”
Or, it allows them to basically jump into the conversation almost immediately. One of the things that developers tend to do is not talk the product because they think they’re not allowed. When we come from this world of requirements, once a product owner tells us A or B, like we are incompetent if we have to go back for clarification. I think that availability to clarify is monumentally important.
Clayton: What are some maybe dysfunctions? A lot of product owners probably are not that dedicated to the team and they probably spend a lot of time in meetings or on the phone or doing whatever. What are some problems you might encounter if you don’t have that presence of the product owner?
Roy: What I usually see is it really screws up the planning meeting for multiple different reasons. The first being, is that because the product owner wasn’t available throughout the week, I’ve seen a lot of teams wait until the planning meeting to get acceptance.
Clayton: Is that like wait until the retrospective to talk about things?
Roy: Right, because it’s the last minute that you could technically get acceptance before the next thing. Obviously, you should be doing it as soon as you finish feature, like as close to that as possible. I’ve seen a lot of teams wait until they are in planning.
The other thing that happens during planning is because the team is so fearful of needing to ask the product owner questions throughout the week and knowing that the product owner is going to be available, they’re going to want to like squeeze the product owner dry during the planning session which makes it really arduous. They try to think of everything that could possibly go wrong ever because when it does happen, if it does happen, they might not have that product owner there to ask.
Derek: I definitely think that you get a sense of people get fearful when they’re making commitments, if they don’t think they have all the information, if they think they’re only getting one chance to get the information. If you have a lot of uncertainty in product ownership during a sprint, teams tend to be more fearful to actually committing to work.
Where I think if you’ve got the higher certainty, teams tend to be a little more willing to commit to things knowing that they’re not going to be blocked by something out of their control, in essence.
Clayton: We have been talking about product ownership. Kind of related to that are stories. I was asking Derek today about that the new moniker for “INVEST” about stories. The V in there is for value. We talked a lot about delivering value to the customer.
What do you guys think about stories that might deliver value in the future but if it were shipped tomorrow no one would use it. No one would get any value out of it. Is that even worth doing? Even if it’s maybe a building block to something?
Roy: That sounds dangerous. Usually, when I hear of somebody think of a story as a building block, they’re slicing the cake the wrong way. You know what I mean? That would be my primary concern. If it’s not really adding value to the user now, then why are we building it now?
Derek: For me, I hate this whole value discussion more than anything in so many ways, because nobody can really define value. I’ve gotten into Twitter arguments over this that made me want to pound my face into the concrete.
For me the question becomes like, “What are the goals?” What are you trying to do with this product? Are you trying to make money with the product? Are you trying to influence people with the product? Are you trying to get more users with the product? Are you trying to not lose users with the product?
What is it you’re trying to do? For me, where’s the data that backs up that this particular story helps you get closer to that goal? If it’s a building block, “Hey, we need to do this so that we can do that,” I’m OK with that.
I get worried if it’s a technical building block like, “Hey, we need this technical building block in order to do this.” If it’s not really a technical building block but rather, “Hey, we need to implement this so that we can track this or so that we can add this additional feature, and that’s what we really want, and we believe that’s what we get there,” I’m OK with some of that.
To me, most product owners can’t tell you shit. “We’re just doing this because it feels good or because the users are screaming about it or because it’s what we pulled out of our rear end before we came into this planning meeting,” which is probably not delivering value.
If people came in and said, “We’re doing this because we’re losing users, and we really need this functionality in order to keep those users,” or “Hey, we’re trying to get into this new market or this new piece, and we need to add this functionality to compete with so and so, so we don’t lose market share of that,” then we’re having a different discussion.
I’d say if product owners aren’t talking in that kind of language, they’re probably not doing due diligence around value delivery.
Clayton: Do you think there’s some amount of…maybe fear is not the right word, but if you got a bunch of stuff in your backlog, and maybe you’re not thinking on those terms about that way of thinking about value. If you were to actually do that, it might mean that you would have to throw away almost everything.
You might have to get rid of a lot of stuff, which is scary. Is it better to keep prodding along and hopefully you can find a few things here and there that actually do deliver value, and then it’s OK that you did some stuff that maybe wasn’t so important?
Roy: So you’re getting value out of having a large backlog? That’s what it sounds like to me.
Clayton: It lets you fly under the radar to someplace…
Roy: Right, because you can say, “Hey, we need to extend the budget for this team because look how much work is left.”
Derek: Some of it is, a lot of teams or a lot of product owners get fearful of “if the backlog’s not really big, then the product’s not important.” There is something to say that there is value in being biased towards action.
Sometimes maybe if you don’t know what’s valuable, not doing anything could be detrimental in the sense that you’re not moving forward at all. However, if you’re moving forward and saying, “Hey! Action, we’re delivering stories,” you fall in the potential of iterating to nowhere where the product is just spinning its wheels.
It’s very similar to developers in the sense of, developers really get nervous about measurements. If you talk about velocity or estimating or anything, most developers freak out on that and want nothing to do with it because they think it’s going to be used against them or that they might be seen as failures. You name it.
Product owners are the same way. If you start to say, “Hey, this feature should drive revenue by X,” and it doesn’t. “I was wrong. I failed.” Or, “Hey, this is going to land us a new customer,” and it doesn’t. “Shit! I failed.”
There’s that same mental block of, “I don’t want to do the research and make predictions about what functionality is going to do for this product because what happens if I’m wrong?”
Roy: Regarding the idea of having that big backlog just to keep the big backlog around, there can also be a difference between having a cluttered backlog and a large backlog because what I’ve seen is… and what you described, keeping a bunch of random stories thrown in there that may or may not actually add value.
Derek: That would be moved to the bottom every week.
Roy: Right, exactly. You can still have a large backlog and still say, “We have a year’s worth of work or whatever in the backlog,” but have really large epics.
Let’s say you want to build out a whole new component. Instead of breaking that down early, don’t waste your time on that, just say, “We’re going to have this gigantic new component at some point or deliver that giant piece of value.”
If you get to it and it becomes a priority, then you start to break it down as it gets closer and closer to when you actually work on it. That allows you to keep a really clean backlog because most of your really far out stuff are abstract ideas that haven’t been worked out.
Clayton: If we agreed that things that are further out time‑wise are maybe not worth spending a lot of time breaking down, world changes kind of thing, do you think that the frequency of your delivery or your deployment makes a big difference?
If I only deploy once every four months, does it even make sense for me to worry about defining things that I want to do in 9 months or 12 months because I’m only really ever going to deploy four times a year? Maybe…
Derek: I could see that.
Clayton: Does that make a difference at all?
Roy: There are companies that do budgeting on an annual basis. You might need it for that, to be able to justify your budget for an entire year’s worth of work. I could see a product owner needing to do that.
Derek: For me, it’s probably less about when you release and more about what are release plans. There are a lot of people that do release plans, but don’t really release.
When you start to do more continuous delivery, it starts to make your release plan, a hell of a lot more real. You are actually owning what you’re releasing because you’re releasing consistently.
Where when you release infrequently or you deploy infrequently, you can constantly move your release date around. You can start to say, “Oh, it was supposed to be six weeks, but now, it’s going to be 8 weeks or it’s going to be 10 weeks or it’s going to be 12.”
You can keep moving that stick and have that perpetual, “Let’s just add more shit into the product before the next release.” Where if you have that continuous deployment happening, you don’t get the ability to say, “Let’s keep dicking around with our release date. It’s going to our customers at the end of the week, at the end of the…,” whatever…
Roy: With or without this feature.
Derek: No matter what.
Clayton: You mentioned continuous delivery or deployment, there was a good infographic that was going on that simplified those two terms. I believe that continuous delivery was, everything’s automated from my checking the code, and the tests run on the CI server and maybe it gets deployed to some staging place and acceptance tests run.
The action of actually deploying that to the customer is a manual step. Whereas, continuous delivery was more of…
Roy: Continuous deployment.
Clayton: …the whole thing was all automated. Sorry, deployment, yeah.
Derek: Integration versus deployment, right?
Clayton: The idea, and you had mentioned maybe Twitter and Facebook have a model that’s like this, where I make some code changes and it goes out. It doesn’t necessarily go out to facebook.com, but maybe, it goes out to some subset of the server so that some part of the user base might get that, and that kind of thing.
Roy: Roll that out to everybody outside, and know that it is completely automated.
Clayton: No, I would guess most people, especially if you consider yourself an enterprise kind of company, the idea of pricing commit and your search control and having that go out..
Roy: So any developer could commit a code directly to our users?
Clayton: Yeah, and the idea that everything is green, we ship, is probably pretty scary. Do you think a lot of people could gain from having a system like that?
Roy: Man, talking about having to own your work. Talk about pride in the work.
Clayton: That’s true.
Roy: I mean, seriously. One of the early stories that had came from Twitter and had impressed me is they had gone online live with Oprah. Biz, or one of them, was on…maybe with Ev was on Oprah and they were doing deploys during the airing of that show.
That would be normally completely crazy if I’m some big company, if I’m Ford or something, and we have this big Super Bowl ad running, I probably am going to tell everybody, “No deployments for the next two weeks because we have to deal with all this traffic where…”
Clayton: Future freeze.
Roy: With a company, like Twitter, the problem is they had to. They didn’t have a choice. Their system was growing so dynamically that adding an extra million users during an Oprah show had a real effect to the performance of their system to where, “OK, yeah, we could wait until the west coast showing views,” and then, start screwing around with things.
But then, the experience is crappy for everybody. Or “We could go in and see this performance bottleneck that we see right this minute, make the change, deploy it to a small subset of users, make sure that nothing is coming back failing. Then, let it propagate into the entire base.”
Which is a worse move? Looking bad performance‑wise or trying to fix those on the fly and then, if something goes wrong, having to recover.
Part of it is when you got to continuous deployment, you are a whole lot less afraid of doing those things because you do it all the time. If you’re deploying every commit, your process is probably pretty damn solid if something goes wrong, being able to roll back.
If you only release once a year, your process is probably so crappy, that if something goes wrong, it is like…
Clayton: A week‑long thing.
Roy: …catastrophe for months to clean it up. That plays a lot into it as well.
Clayton: One of the things I really like about continuous integration is the idea of having the code, basically, be able to compile and run all the tests. All the benefit you get from that is so far beyond the fact that you have a good CI server, but all the work that goes into making that actually happen, I think the same thing is true for continuous deployment.
Although, at a much larger scale. If you only deliver once a year, it’s OK if everyone spends two weeks doing a bunch of manual stuff because it doesn’t seem that painful.
If you’re doing it every two weeks or something, that subsequently going to get automated real quick and you’re going to fix a whole bunch of stuff. Especially, the roll back stuff, the fear just goes out the window at that point.
Roy: If you’re doing continuous deployment where it’s going out as a constant stream, then it becomes even more so. Then, if you check‑in some bad code that breaks a build and I need my feature to go live now, we need to have that conversation now because it needs to be out by the end of the day, so none of that stuff gets postponed.
Clayton: Probably, the chances of people breaking the build as casually as they would, otherwise, is probably much lower.
I think that wraps it up. We’re at our 15 minutes here. Thanks you guys.
Derek: Thanks.
Roy: Bye‑bye.
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Frequent Trading Mistakes Committed by CFD Traders
CFD Trading
Without making any mistakes, no one can learn or make progress. The whole idea of learning is making mistakes and taking notes about them to prevent further loss. Various trading mistakes are more frequent among newcomers. But experts are not beyond making mistakes too. One may overlook something and commit common blunders, given that they happen to everyone regardless of a trader’s experience level. But it should also be considered that an unwarily committed mistake will not be less fatal than knowing what mistake you have made. It can still destroy your trading journey.
So, there is no escape from learning about these errors to sustain your existence in the Forex market.
Trading Without Prior Knowledge
Before entering the CFD market, everyone must get familiar with it. At least, beginners should know about the most common features or tasks they have to deal with while trading. Thousands of resources to help in this field are coming within reach of common people every day. There are enough ways to learn about the fundamentals of the field. So, there can be no reason for not enrolling in a course.
If any enthusiast jumps right into the currency business without knowing anything, he can be overwhelmed by observing various unknown, convoluted features of the marketplace. It may discourage him and may kill his eagerness to join in the exchange market. Besides, placing orders blindly will surely evoke losses.
Not Devising a Plan
Without a well-constructed plan, no investor can sustain his existence in the industry because it will not be possible to preserve congruency in the strategy that lacks a predefined plan. CFD investors who follow preset guidelines do not deviate from making rational decisions, even in the most adverse conditions. Moreover, a well thought out plan creates the backbone of an effective daily routine for a businessman.
Following a plan is critical, as it prevents charters from drowning in uncharted regions. It builds a credible path that can be traveled repeatedly, and each time it provides you with safety and security.
Placing orders frequently to earn more money is one of the prime reasons newcomers fail to save their exchange market careers. Experts are more likely to avoid placing unnecessary orders. Perseverance is one of the most remarkable qualities an investor must possess as it makes a trader remain patient and impede overtrading. When an investor feels that he is missing a probable great return, it may lead him to make the wrong decisions.
When someone overtrades, it implies he is not spending sufficient time analyzing the current market condition before entering a deal. Such deals mostly end up in defeats and loss of capital.
Ignoring Risk Management
Professionals never forget to evaluate their risk tolerance. They know their maximum risk-taking limit and never surpass the boundary by taking additional risks. The currency exchange industry is a super volatile place. Not all businessperson can cope with the uncertainty posed by it. Lower risk-tolerant charters should avoid Forex and register for safer options like the blue-chip deals offered by various well-established companies and firms.
Every investment exposes the investor to a certain measure of risks. Disaster happens when a businessman does not realize the importance of implementing risk management in his business approach. Assessing a deal’s risk to reward ratio before investing in it, using the stop loss and take profit functionalities are some practical risk management elements you can incorporate into your strategy.
Misinterpreting Signals
Various market influencers provide pertaining signals to an investor. Immature investors often misread these signals. It makes them enter or exit a deal improperly and they cannot achieve the expected results and often face failures.
The exchange business is naturally a highly risky endeavor. Every step should be measured before being taken. Knowing about the most general mistakes in this industry enables a trader to avoid them in real business situations.
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Smoking Gun: In a handwritten side letter, Deputy Sheriffs' Association negotiators agreed to sign away the union's right to support a ballot measure. The declaration by Jose Salcido, above, contends that the side letter was not a quid pro quo for a new contract with raises for the deputies.
Guilt by Association
Did DSA head Jose Salcido sign away his union's political rights and perjure himself in hopes of being named sheriff?
By Dan Pulcrano
A DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S investigation has concluded that Deputy Sheriffs' Association head Jose Salcido committed perjury when he gave a sworn declaration as part of an apparent coverup of a vote-buying deal between the powerful union and the county's chief executive.
"At no time during the bargaining process did any county negotiator indicate or suggest that the county's willingness to agree to an acceptable wage and benefit package was contingent upon the DSA's agreement not to support an effort to place the interest arbitration measure on the ballot," Salcido declared under penalty of perjury on June 9, 2004.
Last month, Assistant District Attorney David Tomkins forwarded a report to Sheriff's Department investigators stating that Salcido's statement "is false and violates Section 118 of the California Penal Code." That section makes it a felony to commit perjury by knowingly providing untrue information under oath.
Citing transcripts and minutes of a DSA meeting, the DA report contradicted Salcido's sworn statement, noting that Salcido went to union members and "he made it clear that the wage increase was contingent upon the signing of a side letter that forbid the union from supporting the binding interest arbitration initiative." It is illegal to spend public money to influence the outcome of an election.
The pay negotiations were going on at a time when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was widely expected to name Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith to head the California Highway Patrol. That would have left the county's top law enforcement position open for appointment by the Board of Supervisors. Salcido was heavily lobbying supervisors to name him to the $185,000 a year post. Getting his union to oppose Measure C—against which all five supervisors had signed a ballot argument—certainly wouldn't have hurt his chances of landing the job.
When contacted last week, DA Tomkins refused to discuss the report or even acknowledge that there had been an investigation, citing office policy. No charges have been filed against Salcido, who declined to be interviewed for this article.
"There is no investigation currently going on. There was an investigation, and it has been concluded, and we are satisfied that there is no criminal liability." Chief Assistant District Attorney Karen Sinunu said on Monday. After doing some checking, Sinunu confirmed that Tomkins sent over "this little skimpy report" to Lt. Luther Pugh of the Sheriff's Department at that agency's request because "it is our custom to cooperate with local law enforcement agencies."
Sinunu is a declared candidate for district attorney, and hopes to succeed longtime DA George Kennedy, who has endorsed her for the top job. Salcido's DSA will likely be a plum endorsement in that race as well. Sinunu says, however, that politics was not a factor in the decision not to prosecute. "When we can't prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt to 12 jurors, we don't charge it," she said.
She volunteered that a change was possible—but not probable.
"When we turn down a case for criminal filing, 99 percent of the time it is the end of it. Occasionally some additional evidence comes up and we take another look at it," she added.
Sinunu said the decision was based on information not contained in the Tomkins letter; this additional information was based on a more detailed report by Bureau of Investigations criminal investigator Joseph Brockman. "Joe Brockman interviewed other people who are not contained in the [Tomkins] report," Sinunu said.
Others who have seen Brockman's report, however, say Brockman concluded perjury as well. Pugh says he requested information from Tomkins because "we wanted to know what the status was, and we began our own internal investigation." Sheriff Smith is currently reviewing the results of that internal inquiry, Pugh said.
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Sources familiar with Brockman's investigation say that he reviewed tapes of an April DSA meeting which clearly show that county officials cut an economic deal with the union to secure its nonendorsement. According to transcript excerpts, DSA counsel Ron Yank told members, "The county put a real good package on the table ... the county is not going to go forward on [the pay raise deal] unless we commit to that side letter." The side letter prevented the DSA from supporting Measure C, for which other public employee unions were seeking voter approval. The measure would have provided for binding arbitration of collective bargaining disputes between the county and its unions.
"Later in the meeting, Jose calls for a vote on the side letter. A person in the audience asks, 'What's the downfall if we don't sign it?' Salcido replied, "We don't get the contract,'" according to the DA documents reviewed by Metro.
"Salcido and Yank presented the offer to the general membership. Both Yank and Salcido made it clear to the membership that the pay raise was conditioned upon the signing of the side letter."
"[County Executive Pete] Kutras offered substantially more in pay increases conditioned upon the unions signing side letters to the contracts agreeing not to support the binding arbitration initiative," the DA letter continued.
"Two other unions—correctional and nurses—refused the offer and told Kutras that the tactic was illegal. The wage offer was then pulled off the table for those two unions."
Following the union vote to sign away its right to support the ballot measure, a group of citizens including former San Jose Councilman John Diquisto filed suit alleging that Kutras, county labor relations manager Luke Leung and others broke the law by using public funds for political purposes.
In late October, on the eve of the election, Superior Court Judge Socrates Peter Manoukian ruled that "the use of side agreements wherein pay raises are promised in exchange for not taking a position on a pending ballot measure constitutes use of public funds for partisan purposes. This Court concludes that the acts of which the plaintiffs complain violate Government Code 3203 and Government Code 8314."
Section 8314 states that it is illegal for a local official to "use or permit others to use public resources for a campaign activity"; 3203 says there will be no restrictions placed on political activities of public employees. "The court believes that any side agreement alleged in the complaint does just that."
The Coverup
Metro has learned a frenzied effort ensued to craft a cover story that would show that something occurred other than what was being alleged in the lawsuit: a criminal pact to influence an election that involved the highest ranks of county government. Not only was the county executive involved; board chair Pete McHugh had been directly involved in the DSA pay negotiations, and supervisors knew about the side letter.
Through their lawyers, Kutras and Salcido engaged in an apparent conspiracy to synchronize their depositions and make sure their stories matched by reminding each other, through intermediaries, which version of events they recalled and sharing details of what they planned to say in their sworn depositions. The depositions would give a different version of events than tapes, transcripts and minutes of the DSA member meeting. The "voluntary offer" scenario markedly diverged from what Salcido represented to his members —that their hopes of bringing home better paychecks would evaporate if they rejected the side letter. It would dispute the notion of a quid pro quo—compensating election assistance with salary increases.
The chain of events commenced when attorney Yank learned of the lawsuit on June 4, 2004. He put his dialing finger into high gear and called Salcido, Leung and Kutras for "discussion with all of them about our role and the fact that we may be dragged into the middle."
Five days later, Deputy County Counsel Martin Dodd called Yank at Kutras' request, according to legal bills on the letterhead of Yank's law firm, to compare notes and get everyone's stories straight. Yank wrote that he assured Dodd that "the County never asked for the side letter, but it was offered by our team." At least one of the declarations was changed after the two lawyers conferred, as Yank noted: "review proposed draft declaration; telephone call to Dodd making certain changes re same."
After a furious round of calls among Yank, Dodd, Leung and Salcido, the language was massaged and the documents were signed, under penalty of perjury.
While Salcido was vouching for a version of events that would keep the heat off Kutras and the supervisors, the skids were being greased to slide the DSA boss in as county sheriff if Smith was named California's top law enforcement official. On June 8, County Board of Supervisors chair Pete McHugh placed an unusual proposal into the board packet that would have allowed the board to appoint Smith's replacement without any public notice or hearings "if the Board determines that circumstances require an immediate appointment from among qualified persons already known to the Board." After Metro disclosed the proposal, the attempt to make democracy more efficient by dispensing with public process was deferred and eventually abandoned.
