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BkiUd2U5qhDBcOf_c5of | The Falcons remain winless in the preseason, suffering their third loss with a 34-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road Saturday night.
Matt Ryan played the entire first half in his most extensive playing time of the preseason. He completed 22 of 42 passes for 220 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Chris Redman came into the game in the second half and completed 8 of 18 passes for 89 yards and an interception. On the ground, Jacquizz Rodgers led the team with 38 yards on 7 carries in the second half. Michael Turner started and had 19 yards on 7 carries and Jason Snelling had 12 yards on 4 carries. Roddy White had a strong performance with 8 grabs for 101 yards and a score to lead the receivers. Julio Jones (5 catches, 59 yards), Harry Douglas (3 catches, 31 yards), and Tony Gonzalez (4 catches, 26 yards) also made their presences known in the first half. Matt Bryant hit on all 3 field goal attempts in the game, connecting on kicks of 23, 30, and 46 yards. Matt Bosher averaged 35 yards on 4 punts with 1 placed inside the 20-yard line. Eric Weems had a punt return go 48 yards as well as a 17-yard kickoff return.
Defensively, the Falcons were tough with William Moore leading the unit with 6 tackles. While there were several breakdowns in the secondary that led to big plays, the defense held the Steelers ground game in check through the first half. The Steelers were held to 15 yards on 9 carries during the entire first half. But Ben Roethlisberger was able to complete 11 of 16 passes for 214 yards in the air, with Antonio Brown accounting for 4 receptions and 137 yards. Spencer Adkins (2 tackles), Jonathan Babineaux (2 tackles, 1 sack), Kroy Biermann (3 tackles), Dominique Franks (3 tackles), Brent Griems (2 tackles), Curtis Lofton (2 tackles), Stephen Nicholas (3 tackles), Chris Owens (3 tackles), Mike Peterson (3 tackles), Shann Schillinger (1 tackle, 1 forced fumble), Vance Walker (2 tackles, 1 sack), Sean Weatherspoon (3 tackles), and Coy Wire (3 tackles) had noteworthy games.
The Falcons did not get off to a good start, with a 51-yard return by Antonio Brown on the opening kickoff that set up the Steelers in Falcon territory at the 35-yard line. Three plays later and Rashard Mendenhall romped into the endzone untouched on a 1-yard score. The Falcons did little on the ensuing drive, with a 12-yard completion to Roddy White being their only significant movement before punting. The Falcons defense held with John Abraham and Jonathan Babineaux providing pressure to sack Ben Roethlisberger on 3rd down to force a Steelers punt on the next drive. On the next drive, Ryan had a tipped pass picked off at midfield by Lawrence Timmons who raced downfield looking to score before Harry Douglas tripped him up at the Falcons own 4-yard line. The Falcons defense held once again, forcing the Steelers to settle for a 19-yard field goal. The Falcons offense finally got in gear on the next drive with Ryan connecting with multiple receivers to get the Falcons down to the Steelers 5-yard line. But then Ryan was high on a throw to a wide open Harry Douglas in the endzone, then overthrew Tony Gonzalez on the next play when he was pressured. This meant the Falcons had to settle for a 23-yard field goal from Bryant to get on the scoreboard for the first time, cutting the Steelers lead to seven points. The Falcons were able to convert on two third downs on their next offensive drive to get once more into the redzone. This time the Falcons took advantage with Ryan hitting White on a 10-yard scoring strike to tie the game 10-10. However, three plays later the Steelers scored on a 77-yard strike to Brown on a busted coverage to retake the lead. The next drive, the Falcons took a shot deep at midfield, but Julio Jones dropped the well-thrown Ryan pass in the endzone. The Falcons recovered and moved the ball down the field but had a 2-yard toss to Gonzalez in the endzone nullified by an offensive pass interference call. Two plays later, Bryant hit his second field goal of the night from 30 yards. The Steelers would score on their next drive once more with Ben Roethlisberger connecting again with Antonio Brown for a 44-yard bomb with less than 2 minutes remaining in the first half. The Falcons went into their 2-minute offense and were successful at moving the ball down the field. But ultimately settled for Bryant's third field goal on the night from 46 yards to take the game into halftime with a score of 24-16.
In the second half, the Falcons and Steelers exchanged drives as each offense tended to focus on trying to move the ball on the ground. Rodgers had a combined 30 yards on 5 carries on the Falcons two series of the third quarter. On the opening play of the fourth quarter, the Falcons drive was cut short just shy of the redzone as Chris Redman threw an interception that was returned 95 yards for a score by Crezdon Butler. Redman followed that up by only completing 3 of his next 10 passes . The Steelers finally got things going offensively on their next drive with Dennis Dixon leading the team downfield to get a 27-yard field goal. Philip Sylvester fumbled on the first play of the next series, thus ending the game as the Steelers got the ball back with 1:39 left on the clock and knelt down three times as time expired.
Next week the Falcons will close out their preseason schedule against the Baltimore Ravens at home on Thursday night. Typically teams play almost exclusively their backups. The Falcons will be forced to cut down their roster to 80 players by Tuesday. Their roster count current sits at 85. The remaining reserves that have not solidified a roster spot will likely get long looks against the Ravens as all teams are required to trim their rosters down to 53 players a week from tonight. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcwI5qX_BhGrDFbff | Theatre What's On
The Comedy of Errors a fun, slapstick-filled tale of mistaken identity
February 25, 2018 Patrick Paul 219 Views auckland pop-up globe, Auckland Theatre Review, Ingrid Grenar, new zealand theatre, pop-up globe, Stephen Lovatt, Theatre Review
Rounding off this year's season at The Pop-Up Globe is The Comedy of Errors. This fun, slapstick-filled tale of mistaken identity brings Shakespeare's comedic classic to Auckland in this accessible production that gave us plenty of calamity and lots of laughs.
The story centres around two sets of identical twins. A storm at sea separates an old merchant from his wife, his twin sons and their twin servants, so he must brave a foreign land in search of them. Condemned to death after breaching immigration laws, he is granted one day to raise the money to save his life. Confusion ensues when his sons and their servants, Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. Much confusion and hilarity ensues.
Presented by Pop-up Globe's mixed Southampton's Company, this fast-paced comedy mixed modern and traditional costumes as well as language; the breaking of the fourth wall often involved a break away from the traditional text. As we walked in to take our seats, we were greeted by militia carrying machine guns who had surround the Globe. It was a bit of an uncomfortable sight considering the current climate, however, the actors were so deliberately and overtly comical that any nerves are quickly settled. Much to the delight of the school kid groundlings, the action kicked off to a rather bloody start superposed by comical tableaus by the militia to help tell the merchants' tale. Thus the scene was set for a chaotic and silly night ahead.
It's not long before we meet our excellent protagonists in the two sets of twins who's journey of constant confusion evokes 'Benny Hill-esque' runarounds and innuendos worthy of your favorite Carry On Films. They never tire and it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is who and what is what. Following the dramatic and bloody Macbeth, it was particularly enjoyable to see Stephen lovatt hamming it up with the rest of the cast.
As always at The Pop-Up Globe, the performers are dedicated to delivering Shakespeare to the masses, as was always intended, so they deliver an energetic, audience-pleasing and laughter heavy production. It was a much a joy to watch the play as it was to see the faces of the young audience on the ground enjoying it.
Catch this season of The Comedy of Errors at the Pop-Up Globe before it closes on (very appropriately) the 1st April.
Reviewed by Ingrid Grenar.
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BkiUbSg5qsBB3Jex19zo | Cardi B Offers To Cover Funeral Costs For Victims Of Deadly Bronx Apartment Fire: 'I'm Extremely Proud To Be From The Bronx'
Vixen Chat [Part I]: Dr. Sherry Blake Talks Single Women and Celebrity Couples
The thing about relationships is that you never really know what you're getting yourself in to until it's done. Every couple has their own trials and tribulations, and, essentially, it takes two…
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The thing about relationships is that you never really know what you're getting yourself in to until it's done. Every couple has their own trials and tribulations, and, essentially, it takes two to make it work. Expert psychologist and author of The Single Married Woman, Dr. Sherry Blake gives it to us straight and answers the questions women and men often have when it comes to the opposite sex.
Having worked with Toni Braxton and her family on WE tv's Braxton Family Values, Dr. Sherry confidently delivers responses that will help make all of the things we ponder, over-analyze and over-think a little bit easier.
Vixen caught up with the vet who has been servicing people for more than 20 years. In part I, Dr. Sherry talks about her book, celebrity couples and, of course, relationships. –Krystal Holmes
VIBE VIXEN: How do you think women end up in the situation of a "Single Married Woman?"
DR. SHERRY BLAKE: We end up in those situations by wanting a marriage and wanting to make others happy and trying to please so much that we lose sight of ourselves.
Why do you think women who have the power to train a man to her liking just let him walk all over her instead?
I think sometimes women allow men to walk all over them because it's an issue of self-esteem. Some may think if they don't do what the male asks or requests of them they won't have them. They haven't learned that they have a value in the relationship and they don't have to allow someone to walk all over them and they don't have to walk all over someone else, so it goes both ways. The reality is that it's all about self esteem. If you don't feel good about yourself, it's hard to stand up for yourself. It's really tricky, but you have to understand it works both ways.
Is Kobe and Vanessa's situation the type that can be saved, or do you think they will just go back to each other for booty calls?
[Laughs] I haven't worked with them, so I don't know the ins and outs in terms of their relationship, but I think both of them must really sit down and be honest. It would be great if they were working on the issues that got them to that point with a psychologist or a group of therapists. What are those things we can work on? What are those things that we enjoy that we can enhance? And many times when people have difficulty in relationships and it become public knowledge, then the public thinks material things come in place and they are back together again. But it is more than the material things that keep you together.
When exes get into new relationships, should they just cut off the relationship they had with one another, even if they were friends?
That's not necessarily a requirement to cut off everyone from your past, but I do think it's very difficult to have a new relationship and still be involved with your ex. I think that there must be boundaries once again, and it depends on the nature of the reason why you are friends with your ex in the first place. If you have children involved that's one thing, but if that person's an ex and you are just friends, then keep them at a distance as you try to develop a new relationship. Otherwise, it's going to be very difficult for you to remain friends with that ex because they will be all in your business. That's the tricky thing with exes; everything can be cool as long as you're not in a relationship. You think everything is cool and fun and occasionally you hang out or whatever the case may be, until one of you gets someone significant in your life then it becomes a problem. You have to define what your relationship is going to be about.
What is the most difficult hurdle in relationships that you've seen?
I think the most difficult hurdle is rebuilding trust once it's been destroyed. I think for a lot of women especially, once trust has been distorted it's very difficult to allow your heart to trust again. For men I think it's loyalty. Trust is important, but if a woman is there with him through thick and thin that's one thing but if she's not loyal and will turn her back very quickly it's very hard for the male to come back and trust her again.
Check back for Part II tomorrow!
Braxton Family Values | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUfJ7xK7kjXIdHAgo8 | To Cite: Uzun I, Gunduz K, Celenk P, Avsever H, Orhan K, et al. Comparing the Effect of Different Voxel Resolutions for Assessment of Vertical Root Fracture of Permanent Teeth, Iran J Radiol. 2015 ; 12(3):e18290. doi: 10.5812/iranjradiol.18290.
Background: The teeth with undiagnosed vertical root fractures (VRFs) are likely to receive endodontic treatment or retreatment, leading to frustration and inappropriate endodontic therapies. Moreover, many cases of VRFs cannot be diagnosed definitively until the extraction of tooth.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the use of different voxel resolutions of two different cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT) units in the detection VRFs in vitro.
Materials and Methods: The study material comprised 74 extracted human mandibular single rooted premolar teeth without root fractures that had not undergone any root-canal treatment. Images were obtained by two different CBCT units. Four image sets were obtained as follows: 1) 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm field of view (FOV) (0.080 mm3); 2) 3D Accuitomo 170. 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3); 3) NewTom 3G, 6˝ (0.16 mm3) and 4) NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3). Kappa coefficients were calculated to assess both intra- and inter-observer agreements for each image set.
Results: No significant differences were found among observers or voxel sizes, with high average Z (Az) results being reported for all groups. Both intra- and inter-observer agreement values were relatively better for 3D Accuitomo 170 images than the images from NewTom 3G. The highest Az and kappa values were obtained with 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) images.
Conclusion: No significant differences were found among observers or voxel sizes, with high Az results reported for all groups.
Copyright © 2015, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Iranian Society of Radiology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
Vertical root fractures (VRFs) are usually characterized by an incomplete or complete fracture line that extends along the long axis of the root to different levels of the root (1-3). The major causes for VRFs are root canal treatment and excessive operative procedures performed in the root canal (4). VRF may lead to development of bony lesions; radiographs of which show halos, perilateral radiolucency and angular resorption of the crestal bone (5, 6). Such radiographic findings require clinician to make an accurate diagnosis. In VRF, the fracture runs lengthwise from the crown toward the apex and is usually oriented buccolingually. While the clinical presentation of a VRF can be variable, radiographic signs are quite specific. These signs can vary considerably from case to case, depending on the angle of X-ray beam in relation to the plane of fracture, as well as the duration after the fracture and the degree of separation of the fragments (7). The fracture line is visible in radiographs when the path of X-ray is parallel to the plane of fracture (8). Otherwise, the fracture line is not visible on two-dimensional radiographs, especially in primary stages when the fracture is a tender crack without detached fragments (8, 9). Many cases of VRFs cannot be diagnosed definitively until the extraction of tooth. However, teeth with undiagnosed VRFs are likely to receive endodontic treatment or retreatment, leading to frustration and inappropriate endodontic therapies. General practitioners may correctly diagnose VRFs only after endodontic failures. As a result, complications associated with VRFs are usually considered a consequence of endodontic or restorative procedures (10). In both clinical (11, 12) and ex-vivo (13, 14) studies, cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT) has been used to detect VRFs. CBCT detected twice as many teeth with VRFs as did periapical radiographs (11, 14). Therefore, when CBCT is not used, teeth with VRFs, especially those in the early stages, may be undiagnosed. This lack of diagnosis also indicates that previous estimations of the low prevalence of VRFs may have been underestimated (15, 16). With recent emergence of CBCT in dentistry and its advantages over conventional CT, researchers have been encouraged to assess this relatively new technique for the detection of root fractures (11, 14-20). Image quality has been described as the visibility of diagnostically important structures in the CT image (19, 20). Voxel size has been reported to have a positive correlation with image quality (e.g. contrast and resolution), as well as exposure dose (21, 22). In the literature, a few studies assessed the influence of voxel size on diagnostic ability of CBCT unit in evaluating simulated VRFs.
This study aimed to assess the use of different voxel resolutions of two different CBCT units in the detection of VFRs in vitro.
Table 1 shows the intra-observer kappa coefficients calculated for each observer by image type. Higher intra-observer agreement was obtained by comparing images from 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) and 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) with those from NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3). Intra-observer kappa coefficients ranged identical values of 0.973 for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) images, while ranged from 0.782 to 0.945 for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) images, suggesting notably good intra-observer agreement. Table 2 shows inter-observer kappa coefficients for both the first and second readings by image type. Higher inter-observer agreement was obtained from the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) and 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) images compared with those from NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3). Very good inter-observer agreement was found for the first and second readings from the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) images (i.e. the same as 0.973). Moreover, a good inter-observer agreement was found for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) (from 0.888 to 0.946). In general, a good inter-observer agreement was found for the first and second readings for the NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) images.
a Abbreviations: SE: Standard Error.
a Abbreviations: SE: Standard Error, Obs1: Observer 1, Obs2: Observer 2.
The areas under the ROC curves (Az values) for different observers, readings and image types were calculated and are shown in Table 3. Higher Az values were obtained for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) and 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) images than for the NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) images. The Az values of readings from both observers were higher for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) than for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) images compared with NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) images.
The Az values of the 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) images were also higher than those of NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) with the exception of the first reading by observer one. Figure 5 shows the ROC curves for observer one for the first reading for each image type, while Figure 6 shows the ROC curves for observer two for the second reading for each image type. Comparisons between modalities are shown in Table 4. In Table 4, the Az values are compared according to Z test, which was defined by McClish et al. (24). The table shows the Z test values together with significance between them. P values lower than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. The first observer yielded the highest Az scores with 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) in the first reading. In addition, the first reading by the second observer also yielded the highest Az scores for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3). However, in the second readings by both observers, the Az values increased for the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3), 3D Accuitomo 170, 6 × 6 cm FOV (0.125 mm3) and NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3). The reason for the gradually increasing scores may be that both observers started to score images from 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) and later switched to other modalities, which may have increased observer experience with reading images with VRFs. However, NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) showed the lowest Az values both in the first and second scores, even though the observers presumably became more accustomed to the examination procedures. As such, the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) was found to be the most efficient and powerful imaging modality for detection of fractures. When NewTom 3G was assessed separately, Az values for 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) were higher than those from the 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) images, indicating a statistically significant difference. Given the fact that lower Az values for NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) depend on the size of FOV and image quality of this modality.
Figure 5. Receiver operating characteristic curves for observer one for the first reading for each image type.
Figure 6. Receiver operating characteristic curves for observer two for the second reading for each image type.
The present study compared the diagnostic accuracy of CBCT scans with different voxel resolutions in the detection of simulated VRFs. Both intra- and inter-observer agreement values were relatively better for 3D Accuitomo 170 images than the images of NewTom 3G. The highest Az and kappa values were obtained with the 3D Accuitomo 170, 4 × 4 cm FOV (0.080 mm3) images. This study evaluated the effects of voxel size on detection of VFRs using two different CBCT systems. Artificially stimulated vertical fractures were used, as previous studies showed them to be the most difficult to detect using intra-oral radiographs. Hassan et al. (14) compared five different CBCTs for the detection of VRFs and reported that the Next Generation i-CAT was the most accurate system (voxel of 0.25 mm) followed by the Scanora 3D (voxel of 0.2 mm), Accuitomo-XYZ (voxel of 0.25 mm), NewTom 3G (voxel of 0.2 mm) and Galileos 3D (voxel of 0.3 mm). Generally, performance was better with the 0.25-mm and 0.2-mm voxel sizes than with the 0.3-mm voxel size. Additionally, in an in vitro study assessing VRF detection using CBCT, Kamburoglu et al. (13) compared two different CBCT units (NewTom 3G and Iluma) with varying resolutions of 0.19-, 0.1- and 0.3-mm3 voxel sizes. They found that 0.19-mm3 and 0.1-mm3 voxel resolutions achieved better results than did the 0.3-mm3 resolution. In another study, Ozer (25) compared the diagnostic accuracy of CBCT scans with different voxel resolutions in the detection of simulated VRFs. This author used only one CBCT (i-CAT) and found no significant differences among different observers or voxel sizes. The sensitivity and specificity results were high for all groups (sensitivity/specificity for 0.125 mm: 98/96; for 0.2 mm: 97/96; for 0.3 mm: 93/93 and for 0.4 mm: 91/93). Wenzel et al. (26) evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of CBCT and a photostimulable storage phosphor plate system (PSP) to detect VRFs. These researchers specifically used i-CAT scanner with 0.125-mm3 and 0.25-mm3 voxel sizes. Higher accuracy was reported with smaller voxel sizes; the 0.125-mm3 voxels showed a specificity of %98 and sensitivity of %87. These authors also reported that the 0.25-mm3 voxel resolution was more accurate than the periapical PSP system. High-resolution scanning was recommended in cases of suspected VRFs that could not be visualized using only periapical images. In the present study, no significant differences were found between observers or voxel sizes, with high Az results reported for all groups. The values revealed that all groups were similar for sensitivity and specificity. The Az results also showed that the 3D Accuitomo 170 (4 × 4 and 6 × 6 cm FOVs) and NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV (0.16 mm3) systems were better than the NewTom 3G, 9˝ FOV (0.25 mm3) system. Accuracy results also showed that the 0.080-mm3, 0.125-mm3 and 0.16-mm3 resolutions were more successful than the 0.25 -mm3 resolution in detecting VRFs, although the latter two voxel resolutions were acceptable under clinical conditions. Before the newest sensitive flat-panel detectors (CMOS) were developed for CBCT units, a wide FOV required a larger voxel size due to computational limitations (27). First, the resolutions were limited. Even at the smallest voxel size, it was impossible to increase the resolution, which resulted from the focus size of the X-ray tube, the pixel size of the sensor and the precision of the rotation. Second, small voxel sizes led to increased noise (28). In such cases, radiation dose had to be increased to reduce the noise, although this adjustment was impractical based on the principle of ''as low as reasonably achievable'' (ALARA) (29). Recently, with the advent of new flat-panel technology, smaller FOVs can capture images with less ionizing radiation (30). In this study, charge-coupled device (CCD) and new flat panel technology imaging CBCT devices were used to detect VRFs. Although the devices showed similar results for all FOVs in the detection of VRFs, CCD devices with small FOVs emit more radiation than those with large FOVs. The four different voxel resolutions showed similar results for detecting simulated VRFs. However, if a high-resolution image is required, one should choose a voxel size of 0.080 and a limited FOV (4 × 4 cm) with a standard radiation dose, which may make reconstruction difficult using a personal computer. For instance, with treatment planning of dental implants over large areas, one should choose a voxel size of 0.125 mm3 or 0.16 mm3 and a low radiation dose to improve the noise in the images. In the literature, the effective dose from the cone beam CT units we worked with ranged between 11 and 102 μSv depending on the size of volume used, exposure parameters chosen and examined region (31). 3D Accuitomo 170 (4 × 4 and 6 × 6 cm FOVs) achieved 11-31 and 57-69 μSv (31), while NewTom 3G, 6˝ FOV and 9˝ system had effective dose level of 58-102 μSv (32). However, effective dose from a panoramic radiograph is 13 μSv (32), a cephalometric radiograph, 1-3 μSv (32), a periapical radiograph, 1-8 μSv (33) and an occlusal radiograph, 8 μSv. Despite small-volume CBCT doses being an order of magnitude or more below doses from conventional CT, they are still significantly higher than those from conventional dental radiography. While clinical applications of CBCT have expanded, current CBCT technology has limitations related to the ''cone-beam'' projection geometry, detector sensitivity and contrast resolution producing images that lack the clarity and usefulness of conventional CT images. The clarity of CBCT images is affected by metallic artifacts, noise and poor soft tissue contrast. However, still CBCT should be considered the most reliable imaging modality for the diagnosis of vertical root fracture as they can avoid scanning structures outside the region of interest susceptible to beam hardening (e.g. metallic restorations, dental implants) (16), although, another method was used in this study for simulating VRFs. Besides, for such studies (esp. for horizontal root fracture studies) joining or unifying the fragmented process is crucial, since if the fractured parts are approximated closely, the fracture line would be unclear and hard to diagnose and vice versa. In addition, making artificial fractures can lead loss of small fragments, which can make eventually a gap when joining the fragments together. Thus, investigators should use a strict standardized protocol when performing such artificial fractures. In the present study, no significant differences were found between observers or voxel sizes and high Az results reported for all groups. 3D Accuitomo 170 (4 × 4 FOV) has the highest sensitivity and diagnostic accuracy for detecting vertical root fracture among radiographic modalities. High-resolution scanning is recommended only in cases of suspected VRFs difficult to visualize using only periapical images.
Authors' Contributions: Study concept and design: Ismail Uzun, Kaan Gunduz, Peruze Celenk, Hakan Avsever, Kaan Orhan, Gozde Canitezer, Bilal Ozmen, Ersan Cicek and Erol Egrioglu. Analysis and interpretation of data: Ismail Uzun, Kaan Gunduz, Peruze Celenk, Hakan Avsever, Kaan Orhan, Gozde Canitezer, Bilal Ozmen, Ersan Cicek and Erol Egrioglu. Drafting of the manuscript: Ismail Uzun, Kaan Gunduz, Peruze Celenk, Hakan Avsever, Kaan Orhan, Gozde Canitezer, Bilal Ozmen, Ersan Cicek and Erol Egrioglu. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Ismail Uzun, Kaan Gunduz, Peruze Celenk, Hakan Avsever, Kaan Orhan, Gozde Canitezer, Bilal Ozmen, Ersan Cicek and Erol Egrioglu. Statistical analysis: Erol Egrioglu.
Financial Disclosure: We had no disclosures of any commercial associations, current and within the past five years, that might pose a potential, perceived or real conflict of interest. These include grants, patent licensing arrangements, consultancies, stock or other equity ownership, donations, advisory board memberships or payments for conducting or publicizing the study.
Funding/Support: This study was not supported by any institution. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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BkiUewe6NNjgB1scZ7NL | South of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge visit the multi-storied adobe buildings of Northern New Mexico. These buildings have been continuously inhabited for over 100 years! Tour the Taos Pueblo village and learn highlights of the culture, history, and people that live there. These guided tours run every 20 minutes on the hour and are run by local college students who rely on the gratuity of visitors. Check out their website here. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUfYs25V5jcCRIJgoG | The screaming headlines in the British media regarding kosher and halal slaughter show how Britain isn't immune to a Europe-wide paranoia about outsider communities.
