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BkiUfPnxK7Ehm2ZQ1zIM | Less than three weeks to go until the first Fakenham Makers Market, it's getting exciting!
Here is work from another of our exhibitors 'Raynham Forge'. Isn't it super! Come and see their work on 28th March 10am – 2pm at Fakenham Parish Church.
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BkiUdKU5qYVBZEfUiRih | The Internet is abuzz with information, commercials, stunts, and opinions. Much of it is not helpful. When cultivating your own platform for media, be strong in your voice, in your stances and in your intention.
Simply pursuing followers and fame will lead to an absence of good intentions and common sense. For example, Monalisa Perez shot her YouTuber boyfriend Pedro Luiz III through a book he was certain would stop the bullet.
It is far more sweet to own your tiny corner of authenticity than to walk the stage of fraud. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
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Seed, Feed, and Weed for Bowel Health Part 3 – Microbiome and Doctors from Majid Ali on Vimeo.
Microbes That Love Humans – Bowel Immunity Series from Majid Ali on Vimeo.
Childrens Eczema, Bowel Flora, and Gut Fermentation from Majid Ali on Vimeo. | c4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
BkiUauDxK6EuNCvena32 | Предраг Бошковић (Пљевља, 12. марта 1972) црногорски је политичар и актуелни потпредсједник Европске рукометне федерације и члан Међународног вијећа рукометне федерације.
Биографија
По образовању је економиста и био је укључен у политику од 1997. године. Био је посланик у Скупштини Црне Горе, замјеник министра иностраних послова у Влади Србије и Црне Горе, министар економије при Влади Црне Горе, министар за Рад и социјално старање, те министар образовања у Влади Црне Горе.
Обављао је функцију министра одбране при Влади Црне Горе. Током његовог министровања, војник Милан Медојевић поднио је тужбу да му је прекинут радни однос јер је Србин. Он је добио тужбу на Основном суду.
Био је одликован Орденом Светог Саве Српске православне цркве за помоћ у изградњи храмова са позиције предсједника одбора пљеваљског Рудника угља. Митрополит Амфилохије најавио је одузимање ордена Бошковићу, као и то да је екскомунициран због исказаних ставова по питању карактера масовних протесних литија поводом контроверзног Закона о слободи вјероисповјести.
Ставови
Бошковић негира осмовјековни историјски континуитет Српске православне цркве тврдећи да је дати факат фалсификат. Он СПЦ назива црквом Србије.
По питању иницијативе Отворени Балкан заузео је став да је у питању начин да се замаскира вјековни пројекат Србије у региону Западног Балкана, а то је Велика Србија.
Референце
Рођени 1972.
Пљевљаци
Црногорски министри
Црногорски политичари
Носиоци одликовања Српске православне цркве | wikipedia | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUboXxK1ThhAcYi91y | Books and other works by William Brinkman
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Web Exclusive: Roskam campaign accuses Sean Casten of being a space alien (Fiction)
Anonymous members of Representative Peter Roskam's election campaign are spreading rumors that his opponent, Sean Casten, is a space alien.
The Roskam campaign claims this photo is proof that his opponent, Sean Casten, is an alien.
"There's something not right about Sean," said one source. "He sounds smart, but he's too smart. Like, a highly intelligent alien pretending to be a human."
"Exactly," added an anonymous campaign member. "Rock musician? Scientist? Father? Business leader? Athlete? Doesn't it all seem too good to be true? Like an alien pretending to be the perfect political candidate?"
When asked for evidence that Casten is an alien, they produced an "enhanced photo" of Casten taken at a candidates forum in Palatine, IL.
James, who asked that we not use his last name, or state his position in the Roskam campaign, conceded that the photo was weak evidence: "But if you combine this photo with our questions, enough people might believe he's a space alien. The rabble, I mean the voters, will turn against Sean, and we'll win!"
Brian Z. Buckman, A spokesperson for Bolingbrook's Department of Interstellar Affairs, said their investigations back in 2007 prove Casten is human: "While you can't prove a negative, we were able to confirm his birth on Earth, his human physiology and his educational background. The background information on Sean's website is correct, except he doesn't mention the years he worked at Clow UFO Base. I can say that he had excellent employee evaluation scores, but that is all I can say."
Another member of the Roskam campaign, who asked to be called Anne, said charges are based on "political reality," and not on "science-based facts."
"You have to look at where we stand. The good news is most people in the Illinois Sixth Congressional District are familiar with Peter. The bad news is most of those same people hate him. Fortunately, the rabble —I mean voters— know very little about Sean. So Peter's ordered us to throw everything at him. Not just the kitchen sink, but the plumbing too. That's why we're trying to create a political reality in which Sean is a space alien. It might cost him votes, and those votes could be the key to our victory."
Anne said the "enhanced photo" of Casten will be distributed to paranormal websites, and to InfoWars sometime next week.
A phone call to the Casten campaign was answered by a staff member. "Alien? Sean is talking to an IL06 resident and doesn't have time for your nonsense."
In the background, a man said, "Who cares if the planet dies? I only care about making my business profitable."
A man who sounded like Casten said, "You do realize there are no profitable companies on a dead planet?"
The other man paused, then said, "I never thought of it that way."
A call to the Roskam campaign was also answered by a staff member. "If people want to believe Mr. Casten is an illegal liberal space alien, we won't stop them."
In the background, Roskam said, "Hi. I'm Representative Peter Roskam."
"Roskam? You're the one who keeps interrupting my family dinners with your 'phone-in' town hall meetings."
"I'm better known as the leader who cut your federal taxes."
"You wrote that plan? Thanks to you, I can no longer deduct state and local taxes, and your plan threatens Social Security and Medicare."
"You're welcome. Anyway, I've selected your household to be the only one I visit this year. You should be honored to be the only commoner I will talk to this election cycle. I want to hear the thoughts of a real American like you."
"Here's what I think."
This was followed by the sound of a slamming door.
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Illinois Politics, National Politics | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUcSvxK4sA-5fmwUjh | by Richard Kearney
Columbia University Press | Religion & Spirituality
Cover Votes: 2 2
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
Pub Date 23 Feb 2021
Talking about this book? Be sure to tag it using #Touch #NetGalley
Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How can we come back to our senses?
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. He argues that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to our individual and common selves. Kearney explores the role of touch, from ancient wisdom traditions to modern therapies. He demonstrates that a fundamental aspect of touch is interdependence, its inherently reciprocal nature, which offers a crucial corrective to our fixation with control. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.
Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is founding director of the Guestbook Project, an international nonprofit for the promotion of narrative peace pedagogy. His previous Columbia University Press books include Anatheism: Returning to God After God (2009) and Reimagining the Sacred (2016), and he is also a novelist and poet.
Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual...
"Which came first? The spirit seeking a touch? Or the touch seeking a further touch? A confirmation of life out of touch, a phone that a hand cannot reach or touch? Sometimes it seems that the senses were created out of a lonely and desiring spirit. Especially touch. In this openhearted study of that sense, Richard Kearney leads the reader masterfully through thinkers of the past and the present who have wondered deeply, had ideas, and made gestures in response to the mystery of 'feeling things.' "
--Fanny Howe, author of Second Childhood and winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Priz
"Which came first? The spirit seeking a touch? Or the touch seeking a further touch? A confirmation of life out of touch, a phone that a hand cannot reach or touch? Sometimes it seems that the senses...
Part of the No Limits series
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Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense by Richard Kearney is a nice addition to the No Limits series. He examines the sense of touch and its importance to human beings, from pleasure to healing and simply our being in the world.
The books in this series tend to be short and to the point yet, to get the most from them, one needs to try not to read them too quickly. This volume is no exception, though for me there was one section that almost made me skip/skim several pages. In fairness, those same pages may well be what speaks most deeply to another reader, so it is not a flaw so much as missed connection between what the book is supposedly doing there and what it in fact did to this one particular reader. But otherwise, I found the discussions and rationale quite interesting.
The part that I could have done without, or at least have it done in a more even-handed manner, is part of the chapter on the Wounded Healer. Kearney cites several examples from antiquity, Greek and Roman mythology, then beats us over the head with a much too long excursion into Christian mythology while giving short bits about other traditions and mythologies and excluding, for the most part, Eastern tradition. I think the Christian example is every bit as important as the others, but not to the exclusion or expense of the other traditions and mythology. If you're going to cite mythology, then don't give one that much more space than the others just because it happens to be a mythology you still believe in in spite of all evidence to the contrary. But, for those subscribing to that mythology, this will likely be a positive section for them. I found it repetitive and at the expense of other equally important and valid examples.
His discussion of how we are at risk of "losing touch" with each other and, frankly, with ourselves, is compelling. It fell down when for a couple paragraphs at the end the "solution" seems to be variations on the theme of "enjoy what you do virtually but also put the technology down and enjoy the real world as well." Really? That is the best you have? Of course it makes sense, but for those who have never really done without their technology, that is like telling an alcoholic "just enjoy a periodic drink but also enjoy times without alcohol." Great in theory, impossible in practice.
I know it sounds like I didn't like this book, and that is not the case. Take out (or reduce) several repetitive pages and make a better suggestion in that one paragraph and I would have had only positive things to say. I'd say 135 or so positive pages out of about 140 makes the book a success. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
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BkiUbQnxK3YB9m7_8O3y | [Movies] Mambo Italiano (2003)
I feel like the early 2000's will filled with quite a number of amusing or at least memorable LGBT movies, although I can't figure out why. Most of them are harldy great movies, but at least they had a lot of heart and didn't always feel overly dark all the time. I don't even go hunting for movies from this period - I just find out later on that the movie came from that time and I just chuckle to myself.
Mambo Italiano is a strange little comedy since it's all about Italian immigrants based in Canada. I'm not sure what that's supposed to imply right off the bat, but the end result certainly felt a lot more Italian than it did Canadian - but I could be totally wrong in that assessment.
The movie's core plot wasn't too bad and it certainly had it's funny moments. What it did suffer from was rather borderline acting and a lack of decent character development throughout the movie. Things just seem to happen because the plot requires they happen and not necessarily because it feels right. But more on this later in the review.
Synopsis: Mambo Italiano is a 2003 LGBT comedy directed by Émile Gaudreault, who also co-wrote the screenplay together with Steve Galluccio. The movie was based on Galluccino's play of the same name.
Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby) is the son of Italian immigrants Gino (Paul Sorvino) and Maria (Ginette Reno). Angelo still lives with his parents, as all good Italian sons should, but eventually manages to work up the nerve to finally move out and strike out on his own. Around the same time he bumps into Nino Paventi (Peter Miller), someone who used to bully him in his school days. Now a policeman, Nino turns out to be a closeted gay man like Angelo and the two eventually get into a relationship.
So as the two carry on a sort of a relationship in secret from their respective families, although both are constantly getting offers of setup dates and such from family members. The two continue to keep up their little charade, although we all know that something's going to give sooner or later. And when Nino's family makes a pretty serious bit to set him up with Pina (Sophie Lorain), it's hard to Nino to resist family pressure.
Other reviewers have pointed out how the movie was set in Montreal's Petite Italie neighborhood, although I can't vouch for the accuracy of this statement. It doesn't feel like the location had a distinct character on its own - the fact that they were actually in Canada was not immediately apparent to me outside of mentions in the dialog.
The biggest challenge of this movie is the lack of chemistry between Angelo and Nino coupled with the pacing of the story. The pacing in itself isn't bad, don't get me wrong. But without sufficient on-screen demonstrations of why the two fall in love and become a couple , the pacing then feels rushed. One day they're remembering past bullying. The next scene we see them practically sharing a home for the most part, It all just ends up feeling a little insincere and that's a pain for a movie with a need for a strong relationship to center it.
The movie plays on a lot of stereotypes of Italian families, which is naturally expected in this situation. More and more though I feel a lot of these supposed stereotypes aren't all that limited to Italian families since we see similar tropes for Asian families and other ones which strong ties to their racial identity.
The end result is a movie that tries to present a very particular view of what it means to be Italian with a side dose of a gay relationship. There are the usual revelations related to each of them figuring out when to come out and the almost obligatory break-up in the middle of the movie. And in that regard we don't see too much innovation in the movie.
Mambo Italiano has a charm of its own and I suppose works better for folks who don't care too much how well the actors perform. If you just take the plot as it comes and avoid stressing about flat acting, then the movie remains fairly decent. Thus the movie as a whole gets 3 rule set by Angel's parents out of a possible 5.
Tags: entertainment, Italy, lgbt, movies, pink culture, reviews | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
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BkiUc2k4eIXhrsEtjSXK | Let's implement forAll, a function that checks that all elements in the Stream match a given predicate. Note that the implementation will stop as soon as it encounters a non-matching value.
Let's look at a simplified program trace for the next piece of code.
// Apply filter to the fourth element and produce the final element of the result.
// map and filter have no more work to do, and the empty stream becomes the empty list.
We can also write tails using unfold. tails returns the Stream of suffixes of a given Stream, starting with the original Stream. For example, for Stream(1,2,3), it should return Stream(Stream(1,2,3), Stream(2,3), Stream(3), Stream()). | c4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUe9g4uzkg7CPSljvb | The Government of Australia has contributed an additional USD 13.5 million (AUD 18 million) to the UNDP Funding Facility for Stabilization (FFS), which finances fast-track initiatives in areas of Iraq liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). This brings Australia's total contribution since 2015 to USD 16.5 million (AUD 22 million).
"The progress being made is clearly visible across the country. Roads are being repaired, hospitals are reopening, electricity is being restored and people are returning to work. More than 60 percent of the almost 6 million people who fled during the conflict have returned home.
"Australia is committed to the stabilisation and redevelopment of Iraq. On top of restoring essential public services and rehabilitating critical infrastructure in liberated areas, the FFS prioritises projects that meet the needs of the most vulnerable, including women.
At the request of the Government of Iraq, UNDP established the Funding Facility for Stabilization in June 2015 to facilitate the return of displaced Iraqis, lay the groundwork for reconstruction and recovery, and safeguard against the resurgence of violence and extremism.
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BkiUf0nxK6wB9mpb4ndT | and be not dismayed at their revilings.
and my salvation to all generations."
that didst pierce the dragon?
neither shall his bread fail.
and saying to Zion, 'You are my people.' "
and like the street for them to pass over." | c4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUfirxK4sA-9zSCvpe | Do You Have Any Personal Commandments?
In an effort to get my head together and focus on what is essential to me, as opposed to flaking out on the couch and blowing everything off, I recently participated in a 21 Day Project hosted by none other than happiness guru, Gretchen Rubin. Those in the Petosphere maybe be more familiar with the fantastic piece of work Ms. Rubin inspired, The Puppiness Project, over at Something Wagging This Way Comes. But I digress. Whether you have heard of her before or not, I think the she has a worthwhile perspective and insights almost equal to the writer of the aforementioned dog blog.
Throughout the 21 days, Gretchen (after the therapeutic journey she put me through I feel like we should be on a first-name basis) asked many probing questions to help me learn more about myself, my motivations, and how my brain works. It wasn't always easy to come up with an answer. Though the project is long over, I am still puzzling over some of them. Okay, all of them.
As I say, it's been a process.
One of the questions that has most preoccupied me is the one that asked me to come up with twelve personal commandments. Twelve! Gretch – yep, we're tight enough for nicknames too – wrote in great length about her own on her website as well.
Hmm… Not sure I am happy with them. But it's a start!
Do you have any personal commandments? I'd love to hear them!
"Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere." Not sure who came up with it originally, but I saw it on Facebook last year. Its pure wisdom struck a chord with my upbringing.
I have always said….It doesn't hurt to ask, all they can do is tell you no.
I have "Oh, yes, you can" taped to my mirror.
I like this one a lot, actually. Simple, but all you really need.
It's very cool that you took time out to work on a personal happiness project. I'm a big believer in regular retreats and projects.
Obviously you know I'm a Gretchen Rubin fan (although I don't yet call her "Gretch"). But I haven't yet tried to come up with 12 whole commandments.
But one that has given me enough value to justify replacing 11 others is "when you hurt someone, even accidentally, apologize, don't explain." It wasn't easy, but pushing back my first reaction to get defensive and replacing it with humility is probably the best thing I've ever done.
I'd like to think, if she is as lovely as she is in her writing, that she would greatly enjoy your Puppiness Project. I am surprised, actually, that she hasn't reached out to you. Your wisdom complements one another's so well.
It is still a work in progress as I am lazy, especially when it comes to things benefitting solely myself. But after this year, I do think it is work worth doing. Blogging again is a big part of that.
Thank you for all of your inspiration. This one comment alone has given me much to reflect upon.
Oh I like your list a lot – especially #12! I'm going to mull this for a bit and see what I can come up with.