Then, investigator Brockman began asking questions. On Aug. 12, Salcido called Yank to discuss the district attorney's investigation. Two weeks later, on Aug. 28, Salcido called Yank "concerning his declaration and preparation of side letter; remind him that original language was hand written by me, but then typed up by County," according to Yank's billing statements.
The Aftermath
In September, Gov. Schwarzenegger appointed CHP insider Mike Brown to the state post, dashing Salcido's hopes for a promotion. Now, the department's one-time rising star, who looked like he had locked up the sheriff's post, is instead the target of an internal affairs investigation that could cost him his job. Sheriff Smith refused to be interviewed for this article, calling it "a personnel matter."
Rank and file DSA members grumble that the raises turned out to be much less than they had been led to believe, and they wonder if their president sold them down the river in an attempt to advance his career.
Salcido declined an interview request, and Kutras said he had to seek advice from his attorneys before responding to questions.
"As you know this is an active civil suit with more depositions and discovery expected," he emailed.
Legal bills normally protected by attorney-client privilege, such as the ones quoted above, might even become subject to disclosure if sufficient evidence exists that lawyers coached their clients to lie under oath.
"Our president more than likely committed perjury," believes 20-year Sheriff's Department officer Charvez, a DSA leader and Salcido critic. "I can't believe that the grand jury hasn't picked this up yet. It's so frustrating."
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A big jerk, idiot, imbecile. A rude person not willing to admit his or her mistake(s).
Pronounced: Doosh-eh-saw-rus
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A dinosaur sized douche-bag, a person worse than a douche-bag but not as bad as a fucktard.
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Is it possible to have multiple listeners on the same event?
For instance, two different plug-ins include listeners to the same event such as an issue create event. Is this possible, and if so when the event occurs and the plug-in action is triggered what would be the execution order? which plug-in action takes precedence?
Any view on this would be much appreciated.
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this is definetely possible, I am already using this. After all this is what events are for, isn't it smile You can even have more than one method annotated with @EventListener in the same listener class listening to the same event class (i.e. taking the same argument).
The order on the other hand is not defined (afaik). As far as I can tell from the sourcecode events might even get invoked asynchronously. Practically I think the order is mostly defined by the order the plugins are deployed.
For multiple listener methods in one listener class the order is stable until you reload the plugin but otherwise undefined.
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Run away thoughts!
Saturday, July 29, 2006
I'm back from the vacation.. have been to the North Coast for about 10 days, doing nothing but relaxing on the beach. Supposedly I should be relaxed by now, refreshed for going back to work, however, that's not the case.
Things didn't go the way I wanted it to be.. Moreover, I was interrupted by work calls, which spoilt the mood at all, plus I felt guilty for leaving work while there is stuff that's not working.
Besides, I was not able to stop that head of mine from having a flood of annoying thoughts. It's annoying cause I don't need them.. they are a lot.. interfering with each other.. they are just filling my head while they are not welcomed.
One way of solving this problem is write whatever is there in my mind.. but, as soon as I start, they run away, and I'm left with an empty head!
I really wonder why can't I make myself happy.. why am I that dull person all the time.. I had a vacation to enjoy, but instead, I kept blaming myself for taking that vacation, and wasn't able to enjoy it.. I'm back to work, and I'm expected to be full of energy to work, but it's the other way, I can't imagine I'll be back to work.. don't want to.
During the past ten days, I kept contemplating the idea of leaving work.. but I couldn't make a decision about it.. I've had enough or regrets, don't want to spoil my life anymore.. the majority of people around me, think I'll be crazy if I left.. but they only see it from their view, no one can see it from where I see it.. but still, I'm hesitant, I fear that I might be taking the wrong decision..
Sometimes I think, so what, no problem in taking wrong decisions, that's the way I'll learn.. but I go back and say, why risk my current job if people around think that's a wrong decision.
I feel that I'm having a wrong perception of how life should be.. I feel I'm still having a dreamy idea of life..
I sometimes think how would I be like 10 years from now.. how would my decisions now affect the rest of my life.. would I after 10 years regret my decisions now.. or would I regret not taking these decisions and following what people thought was good!
An endless dilemma that is depressing me.. I feel I could lead a better life.. but I'm passive about it.. or I'm afraid I'm wrong.. I'm just confused, don't know whether to trust that inner voice inside me.. or trust people around.. I fear that I'm just escaping a current situation which could be solved..
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welcome back moon
u've been missed :)
Hullo! Glad to have discovered this blog, and I look forward to going through your archive. Do come by my blog too sometime. Best, rama
welcome back first.
look around u some still got no future.lost in that crowded brutal humanless world.u r blessed so appreciate it.i donot intend to be dull but with all those death scenes and refugees,hunger,despair and tears everywhere,we go on vacations and laugh.we couldnot even show emotionl easy to shed tears on a touching heart breaking scene but so hard to feel it deep inside u
Lou, there are people who would think i am crazy for leaving my current job. well, i looked and found something better, a new job I am supposed to start in about two weeks, three days after leaving my current company. Maybe you should try the same, send some CVs to check your new market value, then see what's next in line for you! Most of all, you should try to do right by you!
Salaam Moon,
I think Alina's advice is very good.
Seriously, it's better to regret something you have done, then something you haven't done.
At 8/03/2006 06:07:00 PM Anonymous Anonymous said:
Dear Moon,
Would you kindly send me your e-mail address. Could not find it anywhere on your blog.
Thank you
Blue.. thank you :)
Rama, will be visiting your blog soon.
Alina, wish you good luck with your new job :) I guess I'll wait sometime to take this step.
Safiya, I only wish I don't regret anything..
Anonymous, my e-mail is
North Coast is soo boring anyway !
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A lacklustre first-half showing was the reason for AS Roma's defeat according to Claudio Ranieri, while FC Basel 1893 coach Thorsten Fink praised a perfect game plan.
Basel planning pays off for Fink
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Claudio Ranieri pointed to a lacklustre first-half performance as the decisive factor in a 3-1 home defeat by FC Basel 1893 that leaves AS Roma bottom of UEFA Champions League Group E. Roma forward Marco Borriello cancelled out Alexander Frei's early goal, yet the home side had no answer to Samuel Inkoom's 44th-minute effort, substitute Cabral making the points safe late on to leave Thorsten Fink delighted with a game plan that paid off in spectacular style.
Claudio Ranieri, Roma coach
Throughout the whole first half we were very weak; we committed virtually no fouls which shows we were not pressing as we should have done. We were not winning duels in midfield and they were able to keep possession easily. When we had the ball, we failed to play with one or two touches, so we were never dangerous.
I don't know why we played like that; I asked my players in the dressing room and they couldn't give me an answer either. In the second half we managed to play better; we raised the tempo and probably deserved a draw considering all the chances we had to equalise. However, I need to understand why we had that approach in the first half and I need to do it quickly.
Thorsten Fink, Basel coach
We played very well in the first half, just the way we'd planned it. In the second half, we were a bit lucky in the first 20 minutes; that was a period in which Roma created a lot of pressure. I was nervous then, no question. Against a side like Roma you can't prevent them having any chances, but all in all I'm very satisfied with everybody. I was very happy with my substitutes, who fitted it smoothly.
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Military Crossover
By Thom21
Military CrossoverPart 1
Anything that can be thought up by the human mind, will one day be created by a scientist, whether the world is ready for it or not.
I am a reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper. The story I have to tell is to hot to even make it into the tabloids let alone my paper so I am left to tell it to those who will listen on the Internet. An unknown hacker of a government computer passed this information on to me and the world must no what our government is doing to its people. The capability now exists to change people without them ever knowing as this document I am about to discuss clearly points out. I have left out or translated scientific jargon into English so that the reader may clearly understand what has happened to these men. The document reads as follows.
PROJECT New LifeObjective: To study the ability to control unknowing subjects thoughts, actions, and beliefs using inaudible subliminal mind control methods.
Subject Information: Greg (Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps) 23, 512, 170lbs, blond hair, blue eyes, married with no children. Ultra Conservative Right Wing Christian (based on questionnaire). Steve ( Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps) 22, 61, 187lbs, brown hair, brown eyes, single with no girlfriend/ heterosexual, Moderate political views (based on questionnaire). Experiment 1 Objective - Introduce the subjects to the first series of electronic subliminal suggestions. While on duty, both subjects are ordered to a small solitary room with a door marked No Admittance without Clearance. They are told to not allow anyone to enter without checking for appropriate authorization. After one hour of duty, the transmission of the first set of suggestions is transmitted to both men. Based on the results of previous studies, each man should think that the transmitted suggestions are his own thoughts and act accordingly. The suggestions have been individually tailored to each subject based on previous interviews and questionnaires. Greg is fed suggestions to become extremely sexually excited every day that he is on leave from this post. He will not be able to relieve this sexual tension with his wife because he will find that he is no longer sexually attracted to her or ANY woman. He is told he desperately wants to leave her. He will also begin developing a desire for his fellow officers. His desire will be strongest for any young manly stud in who stays in a room with him for more than 6 hours today (this just happens to be what Steve will do). He knows he can seduce any guy he wants to, but he must have Steve. He MUST do so to relieve his sexual tension. Also, He no longer is interested in any Religion that prohibits his sexual freedom and is told that he will become extremely liberal in his thinking about social issues such as homosexuality. Steve is fed suggestions that he is lonely and extremely desperate to spend time with any man who shows an interest in him. He is told that he will do anything to keep this man with him to get rid of his feelings of loneliness. No woman can do this for him, just attractive and interested men. Steve is also told that he will no longer be able to stand wearing clothes when he is on leave. He MUST go around home naked. He loves the feeling of being naked and the look of his naked body makes him desire other men, especially Greg, even more with each passing minute of nakedness. Both men are told that the suggestions they are given will be strengthened even more each time they look at a clock or calendar. With each passing hour and day they will become more determined to carry out their newfound thoughts and desires. They are then instructed to take all their clothes off and stare at each others beautiful sexy bodies. They will desire each other extremely, but will not know how to fulfill their desires until they return to this post after 2 weeks leave. They are told to stare at each others throbbing erect cocks and not notice anything else that is happening in the room. A scientist now enters and plants a microchip smaller than the eye of a needle on the head of each man. With this chip it will now become possible to monitor the actual thoughts of the two subjects. The scientist leaves without the two men knowing he had ever been there. With the chip implant complete, the two men are told to put their clothes back on and not remember anything that happened today. They are told to go on two weeks leave and return here immediately after their leave has ended for orders. They are also instructed to become friends with each other during the leave and Greg is told to spend time at Steves place, if it is at all possible. After 8 hours, the two men leave and both request and are granted a leave of absence for the next two weeks. | <urn:uuid:38d5235d-65e5-49e8-bec7-726fb8328938> | {
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Landsat image maps aid fire recovery efforts
This summer RSAC's data visualization team used Landsat satellite data to create a map of the Wallow North Fire in Arizona, depicting ecologic changes due to high temperatures. The Wallow fire raged from April to July, 2011 in southeastern Arizona. The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Since 1972, Landsat satellites have consistently collected critical information about Earth from space.
Landsat 5 and 7 satellites collect large amounts of image data while in orbit; each satellite orbits the Earth approximately 15 times per day and the orbits bring the entire Earth within view of the sensor on each satellite once every 16 days. Landsat quantifies visible, infrared, and thermal energy that is reflected or emitted from the Earth's surface. From these data specialists produce color-coded maps that depict and characterize vegetation, land use, and other landscape changes over time, including fires.
The satellite data can tell scientists and land managers how fire transforms the land surface as well as enable them to measure how this transformation alters the ecosystem. For example, intensely burned soils resist rainwater infiltration, leading to increased runoff, erosion, land slides and flooding. Land managers use satellite data to help indentify, locate and map burned areas most susceptible to increased runoff and erosion. Fire response teams then treat burned sites with a variety of measures to minimize erosion, such as spreading ryegrass seeds to stabilize the soil, and placing straw mulch on hill slopes for ground cover to intercept rainfall before it hits the burned soil.
The response depends on the intensity and behavior of a fire. Fires do not burn with uniform intensity across landscapes–rather they leave a mosaic of altered habitats. Though some burned areas will respond naturally with vigorous re-growth, others demand more immediate and intensive efforts. Satellite maps help recovery teams to pinpoint the places where their efforts are most needed, and to determine the type of response that would be most appropriate.
Near the end of a fire's life, a Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team, including geographic information systems (GIS) specialists, wildlife biologists and hydrologists, assesses the condition of the land. Within a week of this assessment the team creates a prescription plan used by local fire response teams to protect the public and residences. A critical part of this assessment includes mapping soil burn severity, which the BAER team does using Landsat-derived maps provided by the RSAC.
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West Texas A&M sophomore-to-be Logan Leggett said his golf game is a work in progress.
If his final round in Sunday's Tall Tower Open presented by Happy State Bank is any indication, there is plenty of progress in the right direction.
Leggett shot 6-under 66 in brutal conditions - record-setting heat plus wind exceeding 30 miles per hour - and captured the event by two shots over Luke Kane. He finished the 54-hole event at 11-under 205, and Kane's final round of 4-under 68 left him at 9-under 207.
Next were Daniel Higgins and Leggett's college coach, Brad Borden, who were at 2-under 214 after rounds of 72 and 74, respectively.
"I was having fun out there,'' said Leggett who earned a berth in the Coors Tournament of Champions in August. "I've actually shot a lower individual round (than 66), but 11-under for a 54-hole tournament is the best I've ever done.
"Qualifying for the Tournament of Champions is great. I've wanted this since I got out of high school last year. I'm sure looking forward to playing in it.''
Leggett and Kane began the final round tied for the lead along with Casey Weiss at 5-under, and Borden was a stroke behind.
Weiss played himself out of it when he made three bogeys and a double bogey over a five-hole stretch on the front nine. Borden played the front side in 1-under 35 to trail Leggett by three shots and Kane by two at the turn.
Kane eagled the par-5 second hole and made birdie at 4 to reach 8-under to take a one-shot lead over Leggett, who birdied 2 and 5.
Leggett, however, birdied 8, 9, 10 and 12 to reach 10-under and at that point led Kane by four shots.
Kane did not go away as he birdied 12 and 13 to close within two shots and then added birdies at 16 and 17 to pull within a shot when Leggett bogeyed 15 and made par at 17 when he missed a short birdie attempt.
But at the final hole, Leggett hit his approach shot from the left rough through some trees to about 3 feet and rolled in the birdie putt.
"If somebody told me I could shoot 68 in the final round, in these kind of conditions, and not win, I don't think I would have believed him,'' Kane said. "Hand it to Logan. He played a great round in this kind of weather and deserved to win. I know I played well. I just got beat by a better round.''
Leggett joins WT teammate Ben Hargis as winners of individual summer majors this year. Hargis won the opening Miller Lite event three weeks ago at Comanche Trail.
"Having two of our players win summer majors says a lot about our program,'' Borden said. "Logan really came on strong late in the college season and has just gotten better since.''
Weiss's closing round of 4-over 76 left him in fifth at 1-under 215, and Hargis finished sixth at 3-over 219 after a final round of 6-over 78.
Tall Tower Open presented by Happy State Bank
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Final results
Championship flight: 1. Logan Leggett 68-71-66--205; 2. Luke Kane 70-69-68--207; 3. Daniel Higgins 72-70-72--214; 4. Brad Borden 71-69-74--215; 5. Casey Weiss 67-72-76--215; 6. Ben Hargis 71-70-78--219.
Presidents flight: 1. Geoff Phemister 80-69-74--223; 2. Jeff Yarbrough 78-74-72--224; 3. Kevin Jones 77-74-73--224; 4. Sean Tate 77-73-74--224; 5. Chuck Blanton 76-73-77--226; 6. Jerry Perales 74-75-79--228.
Governors flight: 1. Bryan Goucher 81-76-75--232; 2. Chris Sloan 77-80-77--234; 3. Matt Dinsdale 82-76-76--234; 4. Tim Garland 80-76-78--234; 5. Clint Graves 79-76-79--234; 6. Will Paulsell 81-74-80--235.
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If you used one of the self-checkouts at the Fareham Tesco at, oh, about 10pm today, and you're wondering where your bank card is... well, you left it in the pin pad. Tesco staff now have it.
The staff weren't even remotely surprised when I pointed out the card to them. It seems their self-checkouts have a glitch where sometimes they'll print out the receipt and tell you to take your bags before you've taken your card out of the pin pad. And we all know what the general public is like for blindly following instructions... (there is a reason why ATMs don't give you your money until you've taken your card back). | <urn:uuid:2dabbbf7-d7c3-4428-96ec-1b385787ff10> | {
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Grow Taller Treatment
What Exercises Increase Height Fast
What Exercises Increase Height Fast
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How We Can Increase Height After 20
Grow Taller Treatment
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Can Yoga Increase Height After 20
Performing this exercise 3-4 times each week for successful results.This posture may lead to certain diseases like osteoporosis?Wrong posture can make a change in your physical height, but results take time to relax.If you ask a women to reach the toes of your own home without taking any useless pills or other similar technologies can be found on the floor and count in this position, you will have to make you grow taller!Stretching out while standing, etc. You can buy specially engineered foods that will determine the height of the most simple way that the product appropriately.
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And the most important factor that is the source for vitamin D which it was time to adjust accordingly.Some people release a lot more elastic which can naturally give you an advantage in business situations, job interviews, business settings, and so on.It's sleeping nine to ten inches by using it you won't be able to give you confidence and outlook in life.You will have to start eating things that you not only meat and poultry but from fish, whole eggs, legumes and seeds50% of these streams are external sources in the body. | <urn:uuid:1b6c397f-2e79-4217-99f9-17372b3d7521> | {
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ISSN 2330-717X
More Harm Than Good: Assessing The Nuclear Arsenal Tipping Point
One hundred. That’s the number researchers argue is a pragmatic quantity of nuclear weapons for any nation to have.
To put that number in perspective, the U.S. and Russia each currently have thousands of nuclear weapons. Both nations hew to the concept of nuclear deterrence–more firepower is intimidating and makes other countries think twice before picking a fight.
More than 100 nuclear weapons in a nation’s arsenal does more harm than good–as using them can destabilize the country that uses them even in a best-case scenario.
Joshua Pearce, professor at Michigan Technological University, and David Denkenberger, assistant professor at Tennessee State University and director of Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED), co-authored an article published in the journal Safety.
In “A National Pragmatic Safety Limit for Nuclear Weapon Quantities”{link/DOI TK}, Pearce and Denkenberger examined direct negative physical consequences of the use of nuclear weapons to the nation firing them, including impacts such as starvation and global supply chain disruption coupled with the cost to maintain an extensive arsenal.
To summarize: A nation willing to use its nuclear weaponry against another must determine whether it has the ability to survive the problems of its own making.
There are nine nuclear weaponized nations: the U.S., Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. There are approximately 15,000 nuclear weapons globally. Under the disarmament proposed in the paper, this number would drop to 900 or fewer.
“With 100 nuclear weapons, you still get nuclear deterrence, but avoid the probable blowback from nuclear autumn that kills your own people,” Pearce said. “Defense expenditures post-9/11 show we care about protecting Americans. If we use 1,000 nuclear warheads against an enemy and no one retaliates, we will see about 50 times more Americans die than did on 9/11 due to the after-effects of our own weapons.”
Pearce notes this is the first study to quantitatively demonstrate just how dangerous the use of nuclear weapons is even for the aggressor nation that fired off the nukes.
After-effects of nuclear aggression
In the paper, Pearce and Denkenberger write, “No country should have more nuclear weapons than the number necessary for unacceptable levels of environmental blow-back on the nuclear power’s own country if they were used.”
The consequences of environmental blow-back include a significant drop in global temperature because of soot from nuclear blasts blocking the sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface, decreased precipitation, a drop in food production because of blocked sunlight and less moisture, increased ultraviolet radiation resulting from a badly damaged atmosphere, and non-functioning supply chains.
“We should be clear this analysis represents a severe underestimate on the number of dead Americans,” Pearce said. “We assume severe rationing, which is the best way to keep the most people alive when there is this level of food shortage. It means anyone who would die of starvation is immediately cut off from food.
“I don’t think rationing would go overly smoothly–a lot more people would die in violence internally than what we estimated based on lack of calories.”
Putting numbers to the evaluation, Pearce and Denkenberger examined the threat potential of a 7,000-weapon arsenal, a 1,000-weapon arsenal and a 100-weapon arsenal. Playing out a hypothetical scenario, the researchers explain that if the U.S. used 100 nuclear weapons against China’s most populous cities, initial blasts would likely kill more than 30 million people. This would kill a higher fraction of the population than even severe pandemics, providing plenty of deterrence to prevent another nation from attacking. Sunlight would decrease 10 to 20 percent and precipitation 19 percent (and in some places, even more).
Pearce and Denkenberger, based on previous work, built a model of the burnable material in cities, how much would burn in a nuclear attack, how much of that would turn into smoke, and how much of that smoke would make it into the upper atmosphere. Then they used the result of climate and crop simulations to predict the impact on food supply. They coupled this with food storage to predict how many people would starve.
The agricultural loss from this so-called “nuclear autumn” would range from 10-20 percent, enough to cause widespread food shortages in wealthier nations and mass starvation in poorer nations.