Full disclosure: I haven't eaten meat for nearly three decades, so I don't have a stake (pardon the pun) in the debate roiling the British media about the cruelty or otherwise of ritual slaughter, whether shechitah or halal.
But let's be clear about one thing – this is all about fear of immigrant communities, the anxiety of an increasingly secular Europe that outsiders are coming to challenge their time-honored traditions. The question is one of politics, rather than animal welfare.
The rights and wrongs of ritual slaughter, like circumcision, is a perennial issue in the U.K., although the British are famously supposed to be more sentimental about animals than children.
The story's latest revival was sparked by an exclusive story on the front page of The Times newspaper, no doubt well aware of the emotive buttons it would press. British law currently demands that animals be stunned by electric current, gas or bolt gun before slaughter, with the exception of those killed according to Jewish and Muslim law. However, Dr. John Blackwell, the head of the British Veterinary Association, now demands that kosher and halal slaughterers introduce stunning of animals or face an all-out ban.
MP Andrew Rosindell, secretary of the associate parliamentary group for animal welfare and a long-time campaigner over this issue, told the newspaper that both Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter went against "everything that we really stand for as a people" – a clue as to the real suspicions behind the issue.
Manufactured stories about supposed ritual slaughter scandals are frequent fodder for the British media.
"Meat from cattle slaughtered in 'cruel' kosher ceremony is in your high street burger," screamed a headline in Britain's middle-market tabloid Daily Mail just days ago.
But then the Mail has long been guilty of this kind of rabble rousing under the guise of investigative reporting. A previous story entitled "Britain goes halal… but no-one tells the public" which they promised would "alarm anyone concerned about animal cruelty" revealed how hospitals, hotels and even the Houses of Parliament all served halal meat. Its pages regularly feature outraged parents discovering their children's schools serving halal meat, supermarkets "secretly" selling halal meat, and so on and so on. This time, it was the turn of "inhumane" shechita.
Unfortunately, this kind of story caters to a low kind of paranoia about outsider communities. That's why bans on ritual slaughter are regularly raised throughout Europe, even where legislation does not necessarily follow.
During the 2012 French presidential campaign, f or example, National Front candidate Marine Le Pen warned that non-Muslims were unknowingly eating halal meat from animals killed "in horrible cruelty." Predictable enough, but incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, desperately flagging in the polls, quickly seized on the issue to claim that serving halal meat in public institutions contradicted French secular values. His ally, Interior Minister Claude Guéant, warned that halal food could become "obligatory" in school canteens, and Prime Minister Francois Fillon decried such traditions as at odds with modern science or hygiene.
None of this helped – Sarkozy lost the polls. And it's creditable that although this issue enduringly resurfaces in the British consciousness, our political parties have not sunk to similar populism.
Instead, Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour chief Ed Miliband and deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg lined up one after the other in recent months to offer their assurances that ritual slaughter was safe.
The only U.K. party to support a ban as a matter of policy is the far-right British National Party, or BNP, who like to present an image of robed Muslim butchers chanting the name of Allah while torturing a poor beast to a lingering death.
Ninety percent of Britain's 2.7 million Muslims in the U.K. choose to eat halal. However, as further proof that this issue is less about animal rights and more about fear of the other, nearly 90 percent of this meat is already pre-stunned, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The fact is that, as far as animal welfare is concerned, this is really a non-issue, much as it was in Denmark which recently passed a law banning ritual slaughter. Leaving aside the fact that pigs raised to produce the famous Danish bacon don't exactly enjoy holiday conditions, no shechita has been carried out in Denmark for the last 10 years due to community's tiny size, and, as in the U.K., some 90 percent of halal meat is already pre-stunned.
But let's not fool ourselves that shechita is somehow superior. The sages did not design it for industrial meat production, and the kosher slaughter market has had its own disgraces, from the U.S. firm Agriprocessors in 2008 to Israel's Soglowek Food's scandal last year.
There has been some action, especially in the U.S., towards an ethical standard for kosher produce. But kosher meat is factory-farmed just like that for the rest of the market, pumped full of the same chemicals and transported in an identical way.
Even Cohen notes that "there is no conclusive scientific evidence that shechita is any more or less humane than any other form of slaughter," acknowledging that it would be "presumptuous and silly" to argue that it causes less suffering.
As someone who doesn't ever eat meat, I find the whole issue puzzling.
Blackwell, the U.K. veterinarian, said ritual slaughter could cause pain to a sheep for as long as seven seconds before its death, but I find it hard to understand why the last moments of an animal's life should be more important than its entire existence up to that point.
Where does animal welfare feature in societies where people expect to eat cheap meat products as a matter of course? Anyone who eats a late-night chicken nugget take-away or a cheap sausage is on shaky grounds when it comes to objecting to the circumstances in which animals are killed.
So it's as idiotic to argue that shechita is innately more humane as it is to claim the supposed health benefits of brit milah justify the practice.
Ultimately, religious or cultural practices should be scrutinized for their compatibility with what we accept as the basic principles of liberal values. Society has to negotiate where it can bear to draw the line. But when it comes to eating meat, it involves killing animals. It involves much blood and gore. If you really care, you should go vegan.
Daniella Peled is editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and has written widely from across the Middle East and Afghanistan. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUc7A5qhDBNgCmtIzT | yeah. it'll never be enough.
me: so pretty much india is just stuck?
me: well right, but thats what i meant by, there are still such a large portion of people not educated enough.
11:00 PM u just told the most impatient person "a generation or two" great.
On the note of the south being amazingly progressive…to be fair to both sides ALL of India is progressing. Especially in the younger generations. The IT is sometimes just a bunch of people reading prompts in a language they barely understand. I myself have noticed especially kids from Mumbai and Delhi are very forward thinking and analyze India objectively. They know they have to go back and become a part of the system to see the changes. They have the same opinion of India as we do.
So…yes the South has proven to welcome the changes, but that is after years of being very stubborn to open their arms to a progressive/westernized system.
Like I said…I'm in the middle. And I despise this whole "North/South" bs. Im NOT trying to spark anything in that area. Just saying- ALL of India's younger generations are opening their eyes and aiming to instigate the change they know is necessary. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUd3Q5qdmDKh-wtM1r | Vest it convenient to use and versatile, it looks a bit like a life jacket assumed by the head. The area is heated on the front and back.
Electric vest has a special chamber that allow the 'passage' of warm air and uniform distribution to all parts of the garment.
To vest attached cables for connection to the power supply of clothing - the battery on the belt.
Vests can also be powered directly from the battery, Li-Po available in three different capacities 4Ah, 6Ah and 8Ah.
Available 3 sizes: 1: XSS, 2: M-L, 3: XL-XXL. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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In 2015, Canadians were found to be lacking eight essential nutrients, a situation that the Government of Canada deemed preventable. Six of those eight nutrients are found in dairy products: vitamins A and D, calcium, magnesium, zinc and potassium. Including dairy in the diet of Canadians is therefore expected to have positive effects in solving these nutrient deficiencies.
Dairy is more than a great source of protein. Long recognized as an important part of a balanced diet, independent studies, published as recently as November 2018, have associated dairy with a reduced risk of heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer, and improved bone health. The science in favour of the nutritional benefits of dairy has never been more compelling.
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BkiUd485qoaAwdii6-HK | Elias Venes was born in Akiak, Alaska in 1928 to Joe and Anna Venes. His father was a prospector looking for gold who ended up in the Kuskokwim area after the Iditarod strike on the Innoko River. His mother was from the local area. Elias grew up living a subsistence lifestyle, and later worked for the NYAK mine as a wood cutter and hauler. He moved to Bethel, Alaska when he was about sixteen years old. Elias is a talented carpenter, sled maker, boat builder, and mechanic and always has a project going in his garage. Although now an elder, Elias remains active, believing in the importance of staying fit and healthy. He enjoys doing things for others, and can often been seen around town lending a helping hand. Elias is an avid fiddler and accomplished musician. He often has played at the annual Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau, Alaska.
Elias Venes talks about first coming to Bethel from Akiak, Alaska when he was a boy, his first time eating in a restaurant, and how the cost of things has increased over the years. He plays a song with Martha Scott Stey and then they both play music with Barry Toelken. You can listen to more of Elias and Martha playing music in Martha Scott Stey's part of the Bethel Communities of Memory Project Jukebox. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbK_xK7Ehm4VQtwaa | When I was a kid we very rarely went to the dentist. I think I was 7 or 8 the first time I went. We didn't have dental insurance, so we went as often as my Mom could afford to take us, which probably wasn't very often. We also almost always had well water, so we never had the benefit of having fluoride in our water. Because of this I've always had problems with my teeth. It seems like as soon as I get one thing corrected or filled or capped, some other problem pops up.
When I was pregnant with Amelia, I had a tooth that lost the filling. It hurt! Every time I ate something I was in pain. And because I was pregnant, it took a while to find a dentist who would do much for me. I just found a product that could have really helped me out when I was in pain from my missing filling. Dentemp OS is a 60 minute temporary solution to losing a filling or crown. Dentemp OS was developed by a dentist. It's easy to use, there is not mixing, just remove the product from the vial it comes in and you're ready to use it. It can be used to temporarily replace a filling or cement a crown until you can get to a dentist. Even better, you can eat just 30 minutes after using it, and it's FDA Approved.
It looks like this is a great product. So the next time you need a temporary dental repair go check out Dentemp OS. It might save you a lot of discomfort. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUev_xK1Thg9qFe34t | Q: how to view youtube video I am finding great difficulties to view YouTube videos in my app.
here is my code:
package com.example.webvideo;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.VideoView;
public class WebVideo extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
VideoView vv = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView);
MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);
mc.setAnchorView(vv);
vv.setMediaController(mc);
vv.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://youtu.be/2OIOOb-0t44"));
vv.start();
}
}
The emulator is showing an error that the video cannot be played.
What am I doing wrong? Am I giving the URL in a wrong format?
A: I would expect that the URI you need to give is to the actual media file to be played. I wouldn't count on redirects working either... and anyway that redirect you give seems to point to a YouTube web page, which I sure wouldn't expect the video player to be able to render.
A: http://youtu.be/2OIOOb-0t44 is certainly an invalid URL. Maybe you meant http://youtube.com/watch?v=2OIOOb-0t44?
A: The URL you are using is for the webpage where you can view it, not for the video itself. The embedding URL appears to be http://www.youtube.com/embed/2OIOOb-0t44, but I think it's HTML5, not flash... you may have to go old school and track down an AVI or MPEG file.
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BkiUeC04eIXh70-IyAmg | Home » Spring 2021 - Women Leaders / Supporting Partner / Top News
TRAILBLAZING WOMEN: MNP PARTNERS TALK WORK, LIFE, AND CAREER.
Natalie Schuler, Kayla Seipp, Tracy Watters, Mélanie Lefebvre, Lynda Carter
Being a female Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in a traditionally male-dominated profession can pose challenges – and some of them come from within ourselves, say three Ottawa-based partners in MNP, a national accounting and consulting firm.
The world of accounting is as diverse as the businesses, organizations and individuals CPAs serve. From making sure a client's tax strategy is effective to planning for growth to exploring succession options, the work is dynamic and ever changing, says
Natalie Schuler, MNP's Ottawa Professional's niche leader.
The responsibility of being a leader has its challenges and rewards, regardless of your gender, Schuler says. However, finding your voice and advocating for yourself often is harder for women. "Be confident in your abilities and surround yourself with those people who support you in your career and are there for you," she says. "Find those people to have those great conversations to talk through ideas or concerns or problems, whether it's formal mentorship or someone with leadership qualities you want to emulate."
Having women in leadership positions shows other women they can also be leaders, says Kayla Seipp, leader of MNP's Eastern Ontario not-for-profit assurance team. "Working with other female partners when I was an articling student made it clear to me that it was okay for me to continue to have this goal of 'I think I should be a partner and now I can see that I deserve to be a partner.' You still might feel that you need to work twice as hard to be taken seriously, but you can see things are changing, and there are women in key leadership roles, too."
The trick to success is trying out different things to find the area that speaks to you, and that you can be passionate about, she says.
At MNP, she was able to meld her passion for working with not-forprofits and charities with her love of details and numbers.
"The things that motivate me are the clients and the important work that they do, while being able to put all the pieces together and finding the solutions they need in the end," Seipp says.
As a partner in MNP Ottawa's accounting and assurance group, Tracy Watters works primarily with small-to-mid-sized business owners as a general practitioner and enjoys the relationships that develop from that.
"Their business is their being," she says. "You get to know their business, their family, and they start calling you for everything – payroll issues, tax questions, a fund for their kid's education, and sometimes the questions are more complex, and you help to connect them with one of our many specialists to get them the right information."
Family is important to Watters, and the flexibility MNP offers its people was one of the reasons she joined the firm. "Because I think that's where females hesitate to jump into a leadership role, that partnership role – they worry about the time they are going to spend in the office," she says. This past year, Tracy and her husband split parental leave after welcoming their second child.
Her advice to young female professionals is to find someone in a role you aspire to and ask all the questions you have. "Get personal, ask about what works for them, how understanding people are about things you might be worried about, and just– if there are things that are holding you back, try and find some of those answers."
In March 2021, the firm welcomed two new partners, Lynda Carter and Mélanie Lefebvre, to the MNP Ottawa office. To get in touch with one of our advisors, please visit: https://www.mnp.ca/en/offices/ottawacarling | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUeQ7xK7IADIh7Qs4J | In Miami, the Underline would provide a path for pedestrians and bike riders beneath the Miami Metrorail.
James Corner Field Operations, the firm known for designing the successful High Line linear park in New York City, just got hired by Miami-Dade County to be the master planner for the county's proposed Underline.
The Underline would be a 10-mile corridor underneath the Metrorail from the Miami River to Dadeland South. It would have space for pedestrians, bike riders and recreation.
The High Line, a park built atop an abandoned elevated railway that runs from Little West 12th Street all the way north to 34th Street in Manhattan, is the inspiration for the Underline. Philip Aarons, who heads the group that supported the High Line, spoke about its success at a University of Miami real estate conference in February. He highlighted its $2 billion economic impact and the 4.5 million visitors it attracted in 2012.
The University of Miami School of Architecture created the preliminary renderings.
High Line designer James Corner Field Operators was selected by Miami-Dade and Friends of the Underline out of 19 applications. Its preliminary design is due in September.
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Russia reaches out to Pyongyang
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang and indicated Russia's desire to contribute to the diplomatic initiatives in the Korean peninsula..
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang and indicated Russia's desire to contribute to the diplomatic initiatives in the Korean peninsula. This was Russia's first high-level diplomatic visit to Pyongyang since 2009.
The history of North Korea began in 1945, when colonial Japan withdrew from the peninsula and Korea was divided into two halves along the 38th parallel. In 1950, North Korea, economically and politically supported by China and Soviet Russia, invaded South Korea. United Nations and US forces intervened on behalf of the South and the invading army was driven out during the Korean War.
USSR remained an important stakeholder in North Korean affairs even after the 1950s. The two regions have shared a 17-kilometre long border since 1860. Thousands of ethnic Koreans migrated to Tsarist Russia, and still live in the country. Kim Jong-Un's grandfather Kim Il-Sung briefly lived in the Soviet Union and was chosen by Stalin to lead the Provisional People's Committee for North Korea, the precursor to the modern Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Jong-Il, the current leader's father, was born near the eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk in 1941.
Besides the political link between the two communist states, Pyongyang relied heavily on Soviet food and fuel supplies. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 may have contributed to the devastating famine that killed approximately 3.5 million North Korean citizens in the 1990s. Ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have somewhat cooled since the 1990s. However, Russia and China remain some of the largest food donors to Pyongyang. The two nations are Pyongyang's strongest international supporters. In 2017, Moscow wrote of Pyongyang's Soviet-era debt of $10 billion.
However, Russia and China have both officially complied with UN sanctions against Pyongyang after it conducted its first nuclear test in 2006. North Korea's nuclear program has been a subject of increasing concern for the international community. In 2017, Pyongyang adopted an aggressive rhetoric, conducted over 20 missile test launches, and conducted its sixth nuclear test.
However, since January 2018, Pyongyang appeared to have softened its stance, initiating diplomatic meetings. On April 27th, North and South Korean leaders Kim Jong-Un and Moon Jae-In held a historic summit, the first in over a decade. The two nations announced that they had agreed to end the 60-year Korean War and signed the Panmunjom Declaration which agreed to denuclearise North Korea. A meeting was also arranged between the North Korean leader and the US President, the first of its kind.
Russia has been largely left out of recent developments in the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong-Un has made two visits to China to personally meet Chinese President Xi Jinping since March this year. Kim has also met South Korean President Moon Jae-In twice, most recently in May. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also made two trips to Pyongyang to meet the North Korean leader. North Korean state media has announced that Syrian President Bashar Assad will be visiting North Korea soon.
Russia's first diplomatic visit to Pyongyang since 2009 took place on May 31st. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang. "We shouldn't try to make sudden movements, shouldn't speed up the process artificially that will, of course, require a considerable amount of time," Lavrov said in a televised address referring to the denuclearisation process. He added, "Russia is ready to contribute to these efforts, our Korean friends welcome it, and we have discussed some steps that can be taken in this direction."
Lavrov also invited Kim to visit Russia for talks with Russian President Putin. He discussed the possible revival of shelved collaborative projects including a natural gas pipeline and power lines, if UN sanctions are lifted. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that the North Korean leader could visit during the Fourth Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) that will be held in Vladivostok in September.
For his part, Kim Jong-Un said, "As we move to adjust to the political situation in the face of US hegemonism, I am willing to exchange detailed and in-depth opinions with your leadership and hope to do so moving forward," official news agency KCNA reported.
Observers have expressed their belief that Russia doesn't want the Kim regime to collapse. War in North Korea would result in an influx of refugees and could impact Russia's resource-rich Eastern regions, Al Jazeera Analyst Mansur Mirovalev noted. So far, North Korea has served as a buffer between US forces in South Korea and Russia's eastern provinces. Moscow would not want increased US military presence on the Russian border in the East.
Others have added that Kim could want Russia to counter US influence. "There is an agreement between Russia, China and North Korea that in case accords are reached [with the US], Russia and China will serve as guarantors of these accords," former Russian deputy foreign minister Andrey Fyodorov told Al Jazeera. "Kim is not making a deal with Trump without guarantees." Russia has veto power at the United Nations Security Council. It has used this platform to block Chemical weapon investigations against its ally Syria.
Some experts believe that Russia's influence in the geopolitics of North-East Asia has declined. Economically, it is less important to Pyongyang than China. "For North Korea, Russia is less important compared with South Korea, the United States and China," Andrei Lankov, from Kookmin University in Seoul, told Al Jazeera. "The North Korean decision-makers largely concentrate on the countries that are especially important, which either constitute a potential or actual military threat like the United States and South Korea, or those that can be seen as a possible source of economic assistance and investment - like China and South Korea," Lankov said.
Our assessment is that Russia's interests, like China's, lie in minimising US influence in East Asia. Neither country would want to see the influx of American troops or refugees that would come with a regime change. We believe that Russia does not want to be side-lined and lose its hold in the region if US and Pyongyang significantly improve ties. We believe that the role of Russia could remain crucial as it is the only country besides China that provides permanent transport and telecommunication links to Pyongyang.
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BkiUdvY5qoTBFHyxCWjU | Konstantínovsk - Константиновск - és una ciutat de Rússia que es troba a la província de Rostov. Es troba a la vora dreta del riu Don, a mig camí entre Rostov del Don i l'embassament de Tsimliansk. El riu Donets, afluent del Don, desemboca a la vora dreta.
Pertanyen a aquest municipalitat els municipis de Vedérnikov, Kostino-Gorski, Mikhàilovski, Starozolotovski i Khriaixsevski.
Història
Els primers assentaments cosacs a la regió del Don es remunten al , essent de caràcter militar, dotats de defenses senzilles. Habitualment es trobaven a la vora dels principals rius o en petites illes per tal de comptar amb defenses naturals. Aquest és el cas de Babei, l'assentament que va precedir Konstantínovsk, situat a l'illa de Lutxka, al riu Don, immediatament al sud-oest de la ciutat. La primera menció de la vila, amb el nom de Verkhnie Razdori (stanitsa Bàbskaia), es troba en la Descripció del riu Don de Vorónej a Azov, a la mar Negra, quantes verstes i assentaments cosacs, i quants cosacs a la vora del Don, els quals viuen en assentaments. El document conté informació sobre 31 localitats cosaques, els seus habitants i ocupacions. Segons l'historiador V.N. Koroliov, el text és del 1593, per la qual cosa s'accepta aquesta data per a la fundació de l'stanitsa Bàbskaia.
L'stanitsa Vedérnikovskaia, situada amunt del Don, fou fundada el 1672, i rebé el nom del seu fundador, el cosac Vedérnikov. D'aquesta data és la narració del viatge pel Don de l'ataman Frol Miniàiev, que cita tant Babei com Vedérnikovskaia. El 1802 la terra dels cosacs del Don es dividia en set regions: Txerkaski, I-Don, II-Don, Ust-Medvéditski, Khopiorski, Donetski i Miüski. El 1835, Vedérnikovskaia fou nomenada centre de la regió I-Don. El 1839, el Departament d'Assentaments Militars de la Terra de l'Exèrcit del Don va decidir unir les stanitses Bàbskaia i Vedérnikovskaia per formar l'stanitsa Konstantínovskaia, batejada així en honor del gran duc Constantí de Rússia. El 1850 hi arribaren les primeres 50 famílies de Bàbskaia, i el 1859 hi havia ja 156 llars i 922 habitants. El 1864 es dava per acabat el trasllat de les dues stanitses antigues a la nova, nomenada centre oficial de la regió aquell any. Gràcies a la seva posició, més avantatjosa, la vila va créixer ràpidament, amb indústria de la fusta que es transportava pel riu, producció de pa i tallers. Poc després s'hi inauguraren una escola i un gimnnàs.
Després del seu nomenament com a cap de districte, s'hi començaren a edificar construccions administratives d'acord amb un pla urbà fixat, amb carrers i places. Al centre de la localitat s'hi construïren cases comercials de dues plantes. El 1874 s'hi instal·là l'enllumenat amb fanals de petroli, tres per illa. El 1885, el iessaül Frol Petróvitx Kriukov inaugurà la primera biblioteca i el 1887 s'instal·lava la primera impremta privada. El 1908 començà la construcció d'un pont flotant sobre el Don, molt necessari per als habitants de la vila, que posseïen terres de conreu i boscs a la vora esquerra del riu.
El 191 es dotava la ciutat d'aigua corrent i d'electricitat. El 14 d'octubre del 1912 es publicava el primer número del diari Notícies i anuncis de Konstantínovskaia, publicat i redactat per K.M. Boldriev. Es distribuïa gratuïtament, car els ingressos eren generats per la publicitat comercial. Fou el primer diari rural de la regió del Don. El 1935 a l'stanitsa hi havia 935 llars i 6.797 habitants. A començaments del segle XX s'hi construïren moltes cases i edificis de maons, amb la qual cosa l'stanitsa va adquirir un aspecte més modern.
Durant els anys de la Guerra Civil Russa, Konstantínovskaia i el Primer Districte del Don eren considerats un dels principals punts de suport per a la contrarevolució. Durant un temps, l'ataman militar de l'Exèrcit del Don i el seu estat major es traslladaren de Novotxerkask a Konstantínovskaia. El 1920, quan tota la província del Don estava ja en poder de l'Exèrcit Roig, amb el desembarcament del coronel Nazàrov a la mar d'Azov, el seu proper objectiu era Konstantínovskaia.
Després de la Revolució, a poc a poc es recuperà l'activitat agrícola, comercial i social. La col·lectivització de la terra, la deskulakització i la descosaquització de postguerra, pràcticament destruïren la manera de viure dels cosacs a la regió. El 1941, l'estatut de la vila fou canviat pel d'assentament de treball i s'anomenà Konstantínovski.
Durant la Gran Guerra Pàtria, l'important pas sobre el Don fou bombardejat fortament per l'aviació de l'Alemanya Nazi. A Konstantínovski, proper al front, s'instal·laren hospitals militars. La vila fou ocupada per la Wehrmacht a finals del 1941. El 18 de gener del 1943 fou alliberada per les divisions 24a (condecorada amb l'Orde de la Bandera Roja) i 315a de Fusellers de l'Exèrcit Roig. Als combats per l'alliberament de la regió moriren 3.575 soldats i oficials, que estan enterrats en 26 fosses commemoratives distribuïdes per la zona.
Després de la guerra es desenvolupà a la vila la indústria dels productes agrícoles elaborats. La construcció del canal Volga-Don creà noves possibilitats per al desenvolupament econòmic. La mida del moll s'incrementà per acollir navilis multicoberta. El 20 de novembre del 1967 la vila rebé l'estatus de ciutat.