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BkiUcpnxK6wB9mpb1kb8 | Nature: Antibody cocktail can effectively deal with COVID-19 mutants
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Nature: Antibody cocktail can effectively deal with COVID-19 mutants. "The person who beat AIDS": Dr. David Ho, published a Nature paper, confirming that the antibody cocktail can effectively deal with the COVID-19 mutants.
The COVID-19 pneumonia pandemic has swept the world, and its pathogen, the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), is still raging in many countries and regions around the world. Ending this pandemic depends on the development of effective interventions.
Single monoclonal antibodies and combined monoclonal antibody therapies have been urgently authorized by the FDA for the treatment of new coronavirus pneumonia, and authorized companies are also preparing for emergency production. In addition, a number of COVID-19 vaccine institutions have also been approved, have begun a large-scale vaccination, and have achieved remarkable results.
However, both therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and preventive vaccines were developed against the new coronavirus strain that broke out at the end of 2019.
The recently reported COVID-19 mutant strain B.1.1.7 that appeared in the UK and the COVID-19 mutant strain B.1.351 that appeared in South Africa have received widespread attention because these two new mutant strains have been found to be more transmissible and The spike protein (S protein) has a mutation.
On March 8, 2021, Nature published a research paper titled Antibody Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 by the Dr. David Ho team in the form of accelerated launch.
The study showed that the British mutant strain (B.1.1.7) and the South African mutant strain (B.1.351) can escape a variety of monoclonal antibodies that target the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the new coronavirus S protein, as well as target receptors Monoclonal antibody binding domain (RBD).
Finally, the research team found that the "antibody cocktail" therapy composed of different monoclonal antibodies can still effectively neutralize these COVID-19 mutants.
Specifically, the study showed that the British mutant strain (B.1.1.7) can escape most of the monoclonal antibodies that target the spike protein (S protein) of the new coronavirus, and that it has a small number of targeted receptor binding domains (RBD). Monoclonal antibodies are relatively resistant. Fortunately, the resistance of the mutant strain to the serum of recovered patients and mRNA vaccine recipients only slightly decreased.
However, the results of the South African mutant strain (B.1.351) are more worrying. The mutant strain can escape most of the monoclonal antibodies that target the new coronavirus spike protein (S protein) as well as multiple targeted receptors. Monoclonal antibody binding domain (RBD).
The study shows that with the development of the pandemic, more and more new coronavirus mutant strains appear, and many antibodies developed against the original virus strain may be less effective. Therefore, it is necessary to update antibody treatment strategies in real time.
More importantly, the study confirmed that the "antibody cocktail" therapy composed of different monoclonal antibodies can still effectively neutralize theseCOVID-19 mutant strains, providing an effective strategy for dealing with the COVID-19 mutant strain.
About Dr. David Ho
Speaking of Freshman Ho, one has to mention his greatest contribution-cocktail therapy. The application of cocktail therapy has made AIDS a chronic disease, and millions of AIDS patients have survived as a result. Dr. David Ho was also called "the one who defeated AIDS" by Time magazine.
Dr. David Ho, born in Taiwan, China on November 3, 1952, immigrated to Los Angeles, California with his family when he was 12 years old.
In 1970, He was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and four years later graduated with first-place honors, and then received a doctorate in medicine from Harvard University.
On June 5, 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report of 5 AIDS cases, which was the first time that AIDS was discovered in the world. At this time, Dayi He was working as an intern at the Sinai Medical Center, and he came into contact with the earliest AIDS cases.
Since then, Dr. David Ho devoted himself to AIDS research, becoming one of the first scientists in the world to realize that AIDS is caused by a virus, and one of the first scientists to clarify the diversity of HIV replication.
In 1996, in the face of the frequent emergence of drug resistance in AIDS patients, Dr. David Ho proposed the "cocktail therapy", combining a variety of anti-AIDS drugs into a combination of protease inhibitor drugs and nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. The combination of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor drugs can treat AIDS more effectively than a single drug and is less prone to drug resistance.
Since its use in 1996, cocktail therapy has effectively reduced the mortality rate of AIDS patients, and it is still one of the most commonly used and most effective AIDS treatment methods.
Due to the outstanding contribution of "cocktail therapy" to the treatment of AIDS, Dr. David Ho was selected as "Time" Weekly Person of the Year in 1996. In 2010, "Time" Weekly was called "the person who defeated AIDS".
Since then, Dr. David Ho has devoted himself to research on the prevention and treatment of AIDS and other viral diseases, and has achieved a series of important research results.
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BkiUb7jxK6nrxl9bMKzR | External data media are very popular. They allow you to back up large amounts of data quickly and easily, without spending a fortune on backup media. But, transportable hard disks or USB sticks can be easily lost or stolen because of their compact size and light weight. Therefore, you should never store your personal data on mass storage without protecting it with powerful encryption. With dm_crypt/cryptsetup and the zuluCrypt graphical interface, you can achieve this on Linux in next to no time.
Under the free operating system, the standard method of data encryption is a combination of the dm_crypt kernel module and the cryptsetup command-line tool. You can use these to encrypt entire partitions and device files. The Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) extension contained in cryptsetup since version 1.0.5 also unifies the file format and allows the use of multiple keys. LUKS expands the encrypted data, adding a 592-byte header that stores the metadata and up to eight keys .
Almost all distributions have had cryptsetup in their repositories for some time now, so it can easily be set up using the respective package manager. In contrast, zuluCrypt usually requires a manual install because so far only a few distributions include it in their software collections. Only Arch Linux and PCLinuxOS provide packages for zuluCrypt; Mageia can use the packages from PCLinuxOS.
If you are using a different distribution, download the source tarball for zuluCrypt down from the project site . After unpacking the archive with the command tar xjvf zulucrypt-4.6.2.tar.bz2, change to the newly created subdirectory. Be sure to read the BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS file and follow the instructions for installing the software: ZuluCrypt has a large number of dependencies that must be installed correctly for the program to work properly.
Integrating the PCLinuxOS packages in Mageia is not a smooth process: To satisfy the dependencies – so that the package manager can even install the main package on your disk – you first need to retrieve and install the secondary packages: libcryptsetup, libpwquality, and libZulucrypt . After that, Zulucrypt will install without complaint and create a Zulucrypt in Gnome below the Applications | Tools | System Tools subdirectory; in KDE, you will find the software in the Tools | Configuration.
Before you start to use the intuitive program interface to encrypt drives, you will want to visit the zuluCrypt wiki to check up on the recommendations for dealing with different types of partitions. ZuluCrypt distinguishes between system and non-system partitions, and accidental encryption of a system partition can have unforeseen consequences.
For zuluCrypt, all drives in the /etc/fstab file are system partitions. Usually, they will include the actual system volume, the swap partition, and partitions on which user-defined data are stored. In contrast, removable disks do not appear here; zuluCrypt considers them to be non-system partitions.
After it is launched, zuluCrypt comes up with a very simple interface: The program window offers just a menu bar and the table columns Encrypted volume path, Encrypted volume mount point path, and Type.
To begin, you need to create a container in which to store the encrypted files. This container is then assigned a random key. The key should be as complex as possible and consist of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers in mixed order; this makes it immune to attempted unauthorized decryption using dictionary and brute-force attacks.
Please note that decryption of the container relies on your entering the correct key. If you forget this, or it cannot be reconstructed for other reasons, the stored data are lost. Therefore, zuluCrypt also offers the option of first generating a keyfile that it uses not only to create a container but also to simplify decryption.
You can generate a keyfile using the Create menu, Keyfile feature; you need to specify the file path and the name of the keyfile. For security reasons, you should not put the keyfile in your home directory, but on an external disk if possible; this makes decrypting the container without the external storage medium containing the keyfile impossible (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Three steps to generating a keyfile for zuluCrypt.
In the next step, you can now create the container file. It appears later in the file manager as a conventional mounted drive. Before installing a container, you should check whether the destination drive is mounted. You can do this at the command line with the mount command without entering parameters. If the target drive is mounted, remove it from the list of active volumes with the umount <drive> command; zuluCrypt cannot process mounted drives.
Then, open the Create menu to generate the container. Here you have a choice between the options encrypted container in a file and encrypted container in a partition. If you want to encrypt large amounts of data, the option to place the container in a partition is recommended. Before you create the container, however, note that it fills the entire selected partition and you will lose any data that it previously contained.
In the next step, zuluCrypt indicates the possible partitions for creating the container; it does not display any system partitions by default. External drives are listed both by device name and by the associated UUID. If you will frequently be using removable media like USB sticks, external hard drives, or memory cards and accessing the encrypted container on multiple computers, you will want to select Use uuid when creating the encrypted volume. ZuluCrypt then identifies the container by its UUID in the future. This step prevents confusion when using several external drives simultaneously on a computer.
After double-clicking the desired drive, you need to associate the key with the container. If you have already created a keyfile, you can use this by pressing key from a keyfile. Next, specify the path to the keyfile in the input line below. Fortunately, this step also saves you from repeatedly entering the key for verification like in the manual create process.
In the lower part of the window where you create the container, you still need to define the filesystem and the encryption type. The default option in zuluCrypt is luks; this generates a 256-bit symmetric key in line with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Pressing the Create button finishes creating the container (Figure 2).
Figure 2: With zuluCrypt, you can create a new container for the encrypted data in next to no time.
ZuluCrypt then urgently prompts you to back up the LUKS header. The LUKS header stores various metadata such as information about the container as well as different keys, so a backup is very much recommended. ZuluCrypt opens the already familiar file dialog; by default, it offers to store the backup on the encrypted volume for safety reasons, but in your home directory. However, you can back up or – if the original header is destroyed – restore the LUKS header at any time in the zuluCrypt program window via the luks | backup header menu.
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BkiUc5TxK6nrxl9bNFAG | View topic - What's Good for Bronchitis?
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Bronchitis is a pulmonary disease caused by the onset of inflammation in the bronchial tubes, which are the air passages into the lungs. In bronchitis these air passages become inflamed and swollen, a thick mucus is generally produced, and is often accompanied by a wheezing cough. Symptoms may also include a difficulty in breathing, the need to constantly cough out mucus, and a mild to moderate fever. There are two forms of bronchitis, acute and chronic, which are somewhat similar and with similar causes, but run their course in different ways.
Acute bronchitis is characterized by a slight fever that may last for a few days to weeks, and is often accompanied by a cough that may persist for several weeks. 5 steps to cure bronchitis forever occurs albertus magnus college the flu, as the result of bacterial infection, or from constant irritation of the bronchi by polluted air or chemical fumes in the environment. It may initially affect your nose, sinuses, and throat and then spread to the lungs. For acute bronchitis, symptoms usually resolve within 7 to 10 days, however, a dry, hacking cough can linger for several weeks. Revision is very important when writing or speaking about a topic. We had a lot of drafting to do to come to this final product on Bronchitis.
Early recognition and treatment, however, can significantly improve the opportunity for a good outcome. Chronic bronchitis antibiotic you susceptible to recurrent respiratory infections. Call your doctor if you suffer any of these symptoms: coughing up blood; shortness of breath or chest pain; a high fever or shaking chills; a low-grade fever that lasts for three or more days; thick, greenish mucus; or a frequently recurring cough.
To aid the body in healing, get plenty of rest, good nutrition, and drink at least 8-12 cups of water daily. Using a humidifier may also be helpful. Avoid exposure to tobacco smoke and other air pollutants. Limit consumption of milk, sugar, and white flour. Some vitamins and herbs are considered helpful in treating, or preventing, acute bronchitis. Herbs, and other healing foods, which may be beneficial include: angelica, anise, caraway, cayenne, chickweed, cinnamon, clove, cumin, elecampane, eucalyptus, garlic, ginger, horehound, licorice root, lovage, marjoram, mullein, mugwort, onion, oregano, pineapple, primrose, rosemary, saffron, sage, savory, slippery elm, spicy foods, stinging nettle, and thyme. Supplements which may be helpful include: beta-carotene, B complex, C, calcium & magnesium, E, and zinc. It is of no use thinking that you know everything, when in reality, you don't know anything! It is only because we knew so much about Acute Bronchitis that we got down to writing about it!
Disclaimer: This article is for entertainment purposes only, and is not intended for use as diagnosis or treatment of a health problem or as a substitute for consulting a licensed medical professional.
Bronchitis is a disease that occurs on the respiratory system wherein inflammation is experienced by the mucous membrane of the bronchial passages of the lungs. This irritation could cause thickness and swelling thus narrowing the tiny airways that can be found in the lungs. As a result, spells of coughing will be experienced by the patient accompanied by breathlessness and thick phlegm, which are also considered as among the symptoms of bronchitis.
There are actually two types of bronchitis and these are the acute bronchitis, which could last not more than 6 weeks and the chronic bronchitis, which reoccurs quite often in the span of two years or more. Aside from this, there is also another form of this respiratory disease, which is known as the asthmatic bronchitis that happens to people who already have asthma. life is short. Use it to its maximum by utilizing whatever knowledge it offers for knowledge is important for all walks of life. Even the crooks have to be intelligent!
There are albion college symptoms of bronchitis that could accompany the coughing bouts and mucus. This is because it is common for acute bronchitis to be accompanied by the usual signs that are usually apparent in an infection on the upper respiratory tract. These include sore throat, chills and slight fever, breathlessness, soreness and a constricting burning feeling in the chest, wheezing, chest congestion, overall malaise and fullness of the sinus cavities.
This is because there prednisone dosage for bronchitis wherein the presence of mucus is not there. This is especially hard in children, who oftentimes get to swallow the mucus that they coughed up, thus masking the presence of a possible secondary infection. There are even many smokers who have does the throat-clearing habit during mornings, immediately after they get out of bed. While they might think that this is just normal, it could actually be a symptom of bronchitis. If this clearing of throat goes on even after three months have already passed, then this could already be chronic bronchitis.
One of main symptoms of bronchitis, as mentioned earlier, is a cough that is accompanied with green or yellowish-gray sputum or mucus. Although the presence of mucus is not unusual as it is normal for one's airways to secrete mucus every day, this doesn't usually accumulate. This is because these secretions are cleared continuously in one's throat and are just swallowed along with the saliva. However, when the bronchial tubes or the lung's main passageways for air get inflamed, large quantities of discolored mucus are usually produced and these are coughed up during coughing spells. If after three months, this symptom is still being experienced by a patient, then he or she already has a case of chronic bronchitis. Secondary infection is always looked into if there is mucus present that is not clear or is not white in color. Make the best use of life by learning and reading as much as possible. read about things unknown, and more about things known, like about Acute Bronchitis.
The signs of bronchitis might bring uneasiness, irritability and pain too.
Hence while bronchitis cause's you discomfort, there are suggested cures for the above said disorder.
Also, if you aren't a smoker you must prevent people in your place from smoking. Tell to your family why they have to quit smoking. If you're on public places and conveyances, it's best if you stay away from all types of smokers. Writing on Curing Bronchitis proved to be a gamble to us. This is because there simply seemed to be nothing to write about in the beginning of writing. It was only in the process of writing did we get more and more to write on Curing Bronchitis.
It's believed that onions become a very good alternative which aids to eradicate bronchitis. Extract juice from the onion and have it. It's very effective if it is taken as a first thing every morning. Onions make your phlegm soft. Also, it stops the formation of the dangerous phlegm. .
You may prepare the "almond medicine" by using a minimum of 7 kernels of natural almonds. Once you're done, mix the mixture with any fresh fruit juice of your choice. It's best to have the mentioned remedy before you go to bed. So after reading what we have mentioned here on Bronchitis Treatment, it is up to you to provide your verdict as to what exactly it is that you find fascinating here.
You need not immediately rush to the doctor or go to the nearest medicine store while the symptoms and signs of bronchitis occur.
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If you're a smoker, you should put off smoking. It deteriorates the lungs which would lead to the enhancement of the difficulty in respiration. Also, smoking worsens the bronchial tube infection which would be present if you're infected with bronchitis.
It's suggested that you should carry out many other exercise forms like cleaning calisthenics, exercises for correcting body postures and also breath-holding exercises. Curing Bronchitis are versatile as they are found in all parts and walks of life. It all depends on the way you take it.
Very natural expectorant shall be found with the "spinach mix." You have to prepare very fresh spinach leaves, water and some ammonium chloride with some honey. Mix these ingredients and drink the mixture. It is only if you find some usage for the matter described here on Curing Bronchitis that we will feel the efforts put in writing on Curing Bronchitis fruitful. So make good usage of it!
Medical findings reveal that doing exercise regularly helps the treatment of bronchitis. It's recommended to perform outdoor exercises instead of doing indoor exercises as you're most likely to inhale very fresh air while you're outside. In Addition to this, an outdoor workout is very best if done in the dawn. Bronchitis Treatment play a prominent part in this composition. It is with this prominence that we hope people get to know more about Bronchitis Treatment.
