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When Is Sexual Harassment Training Required?
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For a healthy work environment, it is better for an organization to know when is sexual harassment training required. All unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other physical or verbal abuses come under sexual harassment.
Anyone can experience sexual harassment, irrespective of their gender. It can be intimidating, humiliating, and offensive. This is why sexual harassment training is required in such places.
What does Sexual Harassment include?
The following offenses come under sexual harassment:
• Grabbing, touching, or making physical contact with someone without their consent.
• Making comments to anyone with a sexual meaning.
• Asking someone for sex or sexual favors.
• Leering or staring at others.
• Displaying offensive or rude material so that others can see it.
• Making suggestive body movements or sexual gestures towards someone.
• Cracking sexual jokes or comments around someone.
• Questioning others about their sex life.
• Insulting someone with sexual comments.
• Behavior over a phone call that makes someone uncomfortable.
• Indecent exposure in front of someone else.
• Sexually assaulting a person.
How can Sexual Harassment impact Someone?
A person who is sexually harassed may
• Feel anxious, depressed, or stressed,
• Withdraw from all kinds of social situations,
• Lose self-esteem and confidence,
• Have physical symptoms related to stress, like headaches or sleeping problems,
• Be unable to concentrate or be productive.
Sexual Harassment Training
Sexual harassment training educates people about the kind of conduct that constitutes such kind of behavior. It further teaches them how and when to file a complaint, encourages them to report questionable behavior that makes them uncomfortable. Sexual harassment training also sensitizes the higher-level people on matters pertaining to the said behavior and educates them on how to process the complaints. It further trains the bystanders on how to intervene if they witness any sexual harassment nearby them. All these elements come together to create a world that has zero tolerance for offensive crimes like sexual harassment.
When is Sexual Harassment Training required?
Sexual harassment training does not require any specific time to be conducted. Most organizations around the world have their own regulations regarding the time when they organize awareness programs or training related to such offenses. In some places, sexual harassment training may take place every month, while in others, they are conducted every six months.
However, one should maintain a general time frame for conducting such training. There should always be an initial harassment prevention training session in the organization. After that, people at the top level can conduct refresher courses annually. As a part of the same process, the people who participate in the session can sign acknowledgment forms that can be maintained in their personal files attesting to the completion of the training program. Because the implications of harassment may vary depending on the organization or the level of a student or an employee, designing specifically tailored programs for everyone is advisable.
Training requirements vary from place to place. For instance, anti-harassment training in California must be done bi-annually. The training is usually tracked by an anniversary date or by the training year. On the other hand, employers in New York should be provided sexual harassment training on an annual basis. It is a must for them to complete the annual training. There, employers should provide training to employees as soon as they are hired.
Here, as we can see, different places have different frequency requirements when it comes to conducting sexual harassment training at a school, university, or workplace.
Why is Sexual Harassment Training required?
Sexual harassment training is one of the most important requirements for preventing harassment and other inappropriate conduct at a school, college, university, or workplace. Here are the important reasons why one should conduct sexual harassment training:
• It reduces financial and legal liability
Numerous acts have come up in today’s world that places a duty on people to organize awareness programs and workshops at regular intervals. That is done to sensitize everyone with the provisions of the said acts. Some of these exercises have become legal mandates and failing to undertake the same may result in fines or even punishments. It may lead to certain organizations getting their licenses and registrations revoked. That is why it is important to conduct regular sexual harassment training.
• Ensures everyone is safe and productive
Being subject to or a witness to sexual harassment can be a harrowing experience for anyone – be it a college student or a corporate employee. The more encounters they face, the more depressed or anxious they become. Sometimes, it is accompanied by the general impairment of a person’s psychological well-being. It gives us a fair idea of how sexual harassment can impact someone’s productivity. Conducting sexual harassment training can make a place safer, assuages the discomfort or fear among people, and increases their productivity.
• Information on one’s legal rights
While a larger part of sexual harassment training focuses on the prevention and redressal of such behavior against people, such effective training also educates everyone about their legal rights if they or someone around them is accused of similar offenses. The training further aims to educate people on the best redressal practices.
• Communicates zero-tolerance of sexual harassment
It is difficult to say that a particular place has zero-tolerance without the presence of sexual harassment training. Undertaking periodic and rigorous training of such sort sends out a strong message from the top of any organization that it is taking a strong stand against the crime of sexual harassment.
• Makes all places safe
People are always required to visit a diverse set of venues and locations every day. Some of these places may remain unsafe for them. In some cases, instances of sexual harassment may also go unreported. That is when training of this sort can ensure that the place a person is traveling to is safer.
Benefit of Sexual Harassment Training
The primary objective of the owner of a place is to keep it safe and comfortable for the people coming there without any interpersonal conflict. Achieving that objective necessitates providing sexual harassment training.
• The most important benefit of sexual harassment training is presenting people with all levels of basic information about what constitutes harassment at a workplace, university, college, or any other organization.
• It also includes a description of the consequences of such offensive activities as well as steps to prevent such impermissible conduct.
• Moreover, people also get access to informative resources during the training session. That helps them fight such offenses better.
Final Words
There is usually a misconception among people that sexual harassment training is expensive. Any business can present effective and appropriate training of such sort at a cheaper cost. Moreover, even if there is a cost of training, it represents a reasonable investment that is for the benefit of those who are attending it. The benefits of recurring sexual harassment prevention include creating a safe and friendly environment.
Moreover, from the management’s perspective, that reduces the chance of any legal action against the said business based on a harassment complaint. One thing that everyone should keep in mind is that sexual harassment is one of the most serious offenses. So, training people on how to avoid such heinous crimes is a must in any organization.
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Calling All Music-Industry Insiders and the Economists Who Love Them
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger — he led the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, and his research has been featured several times on — is among a group of scholars launching a new endeavor. It’s called the Music Industry Research Association, and they want you to come to their first conference, at UCLA, in August. […]
Can the Right Music Get You Out of a Traffic Ticket?
Economists Needed in the Music Business!
For the first time, Austin City Limits, one of the two biggest music festivals in town, is running on two weekends instead of just one. Unfortunately, the price for a pass for the second weekend on Craigslist is now down to half the festival sponsor’s original asking price. Why?
1. The asking price for the second weekend was the same as for the first—not smart when you’re doubling the number of offerings; and the headliners are identical on the two weekends. The amount supplied is double in quantity, but no different in quality or even in variety; double supply, no change in demand.
2. Demand is almost certainly lower on the second weekend, since that is the weekend of the UT-Oklahoma game in Dallas.
It was probably a bad business decision to price the second weekend the same as the first.
(HT: KM)
In Praise of the Music in Freakonomics Radio
FREAK-est Links
1. Is male fertility declining? Or do we need more data?
2. The internet industry is considering adding over 1,000 new domains, but some are worried about infrastructure effects.
3. Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling's crime novel hits #1 on the Amazon bestseller list, less than a week after she was revealed as the book's author.
4. So you want to invest in the (legal) marijuana industry?
5. How long is the average PhD dissertation? Econ lands on the short side. (HT: Eric Jones)
6. The new era of music: how much does Spotify pay its artists? Next to nothing.
Do Rappers Exaggerate Their Wealth?
In his new album, rapper Jay-Z expresses skepticism about some of his colleagues' claims of extraordinary wealth, saying, "The truth in my verses, versus, your metaphors about what your net worth is." So are your favorite rappers lying about how rich they are? Bloomberg Businessweek straightens out the confusion with a great graphic comparing alleged vs. actual wealth. Here's a preview: Nicki Minaj is not "mak[ing] a billi like a big goat." (HT: The Big Picture)
Where to Find the Music in Freakonomics Radio Podcasts?
A few times a week, we get an e-mail like this one, from Oliver Breidenbach:
Hi guys,
I love the music you choose for the background of the podcast. Can you post a playlist on your site or let me know where I can find the music? I think many fans will enjoy that.
One reason we get this question so often is that the music in our podcasts is so good. So is, IMHO, the entire audio soundscape. All of that is primarily the doing of one man, David Herman, who is Freakonomics Radio's sound engineer/technical director/trivia repository -- and more.
As for where to learn about the music: we list it in each show's transcript, which accompanies the blog post that is published with each episode. Our podcast archive page is here. Enjoy!
Pay After You Go?
We've blogged extensively about pay-as-you wish pricing schemes. Springwise reports that a Spanish concert promoter is now experimenting with post-concert pay-as-you-wish pricing:
Spanish promoters Caravana de Emerxencia have recognized this problem and addressed it through their upcoming gig, where attendees can decide the price of the ticket when they leave.
The concert is taking place on April 4 at Sala Capitol in Santiago, northern Spain. Four bands will be playing on the night – SkarallaosChotokoeuSkarnivals and Swingdigentes. At the end of the evening attendees can pay whatever price they think the event deserves.
How do you like this plan? How do you think you would respond?
Making a Living Through Pay-as-You-Wish
A TED talk by musician Amanda Palmer explores the concept of pay-as-you-wish funding for artists and performers:
Right at this same time, I'm signing and hugging after a gig, and a guy comes up to me and hands me a $10 bill, and he says, "I'm sorry, I burned your CD from a friend." "But I read your blog, I know you hate your label. I just want you to have this money."
And this starts happening all the time. I become the hat after my own gigs, but I have to physically stand there and take the help from people, and unlike the guy in the opening band, I've actually had a lot of practice standing there. Thank you.
And this is the moment I decide I'm just going to give away my music for free online whenever possible, so it's like Metallica over here, Napster, bad; Amanda Palmer over here, and I'm going to encourage torrenting, downloading, sharing, but I'm going to ask for help, because I saw it work on the street. So I fought my way off my label and for my next project with my new band, the Grand Theft Orchestra, I turned to crowdfunding, and I fell into those thousands of connections that I'd made, and I asked my crowd to catch me. And the goal was 100,000 dollars. My fans backed me at nearly 1.2 million, which was the biggest music crowdfunding project to date.
And here's a rundown on other performers who've explored the pay-as-you-wish strategy.
I recently read a terrific book by sociologist Jennifer Lena, Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music. She explores the factors that influence the spread of musical taste — why some genres, bands, etc., gain popularity. Jennifer’s research is impressive because of the range of her exploration — according to her publisher's website, she covers “rap to bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka.”
Jennifer is helping redefine our understanding of social influence — what and who matters, and how ideas and tastes spread in complex social networks. I had a chance to ask Jennifer a few questions about her work.
Q. You are interested in factors that determine whether particular musical styles, genres, etc., will gain mass appeal — or remain circumscribed to a small niche. Have you discovered something about the process of "influence" or "contagion" that the social network scholars have ignored or underemphasized? What does your work tell us about the role of networks in shaping popular tastes?
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Rush to Gold Result of Stupid "Free" Trade scheme
- Free Trade Currency Wars Instead of Free Tariff Freedom -
The trouble started with a fascist, undemocratic WTO-GATT-NAFTA trade regimes written by multinational corporations and passed by corporate-fed legislators voting against the will of their own people. The result for First World Nations has been the gutting of economies, depression, the greatest shift of wealth in history, decline of democracy, and the empowerment of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
What we have now is a sorry setup of global oligarchy and oligopoly, the unnecessary transit of goods via fossil-fuel transport producing greater environmental impacts, and the ruin of First World wages, standards and benefits" not to mention the loss of democratic trade processes.
In the USA, this worst of worlds setup stems from the treaty power of the president and senate alone, and the removal of any interference from the great majority of wage-earning people in their own economy. Decades ago, the vast majority realized this as the schemes emerged and they would have vetoed these regimes had they any National Initiative process or veto of treaty powers.
As a result, so-called "free markets" have now been screwed up by forcing export-oriented economies and unbalancing domestic economies and needs. To further exports, fossil-fuel delivered "goods" now careen around the globe, and countries must continually lower their currency values. This leads to eco-ruin and higher costs of imported goods and inflation (after you've already seen your job outsourced, wages decline, and manufacturing capacity scuttled)" all because we have lost the right to adjust tariff policies as needed.
The result of people rushing today to invest in metals and resources is due to a "beggar-thy-neighbor" ever-cheaper currency policy due to the absence of free tariff policy. In addition to this scheme being nuts, we now screw up the earth with more mining and chewing up our environments due to the money fleeing currencies and investing in holes in the ground instead of building real economies meeting domestic needs first.
Remember that countries like India and China only had to change their internal incentives to unleash their entrepreneurs to achieve a better economy. They did not need to impoverish the First World in the process, and we did not need to "arbitrage" our labor and outsource employment. As a result of the current scheme, all countries can now never again reach these once higher standards, and the First World may never see them again, because they have been obliterated by forced "harmonization" in a race to the bottom courtesy of "free" trade.
Corporate economists and media shills still think economic "efficiency" is solely a corporate prerogative whose only meaning is to reward the greater slave and punish the higher wage and standard. They do not recognize any input from the vast majority in either defining or determining their level and practice of efficiency. In their eyes "comparative advantage" has no morals or scruples, so slavery wins.
For the First World economies, free trade has been an unmitigated disaster serving to create abject dependency on, of all people and regimes, communist capitalists! We now see our politicians pleading with China to get off their currency peg, all so we can make their goods more expensive here now that we decimated our domestic production capabilities. In any case, budget deficits and stimulus spending have been created, and necessitated, by bad trade policy.
Do you begin to see the utter idiocy of forced free trades here, particularly those who put up with an undemocratic World Trade Organization in which the vast majority of wage-earner have no say as to what happens with their economy and country?
In any event, the way out of this mess is to get together with the remaining democratic (I use the word loosely) countries and either withdraw from these fascist trade schemes, and/or rework the system so people elect their trade representatives, and retain the freedom to use tariff adjustments to manage their domestic economies, and thus enjoy real economic and cultural freedom.
Attempting to re-balance by currency wars is counterproductive and like killing a flea with a sledgehammer. Did I mention that Goldman Sachs and the big bank owners of the Fed are the ones who profit by currency-driven trade and the lack of any Bretton-Woods fixed exchange rates scheme?
Clearly, the fascist top-down scheme was unnecessary (not to mention vile) as companies can always get their global markets by producing and selling within countries around the world and without having tariff-free re-entry of greater-slave goods serving to extinguish the better world that gave them birth, screwing the higher standard, erasing the middle class, and decimating tax revenues, etc.
To arbitrage your own nation's labor and vast majority of wage-earners is to screw your own children and grandchildren under a scheme that is simply reprehensible.
Further, the idea that Smoot-Hawley had something to do with the Depression is also bogus in that the Federal Reserve began contracting the money supply in March of 1929 in a well-documented insider Wall Street scheme to fleece the people.
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In case you would like to manually install the CloudGate Wizzard application on your CloudGate, please follow this tutorial carefully.
1. Browse to the “Main Menu” → “Wizzard” tab.
2. In the "Licenses" section, hit the "+ Add" button to add a new license.
3. Copy and paste the license code you received from your OPTION point of contact.
4. Press the "Safe changes" button to store the license code. This is perpetual and will only need to take place once!
5. When the systems asks to restart the TMF, press the orange "Restart TMF" button. This will load the license and enable all features included in the license:
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Solar and Stellar Physics
An understanding of the structure and evolution of stars is central to much of astrophysics. The importance of stellar astrophysics is evident in a broad range of areas. Stars are the 'clocks' with which to measure the age of stellar systems within our Galaxy, providing constraints on the ages of different stellar components and hence on structure, evolution and age of the Galaxy itself. They are used for calibrating age and distance measurements in the Universe on the largest scales. Stars are the sites of most of the chemical evolution in the Universe, elements being created and destroyed by nuclear burning in stellar interiors, and the processed material being subsequently ejected into the interstellar medium. Stars are also laboratories in which to study physical processes of importance both in stellar evolution and in other areas of astrophysics, such as convection, nucleosynthesis, mass loss and accretion, rotation and magnetic fields.
The Sun is uniquely valuable in our study of stars in that we can study it close up, observing many phenomena that surely also take place in other stars but which cannot be resolved because of the enormous distances between those stars and the Earth. The Group has special interests in: helioseismology and asteroseismology - the study of the interior of the Sun and stars using observations of their resonant oscillations; convection inside stars; stellar dynamos; stellar rotation; and more generally astrophysical fluid dynamics inside stars. Members of the group are active participants in various helioseismology and asteroseismology projects. In helioseismology, we use data from the ground based networks BiSoN and GONG, and space data from the MDI, GOLF and Virgo experiments on the ESA/NASA SoHO satellite and the NASASolar Dynamics Observatory. In asteroseismology we have a leadership role in the French/ESA/International satellite CoRoT and contribute to the analysis and application of data from the NASA mission Kepler. We also have an substantial role in the potential future ESA mission PLATO which is one of 3 candiadate for 2 launch slots in 2018. The group has both theoretical and data analysis interests in these convection, rotation and dynamos and magnetic fields as well in astero- and helioseismology.
Research activities cover stellar structure and evolution, helio and asteroseismology, rotation, convection, and solar and stellar dynamos.
Roxburgh is ESA Scientist on CoRoT and leads an international co-I group in asteroseismology. Roxburgh and Vorontsov have developed unique seismic inversion techniques to diagnose the internal structure of stars. Roxburgh developed 2-d techniques for modelling rapidly rotating stars and is investigating the effect of rapid rotation on oscillations. With Kupka (Munich) he developed Reynolds stress models of convection to study core overshooting which will be compared with 3-d numerical simulations in progress.
Tavakol and co-workers employed nonlinear dynamo models to successfully account for several important spatio-temporal features in the solar convection zone obtained by recent inversions. He leads an extensive study of the interaction between rotation, convection and magnetic fields in solar-type stars using 3-d simulations in spherical settings.
Vorontsov obtained a very high precision inversion for solar differential rotation using data from MDI which showed the toroidal oscillations predicted by Tavakol. He has developed (with Jeffries, Hawaii) a new high precision inversion technique for helioseismology, fitting the power spectrum directly without the intermediate step of estimating frequencies.
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Currently smashing its Kickstarter goal (achieved on day one), Welle has captured the imagination of the tech community, impressed and excited by the potential of the diminutive device. E&T spent some time with a prototype of the finished product.
Welle (pronounced ‘well-uh’, not ‘welly’) is designed to recognise handwriting and custom-defined gestures using its embedded sonar. The unit itself is approximately the size of two stacked packs of chewing gum, so is both highly portable for mobile use and neatly inconspicuous for permanent installation in home or office.
Welle’s preinstalled, highly sensitive gesture algorithm detects finger movement within a defined fan-shaped sonar area radiating out from the device. The gesture-detecting space is not huge, but still plenty big enough for all the simple swipes, strokes and character definition you’ll need.
One of the obvious uses for which Welle has been designed is the control of smart connected devices, obviating the need for multiple remote controls or even physically interacting with your devices full stop. Once you’ve set up the device to work with Welle and defined the necessary gestures, Welle is effectively ‘always on’, waiting to detect the gesture.
Simply leave it in a convenient spot in your home or on your desk and, when required, you perform the appropriate gesture to control the device in question. Welle supports multiple devices and gestures concurrently: it’s not a one-box, one-gesture unit.
For example, smart lighting can be controlled and the light hue and intensity adjusted with a single finger swipe from a side table or the TV can be turned off as you head upstairs for bed. Welle already offers a number of preset gestures for popular smart devices from companies such as Sonos, Samsung, Nest, IFTTT, Hue, Lifx, SmartThings, Belkin WeMo, covering everything from lights, doors, TVs, audio speakers, central heating thermostats and security systems.
Devices are connected to Welle via Bluetooth and then more granular settings are managed through the dedicated app. This app is currently available for Mac OS and Android, with the iOS version to come in the near future, following completion of the Kickstarter campaign.
One other attractive feature is that Welle only has to be within Bluetooth range of the device being controlled. It is not reliant on line of sight. Thus, you could have Welle by your bed and control devices in your kitchen, such as a smart kettle or coffee machine, all without getting out of bed.
Compared to infra-red, the ultrasound technology inside Welle offers a greater, more precise detection range and higher tolerance to low or extreme light conditions. Using sonar, Welle is also able to operate effectively on any flat surface, of any colour. The latest version of Bluetooth offers very low power consumption, so the rechargeable battery that drives Welle should last for days between charges. Charging is accomplished via the mini-USB port and you can also leave Welle permanently plugged into mains power, if you intend to leave it in one place.
Welle also works with computers, smartphones and tablets, designed as it is around the BLE chipset (Bluetooth Low Energy), with the handwriting recognition function an obvious candidate for broad gesture control of various apps on your device.
Currently, all Welle control is limited to one-finger gestures, although the developers say they are intending to research multi-finger gesture tracking in the future. This would be attractive to users, but there is still plenty that can be achieved already with one finger and setting up multiple gestures for multiple devices. There are 12 core gestures available, as well as the ‘Welle Font’ – involving the full alphabet and numerals 0-9 – so there is considerable flexibility. It is also possible to control multiple devices with a single gesture, so you could, for example, turn off multiple smart objects in your home simultaneously.
There is a further neat twist to the Welle concept. For those of us not yet living in the smart home of the future, kitted out with a plethora of labour-saving IoT gadgets (i.e. most of us), Welle can also work with your existing non-smart devices. The Welle developers have partnered with the team behind SwitchBot, a small remote robotic device that can control any existing rocker switch (of any type, in any country) remotely, thus effectively newly smart-alising your old stupid device. We haven’t tried SwitchBot, but the premise appears to be sound and is at least one solution for incorporating your existing beloved gadgets.
The developers are also intending to release full API documentation for Welle on their GitHub page, so anyone can work on further extending the functionality of Welle.
We enjoyed our time experimenting with Welle, trying out a variety of gestures to control various devices. Welle is a very appealing proposition, offering as it does that killer one-two punch of a minimalist, deceptively simple and attractive design outside coupled with a highly flexible and powerful technology feature set inside. We can only imagine how the Welle concept will expand and elaborate from here.
Welle is available for pre-order from the Kickstarter project page
Q&A with Mark Zeng, founder of Maxus Technology
Creating Welle
Where did the inspiration for this product come from?
We found a fundamental problem with smart devices as their interactive surface is getting smaller and hard to interact. The alternative method, like using an app to control IoT devices, undermines the user experience. This gave birth to new controls like gesture and we have been seeing lots of product that are gesture supported. However, many of them offer only a handful of gestures like knock or wave. Welle is a product that extends the interactive surface area and offers high-input richness like tracking and writing recognition. With Welle, you can achieve shortcuts to your favorite functions by simply moving your finger. Given its high portability, you can use it in your home/office and almost anywhere you think about.
Have you experienced technical challenges in the design and creation of Welle?
Creating a product like Welle is not easy. We were confronted by many challenges during our development process. As Welle utilises ultrasound signal, which decays quickly compared to those low-frequency waves, we have to fine tune our algorithm to pick up those weak echoes. Moreover, to make Welle more portable, we pushed ourselves to shrink the size of Welle while not compromising the sensing by simulating the acoustic physical field of Welle. Last but not least, we made a lot effort to compress our whole framework to put everything in the chip so Welle can do the tracking and recognition parts itself.
What do you see in the future for Welle? Are there more ideas and applications for it?
We want Welle to be used widely, so we are actively looking at integrations with other applications. We already have lots of idea about integrating Welle with design tools like Photoshop and CAD software. We strive to fine tune our algorithm to make Welle work in different scenarios, like cars. In the future, we welcome partners to embed Welle into their products to provide natural HCI experience to customers.
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The Ontario Divisional Court recently provided guidance with respect to excluding co-parties from each other's examination for discovery. In Lazar v TD General Insurance Company the defendant sought to examine the plaintiffs (a married couple) individually, outside the presence of the other. The motion was initially dismissed, but the Divisional Court reversed the motion judge's decision, in part on the basis that the decision to exclude a party from discovery does not carry the same implications as excluding a party from the courtroom at trial. While a party has the right to be present for ination for discovery of a co-party, if the exclusion is necessary to meet the ends of justice. The factors to be considered include whether the co-parties have common interests or the same lawyer, whether the examinations will cover the same grounds, whether credibility will be a factor or an issue, whether there is a risk of evidence being tailored or parroted, and whether there would be prejudice to the excluded party. Given that the outcome of the case would turn almost exclusively on the plaintiffs' credibility and reliability (as there were almost no documents), the court considered it necessary for defence counsel to be able to test each plaintiff's independent recollection of the facts, untainted by the prior knowledge of the other's examination. While exclusion motions are relatively rare, the decision in Lazar is a good example of the circumstances in which such a motion may be necessary to fulfil the purposes of examinations for discovery. This issue is potentially signficant to financial instituions, as it will often arise where spouses are co-mortgagors or guarantors of a loan.
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I knew about this software because a student talk about it. This is really nasty, specially because a usb memory is something very common to share between friends or colleagues. I made a rule about using others usb memories in my pc: never use other jump drive in my pc except my own!
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4. Thank you for, once again, writing a post that should be required reading before someone is allowed their Computer Operator’s License.
While the media’s interest in this dates back a ways, your readers might remember a bit of a stink when iPods and digital picture frames (USB-connected) were detected that were delivered from the factory with malware installed.
Yes, folks. The world IS this scary. You cannot be too careful and you cannot be too paranoid these days.. and guess what? With “Web 2.0” and “cloud computing”, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
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I'm trying to flip/mirror an image as I paint it on an HTML canvas; I found a game tutorial showing a sprite sheet per direction a character has to face, but this doesn't seem quite right to me :( Especially since each frame has a different size.
In some game engines (like cocos2D), I remember using methods like "flipX" which would simply draw the "player" looking in the opposite direction (it's my target, trying to make some basic platformer).
What would be the best technique for you to reach this goal?
I tried to call the setScale(-1,1); on my canvas with no success. Maybe that isn't meant for this.
Thanks :)
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Possible duplicate of Flip a sprite in canvas – Damjan Pavlica May 14 at 9:14
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1. You can do this by transforming the context with myContext.scale(-1,1) before drawing your image, however
2. This is going to slow down your game. It's a better idea to have a separate, reversed sprite.
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Ok, I was just worried about the memory usage, but cpu availability might be even more sparse on mobile devices. I'll go the way you suggested. Thanks for this advice! – Jem Nov 17 '11 at 14:00
Well, don't just take my word for it. Profile it and be sure I'm not wrong about your particular usage. :) – Phrogz Nov 17 '11 at 14:03
Agreed, just creating an image sprite with two separate sides is insanely faster. – Ash Blue Apr 1 '14 at 19:57
i just remember, many gba games' sprite sheet only has a half of the object, and it draws the original part and the other part flipped to form a symmetric object, like a tree, or street light. just saying... – Daniel Cheung Sep 3 '15 at 10:18
It's always worthwhile to think about the context of an optimization. In the case of game boy or game boy advance games, developers were extremely constrained by the amount of memory and storage they had. Today, you're unlikely to run into an issue with size. You can still make it a priority, though. If you want to do it as an exercise, for example, why not create a tiny sprite sheet that only has the tightly packed essentials, then write versions of sprites facing different directions into memory before starting the game. You get the speed and memory wins at the cost of load speeds. – Chris Kinniburgh Apr 22 at 13:42
You need to set the scale of the canvas as well as inverting the width.
The function below is an excerpt from one of my project. When the function gets called it takes a frame from a webcam feed, puts in on the canvas and flips the image horizontally.
drawToCanvas : function(v, canvas, width, height){;
There are probably some performance issues with this but for me that was not an issue.
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Note that variable by canvas should be a context gotten by the call, canvasElem.getContext("2d") – randominstanceOfLivingThing Aug 21 '15 at 3:28
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Seasonal Affective Disorder impacts 4-6 percent of the United States population.
By Vicky Thompson
As previously printed in Washington Life Magazine on January 2014.
Did you ever wish you were a bear? You could just crawl into your den for a long winter hibernation, only to emerge when the blissful days of spring had returned. If so, you may be one of the 4–6 percent of the United States population who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder.
S.A.D. is a type of depression which begins in the fall as the days begin to grow shorter and the temperature begins to drop. It will begin to subside as the days grow longer and warmer in the spring. This type of depression is more common in women between the ages of 20 and 40. However, men, children and the elderly may still be affected.
Generally, you would feel tired or go through “crying spells.” One may have trouble concentrating or have body aches every day. You could experience a loss of libido or a loss of sleep. Many people tend to overeat at this time, especially carbohydrates, resulting in weight gain.
How does this happen? Simply put, we just don’t get enough sun living this far from the equator. Most research is focused on the way light triggers messages to the hypothalamus gland. This is the gland that regulates mood, sleep and appetite.
Do not despair, as there are some things you can do to increase your serotonin levels. Many people use light boxes for phototherapy. These lights are put somewhere in your home or office. Massage therapy can also be very helpful.
Many foods can increase your serotonin levels, such as: apricots, apples, pears, grapes, plums, grapefruit, oranges, avocado, dates, bananas, eggplant, papaya, passion fruit, pineapples and tomatoes.
The amino acid L-tryptophan can also increase serotonin levels. Numerous people also find omega-3 fatty acids, Bcomplex vitamins, vitamin D, calcium and magnesium helpful.
Need more tips to make it through? Go out in the winter sun every day. Plan activities with friends and relatives; incorporate more laughter in your life. Practice deep breathing, yoga and meditation.
Above all else, think positive. Soon, the crocuses and daffodils will be emerging from their winter hibernation. Then, we will all know those sunnier, brighter days of spring will be here soon.
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[–]Gatreh 0 points1 point (0 children)
I'm hesitant to offer my help because I love helping but I really don't know all that much about the game even though I'm in higher gold fighting platinums..
Well if you figure I'd be of any help just reply to this or sned a message on reddit..
[–]jdrc07 -2 points-1 points (1 child)
It's a game about gathering as many resources you can and making units with them.
If you get more resources, that means more units, better units, and better upgrades.
If you opt to try to kill him early you might skimp on upgrades, resource mining locations, and unit tech, to just make a ton of shit ant a-move him.
Listening to day9's old podcasts(before he got ultra-famous and started saying redundant bullshit every day) helped me a lot back when I was trying to pick up BW back in the day.
[–]JustJulesEUW 1 point2 points (0 children)
have u played sc2 yet?
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Federated Mdt Mutual Fund Forecast - Naive Prediction
USD 21.92 0.31 1.39%
Federated Mutual Fund Forecast is based on your current time horizon. Investors can use this forecasting interface to forecast Federated Mdt historical stock prices and determine the direction of Federated Mdt Small's future trends based on various well-known forecasting models. However, solely looking at the historical price movement is usually misleading. Macroaxis recommends to always use this module together with analysis of Federated Mdt historical fundamentals such as revenue growth or operating cash flow patterns.
Please see Historical Fundamental Analysis of Federated Mdt to cross-verify your projections.
Most investors in Federated Mdt cannot accurately predict what will happen the next trading day because, historically, stock markets tend to be unpredictable and even illogical. Modeling turbulent structures requires applying different statistical methods, techniques, and algorithms to find hidden data structures or patterns within the Federated Mdt's time series price data and predict how it will affect future prices. One of these methodologies is forecasting, which interprets Federated Mdt's price structures and extracts relationships that further increase the generated results' accuracy.
A naive forecasting model for Federated Mdt is a special case of the moving average forecasting where the number of periods used for smoothing is one. Therefore, the forecast of Federated Mdt Small value for a given trading day is simply the observed value for the previous period. Due to the simplistic nature of the naive forecasting model, it can only be used to forecast up to one period.
Federated Mdt Naive Prediction Price Forecast For the 20th of August
Given 90 days horizon, the Naive Prediction forecasted value of Federated Mdt Small on the next trading day is expected to be 22.70 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.35, mean absolute percentage error of 0.20, and the sum of the absolute errors of 21.31.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Federated Mutual Fund prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Federated Mdt's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).
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In the context of forecasting Federated Mdt's Mutual Fund value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. Federated Mdt's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 20.79 and 24.60, respectively. We have considered Federated Mdt's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value 21.92
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Model Predictive Factors
The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Naive Prediction forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Federated Mdt mutual fund data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Federated Mdt mutual fund, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria116.4854
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation0.3494
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0174
SAESum of the absolute errors21.3129
This model is not at all useful as a medium-long range forecasting tool of Federated Mdt Small. This model is simplistic and is included partly for completeness and partly because of its simplicity. It is unlikely that you'll want to use this model directly to predict Federated Mdt. Instead, consider using either the moving average model or the more general weighted moving average model with a higher (i.e., greater than 1) number of periods, and possibly a different set of weights.
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For every potential investor in Federated, whether a beginner or expert, Federated Mdt's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. Federated Mutual Fund price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in Federated. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying Federated Mdt's price trends.
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The stock market is financially volatile. Despite the volatility, there exist limitless possibilities of gaining profits and building passive income portfolios. With the complexity of Federated Mdt's price movements, , a comprehensive understanding of forecasting methods that an investor can rely on to make the right move is invaluable. These methods predict trends that assist an investor in predicting the movement of Federated Mdt's current price.
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The analysis of Federated Mdt's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in helping accuretelly forecast its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Federated Mdt's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some funamental techniques of forecasting Federated Mdt stock price, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
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User Info: RedSpiderLily
1 month ago#11
We kill skeletons all the time tho in FE games?
User Info: TheGuyNamedWolf
1 month ago#12
Black Knight is probably the strongest non-final boss in FE history. By FEH standards he can probably take Hel unless she's blue, and even then he can probably take her thanks to Bold Fighter Steady Breath Black Luna shenanigans. Outside of FEH, Black Luna is waaaaaay stronger than it is in this game (x5 damage and ignore defense) and he has Nihil, auto-healing, and tier 3 class stats. Pretty sure besides Ike (the canonical strongest FE lord), only one of the Laguz Royals like Tibarn, or something busted like Corrin paired up with someone can take him. If you take Muspellflame and BK Armor Blessing out of the equation, BK can easily take Surtr, considering the latter was taken down by Alfonse, Sharena, Anna, and Fjorm.