A la dècada del 1970 s'estudià la possibilitat de construir al Don la central hidroelèctrica Nikolàievski, amb un complex de preses, rescloses, etc. Tanmateix, la crisi econòmica de la Unió Soviètica impedí dur a terme aquests plans (1982), que haguessin fet de Konstantínovsk el principal centre energètic del sud de Rússia. El 1978 s'instal·là la xarxa de gas natural.
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In this week's New Yorker
By far the most compelling reading in this issue is Atul Gawande's long fascinating study of how chain restaurants manage to produce tasty food — he uses the Cheesecake Factory as his case study — and the ways in which hospitals would benefit from reproducing such systems. If you're like me, you probably think you don't want to know too much about what happens in restaurant kitchens, fearing the worst. But Gawande's account surprised and impressed me — of course, it makes sense for there to be strong accountability in restaurant management, otherwise they wouldn't stay in business. And it's accountability in several directions — to proper health standards; to the customer; to keeping costs affordable and waste to a minimum — that the author sees as key and makes a persuasive case for. As a physician employed by a hospital himself, he acknowledges the resistance that doctors have to systematizing procedures, but he also reports on several cases where hospitals have adopted these systems successfully. His article makes me realize that we, the public, have gotten accustomed to healthcare (the scheduling, the costs, the recommendations) running for the convenience of the doctors, when it should be the other way around.
Another healthcare-related high point in the issue: James Surowiecki's Financial Page column, "Downsizing Supersize," a very sensible analysis of Mayor Bloomberg's effort to limit the size of sodas for sale. Some express outrage and consider this a form of governmental micro-managing, but I have to say I support the idea 100%, and Surowiecki lays out the case superbly.
What else? Having gotten caught up in various Olympics dramas, I found Ben McGrath's report from London to be entertaining. I have a strange ambivalence about Lena Dunham — I can't tell if she has real talent, or just a high tolerance for self-exposure — but I read her Personal History essay on "First Love" anyway. I'm intrigued with those writers who are managing to incorporate up-to-the-minute social media in their stories — Justin Taylor's "After Ellen" is nominally fiction, and narrated by a man, but otherwise it's in the same category as Dunham's piece.
Steve Coll's profile of Imran Khan, former cricket star now running for top office in Pakistan, gives me some hope that that country can avoid falling completely under the sway of Islamist fundamentalists. And Adam Gopnik's book review/essay, "I, Nephi," proves that no matter how intelligently you're willing to discuss Mormonism, there's no way that the religion doesn't come off as absolutely crazy-pants.
And now that Mitt Romney has named his running partner, you may want to go back and read Ryan Lizza's recent profile of Paul Ryan — yes, he's handsome and well-spoken, but like Romney committed to economic policies that unavoidably benefit the 1% more than the rest of us folks.
This entry was posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:00 pm and is filed under In this week's New Yorker.
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BkiUdtI4uzlgqBZvCj8v | Back when Lightroom 5 was released, Adobe included an extremely useful tool called the Radial Filter. However, the name wasn't particularly clear about what it could do, so many people still have yet to find how useful and powerful it can be. Further improvements were added in Lightroom 6, with the ability to further edit the effect of the tool with the Brush function.
Once the global adjustments are done, then the local adjustments can be made. These are changes made to only a small part of the image. They may be to add final polish to the image or to fix some blemishes. These changes should be subtle and layered on with a delicate touch. It should not be obvious that they have been made, but when you are finished and compare the before and after image, there should be some improvement visible.
This is where the Radial Filter can be used, adding in areas of highlight or clarity to the key subject, brightening or darkening areas, or adding a custom vignette. Lots of little touches to take your final image to the next level.
My example image is a shot of a couple tiger cubs taken at Melbourne Zoo in 2010. It was very dark and shaded in their enclosure so the original RAW images are very dark. This image has been edited in Lightroom 6 to apply all the required global adjustments. It is now ready to have some localized tweaks added with the Radial Filter.
The Radial Filter lives in the right panel of the Develop Module. Under the histogram are six shapes that link to different tools. The round circle with a dot in the centre at the fifth position from the left is the Radial Filter.
When you click on the button for the Radial Filter (you can also use the keyboard shortcut Shift+M to open the Radial Filter), a panel opens up with all the editing choices available for this tool.
If you click on your image and drag the mouse out a bit, a roundish ellipse shape will form with a centre button and four control handles. Let go of the mouse when the shape is roughly the size you want it. The Radial Filter only offers a roundish ellipse shape but it has a lot of flexibility with changing the size and squashing it down to be a narrow oval shape instead of a circle.
Clicking and dragging on the centre button allows you to move the filter to the part of the image you want to edit. Use the control handles to change the size and also the shape of the ellipse.
By default, Lightroom sets the editing area to OUTSIDE the ellipse. If you want to edit INSIDE the area, tick the Invert Mask box on the Panel.
The red colour shows up if you have Show Selected Mask Overlay ticked. It is handy to see where Lightroom will apply the effect and how much feathering you need to use.
NOTE: if you do not see a coloured overlay like the red one shown here, hit the O keyboard shortcut for "overlay". Holding shift and tapping O will change the color of the overlay.
Note: Always click Close or Done (or the keyboard shortcut Shift+M again) once you are finished editing a particular button so you can see the edited image clearly.
In the example image the aim is to bring attention to the tiger cubs, adding some tweaks around the head and paws area (it's not 100% sharp due to the low light and the movement while they were wrestling).
First, we add a vignette to darken the distracting elements on the edge of the frame and bring the focus to the cubs.
Because they are not in the absolute centre of the image, the usual post-crop vignette tool will not work. This is where the Radial Filter is so useful, as you can add a vignette with the focus an off-centre subject rather than being limited to the middle of the frame.
The vignette needs to have Invert Mask NOT ticked, as the effect goes on the outside of the ellipse.
Add the Radial Filter and adjust the shape to be quite large – you can make the ellipse bigger than the actual image if necessary. Invert the mask and bring the exposure down just enough to darken the edges of the frame.
Lightroom has a default feather setting of 50 which is quite a lot, too much for this image, so adjust the feather down. Be careful not to go too far as a harsh edge will become visible.
The right-hand edge of the image still has a bright spot of foliage. So add another long Radial Filter and bring the exposure down a little bit.
There are no set numbers of how much to edit with this tool, you will need to experiment and go with what feels right. The good news is these are all non-destructive edits (the image is not permanently changed) so you can remove them all and start again, or change the settings on one or all of them, as many times as necessary.
There is a bright spot of foliage on the left-hand side, just sticking out from behind the tree trunk. Create a new Radial Filter just big enough to cover the right area and shape with the control handles.
Invert the mask and bring the exposure down a bit. This time, click and drag on the bottom control handle and drag to the right until the ellipse tilts back to the left a bit and aligns better with the line of the tree trunk.
Now it is time to add some brightness and focus to the tiger cubs. Add a new Radial Filter to cover the area on the bright side of the head and paws and bring up the exposure a tiny amount. That is where the sunlight is naturally falling, so that is the area that needs brightening. Be careful to add light effects only to the lighter parts of the image as it can look a bit odd if a darker area is unnaturally bright.
Now is a good time to mention that you may have to make LOTS of little adjustments to cover areas with different shapes. It is fiddly and takes time, but you will get a better result if you take the time to edit that way.
Adding some clarity to the side of the face and paw in the sunlight is the next step. Create a new Radial Filter with size, shape and tilt to match the area and invert the mask. Add some clarity, and because this image is not quite sharp, just a little bit of sharpness. Be careful with these tools, as it is easy to go too far and get obvious effects.
The vignettes have darkened the overall area in the middle a bit much so let's add some brightness. Add a Radial Filter to cover the area around the cubs and tweak the exposure up a small amount. Also, increase clarity and saturation a very small amount.
Let's stop there and compare the BEFORE image with global adjustments only to the AFTER image with several specific applications of the Radial Filter.
First, we have the finished image with all the dots for the different individual Radial Filters added.
Then we have the BEFORE image.
Finally the AFTER image with both global, and local edits applied with the Radial Filter.
As you can see, careful use of the Radial Filter can add many small subtle changes to an image, and bring the focus to the subject. It can also be used to further enhance the subject and give it extra punch and vibrancy.
The Radial Filter is a very capable tool that can take a bit of time to get used to. The limited shape has some challenges to learn how to work with it to get the best effect but it gives you a lot of power and control too.
Do you have any other tips for using the Radial Filter? Please share in the comments below. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUfo_xK0zjCsHedCW8 | Piriformis syndrome is relatively common. The piriformis is a muscle in the buttocks area, and piriformis syndrome causes spasms of said muscle, which leads to intense pain. However, what you may not know is that this muscle spasm can lead to discomfort in other areas, like the hips and lower back. In some cases, professionals believe it can even lead to sciatica. Sciatica is the name for any pain or discomfort inflicted on the sciatic nerve.
With all of this in mind, it is important to keep the piriformis muscle in tip top shape. Even when it is not, you must stretch and continue to make sure that it can heal properly and be rid of pain. Here are some piriformis stretches, which in turn can reduce pain in your hips and back, too.
– Lie down flat on your back on the floor or a comfortable, flat surface.
– Bend your knees and place both feet flat onto the floor.
– When you are ready, pull your right knee up to your chest, hold it there with your left hand, and pull the knee towards your left shoulder.
– When you feel the stretch, hold it. Repeat this for both sides.
– Do this three times a day, and to begin, hold each stretch for 5 seconds, gradually increasing over time.
– Begin in the same position as number one, with both feet flat on the floor and knees bent.
– Cross your right ankle over the knee of the left leg and rest it there.
– Use both hands to pull your left leg towards your chest and hold it there. Repeat this for both sides.
– Hold the stretch for 5 seconds, and perform this three times a day.
– Lay flat on the floor with your legs stretched out.
– Raise your left leg and place your left foot on the opposite side (or outside) of your right knee.
– Pull your knee towards the right side of your body using your right hand or a towel, whatever is easier for you.
– When you begin to feel the stretch, hold the position for 30 seconds, then slowly return to the beginning position. Repeat this for the opposite side.
– Start the stretch on all fours, like a dog.
– Place your left knee outside the âtrunkâ of the body (near your midsection) by bending your leg and keeping it perpendicular to the body underneath you.
– Extend your right leg back and straighten it as much as you can, and keep your hips and pelvis straight.
– Slowly scoot your hips backwards, keeping the leg underneath you in place, and lean forward on your forearms. Do not try to force your body to the floor, but continue until the stretch is felt.
– Hold for 30 seconds, return to starting position, and repeat for the other side.
– Place two chairs in front of each other, facing the other. Sit in one, and place your ankle on top of the opposite one.
– Slowly lean forward until you feel a stretch on the back of your thigh.
– Hold the position for 30 seconds, then do the other side.
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BkiUemPxK1yAga6JtQfj | Regarding 1 Cor. 13:12 and the term "face to face", in Ex. 33:11 we are told that God talked to Moses "face to face, as a man speaks with a friend". We know this is figurative language because Ex. 33:20 tells us that Moses did not actually see God's face. The same thing happens to us today when God speaks to us through His Word. Heb. 4:12 tells us that the Bible is living and active and that it judges the thoughts and attitudes of our hearts. As we read the Bible, even though we don't see God's face, we feel and know that we have personally come "face to face" with Him.
ii) James 1:21-25 refer to the Bible as "the perfect law that gives freedom" and, in the next paragraph, there is a link to a PDF showing that "the perfect" in 1 Cor. 13:9-10 is speaking about the Bible also.
The following interprets 1 Cor. 13:12 in the light of "the perfect" being the completed Bible.
then [when we have the completed Bible] I shall know fully, even as I am fully known".
Regarding "mirror", the polished metal mirrors used in Paul's day gave a poor reflection. This speaks of the poorer understanding of things like our spiritual condition, Jesus' sacrifice, End Times etc., that we get when we only read the Old Testament. But, just as today's glass mirrors give a clear reflection, the New Testament gives us a clear, "face to face" understanding of God's Will.
even as [that is, in the same manner as] I am fully known [by Him]". | c4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
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BkiUbdU5qsJBjPtcWg4e | Moonday, Cold Cereal and the New York Times bestseller, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich have one hysterical thing in common — Adam Rex. True to his name, the author/illustrator/artist is a literary king and a gateway author for young readers. You might have seen his books or attended one of his popular sessions at the Tucson Festival of Books (TFOB) or maybe you've seen the DreamWorks movie Home based on his book The True Meaning of Smekday. If not, you're in luck! The one and only Adam Rex will be making an appearance at Bookmans Midtown on September 9th at 11am. Don't miss out on a short reading provided by this Tucson celeb. Mr. Rex will be drawing one of kind creatures with the help of his audience and reading one of his acclaimed children's books. Until then, geek out with us as this U of A alumnus shares his thoughts on creativity, Magic: The Gathering and Bookmans.
Rex gets around the nagging feeling of obligation that turns creativity into a chore by working on multiple projects concurrently. "If I don't feel like painting today there's probably a sketch to do, and if I don't feel like sketching I could be working on a manuscript," says Rex. Deadlines help and when they are looming, "I have to bear down and work on the same subject matter in the same medium every day for a few weeks or months. And in these cases I try to remind myself that I don't exactly push a boulder up a hill for a living. I make up stories and draw funny monsters, and it's supposedly what I'd be doing anyway in my free time if no one were paying me." Bear down Arizona creatives!
To his point, Rex has experience outside the book industry. He has drawn for Magic: The Gathering. While he has never played the game, he allows that some years from now, when his son is older, they may share some Magic time.
At one point in our Q&A Rex references Douglas Adams, also a heavy influencer in our literary circles. We can't help but notice that Rex is now aged 42. We don't know if he is the answer, but he may soon give into a universal drive. "I have contracted that thing that seems to happen to middle-aged Tucson artists where we all start wanting to paint summer thunderstorms over distant desert mountains. I haven't given in to this yet, but the teenaged me would have been bewildered that I was even considering it." We get it, Rex.
These days, if he's able to pass by our paintings of the southwest books, Rex heads for the kids' section at Bookmans Grant. "We usually have to spend ten or so minutes letting my 3-year-old endanger all the musical instruments before he'll consent to go back there," he says. We appreciate his caution, but we are certain we have an instrument appropriate for every aspiring musician.
For those who do make it to our kids' section, Rex currently recommends Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, Home by Carson Ellis and Wild by Emily Hughes. He also suggests anything illustrated by Christian Robinson, novels by Rebecca Stead and comics by Aaron Renier. For teens, he proposes Blankets by Craig Thompson.
Let that be a lesson to kids everywhere. You can have a career in creativity. You will find inspiration everywhere, including college. Stop in and check out a few of his titles or maybe you'll find one of his recommendations appealing.
We are grateful to Rex for taking the time to share his thoughts with Bookmans. Fortunately for the world, anyone can keep up with Rex by following him on Twitter. We highly recommend you do. He's funny and responsive and 100% genuine, except when he's feeling snarky.
* Bookmans is your store to explore. We can't guarantee stock so if you are interested in a particular Adam Rex title or one of the titles he recommends, please give us a call and we'll check our orange shelves for you. Otherwise, we hope you will come and browse. We'll even let you check out the musical instruments. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUeJA4ubnjorNy46l_ | When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eudenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is offered...she will risk her country to execute the perfect revenge.
...but
Eugenides can steal anything. And he taunts the Queen of Attolia, moving through her strongholds seemingly at will. So Attolia waits, secure in the knowledge that the Thief will slip, that he will haunt her palace one too many times.
...at what price?
When Eugenides finds his small mountain country at war with Attolia, he must steal a man, he must steal a queen, he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph--and his greatest loss--comes in capturing something that the Queen of Attolia thought she had sacrificed long ago...
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The Queen of Attolia
by Megan Whalen Turner
The Queen of Attolia is one of the most beautiful stories ever written. It is the second book by Megan Whalen Turner, following her first book The Thief (The Queen's Thief). The author does this amazing thing where she starts you off absolutely loathing characters, but gradually she twists your vision to discover there is something incredibly sad and unutterably sweet about them.
Where The Thief is told in first person, this novel is told from multiple points of view. We get interjections from the Queen of Eddis, the Queen of Attolia, and the magus of Sounis, with some insertions from other miscellaneous side characters. But the bulk of the story belongs to Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis and hero of the author's previous book.
After a stealthy reconnaissance into enemy territory goes horribly wrong, Eugenides returns to Eddis in despair, thinking he has become useless to his Queen. Suffering from trauma, nightmares and worthlessness, it takes the Thief a long time to rediscover a spark inside him; a spark that will help him steal time, steal peace. Maybe even steal a kingdom.
Eugenides is an awesomely complex character. He is maddening to a point where you want to strangle him, but vulnerable enough you would do anything to protect him. He hides himself behind swagger and sarcasm. He might complain, he might boast and rage and threaten the gods themselves, but he is willing to do anything he can to achieve peace and save the heart of the woman he loves. Even if it means sacrificing himself in exchange.
This is a story centered more about the fates of three kingdoms and their battles for independence, but there is a thread of romance that is made sweeter for its unexpectedness. I would recommend a reader start off with The Thief, but this story is detailed enough to be read on its own.
Profanity/Language: 5 religious exclamations; 14 mild obscenities; 2 derogatory names.
Violence/Gore: A character is pursued through a city, suffering injuries; character strikes his head; character is attacked by dogs; character is imprisoned; there are descriptions of a character's wounds; characters are occasionally threatened with death; characters are sometimes slapped or struck; character suffers a crippling injury (not overly graphic); character suffers from a severe fever; character struggles with nightmares; character's wounded arm is frequently mentioned; character sometimes wishes she had killed another; there are frequent reports of war; there are occasional reports of property damage, such as fire, flooding, etc.; there are some reports of military deaths; characters occasionally threaten harm on others; a couple of characters are abducted; there are some reports of piracy; characters sometimes fight with others; a character occasionally suffers phantom pains from a missing appendage; there are several descriptions of wars and skirmishes (not graphic); character recalls the violence she committed to hold onto her power; there are some recollections of the deaths of family members; character once poisoned someone; characters cross dangerous terrain with some loss of life; characters sometimes think they are about to die; character is killed by a crossbow quarrel; characters are captured; characters offer to commit suicide; character sees bodies hung from a palace's wall (not overly graphic); character is nearly strangled to death; character is kicked in the head; character is accused of undermining a country; character thinks another has been poisoned; character sacrifices a young goat on an altar (not overly graphic); glass shatters over a character; character has a vision of a city's future destruction; characters sometimes mention or recall the maiming of another.
Sex/Nudity: A character's attendants help her undress (not sexual); a male character kisses a female character's fingers; a male character helps his son undress for bed; characters are believed to be having an affair; a female character kisses a male character on the forehead; characters gossip about another being in love; a character in a story is said to have had a son by a blacksmith; characters sometimes walk arm-in-arm; a female character lays in a male character's arms; there are a few instances where characters are implied to be intimate; two characters discuss marriage; a character is forced into a political marriage; there is a mention of concubines; a character bathes (not sexual); character realizes she loves another; character pretends to choose a mistress; characters will occasionally touch another's face; A character announces an engagement; character is dressed by her attendants (not sexual); characters discuss another's love; characters question each other's love; characters say they love each other.
Torture, war, death, espionage, theft, piracy, amputation, sacrifice, nightmares, murder, assassination, arranged marriage.
A character is given drugs a couple times to help him sleep; characters often drink wine at meals; a character will occasionally mix up a sleeping draught; characters are said to be asleep in a wine shop; character poisons another; characters are occasionally drunk or said to be drunkards; mention of medicinal narcotics; character drinks heavily once. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd0Y4uBhi8u04prQf | Playhouse Presents is an anthology series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The second series began airing in April 2013. A third season began airing 1 May 2014.
Sky Arts announced that they were ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon's The One. They said the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, were slated to return for the series run, which was to be filmed in September 2012. The series was scheduled to broadcast in 2013.
The four-part adaptation of A Young Doctor's Notebook starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe was also broadcast as under the Playhouse Presents banner in December 2012. It became the most successful series in the history of Sky Arts and a second series was commissioned, airing in late 2013.
Sky Arts announced two films, Foxtrot and Nightshift, for the Playhouse Presents strand in late 2013. While it initially appeared that these would be broadcast as one-offs, they ended up being aired as part of the third season. A Christmas special titled "Marked", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Fry, and Kevin McNally, was broadcast in December 2014.
Episodes
Series 1 (2012)
Series 2 (2013)
Series 3 (2014)
Broadcast
Playhouse Presents premiered on 4 January 2015 on BBC First.
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British drama television series
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BkiUa7s5qX_AY1OJKlWA | The organic shapes tapas board by Muubs has been elevated on sophisticated, hand cut legs. This creates an interesting effect that will display your tapas or canapés in the most elegant way. The small legs furthermore makes the tapas board easy to lift up, and is an organic and beautiful fundament for your food. Rethink the serving board and elevate your canapés with the small Muubs teak tapas board. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdaE5qdmDGzKHcAeC | I was reading about a new Canadian dog food named Vintage oven fresh that will be coming out in Septmeber. It's actually a really neat idea. This food does not contain any rendered foods in it and will not be extruded kibble. They make the kibble by slow cooking in an oven. This makes the ingredients more digestible. This really makes sense to me when you think about how heat and pressure can denatured proteins. It intrigues me because I would never consider feeding raw to my dogs because I have very young kids and a french kissIng JRT, but I think about how healthy kibble really is for dogs often. My dogs currently are getting a high quality kibble with some fresh fruit and veggies added daily. This diet is something I will probably try. | c4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUdj84eIXgu2wFKGSk | Red Hot Chili Peppers, Miley Cyrus, H.E.R., and Brandi Carlile Added as Performers at the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards
See them all at the 2019 GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, February 10th
GRAMMY Awards: Vote for Best Country Album
Cast your vote for the Best Country Album GRAMMY Award and be sure to watch on February 10 to see if you picked the winner.
GRAMMY Awards: Best New Artist Nominees
These artists achieved a "breakthrough into the public consciousness"
Dan + Shay and Kacey Musgraves to Perform at 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards
Country stars part of the first wave of announced performers
GRAMMY Awards: 5 Big Songs From the Big Screen
These are the nominees for Best Song Written For Visual Media
Alicia Keys Will Host the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards
The 15-time winner will be our guide through music's biggest night
GRAMMY Awards: Record Of The Year Nominees
Eight will enter, but only one performance will be remembered as the year's best
GRAMMY Awards: Best Music Video Nominees
These artists and directors had a lot to say in 2018
GRAMMY Awards: Best Country Song Nominees
The 61st Annnual GRAMMY Awards will air live from Los Angeles February 10, but who will win the GRAMMY for Best Country Song?
GRAMMY Awards: Best Country Music Album Nominees
The 61st GRAMMY Awards will take place on February 10 and now it's time to take a closer look at the nominees for Best Country Album. | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdhU5qhDBWAzXsbR1 | We've all experienced bad days at work. From missing your train connection which results in being late to the office, to an unhappy customer, to running out of your favorite tea, experiencing even a slight misfortune at work can really put a damper on your entire day.
But what if someone told you that these bad days were something you had control over?
In this article, we'll take a look at how science-based solutions can help you alter your approach and make decisions that can improve the quality of your work day, every day.
Having a bad day at work can impact every area of your life. Things like a slow computer or an unreasonable client are commonplace occurrences that can happen to anyone that has a regular 9 to 5. And the worst thing about these crummy experiences at work is that they don't just stay there. They can build up and persist into your personal life.
Wouldn't it be great if you had control in how your day pans out?
Well, according to Caroline Webb and her book, How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life, you do.
Caroline Webb is an economist, former partner at management consultancy McKinsey, and author of How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. Through her work, she's helped companies increase employee productivity and welfare by showing them how their lives can be transformed for the better by applying insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience.
In her book, she explains that we have more control than we think with shaping our day, and that we possess the power to ensure that every day we have at work can be a good day. Webb highlights this belief with science-based solutions. Using research and real-life examples, she illustrates how you can develop certain routines and habits which you can implement when confronted with challenges during the working day, and which will help with reducing the chances of a bad day.
So, how can we exert this apparent power we have?
Emails can be a major distraction in the work place. Even if you've switched off notifications, it can still be tempting to check your inbox every so often. Switching from one task to another can disrupt your concentration and diminish your focus which is why Webb advises to avoid email grazing.
Research has found that it can take up to 20 minutes to regain your focus, so to avoid aimlessly checking your inbox throughout the day, instead, what you can do is to establish a time where you tackle all your emails in one go. Depending on the number of emails you receive, you could even do this twice a day. Not only can this stop you from task switching, but it also limits distractions which can ensure you get more tasks done so that you're able to achieve your goals for the day.
Defining your intentions for the day can play a huge role in how you can make yourself have a better day. It helps you decide where you want to focus your attention. Your intentions should be framed in positive language. For example, if your goal was to increase business revenue, opt for something like "make my product exciting" instead of "stop losing money".
Setting intentions provides you with direction. For instance, one of Webb's clients, a strategic director of an aircraft manufacturer realized the value of setting intentions. He explained that he manages to sit on the board of several technology companies alongside his role because he learned to be as strategic about his daily personal intentions as he is about his work. He used to suffer from a lack of concentration, but one day he wrote down why he was doing what he was doing, and how he wanted to do it. This gave him clarification and a sense of purpose which enabled him to establish an intention-setting routine and avoid the distractions that used to plague him.