It's recommended to drink fluids without caffeine like water and natural fruit juices which are extracted from very fresh fruits. The juice of orange is recommended very much for drinking as it helps in alleviating the symptoms and signs of bronchitis. Taking high amount of fluids might help you to make your mucus thin. Thus, you'll have a very easy while breathing. We do hope that you find the information here something worth recommending others to read and think about once you complete reading all there is about Bronchitis. | c4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
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BkiUfovxK7kjXMEc_bkn | Q: Why can not I use the word attribute a table with the column name as Ruby on Rails? I simply rails g scaffold test name:string attribute:string value:string used the command.
But when I save fill out the form, I get the error with the active recorder attribute column.
According to my research gem 'safe_attributes' gemfile, it solves this problem. I did the installation.
This time in NoMethodError in Tests#new
private method 'attribute' called for error.
Extected source (around line # 20):
<% = f.text_field :attribute %>
How can I solve the problem? Can you help me.
A: The problem is that there is already defined private method attribute
And since we access model fields via method_missing when you try to call Test#attribute you get private method
The attribute method definition is here: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/read.rb#L82
To avoid this problem don't use model attributes that have the same names as already defined methods.
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BkiUcXjxK1ThhBMLffyO | Thomas vs Allen
Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, United Kingdom
12 rounds contest @ Heavyweight
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Lenroy Thomas vs David Allen report
Who won Thomas vs Allen?
Lenroy Thomas drew with David Allen by technical draw on Saturday 3rd March 2018 at Sheffield Arena in Sheffield.
The scorecards were announced as , meaning it was a technical draw.
The fight was scheduled to take place over 12 rounds in the Heavyweight division, which meant there was no weight limit.
Thomas vs Allen stats
Lenroy Thomas stepped into the ring with a record of 22 wins, 4 loses and 0 draws.
David Allen made his way to the ring with a record of 12 wins, 3 loses and 1 draw.
Lenroy Thomas was the older man by 7 years, at 37 years old.
Allen had a height advantage of 1 inch over Thomas. Despite this, he had 4-inch reach advantage.
Lenroy Thomas fought out of the southpaw stance, while David Allen was an orthodox fighter.
Thomas was the more experienced professional fighter, having had 10 more fights, and made his debut in 2006, 6 years and 8 months earlier than Allen, whose first professional fight was in 2012. He had fought 3 more professional rounds, 115 to Allen's 112.
Thomas vs Allen form
Allen had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 3 of them, going the distance once.
In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Dillian Whyte on 30th July 2016 by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest at First Direct Arena, Leeds, United States.
Previous to that, he had won against Jason Gavern on 26th March 2016 by technical knockout in the 4th round at Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Going into that contest, he had beat Fabrice Aurieng on 24th October 2015 by points in the 6th round at Sheffield Arena, Sheffield.
Before that, he had defeated Jindrich Velecky on 29th August 2015 by technical knockout in the 3rd round at Doncaster Dome, Doncaster.
He had won against Larry Olubamiwo on 7th June 2014 by technical knockout in the 2nd round at Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle.
Allen's last 5 fights had come over a period of 8 years, 7 months and 23 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 8 months and 23 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 25 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 5 rounds on average.
What time did Thomas vs Allen start?
The fighters were expected to ringwalk at around 8:00 PM GMT at Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, United Kingdom, which was 3:00 PM EST or 12:00 PM PST on the West Coast of America.
Who broadcast Thomas vs Allen?
Thomas vs Allen was broadcast on Sky Sports Arena in the UK.
What were the odds on Thomas vs Allen?
Lenroy Thomas was a 9/4 (+230) underdog going into the contest, while David Allen made his way into the ring at 33/100 (-300) with oddsmakers.
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The Brooklyn-based artist plays with notions of femininity and sexuality without shying away from provocative imagery. The geometric, almost sculptural forms across her canvases balance abstraction and figuration. Hollowell's work is humorous, but nods to a rich history of abstracted figuration - O'Keeffe, of course, and Elizabeth Murray (another PACE artist), Hilma af Klimt, amongst so many others.
In October 2017, Bloomberg named Hollowell as an artist to watch after a frenzied buying spree by established collectors at Frieze London, which marked her as a rising star in the contemporary art world. This Pace exhibition confirms that her work and popularity to be anything but ephemeral.
Hollowell is in the process of conceiving a child, and the theme of procreation penetrates the exhibition - vaginal and phallic symbolism prevalent throughout. The works are imaginatively named, too from A Gentle Meeting of Tips to Touchy Subject. You can't ignore the sexual devices at play, especially with the addition of three-dimensional canvases that bulge in all the right places, but the imagery on top is also reminiscent of sci-fi films - the works remind me simultaneously of sexual and sacred iconography as well as electrical circuit boards with their graphic shapes and primary colours.
The colours and forms scream Pop Art, Op Art, all through the lens of American Modernism. One can see a touch of Sonia Delauney in there, too, with the strong colours and devotion to pattern and form and the legacy of Orphism. I also got hints of Blair Thurman in the sculptural quality of the pieces.
The sketches in the intimate pop-up room within the gallery space show Hollowell's thought processes in terms of creating the tightly-formed paintings that populate the surrounding walls. It is an intimate experience, the cavernous space existing almost as a 'womb' within the exhibition space in another nod to the theme of the female body. Her sketches, complete with handwritten notes by Hollowell, are rendered in a much looser and more expressionist style than the graphic geometrics in the final canvases.
The rawness and primality of what Hollowell attempts to convey in the finished works feels even more intense in these small drawings. The divergence from sketch to canvas is intriguing - Hollowell tightens the painterly form quite significantly in the move from paper to canvas, opting for a bold and graphic approach that departs from the sense of intimate painterliness one gleans from seeing the tactile sketches - but fascinatingly, without losing any of the sensuality that goes with it.
Whilst the finished works are intense both in colour and form, they are softly expressed thanks to the gentle undulations of line both of paint and of the canvases themselves.
The paintings themselves, though, despite their formality and graphic nature, swell and curve in a tender and tactile rendering of the beauty of bodily form. Their organic and sculptural quality lend them a provocatively intimate and shape-shifting nature, which challenges perception and encourage the viewer to look not once, but twice - maybe three times - at each individual work, breaking down the age-old barriers between formal painting and sculpture.
The works are pulsating with sexuality, capturing the very moments of sexual pleasure and intimacy at its most basic, but most intense. Their abstraction works in a minimal yet perceptive manner to encourage and remind the viewer of something familiar - our own bodies and existence at a basic, primal level. In considering the act of conception through their form, they delve deeper into the theme of conception itself via evocations of the human body and sexual iconography. Hollowell's work evokes an overarching theme of sensuality and primal female power, something which should indeed be celebrated. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUe7zxK6-gD0Sre-LM | Aqua-jogging ain't just for OAPs!
Over the past few months I have taken up aqua-jogging with my trusted and wonderful client, Claire. We can be seen regularly on a Thursday morning heading to the local pool for our 45 minute fix of water paddling amongst octogenarians of both sexes.
It's a low impact activity and is therefore good when you are injured, eg. from running. In fact, many athletes in rehab use aqua jogging to keep their muscles strong and active.
It's a cross training activity (you use both arms and legs) which can improve your fitness.
The resistance of the water raises your heart rate and provides cardiovascular benefits.
You don't need to be a good swimmer. You just pop on a flotation belt and away you go.
You don't get water in your eyes or mouth and you don't get your hair wet. I've seen ladies in full makeup in the pool!
You are working your shoulders, back, legs and core muscles - all without the bits of swimming lots of people dislike.
It's a good cardiovascular workout and a change from your usual routine of, say, treadmill running.
It's great exercise if you have arthritis.
It's great fun and you can have a chat with your mate at the same time.
And this guy's pretty impressive because half the time he doesn't even use a float!
Newer PostExercise - The Wonder Drug! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUftw5qhDCzlTibdZU | Celleporina bilabiata is een mosdiertjessoort uit de familie van de Celleporidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1852 door Busk.
Celleporidae | wikipedia | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfKI5qhLBzMvmVzu5 | Plastics|SA's Cleanup and recycle "Berg2beach" campaign aims to encourage hikers, mountaineers, fishermen, canoeists, kayakers and divers to ensure that our country is clean and green by showing a commitment and support of the plastics industries environmental initiatives. In particular, this campaign draws attention to the problem of water pollution in rivers which eventually carry contaminants out to sea.
In 2013, Plastics|SA and Nampak Rigid Packaging sponsored intrepid adventurer Ray Chaplin's 2 600km journey from the source of the mighty Orange River to the Sea in Alexandria Bay, in order to raise awareness of South Africa's water quality and the threat of water pollution. He reached halfway at the beginning of August 2013 and reached Alexander Bay, where the river empties into the sea on the 10th of December. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdcY4dbghWHCOHRMW | The Titans Volleyball Association is a volunteer based youth Volleyball organization operating across the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario. We offer programs for boys and girls aged 4-18 in both indoor and beach volleyball. As a not for profit organization, the Titans Volleyball Association is able to offer accountability and affordability, while still providing a world class program.
The Titans Volleyball Association compete provincially as a member of the Ontario Volleyball Association and nationally as a member of Volleyball Canada.
The Titans began offering programs in 1973 and have competed at the highest level ever since, with many provincial and national championships. Titans athletes often continue their careers in volleyball at the university and college levels, and some continue on to professional careers and National team success.
With a dedicated and knowledgeable coaching staff, the Titans Volleyball Association has become well known for its advanced technical abilities and sound development model.
With this first class coaching, the Titans are able to offer programs at all levels of ability. From League and Heroes, to boys and girls Rep Teams, beach volleyball, and even March Break and Summer Camps, the Titans have a program for everyone. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdw025V5i_xVxdk1d | Q: HttpListenerRequest read InputStream slow when using HttpClient or WebRequest I have a HttpListener which is waiting for incoming requests. The curious thing is that when I send a request with the HttpClient or WebRequest class, the reading/decoding of the stream takes around 350ms, while sending the same request with Insomnia (https://insomnia.rest/) it only takes 500ticks!!
Can someone explain to me where is my fault?!
HttpClient
private readonly HttpClient _Client = new HttpClient();
private async void HttpClientMethod(string jsonContent)
{
HttpRequestMessage message = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, _BaseUrl);
message.Content = new StringContent(jsonContent);
HttpResponseMessage result = await _Client.SendAsync(message);
string content = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(content);
}
WebRequest Client
private string WebRequestMethod(string jsonContent)
{
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(_BaseUrl);
// Set the Method property of the request to POST.
request.Method = "POST";
// Create POST data and convert it to a byte array.
string postData = jsonContent;
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
// Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
// Get the request stream.
Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
// Write the data to the request stream.
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
// Close the Stream object.
dataStream.Close();
// Get the response.
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
// Display the status.
Console.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
// Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
// Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
// Read the content.
string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
// Display the content.
// Clean up the streams.
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();
return responseFromServer;
}
Host
private void ReadInputStream(HttpListenerRequest request)
{
Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
stopwatch.Start();
string text;
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(request.InputStream, request.ContentEncoding))
{
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
stopwatch.Stop();
}
HttpClient | WebRequest
Insomnia
Insonmia Body | JSONContent
Sample Project
Just create a new Console App
Program.cs
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ApiTest
{
class Program
{
static readonly ApiHost _ApiHost = new ApiHost();
static readonly HttpClient _Client = new HttpClient();
static void Main(string[] args) => MainAsync(args).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
static async Task MainAsync(string[] args)
{
_ApiHost.Start();
Console.WriteLine("Host started");
Console.ReadKey();
string jsonContent ="{\"OperationName\":null,\"Query\":\"query {\\r\\n\\t hero{\\r\\n\\t\\t name,\\r\\n\\t\\t id\\r\\n\\t }\\r\\n\\t human(id: \\\"1\\\"){\\r\\n\\r\\n homePlanet,\\r\\n name\\r\\n\\r\\n }\\r\\n }\",\"Variables\":null}";
HttpRequestMessage message = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, new Uri("http://localhost:5000/"));
message.Content = new StringContent(jsonContent);
HttpResponseMessage result = await _Client.SendAsync(message);
string content = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(content);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
ApiHost.cs
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ApiTest
{
public class ApiHost
{
public HttpListener Listener = new HttpListener();
private bool _Stop;
public void Start()
{
Listener.Prefixes.Add("http://+:5000/");
Listener.Start();
Task.Run(() =>
{
Semaphore semaphore = new Semaphore(4, 4);
while (!_Stop)
{
semaphore.WaitOne();
Listener.GetContextAsync().ContinueWith(async (contextTask) =>
{
try
{
semaphore.Release();
HttpListenerContext context = await contextTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
Process(context);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex);
throw;
}
});
}
});
}
private void Process(HttpListenerContext ctx)
{
try
{
Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
stopwatch.Start();
string text;
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ctx.Request.InputStream, ctx.Request.ContentEncoding))
{
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
stopwatch.Stop();
using (Stream output = ctx.Response.OutputStream)
{
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(output) { AutoFlush = true })
{
writer.Write(text);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex);
}
}
}
}
Question:
Why do I have 360ms when using the internal library. When I use Insomnia for example I don't have this delay!
A: Kaspersky was the problem. After stopping the application it is running without any problems!
| stackexchange | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
BkiUfsg5qhLB0iFHBzZG | Drybus – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie mazowieckim, w powiecie grodziskim, w gminie Baranów.
W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa skierniewickiego.
Drybus leży pomiędzy dwoma odnogami rzeki Pisi. Przebiega tędy droga łącząca drogę krajową nr 50 z Błoniem.
Przypisy
Linki zewnętrzne
Baranów (gmina w województwie mazowieckim) | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUdQU5qoTAjvd_fJ2s | It was a drizzly, cool, and windy morning with the occasional break in the clouds allowing the sun to peer through. It felt like ages before the research team and the volunteers accompanying them found a lion. Finally, they found AT1 on her own in the Etosha area with a beam of sunlight spotlighting her for a short period of time.
After following her for a few minutes, something caught her eye. She paused and perched herself on a rock and stared into the distance. Flicking her tail in frustration, she realized she couldn't capture what was out of her reach, and then carried on down the road. There was an ant hill with numerous shrubs around it that promised something could be hiding. She saw movement and leapt into the bush as two frightened guineafowl flew for their lives!
About ten minutes later, the research team was still following AT1, hoping she would lead them to the others. Suddenly, she turned into the grass in the Tree Tops area, vigilant to a small herd of four impala. The impala started to sound off their alarms as they saw the young lion take interest in them. They stomped and snorted in protest, but AT1 continued to take cover and carry on her hunting, regardless of being upwind. The research team and volunteer struggled to keep an eye on the youngster as she moved deeper and deeper into the tall, thick grass. But sadly, she was eventually gone from sight.
The research team waited for a few minutes to see if there was any movement or sound from the attempt. But there was none. They finally decided to look for the others in the site. After driving around on all the bumpy roads, there they were on the Grasslands road between the Masai Mara and Serengeti West area, all resting. But there was still no visual of AT1. "Was she successful?" we wondered. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUc_c5qhDBJHJmtEfG | Лампрои́ты (магмати́ческие го́рные поро́ды лампрои́товой се́рии) — общее название для серии богатых лейцитом и санидином щелочных магматических горных пород от ультраосновного до среднего состава. Термин введён П. Ниггли в 1923 году для выделения группы пород с высоким содержанием K и Mg. Название лампроит было дано от греческого «лампрос» («блестящий») из-за характерных для этой группы вкрапленников флогопита.
Классификация
Классификация магматических горных пород лампроитового ряда разработана и утверждена Межведомственным петрографическим комитетом России и опубликована в Петрографическом кодексе России в составе общих Классификационных таблиц магматических горных пород.
Отряд ультраосновных пород
Подоторяд щелочных пород
Семейство ультраосновных лампроитов
Оливин-диопсидовый ультраосновной лампроит
Оливин-флогопитовый ультраосновной лампроит
Отряд основных пород
Подоторяд щелочных пород
Семейство основных лампроитов
Оливин-диопсид-флогопитовый основной лампроит
Оливин-диопсидовый основной лампроит
Диопсид-флогопитовый основной лампроит
Диопсид-флогопит-амфиболовый основной лампроит
Лейцит-флогопитовый основной лампроит
Отряд средних пород
Подоторяд щелочных пород
Семейство орендитов (средних лампроитов):
Лейцитовый орендит
Орендит
Амфиболовый орендит
Состав лампроитов и их генезис
Для лампроитов характерны низкие содержания кальция, алюминия, натрия и экстремально высокие содержания рассеянных элементов. Главными минералами лампроитов являются магнезиальный оливин (форстерит), флогопит, диопсид, лейцит, санидин, рихтерит, а также специфические минералы вадеит, прайдерит. Образуют незначительные по объёму тела: дайки и трубки, которые легко подвергаются разрушению и выветриванию. Описаны лампроитовые лавы и лампроитовые туфы.