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1 month ago#13
Hector definitely can.
Gregor? Dunno.
Never count Tobin out!
I am the TC.
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1 month ago#14
F. Grima would just laugh them off and call them worms as she's stepping on me simultaneously
F. Celica might have a hard time of it though.
Sometimes I say things and I'm not voice acting.
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1 month ago#15
Palla is already dead inside after the refinery update. What is dead may never die.
Hey, everyone, what's going on in this topic? Oh.
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1 month ago#16
A lot of you have OP favorites.
Surtr is a wuss
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A Chat With Prof. Bush About COVID-19
by Natalie Couch
Many Harvey Mudd students know Prof. Bush from frosh biology (Biology 52), where he enthusiastically uses different diseases to explain biological concepts. The Muddraker talked to Prof. Bush to get his take on the state of the pandemic, the college’s COVID-19 policies, and more.
Q: What do you think the long-term behavior of the coronavirus pandemic will be?
A: There’s uncertainty about that. I think one important fact that we know is that the mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 is lower than that of influenza, at least influenza A. That’s encouraging. With influenza, we have to get yearly shots because influenza evolves quickly enough to evade the immune system on a year-to-year or every couple of years basis. So, the lower mutation rate of coronaviruses suggests that maybe in the long run SARS-CoV-2 won’t be evolving as quickly as influenza does.
There’s also some uncertainty about whether [SARS-CoV-2] will stay in the human population, but it seems likely that it’s going to become endemic, meaning that it’s going to be with us for the long term.
Now, the mutation rate is lower. But the thing is, right around the time of a pandemic, when so many people are being infected, there are a lot of opportunities for mutations to arise. It’s also true that when the virus first arrived in the human population, there were lots of opportunities for it to mutate. Upon arrival, a virus has many avenues that it could go down that might be productive evolutionarily. And so it seems to be discovering things. There are many mutations in the Delta variant. Clearly, the Delta variant is much better at being a coronavirus in the human population than the original strain was. Right now, we’re seeing a sort of first [wave of] evolution at the beginning, with lots of variants arising. But in the longer run, it will not evolve that fast.
I haven’t gotten enough into the literature to know for sure. I still want to learn more before I can definitively state an opinion, but my quick take is that [COVID-19] may continue to be bad for a while, but in the longer run, it won’t be as bad.
The people who are suffering most right now are the people who are not vaccinated. Eventually, either most people will have been vaccinated or will have gotten [COVID-19]. That’s going to make a difference too.
Q: But COVID-19 will still exist?
A: Probably. It just seems unlikely that we could get rid of SARS-CoV-2 completely. There are other coronaviruses that circulate in humans, endemically, and they quite possibly began this way. There are a few cold viruses that are coronaviruses. They may have started in a pandemic, a hundred years or more ago, and we just didn’t really notice because it was a while ago. At that time, people wouldn’t have known. There would have been no way to distinguish that from a flu. I’m not sure that there’d be any way to distinguish it if we didn’t have molecular methods.
Q: That actually relates to my next question. There were about 100 years between this pandemic and the last big one in 1918. Do you think there will be another 100 years before the next one?
A: I don’t know. We’d be lucky if that’s the case. It’s hard to say. I think that gives you a sense of the rough frequency, but of course, it’s probabilistic. And so we could be unlucky and it happens in 20 years. Hopefully, we learned something, so we can handle it a little bit better.
Prof. Bush
Q: And what do you think about Harvey Mudd’s COVID policies?
A: My take is that Mudd is a pretty safe environment. Universal vaccination, universal mask wearing, and weekly testing for students seems to be a very effective combination. So far, it’s been going pretty good. The number of cases is not large. I have a nine-year-old daughter who is not vaccinated, so of course I’m concerned about her, but I’m much more worried about her getting it in school than I am about her getting it from me.
Q: Last year, the pandemic got a lot worse in the winter. Do you think that will happen again this year?
A: I’m not sure — this is really a question for an epidemiologist. I think that behavior matters a lot in these things. I have read about the Delta outbreaks in India and in Britain. One of the characteristics of the Delta outbreak there was it came down very quickly after it peaked. And I think that’s the result of people changing their behavior rapidly.
It doesn’t seem to be working that way in our country, or certainly not in Los Angeles County. I think the response in California has been pretty good, and it’s never gotten nearly as bad here as it did in many other places. LA County seemed to have been on top of things relatively early and probably prevented worse things from happening by reinstating the mask mandate somewhat early. So I think they’ve done a pretty good job. Nevertheless, it’s a little disappointing that even though we’re on the downside of the peak and it’s getting better, it’s not really getting better all that fast. So it could very well go up again. It’s hard to know, because there are different factors to consider — including how behavior changes as things get better, where people then readjust and start doing more risky things again.
I’m hoping that, at least for the spring semester, we can have even more normal lives. For the college, it makes a big difference that we have students and in-person classes. I think that’s a victory. There are certain aspects of normal life that would be nice to have again, like going to the dining hall. I’m hoping that in spring we can at least move towards more normal things, such as having in-person [biology faculty] meetings which we’re not having right now.
Q: Last question: how do you think COVID has changed how we view communicable diseases?
A: Before COVID, in Asia, there was a cultural convention of wearing masks during flu season. That was a common thing, and it’d be nice if wearing masks became a more standard or acceptable thing to do during the winter, in cold and flu season. If that became more common, it would probably help us at Harvey Mudd. People get sick a lot here, because they don’t sleep enough. Traditionally, the Harvey Mudd community has lots of colds and things going through. We should get more sleep. But wearing masks wouldn’t be a bad thing, either.
Masks are a small price to pay. I’m doing a seminar class where it’s students and me talking a lot with each other. Of course, it’s sometimes hard to understand people with a mask on, but much better than being on Zoom. So, I’m happy. Even with the masks on, I’m happy.
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3. Intelligence: anda are smart, and anda know it. tampil people that anda are smarter than them. Sasuke is considered a 'Cool Genius'. Try to learn everything easily, and be the puncak, atas on your class.
4. Attitude: anda don't give anyone the time of day, not a best friend, atau a girl/boy friend. They are so much below anda in skill and knowledge, anda should act like anda hate them. Don’t talk too much. Sasuke...
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Sasuke-kun's profil from databook 2.This is not my artikel but do try to rate and comment,I'd appreciate some views,enjoy.
Uchiha Sasuke pg 44-51
For me, there is my own path
The mind that desires revenge sweeps down to darkness
The genius that inherited the Uchiha blood, the elite who was the puncak, atas graduate of his school, countless words of praise, eyed with anticipation and jealousy
Also, the warmth supplied oleh his companions, despite the blinding brightness giving off of these, there is a shadow in Sasukes mind that cannot be erased.
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posted by Sasukes-girl123
This is Who We are
A naruto Fanfic: all naruto characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto
The Separation,
“Firestyle Blaze of Glory!” api blazed from Madana’s mouth. When the flame receded she gazed up at her father who was watching her practice he held a strong dissapointment in his eyes. She sulked back to the house feeling useless. She gazed into the dapur trying to imagine her mother Sakura waiting for her and Father with a steaming pot of ramen ready for them after a hard day’s work.Sadly her immagination wasn’t...
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posted by BurnOut
Sasuke Was Not Evil..
Actualy That Was Uchiha Itachi,s Mistake!!
Sasuke Was Never Wanted To Hurt Sakura.
But Now? He Wants To Kill Her..
Itachi berkata To Sasuke :
"Why anda Are So Weak?"
Actualy Real Weak Was Itachi..
Why Itachi Killed Almost Every Body in Uchiha Clan..
Why Itachi Why
Why anda Are So Weak?
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posted by BurnOut
“For it Was Not into My Ear anda Whispered,"
"But into My Heart"
"It was Not My Lips anda Kissed, But My soul."
It is True I cinta Sasuke lebih Than Myself,
"“If anda cinta Somebody,"
"Let Them Go. If They Return,"
"They Were Always Yours"
And I Know:
What Do anda Think?
posted by tophxena1fan
it was the end of the day,Naruto went with a tanggal with Hinata in secret and kakashi was relaxing.So Sasuke was left with Sakura.Sakura had cinta for Sasuke but knew Sasuke would not like her back.While Sakura was walking oleh the ramen toko to go buy some ramen for naruto but Sakura saw naruto ciuman with Hinata.Sakura was so shocked she ran crying into a forest.Sasuke was practicing his jitsu like always and heard Sakura cring he went to her,and Sakura ran to sob on his shoulder.Normaly Sasuke would push her away but in this case he didnt and ask her why she was crying.Sakura replied that Naruto...
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posted by juurizero
sakura:Sasuke! why go always run us! anda are idiot!
sasuke: Me? I am a idiot? idiot is who loves anda sakura! to anda between right mind does not cinta anda sakura!
sakura: what? no no anda are a big idiot! always seek revenge but do not see how hurt< saying she pulling it>
sasuke: anda are a nuisance!
^^removing the dagger went bihind her said^^
bye bye sakura!
sakura: sa su ke! what anda doing?
thwarting me quite!if kill anda can easly finish revenge!
sasuke: kakashi come after you!
sakura:not anymore!
sasuke:because who were longer now I am stronger,worse,and I hate anda all
dugger stuck in sakura sasuke
sakura:sasuke.......kun<she berkata and die>
posted by SasukesBlade
So.. I have been devoted to Sasuke since I was 8 atau 9 years old. I guess I just wanted to set this all out somewhere.
Every day, I have people come up to me and either a) Tell me how much I look like Sasuke Uchiha and komentar that I'm obsessed, atau b) Tell him off in front of me. I get into a lot of mindless debates with people, normally I'll win them. And still, I always pertanyaan why these thoughts awan the minds of other people. How can people not understand him?
It is to my own understanding that one cannot simply understand Sasuke, they must endure him. What I mean oleh that is, anda have to...
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posted by kinomotho
anda already regret it,right? After anda know the truth. The truth about Uchiha Itachi. It's all your fault.You should continue your life after that bloodly incident. Your are very talented. anda can rebuild your clan. anda have many friend, many fangirl and best friend ever, Naruto.
Everyone here would cinta to help you. Naruto,..He know it. He know how it feel, losing someone anda love. And now, anda are about to make another wrong decision.
I dOn't know what is this feeling. This feeling always bothering me. My heart. It's hurt. Seeing anda became like that. I dont want to see anda hurt.
I always...
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posted by juurizero
sakura: sasuke!I want anda back!
sakura:I would do anything!
sasuke:kill her and I accept your offer!
sakura:who is she?
sasuke:is member on my organization!karin!
sakura:"no stop is innocent!but sasuke come back and i cinta him!
sasuke start to kill with chidori but kakashi stop it oleh holding the hamd
kakashi:you want to kill her right sasuke?
sakura:kakashi sen sei
kakashi:you did what anda could Now take it from here defend your!
kakashi:I did not have to kill anda sasuke!
kakshi:Sasuke!looking for revange and come back!
sasuke laught evil
sasuke:bring it back on itachi and my father and my mother!
kakashi;I do not want to kill anda but anda give me no choice!
sasuke:I oserved anda then but those days are over sensei!
walking through the grassland eveything was,as it should be,calm. sasuke sakura naruto and kakashi were quite exsept it seemd kakashi seemd to fouceing on sasuke lebih then ever. every now and again kakashi would make a jesture with his hand to tell someone to come closer.
"ugh! my legs really hurt!! can we stop and rest?" naruto asked kakashi.
"i dont see the harm." kakashi said
everyone else sat but sasuke stood. kakashi muttered something. then sasuke was hit down oleh an unknow assalint.
"sasuke!" naruto yelled
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posted by juurizero
we cinta anda because anda are cool, strong and cute
even if anda are not always good,we cinta anda for ever,hope to see anda every night,to win, to be the best!
to pass everyone and everything!to be better than all!
everywhere are your fans,we and many others
who created anda is our idol(MASASHI KISHIMOTO)we cinta anda forever sasuke!
Your fan fondly <3
P.S.hope to anyone!
respect for people like anda
and those with your name!
posted by brunin2
Time is at 7, trained oleh kakashi Hatake. His teammates are naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno. Sasuke's main goal in life to become a powerful ninja in order to kill his older brother, Uchiha Itachi and avenge his clan. Why be a member of the Uchiha clan, has the Sharingan, which enabled him to learn and copy the Chidori technique, which is a high technical level and is the main ninjutsu kakashi Hatake, his jounin. It is cold, distant, always avoiding cling to people with fear of losing them later, continuing his life with only one goal: revenge. Still, naruto is in a rival and a great friend....
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posted by Sasunaru120
Nika (me:I don't like making up last names so if anda don't like it screw you!)
About you: anda weren't a very bright kid growing up and still aren't anda had a unfortunate past (me:use your imagination on what the past is)
How anda and Sasuke: One hari anda went to the cemetary and put bunga on your mothers grave. When anda were walking back to your abandond house anda felt a presence it was Sasuke but anda didn't say atau do anything anda just kept walking. It started to rain u:"Sasuke i know your following me now come out!" Sasuke:"how did anda know it was me" he asked. anda just stared at him then turned...
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The following hari Sakura hurried eat her breakfast and went to the forest to practice but Master Tsunade called the Team 7,8,9 and 10 "Orochimaru is planning to ruin the konoha anda need to stop him"Master Tsunade berkata So the Team 7,8,9 and 10 hurried.The team kakashi atau 7 seen Orochimaru no longer they have to fight Orochimaru they have the diffrent attacks but none of them defeat Orochimaru the last one Sakura fight Orochimaru oleh using the Sakura Fibuki atau ceri, cherry Blossoms Snow Storm Techinique but Orochimaru defeat Sakura so the kyuubi of naruto attack Orochimaru finally Orochimaru defeat but he has escape but the selanjutnya target is Sakura everyone in the team can't do such a thing but Sasuke saved Sakura and the kyuubi of naruto go back inside him they hurry ran Sakura and naruto to the Hospital
The selanjutnya hari Sakura buy some food to the grossary store Ino don't seen Sakura so she bump Sakura drop the food that she buy to the store "Oh i'm sorry i do not mean it"Ino said"that's okay"Sakura replied"Oh I'm Ino arewyou Sakura-Sakura Haruno?"Yes I am but how do anda know my name?"Sakura replied"Naruto say that anda are Sakura Haruno and he tell me a secrect"Ino said"What secrect?"Sakura Questioned"That naruto have a crush on you"Ino said"Okay do anda wan't to9 go to my house and have a dinner?'Sakura Questioned to Ino"Sure I'm glad to go to your house and have a dinner1"Ino replied
(So Sakura and Ino walk slowly to Sakura's house)
posted by KHluver101
As Sasuke Uchiha walked down the sandy road to Sakura's house, a girl about 11 atau 12 ran up to him."Oh my God!Sasuke!I'm one of you're biggest fans!Can anda sign my backpack?!" the young one said."I don't sign anything.Sorry." Sasuke said."Oh.s.Sorry to b.bother you." the girl berkata with her sky blue eyes getting glossy.She shed a tear and ran off.Sasuke started walking again.The clomp,clomp,clomp of the sandals was comforting,but annoying.Why didn't she ask Naruto,or Sakura? Sasuke thought.Then,out of nowear,Naruto performed Harem jutsu.The girl blew a ciuman to Sasuke."AHHHHHHHHHH!I JUST SEEN...
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Busted out, and it's like a free-for-all in here and uh the owner should
At least come down here and see if he can secure his business, if he wants to...)
April 29th, 1992
There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV
While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was the liquor store
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin', time to retire
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A.
Cuz' as long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegal [scratching]
When we returned to the pad to unload everything
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
So once again we filled the van until it was full
Since that day my livin' room's been much more comfortable
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
Some kids went in a store with their mother
They said it was for the black man
They said it was for the mexican
But not for the white man
It's this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up police
It's about comin' up and stayin' on top
It's ain't in the paper, it's on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around
(Any unit, any unit...)
Homicide, never doing no time [scratching]
Give me my share, my share.
Gimme my share, I want it.
Gimme my share, I need it now, I need it now.
My share.
A wicked one who doesn't wanna see me go.
Just gimme my share, I want it. Gimme my share.
But you don't want to give it to me,
You don't wanna see me go.
Gimme my share, I want it, Gimme my share.
But there is a wicked one.
Temple, many subjects with bats trying to get inside the CB's
House...they're trying to kill him)
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JPS Bus Drivers to Meet with Officials Tuesday - - The News for South Mississippi
JPS Bus Drivers to Meet with Officials Tuesday
JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
Tuesday could be the end of a nearly week long strike for Jackson Public School bus drivers.
Monday night about 150 people including bus drivers and concerned parents met at New Caney Creek Missionary Baptist Church raising concerns on why an agreement still hasn't been made.
Most of the parents have overall understood the drivers' demands.
"Even though it has been a sacrifice for them to get their kids back and forth to school they've encouraged us to stand until a resolution has come," said Janice Brown, Transportation North Bus Driver.
Bus drivers and parents hope that resolution will come soon.
"My daughter rides two different buses to school and from home every day so yes it's affecting me because I have to get up in the morning try to make it to school try to get here," said Mary Pickering and parents and JPS Bus Driver.
"Hopefully they'll do the right thing even if it causes me to have to raise my taxes these are my precious cargo, my children and I'm willing to pay that price and take that sacrifice," said Bill Hunt, a JPS parent.
The drivers are asking for a $100 per day pay increase. They haven't seen a salary hike since 2004.
"We're prayful that tomorrow when we meet with the superintendent they will have a resolution to go back to work," said Brown.
The meetings are at 10:00 a.m. at Transportation South Yard and 10:45 a.m. at Transportation North Yard.
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Painful Images of Shark Trading in the Arabian Sea
Painful Images of Shark Trading in the Arabian Sea
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Mr. Nuyoka's picture
Sy Starts the first response with "Please grow up! Before calling these people "retards"", "please keep your ridicule to yourself."
Then proceeds to do just that.
"you worthless twit!"
"The only loser here is you ! "...Anyways Sharks, Tuna, Fishes of all kind, yummy!Whats next people against gold fish, who get flushed down the toilet perhaps by the millions a week???
Rebecca Britt's picture
For once Sy I actually agree with you.
Although, not exactly the manner I would put it, but nonetheless I get your point.
Holy shit, not what I expected from staff.
Though, judging by the rest of the comments, it seems like almost anything goes...
Rebecca Britt's picture
Wasn't so much agreeing with his personal attack, but at his disgust at this comment.. --->"I'd personally abort 10 human fetuses just to save one shark."
Not that anyone cares (or should care) on a photography site, but I am pro-life (personal choice and not so much political), so to me this comment is pretty disgusting. Now, I don't know how killing sharks has anything to do with abortion, but that comment was pretty absurd to begin with.
Make it twenty.
The comments are keeping with the context of the photos displayed. Please focus....if pictures of an oil spill or unborn babies were displayed then people would have comments about that as well. Focus on subject at hand and less about your own personal agenda.
Grow up Ashley. This has nothing to do with 'pro-life'. It's about the unnecessary slaughter of the population of sharks in the ocean because consumers like the status of having it in a bowl of soup. If the numbers of shark killings continue in this manner then the ecosystem of the oceans will collapse. Humans are doing their best to destroy this planet.
If you want to push your 'pro-life' opinion then go and find the correct forum to do it.
Anthony Tripoli's picture
I don't think Lauren said anything about not liking babies in this post.
Maybe I am not picking up on the attitude you are saying is depicted by
posting this. I am also not certain why you decided to bring your
plight for unborn children to this discussion, seeing as this post has
nothing to do with that. Some people feel swayed one way, and some
another, and whatever that is, there is no reason to start throwing a
fit and saying "people with your attitude make me sick." You don't even
know what Lauren's attitude is. While you may have a point about abortion, did you really think that this was the right place to pull out your soap box? Maybe I am confused, but is raising awareness about atrocities uncalled for unless it meets your political agenda?
People who presume to know anything about someone they don't know, especially via the internet make ME sick.
Angus's picture
Some species of sharks are now approaching near extinction levels.. Humans are not. Don't drag another debate into the current debate.
Think about the kittens.
It is tough to look at for sure but unless people commenting are vegetarians it happens to a ton of animals and we still consume beef, chicken, shrimp and a ton of other stuff. I haven't eaten shark and I know I never will but I can't say this is bad and what not because I do eat other foods.
Mike Kelley's picture
The difference (IMO here) is that the slaughter of whales, sharks, and dolphins is pretty needless, as it's an extremely niche and luxury item. Chicken and beef are food staples and we're not upsetting entire oceanic ecosystems by eating them.
Additionally domesticated food - beef, chicken, lamb, and pork, are well controlled, "sustainable" populations. Cows are not endangered. Ranchers know that if they want to butcher 10 cows, they better have more than 10 else they will have no more cows next year. You can get a college degree in this kind of management. Sharks? (and big game fish - tuna, swordfish, grouper, etc) - we have no idea how many are out there, and how many we need to have a self-perpetuating, healthy ecosystem.
I won't even start of the pros/cons of fish farms, but at least the numbers of animals are a somewhat known factor. If you look at most of the sharks in those photos, they are open-ocean sharks. Four pictures have blue sharks and two pictures have hammerheads. These are live-bearing, long gestation, low reproductive rate animals that are in few numbers to begin with. There is not that much food out in the open ocean, unlike the coastal areas or coal reefs, so the animals are fewer and further between. This is less about eating meat vs plants, but rather wanton harvesting of a fragile ecosystem.
Needless, niche, luxury? Try telling that to the Inuit. Bowhead whales have been subsistence hunted for centuries... They can't really raise cows or chickens in 50 degree below weather.. The world is a lot more complex than one may think. Yes, I'm on your case, just very annoyed with your half-assed responses, Mike.
there in lies the shame of shark finning - fishing for a living or providing for your family is one thing, but to take the animal just for the fins to make (luxury soup) is what is so egregiously wrong with this particular fishing.
I absolutely agree about shark finning, I think it is a shame to kill a shark just for it's fin.
Mike Kelley's picture
Quit being obtuse. Inuit have been subsistence hunting using small boats and hand-thrown harpoons and hand-reeled lines for centuries. Modern whaling and fishery fleets can catch in a day what the Inuit would catch in a year, and the purpose is entirely different. Luxury, status-symbol food for the elite is entirely different than a catch that will have every part of it used and stored for food over several months to feed a small village.
"The difference (IMO here) is that the slaughter of whales, sharks, and dolphins is pretty needless, as it's an extremely niche and luxury item." Your words. You contradict yourself. I am not obtuse, your comments sure are, though. Say what you mean and mean what you say.
No, the biggest problem is that a lot of sharks are caught because the fins are used in "traditional cures" (ie "medicine" that doesn't work). It's not just a luxury item for food consumption, but also a bullshit over-priced remedy in the alternative medicine market.
See also rhino horns.
The only place he contradicts himself is in your narrow-minded and overly-literal interpretation of his comment.
Wow, Fanboys coming out! Please read his comments and my comments, narrow-mindedness is not something an intelligent person would accuse me of.
Not a fanboy at all - I have no idea who Mike is. And don't you worry - I read every comment, and made the choice to comment as I did. A spade is a spade, even when they're blind to it themselves.
Judging by your profile picture you are the buffoon, plain and simple.
Yes, "judging". Which is all you can do when you've got nothing of any substance to say. Resorting to personal insults based on a visual of me (in a halloween costume, no less - how irrelevant to the conversation can you get?) is low-brow to say the least. Especially as you hide behind your invisible "Sy" cloak, unlinked to anywhere. Big man, you are. You're simply showing your narrow-mindedness, again.
Corey Melton's picture
This happens with tuna, salmon, snapper, etc... but suddenly a larger fish is seen dead and it catches attention. Either I dont care at all about the death of animals, or I am the advocate for smaller less noticeable fish species. But this looks like people out fishing for a living to me.
Mike Kelley's picture
Gestation periods, life spans, and population numbers are wildly different for whales and sharks than salmon and snapper, however, and that must be taken into account. It takes years to grow a whale or shark into an adult, which usually only raise one offspring per year, if that. Salmon on the other hand may only live for 2-5 years, can lay up to 5000 eggs at one time, and they do this multiple times throughout its life. So it's a matter of sustainability. We can also farm salmon - you can't really farm sharks.
Then there is of course the matter of ethics - you can quickly kill a smaller fish before it even knows what is going on, but try to kill a shark quickly - it can't be done, sometimes they will struggle for hours.
So really there are a lot of differences between killing larger animals and smaller animals, and it's important to keep those differences in mind.
Tuna is also way overfished, but that's another rant for another day. Look, you've got my inner hippie coming out. Good work haha.
Isn't it interesting how people relate more to bigger animals? Shark is a fish as much as others. We have a huge environmental problem related to fishing. Like most of biggest environmental issues it starts in our fridge, home or backyard. People in developed countries start the demand for fish, beef, oil, plastics, bottled water, "clean" gas etc.
what city/country are these images from?
Jet Life's picture
i love sharks... doing this so someone can have soup is wrong!
Humans are assholes. We deserve the misery on this planet.
As a scuba diver this is terrible to look at, I love diving with sharks, specially in the Caribbean Sea. But we still have to understand the other side's point of view, this job might be the only job that they're qualified to do in order to feed their families.
these men aren't blessed with the luxury of life that we have. All I'm asking is to think about the two sides first before judging.
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Sunday, 26 June 2011
MySQL - avoid beginner traps
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Photo by taberandrew
Other thing that helps a lot are SQL table indexes.
So making an index on the column speeds up the query.
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Simple syntax for making an index on would be:
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Database management by single PHP file
Yesterday I found myself in situation when I had to look for something else regarding MySQL database administration. Google search led me to something surprising. It is named "Adminer" and it exists in one single PHP file.
On it's web page, it has a detailed comparison with similar, well known tool, PhpMyAdmin which I had been using for years.
I decided to give it a try and downloaded version "for Mysql".
Since there were no installation instructions, I just put it in my local htdocs directory. Then entered in browser address bar: localhost/adminer-3.2.2-mysql.php
And voila, login prompt.
After entering your credentials, it is straightforward to use if you have previous experience with similar tools.
I am not a power user of PhpMyAdmin, however, I see that Adminer has all features like the former tool.
Look and feel is simplistic. But you can choose some of available skins. Download css file and copy it in the same directory where you put adminer-x.x.x.php.
Do you know of something similar? Share your experience.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Recover lost page in Drupal
Did you ever lost a page, in Drupal CMS, without having a backup copy?
It happened to us yesterday.
While working on repeating and rather boring task of pasting a chunk of the same code in many existing pages, my co-worker made a mistake and deleted content of a very important page.
It took us some time to realize what exactly the problem was. Since it was the front page, we thought that the site was not working at all.
The only backup, unfortunately was some 20 days old.
I tried to find some solution googleing about it. First few results clearly explained that Drupal, by itself, does not have some kind of recycle bin. Even the worst fact was that the page was not deleted at all, just completely overrun by the wrong piece of replacement code :-/
Thanks to this post: we found the solution.
If your page has been online for some time, you can find it by google search, searching by it's url (to get it on top of results). The result has one link labeled "cached" and if you are lucky, cached page will be your exact version that got "lost".
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Why I love Drupal
Some two years ago, I was starting as a web developer. The same job I work today.
I did not have much experience at real web programming work, only by doing some occasional jobs.
My task, among the rest, was to make a website consisting of some hundred pages. But the real problem is that it supposed to have 115 pages in ONE SINGLE language. Since it was a tourist and traveling services web, it had to have content in 6 languages (two last flags are fake). So I'm talking about almost 700 pages.
I knew I had to use some open source CMS but my short experience on Joomla was not so good. I remember I had been trying to change it's default templates or to turn some custom HTML page into it's template without much success.
Then I stumbled upon Drupal CMS. Despite that my "headache" went worse those days, I started to read it's documentation. After some 5-6 evenings at home, learning for an hour or two a day (after my exhausting daily job) I decided to go for it.
The next step was to find a way to turn regular HTML theme into Drupal theme. I found video podcast on which made it pretty easy to do.
Also a Drupal documentation at explains it nicely.
This themes making step was the key point.
I did the web site. You can see it at
Later, to make use of blocks, menus, modules, use JavaScript and PHP code in pages was an easy thing.
And, it saved my job.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Simple url rewriting, using Apache mod_rewrite
Some customers want to have nice, fancy, search engine friendly url-s in their browser, on their pages.
That is completely reasonable because it helps to better position the pages in search results.
For instance:
is not so tasty for search engine bots like the following:
If your web site runs on Apache web server than you could do it like this:
Create .htaccess file if there is not one already.
Write simple rule.
Write rule using regular expressions.
1. .htaccess file
Just a snapshot of some other code, you start from an empty .htaccess file
Look for it in your server root folder, public_html or htdocs. Open it using your text editor and put on a first line:
RewriteEngine on
Let us use it on above mentioned example:
2. Simple rule
Add this to .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^about-us$ about_us.html
The part between ^ and $ is your url how you want it to be shown. The rest of the line is the actual file name of a document to be opened in browser.
3. A bit more power...
If you have url queries like in the first ugly url, you must use regular expressions:
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)/chapter-one$ page1.php?subject=$1&field=$2
[a-z] matches all characters between lowercase a and z.
+ sign means any number of ocurrences, and brackets () define a variable to be used later in the rule.
So first ([a-z]+) in our example, matches 'geography' and the second one matches the word 'continents'.
These two variables are referenced in the real url by using $1 and $2. Numbers are assigned by the order of variable appearance.
If it does not work, perhaps you don't have mode_rewrite module enabled on your server. You can check that by executing a php file that contains only one function:
Under 'Loaded Modules' section look for mod_rewrite. If it is not listed there, you have to enable it by removing comment from corresponding line in httpd.conf file and restarting Apache server.
If you don't have access to httpd.conf then ask your hosting service to enable the module.
Saturday, 12 March 2011
How to make a simple web page
You need:
- web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or something alike)
- plain text editor (Notepad, Vim, Arachnophilia,...).
The most important part of a web page is HTML document. That is a text document containing page formatting code (HTML tags) and page items (texts, pictures etc...).
Let us assume you use Notepad which is bundled with any version of Windows.
General plan:
Make simple HTML document using some common basic tags. Choose Notepad text editor as main tool now.
Fill the document with some texts and an image.
Add link to another page.
Open it in web browser to see how it works.
1. Create document file
Open Notepad text editor:
(Start->All programs->Accessories->Notepad).
It will show you a blank untitled document. Save it first:
File -> Save as
Now you see a Save As dialog box. It has a field labeled "File name".
Name your document as my_page.html
You have to type name of the document enclosed in quotation marks, like this: "my_page.html".
Otherwise, Notepad will name it like my_page.html.txt and it wont work.
Then you click Save button.
2. Start coding
Make sure you remember where you saved your document, so you can find it later.
Now, We'll start to write code:
You begin with <html> tag, it marks the beginning of a HTML document.
HTML tags are special markings enclosed between angle brackets, like so: <html>, <body>, <h1>, <h2>, etc...
Second tag is <head>. Head section contains code that does not appear on a visible part of a web page, it has some special purpose.
After that, give your page a title: <title>This is my first web page</title>. Almost all web tags have it's closing tag. It has an extra slash character, like so: </html>,</title>, </body>, </h1> ...
Close the head section: add closing </head> tag.
3. Page content
Now comes the part of putting actual page content, what is supposed to be seen on the page.
Open body tag: <body>
Your code should look like this so far:
This is my first web page
Let's put some text.
Text is often formatted as paragraphs. Put tag to open new paragraph: <p>.
You can write some text of your own, or copy/paste it from somewhere. I'll use dummy text used for making page templates. You can find it on internet by googling "Lorem ipsum".
Paste it after <p> tag.
Then add closing </p> tag to close that paragraph.
4. Preview in browser
Your page has some content so we could give it a try and see how it looks like in a browser.
But before that we have to close body and html tag.
Add closing </body> tag after the closed paragraph.
Then add closing </html> tag.
Save the document: File->Save
Find the document where you saved it (Desktop, My Documents or else), double click on icon and, voila, you see it in a web browser.
On the very top of browser window, you can see the page title you have defined using <title> tags.
Anyway, not much of a beauty to see.
Let's add some more elements to it.
5. Add text title.
Before the opening <p> tag, add opening <h1> tag. It is often used to make a heading title on a page. Write some title for your paragraph. I'll put "What is lorem ipsum" .
Save it again and refresh your page in browser: Ctrl+F5 (reload) to see the added title.
Your code so far should look like this:
This is my first web page
<h1>What is Lorem Ipsum</h1>
6. How to add image
You need to use <img> tag to display images.
Put it after the closing </p> tag.
First, you need the image file. Copy some file of your choice to the same place where your "my_page.html" document is (Desktop, My Documents, or else). Image file should be of type .jpeg, .gif or .png. Today, mostly used image formats on web pages are JPEG and PNG.
You can check it out by looking at file properties: right click on file icon, then click Properties and see what kind of image file you have.
Change <img> file in the following way: <img src="moon.jpg">
My image happens to be an image of the Moon and it's file is named in that manner: moon.jpg
You should find out what is your file named and what is it's extension. Extension is a part of a file name that comes after the dot.
Image files usually have .jpeg, .jpg, .gif, etc. extension. Check it out by looking at file properties.
After you put exact file name of the image including it's extension in image tag's attribute src="image_file_name.file_extension", refresh your document in the browser (Ctrl+F5) and there is your web page with an image.