Starvation could result because nuclear weapons would cause cities to burn, putting smoke into the upper atmosphere and blocking sunlight for years. This could cause lower rainfall and lower temperatures, potentially causing winter-like weather in the summer, called “nuclear winter.” Less severe reduction in sunlight is called “nuclear autumn,” which could still cause many millions of people to starve.
It is clear that even 100 nuclear weapons is more than enough to dramatically reshape the globe, and Pearce and Denkenberger argue it’s also more than enough to deter other countries. Maintaining more than that number, the authors state, is not only against the best interest of a nation to protect its people, but also cost a significant amount to maintain.
Policy recommendations
In addition to a large arsenal reduction, Pearce and Denkenberger make other policy recommendations. They argue that the Department of Defense should extend its nuclear disaster modeling past the initial blast to include potential deaths caused by nuclear autumn.
Said Denkenberger: “The U.S. government should greatly increase focus on producing alternative food to provide for survivors in the case of nuclear war; with supply chains cut-off, all food Americans eat will have to come from within the nation’s borders.”
“It is not rational to spend billions of dollars maintaining a nuclear arsenal that would destabilize your country if they were ever used,” Pearce said. “Other countries are far worse off. Even if they fired off relatively few nuclear weapons and were not hit by any of them and did not suffer retaliation, North Korea or Israel would be committing national suicide.”
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The Oilers acquired Ales Kotalik from the Sabres for a second-round draft pick.
The Oilers get: a skilled, but underachieving winger. He has shown spurts of hot production, but long cold spells.
The Sabres get: a draft pick and salary space.
Fantasy players impacted: Kotalik's value goes up. He was buried in Buffalo and had worn out his welcome. This fresh start with countryman Ales Hemsky has potential to be huge. On a hunch - pick him up and hope for a point per game. Granted, the downside is his usual 40-point play, but think about it - he is the countryman of his new team's superstar. Pick him up on this hunch.
Adding O'Sullivan and Kotalik hurts Dustin Penner and Robert Nilsson.
Maxim Afinogenov can now find a spot in the lineup. A second chance?
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Islam and Politics(26 Jan 2020 NewAgeIslam.Com)
Women of Shaheen Bagh Talked More About the Constitution and The Rights It Guarantees Them
By Tavleen Singh
January 26, 2020
There were many things that impressed and moved me when I spent a morning in Shaheen Bagh last week. I was impressed by how clearly the women leading the protest have understood why the changes in the citizenship law mean more for them personally than Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers say they do. I was moved by their dedication, courage and resolve to continue with their protest through a month of freezing cold days and nights. But, what moved me most was a poster on the front of a podium that said ‘savers of the Constitution’. It moved me most because in the seventieth year of its birth, the Indian Constitution is being seen as it was meant to be seen: a guarantee of democracy.
People continue to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) on the 71st Republic Day, at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi on Jan 26, 2020. (Photo: IANS)
The men who wrote it translated a dream into a document. To borrow Madhav Khosla’s words from his remarkable new book, India’s Founding Moment, “At the heart of this moment — in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously — lay the question of democracy in an environment unqualified for its existence. Democracy was being instituted in a difficult setting: poor and illiterate; divided by caste, religion, and language; and burdened by centuries of tradition”.
Armed with the Tricolour, the women raised slogans against CAA, NRC and NPR while displaying banners that stated ‘stop dividing the nation’.
Unsurprisingly, for most of India’s early years as a modern nation, there was constant speculation about when democracy was going to die. Of the handful of Indians who could read and write in those dark times, too many actually wished that it would die sooner than later. As someone who spent most of those years in military towns, I remember hearing often that what India needed was a decade of military dictatorship so that we could prosper as Pakistan had by then. Hard though it is to believe today, Pakistan in its early years of military rule was actually doing much better economically than ‘socialist’ India. And yet, democracy survived even through Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
So, it is quite wonderful that today, on the seventieth birthday of our Constitution, those who are protesting against the discriminatory changes in our citizenship law are using it as the symbol of their protests. Last week lawyers in Mumbai gathered outside a court to read the Preamble aloud in public. The government of Maharashtra has made it compulsory to teach the Preamble in schools. And, the most promising young Dalit leader of our time, Chandrashekhar Azad, came to Shaheen Bagh holding the Constitution in his hands. The dream that the men who wrote it dreamed has become a reality, and that is something to be celebrated.
Since Narendra Modi began his second term, the world has started to see India as a country in which aggressive nationalism and religious intolerance have become a serious threat to democracy. So much so that in Davos last week, Imran Khan got away with telling an important international news channel that India was in the grip of an ideology called ‘Hindu-vata’ that was inspired by the Nazis. From a man who comes from a country that has been the epicentre of jihadist terrorism for at least three decades, that is rich.
He got away with saying this because there appears to have been a consensus at this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum that India is in worse shape than ever before, both economically and politically. Someone as eminent as George Soros had this to say, “The biggest and most frightening setback occurred in India where Modi is creating a Hindu nationalist state, imposing punitive measures on Kashmir, a semi-autonomous Muslim region, and threatening to deprive millions of Muslims of their citizenship.”
If this was not bad news enough for one week, The Economist’s latest issue arrived on the day of my deadline for this column with a cover story titled ‘Intolerant India’. The cover has the BJP’s saffron lotus rising out of menacing rolls of barbed wire. The longish story inside caused me to sink into a miasma of gloom. In long years of political journalism, almost the only other time that I have read so much bad news about India was during the Emergency. And, that was not so bad as now when bad news travels in seconds because of the speed of social media.
To cheer myself up, I opened my notebook and read the notes of my conversations with the women of Shaheen Bagh. I found that they had talked more about the Constitution and the rights it guarantees them than anything else. It was because of the Constitution that they believed nothing bad would happen to them despite BJP spokespersons describing them as paid protesters and Shaheen Bagh as a ‘mini-Pakistan’. There is far too much talk of this kind. It actually ends up demeaning India more than Pakistan, but what should cheer all of us up this Republic Day is that our Constitution is a shining beacon in this troubled time.
Original Headline: Celebrate the Constitution in these troubled times
Source: The Indian Express
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I'm a 20 year old Alcoholic.
Discussion in 'Self Harm & Substance Abuse' started by I'm_trying, Mar 14, 2012.
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1. I'm_trying
I'm_trying Active Member
I never thought I'd come to this point. It started around 3 years ago. I hated the thought of drinking after growing up with an alcoholic father and a long list of alcoholic relatives. My mom always told me to be careful when you drink because you have alcohol in your blood. I went to my first party and experienced my first hangover when I was 18. For that year it was just a social thing, it helped me feel normal and able to talk to people. I was a funny drunk and enjoyed feeling wanted. I experienced a lot that summer which started my problem. I started drinking alone once and a while, drinking everynight. So obviously eventually my tolerance increased. I started to only hangout with people if we were going to be drinking. I started blacking out, having sex with random people, having unprotected sex. I drank and drove all the time.
The last time I went out was in August. I had woken up in bed with a throbbing goosebumped head. A few days later I had bad headaches and realized I had suffered a concussion with no memory of what happened. So I stopped all together going out. I drank at home. I eventually attempted and was admitted to a psych where I detoxed. Clean for 3 weeks. I drank the minute I was released.
My family started getting angrier and angrier at me. I started isolating myself in my room. Started developing a huge tolerance for my weight and height. At a certain time of the day my hands shake uncontrollably and I get anxious. I have to hold cups at that time of day with two hands. My mind is constantly focused on where or when I can have my next drink. It turned from always having a bottle to always having more than I may be able to drink. I sweat like crazy if I don't drink a certain amount before bed. I can truthfully say I blackout everynight. I've fractured my toe, broken bones just from going from the computer chair to my bed in the same room. I've been in the psych ward twice in 6 months and have been involved with police 3 times in 6 months. I want to stop but don't at the same time. I hate drinking. But I don't feel at my rock bottom because I love drinking.
It's very exhausting. The hardest part is people telling me to just stop drinking, Its harder than you think and much more complicated.
2. total eclipse
total eclipse SF Friend Staff Alumni
Of course it is hard hun It will take alot of hard work on your part to get clean and stay clean You will develop liver disease and it will be painful and life threatening if you do not get the help you need NOW okay
3. lightbeam
lightbeam Antiquities Friend
I narrowly avoided the need to drink all the time, and now I can't drink because of the medication. I come from a long line of alcoholics too. I'm afraid that if I drink, it will seriously fuck with my meds, I have schizoaffective disorder. So I don't think my voices would appreciate it.
4. obscure
obscure Active Member
I was a ful blown alcoholic by age 18, I started drinking very heavily at about 16 and I know where you're coming from. My grandfather was also an alcoholic and I always told myself the same thing: I won't drink, I've seen what it does to people and to families but, looking back, I wonder if maybe watching someone close to me, in my family, solve their problems with booze I picked up on it. I can't ever blame him for giving me the idea or anything since he is long been deceased and that's not right but maybe it does have a sway effect. Recently I've been struggling to stay sober. The hardest part is finding the courage to get and stay sober. Just be as strong as you can be and you can get through it!
5. Acy
Littlestoxie, you have been very courageous to be this open and honest with yourself and us about how alcohol is affecting your life.
You say you hate drinking, but that you love drinking. Do you love it enough to keep accepting the hangovers, the broken bones, the blacking out, the police, the anger, the shakes, the random and unprotected sex, the loneliness of drinking in your room alone, of isolating yourself? And of course, there are the long-term health concerns that alcohol causes. Much better to avoid them if possible.
You're right, it's hard to stop an addiction and no one but the person going through it knows how hard it is for them specifically...But it's worth it to stop. When we stop the self-destructive behaviors, we begin to feel more authentic and alive, and we become constructive, productive people (instead of losing more and more of ourselves to the drink/drugs/behaviors). We learn that we can be happy on our own terms.
Have you considered attending any sort of rehab groups? Your doc might be a place to get a referral. And you can come here any time you need an extra boost of support. You can PM me any time. I hope you look into getting some specific assistance with this so you can be the full person you are meant to be. Many hugs and lots of good wishes for you. :hug:
6. roguefishfood
roguefishfood Member
I feel you. My family has many alcoholics and I swore I'd avoid it, I wouldn't drink like them.
I drank a lot between 17-21, stopped, then started again and now I feel like alcoholism is somewhere around me... not engulfing me yet.. but I feel like I don't have the willpower to keep it away.
7. pancake111
pancake111 Well-Known Member
My dad's stepfather was an alcoholic, so he refuses to drink alcohol, and he never has. My 19 yr old cousin on my moms side is supposed to be in AA but he's been drinking. I'm not gonna even start drinking because I know I'll end up as an alcoholic. The last thing I need is to be taking a depressant. It won't end well for me.
You're young, and if you don't beat this addiction now, it will kill you in a matter of years. Be the person in your family that doesn't succumb to this disease. Try to replace your love for alcohol with something else. find something that you're passionate about. And most importantly, GET HELP.
8. TheLoneWolf
TheLoneWolf Well-Known Member
I'm a 33 year old alcoholic... I've been an on again, off again alcoholic since I was 16. Alcoholism, addiction, depression, suicidal tendencies, etc., run in both sides of my family. I think it's all finally starting to catch up to me.
I want - no, not want, need to stop drinking, or it's going to kill me. I know I can stop, because I've done it before... all I have to do is refrain from having that next drink. But I can't stop myself. It's not the lure of the bottle that keeps bringing me back, but rather the need to get away from my reality. Truthfully, I despise alcohol. I don't like the way it tastes, I don't always like the way it makes me feel, and I know for a fact that it is slowly killing me and making me fat, weak, and stupid. If I had another way to escape, to forget, I would do it instead. I simply cannot tolerate my existence anymore, and I need something, anything, to take my mind off of it.
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15.4.6 contains contains the another round of bug fixes.
1. Bug fix: The framing system head parts were included for a door header. In most cases, the head parts configured for the framing system was included with any door header, even if the door frame was not a H-type frame.
2. Bug fix: Couldn't cancel out of changing all elevations' frames. When a user clicked the button to change all elevations to a particular frame and then tried to cancel, it would still change them all.
3. Bug fix: Adding a centerline sometimes shortened the elevation. If there were fixed panels before any centerline, the elevation width would get shorter.
4. Bug fix: The Job Backup was not working. The job backup file was not getting updated properly with some recent database changes which caused it to error. This has been fixed.
5. Bug fix: Sills wouldn't always cut correctly.
6. When there was a window with splits at the sill, the sills would be cut too short and in the wrong positions.
7. Bug fix: The dimensions of a split window are incorrect. The dimensions of the openings in window that had splits were always starting from the left side of the window causing them to be too long and overlapping each other.
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Are there federal requirements for calling a mattress “organic”?
It does not fall to the consumer or retailer to judge what is or is not organic. For a company to call its products “organic” it must have been granted organic status by a USDA-approved “certifying agent.” The consumer need only confirm a valid certificate with the company’s name and products listed, not a certification showing he name of a grower or producer. At Lifekind, we’ve covered all the bases, so you can “rest” assured you’re purchasing a TRULY organic mattress.
8 Misleading Claims about Organic Mattresses – Is Your Mattress Certified Organic?
Misleading Claim #1: Merchants using organic logos, or statements that use the word “organic,” to describe their mattresses as “organic” or partially “organic.”
Incorrect Because: Under USDA National Organic Program regulations (USDA/NOP), there are no such categories. There is only “certified organic.”
Misleading Claim #2: Merchants claiming that since they use the same organic materials that are used in certified organic mattresses, why pay more?
Incorrect Because: Without submitting to an independent third-party audit, a consumer has no assurance that whatever organic component is claimed to be used was actually used in making a mattress.
Misleading Claim #3: Merchants claiming that since the materials they use are the same as those used by true organic manufacturers, what’s the difference?
Incorrect Because: Fast food and fine dining can include the same ingredients, but the outcomes are quite different—it’s about quality and purity, not just materials.
Misleading Claim #4: Merchants using someone else’s certification to infer it is their own, but somehow doesn’t have their name on it for a string of reasons.
Incorrect Because: USDA certification certificates are not transferable.
Misleading Claim #5: Merchants claiming their mattresses are “chemical free.”
Incorrect Because: This is scientifically impossible.
Misleading Claim #6: Merchants claiming their mattresses are “nontoxic.”
Incorrect Because: This is also scientifically impossible.
Misleading Claim #7: Merchants claiming their mattresses are “free of volatile organic compounds (VOCS)” or have no harmful outgassing.
Incorrect Because: This is also scientifically impossible, and without an independentUL/GREENGUARD™ or similar test for finished-product emissions, no one can possibly know exact outgassing levels.
Misleading Claim #8: Merchants claiming that their components have been tested for the presence of a long list of chemicals and that none were found.
Incorrect Because: What this means is that the mattress components may have been tested at one point, early in the process, by what is known as a “presence” test. True, these chemicals may not have been present at that time, but it gives absolutely no information as to what is actually emitting from the finished mattress. That is a consumer assurance UL/GREENGUARD™ testing provides.
Find out if a mattress is in fact listed on the certifier’s website.
Note: The name of the manufacturer or retailer must be entered precisely, such as “Organic Mattresses, Inc.”
How to Choose the Perfect Pillow
You may be thinking….that’s easy, you go down to the bed and bath store and pull a few off the shelf and squish, press, lay your head on them and whichever feels good and is within your budget will be fine (trial and error, I guess?). Or maybe you’re replacing your old pillows with cruelty-free, organic alternatives, but don’t know where to begin.
Everybody is unique, so there is no one “perfect” pillow for everyone. It’s just not that simple. Deciphering the “pillow puzzle” might have you throwing in the towel and settling for anything soft-ish to prop your head up on. Read on for advice on how to best match your comfort needs to various types of pillows.
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I believe the first thing to consider when purchasing anything really, is what it is made of. Since about 1/3 of your time is spent in bed and pillows are right in your face, I wouldn’t recommend petroleum-based poly-fill or memory foam, which is found to contain 60+ toxic VOCs (volatile organic compounds). The healthiest choice is always organic.
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Next, consider your sleeping position(s) and the pillow loft (or height) needed:
• Side sleepers: Choose a pillow that is the proper loft, so your head and neck are supported in a neutral position. For example, if the pillow is for a child, you may need a light-loft pillow. If it’s for a person with broad shoulders you may need a full-loft pillow, and medium- and full-loft pillows are generally best for the average-sized person.
• Back sleepers: A puffy, light- to medium-loft pillow is usually best, to gently lift your head without putting too much pressure on your neck.
• Belly sleepers: Try a light-loft pillow, or none at all, so your head isn’t too high.
Now for the fun part. What a pillow is stuffed with greatly determines how it feels. If you answer yes to any of the following questions, click on the links to the organic pillows after the question, and that pillow could be the best one for you.
If you’re still unsure, just call and talk to one of our knowledgable pillow experts at Lifekind at 1-800-284-4983. I love getting calls about pillows, because I enjoy using adjectives like “puffy,” “shmooshable,” “buoyant,” and “moldable.” | <urn:uuid:3418276f-74ce-42b3-875e-65c5e34297fd> | {
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New 'Brady' Movie Panned
Friday, May 19th 2000, 12:00 am
By: News On 6
NEW YORK (AP) — ``The true story about the filming of `The Brady Bunch,''' says NBC, ``was often times as funny, and certainly more dramatic, than the actual series.''
Maybe. But don't expect to see much of it.
Here's the story of a nostalgia-obsessed culture that can't get past its past — that belches forth big-screen versions of ``Leave it to Beaver,'' ``My Favorite Martian'' and, yes, ``The Brady Bunch.'' A culture that produces two — two! — live-action ``Flintstones'' movies.
And now we get the behind-the-scenes look at the Bradys. The two-hour ``Growing Up Brady,'' airing Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBC — just days after an even more inept, more potboilerish Fox one-hour effort called ``Brady Bunch: The Final Days'' — purports to chronicle the ``real story'' behind the hit TV show.
Even giving it the benefit of the doubt — namely, that it's worth making in the first place, which is arguable — ``Growing Up Brady'' fails at what it sets out to do.
With an edge and a real premise, it might have been watchable. Its namesake, the book ``Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teen-age Greg,'' by Barry Williams, was an often readable, at times even insightful tale about kids growing up in showbiz.
Not the small-screen version.
The only remotely intriguing things about it are watching the talented DanielHugh Kelly suffer through a portrayal of Robert Reed, seeing Michael Tucker (in glasses like Uncle Junior's from ``The Sopranos'') play producer Sherwood Schwartz, and zooming in on a drooling Barry Williams (Adam Brody, who does well given the material) when the apparently hot-to-trot Maureen ``Marcia'' McCormick (Kaley Cuoco) steps out of her jean shorts and into the Williams family swimming pool.
Other than that, it's ``The Brady Bunch'' redux. It features the same improbable family slapstick (the kids run afoul of security on the Paramount lot and break things on the ``Star Trek'' sound stage), the same quasi-wacky suburban bear-huggery (we're supposed to believe the cast hummed the TV theme song in unison on the set?), and the same early '70s, post-psychedelic camera wipes and fades.
Reed is portrayed as a troubled, cantankerous, Shakespeare-trained actor who objected to much of the ``Brady'' scripting but dearly loved the kids who played his children — an accurate portrayal, by most accounts, if a sanitized one.
But Florence Henderson, in reality a vibrant, engaging actress, comes across in Rebeccah Bush's portrayal as entirely devoid of any Wessonality. Eve Plumb (Jan), Chris Knight (Peter) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby, played by Lookinland's real-life son) are nonentities, and the character of Susan Olsen, who played Cindy, is just plain annoying.
This isn't surprising. ``The Brady Bunch'' was not the best of 1970s TV comedy. It simply tapped into a theme resonant at the time — that two suddenly single parents could ``somehow form a family'' out of the angst of the age — and went from there.
It being a comedy, the potential for depth was underplayed — one of Reed's major complaints.
This was a serenely, almost obnoxiously happy family whose most trying tribulations, it seemed, were broken noses, school popularity issues and errant hair-dying experiences. At a time when ``All in the Family'' and, later, ``Maude'' were breaking new ground in family-oriented sitcoms, the Bradys were all too happy to look backward toward ``Leave it to Beaver'' while the boys grew proto-Frampton hairdos and the girls mooned over Monkees.
Nevertheless, it became a happy Gen-X staple — right down to the house that defined for so many post-Boomers how a nice white suburb is supposed to look. And what the demographic wants, the demographic gets.
So now we have kids precocious beyond their years playing kids precocious beyond their years. We have Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick fooling around, Eve Plumb and Chris Knight fooling around, Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen fooling around. We even have Williams taking Henderson, his TV mom, on a date.
There are musical numbers and tension, too: Will the network renew for a second season? There are Hollywood machinations and showbiz betrayal — all nicely sanitary. And there's heartache: Tiger the dog dies during the off-season. ``Tiger's untimely demise was the first real Brady tragedy,'' Williams narrates, deadpan.
Finally, when the actors begin touring and are mobbed by fans, we have this infuriatingly Cindy-worthy line from Susan Olsen (Carly Schroeder, who nails Cindy on the nose): ``Now I know how the Beatles felt.''
This saccharine tribute to a saccharine show is fitting in its circularity. Gen-Xers loved ``The Brady Bunch'' for what it was, and for what it said about family and its role in modern life. But it's long gone; several enfeebled sequels didn't last, and two recent feature films with new casts succeeded only because of their wink-nudge take on the Brady naivete.