Существует только 24 области в мире с находками лампроитов, их суммарный объём не превышает 100 км3. При этом лампроиты встречаются как на древних платформах, так и в складчатых поясах. Они имеют широкий диапазон возрастов от 1,4 млрд до 56 тыс. лет. Образование лампроитовых магм связывается с частичным плавлением литосферной мантии на глубинах более 150 км. Лампроиты часто содержат большое количество глубинных ксенолитов перидотитов и эклогитов.
Алмазоносность
В 1979 году в Западной Австралии были найдены богатейшие месторождения алмазов, связанные с лампроитами. Месторождение трубки Аргайл обладает самыми большими запасами алмазов в мире. Только около 5% алмазов из лампроитов могут быть использованы в ювелирной промышленности, остальные используются в технических целях. При этом трубка Аргайл является главным источником редких розовых алмазов.
Помимо Австралии, лампроиты известны в Бразилии, в России (в Карелии и на Кольском полуострове).
Алмазоносные лампроиты впервые открыты в Австралии в 1976 году. Это отличный от кимберлитовой серии генетический тип месторождений алмазов. Лампроиты географически бывают связаны с кимберлитами, в составе тех и других много общего, но есть и существенные различия. Лампроиты отличается от кимберлитов высокой концентрацией Ti, K, P и некоторых других элементов. Вместе с этим нет существенных различий между алмазами этих двух генетических типов.
См. также
Кимберлит
Классификация магматических горных пород
Примечания
Литература
Ссылки
Универсальная энциклопедия
Все о Геологии. Лампроит
Алмазные месторождения
Roger H. Mitchell, Steven C. Bergman Petrology of lamproites // Springer, 1991, p. 447
Магматические горные породы
Алмазы | wikipedia | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUe9_xK1yAga6Jtpoc | FROM alpine:3.15
ENV LAST_MODIFIED "2022-03-06 K Ellis"
RUN apk add --update 'postgresql' 'postgresql-client' && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
# Security config, to allow for password authentication etc.
ADD postgresql.conf /usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
ADD pg_hba.conf /usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample
RUN mkdir /data && chown postgres:postgres /data && chmod 0700 /data
RUN mkdir /run/postgresql && chown postgres:postgres /run/postgresql
# Expose main runtime data files as volume for performance and backups
#VOLUME /data
EXPOSE 5432
USER postgres
RUN initdb /data
CMD ["/usr/bin/postgres", "-D", "/data"]
| github | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUdw45qrqCyw_JhMLq | Defines terms relating to some types of road vehicles designated according to certain design and technical characteristics. Applies to all vehicles designated for road circulation, except for agricultural tractors which are only incidentally used for the carriage of persons or goods by road. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (1976). | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbFo4ubnjom5B45G2 | Q: Can you overlay transparent images in Blackberry Apps? I have a very simple application that has one screen and one button. The main screen has a verticalFieldManager with a BitmapField inside it, and one button beneath the bitmap. I want to be able to overlay another image on top of this when the user clicks a button. The overlay image is a PNG with transparent background, and this is important for design, so I can't use popupscreen or a new screen because the backgrounds are always white by default, and I've heard alpha doesn't really do the trick.
I guess what I'm asking is if anyone knows a simple way to...
A) take a standard verticalFieldManager and overlay a PNG on top of the inner contents
B) overlay a PNG over the screen, no matter the contents
The basic functionality of this app was intended to be - show an image. on click, show another overlaid on top. on click again, remove the popup image.
I haven't found anything that addresses something like this online, but I have read of people doing similar things that utilize popupscreen and new screens in a way I don't need to do.
Hopefully this makes sense.
Thanks
A: Have you tried something like this in your custom class that overrides a screen?
EncodedImage _overlayImage;
boolean _overlay = false;
// this is to catch the click, you might do it different
public void fieldChanged(Field field, int context)
{
if (field == _imgChangeButton) {
// get the overlay image here, however you want
_overlayImage = getEncodedImageResource(blah);
_overlay = true;
invalidate();
}
}
protected void paint(Graphics graphics) {
super.paint(graphics);
if (_overlay) {
graphics.drawImage(...);
}
}
If the PNG has transparency in it the bb drawImage stuff should deal with it ok. In the drawImage call obviously you can mess around with finding the existing image and setting the x,y right on top of it.
In general I would say do a lot of testing with paint() and messing with the graphics directly before you try to do anything with another screen. You can do a lot overriding paint() for the screen... you get the whole graphics.
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BkiUdOo4ubnjow-6Mrhs | Two new apps have hit the Windows Store and both apps are free for Windows 8.1. With the Coca-Cola Freestyle app, you can find the nearest fountain and see all the flavors that Coca-Cola Freestyle has to offer. With the Tvtag app, you can compliment your TV watching experience with this fantastic free app.
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BkiUd5k5qdmDNmRzVnHL | This very useful whip can be used while driving singles or pairs or can be used as a stockyard whip to facilitate moving livestock. Other uses would be for some work in hand or showing in hand.
The 4 ft 2 in flexible fiberglass core is covered with brightly colored woven nylon. The handle has the same feel and heft of a good quality golf club. The rubber like material from which the handle is made, is textured so that it will not be slippery, even when wet.
Length is 4 ft 2 in is the length of the shaft, the drop is 15 inches and the lash popper is 10 inches.
Riding Crop with Rubber Handle 28" | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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Doing Business in Sri Lanka
Ease of doing business in Sri Lanka has improved in the last few years according to information released by the World Bank. The country used to be 111 in the world the last two years.
Report released this year indicated that the ease of doing business in the country is now 100 out of about 190 countries compared with the global body. The GDP was growing. The country is the highest ranked in the whole of South East Asia in ease of doing business.
Growth rate released by the World Bank also indicated that the GDP grew from 7.2 percent in 2013 to 7.4 in 2014.
The per capita income stood at $3558. The government intended to increase this to $4000. The population is put at 21,000.
The market reach can be up to 1.6 billion people judging the fact that the country is located in a densely populated region of the world. The country has well established middle class.
Large companies from different parts of the world have offices in Sri Lanka. These businesses include GlaxoSmithKline, Marks and Spencer, as well as Standard Chartered Bank and several others.
Sri Lanka is ripe for doing business because the environment is conducive for thriving of foreign investment.
1 Compared with some neighboring countries
1.1 Sri Lanka compared with Pakistan
1.2 Sri Lanka compared with India
1.3 Sri Lanka compared with Bangladesh
2 Risk factors in Sri Lanka
3 Export and import business volume and sectors of export and import business
4 Support of chamber of commerce and banks
5 Tax contribution to government by local and foreign investors
6 Employment status in Sri Lanka
7 Forecasting of investment sectors in Sri Lanka
Compared with some neighboring countries
Sri Lanka compared with Pakistan
Annual GDP 2017
Sri Lanka ($87,000M), Pakistan ($300,000).
GDP per capita 2017
Sri Lanka (4,057$), Pakistan (1,523$)
It is certain from the comparison above that the volume of business in Pakistan is larger than that of Sri Lanka, but when it comes to GPD per capita, Sri Lanka is well ahead of Pakistan. Sri Lankans are bound to have better and quality lives compared to the Pakistani neighbors.
Sri Lanka compared with India
Sri Lanka ($87,000M), India ($2,600,000B).
Sri Lanka (4,057$), India (1,941$ )
The situation that obtained in Pakistan and Sri Lanka comparison can be repeated in Sri Lanka India comparison. Indian GDP is bigger than Sri Lanka. Per capital income is higher in Sri Lanka compared to India.
Sri Lanka compared with Bangladesh
GDP 2017
Sri Lanka ($87,000M), Bangladesh ($250,000M).
Per Capita 2017
Sri Lanka (4,057$), Bangladesh (1,518$)
From figure above, GDP is higher in Bangladesh, but per capita, which relates to living index is higher in Sri Lanka than most of its neighbors.
Risk factors in Sri Lanka
Though Sri Lanka is fast growing, there are still some hindrances in doing business. The major hindrance to doing business in the country is bureaucracy and nepotism.
Though the country has improved significantly in the ease of doing business, but the country still has to grabble with the problem of bureaucracy. Government officials still need to improve the ease of doing business.
Another problem is the issue of transparency is still prevailing in the country. There is the need to deal with corruption. These minor issues need to be tackled to make the country more investment friendly. Transparency international rated the country 85th in the world.
Because of the growth potential, the economic potential of Sri Lanka is still very bright. The debt rate has been on the increase since the year 2014.
To help the country economy grow, Sri Lanka has entered into free trade agreement with some neighboring countries in Asia such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. The country is also trading with China and other countries of the world.
Export and import business volume and sectors of export and import business
Sri Lanka is ranked the 81st largest export economy in the world. In the year 2016, the export volume stood at $11.5b.
The volume of import as for 2016 stood at $19.7B and this left a negative balance of $8.22B. The GDP of the country as at 2016 was $81.3B while the per capita income as relates to GDP stood at $12,3k.
The country was exporting various products to the outside world and the highest amongst them is Sri Lanka tea at $1.19B. This is followed by women undergarments that earned $631M as well as Knit Women's Suits $493M and so on. The country exports several things.
Sri Lanka imports other items from other parts of the world include refined petroleum at $1.43B. Others include planes, spacecraft, helicopters cost $682M. Cars $629 as well as light knitted fabrics and several others.
Sri Lanka trades with many countries of the world but the destination of exports are US $2.88B as well as the UK$947M, others are India, Germany, Italy. In the same way the top imports include India $4.36B, Chin, Singapore, UAE as well as Japan.
Support of chamber of commerce and banks
The economy was driven by the private sector. Private sector in the country is represented by those in private business, chambers of commerce and industry as well as commercial banks.
Private sector has actually identified with government policy and is reflected in the banks lending practices in the country.
Apart from lending at low interest rates for industries, commerce especially those in the beverage industry. Chamber of commerce gave investors a tone.
Because they now aggregate their needs and demands. Federation of chambers of commerce and industry is the umbrella body uniting all the chambers of commerce in the industry.
Leadership of this group collaborate with government in realizing government aims and goals as regards industrialization.
Government facilitates the process by enunciating quality economic policies that benefit these investors.
Banks provide money to these investors when they need it and they do that at the time they need that money. These help to stimulate economic growth in the country.
Tax contribution to government by local and foreign investors
The Sri Lanka government paved the way for the country's economic transformation. They initiated kind economic and development policies that are favorable to the people.
The taxing system was not a burden, because they wanted to create an enabling environment for growth of industries.
Some of these private companies were extended some tax incentives.
The country wants to attract investors and that is why they do not charge capital gains tax. Such taxes are waved for foreign investors.
Favorable taxing method was used to attract foreign investors. Even taxed paid by these companies are well utilized.
You find out that the most basic amenities in the country are operating. Government tax gains are well used and they are used to revive local industries. It is not surprising that they used the money to revive the tea industry.
Today, tea is the highest internal products that are exported to different parts of the world. This would not have been possible without the judicious use of internally generated revenue.
Good taxing system is a good because it can actually turn the economy and that is one of the Sri Lanka success story.
Employment status in Sri Lanka
Extreme poverty is not an issue in Sri Lanka. There is unemployment but the rate is not high. The reason is that tea has provided jobs for many Sri lanka citizens. Unemployment is more on the elderly. Young people are gainful employed in the coffee farm.
Because the elderly are not readily employable. This is because age is no longer favorable to them.
Forecasting of investment sectors in Sri Lanka
The country witnessed most of its growth in 2016. Towards 2017, it started shrinking. This could be attributed to the stress in the neighboring economies.
It is expected that the economy will pick up again. There will be improvement in the growth rate. Per capita income will also increase because more people are taking to agriculture. You need to know now about income tax rate in Sri Lanka for corporate and individual. Also, you may want to know about small business ideas in Sri Lanka.
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BkiUf5nxK6wB9mn5Bonr | Q: AVAudioEngine record and play sound in speaker I want to create a iOS app with AVAudioEngine, main function is record sound from mic and play sound on speaker. I want to switch between loud speaker(bottom speaker) and receiver(top speaker). My code is below, this work fine on receiver. My problem is sound can not play in loud speaker. Please help me, many thanks!
import AVFoundation
import UIKit
class XViewController: UIViewController {
let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
var player: AVAudioPlayerNode!
var engine: AVAudioEngine!
deinit {
NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self)
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
setupAudioSession()
setupNotifications()
initRecorder()
}
func setupAudioSession() {
do{
try audioSession.setPreferredSampleRate(16000)
try self.audioSession.setPreferredOutputNumberOfChannels(1)
try audioSession.setCategory(.playAndRecord, options: [])
try audioSession.overrideOutputAudioPort(.none)
try audioSession.setMode(.voiceChat)
try audioSession.setActive(true)
} catch{
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
}
func initRecorder() {
player = AVAudioPlayerNode()
engine = AVAudioEngine()
let input = engine.inputNode
engine.attach(player)
let bus = 0
let inputFormat = input.inputFormat(forBus: bus)
engine.connect(player, to: engine.outputNode, format: inputFormat)
let mixerNode = AVAudioMixerNode()
engine.attach(mixerNode)
engine.connect(input, to: mixerNode, format: nil)
input.installTap(onBus: bus, bufferSize: 2048, format: inputFormat) { (buffer, time) -> Void in
self.player.scheduleBuffer(buffer)
print(buffer)
}
}
func start() {
engine.prepare()
try! engine.start()
player.play()
}
func playToLoudSpeaker() {
do{
try self.audioSession.overrideOutputAudioPort(.speaker)
} catch{
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
}
func setupNotifications() {
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,
selector: #selector(handleRouteChange),
name: AVAudioSession.routeChangeNotification,
object: nil)
}
@objc func handleRouteChange(notification: Notification) {
guard let userInfo = notification.userInfo,
let reasonValue = userInfo[AVAudioSessionRouteChangeReasonKey] as? UInt,
let reason = AVAudioSession.RouteChangeReason(rawValue: reasonValue) else {
return
}
// Switch over the route change reason.
switch reason {
case .override :
resume()
default: break
}
}
func resume() {
self.engine.stop()
self.player.stop()
self.engine.detach(player)
self.initRecorder()
engine.prepare()
try? self.engine.start()
player.play()
}
@IBAction private func startRecorderAndPlay(_ sender: UIButton) {
start()
}
@IBAction private func switchToLoudSpeaker(_ sender: UIButton) {
playToLoudSpeaker()
}
}
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: I'm looking for info on how to minimize the cacophony in the lunchroom of our school. The walls are made of cinderblock (3 walls) one wall has a stage with curtains. The ceiling is a cathedral ceiling made of wood. The powers that be don't want to change the ceiling. I would like to put panels up to absorb as much sound as possible. (300 hundred children eat their lunch in this room) Does anyone have any suggestions?
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BkiUd1g5qX_BrrvEBufi | Q: How can I check in R using dplyr the values of a vector if they correspond (exist) to a column of a data frame? Let's say I have a data frame in R that looks like this :
var1
lc
A
london
B
athens
C
amsterdam
D
new york
E
tokyo
F
barcelona
G
rome
H
mexico city
I
cairo
var1 = c("A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I")
lc = c("london","athens","amsterdam","new york","tokyo","barcelona","rome","mexico city","cairo")
df = tibble(var1,lc);df
Now I have a vector of interest that contains some values that I have to check.
var2 = c("A","C","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M")
My condition of interest is that if the elements of the column vector var1 exist in the second vector (var2).
Ideally a want to mutate (dplyr phrase) a new column that will contain the output if this logical condition and must look like this.
var1
lc
condition
A
London
TRUE
B
athens
FALSE
C
amsterdam
TRUE
D
new york
FALSE
E
tokyo
TRUE
F
barcelona
TRUE
G
rome
TRUE
H
mexico city
TRUE
I
cairo
TRUE
How can I do it in R using dplyr ?
Any help ?
A: You could use %in%
df %>% mutate(condition = var1 %in% var2)
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BkiUfGLxK6EuNCvercTg | How important is the role of interviewer personality when it comes to the connection between an effective interviewer and the use of structured interviews?
The interview is the most popular selection procedure in the world, and has been for hundreds of years, but when it comes to assessing a candidate's core competencies, not all interviews are created equal.
Learn how to use an interview to select frontline job candidates.
While interviews are a subjective tool for employee selection, studies show using structured interviews proves to be a more accurate method of assessing candidates than unstructured interviews. But how does the personality of the interviewer effect his or her willingness to use and adhere to the strict guidelines of a high-structured interview?