7. Link it to another page.
Links are something common to see and use on a web page. It is created by putting anchor tags:
The main part is href attribute. It contains web address of a page you want to link to. I'll use Wikipedia.
So put this under the image tag:
<br />
Break tag <br /> makes break on a page, so the next part starts in a new row.
After the break tag add the link code:
<a href="">Wikipedia</a>
http:// part is essential for browser to recognize that it should look for the linked address at internet.
Refresh page and that is it. Click on the link.
You have web page at your computer, made by you.
Add more texts, images and links to experiment.
Next time I'll show you how to put it on internet.
The complete code:
This is my first web page
<h1>What is Lorem Ipsum</h1>
<img src="moon.jpg">
<br />
<a href="">Wikipedia</a>
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Invisible trouble
Perhaps you never encountered this. Happened to me once before and today I managed to fix it.
We use CodeIgniter PHP Framework as main tool in our work on this particular project. Me and my co-workers are developing rather huge website.
I am not going to write it's url here, because it is not fully online yet and I would be embarrassed to let you see all it's flaws ;-)
The main page (home), on it's top, started to display some error messages like "Headers already sent ... blah, blah" and mentioned Session.php library.
I know that it like happens if one would print or echo something in the same method containing the PHP header() function later.
But there was not supposed to be any header() statements on that page/method.
I googled up some tips about it. The most significant advice was that there are some space characters outside of opening or closing PHP tags in a controller.
Notepad++ did not show any spaces there. Nor did the regular Notepad show anything.
This is a kind of thing that makes my self esteem disappear, in seconds :-/ Don't know when or if I am going to fix it or when.
Then I remembered to try again but using GVim. I was not surprised to see some one or two strange characters on the beginning of controller file, because it was the only logical cause for this error.
It also proved to me that I should use GVim as a main editor.
Why this happened? I suppose that is because different text editors open, save and close files in a non consistent manner, or do it in a different way.
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Often asked: How To Play Dosbox?
Is DOSBox easy to use?
What is DOSBox command?
ALT +ENTER = Full Screen. ALT+PAUSE = Pause emulation. CTRL+F1 = Show the keymapper configuration screen. CTRL+F4 = Update cached information about mounted drives. Useful if you changed something on a mounted drive outside of DOSBox.
How do I install a game in DOSBox?
How do I play MS DOS games?
You don’t need DOS, just a browser, to play a retro-cool MS-DOS game. Here’s how to play.
1. Head to the Internet Library’s latest software collection of MS-DOS games.
2. Locate a game you want to play from the list of 2,500 games and tap its title.
3. In the next window, tap the power icon to launch the emulator and the game.
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Is DOSBox legal?
DOSBox is a full-system emulator that provides BIOS interrupts and contains its own internal DOS-like shell. This means that it can be used without owning a license to any real DOS operating system.
How do I play old DOS games on Windows 10?
How to run old DOS programs in Windows 10
1. Download your retroware.
2. Copy program files.
3. Launch DOSBox.
4. Install your program.
5. Image your floppy disks.
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7. Enable IPX.
8. Start IPX Server.
How do I use DOSBox commands?
How to Use DOSBox for Beginners
1. Step 1: Download DOSBox.
2. Step 2: Creating the Game Folder.
3. Step 3: Start DOSBox.
4. Step 4: Mount the C:dos Directory.
5. Step 5: Enter the Directory Containing the Game.
6. Step 6: Enter the Exe File Name and Play the Game!
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Type sudo gedit dosbox. conf This will open the dosbox configuration file. This will automatically mount the C: drive to your dosprog directory. If you want dosbox to automatically start on the C: drive, enter C: on a new line after your mount line.
How do I configure DOSBox?
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Currently, DOS Games Archive offers 955 video games you can download and play for free. It is a collection of freeware, shareware, playable demos, and full games that were released either as freeware or into the public domain.
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There are, of course, multiple ways to run old DOS games on your Windows 10 PC. If you’re using a 32-bit version of Windows, you can run most DOS games natively without requiring an emulator. You just have to install the NTVDM system, and that will allow you to run 16-bit applications like DOS games.
How many MS DOS games are there?
Nearly 7,000 games available in MS-DOS archive, including the original goose game.
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Файл Lara Croft/Tomb Raider Anthology (1996-2016)
СВАЛИ Lara Croft/Tomb Raider Anthology (1996-2016)
Инфо хeш 151242db0ad0f4f8d54a6986a8614650938d4b01
## Заглавие: Lara Croft/Tomb Raider Anthology (1996-2016)
## Жанр: Екшън
## Производител: Core Design Limited , Crystal Dynamics
## Системни изисквания: ## Изисквания :
Минимални изисквания :
ОС: Windows 7/8/10 64 bit
Процесор: Core i3-2100 3.1 GHz
Оперативна памет: 6 GB
Видеокарта: 2 GB, GeForce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7770, DirectX 11
Звукова карта: DirectX 9.0c sound device
Място на диска: 37.27 GB
## Какво е нужно за инсталиране: Нищо
## Начин на инсталация: ## Инсталация :
1. Стартирате съответния файл setup.exe от каталога с избраната част от антологията.
2. Инсталирате съответната игра.
3. Играете!
Преди цялата процедура изключете антивирусната си и Windows Defender.
## Друга информация: Серия игри, разказващи за приключенията на младата британска археоложка Лара Крофт.В тези игри ви очакват прекрасни и опасни ландшафти и спиращи дъха приключения.
## Съдържание :
1996-1998 | Tomb Raider: Gold (+ Unfinished Business)
Tomb Raider
In the role of the famous busty Tomb Raider, Lara Croft, you have to jump on the platforms, avoid traps, fight with wild beasts, and solve puzzles. Classics of the genre.
Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business
Add-on to the first part of Tomb Raider. Two new episodes (two levels each) in Egypt and Atlantis. 5 types of enemies (all - old friends from the original TR), all of the same types of weapons - just one more piece of very short adventure for fans of Lara.
1997-1999 | Tomb Raider 2: Gold (The Dagger of Xian + The Golden Mask)
Tomb Raider II: The Dagger of Xian
Lara Croft in the pursuit of a new relic, Xi'an dagger (Dagger of Xian). Lara has mastered new acrobatic tricks, learned to use the weight of firearms and drive a variety of vehicles. In his travels, she will visit all corners of the Earth, starting with China and ending with Venice.
Tomb Raider II: The Golden Mask
Add-on to one of the best parts of the series about the adventures of Lara Croft - to Tomb Raider II. This time, Lara must find the golden mask. The mask lying on four levels, which are protected by several kinds of bandits and monsters, migrated to the Gold-version straight from TR II. New weapons and other gameplay innovations in the game there, so it can be recommended only for those who loves to Tomb Raider or decided for the first time in his life to drive Miss Croft through the maze: the size of the add-on is very humble and has to get acquainted with Miss Croft closer.
1998-2000 | Tomb Raider 3 (Adventures of Lara Croft + The Lost Artefact)
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
The third part of the adventures of Lara. Nothing radically new.
Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artifact
Add-on to the third part of Tomb Raider. A direct continuation of TR III, where we will visit six new levels and get another powerful artifact (as it says in the title game). According to ancient tradition, the institution is still in Unfinished Business, the new weapons in the game. But there are new enemies. In general, the game is recommended for viewing (this "viewing" - only 6 levels) to all fans of the big talents of Miss Croft.
1999 | Tomb Raider 4: The Last Revelation
As a child, I dreamed of becoming many archaeologists, but not all of them have become. To fulfill his dream of a young Lara Croft helped the well-known connoisseur of antiquities Professor von tailoring to organize an expedition to Egypt, with the condition that he would take her with him. Budding Tomb Raider went in search of an ancient amulet, with which you can defeat the mighty Egyptian deity.
2000 | Tomb Raider: Chronicles
Fans of the series undoubtedly remember what the outcome of the previous adventure (Tomb Raider: Last Revelation) - Lara's fate remained covered with gloom, and no one knows whether it was able to survive. And while the whole world, with bated breath, wondering about the further fate of Tomb Raider, her loyal friends reminisce about past adventures of the brave beauty.
Four amazing stories about the adventures of Lara Croft in the most unexpected places: on the ancient streets of Rome, in the hold Russian submarine in the mysterious Ireland ... Everywhere she will act differently - somewhere cunning somewhere by force or stealth.
2003 | Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
"Angel of Darkness" will reveal one of the most mysterious and darkest chapters in the life of Lara Croft. After another expedition Miss Croft if replaced. She locked herself in her estate, and seemed to have forgotten about the adventures. Only the invitation of an old friend and mentor, Professor Von Croy made Lara to step over the threshold of the house. However, when the heroine has arrived at the appointed place, it turned out that her mentor is killed. Police suspicions fell on a young beauty, discovered at the crime scene. Lara Croft has to flee.
2006 | Tomb Raider: Legend
Hurricane head, acrobatic dexterity, enchanting possession of weapons and gadgets - among all lovers of adventures Lara simply has no equal. Dangerous jungles, ancient tombs, snow-covered ruins and raging waterfalls - we are waiting again journey to the most exotic places of the planet, spectacular fights, dizzy tricks and cunning opposition, ready for the most extreme measures to the enemy.
2007 | Tomb Raider: Anniversary
The leitmotif of the story remained the same - a brave seeker goes on the hunt for the mysterious "legacy." However, even those who know the story by heart, waiting for surprises, twists and unprecedented detail. The technical part of the game, on the contrary, has undergone a radical revision.
Player waiting for the mystery of ancient tombs and dangerous enemies in his possession acrobatics and the entire arsenal of skills nimble hunter for artifacts.
P.S. Lara Croft is still armed with a favorite pair of pistols.
2008 | Tomb Raider: Underworld
For centuries, inhabitants of Scandinavia telling ancient stories about the powerful weapon of the great god Thor. One sweep of the mighty hammer he could turn the high mountains in the valley, but if you want - even slay the other gods! A thousand years, these legends were a myth, until one person has not found evidence of the existence of these weapons in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea. A girl who is not afraid of anything or anyone in this world renowned Tomb Raider. Her name is Lara. Lara Croft.
The new part of the blockbuster game series graceful and deadly heroine once again go on a journey around the world, exploring the temples abandoned centuries and fight with the insidious and dangerous enemies. Fans expect numerous new gameplay that has become even more fun! Lara uses in combat martial arts techniques and surrounding objects, makes a lot of dizzying acrobatic tricks. Graphics created with the requirements of the latest gaming platforms - impenetrable jungle became an order of magnitude colorful and ancient ruins look even more mysterious. Lara change clothes in new clothes, which get wet in the rain and dry in the hot tropical sun. In Tomb Raider: Underworld players expect more weapons, more drive, more action and - Lara Croft!
2013 | Tomb Raider (2013)
Tomb Raider - one of the most outstanding projects of the spring of 2013, which marks the revival of the well-known cycle of video game about the adventures of treasure hunter Lara Croft, which traces its history since 1996.
The game tells the story of the way of becoming famous character, revealing its character and allowing to trace the evolution of her personality. It's really grown, imbued with psychological story that keeps in suspense until the very end.
Rapid fight with the enemies - and melee, and the use of weapons, the ability to use cover, interesting puzzles, the need to explore the world around us, as well as role-playing elements aimed at developing the abilities of the heroine - Tomb Raider gameplay is varied and fascinating.
2010 | Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Unlike previous games Tomb Raider series, arcade Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Lara can play with a partner, and the camera is located above the head.
More than 2,000 years ago, the forces of good and evil fought for artifact Mirror Smoke wield enormous power that allows alternate day and night or forever to load the entire world into darkness. Meanwhile, the fearless leader of the Army of Light, Totek, possessed great power artifact and imprisoned evil spirit Ksanksolta. Totek buried himself with a mirror in the Temple of Light to protect the artifact from the forces of evil. But after 2000 years of Lara Croft went to the mountains of Central America in search of long-lost Temple. Mercenaries, stealing an artifact Ksanksoltu allowed to return to this world, for that have paid with their lives. Totek, accusing Lara happened, decides to cooperate with it in order to return the mirror. If the artifact does not return to the forces of Light, Ksanksolt uses power mirrors and plunge the world into eternal darkness ...
2014 | Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Continued isometric adventure of the famous Tomb Raider! This time Lara Croft goes to Egypt to find the Staff of Osiris and defeat the ancient god Seth. Our heroine will help the archaeologist Carter Bell, as well as choir and Isis - the son and wife of Osiris.
Only united, heroes will be able to go through the sands and ancient tombs, face-to-face with the mythical monsters and prevent Seth enslave humanity!
2016 | Rise of the Tomb Raider
Expanding the ancient secret, Lara must explore the most remote and dangerous corners of Siberia, to find the secret of immortality before ruthless organization "Trinity." Lara will use all their ingenuity and survival skills, make new alliances and to take their destiny Tomb Raider! In this game of survival of the new generation of dynamic offers adventure, beautiful landscapes and dangerous, brutal guerrilla fighting and breathtaking tomb. Rise of the Tomb Raider tells about the first expedition of Lara Croft, which has made it more than just an adventurer.
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Robert Allenby says Hawaii kidnapping 'felt like the film Taken'
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Robert Allenby says Hawaii kidnapping 'felt like the film Taken'
By Megan Levy
Australian professional golfer Robert Allenby has described his kidnap ordeal in Hawaii as feeling "pretty much the same as" the plot in the action film Taken, starring Liam Neeson.
Police are investigating after the 43-year-old golfer said he was abducted from the popular Amuse Wine Bar in the tourist hub of Waikiki on Friday night. He says he was bashed, robbed and put into the boot of a car and dumped on a street 10 kilometres away.
A bruised and battered Allenby told Sunrise on Monday that he had no memory of the bizarre and terrifying ordeal, but was told by a homeless woman that he was thrown from a car onto a side street, resulting in extensive grazing to his face.
Allenby, who had been in Hawaii for the Sony Open golf tournament, believes he may have been drugged at the wine bar, before he was knocked unconscious and "everything I had in my possession was taken".
Police had told him that someone had tried to use his credit card in downtown Waikiki on Saturday night, Allenby said.
"We see a lot of things on movies and stuff. You know, I watched Taken quite a few times and it kind of felt pretty much the same as that. I just, very surreal, yeah," he said.
In Taken, Neeson plays a retired CIA agent who saves his estranged daughter who has been kidnapped in Paris.
Allenby said he had been at the wine bar for about two hours, and had just paid the bill before the attack.
He is believed to have been captured on CCTV leaving the restaurant in the company of up to six people.
After leaving the restaurant, Allenby said he "walked around the corner, then 'bang'."
"The next minute I was thrown out of the boot of a car ... on to the side street," he told Sunrise.
"It was a homeless person that told me that, otherwise I would never have known."
Allenby said when he was first thrown onto the street, two homeless men began kicking him, until a homeless woman came to his aid.
The woman had "pretty much saved my life", he said. He described how they ran away from the men down the street, where they encountered a retired military officer who came to their aid.
The military man paid for a taxi back to Allenby's hotel, he said.
Allenby had eaten at a restaurant adjoining the wine bar on Friday night with close friend Anthony Puntoriero and caddie Mick Middlemo immediately before the incident.
The restaurant was "upmarket" and "beautiful", he said.
Allenby said, as a professional sportsman, he made a point of being extremely careful when he went out.
Asked whether he believed he was targeted because he was a golfer, Allenby said he was not sure.
"There was a lot of fuss when I was in the restaurant, in the bar area. You know, people saying 'Oh, that's Robert Allenby, he's a famous golfer', and blah blah blah, and that kind of maybe drew some attention for someone," Allenby said.
"There [were] quite a few people in there so it's very hard to pinpoint anyone, but we went back yesterday and had a look at the cameras because I just wanted to see who was there and what may have happened. I was trying to piece all of the puzzle together. But .. I was very fortunate. I mean, a homeless lady pretty much saved my life."
Scans have cleared Allenby of any serious facial or head injuries and he is hopeful of being cleared to fly in the next day or two.
He doesn't yet know when he will play golf again.
"The chances of me playing next week are very slim, but I'm just taking it one day at a time."
He said he planned to thank the homeless woman and the retired military man who helped him.
"I will (contact the homeless woman), and I will thank her and I will give her something, and also the guy from the military that helped me as well. I'll definitely make a call to him, he paid for the taxi to get out of there," he said.
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1. What mix of gases do air tanks contain?
This will depend very much on what type of diving you are doing and also your own personal preference. Standard tanks come with roughly 79% nitrogen and 21% oxygen which replicate the air we normally breathe on land. There are also different mixes available such as 'bottom gas'. This is used when divers are descending to more extreme depths (at which point the standard mix becomes toxic due to compression). Bottom gas is a normally a helium based option which has less than 21% oxygen.
2. Should you rent or buy gas tanks?
If you have just started diving then you may not know if this sport will suit you yet. It can be a good idea to rent equipment in the beginning (usually available direct from the diving school). Once you have decided you like diving and want to do more of this sport then you can invest in your own equipment. If you are diving on holiday then you will not be able to take bulky diving equipment with you but in most cases so you can rent everything you need once you have arrived.
3. Does a bigger tank hold more air?
When you are buying air tanks the size does not always relate to how much air the tank can hold when it is full. To know this you have to find out what the maximum pressure of the air tank is. Aluminium tanks usually hold around 3,000 psi and steel tanks can be either low pressure (2400psi) or high pressure (3440psi).
4. How do I work out what size tank I need for my diving session?
How long a tank lasts will depend on two main factors. Firstly how much air the diver consumes and secondly what depth the diver is descending too. On average a diver will consume around cubic foot of air per minute. However if you are exerting yourself this can go up significantly. Also the further you dive down the more the air will be compressed and the faster you will use it up. When you complete your diving course your instructor will go into more detail about calculating air tanks size and dive times.
5. Why should you never empty your tank completely on a dive?
Firstly you need to be able to calculate your dive time accurately so that you never get close to an empty tank. This can be dangerous as anything could happen to delay your ascent to the surface and you need to know you have some spare air to last you. Also if you completely empty your air tank then there is no pressure left inside to keep out moisture. This can cause moisture to leak inside the tank resulting in an increased likelihood of corrosion therefore reducing the life of your air tanks. If you leave a little air in your tanks when you come back to the surface you can partially open the tank valve and blow out any droplets of moisture that may have formed.
6. Do I need to get my tanks professionally checked?
If you buy your own air tanks for diving then you do need to make sure you get them checked over at least once a year by a professional technician. This service is usually available from local dive schools. This will ensure that there is no damage to your tank or the valve that could result in it bursting under pressure. Tanks are crucial items of equipment when you are on a dive so you do need to make sure they are working perfectly before you get into the water. Always personally check your tanks before every dive and don't forget to lift off the cylinder boot to see if any corrosion has formed underneath.
7. What are scuba air tanks made from?
Scuba air tanks are typically made from aluminium or steel. Each of these metals has their own advantages and disadvantages:
• Steel – steel is much harder than aluminium and is more resistant to dents and other damage. It is also slightly heavier than aluminium which means you do not need to wear as much weight on your belt/suit. Steel is more prone to rusting though and once these tanks have started to corrode they are no longer safe to use. Steel tanks can costs a lot more than aluminium tanks but in general they last much longer (if looked after properly).
• Aluminium – aluminium is much softer than steel and therefore is more likely to get dents and scrapes. Although aluminium does rust it is much less prone to this damaging form of oxidation than steel and this mean these tanks require less maintenance. For this reason you will find nearly all hire shops use aluminium tanks. Aluminium tanks are less expensive than steel tanks but they do not last as long and they are lighter, which means you will have to wear more weights on your belt/suit.
8. Can Kevlar air tanks be used for diving?
You can get air tanks for diving made from a Kevlar composite. These are actually made for use on land for situations such as fire fighting applications. They are not used for diving as they have a high positive buoyancy.
9. Why is tank capacity measure in both metric and imperial?
Metric and imperial techniques do not actually measure tank capacity in quite the same way. Metric describes the tank capacity in terms of how many litres of water can fit inside and since a litre of water also weighs one kilogram this could be listed in either litres or kilograms. The Imperial method rates tank capacity based on how many cubic feet of compressed air can be held in the tank at sea level. Both these systems are used by tank manufacturers to it is important you understand the differences.
10. Why do tanks get hot when you fill them?
Basically when you fill an air tank gas (typically nitrogen and oxygen) will be compressed. When you put gas molecules under pressure they start moving around more quickly and this causes a reaction of heat. Therefore the more pressure you put your tank under the hotter it will get.
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ECG Feature Extraction Using Wavelet Based Derivative Approach. Authors ECG Beat Detection P-QRS-T waves Daubechies wavelets Feature Extraction. ECG FEATURE EXTRACTION USING DAUBECHIES WAVELETS. S. Z. Mahmoodabadi1,2(MSc), A. Ahmadian1,2 (Phd), M. D. Abolhasani1,2(Phd). Article: An Approach for ECG Feature Extraction using Daubechies 4 (DB4) Wavelet. International Journal of Computer Applications 96(12), June .
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The coefficient corresponding to the low pass filter is called as Approximation Coefficients CA and high pass filtered coefficients are called as Detailed Coefficients CD. Electrocardiogram ECG is an electrical recording of the heart and is used to measure the rate and regularity ofheartbeats.
The ECG signals are overlapped with noises and artifactswhich lead to inaccurate diagnosis of the arrhythmias.
How to Cite this Article? The types of stress are acute stress, which is a daubechiew condition which arises in response to a terrifying event and chronic stress, is due to the emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period by an individual over which he or she has no control.
The db4 is a discrete wavelet transform which is applied on the ECG signal and are convert to the wavelet coefficients. The hidden markov model is used for the classification of the ECG signals.
In the learning process the Baum-Welch algorithm is used to compute the maximum likelihood for the featire. The mother wavelet DWT is expressed by:. The time interval and morphological features from the ECG signals are used in the classification of ECGs into normal rhythm and arrhythmic [2].
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Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded Maharashtra have been used. The ECG signals are the representative signals of cardiac physiology which are mainly used in the diagnosing of cardiac disorders.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 7 2 The clinically information in the ECG signal is mainly concentrated in the intervals and amplitudes of its features. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 5 11 The wavelet transform has the property of multi- resolution which gives both time and frequency domain information in asimultaneous mannerthrough variablewindow size.
Normally the amplitude of ECG signal decreases as ventricular fibrillation duration increases [13]. The electrocardiogram ECG signal always contaminated by noise and artifacts. The arrhythmia is classified based on the site of its origin.
ECG Feature Extraction and Parameter Evaluation for Detection of Heart Arrhythmias
Figure 1 shows an electrocardiogram signal. International Journal of Biological Engineering, 2 5 Extractiln heart is a hollow muscular organ which pumps theblood through the blood vessels to various parts of the body by repeated, rhythmic contractions.
An important factor to consider when using findings on electrocardiograms for clinical decision making is that the waveforms are influenced by normal physiological and technical factors as well as by pathophysiological factors. The development of the system is divided into the following modules: The basic principle of DWT is to decompose the signal into finer details.
International Journal of Computer Applications, 11 The classification approaches such as are neuro-fuzzy [3], support vector machines [6], discriminant analysis, hidden markov models, and neuro-genetic [9]. The totalrecords of cardiac arrhythmia are 22 and the misclassified record is 3.
The T-wave is the result of repolarization of the ventricles, and is longer in duration than depolarization.
Many features can be obtained and also be used in compressed domain using the wavelet coefficients. The detection of this life threatening arrhythmia is difficult because of its waveform and frequency distribution changes with time. The main goal of the proposed system is to identify the stress related arrhythmias using the electrocardiogram signals.
Stress causing Arrhythmia Detection from ECG Signal using HMM | Open Access Journals
LabVIEW signal processing tools are used to denoise the signal before applying the developed algorithm for feature extraction. The preprocessing module mainly deals with the process of removing the noises from the ECG signal and the signal is decomposed into several sub-bands.
The system involves the process of denoising the ECG signal, feature extraction and classifying the ventricular arrhythmia.
The QRS complexes in the ECG signal are detected for the purpose of identifying the slow rhythm or fast rhythm and also for detecting the arrhythmic diseases.
Appl, 44 23 Options for accessing this content: Feature extraction of ECG signals for early detection of heart arrhythmia. The stress causing arrhythmia detection mainly depends on the feature values.
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E-Learning 101. This post is dedicated to my father, Frank J.
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Weiss, who passed away on 4-7-12. He often found it difficult to explain to others what I did and more importantly, what is e-learning. Part of the reason was, he wasn’t tech savvy although he was willing to take it for a drive. I think a lot of people in our space are like my Dad. Very smart people who are either new to the space, non or somewhat tech savvy, and find themselves hearing a lot of terminology, a lot of confusing marketing spin and get confused – at no fault of their own. Wake Up! The reality of e-learning is that ambiguity still plays a big role in the space. The challenges are two-fold a. B. The end result? The difficulty in explaining to others – either the person who needs to green light it, the end users – i.e. your learners, committees of people who come from different departments, salespeople who are unfamiliar with the space and thus tend to either wing it or are honest and just say, “I do not know.”
The main term Systems. Des comparatifs de LMS. Open source e-learning and collaboration software. LMS Selection. MOS - MindOnSite SA. Blackboard vs. Moodle: a comparison. As a user of Blackboard at Bournemouth University I have been involved in various discussion about it’s merit (or lack of). These are usually started by someone who doesn’t like Blackboard, and probably hasn’t used it much either (or even tried).
They are usually fans of Moodle, even if they’ve not used it (but have talked to people who have). You know the sort, and have probably had similar discussions yourself, from either side of the fence. Thanks to @kennfj I found this report from the University of North Carolina (USA) on a comparison between Moodle and Blackboard Vista, with a view to which system will they implement across the Institution; Moodle vs Blackboard Vista evaluation report from University of North Carolina from May 2009 It is a fairly comprehensive study with some very interesting points on both sides of the argument, and I strongly recommend you read it, if you get a chance. The conclusion states: Angel vs Moodle vs Sakai vs Blackboard – which LMS? « Juliaitani’s Blog. Talking about Learning Management System (LMS) or Content Management System (CMS) in higher education is a bit of a hit in a glass wall. Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers - Cat's Pyjamas.
LMS Selection. You should prepare your RFP based upon your requirements.
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It is not necessary to indicate priorities of requirements, nor list them in any specific order, in the RFP itself so that each requirement is responded to equally. You should try to be as specific as possible about each requirement so that the LMS company can respond directly to your requirement rather than provide a general response. You should also include scenarios in your RFP. Describe very specific situations that you would envision the LMS/LCMS to accomodate. This will give you a clear indication as to how the LMS company can meet your needs. You also will need to request a proposed project plan for implementation based upon your criteria. Finally, provide a short response time for the RFP. 10 Things to Consider Before Choosing an LMS. So you know you want an LMS.
10 Things to Consider Before Choosing an LMS
Good. This article isn’t here to tell you why you need one, or why you should use one, this is a guide for anyone who already knows they want an LMS, just wants a guide for what to check for. Over the years I have spent many hours testing content and trying various different Learning Management Systems, and have even done some LMS (like) design work with Articulate Online. Over that time period I have had the opportunity to learn a lot about what does work well, and what doesn’t work well in a lot of systems, so based on my knowledge on the subject, here is my list 10 things to consider before choosing in an LMS. 1. There are 3 LMS standards of significance these days, AICC, SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004. A little history on the standards… The AICC standard was developed by the aviation industry in 1993 and has evolved a bit over the years, but remains pretty similar to its roots. SCORM 2004 was released in 2004 (shocker huh?)
2. 3. Use Scripted Demos 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. CMS: How To Use This Site. About good practices and sound policies that accelerate the effective adoption and use of technologies in teaching and learning.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Planting in the Short Desert Spring.
There was barely a transitional stage. It snowed within recent memory; the pictures are still cropping up on Tucsonans' Facebook pages. We awoke after torrential rains to snow capping the mountains this weekend. It had melted by the time I arrived at the Festival of Books, but the image was burned into my brain. Elizibeth and I shared the warm clothing I'd brought along; flip flops were out of the question.
My polar fleece wasn't too heavy as I crossed the campus to my car. I rolled down a window, and cranked it right back up once I began to move. The breeze was frigid, though the sun was out and the trees were barely moving. That's as wintry as Tucson gets, and I'm glad.
TBG turned on the pool's heater and the sun warmed the water as the mechanics did their job but the air temperature hovered near 60. I was too cold to contemplate donning a swimsuit and taking a dip. The winter seemed determined to stick around.
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We have a six week window for planting, here in the desert Southwest. The danger of frost must have passed, and the temperatures have to stay in double digits so that the roots don't burn up before they become established. Valentines Day is the usual start to the gardening season; this year, it snowed. Tomato plants required the cosseting of a water wall.
I put off planting anything.
It's hard enough to coax a tomato to grow here; I want them to have a safe and comfortable start.
So, I didn't get Brother to help me repair the raised bed. I didn't buy new soil. I had no plants resting in the shade of the acacia tree, waiting to be placed in their new home. The irrigation set-up (timer, resistor, tubing) is connected to itself, but not to the garden plot. It's been too cold to work outside.
And then, I woke up today. Ernie called to remind me that he was coming to wash the windows and clean up winter's destruction of the yard. I put on a long sleeved shirt and a pair of shorts and walked outside, intending to survey the scene and develop a strategy for the yard guys.
I began to perspire almost immediately. It wasn't even 9am, and it was H-O-T.
The actual temperature is immaterial; it felt like an outer circle of hell by the time I dragged myself across the expanse of the front yard. Mexican Birds of Paradise need to be trimmed to nothingness; I could barely bend over to check for green (growing) shoots. The wildflowers I've determined are weeds covered the stones; there are too many to pull, they are too close to those I've chosen to keep, and the Round-Up I sprayed last week doesn't seem to have accomplished a thing.
The guys had a lot to do. I wish they had paid closer attention to Ernie's instructions. The volunteer crepe myrtle which had established itself amidst the purple lantana in the front yard fell victim to the power pruner's blades. It will return, but I miss its smiling tentacles rising from the detritus of the spent ground cover below. There's a price to be paid for having helpers in the yard; I was working with Ernie when the cutting began and wasn't there to save the pretty pink flowers from ruin. Sigh....
Ernie cut the bougainvillas down to the nubs, and then worked on removing the unproductive, thick stumps near the ground. We trimmed the branches which were headed toward the wall; this year the bougies are going to flower outward and upward, if I have anything to say on the subject.
The rosemary was a different story; I had hopes that a hedge would form. They are doing nicely, but still look like distinct plants, plants which are growing forward and backward instead of left and right. Ernie says they will eventually climb to the top of the pony wall and drape delightfully over to the other side.
Given that the definition of a weed is a plant in the wrong place, I took issue with TBG's description of our courtyard as full of weeds. I like these blue volunteers which are sprouting all over the place. I like thinking about the animals whose coats dropped seeds, whose digestive tracts and excretions left bundles of beauty for me this spring. The circle of life is quite obvious out here.
Soon, the entire courtyard, and a good portion of the front yard, will be blue and swaying in the breeze. For now, it's a work in progress, with new flowers popping up every day. I'll collect the seeds from them, and sprinkle them over the ground during the first summer rain. Ernie promises that they'll take; I'm choosing to believe him.
The raised bed has boards that need reattaching and soil that needs enriching. I'm considering a variety of possibilities for making it higher, but I think I'll have to wait til next year. Summer came too quickly for me and there's no more time for thought. Action must be taken before the climate intervenes and makes further work impossible.
I'll plant tomatoes and basil and jalapenos; they've been successful in the past and I am sure I can grow them again. I'm going to skip the melons and the beans and the peppers; I'm tired of investing energy in things that disappoint me. When it cools off, I'll put in lettuce, a cool weather crop that provides free salad and a smile every afternoon as I'm preparing dinner. Yes, home grown lettuce tastes a lot better than that which you find at the store.
My citrus trees are a sorry example of my abilities; they are trying, but not having much luck at all. I'm blaming my irresponsible inattention to irrigation, when I'm not wondering why I chose plants that require so much coddling. I'm reminded of G'ma advising me to find my houseplants at Woolworths. "If they can survive there, they can survive with you," she told me, and she was right. I expect compliance from my plants; a hard scrabble upbringing was always a good indicator of their success at home.
That's the joy and the frustration of gardening in an inhospitable climate. The aloes and agaves froze when I was too lazy to go outside and cover them during our frigid winter. It broke my heart to cut them off; I knew I had failed them, sending them to an early doom. I promised that I'd do better next time.
By the time the electric blowers were on the gardeners' backs, I was drenched in sweat, my hair was stuck to my head, and my heart was full. I have a few more holes to fill in the yard, a few more spaces to enhance, but, for the most part, the heavy work is done. When the temperatures have climbed to triple digits I'll be able to admire my handiwork from air conditioned splendor.
It's not as much fun as digging in the dirt all summer long, but we make do with what we have. What I have is good.
1. Your post resonated with me since before we lived in Northern New Mexico we lived in Inland Southern Californa, where summer temps regularly top 100. Gardening is a challenge there, and I found a few sweet spots winter and spring when stuff would grow. Now I am learning it all again.
2. Northern New mexico has its own challenges, too, Bridget. Northern California was gardening heaven..... it's what I miss the most.
3. When it's all done, I would love to see pictures. What are those blue-ish things on the plants at the nursery? I've never seen those before.
As I've mentioned before, I have no green thumb. I like to live variously through others' when it comes to gardening. :)
Hope you at least had some fun getting your hands dirty.
It's already Thursday. Going on vacation on Wednesday. Cannot wait.