``Growing Up Brady,'' though, lacks any irony — just like the show it chronicles. It's something you can afford to miss. Instead, contemplate what might come next in our continual forward march toward looking back: a biopic, perhaps, about the horse that starred in ``Mr. Ed''?
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VP GOES `FUTURAMA': Vice President (and presidential candidate) Al Gore guest stars as himself on the season finale of ``Futurama'' Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern on Fox. In this episode of the animated cartoon series set in the 31st Century, Vice President Gore and his team of ``Action Rangers'' attempt to repair a disruption in the space-time continuum and deliver our hero, Fry, back to the future. When asked about his experience ``voicing'' the character on ``Futurama,'' Gore stated, ``I think of this episode as a bridge to the 31st Century.'' But how did they ever animate him? | <urn:uuid:5e67d505-1074-41e5-a56f-b8dcd5a521f6> | {
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The church of the practical atheist
I was lamenting with a pastor friend about the decline of Christian spiritual discipline. The Church fathers embraced fasting, silence, vigils, and alms-giving with zeal. They prayed for hours at a time. They devoured whatever Holy Scriptures they could obtain. They enjoyed corporate worship---where they were free from vigorous persecution---several times a week.
We've lost that. Many of us are too busy to pray even half an hour when rising and retiring. We're surrounded by music and television and talk radio. We think fasting is going without lunch, or maybe food altogether for a slender 24 hours. When we keep a vigil, likely as not it's because one of our kids has an earache.
Many of us console ourselves with the notion that these are works, and that not practicing them is its own form of righteousness. We're saved by grace through faith, after all. Let the Catholics and the rest of them go without meat on Fridays and dab their foreheads with ashes. We're operating at a whole different level of spiritual growth.
But even the staunchest anti-Catholic Reformers practiced spiritual discipline. They understood (as do, incidentally, most Catholic and Orthodox Christians I know) that we don't gain entrance to heaven by virtue of our works. The spiritual disciplines are instead a gift from the Lord, that we might labor in some and partake sweetly of others, and draw near---by virtue of His grace---to the Living God.
And here's the irony---when we forsake the spiritual disciplines and only gather corporately for 90 minutes a week, we roll into church on Sunday desperately hungry, expecting our pastor to feed us. Having abandoned nearly all serious effort to commune with God during the week, we behave exactly like the caricature of the medieval Catholic who believed his priest was the mediator between him and God.
It's too much for any one man to bear. A pastor can't "feed" us in that brief time slot on Sunday morning. He wasn't ordained to do so. Yet how many people do we know who grumble about how the minister's sermon wasn't "uplifting" enough, or how they don't feel "fed" in this or that church, or how they're looking for a place where the preaching "speaks" to them?
Here's a bold idea: If a person isn't spending more than a few minutes a day in prayer and Bible reading, and can't remember the last time he fasted, kept silence, or poured himself out for someone in need, then there is no sermonizing in the world that is going to fill him, because he is living---for all practical purposes---as an atheist.
So he blames his pastor. And then the church shopping begins, as he looks for that special speaker who can tickle his fancy, bring a tear to his eye, give him the illusion that he is really "connecting" to something.
I'm increasingly convinced that a good portion of the dissent and malaise we find in churches could be solved if more of us would shut our cakeholes and zealously pray for an hour each day. I believe many in the Emergent Church are right that we need more action in the face of social problems, but as Simeon the Theologian observed, a man who is grounded first in spiritual discipline will find it easy to do physical works, whereas a man who neglects the spirit for the sake of works "is like someone who holds in his hands tools and materials to build something but does not know how to go about it."
And what are we to make of the manner in which infidels shame us with their zealotry? Consider how devout Muslims prostrate themselves several times a day. How Mormons almost without exception devote two years to missionary work. How Buddhists pour themselves into meditation. They are all of them captive to deceit, but what does it say of Christians, who are living in the light of truth, that so many of us don't even come close to their level of commitment? I can't presume to know the mind of God, but I'm struck by the spiritual laziness He must see in so many of us, and perhaps in me most of all.
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Seoul: South Koreans are divided on generational and political lines about Tuesday's summit between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
Some hope for an end to Cold War confrontation and that the North will eventually give up its nuclear weapons, others are sceptical about Pyongyang's intentions -- and some say they have too many economic problems of their own to pay much attention.
Older sceptics
Lee Eun-ho, a 70-year-old worker, said the North would never give up its nuclear weapons as Kim had "developed them to hold on to power in the first place".
"I have little expectation from the summit," he said.
Reunification, he said, would be impossible because four powers -- the US, China, Russia and Japan -- do not want to see a unified Korea.
Choi Ho-chul, a 73-year-old former bank employee, said he doubts the North would give up nuclear weapons, which he said were a "means to control its population".
"I bet the North will not abandon nuclear weapons," he said, adding that the US and its allies should use both "carrots and sticks" to force the North to do so.
Lee Hye-ji, a 31-year-old housewife, was "hopeful" about the Trump-Kim meeting, adding she was less interested in denuclearisation than a declaration that the Korean War was over, 65 years after hostilities stopped with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.
"This would bring us a step closer to reunification", she said.
Cho Sung-kwon, a 62-year-old pensioner, added: "It would be a good thing if we stop fighting."
He said his perception of Kim -- a "bad guy with nuclear weapons" -- had improved considerably following his two meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the border truce village of Panmunjom.
"Despite his young age, he seems to be shrewd," he said, adding that he believes Kim realises his crusade to develop a nuclear arsenal to ensure his regime's survival has "hit a dead end" under intensifying sanctions.
"I think the North will denuclearise... because it knows it has no other alternatives," he said.
He added that the South would have to provide the North with economic aid as the two were ultimately one people.
"How awesome it would be if we are reunited like Germany!"
Kim Hee-hyun, 30, believes Kim has reached the conclusion that denuclearisation will be beneficial for his own prospects, but was wary about the cost of reunification.
"The South cannot simply afford to take care of the North economically", she said. "But cross-border exchanges and travels would be desirable."
Other young South Koreans said they were too preoccupied with their search for work to pay attention to diplomacy.
The country's youth unemployment rate stood at 10.7 per cent in April and job-seeker Kim Tae-young -- who has a bachelor's degree in engineering and new materials -- said: "Frankly speaking, I have no particular feelings about the summit, but I just hope it would help ease uncertainties.
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Provision of glass rear panels also means two glass surfaces are cracked and even broken when falling. Similar materials used by the Samsung Galaxy S8 and LG G6 was not spared from the damage during the impact test due to fall.
According to reports, CNET re-conducted its testing of Samsung and LG's flagship smartphone on the iPhone 8. When tested by dropping at a height of about one meter or pocket height, the first hit point of the iPhone 8 is its metallic frame, then landing with the back side.
When dropped, iPhone 8 suffered minor damage, but the screen still works, while the metal frame on the bent side is slightly bent, and there are two fractures on the glass corner in the opposite section.
In the test with a height of 1.5 meters, the phone hit the first time in the corner before then landed on the back.
The device screen is severely damaged, although the phone still works fine. Unfortunately the glass on the screen that cracked slightly peeled, although the glass on the back did not suffer significant damage.
In testing with a height of 15 meters, the device glass cracked quite badly, like other devices falling from that height. iPhone 8 first landed with the back, causing the camera lens also experienced a crack.
The glass comes off and peels off the phone, displaying some of the iPhone components, while the screen continues to crack.
Still installed, but the severe fracture experienced by the screen causes the user can not read the writing that it displays.
Based on the test results, iPhone 8 has a stronger endurance on the rear panel when compared with Samsung Galaxy S8 is cracked in the first test. The third glass of the device may be tough enough, but none of the three devices remain cracked and claimed to be entirely free of chance of cracking.
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Friday, October 25, 2019
God's own marathon
I'd like to post about brexit but there's been absolutely nothing of note going on recently - truly it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
So instead of that, another race report.
Every year the British Masters Athletics Federation organises a Masters Marathon Championship event, usually as part of one of the autumn city marathons ("Masters" = veterans). This year it was in York, or more precisely the Yorkshire Marathon. England Athletics also organised an England vs Celtic Nations Masters Marathon match at the same event. It's all a bit of meaningless fun really but what with it being reasonably local and with nothing much else on, I decided to give it a go this year. I could have qualified for the England team (through being in the top 4 in my age category in Mancs) but offered my services to Scotland instead.
Training was a bit desultory, I wasn't going to spend hot summer days trudging around on long runs so just squeezed in an abbreviated plan in the 12 weeks leading up to the event. It was never going to be a PB for me, and a half marathon in September where I barely broke 1:25 (about 3 mins slower than my best) confirmed this. Never mind, I had a smart Scotland (veteran) vest to wear!
Had been hoping to see a bit of York over the race weekend, as we had barely visited before, but the location of our Airbnb to the north, combined with the need to visit the start village on the Saturday afternoon to pick up a race bib, meant we didn't really have time or energy for much else. But we managed to find a decent pizza in the impressive old assembly rooms which was stuffed full with a bunch of mostly skinny oldish people eating unusually large dinners early on a Saturday evening. I don't think the staff knew what was going on. It wasn't quite as good a pizza as in Manchester or Leeds, actually, but seemed adequate for the purposes.
The airbnb was a bit further than I'd have liked to be from the start, but we had plenty of time to wander there in the morning mostly down a quiet cycle route. Loads of people were already stuffed into the starting pens - I've never understood why people want to spend so long standing around like that - and I hopped over the fence with about 10 mins to go and found myself among lots of England veteran vests. In what was an interesting novelty to me, the vets were all wearing race bibs with their age categories on their backs - this is what I'd had to pick up the day before - so we could tell who we were supposed to be competing against. This is a really good idea as usually when an old baldie hoves into view mid-race I have little idea whether they are a direct competitor or not and therefore whether I should try to beat them.
The race was fairly uneventful really - I wasn't that sure of my fitness so didn't risk going too hard. Unfortunately that meant that I got dropped just off the back of what would have been a useful group around the 2nd woman and ran most of the race solo which didn't help in what had become a steady breeze. Temperature was comfortable enough, we only had one very light spot of rain along with a bit of sun that never got too hot. For some reason there were a couple of pipe bands, subsequent web searching suggests they were probably local to York as I can't imagine why any would have come down from Scotland.
Went through halfway in just under 1:25, almost exactly the same as my recent half marathon, but slowed slightly for the second half as my lack of motivation and training started to tell. Nothing drastic though, and I finished in 2:52:52, nominally my worst proper marathon since 2016 (not counting the very mountainous Bentham race) but not really that bad considering. With the wind and lots of gentle undulations it didn't feel like quite as fast a course as Manchester, though runbritainrankings seems to think it was just as quick or even quicker. But that may have been biased by the number of vets peaking specifically for this event. Anyway it was a decent event and well organised apart from the minor annoyance of having to pick up the back bib in person rather than having it posted out as with the standard race number.
On the finishing straight I managed to find my pre-arranged flags and crossed the line waving them to a suitably mixed reception.
According to the results I was the 7th overall M50, but 5th in the BMAF championships (which you had to specifically enter separately) and the 1st member of the Celtic Nations team. Though these results don't seem to have been officially announced yet. I don't get a haggis as a prize or anything like that. Just an unfeasibly large garish pink t-shirt which has been donated to jules for her own sartorial experimentation. | <urn:uuid:b8c7fd1f-3586-493f-850f-6c267955fa29> | {
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Acceptance? or self-denial?
Being happy, being contented and helpful to others, making others around us happy are the rarest priced possession that a person can ever get. There are so many people in this world waiting to meet a person like that and they yearn to be so. But, people live a life of endless lies and active concealment, they never tend to accept what they are when other people comment on their behavior, they never analyse their own mistakes behind those comments, but their ego comes in front of them and casts a huge curtain and there they are, getting angry, getting irritated about the comments, getting hurt and defending themselves. Their heart throbs with anger, and always accepts only flattery or genuine praise. When a person praises them, highlighting their good qualities, they readily accept their words with a huge smile on their faces, but when the same person remarks upon their minuses, they retard themselves and the other person, they are bounded by the huge barrier of ego and makes the whole situation unpleasant and negative. I am writing this from my own experience, as I am one such maniac bounded by self-flattery and self-sympathy, too ignorant and arrogant to look at my minuses when others comment about them.I really hope that I cultivate the quality of acceptance and discard arrogance and self-pity off my life. Then only, I may have the strength to accept failures and strive towards success in life, it makes life happy, peaceful and uncomplicated...
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Monster Paradise Chapter 390
Chapter 390 librarian 07003
Chapter 390: Librarian 07003
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Congratulations, you have obtained Legendary Skill Card - Star Dome card pieces x618!"
Three days passed by swiftly, Lin Huang accumulated the card pieces quick where he managed to get more than 600 card pieces within three days. When the first card piece appeared, he found out that the card was legendary-level and thought it would be good if he could get 10 card pieces per day. It would take him forever to combine the card pieces into a complete card.
What he did not expect was that during his training, the images of Qi Muxiongs sword trying appeared occasionally. Every time they appeared, there would be hundreds of card pieces appearing as well. On the first day afternoon, the memory appeared once and Lin Huang obtained more than 100 card pieces. On the second day, the memory appeared twice and he obtained more than 200 card pieces. On the third day, the memory appeared three times and he obtained more than 300 card pieces.
A Legendary Skill Card would require at least 10,000 card pieces to combine into a complete card. Although Lin Huang had no idea how many card pieces exactly he would need, he had the confidence to accumulate more than 10,000 pieces within two months. Although he had yet to accumulate a complete card, he was already half-way there thanks to Mr. Fu.
"You really are a sword genius! To lower the difficulty, I purposely broke down the techniques from 18 forms to 108 forms but theyre still difficult to most swordmasters. They would need at least three months of training to get a hang of it. I didnt expect you to take only two hours on the first day to get a hang of it. Your improvement within these two days is tremendous. Looking at your progress, I think you'll only need two months at most to master the skill." Mr. Fu complimented him.
Lin Huang recalled getting a hang of the skill from the first image that he saw from Qi Muxiongs memory. That was how he managed to get so many card pieces. Without the memory, he might have needed at least 10 days to get the same amount of card pieces and get the hang of the skill.
"Seems like your training has been progressing well, theres no meaning for me to stay here any longer. From tomorrow onwards, youll move to the dorm in the Martial Hunter College. Youll go to the library in the day and train at night, you dont have to go to the hotel back and forth. Call me if there are any questions." Mr. Fu patted his shoulder and stepped into his dimensional relic.
After sending Mr. Fu off, Lin Huang had lunch with Lin Xin and checked out from the hotel. When he was given the teacher's certificate, he was even given a teacher's dorm. He thought since it was called a dorm, the size should be small and he would not mind cramping in the dorm with Lin Xin. However, he thought Mr. Fu might not be able to get used to it so he decided to stay in the hotel with Mr. Fu instead.
Once he arrived at the dorm, he realized that he was wrong. The dorm was not just a room but instead, was a three-story villa that was similar in size to his house in Winter City. Apparently, the Martial Hunter Colleges teachers had great privileges. He stepped into the house and saw that the decorations were not fancy but everything was good as new. It gave the feeling that he had just moved into a new house.
"Brother, its good here!" Lin Xin opened the window and looked out. The Martial Hunter College itself had beautiful sceneries around it. There were mountains and rivers in the dorm area, making it a soothing environment. After touring the house and cleaning up two bedrooms, Lin Huang summoned Tyrant.
"Im going to the library, I wont be back for lunch. You can go shopping with Tyrant."
"Alright." Lin Xin nodded.
After leaving the dorm, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the library. The Martial Hunter College was huge and now that it was school holiday where there was barely anyone there, he was not worried that riding on the Viridian Wolf would hurt anyone. Within three minutes, he arrived at the library entrance. He recalled the Viridian Wold and projected his certificate. He then swiped the door with his card and stepped into the library.
His jaw dropped as he stepped in. As there was no library in the Hunter Reserve College in small places like Wulin Town where he used to live. It was Lin Huangs first time stepping into a library in this world. He knew the library would be different from earth but what he saw was shocking.
"What is this"
There was a gigantic monster on the ceiling. The monster was like a blue, giant brain that was covered in a light purple, semi-transparent jelly. At the bottom of the jelly were millions of tentacles. It looked like a semi-transparent giant, purple jellyfish with a blue brain on its belly.
Besides, there were no bookshelves in this library at all. There was not even a book! There were just tables and chairs as well as more than 100 individual cubicles which seemed to require authorization to access. There was a tentacle on top of each set of table and chair. The tentacles were moving slightly so Lin Huang knew it was not dead.
"Welcome to the library, first-timer. I am Librarian 07003. Dont be scared, Im just a harmless artificial creature. My purpose here is to save information and assistance"
"Oh Okay" A sound popped into Lin Huangs brain, he finally snapped out from zoning out.
"If you would like to look for any information, you can go to any vacant ports and my tentacle will connect to your Emperors Heart Ring. You dont have to worry about the leaking of your personal information as my ports can only enter data and cannot extract data. Its a one-way data flow" Librarian 07003 explained.
"Whats that room over there?" Lin Huang pointed at the cubicles.
"Thats exclusively for teachers only, you would need the teacher certificate to activate it. The data authorization level is higher. If the light on the entrance is red, it means that its unavailable and a green light would mean it's vacant. All youll have to do is to scan your teacher's certificate to enter." Librarian 07003 explained again.
"I understand now, thanks!" Lin Huang walked to the cubicles immediately and picked a cubicle.
"Youll need to set on your Emperors Heart Ring to authorize my entry then youll be able to look into the data." Librarian 07003 guided.
Lin Huang followed the instructions immediately, the testable on top of the cubicle dropped slowly and connected on his Emperors Heart Ring. He got into the library page in an instant.
"If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me. Happy reading!" The librarians voice disappeared after it said that.
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Leaders | Dealing with autism
Beautiful minds, wasted
How not to squander the potential of autistic people
Autism is a condition that defies simple generalisations. Except one: the potential of far too many autistic people is being squandered. Although around half of those with autism are of average intelligence or above, they do far worse than they should at school and at work. In France, almost 90% of autistic children attend primary school, but only 1% make it to high school. Figures from America, which works harder to include autistic pupils, suggest that less than half graduate from high school. In Britain, only 12% of higher-functioning autistic adults work full time. Globally, the United Nations reckons that 80% of those with autism are not in the workforce.
These numbers represent a tragic human toll, as millions of people live idle and isolated outside the world of work. Loving parents and siblings struggle to know how to help. Autism imposes hefty economic costs, reducing economic growth and swelling disability rolls. One American study suggests those costs could be as high as 2% of GDP. Fortunately, this need not be the case. Evidence, particularly from advanced economies, suggests there are plenty of things, from earlier screening to greater assistance with finding jobs, that could transform the lives of many autistic people (see Briefing).
Pieces in the puzzle
Early screening is essential. There is no definitive test for autism. It can be diagnosed only by observing behaviour. Most babies learn by watching their parents smile, hug, eat and bicker; autistic children often fixate on inanimate objects or play with their toys in an oddly repetitive way. Relying on diagnosis by observation makes the statistics around autism slippery: one reason the condition’s incidence has risen in recent decades is that doctors have changed the way they detect it. Yet there is little doubt that early diagnosis and intervention can help autistic children’s brains develop better. If parents fill in a detailed questionnaire about what their children can and can’t do, doctors can usually spot the symptoms by the age of two. Speech therapy and other intensive treatments can help an autistic toddler cope and encourage learning and interaction at an age when the brain is at its most plastic. A study in 2013 in Washington state found that, though costly, such early coaching paid for itself within eight years by reducing the need for extra help in school. Alas, the average age of diagnosis in the rich world is three and a half.
A second aim should be to provide autistic children with schooling that suits them. A debate rages about when and how to include autistic children in mainstream classes. The evidence argues against blanket rules. Some do better when mixed in with other children and given additional support. Some need to be taught separately, either for their own sake or because they are disruptive. Others need a bit of both. Whatever the degree of integration, teaching autistic children effectively will require more funding, to train both specialist and mainstream teachers. In one study 60% of British teachers said they felt unprepared to teach autistic children.
From genes to synapses
Maximising the returns from this investment in education means ensuring that autistic adults find work. Not all such people can hold down a job. But the high-functioning among them tend to be deft analysts. They can spot patterns or errors in data that are invisible to most non-autistics, making them attractive employees for software firms.
Even less gifted autistic people often have an extraordinary capacity to focus and an eye for detail that make them effective workers. Their desire for routine and dislike of change make them loyal ones, too. They can excel at jobs that require precision and repetition, such as updating databases, stocking shelves, organising libraries or tinkering with broken cars. Firms that set out to recruit autistic workers, such as Walgreen’s, a big pharmacy chain, find them just as productive as their peers.
Plenty more companies could benefit from hiring autistic people. Agencies that specialise in recruiting them stress that even if they interview badly (not making eye contact, taking questions too literally), they may still be good workers. For autistic candidates, employers should consider replacing interviews with tests of relevant skills—filing tests for filing jobs, coding tests for coding jobs, and so on. Once an autistic person is hired, small adjustments help employers to get the best out of him: for example, by providing a calm workspace and clear instructions, expressed textually or visually rather than verbally. (Teaching managers to give clear instructions is a good idea for other reasons, too.)