This study aims to give organizations vital information to enhance their use of high-structured interviews.
In the talent acquisition process, it is critical for businesses to assess not just the interview questions, setting, and length of the interview itself, but the potential impact of the interviewer's personality traits on candidate selection. Recent research examines the qualities of a good interviewer, and poses that certain personality types may be more willing to stick to the script of high-structured interviews, while others may show a propensity for deviating, potentially rendering the interview less effective.
Today, we're recapping one study that more closely examines the link between personality traits and the high-structured interviewing processes, entitled "When Will Interviewers Be Willing to Use High-structured Job Interviews? The role of personality," published in the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. Researchers Wei-Chi Tsai, Forrence HsinHung Chen, Hai-Yi Chen and Ko-Yao Tseng investigate the effects of three key personality types and their impacts on interviewers to utilize a high-structured interview (HSI). The study also considers the degree to which the interviewers believed that their final employment decision influenced their intention to use the HSI.
Previous research has indicated that when interviewers realize a supervisor is paying attention to an interview's procedure and outcome, interviewers will become more involved in the interview process. This felt accountability (FA) falls into two distinct groups: procedural accountability (PA) and outcome accountability (OA).
Felt accountability is an important factor that can influence interviewer judgment. Interviewers who have a greater sense of accountability tend to more closely follow the format of high-structured interviews, and research has shown that this factor can improve the accuracy and validity of employment decisions.
Additionally, interviewers who feel accountable for the results of the interview process and the final employment decision have a greater awareness that their supervisors will evaluate the their performance during the process - as well as the final outcome - and feel it is their a duty to justify their employment decisions. When interviewers feel higher accountability, they tend to suppress their own personal feelings in order to evaluate a candidate more seriously.
This study poses that in addition to procedural accountability and outcome accountability, an interviewer's personality plays a major role in his or her willingness and intention to use HSI.
According to the authors of this study, "An interview structure represents the degree of discretion interviewers have in conducting interviews. The structure's purpose is to decrease variation between applicants...The HSI contains two elements: (1) the requirement that each applicant be asked the same questions and (2) a standardized evaluation."
Although several factors, including preparation and personal contact can influence the likelihood that an interviewer will utilize the HSI, the variation is generally low. The theory presented in this study was that three distinct interviewer personality traits - extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness - can affect the intention of the interviewer to use the HSI.
Based on the results of previous studies that linked the same three personality traits to job performance, research suggests these traits would also affect a hiring manager's likelihood to utilize the HSI. Past studies have linked the personality of an interviewer to HSI use, however, in these past studies examined narrow personality traits, such as judgment of character.
This study included 327 interviewers, belonging to fifty different organizations. Each was either a human resources professional or a manager with extensive interviewing experience. No more than twenty interviewers were affiliated with any one of the individual organizations, and all participants had been with the organization for at least one year. Data were collected via questionnaires that were both web-based and paper-based.
Extraversion refers to an individual's display of confidence, passion and sociability. Research suggests extraverted interviewers have higher self-confidence in social environments, which frequently results in creating deeper interactions with applicants than introverted interviewers have.
However, since HSI requires a heavy emphasis on standardized questions and procedures to promote reliability and validity, it imposes detailed limits on extraverted interviewers' ability to give hints and ask additional questions. Therefore, the authors of the study pose, "...because extraverted interviewers are passionate, lively, voluble, and social (Barrick & Mount, 1991), these interviewers generally dislike any suppression of their freedom to ask questions during interviews. For these reasons, extraverted interviewers may avoid HSI."
Agreeableness is a personality trait which focuses on relationships, and people with this trait are generally friendly and helpful. An emphasis on politeness and the desire to avoid conflict are key indicators of agreeable personality types and, "If an organization establishes a rule that all interviewers must use HSI, interviewers possessing considerable agreeableness would likely follow the rule." As rule-followers, the researchers hypothesize that those with this personality trait would positively respond to the HSI requirement.
The third trait, accountability, represents a person's perception that they are being evaluated and that they must account for their actions to another party. People who exhibit this trait feel social pressure to conform to expected behaviors and may change their inclinations to comply. It was hypothesized that this group would be highly likely to utilize the HSI because of their assumption that they would be judged based on their desire to follow rules and perform well.
The finding of the study failed to reveal any significant relationship between extraversion in the interviewer and intention to utilize the HSI. The researchers believe that this may be due to the extraverted interviewer's view of an HSI as an appealing novelty, which ties in with their sociability.
Agreeableness also did not appear to play the only role in an interviewer's likelihood to use the HSI. The same is true for those with the accountability personality trait. Researches assume that more concern might be placed on the performance of the hired employee, rather than an interviewer's adherence to standardized interviewing processes.
Overall, there was evidence uncovered as a result of the study that indicates that an interviewer's agreeableness and conscientiousness are important antecedents of their intention to utilize the HSI. The researchers believe that their findings can serve as a baseline for future investigators to develop a study which will address research gaps, consider additional underlying factors and invite hiring managers to share their own perspectives on the matter. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW) is the major west coast aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps. It is headquartered at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California and provides the aviation combat element for I Marine Expeditionary Force. The wing is made up of a headquarters squadron, four flying groups, an aviation command and control group and an aviation engineering group.
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3rd Marine Aircraft Wing was commissioned on November 10, 1942, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina with a personnel roster of 13 officers, 25 enlisted men and one aircraft - a trainer.
The Wing's combat history began with the World War II deployment of a bomber squadron on December 3, 1943. A little more than a year later, the Wing deployed a night fighter squadron in support of the war effort.
When the Japanese surrendered, 3d MAW was decommissioned on December 31, 1945 at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa and its personnel were assigned to other units. The Wing also played an important, but behind-the-scenes, role during the war by training Marine pilots and support personnel for combat duty overseas.
In 1952, as the Marine Corps again fought in the Far East, the Wing was reactivated at MCAS Cherry Point for the Korean War. The main portion of the wing began moving to the new Marine Corps Air Station Miami, the Marine Corps' first "flying field."
In September 1955, the Wing left MCAS Miami for Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. 3d MAW was rebuilt again, with the addition of Marine Aircraft Group 15, followed by Marine Aircraft Group 36 on September 5, 1955, with its helicopter squadrons at the nearby Marine Corps Air Facility Santa Ana, later renamed Marine Corps Air Station Tustin.
Wing squadrons were detached and deployed to Vietnam as combat action in Southeast Asia flared. At the end of the Vietnam War several units were brought back to the United States and deactivated or redesignated, creating 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing as it is constituted today.
The wing saw action again as part of I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF), conducting operations in Iraq and Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. It deployed over 40 squadrons of aircraft, flew over 18,000 sorties while operating from 6airfields throughout the theater. After the end of hostilities, 3d MAW aircraft provided support in Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Southern Watch over Iraq. The wing was once more called into service in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. In 1999, 3rd MAW relocated to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.
The fall of 2001 saw the beginning of the War on Terrorism, and 3rd MAW since deployed several detachments in support of the ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
In the fall of 2002, the wing began deploying to Kuwait to prepare for combat operations in Iraq. Ultimately the wing moved 435 aircraft and 15,451 personnel to Southwest Asia prior to the attack marking the first time the entire wing had deployed since the Gulf War and the largest since the Vietnam War. Their two primary bases in Kuwait were Ali Al Salem Air Base and Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base while Wing ground units also established 15 Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) or Forward Arming and Refueling Points (FARPs) during march north. During the invasion, 3rd MAW expended over 6 million pounds of ordnance, including over 2,300 general-purpose bombs and 2,200 precision guided munitions.
Starting in 2009, all CH-46 helicopter squadrons from 3rd MAW will transition to the MV-22.
↑ RottmanUSMC WWII OOB, pgs. 432-33.
↑ RottmanUSMC WWII OOB, pgs. 433.
↑ Visconage & Harris: 15,20.
↑ Reynolds Basrah, Baghdad and Beyond, p. 174-75.
↑ Visconage & Harris: 180.
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Are you checking the seal size to the shoulder of the crank where it will ride once assembled?
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Husserl. Routledge, London. In the Routledge Philosophers series. In progress.
Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Co-edited with Amie L. Thomasson. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. Forthcoming in 2005.
Mind World: Essays in Phenomenology and Ontology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2004, xviii + 309pp. Hardback and paperback.
The Cambridge Companion to Husserl. Co-edited with Barry Smith. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1995, viii + 518 pp. Hardback and paperback.
The Circle of Acquaintance: Perception, Consciousness, and Empathy. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht and Boston, now Springer, New York, 1989, xvi + 252 pp.
Husserl and Intentionality: a Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language. Co-authored with Ronald McIntyre. D. Reidel Publishing Company, now Springer, New York, 1982, xxiii + 423 pp. Paperback edition. Pallas Series, D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1984.
Some recent articles:
"Science, Intentionality, and Historical Background". In David Hyder and Hans Jörg Rheinberger, editors, Husserl and the Historical Epistemology of the Sciences. (forthcoming).
"Truth and Experience: Tarski vis-à-vis Husserl". To appear in Johann C. Marek and Maria E. Reicher, editors, Experience and Analysis: The Proceedings of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium (ht-öbv Vienna, forthcoming 2005.
"Consciousness, Self, and Attention". Co-authored with Jason Ford. In Uriah Kriegel and Kenneth Williford, editors, Consciousness and Self-Reference (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, forthcoming 2005).
"The Structure of Context and Context-Awareness". In Lester Embree, editor, Gurwitsch's Relevance for Cognitive Science (Kluwer Academic Publishers, now Springer, New York, forthcoming 2005).
"Phenomenology". In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; CSLI, on-line at http://plato.stanford.edu/ .
"Intentionality and Picturing: Early Husserl vis-à-vis Early Wittgenstein". In Terry Horgan, John Tienson, and Matjaz Potrc, editors, Origins: The Common Sources of the Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions (proceedings of the Spindel Conference 2001; The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume XL, Supplement 2002; published by the Department of Philosophy, The University of Memphis), pp. 153-180.
"Mathematical Form in the World". Philosophia Mathematica (3) Vol. 10 (2002) 102-129.
"What is 'Logical' in Husserl's Logical Investigations? The Copenhagen Interpretation". In Dan Zahavi and Frederik Stjernfelt, editors, One Hundred Years of Phenomenology: Husserl's Logical Investigations Revisited (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht and Boston, 2002), pp. 51-65.
"Phenomenology". Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Nature Publishing Group, Reference, Macmillan Reference Ltd, London, www.naturereferenc.com, www.nature.com), 2003. On CD. Volume 3, pp. 572-579. | commoncrawl | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUd_M5qoYDgbkp4ygG | This page talks about the problem with p-level being the be-all and end-all of way too many scientific studies. You might be aware that there is discussion about this in the scientific literature. (I think statisticians deserve prizes for still trying to get the rest of us to pay attention.) The problem is that the ONLY thing p-level tells you is the probability that rejecting the null hypothesis is the wrong thing to do. That's why small is good: you want the probability of a false positive to be as small as possible. And that is all it does. Nothing else. Take a moment, if you will, to consider all the other ways you could be wrong: false negative, wrong question, wrong control, etc. Most importantly, it does not tell you if your result is significant in any scientifically meaningful way.
This is what Paul Ellis is talking about when he uses the vocabulary "substantive significance" and the link above goes right to the heart of the matter: researchers are confusing statistical significance with substantive significance, and journals are letting them get away with it. In my ideal world every result comes with, at least, the standard deviation, and the four things noted below: alpha, beta, sample size, and effect size, that last being accompanied by some sentences describing why that effect size was chosen.
You may be lucky enough to have as big a sample size as you want, but you still must use your brain to decide what matters, to design an experiment that actually answers your question, and to do appropriate controls so that you can make interesting comparisons. A large sample size may allow you to find very small differences, but if the differences are that small, do they matter? They very well might, but you must think that through, no statistic can do that for you.
There is, however, a numerical representation of that "minimum important difference" called the effect size. The best way to plan an experiment is to decide in advance on the effect size that you, with your brain, think is important enough to be worth detecting, and decide in advance how low you want the probability of a false positive to be (alpha, or, p-level), and decide how low you want the probability of a false negative to be (beta), and decide on the most information-packed way to measure, which includes deciding on the appropriate statistical test to use, THEN calculate the sample size and stick to it.
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BkiUbew4uBhhxLtiMQkm | 16th September 2012: I came across this bee nest whilst poking about under a hawthorn tree this morning.
Oh gross that's scary!!! Yikes!! Pretty pic of them though!!!
Glad you like the image, Lisa.
Wow, I would love to see something like that. Awesome!
It's the kind of thing that you stumble upon, James.
That's an incredible sight! I'd be terrified but fascinated.
Yes. It is a bit special, Lucy.
Having a phobia of bee's isn't helping me not to get the willies but it's still a nice shot. Hope you didn't get stung!.
Honey bees are gentle creatures, Mark. They just get on with what they have to do and are not generally concerned about people. I spend a lot of time macro photographing bees when they are collecting nectar, and have never been stung. These bees are very busy building their nest before the winter sets in. Unfortunately, they are not buildiing it Iin a good place. I have a feeling the catle will knock the nest down when they are allowed to graze the area.
WOW! That's quite scary but really beautiful. Weren't you scared?
Very cool photo, Mike. Is that a swarm with a new queen?
If you look at the image closely, Sue, you can see honeycombe under the bees. I expect it is a new colony.
Interesting photo – don't think I've seen a photo of a beehive before. I love the symetry also.
Good sign of a healthy environment.
Pity it's in the wrong place, though.
A great find and a great photo too. I've not seen a wild hive before.
Seeing an image such as this gives an understanding to the term: Busy as a bee!
Great capture Mike. Keep 'em coming.
Thanks for sharing such a nice photo! I'm currently writing an interview for the Magazine OuiShare (magazine.ouishare.net) on organizational biomimicry and how we could be inspired by hives. I think your photo would be a beautiful illustration of the article. Would you like it if I used it? Of course, I would mention your name and website.
Yes, Marie-Anne I give my permission for you to use my image in your biomimicry article.
I've never been privileged to see such a thing. Thanks for making it possible, at least vicariously; this is a beautiful image that shows your appreciation. Bees are amazing little creatures — as you say, gentle, and also industrious. I'm always glad to see them in my yard. Like most animals, they'll leave us alone unless we threaten them.
When I first spotted this nest from a distance, Cate, I thought it was a pheasant roosting in a hawthorn bush. It was only when I was very close – a couple of feet away – that I realised what it was. I arranged for a beekeeper to rehouse the beed in a hive a few miles away. It was inlikely that they would have survived a winter in the hawthorn bush.
I love this blog. When I visit my WordPress Reader, one of the things I most look forward to is the exquisite photographs of all the Marsh's natural abundance. Thank you!
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BkiUdjE5qWTBIJYAssie | Q: Configure OpenNebula to use DHCP I'm trying to configure OpenNebula to use the DHCP server that already exists on my network. Yes, I already know that OpenNebula manages virtual mac addresses rather than IP addresses, but that doesn't tell me how to get this working. ;)
My guests and hosts are both CentOS, so I would imagine all that needs to be done is configure contextualization so that BOOTPROTO=dhcp is dumped into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
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*How do I configure contextualization so that this happens? Do I just modify my template in a certain way? If so, how is that done?
*Once I configure my template with these new contextualization settings, how should I configure my virtual network in ONE?
It seems like this should be easy to do, as this should appear to be simpler than managing a bunch of static IPs for vms, and you would think that this is a common use case. However, googleing so far has turned up very little.
Thanks!!
Edit:
My DHCP server successfully gives my vm an ip address if I set BOOTPROTO=dhcp and DHCP_HOSTNAME=foo manually and restart networking on my vm. Which is fine, I would like to be able to set the hostnames of the vms I spin up too.
Now it's just a matter of determining how to make ONE do these things automatically/via the web interface or CLI tools. Also ONE still lists the IP address of the original lease, rather than the IP that DHCP gave my VM. It would be nice to get that issue fixed too.
A: My Opennebula is version 4.8.0. I had similar needs, so here is what I did:
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*I configured the DHCP server that already exists in our network to reserve an IP range for DHCP. The range was: 10.23.1.201 - 10.23.1.254. That's 54 dynamic IPs.
*I created a new Virtual Network, which I named "DHCP". On the tab "Addresses" I chose radio button "Ethernet". This way Opennebula will only give MAC addresses to the VMs using this network. I left "MAC Start" empty because it's optional anyway. I entered 54 in the "Size" field because my DHCP can provide this many dynamic IP addresses. So, Opennebula gives new VMs only a mac address and nothing more.
The guest OS has to be manually set up to use DHCP. I don't know how to do that automatically, but that's not a big issue.
Here is how I proceeded further to have a template that uses DHCP. I went on to install a new operating system, for example CentOS 6.5.