Our attitude can also have an effect. A study on how mood effects person-perception judgements conducted by Joseph Forgas and Gordon Bower, professors at the University of New South Wales and Stanford, found that participants who were happier could perceive subjects in a more positive light compared to participants who were intentionally put into a funk. So, if we approach the day with good intentions and a positive attitude, then it can influence our day favorably.
Another way to increase the likelihood of having a good day every day at work is to connect with your co-workers. Your co-workers are the people you spend the majority of your waking hours with, so it makes sense to know them beyond a superficial level. It can create a sense of collaboration and trust, which can also be economically beneficial.
Invest some time and make the effort to really get to know them. Ask about their weekend, their hobbies, and whether or not they have any vacations planned. By having a genuine interest in what they do and who they are as a person, you may find commonalities and shared interests, which can only elevate your relationship.
Building rapport between co-workers is an important part of having a good day. Not only does working in a comfortable environment make for a more pleasant day-to-day experience, but the nature of your relationships with the people around you can greatly effect your mood and overall happiness.
No matter how much we plan and approach the day with good intentions, sometimes things just don't work out the way we want them to. While we can't control the subway system or a client's mood, we can control our reaction towards them. Planning for challenges that may arise during the work day is another way to have a better quality day. Webb recommends to recall past problems that you overcame and assess how you overcame them. Not only will the reminder of how you prevailed give you a confidence boost, but it can make any difficult or stressful situation seem like a piece of cake.
If it's an issue with a co-worker or a client you're facing, talk about it with them. Addressing the problem and resolving the tension is a far better solution than keeping quiet. When addressing the issue, you should be firm but also polite. Hear out their point of view as well, you may find something out that you didn't know before.
While there isn't much we can do when it comes to the public transport system, we can still find ways to get through our commutes. Find an alternative route to work or home should your initial transport option fail you. Download a podcast or bring along a book that you enjoy so that when you do experience delays, you have something pleasant to fill your time while you wait.
A work challenge can be anything from an undesired project outcome to being assigned a task that seems near impossible to complete. Chances are you would have experienced a similar issue in the past, even if it's not within the same context, there can still be factors that parallel. Think about the resources you used to overcome the past issue and see if the same or similar things can be applied to your current one.
Taking regular breaks at work is imperative for your health and general wellbeing. This is especially important for people who work in front of a computer as they are leading sedentary lifestyles. Not only is taking regular breaks crucial for maintaining health, but it plays an important part in keeping up energy and productivity levels.
As focus starts to waver after 90 minutes, it's a good idea to take a small break every 90 minutes or so. You can get up to grab a beverage, take a bathroom break, or stretch your body. There are even plug-in apps that you can install into your browser so that you are reminded regularly to look away from your screen.
Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson studied elite performers in various fields such as music, sports, and chess, and found what they all had in common was that they practiced in 90 minute intervals with short breaks in between. Doing so optimized their productivity and minimized fatigue levels.
Having a good day at work doesn't necessarily mean that everything is going to be peachy from the moment you leave your house in the morning to the moment you step back inside at the end of the day. (I mean if it does then great, but let's be a little realistic here). What it means is that you're aware that you have some control of how things shape around you and that you know how to exert that control to have a better day.
From forming closer relationships with your co-workers to having a challenge-managing plan, Webb's book provides examples to how your behavior can alter situations that can impact the quality of your day. By making the right decisions and proceeding towards a positive outlook, you'll realize that you have more control than you thought on how to have a good day. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUbsbxK2li-F6JxasH | Simple Arduino Audio Player and Amplifier with LM386. Adding sounds or music to our project will always make it looks cool and sounds much more attractive.
It covers 16 projects with a step-by-step tutorial guide for the Arduino beginners as well as professionals Buying Arduino Kit All the Arduino starter kits come with a lot of information and hardware components to let you start with. | c4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbAU4uzki04AfU5cx | People are essential to conserving pollinators
by James Cook University
A global study has concluded that people are essential to conserving the pollinators that maintain and protect biodiversity, agriculture and habitat.
"There's increasing awareness of the importance of pollinators to our quality of life," lead researcher Rosemary Hill said.
"That discussion is often reduced to how to protect bees, and how to expand the amount of land managed as conservation reserves.
"What we found is that the best way to protect pollinators is to support those people whose cultural, spiritual and economic lives are tied to them."
While pollinators can range from weevils to monkeys, and from tiny shrimps to birds and bats, bees are the main pollinators of our food, and the key focus of the investigation.
Associate Professor Hill, a human geographer at CSIRO and James Cook University in Cairns, worked with colleagues from 15 nations to investigate pollinator conservation in 60 countries, on every continent except Antarctica.
"Where people have cultural and religious beliefs about pollinators, perhaps identify them as their totems, and have taboos and other practices that protect them, they will protect and foster not just the pollinators but their habitats," she said.
"Where local communities rely on bees as a source of honey and wax, they will not just protect the bees, their habitat and their nectar sources, they will also acquire detailed knowledge of their biology and ecology that will contribute to long-term, sustainable management of those resources."
The researchers have formulated policies that will support what they call biocultural conservation, which they recommend for government agencies, natural resource managers and world heritage managers.
"There is almost always, in some part of the world, a conflict involving government, conservation, and indigenous and local communities as to the best way to protect significant tracts of land," Associate Professor Hill said.
"Two current examples would be the disputes in Myanmar and Northern Thailand, where conservationists are critical of traditional land use, and indigenous peoples fear losing their traditional land to national parks.
"Our research indicates that the best way to protect pollinators, which underpin the long-term health and productivity of natural environments, is to keep people on their land."
The policies recommended are:
Requiring prior informed consent (from traditional owners) for conservation and development
Securing customary tenures
Strengthening indigenous and community-conserved areas and other traditional governance that supports pollinators
Supporting knowledge co-production activities
Promoting heritage listing
Fostering livelihoods based on beekeeping
Promoting food sovereignty.
More information: Bicultural approaches to pollinator conservation, Nature Sustainability, DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0244-z , www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0244-z
Journal information: Nature Sustainability
Provided by James Cook University
Cities could play a key role in pollinator conservation
'Extinct' bee found on the outskirts of Perth
UN, EU call for global action to protect bees
'Bee' informed: public interest exceeds understanding in bee conservation, says biologist
Team helps establish roadmap for filling the gaps in forest pollinator research
Foreign bees monopolize prize resources in biodiversity hotspot
Snakes evolve a magnetic way to be resistant to venom
Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly
Researchers call for greater consideration of soil biodiversity and functions in international conservation strategies
How insects activate muscles to adapt to limbs removed
Scientists discover the secret of Galapagos' rich ecosystem
Sea lion diagnosed with tuberculosis triggers public health concerns
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BkiUgq7xK7IAB1deWfOx | Apple Notes
By Robin Bigwood
We root out a little-known hard-disk hog and tell you why musicians shouldn't rush to upgrade to iOS 7.
The release of iOS 7 happened as expected on September 18th, delivering on the clean visual design that Apple trumpeted in their June WWDC keynote.
Sadly though — and in a depressingly familiar echo of OS X update practice — the very first release version, 7.0, causes instability in a number of music apps, particularly when used in conjunction with Audiobus. Things will work out in time, no doubt, but right now the only really safe bet is to stick with iOS 6 for a while longer.
Meanwhile, back on the cutting edge, some more information is starting to emerge about iOS 7's inter-app audio feature, with a few apps, like Yamaha's TNRi v1.5, already supporting it. It's a system-level mechanism that lets the audio output of one app appear as an input in another for recording or processing. It'll also launch apps when necessary, apparently. All very Audiobus-like, for sure, but the difference is that there's no 'front end', with all settings taking place in the individual apps themselves. I'm not sure anyone has used it in anger yet, but it's bound to become an important feature. More news here on all things iOS 7 as it comes in...
To Sleep, Perchance...
Have you heard of your Mac's 'sleepimage' file? I hadn't until a few weeks back, when I was using the third-party disk-scanning utility DaisyDisk to help me free up some space on my solid-state system drive. It revealed the mysterious 17GB chunk in a part of OS X usually hidden from view.
The lovely new full-screen app switcher in iOS 7. But for the time being iOS-based musicians will be better off staying with iOS 6. The sleepimage is part of Apple's 'safe sleep' feature which dates back to 2005 and OS 10.4, but in fact it's only created by default on Mac laptops. It's essentially a dump of your RAM contents, written as the Mac goes to sleep, or when battery power gets very low, preventing any unsaved work being lost in the event of total battery depletion. When you restart the Mac the sleepimage is read back from disk and you carry on where you left off.
Put like this, what's not to like? Answer: some unforeseen drawbacks. As I discovered, that sleepimage memory dump can be a disk storage hog, grabbing at least as much space as you have physical RAM, and without asking too! In my case the 17GB sleepimage (generated from my 16GB RAM) was using up a whopping 14 percent of my 240GB SSD system drive. Next, the dump process can make putting your Mac to sleep really slow. It'd be particularly bad if you had a lot of RAM and a conventional mechanical hard drive; sleep could take literally minutes to happen. And that is potentially dangerous if you put your Mac laptop to sleep by closing the lid, before immediately chucking it in a shoulder bag and legging it out of the house... You wouldn't know it, but your system drive could easily be spinning, and writing, as you jog along. With a solid-state drive there's not the same risk of data loss through physical damage, but this sort of large data-write operation, repeated day after day, will degrade an SSD over time.
This donationware 'SSD Optimizer' app exposes several obscure Mac system settings that some users may find indispensable.
The irony in all this is that if you're reasonably attentive you'll probably never need safe sleep anyway. Save your work when your MacBook flashes up a low battery warning and you're safe. Even if the Mac finally powers down, you still have a grace period — usually several hours— in which the RAM continues to be powered and your memory contents remain intact. Just plug into the mains as soon as you can. In my situation the reclaimed 17GB disk space and instant sleep behaviour would far outweigh the safe sleep benefits.
So how do you zap that sleepimage, and prevent it from appearing again? Well, UNIX nerds can use Terminal commands. But much nicer for most of us is the donationware utility Chameleon SSD Optimizer from http://chameleon.alessandroboschini.it. This great little app gives you everything you'll need, including a useful on-board help/info page, and despite the name it'll work for mechanical drives too (although many features will be redundant). Do back up before letting loose with it, though.
Here's one last thing. A corrupted sleepimage is often the culprit on Macs that won't wake, or that hang shortly after waking. So even if you decide not to disable safe sleep completely, deleting the damaged sleepimage will often cure all your problems. And have no fear, a nice new one will be generated the very next time your Mac hits the pillow.
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BkiUdb7xK7ICUuXek8ns | When it launches into the indies and the on-trade, it is believed that González Byass' La Copa will be the only sherry vermouth available in the UK.
Richard Witter, Brand Manager for the Jerez-based company, said they are hoping to tap into an increasing trend in the on-trade which shows that consumers are demanding more history and detail about what's in their glass.
"People are a lot more interested in the individual elements in the cocktail. I've noticed when our drinks are being made in cocktails, on the menu it no longer just says fino sherry, it says Tio Peppe fino. They mention the brand and the bitters which wasn't always the case. Ten years ago if you asked for a Martini it would say 'vodka and vermouth' on the menu but now they will go into detail about the ingredients," he said.
Witter says this is good news for La Copa which has the originality and the historic credentials to engage this wave of more discerning customers.
He said: "The time is right with vermouth. There's a real buzz about it in the cocktail scene and bartenders are making lots of sherry and wine cocktails at the moment. People are a lot more conscious of what they're drinking and where the serve comes from so I think La Copa will tap into that."
He added: "Cocktails are our main target, but more and more places are offering vermouth by the glass."
La Copa is sweet vermouth, likely to be used in cocktails such as Rob Roy or the Boulevardier, and is made from a fortified wine base with additional botanicals.
It is a blend of 8-year-old Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez sherry, made by recovering recipes and techniques dating back to 1896.
González Byass were able to extract the original recipe and label from the company's archives. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdaw5qX_BjprW8nh6 | Don't Let Them Attack Your Autonomy! The Trick of Debunking Religion
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Feb 21, 2013
The modern world speaks a great deal about autonomy, and the more the modern secularist emphasizes his or her autonomy, the more the faithful Catholic doubts its value. However, as I pointed out in my review of Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski's recent book (see Epistemic Authority: Preferring the True and the Good to the Self), a legitimate emphasis on personal autonomy is implicit in the Christian doctrine of conscience. We cannot escape the need to make our own decisions about truth and goodness.
In making these decisions, many other people can help us, and we can come to recognize various authorities over what we believe. That's the point of Zagzebski's book, which I highlight in the review. She destroys the claim of epistemic egoism—the claim that we cannot exercise our autonomy unless we reject all authority and insist only on believing whatever happens to suit ourselves. But in the final chapter of the book, Zagzebski points out that the ultimate war against autonomy is not waged by those who accept moral and spiritual authorities, but by those who try to explain them away by attributing moral and religious belief to various kinds of forces over which we have no control.
Secularists very commonly attempt to do this in a variety of ways. One method is Freudianism. The Freudian tells the hapless believer that his religious beliefs are not the result of any conscientious personal reflection but of a subconscious need for safety and the escape from fear. Another method is sometimes used by evolutionary biologists. Here the assertion is that religious beliefs have no relationship to reality, but have simply evolved as particular adaptations to outside conditions in the quest for survival. It is somewhat peculiar that such theories are used primarily against morality and religion, since they could just as easily be applied to the beliefs of those who are wielding these arguments like swords. But such is the modern world.
Yet another method is to attempt, without legitimate evidence, to impugn either the intelligence or the motives of those who hold a particular belief. Whole studies have been done to prove (by sampling only modern Western nations) that religious belief is more common among those with less intelligence and education. Of course, even if this were broadly true, one could just as easily find the reason in a typical lack of conscientious reflection within the dominant class as in the ignorance of uneducated Christians. Alternatively, it is not uncommon in modern society for deeply religious people to be accused of ulterior motives—of desiring unwarranted consolation, or of currying favor with particular communities, or of lazily giving up their right to think.
While we all at times fall into the trap of imputing unsatisfactory motives to those with whom we disagree, the attempt to discredit religion in these ways is most often made by those who claim to be champions of autonomy against those they regard as failing to act in a properly autonomous way. The free-thinker is autonomous; the Christian is suffering from some sort of mind control.
But this is contrary to the very nature of the secular arguments, and Zagzebski's enormous gift to the discussion goes straight to the heart of the matter in just one sentence. "I think it is important," she writes, "to see that these are attacks on autonomy." She goes on to explain:
It is impossible to be self-governing without a substantial amount of trust in oneself. Evidence we trust that indicates that conscientious reflection is not apt to produce true belief in broad areas of belief formation undermines trust in the reflective capacities needed for self-governance. Even if the attack is only directed at one category of belief, for example, moral, political, religious, or philosophical beliefs, loss of trust in the faculties and dispositions that lead to beliefs in that category can easily lead to a loss of trust in the faculties that lead to beliefs in many other categories because they are often the same faculties. We do not, after all, have very many belief-forming faculties, and if we have reason to think these faculties are untrustworthy in their deliverances in one area, there is reason to suspect their deliverances in general. At the worst, the evidence casts doubt on the trustworthiness of the norm of conscientious self-reflection—on the connection between following the norm and getting the truth. We cannot be self-governing if we doubt the basic norm of autonomy. (pp. 239-240)
There are, in fact, two ways in which personal autonomy can be attacked. One way is to coerce people to behave a certain way, by coercing their actions. This is the method commonly employed in law. We may not care a bit about what somebody believes in their heart of hearts about X, but there will be hell to pay if somebody does Y. This is an inescapable part of life. The right things are not always enjoined or proscribed, but life in community is not possible without constraints of this kind. Within due limits, such constraints are not evil.
The other way to attack personal autonomy is to attempt to control the very process by which a person comes to a decision about what to believe or, better yet, to supplant their decision process altogether with an outside influence. This is the meat and drink of all brainwashing, whether with the use of drugs and torture, or through impermissible "educational" techniques which are designed not to enhance conscientious self-reflection but gain a sort of control over the "student's" mind—whether through some totalitarian thought-control process or a more subtle but incessant deformative "educational" pressure over a long period of time.
Now clearly, the greater and more vicious attack on autonomy is perpetrated in the second case. A person can be interiorly autonomous (spiritually free) even if he is incarcerated and forced into hard labor, or even if he is executed for his beliefs. But the attempt to co-opt the decision-making process is far more sinister. It is the ultimate assault on autonomy. The chief mode of assault, barring extreme situations, is just what we saw in the examples I cited above: The deliberate effort to undermine a person's trust in his own conscientious self-reflection, which lies at the very heart of that autonomy which, quite simply, makes us human.
In the end, we must decide what to believe for ourselves, but not without help from others, and not without the acceptance of whatever communities and authorities we may—on conscientious self-reflection—judge will give us a better chance of arriving at the truth than if we tried to work everything out for ourselves. In fact, we must trust our conscientious self-reflection or sacrifice our humanity.
Don't fall for the tricks of those who claim to be defending autonomy, if what they are really doing is attacking yours.
Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org. See full bio. | commoncrawl | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUbHw25V5hd-428eWd | LA Sparks
Dodgers reach deal to get 2B Chase Utley
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Philadelphia Phillies' Chase Utley watches his home run against the Milwaukee Brewers during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
By J.P. Hoornstra | jhoornstra@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: August 19, 2015 at 9:01 p.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 6:52 a.m.
OAKLAND >> The wake left by the Dodgers' August 2012 trade for Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford is still rippling through Chavez Ravine. Three years from now, the same will not be said about Wednesday's trade for Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley.
This trade at least had something the Dodgers' last August blockbuster did not, a player once considered a generational talent at his position. If and when Utley has a plaque in Cooperstown, N.Y., it will list his time as a Dodger. That's expected to begin Friday in Houston.
"When he's healthy," Dodgers general manager Farhan Zaidi said of Utley, "he's still one of the best hitters in the game."
Utley is as healthy now as he's been all season. Since Aug. 7, when he returned from a bout of inflammation in his right ankle, Utley has hit safely in eight straight games (15 for 31) with five doubles and a home run.
The Pasadena native has 1,623 hits in 13 seasons, all with the Phillies, in addition to the World Series ring that he won in 2008. Only 41 second basemen have played more games in major league history than Utley (1,453).
Dodgers shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who played with Utley in Philadelphia from 2003-14, said he reached out to his former teammate after hearing trade rumors Wednesday. He hinted that the two have talked about a reunion in Los Angeles before.
"More than anything, there will be some new excitement in the clubhouse," Rollins said. "(Utley) has a chance to play some meaningful baseball late in the year again. That's what we all want."
The Dodgers gave up Triple-A utilityman Darnell Sweeney and Single-A pitcher John Richy to get Utley. The Phillies also gave up some cash, enough that the Dodgers will pay only about $2 million of Utley's salary.
On the surface, Utley would appear to strictly be a rental player for the Dodgers' playoff push. He has a club option for 2016 valued up to $11 million, or a $2 million buyout.
Zaidi said that Utley will be the Dodgers' primary second baseman until Howie Kendrick returns from his strained left hamstring in September.
"He worked out a little at third base for the Phillies," Zaidi said. "We might try to get him more at those other spots."
Fill-in Kiké Hernandez, who bats right-handed, has crushed left-handed pitching this season and struggled against righties. Utley, who bats left-handed, has an .860 on-base plus slugging percentage in his career against righties.
Acquiring Utley gives the Dodgers the option of moving Hernandez to center field in a platoon with Joc Pederson. Pederson has struggled to hit left-handed pitching in his rookie season, and the Dodgers don't trust anyone other than he or Hernandez in center field defensively.
Switch-hitting third baseman Alberto Callaspo was designated for assignment. Callaspo hit .262 with a .338 on-base percentage in 59 games with the Dodgers.
A fleet-footed utilityman, Sweeney was hitting .271 with nine homers, 30 doubles, 32 stolen bases and 49 RBI in 116 games this year for Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Richy, the Dodgers' third-round draft selection out of UNLV in 2014, was 10-5 with a 4.20 ERA in 22 games (18 starts) for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga this season.
Utley, 36, grew up in Long Beach and starred at Long Beach Poly and UCLA. He was the 15th overall pick in the 2000 draft. As a player with 10 years in the league and the last five with one team, Utley had the right to veto any trade.
Rollins believes his former teammate made a good choice.
"I think it'll be a lot of fun," Rollins said. "One, (the Dodgers) were his team (growing up). Went to school over at UCLA. Plays well at Dodger Stadium — actually he beats up the Dodgers wearing a Phillies uniform."
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J.P. Hoornstra | reporter
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BkiUd8c4dbghezubFfix | Q: lstlisting-environment not available within tabularx-environment Please consider the following example. Does anyone has an idea why I cannot use the listings-environment within the tabularx-environment?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\newenvironment{foo}{\tabularx{\textwidth}{p{2cm}X}}{\endtabularx}
\newcommand{\M}{\textit{Mathematica }}
\newcommand{\C}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\newcommand{\LongText}{This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text. This is a long text.}
\lipsum[1-3]
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{p{2cm}X}
Whatever & \LongText \LongText \\
Something else & \LongText \LongText \\
Code & \begin{lstlisting} for i=0 do... \end{lstlisting}
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
A: tabularx environment body is grabbed as a macro argument so it can do trial settings at different widths, listings is a verbatim-style thing, and verbatim-style things never work in macro arguments.
tabularx has some code so that \verb sort of works, but anything more complicated is doomed.
You can however do this
\setbox0\vbox{\hsize5cm
\begin{lstlisting}
for i=0 do...
\end{lstlisting}}
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{p{2cm}X}
Whatever & \LongText \LongText \\
Something else & \LongText \LongText \\
Code & \usebox0
\end{tabularx}
But you have to know in advance the width you want (or do some more complicated thing that queries tabularx to get the width then sets the listings in a box then does tabularx again. Note I added \noindent in front of your table otherwise you get overfull box warnings in your MWE as full width table + paragraph indent comes to more than full width.
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BkiUeW84eIOjR0ItaVwn | Category: K names
Origin: Greek, Hindu Meaning: nut tree In Greek mythology, Karya is one of the Hamadryades, eight nymphs who presided over a particular tree. Karya is the nymph of the nut tree- walnut, hazel and the sweet chestnut. There's also another myth in which Karya was a Lakonian maiden who was loved by the god Dionysos….
Origin: Old Norse Meaning: from an English surname via old Norse meaning "church settlement".
Origin: Irish Meaning: an Anglicized form of Gaelic surname Mac Aodhagáin meaning "descendant/son of Aodhagáin", the latter being a double diminutive of Aodh meaning fire so it would mean "little fire". Variants: Keagan, Kegan
Origin: Japanese 海斗 (Kaito) 海翔 (Kaito) Meaning: from Japanese kai 海 meaning "sea, ocean" combined with either to 斗 referring to the constellation of the Big Dipper, or to 翔 meaning "to soar, fly". There are probably more meanings with different kanji but these were the most common meanings I could find. Kaito (怪 盗) is also a word meaning phanton thief…
Kalyke
Origin: Greek Καλύκη (Greek) Meaning: from Ancient Greek kalux meaning "husk" or "pod". The name of several figures in Greek mythology. The Latin spelling of its name Calyx is also used in nature and anatomy. Kalyke is pronounced ka-lee-kee Variants: Calyx, Calyce, Calcyia
Origin: English Meaning: a dimunitive of Christopher meaning bearing Christ, or Katherine which has several possible meanings: "pure, chaste" from the Greek katharos; or it could come from hekateros, "each of the two; singly"; or from Greek aikia meaning "torture". It could also be a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". Kit is also…
Origin: German Meaning: German short form of Nicholas, meaning "victory of the people" Pronounced KLOWS, Klaus Baudelaire is the middle child and only brother. He's a voracious reader and remembers nearly everything he's ever read, which has helped him and his sisters out of a few tight spots.