Megan xxx
1. I was too late to take pictures, when I got home from babysitting chores. I will do a picture post next week, once the veggies are in and I'm not humiliated by the appearance of the garden :)
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Could I Have This Dance?
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Harry MD Kraus
Narrated By: Katy Cole
Publisher: Zondervan
Date: December 2010
Duration: 16 hours 11 minutes
You can't dance this dance unless it's in your blood.
Claire McCall is praying it's not in hers.
Claire McCall is used to fighting back against the odds. Hard work, aptitude, and sheer determination have helped her rise from adverse circumstances to an internship in one of the nation's most competitive surgical residencies. But talent and tenacity mean nothing in the face of the discovery that is about to rock her world.
It's called the 'Stoney Creek Curse' by folks in the small mountain town where Claire grew up. Behind the superstition lies a reality that could destroy her career. But getting to the truth is far from easy in a community with secrets to hide. As a web of relationships becomes increasingly tangled, two things become apparent. One is that more than one person doesn't want Claire to probe too deeply into the 'Stoney Creek Curse.' The other is that someone has reasons other than the curse for wanting Claire out of the picture permanently.
Somewhere in the course of pursuing her career as a surgeon, Claire lost touch with the God who called her to it. Now she realizes how desperately she needs him. But can she reclaim a faith strong enough to see her through this deadly dance of circumstances?
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
a dizzy pigeon
I'm growing up. I am losing some illusions perhaps to acquire others.
(Orlando, Virginia Wolf)
It's been quite a month. It's been 70 hours a week pouring my heart into the CELTA teaching course and still coming up with standard marks half the time. It's been a month of learning a lot and questioning everything I thought I knew. It was a month were I started off with confidence and enthusiasm and three quarters through started to loose all confidence in my ability to learn, to teach, to interact appropriately with anyone. It was a month where my best efforts often weren't good enough. It was a month where almost everyone in the course broke down in tears at one point or another. Including me. more than once.
It was a month of crazy making. Twelve 20 to 30 somethings were the CELTA candidates. trying to learn as much as possible and put it into practice immediately was overwhelming. overwhelming for some because they'd never taught before. overwhelming for others like me because first we had to unlearn everything we once thought we knew to be "true." at least one, if not two, of the twelve of us failed out. it was a tough month.
It's been a long long time since I tried as hard as I could and didn't ace it. It is perhaps the first time in my life that I haven't been sick/crazy, tried as hard as I could and didn't ace it. The ego took a slap across the face.
a boy I've been seeing a lot of commented that if this is the first time I'm being graded as average it means it's just the first time I've really been challenged. I called him cheeky and tried not to pout. I think he might have been right though.
the classes we taught were evaluated by our peers and a CELTA trainer. There are three possible grades: "not to standard," "to standard," and "above standard." Each week the criteria of what constituted a high mark was raised. An "above standard" class for week two became a "to standard" class week three. They kept us on our toes. On average, I would spend at least 4 hours preparing a 40 minute class. Working a real job back in Japan was so much easier.
Week one went well. Week two and three were tough. I would teach and afterwards think, that was a great class by previous Japanese standards, and then the trainer and my peers would systematically pick apart and explain why my class was ok, but "to standard" as the grading system went. I would stammer and try to defend myself but really, they were right. Soon my confidence, arrogance, insistence on defending my views was crushed. It hurt a lot. But out of it came a greater desire to listen and question everything I had once though I "knew".
Sometime in week three I was beat and finally ready to learn all I could. I realized that I wasn't going to be able to get the top mark in the course and ironically relaxed. I started asking all the stupid questions I could think of. At some point the trainer, after a series of these mostly stupid questions, looked straight into my eyes and asked accusingly, "You have a science background, don't you?" Umm, yeah.
"Well there's no right or wrong. Teaching isn't black or white. It's not the same formula every time."
Rather than snap back that of course I knew that, I was filled with a massive lack of confidence and wondered what the fuck this course was doing to me.
It was a rough month. The last class I taught went well. I know I passed the course as a whole though I don't know my mark. I'm a bit scared to go back to the school and see if I got a "pass," "Pass B," or "Pass A." Well, "Pass A" I think is out of the question. Even with 5 out of 9 "above standards." Dear god did I work my ass off.
The course finished last Friday and since I've done almost nothing other than sleep ridiculous hours a day, drink, laze about and plan a week (starting on Saturday) riding old bikes through the vineyards of Mendoza with this boy I quite like but very soon will likely never see again.
It's been quite a month. Every day I've changed my mind about what my future looks like. Yesterday the Brazilian embassy effectively forced my hand and made me nail down some dates with plane tickets. I've bought a ticket that has me arriving back in LA on June 26th. It's changeable but it's a plan to start with. I'm very seriously (ha! at least in comparison to everything else!) ahem. I'm very seriously moving to Eastern Europe/Central Asia in the fall and teaching English somewhere like Kazakhstan. It's an idea I'm falling in love with, like most of my best ideas that sound ridiculous to everyone else at first. Like going to Japan both times. Or coming to South America.
Moving somewhere like Kazakhstan makes a lot of sense in the current state of my brain. Most days I think of myself as a very dizzy homing pigeon. However, lacking grounding and direction is fantastic for feeling open to the possibilities of the world and life. Questioning everything I once knew has made me feel off center and lacking in previous confidence but also very capable of adapting and learning and growing.
It's been quite a month. and I've taken almost no pictures. the journey has been mostly within. much learning has happened.
and the adventures continue....
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Headquarters Munich
A while ago we were commissioned by Sonos Germany to design a unique lighting plan for the Sonos Headquarters Munich. It is not just any office. During the design of the office the focus was on creating a “second home”.
During the design process, less use was made of average regular workplaces, but more creative workplaces. These places feel more like a creative studio or a warm living room than a real office. The focus was on creating a playful space for the employees. The interior and furnishings of the office were designed in collaboration with DDock from Amsterdam. A unique project with a great end result.
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The First Lady – a terrific miniseries
My wife and I just completed watching the wonderful Showtime ten-part miniseries called “The First Lady” which highlights the lives of three first ladies. The first season focused on Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama as it flipped back to each First Lady and various points in her life. I hope there is a next season which will likely focus on three more women.
Gillian Anderson does a superb job as Roosevelt, while Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis do the same with Ford and Obama. Roosevelt has the most screen time as she was First Lady for twelve years and went on to serve as the US lead delegate to the formation of the United Nations. Yet, we do see a lot of the other two who had their own sets of challenges.
Ford was beloved by Americans more so than her husband. She counseled him not to pardon Richard Nixon which turned out to be a key reason he was not reelected. But, she was also addicted first to alcohol and then pain-killers. It got so bad her family had to do a full on intervention. She at first hated her daughter for being the first one to try, but when Gerald Ford saw how bad it had gotten, he upped the ante. Ford would go on to establish the Betty Ford Center to help addicted people.
Obama had major challenges as did her husband being the first African-American woman First Lady. The racism she faced her entire life could not totally prepare her for the full on racism she would face as First Lady. We see the tensions between her and Rahm Emanuel as he tries to rein her in as her husband danced a finer line so as not to alienate white voters. And, we see a beleaguered Hillary Clinton ask for help on her campaign to stave off the attacks of the next president in the campaign.
Kiefer Sutherland plays FDR, with Aaron Eckhart playing Ford and O-T Fagbenie playing Obama. Dakota Fanning gets a lot of airtime as Susan Ford, the daughter who tried to help her mother first. Regina Taylor and Lexi Underwood play Michelle’s mother and Malia her daughter. And, Lily Rabe plays a key role in Lorena Hickock addressing full on the rumors of Eleanor’s Lesbian relationship after having six kids and her husband’s infidelity.
While each President leaned on his wife for help, Roosevelt was very much an advisor to her husband. FDR knew she would shoot straight with him. Even though each had other lovers, they were friends and confidantes. She also helped shape some of his speeches and because of her weekly radio broadcast, FDR had her be the first person to address Americans after Pearl Harbor. Finally, since he could not get out and about with his wheelchair, FDR had Eleanor be his arms and legs as well to visit some places like Australia during WWII to see the wounded and fighting troops.
The series is well done. I have seen some criticism, but to me it was entertaining and informative, even though it takes some liberties with the truth as it claims from the outset. We look forward to the next season.
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In February 1961, Leonid Rogozov was one of 12 men wintering at a new Soviet base in Antarctica. He was also their only doctor. So when he came down with a bad case of appendicitis, well, there was only thing to do really: He had to remove the appendix himself.
Over at BBC Magazine, Sara Lentati chronicles the improbable auto-appendectomy, performed in the middle of nowhere. It was impossible to fly during the winter, and the journey by sea would have taken over a month. Rogozov was stuck at the base. He would die if the appendix burst, so he had to try something no one had ever done before.
Rogozov tasked two men on the expedition as surgical assistants who would hand him tools. There was no general anesthesia. At first, Rogozov used a mirror, but the backwards image made things harder rather than easier, and he ended up working by touch. Here’s how it went, in Rogozov’s own words.
The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time... Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up. I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds.
Finally here it is, the cursed appendage! With horror I notice the dark stain at its base. That means just a day longer and it would have burst… My heart seized up and noticeably slowed, my hands felt like rubber. Well, I thought, it’s going to end badly and all that was left was removing the appendix.
Rogozov’s gamble was successful and he survived to tell the whole tale, which you can read, along with all the grisly details, over at the BBC.
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Transparent's Network Boxes
I know this has been a topic before but I was wondering if anyone really knew what Transparent puts in those cool looking black boxes. God knows they charge enough for their cables and one would think they would put a picture of the network box contents on their website but no such luck. I've heard everything from a single cheap resistor hot glued in place to exactly three parts in each model no more or less. I've researched this on audio asylum and the opinions vary as well. If anyone knows for sure and better yet can direct us to a photo url, that would be wonderful.
Why don't you just listen to Transparent cables instead of making a decision based network contents?
This just turns into a flame thread about expensive cables.
If you can't hear the difference then don't buy them, and consider yourself blessed with the savings.
Based on your other thread you posted (you system is listed below) you should consider upgrading your CJ PV10a preamp. Upgrading to a placette, CJ Premier 14, CJ 17,or some other high end preamp will really suddenly open up the soundstage depth and width. You haven't even heard the true potential of your Super cables.
"My components consist of a Levinson 334, CJ PV10A, and Meridian 507 CD all plugged into Transparent's PI4. My speaker of choice is the Canton Ergo 900. I currently use Transparent Super XL speaker cable and a Powerlink Super cord on the amp"
I've tried 10k source in my system and instead upgraded to the next level Transparent cable( which cost more than my front end) and it was a bigger improvement in my system (of course both the upgrades were awesome but$$$$)
transparent's are good cables, but one should be conservative about what they can or can't do. i.e., get what you can afford, and take a hard look at your components, etc.
i have ref.w/xl (trade up) - i have no burning desire to get something else. the company's early literature suggested "not going overboard" in a way. basically, they do bass, and the're nice and clear, but i have had audioquest in the past and it was darn good too. plus, i got a ps audio power cable
(very reasonably) for my amps, and something wonderful is going on with the sound...
i have to agree with above posters. The differences between my Harm Tech Pro-9's and Transparent reference speaker cables were nil at best. It was like putting your speaker grills back over your speakers.
dave which cable provided the grills? in other words i hear a distint difference in the top end of my my system without grills.
Grills make a difference with my speakers also. My designer set the speakers up with the grills and said they are meant to be on as that is how he tuned them.
Even different stands make a difference. Some speakers are more critical to change than other's.
Last year I tested to see what cable designs worked best and then sent them to 7 people with various systems and some dealers to get feedback to see weather there would be synergy problems or issues.
I have listened to several systems with Transparent cables and while they are smooth I do not think the network boxes are beneficial. They might be better in some systems ,but in others they are not. I tried to design cables which had wide synergistic reliability with out clipping the freq extremes. Pretty hard thing to do.
Good luck!
I was actually able to get a network box open on a pair of transparent music wave plus. I couldn't really make out what the round, cylinder-like objects were under the hot glue. All I do know is that since then I have sold those cables and moved up to the Transparent Super level cables because they sounded damn good. They definitely have a very unique sound to them and they have incredible slam in low frequencies however I could see where this wouldn't be the right match for all systems. Bill
I cannot get past adding a network to cables as that ingest something which over rides the purity of the signal. Living in Maine I have heard their wires and am not impressed for teh price.
I've noticed a trend here and on other sites. It seems that the most consistent Transparent (and other well-known brands) bashers are people who assemble and sell cables as a hobby or home business.
Guys, let me give you a tip straight from Business 100 class: your business will not succeed on a strategy of bashing companies you consider to be competition.
I think Transparent & MIT are among the best cables out there. Of course, I own about $30K in audio equipment, so I can easily hear the difference. By the way, what is it about the network boxes from these manufacturers that lights up everyones' fire? Every cable company out there has megabuck cables in their line-up without the boxes and I don't hear nearly the same amount of chatter from audiophiles.
Tried them (Ultra's), they never worked in my system, dark, dull and to bass bloated bass. I did keep one set of interconnects that worked very nice between the cd player and the preamp and they were the Super balanced interconnects.
The other interconnects and speaker wire were a bust. They cost a lot, and after trying most of the brands out there, after the wire settles in there are defference, but they are small, in the end it's what sounds good to you.
No art to it, use your own ears, and make your decision based on sound, not on cost.
There is a web site that shows what is in the boxes and it was not much of anything.
Paul I used to have a URL reference which thoroughly explained the networks; I've lost track of it but will try to dig it up again (a kind soul here had posted that info. years ago). The networks are often a source of contention among purists, etc, who don't understand their purpose nor their architecture. What you'll find inside is a simple parallel assortment of R's, L's, & C's (resistance, inductance, capacitance) which are connected in *parallel* to the cable (nothing is in series with the signal other than wire itself). Their purpose is to absorb any reflected energy (for example, reflected power coming out of a speaker & reflecting back toward the amp) due to impedance mismatch or counter-emf. Componentry which exhibits a less-than-optimal match between the source, the cable, & the load would benefit more from this design approach than that with a better matchup would benefit. Therefor the sonic results vary according to the users' application. In my own experience, the results are significantly superior to some other approaches which I've tried.
The above post is a HORRIBLE surgery of Transparent cable!!!
Bob, from what I have seen you are mistaken. Transparent does install an inductor in series with the signal wire on all their cables. They must do this so they do not infringe on patents held by MIT.
My final contribution to this thread
Rex, what are you worried about if they can't??
Bob: I'm glad to see you back "amongst the living". Then again, maybe you were enjoying a better life before you fell back into this trap??? : )
As far as networks "absorbing reflected energy", that is impossible. The cable itself would have to have some type of directional coupler that would be wired in series with the signal for them to be trying to accomplish that. Other than that, i've never pulled these cables apart, so i have no idea as to what is inside of those little magic boxes. I have been told that it is nothing more than a "fancy" Zobel network, but i'm only repeating this as hear-say, not as a verifiable fact. Sean
all I can say: talk to Bruce Brisson at MIT like I did
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University of Technology Sydney
94692 Data Science Practice
Subject handbook information prior to 2021 is available in the Archives.
UTS: Transdisciplinary Innovation
Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade, no marks
The subject covers the following topics in detail:
• introduction to assorted data stores/access techniques like SQL
• introduction to programming concepts
• a practical introduction to R and Python for data science
• working with UNIX systems
• collaboration using version control with Github
• building complete machine learning systems
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
1. Participate in the development of data science projects using popular programming languages including R, Python and SQL.
2. Articulate the strengths, weaknesses and use-cases of common code control workflows, and demonstrate ability to work collaboratively using these tools
3. Interact with and query data from modern data warehousing and data lake technologies.
4. Work confidently in a Unix environment, including the use of Bash via a Command Line Interface.
5. Understanding basic programming concepts
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject contributes specifically to the development of the following course intended learning outcomes:
• Explore and test models and generalisations for describing the behaviour of sociotechnical systems and selecting data sources, taking into account the needs and values of different contexts and stakeholders (1.2)
• Critique contemporary trends and theoretical frameworks in data science for relevance to one's own practice (2.1)
• Explore, analyse, manipulate, interpret and visualise data using data science techniques, software and technologies to make sense of data rich environments (2.2)
• Apply and assess data science concepts, theories, practices and tools for designing and managing data discovery investigations in professional environments that draw upon diverse data sources, including efforts to shed light on underrepresented components (2.4)
• Critically examine the perceived value of data analytics outcomes and clearly articulate implications for different stakeholders and organisations (3.2)
• Develop a collaborative and team-oriented mindset to harness value for stakeholders to produce innovative solutions to challenges (3.3)
• Collaborate to develop and refine multimodal communication skills needed to successfully work in data science teams (4.1)
• Engage in active, reflective practice that supports flexible navigation of assumptions, alternatives and uncertainty in professional data science contexts (5.1)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The subject gives students a practical introduction to Data Science practices that are commonly used in industry. Popular technologies and practices are covered and students are given opportunities to apply them in realistic settings. . Students will come away with an understanding of how to work effectively in teams, appreciate how to “get things done” in corporate environments, as well as a familiarity with some of the common risks when deploying data science projects, and controls that can be used to minimize those risks.
The subject addresses the following graduate attributes (GA):
GA 1 Sociotechnical systems thinking
GA 2 Creative, analytical and rigorous sense making
GA 4 Persuasive and robust communication
GA 5 Ethical citizenship and leadership
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject is conducted weekly face-to-face sessions with weekly activities & readings assigned between classes. The classes are a mix of lecture components and collaborative “lab” sessions, working on data science projects as a team. Each session runs for 3 hours on Wednesdays as decided in the timetable.
The lab components involve two types of activities:
• ‘code together’ sessions in which the instructor and students build understanding through collaboratively coding solutions to problems or implementing theoretical concepts.
• Practical coding tasks for students to complete themselves or in small groups.
Assignments are a mix of practical coding exercises, report writing (for a business audience) as well as solution design and implementation tasks. Through these students get deep exposure to historical and current industry trends and challenges, while developing tangible skills to implement these technologies and in a work context.
Due to the rapidly advancing nature of this field it is important for students to develop skills in quickly absorbing, dissecting and understanding new technologies and their value to business problems. This assignments in the subject are designed to help students develop these critical new skills
Assessment task 1: Designing Data Stores and accessing this data via SQL
Be able to model your own data for analysis and be able to extract and analyse that data using SQL,R and Python
This task addresses the following subject learning objectives:
1 and 3
This assessment task contributes to the development of course intended learning outcome(s):
1.2, 2.2, 2.4 and 3.2
Type: Report
Groupwork: Individual
Weight: 30%
1. Quality and clarity of written content submitted around why certain data stores were chosen.
2. Clarity of designing the database for speed and accuracy.
3. Justification of optimization employed on SQL queries used to answer the analytical questions.
4. Readability and consistency of style for SQL query, R Code and Python Code.
5. Efficiency and conciseness of use of SQL,R and Python to perform and interpret analysis on the dataset.
6. Insightfulness and clarity of written explanations of difference between SQL,R and Python.
7. Creation of a clear cheatsheet between SQL, R and Python.
Assessment task 2: Programming using R and Python Analysis
Type: Report
Groupwork: Individual
Weight: 30%
Assessment task 3: Collaborative Development of an end to end project using Centralised Code Repositories (PART A) and Github usage analysis and reflection of the project (PART B)
To tie all the pieces taught in this Subject together. Conduct an end to end analysis and collaborate as a team using Github. To analyse the github usage of the entire group and reflection of your own project in terms of what worked and didn’t work.
This task addresses the following subject learning objectives:
1, 2, 3 and 5
2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.3, 4.1 and 5.1
Type: Report
Groupwork: Group, individually assessed
Weight: 40%
1. Research on the effective data stores. And designing the datawarehouse appropriately.
2. Using SQL/R/Python to do basic analysis.
3. Clarity and why a certain programming language was chosen.
4. Appropriateness of commits and branches to collaborate within a team using Git, adhering to one of the documented workflows.
5. Clarity and efficiency of content review and change negotiation using Pull Requests, and successful incorporation of individual changes into the team’s master branch.
6. Presenting and clearly communicating your findings as a report.
1. Clarity on highlighting the individual and teams efforts on github usage.
2. Articulating what worked and didn’t work in during the course of the project.
Minimum requirements
Students must participate in all online and face to face requirements, as well as complete assessment tasks.
D. Sculley et al, 2014. Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt. SE4ML: Software Engineering for Machine Learning (NIPS 2014 Workshop)
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What Does RAM Do For Gaming?
RAM memory is an essential component in all computers, laptops and all devices which have processors and storage drives. Basically, this element of a computer will store data which will be used anytime soon. The difference between RAM and storage space is massive. Storage space is a place where all the files are kept and RAM is a place where computers store file when they are opened the first time and stay there until we turn off a computer. More RAM is always better, especially for gaming, so let’s discover why.
How does RAM affect gaming? What does it do for gaming?
RAMThe first thing to know is that even if you add more RAM, you won’t get graphics improvements. RAM memory doesn’t have anything to do with visual performances of the game, so you shouldn’t believe otherwise. On the other hand, RAM memory is essential for all games, especially for those who have a lot of details, massive engine and etc.
All games are massive in size, meaning that they have a lot of different files. If you open a folder of a game, you will see that there are thousands of files. When we run a game, some of those files will be transferred to the RAM. More files require more RAM capacity, meaning that you get better, overall performances of the game, simply because it can provide all the features and all the advantages developers have built.
Don’t forget that computers run dozens of processes all the time, meaning that some amount of RAM is already occupied. In order to make sure you get the most of your PC or a laptop, you need more RAM if you are into gaming. For example, a computer will run some minor processes and game processes at the same time. That’s why computers with 1GB of RAM are useless nowadays.
Importance of graphics card
Here we must add the fact a graphics card is more than just important. All of them have dedicated memory, which means that games use that memory, rather than RAM. For comparison only, laptops with integrated graphics cards use RAM memory instead of the dedicated memory of graphics card. What this means is that a graphics card will literally borrow RAM.
All of this suggests that a graphics card with 4GB of memory will provide much better results than another type of graphics card, with less dedicated memory. In other words, a low amount of RAM can be compensated with a graphics card with more dedicated memory, obviously.
Some files are transferred directly to the dedicated memory of a graphics card, while some are kept in the RAM. Each game is different in this matter and each one determined when and why this is done, therefore we cannot generalize this matter.
Graphics card is, however, mostly responsible for video performances, so if you are looking for a way to get HD game quality, this is an improvement to make. Other than that, RAM is mandatory.
Don’t think that RAM is less than just important for gaming. In reality, it is equally important as the processor or graphics card, so act accordingly when it comes to choosing a new computer or improving the old one.
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How Much RAM is needed for gaming?
You need an amount of RAM which is going to be used. Because games use far more of it than any other type of software (except video editing software), higher amounts of the memory are mandatory, but how much precisely? We will start with 2GB. This amount of RAM was sufficient a few years ago, but now it isn’t, so you shouldn’t even pay attention to it. The situation with 4GB of RAM is slightly better, but you will either be able to play older games or those that don’t require a lot of RAM, which is rare.
The unwritten rule is that you need as much RAM as you can afford. The importance of it is defined in the number of slots on the motherboard. Because each computer has 4-8 of them, and they are only used for increasing the RAM capacity, we can determine how much RAM is actually important.
In essence, you need a lot of RAM. Nowadays, it is possible to find computers with 32GB of RAM, which means that they are capable of running almost any game.
Now you may know that most games recommend 4 or 6GB of RAM for playing. As such, you will deduce that this amount of RAM is sufficient for playing those games. The truth is different. Theoretically, you will be able to play them. In reality, you won’t! First of all, there are a lot of factors that determine this. The processor, the graphics card, motherboard and even drivers! That’s being said, a computer with a better, faster processor can run more demanding games, with less RAM. The situation is opposite with a computer that uses the slower processor.
But, the main thing to know here is that games which recommend 4-6GB of RAM will start and barely run on some, poor screen resolution. As such, this isn’t desirable nor ideal for all gamers. You should always check the recommended RAM amount and even go a bit more than the recommendations. For example, a game which recommends 4GB of RAM will run much better on 8GB of RAM.
Nowadays, you will need at least 8GB of RAM to play some games. As we have mentioned, this also depends on other factors, which we have included above. With 8GB of RAM, most games will run smoothly and perfectly.
Still, 8GB of RAM isn’t ideal. 16GB is. There are a lot of articles on the internet where you will discover that 16GB is overkill, meaning that you will have more RAM than you actually need. All of them are wrong, simply due to the fact they are obsolete. New games won’t even run on 8GB or they will be unplayable. So, if you are looking for the minimum amount of RAM to play games, 16GB is the amount you will need. It definitely isn’t overkill and we can even say that it is a mandatory amount of memory.
The Difference in performance and stability between 8GB VS 16GB RAM for gaming
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When it comes to simpler and ordinary computer use, there are no differences between 8 and 16GB of RAM. As a matter of fact, most users won’t even tell a difference and even if there is one, it will be minimal. On the other side, we have differences in gaming. As we have mentioned, the differences in visual performances are minimal, but differences in possibilities are mandatory.
A computer with 16GB of RAM will work smoother and be more stable while performing demanding tasks. Did you know that Chrome, a web browser is one of the more demanding software used today. Check in task manager and you will see that it uses more RAM than any other software which runs at the moment. Add several other tasks and start playing a game will reveal how much RAM you actually need.
A computer with 8GGB of RAM will show some imperfections at some point. The one with 16GB won’t. It will stay perfectly operational at all times and even when playing demanding games. It isn’t hard to understand that 16GB is something most users want and actually need at this point.
Then we have a matter of smart investment. If you have 8GB of RAM today, you will have to upgrade it soon. If you have 16GB, you will have to upgrade much later in the future. This is how things work with computers. Every day we have new games and new software which uses more and more RAM and processing power to operate. The situation can be better explained with smartphones. Those which were top-notch 2 years ago, today are almost useless. The situation is the same with computers, just less obvious.
Don’t forget that there are other elements which are needed for gamins Processing power, graphics card and an SSD drive are all equally important as RAM. When all of this is top-end, gaming will be much better and far more desirable than when you have all mediocre components. Furthermore, one component will try to minimize a defect of others. So, a processor will try to reduce the issues regarding the RAM memory, RAM will be used more when graphics card has an insufficient amount of dedicated memory and etc. The main thing to know here is that 16GB of RAM, paired with other, high-end components will provide you an excellent computer, capable of running all games you want to play.
RAM isn’t something your computer may need, it is something that is used all the time and something that can make a major difference in a computer with poor performances and superb ones. Gaming requires more RAM than other tasks performed on a computer, as such we must deduce that the overall importance of the RAM capacity is one of the top priorities for gamers.
What Is The Right SSD Size For You?
What Is The Right SSD Size For You?
We all know that hard drives come with plenty of space and they are affordable. SSDs, on the other hand, offer very little space for the same amount of money. Basically, you can either purchase an HDD with a capacity of 1TB or equivalent in price SSD with 256GB. The unwritten rule is that an SSD cost 83 cents per a gigabyte of space.
But, SSDs are far better in any other way. They will speed up your computer in such way that you won’t believe. They are also far more reliable, don’t make a noise and etc.
What are solid-state drives?
M.2 SSDsThese drives use blocks to store data rather than a metal platter. As such, when a computer requires a file, an SSD is able to provide it much faster than an HDD. Hard drives must move the reading needle, find the file and then read it. With SSD, all of this is performed almost instantly.
Thanks to this technology, all solid-state drives are much smaller and lighter compared to HDDs. This brings several improvements and advantages to almost all the users. When it comes to the installation, you don’t have to worry about it. It is more than just simple.
What capacity is ideal for you?
This is the biggest question of them all when a person is planning to purchase a new SSD. Obviously, a bigger SSD will be better, but it can cost more than the entire computer. So, it is important to find a balance. At the moment, there are SSDs with a capacity starting from 64GB (32GB models do exist, but they are useless). The upper capacity is around 2TB, but you can imagine the price of these SSDs.
A proper size of an SSD depends on your user requirements. Not all users will need SSDs with a large capacity. On the other hand, some users will fill the SSD of 128GB in a few hours or days.
Here we must add that a part of the space will be already occupied, without you installing a single software or adding a single photo. Windows requires around 10GB of space at least. Add mandatory software, codecs and etc. and you are looking at 15-25GB of space which is already occupied and cannot be freed. Now you can understand why a 32GB SSD is useless and doesn’t have any purpose in modern society.
Now is the time to categorize the sizes of the SSDs according to the types of users they need them. All you have to do is to compare your user requirements with the points mentioned below and you will get the ideal SSD capacity, perfect for you.
An SSD with a capacity of 32GB is rarely found today and it is only used by users who want to give life to their old computers. Those devices will probably have Pentium 3 processors or equivalent. In no circumstances, this size SSD should be used by average computer users.
Upgrade the SSDThis is a still insufficient capacity an SSD can offer, so we wouldn’t advise you to purchase it. Yes, it is possible to operate, but keep in mind that all of your data must be kept on other drive or online. If you are looking for a faster computer, but you don’t need storage space, this size is fine.
128GB is the most common nowadays. They can be found in laptops, computers and as additional storage drives. But, they are also too small in capacity to meet the demands of users. Most users use this size as an addition to their hybrid configuration. Others use them only for lighter computer usages and store their data on external drives.
Here we have SSDs which are the most desirable at the moment. They are ideal simply because the combination of the price and capacity is perfect. Most users will be perfectly satisfied with them. There is a sufficient amount of space for the operating system, all of your data and even a game.
Soon we will be able to see more and more laptops and computers with 512GB SSD. In essence, you will get all the space you will ever need. Most users will never fill the drive with their data, meaning that a computer will run smoothly and perfectly. But, they are expensive, which suggests that this may be an issue.
How to UpgradeSSD drives with a capacity of 1TB are extremely rare, due to their price. They can cost more than an average computer, therefore we can see them in high-end computers where all other components are the high-end units as well. Space shouldn’t be commented. Gamers and computer addicts will appreciate SSDs in this capacity and they are the most desirable for professional users.
Do not purchase an SSD with a capacity you will barely use. There is no point in doing so. Carefully decide what your requirements are and purchase an SSD with a specific capacity. This leaves you enough funds to make your computer even more powerful, by adding additional RAM or a new graphics card.
Additional factors to consider
When you choose a new SSD, the capacity is the most obvious factor to consider, but not the only one. As a matter of fact, there are so many versions of the solid-state drives, which means that there are better and not so good models. Below we will assist you by revealing which, additional factors should be taken into consideration.
Not all SSDs operate at the same speeds. Some are faster, while others are slower. In general, the differences are minimal but still important. Always choose a model with a higher writing and reading speed, like 400 MB/s. Slower units are more affordable, while high-end models are extremely fast.
Here we must add that manufacturers won’t present you with the real-world SSD speed. It means that they will mention only the maxim speed of a drive, which is theoretically available, but in real life, not so much. The only thing you can do is to find a proper test of that, particular SSD and see the benchmarks it was able to reach.
MLC stands for Multi-Level Cell while SLC stands for Single-Level Cell. MLC has a better capacity and it is easier to produce, but it is known for causing higher error numbers. SLC is more affordable and generally more reliable, but it allows fewer data to be stored in a single cell.
SATA version
All solid-state drives are SATA comparable, but there are differences. For example, there are SATA 1, 2 and 3. SATA I will support 1.5Gbps while SATA II supports up to 3Gbps. What you actually want is SATA III meaning that the speed is 6Gbps. There is no point in adding SATA III to a computer that supports SATA II only. Yes, SSD will still work, but you won’t get the same performance. The situation is the same if you add SATA I SSD to a computer that is developed for SATA III. In both case scenarios, you will get slower performances than a computer can actually provide.
Error-correcting code (ECC) memory
ECC is a feature which scans the SSD drive for errors and corrects them accordingly. The higher value is a much better choice and it could be taken into consideration, especially if you are looking for a high-end SSD. If you have ‘’precious’’ data, this is the main feature to consider.
As you can see, there are a few more factors to consider when it comes to the new SSD drive. More space is better, but don’t forget about these, additional features to consider.
How to Upgrade
A laptop or a desktop computer?
Are you a laptop or a desktop user? Desktop computers usually require more space. First of all, the operating system is slightly bigger in these devices. Then, desktop computers are designed for more demanding operations, so we can assume that you will use it for more demanding software, which all generates more data. In addition, desktop computers are more common as gaming computers than laptops. All games require a huge amount of space, so if you are a gamer, a high capacity SSD is a must. 256GB is minimum in this case.
For laptop users, a bit less space is sufficient. It is expected that you use your device for internet, movies and social media. If you are one of those users, 128GB may be sufficient. Of course, if you use gaming laptop, 512GB of space is desirable.
Choosing the right size of an SSD for your computer doesn’t have to be tricky business, but it isn’t as easy as some of you believe. A good thing is the fact we have listed all the important points to consider, so now you are ready to choose a new SSD which will be more than just ideal for all your purposes. Our main goal here was to help you choose an SSD which will make sure you have all the space you need.
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Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
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Programming in Scala manages to introduce the language in a deep way. It is a comprehensive step by step, with each chapter deepening the knowledge of the reader by expanding what was introduced in the previous chapters.
The language itself is a powerful blend of functional and object-oriented programming concepts, which are well explored in the book. The code examples are good and the book does not just keep the focus on the language but also explores themes like good code design. Although not always mentioned explicitly, it is possible to identify concerns with object-oriented design, testable code, and rich domain models.
Particularly interesting is the exploration of functional programming concepts. They receive the spotlight throughout the book, which will satisfy people looking to learn them well. Pure functions, referential transparency, high-order functions, first-class functions, and partially applied functions are not just explained but also blended in object-oriented code.