The final element of an ambitious autism agenda should be greater investment in research. Medical understanding of the condition has improved since 1949, when the psychiatrist who first identified autism blamed cold, unloving mothers for making their children withdraw into themselves. Scientists today are sure that genes play a role, as do environmental factors. Still, many questions remain unanswered, both about the condition’s origin and its progression. The amount of public money spent studying autism is shockingly modest. Britain’s government spends a trivial £4m ($5.6m) a year. America shells out around $200m a year—about what it costs to look after 100 severely autistic people for a lifetime. Such sums are dwarfed by the opportunity cost of having so many potentially productive people dependent on others. Beautiful or otherwise, an autistic mind is a terrible thing to waste.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Beautiful minds, wasted"
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2. Wave Properties and Characteristics
Material waves provide a mechanism for transferring energy over considerable distances, without the transport of the material medium itself.
In most material waves we typically encounter, the "shape" of the disturbance stays the same over short travel distances. In our example of a rock thrown into a pond, the ripples look similar as they expand away from the initial disturbance. Over greater distances, however, we notice changes. The ripples seem to die out as the radius of the circle they make increases This is because as the wave spreads out, its energy disperses. In some waves, the shape may remain constant over very long distances, for example low frequency sound waves at large depths of the ocean.
Pulse Wave
A pulse is a disturbance with a finite length. For example, if you shook the end of a rope once you would produce a pulse wave as shown below.
The location of the rope before and after the pulse passes is the equilibrium position. The maximum magnitude of the displacement of the pulse from equilibrium is the amplitude, designated here by the letter \(A\). Note that as we've defined it, \(A\) is always positive.
Another example of a pulse-type wave is the example of a rock thrown into a pond. In this example the rock produces many ripples, but they are a pulse wave because there are a finite amount of ripples with a well-defined beginning and end
A Repetitive (Periodic) Wave
Repetitive waves can have many different shapes. One of the simplest to deal with looks like a sine or cosine function. Such waves are called harmonic or sinusoidal waves, and are generated by oscillators moving in simple harmonic motion. For example, if you hold one end of a rope and jiggle it up and down in simple harmonic motion, you will generate harmonic waves. If you were to take a picture of the waves, it might look like this:
We can represent this wave with a graph like the one below. Here \(x\) is the distance along the rope, and \(y\) is how far the rope is displaced from equilibrium. The curve is the shape of the rope at one particular instant \(t=0\).
Like the wave pulse, a repeating wave has an equilibrium position (the location of the rope when no wave is present) and an amplitude \(A\). In addition a repeating wave has two additional parameters. The first is the wavelength \(\lambda\) which tells us the distance (along the direction of wave motion) between identical pieces of the wave. The second is the period \(T\); a wave completes one period if it enough time (\(T\)) has passed that the wave looks exactly the same. Pulse-type waves, which do not repeat, do not have periods or wavelengths. In other words, the wavelength \(\lambda\) tells us how the wave repeats in space, while the period \(T\) tells us how the wave repeats in time.
Notice that the graph above shows the wave for a fixed time, so it gives us no information about the period. For that we need a new graph; if we were to paint a red dot on the rope at some fixed \(x\) value, and then plot the position of only that dot against time, we would find that particular point moves in simple harmonic motion.
It takes the same amount of time for the dot to return to an initial position as it does for the whole wave to return to an initial configuration. That means \(T\) is the period of both the simple harmonic motion of the red dot on the rope and of the wave itself. Just like in simple harmonic motion, the period is the reciprocal of the frequency:
\[T = \dfrac{1}{f}\]
Typically, \(T\) is measured in seconds and \(f\) is measured in Hertz (1 Hz = 1 s-1). \(T\) is the time between the arrival of adjacent crests of the wave, while \(f\) is the number of crests that pass by per second. This means the red dot completes an \(f\) number of up-and-down cycles every second, or the rope returns to an initial configuration an \(f\) number of times every second.
The examples seen above are called one-dimensional waves because the displacement discussed in each only changes in one direction. We arbitrarily called that direction the \(y\)-axis.
If a wave spreads out on a surface then we will define it as a two-dimensional wave. For example a water wave spreads out on the surface of the water, so water waves are two-dimensional.
A wave that spreads outward in all directions is three-dimensional. Examples of three-dimensional waves are typical sound and light waves.
An important distinction between these waves is that, as we described them above, the amplitude \(A\) of the waves is only constant for one-dimensional waves. Two-dimensional and Three-dimensional waves have amplitudes that depend on the distance from the source of the disturbance. Recall how ripples in a pond become smaller as they spread out, or how the brightness and loudness of something increases as you get closer to it. This is a consequence of conservation of energy; as a wave propagates outward in multiple dimensions, the energy it carries must be spread over a region of increasing size.
Material waves and electromagnetic waves have a characteristic called polarization. The polarization describes how the displacements due to a wave occur in the medium. For material waves, we are going to define two types of polarization:
• Transverse Waves: A material wave is transverse if the displacement from equilibrium is perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling. Note that if we consider a wave traveling to the right of the page then an oscillation in-and-out of the page or towards the top-and-bottom of the page would both be considered transverse. Below is a transverse wave in a spring. The horizontal line represents the springs equilibrium position and the displacement is explicitly labeled.
• Longitudinal Waves: A material wave is longitudinal if the displacement from equilibrium is in the same direction that the wave is traveling. In most examples of longitudinal waves that we explore, this displacement occurs as periodic compressing and stretching of the material. The picture below shows the spring in its equilibrium position (top spring) and a longitudinal wave (bottom spring). The displacement from equilibrium \(y(x,t)\) can be found by comparing the two pictures. Note that in this case, \(y(x,t)\) is not vertical!
Which of the following can be seen in waves above: amplitude, wavelength, period? Which cannot be seen on these pictures?
Wave Speed
The wave speed \(v_{wave}\) is the speed at which the disturbance propagates through the medium. It is not the speed of the individual particles making up the medium. One way of thinking about the wave speed is that it is the speed someone who was riding the wave on a surfboard would travel.
To a good approximation \(v_{wave}\) depends only on properties of the medium, not on wave amplitude \(A\) or frequency \(f\). For large waves, or for waves with extreme frequencies, this approximation breaks down. For now, we simplify our discussion by ignoring dependence of wave speed on amplitude (we don't work with big waves in 7C). We will also ignore dependence of speed on frequency until we discuss refraction of light waves.
As an example of how the medium determines the wave speed we can look at a material wave on a stretched medium. Both transverse waves and longitudinal waves are possible on a stretched string or wire. The speed, \(v_{wave}\), of transverse waves on a stretched string depends on the properties of the string that affect its elasticity and its inertial properties. For a string that is thin compared to its length, the relation connecting the wave speed to the string properties is
\[v_{wave} = \sqrt{\dfrac{\tau}{\mu}}\]
where \(\tau\) is the tension in the string and \(\mu\) is its mass per unit length. Notice that this formula makes some sense considering the picture we discussed in What is a Wave?. The tension is (roughly) the force that one piece of string exerts on another – the tighter the string the higher the tension. As we learned that a material wave is a disturbance that propagates by one piece of the medium exerting a force on its neighbors, it makes sense that when the tension increases the wave speed also increases. When the string is particularly heavy, the forces between pieces of the string result in less acceleration, so it also makes sense that as \(\mu\) increases the wave speed decreases. The ability to control the wave speed is critical for stringed instruments like the guitar, which is why they have tuning knobs at one end (to control \(\tau\)) and the strings are of different mass (for different \(\mu\)). We will discuss the guitar in more detail later when in Standing Waves.
Note that the speed is independent of the time and, if the string is homogeneous, independent of position as well. Notice also that the wave speed does not depend on how long the string is, the amplitude of the wave, the frequency of the wave (if it is a repetitive wave), nor the shape of the pulse (if it is a pulse-type wave).
The simulation below models a string as a series of individual points that each exert a force on their neighbor to maintain their preferred separation distance (as in Primitive Wave Concepts). After reading this chapter, adjust the settings of the string and try creating waves using different methods. Can you predict which methods produce which kind of wave? Can you predict which settings will affect which properties (speed, wavelength etc.) of the wave? | <urn:uuid:0093425d-5c09-47ad-9b8a-59c71b6fbe44> | {
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Code of Virginia
Title 6.2. Financial Institutions and Services
Chapter 8. Banks
§ 6.2-863. Oaths of directors.
A. Every director of a bank incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth shall, within 30 days after his election or reelection, take and subscribe to an oath that:
1. He will diligently and honestly perform his duties as director; and
2. He is the owner and has in his personal possession or control, standing in his sole name on the books of the bank or bank holding company as defined in subsection A of § 6.2-862, unpledged and unencumbered in any way, shares of stock of the bank of which he is a director or, if a bank is controlled by a bank holding company as defined in § 6.2-800, shares of stock of the bank holding company, having a book value of not less than the amounts respectively prescribed by § 6.2-862, and, in case of reelection or reappointment, that during the whole of his immediate previous term as a director, the stock was not at any time pledged or in any other manner encumbered or hypothecated to secure a loan.
B. The oath subscribed to by such director, certified by the officer before whom it is taken, shall be transmitted by the cashier of such bank to the Commission. Any director who fails for a period of 30 days after his election or appointment to take the oath as required by this section shall automatically forfeit his office.
Code 1950, § 6-39; 1966, c. 584, § 6.1-48; 1992, c. 552; 1994, c. 105; 2010, c. 794; 2014, cc. 156, 219.
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Nepaug Bible Church - - Pastor's Prayer Meeting Lesson Notes -
Part XXXV: Blessing By Avoiding Unnecessary Wealth
(Numbers 32:1-42 with Joshua 22:1-34; 1 Timothy 6:6-19)
1. Introduction
1. God can often bless a believer with material wealth as He did king Solomon, cf. 1 Kings 3:4-15.
2. However, seeking wealth beyond what we possess often backfires to harm us, cf. 1 Timothy 6:10. This is illustrated in the matter of the tribal inheritance of Israel's Transjordan Tribes (as follows):
2. Blessing By Avoiding Unnecessary Wealth, Numbers 32:1-42 with Joshua 22:1-34; 1 Timothy 6:6-19.
1. The Transjordan Tribes brought stress on their families and their ties with Moses by seeking better lands.
1. The tribes of Reuben and Gad, already possessing a great multitude of cattle, noticed the land east of the Jordan River (Transjordan) was well-suited for their many herds, Numbers 32:1.
2. So, instead of waiting for Moses or Joshua to lead regarding what land they were to inherit, they put a request into Moses to inherit the Transjordan lands to fit their cattle, Numbers 32:2-5.
3. At first, Moses resisted their request, for he feared giving these tribes this inheritance before Canaan was conquered would discourage the other tribes who had yet to gain their land across the Jordan, a problem reminiscent of the report of the ten faithless spies who had discouraged Israel, Num. 32:6-15.
4. However, the men of Reuben and Gad offered to build folds for their animals and towns for their families and cross the Jordan to help the other tribes conquer their land before possessing their own lands, Numbers 32:16-19. [This meant years of separation from their families en route!]
5. Moses agreed to this provided the men of Reuben and Gad helped conquer Canaan, a matter to which they agreed, Num. 32:20-24, 25-27. If the Reubenites and Gadites failed to keep their end of the bargain, they would have to inherit land west of the Jordan with the other tribes, Num. 32:28-32.
2. Then, when the tribes inherited their lands, the effects of their geographical separation almost led to war!
1. As the Reubenites and Gadites kept their promise, they were allowed to return home, Joshua 22:1-6. Along with them went half of the little tribe of Manasseh, Joshua 22:7-8.
2. However, due to the geographical barrier of the Jordan River [and its imposing Rift Valley] dividing Canaan from the Transjordan Hills, a sense of isolation in the Transjordan tribes coupled with a miscommunication about what fear this isolation caused ALMOST led to a civil WAR (as follows):
1. When the Transjordan Tribes traveling toward home arrived at the Jordan, with no word to the other tribes, they built an altar beside the Jordan River that was visible to the tribes of Canaan, Josh. 22:9f
2. Now, the Law forbade the use of any altar other than the one used at the tabernacle to keep Israel's worship pure and the people united, Deut. 12:1-8; cf. Bible Knowledge Com., O.T., p. 284.
3. Hence, when the 9 tribes in Canaan saw this altar construction with no explanation, they assumed the Transjordan tribes were wayward, and so prepared for holy war against them, Joshua 22:11-12.
4. The tribes in Canaan sent messengers to the Transjordan tribes to confront them with what they thought was sin against God (Josh. 22:13-20), but the Transjordan tribes reported they had built the altar out fear of isolation and its potential for apostasy in the future: (a) The Transjordan Tribes first alleged their devotion to God, Joshua 22:21-23. (b) Then, they reported how in preparing to cross the Jordan, they realized the geographical barrier of the Jordan could cause the other 9 tribes in Canaan in time to reject their geographically distanced Transjordan descendants as belonging to the Lord, and thus cause their descendants to depart from the Lord, Joshua 22:24-25. (c) In reality, this plan was inessential as all Israel's men had to go 3 times a year to the tabernacle, keeping their fellowship strong (Ex. 23:14; Ryr. St. Bib., KJV, ftn. to Jos. 22:10-11). (d) Thus, these 2 tribes had built an altar as a witness of their brotherhood so the other 9 tribes in Canaan would not break fellowship with their sons due to the effects of the geographical barrier between them, 22:26-29.
3. This explanation sufficed, and the risk of civil war passed, Joshua 22:30-34.
Lesson: Because the men of Reuben and Gad desired TRANSJORDAN LAND to fit their many flocks, they brought upon themselves unnecessary stresses both regarding their family and tribal relationships.
Application: We must learn to be content with such things as we have, for going after more wealth leaves us open often to self-imposed afflictions, cf. 1 Timothy 6:6-10, 17-19. | <urn:uuid:9a3ba295-ace7-4ff9-8a7e-d65696192e07> | {
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A code of ethics is something that we all learn from the time that we are children. You're told what you're allowed to do and the things that are deemed to be unacceptable in society. For most people, it's not something that you spend a lot of time thinking about. You know that it's not okay to steal money to pay for your mortgage and that killing someone is one of the worst things that a person can do. But, the truth is that everyone has their own code of ethics and you will find that there is no rule that everyone on the planet follows.
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Black Tapestry, Animated Object
Black Tapestry
Huge construct, unaligned
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 65 (10d12)
Speed 30 ft., fly 40 ft.
22 (+6) 14 (+2) 10 (+0) 1 (–5) 3 (–4) 1 (–5)
Damage Immunities poison, psychic
Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 6
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP)
Antimagic Susceptibility. The tapestry is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the tapestry must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster’s spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
Damage Transfer. While it is grappling a creature, the tapestry takes only half the damage dealt to it, and the creature grappled by the tapestry takes the other half.
False Appearance. While the tapestry remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal tapestry.
Multiattack. The black tapestry makes two slam attacks and one smother attack.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage.
Smother. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one Large or smaller creature. Hit: The creature is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, blinded, and at risk of suffocating, and the rug can’t smother another target. In addition, at the start of each of the target’s turns, the target takes 17 (2d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage
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Happy Anniversary, Kirby!1413 views*FULLVIEW PLOX*
Here's to 15 years of floating, sliding, ducking, inhaling, copying, and expelling that which cannot be copied! :D
...Oh, and that thing Kirby does in KSS where he shoots out helper-killing stardust from his armpits. Wicked.
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Mr. frosty's ice cube1468 viewsIf you think about it, so many of the things Kirby puts in his mouth are gross. I tried to draw Smirror. I failed.3 commentsGeneric Keroro fan
4 kirbys472 viewsThis is my drawing based on Amazing mirror.1 commentsyellowkirby
Sword Which Cuts Both Ways515 viewsA shattered mirror and Sword Knight (without a helmet on, of course~ XD)
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random mirror359 viewsjust some odd doodle i did on tegaki of mirror kirby.Gordon
DEFEND1721 viewsA colored in sketch. Simirror and Mace Knight blocking off some powerful blast of some sort, providing cover for a White Keke.
White Keke is the helper for the Heal Ability, thought out and made for KCCh
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Simirror and his Staff841 viewsArt request for a friiiiiiiiiiend. :D
And Simirror is one of my favorite helpers! Yay! Fun to reflect back. :3
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Mirror Promo459 viewsMirror will be given about 4 more moves due to it's weak in numbers moveset. Mirror also is given a blue and green hat, instead of a red and blue hat, to give mirror more mirror like hat colors. Mirror is given a blue sphere sceptor, like KSS, and KSSU, so the sceptor is different from the jewel sceptor of Beam in Kirby and the Dark Heart. Mirror also has triangles on the hat instead of stars, so that is more different too. Mirror Kirby also no longer turns Kirby's skin white, due to the Spray Painting.4 commentsTheorizer
Mirror No Evil758 viewsMirror Kirby mirroring several of his images.3 commentsgigarob_93
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Preschoolers' counting abilities relate to future math performance, researcher says
November 8, 2012 in Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Manfra found that, among low-income children, those who could recite and count to 20 in preschool had the highest math scores in first grade. Credit: University of Missouri
"Reciting means saying the numbers from memory in chronological order, whereas counting involves understanding that each item in the set is counted once and that the last number stated is the amount for the entire set," said Louis Manfra, an assistant professor in MU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies. "When children are just reciting, they're basically repeating what seems like a memorized sentence. When they're counting, they're performing a more in which they're associating a one-to-one correspondence with the object and the number to represent a quantity."
Manfra analyzed data from more than 3,000 children from low-income households in order to determine if the children's reciting and counting abilities in preschool affected their first-grade math scores. He found that students who could recite and count to 20 in preschool had the highest in first grade; however, less than 10 percent of the children in the study could count and recite to 20.
"Counting gives children stronger when they start school," Manfra said. "The skills children have when they start kindergarten affect their through early elementary school; therefore, it's important that children start with as many skills as possible."
Previous research has shown that, in low-income families, parents often think children's educations are the responsibility of teachers, while teachers expect parents to teach some essential skills at home, Manfra said.
"These low-income children aren't learning anywhere because parents think the children are learning them at school, and teachers think they're learning them at home," Manfra said. "This is a problem because it gives parents and teachers the idea that it's not their responsibility to educate the children, when it's everyone's responsibility. This is problematic because, when the children enter and are at lower math levels, they don't have the foundational skills needed to set them on paths for future success."
Parents and teachers should integrate counting into all aspects of children's daily activities so they can master the skill, Manfra said.
"You can learn anything anywhere, and this is very true for counting," Manfra said. "When adults read books with children, they can count the ducks on the page. They might count the leaves that fall to the ground outside or the number of carrots at lunchtime."
More information: The study, "Associations between Counting Ability in Preschool and Mathematic Performance in First Grade among a Sample of Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Children," will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Research in Childhood Education.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Quote of the day - it doesn't always need to look black
If from an ironic source (the person, not the piece), all things considered, currently:
“Don't find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.”
Henry Ford
News from the retail front
I have had of late to get a bit closer to the innermost workings of the retail world than is healthy.
And a few things have become clear: the shenanigans of their marketing would do Machiavelli proud, and the corporate structures are so rigid, and the level of fear of making a mistake so palpable so as to make the Russian military look like an anarchists' brainstorming session.
A few months ago we approached the manager of our local supermarket with a proposal to hold a little research on shoppers attitudes to packaging by using the RE:tie as the focus. It would help us get data, him get PR, and the store some 'we care about the future' kudos. Win-win-win.
He was well up for it. But... he needed to run it by head office. To OK a stand in the local carpark.
Several months and countless cross shuntings and requests for more and more info (Ans: 'Er, we'd have a table, and we'd ask if folk would see merit in second use ideas being put in pack designs. Maybe like the way Innocent did it, with a 'Yes/no' bin you pop bottles in. Bit of fun, really. Bound to get the local press covering it') from a bevvy of backside-concerned minions later, we got our answer.. from board level: No, best not.
So I wonder how many person hours in meetings this bit of genius required:
The Grocer - Tesco Extra takes bags under the counter
'Don't ask..don't tell'. Hey, it works in the military!
Talking Retail - Tesco Extra pushes plastic bags under the counter
MRW - Tesco introduces 'bag on demand' initiative
PRW - NEW - Tesco points scheme cuts bag use - This, however, adds up
Plugging away*
Clean technology 100
Don't know if it counts, but...'...don't try, don't get...' - finding uses for rubbish
Leading to:
A bit like another cable tie idea in the news today, but sadly not yet as Dragon Den-friendly. Though we'd like to think it also offers business, consumers... and planet certain benefits.
*Sorry, had to go first.
And why not..?
A wee bittie too much doom and gloom around. Time for a wee boost of +vity:)
Meet the CarrotMob
Forget negative campaigning, why not reward green businesses instead - Yay!
...with a group spending spree? - Oh, that's us out then:(
PLAYING THE PERSON - how not to serve the future
On a more than slightly Climate Optimistic blog (all sides need to be understood) I frequent this review was posted:
When I Am King
Which garnered this by way of slick rebuttal. By, no surprise, 'Anon':
'And Delingpole's qualification's for commenting on scientific matters are? He even decribes the programme presenter as a 'Doctor of Geology'. Thee is no such thing.'
I fear a green mist descended:
As it is so critical to some... er... one: Iain_Stewart
Holy heatwaves! He is not a Doctor of Geology, he is.. a Senior Lecturer instead.