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*I created a template using this new Virtual Network and two disks - an ISO image and an empty datablock image set to "persistent = yes".
*Then, I instantiate the template, the VM boots up from the ISO and when I install the VM, I leave the network configuration to "dynamic".
*When the installation finishes, my VM has an automatically assigned IP from the DHCP server just like if it was a real machine.
*I then stop and delete the VM.
*Set the datablock image back to "persistent = no".
Now every new VM that spawns from that template will be using the "DHCP" Virtual Network, will have a dynamic IP address and Opennebula will not display any IP address for such VMs.
I can't answer about the automatic setting of hostname, but I think it must be a matter of configuring the guest OS and the DHCP. On the other hand, DHCP must know what hostname to give to which MAC address and, since Opennebula will be generating those MAC addresses dynamically, I don't know how you can tell the DHCP server about them in advance.
A: Consider using a dhcpd config bit to set the interim hostnames on new boxes until you can hostnamectl them yourself. It has the advantage of setting a guessable hostname that you can use to connect, without having to grovel logs or guess the IP.
if (not (option host-name ~~ "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\-]+[a-z0-9]$")) {
set new_host-name = concat("host-", binary-to-ascii(16, 8, "", substring(hardware, 1, 6)));
log(concat("invalid hostname: ", option host-name, " => ", new_host-name));
ddns-hostname = new_host-name;
} else {
ddns-hostname = pick (option fqdn.hostname, option host-name, substring (option dhcp-client-identifier, 1, 20));
}
I grabbed this from a great post by Peter Rathlev, here: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2013-March/016518.html . While it's in answer to another question, it does provide a GREAT example of how dhcpd can be configured to do amazing things, and at least do what I think you're needing.
A: For v4.x (less than 4.10?):
First create a VNET, using whatever setup you want. For example, for a bridged network you might have:
NAME = "net0"
TYPE = "FIXED"
BRIDGE = "br0"
Next, create a lease, associated with that VNET. Note, the IP address is mandatory and unique, but is only used as the NIC 'key', if you're using DHCP (See below). Make sure to set the MAC address such that your DHCP server will offer it an address:
VNET = "net0"
IP = "192.168.0.1"
MAC = "02:00:d7:00:00:01"
Now add a NIC to your VM:
NETWORK="net0"
IP="192.168.0.1"
MODEL="virtio"
Now be sure to configure DHCP appropriately for that MAC address.
For 4.x > 10? and 5.x, it's almost the same, except that leases are now replaced with address ranges:
Create a VNET (almost) as above:
NAME = "net0"
VN_MAD = "dummy"
BRIDGE = "br0"
Then create an address range, only containing one address:
VNET= "net0"
SIZE = "1"
MAC = "02:00:d7:00:00:01"
Use this AR in your VM:
NETWORK="net0"
MAC="02:00:d7:00:00:01"
MODEL="virtio"
And again set up DHCP as appropriate.
More information on address ranges here:
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BkiUdYw5qoTBC5y2Luhn | Triumph Launches Rocket 3 GT in India
Triumph is the only manufacturer in India to have the largest BS-VI line-up consisting of 13 motorcycles in its portfolio.
In August 2020, Triumph launched two BS-VI two-wheelers named the Street Twin and the Bonneville Speedmaster in India at US$ 9979.86 and US$ 15177.42 (Rs 7.45 lakh and Rs 11.33 lakh, respectively). Now, the company has launched the Rocket 3 GT in India at US$ 25004.75 (Rs 18.0 lakh, ex-showroom). The Rocket 3 GT costs US$ 543.58 (40,000) more than the Rocket 3 R that was launched in late 2019. Triumph is the only manufacturer in India to have the largest BS-VI line-up consisting of 13 motorcycles in its portfolio.
Moreover, in August 2020, the company launched the BS-VI Street Triple R in India at US$ 11847.98 (Rs 9.5 lakh, ex-showroom), with cosmetic as well as mechanical changes. The Rocket 3 GT is the cruiser version of the Rocket 3, whereas the Rocket 3 R is the street-oriented roadster. The GT comes with a relaxed riding position, with a slightly pulled-back handlebar, forward-set footpegs, and a lower seat height compared to the R.
The Rocket 3 GT gets a height-adjustable backrest, heated grips, and a fly-screen for the pillion. The GT weighs 294 kg, while the R tips the scales at 291 kg. The Rocket 3 GT is equipped with the same three-cylinder, 2,500 cc liquid-cooled engine that is good for 167 hp of power and 221 Nm of peak torque. The GT uses an all-aluminum frame, Showa USD forks at the front, and a mono-shock at the rear. Moreover, the Rocket 3 GT is equipped with twin 320 mm discs at the front and a 300 mm disc at the rear. The GT is available in two color options such as Phantom Black or Silver Ice/Storm Grey. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbHrxK6nrxpQczSfA | Newsom survives recall
Parashar Bharadwaj, Staff Writer
California Gov. Gavin Newsom comfortably survived the recall vote on Sept. 14, with the majority of Californians voting to keep Newsom in office.
After being introduced in February 2020, the recall gained traction due to Newsom's handling of COVID-19, especially concerning schools. Along with some Californians' belief that Newsom's plan for in person schooling was indecisive and apathetic, Newsom's handling of COVID-19 and his private dinner contradicting his own COVID-19 safety guidelines were all driving factors for the recall.
"We had a perfect storm with the judge's ruling, with the French Laundry incident, with the greater environment of COVID and the economic disaster," director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California Mindy Romero said to the Associated Press.
The recall involved 46 candidates, largely Republican, to replace Newsom as governor. Most notably, conservative talk show host Larry Elder led the charge to replace Newsom, along with California's fair share of extravagant candidates like Olympian and reality TV Star Caitlyn Jenner and YouTuber Kevin Paffrath.
Elder amassed 2.3 million votes in the recall, but fell short in order to replace Newsom. In order for Elder to become governor, he would have needed a majority to vote yes on the first question of the ballot, as well as the majority in the election.
"Although the recall of Governor Newsom was necessary in my eyes, a candidate like Elder didn't fit the description of a real governor," junior Corey Okamoto said. "Not only did he represent a growing state of far-right commentators, but his policies—not including the education system—scared me and didn't represent the state of California and its voter base."
One of the main policies that Elder ran on was school choice. Elder believed that school districts should allocate funds towards allowing parents to choose what type of education they wanted for their children, be it private or public schools.
"School choice is not a panacea, especially without strong parental involvement," Elder said. "School choice benefits children of parents who preach that education and hard work are key to upward mobility."
Elder also intended to do away with all state-wide mask and vaccine mandates in order to curb the pandemic. He believed that young people were less susceptible to COVID-19, specifically noting that students did not need to be vaccinated or wear masks in school.
"I think Newsom's recall win is much safer for students in school," junior Johnny Jang said. "Elder's policies regarding vaccines and masks in school were too lenient and would have resulted in another surge of the pandemic."
Elder stated he was unsure if he would run for governor again in the future. After winning 64% of the votes on the ballot's initial question, Newsom thanked Californians after the polls closed on Sept. 14.
"No is not the only thing that was expressed tonight. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic," Newsom said. "We rejected cynicism and bigotry and chose hope and progress. Thank you, California."
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It has peaked at No. 48 on the iTunes overall albums chart.
Track listing
"Your Love Is Strong" (Spring)
"Behind Your Eyes" (Winter)
"The Cure for Pain" (Fall)
"Resurrect Me" (Summer)
"Southbound Train" (Fall)
"Broken from the Start" (New Song)
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References
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BkiUd745qdmDLQcgcHly | The McKinsey 7-S Framework
McKinsey 7-S Framework
Making Every Part of Your Organization Work in Harmony
Do you know how well your organization is positioned to achieve its goals? Or what elements influence its ability to implement change successfully?
Models of organizational effectiveness go in and out of fashion, but the McKinsey 7-S framework has stood the test of time.
The model was developed in the late 1970s by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, former consultants at McKinsey & Company. They identified seven internal elements of an organization that need to align for it to be successful.
Do you know the seven key elements of your organization?
In this article, you can explore the seven elements in detail, and learn how to improve performance or manage change in your organization by ensuring that they all work in harmony.
Also, we provide a worked example and a downloadable template that you can use to apply the model.
When to Use the McKinsey 7-S Model
You can use the 7-S model in a wide variety of situations where it's useful to examine how the various parts of your organization work together.
For example, it can help you to improve the performance of your organization, or to determine the best way to implement a proposed strategy.
The framework can be used to examine the likely effects of future changes in the organization, or to align departments and processes during a merger or acquisition. You can also apply the McKinsey 7-S model to elements of a team or a project.
The Seven Elements of the McKinsey 7-S Framework
The model categorizes the seven elements as either "hard" or "soft":
Hard Elements
Soft Elements
The three "hard" elements are strategy, structures (such as organization charts and reporting lines), and systems (such as formal processes and IT systems.) These are relatively easy to identify, and management can influence them directly.
The four "soft" elements, on the other hand, can be harder to describe, less tangible, and more influenced by your company culture. But they're just as important as the hard elements if the organization is going to be successful.
Figure 1, below, shows how the elements depend on each other, and how a change in one affects all the others.
Figure 1: The McKinsey 7-S Model
Figure reproduced with permission from McKinsey & Company, www.mckinsey.com. Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.
Let's look at each of the elements individually:
Strategy: this is your organization's plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage over its competitors.
Structure: this how your company is organized (that is, how departments and teams are structured, including who reports to whom).
Systems: the daily activities and procedures that staff use to get the job done.
Shared values: these are the core values of the organization, as shown in its corporate culture and general work ethic. They were called "superordinate goals" when the model was first developed.
Style: the style of leadership adopted.
Staff: the employees and their general capabilities.
Skills: the actual skills and competencies of the organization's employees.
Placing shared values
in the center of the model emphasizes that these values are central to the development of all the other critical elements.
The model states that the seven elements need to balance and reinforce each other for an organization to perform well.
Using the McKinsey 7-S Model
You can use it to identify which elements you need to realign to improve performance, or to maintain alignment and performance during other changes. These changes could include restructuring, new processes, an organizational merger, new systems, and change of leadership.
Start with your shared values: are they consistent with your structure, strategy, and systems? If not, what needs to change?
Then look at the hard elements. How well does each one support the others? Identify where changes need to be made.
Next, look at the soft elements. Do they support the desired hard elements? Do they support one another? If not, what needs to change?
As you adjust and align the elements, you'll need to use an iterative (and often time-consuming) process of making adjustments, and then re-analyzing how that impacts other elements and their alignment. The end result of better performance will be worth it.
Figure 2 shows a template matrix that you can use to help with your analysis. You can click on the image to download it as a PDF worksheet.
We've also developed a checklist of the right questions to ask, which you can find in the next section. Supplement the questions in our checklist with your own questions, based on your organization's specific circumstances and your own knowledge and experience.
Figure 2: The McKinsey 7-S Matrix Template
You can use the 7-S model to help analyze your current situation (Point A in the worksheet), your proposed future situation (Point B in the worksheet), and to identify gaps and inconsistencies between them.
To examine your where you are now (Point A), use the data that you've learned from your checklist questions to fill in the worksheet grid, putting a tick in any box where the two cross-referenced elements work together well. If the two elements aren't working well together, put a cross.
Point B is an agreed endpoint in the future (in six months or a year, for example). When you reach Point B, revisit the worksheet and fill it in again. If your changes have worked, you'll have a grid full of ticks. If not, you may need to make further adjustments.
The 7-S model is a good framework to help you ask the right questions, but it won't give you all the answers. For that, you'll need to bring together the right people with the right knowledge, skills and experience. Our article, Setting up a Cross-Functional Team
Checklist Questions for the McKinsey 7-S Framework
The following questions are a starting point for exploring your situation in terms of the 7-S framework. Use them to analyze your current (Point A) situation first, and then repeat the exercise for your proposed situation (Point B).
How do we intend to achieve our objectives?
How do we deal with competitive pressure?
How are changes in customer demands dealt with?
How is strategy adjusted for environmental issues?
How is the company/team divided?
What is the hierarchy?
How do the various departments coordinate activities?
How do the team members organize and align themselves?
Is decision making and controlling centralized or decentralized? Is this as it should be, given what we're doing?
Where are the lines of communication? Explicit and implicit?
What are the main systems that run the organization? Consider financial and HR systems as well as communications and document storage.
Where are the controls and how are they monitored and evaluated?
What internal rules and processes does the team use to keep on track?
Shared Values:
What are the core values?
What is the corporate/team culture?
How strong are the values?
What are the fundamental values that the company/team was built on?
How participative is the management/leadership style?
How effective is that leadership?
Do employees/team members tend to be competitive or cooperative?
Are there real teams functioning within the organization or are they just nominal groups?
What positions or specializations are represented within the team?
What positions need to be filled?
Are there gaps in required competencies?
What are the strongest skills represented within the company/team?
Are there any skills gaps?
What is the company/team known for doing well?
Do the current employees/team members have the ability to do the job?
How are skills monitored and assessed?
An Example of the McKinsey 7-S Framework in Action
Let's imagine that Whitehawk Electronics is a startup with five staff. As a new venture, it is still based firmly on the vision and values of its founder, Alix, and its elements all align. It sells into one market, and uses off-the-shelf IT and accounting systems.
As time goes on, the business grows, employing 30 staff, and diversifying into different markets. New customer requirements demand new skills in marketing, technology, product development, and financial management.
Alix carries out a 7-S analysis. She finds that Whitehawk's developing sales strategy no longer aligns with its small-business skill set.
The rapid influx of new staff members, along with changes in technology, means that some staff don't have the necessary systems skills. Worse still, they're unclear on the organization's values and sense of purpose.
Alix uses the analysis to introduce onboarding and learning programs, bringing all Whitehawk's key elements back into alignment.
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For other, similar approaches, see our articles on the Burke-Litwin Change Model
, and the Congruence Model
. You may also find our articles on the Change Curve
, Impact Analysis
and Lewin's Change Management Model
useful.
You can apply the McKinsey 7-S framework to almost any organizational or team effectiveness issue.
If something within your organization or team isn't working, chances are there is inconsistency between some of the seven elements identified in the model. These are: strategy, structure, systems, shared values, style, staff, and skills.
Once you reveal these inconsistencies, you can work to align these elements to make sure they are all contributing to the shared goals and values.
The process of analyzing where you are right now in terms of these elements is worthwhile in itself. But you can really move your organization or team forward by determining the desired future state for each of the factors.
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Hi Anneysha26,
Thanks for your comment. I personally think that there are so many individual variables that is unique to different companies and might influence the outcome. It is therefore hard to give one answer.
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Over a month ago Anneysha26 wrote
Please help to solve the above example of Mckinsey's 7s Framework.
Over a month ago BillT wrote
Hi BipNandi,
The blue boxes represent where the same relationship intersects in the rows and columns. Hopefully, your Strategy, for example, will always agree with your Strategy, therefor no tick or cross assignment is necessary. If strategy is a positive element related to structure, you would enter a tick. However, is structure is a negative element related to structure, you would enter a cross.
Hopefully this provides some insight into the matrix.
The Burke-Litwin Change Model
The Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model
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BkiUbls5qg5A50bS1Ey5 | You can't help it. Life has been really hard this season of life. Every time Sunday rolls around there is a little voice that urges you to go check out a Church, but each week it gets quieter and quieter.
You've been running from God. You've been running away from Church.
There might even be people who have been inviting you week after week, but you always have an excuse. And actually, they've stopped inviting you because you always say no, you always have an excuse.
Maybe you were once a part of a Church and you were there every single week. But, slowly and surely you drifted away. People reached out for awhile, but they stopped. They didn't want to bug you.
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God has something amazing for you and you're closer than you think. So, here is your invite to Thrive. Thrive is a church for people who have been running away from God and Church. Thrive is a Church where no perfect people are allowed. A Church where it doesn't matter how you dress, what you wear, where you work or if you have doubts.
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BkiUdQY4dbghT_5T4WNt | Global online trader says move down to rising "popularity of cryptocurrencies."
IG Group, one of the world's biggest online trading outfits and a global market leader in contract for differences (CFDs), has launched trading on cryptocurrency Ethereum.
Confirming the move on Monday (21 August), IG said trading had commenced on Ether, the token of the Ethereum network.
The move would enable traders to take a position on whether the value of the cryptocurrency will rise or fall, without having to take the risks associated with buying and storing it, akin to spreads on a range of asset classes from equities to commodities.
Ethereum is a digital platform on which a whole range of applications can be built, including identity software, security programs and methods of payment. While the cryptocurrency itself is often referred to as 'ethereum', its more accurate name is 'ether'.