However, there are some chapters that would benefit from an editorial review (maybe it was something done in the fourth edition). Chapter 19 (Type Parameterization) explanation of variance and bounds could be simpler. The concept is better understood after reading chapter 22 (Implementing Lists). Chapter 24 (Collections in Depth) was mostly ripped from the official documentation, without too much adaptation.
Also, there are some code listings that pretend to explain the inner workings of Scala in purely functional terms. The problem is that, when you look at Scala’s source code, the correspondence is not there. Albeit the code listings provide an interesting, functional, and sound explanation of the computations, the fact is that the actual code is optimized (and mostly procedural). Take, for example, the combinator parser method ~ (listing 33.6), which is exemplified as a pattern matching application: it’s just an object instantiation in the source code. Even a method like TraversableLike’s filter (Scala pre-2.13, listing 25.2) which is listed in a more similar way to the actual code can confuse the more curious readers.
Mostly well written, with good code examples and exploration of good coding practices, Programming in Scala is a great programming book, succeeding in deeply introducing the language. It would benefit if it had practical examples of tasks like managing dependencies with sbt and packaging the project’s source code. But it delivers its promise. Recommended.
Some quotes
Defining a singleton object doesn’t define a type (at the Scala level of abstraction). Given just a definition of object ChecksumAccumulator, you can’t make a variable of type ChecksumAccumulator. Rather, the type named ChecksumAccumulator is defined by the singleton object’s companion class. However, singleton objects extend a superclass and can mix in traits. Given each singleton object is an instance of its superclasses and mixed-in traits, you can invoke its methods via these types, refer to it from variables of these types, and pass it to methods expecting these types.
In Scala operators are not special language syntax; any method can be an operator. What makes a method an operator is how you use it. When you write "s.indexOf('o')", indexOf is not an operator. But when you write "s indexOf 'o'", indexOf is an operator, because you’re using it in operator notation.
One of the benefits of object-oriented programming is that it allows you to encapsulate data inside objects so that you can ensure the data is valid throughout its lifetime.
an important design principle of the functional programming style: programs should be decomposed into many small functions that each do a well-defined task. Individual functions are often quite small. The advantage of this style is that it gives a programmer many building blocks that can be flexibly composed to do more difficult things. Each building block should be simple enough to be understood individually. One problem with this approach is that all the helper function names can pollute the program namespace. In the interpreter this is not so much of a problem, but once functions are packaged in reusable classes and objects, it’s desirable to hide the helper functions from clients of a class. They often do not make sense individually, and you often want to keep enough flexibility to delete the helper functions if you later rewrite the class a different way.
A function literal is compiled into a class that when instantiated at runtime is a function value. Thus the distinction between function literals and values is that function literals exist in the source code, whereas function values exist as objects at runtime. The distinction is much like that between classes (source code) and objects (runtime).
A partially applied function is an expression in which you don’t supply all of the arguments needed by the function. Instead, you supply some, or none, of the needed arguments.
Such parameterless methods are quite common in Scala. By contrast, methods defined with empty parentheses, such as def height(): Int, are called empty-paren methods. The recommended convention is to use a parameterless method whenever there are no parameters and the method accesses mutable state only by reading fields of the containing object (in particular, it does not change mutable state). This convention supports the uniform access principle, which says that client code should not be affected by a decision to implement an attribute as a field or method
Generally, Scala has just two namespaces for definitions in place of Java’s four. Java’s four namespaces are fields, methods, types, and packages. By contrast, Scala’s two namespaces are: values (fields, methods, packages, and singleton objects) types (class and trait names) The reason Scala places fields and methods into the same namespace is precisely so you can override a parameterless method with a val, something you can’t do with Java.
A factory object contains methods that construct other objects. Clients would then use these factory methods to construct objects, rather than constructing the objects directly with new. An advantage of this approach is that object creation can be centralized and the details of how objects are represented with classes can be hidden. This hiding will both make your library simpler for clients to understand, because less detail is exposed, and provide you with more opportunities to change your library’s implementation later without breaking client code.
Type inference in Scala is flow based. In a method application m(args), the inferencer first checks whether the method m has a known type. If it does, that type is used to infer the expected type of the arguments. For instance, in abcde.sortWith(_ > _), the type of abcde is List[Char]. Hence, sortWith is known to be a method that takes an argument of type (Char, Char) => Boolean and produces a result of type List[Char]. Since the parameter types of the function arguments are known, they need not be written explicitly. With what it knows about sortWith, the inferencer can deduce that (_ > _) should expand to ((x: Char, y: Char) => x > y) where x and y are some arbitrary fresh names.
This inference scheme suggests the following library design principle: When designing a polymorphic method that takes some non-function arguments and a function argument, place the function argument last in a curried parameter list on its own. That way, the method’s correct instance type can be inferred from the non-function arguments, and that type can in turn be used to type check the function argument. The net effect is that users of the method will be able to give less type information and write function literals in more compact ways.
Besides being potentially easier to reason about, immutable collections can usually be stored more compactly than mutable ones if the number of elements stored in the collection is small. For instance an empty mutable map in its default representation of HashMap takes up about 80 bytes, and about 16 more are added for each entry that’s added to it. An empty immutable Map is a single object that’s shared between all references, so referring to it essentially costs just a single pointer field. What’s more, the Scala collections library currently stores immutable maps and sets with up to four entries in a single object, which typically takes up between 16 and 40 bytes, depending on the number of entries stored in the collection. So for small maps and sets, the immutable versions are much more compact than the mutable ones. Given that many collections are small, switching them to be immutable can bring important space savings and performance advantages.
More precisely, an initializer = _ of a field assigns a zero value to that field. The zero value depends on the field’s type. It is 0 for numeric types, false for booleans, and null for reference types. This is the same as if the same variable was defined in Java without an initializer.
Private constructors and private members are one way to hide the initialization and representation of a class. Another more radical way is to hide the class itself and only export a trait that reveals the public interface of the class.
Implicit conversions are often helpful for working with two bodies of software that were developed without each other in mind. Each library has its own way to encode a concept that is essentially the same thing. Implicit conversions help by reducing the number of explicit conversions that are needed from one type to another.
Arrays are a special kind of collection in Scala. One the one hand, Scala arrays correspond one-to-one to Java arrays. That is, a Scala array Array[Int] is represented as a Java int[], an Array[Double] is represented as a Java double[] and an Array[String] is represented as a Java String[]. But at the same time, Scala arrays offer much more their Java analogues. First, Scala arrays can be generic. That is, you can have an Array[T], where T is a type parameter or abstract type. Second, Scala arrays are compatible with Scala sequences—you can pass an Array[T] where a Seq[T] is required.
(…) the private keyword, so useful for implementing classes, is also useful for implementing modules. Items marked private are part of the implementation of a module, and thus are particularly easy to change without affecting other modules. At this point, many more facilities could be added, but you get the idea. Programs can be divided into singleton objects, which you can think of as modules.
Lastly, if you find that a particular hash code calculation is harming the performance of your program, consider caching the hash code. If the object is immutable, you can calculate the hash code when the object is created and store it in a field. You can do this by simply overriding hashCode with a val instead of a def, like this: override val hashCode: Int = (numer, denom).## This approach trades off memory for computation time, because each instance of the immutable class will have one more field to hold the cached hash code value.
Scala does not check that thrown exceptions are caught. That is, Scala has no equivalent to Java’s throws declarations on methods. All Scala methods are translated to Java methods that declare no thrown exceptions.
With shared data and locks, you must get the program correct through reason alone. Moreover, you can’t solve the problem by over-synchronizing either. It can be just as problematic to synchronize everything as it is to synchronize nothing. Although new lock operations may remove possibilities for race conditions, they simultaneously add possibilities for deadlocks.
Although not a silver bullet, Scala’s Future offers one way to deal with concurrency that can reduce, and often eliminate, the need to reason about shared data and locks. When you invoke a Scala method, it performs a computation “while you wait” and returns a result. If that result is a Future, the Future represents another computation to be performed asynchronously, often by a completely different thread. As a result, many operations on Future require an implicit execution context that provides a strategy for executing functions asynchronously.
The async testing use case illustrates a general principle for working with futures: Once in “future space,” try to stay in future space. Don’t block on a future then continue the computation with the result. Stay asynchronous by performing a series of transformations, each of which returns a new future to transform. To get results out of future space, register side effects to be performed asynchronously once futures complete. This approach will help you make maximum use of your threads.
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A really original starter! The beet flavour does not come through, but you will have these beautifully cerise-coloured crepes. As a starter, one is enough per person, with edible garnish, as the filling is rich. The recipe offers lots of interpretations: fold into a parcel and tie with chives or spring onions, OR make it into a sweet pancake with cinnamon-Sugar. The recipe is extremely easy.
Ingredients Edit
6 servings Change size or US/metric Change to: servings US Metric 50 minutes 25 mins prep
Directions Edit
1. Cook the beet until tender, and cool. When peeled, the beet I used weighed about 3 oz or 80/90 grams.
2. Cut up the beet and put in processor. Add the flour, salt, eggs and butter, and whizz.
3. First add 1/2 cup milk, then more, until you have a thin pancake batter consistency.
4. (The amount of milk might depend on how dry the beet was and the size of the eggs. If using smaller eggs you might need more than 1 cup milk).
5. Whizz in blender until very smooth. You'll have just under 3 cups liquid.
6. Pour into a jug or bowl, cover, and leave in fridge for at least 1 hour.
7. FILLING: Scrape the cream cheese into a bowl, and add all the flavourings except the milk.
8. Normally you will find the mixture too stiff to use as a filling, so add milk little by little, until you have a satisfactory consistency for a filling: easy to scoop out but not runny.
9. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
10. CREPES: Use a small crepe pan. The smallest I have is 6"/15 cm in diameter.
11. Heat over medium heat. If not non-stick, keep butter handy and grease pan with butter.
12. If the batter has thickened on standing, add a tiny bit more milk.
13. Use 2 - 3 tablespoons batter per crepe: you want to aim for thin crepes. Swirl the batter to the edges of the pan so the crepes are of even thickness.
14. Watch—and when the last raw swirl of batter on top starts to firm, turn crepe. Give it about 10 seconds on the other side, then slide out on to a plate.
15. Stack them on this plate as you continue.
16. You should get about 12 crepes if your pan diameter is 6"/15 cm.
17. The fillimg is enough for six of these crepes. If you wish to use all the crepes, double the filling ingredients.
18. Use the filling sparingly as it is rich. Fold crepe over. Decorate with a sprig of spring Onion and some parsley or salad leaves. A tiny bit of julienned carrots will also look good, or a few thinly sliced lemon rind strips.
19. Serve warm or at room temperature.
20. Leftover crepes can be covered and frozen.
21. *In this case cream cheese really is a better bet than a low-fat cottage cheese, as it makes a big difference to the taste.
22. If you wish to use a FLAVOURED cream cheese, that is fine. (I used the green onion flavoured one). One heaped tablespoon filling should be enough per crepe.
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Skimming Stones Porcelain Plate - Gang-Gang Cockatoo
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Skimming Stones Gang-Gang Cockatoo Porcelain Plate
Found mostly in alpine regions of Australia,the gang-gang cockatoo is a relatively small cockatoo. A bird characterised by a grey body and contrasting red head seen exclusively on males. They have a call resembling a squeaky gate or the opening of a wine bottle. Considered as the most primitive example of cockatoos it is the bird emblem of the Australian Capital Territory. The name gang-gang comes from a Aboriginal language, possibly from Wiradjuri.
There are 4 plates in the Australian Bird collection - Laughing Kookaburra, Gang-Gang Cockatoo, Helmeted Honeyeater and Black Swan.
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Architects and Builders
Architects know design. Builders know how to build. They are two very different skills. I know this because I worked for sixteen years at a design-build firm and participated on both ends of that equation.
The architect is the originator, the guide, the person who knows the big picture of a building project. He (or she) focuses on the ultimate goal: to create a home or office that functions well; is beautiful; and can be built economically and efficiently.
The builder is the person who knows how assemble the details. He orders materials; hires subcontractors; puts the pieces go together in the right place at the right time; and figures out how much this construction is going to cost.
Both of skill sets are needed in order to build a home; but it's unusual for one person, or one firm, to have both. And you can't put the pieces together until you know what the pieces are and how they relate to each other.
That's why, when you're thinking of building or remodeling, it's best to start with an architect. He'll help you figure out the big picture so you can proceed to the details.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
And suddenly a door opened and I was surrounded by children. Small children. Young enough to be curious. Young enough to have flexible minds. Young enough to see I was different. Young enough to connect with my eyes and see similarity.
The questions flew out of them. They had to fly by the discomfort of adults who worried about me, as if they thought the questions would somehow lead me to guess that I was different and be hurt by that. But the words flew quickly by objections.
"Why are you sitting on wheels?"
"Because I can't walk very well."
That answer simply satisfied.
"Is it hard to get around?"
"Sometimes, but it's really fun going downhill."
That made them smile as they imagined the scene.
"Does it hurt?" came a quiet question from the smallest child.
"It doesn't hurt to be in a wheelchair but sometimes it hurts when people stare."
She nodded. The reality of bullying starts very early.
Then, they flew away. Some waving, some calling 'bye'. Some just taking off home.
It was so nice to have a conversation about my disability and my wheelchair with people, many forget that children are 'people', who haven't already decided what the answer is, or should be.
Open minds.
Open hearts.
That's always the best way to enter into conversation, isn't it?
Ron Arnold said...
I would like to eliminate the societal systems that foment judgment and expectation so that adults can approach something or someone different with the same open information gathering ability kids haven't had ruined yet.
Karen said...
Rachel said...
Little kids can be awesome. "Are you a mommy?" is a question I've gotten on more than one occasion from really little ones. My response? No, not a mommy, but I am a grown-up just like your mommy. My bones didn't grow the same way as yours will. Some people grow extra-tall, like basketball players; some people end up extra-short like me, people come in lots of sizes. You're going to end up way taller than me when you grow up! That last bit is important - both reassurance and also they love the idea of being taller than an adult.
If it were only that simple with adults. I don't get condescended to by children.
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5 Things No One Tells You About Gaining A Social Media Following
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We’ve all heard influencers talking about how they gained their following. Some admit to using targeted ads to get the followers they want. Others? Well, they tend to do the regular song and dance of telling people, “Oh, I don’t know! People just like my content and I’m cool, tee hee!”
Ugh, right? We don’t need any more fluff when it comes to this stuff. People who want to market their stuff to a larger audience usually already know that you should put out good content and that you should consider promoting your posts with paid advertising. Saying fluff is futile. I will give you a better idea of what it takes to gain a following.
#1: You will spend a lot of time on it
You need to interact with your followers to grow a following. You also may need to promote your social media (or site) to everyone who has a remote interest in this. It may seem easy at first, but your workload will multiply. The more you promote and the more followers you get, the more time you’ll spend moderating everything.
Not going to lie, I have this issue with my Medium account. People love my stuff. But I sometimes obsess over my numbers to make sure that I get more people reading. So, it eats up my time. My workload suffered. It’s part of my life now.
#2: Social skills matter
It sounds weird, but you still have to have social skills if you want to be popular online. Saying cringey stuff and lashing out at people who critique you won’t look good at all. In fact, it’s one of the most common reasons why you are not getting the followers you want.
Charisma is a thing, both online and in person. If you are not charismatic, you need to come up with a campaign that removes you from the equation.
#3: It’s not about you
Here’s the hardest thing people have to wrap their heads around, especially if they want to be influencers. It’s never really about you. You might use stories about your life to illustrate points, but at the end of the day, it’s not about what you’re doing.
Rather, it’s about what you are providing to people. Are you offering them relatability? Intelligent advice? Humor? Everyone reads for a reason. What you bring to the table matters. If all you talk about is you, your only follower might just be you.
#4: You are going to have to learn to use your block button and drop people as a result of fame
It is a jungle out there, especially when it comes to toxicity. You are going to notice a serious uptick in people creeping you out, picking your work apart, trying to steal from you, and more as your following grows. It can and will grate on your mental health, especially if your following is for your own personal brand.
The good news is that you still have a right to privacy. This means that if you get people annoying you and disparaging you on a regular basis, you can just block their behinds. Done. Almost every influencer does this, so don’t feel too bad about it.
On a similar note, fame will also make others treat you differently. If you notice people flaunting you like a Starbucks coffee cup, don’t be afraid to drop them. You’ll thank yourself later.
#5: Mental health matters
I know that this is an article about things you do when you gain a following, but I want to emphasize this. There is a lot of truth to “more fame, more problems.” You might notice that you are more morose or even more stressed than before. This is actually normal, at least from my experience.
If you’re feeling very stressed, take time for some self-care. Meditate, hit the gym, or just go out for mani-pedis. You can’t keep up your following and social media if you’re falling apart at the seams behind the picture. So, take a break if you need to.
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Can my husband come back from Mexico legally even with a felony charge?
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My husband was brought here illegally by his parents when he was young. We met and married in 1986 and had a child in 1987. Between the time that we married and had our first child my husband was caught with a small amount of cocaine and got a misdemeanor, but was caught a second time within a short period of time. The first trial was hung and the second trial he was found guilty and given a felony charge. We had two more children. We tried getting him the workers amnesty, but he was short by a few hours. In the meantime because of his drug use I divorced him and he got deported.
He stayed gone for seven years because someone told him that the felony charge would drop after seven years. When he came back he was different and we remarried in 2003. We went to a lawyer and he told us that was not true. Within a year my husband went to visit his sister in California and obtain seasonal work. While there he was detained and deported again.
My question is because we still love each other and are still legally married. Is there anyway that he can come back from Mexico legally even with his felony charge?
We are in our 40’s now and would love to be able to settle down together without all the problems. What should we do?
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You will need to consult an attorney experienced in the field. It all depends on the type of felony. There is waiver of convictions for certain crimes that are more than 15 years old, and also there is a hardship waiver. Being deported twice however, is not good when you are asking the US government to exercise discretion.
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Why Kim Kardashian Needs an Umbrella Policy to Cover Her Assets
Kim Kardashian is an attractive target—for a liability lawsuit, that is. Why? She’s wealthy. And according to a study published by ACE Private Risk Services (now Chubb), which is in the business of insuring high net worth individuals and informing them on how to CYA-proof their lives, wealthy people are more likely to be targeted when economic conditions are not at their peak for the rest of us. But before you poo-poo this post and think it does not concern you, consider what you have in the form of assets and whether others might consider you “wealthy.” It is all relative, after all. You probably have assets for which you have worked hard, but do you know whether your assets are covered if someone sues you?
Why would someone sue me? I’m a nice guy or gal!
Ok, so you don’t go on social media and commit slander or libel. And odds are you do not have a maid, butler, or a killer attack dog at your house, but you probably have guests over now and then, and you also probably drive a car. Yep, the two biggest reasons for covering your assets are for lawsuits involving slip and fall accidents on your private or business property or automobile accidents.
But I have homeowner’s insurance and car insurance, so I’m covered, you say.
Aha, here’s where the rubber meets the road. Your homeowner’s insurance and car insurance may not be enough to cover all of your assets. You may need an umbrella policy.
What’s an Umbrella insurance policy?
Umbrella insurance is extra liability insurance. It is designed to help protect you from major claims and lawsuits; as a result, it helps protect your assets and your future. It does this in two ways: 1) It provides additional liability coverage above the limits of your homeowners, auto, and boat insurance policies; and 2) It provides coverage for claims that may be excluded by other liability policies, including false arrest, libel, slander, and liability coverage on rental units you own.
Let’s look at an example of a two income family (let’s call them Mr. and Mrs. Jones) who makes $200,000/year, owns one house worth $500,000, one mountain cabin worth $200,000, two nice cars worth $100,00 total, and a nice-sized nest egg in the bank.
The Jones’s go online to buy their auto insurance and they are looking for the best price. They realize that it’s important to have more coverage than the state of Colorado requires ($25,000 per person; $50,000 per accident), but they are not thinking about rear-ending someone who ends up injured with one million dollars in damages. More likely, they are thinking they might get hit by someone so they get Underinsured and/or Uninsured Motorists coverage, but they don’t get an automobile liability policy that covers all of their assets. It would be prohibitively expensive for such a low probability risk, they think. So, they either don’t buy enough liability coverage or they overpay for very high liability limits when they could have purchased a cheaper umbrella policy. Let’s assume that the Jones’s purchased a $250,000 automobile liability policy.
So, what happens if Mr. Jones was at-fault for an automobile accident that made them liable for up to one million dollars? In other words, what would the attorney who is representing the person hit by Mr. Jones most likely do in this case?
The attorney for the injured person (the Plaintiff’s attorney) would send a “settlement demand” of one million dollars (or more) to the Jones’s automobile liability insurer, State Insurance. State Insurance would investigate the accident, the fault of the parties, and the injured person’s damages. Let’s assume that State Insurance concludes that Mr. Jones was at fault and that the injured person’s damages really are one million dollars. In that case, State Insurance would offer its liability limits of $250,000 to the Plaintiff conditioned upon the Jones’s being released from any further liability.
If the Plaintiff accepts the $250,000 offer, then the claim is settled and the Jones’s have no personal liability. However, the Plaintiff may investigate the Jones’s income and assets and decide not to accept the $250,000 offer but, instead, to file a lawsuit against the Jones in order to pursue full damages in a trial. If a jury renders a large verdict at trial (e.g., $1,000,000), then State Insurance would pay its $250,000 liability insurance coverage and the Jones’s would be personally on the hook for $750,000.
The Plaintiff would then initiate legal proceedings to attach and seize the Jones’s assets and income in order to satisfy the unpaid $750,000 judgment against the Jones’s. This situation could have been avoided if the Jones’s had purchased a Personal Liability Umbrella Policy (“PLUP”). Umbrella policies typically provide liability coverage of $500,000, $1,000,000 or more. So if the Jones’s had a $1,000,000 umbrella policy in force at the time of the accident, then this is what would have happened: State Insurance pays $250,000 and the PLUP pays $750,000, the $1,000,000 judgment is satisfied, and the Jones’s assets and income are free and clear of being attached and seized.
This example is oversimplified. In reality, there are many more factors at play that can result in various scenarios. You will definitely need experienced legal counsel to guide you through the minefields in order to preserve your assets—even if you’re not as rich and famous as Kim Kardashian!
On the flip side, if you are the one who has suffered catastrophic damages of $500,000, $1,000,000 or more, then you too will need experienced legal counsel to guide you through the minefields in order to recover all of your damages.
Attorney Mac Hester defended against catastrophic injury claims when he worked as an insurance defense attorney and he currently represents injured persons with catastrophic injury claims as a Plaintiff’s attorney. He is ready, willing, and able to guide you through the minefields of your catastrophic injury claim. Contact Mac Hester Law today for a free consultation.
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Even although some toys nowadays have batteries or rechargeable units of some type, there is nonetheless a lot of enjoyable to be experienced from toys that are not electronic or battery operated in any way.
There is a huge challenge though and 1 that I wrestled with as nicely which is. which tools do I use for my business? Which approach? What is best for each the business and suits my brand name as an individual? Right here are some much more. What kind of company do you have, do you have a company currently or are you just beginning out? Do you have products currently, or are you searching to be an information product affiliate (digital marketing agency products this kind of as e-books, training programmes etc. that are delivered with no human intervention) selling other peoples products?
Mount Gambier in Southeast Australia, in in between Melbourne and adelaide, is commonly referred to as the city of craters exactly where caverns, caves, and drinking water channels lie beneath the Earth's crust. Found on top a limestone deposit, the city has natural sinkholes and volcanic craters. The Agrico Gypsum Stack sinkhole was shaped in 1994 and actions at least fifteen tales in depth. It was formed beneath an 80M-ton gypsum stack pile which contaminated the majority of Florida's drinking drinking water. The gap is now referred to as "Journey to the Middle from the Earth". The hole now actions 2M cubic feet.
But though the job of the company card is easy, many company owners nonetheless don't know how to use this card properly. Although it contains your contact particulars, a business card should be given to just about anyone and everyone. Your business card should be offered only to these who ask for it. So, when do you hand out your company cards?
Assume web site visitors know absolutely nothing about what you do. Does your textual content obviously explain what it is you do? Or is it complete of business jargon and administration communicate? You may have read it so numerous occasions yourself that you are 'word blind'; so try asking an buddy to tell you if it makes feeling.
You have to make use of print advertising since this is a very effective instrument. Since the pattern to day is the use of digital marketing, numerous fall short to understand the energy of print marketing. Print marketing has never lose its effectiveness, this is a make a difference of fact. You can select to send out postcards, distribute brochures and flyers and numerous others.
Facebook is also a good marketing place but which I don't recommend. Basically, regardless of having near to a billion users, most individuals go to Facebook to hangout and meet with friends. They don't go there to discover your goods. This is in contrast to Google exactly where individuals go to to search for goods. I also recommend LinkedIn which has an unique blend of visitors who may likely buy your products.
A kind of bedrock, karst, in Southern Florida weakened and shaped a big sinkhole. In Texas, a 400-foot Devil's Sinkhole was shaped in an area exactly where limestone deposits abound. It has forty ft by 60 feet opening and is regarded as holy by Native People in america. Stalactites, arrowheads, as nicely as other treasures are gathered by the locals from the pit. In Pennsylvania, a Macungie sinkhole was formed and brought on not by nature, by the collapse from the getting older drinking water method. In Daisetta, Texas, the surrounding area from the 20-foot sinkhole suddenly collapsed to form a higher sink measuring much much more than 900 ft. In Bowling Eco-friendly, Kentucky, a two hundred-foot sink was all of a sudden formed.
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Giulio Romano
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Giulio Romano
Titian - Portrait of Giulio Romano - WGA22947.jpg
Born 1499
Died (1546-11-01)November 1, 1546
Nationality Italian
Known for painting, fresco, architecture
The fall of the Giants, fresco in Sala dei Giganti, Palazzo del Te, Mantua
In the Palazzo Te, Mantua.
Giulio Romano was born in Rome; the "Romano" refers to this. As a young assistant in Raphael's studio, he worked on the frescos in the Vatican loggias to designs by Raphael and in Raphael's Stanze in the Vatican painted a group of figures in the Fire in the Borgo fresco. He also collaborated on the decoration of the ceiling of the Villa Farnesina. Increasingly he became the master's right-hand man, despite his relative youth. After the death of Raphael in 1520, he helped complete the Vatican frescoes of the life of Constantine as well as Raphael's Coronation of the Virgin and the Transfiguration in the Vatican. In Rome, Giulio decorated the Villa Madama for Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici, afterwards Clement VII.[1] The crowded Giulio Romano frescoes lack the stately and serene simplicity of his master.
From 1522 he was courted by Federico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua, who wanted him as court artist, apparently especially attracted by his skill as an architect. In late 1524 Giulio agreed to move to Mantua, where he remained for the rest of his life. He thus avoided the disaster of the Sack of Rome in 1527, which hugely disrupted artistic patronage in Rome and dispersed the remains of Raphael's workshop. Vasari tells how Baldassare Castiglione was delegated by Federico Gonzaga to procure Giulio to execute paintings and architectural and engineering projects for the duchy of Mantua. His masterpiece of architecture and fresco painting in that city is the suburban Palazzo Te, with its famous illusionistic frescos (c. 1525–1535). He also helped rebuild the ducal palace in Mantua, reconstructed the cathedral, and designed the nearby Church of San Benedetto. Sections of Mantua that had been flood-prone were refurbished under Giulio's direction, and the duke's patronage and friendship never faltered: Giulio's annual income amounted to more than 1000 ducats. His studio became a popular school of art.
Giulio Romano, selfportrait
Giulio was on the whole more influential as an architect than as a painter, and his works had an enormous impact on Italian Mannerist architecture. He learnt architecture the same way he learned painting, as an increasingly trusted assistant to Raphael, who was appointed the papal architect in 1514, and his early works are very much in Raphael's style. The project for the Villa Madama outside Rome, built by the future Medici Pope Clement VII was given to Giulio on Raphael's death, and already shows his taste for playful surprises within the style of Renaissance classical architecture. Planned on a huge scale, it was incomplete by the Sack of Rome, and never finished.[3]
The Villa Lante al Gianicolo (1520–21) was a smaller suburban villa in Rome, with a famous view over the city. Romano made the whole building suggest lightness and elegance to exploit the ridge-top position and overcome the rather small Roman footprint. The orders are delicate, with Tuscan or Doric columns and pilasters in pairs on the main floor, and extremely shallow Ionic pilasters above, whose presence is mainly conveyed by a different colour. Alternate loggia openings are heightened by arches above the entablature. Romano's willingness to play with the conventions of the classical orders is already in evidence; the Doric here has guttae but no triglyphs on its narrow entablature. The volutes of the Ionic capitals are repeated in the window surrounds between them: "The canonic orders here begin to be treated visually as independent from their structural purposes, and this liberation offered the architect new expressive possibilities."[4]
His last building in Rome, the Palazzo Maccarani Stati (it) (started 1522-23), was a considerable contrast, being a palazzo in the city centre, with shops on the ground floor, and a massive, imposing feel. The rustication and exaggerated size of keystones that were to be so prominent in his later buildings in Mantua are already present on the ground floor, which dispenses with any classical order, but the two upper floors have increasingly shallow orders in pilasters, somewhat in the manner of the Villa Lante.[5]
His first building in Mantua has remained his most famous work in architecture. The Palazzo del Te was a pleasure palace outside the city that was begun around 1524 and completed a decade later. Here Giulio was able, because of the function of the building, to indulge to the full his playful inventiveness.
Selected paintings and drawings
Madonna & Child, c. 1523
2. ^ Vasari, Vite
3. ^ Talvacchia
4. ^ Talvacchia
5. ^ Talvacchia
• Talvacchia, Bette, "Giulio Romano." Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, accessed March 30, 2016, subscription required
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Shadow Grows
Like I said yesterday, things are getting worse. I didn't expect it to be so soon, tho.
Wal-Mart Rationing Rice.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said on Wednesday that it would ration the amount of rice each customer can purchase at its Sam's Club warehouse stores because of recent “supply and demand trends.”
Wall Street Journal suggests stockpiling rather than saving useless dollars.
Hording and calls for regulation from farming interests and food executives.
I am willing to bet that we shall see more news like this on an almost daily basis from here on out. Yeah, I know it sounds a bit paranoid, but better safe than sorry. Right?
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
A Looming Shadow
With all of the current crises that we are forced to face by government ineptitude and chicanery you'd think that the bread basket of the world wouldn't be facing food shortages, but the fact is that America, like the rest of the world is looking at shortages of essential foodstuffs. We are also facing rising prices due to numerous governmental interferences in the market place. There's even been a modest attempt at food rationing in some locales. Is this a trend we are going to see more of in the future? The answer is quite likely a resounding yes.
Food shortages and price increases are a burgeoning worldwide phenomenon and no-one is going to go unscathed as things spiral further down. While the 3rd world is being hit the hardest by the current shortages, even places as economically secure as Japan are experiencing their own shortages of foodstuffs. At the root of all this is government interference in the marketplace and the global warming nutcases.
The rise in prices can pretty easily be traced to the government subsidised and, in some cases mandated, adoption of biofuel initiatives in an effort to exacerbate global cooling promote the global warming hysteria embraced by so many politicians and cultists the deliberately ignorant.
This interference has also helped us reach the point where the US wheat stocks are at a 60 year low and international prices have surged over 130% in the past year. It doesn't take a great deal of imagination to see that tougher times are on the way. Especially if we keep using our food supply to fuel cars at the behest the nihilistic Malthusians fueling the global warming movement.
What this means for Joe Public is a continuation of price increases. Add into this the plunging value of the dollar, rising fuel costs and increased inflation and we are looking at some tough times in the future. Most families have already seen their food bills rise to new levels and things are unlikely to trend downward any time soon. What is a body to do?
Political commentator Glenn Beck, speaking to this very subject, has some useful advice.
All I'm asking you to do is go out and buy some flour. Don't panic. Don't hoard it. Don't do any of that. Just go out and protect your family. Go out and store some flour. Store some rice. Put it in your basement. Use it through the summer or whatever. Just hang onto it and then if things get bad, you use it. So you batten down the hatches of your own finances. So you don't have to worry so much about food prices because futures are telling us that the price is going to continue to increase. The global food price has gone up 83% in the last three years alone. Futures are telling us it's going up. You will pay that price in gas soon. You will pay that price in food soon. The truckers will have to charge more for the delivery soon. So you're going to feel this much more than you are now. Spend your money wisely and store up on some food. So then when everybody else is panicking, you will be calm enough with your family and your neighbors and say, relax. Relax, we'll never run out of food and you won't be panicked because the worst thing that happens is when people panic, and there's got to be a core of people that don't panic if and when these things hit.
I find it hard to argue with advice like that. It makes uncommon sense. Adding an extra bag of this and a can of that to the larder each time you go could make the difference between paying the bills or feeding the family come hard times.
If you were so inclined, and it would make a lick of difference, you could also lobby the talking heads in Congress, your state pols, and those hacks running for President and ask them to withdraw all support for subsidies, ethanol, the global warming cult and all the other things they've done to create the current and future food crises facing us and the rest of the world. That would mean they'd have to support the concept of less government, tho. And we all know how they feel about that.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Gun Free Zone Erupts
Imagine my complete lack of surprise to see that Chicago had a banner weekend for murder, shootings and stabbings. I can't help but wonder how many rapes, robberies or burglaries also occurred during that same time period. How can this possibly occur in the paradise that is Chicago? Didn't they ban firearms? I know that I am not allowed to visit their city and bring a firearm with me for my safety and that of my family, with whom I would be traveling. I've checked on it. It looks like chaos reigns supreme in Mr. Daly's paradise by the lake.