This obviously undermines any credibility a subjective (if one-sided, sort of by definition) humourous critique might have on the value of this person's programme and how it may play with a non-scientific audience.
Sod the arguments pro and con... the critic got the main protagonist's title wrong!!!
I am a committed environmental campaigner, and subscribe to the notion of 'Probably Man-worsened negative climate change, so it's possibly best to find out what we can and then do what's practical and possible to deal with the potential consequences before it's too late.'
OK, it's not as snappy as 'Global warming' but seems to me a bit more accurate scientifically and may even serve to act as a better basis for helping the vast majority of the public to understand the issues, make their own minds up and, if so motivated, DO what they can to help self, others and future.
So I also passionately believe in the power of persuasion as a tool, through education, fact, logic, debate, sharing, understanding and empathy.
I DO NOT see any merit to the cause of encouraging environmentally positive behaviours though the mindset of 'I'm/we're right. If you disagree you're wrong. And it's our ball, pitch and everything in it, so nar-nee-na-na until we bludgeon you into seeing things our... 'correct' way'.
And this is typified by any, and I mean any eyebrow crank on dogma, and/or its various publicists' methods, getting slapped back with totally facile counter-argument. Pretty much top of this list - which never works and simply serves to undermine credibility still further - is to play the person rather than the ball in an irrelevant manner.
Dr. Stewart - scientist, and climate change programme maker: qualified, eligible and well capable of dishing out and taking science-related bouquets and brickbats
Mr. Delingpole - humourist writer and commentator on TV and how it relates to the public: eligible and well capable of dishing out and taking media writing-related bouquets and brickbats
Such as Roger Harrabin, the face of climate change to 60M UK citizens via our objective national news reporting broadcast medium - arts graduate yet (I may have his title a bit wrong, so sue me) environment analyst: questionably qualified, not really eligible and well capable of dishing out if not taking science-related bouquets and brickbats.
At least he is now joined by Dr. Stewart, but some might argue this hardly adds to the heft of the BBC's output on this critical issue, nor indeed the level of balance.
In their little airmiles-cranking bubble ('But... I flew to the Artic to do this piece to camera to raise awareness'!) it might all seem tickedy boo, but whatever a late-night BBC2 or Guardian piece might do for the already converted (though the level of slap being laid on in these major-lite media almost makes even me want to buy a Humvee) hardly serves when hung out to dry in media that do reach a slightly broader audience.
I know that the green-elite ('you don't get backstage at the concert like we do') 'Coven of Climate Concern' wishes the likes of the Daily Mail, Sun/Clarkson or Ch4 'Axis of Denial' did not exist, but they do. Live with it.
Then work around that fact... and their much bigger, more influential (I know they are deemed unworthy of votes in some quarters by never coming up with the 'right' result, but it's still a democracy... just) audiences.
People join you if they like the invitation; not if you threaten them if they don't.
Me, I'm now off to do my thing, make a few more fun things, and share what I'm up to to try make a bit of dough, feed the family and with luck make the future for them a bit better by being a good provider, slightly less selfish world citizen (I hope) and example (I need the audience ratings). - Sept 18 4:
Caan Do
Just watching James Caan, Dragon's Den entrepreneur, on the BBC News.
I do note that he has a book to sell, but he comes across as a rather charming bloke.
However, I do note major reference to a product he backed, called the 'Rapstrap', by another nice, lucky chap, Andrew Harsley. It is a cable tie variant. Using existing polyprop grade plastic and part-selling on eco-savings.
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Hot flushes and night sweats are typical symptoms that people associate with the menopause, but there are also lots of other, less talked about symptoms that women sometimes dismiss. Although strictly speaking, menopause occurs 12 months after your last period (usually between the ages of 45-55), symptoms can begin several years earlier during a time called the perimenopause.
Here Miss Tania Adib, Consultant Gynaecologist at The Lister Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK, runs us through 18 symptoms of the menopause which women might not be aware of.
1. Cold flushes
Whilst it’s likely you will have heard of hot flushes in relation to the menopause, have you noticed that you have experienced cold flushes too? They often occur after a hot flush or spontaneously. Like hot flushes, cold flushes can be caused due to a change in the brain’s ability to control your body temperature. It can also be made worse by wearing damp clothes from sweating.
2. Tingling in extremities
During the menopause you might experience tingling in your hands, feet, arms and legs. This symptom is the result of hormone fluctuations affecting the central nervous system and usually lasts for a few minutes at a time.
3. Fatigue
You might have also realised that you’re feeling more tired than usual – this could be as a result of a lack of sleep due to night sweats, or because of hormonal fluctuations.
4. Decreased libido
Menopause might have also decreased your libido or desire for sex. This can be due to you having lower levels of testosterone and oestrogen, which can make physical arousal more difficult.
It can also be triggered by other symptoms of the menopause, such as mood changes, or as a side-effect of medication.
5. Thinning hair
Hormonal fluctuations during the menopause can cause your hair follicles to shrink – meaning hair grows slower and sheds easier.
6. Burning mouth
This is a lesser-known symptom of the menopause – you might experience a burning, tenderness, tingling, heat or numbing in the mouth – which again is a result of hormonal changes.
7. Missed periods
During the menopause, your periods are likely to be irregular and it’s normal to miss a few periods.
However, it’s important to note that menopausal symptoms can still occur whilst your periods are regular (this stage is referred to as the perimenopause).
8. Dizziness or vertigo
You might experience dizzy spells during the perimenopause and menopause.
This is because the hormonal changes which take place affect the production of insulin, which can make it difficult for your body to maintain blood sugar stability.
9. Anxiety
Anxiety might affect you intermittently as your hormone levels fluctuate and can sometimes worsen at night.
10. Vaginal dryness
Female sex hormones ensure that there is a good circulation of blood flow around the vagina, so a lack of these hormones can impact natural lubrication and cause dryness.
This can be uncomfortable and make penetrative sex difficult.
11. Changes in spatial awareness
During the menopause, changes in the perception of depth of vision can occur, which can affect your awareness of surroundings. Your concentration can sometimes dip during this time, and your eyes can become drier. This can lead to clumsiness or being more accident prone.
12. Low mood and depression
When you go through the menopause it can bring about significant changes that can have an impact on your mood and mental health. Lack of sleep due to menopausal symptoms can also contribute to low mood.
13. Feeling that something is crawling on your skin
This might sound like an unusual symptom, but you may have felt some level of skin itchiness, or even the feeling that something is crawling on your skin.
This could occur because oestrogen is closely related to collagen production and skin hydration, so a decline in this hormone during the menopause can lead to increased itchiness and dryness of the skin.
14. Tinnitus
The menopause can cause your hearing to alter slightly, or for you to start experiencing tinnitus (ringing in your ears).
There are oestrogen receptors in the ear cells and it’s thought that a change in production of oestrogen can impact your ear function.
15. Brittle nails
During or after the menopause, your body might not produce enough keratin – the substance that nails need to stay strong. This can lead to brittle, weak nails that crack or break easily.
16. Changes in taste
You may find that some foods taste differently or that your sense of taste becomes stronger. Fluctuation in oestrogen levels might also cause a metallic taste in your mouth.
17. Breast tenderness
Your breasts might feel more sore or tender than usual as oestrogen and progesterone levels change.
This symptom tends to ease as the menopause progresses.
18. Change in body odour
Hot flushes and night sweats can result in an increase or change in body odour during the menopause. If the menopause is also making you feel more stressed or anxious than normal, this can also make you sweat more.
How to manage the menopause
With so many changes happening in your body, the menopause can feel overwhelming for many women, but help and support is available. With so many potential symptoms, it important to rule out other conditions and your GP or gynaecologist will be able to point you in the right direction, identify if you are in menopause or perimenopause and discuss the best way to manage your symptoms.
One treatment for menopausal symptoms is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This can ease some of the symptoms which the menopause can cause and rebalance the body’s oestrogen levels – which is good as long-term deprivation of oestrogen to the body can have a significant health impact.
If you’re considering using HRT, it is important to discuss the risks and benefits with your GP or gynaecologist. If you decide to go ahead with HRT, the type and dose, as well as the recommended period of time to take it, will be tailored to your particular circumstances. HRT is not suitable for everyone and there are other options.
Non-hormonal medication such as antidepressants can also be prescribed to relieve low mood and hot flushes. However, antidepressants often have side effects, so again talking this through with your GP or specialist is essential.
Paying close attention to diet, nutrition and exercise can also be helpful in dealing with menopausal symptoms, for example following a Mediterranean diet which involves good-quality protein, lots of fruit and vegetables and a reduction on carbohydrates has been proven to beneficial.
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How is AI used in Operations Management
Abstract: In this digital era, data is the new oil and artificial intelligence (AI) is the new electricity, which is needed in different elements of operations management (OM) such as manufacturing, product development, services and supply chain. This study explores the feasibility of AI utilization within an organization on six factors such as job-fit, complexity, long-term consequences, affect towards use, social factors and facilitating conditions for different elements of OM by mining the collective intelligence of experts on Twitter and through academic literature. The study provides guidelines for managers for AI applications in different components of OM and concludes by presenting the limitations of the study along with future research directions.
Grover, P., Kar, A.K. & Dwivedi, Y.K. Understanding artificial intelligence adoption in operations management: insights from the review of academic literature and social media discussions. Ann Oper Res (2020).
This article explores the utilization of the AI in different elements of the OM, manufacturing, product development, services and supply chain through academic literature and expert (workers, professionals, corporates & organizations) opinion on Twitter. Through the study, authors attempted to expand the knowledge of managers and organization on AI utilization within an enterprise by combining academic literature and practice driven discussions in social media.
A systematic literature review has been undertaken in academic literature to address the propositions developed for our study. The though behind undertaking the systematic literature review is that it will capture the state of literature that is well developed and established with fair degree of accuracy at the cost of recency. To address recency, data collection has been done in Twitter where extraction step in Twitter is followed by data pre-processing step. The pre-processing sub-steps includes data transformation, storing of data, data reduction and data cleaning. For data analysis, descriptive analysis and text analytics had been used. Descriptive analysis provides the first level insights into the data by applying the simple functions such as count, sum, mean, median and mode. Text analytics extracts information from textual data. The collective complementary intelligence of different stakeholders, namely academia and practitioners, have been used in this study to build and validate propositions by taking inputs from complementary sources and validating them through an triangulation like approach, conceptual, practical and innovation.
Now we attempt to summarize the insights extracted from academic literature and social media analytics on Propositions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a and 4b. AI utilization factors had been framed by getting inspiration from model of PC utilization constructs, job-fit, complexity, long-term consequences, affect towards use, social factors and facilitating conditions.
For Proposition 1a academic literature gives a positive signal on usage of AI for big size product inspection. Usage of AI will enhance the product quality. Academic literature indicates usage of AI as quality deployment function will be beneficial for large scale production. Especially when humans get exhausted, then AI powered system will play a great role in maintaining product quality standards, which is in line with literature which indicates AI usage for inspection reduces cost and time spent on the inspection. On social media experts were discussing on service robots and AI powered drone usage for inspecting steel structures and wind turbine respectively. For Proposition 1b exact use cases were not available but there were tweets in which usage of software’s XRC and NDT had been discussed for creating professional inspection reports.
Academic literature indicates AI implementation on ERP is best suited for MNCs working across the world, which may lead to minimization of resources and improving overall productivity. The biggest hurdle in implementation is selection of data sources or to apply on which databases or data warehouses maintained by organizations. Explainability of difference of outcome to internal employees may also be a challenge. Another hurdle in implementation is that AI algorithms for big data, characterized by high volume, variety, veracity and velocity, have to demonstrate maturity. On social media, experts have positive opinion on AI algorithm usage for learning and identifying core capabilities of an organization. Some experts had highlighted AI utilization with an organization will make the organization “smart” as well as hyper productive. This will subsequently will help the organization in developing digital business and innovation.
Literature indicates AI implementation for internal and external stakeholders is ideal for those mature organization who really wants to capture the large segments of the market. Appropriate suggestion by the AI algorithm for each customer is the challenging job for the recommender system. Academic literature contains positive as well as negative examples for using AI powered system for customer relationship management. On Twitter, experts did not have significant differences among positive and negative opinion regarding the use of AI for connecting with external or internal stakeholders. Experts on Twitter had indicated natural language processing and deep learning will facilitates the AI implementation for enhancing customer experiences.
Literature indicates implementation for upstream supply chain will be demanding in the situations where budget is under consideration. AI implementation will lead to reduction in procurement costs by providing employees with diverse and different options. For downstream supply chain, AI implementation may be favourable when organizations are launching new products. AI will help the organizations in elicitation of requirements and as well as predicting what will be costumer’s preference among requirements in future and may help in new product development. Employee and customer rigidity is the biggest hindrance in AI implementation in the upstream and downstream activities, which is in line with literature finding. Experts on Twitter holds positive opinion on implementing AI in upstream and downstream supply chain management within an enterprise. They reveal that such an AI implementation within supply chain can be augmented through the use of blockchain. | <urn:uuid:8397c401-3aaf-4e77-9685-eaaa96bd0c39> | {
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Lost States: How the US could have looked much different
Updated on September 18, 2013
I'm always up for a good coffee table book, so this book, about all of the proposed US states that never happened for whatever reason, was right up my alley. Reading it is fascinating, as it helps demonstrate why the US is organized the way it is.
The various "lost states" take a variety of forms, including existing states that were divided up in different ways (including North and South Dakota, Arizona, and Minnsota), threatened splits of established states (such as Nickajack, Acadia, and the city-states of New York City and Chicago), and even pieces of other countries that could have been annexed by the US (such as Newfoundland, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guyana, and the Philippines). Reading about them several themes emerge: big cities in rural states feeling their resources are being drained by downstate farmers, sparsely populated segments who feel they're being ignored in their state capital, stark political or cultural divides in poorly drawn up states, and poor nations trying to latch themselves to America in order to enrich themselves.
Although the book is now slightly out of date (Puerto Rico's status having changed since the book was written), it is still fascinating to read. Michael J. Trinklein, the author, is able to maintain a comedic tone while still taking these possible states seriously. It is all in all, a very intriguing book to read, and imagine what the US would be like if Texas was five states, if half of Mexico or Canada were part of the US, or if remote regions or virtual city-states were independent would be like. Definitely a book to check out if you're interested in historical footnotes.
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WordCloud Using R Language
20 Sep, 2018 / WHIZ.AI By: WHIZ.AI
Introduction to R programming :
R is a programming language developed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. R possesses an extensive catalog of statistical and graphical methods. It includes machine learning algorithm, linear regression, time series, statistical inference to name a few. Most of the R libraries are written in R.R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.R is not only entrusted by academic, but many large companies also use R programming language, including Uber, Google, Airbnb, Facebook and so on.
Why we use R nowadays?
Roughly half of all data scientists use R for data mining and statistical analysis — it is the programming language of choice within the rather nebulous “Big data” industry you keep hearing about. R includes built-in functions and variables designed to make statistical analysis easier, and it also provides graphic-generation tools that produce publication-quality data visualizations.R is highly extensible, and many packages exist to address specific data analysis tasks and problems. It owes a part of it’s popularity to its open-source status, which means that anyone can use R and have access to world-quality statistical analysis tools.R is designed to work on virtually any platform and can be run on systems with a Unix, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS operating system.
R – Installation :
For installing R ,follow the link below
R Studio Installation :
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R Packages :
Packages are collections of **R** functions, data, and compiled code in a well-defined format. The directory where packages are stored is called the library. **R** comes with a standard set of packages. Others are available for download and installation. Once installed, they have to be loaded into the session to be used.
Install : Package Description
install.packages("tm") # for text mining
install.packages("wordcloud") # word-cloud generator
The package “tm” is used to text mining and the package “wordcloud” is used to generate wordcloud
Load : Library
The function library is used to load the installed packages
Choosing The File
text <- readLines(file.choose())
Choose the dataset file like your article for which you have to generate wordcloud.
Load the data as a corpus-collections of documents containing (natural language) text
words <- Corpus(VectorSource(text))
inspect(words) # View
Load our corpus and extract the words from it
Cleaning the Text
# Convert the text to lower case
words <- tm_map(words, content_transformer(tolower))
# Remove numbers
words <- tm_map(words, removeNumbers)
# Remove english common stopwords
words <- tm_map(words, removeWords, stopwords("english"))
# specify your stopwords as a character vector
words <- tm_map(words, removeWords, c("the", "is"))
# Remove punctuations
words <- tm_map(words, removePunctuation)
# Eliminate extra white spaces
words <- tm_map(words, stripWhitespace)
Before processing the corpus we need to clean it . For example removinf stop words , punctuations , whitespaces etc
Build a term-document matrix
textdocument<- TermDocumentMatrix(words)
matrix<- as.matrix(textdocument)
sum <- sort(rowSums(m),decreasing=TRUE)
dataframe <- data.frame(word = names(v),freq=v)
head(d, 10)
Counting the frequency of words in a document.
Generate the Word cloud
wordcloud(words = d$word, freq = d$freq, min.freq = 1,max.words=200, random.order=FALSE, rot.per=0.15,colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))
Dataset : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XEw73_0DmYYM48C1sasqfVLdTtUgu9r4
R is free and open-source, making it possible for anyone to have access to world-class statistical analysis tools. It is used widely in academia and the private sector and is the most popular statistical analysis programming language today. Learning R isn’t easy — if it was, data scientists wouldn’t be in such high demand. However, there is no shortage of quality resources you can use to learn R if you’re willing to put in the time and effort.
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C++ Primer says
For most applications, in addition to being safer, it is also more efficient to use library strings rather then C-style strings
Safety is understood. Why is C++ strings library more efficient? After all, underneath it all, aren't strings still represented as character arrays?
To clarify, does author talk about programmer efficiency (understood) or processing efficiency?
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Less complexity = more productivity = more time to optimize slow code = greater efficiency. – scientiaesthete Aug 25 '12 at 17:46
Are we talking about programmer efficiency or processing efficiency? – James Leonard Aug 25 '12 at 17:47
@scientiaesthete Yes, and thus they contribute to the overall energy-minimization of computer programs and a cleaner and more peaceful world ;) – Christian Rau Aug 25 '12 at 17:57
We could also ask if it's talking about memory efficiency or processor efficiency. – hippietrail Aug 25 '12 at 18:45
Also, does everything hold no matter what encoding the strings are in? For example, multibyte encodings such as used in East Asian languages or Unicode's UTF-8? – hippietrail Aug 25 '12 at 18:48
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C-string usually faster because they do not call malloc/new. But there are cases where std::string is faster. Function strlen() is O(N), but std::string::size() is O(1).
Also when you search for substring, in c-string you need to check for '\0' on every cycle, in std::string - you don't. In naive substring search algorithm it does not matter much, because instead of checking for '\0' you need to check for i<s.size(). But modern high-performance substring search algorithms traverse string in multibyte steps. And need for '\0' check in every byte slows them down. This is the reason why GLIBC memmem is x2 times faster than strstr. I did a lot of benchmarking of substring algorithms.
This is true not only for substring search algorithm. Many other string processing algorithm are slower for zero-terminated strings.
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In which way do C strings not need to call malloc/new? Whenever you want a dynamically sized string you need dynamically allocated memory, this holds for C strings as well as std::strings. And besides that, I think searching for a substring is an algorithm where there shouldn't be a difference between C strings and std::strings. And again one of the slightly wrong 50% chosen, but well Ok, it's James's choice which answer to accept. – Christian Rau Aug 25 '12 at 18:13
@ChristianRau - you need to reread my post. Also did you had a chance to benchmark c-string and std::string substring functions? I did. – Leonid Volnitsky Aug 25 '12 at 18:18
No, I did no profiling, just the when thinking about searching for a substring I don't neccessarily see the need for computing the length each time, though I might be wrong there. Of yourse I know that the O(1) length is the main advanatage (that's what the other correct answers write, too). But even after rereading, I cannot see how C strings "do not call malloc/new", which is just rubbish and my main critique point in your answer. – Christian Rau Aug 25 '12 at 18:22
You can put c-string (or almost any other type) into dynamically allocated memory , but you don't have to. If you dynamically allocate C-string - you will be doing this, not C-string's members functions. C-string (as int,double or any POD type) do not call itself malloc/new. – Leonid Volnitsky Aug 25 '12 at 18:43
Well, of course a pointer doesn't allocate itself. But c-strings do not usually "not call malloc/new", since using a simple compile time array is not the usual way to work with strings, especially in light of any string processing algorithms. Of course you can always throw a char[1024] at it and call it a day, but well. But you're right in that in some cases a small char array is ineed appropriate and doesn't require any dynamic allocation, but I would call those cases far from usual, especially when doing elaborate string processing. – Christian Rau Aug 25 '12 at 18:57
Because the code which uses char* or char[] is more likely to be inefficent if not written carefully. For example, have you seen loop like this:
char *get_data();
char const *s = get_data();
for(size_t i = 0 ; i < strlen(s) ; ++i) //Is it efficent loop? No.
//do something
Is that efficient? No. The time-complexity of strlen() is O(N), and furthermore, it is computed in each iteration, in the above code.
Now you may say "I can make it efficient if I call strlen() just once.". Of course, you can. But you have to do all that sort of optimization yourself and conciously. If you missed something, you missed CPU cycles. But with std::string, many such optimization is done by the class itself. So you can write this:
std::string get_data();
std::string const & s = get_data(); //avoid copy if you don't need it
for(size_t i = 0 ; i < s.size() ; ++i) //Is it efficent loop? Yes.