IG Group already offers spreads on Bitcoin, the most widely used cryptocurrency, which has seen its value soar in recent weeks. The prices of cryptocurrencies are always quoted against another global currency, most commonly the US dollar.
The inherent volatility of cryptocurrencies makes them attractive to traders with a steady nerve. Trading at around $300 for the last few months, ether is probably the most undervalued of all cryptocurrencies at the moment.
Around two years ago Bitcoin was trading at around $500 where it had stabilised for a number of months. With all the initial coin offering (ICO) activity happening in the crypto-space, a surge in the value of Ether is possibly overdue.
Rupert Osborne, Deputy Head of FX and Futures at IG, said: "As the acceptance and popularity of cryptocurrencies has grown around the world, IG has been at the forefront of giving people the opportunity to trade them.
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BkiUdII4eIZjn9vgHvJj | Three remain in custody during investigation over Liverpool Women's hospital blast
Author Harry WhitehousePosted on November 15, 2021 November 15, 2021
Three people remain in custody following a car explosion outside of a Liverpool hospital that killed one person and injured another, according to The Guardian.
Counter-terrorism police and MI5 are investigating after a taxi burst into flames outside of Liverpool Women's hospital at 10:59am on Remembrance Sunday.
Police have confirmed that a male passenger was declared dead at the scene and that three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act.
The driver of the taxi, now officially named to be David Perry, from Kirkdale, is in stable in condition after escaping the vehicle before the flames could spread.
Mr Perry has not been arrested and speculation has suggested that he locked an attacker in the car after becoming wary of suspicious activity.
Patients at the hospital have been told to attend appointments as normal following Sunday's explosion.
There is still a police cordon in place and officers are stopping vehicles for checks as they approach the building.
The hospital has also confirmed that visiting arrangements have been restricted until further notice.
The mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, said: The taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster at the hospital.
"Well, we knew that the taxi driver had stood out and locked the doors, we knew that early on."
A statement released by the hospital said: "Anyone with appointments at the hospital will notice an increased Security and Police presence on site.
"Where possible we ask that anyone attending the hospital avoids bringing their vehicle.
"Anyone with a car should park either in the overspill car park on Mulgrave Street (off Upper Parliament Street) or in designated parking spaces in residential areas near to the hospital.
"Patients are advised to keep checking the hospital website for further details."
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If you like, edit the checkout-patch-build.sh script, and add a "-j4" to the "make" line, if you've got a multicore CPU, and don't like to wait ages. | c4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbeM5qX_AYzUT0NY7 | Q: Question about double inequalities Assuming $a \in \mathbb{N}^*, b \in \mathbb{N}$, I know the following:
$$0\lt a \lt 9$$
$$0\leq b \lt 9$$
$$b = 7k + a, k\in \mathbb{N}$$
How can I know the double inequality of $k$? Thanks in advance.
A: Put $k$ in terms of $b$ and $a$. Rearranging, we get that $$k = \frac{-a+b}{7}$$
Now, for what values of $a$ and $b$ result in smallest and greatest values?
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BkiUba7xK6-gDw5AtkQD | Soliola sees future at loose forward
Total Rugby League 10/06/2014
St Helens back-rower Sia Soliola, who confirmed today he is indeed looking to return to Australia at the end of the season, believes he is best suited to playing loose forward.
The 27-year-old is extremely versatile and has played all over the park in Super League this year. He said: "I'm happy with my form; I've had to adapt in different positions and I have played in the back row, centre, front row and lock so far.
"I've enjoyed showing how versatile I am and I've enjoyed being at lock [loose forward], being up there in the grunt and amongst the action.
"I think it's best suited for me and the more I play there the more comfortable I get. There's more to come too."
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BkiUeRXxK6nrxpQc2Sd6 | The medicinal properties of green tea have been studied and described for thousands of years, but it seems that in the recent years it has been discovered and shown to aid and support weight loss by increasing the metabolism and promoting fat burning.
It seems in the last decade or so, green tea has been receiving increased popularity due to its role in promoting healthy weight management. Green tea has been found to increase the oxidation (break down) in fat.
Green tea works through various mechanisms that include boosting thermogenesis (heat production, which in turn burns calories) inhibiting fat digestion and absorption, promoting fat burning, and also boosting endurance during exercise.
In earlier research, it was though that perhaps the caffeine in green tea was responsible for its thermogenic effect. But later research revealed that the thermogenic effect in green tea was far too great, and caffeine was no longer the main culprit. Instead, it was discovered that the synergistic effects of the green tea coupled with the caffeine actually created the thermogenesis.
Lowering blood levels of triglycerides, glucose, insulin, and cholesterol.
A decrease in body and fat mass.
Reducing fat cells ability to rapidly produce.
A study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition discovered that green tea extract resulted in a significant increase in metabolism boost. It also has been found that green tea helps fat absorption and glucose regulation. Another finding showed that green tea may reduce appetite.
Depending on the brand, 2-3 cups of green tea per day (for a total of 240-320 mg of polyphenols) or 100-750 mg per day of standardized green tea extract is recommended.
Another source claimed that green tea demonstrated health promoting benefits in dosages ranging from 2-10 cups. They continue to state that optimal doses are approximately 1,400-2,800 mg a day of green tea extract with a minimum 95% polyphenol content, which should be taken with meals.
As you can see there are two sources and two dosages. I would think it would be wise to start small and find the dosage that works for you. We are all individuals with different metabolisms, medical issues, and tolerance levels. We all need to find our Individual dosage that is effective, that works and is preferably under a doctor's care and advice.
The use of herbs has been around for thousands of years. The use of herbs has been shown to strengthen the body, and also treat various diseases. However, these herbs can contain active substances that may trigger adverse side effects or cause interaction with other herbs, medications, or supplements. Know what you are taking and know what you are mixing your medication, herbs, and supplements with. Always consult with your physician. More than likely, green tea will be fine to supplement with, but it's better to ask then to assume.
One warning stated that people with heart problems, kidney disorders, stomach ulcers, and psychological disorders (particularly anxiety) should not consume green tea. This could be due to the tannins, caffeine, and other elements that may cause an adverse side effect. It has been warned that people who drink high amounts of caffeine (including caffeine from green tea) for a prolonged period of time may experience insomnia, irritability, and heart palpitations.
So there you have it. Research, studies, warnings, precautions and variables in dosages. I say continue with your own research and come to your own conclusion and then go discuss it with your doctor. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
BkiUbfk5qdmB63dEzRKz | My brother. Fleetwood. He definitely adds to the happiness in my life.
He's seriously the perfect brother for me. When we were younger, even though I was the little sister by several years (yep, I'm WAY younger! ;)) he not only let me hang around him and his friends, he actually (sometimes) wanted me to!
We had plenty of rooms in our childhood house for everyone to have their own room, but for a lot of fun years, he and I shared one, just because it was a blast! I think we feel asleep laughing most nights for those few years we shared the room. He still makes me laugh like no one else. And besides my Mom, and maybe Fermin, I'd say my brother loves me above and beyond... That very rare, unconditionally love. We can get mad at each other, and get on each other's nerves-- of course!- but I would never, ever question how much he loves me, and vice versa.
Us. Me, squeezing his face and him, letting me and laughing!
My brother is kind of a big deal. He'll be annoyed at me for saying this, but it's true. He was on Shark Tank, and has a really cool custom cruiser bike company called Villy Custom. Because of all that, he does some public speaking at entrepreneurial events. He always invites me to tag along because, hey! I'm the little sis, and I think he knows, I'm also his #1 fan.
I have always loved being next to him!
I LOVE going to anything he's a part of. I love hearing him speak. And I love seeing how the audience reacts to him. Whenever I show up, I'm usually greeted by someone who says, "Oh! So you're the sister! Well, hello, Kerr-Bare!" It's always such a warm welcome, and I know it's because of the way he's mentioned me to them. And it makes me feel so special.
I got to hear him speak to a small group of young entrepreneurs at SMU this past week. Of course, it was great. It always is. And I think every time I've heard him, there is a point when he's speaking that he gets flooded with emotion. Sometimes, it's when he mentions his dog, Villy. Sometimes it's when he says something about our Mom. Sometimes, it's when he talks about some big, meaningful moment on his career trajectory. He hates it when he gets like that~ sort of choked up, unable to speak for a moment. But I LOVE it. Because it's those moments when people get to see who he really is. People connect with emotion and heart- And he's got that.
Anyway, I could brag about my brother ad nauseum, but I'm just going to leave it here. He's pretty great.
Fleetwood and his sweet dog, Villy.
What a great post! I'm so glad to have met him. Even though it was only for a short time, it was great!
Very very sweet Care Bear. Thanks for always being there for me and being so supportive. Lots of great times with you and many more to go! Love you! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUdb05jDKDyIlaYzqi | Today I am sharing some more of the coloring pages Alec has been working on. He found this "new" coloring book in his pile of books and has been having a great time playing around with the colors and details.
He also got a new color counts book and has been working on some of those pages as well.
Beautiful Colors! That Lion is magnificent!
Beautiful! The lion is amazing, and the butterfly is gorgeous!
He just loves to color and has a good eye for color.
How neat! He has more patience then I. I've started some of those but never finished. | c4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcCnxK6-gD5TlcZB5 | In mathematics, a nonempty subset of a group is said to be symmetric if it contains the inverses of all of its elements.
Definition
In set notation a subset of a group is called if whenever then the inverse of also belongs to
So if is written multiplicatively then is symmetric if and only if where
If is written additively then is symmetric if and only if where
If is a subset of a vector space then is said to be a if it is symmetric with respect to the additive group structure of the vector space; that is, if which happens if and only if
The of a subset is the smallest symmetric set containing and it is equal to The largest symmetric set contained in is
Sufficient conditions
Arbitrary unions and intersections of symmetric sets are symmetric.
Any vector subspace in a vector space is a symmetric set.
Examples
In examples of symmetric sets are intervals of the type with and the sets and
If is any subset of a group, then and are symmetric sets.
Any balanced subset of a real or complex vector space is symmetric.
See also
References
R. Cristescu, Topological vector spaces, Noordhoff International Publishing, 1977.
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BkiUbLrxK0iCl4YJl4XO | The Oldest Cities or Europe You Need to Know Of
January 11, 2022 January 26, 2022 editor
European cities have some of the oldest monuments in the world as well as the most beautiful infrastructure of their time. This is precisely one of the reasons why some of the cities from this list are among the top tourist destinations in Europe. If you are eager to find out which are the oldest cities in Europe, get ready for this history lesson.
Based on archaeological findings, Plovdiv holds the record for being the oldest city in Europe, having been founded around 6000 BCE. Plovdiv's Nebet Tepe, one of the hills, is a crucial landmark from that time and has been inhabited ever since. The Thracians expanded the city surrounding Nebet Tepe and reinforced it in ancient times. The kingdom was later called Evmolpia after King Evmolp, who ruled around 1200 BCE. Evmolpia was conquered by Phillip II, father of Alexander the Great, around 342 BCE and renamed it Philippopolis. As a result of rebuilding the city, Philipp II expanded and fortified it and made it the most important city at the time, known as Thanes. In addition to being naturally fortified, Plovdiv grew due to an increase in trade and its advantageous military position.
In Europe, Athens has a history dating back to about 3400 BC, making it the second oldest city. However, some human presence is thought to date back even as far as the 11th and 7th centuries BC. In ancient times, the Acropolis was the site of the first settlement. Theseus formed it after joining several settlements in Attica to form a state. Greece's capital city Athens takes its name from Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom. Athenian and Poseidonian competed for the honor of patronage. Poseidon struck the earth with his trident and a spring of seawater arose, and Athena grew an olive tree which symbolizes prosperity and peace. During the rule of Cecrops, the Athenians chose Athena to protect them. During the successive centuries, the city expanded exponentially, mostly from trade and shipping.
A Phoenician tribe established Lisbon around 1200 BCE after the Celts settled in the area. Their settlement was called Ulissipo, and it was later conquered by the Greeks and the Carthaginians. After winning the Second Panic War in 205 BCE, the Carthaginians lost the city to the Romans, who named it Olissipo. It became part of Lusitania, a province of the Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the area was attacked by Germanic tribes and ruled by the Suebi Kingdom until 585. During the Arab Arab invasion of 711 AD, Lisbon formed part of the larger peninsula but became part of Alfonso II's domain in 789 AD. In Alfonso III's reign, Portugal's maritime expansion led to Lisbon's growth.
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BkiUew7xK6EuNCwywp9i | On this edition of Industry Focus, host Michael Douglass and Fool contributor Matt Frankel discuss personal finance -- in particular, credit card debt. The average American household that carries credit card debt owes more than $16,000. At an average interest rate of more than 15%, that translates to more than $2,400 in interest per year. Michael and Matt talk about how to get rid of that debt.
This video was recorded on Oct. 30, 2017.
Matt Frankel: The average American household has about $5,700 in credit card debt. But that doesn't really tell the whole story, because only about one in three households carry credit card debt. So, among those households that do, the total is a little over $16,000. The average credit card interest rate is about 15% right now. That implies that the average household that carries credit card debt is paying nearly $2,500 a year just in interest for the privilege of owing that money.
Michael Douglass: Yeah. That's a pretty brutal set of statistics there. I think it really highlights this question we all have to ask ourselves of our money. Is our money enriching us, or is it enriching somebody else? When you have credit card debt, your money is enriching someone else. And I think there are some misunderstandings about credits. I've heard this myth pretty often, where people say, "I have to carry a balance on my credit card to benefit my credit score." That's not true. You do not need to do that. In an ideal world, you are never in a spot where you're carrying a balance and having to pay interest on it. You want to pay your credit cards off on time, every time.
Frankel: Yeah. There is some truth, in the sense that you need to use your credit cards in order to maximize your credit score, use your credit. That's the whole definition of having a credit score. But, the concept that you need to carry a balance from month to month, that's a very popular misconception. You don't need a balance in order to maximize your credit score. I think one of our writers, Sean Williams, actually has a perfect credit score and carries no credit card debt whatsoever.
Douglass: Yeah. It's certainly doable without carrying a balance. In fact, carrying a balance does not do anything to help you. The other thing that this highlights to me is, it really stood out to me, when you talk talked about that $2,500 per year that people are paying in interest on their credit cards, think about how much money that is. Think about if that $2,500 were going to an emergency savings. I think there's a lot of need for people to think about how to really pare down that credit card debt. For me, I think a lot of people end up in this spot, where because they didn't have a lot of emergency savings, they then end up owing credit card debt on a car repair, or something like that. So suddenly, they're in this spot where they're trying to fight to keep their heads above the water. One of the things that really jumps out to me is this idea that a lot of folks are stuck paying the minimum balance on their credit cards, that minimum payment. The thing is, if you commit to paying the same amount each month at least, so, your minimum balance will decrease over time, because the amount that you owe decreases over time as you gradually pay it off. But, if you keep to that same amount, you can save a lot on interest by just paying that, let's just say, for example, $360 every month, instead of, as it drops down to $350 or $340, paying that minimum. That'll enable you to pay off that debt significantly faster, while still maintaining the same budget that you had.
Frankel: Another good point, right now, competition among credit card companies has really never been higher, and there are a lot of great, I mean, the best I've ever seen, 0%, balance transfer offers, some companies are even willing to waive the balance transfer fee, which is historically unprecedented, almost. You can find 0% interest up to 21 months, as of right now, 15 months with no fee whatsoever. So, this could be a good way to make sure all of the money you're paying is going toward paying down your debt, rather than making the credit card companies money.
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BkiUfHA25V5jRCMJtROw | The realm of Archaea provides a fantastic and colorful setting for the characters' adventures. Full of history, magic, fascinating people, and dark mysteries, the realm comes to life not only in the imagination of the players' minds but in the reality of the game.
This chapter details some of the various aspects to the world that should be used by the Elder of the Realm to formulate adventures and by players to detail their character histories and to enrich their role-playing. Like the previous chapter, the material found in this section should be used to explore the realm of Archaea. However, without certain skills or Lores, much of this information should remain player knowledge and not character knowledge. The Elder of the Realm must carefully adjudicate what player-characters know and do not know.
The age of the realm is unknown for its beginnings stretch into the mists of time. The distant past, beyond that of recorded history, mingles with myth and legend. Until the coming of the Sar, the Sovereign of the Realm, the history of the land can be taken only as partial truths.
The complete 4,000 year history of the Realm can be found in the full version of the Archaea Sourcebook.
Though each knows every age.
Much of Archaea still remains wild and unexplored stretching nearly 2100 miles from east to west and 1500 miles from north to south.
The Archaean Sea cuts into the mainland allowing for swift passage from place to place by way of water. The island of Sarus is the seat of the government of the Realm; the Crown resides in the capital city of Sarhall.