By comparison I, (carrying my sidearm) went out this weekend and shot absolutely no-one. Had a nice impromptu dinner at Five Guys with my visiting dad, brother and the kids, ignored the other patrons and I didn't shoot one single person. My firearm didn't get out and do any damage on its own, either.
Chicago seems to have a problem. Too many gun laws would be my guess. A lot of innocent people managed to get hurt and killed there because they, unlike myself, were unable to defend themselves. The government disarmed them and made victims of them.
About 6 a.m., a man broke into an apartment in the 1900 block of West Winona Street and stabbed a man, 26, and woman, 30. Both people were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition.
If this had happened in my neighbourhood the results would likely have been very different. Never bring a knife to a gun fight isn't just a trite saying. It's a way of life.
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WARNING: You don’t want to miss out on this post due to its length. This isn’t an Instagram post or a post for the faint in heart. This is an urgent appeal to the Muslim community. We believe it’s a responsibility you have towards Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى and his Rasul ﷺ to invest the next 5 minutes of your valuable time in reading it. Inshallah, every second you spend reading this plea will be of significant reward for you in both this life and the hereafter, and of course, of major impact to the Muslim ummah and humanity at large.
The eradication of Riba is one of the greatest struggles of our time, as expressed by some prominent Scholars of today. In fact, The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ cursed those who consume Riba (interest) or usury. In Sahih Muslim…
Jabir said that Allah’s Messenger ﷺ cursed the accepter of interest and its payer, and one who records it, and the two witnesses, and he said: They are all equal.
In the Arabic language, the word La’an or curse means to be kicked out of Allah’s سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى mercy and to earn his punishment. Imagine not just going to war with Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى, but imagine being cursed by Rasul Allah ﷺ! Contemplate this point for a minute. Which Sunnah of Rasul Allah ﷺ is going to do anyone any good as long as we arrogantly and knowingly partake in Riba?
We thought long and hard before sharing these words with you, but we feel an obligation before Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى and his Rasul ﷺ to clarify our position on this matter and relay the following for you to contemplate:
1. No Sunnah of our beloved prophet can yield its optimal fruits in our lives so long as we knowingly and arrogantly partake in Riba.
2. Many people will come on the day of judgement with mountains of good deeds. Despite this, they will still end up in the fire of hell. Some of them even perform prayers, fast, and pray tahajjud, but what’s the use of it all if the source of our income is infiltrated with Riba. May Allah save us all.
If you contemplate the two points mentioned above, you’ll conclude that it’s absolutely paramount and wiser obviously, for us to remove the haram from our lives before we ornament it with the halal and the Sunnah’s of Rasul Allah ﷺ. What’s the use of a scented garden when its soil is topped with manure. This doesn’t mean that we avoid the Sunnah’s because we haven’t emptied ourselves from all that’s haram, but we need to make an intentional and focused effort to do so.
Manzil is on a mission to provide the Muslim community and even non-Muslims with the opportunity to break the shackles of Riba and completely eradicate it from their lives. Nothing will make Rasul Allah ﷺ prouder than a focused and well-intentioned communal effort to eradicate Riba from the face of this earth. This is the ultimate civic engagement and responsibility.
What will we tell Rasul Allah ﷺ when we see him on the day of judgement, and will we be able to look him in the eyes if we don’t accomplish this mission?
Think of your children. Will they participate in the financial system and invest their money without any dealings in Riba? Have you? If you were able to participate and properly invest your money in a way that aligns with your religious obligations, would your children be any better off today?
Think of all the non-Muslims and the potential da’wa this could have. Ethical financing is the talk of the year. Is there any financial system more ethical than that which Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى and his Rasul ﷺ laid down for humanity? Banks are in the business of maximizing profits while minimizing risk, prioritizing profit while dehumanizing their consumers. Islamic finance is in the business of God before people and people before profit.
Please think of the millions of non-Muslims we would be setting a good example for by exposing them to this ethical and humane financial system laid down by Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى and his Rasul ﷺ. The gist of it all is that we must all play our part, as one community, to remove the Prophet’s ﷺ curse.
Your involvement and participation, however, is essential to the success of this noblest mission. We’ve created and established the only Halal Fund that pays you a halal return higher than comparable haram funds. This money is then used to finance the homes of Muslims. Your return is two-fold; your investment receives its return in this world and the hereafter.
There are 1.6 million Muslims in Canada today. If we wanted to put every single one of them in a halal home, we’d need close to a trillion dollars in the fund, and as Muslims, we’re more than capable of doing it if we all work together towards this cause. One hand never claps. There are currently approximately 1.2 million dollars in the fund, so we still have a lot of work to do.
Imagine if 100,000 Muslims each put 10,000 dollars in the fund today. That would put the fund at $1B dollars allowing us to finance up to 5,000 homes. That’s 5,000 families moving towards the pleasure of Allah. This $10,000 doesn’t even have to come from your chequing account; you can transfer it over from an existing account you may have at another financial institution in the form of an RRSP, RESP, or TFSA. This is not a charitable donation. This is a real investment with real halal returns. You will be getting sadaqah jaariya for all the Muslims supported by this fund.
Here are some practical steps you can take right now to support Manzil if you reside in Canada or if you’re a Canadian Citizen:
1. Move any registered accounts from your existing banks or institutions over to Manzil’s Fund. These include accounts like RRSPs, RESPs, and TFSAs. Click here to get started.
2. Invest as much money as you can afford to in the Manzil Fund
3. Get on our halal financing waitlist; it’s now a 1.5 billion dollar waitlist and growing. We’ve already completed the financing of our first four homes to date and should be completing more by the end of this year. Click here to get on that waitlist.
4. Own a piece of Manzil by Investing in the Manzil SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)
5. Become an Ambassador of this noblest mission and share Manzil’s story and vision with your friends, family, colleagues, and everyone you come into contact with: Email us at ambassador@manzil.ca.
We have plenty of Masajid, Islamic schools, and halal food is in abundance Alhamdu lil’Allahh. What’s left is an end-to-end Islamic Bank that caters to the needs of many Muslims who refuse to participate in the traditional banking system in place today.
We need access to halal financial solutions that activate what’s otherwise dormant cash sitting in traditional chequing accounts for a more robust impact. More cash equals more potential impact and a stronger political influence for Muslims in the future, inshallah. Imagine if our forefathers had invested heavily in the US or Canadian economy. We would be reaping those fruits today!
It’s not always easy to do what’s not popular, but that’s where you usually make your money, and of course, a difference in the world!
Let’s work together to remove our Prophet’s ﷺ curse and the wrath of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى before it’s too late. Believe us when we say there’s no better way to spend your efforts in this challenging and tribulating world we live in today. Please do it for Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى, do it for Rasul Allah ﷺ, do it for yourself, do it for your children, do it for the Ummah, do it for humanity at large.
“The ones who eat (up) riba (Interest or other unlawful gains; usury) will not rise except as he whom Ash-shaytan (The all-vicious, i.e., the Devil) ever smites with the touch rises. That is because they have said, “Surely selling is only like riba.” And Allah has made selling lawful, and has prohibited riba.” So, he to whom an admonition has come from his Lord (and) so has refrained (in obedience), then he will have whatever is bygone, (i.e. he is forgiven for his parts gains) and his case (Literally: command, i.e. the command of Allah to him) is for Allah; and whoever goes back, then those are the companions (i.e., the inhabitants) of the Fire, and they are therein eternally (abiding).” Clear Quran 2:275 Translated by Dr. Ghali
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Updated on: November 9th, 2020
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series bible online
Ronald D. Moore's original series bible for Battlestar Galactica is now available online to peruse, for those so inclined. The document is dated 17 December 2003, after the pilot mini-series had aired but before work in earnest had begun on the first season proper.
The bible outlines some information about FTL travel that never came out in the show itself (confirming the old theory that Galactica could only jump about 5 light-years at a time), as well as showing that some story arcs in the series were indeed plotted out ahead of time, though others were not. It's interesting to see how conceptions of characterisation changed: Roslin is initially described as being more hawkish and having to be reigned in by Adama's more liberal tendencies, whilst Tyrol and Baltar are described as coming into conflict and becoming one another's sworn enemies, which basically never happened (though they were not exactly best buddies in the transmitted show).
Given how the show turned out it's an interesting document, and possibly somewhat ironic given how the emphasis is firmly on realism and 'naturalistic' science fiction over technobabble and mystical mumbo-jumbo, at least in the first season.
Barbara Martin said...
I liked this program when it was on TV, but have not seen any of the other upgrades or new versions.
Bill, the Wildcat said...
Very interesting. Having watched the entire series, I can see how this "Bible" made the show work and avoid those obvious "space-set series cliches." Thanks for posting the link to this.
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Students participating in group work is a key ingredient in student learning. When students are able to verbalize their ideas, listen to one another, share authentic discussion, and create common products, they are much more actively engaged in the learning process. However, there are a multitude of ways that a teacher can arrange students for group work, and an effective teacher may choose to implement different strategies for different outcomes. Look at the following ideas for how you might consider arranging students for group work.
Teacher-Assigned Groups
1. Grouped according to same skill level. Perfect for differentiation. You can have ability-specific tasks assigned to each group.
2. Turn your row and talk to the person next to you. Rows of students turn their desks to face one another. This is a very quick way to have students share ideas, listen, or team up with a partner.
3. Randomly mixed up pre-assigned groups. You might not need specific students together, but you do want speed. Pre-assign groups of students so that they just have to get together without long transition time.
4. Grouped to mix skill levels. Students learn well when different skills and levels are mixed. With this, you can make sure your strongest students are intermingled with others.
5. Rotational system. Instead of having one partner or group, students can set up in a circle, and a portion of each group rotates clockwise while the other portion stays in place.
6. Alphabetical rotation system. Group students based on the alphabetical order of their names; and if you choose, rotate them based on their names as well. You can go down your attendance roster listing A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, C2, etc. and reorganize groups based on letter or number. Get creative!
7. Day-of-the-week group. Assign each student to a specific partner or group for each day of the week. So if it’s a Tuesday, have them get together with their Tuesday group, which is different from the other days. Students can also create each day’s defined group.
8. Grouped for classroom management. We all know those friends who are more likely to get off task than create a quality product. Pre-assign groups and make sure students who need to be separated are kept apart.
9. Grouped according to interest. If you’re aware of different interests of your students via discussion or a survey, you might want to put them together and have them connect their common interest to the task.
Students Choose Groups
1. Students select their own group. The simplest way could just be to tell students to get into groups and trust them to do it.
2. Students select their own group with exceptions. A variation from above, you can let them choose their groups but add, “Don’t join with the last person you were with,” or “No more than ‘X’ many people.”
3. Students grouped based on responses. Give a survey or quiz, and group students according to what they think or how they score.
4. Clock partners. Give each student a clock chart, and have them go around assigning themselves a partner for each time of day. They’ll have a one o’clock partner, a two o’clock partner, etc. Then you just say, “Get with your ________ o’clock partner.”
5. Contact list. Like the clock partners, have students create their own contact list of classmates like they might on their phones. Then tell them, “Get with your third contact.”
6. Students given options. Try describing what different group tasks are available, then letting students choose which task they’d like to join.
7. Students choose an option, and mix with others. You could also try letting students choose which task they’d like to do, but then creating a group consisting of students with each of the other tasks. In a reading class, you might have one student be a “vocab finder,” one be a “summarizer,” etc.
8. Students choose based on random interest. Have students mix based on something they are personally interested in. You can give them suggestions or categories of interests, and design their task to include that interest.
Randomized Group Work
1. Use sticks or names from a hat. Write students’ names on Popsicle sticks, shake them up in a cup, and pop out the number of names you want in a group. Or you can literally pull names from a hat.
2. Use a grouping app or website. Many good apps and websites exist for randomly assigning groups. Try a website like Group Sort.
3. Use colored index cards. Let students choose colored index cards from a stack, and sort them based on the colors they picked up. You can even write items on the cards that further indicate tasks or topics.
4. Count off. Of course you can count off by numbers, but maybe try something fun. If you want four groups, then count off by “Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, and Swift,” for example.
5. “Left Out” Game. Have your students stand up, and then you shout out a number. Students must immediately cluster themselves according to that number. Anyone left out gets a bonus task.
6. Use a pack of cards. Playing cards is effective and versatile. Pass out cards and group students based on having similar or different suits, black or red cards, cards in a specific order, the same numbers, or any other values you assign to the deck.
7. Use synonym vocabulary word cards. Have sets of synonyms written on different index cards and randomly pass them out. Then have students find the other person in the room who has the word that means the same as their card. Also try antonyms!
8. Famous pairings. A variation on the synonym cards, pass out cards that have various pairs of duos that pertain to your course. Have “Huck Finn” and “Mark Twain” cards, or “Einstein” and “E=MC2” cards.
9. Puzzle pieces. Take small puzzles and have students randomly select a piece. Then have them find the other students who have the rest of that puzzle’s pieces.
10. Arrange desks. If students have assigned desks, confuse them by rearranging the desks before they come in for the day.
11. Birthday buddies. Who has their birthday in the same month as you? Ask students that question, and group them accordingly.
12. Pick colored pencils/markers. When creating a poster or colorful project, have students grab one colored utensil and ask them to mix with others with different colors.
13. Line it up and fold it. Ask students to line up in response to a question or trait. They could line up by height, or perhaps line up based on a spectrum of how much they know about the day’s topic. Then fold the line in half, so the least knowledgeable student is paired with the most knowledgeable student and so on.
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Dalek Mod Lite
Dalek Mod Lite
What is Dalek Mod Lite?
The Dalek Mod Lite is a modified version of the Dalek Mod designed mainly for multiplayer purposes. This version of the mod will also be much more lightweight on your Minecraft installation and much more compatible with other mods as it only contains the mobs/Entities from the main current version.
What is it missing?
Pretty much most features involving world generation eg. the Tardis, older versions of Minecraft, biomes, Blocks, Items etc
What mobs does it have?
- Weeping Angels
- Daleks, Lots of them!
- Various Cybermen!
- Bessie
- A Rideable Davros chair
- Autons!
- Cybermats
- K9
- K9 from the Australian Spin off
- Adipose
- Clockwork droids!
What's the point of this then?
This will be useful for those who want to have DM Mobs in their game and still use other mods without compatibility problems and let's face it the current version of the mod doesn't work very well in multiplayer there are duplicating Tardises.
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The_TravelerBeta Tester
Posted: September 08, 2019
it would be cool if it removed most of the tardi but kept like 1 or 2
Posted: January 13, 2019
is there a 1.12.2 download?
Posted: July 11, 2019
There will be one soon
Posted: October 19, 2018
I live to watch and play Doctor Who
Posted: April 10, 2018
I love the Dalek Mod :DDD
I bought minecraft just to play it
Posted: September 02, 2017
hope this one will not do weird thing to my minecraft
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"a" (Stewart O’Nan)
Par Stewart O'nan
Publié par Clifford Armion le 03/07/2014
Chaque année les invités des Assises Internationales du Roman rédigent la définition d'un mot de leur choix : il s'agit ici du mot "a", défini par l'auteur américain Stewart O’Nan.
The indefinite, a baby mouthing sounds, nothing special, like the city you live in or the socks you wear, made by a machine run by a girl who left her family's farm in the north, unsung, just one of a million, a billion, the numberless stuff the mind throws up on contact - a round, a long, a last, a lie, a crime, a life, a father, a song, a war - meaningless until someone comes to claim it, to remedy it, to confess: this is mine, I did it, it was me.
In vision is the beginning of desire, or does one lie just require another? I'll say anything if it sounds true enough. So what if I made you from parts of others? I've always loved zombies.
We finally meet, after so long apart, and now I need to know everything about you, though there's no guarantee how this will end. Badly, if history is any judge. I'm no mindreader. I'm the kind that will follow you around, get in bed with you, sway beside you on the train, waiting for you to betray yourself. If you don't, I will.
I'm capable of anything - ask anyone. So don't lie. Don't try and shock me. I'm no Einstein, but I've been walking this beat my entire life. I know where your family lives. You ask people, they'll tell you anything. From there you can figure out their secrets. Believe me, yours aren't much different from mine, as sad as that sounds.
What I want is what I can't understand (I'm not like you, I don't love what I know), and I'll do anything to get it. I don't care if I look like a fool. That's how I started in this business. There's nothing more dangerous than a know-nothing. If I could go back, I would, start fresh again, but it's too late to pretend, like at the end of the night, or maybe the morning after, when the streets are gray and the cars are loud and even the clouds are too bright. I follow you back to your flat to see if you'll do what I think you'll do. And you do. I don't know if this is love, but I promise, whatever happens after this, I'll never forget you.
Pour citer cette ressource :
Stewart O'nan, ""a" (Stewart O’Nan)", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), juillet 2014. Consulté le 19/11/2018. URL: http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/entretiens-et-textes-inedits/a-stewart-o-nan-
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Why All Bibles today are Evil?
Why even the Holy Bible, the HalleleuYAH Bible, “The Scriptures” and all other Holy Bibles based on Judaism are Evil!
We YAHUWda of YAsarEl sound so negative about the “Holy Bible” and all its various translations. Why? Although "Th“The Scriptures” restores many of the prophet’s names, it still follows the corrupted immoral Lawless Jewish and Catholic texts. It is evil! This is because they are all translated from one of three Satan corrupted Aramaic Hebrew texts and numerous “Holy Roman Catholic” latter NT Latin texts.
The Jewish texts were first corrupted during the Asshur Empire of Nimrod. Then they were greatly changed by the Babylonian Corruption of 850BC -1250 AD by many Jewish (Yehudi) scribes and rabbi. They blasphemed our great and sinless Creator by attributing to Him and His servants horrible acts of murder, torture, incest, polygamy, sex slavery, slavery, theft and divine rights of kings and rulers over us common citizens.
They began by changing the Creation account to fit their “modern knowledge” that the earth was the center of the universe! Thus it was changed to “In the beginning, the Gods (Elohim) created the Heavens and the Earth.” Green grass and fruit trees were created before the sun was created on the fourth day. Stars were created after earth. We know this is all false.
Then they changed the original loving story of NUWach’s regional flood in which NUWach first converted and rescued hundreds of local sinners before the regional flood and then saved the children as well as animals to a “Murdering Lord god” who drowned everybody on earth except Noah’s eight elite.
They changed the redemptive Lawful way YAHUWshua repossessed the Promised Land, always preaching The Covenant and offering terms of peace first, to the heartless immoral “kill every man, woman, child and animal” of Joshua’s Babylonian version. They inserted Deut 13 to stone to death unbelievers and slaughter entire villages of even those who tolerated unbelievers! They inserted polygamy and concubines as a blessing of the Lord god.
They created new endings of stories like the Lord killing 70,000 innocent citizens for David’s punishment for taking a census. They even created the story of David murdering Uriah by withdrawing his army from him in war so David could steal his wife “lawfully.” Why? Well, the Empire kings and rulers wanted the same law to steal any soldier’s wife they wanted! The Roman Catholic Empire inserted “Slaves, obey your masters as you would the Lord” (Col 3:22). The Original Scriptures never tolerated slavery of any kind. They changed DaUWd’s “First Servant of YAsarEl” title to “King of Yisrael.” Servant hood still is there but it is interlaced with Empire class structure and lies.
They completely changed the original simple Gospel of Salvation to the confusing Lawless mess it is today. Would you like cow manure scattered all over your home? Of course not! It is blasphemy to your Creator to give honor to such corruption and moral decadence. El YAH predicted that in the Latter Days, men would call what is evil “good.” It is now time to call evil “Evil”! Trust only The Original Scriptures, The Eternal Word of YAH.
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Eli Roth’s Knock Knock
What exactly was Eli Roth hoping to accomplish with Knock Knock? Awkward softcore porn? Crude exploitation? Trashy home invasion potboiler? Hard Candy-esque moral revenge fantasy? That Ana De Armas looks good in a blond dye job? Well I hate to break it to him but if it was any or all of the above, none of it works and this is just a hollow, misdirected, tasteless bit of pond scum trying to pass itself off as a thriller and I feel sorry for poor Keanu Reeves having to wade through the gauntlet of what has to be the worst film he’s ever graced his angelic presence with. He plays an upper middle class family man whose wife and kids go on a long weekend trip so he can stay home and get some work done. He’s keeping it mellow on a super rainy night until two unstable, whack-job gutter hoes (Ana De Armas and Lorenza Izzo) show up at his door under the pretence of being lost and insinuate their way into first his house, then his shower and eventually his bed, and you can guess where things spiral from there. These are two seriously disturbed, dangerous and fucked up individuals and both actresses are terrifically intense and deranged, while Reeves holds his end up nicely with a difficult role, the editing, photography, music and splashes of dark humour do what they can but to what purpose does the film work towards, and when it gets there, is it worth it? Not so much. If Roth has set out to convince us that the tables can be turned and men can be just as coerced, preyed upon, shamed and ruined by the other sex as women can by them then he’s somewhat succeeded in showing us a turn of events like that at a primal level, but any attempts at theme or subtext are buried or lost in translation and what could have been something of a message movie ends up simply being ‘two crazy bitches torturing Keanu Reeves for just over ninety minutes.’ There’s a haphazard attempt at *something* deeper involving words written on a mirror in lipstick and Armas going postal about something that seems like an event from her past but neither thread is explored or followed up on. I don’t even know whether to call this a missed opportunity or not because I can’t even tell if Roth set out trying to achieve anything of substance or just didn’t bother at all and deliberately aimed for below the audience’s belt. Also I didn’t buy that Keanu ‘John Wick’ Reeves could be physically outmatched to that extent by two college age chicks, but that’s the least of this film’s issues. There’s something to this idea on paper but it’s nowhere to be found in this film, which is simply an ugly, pointless fucking waste of time.
-Nate Hill
Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof
Death Proof is regarded as the weakest link in Quentin Tarantino’s work, but in a career so consistently awesome does that really matter much? It might be weirdly paced and the inherent schlock in trying to recreate the Grindhouse aesthetic makes it hard to take seriously but it’s still a sterling flick in my book and one fucking wild ride at the movies.
I wasn’t around for the Grindhouse era but it seems to me like Quentin and Robert Rodriguez only partially aped the vibe and sort of trail blazed through their own stuff instead of sticking strictly to routine like, say, Hobo With A Shotgun did. It’s a good thing too, because you wouldn’t want two creative wellsprings like these filmmakers limited to doing something that’s cheap to its bones and has little innovation. As such (with QT’s half of the double bill anyways) we get something that’s a healthy compromise of balls out Mad Max style vehicular bedlam and leisurely paced, character heavy interludes of dialogue, which is of course his trademark. There are an absolute ton of characters here, but naturally the one that showboats across centre stage is Kurt Russell’s Stuntman Mike, a charming but sadistic serial killer who mows down and decimates innocent women in his souped up Dodge Charger. That of course fills up the back half of the film, while initially we are treated to a solid chunk that sees different groups of girls bicker, banter, discourse on everything from John Hughes’ films to the benefits and drawbacks of being a semi-famous radio DJ and generally have a good time. Usually when you think of showcase Tarantino dialogue and characters this film wouldn’t enter the running, and I’m not sure why, he writes some of the most wonderful parts here and these gals positively act the pants off of them to the point that when the highway mayhem kicks in, you’re almost disappointed that the round table discussions and quirky friendships are done with. Russell is absolute perfection and seems born to play this peculiar villain. He’s so charming that bad vibes aren’t even perceived, and even later when he gets downright psychotic there’s this fourth wall breaking sheepishness that gets chuckles instead of screams, especially in the end when he turns into a big baby. My favourite of the gals has to be Vanessa Ferlito as sultry Arlene, Rosario Dawson as tomboyish Abernathy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as sensitive Lee and Sydney Tamiia Poitier as aforementioned DJ Jungle Julia. Others are fantastic too including Jordan Ladd, Zoe Bell, Tracie Thomas, Marcy Harriell, Helen Kim, Tina Rodriguez and Rose McGowan as angelic Pam, who squares off against Mike in both the funniest and scariest sequence of the film. Watch for cameos from several of the Inglorious Basterds as well as a brief turn from Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Michael Parks).
The film consists mostly of two things: girls hanging around in apartments, cars and bars talking and beautiful old muscle cars playing havoc along the interstate. When you have Quentin at the helm providing pages of wonderful dialogue and overseeing practical effects based car chases, it makes for something endlessly fun. I saw this as a double bill alongside Rodriguez’s sometimes fun, often lame Planet Terror and viewed together is enough content to melt both brain and eyeballs, especially when you consider that they each have generous runtimes. This is the better of the two films and I think they should be viewed separately as their own entity. Not the weakest thing Quentin has done (Hateful Eight bears that crown for me) and so much more fun than people remember or give it credit for.
-Nate Hill
Once Upon A Time In Nostalgia Occupied France: Revisiting Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds
Having rewatched Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds the other night for the first time in years, I’d since forgotten what a fuckin rip snorting good time at the movies it is. It used to rank fairly low on my Quentin-metre, but not only has it aged quite nicely since 09′, it’s even better than I remember it being in theatres. I think that one of the reasons I didn’t hold it in such high esteem right off the bat is that I wasn’t prepared for the blunt revisionist history approach, which at the time I think felt very silly and fake. I get now what he was going for and appreciate it tenfold more than I did then. From the opening chords of a Morricone piece that signals the portentous arrival of Christoph Waltz’s terrifyingly affable Jew hunting SS nutbar Hans Landa, this film is a near perfect ballet of extended dialogue, shocking musical cues and sporadic bursts of satisfying and graphic violence. It’s an episodic roundtable outing that spins around to focus intently on specific scenarios for quite a bit of time before jarringly shunting off to the next. Young Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) runs a quaint cinema in rural France that garners the attention of a pesky German war hero (Daniel Brühl). Evil Landa and his corps doggedly hunt enemies of the state whilst preparing to act as a security force for a bigwig film premiere attended by the Fuhrur himself, et al. Elsewhere in Germany, a plucky band of double agents led by Michael Fassbender and Diane Kruger await instructions on a small tavern, commissioned by Winston Churchill and Austin Powers to carry out their mission. This sequence is a textbook example on how to whip up vice grip suspense until one can barely breathe, then cut the cord loose all of a sudden, brilliantly structured, written and acted scene all round. Brad Pitt also leads his merry band of Nazi killers all over Europe creating havoc and delivering some of the best dialogue that the Q-Man has ever penned. The sequence where Aldo Raine (Pitt) and his crew must be ‘fake Italian’ to blend in at the film premiere is the single funniest thing in a Tarantino film to date. The cast is layered with all kinds of wonderful work, standouts from August Diehl, Richard Sammel, Eli Roth, a priceless Til Schweiger, as well as quick snippets from Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel. Waltz made a name for himself with the Landa character, and is a simultaneously freaky and funny villain who steals the film each time he shows up to smarm and charm the pants off of everyone else. Funny beyond words, brutally exploitive in the best possible ways, whip smart in writing and characterization and just a hell of a good time, Basterds has held up and even improved excellently since it’s release, and will likely stand as one of Tarantino’s key films in years to come. Gorlami.
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As with most things, in this forum it's hard to give you a 'for sure' answer about what could be going on with your dog and the breathing issue. There are actually quite a few possibilities that range from the simple to the complex. Some of the biggest offenders are:
**Some sort of heart condition, such as congestive heart failure (also known as CHF):
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RAGE against the machine: Tim Willits on id's latest
Nathan Grayson talks to RAGE creative director Tim Willits about helming the first new IP in years from the shooter genre's grandaddy, id Software.
RAGE is kind of a big deal. As id's first in-house developed title since Doom 3, it's got years' worth of blood, sweat, and tears (and maybe a hint of residual urine, given Doom 3's propensity for sheer terror) riding on it. On top of that, it's a new IP charging into an absurdly crowded FPS genre guns-a-blazing – a tactic which has recently left many developers riddled with holes and on the wrong end of the chopping block.
And all the while, it's trying desperately to avoid being another heaping helping of id Software comfort food. Vehicular combat? In! On-foot deathmatch? Out. While at QuakeCon, we watched closely, too: no evil curly mustaches in sight. This isn't secretly a devious plot by Bizarro id.
By all rights, then, creative director Tim Willits should be sweating bullets. But he's not. When we spoke with him, he exuded an almost infectious confidence. Honestly, he seemed downright giddy. And why not? He's about to see the fruits of years of hard labor. His game's about to take a crowded genre by storm. His company's going to succeed where so many others have failed. In that respect, it's all about perspective.
So we asked, and Willits was more than happy to answer. Read on for his thoughts about a RAGE sequel, PC gaming's current modding scene, expectations of what an FPS should be, crunch time, and tons more.
VG247: John Carmack recently mentioned interest in “heading in the direction of” a RAGE sequel. And though he's one of the few people in the world I might believe if he said he actually knows everything, he's not you guys. So, what's the RAGE team's perspective on a sequel?
Tim Willits: My hope is that it does really well and we can do a sequel. That's my hope. But again, we just need to get this game done. We're on the ten-yard line, and we've got our hand on the ball. We can see the endzone.
You know, our goal from the very beginning was to make a franchise that stood by itself. So please Lord make it good [laughs]. If it's successful, that's definitely something we'll consider. But, as a studio in general, we need to get the next Doom game done. So that's our focus.
But, you know, I have confidence that RAGE will be awesome. I have confidence that – someday down the road – we'll do another one. But no one's working on it. We just need to get this one done.
RAGE Uprising trailer.
RAGE is keeping mod tools in the picture, but other games have sort of taken to sweeping them under the rug lately. And then there's Diablo III, which is expressly forbidding mods of any sort. Obviously, that makes it a lot harder for cheaters to gum up the works (not to mention Blizzard's new auction house), but is this the beginning of a disturbing trend?
It's always a tricky situation. Cheating is a big problem. Trust me: if everyone was honest, we wouldn't have locks on our doors. For us – you know, I can't talk to what they're doing and their philosophy – modding has always been very important. Heck, I got started at id modding. So make no mistake: it's very important to me.
But, as games get more advanced, it becomes much more difficult. I mean, with RAGE, you'll be able to download the SDK and id Studio, but I'll be surprised if someone makes an entire new map. They may work with the layer system, [but not a whole map].
But I know for us, if mod-makers could wreck the game for everyone else, I know that we at id would have a serious conversation about whether or not we would allow modding. Unfortunately, sometimes for the greater good, you do have to kind of tighten in what players can do with the game.
Modding is very important to us, but the mod community in general is not as big as it used to be. That's just the way it is. It's unfortunate, but tools have gotten more advanced and are much more complex. It takes much more horsepower – especially with RAGE. If you were to bake a RAGE map at home, it'd take a long time.
What's the status on the second RAGE iOS game? I've heard that it has cars and might exist maybe.
That's more of a John [Carmack] thing. You know, with the first iOS game, we did exactly what we wanted to do: make something cool and get the RAGE name out there. About a year before you ship a game, you want to get the whole PR machine going. So for us, it was a good stepping stone. But yeah, the second game. I don't know when that'll be done.
Here we are after months of demoing and years of explanations, but I still constantly find comments like “Oh, it's just a Fallout rip-off” or “It's Borderlands, but with more brown.” And these are from core gamers who are supposedly “informed.” Is the pervasiveness of that erroneous perception disheartening for you?
"If you play RAGE for two hours, you'll get it and you'll like it."
I'll be brutally honest with you: I haven't played one second of Borderlands. But I can see Gearbox from my office. They're only about five miles away.
You know, people always want to look at something and then relate it back to something else. Which is fair. I don't think it's a fair comparison, but I can see why people do that. So that's why we're giving these two hour demos. What I've always said is that, if you play RAGE for two hours, you'll get it and you'll like it. That's my mantra.
So that's why we did the Europe tour and mainstream press. Now we're doing online guys at QuakeCon. Really, we need you guys – the journalists – to say “I played it, and this is what I felt it was like.” I mean, people know I'm going to say good things about my game. I'm going to say it's the greatest thing ever, because that's my job. You guys have to play it. That's why we're doing this.
Most game developers don't just give you two hours with a game, though. So that speaks to my confidence in the title, and so far, responses have been very positive.
Thanks to some none-too-pleasant business over at Team Bondi, the online gaming hivemind's been chattering away about crunch time. Seeing as RAGE is hurtling toward the finish line, I imagine you – especially – are quite familiar with crunch. You could even be called a Captain of sorts. Anyway, what's id's policy toward crunch time? How do you guys handle it?
In any industry, people have to work extra hard to finish projects. But in videogames, you all work together to finish up. When you have a large group of people complaining about something, they make more noise than a single person. But yes, some type of crunch mode is the reality of it.
For RAGE, we were completely honest. And I'm not saying those [Team Bondi] guys weren't, but I try to be straightforward with the guys – say, “These are our milestones.” And at id, we let people say how long something is going to take.
So it's like “Hey, Joe Developer. You have to finish this map. How long is it going to take you?” And if he says, “It'll take me a month,” then I expect it to be done in month. And if it's not done in a month, then you need to come in on weekends and finish it. If it's going to take six weeks, then do it in six weeks. But don't tell me you need a month and then take six weeks.
"If you have food for everybody, crunch time is not so bad. They're like 'Oooo, got some food!'"
So we try to let people be accountable for their own schedule. And we try to be as open with everyone [as possible]. We say, “These are the dates that are important. This is pre-cert. These are our candidates. We have to hit these dates.”
And we of course have food for everybody. Man, if you have food for everybody, crunch time is not so bad. They're like “Oooo, got some food!” [Laughs.] If you put food in someone's belly, it makes their mind very happy.