Origin: Irish Meaning: Anglicized form of Irish Ceallach, which could mean "bright-headed". It could also come from Old Irish ceallach meaning "war, strife" or ceall "church". Variants: Kelley, Kelli, Kellie, Kelleigh; Ceallach, Ceallagh
Origin: Hebrew ( קֶרֶן ) Meaning: "horn" or "ray of light"
Origin: English Meaning: from a surname meaning "valley on the river Kent" Variants: Kendell
Origin: Cornish Meaning: from a Cornish word meaning first
Kelan
Origin: Irish Meaning: Anglicized form of Caolán meaning "slender" from Gaelic caol meaning "slender" with the diminutive suffix án Variants: Kellan, Kellen
Carla, Karla
Origin: German, Scandinavian, Croatian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, English Meaning: the feminine form of Charles, derived from a Germanic word meaning "man". It seems to have been used to describe men who were nor thralls or servants but who still lived at the bottom of society so it connotes the idea of a "free man"…
Origin: African, Somali ( كينان ) Meaning: traveler (according to rapper K'naan himself) Variants: Keynaan http://forvo.com/search/k'naan/
Kaija
Origin: Finnish Meaning: Diminutive of Katariina, a Finnish and Estonian form of English Katherine which could mean "pure, chaste" from the Greek katharos; or it could come from hekateros, "each of the two; singly"; or from Greek aikia meaning "torture". It could also be a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". It's pronounced…
Kwame
Origin: West African, Akan, Ghana Meaning: born on a Saturday Variants: Kwami Links: http://www.behindthename.com/name/kwame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame
Kerensa
Origin: Cornish Meaning: love Variants: Kerenza Links: http://www.behindthename.com/name/kerensa http://nameberry.com/babyname/Kerensa
Kolfinna
Origin: Ancient Scandinavian, Norse Meaning: It's the feminine form of Kolfinnr comprised of kol means black, a synomom for black or dark + finnr which has either the meaning of wanderer or Finn, Lapp or Finn, Sámi Links: http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Kolfinnr http://www.behindthename.com/name/kolfinnr/submitted
Origin: Danish, Norwegian, German, English, Armenian Meaning: it's a Danish form of Katherine which could mean "pure, chaste" from the Greek katharos; or it could come from hekateros, "each of the two; singly"; or from Greek aikia meaning "torture". It could also be a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". It's also a masculine…
Origin: Indian Meaning: wise man, sage, poet | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
BkiUfuPxK5YsWV5L5Oz1 | Multifly!
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To summarize, I want to say that Multifly is a bright and colorful slot machine developed by Yggdrasil Gaming. Playing in the Multifly slot, you will meet with funny inhabitants of the jungle, which will help you get good prizes. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdYXxaKgQHaLUvMfk | What's that for a sermon? The Bible says one thing and their interpretation is to state the opposite!?
They claim the only thing in which the leaders are "the same with us" is that they are also children of God.
Another way of UBF to deal with Bible passages which do not fit their ideology is to simply quietly skip over them.
I recently joined one of the common life housing by the () center. I really wasn't sure how I would like this arrangement. The reason that I was uncertain was just because I wasn't sure whether I wanted to move into the church housing, figuring that there would be strict rules about curfew and things like that. And also being used to having my own space and living on my own and wasn't sure how I would like sharing my space with so many other people.
However, I decided to go on and move into the common life housing. At first it was great. I was in such a great environment feeling as though I was growing closer to God and growing spiritually.
2) I was rebuked for not writing a weekly testimony. It is understandable that my shepherd wants to encourage me to daily spend time with God and meditating on his Word. However, I felt that my shepherd thinks that she needs proof of this every week by me turning in a testimony weekly. It doesn't seem to matter that I read the bible every single day and that I am struggling to come to God daily in prayer. Now I write a testimony and share at every bible study, but I only do it because I feel that I am being forced to, not because I really want to.
4) Some of the testimonies that people share are very revealing. They speak about disobedient sheep who refuse to come to God because they do not write testimonies. They talk about their own struggles with disobedience by not following orders given by their shepherds and how they should repent.
… One day I feel like UBF is a great place, and then the next day I feel like something just is not right.
UBF, in using the "it's just a cultural difference" argument, tries to leverage the post-modernish notion that "cultural elements" are somehow beyond good and evil, exempt from any judgment based on any moral standards.
Actually, it's not a post-modernish notion. It's just good old-fashioned cultural relativism. So, UBF, this supposedly Christian organization has continually appealed to cultural relativism to try to defend its practices for the last 30 years or so. | c4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
BkiUdSk5qsJBjuAa53T2 | Study of stability of a bandpass sigma delta modulator with sinusoidal input
Herbert Iu
Bandpass sigma delta modulators (SDMs) have applications in areas such as digital radio demodulation. Stability issues of bandpass SDMs have been widely studied. Usually, zero or step inputs are considered. In this paper, we study the stability and non-linear phenomena of a bandpass SDM with sinusoidal input. In particular, the effects of the amplitude and frequency of the sinusoidal input signal will be investigated. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Chaos Solitons & Fractals
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Iu, H. (2007). Study of stability of a bandpass sigma delta modulator with sinusoidal input. Chaos Solitons & Fractals, 33(2), 405-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2005.12.050
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BkiUeNQ4eIOjSKyN-PQw | Rangers vs Brondby Match Preview and Prediction
Rangers play Brondby at Ibrox Stadium on Thursday 21 October, Kick-off: 20:00. Read on for our free match preview and prediction for this football fixture.
Glen Kamara is suspended for Rangers after his red card last time out in the Europa League.
Jon McLaughlin could take over in goal after Allan McGregor's costly gaffe at the weekend.
There have been under 2.5 goals scored in Rangers's last 6 games (Europa League).
Rangers have failed to score in their last 3 matches (Europa League).
There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 5 of Brondby IF's last 6 games (Europa League).
Rangers have lost their first two games in Group A and really need to get points here. Brondby aren't doing much better with one point after two matches.
Rangers haven't been as free scoring at home as they were last season but Steven Gerrard's side should still fancy their chances on Thursday.
Match date – 21/10/2021
Rangers win or draw @ 1.40
Under 3.5 @ 1.30 | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdWk4eIZjyglw5fP3 | The purpose of the Lector is to proclaim the Word of God effectively. This does not demand professional training. More important is the willingness to attend reliably and prepare for the readings conscientiously. Assistance is available for those who seek to improve their speaking skills.
You are encouraged to consider becoming a Lector. It is a good way to meet a number of your fellow parishioners, to become involved in the community, and is a concrete way to exercise your baptismal commitment to proclaim the Word. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdnk5qX_AY1mDIsEv | Economics · English
There's nothing like an American health care debate to make Canadians feel lucky
By Danielle Martin
A version of this commentary appeared in the Montreal Gazette, the Hill Times and Victoria Times Colonist
There's nothing like an American health care debate to make Canadians feel lucky.
As his first act in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order, taking the first step to repeal the Affordable Care Act. With the stroke of a pen, 20 million Americans may soon find themselves without health insurance.
It wasn't that long ago that many Canadians faced the same challenge.
When my grandparents Jacques and Sarah arrived in Montreal in 1951, they had left behind everything and everyone they knew in Egypt. The burden of building a new life in this new country fell heavily on Jacques' shoulders. It was a role he assumed dutifully. Until, a year later, when he suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized for nine weeks.
The ordeal diminished him — physically and otherwise. Respiratory symptoms and other complications lingered. The cost of drugs and visits to the doctor were as crippling as the pain in his legs and he was barely able to work. For my grandmother, the twin pressures of caring for an ailing husband and holding the family together became overwhelming.
It was, to say the least, a grinding existence.
The story ends with my grandfather's death at the age of 54 in 1966 — the same year that Parliament passed legislation to create Medicare. Had it been in place, how different might my grandparents' lives have been?
Our system of health care is about more than money and medicine. It is about the values that define us as a society — are we there for one another when we're at our must vulnerable? Do we place well-being above wealth? Do we believe that good health leads to good outcomes — like a stronger economy, more cohesive communities and more fulfilling lives?
And in the setting of the debates taking place today south of our border, we should never take the answers to these questions for granted. But let's be honest. There are a variety of problems with our health care system in Canada.
People struggle to find a family doctor. They wait too long for specialist consultations and elective surgeries. Service could be better. Outcomes should be boosted. Spending must be sufficient, but it must also be sustainable.
We need, in a word, to make health care in Canada better.
For that reason, it's time to shift the debate. Let's quit bickering over whether we can sustain public health care in Canada and in Quebec. Let's focus on how to sustain it.
The solutions are neither magical, nor beyond our grasp. And most of them don't actually require more money — in fact, some of them will produce savings. In my book, Better Now, I highlight six such ideas that, if implemented, could produce important and wide-ranging transformation. For example, there is no reason we can't ensure that every Canadian has access to a family doctor with whom they enjoy a trusting relationship. In fact, by working together in teams with nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacists, we could deliver truly patient-centred care.
Wait times for surgeries could be brought down by pooling lists among specialists. We can do a better job of protecting patients from adverse effects and outright harm by reducing unnecessary tests and procedures. And if we were to bring prescription medicines into medicare by creating a national pharmacare system, we could save money and provide everyone with access to life-saving drugs.
Ideas like these could unleash dramatic improvements in Canadian health care right away. All that's required is the political and popular will. And, perhaps even more fundamentally, a commitment to maintaining the principle of universal access that underpins our system and which seems to, once again, be under fire in the United States.
Our system of universal health care is a fundamental expression of our values and a testament to Canadians' commitment to fairness. It is a system built upon the basic principle that care should be based upon need, not ability to pay. That's not a value that goes out of style.
But if we believe that medicare is a worthy endeavour then we must also live up to those values and accept the responsibility to make that system work — and work well. It's time to make it better.
Danielle Martin is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca and author of BETTER NOW: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians, released earlier this month by Penguin Random House. Dr. Martin is a family physician and Vice President Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
She will be speaking and signing books at Paragraphe Bookstore on Thursday, February 2nd at 6:00pm.
access to care, Canada's healthcare system, Canadian healthcare system, Canadian medicare, cost of drugs, drug cost, Drug coverage, health care spending, national drug plan, Pharmaceutical, surgical wait times | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUcvY5qYVBNAWDa9_m | Monthly Goals - July 2014
For those who missed it back in January, I set up the writing goals I aim to accomplish in 2014. Right after writing that post, I then read Dean Wesley Smith's post about how to be successful at your writing goals.
Sorry for the lack of posts for the past several weeks...but on the plus side, things have been moving quite well on the fiction writing front (more so than the rest of life, but that's another batch of stories entirely). Here's how I did against my June goals:
1. Plot out two new short stories. - Two stories plotted, "Red Light" and "Payback"
2. Write 3,000 words on Resurrection - 5000 words completed, new title of Life and Death.
And now, the goals for July:
1. Write 1,000 words on "Payback"
2. Write 4,000 words on Life and Death
3. Plot out one new short story
Here's to everyone striving to accomplish their writing goals for 2014!
Posted by T. M. Hunter at 9:37 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Life and Death, novels, short stories, writing goals
Meet My Main Character (Blog Hop)
I was tagged by J.C. Cassels at Gotta Name my Blog to talk about my main character. Those who've followed me long enough probably know most of the information below, but it's always good to have a bit of a refresher for the long-time fans and a brief introduction for those who haven't yet met Aston.
1. What is the name of your main character? Is she fictional or an historical person?
Aston West, space pirate extraordinaire (technically, a scavenger pirate, or as it's been referred to in the past, a galactic garbage collector). Aston is completely fictional, as much as he'd like to believe that he's real. But who knows? He may show up on my doorstep any day now and give me a quick kick in the junk for all the trouble I've put him through over the years.
2. When and where is the story set?
Aston doesn't have just one story, but a series of stories and novels. All of these take place across great spans of planets and solar systems in a distant galaxy. While it's unknown for certain whether these all take place in the past, present or future, my personal opinion is that it's a present-day set of tales, all far away from here.
For the sake of giving out more individual information on this question, I'll take my next novel (working title Resurrection). This one spans across three different planets and two different starships (one of which being Aston's new ship to replace the one that met its demise at the end of Death Brings Victory).
3. What should we know about him?
Aston tries to act tough, a symptom of his career choices and his upbringing as one of three orphan brothers. But really, he has a noble sense of right and wrong that he tries to enact through his own brand of vigilante justice when it's necessary. And of course, the most important thing to remember about Aston is that he constantly gets tossed into a mess of trouble. This doesn't end up being too much fun for him, but it's a lot of fun to read along as he tries to get himself out of it all.
4. What is the main conflict?
It varies from story to story, and the novels too. Sometimes, it can be Aston versus old enemies (or old friends). Sometimes, Aston's main conflict is internal. Sometimes, there's a mix of both. In Resurrection, the main conflict is that Aston's old nemesis Elijah Cassus has returned with some nasty surprises in store. But one of those surprises causes both an internal struggle for Aston (how far will he follow Elijah to get his absolution?) as well as an external struggle (with a recently formed relationship).
5. What is the personal goal of the character?
Most times, it's just to get out of the trouble that he's found himself in, and to try and scrape out a living with his scavenging (or his illegal activities). Within the scope of the novels, his goals often get altered or combined, depending on the circumstances.
For Resurrection, Aston's goal originally starts out that he wants to save someone he failed to save before. Along the way, though, he has to figure out a way to right the wrongs he's set in motion.
6. What is the significance of the title of your book?
I try to come up with titles that fit either the story or the novel's main premise. For the novels, I've been attempting to come up with catchy three-word titles (something I'll have to work on for the fourth installment currently in work). As far as any special significance, there isn't any that I know of.
Resurrection is just a title that depicts the main topic behind the plot. I have a feeling I'll need to make it catchier.
7. When can we expect the book to be published?
I have several novels and stories already published (check out the Novels and Collections links at the top of the blog). My hope is that I can get another novella and short story collection published later this year. Resurrection may be out late this year, but I'm guessing that we'll probably see it next year.
Next up is T. K. Toppin. Be sure to check her out. Also, click back, too, to see what characters came before. Thanks for reading!
Author Extravaganza 2014 Recap
So, today was the 8th annual Author Extravaganza, hosted by the wonderful folks at Town Crier Bookstore up in Emporia, Kansas. I think this is something like the 5th time (according to my last recap back in 2012) I've been in attendance. Overall, it's always a good time, and Town Crier has always been good to independent authors in regards to stocking copies of your books after the signing and such.
So, if I could actually get my pictures to post you'd see a lot of authors join this event. It can make things quite exciting, talking with your fellow authors (and catching up with those who you've seen in past years). But having so many different authors does help in bringing additional customers into the store, which can help you sell your books as well (as long as they don't come in only for that book and then leave the store immediately).
That said, sold four books (two of which were remaining from last year's event), and the store elected to pick up copies of my two novellas. So, all in all, it was an okay event (especially since it looked like most folks were struggling to get a single sale) and I look forward to returning next year.
Labels: Aston West, book signings, novels, T. M. Hunter
Monthly Goals - June 2014
Running a bit behind on posting the monthly goals, unfortunately. I did get a bit of work completed,
so there's at least that. Here's how I did against my May goals:
1. Complete the first draft of "Reciprocity" (the new short story, estimated 2,000 words) - Final draft completed.
2. Edit the final version of "Just Rewards" (now "Trust and Obey") - completed
3. Write 3,000 words on Resurrection - 500 words completed
Rather than write a separate post for the weekly goals, I'll just remark that those 500 words above were written this past week.
And now, the goals for June:
1. Plot out two new short stories.
2. Write 3,000 words on Resurrection
Labels: novels, Resurrection, short stories, writing goals
Sales Update - June 2014
Hard to believe it's been another six months since my most recent sales update in December, but I do have some updated numbers. So, here goes:
Heroes Die Young has sold a total of 467 sales (print and e-book total), which means 25 copies have sold since December (for a total of just over 4 copies a month over the past six months). This compares to 16 copies sold in the June 2013 - December 2013 range, so sales are a bit up. The six-year anniversary for this one is coming up in September, so we're still dropping well below the average of 100 copies per year.
Friends in Deed recently went into self-published status after I terminated the contract I had. I discovered some discrepancies in my past tabulations (silly spreadsheet formulas) that have since been corrected. In future sales updates, I'll just stick with the total across both versions. As this is a new change, though, I'll list them separately as well. The previous version sold 112 copies (I assume all sales have already been accounted for, but we'll see), and the new version (out since February) has sold 13, for a total of 125 copies (print and e-book total), which means that 25 copies have sold since December (which also includes some of those self-accounting issues on the original version). This compares to around 4 copies during the previous reporting period. January marked the four-year anniversary of this one, so the average is around 30 copies per year. I will mention that my sales of the original version for all of 2013 (counting royalty statements in 2013 and 2014) were 9 copies, and the new version has sold 13 copies in the course of about four months. New cover and a lower price...I think we have a future blog post in the works...
Seeker has gone back into sales mode, and has also become a print title. So, going back to the June 2013 sales update (the last time I recorded paid sales), both versions have now sold 92 copies (print and e-book), so only 8 copies have sold since the last update (compared to 5 copies during that June update), although the change-over to paid happened around the last month or two. December was the 3-year anniversary for this novel, which means we're on track for an average of around 30 copies per year).
Dead or Alive has sold 98 copies, which means 15 copies have sold since last June (for a total of just over 1 copy a month over the past twelve months), since I hadn't yet received reporting at the December update. This title came out in February 2011, which means that we're seeing an average of about 30 copies a year.
The Cure has now sold 107 total copies (print and e-book total), so 14 copies have sold since my past update, compared to 10 copies during the previous update. This book has been out nearly 3 years (the anniversary is in July), so I'm seeing a around 35 copies per year.
Death Brings Victory was released two years ago this past March, and 64 total copies have sold, meaning 4 copies have sold since the last update, compared to 12 copies during the previous update. This puts it on track with most of my other novels, at just around 30 copies per year. Although sales are down considerably in this six-month stretch, I'm hopeful that all of the sales this year of Friends in Deed will lead to future sales of this title.
I have three Triple-Shot collections out, with the first having been released in November 2011, the second in July 2012, and the third in September 2013. 86 copies have sold, so 9 copies sold since my last update (versus 37 copies from the previous update). Breaking this down, 49 total copies of the first have sold, 24 of the second, and 13 of the third. So, since the last update, 5 copies of the first have sold, 1 of the second, and 3 of the third. I do have to wonder whether I'm doing myself a disservice with the similarity of covers between the first and second collections.
My newest title is my collaboration with Lyndon Perry, Escape. I would put in the cover, but my web browser isn't playing nice with Blogger at the moment. This title was just coming out in December as I gave my previous update. I haven't gotten an update from Lyndon on all of his sales, but counting the last numbers I had from him and including my own personal sales, 14 copies have sold, for an average of about 2 copies per month.
Now for the analysis of this latest period:
Since my latest update (December, except as noted above), I've sold 114 books compared to 79 books during the previous update for an average of just under 20 books per month.
And so I have a statistic when people ask (and quite often they do), the latest "total sales" number now stands at 1053 copies (counting all titles).
If we put together the last twelve months of sales (not counting Seeker, which just went back into the paid sales column, nor Escape which has only been out a few months), I see the following:
HDY: 41 (last time, 25)
FID: 29 (last time, 6)
DBV: 16 (last time, 23)
DOA: 15
Cure: 24 (last time, 26)
Triple-Shots: 46 (last time, 49)
Not too bad, I suppose, to have 139 paid sales over a 12-month period...about the same as last time(129)...would still like to do better.
So, until next time, enjoy the statistics, and good sales to us all!
Labels: Aston West, novellas, novels, sales info, T. M. Hunter | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfk025V5jU0EvJYRu | Q: Adding jquery timepicker to website I am trying to add the functionality of adding jquery into an application. I have tried to follow this jquery website.
I attached the script into my website and also placed the div of example2 mentioned in the jquery site in my website. But my website still does not show the jquery Timepicker example2. I would be very thankful for the help. Thanks
EDIT:
I have added the code but it still does not work. Here is the script.js:
$(document).ready(function(){
/* The following code is executed once the DOM is loaded */
$(".todoList").sortable({
axis : 'y', // Only vertical movements allowed
containment : 'window', // Constrained by the window
update : function(){ // The function is called after the todos are rearranged
// The toArray method returns an array with the ids of the todos
var arr = $(".todoList").sortable('toArray');
// Striping the todo- prefix of the ids:
arr = $.map(arr,function(val,key){
return val.replace('todo-','');
});
// Saving with AJAX
$.get('ajax.php',{action:'rearrange',positions:arr});
},
/* Opera fix: */
stop: function(e,ui) {
ui.item.css({'top':'0','left':'0'});
}
});
// A global variable, holding a jQuery object
// containing the current todo item:
var currentTODO;
// Configuring the delete confirmation dialog
$("#dialog-confirm").dialog({
resizable: false,
height:130,
modal: true,
autoOpen:false,
buttons: {
'Delete item': function() {
$.get("ajax.php",{"action":"delete","id":currentTODO.data('id')},function(msg){
currentTODO.fadeOut('fast');
})
$(this).dialog('close');
},
Cancel: function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
}
}
});
// When a double click occurs, just simulate a click on the edit button:
$('.todo').live('dblclick',function(){
$(this).find('a.edit').click();
});
// If any link in the todo is clicked, assign
// the todo item to the currentTODO variable for later use.
$('.todo a').live('click',function(e){
currentTODO = $(this).closest('.todo');
currentTODO.data('id',currentTODO.attr('id').replace('todo-',''));
e.preventDefault();
});
// Listening for a click on a delete button:
$('.todo a.delete').live('click',function(){
$("#dialog-confirm").dialog('open');
});
// Listening for a click on a edit button
$('.todo a.edit').live('click',function(){
var container = currentTODO.find('.text');
if(!currentTODO.data('origText'))
{
// Saving the current value of the ToDo so we can
// restore it later if the user discards the changes:
currentTODO.data('origText',container.text());
}
else
{
// This will block the edit button if the edit box is already open:
return false;
}
$('<input type="text">').val(container.text()).appendTo(container.empty());
// Appending the save and cancel links:
container.append(
'<div class="editTodo">'+
'<a class="saveChanges" href="#">Save</a> or <a class="discardChanges" href="#">Cancel</a>'+
'</div>'
);
});
// The cancel edit link:
$('.todo a.discardChanges').live('click',function(){
currentTODO.find('.text')
.text(currentTODO.data('origText'))
.end()
.removeData('origText');
});
// The save changes link:
$('.todo a.saveChanges').live('click',function(){
var text = currentTODO.find("input[type=text]").val();
$.get("ajax.php",{'action':'edit','id':currentTODO.data('id'),'text':text});
currentTODO.removeData('origText')
.find(".text")
.text(text);
});
// The Add New ToDo button:
var timestamp=0;
$('#addButton').click(function(e){
// Only one todo per 5 seconds is allowed:
if((new Date()).getTime() - timestamp<5000) return false;
$.get("ajax.php",{'action':'new','text':'New Todo Item. Doubleclick to Edit.','rand':Math.random()},function(msg){
// Appending the new todo and fading it into view:
$(msg).hide().appendTo('.todoList').fadeIn();
});
// Updating the timestamp:
timestamp = (new Date()).getTime();
e.preventDefault();
});
//for box that asks for date and time
$('#example2').datetimepicker({
ampm: true
});
}); // Closing $(document).ready()
A: Put this in your HTML file:
<script language="javascript">
$(function() {
$('#example2').timepicker();
});
</script>
A: I dont see anywhere you added the datepicker or timepicker to your input field.
You need to say
$('#example2').timepicker({});
or
$('#example2').datetimepicker({
ampm: true
});
depending on your need in the document ready of your script to bind the functionality to the input field.
A: You have the class 'hasDatepicker' hardcoded onto the input textfield. Remove this from your code, as jQueryUI thinks the function has already been executed. jQuery UI adds this class AFTER applying the datetimepicker function to the element.
This keeps jQUi from doing the same job twice as well as skipping straight to option modification.
You have:
<input id="example2" class="hasDatepicker" type="text" value="" name="example2">
Do this:
<input id="example2" type="text" value="" name="example2">
jQuery UI does this:
<input id="example2" class="hasDatepicker" type="text" value="" name="example2">
A: Looking at the link to your actual test page, the source HTML markup reveals that your input has the attribute class="hasDatepicker" on it. Please remove this. It is short-circuiting the datepicker initialization code and preventing the widget from being attached correctly.
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BkiUa53xK19JmhArBTMo | Based on true events, an untold story of a taxi driver.
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he's a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUc_w5qYVBNjBBb12F | Bhojpuri Bombshell Amrapali Dubey Looks Hot as She Shares Her 10 Year Challenge Post on Instagram
Amrapali will be seen next in Nirahua Chalal London and the fans are eagerly waiting for the film to release
Published: January 20, 2019 10:17 AM IST
Amrapali Dubey Photo Credit: Instagram/ @aamrapali1101
Bhojpuri actress Amrapali Dubey has also joined the bandwagon with the latest sensation of the internet — the 10 Year Challenge. Lately, she took to Instagram to share her then-and-now pictures showing how they looked 10-years ago and at present. Dressed in a pink suit, she looks gorgeous in both the pictures. Her picture is the proof that she is ageing in reverse. Her photo has been loved and appreciated by her fans.
Bhojpuri Sensation Amrapali Dubey, Dinesh Lal Yadav's 'Hero Varrdiwala' Trailer is Package of Action Sequence And Sizzling Chemistry – Watch
Sharing the post, she wrote, "Hehe 2009 and 2019. same but different #10yearschallenge."
Amrapali knows how to keep her huge fan following updated about her personal and professional life. She keeps sharing her personal and professional life updates on Instagram. She recently bagged the Best Actress award trophy at the International Bhojpuri Film Awards event held in Malaysia. She is a star performer, and her expressions will captivate you once you take a look at the video.