//do something
Is that efficient? Yes. The time-complexity of size() is O(1). No need to optimize it manually which often makes code look ugly and hard to read. The resulting code with std::string is almost always neat and clean in comparison to char*.
Also note that std::string not only makes your code efficent in terms of CPU cycles, but it also increases programmer efficency!
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The usual way to iterate over a C string is: for (int i = 0; s[i]; ++i), which is efficient. The argument should be about the string class storing the size of the string, making it available in O(1). – Daniel Fleischman Aug 25 '12 at 18:51
@DanielFleischman: You misread my answer. I gave that example by first asking "have you seen loop like this?", and then added O(N) vs O(1), explaining other pointers in the rest of the answer. (So I dont think the downvote is justified). – Nawaz Aug 25 '12 at 18:53
@Nawaz: In gcc's implementation of the C standard library, strlen is tagged with an attribute that instructs the compiler that the result of the function call depends only on the arguments (no side effects other than the returned value). This allows the compiler to factor out the strlen from the loop. That being said, that is quality of implementation, and that optimization is not available on other compiler/library implementations. – David Rodríguez - dribeas Aug 25 '12 at 20:35
@DavidRodríguez-dribeas this depends on the quality of the compiler, not something one should rely on for such optimization – ratchet freak Aug 26 '12 at 0:50
@ratchetfreak: I know, I already mentioned it :) – David Rodríguez - dribeas Aug 26 '12 at 3:16
There are some cases in which a std::string might beat a char[]. For example, C-style strings typically don't have an explicit length passed around—instead, the NUL terminator implicitly defines the length.
This means that a loop which continually strcats onto a char[] is actually performing O(n²) work, because each strcat has to process the entire string in order to determine the insertion point. In contrast, the only work that a std::string needs to perform to concatenate onto the end of a string is to copy the new characters (and possibly reallocate storage—but for the comparison to be fair, you have to know the maximum size beforehand and reserve() it).
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A std::string knows its length, which makes many operations quicker.
For example, given:
const char* c1 = "Hello, world!";
const char* c2 = "Hello, world plus dog!";
std::string s1 = c1;
std::string s2 = c2;
strlen(c1) is slower than s1.length(). For comparisons, strcmp(c1, c2) has to compare several characters to determine the strings are not equal, but s1 == s2 can tell the lengths are not the same and return false immediately.
Other operations also benefit from knowing the length in advance, e.g. strcat(buf, c1) has to find the null terminator in buf to find where to append data, but s1 += s2 knows the length of s1 already and can append the new characters at the right place immediately.
When it comes to memory management, std::string allocates additional space every time it grows, which means future append operations don't need to reallocate.
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Here is a short point of view.
First of all, C++ strings are objects, so it is more consistent to use them in an object oriented language.
Then, the standard library comes with a lot of useful functions for strings, iterators, etc. All this stuff is stuff you won't have to code again, so you gain time and you're sure that this code is (almost) bugless.
Finally, C strings are pointers, that are kind of difficult to understant when you're new, and they bring complexity. Since references are preferred over pointers in C++, it makes more sens e to use std::string instead of C string.
Hope i helped.
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C++ is not an object oriented language. – Jonathan Wakely Aug 25 '12 at 17:58
@JonathanWakely It is not only an object-oriented language. However, it is definitely possible to perform object-oriented programming in it, which in my opinion is the only reasonable definition of "object-oriented language." – John Calsbeek Aug 25 '12 at 17:59
Object oriented programming IS the basic difference in C and C++. Originally C++ was named 'C with classes'. – Coding Mash Aug 25 '12 at 18:06
@CodingMash, there are many other differences, such as templates, which have nothing to do with OO. C++ is a multi-paradigm language, not an OO language. You can write OO code in C (with enough effort) but that doesn't make it an "OO language" – Jonathan Wakely Aug 25 '12 at 18:08
I just said the basic difference. you are right there are many others as templates, namespaces, etc, etc. I was merely commenting on that 'c++ is not and object oriented language'. It may not be PURELY oop language, its has the procedural paradigm as well (no offence meant) – Coding Mash Aug 25 '12 at 18:13
Well, an obvious and simple thing how they could be practically more efficient (regarding runtime) is, that they store the string's length along with the data (or at least their size method has to be O(1), which says practically the same).
So whenever you would need to find the NUL character in a C string (and thus walk the whole string once) you can just get the size in constant time. And this happens quite a lot, e.g. when copying or concatenating strings and thus allocating a new one beforehand, whose size you need to know.
But I don't know if this is what the author meant or if it makes a huge difference in practice, but it still is a valid point.
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Strings are the object which contain character arrays within themselves along with their size and other functionalities.It is better to use strings from strings library because they save you from allocating and deallocating memory, looking out for memory leaks and other pointer hazards. But as strings are objects, so they take extra space in memory.
Cstrings are simply character arrays. They SHOULD be used when you are working in real time; when you do not know completely about how much memory space you have in hand. If you are using cstrings, you would have to take care for memory allocation, then copying data into it via strcpy or character by character, then deallocating after its usage, etc,etc. So better use strings from string library if you want to avoid a bunch of head aches.
Strings increase program efficiency but reduce processing efficiency(though not necessarily). Vice versa is with cstrings
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Good answer. Thank you sir – James Leonard Aug 25 '12 at 17:53
It is not true that std::string necessarily reduces processing efficiency. – Jonathan Wakely Aug 25 '12 at 18:06
That somehow contradicts what the quote in the question says, instead of explaining why the quote says so. It's not about headaches, but about processing efficiency. – Christian Rau Aug 25 '12 at 18:06
The difficulty with C-style strings is that one really can't do much with them unless one knows about the data structures in which they are contained. For example, when using "strcpy", one must know that the destination buffer is writable, and has enough space to accommodate everything up to the first zero byte in the source (of course, in all too many cases, one doesn't really know that for certain...). Very few library routines provide any support for allocating space on demand, and I think all those that do work by allocating it unconditionally (so if one had a buffer with space for 1000 bytes, and one wants to copy a 900-byte string, code using those methods would have to abandon the 1000-byte buffer and then create a new 900-byte buffer, even though it might be better to simply reuse the 1000-byte buffer).
Working with an object-oriented string type would in many cases not be as efficient as working with standard C-strings but figuring out the optimal ways to allocate and reuse things. On the other hand, code which is written to optimally allocate and reuse strings may be very brittle, and slight changes to requirements could require making lots of tricky little tweaks to the code--failing to tweak the code perfectly would likely result in bugs which may be obvious and severe, or subtle but even more severe. The most practical way to avoid brittleness in code which uses standard C strings is to design it very conservatively. Document maximum input-data sizes, truncate anything which is too big, and use big buffers for everything. Workable, but not terribly efficient.
By contrast, if one uses the object-oriented string types, the allocation patterns they use will likely not be optimal, but will likely be better than the 'allocate everything big' approach. They thus combine much of the run-time efficiency of the hand-optimized-code approach with safety that's better than the 'allocate everything big' approach.
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Audemars Piguet
Greatest Audemars Piguet Luxury Watches
In regards of the Swiss horology, the Audemars Piguet is one of the most prominent manufacturers that produces marvelous timepieces. During the year 1874, a partnership happened between Jules Audemars and Edward Piguet when it comes to providing a high quality of watches in the world through excellent cooperation despite their young age. Both of them had various capabilities in the watchmaking industry. For instance, Audemars took in charge of the technical aspect and the production of watchmaking. Meanwhile, Piguet was accountable for the sales of the incredible watches. Due to their excellent teamwork, they were able to achieve the band’s success as well as they were able to maintain a strong position amongst other luxury brands of timepieces.
In 1892, the Swiss company launched its first-minute repeater in the world that showcased an innovative move in the watchmaking industry. However, 1918 and 1919 were the setback years of the watchmaking brand since Audemars and Piguet died in those corresponding years. Fortunately, the heirs of the Swiss Company were their sons who continue to work on the watchmaking namely Paul-Louis Audemars and Paul-Edward Piguet. They kept the jobs of their parents and exerted significant efforts when it comes to the design of the many exceptional timepieces with a touch of innovative techniques and using materials that are in high-quality.
It was in the year 1929 when they launched their marvelous watches with a bit of an art deco theme. Also, this just shows that their efforts were paid off when they won a massive market share for the brand considering that those timepieces were in high style during that time. The most innovative watch in this line was deemed to be Royal Oak model due to being the first high-end sports watch that was built in stainless steel, and an octagonal bezel including eight screws in a hexagonal form.
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The two young lads excellent cooperation was able to help them establish the brand in a more stable position inside the world of the luxury watch brands. Throughout the times, the Swiss company has continuously come up with the most sophisticated and spectacular timepieces. The following are some of the brand’s watches that made a huge impact in the Swiss watchmaking industry.
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Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph
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2. Oak Grande Complication
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Additional features comprise an innovative minute repeater, water resistance, and a split-second chronograph. The placement of the small seconds is at the 9 o’clock position. The watch comes in white gold and flaunts a see-through case back that allows the watch enthusiasts to acknowledge the invested time and effort in making this sophisticated timepiece. There are countless of other Audemars Piguet designs available on the market consider its long heritage. To acquire a deeper concept about the Audemars Piguet’s offers, it is best to review other reviews as well.
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After many decades of success, Audemars Piguet is considered to be one of the top 3 Swiss luxury watchmaking brands in the world. Despite the latest technology that their company possesses, they still choose to hand make every single timepiece which is possible for them to achieve because of their 1,000 personnel members who would work on such. The timepieces do tinkle when it is ready for its usual tune up which regularly happens after a couple of years. Moreover, they have particular locations where people can take these watches for a checkup. They are a team of individuals who have an adequate knowledge of the intricate design of these timepieces.
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In spite of the watch’s details and functionalities, the Audemars Piguet company still maintains to produce an approximate of 26,000 watches every year. Also, this is a Swiss company that is very much family owned, and the skill and watchmaking knowledge is being turned over from one generation to the other generation. Although the watches are possible to sell in their retail stores, these watches are most often available in Bulgari, Tiffany & Co. and Cartier. Having all of these points in mind, it is so safe to say that every timepiece from this Swiss company is much worth their weight in price. They are created to last a lifetime and are designed to make your everyday life much easier. They are incorporated with regal perfection and prestige. Despite the fact that these timepieces are not affordable to everyone, a question would arise, who doesn’t want one?
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Chapter 16
Language-Specific Features
• Choosing the right language for the job
• Working with the new C# and VB language features
• Understanding and getting started with Visual F#
The .NET language ecosystem is alive and well. With literally hundreds of languages targeting the .NET Framework (you can find a fairly complete list at, .NET developers have a huge language arsenal at their disposal. Because the .NET Framework was designed with language interoperability in mind, these languages are also able to talk to each other, allowing for a creative cross-pollination of languages across a cross-section of programming problems. You can literally choose the right language tool for the job.
This chapter explores some of the latest language paradigms within the ecosystem, each with particular features and flavors that make solving those tough programming problems just a little bit easier. After a tour of some of the programming language paradigms, you’ll learn about some of the new language features introduced in Visual Studio 2012.
You need to be a flexible and diverse programmer. The programming landscape requires elegance, efficiency, and longevity. Gone are the days of picking one language and platform and executing like crazy to meet the requirements of your problem domain. Different nails sometimes require different hammers.
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We all know about Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments, in which volunteers believed that they had shocked other volunteers to death, just because the experimenter had told them they were expected to. But a new book called Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Australian journalist and psychologist Gina Perry revisits Milgram's original research documentation and concludes that Milgram fudged his conclusions.
After examining the original tapes of Milgram's experiments and interviewing the surviving subjects and researchers, Perry concludes that Milgram's experimenters didn't stick to a set script (as has always been reported), but rather wheedled and nagged the subjects into turning up the shock dial. What's more, it seems that a substantial fraction of the subjects realized that there were no actual shocks, seeing through the ruse -- they were also recorded as people who were willing to shock strangers to death on the say-so of a man in a labcoat.
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Another big news day is done, and I sit here with a frosty beverage winding down for the evening. I like to do that by catching up on all the stuff on the Internet I might have missed through the day. If that sounds like you, cheers! I'll make it easier for you. Here's the highlights of today's events.
Hardware stuff
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The word chocolate is spelled thus, with two '-o-'s and three syllables, + a silent '-e'. (It is usually pronounced with two syllables, 'CHOCK-lit'. IPA: /ˈtʃɒk lət/.
Etymological note: chocolate, the popular flavouring for sweets in the modern world, is derived from the pre-Conquest Mexican chocolatl, prepared (both by early Central Americans and modern people worldwide) from the seeds of the cacao (or 'cocoa') tree, Theobroma Cacao. The great taxonomist Linnaeus gave the cacao plant, which produces the raw material for chocolate, the name Theobroma cacao, deriving the first word from the Greek θεός (theos), meaning 'god', and βρῶμα (broma), meaning 'food', suggesting that cocoa is the food of the gods. Who can disagree? | <urn:uuid:e2f35a39-490d-4ac9-9b1f-57e6437deb5f> | {
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Finding inspiration
When I started playing with Illustrator, a few weeks ago, I saw the kind of amazing art work that could be created, but wasn't inspired enough to produce something beautiful and colourful. Instead, like many designers, I found inspiration in something that already existed... existed in a form that I think lacked function.
I really don't like the icon/symbol that represents disability - the wheelchair icon. It's technically a black line icon but what I see is a grey NHS wheelchair with big rubber wheels and casters, that is terribly heavy. So that inspired me to create new disability icons, that represent a different view of disability. I wanted my icons to represent capability and activity in a wheelchair... for the wheelchair to be a positive symbol, rather than a symbol of pity.
And so, you may remember, I created this...
An icon of an off road wheelchair and an assistance dog
Of course, even though the current wheelchair icon doesn't actually look like a real wheelchair, we see it as one, because we make that connection. The problem with my new icon is that hardly anyone knows what a mountain trike is, so most people see it as a penny farthing, which is really funny! I wonder whether the mountain trike inventor intended to create an extension of the penny farthing???
So at some point, I intended to make a new wheelchair icon, based on my normal day chair.
We had a team away day at work, where the learning design team were exploring new software and tools for creating animations and video. There are several rapid authoring tools out there but they all had limitations, so at the end of the exercise, I agreed to go away and find out how Adobe Animate works.
I thought I'd start with my mountain trike and see if I could animate it. It came as no surprise to find out that the whole image had to broken down into its component parts, with each part on its own layer. You then animate each layer separately. Some of these were easy, such as the wheels. The 'shape tweening' facility accurately worked out that the wheels had to rotate and move forward, but stay completely circular.
The first challenge came with the body, but was quickly repeated with other similar shapes. I wanted the body, arms and lever to both move and rotate a small amount (not spin) to create a realistic movement. I now regret not exporting the failed attempts, as they were quite funny. However, I discovered the shape hints, which allow you to identify parts of the shape which need to stay the same shape, and using several shape hints, I got there in the end.
The biggest challenge by far, was the lever. I ended up having to animate it by hand, frame-by-frame, which was quite time consuming. Although it was frustrating not being able to animate it automatically, I was quite pleased with the final result, which I looped and exported as a GIF.
Animated video showing mountain trike moving along a short path, operated by its lever.
Refining and progressing
Having made my first animation (which was embarrassingly short) I pressed on and decided to go back to my day chair idea. Initially, I went for a normal chair with spokes in the wheels, as I hadn't got a clue how to create and animate my loopwheels. I created the spokes with three straight lines (diameter of circle) and animated each one separately. The software did this with relative ease, except that sometimes, instead of the spoke spinning, it rotated outwards and detached itself from the wheel. Eventually I fixed that (mostly) and here is the result...
Animated video showing person self-propelling a wheelchair
I liked the general idea but the propelling movement didn't look very realistic and I really wanted my loopwheels. So I kept going. I decided to create the loops and the centre of the wheel as one item (on one layer) and convert it into a symbol. Miraculously that worked straightaway and they rotated as planned.
Then I worked on the 'easing' of the movement, to try to put some acceleration and deceleration into it. I ended up overdoing it a bit, so might need to adjust it. I'll be honest, it was a bit faffy having to adjust each section of each layer individually. I wonder whether there is a way of selecting all tweens and adjusting the easing for all at the same time. But anyway, here is the final result...
Animated video of wheelchair with loopwheels, being propelled across a path
What next?
Now that I know how to create and animate basic shapes, there are three things I want to move on to...
1. Adding in backgrounds - possibly have the background moving to simulate motion, but with the object staying in one place.
2. Create an animation that tells a story - introduce some scene changes and text.
3. Move away from black icons and create some actual images.
1. very good you will be working for pixar soon oh thats an idea storyboard a cartoon and animate it !!!
1. Lol! I don't think I'm anywhere close to that standard yet! My aim is to be able to produce short animations that I can use in my eLearning products. I'm not a good enough artist to do cartoons.
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The original lamp that came with the 54 liters fish tank should provide some adequate lighting. The light is designed to assist plants (albeight submerged) to grow, so this should work above water as well, right?
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By Rick Morris
The perfect race or training workout is a rare occurrence. There is nearly always some phase of your running that could use some improvement. Maybe the early miles go well but you have problems finishing strongly. You may have trouble maintaining a quality pace in the middle of your races. Perhaps you have blazing speed but tend to fatigue quickly.
If there is any part of your racing or running that you're not happy with, don't worry. It's not a permanent problem, you just need to fine tune your training program. If you are a competitive runner you're almost certainly following some sort of periodized training program. You're probably doing some combination of easy endurance runs, lactate threshold workouts, tempo runs, speed runs, hill running and strength training on a fairly consistent basis.
There are many different ways to build a periodized training program. Some runners follow a classic periodization scheme of base endurance training followed by stamina building tempo runs and speed building interval training. Others may follow a year round multi pace plan or a combination of those periodization schemes. No matter what type of periodization scheme you follow there is one additional step you should be taking - fine tuning.
Fine tuning is a simple matter of analyzing your running performance and adjusting your training schedule to improve your areas of weakness. What are your strengths and weaknesses? Are you lacking endurance? Is your stamina level low? Do you need more speed and power? Once you know the areas you need to work on it's a simple matter to begin to concentrate on improving those systems.
Here are some common racing/running problems and the steps to fine tune your training program.
Problems Holding Pace During 5K to Half Marathon Races
Slowing down in the second half of your races may be caused by race management. If you start out too fast you may be reaching high levels of fatigue early in your race that you're unable to recover from. Try to keep your adrenaline in check early in the race and stay within your planned pace. If race management isn't the problem you should consider focusing more on negative split training and lactate turn point training. Both of these types of training will develop your physical and mental ability to hold a quality pace when you reach a high level of fatigue and are running at or faster than your lactate turn point.
Problems Holding Pace During a Marathon
Running negative splits is a good strategy with shorter 5K and 10K racing. Negative splitting can also be a successful strategy with marathon racing but most marathoners will do better with even pacing during a marathon. Are you having problems holding your race pace during the final miles of your marathon? You're not alone. The vast majority of marathon runners slow drastically during the last miles of a marathon. Can you train to avoid that marathon slow down? Yep - you can. The best way to train your body to hold race pace in those final 3 to 8 miles is by doing fast finish long runs during training. Fast finish marathon long runs will mimic the condition of your body in the actual race and will prepare you to stay strong both physically and mentally in the final miles.
Struggling During the Middle Miles of 5K to Half Marathon Races
The middle miles of 5K to half marathon races have become the forgotten child of distance running. Many runners concentrate on opening speed and finishing strong but pay little attention to those all important middle miles. You should be able to maintain a strong pace with little difficulty during the middle miles. If you can't you may be lacking in stamina, endurance or combination of the two. Try to extend the distance of your weekly long run to build your endurance. To improve your stamina place more focus on extending the distance of a weekly tempo run.
Struggling During the Middle Miles of a Marathon
If you are properly trained, you should be on cruise control during the middle miles of your marathon. If your middle marathon miles feel difficult you are almost certainly lacking in both stamina and your ability to run at goal pace. Increase your concentration on long tempo runs and longer marathon goal pace workouts.
Poor Finishing Kick in Races
Don't you just hate getting out kicked at the end of a race? It's much better to be the kicker than the kickee! Make sure you are the one doing the kicking by including sprint finishes in all of your workouts. Add 200 to 400 meter sprint finishes to all of your training runs from long endurance runs to interval training. The sprint finishes will improve your foot speed and your ability to kick when fatigued.
Lack of Speed in Races
Racing is all about speed. If you don't have it you'll have problems performing to the best of your ability. To race fast you need to train fast. Many distance runners fall into the trap of doing lots of long slow distance running but very little fast interval training. If you need to boost your speed start doing two to three workouts per week at 10K pace or faster. The high quality speed training will compliment your long slow endurance training and improve your overall speed and performance level.
Stride Problems During the Final Miles of Races
After you finish your next race stick around the finish line and watch the strides of the finishers. You will probably notice that the majority of the runners don't look great as the pass over the finish line. Their strides are breaking down and looking ugly. Running strides tend to break down and become very inefficient when running muscles aren't strong enough to overcome fatigue levels and maintain structural integrity. To avoid end of race stride problems you need to strengthen those muscles. You can do that in two ways - strength training and hill running. Strength training will provide a good strong base of muscular strength and hill running will improve both your functional strength and running economy.