And then we're all professionals. Everyone gets paid well. We reward people that put in extra effort. [Crunch] is getting better in the industry in general. But you always have to crunch to finish projects. Other industries are the same way. When guys were building the new Boeing plant, I can tell you there was some crunching going on. When they're finishing movies, there's some crunching going on. It's just the nature of the beast. But we try to mitigate it with good schedules, personal accountability, and feeding people [laughs]. That's very important.
RAGE is entering an FPS genre so competitive that it makes Doom 3's old haunt look like a Hug Convention. That sort of environment breeds a lot of expectations, and the FPS sphere's no different. “You must have multiplayer. You can't be too linear. You can't be too non-linear.” Etc. How does id approach that issue? How much do expectations affect your development process?
Well, established rules. Since we established the original FPS rules, I don't really mind too much if we break them. That's the big thing people get upset about with our multiplayer. They're like “What the hell are you doing? You invented on-foot deathmatch. I can't believe you're making RAGE without it!”
But they need to slow down. We want RAGE to be able to stand on its own – not follow the same cookie-cutter formula. And we have other franchises that... well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what our other franchises are going to do.
RAGE The Well trailer.
So it's OK to break tradition, to break rules – especially if you created the tradition. And people immediately get uneasy if it feels [different]. They're comfortable with the last game they played. So if the next game has a lot of similar rules, they're like “Oh, I feel comfortable with this.” But if you give them something that's different, there's unease at first.
But if the game is good – if the game is compelling and rewarding – they'll embrace it. They really will. And first-person shooters these days are really following a trend – which RAGE does not follow. I think it's good, because I believe there's some modern shooter franchise fatigue. And people want something that's a little bit different.
This hasn't been a good year for new IP. It's frightening, because you watch how much the industry's changing, and you see developers dropping right and left. A new IP, then, is a coin toss where you lose money unless the damn thing lands on its side. How much pressure is that putting on id? What makes you so confident that you can succeed where so many others have failed?
"The big thing is that we're id."
The big thing is that we're id. If we say something, we have the pedigree for people to pay attention. So that really helps us. And then it really goes back to getting guys like you in there playing the game. We did a ton of videos. We did a “Making of.” We've done all the tours. We did the iPhone thing. Education has been very important for us. We feel that we've got good traction.
But it is an uphill battle. It really is. And when publishers make these million-million-million dollar bets, they want to make sure their investments pay off. But I think we've got good feet on the ground for this.
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Football Informative Essay Introduction
Informative Speeches Informative. jpg An informative speech provides interesting and useful information to the audience. The information is unique and usually not something that the audience would be acquainted with. Objects, processes, events or concepts: Informative speeches can be about objects, processes, events or concepts. This is not a limited list, but a general topic format that most informative speeches tend towards.
The important thing to realize is that no matter which topic format the speech takes on, it can only be an informative speech if it conveys information that is factual, useful, instructive and/or enlightening to the audience. Introduction, body and conclusion: Most informative speeches are formatted with a defined introduction, a body of information and a conclusive ending. Clear, attention grabbing intro: The introduction to informative speeches should always be clear and catch the attention of the listeners.
The introduction should lead up to the body of the speech in such a way that it is immediately grabs the interest of the audience. It should create a clear relation between the speaker and the topic as well as relating the topic or subject to the audience to pull them in and get them excited or interested in what is to come. It should create a clear outline of what is to be covered in the body of the speech and should do so in a clear and concise way to be effective and ensure that the audience is not bored from the start.
Seamless transitions: When delivering informative speeches, the body should provide a smooth transition between the main points, ideas or concepts to convey all of the information effectively. This means that the speaker should, firstly, adhere strictly to the time limits imposed by planning ahead to present all of the information in a coherent manner and in a way that is easy for the audience to absorb and comprehend. The delivery should be natural and conversational; if it isn’t it will allow the audience to lose interest quickly and easily become distracted by the slightest diversion.
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The conclusion of informative speeches should always be the means by which the speaker informs the audience that the speech is coming to an end, without actually saying so. It should review and repeat the most prominent concepts, ideas or aspects of the speech and should end the speech in the same seamless and natural way that is used throughout the speech. The important thing to note is that the conclusion is a vital part of the speech, and as such it should maintain the attention and interest of the audience until the very end.
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Informative Speech Outline
1. Creative Attention Getter
a. My creative attention getter will be playing a video with some hard helmet-to-helmet hits in the NFL
2. Thesis Statement
a. Football is a hard-hitting sport and can cause concussions, head injuries, and even permanent brain damage.
3. Preview of the main points
a. Concussions can be defined as “by immediate and transient alteration in brain function, including alteration of mental status and level of consciousness, resulting from mechanical force or trauma.”
b. Concussions have been a major problem in many physical sports and policies have been put into place to try and protect athletes.
c. NFL players that are taken out of the game can lose the opportunity…show more content…
Players cannot return to the game or cannot return to practice until they have been cleared from the team doctor as well as a neurologist iv. In 2009 the NFL tightened the rules
1. Helmet to helmet contact is an immediate 15 yard penalty in the NFL
2. Players can be fined for an official labeling a hit helmet-to-helmet
v. Returning to athletic activity too soon after a concussion can raise the risk of permanent damage if the athlete is hit in the head again
7. #3 Main Point
a. Even though there are policies in place to protect the athletes, these polices can keep players out of a game that they may have been able to play in without any consequences
i. Most NFL players have played football for many years and because they have grown up taking numerous head hits they can be considered less likely to have long term effects from a concussion than the general public ii. Many NFL players get paid for gaining titles such as: the most yards ran in a game, most touchdowns in a year, etc. The players can lose money and these titles if they are kept out of a game due to fear of a possible concussion iii. The person who watches the players and rules a player out for a possible concussion sits high up in the stadium and does not have the best view of the play in question iv. Even with this policy there has not been any decrease in the amount of concussions in the NFL. Front line reports that in
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Optimove’s retention automation platform leverages proprietary customer modeling technology to help marketers at online companies maximize the value of every customer. The software helps Internet businesses convert more leads, increase customer spend and engagement, reduce churn and win back more lost customers. By affecting customer behavior through highly-relevant, personalized offers and incentives, Optimove helps businesses -- including clients like Conduit and GetTaxi -- understand customers and maximize revenue.
7) LocalVox
LocalVox is a platform for local, social and mobile marketing for businesses, helping them generate news and engage local customers across the web, a network of local publishers, mobile, social media, email newsletters and search. After raising a total of $8.65 million and acquiring Postling in late 2012, LocalVox looks set to transform how local businesses market themselves.
8) MailChimp
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Teachers Making a Difference
Has it really been a month since my last posting?
Time flies.
I'd love to say cause I've been having lots of fun, but not especially.
This school year seems to be crazier than ever as the stakes are pushed higher for educators and I strive to meet them. I would love for one of those crazy people who talk about how easy teachers have it, how they only work 6 hours a day, get off for all the holidays, don't work over the summer, and make the money they deserve, to follow me around for a bit. I would bet that if I divided my salary into the hours/minutes I've been working this year that I'm probably getting paid change per hour.
But, the other day one of my teacher friends emailed me this and I was reminded exactly why I do what I do...
I MAKE A DIFFERENCE…That’s what I make!
The Doctor wants his child to become a doctor... the Engineer wants his child to become an engineer... the Businessman wants his ward to become a CEO.... BUT a teacher also wants his child to become one of them.
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discuss-ing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?"
Teacher Bonnie, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied, "You want to know what I make? She paused for a second, and then began...
I make a C feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor winner.
“You want to know what I make”? She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table.
“I make kids wonder. I make them question. I make them apologize and mean it. I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.
I make them read, read, read.
Bonnie paused one last time and then continued.
“Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing money isn't everything, I hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant. You want to know what I make”?
What do you make Mr. CEO?"
His jaw dropped; he went silent.
So I may be back to posting soon.
Or maybe not.
You see, along with educating future CEO's, lawyers, doctors, engineers, and teachers, I'm also very busy educating future social media mavens!
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McDonald's demands better treatment for sows
Published: Feb 13, 2012 2:59 p.m. ET
--McDonald's to ban sows from confinement cages
--Pork companies working to comply with McDonald's
--Sow cages are inhumane, animal welfare group says
(Updates with details on gestation stalls in the third paragraph and comments from industry and humane society officials throughout.)
WASHINGTON -(MarketWatch)- McDonald's Corp. MCD, +0.09% said Monday it wants the companies it buys pork from to do away with controversial gestation stalls used to confine sows.
"McDonald's believes gestation stalls are not a sustainable production system for the future," Dan Gorsky a senior vice president at the company said. "There are alternatives that we think are better for the welfare of sows."
Gestation stalls are narrow two-feet-wide cages used to confine breeding sows, which bear offspring that are slaughtered to make breakfast sausage and other pork products, according to Paul Shapiro, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States.
The cages, which Shapiro said are so small that sows cannot turn around in them, only allow the animals to stand up or sit down.
Pork production companies like Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) and Cargill Inc. are already working to remove the cages from their operations, Gorsky said.
The Humane Society of the United States praised McDonald's decision.
"The HSUS has been a long-time advocate for ending the use of gestation crates, and McDonald's announcement is important and promising," said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the group. "All animals deserve humane treatment, including farm animals, and it's just wrong to immobilize animals for their whole lives in crates barely larger than their bodies."
The National Pork Producers Council, a group representing U.S. hog farmers, said Monday it continued to support the use of gestation stalls, but was also willing to assist in the transition of operations that supply McDonald's.
The announcement Monday by McDonald's is the largest example ever of a fast food restaurant demanding that suppliers improve the conditions of livestock, HSUS' Shapiro said, but it's not the first.
The restaurant chain has previously required its egg suppliers to increase the size of the cages for laying hens, Shapiro said.
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Your data is your data
Jan Chipchase wrote a post where he talked about how some of his Internet-connected devices made him feel guilty when he wasn’t using them anymore. The purpose of this post was triggered by an email from Twine telling him that he wasn’t using his Twine enough.
This type of email is one demonstration of the new source of data generated by the Internet of Things. Most companies are becoming interested in the amount of usage of your device. They want to know where you use your things, when, why, what you are doing when you are using this thing, how many times, and what things you use together.
Canon EOS 500D (Flickr by sindykids)
Canon EOS 500D (Flickr by sindykids)
These companies want to gain an understanding on how we use our devices and therefore will try to market us better from that understanding. For example, imagine that you have a Cannon EOS 500D, a basic camera, but imagine that Cannon could know that you have a normal zoom lent and you have been taking several photos with zoom. With the Internet of Things, this is possible and advertisement will be more focused on what you do and how you do it. Thus, privacy will be more and more complicated with Internet-connected objects around.
At thethings.IO we believe that data made from users is user’s data. Therefore, users have the right to own their own data and give access to this data to third parties which will receive ads and coupons.
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Boris Ausserer (Producer), Johann von Bülow, Burghart Klaußner, Christian Friedel (Actors), Oliver Hirschbiegel (Director), Katharina Schüttler (Actress), Fred Breinersdorfer (Screenwriter)
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Only 13 minutes were lacking for carpenter Georg Elser to have changed the course of world history. On 8 November 1939 he placed a bomb behind Adolf Hitler's lectern in a Munich beer cellar. But the 'Führer' left the building earlier than planned and hence survived the assassination which could have possibly led to an earlier end of World War II. Oliver Hirschbiegel, who already traced the final days of the criminal Nazi dictatorship in Downfall, illuminates the background to this courageous act and creates a memorial for 'little George' from the Swabian Alps. The film reconstructs the social and political context post-1933 when the National Socialist mindset also took hold in Elser's home village and poisoned communal life. It also brings to light the relationship between Elser and Arthur Nebe, chief detective in the Reich Security Head Office, who was ordered by the Gestapo to unmask the suspects behind the plot. The memory of his great love Elsa, to whom he could divulge nothing of his plans, enables Elser to find the strength to preserve moral courage and humanity even in the face of death itself.
Germany 2015, 110 min
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Christian Friedel
Katharina Schüttler
Burghart Klaußner
Johann von Bülow
Felix Eitner
David Zimmerschied
Rüdiger Klink
Simon Licht
Cornelia Köndgen
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Low-cost HD recording for the home gets closer
December 7, 2005
This week LSI Logic unveiled two new chips aimed at giving DVD and personal video recorder manufacturers an inexpensive way to offer ATSC SD and HD recording and playback.
With an FCC mandate of March 1, 2007, looming that requires the addition of an HDTV/ATSC tuner capability, consisting of a digital tuner, an 8-VSB demodulator, and an ATSC-compliant HD decoder processor, to peripheral systems, LSI Logic believes the time is right for its new DMN-8633 and DMN-8683.
Based on the company’s DoMiNo architecture, both are single-chip solutions for ATSC-compliant HDTV DVD recording systems. While they are aimed at consumer products, the new chips could fuel broad acceptance of HD home recording devices based upon their relative low cost and high performance. As a result, they may be a critical factor in the equation that motivates a consumer to upgrade to high definition television.
High Definition Technology Update spoke with LSI Logic senior product marketing manager Ed Silva about the new chips and the role they might play in the future of HDTV.
HD Technology Update: How do the new DMN-8633 and DMN-8683 chips fit into the mix for HD recorder manufacturers seeking to meet the FCC mandate for ATSC compliance by March 1, 2007?
Ed Silva: The key way they are able to address the FCC mandate is that they both decode and record SD and HD broadcasting. Additionally, they are designed to accommodate DTV closed captions and ATSC PSIP data. In a single processor, they provide SD recording to DVDs and are able to receive native ATSC HD broadcast to watch and/or record to a hard drive.
HDTU: Encoding and decoding on a single chip offers reduced costs for makers of hard disk-based HD personal video recorders and DVD recorder/players. What other benefits are there?
ES: The key benefit, obviously, is system cost. No separate decoder and system memory is required. Also, there’s reduced system software complexity. If you have a bolt-on solution for a standard DVD recorder - one that adds a separate ATSC chip to decode and downscale HD broadcast for display and recording by the DVD chip - the complexity goes up and video quality is reduced. DoMiNo unifies those and brings them onto a single chip reducing time to market and complexity.
The other benefit is the value-add features. Our integrated processor records native HD onto a hard drive, creating HDTV PVR capabilities. We’ve received very positive feedback from manufacturers about that feature. Other features, such as our DVFX proprietary video processing for higher quality video and YesDVD for personal content editing are helping to increase the value of DVD recorders.
HDTU: How did the development of these chips benefit from LSI’s history in the development of the MPEG engines found in millions of DVD systems worldwide?
ES: This product line relies on the DoMiNo processor architecture. A multiple CPU architecture with software programmability allows LSI to keep pace with the rapid evolution of the consumer market. These factors allow our customers to get to the market in a timely fashion with the best feature-cost balance.
It’s a very tight line you walk in the DVD recorder space. You have to keep your eye on the cost while addressing the constant feature enhancements. That is a key benefit with the DMN-8633 and DMN-8683.
For example, look at a consumer item – the finished single-drive DVD recorder priced below $179 today. With the mandate to record ATSC SD and HD, you are talking about adding $20 to $30 to the bill of materials. With DoMiNo, you can eliminate $10 to $15 of that cost. That is significant for manufacturers grappling with how they will cost-effectively make the March 1, 2007, deadline.
In addition to addressing cost, features and the new resolutions, such as HD, the other big benefit of DoMiNo is support for multi-format encoding, such as MPEG-4 and DivX, or the ability to encode into a lower bit rate format. This is key to enabling a consumer to record the high resolution broadcast content onto portable devices for playback. In those portable formats where screens are small, resolution is not as much of a factor; however, the size of the recording and the amount of space it takes up is critical.
If a consumer chooses to watch in a more mobile application, they can take that content and transcode it to a lower bit rate format, such as MPEG-4, and copy it to a Flash memory card and take that out and go. The DoMiNo architecture is unique in that we can do simultaneous dual encoding. At the same time, we can record in both high and low bit rate formats for home theater and portable options.
We are seeing the Flash memory interface card becoming a mainline feature in DVD recorders next year.
HDTU: What are the other benefits the DMN-8633 and DMN-8683?
ES: Another key feature of the DoMiNo architecture is its ability to upscale SD. That allows a DVD recorder system to be able to offer HD out all of the time using DoMiNo. It can display native HD, but also with broadcasts that are happening in SD, we can upscale that to improve the resolution and display of that content.
The standard definition upscale is critical for consumers who are looking to get the most out of their HDTV displays. Imagine a single drive DVD recorder with HD coming in. In this application, the HD is decoded and recorded to a DVD disk in SD resolution because that’s what the DVD format supports. When the consumer wants to watch it at a later time, the recorder obtains the content from the optical drive, decodes it and upscales it for a better viewing experience.
The feedback we are getting from our customers is that they see this as an important capability.
HDTU: Consumers are adopting HD displays, yet components they are accustomed to in their NTSC environment – specifically the ability to record and playback programs in HD - are rare. Given the ability of these new chips to propel products into the market that can do just that, do you think they will speed HD adoption by consumers?
ES: The adoption of HDTV is happening no matter what, because consumers are going into retail stores, looking at displays, evaluating prices and making the decision to go with HDTVs. Obviously, the FCC mandate is also having an impact. What we are looking at here is now that you have made an investment in HD, how do you maximize your enjoyment of it?
The ability to record HD over-the-air signal and enjoy a complete DVR experience will speed the adoption of HD in the market in the United States. Many consumers today are buying HDTVs, but not signing up for premium HD packages from satellite and cable operators because subscription prices can be higher and boxes more expensive. We believe that our solutions will begin to allow consumers to enjoy over-the-air HD to the fullest. We are bringing about an affordable way to fully enjoy HD and that will ultimately create more of a pull in the consumer space for HD.
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I'm building a page where a user can change their password. They must fill two fields and both must match before it will be changed and then they will be redirected to their profile page on success.
So far I have built the following method:
public function changePassword()
'conditions' => array(
'' => $this->Auth->user('id'))
if ($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put'))
$this->User->saveField('password', AuthComponent::password($this->request->data['User']['password2']));
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Your password has been changed!'));
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Whoops! Something went wrong... try again?'));
and this is the form:
<?php echo $this->Form->create(); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('id',array('type'=>'hidden')); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('password1',array('type'=>'text','label'=>array('text'=>'Enter your new password'))); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('password2',array('type'=>'text','label'=>array('text'=>'Confirm your new password'))); ?>
So as you can see the plan is to take what it says in password2 and save it in the database password field using the security hashing. But what happens is it creates a new user instead but with blank data... What am I doing wrong here? And how do I compare the two password fields...
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you can let a behavior take care of that: - or at least take some of the functionality provided to find a suitable solution for your own approach. – mark Apr 29 '12 at 16:37
Why is my code creating a new user though? – Cameron Apr 29 '12 at 16:41
For comparing to passwords fields.… – kevin Aug 3 '13 at 6:34
most probable issue is that you somehow lose the id from the form back to the controller action. without the id present in the data array cake assumes that it has to create an entry.
so debug your posted data and ensure that it is not missing or better assign the id manually prior to saving.
$this->request->data['User']['id'] = $this->Session->read('');
PS: from the look at your method your hidden "id" field stays always empty as the $user data is not passed down from the controller!
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also use fieldList for whitelisting or better the security component to avoid any tempering with the form which would result in a security risk. – mark Apr 29 '12 at 21:49
public function recover() {
$this->User->query("UPDATE users SET password = '".$passwords."' WHERE password_change = '".$this->request->data['User']['id']."' ");
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Password Saved Sucessfully'), 'success');
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'login'));
$this->set('resettoken', $_REQUEST['id']);
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$this->request->data['User']['password2'] = AuthComponent::password($this->request->data['User']['password2']);
As your form submit with auth user id so, if you execute save() with request data, cake will simply update your record, instead of create due to id field(if any record exists against this idin the table). Above code just update the password2 with the Hash password within the request data.
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Shouldn't you specify the action edit in your form?
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Much has been made about the explosion of cable television viewing options, and how to help consumers manage them (“Consumers need more control of cable choices,” Daily Democrat, March 21). That growth continues and the move of Monday Night Football to ESPN next fall is one more important milestone in the maturation of an industry that, with more than 400 networks, caters to virtually every viewing desire of an increasingly diverse American public. But if federally mandated pay-per-channel, or a la carte pricing, were imposed, this explosion of viewing options would quickly become a thing of the past.
Our network began at a time when cable TV was available to less than 10 percent of the country. With limited resources, ESPN was home to lesser known sports like Australian Rules Football, table tennis and a daily news show called SportsCenter.
But by being placed on cable”s “basic” or “expanded basic tier,” ESPN and its flagship program, SportsCenter, were exposed to millions of viewers and quickly became one of cable”s most popular destinations.
Our ability to negotiate for distribution to virtually all cable subscribers as part of basic or expanded basic service was central to our success: it enabled us to reach millions of viewers that had never heard of us, and to generate the revenue necessary to expand our programming and keep the network afloat at that early stage.
ESPN”s history would have been less successful, or nonexistent, had we not been given the opportunity to be seen. A la carte would have eliminated that chance as few viewers will subscribe to programming they”ve never seen or sampled. In an a la carte world, the “next ESPN” could wither on the vine.
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Donnie Murphy ended what looked like the Rockies first late inning win after the All-Star break. He launched a two-run walk off home run to right-center field to give the Marlins a 9-8 victory.
After booting a routine ground ball double play that resulted in a three run inning, Jonathan Herrera redeemed himself in the top of the eighth inning, stroking his first career home run to the seats in right field to give the Rockies a one-run cushion.
Rafael Betancourt was flawless in the bottom half of the eighth inning, but after getting two quick outs in the ninth, Huston Street chose to pitch carefully to Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla. Uggla leads the Marlins in home runs and Street did not want him tying the game up, especially with a career minor leaguer on deck behind him.
With Uggla on first after a semi-intentional pass, Murphy, in just his fifth plate appearance in the big leagues since 2008, took Street deep to end the game.
The loss is a tough one to take. Especially considering ace Ubaldo Jimenez was on the mound to start the game and looked to be sharp. Without the error on Herrera, Jimenez cruises out of the first three innings with fewer than 30 pitches. Instead, the Marlins walk to the dugout with a three-spot and a one-run lead.
With the game nearly cinched up, Street made a huge mistake. Instead of pounding the strike zone and getting Uggla, a big swing and miss bat, to wave at a few sliders, Street clearly wanted to pass on the challenge and take his shot at the youngster.
The move makes some sense. Uggla is an All-Star who can drive the ball and Street did not want him to tie the game up when he had a young kid who had just been in Triple-A waiting on deck to make the third out. However, putting the tying run on base is usually not a good idea.
For the Rockies, they seem to have success when they play with a swagger. They must play like they could care less who is on the mound for the opposing team, who is in the on deck circle and when they quit worrying about what could go wrong. They start to lose when they try to get the matchups that they want and try to force the game.
While Uggla is a good hitter, he does not deserve Barry Bonds treatment. He does not deserve to be treated like if Street were to put anything anywhere near the zone the game would be tied up, regardless of who is in the on-deck circle.
Hindsight is 20/20, maybe Uggla smacks a game-tying home run. However, the odds would point to the fact that he is much more likely to hit a ground ball to an infielder, or strike out than he is to hit a home run. Especially when Huston Street has his good stuff.
The game itself was not one that the Rockies were supposed to win. They played ugly, something that is starting to overshadow the bright spots. Two errors put them in a very bad spot, and poor clutch hitting kept them from winning the game.
Despite scoring eight runs, Colorado looks like someone forgot to tell them that the All-Star break was only three days long. They look like the shell of the team that won eight of their final 10 games before the break. They are not playing with the same type of swagger.
If they want to keep up with the Padres, who do not seem to be fading away, they need to stop giving games away. If they don’t, they will finish somewhere in the middle of the pack in the crowded National League West race and watch the playoffs at home, wondering what went wrong.
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properties. These oils are the concentrated essences taken from the
flowers, fruit, seeds, leaves and bark of certain plants. There are about
400 essential oils, but only about 40 are commonly used in aromatherapy.
Aromatherapists believe aromatherapy can boost well being, relieve stress
and help to refresh your body.. Aromatherapy massage uses essential oils
derived from plants to achieve therapeutic benefits. In aromatherapy
muscles might include peppermint and eucalyptus. Before your first
aromatherapy massage session, your massage therapist will conduct an
initial consultation with you to learn about your desired outcome. They
might ask about the current state of your work life, home life, physical
health and mental state to learn about what you need.
How does aromatherapy work?
There are a couple of theories to explain how aromatherapy might work. The
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on a specific organ or function in your body.
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Assad warns neighbours against 'sowing chaos' in Syria
Last updated 08:09 17/05/2012
UN monitors find safe return after spending the night in a Syrian town under siege.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves, an apparent warning to Arab Gulf nations that back the insurgency aimed at forcing him from power.
Assad's remarks, to a Russian TV channel, came after UN staff monitoring an increasingly shaky ceasefire were caught up in an attack that killed at least 21 people, and had to spend a night with rebel forces.
The stranding of the observers and new claims of a massacre by Assad's security forces underscored the relentlessness of the violence that continues to rage 14 months into mass protests and an insurrection against the Syrian strongman.
"For the leaders of these countries, it's becoming clear that this is not 'Spring' but chaos, and as I have said, if you sow chaos in Syria you may be infected by it yourself, and they understand this perfectly well," he told Russia's Rossiya-24 TV channel.
Those accusations have grown louder following a series of bomb attacks on security and military installations in Damascus and other cites that Syria calls proof of a "terrorist" conspiracy.
However, the opposition says the state itself organised the attacks in a cynical attempt to discredit the uprising against Assad.
Rebel fighters are largely drawn from Syria's Sunni Muslim majority, and the uprising has taken on a sectarian tone that emphasises Assad's status as a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.
Shi'ism is the dominant sect of his ally Iran whose influence the Sunni-led Gulf Arab states seek to check.
In the same interview, Assad said Western sanctions were affecting his country - which has had to scramble to import grains and other staples - but that Syria still had a "wonderful relationship" with non-Western countries.
Russia is one of its few allies.
Six ceasefire monitors caught in the crossfire of Syria's conflict were handed back to their U.N. colleagues by rebels in the northern province of Idlib, after walking into an attack on a funeral that killed at least 21 people.
A pro-government TV station said unidentified gunmen opened fire at the funeral. But the rebel commander said a pro-Assad militia was responsible. His forces had the names of at least 27 people killed, he added. Other opposition groups have said at least 66 people were killed.
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The head of the UN monitoring mission, Major-General Robert Mood, confirmed the monitors were heading back to base.
He thanked the Syrian government for "facilitating coordination" for the exit of the observers, and to the people of Khan Sheikhoun, about 220km north of Damascus, for treating them "with respect."
The handover came as a Britain-based opposition group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least 15 people had been killed since Tuesday when security forces stormed the Shammas district of Homs, parts of which Assad's forces reduced to rubble with artillery fire earlier this year.
The group said security forces carried out summary executions in the city. Footage distributed on YouTube showed bodies - some with what looked like gunshot wounds - purported to be those killed during raids in the city.
There was no independent confirmation of the claims from within Syria, which has restricted media access during the 14-month-old uprising.
The Free Syrian Army has a nominal leader based in Turkey and tenuous ties with the divided political opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), which on Tuesday re-elected Burhan Ghalioun, a secular long-time resident in France, as its leader for another three months.
People involved in the vote, which took place in Rome, said Ghalioun was viewed as acceptable to Syria's array of sects and ethnic groups, and to major factions within the umbrella SNC which seeks recognition as the sole legitimate opposition group to Assad.
Shortly afterwards, Fawaz Tello, a prominent dissident, resigned from the SNC, the latest of several senior figures to quit the body in recent months. The SNC said he was not a member in the first place, underscoring tensions within the organisation.
As the SNC debated its leadership, Damascus announced the results of parliamentary elections it points to as proof of Assad's determination to resolve the uprising peacefully.
- AP
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Ten points on Ice Cream in English for children and kids
1. Ice cream is frozen sweet food.
2. My favourite Ice creams are Vanilla and chocolate.
3. It comes in various colours.
4. It is my favourite dessert in the summer.
5. Every Sunday we go to ice cream parlour with my father.
6. My father likes mango ice cream and my mother likes pineapple.
7. My mother makes orange ice bars at home.
8. Persian invented the ice cream in 500 BC which only belonged to the royal family.
9. Now ice cream has become a common man dish.
10. In my town, there are five big ice cream parlours.
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What can be better than walking by the beach? What can be more relaxing than walking the warm sand barefooted? Walking by the beach is the place where people have a good time to enjoyed the ocean view, a nice climate, and a great environment. You can see the calm water surface, the soft blue sky and the distant silhouettes of the ships – firmly anchored or slowly sailing. You can almost taste the saltiness water of the ocean and the breeze on my face, burnt by the red sun. You can even hear the sound of crashing waves on the shore. You can feel the warm sand as you walk in the beach. All of these generate relaxation, calmness and peacefulness.
First of all, when you close your eyes and almost taste the salty water, you think of how relaxed you feel when you breathe the fresh air of the ocean. Nothing can be better than walking by the beach – either morning, noon or evening. Any time of the day, the ocean emits that salty aroma that you feel with every millimeter of your uncovered skin. You might even consider closing your eyes, and if you follow your instincts and eventually do it, you will almost taste the salty water with your tongue and teeth. The overwhelming freshness and coolness make you feel easy and relaxed. The heavenly serenity makes you want to fly starting off from the ground and to the blue cloudless sky.
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Second, relaxing sounds of waves crashing on the beach…. When you walking in the beach is ideal for blocking out environmental noises and distractions. Use the sound of the beach and waves crashing, to wash your constantly problem away. As you walk, you hear the relaxing sounds of waves crashing on the flat polished rocks, gracefully shaped this way by the unlimited powers of water. The roaring sounds of waves mix with seagull screeching, and joined together, they resonance with the distant calls of ships, merging into the cacophony of natural vibrations. But this cacophony is neither noisy nor distracting. It is a pleasant melody to your ears and your mind, which grasps you out of the urban uproar and softly and gently carries you flying over the carnal land and away from the troubles.
Third, walking on the beach is a great way to give yourself some relief to your feet. The feeling of warm sand rubbing the bottom of your feet with every step you take is calming for your mind. Also, walking on the beach helps your stress fade away. So walking by the beach does not only calm down your spirit and mind; it also relaxes your muscles as no one else can. Hardly any professional massage or exotic rubbing can beat walking by the beach. With every slow step you take you give some relief to your exhausted legs and feet. The feeling of a natural cushion made of warm sand, which pleasantly moves behind the bottom of your bare feet, acts as a top class healer and a sturdy relaxant. Your stress, your nervousness, your tension and your unease – they all fade away as you sluggishly kite along the ocean side. As you keep on walking past and beyond, you unconsciously realize how your physical body fills with childish energy and surreal resistance to any imaginable disease.
In conclusion, it can help to reduce your stress and calm your mind. Everyone should spend some time at the beach in their lifetime because it can provide relief to your soul. There is no better exercise than walking by the beach. As have been noted by anyone who visited the ocean side at least once in their life, it is the best practice to relax and restore your emotional well-being. These are calmness and peacefulness of the Mother Nature that harmonize with the inner ego of any human being. Walking by the beach is a pain killer. It relieves the strain and the suffering. It is a healer. It inspires and instigates. Every person should spend some time at the beach at least once in their lifetime. Those who have seen the ocean once will be magnetized by it for the rest of their life in the attempt to come back and walk its sand barefooted once again.
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Glass Animals release new version of 'Pork Soda'.
Glass Animals have unveiled a new version of 'Pork Soda', which premiered during an interview with BBC Radio 1’s MistaJam earlier this week.
About the new version of the song, the band says: "Pork Soda is the Hottest Record in the world tonight on BBC Radio 1!!! tune in for an interview and to hear the song with a new verse with no f-bombs! there were so many that in the end it was easier to rewrite and rerecord. otherwise the song would have been mainly bleeps. tune in at 7.30 pm UK time. big up MistaJam!"
And about the song itself: "PORK SODA. I heard a homeless man talking to someone once and say ‘pineapples are in my head.’ in retrospect i’m pretty sure it wasnt actually those words, but i thought it was at the time and it kind of got stuck in my head. we recorded the intro out on the street in the middle of a city so you can hear people shouting at us, busses going by, cars honking…everything. the drum sounds are made from old bins and trash pieces of metal found around the studio. kind of like those street drummers use. all that is meant to set the scene for the story! oh also, the ‘pineapples are in my head’ bit at the beginning….thats just us doing lots of different voices and stacking em up.…..i’d tell joe to put on a voice like bugs bunny, drew to put on a voice like a victorian lady, ed like a huge deep gospel singer, and i’d do a man who smokes 3 packs a day. we’d record that, then choose new voices and layer em up a few times. you get that kind of cracked out choir effect."
Listen to the new version of 'Pork Soda' below, as well as an interview with the band’s Dave Bayley...
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Stony River by Tricia Dower: column
Three teenage girls in the 1950s try to dodge the violence and fears that visit them daily
Stony River, Penguin, 350 pages, $24
Stony River, Penguin, 350 pages, $24
The three adolescent protagonists of Tricia Dower’s Stony River seem to have nothing in common. Linda Wise is an obedient chubby 11-year-old. Tereza Dobra is a street-smart adolescent who is daily beaten by her step-father. Miranda Haggerty, 15, whose mother has died, is kept shuttered in her house by an insane father.
What brings the three girls together is a brief, if unusual, event. Linda and Tereza are playing together when they notice a girl their age being taken from the Haggerty home by the police. They’ve never seen her before, only her father, James.