Talking about the 10-year challenge, many Bollywood celebrities to a common man, everybody has indulged themselves with this challenge and the social media has been loaded with the pictures. A few of them who took part were actresses Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty, Sonam Kapoor and Huma Qureshi, to name a few.
Check out the picture here:
Hehe 2009 and 2019 ❤️same but different #10yearschallenge
A post shared by Aamrapali (@aamrapali1101) on Jan 17, 2019 at 7:19pm PST
A few days back, the trailer of her upcoming web series Hero Varrdiwala has released and has garnered positive reviews from the audience. The trailer is a package of action sequences, intimate scenes and peppy tracks. Dinesh is seen in the role of a cop who tries to fight the political corruption and Amrapali plays his love interest.
Amrapali will be seen next in Nirahua Chalal London and the fans are eagerly waiting for the film to release.
Amrapali Dubey, who began her acting career in 2014 with Nirahua Hindustani starring Dinesh Lal Yadav aka Nirahua, has blockbuster films like Patna Se Pakistani, Bam Bam Bol Raha Hai Kashi, Satya, Nirahua Hindustani 2, Border and Dulhan Ganga Paar Ke under her belt. When it comes to working, the gorgeous lady has never disappointed her audience ever since her debut movie the hit the theatres.
Published Date: January 20, 2019 10:17 AM IST
10-Year ChallengeAmrapali DubeyDinesh Lal Yadav | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUaeDxK1ThhAqzUEEf | Q: What are Gold Laurels rewards? I don't really get what the boon Dark Foresight does. The description: Each rank gives you +2% greater chance for Gold Laurel rewards (Boons, Hammers, and Poms).
But I can't see what is the Gold Laurel rewards they are talking about.
So what are they?
A: There are two different types of rewards for each room, and the laurel around the orb showing the reward for that room has a different color for some.
From the Hades Wiki:
Chamber rewards are denoted on their entrance door by a symbol
surrounded by either blue or gold laurels. Blue Laurels accompany
persistent resources such as Keys, Darkness, or Nectar, that can be
used to unlock new weapons, power up the Mirror of Night, or earn
Keepsakes. Gold Laurels represent rewards that impact the current run,
such as Obols, Boons, Centaur Hearts.
Essentially there are two pools of rewards, the blue laurel ones with resources like keys, darkness and nectar, and the gold laurel ones with god boons, hammers, etc.
This talent gives you a higher chance to get rooms with boons or poms instead of keys or darkness. The effect on hammers is probably negligible as those are limited to two per run anyway.
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BkiUcQDxK7kjXMEc8KW8 | Bell Helicopter, October 21, 2014 - ORLANDO, FLORIDA – Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, will display the Bell 429 in corporate/VIP configuration at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) 2014 conference, held this year in Orlando, Florida from October 21 to 23.
In addition, Italy-based Mecaer Aviation Group will be featuring a mockup of the Bell 429 MAGnificent interior inside the Bell Helicopter booth. Both the aircraft and the mockup can be seen at Booth 212 at the Orange County Convention Center during the show.
The Bell 429 is one of the most advanced light twin helicopters ever developed, offering a fully integrated glass cockpit with advanced drive system and best-in-class WAAS navigation and IFR capability. Additional safety features include a collective mounted throttle, damage tolerant hub and rotor system, and energy attenuating seats. It is the first helicopter certified through the MSG-3 process, resulting in reduced maintenance costs for operators.
The Bell 429 MAGnificent interior can be customized to a variety of seating configurations and offers a wide range of Italian fabrics, colors and optional equipment. MAG's specialty custom interior incorporates two proprietary products, a passive noise abatement system called SILENS, and an In-Flight Entertainment Enhanced Lounge (I-FEEL), that provides a fully customized interactive touch screen based entertainment, communication and flight information management system.
Additionally, representatives from Bell Helicopter's award-winning customer support and services team will be available to discuss capabilities with show attendees.
NBAA 2014 is one of largest business aviation events of the year and the sixth largest tradeshow in the United States. More than 25,000 operators and industry leaders are expected to attend. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdg85qoYA4kbtHCwR | Use Windows Explorer to display folders as icons and it saves thumbnail images of each file to a cache, ensuring they can be displayed more quickly in future. In Windows 2000/ XP a separate hidden cache file called thumbs.db was created in every folder where it was required. Later versions of Windows have a single cache, but thumb.db's may still be visible on remote shares and in a few other situations.
Apart from creating a lot of disk clutter, these caches can be a privacy risk, as they may contain thumbnails of images which you think you've deleted.
Thumbs Remover is a compact portable search tool which can scan a particular drive or folder tree for thumbs.db files, deleting some or all of them in a couple of clicks.
Click the gear icon top-right and there's an option to integrate Thumbs Remover into Explorer. This adds a "Scan with Thumbs Remover" to the right-click folder menu for drives and folders.
If you're concerned about this then the real solution is to tell Windows not to create these caches in the first place, of course, and Thumbs Remover can do that, too: click the Gear icon, select "Do not allow Windows to save previews".
Thumbs Remover doesn't do very much - and most of that can be done with Windows alone, if you know where to look. But it's compact (<400KB), portable, easy to use and entirely adware/hassle-free, so if you'd like to control thumbs.db files on your system then it's a reasonable choice. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdaQ5qoYDgZr1DKsS | namespace ICSSoft.STORMNET.Web
{
/// <summary>
/// Тюнер для WOLV'а доступный для прикладных программистов.
/// </summary>
public class WOLVSettApplyer : AjaxControls.WolvSettApplyer
{
/// <summary>
/// Применение настроек внешнего вида для WOLV'а с прикладной логикой.
/// Важно: перед применением настроек должен вызываться базовый (технологический)
/// метод SettingsApply.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="wolv">WOLV который необходимо настроить.</param>
public override void SettingsApply(AjaxControls.WebObjectListView wolv)
{
base.SettingsApply(wolv);
}
/// <summary>
/// Метод применения настроек, вызывающийся в случае, когда WOLV находится на
/// форме лукапа.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="wolv">WOLV, к которому надо применить настройки.</param>
public override void ApplyLookUpSettings(AjaxControls.WebObjectListView wolv)
{
}
}
} | github | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
BkiUdc85qhLBWAiyVEKw | DHS Launches Cyber Attack Exercise
Cyber Storm III, the largest simulated cyber attack to date, aims to test a new national cyber response plan and stretch the limits of collaborative cybersecurity.
J. Nicholas Hoover
Senior Editor, InformationWeek Government
Strategic Security Survey: Global Threat, Local Pain
(click image for larger view and for full photo gallery)
However, the scenario won't use a virtual network. Instead, the exercise will be controlled from the Secret Service headquarters, where organizers from various agencies will be sending out "exercise injects," information that a player will receive that indicates that a certain event has taken place as part of the narrative set up by the organizers. This goes a bit beyond a paper narrative, including fake log data, drives that may contain fake malware, and fake event history, and is dynamic, meaning that it can change dependent on the actions the players take.
This year's scenario reflects the fact that threats are becoming increasingly more sophisticated with potential for widespread damage. "We really wanted to come up with something that's a core scenario, foundational to the Internet, affecting not necessarily just uptime but also integrity," Lambo said. "We're trying to upset the chain of trust. We're basically using the Internet against itself." Lambo requested media not publish deeper details of the scenario ahead of time as to maintain an element of suspense for the players.
Lambo said he hopes the exercise pushes the response to the point where things go wrong with the response process. "The point of an exercise like this is to lay yourself bare a little bit and get to the point where you break certain things," he said. "We want to make sure not how well we're doing everything, but, is the way we're contemplating doing it right-headed, and are we on track both philosophically and organizationally."
Cyber Storm III has several key objectives, foremost of which is to test the National Cyber Incident Response Plan. Other objectives include focusing on coordination and information sharing, examining the DHS' role in a global event, applying findings of past Cyber Storm exercises, and determining how best to incorporate the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center into operational responses.
Attacks/BreachesMobileApplication SecurityAnalytics
Zero Trust and the Power of Isolation for Threat Prevention | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUeSw4dbggz-0v0GRE | Same great DOOM 3 action; new Grabber gun; Artifact powers are cool; excellent graphics and sound.
Very few upgrades on the multiplayer side of things; how much will it cost?
Earlier this year, right around the same time that id Software's DOOM 3 was being released for the Xbox, the company was also helping Nerve Software to put the finishing touches on the first expansion pack for the game. Entitled DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil, the game featured around eight hours of brand-new content, in addition to offering several notable gameplay upgrades over its predecessor. Now, the expansion is coming to join its big brother on the Xbox, and we got a chance to play it at QuakeCon, id's fragfest that takes place outside Dallas every year.
Resurrection of Evil picks up six months after the end of DOOM 3, which is when a signal is received from the ruins of the UAC complex. A team is sent out to investigate, lead by a female scientist who, from what I can tell, didn't really learn too much from the mistakes of her predecessors. Before you can say "Don't open that door!" all hell literally breaks loose. A team of explorers has found an artifact amongst the ancient ruins, and a portal to Hell opened up as soon as it was touched. The opening cinematic even reintroduces an old friend: Dr. Betruger, who now acts as the tongue of a giant, winged demon.
The biggest addition to the game is the new "Grabber" gun, which is strikingly similar to the physics gun that made an appearance in Valve's Half-Life 2. It's so closely related, in fact, that a lot of gamers cried foul after the saw it in action. However, you can quickly tell that the use of physics in the two games differs greatly. While Half-Life's physics allowed you to alter the environment in a number of ways to give yourself an advantage, it's largely used as a weapon (of sorts) in RoE. Though, to be fair, there were some sequences where you had to use the Grabber to move some boxes out of the way.
Basically, using the Grabber is as simple as pulling and releasing the right trigger. Really, that's all there is to it. Pulling the trigger will allow you to bring objects toward you, and releasing it will fire them away from you. Of course, not every object can be grabbed, as I quickly noticed the first time I tried to yank a pillar down on top of my enemies. If you're ever wondering if you can grab an object, simply aim at it. Your reticle will change (and you'll hear a sound) if it can be moved. The Grabber really comes in handy when you're fighting enemies, as you can catch any projectiles that are fired at you and return them to the sender, which usually results in an instant kill. You can also pick up explosive barrels and use them as makeshift missiles, as well as grab any power ups or ammo drops from afar. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUaMXxK1Thg98UdKdp | Package design is my first love and what I specialised in when I did my National Diploma in Graphic Design. Here are just some examples of work done.
I have had the privilege of designing labels, packaging and signage for Still Pure, based in the Riebeek Valley, since 2010. This year they are branching out and exporting some of their products to China and so it was time to update and refresh. These are only some of the essential oils, of which there are about 35 in the range. Quite something to do 35 different front, back and lid labels and then a box for each as well in both 10ml and 20ml sizes, but I'm glad to say that it was completed within the deadline and I'm so proud of the result! Above are some of the boxes. The full image used on the front label appears on the left side of each box and I think it works so well. Can't wait to walk in to a Wellness Warehouse and see them displayed. Above are some of the cleansing bars and the new Shaving Oil label, which also has it's own box (not shown). Still Pure not only does 100% pure essential oils and cold pressed oils, but also a full range of natural and botanical body products including bath salts, soap bars, skin, foot and lip balms, body butters and much more. Hopefully I'll add more photos as more of the products get their new look or check them out at www.stillpure.co.za (although I must mention that I didn't do their website – I have worked on most of the previous package designs as well). | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdto5qU2Apwwg8MDp | Consultants at Wythenshawe Hospital to be Available 365 Days a Year
Wythenshawe Hospital has developed a new scheme which will mean that patients can be seen by consultants seven days a week.
It may come as a surprise to some people, but many hospitals currently have low levels of senior staff working at weekends and on bank holidays, with consultants only available on call.
The new plans have been announced following a report "Future Hospital: Caring for Medical Patients", run by the Royal College of Physicians. One of the main recommendations made by this report suggested that hospitals should operate a seven day service.
Several studies have revealed higher death rates and poorer outcomes for patients who are admitted to hospital at the weekend, compared with those admitted during the week. Wythenshawe Hospital hopes that their 'every ward, every day' scheme will help to improve the care that patients receive and result in better outcomes for patients.
Consultants at Wythenshawe Hospital will now be available 7am – 10pm, seven days a week, and there are plans to reorganise the junior medical staff rota. They have also taken on additional members of staff including acute physicians, A&E staff and specialist discharge nurses.
The new scheme should also help to free-up bed space, as patients will now be able to be discharged at the weekend, rather than enduring longer than necessary hospital stays.
This all comes as good news for patients and their families as it is hoped that less patients will have negative experiences, particularly at the weekend and on bank holidays when they need quality care just as much as patients admitted during the week.
What do you make of the new plans? Let us know if you have experienced poor hospital care due to a lack of senior staff at the weekend.
By Ruth Eardley, graduate paralegal in the Clinical Negligence department
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New database will allow information to be shared between hospitals
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What is the difference between an infection and sepsis?
New discount rate - the end of the uncertainty? | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUboPxK0wg09FXUQrB | Inspectors General Host Event at Carter Presidential Center to Commemorate 40 Years of Excellence in Independent Oversight
Contact: Mark Jones, Executive Director (202) 292-2600
On Friday, October 12, 2018, 40 years to the day that President Jimmy Carter signed the Inspector General Act of 1978, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) will host an event at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia, to commemorate the impact of federal Inspectors General (IG). The event will be at the Carter Center's Cyprus Room from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and features:
The Honorable George Mitchell delivering remarks on The Expansion of the Offices of Inspector General and the Importance of Good Government and Oversight
U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine (1977–1979); U.S. District Judge, District of Maine (1979–1980); U.S. Senator, Maine (1980–1995); U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001); Partner, DLA Piper
The Honorable Stu Eizenstat delivering remarks on Crafting the Inspector General Act and Evaluating its Impact
Chief White House Domestic Policy Adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981); U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (1993–1996); Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Holocaust Issues (2013–2016); Senior Counsel, Covington
Other speakers include current and former Inspectors General, including The Honorable Michael E. Horowitz (Department of Justice IG, CIGIE Chair), The Honorable Marjorie Fine Knowles (First Department of Labor IG, Former Georgia State College of Law Dean), and the Honorable Kurt Muellenberg (First General Services Administration IG). The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum will also display an exhibit to commemorate the Inspectors General throughout the month of October. A full list of speakers is available on our website here.
This event is open to the public. Press should register by emailing Michael Leary at Michael.Leary@cigie.gov. For more information and public registration, visit our website https://www.ignet.gov/2018-commemoration.
The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, established 73 independent Offices of Inspector General within federal agencies to provide oversight and to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness throughout the federal government. Today, over 14,000 OIG employees work to detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct in federal programs and personnel. This work has resulted in recommendations for hundreds of billions of dollars of potential savings, tens of thousands of successful prosecutions, and transformational government reforms.
To view all reports by Inspectors General, visit Oversight.gov. For more information on the work of a specific OIG, please contact the press officer for the individual IG.
10-10 Atlanta Press Release - Carter Center Event.pdf | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeGA5qoYA4vSM3itx | stated on October 7, 2020 in a tweet:
"Dems want to shut your churches down, permanently. Hope you see what is happening."
By Daniel Funke October 7, 2020
Trump falsely claims Democrats want to 'shut your churches down'
In his tweet, Trump cited a video that shows an anti-mask protest in Moscow, Idaho. Three protesters were arrested on suspicion of resisting or obstructing police after violating the town's social distancing order — not for holding a church service.
We could find no evidence that Democrats are calling for churches to be permanently closed.
Many states have passed coronavirus-related restrictions, including those governed by Republicans. Churches haven't been singled out — in fact, they've been exempted from restrictions in some states.
As he spent the day at the White House, tweeting and recovering from COVID-19, President Donald Trump claimed Democrats are using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to target Christians.
"DEMS WANT TO SHUT YOUR CHURCHES DOWN, PERMANENTLY," he tweeted Oct. 7. "HOPE YOU SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. VOTE NOW!"
(Screenshot from Twitter)
The president's post was a quote tweet of Cliff Maloney, president of Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian nonprofit organization. The original post included a video that Maloney said shows a man "being ARRESTED for holding outdoor church services." Worshipers can be heard singing in the background.
"This is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen," Maloney said in the Sept. 24 tweet.
But the man pictured in the video was not arrested for holding a church service. He was arrested on suspicion of resisting or obstructing police.
stated on December 30, 2021 in a Facebook post
Vaccines are why flights have been shut down worldwide.
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 3, 2022
The Associated Press reported Sept. 24 that three people were arrested in Moscow, Idaho, after a church held a "maskless psalm singing event in a city hall parking lot." The event, which nearly 200 people attended, violated a town face mask and social distancing order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
Ben Zornes, a pastor at Christ Church and the organizer of the protest, told the Moscow-Pullman Daily News that the event was aimed at criticizing the order. Five people were issued citations for violating it, and three of them were arrested for allegedly resisting officers.
We reached out to the White House and Trump's re-election campaign for additional evidence, but we haven't heard back.
Democrats are not calling for churches to be permanently closed.
Many states — including those governed by Republicans — have required residents to wear face coverings in public, banned large gatherings and ordered non-essential businesses to close. Some states exempted churches from their coronavirus restrictions.
Trump's tweet is inaccurate and makes a ridiculous claim. We rate it Pants on Fire!
Associated Press, "3 arrested at Idaho church singing event to flout mask order," Sept. 24, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Considerations for Wearing Masks," Aug. 7, 2020
HuffPost, "Ohio Bans Public Officials From Closing Houses Of Worship," Sept. 18, 2020
Kaiser Family Foundation, "State Data and Policy Actions to Address Coronavirus," Oct. 7, 2020
KTBV, "3 arrested for flouting mask order at Idaho church singing event," Sept. 24, 2020
The New York Times, "In Pelosi, Strong Catholic Faith and Abortion Rights Coexist," Sept. 22, 2015
NPR, "How Joe Biden's Faith Shapes His Politics," Sept. 20, 2020
Tweet from Cliff Maloney, Sept. 24, 2020
Tweet from Donald Trump, Oct. 7, 2020
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By Daniel Funke • March 25, 2021
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The shooting in Boulder, Colo., was a "false flag like most of the others."
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"Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly. But a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases."
By Daniel Funke • March 4, 2021
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Donald Trump's second impeachment "cost $33 million."
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Michael van der Veen
stated on February 12, 2021 a speech at the U.S. Senate:
After the Capitol insurrection, "one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa." | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUexc25V5jJ1pbbmqO | When Do You Add Milk to Tea? - Boston Tea Party Ships
When Do You Add Milk to Tea?
The habit of putting milk in tea reportedly started in France. Madame de Sévigné described how Madame de la Sablière launched the fashion:
Madame de Ia Sahlière took her tea with milk, as she told me the other day, because it was to her taste.
The Chinese black teas imported into colonial Boston surely would have tasted better with milk. The milk would have smoothed out the rough edges of the teas that were already stale by the time they made their years-long journey from Canton via London.
Much of the tea produced today in India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya is manufactured to be drunk with the addition of milk. Milk complements a malty Assam or full-bodied Sri Lankan black tea, but cream can sometimes mask the taste of quality black teas. It's too heavy.
That settled, let's launch right into a hotly debated issue in tea etiquette: Are you a M.I.F. (milk in first) or are you a M.I.L. (milk in last) tea drinker?
Milk is poured after the tea. You may have heard or read that milk precedes the tea into the cup but this is not the case. You do not put milk in before tea because then you cannot judge the strength of the tea by its color and aroma. A dark Assam might taster better with more milk than a lighter Darjeeling tea.
Where did this old milk-first tale come from? Samuel Twining has theorized that milk first prevented early china from cracking in reaction to boiling water. That theory appears rather shaky today since boiling water is not poured directly into the cup.
By now, it goes without saying that milk should not be added to white, green, or oolong teas.
Dr Samuel Johnson at Tea in London
Good reasons to add milk after the tea is poured into the cup
I'm sure Carson the butler would advise the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey to put milk in second. After all, the butler in the popular BBC television program Upstairs, Downstairs kindly gave the following advice to the household servants who were arguing about the virtues of milk before or after the tea is poured:
Those of us downstairs put the milk in first, while those upstairs put the milk in last.
Moyra Bremner author of Enquire Within Upon Modern Etiquette and Successful Behaviour, says,
Milk, strictly speaking, goes in after the tea.
According to the English writer Evelyn Waugh,
All nannies and many governesses…put the milk in first.
And, by the way, Queen Elizabeth II adds the milk last. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdpI4uBhi8u04pf6p | Q: Can Turing machines halt and implicitly accept strings that the Turing machine cannot handle? so I came across a problem that I was unsure about. For curiosity's sake, I wanted to ask:
I am pretty sure that Turing machines can implicitly reject strings that it cannot handle, but can it do the complement of that? In other words, can it implicitly accept an input that it cannot handle? I apologize if this is a stupid question, I cannot seem to find an answer to this.
A: That's not a stupid question! I believe what is meant by "strings that it cannot handle" is actually, "strings which are not in a valid format", which I take to mean "strings that contain symbols that we don't know." (I'm going off of slide 14 of this presentation, which I found by just googling Turing 'implicitly reject').
So, if we do use that definition, then we need to simply create a Turing machine that accepts an input if it contains a symbol not in our valid set.
Yes, there are other possible interpretations of "strings that it cannot handle", but I'm fairly sure it means this. It obviously could not be a definition without constraints, or else we could define "strings that it cannot handle" as, say, "strings representing programs that halt", and we'd have solved the halting problem! (Or if you're not familiar with the halting problem, you could substitute in any NP-complete problem, really).
I think the reason that the idea of rejecting strings the Turing machine cannot handle was introduced in the first place is so that the machine can be well defined on all input. So, say, if you have a Turing machine that accepts a binary number if it's divisible by 3, but you pass in input that is not a bianry number (like, say, "apple sauce"), we can still reason about the output of the program.
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BkiUeObxaL3SuiswgiAL | Designed to understand pilots needs, the Artik 4 will help you discover extraordinary piloting sensations and stressless soaring in maximum comfort during extended flights. The aim with the Artik 4 was respond to the most important requests of EN C pilots. That is why we have worked on making the handling easier and heighten the performance while keeping safety our top priority. The first thing you will notice under the Artik 4 is the softer inflation followed by the capacity for the glider to take off serenely.
The profile has also been modified and includes the RAM Air Intake technology to keep the glider steady in any situation. Additionally, it transmits clear information to the pilot to let him focus on the pleasure of flying. With its superb gliding even when fully accelerated, the Artik 4's efficiency could be compared to an EN D glider but yet, with the handling abilities as an EN C wing.
Piloting it is intuitive in all sense; allowing the pilot to make instant corrective decisions even in strong thermal conditions. When pushed out, the speedbar is an efficient implement for a smooth, stable and yet strong acceleration throughout the whole travel range and hence producing an excellent sink rate as a result. The glider turns more precisely and effortlessly. Having it all under control you can then, make better decisions to truly enjoy the flight. A whooping 8,77% in weight reduction demonstrates the effort and accomplishment made to reduce the glider inner bulk and profile resulting, more performance, enhanced safety and comfort. The Artik 4 will cover your needs 365 days a year. It is our all around Grand Touring glider. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdkY5qYVBeaTuDZ0Q | (-) Philippines (70)
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USDA Agricultural Trade Mission Delegation Arrives to Spain
USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service Associate Administrator Clay Hamilton arrived today in Madrid to launch a USDA agribusiness trade mission to Spain.
USDA Trade Mission to Spain will Boost Export Opportunities for U.S. Agribusinesses
More than 30 agribusinesses and farm organizations will visit Madrid, Spain, from Nov. 29 through Dec. 2, for a trade mission sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Members of the delegation will engage directly with potential buyers from Spain and Portugal, receive in-depth market briefs from USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and industry trade experts, and participate in site visits.
Export Sales to China, Philippines, and Unknown Destinations
Private exporters reported the following sales activity for MY 2022/2023: 392,000 MT of soybeans for delivery to China, 198,000 MT of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations, and 230,000 MT of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Philippines.
USDA Accepting Applications for Spain and Portugal Trade Mission
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service is accepting applications from U.S. exporters for its first-ever agricultural trade mission to Madrid, Spain, on Nov. 29 – Dec. 2.
Unlocking New Export Opportunities on Philippines Trade Mission
Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator Daniel Whitley led a USDA trade mission to the Philippines, July 18-21. He was joined by representatives from 29 U.S. agribusinesses and farm organizations and 10 state departments of agriculture, working...
FAS Administrator Whitley Kicks Off Philippines Trade Mission
FAS Administrator Daniel Whitley arrived in Manila today to launch a U.S. Department of Agriculture trade mission to help foster stronger ties and build economic partnerships between the United States and the Philippines.
FAS Administrator Whitley to Lead Philippines Trade Mission
FAS Administrator Daniel Whitley will lead a delegation of representatives from 29 U.S. agribusinesses and farm organizations to Manila, Philippines, July 18-21 for a USDA-sponsored trade mission.