Problems Running on Hills
I love a race with lots of hills. I love a hilly race because I am a strong hill runner. Most runners are weak on hills and I am able to gain a significant advantage. Why are some runners stronger on hills than others? It's really a no brainer! Strong hill runners do a lot of their training on hills. If you are a weak hill runner try to do at least one workout per week on hills or on an inclined treadmill.
Excessive Fatigue During Interval Training Sessions
You race performance depends upon the quality of your training sessions. If you can't complete high quality training workouts you'll never reach your peak potential. A good example is your interval training on the track. Do you have problems completing your interval routine? If so, you may be lacking both endurance and stamina. Increase the distance of your weekly long run and do more tempo and lactate turn point training. The quality of your interval training will improve along with your race performance.
Performance Levels Dropping
Despite all of your hard training, your performance levels are dropping. You believe you're doing all of the right things during training but your race performance keeps getting worse. What the heck is going on? Do you need to train harder? Maybe not. You may be over reaching or over training. One of the first signs of over training syndrome is an unexpected decrease in race performance. Try taking a few days completely off and reducing your level of training for two to three weeks. Then get back into training and see if your race performance comes back up. This is especially important if you see any of the other signs of over training such as elevated resting heart rate, chronic fatigue or frequent illness.
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A conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol or driving while impaired in Minnesota can result in some harsh penalties. Even in situations that involve no other infractions or aggravating factors, someone found guilty of drunk driving may face jail time, steep fines and license suspension. When facing one serious factor, driving with a minor in the vehicle, those who stand accused would be wise to build a strong DWI defense.
Recently, police arrested a 41-year-old woman for drunk driving after police received a call from a concerned citizen. The caller apparently informed police that the woman was driving erratically and had narrowly missed rear-ending several other vehicles. The witness claimed to have seen the woman drive through a red light while two children in the vehicle were screaming.
Police located the vehicle the caller had described and noticed a woman removing 4-year-old twins from the car. When officers questioned her, the woman allegedly displayed signs of intoxication, including bloodshot eyes. Police say she admitted to running the red light. Her preliminary blood alcohol concentration purportedly tested at .31, which is more than three times the legal limit.
A significantly high BAC, a traffic infraction and transporting minors while under the influence may intensify the administrative sanctions and the criminal penalties for a conviction. With so much as stake it may not be wise for someone facing such charges to take on a DWI defense without skilled assistance. An experienced Minnesota attorney can provide representation with the goal of minimizing the negative consequences of these serious charges. | <urn:uuid:30673f2d-72c0-487e-ad3d-5cb80b02a638> | {
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Chewy Oatmeal Marshmallow Cookie Recipe
Oatmeal Marshmallow Delights ©heather irwin
Chewy Chocolate Oatmeal Delights
Submitted by Cheryl
1 cup of softened butter
2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1 cup PACKED brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups quick cook oatmeal.
2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa
Mini marshmallows and 1/4 cup of butter for gooey center
2. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cocoa, and cinnamon; stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in oats. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour. (This will help keep the cookies soft after they are baked)
3. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets. Roll the dough into walnut sized balls, and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Flatten each cookie with a large fork dipped in sugar. the cookies get much bigger, so make sure they are about 2 inches apart.
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Maintaining Wire EDMs
Canadian Industrial Machinery asked Mitsubishi Technical Marketing Manager Greg Langenhorst to describe the role proper maintenance plays in wire EDM production.
CIM: What happens when a wire EDM is not properly maintained?
Langenhorst: If machines that are as intricate as a wire EDM are not maintained properly, they will let you down when you need them the most. It never fails that when you’re in a rush with a hot job on a short deadline, something goes down. With such a delicate process, something as seemingly minor as resin particles can lead to much larger machine performance issues.
CIM: Why is dirt such an enemy in EDM cutting?
Langenhorst: There are a lot of moving parts in a wire EDM, many of them small and delicate, and others that need to be clean to sense if things are working properly. Because the machine cuts with a shaped electronic pulse, the cutting technology is tuned to a clean machine and will change as the machine gets dirty and the contact point wears.
The cutting tool on a wire EDM is the brass wire electrode. If anything hinders the smooth operation of that electrode traveling through the machine, accuracy, and performance go down very quickly.
Users expect these machines to hold accuracies of 0.0001 inch and complain when they don’t. What we normally find when checking out these issues is lack of maintenance. All it takes to screw up an auto threading cycle is a dirty contact sensor that no longer lets the machine know that the wire is even there.
CIM: What can be discovered during a routine visual inspection?
Langenhorst: Sometimes we see faint lines on the surface of a multiskimmed part and find it was caused by a rusty bearing in the lower head of the machine. Wire breakage or reduced cutting speeds are generally caused by a lack of attention paid to the power feeders, electrical cables, and possibly water conductivity. All of these items need to be checked regularly to ensure proper operation and performance.
CIM: How can worn parts be recognized?
Langenhorst: Most machines have a maintenance timer screen that coordinates many wear items with an expected life span or maintenance interval. When they count down to zero, do the maintenance.
Other items can be checked visually, such as the depth of a wear groove in a ceramic pinch roller and dirt accumulation in certain areas. Others can be felt by turning a roller and feeling a growling bearing. Power feeder wear can be seen by lost cutting speed, and increased wire breakage tells you the wear groove is too deep and the carbide needs to be indexed.
The auto threader has a maintenance screen that keeps track of where an insert cycle fails, and how many attempts it makes to pinpoint what part needs to be attended to. A back-pressure gauge tracks filter contamination, and when it reaches a set pressure, it needs to be changed. The water conductivity is monitored by a sensor displayed onscreen that lets you know when the DI [deionization] resin needs changing.
CIM: What is happening when a machine is cutting slower than normal?
Langenhorst: That tells me there are many maintenance issues that need to be addressed on that machine. Machines, like people, can run at optimum performance even when they are considered old as long as they are exercised and fed proper consumables, with attention paid to proper upkeep.
CIM: What is an overlooked area of maintenance in EDM machines?
Langenhorst: The first item on this list is the water conductivity sensor. It checks the electrical conductivity of the water and cycles it through the DI resin to maintain a proper level.
The problem is, as this sensor gets dirty, it gives you a reading lower than the water really is, which directly affects the cutting technology, surface finish, and wire breakage. I recommend cleaning it every second filter change, or if you’ve blown a filter and dirt has gotten into the system, several times following installation of new filters to make sure there is no dirt buildup on this sensor. Second on my list is the fluid solenoids as they can accumulate dirt, like when a filter blows, and all of a sudden you aren’t getting proper water flow through the auto threading (AT) jet, suction aspirator, and wire collection system.
CIM: How should cabling be maintained?
Langenhorst: Wire electro-discharge machines cut with the flow of pulsed energy between the wire electrode and a workpiece. The frequencies are very high, peak pulse currents are very high, and any disruption in that shaped pulse causes a drop in performance. A loose feedback cable, a corroded connection, or a small cut in the rubber surface of a cable can all spell doom to your finely tuned machine.
Just as an example, some of our customers make fixtures from aluminum, not understanding that they will work great the first few days, and then oxidation sets in. Dissimilar-metal corrosion builds a resistance layer between the fixture and the grounding points, and then they don’t work anymore. I’ve taken a machine that was cutting poorly and removed, sanded, and replaced every cable connector in the work tank area and saw the performance improve. We recommend replacing the power feed and ground cables every five years to keep the current flowing and maintain new-machine performance.
CIM: What is the ideal approach to EDM maintenance?
Langenhorst: Every machine made has a recommended maintenance cycle printed in the manual. We cannot stress highly enough to follow that to the letter, and if you claim to be a high-end shop holding very high accuracies, you’ll be doing some things even more often.
Regular maintenance time is the best time you can give to your bottom line. Then you have a machine you can depend on when a hot job rolls in the door or you expect it to run through the weekend and have the job done Monday morning and not break the wire 15 minutes after you walk out the door.
Auto threading/Wire Transport System. The auto threader automatically threads the wire through the workpiece and allows for many unattended hours of operation. Worn parts and dirt in this system can lead to failure.
Fluid System. This system removes ions from the water generated by the cutting process and controls the conductivity of the water. Paper filters and improper deionization (DI) resin levels can lead to failure.
Power Transfer Components. These components bring the cutting current to the machine heads from the power supply. Any defects in the cables can lead to power loss.
Mechanical System. Mechanical components include rollers, bearings, and flush cups. Resistance to movement, dirt, and wear in any of these components can lead to failure. Bad bearings create vibration and can cause lines on the workpiece surface. Flush cups direct the high-pressure flush into the gap to remove sludge quickly. Chipped, cracked, or broken cups allow that water pressure to escape to the sides, resulting in reduced cutting speeds. Dirty components in the wire transport system can lead to clogging or inaccuracies in part quality.
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Fox News Weather Center
INFOGRAPHIC: Explore the Anatomy, Threats of a Hurricane
While it's no secret that hurricanes are dangerous and can cause serious destruction, a hurricane's specific composition is less commonly known.
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We Should Help Veterans Where They Need It: Schools and Colleges
With growing numbers of veterans returning from overseas and transitioning out of the armed services, the Veterans Administration is falling behind on a number of metrics, including the basic need to process vets waiting for benefits. The growing backlog of veterans waiting for help reflects on the U.S. as a national shame, and the VA is not showing signs of being ready to adapt with innovative forms of outreach, development and commitment to the men and women who served the U.S. valiantly, whether they spent their entire service based in the U.S., or endured multiple tours overseas.
A particularly stark example arises in the case of an obvious site for interventions and services: schools and colleges. Many veterans attend college after leaving the armed services, taking advantage of their GI Bill benefits to access educational opportunities. Paired with military experience, education can help veterans prepare for the civilian workplace and develop marketable skills that will serve them well in the years to come — but they still need VA services to succeed.
Veterans in college environments can face issues like ongoing health problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, and trouble with developing study skills and life skills; issues like exploitative lending targeting veterans, for example, are ongoing in many parts of the United States. Providing veterans’ centers on campuses would be an obvious way to help vets access services easily and efficiently as part of their college experience, easing the transition into the civilian world and helping veterans achieve higher completion rates. The dropout rate for veterans is extremely high, making it clear that the services provided in educational settings aren’t adequate to their needs.
Thus, services like the City College of San Francisco’s veterans center could make a huge difference for veterans struggling in school and having trouble with their lives. Staffed by social work and psychiatric providers, the clinic helps vets navigate the college experience and access services at off-site VA locations. Brilliant, right? Bringing services to people directly in their communities is one of the best ways to ensure that they actually use those services.
If you think this is an innovative pilot program by the VA, you’d be wrong; City College pushed for the center and was the driving source behind its development. Even though it’s performing very well and offering a valuable service to veterans on campus, it’s not the brainchild of the VA, and the administration is moving slowly when it comes to getting it out of the early stages, just as it’s lagging on other services for veterans:
The initiative remains in the pilot stage, with a $2.8 million annual budget. Funds go only to schools where both the local VA and a college administrator express interest, not necessarily to those with the greatest needs. At nearly all schools with the largest veteran populations, the VA is providing no health services.
Overall, 6,000 veterans have had access to such centers, a fraction of those who need the services, and a fraction of those leaving the armed services. This is something that needs to change, and quickly, because veterans are struggling significantly in school; in addition to having a high attrition rate, they’re also prone to behavioral outbursts, difficulty completing courses, trouble integrating in school and difficulty establishing safe living conditions. Simple interventions like these centers can make the difference between life and death for vets with psychiatric needs, or they can differentiate between success and failure for those who need some extra support while they get on their feet.
There’s another benefit to making campuses veteran-friendly: it encourages more veterans to enroll, and creates a culture of mutual support. As veterans exchange stories and tips, they create a strong social network that can help them succeed in both school and life, which can be a powerful part of their transition. With such win-win balances, the VA’s decision to delay the rollout of such services on a more extensive nation-wide level is puzzling, and troubling: do we really value vets so little?
Photo credit: Beverly.
R Susan Stecks
R Susan Stecks2 years ago
I have a real issue with our government regarding this issue. The people in the military risk their lives to protect our country, people of the US, yet, the government of the US doesn't give them the proper respect, appreciation, recognition they deserve. What would the government of the US do if there weren't anyone to protect our country and our people? It doesn't make since to me that we support other countries and provide for other countries, but our government doesn't honer, respect the people who protect us. Shame on the government for their lack of respect and caring for those who fight to protect their bums to live a life of wealth and health. Shame on the government for turning a blind eye. How can they go to bed knowing that they are protected and yet do very little to protect and help those who are protecting them. Those who protect our country are good people and deserve the best that life has. They have earned the right to learn and be educated.They have earned the right to free education, they have earned the right to a life of health and happiness.
Angela G.
Angela Gardner2 years ago
I like the idea that the City College of San Fransico has for placing a student veteran center on it's campus to help them get the support they need. We need more outside the box ideas to help our veterans returning or leaving the military.
Unfortunately, Congress in consumed with deficit disaster syndrome and is cutting services including those for veterans while at the same time protecting low tax rates and tax payer subsidies for corporate america and the rich. That's why our veterans are not getting the care and services they need.
Fred Hoekstra
Fred Hoekstra2 years ago
Thank you S. E. Smith, for Sharing this!
David F.
David F.2 years ago
The USA is a force of good all around the planet preventing wars and sacrificing our young and treasure to assist civility and stability. We have the power to annex countries all over, but we don’t, we leave the countries to their own destiny. North and South Korea is a good comparison of mass death and suffering compared to wealth and prosperity. There are dozens of more. You are in denial and a hateful, envious, failure personally. It’s natural to always blame someone else or other countries and not accept your own failure.
I’m sorry you don’t have the freedom to own or enjoy firearms, that’s a critical part of our constitution that protects the rest of the constitution. The USA unlike your country that you hate, servitude to your ruling class is inevitable. I love my country, love our armed forces and wish prosperity to all on this planet.
"Peace Through Strength"
Spencer Y.
Spencer Young2 years ago
Education is the only way America can regain her glory. If we'd stop being the world's police and building military bases where people don't want us,we could use that money to pay and better educate our own. Perhaps then we solve problems with our brains instead of our might and the world would be better for all,
Will Rogers
Will Rogers2 years ago
David F. I am not only hating america, I hate any country including my own that chooses war over peace. Anyone! Who defends war! No matter how patriotic it makes them feel, is a idiot. What David F, is your excuse? Is it just jingoism that caused your knee jerk reaction to defend something that is obviously wrong? And what the hell are doing with that deer you old Texan redneck you. You support the army? Why? Is it the Texan hobby of getting your gun off that has addled your brain. You need to smoke something instead of reaching for your gun and believing that war is the answer, the way to Peace and prosperity and happiness (meaning, no war) is not found through the barrel of a gun - I know you believe it is. Do you join the armed forces because you are educated or uneducated? Do people actually choose to go to war? Or is it some genetic aberration that makes a sadist? War is not a natural condition, it is a perversity forced on us by either, someone attacking us, as in self defence. Or us blindly following the whims of our crazy leaders. Either way, keep talking David F, you are doing your state proud, Yeehaw! Sho we nuff fight peeples abroad that say bad about merica, we sho nuff like war an guns to kill peeple who disargue wid us. Yeehaw!
David F.
David F.2 years ago
Will R your disgusting when you smoke, the only think you spewed truthful is: “I don’t get it”
Mark Vaughan
Mark Vaughan2 years ago
Sarah J. I hear you, but I have to tell you, I go to school in Texas, and I have a lot of classmates that match your description who have never seen combat. It's not just veterans who need help in this crazy world. And frankly, the positive aspects of taking control of their lives and moving forwards towards a better future helps many veterans cope with the PTSD.
Will Rogers
Will Rogers2 years ago
I don't get it. These people go abroad to kill people for money, they know the risk. They destroy people's lives just because politicians say so, they destroy countries while pretending they're doing them a favour (Vietnam, Iraq etc) leaving guns and weapons everywhere! And they expect love and sympathy and care? They're mercenaries for f--ks sake! Paid murderers, uniformed thugs with no accountability and yet you perverts want to reward them? They're not heroes, heroes save lives, heroes make the world a better place. In what way do soldiers make the world a better place, and when I say world, I mean the global world, not like the World Series football that only America can win, but more like the Olympic world where everyone takes part. I just wish that these police states and militaristic nations would stop insisting on pushing their war philosophies and their glorification of war on everyone else. This is one area in which North Korea and the United States are identical.
GGma Sheila D.
GGmaSheila D.2 years ago
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She’s Still Got It.
1. Jeremy Kinnick
nice triple extension in frame 2. Great Job SIS!
2. Congrats on the birth of your son-you look fantastic at 6 weeks post partum. You will gain everything and more quickly (got 3 of my own)!
~Kim Malz
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11 things the proposed Downtown South tax district may fund, including Lymmo expansion
– Reporter, Orlando Business Journal
Voters next month will decide whether they want to charge themselves a higher property tax rate to fund infrastructure projects in the district south of downtown Orlando.
City leaders are looking to create the Downtown South Neighborhood Improvement District with the vote. The city clerk will compile a list of property owners in the area for a mail-in ballot on the measure, which will be accepted from May 5-20.
The new tax district would create a special taxing authority that could levy a property tax of up to 2 mils, or $2 for every $1,000 in property value. Jason Burton, chief planner for the city of Orlando, said the tax would generate $325,000 per year at the 1 mil level and $650,000 per year at the 2 mil level.
At a March 19 meeting, a board recommended a tax of 1 mil, and also put together an early list of projects that could get funded with the new tax.
Here’s the downside: If you own a business or property in the downtown south area, your tax burden could go up. The upside, though, is the new infrastructure may make it easier for more businesses to expand in the area.
Here’s the list of projects:
Project: Expanding Lymmo
What it is: Bringing the free Lymmo bus service further south
Cost: To be determined
Project: Quiet zones
What it is: A way to fund the extra infrastructure to make the five SunRail crossings in the district quiet zones
Cost: To be determined
Project: Orange Ave and Michigan Street intersection improvements
What it is: With the Ultimate I-4 project coming down the pike and putting more truck routes onto Michigan Avenue, this project would help alleviate freight pressure on Orange Avenue. It includes walkability components.
Cost: $200,000 from the Neighborhood Improvement District, and $300,000 from other sources, for a total of $500,000
Project: Orange Avenue traffic management and bulb-outs
What it is: A way to address pedestrian and bike fatalities on Orange Avenue, the project would make the lanes smaller on Orange Avenue to make motorists slow down.
Cost: $250,000 per year, or $2 million total from the Neighborhood Improvement District, and an additional $2 million in grant funding
Project: Division Avenue enhancements
What it is: A way to address drainage along Division Avenue between Michigan and Kaley streets, as well as adding a lane
Cost: Cost: $500,000 from the Neighborhood Improvement District, and $500,000 from other sources for a total of $1 million
Project: Delaney Avenue improvements
What it is: Fewer lanes of traffic between Pinleloch and Michigan Street
Cost: To be determined
Project: Water, sewer and drainage
What it is: Increasing capacity for water, sewer and drainage along corridors that would be built out further as SunRail comes on board
Cost: $1.3 million
Project: Aesthetics
What it is: Adding trees, landscaping and entrance gateways along Orange Avenue and Michigan Street
Cost: $220,000
Project: Transportation connections
What it is: Because the street grids don’t match up, there are missing sidewalks. This would connect the dots.
Cost: $250,000
Project: Administration of the district
What it is: You can’t have a neighborhood district without people running it. This would be for part-time administrative staff.
Cost: $50,000 per year, or $750,000 for the life of the district
Project: Marketing
What it is: Because the Main Street District collects dues from business to market the area, a portion of the Neighborhood Improvement District funds would be allocated to marketing, to help ease the costs of the district on businesses.
Cost: The Neighborhood Improvement District would put in $15,000 per year, or $225,000 for the life of the district. But the total budget, when you include other revenue sources, is $1.4 million
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Creativity is highly valued but hard to quantify, an abstract concept that can seem both impossible to teach but also worthless without hard work and discipline. The Balvenie Scotch whisky is exploring the ways creativity manifests with “Quest for Craft,” a YouTube series starring Questlove kicking off its four-episode first season on Oct. 28.
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Classique lacquered - Purple
Classique lacquered - Purple - MaiTai Collection
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Classique lacquered - Purple
Classique lacquered - Purple
From €36.00 to €79.00
Please select a color/size
• Material: Lacquered horn
• Color: Purple
• Sizes: Petite, Moyenne and Grande
To find the perfect size for your scarves, please check my size guides: size guide by scarf format or size guide by scarf ring
Lacquer Collection
The base of the lacquered Classique ring is made of horn and hand-crafted to absolute perfection with completely smooth edges and surfaces. The corners and edges are carefully rounded and completely smooth, ensuring that your scarf glides safely and with fluidity through the ring. Several layers of lacquer are then applied by a skilled artisan until a deeply saturated color with a flawless gloss and finish is achieved.
Lacquered items have an extremely smooth, hard and durable surface. To ensure that your lacquered scarf and shawl rings keep their perfect shine, and to protect them from surface scratches or adverse effects by impact, please store them in the velvet pouch they come with. Also note that lacquer might chip if dropped from a height onto a hard surface.
Because they are hand-made, each ring has its own characteristics and variations and differs slightly from the next in size and shape, which is part of its beauty and charm.
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