Politically, the land is divided into individual provinces that swear fealty to the crown of the Sar, the Grand Sovereign of Archaea. For the most part, the provinces retain their own identities and govern themselves. There are twenty provinces. The provinces are divided into three groups: the central provinces, the western provinces, and the island provinces. Furthermore, with the new shifting of the Mists, new lands to the north, called the Winter Wastes, and to the south, called the Southern Wastes, have been revealed.
Each province is a collection of smaller city-states and their territories are lorded over by a single capital city. All in all, the hierarchy of power starts with the Sar (or the Grand Sovereign), and the governing body at Sarhall, called the Council of Provinces (or the Council of the Realm), moves down to the Lord Sovereigns of the capitals of each province, down to the Lord Governors of each city-state, down to the Lord Mayors of each city-state's constituent towns.
The Central Provinces are the original lands of the Realm. They were the first to be settled and named before the shifting of the Mists in 193 CE.
On the first day of Highsummer in the year 193 CE, the Mists to the west of Marjor, Talanth, Asta, and Taus shifted revealing hundreds of miles of new land. Thousands of people from across the Realm flocked to the uncharted areas in hopes to claim territory for themselves. Eventually, the New Lands became the Western Provinces.
On the third day of Firstspring, 1193 CE, with the return of the hero-mage Alatannin, the East Wall of the Mists shifted revealing more sea and a group of islands east of Sarus. With the assent of Sar Regenta XV, the islands were quickly declared provinces.
Surprisingly, though few and far between, the Island Provinces were already settled by the descendants from the shipfuls of people of good taken into the Mists by Alatannin during the first Age of Heroes. In the stories of old, Alatannin left the Realm with ten ships of followers and adventurers. It is said that many of the great heroes of old sailed away with Alatannin. With the power of the Unraveling Stone, Alatannin parted the Mists and safely delivered the ten vessels beyond the East Wall. It is from these ancestors that the native people of the Island Provinces claim lineage.
On the Thirtieth Day of Springsend in 2298 CE, the North Wall and South Wall of the Mists simultaneously shifted revealing vast new horizons and new peoples.
To the north, beyond the Landsedge Mountains, lies the cruel snow and cold of the Northern Wastes-more commonly called the Winter Wastes. The Northern Wastes stretch as far as the eye can see and seem only an expansive blur of white. The Winter Wastes were thought to be lifeless until the first Winterkind crossed the mountains into Barag and Marjor. Nearly a head taller and a hand broader than the stoutest of Marjorans, the Winterkind are a proud, gruff, sturdy people with the superhuman ability to survive in the frozen Northern Wastes. Nomadic and curious, the Winterkind continue to cross into the Realm bringing the hides of winter beasts and weapons made of magical ice. Some say that the first Marjoran tribes were descendant from the Winterkind.
To the south, beyond the Mist Mountains, lies another harsh landscape called the Southern Wastes--called the Tal'ahacaar by the Desert Ashuri meaning "the place of only death." The Southern Wastes are nothing more than flat, sand-scoured desert. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but dun colored sand, dervishes of dust, the constant howl of windstorms, and the blistering heat of the sun. Akin to the Winter Wastes, life is miraculously sustained in the Southern Wastes. The Order of the Rain, the reclusive mistical organization found near Tal Atal and Izul, first discovered a stranger crossing the mountains into Ashur. With time, another and another and another traveler from the Southern Wastes arrived. Short, thin and sinewy, tightly muscled, and dark in complexion, the Foundlings are a curious people. Seemingly without family or community, individual Foundlings have made their way into the Realm with a collective yet far-too-simple reason, "To see what is there."
Both Wastes prove to be too harsh and too inhospitable to most of the people of the Realm. Though short explorations have been made beyond the Landsedge and Mist Mountains, all have returned with little more than the description of the desolation found there. Furthermore, no more is known about the Winterkind and the Foundlings except for what has been explained by both groups themselves. Both the Northern and Southern Wastes are still greatly unexplored and unexplained and are surrounded by apprehension, superstition, and even fear. The Crown and the Council of the Realm have welcomed the people of both Wastes but have maintained an attitude of wariness.
Most recently, the Northern and Southern Wastes have established small permanent settlements. Though called the first "cities" of these cruel lands, both are no larger than the tiny towns found in the remote parts of the rest of the Realm. Though seemingly out of character for the Winterkind and particularly the curious Foundlings, the cities grew out of the continued contact between the Wastes and the Realm. Brave and hardy Archaeans, finding ways to adapt, helped the Waste societies to see the need for a centralized settlement. The reigning Sar hopes to add the Winter Wastes and the Southern Wastes as new provinces.
The Winterkind city is called Guld Corcor or Winterhall and is located north of Gaurg, Marjor through the Winterwind Pass. The best masons of the Baraki and Marjorans combined with the amazing power that the Winterkind possess over the cold, Winterhall was raised in stone and ice. Even in its humble beginnings, Guld Corcor recalls to mind the heavy walled cities of Baragnir and Volagnir.
The Foundling city is called Ta'rakin, "the place of the first stone," or Summerhall. It is located southwest of Tal Atal, Ashur through the Flowing Sand Pass. Summerhall is described as tight collection of great tents and thick-clothed pavilions surrounded by a stone wall, whose height grows slowly every day to keep out the land's blasting sandstorms. Most of the Foundlings will investigate the novelty of the city and then move on. Therefore Summerhall is settled mostly by men and women from the "wet" and "peculiar" Realm. Though, as time passes, some of the Foundlings, particularly the young, are changing their ways and beginning to remain in the city for longer and longer periods of time.
Since the reign of Sar Caval II and the organization of the Silver Guild, the monetary unit used throughout the Realm is the Crown. Crown pieces come in varied denominations ranging from quarter-crowns to hundred-crown pieces.
To simulate money in the game, the Elder of the Realm may wish to use the money templates found in the back of the sourcebook and photocopy various Crown pieces on different colored cardstock. The paper money represents coined money. All game money is transferable.
Other currency comes in the form of Crown Notes (see sample in the back of the sourcebook). This paper money is often used when dealing with large sums of Crowns. Only a Moneylender of the Silver Guild can issue a Crown Note and only a Moneylender can cash a note. The notes are designed, like our modern day traveler's checks, that only the person for whom the note was written can exchange it for actual Crowns. Though Crown Notes can be stolen from a character, they are difficult to cash and thus are one way to safeguard money.
Player-characters begin the game with 50 Crowns but through adventuring, the character may earn or find additional money. Money should always be carried or stay in-play and should not be kept at home or in the car. The only way to legally take money out-of-play is to deposit it with a Moneylender, usually an NPC or played by Elder of the Realm.
The days of the month are simply named for their number. For example, July 30 would be the Thirtieth Day of Highsummer.
A full list of the Archaean feast days and holidays can be found in the full version of the Archaea Sourcebook.
The Age of Heroes burns like a bright flame in the minds and hearts of all Archaeans. The heroes of lore have become an important part of the Realm's culture providing inspiration, guidance, and hope for all that know the epic stories. The reverence for heroes, as well as elders and ancestors, centers on the idea that enlightenment and wisdom can be gained through the understanding of, learning from, and respect for the past.
A full list of the Archaean heroes can be found in the full version of the Archaea Sourcebook. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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The sentimentality of a ring can lead you to set unreasonably high expectations on what the value should be. You also may disagree with your appraisal, thinking the ring should be higher value for any one of a number of reasons. You may not be wrong, but you should ground yourself and set a price that is reasonable. Ask your appraiser what the stone might be worth by itself, and review similar pieces online to see how yours compares.
Much like you might shop for a ring, you should shop for a buyerYou should find someone willing to play close to appraisal value for a piece, and a pawn shop isn't that buyer. A vintage jewellery store might be more appropriate, and will probably pay a better price for the piece. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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BkiUcCTxK3xgpbERCPgI | The WFH World Congress is the largest international meeting for the global bleeding disorders community and it is hosted in a different country every two years. The WFH World Congress is attended by doctors, scientists, healthcare workers, people with bleeding disorders and hemophilia organizations who gather to learn about the latest developments in bleeding disorders treatment and care, as well as to discuss, to debate and to contribute to a strong global organization and community.
Working with leaders from a group of national patient associations, WFH founder Frank Schnabel convened the first WFH global meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 25, 1963. The event included representatives from 12 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In 1983, at the WFH Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, Bruce Evatt, MD (U.S.A.), presented data connecting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in hemophilia patients and plasma to derived treatment concentrates. Following this Congress, the WFH set up the World Hemophilia AIDS Center with the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital, providing rapid access to vital information about the disease.
Over the next few years, the WFH grew rapidly. It held World Congresses regularly and created a global network of healthcare providers, national hemophilia associations, people with hemophilia and their families. The WFH World Congress became a focal point for doctors interested in discussing the status of hemophilia treatment and research and for the hemophilia community at large. Discussions were held focusing on the areas of neglect and accelerating the use of existing knowledge.
Through these meetings, a truly global hemophilia network emerged which has continued to grow in size and influence. WFH Founder Frank Schnabel believed that one of the most important aspects of the WFH is that it provides a mechanism for the exchange of information on a global scale – and this is still true today. The original goal of the bringing together the global bleeding disorders community remains just as relevant today as it did during the first meeting in 1963. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUav7xK03BfHDu2SZ7 | 776 F. 2d 129 - Hardisty v. Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs United States Department of Labor
776 F2d 129 Hardisty v. Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs United States Department of Labor
Alice HARDISTY, Petitioner,
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Respondent.
Seventh Circuit.
Submitted June 26, 1985.
Decided Aug. 5, 1985.
Opinion Oct. 29, 1985.
David O. Kelley, Boonville, Ind., for petitioner.
Donald S. Shire, Office of Solicitor, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Before BAUER, POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.
We originally decided this case, affirming the denial by the Benefits Review Board of the Department of Labor of black-lung benefits on the basis of proof that the applicant's husband, a coal miner, had not at the time of his death been "partially or totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis," 30 U.S.C. Sec. 921(c)(5), in an unpublished order. But at the request of the Department of Labor we have decided to publish the portion of the order (revised for publication) in which we resolved a procedural issue of some novelty.
The administrative law judge, in rejecting Mrs. Hardisty's claim for benefits, relied in part on transcripts of the depositions of three physicians, depositions that she contends were not properly part of the record. She had objected to the depositions as having been scheduled, in bad faith, too near to the hearing. The administrative law judge, and on appeal the Benefits Review Board, rejected the objection, finding no bad faith. While the appeal to the Board was pending, however, the coal company--the miner's employer and the respondent up till then--was dismissed from the case and the Director of the Labor Department's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs substituted. The reason for the substitution was that amendments to the black-lung statute had relieved the company of liability for the benefits sought by Mrs. Hardisty and shifted that liability to the Department. See Markus v. Old Ben Coal Co., 712 F.2d 322, 325-26 (7th Cir.1983). When the case had been before the administrative law judge the Director had supported the application for benefits and joined in Mrs. Hardisty's objection to the depositions; and she argues that since her original opponent, the coal company, has dropped out of the case, the Benefits Review Board should not have treated the record as containing the depositions, and nor should we, even though the Director, when substituted as the respondent, changed his mind and decided that the admission of the depositions had been proper after all.
We reject the argument. If, the company having dropped out of the case, the Director had asked the Benefits Review Board to remand the case for a new hearing at which the depositions would be excluded, and the Board had done so, we do not suppose (without having to decide) that there would have been any impropriety in the Board's doing so. Or the Director might have renounced reliance on the depositions, on the ground that he did not think they should have been taken so late. But the Director did not do either of these things. Apparently he decided that although his initial decision had been to grant black-lung benefits to the applicant, the administrative law judge was right to deny benefits; and so when substituted for the coal company the Director defended the administrative law judge's decision, and did not confess error. We cannot see anything wrong in the Director's having decided to take over the company's procedural arguments, along with its liability; there is nothing like the prospect of financial loss to concentrate the mind. Ordinarily a substitution of parties does not require that the record be done over, and it does not require it here. The petitioner cannot insist on receiving a procedural advantage because of a change in parties brought about by statutory amendments. Nor has she shown any prejudice from the change. | commoncrawl | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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BkiUaWnxK6-gDz87NS9I | Tag: Bailout
Posted on October 25, 2016 October 25, 2016 by thebullishbearblogger
Against a backdrop of rising concerns over NPAs in the banking system, it was reported that Air India was looking at the possibility of availing a new scheme, the Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A), to rejig debt to the tune of a minimum of Rs 100 Bn. Since 2012, the airline has been on a life support with a Rs 300 Bn bailout package from the government, spread over ten years. In fact, this may be one of the biggest sums that LIC has ever loaned out till date: this new loan to Air India of Rs 100 Bn (If that number is correct), will grow its loan book by an enormous 9.26%.
Who reported this? A Secret deal? Was it leaked?
Since, at the time of writing, Air India has made available annual reports only until FY 2013-14, all the financial figures and plans of rejig coming out in the newspapers, if true, are very likely being leaked from Air India/ Civil Aviation Ministry itself, and being dealings in material non-public information, this constitutes a situation of non-uniform dissemination of sensitive information, and possible violation of securities law.
Indeed, the public sector bank index was up by a chunky 1.5% today, being the first day since the story broke, with two of the three stocks mentioned in the story (Bank of India, Bank of Baroda) up over a per cent and the third stock (Punjab National Bank) within 3% of its 52-week high.
Best of socialism at its worst?
There are many facets to this development that stink to high heaven. As Firstpost pointed out – Why the bailout when it was already turning around? It has also been queried before on multiple occasions when LIC was bailing out public sector Companies and investing aggressively in public sector disinvestments, who has the authority to approve this and why isn't there a public outcry? And all this for a saving of Rs 3 Bn (A 3% saving on Rs 100 Bn), which Air India could save anyway by paying its fuel bills on time, as has been reported here by the Business Standard.
Hypocrisy unlimited
Arun Jaitley: "LIC is not a body which invests only to bailout the government in disinvestment. In issues by private companies, LIC also participates."
That's right. The (dis)honorable Finance Minister had agreed, last year, that LIC bails out & bails out repeatedly. And that LIC, with the public's insurance money, routinely bails out private Companies too!
The government speaks highly of transparency and accountability, yet hijacks the public treasury to bail out desperate banks and monopolies, placing an incremental debt burden on the public.
Here's another quote from ex- Finance Minister, Yashwant Sinha, a senior leader of the current ruling party, while he was in opposition in March 2012, around the time LIC bailed out ONGC's disinvestment auction with an unnecessarily high-priced bid:
"LIC is a captive source of funds for the government. They have misused the status of LIC to misappropriate policyholders' money and brought it to the government's coffers through the ONGC disinvestment."
Now that his party is engaged in the same treasonous act, in his own words, a "daylight robbery", I'm sure he will stand up for the public and do everything in his power to stop this transaction.
Fat chance!
A case of honest kleptocracy
But the Bullish Bear wouldn't write this if there wasn't a silver lining to this all. There is an honest side to this, y'kno.
This bailout has proved that the government can openly rob the public of its money, via the LIC, to bail out bankrupt Companies.
Such instances of naked cronyism can at least serve to warn the public that their savings and insurance are at risk. The Life Insurance Corporation of India is not a safe house, nor are any of these banks offering 4-7% return on savings, making loans to extremely indebted Companies while maintaining tier-I ratios of just 10%.
Related reading: Debt-ridden Government makes more claims on LIC (NDTV Profit) >>
This amounts to a rather more transparent & direct socialistic involuntary bailout. Which is bad no doubt, but incrementally better than an indirect socialistic involuntary bailout! As Canadian billionaire and philanthropist Eric Sprott warned, "Whenever you think of the word bank, you should think risk."
For a brief education on bailouts funded with public money, it can't get any better than this short video segment, in which Peter Schiff, an Austrian economist and a guru & mentor to yours truly, lambasts a pitch for a government sponsored bailout of American car manufacturers by Lansing, Michigan Mayor Virg Bernero on live television! "If you think these Companies are such good investments, you put your own money into it!"
As mentioned previously, the Bullish Bear is an ardent fan of free markets and open competition. Yet, I have sympathy with Air India's Chairman & Managing Director, Ashwani Lohani. Coming from the head of a public sector enterprise, these are astonishing words, admitting that a public sector entity does not really care about the delivery of its services. Although he does shy away from writing the public sector off completely, the Bullish Bear believes that he is headed in the right direction!
"Often my airline is questioned on its inability to match the private sector on various operating parameters, and this is unfortunately always done without due appreciation of the fundamental reality that there is no level-playing field… A course correction is the need of the hour, for contrary to what many may think, the public sector has still not lost its relevance in entirety… Unless and until we all, and that includes the mighty government machinery, start believing in the supremacy of deliverance over everything else, such dilemmas would always continue."
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