Crossing the Pond to Expand U.S. Agricultural Exports
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Jewel Bronaugh led a USDA trade mission to the United Kingdom June 22-24, joined by leaders from U.S. businesses, farm organizations, and state government agencies who worked together to open doors, strengthen...
USDA Trade Mission Underway in London
Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh is leading a USDA trade mission to the United Kingdom, joined by representatives from U.S. agribusinesses, farm organizations and state departments of agriculture who are interested in exploring export opportunities in this important market.
USDA Deputy Secretary Bronaugh to Lead United Kingdom Trade Mission
Representatives from 37 U.S. agribusinesses and farm organizations will join USDA Deputy Secretary Dr. Jewel Bronaugh for an agribusiness trade mission to London, United Kingdom, June 22-24. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbuI5qU2Ap1mgSzz5 | El es un equipo de fútbol de Estonia que juega en la Meistriliiga, la primera división nacional.
Historia
Fue fundado en el año 2009 en la ciudad de Laagri del condado de Harju como club de divisiones aficionadas, de las cuales salió en 2020 cuando logra el ascenso a la Esiliiga B.
En su primera temporada termina de subcampeón y logra el ascenso a la Esiliiga.
Palmarés
Esiliiga: 1
2022
iii Liiga Norte: 1
2019
Jugadores
Equipo 2022
Referencias
Enlaces externos
Equipos de la Meistriliiga
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 2009
Estonia en 2009 | wikipedia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUbSw4eILhQHZXo8hY | Books Chevron Right
Author Interviews Chevron Right
Philippa Gregory on the challenges and thrills of launching her new series
By Caroline Tew
August 19, 2019 at 01:32 PM EDT
Credit: Simon and Schuster; Atria Books
Historical fiction giant Philippa Gregory (The Spanish Princess) has a new series, and it launches Tuesday with the novel Tidelands. The first installment of the Fairmile saga takes place on the ever-shifting landscape of England's tidelands and follows the struggles of Alinor, a poor woman trying to make ends meet to support her children after her husband doesn't return from his time at sea.
It's a fitting place for Gregory to wind up. Her first foray into the historical novel, the Wideacre trilogy, explored the lives of the working class in the second half of the 18th century; her more recent works have focused on the Plantagenet and Tudor families. Tidelands straddles these two worlds: While its main focus is the poorest family in the village, royals crop up occasionally and their politics play a large role in the novel. Even King Charles I himself makes a brief appearance.
EW spoke to Gregory about Tidelands and what readers can expect from this new series.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This isn't your first time writing about this time period and the English Civil War, so what drew you back to this time period?
PHILIPPA GREGORY: First of all, [I] wanted to write about a poor family living on the very edges of society, and it's very hard to get anything other than the most limited material about poor people further back in time. The other thing is I wanted to write about was a woman confronting a society that is getting increasingly violent towards women, [where it's] increasingly difficult for a woman to survive at the very time of the peak of the witchcraft madness which swept Europe and England as well. So, looking for the circumstance where a woman would be in clear and intense jeopardy lead me to the Civil War period, which was one of the worst times for women in England.
Right now we're in this interesting time where power dynamics in today's culture are changing, particularly with the #MeToo movement. Did the current climate influence your writing in any way or are these things just something that are always on your mind?
Of course, my education and my reading now and my living in the world is exactly that of a woman of today. I can't write anything without being that person. So of course the #MeToo movement and the Time's Up movement and the other discussions are very powerfully in my mind, as really they should be in anybody's mind, male or female. But obviously it's of intense interest to women and to mothers and grandmothers, because I'm that as well. I'm not just a daughter and a sister, but I also have a number of attachments to especially to women and young people who will change the future, I hope. So of course it's intensely important to me, but at the same time I don't ever make in my writing direct reference from the present day to now. Because what I'm writing is what I'm trying to make into a really authentic historical novel. So the awareness of the people then, the consciousness then, that they bring to their circumstances has to be, to me, plausible for someone in 1640.
You're a mainstay in the space of historical fiction, how do you think the genre has changed over time? Do you think your take on the genre has changed throughout the years you've been writing in it?
Well I know, because everybody said it at the time of my first novel 31 years ago, that I wrote something which was then very new. I brought to the historical novel radicalism, a sense of the importance of working people. It wasn't just a top-down snobby novel, [Wideacre] was about the struggle of working people to control the estate they lived in. It was a novel about class struggle. It was also a novel about, in a way, feminism because it was the story of a young woman who wanted to inherit the estate and didn't see why her brother should get it. It was a very sexy novel at a time when historical fiction was traditionally much more demure. So I brought to it a modern woman's consciousness: that sex is worth writing about and is interesting in itself, that the struggles of working people are interesting of themselves, and that the stories of women are interesting of themselves.
And in a way, I've continued with that in some ways, and although I've written more about the Plantagenet family and the Tudor family — although they are royal novels, so you get really caught up into snobbery — these are obviously important people because they are royal. I've never thought that. I've always thought that they were important and interesting to write about because they have extraordinary lives. And I've always written about the women and not about the apparently more important husbands because I've always wanted to tell the stories that other people weren't telling — and that's always been the less-known wives, sisters, daughters. The women who are usually obscured by the kings.
The setting in Tidelands is unique. It's set on this island that's always changing and has its very own dynamic, both in terms of landscape and how people interact with one another. Why this setting?
I'm realizing how wonderfully — thought of unconsciously — the setting of this place that is not quite land and not quite sea but is both at different times today, really echoes how marginal [Alinor's] life is. These are marginal lands, they are not part of the heart of England; they're not prosperous; they're not noticed; they're not even properly mapped. And in this landscape, this woman who is not prosperous and not noticed and doesn't know where she's going is trying to scrape a living in a very, very poor landscape. It turned out to be a wonderful way of seeing how peripheral she is in the life of the country. They only know literally weeks after how a battle has gone which determines which way the Civil War is going to go. They hear about it really late and then only because someone happens to be passing through and has a pamphlet.
Equally, [Alinor] herself is so marginalized even in her society that she is living overlooking land that is sometimes land and sometimes sea, and she's collecting, just for her own amusement on this shore, little tokens from a long ago distant historical past which are not currency, which are in a sense nothing, but she values it. So, it was a very evocative landscape for me.
How did it come to you?
It happens to be one I know really well because I lived there for about four or five years, when I was studying at Sussex University and living in the cottage which was owned by the conservation officer of the area. He and I used to go out every day in [the] summer and I would study and sit on the beach and watch over this colony of sea birds and literally watch the tide come in and go out again. So I didn't realize at the time how this landscape entered into my consciousness until now, living in a very different part of England, I found that I could imagine it so richly.
Tidelands has its fair share of forbidden love. Why is that topic so intriguing for you to write and read about?
Looking over all forms of writing, easily fulfilled love presents you with a whole load of problems. There's no dramatic tension. If the boy says to the girl, "I love you" and the girl says to the boy, "I love you too" and they then marry and live happily ever after, that's a pretty short story. In any story about anything, you've really got to have a sort of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, something's got to happen. So, forbidden love is a classic way of delaying the conclusion of the story one way or another, whether the story concludes happily or unhappily. In a sense, the route toward it is the most interesting. In most fiction, I think, it is the journey of the story rather than the arrival that is of the greatest interest. And in this case, they are forbidden at multiple levels. And it was so interesting for me watching them, writing them, trying to overcome all of the obstacles in their way and in the end having to face the fact that they were profoundly divided, not as they had always thought by the external social controls, but by their acceptance of them.
This is the first of a new series from you, so what can readers expect going forward?
I'm about halfway through the next book and I am actually ridiculously excited about it. It's the second generation of the family; I won't tell you how they get to where they get to, but we're in London, entering into trade. They've got a little warehouse and in the course of book 2 they get into international trade and the family starts spreading. The setting is partly Venice, partly London, Venice at the time being a remarkable center of international trade and luxury goods and prosperity and also terrific political control and spying. So, my gosh, it's exciting, I can't begin to tell you how thrilled I am with it. I write something every day and go off to do other things, and I can't wait to get back to it. If I feel that way about it that's usually a sign that it's going to be quite a page-turner. I'm currently wondering if it's got too much event in it and I have to calm it down a bit. At the moment, I'm just going with the flow.
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BkiUdz85qoTBCaJeCAVf | The University of Michigan (U-M) is establishing an $8 million facility to accelerate the development of more efficient and more durable batteries for use in electric vehicles and for integrating solar and wind energy with national power grids.
Project partners include the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Ford Motor Company.
Typically, researchers test new battery structures and chemistries in so-called "coin cells" that resemble those in a watch or hearing aid, but developers need to know that these concepts will scale up, and this is where the new lab fits in.
The facility will allow scientists and engineers to assess how larger cells perform under different operating scenarios and identify mechanical and heat management issues that could decrease the battery's performance and shorten its life.
The new lab will be geared towards open innovation and available for any firm to use. Cooperation is key, and Mark Barteau, director of the U-M Energy Institute, believes that bringing university researchers and industry together is essential to create advances that have real-world impact.
Barteau told TMR+ that the lab will be up and running within a year. Now that the building is open, the next step is to purchase and install equipment.
For more information, visit the U-M Energy Institute's homepage. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUcqTxK6wB9mpb1lMs | The Aquaestate water park offers everything you need to enjoy relaxation and games in total safety.
Discover all the services that you will find available for children, teenagers, adults and families.
Buckets, spades and moulds are at your children's disposal.
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For everyone, every weekend, entertainment, mini club and aquafitness lessons! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
BkiUbHLxK02iP1lCWhGW | Home Featured Watch Out SEC, The Big Ten and ACC Are Taking Over!
Watch Out SEC, The Big Ten and ACC Are Taking Over!
Down South, football goes hand-in-hand with religion and soul food. Not just pro football, but high school, college, and club teams too. The Southeastern Conference, more popularly known as the SEC, encompasses 14 schools in 10 southern states. It has bred some of the biggest names in professional sports, especially on the gridiron.
When you think of college football powerhouses, University of Alabama, Ole Miss, Auburn, and LSU are some of the schools that come to mind. Their recruiting classes are jam-packed with future Hall of Famers and Heisman candidates, making them a top target for NFL prospects. SEC football has produced five of the past 10 Heisman winners, including NFL MVP Cam Newton. Alabama leads the country in composite team rankings as far as their 2016 recruiting class with an average of 92.85. Examining the AP Top 25 standings for Week 5, there are seven teams from the SEC ranked. Impressive. But how many of those teams are in the top 10? Only #1 Alabama and #9 Texas A&M. This is not a terrible showing, but there are two conferences who are threatening the SEC's reign on football — the Big Ten and the ACC.
The Big Ten is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the nation and encompasses schools up North and the Midwest. The Western Division includes Purdue, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Northwestern. The Eastern Division has Maryland, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Rutgers, and Ohio State. Entering Week 5, three of these schools are ranked in the top 10 (#2 Ohio State, #4 Michigan, #8 Wisconsin) and have recently sent some of the best players to the league, including 2016 rookies Eli Apple (New York Giants) and Ezekiel Elliot (Dallas Cowboys) from Ohio State. The Buckeyes lead the conference in recruiting (91.56) with Michigan close behind (89.86).
What really makes the Big Ten a threat? According to an Associated Press article, defense is its trademark. A team like Ohio State, where big name defenders usually don't stay the full four years, not only has the recruiting power to keep bringing in defensive talent, but also focuses on slowing down opposing offenses. Chris Ash, current Rutgers head coach and former co-defensive coordinator for the Buckeyes, knows this all too well, saying, "Ohio State recruits at a high level, it's just really reload, the next man in. When someone goes to the NFL or their career is over, there is another talented player waiting to burst on the scene and became another Ohio State legend." Same goes for #4 Michigan, coached by Jim Harbaugh. As his team prepares to face off against conference rival #8 Wisconsin this weekend, his team's skills will truly be put to the test.
The American Coast Conference (ACC) is another conference that has been on the rise lately. With 15 schools, including Florida State, UNC, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, and Louisville, the level of competition varies throughout the conference. #3 Louisville, #5 Clemson, #12 Florida State, and #14 Miami continue to work their way up in the rankings. Overall, the conference's biggest weapon this season has been the talent at the quarterback position, with one school dominating- Louisville. Cardinals quarterback Lamar Jackson has taken college football by storm. His individual showing, 25 touchdowns in just four games, has catapulted him to the front of the Hiesman race. Of course the 19-year-old is just one example of the talent emerging in the conference, but his skills will really be challenged as the Cardinals face another ACC powerhouse, Clemson. The Tigers are also 4-0 on the season thus far, with a threat at the helm of their offense in Deshaun Watson. Watson is a junior who led his team to the National Championship game last year, although they suffered a heartbreaking loss to none other than Alabama. However, he proved his leadership and came into this season a favorite for the Heisman. Leading up to this weekend's game, there has been too many Jackson vs. Watson comparisons to count, including one where the edge is given to the Clemson QB because of his experience against tough opponents.
Whether it's because Alabama is just too good or the rest of the SEC has some catching up to do, the Big Ten and ACC matchups have become much more entertaining to watch.
Kayla Solomon is a new contributor to AllSportsEverything.com. She attends Temple University for nine months out of the year, but will be here in New York all summer! Follow Kayla on Twitter at@dontKAYme, Instagram at @kayla_nyree. Also, find her writing weekly on blackaphillyated.com and on her personal blog, dearfuturekay.wordpress.com.
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BkiUbK44uzqh_E1zmIbg | The Neighborhood Outdoor Movie Program is a great way to connect with your neighbors. Bring out the blankets and popcorn, enjoy a movie under the stars and promote a deeper sense of community in your neighborhood. Choose a family-friendly movie and make some great memories!!!
Host A Neighborhood Outdoor Movie Night. We'll provide the technical stuff, you provide the movie!
For more information email JCuesta@RiversideCA.gov or call (951) 826-2077.
Click on the thumbnail below to view the brochure.
Are you interested in working together with your fellow residents to improve your community? We would like to help those efforts by providing information and support for community organizing.
There is power in numbers! Your neighborhood's unified voice at City Hall will not only work to get needed city services like traffic control and graffiti removal but also help City Hall better understand and focus on your neighborhood's unique concerns.
Neighborhood organizations pull residents together to prevent crime, reduce blight, and tackle issues that threaten neighborhood stability. They also take on beautification projects and help you meet your neighbors. You will make friends and have fun in the process.
Click the map to the right to find your neighborhood.
Sign up to receive email notifications for the Neighborhood Programs and Activities. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeJrxK0iCl7UGXyft |
package com.google.javascript.rhino.jstype;
import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.jstype.FunctionType.Parameter;
import com.google.javascript.rhino.testing.BaseJSTypeTestCase;
import java.util.List;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
/**
* Tests for FunctionParamBuilder.
*
* @author nicksantos@google.com (Nick Santos)
*/
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class FunctionParamBuilderTest extends BaseJSTypeTestCase {
@Test
public void testBuild() {
FunctionParamBuilder builder = new FunctionParamBuilder(registry);
assertThat(builder.addRequiredParams(NUMBER_TYPE)).isTrue();
assertThat(builder.addOptionalParams(BOOLEAN_TYPE)).isTrue();
assertThat(builder.addVarArgs(STRING_TYPE)).isTrue();
List<Parameter> params = builder.build();
assertTypeEquals(NUMBER_TYPE, params.get(0).getJSType());
assertTypeEquals(registry.createOptionalType(BOOLEAN_TYPE), params.get(1).getJSType());
assertTypeEquals(STRING_TYPE, params.get(2).getJSType());
assertThat(params.get(1).isOptional()).isTrue();
assertThat(params.get(2).isVariadic()).isTrue();
}
}
| github | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUc7A5qsMAI4VBTV1t | Friendship: A cute owl stands as still as a pole, posing for this portrait.
This beautiful owl lives near my home..... She was just there, when I saw her..... Thank you for the comments....And I wish a Great Year 2012 for you!
What a lovely little owl posing like a model in her best outfit. She exudes self confidence and incredible poise.
A beautiful photograph, Laura. What a surprise that it just sits there. Is it by chance a burrowing owl? Lucky shot or know-how?
A beautiful lighting and a nice depth of field with a cute owl! | c4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdTA5qYVBOT10Jp23 | Q: Programming Java 8 in Eclipse The development of Eclipse support for Java 8 is ongoing in a branch (http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core/Java8).
To try out the current Eclipse support for Java 8, I did the following:
*
*I installed a build of JDK 8 (This step is optional).
*I checked out branch BETA_JAVA8 of git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git.
*I imported the checked out projects in an instance of Eclipse Juno SR1 (Build ID: 20120920-0800).
*I ran a new instance of Eclipse from my running Eclipse.
To use the new syntax available in Java 8, Eclipse said that I have to set the compliance level of my code to 1.8. To set the compliance level, I have to set the execution environment to JavaSE-1.8. This execution environment was not available at Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs -> Execution Environments.
How can I set the execution environment to JavaSE-1.8?
The following summarizes some of my attempts to install the execution environment:
*
*I followed the wiki instructions looking for a description of JavaSE-1.8 at the update site http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.2. But, the definition of the execution environment wasn't there.
*I looked for the JavaSE-1.8 profile in the git repository of rt.equinox.framework, but, it wasn't there.
A: If you have Kepler you can get it using a patch that has installation instructions on this page:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT/Eclipse_Java_8_Support_For_Kepler
Starting with I20140318-0830 all Luna (4.4) builds on our downloads
page contain the Eclipse support for Java™ 8. For Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) a
feature patch needs to be installed. This page describes how to do
this.
A: I just went to the Eclipse Marketplace from inside of Eclipse (Help/Eclipse Marketplace...) and installed the "Java 8 support for Eclipse Kepler SR2", and the new "JavaSE-1.8" execution environment showed up automatically. I had previously installed Java 8 and added it as a 'Installed JREs' entry. No need to mess with property files.
A: Think you just have to change the 'settings' directly in the 'preference file' : org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs .
e.g. org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.8
A: Eclipse version >=Luna (that's one after Kepler) runs smoothly with java 8.
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BkiUdyQ5qdmB63LOEe6c | Paul Day - Sculptor
Curtis Marsh
When I say significant, these works were bronze high reliefs and weighed what seemed like a ton and we all (about 8 of us) had strained backs and near hernias lifting the two works out of Day's van and putting them into position.
Sensing our fascination with these sculptures, our friends organised a visit to Day's studio the following day, who is the most humble, amiable and accommodating artist I have ever encountered. Perhaps it is the isolation of his studio and any company apart from is lonesome hound Vasco is most welcome.
Such isolation and the ability to work alone with motivation is perhaps what we associate with talented and successful artists but with Day I suspect the remote solitary confinement has a lot to do with needing a lot of space; a barn that has sufficient space for him to have many large works in progress and to house a very large kiln. I would also assume a farm studio in the French countryside and environs of Burgundy a most conducive part of the world to live.
Paul Day has made a living from his art the day he left art school attributing much of his success to his hard work and spending long hours in the studio in art school. Moreover, he considers himself very lucky to have found direction in his art early in his career. This artistic direction is not easily described, largely because it is so unique and whilst mainly falling within the scope of contemporary sculpturing and high reliefs using terracotta, resin and bronze, it is his amalgamation of architecture and people in such deep reliefs that are 3-dimmensional with a captivating virtual reality making the subjects or story and themes come alive with intriguing realism and drawing you into long transfixion on the elaborate detail.
The intricate architectural detail of some of his works is extraordinary; a Gothic church or an Opera theatre where you become completely engaged in the ornate detail or labyrinth like scope of a building with clever use of light and shadows, and a solitary figure bringing perspective and angles as if it was life-size. In some instances people are brought to life within themes, such as Day's commissioned work for The Battle of Britain Monument, commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Battle, unveiled by HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH the Duchess of Cornwell Duchess in 2005. This is a dramatic and very moving piece with a powerful narrative of war and the grimacing faces of pilots as they scramble for their planes.
Day is probably best known for his statue named The Meeting Place which stands beneath the clock at St Pancras Station, London; a 30 foot high 20-tonne bronze of a couple locked in an amorous embrace that symbolises the romance of travel. He has also created reliefs depicting life and historical scenes of the London Tube and trains, some of which were on display at his studio when we visited and incredibly captivating works.
Recently Day has been working in partnership with Tottenham Hotspurs football club on a new project: to create a footballing sculpture. He reports "We now have a finished model in bronze but my long term goal (no pun intended) is to create the full size version." Click here for pictures showing the process from an idea on paper, to clay and to bronze.
Click here to view some of Paul Day's sculptures
You can get a good idea of his Day's talent by visiting his commissioned works which are detailed on his website www.pauldaysculpture.com However if you are indeed interested in procuring a serious piece of art and enjoy sculpture, I would highly recommend you visit his studio, which is by appointment only. And without stating the obvious, if you like drinking Burgundy then a trip to Dijon or Beaune, only a few hours from Paris by TGV, touring vineyards and enjoying the wonderful local gastronomy combined with a visit to Paul Day has the makings of an excellent holiday.
Paul Day can be contacted direct at paul@pauldaysculpture.com | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdFI5qhDBIcqDkJq1 | LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) Liberty Media Corporation, already a big investor in Live Nation, is reportedly looking at acquiring a stake in Creative Artists Agency.
Any investment in CAA would give Liberty "greater negotiating leverage for its other businesses, namely Formula One," the motor racing championship it acquired in 2016, according to Financial Times. Liberty Media already has a 30 percent stake in Live Nation plus is the majority owner of SiriusXM and recently acquired streaming service Pandora.
Liberty and CAA are already partners in Formula One. A representative for TPG, the private equity firm that owns a majority of CAA, told FT is approached regularly with offers but it was not in "active discussions" regarding CAA. Other investors in the booking agency are China's CMC Capital Partners and Temasek of Singapore. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
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Nashville, Tenn. — Faithful, the highly-anticipated live worship set from GRAMMY®-nominated NewSong, debuted at #1 on Nielsen SoundScan's Praise & Worship chart for the week ending March 15. The critically-acclaimed Integrity Music project also landed at #3 on Nielsen SoundScan's Current Contemporary Christian chart, marking the chart's highest debut of the week.
NewSong's first live recording since 2005's Rescue, Faithful released March 10 and features songwriting credits from such leading artists as Matthew West, Matt Redman, All Sons & Daughters, Elias Dummer (The City Harmonic), and Desperation Band, among others.
CCMmagazine.com says of the project, "This is a perfect variety of songs—well suited to their vocal work, smart musicianship—and proves that even after a decade since their last recorded worship offering, they are, indeed, Faithful."
The 13-song collection was produced by Nathan Nockels (Chris Tomlin, Passion) and recorded live, in-the-round at NewSong's home church near Atlanta. Highlighted by the title-cut and debut single, an original co-penned by NewSong's Russ Lee, All Sons & Daughters' David Leonard and Leslie Jordan, and Alli Rogers, the album also offers NewSong's version of the Desperation Band-penned "Make A Way"; the original "Hallelujah (Bride In White)," co-written with The City Harmonic's Elias Dummer; and "Keep Me Close," a soaring prayer of surrender co-penned by Matthew West.
Faithful is available as a CD or CD/DVD combo featuring video selections filmed during the live recording, as well as exclusive interviews with members of NewSong. A standard digital album and digital "deluxe" (featuring bonus videos) is also available.
NewSong is currently performing "Faithful" at 47 Winter Jam Tour Spectacular stops around the country. Created and hosted by the band, Winter Jam—which has seen multiple sellouts to date this year—is headlined by GRAMMY® Award-winning rockers Skillet and features 10 of Christian music's top artists.
With a career spanning more than 30 years, 19 albums, 20 #1 Christian radio singles, a GRAMMY® Award-nomination and induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, among numerous other achievements, NewSong is among the most respected artists and mentors in Christian music today. Their unparalleled ministry has been highlighted by such defining songs as "Arise, My Love," "The Christmas Shoes" and "Rescue," while the group's blockbuster Winter Jam Tour Spectacular has ranked as Pollstar's #1 first-quarter tour in the world for four consecutive years, providing a powerful platform for the Gospel in major arenas around the country since 1995.
For further information, visit newsongonline.com, intergritymusic.com or turningpointpr.com.
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BkiUcxk5qhDACrLp7NJo | The Kremlin's innovation incubator plans to hold the first in a series of share sales by technology companies this year, buoyed by record venture capital investment in the country.
The first tenant of the Skolkovo Foundation technology park to go public will be VIST Mining, a software developer for metals companies that expects to raise $50 million selling stock in the next few months, Skolkovo vice president Conor Lenihan said in an interview.
"This is a great blueprint for what Skolkovo can do," said Lenihan, 49, a former science, technology and innovation minister of Ireland. It's "within the pipeline of 500 startups, even though the park doesn't officially open till next year."
Viktor Vekselberg, Skolkovo's president, hired Lenihan last year to help lure international companies to the 400-hectare campus in the Moscow suburb of the same name. Former President Dmitry Medvedev started the project in 2010 as Russia's attempt to duplicate the success of Silicon Valley, where companies such as Apple and Google have flourished. Skolkovo advisers include Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, Siemens CEO Peter Loescher, former Intel CEO Craig Barrett and three Nobel Prize winners.