James, known to neighbors as Crazy Haggerty, has had a sudden heart attack and that is why the police have picked up Miranda. No one knows Haggerty even had children because he boarded his home with plywood and he was the only one who went outdoors. What suddenly becomes known, after the police arrive, is that James sexually molested Miranda, resulting in the birth of a feeble baby boy.
Set in 1955 in the small town of Stony River, N.J., Dower shows us that the era of good life we take for granted in the Eisenhower period is really a lie. Through the three girls, Dower explains the years after World War II were, in fact, stultifying and secret-laden. Conformity was crucial and children were to be seen but not heard. Think Mad Men but even madder.
Linda, Tereza and Miranda are beleaguered by the moral clap-trap that lies over their neighborhood like a stratocumulus cloud. Linda’s mother is absentee, spending most of the time in bed, enervated by an unknown illness. Tereza flees from her dysfunctional family, but stays hidden in the neighborhood, discovering belatedly her family has pulled up stakes and left town without her.
Dower even takes on the limitations of organized religion.
Miranda’s father, James, practices an Irish Celtic religion, using herbs and flowers to create medicine and calling on goddesses such as Dan?. Although Miranda believes in Druidic religion she finds the rules at the convent inviting because they give structure to the day. But for a young woman brought up as a polytheist, the theology of Christianity eventually eludes her. “Miranda asked Mother Alfreda one afternoon how Mary raised Jesus to be a savior. Mother said she supposed Mary simply loved him and let God do the rest.”
We think of the mid-1950s as a period of prosperity in North America, of opportunity but most of all compliance, when social conventions trumped eccentricities or behavioral differences. Everything unusual or deviant was swept under the rug.
Dower, who now lives in British Columbia, grew up in a New Jersey town much like Stony River, and understands the pathologies of these post-war communities. She paints a vivid picture of life there and realistically evokes the pastimes of young teenage girls pressured into the schema of suburban life.
Stony Rivermakes us consider how life was for our parents post-war: the social pressures on men, religious tensions, the role of mothers constrained in their roles as wives. It’s easy to understand why Linda’s mother never leaves her bed. In those days there was little worthwhile to get up for.
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Noah Hanifin Picks Up Assist In USA Win Over Hungary
The US continues its push at the IIHF World Championships
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The United States hockey team defeated Hungary 5-1 on Friday morning to improve to 3-2 at the IIHF World Championships. Noah Hanifin picked up an assist on the US's opening goal, finding Nick Foligno with a long range pass to send him in on net:
Hanifin continues to impress with the national team; he's one of four former Eagles competing for the US at the World Championships in Russia.
With a 3-2-0 record through 5 of 7 round robin games, the US is in pretty solid position to advance out of Group B and make the medal rounds. 4 of 8 teams from the group make it through. France, Germany, Belarus and Hungary currently sit in positions 5 through 8, and it would require a pretty bad collapse by the Americans in their final two games to fall behind any of them. In particular, a win over Germany - which is certainly doable - should put them through.
The US plays Germany on Sunday, then rounds out the group stage against Slovakia on Tuesday.
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What's the Deal with Google Meta Description Length?
by Ascedia - June 14, 2018 - 5 minute read
At the end of last year, we noticed that Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) were generating longer snippets.
We weren't alone. In December 2017Google officially confirmed this change. This adjustment was to give users more useful and descriptive information. Google lengthened their descriptions to about 300-320 characters from the traditional 150-170 characters.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) professionals, like us, took immediate action. Longer descriptions meant more opportunity for optimization.
Both Yoast and Moz researched this change. They found that, as of mid-May 2018, Google had reverted the meta description length change. Most meta descriptions are now ranging from 155-160. Google confirmed this in a tweet on May 14th, 2018:
Our search snippets are now shorter on average than in recent weeks, though slightly longer than before a change we made last December. There is no fixed length for snippets. Length varies based on what our systems deem to be most useful.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) May 14, 2018
So now that we know search snippets are changing again, it's time to revisit the meta description.
So, Meta Description Lengths Are Changing Again?
As we discussed, Google confirmed search snippets are returning to their short-form version. Changes are already clear. For those of us who have been writing 300-character descriptions, this is problematic.
Google has yet to give an official length to a meta tag description. Snippets are shorter, average around 140-165 characters. The results seem to be shorter on mobile than on desktop. But with mobile-first indexing, where does that leave these descriptions?
Understanding the Google Description Meta Tag Length Is Crucial to SEM
Character length isn't the only thing that has changed. It seems Google is pulling snippets from the meta descriptions that marketers write.
The SEM Post noticed how Google maintains the first line when showing results, but it truncated the second line with ellipses about halfway through the snippet. This length creates a snippet that's 500px wide, rather than 600px.
Truncation appears to happen around the 160 mark, but some descriptions are longer. RankRanger's SERP research indicates that the range is about 132-163 characters.
The New Meta Description Length as of May 2018 Is Good News!
While meta description lengths are short again, does this mean we should write them the same? Or was there something to gain from the brief period of meta description expansion?
While Google is getting better at auto-generating snippets, we still need to write our descriptions. Writing meta descriptions requires a bit of technical prowess mixed with user experience. We can start by returning to the basics.
Finally Understanding the Questions "What Is a Meta Description?"
If you need a refresher, meta descriptions are brief blurbs of text that describe any web page. It appears on the SERP when displayed as a result. See below:
what a meta description looks like in search engine results pages
The meta description is a tag in the header of the HTML code. Many website content management systems allow users to manipulate this data.
On the Search Engine Results Page, the meta description displays with the title tag and URL slug. Many believe using the same keyword in the title tag, URL, and description are beneficial.
The meta description is also pulled through when sharing a web page or article. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter use the meta description to carry through information when distributed across the feed. Because of these factors, we must write meta descriptions both for search engines and for user experience.
How to Write the Perfect Meta Description Example
Write meta descriptions to be length-adaptive. To do so, consider these ideas:
1. Inductive Reasoning: Write with the inverted pyramid style of writing. The meta description should be two sentences. The first sentence should be specific. The second sentence should be a general conclusion and should include a call-to-action.
2. The 160/140 Rule: The first sentence should be strong and concise because this begins the snippet. The second sentence, depending on the crawler, may not get picked up at all. Write your strongest sentence first and use the second sentence for supporting keywords and action items. Calls to action, questions, and foreshadowing make great "hooks" to make up this second sentence. Depending on SERP volatility and search terms, the full meta description can show up! More than likely, though, the first sentence will be the probable snippet.
3. Long Meta Descriptions as Featured Snippets: Moz reports that meta descriptions can determine featured snippets. After submitting a large sample of 300+ character meta descriptions to Google, when searched, 41.8% resulted in a featured snippet. While short meta descriptions may be in style, long meta descriptions may still play a hidden role in the SERP.
4. Use Active Language: The common rules of communication still apply to online environments. Active language, strong verbiage, and transitional signals all help the user read your message. Both search engines and users look for these elements to dissect the information on the page.
Meta Description Example
If you follow these tips, you can construct powerful meta descriptions that will survive the volatility of Google’s search engine. These meta descriptions will adapt to the ever-changing world of search engine marketing. Regardless of length, preparing for both short form and long form descriptions will ensure optimal content. Let’s look at this article’s description as an example:
what's the deal with google meta description length changes
The first sentence is very specific and quite long compared to the latter. It includes the same keyword featured in the title tag and the URL slug, which is “Google meta description length.” The second sentence is much more concise. It broadens the ideas presented in the first part of the statement. It also includes a call to action.
As you can see, the search engine did not cut off this snippet, showing that longer meta descriptions can still make it to the SERP. However, this meta description is also formatted for short form. If you were to remove the second sentence, the first statement would be complete.
Don't worry about meta description rollback. Moving forward, plan for preparing your descriptions. Revisit you or your agency's approach to writing metadata and be sure to include dynamic plans to adapt. After all, Google, Bing, and the rest of the internet are hyper-responsive. Your strategy needs to be, as well.
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Chess Programming Part V: Advanced Search
By François Dominic Laramée | Published Sep 05 2000 06:09 PM in Artificial Intelligence
search move position depth ply program queen capture value
Hey, it looks like there are dozens (and dozens) of you reading this series! I'm tickled pink!
In this next-to-last article, we will examine advanced search-related techniques which can speed up and/or strengthen your chess-playing program. In most cases, the concepts (if not the actual code) also apply to a variety of other 2-player games; adapting them to your particular problem, however, shall remain an exercise for the proverbial reader.
Why Bother?
So far, all of the search algorithms we have looked at examine a position's consequences to a fixed "depth". However, this is rarely a good thing. For example, suppose that your program uses an iterative-deepening alpha-beta algorithm with maximum depth 5-ply. Now look at these cases:
• Along a certain line of play, you discover a position where one of the players is checkmated or stalemated at depth 3. Obviously, you don't want to keep searching, because the final state of the game has been resolved. Not only would searching to depth 5 be a colossal waste of effort, it may also allow the machine to finagle its way into an illegal solution!
• Now, suppose that, at depth 5, you capture a pawn. The program would be likely to score this position in a favorable light, and your program might decide that the continuation leading to it is a useful one. However, if you had looked one ply further, you might have discovered that capturing the pawn left your queen undefended. Oops.
• Finally, suppose that your queen is trapped. No matter what you do, she will be captured by the opponent at ply 4, except for one specific case where her death will happen at ply 6. If you search to depth 5, the continuations where the queen is captured at ply 4 will be examined accurately, and scored as likely disasters. However, the unique line of play where the queen is only captured at ply 6 (outside of the search tree) doesn't reveal the capture to the machine, which thinks that the queen is safe and gives it a much better score! Now, if all you have to do to push the queen capture outside of the search tree is delay the opponent with a diversion, doing so may be worth the risk: although it could damage your position, it might also cause the opponent to make a mistake and allow the queen to escape. But what if you can only delay the queen capture by sacrificing a rook? To the machine, losing a rook at ply 4 is less damaging than losing a queen, so it will merrily throw its good piece away and "hide" the too-horrible-to-mention queen capture beyond its search horizon. (During its next turn, of course, the machine will discover that the queen must now be captured at ply 4 in all cases, and that it has wasted a rook for no gain.) Hans Berliner described this "horizon effect" a long time ago, and it is the most effective justification for the "quiescence search" described in the next section.
The bottom line is this: a great many positions in chess (and in other games as well) are just too chaotic to be evaluated properly. An evaluation function can only be applied effectively to "quiet" positions where not much of importance is likely to happen in the immediate future. How to identify these is our next topic.
Quiet, Please!
There are two ways to assess a position's value: dynamic evaluation (i.e., look at what it may lead to) and static evaluation (i.e., see what it looks like on its own, irrespective of consequences). Dynamic evaluation is performed through search; as we have just mentioned, static evaluation is only feasible when the position is not likely to undergo an overwhelming change of balance in the near future. Such relatively stable positions are called "quiet" or "quiescent", and they are identified via "quiescence search".
The basic concept of Quiescence Search is the following: once the program has searched everything to a fixed depth (say, 6-ply), we continue each line of play selectively, by searching "non-quiescent" moves only, until we find a quiescent position, and only then apply the evaluator.
Finding a quiet position requires some knowledge about the game. For example, which moves are likely to cause a drastic change in the balance of power on the board? For chess, material balance tends to be the overwhelming consideration in the evaluator, so anything that changes material is fair game: captures (especially those of major pieces) and pawn promotions certainly qualify, while checks may also be worth a look (just in case they might lead to checkmate). In checkers, captures and promotions also seem like reasonable choices. In Othello, every single move is a capture, and "material balance" can change so much in so little time that it might be argued that there are no quiet positions at all!
My own program uses a simple quiescence search which extends all lines of play (after a full-width search to depth X) by looking exclusively at captures. Since there are usually not that many legal captures in a given position, the branching factor in the quiescence search tends to be small (4-6 on average, and quickly converging to 0 as pieces are eaten on both sides). Nevertheless, the quiescence search algorithm is called on a LOT of positions, and so it tends to swallow 50% or more of the entire processing time. Make sure that you need such a scheme in your own game before committing to it.
Only when no capture is possible does my program apply its evaluator. The result is a selectively-extended search tree which is anything but fixed-depth, and which defeats most of the nasty consequences of the "horizon effect".
The All-Important Null-Move
One of the most effective ways to speed up a chess program is to introduce the concept of a null move into the equation.
The null move consists, quite simply, of skipping a turn and letting the opponent play two moves in a row. In the overwhelming majority of positions, doing nothing is a bone-head idea: you should (almost) always be able to do *something* to improve your lot. (To be honest, there are a few "damned if I do, damned if I don't" positions where the null move would actually be your best bet, and the computer will not play them correctly, but such "zugzwang" positions are hopeless anyway, so the loss of performance is not very traumatic.)
Allowing the computer to try a null move during search has several advantages related to speed and accuracy. For example:
• Suppose that a position is so overwhelmingly in your favor that, even if you skipped your turn, the opponent couldn't respond with anything that would help. (In program terms, you would get a beta cutoff even without making a move.) Suppose further that this position is scheduled to be searched to depth N. The null move, in effect, takes out an entire ply of the search tree (you are searching only the null move instead of all your legal ones) and if your branching factor is B, searching the null move is equivalent to looking at a single depth N-1 subtree instead of B of them. With B=35 as in the typical chess middlegame, null-move search may only consume 3% of the resources required by a full depth-N examination. If the null move search reveals that you are still too strong even without playing (i.e., it creates a cutoff), you have saved 97% of your effort; if not, you must examine your own legal moves as usual, and have only wasted an extra 3%. On average, the gain is enormous.
• Now, suppose that, during quiescence search, you reach a position where your only legal capture is rook-takes-pawn, which is immediately followed by the opponent's knight-takes-rook. You'd be a lot better off not making the capture, and playing any other non-capture move, right? You can simulate this situation by inserting the null move into the quiescence search: if, in a given position during quiescence search, it is revealed that the null move is better than any capture, you can assume that continuing with captures from this position is a bad idea, and that since the best move is a quiet one, this is a position where the evaluation function itself should be applied!
Overall, the null-move heuristic can save between 20% and 75% of the effort required by a given search. Well worth the effort, especially when you consider that adding it to a program is a simple matter of changing the "side to play" flag and adding less than a dozen lines of code in the quiescence search algorithm!
Aspirated Search and MTD(f)
Plain old alphabeta assumes nothing about a position's ultimate minimax value. It looks at *everything*, no matter how preposterous. However, if you have a pretty good idea of what the value will turn out to be (for example, because you are running an iterative-deepening scheme and have received the previous iteration's results), you might be able to identify lines of play that are so out of whack with your expectations that they can't possibly be right, and cut them off pre-emptively.
For example, suppose that you have reason to believe that a position's value will be close to 0, because it is very well balanced. Now, suppose that an internal node's preliminary evaluation is at +20,000. You can cutoff with reasonable confidence.
This is the idea behind "aspiration search", a variant of alphabeta in which, instead of using +INFINITY and -INFINITY as the initial bounds of the search, you set a small window around the expected value instead. If the actual value happens to fall within the window, you win: you'll get it without error, and faster than you would otherwise (because of the many extra cutoffs). If not, the algorithm will fail, but the error will be easy to detect (because the minimax value you'll receive will be equal to one of the bounds); you'll have to waste a bit of time re-searching with a wider window. If the former case happens more often than the latter, you win on average. Obviously, the better your initial guess of the expected value, the more useful this technique is.
In the mid 1990's, researcher Aske Plaat extended aspiration search to its logical conclusion: what if you called an aspirated alphabeta with a search window of width equal to zero? It would fail all the time, of course... But it would do so *very quickly*, because it would cutoff every path almost immediately. Now, if the failure indicates that the actual value is lower than your estimate, you can try again, with another zero-width window around a smaller estimate, etc. In a sense, you could then use alphabeta to perform a binary search into the space of all possible minimax values, until you reach the only call which will *not* fail because the zero-width window will be centered on the position's actual value!
This brilliant idea, presented in a paper available on the web at http://theory.lcs.mi...plaat/mtdf.html, has been embodied in the MTD(f) search algorithm, which is all of 10 lines long. Tacked on top of an alphabeta implementation equipped with a transposition table, MTD(f) is incredibly efficient and highly parallel-friendly. It also works better with "coarse-grain" (and therefore probably simpler and faster) evaluators: it is easy to see that it takes fewer probes to zero in on the actual value in a binary search if the smallest "atom" of value is equal to, say, 0.1 pawns rather than 0.001 pawns.
There are other alphabeta variants in wider use (namely, the infamous NegaScout; I would rather teach General Relativity to orangutangs than get into that mess) but Plaat insists that MTD(f) is the most efficient algorithm in existence today and I'll take his word for it. My own program uses MTD(f); you'll be able to marvel at the algorithm's simplicity very shortly!
Singular Extensions
One last thing before we leave the topic of search: in chess, some moves are obviously better than others, and it may not be necessary to waste too much time searching for alternatives.
For example, suppose that after running your iterative algorithm to depth N-1, you discover that one of your moves is worth +9000 (i.e., a capture of the opponent's queen) and all others are below 0. If saving time is a consideration, like in tournaments, you may want to bypass the whole depth N search and only look at the best move to depth N instead: if this extra ply does not lower its evaluation much, then you assume that the other moves won't be able to catch up, and you stop searching early. (Remember: if there are 35 valid moves at each ply on average, you may have just saved 97% of your total effort!)
Deep Blue's team has pushed this idea one step further and implemented the concept of "singular extensions". If, at some point in the search, a move seems to be a lot better than all of the alternatives, it will be searched an extra ply just to make sure that there are no hidden traps there. (This is a vast oversimplification of the whole process, of course, but that's the basic idea.) Singular extensions are costly: adding an extra ply to a node roughly doubles the number of leaves in the tree, causing a commensurate increase in the number of calls to the evaluator; in other words, Deep Blue's specialized hardware can afford it, my cranky Java code can't. But it's hard to argue with the results, isn't it?
Next Month
In Part VI, we wrap up the series with a discussion of evaluation functions, the code which actually tells your program whether a given board position is good or bad. This is an immense topic, and people can (and do) spend years refining their own evaluators, so we will have to content ourselves with a rather high-level discussion of the types of features which should be examined and their relative importance. If everything goes according to plan, I should also have some Java code for you to sink your teeth into at about that time, so stick around, won't you?
François Dominic Laramée, September 2000
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Middlesbrough 1 Newcastle 4
After the magic of Munich it was back to reality for Steve McClaren.
The Boro boss may have played his part in England's stunning success over Germany but he is still waiting to open his account as a Premiership manager.
Colin Cooper put Middlesbrough in front but an Alan Shearer double and goals from Nikos Dabizas and Laurent Robert gave Newcastle their first victory of the season.
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The turning point came towards the end of the first-half when referee Graham Poll sent-off Boro keeper Mark Schwarzer only to allow Newcastle's Shay Given to stay on the pitch for a similar offence minutes later.
Boro had made the perfect start with Cooper heading home a Paul Ince free-kick in the fourth minute for their first goal of the campaign.
That was the highlight of a fairly tame opening half-hour but the game exploded into life in the 30th minute when Schwarzer brought down Robert.
Poll pointed to the spot before dismissing Schwarzer and Shearer, making his first start for six months made no mistake from the spot, beating replacement keeper Mark Crossley.
Nine minutes later there was outrage among Boro fans when Given gave away a penalty for a foul on Paul Ince but escaped with a yellow card.
Given then saved Jonathan Greening's tame effort and the incident seemed to inspire Newcastle who stepped up a gear after the break.
Shearer did very well for 75 minutes or so on his comeback and scored two clever goals - the second goal of his is a great strike
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Dabizas gave Bobby Robson's men the lead in the 58th minute with a right-foot finish from a Robert cross.
And the three points were wrapped up three minutes later when the impressive Robert fired home from the edge of the area.
Shearer completed the rout in the 76th minute to leave Boro without a point from four games.
And the distraction of McClaren's part-time role as England coach is sure to come under scrutiny from the Riverside faithful in the next few days.
Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Vickers, Fleming, Southgate, Cooper, Johnston, Mustoe, Ince, Greening, Deane, Windass. Subs: Crossley, Gavin, Job, Wilson, Nemeth.
Newcastle: Given, Barton, Dabizas, Hughes, Elliott, Solano, Acuna, Lee, Robert, Shearer, Bellamy. Subs: O'Brien, Bassedas, Harper, Lua-Lua, Ameobi.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Windows Phone 7 App Development: When does the GC run
Many moons ago I made a post on When does the .NET Compact Framework Garbage Collector run. Given that a lot of things have changed since then, it’s time to make another post about the same thing.
For the developers coming to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) from the Windows desktop let me first clarify that the runtime (CLR) that is running on the WP7 is not the same as the one running on the desktop. The WP7 runtime is known as .NET Compact Framework (NETCF) and it works differently than the “desktop CLR”. For 90% of cases this is irrelevant as the WP7 developer targets the XNA or Silverlight programming model and hence what is running underneath is really not important. E.g when you drive you really do not care about the engine. This post is for the other 5% where folks do run into issues (smoke coming out of the car).
Moreover do note that when the GC is run is really an implementation detail that is subject to change.
Now that we have all the disclaimers behind us lets get down to the list.
The Garbage Collector is run in the following situations
1. After some significant allocation:
When an application tries to allocate managed memory the allocator first checks a counter that indicates the number of bytes of managed data allocated since the last GC. If this counter crosses a threshold (which is changeable and set to 1MB currently) then GC is fired (and the counter is obviously reset).
The basic idea is that there has been significant allocation since the last GC and hence do it again.
2. Resource allocation failure
If some internal native allocation fails, like loadlibrary fails or JIT buffer allocation fails due to out-of-memory condition then GC is started to free up some memory and the allocation is re-attempted (only 1 re-attempt)
3. User code can trigger GC
Using the managed API System.GC.Collect(), user code can force a GC
4. Sharing server initiated
One of the new features in the WP7 CLR is the sharing server (see my post for details). In WP7 there is a central server coordinating all the managed processes. If this sharing server is notified of low memory condition, it starts GC in all the managed processes in the system.
The GC is NOT run in the following cases (I am explicitly calling these out because in various conferences and interactions I’ve heard folks thinking it might be)
1. GC is not run on some timer. So if a process is not allocating any memory and there is no low-memory situation then GC will never be fired irrespective of how long the application is running
2. The phone is never woken up by the CLR to run GC. GC is always in response to an active request OR allocation failure OR low memory notification.
3. In the same lines there is no GC thread or background GC on WP7
For folks migrating from NETCF 3.5 the list below gives you the changes
1. WinForm Application going to background used to fire GC. On WP7 this is no longer true
2. Sharing server based changes are obviously new
3. The GC quantum cannot be changed by user
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Inside the Windows Phone Emulator
Learn from the dev lead and PM of Windows Phone 7 Emulator on how it works and delivers the awesome performance.
Some key points
1. The emulator is essentially a x86 based Virtual Machine running full image of Windows Phone 7 OS
2. It emulates various peripherals (e.g. audio, networking), the list hopefully will grow in the future
3. Supports multi-touch if your host PC has a touch screen
4. It uses the GPU on the host PC to accelerate the graphics
5. Shameless plug: One of the reason it’s possible to emulate x86 and still have managed apps running as-is, is because the runtime (.NET Compact Framework) supports both x86 and ARM seamlessly (provides JITer for both architectures and runs the same managed code on both seamlessly)
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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We Believe in Sharing
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1. Repeated JITing of the same code
Together the overhead can be significant.
Read/write from the server.
What is shared
Sharing provides the following advantages
to get around 30% gains
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Comparing Windows Phone with .NET Compact Framework 3.5
Bidar - Fort
Essentially NETCF 3.5 can be broken down to
1. NETCF 3.5 runtime (the Execution Engine)
2. NETCF 3.5 BCL
3. NETCF 3.5 UI programming model (WinForm based)
1. NETCF 3.7 runtime (hugely updated Execution Engine)
3. The UI model has been replaced and offers two options
Silverlight on Nokia S60 platform
Bidar - Fort
Windows Phone 7 Series Programming Model
Bidar - Barid Shahi tombs
Managed only
Two Flavors of applications (XNA and Silverlight)
Common Services available to both
Core Runtime is .NET Compact Framework 3.7
MIX 2010 Announcements
Bidar Trip - Mohamad Gawan Madrasa
4. A new Windows Phone Marketplace is being put into place
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Bidar road trip from Hyderabad
The way to Bidar
In Bidar
We took the following route plan inside Bidar
Bidar Trip - Mohamad Gawan Madrasa
Bidar - Fort
Friday, January 01, 2010
.NETCF: The mini Y2K
Kolkata Trip 2009
I am sure most people haven’t yet forgotten the Y2K problem. This year our team faced a mini Y2K, but don’t worry we anticipated it and all is well.
If you head over to NETCF Wikipedia page you’d notice the NETCF versions look as follows
A sample version number is
This represents .NETCF version 3.5 build on the 283rd day of 2007. I guess by now you can guess the problem. We use a single digit to represent the year. By that nomenclature, the version of the build churned out today would be 3.5.0001.0 which is lower than the one generated the year before and would fail to install.
These numbers are automatically generated by scripts on the server that churns out daily builds. The numbering system was invented a long time ago in early 2000 and no one bothered to fix it. We anticipated that it’s going to fail as we move into the new decade and have updated it to now have 2 digits for the year (and yes we know it will break again in the future, but hopefully that’s too far out to care right now).
Happy new Year.
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House Insulation
When you insulate a house fully, one of the areas you will have to insulate is the ceiling. Although some insulating materials can be used to insulate the entire house, there are systems which have been especially designed for insulating ceilings. The best ceiling systems can be found on websites that specialize in reviewing insulation materials and methods and so before even ordering your materials, you should perhaps go to one of these websites to ensure you are ordering the correct materials, the materials that will best insulate your house. These websites also facilitate you ordering the materials through them, saving hassle scouring the web for suppliers. Taking the correct measurements of the areas to be insulated is important as apart from anything else, you will not want to order material you will never use. Obviously, having measured all the relevant areas, if you are just using one material for the whole house, you can add the areas together and make just one order but, if you are using different materials for different rooms, be sure to keep your measurements handy for when the material arrives.
In many cases, although professionals are available to install insulation in your house, many people opt to install it themselves and that is not a problem providing they know what they are doing. The thing about insulation is that if it isn’t installed properly, it will not provide the savings in your energy bill that you were possibly expecting and certainly were hoping for. The full and correct insulation of your home can provide huge savings on your energy bills and not only in the winter months but also during the summer months too. Usually the biggest savings are during the winter months when the weather outside is cold and so you need to heat up your house but as when your house is insulated, that cold does not come in, your heating bill is much smaller. In the summer though, if it wasn’t for your insulation, you would also spend a lot trying to keep your house cool. Many people have said though that, the best thing about having their house insulated is the house is always a reasonable temperature regardless of the season and so can immediately get comfortable without having to wait for the coolers or heaters to kick in. Overs have said that one of the best things about having a fully insulated house is that its value increases and it is easier to sell, should they want to at a later date.
With all the benefits of insulating your home, it is little wonder that so many people are now doing it but what may be surprising is the number of people that choose to do it themselves as even the money they pay for a professional to do it, they would have been able to recoup through lower energy bills after just a few months but it is perhaps having that initial investment amount which is the problem.
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Ayurvedic way to manage Diabetes Mellitus .
In Ayurveda ,Diabetes is known as Prameha . Normally, the pancreas (an organ behind the stomach) releases insulin to help your body store and use the sugar and fat from the food you eat. Diabetes can occur when the pancreas produces very little or no insulin, or when the body does not respond appropriately to insulin. As yet, there is no cure. People with diabetes need to manage their disease to stay healthy. Ayurveda has dsecribed diabetes as Prameha and has suggested ways to manage diabetes.
Ayurveda aims to to improve quality of life by preventing complicationthrough adjusting the diet , adding rejuvenating herbs and corrective water and fat metabolism .
According to modern medicine ,diabetes mellitus is a metabolis disorder that usally occurs in adults over 40years of age .In most cases it is a managable diseases .however if proper care is not taken ,it may become serious and can lead to many complications .diabetes has an inherited predisposition . however certain habits and lifestyle are known to activate it .Most people who develop later in life ,usally have poor dietary habits and overweight or obese .
The preliminary symptoms are
increased appetite ,
Frequant urination ,\
unusual thirst ,
Weight change (gain or loss)
Extreme fatigue or lack of energy
Blurred vision
Frequent or recurring infections
Cuts and bruises that are slow to heal
Tingling or numbness in the hands or feet
Trouble getting or maintaining an erection .
If the disease is not treated properly and brought under control .it may lead to certain complications such as high blood pressure .obesity ,high cholesterol and heart problems .
Yoga Therapy for Diabetes .
The plan for yoga therapy varies with the health status of the person , it depends on
Blood sugar level .
Presence of Acidosis and it’s severity .
Other systemic illness like Ischaemic heart diseases . ,Obesity ,chronic and non healing wounds like bed sores ,infections etc .
in a person who is more conscious ,who has will to practice yoga and medically stable person , yoga therapy helps to bring down the level of stress . It also helps in mobilization of joints ,and increase of muscular strength .
Ardha pavanmuktasana .
Naukasana .
Bhujangasana .
Makarasana .
Vajrasana .
Tadasana .
Ardha chakrasana .
Pranayama .
Mulabandha .
Anulom vilom .
Omkara japa .
Ayurvedic Treatment
1- Mixture of gudmara (gymnema sylvestrum) ,kumbha(careya arborea) ,asana (pterocarpus marsipium) and haritaki .each 1gm . can effectively control blood sugar .
2-Arjuna ,barberry ,guduchi in equal quantity in dose of 500mg.two times a day .
An Ayurvedic physician is likely to give panchakarma treatment accrding to client”s requirement .
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How Your Gut Flora Impacts Health
lactobacillus bacteria
Flora is the scientific term for a group of plant or bacteria life, typically particular to a certain area. It is often contrasted with the term 'fauna', which is used to describe the animal life of the same particular area. In the area of health and medicine, flora is the term used to describe the microorganisms that exist on or within the human body, such as the gut flora or the skin flora. When talking about flora in the context of the human body, the term refers to bacteria, yeast, and other fungi.
Your Gut Flora
Gut flora refers to the world of microorganisms, predominantly bacteria, that populate our intestines. Research has been increasingly focused on trying to understand the role that the gut flora play in terms of human health. A variety of names are used to refer to this inner population of microorganisms:
• Gut bacteria
• Intestinal flora
• Microbiota
• Microbiome
• Microflora
It has become exceedingly apparent that the gut flora plays an important role in both our health and our vulnerability to disease.
The Development of Your Gut Flora
Babies are born with intestines that are believed to be either completely or mostly sterile. As they go through their mother's birth canal, they are exposed to the microorganisms of her vagina, which is the origins of the population of the microbiome. The microbiome is further populated by environmental exposure and intake of breast milk, formula and ultimately food.
This are the factors that populate the microbiome of babies that are born via cesarean section. The makeup of the gut flora then continues to evolve throughout our lifespan.
The Location of Your Gut Flora
The substances secreted through the process of digestion have an effect as to where gut bacteria proliferate.
Stomach acid, bile acid, and pancreatic enzymes typically prevent colonization of bacteria in the stomach or the beginning section of the small intestine. (Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is a health problem in which excess bacteria are found in the small intestine.) Therefore, gut bacteria are found to some extent in the last part of your small intestine, but overwhelmingly so in your large intestine. It is estimated that there are more than a thousand types of microbes in your body and that these microbes make up approximately 60% of your stool. This world of microorganisms is separated internally from your body through a single layer of cells on your large intestine - cells known as epithelial cells.
The Functions of Your Gut Flora
As stated above, your gut flora are key players in your health. Two of the most important roles have to do with immune system protection and metabolism. For these important functions, there needs to be an optimal preponderance of "friendly" bacteria. Let's take a look at each of these functions in turn:
Support for the Immune System:
There appear to be two ways in which our gut bacteria support our immune system. The first is that helpful bacteria provide direct protection for the lining of our large intestines, keeping out substances that would be harmful to us.
When this system is compromised, a state of increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut syndrome) may be present. The second is that favorable gut bacteria work with the immune system at the level of the lining of our intestines to "fight back" against disease-causing bacteria or other substances.
Helpful Metabolic Effects:
Our gut flora plays an important role in providing us with vitamins and other nutrients essential to our health. The microbiome also interacts with carbohydrates that were not digested in the small intestine (such as resistant starch and FODMAPs), which provides further nutrients, encourages epithelial cell growth, and modulates fat storage.
Gut Flora and Health Problems
It is now recognized that a less than the optimal composition of gut flora can contribute to health problems, both digestive and non-digestive in nature. The health problems that for now appear to have direct links to an unhealthy balance of the gut flora, a state known as dysbiosis, include the following:
How to Take Care of Your Gut Flora
Keeping your stress down, your antibiotic use to a minimum, and eating a well-rounded nutritious diet, including foods that are considered as prebiotics all hold the potential for optimizing your gut flora. In addition, although the benefits are far from proven, probiotics may be of help and don't typically seem to make things worse. A procedure known as fecal microbiota transplantation appears to hold some promise in extreme cases for enhancing the health of the gut flora.
Bull, M. & Plummer, N. "Part 2: Treatments for Chronic Gastrointestinal Disease and Gut Dysbiosis" Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal 2015 14:25–33.
Bull, M. & Plummer, N. "Part 1: The Human Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease" Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal 2014 13:17-22.
O'Hara, A. & Shanahan, F. "The gut flora as a forgotten organ" EMBO Reports 2006 7:688-693.
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