The emergence of Skolkovo is coinciding with a boom in venture capital investment in Russia-based companies, which jumped fourfold to a record $276 million this year as of July 20, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
That includes the $75 million that Accel Partners, an early backer of Facebook, said in May it would invest with partners including Baring Vostok Capital Partners into Avito.ru, a classified ads site that attracts 40 percent of Russian Internet users every month. VTB Capital, the securities unit of the country's second-biggest lender, has invested $18 million in Internet startups so far this year, according to the company.
Since forming Skolkovo, the government has allocated about $4.2 billion for the project and amended about 200 laws to encourage high-tech investment, according to the company's website. The campus, designed by France's AREP and scheduled for completion next year, will be able to accommodate 31,000 scientists, researchers, students and entrepreneurs. Vekselberg has said the final cost may reach $10 billion.
Lenihan said he was recruited personally by Vekselberg, whom he met through a mutual acquaintance in Rome after an exhibit of the billionaire's Faberge egg collection in the Vatican.
Vekselberg, whose assets include stakes in oil producer TNK-BP and aluminum maker United Company RusAl, stepped down as RusAl's chairman in March and now spends "about 70 percent" of his time on Skolkovo, Lenihan said.
"Viktor appreciates that what happened in the 1990s was catastrophic, when you had this massive outflow of really talented scientists who are now contributing hugely to successful companies in Silicon Valley," Lenihan said late last week. "Cisco alone employs 700 Russian scientists and technologists there, which goes to show the talent pool we are tapping into."
Vekselberg has already used tax breaks and other incentives to lure commitments from global companies such as Microsoft, Siemens, Cisco and Nokia. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdhc5qWTA8JC6SV4i | Edward J. Whalen has come out of retirement to become the new president and CEO of FreightCar America, Inc.
Whalen follows Christian B. Ragot, who had served as president and CEO since April 30, 2007, and has left the railcar builder by "mutual consent," according to the company.
Whalen, 61, has nearly 40 years of railcar industry experience, including broad expertise in finance, leasing, marketing and sales. He joined FreightCar America as one of a group of investors who acquired the predecessor company in 1991 from Bethlehem Steel. He most recently served as FreightCar America's senior vice president of marketing and sales, from December 2004 to September 2008, when he retired. Prior to joining FreightCar America, Whalen spent 19 years at Pullman, Inc., last serving as president of Pullman Leasing Company.
"I am pleased to rejoin FreightCar America in this new role," Whalen said. "My top priorities are twofold. First and foremost, given the anticipated continued weakness in railcar orders, we need to optimize the company's performance in 2010, with a continued view to preserving our strong balance sheet. At the same time, we will look for prudent ways to leverage the company's existing strengths and capabilities to broaden its business focus to address the entire railcar lifecycle."
FreightCar America, based in Chicago with manufacturing plants in Danville, Ill., and Roanoke, Va., builds railroad freight cars, with particular expertise in coal-carrying railcars. It also designs and builds bulk commodity cars, flat cars, mill gondola cars, intermodal cars, coil steel cars and motor vehicle carriers. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfIE4uzlh9qpEjDy4 | from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
initial = True
dependencies = [
]
operations = [
migrations.CreateModel(
name='Author',
fields=[
('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
('name', models.CharField(max_length=200)),
('email', models.EmailField(max_length=254)),
],
),
migrations.CreateModel(
name='Blog',
fields=[
('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
('name', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
('tagline', models.TextField()),
],
),
migrations.CreateModel(
name='Entry',
fields=[
('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
('headline', models.CharField(max_length=255)),
('body_text', models.TextField()),
('pub_date', models.DateField()),
('mod_date', models.DateField()),
('n_comments', models.IntegerField()),
('n_pingbacks', models.IntegerField()),
('rating', models.IntegerField()),
('authors', models.ManyToManyField(to='my_app.Author')),
('blog', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='my_app.Blog')),
],
),
]
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BkiUeAQ4ubnhDSvJR-M2 | Q: v-for loop error when updating data - DOMException- Failed to execute 'insertBefore' I write a navigation component based on vue and ant-design-vue. the LectureNavigation.vue file is like this:
<template>
<div id="navigation-button">
<a-button type="primary" style="width: 62px;
height: 40px;" @click="toggleCollapsed">
<MenuUnfoldOutlined v-if="collapsed" />
<MenuFoldOutlined v-else />
</a-button>
</div>
<div id="expand">
<a-layout-sider width="220px" style="background: #fff">
<a-menu mode="inline" theme="dark" :inline-collapsed="collapsed" v-model:openKeys="openKeys">
<a-menu-item v-for="(item, index) in get_lecture_index()" :key="item[0]">
<template #icon>
<MailOutlined />
</template>
<router-link :to="'/lecture/' + item[1]">{{index}} -{{ item[2] }}</router-link>
</a-menu-item>
</a-menu>
</a-layout-sider>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import { stat_instance } from "@/utils/request";
import router from "@/router/index";
import { defineComponent, reactive, toRefs, watch, onMounted } from "vue";
import {
MenuFoldOutlined,
MenuUnfoldOutlined,
// PieChartOutlined,
MailOutlined,
// DesktopOutlined,
// InboxOutlined,
// AppstoreOutlined,
} from "@ant-design/icons-vue";
export default defineComponent({
data() {
return {
$router: router,
lecture_index: [
["0", "lks", "中华小当家"],
["1", "lks", "中华小当家"],
["2", "fefe", "美美睡一觉"]],
};
},
methods: {
get_lecture_index() {
return this.lecture_index;
}
},
created() {
stat_instance({
url: "/stat_api/get_lecture_index",
})
.then((response) => {
this.lecture_index = response.data.detail);
console.log("lecture_index: ", response);
console.log("lecture_index: ", this.lecture_index);
})
.catch(() => {
console.log("### Failed to request navigation file.");
});
},
components: {
// PieChartOutlined,
MailOutlined,
MenuUnfoldOutlined,
MenuFoldOutlined,
// DesktopOutlined,
// InboxOutlined,
// AppstoreOutlined,
},
});
</script>
<style lang="less">
#navigation-button {
z-index: 20;
display: block;
position: fixed;
top: 10px;
left: 9px;
}
#expand {
z-index: 9;
position: static;
width: 200;
}
@media screen and (max-width: 800px) {
#expand {
position: fixed;
display: none;
}
}
@media screen and (min-width: 801px) {
#navigation-button {
display: none;
}
}
</style>
but the webpage could only render the lecture_index in data method, which contains only 3 items just as the code above. It can not render the response data by a http request in the created method, which contains 8 items in the Array.
And when executing, the chrome reported an error:
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Failed to execute 'insertBefore' on 'Node': The node before which the new node is to be inserted is not a child of this node.
the whole project is as Jionlp_online, when you deploy this project, type the http://ip:port/lecture/entropy_theory_basics could see this error page.
So, How to successfully render the data by the http requests more than 3?
A: You have two root elements in you tag, wrap it in a seperate div tag so there is only one root element.
Try this:
<template>
<div>
<div id="navigation-button">
...
</div>
<div id="expand">
...
</div>
<div>
</template>
| stackexchange | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUczI4uBhiwapZv6hd | This vintage hat was made in the early 1930s for Ben Parkoff of Brooklyn, New York and is their "The Parksley" model. It is a rare style, briefly popular in the early '30s, the snap brim homburg, flanged with a sharply curled homburg type brim curl to the back, and a more relaxed one in the front, allowing it to be worn up brim or snapped. It has the feathered edge to the bow that was so popular at this time, and the twisted dip to the reverse side of the ribbon which was also a short lived trend. It has a center crease with pinches and a bound 2-1/4″ brim. It has a wide sweatband with a taped rear seam and a fancy pleated lining. The original store size tag is still in the ribbon.
This entry was posted in Hats, Uncategorized and tagged 1930s, Ben Parkoff, Brooklyn, Homburg, New York, snap brim homburg, The Parksley, vintage by Spencer Stewart. Bookmark the permalink. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdy84eIOjRxJW9Uu8 | IBM / News/PR
IBM joins forces with Samsung, JPMorgan Chase and Daimler AG to develop Quantum Computing
By Priya on December 15, 2017 No Comments
IBM recently announced partnership with major Fortune 500 companies, including Samsung, JPMorgan Chase and Daimler AG, to develop quantum computing.
The companies are the first clients who will have early access to IBM Q Network – a collaboration of leading fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and research labs. These companies, along with IBM, will dig into the practical applications of quantum computing in their industries.
Per the company, the coming years will see a rapid increase in the application of quantum computing in a variety of sectors. IBM Q Network will act as a vehicle to make quantum computing more approachable to the organizations by giving them access to advanced IBM Q systems and quantum ecosystem.
"Working closely with our clients, together we can begin to explore the ways big and small quantum computing can address previously unsolvable problems applicable to industries such as financial services, automotive or chemistry. There will be a shared focus on discovering areas of quantum advantage that may lead to commercial, intellectual and societal benefit in the future," said Dario Gil, vice president of AI and IBM Q, IBM Research.
The organizations can directly work with the expert scientists, engineers and consultants from IBM to explore the potential of quantum computing in every industry. Daimler will work with IBM data scientists and other experts to learn how quantum computing can be used to improve transportation.
"We believe that quantum computing could be a crucial element in creating sustainable and highly efficient mobility," said Ola Källenius, member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG.
JP Morgan Chase will explore the potential of Quantum in finance sector, particularly in trading strategies and risk analysis.
"Joining the IBM Q Network allows us to bring our technologists alongside IBM's researchers and leverage cutting-edge quantum systems to learn about how we may be able to apply these technologies in the future," said Lori Beer, CIO, JPMorgan Chase.
The other members, including Barclays, Honda, Hitachi Metals and Nagase will begin to work upon their knowledge of quantum computing and explore more opportunities in it.
IBM also announced the intent to launch IBM Q Network hubs across the four continents, which will be the regional centers to further improve the accessibility to quantum systems. The company plans to locate the hubs at IBM Research, Keio University (Japan), Oak Ridge National Lab (the United States), Oxford University (United Kingdom) and University of Melbourne (in Australia).
The organizations who are members of the IBM Q Network will have access to online use of 20 qubit IBM Q systems.
IBM recently built and tested the first 50 qubit prototype processor, which it plans to make available in the next-generation IBM Q systems.
IBM claims to have 60,000 users who have run over 1.7 M quantum experiments with the help of IBM Q experience.
AI Daimler AG Honda IBM IBM Cloud IBM Q IBM Research IoT JPMorgan Chase Quantum computing quantum ecosystem. Qubit Samsung
DigiCert, Gemalto and ISARA working on future of IoT security as quantum computing become widespread
Microsoft releases updated Quantum Development kit with faster simulations and enhanced debugging capabilities
Siemens and SAS join forces to bring AI-powered IoT analytics to edge and cloud
Comparing IoT services: AWS vs Google vs IBM vs Microsoft
Verizon to use Samsung's home routers for 5G commercial launch
Hitachi and Virtusa Partner to Advance AI in Financial Services
Microsoft brings AI to business intelligence, announces new AI features in Power BI | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUbkPxK4sA-5Y3q9I5 | Image Title: Poker Table Chairs Pertaining To Tables And Sets Billiard Factory Idea 4. Filename: poker-table-chairs-pertaining-to-tables-and-sets-billiard-factory-idea-4.jpg. Image Dimension: 740 x 250 pixels. Images Format: jpg/jpeg. Publisher/Author: Adrien Funk. Uploaded Date: Sunday - May 06th. 2018 06:00:15 AM. Category: Architecture. Image Source: homedepot.com.
Tap The Thumbnail Bellow to See Related Gallery of "Poker Table Chairs Pertaining To Tables And Sets Billiard Factory Idea 4" | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
BkiUemPxK1ThhAcYlvzT | In accordance with RSA 483:13, the Rivers Management and Protection Program (RMPP) must submit a biennial report to the General Court documenting RMPP activities. The purpose of the RMPP, established in 1988 by RSA 483, is to protect certain rivers, called designated rivers, for their outstanding natural and cultural resources. The program is administered by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) and uses a two-tier approach to manage and protect rivers at the state and local levels through the advisement of the state Rivers Management Advisory Committee (RMAC) and the Local River Management Advisory Committees (LACs). | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUabbxK5YsWOzBAL-K | The Major Chain Stores That Lubbock Still Desperately Needs
Renee Raven
Renee Raven Published: January 8, 2021
It seems like Lubbock has, is about to have, or has had at least one of every major chain retail store and restaurant that ever existed. Some come here and absolutely thrive, like Braum's, and some falter, like Jack in the Box. I would still love for Jack In the Box to make at least one more attempt here, as I really love their egg rolls, especially at 3 a.m.
But there are a few major retailers and restaurants that have never been here, and that I feel like we really need.
I think we can all agree that Lubbock needs a Buc-ee's. I actually saw someone else's Buc-ee's bag in a trash bin and I got furious (in my imagination) that they had a brisket breakfast burrito and never thought to bring this stranger one. In case you've never experienced the epic scope of a Buc-ee's, here are the highlights.
Bucc-ee's is a Texas-owned chain of convenience stores that are truly Texas-sized. With an enormous selection and items that are exclusive to Bucc-ee's, it's a must-hit stop. And that beaver? He's adorable.
Lubbock also needs another Texas-based retailer: Half Price Books. I have burnt many idle vacation hours browsing the huge selection of books, music and magazines at Half Price Books. There are many in the metroplex and in the Austin area. I have never left one without picking up a few treasures at a bargain price.
Normally, I frown at Californians infiltrating Texas, because, to be frank, they've ruined Austin. This is a highly hypocritical stance: my dad is originally from SoCal. However, Lubbock has room for my most beloved Californian brand: Del Taco.
I am utterly obsessed with Del Taco. I first had it in, you guessed it, southern California, but the taste has never left me. Some say it's just another version of a Taco Bell, and those people should refrain from saying that in my presence because I cannot guarantee good behavior when faced with such an affront.
The last retailer I'll mention is a bit of a cheat, because technically we have a Sephora. But it's a teeny, tiny baby Sephora inside of JCPenney. Judging by how busy Ulta stays (and I'm very grateful for our Ulta), I think Lubbock could support a full Sephora. And Sephora has just a different enough selection from Ulta that I think we could have both without sacrificing the foot traffic of our Ulta.
Lubbock seems to be growing exponentially year after year, so this article might be hopelessly outdated very soon. Here's hoping that's true.
The 10 Most Haunted Places in Lubbock | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfRXxK02iP4Y2v7dW | For full details and an application form please email Kajal Gotecha with the subject "Fish Island Village Interior". We are not requesting a fully-worked design concept at this stage, just a short 5 page application. The deadline for receiving applications is 11:59pm on Sunday 21st January 2018. The expected contract value is £20-30,000.
Fish Island Village is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the Legacy for Growth programme. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUdxPxK1yAga6Jscw9 | IAAF announces finalists for female world athletes of the year
IANS Monday, 19 November 2018 10:30:11 PM
Beijing : The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Monday announced the five finalists for female world athlete of the year.
Dina Asher-Smith of Britain is European champion in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m, and finished second in the 100m in the IAAF Diamond League final and IAAF Continental Cup, reports Xinhua news agency.
Beatrice Chepkoech from Kenya is the current world record holder in the 3000m steeplechase, and became the first woman to break 8:50 and 8:45 barriers with a time of 8:44.32 this year.
Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia won the Central American and Caribbean championship at both long jump and triple jump.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo from the Bahamas remained unbeaten across five events in 15 races, including a 200m and 4x100m double at the IAAF Continental Cup. She grabbed three wins in the 400m, with the world's fastest time since 2009.
Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium is world number three in the high jump, and is unbeaten in the heptathlon this season.
Both male and female World Athletes of the Year will be announced live on stage at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2018 in Monaco on December 4.
The male finalists will be announced on Tuesday.
Published : Monday, November 19, 2018 22:30 [IST]
Manmohan cautions against argument that development requires restrictions on freedom
RBI to set up panel to review its economic capital framework | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUe4bxK6nrxjHzDIBF | Lakers Rumors: Josh Hart Out Through All-Star Break with Knee Injury
Rob Goldberg@TheRobGoldbergTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistFebruary 11, 2019
Brandon Dill/Associated Press
The Los Angeles Lakers will rest guard Josh Hart through at least the All-Star break with patella tendinitis in his right knee, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
The Lakers are set to face the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday and then have eight days off until their next game against the Houston Rockets on Feb. 21.
Hart has been dealing with knee problems for the past few weeks. He missed practice due to left knee tendinitis in late January.
He missed the Lakers' game against the Indiana Pacers on Feb. 5, although he returned for the next game two days later. He didn't play in Sunday's loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, but he was reportedly available if needed, per Kyle Goon of the Southern California News Group.
It seems the team will now give him the opportunity to heal for the second half of the season.
Hart has been overshadowed by other young players on the Lakers, but he has been a reliable contributor in his second year with the team. He is currently averaging 8.5 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, and he started 21 of the 54 games in which he's played.
On a squad that has been devastated by injuries, the guard ranks third on the team in total minutes played.
Reggie Bullock and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope should get extra minutes at the 2 against Atlanta with Hart unavailable. | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbSo4eIZijWzOhdpE | Sunil Manchanda is an Indian film director, and producer, and an advertisement producer.
Career
His 2003 film Tere Naam won four awards. Manchanda also produced Cheeni Kum in 2007, which won one award and was nominated for four others. On 4 December 2009, Paa was released in 34 countries worldwide. It was originally supposed to be produced by Manchanda and Director R Balakrishnan, but was instead changed to Manchanda and AB Corporation.
In 2017, Manchanda was one of the producers behind the movie Mom.
Films
His most notable films include:
Awards, nominations
Paa received 14 Nominations for 16th Star Screen Awards
and won 5 awards at the Screen Awards
Cheeni Kum received 1 award and 4 nominations, including the Apsara Award for Best Movie (2008)
Tere Naam received 4 awards and 16 nominations
References
External links
Lord Owen's Lady - Official Facebook Site
Hindi film producers
Hindi-language film directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUcPnxK02iP1lCXk7R | Families are on a continuum of coping and need different types of services and interventions along that continuum. The following scale can help mandated reporters recognize how they can provide the type of help needed and prevent families from progressing along the continuum.
Source: The Future of Children, Volume 8. No. 1, Spring 1998 Center for the Future of Children, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfls25V5jX_qCelfi | This well constructed mixed use commercial building located on one of the busiest commercial areas in the town of New Glasgow. This building has direct frontage on Westville Rd. and paved parking on in the front and on the side. The two level front section accommodates retail space on the main floor and office space on the second level which is currently being used as a dance studio. There is a single level rear section which is comprised of 2 separate service bay and storage area. In addition the side bay area also has a separate office space with exterior entrance. Lastly this building is equipped with a 1 bedroom apartment and the seller at time of listing was creating a storage space over the back service bay. This building has great potential and is one of a very few building left for sale in the immediate vicinity.
From TCH at Exit 23, north on Westville Road towards New Glasgow. The Property is located on the right 1 minute past the lights by the Superstore.
paved parking in front spaces to the side and back. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUabXxK6Ot9WA5e8bA | Recovery is the seventh studio album by american rapper eminemit was released on june 18 2010 by aftermath entertainment shady records and interscope records as the follow up to eminems previous album relapse 2009. The transformers also now known as generation 1 or g1 for short though the line was never branded as such started as a joint venture between hasbro of america and takara of japanafter an idea to rebrand and sell takaras diaclone and microchange robot toys as a whole new line with a new concept behind it developed by hasbros partners at marvel comics hasbro ultimately created what. Rusty rivets is firmly grounded in the maker movement and encourages kids to use their imagination.
Blaze and the monster machines features blaze the worlds most amazing monster truck and his driver aj.
Blaze and the monster machine coloring pages. Preschoolers help blaze on his adventures in axle city solving problems based on a stem curriculum science technology engineering math. 7 inflatable hibiscus beach balls 3 pcs leaf cutout bracelet gods greatest gift gift bag happy birthday jesus tableware he lives boxed crayons. Originally planned to be released as relapse 2 the album was renamed to recovery when eminem found the album musically different from its predecessor. Rusty rivets rusty rivets.
Cute and psycho is a sister trope to killer rabbit creepy child yandere and enfant terrible and closely related to face of an angel mind of a demon psychopathic manchild and beware the nice ones though while there is frequent overlap between these tropes being one doesnt necessarily mean a character qualifies for anotherif the cute part isnt real then the character is the fake. Blaze and the monster machines monster dome challenge. In this game kids accelerate into high octane action as they help blaze and his monster machine friends take the monster dome challenge. Encourage hands on play and introduce stem principles with speedway playsets racing vehicles and water toys.
When theres a job to do and the stakes are sky high rusty and best buds ruby and botasaur invent and innovate their way out of every jam by repurposing spare parts and found objects into the most awesome contraptions ever. Every day is an adventure with blaze and the monster machines. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUf8_xK6EuNCvesRZW | worldwide, and high-quality OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.
All map data can be stored on your device's memory card for offline use.
Via your device's GPS, OsmAnd offers routing, with optical and voice guidance, for car, bike, and pedestrian.
All the main functionalities work both online and offline (no internet needed). | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdLc5qYVBP38sX5ZB | We are happy for patrons to bring in their own wine, beer or cider to compliment their pizza experience at Rossonero, for a small charge of $2 per person.
Being a casual restaurant, we happily provide simple whiskey glasses for all beverage consumption, inclusive of wine. No offence will be taken should a patron bring along their own specialty glassware, if they feel the need. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUf4q6NNjgBpvIEGqs | Tamaha YN-44
Tamaha
(YN-44: dp. 263; 1. 105'0"; b. 25'0"; dr. 9'0"; a. 4 .30
cal. mg.) Rowe Card-a tug built in 1936 at Slidell, La., by the Canulette Shipbuilding Co.—was acquired by the Navy on 26 October 1940 from the Card Towing Line,
Inc., of New York City; renamed Tamaha (YN 44); converted to a net tender at the New York Navy Yard; and placed in service there on 17 December 1940.
On 30 December, she departed New York harbor and steamed-via Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S.C., Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Panama Canal, and San Diego Calif.—to the Hawaiian Islands. After a long voyage interrupted by port visits, Tamaha reached Hawaii on 25 March 1941 and operated for the next five years as a net tender in the 14th Naval District, primarily at Midway Island. On 8 April 1942, she was redesignated YNT-12.
On 1 March 1946, she departed Pearl Harbor in ARD-8 and headed for San Diego, where she was placed out of service on 12 April 1946. On 1 May, Tamaha was determined to be surplus to the needs of the Navy, and her name was struck from the Navy list. On 16 January 1947, she was turned over to the Maritime Commission at San Diego, Calif., for disposal. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUaSzxK1yAgXBVCCQ0 | A bubble would be nice, don't you think?
With the current flu epidemic, it would be really nice. I could wrap myself up, knowing I'd be safe from airborne microbes just waiting to invade my throat and lungs, and venture out into the world without a care.
Of course, the bubble would have to be flexible, so that I could maneuver comfortably, and sheathe my fingers while still allowing them to pick the best fruits and vegetables from the bins. And the best bubbles would be heated, and have smart phone technology built in….
Or, maybe that's asking too much.
It's not difficult to know what's in someone's heart.
If you receive a letter of introduction from a large company saying they have acquired the company where you work, and want to assure a smooth transition, but also want you to reapply for your job, can you know what's in your new employers' hearts regarding your job security?
If your teachers say they do not accept late papers, can you know what's in their hearts when they scowl and refuse to take the late papers you offer?
And if an acquaintance says she doesn't want to talk to you anymore, then hangs up on you if you call, can you know how she feels about you?
It doesn't take much to know what's in people's hearts when they demonstrate it through word and deed.
— that one would have to be living in some kind of grotesque bubble to continue rationalizing away what is so patently clear, asserting what is contrary to the facts when doing so offers no convenience, no protection, no security.
…unless the alternate world within that bubble is preferable to facing the truth outside it, or the inhabitant feels more at home inside all that ugliness. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUeAI5qsMAI4khSDo5 | Today, Amazon Prime just released the trailer for season two of The Grand Tour, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May getting into all sorts of vehicular shenanigans. Additionally, it's been announced that the show .
This trailer doesn't make any reference to Hammond's crash testing the Rimac Concept:One earlier this year, but it does briefly show him driving the Croatian electric hypercar. Otherwise, the trailer shows a harrowing test involving early 2000s Jaguars and a ski slope, off-roaders thrashing through the desert, a Bugatti Chiron, and the hosts failing to drive through the mud in Mozambique. It looks like a ton of fun.
Initially, season two of The Grand Tour was supposed to premiere in October, but Hammond's crash a hospital spell for Clarkson pushed it back two months. The show is abandoning its trademark traveling studio/tent too. Instead, it's setting up shop in the UK's Cotswolds region.
So, we've got a month to wait until we can see what Clarkson, Hammond, and May have been up to. In the meantime, watch the trailer here. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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